Wednesday, April 30, 2008
[nhpdesigns] my youth
my mother sent me this image of mine from 1991. i think its pretty funny and thought i would post to my blog.
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GOLDEN IGORS AWARDS.10 position the best Hollywood actors in Igors Opinion.
In position 10 isAngelina Jolie or something like this. I hate her. She is bad actress. She is unpretty and I Have never seen and I will never see Tomb Rider. It is ACOMERCIAL SHI***. That I gues.
Position 9: Penelope Cruz.... Buuuuuuu. What a.....? I thought that in Hollywood are good actress... But I guess I wrong.
Position 8: Pamela Anderson- No Comentary.... Peace sister.
Position 7: Catrine Zeta Jones..... Hmmmm... It`s Not bad...and it`s not good. Go to hell.
Position 6: J. Lo. I have write that her name because I don`t know how to spell all her name and surname. She is not bad but her music...... ok, I won`t tel about that.
Position 5: Harry Potter ( I don`t know what his real name). Yeah I gues that this is good boy because if He Hadn`t been in this film, That film wouldn`t be have known.
Position 4: Harisson Ford- It`s really good actor, He played maybe first film role in STAR WARS.
Respect!!!!!
position 3: Georg Clooney- Yeah, it`s really good actor.
Position 2: Brad Pitt: I tell One word... Big Tallent.
And Position one: Award of `GOLDEN IGORS` take Jonny Depp!!!!!!!!!!! HE is the best actor in my list!!!!!!!!
Position 9: Penelope Cruz.... Buuuuuuu. What a.....? I thought that in Hollywood are good actress... But I guess I wrong.
Position 8: Pamela Anderson- No Comentary.... Peace sister.
Position 7: Catrine Zeta Jones..... Hmmmm... It`s Not bad...and it`s not good. Go to hell.
Position 6: J. Lo. I have write that her name because I don`t know how to spell all her name and surname. She is not bad but her music...... ok, I won`t tel about that.
Position 5: Harry Potter ( I don`t know what his real name). Yeah I gues that this is good boy because if He Hadn`t been in this film, That film wouldn`t be have known.
Position 4: Harisson Ford- It`s really good actor, He played maybe first film role in STAR WARS.
Respect!!!!!
position 3: Georg Clooney- Yeah, it`s really good actor.
Position 2: Brad Pitt: I tell One word... Big Tallent.
And Position one: Award of `GOLDEN IGORS` take Jonny Depp!!!!!!!!!!! HE is the best actor in my list!!!!!!!!
"Memories of a geisha"
The story starts in 1929. Little Chiyo and her older sister Get to Kioto. Because of her beautiful eyes, Chiyo goes to Gion where she becomes a geisha. Her sister- Satsu, goes to bruthel.
Young Chiyo lives with the most famous geisha In the all Kioto- Hatsumomo.But she’s jealous about Chiyo’s beauty. She’s Bad for Her and does everything to destroy her life. A Little girl is desolate and tries to Get awal from that place with her sister. It doesn’t work so she Has to stay In Okia, but now not as a beginnig geisha but her slave.
Everything chan ges when she meets a Man who gives her a handkerchief and cherry’s icecreams. From now she wants to be a geisha and again meet that Man.
Her Dreas come true when the great es geisha, Mameha comes to Chiyo and start teaching her everything that geisha Has to know. In short time Chiyo becomes Sayouri and she is the most famous geisha In All Kioto In such a Young age (she’s Orly sixteen teras old).
Film by Rob Mardhall doesn’t show everything about life In that Times. But you can watch it for Ziyi Zhang who playes Sayouri. Movie show (very gentry) a life where the woman is a commodity and isn’t entited to love.
MARIUSZ WLAZŁY - the Hope of Polish volleyball
He was born on 4th of August 1983 in Wieluń. The first sport which he was training was swimming. One day, when he was 12, he went to his friend when he had a volleyball training. Mariusz started to play, just for fun, and that's how everything started. Firstly, he wasn't too good and he started to play better when he was 16-17 years old. His first volleyball team was WKS Wieluń - he started there as a junior, than as a senior and finally he played in the third league team. In 2001 he was playing in the second league SPS Somas Zduńska Wola. Mariusz was a really good player that time so he started playing in Polish junior's volleyball team. In SPS Mariusz was playing better than anyone thought even though he was only 19. In 2001 our's junior's representation started preparing to World's Junior's Championship. There, in Teheran, Mariusz showed that he didn't play volleyball accidentaly and mostly thanks to him the team won that great prize. In the season 2002-2003 Mariusz started to play in SKRA Bełchatów (where he's still playing). Few first months were a bit difficult time for Wlazły. He started to play in the first "6" in the and of the season and to this day he's playing in SKRA in the "6". I can say that Mariusz is a leader of his team. Paweł Zagumny said that if SKRA didn't have Mariusz there wouldn't be SKRA. I agree ;) In the season 2005-2006 Wlazły won the title of the best Polish volleyball player. In 2006 our team won the second place in the World Championship. After the whole tournament Wlazły (between Giba and Matej Kaziyski) was nominated for the best player prize. In 2008 he won the prize for the best atacker of Volleyball Champions League.
Mariusz Wlazły is absolutely one of the best volleyball players ever! He's got very strong serve and attack. I think that he's the Polish volleyball's hope ;)
HEIHGT: 1.97 meter
WEIGHT: 75 kilogrammes
BLOCK RANGE: 3.43 meters
ATTACK RANGE: 3.62 meters (!!!)
"I can fly..." ;)
"The lake house"
Kate - a young doctor - has just sold her lake house. She left a letter for a future owner, where she apologized for dog's prints in front of the house and where she said some other things. The letter was found by Alex - an architect - who lived in the same house, but.... 2 years before Kate. Strange, right? I'll explain it to you. Both of them lived in the lake house, but Alex was living there in 2004 and Kate was living there in 2006. First, they thought that it couldn't happen and maybe they were right. On the other hand: that was impossible and it was happening, so they had to manage that situation. Kate and Alex started writting to each other. After some time Alex said that he rememberd that they met one day, on Kate's birthday. That night they were dancing, talking and kissed. That made everything a bit different. Kate was scared of emotion which she felt for him, but she couldn't do anything with it. Of course, there shouldn't be any problem but we have to remember that they were living in totally different ages! That wasn't a good side of the story so they decided to stop writting to each other. And they did.
But one day Kate thought that 2 years ago, on the Valentine's Day young man died in her hands on Daley Plaza. She knew that it was Alex. She wrote to him not to go there, but he didn't answer her. Kate was sure that she would never "meet" him again. And Alex came to the lake house and met her there. The year 2004 and 2006 met. So, it was finally 2005? :)
Lynn Flewelling "Luck in the Shadows"
Alec is a sixteen-year-old boy who was just left his father. He travels trought the forests, mouintains and valleys. Unfortunately he gots to prison for crime which he didn't commit. He was torturing when a strange man got him out of the prison. His name was Seregil.
They start to be friends and travel together. Seregil from amazing city- Rhiminee is a vobleman, thief and a spy. He teaches Alec everything what he knows about steeling.
They both arrive to Rhiminee and meet Seregil's master- Nysander. The old man’s a great wizard and sage. He tells them about misterious plot between the lerans- a royal family’s enemys. Seregil as a queen’s Spy Has to protect Her and find out who wants to kill Her. With his New student, old friend and Nysander, he fights with Bad pe ople and unfortunately he become arrested.
Fantastic novel by Lynn Flewelling about magic, battles and friendship that last forever. I really enjoyed this book when I was reading it. Now I’m Reading the secondo part- „Stolking darkness”. The both books are very interesting and you will not be bored, Reading them.
Disaster
Disaster... What is mean? This is a question. Once think that disaster is when boyfriend break up with girl, other gues that disaster is when people
die in car crush, in bomb attack or in attempt on the life in war. Yeah... For this question are many axplains What is a disaster. What thinks are more important?
When 11th.September.2001 the build in New York World Trade Center was crushed by
plane many People was died. It was big disaster. Many families lost their members. It was atrocity, horrible.
This tragedy is rememberd by all of the world to this day.
Oter tragedy for example plane crush is horrible too. In this tragedy no one can be surviver.
In my opinion People ho gues that Girl or boy friend anvilable Is a problem are for straight stupid... In world are many worse problems real worse problem....Thats all what I`m going
to tell.
die in car crush, in bomb attack or in attempt on the life in war. Yeah... For this question are many axplains What is a disaster. What thinks are more important?
When 11th.September.2001 the build in New York World Trade Center was crushed by
plane many People was died. It was big disaster. Many families lost their members. It was atrocity, horrible.
This tragedy is rememberd by all of the world to this day.
Oter tragedy for example plane crush is horrible too. In this tragedy no one can be surviver.
In my opinion People ho gues that Girl or boy friend anvilable Is a problem are for straight stupid... In world are many worse problems real worse problem....Thats all what I`m going
to tell.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
11 year jail for refusing testimony
Muslims dismayed by excessive sentence of Ashqar
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali
November 21, 2007 . Council on American-Muslim Relations, a leading civic rights group, today expressed dismay at the more than 11 year sentence given to Dr. Abdelhaleem Ashqar, a Palestinian-American and former professor at Washington's Howard University, for refusing to testify before a grand jury looking into possible terror financing in the Middle East.
In Chicago, U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve today sentenced Abdelhaleem Ashqar to more than 11 years in prison and fined $5,000 for refusing to testify before the federal grand jury.
Although a jury in February this year acquitted Dr. Ashqar of all terror-related charges, the federal prosecution sought a life term, a sentence that would not normally be imposed unless he had been convicted of the most serious charge against him.
Before being sentenced, Dr. Ashqar delivered a nearly two-hour passionate statement describing the suffering of Palestinian people under the Israeli occupation.
He said he would rather go to prison than betray his people as they strive to free themselves from Israeli occupation. "The only option was to become a traitor or collaborator and that is something that I can't do and will never do as long as I live," he told the court.
"We are dismayed that the judge's sentence apparently ignores Dr. Ashqar's acquittal on the most serious charges and instead reflects a prison term that could only have been imposed if he had actually been convicted of those charges," said CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab. "The excessive sentence is not in the spirit of the American justice system."
"This apparently politically-motivated sentence sends the unfortunate message that when American Muslims are involved, a jury's decision may be ignored," said CAIR-Chicago Civil Rights Coordinator Christina Abraham.
Ashqar was convicted earlier this year of criminal contempt and obstruction of justice for refusing to testify in 2003 before a grand jury investigating the Palestinian militant movement Hamas.
He and co-defendant Muhammad Salah were acquitted of taking part in a racketeering conspiracy aimed at bankrolling Hamas militants. But prosecutors presented telephone records showing that Ashqar was in contact with Hamas leaders.
Federal prosecutors said that Ashqar's refusal to testify made it harder to investigate violent crimes committed by Hamas. Some coded messages that if understood might help to prevent acts of terrorism remain incomprehensible to investigators, prosecutors said.
"A man who knows (the meaning) is sitting right across the room but he won't tell us," Assistant U.S. Attorney Reid J. Schar told U.S. District Judge Amy J. St. Eve.
St. Eve said that Ashqar's refusal to testify was motivated by a desire to "promote terrorism." That toughened the federal sentencing guidelines and guaranteed that he would get a stiff sentence.
Defense attorneys said St. Eve imposed an unusually stiff sentence on Ashqar given the complex political background. In addition to 135 months in prison he was given a $5,000 fine.
"This is an obscene sentence," said Michael E. Deutsch, an attorney for Salah, who was convicted of lying on a document and sentenced to 22 months in prison. Deutsch said five years was the most he had expected.
Deutsch noted that another man, Sharif Alwan, who refused to testify before a grand jury in the same investigation was sentenced to two years.
Ashqar attorney William Moffitt compared his client with Nelson Mandela who served 27 years in South Africa.
In a similar case, Dr. Sami Al-Arian, former Florida University Professor, is refusing to testify before the Alexandria, Va.-based grand jury. Though a Florida jury acquitted him or deadlocked on all counts in 2005, the Feds kept him in prison.
Faced with a retrial, Al-Arian agreed last year to plead guilty to the least serious charge in exchange for what was supposed to be a small addition sentence and his deportation. But Al-Arian's nightmare continues. First, federal Judge James Moody ignored prosecutors' recommendations and sentenced Al-Arian to the maximum possible.
Under the longer sentence, Al-Arian's release was set for April 13, 2007. But he is now facing an indefinite extension of his prison sentence.
Last year, Gordon Kromberg, the assistant U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, had Al-Arian transferred to Virginia to testify in an investigation into a Muslim charity there--despite an agreement with Florida prosecutors, recorded in court transcripts, that he would be exempt from future testimony.
When he refused to testify, Al-Arian was found guilty of civil contempt--adding an additional 18 months onto his sentence and opening up the possibility that the government can keep him in prison indefinitely by extending the contempt charge, which the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld.
The U.S. government has gone out of its way to make an example of outspoken advocates for Palestinian rights.
Leonardo da Vinci - Italian artist and inventor
To can everything, know everything, be beautiful and smart and talented in every respect - whether doesn't each human want that?
Leonardo da Vinci already as little boy amazed his teachers of his talent at painting. He was carving, painting, studying anatomy - he's left drawings of a heart, muscles, bones. Leonardo was thrilled Maths, he was projecting palaces and bridges. Leonardo created a boldly plan of Milan expansion.
Between projections of Leonardo are drafts of a battle cart and a press to imprint olive. He was unusually musical, was perfectly playing lyre, was writing beautiful tales about animals. Although the most popular are his painter's works (Mona Lisa), Leonardo is defined as a genius of Renaissance, the most talented man who ever born.
Leonardo da Vinci already as little boy amazed his teachers of his talent at painting. He was carving, painting, studying anatomy - he's left drawings of a heart, muscles, bones. Leonardo was thrilled Maths, he was projecting palaces and bridges. Leonardo created a boldly plan of Milan expansion.
Between projections of Leonardo are drafts of a battle cart and a press to imprint olive. He was unusually musical, was perfectly playing lyre, was writing beautiful tales about animals. Although the most popular are his painter's works (Mona Lisa), Leonardo is defined as a genius of Renaissance, the most talented man who ever born.
"Bones"
Direction: Greg Yaitanes,
Script: Noah Hawley, Stephen Nathan
Music: Peter Himmelman
Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) is an amazing anthropologist. She’s very smart and intelligent but she doesn’t know anything about modern life. She thinks that she knows more about dead people than alive.
Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) works for FBI and cooperates with dr. Brennan on difficult cases. He’s really good in his job and more realistic than his partner. He always calls her “bones” and she hates it.
Angela Montenegro (Michaela Conlin) is an artistic. She works in Jeffersnion Institution as a person who makes the pictures of victims. She can reconstructs people’s looks really well. Angela is dr. Brennan’s best friend. She thinks than Temperance and Booth should be together.
Zack Addy (Eric Millegen) is my favourite character! He’s an assistant of dr. Brennan. He’s VERY intelligent and has got really high IQ. He’s also cute ;) and nice. I love him! I think he looks like a mouse but I don’t care.
The last one in this “terrible” group is dr. Jack Hodgins (TJ Thyne). He loves insects and worms which can clean the bones from meat. Jack is the funniest person in all serial. He likes plots and hates his boss.
I’m really happy that this serial is, at last in
"Gladiator"
Next movie by Ridley Scott. The story is set in antiquity. The title gladiator, Maximus is a Spanish warrior. He always fights for his emperor- Mark Aurelius. He's great warrior but also wants to be back home, in
Maximus has to get away but the Kommodud’d army catches him and try to kill him. Young commander runs away to his home. Unfortunately his family is already dead. Desolate, Maximus gets to gladiator’s colony which goes to
That’s where his career as a gladiator starts. He can’t forget family and what Kommodus did for him. As a great warrior he kills everybody and wins the respect of people. From that moment, they call him- Spanish.
In a short time Kommodus finds out about him and wants to meet him. In the Colloseum’s area he discovers Maximus. He’s angry and tries to kill him again. Next day, they both meet in Colloseum and fight together. Both die.
Beautiful story about an honour, brave and devotion. But the best thing in film is music! It makes you cry and it excellent shows the atmosphere of situations.
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Monty Python, Monty Python's group, Pythoni - team of creators and stars of television comedy serial Monty Python's Flying Circus, made under end 60' years of 20-th century in England. Members of the team are Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.
Palin and Jones met at Oxford University, Cleese and Chapman at Cambridge University. Idle also were studying at that university but a year later. Gilliam met Cleese in New York, when he hold there tournée with A Clump Of Plinths group.
Before they started work by Monty Python's Flying Circus, they were present in following programs:
I'm Sorry, I'll Read that Again 1964-1973 (radio program)
The Frost Report 1966-1967
At Last the 1948 Show 1967
We Have Ways Of Making You Laugh 1968
Do Not Adjust Your Set 1968-1969
How yo Irritate People 1968
The Complete And Utter History Of Britain 1969
Doctor In The House 1969
And now it's time for something completely different
The first series of "Flying Circus" was to give generally field to show Cleese, but he wanted co-operate with others. That way started up organized group for which made rutine rules of acting. Each day of writing was staring at 9:00 in the morning and lasted to 17:00. In beginning of a typical worke week Cleese and Champman were writing alone as one actor 's company, Jones and Palin as second, and Idle were writing alone. After few days whole group were meeting together with Gilliam, criticizing each other scripts and changing opinions. If something made laugh majority, it was confirmed as a part of program. In similar way roles were planted. After matching and settling order skit to given section, Gilliam had a free hand at connecting they in the whole by ingenious animations.
Before name of the group was ready they had some others ideas for the name for example: Owl Stretching Time, Bunn, Wacket, Buzzard, Stubble and Boot, Gwen Dibley's Flying Circus.
The team has very concentrate idea for serial and it was very disappointed, when Spike Milligan recorded his comedy program Q5 in little similar way. Pythons inspired Milligan, but Flying Circus is completely other. Favor that unique Gilliam's animations, but also process mutual critic and material selection.
Palin and Jones met at Oxford University, Cleese and Chapman at Cambridge University. Idle also were studying at that university but a year later. Gilliam met Cleese in New York, when he hold there tournée with A Clump Of Plinths group.
Before they started work by Monty Python's Flying Circus, they were present in following programs:
I'm Sorry, I'll Read that Again 1964-1973 (radio program)
The Frost Report 1966-1967
At Last the 1948 Show 1967
We Have Ways Of Making You Laugh 1968
Do Not Adjust Your Set 1968-1969
How yo Irritate People 1968
The Complete And Utter History Of Britain 1969
Doctor In The House 1969
And now it's time for something completely different
The first series of "Flying Circus" was to give generally field to show Cleese, but he wanted co-operate with others. That way started up organized group for which made rutine rules of acting. Each day of writing was staring at 9:00 in the morning and lasted to 17:00. In beginning of a typical worke week Cleese and Champman were writing alone as one actor 's company, Jones and Palin as second, and Idle were writing alone. After few days whole group were meeting together with Gilliam, criticizing each other scripts and changing opinions. If something made laugh majority, it was confirmed as a part of program. In similar way roles were planted. After matching and settling order skit to given section, Gilliam had a free hand at connecting they in the whole by ingenious animations.
Before name of the group was ready they had some others ideas for the name for example: Owl Stretching Time, Bunn, Wacket, Buzzard, Stubble and Boot, Gwen Dibley's Flying Circus.
The team has very concentrate idea for serial and it was very disappointed, when Spike Milligan recorded his comedy program Q5 in little similar way. Pythons inspired Milligan, but Flying Circus is completely other. Favor that unique Gilliam's animations, but also process mutual critic and material selection.
I'm here to blog.
&actually, im also doing some screensaver shit for today's module.
Its damn irritating please.
see all these rubbish;
Label1.Left = Label1.Left - 10
imagine, many&many&many of these rubbish,
every tuesday.
The lesson may be slack, but its so RAHHHHHHHHH.
totally no relation to hospitality.
HAIYAAAAAAA.
&there's some new module coming up.
seriously, I HOPE&HOPE&HOPE,
that there's no need for us to try out the high elements :X
yepyep.
Sunday,
Drexler, Dino, Shu&i went to esplanade and were supposed to study.
But the wireless sg didnt work.
So we ended up at Macs, trying to connect to networks.
So in the end,
Studied only blood relations&all.
lols.
Walked around, window shopped.
Ate dinner&headed to the singapore flyer.
Supposed to go there to "sight see",
but we ended up taking many many photos.
&PLAYED WITH THE WATER, the fountain&all.
thus, in some of the photos,
we were uberly denched.
soaking wet
& yepyep, we still trained back.
&rah, still had school the next day.
LOL.
But, yeah, it was really fun.
&KOHKAMUAT GOT REALLY HIGH.
lols.
&actually, im also doing some screensaver shit for today's module.
Its damn irritating please.
see all these rubbish;
Label1.Left = Label1.Left - 10
imagine, many&many&many of these rubbish,
every tuesday.
The lesson may be slack, but its so RAHHHHHHHHH.
totally no relation to hospitality.
HAIYAAAAAAA.
&there's some new module coming up.
seriously, I HOPE&HOPE&HOPE,
that there's no need for us to try out the high elements :X
yepyep.
Sunday,
Drexler, Dino, Shu&i went to esplanade and were supposed to study.
But the wireless sg didnt work.
So we ended up at Macs, trying to connect to networks.
So in the end,
Studied only blood relations&all.
lols.
Walked around, window shopped.
Ate dinner&headed to the singapore flyer.
Supposed to go there to "sight see",
but we ended up taking many many photos.
&PLAYED WITH THE WATER, the fountain&all.
thus, in some of the photos,
we were uberly denched.
soaking wet
& yepyep, we still trained back.
&rah, still had school the next day.
LOL.
But, yeah, it was really fun.
&KOHKAMUAT GOT REALLY HIGH.
lols.
Goaltending Equipment Change?
Alright, I need to blow off some steam here. I am shocked and appalled that anyone would consider making any type of adjustment to goalie equipment. Unless guys are getting hurt, which I do not think they are, there is no need for change. I understand that the NHL is trying to make this game more appealing to the fans outside/on the fence but, this is not the way to do it. As a goalie, I am already shocked that they shrank the goalie equipment when they continue to make sticks that are so light and have so much torque that goal scoring has become almost effortless for marginal players. Let me give you two simple suggestions that the league should not do.1. Shrink the equipment...again. Doing this makes an already difficult position even harder against the best hockey players in the world. I never want to see a scenario where a great GAA is 4.00. You can enhance a forward's equipment (stick) but, decimate the goaltending equipment? Hockey is not meant to have 7-6 goal games. MORE SCORING WILL NOT BRING IN A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF NEW FANS!
2. Make the net bigger. Since the lockout there were always little rumors about making the net bigger. Awful idea. The net needs to stay consistent from the instructional level all the way to the professional ranks. This is one facet of the game that should never, EVER, change.
If the league would like to change and become more fan friendly then they need to do one thing, and one thing only. Get back on ESPN's good graces. I know this won't happen because Versus has spent a lot of money to change it's appearance for hockey and I could be wrong but, I believe they have a contract for a while. They should try to at least get ESPN to do a Wednesday night game of the week or something along those lines. Start with one night and go from there. With athletes like Crosby and Ovechkin in the league, outsiders might be interested and ESPN could help bring hockey back. Outsiders would not tune into Versus for a game. Some don't even have it, and others, like myself, do not have it in High Definition. The NHL needs to make sure that whatever channel they broadcast on that 99 percent of households have access to that channel in HD because High-Def. makes hockey on television outstanding.
I truly hope nothing much comes from these meetings but, the league needs to remember that 7-6 games are for baseball and crappy football games. Great hockey is not about scoring goals. Ask someone from England if they would rather watch a 1-0 soccer game or a 6-5 soccer game. Everyone over there would elect to view a 1-0 battle. With that being said, I will leave you with this question...How are the ratings for European soccer?
"Before sunrise"
Two young people met in the train. He was American and she was French. He was going to Viena and than to the USA, she was going back home, which was in Paris. She had visited her grandmother. This movie begins like a typical romantic comedy, but it isn't what it seems to be. So, those people started talikng. Firstly about the weather, travelling and where were they from. Than about the dreams, love, fears. After some time the train stoped in Viena, so Jesse had to get off. But this wasn't the end of the story. He coaxed Celine into getting off with him. She asked why she should spend all day with a stranger and he told her that if she didn't get off with him he would probably regret this to the end of his life. It worked. Celine got off the train.In Viena they were walking, visiting some places and talking. They were totally different, Jesse didn't believe in destiny and sings. Celine was think conversely acctually. Maybe those differences made them more interested in each other. The conversation with person who thought not the same as we did, could be a great experience. But, let's get back to the most important thing: the movie. The whole film is just a conversation and even if you think that it can be boring I must tell tou that it's not.
Celine and Jesse had their time to the sunrise only, because at 9.30 a.m. Jesse had a plane home. They used the time as well as they could and neither of them were upset about that day, which they spent together. I won't write here what happened when the sun finally got up. Did they stay in Viena? Did they go to Paris or America together? Just see it.
"10 things I hate about you"
Well, not everyone has to be sweet and nice. Kat Stratford absolutely isn't one of those persons. She's got her own opinion about everything and she isn't scared of saying it. Her sister, Bianca is completly different. She smiles all the time, she's nice and she likes pink colour.
One day a boy named Carter liked Bianca very much. But there is one little problem - she can't go out if Kat doesn't. That makes Carter a bit upset, but of course, everything is possible, you just need some shrewdness and a good idea. So, if he wants to date Bianca he has to find someone who'll date Kat. But who will have so much bravery? There is one man - Patrick Verona. Everyone thinks that he is a criminal, so Carter is scared of him. Finally he asks him for help, but it doesn't work. Fortunately there is one more boy who's in love with Bianca, a model - Joey Donner. Another good thing about Joey is that he's rich and he pays Patrick for a date with Kat. The boy has to do few things to ask her out, but finally it works and Bianca can go out too. The problem is that she's not dating Carter. Firslty she likes Joey, but than she finds out that Carter is 'better' than him. Everything's doing so well. Of course just for the day when Kat finds out that Patrick was dating her only for money. She's really dissapointed because she fell in love with him and it happened for the first time in her life. Finally everything ends well: Bianca is with Carter, Kat is with Patrick and Joey is with a big black eye. Well, maybe he just deserves it.
The truth is that I've seen this movie about hundred times and I could watch it again. It's very funny, so this is great to see if you have a worse day. I can't say anything else - just see it. ;)
Monday, April 28, 2008
Candy –Orang-Utang
Candy –Orang-Utang/ The Rock Comes Back -Pink Elephant PE 22.769X (1973 BE)
This is where I lose any lingering credibility I may have still had...
It looks like Candy were a Belgian aggregation (group would be too sane), and Orang-Utang is well...BLOODY SUPERB, makes Jungle Jim sound like Joy Division. The manic drumming, Farfisa organ and insanely infectious tune put this one right up with the best Monkey songs around...it nestles perfectly next to Douglas (Monkey Song) in any case...
Just download this and play it loud and proud...No shame or guilt, just surrender to its power. The B side is "good" too!
Thanks to J.K for this one
Click on title for a full version of Orang-Utang
Baghdad Green Zone - BLOODBATH
4 US soldiers killed; militants shell Green Zone
By SLOBODAN LEKIC -- 1 hour ago
On Monday, 30 Iraqi lawmakers from various political parties urged Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to end the monthlong confrontation, saying innocent civilians and children were the main victims of the fighting.
Their appeal came after U.S. forces, backed by Abrams tanks and Bradley armored personnel carriers, fired on insurgents positions in Sadr City. The military said 38 militants were killed. Iraqi health officials said 58 people, including five children and eight women, were injured.
Bombardments by suspected militants killed four U.S. soldiers Monday as troops tried to push Shiite fighters farther from the U.S.-protected Green Zone and out of range of their rockets and mortars.
The near-daily shelling of the Green Zone has become acutely embarrassing for both Iraqi authorities and the U.S. military.
At least 44 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq in April, making it the deadliest month for U.S. forces since September.
The U.S. military said three soldiers were killed in eastern Baghdad by indirect fire, a reference to mortars or rockets. The statement did not give an exact location for the attack, but the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City has been the scene of intense fighting recently with Shiite militiamen.
A fourth U.S. soldier was killed by a shell in western Baghdad, the military said.
A showdown between the Iraqi government and the Mahdi Army . led by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr . has increasingly drawn U.S. forces into the battles. American commanders are particularly focused on trying to curb a rise in mortar and rocket attacks on the Green Zone.
At least three more salvos hit the Green Zone in central Baghdad, but there were no reports of injuries. In Sadr City . the stronghold of the Mahdi Army militia . U.S. soldiers battled deeper into the district a day after fierce clashes that killed at least 38 suspected militants, the military said.
U.S. soldiers killed seven more extremists Monday after coming under small-arms fire in Sadr City, the military said. Four of the suspects were killed in an airstrike and three others by an Abrams tank crew, according to a statement.
The fighting erupted after militants took advantage of a sandstorm to unleash a barrage of 107 mm rockets and 82 mm mortar shells at the Green Zone, which includes the U.S. and British embassies and some key Iraqi government offices.
Rather than mount an all-out assault, U.S. commanders have tried to limit the shelling by walling off the southern third of Sadr City and trying to put the Green Zone out of range of light rockets and mortars.
107 mm Katyushas have a range of about five miles, while 82 mm mortars can exceed three miles. Much of the Green Zone is more than five miles from firing positions beyond the new wall.
"It's a tried and true strategy that we'll continue to prosecute here because it has worked well in other locations, and we think it'll work well here," said Brig. Gen. Will Grimsley, an assistant division commander.
Col. John Hort, who commands U.S. troops on the southern edge of Sadr City, said the heavy sandstorm sharply limits sensors and targeting lasers on helicopters and unmanned drones used to identify firing positions.
The Price Of An Iraqi Child.s Life - 3.5p
It is an awesome fact that the war has so far forced one out of every eight Iraqis, more than 3.7 million people, to flee their homes, according to the United Nations (http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/ meast/01/08/iraq.refugees/index.html). Of these, 2 million have left the country while another 1.7 million have been internally displaced. Some 40 per cent of the professional middle class has left the country since 2003. It was recently estimated that of the 34,000 doctors present in 2003, 12,000 have now emigrated and 2,000 have been murdered. (http://web.mit.edu/CIS/pdf/ Human_Cost_of_War.pdf.)
According to the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources, just 32 per cent of the Iraqi population has access to clean drinking water, 19 per cent has access to a functional sewage system. (IRIN, .Water shortage leads people to drink from rivers,. February 18, 2007; http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=70243)
Dr Abdul-Rahman Adil Ali of the Baghdad Health Directorate warned of the dire consequences:
"As the sewage system has collapsed, all residents are threatened with gastroenteritis, typhoid fever, cholera, diarrhoea and hepatitis. In some of Baghdad's poor neighbourhoods, people drink water which is mixed with sewage." (IRIN, .Iraq: Disease alert after sewage system collapses,. http://newsite.irinnews.org/ Report.aspx?ReportId=64375)
A February 9 Financial Times editorial commented: .what we should all be scandalised by is how little the two countries most responsible for the Iraq misadventure - the US and the UK - are doing to alleviate this crisis.. (.Iraq.s refugee crisis is nearing catastrophe,. The Financial Times; http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ aa8d01c8-b7c3-11db-bfb3-0000779e2340.html)
19JAN2007
nearly 100 eminent doctors, backed by a group of international lawyers, sent a letter to Tony Blair describing conditions in Iraqi hospitals as a breach of the Geneva conventions requiring Britain and the US, as occupying forces, to protect human life. The signatories include Iraqi doctors, British doctors who have worked in Iraqi hospitals, and leading UK consultants and GPs. The doctors describe desperate shortages causing "hundreds" of children to die in hospitals. Babies are being ventilated using a plastic tube in their noses and dying for lack of an oxygen mask, while other babies are dying because of the lack of a phial of vitamin K or sterile needles, items all costing just 95p. Hospitals are unable to stop fatal infections spreading from baby to baby for want of surgical gloves, which cost 3.5p a pair. The doctors commented in the letter:
"Sick or injured children who could otherwise be treated by simple means are left to die in hundreds because they do not have access to basic medicines or other resources. Children who have lost hands, feet and limbs are left without prostheses. Children with grave psychological distress are left untreated." (http://news.independent.co.uk/ world/middle_east/article2165471.ece)
They added that the UK, as one of the occupying powers under UN resolution 1483, is obliged to comply with the Geneva and Hague conventions that require the UK and the US to "maintain order and to look after the medical needs of the population". But, the doctors noted: "This they failed to do and the knock-on effect of this failure is affecting Iraqi children's hospitals with increasing ferocity."
A delegation of these doctors asked to meet Hilary Benn, Britain.s Secretary of State for International Development. Stop The War reported the results:
.They [the doctors] have been told that Mr Benn cannot spare the time. He has refused their request for the UK to organise an immediate delivery of basic medical supplies for premature babies to just one of these hospitals, the Diwanyah Maternity Hospital located 80 kilometres south of Baghdad.. (Stop The War, press release, February 3, 2007)
April 10, 2006
IRAQ BODY COUNT - A SHAME BECOMING SHAMEFUL
John Pilger And A Leading Epidemiologist Challenge IBC
Noam Chomsky once observed:
"If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong."
(www.journalism.sfsu.edu/www/pubs/gater/spring95/apr27/chom.htm)
One indication that the Iraq Body Count (IBC) project is doing something wrong is that it is deemed, not merely inoffensive, but is eagerly embraced by people who really ought to be offended.
Consider Herald Sun journalist Adam Bolt, described by John Pilger as .the lowest of journalism's low, an extreme right wing and aggressively idiotic member of Murdoch's dominant press group in Australia.. (Email to Media Lens, April 4, 2006)
Bolt.s recent article, .Body of evidence,. provides a jaw-dropping display of propaganda. Bolt asserts, for example, that Saddam Hussein .claimed on average between 90 and 120 victims each day. Every day. For 24 years. That's three or four times higher than the daily deaths in fighting in Iraq today.. (Bolt, .Body of evidence,. Herald Sun, March 22, 2006; www.heraldsun.news.com.au/printpage/0,5481,18552865,00.html)
While this is sheer fantasy, Bolt +does+ accurately cite IBC.s maximum tally for reported civilian deaths by mid-March - 37,800 - to make his point:
.It is a shocking loss of life, but see how many more Saddam killed or ordered to their death each day..
Elsewhere, a Media Lens reader challenged one G. Jefferson Price III - an editor at the Baltimore Sun - on his reference to the claim that there have been .about 35,000 Iraqi dead. (www.commondreams.org/views06/0404-21.htm). Our reader suggested to Jefferson Price that, assuming IBC had been the source of his figure, he should be aware that IBC.s methodology and figures have been subject to challenge. Jefferson Price responded:
.Thank you for your note. I will definitely take that into account the next time. I've used the 35,000 figure because that is the lowest number but still, tragically, too high.. (Forwarded to Media Lens, April 6, 2006)
One hardly knows whether to laugh or cry! Instead, we asked Jefferson Price why he felt the need to choose .the lowest number. - we received no reply.
Sometimes the use of IBC.s figures borders on the surreal. The website of the Liberal Democrat party - which proudly proclaims its opposition to the war - currently features this comment:
.Well over 15,000 Iraqi civilians have died, and thousands more injured . in military operations and the ensuing insurgency. (Figures correct to February 16th 2006.). (www.libdems.org.uk/internationalaffairs/issues/iraq.html)
When challenged, a Lib Dem press person pleaded ignorance other than to say .the number comes from a site on the
internet.. (Email from Gabriele Zamparini, April 7, 2006)
It certainly does - it comes from IBC in early December 2004 - some 16 months ago!
These uses of IBC.s figures give the lie to the website.s sole substantive response to criticisms we have made in our Media Alerts. The comments appear on page 14 of a recent addition to their website:
"Somewhat more surprising are approaches to our work from some sectors of the political left, who take the difference between our total and that of the .Lancet study. to indicate that we are witting or unwitting lackeys of the Pentagon in helping them massage the figures downwards: (See, for instance, .Paved with Good Intentions: Iraq Body Count. (David Edwards, Medialens.org, January 25 2006). We are particularly surprised at this line of argument, because all but a handful of media commentaries use our figures - appropriately - as a means of highlighting the tragedy of the civilian death toll, rather than to engage in a comparison between different estimates." (www.iraqbodycount.net/onibc)
This is truly shocking. First, comparisons are extremely common. Consider recent comments made by Helen Boaden, the BBC.s director of news:
.The Lancet study is a snapshot taken more than 18 months ago and though the methodology has been widely acknowledged as standard, there has been argument about whether the sampling method is the most appropriate for this kind of survey... I have also consulted our specialist in our analysis and research department and we conclude that the best source is probably the Iraq Body Count website." (Email to Media Lens, March 31, 2006)
Second, as the Bolt and Lib Dem examples indicate, any number of politicians and journalists, particularly of the pro-war variety, have leapt on IBC.s figures precisely to +downplay+ the tragedy of the civilian death toll. They are using the lowest number they can find to suggest, for example, that the results of the invasion have been far less severe than the consequences of leaving Saddam Hussein in power.
As Stephen Soldz has commented: .That IBC misses this elementary point is quite disturbing. I would have to put on my psychoanalyst hat to speculate as to why this is the case.. (Soldz, .Iraq Body Count replies to critics but ignores criticism,. March 29, 2006; http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/
2006/03/29/iraq-body-count-replies-to-critics-but-
ignores-criticism/)
.Run By Amateurs. - A Professional Epidemiologist Speaks
IBC insist that they do not have the resources to challenge the use and abuse of their figures by incompetents and cynics in the media. Even accepting this argument at face value, questions remain.
Is the IBC project characterised by flaws and oversights that have helped make it serviceable to power? Is it in fact right for IBC to present itself as a rigorously scientific enterprise? Could it be much more scientific, much more professional, and as a result less open to cynical use and abuse? Could its propaganda value be, in part, the result of IBC personnel being scientifically out of their depth?
One of the world.s leading professional epidemiologists, who has chosen to speak anonymously, has this to say:
.IBC is run by amateurs. It is easy to calculate the sensitivity of their surveillance system. They would take another list or independent sample, and see the fraction of that sample that appeared in their data base. I have asked them to do this over a year ago, they have not.
.There are other databases out there (NCCI being the most complete), they could do a capture-recapture analysis (as lots of experts have been calling for) and see how many people have died but they have not.
.Attached is a graph [not included here] of deaths in Guatemala from 1960 to 1995 put together by Patrick Ball at UC Berkeley. Murders are with the black line, the % reported in the press with the dashed line. Note, when violence goes up, reporting in the press goes down. I have calibrated surveillance systems during times of war (always in Africa admittedly) and would be astonished if their system could capture 50% of deaths.
.In Saddam's time, morgues + hospital reports + death certificates reported to the central Gov. only accounted for about 1/3 of the deaths that must have been occurring in Iraq. There have now been 15,000 excess violent deaths just in the Baghdad Morgues! If Baghdad is about 1/5th of the country, and the morgues do not capture all deaths, what does this imply... the UNDP number (more than twice IBC at the time it was done) is known by the authors to be an underestimate and was based on a couple of questions out of a long (88 min.?) interview.. (Email to Media Lens, March 23, 2006)
What does it tell us that, according to this leading epidemiologist, the organisation providing the most commonly cited figures for civilian deaths in Iraq - one of the most important political issues of our time - is .run by amateurs.?
How many journalists are aware that IBC is not in fact run by professional epidemiologists? What would we say if, in discussing climate change, politicians and journalists consistently highlighted information supplied by a group deemed by professional climate scientists to be .amateurs.?
And why have the amateurs at IBC not responded to elementary suggestions made by professional experts in the field to test the accuracy of their surveillance system? Why were the two suggestions described above not pursued? Why is the graph of deaths in Guatemala not available on the IBC site and its implications for the project explored? What, again, would we say of amateur climate researchers who failed to respond to such obvious suggestions and points made by eminent, professional climate scientists?
We asked IBC co-founder John Sloboda (April 6) if it was true that IBC had not responded to the above suggestions. Sloboda responded:
Dear Davids,
Thanks for your letter.
Unfortunately the events of the last three months have convinced us that direct correspondence with you is unproductive. We've said it before, and we say it again, though we do so with regret.
Yours sincerely,
John Sloboda (April 7, 2006)
Isn.t it clear that none of the above questions have been investigated or deemed to matter by our media for the simple reason that powerful interests care so much about the dead of Iraq? That is, they care deeply that the true number of dead be +obscured+ as far as possible. Isn.t it clear that this is why the lowest suggested tally for Iraqi dead - however flawed, however amateurish - has sailed effortlessly through the propaganda filters and biases protecting the powerful?
One remarkable consequence is that IBC is able to pass judgement on the work of leading experts in the field. The November 2004 report estimating 100,000 excess civilian deaths was produced by some of the world.s premier research organisations - the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Columbia University, and Baghdad's Al-Mustansiriya University - and published in the prestigious science journal, The Lancet, following an intensive peer-review process. And yet it is of this report that the amateurs at IBC declared in March:
.We have little confidence in the estimates based on the Lancet study and recent extrapolations, for the reasons explained. We think that the UNDP study offers a more reliable estimate for the period covered by the Lancet, and one which is not inconsistent with the type of data we have gathered. (para 6.0 a of .On IBC.)..
This was written by John Sloboda, a professor of psychology at the University of Keele, described on his university website as .internationally known for his work on the psychology of music. (www.keele.ac.uk/depts/ps/jasbiog.htm). The second author is listed as Hamit Dardagan, described on the IBC site as .a freelance researcher currently working in London. He has made an in-depth study of the research methods of Professor Marc Herold, who pioneered a media-based methodology for estimating civilian deaths in the Afghan war of 2001-2.. (www.iraqbodycount.org/contacts.php)
A Shame Becoming Shameful - John Pilger Challenges John Sloboda
On March 15, in response to our earlier Media Alerts, John Pilger wrote to John Sloboda:
Dear John
I hope this finds you well. Congratulations on the good work IBC did in the early days when others shied away from the subject of civilian deaths in Iraq. How times have changed and, as one who has read most of the studies on civilian deaths, I am puzzled why you and your colleagues do not engage in the vital debate initiated by Media Lens, whose good faith and integrity I can personally vouch for. There is no doubt in my mind that the issue of the civilian slaughter is one of those that can end the suffering in Iraq. In my experience of war, silence will prolong it.
.I intend to write about this, and I urge you and your colleagues to engage the crucial questions raised by Media Lens.
All good wishes
John Pilger (March 15, 2006)
Sloboda responded:
Dear John,
Thanks for this. Your position is understood.
Before you write anything, I wonder if you would do us the courtesy of reading our most recent article, which went up on our web site today. the direct link is http://www.iraqbodycount.org/onibc/
If you want to print it out to read on paper, there is a pdf button near the bottom of the first page.
A number of people have written to us as a result of the Media Lens pieces. We are sending them the reply below [not included here], which you may also find of interest.
Sincerely,
John (March 16, 2006)
Pilger wrote again on March 16:
Dear John
I did you the courtesy, as you suggested, and read your "presentation" to a conference. It answers none of the questions raised about IBC's appropriation by defenders of the Iraq invasion, including George W. Bush.
Neither do the other pieces you recommend to people who write to the IBC. Why do you waste time and not answer valid criticisms? This surely suggests something concealed. And who is the "highly respected" member of the anti war movement [mentioned in Sloboda.s reply]? There are plenty of similar voices who support the Democrats' position in the US or hope Blair will see the light. This anonymous person also apparently disapproves of a public debate, preferring a quiet word between Media Lens and IBC, which the public would not know about. Such a shame becoming shameful.
best wishes
John
Sloboda responded the same day:
Dear John,
Your gratuitous slur on our anonymous correspondent is offensive, inaccurate and misplaced . We have, of course, passed it straight to him, and he must act as he sees fit.
With the greatest of respect, but I do believe that we have responded to the main thrust of the Media Lens attack against us through the materials now on our site as well as previous correspondence with Media Lens. Can I walk you through this? And then perhaps you could clarify what are these "pretty straightforward" questions asked by Media Lens which you claim not to be answered by what follows.
Sloboda then pasted a presentation from the website, including:
.100,000 OR MORE DEAD?
.1. We have little confidence in the estimates based on the Lancet study and recent extrapolations, for the reasons explained. We think that the UNDP study offers a more reliable estimate for the period covered by the Lancet, and one which is not inconsistent with the type of data we have gathered. (para 6.0 a of "On IBC")
.2. Thus, the Lancet is not strong evidence for a massive deficit in accounting for war deaths (although this does mean there is not any deficit - just that the Lancet doesn't show what that deficit is)..
The rest of the presentation can be read here: www.iraqbodycount.net/onibc/
Sloboda then concluded his email thus:
In the light of all this, only those who wish to deliberately misrepresent us can possibly doubt where we are coming from.
We believe that public attacks on one sector of the anti-war movement towards another are completely counterproductive. By attacking our work, you will be giving a gift to the war camp. We do sincerely hope you do not contribute further to Media Lens' campaign against us
Sincerely,
John Sloboda. (March 16, 2006)
Finally, Pilger wrote (March 17):
Dear John
Talk of a "gratuitous slur" on the anonymous person you quoted is silly. I wonder how many "respected" anti war figures speaking across the world tomorrow would be willing to put their names to supporting IBC's current confused position. Having tied yourself to the media coverage of Iraq -- useful at the start of the invasion -- you are now trapped within its discredited Green Zone, so to speak.
Instead of attacking The Lancet report, which, as you well know, was drawn from a rigorous, transparent and brave academic study (by the way, it's you who are doing the "attacking"; Media Lens seemed to me merely to be raising crucial and, I repeat, straightforward questions which you have declined to answer), you could have included IBC in an overdue public debate; but you have chosen not to.
What is beyond doubt is that IBC's "conservative" figures have provided an utterly false impression of the degree of suffering in Iraq and handed a propaganda tool back to your sources. No one suggests you and your colleagues intended this. As I said in an earlier message, I admired IBC's initiative; but you ought to be setting the record straight now; reflecting merely the media coverage makes no sense and is wrong.
It all reminds me of how the number of victims of the embargo in the 1990s was measured and distorted and conveniently minimised -- so that today this horrific episode has been largely written from recent history.
Yours, as ever
John
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Guitars
2 years ago I started learn guitar play.
My first guitar was classc. I was going on guitar lessons for 6 months but I had fallen out with my `teacher` and I broke out with this lessons, then I learned with myself. It was verry hard. I had bought teaching book because after I wanted to learn. And exacly I had been learning and I got to know many thinks,
many new guitarmusic words, and many of them. When I wanted something more I bought Electric
Guitar. It was cool. But in short time was disaster of guitar. I crushed, broke my guitar for no my foult. I fell anger because this guitar
had cost 1400 zl. `Shit` I fought and said or rather shout. I promised my self that I`ll never ever play guitar, I renounced this. But now I`m going to play guitar again. I`m going to buy new guitar,
electric guitar, and I going to play. So maybe at first I`ll have to exercise, but then will be better.
Peace and Chill out...
My first guitar was classc. I was going on guitar lessons for 6 months but I had fallen out with my `teacher` and I broke out with this lessons, then I learned with myself. It was verry hard. I had bought teaching book because after I wanted to learn. And exacly I had been learning and I got to know many thinks,
many new guitarmusic words, and many of them. When I wanted something more I bought Electric
Guitar. It was cool. But in short time was disaster of guitar. I crushed, broke my guitar for no my foult. I fell anger because this guitar
had cost 1400 zl. `Shit` I fought and said or rather shout. I promised my self that I`ll never ever play guitar, I renounced this. But now I`m going to play guitar again. I`m going to buy new guitar,
electric guitar, and I going to play. So maybe at first I`ll have to exercise, but then will be better.
Peace and Chill out...
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Do you have 2 minutes 46 seconds?
Just in case you want to see proof that the airplanes of 911 were
indeed hologrammes...
indeed hologrammes...
No other technology could make the NOSE-OUT happen in independent camera recordings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Kmjh-cN8Q
just give it 3 minutes.
Temporary Declaration
Before the start of the second round a friend asked me who I was rooting for now that I no longer had a dog in the fight. I started thinking about teams in the East but, quickly decided that it would go against some moral code to pull for another team in the East considering that three teams would easily be considered rivals of the Bruins (Philly, NYR, and the [gulp] Habs). The other team has the biggest pink hat following because of Sidney Crosby. So, I turn toward the West and instantly remember how much I absolutely love Marty Turco.So, here it is. My official declaration of fan-dom to the Dallas Stars for the remainder of their post-season. I know it sounds cheap that I am making this "bold" statement now that they are ahead of the Sharks 2-0, however, I have been pulling for them in West since the beginning of the playoffs (will provide references upon request). It was never made official electronically so, I figure since there hasn't been a new post in a few days that I owed it to all of you.
Here is my main reason for my quick trip on the Stars bandwagon:
I can produce valid evidence that I have a man crush on Marty Turco's goaltending style. I don't know what it is but, I often find myself wishing I could play like that. He has tremendous flexibility, ridiculous mobility, terrific positioning, and the outstanding knack for being able to play the puck. Now enough of me bragging in the third person, onto Marty Turco...kidding. I just love the way the Stars have been playing throughout the post-season.
It also doesn't hurt that class act, Mike Modano, is from Livonia, Michigan where the majority of my mother's side of the family resides. Great city by the way. If you ever get the chance to visit that area, do it.
So, there you have it, the Dallas Stars have my support for the 2008 Stanley Cup playoffs.
Go Stars (for the time being)!......and obviously Go B's!
Hans Van Hemert –Because Of The Cats
Hans Van Hemert –Because Of The Cats/ You Got To Sing Tonight –Philips 6012 324 (1973 NL)
Hans Von Hemert’s name appears as producer on many choice Dutch Glam era singles including Dump’s incredible Annabelle (or Annabella). He also had quite a few releases under his own name and was pretty popular at the time.
Because Of The Cats is the title song to what appears to be a Dutch Giallo/Slasher movie -Niet Voor De Poesen : A series of rapes are commited by a gang of "untouchable" rich kids. The gang doesn't need to steal as they are all rich. Instead, they hold sadistic quasi-satanic rituals, wreck the houses of other rich people, and rape women. The boys call themselves "The Ravens"; the girls call themselves the "She-Cats." Egged on by the "She-Cats," the boys' activities escalate until they commit a murder...
Musically Because Of The Cats is nailed down by a thumping beat, sports a catchy tune with subtle orchestration and features some choice use of phasing half the way through. A very cool single indeed!
Musically Because Of The Cats is nailed down by a thumping beat, sports a catchy tune with subtle orchestration and features some choice use of phasing half the way through. A very cool single indeed!
Click on title for a soundclip of Because Of The Cats
Saturday, April 26, 2008
after Hottie&theNottie(: with guest mouldy-heeepo -frog of course.
Yeah, FOURTH YOU. take note, fourth finger alrightos.
Dino: My skills are FAR better than yours(:
shu&i: In the midst of hiding(:
This was the extra things we did for our presentation the other day,A VIDEO CLIP(:
2 in fact!
was supposed to be for the culture&aesthetics module.
lols.
yepyep, i edited it.
but yeah, its kind of funny.
The peeing, the kiasu-ism and all.
Oh, and the link's in MY MEDIA section, on the right, too.
RAH.
there's a flu virus in our class.
&i think i've e caught it too.
RAHHHHH.
Debate instead of presentation ystr.
the cognitive process module.
our topic was " a businessman is an educated man"
&we were the opposition team.
Hahahaha,
actually, i like debating,
FUN-NESS(:
After lesson,
Chiong-ed quiz,Evaluation&RJ.
& went for IG training, or rather, PRACTICE after that.
was damn damn damn damn tired.
was damn damn damn damn tired.
went for cell.
Dino&BrotherChee came too.
hahahaha.
fellowship-ed @teochew moi.
& once agn,
Dino forced me to walk all th way home.
it was like#$%^&*&^%$%^& far,
plus, i was so tired&lazy, and it was late.
still, i was forced to walk.
RAH.
lols.
Slept super duper fast last night.
See, i was TOO tired.
hahahaha,
hahahaha,
&through my sleep,
i dreamt of 3 dumb dreams.
LOL.
OH!OH!OH!
i forgot to mention.
If u msed me last friday,
&i didnt reply,
it was cos my phone went Almondnuts&Walnuts,
& i didnt receive anythingyepyep.
Anwyay,
& i didnt receive anythingyepyep.
Anwyay,
im gonna leave hse like pretty soon,
after bathing and all.
Today 30th Anniversary of Afghanistan Revolution
If it wasn't for this missive, you wouldn't know it. Not a single newspaper has reported this anniversary. If it was in Zimbabwe we'd be plastered with articles. Here the gist of what happened:
The Saur Revolution
is the name given to the Communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan takeover of political power in Afghanistan on 27 April 1978.
In 1978 a prominent member of Parcham, Mir Akbar Khyber (or "Kaibar"), was killed by the government and his associates. Although the government issued a statement deploring the assassination, PDPA leaders apparently feared that Daoud was planning to exterminate them all. Shortly after a massive protest against the government during the funeral ceremonies of Mir Akbar Khaibar most of the leaders of PDPA were arrested by the government. Amin and a number of military wing officers of the PDPA Khalq wing stayed out of prison. This gave a chance to the group to organize an uprising. The government with the help of PDPA military members fell and the PDPA leadership was out of jail. Nur Mohammad Taraki, Babrak Karmal, and Hafizullah Amin overthrew the regime of Mohammad Daoud, and renaming the country the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA). The word 'Saur' means 'April' in Pushto.
On the eve of the coup, the police did not send Hafizullah Amin to immediate imprisonment, as it did with Politburo members of the PDPA on April 25, 1978. His imprisonment was postponed for five hours, during which Amin, without having the authority, instructed the Khalqi army officers to overthrow the government
The regime of President Mohammad Daoud Khan came to a violent end in the early morning hours of April 28, 1978, when military units loyal to the Khalq faction of the PDPA stormed the Presidential Palace in the heart of Kabul. The coup was also strategically planned for this date because it was the day before Friday, the Muslim day of worship, and most military commanders and government workers were off duty. With the help of Afghanistan's military air force which were mainly Soviet made Migs 21 and SU-7's, the insurgent troops overcame the stubborn resistance of the Presidential Guard and killed Daoud and most members of his family.
The divided PDPA succeeded the Daoud regime with a new government under the leadership of Nur Muhammad Taraki of the Khalq faction. In Kabul, the initial cabinet appeared to be carefully constructed to alternate ranking positions between Khalqis and Parchamis. Taraki was Prime Minister, Karmal was senior Deputy Prime Minister, and Hafizullah Amin of Khalq was foreign minister.
Once in power, the party moved to permit freedom of religion and place agricultural resources under state control. They also made a number of ambitious statements on women.s rights and waived the farmers debts countrywide. The majority of people in the cities including Kabul either welcomed it or were ambivalent to these policies. However, the secular nature of the government made it unpopular with religiously conservative Afghans in the villages and the countryside, who favored traditional Islamic restrictions on women's rights and in daily life. Their opposition became particularly pronounced after the Soviet Union occupied the country in late December of 1979, fearing it was in danger of being toppled by mujahideen forces.
The U.S. saw the situation as a prime opportunity to weaken the Soviet Union, and the move essentially signaled the end of the detente era initiated by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Funding for anti-Soviet Mujahideen forces began prior to the Soviet invasion, under the Carter administration, with the intention of provoking Soviet intervention (according to Zbigniew Brzezinski) and was significantly boosted under the Reagan administration, which was committed to actively rolling back Soviet influence in the Third World. The Mujahideen belonged to various different factions, but all shared a similarly conservative Islamic ideology.
The eighth part of First Punic War
Roman's attack in 252 BCAfter huge defeat in battle of Tunis, which took place in 255 BC, small units from the Roman republic army tried to come back on the Sicily but unfortunately all fleet was caught by big storm, which destroyed more than half Roman’s ship. Carthaginians after attack on their territory determined, that they were be able to do counter-attack. They attacked from their outposts on Agrigentum. This city was burnt because Carthage’s units on the Sicily was too small in order to hold that town. Roman’s army we could say, that give respite to Carthaginians because they prepared next big assault in 253 BC. This offensive started from naval attack on the Lilybaeum ,which was the biggest port and city in Carthaginian power also Roman’s fleet began attack on Africa. The both operation not came to anything because Roman’s fleet near Lilybaeum was refused by Carthaginians, second operation, which might ended invasion on Africa also didn’t work inasmuch as fleet was caught by storm and was destroyed. On the north Roman’s army did more progress ,in 252 BC was captured city Thermae, in 251 BC was took Kephalodon. The last city, which was in this part of Sicily it was Panormus. Panormus after very long seized give up, capture this city meant for towns in western Sicily-burnt all cities up so Leta, Solous, Tyndaris agreed on a peace with Roman republic in 251 BC.
Frank Lampard
Frank James Lampard Jr. was born 20-th June 1978 in Romford. He is English footballer playing as offensive half - back and is one of the best and the most identification middle half - backs on the world.
On September 2005 Lampard was chosen member of FIFPro World XI. Eleven FIFA was chosen by vote professional footballer from over 40 countries. In winter 2005 Lampard got twice the 2-nd place behind Ronaldinho in plebiscite European Footballer of the Year and FIFA World Player of the Year. He was chosen the player of January in 2007 by fans, because he shot 7 goals in 8 meetings.
His first action with professional football started in West Hamie United, where were working his father and uncle. He impressed coach 1-st team and 1-st July 1995 was brought to senior team. In season 1995/1996 spent on hire in Welsh team Swansea City. After return to West Hamie United Lampard played his first match in senior team in West Hamie. He shot his first goal just 1997 in match with Barnsley. He was better more and more what caused that he appeared regular in next matches. Very well game of player caused that West Hamie United ranged very well position in English league. Lampard played for that team 187 times and shot 39 goals. Many clubs wanted to buy footballers from Upton Park. From the team went the best friend of Frank, Rio Ferdinand. His uncle and father was dismissal and Frank started seriously think about his future. Soon with his family decided that he will sign contract with Chelsea London. He moved there 15 May 2001 for 11 Million pounds.
Friday, April 25, 2008
RAHHH.
i'm in class now,
and the faci's gg to different groups,
to see what we've discuss and all.
Havent blogged for like #&*$%^&*(*^%%^& long.
been busy.
go out early early, come home late late.
BOO!
hahahaa,
but the best part is,
time is passing amazingly fast,
&that's good(:
watched Hottie&theNottie the other day
after school with Shu, Drexler, Dino&Ben.
rah,
i'll conitnue again tmr or smth.
cos my brain's not functioning well,
&my eyes are small because they cant be opened fully today.
& so
haiya, i'll blog agn tmr.
Plus photos(:
i'm in class now,
and the faci's gg to different groups,
to see what we've discuss and all.
Havent blogged for like #&*$%^&*(*^%%^& long.
been busy.
go out early early, come home late late.
BOO!
hahahaa,
but the best part is,
time is passing amazingly fast,
&that's good(:
watched Hottie&theNottie the other day
after school with Shu, Drexler, Dino&Ben.
rah,
i'll conitnue again tmr or smth.
cos my brain's not functioning well,
&my eyes are small because they cant be opened fully today.
& so
haiya, i'll blog agn tmr.
Plus photos(:
Łajka - the first dog in the space.
Łajka - the dog which was shot on orbit circumterrestrial. She was shot in Soviet satellite which name was "Sputnik 2" 3-rd November 1957. The dog weigh about 6 kg and grew up on streets of Moscow. These two facts (light weight and resistance on hard conditions) caused that she was selected as a passenger for the space ship. Łajka was first on orbit circumterrestrial but she wasn't first on the space, because ZSRR and USA had experimented with send animals on the space.
Course of the flight.
At first, in propagandist aims, it was told the dog survived few days. Truth was proclaim at last in 2002. Łajka died after about 7 hours. Cause of that was overheating and stress. A bearing rocket didn't leave the main rocket what caused a temperature increment inside a capsule to up 40 degrees Celsius. From the beginning didn't plan landing the satellite on the Earth - Łajka will have after 10 days poisoned food. Oxygen was also meant on ten days. Russians proclaimed a ten-days flight plan some time after shot the satellite that is probably after death the dog. It possible that it was in propagandist aim.
Łajka on April 2008 was awarded own 2 meters high statue showing a space rocket, coming to human's hand, on which is standing Łajka. The statue is near scrutinizing institute of military medicine of Ministry Defence of Russia.
News From The Music Blogosphere - New Link For Lost-In-Tyme
Unfortunately another one of the best blogs out there, the original Lost In Tyme blog, was recently deleted. Despite the fact that the majority (if not all) of the albums shared there are out of print, their blog was removed for violating the TOS. At the moment they are currently searching for new host for their blog, but the url below will serve as a temporary replacement. All news concerning the fate of Lost In Tyme will be posted there. They have also come up with a great idea called the '100 Mirrors Project' to ensure that this doesn't happen again. If you would like to help them out, simply visit their page and read the post concerning the 100 Mirrors Project. All of the details are posted there. It's great to see bloggers uniting to save one another. Hopefully we'll see more of this in the future and put an end to to the foolish deletions of blogs which material that is out of print or otherwise unavailable.
Lost-In-Tyme: http://lostintymem.blogspot.com/
Lost-In-Tyme: http://lostintymem.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Jean-Luc Nancy - A Finite Thinking
MADE IN ISTANBUL
A Finite Thinking
(Cultural Memory in the Present)
by Jean-Luc Nancy
# Paperback: 348 pages
# Publisher: Stanford University Press; 1 edition (October 6, 2003)
This book is a rich collection of philosophical essays radically interrogating key notions and preoccupations of the phenomenological tradition. While using Heidegger’s Being and Time as its permanent point of reference and dispute, this collection also confronts other important philosophers, such as Kant, Nietzsche, and Derrida. The projects of these pivotal thinkers of finitude are relentlessly pushed to their extreme, with respect both to their unexpected horizons and to their as yet unexplored analytical potential. A Finite Thinking shows that, paradoxically, where the thought of finitude comes into its own it frees itself, not only to reaffirm a certain transformed and transformative presence, but also for a non-religious reconsideration and reaffirmation of certain theologemes, as well as of the body, heart, and love. This book shows the literary dimension of philosophical discourse, providing important enabling ideas for scholars of literature, cultural theory, and philosophy.
via dolorosa
A Finite Thinking
(Cultural Memory in the Present)
by Jean-Luc Nancy
# Paperback: 348 pages
# Publisher: Stanford University Press; 1 edition (October 6, 2003)
This book is a rich collection of philosophical essays radically interrogating key notions and preoccupations of the phenomenological tradition. While using Heidegger’s Being and Time as its permanent point of reference and dispute, this collection also confronts other important philosophers, such as Kant, Nietzsche, and Derrida. The projects of these pivotal thinkers of finitude are relentlessly pushed to their extreme, with respect both to their unexpected horizons and to their as yet unexplored analytical potential. A Finite Thinking shows that, paradoxically, where the thought of finitude comes into its own it frees itself, not only to reaffirm a certain transformed and transformative presence, but also for a non-religious reconsideration and reaffirmation of certain theologemes, as well as of the body, heart, and love. This book shows the literary dimension of philosophical discourse, providing important enabling ideas for scholars of literature, cultural theory, and philosophy.
via dolorosa
The Ghost of Theology - Readings of Kant and Hegel
The Ghost of Theology - Readings of Kant and Hegel
here is a special issue of Diacritics
Diacritics, Vol. 11, No. 2, The Ghost of Theology: Readings of Kant and Hegel. (Summer, 1981):
wonder!
here is a special issue of Diacritics
Diacritics, Vol. 11, No. 2, The Ghost of Theology: Readings of Kant and Hegel. (Summer, 1981):
wonder!
Hegel, Kant and the Structure of the Object
Hegel Kant & Structure Object CL (Hardcover)
by Robert Stern
# Hardcover: 184 pages
# Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (April 26, 1990)
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by Robert Stern
# Hardcover: 184 pages
# Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (April 26, 1990)
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Kant (Routledge Philosophers) by Paul Guyer
Kant (Routledge Philosophers)
by Paul Guyer
# Hardcover: 456 pages
# Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (August 18, 2006)
Kant is an absolutely first-rate general introduction to Kant's Critical Philosophy. Paul Guyer's interpretations are extremely well-supported, carefully and crisply argued, and highly insightful.
–Robert Hanna, University of Colorado
An impressive overview of the various strands of Kant's philosophy. With great skill Guyer manages to compress Kant's critical thought into a few hundred pages. This book will provide an excellent introduction to Kant's thought.
–Philip Stratton-Lake, University of Reading
The book is impressive in very many ways. It demonstrates a mastery of the Kantian corpus and an ability to explain exceedingly complex arguments in a clear and accessible fashion. I think it will become essential reading for students wanting to grasp the broad sweep of Kant's thought without losing much by way of depth.
–Andrew Chignell, Cornell University
That Guyer is able to cover thismuch material, clearly and without oversimplification, in a single, reasonably sized volume represents a unique accomplishment, which should prove to be extremely useful to a broad audience.
–Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego
Product Description
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is arguably the most influential of the Enlightenment Philosophers. In this outstanding introduction, Paul Guyer introduces and assesses all the major aspects of Kant's thought.
Beginning with a helpful overview of Kant's life and times, Guyer introduces the "Copernican revolution" Kant brought about in metaphysics and epistemology, carefully introducing his arguments about the nature of experience, space and time in his most influential but difficult work, The Critique of Pure Reason. He gives a much-needed explanation of Kant's famous theory of transcendental idealism, a cornerstone of his philosophy as a whole.
He then examines Kant's moral philosophy, clearly explaining Kant's celebrated "categorical imperative" and his theories of duty, freedom of the will, and rights. Finally, he covers Kant's aesthetics, in particular his arguments about the nature of beauty and the sublime and their relation to human freedom and happiness.
A concluding chapter considers Kant's legacy and his influence on the shape of contemporary philosophy.
Kant is an ideal starting point for anyone coming to the philosopher for the first time, as well as those studying Kant in related disciplines.
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by Paul Guyer
# Hardcover: 456 pages
# Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (August 18, 2006)
Kant is an absolutely first-rate general introduction to Kant's Critical Philosophy. Paul Guyer's interpretations are extremely well-supported, carefully and crisply argued, and highly insightful.
–Robert Hanna, University of Colorado
An impressive overview of the various strands of Kant's philosophy. With great skill Guyer manages to compress Kant's critical thought into a few hundred pages. This book will provide an excellent introduction to Kant's thought.
–Philip Stratton-Lake, University of Reading
The book is impressive in very many ways. It demonstrates a mastery of the Kantian corpus and an ability to explain exceedingly complex arguments in a clear and accessible fashion. I think it will become essential reading for students wanting to grasp the broad sweep of Kant's thought without losing much by way of depth.
–Andrew Chignell, Cornell University
That Guyer is able to cover thismuch material, clearly and without oversimplification, in a single, reasonably sized volume represents a unique accomplishment, which should prove to be extremely useful to a broad audience.
–Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego
Product Description
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is arguably the most influential of the Enlightenment Philosophers. In this outstanding introduction, Paul Guyer introduces and assesses all the major aspects of Kant's thought.
Beginning with a helpful overview of Kant's life and times, Guyer introduces the "Copernican revolution" Kant brought about in metaphysics and epistemology, carefully introducing his arguments about the nature of experience, space and time in his most influential but difficult work, The Critique of Pure Reason. He gives a much-needed explanation of Kant's famous theory of transcendental idealism, a cornerstone of his philosophy as a whole.
He then examines Kant's moral philosophy, clearly explaining Kant's celebrated "categorical imperative" and his theories of duty, freedom of the will, and rights. Finally, he covers Kant's aesthetics, in particular his arguments about the nature of beauty and the sublime and their relation to human freedom and happiness.
A concluding chapter considers Kant's legacy and his influence on the shape of contemporary philosophy.
Kant is an ideal starting point for anyone coming to the philosopher for the first time, as well as those studying Kant in related disciplines.
go
Kant and the Demands of Self-Consciousness
Kant and the Demands of Self-Consciousness
by Pierre Keller
# Paperback: 294 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (March 26, 2001)
Pierre Keller examines Kant's theory of self-consciousness and argues that it succeeds in explaining how both subjective and objective experience are possible. He argues for a new understanding of Kant's conception of self-consciousness as the capacity to abstract not only from what one happens to be experiencing, but also from one's own personal identity. By developing this new interpretation he is able to argue that transcendental self-consciousness underwrites a general theory of objectivity and subjectivity at the same time.
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by Pierre Keller
# Paperback: 294 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (March 26, 2001)
Pierre Keller examines Kant's theory of self-consciousness and argues that it succeeds in explaining how both subjective and objective experience are possible. He argues for a new understanding of Kant's conception of self-consciousness as the capacity to abstract not only from what one happens to be experiencing, but also from one's own personal identity. By developing this new interpretation he is able to argue that transcendental self-consciousness underwrites a general theory of objectivity and subjectivity at the same time.
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Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary
Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary
by Jens Timmermann
# Hardcover: 224 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press (July 16, 2007)
The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is Kant's central contribution to moral philosophy, and has inspired controversy ever since it was first published in 1785. Kant champions the insights of 'common human understanding' against what he sees as the dangerous perversions of ethical theory. Morality is revealed to be a matter of human autonomy: Kant locates the source of the 'categorical imperative' within each and every human will. However, he also portrays everyday morality in a way that many readers find difficult to accept. The Groundwork is a short book, but its argument is dense, intricate and at times treacherous. This commentary explains Kant's arguments paragraph by paragraph, and also contains an introduction, a synopsis of the argument, six short interpretative essays on key topics of the Groundwork, and a glossary of key terms. It will be an indispensable tool for anyone wishing to study the Groundwork in detail.
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by Jens Timmermann
# Hardcover: 224 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press (July 16, 2007)
The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is Kant's central contribution to moral philosophy, and has inspired controversy ever since it was first published in 1785. Kant champions the insights of 'common human understanding' against what he sees as the dangerous perversions of ethical theory. Morality is revealed to be a matter of human autonomy: Kant locates the source of the 'categorical imperative' within each and every human will. However, he also portrays everyday morality in a way that many readers find difficult to accept. The Groundwork is a short book, but its argument is dense, intricate and at times treacherous. This commentary explains Kant's arguments paragraph by paragraph, and also contains an introduction, a synopsis of the argument, six short interpretative essays on key topics of the Groundwork, and a glossary of key terms. It will be an indispensable tool for anyone wishing to study the Groundwork in detail.
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Kant, Science, and Human Nature
Kant, Science, and Human Nature
by Robert Hanna
# Hardcover: 512 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (December 7, 2006)
Robert Hanna argues for the importance of Kant's theories of the epistemological, metaphysical, and practical foundations of the "exact sciences"--relegated to the dustbin of the history of philosophy for most of the 20th century. In doing so he makes a valuable contribution to one of the most
active and fruitful areas in contemporary scholarship on Kant.
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by Robert Hanna
# Hardcover: 512 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (December 7, 2006)
Robert Hanna argues for the importance of Kant's theories of the epistemological, metaphysical, and practical foundations of the "exact sciences"--relegated to the dustbin of the history of philosophy for most of the 20th century. In doing so he makes a valuable contribution to one of the most
active and fruitful areas in contemporary scholarship on Kant.
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Kant's Doctrine of Transcendental Illusion
Kant's Doctrine of Transcendental Illusion
(Modern European Philosophy)
by Michelle Grier
# Hardcover: 330 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (February 5, 2001)
This major study of Kant provides a detailed examination of the development and function of the doctrine of transcendental illusion in his theoretical philosophy. The author shows that a theory of 'illusion' plays a central role in Kant's arguments about metaphysical speculation and scientific theory. Indeed, she argues that we cannot understand Kant unless we take seriously his claim that the mind inevitably acts in accordance with ideas and principles that are 'illusory'. Taking this claim seriously, we can make much better sense of Kant's arguments and reach a deeper understanding of the role he allots human reason in science.
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(Modern European Philosophy)
by Michelle Grier
# Hardcover: 330 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (February 5, 2001)
This major study of Kant provides a detailed examination of the development and function of the doctrine of transcendental illusion in his theoretical philosophy. The author shows that a theory of 'illusion' plays a central role in Kant's arguments about metaphysical speculation and scientific theory. Indeed, she argues that we cannot understand Kant unless we take seriously his claim that the mind inevitably acts in accordance with ideas and principles that are 'illusory'. Taking this claim seriously, we can make much better sense of Kant's arguments and reach a deeper understanding of the role he allots human reason in science.
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Kant on Beauty and Biology: An Interpretation of the 'Critique of Judgment'
Kant on Beauty and Biology: An Interpretation of the 'Critique of Judgment'
(Modern European Philosophy)
by Rachel Zuckert
# Hardcover: 424 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press (September 17, 2007)
Kant's Critique of Judgment has often been interpreted by scholars as comprising separate treatments of three uneasily connected topics: beauty, biology, and empirical knowledge. Rachel Zuckert's book is the first to interpret the Critique as a unified argument concerning all three domains. She argues that on Kant's view, human beings demonstrate a distinctive cognitive ability in appreciating beauty and understanding organic life: an ability to anticipate a whole that we do not completely understand according to preconceived categories. This ability is necessary, moreover, for human beings to gain knowledge of nature in its empirical character as it is, not as we might assume it to be. Her wide-ranging and original study will be valuable for readers in all areas of Kant's philosophy.
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(Modern European Philosophy)
by Rachel Zuckert
# Hardcover: 424 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press (September 17, 2007)
Kant's Critique of Judgment has often been interpreted by scholars as comprising separate treatments of three uneasily connected topics: beauty, biology, and empirical knowledge. Rachel Zuckert's book is the first to interpret the Critique as a unified argument concerning all three domains. She argues that on Kant's view, human beings demonstrate a distinctive cognitive ability in appreciating beauty and understanding organic life: an ability to anticipate a whole that we do not completely understand according to preconceived categories. This ability is necessary, moreover, for human beings to gain knowledge of nature in its empirical character as it is, not as we might assume it to be. Her wide-ranging and original study will be valuable for readers in all areas of Kant's philosophy.
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Kant - Notes and Fragments
Notes and Fragments
(The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation)
by Immanuel Kant
Paul Guyer (Translator), Curtis Bowman (Translator), Frederick Rauscher (Translator)
# Hardcover: 690 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press (March 21, 2005)
This volume provides the first ever extensive translation of the notes and fragments that survived Kant's death in 1804. These include marginalia, lecture notes, and sketches and drafts for his published works. They are important as an indispensable resource for understanding Kant's intellectual development and published works, casting new light on Kant's conception of his own philosophical methods and his relations to his predecessors, as well as on central doctrines of his work such as the theory of space, time and categories, the refutations of skepticism and metaphysical dogmatism, the theory of the value of freedom and the possibility of free will, the conception of God, the theory of beauty, and much more.
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(The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation)
by Immanuel Kant
Paul Guyer (Translator), Curtis Bowman (Translator), Frederick Rauscher (Translator)
# Hardcover: 690 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press (March 21, 2005)
This volume provides the first ever extensive translation of the notes and fragments that survived Kant's death in 1804. These include marginalia, lecture notes, and sketches and drafts for his published works. They are important as an indispensable resource for understanding Kant's intellectual development and published works, casting new light on Kant's conception of his own philosophical methods and his relations to his predecessors, as well as on central doctrines of his work such as the theory of space, time and categories, the refutations of skepticism and metaphysical dogmatism, the theory of the value of freedom and the possibility of free will, the conception of God, the theory of beauty, and much more.
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Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals with Essays
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (Paperback)
by Immanuel Kant (Author), Allen W. Wood (Editor)
# Paperback: 224 pages
# Publisher: Yale University Press (November 1, 2002)
Lucy Allais, University of Sussex
...if I had to choose an ideal edition(...)for courses on Kant, it would certainly be this one. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Paul Guyer, University of Pennsylvania
...this volume is a brilliant introduction to one of the greatest works in the history of Western philosophy. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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by Immanuel Kant (Author), Allen W. Wood (Editor)
# Paperback: 224 pages
# Publisher: Yale University Press (November 1, 2002)
Lucy Allais, University of Sussex
...if I had to choose an ideal edition(...)for courses on Kant, it would certainly be this one. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Paul Guyer, University of Pennsylvania
...this volume is a brilliant introduction to one of the greatest works in the history of Western philosophy. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Kant - Critique of the Power of Judgment
Critique of the Power of Judgment
(The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation)
by Immanuel Kant
Paul Guyer (Translator), Eric Matthews (Translator)
# Paperback: 476 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (December 3, 2001)
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(The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation)
by Immanuel Kant
Paul Guyer (Translator), Eric Matthews (Translator)
# Paperback: 476 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (December 3, 2001)
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Kantian Consequentialism
Kantian Consequentialism
by David Cummiskey
# Hardcover: 208 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 18, 1996)
"A major contribution to moral philosophy. It is an impressive, original, and stimulating book.--Shelly Kagan, University of Illinois, Chicago
"The deontological nature of Kantian moral theory is challenged in this provocative book by David Cummiskey...This is a bold book that provides careful and provocative arguments...[O]ne should look forward to further defense and development from its author."--Ethics
"This is a richly interesting and well-researched book. It contains provocative and important arguments concerning central elements of Kantian ethics, agent-centered constraints, and a new form of consequentialism."--The Philosophical Review
Product Description
The central problem for normative ethics is the conflict between a consequentialist view--that morality requires promoting the good of all--and a belief that the rights of the individual place significant constraints on what may be done to help others. Standard interpretations see Kant as
rejecting all forms of consequentialism, and defending a theory which is fundamentally duty-based and agent-centered. Certain actions, like sacrificing the innocent, are categorically forbidden. In this original and controversial work, Cummiskey argues that there is no defensible basis for this
view, that Kant's own arguments actually entail a consequentialist conclusion. But this new form of consequentialism which follows from Kant's theories has a distinctly Kantian tone. The capacity of rational action is prior to the value of happiness; thus providing justification for the view that
rational nature is more important than mere pleasures and pains.
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by David Cummiskey
# Hardcover: 208 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 18, 1996)
"A major contribution to moral philosophy. It is an impressive, original, and stimulating book.--Shelly Kagan, University of Illinois, Chicago
"The deontological nature of Kantian moral theory is challenged in this provocative book by David Cummiskey...This is a bold book that provides careful and provocative arguments...[O]ne should look forward to further defense and development from its author."--Ethics
"This is a richly interesting and well-researched book. It contains provocative and important arguments concerning central elements of Kantian ethics, agent-centered constraints, and a new form of consequentialism."--The Philosophical Review
Product Description
The central problem for normative ethics is the conflict between a consequentialist view--that morality requires promoting the good of all--and a belief that the rights of the individual place significant constraints on what may be done to help others. Standard interpretations see Kant as
rejecting all forms of consequentialism, and defending a theory which is fundamentally duty-based and agent-centered. Certain actions, like sacrificing the innocent, are categorically forbidden. In this original and controversial work, Cummiskey argues that there is no defensible basis for this
view, that Kant's own arguments actually entail a consequentialist conclusion. But this new form of consequentialism which follows from Kant's theories has a distinctly Kantian tone. The capacity of rational action is prior to the value of happiness; thus providing justification for the view that
rational nature is more important than mere pleasures and pains.
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