ICT Stuff

• From: jp_lien <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 03:47:50 -0000
• Message-ID: <a8to96+7n89_at_...>

Yo everyone.  Thanks to NAQT and UNC for a very well-run tournament.  Any g=
roup that can make running a 68 team tournament look easy deserves serious a=
ppreciation.  Congratulations also to Michigan for a truly dominating perfor=
mance.

I don't feel very qualified to comment on the packets since, being NAQT que=
stions, I played badly on them.  I will, however, say this:  as we entered r=
ound 13, I was worried that the acrimony over "Protocols of the Elders of Zi=
on" at sectionals would keep NAQT from asking more questions on reactionary =
propaganda.  Thus I too was pleased to hear "God and Man at Yale" come up.

The real reason for my post however, that I'd like to read the following ex=
cerpts (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/roadshow/speak/nouveau.html) into the =
record:

'The style, which means "new art," gets its name from a design shop, La Mai=
son de l'Art Nouveau, which German entrepreneur Siegfried Bing opened in Par=
is in 1895. The shop was one of the major outlets for the glass of Emile Gal=
le, the art glass of Louis Tiffany, the jewelry of Rene Lalique, and the fur=
niture of Eugene Gaillard and George DeFeure—all signature artists in the Ar=
t Nouveau tradition.'

and in fairness (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/roadshow/speak/artdeco.html)=
:

'One of the best examples of this paradigm shift can be seen in the work of=
 Parisian artist René Lalique, an Art Nouveau jeweler who turned to mass-pro=
ducing elegant Art Deco glass when he approached 50.'

Some may call this sour grapes, but I'd prefer to think of it as an extensi=
on of my "Hose me once, shame on you. Hose me twice, shame on me" philosophy=
 and hope everyone involved understands that no malice is intended.

Finally, I'd like to thank the prognosticator(s) who picked us to finish in=
 the bottom quarter of D1.  They gave me something to laugh about on the way=
 home instead of reflecting on how I'd likely cost us our final match throug=
h my ignorance of the geography of my own beloved home state.

J.p.
President and Polemarch, UIUC ABT