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When Anthropologie sold out of a “swoon-worthy” butterfly dishtowel, Katie from Henry Happened found a way to recreate the look. From the water-color butterflies to the stitching detail to the pom-pom trim, Katie did not leave out a detail. Oh, and she did it all without sewing a thing! This towel is a lovely decorative piece for the kitchen and, like Katie says, “would make luxe gifts to have on hand for the holiday season!”
Katie was inspired by the retired After Showers Butterfly Dish Towel from Anthropologie.
The complete tutorial can be found at Henry Happened. |
CSG Webinar: Higher Education Finance Reform: Lessons Learned from Tennessee. October 23, 2012
Many states have introduced performance measures into their higher education funding formulas to create institutional incentives to improve productivity. To date, however, only Tennessee has completely rewritten its college funding system to place outcomes at the center of the formula. In doing so, the state has crafted a program that allows state funding and state policy to be closely aligned across the diversity of publically funded post-secondary institutions in the state.
On Tuesday, Oct. 23, CSG’s Southern Legislative Conference presented the webinar, “Higher Education Finance Reform: Lessons Learned from Tennessee.” Webinar participants heard details of the state’s funding formula from Tennessee Higher Education Commission representatives Dr. Russ Deaton, associate executive director for Fiscal Policy and Administration, and David Wright, chief policy officer.
The funding model created as a result of the Complete College Act in Tennessee allocates all of an institutions funding based upon outcomes, including degrees or certificates awarded, students making progress toward graduation, and the performance of non-traditional and underrepresented students. The model it established recognizes the different purposes of the institutions in the state to create a system that delivers results for the state’s investment in higher education.
Higher Education Finance Reform |
More evidence that shale gas development is changing the international (not just the United States) natural gas market:
- A US LNG terminal is spending $2 billion to add export capability. Currently Freeport LNG has the capability to re-export stored LNG; the new investment will add the capability to liquefy US-produced natural gas.
- Last Friday, November 19, 2010, the second-ever delivery of LNG from the US to the UK arrived, this cargo re-exported from the Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana. (The world’s first LNG cargo was delivered from Lake Charles, Louisiana to Canvey Island in the UK on the “Methane Pioneer” in 1959.)
- The above report also mentioned that LNG was re-exported from the United States to Spain (in February 2010) and to South Korea (in June 2010).
- In October an LNG tanker left from Sabine Pass with a cargo bound for China.
- Sempra Corp. has applied for a re-export license for its Cameron LNG terminal, also in Louisiana.
- Also see this earlier post about exporting LNG from the Kitimat LNG terminal in British Columbia.
Contrast the picture of the natural gas market presented by the above developments to the US Energy Information Administration outlook in 2004; selected quotes from EIA’s “The Global Liquefied Natural Gas Market: Status and Outlook,” (December 2003):
- EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2004 (AEO2004) projects that four new LNG regasification terminals will be constructed on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts from 2007 through 2010 to meet the 58-percent increase in LNG imports that is projected for that timeframe.
- The first new U.S. LNG terminal in more than 20 years is projected to open on the Gulf Coast in 2007. It is projected that additional terminals will be constructed to serve markets in Florida, the south Atlantic states, and the western Gulf Coast. EIA also forecasts that a terminal targeting the Florida market will be constructed in the Bahamas with the gas piped to Florida.
- By 2010, the new terminals are projected to be collectively importing 812 billion cubic feet annually.
- Based on EIA long-term forecasts, U.S. natural gas consumption is projected to increase from 22.5 Tcf in 2002 to 26.2 Tcf in 2010 and 31.4 Tcf by 2025. Domestic gas production is expected to increase more slowly than consumption over the forecast period, rising from 19.0 Tcf in 2002 to 20.5 Tcf in 2010 and 24.0 Tcf by 2025. The difference between consumption and production will be made up by imports, which are projected to rise from net imports of 3.5 Tcf in 2002 to 7.2 Tcf by 2025.
- Nearly all the increase in net U.S. natural gas imports from 2002 to 2010 is expected to come from LNG, with an almost 2.0-Tcf (42.0-million-ton) increase expected over 2002 levels. Net U.S. LNG imports are expected to rise from 5 percent of net U.S. natural gas imports in 2002 to 39 percent in 2010.
For the time being, the U.S. remains a net importer of natural gas. |
Oceanside East to host comedianProject Graduation event
Oceanside High School East Class of 2014 will host comedian Juston McKinney and his "real stories of the rural patrol" act Friday, April 11, at 8 p.m.
McKinney has appeared on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno and has two Comedy Central specials. Known as the Maine deputy turned comedian, McKinney's "Deer, Moose, Ticks & Hicks" performance is one of several events the Class of 2014 is sponsoring in support of Project Graduation.
Tickets are $15 and are available at Oceanside High School East, Glen Cove Dental, and Planet Toys. For more information, call 660-2160.
Other events have included a craft fair in December and the annual polar plunge last month. In May a drive-in theater featuring a family-friendly movie is planned. Also planned are a flea market and golf tournament.
The Oceanside East Class of 2014 is scheduled to graduate its 140 members on June 10.
594-4401 ext. 125
Beth rejoined Courier Publications' news staff in February 2013. She previously worked at The Courier-Gazette from 1981 to 1990.
Her coverage area includes Warren, Union, Friendship, Waldoboro, Washington, and Thomaston and RSU40.
Beth has a passion for photography, and a degree from the University of Maine at Augusta, in affiliation with the Maine Photographic Workshop in Rockport.
Aside from photography, Beth enjoys running and walks along the waterfront, as well as other outdoor activities. She has a daughter, Claire, who is 14. |
New York City Officials Push To Regulate Baby Formula
Parents may no longer have a choice in how they choose to feed their newborn babies in New York City.
New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Farley today launched “Latch On NYC,” a new citywide initiative to support mothers who breastfeed their infants by asking city maternity hospitals to voluntarily sign on to support a mother’s choice to breastfeed and limit the promotion of infant formula in their facilities which can interfere with that decision.
Under the plan, baby formula would be placed under lock and key and a doctor would have to sign off that there was a medical reason that the infant could not be breastfed. Promotional products with baby formula logos on them would also disappear from the hospitals nurseries.
The regulations would also discourage “rounding off” feedings for breastfeeding mothers whose bodies don’t produce enough milk naturally. As is current practice, those mothers start by breast feeding their child and then supplement the feedings with formula to ensure that the child is getting the proper nutrition.
The program is called “Latch On” – and is supported by a large number of New York city and state agencies. |
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Team Kotuku Wins the VanIsle 360 with Grit, Luck, and Funny Hats
Foolishly, we served notice to the fleet on leg 1 that even after doing a 720 for fouling Cinco de Mayo we could come back and win with a combination of good boat handling, decent speed, and solid tactics. We were newbies, and didn't realize that winning the early stages doesn't do much more than make sure that the faster boats cover you once they get ahead. And so the battle begins...
Leg 2 started well, but ended up being our worst finish, mid-fleet and looking at the stern of California Girl (2nd slowest boat) as we reached back to the finish after missing the shore lift. Sometimes the middle doesn't pay. Consistency does though, and one stinker was enough for us. We would find ways to stay on the podium until the last race and except for legs 2 and 3, we would lead the overall point total until the end.
Legs 3 and 4 we were increasingly breezy upwind bashes through the top of the Strait of Georgia and the bottom of Johnstone Strait. Back and forth we found ourselves trading tacks with Kiva, Opus, Rubato, and many of the faster Div 2 boats. We finished 2nd and 3rd after fine results by Kiva and Rubato who both seemed faster than we are upwind in a blow. Masts broke, sails blew out, and keel bolts loosened for others, but Kotuku took care of us. And we took care of business and stayed in the hunt.
On the long, grueling outside legs, we dug deep and found a level of focus and consistency that none of the other boats could match. We might miss a shift or get stuck in a hole--it happened to everybody, most more than once. But when the sun rose, again and again Kotuku seemed to find herself near the front of the pack, taking line honors twice more before Night Runner came on form as we all knew she would. Sometimes slower boats would correct over us, but we kept the other race leaders in our sights and fought for leverage over the top boats and gradually built a point lead until by the last race, we had a 50 point lead over our closest competitor, Rubato. I believe it was in Uclulet that we broke out the wigs and hats. (Photos coming...)
Leg 9 showed that while we don't have Night Runner's downwind speed, Kotuku is no slouch off the wind. And we were really glad to shake out the nylon after carrying the kites around for 3/4 of the way. After a solid start and an early surfing match that we eventually conceded to The Old Brown Boat Who Can, we ended up finishing 3rd. For us, it felt like vacation for most of the run down from Uclulet to Victoria, where we had speeds in the 12s at the beginning and end of the leg. We actually gave up a place to Rubato with a spinnaker change through Race Rocks, figuring it was better to be third with all our sails than have to fight again tomorrow without a light air kite. A wise decision, as it turned out.
And in dramatic fashion, leg 10 proved that when the going gets tough and the night is long, Kotuku does not quit. We finished first over the line despite multiple re-starts and current gates that left our closest rivals well behind us. And that was how we won the VanIsle 360.
We finished first in Division 3, and it looks like we were the high point boat for all classes for the entire regatta. (I think we were the only one tracking this as it turns out. Sorry Tom and Terry, they only gave out divisional trophies, and shortest overall elapsed.) Still, not bad for a bunch of oddballs, eh?
If I haven't said it yet, the boat is good, but the crew won this race. I'd like to thank Becca, Trent, Eli, Garth, Chris, John, Stu, and a special thanks to Al for getting the boat up there, bringing it back, and making sure we were pointing in the right direction. Our teamwork and sail handling was rock solid. Our tactics were consistently excellent. But most of all we had a great time. Not sure quite how it happened, but Team Kotuku forged itself into a tight-knit, easy-going, fun loving family that could be consistently focused on the race course. Thank you one and all for the great time, and the great results!
One last note: This race is a logistical nightmare. Without the continuous work of our shore support team, this result would not have been possible. A big thanks from all of us to Tom, Marie, Talia, Savai, Solomon, Barry and Amy.
And most of all, thank you Janna for organizing, shopping, cooking, cleaning, wrangling, and just plain making this crazy dream come true. As those who know you can attest, your support regularly makes
Big Hairy Audacious Goals Happen.
I love that about you. |
Some streets in Columbia are cleaner than they were before MU's annual Homecoming celebration, thanks to students.
After the excitement of Saturday's parade and football game, students from dorms and MU's Greek organizations came together Sunday to set about cleaning up the storefronts they decorated for the parade.
"It's also community service," said Forrest Hall, of Alpha Gamma Rho. "These businesses are allowing us to use their windows to support our homecoming, so we want to make sure these windows are spotless. My thing is, leave it cleaner than it was when you got here," Hall said.
Many businesses along the parade route were decorated with MU regalia before homecoming began. University of Missouri's tradition is one of the oldest in the country, and has come to define MU.
Students Sunday took to the task of wiping down the windows of storefronts, painted in black and gold. Some students said they had mixed feelings about the whole activity.
"It's sad, but at the same time it's a relief because we've been putting in so many hours getting ready for it," Said Allie Ward. "Now we can focus a little more on schoolwork."
Ward said now that homecoming is over, students say they will shift their focus back to academics. However, they say the MU spirit will continue. |
Siouxlanders are encouraged to ride their bikes next week as part of the national Bike to Work Week.
Spokesman Alex Watters says Bike to Work Week is a national initiative that promotes commuting by bicycle, which offers health and fitness benefits as well as reduces vehicle pollution and traffic congestion.
OC…..GET OUT AND BIKE. ;11
Watters says cyclists may register for a chance to win a free bike sponsored by Albrecht’s and Siouxland Cyclists and get other special offers and incentives to ride:
OC….PARTNERING WITH US. :14
Friday, May 16th is Bike to Work Day. Bicyclists are invited to Albrecht’s Cycle Shop from 7:00 – 9:00 a.m. to enjoy a free continental breakfast sponsored by Fareway. |
Sedalia Rotary Club Discusses Pros and Cons of Ethanol in Gasoline with MFA Oil Representative
Today (Oct. 21), the Sedalia Rotary Club welcomed Tom May, the Director of Employee Public Relations with the MFA Oil Company in Columbia, Mo., who spoke on the advantages and disadvantages of ethanol, which makes up 10% of every gallon of gasoline in cars today.
May told those in attendance that ethanol is in part responsible for the cheaper gas prices we are experiencing. Following May’s speech, KSIS had the opportunity to ask him some questions, including how ethanol affects food prices. Listen to the interview below. |
TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) – A survey finds that up to 9 percent of Kansans are at risk of developing a gambling problem, and 26 percent of the state’s residents could be affected by the uncontrolled gambling of a relative or friend.
The survey was presented Wednesday to the state’s problem gambling task forces and other service providers. A Kansas City firm conducted a telephone survey of 1,600 adults in Kansas to help determine how to spend $400,000 in new state funding to combat problem gambling.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the firm says the survey revealed a need for stronger educational campaigns about prevention and treatment of gambling problems.
A member of the firm that conducted the survey, Doug Ballou, says problem gambling appears to be most prevalent in south-central and southwest Kansas.
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.) |
KTAR’s Main Street Minute focuses on local businesses that are hiring, businesses that are opening and events across the community. Each weekday these stories air on KTAR at 7:27 a.m. More information can be found below.
• The Foundation for Senior Living is hiring registered nurses, physical therapists, drivers and independent living aids.
• Six business are opening at Westgate. The new tenants are As You Wish, Fresh Healthy Café, OPA Life Greek Café, and Crave Gourmet Waffle Sandwiches, Proliant and the American Basketball Association.
• Papa Murphy’s will donate $1 to Phoenix Children’s Hospital from every Mini Murph Make ‘N’ Bake Pizza Kit sold through Sept. 15. The kits sell for $3 each. The local campaign is going on at all 40 Valley restaurants. |
The Goods on Fantasy Hockey
by Ian Gooding on 09/26/11 at 11:00 AM ET
My first single-season league draft of the season came and went on Sunday, and I wasn’t a participant. (Okay, my alibi was that I promised to go to Costco and also take my two-year-old son out on his tricycle during the time of my draft – pretty lame, I know.) In spite of my domestic responsibilities, I do plan on attending at least one live draft this season, which will likely be the fantasyhockey.com/Kukla’s Korner League, where I am the commissioner.
So what happens if you miss your live draft? Will your team be filled with a bunch of stiffs? Before I became a dad, I made a point to be at every live draft. Several years ago, I napped through the first half of one live draft and ended up with centers all the way down to Shawn Horcoff and Jason Arnott, yet no goalies. Fortunately, I was able to add the relatively unproven Marc-Andre Fleury in the final round, and he eventually turned out to be the number one goalie that I needed for victory in that league. That scare alone prompted me to attend every live draft, or at least complete my rankings in case of a power outage or a threat of divorce from my wife from participating in one too many live drafts.
At this point, I’ve figured out how to tweak the rankings to prevent any autodraft disasters (yay to Hockey Pool Geek, boo to those of you about to diss the preceding shameless plug). I ranked at least 200 players beforehand while generally moving goaltenders up the list a little, since previous drafts in this league have resulted in goaltending “runs.” Finding goaltenders will be easier this season, since there are only 10 teams instead of the 12 or 14 from past seasons. However, goaltenders are still at a premium in this league, since a minimum of four appearances are needed in order for a team to be able to win goaltending categories for the week. Otherwise, the league is a typical Yahoo head-to-head with standard scoring categories, aside from a points category in addition to goals and assists.
For what it’s worth, if you’re in an auction league, I don’t recommend missing your draft. The money that you get to spend does not usually carry over into the season. In other words, your leaguemates won’t try to bail you out in the same way that the NHL uses a cap floor to keep the Florida Panthers and New York Islanders competitive. I believe you can still prerank in auction leagues, but you may be forced to overbid on certain players without getting a feel of what relative market prices will be.
So here’s the team that my rankings and the Yahoo Supercomputer chose for me, by round:
1. Alex Ovechkin (Was - LW)
2. Anze Kopitar (LA - C)
3. Jarome Iginla (Cgy - RW)
4. Jeff Carter (Cls - C,RW)
5. Patrick Marleau (SJ - C,LW)
6. Matt Duchene (Col - C)
7. Miikka Kiprusoff (Cgy - G)
8. Johan Franzen (Det - LW,RW)
9. Erik Karlsson (Ott - D)
10. Craig Anderson (Ott - G)
11. Mikhail Grabovski (Tor - C)
12. Alex Goligoski (Dal - D)
13. Niklas Kronwall (Det - D)
14. Justin Williams (LA - RW)
15. Alexander Edler (Van - D)
16. Travis Hamonic (NYI - D)
17. Semyon Varlamov (Col - G)
18. Jamie Benn (Dal - LW)
19. Roman Hamrlik (Was - D)
I immediately exchanged Hamrlik for Brian Gionta, since I ended up with six defensemen and usually only carry the bare minimum of four in this league. As well, this league allows immediate roster transactions without the usual two or three-day waiting period established by default by Yahoo.
Overall, I’d say the computer loaded me up with scoring at all three forward positions, although I seem to lack an elite defenseman and goalie. What I find interesting is that none of the three goalies that were drafted (Kiprusoff, Anderson, Varlamov) were goalies that I had ranked higher than the Yahoo default rankings. Perhaps my leaguemates read my two articles on goalies, or I can safely assume they were chasing wins, since Calgary, Ottawa, and Colorado are not considered playoff teams by many.
Another interesting observation comes from who went first overall. I had Ovechkin ranked as my first overall pick (okay, I changed my mind from Corey Perry), but he fell to me at number four after Steven Stamkos, Daniel Sedin, and Perry. The rest of the first round unraveled somewhat unexpectedly, with Henrik Sedin, Evgeni Malkin, Henrik Lundqvist, Sidney Crosby, Martin St. Louis, and Carey Price following Ovechkin in the first round.
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My name is Ian Gooding, and this is The Goods on Fantasy Hockey. Given my ability to understand numbers, write sentences, and follow hockey, it’s not a surprise to those who know me that I became a fantasy hockey writer. I started writing about fantasy hockey in 2006 for fantasyhockey.com and became the site’s content editor in 2007. Looking to expand my audience, I joined Kukla’s Korner in the summer of 2011 to create the site’s first fantasy hockey blog.
A few times each week, I’ll provide an article called “Pick Six” where I will write about six players that should either be in your fantasy team’s starting lineup or bench for the upcoming game. As well, I’ll provide the fantasy takes on important hockey developments. You can also email me your questions or comments to firstname.lastname@example.org, or follow me on Twitter. |
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Well, who saw that coming? The Blackhawks had spent the past few months insisting that Brandon Saad would still be a Chicago player by the time the new season started, but that all stopped when the reigning Stanley Cup champions decided to trade the 22-year-old to the Columbus Blue Jackets as part of a seven-player deal. Joining Saad in moving to the Blue Jackets will be forward Alex Broadhurst and defenceman Michael Paliotta, with Columbus sending Artem Anisimov, Corey Tropp, Jeremy Morin and Marko Dano to Chicago, as well as a fourth-round selection in the 2016 Draft.
added 5:21pm, Columbus release is below...
via the Chicago Blackhawks,
The Chicago Blackhawks announced today they have acquired forward Ryan Haggerty from the New York Rangers in exchange for goaltender Antti Raanta.
Haggerty, 22, totaled 33 points (15G, 18A) in his first professional season with the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League last season. His seven power-play goals were third most on the team. Haggerty then recorded six points (2G, 4A) in 14 postseason games.
The Stamford, Conn., native previously registered 84 points (47G, 37A) over three seasons at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Haggerty also participated in the United States National Team Development Program from 2009-11.
Raanta, 26, posted a 7-4-1 record, including one shutout, a .936 save percentage and 1.89 goals-against average in 14 games for the Blackhawks last season. The Rauma, Finland, native also notched an 8-1-1 record, including two shutouts, a .918 save percentage and 2.39 GAA in 11 games with the Rockford IceHogs of the American Hockey League last season.
Raanta owns a 20-8-5 record in 29 career NHL regular-season games, all with the Blackhawks. He signed his first NHL contract as a free agent with Chicago on June 3, 2013.
from Tracey Myers of CSNChicago,
So far, it’s quiet out there.
Yes the league’s general managers, including the Blackhawks’ Stan Bowman, are talking. The Blackhawks will be sellers, and considering the winning pedigree of players they’ll likely be dangling, there will be buyers.
When the dominos start falling, however, remains to be seen.
Bowman said that trade talk has been “typical” for this time of year, but he expects the chatter to increase as we approach the NHL Draft, which begins on Friday in Sunrise, Fla. It promises to be an active time for the Blackhawks. They already have $64 million committed to 14 players and have to shed salary to sign others (Brandon Saad and Marcus Kruger) and hit the $71.4 million salary cap set for this coming season.
continue for more on the Blackhawks...
from Mark Lazerus of the Chicago Sun-Times,
The post-shave stubble was pretty thick already, and his voice was still a little gravely, two clear indications that the Blackhawks’ Stanley Cup celebration has spilled into a second week.
“We’re in Vegas,” Jonathan Toews said with a smirk as he talked with reporters in advance of Wednesday’s NHL Awards at the MGM Grand. “So you do the math on that one.”
But while the Hawks are still reveling and basking in the glow of their third championship in six seasons, a harsh reality check was delivered by the NHL on Tuesday morning. Next season’s salary cap will be $71.4 million. It’s almost exactly what was expected, but it was a cruel reminder that next year’s Hawks will look considerably different from this year’s. With just 14 roster players signed at nearly $65 million (thanks in large part to the $10.5-million cap hits for both Toews and Patrick Kane), and with Brandon Saad and Marcus Kruger restricted free agents, the Hawks will have to shed salary. And it’s going to happen soon, as general manager Stan Bowman will try to recover some of the draft picks he gave up for Antoine Vermette and Kimmo Timonen in time for Friday’s first round in Sunrise, Fla.
The Hawks have been through this before. But that doesn’t make it any easier.
“All of a sudden, it does feel a lot like 2010, where it’s imminent,” Toews said.
Just under 3 1/2 minutes of slow motion action...
from Scott Cullen of TSN,
The Chicago Blackhawks won their third Stanley Cup in the past six seasons, downing the Tampa Bay Lightning in a six-game final series.
Off-Season Game Plan examines what should be an interesting summer in the Windy City, where they can't possibly keep their core together and remain under the salary cap.
Franchise cornerstones Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane have contract extensions that kick in next season and those deals come with a $10.5-million salary cap hit, putting a lot of pressure on GM Stan Bowman to fit in the rest of the pieces while remaining under the salary cap.
The Blackhawks, already pushing against the cap, need to leave enough flexibility in order to get a deal done with rising star left winger Brandon Saad, a restricted free agent. It's not known exactly where the cap will fall - estimates have hovered around $71-million, with the optimistic assumption that the NHLPA would use the 5% accelerator allowed by the CBA - but Chicago is going to need to clear out some salary; the question is, how much?
Patrick Sharp seems like the most obvious big-ticket item to move, but he could be the first of several if the cap doesn't end up as high as hoped.
via the YouTube channel of Sportsnet,
He played an absurd amount of minutes, made smart plays, and added an offensive boost; watch some of the body of work that earned Duncan Keith the Conn Smythe Trophy.
A day ahead of a third championship parade in the past six seasons, Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman admitted his latest Stanley Cup champion will look a lot different soon enough.
“Obviously, there will be some changes,” Bowman said Wednesday afternoon at a season-ending press conference.
The NHL has a hard salary cap, and while it’s not yet set for the 2015-’16 season, it’s expected to be around $71.5 million. With stars Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane set to have matching eight-year, $84-million contracts kick in, Chicago will have to cut some salary. As it sits now, the Blackhawks have 14 players under contract in 2015-’16 for around $64 million, according to Spotrac.com, leaving them no room to pay market value to everyone else.
Antoine Vermette, Andrew Desjardins, Brad Richards and Marcus Kruger are the big-name forwards who are unrestricted free agents. Defensemen Johny Oduya and Michal Rozsival are also unrestricted free agents.
Bowman wouldn’t yet get into specifics on who will be back and who will be leaving, even when specifically asked about Vermette and Desjardins, a pair of trade deadline acquisitions whose strong play was instrumental in the Stanley Cup run. He only said it made him happy to see their quality play, even if it priced them out of the Blackhawks’ range on the open market.
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Portland, Ore. — Vacationers returned home to Portland after having a memorable weekend in California.
Eva Guggemos was grabbing her bags with her son when KXL talked to her. She said the quake woke her up from a dream. As soon as she realized what was happening it was over.
“Where I live up here in Oregon I live next to a train track. So it actually felt just like the train going by my house. I was kind of disoriented for a little bit thinking is that the train. Then I realized it was an earthquake and I woke up. And all the dogs in the neighborhood were barking.”
She said they were about 25 miles from the epicenter. It was her sons first experience with an earthquake but he wasn’t freaked out. He actually slept through the whole thing. |
LAPD: Cyclist “Ran Into the Side of Hummer” (From Behind)
In a video that shows that no matter how illogical their finding, the LAPD will closed ranks when someone tries to point it out, Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese went to City Hall yesterday to tell the Council how when a cyclist is rear-ended, it's the cyclists fault.
Albanese, who was not present at the scene of the assault a couple weeks back when a H3 rear-ended a cyclist in on Los Angeles Avenue after midnight, seems to not only have a problem with cyclists, but with the basic laws of physics. When other cyclists in the group tried to stop him until the police could come, the hummer plowed through the cyclists in front of the vehicle, destroying their bikes and dragging one a couple of blocks.
After a group of angry cyclists visited the Police Commission, the LAPD Inspector General and swarmed a Van Nuys meeting of the City Council on May Day, the LAPD finally responded yesterday. Albanese stood by the "official report" repeatedly using the "stature" of the LAPD to sweep aside Council Woman Janice Hahn's questions about the crash and the incompetent report. Honestly, the video speaks for itself. The quality may not be very good, but take the time and watch it.
If I seem biased towards the cyclists and against the LAPD; consider that Andres Tena, the victim of the hummer driver's attack, was thrown forward when the impact happened and could feel the hummer as it went past him.
If you believe the LAPD, that Tena "ran into the side of the hummer" then you have to believe that Tena, who was wearing light colored clothing and had a rear light on his bike, backed into the side of the hummer with such force as to throw him forward. His bike is destroyed from the rear, his injuries were consistent with being thrown forward; so the laws of physics, laws which the LAPD has no jurisdiction, don't back him sideswiping the H3.
Albanese also mentions repeatedly the three independent witnesses "who saw the whole thing" from a local apartment building who verified the story of the H3 drivers and passengers, that a cyclist rammed their hummer and then others threw their bikes at it. That there are other witnesses who Officer Cho and the other responding officers refused to take statements from was not included anywhere in his testimony. When Hahn asks why the LAPD believes three people who witnessed the incident from afar over fifteen people that witnessed it first hand; Albanese basically says the LAPD doesn't believe them because they were riding bikes or "affiliated with the cyclist" as he put it.
The irony, is I had the opportunity to ride with Tena this morning in one of the unofficial "Bike to Work" rides. When I asked him about the attack and the LAPD's reaction, his reaction wasn't one of anger or bitterness. He just smiled and wished that the streets would be safe for everyone to ride in and expressed relief that his injuries weren't more serious. The picture of Tena, a happy and safe cyclist versus the maniac portrayed above by Albanese is striking.
If I had to decide between taking Tena's word, backed by the laws of physics, or the LAPD's, backed by a H3 driver who was dragging a bike under his hummer and three people that claimed to be staring out their window for no reason at two in the morning; I'll take Tena's anyday. |
31 Jan 2009
P.S. Have I ever told about Martin? I met I'm years ago at Cambridge when i was just a young English Literature student of the early 90s, reading Lise Jardine, drinking hot chocolate with marshmallows and wearing trainers. I hadn't seen him in years but suddenly the other day I bumped into him when I was watering the ivy growing alongside my window box in North London.
Martin (like my ivy) has come on very well, he's developed an incredibly good-looking face since I last saw him. But, alas, it was rather embarrassing for Emmeline Pankhurst was sitting on my shoulder while I was watering and when Martin, who was down on the street below, shouted:
"Why if it isn't the author of the world famous "The Suffragette's- Why?" Posie Rider! That book... it changed my life!"
it alarmed Emmeline somewhat and she jumped down to attack him. I was talking to her later that evening and she told me that her kitty powers had got the better of her and she just couldn't help herself- she did not trust him.
But while i was moping up the blood on Martin's face he sort of asked me out on a date! Will keep you posted....
Long live Lesbos!
The description reads:
'Are you or someone you love dating a banker? If so, we are here to support you through these difficult times. Dating A Banker Anonymous (DABA) is a safe place where women can come together – free from the scrutiny of feminists*–and share their tearful tales of how the mortgage meltdown has affected their relationships. DABA Girls was started by two best friends whose relationships tanked with the economy. Not knowing what else to do, we did what frustrated but articulate girls have done since the beginning of time - we started a blog. So if your monthly Bergdorf's allowance has been halved and bottle service has all but disappeared from your life, lighten your heart with laughter and email your stories to firstname.lastname@example.org. Warning all stories sent will be infused with our own special brand of DABA Girl humor.'
From "Courtney" the 'other' woman who steals husbands from equally innocuous women, to the daft overuse of the acronym 'FBF' (financial guy boyfriend) this blog is possibly the most depressing thing since Gerald (my ex) wrote a quote from Thomas Kyd's A Spanish Tragedy on his wall and cried.
Take the story of Sidney who was ditched by her boyfriend because she is incredibly irritating. She starts to realise that she is losing hold on the relationship when she visits him when he is ill (probably dying of a hernia because he's been working so hard, or just sleeping in the office to avoid her. Poor man! Give him a sandwich!).
Surprisingly Sidney has the faculty of thought and using that faculty of thought she decides to use it:
"I blamed myself. Was I not pretty enough (unlikely)? I tried my hardest to play it cool. Yet, when he called to tell me he had the flu – in a move that even Florence Nightengale would have shunned – I rerouted my cab from the Marc Jacobs show to his apartment. I didn't recognize myself. Who was this shadow of a socialite I had once been?"
Oh shut up you silly old cow and if you are going to refer to the great Miss Nightingale at least learn to spell properly you silly b***h.
I'm so fed up with female New Yorkers occupying the ditzy whore / hardcore virgin binary. Women in that city DO have souls you know. In fact, some of them even have jobs, I met one once...
*Taking the above into consideration i have taken it upon myself yes me, Posie bloody Rider, to let these women know that this is not the case! A simple email that read:
29 Jan 2009
In the meantime, check out this great article at the Guardian Comment is Free. Normally content with spouting nonsense genderist tripe, they've finally managed to employ a proper writer in the form of Cath Elliot. In Beware the Anti-Feminists she delves into the frankly terrifying world of the US anti-feminist WOMEN-LEAD movement, 'True Woman', who in their MANifesto resolve to cultivate (her quote) "such virtues as purity, modesty, submission, meekness, and love" and "to encourage men as they seek to express godly masculinity, and to honour and support God-ordained male leadership in the home and in the church".
Apart from the fact that there's an ark full of God-wanking nonsense splattered all over their rhetoric, the position this aims to return women to is so utterly at odds with modern life and the advances of women's liberty that, along with Cath, I'm adamant that it'll only attract an absolute minority of weirdos. Here's their skank manifesto if you're interested, but really it's barely worth criticising. http://www.truewoman.com/assets/files/TW_Manifesto.pdf
What's really troubling are two other movements she discusses, Surrendered Wives and Taken in Hand. In the former, women are supposed to float back into Prelapsarian Bliss by attending to domestic chores and bejewelling their interior surfaces with cupcakes and pastel, the usual fare. In the latter, women are admonished to consent their husband's will, "which basically boils down to physical and sexual chastisement, up to and including rape, as punishment for the woman's transgressions." There's some masochistic stuff going on here which should appall anyone and everyone, and more of the tell-tell biblical hocus pocus that really makes these 'movements' stand out as complete shite.
Cath's criticisms of these movements should be considered as fine, done and dusted, easy to agree with, quick to condone, right? Or WRONG, according to a frightening amount of commenters who felt the need to parp their little thoughts after her sweeping report. SwiftBoy (Swift in which capacity, Boy? Fast to talk without thinking? The old premature ejaculation without consideration of one's partner? I expect both) makes the inane reply:
the men in our lives... if they can't handle a bit of dust on top of the telly and are seemingly incapable of doing anything about it themselves
Heh, how's the pilot light Cath, did Mr Elliott finally get it fixed after weeks of promising to?
As usual, my main gripe with your cheerful ramble through the outer fringes of rational thought would be along the lines of "if a woman chooses to be in one of these organisations, who are you to say she can't?"
Surely, if feminism has taught us one thing, it's that women can be who they want and choose for themselves, without having their choices questioned, isn't it?
Or is that two things?
I've made his writing smaller to match his brain. I've actually just checked his profile and he lists his interests as "Guitars, words, how things used to be." What a twat. I digress.
For a start, cheerful Miss Elliot was not. She was sombre and disgusted, as should you be SwiftBoy. Secondly, 'rational thought' is one of those 'universal' markers of judgement which anyone vaguely capable of critical thought should be more than able to query. Once it was thought 'rational' to kill children who were born with disabilities (see Plato's Republic, SwiftBoy) or to enslave prisoners of war and foreigners (see Aristotle, why don't you?). Finally, as Feminists and our like minded compatriots on the Left continually ask, what kind of choice are women really given in a social situation which embeds them with norms of submission and apathy before they have even reached puberty? The capacity to act as a 'free agent', which SwiftBoy so delightfully waves around like so much attack-jelly, is only made possible in a social and cultural system that allows women to act as free agents in the first place. That IS, to criticise their social order, to hold its values to scrutiny and to firmly refuse to occupy the place in it carved out by patriarchs, 'god', or any other idiot man.
Last week, a 15 year old girl was rescued from a paedophile she'd met on the internet and returned to her parents. Why did she run away, and why was it the right thing to do to separate them? Because sometimes people make choices as a free agent (which she clearly felt she was doing) which are reallyreallyreally bad for them. How do we know the choices are bad without the presence of a law to help us make a moral judgement? (the girl's age, in this case). We can begin by looking at whether the so-called choice puts the chooser into the position of a victim, sufferer or slave to the interests of another person who is making no similar sacrifice. Surely then, something is at work other than free will. Why have peoples around the world at various stages welcomed fascism? Not just for the great outfits and the sense of camaraderie, I'll tell you.
To SwiftBoy I say - check out Adorno, Deleuze-Guattarri, Horkheimer and, like, stop being so damn representative of public opinion! We'd be much better off without you.
To everyone else I say - find the SwiftBoy in your lives, he's bound to be there somewhere, maybe at work or lurking in a group of friends from college you really should have dropped, and destroy him. You can use my words if you like: as usual they are absolutely final.
23 Jan 2009
FEMALE INTERVIEWER:So, General Cosgrove, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your base?
GENERAL COSGROVE:We're going to teach them climbing, canoeing, archery and shooting.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible, isn't it?
GENERAL COSGROVE:I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on the rifle range.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER:Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?
GENERAL COSGROVE:I don't see how. We will be teaching them proper rifle discipline before they even touch a firearm.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER:But you're equipping them to become violent killers.
GENERAL COSGROVE:Well, Ma'am, you're equipped to be a prostitute, but you're not one, are you?
21 Jan 2009
I just wanted you all to know that Melody is pregnant! I know it's kind of personal but I'm sure she won't mind my telling you. She doesn't know what to do: to keep it, or not to keep it, what is the question?
You can VOTE at the tool bar on the RIGHT!
Now Melody was a highly successful journalist before she took a 'sabbatical' to fulfill her childhood dream - being a landscape gardener. She's only been doing it for 3 months, which has mostly entailed filming pretty flowers. (Melody is an incredible camera WOman- she filmed my art short debut film: 'bloodsoaked tampon' and my up-and-cumming 'fucking a mango').
S0 anyway- having a baby would change everything! I have made an executive decision- I know what to do! I've have booked us tickets to go on a Suffragette tour of East London on February 8th. It's run by the Women's Library and I know it will provide us with answers! It follows the life of Sylvia Pankhurst and where the Suffragettes are near, truth is not far!
I am waiting for a sign! Something to help Melody! It IS a Woman's right to choose and she is such a successful landscape gardener! But then Susan Sontag was a single mum and so was Joanna Lumley... Maybe it's quite cool... Oh what is she going to do!
Here's the link to the tour! Come join! Toodles xxx
20 Jan 2009
Okay so this is the second feature of my incredible Kick Arse Bitches Season. 'Working Girl' is an original feminist film: Melanie is awesome and a little on the chubby side, which is nice. It goes to show that titles can be misleading. In fact I prefer to call this film: 'Working Whirl' because it's less sexist.
Rise secretarys: don't give up!
19 Jan 2009
This time, they are suggesting that women are more likely to orgasm if they're having sex with a rich man. I know, right? This alleged research was gathered by 'asking women about their sex lives', surely an inexact science if ever I heard one.
Pollet, a man, said: “Increasing partner income had a highly positive effect on women’s self-reported frequency of orgasm. More desirable mates cause women to experience more orgasms.”
Oh, so that's that then is it? Well, I'm going to conduct my own research, using my memories of sexual exploits, and if they agree with your research we'll call it science, shall we?
A (somewhat edited!) list of Posie's lovers:
My finger, c.1985- Took a while to master, but generally a came up with the goods. Income: Mine, so medium.
Darren, c.1988: Not a chance. Income: Medium.
Indigo, c.1990: Oh goodness, maybe once? Income: High.
LeAnne, 1991: Short lived but sweet! Income: Low.
William, 1991-1992: Very good. Income: Medium.
Terence, 1992: A rebound, AWFUL. Income: Medium.
Raif, 1999: Oh holidays! Oh sun! Oh wonder! Income: Unknown.
Cristoff, 2001: Far too quick to notice. Income: High.
Name unknown, 2001: I can only imagine not. Income: Unknown/Suspicious.
Max and Oliver, 2002: Oh dear, thankfully too drunk to remember. Income: Hiiiigh x 2.
Leon, 2004: Yes. Income: Low, with pretensions to fallen aristocracy.
[Quiet spell, cf. Me, Ted and my Head.]
Gerald, 2008: A swine, but parfait in the boudoir. Income: High but with pretensions to working class ennoblement.
So that’s a:
Yes!: High - 2; Medium – 2; Low -1 ; Unknown – 2.
No!: High - 3; Medium – 2; Low – 0; Unknown – 1.
So, that's not even the full list and it proves you wrong, Pollet. Stick that in your Bunsen burner and smoke it.
Another douche bag is Dave Buss, Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas, Austin, who raised this question in his book The Evolution of Desire and believes female orgasms have several possible purposes.
“They could promote emotional bonding with a high-quality (my italics) male or they could serve as a signal that women are highly sexually satisfied, and hence unlikely to seek sex with other men,” he said. “What those orgasms are saying is ‘I'm extremely loyal, so you should invest in me and my children’."
Oh naff off, Dave. You wouldn't know a 'signal of satisfaction' if you were trapped up there in the dark for whole a week. Maybe, just maybe, females orgasm for reproductive purposes, to encourage sex? Or maybe women actually have a sex drive?
Otherwise, yes I do agree: to an extent. It's like the novelist Rosamund Lehmann (who had LOTS of sex) said about boffing Cecil Day Lewis: the great thing about being in bed with a poet is that you know he's always thinking about poetry. You feel second best: a sure recipe for desire!
It's a bit like that with money, I guess. Especially for stupid people i.e. the overwhelming majority. Men wouldn't be aroused by money because it threatens their masculinity (a gender construct). As Valerie Solanas wrote: women give milk, men give money.
Finally, it is interesting to consider that Simone de Beauvoir was a firm believer in women marrying a greater intellect - which for the sake of argument could be compared to wealth - whereas this just 'isn't possible' for the male. She didn't manage it, of course, as Satre was an idiot and de Beauvoir was a Goddess. In fact, perhaps it precisely this ambition that gives credence to Lady Astor's observation that paradoxically 'every woman marries beneath her'?
16 Jan 2009
"Melody- you have to use birth control for the next week"
"Yes I know that Posie- I'm Fertile. I'm bleeding like a virgin for god's sake. But what else could this do to me? Will I bleed to death internally from the sudden break in the birth-supressing oestrogen levels? Will I suffer violent mood swings, how long will they last, will they damage me in the long-term? Will it effect my reproductive system or does it make me more susceptible to cancer?"
What could I say? Melody doens't know what the Internet is, so I thought I'd check online on the pill company's website. "Use extra protection for sex!" they screamed. OK, but I'm not only planning on having sex next week (or maybe not at all, we'll see!). There are other things I need to do. Like move around and read. And then I remembered I was doing this for Melody so thought I really should find a solution, because after all, when you're not fucking like a mindless automaton there are other things that missing this pill might threaten, like living a healthy life.
Obviously I could find no information either from the pill company, medical websites or on discussion forums. Now this is absurd. Plenty of women take the pill to improve their skin (girlfriends at school took it to reduce their acne) or to control abnormal period cycles (my friend who hadn't had a period in 3 years now menstruates normally thanks to the pill!) Surely patting us on the head and telling us not to go and get knocked up because, silly us, we forgot our pills (just like women!) is patronising and irresponsible.
Plenty of guys I know forget to wipe the toothpaste foam from their beards until lunchtime, or until I point it out. If it was up to them to control the birth rate by taking a tiny, infinitely forgettable pill every single day, there'd be more people than ANTS.
And that is a FACT.
I told all this to Melody who didn't really take it all in. She has gone to visit her vagina doctor.
13 Jan 2009
Hi Gals! To celebrate 2009 I'm kicking off with A Kick Arese Bitches season: a whole season full of me, my, yes me, Posie bloody Rider's favourite kick arse bitches. Here's Number one: Eowyn from Lord of the Rings, who cunningly kills the evil witch doctor and his mutated dragon. You go gal!
12 Jan 2009
Between the Covers: Women's magazines and their readers
Women's Library until 1st April. (free)
Glitch - A 30min comedy in which a lone woman traveller finds herself trapped in a holding cell during an automated security check.
British Library 20th Jan - 14th Feb (free)
Mrs Affleck - a new play by Samuel Adamson from Henrik Ibsen’s Little Eyolf
Jealousy, love and despair at the National Theatre until April.
Patti Plinko and Her Boy at Leicester Square Theatre
A dark seductive world of art, sex and death, 12th February.
Million Women Rise Fundraising Benefit
14th February 6pm - 1am, 52 Gower Street.
And some I won't...
Britney Spears plays the O2
A puppet of her father, record company and publicists, the poor girl is being paraded around for cash again. I wish her peace and sanity.
Sex Drive The Movie
Bride Wars The Movie
See above. No wait, I'll say it again. Arrrgh!
5 Jan 2009
So it's a new year and so much is still to be done for Feminism before we leave the noughties altogether and I hit (whisper!) 38.
100 years since Joan of Arc was beatified in Rome, 100 years since Alice Huyer Ramsey became the first woman to drive across America, 2009 is hardly a big centenary year for Women. But we can make this year our own by making it the year that Fourth Wave Feminism was launched in the UK and spread across the globe like a tsunami. Have you seen Akira? Imagine the blob Tetsuo expanding to engulf Tokyo. Now imagine me doing the same with patriarchy. Pretty impressive, n'est pas?
But a brave new ideology needs some intellectual wrangling. What's more, it needs RULES. At a drinks party last weekend, glowing from the convivial atmosphere and one too many Gin Fizzes, I found myself trying to describe the four waves of Feminism to an Homme Non Partisan (that's one-off from a chauvinist, the kind who says "I think women should be equal with men but there's no need for Feminism anymore". Well, I say there's no need for you anymore. Now leave existence, petit homme!) .
Explaining Waves One to Three was a doddle, but when I came to Wave Four, I found myself a little lost for words. For the solitary architect of Wave Four to be so at a loss in describing her own revolutionary movement was a far from acceptable predicament. I've now sought to right this on the blog, having provided him with a link to follow at his own leisure.
So, Barry, this is for you.
Fourth Wave Feminism is not merely a rebranding of the Third Wave. This is no Pasta Hut gimick. Fourth Wave Feminism aims to resolve the empty soul-searching of Third Wave Feminism and return us to a juicy state akin to the passionate militancy, de jure inequality-bashing and sharp-tailoring of the First Wave. This is What a Suffragette Looks Like is our motto. The Second Wave was all well and good and the Third Wave had it's moments, but I say we are now in a stage akin to a Late-Third Wave, where even Feminists have lost the plot.
For educated and 'experimental' sex-positive practitioners, developing ideas such as gender queer, womanism, transgender and that-sort-of-thing, life couldn't be better. But outside of educated and bohemian circles, women who are encouraged to be sex-positive are being pushed into cycles of self-denigrating oppression no more fulfilling than the submissive existence of a Playboy Bunny.
Sex-Positivity only works when you're doing something terribly unusual and if you've read an awful lot of Judith Butler. For everyone else, it's a massive mixed message that leads to twelve year olds in G-strings and teenage girls who want nothing more than to be dishonoured on a dance floor by a stranger.
The Third Wave was about personality politics and individual choice, under the auspices of consumer capitalism. It began innocently enough. "Yes, I can be a Feminist and buy lipstick", women cried. Indeed, I personally swear by Dior #999. Then came the likes of "I can be a Feminist and get breast implants." Serious? I'd say that's less easy to call. Why do you need those breast implants? Do you feel as strongly about the breast implants as you do about Feminism? Didn't think so.
By the time we reached, "I can be a Feminist and be masturbated by robots on the bonnet of a pink Chevy for cash and on film," we knew things had gone too far. Why? Because Feminism isn't the same thing as doing exactly what you like. Feminism is about asking why it is you like the things you do and then deciding whether those likes are truly original to yourself, as far as is possible in any society. Feminism is as much a critique of individual desires as it is of the societies in which they flourish. Treating each degrading and vain desire as if they are equal to noble or uplifting wishes is cynical, damaging and idiotic. What's worse, it's making someone a lot of money somewhere, probably in the head office of Ann Summers where you buy your candy handcuffs and cherry scented lubes, foolish woman!
Finally, fundamentally, Feminism is about improving the quality of life of WOMEN. Anything that conflicts with that is not Feminism. That is being a hedonist, an egotist, a sadist and a pornocrat. Feminism can't be all those things, silly!
So, this is not a manifesto. It's a reconnaissance mission. The Femifesto will follow, once I've really worked out what I'm up against. Watch this space! |
It is increasingly common to hear Los Angeles invoked as the model city of the emerging post-industrial world. Although such a claim may have wide acceptance, there is little agreement as to whether it is an honor, dishonor, or merely an observation of the obvious and inevitable.
Undoubtedly, fundamental structural changes in the world economy have resulted in concurrent changes in the very structure of our cities. The transformation from an industrial society to one based on service and information is having urban ramifications as significant as those of the industrial revolution itself. A growing literature on the subject invariably cites LA as the ultimate example of this new type of city: the “ex-urb,” “technoburb,” “100-mile city,” “geography of nowhere,” or conglomeration of peripheral “edge cities.”
The Forum lecture series this winter will address in particular the changing conceptions of the public realm of Los Angeles. In a city increasingly torn by the physical, economic, and racial fragmentation of space, whose downtown “public plazas” are owned, developed, and controlled by private corporations, and where successful urbanism is often taken to mean safe, entertaining places to shop, traditional notions of “public” and “private” may no longer apply. Each of the speakers will be addressing new conceptions of and prescriptions for the public realm. What is at stake is the very definition of city itself, as a place of civitas and common culture.
Transportation and its infrastructure have always dramatically affected and shaped LA, both at the larger regional scale of vast networks affording a new mobility, and at the local scale of, for example, specific road and sidewalk widths, freeway onramps, and Metro rail and its stations. While the fascination with freeways has always existed in L.A. and their role in shaping the city is undeniable, Doug Suisman, amongst others, has helped turn attention back to the original transportation and organizational arteries, the boulevards. Suisman’s monograph “Los Angeles Boulevard” was published as Forum Publication NO.5 in 1989. His research helped architects and planners rethink the importance of the boulevards. Presently, as the founder and principal of Public Works Design, he has gained recognition for his research and design of public spaces in American cities. His work in Los Angeles has primarily centered on design in relation to public transportation and its infrastructure, both future – the Electric trolley project, for example – as well as past – the abandoned railroad yards at Taylor yard.
Both Steven Flusty and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris will speak on topics related to the increasing desire to control public space. Loukaitou-Sideris studies the transformation of traditional public spaces, urban plazas and parks, and methodologically examines their development and maintenance as surrogate public spaces owned and controlled by private interests. Flusty, on the other hand, describes new “paranoid typologies” which have recently emerged through “strategies of spatial control.” He analyzes new types of building and planning, from the alarmed and secured private house to the LAPD surveillance grid painted on rooftops of the city, all aimed at assuaging the spectre of general urban fear.
The privatization of public space is best displayed through the evolution of the marketplace. Joanne Berelowitz will lecture on City Walk, the swan song of the private production of shopping centers as public space. It is designed to attract middle class consumers to a safe and entertaining environment on the brink of an era heralding the safest, most fantastic place of shopping: the home computer shopping and multimedia network.
If City Walk represents an elitist incarnation of city culture, George Lipsitz is interested in its mirror image, in “the way the city looks from the ground up.” His research and writings examine the relationship between urban form, street culture, and race in American cities. He sees culture as a battlefield for civic hegemony, and views much of the street culture that has emerged in Los Angeles, from popular music to graffiti art, in terms of its resistance to the urban institutionalization of capital.
The morphology of Los Angeles streets – the parking lots, mini-malls, undefined street edges, the lack of public spaces – that has emerged more or less incidentally from private, unplanned development is often cited by architects and urbanists as evidence of the need for more coherent planning and zoning. Yet for Marco de Michelis, there is a beauty and logic to LA’s city form and its evolution. Suspicious of calls for more European sensibilities for LA, de Michelis will explore LA’s own particular brand of urbanism and the state of the contemporary city through a discussion of the morphology of the street corner.
At a time of limited public resources, the question of who owns and controls public space is urgently relevant. The nature of such spaces – the uses ascribed to them as well as the people intended to use them – are essentially political issues, with ramifications for both urban form as well as social policy. As the critic Rosalyn Deutsche reminds us, it is no coincidence that homelessness and new public spaces are both results of urban renewal programs. Architects and planners need to reassess their roles in the production of urban spaces as the city evolves in the post-industrial era. It is the goal of the Forum lecture series to raise some of these questions.
John Dutton practices architecture in Los Angeles. |
The largest United States Air Force in Britain is garrisoned near the village of Lakenheath, Suffolk. This is where the US AFB gets its name from. Near-by you can find the cities of Oxford and Cambridge, in Cambridgeshire or you can go to Norfolk. This underlines the great number of facilities at the base. Lakenheath is an RAF (a Royal Air Force) Base, used together by the USA and the UK. It is home to the 48th Fighter Wing and the Liberty Wing. The logo (the statue of liberty) and the name for these are obvious are their meaning also – peace, security and liberty. The size of the base is not exactly known, but it is for sure a medium-sized one. There are 5,700 active military people in Lakenheath and an additional 2,000 staff. This means that the demographics are of 7,700.
The base not only trains soldiers in the field of air combat, but also joins together the efforts of UK and the USA. This is, actually, the primary mission of this base. They use F-15s on a large scale, including the F-15 Strike Eagle. They also use the 56th Rescue Squadrons helicopters. The base’s historical mission has been to join the European and American forces together in the fight against terrorism and the many problems in the Middle East.
The base has been recently built and has attracted some local reactions although it is only a matter of misunderstandings. Some of the near-by attractions are in a British-style, for example one can visit the historic city of Cambridge, its university or can go for a stroll in the scenery surrounding this RAF base. There is no housing for outsiders at the base, but there are some resort hotels in Lakenheath, the near-by village. The educational facilities include both British and American teaching methods, which is an innovation throughout the world.
Lakenheath AFB is very open to the general public and the press and, recently, it has received reviews on the topic of its newest mission, the “Eagle Eyes”. The press is both favorable and unfriendly in this respect, as there are many opposite directions of combating terrorism. |
I bought glasses. It is vary cute.(*^o^*)
I don't have good sight.
I wear my glasses when I'm in school!
I vary exited to go t...
I like play basketball. my posion is forward. I played last game.
last game is a schoolchild's game. I was able to put in the shot.
I held the graduation ceremony yesterday.
It is very sad.
I to drain tear.(>_<)
I to persist in junior high school Thank you fo...
I cleaned a staff room in elementary school. my teacher was very glad.
I am happy!!
I played tag rugby in my elementary school. It was vary fun,but difficult.
Do you know tag rugby? Tag rugby is sport like rugby. |
I call myself a Latina because I am of Mexican descent, but Mexican history and traditions are the extent of my Hispanic knowledge. Of course there are the commonly known events in Latino culture which may make into textbooks or common knowledge among Americans such as Cuba’s Bay of Pigs, the fact that the Portuguese in the official language in Brazil, and Puerto Rico’s music. If you’re not taking a Latin American course or something of the like, the confines of your national heritage will most likely be all you that know. There are so many Latin American countries out there with so much rich history, making it difficult to fully know every detail. Our Latino culture is what connects many of us and that is why knowledge of more than one country can benefit and help us move forward as a minority. Valerie Portillo is the author of A Kid’s Guide to Latino History, which is a text book for children that incorporates mostly every aspect of Latino history, culture, and its impact on the United States and the world. There are ten chapters and each of them contains a brief history, important events, traditions, celebrations, fun facts, translations, and do it yourself crafts for kids!
A Kid’s Guide to Latino History helped me realize how different Latin American cultures and traditions are while still having many similarities. The book highlights many recipes, crafts, holiday traditions and cultural celebrations that reflect the diverse Latino community. In the book, we learn how to make arroz con leche (rice with milk, pudding) described as a Dominican dessert. I grew up eating arroz con leche in a Mexican household. I also remember making bread figurines that are described as Ecuadorian. The cultural mesh the book introduces can be applied to all aspects of a Latin American lifestyle where we can all learn and take from each other. Although there are so many traditions, crafts and recipes to be shared and learned, each country still has their own distinct culture and their own way of doing things. For example, we learn how Hondurans created their own game with seeds, Mexicans have their own form of bingo, and Nicaraguans have their own type of dance.
My favorite parts of the book are the well explained history lessons that were easy to follow. We learn about the people of the native lands, the Spanish invasions of practically every Latin country and the country’s attempt to take back their land. The reader also learns more about the relationship between the US and Latin America. For example, it was interesting to find out how communism impacted many Latin American countries. Although the idea of communism is said to have come from Europe and was made to be seemingly harmless, there was a political misuse of the concepts in some countries.
The US began using force to keep communism out of its neighboring lands, helped put down many revolutions, and fought a guerrilla warfare. After many of these Latin American countries were left in economic despair, people began migrating north to the US in search of a safer and more comfortable life. We then learn how each country assimilated into the US and how many different boroughs and neighborhoods created a cultural niche. Much like the diverse Chinatowns existing around the US, I learned that places such as Washington Heights and Calle Ocho began blossoming as a safe haven for many Latin American Immigrants.The book displays the progression of Latin American Countries and their association to the US in a hands-on and entertaining way. I would recommend A Kid’s Guide to Latino History to any elementary teacher or family member who is interested in learning about history, and the history of Latin America; it was definitely a great and educational read. |
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Miguel Gutierrez, finding a path outside the mainstream
New York-born choreographer Miguel Gutierrez spent the early part of his career performing in San Francisco as a member of the Joe Goode Performance Group. Eventually, he returned to the East Coast, convinced his best chance for success existed in New York. “I wanted access to an international audience and New York was the best gateway,” he says.
Now 40, Gutierrez, who lives in Brooklyn, has never regretted his decision. Since 2001, when he started creating his own works with a group of collaborators under the name Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, he has steadily gained recognition both nationally and internationally. Working in New York City, however, has its pros and cons, especially for convention-defying contemporary dance artists, says the choreographer, who will make his Los Angeles debut this weekend at the Alexandria Hotel.
On one hand, New York “has these formalist legacies that I find really interesting,” he says of all the famous modern dance choreographers from Martha Graham onward who made their home in the city. “But those same legacies are what’s burdening New York. You’ve got these false binaries of uptown and downtown dance, mainstream and experimental.”
Gutierrez, for example, often gets labeled as a performance artist because he creates work that explores existential and philosophical ideas through dance, text and song and “this drives me crazy. I’m like ‘No, I’m a dancer. I get annoyed when my work is relegated to the outside of dance,” he says. “And it’s just this endless problem, not just in New York, but in America in general of being considered fringe. You always have to say my work is ‘downtown’ or ‘experimental.’ You can’t just say it’s dance. It’s so tedious.”
Pryor remains wholeheartedly dedicated to Gutierrez’s career because “he’s pulling from this litany of creative and artistic sources, from traditional modern dance to musical theater. He embraces show and spectacle but maintains this self-referential quality and awareness of it,” he says. “It’s this melding of artistic practices that I find really interesting.”
To read more about Miguel Gutierrez, click here.
-- Susan Josephs
Photo: Miguel Gutierrez in performance. Credit: Ian W. Douglas |
Disney stock closes down 9%
Disney shares closed at $31.54, down 9% in trading Wednesday -- even though the entertainment conglomerate just reported third-quarter earnings Tuesday that beat consensus estimates among analysts.
Beneath the seemingly good quarter, analysts noted that the film studio and interactive media group missed projections and that advertising revenue from cable network advertising was up a modest 2%, lower than some had forecast. Theme park margins also declined because of a land sale in Europe and continued financial reverberations from Japan's earthquake.
Disney also warned that three items would affect results in the fourth quarter: Lower projected DVD sales for the film studio compared with a year earlier, lower sales of syndicated TV shows and higher costs at ESPN.
"Disney has not lived up to the earnings-beating behavior it is known for," wrote media analyst Michael Nathanson of Nomura Equity Research.
Among the few entertainment stocks to buck Wednesday’s downward trend were Lions Gate Entertainment and DreamWorks Animation. Lions Gate saw its shares rise 2% to $6.74 the day after it reported stronger than expected net income and as the New York Times reported that it is considering launching a cable channel branded with filmmaker Tyler Perry. Shares in DreamWorks Animation rose 2% to $18.77.
A Disney spokeswoman declined comment.
-- Dawn C. Chmielewski and Ben Fritz
Photo: Minnie and Mickey Mouse celebrate Tanabata, or the Star Festival, at Tokyo Disneyland. Credit: Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP/Getty Images |
Terry Murray welcomes Dale Hunter to NHL coaching ranks
Kings Coach Terry Murray has fond memories of Dale Hunter, who was hired Monday to succeed Bruce Boudreau as coach of the Washington Capitals.
Hunter, as sneaky-dirty a player as ever laced up skates — but talented enough to score more than 1,000 points — played for the Capitals when Murray was an assistant coach and, later, the team’s coach. Murray recalled the 1987 draft-day deal Washington made with Quebec to get Hunter.
“The draft was in Detroit, and we made a trade at the draft table,” Murray said before the Kings faced the San Jose Sharks at Staples Center. “He came out of the stands and he could hardly walk. He’s limping so bad, and we’re kind of ‘What’s going on here?’
“He had broken his leg near the end of the year and came back and played in the playoffs for the Nordiques. And basically everybody felt he was done because his play was so poor but he had a broken leg still. He came to our table and we welcomed him and we were very happy to have him. It was a good deal for the Washington Capitals.”
Murray recalled Hunter’s skills as clearly as his toughness.
“He was a really good player,” Murray said. “You look back at his stats in Quebec: Michel Goulet was a 50-goal scorer, and that was his left winger. For me he played a skill game but with that edge, that grit, that hard play and actually outright mean sometimes.”
Just ask Pierre Turgeon how mean Hunter was. Hunter viciously checked Turgeon, then with the New York Islanders, after Turgeon scored a goal in the 1993 playoffs and left Turgeon with a separated shoulder. Hunter was suspended for the first 21 games of the 1993-94 season.
“There’s a lot of players you can ask,” Murray said. “He played hard. He played the same on the road and at home. He was a great player, great teammate and he played a long time because of that.”
Murray expects Hunter to bring the same fire to coaching the Capitals.
“He’ll demand stuff be done the right way,” Murray said. “You’ve got to play hard. You’ve got to compete. That’s Dale’s MO. He always did that every day. His reputation, his emotion, he’s got a lot of history in coaching right now. Been at the job for a long time. He’s a good fit for them.”
Boudreau joined Carolina’s Paul Maurice on the unemployment line Monday when the Hurricanes replaced Maurice with former NHL forward Kirk Muller. Murray said the lack of security in his chosen profession hit him as he entered Staples Center Monday and encountered Sharks Coach Todd McLellan as they went through security.
“He said, ‘To get 1,000 games in this game today, man, we just had two more guys go down today,’” Murray said. “It’s a tough business. But it is the business and sometimes that’s what needs to be done in the GM’s eyes.”
-- Helene Elliott
Photo: Capitals Coach Dale Hunter runs practice on Monday at the team's training facility in Arlington, Va. Credit: Patrick McDermott / Getty Images |
Google Business Photos: sending photographers to shoot inside businesses
Google is sending out photographers to snap shots of retail stores, restaurants, salons and other businesses in its Google Business Photos project.
The Mountain View, Calif., company began taking applications Thursday from business owners for free photo shoots conducted by Google-paid photographers.
Google is assigning photographers to shoot businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area, Phoenix, San Antonio and St. Petersburg, Fla., as well as London, Paris, Seoul and select cities in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
The effort is a move to beef up the content on Google Places pages for businesses and an expansion of a Business Photos pilot program launched in October. Businesses can also upload their own photos to their Google Places pages, which come up when locations are searched for in Google Maps.
"Millions of potential customers visit Google every day to learn about places and businesses," Google says on its Business Photos page. "Through scheduled photo shoots, Google is introducing a new way for you to showcase your business to the world."
-- Nathan Olivarez-Giles |
Barcelona midfielder Sergio Busquets is set to sign an extended contract which will keep him at the Nou Camp until June 2018.
The 25-year-old Spain international has spent his entire senior career at Barca and has made 238 appearances to date for the Catalan club.
Busquets will put pen to paper on the new deal on Tuesday, according to a statement on the club's official website.
"Sergio Busquets will sign a contract renewal this Tuesday lunchtime which will keep him at the club until June 30, 2018, with the option of a further year," read the statement.
"His buy-out clause is set at 150 million euros.
"The club and the player reached agreement on the new deal on July 16 - the day Busquets celebrated his 25th birthday."
Busquets has been a key figure in the Barca midfield for the last five years, helping the team win four La Liga titles, two Copa del Rey trophies and two Champions Leagues during that time. |
Saturday, December 30, 2006
From NPR.com: The Department of Homeland Security is trying to coordinate all the identification and screening programs it runs. Business interests want them consolidated so they don't have to go through so multiple bureaucracies just to cross the border.
But privacy rights groups worry that the more consolidated these programs and databases are, the more threatening they are to individual rights. Listen. . . [Mark Godsey]
Friday, December 29, 2006
This week the CrimProf Blog Spotlights University of California Hastings College of Law CrimProf Kate Bloch.
Kate Bloch received her undergraduate education at Washington University in St. Louis as an Arnold J. Lien merit scholar. Before departing Washington University, she completed an M.A. in French.
During her student days in St. Louis, she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and played on an intramural inner tube water polo team. Once in California, Professor Bloch attended Stanford Law School where she was a Senior Note Editor on the Stanford Law Review.
Following graduation and the California Bar, Professor Bloch clerked for the United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit. Prior to joining the Hastings Faculty, she represented the People of the State of California as a Deputy District Attorney for the County of Santa Clara
From CNN.com: Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein could face execution within hours, according to the latest reports from Baghdad...However, attorneys for Hussein are seeking a temporary restraining order in a U.S. court to block the execution. A civil suit against Hussein has been filed--one that could effect his estate. And his lawyers are arguing that Saddam should have a chance to respond. It could be a brilliant strategy. Story from CNN.com here: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/29/hussein/index.html
From chron.com: Authorities charged a truck driver with narcotics trafficking Thursday after seizing more than 7 tons of marijuana, highlighting what experts described as Houston's, in Harris County TX, leading role as a distribution center for illicit drugs.
An anonymous tip led drug agents to the drab warehouse in northwest Harris County late Wednesday, where they said they found one of the largest marijuana stashes they've seen in recent memory.
Inside wooden crates were 502 bundles of marijuana that had been wrapped in plastic and coated with calcium carbonate to mask the odor. Authorities said the 15,000-pound haul had a street value of $25 million to $40 million.
"We've always been a major hub for narcotics trafficking," said Houston Police Capt. Stephen Smith. "Almost everything from Mexico comes through Houston." Rest of Article. . . [Mark Godsey]
From latimes.com: In a sweeping study of crime in the American household, the Justice Department reported Thursday that domestic violence, one of the most common offenses against women, has fallen by more than half since 1993.
Assaults, rapes, homicides and robberies against a current or former partner dropped from about 10 per 1,000 women in 1993 to four per 1,000 in 2004, researchers found.
The downward trend in violence by "intimate partners" — current and former spouses, boyfriends or girlfriends — mirrors an overall national decrease in violent crime since the early 1990s, justice officials said. While the study did not attempt to explain the decline in domestic violence, some experts have credited more vigorous law enforcement, increased education and an expanded network of services for battered partners, said Shannan Catalano, a bureau statistician and the report's author.
But she and others emphasized that the report may not reflect the actual level of violence taking place behind closed doors. Indeed, the apparent decline could mean that women are choosing to suffer in silence rather than seek help. Rest of Article. . . [Mark Godsey]
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
From latimes.com: A Times investigation has found that thieves, drug offenders and other repeat criminals are cycling in and out of jail faster than ever.
Since 2000, the number of people booked two or more times into jails in Los Angeles County in a single year has jumped 73%, reaching 61,646 last year, according to a Times analysis. Repeat offenders now account for 42% of bookings, up from 26% in 2000.
Once booked, defendants enter a justice system whose resources have not kept pace with demand, even as crime has dropped in recent years.
There are not enough prosecutors to try them. There are not enough courts to sentence them. There are not enough jail or prison beds to house them. And there is not enough treatment to help them.
Instead, repeat offenders drain limited justice resources and are quickly back on the streets to get arrested again, taking up the time of police, prosecutors, public defenders and judges. Patrol cops are frustrated. Victims feel forgotten.
"Under any other definition of crisis, this would be an emergency," said Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, who runs the nation's largest network of jails. "The system is collapsing because of its volume." A solution, top law enforcement officials say, would require far more money than lawmakers have been willing to commit.
"We didn't cure malaria until we started draining the swamps instead of just swatting at the mosquitoes," said Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton. "The resources have just not been committed to draining the swamps."
From washingtonpost.com: Washington Post Columnist Richard Cohen picks mentally ill death row inmate Gregory Thompson as his person of the year to call attention to the madness of the death penalty. Here is an excerpt from the article:
"Thompson, 45, is delusional. He is also paranoid, schizophrenic and depressed. For these ailments, he receives daily doses of drugs and, twice a month, anti-psychotic injections. The state of Tennessee wants very much to put him to death for the horrendous 1985 murder of Brenda Blanton Lane, of which there is no doubt about his guilt. There is grave doubt, though, about the constitutionality, not to mention the decency, of executing an insane man. Thus the 12 pills Thompson takes every day. The idea, according to a recent account of his case in the Wall Street Journal, is to make him sane enough to be put to death.
Shortly before Justice Harry Blackmun retired from the Supreme Court in 1994, he reversed himself on the death penalty. Blackmun had been a lifelong supporter, but finally had had enough. In words that were to become famous, he wrote, "From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death." It's as if Blackmun had Thompson in mind, for in his case the tinkering occurs on a daily basis.
Blackmun was not the only Supreme Court justice to change his mind about capital punishment. Lewis Powell did something similar. He never got to the point where he considered it unconstitutional or immoral -- he just concluded there was no way to get it right.
Now, from Powell's point of view, matters have even worsened. The death penalty has become so necessarily cumbersome to implement, so full of essential safeguards, that it not only sometimes cannot be done -- note the recent suspensions of executions by lethal injection -- but it takes forever to do it. Thompson, you might have noticed, has been awaiting execution for nearly 22 years -- arguably cruel and unusual punishment in itself." Rest of Article. . . [Mark Godsey]
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
From USATODAY/AP: Many Supreme Court justices prize the anonymity that comes with their lifetime appointments and camera-free courtroom. Unrecognized, justices have snapped pictures for tourists in front of the court or been asked to move out of the way of a shot. On rare occasion, a justice might consent to an interview on the C-SPAN cable network to discuss a recent book or be shown addressing a lawyers' gathering somewhere.
Lately, however, some members of the court have been popping up in unusual places — including network television news programs — and talking about more than just the law.
Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer recently debated their competing views of the Constitution. Breyer and retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor have talked publicly and repeatedly about threats to judicial independence. Justice Samuel Alito proudly affirmed his membership in the conservative Federalist Society, speaking in a packed ballroom at its recent convention.
Perhaps most noteworthy, though, has been the media-friendly attitude adoped by new Chief Justice John Roberts, in contrast to his predecessor William Rehnquist. Roberts recently was featured on ABC News' Nightline discussing both his view of the court and his son Jack's Spiderman imitation at Roberts' introduction by President Bush.
"Roberts is putting a smiley face in the center chair," said Hutchinson, who recalled earlier eras in which chief justices rigorously avoided the press and looked askance at their colleagues who consented to the rare interview. Rest of Article. . . [Mark Godsey]
From latimes.com: Supplies of highly potent Afghan heroin in the United States are growing so fast that the pure white powder is rapidly overtaking lower-quality Mexican heroin, prompting fears of increased addiction and overdoses.
Heroin-related deaths in Los Angeles County soared from 137 in 2002 to 239 in 2005, a jump of nearly 75% in three years, a period when other factors contributing to overdose deaths remained unchanged, experts said. The jump in deaths was especially prevalent among users older than 40, who lack the resilience to recover from an overdose of unexpectedly strong heroin, according to a study by the county's Office of Health Assessment and Epidemiology.
According to a Drug Enforcement Administration report obtained by The Times, Afghanistan's poppy fields have become the fastest-growing source of heroin in the United States. Its share of the U.S. market doubled from 7% in 2001, the year U.S. forces overthrew the Taliban, to 14% in 2004, the latest year studied. Another DEA report, released in October, said the 14% actually could be significantly higher. Rest of Article. . . [Mark Godsey]
From NYTimes.com: Not too long ago, you could tell whether an election was under way by watching prime-time television and counting the number of ominous recitatives about prisoners and ex-prisoners in the commercials. This fall, however, the seven million Americans who are in the custody of the state — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — did not loom large on nightly TV; in fact, as has been the case for nearly a decade, they barely received any notice at all. Prisoners are no longer the charged political symbols and campaign-season scapegoats they once were.
This may be due to a change of heart bythe Republican Party. A sign of this change of heart is the fact that the former Republican-controlled Congress came tantalizingly close to passing the Second Chance Act, a bill that focuses not on how to “lock them up” but on how to let them out. The bill may become law soon, if Democrats continue to welcome the new conservative interest in rehabilitation.
By some measures, the Second Chance Act is a small bill. It authorizes less than $100 million over two years to address a significant problem: about 700,000 ex-offenders (the population of a good-size American city) will leave prison in 2007 — and two-thirds of them are likely to be rearrested within three years. The bill would provide states with grants to develop model programs for prisoners returning to society. Those states that accept the grants will be asked to re-examine any laws and regulations that make it unreasonably difficult for ex-offenders to reintegrate themselves into their communities — the classic example is the ban on allowing felons to receive a barber’s license. The bill also provides money to faith-based organizations and other nonprofits for prisoner-mentoring programs. Finally, it requires states to measure how well their programs achieve the bill’s main goal: reducing the rate of recidivism among recently released prisoners.
No one expects the Second Chance Act to solve the prisoner-re-entry problem overnight. The bill’s authors are probably too confident that drug treatment, education and housing assistance can reduce recidivism on their own. Such services, many criminologists say, are effective only when paired with the tight supervision of ex-offenders. Some researchers point to the “broken windows” response to crime and suggest trying a similar approach with prisoner re-entry: quickly punish any small violations of the terms of a prisoner’s release with graduated sanctions while returning ex-offenders to prison only for new crimes, not for technical parole violations like missing a meeting with a probation officer. The Second Chance Act does nothing to support this sort of approach.
Rest of Article. . . [Mark Godsey]
The discussion of Nanny Cams arose due to a Palm Coast case headed for trial in February, in which Brandon Jaffe, 16, was charged earlier this year with felony molestation after a hidden camera filmed him molesting two children he was baby-sitting, according to court documents.
Barbara Kline, who matches nannies with high-powered couples in Washington, D.C., through her agency White House Nannies, wrote about a sitter who becomes upset after finding out her employer hid a nanny cam in her bathroom and bedroom to spy on her. Her website, childcare.about.com, states baby sitters often don't necessarily oppose the videotaping, they'd just like to know about it as a matter of trust and deception.
My first reaction to that is that he could have no constitutional objection to that," CrimProf Robert Batey said during a phone interview in St. Petersburg. Batey said that when Jaffe went into his employers' home, a personal space, he ran the risk that somebody might be videotaping him in that space. Rest of Article. . . [Mark Godsey]
Saturday, December 23, 2006
From delawareonline.com: Convicted felon. These two words can quickly end a job interview.
Some may consider this appropriate punishment for someone who is a proven criminal. But if you are concerned about reducing the crime rate in Delaware and the nation, those are exactly the people who need jobs, says Jack McDonough, newly appointed chief of the U.S. Probation Office in Delaware.
So McDonough's office has joined a national push to get probationers employed. The effort, called the Workforce Development Program, is designed to reduce recidivism and get ex-offenders back into the mainstream.
McDonough believes if you get a former inmate gainful employment , he or she is less likely to return to old ways and statistics back up his theory. If a person has a job at the start and end of supervised release, federal court statistics show, the success rate is 85 percent, meaning no new arrests. National and Delaware statistics are almost the opposite for ex-offenders without jobs: More than 70 percent of unemployed probationers end up back in jail within three years.
Rest of Article. . . [Mark Godsey]
Friday, December 22, 2006
This week the CrimProf Blog spotlights Chapman University School of Law CrimProf Celestine Richards McConville.
Professor McConville joined the Chapman faculty as an Associate Professor in August 2000. Before coming to Chapman, she was a visiting faculty member at Case Western Reserve School of Law, where she received the Student Bar Association's Teacher of the Year award for 1999, an honor determined by the graduating class. She earned her B.A. at Boston University, graduating magna cum laude, and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, graduating magna cum laude in the top one percent of her class. She was selected for Order of the Coif and served as an editor for the Georgetown Law Journal's Criminal Procedure Project.
After law school, Professor McConville served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist at the Supreme Court of the United States. She also clerked for Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and for Judge Donald C. Nugent on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Following her clerkship on the Supreme Court, Professor McConville practiced law for three years as an associate with Shea & Gardner in Washington, D.C., working primarily on litigation matters involving constitutional, labor, banking, and aviation law issues. Professor McConville's current research and writing projects are in the constitutional law and death penalty areas. [Mark Godsey]
Thursday, December 21, 2006
From abanet.org: The American Bar Association Commission has submitted for consideration by the ABA House six reports with recommendations. The reports deal with alternatives to incarceration and conviction; improvements in parole and probation supervision; employment and licensure of convicted persons; access to and use of criminal records for non-law enforcement purposes; representation relating to collateral consequences; and training in the exercise of discretion.
These six reports were originally submitted to the House last summer, but were withdrawn for further consideration and discussion with the National District Attorneys Association. As a result of the Commission's discussions with NDAA a number of revisions were made to the recommendations, and the NDAA agreed to co-sponsor four of the six sets of recommendations. The Criminal Justice Section and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association also renewed their co-sponsorship of the recommendations.
Among other things, the NDAA and the ABA agreed on recommending:
- Community based alternatives to incarceration that also avoid a conviction record, including diversion and deferred adjudication, should be available to all but the most serious offenders;
- People under community supervision should only be returned to prison for serious violations of their conditions of release, such as where a new crime has been committed or lesser sanctions have failed;
- Public access to criminal records should in general be limited, in light of the government's interest in encouraging successful offender reentry and reintegration, people should be able to challenge the accuracy of their records, and only law enforcement agencies should have access to records of closed criminal cases that did not result in a conviction;
- All criminal justice professionals -- including judges, prosecutors, defense counsel, probation and parole officers, and correctional officials -- should be trained in understanding, adopting and utilizing factors that promote the sound exercise of their discretion.
Rest of Article. . . [Mark Godsey]
Seton Hall University Prof Baher Azmy, who is also legal counsel to former Guantánamo detainee Murat Kurnaz, filed suit today in federal court to compel the Department of Defense to release transcripts relating to his client’s detention.
The government held Kurnaz, along with hundreds of other men, at Guantánamo Bay for over four years without charges or trial. Instead of a trial, the military held its own “combatant status review tribunals” and “administrative review board” hearings, with the military’s own officers to judge the detainees. It is the transcripts of these hearings – which purported to justify Kuna’s detention – that are sought by today’s suit, filed in federal district court for the Southern District of New York.
In January 2005, Judge Joyce Hens Green of federal district court in Washington, D.C. ruled that Kurnaz’s detention was illegal. She pointed to five exculpatory statements by U.S. intelligence authorities and questioned why the Defense Department had ignored them.
“Not only is Kurnaz obviously innocent of any wrongdoing, the United States actually knew of his innocence as early as 2002,” said Azmy. “Why wasn’t this evidence shared with him? How did the government justify detaining him in spite of this evidence? The government needs to come clean and explain to Murat Kurnaz and the American people why the military continued to detain a person who was never connected to terrorism.” Rest of Press Release. . . [Mark Godsey]
From CJJNC: Maryland's highest court ordered a halt yesterday to executions in the state, ruling that procedures for putting prisoners to death were never submitted for the public review required by law, the Baltimore Sun reports. Under the ruling, state prison officials face the prospect of having to submit the execution protocols to a joint legislative committee. The court said the legislature could exempt the execution procedures from that review process - something one state senator characterized as "very unlikely."One way or another, the legislature is going to need to look at the issue again," said University of Richmond law Prof. Carl Tobias, "They're going to want to have hearings, and that could potentially open up the whole death penalty issue for debate." Executions have been halted in Florida and California amid concerns that lethal injection, as carried out, violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Some death penalty opponents, legal experts, and capital defense attorneys said the court's decision has paved the way for a debate on the state's method of putting convicted killers to death.
Baltimore Sun story here. [Mark Godsey]
From NPR: News & Notes, December 20, 2006 · What is the role of race and language in the offenses branded as hate crimes? Columbia University law professor Patricia Williams and Farai Chideya take a closer look. Listen to story here. [Mark Godsey]
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
From CJN: A surge in violent crime that began last year accelerated in the first half of 2006, providing the clearest signal yet that the historic drop in the U.S. crime rate is being reversed, reports the Washington Post. Reports of homicides, assaults, and other violent offenses rose nearly 4 percent in the first six months of the year compared with the same period in 2005, says the FBI Uniform Crime Report. The numbers included an increase of nearly 10 percent for robberies, considered a leading indicator of trends.
Many communities, particularly those in urbanized areas, may be headed into a period of sustained crime increases, some experts said. While no one is certain of the causes, they cited an increase in the number of young men in their crime-prone years, diminished crime-fighting assistance from the federal government, fewer jobs for people with marginal skills, and the ongoing growth in methamphetamine use in some places. Car thefts and other property crimes dropped 2.6 percent overall, but burglaries, another key indicator, rose 1.2 percent. A Justice Department spokesman said an ongoing federal study of crime trends in 18 cities will help determine "what is causing this increase" and "which crime-fighting efforts are most effective."
Washington Post article here. [Mark Godsey]
LOS ANGELES—Mark Greenberg, acting professor of law and assistant professor of philosophy at UCLA, was recently selected as the winner of the 2007 Fred Berger Memorial Prize for outstanding article in the philosophy of law published in 2004-2005. Greenberg was honored for his article, "How Facts Make Law," which was published in Legal Theory in 2004.
The Berger Memorial Prize in the Philosophy of Law was established by the American Philosophical Association (APA) in memory of Professor Fred Berger of the University of California at Davis. The prize is awarded every two years for an outstanding published article in the philosophy of law. The winning selection is made by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Law.
Greenberg will be honored by the APA Committee at a special session for the Berger Prize at the APA Pacific meetings in San Francisco, April 4-8, 2007. |
Thursday, July 3, 2008
WEATHERFORD, Texas - A man was sentenced to more than 4,000 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting three teenage girls over two years.
A day after finding James Kevin Pope guilty, jurors sentenced him to 40 life prison terms - one for each sex assault conviction - and 20 years for each of the three sexual performance of a child convictions.
At the request of prosecutors, state District Judge Graham Quisenberry ordered Pope to serve the sentences consecutively, adding up to 4,060 years. He will be eligible for parole in the year 3209, according to the Parker County District Attorney's Office.
"We believe it was a just result," prosecutor Robert DuBoise said, adding that he was "overwhelmed" with the judge's decision to stack the sentences.
Pope, 43, of Springtown, abused the girls for nearly two years. It came to authorities' attention earlier this year after Pope made several inappropriate comments to a friend, who notified Child Protective Services.
During the trial, the teens testified about the abuse, and their sexually explicit photographs were shown as evidence.
But Rick Alley, Pope's defense lawyer, told jurors in closing arguments that the victims were incapable of understanding what happened, the Weatherford Democrat reported in its Wednesday online edition.
"If it was as traumatic as they indicate, they would be able to give you (specific dates and times of the incidents). Simply because it's shocking doesn't make it true," Alley said.
During the sentencing phase of the trial, a U.S. Secret Service agent testified that while examining Pope's home computer, he found more than 200 images of child porn. [Mark Godsey] |
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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen!
Here’s an excerpt from Rick Warren’s “Daily Hope” email.
Love is an action, not just emotion. Love is something you do.
It’s easy to love somebody who loves you, isn’t it? It takes nothing at all. But real love acts and does the loving thing when people don’t deserve it, when they don’t respond, or when you don’t feel it. Actually, acting in love when you don’t feel it is the highest form of love. It’s a more mature love when you act loving toward a person who does not respond the same way.
Have you also noticed that it’s easier to act your way into a feeling than it is to feel your way into an action? …
You act your way into a feeling. You may say, “I don’t feel like acting loving toward them.” So what? If you start acting in love, I guarantee you the feelings will follow — because feelings follow behavior.
Such is the case with the energy and enthusiasm that we bring to the rest of our lives; to our jobs, to our teams, to our families, to classes. Every moment we have the opportunity to choose about how we will approach life. Choosing, however, does not mean that things get automatically or immediately easier. Making the choice is important, but it’s only a first step. It has to be followed by action. It’s the action that begins to improve our circumstance.
Acting and pretending are not the same. Pretending is not anchored in reality. Acting, by definition, is a process of doing. Whether it’s loving someone, creating new habits, or re-approaching your day, act now and eventually you will be.
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On Thursday October 20th, Premier McGuinty will unveil his new cabinet and until then there will be much speculation as to which of his Northern MPPS will get in. As we all know, prior to the election, Rick Bartolucci was Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing while Michael Gravelle was Minister of Northern Development and Mines and Forestry. Having two cabinet ministers from the North did not do much for Liberal fortunes in the North and their seven seats have shrunk to four. Of the four current MPPS, who will make it into cabinet?
One possibility is that given the minority government situation and the beating taken from Northern voters, the Premier will take the safe route and opt for the status quo and retain Gravelle and Bartolucci in their current posts. However, this is a new government and the Premier may opt for fresh faces.
The Premier has a choice of Bill Mauro (Thunder Bay-Atikokan), Michael Gravelle (Thunder Bay-Superior North), Rick Bartolucci (Sudbury) and David Orazietti (Sault Ste. Marie). Given that the number of Liberal MPPS has shrunk from 71 to 53, there will likely be a smaller cabinet - count on closer to 20-22 cabinet ministers rather than the previous 28. This will also be a signal of the coming "austerity" due to the deficit and the slowing economy. This means that there may probably only be one "northern minister" this time and it will most likely be Northern Development Mines and Forestry though there is always the possibility that it could be Natural Resources.
A look through the recent roles of the four Liberal MPPS would suggest that if it comes down to only one choice, David Orazietti is probably best poised to enter cabinet. He seems to have the biggest recent list of legislative assistantships and chairmanships - comparable to Bartolucci in the late 1990s. He is young and the Premier may be looking for fresh blood after both Gravelle and Bartolucci. He has served as Parliamentary Assistant to both the Minister of Natural Resources and Northern Development and Mines making him familiar with both portfolios. As well, of the four northern Liberal MPPs, he won by the largest margin - approximately 7,000 votes over the second place finisher - compared to about 2600 for Gravelle, 450 for Mauro and 500 for Bartolucci. Given the relative youth and energy of Orazietti and the slimmer cabinet, the Premier may even decide to be innovative and combine the Northern Development and Natural Resource portfolios into one under Orazietti
Where does this leave the other three MPPs? Well, they are all "team players" and no doubt will happily abide with whatever decision the premier makes. How the electorate in Sudbury or Thunder Bay will feel is another matter. However, given that northern cabinet ministers have recently come from Sudbury or Thunder Bay, rotating the position to someone from Sault Ste. Marie will likely also be seen as "fair" at least by government supporters. We shall see what Thursday brings.
The time has comes to take stock of the implications for the North of the potential outcomes of the October 6th provincial election. According to the polls, it is a close race and the possibility of a minority government is high. At the same time, polls do not always fully predict the outcome and much depends on the concentration of party support across the various ridings, as well as the actual voter turnout. What can we expect the morning after?
Whatever party forms the government, expect to see the donning of sackcloth and ashes as it suddenly becomes apparent that the economy is on the verge of recession, the stock markets have dropped 20 percent and the province’s coffers are bare as a result of a massive deficit. All those rosy revenue forecasts that were going to see the budget balanced by 2017 will now go out the window. Expect to see announcements of government expenditure cuts, freezes and restructuring as well as the discussion of temporary “revenue enhancements.” A Liberal or NDP backed government will likely favor revenue enhancements over expenditure cuts while a Conservative government is more likely to favor cuts or restructuring.
Should the Liberals win another majority, it will be interpreted as a vindication for their program of policies, especially their job creation strategy focused on Green Energy. As for the North, it means the Far North Act will stay in place. For northern Ontario, a Liberal majority win will put it in an odd situation. If the North returns Liberal members and there is a Liberal majority, it means that any future complaints about the government’s economic policies towards the North especially with respect to energy, the forest sector and natural resource development will be taken with a grain of salt and Northerners dismissed as simply habitual complainers. On the other hand, not returning Liberal members to a Liberal majority after the substantial investments that the Liberals have made in the North’s knowledge economy, research and health sectors and road construction will be seen as adolescent ingratitude. With a Liberal majority, the North could be in a political no-win situation.
If there is a Conservative or Liberal minority, the situation becomes much more fluid for the North. Either will likely be short-lived as given the differences between the parties, a formal alliance or coalition that might provide stable government is unlikely. For the North, a minority government will provide it with more opportunities to get its points across as every party will now be much more sensitive to opinions even from smaller and more remote regions. A minority government, because of its inherent fragility, is much more open to debate and compromise. The parties need to work together and that forces a degree of consultation and accommodation that takes multiple points of view into account. On the other hand, a minority government may be less able to take concrete action especially given the fiscal situation. Moreover, a minority government could place a halt to the public investment in research and knowledge economy jobs that has been driving the northern economic transition. The Ontario minority government of the 1980s saw the creation of Northern Health Travel grants and the Heritage Fund. On the other hand, there was not a looming 250 billion dollar provincial debt in the 1980s and an international sovereign debt crisis.
Are there any wild cards in all of this? Is there a possible Conservative majority? Not really likely based on the polls but then nobody saw Bob Rae’s NDP victory coming in 1990 either. A Conservative majority would help create an environment that would boost private sector job creation in the North but it would also be accompanied by public sector austerity that would hurt the North disproportionately given its dependence on government spending for job creation. The North’s dependence on public sector funds for job creation has grown in the wake of the forest sector crisis.
Of course, nobody is forecasting an NDP government this time, but who knows? An NDP majority government may have campaigned on “Respect for the North” but once in power would also face the same constraints as any other government. There will be respect for the North when necessary but the most respect would flow towards the greatest mass of voters – and they are in the South, not in the North. As for the NDP economic strategy, what short term benefits it creates will come at the expense of the long-term competitiveness of the Ontario economy.
As a sign of where the priorities really lie, consider the fact that in all of the main party platforms, there was no real mention of new institutions for the North or any real policy of decentralization or devolution of decision-making when it comes to northern resource development. On the other hand, there seems to be no real demand in the North for new institutions either. Northerners seem to be quite happy in their role as an economic dependency punctuated by bouts of adolescent outrage. They will be dealt with accordingly no matter who forms the government. As for new decentralized decision making institutions for the North? Their day will come when the growing aboriginal population in the region reaches a critical mass and articulates a compelling case for a new deal. When that day comes, it will be a call that no provincial government will be able to ignore.
- Sep 23, 2011
- Posted By: Livio Di Matteo
- Tags: election, leaders debate, mcguinty absence, north, ontario
Today is the NOMA provincial party leaders debate in Thunder Bay between Tim Hudak and Andrea Horwath. Premier McGuinty has declined to attend. The premier apparently has a previous engagement and furthermore probably believes that as the premier for all Ontario, debates should be held with the entire province rather than a single region as the stage. The outrage in the North has been palpable but in simple cost-benefit terms, if I were the premier, I would have made the same decision. I probably also would have added that the debate seemed exclusionary and elitist given that according to my last look it required a 95 dollar conference admission fee. But then what do I know, I'm an economist, not a political advisor. (By the way, the charge of elitism can be deflected by the fact the debate is being webcast on the NOMA site. NOMA stands for Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association. Web Coverage is also available on Netnewsledger.).
For Dalton McGuinty, coming to Northern Ontario for a regional debate is fraught with high costs and little in the way of benefits. This is a region - that usually tends to vote Liberal or NDP anyway. It generally is not an arena for rational and open debate with a reasonable chance that you can change someone's mind, but a highly partisan political herd environment. In some ridings, the tradition is to vote Liberal and when you want to punish the Liberals you vote NDP. Given the anger over what many see as a weak response to the forest sector crisis by the provincial Liberal government, the desire to publicly punish is high. Having Tim Hudak and Andrea Horwath pummel the premier on forestry job losses when they have not had that much to say about forestry policy themselves is probably not how the premier wants to spend his day.
The debate is also being held in a region that is relatively marginal compared to the vote rich GTA. It is difficult to see the premier turning down a similar chance to debate the other two leaders in Toronto on the issue of the GTA as Ontario's economic driver. The media is clustered in Toronto as are the voters. In the case of the Northern debate, not too many people in Toronto will be paying attention to the debate anyway unless he makes a major gaffe that is trumpeted in the evening newscasts.
The result of the political calculus? Coming to the Northern debate has high costs and very low benefits. Given the very small number of seats at stake particularly in the Northwest where the debate will receive the greatest coverage, he is willing to take his chances.
Next week is the Think North II Summit designed to bring together decision makers and opinion leaders in yet another consultation emanating from the one Northern Growth plan to rule them all that was forged and tempered in the fires of Queen's Park by the Ontario government. According to the recent update from the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, The Think North II Summit is "an opportunity for northerners to be actively engaged in shaping the framework for regional economic planning areas in Northern Ontario" and will feature hands-on workshops on "crafting a vision for regional economic development planning in Northern Ontario" as well as create "strategies for collaboration." There will even be the obligatory S.W.O.T. analysis to identify the strategies, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the "change" represented by regional economic planning. The "threat" of change is a particularly amusing concept given that this entire process continues a process of consultation that has been ongoing for decades with not much change. To date, the major obstacles to change in the North have been the policies of the provincial government itself which have hampered the ability of the region to take charge of its own development. Never mind regional economic planning, a regional government for the North with power over economic and resource matters is decades overdue.
A close inspection of the agenda also shows that there is still no mention of the other "Northern Plan" that was recently introduced by the Quebec government. Can we learn something from Quebec? The Ontario government apparently thinks not. An interesting workshop of the Summit is the one called Vision 2021 which is described as: "The year is 2021. The Regional Economic Development Planning Areas are functioning well and Northern Ontario communities are prospering. Describe what is happening in northern communities". It would appear that the Northern Growth Plan is already a success! Time travel to 2021 has occurred and the report back is that the North is prospering. I had always suspected that the Ring of Fire was really an inter-dimensional time portal administered by Stargate Command.
Vision for the North requires more concrete action and less planning. If you don't want to take my word for it, visit the following post on Stan Sudol's Republic of Mining which advocates a "Mining Marshall Plan" for Ontario's North. The Marshall Plan was designed to rebuild Europe after the Second World War. That we need a Marshall Plan for the North suggests we need to be rebuilt after decades of less than satisfactory provincial economic and development policies. |
Alison Boteler’s documentary photographs of the “stackings” of her mother Charla won Best in Show tonight.
The Housatonic Museum opened its Flower (Re)Power show today, a juried exhibit that invited artists to breathe new life into the “exhausted visual of the flower.” What’s more trite than a still life of a bouquet in vase. And yet what a more natural subject for an artist for the timeless beauty of flowers. What can artists today offer that’s fresh and new?
Alison noticed the strange beauty of her mother’s “stackings,” the word she uses to describe what her Mom, in some stage of Alzheimer’s, does with everyday objects when left to her own devices around the house. When no one is looking, a wire whisk is balanced over a vase, which is teetering on top of a figurine. Annoying, if you’re trying to keep your house in order, but then you notice what a beautiful a composition has formed.
Alison (yes, that’s the Alison Boteler who has written numerous cookbooks and used to be on the Today show and local New York television) started photographing her mother’s sudden output. On a whim, she submitted them to the Flower (Re)Power jurist…and was invited in!
What a wonderful tribute to my friend and neighbor who, at 78 and living with Alzheimer’s, and who gave up her art career in the 1950s to become an executive’s wife and to raise a family, revealed her artistic sensibilities at this stage in her life. |
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THE BRIDE: Shawn Laird, 48, is the director of nursing services at Lemon Grove Care & Rehabilitation Center.
Shawn Laird and Patrick Gaskill said their vows under a gazebo behind the Lemon Grove Care & Rehabilitation Center. Both have been married before, but they said that this is their first “happily ever after.”
THE GROOM: Patrick Gaskill, 48, is an optician.
For nearly four years, Shawn has worked at Lemon Grove Care & Rehabilitation Center, a skilled nursing facility for long-term residents and for people recovering from surgery, injury or serious illness. She considers it home, just as much as she and Patrick consider their Alpine residence home. The couple had their wedding at Shawn's “second home” on Oct. 28. The wedding represented Shawn and Patrick's union, and also each one's personal growth.
CONFESSION: Shawn and Patrick were each involved in online dating a few years ago. “For all of the guys who would e-mail me, I would print their pictures out and take them into work,” Shawn said. “I would show them to my staff and they would say whether they thought the guy was good or bad. Patrick got four out of six votes. He was the one.” Shawn thought Patrick was handsome, and she could relate to his life stories. “I think it was his second or third e-mail that was a long confession about how he was clean and sober and how he was going through a program,” Shawn said. “I don't drink – I've been sober for four years.”
THE BITING: Their first meeting was at a coffee shop. Patrick greeted Shawn with a giant bouquet of stargazer lilies and roses. About midway through the date, Patrick kissed Shawn. Shawn bit him back. “It was kind of an accident,” Shawn said. While Patrick thought the biting was a little strange, he was taken by Shawn's confidence. They dated for about a year.
WEDDING WISH: Both have been married before, but only Shawn had experienced a traditional wedding. Because he had never had a grand ta-dah, Patrick wanted a wedding with lots of guests, food and traditions. More than 200 people attended the couple's wedding. Among those guests were residents at the center, staff, friends and family. Some of Shawn's co-workers helped her coordinate the catering, flowers and other details. The ceremony and reception were outdoors, behind the center.
BLOOPERS: The caterer got lost on the way to the center, the minister's car broke down and he was late, the minister gave Shawn the wrong ring during the ceremony, a tray of food was dropped on the floor during the reception, and the DJ forgot to have the groomsman say a prayer. However, these few botched details didn't get the couple down. “I think when you're 21, any of those things could potentially be a tragedy, but when you're 48, you don't care,” Shawn said. “It's life.”
HEARTFELT GIFTS: Just as the center is Shawn's second home, the residents and staff are her second family. Their presence at the wedding meant a lot to Shawn – and was enough. She didn't want them to get her gifts, but many insisted. One resident gave cookies with “Shawn” and “Patrick” written across them in icing. Another one gave a handmade a birdhouse.
FAIRY TALE ENDING: This wedding was not only representative of Patrick and Shawn's commitment to one another, but a symbol of their personal evolutions. Both feel as though going through 12-step programs and finding one another has changed them for the better. They understand themselves and each other, and this wedding was proof of that. “When you're old and far from perfect, it's nice to find someone who's also old and far from perfect,” Shawn said.
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I've always been interested in what other people are seeing and watching, and naturally, I love looking at Weekend Box…
The Golden Child
Eddie Murphy is the chosen one.
A detective specializing in missing children is on a madcap mission to save a youth with mystical powers who's been abducted by an evil cult. He battles a band of super-nasties, scrambles through a booby-trapped chamber of horrors and traverses Tibet to obtain a sacred dagger.
Eddie Murphy really had a purple patch in the mid-eighties. Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places, and 48 Hrs made him a box-office God. The Golden Child came along at the height of his fame and although not as entertaining or successful as his previous hits, it still has its moments.
The Golden Child fits in somewhere between fantasy and comedy and reminds me a lot of John Carpenter's Big trouble In Little China for some reason. Murphy plays a social worker looking for a missing young girl, who, in the course of his investigations gets drawn into the search for another missing child with mystical powers. The fantasy element is delivered with some interesting dream sequences and a seriously hot…
"Only a man whose heart is pure can wield the knife, and only a man whose ass is narrow can get down these steps. And if mine's is such an ass, then I shall have it."
To me, this is one of Eddie Murphy's better and more underrated efforts. Murphy is on top form, with a funny and energetic performance and the dated special effects and soundtrack actually make it more fun instead of hindering it's quality.
It's a highly entertaining case of "don't expect a good film, just expect a fun one."
One of the best ham and cheese sandwiches I've ever seen.
In no sense of the word, is The Golden Child a good movie. It's lazy, meandering and is dated as all hell. Yet it's cheesy 80s charm and stop-motion effects do make it reasonably entertaining to watch. Not exactly recommended but fun for what it is. A guilty pleasure if i'ver ever seen one.
You know Pink Floyd, right? You ask someone what their favorite Floyd album is, and odds are you'll get an answer like Dark Side or The Wall or Wish You Were Here. But every once in a while, you'll run into some wacko who will answer with something like Atom Heart Mother or Ummagumma.
This movie is my Ummagumma.
In a sea of great Eddie Murphy movies, this is my favorite. It's not "the best", but it's my favorite. Part of that is probably because this is the first Eddie Murphy movie I remember seeing. There's enough fantasy here to appeal to a kid, whereas Trading Places or Beverly Hills Cop don't have flying demons or Randall "Tex" Cobb.
Here's the thing with The Golden Child, I don't feel that it's a good movie but it was very enjoyable. It's cheesy, very cheesy and its dated but there were scenes that I just had to laugh.
The Golden Child is about The Golden Child and how he's got stolen from Tibet by Charles Dance and his gang. Eddie Murphy plays a private investigator type that searches for lost or stolen children and he's chosen specifically to rescue The Golden Child.
What I thought about while watching this was how to me it was a little bit like Eddie Murphys Beverly Hills Cop but for children because this is as mostly an action film as a comedy and Eddie Murphy…
In the 1980's, Eddie Murphy was the king of the world, what with huge box office hits and stand-up routines following a wildly successful stint on "Saturday Night Live". It would appear the star started feeling that he could do no wrong, which is the only thing that can explain "The Golden Child".
It was originally conceived as a more serious project starring Mel Gibson but was retooled as a comedy once Mel dropped out and was replaced by Eddie. I'm not sure how it would have worked as a serious film, but the comedy is strained. Murphy improvised a lot of it, and it's just not funny. In fact, he annoyingly laughs at his own jokes throughout most of…
What an utterly bizarre film.
there's a prolonged fight scene in this film which for some reason is intercut with a ratt video.
I learned two things from this movie:
1. There's a shitty knockoff of Big Trouble in Little China nobody asked for, and its name is The Golden Child.
2. Nepal looks a lot like Southern California.
(the star is for the pretty birdie)
I recall this came out around the same time as BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (the week before, if I remember correctly), and it features at least 3 of the same Asian actors (Peter Kwong, Victor Wong and the great James Hong), but is a decidedly lower-rent affair than the Carpenter classic.
The story - and, at times, the script - seems like it was written by an 8-year-old, and the soundtrack couldn't be more '80s (in a bad way) if it tried. But my main bother with this is Eddie Murphy. Or rather, his character; from the moment he appears onscreen, when he flashes that self-satisfied grin, you just want to kick his face off. I mean, he has…
Doesn't hold up quite as well as Beverly Hills Cop, but it's still a delightful movie. It funny, considering what an iconic role this is for Charles Dance, how little of him there is in the movie, and how little actual character development there is for him.
Strangely, the dancing Coke can makes more sense to me as an adult than it did as a kid.
Really weird and schlocky Eddie Murphy comedy from the 80's that's somehow really dry. Like Big Trouble in Little China with much less jokes.
If I'd bothered to watch this as a kid, I probably would have watched it weekly. Flicks like this were made for kids like me. But alas, instead I just get to appreciate it as a boring-ass adult.
Not as "golden" as I remember it, but it bares clever aspects of action and comedy while being glazed with everything 80's.
Here is a list taken from the very funny book of the same list title these films span from 1970's…
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"I think Larry's feeling good about himself and the team," said Ford, "even though his back isn't 100 percent." Shaw engaged in an unusual game of H-O-R-S-E at the end of yesterday's practice with Dave Popson, Michael Smith and Ed Pinckney. The quartet was taking the weirdest shots they could think of. Shaw topped the repertoire when he tried to bounce one through the hoop off the 24-second clock that hung above the backboard -- which prompted assistant coach Don Casey to quip, "If you break it, Brian, it's coming out of your paycheck." |
Readers offer their best tips for killing backround apps in iOS 7, getting hotel air conditioner to blow, and cleaning really dirty hands.
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Kill Multiple Background Apps at Once in iOS 7
Nik lets us know that you can kill more than one background app at once in iOS 7:
When I first switched to iOS 7, I found it frustrating that it took longer to kill all background apps compared to iOS 6. The swipe-up move combined with the longer-lasting animation means it's slower than just tapping through all of the Close buttons in iOS 6. Luckily, I realized that by using multiple fingers it is possible to swipe up two or even three apps at the same time in iOS 7, making the manual kill-all process much faster!
I've heard that in iOS 7 it's not really necessary to kill all apps to save battery life due to better background app management, but old habits die hard and this is actually quite fun to do!
Make Your Hotel A/C Fan Blow Continuously
John shares his fix for hotel air conditioners that don't have built-in settings for turning the fan on:
When I stay in hotels, I just can't sleep without the white noise of the fan blowing throughout the night. Unfortunately, a lot of hotels have air conditioners that don't give you a Fan On setting. Last time I stayed in a hotel, I Googled the A/C model number and downloaded the service manual. The model in my room used a set of DIP switches right under the front cover, so it was super easy to turn the fan on for good.
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Add Coffee Grinds to Dish Soap to Clean Grimy Hands
Colin shares a way to boost your hand soap for when your hands a really grimy:
I learned of a good way to wash your hands when they get really dirty, such as when you have greasy hands from working on a vehicle or your hands are covered in paint or ink. Most soaps by themselves aren't very good at getting grease or ink or dirt off your hands. However, if you take some coffee grinds and mix it with dish soap it works great. I used to be a mechanic, so my hands were always covered with grease. We had special hand cleaner—the kind with that gritty/sandy feel to it. Combining dish soap with coffee grounds works just as good as those special hand cleaners. I usually have used coffee grinds in the coffee machine to begin with so it's always handy to make.
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Drag Table Rows in Microsoft Word Outline View
Ana shares a quicker way to rearrange tables in Microsoft Word:
For the longest time, when I had to move a row in a table from one position to another in Word, I'd select the row, cut it, and then paste it where I wanted it. That got kind of old. Then I discovered that if you switch to Outline view, each row has a little handle next to it that lets you just drag it to a new position. Rearranging tables got a whole lot easier after that! |
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Hamblen County School Board to Hamblen County Commission: We know the county budget is not balanced and the school budget is not balanced, but could we have $50,000 or $60,000 more, please?
The Hamblen County Commission passed all county and school budgets on August 4. The County General Government Fund has a deficit 05-06 budget, the County General Debt Fund has a deficit 05-06 budget, the County Road Department has a deficit 05-06 budget (with each of these departments planning to spend more than it expects to receive in revenues and hoping that revenues will somehow be higher than expected or expenses will be lower than expected.)
The Hamblen County School System also has a deficit 05-06 budget in spite of the fact that it received a total of $3.1 million in new money to spend in 05-06---$1.5 million of which came from a county (Hamblen County) that can't balance its own general government budget and $1.6 million of which came from new state BEP funding.
Now, seven weeks after all budgets were passed, the Hamblen County School System is coming hat in hand to the County Commission to ask for a "donation" of $50,000 or $60,000 for its International School. The International School was announced many months ago with grant funding from the Niswonger Foundation out of Greeneville.
The idea for this "school" is to take the growing ELL (English Language Learners) student population and bus these students from their home schools to a new "school" at Walters State for 1/2 day of instruction and then bus them back to their home schools.
Jefferson Federal Foundation has apparently offered to give the school system $50,000 or $60,000 toward the International School, but there are strings attached to this gift. They say they will only give the money to the school if the City of Morristown provides a matching amount and if the County provides a matching amount. Hence, today's request for a "donation."
I had one person ask why Jefferson Federal didn't challenge other area banks to match its contribution. I was talking to someone else who thought that Jefferson Federal should consider the $1.5 million in new local money that has already been provided to the schools as the county's "match."
What will happen when the time comes to vote on the donation? Who knows?
It was just a little over 3 years ago (May 2002) that voters were persuaded to vote for extending the temporary wheel tax in the infamous "pick your poison" referendum.
Since then, the wheel tax has been made permanent, there have been two recent property tax increases, subdivisions have been added to the county's tax rolls, debt has been refinanced, money has been switched from fund to fund, and a litigation tax has been added. End result of all this new and extended tax revenue and growth: the county still cannot balance its government budget, its road budget, or its general debt budget.
The School Board is doing no better. It can't balance its budget even though it has new state and local money totaling $3.1 million dollars for 05-06.
If you have more and more taxes and revenue and you still cannot balance your budget, that is a spending problem-- a spending problem that is marked by little, or no, fiscal discipline.
With government at all levels, if something sounds good, the vote is do it, buy it, spend, borrow--go in debt, whatever it takes.
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Today marks five years since my mother-in-law’s passing.
A few nights ago, I dreamed she was still living. No hospital bed, no morphine or catheter bag. Unbeknownst to me, Jeanne had gotten her own place and wasn’t using a walker or wearing oxygen. Here I’d published a book about my mother-in-law’s decline and her dying, but somehow I’d been wrong; Jeanne had gotten better. I felt a little embarrassed—but even in the dream my book sales were holding steady, and Jeanne’s feelings weren’t hurt.
I’ve dreamed this dream more than once, though this is the first time since the release of The Fifth Season. During the long month of hospice care in our home—“long” only because the hospice doctor thought Jeanne would live just a week or ten days—my mother-in-law asked, “Do they know for sure I’m dying?” and “Why is this taking so long?”
We had a nurse visiting every day and a full-time rotation of paid caregivers to assist. I dosed morphine around the clock to prevent a pain crisis—the pain my stoic mother-in-law had rated a 9 before hospice brought in the morphine—and yet I wondered myself what would happen if we stopped dosing her, if she might just wake up out of the morphine haze and use the bathroom on her own, eat a good breakfast, take a walk in the autumn sunshine.
Then I watched the nurse tenderly changing the dressings on Jeanne’s bedsores. I saw the catheter bag full of blood and remembered how relieved Jeanne had been to say yes to gentle hospice care after months of crying out when the nurses couldn’t find a vein for a blood draw and cringing as the blood pressure cuff inflated. “Oh, it hurts so,” Jeanne whispered the very last time her blood pressure was taken.
All I’d known was life, and now I was learning how death comes. With or without morphine, Jeanne’s body was all used up. “Treatment” had become torture. We had finally come to understand what the doctors hadn’t been willing to tell us—that Jeanne was at the end of her life, and that the painful treatments were doing nothing. We hadn’t known the right questions to ask, and Jeanne endured a lot of pain and discouragement submitting to the medical establishment’s fight for immortality. When she made the decision to receive hospice care at home, Jeanne was visibly relieved. “I am ready,” she said.
Today I mopped my floors and thought of Jeanne. I boiled pasta and whisked flour into milk and assembled a macaroni and cheese casserole for tomorrow night—for Sunday night. Jeanne died on a Sunday five years ago. It was early morning and the household was quiet when Jeanne took that deep, final breath, when she exhaled, and let go. |
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You also think pretty fast.
Certainly faster than that fool in Dzerzhinsky. I would have reached
you long before now, but my commissar Kartoshki over there didnt call
me until two minutes ago.
Ill wake up Bourne.
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[lm-sensors] Could the k8temp driver be interfering with ACPI?
khali at linux-fr.org
Fri Mar 2 15:03:13 CET 2007
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:40:23 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Ok. You are right that ACPI is an ugly piece of mess. But I'm pretty
> sure that 90%+ of ACPI notebook implementations *will* want to talk to
> their monitoring chips... for temperature readings.
> So even if we fixed ACPI to reserve the ports, you'd be still unhappy;
> lm-sensors would break at least on all the notebooks.
That's a secondary problem. The primary issue is the concurrent access
to resources, which cause lots of trouble which are hard to investigate.
If ACPI reserves the ports, then the SMBus or hardware monitoring
drivers (or any other conflicting driver) will cleanly fail to load,
which would be a move in the right direction. Ideally we would be able
to synchronize the accesses between ACPI and the other drivers, but if
we can't, I'd already be _very happy_ to just prevent conflicting
drivers from being loaded at the same time.
So, can ACPI actually reserve the ports it accesses?
> > I would be happy to prevent SMBus and/or hardware monitoring drivers
> > from being loaded on ACPI-based system if we had a way to know which
> > systems do have ACPI code accessing these chips and which do not, and if
> > ACPI was offering a level of functionality comparable to what
> > individual hardware monitoring drivers offer. Unfortunately:
> Well, I'm afraid you should assume all recent notebooks touch sensors
> from ACPI.
Correct, and on most notebooks, traditional hardware monitoring
drivers do not work anyway. Or I should say, used to not work. The
recent CPUs have embedded sensors which can be read using Rudolf
Marek's k8temp and coretemp drivers, this works on laptops as well.
Chances are good that future laptops will not include a separate
temperature sensor but will read the temperature from the CPU directly,
which will cause conflicts with our drivers.
Now the problem is that we can't blacklist SMBus and hardware
monitoring drivers on all laptops by default. There may be other
devices on the SMBus which the user can legitimately want to access,
such as EEPROMs or RTCs.
> > 1* As far as I know, we currently have no way to know if the ACPI code
> > plans to ever access the hardware monitoring chip. If the acpi
> > subsystem could export this information somehow, it would help a lot.
> > But I'm not familiar with ACPI, so I don't know if this is feasable or
> > not. We just can't prevent the SMBus and hardware monitoring drivers
> > drivers from being loaded as soon as ACPI is enabled. This would
> > prevent a majority of users from using them, while they work fine for
> > most of them.
> What about whitelist? DMI-based? That's only way to do it, I'm afraid.
What kind of whitelist do you have in mind? We can't realistically
maintain an ever-growing whitelist of hundreds of entries in the
kernel. We could block all laptops by default and maintain a white list
only for them, and a black list for other systems, the would probably
limit the maintenance work, maybe not to an acceptable level though.
Anyway I would definitely prefer the resource conflicts approach, as it
wouldn't need maintenance at all.
> > 2* The hardware monitoring features offered by ACPI today are one level
> > of magnitude weaker than what lm_sensors was already offering back in
> > 1999. The monitoring chips can do much but unfortunately ACPI only
> > exposes a very small subset of the chip features. ACPI doesn't
> > handle
> Yes, I know ACPI sucks at hardware monitoring. Unfortunately, we can't
> go without ACPI.
> > voltage monitoring at all. It usually reports no more than one fan, and
> > in my experience, more often than not, the speed is reported as a
> > boolean (spinning or not), when lm_sensors gives you the exact speed of
> > all your fans. ACPI thermal zones are not so bad, but the interface to
> > control them is ugly, and lm_sensors usually gives more details. And
> Fix the interface? ;-). Actually that move may be underway as we are
> moving out of /proc.
Great, looking forward.
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[mythtv] MythWeb flash and ffmpeg
kormoc at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 23:08:53 UTC 2007
On 6/1/07, Chris Petersen <lists at forevermore.net> wrote:
> In my experience, the apache process interacting with the cgi kills it
> off when it decides the remote connection has hung up. But on the
> inverse of that, it will hang on as long as it thinks it can. Maybe the
> timeout settings in your apache config are set unusually high? I don't
> even know where/what those would be, though.
in httpd.conf, setting called Timeout, defaults to 120 seconds.
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[mythtv-users] Help NEEDED !
list.spiritssight at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 13:21:03 UTC 2008
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:09 AM, James Bunton <jamesbunton at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:01:42AM +0200, Gino Heusdens wrote:
>> I'm not using Mythbunu, never used or tried it.
>> I think all the configuration can be done a lot faster if there is an
>> optimal configuration by default.
> If I were you I'd try a MythTV specific distro like Mythbuntu. It has
> sensible defaults, is easier to set up than Debian Etch and comes with
> newer drivers and bundled firmware for many cards.
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
40 hours to install Mythbuntu, I am new and it toke me less then 1
hour to do this, the only thing that is taking me is the monitor
besides that most every thing work out of the box, monitors / tv card
is the only two thing that don't work that I know of.
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[mythtv-users] What is everyone using for IR Receivers ?
two.bits.11 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 13:08:09 UTC 2011
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Tom Bongiorno <two.bits.11 at gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com>
> >> I need a bunch of IR receivers for my front end boxes. What is everyone
> >> using ?
> > I actually have an old IR receiver from some Packard Bell remote
> > controls I used to have. Like this one
> > Work really well. Note it's serial port not USB, but that suits me.
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-users mailing list
> > mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> > http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> I use these original XBox DVD Receivers on my six frontends:
> If you don't want to add/mod the usb yourself, you can get the adapter
> Of course, this assumes that you have programmable remotes. I program
> URC-8820 JP1 remotes to act like a Harmony macro-based remote.
You could also get the receiver with remote for a couple dollars more
(assuming you qualify for free shipping):
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Nad.Oby at gmail.com
Wed Jul 30 09:09:15 CEST 2008
Lynn Nguyen wrote:
> Hi all!
> Well, I'm a little new to this (as I'm sure everybody says when they are
> posting for the first time), but I was wondering, how can I free up
> space on the neo? Are there any packages that are not necessary? I
> somehow find myself using up 99% of space after doing an 'upgrade'. I
> would like to install a bunch of python modules to run pyroute (has
> anyone has any luck with that so far?) but I keep running out of space.
> When I try installing the modules onto an sd card, I run out of space
> there as well. Do python modules normally take up over 400mb of space?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Consider to use uSDcard (part of it) for /usr, or just move all root
file-system to the card
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HTTP-EQUIV (was Re: minutes from the IETF INDEX BOF
At 8:48 AM 6/26/96, Mike Schwartz wrote:
>Also, I got a good suggestion after the BOF from Paul Leach (Microsoft): to
>keep the tagging people suggested at the workshop data-type independent
>(i.e., so it works with more than just HTML), it would be a good idea to
>work in the HTTP entity header space rather than in HTML META tags. You can
>still do the tagging in HTML for the (current) common case by using
>HTTP-EQUIV tags, and that way other data types can also take advantage of
>any tagging standards that get defined.
A few observations. Doing it in http entity header space:
- raises the issue of namespace conflicts,
although they can be avoided with some care.
- limits the design of the name space to the requirements
of the field-name syntax in the HTTP RFC, which may be acceptable.
- doesn't limit the possible character sets, because HTTP field-values
specifies an encoding scheme.
- means that in the common case of GET, servers that do server-side
parsing for HTTP-EQUIV and generate the HTTP header duplicate this
information during transmission, which is wastefull.
- means that as the size of the meta-content grows, the protocol
overhead in parsing the request increases.
- there is no precedent fo other things in HTML, such as the <TITLE>,
to move into the HTTP protocol.
> 4. There was a question about the extent to which multiple
> character sets and languages was addressed at the workshop.
> The response was that it did not come up much in the discussion
Well, in the case where the data originates from the contents of an
HTML document, I would expect the meta data followed the character
set and language of the document, unless the meta specification in use
specifies any different.
You can attempt to address multiple character sets and languages
inside a meta information specification, but it's an enourmeous hassle
which may be avoided; Simply separate the meta information from
both HTML _and_ protocol. I think this can most easily be done by keeping
the meta information in a URL-addressable object, and just define ways of
associating this URL with the object in question. In HTML, you can use
a LINK tag, in HTTP you can define a header. Providing the protocol
supports it you can then negotiate and/or report character sets and/or
languages. Bummer if you use "file://" of course... |
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Subject: [UTPIUTE] info on King family
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Here is some info that was in an Piute Co. Book I have, hope it helps, Melba
Four more families soon followed from Sanpete County, including Francis (Frank) Eaton and Marcia Frances Bessey (De Besse) King. Unlike other pioneers of this area, the Kings did not come to Utah as Mormons. Their unusual story bears noting, particularly since three generations of the King family would make their homes in Marysvale.
Francis Eaton King was born in South Paris, Oxford County, Maine, on 22 December 1833. Marcia Frances Bessey was born five years later in the nearby town of Bethel on 1 August 1838. They married on 27 September 1855 in Reading, Massachusetts, when he was twenty-two and she was seventeen. Two years and one baby later (a daughter, Louisa, was born 22 June 1856), the young family was on the trail to California, apparently traveling alone much of the way. Marcia had a twenty-two-year-old brother, George Anthony Bessey, who had left for California somewhat earlier. They hoped to meet him in the Salt Lake Valley and continue on to the coast together. Meanwhile, the brother had met a pretty young Mormon woman named Susan Matilda Lane, married her, and joined the LDS church.
In late July 1857 near South Pass, Wyoming, the Kings caught up with a wagon train from Arkansas headed by Alexander Fancher. Believing they would be safer from Indians with a larger group, they decided to travel with them. The Kings traveled with the Arkansas company to Salt Lake City, covering a distance of about 250 miles in two weeks. They found the company congenial and "not boisterous or in anyway uncivil. You would hardly hear an oath from anyone," Frank King later remembered.
When they entered Emigration Canyon, Marcia had mountain fever. The Fancher party had decided to camp at the top of the canyon, so King took his family into the Salt Lake Valley, where Marcia could get rest and care at her brother's home. As soon as her health permitted them to travel again, they planned to catch up with the Fancher party in southern Utah before they started across the desert.
By the time that Marcia was well enough to travel, however, members of the Fancher train had met their demise at the hands of Mormons and Indians in the massacre at Mountain Meadows. Frank joined the Mormon church on 5 November 1857, believing his baptism would remove any taint of their association with the ill-fated Fancher party and secure them all safe passage on to southern California.
The Kings remained in the valley three months, starting south on 4 December. When they arrived in Beaver, the new bishop, Philo T. Farnsworth, advised Frank to stay there for the winter "as the Indians, after the massacre, were more than usually hostile." Apparently Farnsworth understood that the Indians were not the only ones hostile, for, "notwithstanding the friendliness of the Bishop" or Frank's newly acquired church membership, he "was twice ordered to move on" by some of the more fanatical Mormons in the community who apparently knew of the family's earlier association with the Fancher wagon train.
The Kings started for California again on 15 May 1858, reaching Cedar City on 17 May. "I had not unhitched my team;" Frank remembered, "when John M. Higbee, and Elias Morris, second counselor to Isaac C. Haight, ordered me to leave before the sun rose the next morning." Frank "regarded the order as ominous, and returned to Central Utah." He had additional concerns, for Marcia was expecting their second child. The previous January, Marcia's brother, Wayne Bessey, and his wife, Susan, had settled in Manti in Sanpete County. The Kings decided to join them there, rather than risk going on to California alone. Marcia was baptized into the Mormon church that summer; their two-year-old daughter Louisa died in September. On 9 November 1858 Marcia gave birth to a son whom they named Frank Anthony.
The 1860 census indicates that Frank and Marcia King had moved seven miles north to Ephriam. Frank King was listed as a shoemaker with one child, but Marcia was pregnant again. The shoemaker's children came often: by 1886 Marcia had given birth thirteen times; four of their children died in childhood. When the family arrived in Marysvale in 1864, the couple had two children: Frank (age five) and Aurilla (age two). Another son, William C., was born that November. Other families moved to Marysvale in the spring of 1865, among them were those of William Lamb and Samuel Allen
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The organization of the Department of Literature is unusual in that it is neither a department of English nor a department of Comparative Literature as either is traditionally construed. Rather, from its beginning, the Literature Department at UCSD has aimed to be a department of world literatures and cultures within a single unit committed to the multilingual historical study of the connections and conflicts between cultures and society. This commitment includes the ambitious project of teaching and conducting research in Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Latin, Russian, and Spanish, as well as the study and practice of writing.
At the graduate level we offer two distinct degree programs: a single Ph.D. in Literature and an M.F.A. in Writing. The Ph.D. in Literature stresses the transnational outlook of our program and emphasizes its stake in theoretical, interdisciplinary, and cultural studies. The M.F.A. in Writing offers specializations in fiction and poetry, and emphasizes innovative and experimental approaches to writing.
The Department of Literature at UCSD offers an intriguing example of how the Humanities can renew their place in today’s university by reconfiguring literary and cultural studies in an era of unprecedented global exchange. The collective strengths of our diverse faculty suggest ways in which it might be possible to develop theoretical sophistication and openness to various forms of cultural production while remaining sensitive to the nuances of the literary text; to be up-to-date in the exploration of contemporary culture without losing sight of a rich historical legacy that extends back to antiquity; to offer fresh looks at familiar works while remaining attuned to new voices in contemporary culture and receptive to those who have not been clearly heard in the past; and to place local concerns in global context. |
Maxwell Mkwezalamba has been Malawi’s Minister of Finance since October 2013. Previously, he served as Commissioner for Economic Affairs for the African Union Commission. In addition to lecturing at the University of Malawi, he has worked in various capacities for the Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the World Bank and the Malawi Government. He also served as a consultant for the Malawi Government, the UNDP, UNICEF, the World Bank, and the Germany Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ).
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It's not everyday London gets a new theatre. Littered with world-class examples, some dating from the 1800s, newly built performance spaces in the capital are few and far between. So we were very excited to be given a sneak preview around the new St James Theatre ahead of its opening later this month.
The first purpose-built theatre complex to open in London for 30 years, the St James Theatre sits on a side street in Victoria, just across from Buckingham Palace. It occupies the same site as the old Westminster Theatre which was demolished in 2002 after a fire destroyed three-quarters of the building.
Once inside, we were immediately reminded of the Trafalgar Studios. As well as offering two different sized spaces (the main theatre seats 312; the studio around 100), the St James even has similar big black-and-white photos lining the stairs. Instead of Tom Stoppard and the other theatrical idols of the Trafalgar, here its Marilyn, Marlene and various Hepburns.
Of the two auditoria, the studio certainly feels Hollywood-plush. Set up for cabaret or comedy nights with a baby grand on stage, sumptuous black velvety seats, a funky mezzanine, and cocooning silky dark panelled walls, we could imagine some impressively intimate nights here, provided the right names can be wooed to the space. (Frisky & Mannish are booked for October, which is promising.)
Other glam touches include a massive sculptured staircase by designer Mark Humphrey made of about 6 tonnes of Italian marble; a large all-white foyer bar with big windows out onto the street; and a posh 60-seater restaurant on the first floor, which we're told will serve "modern cuisine" perfect for pre-show dinners.
Our charming guides for the tour are eager to pinpoint the theatre's uniqueness. Steeply raked seating in the larger venue means there are no bad sight lines, we are reassured. London has no equivalent of the Off-Broadway theatre; the St James will change all that, with an incredible programme of plays previously seen in the UK but not yet in London; or of new European, Americans or Australian shows. We try to point out that there's the Almeida, the Donmar, the Finborough, the Trafalgar Studios all of a similar size, all competing for the same audiences… but this fails to dent their enthusiasm. The St James has a broadcast TV facility enabling performances to be shown live on BskyB or online (OK, we'll give them that one). The St James is also ready for corporate hire, film screenings, award ceremonies, team-building days. Whatever you want to use this space for, it'll accommodate your every need. It's later pointed out that the complex needs to make a million in its first year; and it'll take two to three years to break even. No wonder they're open for bookings…
But with Robert Mackintosh (Cameron's brother) as CEO and David Gilmore as Artistic Director, the venue certainly has an ambitious team at the helm. The first season is intriguingly varied: a new play by Sandi Toksvig; the premier of two-hander American musical; and a revival of Our Country's Good directed by Max Stafford-Clarke. Time will tell how this new addition settles into London's theatrical scenery.
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Elderly disabled veteran Salvatore Papavero stuck in basement after stair lift breaks
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Re: In need of help
Hi, i was wondering if u ever got to see my list of equipment. if not
please let me know and ill type away. Thanks, Ted
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Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: In need of help
> Hi Ted,
> In a message dated 12/13/02 1:08:15 AM, Ted82@charter.net writes:
> >Hi...I just subscribed to loopers and don't know exactly how this works
> >but ill give it a try. Anyways, i have been saving and buying and
> >and buying for 2 years now to get some really good equipment for a
> >rack. I'm finally where i want to be, but the only problem is wiring
> >thing. I'm a rookie at this and since this is such a complex rig im
> >ill learn more than enough after its all wired. Well' if anyone could
> >help me by drawing up a diagram or some kinda schematic it would
> >be great!!! So i'll list all my equipment for whoever can try and help
> >out. Thanks, Ted!
> Gee, that seems weird for some reason. Not many other Teds on this list.
> Heck, other than my son and my father I hardly KNOW any other Teds.
> Well, enough of that for now. I play guitar, I use a rack system (have
> done so for over a dozen years now). A couple of years ago I expanded
> from 12 spaces to 16 spaces. Can't claim to be a total expert but I
> I have tried as many options as there are and have made all the mistakes
> there are to make on the way to getting MY tone (so far as that goes).
> I don't know if I can help but fire away whenever you're ready with that
> list. I bet a significant number of guitar geeks on the LD list will have
> sorts of good ideas for you. Tell us what you've got. I suppose if your
> intended rack setup contains a looper of some sort somewhere in the
> signal chain it won't be considered too "off topic" for this list.
> tEd ® kiLLiAn |
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Dan Haren pitched six solid innings and sparked the go-ahead rally with a single, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to another win over the skidding Atlanta Braves, 4-2 on Tuesday night.
Dan Haren pitched three-hit ball into the eighth inning, and Matt Kemp homered in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday night.
Kyle Hendricks scattered four hits over seven innings, Starlin Castro had three hits and scored three runs, and the Chicago Cubs beat Los Angeles 8-2 on Friday night, snapping the Dodgers’ six-game winning streak.
Josh Harrison had two hits with two RBIs and the Pittsburgh Pirates jumped on Dan Haren early in a 6-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday night.
Matt Holliday homered and doubled with three RBIs, and Lance Lynn won his third straight start for the St. Louis Cardinals in a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night.
Carlos Quentin drove in three runs, Alexi Amarista homered and Jesse Hahn pitched six solid innings, leading the San Diego Padres to a 6-3 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night.
The defending NL West champion Dodgers took over sole possession of first place in the division by a half-game over idle San Francisco.
Once he put Paul Goldschmidt’s first-inning homer behind him, Dan Haren found his bearings and his rhythm. From then on, it was another professional job for the three-time All-Star.
Jose Abreu homered for the second straight game and Tyler Flowers also went deep to lead the Chicago White Sox to a 4-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night.
Cody Ross hit his first home run of the year, Eric Chavez went deep for the second consecutive day and the Arizona Diamondbacks won a home series for the first time this season with a 5-3 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday.
Yasiel Puig extended his career-best hitting streak to 12 games with his third home run in four days, a go-ahead three-run shot, and drew a bases-loaded walk in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 6-5 win over the Florida Marlins on Monday night. |
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Indigo Girls recording career includes fourteen studio records, three live records and three greatest hits compilations, with a cumulative sales in excess of 12 million records. They have been nominated for seven Grammy Awards and have won one.
On their fourteenth studio album, this folk-rock duo delivers a beautifully crafted batch of songs that revel in spirited simplicity. Alternating richly textured storytelling with moody ruminations on modern-world worries, Beauty Queen Sister reveals a fierce longing for a more idyllic existence while still celebrating the extraordinary in everyday living. Thanks to its graceful mix of openhearted songwriting and lush, intricate arrangements-not to mention powerful performances by the band and their brigade of guest musicians-Beauty Queen Sister ultimately allows the listener to slip into the sort of dreamy serenity that Amy Ray and Emily Saliers sing of striving for throughout the record.
Beauty Queen Sister is the fourth Indigo Girls album released on IG Recordings, the independent label that Ray and Saliers launched after putting out nine albums on Epic Records and one (2006's widely acclaimed Despite Our Differences) on Hollywood Records. While the loss of major-label spending power might cripple less accomplished artists, both Ray and Saliers find that their tightened budget actually feeds the album-making process. "Nowadays we need to record much more quickly, so there's not time to belabor every little decision like we did in our earlier years," says Ray. "We just put our heads down and throw all our emotion into it and it's magical-the heart rules our performance more than the head."
That heart-over-head approach is no doubt suited to the material on Beauty Queen Sister, a stunning 13-song selection that touches on topics as disparate as the 2011 Egyptian revolution (in Ray's plaintive "War Rugs," featuring guest vocals by singer-songwriter Lucy Wainwright Roche), the ins and outs of the music industry ("Making Promises," a defiant, guitar-driven banger also authored by Ray), and the recent massive deaths of Arkansas red-winged blackbirds ("Able to Sing," in which Saliers cleverly swipes a lyric from the English nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence" to lend the track a slightly whimsical feel). Tackling such weighty matters as tenderly as each intimate love song, Beauty Queen Sister grips from the get-go and crests at the epic "Yoke." With its centerpiece of hauntingly urgent strings (supplied by violinist Luke Bulla) and a gorgeously mournful vocal performance by Ray, this spellbinding slow-burner makes for a masterful closing track.
As for the love songs, Beauty Queen Sister never shies away from lavish expressions of sweet infatuation. On "We Get To Feel It All," for instance, Saliers deftly captures what she calls "our tendency to dramatize the bigness of love." Featuring honey-tinged backup vocals by the Shadowboxers (an Atlanta-based all-male trio), the breezy midtempo treasure is packed with lovelorn poetry ("You're open like a book or shut like shell/But if I hold you to my ear I can hear the whole world"). Another Saliers homage to the sublimity of love, "Birthday Song" begins with soulfully hummed harmonies and expands into a humble meditation elegantly accented by Carol Issacs's delicate piano. And on the album's opener, Ray offers an "aching, lonely, dark-gravel-road kind of song." Subdued yet sultry, "Share The Moon" complements heartsick lyrics like "I'm gonna love you till it works" with gently rumbling drums provided by Brady Blade.
Woven throughout Beauty Queen Sister is a collection of songs that self-consciously romanticize the simplicity of days gone by. Saliers's lilting, mandolin-kissed "Feed And Water The Horses" laments the technology-fueled loss of pleasures once taken for granted ("the smell of ink on paper and its morning pull"), while the joyful "John" pays loving tribute to a neighbor who embodies the pastoral life and "brings the country to me/The girl from the city." Perhaps the album's most raucous moment, the title track struts and swaggers as Ray depicts a wilder world inspired in part by the doomed innocence of the central characters in S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders ("And those street kids and beauty queens-they don't stand a chance/So hang on tight").
Rounding out the record are "Gone" (a sweeping, cinematic song that Saliers says was influenced by Elton John's production), "Mariner Moonlighting" (wistfully inspired by Ray's visit to a centuries-old seaside music hall in New England), and "Damo" (another Ray contribution, which owes its sprightly Celtic sound to Eamonn de Barra's whistles and flute and to the full-throated backing vocals of Irish singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey).
Decades into their career, the Indigo Girls still amaze conventional pundits with their ability to grow and thrive no matter what the state of the music industry is at any given point. Saliers and Ray began performing together in high school, transferred their honest, urgent performing style onto the stages of countless small clubs, then saw their public profile take off with the 1989 release of their self-titled breakthrough (an album that included the first hit, "Closer To Fine," and went on to win Best Contemporary Folk Recording at the 1990 Grammys).
The duo's constant touring, as well as staunch dedication to a number of social and environmental causes, has earned them a fervidly devoted following over the years. So many artists who launched their careers in the late 1980s have slipped from our collective memory. In contrast, the Indigo Girls stand tall, having earned the lasting respect and devotion of a multi-generational audience which continues to experience their creative evolution in the studio and on stage.
For Ray and Saliers, Beauty Queen Sister-like each new musical endeavor they embark on-offers a fresh opportunity for exploration and discovery. "We really work hard to not lean on any tried-and-true path in making our albums," says Ray. "So when it comes to writing new songs and working with different musicians, every record feels like a completely different adventure for us."
For the Indigo Girls, that adventure may take the form of an adrenaline-fueled live CD or a warm, reflective holiday album or a collection of songs that can veer from raucous to intimate in the blink of an eye. No matter where their creative journey takes them, they hold out a hand to their listeners and we get to feel it all.
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There has been a lot of disappointment about Hilton not running a point related promotion this month. They do, however, have four airline related ones going on this month and continuing all the way up to December. The next chainwide promotion “1,000 Reasons” starts on November 1, 2012.
If you are NOT interested about airline miles at all, you should take advantage of the promotion that Hilton has with Virgin Atlantic. Five stays would earn you total of 20K Virgin Atlantic Flying Club miles that you can transfer back to 40K Hilton HHonors points.
You can continue earning BMI Diamond Club miles until October 27, 2012. You warn 1000 miles per stay regardless of the Hilton brand and for up to 3 days. You can transfer BMI Miles to British Airways Executive Club. BMI Diamond Club will close on December 31, 2012.
You can earn 250 Delta MQM’s and double SkyMiles for stays of 2 nights or longer between October 1 and December 15, 2012. This offer is available only at select hotels.
Hilton is offering maximum of 15K bonus Virgin Atlantic Flying Club miles for 5 stays. You can always transfer the bonus + base miles back to Hilton HHonors for total of 40K HH points. This promotion is valid until December 31, 2012
Hilton has a promotion with Miles & More (Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian etc) for up to quadruple miles until December 31, 2012.
You can earn 4000 bonus Emirates Skywards miles on your second stay. This offer is valid until December 31, 2012.
If you are to do five stays during the promotional period, I would take advantage of the promotion with Virgin Atlantic and transfer the points back to Hilton HHonors once they have posted. The promotions with Emirates and Miles & More are good, if you are member of those programs and collect their miles. The Delta promotion is not really worthwhile unless you are in need of some MQM’s (Medallion Qualifying Miles).
For multiple night stays, you should consider crediting the stays to BMI Diamond Club until 27th of October. You will earn 1000 miles per night for up to 4 nights. |
HOUSTON (AP) - Even though a judge has reduced a $1.3 billion jury award - the nation's largest last year - to $301 million, defense lawyers contend it remains too high.
Houston-area inventor Anatoly Sverdlin had won the stunning verdict in November after claiming investors in the marine company he founded cost him his job, the business and his patents in a soured business deal.
State District Judge Dwight Jefferson, who reduced the award by $1 billion, signed a judgment this week awarding the money to the Russian immigrant.
Sverdlin, 66, contended that he had been swindled out of his patent for ship engines and out of his Houston company by a group of investors. Most of the judgment was punitive damages.
Lawyers had been doubtful that the record verdict would stand. And Sverdlin, who also received $20 million in a settlement with a Dallas law firm that approved the business transaction with the investors, predicted an appeal of the reduced jury award.
"These people, they don't give up," Sverdlin told the Houston Chronicle.
One attorney said earlier that the damage amount would be substantially reduced because claims in the lawsuit were overlapping or duplicative.
A Ukranian immigrant who moved to Houston in 1974 and began his company in nearby Seabrook three years later, Sverdlin claimed no one told him until Dec. 18, 1996, that the Dallas firm Gardere, Wynne, Sewell & Riggs and its attorney, David Jungman, did not represent him.
Court records show Sverdlin developed and patented a fuel injector for diesel engines used on boats. He needed money to roll out the product, so in 1995 he hired Mark G. Swank to be president of Automated Marine Propulsion Systems in order to raise money for marketing.
Two New York investors who loaned the company $2 million were each given seats on the business' board.
However, Sverdlin soured on the deal and when his associates caught wind of Sverdlin's reluctance, they fired him and changed the locks on the door, according to papers filed in the lawsuit. Employees there were told Sverdlin had voluntarily retired.
Joe Jamail, a noted Houston attorney, won the largest jury verdict in history in the Pennzoil vs. Texaco case - $10.5 billion - which was ultimately settled for more than $3 billion. |
WOLFFORTH - The sign on JoAnna Smith's restaurant proudly proclaims it a family restaurant.
And, she said, it won't be any less a family-oriented establishment once she gets permission to serve alcohol.
There will be a strict three-drink limit and patrons can only order multiple drinks if they're eating, she said.
"I do have a family restaurant," she said. Family restaurants "do have drinks but not belligerent people."
JoAnn's Family Restaurant is one of two restaurants in town to apply for a mixed beverage permit in recent months.
Wolfforth voters in September overwhelmingly approved alcohol sales in restaurants for on-premises consumption.
Civic boosters said alcohol sales would induce casual dining eateries to come to town, boosting economic development.
According to Wolfforth City Secretary Debbie Youngblood, Smith was the first to apply for a mixed beverage permit, submitting her application soon after the vote.
Since then, a newly built Pizza Hut on the north side of town has also submitted an application, she said.
For Smith, serving alcohol is a matter of commercial survival.
With more restaurants expected to open in town, "I'm going to need to compete," she said.
Her regular patrons have pressed her as well on the issue.
Many have asked when she would begin serving alcohol, she said.
They also appear to be united on the issue.
"I have not had one person be negative about that," she said.
She views the changes on alcohol as important for the future viability of the town even though she'll be facing more competition.
"It's good for Wolfforth," she said. "We need the revenue."
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Jun-la looked at her padawan gratefully and responded, "Any info will be most welcome. The station bordering our system should be able to help with repairs. From there it is a quick shuttle flight to Avalon. We'll provide escort."
Andros made the course correction for the Ebon Hawk. He said, "Master, it is strange that the Sith have chosen to attack now."
"Most enemies don't adhere to other sentients' schedules. Of course there is a reason. We just have to find it. First, we need to get the Ackbar to the station. I think your father has things covered on the ground."
Andros nodded in affirmation. Out of the blue he asked, "You think Aunt Alkea would have loved the fight?"
Tavaryn was staring facedown on a biobed and he scowled at it. He stood up to take a look at the soaked pad and his shoulder. There was blood on it and upon examining the wound he scowled. The disinfectant was bad enough but the herbs were worse.
"Tavaryn? Do you need any help?"
Tavaryn stiffened for a moment but then berated himself. He would need a hand with the bandage eventually. He replied, "Please." |
|Project by dingle||posted 09-29-2011 04:00 AM||904 views||0 times favorited||3 comments|
Hello fellow Lumberjocks. Just finished another project (#3). A wood cup with a lid made from a piece of Walnut log from my backyard. Learned a little more with this project, still having trouble using bowl gauges to hollow out the cup. Due to the slip of the bowl gouge I had to shorten the height of the box because of a large divit out of the lip. Consequently, the lid does not fit as tight as I would like, but should do better next time. |
|Project by AlBCuttnWud||posted 09-18-2012 12:50 AM||1218 views||6 times favorited||6 comments|
A good friend is working with the JSF Program and thought I make him something that no one else has. It is a follow up to the Bud Light Lime F-18 I made a while back. This was built from the latest technology in super lightweight and super strong aluminum. It has 16oz of thrust even!!!
I used super glue gel to glue up everything quickly. It took longer to drink it than it did to make it.
-- -Al, Chesapeake, VA |
|Project by StLouisWoodworker||posted 07-02-2013 03:10 AM||1594 views||6 times favorited||8 comments|
The chessboard is my design motivated by shoji screens. The chess pieces were designed by John Economaki of Bridge City Tool fame. I made them in a class he taught at the Marc Adams school. John is a very good teacher, with lots of skill and a good humor style. The board pieces were made on a Jointmaker Pro from BCT. Each cell is 1.75×1.75 inches and has 10 separate pieces. The small diagonal ones are about 0.4 inches long. The scale of the chess pieces is determined by the king piece, which is about 4 inches high. The woods: outer frame is cherry, main grid work is paulownia, the rest is maple and walnut (as are the chess pieces). Most of the work was done with hand-operated tools – the Jointmaker Pro and Kerfmaker from BCT, with some work on the chess pieces done with an oscillating belt sander. I was going to make a couple more of these, but instead ….. the next move if any is yours.
-- Don Snyder (38.6N, 90.3W) |
|Review by ferstler||posted 12-10-2008 11:47 PM||15143 views||1 time favorited||4 comments|
I picked up this narrow-belt, bench-top sander at Harbor Freight some time back for about thirty bucks, as I remember, and I think a version is also available from Grizzly as its model H3140 for about $55. The Grizzly specifications are a tad different, but it is clear from the Grizzly catalog photo that the two units are identical. Obviously, the Harbor Freight deal was a better one. The differences mentioned in the owner’s manual and the Grizzly catalog makes one wonder about published specifications for tools.
Esoteric tools like this can be very useful under some conditions, but most of the time they just sit, waiting for special occasions. Those have occurred several times for me, and I am very glad I purchased the thing. There are times when you have to quickly sand just a small spot on a small (or even fairly large) piece, and a sander like this works more effectively than larger versions. (One large sander that I have also reviewed on this site is the Craftsman 6×48 incher, and the vast majority of my sanding time makes use of that item.) Both Grizzly and Harbor Freight offer more upscale versions of this type of narrow-belt sander, and those items include attached disc-sander sections. However, I already have a nice disc attached to my bench-top sander (the above noted Craftsman item), and so paying extra money for a disc output made no sense.
The motor on this small sander is decently powerful (1/3 HP, at 3 amps, running at about 3,400 rpm), the table tilts forward 45 degrees, and the unit includes a dust port that can handle small fittings. The unit weighs a bit more than 13 pounds. The owner’s manual is sufficiently detailed and even includes an exploded parts diagram and a wiring schematic.
At the price (and even at the Grizzly price) this is a fine tool for those needing to detailed sanding of flat surfaces. The only adjustment I had to make with my sample involved getting precise alignment between the sanding belt and the pressure platen underneath. Once that was done I had a workable tool. I am not sure that it is a tool that will hold up to day-in, day-out heavy use in a production shop, but for hobby oriented, lightweight occasional use it is very satisfactory.
If I did not already own this item I would go buy one in a minute. |
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| Cameran Palace|
オルドラン城 Oldoran Castle
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Cameran Palace (Japanese: オルドラン城 Oldoran Castle) is an anime-exclusive location in Kanto, located north of the town of Rota, on an island in the center of a lake. It is connected to the town by a long bridge. At the back of the castle is a cable car track, which stops at the other side of the lake. Besides the castle, there is a large stadium for Pokémon battles, which is used for the battle tournament of Rota's annual festival.
It is where Queen Ilene and her ancestor, Queen Rin, resided in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew. Lucario had once lived in the castle before he was sealed away in the staff, training under Sir Aaron to master Aura. When he was awakened by Ash Ketchum, he did not realize that Cameran had changed over time while he was gone. According to official maps on the movie, Cameran Palace and the town of Rota are located north of Mt. Silver, and is just northwest of Mt. Moon.
|Japanese||オルドラン城 Oldoran Castle||Possibly オルドランド old land.|
|English||Cameran Palace||Possibly from Camelot.|
|Chinese (Mandarin)||歐魯德朗城 Ōulǔdélǎng Castle||Transliteration of its Japanese name. May also be from 德國 Déguó (Germany) and 歐洲 Ōuzhōu (Europe).|
|This article is part of both Project Anime and Project Locations, Bulbapedia projects that, together, aim to write comprehensive articles on the Pokémon Anime and Locations, respectively.| |
- Okay I'm pretty sure that there is only ONE Mewtwo. Pretty good chance.PokeManiac102 23:55, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Why does the edit to remove all the stupid links in the lyrics section keep being undone? The links do nothing than detract from it. They are not necessary, and just clutter it up. We do not need links to the article on Levels, nor links to the article for Gameboy Colour. I will continue to get rid of the links.--Mostly Harmless 21:18, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm Dutch and I disagree with the translation of the Dutch title, 'De Reis van Johto' means 'The Journey of Johto' not 'The Journey 'to' Johto'. Could somebody change it? Nickvang 21:26, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Should multiple versions be included?
As I know, there're 3 versions od this theme - the short one(the 'actual' opening), the long one(full version, from soundtrack CD) and the movie version. Lyrics here are from movie version, should the ones from original version be written too(like in 2nd opening article)? OldBen 21:30, 15 April 2012 (UTC) |
I recognize that injuries have decimated the Mets' season and there is nothing you can do to plan for that, but quite frankly, Omar Minaya should be fired for the contract he gave to Oliver Perez. If the Mets can't afford to go after Roy Halladay, and they are paying a guy who has never been more than mediocre $12 million a year, then that is simply mismanagement, and Minaya needs to go. Also, if the Mets have any chance at getting Halladay, they should send their entire farm system to the Blue Jays to get him.
-- Doug K., St. Louis
I suppose the best way to respond to your e-mail is reuse this Inbox question and response from early February:
Would you have signed Perez for three years, $36 million or Randy Wolf for less money and fewer years?
-- Derek T., Columbus, Ohio
Good question. My answer is: Wolf for one year and an option, if possible, or for two years, tops. My sense of it is that Perez will produce five to eight starts that would exceed all but one or two of Wolf's starts. But Wolf would afford his team a chance to win more often than Perez. And I would use the money saved to pay the salary of a quality starter who might become available in the summer.
Don't want to say I was prescient, but look at what Wolf has done. He has a 5-4 record in 21 starts, averaging slightly more than six innings per start and has produced a 3.45 ERA. Perez has a 2-3 record and a 7.68 ERA in eight starts, his season interrupted by poor conditioning, an injury some people questioned and a lack of focus. His average innings per start is less than five.
Moreover, the Dodgers, who score runs from time to time, have a 13-8 record in Wolf's starts. The Mets, who don't necessarily score, have won twice in Perez's eight starts. They have averaged just less than four runs in his games -- not a good figure when combined with a 7.68 ERA. The Dodgers have averaged just less than five runs per game in Wolf's starts.
And now Halladay is the quality starter who has become available in the summer.
Let's be realistic, the 2009 Mets should become Trade Deadline sellers. Contending teams like the Rays and Cardinals may be interested in bullpen help like Pedro Feliciano, Brian Stokes or Sean Green for much-needed prospects.
-- Bill F., Bronx, N.Y.
I wouldn't deal Feliciano unless I had another left-handed setup man in mind. The Mets probably don't, and none is on the roster.
I feel that, when the season is over, that the Mets undoubtedly need to shake things up and blow up their current core group of players. This is what I would do: trade Carlos Beltran and Bobby Parnell to the Red Sox for Jacoby Ellsbury and Clay Buchholz; then trade Jose Reyes, Luis Castillo and Fernando Martinez to the Rangers for Michael Young and Ian Kinsler. The Mets should undoubtedly hold onto David Wright to continue being the face of the organization. These trades would allow them to have a new leadoff hitter in Ellsbury, a new No. 2 hitter in Kinsler and a new No. 3 hitter in Young. These trades would change the entire look of the organization for the better. Could I please have your thoughts on this?
-- Daniel B., Yonkers, N.Y.
It's a tad early to look to next year, and not because I anticipate the Mets making a miracle recovery and U-Turn. And beyond that, I don't expect the Red Sox and Rangers to make such trades.
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What are your thoughts on the Mets trading for Roy Halladay? I feel like the Mets would gain a lot by trading for him. First, they would basically eliminate the Phillies from repeating as World Series champs. Second, they would ensure that next year's pitching staff would be one of the best in the MLB with Johan Santana and Halladay at the top. Now, in order to get Halladay, I think the Mets should trade Jonathon Neise, Fernando Martinez, Ike Davis and another lower prospect. The trade that the Mets declined is giving up less, so I would rather do that one.
-- Alex F., Long Island, N.Y.
The Mets have said the Blue Jays never made the offer that was reported. I can't believe the Mets rejected it or the Jays ever proposed it. I don't think the Mets have the wherewithal to trade for Halladay and not create voids in other areas. And one more thing, if they did acquire him for next to nothing, eliminating the Phillies wouldn't be likely. The Mets, as they are now, could add Halladay, Tom Seaver and Sandy Koufax and lose a lot of 1-0 and 2-0 games.
Why have the Mets limited Nelson Figueroa to a few spot starts despite the fact that he has been effective?
-- Vincent G., Bayville, N.Y.
Their general sense of Figueroa is that he is a Quadruple-A player, meaning that his skill level is somewhere between Triple-A, where he often prospers, and the big leagues, where he isn't nearly so effective.
Who are the Mets? Will they ever recover? Where do they go from here? From the collapse and poor play, lack of leadership and injuries, it seems like there is always is something holding them back from their true potential. Obviously the injuries dealt with this season is what's killing them. Yet I still feel as if they could be doing better on the field. There are too many errors and no hope from young players to come up and produce. Where do they go from here?
-- Jonathan D., New York
Where the Mets go from here can't be determined until we see when Reyes, Beltran, John Maine and J.J. Putz return. And even then, we won't know until they have played for a month. I don't expect the club to re-sign Carlos Delgado, so his return is critical to his future but not the Mets'. August is close, and chances are the last two months of the season will be more about assessing the Mets' personnel and needs than about calculating magic numbers and Wild Card chasing.
Marty Noble is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. |
Louisville-Kentucky Trumps North Carolina-Duke In Rivalry Debate
Thu Dec 26, 2013
Sometimes ESPN wraps all 17 of its channels around a story and then they shake it like a tambourine. Perhaps you have noticed. Red Sox-Yankees. Tiger Woods. That left-handed kid who played quarterback at Florida. Then there is the other story that lights up my keyboard every college basketball season: The tall tale that Duke vs. North Carolina is the greatest rivalry in college basketball. It isn't. Louisville vs. Kentucky is more compelling, ferocious and decisive.
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On 11/12/05, mono at spectratechnology dot net <mono at spectratechnology dot net> wrote:
> I want to run a mail server on OPT1 network using a public IP. That same
> public IP is my second and last one. I only have 2 :( Anyway, I want to
> be sure that when the traffic comes in it comes in on that IP and get
> passed over to that specific computer that I want to give a private IP to,
> such as 10.168.8.100. When email traffic goes out it ought to show that it
> came from that particular public IP such that the reverse DNS holds true
> and my emails aren't rejected.
> I will need to run web servers and others off that 2nd IP as well.
> From my reading, I suspect that I need to do Server NAT, inbound and
> outbound. Is that correct ? Will m0n0 handle such a situation ?
Yes, server NAT + inbound NAT to open the ports on that second IP
inbound, and outbound NAT to map the mail server to that second IP for
> What settings must I make to pull this off ?
add the second IP to server NAT, and then in Inbound NAT add the
appropriate stuff. In Outbound, add a rule to map the mail server to
the second IP, and a rule to map everything else to the WAN's IP. |
Why passwords have never been weaker—and crackers have never been stronger, a great article from Ars Technica. Also emphasizes why two-factor authentication is going to become more important in the coming years.
Lukasz Lindell writesHow we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community. “We wanted to test this, how easy is it to spread disinformation?” Fascinating story.
John Gruber has a great essay on the paradigm shift (yes I just said that) of the Retina Macbook Pro. Highly recommended.
I had an amazing weekend at WordCamp San Francisco hanging out with hundreds of WordPress users from all over the world at the main event and the dev day afterward. Then on Sunday I was humbled to be featured on the cover of my hometown paper the Houston Chronicle in an article David Kaplan wrote following the 10-year high school reunion I went to (PDF).
It was a pleasure meeting so many of you, and I hope it’s not next year before we meet again. Thank you to Michael Pick and Pete Davies for helping me out under tight timelines again. |
Story by Maryalice Yakutchik
Sabra Klein forgoes a handshake, coughs by way of greeting.
“Would you like one?” she rasps, sharing a bag of mentholated lozenges. “It’s not the flu. I don’t think.”
Flushed and weary, Klein plans to retreat early from her office and lab in the Bloomberg School, quarantine herself at home, rest and drink lots of fluids. But not before she infects you, via this article, with the germ of an idea she has long championed: Sex matters. In ways we never fathomed.
It matters, for instance, with the flu that Klein hopes she doesn’t have. Her ongoing studies show that females have a bigger and badder inflammatory response. They don’t just feel worse. They don’t just visit doctors more or complain more. They literally experience worse disease than males. Klein’s talking sex-based biology, not gender issues. (Although “sex” and “gender” often are used interchangeably, sex is biology while gender refers to the social constructs related to one’s sex.) Molecularly speaking, females respond differently to flu than males. They mount a more robust immune response—which sounds like a good thing, until you delve into Klein’s data and see that this heightened immunity contributes to tissue damage and even death. Females respond so differently to immunizations, she concluded, that a woman needs about half the flu vaccine dose of a similarly sized male.
Klein coughs, pops another lozenge and launches into why she loves the flu.
For a dozen years, the assistant professor in the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology has investigated infectious diseases, first focusing on hantaviruses, then malaria, now flu. The constant throughout Klein’s career has been her dogged insistence that sex matters.
That concept, neither new nor original, holds that every cell in us—indeed, every cell in the H1N1-infected mice languishing in Klein’s lab—has a sex. Advocates of sex-based biology contend that maleness or femaleness in humans as well as rodents needs to be considered, compared and contrasted in order to uncover basic biological truths about everything from heart disease and depression to lupus and liver cancer.
Klein’s data always have spoken louder to her than naysayers. As an infectious disease expert working in nonreproductive tissues and cells, Klein sensed for years that her grant submissions or research papers focusing on sex differences didn’t so much pique reviewers’ interest as annoy them. Fellow researchers who ignore sex differences have distinguished careers and mountains of data invested in their way of doing things. Some told her flat out: Sex did not matter.
Still, she stayed the course, giving sex differences center stage instead of sloughing them off. She used both male and female animal models in her hormone-centric studies. She manipulated estrogen and testosterone, surgically removing the bird-seed-size ovaries and testes of mice, and then put hormones back, always looking for cause-and-effect relationships between sex and disease. She analyzed her results by separating the sexes in the statistics instead of lumping males and females together in one big androgynous data set, as was—and still remains—conventional practice. (In top-tier journals, it’s common for authors of clinical studies to demonstrate demographic correctness in Table 1, showing 50 percent of their subjects were male and 50 percent female. However, after that obligatory nod, the breakdown by sex simply goes away, never to appear again in Tables 2, 3 or 4, Klein says: “There’s no more mention of sex. No statistical comparison. It’s sooooo frustrating!”)
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Subject: Re: i/o scheduling (was Re: NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY)
To: YAMAMOTO Takashi <email@example.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <firstname.lastname@example.org>
Date: 12/17/2003 09:50:54
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:34:02PM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> > I'd like to see this too. IMHO, this can share the same queue as delayed
> > writes. Only wake up the disk when there's too much requests in the queue, or
> > we have something else to do.
> > This would also prevent writes to log files to wake up the disk.
> it isn't so easy.
> "delayed writes" can't be delayed so much because e.g. synchronous
> read requests can happen on the delayed-writed page and we have no way
> to look up corresponding buf from a page.
I don't understand what you mean here. If we have a read request for a
delayed-write page, why would the read end in the disk's queue at all ?
UVM should find the data in memory.
Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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SNEAK PEEK: The Standard #1
ComixTribe sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of The Standard #1 by John Lees and Jonathan Rector.
The Standard #1
WRITER: John Lees
ARTIST: Jonathan Rector
COLORISTS: Ray Dillon, Mo James
LETTERER: Kel Nuttall
EDITOR: Steven Forbes
Over 40 years ago, scientist Gilbert Graham became The Standard, the world’s first superhero. When he retired, Alex Thomas – formerly his sidekick, Fabu-Lad – took on the mantle in his place, transforming The Standard from superhero to celebrity. Now, a young girl is missing, and Alex has promised to find her. Can he become a hero once more? Or does fate have other plans for The Standard? THE STANDARD is a six-issue mini-series that will release bi-monthly.
The Standard #1 arrives in stores in January 2013. |
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Translated from the Danish by Hanna Astrup Larsen.
they were no longer illumined by hope. Moreover, she had learned that they were only dreams--distant, illusive dreams, which no longing in the world could ever draw down to her earth. When she abandoned herself to them now, it was with a sense of weariness, while an accusing inner voice told her that she was like the drunkard who knows that his passion is destroying him, that every debauch means strength taken from his weakness and added to the power of his desire. But the voice sounded in vain, for a life soberly lived, without the fair vice of dreams, was no life at all--life had exactly the value that dreams gave it and no more.
So widely different, then, were Niels Lyhne's father and mother, the two friendly powers that struggled unconsciously for mastery over his young soul from the moment the first gleam of intelligence in him gave them something to work on. As the child grew older, the struggle became more intense and was waged with a greater variety of weapons.
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Here, via Kevin Drum, is statistical evidence that modern pop music is boring or at least more homogeneous than in the past (yes, Tyler already linked to Kevin’s post but I wanted to link to the underlying dataset (see below)).
We find three important trends in the evolution of musical discourse: the restriction of pitch sequences (with metrics showing less variety in pitch progressions), the homogenization of the timbral palette (with frequent timbres becoming more frequent), and growing average loudness levels.
The picture at right shows the timbral variety:
Smaller values of β indicate less timbral variety: frequent codewords become more frequent, and infrequent ones become even less frequent. This evidences a growing homogenization of the global timbral palette. It also points towards a progressive tendency to follow more fashionable, mainstream sonorities.
The underlying data is from the Million Song Dataset which looks pretty cool and is open. |
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Microsoft’s Scroogled Campaign Hits New Low, Uses “Pawn Stars” Guys To Attack Chromebooks
“Wow. How sad.” That was my reaction to watching the latest in Microsoft’s Scroogled campaign against Google, this time using two of the stars from Pawn Stars to attack Chromebooks as not “real laptops” and part of Google’s overall plan to “Scroogle” people.
I’m struggling to understand how the geniuses behind the Scroogled campaign thought going after Chromebooks as somehow Google misleading people was a great idea. But to me — and I’m a big Pawn Stars fan — it comes off as weak and even desperate.
“It’s Pretty Much A Brick”
The video features a woman who walks into the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, where Pawn Stars is based, to sell her laptop to get enough money for a ticket to Hollywood. In the video posted to Bing/MSN Video, she starts saying it was a gift from her mother (while on YouTube, that intro has been cut in the short version; it remains in the extended one). Here’s the MSN version:
I assume she’s already been to Hollywood, because it’s clear to me that she, as well as the Pawn Star folks, have been hired to do this all as a promotion for Scroogled. But the ad never discloses that she’s an actress, or that this has all been pre-scripted.
“What makes you think it’s worth that much,” asks Rick Harrison, one of the owners of the shop. “It’s a laptop,” she replies, followed by a cut-away to Rick laughing behind-the-scenes, part of the Pawn Stars format where the owners & assistants discuss items they’ve been offered away from patrons.
He explains, in keeping with the usual Pawn Stars-style, the background of the item. A Google Chromebook, a “relatively new style device” that, because it uses web-based applications, “when you’re not connected, it’s pretty much a brick. That’s a major drawback.”
Sure. And maybe I’m too familiar with Chromebook, but I’ve never heard any horror stories of people who bought one (it’s a best selling item on Amazon) and failed to realize they couldn’t use it without an internet connection.
Real Laptops Have Windows & Office
Rick goes on to explain to the woman in the shop that the Chromebook is not a “real laptop” because “it doesn’t have Windows or Office.” Which, presumably, makes anyone who owns a Mac without buying Office not having a real laptop. Or, anyone buying a Windows computer without Office only owning half -a-laptop.
Chromebooks Designed To Track & Sell Ads
Rick continues that without wifi, the computer isn’t of much use “and when you are online, Google tracks what you do, so they can sell ads.”
Again, there haven’t been a lot of horror stories about Chromebook phoning home about everything you do. Certainly the Chrome browser will fetch ahead for certain types of content; I’m fairly sure that Internet Explorer does the same.
If we’re talking ads, Windows 8 has new giant “Hero Ads” that show up baked into the operating system, an extension of other ad options in Windows 8 that people can buy. You can’t buy ads baked into Chromebooks. You just get them the old-fashioned way — in your browser.
“That’s how you get Scroogled,” Rick continues, causing his father — who also owns the shop and who is known on the show as “The Old Man” — to ask what Scroogled means. Rick goes on to explain that Google’s always trying to make money off your personal information. “This Chromebook hardware makes it even easier for them.”
The companion site to the ad does nothing I can see to document this “Chromebook spies on you” claim. There’s an entire “Chrome OS Cons” section where that’s not even listed as a drawback:
Chromebook gets slammed for poor apps & needing wifi access, limited access to games and media, no way to play DVDs and CDs, printing woes and lack of peripheral support. But as Google’s spy machine? Nothing.
You have to dig, oddly, into the “Chromebook Can’ts” area to get to Microsoft’s accusations which, in terms of Chromebook being designed to gather more of people’s data, isn’t really backed up:
The Bad Reviews Turn Out To Be Not All Bad
The companion site also features five expert reviews of how terrible Chromebooks are:
Going through the five reviews, three of them pretty much see no point in the Chromebook, such as where Jeffrey Van Camp came away completely convinced there was nothing good there: “Many people will see low price tags on Chromebooks and consider purchasing, hoping Chrome can meet their light computing needs. But it still has a lot of issues at the moment that could, and should, be resolved.”
But two others that are positioned as if they’re anti-Chromebook actually see value.
Julie Bort wrote for Business Insider that paying for the expensive Chromebook Pixel didn’t seem worth it but also concluded: “The upshot is, at under $300, like for an HP ChromeBook ($279, no touchscreen) a ChromeBook is fine for home, or school, where WiFi is reliable…. That said, I’m going to miss this Pixel after I send it back. For working at home on stable WiFi, I’ve learned to prefer it.”
Jill Duffy found it just wasn’t the thing for working offline on a flight, but added at the end, “I still do see the appeal for some people. A Chromebook costs less than an iPad $499.99 at Amazon and has a keyboard. All your work backs up to the cloud automatically (provided you have an Internet connection, of course). I’m not giving up on the Chromebook just yet, but I don’t trust it and will proceed with extreme caution as I continue to look for apps that might make the experience, well, tolerable.”
I wouldn’t recommend anyone by a Chromebook Pixel, myself. I did, but that was for work reasons, so I could be familiar with Google’s top-of-the-line machine. It’s a great machine, but it’s also a $1,300 web browser. That’s just too much money.
But an inexpensive Chromebook might be an ideal option for many people who want to get on the web in the way a traditional laptop allows but who don’t need all the features that also come with those laptops, including the higher price of those traditional devices.
A Scroogled Too Far
Overall, if Microsoft wanted to run a campaign comparing how Windows laptops are more versatile than Chromebooks, that would have been fair — and perhaps powerful. Even the Pawn Stars segment would have been great, in many ways. But when it starts falling into this somehow being an attempt by Google to “Scroogle” people, what’s next? Is the iPad an attempt by Apple to Scroogle people because it, also, can’t do all the things that a traditional laptop can?
Bringing in the Scroogled message just cheapens the message, to me.
I’ll be interested to see the reaction to this all. If it’s like the other Scroogled campaigns, there won’t be much. In October, there were a wave of stories on how Scroogled was working based off a terrible Ad Age story — which really just got ad experts to rate how effective they thought the ads were, not whether the ads were converting anyone. My story, Is Microsoft’s Scroogled Campaign Working? Not If Gaining Consumers Is The Goal, explains more.
Meanwhile, Rick of Pawn Stars has shared the video and gained three “sell out” responses, two in favor of the commercial and one person who says they like Chromebooks, so far:
— Rick Harrison (@GoldSilverPawn) November 26, 2013
By the way, the Pawn Stars shop doesn’t have any inventory of Chromebooks for sale. Nor Macs. Nor Windows computers. The only computers that are apparently worth pawning are tablet computers made by Apple and Google — but not Microsoft: |
As Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is fighting to putting together a new government after he yesterday survived a no-confidence vote in the Greek parliament I am once again reminded by the Argentine crisis of 2001-2002.
In my view the similarities with the Argentine crisis are striking – and most of the mistakes made by Argentine policy makers and by the international institutions are being repeated today in regard to the Greek crisis. Most important both in the Argentine case and in the Greek case policy makers refused to acknowledge that monetary policy is at the root of the problems rather than fiscal matters.
My favourite account of the Argentine crisis is the excellent book “And the Money Kept Rolling in (And Out)” by Paul Blustein.
You can’t help thinking of Greece and the efforts of the last year to “save“ the country when you see the title of Chapter 7: “Doubling a Losing Bet”.
I highly recommend Blustein’s book for those who want to understand how international institutions like the IMF works and why they fail and to understand how monetary regimes like Argentina’s currency board become “sacred” – in the same as the gold standard used to be – and this leads to crisis.
But back to Greece – or rather to the parallels to the Argentine crisis.
It has been rumours that former Greek central bank governor Lucas Papademos could take over as new Prime Minister in Greece. I have no clue whether this is going to happen, but the story made me think.
When you are in serious trouble you call in a well-respected former central banker to get some credibility. Argentina did that when Domingo Cavallo – the former successful central bank governor – became economics minister. Cavallo became economics minister on March 20 2001. He then tried to push through a number of austerity measures. He resigns on December 20 after massive protest and violence that kills 20 people. So far there has luckily been less killed in Greece.
So Cavallo lasted only 8 months – even respected central bankers cannot preform fiscal miracles in insolvent nations. But Cavollo’s 8 months as economics minister might be a benchmark for how long a central banker can stay on as economics minister – or Prime Minister.
Another measure of how long Papademos will be able to survive as Prime Minister if he indeed where to succeed Papandreou is to look at how many presidents Argentina had in 2001.
First president to step down was Fernando de la Rúa – on December 20 2001 – the same day Cavallo stepped.
Next one to step down was Adolfo Rodríguez Saá after 7 days in power on December 30 2001.
Eduardo Duhalde came into office January 2 2002 and stays on until May 25 2003. Duhalde a populist famously defaulted on Greece foreign debt – and is more popular with the Argentine public than with foreign creditors.
The question is whether Papademos would be Cavallo, Saá or Duhalde. He can’t really be Cavallo – as we are too long into the process and as Greece has already defaulted on some of the debt, but on the other hand the EU has not pulled the plug on Greece yet. It was really the IMF’s stop for funding of Argentina on December 5 2001 that “killed” Saá. Saá, however, while in government defaulted on foreign private debt on December 7 2001 (Greece effective defaulted on a large share of the private sector debt last week).
The Argentine currency board came to an end on January 6 2002 – around a month after the default on foreign debt and three weeks after Saá resigned…
If this is any guidance for the Greek situation we are surely in the end game…
PS I met Cavallo at a seminar back in 2008 – I was somewhat shocked to hear that he still thinks it was wrong that Argentina gave up the currency board despite more than 20 people died in civil unrest while he was economics minister. The Argentine economy rebound strongly after the currency board was given up and has growly strongly since then.I am certainly not claiming everything is fine in Argentina, but things are certainly better than in 2001.
Update: Cavallo indeed has a view on Greece in the light of his own expirience. See his comment here. Lets just say I think he is mostly wrong…
Update 2 (November 13): Scott Sumner is out with an excellent comment on the lessons from Argentina. |
Back in October, I suggested that the yet-to-launch GoingOn Network would be the first service to revolutionize social software. But it looks like the newcomer SuprGlu is doing very interesting things in this space. SuprGlu is one of a new breed of Digital Lifestyle Aggregators - services which take the widely-scattered parts of your online identity and pull them together on a single site. As far as I can see, they haven't yet integrated a social network into the system, but that's got to be the logical next step. From Barb at the Social Software Weblog:
SuperGlu...is essentially a DLA-style aggregation of a number of your already existing distributed services like del.icio.us, Flickr, Digg, last.fm, etc., plus your blog(s) and anything else with an RSS feed, really. You submit your username for each supported service or paste in an RSS feed to your sources list, choose a template and voila - you've got a nicely prepared mashup of things you've blogged, stored, photographed, listened to, etc., arranged in reverse chronological order. I lurve it. Could I replicate the same thing on any of my own blogs? Sure - but it would take a while and then I'd have to assume maintenance of it. Setting up SuprGlu took all of 3 minutes, exists as its own subdomain here, and I don't have to worry about it any further. It's just a simple aggregate of my distributed self. Of course I want an RSS feed from it, but that's in the works. Oh, and in case you're wondering - is this app Web 2.0? Oh no, don't be mistaken - it's like, totally Web 2.5, yo.
Don't forget to hit the"Squeeze" button, which appears to take you to a random page. |
The latest data from Hitwise reveals the big gainers during MySpace's power outage on July 22nd and 23rd. MySpace has 80 million or so users and 17% of US page impressions - so where did all those users go? Well, MySpace's market share of visits actually went up during the downtime, presumably because users were hitting the site more often. Of course, the number of page impressions fell dramatically, since users couldn't get past the temporary holding page.
But it looks like there were two big winners here: Google and Facebook. Google's impressions increased dramatically while Facebook experienced a noticeable boost in traffic. What's more, the Dating and Adult categories saw the biggest rise in traffic over that weekend - it turns out that MySpace is a dating site after all. Surprisingly, I don't see any mention of YouTube - it would be interesting to see if there was any change there, since it would confirm my assumption that the two groups overlap. (Update: Bill Tancer from Hitwise just sent me the YouTube graph, and it turns out they also saw a boost during the downtime).
For the backstory, see MySpace Down.
MySpace vs Google
MySpace vs Facebook |
Movies have taken over today's popular culture. Everywhere is a buzz with celebrity news and gossip. Below, we've outlined 85+ of the best "Movies 2.0" sites.
Also see our video toolbox for information on creating your own films.
Catalogs and Lists
I Heart Movies- Organize, manage, and share your movie collection by means of many specified actions. For example, you can input, rate, and even then print your whole movie collection, then sharing and discussing it with the site’s great community.
Be.Ajaxlicious- Manage, share, and discuss your movies with this community-based catalogue. It uses RSS and Ajax in order to make these tasks even more efficient.
UTRACK Movies- Keep track of, and manage your movies online.
Squirl- Catalog, organize, and share your collections of practically anything, including movies. Their large community of collectors also opens up opportunities to get in touch with people who have similar interests.
Zestr- Another media cataloging service.
Videodetective.com- A catalog of many past and present movie trailers.
MyFilmz- Find movies and put your watched lists online.
Listology- A movie, books, TV, and music list creator.
swag roll- Create a “swag roll”, essentially a list, where you can add movies, books, and just about anything else. Then, you can share your nicely formatted swag roll to the world by posting on your blog.
Listal- A social media catalog system for movies, music, books, and more.
movietally.com - A social movie discovery engine.
matchmine.com- A well-implemented movie recommendations engine.
liveplasma- A movie and music recommendations engine based on several criteria. The site displays your recommendations in a visually appealing interface,
uPlayMe.com- A recommendations system for free entertainment.
MyStrands- Discover and manage your media with this social recommendations engine.
Movielenes- Get movie recommendations while helping the University of Minnesota with their research.
Trusted Opinion- A recommendations-based system for movies and more. A good tool for discovering trends if you’re not entirely in on everything.
Criteo- A robust recommendations engine which does a good job with movies.
Social Suggester- A social recommendations system for just about anything, including movies.
IMDB- Probably the most well-known movie-related website, IMDB features a large selection of vast information for almost every movie ever made. IMDB also features contributions from their vast community, taking pride in their credibility.
goMovies- An iPhone app for finding which movies are playing in your area.
Movies.app- The second Movies app on this list, Movies.app is quite similar to goMovies, aside from the alternate UI.
Movies.com- An extremely authoritative and informative source for movie reviews and information.
moviefone- AOL's movie site features a variety of reviews, interviews, and news.
vidSmack- Movie information and trailer search.
ZeBoudoir- A wiki-like guide to online video.
Fandango- A great resource for movie information, reviews, ratings and local showtimes. They also offer a ticket buying service.
NYTimes Movies- A large variety of highly credible information and reviews from a premier source, the New York Times.
MSN Movies- Microsoft's answer to a movie site, mostly providing exclusive clips in addition to a few reviews.
Movies and Film in the Yahoo! Directory- A fairly well-indexed database from another credible source.
allmovie- Reviews, interviews, trailers, and showtimes.
Newsday Movies- More information, mostly reviews and news here.
Apple Movie Trailers- Apple's directory of movie trailers, many of which available in HD.
Crowdsurfer- Publish and share reviews.
Watch, Share, and Edit
HungryFlix- Free, legal, indie movies, short films, tv shows and documentaries easily downloadable in iPod, iPhone, and PSP formats.
Peekvid- Watch a large variety of streaming movies and TV shows for free.
Vimeo- A video sharing site with an awesome design and community. In my opinion, one of the premier sites out there if you’re looking to expose your content to a critical, educated audience.
Guba- Watch, share, and download Flash, iPod, or PSP videos. Guba also offers premium videos, like major motion pictures and TV shows for $.299 and $1.79 respectively.
Metacafe- One of the more popular video sites out there, Metacafe has a solid community with a large amount of everything from indie films, to viral videos.
SpyMac- Share your media and compete with other players for cash prizes.
Viddler- Similar to Vimeo, Viddler is a highly integrated, community-oriented site with many high-quality independently produced videos.
Motionbox- Easily share, edit, and produce your personal videos.
One True Media- Another easy way to edit and produce your home movies using a simple, yet powerful web app.
Cuts- Edit, mashup, and add-on to any online video. After you've finished with that, you can share your creation with their community.
Google Video- Google's venerable video search engine. There's plenty to find on there.
Hellodeo- Record, edit, and share your video entirely on one web-based platform.
Grapeflix- Discover, watch and download a variety of free, unique films and documentaries.
JumpCut- Upload, create and edit existing movies. JumpCut has a strong sense of community with a very interesting perspective.
Jaman- The first virtual movie festival, you can watch and share your feedback on many full-length independently produced films.
Toufee- Easily create and share flash movies.
ClipShack- A community video sharing site with some off-the-beaten -path videos.
AOL Video- Watch premier news and TV clips, along with movie trailers and much more.
YouTube- Obviously the most popular video site, YouTube has by far the largest variety of video, mostly comprised of viral clips, video blogs, movie and TV trailers and clips, and many more oddities.
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eyespot- Create and edit video using their highly integrated web app. Not only this, but you can also share your creations on the very same site.
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CastTV- A highly integrated movie and video search, currently in invitation only beta. However, if you’d like an invite, just request one on their front-page.
Mobunga- Similar to HungryFlix, download many free, independently produced films for us on a variety of mobile devices.
Fliqz- A great tool for media publishers looking to integrate video into their site.
Stray Cinema- An "open source film", with Stray, you can download the original raw footage professionally shot in New Zealand. Then, you can create your own version of the film and contribute it to the project.
Famousr- Contribute to their project by qualifying which actor is more famous, or in this case, "famousr".
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Rakugaki.in- Scribble on any YouTube video.
Fantasy Moguls- Play in a fantasy movie production pool. See how you’d do in comparison to all those big-shot Hollywood producers.
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PlayInterchange- Movie exchange marketplace.
Flektor- A powerful web-based video editor and distribution tools.
Videoegg- An innovative approach to video publishing, it uses the power of the social web to provide video solutions to online communities.
VSOCIAL- A social media platform based upon video.
Delicious Library- A simply awesome, robust, well-designed Mac application for managing your movies, books, music, and video games.
Entertonement- Ringtones in the form of movie quotes, political speeches, or any other spoken verbiage.
Frengo- Mobile game provider with many movie-oriented ones.
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The Google Buzz team made changes today that prevent popular postings from overwhelming your inbox - that's good news if you follow popular feeds like the Mashable Google Buzz account.
The problem: Because Google Buzz pushes items into your inbox whenever new comments are left after yours, popular postings can become noisy.
Today the Buzz team announced that it wil "bump" popular postings less frequently to keep them out of your inbox. The team writes:
"If you're following someone with a ton of followers, you're probably used to seeing their posts at the top of your stream all the time, since we've been bumping them back up with every new comment. Starting a few hours ago, we made some changes to not bump them up as often.:
Blogger Louis Gray praises the move, and we agree. However, this doesn't address the more pressing complaint we have about Buzz — that threads need to be collapsible when they get long. Given the speed at which Google is making changes based on user feedback, that'll come soon, too. |
When you think of turn-based strategy, it's hard to not think of heavyweight developer Firaxis. Civilization has become a staple of the genre, allowing players to conquer the globe starting with the dawn of man, and the reboot of XCOM has been a critical and commercial success.
Now the company is turning its eyes to mobile with its first free-to-play title, Haunted Hollow. This unique title puts you in charge of a haunted house, and your goal is to terrorize the neighboring town with your growing menagerie of iconic monsters.
"We had an idea, long ago, for a cute little game about running a monster hotel, where players could collect all the great monsters everyone remembers and take care of them in one big, ridiculous house. This idea came back when we were contemplating a mobile game, but this time it was a duel between two haunted houses. It was a short step from there to the feuding haunted house idea with a terrified, tiny town stuck between them," said Firaxis developers David McDonough and Will Miller, the game's co-creators, in an email interview.
Haunted Hollow challenges the player to scare more townsfolk than his or her opponent. You can either play in single player mode against AI, or in multiplayer mode via the Game Center or local pass and play. Each turn you are given a certain number of actions depending on your current mansion size and occupied territories in the game.
In your arsenal are different monsters with unique skills, and you can evolve them to be more powerful as you progress through the game. To win, you'll need to completely overtake the town, but your opponent and an AI-controlled Town Mob of angry citizens — presumably with pitchforks and torches — will both give you trouble.
While this may seem like a departure for Firaxis in both theme and platform, Miller and McDonough said it wasn't a difficult transition.
"The games industry as a whole has been moving in force into mobile gaming for a few years now, and we were honored to be given the chance to lead a team here at Firaxis into what's new territory for our studio. Firaxis has a great heritage of making strategy games on other platforms, and we wanted to make a strategy game for iOS that was easy to pick up, but offered a great deal of depth."
Haunted Hollow is free to play, but Miller and McDonough say no pay walls stop the player from the game's main multiplayer experience. Instead, they'll be able to unlock new monsters and house maps through microtransactions.
"The idea is that you get a set of monsters that support a variety of play styles, in a process like deck-building in a collectible card game," they said.
If you live in Canada, you can play Haunted Hollow on iOS now. The rest of us will have to wait until it opens to a larger audience on an unannounced date.
Images courtesy of 2K/Firaxis |
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The storm made history by becoming only the second tropical storm to make landfall on the Big Island of Hawaii, and it approached from the east, which is nearly unprecedented.
Two historic hurricanes, Iselle and Julio, are spinning their way toward the Hawaiian Islands. Mashable will be covering the two storms' impact live.
Hurricane Iselle would be the first such storm to hit the Big Island on record, and the first tropical cyclone to strike from the east. To date, the only hurricanes known to make landfall in Hawaii both hit the island of Kauai, about 300 miles northwest of the Big Island.
If both Hurricane Iselle and Hurricane Julio were to make landfall in Hawaii, which is by no means assured, they would become just the eighth and ninth such storms to strike the island state since reliable hurricane records began in the late 19th century. |
The weekend's BLC conference was amazing. I have never been before and, like my trip to DC last March for the National Bike Summit, I came away energized and wanting to do more for the industry. You can expect to hear more about this from me in the coming months and years. I left DC last year full of ideas and desire to make a difference and to help enact change... but life caught up with me and time vanished. I am sure some of my drive and desire this time will suffer the same fate, but I am going to make more of an effort to help drive the cycling industry forward on the important goal of advocacy and developing more and safer infrastructure for all cyclists. It is clear to me that we, the cycling industry, can and should do more to support advocacy issues and that we need a far greater level of cooperation between all players in the industry. Two very smart women, Nicole DeHoratius and Robbie Kellman Baxter, were hired as outside researchers to evaluate many things about the industry. One of the major things they learned was that there is an insane level of paranoia and distrust among members/ companies in the industry. Of all the industries they have worked in, they have never seen such a level of distrust and unwillingness to either comment on the record or share information/ data about their businesses. That really hit me hard as I thought about the challenges facing my beloved bike industry. Without a greater level of cooperation and a willingness to share and collect some quantifiable data, the industry is doomed to failure and further erosion of sales growth.
I am a very small person within the cycling industry- I just happen to be one of the more loudmouthed. My realm of influence is pretty microscopic, but I can't sit complacently and watch things deteriorate further. I am making a plea to all of my like-minded brothers and sisters in the industry, from retailer to manufacturer, to get involved, share your data with the BPSA and drop the paranoia and let's all work to grow this industry to a higher level of profitability and overall health by applying our efforts to increased advocacy. I am making a pledge to do my part- however small- to meet that goal. I will be offering whatever help I can to John Nedeau and the BPSA. I will be getting my hands dirty with advocacy issues. I will be talking about important issues and will be advocating for change. I'm going to do my best to have my actions support my words. If I don't, I have no reason to hope to have an industry to work in 10, 20, 25 years from now.
I happen to know that many people within the cycling industry read this silly blog and I am hoping that they will read these words and let a few of them sink in. Without better cooperation among brands and a willingness to do the hard work ahead and dedicate resources to building a better future, we can all kiss this business good-bye. Personally, I want to stay in this business for many more years. Hopefully you will too.
Don't hesitate- get involved, volunteer, make a difference.
John Burke, President/ CEO of Trek Bicycle Company gave an incredible presentation and "opened the kimono" on his business to a room full of "competitors" in an effort to provoke change. Do I see eye to eye with John or Trek all the time? Hell no. But he was absolutely correct in his plea to get others in the industry involved in working towards a better cycling industry and a better world at large. It was one of the best presentations I've sat through in years and I'm glad I was at the BLC to see and hear it. Trek has launched a program called One World, Two Wheels. I recommend that you check it out. I am forced to give John and Trek a big round of applause for the work they've begun with this program. It's pretty impressive and very ambitious. But we have to start somewhere and why not aim high?
The bike industry has been my home for the better part of 26 years now. It's all I really know. It's certainly the one thing I have loved the longest in my life and it has, in turn, been pretty good to me. It's my turn (and all of our turns) to give a little something back. So I hope you, my fellow industry members, will join me and get more involved. I know I have a lot to learn from this process and hopefully I can contribute something to the ultimate greater good of the planet, the people who live on it and the bike industry too. |
MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) - Two law enforcement officers and two civilians were wounded and police said they believed they had the shooter cornered in a church early Sunday morning. Police declined to release the condition of the people who had been shot, and few details were immediately available. David Duke, Moscow assistant police chief, said a city police officer and a Latah County sheriff's deputy were shot late Saturday night or early Sunday morning near downtown. Two civilians were also shot. Duke said the victims were shot with automatic weapons. Dozens of law enforcement officers surrounded the First Presbyterian Church in downtown Moscow, where the shooter or shooters are believed to be, Duke said. The incident began around 11 p.m. Saturday, when someone began shooting at the Latah County Courthouse, Duke said. Streets in the area have been barricaded and residents have been told to stay inside their homes. Moscow, a community of about 20,000 people that is home to the University of Idaho, located 80 miles south of Spokane, Wash. Reports say at least 75 shots have been fired. About 40 shots hit the Latah County Dispatch center which is near the church. Last shots from church at about 8 am eastern daylight time. Units deployed around scene of area with a five block area of downtown Moscow ordered in lockdown. Last report indicate shots may have come from bell tower of the church. Updated info. confirms one civilian and two officers hit and brought to hospital. One officer very seriously injured at least. Officers have entered the church and have found two unidentified dead persons inside. It has been secured as a crime scene and further info. will be delayed. The police say the second civilian injured was from a separate incident, unrelated to this shooting. Witnesses say one of the police officers hit by bullets was killed. That officer lay on the street 20 minutes until help could get to him during the initial barrage of gunfire. Reports say the church was also the residence of a caretaker who is presently not accounted for. Authorities are referring to the second body in the church as that of a "victim." It is not confirmed that this is the caretaker. |
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Tonga’s King Taufa‘ahau Tupou IV is healthy and very well, said the king’s Acting Private Secretary, Sateki .‘Ahio, at the Palace Office this morning, quashing rumours in the community that the king had died yesterday.
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