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- IndyGround puts Columbia's hip-hop artists on the map
- Hip-hop struggles to gain respectability — and venues — in Columbia
- GetAbout Columbia officials optimistic about program's future
- GetAbout Columbia sends finished plan back for city approval
- Police are on the lookout for errant cyclists and motorists
- GetAbout's I-70 overpass nixed — for now
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Hoy offers London crowd prospect of Olympic gold
Saturday, February 18, 2012
LONDON (AP) -- British cycling star Chris Hoy won the sprint at the Track World Cup on Sunday, giving the London Olympic Velodrome crowd another glimpse of the scenes they hope to see at this year's Summer Games.
Hoy followed up his victory in Saturday's kierin with a 2-0 win over Maximilian Levy. He overpowered the German on the home straightaway in the first race and kept his line in the second under severe pressure on the back straight.
The four-time Olympic champion was roared on as the four-day test event at the new 6,000-seat arena drew to a close.
Britain's team pursuit squad took the silver behind Australia. The Aussies -- with Jack Bobridge, Rohan Dennis, Alex Edmondson and Michael Hepburn -- also clinched the overall World Cup title with the second-fastest time ever.
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Vancouver bike tour to focus on city's historic trees
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
A bicycle tour through downtown Vancouver will lead participants to a selection of notable trees in the city's historic core.
The Heritage Tree Bicycle Tour, hosted by the city's Urban Forestry program, begins at 6 p.m. Thursday as part of the regular TreeTalk workshop series. The ride starts and ends at Esther Short Park, 600 S.W. Columbia St.
Organizers describe the route as an easy 4-mile trek through downtown. It will stop at 10 locations, covering information on each tree's historical significance and legacy in the community.
Participants must wear helmets and obey all traffic laws during the ride, according to the city. The ride is free, but space is limited to 25 bicyclists. To register in advance, people can call 360-487-8308 or email [email protected].
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September 10, 2011
A tank at a Pennsylvania National Guard armory is surrounded with floodwaters from the Susquehanna River, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, in West Pittston, Pa. Stretches of the swollen Susquehanna River began receding Friday after days of rainfall from what had been Tropical Storm Lee flooded communities from Virginia to New York, leading to evacuation orders for nearly 100,000 people. At least 12 deaths have been blamed on Lee and its remnants.
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Tom Nichols’ table of big-leaf maple and cherry, with exotic-wood insets of leaves, won Best in Show. Nichols plans to soon start his own custom woodworking business.
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Miller Theatre was nearly overflowing on Wednesday, Sept. 14, as it opened its 2011-2012 season with Part I of the U.S. premiere of Scottish composer James Dillon’s epic “Nine Rivers.” Parts II and III will be performed on Friday, Sept. 16 and Saturday, Sept. 17, respectively.
Part I, entitled “Leukosis,” which refers to the stage of whitening in the transformation of matter, is itself divided into four pieces: “East 11th St, NY 10003,” “L’ECRAN parfum,” “Viriditas,” and “La femme invisible.” Each piece began immediately after the last ended, totaling just over an hour for the full performance. (Dillon’s original intention was for the entire cycle to be played all on one night, not three. The work as a whole is meant to contain many themes, including differing conceptions of musical time.)
Though the concert may have been short, it lacked nothing in monumental qualities. “East 11th St, NY 10003” was performed entirely by the percussion ensemble “red fish blue fish,” with Nathan Davis playing additional percussion and Steven Schick conducting. The piece began with a soft clang of a gong, leading to a low rumbling which eventually culminated in a huge cacophony of percussive sound—one was reminded of the sounds of a New York City street. Though it felt like a very gradual buildup, the ending was exciting.
“L’ECRAN parfum” added strings to the mix, with six violins from the International Contemporary Ensemble playing different variations of a tremolo. At certain points, one or two violins would come in with a quick measure of what sounded like a melody but would quickly be usurped by the tremolo and percussion again. It was almost as if every musician had a different notion of the musical meter, none of which lined up until silence suddenly marked the end.
In the only piece conducted by Donald Nally, the vocal ensemble The Crossing sung “Viriditas”—the longest of the four works in Part I. Again, different ideas of time were evident. If there were any lyrics to the song, they were nearly impossible to understand. Rather, it sounded like many people talking all at once, beginning and ending at different times. There were several impressive solos, yet it was often difficult to even tell which vocalist each was coming from, as the singers were hidden behind their music stands under low light.
The concert ended with the shorter “La femme invisible,” for which the wind players of the International Contemporary Ensemble joined in. As this piece began, red light began to appear behind the players. The light foreshadowed Part II of the cycle, “Iosis,” which represents the reddening stage in the transformation of matter. “La femme invisible” ended on a very short and abrupt note, leaving quite the cliffhanger for Friday’s concert. Yet, the long applause after Wednesday’s performance proved that even on its own, “Leukosis” provided one vibrant evening.
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The BOZ I, a new bomb robot purchased by the Columbus Division of Fire Bomb Squad, is the first of its kind to be purchased by any organization in the The robot is run by a hydraulic system, making it ten-times stronger than other robots used by the squad, as it demonstrated Sept.19 by turning a vehicle on its side.
These are the words of a member of the Columbus Division of Fire Bomb Squad during a press conference to reveal their newest robot.
The “long walk” was described as when a bomb squad member puts on his gear and makes the solitary walk towards an area where a bomb might be located.
"You hope you get to walk back," he said.
Thanks to the new BOZ I robot, these long walks will now be less frequent.
The BOZ I bomb robot is a hydraulic system based robot. According to Bomb Squad Captain Steve Saltsman, this makes a huge difference in the strength of the robot.
"The new robot is about ten-times stronger than our old ones," said Saltsman.
The hydraulic jaws have 12,720 pounds of opening force, 8,500 pounds of closing force and 1,000 pounds of thrusting force.
These capabilities allow the robot to tear, pry and crush devices. Bomb squad representatives used the BOZ I to force open the truck and a passenger door of a vehicle during the robot's reveal on Sept. 19.
It can also move a 3,300 pound vehicle. During the presentation, the robot punched a hole in the rear tail light of a vehicle and pushed it across an empty parking lot.
According to firefighters, this method can be used to move large objects believed to contain a bomb to a safer location for further investigation.
The robot was also used to turn the vehicle on its side.
The BOZ I is equipped with five cameras - three of which are infrared and two with zoom capabilities. This allows it to be extremely precise.
"We saw a video online where this machine can take quarters and stack them one at a time. It has incredible strength, but it also has the finesse to handle something that delicate," said Saltsman.
Its remote operation has a one kilometer range, allowing bomb squad personnel to operate the robot from a safe vantage point.
The BOZ I cost $300,000 and was funded through grants from the Urban Area Security Initiative from the Department of Homeland Security.
It is one of only 60 robots of its kind made worldwide and the Columbus Division of Fire is the first department in the country to purchase this new technology.
Saltsman attributed the fact that Columbus is the first U.S owner of a BOZ I to nothing other than "good timing."
"This technology has been out there, in other places in the world, for quite some time now, but it's just coming to the We just happened to be looking and had the funding available when this new technology arrived."
"We were looking for a new robot and we looked at a lot of different models. None of the other robots came close to the type of capabilities we were looking for," said Saltsman.
The department currently has two additional robots. The new robot will not replace either of these, but instead will work together with them.
According to Saltsman, the older, smaller robots are still useful because they are lightweight and easily transportable - the new BOZ I weighs 1,300 pounds.
The older robots are also able to climb staircases and enter small spaces, such as airplanes, because they are smaller in size.
The new robot, however, has a much greater reach than the older ones.
"Theoretically, we could use the new robot to pick up a smaller one and place it someplace high, like a second story," said Saltsman. "When you look at them side by side, it’s like a family."
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The Robinson-Schensted and Schützenberger Algorithms, an Elementary Approach
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We discuss the Robinson-Schensted and Schützenberger algorithms, and the fundamental identities they satisfy, systematically interpreting Young tableaux as chains in the Young lattice. We also derive a Robinson-Schensted algorithm for the hyperoctahedral groups. Finally we show how the mentioned identities imply some fundamental properties of Schützenberger's glissements.
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Captains of the comics industry hosted a public remembrance during last weekend's Emerald City Comicon for a departed friend, Dwayne McDuffie, a creator who fought to make superheroes feel more like the human race.
McDuffie died of complications from surgery on Sunday, February 21, just one day after his 49th birthday. He spent decades working with the major comics publishers as well as an independent creator who constantly strived to bring minority characters to the fore, sometimes utilizing caustic satire, while translating many of DC's superheroes into their most successful animated incarnations.
Longtime friend and fellow writer Mark Waid, who worked alongside McDuffie numerous times throughout their careers, headed up the memorial panel as moderator. Waid opened the event with a quip: "I have a long list of people in this industry who can go..."
"Most of us are here," joked "Astro City" creator Kurt Busiek.
"...and Dwayne was so not on that list," Waid continued. "It's really fairly rare, even in an industry as tightly knit as ours, and I think as fraternal as ours, to find someone that everybody really likes."
The panel, coming at the end of Saturday's con events, opened with a brief memorial video of some of McDuffie's career highlights. The montage ranged from 1989's four-issue Marvel miniseries "Damage Control" to the launch of the McDuffie-helmed Milestone Comics line in the early 1990s to his years writing for the animated "Justice League" and "Justice League Unlimited" and features "Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths" and the newly released "All-Star Superman."
"I think his greatest contribution in a lot of ways, was, he showed a bunch of liberal New Yorkers that they really weren't doing enough to bring diversity to comics," said Bob Harras, editor in chief of DC Comics, who praised McDuffie's tenure at Marvel. "It was amazing for an assistant editor, when you think about it, because an assistant editor's supposed to be someone who'll Xerox and say, 'Yes, sir.' But Dwayne basically said, 'Look, what we're doing -- there's a large group of fans out there who are not seeing themselves.'"
Veteran comics writer Marv Wolfman recalled picking up a copy of McDuffie's "Damage Control," a miniseries about an agency that cleans up the rubble left by super hero/super villain battles in the Marvel Universe. "It blew me away, and not only because it was one of those ideas that you go, 'Of course! Somebody had to clean up after the mess that the characters did.' But the writing was so sharp. I just couldn't believe this new voice had come in."
Wolfman continued, talking about McDuffie during the Milestone years. "He was doing some of the best plotting and the best scripting I had seen in comics at that particular point. All the books were so sharply written -- it was amazing."
"He knew how to write from the inside out," Waid agreed. "He knew, that's the way you write characters."
McDuffie and his wife Charlotte Fullerton moved into a new house not long before his death, passing his packing boxes on for Wolfman to use in a forthcoming move of his own. "Now his name is all over my house," Wolfman said. "I mean, everywhere."
Busiek once wrote an issue of the Milestone title "Icon," filling in for McDuffie, and the writer recalled for the audience how challenging it was to maintain McDuffie's voice. "A Dwayne McDuffie page has four word balloons, and they're short," Busiek said. "But it's rich in character. What the characters say and do, everything means a lot."
One of McDuffie's best-known stunts involved a survey he conducted around the Marvel offices during his and Busiek's tenure at the publisher. The survey asked, "How many African-American Marvel characters can you name who don't ride a skateboard?" The punchline was a satirical series proposal for "Teenage Negro Ninja Thrashers," a super team comprised of Marvel's two skateboarding black heroes, plus two more created for the group. McDuffie's point, that many of Marvel's black characters at the time were essentially one-note signifiers, not fully envisioned heroes, was noted by Marvel.
The other half of the survey asked how many black male Marvel heroes did not dress like chickens. "Think about it," Busiek said. "There's the Black Talon. We'll call the Falcon an honorary one, for those crazy boots. There's the Battling Bantam. There is an astonishing number. When you add up the guys who dress like chickens and the guys who ride skateboards, it's really easy to see there's a problem here."
Beyond strong writing skills and advocacy on behalf of characters who resembled the audience that read about them, McDuffie also mentored younger writers. David Walker, today the screenwriter behind the spoof film "Blackstar Warrior" and author of the forthcoming superhero-themed young adult novel "Darius Walker: Super Justice Force," was a journalist when he first met McDuffie. The industry veteran encouraged the new author's writing, but urged him to pass on a job working directly for a comics publisher, saying it would squelch his creativity.
He also surprised Walker once by calling Thor, the blond-haired god of thunder, "the blackest character" among Marvel superheroes. "Thor had a really bad relationship with his father," he told Walker, "and everything Thor was trying to do was trying to address his father, trying to mend that relationship."
"If there's depth and dimension to (a character), then people will relate to them no matter what," Walker continued. "Hence, Dwayne's thinking that Thor was one of the greatest black characters in the Marvel Universe."
Wolfman recounted reading the massive online outpouring of remembrances after McDuffie died -- even though McDuffie's work was seldom among the comics industry's big-selling titles. "To get that sort of response in the press indicates that he touched people in ways that they felt a need to respond," Wolfman said.
"Forty-nine years old," Waid lamented. "Jesus. That's absurd. That's a kid."
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The deadly battle continues. Just about everybody fights just about everybody else. Paris vs. Menelaus, Great Ajax vs. Hektor, and Odysseus beats on Thersites. From the walls of Troy, Helen and the Trojan women watch a showdown between Achilles and Hektor.
Preview: Age of Bronze #28
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Creators Mark Andrew Smith and Paul Maybury stop by CBR to discuss in-depth their critically acclaimed Image Comics graphic novel "Aqua Leung," an epic revenge story set beneath the seas.
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Spider-Man, Dark Knight Rises, Cowboys & Aliens: Nov 18th Comic Reel
Dennis Leary to join "Spider-Man!" Tom Hardy to play Hugo Strange? "Cowboys & Aliens" trailer invades the Internet. Also, the trial for "Superman" continues and more.
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Announcing the Comic Emporium eStoreTuesday, January 13th, 2009
Its here! We have just opened the virtual doors to our eBay store. Keep watching over the next few weeks as we continue adding content and inventory. Here you will be able to browse the best of our Magic rares, find deals on hot toys, models, and statues and even gawk at a few white elephants (why did I order some of this crap in the first place?!?). What a great way to begin the new year!
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Link Ink: Stan Lee's AMA, 'Daredevil' Movie In Limbo And Chinese 'Avengers' Bootlegs Retranslated
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Tiny Pages Made of Ashes: Small Press Comics Reviews 10/5/2012A comic review article by: Jason Sacks, Daniel Elkin, David Fairbanks
Tiny Pages Made of Ashes is Comics Bulletin's roundup of small press comics reviews.
Wings for Wheels
(Todd McArthur/Jen May/John PM Frees/Jen Vaughn/Pat Barret/Nomi Kane)
Bruce Springsteen fans are some of the most intense fans in music. This new anthology comic is a really fun look at that obsession, with six entertaining stories about the Boss's impact on his fans.
The first thing you might notice about this anthology is its wonderful cover. If you don't recognize that image, you just don't know music – and if you do, isn't it really a cool piece of work? The cover sets the pace for the comic because this mini looks and feels like a slightly larger CD insert – in fact, it even look like a record!
Inside the mini we get a range of stories, but these are generally of a higher quality than youfind in most anthology comics. The lead tale, by Todd McArthur, is an outlandish and euphoric tale that treats Clarence Clemons as an angel come down from Heaven to encourage Todd to not be cheap and go to a Springsteen concert. It's a goofy strip, but McArthur pulls it off with clever page layouts and positive energy.
Next Josh PM Frees delivers a fun anecdote about a furniture-destroying karaoke Springsteen session. It's a cute little story – and I love the look of pure mania on the face of the karaoke singer's face!
Jen Vaughn delivers a really sweet seven-pager that shows how impossible it is to escape the power of a great song. I loved this little tale of a pretty smart and cool girl trying to track down some great music.
Pat Barrett's five-pager is a rambling five-pager that juxtaposes little anecdotes about growing up with a fistfight initiated by Springsteen. It's an odd little strip, but Barrett's art is vivid and his caricatures are fun.
Nomi Kane's eight-pager wraps up the comic with a really wonderful piece about how music haunts us all throughout our lives. We see Springsteen's music pass in and out of Kane's life as she goes through childhood, breakups and long car rides. This was a surprisingly moving story that made me think about my relationship with music, and Kane's art is sweet and direct.
To top it off, this zine has wonderful production values and the record-sleeve cover is a damn clever idea. This is a really fun minicomic that anyone, especially anyone who loves The Boss, should check out.
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The story is pretty straightforward. Tomorrow Jones is a fourteen-year-old girl who comes from a family of superheroes -- Mom is a super powered alien, Dad is the Crystal Guardian, and brother Zane is the Crystal Scout. Tomorrow, though… Tomorrow just wants to be left alone to be a normal teenager, to crush on boys and pass her History class. She certainly doesn’t want to wear tight spandex and have a secret identity. Oh sure, she’s going to be a super hero alright, but it’s going to be on her terms, and ain’t nobody going to tell her what to do or who to.
- Daniel Elkin
White Devil
(Matt Evans/Andrew Helinski/Nate Burns)
Evans, Helinski and Burns are new to comics, and it shows through every page of White Devil. The artwork is all over the place on quality, with some pages looking decent, albeit in need of some cleaner inking and shading, and others looking incredibly rushed. There's also an overabundance of negative space on some pages that seems to serve no real purpose, other than to have smaller panels (panels which, by the way, give the indication that nobody had a straight edge handy).
Lettering is something that really shouldn't be overly noticeable in most comics. There are times that a specific font or font change is used, but in general, the best letterers are ones who don't take you out of the book. Whoever of the trio that did the lettering did so haphazardly at best.
Burns drew the word balloons, which I appreciate, but he seems to have done so without consideration for how much had to go into them. To fix this problem, fonts were adjusted. Sometimes you get word balloons that are mostly empty, with a tiny, scaled down Times New Roman word in them.
Not only does it make it difficult to read, but it's distracting too. The story, that of a cult summoning gone awry, has potential to entertain, but the dialogue (and its delivery) mixed with inconsistent art turned me off. I do see potential here, both in the story and the art, but all three of the creators need quite a bit more practice and could greatly benefit from planning out an issue further.
- David Fairbanks
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No recent wiki edits to this page. Maranatha is a creature of pure rage and destruction, similar to Doomsday but magical in nature. Whether or not he is indeed the manifestation of God's wrath apparently makes no difference, for it is real and is rage incarnate. He was defeated and captured many times in history, always managing to find a way back. In 1668 he was captured for good, and moved through various holding places until thirty years ago, when Julian Parker, Rabbi Sinnowitz, Mark Merlin, and Sargon the Sorcerer locked him away in the Prison of Industry. Five years later the Church assumed control of the Prison, but no mention was made of Maranatha all those years. What had happened was, Roland Finch positioned himself as a staff member in the prison, and trapped him inside the missing space that James Church once occupied before his Hyde side killed the original persona. This kept Maranatha trapped and hidden until he had Annie Palmer free James Church with the intention of having Maranatha kill her. After an exhaustive battle, he was defeated by the combined efforts of Catholic Girl, Rabbi Sinnowitz, Nun of the Above, Nun the Less, Julian Parker, and Xombi. Maranatha is essentially unstoppable, a beast of pure destruction and mindless rage. However, the toll of multiple imprisonments and 3 decades of lurking inside the shell of a former man took its toll on him. Unlike Doomsday, Maranatha is capable of a degree of rational thought. He is perplexed by David's inability to die, and subsequently by his ability to be harmed. When he realizes that nobody fears him any longer, he loses any desire to go out fighting. In his final moments, he is asked by David if he ever had a friend in his life. Maranatha seemed confused by the question itself, stating "No. Any living thing I came across, I killed. That's all I was for. Rage powered my very being. It's what I am." Thus David concludes that he was never truly 'alive' at all. A side effect of Maranatha's presence is echoes of the dead appearing in the vicinity. Nobody knows what they want, as they never spoke to anyone. The one exception to this was when David lay 'dying' from having Maranatha bite off nearly a third of his body. One of the spirits kneeled next to him and relayed it's laments that life is wasted on the living, and that the things they miss most are the most simple, such as the smell of dew. These echoes are apparently capable of interacting with physical matter, as one is seen handing David the Screaming Cannon left behind by a freshly killed Rustling Husk. It is possible that Maranatha is still alive somewhere, as we have never been told where the Screaming Cannons teleport matter to.
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The government will fight to the end to suppress those documents in my humble opinion, as they let too many cats out of the bag. Outrage is already building to a fevered pitch over the bailouts as Wall Street is given preferred treatment by Washington.
Gary
Which, again, is why people like Spitzer and Warren will never be in the Obama Administration. Can you imagine Spitzer instead of Holder as AG? I didn't think so.
Boggles the imagination alright!
Gary
Spitzer is banned for life from Organized Government exactly as Pete Rose is banned from Organized Baseball, and for committing the same unpardonable crime: Getting Caught.
· Yr Obd't Servant
Let's be clear. All those in power have kinky cravings but those who shake up things or blow the whistle on others for treasonous acts against the people or the consititution are always attacked, sometimes framed, exposed, and/or driven out by the ruling elite.
Having a mistress doesn't strike me as a treasonous act unless one is paying for such a luxury with taxpayer dollars.
Perhaps if there was more acceptance of such things for those with such political power there would be less blackmail and political extortion going on among all our forms of government.
Are rock stars and movie stars held in such contempt for being extravagant is such ways?
I don't want Spitzer to become Julius Caesar, all I want is for that junk yard dog turned loose on the varmints (with top of the line body armor and full 360 security). Yup he may be an ugly dog but he's OUR junk yard dog and we know them from their deeds. Given the chance that nasty arrogant son-of-a-whatsit will sink in his incisors to the bone and never let go till the beast is dead. I like that.
No prisoners. No mercy.
The law is for chumps, not elite like Tim Geithner.
Everyone who has been paying attention the last ten years knows that when a member of the oligarchy commits a crime the congress retroactively immunizes him or the President covers it up by spouting law obstructing nonsense such as "We must look forward not backward".
Therefore the NY Fed did NOT send any incriminating emails to AIG. And the only rational conclusion is Eliot Spitzer, William Black and Frank Partnoy are delusional and in need of heavy medication.
Tim Geithner did NO wrong and should be applauded for his patriotism and service.
Tim Geithner did NO wrong and should be applauded for his patriotism and service.
Tim Geithner did NO wrong and should be applauded for his patriotism and service.
Say it 100 more times and it becomes the TRUTH.
Exactly. It's just like that the argument that has now been espoused by Dana Perino and not Guiliani -- and I'm sure others -- that there was no terrorist attacks on U.S. soil under Dubya's watch. It's been said over and over. Now, these two may be right if it was a planned attack by the CIA, as I've heard some espouse. What is the truth? Well, in our highly propagandistic government, who knows? One thing is for sure, I believe nothing that comes from the Obama Administration anymore than I did from the Bush Administration.
In any case, I tend to listen, and believe what I hear from people like Messrs. Black and Spitzer, and of course, Warren, because it jibes with what I see going on around me out there in the real world. Plus the fact that Wall Street's incredible rebound makes no sense at all.
"Plus the fact that Wall Street's incredible rebound makes no sense at all."
Kind of makes one wonder if the stock market isn't being "juiced" with taxpayer money.
Is the Fed Juicing the Stock Market?
>>Exactly. It's just like that the argument that has now been espoused by Dana Perino and not Guiliani -- and I'm sure others -- that there was no terrorist attacks on U.S. soil under Dubya's watch.<<
One little bitty problem with that notion -- 9-11 happened under Bush2's watch.
Gary
AIG changed it's name to Farmers in my State. They just went down the hole, and Alice wont find them for 3 years.
Eliot Spitzer for President!
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Nomi Prins for head of SEC enforcement and Michael Hudson for chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors!
Poet
/sarcasm on
Elito Spitzer has no credibility. He paid for sexual services.
/sarcasm off
you see the mug on that guy...of course he had to pay!
Whatever his past moral failings were, Eliot Spitzer has the known reputation of someone who took on and successfully prosecuted and jailed Wall Street crooks. What will be most fun is to listen to whatever rationalizations those who are "the powers that be" have for not releasing such emails and making them available to the owners of AIG, the American people.
Almost as much fun will be listening to explanations of why, in light of the disclosures about the role of the FED ordering AIG to suppress the details about its payments to banks during the finnacial crisis, the three trustees appointed to administer the public's majority ownership stake of AIG are all former FED officials.
As I read this ultimatum it occured to me that Eliot Spitzer may, as a well-informed expert and journalist, be more of a headache to the financially corrupt in power than he ever was as either the Attorney General or Governor of New York. In his current position Spitzer gets to pose the questions others are either too distracted, too frightened, or too muzzled to ask.
Wouldn't it be marvelous if Spitzer, in true Phoenix-like fashion, became the scourge all the Wall Street crooks feared he would be if allowed to remain in political power? In the hands of the right person, truly the pen is mightier than the sword and can realign the skewed scales of justice.
Poet
It would be poetic justice. I hope it happens.
Something bizarre about the only public official going after Wallstreet shenanigans WHEN IT MATTERED being turned over to the IRS for call-girl-payments BY HIS BANK.
Before the financial crisis hit the fan, Spitzer was investigating AIG. As I recall it revolved more around setting up offshore non-insurance insurance schemes to help corporations avoid taxes and collusion where insurance companies divided up business and only pretended to compete, aka price fixing.
All while AIG's Hank Greenberg was at the NY Fed raising up the young-un, Timmy.
If you were Rahm Emanuel or Timothy Geithner what would make you sweat? Worse than the threat of embarassment or losing office would be the thought that you would be so discredited you could not even hold down a private sector job or that you might face criminal prosecution. I think what Geithner has done is criminal--who is going to prosecute him?
I am sure that Rahm Emanuel and Timothy Geithner have been guaranteed millions of dollars in consultant fees when they leave office.......That seems to be the system that is currently in place to preserve and protect the "Corporate Elite".
I commend Eliot Spitzer for still trying to find the bad guys....Whatever happened to those SEC investigations that were being handled out of the offices at World Trade Center #7?
Emaunuel or Geithner, I'd sweat when I relized that little red dot (lazer scope) was focused between my eyes. Nobody's going to prosecute these criminals. It may be time for a November moment. Lamp posts are just about the right height. The Russian aristocracy learned their lessons the hard way. Perhaps it's time for ours to learn theirs. Tim and Rahm, get ready. Keep fucking us and you'll get yours. The people you believe are your slaves will get their fair slice of your asses.
The internal emails I want to see are Goldman Sachs, the firm that primarilly engineered the crisis by packaging corrupted MBS bonds, selling them, and then shortselling the hell out of the only index used to provide the mandated mark-to-market valuation of those bonds. The very rapid downfall in the valuation of those bonds immediately effected mortgage company balance sheets and hence their levels of debt and credit lines (and those companies were having their stock attacked by massive illegal shortselling that drove their market capitalization into the ground). For most, credit lines were immediately revoked (often by companies affiliated by Sachs or Sachs itself) and margin calls demanded. That killed many mortgage writers like Countrywide, which Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, etc., scooped up at pennies on the dollar--which was the plan from the outset. What Sachs and its conspirators didn't count on was their actions causing an implosion of the global credit markets. Yes, the FED was responsible for the housing bubble, but it was Sachs's actions that burst it--actions that were surely premediatated, which could be proven through evidencial discovery.
AIG/Valic has its own set of problems, but it was only a minor player in generating the crisis and is now being set-up as the patsy. The #1 Shark is Goldman Sachs and the other broker-dealers that "managed" to "survive" the crisis.
So beware of having your attention diverted from the "man" behind the cutain as that's exactly what Spitzer and company are trying to do.
Don't be nice to any of the managers at AIG, especially in the derivitives branch. Jim Cramer on the "Mad Money show on Dec 22, 2008 stated that most of the early money that AIG received in the TARP bail-out went to banks in Europe. We would learn later that most of that money was used to pay off credit default swaps. It should be infuriating that so few members of Congress are calling for more investigations. One story that has popped up is that Geithner wasn't aware of any decision to create a cover-up. If that is the case it's a lose-lose situation for him. He was the head of the FED in New York and should have known where approx 80 billion dollars would go. If he knew and is now attempting more cover-up, he should be canned. I would also volunteer Ben Bernanke for a kick out the door and have him share a cell with Bernie Madoff.
where is our "change to belive in"?
release the CHANGE
Scanning over articles I stopped and shuttered seeing "Spitzer". I knew it would be a good article. Oh how I wish this story would finally get out, that they'd be exposed. But what are we to do when the line of protection is the CIA and FBI?
Too few people across America understand this Spitzer's mission. He knows the enemy, he knows how they operate and who is protecting them.
I'm sure this AIG thing is so insane it plays out like fiction. Its got to be mind blowing.
This Progressive, Liberal wants to thank Eliot Spitzer for his amazing tenacity and good works. May you never tire and so many of us sit and wait baited breath for day those who prey upon us are exposed and justice is served on this cartel.
Again, thank you.
I completely agree with you. His tenacity is the cause of his being turned in for paying a prostitute.
Read the 03-11-08 WSJ article on Spitzer and know why he was targeted.
About 6 months later Wall Street begins to unravel.
Let's see. Because of Wall Street's frauds the country went bankrupt causing world-wide economic turmoil, throwing millions out of their homes and causing millions to be unemployed. Then there is Spitzer paying a prostitute. Which one did the most harm?
Well, we know who Wall Street thought was the worser of the two in 03 of 08.
Wall Street knew the attention span of this puritan-yet-sex-craved nation. More's the pity. Spitzer was the guy in the white hat.
It's my understanding that AIG was in trouble for years before they fell/got caught. I don't know if it's true, but I heard that people waited for claims checks for months and months. Rumor was that AIG waited for money to come in before checks were written.
I'd like to add my support for this request.
OK Eliot, you have served your ten minute major for misconduct. It's time for you to hook up with someone like Gregg Palast and start laying bare the crimes of these corporate rats! Seeing that Congress isn't going to do it, a colaboration between you and Mr. Palast would probably be the most in depth investigation the American people could expect into what led to the countries financial meltdown. It's time for somebody to start kicking ass and taking names on behalf of the American people. I hope both of you will consider it!
"If we understand the failure of AIG, we will more fully understand the crisis - what caused it and more importantly how to prevent it from happening again."
Spitzer is of course one of the elites who promotes the fairy tales to the public, to try to confuse us, ultimately to enslave us.
He understands the crisis but he isn't allowed to confirm that to the public, which has access to the truth, but fails to embrace the truth because of its opiate dependence on the elite establishment, a.k.a., Sugar Daddy.
Everyone knows that Darth Viper's winks/nods during 2001 unleashed a speculation bonanza unparalleled in history. Commodities, energy, (un)real estate, and the finance-warez cooked up for no benefit whatsoever to the REAL economy and REAL people, all went ballistic in an absolute regulatory void.
The rightwingers forget about this regulatory void as they try to bury its spectacular destruction. Even though, the void STILL EXISTS TODAY under the left-side-of-extreme-right Demoks. Add amnesia to their many afflictions. But please vote for them again and again and again! Sugar Daddies and Sugar Mommas!
"Spitzer is of course one of the elites who promotes the fairy tales to the public, to try to confuse us, ultimately to enslave us."
Actually, Spitzer is a whistle blower. Give the man some credit.
FDR said,
"there are 2 ways of viewing the government's duty,
the 1st sees to it that a favored few are helped and hopes that some of their
prosperity will leak through, sift through, to labor, to the farmer, to the
small business man. That theroy belongs to the party of Torism, and I had hoped
that most of the Tories left this country in 1776."
A more appropriate title might be "Tip of the Scheisseberg".
good to see spitzer boy back in the game. amazing, isn't it, that among all these financial scandals, the folks in new york sent him packing. only in the puritan u.s.a. would such a thing happen. it woud be like cashiering ike before d-day because of kate summerby. republican david vtter, i notice, is still the senator from louisaina, despite his repeated trysts with prostitutes. and ensign still sails the senatorial desert of nevada, throwing hush money as the sands and cacti will allow. and, if you're a known killer, like bush or mcchrystal, people will deem you a fine fella, and slap your back. better a torturer or mad bomber than someone with an outsized libido. we like to grow 'em mean over here in the usa. now, if spitzer had just killed his opponenet in octagonal cage submission fighting.....
Well, the Shapiro crook head of the SEC just answered.
The SEC has announced TODAY that all AIG e-mails are SEALED until 2018.
FUCKING FABULOUS! What a monstrous, in-your-face bunch of assholes!
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This is more preparation for the already in-motion depopulation of the planet Earth.
When the 99% are approaching the annihilation point, and starving, desperate actions will begin.
The "insurgency", "civil war", and "raging anger" will be met with deadly force and the "useless eaters" will be eliminated.
This won't stop till the population of the planet is back at about two billion peasants serving the 1% who hold all the means of sustenance.
Mark my words.
MEL
Melenns, a few minutes ago I commented with words similar to yours on yesterday's post "Someday I Want to Own a Yacht."
When George H. "Daddy" Bush was defeated in his bid for a second term he announced he was going to dedicate the rest of his life to solving the most serious threat to mankind -- population growth. This, he said, had been the great motivating force of his entire life.
Those of us who wrote him off as a bungling fool, as a man without convictions who in his obsession to stop population growth went ahead and had 5 or 6 kids -- we were the fools. He was not talking about reducing births.
Bush and those like him, his fellow corporate-crimminal despots, are aware of the destruction being done to mother earth. They too want to leave a more beautiful planet to their privileged descendants. For them, just under 2 billion slaves is probably manageable. That means about 5 billion human beings have to go.
That is what we are up against.
We have now seen the NEW WORLD ORDER that Bush 41 always talked about, and 99% of us are on our way to the bottom if we are not already there.
And forget the civil war. In order to have a civil war you need two sides that are somewhat closely matched. The US military has more firepower and other military infrastructure than the militaries of all other nations combined. A civil war, if it ever started, would end in minutes.
When he returns from Hawaii, Obama will sign his NDAA that subjects Americans to be apprehended by military, denied due process, and shipped to gulags at home and abroad.
raydelcamino, as for civil war, you're right, and we should all hope it never comes to that.
Civil wars haven't had a good track record, no matter what the circumstances, because even when the names change and the death and destruction are over, the same sort of people seem to wind up on top again.
At this moment humanity seems to be entering an era unlike anything experienced before. Up to now, great, violent change has been confined to specific areas, but the current crisis is befalling the entire planet, and it's doubtful any small clique will be able to keep the lid on and stave off disaster for themselves, as well as for the rest of us, without a more equitable political arrangement and some redistribution of wealth.
After completing their monumental, multi-volume history of the world, the Durants were asked the simplistic "What are the lessons of history?" I can only remember two: 1) inflation is continual and 2) wealth concentrates and must be redistributed at intervals if the game is to go on. Hopefully this happens before the losers kick over the poker table and the fight starts.
Violent change cannot continue to be "confined to specific areas" because the 1% have more resources to use against the 99% than they ever had before. Just as the Mexican police and military will never match the fire power of the drug lords, there is no government anywhere in the world that can match the firepower of the 1%.
"Just as the Mexican police and military will never match the fire power of the drug lords"
Maybe the various local drug cartels outgun the local poltizi in any one area, but they are vastly inferior in manpower AND weaponry compared to the Mexican military, which can bring to focus thousands of troops and weapons to a threat. Its all about money, control and a weak central govt. The reality is that the Mexican state has been in low level civil war and rebellion since its inception, they never consolidated their central power.
Ha!!! that was good ...great explanation.
If the goal is depopulation then why are the republicans so against any sort of population control -- birth control, abortion, etc.?
If you look back into the history of various countries, you find the citizens reaching the edge of the cliff, and having to decide whether to meekly topple over, or turn around and fight for their lives. It's pretty obvious we're being shoved to the edge of that cliff, and "they"'re preparing in advance for when that life or death decision is reached. We've only begun the journey to the edge. There's still a long way to go, and a whole lot more suffering to endure along the way. But rest assured, we will get there, eventually.
The greatest secret they have to keep under lock is Global Warming.
If the public figures that one out -- and its imminent threat -- it will be over.
Climate change is hardly a secret. The only flaw in this magificent piece was that the author didn't acknowledge what you also don't want to admit--that while there is a global elite calling the shots, they are aided by that 1/3 of the public that always supports the Right, and my that 90% that won't do anything until everyone else does. It IS true that the public has no idea how serious the climate crisis is.
Perhaps it's FINALLY time to "occupy" the sidewalks in front of corporate officers houses and the sidewalks in front of their churches among other places. Confront them with specific things such as "XXXXX Kills Children in Somecountry by discharging chemicals into local water supplies" or "XXXX is a mass murderer - His company _______________"
Let these scumbags feel public shame... let them explain to their children why people are calling them murderers and criminals... Shame them to the point that they won't appear in public. Call them out. Send them massive mailings from as many real people as possible indicting them of their crimes against humanity. Take out full page newspaper ads detailing their crimes.
Holding a sit-in in front of a police line does little to nothing other than play the game by the rules THEY define.
Agree re occupying their personal space -- but you won't create "shame" ...
Rather it will be more like outrage and retaliation.
Corporate executives have private police forces AND the "public" police AND the military working for them. My son-in-law works for an outfit that provides 24/7 security for corporate executives and he tells me its a rapidly growing industry. Show up at the entrance to their gated communities and the police line will be there in a New York minute.
Right. No one sits in "in front of a police line"--rather they choose appropriate targets and shortly the police arrive to protect the elite.
Yeah, they just tried this approach in Eugene, with predictable results:
HB ---- the only problem with your suggestion is that these people are psychopaths.
They cannot feel shame. They have no conscience. They will simply continue in their drive to dominate. Shame is not a concept that they comprehend. dh
There is an alternate interpretation of the facts reported here about arming local police departments. They used to carry 0.38 cal revolvers, which were not as effective in dropping an assailant as the 9mm Glock automatics which most of them carry now.
Thanks to the gun culture in this country, assault rifles seem to be proliferating. So even with a Glock, what cop would want to go up agains a guy with an assault rifle?
Just a few weeks ago, where I live (in south central IN) the police went to a house to serve an arrest warrent. When they went to the basement where the guy was, he started shooting at them with an assault rifle. They were pinned down in the basement for several hours. By the time the incident was over, several police departments and the state police had men there, along with at least one swat team.
That is the kind of thing police in lots of places face these days. Who would begrudge them weapons at least as lethal as those carried by the "perps?"
Congress purposely didn't renew the assault weapons ban in 2004 in order to enhance the military industrial complex's weapon sales. Assault weapons don't "seem to be proliferating", they ARE everywhere in the US, play a part in most high-profile shootings (think Virginia Tech and Congresswoman Giffords, for example) and have continued to be one of the strongest US exports. Why do you think things are so bad in Mexico? Mexico is overrun with US-supplied assault weapons.
Everything you wrote is correct. But what I wrote is also correct. We are writing about different things. The local cops where I live (south of Indianapolis) are often out-gunned by the guys running meth labs. The fact that the weapons the cops are now getting can be used to pacify crowds does not change that.
SHEEP: Your apologia for uniformed authority figures in no way explains:
1. The tank (and other military gear, like drones)
2. The camps
Nice try at setting up a new martial equivalence, and/or lowering the bar on those indignities which a so-called free society will be obliged to tolerate.
That is what I would call an extreme but exceptional case. The reason I say this is that I have seen one too many individuals bringing up stories like this and such stories are usually a slippery slope towards justifying ruthless cops using bigger guns against defenseless citizens. One question to ask oneself is this. How many citizens who are arrested out of a 100 would carry anything close to an assault rifle? And what do cops really stand to gain by carrying assault rifles and dangerous chemicals to be used against protesters trying to fight for a better today and tomorrow especially when those same cops might have had a better career to go for had our system been more geared towards peace rather than war and aggression?
This is what they face these days? But in the real world, crime rates have been going down. Do you really believe the cops in Fargo need tanks to do drug busts? What an interesting name you've chosen, sheepherder
"But obviously the Homeland Security crowd was already thinking ahead and planning for a time when such armor and weapons would be necessary to “maintain security” and “uphold law and order” on the home front."
Is it really too much of a leap to imagine that the government is reacting to events that it is projecting may happen? Could it be that the government has done studies of the future economies, populations, environmental crises, food and water scarcities, migration pressures, and internal strife caused by all these factors? Do we really believe that the various global pressures that are steadily mounting will just be taken care of and we will simply adjust to what comes? (I know, many still do).
We will adjust in some regards but the severity of problems caused by 7 billion people (and rapidly rising) may very well overtake all efforts that our cleverness can muster. And isn't it prudent and wise to consider that our system is not very resilient and start preparing ourselves and our communities?
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I like this and appreciate the author's courage in stating her feelings. Not too many have the courage to get out of their heads for even a short while and check in with the deeper part of their nature - their feelings. Anyway, it speaks to me in a different way than, "I think," or "I believe," or "I know." Bravo!
We better hope climate change makes humans extinct before the 1% tortures and kills off the rest of us.
The !% have had too much help from the 99% in moving us toward human extinction that a revolutions late (wouldn't succed anyway); only a global catastrophe of some sort now might prevent extinction a bit later (100yrs max!) I'm just afraid we haven't learned, never do; need DNA upgrade; calling all Aliens!
TED: Your post is reasonable and sensible. However, it turns the issue in question to one primarily hinged upon population numbers as opposed to:
1. Unfair laws, and a progressive cutting of civil liberties
2. Slanted distribution that's insured that the upper 1% receive a highly disproportionate share of collective resources & privileges
3. The overall emphasis on control of citizens (in such items as spying on emails, pre-emptively infiltrating "Leftist" events, and upping the ante on punishing whistle blower)
In other words, your post attempts to turn these controls into benign care & concern for citizens. That is NOT the objective, although it's certainly the pretext.
Siouxrose: My post was incomplete and I can see how it could be misconstrued. That does not mean I attempted to turn the controls into benign care. The government is behaving as power behaves and I am not attaching any more meaning to it than that.
What I meant is that the government is fully aware of all the events that are conspiring to hit us (as many already have) and is reacting to those events, real or perceived. That they over-react is the nature of power, especially when it senses that things may get out of hand and that its existence is threatened.
The issues you enumerated are true, but the fact is that 7 billion people (and growing - let's not forget this) have a huge impact on everything. I'm not trying to implicate the 7 billion, just pointing out the levered effect of that many people.
In short, my intent was, and is, to shed some light on the government's reasoning and why they may be turning up the heat. Part of it is that they feel threatened. The other part is out of a sense of paternalistic "care" on their part (not that I believe it is good).
On the third paragraph, I disagree that all 7 billion people are at fault. Each nation is different and even within nations, usage of resources varies.
Jennifer: I didn't fault anyone. Can we please leave the word "fault" in our pockets for a little while and see the larger picture?
Seven billion people (and rapidly growing) is a huge number. Most of those people want to be like you and me, and many of those are becoming like you and me. I'm not passing judgment on the 7 billion people, I'm simply pointing out a driving factor in the pressures this poor little planet is feeling and the effect that 7 billion hungry people have. And if it's only 3 billion people who are the main cause, then it's 3 billion people. My point is that we have a huge problem and a large part of the solution lies with dealing with population...and, yes, with our consumption and waste.
The rest of my point is in my response to Siouxrose.
Ted, thank you for clarifying. It makes more sense now although I have no way of knowing for sure as to how many of the 7b people are hungry and the extent to which they are hungry. Learning to be less materialistic and practicing it in my daily life, I have come to prefer prevention and training for all strategies more than the "feed the poor" bandaid "solutions". I would never tell the poor to be less materialistic btw.
Excellent article. The reference to Threau is also reminiscent of the impassioned speech that was given by Mario Savio during the Free Speech movement on the campus of the Univ. of California at Berkeley:
"Bodies upon the gears"." Sproul Hall Steps, December 2, 1964
Agreed, excellent article, one definitely worth passing around! Quite appropriate to invoke Thoreau here, whose ideas inspired Gandhi, who in turn had an influence on Rev.MLK and others. Also, powerful quote in your comment from the "Bodies upon the gears" speech. There's this cartoon I once came across, where Gandhi is saying to Martin Luther King, "The funny thing about assassins, Dr. King, is that they imagine they've killed you!"
The oligarchy's pro-life plan is to breed more workers. Their pro-death plan is to kill workers when they are no longer productive.
Considering how badly the pro-life crowd treats the fetus after it is born, the model parallels that of poultry and hog operations.
The elite want to turn the citizen into a consumer. And replace the citizen with their new-born son named Corporate citizenship. This new citizen will receive all the rights and protections that his daddy Wall Street can buy for him. We citizens just become one more consumer on the road to globalization.
Hoa binh
It is impossible to over react to the necrophilia being inflicted on the earth and all it populations human, animal and plant by the useless 1% and stupid thugs who work for them in armies and police forces. I have heard so many unable to understand the insanity of it all and the only person I know who has addressed the full measure of it is Mary Daly especially in Gyn/Ecology.
Seals are now dying from radiation sickness in Alaska while Obama pushes power plants in South America, Republicans are trying to take down the head of the Nuclear Regulatory Agency because he actually wants to regulate though they need to all be dismantled. Scientists taking a brid flu that didn't infect humans and engineering it to kill humans. Brilliant! And now complaining they are being prohibited from sharing information on how to do this. The US pushing for War in Iran, the Tar Sands, the deep water destruction and the load of radioactive crap heading for the West Coast. I could go on and on.
Greed isn't enough of an explanation, a poisoned environment will kill without notice of bank accounts. No, only the necrophiliac religion that is patriarchy, fueled and powered by technological capitalism, can explain the sheer sadistic madness of the sadistic madmen who rule the planet and have always hated women and nature, a suicidal hatred. The machine is the monster built by patriarchy, Mary Shelly first oracle of feminism, Mary Daly most important seer.
I hear you Artemix, but the concepts you raise are highly threatening (and alien) to the majority of male (and a few female) posters. It's a shame, really, as they think all the things that ail society can be changed through the political and economic arenas. I've been recommending Riane Eisler lately, but you're right, Mary Daly is another excellent source.
Peace.
Sioux, how can the rest of us, lacking your spiritual and psychic powers, be sure which posters are male and female? For a long time I believed you were a Nordic male in S. Dakota posing as a Native American female shaman in Florida.
I don't know what to think anymore.
I admit you know the regulars here better than I, but apart from trolls, I haven't come across many commenters who seemed threatened by anything but corporate dictatorship and environmental catastrophe. The progressive humanism here doesn't seemed confined to politics and economics either.
I could be wrong. Or you could be losing your mind. Are you okay?
Have some posters been mean to you while I've been gone?
I am sure I speak for other CD posters in saying that we see many friends, acquaintances and strangers losing their minds slowly as they continue to deny what is very apparent. Although posting our most recent observations on CD is often as painful for us as it is for many readers, we hope the fact-based information we attempt to convey will set us all free and prove to be the preferred alternative to succumbing to emotion-based groupthink.
As long as Sioux's and other posters comments continue to inspire, the characteristics of posters should continue to be left to the imaginations of all CD readers.
Very well said. I wholeheartedly agree that we must all do our best to stick to debating the facts and not allow anything to get personal lest a discussion ever get heated to the point of turning into a war zone. I appreciate reading your thoughtful posts. Thank you and happy new year.
I'd like to weigh in on this and I am going to try not to implicate any single individual.
There are many good people here, though, I really wish we could all just come out of our closets and use our real names. Trust goes a long way toward keeping some civility and honesty. Having said that, we are all feeling the heat of a frigged-up situation. These are truly Orwellian times and it's hard to know who to trust. And through all this, is it any wonder that we would contradict ourselves at times or seem confused or say things that don't really come out right?
What I'm saying is that if the Left ever truly wants to have a hint of a prayer, we have to stop beating the shit out of each other for being human. We have to learn patience and respect. That doesn't mean we have to like each other or agree with everything others say, but I see many on the Left as being self-righteous absolutists. And these people share my beliefs!
Trust is a tenuous thing, even more so in tenuous times. How can we ever expect to get anywhere if we don't do the things that build trust?
Again, I'm not saying this in response to anyone in particular, just that your post, GollyGee, seemed like a good point to insert my nose.
Rant over.
..." though, I really wish we could all just come out of our closets and use our real names."
"Trust is a tenuous thing, even more so in tenuous times."
Irony check! Or something darker...?
Irony? Don't think so. It's merely a positive feedback loop either way, and we can build trust or continue to tear it down.
Something darker? Not in this case, but the feeling is understandable. The format here is not amenable to communicating privately, which would go a long way toward building some real trust. A few posters here have decided to post with our real names in the open. In my case, it tends to keep me honest and less snarky. And by the way, if you think posting with a pseudonym keeps you hidden from the baddies, you're fooling yourself. If Anonymous can hack into "secure" sites, so can the government.
Oh well, not my problem.
I agree that posting with a pseudonym does not guarantee privacy. It is somewhat questionable that if everyone were to sign on with real names the baddies would go. You make a good case for the need to sign up with real names to minimize rudeness as much as possible.
I have seen some posters on various forums ask for requiring people to post with their real names. I have no problem with that myself as I chose to post with my real name. Furthermore, I believe that it could put the issue of "multiple signups" to rest. However, since I also respect people's rights to privacy, I can only assume that people want to speak out and contribute but are afraid that outsiders such as their employers, certain relatives, or even pols themselves will look them up all too easily and use that knowledge against them.
As for "communicating privately", someone told me that there used to exist a "hidden" option for doing so once signed on. I never saw it myself. It could help build trust or maybe not. I find it best to try to keep conversations polite even on disagreements. I cannot guarantee that it will automatically help build trust but it should keep the tensions down at the very least.
"And for that epic confrontation—if it ever occurs—officers can now summon a new $256,643 armored truck, complete with a rotating turret.”
That's a tank which only needs a suitable weapon in the turret.
I wonder how well it would work as a bookmobile? Would the rotating turret be a good reading nook?
Security from what? Security for whom?
Leo Tolstoy had a theory that the primary reason a country keeps a standing army is to protect the government from the people.
Good critique, but it seems to me that the proper word would be friction, not "counter-friction". Counter-friction would be lubrication. I know the phrase goes back to Thoreau's civil disobedience, but it is awkward as is the original essay in this particular metaphor. If anyone can offer a clear logical account of the segment of Thoreau's argument from friction to counter-friction, I would be impressed. Seems better to use clear contemporary language and un-muddled metaphors.
Also, does this actually mean the writer is refusing to pay taxes or just asking others to do so. This is the most powerful tool available to stop the machine, but easier to propose than exemplify. Only a massive tax revolt stands a chance of bringing down the corporate military empire of the 1%. But where is the unity, where are the leaders, where is the support system?
"We stand at a crossroads. Each of us must make up our own minds, in our own time. How much longer will we continue to docilely feed the machine our tax dollars, and march peacefully where they lead us?"
I think the point was more like this: As a part owner of your government, through the payment of your taxes, don't you think you should "march" like you own it?
Second, because the Fed is a private-public partnership, with the major banks essentially owning the right to print US Dollars sans constraints, if the IRS didn't receive a dime for 2012, the banks would just continue to tally up those Debt-Notes called US Dollars, and fire up those printing presses in response (and vigorously implement the US provisions of the NDAA soon to be signed by our President into law.)
In other words, the fastest way for the masses to live in 1940 Germany, as the author describes, would be for the masses to stop paying taxes.
I'm afraid you're right about the tax revolt not having any immediate impact but in the long term it will scare away 80% of the nations with whom we trade (China, Japn, Korea, Canada and others we run a trade deficit with and pay with US Treasury notes). Eventually, the 1% will find that it will hurt. A massive tax revolt will leave the IRS with inadequate personnel for enforcement. If the wage earner claims a high no. of deductions and cuts his withholding to a minimum, he doesn't have to file a return because he'll won't get a refund. I think the tax revolt idea along with the consumer refusing to buy anything but necessities, driving less, cutting off cable TV and cell phones is bound to have a marked effect. These are the only tools we have to fight the 1%. Let 'm drink oil!
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updated copyright year
Remove code-duplication in fsl-util.4th vs. fsl-util.fs. Also install fsl-util.fs .
Bench macht auch fft-bench
Android floating point stuff
Fixes for Windows
Gforth on Android native including install
Added terminal server as socket example
Library prefix is libgf for non-conflicting names
Added lib prefix to library files
Android library build
Makefile changes to compile libraries
Slightly improved $substitute to allow arguments on the stack
Better separation of different architectures on the same machine
Added -> recognizer to replace TO and IS
Added ." recognizer
Added postpone test, added smartdots.fs to list of sources
Build process for Android improved
Added --with-arch option to install a Gforth with a specific suffix - allows non-conflicting install with 32 and 64 bits. All non-arch files are shared with the two installs
Getting closer to Android libcc.fs support
Gforth for Android
package into the right place for install directories
Cross-compile tag installation
Debian distribution creation
Fixed last bug in threading
Include Lm32 assembler&gforth-ec support when building distribution tarballs
updated copyright years
better tested quotations
moved kernel_fi install place to libdir
Renamed kforth into gforthker, added better heuristics on head?
Added a kforth script to do the doc generation in a cross compiling environment
Cross compilation made simpler - Android example works
Fixed static superinstruction generation
Workaround broken --no-dynamic to build Gforth even though
Recognizer included
added str-exec.fs to distributed files
Moved installdir definitions above users. Bug report by Zbigniew Baniewski
Gforth now also builds and installs without emacs (untested). Bug report by Gerald Wodni
updated copyright years
Changed path.fs to use string.fs to fix buffer overflow bug
Added files for OpenSuSE build service
keep envos.fs from being included in distribution tarballs.
add mips/check_prim.c to the list distributed sources
added ARM disassembler (contributed by Andreas Bolka) some fixes in the ARM assembler (contributed by Andreas Bolka) ARM assembler and disassembler are now distributed FCOPYSIGN now works with the strangely ordered floats on ARM
C-based EC improved a lot
updated copyright years
added test and compat files for ]] ... [[ (macros.fs) optimized postpone-literal and friends
started on prelude concept preludes can be built, but are not yet performed
comment for r1.444: CVS files are now no longer installed. The remaining use of CVSDIRS was for installing directories, so that part was renamed and cleaned up.
Makefile.in
Merged Aleksej's makefile cleanups
updated copyright years; related changes in administrative files
Common idiom for makefile.dos/os2
Moved blank file into distributabe sources
Moved r8c no_dist files to dist files
Added errors.fs file in arch/r8c to distrubited files
added .DELETE_ON_ERROR target for better behaviour on build errors
Fixed typo for make uninstall
install.TAGS bugfix set special skipcode for power architecture to work with gcc-3.[34]
worked around HP/UX awk limitations by replacing awk script with gforth script put some workarounds for specific boxes into testall and testdist
Fixed vmgen problem
Fixed a few more builddir and other issues Improved testall and testdist (only partially tested)
Fixed various bugs related to builddir!=srcdir prims2x0.6.2.fs is now installed avoid extra make for check updated testdist and testall
The libcc-named stuff is now build before checking (it's not a check) The libcc-named stuff is only built and installed if libtool exists
Makefile bugfix fixed some portability issues for MIPS fixed some portability issues for old platforms
Fixed unused Makefile macros
re-enabled installation of vmgen updated NEWS.vmgen NEWS.vmgen.future contains stuff that's not yet for NEWS.vmgen (not installed)
now the use of MKDIR-PARENTS in libcc is tested
Moved mkdir.fs to the normal sources (no longer a libcc.fs based file)
Added Aleksej's Makefile patch
added cstr.fs mkdir.fs C interface files
more Solaris portability fixes
another Solaris portability fix
fixed documentation bugs
Only those libcc files are processed for which the libraries exist
The Makefile now uses an EMACS variable Eliminated most compilation warnings
install gforth.el, too (suggested by Aleksej Saushev <[email protected]>)
Try to make old libffi.fs work again
distribute autogen.sh, too (Bug report from M. Edward (Ed) Borasky)
Fixed libtool invocation in Makefile for Mac OS X
anti-dependence of engine on kernel is now set by configure (if a preforth exists)
Cleanup of improved build process
Fixed build process.
Try to get C compiler with options to work
Fix for libcc.fs
Fix a few building bugs
fixed some bugs so "make install" works (DESTDIR still probably buggy)
builds .la files on install (untested and probably broken wrt DESTDIR) added check-libcc-named target and perform it on make check The libcc-path now also contains the common libcc-named directory reworked initialization of libcc to happen on every boot added MAKE-PATH (for making an empty path to paths.fs
Use make, not sh, variable interpolation syntax for bindir
Another use of PREFORTH
added missing (anti-)dependence
removed all references to local libltdl
Bugfix: make and make dist don't need pre-installed Gforth FORCE_REG_UNNECESSARY now defined automatically and used better documentation bugfix
make dist now also distributes libtldl (untested) added "make maintainer-clean" (untested, and without autogen.sh for libltdl) Various "clean" targets now also clean libtldl
added support for building with included libltdl missing: building with installed libltdl including ltdl in the distributed files
CPPFLAGS are now used by the Makefiles bugfix in libcc.fs OPEN-LIB now can open libraries without extension and the library's symbols become global libltdl from libtool-2.2 or higher required (will be included soon)
Made sure that a distribution is possible
BUILD-FROM-SCRATCH now uses autogen.sh realclean now also cleans directories
disabled automatic calling of gforth --diag
deleted bootstrap target (hopefully for good). 'make realclean' should now make it real clean
Fixed doc generating problem.
minor Makefile.in bugfix
Building on i386 works again
added some missing engine dependencies
make clean now removes the various $(OPT)-generated files removed some debugging output fixed some endless recursions
Now make automatically tries a set of OPT settings after another until one is found that works. This is a pretty bad hack.
Now we can use BUGGY_LONG_LONG again, as follows: make OPT=-noll OPTDEFINES= OPTOBJECTS=dblsub.o Minor bugfix
bugfix <[email protected]> and cleanup
Added stack comments to complex.fs
Added glossary entries to regexp (but no documentation chapter)
DESTDIR is now not in the INCLUDED-FILES of the installed gforth.fi
install TAGS are now created correctly (untested).
OPEN-FILE with W/O no longer creates or truncates files (probably bugfix) compatibility file for old code missing Bugfix in Makefile.in
Inserted attribution and Copyright for ftester stuff into ttester.fs Include COPYING.LIB because of the ftester stuff
split test/ttester.fs off from test/tester.fs. added support for ftester-style approximate matching. added support for approximate matching on shared-stack systems (RXRX}T etc.).
gforth.el: changes for byte-compiling (from Darren Bane, see <>) Makefile.in: generate and install gforth.elc
minor fixes suggested by Aleksej Saushev
Don't try to distribute doc/texinfo.tex (deleted)
Bugfix for <> (mostly from Darren Bane)
enhanced 'make checkdoc'
checkone now doesn't compare #line lines removed debugging tracer in BUILD-FROM-SCRATCH
configure M4 automatically
m4 is now called throug make variable M4
added struct0x.fs to dist
Optimize ?BRANCH and friends with conbranch_opt (configure variable)
Some work on Gforth NXT last potential problem with line editing fixed
documentation changes Updates in Makefile.in to reflect newer autoconf usage Distribution and installation of libcc stuff libcc header files are now found automatically Disabled vmgen installation
added missing dependency documentation changes
libcc.fs is now in gforth.fi documentation changes
Some stuff to get closer to run Gforth on NXT
C-based Gforth EC starts to work
added new files to make dist
changed benchmarking code (use Gforth instead of GNU time) more assembler comment syntax variants
added missing dependency for running autoheader
Removed stupid machpc.fs regeneration in Makefile.in
make dist patch from Josh Message-ID: <20070301220740.GA32518@qualdan>
added new files to package nicer onebench output
more changes for SELinux black magic
Started with Gforth EC NXT
updated copyright years
ans-report.fs now reports CfV extensions
updated Makefile.ins with engine/longlong.h dependencies
Integrated and documented the PowerPC assembler.
Makefile: undid change requiring gforth-fast to build first other changes for packaging added POST_INSTALL etc. tags Updated NEWS files to 2006-05-07 minor documentation changes
Added texi2dvi[4a2ps] check Fixed maxdepth_.s glossary entry
Multitasker for R8C running light in background
moved chains.fs from KERN_SRC to EC_SRC
R8C files added to distribution
Build-ec setting at the right place
R8C data region cleanup build-ec execution flag set
Automatic fixpath Build script for EC
Small changes
dependence on envos.fs added
Environment OS from $host_os R8C changes Better output when there are no performance problems
Docdist improvement
Another small fix
Generate fast prim first
stamp-h dependency
added DESTDIR support (see Make manual or GNU standards) however, .INCLUDED is still wrong at the moment
make dist fixes in makefile problems with path separator on cygwin (now Unix-like again)
added compat/execute-parsing.fs
updated the copyright year on many files added FSF copyright header to complex.fs fft.fs regexp-test.fs regexp.fs added fsl-util.fs to update-copyright-blacklist
Added access words for wyde and tetrabyte (w/t@/!)
Added complex words and fft Added some floating point primitives "..."
renamed PARSE-WORD into PARSE-NAME added some test(dis)asm files to distribution
Added --diag switch
converted command-line editing to use xchars some bugfixes
updated copyright years for files changed in 2004
moved files without distribution terms from ARCHS to ARCHS_NO_DIST added test/deferred.fs (public domain) to update-copyright-blacklist
Fixed install for amd64
implemented deferred words proposal (and adapted documentation accordingly).
Added # as decimal prefix
disgdb.fs is now always compiled in and checks at run-time if it works
added dis-gdb.fs and related changes minor changes
added Athlon64 benchmark result added depth-changes.fs and hook for that in kernel/input.fs made ~~ work in interpret state documented clearstacks.
cleaned up exboot.fs (allowed by the SHIFT-ARGS change)
eliminated ARG# in favour of SHIFT-ARGS; related cleanups and doc changes
fixed some Makefile bugs
fixed gforth-native bug (branch target resolution) fixed "make dist" bug (arch/misc/optcmove.fs now included) Documentation changes
added make target primtest more primtests fixed some gforth-native bugs workaround for finish-code problem
activated gforth-native again some gforth-native bugfixes and changes
more work on stack caching
Now the _fast.i files are included for gforth-fast and gforth-native
factored out some generating stuff from the makefile into gfgen added rules for generating engine/*-fast.i (not used yet)
stack caching works now (at least for make check) the main change is to the optimize_... stuff in main.c also restricted static optimization area to basic blocks minor bugfixes
use @INSTALL_SCRIPT@
Applied NetBSD patches submitted by Hubert Feyrer
IA64 refinements (dynamic native code generation) ARM support (but FP is broken on the iPAQ, and icache flush is missing) made no_dynamic_default and skipcode configuration variables worked around fixed some minor bugs
added configure option --enable-prof
a bit Gforth EC work Changed Windows distribution to contain PDF instead of PostScript file
Added pdf target for the documents
added amd64 architecture changed some generic settings minor changes)
added callback stuff to fflib.fs removed legacy flag (different usage is sufficient)
made superinstructions compatible with conditional compilation of primitives (in Gforth; don't use conditional compilation in vmgen).
fixed Windows PATHSEP bug Makefile now tolerates ";" as PATHSEP eliminatd some warnings
Inclusion of ffcall stuff High level stuff missing
Some fixes to makedist and a few changes to wf.fs)
preparing for new approach to static superinstructions fixed bug in 386 disassembler (fucompp) minor cleanup
bugfix (paper format) added doc/vmgen.1 (contributed by Eric Schwartz)
updated version number documentation changes minor changes
updated copyright years
added copyright messages to a lot of files removed some obsolete or non-source files
bug workaround (cygwin signal blocking) minor changes
minor changes
minor changes
documentation installation updates
Documentation changes (new: The Input Stream (gforth), Stack growth direction (Vmgen)
minor fixes
updated ChangeLog and BUGS now gforth-itc is installed and uninstalled documentation changes
portability changes bugfixes in prims2x.fs, kernel/int.fs
fixed some portability bugs and other minor bugs
some changes for cygwin
replaced configure variable EXE with EXEEXT (provided by autoconf by default)
minor changes
added test cases for f>str-rdp
undid changes to copyright notices
Updated copyright notices Added stack effects to kernel/input.fs
eliminated all greedy static superinstruction stuff (we will use something else for static superinstructions eventually) eliminated PRIMTABLE PREPARE-PEEPHOLE-TABLE PEEPHOLE-OPT COMPILE-PRIM)
Made 4stack port of Gforth EC work again
Fixed look problem Added benchmarking of all engines
restored the old engine/prim_lab.i format (for vmgen compatibility) introduced engine/prim_grp.i for the new use
First inclusion of group-based primitive tokens (no reordering happend yet)
some fixes to make make dist work bugfixes to make building outside srcdir work minor prims2x.fs bugfix (for vmgen-ex) vmgen-ex[2] bugfix
made CODE and ;CODE work again
refined BUILD-FROM-SCRATCH
"make check" now checks all engines and some variations bugfix in forget-dyncode).
New file test/float.fs FROUND-OFFSET now defined without f** bugfix in signals (disabled SA_ONSTACK in most cases to allow graceful_exit).?
Getting ready for the Vmgen release New snapshot dates, various documentation changes, Makefile and configure fixes
prims2x.fs now outputs #line directives at the end of the user C code documentation changes
Documentation changes
vmgen documentation changes
documentation changes
added quotes.fs in Makefile.in
added regression test for signal on broken execute (not working on Linux-PPC) new error message and code for ticking compile-only words bug workaround for gforth binary (dynamic superinsts produced wrong code for ?dup-0=-branch).
fixed Makefile bugs (to get BUILD-FROM-SCRATCH running again)
Differentiate between threaded code and xts in gforth-ditc and in gforthmi
Added benchmark result (superinstructions) for 600 MHz Athlon Made cross work again with superinstructions (requires larger dictionary)
default dictionary size 1M cells machine-specific stuff for dynamic superinstructions is now in machine.h support for dynamic superinstructions for Alpha
added dynamic superinstructions (currently for direct threading on 386, without checking for other platforms)
Added tags generation for vi small changes on httpd for EuroForth paper Added navigation button generation via Gimp to wf Made nccomp from Lars Krueger work at least somehow
simpy inlclude startup.fs in prims2x if needed
cleanup, so BUILD-FROM-SCRATCH (should) works
BUILDFORTH more comment
minor changes
vmgen-related changes in Makefile fixed FORTHB/prims2x breakage removed lit_plus added peeprules.vmg as a place to put superinstructions testdist now also tests vmgen-ex
set of changes to use gforth0.5.0 to build right out of the cvs sources
Made peephole a configurable option
First steps to get peephole optimizing into cross
profiling now outputs subsequences
continued block profiling
good start at profiling for peephole optimization backtrace now also works for calls done with CALL
added C and primitive support for peeophole optimization
added test for COMPARE more peephole optimization stuff
fixed bug (?; might also be due to an Emacs change) in prim.TAGS generation. bugfix in alias? (length related) NEXTNAME can now also handle long names added FREE-MEM-VAR
bugfix (complete?): backtrace-rp0 now is restored in interpret process-file in prims2x.fs now takes two xts various other chnages in prims2x.fs
Improved Win32-based distribution (iss.sh generates a setup script for inno setup).
make bindist now makes sunsite-compliant package names updated lsm prims2x now works on the Alpha SEE now displays anonymous words as <###> (where ### is the xt) added CONST-DOES>
rewrote large parts of prims2x.fs to become more flexible (not restricted to 2 stacks, factored out common code for the stacks, etc.). Changes in other files to go with the prims2x.fs changes
Added new input handling (OO approach). Only available if capability new-input is true (so setting that to false in machpc.fs gets you the old input handling back).
make uninstall now deletes gforth-fast-$VERSION
add kernel.TAGS dependency and target in the Makefile
changed FSF address in copyright messages
updated copyright dates in many files (not in ec-related files)
bugfix (loadfilename# must be set before process-args) minor changes
fixed bug about directory in prim.TAGS (untested)
added initial ia64 support (thanks to Andreas Schwab)
Fixed #fill-bytes for nested inputs Improved font highlighting Dirty fix for exboot correction (for DOS)
fixed a bug updated BUGS file factored out .strings from .included
documentation changes snapshot work
Changed prim syntax to not make a difference between blanks and tabs. Stack effects are now surrounded by parentheses.
added 386 asm and disasm BUILD-FROM-SCRATCH work with previous version of Gforth (almost automatic)
Made make dist work again
fixed doc bugs
When building gforth.fi, there is now an exception frame after including exceptions.fs (through exboot.fs), providing decent error messages..
texinfo.tex from texinfo-4.0 various changes for texinfo-4.0 (which reports more bugs and warnings).
Added engine dependencies to main Makefile
Improved color highlighting Install new files, too Some corrections to httpd
Started cross compiler documentation Made 4stack, 8086, and MISC Gforth-EC work again
throw is now more well-behaved during initialization and before loading exceptions.fs
added support for generating html straight out of makeinfo (you need v4.0 for this, so it's commented out at the moment. Unlike texi2html, the html output from makeinfo is a single monolithic file; not too great..) Bug-fix (Well, I think so..) If you do a "make" and then "su root" and "make install" and then return to non-root, the install would leave 2 files in the source tree that were owned by root - very impolite. The files were: -- gforth.fi (I solve this problem by deleting gforth.fi after an install. I think gforth.fi after an install refers to the install directory so this is a good thing to do anyway) -- prim.TAGS (because "make all" doesn't generate prim.TAGS, but "make install" does, therefore it ends up being owned by root. I couldn't see a clean way to fix this in the Makefile. I'd use "chmod --reference" to just fix up the protection but this option is GNU-specific. My backup solution was to add TAGS to the list in the doc: target, which seemed reasonable/consistent).
took exception handling out of the kernel into exceptions.fs added inline exception handling (TRY...RECOVER...ENDTRY) added exception handling without affecting sp or fp (PROTECT...ENDPROTECT)
context is now a DEFERed word various small bugfixes
added name index to docs and support for info-lookup to gforth.el minor doc changes
added engine option --appl-image and gforthmi option --application minor objects.fs changes
bug fixes
gforth now produces exit code 1 if it has an error in batch processing make check is now less verbose
Added kernel/pass.fs
Dependencies: special.fs out, quotes.fs in
Changed FORTHPATH starting with ~+ instead of .
Changed -O4 to -O3, since that's the highest really supported optimization for GCC (O4 is undefined) Added i686 to configure file.
Added control of forth and c comments of new prims2x.fs.
FORTHK now uses $(ENGINE).
gforth (non-fast) now uses a plain threading scheme, making error positions more accurate minor changes
prepared for snapshot, fixed some buglets
moved signal handling into a new file signals.c minor changes to window size handling?)
Improved dump information for magic Added code in cross.fs to support new magic Fixed makefile problem with cp (cp -p to preserve date)
there is now a debugging version of the engine that maintains ip and rp in global variables (to allow backtrace on signals). The debugging engine is called gforth and the original engine is called gforth-fast.
fixed Makefile bug (engine/Makefile is now remade when necessary)
fixed siteinit.fs-related problems
Install process fixes for DOS and OS/2 EC primitive count fixed EC relocate problem fixed
doc/gforth.txt is not included in the dist adjusted man page
fixed a few small problems (mainly with bindist)
Fixed Makefile.in for empty emacssitelispdir variable
fixed some bugs and problems
new solution for make dist fixed a bug in generating magic
Separated distribution Makefile (works only with gmake)
Changes to make gforth run on DOS and Win32 (I hope it's not broken by the latest Makefile.in changes) Some minor tweaks
fixed some problems (mainly for separate source and build dirs)
gforthmi is now generated from gforthmi.in by configure fixed several installation bugs in Makefile.in)
Made Makefile.in dist-able (removed the two outdated files)
updated dates in copyright messages inserted copyright messages in most files that did not have them removed outdated files engine/32bit.h engine/strsig.c
updated NEWS file added doc/gforth.txt to distributed files.
removed f0 fixed problem with dependence on config.h.in (not well tested).
Removed the make -C parts for other makes. Also tried to avoid multiple right side % rules for same reason.
Fixed config.bat (no startup.dos, no history.dos)
Fixed a lot of problems from the wordlist structure change (I hope we had not omitted the "wordlist-id" in the first place).
fixed "make clean" removed config.h.in from .cvsignore.
changed deletion of html/ tree changed document structure a bit)
Several fixes and typos I forgot to check in until recently Documentation additions (not completed)
Default path now has "." in front Worked a bit on the documentation fixed handling of "." in open-path-file (now also works with "." from the path)
fixed some bugs in arch/power/machine.h make targets now use --die-on-signal
Added missing doers.fs and getdoers.fs
Mega-Patch; lots of changes
Added some Benchres entries fixed small bugs in Makefile and arch/mips/machine.h
LEAVE fix in see.fs one dvi: entry too much in Makefile.in renaming and fix in debug.fs
Bug fixes, consistency improvements, added lib.fs
jwilke's changes: Moved many files to other directories renamed many files other changes unknown to me.
doku change
bumped the version number to 0.3.1 gforth-makeimage now makes an executable file and uses $GFORTH documentation changes fixed bug involving locals and recurse
fixed bug in Makefile.in
added outfile flushing before error message fixed Makefile.in typo
Improved DOS/OS/2 support
fixed some portability problems of Makefile.in
Added DOS-gforth-makeimage Changes for DOS
fixed a few Makefile bugs (make clean) renamed blocks.fs:flush-file into flush-blocks fixed bell bug (now flushes the output) documentation changes
fixed key? problem on Win32 Minor fixes.
documentation changes: added chapter on image files; added concept index bug fixes
added PRIM_VERSION to primitives checksum computation. added and documented environmental queries return-stack-cells, stack-cells, and floating-stack. fixed make test for 64-bit machines.
fixed another marker/locals bug. fixed convsize bug (now sizes >2048M are possible). changed default sizes to be more cache-friendly..
bumped version number to 0.2.9. added --offset-image option, comp-image.fs, and changed Makefile to make a relocatable image gforth.fi from two nonrelocatable images. added UNDER+.
fixed a few bugs changed version number to 0.2.1
Added ans-report.fs objects.fs
Some fixes to make it run on non-Unix systems
fixed some small Makefile bugs
Replaced config.guess config.sub with versions from Autoconf 2.10 added FORTHSIZES configuration variable checked and fixed "make bindist" and "make clean"
added --version and --help small bugfix
Fixed problems with different search methods. Hash now doesn't patch it's own search method into vocabularies anymore.
First try to port gforth to OS/2 Some bugfixes
Made PATHSEP a configure variable "make dist" now works minor bugfixes
made path separator OS-dependent (';' for non-Unix) renamed use-file to open-blocks reintroduced FUZZ (for non-Unix)
Documentation changes Building in a dir different from the srcdir now works a few bug fixes
Steps to make 0.2.0 dist-ready.
fixed bugs in code.fs added primitive threading-method fixed create-interpret/compile such that "' word >body" works as expected documented some defining words
SPECIAL: to create special "state-smart" words
minor changes
make dist now consistent with new files improved mmul (both dblsub and primitive.fs replacement)
Corrected ( so that it eats multiline comments in files (as recommended by ANS Forth) Fixed two shellscript bugs in configure.in and Makefile.in.
the GCC variable is now conserved across config.status runs restore-input now works only within one input source and complains otherwise
make test now works from scratch final touches on the system documentation requirements and Performance).
make clean & co. now work as advertised Some documentation changes
Added benchmark results Tried to work around if clause in Makefile.in Small bugfix in sokoban
added site-int.fs and, more importantly, support for it. Fixed bugs in SPARC CACHE_FLUSH
fixed a bug in the unit conversion in main.c "make bench" now also works on 64-bit machines documentation improvements
some documentation changes added make targets "bench" and "uninstall" strerror.c to SOURCES make targets bindist and binonlydist configure now checks the cell size and chooses the image accordingly
fixed a few bugs and documented others added required and require added [ENDIF]
added MARKER small changes in configure.in and Makefile FORCE_REG stuff to decstation.h added man page
* added configure mode for DOS-Makefile: configure -target=i386-<anythinh>-msdos<anyversion> creates Makefile for DOS. * checked in some mminor changes which never were checked in. * added special startup file for DOS
* Changed package a bit * New INSTALL file * hash.fs didn't do a good job with 'cold.
added package target to Makefile.in some documentation changes
* Promised, but forgotten Makefile changes
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\ paths.fs path file handling 03may97jaw \ Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008. \ include string.fs [IFUNDEF] +place : +place ( adr len adr ) 2dup >r >r dup c@ char+ + swap move r> r> dup c@ rot + swap c! ; [THEN] [IFUNDEF] place : place ( c-addr1 u c-addr2 ) 2dup c! char+ swap move ; [THEN] Variable fpath ( -- path-addr ) \ gforth Variable ofile Variable tfile : os-cold ( -- ) fpath $init ofile $init tfile $init pathstring 2@ fpath only-path init-included-files ; \ The path Gforth uses for @code{included} and friends. : also-path ( c-addr len path-addr -- ) \ gforth \G add the directory @i{c-addr len} to @i{path-addr}. >r r@ $@len IF \ add separator if necessary s" |" r@ $+! 0 r@ $@ + 1- c! THEN r> $+! ; : clear-path ( path-addr -- ) \ gforth \G Set the path @i{path-addr} to empty. s" " rot $! ; : $@ ; : next-path ( addr u -- addr1 u1 addr2 u2 ) \ addr2 u2 is the first component of the path, addr1 u1 is the rest 0 $split 2swap ; : ; : pathsep? dup [char] / = swap [char] \ = or ; : need/ ofile $@ 1- + c@ pathsep? 0= IF s" /" ofile $+! THEN ; : extractpath ( adr len -- adr len2 ) BEGIN dup WHILE 1- 2dup + c@ pathsep? IF EXIT THEN REPEAT ; : remove~+ ( -- ) ofile $@ s" ~+/" string-prefix? IF ofile 0 3 $del THEN ; : expandtopic ( -- ) \ stack effect correct? - anton \ expands "./" into an absolute name ofile $@ s" ./" string-prefix? IF ofile $@ 1 /string tfile $! includefilename 2@ extractpath ofile $! \ care of / only if there is a directory ofile $@len IF need/ THEN tfile $@ over c@ pathsep? IF 1 /string THEN ofile $+!@ move r> endif endif + nip over - ; \ test cases: \ s" z/../../../a" compact-filename type cr \ s" ../z/../../../a/c" compact-filename type cr \ s" /././//./../..///x/y/../z/.././..//..//a//b/../c" compact-filename type cr : reworkdir ( -- ) remove~+ ofile $@ compact-filename nip ofile $!len ; : open-ofile ( -- fid ior ) \G opens the file whose name is in ofile expandtopic reworkdir ofile $@ r/o open-file ; : check-path ( adr1 len1 adr2 len2 -- fid 0 | 0 ior ) >r >r ofile $! need/ r> r> ofile $+! $! open-ofile dup 0= IF >r ofile $@ r> THEN EXIT ELSE r> -&37 >r path>string BEGIN next-path dup WHILE r> drop 5 pick 5 pick check-path dup 0= IF drop >r 2drop 2drop r> ofile $@ ;
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added quotations to image, and documented them
Bootstrapping bug fix: use old version of glocals unless USABLE-DICTIONARY-END is deferred
updated copyright years
Removed dependencies on old postponer, added .recs in look.fs to print recognizer stack
Recognizer included
updated copyright years
Moved SWORD WORD out of kernel (it's now not used anywhere but in tests). Replaced use of WORD in [DEFINED] with PARSE-NAME
updated copyright years
added test and compat files for ]] ... [[ (macros.fs) optimized postpone-literal and friends
documented ]] ... [[ added and documented ]]L ]]2L ]]FL ]]SL minor changes; no longer document [COMPILE]
added triple-backslash to end of file
Better factoring: split out run-prelude
started on prelude concept preludes can be built, but are not yet performed
updated copyright years; related changes in administrative files
Updated version number and date added TH added FKEY. SIMPLE-FKEY-STRING fixed README.vmgen typo
updated copyright notices for GPL v3
updated copyright years
changed >OUTFILE ... OUTFILE< to OUTFILE-EXECUTE changed >INFILE ... INFILE< to INFILE-EXECUTE added BASE-EXECUTE related documentation changes
added RESTORE and IFERROR, deleted RECOVER (undocumented)
updated copyright years
added >OUTFILE ... OUTFILE<, >INFILE...INFILE< and use it in ~~
documentation changes
documentation changes
added /W /L
added UW@ UL@ (W@ and L@ are now aliases for them) documented UW@ SW@ W! UL@ SL@ L! added more extension query answers
updated the copyright year on many files added FSF copyright header to complex.fs fft.fs regexp-test.fs regexp.fs added fsl-util.fs to update-copyright-blacklist
Added regexp stuff
Documentation changes: added wordset info for many words, and pronounciation for a few added documentation about key names for EKEY worked around texinfo 4.7 restrictions (old assignment macros broken) Added "Explicit stack access" docs to vmgen docs
bugfix: 'X is never a double bugfix: 0.009e 5 2 0 f.rdp now outputs 0.01 (not 0.00)
added workaround for bootstrapping on old kernel
refactored text interpreter to make return stack words work within a line replaced parser, compiler, interpreter, ...-notfound by words with an appended "1"
updated copyright years for files changed in 2004
updated documentation for new error format (but did not document mark-start and mark-end). moved TYPEWHITE out from the kernel.
Fixed uninitialized defers in cross added stuff to compile new sources with old kernels
uninitialized deferred words now give a warning when executed
implemented deferred words proposal (and adapted documentation accordingly).
added and documented usage of $GFORTHSYSTEMPREFIX to SYSTEM eliminated the now-unused (does>1)
documented disasm-gdb documentation bugfixes)
added LATEST, replaced uses of LAST @ with uses of LATEST renamed LASTXT to LATESTXT, and changed the uses made >NAME the primary name for >HEAD documentation changes
updated copyright years
updated ChangeLog and BUGS now gforth-itc is installed and uninstalled documentation changes
converted ans-report.fs to absolute branches changed comments for f.rdp etc.
bugfixes and improvements for f.rdp, represent, and friends
added F.RDP F>STR-RDP F>BUF-RDP
added ]] ... [[ fixed compile-only error message
disabled long long on PPC (buggy in some gcc versions). implemented EXECUTE-PARSING-FILE (new-input only).
made CODE and ;CODE work again
Added compat/strcomp.fs, introducing STR=, STRING-PREFIX?, and STR< replaced most occurences of COMPARE with STR= and STRING-PREFIX?
added str= and string-prefix?
New bug reports. added slurp-fid; documented slurp-fid and slurp-file. bugfix in f. (thanks to Doug Bagley).
moved SLURP-FILE from comp-i.fs to stuff.fs various changes in prims2x.fs
added CONST-DOES> documentation
make bindist now makes sunsite-compliant package names updated lsm prims2x now works on the Alpha SEE now displays anonymous words as <###> (where ### is the xt) added CONST-DOES>
changed FSF address in copyright messages
updated copyright dates in many files (not in ec-related files)
texinfo.tex from texinfo-4.0 various changes for texinfo-4.0 (which reports more bugs and warnings).
Fixed (my earlier) errors in the documentation of Standard search words in search.fs. Minor documentation tweaks in the other files.
Various minor documentation changes to match the latest gforth.ds)
First try to port gforth to OS/2 Some bugfixes
changed bahviour of system (no longer returns wretval, but puts it in $?) added (system) ( c_addr u -- wretval wior ) changed close-pipe (now also returns wretval) changed calls to strncasecmp to memcasecmp?.
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The result of years of "thinking outside the bun."Full Story
What happens when you spend an entire day underground? One writer finds out the hard way.Continue Reading » Feb 26, 2013 | 01:29:10 PM | City Guide | ADD A COMMENT
'Tattoos Hornets Fire: The Millennium Sweden' takes an unexpected walk through hidden Stockholm.Continue Reading » Sep 14, 2012 | 11:57:03 AM | Art+Design | ADD A COMMENT
The greatest joints that opened within the calendar year.Continue Reading » Dec 21, 2011 | 11:11:43 AM | City Guide | ADD A COMMENT
If you're easily offended, this restaurant review will not go down well.Continue Reading » Dec 2, 2011 | 02:54:37 PM | City Guide | ADD A COMMENT
The author rides his steed into the mist up California's Highway 1.Continue Reading » Nov 29, 2011 | 10:42:38 AM | Rides | ADD A COMMENT
Plenty of interesting rides debut at the show, open to the public November 18-27. We select the top models.Continue Reading » Nov 17, 2011 | 09:57:02 AM | Rides | ADD A COMMENT
The "roach coach" has gone gourmet. Complex ranks L.A.'s best street-side nosh.Continue Reading » Oct 28, 2011 | 11:37:13 AM | Rides | ADD A COMMENT
Miss Lily's in Soho is a cause for reflection.Continue Reading » Oct 28, 2011 | 11:12:03 AM | City Guide | ADD A COMMENT
Blackout in NYC offers sexual and violent situations.Continue Reading » Oct 22, 2011 | 11:28:09 AM | City Guide | ADD A COMMENT
Rolling through Fast Gourmet, Peking Gourmet, and a special pop-up collabo.Continue Reading » Oct 21, 2011 | 12:30:22 PM | City Guide | ADD A COMMENT
Cross-country strolls in the park.Continue Reading » Sep 23, 2011 | 01:42:29 PM | City Guide | ADD A COMMENT
Enter Godzilla.Continue Reading » Sep 20, 2011 | 11:15:54 AM | City Guide | ADD A COMMENT
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Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. Keys has a beautiful and soulful voice, and she is the anchor for the New York anthem, Empire State of Mind. She is married to hip hop producer Swizz Beats.
Keys' most upbeat track in a while.Continue Reading » May 1, 2013 | 09:09:14 AM | Music | ADD A COMMENT
Things get combustible between these two.Continue Reading » Apr 23, 2013 | 09:37:33 PM | Music | ADD A COMMENT
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The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has upgraded to Compellent Storage Center 5 and is using its Portable Volume component to cut replication times by 80%. The portable disk drive product allows the RHS to fully back up production data totalling approximately 5.5 TB every two days from its central London headquarters to its Vauxhall disaster recovery (DR) site. Previously, the organisation used Compellent replication over its wide-area network (WAN), which resulted in backups being weeks behind due to insufficient bandwidth.
Compellent Portable Volume is an external disk drive product that mirrors the logical unit number (LUN) structure of production and secondary storage-area networks (SANs). The product allows users to copy data to its volumes, physically transport them offsite and move data over to mirrored LUN volumes at the DR site with no further configuration.
Martin Taylor, converged network manager at the RHS, said Portable Volume successfully addressed a situation that could only otherwise be resolved by spending a lot more money on the organisation's WAN link. "The problem we faced was replicating to the DR site via a limited WAN connection," he said. "We're a mid-sized organisation and a charity. If we had money to throw at a bigger WAN connection we would, but this way of doing things cuts replication time down by about 80%."
LinkShare deploys 3PAR tiered SAN to cut costs, power consumption
Online marketing business LinkShare deployed 3PAR InServ Storage Servers in its virtual data centre to support increased activity during the holiday shopping season. LinkShare chose tiered InServ arrays to handle heavy traffic over the period and expects to save up to £125,000 per year on administration costs while also cutting data centre footprint and power consumption by 50%. The InServ arrays' autonomic storage management capabilities dynamically distribute workloads across array resources and reduce storage administration time.
DataCore boosts virtual disk capacity to 1 PB
Virtualised data storage vendor DataCore Software has increased the size of its virtual disks from 2 TB to 1 PB. The DataCore product – which also incorporates thin provisioning – allows users to create RAID-enabled SANs from commodity and distributed direct-attached storage (DAS). The company expects to offer up to 2 PB capacity in future.
Gridstore launches clustered NAS
Network-attached storage (NAS) vendor Gridstore has launched the beta of its new NASg storage platform. The Gridstore NASg platform virtualises existing NAS or NASg storage nodes into a single pool of storage to eliminate single points of failure and boost network and processing efficiency. It helps eliminate server network bottlenecks by utilising parallel IO to the storage nodes. NASg also aggregates processing power across a grid of client machines to eliminate server-based processing bottlenecks.
Modern Networks gains top APSP NetApp rating
Hertfordshire-based reseller Modern Networks has achieved the level of Authorised Professional Service Partner (APSP) with NetApp, which is NetApp's highest professional services partner status. The APSP accreditation will enable Modern Networks to offer professional services in addition to its existing NetApp storage solutions portfolio. With the accreditation, Modern Networks will now have access to the same tools and methodologies used by NetApp professional service engineers.
PoINT releases v2.0 of tiering tool
German vendor PoINT Software & Systems has released Version 2.0 of PoINT Storage Manager. The product allows users to manage tiered storage on Windows NTFS-based systems and NetApp FAS products. The product migrates less frequently used data from high-performance drives to more cost-efficient media.
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Companies that have big data functions spread across business units rather than using IT or dedicated teams, are achieving the least benefits, according to research.
The survey by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) suggested that 42% of big data pioneers are using existing IT resources and 37% are creating dedicated teams to support their strategies.
But in contrast, firms that have been slow to adopt big data strategies have largely (68%) left analysis within business units. Keeping the analysis within business units will stifle adoption, said the report, because sharing data across the organisation is critical.
“The toughest challenges for businesses implementing big data initiatives is getting different business units to share information across organisational silos and determining what data to use for different business decisions,” said TCS’s global trend report, The emerging big returns from big data
The report also said there is a technological challenge for companies attempting to handle the large volume, velocity and variety of big data.
“Big data has enormous potential and early adopters are projecting a high return on investments,” said Satya Ramaswamy, global head of mobility and next generation solutions at TCS.
“However, overcoming the technological challenges is only part of the story. Businesses need to carefully think where big data initiatives should sit within the organisation, how to break down internal silos and look beyond just internal and structured data sets.”
How many respondents expect ROI greater than 50% in 2012 by sector:
Retail businesses - 35%
Banking and financial services - 33%
High tech - 27%
Media and entertainment - 25%
Consumer goods businesses – 17%
The research revealed that businesses leading the way in big data strategies spent $24m in 2012 and expect to spend $26m by 2015. Those lagging behind spent $7m in 2012 and expect to spend $13m by 2015.
The study also found that the US has the most activity around big data initiatives with 68% of US companies interviewed involved in a project.
Latin America had the second most activity at 51%, with 45% of the European companies involved in projects and 39% in the Asia Pacific region.
Businesses are expecting a payback on these investments with a total of 43% predicting a return of more than 25% in 2012.
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OS X in Computerworld's Mac OS X OS X White Papers | Webcasts
By Jonny Evans
Does anyone still remember the olden days when doomed Apple shipped products? Those days appear gone, giving Foxconn a headache and turning all our predictions upside down: 205 days have passed since Apple gave us a significant product release. more
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How to fix Windows Vista's worst shortcomings
Get the Vista you want
By Lincoln Spector | Published 14:45, 26 January 09
7. Installing a program usually means allowing it to dig its claws deep into the operating system (OS). Running an uninstaller usually eliminates the app's functionality but leaves the claws behind. Revo Uninstaller is a better alternative to Vista's Programs and Features.
8. Vista's Windows Explorer is decent, but its Address Bar's drop-down menu of recently visited folders lists only those you accessed from the address bar and confuses things by including web pages. Instead, try using a Favorites folder: drag items for inclusion to the top left pane in Explorer to create a shortcut to them.
9. Another option is to use a different recent folders list. Click the down arrow to the left of the address bar for a list of recent folders. Close and re-open Explorer and the list will be blank. Alternatively, Hyperionics FileBox eXtender brings drop-down Recent and Favorites menus to Explorer.
10. In Windows XP you could drag items you wanted to the Start menu, whereas the same action in Vista physically moves the file or folder. There's no easy workaround, but if you drop items on the Start button rather than in the menu area, you'll get a shortcut in the left pane rather than in All Programs.
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Novell: 'We're not SCO' and we won't sue
Novell promises no legal action after its patent victory
By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service | Published 07:30, 15 August 07
Novell has promised not to sue anybody over the Unix copyrights that a US court last week ruled against IBM.
Lowry said the ruling means "the cloud has lifted over Linux." Users and distributors of the open-source OS finally can breathe a sigh of relief that they are not in violation of Unix copyrights.
"We don't believe there is Unix in Linux," Lowry said. "We've been fighting that all along. It wouldn't be consistent for Novell to say, 'Oh gosh, now that this has been confirmed, we're going to suddenly take a different position' and sue companies for copyright infringement."
The Friday ruling doesn't mean the company's legal entanglement with SCO is over. There are still several claims before the court that will go to trial next month, and one of them involves payments SCO received from Microsoft and Sun for Unix licences. If the judge rules that those companies paid SCO for Unix copyrights owned by Novell, SCO will have to pay Novell whatever it earned from those licences, Lowry said..
One thing seems fairly certain: Friday's ruling sinks SCO's case against IBM once and for all, a point Linux proponents were still celebrating yesterday. SCO can't appeal the ruling until the trial is over, and the company has not decided if it would do so. In a statement on its web site, SCO said it is exploring how it will proceed once the legal process of the case is concluded.
Lowry declined to speculate on how the ruling will affect that case and others SCO is still embroiled in with IBM, AutoZone and Red Hat. Both the AutoZone and Red Hat cases had been put on hold until the IBM case was resolved. Attorneys in the SCO-IBM case have until the end of the month to present what claims are still pending now that the Unix copyright claim in the Novell-SCO suit has been resolved. Another case, which SCO brought against DaimlerChrysler for copyright infringement, was dismissed in 2004.
"It's over," Pamela Jones, founder and editor of Groklaw, said of SCO's battle against Linux. "SCO couldn't find any infringement even when it had access to the entire copyrighted code base. No one else will find anything either." Groklaw is a web site that follows open-source software legal issues
Linux proponents are turning their attention to Microsoft as the next front line in the battle to protect Linux, she said.
"Microsoft is the next SCO. They positioned themselves that way with their patent sabre-rattling," Jones said, referring to Microsoft's claims earlier this year that Linux violates more than 235 of its patents.."
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This year, I celebrated my birthday in Los Angeles with friends and fellow survivors of suicide loss. It was my 40th, and I had tried to make plans with various people in various parts of the country. But nothing came together until I booked a plane ticket to L.A. and announced to friends when I would be there.
I spent the evening of December 10th in Los Angeles at the Survivors After Suicide 30th Anniversary Pot Luck. Most people think that when a group of bereaved people get together, no matter how long ago their losses, they sit and cry and lament, focusing on what they don’t have. I know better. The pot luck was no exception; it was an evening filled with laughter. Yes, there were tears from some people who remembered their first time attending the group. And there was sadness over the recent death of one of the founders. But overall it was about celebrating the lives we continue to live and the connections our losses bring us.
My entire time in L.A. was spent with people who have lost a loved one to suicide. I stayed with Sam and Lois who lost a son to suicide. I had dinner with David who lost his sister. I had lunch with Diane who lost her mother. And I spent my final night there with Ginny who lost her mother.
Los Angeles always has been a place of hope for me, and I felt that hope once again during my trip there. Even though it rained (poured, in fact) on my birthday, I felt I was right where I needed to be as I start my 5th decade, and begin down a new road. And the people coming with me for the journey are the ones I want most to walk with: 218
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Republicans met last week in Alexandria to nominate two candidates for delegates in the 45th and 46th districts.
Corporate consultant Chris Gregerson of Alexandria is running in an area many consider a safe one for Democrats, the 45th District. Gregerson said he is looking for a statewide solution to the woes of local homeowners faced with rising property taxes.
"The root cause of it is that agricultural counties in the state are poor and we end up paying more for the cost of schools and state services for them," said Gregerson. "The solution is to raise the wealth of the poorer counties."
A retired Navy officer and a Vietnam veteran, Gregerson now works for Booz Allen Hamilton. By diverting more state and federal funds to rural Virginia, Gregerson said, Virginia can further develop its economy and lower taxes.
"What I'm really trying to do is keep your money in your pocket," he said.
But Gregerson said he also wants to see new jobs moving to Virginia's agricultural regions. Companies with large staff, he said, should be encouraged to move from cities to the countryside.
"Why can't they work in the poorest counties in Virginia?" he asked.
One potential source of revenue for rural Virginia, he said, is biomass fuel. Gregerson said if the House passed legislation to designate Northern Virginia as a special renewable fuel zone — a region where vehicles like dump trucks and buses run on gas made from organic materials — rural Virginia could profit from helping to reduce smog in developed regions where roadway traffic is heavy.
"If we create the demand for this fuel, agricultural counties can grow the materials used to make it," he said.
In his local community, Gregerson chairs the board of Communities in Schools — a nonprofit group that partners teachers and residents in 28 states to raise student achievement. A tutor at George Washington Middle School, Gregerson said legislation supporting community involvement with schools is of paramount importance when it comes to raising the bar for students. His recommendation is a match-up program placing students with tutors who can meet their academic needs.
"Teachers are masters at determining where their students' talents lie and what areas they need help with," said Gregerson. "That kind of community support would make them biased towards intervention so they could get the right kind of help for students who need it."
Gregerson also said he wants to "open up the school system to more competition" by creating more magnet schools and offering more options to parents.
On his bid for office, Gregerson added, "What I want is to go to the root cause of problems. I don't want to see us continue to put band-aids on them. Instead, I want to find solutions where everybody wins and everybody advances."
ALSO IN THE 46TH District, real estate executive and former advisor to the Bush White House Matt Mueda of Alexandria is running against longtime incumbent Brian Moran. Transportation is Mueda's top concern for the region. The House, he said, should seek to pass more legislation to reduce the number of cars on the road by offering incentives to companies that allow employees to telecommute.
"Mass transit is going to be an integral part of the solution but, quite frankly, some people are not going to give up the luxury of driving," said Mueda, who has advised both Presidents George Bush Sr. and Jr. on transportation policy. "We have a long way to go to convince a lot of people to use mass transit."
Mueda said widening local highways and putting more HOT lanes — express lanes that ask motorists to pay a toll — must be part of the discussion.
Once a firefighter in Fairfax County, Mueda said Virginia also needs to look at improving resources for emergency workers, resources like better radios. In too many instances, he said, firefighters, police and rescue teams have trouble talking to each other because the radios they use are not compatible.
"I haven't seen much to build more effective communication for first responders, not just inter- jurisdictional communication but also communication with their own departments," he said.
As of the Arlington Connection's press time, results were not in for the six-candidate primary held June 14. The winner will contend with Gregerson for the 45th District seat, long held by Del. Marian Van Landingham (D).
"I'm hoping we can make a difference in this race," said Chris Marston, chair of the Alexandria Republican City Committee. "Republicans in Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax are fired up."
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Living about 8,000 miles away from home, it’s hard to believe Episcopal’s Given Kalipinde and Yao Sithole say they don’t miss home all that much.
Then again, watching them comfortably answer a reporter’s questions over the din of teammates teasing them about the game that just ended, girlfriends, weird looking clothes, and whatever else teenagers think is worthy of postgame fodder — all while the senior duo suppresses their own laughter — could be enough proof for their claim.
“The team doesn’t look at us as outsiders, they just look at us as one of the guys,” said Sithole, a 6-foot-5 forward from South Africa. “They joke around a lot, but they’re great guys.”
Kalipinde and Sithole aren’t the average transfer students that attend the Alexandria boarding school. Each came to Episcopal before their junior year from the Durban Boy’s School in South Africa and have transformed the athletics scene on campus.
They were the two leading scorers on last year’s basketball team that finished with a 16-8 record, its best finish since a string of state titles in the late 1990s. The duo followed that up this fall as key members of the Episcopal soccer team that went undefeated and won the Virginia Independent School League state title. Kalipinde was even named All-Met Player of the Year as a result.
Heading into a Friday night showdown against IAC-leading Georgetown Prep, Kalipinde (23 points per game) and Sithole (12 ppg) are poised to propel themselves onto the basketball map — not that they haven’t been globetrotting for quite some time.
“We’ve been together for awhile now, and we just kind of see ourselves as brothers,” said the 6-foot-3 Kalipinde, whose Episcopal team vaulted itself into the IAC title conversation with a 77-65 upset of second-place Landon Tuesday night.
<b>AS SITHOLE TELLS</b> it, he and Kalipinde hit it off right away when they were back in South Africa. Sithole had already been attending Durban Boy’s School for a few years when Kalipinde arrived from his hometown of Lusaka, Zambia — that country’s capital. Sithole is originally from a rural area of South Africa, but as a child moved to Pietermaritzburg, South Africa — best known for an 1893 incident when Mahatma Gandhi was kicked off a first-class train car for being Indian, prompting him to fight racial discrimination there.
Both Kalipinde and Sithole were stars for the Durban basketball team early on, which led a coach to suggest they attend an NBA-sponsored program called Basketball Without Borders in the summer of 2007.
There, they were surrounded by some of the best high school basketball players from Africa as well as NBA coaches and players like the Lakers’ Luke Walton and the Spurs’ Bruce Bowen.
“From then on playing in Africa, there wasn’t that much competition because a lot of people play soccer and those camps challenged us,” said Sithole. “Basically we started working harder because we knew there are a lot of people out there that could play basketball.”
Also at the camp was Jeffrey Goodell, the director of counseling at Episcopal. He thought Kalipinde and Sithole were perfect for a school like Episcopal that features students from 17 different countries.
Both qualified academically and once the duo’s coach in South Africa got in contact with Episcopal coach Jim Fitzpatrick, the rest was just a matter of getting to America.
“We looked at the school and said, ‘Hey that looks like a good opportunity for us to not only better ourselves as basketball players, but also better ourselves academically,’” said Kalipinde.
<b>THE CULTURE SHOCK</b> of going from Africa to a buzzing suburb of the capital of the free world would be daunting for anyone. For Kalipinde and Sithole, used to “lots of black people” and traditional South African foods like goat, the transition was made easier as roommates.
“It kind of just became easy going through everything together,” said Kalipinde of how he coped with all the changes in his life.
“I think school was hard at the beginning because it was a different schooling system than what they were used to over there,” said Fitzpatrick. “But immediately from the day they stepped on campus, they’re nice, humble people and everybody loved having them there. Basketball and soccer have just been a plus.”
The duo’s soccer coach at Episcopal, Rick Wilcox, said the connection between the two was apparent from the get go. In the beginning of the 2007-08 school year when both were scheduled to arrive, Kalipinde got held up in South Africa with visa issues. So Sithole came to Virginia several days ahead of him and began practicing with the Maroon soccer team.
Wilcox said he could tell Sithole was not at ease and very introverted those first few practices. But when Kalipinde finally arrived several days later, Sithole “instantly became more comfortable,” according to the coach. “Now, students just gravitate to them because they’ve got these really warm, nice personalities.”
<b>ON THE COURT</b>, the love is mutual. Kalipinde and Sithole may be the catalysts, but they are by no means swaggering superstars that seem to highlight the AAU scene around here. Sithole says sometimes the two “just make eye contact” on the floor and know exactly what the other wants to do having built such a connection over the years.
But next season that will change. Sithole is undecided on where or if he’ll play basketball at an American college, but Kalipinde’s journey will continue on to Los Angeles where he will play in the backcourt for Division-I Loyola-Marymount. He could have played major-conference Division I soccer as well, but full scholarships are rare in that sport.
Ask him what he’ll miss most about his two years in Alexandria and Kalipinde thinks back to the first time it snowed. Surprising for someone whose hometown has an average yearly temperature of 78 degrees Fahrenheit. Then again, he never really missed home in the first place.
“When I was back [in Zambia], I was kind of dreaming about all this,” said Kalipinde. “The last time I realized it, I was like, ‘Hey, we’re in the U.S. and we actually had this dream of coming here and trying to make this opportunity work.’ And it’s a great feeling right now.”
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A . "The tradition, of course, is University Hospital and all that it represents as the flagship of our great academic medical center. Now, with the opening of this new addition to University Hospital, we have a new tower that symbolizes the innovations in care that are the hallmark of an academic medical center."
"When we first set out to build this expansion, our aim was to create a state-of-the-art facility for our patients and families, but I think we have exceeded that goal," health system Vice Chancellor Harold A.Williamson Jr., M.D., said. "As I look around this new expansion, I believe we’ve created the hospital of the future. With help from our partners at the Tiger Institute for Health Innovation, we’ve not only incorporated the latest in health care technology but also technologies that were developed here and are the first of their kind in the nation."
The intensive care unit rooms include iAware, developed by Cerner and the Tiger Institute at MU Health Care, which shows a patient’s vital signs for the past 30 hours.
The new Ellis Fischel Cancer Center location includes an ambulatory infusion unit for chemotherapy treatment, a radiation oncology unit with two linear accelerators for radiation therapy treatment, medical imaging with CT and PET scanners, as well as a DEXA bone-density scanner, 66 exam rooms, central Missouri’s only American College of Surgeons-accredited breast health center with 3-D and digital mammography, an outpatient pharmacy and a cancer rehabilitation gym. There is also a gift shop and boutique, with items unique for cancer patients, such as wigs and breast prostheses.
"The opening of the new University Hospital addition will create 97 new jobs, with the majority of those as nursing positions, but also including positions in pharmacy, housekeeping and nursing support,"
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NEW YORK (AP) — The three men charged in the deaths of two firefighters in a blaze at a contaminated, condemned ground zero skyscraper say they're scapegoats. Prosecutors say the men are to blame for disregarding and covering up a major safety hazard.
A judge was expected to rule Friday on whether to toss out manslaughter and other charges against Mitchel Alvo, Salvatore DePaola and Jeffrey Melofchik. They are the only people facing criminal charges after a fire that led city officials to acknowledge oversight mistakes.
Alvo, 58, DePaola, 56, Melofchik, 48, and the John Galt Corp., which was helping to take down the former Deutsche Bank building, have pleaded not guilty. If convicted, the men could face up to 15 years in prison.
The building — just across the street from the World Trade Center's south tower — was heavily damaged and filled with toxic debris when the tower collapsed into it on Sept. 11, 2001. A laborious process of dismantling the now government-owned building has taken years.
On Aug. 18, 2007, a construction worker's careless smoking sparked a fire that tore through several stories of the building.
Firefighters contended with a roster of hazards, including deactivated sprinklers, blocked stairwells, an air system that was supposed to control toxins but ended up concentrating smoke, and a break in a crucial firefighting water pipe called a, Galt's director of abatement, and DePaola, a Galt foreman, ultimately had a 42-foot-long section of the standpipe cut up and removed from the building, according to prosecutors. Melofchik, hazards and failures that prosecutors and city officials have acknowledged.
"Why are they scapegoating a few defenseless people at the bottom of the line?" Melofchik's lawyer, Edward J.M. Little, asked a judge fire department hadn't inspected the building in more than a year, although it was supposed to do so every 15 days. Other city and state regulators also had been in the tower on a near-daily basis but didn't report the hazards.
But Morgenthau said prosecuting officials would be fruitless because governments are generally immune from criminal prosecutions.
The city agreed to fire safety reforms, and Bovis agreed to pay the firefighters' families $10 million in a memorial fund.
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A man accused of Involuntary Manslaughter will go to trial after causing an accident that killed two people in September.
A Maries County judge has bound John Mazurek, 24, to go to trial after hearing the state’s evidence in a preliminary hearing Tuesday.
Mazurek was arrested on September 1st. He had been driving on Highway 133 south of Meta when his vehicle crossed the center line and struck another vehicle head-on.
The driver of that second vehicle, 57-year-old Roberta Randolph, was killed in the crash. The passenger in that vehicle, Helen Wieberg of Jefferson City, sustained serious injuries and died at a later time.
Mazurek is currently being charged with Involuntary Manslaughter and felony assault for the death of Randolph. He could be facing another involuntary manslaughter for the death of Wieberg.
Mazurek could also be charged with one count of Driving While Intoxicated depending on the results from blood work that was sent to the Highway Patrol Lab.
Mazurek will next be in court on December 5th for his arraignment.
Helen Wieberg’s husband has also filed a wrongful death civil suit against Mazurek.
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On Friday, November 5, Illinois College’s Office of Admission will host “First Fridays” as part of their fall preview series.
Included in the day are: a tour of the beautiful campus, a meeting with an admission counselor and an academic fair. In addition, prospective students will be able to sit in on an actual class, talk with current students in their predicted major and observe a faculty panel. Students can also take advantage of the optional meal in Cummings Dining Hall to either start or end their day.
Schedule of Events:
11 p.m. - Theatre “acting” workshop (optional)
11:45 to 12:45 p.m. - Lunch (optional)
12:15 to 12:45 p.m. - Registration
12:50 to 1:10 p.m. - Welcome
1:20 to 2:30 p.m. - Observe a Class
2:30 to 3 p.m. - Academic Fair
3:15 to 3:45 p.m. - Faculty Panel
3:45 to 4:45 p.m. - Campus and Residence Hall Tours
5 to 5:30 p.m. - Meet with Admission Counselors (Students only)
Scholarship Programs at Illinois College (Parents only)
5:30 to 6:30 p.m. - Dinner (optional)
On Thursday, November 11, Illinois College’s Office of Admission will host a preview day.
9 to 9:30 a.m. Athletic Information (optional)
9:30 to 10 a.m. Registration
10 to 10:20 a.m. Welcome
10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Campus and Residence Hall Tours
11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Meet your Admission Counselor (Students only)
Scholarship Programs at Illinois College (Parents only)
12:15 to 1 p.m. Academic Fair
12:45 p.m. Lunch
For more information on either day or to reserve your space please call 217-245-3030 and speak with an Illinois College admission representative.
Founded in 1829, Illinois College is a residential liberal arts college fostering academic excellence rooted in opportunities for experiential learning while preparing students for lifelong success.
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CHANDLERVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- The State Journal-Register reports that authorities in central Illinois have arrested a young boy in the weekend shooting death of a 39-year-old woman.
The Mason County sheriff's office told The (Springfield) State Journal-Register that Brenda Schaad was found shot to death Saturday evening in her home in Chandlerville, about 40 miles northwest of Springfield.
The boy was arrested later Saturday.
Authorities wouldn't confirm the boy's age, but the Illinois State Police said before his arrest they were looking for an 11-year-old boy.
Residents of the area also said they believe the boy is 11.
Police wouldn't say what the boy's connection is to Schaad.
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Mouse
From Conservapedia
This article is about the small mammal. See Computer mouse for the computer pointing device.
Mice (the plural of mouse) are small herbivorous rodent mammals. There are many species of mice including non related mammals such as dormice. The common house mouse Mus musculus is widely distributed worldwide, having accompanied human travelers to many countries beyond its natural range. Typically mice will feed on seeds and other plant material, though mousetraps for the house mouse are usually baited with cheese.
Mice and Mankind
- Mice, like rats, can be a serious agricultural pest, damaging growing crops and eating stored grain.
- Again, mice are often blamed as a disease vector for certain diseases including bubonic plague better attributed to rats, or rather the fleas borne by certain species of rat.
- The laboratory mouse is widely used as an experimental organism in biomedical research. There are many specialised breeds, such as the nude mouse, a hairless mutant strain used in cancer research and the Onken mouse, a mouse bred to have cancerous cells from birth.
- Mice are commonly kept as pets, and are also bred as food items for other, carnivorous pet animals.
Mice in the Bible
Mice are mentioned several times in the Bible; Leviticus 11:29 declares them unclean. In 1 Samuel, after the Philistines captured the Ark of the Covenant, they were afflicted by God with plagues of mice and of hemmorhoids, until they returned the Ark with a tribute of five golden hemmorhoids and five golden mice:, 4-5 (KJV)
Mice in popular culture
- Mickey Mouse, the Disney animated character.
- Mighty Mouse, the animated mouse superhero.
- Jerry, of Tom and Jerry, the animated cat-and-mouse duo.
- Itchy, of Itchy and Scratchy, from the Simpsons.
- Reepicheep, from C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia
- Fievel Mouskawitz and his family from the An American Tail movies
- Pinky And The Brain from the cartoon of the same name
- Little Sneazer from Tiny Toon Adventures
Chucky Cheese the mascot of the Chuck E. Cheese Pizza and Arcade franchise
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Normally that wouldn't be exciting news, but it is now. A mortgage broker we've used a couple of times called last night to offer us 4.5%. We have two small mortgages (well, small in DC-area terms) at 5.5 and ~6%, and we've never consolidated them because we didn't want to lose the lower rate.
Now that there has been this temporary plunge, we're jumping on it. He verified some of our information on the phone, and will be sending an appraiser in the next couple of days. He estimates that our mortgage payment will be about $1100 less per month (I think likely more), and we'll have the flexibility to pay extra on principal as lightly or heavily as we wish.
Our FICO score is over 800, we have secure jobs (as much as one can say that, these days), and have no debt at all other than the mortgage. We were living the "Dave Ramsey lifestyle" before we had ever heard of Dave Ramsey.
Sign of the times: he said that about 85% of the people who call him for new mortgage terms, he can't help, because they have negative equity.
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The Tough Realities Small NGOs Face When Evaluating Their Efforts: Observations from Guatemala and Mexico
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Evaluation improves the quality of work completed by international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to fight poverty and develop communities (Liebenthal et al. 2004). Even so, many NGOs do not conduct evaluations (Ferguson 1990). To the extent that NGOs evaluate their efforts, the evaluation results often do not affect the planning of future projects, making evaluation a static event instead of a learning process (Mebrahtu 2002). Thus, the relevant problem is how to make evaluation more useful. Mulwa (2008) argues that participatory evaluation bridges the disconnect between evaluation results and future development projects. Based on my experience, I emphasize the need for development evaluation to be practical; evaluations informed by all stakeholders create a climate of learning. Evaluations lead to improved development when the evaluation responsibilities and measurements are shared between all parties involved.
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Jada Pinkett Smith has given Miley Cyrus advice about marrying Liam Hemsworth.
Jada Pinkett Smith Gives Miley Cyrus Marriage Advice
Jada Pinkett Smith has given Miley Cyrus advice about getting married young.
The 'Madagascar 3' star - who will celebrate her 15th wedding anniversary to Will Smith on Dec 31 - says that Miley, 19, and fiancé Liam Hemsworth, 22, must first have a good Friendship base.
She told Us Weekly: ''Learn how to be friends, especially when you are starting that young.
''Forever is a long time. When you are starting forever at 19 years old, and it is not to say that there is anything wrong with that, but it is just to know that what it is now and what it will be, it is just going to continue to transform and change.''
The 40-year-old actress began her relationship with 'Men In Black 3' star Will at 23 years old and the couple have two children Willow and Jaden together.
She added: ''You have to keep flexibility [in your relationship]. You have to be with someone you consider as a friend.''
Miley showed off her engagement ring to waiters at a restaurant in Los Angeles on Wednesday (06.06.12).
The 'Can't Be Tamed' singer accepted Liam's marriage proposal last month and celebrated her forthcoming nuptials with a dinner at Hugo's in Studio City.
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Kate Moss - Kate Moss To British Women: Put The Flesh Away!12 June 2012
Picture: Kate Moss leaving her house London, England - 25.05.12
Kate Moss To British Women: Put The Flesh Away!
During an interview with Grazia magazine, Moss was asked what her one piece of fashion advice for the British public would be, to which she replied, "When you're driving down the road in the summer, the English people... It's not our natural thing, no. So it's 'put it awaaaaaay!". Despite the jibe, the model did admit to making her own fashion gaffes from time to time, saying, "Zips. I've got a problem with zips. Sometimes I just forget to do them up.Running out the door! You know... Just zips... It's funny!". The Croydon-born model married The Kills rocker Jamie Hince during a village ceremony last year, though claims being a married woman has not changed her wardrobe, saying, "He would go mental if I started dressing like a wife! No! He likes me when I'm a rock'n'roll kind of girl".
Though married life may not have changed her sartorial choices, getting a pet dog certainly has- she said, "It's a nightmare... I'm having to rethink everything. You can't walk a dog in a heel. You look ridiculous ... Course (I've tried)".
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24 Sep 2011 Irishsal said
Hi Brooke,
I’m doing the Grand Southern in July (LA to NY) – can’t wait.
I’ve done 2 Contikis in the past and they were amazing. Made loads of friends and the tour guides and bus drivers were brilliant. I was travelling on my own (and will be again next July). In my opinion it’s nearly the best way because you meet so many people.
On these kind of tours in general (I was in Australia and New Zealand before) you need loads of energy – there was a lot of drinking and partying on my tours which was brilliant. You don’t say where you are from or what part of Europe you went to on your tour but American food in my experience is great and on the Contikis that I went on we never went hungry – everything was brilliant. Sorry I can’t be more specific about this actual tour but I will say this. The reason I am doing Contiki again is because they were so brilliant in Oz and NZ. I’ve had friends who went on the American Contiki’s too and they said that the service was fantastic.
Anyway, hope this helps a little bit.
Enjoy the tour,
Sarah.
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By Tony Hicks
Contra Costa Times
All you 49ers fans may not care for my opinion, but I have a lot of respect for Baltimore Ravens' linebacker Ray Lewis.
He's one of the greatest linebackers to ever play the game, and he's retiring after the Ravens play the Niners in the upcoming Super Bowl. He can still play at a high level, and he wants to go out on top. I really respect that.
But I won't miss his dancing.
Let's clarify: I won't miss him dancing on the field. Ray Lewis' retirement may be sad for fans of great defensive football, but retiring that dance is nothing but good for humanity.
Lewis does this silly shimmy-shimmy-slide thing, and he's been doing it a lot this postseason. Watching it makes me think that he's about to have some sort of seizure. Though, to be fair, it's not even close to the celebration routine made famous by 49ers defensive back Merton Hanks, whose "chicken dance" made chiropractors all over the United States wince.
I guess the good news is Lewis isn't singing while he's dancing -- as far as I know.
Good steps
But the celebratory football dance is part of our culture. And there are players who got it right.
For example: Billy "White Shoes" Johnson made the end zone celebration an art form in the 1970s. His routine included some sort of back-and-forth movement with his knees that is now seen routinely among bad wedding dancers. Even when he was playing against your team,
The '70s were a glorious time for celebratory dancing in the NFL. Butch Johnson of the Dallas Cowboys used to drop to his knees and do some sort of pistol-shooting routine that strippers have emulated ever since (not that I know what strippers do, but I hear things).
According to some accounts, the first pro football end zone dance came Nov. 18, 1973, when Elmo Wright of the Kansas City Chiefs caught a touchdown pass and busted some high-stepping celebratory moves (he had actually started the practice in college). Ever since, guys have been trying to outdo each other. End zone dancing evolved to where Deion Sanders was throwing moves people would actually emulate on a dance floor.
Team dancing
The idea grew over the years to the point where, in 1984, the Washington Redskins would do group celebrations in the end zone. Of course, the Redskins were also involved in the only touchdown celebration that nearly caused a player's head to fall off. That was in 1997, when quarterback Gus Frerotte celebrated scoring a touchdown against the New York Giants by ramming his head against a wall, which caused him to sit out the second half with a neck sprain.
The 2000s saw the end zone celebration reach incredible new heights. In 2002, the 49ers' Terrell Owens scored against the Seattle Seahawks, pulled a Sharpie out of his sock, signed the ball, and gave it to his financial adviser, who was in the stands. That same year, Owens scored against the Green Bay Packers and borrowed a cheerleader's pompoms to celebrate. The next year, Joe Horn of the New Orleans Saints scored against the New York Giants, spiked the ball, then sauntered over to the upright, where he pulled out a cellphone hidden in the padding and called his children. He was fined $30,000 by the NFL. Still, it was glorious.
Ray Lewis has had an incredible career, even if he was no Billy "White Shoes" Johnson. But forgive 49ers fans if they hope he doesn't get to do any dancing in his final game.
In fact, that would be more than OK with even those of us who aren't 49ers fans.
Contact Tony Hicks at [email protected], at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or at Twitter.com/insertfoot.
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By Anne Marie Fuller
Correspondent
SAN RAMON -- His name is Batman.
His coat is dark as night, and he has a souped-up vehicle that he flies about in -- and on occasion, you might even see him in his trademark cape.
Batman the dog is no superhero -- but his rescuers say he needs one.
The little dog, a Formosan mountain dog mix, is an immigrant to America. Batman was flown here from Taiwan a few months ago by rescuers in San Ramon who hope he can have a second-chance life in the United States.
Hit by a car in Taiwan and left for dead, the dog now known as Batman dragged himself into an alley and lay there for days before being found and taken into care. His spine was crushed, his legs were useless and he was given a bleak prognosis.
Now in a wheelchair, Batman has gotten a second wind and has begun to show signs of progress. And his rescuers hope someone will step up to adopt this dog and take on the challenges of his special needs.
Batman was relocated to California by Love & Second Chances of San Ramon. Melody Chen, founder of the dog rescue group, heard about Batman's case from friends and raised the $1,400 needed to fly him over.
"When the dog was first discovered, he was taken to a local veterinarian there," Chen said. "They did the initial surgery on him but said his chances of being adopted over there were not good. They put the dog into a foster care system with other dogs and left him in a small area by himself.
"I knew he would
Batman has been undergoing physical therapy at the UC Davis veterinary school, including water therapy. And Love & Second Chances bought two wheelchairs for him.
Also, the rescue group made contact with OrthoPets in Denver to have custom leg braces made for his hind legs. The rescue group, which has applied for nonprofit status, was able to raise enough for only one leg brace (between $600 to $800), and OrthoPets donated the other.
"After hearing what Batman had to go through, my team decided to take on this case," said Amy Kaufmann, owner of OrthoPets. "He has shown the will and determination to get through those tough circumstances. We felt by helping him with some devices, it would strengthen him even more to enjoy an active lifestyle.
"Batman has truly come so far, and it would be awesome if he could go even further and have that normal life he deserves."
Despite his injuries, Batman flies around the home of his foster mom, Anjolie, a veterinary student at UC Davis. Anjolie asked that her last name not be used for fear of harassment by some who might say a dog like Batman should be euthanized.
Taking care of a dog like this has many challenges, but it doesn't faze Batman.
"He isn't aware of his limitations," Anjolie said. "Batman is so playful, happy and gets along with other dogs. He even tries to wrestle with them. He loves to play fetch at the park."
Part of the job of caring for him is helping him with therapy and fitting him with his wheelchair when he goes out. Soon, putting on his braces will be part of the routine. Batman wears a diaper indoors, but Anjolie takes him outside to relieve himself. She helps by applying pressure to his bladder to empty it.
"When Batman is not in his wheelchair, he scoots himself all over the place; he's like a comedy character. He will get his own toys and bring them to you," Anjolie said.
"When people think paralyzed, they often think that means he can't move," she added. "Yet he's very mobile. He has learned to spinal walk: This is a reflexive type of walking, where his hind end does a walking motion. The special leg braces will help him even more with this."
His rescuers estimate the dog is about 3 years old. He weighs about 30 pounds.
Batman has already built up quite a fan club, with well over 1,000 likes on his own Facebook page, book.com/helpbatman. The page documents Batman's journey back to health and features a video of him running in his wheelchair and playing with other dogs.
Love & Second Chances is now looking for a special caretaker to adopt Batman and is waiving its regular $250 adoption fee. Two wheelchairs and two custom leg braces will go with Batman to his new home.
Since the group began in January, Love & Second Chances has adopted out 60 dogs and currently has 18 in need of homes.
"I started as a personal rescue and created a blog to post things," Chen said. "It started to grow from there, and now we are an official full-on rescue group with about 20 fosters. I like to have at least one special-needs dog to help and also a few medical-needs dogs."
A video of Batman and profiles and photos of the other adoptable dogs may be viewed at the group's website, chances.com.
Contact correspondent Anne Marie Fuller at.
Love & second chances
Information on fundraising for Batman and profiles and photos of adoptable dogs can be viewed at. Batman's Facebook page:.
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U.S. DOE joins The Green Grid
The DOE and The Green Grid signed a memorandum of understanding to promote energy efficiency in IT.
By Consulting Specifying Engineer Staff
On Sept. 18, Alexander Karsner, U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) assistant secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, joined John Tucillo of The Green Grid, Beaverton, Ore., at the New York Stock Exchange to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to promote energy efficiency in the information technology sectors. The memorandum focuses on developing best practices and guidelines for improving energy use in data centers.
Last year, data centers used 1.5% of all electricity in the United States, DOE said. Although data centers form the backbones of the information economy, they consume a growing amount of energy. The Green Grid is a consortium of information technology companies seeking to lower the overall consumption of power in data centers worldwide.
For more information on DOE's memorandum with the Green Grid, click here .
In other DOE news, the agency signed an MOU to increase cooperation and energy efficiency in China's industrial sector, which accounts for 70% of the country's total energy demand, DOE said. This memorandum follows discussions from the third U.S.-China Energy Policy Dialogue held this week where the United States and China agreed to conduct audits to increase China's national, regional, and local energy efficiency.
The Industrial Energy Efficiency Cooperation MOU signifies the United States and China’s intention to promote energy efficiency at energy-intensive factories that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The memorandum states that a DOE team of industrial energy efficiency experts will conduct on-site plant audits of the production process and plant energy systems at up to 12 facilities from the top 1,000 energy enterprises in China. DOE will provide tools to conduct the plant audits and train factory personnel on plant audit techniques. These facilities must have the resources and feasibility to implement energy-efficient improvements identified by the DOE and National Development and Reform Commission teams.
DOE subsequently will conduct a comparison study of these Chinese enterprises and U.S. manufacturing plants to identify differences in best practices. The MOU also may serve as a conduit for American companies to export environmentally superior U.S.-made equipment and services to China.
DOE will host training sessions in the United States to help familiarize Chinese officials with U.S. energy saving laws, policies, advanced energy saving procedures and technologies, and best practices for management personnel tasked with saving energy. Training will be offered to government personnel, energy-saving supervisory and monitoring personnel, energy policy research personnel, and officials who manage big energy consumption enterprises. DOE also will provide demonstrations for highly efficient boilers, fired heaters, and combined heat and power units.
To learn more about DOE's memorandum with China on energy efficiency, click here .
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We’re heading into Toy Sale season here, and like other parents (and kids), I’m scouring the catalogues for birthday and Christmas present ideas (hopefully at bargain prices!).
Now hang on, you may be thinking… I’m a crafty type… I should be making my own toys…
While I like the idea of that, it just doesn’t work for me. I have limited time and energy, and with my kids getting older, I can’t get away with making their presents in front of them anymore!
But it shouldn’t have to be all or nothing. Some of the best-loved toys in this house are so much fun because they combine handmade with store-bought.
What fun would my felt play mat house be without a pile of store-bought cars zooming around on top?
How could my cardboard rocket take off into space without a space man doll inside?
And there’s no point having book ends without lots of great kids books lined up next to them?
(Well, ok, the bookends might make good toys to throw around… cheeky monkeys!)
I’m looking forward to one day making clothes for Barbies or Cabbage Patch Kids (or whatever my little girl likes).
So this year, as I scour the catalogues, I’m going to think about what toys my kids will love and how I can add to the fun with handmade creativity.
Where do you stand on handmade versus store bought toys?
This post was sponsored by Big W Toys. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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Alton shuffles into the kitchen to make a breakfast treat: French toast.Watch Video
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Sunday, October CDs Carnival Day and Hot Air Balloon. As Boston Children's Music puts it, "Vanessa's shows are perfect. It's hard to explain and I can't quite put my finger on what it is they do differently, but whatever it is, it really gets the kids (and parents) excited!...She has some sort of magical energy that makes all of her shows super fun..." Join us on October 14 and find out what all the buzz is about!
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There has been a poor dead dog laying alongside Highway 491, just outside of Cortez, for a couple of weeks now. My wife, who is an animal activist and professional pet sitter, has tried to get the corpse picked up, with no success. No surprise in this day and age; none of our public agencies will step up. Cortez and Montezuma County are supposed to be some kind of tourist destination with Mesa Verde and all of that; I wonder how that plays with corpses laying alongside the road.
I have been a resident here for 12 years now, and constantly read of this angst as to what is wrong with this community, why we can't attract industry and professional services. Look in the mirror: stupidity and opposition to change.
I will go tomorrow morning and pick up this poor dog, take it to my own residence, and give it a proper burial. Shame on you Cortez, Montezuma County and the State of Colorado for sitting on your thumbs.
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Very interesting, as always. I like some of it, but not other bits. I would like the library a lot lighter. White glossy wood. Brighter carpet, lighter furniture. To me the black and dark are very oppressive.
The hall and the library are almost too big. They look like a hotel, not a house. But then, I live in a tiny house, so everything seems HUGE!
loved your insight on this home... home psychology... what a cool major that would be... my favorite room was the kitchen... loved it me thinks this couple has some great but simple meals prepared there with the freshest of ingredients. Another great job Dr. Webb !
Home Psychology 101...can I sign up Mrs. Webb? You'd be the best professor I ever had!!!!!!
This house is so interesting. The kitchen is my favorite room but I love the library. I like the rug and the leather. Every room can't be seagrass and white slipcovers. LOL Although, in your hands it would indeed be perfectly done.
Can't wait for your library post.
A house shrink - Dr. Webb it is! Great imagination. Too bad the 'burbs of Houston are so dull. You are "spot on" about brown leather sofas, orange floors, honkin' TVs - it's the average home of Houston: yuk! I would absolutely KILL for the yard(s). And, the kitchen - swoon worthy. Thanks as always for the eye candy.
I love the glossy black staircase and the study!! So unexpected!! It's a very serious, elegant look--but to me, it's a little disjointed from the rest of the house. The kitchen and nook look like they belong in a different house---especially with the large clock which is almost humourous---quite the opposite of those dark oil paintings and daunting law books.
I think she did get some help from a designer. But with a short-leash and in a very "controlled" fashion. ;)
Fun read!!
So glad I took a break from my nightly Olympics marathon to read this post and enjoy the home! So fun to imagine the couple you've described. Hope you don't come to my house via the miracle of the internet - My decorating philosophy is a honkin' TV in every room!
Joni, I think you are right on! I am a Realtor... totally agree..so much on the MLS.. so boring.. we agents try to encourage the sellers as MUCH as possible to re-vamp so our pics INVITE the public in...GREAT POST .. I do like the breakfast room..I am of the more casual sort.. I did like the collection of chairs..
Dear Joni,
I think you are spot on! I can't imagine having a house full of children and no TV - so definitely empty nesters. My favorite room was the breakfast room - gorgeous. But the black library with white slipcovers and seagrass would be stunning - so would bright red leather chairs with nickel nailheads, white flokati rugs. Very fun!
Yeah, I've been waiting for your next post. Again, you did not disappoint. While I am all too familiar with MLS, we've owned 11 houses so far, they were not in such stately homes. I had some comfort in our first house when I realized that huge gorgeous homes were not necessarily so gorgeous inside. I'd want to eat with the homeowners in the kitchen on that big beautiful farm table. I also love the breakfast room. I agree that the house is a little disjointed, but obviously very much to the owners personality. Lovely indeed!
Can I eat my meal in the library? Or actually can I just live in the library? It looks so cozy- I dont think I would ever come out of there!
The kitchen is my favorite! Love it!!!
You gave me quite the chuckle reading through your analysis.
Hope your class isn't full, professor....I want in too!!! :)
I think the house, garden and rooms were created by the owners with things collected throughout their life, either from family or bought impulsively. I think I see acedemics...maybe literature or law, but I see a professor here. I am reminded of a home here...the wife was European and a gourmet and the food was...lasagna with spinach pasta the wife had made and with a cream sauce... I want to go here...often. I want a casual meal in the kitchen and dinner in the dining room. And I want to see what books they read. This was delicious.
Joni, you and I are two of a kind. Your description of the process that you go through when finding real estate gems is EXACTLY what I do when I find an intriguing listing. I am always speculating on why people are moving...and I love to solve the mystery.
Great post! This is definitely a house of empty nesters. No children anywhere to be seen...so no grandchildren yet. It is too dark and not pulled together enough for my taste, yet there are some beautiful touches and I love that rock crystal chandelier. In fact, I like most of their lighting. I wonder why there are no pictures of the bedrooms?
I adore the kitchen but it seems disjointed from the rest of the decor to me. The kitchen seems in tune with the exterior of the house and the gardens, while the rest of the interior seems separate in feel.
The front garden area is simply wonderful!
Joni, very well done. I do this all the time. Like you, I pore over the upscale realtor's websites, and so much of it is just this neo-palladian-tuscan meets wedding cake confection I just cannot stand.
This was a Normandy breath of fresh air. I'm over the moon about that front garden. I despise cookie cutter front yards of all grass and azaleas and crepe myrtle (not that I hate those plants.
don't forget publicdata.com in your little arsenal of research! You little Lois Lane you!
Still, I think you forgot the part where there is no front door because no one is coming to see the man who defended the biggest criminals of the century and how they are moving to Darfur to atone for their ill-gotten gains! (rant mode disengaged)
Fabulous post, I love your home psychology game - you're good at it!
Loved the house, even though it's about five houses rolled into one with very little continuity from room to room. They don't care, because when they built it they incorporated little bits of all of the places they've lived in and loved over they years. You see...they lived abroad for many years, he's a writer and she majored in art history, they met in Moscow, never had children, they're selling the house because moving back to the U.S. just isn't what they thought it would be. They miss their eccentric European friends, they're going back.
Oh my...I'm liking this game you've created.
I am absolutely cracking up! I found this house on HAR a few weeks ago and was dumfounded myself- I checked out owners on HCAD also (did I really think I would know them???!!!). The kitchen is amazingly unique... the breakfast room looks like a Salem, Massachusetts diorama (think "Bewitched" set- Ugh!).
Joni- I call HAR surfing a "sport"- it drives the realtors crazy! Nothing unique or "mysterious" about their job anymore. How much fun to check out how other people live and decorate. Keep "surfing" my friend because I love all of your clever postings!!!
Joni, I love the library and the door in the kitchen! You are right, this house is so atypical Houston. The garden is really unusual.
Looking forward to your library posts. I've always wanted one of my own :-)
LOVE th kitchen and the glossy paint hall and library. Gorgeous.
Beautiful exposition on this home, it made my lunch thoroughly worthwhile!
That is one unusual home, but it's fun to see such a unique space. I was expecting Vincent Price to be sitting in the library in one of those huge leather wing chairs! All that black paint intriques me--they're brave to coat the entire room with it. I agree with you about white slipcovers--it needs some light. I'd like the library better if the bookcases were slightly smaller/lower so the walls could be dark but the bookcases and window trim could be cream or white. Great post, as usual!!
Interesting to imagine the house decorated by totally different hands. What a different vibe it would give off. A house can (and should) show the owner's personality and these homeowner's are indeed intriguing, Professor Webb. Nothing more boring than a professionally decorated house that reveals nothing about the people living there.
What a Great Place!
Loaded with personality and I'm with you, love the kitchen and breakfast area.
I would say the owners are comfortable in their skin!
Great post and photo's.
Thanks!
Love the house. So different-I love it when people take risks and they pay off. Especially like the dark hall and library, BUT as the new owner you'd probably have to repaint the entry hall unless you had a huge art collection- the paintings make it work.
LOVE the architecture and gardens and that fabulous kitchen. Yes, the decor is 'off,' but the good bones are there. Such potential! And your psychological profile sounds spot on to me!
-Lana
Love it! You are spot on! I wish there was a close up of the kitchen sink... that kitchen was my favorite room, the pantry door, the lived-in feel... it's simply divine. You are right about 'no designer'... a designer couldn't mismatch that perfectly if they tried.
That top picture is so sad... the diagonal arrangement of the rug and furniture makes me crazy and those 'high water' window treatments are soooo sad. You can tell they were like "what are we going to do with these arch top windows?"
Great post!
erika
Ka-pow! Knockout post....love slipping into someone else shoes like that. Yea, I played real estate agent for a while and there are so many pottery barn blahs without personality... but this house is something else. the kitchen is wonderful...the library is cool, but felt like a Havard Club. Just not my taste. The gardens are sweet and no grass to mow! Hot damn. love it. Great post Joni, you made my morning.
Ha! Fun post...scary, but fun. I know it's all public info, but Yowza!
Loving the architecture and the outside...they even have bananas! Is that common in Houston?
Not loving all of the interiors...really don't like the wall treatment. But some gorgeous rugs....and a lovely, comfortable kitchen indeed!
wow, I love that entry area and the front yard - magical!!! The other interiors are lovely if not quite my taste. YOu need to go tour the home and pretend you are on the market! That way you can see the upstairs and further test your diganosis!
I love the library. As a Midwesterner, I'm guessing it's all about cool and dark — the opposite of Houston outside the windows. If you are not familiar with it, David Hicks' library was very dark, though quite small, so it is much more cozy. We have bookcases in almost every room in our house: white in a pale guest room, cherry in my husband's "study" with dark gary walls (Woodcut by Benj Moore) and a black bookcase in my sitting room which has dark furniture, red walls and green trim. Can't wait for your library post. I have files and books devoted to the subject in prep for turning the family room into the main library. I think of the other ones as branch libraries.
I remember seeing this house when it first came on the market. It makes you feel like you're in a little French or English village, not in the center of Houston. I also love the glossy black staircase and the kitchen.
Oh Joni, what a great post.
That top photo is just so sad. All too typical, unfortunately, of what the average McMansion owner thinks is great. I sense that the husband was involved in this design via the horrible brown leather pieces and that the wifey did the window treatments after getting a quote from a real designer for actual window treatments.
I love the 2nd home, especially the landscaping and the kitchen. For some reason the kitchen reminds me of the Weasley's kitchen in Harry Potter - I think it is the long table..
Wonderful post, Joni. I definitely think there's a psychology to homes and decorating. The kitchen and breakfast room are wonderful and look very authentic. Great find on Houston's mls!
If you had a library that big you might not leave even to get your Starbucks! Love the snooping - keep it up.
Jackie
I wanted to post before reading the other comments, so as not to be further swayed in my analysis (shrink hat on).
He is a Commander/Demander. He may walk soft but it isn't a stick he carries rather a cannon. The one slain never saw it coming and never dies rather left with ruin.
She knows the game. She plays it well. She loves art, music and is eclectic in her life, as you correctly assume. She is a mystery. She is quiet and busy. Living on her own terms, as does he; a good match, odd match but it works for them...at least for mow.
The house is definitely a designers work. A reflection of him with a soft indulgence for her in pink and eclectic.
I agree, they don't entertain formally. Perhaps they entertain close friends individually and for a purpose, but not the typical diner club. I can't think of a more mis-matched room than that dining room. Looks as though NO one every goes in there and if they do it's family. They let the designer make the curtains, throw up a sconce or two, but nothing more.
They may have cocktails with friends in the library or her room, but it would be rare I think.
The entry way was HIS and she won the right to arrange the stair artwork and family (?) portraits.
Education is important to them.
She lives in parts of the mansion and might be happier in a cottage on the lake in Austin with a large music studio and vast walls to display art.
I hope they priced that house a bit below market. Obviously He cares little for what his neighbors may think and certainly makes no nod to tradition or propriety, as he IS the Joneses.
Fun game this House Psychology.
This post was a thrill for me. I was a sociology major in school, with an emphasis on psychology. I once did a paper on how I could read a person's character and personality from seeing their home.
I got an A as I remember and it is still a *game* I play even now.
This is a sophisticated couple but not snobbish at all. They appreciate art, music and the theater and travel quite a bit. They are comfortabel with themselves, each other, their closest friends and family. They love their home. It is their haven and respite from the world.
Well educated and well read, with a good sense of whimsy thrown into the mix.
They adore Europe and have traveled (Perhaps lived there for a time) there extensively but love being home best.
They love good food and cook at home quite a bit. Never afraid to try something new and always have a delicious wine to compliment the courses.
It is a well loved and lived in home. Each new ding and stain just reflects a life well lived. Nothing is too frou frou not to be lived wit. Family pieces have been passed down from generations and still admired.
I adore all the dark colors but that is just me. I know many who disagree with that. I find them soothing and cozy, no matter the season.
The kitchen is to die for and is stylish yet a true home kitchen.
I loved the beginning of the post. So many home I see on the realtors lists look the same. I swear they all shop at the same stores. Look here...I have &^*&^$ amount of dollars, now show me 4 rooms and I will take thenm all. No thougt or personal style involved. I have known so many who have done just that. of course, they come here and I know my home makes them dizzy. I have heard the statements, "How did you know thus would go with that?" or "My, you do like strabge things don't you?" a time or two. I love a home that has been put together over years, not weeks. These homewoners did just that...
Many huge homes here are on the market because the people just overextended themselves. Many have little furniture in them at all. They bought the big house and had no money to make it a home.
Thank you for another wonderful post Joni! I loved it.
Love,
Sue
What a fun post! You had me laughing out loud at being a web detective; I partake in the same sort of "snooping."
The first room you showed was truly awful. Definitely a la "Rooms to Go."
Love, love, love the Normandy house. I agree with those who think a designer was involved, but maybe that's because I'm unable to put anything together on my own.
My favorites from the house were the rug and curtains in the living room and that beautiful piano (or perhaps it's a harpsichord or virginal - how cool would that be?). And that library... wow, oh wow. I love all the dark paneling - think they're very much in keeping with the period of the house. The only things I didn't care for were the window treatments in the dining room and the stain color in the kitchen. But, honestly, I could move right in and not change a thing and still be in heaven.
Thanks for sharing!
This was a fun and interesting post. As much as I love this house -- I was more intriqued with your mention of your interior doors painted black. I could hardly sleep last night, thinking about that. Could you share some photos of your black doors? This might be my next design project in my home! Thanks, -shirl
Very interesting. House number one says divorce to me, or bachelor. Maybe it's sexist of me, but no woman I know would ever pick those Superbowl couches. And I agree with everyone who thinks someone involved with number 2 has an affection for things European. I'm amazed the house is only 4 years old. It has a very individual personality, and it seems hard to imagine that people would put that time in and then move on. But I still think it could be the product of a great collaboration between designer and homeowner and landscape architect. Has anyone checked with Vervoordt? In any case, while it is a bit noir, I love it, and the magical garden leavens the subdued tone of the house.
Well, you KNOW I was gonna love all that gloss and gild! Completely LOVE the foyer/staircase/library. WEll, not huge on the library furnishings/carpet, but everything else is quite enjoyable.
I'll be the voice of dissent here..... I think they worked with a designer, however,kept him/her on an as per need basis, but the relationship fizzled towards the end. There aren't enough 'touches' to make it look professionally done through and through, but I have a strong feeling that someone who knew a thing or two about finishes and hanging artwork came in :) Just my .02
Andrea V.
Fascinating and fabulous post as usual. I love the library also - especially love how dark it is which surprises me as I'm usually into more light.
What I can never understand is why new homeowners can't see past the paint selection on the walls or the existing furniture. Come on people if you don't like the red living room you can always paint it!
My favorite is the exterior with the crushed stone pathways.
I know that staging homes is a very big business and there are definitely many homeowners who really could use this service. However, this home doesn't need any staging IMO. It looks comfortable, well used and loved.
Look at that kitchen! Lovely style and feels like you're in the middle of the Provence! But with a bit of American style also!, lol...
Very interesting post, Joni. I believe you are very close in your idea of the owners.
I spotted that fabric swatch too. She wants to lighten the mood with some updating of the room, perhaps.
I wonder, too, why they are selling. A young couple in our development is selling their home, that is only about 4 years old. It's a gorgeous home, pool, pool house, recreation room/bar in lower level. I had an odd idea they would not live there long, from the beginning and guessed the reason it's selling before I heard about it. Divorce is the reason for it being on the market. Not decorated/furnished at all. It is a home/house built for partying. We believe one of them wasn't a partier. Alas, it's on the market.
Just some neighborhood "gossip" from, Pat
PLEASE tell me why I can't hang my dining room mirror horizontally. I have a very long buffet and hanging it horizontally works but after your commetn I wonder....
Okay Joni, I'm ready for you to set up an analysis blog for interiors! We can send in our photos of our home and be "analyzed". Sort of a house horoscope! What FUN that would be for US!
When I saw the FIRST photo, I feared you thought it a room worth investigating and worried you'd "lost your touch". Relief that it was not so. :)
As for your assessment, in THAT price bracket, it's hard to tell if the rooms truly reflect the owners or what the owners WANT us to think about them. But it's fun to hypothesize!
Exquisite. Joni, you should give the link for the listing and save us the hassle of going through house after house to find this beauty.
I enjoyed your assessment. I am curious about your "paint doors black" comment. I am contemplating such a thing. Can you recommend a paint color and sheen please?
Dee
Hi Joni, I was referring in my post to the photo of the first room - the lovely brown sofas and chairs et al - I think I must have made it sound like I thought there were 2 houses...
You are the first designer to post on my website. I may be finished driving again for awhile; today I went to Calico Corners to pick up some samples for my living room...
You should have seen my tractor when I was driving over the road. The bunk had custom bedspread, lovely sheets and a feather bed. Many pillows. The other drivers (very few actually saw it) loved it, even the men. It was a fabulous adventure and I miss it a lot.
I loved the freedom of it. You get to spend a great deal of time by yourself, and that works for me. I listened to a lot of books on tape and a lot of NPR. I didn't make enough to afford XM Radio, but found I really didn't need it. I love driving - still do and if someone needs for me to drive them I'm ready. I was driving the wheels off my car and just decided one day to get a commercial driver's license (CDL) because I like big trucks. After a couple of months of school and living with my trainer in a space the size of a small walk-in closet for 6 weeks I was off on my own as a solo driver. I went to 42 states in 2 years. I designed rooms in my mind and buildings to build in the future. The best part may be that NO ONE can micro-manage you. That is something that just makes me crazy. And the older I get the crazier it makes me.
love that glossy block woodwork in the library and entry- it's a brave and bold move, and it completely works. the faux finish above the wood in the entry, not so much but hey- it's not my house.
love the crashed stone on the exterior paths as well- so perfect.
and joni- you have a great ey for detail- the french door hardware is lovely. in a photo, i doubt i would have noticed, but as a designer, i know that's the kind of thing that in person makes a room special...
I think you are right about them not socializing much. The front of the home looks as though they are trying to hide from the rest of the world.
The entrance is pure wow factor and it connects to the style of the library perfectly, they might not have had an interior designer work on these two rooms but they for sure had custom wood work done by a specialist.
Upon seeing the drawing room I got the feeling that yes this was all passed down in the family...... the house, furniture, etc., and it almost seems like there is someone that is dictating that they leave everything alone, possilby the person who passed the furniture to them? I also see a couple of modern paintings in the drawing room, so someone is trying to express something?
I think the kitchen and breakfast area was done by a designer. In Tennessee designers are always doing a mix match of chairs in the breakfast areas. Also the sweedish farm look and modern lighting strays from the classic english antiques and style they have in the rest of the home.
One thing for sure is that when you step onto this property you truly go back in time.
Lovely post.
Wow, what a difference from the usual ugly brown stuff, and so much nicer than the staged decor you see everywhere. I love all the art, and the antique furniture. I would love to cook and share a meal in that kitchen. And I love that library, although I do see how the seagrass and white upholstered pieces would be an improvement. Thanks for the tour!
xoxo,
Mary
Loved this post!!! That first room looks like an ad staged for Costco or something. Awful. Anyway, this was a fascinating read! Thanks. I love beautiful rooms through the eyes of an "unprofessional" photographer (whether from a real estate agent or you) because the rooms seem more real, somehow. Like another reader, I'd love to see the bedrooms! And I agree with you about the seagrass and white in that library.
My opinion is that if she's looking at fabric samples, there is not a divorce-- wouldn't that be the last thing on your mind? Maybe he got a business opportunity they couldn't pass up to spend a couple of years in France or London? Or the 130 year old mansion they've always been madly in love with FINALLY went on the market and they just have to get in there and renovate it...
I often wonder why people sell their beautiful houses as well. I really don't have a strong opinion on this one - I'd say they are probably moving because the house is filled with personal touches - and that's not something you just tire of.
I will say that I DO think that a designer was consulted for this house - probably one they've worked with before on other houses. That would explain some of the outdated upholstery - the clients didn't want to redo that stuff just then when they were first moving in. Several things make me think this - but most of all is the rug in the living room. It's from Stark. Also, the kitchen is very well done. Very efficient - and done for someone who likes to cook - but I still see a designer's touch there.
I think this is a really really cool house. The entryway and library make me think of the game "Clue" - it's very very English Manor. But the other parts are softer... it's interesting.
I think you should pitch this as a show on TV... "the House Psychologists: What Your Home Says About You". I'd watch!!
The couple that owns this wonderful home loves Europe, especially the gardens. They have been married for awhile and have blended their unique tastes and personalities. They have also learned the art of compromise.
His rooms are the entry way and library. Hers are the kitchen and breakfast room. He likes order and symentry, she is more carefree and whimsical.
She is sentimental and will recover those sofa's over and over through the years. She also has a lot of wedding present looking candle sticks around. He loves the more traditional paintings, she has collected the more modern pieces.
The dining room was also inherited. That is a room only used on holidays.
This is so much fun. Thanks for my daily respite.
There is something so wonderful about the written word in your hands. I love the library!!!
Interesting house! But what's with the sound-proof room? They seem to have extreme privacy already - If they don't entertain much and even have a recognizable front door - why does he need to hide his conversations from his partner?
hmmm.....
I love perusing the MLS, lots of beautiful interiors on the Los Angeles MLS. I could never describe them as well as you do though. As always, an interesting and informative post. That kitchen is wonderful, the entry and kitchen alone would sell that home.
That is a grande hallway! And that library! wow
Love your blog...I'm a Texan, too....
Uh oh! I have a horizontal mirror in my dining room! I'll get that changed ASAP. (Please don't hold it against me . . .)
Angela P.
Absolutely, I will be doing one of my "hooked on houses" drive-bys....discretely hanging out the SUV window and snapping photos. Sigh. Priced at $3,250,000, it's obviously worth every penny. No Tuscan-inspired, faux stucco, concrete lions at the entrance, Houston builder's special for me.
J,
you are such a good read. Isnt it refreshing to see a one in a million home thats not sooo cookie cutter boring? This one is a sparkler, for sure.
Lisa
coastal Nest
Fascinating article on the Kennedys...impressive research.
However, with all due respect...
...". Wow, harsh! This is someone's home--very hurtful if this post was pointed out to them. IMO.
"Jane" - actually that comment was about 90 percent of the houses in HOuston, so that's a lot of hurt people. I only showed that picture because of the leather furniture. If the owners didn't want their house up for scrutiny, I suspect they wouldn't have it on the internet. And trust me, by the looks of it, I don't think they really care about their decor that much. Most people really don't and have a sense of humor about their lack of decor. But - you have a point, I do try not to be overly insensitive in my criticisms - but this is MY blog where I express my opinions about decor and like I said, the image was obtained publically.
I'm going to guess that both of these people are tall! I find this house pretty overwhelming - lots of oversized things. I have a pretty typical suburban 4-bedroom house in NW Houston. It's pretty hard to do much with it. (I did take out the corner bar in the family room!!)
I love your pictures!
but I'm curious...why never hang a mirror horizontally? I totally agree that in some spaces vertical is ABSOLUTELY the way to go...but to say "People, do NOT hang your mirror horizontally! Ever! NEVER!"? Isn't that a bit much? Is there some stylistic/design logic of which I'm unaware?
I love going through all the pictures, and I absolutely love your blog! I am so glad my dear friend, Laurie told me about it! It's fun to surmise about their life. Connie/puddin07
Another great blog - I could spend all day looking at the beautiful pictures you've taken or have found to describe your design sensibilities and tastes. I too love that dining room, but alas, hubby would be rather upset if I decided to paint all our bungalow's natural woodwork high-gloss ebony. What a beautiful home though, and in such a lovely neighborhood too! I hate the humidity of Houston, but to live in that house, in that neighborhood, with that garden - I might just learn to deal with it! Great post!
i will tell you, the owner (man) designed and built that house, head to toe. the wife did add some touches with her own antiques and furniture. notice in the kitchen that there are no "toe kicks," true to the era.
im loving the descriptions of the owners- no they did not meet in moscow and is a second marriage for both. they also have 5 kids between them, and you're right, no grandkids! ages range from 18-28. the husband is extremely brilliant... i will leave the rest to your imagination and not spoil the fun! :)
"Katie- from August 18th"- you are wrong about all of the above- COSTCO? really? your opinion about the seagrass is fine..but the rest is wrong :) but you can keep guessing!
... i dont think the owners would even know what costco is. probably never been inside one?
in the words of everyone's favorite, Paris Hilton, "what's a walmart?"
wait!!!!! She is NOT talking about the beautiful house being like Costco - she is talking about the 1st picture of the ugly house!!!! Not the house in River Oaks. Go back to the blog and you will see - that first room is from a home in Bellaire. hahahah!!! And I think I know who one of the Anons is! thanks so much - this is fun.
Joni
Joni...I love your imagination and your eloquence. I too, look at the Atlanta MLS and am so discouraged by what I see "designers" do. It all looks the same. Big furniture, no character, matchy-matchy...uggghhh.
The black staircase is beautiful...I would love to do that, but my husband would croak!
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My favorite food when I was a kid was sushi. When teachers would ask what our favorite food was I would always say something like “pizza” to be more like the other kids (sushi wasn’t as wildly popular almost 30 years ago) but I always chose sushi for any celebratory meal. My older son absolutely loves sushi as much as I do. From the time he was a baby he always ate more at the sushi restaurant than anywhere else and that is still true. (The baby seems to like it pretty well too but he is still too little for raw fish) Given my son’s love of sushi he was absolutely smitten last year when he tried candy sushi at a school fundraiser. Made of assorted candy and rice krispie treats with fruit roll-ups as the seaweed it had all of his favorite things combined in one. We decided that we would make them for his birthday party as a fun treat. Since his birthday was right before all the fall holidays I never managed to post the recipe so I’m posting it now. It was a huge success at the party. I expected that the kids would like the candy sushi, but the adults loved it too! It is a fun addition to any festive get together.
Candy Sushi is a lot of fun to make. The sky is the limit when it comes to what candy can be used to make sushi like rolls and nigiri. We used orange jelly beans for salmon roe, banana laffy taffy for tamago (egg) and a variety of rope shaped candies to make cucumber and California rolls. Gummy worms work well too, but the store was all out of kosher ones that week so we stuck with licorice. We even made some nigiri with whole gummy fish on top! With a little imagination I think that any kind of sushi could be possible! Fun to make and fun to eat, what could be better?
Candy Sushi”.
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Wow these look amazing. I wouldn’t have know they were sweet sushi without you saying. They would make a show stopping dessert for friends.
This. Is. So. Cool!
What a great idea! These look great!
how fun! I remember going for sushi with you way back in the day, they used to look at us like we were crazy :) Jamie does some of his best eating at Japanese restaurants as well.
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Countryside In Partnership PLC were presented with the Gold Award for Best Partnership Development, for the second year running, at the 1998 What House? Awards held on November 13 at the Dorchester Hotel, London.
This success for the regeneration of the former New Kingshold Estate in Hackney follows the award two weeks ago of the NHTPC London Region Partnership Award for the same scheme.
The What House? Judges' Report said:- "Countryside In Partnership has developed a very effective formula for their inner city developments. The New Kingshold Estate in Hackney is well designed, creating an appropriate extension of the existing street pattern. The housing mix was carefully engineered to include a high proportion of homes with gardens. Neighbourhood facilities were also included in the plan. There was a range of locally recruited labour and job training, and an extensive economic development programme, in a challenging area. The Hackney scheme was awarded the top marks on the strength and extent of the partnership, obvious effort and attention to community initiatives, as well as overall quality of design."
The Managing Director of Countryside In Partnership PLC, David Everett, added "This is a tremendous accolade for us, the London Borough of Hackney, Samuel Lewis Housing Trust, local residents and all of our other partners at New Kingshold."
For further information contact:-
Michael HillCountryside In Partnership PlcTel: 01277 690548
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Hedge. and Nvidia Corp .
The settlements come after outside investors in Cohen's fund submitted notices last month to pull $1.68 billion from SAC Capital, largely over concern about the insider trading investigation. Cohen is one of the $2 trillion hedge fund industry's best known and most successful traders.
The fines will be paid by SAC Capital's management company and not outside investors, said a person familiar with SAC Capital.
In a statement the firm said, "This settlement is a substantial step toward resolving all outstanding regulatory matters and allows the firm to move forward with confidence."
In November, regulators charged CR Intrinsic with insider trading in November when the SEC said one of its portfolio managers, Mathew Martoma, illegally obtained confidential details about a clinical trial for an Alzheimer's drug.
Martoma is facing criminal charges over the incident and has pleaded not guilty.
Neither SAC Capital nor any of it subsidiaries admitted or denied wrongdoing in agreeing to the settlements.
Cohen, one of the industry's most successful traders, has not been charged with any wrongdoing by authorities.
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When the Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers tangle in Sunday’s season opener at M&T Bank Stadium, Terrell Suggs expects his path to Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger to be littered with roadblocks.
And those roadblocks have names – as in, offensive tackles Jonathan Scott and Willie Colon, tight end Heath Miller and H-back David Johnson.
“It’s going to start with a chip [from] Heath Miller, a back,” the four-time Pro Bowl outside linebacker said Wednesday. “I won’t be one-on-one with them because they remember the playoff game, they remember all the games I had. I think the game here, I hit Roethlisberger something like six or seven times. So like I said, they’re doing everything right now possible to make sure that I don’t have a good game.”
And for good reason. Although the Steelers have won the last two meetings and six of the last eight games in this series, Suggs has terrorized Pittsburgh and Roethlisberger.
According to statistics researched by the Ravens’ public relations staff, Suggs has collected 10½ sacks against the Steelers in the regular season. That’s the most sacks any active player has recorded against Pittsburgh and the second-most Suggs has posted against a single team. (He has sacked Cleveland quarterbacks 12 times in the regular season.)
Suggs has taken down Roethlisberger 12½ times – regular season and postseason – which is the most sacks any defensive player has registered against Roethlisberger.
Roethlisberger, who – at 6 feet, 5 inches and 241 pounds – isn’t exactly a wallflower, chuckled when asked to describe Suggs’ strengths as a pass rusher.
“How long do you have?” he asked rhetorically during a conference call with Baltimore media. “He’s such a ferocious player. He’s got really long arms and legs and he uses his arms real well. Super athletic, fast, strong, ferocious. I think even something that people don’t write about, [there’s his] intimidation factor alone. I think a lot of linemen and running backs and tight ends – before the play even starts – are a little intimidated because of his reputation of being a such a good, ferocious player. So I’m still looking for a weakness in his game. He’s pretty doggone good.”
Suggs does wear a scowl during games, and his relentless chattering has unnerved even some of his own teammates during practices, but he dismissed the notion of intimidating Steelers players as a psychological ploy.
“They’re trying to psych us out,” he said. “‘Oh, he scares me.’ They’ll do everything possible to make sure I don’t have a good game.
“I assure you that [left guard Chris] Kemoeatu is not rattled,” Suggs continued. “And last year, they had big Flozell [Adams], and I’ve always respected Flozell Adams as a good player in this league. Max Starks, they released him, but he was one of the few tackles that has given me problems. If you look at the games, we usually have good battles against each other. But I don’t think they’re rattled [about] me at all, and I guarantee you that they’ve got something in store where I won’t be one-on-one with any of their tackles.”
The 28-year-old Suggs is already the franchise leader in sack yards (519) and forced fumbles (22), and he is second in fumble recoveries (11). He has led the team in sacks in five of eight seasons since being selected with the 10th overall pick in 2003, including 11 of the Ravens’ 27 sacks last season.
Suggs has especially excelled against Pittsburgh. Last season alone, he accrued 15 tackles and 5½ sacks in three games.
In a 13-10 loss at M&T Bank Stadium on Dec. 5, Suggs sacked Roethlisberger 1½ times and hit him five times. In their last meeting, he sacked the Steelers quarterback three times in a 31-24 playoff loss on Jan. 15.
On Wednesday, Suggs attributed his success to his hatred of losing.
“I’m pretty sure that they’ve beaten us more than any other team in the NFL because we play each other the most. I just don’t want to lose,” he said. “So every time I play them, I try to crank it up some more. So that can explain it. But what does it matter if they still end up winning the game?”
But on Friday, he gave the team’s PR staff another reason for his exceptional play.
“Our two defenses are always being compared. ‘Who’s the better defense?’” Suggs said. “When the players are at battle, I feel like I have to play better than their two outside linebackers [James Harrison and LaMarr Woodley]. That’s my motivation – don’t let the outside linebackers outplay me.”
Suggs’ run against the Steelers wasn’t lost on Jarret Johnson, the Ravens’ other outside linebacker. But Johnson couldn’t put his finger on why Suggs fared better against Pittsburgh than some of the other opponents the team meets on a regular basis.“He just goes off every time,” Johnson said. “The friggin’ dude’s unblockable. I don’t know what it is. I don’t know if he just matches up well against their guys. He just always has big games against the Steelers.”
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'Dating in the Dark': Where'd the premise go?Reality CheckBOFF returns to give us the lowdown on last night's Dating the Dark. Don't forget to share your opinions on the show in the comments! Take it away, BOFF!:We start out, as usual, with brief introductions of this week's participants......
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Laurin Smith, a 3rd Class Cadet at the United States Coast Guard Academy, set sail in May aboard America’s Tall Ship, Barque Eagle.
This year marks the 75th birthday for Eagle, which was appropriated by the U.S. from Hitler’s Germany at the end of World War II.
Eagle visited Waterford, Ireland, en route to Hamburg, Germany, to celebrate with other ships from the era built in the shipyard there.
The ship then traveled to London, where the cadets aboard disembarked and returned to the United States for other assignments.
Smith was one of 150 cadets who joined the 68 officers and crew on the voyage. Eagle is a training vessel for the academy and an ambassador for the U.S.
Smith is now finishing her summer training on the USCG Morgenthau, ported in Alameda, Calif.
The Morgenthau patrols from South America to the Bering Sea, conducting counternarcotics missions, alien migrant interdiction operations, foreign and domestic fisheries enforcement, and search and rescue.
Smith, a naval architecture major, is a 2010 graduate of Boonsboro High School.
She is the daughter of Tom and Kristy Smith of Rohrersville.
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Boonsboro High grad Smith spends part of summer on Coast Guard ships
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State parks officials announced plans to close 70 parks earlier this month due to the budget deficit.
The San Jose Mercury News reported Saturday that the parks actually receive federal funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and cannot be closed by the state.
The fund, which is given as a grant to the state, requires state parks receiving financing must remain open or another of equal size must be opened nearby.
The list of saved parks were not named, but some of the parks that receive federal funding include:
- Salton Sea State Recreation Area, Imperial County;
- Twin Lakes State Beach, Santa Cruz;
- Castle Rock State Park, Santa Clara County;
- Portola Redwoods, San Mateo County;
- Candlestick Point, San Francisco;
- Limekiln, Big Sur.
Officials say parks were chosen based on attendance rates and historical significance.
The department operates more than 270 state park units covering more than 1.4 million acres.
Here's a full list of the closures from the parks department:
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National Association of Letter Carriers food drive is this weekend
May 4, 2010 · Updated 10:39 AM
The annual food drive sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers takes place this weekend.
Food items can be put in a bag and left at the mailbox Saturday prior to the day’s normal mail delivery.
Carriers are looking for nonperishable items like canned meats and fish, canned soup, juice, pasta, vegetables, cereal and rice. They ask that no one donate items that have expired or those in glass containers.
The event is co-sponsored by the United States Postal.
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Brisbane halfback Peter Wallace tops long list of medal tips for Broncos
- From: The Courier-Mail
- October 05, 2012
Broncos halfback Peter Wallace is in line to win the Paul Morgan medal for 2012. Picture: Jono Searle Source: The Daily Telegraph
BRISBANE halfback Peter Wallace could tonight become the first No.7 since Allan Langer in 1996 to claim the Broncos' coveted Paul Morgan Medal at their player of the year awards.
While Wallace wore the brunt of criticism during the club's six-game late season rough patch, his performances during Brisbane's 7-1 start to the season drew widespread praise and almost resulted in a NSW State of Origin recall.
Wallace was Brisbane's highest polling player in the Dally M Medal, finishing the count in equal seventh place on 19 points with 2011 winner Billy Slater, Sydney Roosters halfback Mitchell Pearce and South Sydney's English forward Sam Burgess.
Wallace had been level with eventual winner Ben Barba when voting went behind closed doors after round 16, but polled only three more votes for the year while the Canterbury fullback doubled his tally to win the prize with 32 votes for the season.
Despite Wallace's strong season, lock forward Corey Parker was the only Broncos player considered as a nominee for his positional award, which was eventually given to Cronulla skipper Paul Gallen.
The lack of external recognition for Brisbane's players proves just how evenly spread their performances were in 2012 and picking the winner of tonight's player of the year award remains a lottery. The winner is voted upon by the players, coaching staff and the club's former internationals.
Andrew McCullough
Hooker Andrew McCullough made over 1000 tackles for the Broncos in 2012. Picture: Peter Wallis Source: The Daily Telegraph
Other players considered strong chances at claiming the Morgan Medal are hooker Andrew McCullough, centre Justin Hodges, props Josh McGuire and Ben Hannant and 2010 winner, fullback Josh Hoffman.
McCullough played all 25 games this year and made over 1000 tackles, Hodges had his finest club season in many years with an almost injury-free run, McGuire was the standout during the Origin period, while Hannant and Hoffman claimed Test jumpers following their strong efforts to start the season.
Parker was consistently strong throughout the year, but may pay for missing too many games through injury and Origin commitments.
Another bolter could be second-rower Alex Glenn, who topped the club's tryscoring list with 13 for the year. He also made the most tackle busts by a forward and averaged over 100m a game in his 23 appearances.
Last year's winner and former skipper Darren Lockyer agreed that the player of the year award was hard to predict because the Broncos had so many contributors throughout the season.
"I think it will be one of those sort of most consistent players,'' Lockyer said. "I think Corey (Parker) had a couple of injuries that will cost him. I actually think someone like an Alex Glenn is probably a good chance at taking it out.''
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Miami
When To Go
You can't get much further south in the US than Miami, so when it gets hot, it's searing; consequently winter is the peak season. The city bulges at this time: most of the US squeezes in while the rest of the country freezes their Fanny-Maes off. The 'in-between' months, especially August through to November, see a range of enticing festivals so reservations come in handy at this time. The Calle Ocho Festival in March and the White Party in November especially draw the crowds.
Miami Overview
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Balanced & Beautiful Introducing: Les Cleanse Party Mavens! Maddeningly Good Hustle & Grow I Left My Heart @ Spotify #jobbytime #industryinsight: Mutineer Magazine Drink Careers *Workin* It Consumer Trends HEAT @ Unified 1/31 HIP TASTES Red Pairing Alert: Swirl On Castro Meet the Man Behind the New HIP TASTES Wine Label: Mitchell Shernoff Chenin Me, Barbera Blowout, OR: (Good) Wine Shenanigans Forecast for Family Winemakers
May 08, 2013
Balanced & Beautiful
filed under: Events, Hip Tasters, Regional Spotlight
It's a total treat to be able to feature another fabulous food and wine lady @ this Friday's Cleanse Party: DETOX/RETOX - Ms. Katrina Fetzer of Ceago Vinegarden. Katrina will share her family's Biodynamic pours with guests and dish a bit about how nourishing the body doesn't have to mean excluding wine - it's about balance and making healthy lifestyle choices. Her family prides itself on running a "balanced and beautiful Biodynamic ranch" along the shores of (I must say stunning) Clear Lake, and if you take a peek at these pics I'm sure you'll agree it's teeming with all of that, and more.
About Katrina Fetzer, pictured
Katrina is the Director of Sales & Marketing at Ceago Vinegarden. She joined Ceago in the summer of 2002 after pursuing business and marketing courses in Europe and in San Francisco. She works with her father, Jim Fetzer, in developing marketing campaigns, sales strategies, design ideas and labels to help take Ceago and the Biodynamic wine movement to the next level. Katrina also puts her international palate and design background to work producing events and sharing her family's wines with distributors, at restaurants and at winemaker dinners. Katrina is an active Board Member for the Demeter Biodynamic Trade Association.
Katrina was kind enough to answer a few questions about her philosophy. Read those responses here, and come out to Friday's event to meet her, taste some delicious wine and learn how a whole farm perspective and healthy outlook can make all the difference in framing wine in a positive light in your life!
What does wellness mean to you?
Katrina: Wellness for me is about balance. Building a balance in my life where my body, mind and spirit are happy, healthy and I can continue to incorporate everything I love...wine, yoga, food, friends to name just a few.
What are a few of your favorite spots in sf to unwind and be healthy?
Katrina: My favorite spots in SF to unwind, be healthy and inspire me...there are so many amazing placing in our beautiful city it is hard to choose. But if I was to pick just a few: Lands End, Ocean Beach, De Young, The Pad, International Orange, The Juice Shop, Out the Door, Hog Island Oyster Company or just the entire Ferry Building with the Farmer's Market!
What makes your Lake County estate a restful, nourishing and inspiring place to be?
It is truly a combination of things that all work together. The property in general, the lake, the diversity of plant crops, the animal integration and especially the people! My father, Jim Fetzer, has created a place where you cannot help but feel the weight lifted and your eyes open to all the beauty surrounding you. And there is nothing better than getting to enjoy it all with a glass of wine!
Learn more at Ceago.com
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April 15, 2013
Introducing: Les Cleanse Party Mavens!
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April 09, 2013
Maddeningly Good
filed under: Winning Wines
I love television. It's escapism at its best, and with all of the options out there for seeing our favorite shows any time we want - Netflix, Hulu, Prime - it's become de rigeur to actually TRY to watch them all. I freely admit I am guilty of a few back-episode binges myself (anyone who has seen the first seasons of Homeland & Girls totally has my back), so I laughed pretty long and hard over this NY Mag piece by the erudite Elissa Bassist: "Addicted to Netflix: Teen-Soap-Opera Binge As Psychosis."
Yes, it's as good as you think it's going to be.
In spite of all this pent-up viewing enthusiasm, however, some shows we still have to wait for. With our lives more on-demand than ever, this waiting seems to elevate the must-wait-for shows to almost mythic status. Cue: the new season of Mad Men, which debuted this week on AMC. Breathless posts on the now-available-for-anytime-viewing of the first episode are sprinkled across Facebook, so uber fans who may have missed Sunday's show can now breathe freely.
And now that we're on track with the new season (whew!), why not host a Mad Men-themed tasting to add a little more excitement to the next show? My suggestions for wine pairings for characters - yes, Don Draper is a mercurial Burgundy and Betty a bracingly acidic white - abound in this piece on wine tasting parties that ran today (TU to drinks scribe Jessica Yadegaran for featuring Hip Tastes!). Just remember: if you choose to binge-view the entire season at a later date, don't do the same with your wine. With that, moderation is always the best choice. ;)
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April 04, 2013
Hustle & Grow
filed under: Events, Ramblings
I am so pleased to announce the new Wellness Series! This Mucha-inspired illustration - courtesy of Mitch Shernoff - is the ideal visual for the Cleanse Party, which kicks off the series. There are so many reasons the time is right to address wine in the context of balance. So many of us are juicing right now or cleansing or even just integrating more yoga and fitness, but we still want wine to be a part of our healthy lifestyle. Dial into these classes for realistic approaches to both - and get ready to really glow...I mean grow! (okay, I really meant both ;))
Here is the link to check out more about the Cleanse Party, my lovely co hostesses Adina Niemerow and Nicole Cronin, and buy some tix:
cleanseparty.eventbrite.com
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March 15, 2013
I Left My Heart @ Spotify
filed under: Ramblings
I have a new crush, and no it's not Georgian wine or grower Champs or micro blogging about Georgian wine or grower Champs (although all of that does sound splendid). My crush is quite simply music - but not just any music - Spotified music. I feel kind of like a nerd raving about it, but I can't help it: Spotify *rocks*!
I love the ease of making playlists and discovering new music. I have literally found so much new music over the past few months it's ushered in a whole new vibe - it's like my aural senses are finally indulging in the level of insanely delicious treats as my palate. Okay, no more gushing. Here are some of my favorite recent compilations. I'll be dropping more playlists with new events and wine releases - so it should be an exciting way to convey the HIP TASTES message to curious ears at large. - CC
Unified 2013 - I created this playlist when I was preparing for my Consumer Trends presentation at this year's Unified Wine & Grape Symposium. A lot of positive music you want to work to, but you wouldn't know it by the artists' names: Cults, Hurts, Modest Mouse, Grizzly Bear...
Listen to the Unified playlist
HT VDay - This is quite possibly my favorite playlist of all time. And yes, I am considering the ones you make when you're 13 and totally obsessive about music (some of it good, much of it mortifying). Rubblebucket, which I just discovered at a show in February, Frank Ocean, Julian Casablancas, James Blake, Lana...
Listen to the HT VDay playlist
Tahoe TGIF - Ah yes, the Tahoe take on the quintessential weekend playlist. Um, Chromeo. New obsession. Don Henley. Journey (oh yes I did). Vampire Weekend. Black Keys. Go on, get your w/e on...
Listen to the Tahoe TGIF playlist
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February 28, 2013
#jobbytime #industryinsight: Mutineer Magazine Drink Careers *Workin* It
filed under: Hip Tasters, Ramblings
It seems so obvious, yet many have overlooked it: During the recession, and since, one of the best-growing industries has been...drinks. Makes sense, right? People may have spent less on many things, but the personal austerity measures we enacted don't seem to have eradicated this all-important category (you know you're doing your part to help this trend along). Happily, it's also meant drinks careers have been a bright spot in an otherwise pretty desolate landscape for consumer goods. And - they're hiring.
And so in light of all this, I'm proud to be a member of the Mutineer Magazine Drink Careers Project 101 Advisory Board. Together with some 100 other drinks career imcumbents (think sommeliers, entrepreneurs, winemakers, soda slingers, writers, brand mavens, etc.) I'll be sharing tips and insights on how to navigate the tricky but rewarding work inside the beverage industry. I'm psyched to get to know what's going on with new college grads and others looking to transition to the industry, too, so this is shaping up to be an exciting and enriching journey.
Mutineer is raising money via Kickstarter to spread the word far and wide where industry work goes. The result of their hard work will be a printed how-to guide to pursuing a career in the beverage industry. You can do your part in supporting this important cause either by making a donation here or retweeting and posting items shared on Twitter or Facebook (or this post!). This looks to be a great conversation - and we couldn't do that without a big audience, support and broad participation.
I'll be tweeting from @HIpTastesMaven
and posting via Facebook @HipTastesEvents
Please follow me in those spots if you aren't already and let's get this (job) party started!
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January 29, 2013
Consumer Trends HEAT @ Unified 1/31
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At Unified? Let's sync up via Twitter: @HipTastesMaven #UGWS @TheUnified
More than 12,000 guests! 650 product mavens! Awesome talks! Massive industry merriment!
This Thursday (9am-11:30am) I'll be joining a fresh faced group of wine industry insiders for the Consumer Trends general session chat at Unified Wine & Grape Symposium. I'm thrilled to have been invited. The session will share insights for wine growers, producers and others in the wine collective on how to keep up with emerging trends. It aims to answer a lot of pressing questions, including (this one specified in the session descriptor): "Why have Moscato and new red wine blends flourished, and what does it mean for the future of both the industry and the food and wine experience?" Indeed.
As a *new!* negociant producer of a red blend I'll bring some case study savvy, and draw upon my sommelier/educator/writer background in pondering just these sorts of questions. Watch for lifestyle cues and various brand success stories around influences as varied as love, wellness, sustainability, music and more. Come on down if you'll be there - and Q&A is always a great time to ask for more.
Consolidation Consolation 2-4pm
In addition to the general session Thursday morning, I'll be moderating a marketing panel breakout later in the day on surviving consolidation. AKA staying relevant and in the game, even as the players who distribute wine shrink in # and competition continues to rise. Talk about a squeeze. Thanks to super savvy panelists Jason Haas (Tablas Creek), Ed LeMay (Constellation), Daren Cliff (The Estates Group) and Hank Beal (Nugget Market, UC Davis guest lecturer) we should have a solid chat and great takeaways. I'll be intro'g everyone with an inspirational quote of their personal selection, so get ready for some philosophy and motivational pointers served up alongside the practical advice.
For those who may not know, Unified is the Western Hemisphere's biggest wine trade show, a mega-event that takes over the convention center in downtown Sacramento for a multi-day blowout every January. Looking for a new mechanical harvester? You'll find it at the trade show. Looking for cork or glass, alt packaging or - per chance - ideas for keeping abreast of trends and making the most of your brand in the wine biz? You've come to the right place.
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Standard 2.30. Judicial comment on verdict or mistrial
At the conclusion of a trial, or on declaring a mistrial for failure of a jury to reach a verdict, it is appropriate for the trial judge to thank jurors for their public service, but the judge's comments should not include praise or criticism of the verdict or the failure to reach a verdict.
Standard 2.30 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as sec. 14 effective January 1, 1976.
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The little black dress: everyone has one, and if you don’t, go out and get one now! You never know when a funeral/wedding/fancy dinner party/date may happen and you need that little number in your closet ready and waiting.
There are a number of styles to choose from when it comes to the little black dress: wrap, tank, A-line, princess cut…I could go on for a whole paragraph, but you get the point. My suggestion, however, if you are going out to buy a new black dress is to find the most basic one you can. No embellishments, special cuts, strange waistlines, etc. because this will give you the most options. Observe:
Basic
Michelle Williams (source)
For all you know, Michelle Williams woke up 15 minutes before this premier and threw on her dress and shoes and was out the door. This is the kind of look you last minute fashionista’s should go for if you can never make it anywhere on time. Simple,chic, and ridiculously easy, this is the little black dress working its’ hardest.
Edgy
If you love to accessorize then this look is for you…again, find the simplest little black dress you can and then go wild with the accessories. Do you think that Rachel’s giant gold belt would work with a wrap dress? No. If you are going to wear over the top accessories then go with a simple sheath.
Ethereal
This is THE semi-formal look for all of you indie-rock naturalist beauties out there…the master of ethereal beauty herself, Blanchett rocks this flowy number to a “T.” Loose bell sleeves and an interesting neckline make this look interesting and unusual but not weird.
Uptown Chic
What makes Jessica uptown-chic look rock isn’t just the dress, but the whole package! The shiny satin (sans-wrinkles, I might add…bravo) black dress is easy enough to make it go whichever way you want…a funky clutch+up-to-the-minute trendy nude colored shoes paired with a sassy updo make this dress look less dressy and totally hot. Add pearls and a classic clutch with black pumps instead and you are ready for any dressy event.
Whatever your style, make sure it shines through with your “little black dress” to get them most mileage!
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Michelle Williams is one of thee cutest celebs out there (even if she’s been MIA lately). She never fails to look adorable.
GlamChic
My secret to wearing a little black dress is feeling good in it. I am always searching for a black dress to buy, and have a few favorites collecting dust in my closet. Love the Macy’s shop for a cause theme you have today.
Well i have lots of black dresses
but i cant realy think what to wear with them you may think that sound supid but its true sooo i have this friends birthday comeing up and im wearing a black dress and dont have a clue what to do with it i need HELP !! x
i have shirt black dress should i wear a belt low or high on the waist my waist is small and i’m wearing tall black boots with and what color belt should i wear
I wear mine ALL THE TIME. It is a boatneck with a simple waistline and it falls just above the knee. I’ve worn it a million times in every season–to class, to weddings, to funerals, to parties, on dates with boys and just friends, out to coffee…I could go on and on. Its wonderful.
Jessica Simpson looks so cute on this photo…
The nice thing about little black dresses, not everyone can wear them. Even if you walk into a party or special event and someone has on a similar dress, no one notices the similarity. I hate dealing with the duplicate dress dilemma at special events.
I would have to say my favorite of these is the Rachel Bilson dress.
Jessica looks sexy, I wonder how a pair of shoes with the same pattern as her purse would go!
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What is Love and Respect?
Love and respect is a more than a video program, it is a set of tools that you can use in your marriage to help overcome the CRAZY CYCLE we so often find ourselves in. Dr. Emerson Eggrichs skillfully explains with real life application and research studies that what the Bible says about a marriage relationship is true. We can trust the creator of marriage to help strengthen and save our marriages.
For more information please contact us now at (772) 283-8306 or fill out the form located at the right side of the page. A ministry representative will contact you as soon as possible to answer any questions regarding class materials and scheduling.
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Joffrey Lupul scored the lone goal of the shootout as the Toronto Maple Leafs halted Dallas' two-game winning streak, edging the Stars 4-3 Friday.
Lupul was the hero in the third round of the sudden-death format, moments after taking a high-stick to the face that wasn't called. Blood was still trickling from his face when he beat Dallas netminder Kari Lehtonen with a well-aimed wrist shot.
With the teams tied 2-2 following an entertaining 40 minutes, Clarke MacArthur put Toronto ahead at 6:55 of the third period on the team's first shot of the period. The veteran forward took a sensational pass from center Tim Connolly and redirected it past Lehtonen.
Radek Dvorak evened things with 7:13 remaining, taking advantage of extended Dallas pressure with a wrist shot past Jonas Gustavsson.
Eric Nystrom's goal four minutes into the game put the Stars in front early, but Toronto rebounded with two goals in a four-minute span later in the period. Joey Crabb's redirection of defenseman Dion Phaneuf's point shot evened the score, and Phaneuf put the Maple Leafs ahead with a blast that eluded Lehtonen.
Nystrom evened things with the only goal of the second period, finishing off a three-way passing play by firing a shot from in close past Gustavsson.
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Brett Favre had more experience than Drew Brees yet that didn't help him get past the Saints in the Championship game.
Dan Marino went to the Super Bowl in only his second year and never came close to going when he had the most experience of all.
I see you have added your hedge clause by talking about redneck jury members.
I know alot of people that have been in a particular field for a long time, but don't mistake tenure for effectiveness. Only a moron would confuse the two.
Originally Posted by MoneySRH: Casey had searched on her computer for chloroform and how to break a neck. Casey waited 30+ days to report her daughter missing. Then lied to the police, lied to everyone and was caught lying maybe 20+ times. The car smelled like a body. She chloroformed her daughter and used layers of duct tape on her mouth, nose, and put her in a plastic bag so she could go partying. I don’t know what this case has to do with trevon martin being killed by a crazed vigilante.
He called police on himself, vigilantes don't do that.
Um:
"The best evidence we have is the testimony of George Zimmerman, and he says the decedent was the primary aggressor in the whole event," Serino told the Sentinel March 16. "Everything I have is adding up to what he says."
Just about everything you've posted on this incident has been untrue.
To be clear, Serino did not want Zimmerman charged or arrested.
Originally Posted by MoneySRH: This story just materialized out of thin air and serino is an innocent media pawn. WOW! So, Matthew Keys somehow got the police report? Where did the story of Chris Serino wanted Zimmerman charged with manslaughter come from? Then the chief steps down and then the state attorney steps down also and that there was a secret meeting and that was all a coincidence? Then after almost a month, another media source says they had an exclusive interview, attended by Serino and others, he says he believed Zimmerman’s story? And then on top of that he says it’s police procedure to fill out the incident report with a possible crime for the FBI. When a police report is only to be filled with facts? This has police darn up and people covering their fools and corruption all over this bullshit. I will man up and apologize bowlslit. I was wrong about officer serino. I don’t know if the media is lying or the corrupt are covering their fools or serino is being coerced into back tracking. I still believe zimmerman is guilty and I now look like a fool because of this bullshit story with twists and turns all over the fuckin place. I don’t know if it’s the media or the police bullshitting the people and I have now been royally fucked by both. Again, I was wrong about serino and apologize bowlslit.
No need to apologize just yet. I am also a man of honor and this is a bit confusing at the moment..
In his letter Monday to Roy Austin, deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, Crump wrote, "We look forward to your thorough and comprehensive review of the suspicious circumstances surrounding this meeting, and the decision to disregard the recommendation of the lead homicide investigator, Mr. Serino, who felt compelled to prepare an affidavit memorializing his recommendation to arrest the shooter George Zimmerman."
Someone please explain to me how he could say the first thing in blue to the sentinal and then still feel compelled to prepare the affidivit of his recommendation.
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Blood, Sweat & Tears
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The Janis Ian song "Applause" was originally on the album "Stars"
The Randy Newman song "Naked Man" was originally on the album "Good Old Boys"
The John Lee Hooker song "One Room Country Shack" was originally on the album "The Cream"
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Emmylou Harris Spanish Johnny written by Paul Siebel
Ricky Skaggs Mandolin
Rodney Crowell Guitar
Emmylou Harris Guitar, Vocals
Waylon Jennings Vocals
Mickey Raphael Harmonica
Emory Gordy Bass
Frank Reckard Guitar
John Ware drums
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Those other years, the dusty years
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We drove the big herds through
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I tried to forget the miles we rode
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And Spanish Johnny too
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He'd sit beside a water ditch when all this herd was in
D A E
And he'd never harm a child but sing to his mandolin
D E
The old talk, the old ways, and the dealin' of our game
D E
Spanish Johnny never spoke, but sing a song of Spain
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And his talk with men was vicious talk
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When he was drunk on gin
D A E
Ah, but those were golden things he said to his mandolin
SOLO
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We had to stand, we tried to judge,
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We had to stop him then
D E
For the hand so gentle to a child had killed so many men
D E
He died a hard death long ago before the roads come in
D A E
And the night before he swung he sung to his mandolin
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Well, we carried him out in the mornin' sun
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A man that done no good
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And we lowered him down in the cold clay
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Stuck in a cross of wood
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And a letter he wrote to his kinfolk
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To tell them where he'd been
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And we shipped it out to Mexico,
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Along with his mandolin
From Emmylou Harris "Evangeline"
Warner Bros Records
Two Ten Music(BMI)
Though other performers sold more records and earned greater fame, few
left as profound an impact on contemporary music as Emmylou Harris.
Blessed with a crystalline voice, a remarkable gift for phrasing and a
restless creative spirit, she travelled a singular artistic path,
proudly carrying the torch of "Cosmic American music" passed down by
her mentor, Gram Parsons. With the exception of only Neil Young -- not
surprisingly an occasional collaborator -- no other mainstream star
established a similarly large body of work as consistently
iconoclastic, eclectic or daring; even more than three decades into
her career, Harris' latter-day music remained as heartfelt, visionary
and vital as her earliest recordings.
Harris was born on April 2, 1947 to a military family stationed in
Birmingham, Alabama. After spending much of her childhood in North
Carolina, she moved to Woodbridge, Virginia while in her teens, and
graduated high school there as her class valedictorian. After winning
a dramatic scholarship at the University of North Carolina, she began
to seriously study music, learning to play songs by Bob Dylan and Joan
Baez. Soon, Harris was performing in a duo with fellow UNC student
Mike Williams, eventually quitting school to move to New York, only to
find the city's folk music community dying out in the wake of the
psychedelic era.
Still, Harris remained in New York, travelling the Greenwich Village
club circuit before becoming a regular at Gerdes Folk City, where she
struck up friendships with fellow folkies Jerry Jeff Walker, David
Bromberg and Paul Siebel. After marrying songwriter Tom Slocum in
1969, she recorded her debut LP, 1970's Gliding Bird. Shortly after
the record's release, however, Harris' label declared bankruptcy, and
while pregnant with her first child, her marriage began to fall apart.
After moving to Nashville, she and Slocum divorced, leaving Harris to
raise daughter Hallie on her own. After several months of struggle and
poverty, she moved back in with her parents, who had since bought a
farm outside of Washington, D.C.
There she returned to performing, starting a trio with local musicians
Gerry Mule and Tom Guidera. One evening in 1971, while playing at an
area club called Clyde's, the trio performed to a crowd which included
members of the country-rock pioneers the Flying Burrito Brothers. In
the wake of the departure of Gram Parsons, the band's founder, the
Burritos were then led by ex-Byrd Chris Hillman, who was so impressed
by Harris' talents that he considered inviting her to join the group.
Instead, Hillman himself quit to join Stephen Stills' Manassas, but he
recommended her to Parsons, who wanted a female vocalist to flesh out
the sound of his solo work, a trailblazing fusion of country and rock
'n' roll he dubbed "Cosmic American music." Their connection was
instant, and soon Harris was learning about country music and singing
harmony on Parsons' solo debut, 1972's GP. A tour with Parsons'
back-up unit the Fallen Angels followed, and in 1973 they returned to
the studio to cut his landmark LP Grievous Angel.
On September 19, just weeks after the album sessions ended, Parsons'
fondness for drugs and alcohol finally caught up to him, and he was
found dead in a hotel room outside of the Joshua Tree National
Monument in California. At the time, Harris was back in Washington,
collecting her daughter for a planned move to the West Coast. Instead,
she remained in D.C., reuniting with Tom Guidera to form the Angel
Band. The group signed to Reprise and relocated to Los Angeles to
begin work on Harris' solo major label debut, 1975's acclaimed Pieces
of the Sky, an impeccable collection made up largely of diverse covers
ranging in origin from Merle Haggard to the Beatles. Produced by Brian
Ahern, who would go on to helm Harris' next ten records--as well as
becoming her second husband--Pieces of the Sky's second single, a
rendition of the Louvin Brothers' "If I Could Only Win Your Love,"
became her first Top Five hit. "Light of the Stable,' a Christmas
single complete with backing vocals from Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt
and Neil Young, soon followed; Harris then repaid the favor by singing
on Ronstadt's "The Sweetest Gift" and Young's "Star of Bethlehem.". The
resulting album proved to be a smash, with covers of Buck Owens'
"Together Again" and the Patsy Cline perennial "Sweet Dreams" both
topping the charts. Before beginning sessions for her third effort,
1977's Luxury Liner, Harris guested on Bob Dylan's Desire and appeared
in Martin Scorsese's filmed document of the Band's legendary final
performance, The Last Waltz. Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town followed
in 1978, led by the single "Two More Bottles of Wine," her third
Number One. The record was Crowell's last with the Hot Band; one of
the tracks, "Green Rolling Hills," included backing from Ricky Skaggs,
soon to become Crowell's replacement as Harris' vocal partner.
1979's Blue Kentucky Girl was her most country-oriented work to date,
an indication of what was to come a year later with Roses in the Snow,
a full-fledged excursion into acoustic bluegrass. In the summer of
1980, a duet with Roy Orbison, "That Lovin' You Feelin' Again," hit
the Top Ten; a yuletide LP, Light of the Stable: The Christmas Album,
followed at the end of year, at a time during which Harris had quit
touring to focus on raising her second daughter, Meghann. Evangeline,
a patchwork of songs left off of previous albums, appeared in 1981.
Shortly after, Skaggs left the Hot Band to embark on a solo career;
his replacement was Barry Tashian, a singer/songwriter best known for
fronting the 1960s rock band the Remains.
In 1982, drummer John Ware, the final holdover from the first Hot Band
line-up, left the group; at the same time, Harris' marriage to Ahern
was also beginning to disintegrate. After 1981's Cimarron, Harris and
the Hot Band cut a live album, Last Date, named in honor of the
album's chart-topping single "(Lost His Love) On Our Last Date," a
vocal version of the Floyd Cramer instrumental. Quickly, they returned
to the studio to record White Shoes, Harris' final LP with Ahern at
the helm. Her most far-ranging affair yet, it included covers of Donna
Summer's "On the Radio," Johnny Ace's "Pledging My Love," and Sandy
Denny's "Old-Fashioned Waltz."
After leaving Ahern, she and her children moved back to Nashville.
There, Harris joined forces with singer/songwriter Paul Kennerley, on
whose 1980 concept album The Legend of Jesse James she had sung
back-up. Together, they began formulating a record called The Ballad
of Sally Rose, employing the pseudonym Harris often used on the road
to veil what was otherwise a clearly autobiographical portrait of her
own life. Though a commercial failure, the 1985 record proved pivotal
in Harris' continued evolution as an artist and a risk-taker; it also
marked another chapter in her personal life when she and Kennerley wed
shortly after concluding their tour. Angel Band, a subtle, acoustic
collection of traditional country spirituals, followed, although the
record was not issued until 1987, after the release of its immediate
follow-up, Thirteen.
Harris, Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt had first toyed with the idea
of recording an album together as far back as 1977, only to watch the
project falter in light of touring commitments and other red tape.
Finally, in 1987, they issued Trio, a collection which proved to be
Harris' best-selling album to date, generating the hits "To Know Him
Is to Love Him" (a cover of the Phil Spector classic), "Telling Me
Lies" and "Those Memories of You." The record's success spurred the
1990 release of Duets, a compilation of her earlier hits in
conjunction with George Jones, Willie Nelson, Gram Parsons and others.
Fronting a new band, the Nash Ramblers, in 1992 she issued At the
Ryman, a live set recorded at Nashville's legendary Ryman Auditorium,
the former home of the Grand Ole Opry. At the time of the record's
release, Harris was also serving a term as President of the Country
Music Foundation.
In 1993, she ended her long association with Warner Bros./Reprise to
move to Asylum Records, where she released Cowgirl's Prayer shortly
after her separation from Paul Kennerley. Two years later, at a stage
in her career at which most performers retreat to the safety of
rehashing their greatest hits again and again, Harris issued Wrecking
Ball, perhaps her most adventuresome record to date. Produced by
Daniel Lanois, the New Orleans-based artist best known for his
atmospheric work with U2, Peter Gabriel and Bob Dylan, Wrecking Ball
was a hypnotic, staggeringly beautiful work comprised of songs ranging
from the Neil Young-penned title track (which featured its writer on
backing vocals) to Jimi Hendrix's "May This Be Love" and the talented
newcomer Gillian Welch's "Orphan Girl." A three-disc retrospective of
her years with Warner Bros., Portraits, appeared in 1996, and in 1998
Harris resurfaced with Spyboy. -- Jason Ankeny, All-Music Guide
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