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The Obscenity Business
The tortuous, not altogether articulate attempt of the Supreme Court to deal with the growing traffic in obscenity and pornography must be examined in detail if its latest decision, scrutinizing the motives of authors, editors, publishers, and booksellers, is to be understood. Mr. Epstein, a vice president of Random House, takes on that exacting task in this article and demonstrates that the issue at stake is not only individual freedom but the responsibility with which we use that freedom.
In the darker corners of our American cities, there has recently, sprung up a trade in pornography, literary as well as pictorial, of which the merchants of Hamburg and Yokohama might well be envious, and privately, or perhaps not so privately, there are those who find this not such a bad thing; no worse, at any rate, than some other branches of American commerce, and in its ingenuous appeal to an undoubted human need perhaps even preferable to those more subtle or devious demands on our sensibilities on behalf of this or that automobile or brand of cigarettes. In any case, we are assaulted each day by the news of what horrors we commit in the name of social responsibility and for the sake of economic growth, of our casual murders along the highways, of the consuming death with which we threaten the world, foretastes of which we and the other civilized nations have delivered already; and we are bound to wonder how, in the face of all this, mere sexuality, even in its most contorted versions, can still seem such an embarrassment or danger to us all.
The question, of course, is not new. It was, after all, in the generation of our grandfathers that Freud explained the terrible power that resides within our sexuality and how we must subdue and sacrifice this power in order to live in civilized society; that in exchange for the sexuality which we thus suppress we are able to divert our energies and use them to build our families, our cities, and our cultures. But Freud also warned that this great sacrifice may be more than most of us can bear and that our private deformations, whether overt or expressed in fantasy, reflect the reluctance with which we imperfectly and grudgingly give this part of ourselves over to the world at large Moreover, the notion has lately arisen, and by now become a commonplace, that not only may society ask too much of us, but, what is worse, it abuses what we give it; that by some process or other, society now transforms the energies which it takes from us and produces something quite different from the culture we had come to expect. Instead, we find ourselves trapped in a collective nightmare of choking cities, crashing cars, and exploding bombs, so that our civilization, on whose behalf we have individually sacrificed so much, finds its symbolic counterpart in a madhouse from which we now lack the power to escape.
Such, in any case, and in the briefest summary, is how much of modern literature looks upon the world and why its argument has so often been that we must recapture, if it is not too late, whatever parts of ourselves may still be salvaged from the wreck of our culture. It is from this vision or attitude that certain modern writers have mounted their attack on our sexual taboos and the myths that support them, as well as on the laws through which these myths are expressed. It is, I suspect, from a corresponding if unstated attitude within society as a whole that much of our recent permissiveness toward pornography derives.
Similarly we find that along with the increasingly overt sexuality of much of our literature, our very lives — in private at least, if not yet in public — and especially the lives of the young, in their dress and their dancing and in their increasingly violent rejection of established authority, reflect this new hand sometimes desperate, often sadly self-conscious, probably doomed attempt to retrieve or withhold from society what it has for so long demanded as kits price of admission.
From this perspective, the recent tendency of the Supreme Court in questions of obscenity, and especially its decision to lift the ban against Fanny Hill, call for more than merely our respect. Given the Court's position at the center of society, its decisions — so painfully rendered and as inarticulate, contradictory, and ambiguous as they often are — reflect what later ages may recognize as political genius of a specially courageous sort. Whether consciously or not, the Court seems to be agreeing, within the limits of its authority and comprehension, that mankind must have the second chance that our writers, from Blake and Lawrence to Freud and Norman O. Brown, have been demanding.
In such a summary as this I have inevitably simplified a most complex case, and no doubt in the point of view of Ralph Ginzburg, as he contemplates his immediate future, the distortions must seem horrendous. To him I owe, if not an apology, then at least an explanation. The fact is that his present difficulties, frightful and cruel as they are, might not have arisen had he sensed how very seriously the Court has come to regard literary sexuality and how very deeply, if also ambiguously, it has come to share with certain modern writers the obligation — which it may not recognize as such at all — to rid the question of sexuality of the mythologies, secular as well as sacred, by which it has for so long been haunted, distorted, and trivialized.
The Court decided the Ginzburg case, appropriately on the first day of spring, and as everyone knows confirmed the barbaric five-year sentence imposed by Judge Body of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the ribald implications of whose name hardly suggest the bleak piety with which he viewed Ginzburg's transgressions. Judge Body ruled that Ginzburg had used the mails to distribute obscene publications in violation of a federal statute, and he based his verdict partly on an argument by the federal prosecutor that no matter how hard it might be to define obscenity in the light of recent Supreme Court decisions, Ginzburg had considerably simplified matters in his own case by admitting in advance, through his five million or so direct-mail circulars, that his goods were, as Justice Brennan was later to write in upholding Judge Body's verdict, "created, represented and sold solely as a claimed instrument of the sexual stimulation [they] would bring." In other words, Ginzburg had convicted himself long before his case had come to court. Whether his publications were intrinsically obscene or not, Ginzburg sold them as if they were and thus, according to the Supreme Court, left himself without a defense.
For Ginzburg and his lawyers, as indeed for many others who followed the case, this reading of the law came as a surprise and has since become a source of consternation, especially among publishers who feel themselves at a loss to understand the Court's position. From lawyers too there has been much criticism of the Court's decision, and Justice Black in his dissent argued that Ginzburg had been unfairly trapped by the unusual line of attack which the Court was pursuing. In his decision for the majority, however, Justice Brennan anticipated this objection by pointing out that "the trial transcript clearly reveals that at several points the Government announced its theory that made the mode of distribution relevant to the determination of obscenity and the trial court admitted evidence otherwise irrelevant toward that end."
The fact is that the Court, and especially the Chief Justice, seem to have had some such theory in mind for at least a decade. At any rate, it was in 1957 in a concurring opinion in the Roth decision, from which much of our legal theory of pornography now derives, that Chief Justice Warren suggested that the mode of distribution was in fact relevant to the question of obscenity, that it is not a book that is on trial, it is a person. Had Ginzburg and his lawyers heeded this warning — had they sensed that while the Court was in the process of abandoning the idea of intrinsic obscenity it would nevertheless substitute for it an evaluation of the publisher's motives — he would very likely not be in jail this summer.
Ginzburg was correct, of course, in assuming that the Court was hopelessly entangled in the complex problem of establishing a definition of obscenity which could be reconciled with the First Amendment and that it was thus forced to extricate itself by taking an increasingly liberal position, whose outcome could only be the gradual abandonment of any attempt to define literary pornography. By the time Ginzburg put his circulars in the mail the Court seemed to have made it all but impossible to sustain a conviction in a literary obscenity case except perhaps where so-called hard-core pornography was concerned; and even here no one seemed to know what hard-core pornography, as opposed presumably to soft or peripheral pornography, was supposed to be. For a work to be considered obscene, the prosecution had to prove first that it was patently offensive, that it was without social value, and that to the average reader, applying the standards of the community, the work as a whole was addressed to the prurient interest of its readers. And, as the Court was to affirm in its decision on Fanny Hill, which was rendered on the same day as the Ginzburg decision, each of these criteria had to be met simultaneously.
A patently offensive work, which an average reader might feel was in fact addressed to prurient interest — which, as the Court has also made clear, is indescribably nastier than merely sexual interest — might still be protected under the First Amendment if it could be found to have the slightest redeeming social importance. As Justice Brennan wrote in reversing the judgment against Fanny Hill,, a work, no matter how offensive, must be utterly (his italics) without redeeming social importance before it can be proscribed. In these circumstances, no wonder Ginzburg protested his innocence, for even Justice Brennan in upholding Judge Body's verdict specifically refused to grant the contention of the lower court that what Ginzburg published was, in itself, obscene. "The conviction," Justice Brennan wrote, "does not necessarily suppress the materials in question nor chill their proper distribution for a proper use."
In thus becoming the unhappy instrument by which the three criteria that the Court has established for the determination of obscenity are now amplified by or enclosed within a fourth, Ginzburg, it seems to me, is not, as he insists, a martyr to the cause of free expression so much as to the Court's anguished and complex efforts to preserve free expression while still suppressing those publishers who, in their zeal or greed or foolishness, might exploit this freedom excessively, if not clearly to the detriment of the body politic, at least to the embarrassment of the Court itself. In the Ginzburg and Fanny Hill decisions, the Court has said, in effect, that we are indeed free at last under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to express ourselves, in print at least, as we please, but we are warned that this is also a dangerous freedom and not to be used irresponsibly. Above all, we must not give the Court cause to regret its increasingly liberal stand.
The Court's present position was argued at length some five years earlier in an article published in the Utah Law Review for spring, 1961, written by Dean Lockhart of the University of Utah Law School and Robert C. McClure, professor of law at the University of Minnesota. In this article, which severely criticizes the Court's position on obscenity as of that time for its many obscurities and especially for its dependence upon a definition of pornography which no court could possibly establish, the authors proposed as an alternative "that censorship should not depend upon the intrinsic nature of the material independent of its audience and method of marketing. Instead it should depend upon manner in which it is marketed and the primary audience to which it is sold." Presumably one the aims of Lockhart and McClure was to amplify the argument which Chief Justice Warren had suggested in 1957. Thus, while Lady Chaterley's Lover is clearly not obscene in itself, it would become obscene according to these authors if were sold, for example, to high school students for its sexual interest alone.
No doubt this article found its way to the Supreme Court (Justice Douglas refers to it in his dissenting opinion in Ginzburg), and it may even have provided the basis for Ginzburg's prosecution in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. From a somewhat paranoid perspective, one might even assume a degree of collusion between the Court and the federal prosecutor, if not for the purpose of trapping Ginzburg, then possibly in order to test the new hypothesis. At any rate, Lockhart and McClure clearly anticipated the present position of the majority of the Court, and their article supports the Court's current theory that while books themselves are protected under the Constitution, booksellers are not.
If the Fanny Hill decision finally disposes of the idea of intrinsic obscenity, the Ginzburg decision, with its roots in Justice Warren's position as elaborated by Lockhart and McClure, raises still other questions to which the Court so far has supplied no answers. It is, for example, only by the most whimsical logic that Lady Chatterley's Lover becomes obscene in one context while in another it is unobjectionable, or that Ginzburg's publications become obscene because Ginzburg publishes them, while if a more respectable or circumspect merchant sells them, they remain pure.
Conversely, would the Book of Job, under the present ruling, become obscene if it were sold for its sadomasochistic interest alone? Could the Court legitimately punish a bookseller for exploiting this aspect of such an ordinarily innocent work? Or will the Autobiography of a Flea become a legitimate publication if only the Harvard University Press brings it out? As absurd as it may appear, this is approximately how the Court seems to have left matters.
It is as if the Court had now asked us to return to the standards of the last century when pornography was allowed to circulate more or less freely among upper-class males in the privacy of their clubs or studies but was forbidden to women, children, servants, and the working class generally, who were presumed not to be sexual beings at all. The question now is whether, in having restricted pornography to a privileged class of presumably mature and therefore immune readers, the Court has in fact simplified matters for itself — as well as for writers, publishers, librarians, and booksellers — or whether it has merely translated the problem into another language as obscure and dangerous as the first.
In the Ginzburg decision, at any rate, one senses far beneath the legal surface of the case an argument which appears to stem, however remotely, from something like class bias. In its choice of such prejudicial epithets as "pandering" and "the leer of the sensualist" to describe Ginzburg's activities, the Court seems to be saying that Ginzburg's crime was no more than a function of his personality or character: that he was a vulgarian, and that therefore he had no right to trade in a market whose delicate and dangerous products must be limited only to gentlemen and scholars. Such an ad hominem judgment can hardly have been what the Court intended, no matter how the obscurity and occasional passion of Justice Brennan's language may seem to support such an interpretation.
From the point of view of serious literature it can only be beneficial that the Court has now rejected the idea of intrinsic obscenity and has thus moved closer than Justices Black and Douglas seem willing, in their dissents, to admit to the view that the First Amendment should be interpreted without restriction where literary expression is concerned. From the narrower interests of publishers and booksellers, however, the new ruling is bound to be troublesome until the Court provides clarification. For this reason. as well as for whatever personal sympathy one may have for Ginzburg and his family, one wishes that Ginzburg had been granted the new trial which he and his lawyers had requested. If Justice Brennan's decision has opened the door even a crack to the prosecution of any publisher or bookseller who happens also to be a vulgarian, then for the sake of us all that door must be shut imme-diately.
Meanwhile, for whatever small comfort one may take from the fact, one notices with pleasure the Court has agreed to consider the case of a New York newsstand clerk who was arrested for selling obscene magazines so as to determine whether a salesman can be convicted under the new ruling without clear proof that he knew that what he was selling was obscene. One assumes that if the Court itself no longer knows how to define obscenity, it can hardly expect the clerk to do any better. Perhaps it will be on these epistemological rocks that the law will finally have to admit defeat and accept the views of Justices Black and Douglas, if only to extricate itself from an impossible problem of definition. Until such time we shall have to live with the ambiguities that remain, and that will remain in whatever measure, no matter what the Court decides, as long as sexuality retains its terrifying power.
Even so, the Court, it seems to me, has so far acted reasonably, though perhaps without that God--like intelligence and mercy which some of its critics expect of it. Though one's sympathies are with Justices Black and Douglas, one still recognizes that such sympathies seldom coincide with political reality. It is enough, perhaps, for now that the Court has come as far as it has and that in having come this far it is within sight, though it may still be facing in somewhat the wrong direction, of that brave land where so far Justices Black and Douglas have been the only inhabitants.
Whether the majority of the Court will ever join these two heroic voyagers is, of course, impossible to predict, and the accidents of life and death compound the puzzle. Even so, the days of literary censorship seem to me to be substantially over, and the burden on publishers and booksellers to maintain a certain minimum decorum, at least until the public accustoms itself to this new freedom, seems hardly too much to ask.
I should not, however, like to conclude on such an agreeable note, for it would be misleading to suggest that what the Court decides the people will necessarily accept. There are those among us who will continue to claim more freedom than the Court has so far allowed, and there are others who, despite the freedom so far granted, will insist on restrictions which the Court has now disapproved.
Within each of us too there is bound to remain a private version of the same conflict. We cannot have been born into a civilization such as ours, which for so many centuries has labored under such sexual dread and mystery, without finding ourselves implicated in our culture's general distortion of instincts and values. None of us is yet prepared to walk naked on the streets, as the Etruscans once did or as the Greeks did in their games, no matter what encouragement such writers as Blake and Lawrence, or Henry Miller and Norman Mailer, or the fashion magazines, may provide. The world is still full of sheriffs whose grasp of the law, in its endless subtlety, will always be imperfect, and within the head of each of us, even within the heads of our most radical friends, there sits a tiny Madame de Gaulle saying no to this or that.
Yet the pressure within our culture toward greater sexual freedom, and its reflection in the Court's decision to trust us now not to debauch ourselves even within the embrace of Fanny Hill, may prophesy a change. Or it may not. We shall know better when the films — a more likely medium than books — begin to assert such freedom as up to now only literature has dared risk.
At any rate, we know from Marx as well as from Freud, and from our reading of the Calvinists and the interpretation of their motives in the work of Max Weber, that there is a historic connection between sexual regulation and economic necessity, a connection which is evident even now in such a society as China's, where the demand for rapid capital formation requires severe restrictions upon sexual behavior, so that work takes precedence over marriage and even within marriage the demands of the state override the preferences of its individual members.
In America and Europe we are beyond some of that necessity, as reluctant as most of us, still trapped in the habits and illusions generated by centuries of privation, may be to admit it. Such freedom is also terrifying, and in our terror we may arrange things so that none of us will survive to enjoy it. Even so, the prospect is there, no matter how obscure and uncertain the path to it may be. One regrets that Ralph Ginzburg must now prison for having done no more than try to see a merely vulgar imitation of this future paradise. But such regrets are for Ginzburg personally and not for our society as a whole. The Court, in having acquiesced in such unprecedented freedom for literature, seems to me to have foreshadowed a time in which that obsessive sexuality, so distorted by years of privation and the prior claims of struggle to survive, which has so permeated only our literature but our lives, may eventually recede — as some of our other devils have — into a more manageable and less maddening perspective. At any rate, the choice hereafter is more nearly up to us as individuals than it has ever been before, which is to say that our responsibilities have never been greater.


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U.S. election laws and regulations say foreign nationals must not "directly or indirectly participate in the decision-making process" of a political campaign, although they can play lesser roles.
Those restrictions were explained in a 10-page memo prepared in July 2014 by a New York attorney, Laurence Levy, for Cambridge Analytica's leadership at the time, including President Rebekah Mercer, Vice President Stephen K. Bannon and chief executive Alexander Nix. The memo said that foreign nationals could serve in minor roles — for example as "functionaries" handling data — but could not involve themselves in significant campaign decisions or provide high-level analysis or strategy.
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[Lil' Wayne]
Now ho don't ask me what I'm doing, that's me in the hook.
And I just keep on gettin it getting it like a ni' in the book
Yes, Wayne straight like a key of that good sh'
If your bitch don't know the rules, I will read her the book.
I got the key to the boat, I got the key to the jet.
I got the key to success, get money invest.
Read up with the rest. I got a Swedish connect.
That means my weed is the best, choking even the stressed.
Ok, the coupe is ridiculous and the jeep is a mess.
That's called my bullets and lugers, I put 'em deep in your neck.
Adam's apple meet banana clip.
You know my script, I just get my chips and then I dip, and then I dip.
They say the bullshit walks, the money talks.
So I don't answer, I don't answer unless the money talks.
Yeah that's my word, thats my word no I wont front for y'all.
Its money over everything and bitches under all. M.O.B!
I say uptown poppin, uptown rockin', uptown niggas.
It's the home of the hard knocks.
Cook up a whole block. Hit it up in all white.
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Shop 'till you pop bitch, do your own thing ho.
Got the game from KC, second floor sixth court.
Bling bling king nigga, money ain't a thing nigga.
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Zip it and whip it nigga, that's how we ship it, nigga.
Burn it and light it then we dip it and we hit it, nigga.
I spent a mill on my grill for real.
'Cause we be stuntin while we hustlin, nigga making his meals.
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[Lil' Wayne]
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Yeah, and I do's what I does.
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Writer(s): DWAYNE CARTER, BRYAN WILLIAMS, LEONARDO MOLLINGS, JOHNNY MOLLINGS
Copyright(s): Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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"In Their Own Words" is an ongoing series featuring the experiences of Middlebury students at their summer internships. This summer Catherine Charnov '13 interned with Universal Records in New York City.
This summer, I interned in the A&R department of Universal Records in New York City. I had previous experience in music marketing, publicity and management but really wanted to understand how musical decisions are made and how artists are found. This internship was the perfect opportunity. Every day, I researched unfound and upcoming talent using online resources and sales charts to present, with a formal report, to my boss for review and the possibility of further research or analysis. I was also in charge of compiling airplay charts and lists of top artists world wide, monitoring sales spikes and online fan bases. I also got to help with miscellaneous tasks such as making CD labels and inserts, setting up instruments and stage equipment in their showcase lounge, and creating manifests for disc filing. We were also sometimes allowed to watch artists' showcases and critique unreleased singles in listening sessions. Every Friday, representatives from different departments, such as digital marketing, the TV sync team, international dept., sales, etc., would come and speak to the interns for around an hour about what their department was and how things worked. This was extremely helpful in terms of solidifying my understanding of the company as a whole and how each piece of the larger whole fit together. Middlebury prepared me for this internship by teaching me to be timely, responsible, and eager to learn. Not much of what I did this summer could have been acquired in a classroom setting because everything was so hands-on and practical.
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An example of what made this internship meaningful to me was when I got to congratulate Florence + The Machine on her newest album going platinum. She came into the office and we got to present her with a gold plaque etc. It was great for me to realize not only the side of an artist's manager, AIR representative, and sales team but also how much time and hard work the artist must put in to achieve such great successes. I was honored to be a part of Florence's celebration. The thing I learned the most from this internship was how hard you have to work and how much you have to really want it to get anywhere in the music business. In A&R in particular— if you are behind the signing of one top-selling, amazing artist, you are golden and automatically promoted. However, if you do not get that lucky, it seems that only persistence and patience are the keys to success.
What are your plans for the future?
I think this internship will greatly impact my future career plans because before this summer, I was wondering if A&R would, after my experiences in other parts of the music business, be a better fit for my interests, and it turned out to be perfect. I would be very happy to get a job after graduation working at Universal Records of for the A&R department of another record label. I love working directly with the musicians and the music they create.
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Russian 'ghost ship' vanishes again
(NEWSER) – Months after a Russian "ghost ship" turned up adrift off the Irish coast, she's gone missing again.
The Lyubov Orlova's tow line broke back in January, as the cruise ship was being hauled from Canada to the Dominican Republic as scrap.
The ship, empty except for an infestation of rats, was located in February, but disappeared again and now has not been seen since March 12, Canada's CBC News reports. Some are speculating that the 328-foot-long vessel may have sunk, LiveScience reports.
And if that's the case, a French environmental organization is worried: It says the ship could leak toxic fluids into the ocean.
A new tow line was actually attached to the ship back in February, by the oil industry supply ship that spotted it. But since the cruise ship was in international waters and thus not under Canada's jurisdiction, Transport Canada ordered the oil ship to release it. In March, one of the Lyubov Orlova's emergency beacons indicated it was more than 800 miles off Newfoundland, drifting toward Ireland or Iceland, though that location was not confirmed. (Sail World notes that the beacon likely would have been activated after contact with the water, adding to sinking fears.)
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Turn to page 1,850 of the 1975 edition of the New Columbia Encyclopedia and you'll find an entry for Lillian Virginia Mountweazel, a fountain designer turned photographer who was celebrated for a collection of photographs of rural American mailboxes titled "Flags Up!" Mountweazel, the encyclopedia indicates, was born in Bangs, Ohio, in 1942, only to die "at 31 in an explosion while on assignment for Combustibles magazine."
If Mountweazel is not a household name, even in fountain-designing or mailbox-photography circles, that is because she never existed. "It was an old tradition in encyclopedias to put in a fake entry to protect your copyright," Richard Steins, who was one of the volume's editors, said the other day. "If someone copied Lillian, then we'd know they'd stolen from us."
So when word leaked out that the recently published second edition of the New Oxford American Dictionary contains a made-up word that starts with the letter "e," an independent investigator set himself the task of sifting through NOAD's thirty-one hundred and twenty-eight "e" entries in search of the phony. The investigator first removed from contention any word that was easily recognized or that appears in Webster's Third New International; the remaining three hundred and sixty words were then vetted with a battery of references.
Six potential Mountweazels emerged. They were:
**{: .break one} ** earth loop—n. Electrical British term for GROUND LOOP. EGD—n. a technology or system that integrates a computer display with a pair of eyeglasses . . . abbreviation of eyeglass display. electrofish—v. [trans.] fish (a stretch of water) using electrocution or a weak electric field. ELSS—abbr. extravehicular life support system. esquivalience—n. the willful avoidance of one's official responsibilities . . . late 19th cent.: perhaps from French esquiver, "dodge, slink away." eurocreep—n. informal the gradual acceptance of the euro in European Union countries that have not yet officially adopted it as their national currency. **
The six words and their definitions were e-mailed to nine lexicographical authorities. Anne Soukhanov, the U.S. General Editor of Encarta Webster's, was the first to weigh in. "Ess-kwa-val-ee-ohnce—I want to pronounce it in the French manner—is your culprit," she said. Six other experts also fingered "esquivalience," citing various rationales. "It's just trying a little too hard," said Wendalyn Nichols, the editor-in-chief of the newsletter "Copy Editor" and a onetime editorial director of Random House Reference. "If it's derived from esquiver, it wouldn't have that ending. Nothing linguistically would give rise to the 'l.' " The Times' crossword-puzzle editor, Will Shortz, explained, "I simply can't believe such a thing goes back to the nineteenth century." Steve Kleinedler, a senior editor of the American Heritage Dictionary, said, "The stress pattern is strange." The most personal of the rationales belonged to Eli Horowitz, an editor of the literary anthology "The Future Dictionary of America," who complained, "I had to read it a few times, and I resent that."
There were two dissenters among the experts. " 'Esquivalience' is too elaborate," said Sidney Landau, the author of "Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography" and the editor of the Cambridge Dictionary of American English. "If someone made that up, they're nuts." Landau chose "ELSS," he said, "for the simple reason that it's short. A dictionary wouldn't want to waste more than a line or two." Meanwhile, Garret Thomson, a self-described "code monkey," or programmer, for Pseudodictionary.com, a site that calls itself "the dictionary for words that wouldn't make it into the dictionaries," picked "electrofish," calling it "clunky-sounding."
A call was placed to Erin McKean, the editor-in-chief of the second edition of NOAD. Upon being presented with the majority opinion, McKean confirmed that "esquivalience" was a fabricated word. She said that Oxford had included it in NOAD's first edition, in 2001, to protect the copyright of the electronic version of the text that accompanied most copies of the book. "The editors figured, We're all working really hard, so let's put in a word that means 'working really hard.' Nothing materialized, so they thought, Let's do the opposite." An editor named Christine Lindberg came up with "esquivalience." The word has since been spotted on Dictionary.com, which cites Webster's New Millennium as its source. "It's interesting for us that we can see their methodology," McKean said. "Or lack thereof. It's like tagging and releasing giant turtles."
As for "esquivalience" 's excesses, McKean made no apologies. "Its inherent fakeitude is fairly obvious," she said. "We wanted something highly improbable. We were trying to make a word that could not arise in nature." Indeed, "esquivalience," like Lillian Virginia Mountweazel, is something of a maverick. "There shouldn't be an 'l' in there. It should be esqui_var_ience," McKean conceded. "But that sounds like it would mean 'slight differences between racehorses.' "


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Aaron Hernandez: Brain 'one of most significant contributions' to CTE study
Researchers at Boston University said that Aaron Hernandez had damage to his brain that's usually found in a person who was at least 46 years old.
Hernandez, the former New England Patriots tight end who was 27 when he hanged himself in a Massachusetts jail while serving a life term for murder, suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and had severe damage to parts of the brain that play an important role in memory, impulse control and behavior.
While the CTE findings originally were made public in September, more details of the study were revealed at a medical conference in Boston on Thursday.
Ann McKee, director of the CTE Center at Boston University, has studied hundreds of brains from football players and other athletes who donated them after their deaths. She said that Hernandez's brain was "one of the most significant contributions to our work" because they were able to study the disease in someone his age, according to a report from the Washington Post.
"In any individual we can't take the pathology and explain the behavior," McKee said. "But we can say collectively, in our collective experience, individuals with CTE – and CTE of this severity – have difficulty with impulse control, decision-making, inhibition of impulses or aggression, often emotional volatility and rage behaviors."
In September, McKee and Boston University released a report that said in part: "Based on characteristic neuropathological findings ... Mr. Hernandez had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), Stage 3 out of 4, (Stage 4 being the most severe). This diagnosis was confirmed by a second VABHS neuropathologist. In addition, Mr. Hernandez had early brain atrophy and large perforations in the septum pellucidum, a central membrane."
A lawsuit was filed in federal court in Boston in late September seeking $20 million on behalf of Hernandez's former fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins Hernandez, and the couple's daughter, claiming that the Patriots and the NFL deprived Avielle Hernandez of the companionship of her father.
In filing the suit, Jose Baez, a lawyer for Hernandez, said researchers determined the CTE was "the most severe case they had ever seen in someone of Aaron's age (27)."
Contributing: A.J. Perez, The Associated Press
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The U.S. ambassador to Syria says the U.S. has provided $210 million in humanitarian aid
The assistance has to be discrete, he said, to protect workers from being targeted
Washington has also provided $35 million worth of assistance to Syria's political opposition
Ambassador: We can help, but it's up to Syrians to find their way forward
It has been more than a year since the United States government withdrew its ambassador to Syria and closed its embassy in Damascus.
On Thursday, that ambassador returned to the region along with a U.S. delegation, touring a Syrian refugee camp in Turkey to bring more attention to the growing humanitarian crisis. As the civil war has intensified in Syria, hundreds of thousands of people have sought refuge in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and other neighboring countries.
Ambassador Robert Ford gave an exclusive interview to CNN's Ivan Watson and described what the U.S. is doing to help the refugees and the Syrian opposition.
Ivan Watson: The U.S. has given $210 million in aid (to Syria), but I think that there is a perception problem because no one can actually point at what that help is. So people conclude there is no help.
Robert Ford: The assistance is going in. It's things like tents, it's things like blankets, it's things like medical equipment, but it doesn't come in big boxes with an American flag on it because we don't want the people who are delivering it to be targeted by the Syrian regime.
The regime is going after and killing people who are delivering supplies. You see them bombing even bakeries and bread lines. So we're doing that, in part, to be discrete.
The needs are gigantic. So even though a great deal of American materials and other countries' materials are arriving, the needs are still greater. And that's why we're going to Kuwait to talk to the United Nations and to talk to other countries about how we can talk together to provide additional assistance.
Watson: The head of the Syrian National Coalition, which the U.S. government has backed, came out with a statement very critical of the international community, saying we need $3 billion if you want us to have any say on events on the ground inside Syria. Where is that money?
Ford: (Sheikh Ahmed) Moaz al-Khatib is a good leader, and we think highly of him and we have recognized his (coalition) as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people. And, of course, he wants to get as many resources as possible because of the humanitarian conditions that I was just talking about. Especially the ones inside Syria.
But we also, at the same time, have to build up those (aid) networks I was talking about. In some cases, they start out with just a few people. We don't need just a few people, we need hundreds of people, thousands of people on the inside of Syria organized to bring these things in.
And so step by step, the Syrians, Moaz al-Khatib and his organization, need to build that capacity. We can help build it, we can do training and things like that. But in the end, Syrians have to take a leadership role in this.
Watson: Is Washington giving money to the Syrian National Coalition?
Ford: We absolutely are assisting the (coalition), with everything from training to, in some cases, limited amount of cash assistance so that they can buy everything ranging from computers to telephones to radios.
Frankly, if not for the American assistance in many cases, the activists inside Syria wouldn't be in contact with the outside world. It's American help that keeps them in contact with the outside world.
Watson: But, how much assistance has this coalition gotten from the U.S.?
Ford: So far, we've allocated directly to the coalition in the neighborhood of $35 million worth of different kinds of equipment and assistance. And over the next few weeks, couple of months, we'll probably provide another $15 million worth of material assistance.
Watson: Washington recently blacklisted Jabhat al-Nusra, the Nusra Front, calling it a terrorist organization even though inside Syria, it has attracted a lot of respect for its victories and for comparative lack of corruption compared to many rebel groups. How has blacklisting the Nusra Front helped the Syrian opposition?
Ford: We blacklisted the Nusra Front because of its intimate links with al Qaeda in Iraq, an organization with whom we have direct experience, which is responsible for the killings of thousands of Iraqis, hundreds of Americans. We know what al Qaeda in Iraq did and is still doing, and we don't want it to start doing that in Syria – which is why we highlighted its incredibly pernicious role.
I think one of the things that our classification of Nusra as a terrorist group did is it set off an alarm for the other elements of the Free Syrian Army. There was a meeting of the Free Syrian Army to set up a unified command, (and) Nusra Front was not in that meeting – which we think is the right thing to do. As Syrians themselves understand that Nusra has a sectarian agenda, as they understand better that Nusra is anti-democratic and will seek to impose its very strict interpretation of Islam on Syria – which historically is a relatively moderate country in terms of its religious practices – as Syrians understand that better, I think they will more and more reject the Nusra Front itself.
Watson: But I've seen the opposite. As I go into Syria, I hear more and more support and respect for the Nusra Front, and more and more criticism for the U.S. government each time I go back.
Ford: I think that people, Ivan, are still understanding what Nusra is. I have heard criticism from the Nusra Front from people like Moaz al-Khatib who, in Marrakesh (Morocco) in his speech, said he rejected the kind of ideology which backs up Nusra. … We have heard that from the senior commander of the Free Syrian Army as well. And so the more people understand inside Syria what Nusra is and represents, I think they will agree that is not the group on which to depend for freedom in Syria.
Watson: Do you think the U.S. government could have done more?
Ford: I think the Syrians, as I said, are the ones who will bring the answer to the problem – just as in Iraq, Iraqis brought the solution to the Iraq crisis, to the Iraq war. The Americans can help, and we helped in Iraq, but ultimately it wasn't the Americans. Despite our help, it was Iraqis.
In Syria, again, it has to be Syrians who find their way forward. Twenty-three million Syrians need to find their way forward. We can help, and we are helping: $210 million in humanitarian assistance, $50 million to help the political opposition get organized for the day after (Bashar) al-Assad goes. These are important bits of help. But ultimately, it's not the American help. It's the Syrians themselves.


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Apple on Monday posted updates to the Wi-Fi and EFI firmware for almost all of the Macs it released in 2012.
There were three updates in all:
• Mac Wi-Fi Update 1.0, recommended for all late 2012 Macs. The update improves your Mac's performance when using the 5GHz band to connect to Wi-Fi. Users must be running OS X 10.8.2 to install this update.
• MacBook Pro Retina EFI Update Version 1.1, recommended for all late 2012 models of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. The update improves the unit's sleep performance, enhances support for the Thunderbolt router, fixes an HDMI display issue, and also improves compatibility when using the 5GHz band in Wi-Fi. Users must be running OS X 10.8.1 or newer for this update.
• iMac EFI Update 2.0, recommended for this year's late-generation iMacs. Like the other updates, this download will help the computer perform better in the 5GHz band of Wi-Fi. It also includes performance fixes relating to the computer's sleep function and Thunderbolt use. Like the MacBook Pro update, this download requires that users run at least OS X 10.8.1.
All three updates are available for free on Apple's downloads page, or via the Mac App Store.


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When Doug Guller, CEO of ATX Brands, discovered the abandoned Texas hamlet of Bankersmith on Craigslist, he didn't just see a dilapidated former railroad town. He saw the next frontier for his hospitality business. Guller is renaming the town Bikinis, after his Austin-based chain of "sports breastaurants," which now has more than 10 locations. "There can't be a better way to put Bikinis on the map… Literally," Guller said in a press release quoted by the International Business Times. Bankersmith was founded in 1913 when a railroad ran through the region. At its apogee in the 1920s, it had a population of 50. After WWII, the population hovered around 20, according to the town's website, and continued to decline. By fall 2012, Guller plans to remake the two-acre, one-building town as a tourist and event destination. "We want it to be a big playground," Guller told Eater Austin.
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What Happens to Beer Bottles When You Return Them to the Beer Store?
We got an inside look at what happens after used beer bottles disappear behind the counter.
Our tour of the beer bottle recycling process started at a new Beer Store at Eglinton and Laird. The first stage happens in the back room, where clear bottles, coloured bottles, and proprietary bottles (meaning bottles designed for one particular brewer) are separated, placed in cases, and stacked on skids. When brewers arrive with new shipments of drinks, they carry away the skids of empties.
From there, the bottles go to one of two places: either a bottling plant, or to a third-party recycler who crushes them into small pellets called "cullet," which are then sent to glass manufacturers to use in producing new bottles.
The brown bottle we all know and love is an industry-standard bottle, and many beer brands use it. These standard bottles are the ones that get sent to bottling plants. One-time use bottles, which include imports like Heineken and Corona, are unique in size and shape and can't easily be reused, so they're turned into cullet. Clear ones must be separated, because the smallest trace of coloured glass will contaminate a clear batch once it's melted down.
Not only does the beer store recycle its bottles, it recycles packaging. "Anything we sell, we take it back and recycle it," says Jeff Newton, President of Canada's National Brewers, who was with us throughout the tour. Newton points out that the bottle return program is 100 per cent industry funded and diverts bottles from going in the trash. It's a closed system, where any given bottle can go through the full cycle in under 120 days.
After the Beer Store, we pile into our cars and head off to the Molson Brewery near the airport. We're made to wear safety glasses, toe caps, and ear plugs to counter the roaring sound of machinery. We start at the loading bay where the skids of empties are unloaded off trailers and put onto conveyer belts to be depalletized. A machine lifts them up to a second level and shifts off the cases one row at a time. Two workers stand by to make sure everything rolls along okay, but the machines do most of the work. "In the old days, when I was a youngster, we had to put them on the line by hand!" muses Bill Patterson, a veteran worker of the factory line.
The bottles roll down the line, clattering and clanging along the metal conveyor belts. Machines separate the broken ones and divert them down another line where they fall into a chute and are saved in a hopper.
The next stage on the line is cleaning. A humungous machine with a big rotating drum takes in 60 bottles at a time and washes them thoroughly with detergent, rinses them out, and removes the labels. The thousands of brown bottles file down the line to the filler stage. An electronic detector flashing like a strobe light scans each bottle looking for minute defects that could spell disaster later on. Rejects are spat onto a separate line and recycled. The good ones go through to the filling machine, which is like a whirling carousel that fills them, caps them, and spits them out into another scanner. Reject bottles are, again, spat down a separate line and dealt with in another factory process.
Next, the bottles are pasteurized. Molson does this by heating them up to 61C for ten minutes. This kills off any microbes that could make people sick, and increases the beer's shelf life. The bottles come out of the pasteurization stage at around 28C.
The bottles, now filled with delicious beer, continue down the long steel conveyor belts to the labelling machine, which slaps on labels with astounding speed: first on the neck of each bottle, then on the body. The machine is sometimes blindingly fast, sometimes slow and steady. At top speed, it labels 1000 bottles a minute.
After that, the labelled bottles go down the line to be boxed—another job done by a machine in mesmerizing, rhythmic motions. When we were there, two-fours of Carling were being loaded in the blink of an eye, while another machine across from us continually unfolded the cases, glued the bottom flaps, and shot them onto a conveyor which fed them into the loading machine.
Everything in the plant happened with clockwork precision, and all with very few actual human beings involved. In another age, the place might have employed hundreds of people. Today, only 35 employees man the production line. The entire process, from start to finish, only takes two and a half hours.
As for the used aluminum cans that end up at the Molson plant, machines tear off the tops and crush them flat as pancakes. Molson sends them off to another company to process into sheets of aluminum, which are then turned into cans all over again.
The last stop on our tour was in Brampton, at the largest glass manufacturing company in the world, Owens-Illinois (OI). The factory is visible from Highway 410. It has a dirty, rusted exterior. A tall silo contains the raw materials used to make new bottles and is connected to the plant by catwalks high in the air. Down below, a worker drives a front-end loader through heaps of rejected bottles and cullet, dropping them into a bunker that can hold 1000 tonnes of glass. This may sound like a lot, but that's only enough to last OI about a week. Railway spurs go into the facility so trains can drop off shipments of cullet from the U.S.
Inside the factory, 1000-square-foot furnaces powered by natural gas and electricity use 1500-degree heat to melt the cullet on the second floor. The molten glass drops down though a funnel and mechanical jaws chop it off at regular intervals. The glowing orange globs fall into machines on the first floor, which turn them into bottles by blowing compressed air into them. The glowing hot bottles shuttle down the line and are cooled, inspected, and, ultimately, shipped out. The plant runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, only stopping when it's necessary to change the bottle moulds and during power outages.
OI uses 50 per cent recycled materials in its bottles, but wants to increase that number. "I think that every glass company out there would like to get their hands on more recycled glass, because it's just much more energy efficient," says Walter Dovigo, manufacturing manager at OI. "The demand is high, and we just can't get enough of it at times because of the demand. We're making 500,000 bottles on that one line. If every consumer in the GTA brought in a bottle every once in a while we'd have enough to keep 'er going."
"It helps divert a lot of material from landfills, but in the process of doing that, and in the process of recycling and reusing the glass as cullet to make new bottles, the greenhouse gas savings and the energy savings associated with that are also huge," said John Zanini, OI's vice president of sales. "So it's not just a recycling program. It's a greenhouse gas and an energy reduction program."


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5 comments:
- alison (semi-fab lane) said...
i totally am the same way! i feel that adding some cute plants or toss pillows or even re-arranging your furniture gives a cheap fix for that feeling. too bad we can't change things every season, right!
- April 16, 2010 at 10:59 AM
- Pink Wallpaper said...
you're too sweet! thanks for the shout out. my hubbie is about to go and mail it! and happy early b'day!!
- April 16, 2010 at 11:45 AM
- Mariska Meijers said...
Fabulous fabric. Decorating without budget constraints is less fun :). I love searching for special items that are kind to my wallet!
- April 17, 2010 at 3:15 AM
- Julie said...
DROOOOOOL! So HEY! You were the one who grabbed that fabric! Grrr .... just kidding. But I am jealous. I'm on the West Coast, too, and definitely think those Left Coasters have an unfair advantage. Boo!
I love The Designer's Attic. It's so great that I don't tell my friends about it :) Selfish.
- April 28, 2010 at 9:02 PM
Whatcha gonna do with it?
I too am in love with "the designer's attic" and Shannon, It would be really cool if you will send pictures of what you do with the gorgeous fabric!
- July 22, 2010 at 9:28 AM


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Design submitted by Colby from South Africa.
Colby says: The idea for the 'Abandon' came from a long time obsession with anything post-apocalyptic. Recently there's been an abundance of movies, series and games which embrace nuclear fallout, zombie or robotic-alien themes. When challenged with the task of designing a watch, this was a strong influence.
The design resembles that of a stealth fighter jet and the strap has a robotic-spinal flare. Minutes/day are displayed by digits, and hours/month by the outer ring of bars above it. There's a solar power component, daily countdown function, and LED's indicate low battery, provide a finder light and light source.
Despite being themed for a post-apocalyptic, militant, science fiction genre, this design should appeal to everyone with an appreciation for offbeat, unconventional design. The Abandon isn't targeted at any specific gender either, so if you're bold enough to wear it, you're bound to turn heads.
Many existing designs embrace a very clean, conservative and minimalistic ideology. This watch breaks convention by introducing a style that appeals to the more daring and expressive sides of people. With Aluminium being used for the strap and face, the Abandon is light and still portrays a very solid construction.


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The stats: Legend
by Marie Lu will be available starting November 29!
The gist: Set in the future, North America has been split into two nations: the Republic and the Colonies. June is a military prodigy, who is obedient and committed to serving her country. Day is the country's most wanted criminal, determined to save his family and protect the other members of the poor community he was born into. When Day becomes the prime suspect in the murder of June's brother, she is determined to avenge his death, and the two meet in an unlikely fashion. However, an unlikely turn of events forces the pair to work together, and discover secrets about the history of the Republic.
Our favorite part: Probably when Day saves June from a street fight and they first start wandering the country together. Day and June are such strong characters that you wouldn't expect them to work well together, but they do. Plus, slowly uncovering the nasty history of the nation is chilling and incredibly fun.
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Earthquake Tragedy Bridges Two Continents
Jul 19, 2016, 08:00 ET
LAGOS, Nigeria, July 19, 2016 /CNW/ - On April 16th 2016, the nation, Ecuador was hit by a colossal earthquake of magnitude 7.8. The severity of the disaster reverberated throughout the entire country, leaving at least 500 dead and 27,500 injured. Moved by the plight of Ecuadorians, T.B. Joshua - Founder of Emmanuel TV - sent a relief team to Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador and dispatched a Boeing 727 Cargo Plane, which contained 20 tons of relief hygiene materials, perishable, and non-perishable food stuff.
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Upon arrival, the relief and aid supplies were received by representatives of the Minister of Defense on behalf of the people of Ecuador. The Armed Forces of Ecuador loaded the aid into army trucks and transported to the Emmanuel TV Operations Center, situated close to Esmeraldas City. The supplies were offloaded, repackaged, and distributed to various shelter camps in the Esmeraldas Province.
The Emmanuel TV Team also extended its relief efforts to a remote village, Chachi de San Salvador, which had also been gravely affected by the quake in the areas of access to clean water and the destruction of its local school. In response to this particular community's needs, the Team supplied the community with equipment that converts river and unclean water into potable water. The Team is also undergoing a school construction project - at a cost of US$262,000 - to rebuild the entire school complex that was destroyed. The reconstructed school will provide learning facilities for 350 students.
The people of Ecuador, as well as its Government, continue to express their gratitude for the Emmanuel TV Ecuador Relief efforts. A grateful beneficiary, from the Chachi community, said: "This is the first aid we have received from another country". The relief efforts have aided over 5,000 Ecuadorians, totaling over half a million US Dollars.
About Emmanuel TV
Emmanuel TV is an international TV Station and NGO, headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. It was founded by T.B. Joshua, a philanthropist, who has been responding to individual and societal needs across the world. Emmanuel TV has been providing food aid to poor communities in Colorado, USA; promoting women's rights by providing funds to widows to start small businesses; building a school in Lahore, Pakistan and granting international scholarships - these are among a fraction of its practices. Such humanitarian endeavors are its strides to achieving the international community's Sustainable Development Goals.
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Using lemon and orange peels to freshen garbage disposals is a quick and easy trick. However, this may not be enough to deeply clean and deodorize a smelly disposal. For that you need a cleaner.
We're all familiar with the power of Liquid-Plumr for clearing sluggish or clogged drains in sinks and tubs. Well, coming this month is a new product from Liquid-Plumr that ventures deeper into garbage disposals. Liquid-Plumr Disposal + Drain Foaming Cleaner ($3.99 for 5-pack pouch) are single use packs that freshen your garbage disposal within minutes. When you toss in a Power Pack and start the disposal, a thick foam not only flows into the drain but also rises to the top to ensure thorough cleaning. After its finished cleaning, it leaves behind a pleasant citrus scent. While this product isn't meant to clear clogged drains, once you've declogged a drain, it will clear any lingering odors.
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Transfer VIA VIENNA is quicker, easier and more convenient than at many other airports.
The minimum connecting time of 25 minutes (for Star Alliance flights) is one of the fastest in Europe. Coordinated flight schedules, particularly to and from eastern and western Europe and for intercontinental flights, make for rapid transfer to any destination. The distances between your arrival and departure gates are short. If there is time, you can also take advantage of our shops and restaurants.
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Today marks 17 years since one of the best (and one of the first) viral videos of all time was born. It's hard to believe that much time has passed.
The original version of the video has amassed more than 28 million views, not including the remixes and all the other creative variations on YouTube and elsewhere. Every year around St. Patrick's Day more and more people are introduced to the video — and the famous amateur sketch – for the first time.
A few years ago, Barstool Sports announced the video is the first-ever induction into its Internet Hall of Fame. Obviously a major honor.
Unfortunately, after all these years, we still don't know where da gold at.
I'm forever linked to the iconic story because I'm one of the anchors who introduced it on camera. As a result, I'm peppered with questions about it several times a year. One question is often repeated: "Was that a real news story?" The answer is yes and no…
Here's the annual edition of the backstory: It happened in 2006 when I was working at WPMI, the NBC affiliate in Mobile. It was covered as a real news story…at first. We heard reports of large crowds gathering in the Crichton community and police were being called out. We didn't know WHY they were gathering. The way I remember it, we weren't going out there to cover a Leprechaun sighting (that would have been a questionable decision). We were going out there to see why such large crowds were causing problems in the neighborhood. When our crew arrived, things sort of snowballed. People were looking up at a tree and saying there was a Leprechaun in it. A leprechaun. The WPMI crew started shooting video and that's when the people of Crichton took over and turned this story into an internet sensation. The version all over the internet is actually the one that aired on WPMI's morning newscast. The story's debut came the previous night. For some reason, that one slipped right past the YouTubers. In the end, the now-legendary "amateur sketch" was auctioned off on eBay by WPMI and the proceeds donated to charity. I think it pulled in close to $1,000.
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Missing New Hampshire boy, dog found safe
Officials say Goffstown boy was visiting, doesn't know area well
The search for a missing boy in Goshen ended with a tearful, happy embrace as 7-year-old Brennan Pelletier returned to the arms of his aunt, who had been worrying for nearly five hours.
"Incredible, remarkable – to be able to call my sister and tell them that he's back," said Melissa Hamel, Brennan's aunt.
Brennan is from Goffstown and is staying in Goshen with family while his parents are on vacation. He was outside playing with a cousin Wednesday afternoon when they were called in for lunch and he didn't come back, police said.
"I was in the woods and I was scared, and I got lost," Brennan said. "Every time I went on a different path, I went back to the same place.
The family reported him missing, which prompted help to pour in from around the state. Search and rescue teams prepped their dogs as New Hampshire Fish & Game and state police worked out strategy. But before an intensive search could begin, Brennan, who had wandered for hours only to end up in a yard less than a mile away, heard someone calling his name.
"I didn't know who it was, and then this kid – I didn't even know who it was – and he's like, 'Everyone's looking for you,'" Brennan said.
Chris Mahieu, 13, said Brennan was a little confused at first.
"When we heard his voice, I just ran into the yard and I see him standing there, and I see the dog run up to me, so I asked him what his name was, he said 'Brennan,' so he's like how do you know me? And I'm like the whole town's looking for you, so that's how I know you," Mahieu said.
Mahieu and his family loaded Brennan and Gracie, a cocker spaniel, into a car that happened to be searching nearby, and drove him back to his aunt.
"We just gave him a ride back here, and it looks like it's going to be a happy ending for these people," said Peter Hanson.


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We just concluded a very calm month, with people visibly watching more the World Cup than doing bibliographic searches. We counted 608,512 file downloads and 2,029,548 abstract views, the lowest monthly numbers in two years. Still, 12 new RePEc archives joined: Universität Duisburg-Essen, SEACEN, La Trobe University, Oxford University (III), Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, Universidad de Zaragoza, Australian National University (V), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Economic Research Forum (Egypt), US Environmental Protection Agency, Auburn University.
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- VIDEO: Latest ABC7 Weather Forecast
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- LINK: School Closings and Delays
- STORY: Chicagoans take wintry conditions in stride
For many, this first significant storm of the season will be remembered less for the snow and more for the wind.
The snow was falling Thursday night and power lines were failing.
Firefighters in DeKalb have been responding to scenes like this all night.
In the south part of the city, a downed power line put on a light show that had neighbors nervous.
"I just happened to be looking out the back window, and I saw this ball. And it looked like it was getting bigger and bigger. So I called him over and he said something's on fire," said Brenda Hoiness.
With power out on the entire block, Hoiness and her family decided to leave with Thursday night's dinner and a freezer-full of other food.
"Got some overnight clothes. That's the best we can do, right? It's crazy," she said.
The storm wreaked havoc on the roadways, causing numerous spin-outs.
For drivers it was winter wake-up call.
"All the roads seem to be really slippery as they're accumulating snow," said Harry Tallacksen. "My guess is most drivers probably aren't ready for it. This is our first run in slippery weather."
"Don't be out tonight," said motorist Brian Rummelhart. "Try to stay in. Get your traveling in tomorrow if you can."
In DeKalb, the city is preparing for a multi-day snow-fighting effort.
"This is going to take several days," said DeKalb Public Works Director T.J. Moore. "In our particular instance, we've got parking lots, downtown, alleys. We've got a lot of different things to make sure are open and available for people."
Matt Mangum was at Gordon Hardware stocking up on salt Thursday night.
"We've got the snow blower ready," he said. "Getting the salt ready and hoping for the best but preparing for the worst."
He just completed his purchase when the power went out in the store. It's been that kind of night.
Power outages have affected many communities in northern Illinois. The hardest hit locations are in DeKalb and the Rockford areas with more than 17,000 customers are affected while 1,500 are affected in the city of Chicago.
ComEd says about 600 crews are in the field working to restore power.
City, state snow plows, salt trucks prep for storm
The Illinois Tollway says its 182 snowplows are ready to go for the storm. The Tollway has canceled all temporary lane closures between noon today and the morning of December 26.
The city said it is prepared with salt and plows.
The Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation says that it has 285,000 tons of salt on hand. There are 284 snow vehicles, and plows on standby to attack the winter blast.
The department is implementing its real-time Plow Tracker, which allows the public to see snow plow locations throughout the city. Snow plows can be tracked through this link: cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/mayor/iframe/plow_tracker.html.
If you find yourself driving around a snowplow, give them space to do their job, said IDOT's Bill Helm.
Here's why: Snowplows travel about 30 mph. Plows have computer-operated salt dispensers. If a plow travels less than 12 mph, there are problems.
"If we're stuck in traffic and we only move 4 feet at a time, the machine doesn't actually start to distribute the salt," said Michael Vick, IDOT driver and heavy equipment operator.
To help snowplows, IDOT recommends staying behind them. Do not jump ahead of a plow, even you think there is space. And do not box them in traffic.
"The most important message we can get out today is to make sure that everyone slows down," said Illinois State Police Capt. Luis Gutierrez. "It's going to be treacherous and dangerous road conditions and we want to make sure everyone gets home safely."


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In 2014, the state must turn its attention to poverty. In both human and economic terms, it's gotten too expensive.
Nearly 50 years ago, on Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the bold initiative that would become known as the War on Poverty. A half-century later many of its signature programs — Medicare and Medicaid, VISTA, Head Start, food stamps — are still part of our social infrastructure.
But while these programs have helped many people, they have not ended poverty, as Mr. Johnson hoped. After an expenditure of, by one estimate, nearly $15 trillion, the "war" is a stalemate, a holding action. The national poverty rate of 15 percent in 2012 (46.8 million people) is about where it was in 1965.
In Connecticut, the poverty rate began to rise before the recession, going from 7.5 percent in 2002 to a current estimate of 10.7 percent ( 372,000 people) living below the poverty line, which is $23,492 for a family of four. Another 10 percent of residents live at or below 200 percent of the line.
Though poverty has grown markedly in the suburbs, it is still heavily concentrated in the cities. Hartford, according to the U.S. Census' most recent American Community Survey, has an estimated 38 percent of residents and 53 percent of children living in poverty.
This is frustrating on moral and economic grounds. We aspire to be a fair and egalitarian society that provides all of its citizens with basic sustenance and the chance to get ahead. Yet many are struggling, some desperately.
Meanwhile, government and private philanthropy are spending billions of dollars on programs and services to either help the poor or pay for the consequences of poverty.
While it is impossible to put an exact number on it, billions of dollars in state spending — portions of the budgets for social services, courts, public defenders, prisons, public health, mental health and addiction services, labor and education — are rooted in poverty.
In addition, federal funds administered by community action agencies and private philanthropy bring tens of millions more to the anti-poverty effort.
While this money provides a safety net and help for many people, shouldn't we be doing better?
If eliminating poverty were easy, we wouldn't be approaching this anniversary. It's sometimes politically expedient to blame the poor for not getting ahead. Recent research suggests that living in poverty — facing the daily stress of finding food, clothing, heat and shelter — makes it all the more difficult to finish school or train for a job.
Institutional efforts to end poverty haven't met with consistent success, either. For example, in 2004 the legislature formed a Child Poverty and Prevention Council with the goal of reducing child poverty by 50 percent over 10 years. Since then, the percentage of children living in poverty has risen from 10.1 to 14.8 percent, an increase approaching 50 percent.
This is connected both to the recession and to Connecticut's stagnant job growth from 1990 to 2010, during which the state had the worst job creation record in the country, according to the Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis.
Yet there are good things happening. "Jobs Funnels" set up around the state since 1999 have gotten 2,800 workers into the construction trades in the last 14 years. The earned income tax credit has been a huge help in getting people out of poverty. The state's investment in education and training should bear fruit. There are innovations around the country, such as subsidized work programs and financial empowerment centers, that teach people how to manage money, build assets and not fall back into poverty.
The recent innovation that might best suit Connecticut's situation is called "collective impact," in which all the players, directed by a "backbone" organization, decide on a common agenda and measurements, and then work together.
Getting all the state and local agencies and nonprofits on the same page — some are moving in this direction — would be a good start.
This is first on The Courant's agenda list for the state for 2014. Tomorrow: What the city of Hartford needs to do.


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