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The bantamweights and featherweights featured on the 14th season of "The Ultimate Fighter" brought a much-needed shot of adrenaline to the show.
When it came to the action inside the cage, there were few of the rest periods seen by fighters in the heavier weight classes. Just as they did in the now-defunct WEC, the smaller guys went at it bell to bell and delivered plenty of finishes.
Of the many tough prospects to emerge from the season, four have survived the reality-show gauntlet, and at stake Saturday night are six-figure, multi-year contracts.
John Dodson (11-5 MMA, 0-0 UFC) and T.J. Dillashaw (4-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) meet in the bantamweight finals, and Dennis Bermudez (7-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) meets Diego Brandao (13-7 MMA, 0-0 UFC) clash in the featherweight finals.
The Ultimate Fighter 14 Finale takes place at The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. The night's main card airs on Spike TV while prelims stream on Facebook. Starting in 2012, "TUF" moves to it's new home on FX, where previously taped fights on the show will air live each week. Saturday is Spike TV's swan song with the groundbreaking reality series.
Standing over the "TUF" finalists and a host of show veterans populating the card is Michael Bisping (21-3 MMA, 11-3 UFC) and Jason "Mayhem" Miller (24-7 MMA, 0-1 UFC), who coached opposite each other during six weeks of filming in Sin City. The meet in the finale's main event. Miller is actually the second choice to coach opposite the Brit; onetime middleweight contender Chael Sonnen was unable to get the necessary second's (cornerman's) license in Nevada in time for filming due to a suspension by the California State Athletic Commission.
The traditional season-ending fight between coaches originally was slated as a title-eliminator match. But given the current state of the middleweight division, that designation might not be too far off. Current champ Anderson Silva looks to be out of action until the late spring or early summer, and with Sonnen back in action, the winner of Saturday's bout could meet him or Mark Munoz to determine Silva's next challenger.
As with most contender spots, the opportunities available to the winner depend on how compelling a performance is put on. Bisping, who's long solidified himself as the fighter fans love to hate, stands in a better position to capitalize should he win due to an existing rivalry with Sonnen and a long history of high-profile fights in the UFC. Miller, on the other hand, returns to the promotion six years after a single appearance as a welterweight against suture 170-pound champion Georges St-Pierre at UFC 52. Although "Mayhem" is recognized for his work on the short-lived "Bully Beatdown" series on MTV and his fights in Strikeforce, he is for all intents and purposes further down the middleweight ladder as an almost-new UFC fighter.
Miller's fight career has suffered in the wake of his unfortunate brawl with the Cesar Gracie fight team following the CBS-televised "Strikeforce: Nashville" in April 2010. Having angered network executives for his role as an instigator in the conflict – his in-cage callout of Jake Shields started that fracas – he essentially was put on the shelf until he was contractually able to move to greener pastures in the UFC. He fought once in September 2010, defeating MMA legend Kazushi Sakuraba at DREAM.16, but it will have been about 15 months since he most recently competed when he meets Bisping.
The Brit, meanwhile, fed his controversial reputation in his most recent outing when he threw a blatantly illegal knee against Jorge Rivera at UFC 127 and then spat in the direction of the fighter's corner in retaliation for a PR buildup that quickly turned personal. Still, he enjoys a three-fight win streak with wins over Dan Miller, Yoshihiro Akiyama and Rivera.
Bisping has made a career of a hit-and-run attack that more frequently earns him decisions rather than points. He's thus expected to keep Miller on the outside and put together combinations that halt any sort of takedown. Miller, a talented jiu-jitsu fighter, has earned the bulk of his wins by submission, and he's expected to take the fight to the ground, where Bisping is less strong.
"TUF" work for Bermudez, Dodson leading into finals
If we heed oddsmakers, featherweight Bermudez and bantamweight Dodson are the underdogs leading into the finals of "The Ultimate Fighter 14."
Of the two, Bermudez is a sizable dog to Brandao – and for obvious reasons. Brazilian Brandao knocked out three consecutive opponents to earn his spot in the finals, and Bermudez has struggled before overcoming his trio of challenges. Thus, he has about a 25 percent chance of winning the fight according to one popular line.
Dodson gets about 10 more percentage points than Bermudez when it comes to the odds that he'll win his fight against Dillashaw. Although he stopped two of his three "TUF 14" opponents with his fists, his paper disadvantage reflects Dillashaw's undefeated record and solid wrestling credentials.
Dillashaw is expected to veer away from Dodson's heavy, swinging punches and take the fight to the mat, where Dodson has yet to truly be tested. It's Dodson's task to sprawl and stay on the outside, where he can look to wear down Dillashaw with leaping knees and perhaps finish things off with a head kick.
In other main-card action, veteran lightweight Yves Edwards (41-17-1 MMA, 9-5 UFC) stands in the way of "The Ultimate Fighter 13" winner Tony Ferguson's (12-2 MMA, 2-0 UFC) rise. Edwards most recently got back on the winning track with an impressive TKO victory over Rafaello Oliveira that reversed a vicious knockout loss to Sam Stout. Ferguson, who's now in his second bout as a lightweight after completing "TUF" as a welterweight, enjoys a two-fight win streak heavily based on his boxing proficiency. However, the seasoned kickboxer Edwards may find himself fending off a takedown from Ferguson, who's also shown talent in taking fighters to the mat and damaging them there.
Also on the main card, "TUF 14" vet Louis Gaudinot (5-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) hopes to rebound after a loss in the reality show's quarterfinals to Dustin Pague with a win over Johnny Bedford (17-9-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC), who made it to the semifinals before Dodson put him to sleep with hammerfists.
The Ultimate Fighter 14 Finale's official lineup includes:
MAIN CARD (Spike TV)
- Michael Bisping vs. Jason "Mayhem" Miller
- Dennis Bermudez vs. Diego Brandao ("TUF 14" featherweight finale)
- John Dodson vs. T.J.
Dillashaw ("TUF 14" bantamweight finale)
- Yves Edwards vs. Tony Ferguson
- Johnny Bedford vs. Louis Gaudinot
PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook)
- Marcus Brimage vs. Stephan Bass
- John Albert vs. Dustin Pague
- Roland Delorme vs. Josh Ferguson
- Josh Clopton vs. Steven Siler
- Bryan Caraway vs. Dustin Neace
For more on The Ultimate Fighter 14 Finale, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.


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【Rice crispy】
by MaomaoMom
A wonderful treat for kids! You can make them with your kids during the holiday season for fun together.
Prepare time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 10 minutes
Level: low
Serves: 30 servings
1: ¼ cup butter;
2: 5 cups mini marshmallows;
3: 1 tsp vanilla extract;
4: 6 cups Kellogg Rice Krispies cereal;
5: 1/3 cup dried cranberries;
6: ¼ cup white sesame seeds.
1: Spray lightly with pam on a 22×32 cm baking pan, set aside. Roast sesame seeds in a small pan over low heat until golden brown (Picture 1), set aside.
2: In a large non-stick sauce pot over low heat, melt butter and marshmallows (Picture 2), stir constantly. When marshmallows completely melted (Picture 3), remove from heat. Add vanilla extract and stir to mix.
3: Add cereal, dried cranberries and roasted sesame seeds (Picture 4), stir to just coated in melted marshmallow (Picture 5).
4: Pour the mixture into the baking pan, cover with a piece of plastic wrap or wax paper, press evenly (Picture 6). Let it stand for 30 minutes.
5: Loose up the sides and remove it onto a cutting board and cut into rectangles or squares.

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Sometimes when I'm taking the bus to work, I pretend it's a shuttle taking me from the airport to a week at a Caribbean resort or other foreign destination.
Sometimes I will make a sandwich for myself, garnish it and then wrap it up and put it in the fridge. Later when I pull the sandwich from the fridge and eat it, I pretend that someone else made it for me.
Sometimes when I write I pretend I'm Jane Austen. I'm a woman who documents life, a keen and piercing observer of the world.
I'm a firm advocate of being in the here and now, and I'm pretty sure I'm not suffering from psychosis (but if anyone wants to argue otherwise, tell me!). So what is the point of all my pretending?
It's good for me.
Pretending helps me know what my heart needs even when my head hasn't gotten the memo.
Sometimes I need a break from my everyday life, an adventure or challenge. I dream about a relaxing getaway or exotic travels.
Sometimes I wish someone would take care of me. I need to feel like I'm not alone and doing it all for myself. I pretend some other loving body has made me a sandwich.
Sometimes I need to feel that what I do matters, that my work transcends time and space and reaches people in a way that changes them for the better.
Pretending reveals the urges of my heart. And that revelation is the first step to creating the reality that I need.


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At the end of the seventeenth century, Isaac Newton (1642-1727) initiated a revolution in science. At the end of the twentieth century, scholars began a revolution in the understanding of Newton. As Newton's long-concealed private papers on theology become increasingly accessible, students of Newton's thought are coming to see Newton as more than a scientist.
The author of the Principia mathematica was a true Renaissance man who spent decades delving in the secrets of alchemy and even longer studying the Bible, theology and church history. Leaving behind at least two and a half million words on theology, Newton was one of the greatest lay theologians of his age. A study of Newton's theology and prophetic views illuminates the life of this great thinker and helps us understand his science.
This website provides downloadable academic papers by Stephen David Snobelen that explore Newton's theology, prophetic views and the interaction between his science and his religion. These resources include substantial quotations from Newton's unpublished theological manuscripts.


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Aug 27, 2012
Aaron and John's final KFAN broadcast of the season is live from the Minnesota State Fair and they talk about the Twins' slide, September call-ups, reports that the Dodgers pursued Justin Morneau, the aftermath of "Girls Gone Gleeman," living in the MLB Fan Cave and trying to build a media career with special guest Lindsay Guentzel, Sweet Martha's Cookies, and why Aaron shouldn't lead with his hair on first dates.
Lindsay sounds like fun...but I'm not younger these days. Lots of fun on your show. She likes glasses...I like women in glasses. We have something in common. Ha.
No I just discovered you guys about two weeks ago. I will be listening next year...no matter how bad the Twins are.


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Drugs in this class are primarily used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis. Many of these medications fall in the class known as phenothiazines. This category includes:
Newer medications, risperidone (Risperdal), quetiapine (Seroquel), ziprasidone (Geodon), aripiprazole (Abilify), olanzapine (Zyprexa) and clozapine (Clozaril), are called atypical antipsychotics.
See Phenothiazines or Atypical Antipsychotics for more information.


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I visited Bath Fashion Museum recently, specifically to see their special exhibition at the Fashion Museum, Royal Women: Public Life, Personal Style that you can read about here.
They have many 'treasures' in their collection and I have posted a short series sharing with my readership the fashions of previous centuries.
In 'Part One' I focused on items that the museum displayed from before the nineteenth century, in 'Part Two' I looked at fashions from the end of the eighteenth century and through the nineteenth century, in the third post I shared fashions from the twentieth century. In this fourth and final post I will showcase some of the children's clothes and shoes .
You can read Fashion Museum: A History of Fashion in 100 Objects – Part One here.
You can read Fashion Museum: A History of Fashion in 100 Objects – Part Two here.
You can read Fashion Museum: A History of Fashion in 100 Objects – Part Three here.
All photos are taken by me unless stated – as is normal for such exhibitions there is a no flash photography rule which can impact any snaps I take, plus the reflection from lighting on glass does cause issues, so there will be some imperfections in the photos. In some cases (in all Fashion Museum posts) I've taken a judgement call to post an imperfect shot for the benefit of the article.
Children's Clothes
New-born babies would be wrapped in swaddling clothes (long strips of linen). The slip dresses above, would have been worn after about four months old. The patterned material meant any dirt was obscured for clothes were washed infrequently as soap was expensive.
Above is a boy's banyan, or dressing gown, made of chintz, a fabric that originated in India. By law, chintz was only available in England to export to other countries, but it proved a popular fabric and was smuggled into the country for the English to use.
Above is a pelisse, a hugely fashionable coat during the early nineteenth century. Adult fashions sometimes passed into children's wear and this is a girl's example from the 1810s. It is made of cotton.
Left is a sailor suit that was fashionable for boys during the nineteenth century probably due to Queen Victoria dressing the young princes in such garments. To the right is a classic smock dress, trends began to change during the late nineteenth century and looser clothing was more acceptable. The smock would have been worn by a boy or a girl.
The Fashion Museum has a charming collection of babies' booties that have been embroidered or quilted – all from the nineteenth century.
Fashions changed from a chunkier heel to a more slender heel for shoes in the mid-1700s.
Above is a pair of flat silk indoor shoes from the 1810s. Ladies half-boots (ankle boots) were popular (as noted by Jane Austen in 1817) for outdoor wear – and indeed there are examples from later in the century in the Fashion Museum's collections, but lighter indoor slippers were a more refined option for the regency's ladies to wear when not walking outside.
The fashion for boots fluctuated once trousers were normal day wear for men. Ever practical when riding, shoes replaced boots when trousers replaced breeches. However, the buckled shoes that had previously been popular were out of favour and men's shoes now had laces.
The collection of leather and silk shoes and half-boots above is from the later nineteenth century.
The shoes above are from a collection of shoes belonging to Mary Chamberlain, stepmother of Neville Chamberlain. She bought many shoes from the same Paris designers opting for similar styles in different colours. The shoes were donated to the museum after her death in the 1950s.
The shoes above are from the 1920s and would have been designed for best or evening-wear.
Fashion Museum, Treasures, 2009


text: With good advice like this, you have to give recommendations! What brand work bench do you use? This is quite important for me as we have no service agreement. I fought hard to have a "temporary" ramp put in up the steps to our cluster room (with a raised floor). But without a good work bench it would be useless. Suvendra. On Jul 2, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Robert G. Brown wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Jim Lux wrote: > >>> Finally, what other suggestions do people have for equipment >>> needed? >>> On my list we've got the UPS, the AC, thermal sensors and >>> killswitches, >>> APC Masterswitch units, power lines, network lines, web/video camera >>> and >>> an alarm. Anything else people find useful? >> >> Coat rack to hang some jackets on. > > Work bench. A nice one, with rechargable screwdriver and bit set, > various hand tools, good lighting, a network drop or three, a small KVM > and flatpanel video/keyboard, screw/part organized storage, a rack to > hang spare cables on -- you get the idea. Even if you get top shelf > service agreements on everything, you WILL be working down there > prepping nodes to go in or out, replacing failed drives on out of > warranty systems, and so forth. > > Comfortable swivel/rolling work chairs to match the bench, and if you > are really into comfort, put a cheap workstation on your bench KVM > (useful in and of itself) and add a nice set of headphones on a long > cable to keep your ears warm, exclude room noise (likely considerable), > and let you listen to that 20 GB ogg collection we know that you've got > squirrelled away somewhere while working...;-) > > A phone. One with a really loud ringer or even a blinking light > ringer, > if your AC is as loud as ours. > > He says as he prepares to descend into the bowels of the physics > department to work in OUR cluster/server room... sigh. Comfort is key. > >> When thinking about UPSes, etc. consider partitioning your system so >> that >> not everything dies together. Your monitoring and head node >> computers might >> want a longer duration than the compute nodes. (that web cam's not >> going to >> do much for you if the power is shut off...) >> >> A temperature/humidity recorder is nice to have. It could be as >> simple as >> an off the shelf weatherstation widget and a logging program. It >> lets you >> better manage your HVAC. > > Regarding AC units, there are some very lovely 10 ton and 15 ton units. > Since a major component of your cost will be space renovation, and > since > this will become MORE costly later as it will require downtime and dust > on top of the mere dollars, you'll really want to TRY to engineer the > space now for its eventual future peak capacity. You'd also much > rather > have too much AC than two little. > > You might want two 5 ton units instead of one 10, though -- that way > you > have a bit of redundancy should one fail while you are still at current > levels. I agree with Jim, though -- talk to your HVAC contractor, they > should be able to give you good advice here. > > rgb > > -- > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ > Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 > Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 > Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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SAN DIEGO >> A former Blue Angels commander tolerated inappropriate sexual comments and pornographic images in the workplace — including photos of naked women in the cockpits of the precision flying team's planes, the Navy said Tuesday.
Capt. Gregory McWherter was found guilty of violating two articles under the military's code of justice during nonjudicial proceedings convened Monday in Pearl Harbor. The articles were failure to obey an order or regulation and conduct unbecoming of an officer by fostering a hostile command climate and failing to stop "obvious and repeated instances of sexual harassment, condoning widespread lewd practices within the squadron and engaging in inappropriate and unprofessional discussions with his junior officers," the Navy said in a statement.
He will be given a letter of reprimand that will go in McWherter's permanent file and is widely seen as a career-ender in the service. McWherter told Navy officials he did not wish to speak to the media, said Cmdr. Kevin Stephens, a spokesman at Naval Air Forces.
Under McWherter's command, pilots had explicit pornography, including photos of naked women, in aircraft cockpits, according to the investigation.
There was also a rooftop painting of male genitalia in blue and gold at the team's winter training facilities in El Centro that could be seen by Google Maps, the Navy report stated. The painting existed through the end of the 2012 airshow season.
The Navy probe also found "sexually charged, raunchy, and homophobic humor" on maps and itineraries.
McWherter was relieved in April from his duty as executive officer of Naval Base Coronado in California amid the allegations during his second stint as the Blue Angels' leader from May 2011 to November 2012. The Navy said it did not find problems during his first stint as the flying team's commanding officer from 2008 to 2010.
"The investigation concluded that McWherter witnessed, condoned, and encouraged behavior that, while juvenile and sophomoric in the beginning, ultimately and in the aggregate, became destructive, toxic and hostile," the Navy said in a statement.
The Navy said investigators found no evidence the behavior led to sexual assault.
Harry Harris Jr., commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, ordered the investigation after a service member filed an official complaint with the Navy on March 24.
The Blue Angels' mission is to publicly represent the best of Naval Aviation, and Harris said "the actions of Capt. McWherter jeopardized that mission."
"Commanding officers have an enduring obligation to maintain a proper work environment at all times and in all places and spaces, and they will be held accountable as appropriate when they fail," Harris said.
Several junior personnel who served under McWherter received formal written counseling for their behavior, but McWherter was held accountable for the actions of those in his command, the Navy said.
The Blue Angels are reviewing procedures, said Vice Adm. David Buss, commander, Naval Air Force Pacific, and its new commanding officer, Thomas Frosch, started implementing measures to clean up the workplace.
McWherter also was president of the Tailhook Association for about eight months before he resigned amid the probe.
The San Diego-based nonprofit aviator fraternity said it knew nothing of the allegations against McWherter. The group dealt with its own scandal in 1991 when Navy pilots at its Las Vegas convention were accused of sexually abusing female officers.


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clearwater's great hudson river revival 2010
This weekend: Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival 2010
A musical and environmental festival; the venue looks amazing!
Uglyships has its Flashbacks, BibliOdyssey has its Image Dumps. Here is mine, for John Sperr's old Instant Button Machine in the Dutchess Outreach booth this weekend. He asked for a few images to represent river and harbor activity, so I collected a few together. I have to draw more tugs! According to Roberta Weisbrod, since 1991, there is a 37% increase of tugs operating in NYHarbor. Taurus is foist on the list!
All artwork is ©2010, but is available upon request for altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, charitable, eleemosynary, good, humanistic, philanthropic, public-spirited causes, and for birthdays and ship anniversaries.


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Streaming LIVE here, today, at 4 p.m. PDT/7 p.m. EDT/11 p.m. GMT
The Perimeter Institute's public lecture series is back! At 7 p.m. EDT (4 p.m. PDT) today, Erik Verlinde of the University of Amsterdam will ask: Are we standing on the brink of a new scientific revolution that will radically change our views on space, time, and gravity? Specifically, Verlinde will discuss the possibility that gravity may be an emergent phenomena and not a fundamental force of nature. Ohh, interesting.
The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (in Ontario, Canada) always puts on a superb production and you can watch Dr Verlinde's talk via the live feed above. You can also participate via social media using the hashtag #piLIVE and follow @perimeter and @erikverlinde on Twitter.
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Several varieties of partitioning programs have been adapted by Debian developers to work on various types of hard disks and computer architectures. Following is a list of the program(s) applicable for your architecture.
Recommended partitioning tool in Debian. This Swiss army knife can also resize partitions, create filesystems and assign them to the mountpoints.
The original Linux disk partitioner, good for gurus.
Be careful if you have existing FreeBSD partitions on your machine. The installation kernels include support for these partitions, but the way that fdisk represents them (or not) can make the device names differ. See the Linux+FreeBSD HOWTO.
A simple-to-use, full-screen disk partitioner for the rest of us.
Note that cfdisk doesn't understand FreeBSD partitions at all, and, again, device names may differ as a result.
One of these programs will be run by default when you select(or similar). It may be possible to use a different partitioning tool from the command line on VT2, but this is not recommended.
SGI machines require an SGI disk label in order to make the system bootable from hard disk. It can be created in the fdisk expert menu. The thereby created volume header (partition number 9) should be at least 3MB large. If the volume header created is too small, you can simply delete partition number 9 and re-add it with a different size. Note that the volume header must start at sector 0.


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A huge thanks to everyone who made yesterdays Star Wars launch an explosive success! We were completely overwhelmed with the amount of love we received, from some pretty well respected peeps.
Click the images below to hear podcasts, see videos and read articles chronicling the most epic Starring You we've ever produced.
Gregg and Evan sat down with Adam Carolla for a two part interview podcast. Available for clicking and listening above!
We think our favorite quote from all this crazy coverage was from TechCrunch writer Michael Arrington who said "This is the coolest thing I've ever seen. And I think I'm serious."
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EPA estimates on toxicity of Libby Asbestos available for public comment and independent scientist review
Release Date: 08/25/2011
Contact Information:
Review of toxicity values that will guide final cleanup actions at Libby Asbestos Superfund site
Contact: Matthew Allen, EPA Region 8, (for Libby site-related questions) (303) 312-6085
Latisha Petteway, EPA HQ, (for toxicity assessment questions) (202) 564-3191
(Denver, Colorado – August 25, 2011) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is providing the public with an opportunity to comment on draft toxicity values for a unique form of asbestos called Libby Amphibole asbestos. The toxicity assessment provides a toxicological review of a specific type of asbestos found in northwest Montana and proposes draft toxicity values for both cancer and non-cancer health effects. When final, the toxicity values will help EPA and the residents of Libby and Troy, Montana determine the best path forward for asbestos cleanup and the protection of public health at the Libby Asbestos Superfund site. Today's announcement is the latest step in EPA's continuing efforts to protect human health by reducing exposure to Libby Amphibole asbestos.
EPA is releasing the draft toxicity assessment for public comment and peer review by EPA's Science Advisory Board (SAB). Today's Federal Register notice calls for a 60-day public comment period from August 25 to October 24, 2011. A public listening session also is planned on Oct. 6, 2011. The Federal Register notice announces the beginning of an external review process that provides the public with an opportunity to comment on the draft toxicity assessment and the science used to develop the Libby Amphibole asbestos toxicity values.
To learn about the draft toxicity assessment and how to submit comments and participate in the listening session, visit https://www.epa.gov/ncea. Copies of the assessment and Federal Register notice will be available in the EPA Information Office in Libby as well as the Lincoln County and Troy, Montana Libraries. Information on how to comment and participate in the Oct. 6 listening session also will be available at the Information Office and libraries.
"This is an important step towards developing the best science to finish the job of protecting public health in Libby and Troy," said Jim Martin, EPA's regional administrator in Denver. "Our intent is to move forward with the input of independent experts and local residents. Once finalized, these toxicity values will help guide remaining cleanup actions and identify exposure prevention practices to protect human health."
EPA announced initial draft toxicity values at a public meeting in Libby on May 3, 2011. EPA released the draft information to the residents earlier than usual in the scientific evaluation process to ensure the community was fully informed. Since that time, the values have undergone a review by scientists at EPA and other federal agencies. These reviews did not result in any significant changes to the draft toxicity values shared on May 3.
Based on requests from the community, the final toxicity values for Libby Amphibole asbestos will be used to develop EPA's final risk assessment at the Libby Asbestos Superfund site. EPA will use these toxicity values to evaluate risks to adults, teens and children who may be exposed to Libby Amphibole asbestos during activities such as housework, gardening, mowing, bicycling or working in an office or outside.
Since 1999, EPA has worked to reduce risk of exposure to Libby Amphibole asbestos by focusing on removing the largest sources of exposure. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson in 2009 declared a public health emergency in Libby, a first-of-its-kind action that recognized serious impacts to public health. To date, the agency has spent more than $370 million and has safely removed more than 873,350 cubic yards of asbestos- contaminated soil from source areas at 1,509 commercial and residential properties. Although EPA has made significant progress in helping to remove the threat of asbestos in the land and air and reduce the risks of lung cancer and other respiratory problems, actual and potential releases of amphibole asbestos remain a concern in Libby.
Preliminary conclusions in the draft assessment are that the cancer risk value for Libby Amphibole asbestos is similar to the current Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) cancer risk value for other forms of asbestos. The preliminary assessment of non-cancer effects indicates the potential for detrimental health effects at low exposure levels. This is the first EPA non-cancer toxicity value for asbestos.
EPA is conducting the review of the draft health assessment under a process prescribed by IRIS. The results of this assessment will affect states and private industry groups with Superfund cleanup responsibilities at sites where Libby Amphibole asbestos is present. The proposed toxicity values in this draft assessment will also be useful in evaluating risk from potential exposures in other environments where Amphibole asbestos may be present. EPA expects to issue its final health assessment in September 2012.
For more information about asbestos visit https://www.epa.gov/asbestos/.
For more information on EPA's cleanup activities in Libby and Troy visit https://www.epa.gov/libby.
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The Times reports on decisions at the DoJ to decline to defend two laws. One is the Affordable Care Act. The other, which apparently has experts divided, involves a technical dispute (what makes this a Federal and not state-level offense? See BACKGROUND below.) about a 1996 ban on female genital mutilation (hard to feel the political wind blowing from the right in favor of overturning that ban, inspired by immigrant behavior, but here we are...)
Sparking my ire is this ahistorical diatribe, my emphasis:
While there are important differences between the two cases — Republicans have attacked the Affordable Care Act in the courts for years, while legal experts are debating whether the circumcision law is defensible — critics were troubled by what they fear is an emerging view inside the Justice Department that it is up to the Trump administration, not members of Congress, to decide whether a law has merit and should be enforced.
"Imagine a world where an administration of one party passes a law and then a different president effectively invalidates it by having the Justice Department refuse to defend it in court," said Joshua Geltzer, the executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law School.
"You want elected lawmakers to draft laws, not lawyers at the Justice Department," Mr. Geltzer said.
Wow, to imagine that I'd have to imagine a President explaining he can't act until Congress changes the current law and then imagine that same President reversing himself after the legislative effort stalls and unilaterally instructing the DoJ to simply exercise its prosecutorial discretion and decline to enforce the law. Unthinkable!
Or if that memory is too raw, what about that other Clinton legacy project, the Defense of Marriage Act? The DoJ cut that loose as well in response to a shift in the political winds, that time from the left.
For the Times to pretend even for a second that this is a new problem under Trump is absurd.
BACKGROUND on female genital mutilation issue:
In drafting that law, Congress relied on its power to regulate interstate commerce. Lawmakers had increasingly used that authority to overcome the fact that they cannot simply make local crimes federal matters, no matter how evil, unless they violate some federal power that Congress wields.
"For this to work, Congress has to show that there is some connection between the criminal conduct and interstate commerce," said Mr. Dellinger, now a partner at the O'Melveny & Myers law firm.
But in 2000, four years after the female circumcision law was enacted, the Supreme Court examined Congress's use of the Interstate Commerce Act in drafting the Violence Against Women Act. In that case, United States v. Morrison, the government lost in part because the court had greatly narrowed Congress's ability to use its power over interstate commerce to draft criminal laws.
Last year, in the first court case involving the genital mutilation law, the judge in Michigan cited the Morrison case to rule that Congress had failed to clearly draw a connection between interstate commerce and the practice of female genital mutilation.
In his letter to Ms. Feinstein, Mr. Francisco sent a list of possible changes to the law to strengthen the connection with interstate commerce and keep the ban on female circumcisions in place, like outlawing the use of the banking or telecommunications systems to perform the act.
"Essentially, the Justice Department is urging Congress to fix the law before a case gets to the Supreme Court, where there is a good chance it would be struck down," Mr. Dellinger said, adding that the government's action in this case was appropriate. "The constitutional fix is relatively straightforward, and should be uncontroversial.
Nothing is uncontroversial. This will be portrayed by some nutter somewhere as an attempt to attack immigrants and embarrass Ilhan Omar.


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Bishop Hill comments about how
the Charities Commissioners have taken a dim view of an FoE leaflet that claimed that silica – that's sand to you or me – used in fracking fluid was a known carcinogen.
Up pops a FoE activist making all sorts of comments, including attacking the hosts book The Hockey Stick Illusion. Below is my comment
Phil Clarke's comments on the hosts book are an insight into the Green Activists.
He says Jan 30, 2016 at 9:58 AM
So you've read HSI, then?
I have a reading backlog of far more worthwhile volumes, fiction and non-fiction. Does anybody dispute a single point in Tamino's adept demolition?
Where did I slag off HSI? I simply trust Tamino; the point about innuendo certainly rings true, based on other writings.
So no, I won't be shelling out for a copy of a hatchet job on a quarter-century old study. But I did read this, in detail
Tamino's article was responded to twice by Steve McIntyre. The first looks at the use of non-standard statistical methods and Re-post of "Tamino and the Magic Flute" simply repeats the post of two years before. Tamino had ignored previous rebuttals. A simple illustration is the Gaspé series that Tamino defends. He misses out many issues with this key element in the reconstruction, including that a later sample from the area failed to show a hockey stick.
So Phil Clarke has attacked a book that he has not read, based on biased review by an author in line with his own prejudices. He ignores the counter-arguments, just as the biased review author does as well. Says a lot about the rubbish Cuadrilla are up against.


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Hidden umbrella passions in ten Hindi film songs
Umbrellophily, a phenomenon not spoken sung about in the Hindi film industry. The author of these lines like many other fans of Hindi film songs was not aware of this shocking fact either. During his search for a list of his 10 favourite umbrella songs (since rain-song lists have been beaten to death), he stumbled over this taboo topic in the Hindi cinema. While he was searching, he could unearth only three songs, which mention an umbrella and two-thirds of them were not even melodious. Why this step-motherly treatment towards this 'protector against rain'?


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Drake, reigning on singles chart, announces album
Hip-hop superstar Drake teased a new album Monday, all but certain to prove a major commercial success as he dethroned himself on top of the singles chart.
The Toronto artist posted on Instagram a picture of himself with his back to the camera sporting a jacket that read "Scorpion" and "June 2018."
Drake, who separately put out a picture of a necklace with a scorpion pendant, did not reveal an exact release date or other details.
He has often played with the traditional album format, instead putting out sprawling song collections marketed as mixtapes.
But one consistency in his prodigious output has been commercial achievement.
His song "God's Plan" topped the US singles chart for 11 weeks — until being dethroned Monday by another of his songs, "Nice for What."
His latest song was streamed in the United States more than 60 million times and downloaded 88,000 times in the week through Thursday, tracking service Nielsen Music said.
Drake, 31, has roots as a rapper but has increasingly gone in a pop direction and incorporated the infectious beats of Jamaican dancehall, most notably on his hit "One Dance," which is the second most-streamed song ever on Spotify. MKH
Drake breaks new streaming record — in video games
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Authors' Guild sues universities over book digitization project31 05 2012
With the planned settlement between Google and book publishers still on indefinite hold, a legal battle by proxy has started. Google partnered with many libraries at US universities in order to gain access to the works it wants to digitize. Now, several groups that represent book authors have filed suit against those universities, attempting to block both digital lending and an orphaned works project.
The suit is being brought by the Authors' Guild, its equivalents in Australia, Quebec, and the UK, and a large group of individual authors. Its target: some major US universities, including Michigan, the University of California system, and Cornell. These libraries partnered with Google to get their book digitization efforts off the ground and, in return, Google has provided them with digital copies of the works. These and many other universities have also become involved with the HathiTrust, an organization set up to help them archive and distribute digital works; the HathiTrust is also named as a defendant.
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No matter how famous or how ancient, all trees are ultimately owned by someone. It could be a government, a trust, or even just an individual caretaker. However, one white oak tree in Athens, Georgia was reportedly so beloved by its owner that upon his death, he gave the tree ownership of itself in his will.
The Legend of the Tree That Owns Itself
The legend goes that a particularly large and beautiful white oak played a special role in the childhood of its owner, Colonel William Henry Jackson. When he died some time between 1820 and 1832, he deeded the tree and the soil around it to the tree itself. Here is the reported text of his will:
I, W. H. Jackson, of the county of Clarke, of the one part, and the oak tree … of the county of Clarke, of the other part: Witnesseth, That the said W. H. Jackson for and in consideration of the great affection which he bears said tree, and his great desire to see it protected has conveyed, and by these presents do convey unto the said oak tree entire possession of itself and of all land within eight feet [2.4 m] of it on all sides.
After that, the tree become known as the Tree that Owns Itself. However, there are a number of problems with the story's validity. It originally ran as a front page story in the Athens Banner Weekly on August 12, 1890. That's some 60 years after the supposed transaction took place, and there are no indications that anything special had happened to the tree before that (although it was known as Jackson's Tree).
On top of that, the only witness to the will itself is the author of the article, and no one has been able to confirm that the statement above was ever made. However, the story became so popular that no one dared doubt the tree's self-ownership. Effectively, the tree owned itself because everyone said it did.
Legally, of course, the tree isn't able to own itself regardless of Jackson's wishes. In fact, careful examination of property lines reveals that the tree isn't even on his property. It's officially part of the street (since it's part of a median in the middle of the street), so its care falls to local authorities.
However, the tree is such a well respected landmark in the city that the Athens-Clarke County government has declared that in spite of the actual legality, the tree owns itself. Because they said so.
Can a tree have rights?
It might seem strange that a tree can own anything, let alone itself, but there is actually some legal precedent. Although they usually take a back seat to animal rights, plant rights have been discussed in several countries around the world.
In the Netherlands, a party called the Party for the Plants was created to try to snag a few seats in the 2010 parliamentary elections. Although they weren't particularly successful, their platform focused exclusively on promoting biodiversity and protecting plants from being harvested for biofuels.
More success has been found in New Zealand, where for the first time anywhere a forest was granted legal personhood and ownership of itself. The Te Urewera Act of 2014 changed the legal status of Te Urewera, a forest sacred to the Maori people, from a Natural Park into its own legal entity.
Obviously the forest can't speak for itself, so a board was set up "to act on behalf of, and in the name of, Te Urewera". In March 2017 a second act was passed granting similar rights to the Whanganui River, since the local Maori tribe consider the river itself to be their ancestor.
Although it doesn't go as far as giving trees and other plants ownership of themselves, the Clean Water Act of 1972 in the United States effectively grants them some rights. Under the 'natural resource damage' provisions of the law, trees and other resources have some basic rights. It's the government, however, that's entrusted with protecting those rights, although any money earned through litigation must be spent on the resource itself. Essentially, the money belongs to the resource.
The Son of The Tree That Owns Itself
The Tree That Owns Itself might have been granted semi-legal status in Athens-Clarke County, but that didn't protect it from the whims of Mother Nature. It was heavily damaged in an ice storm in 1907, and eventually fell down in 1942. Many suspected that the tree had died long before falling.
But if the tree owned land, surely it must pass on to its next of kin. A tree grown from an acorn of the Tree That Owns Itself was selected as the heir, an transplanted into its new home in 1946. It also inherited the name, although it's also referred to as the Son of the Tree That Owns Itself.
It's now been more than 70 years since the tree moved in to the quiet residential neighborhood on Finley Street, and it appears to be doing well. Despite its unknown legal status, the legend lives on with a plaque commemorating the words that started it all. Slightly edited to be more intelligible to modern readers, it reads:
For and in consideration of the great love I bear this tree and the and the great desire I have for its protection for all time, I convey entire possession of itself and all land within eight feed of the tree on all sides
-William M Jackson
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Day 3 of big waves expected in Southern California
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A third day of huge waves, dangerous rip currents and potential flooding was expected Thursday in Southern California as the coast felt the ripple effects of Hurricane Marie churning off the Mexican coast.
The biggest surf was expected at south-facing beaches in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, with wave sets topping 15 feet in some areas, according to the National Weather Service. A high surf advisory was in effect through Friday before calmer waters return.
The weather service called this week's storm surge the most significant southerly swell event since July 25, 1996.
Spectators lined the shore of the Wedge in Newport Beach on Wednesday, where 20-foot waves were crashing and some of the world's best surfers were riding.
"It's as big as Southern California ever gets," Peter Mel, a prominent big-wave surfer just back from an event in Tahiti, told the Orange County Register. "It's perfect."
Amateurs took to the water too, at least the experienced ones who wary lifeguards would allow in.
Among them was Joshua Magner, 35, who has been surfing since he was 10, and said being in the water was life-altering.
"It's like being born," he said as he zipped his wetsuit and prepared to go back out. "You don't know what the outcome will be, but when you do make it through all that pressure is alleviated, it's liberation, truly the feeling of liberation."
Asked if he was afraid, he replied, "I was scared leaving my house. Dude, I was scared last night. I couldn't sleep."
Some gawkers had to park nearly 2 miles away and walk to the scene. One man rode a skateboard, carrying a baby. A man put a sign on his car offering his parking space for cash and another was selling commemorative T-shirts for $20 apiece.
Lifeguards up and down the coast sought to keep anyone out of the water who did not have strong experience and were kept busy making rescues all day.
Residents of about four blocks of homes along Seal Beach, south of Los Angeles, swept seawater from ground-floor rooms after flooding overnight, and bulldozers reinforced a 6-foot-tall sand berm hastily built to protect shoreline structures.
The berm — a measure normally not needed until winter storms — and the use of pumps prevented more water intrusion during the morning high tide.
The towering waves and rip currents were being produced by swells generated by Hurricane Marie in the Pacific Ocean about 800 miles west of the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula. While Hurricane-generated waves reached California's shores, the storm itself would remain far from the state.
Marie will likely weaken to tropical storm levels, but life-threatening water conditions were expected to continue through Thursday.
West of Malibu, the old Cove House, used by lifeguards as a home base for decades, collapsed in big waves late Wednesday, several hours after it was emptied out.
"A lot of lifeguards have put a lot of time into it over the years. It's sad," retired lifeguard Norm Chapman told KCBS-TV. "It's hard not to get choked up."
Two cargo terminals at the Port of Long Beach stopped operations late Tuesday because surging, 10- to 15-foot-high waves endangered dockworkers.
The powerful surge also tossed heavy rocks from a seawall onto a road, causing damage and closing the roadway.
On Santa Catalina Island south of Los Angeles, a heavy surge Tuesday night sent sand, water and some 3,000-pound rocks into a boatyard, causing substantial damage and tossing some dry-docked boats off their stands, Avalon Harbor Master Brian Bray said.
The surge also tore away a floating children's swim platform and closed several docks to incoming traffic.
Along the shoreline in Seal Beach, firefighters went door to door, dropping off more sandbags for residents and surveying damage after the initial surge late Tuesday that topped a 2 1 / 2foot beach wall, causing flooding in or around the first row of homes. About 100 residences were affected, Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Steve Concialdi said.
Jaime and Blanca Brown's seaside home had a foot of seawater throughout the home, garage and carport. Soaked floor tiles in the hallway were buckled, and a dirty line marked the high point of water in almost every room and the garage. Sodden mattresses and carpets were stacked outside.
The Malibu Pier was closed after pilings were knocked loose. The pier's structural integrity remained sound because of redundancy but people were asked to stay away, State Parks Department official Craig Sap he said.


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Just days after the Massachusetts Supreme Court said "upskirt" photos weren't illegal, Gov. Deval Patrick signed a bill outlawing the behavior. The court ruled that the law as it was written didn't outlaw the peeping Tom behavior, but legislators moved quickly to rectify that with a new law. Now those caught taking upskirt photos or videos can get 2.5 years in jail or fines up to $5,000.
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I had heard good things about Drive from my film major friends in college before I found this on Netflix. I was hesitant at first, (most kids at my college in the film department have very particular ideas of what good films are. I like what is considered not so good of a film.) but gave it a shot. My girlfriend fell asleep about 20 minutes in (she was tired from work) but I sat up enraptured in what unfolded before me in this film. In a whole new way, Nicolas Winding Refn created a film you wouldn't normally see ever.
So there's Ryan Gosling playing The Driver, a quiet and modest stunt driver who has grown up in L.A. on cars. (This is based on James Sallis' novel, Drive.) Securing Hollywood stunt driver jobs through his friend Shannon (Bryan Cranston of Malcolm in the Middle and Breaking Bad), we see a film about Hollywood within L.A.'s
Hollywood. Directed by a Danish director, we gain this insight from a foreigner's perspective in a unique way of directing and cinematography. But, more importantly, this film has got some major production value on it with all the researching and immersed creation that came with it between Refn and Gosling. I was impressed.
So The Driver meets Irene (Carey Mulligan) a tragic and beautiful single mother with a husband in jail. They have a solemn and quiet love affair (no sex or anything like that, Refn didn't want to waste film time on showing anything related to love… I think…) the two connect. The Driver wants to protect Irene and her son Benicio (Kaden Leos). And then her husband Standard Gabriel (Oscar Isaac) comes back. Getting involved with the wrong people, gangsters on all sides, The Driver has to navigate a world he's only seen in the movies. And, being a stunt actor in a movie, he's prepared to make the leap. With a car.
I really liked all the characters in this movie. Plain and simple. I loved Oscar Isaac's small role in the film. He comes off as this dangerous and irritated character that has a sneaking suspicion at all times. (He reminded me of his twisted
performance in Sucker Punch.) Bryan Cranston played a great broken man in this film who's trying to look out for others but becomes collateral damage. Ron Perlman was finally given a chance to do a spectacular movie that gave him great lines and a menacing character in this one as well. Looks like Hellboy's becoming more devilish… And
one of the standout performances, other than Ryan Gosling, comes from Albert Brooks, voice of Nemo's dad in Finding Nemo. To hear that voice on such a wicked character was chilling.
But there were a lot of interesting elements in the creation of this movie. The script is about 80 pages, but most of it must have been camera direction and actions, because I would say there's less than 5 to 10 typed pages of dialogue in the whole film. Ryan Gosling plays such a reserved and quiet character that he never really needs to speak, only act (just like a hired driver would). The first sequence in the film when Gosling is driving the two robbers to their destination was well planned out and quite poetic in its feel and delivery. No dialogue, no need for speech, only action.
Without much dialogue, the film had this feel of tension throughout. You feel tension in the relationships, in the way the business is conducted. And then you get the gunshots. Every once in a while in the film the action builds to this ridiculously tense crescendo where something has to happen. Almost like a jumpy
scene in a horror movie. And wow, after that first gunshot in the movie, this film really pops off (pun intended). But then it returns to a tension filled lull (still not much dialogue) and you're just waiting for the next powder keg laden with the straw that broke the camel's back. It's agonizing at the same time that it's so damn interesting!
You get great performances with a great premise delivered more with action than with speech. It's a unique style you never really see, and I'm glad this did well at film festivals. This reminds me, and I don't know why, but it makes me wanna watch Refn's other work, most notably Val Halla Rising, which is now on Netflix. Next review here I come! But Drive is a wonderful film. Superb in all its unusual aspects. 9.5 out of 10.


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5On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the kings palace, opposite the kings hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne inside the palace opposite the entrance to the palace. 2As soon as the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won his favour and he held out to her the golden sceptre that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the top of the sceptre. 3The king said to her, What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of my kingdom. 4Then Esther said, If it pleases the king, let the king and Haman come today to a banquet that I have prepared for the king. 5Then the king said, Bring Haman quickly, so that we may do as Esther desires. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared. 6While they were drinking wine, the king said to Esther, What is your petition? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled. 7Then Esther said, This is my petition and request: 8If I have won the kings favour, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfil my request, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and then I will do as the king has said.
9 Haman went out that day happy and in good spirits. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the kings gate, and observed that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was infuriated with Mordecai; 10nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. Then he sent and called for his friends and his wife Zeresh, 11and Haman recounted to them the splendour of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honoured him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the ministers of the king. 12Haman added, Even Queen Esther let no one but myself come with the king to the banquet that she prepared. Tomorrow also I am invited by her, together with the king. 13Yet all this does me no good so long as I see the Jew Mordecai sitting at the kings gate. 14Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged on it; then go with the king to the banquet in good spirits. This advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.
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Leslie, Charles Robert lĕz´lē [key], 1794–1859, English painter and writer, b. London. Educated in the United States, he returned to England to study art and to work. He painted incidents from literature and also executed portraits, including one of Dr. John Wakefield Francis at the Metropolitan Museum. Leslie is probably best known for his writings which include Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843), A Handbook for Young Painters (1855), and Autobiographical Recollections (1860).
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Maybe it's okay when things stop coming together. Who knows? Either way, here are some of my disappointing attempts over the last several days to write about this loaded Jose Canseco card. Nothing has really felt like it was coming together, but I have to put something down and try to move on.
From 4/17:
Eras personified
1900-1919: Ty Cobb
1920-1945: Babe Ruth
1946-1968: Jackie Robinson
1969-1985: Reggie Jackson
1986-200?: Barry Bonds or Jose Canseco?
From 4/16:
Everything is provisional, faulty, impure. Every day I try to find a true sentence. Every day I feel conquered. I wish I knew what to do with this feeling. Sisyphus at least knew the particulars of his punishment. A rock, a hill. I can't put my back into anything. No true sentences exist (not even this one).
From 4/15:
I thought this morning I might start keeping track of my mistakes. This would only be fair for someone who spends so much time scrutinizing and exploiting the stats on the backs of baseball cards, those merciless numerical narratives of how far each player falls short of perfection. I made my first mistake today when I failed to spring out of bed when my alarm clock rang. I always set my alarm for very early in the morning so that I can write before I have to go to work. If I don't write every day my days lose color and meaning, and I begin to feel like a prisoner in a pointless, exhausting life, so I try to fight it by getting up very early, thus my first mistake today, the first of my intentional or accidental diversions from my intentions, when instead of springing out of bed early I just lay there in the dark. Days begin in the cold dark and with dread, and it seems while lying in bed that the only escape from the dread is back into the warmth and oblivion of sleep. I made my second mistake when I finally did get out of bed and, while reaching for my glasses, knocked a thick biography of Charles Schulz onto the floor. This was not my intention, and it caused my wife to stir. She didn't wake up, I don't think, but still I didn't intend to knock the book over, so you'd have to say it was a mistake to have done so. I don't know if I made any mistakes with my breakfast. Probably I spilled crumbs and ate too much butter on my bread and even now cockroaches are on their way to a takeover of the kitchen and arteries are clogging in my heart, but these mistakes will have to remain unofficial for I didn't specifically notice them. But I did notice another mistake as it was happening while I spent a long time after eating breakfast reading the Charles Schulz biography. This again came at the cost of what little writing time I have every day. But I was near the end of the book, which is 566 pages long, and so I kept reading until Charles Schulz died. I didn't have much time left to write.
From 4/14:
The Jose Canseco baseball card pictured here seems ludicrous now, the subject looking less like a human being than a misshapen and overinflated Macy's Day parade balloon, but at the time it came out, 1998, baseball was luring droves of disenchanted fans back to the game with record-smashing barrages of the long ball, at the center of the cyclone of power several unnaturally massive bat-wielding hulks, all following in the footsteps of the Johnny Appleseed of steroids pictured here in smug repose, and few among us so much as blinked. Baseball, that pure land at the center of America, was back.
From 4/13:
We the people, weak, conniving, greedy, diseased in body and mind, in order to force a pure land into being will use force to trample anything in our path. We the people, addicted to purity, forever scour the land of apparent impurities, the godless and savage and monstrous, and we the people expand and enslave, never satisfied, purity forever elusive. Splits and fissures everywhere, we the people are fractured, atomized. We the people dream of the pastoral idyll of green fields and inalienable truths and baseball, every new transgression seen not as evidence of an imperfect world but as a sin against the pure ideal that, in reality, never was and never will be.


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Welcome to the TREE OF LIFE: Branching Out collaborative writing challenge, where creative minds meet epic movie music. To read the collective story in its entirety as it unfolds and for more details on this groundbreaking collaboration with Audiomachine click HERE.
Today's featured guest writer is Elise Fallson, which is french for fabulous photographer and fantastically funny!
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Zoe reached out, but hesitation gripped her soul. Something felt wrong.
"Go on," tempted the serpent, darkness dripping from its forked tongue.
"Don't listen my love, it speaks only lies," Adam said, as he and the unicorn rounded the tree to join her. But their words fell into obscurity as Zoe's mind recalled the day she met Adam, when the power of life burst through her fingertips for the first time. She remembered the thin man, the old woman, the fire-haired child, and the Tree of Life. That day she had been given a gift and this she had not forsaken.
Instead of the fruit, she took the serpent.
It wrangled in her grasp, hissing in protest but Zoe was stronger. Her fingertips ignited with the power and brilliance of a newborn star, and drove the darkness from the reptile's heart. The serpent pulled away in a sphere of light that expanded ten fold until a dragon emerged in its place. The animal towered over them, completely covered in scintillating jade-colored armored scales that sent reflected light in every direction. Golden-colored spines sprung from the back of its head to the tip of its tail and glorious wings unfurled across the land.
Looking down at Zoe the dragon said, "Thank you. You broke the curse and brought harmony and equilibrium back to my heart. The Elders chose you well. Climb on, both of you. I have something to show you."
© 2013 Elise Fallson
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Hayes Theatre Co, April 27
Writing a new musical is a massive undertaking, generally requiring a huge investment of time and money. Australian musicals with an original score are pretty thin on the ground and so in 2010 the New Musicals Australia (NMA) program was established to address this.
During a two-year period, 13 new works went through various stages of development under NMA. In 2015, the Hayes Theatre Co – hub for some of the most exciting musical theatre in Sydney at the moment – took over the initiative, with funding from the Australia Council.
From 60 submissions, eight musicals were selected for "snapshot presentations". From these, one was chosen for further development via workshops with industry mentors, leading to a full production.
The Detective's Handbook is the first musical from the scheme to be produced at the Hayes. It's a fun show and though it may not be the next great Australian musical – in its current form, anyway – it does herald the arrival of an exciting young writing team with plenty of talent.
With book and lyrics by 26-year old Ian Ferrington and music by 22-year Olga Solar, who recently graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium, The Detective's Handbook pays loving homage to the detective novel and film noir.
Set in 1950s Chicago, Frank Thompson (Justin Smith), a hard-boiled, hard-drinking detective, is called into the station one Sunday morning to investigate the murder of two cops in a factory on the seedy side of town. To his irritation, he is paired with Jimmy Hartman, a church-going rookie who likes to do things by the book – The Detective's Handbook that is, in two volumes. With only a matchbox for a clue, they begin their investigation encountering the inevitable femme fatales along the way.
What differentiates The Detective's Handbook is that some of the lyrics are rapped over a jazz score. Ferrington certainly has a punchy way with words and his book and lyrics are full of puns, one-liners and some brilliantly clever internal rhyming structures. Even if it's not always laugh-out-loud funny, it's inventive and immensely enjoyable. The rapping style is primarily given to the cynical Frank, while the bright-eyed Jimmy gets to sing in a more melodic musical theatre style.
Solar's jazzy score is also very clever, with a sound that nods to the period but also feel modern, with references ranging from Scott Joplin to Sondheim. The intricate underscoring and the lively melodies are attractive even if none of the songs are wildly memorable – on one listening anyway. A number about femme fatales sung by Sheridan Harbridge is the most obvious crowd-pleaser.
So, musically and lyrically, there is much to enjoy about the show. But, given that the tropes of the genre are so well known, the plot could do with some thickening and a more surprising twist, while the characters could be developed more. Though it only runs 80 minutes without interval, two-thirds of the way through, it feels as if the show is losing steam, despite some terrific performances.
Produced by Neil Gooding, the Hayes has done the show proud. After a slightly slow start, Jonathan Biggins keeps things rollicking along. James Browne's flexible black and white set works well both in practical terms and as a nod to film noir and the chalk outlining of dead bodies, while his costuming adds colour and underpins character types. Sian James-Holland's lighting plays with noirish shadows most effectively.
Smith and Johnson complement each other well as the 'odd couple' cops. Smith exudes just the right amount of crumpled, jaded cynicism and handles the rap rhythms with a natural, easy confidence, while Johnson's naïve, puppy dog eagerness is pitched to perfection.
Harbridge is sensational as three women all called Maria: the sexy, efficient secretary to the Chief of Police, a helpful café owner, and a rather formidable mortician. Her quick changes between the three characters are skilfully handled – hilariously so at the end when two of them are in the same scene.
Lara Mulcahy is very funny as yet another Maria, who owns a Polish delicatessen and runs a matchmaking service on the side, and paired with Christopher Horsey as a couple of cheery, dim-witted cops.
Horsey, who is also the choreographer, has overseen an amusing number in which he and Mulcahy move from typewriting to tap dancing, though a later tap routine feels like filler. Tony Cogin completes the well-chosen cast as the ineffectual Irish Chief of Police.
Musical director Michael Tyack leads a fine jazz quartet and sound designer Jeremy Silver balances the amplification well.
Currently The Detective's Handbook feels slight but is still lots of fun. Most importantly, it shines a light on two very talented writers in Ferrington and Solar, giving them an opportunity to develop the show and their skill base with the likes of Biggins, Tyack, musical consultant Phil Scott and dramaturg Christie Evangelisto.
The chance for them to see The Detective's Handbook up and running in front of an audience is invaluable experience and will hopefully encourage them to write another musical.
The Detective's Handbook plays at the Hayes Theatre Co until May 7. Bookings: www.hayestheatre.com.au or 02 8065 7337


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Vince McMahon stepped forward Thursday as the top donor to the Donald J. Trump Foundation, with a spokesman for the wrestling impresario's company telling Hearst Newspapers that the WWE chief executive gave $5 million to the charity.
The revelation comes one day after the WWE (formerly World Wrestling Entertainment) disputed an online report that it had been most generous to Trump's charity, which the Smoking Gun website suggested might foot the bill for The Donald's $5 million offer publicity stunt for President Obama's college and passport records.
WWE previously said that the Vincent and Linda McMahon Family Foundation gave the $5 million to Trump, who has long questioned Obama's citizenship and eligibility to run for president.
That would be the same Linda McMahon who is running as a Republican for the second time for Senate since 2010 in blue Connecticut.
A spokesman for McMahon's campaign denied Wednesday night that the couple gave to Trump's charity through their foundation.
WWE spokesman Brian Flinn clarified Thursday that the money came directly from Vince McMahon.
A message seeking comment from Trump was left with his publicist.


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Here are some cool games I like to play on my Ubuntu 10.10 – I think they run on most other versions of Linux as well. 1) Open Arena– First person Shooter– This is like Quake Arena- very very nice graphics and good for playing for a couple of hours while taking a break. It is available here- http://openarena.ws/smfnews.php ideally if you have a bunch of gaming friends, playing on a local network or internet is quite mind blowing entertaining. And it's free! 2) Armagetron– This is based on the TRON game of light cycles-It is available here at http://www.armagetronad.net/ or you can use Synaptic packages manager for all the games mentioned here
3) Sudoko–
If violence or cars is not your stuff and you like puzzles like Sudoko, well just install the application Sudoko from http://gnome-sudoku.sourceforge.net/ Also recommended for people of various ages as it has multiple levels.
4) Pinball
If you ever liked Pinball play the open source version from download at http://pinball.sourceforge.net/ Alternatively you can go to Ubuntu Software Centre>Games>Arcade>Emilio>Pinball and you can also build your own pinball if you like the game well enough. 5) Pacman/Njam- Clone of the original classic game. Downloadable from http://www.linuxcompatible.org/news/story/pacman_for_linux.html 6) Gweled– This is free clone version of Bejeweled. It now has a new website at http://gweled.org/ http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/Gweled-Download-3449.html
Gweled is a GNOME version of a popular PalmOS/Windows/Java game called "Bejeweled" or "Diamond Mine". The aim of the game is to make alignment of 3 or more gems, both vertically or horizontally by swapping adjacent gems. The game ends when there are no possible moves left. Here are some key features of "Gweled": · exact same gameplay as the commercial versions · SVG original graphics
7) Hearts – For this card game classis you can use Ubuntu software to install the package or go to http://linuxappfinder.com/package/gnome-hearts 8) Card Games- KPatience has almost 14 card games including solitaire, and free cell. 9) Sauerbraten -First person shooter with good network play, edit maps capabilities. You can read more here- http://sauerbraten.org/ 10) Tetris-KBlocks Tetris is the classic game. If you like classic slow games- Tetris is the best. and I like the toughest Tetris game -Bastet http://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.html Even an xkcd toon for it
That's all for holiday season folks, the top 10 lists is based on almost 3 decades of gaming experience, but beauty is the eye of the beholder- so happy gaming for free.
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I have been wondering about this for awhile and then yesterday there was a fairly large bird next to my back door. She must've flown into the window and died, so sad! (not an actual picture of that bird)
I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what kind of bird she was but couldn't seem to identify her. I decided to look into what her death meant instead of what she would signify if she was alive. In doing so I found that while there is an overall significance to birds in general the type can help decipher the message specific to me.
Type of Bird
I eventually discovered that the bird I found was a cat bird.
The Catbird's lessons are about communicating with tact, of opening up and allowing self-expression and sensitivity.
When you are carefree and open, you are better able to communicate the thoughts, ideals and values that are essential parts of your being.
The cat bird wants you to speak your truth openly.
As with all bird omens, it is important to look for hidden truth, and pay attention to your dreams.
As with any omen, for the specific meaning in your life, pay attention to the context of your encounter for clues.
For Example: I am moving out of my apartment at the end of the month and the decision to leave was a risky one. The bird I found had flown into my building, so for me, she was a sign that I made the right choice and though it is scary and I am feeling loss, there is something better at the other end of my decision.
To Find a Dead Bird…
Traditionally, the death of a bird is a sign of new beginnings, an omen of renewal. But there are several different meanings depending on the context of your encounter:
If a bird flies into your window it might mean that you are about to encounter an obstacle in your life. But again, because it is a sign of renewal, that obstacle, once removed will reveal something newer and better in your life.
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You are about to be renewed in some way and some cycle of your life or pattern is coming to a close.
This could mean that a relationship will end in order for another to start. Or that you will lose something else that was not right for you in order to make room for what is.
If you encounter a dead bird on your path, there may be some misfortune or loss that follows, but the bird's message is that better things are coming; the misfortune is a necessary evil and will bring about something new.
If you have been seeking or searching something, the dead bird is simply telling you that the search is over.


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Republican candidate for Congress Christopher Sheldon made a campaign swing through Martha's Vineyard Saturday, chatting with voters in Oak Bluffs, Vineyard Haven and Edgartown and making stump speeches along the way.
"It's not partisan problems, it's good government issues," Mr. Sheldon said about what he's hearing from Vineyard voters. He is challenging incumbent Cong. William Keating in the ninth district congressional race.
While the economy seems to be getting better, the candidate said, more people are taking on jobs that pay less.
Accompanied by his campaign staff and supporters, Mr. Sheldon made stops around the Island with a truck towing a flatbed trailer festooned with Sheldon for Congress signs. When it pulled up across from Bunch of Grapes bookstore on Main street Vineyard Haven, town resident Timo Nivala provided some piano music from the trailer, and Islander Joseph Gervais sang a song he wrote for the candidate.
"It's fall on the Vineyard, election day grows near . . . " the song started. One line: "If there's one thing Chris despises, it's federal debt."
Mr. Sheldon then made a speech to a small gathering of supporters on the street, saying he aimed to bring the two parties together and citing Scott Brown as a legislative role model. He said Mr. Keating's long tenure in elected office and his own background working in the private sector marked the biggest difference between the two.
Shoppers strolled by with kids and dogs and cars drove down Main street, some slowing down to observe the scene. One woman gave Mr. Sheldon a thumbs up as she drove by.
Earlier in the day, Mr. Sheldon said, he talked about health care with voters outside Tivoli Paint in Vineyard Haven, and made stops outside Coop de Ville in Oak Bluffs and at the Triangle in Edgartown. After the Main street stop, he chatted with voters at The Black Dog.
Small business and tourism issues are especially important to Vineyard voters, he said. But "one way or another, it's something to do with the economy," he said.
Mike (Panhead) Fuss, of Edgartown, who was wearing a Sheldon for Congress T-shirt and accompanying the candidate, said the tour had received a positive response, which he said he was glad to see on the Democratic-leaning Island.
"He's for the small business guy, cutting spending . . . the basic things that I admire and stand for," Mr. Fuss said.
Mr. Sheldon said he'll spend the 16 remaining days before the election campaigning, mostly on the Cape.


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Throughout October, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, experts from
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and its clinical care partner, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, are offering weekly research-based tip sheets regarding breast cancer prevention, screening and early detection, treatment and survivorship.
Today's tip sheet, the fourth and final in the series, is '10 Tips for Breast Cancer Survivors' written by Karen Syrjala, Ph.D., director of Biobehavioral Sciences and co-director of the Survivorship Program at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
10 Tips for Breast cancer Survivors
– 1. Get a summary of your treatments. Have a list of what surgery, radiation and chemotherapy doses you received so that you can communicate these to your primary care providers. This will help you plan for the next tip on the list.
– 2. Make a plan for monitoring the long-term effects of your cancer treatment. Talk to your doctor about the potential long-term effects of your cancer treatment and what to watch out for. For example, some cancer treatments can increase the risk of cardiovascular problems or second cancers; others can impact your bones. If you want more information, make an appointment with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Survivorship Program or check LiveStrongCarePlan.org.
– 3. Learn how to manage the fear of cancer coming back. First, find out your risk of recurrence from your health care provider. Second, remember that risk is based on averages and does not apply to you as an individual. Third, consider counseling or other assistance to help you face your fears and move forward.
– 4. Get moving. If you pick one healthy thing to change in your life, physical activity is likely to make the fastest change in how you feel and also potentially reduce your cancer-related risks. Make opportunities to walk or take stairs. Find an exercise program to join to get you started if it's just too hard to do alone. Check your local YMCA for a LIVESTRONG exercise program near where you live.
– 5. Eat well. Your diet doesn't have to be perfect, but fruits, vegetables and whole grains can make a difference in how you feel. Starting to eat more healthy foods can make it easier to avoid the things that add weight or complicate digestion. Talk to a nutritionist if you are unsure what is healthy for you or if you have digestion problems.
– 6. Live a healthy lifestyle. Exercise and nutrition are part of the picture, but not the whole. To help ensure your long-term survival and a better quality of life, don't smoke, limit alcoholic drinks to one per day, and use sunscreen to protect your skin. Make sure you get sufficient vitamin D. Your doctor can do a blood test to determine the amount of vitamin D in your body and make recommendations for how to get the right amount.
– 7. Reclaim your body. Most women gain weight following breast cancer treatment. Weight control is important. Menopause, tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors can lead to body changes and weight gain. Check with your doctor and a nutritionist and consider joining an exercise program to help you control your weight and build muscle instead of fat.
– 8. Manage symptoms. Don't suffer unnecessarily. Talk to your doctor if you have fatigue or lack of stamina that does not improve with time, chemobrain that makes it hard to work or remember what you need to do, or other aches, pains and symptoms that make it hard to enjoy your life. Make an appointment to focus solely on the symptoms that reduce your quality of life.
– 9. Connect with other survivors. Your family and friends are great support pillars. However, many women find it immensely valuable to talk or exercise with women who have experienced what they have and truly understand what it's like to be a survivor.
– 10. Make use of resources. There are lots of options in the community and online for cancer survivors and especially breast cancer survivors. Some options are Gilda's Club, Cancer Lifeline and Team Survivor Northwest. Online, visit CancerCare , Live Strong and Susan G Komen for the Cure .
Earlier versions of '10 Tips' included:
Oct. 1 – "10 Tips for Breast Cancer Prevention" by Anne McTiernan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Hutchinson Center's Prevention Center, a member of the Public Health Sciences Division, and author of "Breast Fitness" (St. Martin's Press).
Oct. 8 – "10 Tips for Breast Cancer Screening and Early Detection" by Constance Lehman, M.D., Ph.D., director of Breast Imaging and medical director of Radiology at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.
Oct. 15 – "10 Tips for Breast Cancer Patients During Treatment" by Julie Gralow, M.D., director of Breast Medical Oncology at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and co-author of "Breast Fitness" (St. Martin's Press).
Oct. 22 – "10 Tips for Breast Cancer Survivors" by Karen Syrjala, Ph.D., director of Biobehavioral Sciences and co-director of the Survivorship Program at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.


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A funny thing happened last night. I was on my way home, driving late at night. Admittedly, I was tired and was forcing myself to stay awake. I was thinking of my gig but was also wondering whether it would be too late to get one more tweet in about my latest blog post. "What Have I Done Since My Divorce." It's just some tongue-in-cheek musings about how my life has changed since my divorce became final.
All in all, the divorce date doesn't really matter. Still, I've had to pull out the final decree throughout the year for taxes, banking, other financial matters — you know, when I've filled out forms that request documentation of change in marital status. Having just gathered my tax materials I've had to gaze upon the piece of paper which legally ended my already dead marriage. And I remember dates, always have — important dates, unimportant dates, dates of good memories — and bad. I remember. It's a gift . . . and a curse.
It used to really bother my Ex-Husband that I remembered so many anniversaries of events. (I guess that would be the gift part — ha ha). The curse part is that I also recall the cluster of wintertime "Ex Dates" like — our first kiss, when we became a couple, when he told me he was leaving me, when he moved out, and our wedding anniversary, to name a few. So true to my tendency to hoard useless facts today I remembered that this was the anniversary of the day the judge signed off on the divorce. . . and it was on my mind.
For whatever reason, my being tired, the broken side view mirror, a blind spot — I drifted to the right lane too slowly and didn't see the quickly approaching car behind me. Suddenly, a little black car sped up next to me, too close, forcing me to quickly swerve back over into my lane.
"Okay, now I'm awake." I said to myself, startled, heart pounding. The little black car was next to me for a few moments. I was expecting him or her hit the horn, cuss me out through a closed window — at least throw an angry look my way. Drivers in my part of the world are not known to be gracious. But the car simply weaved up ahead and I never got a look at the driver. It was dark, the windows were tinted. He or she never even flipped me the bird. I did see the back of the car, though.
Its license plate read: DIVORCE
This time I sped up to catch the little black car to see if I read that correctly. Yes, it said "DIVORCE."
I exited the highway before the "Divorce-Mobile" did. Though I've been known to follow random cars (ask my kids), I was not going to follow that particular vehicle. I'm done with all that divorce stuff, as of one year ago.
Bottom line as to the divorce or the divorce mobile: I didn't see it coming. It could have killed me. It didn't. Perhaps it saved me. Regardless, it went on to freak out other people while I took the next exit.
Just Me With . . . life on the highway on the anniversary of my divorce.
Seriously, does anyone else find this an odd coincidence especially given my post before last, "I Went For Coffee and Took A Turn Into . . . The Twilight Zone." ????
That particular vanity license plate should be illegal. I must call my congressperson.
A related post on my gift/curse of remembering dates: Happy Birthday to My Ex-Husband's Ex-Girlfriend