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Lowbrow meets lowbrow: Rocky emulators sprint up the visage of Salvador Dali.
Recently I came across a live webcam of a construction site in St. Petersburg, Florida. I was surprised to find not only active workers but fairly interesting activities going on, and I zoomed in to watch a pair of laborers installing triangular glass panes into a large, metallic lattice that bulged from a concrete edifice. The structure looked somewhat odd for a conventional building but rather conservative for its intended purpose: the next home of the Salvador Dali Museum. Given the famous surrealist's iconic imagery of melting watches and drooping appendages propped up by crutches, one might have expected a design that abandoned recognizable geometric forms altogether.
The new facility, slated to open in 2011, is only a few blocks from the current museum, but it will offer fifty percent more gallery space and more than twice the overall area. More importantly, it will provide robust shelter from violent storms for its collection in a way that the present building does not; so vulnerable is the existing museum to damage that its exhibits must be removed and stored during severe weather warnings. Constructing a more secure home for these treasures sounds sensible to me, because I would hate for the world to lose the original work of such an incredibly talented and imaginative artist. I have been captivated by Dali's art all of my life, and obviously many people feel the same way. Why, then, do I have the nagging sense that serious critics would dismiss his oeuvre as pandering to the lowest common denominator?
Perhaps because it does. The great paradox of Dali's work is that it can be, at once, indecipherably bizarre and totally accessible. Within the same painting one can find elements that have a cartoonish stylization alongside realistic details. The arresting effect is illogical imagery with a hyper-realistic feel, the sort of perception that only makes sense to us within a dream but is incomprehensible to the waking mind. That's no accident, because Dali was trying to bring his subconscious to the surface, no matter how offensive or blasphemous. His images have a primal appeal, and one does not need an understanding of technique or composition to find them intriguing.
At the same time, Dali's technical brilliance is obvious. Though the appeal may be primal, the art is not primitive. His artistic skill would have allowed him to master any genre; he might have prospered as a quiet painter of landscapes or commissioned portraits. As my father remarked after viewing some of Dali's less surreal work, "I had no idea that he could paint so well." But Dali certainly could paint well, and unlike many of the world's self-proclaimed geniuses, he had the talent and discipline to back up his apparent bragadoccio.
Therein is one of the reasons why his legacy is scorned by some: Dali was a relentless and shameless self-promoter, sometimes referring majestically to himself as "The Dali." Long before metamorphosizing pop stars began to regard their own bodies as artistic creations, Dali was a walking, talking, one-man surrealistic exhibitionist. He accented his flamboyant mustache with maniacally wide-open eyes when photographed, ambled about in shoes that curled up at the toes, and made provocative statements like, "The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad."
When I was a senior in high school, I somehow found myself president of our chapter of the National Honor Society. It was a position I didn't take very seriously, having been put off by a whiff of smug elitism that I had perceived from some club members the previous year. Still, as president I was expected to do something, and organizing an intellectually stimulating field trip was suggested by our advisor. Thus I was quite excited to learn about the existence of a Dali museum in a suburb of Cleveland, a possible day trip from our school. Alas, my information was dated, and I made my inquiry four years too late. The Salvador Dali Museum had moved to St. Petersburg.
Seventeen years would pass before I finally made my way there, albeit accompanied by my wife and our two daughters instead of the National Honor Society. We were spending some time on Anna Maria Island in the Gulf of Mexico, and it seemed a shame to be across Tampa Bay from the Dali Museum and not visit it. I will always be grateful that we took the time to spend an afternoon there. There is nothing that compares with personally viewing original art, not only because reproductions rarely do justice to their subjects, but also due to the value of seeing an artist's work in context. The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, a further meditation on the famous limp watches, is a mere 10 x 13 inches, just a tad bigger than its well-known predecessor. It is an odd feeling to realize that an image that looms so large in popular culture is actually quite small. In contrast, enormous canvasses like The Dream of Christopher Columbus and The Hallucinogenic Toreador (each about 13 feet tall and 10 feet wide) are breathtaking masterworks that cannot be faithfully duplicated in an art book. When closing time came around, I left the museum reluctantly, wishing that I could always have it available to peruse at my leisure.
As it happened, I had another opportunity to see Dali's art just two years later. The Philadelphia Museum of Art was the exclusive American venue for a Dali centennial retrospective, a huge collection featuring pieces that had never before been exhibited in the United States. My wife and I used it as an excuse for a whirlwind spring break tour of Philadelphia, rashly driving across the Pennsylvania Turnpike with no hotel reservations only to luck out with a discounted room at a nice hotel in the heart of the historic district. We slept within the same block as the buried bones of Ben Franklin, gawked at Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, marvelled at the interred residents in the aisles of Christ Church, and indulged in authentic Philly cheesesteak sandwiches. But we were there for the Dali.
The Philadelphia exhibition was extensive and crowded. Although we had timed tickets, we still had to stand in line to be admitted, heightening our anticipation. The wait was well worth it. With portable audio guides offering insightful and revelatory commentary, the experience was a crash course in all things Dali. I don't think it would have been possible for anyone to travel through the galleries and not be impressed by the collection. Even if none of the varied subject matter suited your taste, you would have had to admire the artist's cleverness and ingenuity. Many paintings featuring deftly interwoven multiple images were on view, and one room included a large stereo pair entitled The Christ of Gala. As a fan of both Dali and stereo images, it doubled my pleasure to cross my eyes and see the work shift into three dimensions.
We wandered through the exhibit for more than two hours before we started to feel a bit overwhelmed. So much Dali in such concentration can be a bit of a sensory challenge, and we both noted a feeling of exhaustion. Whether it was physical or mental, we were not sure, but our surreal appetites had definitely been sated. Lumbering somewhat dazed through the last gallery of later works, we paused at a display case near the exit. Within it was a holographic cylinder containing a three-dimensional image. Titled First Cylindric Chronohologram Portrait of Alice Cooper's Brain (I guess that distinguishes it from all of the subsequent cylindric chronohologram portraits of Alice Cooper's brain), it shows the shock rocker sitting cross-legged and shirtless, holding a Venus de Milo statuette and wearing a tiara. As a fan of both Dali and Alice Cooper, I was once again doubly pleased.
"See," I pointed out to my patient wife, "this is why some people will never take Dali seriously."
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The National Party leader says he has written to the party's board asking them to remove MP Hamish Walker from the party after it was revealed he leaked private health information to media.
Prior to that revelation, National Party leader Todd Muller described the leak as "loose, shabby and a reminder these guys can't manage important things well".
"The problem is when you've allowed a culture of sloppiness and clumsiness to take over and become pervasive, you know, really history suggests you need a new broom to be able to sort and set the tone from the top," he said on Monday.
Walker, who admitted the leak late yesterday afternoon, has already been stripped of his portfolios and is now subject to an independent State Services inquiry.
Muller told Morning Report there needed to be consequences and he has written to the party's board asking it to remove Walker from the party.
Muller has given a lengthy interview to RNZ, they say they will post more details. Walker and Boag would not do interviews. They will be subject to the inquiry set up to investigate the leak.
The board will meet to discuss the matter today.
Muller said he learn on Monday at lunchtime about who leaked the information when Walker contacted him to inform him. He is not aware of any other National MPs being aware of who was responsible for the leak.
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Update Friday 12:10 p.m.: Frank Gable left the Lansing, Kansas, prison Friday and reported directly to a federal probation officer in Kansas City. He will be allowed to live with his wife in Kansas.
Frank Gable, the Salem man convicted of murdering Oregon prison director Michael Francke, will be released from prison Friday after almost three decades behind bars.
A federal judge ordered the Gable's release while prosecutors appeal an earlier order to either release or retry him for murdering Francke.
Gable, 59, is scheduled to be released from the Lansing Correctional Facility in Kansas at 10 a.m. Friday.
"Today, Frank Gable was ordered released by the Honorable John V. Acosta after nearly thirty years in prison for a crime he did not commit," said assistant federal public defender Nell Brown in a statement.
Gable thanked his attorneys for investigating his case in-depth, for believing in his innocence and pursuing justice over the course of the last decade.
"There were many hard days on this long journey," Brown said.
According to the order, he will be placed under strict supervision and will be unable to leave Kansas or Missouri without the court's permission.
His release comes more than 30 years after Francke, the Oregon Department of Corrections director, was stabbed to death outside the prison's Dome Building in Salem.
A massive investigation to find the killer followed. By 1990, it would be the longest and most expensive homicide investigation in Oregon history.
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Investigators honed in on Gable, a small-time methamphetamine dealer, as their suspect.
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A jury convicted Gable of aggravated murder in 1991, and he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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They requested a stay on Acosta's order to retry Gable within 90 days or release him, claiming Gable represented a "danger to the community" and a possible flight risk.
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DOJ attorneys said before his 1991 conviction, Gable posed a significant threat to the community, having been convicted twice of robbery. His then-wife also reported being repeatedly assaulted by Gable. She said one time, he broke her arm. Another time, he cut her leg so deeply she needed stitches.
DOJ attorneys also said, based on the evidence, a retrial reasonably could result in another aggravated murder conviction.
The attorneys later said they did not oppose Gable's release pending his appeal as long as certain release conditions were met.
Before Acosta issued his order on Gable's release Thursday, the Oregon Attorney General's office requested Gable submit to electronic monitoring if deemed necessary by his probation officer.
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Attorneys also requested Gable surrender himself to U.S. Marshals or to Oregon law enforcement if Acosta's previous judgment is reversed on appeal or if the Marion County District Attorney's Office decides to retry him.
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In Acosta's order for release, he did not impose computer monitoring.
"The Court is reasonably assured the defendant will appear as directed and not pose a danger to the community or any other person," the order read.
Acosta issued a stay on the court's previous ruling to release Gable within 90 days. The judgment is stayed pending the resolution of the DOJ's appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and, if applicable, the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reported that Gable would most likely be released to his wife's house in Kansas.
The brothers of Michael Francke have long-doubted Gable's guilt and vehemently supported his release from prison.
"We are convinced of Frank Gable's innocence," Patrick Francke and Kevin Francke said in a statement. "At the end, we believe Frank will prevail and the State will then be facing millions in reparations."
The Department of Justice's decision to appeal Acosta's ruling frustrated the brothers.
Kevin called it "galling and baffling."
Patrick said the Francke family called on the district attorney and state attorney general to "drop this farce" and release Gable.
The brothers created a GoFundMe account titled the "Frank Gable Freedom Fund" to raise money for Gable's post-prison life. It has raised $2,200 as of Thursday.
"Mr. Gable is beyond grateful to the Francke family for their support and grieves with them the loss of Michael Francke," Brown said. "He thanks those who believed in his innocence all these years."
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In his opinion issued April 18, Acosta said the court erred in excluding evidence pointing to another possible suspect — John Crouse, a convicted felon who confessed to murdering Francke.
Acosta also ruled that Gable's defense attorneys provided ineffective counsel by failing to assert his due process rights in the face of the trial court's error.
In a motion appealing the federal judge's ruling, attorneys for the Justice Department said investigations did not have "sufficient assurances of trustworthiness" of Crouse's confession. They said Crouse, a convicted felon, had a penchant for lying, exaggerating and telling "stories."
Several key trial and grand jury witnesses later recounted their testimonies.
Some said they were threatened by police and coerced into giving false testimony, according to the opinion. Others said they lied to punish Gable for being a "snitch for Keizer P.D."
Acosta found that the recantations, paired with Crouse's confession, compelled officials to either give Gable a new, fair trial or release him.
After Gable's conviction, he was transferred to out-of-state prisons, the most recent being Lansing Correctional Facility in Kansas. He later changed his name to Franke J. Different Cloud.
"Mr. Gable is grateful to the Court not only for ordering the relief he has long sought but for the opportunity to be released into the fresh air and sunshine," Brown said. "He walks out into a very different world than the one he knew when he was last out of custody in 1989."
Brown said Gable hopes to spend time fishing, hiking and enjoying his freedom, adding that he remains positive with a sense of humor.
"He is looking forward — not looking back," she said.
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Posted by gwreiddyn (gwreiddyn), 12 June 2006There are a few articles on opentalk that hint at a similar, but not exact, problem to the one I explain below, but the indicated solutions do not work for me.
I am running Expect 5.21 from a Windows XP box to a Sun Solaris 5.8 server. The Expect script spawns a ssh session within cmd.exe and executes a Solaris command (currently just testing with 'ls -A1'). Unfortunately, the output is garbled with unicode tags. Setting the TERM environment variable to dumb or vt100 does not clean up the output. For lack of a better idea, I am attempting to use regsub to clean up $expect_out(buffer), however I can't seem to identify and remove a particular character.
Here's an example of the garbled output:
I understand the "←[0;38H" are unicode characterss designating column and row position, but this understanding hasn't helped me come up with a way to exclude them from the output.
Setting "exp_internal 1" reveals the following information:
expect: does "\x1b[11;4Hset term=dumb\x1b[0;4H\x1b[0;5Hnocfs12:~> ls -A1\x1b[0;5
In my Expect script I have the following hodge-podge of regsub commands in an attempt to remove the unicode garbage:
set data $expect_out(buffer)
regsub -all -- {\x1b\[[0-9];[0-9]*H} $data "" data
regsub -all -- {\u001b} $data "" data
regsub -all -- {\[[0-9]*;[0-9]*H} $data "" data
None of these can remove the "←" character. It seems the Windows cmd shell is producing these characters, but no amount of messing with the settings (even using "cmd /Uff" and running the expect script from the new shell does not seem to help).
Anyone have any ideas how to either remove the garbage or have another way of cleaning it up?
P.s. I noticed that the unicode character I am seeing in the output is showing up as an ANSI character in this post. The unicode character I am seeing is a left-arrow. This website is showing it as "←["
Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 13 June 2006What shell is your SSH running into? are you sure you have the environment variable TERM set there? I think you may need to export it in certain shells, setenv it in certain others .... worth an experiment with in any case, as it doesn't seem to be working and it would be much easier to fix that than to fix the cludge. I think you're getting hung up on problems in your work-around when a work around should not be necessary.
As regards the crud in the expect_out buffer, I would use a utility to examine exactly what byte sequence I had (since unicode is not my strongest point to put it mildly!). Simple save the buffer to a file, the look at it through a byte viewer / edit. My own Unix / Linux background would have me upload the saved buffer back up to the server or another Unix / Linux box and run od -x on it ... to see exactly the bytes I needed to clean up. But as I say, this is very much a second option and you would be far better off if you can fix the real issue of the terminal type.
Posted by gwreiddyn (gwreiddyn), 13 June 2006Thanks for the quick response.
I have set the term variable in my rc scripts (I'm using tcsh which sources .tcshrc upon login) on the Solaris box and am 100% certain that the TERM environment variable is getting set and exported upon login. I have even confirmed it via the same Expect script, but for some unknown reason this does not resolve the issue. Hence the kludge solution.
The following regsub expression has so far resolved my question including removing the unicode character, but it isn't pretty:
set data $expect_out(buffer)
regsub -all -- {.\[[0-9]*;[0-9]*H} $data "!!" data
regsub -all -- "!!!!" $data "\n" data
regsub -all -- "!!" $data "" data
Fortunately, I haven't come across any command output or Solaris file that just happens to contain the same RE, so this could work, but that could just be luck. I just hate kludgey solutions.
Is there a way to express unicode or ANSI characters in the regsub or regexp expression?
Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 14 June 2006See http://wiki.tcl.tk/515 for more on Unicode in Tcl ... you've got a glorious mixture of Unicode and ANSI terminal sequences, mind.
Like you, I don't like the kludge ... except that if you emulate the terminal in how you reverse engineer the sequences, it should be as robust as the initial program your running. After all, that doens't corrupt the screen, does it ?
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Hi! I'm posting in a bunch of forums because I really need help... I think this is the 4th forum I have gone to...
At my job we have a fish tank and its not doing well. They have had it for years, far before I started, and the staff who used to take care of it left. Since then it was periodically taken care of by someone else, but the tank isn't doing well. I have begun taking care of it as I couldn't stand to see the fish die. From what I understand the store who selected the fish did not choose fish that go well together.
In a 55 gal there was a (forgive me if any of this is wrong I think fish are pretty but am just learning about them) kissing fish, an Oscar, a Jack Dempsey, Pleco and a Tetra that looks like it could be a Buenos Aires or could be a Barb? (No one knows what kind of fish there are, this is from asking friends and staring at fish pictures.) By the time I started only JD, the Pleco, and the Tetra/Barb were left. I took over when the Pleco was struggling to live. Sadly he passed on. Since then I have scrubbed the tank and we have them feeder fish (Goldfish, as recommended by the store) and two of the goldfish turned into pets for the others in the tank.
The big fish are still not doing well and are losing their colors. Which is why I am having a hard time figuring out if the Tetra/Barb is what I think it is.
Anyway. My bosses requested to get a school of fish to make the tank more lively. I know they can't go into the same tank as JD and the Tetra/Barb so my bosses bought a 29 gal. Upon further reading and research I have learned that Jack cannot go into such a small tank.
My questions for you guys is what kind of fish can we put in with them, and any advice for making them happier? I'm trying to find a good balance between what my bosses want and what is best for the fish. I can include picture of the fish and the two tanks if you guys need them.


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All right, so I'm not exactly the most impartial source when it comes to the Politically Incorrect Guide series of books. But that doesn't mean I'm not to be believed when I say you should read Robert P. Murphy's new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism.
Now the first book someone should read on economics is probably still Henry Hazlitt's little classic Economics in One Lesson, whose short, easy-to-understand text teaches you how to think like an economist. But Robert Murphy's Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism builds skillfully on that indispensable volume, and takes its place among the very few books that beginners simply must read and absorb.
It isn't just that Murphy gives you an excellent introduction to everything from prices and wages to money, banking, antitrust law, and international trade — things every informed American should know about — though he certainly does. And it isn't just that he covers topics like outsourcing that would not have been discussed in Hazlitt's day, though this is also true. Even better is that Murphy not only doesn't avoid the difficult questions, but he actually seems to relish them.
We all know price controls don't work, and that taxation discourages production. Ho-hum. But how about explaining why capitalism undermines slavery, why CEO salaries aren't arbitrary and outrageous, or why road privatization is not only feasible but vastly preferable to what Walter Block calls "road socialism"? Murphy covers them all.
Murphy writes in an easy-to-understand style, and has a gift for choosing just the right analogy. He also has a way of taking what at first glance sounds pretty radical and making it sound like simple common sense.
Take airline regulation, for example. Wouldn't there be lots of crashes in the absence of federal regulation? Wouldn't we all have to research the safety records of all the airlines on which we planned to travel?
(Almost) needless to say, nothing of the kind would happen. These objections, in fact, illustrate the almost embarrassing lack of imagination and common sense that develop among the general population whenever people have grown accustomed to state-directed approaches. After a while, no one can imagine how things could be done any other way — and when the rare maverick claims otherwise, all people can do is repeat, in zombie-like unison, the clichés they've been taught by their masters.
To the contrary, if people simply insisted on indemnification in the event of a crash, the airlines would have to take out insurance in order to be able to satisfy any claims that might arise. Any such insurance company would have a vested interest in doing (or hiring outside agencies to do) all the regulatory inquiry that makes sense — tracking the age and condition of the planes, the skill level of the pilots, and so on. The airline, seeking the lowest possible premiums (not to mention wanting to avoid the unfavorable publicity that stems from people dying on their flights), would have every reason to want a good safety record.
Ineffective or corrupt private certification would be swiftly punished, as Murphy explains:
The fundamental difference between private "regulators" versus government bureaucrats is that the former will last only if they are effective. If the insurance company's inspectors, for example, take kickbacks from the airlines and overlook cost-cutting but dangerous maintenance procedures, this corruption will be rooted out after the first plane crash. The insurer will lose hundreds of millions of dollars (certainly more than the total value of the kickbacks), and other airlines will advertise their superior standards and lure away passengers.
When a federal regulatory agency fails, on the other hand, the response of the zombies is that it needs a bigger budget.
In the area of rail transport, a lot of people realize that Amtrak is a loser. "It loses money in every conceivable way — on ticket sales and even on its food and beverage concessions," Murphy points put. He adds that the line between Los Angeles and Orlando lost $433 per passenger. "Your tax dollars would have been saved if the line had been scrapped and Amtrak's customers given plane tickets instead."
More importantly, though, Murphy shows why Amtrak isn't just a fluke, and why government enterprise (so called) will inevitably be plagued by arbitrariness and waste. Forget about making government run like a business, as we're often told — it can't, and Murphy explains why. Meanwhile, the government officials who benefit from Amtrak, and who are perfectly happy to have the rest of the country subsidize their commute, are not about to pull the plug on the whole scam.
The ongoing debate over free trade has reached a point at which it is very difficult for the average person to figure out the rights and wrongs, the truths and the falsehoods, in all the arguments being offered. In one of the many delightful sidebars generously adorning his pages, Murphy brings home the major protectionist fallacy by quoting from Frdric Bastiat's famous "Petition of the Candlemakers," in which makers of candles protest the unfair competition of the sun. They call for a law "requiring the closing of all windows, dormers, skylights, inside and outside shutters, curtains, casements, bull's-eyes, deadlights, and blinds — in short, all openings, holes, chinks, and fissures through which the light of the sun is wont to enter houses, to the detriment of the fair industries with which, we are proud to say, we have endowed the country, a country that cannot, without betraying ingratitude, abandon us today to so unequal a combat."
To be sure, trade restrictions do protect the jobs of those workers who produce the protected item, just as blocking out the sun by law would benefit the candlemakers. At the same time, of course, they make consumers worse off, since the price of the protected item now increases — either because consumers now have to pay more for foreign goods (thanks to the tariff) or for domestic goods (because the tariff on foreign goods makes it possible for domestic producers to charge more). Critics of free trade assure us that this is a trade-off they're willing to accept — and they intend to make us accept it, too, whether we want to or not.
The great body of consumers are not the only losers in protectionism. The export sector suffers as well. In addition, any firm or industry using one of the "protected" items in its own production now finds itself at a competitive disadvantage. "American car makers suffered when President Bush instituted steel tariffs," Murphy writes. "Federal sugar quotas, which make the U.S. price for sugar twice the world price, similarly drove Life Savers to move its manufacturing to Canada, where it can buy sugar from all over the world."
(Incidentally, Murphy doesn't just repeat the standard arguments for free trade; he goes on to consider the more fashionable directions that the anti-trade argument has taken in recent years. In particular, he argues persuasively against the current-day argument that the classical assumptions behind free trade and the benefits it was said to hold for all participants are no longer valid in an age of labor and capital mobility.)
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism is positively filled with interesting insights and little-known facts. Thus, building on an insight of Jane Jacobs, Murphy shows how zoning regulations and "urban planning" by know-it-alls have actually contributed to the prevalence of crime in urban areas. He shows why NASA's safety record and expensive failures not only shouldn't surprise us, but should actually be expected. And he discusses the much-touted and totally misrepresented case of California energy "deregulation" — a typical episode in which the effects of phony deregulation, which kept all manner of price caps and regulations in place and may have introduced incentives even more destructive than what existed before, were perversely attributed to the free market!
Plenty of people carelessly suppose that reading an economics book must be unspeakable drudgery. To the contrary, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism is great fun, written by a scholar with the ability to produce rigorous scholarly articles as well as to explain difficult concepts in an easy-to-understand way for the general public.
But this book is not just for you. It's also for all the students in your life, nearly all of whom are being taught in their social studies classes about the selflessness of the American political class and its disinterested commitment to the common good. They're learning about the workings of our form of government, in which people of good will meet in the public square to cooperate on initiatives to make all Americans better off. And so on and on, direct from somewhere on Mars to their textbooks.
The world has plenty of zombies as it is. Original thoughts — and lots of them — are the best antidote, which is why Bob Murphy's book is so important, and so welcome.


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This futuristic, 5 story, corporate headquarters for Vivint Solar was designed to catch the constant movement and power of traffic going by on the adjacent I-15 freeway. The building, with it's dark grey concrete and glass facade literally tilts and pivots in the same motion making the building feel like it's moving. Done in collaboration with Rapt Studios, CA, TSTAT One definitely breaks the mold of office in Utah.
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Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific's SVP and MD of entertainment networks Sunny Saha has announced he is stepping down from his position with the Cartoon Network parent company effective at the end of February.
Saha, who joined Turner in 2000, is currently based in Hong Kong and serves as the company's SVP and MD of its Southeast Asia Pacific business, and is GM of Turner's kids networks across the Asia Pacific region.
In a statement, Saha said that he is leaving on a high note and looks forward to new challenges. A representative from Turner said this morning there is no word on a replacement or if Saha's next moves will involve the kids business.
His exit comes ahead of Ricky Ow's arrival on Monday as the new president of Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific. Ow, the former VP and GM of Sony Pictures Television Networks Asia, replaced Steve Marcopoto who resigned in August last year in the wake of Turner International Asia Pacific's announcement last June that it would cut 30% of its workforce.
A Turner rep said Saha's decision was unrelated to Turner's recent operational restructure in the region.
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More than seven years after molesting a 5-year-old boy in a trailer off Athens Highway, a Gainesville man was found guilty of aggravated child molestation Friday in Hall County Superior Court.
The victim of Jesus Camacho Chavez did not confide the molestation with Gwinnett County school officials until about three years after the 2001 date of the crime, Assistant District Attorney Juliet Aldridge said. Gwinnett social services contacted the Hall County Sheriff's Office and arrest warrants were taken out for Chavez in 2005, but it took authorities another two years to locate the transient day laborer.
Chavez, 52, faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Judge C. Andrew Fuller deferred sentencing to a later date.
A jury of seven men and five women spent a little more than three hours deliberating the case. The jury acquitted Chavez on three felony counts related to accusations from the victim's brother that he, too, had been molested.
During the weeklong trial, jurors watched videotaped interviews with both boys and heard live testimony from the victim, now 13.
Chavez did not testify.
Chavez and his daughter had lived for a time with the two boys and their father in a shared trailer. The molestation occurred a few months after he moved out and was visiting the father, according to court testimony.
Chavez, who has been in custody since last year, remains jailed pending sentencing. Aldridge told Fuller she would have victim impact statements for the judge to consider.


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BSc (Hons) in Physiology and Cognitive Neuroscience, with a minor in Psychology and a minor in Methods & Statistics (Summa cum Laude) - University College Utrecht (UCU), Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Continuing with interdisciplinary interests from my Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees, I did a PhD where I combined the fields of experimental economics and psychology in various fields where people have been argued to reason or decide irrationally.
Rational reasoning is often considered optimal, but sometimes it may pay to be irrational. In the optimism bias, people think that positive events are more likely than the evidence warrants. For example, law students, aware of high divorce rates, think their own marriage will last indefinitely. Furthermore, people tend to think that choosing their own numbers increases their chances of winning a lottery, despite the fact that the draw is not influenced by their choice of ticket numbers. Such positive illusions may be advantageous insofar as they maintain a positive self-view and prevent depression, which has been linked to a sense of a loss of control. Hence, in these situations, deviating from rational thinking could be beneficial.
However, sometimes deviating from rationality can lead to symptoms like delusions in schizophrenia, which are false beliefs held with strong conviction despite evidene on the contrary. A common finding is that delusional patients tend to jump to conclusions on the basis of too little evidence. If someone walks behind them, they might think that person is following them and plotting against them. A rationally reasoning person would consider the probability of this explanation versus the probabilities of other plausible explanations. In this case, deviating from rational reasoning does not seem beneficial as it can cause stress and discomfort to patients and people around them.
Overall, in my PhD I investigated various irrational beliefs combining methods from experimental economics and psychology. The various irrational beliefs I investigated are jumping-to-conclusions in delusion-proneness, sexual-overperception in evolutionary psychology, self-deception in unrealistic optimism, and betrayal aversion in trust games.
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On land we as women love our 'creature comforts' on water our 'cruising comfort' may make the difference between a total lifestyle change …. Or "I want to go home!"
Women who sail and liveaboard may all be different but
from my own experience and talking to, going aboard their yachts and reading
about others that go cruising …we still love some of our home comforts.
Yes we are living in a confined space on a sailboat and we know we must get down to the basics that are important to us.
Of course this is not ignoring the important
things about the cruising life like a safe and well equipped boat, that includes the safety equipment, one that
sails well and is dry where it counts … on the inside!
What are our most important areas on a yacht, no matter what the size!
It's important to have a cabin with a comfortable bed, which
means a thick mattress and bulkheads so you are not going to be thrown out when
the boat heals over.
Good cosy bedding with plenty of pillows. Not stuffy and a way of keeping cool if sailing the tropics a fan at the very least. Privacy if others are on board.
Remember when underway especially if shorthanded you can get very sleep deprived, so make this a special haven, a retreat to renew your energy. No bright lights …dimmed and if you have a stereo in the cabin some restful music.
The main salons a place not just for yourselves but for
entertaining guests at times and so comfortable places to sit with cushions to
'curl' up with … I feel are important.
Build a bit of personality with some special photos, books and souvenirs from different voyages. This is most likely the area for reading, eating, watching TV or DVD's when not on deck.
There should be an area to get out of any wet weather gear so as to keep this area dry. I know a friend that used to get really upset when her partner would come into the main cabin straight from diving or fishing instead of showering and drying off on the deck. I'm with her… naturally… treat it like a lounge room at home!
The Galley! A
good gas cooker and refrigeration makes life comfortable. Everything must be very easy to reach an
arm's length away is good, and you must be able to brace yourself in an area
when underway. Places to hold on to ... a grab rail for safety and cruising comfort.
An adequate area of bench space and an empty sink to put a boiling pot or cup of coffee in to prevent it going all over the floor or worse you… with a sudden lurch of the boat.
Make it easy in the galley with equipment like pressure cookers and plenty of plastic containers, designated storage space for sometimes weeks of provisions; know where everything is so there's no searching in rough seas.
Heads! Oh yes in
the form of a bathroom ….this is where I would like the lot! With plenty of water!
But that does not happen in most small yachts; mine only had a toilet and wash basin with a reasonable size cupboard. A shower you had to improvise with an outdoor solar shower.
But people that used my heads always said it definitely was in a female's boat…. It didn't smell of rotten eggs, quite the opposite, it was clean and all the necessities where there with nice hand towels and nautical décor.
A comfy cockpit became very important to me especially
when I reached Australia with its very hot summers and downpours in the wet
Like Jill (above) said it's nice and much cooler to sleep outside in the tropics. So a good Bimini that covers most the cockpit and gives adequate shade is important for cruising comfort.
And some cockpits have just narrow benches and can be very uncomfortable.
So some good cushioning, places to put drinks or even eat without spillage or getting in the way of equipment as this is the place most sundowners with good sailing company take place.
When solo sailing I have a basket of snacks and drinks
in the cockpit so I'm not spending all my time below when it may not be safe…
navigating in different situations.
OK …. So I have been on some men's yachts where they are very fussy even having flowers on the salon table when in marina's…. and their boats are very clean, comfortable and well kept.
But I have been on some yachts belonging to male sailors that are can I say … revolting! Gear everywhere, dirty, with dishes not done and beds unmade; boat bits and grease scattered throughout the living areas. There would be no cruising comfort here!
But for the most… ladies who sail and liveaboard we like a bit of cruising comfort just like what they may have left behind on shore.
And it really does come back to the way you lived on shore …. We all have our standards!


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Entering college on a track scholarship to pursue a pre-med major, Tom Waddell earned his M.D. in 1965. Drafted into the Army in 1966, Waddell became a preventative-medicine officer and paratrooper. When he realized he would be sent to Vietnam he voiced his moral opposition to war. Instead of court-martialing him, the Army sent Waddell to study tropical diseases and later to train as a decathlete for the 1968 Olympics. The oldest member of the U.S. Olympic team, he placed sixth. A subsequent knee injury dashed his hopes of making the 1972 team. Relocating to San Francisco in 1974, he established a private practice and immersed himself in gay life. In June 1976 Waddell and his then lover, Charles Deaton, were the first homosexuals to appear in the 'Couples' section of People Magazine. In 1981 Waddell had the idea to organize a gay sporting event modeled on the Olympics. Weeks prior to the first Gay Olympics in 1982, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) sued Waddell's organization over the use of the word 'Olympics,' claiming that association with the gay community would taint the brand. Though Waddell renamed the competition "The Gay Games," the USOC sued to recover its legal costs. In 1981, while working on the Games, Waddell met public relations specialist Zohn Artman, who became his lover, and lesbian athlete Sara Lewinstein, with whom he conceived a daughter, Jessica, born in 1983. To secure Jessica and Sara's rights following his diagnosis with AIDS, Waddell and Lewinstein married in 1985. Despite his illness, he competed in Gay Games II in 1986 and won Gold in the javelin event. In life as in sports, Waddell's motto was always "Winning is doing your best." He died from an AIDS-related illness on July 11, 1987 at the age of 49. The Gay Games continue to be held every four years throughout the world, dedicated to Waddell's memory.
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I have a friend who has lived an incredible story of depravity and redemption.
Without a doubt, the transformation he has experienced as a result of meeting Jesus is one of the most inspiring things I've ever seen or heard of. It's made even more amazing by his love for humanity and his obvious desire to share the Faith, Hope, and Love that changed his life with others, that they, too, may share in the Peace of a Savior.
I've been nothing but impressed by his desire to live for God. And I've been truly encouraged by his honesty in talking about the dark places he's come from. If you met him, you would probably really like him. He's just a likable, young, kinda good-looking guy, with a heart to help people seek and find Jesus.
And I hung him out like a wet sock the other day.
I flipped him the internet bird by calling out his douchebaggery on my blog.
I treated him not like a brother, but like an enemy. And I regret that. I've regretted it since the second I hit 'post'.
But the best part (you'll love this!) is that on the same day I wrote the post in question, where I threw this kid under the bus, I wrote a guest piece for The Rally to Restore Unity in which I claimed that if we are gonna be the Church, we better learn how to act like a body – one body – respectful of each of its different parts.
And there I was, acting like a shoulder, saying to the neck, "Look at what an asshole the elbow is being? Can you believe this guy?!"
Go ahead and say it: "Hey, Jamie. Hypocritical much?"
It's ok. I deserve it.
Do I still think what he did is wrong? Um, Yeah. Pretty much!
BUT. I probably shouldn't have shared the specifics of our falling out in an international forum, to ~let's face it~ a bunch of my friends. It's just not fair. But, more importantly, it's just not Biblical. (Here's why.) So there's that.
Basically, I'm a hypocritical douche and a half. And I'm really glad to be learning a better way. Cause, truthfully, I'd rather be a shoulder that says to the neck, "Check out that elbow – Look at all the ways he helps the body!" — even when the elbow is totally being a prick — because, ultimately, the whole body looks better that way.


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When I was a lad, when let loose in a mall, I would make a beeline for the science fiction section, where I would check if J.R.R. Tolkien had written the Silmarillion yet, and if not, if there was anything else like it. And back then there wasn't anything like it, but Ballantine Books would republish anything in its vaults that wasn't quite LOTR: Mervyn Peake, David Lindsay, and E.R. Eddison.
(I don't know what happened to swords & sorcery; I don't recall ever seeing it. I didn't even see a Conan book till college.)
I picked up The Worm Ouroboros, and I'm not sure I ever finished it; the prose was extraordinarily difficult. And for over thirty years A Fish Dinner in Memison has stood on my shelf unread, quietly retaining through all those years the title of Best Fantasy Title Ever.
I finished it last night, and it's truly singular— in both positive and negative ways. In some ways it's quite horrible, and it's a mess structurally. But the intensity of its vision can get to you after awhile.
First you have to get used to his prose.
She dismissed her girls, Myrrha and Violante, with a sign of the hand, and, while the nurse braided, coiled and put up her hair, kissed the flowers again, smoothed her cheek against them, as a beautiful cat will do, gathered them to her throat. 'Dear Gods!' she said, 'were it not blasphemy, I could suppose myself the Queen of Heaven in Her incense-sweet temple in Cyprus, as in the holy hymn, choosing out there My ornaments of gold and sweet-smelling soft raiment, and so upon the wind to Ida, to that princely herdsman,
ὂς τότ' ἐν ακροπόλοις ὄρεσιν πολυπιδάκου Ἵδης,
βουκολεσκεν βοῦς, δέμας ἀϑανάτοισιν ἐοικώς…'
Oh, he does provide glosses for his lapses into Greek or Latin (not for those into French or Italian); the reader, don't you know, can be assumed to have studied the ancient languages but not to have recalled every word.
Honestly, sometimes it's hard to take seriously sentences like this:
And Barganax's face, as by star-leap received up into that heaven, rested, unseen, unseeing, where, as it had been two doves, her breasts sat throned, ivory-smooth through the silk, violet-sweet, proud, and Greek.
The prose does contribute to the atmosphere, which is a strange and unapologetic mixture of philosophy, romantic adventure, and sensuality. Moorcock and Miéville had trouble with Tolkien; they'd be gobsmacked by Eddison, who's the most aristophilic writer I've ever read. It's not that he wants to oppress the commoners; he doesn't even glance at the commoners. Occasionally a rural worker appears, purely as decoration, but he has even less interest in economies and cities and statecraft than Tolkien.
Rather, he's interested in noble characters. The man are brawny, proud, and bearded, and their business is intrigue and war— though poetry, painting, and philosophy are also approved. The women are more than their equals, invariably beautiful, imperious, independent, aloof, and passionate. They inspire worship, and woe to the man who trusts merely to his position or good looks to woo an Eddison heroine. He must suffer rejection first, show respect, and above all never bore her.
The world these characters move in is full of splendors, both natural and man-made, lovingly described— though it's clear that to him, mountains and beasts and gold and silks never quite do justice to the beauty of his women.
If that weren't enough, the book is an exposition, both directly and in allegory, of Eddison's own metaphysics, which apparently starts from Spinoza but reminds me much more of Romanticism. He simplifies the values of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty into one supreme value— Beauty. This then informs a cosmic dualism, masculine Love and feminine Beauty:
Infinite and Omnipotent Love creates, preserves, and delights in, Infinite and Perfect Beauty. Love and Beauty are, in this duality, coequal and coeternal; and, by a violent antinomy, Love, owing his mere being to this strengthless perfection which he holds at his mercy, adores and is enslaved by her, while Beauty (by a like antinomy) queens it over the very omnipotence which both created her and is her only safeguard.
The sensuality, the delight in the endless variety of nature, of human affairs, and of eros, are thus not accidental; they are the very purpose of the universe. The male characters are to some extent avatars of God/Love; the female characters are, even more, avatars of the Goddess/Beauty.
Structurally, as I said, the book is a mess. For one thing, Eddison has insisted on intermingling sections set in his fantasy realm, Zimiamvia, with sections on Earth, chronicling the love affair and lives of two English aristos, Lessingham and Mary. The latter bits make for a weak early-20C romance, which despite its brevity takes the time to cover an entire cricket game and reproduce a story written by the couple's 8-year-old daughter, plus repulsive bits of politics:
And your unhaired woman (they'll be as common as the cartway soon) and your unmasculated man, are part of the engine, worker ants, worker termites, neuters: worthless lives to themselves, which only exist to run the engine…
He goes on to explain that the big mistake of WWI was giving an armistice, rather than carrying the war "to destruction clean through Germany". Well, he was writing during WWII when it was easy enough to feel that the Prussians hadn't been sufficiently beat down the first time.
A bit later he clarifies that his ideal is a Greek city-state, with a population in the tens of thousands. The aspect of modern life that gave Tolkien the horrors was evidently industrialization; what bothered Eddison was not even the fall of aristocracy but population. You can only have a termite society because people are as numerous as insects. It makes sense in terms of his ideal: bold lusty men and women, powerful and individual. Strong as they are, they get lost in a crowd.
The 20C sections are largely a failure largely because he makes his central couple as heroic as he can. Lessingham is a brilliant painter, an indispensable diplomat, a fabled soldier, and a canny businessman. Oh, and he worships his wife. It's just silly.
The Zimiamvian parts are much better— the larger-than-life characters work better in a larger-than-life world. There's an attempt at danger— a plot against the King— which is resolved in an unusual and interesting way… only this happens a third of the way through the book! Then the story concentrates on the romance between the King's illegitimate son Barganax and the Lady Fiorinda. The major obstacle is that Fiorinda is already married, but we're among Olympians here, and conventional morality need not apply; it's explicitly stated that the man is not worthy of her.
(Fiorinda appears on Earth a couple of times, bridging the two narratives, though this is never explained, beyond the strong hints that she's a particularly clear avatar of the Goddess.)
As conworlding, it's kind of inexplicable. There's a handsome map provided, and Eddison obviously relished creating geographical names, as well as the intrigues of the nobles. Fiorinda has a couple of handmaidens who are dryads and change shape at will. But the world hardly exists as a world; it's more like the Arcadian backdrop of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a stage for the players to strut upon, without the distractions that would arise setting it in an actual historical reality.
There actually is a fish dinner, which turns into a symposium on Eddison's cosmology, with a subtext of Barganax's seduction of Fiorinda. (He already succeeded once, but she's made it clear that she is not to be taken for granted and must be won anew each time.)


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Football: Sooners CB Colvin Playing Hurt
NORMAN, Okla. — The pain comes and goes for Aaron Colvin.
The Oklahoma cornerback's injured shoulder might flare up while sitting in class, walking to a team meeting or hanging out with the guys. It hurts worse when it's cold and it's going to be frigid today when No. 18 Oklahoma (9-2, 6-2 Big 12 Conference) plays at No. 6 Oklahoma State (10-1, 7-1).
But Colvin doesn't regret — not for a second — his decision to bypass the NFL Draft and return for his senior season with the Sooners. Games like the Bedlam showdown are what he came back to Oklahoma for and he plans on toughing it out until the football season ends.
"I came back to win games," Colvin said. "I came back to try to help this team win as many games as I could. I'm a competitor at the end of the day. I can't sit on the sideline and just watch something. If I don't give it my all, then I'm going to have regrets and that's one of my biggest things. I don't want to have any regrets when I leave this university.
"It's a tough situation that I'm in. But at the end of the day, I've just got to leave it in God's hands and try to grind through it."
Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops calls Colvin "truly one of the best defensive backs we've ever had here."
Colvin was projected as a potential early round NFL Draft choice after his junior season, in which he had four interceptions and 11 pass breakups and was a first-team All-Big 12 selection. Instead, Colvin opted to complete what he called "unfinished business" at Oklahoma.
He has played nine games this year, starting eight, and has 47 tackles (five for loss), an interception, a fumble recovery and three pass breakups. His toughness might be his most valuable contribution to the Sooners.
He injured his shoulder in a loss at Baylor on Nov. 7 and missed Oklahoma's win over Iowa State the following Saturday. On Nov. 23, on a cold day at Kansas State, the plan was for Colvin to see limited action but, after K-State receiver Tyler Lockett burned the Sooners for three long touchdown catches in the first half, that plan was chucked.
Instead, despite being "in a ton of pain," Colvin matched up on Lockett for most of the second half and held him off the scoreboard, a key factor in allowing the Sooners to win 41-31.
"It's been an uncomfortable season with his shoulder and he's really toughed it out and it shows you a lot about his character and his toughness," Oklahoma defensive coordinator Mike Stoops said. "It'll be the same deal (against Oklahoma State). He's a fighter and I'm sure he'll want to play a great game."
The respect Colvin's teammates had for him — which already was considerable — increased after his performance against Kansas State.
"That's Slick's character," fellow defensive back Zack Sanchez said, referring to Colvin by his nickname. "That's just the type of player he is. He wants to be in the game, regardless. If he has a broken leg, he's going to try to be out there. It just speaks volumes to people that don't know that part of Slick. He's going to fight to the very end with whatever he's got."
Colvin said he does his best to block out the pain — "I've just got to go out there and play." — but he also understands the reality of the situation. When he's getting ready to make a tackle, he thinks about how he can protect his shoulder.
"As much as I would try to deny it and say that it doesn't (bother me), it does," he said.
He has had some people close to him suggest that he shouldn't play with the injury.
"I've got a lot of voices in my ears and whatnot, but it's ultimately my decision," he said. "Any time somebody tries to give their opinion on something, I kind of ignore it. I know what's best for me and I know what's best for this team. At the end of the day, I've just got to do us right."
Colvin said his injury will just need time to heal and that he doesn't know yet if he might be at 100 percent for the Sooners' bowl game. There's also the prospect of next year's NFL Draft, during which he figures to be chosen at some point. It was suggested to him that his willingness to play through pain might be considered an asset by pro scouts.
"That'd be cool," he said. "To be honest, though, I'm just trying to get these wins. I'm trying to finish out strong. I don't want to finish out how we finished out last year (with a bowl loss to Texas A&M). Whatever it takes, that's what I'm going to do."


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Good Morning. One of the best weekends at home started from my sister's birthday, stay of my best friend at my home ( yeah it was a long, girls night ) and i got from her the most beautiful gift, a Vicirage's b-day cake. I can;t believe how much i love her ! I'm after my super exams and now I'm completely free like a bird. I have lessons at school, but we don't have exams it's like a time to spend with my class, our last two months. I can't believe that soon I will start high school.
It's as sunny as I can't believe that it's April, walks, coffees in the garden and this sun kissing your skin everyday now. I love to have a bit sun-kissed skin, because I think that after this winter I have too light skin. i have to catch a bit of sun to my face. Wind in the hair, cozy shoes, flawless t-shirt and over sized leather shorts. That's all about this grey-black kind of the day and my beloved, pink Vernis Alma about which I forgot about during the winter.
Last days were like a bit crazy, but now it's time to chill, take photos write and have fun. I think I have to write a new quote : " eat, sleep and blog " ha ha. I just love days like yesterday. Lunch with daddy, small shopping, photos, dinner, b-day party, night with best friend. Who wants more ? I just try to do as much in my life as possible, because it's too short for me to be lazy and just don't do anything. We have to have fun !


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I am really looking forward to reading the book. Harry is a very practical learner and it will be good to have a different and third party perspective. Hopefully I might get a few new ideas too!
Michael Rosen also mentioned a couple of new books he is working on, which sound interesting. One is an English version of favourite German folk tales and another was a book on humanism aimed at children, so I shall be looking out for those!


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Finding Sunshine in a (Beer) Can
In order to get the full sensory experience from any beer, there's no question that you need to pour it into a glass.
This is especially true of intensely aromatic beers (like American IPAs and most Belgian beers), but drinking from a glass will enhance the experience of any beer you drink, since so much of what we call "flavor" is a matter of what goes into our nose. (This is why I tell my daughter to plug her nose as she tries to choke down a piece of asparagus.) Still, only the most radical (and misguided) beer snob would insist on a glass for every beer-drinking occasion. Smart drinking requires an appreciation of context, and there's no denying that some contexts call for drinking straight from a can.
Outdoor drinking during the glorious Pacific Northwest summers is one of those contexts: BBQs, hiking, camping, boating, picnicking, or just sitting on your front porch desperately trying to secret away some of that vitamin D for next winter. This summer, don't be ashamed to drink straight from the can (koozie recommended). Not only are cans more lightweight (and so easier to take on outdoor adventures), but they also do a great job of keeping your beer protected from two of its worst enemies: light and oxygen. (Heat is the other enemy of good beer, so be smart and buy your cans from somewhere that keeps them refrigerated.)
Canned craft beer is incredibly easy to find — in fact, so many places are canning their beers now that I'm having a hard time filling up the bottle-cap maps hanging on my wall. Here are the cans I plan to have on hand all summer long, and I heartily recommend you do the same.
Light lagers were once anathema to craft breweries because they smacked of the mass-produced yellow fizz that the craft beer movement was reacting against. But as the movement has matured, craft brewers have come to realize that light lagers have a place, too. Summer sunshine is that place, and Aslan has done a very nice job with this low-octane example.
It was Boundary Bay Scotch Ale (now also available in cans) that really got the Bellingham beer scene going back in the 90s, but it's Cedar Dust IPA that has helped the pioneering brewery stay relevant in an increasingly competitive market filled with IPA-thirsty consumers. This one won't punch you in the face with juiciness or bitterness (that's a good thing).
When you want refreshing simplicity without sacrificing intensity of flavor, Fremont Summer Ale is the can to crack. In beer lingo, this is a SMaSH beer (Single Malt and Single Hop), which means that the list of ingredients is as pared down as much as possible for a beer. They've wisely chosen Amarillo hops, which add notes of tangerine and apricot to this American Pale Ale.
Although the Sierra Nevada brewery is outside the Pacific Northwest (they have one facility in Chico, Calif., and another in Mills River, N.C.), I can't resist adding their classic Pale Ale, which is now available in 12-oz. and 16-oz. cans, to the list. This is one of my desert island beers for sure, and hundreds of craft brewers working today would say the same. Born in 1980, this beer is the same age as Harry Potter, and just as magical.
Looking for a brewery to try from around town? Try our Wine, Spirits, and Brew section here.


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Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Be Careful Out There! Data shows one bicyclist/pedestrian and two car occupants injured weekly in BTV!
Be careful out there!! Based on 2013-2017 roadway crash data an average of one bicyclist or pedestrian is injured each week in BTV plus two car occupants. So about 50 bicycle/pedestrian injuries occur each year, 100 motor vehicle occupants injuries--150 overall. One fatality occurs on BTV streets every 5-6 years--last six three pedestrians, two drivers, and one cyclist with all but one fatal at one of the City's 75 signalized intersections. Roundabouts cut serious and fatal injuries on average 90%. Cycle track on street sections provide separate and safe accommodation of cyclists between busy intersections.
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Fitzjames, John
FITZJAMES, Sir JOHN (1470?–1542?), judge, son of John Fitzjames of Redlynch, Somersetshire, and nephew of Richard, bishop of London [q. v.], was a member of the Middle Temple, where he was reader in the autumn of 1504 and treasurer in 1509 (Dugdale, Orig. pp. 215, 221). He also held the office of recorder of Bristol in 1510, a place worth 19l. 6s. 8d. per annum, which he does not seem to have resigned until 1533, when he was succeeded by Thomas Cromwell. In 1511 he was one of the commissioners of sewers for Middlesex (Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, Foreign and Domestic, i. 157, 301, iii. pt. ii. 1458, vi. 263, vii. 557). On or about 26 Jan. 1518–19 he was appointed attorney-general, and in this capacity seems to have been sworn of the council, as his signature is appended to a letter dated 13 June 1520 from the council to the king, then at Calais, congratulating him on his 'prosperous and fortunate late passage.' About the same time he was appointed, with Sir Edward Belknap and William Roper, to assist the master of the wards in making out his quarterly reports. He was also attorney-general for the duchy of Lancaster between 1521 and 1523, and probably from a much earlier date; and he seems to be identical with a certain John Fitzjames who acted as collector of subsidies for Somersetshire between 1523 and 1534. As attorney-general he conducted, in May 1521, the prosecution of the Duke of Buckingham. The same summer he was called to the degree of serjeant-at-law. On 6 Feb. 1521–2 he was advanced to a puisne judgeship of the king's bench, and two days later he was created chief baron of the exchequer. About the same time he was knighted. In the autumn of 1523 he was entrusted by the king with the delicate task of negotiating a marriage between Lord Henry Percy, who was supposed to be engaged to Anne Boleyn, and Lady Mary Talbot, daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury. Fitzjames's diplomacy was crowned with success. On 23 Jan. 1525–6 he succeeded Sir John Fyneux [q. v.] as chief justice of the king's bench. He was a trier of petitions in parliament in November 1529, and signed the articles of impeachment exhibited against Wolsey on 1 Dec. of the same year. He seems to have exerted himself at Wolsey's request to save Christchurch from sequestration (ib. iii. pt. i. 12, 197, pt. ii. 873, 1383, iv. pt. iii. 2690, 2714, 2928; Cobbett, State Trials, i. 296; Brewer, Reign of Henry VIII, ed. Gairdner, ii. 177; Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council, vii. 338; Dugdale, Chron. Ser. 80, 81). Two letters are extant from Fitzjames to Cromwell, one dated 29 Oct. 1532, describing the state of legal business and the ravages of the plague, the other, dated 8 March, and apparently written at Redlynch in 1533, in which he complains much of illness, and begs to be excused attendance in London. He was present, however, at the coronation of Anne Boleyn on 1 June 1533. His name is appended to a proclamation of 7 Nov. 1534, fixing the maximum price of French and Gascon wines at 4l. per tun, pursuant to statute 23 Hen. VIII, c. 7. He was a member of the special tribunals that tried in April 1535 the Carthusians, Robert Feron, John Hale, and others, for high treason under statute 25 Hen. VIII, c. 22, the offence consisting in having conversed too freely about the king's marriage. He also helped to try Fisher and More in the ensuing June and July. It is probable that he secretly sympathised with the prisoners, as he preserved a discreet silence throughout the proceedings, broken only when the lord chancellor directly appealed to him to say whether the indictment against More was or was not sufficient by the curiously cautious utterance, 'By St. Gillian, I must needs confess that if the act of parliament be not unlawful, then the indictment is not in my conscience invalid.' On 2 Sept. 1535 he wrote to Cromwell, interceding on behalf of the abbot of Glastonbury, who he thought was being somewhat harshly dealt with by the visitors of the monasteries. In October 1538 he made his will, being then 'weak and feeble in body.' He retired from the bench in the same year, or early in the following year, his successor, Sir Edward Montagu, being appointed on 21 Jan. 1538–9. The exact date of his death is uncertain. His will was proved on 12 May 1542. He was buried in the parish church of Bruton, Somersetshire (State Papers, i. 384, 387; Trevelyan Papers, Camden Soc. ii. 55–7; Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, Foreign and Domestic, viii. 229, 350, 384, ix. 85; Cobbett, State Trials, i. 393). The reputation of Fitzjames suffered much at the hands of Lord Campbell, whose errors and fabrications were ably exposed by Foss. It is impossible, with the meagre materials at our command, to say how far Fitzjames may have allowed subserviency to the king to pervert justice. His complicity in the judicial murders of 1535 leaves a stain on his memory. On the other hand he seems to have been superior to bribes.[Fuller's Worthies, Somersetshire; Lloyd's State Worthies, i. 125–9; Collinson's Somersetshire, i. 226; Hutchins's Dorset, ii. 222; Foss's Lives of the Judges.]


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The Kit and Caboodle quilt uses every print from
Anna Maria Horner's new Passionflower collection.
The large pieces of fabric let the bold designs flourish,
and quilting with an equally oversized hand-stitch
would really help the quilt shine!
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