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FORT STEWART, Ga. – Officials with the Army's Forces Command and Installation Management Commands, as well as division and garrison commanders from five installations across the nation, amassed on Fort Stewart, Ga., May 16, to attend the second of three slated joint FORSCOM and IMCOM Installation Management Mini-Rehearsal of Concept Drills.
The daylong conference, hosted by Lt. Gen. Howard Bromberg, FORSCOM deputy commanding general, and Lt. Gen. Mike Ferriter, IMCOM commander and assistant chief of staff for installation management, was held to propagate dialogue among the senior commanders, including Maj. Gen. Robert "Abe" Abrams, 3rd Infantry Division commanding general and Col. Kevin W. Milton, Fort Stewart garrison commander, focusing on assessing the impacts of and developing mitigating strategies for planned installation management resource reductions.
Proposed IMCOM funding cuts mandated by the Department of the Army for the current and future fiscal years were examined across five service categories, including public works, installation logistics, soldier and family programs, training and operation support, and safety and security.
Bill Hamilton, chief G1 strategic integration division, and one of the drills' facilitators, said the goal of holding the ROC drills is to define a joint action plan that will help guide FORSCOM and IMCOM commands through the resource reductions while ensuring future force readiness and soldier and family quality of life.
"A few years ago we really did have the ability for everybody to have their authorities … their equities and their part of the pie," said Ferriter. "Today it is about the … responsibilities that we have to take care of our soldiers [and families] and train for war—it's not to protect equities but to understand where we're going together and then move out together on this."
Hamilton said the drills collectively provide commanders with a common operational picture of the friction points and the gaps and seams caused by the proposed installation reductions and they provide a forum for the commanders to inform FORSCOM and IMCOM leaders how they plan to mitigate the cuts in ways that are tailored to their unique missions and installation's footprints.
Abrams highlighted the combined capabilities and operational requirements of both Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield, and discussed the steps the Marne Division has taken to reprioritize installation resources funding and diverting troops to perform in installation support roles.
"This is just one step of where we're headed over the course of the next couple of years," said Bromberg. "We still have many, many decisions in terms of the budget to come, and many, many decisions in terms of total Army analysis that will come out in the coming weeks and months. Our intent is to put everything on the table."
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The great philosopher known as Andre 3000 once brought up an important and salient point of modern life – that which is cooler than being cool, is known as "ice cold." The air conditioning unit in this Chevy Equinox clearly agreed, because it started spitting flakes of the frozen stuff.
Reddit user Lobsterbib first posted this video of his girlfriend's car on the r/videos subreddit, which practically begged for an explanation. User coronado22 stepped in and explained that it's basically just running out of freon:
The snow is the result of the evaporator coil that acts as the heat exchanger to condition the air becoming too cold so the humidity is freezing and flaking off. The reason that the evaporator coil is becoming too cold is due to the fact that the system is low on refrigerant, most likely due to a leak in te system. Air conditioning is based on pressure-temperature relationship. When the closed system of refrigerant is low, it actually works "really well" until it gets too low on gas and starts freezing up the evaporator and condenser coils. The buildup if ice acts as an excellent insulator and renders the system useless as the coils that are meant to remove and dissipate heat are covered in insulating ice which prevents heat transfer. Source—growing up working for my grandfather's comercial refrigeration business an a studying engineering in undergrad.
So there you have it, kids. If you want to fix global warming, make sure the atmosphere gets a little too low on freon. Sounds like some pretty exact science. It's too bad we didn't think of this before.
Now all that needs to happen is someone needs to starve a Pontiac of freon.


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We're pleased to note that GCN Circular #14490 has been published, detailing time-series photometry of the bright GRB 130427A by Patrick Wiggins. His observations provide a comprehensive record of the three hours of the early evolution of this incredibly bright afterglow.
Congratulations to Patrick on his observations!
Thanks to the Curry Foundation and NASA for support of the AAVSO International High Energy Network. Thanks to all the observers across the world for their hard work.
GRB130427A photometry by P. Wiggins
GRB110918A photometry by A. Oksanen, C. Harlingten, B. Schaefer, and M. Templeton
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The AAVSO has held three Professional-Amateur meetings in collaboration with NASA, Sonoma State University, and New Mexico State University
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MIT Media Labber David Cranor writes:
For the FAB6 conference this year, Max Lobovsky and I made a microcontroller-based thin client which uses a NTSC TV as its output device.
It does the NTSC video generation totally in hardware, has a full 480×240 framebuffer, and the code is written all in in c. Additionally, the code is written in such a way to make it easy for applications to draw arbitrary bitmapped graphics to the framebuffer, as well as access the serial receive buffer and keyboard character buffer.
This is my first STM32 project, so it was a fun exercise to make something which uses so many of the chip's peripherals. Doing color is next on the agenda; the only reason this iteration is black and white is that we only had a week from "here's the datasheet, cortex-M-what?" to finished project.
The STM32 used in this project runs at 80 MHz, has awesome peripherals, a DMA, tons of RAM/flash, a built in serial bootloader, and costs about $6 – I'm probably never going to use an atmega for anything again!
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Conservative News Service has released a "news story" with the hysterical headline "IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family." Let's take a look.
In a final regulation issued Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assumed that under Obamacare the cheapest health insurance plan available in 2016 for a family will cost $20,000 for the year.
I'll come back to the word "assumed" in a minute. But if you read the article a little further, you find that the "cheapest" is not really the cheapest, but an average of the level of coverage required by the individual mandate in order to avoid a penalty.
And then if you read the IRS document, it becomes clear that the $20,000 is a round number being used to show how the penalty will be calculated. that's where "assumed" comes in. The IRS isn't saying that's what it will cost.
But on top of that, the fact is that $20,000 for a family of four or five, which is what the article says is being "assumed," is probably in the ball park of what a comprehensive private health insurance plan costs now. It's a lot higher in New York, actually. I went to the Empire Blue Cross page to get a quote for private family health insurance for a family of five, with parents in their 40s and three school-age children, living in Westchester County. The monthly premium for an HMO plan is $4,754.66. Yes, the monthly premium. I took a screen shot of the result page (also note all the stuff the cheaper indemnity plan does not cover). The monthly premium for a point-of-service plan is $5,940.60. $20,000 per year is a bargain in comparison.
You can get way cheaper insurance plans in other states, of course, mostly because in those states insurance companies can still refuse to accept you if you have a pre-existing condition (which they can't in New York, and they won't be able to do after this year) and can also sell you coverage with big gaping holes that leave you with ruinous out-of-pocket costs (not allowed in New York, and not allowed anywhere else after this year).
So yeah, sweetums, that's what real private health insurance costs in these parts. And if you don't have insurance, and someone in your family needs major medical care, you could end up living in your station wagon. But then maybe you'll qualify for Medicaid, in some states, so the taxpayers will pay the bills.
Single payer starting to look a little better now?
Update: American Thinker takes the CNS article at face value and posts an article called "Working poor families to be big losers under Obamacare." Actually, working poor families will be somewhat better off than they are now. If they aren't getting health insurance through their jobs, which many aren't, there will be subsidies and other assistance made available to them, and the exchanges are supposed to offer plans at group plan rates they can buy into. And more of them will qualify for Medicaid, although several Republican governors are refusing to expand Medicaid, which will leave a few million people out.
American Thinker and other righties refuse to look at the stark reality of what life is like in America if you have no health care coverage at all. If you want to see losing, that's losing.
Update: Reading comments at American Thinker and other rightie sites, it's clear the righties are not making the distinction between private plans, group plans, and employee benefit plans. They think everybody is going to have to pay $20,000 a year for insurance, and are worked up into a frenzy about it. (Sigh)
Update: Kevin Drum —
Apparently conservatives are outraged by this, but I have one question for them: just how much do you think healthcare coverage costs? Do you have any clue at all? …
… The average cost of healthcare coverage for a family is currently about $16,000, and by 2015 (the base year for the IRS examples) that will probably be around $18,000 or so. And that's for employer-sponsored plans. Individual plans are generally steeper, so $20,000 isn't a bad guess. It might be a little high, but not by much. And the family in question will, of course, be eligible for generous subsidies that bring this cost down substantially, thanks to the Affordable Care Act. They won't actually pay $20,000 per year.
So is this outrageous? An example of Obamacare run amok? Hardly. It's just an example of how damn much healthcare coverage costs in America and why we needed Obamacare in the first place. Apparently a lot of conservatives are shocked when they find this out


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@wingsfrontman CHICAGO – The Detroit Red Wings had three chances to win one in their best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal series with the Chicago Blackhawks.
Their margin for error is now one less game.
Chicago scored two power play goals in the second period, one of which came from the much-maligned Jonathan Toews, and skated by the Wings, 4-1 Saturday night at the United Center.
'We're foolish to think that they're just going to give us that fourth game,' defenseman Carlo Colaiacovo said. 'We know we can be better and we are going to be better. They're a really good team. They deserved it more than we did.'
Detroit still holds a 3-2 in the series, which shifts back to Joe Louis Arena for Game 6, Monday at 8 p.m.
'It's up to us,' forward Henrik Zetterberg said. 'We can talk about momentum here or momentum there, it's up to the players to decide who has the momentum going into the game. We've been there before, been through this, so we just have to go out and play a good game.'
The Blackhawks, who also beat Detroit 4-1 in Game 1, came in losers of three straight for the first time all season, being outscored 9-2 in the process.
Chicago, which began the year 21-0-3, had just three two-game losing streaks during the regular season.
Andrew Shaw netted a pair and Bryan Bickell added the other goal for Chicago, while Corey Crawford made 25 saves.
Daniel Cleary scored the Wings' only goal and Jimmy Howard stopped 41 of the 45 shots he faced.
'They're a good team,' Zetterberg said. 'They're here for a reason and they showed it. We just have to play the way we want. Go back to playing like we did in the past three games. We all know that, now we just have to go back and do it.
'We don't get too high, we don't get too low, we just stay with it,' Zetterberg added. 'We know we can play good hockey if we do all the little things right. We just have to go back to doing that. We're confident too. I think it's going to two confident teams playing in Game 6.'
Trailing 1-0 after one period, Cleary evened things up just before the midway point of the game.
With both teams down a man, Zetterberg began the rush up ice and flung a backhand shot on goal with Brendan Smith and Cleary both driving hard to the net. The puck found its way to Cleary and from an impossible angle he shot one off Crawford's right toe.
The tie game didn't last long as the Blackhawks struck on the power play, taking advantage of Pavel Datsyuk breaking his stick early in the penalty kill. A shot from the point from Duncan Keith was redirected by Shaw past Howard.
The power play goal was Chicago's second of the series, snapping an 0-for-12 streak after scoring on its first man advantage of the series.
'I'm not frustrated at all,' Cleary said. 'We came in, we said let it go. You gotta forget about a game like that. We just didn't play well. We weren't hard enough on the puck, weren't hard enough on their defense, we didn't play like we've been playing.'
Less than three minutes later, an alert Marian Hossa found Toews camped out to the left of the Wings goal and the Blackhawks' captain did the rest, banking his shot off Howard's mask and into the mesh behind the Wings netminder.
'The good thing about hockey is you get a second chance,' defenseman Kyle Quincey said. 'You get to play in two days. (We're) looking forward to redeeming ourselves.
'They wanted it more than us, they had a little more jump,' Quincey added. 'That score kind of shows how the game went. They were better than us. We didn't match it.'
The goal was the first for Toews, who was whistled for three straight penalties in Game 4 that led to a Wings goal, this postseason.
'Both times (we had a chance to clear the puck) for sure,' Wings coach Mike Babcock said. 'The one time you broke your stick, what are you going to do. The other one, our guy fell down and someone else tried to do his job and next you're digging it out of the back of your net.
'Our first penalty kill of the night we did a good job, I don't think they got a shot, so we did a good job on that one,' Babcock continued. 'Bottom line is the last game we scored a power play goal and they didn't and they scored two power play goals (tonight) and we didn't and that's the difference, back-to-back games (came down to) specialty teams.'
Earlier in the period, the Wings looked like they were heading to their second power play of the game after Datsyuk was tripped, but Justin Abdelkader was also sent off for unsportsmanlike conduct after the play to put both teams down a man.
During the four-on-four play, Datsyuk rang a wrist shot off the post to the right of Crawford.
'I think we ended up in the box too much, but still all the way up until they got their second one we were right in the game,' Zetterberg said. 'After we scored our first one we were doing a lot of good things and had something going there and up until they scored their second one. But after the third one they took over again and then 4-1, game over.
Bickell opened the scoring late in the second period taking advantage of a Jonathan Ericsson turnover just inside the Wings' blue line.
That led to a flurry of action in Detroit's zone and after saves by Howard on Bickell and Patrick Kane, soon five Wings got caught on one side of the ice and left Bickell wide open for the easy goal.
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There has been a promising trend in the automotive industry over the last couple of years. Dealers are starting to pay a good amount of attention to their online reputation, something that simply wasn't a priority not too long ago. Today, it's at the top of mind for most dealers. The only challenge is that many are taking action towards improving their reviews on sites like Yelp, Google, and…Continue
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Members of the scientific community have marveled for years at the Australian bowerbird's elaborate courtship ritual, in which the male bowerbird builds an elaborate edifice of a twig canopy arching over an avenue (called a "gesso") of stones, bones, and shells in order to impress on a female bowerbird that he is dexterous and, therefore, a good lay. Female bowerbirds are attracted to the biggest structures containing the shiniest pebbles, — a fact that ornithologists seem to find hilarious — but research has revealed that males have employed an optical illusion in order to avoid the hard work of finding and arranging paving material for their avenues. Using a forced perspective trick that even medieval painters couldn't quite figure out, male bowerbirds arrange stones at the avenue's entrance from smallest to largest, thus making it appear more like a Champs-Elysees and less like a seedy alley in Perth (Perth, I'm sure, is a wonderful city).
In the January 20 issue of Science, Laura A. Kelley and John A. Endler of Deakin University in Australia explain that, since female bowerbirds prefer the grandest gessoes, they tend to choose males who've most successfully created the illusion of grandness. Based on the success of the male bowerbird's illusions, they further claim that
illusions may be widespread in other animals because males of most species display to females with characteristic orientation and distance, providing excellent conditions for illusions.
However, science wouldn't be awesome if there wasn't some cautious skeptic warning us not to get too carried away with trendy new claims. Barton L. Anderson from the University of Sydney says that there's still no demonstrable correlation between the male bowerbird illusions and female mate selection because, after all, they're birds and they might just be building these seemingly clever gessoes by accident.
Male Bowerbirds May Use Optical Illusion to Woo Mates [Wired]
In Bowerbird Romance, Master Illusionists Get the Girls [Scientific American]
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Mozilla in the Eye of the Storm
Apr 15, 2014 6:51 AM PT
The uproar that erupted over Mozilla Foundation cofounder Brendan Eich's appointment as CEO of its subsidiary Mozilla Corp. and resulted in his stepping down earlier this month perhaps was symptomatic of the troubles the foundation is going through, in that opposition to his taking the post had both political and technological dimensions.
Mozilla, which prides itself on being different from the hide-bound corporate cultures behind the other browsers, came a cropper politically when gay developers at Teamrarebit expressed their opposition to Eich's appointment on the grounds that he had contributed US$1,000 to Prop. 8, a 2008 anti-gay marriage California constitutional amendment.
Three of the Foundation's six directors left over Eich's appointment as CEO, reportedly because they felt he was not the correct person to lead Mozilla into the brave new world of mobile technology whose waters it has begun dipping its toes into.
Chief Marketing Officer Chris Beard was named a board member and the company's new acting chief executive on Monday. How the other board vacancies will be handled and whether Beard's appointment will be made permanent are uncertain.
In other developments, hackers at the Pwn2Own conference, held last month in Vancouver, found tour zero-day vulnerabilities in Mozilla's Firefox browser.
Meanwhile, Firefox has been losing market share steadily, with Netmarketshare showing it has only 17.26 percent of the desktop browser market.
Given all these issues, the questions of whether Mozilla can survive, and how, are assuming increasing importance.
The Politics Around Eich
Teamrarebit's anti-Eich blogpost was followed by an online petition calling on Eich to reverse his stance, resign or be replaced, launched by Credoaction.com.
Some Mozilla employees reportedly demanded Eich's resignation, and online dating site OkCupid called on visitors using Firefox to switch to another browser.
Mozilla Foundation cofounder Mitchell Baker, who initially stood had behind Eich, submitted to the inevitable earlier this month, announcing Eich had relinquished the CEO post.
Credoaction.com and some others opposed to Eich's appointment welcomed the move, but Teamrarebit was lukewarm, calling it a "sad victory" and pushing for an apology. In other words, the fight wasn't over.
Many have criticized the pressure that forced Eich to resign.
Eich's Technological Chops
Before that, he accomplished the first MIPS R4000 port of the Gnu Compiler Collection, a key component of the GNU toolchain, while at MicroUnity Systems Engineering.
Still, Eich might not possess the skillset required to take Mozilla into the mobile world, where he lacks both work experience and knowledge of the market.
Mozilla has set up partnerships to develop an inexpensive smartphone running the Firefox OS for sale in the developing world and in March introduced seven new devices and announced new partnerships.
However, the competition from inexpensive Android devices from white-box manufacturers in China, who already are grabbing a large share of the market, is keen.
Android accounted for 78 percent of smartphone OS shipments in 2013, with most of the growth coming from forked versions of the OS, mainly in China, India and adjacent markets, ABI Research found.
"There are so many options and so many vendors vying for a piece of the pie that garnering carriers, developers and consumers' attention ranges from difficult to impossible," remarked Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT.
The Lure of Filthy Lucre
Mozilla's purist stance may hamper it in the smartphone market.
"If a browser is just there to augment the user's activity and isn't that helpful about gleaning more information about the user that can be used to serve up ads, then it's not going to be too useful to carriers and businesses," Mukul Krishna, senior global director at Frost & Sullivan, told TechNewsWorld.
"Operators and businesses will have to want a browser because it will help their business model," Krishna continued. "If Mozilla can prove that, it can get a better foothold in the market, which is critical for its continued growth."
Fighting Tomorrow's Battles Today
Further, smartphones are becoming commodity items, and the trick to winning market share is not to fight yesterday's battle, which is what the bid to make an inexpensive smartphone constitutes, but to look ahead.
"I would look for someone more familiar with the embedded world, because that's where the industry is heading with Internet of Things applications," Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research, told TechNewsWorld.
The Damping Down of Firefox
At Pwn2Own in March, a fully patched version of Firefox was exploited four times by attackers, each discovering a new zero-day vulnerability.
Mozilla's senior engineering manager of security and privacy blamed the number of hacks on Pwn2Own's large rewards for exposing vulnerabilities, according to Slashdot.org. Researchers made US$50,000 for each Firefox vulnerability discovered, whereas Mozilla pays researchers $3,000 per vulnerability.
However, "they are innovating fast, and it is affecting the quality overall, plus the user interface," Al Hilwa, a program director at IDC Seattle, told TechNewsWorld.
The Battle Goes On
Eich quit both the CEO post and Mozilla voluntarily, and was not fired, asked to resign or forced out by employee pressure, according to Mozilla, which pointed out that "less than 10" of its 1,000 employees had called for his resignation, while a larger number had supported him in the CEO's job.
The board members who left did not resign over the Prop. 8 donation, Mozilla said, but it has not addressed rumors they quit over concerns about Eich's technological chops.
The next focal point of interest will be Eich's permanent successor.
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"Whom they bring in to take over the leadership and what's going to be their next move, especially when it comes to mobility, will give the market a good indication of its survivability," he added.
"Appointing Chris as our interim CEO is a first step in this process," said Baker in announcing Beard's appointment. "Next steps include a long-term plan for the CEO role, adding board members who can help Mozilla succeed and continuing our efforts to actively support each Mozillian to reach his or her full potential as a leader."


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HP Mired In Messy Allegations
For decades, Hewlett Packard was a Silicon Valley icon. Today, the company is mired in messy allegations about accounting irregularities at a software firm it bought called Autonomy.
From Silicon Valley, NPR's Steve Henn reports Autonomy allegedly inflated its earnings prior to that sale.
STEVE HENN, BYLINE: Last week, HP's CEO Meg Whitman told investors the company was writing off more than $8 billion in losses, largely because of what happened at Autonomy.
DAN MAHONEY: The magnitude of the write-down was quite large, but I was not surprised that there were accounting issues at Autonomy at all, just given the history.
HENN: Dan Mahoney at CFRA is kind of an investigative accountant. He digs into the records of public companies looking for signs of accounting fraud. Investors pay him for warnings of things that might go bad. Autonomy had been on his firm's accounting watch list for years.
MAHONEY: The first report we ever published on them was in February of 2001.
HENN: Over the next decade CFRA issued more a dozen warnings.
MAHONEY: Now, we don't write reports on companies that we think have great accounting. We only write reports on companies were we feel there are concerns.
HENN: Yesterday, Mike Lynch, Autonomy's founder, responded to allegations of impropriety in a public letter to HP's board. Lynch defended his accounting. He challenged HP's managers to share what they've found, and suggested HP's own mismanagement was to blame. HP says the matter is now in the hands of the government authorities.
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LESSONS LEARNED #29: "The problem with doing what is best for the common good is that few can agree on what the common good is." -Old Pithy
We've all heard the joke. What's coyote ugly? That's when you wake up with an extremely ugly person in bed lying on your arm. After a night of heavy drinking. You're fairly certain you had sex. You're not 100% sure because you can't remember anything. But here the two of you are. Naked. The circumstantial evidence is pretty damning. You want to get out. Fast. Instead of waking your lover, you chew your arm off so you can slip away quietly. Like a coyote will do if caught in a steel-jaw trap.
The lesson here is, of course, to drink in moderation. For when we drink to excess, we sometimes do things we wouldn't normally do sober. But we do. Drink to excess. And get drunk. And, boy, when we do, some of us really do. Make a real mess of their lives, too. You see, drunken husbands do not make happy wives. Or good fathers. Especially when drunken husbands beat up their wives, spend their paychecks at the corner saloon, have sex with prostitutes and catch syphilis (which they then pass on to their wives and soon to be born children).
For these reasons, wives have been behind various temperance movements throughout history. And they have had modest success. If you ever found yourself in a dry county thirsting for an adult beverage, you can thank these ladies. But Prohibition? That's a different story. That took Big Government. The Progressives. Who thought they knew best what was for the common good.
Wives have suffered unfairly from the affects of alcohol. But during the 19th century, their power was limited. They had to rely on grass-roots movements. And their churches. Which had moral authority as we were much more religious back then. Most drunken husbands knew they were behaving poorly. When sober. But things changed in the 20th century. The powers of the government grew. This power and new sciences (like eugenics) made some believe they could make a better society by passing enlightened laws. (And make better people in the case of eugenics).
We call it social engineering. Using the power of the state to change human behavior. Well, change it for those who are not apparatchiks of the state. The elite Progressives, including the ladies of high society, still drank. For it wasn't illegal to drink adult beverages. Only to manufacture, sell, or transport them. So it was the poorer elements of society who felt the impact of Prohibition. And the immigrants. Who the social elites blamed for all the drinking woes. For people in their strata of society didn't have drinking problems. So there was no reason to punish them. The elites. They weren't the problem. It was the poor. And the immigrants. They're the ones government needed to keep from drinking themselves to ruin.
So while the elites still enjoyed their intoxicating beverages in the safety of their mansions and clubs, Al Capone and other bootleggers fought for turf. For control of the illegal liquor trade. Shooting each other with Thompson Machine Guns in our public streets. That's a .45 caliber round. It makes big holes. And shatters bone. A lot of these rounds were flying through our public streets. And they hit more than just gangsters.
Prohibition modified some behavior. But at great cost. Congress repealed it in 1933. In part to stem the liquor violence. And part because the Great Depression was too depressing sober.
I once worked at a small office in a bad part of town. One day a woman knocked on the door. She asked if that 'short guy' that opens the gates in the morning was around. I said no. Then she asked me if I wanted to have a little fun. I said, "Thank you, but no." My secretary had come to the door while I was talking to her. After I closed the door, she told me that woman just lost a lot of weight. And that she probably had AIDS.
Women like her were common in the neighborhood. They sold sex for drug money. When they weren't with a John they were getting high. Men, too. One time, this 6-foot-plus behemoth in a skirt was walking in the street shouting something incoherent. Our driver discovered he was a guy. When he lunged through his open window while turning at the corner. I don't know what scared him more. The assault. Or the fact that she was a he.
By the way, that short guy that opens the gates? He was married. And had a couple of daughters. God only knows what he gave his wife.
Drug addiction is not good. No one's life ever got better by being addicted to drugs. None of these people ever planned on drug addiction. It just happened. Somehow. One day you're just partying with some friends. Then the next thing you know you're turning tricks or stealing to support your habit. If you have money it's a different story. Then you can party until you kill yourself. John Belushi overdosed from a heroin/cocaine cocktail called a speedball. Chris Farley, too. It's unlikely that the speedball was their first high. They probably started out with something less potent. Like marijuana. The entry drug of choice. Only when that drug loses its charm do people step up to something a little more potent.
Of course, if you don't start, chances are you won't move up to something more potent. This was the idea behind Nancy Reagan's anti-drug program. Stop the kids from starting. To resist peer pressure. To just say no. Her program did modify some behavior. Kids did use fewer drugs. But she was Ronald Reagan's wife. The Left didn't like him. Or her. So they ridiculed her program as being simplistic. Discontinued it. And drug use by kids increased.
Like Capone and his fellow bootleggers, the illegal drug trade is controlled by gangs. And they, too, fight over turf. But those involved at the street level of the drug trade today are a lot younger. During the days of Prohibition, kids played with toy guns. Today, they're playing with real guns. Not so much playing but killing each other. And innocent bystanders. In drive-by shootings. Why? Because drugs get you money. And money gets you power. Put all that together and it's very seductive to kids from broken homes in the hood. Who have nothing. And have nothing to lose. It's almost romantic. Fighting. And dying. A regular gangster. Living in a gangster paradise.
Once in, though, it's hard to get out. The song Gangsta's Paradise (by Coolio featuring L.V. from the 1995 Movie Dangerous Minds) laments about that paradise. "Tell me why are we so blind to see. That the ones we hurt are you and me."
You get higher up in the echelon and the violence gets worse. You can see that on America's southern border. And further south. Kidnappings. Beheadings. And other unspeakable things. Because of the big money in illegal drugs. Like there was in bootlegging. Make something illegal that people still want and will buy, and that something becomes a very profitable commodity indeed.
So what's the answer? What is the best course of action for the common good? We can keep drugs illegal. And continue to fight the war on drugs. And watch the violence escalate as people fight to control this illicit trade. Or we can decriminalize drugs. Make them easily accessible. And cheap. The drug gangs would go the way of the bootlegger gangs. And the crack/meth whore in the street won't have to perform as many sexual acts to support her habit.
Alcohol is legal today. And there are a lot of social costs because of that. But the majority of people who do drink are not driving under the influence or beating their wives. Or getting syphilis from a prostitute hanging out at the corner saloon. Wouldn't it be the same for drugs?
Kids drink. Even though they can't legally buy alcohol. But the worse thing they can do is kill someone while driving a car. Or get killed in a car driven by another drunken kid. Or kill themselves from binge drinking. Or get pregnant because they got drunk at a party. Or get infected with a venereal disease because they got drunk at a party and had sex. These are very bad things. But they're not an addiction. Sure, you can become an alcoholic, but a lot of kids don't like the taste of the adult beverages they're consuming. They're just doing it for the party buzz. And vomiting after. It takes awhile, for some, to get over that hump where those awful tasting beverages don't taste so awful anymore. But drugs? They're tasteless. There isn't a delivery system 'hump' to get over. Which makes the addiction process that much easier. And where there is only one kind of drunk, there are all sorts of highs. New and different drugs to explore. When you get bored with the drug du jour. So, no. It probably wouldn't be the same with alcohol. It would probably be worse.
Often the choice comes down to a lesser of evils. So, to do what is best for the common good, we just need to determine which is the lesser evil. So which is worse? The violence from trying to keep something illegal? Or the social costs of decriminalizing something that is already causing a lot of harm while being illegal? It comes down to what you, as an individual, think. And that is, must be, a subjective decision. And therein lays the problem of choosing what is best for the common good. It's an opinion. Choices aren't right or wrong. There're just different opinions.
And that's why so few can agree on what is best for the common good. Different people think different things are better. And different things are worse. And, at best, they can agree to disagree.
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text: At Weill Cornell Medical College, two studies led by investigators shed light on the molecular biology of three blood disorders, leading to novel strategies to treat these diseases. The two new studies -- one published online March 17 by Nature Medicine and the other March 25 in the online edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation -- propose two new treatments for beta-thalassemia, a blood disorder which affects thousands of people globally every year. In addition, they suggest a new strategy to treat thousands of Caucasians of Northern European ancestry diagnosed with HFE-related hemochromatosis and a novel approach to the treatment of the rare blood disorder polycythemia vera. These research insights were only possible because two teams that included 24 investigators at six American and European institutions decoded the body's exquisite regulation of iron, as well as its factory-like production of red blood cells. "When you tease apart the mechanisms leading to these serious disorders, you find elegant ways to manipulate the system," says Dr. Stefano Rivella, associate professor of genetic medicine in pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College. For example, Dr. Rivella says, two different gene mutations lead to different outcomes. In beta-thalassemia, patients suffer from anemia -- the lack of healthy red blood cells -- and, as a consequence, iron overload. In HFE-related hemochromatosis, patients suffer of iron overload. However, he adds, one treatment strategy that regulates the body's use of iron may work for both disorders. Additionally, investigators found another strategy, based on manipulating red blood cell production, could also potentially treat beta-thalassemia as well as a very different disorder, polycythemia vera. Revealing the Third Crucial Player In the Nature Medicine study, Dr. Rivella and his colleagues tackled erythropoiesis -- the process by which red blood cells (erythrocytes) are produced -- as a way to decipher and decode the two blood disorders beta-thalassemia and polycythemia vera. Beta-thalassemia, a group of inherited blood disorders, is caused by a defect in the beta globin gene. This results in production of red blood cells that have too much iron, which can be toxic, resulting in the death of many of the blood cells. What are left are too few blood cells, which leads to anemia. At the same time, the excess iron from destroyed blood cells builds up in the body, leading to organ damage. In polycythemia vera, a patient's bone marrow makes too many red blood cells due to a genetic mutation that doesn't shut down erythropoiesis -- the production of the cells. The researchers studied both normal erythropoiesis, in which a person makes enough red blood cells to replace those that are old, and a mechanism called stress erythropoiesis, which flips on when a person requires extra blood cells -- such as loss of blood from an accident. The hormone erythropoietin (EPO) controls red blood cell production, and can also induce stress erythropoiesis. Iron is also essential, says Dr. Rivella. "The two well-known elements needed to switch between normal and stress erythropoiesis are EPO and iron," he says. But Dr. Rivella and his team found that a third player is essential: macrophages, the immune cells that engulf cellular garbage and pathogens. Macrophages had been known to digest the iron left when old blood cells are targeted for destruction, but Dr. Rivella discovered that they also are necessary for stress erythropoiesis. He found macrophages need to physically touch erythroblasts, the factories that make red blood cells, in order for more factories to be created so that they can churn out red blood cells. "No one knew macrophages were a part of emergency red blood cell production. We now know they provide fuel to push red blood cell factories to work faster," says the study's lead author Dr. Pedro Ramos, a former postdoctoral researcher at Weill Cornell. The research team then looked at diseases in which there are too many red blood cell factories. Polycythemia vera was one of the conditions examined. The researchers disabled macrophage functioning in mice with polycythemia vera and found that red blood cell production returned to normal. In beta-thalassemia, the body increases the number of red blood cell factories to make up for the lack of viable blood cells -- a strategy that doesn't work. As a result, patients develop enlarged spleens and livers due to the overload of erythroblasts in those organs. The researchers found in mouse models that if they suppress the function of macrophages, the number of blood cell factories revert back to normal levels. However, there was also an additional benefit discovered. One of the functions of macrophages is to put excess recycled iron into erythroblasts. Researchers report if you suppress that function, less iron goes into the red blood cells. "So you then make red blood cells that have less iron, and they are now closer in structure to what they should be," says Dr. Rivella. In animal studies, the researchers saw that decoupling macrophages from the erythroblasts not only reduced the number of blood cell factories, but also improved anemia. The discovery could be translated into an experimental therapy by finding the molecule that physically binds a macrophage to an erythroblast, and then targeting and inhibiting it. "We need macrophages for good health, but it may be possible to decouple the macrophages that contribute to blood disorders," Dr. Rivella says. "I estimate that up 30 to 40 percent of the beta-thalassemia population could benefit from this treatment strategy." Dr. Rivella also made another connection. He says polycythemia vera "is sort of a tumor of the red cells, because you make too many of them." And he notes that previous research on macrophages found that they are very important in cancer metastasis. "I see a parallel between the activity of macrophages in supporting the proliferation of cells that are under stress conditions -- growing tumors and red blood cells that need to grow," he says. "It seems to us that macrophages are important in supporting a switch between normal growth and increased growth." Too Much Iron As Well As Anemia In the Journal of Clinical Investigation study, researchers from Weill Cornell and from Isis Pharmaceuticals of Carlsbad, Calif., examined the body's exquisite regulation of iron. Too little iron causes anemia. Too much iron in the body results in organ toxicity such as heart attacks and liver failure. Beta-thalassemia and hemochromatosis are two disorders in which affected individuals accumulate too much iron in their bodies. Now, Dr. Rivella, with his partners at Isis Pharmaceuticals Dr. Brett P. Monia and Dr. Shuling Guo, have revealed the ballet of molecules that controls iron absorption, as well as what goes wrong and how to potentially correct the deficit. Iron control is regulated, first and foremost, by hepcidin or Hamp, a hormone secreted into the bloodstream by the liver. Hamp controls the so-called "iron gate" in the intestines, a protein known as ferroportin. Ferroportin allows the body to absorb iron from food to help make red blood cells. (Iron latches on to the oxygen that the blood cells carry.) If iron levels are too high from iron-rich foods that are consumed, Hamp levels increase, which shuts the door on ferroportin's iron gate, blocking iron absorption, says Weill Cornell's Dr. Carla Casu, a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Rivella's laboratory and one of the two lead authors of this study with Dr. Guo at Isis Pharmaceuticals. Patients with beta-thalassemia and hemochromatosis have levels of Hamp that are too low, so the body absorbs more iron than is healthy. Hemochromatosis occurs because of a deficit in the HFE gene that controls the Hamp hormone. "Hamp is sleeping. It doesn't wake up when iron comes along, so too much iron is absorbed, says Dr. Rivella. The defect in beta-thalassemia is due to a defect in the globin gene that helps make hemoglobin. So Hamp is shut down because the body senses the anemia, and believes that more iron is required to make red cells. As a result, there is iron overload." The researchers found an answer to the iron overload in both diseases by studying a third disease, a childhood disorder in which a mutation in a gene called Tmprss6 causes Hamp levels to rise too high, so not enough iron is being extracted from the diet. Tmprss6 keeps Hamp levels high during childhood and adolescence, so a body cannot use iron successfully to grow. They reasoned that if they could create the conditions of Tmprss6 mutation -- high levels of Hamp hormone and repression of the body's use of iron -- in patients with thalassemia and hemochromatosis, they could treat those conditions. "If we block Tmprss6, we increase the expression of Hamp to normal levels, with the consequence that iron does not now accumulate," Dr. Monia says. The research team leaders, Dr. Monia and Dr. Guo at Isis Pharmaceuticals, developed an antisense drug that blocked Tmprss6 "in order to wake up Hamp expression." An antisense drug works by administering a chemically modified, stable DNA-like molecule that targets specifically an RNA sequence that is produced by the gene. This sequence binds to the natural gene RNA product, forming a double-stranded RNA/DNA hybrid duplex. This duplex is recognized by enzymes in the cell that cause degradation of the natural RNA. "When you destroy that RNA, you destroy the ability of the Tmprss6 to make any protein," Dr. Monia says. Both potential therapies offer new solutions to old blood disorder diseases. They need more studies before they can be brought to the clinic, although the antisense technology can be rapidly modified for its applications in humans, Dr. Rivella says. "These studies are like putting together pieces of a complicated puzzle, which then offers you the big picture, as well as ways to creatively improve the view," he says. Source: Eurekalert << Scientists: Marine Bacteria Could Soon be Acting as Microsc... 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VANCOUVER -- May the workforce be with you.
Star Wars' Jedi, glowing lightsabers and intergalactic alien adventurers will soon be duking it out in Vancouver's Gastown.
Industrial Light & Magic, the legendary visual effects firm George Lucas created for Star Wars, is bringing as much as one-third of the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII's visual effects work to Vancouver.
"Everybody here is going to be very, very involved in a lot of Star Wars content over the next seven years," ILM president and general manager Lynwen Brennan said. On the weight of the Star Wars franchise, ILM has taken over Pixar's 30,000 square foot Gastown studios and intends to staff it with 200 visual effects employees.
"The wonderful place we're in right now, we have 10 years of work ahead," Brennan said. There are not only three Star Wars plans in the works, but also spin-off movies. "That enables us to not only invest in jobs but in technoglogy development and R&D."
"We will be here at least eight to 10 years," ILM chief creative officer John Knoll said.
Vancouver's digital community is still reeling from Pixar's exit last fall, but Brennan said there's no danger ILM will leave. Pixar was looking to consolidate production in one place, whereas ILM needs more capacity, she said.
"We're absolutely committed to being here. We're planting very real, permanent roots here," Brennan said and she feels "very confident" that Vancouver staff will enjoy "very long, stable" employment.
The drop in the Canadian dollar hasn't affected decision-making, Brennan said, "because our leading tenet is talent and it is not about economics."
Nor will any interprovincial competition on tax credits drive ILM away.
"The tax credit is certainly important in that it's enabled this critical mass of the community to build here," Brennan said. "If the tax credit went away tomorrow — we have no tax credit in San Franciso and we are bigger in San Francisco than we have ever been. For ILM, it's really about talent and we found it here and we want to hang on to these people. If it was just about the tax credit, there's other places to go."
ILM tested Vancouver with a small office in 2011 that has already grown to 130 employees.
"They didn't just do what we told them to do," Brennan said. "We would sit in the dailies in San Francisco and literally be blown away. They just took it that extra mile....This is something very, very unique about the passion that folks have here."
The high quality of Vancouver's digital compositors and animators are particularly notable, Randal Shore, Vancouver office supervising producer said.
ILM sets up each of its studios with full capabilities rather than focusing them on separate specialties. In Vancouver, the company is particularly keen to hire creature technical directors and layout artists. Creature technical directors "rig" or set up their fantastical characters with bones, muscles, skin and animation controls which animators then work with. Layout artists match the output of computer "cameras" with film cameras so computer generated material and filmed material work in concert.
Creative supervision for the Vancouver studio will come from San Francisco. Vancouver being on the same time zone means Vancouver and San Francisco employees can review the dailies, or previous day's footage, together.
Jobs will be a combination of contract and permanent positions. Although the business is cyclical, "the goal is to keep making lifers," Knoll said. "There are always going to be some seasonal fluctuations as show hit their peaks and finish. I really don't want to churn."
ILM's Vancouver studio will also work on Warcraft and Jurassic World.
ILM is also opening a 200-employee London studio, already has a 400-employee Singapore studio, and 400 to 700 staff in its San Franciso headquarters. London is valuable because of its strong film-making base, and Singapore is a well-placed to expand into and work with film-makers in the Asian region.
B.C.'s 600 digital media companies employ 16,000 people and generates $2.3 billion in annual sales.
ILM will be looking for opportunities for two-way collaboration with Vancouver's training programs and would like to set up apprentice programs in Vancouver, Brennan said.
What ILM can contribute is teaching people "how to see," Brennan said. "What brings that extra bit of realism to a shot that helps sell to an audience. There is that artistic view of things."
There's little likelihood that audiences will tire of visual effects. Forty nine of the top 50 box office films of all time are very effects heavy films, Brennan said. Visual effects have "an enormous effect on the movie business in general."
Most people don't know that The Lone Ranger had a lot of visual effects in it because they were not "in your face," Brennan said, yet the film was nominated for a visual effects Academy Award.


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Leaves basal or cauline, alternate, opposite, or whorled, generally simple and toothed (to pinnately compound); stipules 0 or generally deciduous
Inflorescence: spike, raceme, panicle, or flowers solitary in axils; bracted
Flower generally bisexual, generally radial, opening at dawn or dusk; hypanthium sometimes prolonged beyond ovary (measured from ovary tip to sepal base); sepals generally 4(27); petals generally 4 (or as many as sepals, rarely 0), often "fading" darker; stamens generally 4 or 8(2), anthers 2-chambered, opening lengthwise, pollen generally interconnected by threads; ovary inferior, chambers generally 4 (sometimes becoming 1), placentas axile or parietal, ovules 1many per chamber, style 1, stigma 4-lobed (or lobes as many as sepals), club-shaped, or hemispheric
Fruit: capsule, loculicidal (sometimes berry or indehiscent and nut-like)
Seeds sometimes winged or hair-tufted
Genera in family: 15 genera, ± 650 species: worldwide, especially w North America; many cultivated (Clarkia, Epilobium, Fuchsia, Gaura, Oenothera )
Reference: [Munz 1965 North America Fl II 5:1278]
Annual, perennial herb, from taproot or lateral roots
Leaves basal, cauline, or both, alternate, simple to 2-pinnate
Inflorescence bracted; spike, raceme, or flowers solitary in axils
Flower radial, generally opening at dawn (rarely at dusk); sepals 4, reflexed (sometimes 23 remaining adherent); petals 4, yellow, white, lavender, often with darker basal spots, generally fading purplish or reddish; stamens (4)8, longer ones opposite sepals, anthers generally attached at middle (or base), pollen grains 3-angled except in polyploid taxa (visible with hand lens); ovary chambers 4, stigma ± head-like or hemispheric, generally > anthers and cross-pollinated (or ± = anthers and self-pollinated)
Fruit straight to coiled, generally sessile
Seeds in 12 rows per chamber
Species in genus: 62 species: w North America (especially CA-FP), 1 South America
Etymology: (L.A. von Chamisso, French-born German botanist, 17811838)
Reference: [Raven 1969 Contr US Natl Herb 37:161396]
Polyploidy and self-pollination have predominated in evolution of genus. Previously included in Oenothera (" O." in synonyms).
Perennial or subshrub, short-lived, rosetted, densely strigose (rarely glabrous); hairs of inflorescence generally erect, short
Stems prostrate to ± ascending, < 60(130) cm, peeling
Leaf 550 mm, narrowly ovate to obovate, minutely serrate; cauline petioles 010 mm
Inflorescence nodding
Flower: hypanthium 2.18.5 mm; sepals 411.5 mm; petals 620 mm, yellow fading reddish, bases with 02 red dots
Fruit 1025 mm, 22.5 mm wide, 4-angled, generally 12-coiled
Seeds in 1 row per chamber, 1.21.3 mm, minutely pitted in rows, dull brownish black
Chromosomes: 2n=14
Ecology: Sandy slopes, flats, coastal dunes
Elevation: < 100 m.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast, Central Coast, South Coast, Channel Islands
Distribution outside California: sw Oregon, n Baja California
Synonyms: O. c. Spreng. including var. nitida (Greene) Munz
Generally cross-pollinated. Sspp. intergrade on ChI.


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Veterans Day Activities, Grades 9-12
Lesson Plans, Activities, and Resources Focus on Wartime Service and Sacrifice
On November 11, we honor the wartime service and sacrifice of men and women in the armed forces. Originally proclaimed Armistice Day in 1919 to commemorate the end of World War I, it was renamed Veterans Day in 1954 to include American veterans of all wars.
The following lessons, activities, games, and resources will help your students celebrate service men and women past and present.
Lesson Plans & Activities
The Veteran in a New Field, 1865
Students in grades K-12 view and interpret Winslow Homer's 1865 painting The Veteran in a New Field. Teachers can download the Homer lesson ( PDF, 79 KB, 2 pgs.) as well as the "Teachers Resource Book" ( PDF, 4.29 MB, 130 pgs.) for Picturing America, 40 art-historic images of paintings, sculpture, drawings, decorative objects and architecture that represent several centuries of U.S. history.
The Normandy Invasion
Students in grades 9-12 learn that the Normandy invasion was a combined effort by several nations and that war has significant psychological costs.
Building Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts through Web-Based Inquiry
Students in grades 9-12 work in small groups, adopt the perspective of members of a group involved in the war (e.g., soldier, nurse, doctor, photojournalist, TV reporter) and conduct Internet research to explore how that particular group was affected. After completing their research, students compose an internet scavenger hunt.
Love of War in Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story"
Students in grades 9-12 explore the relationship of love and war by examining "How to Tell a True War Story." Download this chapter ( PDF, 29 KB, 10 pgs.) of O'Brien's The Things They Carried.
Background Resources
Veterans History Project, Library of Congress
Archive of veteran interviews from WWI to the present and two dozen interviews with pilots and crew members from WW II to the present.
Highlights in the History of Military Women ( PDF, 1.62, 9 pgs.)
Timeline from the American Revolution to 2008.
- Teacher Resource Guide ( PDF, 3.48 MB, 33 pgs.)
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The Google Nexus 4 has sold out less than an hour after going on sale yesterday.
The LG-manufactured Nexus 4 went on sale through Google's Play Store at approximately 12:15pm yesterday. However, both the 8GB and 16GB models were listed as "coming soon" less than an hour later.
The current Nexus 4 Play Store page notes that customers can "sign up to be notified by email when Nexus 4 becomes available."
Google has not clarifed when the device will go back on sale in Australia, nor is it known how much stock was allocated for the first batch of orders.
The 8GB model Nexus 4 sells for $349 while the 16GB model retails for $399.
There are currently no plans for Australian carriers to sell the phone, but LG says that the 16GB model will sell through retailers at a later, unannounced date.
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Where To Go For Oyster Happy Hour in NYC
Few experiences rival that of slurping down a truly great raw oyster. That first taste is a lot like flipping back the covers of a freshly made hotel bed and crawling into those cool, crisp, well-made sheets. It's not that you were unhappy with your own bed, but suddenly you're thinking, Whoa, this feels really good. I should most definitely do this every day. Then your bill arrives and reality kicks in; in the blink of an eye you've gone through all five stages of grief and come to terms with your ill-fated return to the drudgery of everyday life.
Luckily, oysters are not hotel beds. They are far more delicious and significantly more affordable. And it just so happens that New York City is home to some of the most extensive oyster selections out there: common East Coast varieties like Blue Points and Malpeques, and through the wonders of modern day shipping, varieties from the West Coast and beyond. But for those of us who fantasize about the bivalves and dread the hefty price tag—a dozen not-so-filling oysters can easily land you with a bill of $40—wish-fulfillment can get a little tricky. That's where happy hour comes in.
If you live in New York, you've probably noticed the recent proliferation of bars advertising oyster happy hours, often selling them for just $1 a pop. While nothing sounds better than washing away a long day of work with an affordable dose of that oceany goodness, a disappointingly bland oyster can make that day a whole lot worse (and a spoiled oyster can also make it a whole lot longer).
We set out on a mission to determine the very best places to scratch our oyster itch(es) without breaking the bank. Our top considerations were: 1) the freshness and flavor of the oysters, 2) the quality of shucking, 3) the selection available during happy hour, and 4) the overall ambiance of the bar or restaurant. We definitely encountered the rubbery, the gritty, and the bland, but also found eight spots that really blew us away. Hit up the slideshow above for the play by play, or head straight to our recommendations below.
Best All-Around: Maison Premiere
Happy Hour: Monday to Friday, 4 to 7 p.m.
You really can't go wrong with this Williamsburg oyster house. Its charming turn-of-the century decor and extensive absinthe menu are the perfect complements to an extraordinary selection of fresh, expertly shucked oysters. Not all of their oysters are included in the happy hour special, but with 19 $1 varieties, it was far and away the broadest and least expensive-for-quality menu that we encountered on our hunt. Read more »
Maison Premiere: 298 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211 (map); 347-335-0446; maisonpremiere.com
Best Cocktails: Prima
Happy Hour: Monday to Friday, 5 to 7 p.m.
Prima offers a solid selection of East Coast oysters and a nice, clean shuck, but what really seals the deal is their amazing cocktail menu. Well-balanced and expertly crafted, their drinks knocked my socks off. During their happy hour, both oysters and cocktails are sold on a two-for-one basis. At $1.50 each the oysters on the slightly pricier side, but if you plan to have a drink or two with a small nibble, it's a steal. Read more »
Prima: 58 East 1st Street, New York, NY 10003 (map); 646-559-4823; primanyc.net
Most Locations: Mermaid Oyster Bar/Mermaid Inn
Happy Hour: Monday to Thursday, 5:30 to 7 p.m.; Friday to Saturday, 5 to 7 p.m.
Sometimes an oyster craving simply can't wait. With three restaurants located around the city, Mermaid makes it easy to get your fix. The happy hour offers an option of $1 East Coast oysters and $1.75 West Coast oysters, along with $1 raw clams. Top off your raw bar feast with a reasonably priced glass of house wine or Mermaid's very own oyster-friendly brew. Read more »
Mermaid Oyster Bar/Mermaid Inn: Locations in West Village, East Village, and Upper West Side; themermaidnyc.com
For a Relaxed, Intimate Night: Domaine Wine Bar
Happy Hour: Monday to Friday, 5 to 7 p.m. Soaked in dim, red-tinted light, Domaine has a quiet, appealing intensity. They serve a rotating menu of one oyster variety at a time, but my $1 Blue Points were luscious and meaty with incredible flavor. The bartender is more than happy to suggest thoughtful wine pairings, and should you decide to stick around till 9 you can add some live music to that buzz. Read more »
Domaine Wine Bar: 50-04 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, NY 11101 (map); 718-784-2350; domainewinebar.com
Best Neighborhood Joint: Cornelius
Happy Hour: Tuesday to Thursday, 5 to 7 p.m., and again from 10 p.m. until closing
Cornelius is one of those great neighborhood bars that just gets even better because it has a $1 oyster happy hour. One warning: the oysters here varied; some were puny while others were meatier. Either way, my friends and I have no problem polishing off 38 of them. Beers are $4 during happy hours (hello Lagunitas IPA!). They also win for best cat sticker on the bill. Read more »
Cornelius: 565 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238 (map); 718-398-6662; corneliusbrooklyn.com
Best Late-Night Oysters: Essex
Happy Hour: Sunday to Friday, 5 p.m. until closing
Essex is a rare gem in this coveted scene, shelling out $1 oysters long after other bars have bumped their prices back up. On the smaller, more generic side, they weren't the best Blue Points I've ever had, but they were a far cry from the worst. And of course they get some major points for making a dozen oysters into a cheap(ish) drunk food I won't regret come morning. Read more »
Essex: 120 Essex Street, New York, NY 10002 (map); 212-533-9616; essexnyc.com
Best Wine & Cheese: The Ten Bells
Happy Hour: Monday to Friday, 5 to 7 p.m. and Saturday to Sunday, 3 to 7 p.m.
Holy...moly, do these guys have a wine list. And a cheese list. And a charcuterie list. Oh yeah, and there are two rotating varieties of $1.25 oysters on hand a full seven nights a week. We can say more, but do we need to? Read more »
The Ten Bells: 247 Broome Street, New York, NY 10002 (map); 212-228-4450; thetenbells.com
Best Place to Get Fancy: Lure Fish Bar
Happy Hour: Monday to Friday, 5 to 7 p.m.
The Blue Points are plump, wet, juicy, and $1.50 each, which means $18 for the dozen. Order them at the bar, where it's loud and swinging with stylish folk, many of whom look like they're out on a hot date. This is a good spot if you're meeting up with someone in Soho for drinks and bar snacks, but aren't sure if it'll turn into real dinner after (and if it does, there's a full seafood-centric menu and a sushi bar in the back). Read more »
Lure Fish Bar: 142 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012 (map); 212-431-7676; lurefishbar.com
— Niki Achitoff-Gray, with additional reporting by Erin Zimmer
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The Dance Exchange is hosting INSPIRE, a Youth Internship Program supported by Maryland Multi-cultural Youth Centers. In this six-week summer intensive, participants will gain leadership skills, engage in the community and make art in the local environment. This project is led by Wayles Haynes, the Youth Programs Coordinator and Lead Artist of the Teen Exchange at the Dance Exchange. I am a supporting artist offering workshops in art making, community engagement, video and photography
Photos is this gallery are from day one workshop in developing art making and designing activities for community engagement. Facilitation and photos by Alexis.
Inspire is a young adult internship program involving individual mentoring of participants as they develop skills in community engagement, project management, communications and movement based art-making. This multi-layered project results in various outcomes from personal achievement to facilitating public discourse and art-making around shared spaces and ideas. Participants will learn about the many facets of the Dance Exchange from artistry to administration and develop their own practice in how to engage a community around concept-based making. This will come in three main conduits; personal art-making, mentor observed group work and community engagement. ~
Wayles Haynes, Lead Artist and Adjunct Artist with the Dance Exchange
Youth Arts Night at the Dance Exchange.
Teen Exchange hosted Youth artists at Dance Exchange to perform dance, song and poetry.
I have been working closely with Teen Exchange as a mentor / facilitator this year.
Teens from Teen Exchange performed their own original choreography, and they also organized the event and invited the group's who performed.
Please follow this link to find the recent video documentation to a light / shadow workshop facilitated this month with Teen Exchange.
As well as this link to the Teen Exchange Tumblr and here for more information about this youth-lead modern dance group.
In the month of December I installed a show of MACA art at Dance Exchange. John Borstel, the Humanities Director, invited us to share the work of our group to highlight the MACA/LLDE partnership and celebrate/show what we make. I coordinated collecting, transporting, and installment of my classmates work as part of their open house on December 13th, 7:00-9:00.
Dance Exchange Extravaganza a link to see the AmeriCorps plug and art!


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Diversity @ ESF 24/7/365Campus Calendar
Monday, November 4, 2019
11:30 am - 12:15 pm
Location: Baker 408
Event Description: Event Description: Diversity@ESF 24/7/365 is a series of facilitated gatherings for underrepresented students of all identities and their allies, serving as a stopgap until the Student Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives Office is re-staffed and relocated in physical space yet to be determined.
August 26,
September 4, 9, 18, 23
October 2, 7, 16, 21, 30
November 4, 13,18
December 4, 9
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Maximize use of existing spaces and communicate the high value ESF places on diversity
Determine and respond to factors in the attrition of racially diverse students and other underrepresented student populations.
Engagement presentations or activities (to facilitate relationships among underrepresented students, campus entities and
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Dog left to die in stolen SUV found at San Jose Walmart
GILROY -- Heartbroken by the senseless, slow death of his canine pal, Michael McVey hopes that a surveillance photo might help find those responsible for leaving a kindhearted dog to wither for days in the back of a stolen SUV.
The tragedy began on Feb. 23, when McVey's Nissan Pathfinder was stolen from the Gilroy Walmart parking lot with his longtime pet Keiko, a 15-year-old Akita, in the back seat.
"She was a great companion, I took her everywhere," said McVey, 56, who is unmarried and has no kids. "It never was a problem -- she would just wait in the car for me to come back. She probably didn't understand what was going on."
After calling police and searching the parking lot to no avail, he spent the following days agonizing over what happened to Keiko. He found out last Thursday morning when San Jose police called and delivered the news: His SUV was found at a San Jose Walmart. Keiko was still inside.
"She didn't survive after four days without food or water," McVey said. "I'm pretty disgusted -- it's horrible that they did that, just left her there like that and walked away. I want to see them brought to justice.
"What they did was beyond wrong. It takes a sick kind of person to treat a living creature like that."
Sitting in his San Martin trailer on Tuesday, McVey flipped pages in an old photo album, showing pictures of his dog at play and posed in a loud Hawaiian shirt. Keiko loved the beach, he said, and often accompanied him on his surfing trips to Baja California.
"He loved his dog so much it was to the point where I thought he was weird," said his friend Josh Harris, 25, whose family owns the property where McVey has lived for more than eight years. "I thought there was something off about this guy -- who loves a dog that much?"
Harris said that after getting to know McVey, he realized that Keiko truly was his best bud.
"He'd go make a T-bone steak for her," Harris said, "then pop a frozen dinner in the microwave for himself."
Gilroy police released a photo from a surveillance tape taken at Walmart that shows the two people who stole McVey's vehicle.
"At this point, they are persons of interest in the vehicle theft," said Gilroy police Sgt. Pedro Espinoza. "But they are probably responsible in one way or another for the dog as well."
Espinoza said based on the video, one of the men is about 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-8, with average build and a goatee. His accomplice is taller, 6 feet to 6-foot-2, with a thin build.
"Hopefully, once we put this out to the public someone will say, 'Hey, that looks like so-and-so,' and we'll go from there," Espinoza said.
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Wonder Woman artist Cliff Chiang celebrates the Amazonian princess — as well as the Black Canary, Zatanna, and Batgirl — by placing them in an all-girl rock band. Love Wonder Woman rocking the Joan Jett hair, and those star-spangled pants don't look half bad.
Don't give a damn 'bout my bad reputation… [Cliff Chiang via Popped Culture]


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The following story about an incident in Saudi Arabia, published in Alakhbar, reads as satire, but is all too real, and represents and interesting postscript to our recent critique of Harriet Sherwood's tall tale about Christmas in Bethlehem , which conjured fanciful images of Christians under siege in the Holy Land.
Here are excerpts from the Alakhbar piece:
"Saudi religious police stormed a house in the Saudi Arabian province of al-Jouf, detaining more than 41 guests for "plotting to celebrate Christmas," a statement from the police branch released Wednesday night said.
The host of the alleged Christmas gathering is reported to be an Asian diplomat whose guests included 41 Christians, as well as two Saudi Arabian and Egyptian Muslims.
The kingdom, which only recognizes Islamic faith and practice, has in the past banned public Christmas celebrations, but is ambiguous about festivities staged in private quarters.
A member of the Higher Council of Islamic scholars in Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Mohammed al-Othaimin recently prohibited sending holiday wishes to "heretics" on Christmas or other religious Christian holidays."
As Christians throughout Israel were freely celebrating the birth of Christ, in the neighboring state of Saudi Arabia dozens were detained for 'conspiring' to celebrate the holiday.
Meanwhile, on the Guardian's Saudi Arabia page, there was nothing on the crackdown against Christianity.
While Harriet Sherwood and her team of journalistic and polemical investigators continue to conduct a never-ending moral DNA analysis of the Jewish state for any trace amounts of racism or discrimination, the abominable treatment of religious minorities in the non-Jewish Middle East avoids serious scrutiny.
While we continue to report on the Guardian's bias against the only Jewish state in the region, it's impossible to properly contextualize such skewed coverage without noting the regional stories they don't report.
Such expansive moral blind spots, as much as any other dynamic, continue to define the ideological space occupied by the Guardian Left.
Related articles
- US Guardian and the UK Guardian – 2 blogs separated by a 'unit-ary' language (cifwatch.com)
- They've Got No Game (Dexter Van Zile)


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Wednesday, October 7th
Take whatever time you need to sort out any problem relationships today: you don't want to hurt anyone, & it never feels virtuous, but sometimes they just come to an end. There is currently no need to explain yourself or to understand; today is the day for when you couldn't be more obvious. If you procrastinate you may find that you no longer understand what someone in your position is to do. Today you do; today is your day.
Tuesday, October 6th
Only you know if everything is in place today, whether everything seems alright. There's a chill in the air & the sky's turning black, & you may feel that there's something missing; in the whispering rain & the trembling leaves it's easy to feel this way. If you keep your head, stay centred & focus on your strengths you will be able to compensate for this feeling of loss, & rise above it.
Monday, October 5th
Although you may be unable to stay out all night & feel alright, it sometimes helps to remember that you're not just here for business: you're also here for fun. It doesn't help if you know you don't have any money; yet there's often some little café where they play guitars all night & all night day. Your rosy day will come; someday you'll look back on this & it will all seem funny.
Sunday, October 4th
You may be so energetic today that you are ready to shake your knees, bang the drum & cut the rug right where you are. Calming down is tricky- and that's the basic dilemna of this Starr in your 3rd House of Laughter opposite the Sun in your 10th House of Plans. When the Autumn leaves come down, soon the snow flakes fall. So waste no moré time fooling around: act today on what you have discovered. You may go wrong but it will be alright as long as you are prepared to wait. If you deal the pack & check your hand you should get everything you expect.
Saturday, October 3rd
Today you may need to just slow down. In the evening, in the dark, stop: 'til there's not a sound, not one sigh, just the beat of your poor heart. It may be as if your mind begs you to please keep still, knowing it will be ending. Now you may find what the rest have left behind; just let them dance, you could find what you need in the dark.
Friday, October 2nd
You want to feel things are fine: 'til the time you find your plans have died. You may be a diamond in the rough; wanting that special someone who stays & won't play games behind you is perfectly normal. You don't know that you will but until you can find yourself you have to be what you are: right or wrong, weak or strong.
Thursday, October 1st
You may have moved up while just trying to make a living; we're not all movie stars or millionaires. Now, however, do you know where you came from or where you plan to go? Choosing to move on again is one way. Ultimately, however, time alone & thinking about your life are healthy ways to fix things. Like allvintage wine, sometimes it's the best move just to stay put for a bit.


text: How happy were you on 20 March this year? Given Western European statistics, let's assume not overtly happy. Because, let's face it; a grey March day in Europe is not always the most uplifting scenario. In fact, it might very well be that you cannot recall any specific feelings from the 20th of this rather anonymous month at all. However, the UN has named the 20 March the International Day of Happiness.