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The stigma of madness is used with great effect by the mass corporate media. People who look deeper into the roots of the conflicts of the Middle East and use their knowledge to counter the popular Western perceptions are painted with the same "crazy conspiracy theory" brush.
The men of the East are rarely humanized. Only the men of the West are immortalized as heroic and noble. The Eastern man is demonized by the West because the West is perpetually at war with the East–Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Iranians, Arabs, Pakistanis, Afghans.
From a sociological and political perspective, the West's mythology of the East is necessary because otherwise the people of the West, who are kind, generous, and gracious, would not support their civilization's warfare against the East. But from a humanitarian perspective, Western mythology is a total disaster. It is driven by madness and a lust for domination, not reason.
We can't expect one civilization to understand another civilization when powerful transnational and private interests do not want understanding, mutual respect, love, and brotherhood to become the highest aspirations of all mankind.
As long as the East is identified with irrationality, religious extremism, and barbarism while the West is identified with reason, science, and democracy, no progress can be made on the path to world peace. Both civilizations must lay down their arms, abandon their crude mythology, and work together in common faith to make the world a better place for all members of our beautiful planet.
II. The West Is Mad
On the question of madness, we have to ask ourselves: what about the West? Is it not irrational as well, and perhaps even more than the East? And I'm not just talking about Hitler and the madness of Nazi Germany. I'm talking about England, the United States, Canada, Australia, France, and Israel, the so-called "advanced, free democracies" of the world. They are the major countries that are leading the charge against international terrorism and Islamic extremism, but are actually creating the terror and causing global chaos.
International terrorism and Islamic extremism exist in large part because the corrupt state intelligence agencies of Western countries fund, train, and arm Islamic radicals. Plus, they stage false flag terror attacks like 9/11 and 7/7 to brainwash the people of the West into accepting the militarization of society as necessary for public safety.
The scholar and author Israel Regardie, writing about the American psychiatrist Robert Lindner's insights into the mind, said that Lindner believed "all Western society is "neurotic" since Western man lives only according to taboos, myths, legends — beliefs without foundation in fact." How true!
We think the West is scientific and rational, but how sane can a civilization be when it decides to go to war against a verb? Terrorism, as many analysts have said, is a law enforcement issue. It will exist as long as Western occupation of the East persists, and as long as government oppression exists in any part of the world.
Western civilization has indeed gone mad. Apart from the conspiracy theory/alternative paradigm segment of society, no one is telling the truth about 9/11 and the true reasons for the fraudulent war on terror. Even worse, most people make fun of truth-telling and pretend that Western governments and the Western media have told us all there is to know about the 9/11 attacks.
The sanest men of the West – Ron Paul, Alex Jones, David Icke, Richard Gage, Michael Ruppert, and many more thoughtful revolutionaries – are denounced as crazy conspiracy theorists and paranoid nutjobs. These men are lions of the spirit in the book of life. They do not deserve ridicule, but praise and gratitude.
Alien visitors who study our civilization and our planet from afar would conclude that the West is a mad civilization, and that Earth is full of people who do not have their heads on straight. And that includes the men of the East who mistakenly believe that cursing the West somehow gives their civilization strength and honour. It doesn't, it just shows how stupid they are. The irrationality of the most extremist elements of political Islam consists in their refusal to meet the West halfway and bridge the wide psychological gap between the two civilizations.
III. The Madness of The West's War Against Iran
America's relationship to Iran is similar to Satan's relationship to man. America's insane and monstrous leaders constantly flash the sword of death in front of Iran, and expect Iran to fall to its knees and beg for mercy. That is not going to happen. America must fundamentally change its stance and reject war as a tool to reshape the world.
Award-winning journalist Seymour Hersh highlighted the warped reasoning of American policy towards Iran on Democracy Now on Tuesday, April 10. Hersh said:
"So we are now—the United States is now in the position of increasing sanctions and pressuring all sorts of economic pressure on the Iranians to stop—the whole purpose of the economic sanctions is to stop the Iranians from making a bomb that we know they're not making. Once again, I don't know how we get into this convoluted position. And then, as readers of the major newspapers know, we are now also entering new talks with Iran with new preconditions, and basically telling them that they must stop doing enriching, what they are legally entitled to do as members of the Non-Proliferation Treaty."The source of the madness of the West is without doubt the Western media, which is filled with government spies, anti-freedom propagandists, hate-filled pundits, and circus buffoons. The Western media is not professional, objective, sane, or honest. It suppresses the truth about the 9/11 attacks, the insanity of the global war on terrorism, and aggression against Iran by Israel and the West.
IV. The West Is Sleepwalking On The Road To Totalitarian Hell
What we have in the West is a schizophrenic civilization on steroids. It is either headed for the cliff or it will transform and transcend into something more beautiful and grander.
"Madness," said Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing, "need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death."
Paul Levine, in his essay on Laing called, "R.D. Laing: The Politics of the Mind," wrote:
While R.D. Laing is perhaps most famous as the man who has redefined the boundaries of our definition of madness, his most important accomplishment to date has been to reveal to us the workings of "the politics of experience". For if we are to transform our alienated, fragmented selves into liberated, whole persons, we must repoliticize our experience so that we may reclaim it, validate it for ourselves, and thus become the primary actors in our world. What Laing has done is to expose the process of mystification whereby we have tied ourselves and each other in knots, creating a divided self and a divided world. He sums the idea up this way:We must take R.D. Laing's words to heart. It is our joyous task in the global alternative media to promote greater understanding between East and West, serve righteousness and justice, and help our fellow human beings see the great value in self-reflection and truth-telling.
As long as we cannot up-level our "thinking" beyond Us and Them, the goodies and baddies, it will go on and on. The only possible end will be when all the goodies have killed all the baddies, and all the baddies all the goodies, which does not seem so difficult or unlikely since to Us, we are the goodies and They are the baddies, while to Them, we are the baddies and they are the goodies.
Millions of people have died this century and millions more are going to, including, we have every reason to expect, many of Us and our children, because we cannot break this knot.
It seems a comparatively simple knot, but it is tied very, very tight-round the throat, as it were, of the whole human species,
But don't believe me because I say so, look in the mirror and see for yourself.
We can either come together to work towards common, sane, and peaceful goals, or we can go mad in our separate ways on the road to hell, upon which we are all currently traveling on because of the policies of our insane and criminal governments.


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Small tractor leader adds new models and improves existing lineup.
A midst the sea of products at the National Farm Machinery Show, Kubota's new models, upgrades and a new optional all-weather cab stood out.
Its utility M-series, which ranges in size from 45 to 80 PTO hp, offers increased horsepower and an upgrade of the transmission to a new synchro-shuttle type that lets operators shift smoothly between gears in either direction. For heavy-duty work, Kubota's 4-wd models in this series are built with a bevel gear front wheel drive system that allows equal pulling power at all steering angles and delivers a short turning radius made easy with hydrostatic power steering. They are powered by its indirect-injection E-TVCS diesel engines designed for greater power with less noise and vibration and a cleaner emission.
Cab upgrade. For the first time, models M4900 (45 PTO hp), M5700 (52 PTO hp) and M6800 (62 PTO hp) can be ordered with an integrated all-weather cab. It features a flat deck, tilt steering, deluxe reclining seat, right-side control console, hatch-type rear window, concealed pillars and dual-level air conditioning - all designed to enhance operator comfort.
More power. Kubota's second announcement at the show was that it has added stoutness to its Grand L Ten series of 25_1/2 to 40_1/2 PTO hp tractors. The company claims its largest model in this compact range, L-4610, now offers a class-leading 2,470-lb. lift capacity. Its hydrostatic (HST) transmission delivers a top speed of 18.5 mph, or 17.9 mph with the glide-shift tranny. The HST offers three drive ranges and a feather-step hydraulic servo mechanism to reduce pressure needed on the pedal. The hydraulically shifted, mechanical glide-shift transmission offers clutch-free shift-on-the-go operation for smooth front-to-reverse directional changes using its eight forward and two reverse gears.
Powering the compact is a 4-cyl., direct-inject, liquid-cooled Kubota E-TVCS diesel engine, designed to work with Kubota's newly engineered LA852 front loader to speed operation. A high-capacity dual-hydraulic pump is standard: The main pump capacity is 9.6 gpm, and the capacity of the power steering pump increased to 4.8 gpm.
Subcompacts. If you're thinking small, somewhere between a garden and compact tractor, Kubota now offers the first and only models in a new subcompact class: an 18-hp BX 1800 and a 22-hp BX 2200. They feature a _3/8-in. ladder-type chassis with a 55.1-in. wheelbase and are powered by a 3-cyl., liquid-cooled Kubota E-TVCS diesel engine. Both models have 4-wd and a heavy-duty, two-speed hydrostatic transmission, plus a rear differential lock.
For more information, contact Kubota Tractor Corp., Dept. FIN, 3401 Del Amo Blvd., Torrance, CA 90503, 310/370-3370.

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Valle Ocultado
Valle Ocultado is the smallest functioning municipality in San Andreas. Its name translates from Spanish as Hidden Valley. It is located in the northwestern tip of Bone County, at the foot of the bridge leading into Tierra Robada to the west, and just north of Arco del Oeste. This tiny community consists of two motels, an establishment with a sign reading "GAS", and a boat station. Nearby areas include Sherman Dam, Sherman Reservoir, Las Payasadas, and Arco del Oeste.
Much like many other rural towns within the county, due to its relatively small size, Valle Ocultado mainly occupies low-rise businesses; a few medium density structures are also present. The Native American and subtle country folk flavor of the vicinity contrasts to the glamour and glitz of Las Venturas, only a few miles away. No gangs occupy the area as of 1992, while the crime rate is very low, giving the town a much more positive reputation, unlike those of Glen Park and East Los Santos, where crime persists daily. The architecture of the vicinity is not so spectacular though better than most rural towns of its kind, consisting of unique Tee Pee structures and average small hotels.
- Tee Pee Motel
- Motel
- Gas establishment
- Boat station
- AK-47 - In the trailer park east of the town
- Fire Extinguisher - Near the "Gas" building
- Pump Action Shotgun - On boat station jetty
- Body Armor - Near boat station
- Freeway - Spawns in the motel parking lot
- Glendale - Near the "Gas" building (beater)
- Quad - In the trailer park east of town
- Rancher - Spawns in the motel parking lot
- Sanchez - Spawns in the motel parking lot
- Skimmer - On water near boat station pier
- Vortex - On the boat station slip
- Wayfarer - Spawns in the motel parking lot
- The default radio station around the vicinity is K Rose.
- The name of the town, Valle Ocultado, translates into English as "hidden valley". This may be a reference to Hidden Valley Ranch, a popular brand of ranch dressing in the United States.
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Another foot note, get an old distrbutor shaft and make an oil priming tool out of it. You can install this shaft in the end of a drill motor and stick it in the engine into the oil pump. Turn the drill on and you will build oil pressure this way. Watch your gauge as you are doing this. The oil pressure will come up slowly.Jerry


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Having played a crucial role in the saving of Burgh House, Christopher and his wife Diana founded the Hampstead Museum here. Christopher's great knowledge of Hampstead was unrivalled and we shall miss his presence in the House immensely. All of our love and thoughts go out to his family at this time. A clever, gentle, generous man the like of which we may never see again. Christopher we will all miss you. RIP
Pictured: Christopher and Diana Wade in the front hall of Burgh House. Christopher before the cutting of the ribbon to open Burgh House 1979 and Christopher and sadly departed Burgh House Friend and saviour David Sullivan at Christopher's 90th Birthday held at Burgh House.


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Puerto Rican debutants give Austrian medal contenders a bit of a scare
The young duo took a surprise three-point-lead in the first set against last year's bronze medallists Lorenz Petutschnig and Tobias Winter from Austria. They eventually lost the match 2-0 (21-19, 21-12) but their performance against the 2nd seeded team was promising.
"I feel very proud to come here for the first time to represent Puerto Rico. We did good, but we should concentrate better", said 19-year old Rodriguez after their first group match in main draw. Both he and 20-year old blocker Encarnation showed great technical skills.
According to coach Angel 'Cholo' Pena, a former international beach volleyball player, both boys are gifted technical players. They were skilled in volleyball, although Rodriguez started playing on the beach at an early age at festivals. "In Puerto Rico there are not a lot of tall players, so we concentrate on technical control."
With great defence and spectacular top spin angle shots the Puerto Rican boys managed to take a cheeky 18-15 lead in the first set. Austria then took a time-out and came back to win the set 21-19.
"We felt he pressure, of needing to score to keep ahead", Rodriguez said. "We lost concentration and maybe our nerves got in the way." Encarnation: "But it feels really good to come out here and represent Puerto Rico at such a high level."
Although his boys were unable to get close in the second set coach Cholo saw chances: "I told them that even though we were prepared to come here, this is their first time in any international beach volleyball competition. Austria is a really strong team, not only that, but the country of Austria is putting a lot of effort in to their youth. They should be thinking if we keep this level and raise it a little bit more maybe we will beat some of the teams in this pool."
In the beginning years of the FIVB Puerto Rico had a really lively national tour, but it kind of collapsed over the years. Now the national federation and the Olympic committee put a lot of effort in reviving beach volleyball, concentrating on the youth. In May for example there were training camps for the teams representing Puerto Rico at the age-group events and the Youth Olympics in Nanjing this year.
Coach Cholo: "It's coming back to what is was before, before it was really huge, we were really big, like the AVP. It sort of got away in the last ten years. And yes we do have a national tour, but it's sort of down now. We are really aiming for the youth. All summer we have more youth tournaments that open."
The national team now consists of ten guys and eight girls. In Myslowice Gabriela Roman and Lina Bernier are competing in the women's tournament. "The biggest problem right now is to lure the kids from indoor to beach. We hope that these guys will bring back all these experiences and talk about it with the other kids and get them enthusiastic."
Coach Cholo hopes that his protégées can become role models in the future, like Roberto 'Rafu' Rodriguez is for Rodriguez and Encarnation. But Rafu only plays national and on the Continental Tour, after one season (2006) on the FIVB World Tour.
In the past Puerto Rico had an illustrious duo that where the first ones to represent their country at the Olympic beach tournament. Raúl Papaleo and Ramon Hernandez represented Puerto Rico at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and finished 19th. Their coach back then: Angel 'Cholo' Pena!


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On Wednesday, Oct. 31, representatives from Hope College and leaders from local businesses will engage in a long-standing tradition of visiting more than 200 area businesses in Holland and Zeeland seeking contributions to the Hope Fund for the 2007-08 Community Campaign.
The Hope Fund has been in existence for almost as long as HopeCollege itself. The Community Campaign on behalf of the Hope Fund began nearly 30 years ago as a way to engage community leaders with Hope faculty and staff in building and maintaining relationships between the community and the college.
In addition to those receiving personal visits on campaign day, hundreds more businesses and friends of HopeCollege will receive letters encouraging a contribution.
"The Community Campaign encourages area businesses to be involved with every student, every day at Hope through their unrestricted contributions to Hope College," explained Mark DeWitt, Hope's director of corporate and foundation relations. "This campaign acknowledges the relationship between HopeCollege and our neighboring communities and demonstrates the value to one another. Hope is grateful for business and industry participation in this effort through financial and volunteer partnerships."
Tony Castillo, owner of Milagro Six/McDonalds and current chair of the Holland Chamber of Commerce, is serving as chairperson this year. He values the relationship between Hope and area businesses and is pleased to be heading this fundraising effort as a friend of the college and a community leader.
"When I arrived in Holland, I found so many wonderful dimensions to the city, one of which is Hope College," Castillo said. "Hope is truly one of the gems in our community and a symbol of excellence."
Revenue from the Hope Fund provides unrestricted operational support that benefits every Hope student. It also underwrites health, counseling and career services, assists in bringing world-renowned artists, authors, musicians and lecturers to campus and generates service opportunities for its students. Financial support of the Community Campaign and the Hope Fund makes available resources that enhance the academic mission of Hope College.


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Chief Administrative Officer
A Message from the Chief Administrative Officer:
Welcome to the City of Belleville on the beautiful Bay of Quinte!
Our Vision: "The City of Belleville will be a healthy, progressive, diverse and economically vibrant community that invests in its future in a financially sustainable and environmentally responsible manner."
Our Mission: "We, the Council and staff of the City of Belleville, are committed to excellence and openness in local government by ensuring accessible and responsive representation, providing innovative and efficient services in support of our community's vision."
Quite simply, we are here to serve our citizens and our community through our core values of honesty, integrity, respect, compassion and professionalism.
As the Chief Administrative Officer, one of my primary responsibilities is to ensure that information about our local government is readily available to you. This website provides us one way to inform our citizens, businesses and visitors about up-to-date events and important issues facing our City.
I share with our staff the enthusiasm we have for the future of Belleville! Our staff is working hard to provide services which are relevant to you as efficiently as we can.
As many of you travel throughout our City you will notice that Belleville continues to attract new developments, new businesses and new industries to our City. Belleville is one of the fastest growing communities in Eastern Ontario! The great news is that this growth has created a number of employment and business opportunities for our citizens and local businesses. However to keep pace with this growth, the City has to consider a number of strategic investments in public infrastructure and services to ensure our community continues to grow and continues to provide the levels and types of public services expected.
This is one of the City's significant challenges, to provide much needed capital infrastructure to support our expanding City, to maintain the infrastructure we already have and to do so while keeping our municipal taxes as affordable as possible. It's not an easy job but I can assure each of you that through the direction of the Mayor and City Council our staff is committed to do just that.
Our City will be focusing on a number of significant priorities to help us achieve our mission.
There are many other projects planned for this year as well in the City so please check our website often for updates and construction notices.
I must say that none of these exciting projects can get completed and none of the on-going City services (for example snow ploughing, refuse collection, recreation programming, etc.) can be provided without the assistance of our staff.
As CAO, I am very fortunate to have an excellent team of senior managers dedicated to ensuring their departments deliver excellence in public service to you each and every day.
Senior Management Team
- Rick Kester, Chief Administrative Officer
- Rod Bovay, Director, Engineering and Development Services
- Brian Cousins, Director, Finance
- Mark Fluhrer, Director, Recreation, Culture and Community Services
- Mark MacDonald, Director/Chief, Fire and Emergency Services
- Matt MacDonald, Acting Director, Corporate Services
- Director, Environmental and Operational Services
- Karen Poste, Manager, Economic and Strategic Initiatives
Rick A. Kester, B. A. Sc., M. Sc., P. Eng., M.B.A., M.P.A.
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2014 ushers in the highly publicized ban on the use of cell phones while driving in Illinois. Public Act 098-0506 also known as HB1247 makes it illegal to use a hand held electronic communication device while operating a motor vehicle. There are some exceptions to this ban but there are just a few of importance to the general motoring public. One exception is a "driver using an electronic communication device for the sole purpose of reporting an emergency situation and continued communication with emergency personnel during the emergency situation". This means that if you call 911 to report a drunk driver or other dangerous or criminal activity that is occurring and observable immediately to you. A second exception is "a driver using an electronic communication device in hands-free or voice-operated mode, which may include the use of a headset". As long as the headset does not cover both ears. This does not include you putting your phone on speaker and laying it on the console. A third exception would be "a driver using an electronic communication device when the vehicle is stopped due to normal traffic being obstructed and the driver has the motor vehicle transmission in neutral or park". This could be while waiting for a train crossing to clear or any other situation where you would be able to stop and put the vehicle in park or neutral for an extended time period. For a full listing of this public act go to www.ilga.gov and enter HB1247 in the search function.
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Cyber Thieves Love the Holidays
They know how busy people are and they count on people reacting to things in their emails that might normally make sense this time of the year. Here are 10 techniques / suspicious emails to watch out for to protect your business and personal computer.
1. Emails / links offering live streaming sports – once they get your email, they'll look for additional ways to send more malicious emails, if they don't direct you to sites with malware directly.
2. Secret Santa messages – chances are, you don't have a secret Santa, so don't click the link to find out who it is or what they got for you.
3. iTunes (or other) gift certificates – watch out for emails saying someone gave you a gift certificate and to click on the certificate to claim it. Check with the sender first.
4. E-cards with mismatched links – if the link in the email isn't from the e-card company's site (look at the domain name), it's probably not something you should open.
5. Surveys that offer gift cards – thieves are counting on the fact that you'd like to buy more gifts or give gift cards this time of year. Filling out surveys is an easy way to get your personal information in general.
6. QR codes not on packages or point-of-purchase signage – QR codes are an easy way to hide what the link is, so you can't determine if it's sending you somewhere malicious by looking at the link.
7. Direct Deposit Cancellations – Thurston First Bank has noticed several of these types of emails because people are concerned about not having cash on hand for holiday shopping. Don't click; call your bank.
8. Package Not Deliverable – if you get a message saying you've got a package waiting, call your local post office; don't "print out the postage label."
9. Fake flight confirmations / updates – these will usually involve the major airlines (like Delta or American Airlines) and will try to get you to click on a link. Call the airline.
10. Holiday Screensavers – many sites like this (holiday or otherwise) may contain malware that you'll be downloading with your screensaver or other images.
When in doubt, be very careful opening anything where you don't know the sender (this goes for Facebook and other social sites) and, if it seems too good to be true, verify with the sender before you click.
Semester Break Anti-Burglary Tips!
As we approach the end of the semester and the long anticipated holiday break before next year, the Macomb Police Department reminds you to be mindful of the security of your residence. Every year officers take reports of stolen textbooks and other items as students finish up the year. Don't be a victim, protect your property. Once again though the Macomb Police Department urges you to take specific actions to protect your valuable property while you are away from Macomb between semesters.
- Take your valuables home with you. Laptops, music players, video game systems and televisions are the most commonly stolen items over break. To reduce the chances that your stuff is stolen, take it home with you.
- Make sure before you leave that all of your doors and windows are locked. The most common entry point for a burglar is a side or rear window. If they can find one unlocked then they can get in to your residence and walk out with your stuff. Not only should you lock your windows but we also suggest that you put a stick in the window to keep a burglar from pushing it upwards if they figure out how to bypass your lock.
- Mark your items with your driver's license number. As part of Operation ID we suggest that you use an engraver to mark those valuable items that you just cannot take with you. When you do this it makes it harder for a criminal to take the item to a pawn shop and pawn it with someone else's driver's license number already engraved on it. You can check out an engraver from the Macomb Police Department Monday through Friday from 8am to 5pm. In addition, Operation ID advises to make a list of all your valuables to include the make, model, serial number or detailed description. Photographs help too! This way if you do become a victim you can provide the reporting officer this detailed list of what was stolen. This helps us to try to recover your valuables.
- Leave lights on in your residence and/or put them on a timer. If a residence looks like it is occupied then a burglar may bypass it.
- The Macomb Police Department does it's best to provide extra patrol to the northwest quadrant of town when students are on break however we cannot be everywhere. We ask you the student to help us reduce crime by taking your valuables home.
- Ask a trusted friend or neighbor to periodically check on the residence.
- If leaving town for more than a few days, stop mail and newspaper delivery, and also ask a trusted friend or neighbor to put out the trash bin on the designated day and move it from the curb after pick-up.
Movember Participation and Support for Chief Barker
The month of November had a name change among men as they honored Movember this past month. Movember is an organization created to raise awareness for men's health. In order to show support of Movember, men grow mustaches throughout the month of November. The Macomb Police Department FOP Lodge 189 was part of this movement and officers were allowed to grow mustaches to raise awareness for men's health. The lodge will also make a monetary donation to the cause.
On 12/2/13 Officers gathered at Blades in Macomb to celebrate the end of Movember and also to show their support for Chief Barker. In September Chief Barker was diagnosed with cancer in the lymph nodes in his neck. He has undergone three surgeries and started treatment on the 18th of November. Officers Joel Clausing, Jacob Rhodes, Anthony Johnson, Derek Wiley, Sgt's Jim Rowland and Jason York as well as Lt. Dave Burnham and Deputy Chief Eric Lenardt all had their heads shaved as a show of support for Chief Barker as he battles his cancer. Special thanks go out to Al Brewer of Blades who volunteered his time and business to help us in our cause.
Sgt. York, Officer Tedrow and Sgt. Rowland with their Movember staches!
Lt. Burnham, Officer Rhodes, Sgt. York, Al Brewer of Blades, Officer Wiley, Sgt. Rowland, Deputy Chief Lenardt, Officer Johnson and Officer Clausing with their new hairdo's!!!
Thanks to Al Brewer and Blades for making this happen. Al donated his time and effort for a good cause!


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After the Reading Quest Children's Party last Saturday, we had four events this week (not counting our regular storytime on Thursday afternoon). Even for us, this is a bit rediculous and, as you can imagine, we're really enjoying the luxury of having two days off in a row for the bank holiday.
On Tuesday we celebrated Kipper's Birthday with a big party in the shop and garden.
The children who filled the garden waited patiently, put on their Kipper Ears and waitied patiently through the games and stories...but let's face it, there was only one thing they were all waiting for:
Alison had baked one of her amazing cakes. And her reputation is spreading, so lots of eager little hands crowded round for a piece. Cake was to feature heavily later in the week (he said, cunningly foreshadowing this post...).
On Thursday, I went with local science fiction author Ben Jeapes for an event at John Mason School.
The event took the format of two workshops, and whilst I skulked around at the back ready to sell books, Ben got the kids imagining their own alternative worlds and bizarre lifeforms. The creative energy and ideas flung up during the day were impressive - and surprising. Ben has written a great post about the workshop over on his blog.
Friday night we had our first wine event at the shop. Richard Liwicki of our local award-winning Bothy Vineyard hosted a brilliant tasting session of Bothy wines:
We served champagne all day. Our new mayor mayor (newly elected last week) Patrick Lonergan, came at 11am for the big event - cutting the cake - accompanied by the town crier.(Note the high-tech Blackberry with his speech on it - very impressive). Abingdon mayors have a tradition of having specific themes for their term, and Pat's is focused on town centre safety and vitality, which chimes nicely with small independent shops.
We toasted The Queen, Abingdon and Mostly Books. Again, all the children there were waiting patiently, but Ben here isn't fooling anyone (despite a pair of Kipper's Ears we found in the back of the shop):
He's waiting for the main event - the cake:
Thanks to everyone who came on Saturday to make it a very special day for Nicki and I. We collapsed Saturday night, exhausted but extremely happy. Thank you to everyone.


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Massive stones engraved with symbols encircle the entire base of the main tombs.
The entrance to the tomb at Newgrange. The woman pictured is a guide/guard who governs the entryway.
On the Winter Solstice the light of the rising sun enters the chamber through this opening called a Roof Box. A narrow beam of light penetrates the roof-box and reaches the floor, gradually extending to the rear of the passage. As the sun rises higher, the beam widens within the chamber so that the whole room becomes dramatically illuminated for a period of about 17 minutes. As the sun climbs into the sky the sunbeam leaves the chamber and retreats back down the passage.
The entry way into the chamber. The ceiling is very low and the space is very narrow. Not great for me because I am claustrophobic. I had to leave the entry way and make a second try at going in. I took a deep breath and made my way in. I'm glad I did because it was extraordinary.
The chamber room is at the end of this passage. Without lighting it is so dark you cannot see your hand in front of your face. We were not permitted to take photographs in the chamber room.All Photographs Copyright ©Jennifer Geraghty-Gorman
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The Alarm Rings Loudly! The child stirs in his bed, letting out a groan, he reaches over tapping the alarm off. Sitting up, he rubs the sleep out of his eyes, moving the covers off himself while sitting on the side of his bed. Looking over the on the bedside table is a picture of his father, a strong man, Cloud just stares at the picture for a couple minutes, rubbing his hands on the glass covering the picture. His last memory he has of his father, even though he longs for his missing father, a person he never really has known, no tears, no emotions appear on his face. He is void of any emotion. He turns on the light and begins getting ready for school, he knows he is gonna see his friend Tifa and chances are might get into it with another kid at school today.
"First day of school, got to make sure everyone at school knows who is boss."
His mother wonders into the doorway, just staring at her bundle of joy. She has blond hair, pulled back with a couple frayed ends, the wrinkles in her forehead from the stress of raising boy alone, and not actually having the time to grieve her husband's death, coupled with Cloud's antics with the kids, she is aging more. Her dress a bright blue, with a grey belt fastening it tighter, bright green eyes, angled features round out her face. Cloud hasn't noticed his mother until she gracefully walks in and hugs him from behind, making him blush, as she bends down onto her knees to come to eye level with Cloud.
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A new survey of 40 years of architectural theory opts to document, rather than unpack its subjects, writes Stephen Games
An Introduction to Architectural Theory from 1968 to the Present
Harry Francis Mallgraveand David Goodman
Even after last year's extensive coverage, the rise of Postmodernism in the late 20th century continues to baffle. In their new reader on the last 40 years of architectural theory, An Introduction to Architectural Theory from 1968 to the Present, David Goodman and Harry Francis Mallgrave provide an informal chronology of how Postmodernism burst upon the scene in the 1970s and what happened afterwards, but even they have to admit defeat in explaining some of the continuing uncertainties that Postmodern language gives rise to, and whether Postmodernism even accounts for what architects got up to under its rubric. That's a big concession, given that one of the writers, Mallgrave, is a theory specialist, author of a companion survey of theory from 1673 to this book's starting date, and co-editor of a two-volume anthology of theoretical literature from Vitruvius to 2005.
Postmodernism was a massively important change of direction for academic thinking, not just in architecture but throughout the humanities and to observe, as the authors do, that 'confusion, rather than clarity, was the keynote of the time' is striking. Postmodernism was centrifugal, driving people apart at least as much as
it brought them together. This was the difficulty that Charles Jencks faced when trying to define it: he wished to nail down a system that he had a particularly comprehensive grasp of at just the time when architects were wanting to be free. Jencks even asked architects to accept his definitions while congratulating them
on their pluralism, a paradox he's still not solved. Examples of architects whose positions were ambiguous – Hans Hollein, James Stirling, Frank Gehry – are useful, but Postmodern confusion is a phenomenon, and one that needs to be examined and explained not just noted and illustrated.
Mallgrave and Goodman go some way to doing this when they match architects to key borrowings.They cite Joseph Rykwert arguing for 'a semantic
study of the environment' as early as 1960, George Baird quoting linguist Ferdinand de Saussure's langueand parole in 1966, Peter Eisenman referencing Noam Chomsky's 'deep structures' in his 1967 House I, Colin Rowe adopting bricolagefrom Levi-Strauss in 1970, and Kenneth Frampton writing 'On reading Heidegger'
in the first volume of the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies' (IAUS) house magazine Oppositions in 1973. That's a good start: but it doesn't go anything like far enough.
The authors don't go further because they don't take a theoretical view of theory. They chart the comings and goings of the theoretical movements that excited attention in the late 20th century but they don't look at them objectively. At the same time, they miss a variety of theoretical approaches that didn't coalesce into a broad movement but deserve attention, such as the mathematical approach to theory that Lionel March and others worked on at Cambridge in the early 1970s, or the work of Paul Ritter in Perth.
In spite of these reservations, there is much in this book that is useful for the beginner. The authors show how the use of the word 'Postmodern' lurked in the background for 30 years as a general term before it acquired its present meaning. The dean of Harvard Graduate School described humanist alternatives to Walter Gropius' industrial housing as 'Post-modern' in 1945 and Nikolaus Pevsner used the term pejoratively in 1966 to mean wilful attention-seeking. What led to the birth of Postmodernism as we now know it was, suggest Mallgrave and Goodman, the impact of the so-called 'rationalist' architects of the Italian Tendenza (not included by Jencks because of their lack of ambiguity and symbolism) and Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown's interest in the mannerisms of Americana.
The text examines the evolution of these phenomena up to the post-theoretical free-for-all that coincided with the arrival of Rem Koolhaas in the mid 1990s and the 'pragmatism', 'post-criticality', Neo-minimalism and green-urbanism that then ensued. In doing so, it documents the literal revivalism promoted in the 1980s by the New Urbanists in America, by Leon Krier in the UK, by Ricardo Bofill and Christian de Portzamparc in France, and by Bruno Reichlin and Fabio Reinhart in Italy and Switzerland. It also notes the debates over quasi-regionalism and critical regionalism in America, Aldo van Eyck's and Vittorio Gregotti's opposition to Postmodernism, and, more generally, the way in which Jencks' preoccupation with what buildings 'said' by virtue of their appearance was challenged by Poststructuralism's more conceptual interest in ideas on self-deformation and subversion.
In this account of the victory of the Greys over the Whites in America and the events that followed, the most notable figure is that of Jencks' nemesis, Peter Eisenman. He crops up repeatedly as American architecture's number-one fixer and power-broker, co-founding the Conference of Architects for the Study of the Environment (CASE) on his appointment to Princeton in 1964, getting MOMA to back his IAUS on moving to the Cooper Union in 1967, and launching, editing and writing for Oppositions, the IAUS magazine (1973-84), described here as 'the first American journal of critical substance'.
The authors see Eisenman as Postmodernism's éminence grise, constantly renegotiating his position to stay ahead of the pack. Starting off as an advocate
of Giuseppe Terragni (architect of the Fascist Party's headquarters in Como (1933-36) at a time when Fascist Modernism was still untouchable), Eisenman redefined himself as a Postmodernist when two of his backers , Colin Rowe and MOMA's Arthur Drexler, defected to historicism. When Postmodernism became too vulgar, he then leveraged his interest in abstraction by teaming up in the 1980s with Jacques Derrida on a number of joint projects that explored the built potential of Derrida's creation: Deconstruction.
For Mallgrave and Goodman, this makes Eisenman an emblem of theory-based practice: a man committed to making architectural statements that paralleled those of philosophy and insisting on theory's capacity as a creative, as well as critical, tool. America's tragedy, they say, is that Eisenmen couldn't do what he tried to do without enlisting European thinking.
British intellectuals were complicit in this conspiracy. By the early 1970s, Reyner Banham, Anthony Vidler, Kenneth Frampton, Alan Colquhoun and, above all,
Colin Rowe were all teaching at leading schools in the north-east. There was also an important Cambridge link, with Eisenman and Christopher Alexander both taking PhDs there, Eisenman under Rowe during Rowe's four-year interval between Texas and Cornell, 1968-72. Perhaps because the British didn't practise architecture in America, they weren't in a position to generate new ideas in built form. Instead, their creativity had to be channelled into the proxy activity of bringing over theoretical ideas, ancient and postmodern, from philosophy to architecture and from the Continent to the US. The institutionalising of architecture as
a university discipline supported this trend.
Of particular interest is the home-grown rabbit that the authors pull out of their hat: the little known figure of Charles W. Morris. Morris taught philosophy at the University of Chicago from 1931-47, developed his own model of linguistic analysis in opposition to de Saussure's of 1916, became involved in an American movement known as 'Unified Science', and was brought into Chicago's School of Design by Moholy-Nagy to educate students about 'intellectual integration'.
Along with Lewis Mumford, Harwell Harris at Texas, and Jane Jacobs, Morris was one of several people who, according to the authors, could have led the US towards a theoretical position all of its own. An Introduction to Architectural Theory, written as it is by two lecturers from the institution (the Illinois Institute of Technology) that swallowed up Moholy-Nagy's school, is in some ways a lament for an America that once again sold out to Europe.
In spite of that, it's not clear by the end of the book whether the authors have been writing for, or against, or merely about, theory. This uncertainty, in a book that should be addressing uncertainty, is complicated further by their wish for a happy ending, which sees them going back on their praise for Manfredo Tafuri's criticism of such tactics at the start of the book and abandoning themselves to propaganda. Having begun by observing the first cracks in what they see as the outmoded idea that new technology will make society better in the 1950s and 60s, they finish by promoting what they see as the novel idea that new technology will make society better in the 2010s.
Such advocacy is ill-advised, not least in claims made for technologies that haven't yet been tested, such as Arup's late-1990s design for Dongtan, China's first eco-city, which, though now 'unlikely [to] be built in its original form', will 'no doubt have a major influence on future planning', or Foster's new city of Masdar 'now being constructed on the outskirts of downtown Abu Dhabi' and already 'the gold standard of sustainable urban ventures'. The authors make similarly gushy promises about the impact of women entering the senior ranks of the profession and of 'the bounty of new insights into the psychological and physiological nature of the human organism' that 'the architect now has at his or her command'.
One hopes, of course, that architecture is becoming more enlightened. Whether it is, and whether this type of theory has anything meaningful to say or valuable
to teach, is clearly still open to question.
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I'm sure you've all seen the furore regarding the Defence Secretary's murky relationship with his former flatmate/best man/adviser (delete as appropriate). Apart from the point of view of the ministerial code and integrity in public life, there are very serious concerns for those of us interested in British Defence issues.
The Defence Secretary is supposed to be advised by the Chief of Defence Staff, the service chiefs (First Sea Lord, Chief of the General Staff and Chief of the Air Staff), and the relevant other senior personnel and civilians in the armed forces and the MOD. The MOD has plenty of departments, dealing with things such as policy, plans, procurement, anything and everything. There can hardly be a lack of capability there.
If the Defence Secretary really feels the need to be 'advised' by anyone who is outside the MOD chain, there are a number of learned, credible institutions such as the RUSI, which possess a wealth of knowledge and experience around Defence and Security issues. People who have actually paid their dues, either serving or studying military history.
All of which should suggest that at face value, the Defence Secretary shouldn't really be in need of a special adviser. OK, in reality most Cabinet ministers have staff who advise on spin – how stories are presented, the politics of the issue, etc. But Mr Werrity has been described as a 'Defence lobbyist'. Funnily enough, when Liam Fox was Shadow Health Secretary, Werrity was a 'Health lobbyist'. Interesting, no? And surely if a Cabinet Minister cannot do his job without a poorly qualified siamese twin, doesn't that cast judgement on his ability full stop?
Interestingly, Adam Werrity is, at 33, only five years older than myself. He gained a 2:2 degree in public policy – whatever that is – from the University of Edinburgh. Apparently he also stayed rent-free at Fox's London apartment between 2003 and 2005, all of which hardly makes for a professional relationship.
It all makes you wonder what 'advice' exactly is being sought and offered. I've never liked the thought of special advisors who are outside the foodchain – it is completely unaccountable and open to all kind of abuse. What kind of influences are being brought to bear on these middle-men, say from commercial interests? There is absolutely no oversight, no accountability, and no control. Nobody elected him, based on a manifesto, and nobody selected him after an interview process.
This isn't, for me, a red vs. blue/yellow political issue – all politicians have questions to answer about 'lobbyists', and who influences them and their decision making. The Defence of the Realm is far too important to be left to the Defence Secretary's mini-me. But, as a high-profile Defence blog put it so succinctly, once again the British armed forces have become a political football, and the servicemen and women of the country are hardly likely to be winners.
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MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. --- Despite sophomore Alyssa Munson's fourth 20-point effort of the season, the Lees-McRae women's basketball team was unable to rebound after a sluggish start while seeing its four-game win streak snapped in a 67-52 loss to Mount Olive in Conference Carolina action Wednesday night in Mount Olive, N.C. at Kornegay Arena.
The Trojans (9-7, 4-4 CC) used a balanced attack that saw three players record double figures while three others corralled at least 10 rebounds. The Bobcats (8-9, 5-3) were dealt their first loss since Jan. 4 and was held to a season-low 52 points and 30% from the field.
Senior Lauren Lewis (Concord, N.C.) continued her solid-shooting season with a pair of three's in the first eight minutes to keep the game close while UMO led 15-14 at the 11:57 mark.
The Trojans defense would clamp down and hold LMC scoreless for the next 4:12 while stretching their lead to 11, 25-14.
Munson (Summerfield, N.C.) cut the deficit to five with a layup at the 5:44 mark before UMO went on a 13-5 run to end the half.
The Bobcats struggled from the floor while shooting 31% in the first half while Mount Olive knocked down five treys and shot 40.6%.
UMO's Katie Paschal connected on a layup at the 18:07 mark before LMC's Kerri Belcher (Roanoke, Va.) went on a personal 7-0 run while Layana De Souza (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) chipped in with four points while the Bobcats shaved the deficit to three, 41-38.
A Jasmine McDonald three-pointer capped off an UMO 7-0 run to stretch the lead back to 10, 50-40.
LMC provided one last charge after Munson cut the lead to six, but the Trojans proved too strong defensively and held the Bobcats to three points over the last 4:54 of the game.
Kirkstein Mitchell paced the Trojan offense with 19 points while Paschal finished with 14. Anamaria Zjacic and Ty Wallace impressed with 13 rebounds each while Leah Graham had 12.
Belcher and Munson were the only Bobcats to produce double figures while De Souza paced the squad with nine rebounds. LMC forced 17 turnovers but was outrebounded, 50-33.
The Bobcats return to action when they face King University Saturday at 3:30 p.m. in Williams Gymnasium. LMC is a perfect 6-0 at home this season.


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A Taunton-based team of figure skaters have made their way to Chocolatetown, U.S.A.
A Taunton-based team of figure skaters have made their way to Chocolatetown, U.S.A.
The Skating Club of Southern New England, based at the Aleixo Arena in Taunton, are competing in the State Games of America in Hershey, Penn., today through Aug. 3.
The group has prepared routines that involve a circus theme, with circus performer costumes, said Club President Gail Green.
The Skating Club of Southern New England thanks one of its figure skaters, Carolyn Comperchio, for the music, set, design and costumes that are being used by the club, Green said.
For many of the youth figure skaters, it is their third state games, after the competition was previously held in Colorado Springs (2009) and San Diego (2011), said Green. The State Games are held every two years.
The skaters needed to qualify locally in order to compete at the State Games, Green said.
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Nicole Kidman Will Sleep When She's Dead
That's the only time she'll have, seeing how she's in all the movies that are made. Also today: a new finance movie sounds financey, some bizarre casting involving Jacob Black and McDreamy, and a new toy/movie that will scare you.
It had long been James Gandolfini's dream to play Ernest Hemingway in a movie. Well now he'll just have to settle for producing Hemingway. His production company brought a Hemingway project to HBO, where it will now star Clive Owen as Papa and Nicole Kidman as Martha Gellhorn, the iron-willed authoress he was married to for a spell in the 1930s. Aha. A chilly Brit and a chillier Australian playing passionate Americans! [Deadline]
Frequently bespectacled TV star Simon Baker and Toby Froud's brother-in-law Paul Bettany are in talks to join the cast of Margin Call, a slick-willy thrilly about blustering financial types at the dawn of the current money black hole. Baker will play a broker and Bettany a trader and Kevin Spacey, Stanley Tucci, and Zachary Quinto will play other money types. It sounds like Boiler Room only everyone in the cast is total PUSSIES. Boiler Room rocks! I liked the part with the tits! And the part with the cars! The only thing better than Boiler Room is the obvious Boiler Room rip-off plotline on Dawson's Creek. Remember that? I mean do you remember how fucking amazingly stupid that was? Ohhh gosh it was so stupid. That whole season was so unbelievably stupid. Sigh. [THR]
Boy, Nicole Kidman is in everything! She's signing on to star with Nicolas Cage in Joel Schumacher's Trespass. No, sadly it's not a remake of the Ices T and Cube joint Trespass. It's a whole new thing about brutal kidnappers or something. Both Kidman and Cage have worked with Schumacher before. She was in Batman Forever, that curious if not unenjoyable muddle, and Cage was in 8MM, which is one of those most trudgingly dispiriting and bleak studio films I've ever seen. And not in a good way. It's just dreadful to watch all the way through. Schumacher hasn't made a good movie since... gosh, what? Time to Kill? Was that good? Oh, I guess Tigerland, but nobody saw that. Anyway. Good luck Nic & Nic! [Variety]
Yo, wanna hear some really strange casting news? Here are two bits. First, Taylor Lautner, the pig-nosed wolfboy who lives in the forest with his vampire boyfriend, is in this thrilla called Abduction, about a teen who discovers some bad teen things and has to go on the run, teenly. Which, fine, whatever. Justin Chatwin had The Invisible, Taylor can have his Abduction. But guess who's in the movie with him?? Maria Bello, Jason Isaacs, Sigourney Weaver, and Alfred Molina. Those are some heavy-hitting actorz! What's he gonna do, whine his sad nasal lines at them while Molina and Weaver are like "Is this why we don't have Oscars?"? I think that's exactly what's going to happen. So that's the first weird casting bit.
The second weird casting bit is that Patrick Dempsey, yes Loverboy himself, has been put into a Lasse Halstrom movie in which he'll play a vaudevillian performer at a crossroads in his career. Isn't that so weird? What has anyone ever seen in Patrick Dempsey that makes them want to cast him in movies? To me his best work was playing an animal-smuggling rocker dude who gets killed by monkey fever in Outbreak. Everything else? It's like watching grape juice sing a song. I can't elaborate on that analogy, but that's what it's like. There, I said it. I just don't get Patrick Dempsey. Apparently Lasse Halstrom does, though. [Deadline]
Two writers from Smallville, which is the Gunsmoke of former WB shows, have been tapped to write Monster High. What's this about? Here: "...based on a new Mattel property. The monster musical is set at 'frighteningly fashionable' Monster High and features the spawn of famous monsters including Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman undergoing the trials and tribulations of high school." Click the link. There's a picture of the toys. Your daughters are doomed. [THR]