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Friday, August 31, 2012
Bloomberg Congratulates Quinn On Council Reserve Fund Discretion
Friday, August 24, 2012
Was NYPD Responsible For All Innocent Bystander Shootings Outside The Empire State Building Today ?
Confirmed on NYTimes: Bystanders Hurt in Manhattan Were Hit by Police Gunfire
Confirmed on CNN: Police gunfire responsible for wounding all 9 innocent bystanders in Empire State Building shooting in New York
Rumors are flying around that all of the innocent bystanders, who were shot outside of the Empire State Building this morning, were not shot by bullets from the the shooting suspect, Jeffrey T. Johnson -- who was shot dead by police -- but by bullets shot by police. Not yet confirmed, but I heard this from a very reliable source. I wonder how this will change the narrative of today's story of a disgruntled ex-employee shooting indiscriminately at the throngs of crowds outside the Empire State Building ?
From The New York Times, the police description of the firing of the bullets seems to indicate that the only people shooting their weapons outside the Empire State Building were police officers, not the lone gunman, Mr. Johnson :
The Police Department's chief spokesman, Paul J. Browne, said one witness had told investigators that Mr. Johnson had fired at the two officers, "but we don't have ballistics to support that." Mr. Browne said "it's possible" that the officers had shot him before he could return fire.
One officer fired seven times, the other nine times, Mr. Browne said.
According to the Associated Press, the NYPD has so far admitted that some of the innocent bystanders were struck by bullets or bullet fragments shot by the responding police officers, but the story has not yet been fully told : if the gunman Mr. Johnson did not fire his weapon, that means that the collateral damage that took place today was as a result of "friendly fire."
Bloombo Dicto NYC IT Project Corruption Fall Guys - To Be Announced !
Mike Bloomberg is Trying to Brush the Billion$ in IT Tech Fraud and Corruption Under the Rug of TBA Political Fall Guys
Angry that huge IT projects were exposed to be sources of billions of dollars of corruption, the Bloomberg administration has found a political escape hatch : they are going to outsource all scandalous IT projects to a new quasi-governmental entity that will operate free of regulation and oversight. How is this going to fix corruption ?
The new entity, being described as a new "NYC Technology Development Corporation" by The New York Times, will become responsible for all the IT projects [like CityTime, NYCAPS, and the new 911 emergency dispatching system, which is also called the Emergency Communications Transformation Program (ECTP)], which have "raised questions about one of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's perceived strengths as a billionaire who made his money through technological innovation," The NYTimes reported.
Deputy Mayor Caswell F. Holloway, who spearheaded a review of the city's technology woes, is hoping that the new entity would shift political responsibility away from Mayor Bloomberg for some of the mega-huge corruption scandals, which have been being investigated by U.S. Attorney Preetinder Bharara.
Harvey Robins, who was operations chief for Mayor David N. Dinkins and who reorganized several city agencies, told The NYTimes that the immediate effect would be to distance Mayor Bloomberg from future technology problems. "It's a headache," Mr. Robins said, "and he doesn't want the headache anymore."
Read More : Bloomberg Administration Sets Up a Corporation to Protect Mayor From Tech Projects Corruption Scandals
Related : Politically-edited report predicts danger in New York City's 911 scandal-ridden emergency response system [Emergency Communications Transformation Program (ECTP)] (Gothamist)
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Council Redistricting In Exchange For Campaign Endorsements ?
Are Speaker Christine Quinn and Mayor Michael Bloomberg Engaged In An "Endorse-to-Play" Quid Pro Quo Over The City Council Redistricting ?
Council Redistricting Corruption Silence
From True News From Change NYC, written by Gary Tilzer :
Many of his fellow reformers felt that Citizens Union puppet general Dick Dadey sold out last year when he supported Albany's compromise to put off independent redistrict for 10 years. But nothing can compare to Dadey and the rest of the goo-goos, editorial boards', and reformers' silence on the corruption going on with the City Council redistricting operation. For starters, the appointed council redistricting commission is controlled by two people supporting Quinn for mayor in 2013 : the council speaker herself and her puppet master the mayor. Although the redistricting commission work has just begun, there are already reports that county bosses Crowley and Lopez, ethic and minority leaders are already dealing with Quinn operatives to cut districts favorable to them or those they support in exchange for their endorsement for Quinn's 2013 mayoral bid.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
NYPD Muslim Spying Program Has Been A Total Waste
AP : The NYPD spying program on Muslim led to no leads or any terror cases
The Demographics Unit at the NYPD was the central command of the Bloomberg administration's police spying program, the Associated Press reported. The Demographics Unit was "built with help from the CIA, which assembled databases on where Muslims lived, shopped, worked and prayed." The NYPD spies "infiltrated Muslim student groups, put informants in mosques, monitored sermons and catalogued every Muslim in New York who adopted new, Americanized surnames."
"Police hoped the Demographics Unit would serve as an early warning system for terrorism. And if police ever got a tip about, say, an Afghan terrorist in the city, they'd know where he was likely to rent a room, buy groceries and watch sports."
In testimony provided in a June 28 deposition as part of a longstanding federal civil rights case, NYPD Assistant Chief Thomas Galati said that none of the conversations the spying police officers overheard ever led to a case. "Related to Demographics," Galati testified that information that has come in "has not commenced an investigation."
"The NYPD is the largest police department in the nation and Mayor Michael Bloomberg has held up its counterterrorism tactics as a model for the rest of the country," according to the AP report. ... "Galati testified as part of a lawsuit that began in 1971 over NYPD spying on students, civil rights groups and suspected Communist sympathizers during the 1950s and 1960s. The lawsuit, known as the Handschu case, resulted in federal guidelines that prohibit the NYPD from collecting information about political speech unless it is related to potential terrorism. Civil rights lawyers believe the Demographics Unit violated those rules." ...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Regret Over Bloombo Dicto's Third Term
New Yorkers Are Tired Of Mayor Bloomberg
New Yorkers are having second thoughts about Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's third term.
With less than 18 months to go in Mr. Bloomberg's unexpectedly long mayoral tenure, nearly three-quarters of New Yorkers said Speaker Christine Quinn should not have overturned term limits to allow Mayor Bloomberg and other politicians to run for a third term, according to the latest poll by The New York Times.
Mr. Bloomberg, having persuaded the City Council to approve a change in term limits that paved the way for his re-election in 2009, has presided over city government for more than a decade ....
Here's a round-up of some of the low-lights of Mayor Bloomberg's three terms : trying to close firehouses, shut down senior citizen centers, cut childcare, layoff teachers, avoid missing votes, build luxury condos on the hallowed ground of St. Vincent's Hospital, make money from government information, and end Progressive Era reforms.
Monday, August 20, 2012
Bloomberg-Quinn's Budget Has A Hole Innit
From True News From Change :
Just weeks after Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn celebrated their inside budget negotiation deal, acting Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron issued an opinion that put a stop to the mayor's taxi medallion revenue plan for the Fiscal Year 2013 budget. The court ruling creates a $600+ million hole in the Bloomberg-Quinn budget.
... At issue is a law, passed in February, allowing New York City to create a new fleet of 18,000 lime-green "borough taxis" to service the outer boroughs and Upper Manhattan, where regular yellow cab service is a rarity.
That same bill also allowed the city to auction off 2,000 wheelchair-accessible yellow cab medallions, which were expected to garner more than $1 billion for the city's budget and also vastly improve the fleet's ability to serve passengers in wheelchairs. As the fleet now stands, there are only 233 wheelchair-accessible yellow cabs. ... (Capital New York)
Mayor Bloomberg warns of layoffs after judge shoots down outer borough taxi plan (NYDN) Judge's decision creates $1.46 billion hole in the budget, including $635 million for this fiscal year.
Do Mike Bloomberg And NYPD Use Intimidation Against Bloggers ?
Watch as how NYPD Detective Lynch guided political blogger Suzannah B. Troy off the sidewalk and onto the street, and then watch as how Det. Lynch called Ms. Troy out for being on the very street he lured her off of.
Ms. Troy then called NYPD Internal Affairs to file a complaint, according to her blog post about how NYPD use intimidation against, give false information to, and withhold identification from, bloggers.
In the second video, Ms. Troy shouts some of her criticisms to Mayor Michael Bloomberg of the corruption she says has taken place in respect of the large and expensive IT technology deals under the Bloomberg administration.
"NYPD Det. Lynch who refused to identify himself and was abusive as well as physically intimidating," Ms. Troy wrote on her blog.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Michael Bloomberg Oreo Protest
Advocates for animal rights and members of the Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages held a protest earlier this afternoon across the street from the Plaza Hotel, WCBS Channel 2 News reported. The protest was in response to a traffic accident that injured a horse named Oreo last Thursay.
"Horses don't belong in traffic, it's an inhumane and unsafe industry and it needs to be shut down," coalition president Elizabeth Forel told WCBS 880′s Jim Smith.
The artist and political blogger, Suzannah B. Troy, was dressed up in a red wig and symbolic costume and pretended to be New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. Animal rights activists, who have been putting pressure on the New York City Council to pass legislation to support the safety and wellbeing of horses by banning horse-drawn carriages, point to Speaker Quinn and Mayor Michael Bloomberg for blocking any meaningful animal rights protection legislation.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Fran Lebowitz OWS Mike Bloomberg
Read Also : Fran Lebowitz And Frank Rich At The Town Hall : A Review Of The State Of The Union Conversation
Fran Lebowitz spoke about the intersection of Occupy Wall Street and Michael Bloomberg, and New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
"The thing I have enjoyed the most, I have to say, about Occupy Wall Street, because I am a vengeful and superficial person, is to see Bloomberg not have any idea which way to go with this thing. ... We know how he really feels, because, I mean, this mayor is not even in the 1%. He's in the 1% of the 1%. We have a mayor, who is so rich, that he will not live in a place actually called Gracie Mansion. It's not nice enough for him, you know ? He has not in any way attracted the ire of these [activists], which is shocking to me. I mean, when I walk around and sometimes these kids talk to me, I say, 'Go to Bloomberg's house.' You know, the day that they went to rich people's houses, I said, 'Go to Bloomberg's house,' and those kids said to me,'No, no, no. He's O.K., he said we could stay.' I said, 'What are you talking about ? This isn't his city. Anybody can stay. This is not his estate.' ...
"And we've seen the new, doe-eyed Christine Quinn -- all of a sudden, champion of the people, you know, not in fact his henchman or henchwoman that she's been for the last 40 years of his mayoralty, who helped him overturn two elections in order to have this third term.
Two days after the Zucotti Park eviction, Ms. Lebowitz said, Mike Bloomberg "is a central villian in all this." In respect of Speaker Quinn, Ms. Lebowitz said, "She is an architect of this."
Mike Bloomberg aka Robert Moses
The Sexton Plan for NYU represents a new low in "urban decay."
That which Robert Moses was not able to do to Lower Manhattan (demolishing the special social fabric of neighborhoods to construct a cross-borough highway), Christine Quinn will do (demolishing the special social fabric of neighborhoods to let NYU carry out this reckless expansion plan). Jane Jacobs advocated for that special "secret sauce" to successful large cities, whereas Mike Bloomberg, John Sexton, and Christine Quinn call for more indiscriminate zone-busting urban development.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Political Poster Fines Benefit Quinn
Is Mayor Bloomberg deliberately trying to drain the campaign funds of the competitors that are challenging Christine Quinn for the 2013 mayoral Democratic primary ?
Mayor Michael Bloomberg seems to be engaged in a public relations campaign to turn public opinion against, and to drain the campaign funds (aka clear the primaries) of, the leading primary challengers that are competing with New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to be the Democratic Party's candidate in next year's mayoral election. * "Mayor Bloomberg Friday blasted mayoral candidate John Liu as a hypocrite for grumbling about companies that owe the city money — while failing to pay his own city debts." (NY Daily News) * Now that he has finally collected $444,000 in public matching funds from his 2009 campaign, Bill Thompson should return the money to the city to help cover the fines he owes for illegal posters, Mayor Bloomberg suggested yesterday. (NYPost)
Thursday, August 9, 2012
NYPD Arrest OWS Activists at Gracie Mansion
At a protest outside Gracie Mansion, over 50 activists from Occupy Wall Street participated in a demonstration late yesterday afternoon against Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Members of the #OWS Disability Caucus and #Queering OWS joined in this demonstration. Activists denounced Mayor Michael Bloomberg's "1% policies, which continue to marginalize New Yorkers of all backgrounds." According to reports on Facebook, NYPD disrupted the peaceful protest.
Protesters yelled "Shame !" to the police officers. "One of our members was arrested without warning for apparently not moving fast enough crossing the street," one of the activists posted on Facebook.
"Unlawful arrests are still happening." In a subsequent update, the same activists wrote, "They were demanding the mayor uphold the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) instead of ignoring it. People were also there demanding more wheelchair accessible cabs from Bloomberg. 7 or 8 were arrested in total. 3 or 4 protesters early on and after an almost hourlong standoff with police in the street, 4 protesters in wheelchairs . The 4 in wheelchairs were taken away in Access-A-Ride vans. There were livestreamers there ..."
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
La Cuccaracha es Carlos Slim !
Cerca de 100 activistas realizaron una protesta frente a la tienda Saks Fifth Avenue en Nueva York. Los activistas denunciaron los beneficios del monopolio de telefonía de Carlos Slim. El gordo es dueño de una gran parte de la empresa Saks Fifth Avenue.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
#OccupySaks Fifth Avenue - Protest Against Carlos Slim #OWS
Carlos Slim is the world's richest man, the largest stakeholder in Saks Fifth Avenue, and has been accused of overcharging impoverished Mexicans by over $129 billion as owner of Mexico's largest phone company. Activists from Occupy Wall Street demonstrated outside the fancy and expensive retailer, before they snuck inside in a direct action against each of Mr. Slim and Saks Fifth Avenue.
Updated : Javier Soriano, a prominent freelance photographer and journalist, was shut out of the Monday's "Two Countries One Voice" press conference.


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Chatham police car hits coyote
September 15, 2012 at 10:14 PM
The State Journal-Register
A Chatham Police Department squad car struck a coyote on Veterans Parkway just north of Wabash Avenue early Saturday morning.
Springfield police were sent to Chatham to investigate the incident at 4:30 a.m. Saturday.
Officer Mark D. Poani, 37, of Chatham was the driver. He said the coyote ran into the roadway and struck his front bumper, causing minor damage.
The coyote ran off after the collision, he said.

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I've just got back from London after a trip for a one-day workshop on mapping software in health research organised by The Infectious Disease Research Network. It was held at the Royal Geographical Society buildings - a wonderful place filled with history from RGS expeditions of the past.
The day was arranged by Mike Head of the IDRN and the meeting chaired by Prof. Graham Moon of Southampton University. The talks were varied enough to sustain interest for over a hundred people stuck in one room for the day. The applied talks before lunch combined the usual stories of fieldwork adventures with the gritty details of database servers and web mapping platforms.
During lunch I set up my e-presentation. It was a series of animated slides talking about the use of open-source geospatial software. I also took the opportunity to distribute some flyers for my course in January and the OSGeo group. I talked through my case-studies several times to interested people and was losing my voice by the time I was finishing off my little sticky chocolate cake.
After lunch two talks grabbed the audience - Tim Fendley's amusing tales of new map systems for pedestrians around London was illustrated by screenfuls of comic signage, many of which I encountered on my London wanderings the day after. Chris Phillips from MapAction talked about the work of getting maps and GIS technology out to disaster areas to help co-ordinate search, rescue, and aid deployment.
The final talk was from Mikaela Keller on the Healthmap.org project. This is a system that takes news feeds and health data and maps it in real time. She talked about how a combination of computer language processing and human scanning produce reliable maps. I'm still not sure how you could use this data to do rigorous statistical analysis but I don't think that's the point of it.
After a summing-up from Graham we adjourned for wine and juice outside the hall, and then as numbered dwindled we remaining few jumped into a couple of taxis and headed for the John Snow pub in Soho. Dr John Snow was perhaps the first person to combine health and mapping when he plotted cases of cholera in 1854 and concluded the source was a water pump near where the pub that bears his name now stands. We raised our glasses to the good doctor after a day of discussion of the sort of work made possible by standing on his shoulders.


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This week was a big week for me.
On Halloween, I stepped onto the scale with my eyes closed and fingers crossed. I was hoping, praying, that I'd meet my October weight goal. That I would finally make it under 200 lbs.
I weighed in at 198! Not only did I meet the goal, that extra one pound lost rounded my total weight loss to 40 lbs! This accomplishment was my personal Milestone #2, which meant...time for photo updates!
I was so pleasantly surprised when I uploaded these to my laptop. Yeah, I've still got a long way to go, but I really don't hate these pictures of me in a sleeveless top and shorts. I'm starting to see a womanly figure again. If you don't, take a look at those pictures alongside the ones from January 1 of this year and you'll see what I mean:
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Aside from the number on the scale and the comparison photos, I had another huge moment this week. I can't remember if I've talked about it on here or not, but a few months ago, I got a goal dress. Not like an ultimate goal dress (where I'd have to be 150 lbs or less to put my right foot in it), but an I-can-probably-wear-this-when-I'm-under-200-again goal dress. The day I tried it on the store's dressing room, it wouldn't zip over my hips. But I loved it. And it was on sale. I knew I would wear it someday if I didn't give up. So, I brought it home and hung it up on my wall where I would see it every day.
I hadn't tried it on since that day in the store. Until yesterday. And guess what???
|It fits!
A junior's size XL. I can't believe I'm admitting this, but the last time I bought a dress from this brand it was a 2X. I know the hem is a bit shorter than I probably should be wearing at 198 lbs, but I don't really care at the moment. I'm too darn proud of myself.
Okay, well, I reckon that's enough photographs of my mug for this post.
Just FYI, Milestone #3 will be < 180 lbs, which is when I, according to the BMI chart, will no longer be classified as obese. Just overweight. That seems a long way away, considering I haven't been under 180 since the Miss Gadsden State Pageant in 2007. (Oh, what the heck, how about one more picture for emphasis?)
|2007. 174 lbs.
I was only 18 then.
I'll get there. Somehow. (To < 180 lbs. Not, er, 18 years of age.) I guess I'll just have to go out and buy another cute too-small dress to hang up for motivation!
Or maybe the dress I wore in the pageant, if I can find it. Navigating my closet is almost as much of a challenge as losing the weight.


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The Pith: Even traits where most of the variation you see around you is controlled by genes still exhibit a lot of variation within families. That's why there are siblings of very different heights or intellectual aptitudes.
In a post below I played fast and loose with the term correlation and caused some confusion. Correlation is obviously a set of precise statistical terms, but it also has a colloquial connotation. Additionally, I regularly talk about heritability. Heritability is in short the proportion of phenotypic variance which can be explained by genetic variance. In other words, if heritability is ~1 almost all the variation in the trait is due to variation in genes, while if heritability is ~0 almost none of it is. Correlation and heritability of traits across generations are obviously related, but they're not the same.
This post is to clarify a few of these confusions, and sharpen some intuitions. Or perhaps more accurately, banish them.
The plot above shows relationship between heights of fathers and heights of sons in standard deviation units (yes, I removed some of the values!). You see that the slope is ~0.45, and that's the correlation. At this point you probably know that heritability of height is on the order of 0.8-0.9. So why is the correlation so low? A simple biological reason is that you don't know the value of the mothers. If the parents are not strongly correlated (assortative mating) obviously the values of the sons is going to diverge from that of the father. That being said, you probably notice that the correlation here is about 1/2 that of the heritability you know has been confirmed in the literature. That's no coincidence. One way to estimate heritability is to take the slope of the plot of offspring vs. parents, and multiply that by 2. Therefore, the correlation (which equals the slope) is 1/2 × h2, where h2 represents heritability.
Correlation (parent to offspring) = 1/2 × h2
1/2 turns out to be the coefficient of relatedness of a parent to offspring. I'll spare you the algebra, but suffice it to say that this is not a coincide. Where r = coefficient of relatedness the correlation between sets of relatives on a trait value is predicted to be:
Correlation (relative to relative) = r × h2
Where r is simply the coefficient of relatedness across the pair of relatives. Here are some values:
Here's the kicker: the correlation coefficient of the midparent value and the offspring value does not equal the slope of the line of best fit. This is why I had second thoughts about using the term "correlation" so freely, and then switching to heritability. The formula is:
Correlation (midparent to offspring) = 1/√2 × h2
So the correlation of midparent to offspring is 0.71 × heritability.
Why is this something you might want to know? I think people are sometimes confused about how an extremely heritable trait, like height, where you're given heritability values of 0.90, still yields families with such a wide range of heights. Well, recall that the coefficient of relatedness among siblings is 1/2. So their correlation is going to be the same as with parents. Therefore, the magnitude will be half that of the heritability. A correlation of 0.45 is not small, but neither is it extremely tight. The histogram below illustrates this with the above data set. The values are simply the real difference between fathers and sons:


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Brandeis fencing teams each split their six matches today at the 2019 Eric Sollee Invitational hosted by MIT. The men now stand at 16-12 overall this season, while the women are 16-16.
Overall, the teams each defeated Yeshiva, Hunter and Haverford, while falling to Stevens Tech, NYU and NJIT.
Brandeis 27, Yeshiva 0
Stevens 16, Brandeis 11
Brandeis 25, Hunter 2
NYU 15, Brandeis 12
NJIT 15, Brandeis 12
Brandeis 19, Haverford 8
Brandeis 25, Yeshiva 2
Stevens 14, Brandeis 13
Brandeis 23, Hunter 4
NYU 21, Brandeis 6
NJIT 18, Brandeis 9
Brandeis 18, Haverford 9
The Judges had a couple of close calls among their six losses. In the men's 14-13 loss to Stevens, sabre won 7-2 and foil won 5-4, but the Ducks' 8-1 edge in epee clinched the win. The women also won two of three weapons against Stevens, 6-3 in saber and 5-4 in epee, but a sabre sweep carried the day for the Ducks. For the women against NJIT, the teams split 5-4 decisions in foil, which went to Brandeis and sabre, which went to NJIT, but the Highlanders were 6-3 winners in epee.
In the annual UAA showdown with NYU, the Violets prevailed in both showdowns. For the men, NYU swept all three weapons by 7-2 scores to take a 21-6 decision. For the women, it was a 6-3 win for epee, but foil was edged, 5-4, while sabre fell, 7-2.
The Judges did have a pair of runaway victories, with the women blanking Yeshiva, 27-0, and the men taking a 25-2 win over the Macabees. Against Hunter, the men were 23-4 victors and the women won 25-2.
The top squad on the day was the women's epee, who won five of their six matchups. Sophomore Madeleine Vibert (Las Vegas, Nev. / West Career and Tech. Academy) led the squad with a 13-3 record, while junior Dakota Levy put together a 12-5 record. Women's foil went 4-2, with senior Joanne Carminucci (Brewster, N.Y./North Salem) posting the team's best overall record at 16-2, while junior Jessica Gets (Marlborough, N.J./Marlborough) was 15-3. Rookie Jada Harrison (Jericho, N.Y./Jericho) led the sabre squad to a 3-3 record with nine wins.
On the men's side, sabre went 4-2 to lead the way. Senior Leon Rotenstein (Ashland, Mass./Ashland) posted a 9-5 record in five matches, while three others tied with seven wins each, including junior Shawn Pyatetsky (Fair Lawn, N.J./Fair Lawn), who lost only twice. Men's foil went 3-3 with a balanced lineup that saw six different fencers contributed between four and six wins. Men's epee was also 3-3, with junior Chris Armstrong (Highland Park, Ill.Highland Park) pacing the squad with an 11-6 record, the most wins of any male for the Judges at the meet.
The Judges close out the regular season dual meet schedule when they host BC, MIT and Harvard for the Beanpot Tournament on February 13th at 6 p.m.


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It looks like we have a final card (possibly) for this Sunday's WWE Battleground 2014 pay-per-view from the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Florida. Here is what the lineup looks like:
* WWE World Heavyweight Championship: John Cena vs. Roman Reigns vs. Randy Orton vs. Kane
* Best Two out of 3 Falls for WWE Tag Team Championship: The Usos vs. The Wyatt Family (Erick Rowan and Luke Harper)
* Battle Royal for vacant WWE Intercontinental Championship: WWE United States champion Sheamus, Cesaro, RVD, Damien Sandow, The Great Khali, Ryback, Curtis Axel, Bo Dallas, Kofi Kingston, Dolph Ziggler, Big E, Fandango, Alberto Del Rio (more are expected to be announced)
* WWE Divas Championship: AJ Lee vs. Paige
* Chris Jericho vs. Bray Wyatt
* Seth Rollins vs. Dean Ambrose
* Rusev vs. Jack Swagger
* Cameron vs. Naomi
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That's a pretty good card, especially considering that a few weeks ago the thought was it could be a throwaway show just to get to Summerslam and then Night of Champions. This has a lot more and has all the making of being a very good wrestling show. Rollins and Ambrose could easily be the show stealer with what I expect to me an intense, wild battle. The Usos and the Wyatts always have great matches and that should continue here and with even more action since it's a two-out-of-three falls match. Don't sleep on Jericho vs. Wyatt either in what will likely be the first of a series of matches between them.
The Battle Royal, once it gets down to the true contenders, could really see some good stuff with Sheamus, Cesaro, Kingston, Ziggler, Del Rio and Bo, all of whom I think will be around for most of the match. Even the main event should be better than average too.


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- Water in the morning: Watering too late in the day leaves your lawn wet longer and leaves it more susceptible to fungal diseases and weeds. Apply 1" of water once a week between 6am and 10am to give your grass blade time to dry during the day. Watering in the morning can prevent red thread, brown patch, dollar spot, rust, pythium blight, lead spot, anthracnose, spring dead spot, and slime mold.
- Dethatch: Dethatching is the removal of the dead stems and built-up organic matter on your lawn. Thatch locks in moisture, which can smother it and cause disease. Dethatching is necessary for preventing red thread, brown patch, dollar spot, pythium blight, fairy ring, stripe smut, pink snow mold, snow mold, summer patch, and leaf spot.
- Proper mowing: Mowing your lawn too short makes grass more susceptible to disease, so use a high (3" to 4") mowing setting. Mowing often varies depending on grass type and the time of year, but it's a good rule of thumb to remove no more than 1/3 of the grass blade. Mowing often and at the right height can help ward off rust, anthracnose, snow mold, summer patch, and leaf spot.
- Apply Fungicide: Apply a lawn fungicide in order to control existing lawn diseases or to help prevent one from returning. It can be applied at any time on any lawn types, but be sure to read the label carefully. Depending on the severity of a disease, this process is sometimes better left to professionals. Fungicide can prevent brown patch, dollar spot, red thread, rust, pythium blight, leaf spot, pink snow mold, snow mold, slime mold, spring dead spot, stripe smut, and summer patch.
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In Three Mile Lake you can fish for Pickeral, Perch , Large and Small mouth bass.
2 Night Ice fishing package
Minimum 4 per group
$185 per person + HST
Two nights accommodation
Heated Ice Hut for duration of your stay
BBQ on the Ice for Lunch
We transport you to and from the ice Huts (10 min walk away)
There is a BBQ Shack and Wash House on the ice for your use.
Bait is not supplied but can be available upon request.
Bait can be purchased close by at Cafe 141 Bait and tackle just off of hwy 11 on HWY 141. exit 207
Bait can be delivered to your hut during your stay minimum purchase required.
Daily rental $50 per person + hst.(Weekend)
Daily Rental $45 per person + hst (mid week)
Ask about a family package = Make it a family day
35 kms perimeter
Depth 12ft average - approx 50 ft.
Three Mile lake freezes quickly in December. The Ice huts are usually out on the ice around New Years.
Ice Thickness guidelines
4" Walk and fish on the lake
5" snowmobile and ATV safe
8"-12" Small cars and MUSKOKA SHORES ICE HUTS GO OUT.
We do not reccommend any vehicles other than snowmobiles and ATV's on the ice.
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The Obama administration is under pressure from large corporations and a senior U.S. senator to revisit oversight of Chinese corporate audits at upcoming summit meetings, as disputes persist despite a partial deal on the issue reached in May.
U.S. President Barack Obama is set to meet Friday and Saturday with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Their discussions were likely to focus on other topics, but New York Senator Charles Schumer has urged the two leaders to take up the auditing issue.
"It is in the interests of both U.S. financial markets and Chinese companies seeking to raise money here that investors know they can trust the financial statements of those companies," Schumer said in June 6 letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew ahead of the Obama-Xi summit.
A likelier forum for the issue will come on July 8 at a meeting of senior economic officials, including Lew. The final agenda for these sessions was still being shaped. Business groups want it to include the Chinese auditing issue.
The U.S.-China relationship is vital to both countries, but fraught with tensions, not the least of which involve China's willingness and ability to comply with accounting and financial standards widely accepted across the developed world.
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On Thursday, Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, created a sensation by saying that Mikhail Khodorkovsky had asked for clemency and that he would pardon him. Khodorkovsky, a businessman who was convicted twice on what are widely regarded as politicized charges, has spent ten years in jail. His lawyers, his family, and the administrators of his penitentiary—a prison camp in Karelia, near the Finnish border—have said that they did not know Khodorkovsky had even applied for clemency. On Friday, Khodorkovsky was released. For many hours after that, nobody saw him or had a word from him. Numerous reporters who rushed to Karelia waited in vain outside the prison gate. Then, on Friday evening, it was reported that Khodorkovsky was on a flight to Germany, where, according to the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, "his mother is undergoing medical treatment." Khodorkovsky's mother, however, was quoted saying that she was in her home near Moscow and could not understand "why it is reported that Misha is flying to meet with me in Germany." Apparently, in the "special operation" that Khodorkovsky's pardon had become, the federal penitentiary service was fed the wrong legend.
Khodorkovsky, upon arrival in Berlin, spoke briefly, only acknowledging that he had asked for clemency "for family reasons." "The issue of admitting guilt was not raised," he said.
Khodorkovsky's prosecution is broadly seen as having been directed by Putin himself. In a November poll, thirty-seven per cent of Russians said they considered him a political prisoner; in an October poll, taken in Moscow, more than half did.
There are different ways of explaining why Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man and its most successful oil tycoon, was deemed so threatening to the Kremlin that he had to be locked up. In a nutshell, the scope of his oil business made him too big a player, a formidable rival to the state itself. Besides, he crossed paths with Igor Sechin, an important member of Putin's inner circle. In 2003, Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev were arrested. Many more associates at his company, Yukos, were jailed; quite a few fled the country.
Khodorkovsky was charged with tax fraud and sentenced to eight years in jail. The European Court for Human Rights ruled that the trial was not fair and that his rights had been violated. Yukos was destroyed, its best assets taken over by the state-run company Rosneft, controlled by Sechin. Several years after the first court case came a second. If the first charges looked trumped up, those in the second round verged toward absurd. Although Khodorkovsky and Lebedev had been charged in the first case with evading the taxes on their oil revenues, prosecutors in the second argued that, at the same time, they had "stolen" all the oil their company had produced. In 2010, they were tried again, and were convicted. After the trial's conclusion, a court aide, Natalia Vasilieva, made a public statement in which she confirmed what was broadly assumed: the judge did not author his own ruling. He acted "under orders," perhaps even down to the wording of the verdict. The judge denied it in an interview on state television.
Putin has repeatedly claimed that he did not interfere with Khodorkovsky's case, yet on several occasions he has voiced a fairly strong opinion about it. "A thief belongs in jail," he said, shortly before the verdict was announced in the second trial. Year after year, when asked about Khodorkovsky, Putin has become angry and passionate, creating a sense that he sees Khodorkovsky as his personal enemy. More than once, he has implied that Khodorkovsky is also guilty of much graver crimes, possibly even murder.
In Russia, the arrest of Khodorkovsky marked a turning point. It killed whatever hope was left for the rule of law; it took a heavy toll on the business climate; trust in the court's independence was radically undermined. The Kremlin's blatant use of law enforcement and the judiciary to get rid of its adversary was taken as a signal. It inspired predatory practices in which powerful people would "contract" the prosecution of entrepreneurs as a means of grabbing their businesses.
During his ten years in jail, Khodorkovsky evolved as a man of amazing moral stature and dignity. He never admitted guilt. Through years of confinement and dull menial labor, he stood strong and proud. In his numerous articles and interviews, he shared his thinking about Russia, its history and its current developments. He spoke about his disappointment, but also about his hopes. With time, he began to sound like a political dissident, not the tycoon he was at the time of his arrest. In his final trial speech, in December, 2010, he said,
Millions of eyes … are watching the outcome of this trial. They are watching with hope, the hope that Russia will, after all, become a country of freedom and the law, a country where the law will be above the bureaucrat. Where supporting opposition parties will cease to be a cause for repression. Where the security services will protect the people and the law, and not the bureaucracy from the people and from the law. Where human rights will no longer depend on the mood of the tsar, whether good or evil. Where, on the contrary, government will be truly dependent on the citizens, and the courts will depend only on the law and on God. Call this conscience, if you prefer. I believe that this is how it will be. I am far from being an ideal person, but I am a person with an idea. For me, as for anybody, it is hard to live in prison, and I do not want to die here. But if I have to, I will have no hesitation. What I believe in is worth dying for. I think I have shown this.
After his second trial, it began looking as if Khodorkovsky would stay in jail for as long as Putin stayed in the Kremlin. This sense of doom grew even deeper when Putin returned to the Kremlin in 2012, after four years as Prime Minister. When the prosecutor's office recently announced that a third case might be opened against Khodorkovsky, it did not even sound shocking.
Khodorkovsky's freedom may be terrific news, but Putin's pardon does not rectify the injustice done to him. Nor does it improve the atmosphere of lawlessness Putin has created in Russia.
But why the sudden change of hearts? Why did Putin decide to pardon Khodorkovsky when it was least expected of him? Putin explained himself by saying that Khodorkovsky had been in jail for ten years, that his mother was sick, and so he was pardoning him "for the reasons of humanity."
Among the theories circulating in Russia is that Putin wishes to embellish Russia's image: on the eve of the Sochi Olympics, Putin's pet project, Russia has come under a stream of negative publicity over anti-gay legislation, the prosecution of civic and political activists, "neo-imperialism," and so on. The amnesty, which also included the members of Pussy Riot, may be part of the same effort. It is also suggested that Putin simply decided to put the Khodorkovsky affair behind him: enough is enough. Ten years is, as he said, "a grave punishment."
A more interesting theory, however, points to lawsuits that Khodorkovsky's former Yukos investors filed abroad against the Russian government for the destruction of Khodorkovsky's company. They have already won several cases. In a ruling last year, the Russian government was ordered to compensate a group of Spanish investors for losses they suffered when Russia placed Yukos under state control. More suits are likely to follow. If this theory is correct, Khodrokovsky's pardon may be not just about mercy but about an arrangement: his freedom to discourage further suits. If it's true, this explanation would also explain the extreme secrecy of the pardon operation. Khodorkovsky said in Berlin that he had asked for clemency as long ago as November 12th, so the story apparently began earlier than it first seemed, and probably included terms and conditions that we have hardly begun to learn about.
Hearing the news of Khodorkovsky's abrupt departure for Germany, some in Russia thought of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who was secretly exiled to Germany by the Soviet government in 1974. The obvious question is whether Khodorkovsky's departure was his own choice or whether it was forced upon him as Putin's condition—a safeguard against his nemesis. If that is the case, one could hardly call this an act of clemency.
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Mullins connected on her first career goal on Friday night. (Elan Kawesch)
POTSDAM, N.Y. – The No. 4/4 Harvard women's hockey team strutted out to a 2-0 lead over the defending national champion No. 7/7 Clarkson on Friday night, but the Golden Knights rallied to steal a point from the Crimson as the teams tussled to a 2-2 tie at Cheel Arena. Harvard improves to 2-0-1 (2-0-1 ECAC), while Clarkson moves to 8-3-1, (3-0-1 ECAC).
Freshman Haley Mullins registered the first goal of her career in the opening stanza, while Sydney Daniels made it 2-0 in the second off a Lexie Laing assist. Manning the pipes for the first time this season after missing the first weekend of play for the Four Nations Cup, junior netminder Emerance Maschmeyer gave a thorough effort, turning aside 25 Clarkson shots from all sides of the zone. The Crimson peppered Clarkson's freshman goalie, Shea Tiley with 23 shots, but were denies all but twice.
Mullins got things going very early for the Crimson, lighting the lamp just 1:25 into the contest off a terrific solo effort. Mullins gobbled up a poor Knight turnover at the blue line and raced in to beat Tiley glove side to give Harvard a 1-0 lead.
As the swift first period came to a close, with both teams combining for just 16 shots, Harvard's penalty kill unit was thoroughly tested. After a hooking penalty before the whistle blew to end the first, the Crimson picked up a five-minute major, giving Clarkson a short 5-on-3 and a lengthy power play following. The Crimson blue liners and Maschmeyer withstood the test, however, not allowing much of anything for the duration.
With the defense holding, Daniels seized an opportunity at the eight-minute mark. After being wrapped around by Laing, the puck squirted loose in front of the crease where Daniels was standing alone. The sophomore poked it in through the five-hole to vault the Crimson to a 2-0 lead. But the Knights got one back with just 35 seconds left before the intermission as Olivia Howe beat Maschmeyer to make it 2-1.
On its fifth power play of the night, Clarkson finally converted early in the third. Under three minutes in, Howe fed the puck to Renata Fast, who buried it to knot the game up at 2-2. From there a track-meet of a game progressed as stoppages came few and far between. After overtime was eminent, the Crimson defense was again at the ready. The Knights controlled much of the possession in the extra period, but key blocked shots from Mullins and Hillary Crowe prevented any further damage, allowing the Crimson to skate away with a point on the first night of its North Country visit.
Harvard hits the ice at 4 p.m. tomorrow, looking to take on a St. Lawrence team that just upended previously unbeaten No. 10 Dartmouth, 2-1.


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Henry Treece
painting by Barry Moser 1992We've found that summer nights can be dark and mysterious and even a little bit scary. Anyone familiar with the erlking folk tales will recognize his spirit in this poem by Henry Treece (first published in 1945). I love to read the repeating refrain:
The wood is full of shining eyes,
The wood is full of creeping feet,
The wood is full of tiny cries:
You must not go to the wood at night!
I met a man with eyes of glass
And a finger as curled as the wriggling worm,
And hair all red with rotting leaves,
And a stick that hissed like a summer snake.
He made me a penny out of a stone,
And showed me the way to catch a lark
With a straw and a nut and a whispered word
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A perennial evergreen, mondo grass (Ophiopogon japonicus) belongs to the plant family of Liliaceae, which is commonly dominated by lily varieties. A popular ground cover, the grass grows between 2 to 12 inches in length. It quickly fills in gaps around stepping stones or walkways. The grass grows well alongside ponds and creeks. Due to its shade tolerance, the grass grows under trees and shrubs. When grown in shady conditions it rarely needs mowing.
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Mondo grass grows well in shade or full sunlight. It withstands virtually any soil type. The grass requires warm weather and does well in the United States Department of Agriculture zones 7 to 11. Despite, being predominately a warm season grass, mondo grass maintains its bright green color even in winter. The grass is virtually pest-free and rarely suffers from diseases, according to Floridata.
Invasive Nature
Mondo grass grows using stolons and fibrous roots in sod-forming clumps. Its vigorous growth can become invasive to flowerbeds or other locations. Placing edging material between the mondo grass and the flowerbeds helps to keep the grass from invading.
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Mondo grass appreciates moist soil conditions, but once established it is easily drought-tolerant. It rarely requires fertilizing, but does benefit from an application in the spring.
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Several varieties of mondo grass exist. Numerous cultivars offer dwarf varieties that grow well with no mowing. Black mondo grass (Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens') produces green foliage that quickly matures to a black coloring. The grass is a popular ornamental. To maintain the black coloring of the grass requires shady conditions.
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President Trump's abrupt dismissal last week of the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, and his subsequent allusion to taped conversations with Mr. Comey continued to roil Washington on Sunday.
In televised appearances, lawmakers in both parties said that the recordings could or should come to light if they exist, while a former director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr., suggested that Mr. Trump was contributing to an erosion of democratic institutions.
Speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press," Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said the prospect that a conversation with Mr. Comey was recorded must be taken seriously.
"You can't be cute about tapes," he said. "If there are any tapes of this conversation, they need to be turned over. I doubt if there are. But we need to clear the air."
On Fox News, Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, said if there are recordings, it was "probably inevitable" that they would be turned over to Congress, which is investigating possible connections between Mr. Trump's campaign and Russia.
Both senators, along with others, were responding to the president's warning to Mr. Comey, in a Twitter post on Friday, that he had "better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!"
The minority leader, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, said that President Trump should turn over such tapes "immediately," if they exist, while Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the committee investigating the Russia ties, said that such recordings must be preserved.
Mr. Schumer also used the controversy to repeat his call for a special prosecutor to lead the Russia investigation, and left open the possibility that Democrats might withdraw support for a new F.B.I. director if the Justice Department did not appoint an independent prosecutor.
"A special prosecutor can look into these tapes, can look into if they exist, can examine everything in an independent way," he said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Meanwhile, Mr. Clapper, said on Sunday that he found the firing "very disturbing" and that the country's systems of checks and balances was "under assault" by the White House.
Mr. Clapper, interviewed by Jake Tapper on "State of the Union," said that America's democratic institutions were being attacked externally, a reference to Russia's interference in the election last year, and internally.
"Internally from the president?" Mr. Tapper asked.
"Exactly," Mr. Clapper said.
Mr. Clapper also rejected Mr. Trump's repeated citing of Mr. Clapper's Senate testimony in dismissing the F.B.I. investigation into the possible Russia ties.
Repeating statements he made last week, Mr. Clapper said that he had not known about the investigation until Mr. Comey disclosed it publicly and his previous testimony "should not be considered exculpatory."
Mr. Clapper said sensitive investigations were kept as compartmentalized as possible. In a separate appearance on ABC's "This Week," he said he had left counterintelligence investigations to the F.B.I.
The concerns about the firing have extended beyond Washington. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Sunday showed that 29 percent of Americans approved of the decision, and 38 percent disapproved.
Nikki R. Haley, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, also appearing on "This Week," defended Mr. Trump's firing of Mr. Comey.
"The president is the C.E.O. of his country," Ms. Haley said. "He can hire and fire whoever he wants, that's his right. Whether you agree with it or not, it's the truth."
Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, appearing on "Meet the Press," said the firing did not make him concerned about his own independence. He said he had a "great relationship with the president."
"I will never compromise my own values," Mr. Tillerson added. "And so that's my only line. And my values are those of the country."
He also responded to an Op-Ed article in The New York Times last week by Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, in which Mr. McCain argued that Mr. Tillerson's remarks about decoupling foreign policy from human rights had "sent a message to oppressed people everywhere, 'Don't look to the United States for hope.'"
"I make a distinction between values and policy," Mr. Tillerson said on "Meet the Press." "A policy has to be tailored to the individual situation."
Mr. Graham advised Mr. Trump to rein in his public reaction to the F.B.I.'s Russia investigation.
"I would advise the president not to tweet or comment about the investigation as we go forward," he said, adding, "The president needs to back off here and let the investigation go forward."


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"The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion." – Juliette Nadia Boulanger
It makes sense that the members of the best post-hardcore/melodic rock band to come barnstorming out of the Northeast in ages would draw inspiration from this quote (from a celebrated French composer) and adopt part of it as their moniker. Conditions is all about choice, love and passion. Having cut their teeth in heavier acts before coming together, the guys joined forces with the swift and decisive mission to explore broader creative terrain, to pour ever more devotion into their craft and to share it all with others.
The contemplative but catchy bounce of Jimmy Eat World, the esoteric but driving atmospherics of Thrice, the dark experimentalism tempered by soft sentimentality of Brand New and the soaring radio melodies of Foo Fighters and Blink 182 have all found a new home within Conditions, who have fashioned this formula into something uniquely their own. With a passing glance backward and a full throttle charge forward, Conditions are taking melodic post-hardcore toward the future with the stunning new album, Full of War.
The stage is set for a full-on salvo on the medicore and mundane. "The radio is full of droning songs for lemmings that are about absolutely nothing," Brandon Roundtree laments. The singer and the rest of the band defiantly stand apart, producing spirited anthems filled with meaning.
The best art stands for something. It doesn't have to be political, it doesn't have to be divisive, but the best art has a strong point of view, take it or leave it. Conditions posses a depth and artistry that is lacking in many of today's bands.
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In the recording studio, interacting with fans and supporters or touring the US and Europe with Paramore, New Found Glory, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Sleeping With Sirens, letlive. and on the Vans Warped Tour, Taste Of Chaos, at Bamboozle, at SXSW, Conditions are always cognizant of the choices out there and endeavors to offer something truly unique, invigorating and refreshing. It's no wonder why Alternative Press called them a "Band You Need To Know."
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Thanks to the extremely tightknit closeness of the Richmond, Virginia music scene, the Conditions guys had shared stages together throughout high school. The future members of the band coalesced together following the independent dissolutions of their respective groups. Roundtree was in Forever In A Day with Conditions first lead guitarist. Howard was in Motion Picture Demise. Two weeks after Roundtree left the vocalist position in Scarlet, who had multiple releases with Ferret Music, he got a call about a new project. "The idea was to make a band that that sounded like the sum of everything we had been doing, but benefitting from the lessons we'd learned along the way."
Producer Brandon Paddock - who has done various production and engineering work with The Used, Papa Roach and Black Veil Brides, among others – helped Conditions craft an album that is leaps and bounds beyond their already impressive debut, Fluorescent Youth. "We whole-heartedly believed in our last record," insists Roundtree. "But then after we lived with it, we realized it was maybe a little 'safe' for us. We took that very much to heart and decided to showcase the fact that we are not a play-it-safe band."
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Conditions offer uplifting, meaningful songs filled with heart, soul, spirit and most of all, purpose. At the end of the day, they are a band who does exactly what they want and steadfastly retains their identity. Their inner relationships are strong, which has ensured their output remains topnotch. The world, the people we know, they may all be Full of War, but art like this can help to light the darkness.


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My neighbor has been watching me woodwork for years and recently commissioned me to build a custom box of my design for him to have for holding loose coins.
I started with a recently obtained wood gift from a fellow LJer, Ron at Tule Peak Lumber. He gave me a beautiful Q-sawn Sycamore slab to try out. Thanks a bunch Ron! When my neighbor saw the grain, he had to have it. So I combined the snakeskin-like Syc with some exotic snakewood I had. There are 7 different woods in all: I used Syc for the sides, Solid Bird's eye maple for the bottom, snakewood for the top panel & latch mechanism, curly maple for the top frame, cocobolo hinges (with brass pins) and walnut pegs along with a single hand carved ebony peg to hold the latch onto the front.
The hinges were a PITA, but I got one pair out of 3 to work. Aligning the holes through the 5 tongues was the hard part. I pegged them in place with 3/8" flush cut walnut dowels. The latch was simply designed to be decorative and functional, but strangely, it turned out looking like a hummingbird when closed, with the lid portion of the latch forming the wings. The box owners are hummingbird freaks! They were thrilled! I pegged the latch to the box front with a pyramid shaped ebony rivet that was carved with a chisel. (that was after my wife said, "oh, cool, what's that? CRACK!" She pulled too hard on the front latch and it popped off, so I figured a rivet would hold 'er. I sanded all to 400 grit. The finish is teak oil, then a few coats of B.L.O. mixed with turpentine & spar varnish. The snakewood polished up beautifully at 400 grit. It didn't even feel like wood because it was so smooth.
Post Amendment: The front latch is only glued below the ebony rivet. That way, the latch flexes to catch the lid appendage. It works very slick, but you have to play with it to get it to work just right. When you do get it right, the lid snaps closed with a positive "CLICK" and hold very well.
A close-up of the latch mechanism:
The aptly named snakewood reveals why…
A close up of Ron's beautiful sycamore, and the ebony rivet:
A closeup of the 7/32" (Did I mention it was hand carved?) pyramid head ebony rivet:
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19 comments so far
#1 posted 11-11-2010 12:48 PM
What a great box! The details are amazing. From the latch to the hinges. Very well done!
-- Ken, "Everyday above ground is a good day!"
#2 posted 11-11-2010 12:55 PM
That is a beautiful box. I really like the latch, I have never seen something like that. I might have to try something like that sometime.
-- Tim, Missouri ....Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the heck happened
#3 posted 11-11-2010 01:16 PM
So beautiful.
-- MAD F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect. Democraticwoodworking.
#4 posted 11-11-2010 01:47 PM
It just doesn't get much better than that!
-- Al, Culpeper VA
#5 posted 11-11-2010 02:36 PM
Very nice…love that sycamore! How does the latch work? Does the wood flex enough to unlatch? Thank you for sharing.
-- Jeff , Wisconsin Please...can I stay in the basement a little longer, please!
#6 posted 11-11-2010 03:29 PM
I have grown very fond of sycamore here recently, and you did a beautiful job with showing its true beauty. I really like the design and look of the latch assembly. Very well done!
This box is another example of why I love boxes so much. At first real quick glance you would think this was a simple piece. Only when you really look into it you find that simple is just not the case.
Thanks for sharing Greg and I plan saving this one to use for inspiration in the future…
-- Dan ~ Texarkana, Tx.
#7 posted 11-11-2010 05:12 PM
You really did an outstanding job on all aspects of this box. The latch design is unique and functional. I know yor neighbor will really appreciate all you have put into its creation.
#8 posted 11-11-2010 06:28 PM
Great box! Loved it all, the woods, latch, hinges and attention to detail.
Thanks for posting,
-- Cal Noguchi - EZdado.com
#9 posted 11-11-2010 07:54 PM
This is well done. The Sycamore is really beautiful. I was wondering how the top frame pieces would look if it was Sycamore. Would it clash with the Snakeskin or compliment it?
-- Robert, so much inspiration here, and now time to work!!!
#10 posted 11-11-2010 08:05 PM
Great box looks a really nice combination.
-- Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#11 posted 11-11-2010 08:11 PM
Greg, saying you've done a great job on this box would be an understatement. All the little details are fantastic (hinges, latch… all of it!), not to mention the wood species you chose to put together here. Very handsome piece!
-- Jonathan, Denver, CO "Constructive criticism is welcome and valued as it gives me new perspectives and helps me to advance as a woodworker."
#12 posted 11-11-2010 08:37 PM
Wow !
What a great job !!!
I love the interplay of all the woods, the overall design, and the fact that—in the pics—you highlighted your hand-tool work on the hinges. It's like another signature, to mark your work.
Also … better your wife found the structural weakness, than your neighbor :-)
Really great job !
-- -- Neil
#13 posted 11-11-2010 08:59 PM
Beautiful box. But I keep being drawn back to the latch. Amazing! Rand
#14 posted 11-11-2010 11:47 PM
The catch on this is just about the most awesome thing I have seen in woodworking. I will try one on my next box I make. Thanks for posting a great looking box
-- Just learning the craft my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ practiced.
#15 posted 11-12-2010 04:07 AM
I like the catch. I like the grain on the box body as well, but that latch is going to be the inspiration for my next box.
-- Mel,
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Unlike me, Clint Eastwood's film is carefully apolitical. It keeps a very tight focus on one man and the people around him. Just as they were in Kyle's autobiography, his family by blood and marriage vie for first place in his heart with his SEAL family. Kyle is enormously patriotic. He's repulsed by the sadism and immorality he sees amongst the Iraqis he fights. He lives to protect his fellow servicemen. And he has troubles transitioning rapidly between war in Iraq and peace at home.
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To the extent I notice a director's touch, Eastwood's was deft and sure. Those two simple words count as high praise from me. I usually notice the director's role in a movie when I hate the movie because of the director's bizarre, irritating, or offensive decisions. Eastwood makes none of those mistakes. His style is smooth, professional and, when it comes to the fighting scenes, incredibly dynamic, while still being coherent enough to keep the audience engaged.
What really makes the movie, though, is Bradley Cooper's incredible acting. "Acting" actually seems like the wrong word. Cooper doesn't "act" Chris Kyle; he "is" Chris Kyle. Admittedly, I've never met Chris Kyle, so I'm taking a leap of faith by saying what I did. What I really mean is that Cooper inhabits his character's skin so seamlessly that there is never, ever a sense that Cooper is acting at all. This is a fully realized character. One has no sense of the actor named Bradley Cooper positioning himself on the set and then, when he hears the word "action!" going through the motions of the character named Chris Kyle. There is no actor named Bradley Cooper. There is just Chris Kyle.
One of the things that makes it clear just how extraordinarily Cooper fills the role is to watch the other actors. They're all good . . . but you can see them acting. I have a vague memory of having seen Cooper in some other roles and not noticing him. He apparently was waiting for this role.
All in all, American Sniper is a movie that deserves its accolades and blockbuster revenue. Chris Kyle was one of those great, salt-if-the-earth Americans who emerges in times of war — not a man who loves killing for killing's sake, which would make him no better than the enemy, but a true sheepdog who is willing to get dirty in the fight to protect his flock. Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, and the rest of the American Sniper paid Kyle his due by creating this great movie.