text: Being an APRS enthusiast, when Curtis told me about the RS-UV3, I was really excited. I already run an igate; KB1MTS. However I was looking to add a second iGate for 145.825, keep costs low, and keep the foot print for the entire device really small (plus as a bonus, something to show at Dayton this year). My current solution uses a Kenwood radio, a TNC-X, a USB adapter, and Beagle Bone Black which is a spaghetti mess of cables for data and power. For my new iGate, I decided I wanted something that fit in a box, and only had a single power connection for everything. This is Part 1 of a series about what I did for Dayton and has been in testing a compact and reliable solution.


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|Anne Tilly: Bread Upon the Waters
by Lois Dean, Roswell, Georgia SeniorNet Learning Center
The time and energy she gave as a volunteer brought an unexpected reward for Anne Tilly of Roswell, when she was looking for new employment recently. "My experience at the Roswell SeniorNet Learning Center led directly to qualifying me for the job I applied for," Ms Tilly said.
Volunteers at the Roswell SeniorNet Learning Center, located in the City of Roswell Adult Recreation Center on Grimes Bridge Road, teach computer skills to people age 50 and over. As a coach and instructor at the Learning Center, Ms Tilly accumulated hours of teaching experience, learned computer skills working with the Microsoft Works and Word classes, developed curriculum, and assisted development and revision of course manuals used by students. These skills met the requirements for a job as an education coordinator at UHS-Pruitt corporation in Norcross, and she was hired.
The moral of this story: contributing time as a volunteer may not only provide the satisfaction of doing something to help others, it also may pay off in a practical way.

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Manus Island children draw on desolation of detention
In her childish self-portrait, the 12-year-old girl's cheeks are streaked with tears as she stands forlornly beside a purple, boarded-up school. A lone palm tree is the only clue to her location: Papua New Guinea's Manus Island processing centre.
On Monday, Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young released drawings done by some of the 34 children in the island's camp to the media, saying they backed a scathing report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees released on Monday, which expressed grave concerns for the plight of the children on the island.
The drawings showed high wire fences and children helplessly standing beside their weeping and prostrate mothers.
''The detention centre on Manus Island is robbing these children of their childhood,'' Senator Hanson-Young said.
Meanwhile, the Immigration Department confirmed even internationally recognised refugees could be detained for up to five years in offshore centres on Australia's behalf.
Senator Hanson-Young told Fairfax Media a married Tamil couple on Manus Island had last week showed her cards showing they had been accepted by the UNHCR as genuine refugees in Malaysia before setting out on a boat to Australia.
Despite this, they face being trapped in a five-year limbo on the Manus Island processing centre after arriving in Australia after tough new no-advantage rules came into effect. ''As claims assessment has not yet commenced in either Nauru or PNG, it is not possible to verify claims made by some people that they have been found by UNHCR to be refugees,'' a Department of Immigration spokesman said.
He said people may also present character problems, or they could apply for refuge elsewhere, so it was ''prudent'' for the government to conduct its own evaluations, irrespective of UNHCR determinations.
Pamela Curr, from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, called on the international agency to intervene.
''The UNHCR has a responsibility to these people they have determined to be refugees,'' she said. ''And if these people have been placed into offshore limbo, the UNHCR has a responsibility to intervene.''
A spokesman for the agency said: ''Generally speaking, UNHCR accepts the right of a [Refugee] Convention State to undertake its own refugee status determination if a mandated refugee (that is, a person who has been previously recognised as a refugee by UNHCR under its mandate) arrives in its territory and claims refugee status.
''However, UNHCR considers that the grant of mandate status by UNHCR should be given considerable weight, and seriously taken into account, by Convention States, including Australia, PNG and Nauru.''


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Seeing Double
Sometimes, when ordering a cake, you have to play Pictionary with your baker. Except instead of just telling them what to draw, you show them a picture. And instead of actually drawing anything, they make a cake. So really it's nothing like Pictionary. WORK WITH ME HERE I'M NOT SO GOOD AT ANALOGIES.
For example, Kelly and Paul wanted a cake of Winnie-the-Pooh, so they brought in this:
Say, is that a squished spider on your face, or does your baker really think bears have whiskers?
I mean, it's like a Goldfish Cracker donned a Groucho Marx disguise, and then sprouted nubby little arms and legs, right? It's EXACTLY LIKE THAT, right?
Amanda S. works for the Cirque du Soleil show Varekai, and for the show's tenth anniversary they wanted a cake that looks like the show's circus tent exterior:
But instead, they got something like HR Giger would design if he designed Moon Boots:
Really ugly, non-functional Moon Boots. That can kill you. With their pointy, pointy spiny things. Yeah. Like that.
And finally, Brittany M. didn't actually order this next cake, so I had John whip up a handy graphical approximation of what we *think* the baker was aiming for:
This is some kind of sports thing, right? Or maybe a zoo decal?
Well, whatever it is, I think it's safe to say that the baker took license with that logo in the same way a crazy artistic type person takes license with something traditional that we all love and don't want messed with. Which is to say a LOT.
Oh! I know! Like that one awful version of Jingle Bells! (No, not that one - THAT one.) Yeah. Like THAT.
So, yeah. it's bad.
OH, I'm sorry. Did you want to see the cake now?
Poor lil' kitty. I bet the LSU folks are as mad right now as cats when I try to clip their claws.
The cats' claws, I mean, not the LSU people's. Hopefully they don't even HAVE claws.
The LSU people, I mean, not the oh never mind.
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Conservative councillor Nigel Goodyear has resigned from Eastbourne Borough Council.
The popular Meads councillor is quitting so he can stand as an independent candidate in the contest for a new police commissioner later this year.
A by-election will be held on May 31.
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10 More Popular Bible 'Verses' That Aren't Actually in the Bible
After readers responded to an initial round-up of some of the most commonly cited phrases that are either misquotes or have been wrongly attributed to the Bible, it became abundantly clear that another installment of 10 popular Bible "verses" was in order.
1. "When praises go up blessings come down"
The phrase, which is the title of a few popular worship songs, may sound like a line from the Book of Proverbs, but it's not in the Bible. Some have suggested that its Scriptural link can be found in Psalm 67, a song that calls on God's people to praise Him and for Him to bless His people.
2. "God helps those who help themselves"
While this phrase sounds like it definitely comes from Scripture, it actually isn't recorded anywhere in the Bible. The phrase "God helps those who help themselves" is credited to the Greek storyteller Aesop (and Benjamin Franklin). It's been suggested the phrase is a favorite among pickpockets and shoplifters.
3. "God will never give you more than you can bear"
This common phrase appears to be a misinterpretation of 1 Corinthians 10:13: "No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it." Is the verse about victory over temptation, or a pass on utterly difficult situations?
4. "Touch and agree"
While the King James Version of Matthew 18:19 partially states "That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing...," the phrase has come to mean, to some Christians, that they are to literally touch, make physical contact, when petitioning God to show their agreement on a matter.
5. "This too shall pass"
Is this something God said to Moses as he led the Hebrew people out of Egypt? Nope. It's a proverb — and not a proverb from the Bible. Instead, the phrase is said to have its roots in Sufism but also has been linked, wrongly, to King Solomon.
6. "Love the sinner, hate the sin"
A general attitude professed by Christians, but not actually a passage of Scripture. The phrase, attributed to Saint Augustine ("with love for mankind and hatred of sins"), was also adopted by Mohandas Gandhi in his autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth as "hate the sin and not the sinner."
7. "A fool and his money are soon parted"
The author of the Book of Proverbs is not responsible for this saying, which actually has its roots in an old British proverb.
8. "To thine own self be true"
You can search the Bible all day for this one, but you won't find it. Instead, try "Hamlet," the Shakespearean tragedy. "This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man," says Polonius to his son, Laertes.
9. "Charity begins at home"
While not included in the Bible, the popular saying was expressed by 14th century British theologian John Wycliffe (in German): "Charite schuld bigyne at hem-self."
10. "A penny saved is a penny earned"
This phrase seems like it may come from the Book of Proverbs, but "a penny saved is a penny earned" is not in the Bible at all. It's believe the saying goes as far back as the 17th century, although some wrongly claim that Benjamin Franklin coined the phrase. Franklin did write "a penny saved is twopence dear" ... as well as "fish and visitors smell (stink) in three days."


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The Importance of Connections
The Importance of Connections
Global interdependence ties our environmental fate to others, but also creates a public store of good examples to follow.
In nature everything is connected to everything else. Aldo Leopold taught us that back in the 1950s. Twenty years after the first issue of World Watch was published, an ever larger segment of the population seems to understand the implications of our interconnectedness.
NASA scientist James Hansen warned us in 1988 that humans were changing the climate and the effects of that change were starting to become evident. Not many people outside of Washington paid attention. Many refused to believe it. Today, millions of people live in town centers to avoid driving to work. Consumers buy the hybrid Toyota Prius in record numbers. Venture capital floods into technologies that reduce energy use or generate power from renewable sources. Architects and engineers brag about who can design the greenest building.
Does this mean our society has figured out how to live in harmony with the Earth's natural systems? Far from it. But we are certainly closer to, if not at, the "tipping point." As Ray Anderson, chairman of Interface and a tireless evangelist for industrial ecology, explains it, An Inconvenient Truth caused the supersaturated solution of concern about climate change to precipitate into action. The movie came after Hurricane Katrina, high gasoline prices, and several reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. An Inconvenient Truth galvanized people around the world to stand up and say "Enough! It's time to get serious about climate change."
My job at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill brings me into contact with many people from a variety of backgrounds. In the UNC community, students were the first to understand the profound implications of climate change. They even raised their own fees to invest in renewable energy infrastructure directly on campus. Now some faculty members are changing their research focus-a rare occurrence in academia-to study a range of energy and climate related topics. Our chancellor has signed the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment, pledging us to climate neutrality by mid-century.
While it's true that talk about climate change still greatly exceeds action, signs of progress abound. When I wrote about renewable energy technologies in the 1980s, California was the only state with commercial wind turbines. Last year, 20 states installed utility-scale wind turbines and Texas surpassed California in the amount of installed generating capacity. Fully half the states now require utilities to generate a certain minimum percentage of their electricity from renewable sources. North Carolina joined the list in August, the first state in the southeast to do so.
Unfortunately price signals do not yet steer people to make good environmental choices. Food transported halfway around the world is often less expensive than food sold by local farmers. A gallon of nonrenewable gasoline purchased from countries that don't much like us costs less than a large mocha latte. Small businesses can deduct the full price of a gas-guzzling sport utility vehicle from their income taxes. And first cost still trumps life-cycle cost savings for most individuals, businesses, and government agencies.
Since leaving the Worldwatch Institute, I have lived in Germany, the Netherlands, and several cities in Canada and the United States. Seeing how various cultures address economic, environmental, and social challenges is eye opening. When Germany unified in 1990, the country recognized that the cleanup required in the East would position German companies to be international leaders in environmental technologies. Packaging laws required product manufacturers to take responsibility for recycling the packaging on their products. Toxic components, unnecessary packaging, and materials that were difficult to recycle disappeared quickly. This strategic approach to economic development and public policy surfaces less frequently in the United States.
In the Netherlands we paid a pre-recycling fee when we registered our car, and a quarterly road tax even though we rarely drove the vehicle. Like the Dutch of all ages and socioeconomic classes, we rode our bikes everywhere. When my youngest was eight months old, she sat in the bike seat mounted in front of my handlebars and peered out at the world through a clear windshield. Saddlebags and a device that allowed me to strap on an umbrella stroller enabled me to continue shopping car-free at the open air markets. Safe and expansive bike networks, and expensive gas and parking, made bike riding the easy choice.
In Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands we appreciated the universal access to health care. I relished giving birth to my younger daughter at home, the Dutch way, in a country with one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the world. Now that I have a fulltime job with health insurance in the United States, I pray that large medical bills will not someday deplete all our savings. With half of all personal bankruptcies caused by illness and medical bills, and most of those among people who started with health insurance, I know that millions of Americans must share this fear.
While outside the United States, we marveled at the multi-stakeholder decision-making processes that included government, the private sector, and community-based organizations. Maybe our wobbly language skills had something to do with it, but there certainly appeared to be less conflict and litigiousness. The cronyism, corruption, and stonewalling that plague the current U.S. administration have set many environmental causes back decades. On the plus side, I have participated in multi-stakeholder community design processes in Florida and am engaging in them more frequently as we design new buildings at UNC. Nonetheless, I feel a diminished sense of civility and inclusiveness in the United States.
Fundamentally, the question comes down to whether a society acts on its values. Providing health care for all, discouraging the use of fossil fuels, and respectfully listening to multiple points of view are values I hold strongly. My gut tells me that many, if not most, Americans share these values. If that's true, then why do we struggle so much, often with futility, to achieve these common goals?
I have seen many positive changes over the past 20 years. Curbside recycling has become the norm. Yet new landfills are still needed to make up the slack and they are as vocally opposed as the Mobro garbage barge was in 1987. Wind turbines and solar cells are starting to sprout up everywhere, though less rapidly than I had hoped and anticipated. Building owners from all sectors are starting to out-green each other. Many corporations, especially those that also operate in Europe and Asia, are genuinely trying to reduce their ecological footprint and improve their bottom line, rather than just greenwashing.
My hope is that if I am still around to write a column 20 years from now I will be able to write about how we have reduced greenhouse gas emissions significantly, how we have reduced the gap between rich and poor, and how we have protected habitats in order to preserve the phenomenal biodiversity of this planet.
So next time you buy a house or a car, or vote for a politician, or decide to take a new job, ask yourself "Am I creating the change I want to see in this world?" Because like it or not, everything is connected to everything else.
Cynthia Pollock Shea is director of the sustainability office at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


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Yes, well... except that gymno (naked) sophists (philosophers) refers to the fact that their asceticism is so extreme as to take them to the point of forsaking clothing. So Higgins is clearly refering to sadhus. His characterisation of them as Ethiopians may be due to the fact that his white colonial upbringing has lead him to label anything darker than a lily-white Englander as an "Ethiopian". ie he had personal contact with Ethiopians and thus used them as a point of reference. Like later it became fashionable to label anybody darker than an Englander and lighter than a central-southern African an "Indian".Lhug-Pa wrote:It's also funny you mention that considering how the early 19th century English Mason Godfrey Higgins (quoted in my signature) referred to the very ancient 'Gymnosophists' as Æthiopian, and also as followers of the Buddha. It's very interesting, being that the Gymnosophists, Sadhus, Ngakpas, and Rastafarians all have dreadlocks.
Colonial mentality!
PS Fela Kuti was Nigerian. I recommend you track down his biography, fascinating!


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Between 1995 and 2001, the OECD reported and analysed privatisation activities and trends in the OECD member countries. The reports listed below provide information on privatisation proceeds by country, method of transaction, sectoral makeup of activities and discuss the key factors shaping the trends.
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- Crisp, fulsome sound
- Superb build quality and stunning design
- Excellent feature list
- Long-winded PC setup
- Won't play FLAC, AAC or WAV
- Basic USB & iPod control
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- Built-in dual Apple / Galaxy dock
- AirPlay and AllShare Play wireless streaming
- USB media playback
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- Built-in Wi-Fi
- Digital / vacuum tube amp
The DA-E750 is the world's first dual docking audio system, designed to play music from Apple and Samsung Galaxy devices both wirelessly and through its built-in dock. It's equipped with AirPlay, AllShare Play and Bluetooth 3.0, which already sounds pretty tempting, but with USB support and Samsung's hybrid digital/valve amplifier also on board, it's shaping up to be something special – find out how it fares in our exclusive review.
Our first impressions after pulling the DA-E750 out of the box are overwhelmingly positive. The unit's build quality is sheer luxury – it's satisfyingly heavy, plus the Red Mahogany with hand-polished finish lends elegance and sophistication (likewise the alternative Black Mahogany Wood finish). The construction is easily on a par with other 'high-end' docks like the Monitor Audio i-deck and the B&W Zeppelin Air – it really is a beautifully made unit.
There are plenty of other aesthetic touches that make this dock stand out. The silver cone surrounds and phase plugs on the front panel bring a touch of glamour; the window showing the red-glowing valves is not only stylish but unique; and the round panel of controls on top is quirky yet practical. It's a shame that there's no display panel, but there's a danger it might have ruined the minimal aesthetic.
On the back is the hidden iPod/Galaxy dock. Putting it here is a clever move as it doesn't clutter up the minimal front panel and keeps everything nice and clean. The sturdy dock opens with a smooth action, as opposed to the flimsy plastic trays you sometimes find on docks and home cinema systems. There's a support that slides up and holds your device in place (particularly useful for iPads), which provides a steady base, and also in the box are spacer covers for the connector that's not being used.
Also on the rear panel is a useful array of sockets. The USB port allows you to play media from storage devices, while the 3.5mm minijack input lets you connect other portable audio players.
Despite having built-in Wi-Fi, the Ethernet port is still an important socket as many listeners prefer the stability of a wired connection when streaming large files. It also allows those without Wi-Fi to use the streaming features.
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BALTIMORE (AP) The Baltimore Orioles have extended the contracts of executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette and manager Buck Showalter through 2018.
The moves were announced Wednesday.
In his first season with the Orioles, the 54-year-old Duquette put together a club that earned an AL wild-card berth, ended a 14-year run of losing seasons and won 24 more games than in 2011.
Showalter managed Baltimore to a 93-69 record last year. The Orioles beat Texas in a one-game playoff to advance to the second round against the Yankees, who won a five-game series.
The 56-year-old Showalter was hired by the Orioles in August 2010. He is 196-185 with Baltimore and was heading into the final year of his contract.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks edged higher Tuesday, with the S&P 500 notching its first-ever finish above the milestone level of 2,000.
A stronger-than-expected reading on consumer confidence provided a lift, and investors took a somewhat mixed report on durable-goods orders in stride.
The S&P 500 SPX, -0.07% rose 2.10 points, or 0.1%, to end at 2,000.02. The benchmark also touched an intraday record just above 2,005 before easing back. Energy XLE, +0.79% fared best among the 10 S&P sectors, while utilities XLU, -0.63% and industrials XLI, +0.54% performed worst and lost ground.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.14% advanced by 29.83 points, or 0.2%, to end at 17,106.70. The blue-chip index achieved an intraday record of 17,153.80, but then finished 0.2% off its July 16 record close at 17,138.20. The Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.22% tacked on 13.29 points, or 0.3%, to end 4,570.64, yet again nabbing its highest close since March 31, 2000.
Today's economic data: An August reading on consumer confidence came in at 92.4, above forecasts for 88.5, and a separate report said U.S. home prices rose 1% in June. Orders for U.S. durable goods skyrocketed a record 22.6% in July because of a surge in contracts for Boeing Co. BA, +1.10% aircraft, but bookings actually fell for most other industries.
The confidence reading was encouraging, and the durables report was "mixed to positive," said Terry Sandven, chief equity strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management. "The backdrop is still favorable for equities to trend higher," he told MarketWatch.
While U.S. economic reports came in mostly positive, some analysts cautioned that overseas headlines still can rattle stocks. It's "any change in the geopolitical landscape that has the potential to cause the most volatility," said Joao Monteiro, analyst at Valutrades, in a note. See: Cease fire reached between Israel and Hamas and Peace-talk hopes diminished for Russia, Ukraine
More on S&P 500 and 2,000: The S&P 500 topped 2,000 for the first time on Monday in intraday action, but it wasn't until Tuesday that the benchmark closed above that big round number. Read: The S&P 500 topped 2,000. Should you care?
"It's nice that the broad equity markets are meeting milestones, but I think a more attractive, more compelling driver is company earnings," said Sandven of U.S. Bank. He noted that consensus forecasts call for earnings growth of 11% in 2014 and then another 11% gain in 2015.
Movers and shakers: Best Buy Co. BBY, -0.47% shares closed down 6.8% amid a sluggish outlook. The struggling retailer was the day's worst performer in the S&P 500.
Burger King Worldwide Inc. US:BKW and Canada-based Tim Hortons Inc. US:THI confirmed Tuesday that they plan to combine to create a new company in an $11 billion deal. They are getting financing help from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRK.B, +1.06%. Burger King shares lost 4.3% after surging Monday, while Tim Hortons' U.S.-listed shares gained 8.5%.
Shares of Kite Pharma Inc. US:KITE rose 17.7% after the biotech reported the majority of patients responded positively to its cancer-drug candidate.
Follow more of the day's notable stock moves here.
Other markets: The Stoxx Europe 600 SXXP, +0.34% closed higher, and the FTSE 100 UKX, +0.31% came back from a U.K. holiday to play catch-up with gains it missed out on Monday. Asian stocks finished mixed. Gold US:GCV4 found some renewed strength as the dollar DXY, -0.46% eased.


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The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) approved the dig after marine toxin tests at all four beaches confirmed the clams are safe to eat.
No digging will be allowed at any of those beaches until after noon.
"The position of the moon in December always generates favorable tides for digging razor clams," said Dan Ayres, WDFW coastal shellfish manager. "Unfortunately, the weather isn't always as cooperative, so diggers should dress for cold, wet conditions."
The dig at Twin Harbors will run six days, extending from Tuesday (Dec. 11) through Sunday (Dec. 16). The three other beaches will open for digging on the following schedule and evening low tides:
- Dec. 11, Tues., 4:51 p.m., -1.1 ft., Twin Harbors
- Dec. 12, Wed., 5:40 p.m., -1.6 ft., Twin Harbors
- Dec. 13, Thurs., 6:29 p.m., -1.9 ft., Twin Harbors
- Dec. 14, Fri., 7:15 p.m., -1.8 ft., Twin Harbors, Mocrocks, Long Beach, Copalis
- Dec. 15, Sat., 8:01 p.m., -1.6 ft., Twin Harbors, Mocrocks, Long Beach, Copalis
- Dec. 16, Sun., 8:47 p.m., -1.0 ft., Twin Harbors, Mocrocks, Long Beach
Clam diggers are limited to 15 razor clams per day, and are required to keep the first 15 clams they dig. Each digger's clams must be kept in a separate container.
All diggers age 15 or older must have an applicable 2012-13 fishing license to harvest razor clams on any beach. Licenses, ranging from a three-day razor clam license to an annual combination fishing license, are available on WDFW's website at https://fishhunt.dfw.wa.gov and from license vendors around the state.
Information about beach locations and additional digs proposed in the weeks ahead is available on WDFW's website at http://goo.gl/ooxEO .


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Each week, The Baltimore Sun publishes a Q&A; with a college lacrosse player or coach to get you more acquainted with the player and his/her team. Today's guest is Johns Hopkins sophomore attackman Wells Stanwick, who leads the team in assists with 22 and points with 45.
The Baltimore native and Boys' Latin graduate entered the week ranked fourth in Division I in shooting percentage (.500). After Saturday's 8-4 loss to then-No. 7 Loyola, the No. 13 Blue Jays (8-5) are in danger of missing the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1971, the debut of the event. Their streak of qualifying for the tournament is the longest in all of college sports. Johns Hopkins will wrap up the regular season Friday night at Army (8-5).
How would you describe the mood in the locker room?
Everyone's staying positive. It's a little hard, but all we can do right now is go up to Army and get a win and put our name in the playoff conversation, and from there, it's out of our hands.
Is leaving the team's postseason fate in the hands of the NCAA selection committee difficult to digest?
It's definitely difficult to go about. If we had beaten Loyola, it probably would have been in our hands, and we probably would have had a lot more say in what we were going to do in the playoffs. But since we lost, it's out of our hands and it's definitely difficult to deal with, knowing that we're just hoping that we get lucky, almost.
It's easy to point to Saturday's loss to Loyola as a missed opportunity. But are the one-goal losses to North Carolina on March 30 and Albany on April 5 just as disappointing?
I think we try to stay away from the what-if conversation. People do say, 'If you had won that game, you wouldn't be in this position right now.' But it's a position we put ourselves in, not finishing the games in the fourth quarters and coming out slow contributed to that. From there, you've just got to go with it and just take what you're given.
Is ending the program's streak of 41 consecutive appearances in the NCAA tournament a painful scenario?
You never want to be part of the team that didn't keep tradition going. It's definitely hard to deal with that. But we're not thinking about that now. We'll find out Sunday what the case is, and from there we'll go with it. If we don't go, we'll try to come back next year and not let anything like that happen again.
Did you envision going from nine goals and 14 assists as a freshman to 23 and 22 this season?
I definitely wanted to come out this year. I worked hard in the offseason to get better and I think I tried as hard as I could to get better. Obviously, my teammates helped out a lot, finding me. So I think a lot of it can be attributed to our offense. Coach [Bobby] Benson, [the offensive coordinator], has put me in the right sports all year, and I was just a beneficiary of being in the right spots and taking the right shots at the right times.
What is your most memorable goal of the year?
It was the goal against UVa. right before halftime [at the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic on March 23]. We were kind of up on them, and right off the faceoff, we scored. [Sophomore long-stick midfielder] Mike Pellegrino threw the ball to me, and we scored two goals within seven seconds of each other with under 50 seconds in the half. And it was at M&T; Bank [Stadium]. So that was a pretty cool experience. That was probably the best we played all year. We came out and played probably our best lacrosse all year in that game.
Have you talked to your brother, former Virginia attackman and 2011 Tewaaraton Award winner Steele, to seek his advice about this season?
I've talked to him a little bit. Not much, though, because they didn't really have a season like what we're having right now. So I've talked to him a little bit, but not too much. He just says to keep playing hard and keep doing your thing. It's almost working. It's just that at the end of some of these games, we're just letting up a little too early.


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The Asian studies program at Saint Joseph's University is interdisciplinary and designed to provide students with a vital understanding of Asia, broadly defined as the region from the Persian Gulf to the Philippines, including the present states of China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Burma, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and the Central Asian Republics of the former Soviet Union.
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Stars of The CW's "Melrose Place" reboot stepped out over the weekend for their premiere party where one infamous blonde was on everyone's lips – Heather Locklear.
When news first broke that twenty-something primetime soap "Melrose Place" was coming back, reports of Heather Locklear reprising her role as uber-bitch Amanda Woodward were quickly shot down. But recently the rumors have surfaced again that Heather has been approached.
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"I saw a little something, something on the Internet," a wide-eyed Josie Bissett, who is reprising her role as Jane Andrews Mancini, told AccessHollywood.com's Laura Saltman about Heather's rumored return. "I hope so!"
Katie Cassidy, who stars as Ella Sims, the newest blonde cutthroat female on the show, said she would welcome Heather to the set with open arms.
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"I think it's great. Heather Locklear is amazing and we would be more than thrilled – Heather — if you came on our show," Katie, the daughter of David Cassidy, said.
Katie said she feels there could be some potential catfights with Amanda if Heather chooses to return.
"They're both business women," Katie noted. "I think there could be some really fun material happening there. It would be an honor to have her on. So hopefully… We'll see."
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"No one is Heather," Daphne said. "Nobody. The new [bitch on the show], I think her name is Ella, she's lovely, she's great as being a bitch, but nobody is Heather Locklear as far as that goes."
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – Junior Jessica Cohen (Ladsen, S.C.) had a double-double with 25 points and 10 rebounds, but it was not enough to earn the Cobras their first win of the season, as Coker lost to Fayetteville State 87-66.
Coker had a difficult time cracking the Broncos' defense shooting 36 percent from the floor and 53 percent from the charity stripe.
In addition to Cohen's double-double, freshman Kelley Godbout (Matthews, N.C.) had a double-double of her own with 13 points and 10 rebounds.
Coker returns to action in a week at the MetroMedical Thanksgiving Classic hosted by Bellarmine University in Lousiville, Kentucky. The Cobras will open play against the host at 7 p.m. on Saturday and will then play the University of Southern Indiana on Sunday, Nov. 27 at noon.


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Cadillac announced the 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe, the most recent and dramatic series and models of new production to be achieved. Scheduled to arrive in Cadillac showrooms in the spring of 2010 Cadillac CTS Coupe is a new luxury sports coupe destined to become a central part of the brand ladder magazine.
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David Cushing is earning sensational acclaim in his young career. His versatile bass-baritone range is effortlessly demonstrated in a variety of roles including the title role in Don Pasquale, Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, Frère Laurence in Roméo et Juliette and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream. He recently performed the leading role of Maometto in Rossini's rarely performed opera L'assedio di Corinto alongside renowned soprano Elizabeth Futral with the Baltimore Opera, as well as Count Horn/Tom in Un Ballo in Maschera with Boston Lyric Opera and Opera Colorado, Masetto in Don Giovanni and with Florentine Opera of Milwaukee, Osmin in The Abduction from the Seraglio with Boston Lyric Opera, Bonze in Madama Butterfly with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and returned to Opera Colorado to perform Dr. Grenvil in La Traviata, Nourabad in Les pêcheurs des perles, Bonze in Madama Butterfly, and covered the title role in Don Pasquale.


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Beyoncé's smolders on 'CR Fashion Book' cover
You didn't think we'd get through the September issues without Beyoncé appearing on at least one cover, did you? While we're betting there was plenty of interest from international magazines to have Queen Bey, arguably the biggest celebrity in the world, appear on their covers, Carine Roitfeld is the lucky one who scooped her up.
The fifth issue of CR Fashion Book marks Beyoncé's first collaboration with the former French Vogue editor, and not only does the singer wear some really high-fashion gear by Comme des Garçons, Saint Laurent, Prada and more, but she also penned an original poem that appears alongside her portraits. The cover story was shot by Pierre Debusschere, with "guest creative direction" by Givenchy's Riccardo Tisci.
Head over to CR Fashion Book for more images from the editorial, and yes, it includes a (Chanel) surfboard.
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This October, I accompanied Georgia to Steuben, Erie, Wyoming and Cattaraugus counties in upstate New York. Our final destination was Akron, Erie County, NY to visit and stay with Georgia's 1st cousin, Donna. Donna had family photos that we were to scan and some family stories that Georgia wanted to record.
Our trip began on Thursday morning, October 9 (Yom Kippur school holiday). Before getting to Akron, we spent the night in quaint Hammondsport, Keuka Lake (one of the Finger Lakes). We were able to get in some quality wine tasting and a little shopping! One of the wineries we visited
was named Bully Hill. It was picturesque, set high on a hill overlooking Keuka Lake.
Although the main purpose of this trip was to research
Georgia's maternal line in Wyoming County, we decided to head to nearby Bath, on Friday morning, before heading North to "cousin" Donna's home. Bath is the county seat of Steuben County and we easily found the library and Historical Society. We found the people quite friendly and helpful and I think Georgia will definitely make a return trip to continue unearthing the treasures that this group has to offer.
One neat "find" was the Steuben County Courthouse. The Historical Society directed Georgia to
go there to research the Wills and Probates. We fully expected to walk in and give the clerk a name or two only to have her disappear in the back before reappearing and giving us what we requested. Well, no!!! We actually got to handle the original documents in a really old room filled with musty files and old wooden cabinetry. I felt like the papers were speaking out to us to come and read them and find long lost secrets to the past! While we didn't find a lot of new
information for Georgia, this visit was worth the trip in itself!
We finally made it to Donna's home on Friday evening and she was a most gracious hostess. A recent widow, she was glad for our company and the opportunity to reconnect with her cousin. We plotted our Saturday before heading to bed and I think Donna and Georgia stayed up late reminiscing.
Saturday was spent taking a short drive to Wyoming County to visit the former homes of Donna
& Georgia's grandparents, churches that they may have been members and their gravesites. The day was fruitful and we took many photos and did a few
gravestone rubbings and had a lot of fun driving around and trying to navigate from Georgia's memories! We finally got to eat some Beef on Wek that we had been hearing about and then stopped at Kutter's Cheese Factory to pick up wine and cheese for a little snack upon our return to Donna's.
Sunday morning was our departure day and Georgia finally connected with another cousin in West Valley, Cattaraugus County.
Jim Kemp and his wife entertained us for a few hours that afternoon, dragging out family photos and revisiting childhood family reunions. They were very hospitable and it was too short a visit, but we needed to make it back to Maryland as Monday was a work day for me.
Although this research trip was not a direct benefit to my family research, I certainly enjoyed seeing a friend realize some of her genealogy wish list and it got me reinvigorated to start up on my own lines when I got back home again. This was a first-time visit to this part of New York and I am quite anxious to return to explore it with my husband. The villages and their stereotypical town square with the obligatory gazebo, white, wood-framed churches and the plethora of U.S. flags flying proudly made me feel as if I stumble upon the set of Andy Griffith's Mayberry, RFD!!!
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The world of digital music downloads is turning out to be a lucrative one, although there are a few more perils for artists and publishers than some of us had expected. One argument that's being brought up more and more often is whether or not the right to distribute music on physical media like a CD also gives you the right to sell it online. Eminem didn't think so, and has sued Apple and other parties for copyright infringement. Ex-Ramones Richard Reinhardt apparently agrees that physical rights don't equal download rights, and according to New York Times has sued Apple, Wal-Mart, and a number of other parties for copyright infringement violations.
As a quick bit of Ramones history, Reinhardt (Richie Ramone) filled in for the regular drummer (Marky Ramone) for a few years in the 1980s. During that time, Reinhardt wrote six songs for the band, which he owns the rights to and made publication deals for. The argument is that these publication deals only covered physical distribution of the six songs, meaning that the publisher never had the ability to offer them for digital download. Because Apple, Wal-Mart, Ramones Production, and other companies are violating his copyright by selling the songs online, Reinhardt is asking for a least $900,000 in damages, profits from all of the songs, and an injunction against the companies.
This latest suit is very similar to the suit from Eminem, with one key difference: digital distribution wasn't around in the 1980s. I can see there being a question of whether agreements in the 1980s or 1990s cover distribution systems that are invented later, so I think Reinhardt has at least somewhat of a case. Artists stand to make quite a bit of money off of digital downloads, so I suspect we'll see more of these lawsuits, at least until a court decides just how a digital download should be classified and whether existing publishing agreements apply.


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Hayes denies Government 'stealing' UK tax revenue
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Minister of State for Public Service Reform: denied Ireland is a tax haven. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Minister of State for Public Service Reform Brian Hayes has denied a claim by Northern Ireland finance minister Sammy Wilson the Government is "stealing" UK tax revenue.
The Democratic Unionist said he was concerned that companies were using the Republic of Ireland to pay tax which he alleged should be paid in the UK.
"My view is that the British government does have some leverage on the Irish Government there, because they have a £7.5 billion loan, that is a lot of leverage," Mr Wilson told the BBC.
"They should be saying to the government in the Republic, you cannot steal tax revenue from us in this way and that is in fact what has been happening."
Mr Hayes rejected the claims Ireland was a tax haven. "It is wrong and it is put out there by countries I suspect who are looking to the success we are making of this country in terms of inward investment," he said. "The fact of the matter is this, it is not Irish tax law that is at stake here, it is other jurisdictions with their tax law."
British prime minister David Cameron has put tax and transparency at the heart of next week's G8 agenda and wants the meeting to include country-by-country reporting of where companies pay their tax.


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Saint Basil the Confessor, Bishop of Parium
Saint Basil the Confessor, Bishop of Parium, lived during the eighth century. He was elected as bishop by the inhabitants of Parium, who venerated the saint as a true pastor of the flock of Christ.
When the Iconoclast heresy broke out, Saint Basil resolutely came out on the side of icon veneration and refused to sign the orders for their abolition (the "Iniquitous Scroll") of the Council of 754 which was convened under the emperor Constantine V Copronymos (741-775). The saint avoided any contact with the heretics and did not permit them into his diocese. For his zeal he suffered much persecution, hunger and deprivation.
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Via Breitbart. Oh, Hillary. Hillary, Hillary, Hillary.
"Based on what I know, this is a criminal defendant who was in some ways motivated by his own political views, who had a particular animus toward the congresswoman," Clinton said. "And I think when you cross the line from expressing opinions that are of conflicting differences in our political environment into taking action, that's violent action, that's a hallmark of extremism, whether it comes from the right, the left, from al Qaeda, from anarchists, whoever it is. That is a form of extremism. So yes, I think that when you're a criminal who is in some way pursuing criminal activity connected to — however bizarre and poorly thought through — your political views, that's a form of extremism."
By this definition, Hinckley was a political extremist too. Reagan was, after all, a political figure, and Hinckley certainly did have a "particular animus" towards him. I'm not sure what she means by Loughner's "political views," though: Supposedly, he developed his grudge against Giffords because she couldn't answer a question he asked her about language, which makes him more of a, shall we say, linguistic extremist. But "linguistic extremism" doesn't help the Democrats' narrative, so here's the Smartest Woman in the World slyly giving the left's "right-wing hate" storyline a boost while being very careful not to imply anything too concrete about Loughner's actual motivations. This is a nice example, in fact, of what I wrote about yesterday vis-a-vis her husband and Dick Morris strategizing to blame Republicans for Oklahoma City by tossing out subtle, indirect suggestions of culpability and letting the public connect the dots itself. That's what Hillary's doing here — Loughner's an extremist, he was motivated by his own special brand of "politics," he had certain opinions that conflicted with the opinions of others, wink wink. All of that's arguably true depending upon how you define the terms, which is where the dot-connecting comes in. Fill in the blanks, America.
Her other goal, per her comments about Loughner in Abu Dhabi the other day, is to reassure the "international community" that America has its own terrorists too. That's of a piece with the left's traditional approach to foreign policy, that whatever one might think of American exceptionalism, it's bad form and actually counterproductive to go around reminding other nations of it. Said Hillary of Loughner to her audience in the UAE, "We have the same kinds of problems." Except, of course, we don't: If, for example, Pakistan's biggest worry was untreated schizophrenics opening fire outside supermarkets, geopolitics on the subcontinent would look very, very different. As it is, when one of their politicians gets shot for defending blasphemers of Islam, the assassin is roundly applauded. But see, "we have the same problems."
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This isn't a first look, because if you've seen the film's trailer (watch it here if you haven't), then you've already seen the movie's props by default.
At the Capcom Phoenix Wright event this weekend, there was a glass case full of items used in the upcoming flick, such as a case file and mock-up tabloids and newspapers.
Everything is dated Dec. 2012—an interesting tidbit, because according to the trailer, the movie is set in the year 20XX—the "near future". Near, indeed.
Also, check out the Honorable Judge's gavel.
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Dario Milo: COMMENT, Ben Winks01 Feb 2013 00:00
The huge spending on Jacob Zuma's Nkandla home flouted the parameters of the Act. (Madelene Cronjé, M&G)
One of the foremost academic architects of our Constitution, the late Professor Etienne Mureinik, described our Bill of Rights as "a compendium of values empowering citizens affected by laws or decisions to demand justification".
In response to revelations over the past few months that more than R200-million of public funds would be spent on security upgrades to the private residence of President Jacob Zuma at Nkandla, many South Africans have indeed demanded justification. In a country blighted by the apartheid legacies of inequality, indignity and deprivation, the reasons for the state spending such a staggering sum on one home are clearly of profound public interest.
In refusing to furnish a full explanation of why, on what and to whom so much money was paid out of the public purse, the executive – principally Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi, whose department is funding the project – has repeatedly relied on the National Key Points Act of 1980.
This Act was passed in the aftermath of the notorious Information Scandal, which implicated senior officials of the then information department in a scheme to misappropriate defence funds to wage an apartheid propaganda war.
The Act provides, among other things, that any place may be declared a national key point if, in the "opinion" of the defence minister, it "is so important that its loss, damage, disruption or immobilisation may prejudice the republic" or it is "necessary or expedient for the safety of the republic or in the public interest".
The defence minister may require the owner of such a place to take steps, at the owner's own expense, to improve its security (on pain of a five-year imprisonment or a fine), or the defence minister may, "on behalf of and with the consent of the owner", take those steps on his own and may determine to what extent the owner will bear the cost.
A special account is created for this purpose and it is envisaged that the funds appropriated for a specific key point must be deposited in this account, with the concurrence of the finance minister.
Security measures
Nxesi denied that the president had ever approved, or was even aware of, these public works at Nkandla. This is curious, because the Act requires the owner not only to consent to security measures but to pay for them, potentially with "financial assistance, including loans" from the special account. It is also alarming that the "irregularities" (mentioned in the vaguest of terms by Nxesi) were not detected or deterred much earlier, given the scrutiny the statute requires to be exercised over security measures at any national key point, let alone what appears to be the nation's most valuable one.
So it seems that the very same statute invoked by Nxesi to withhold the report, as well as any other information about Nkandla, may already have been breached in several respects, namely the requirements that the owner must consent, the owner must primarily pay and any public contribution must be determined by the defence minister and paid for from the special account.
Then there is the publication ban. Any person who "furnishes in any manner whatsoever information relating to the security measures applicable at or in respect of any national key point … without being legally obliged or entitled to do so, or without the disclosure … being by or on the authority of the [defence] minister" commits a crime punishable by three years' imprisonment or a R10 000 fine.
It was to this publication ban that Nxesi was presumably referring last Sunday, when he declined to release a report by an unidentified task team on the expenditure at Nkandla. Instead, he offered the public a nine-point summary of the task team's findings, among them that the state had spent more than R200-million at Nkandla to date (about R70-million on "security upgrades" and R135-million on "operational needs for state departments") and that "there were a number of irregularities" in the procurement process.
Now, even assuming that the publication ban in the Act would survive constitutional scrutiny, on its own terms, the ban cannot be used to keep the entire Nkandla report secret. Only those aspects of the report that relate to "security measures" can be kept from public view. Yet, in Nxesi's own version, more than 65% of the public spending related to "operational needs for state departments" and not "security upgrades" and the report also contains details of irregularities relating to service providers.
There can be no justification whatsoever for keeping this information from the public.
Perhaps more glaring than Nxesi's secrecy is that of the defence minister (previously Lindiwe Sisulu, now Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula). It is she who decides whether to declare a place a national key point, what security steps will be taken, to what extent the state will subsidise those steps and what information may be made public. But she has yet to account for the exercise of her sweeping powers under the Act in relation to Nkandla.
The view that the Act exempts the executive from accounting for public funds is as outdated as the Act itself.
Dario Milo is a partner and Ben Winks a candidate attorney at Webber Wentzel
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You have got to be kidding me.
Okay, where to begin? I honestly didn't have Watch on the Rhine high on my "to read" list — traumatic memories of John Ringo's previous "collaboration," the hopeless Cally's War, still ringing in my head — until Rob Preece of Books for a Buck told me at Fencon that this book was actually worse. From that point on, I don't know what happened. Perhaps it was the atavistic, rubberneck-the-car-crash aspect of my personality that I haven't weeded out. But I knew, after hearing that, that I just had to read this thing, come what may. Now, still reeling from the experience, I find my primary response disturbingly similar to that of a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, gazing upon the debris of his home. You have got to be kidding me. You have got to be fucking kidding me.
Cally's War was bad, but only on the level of garden-variety schlock. Bad writing, bad storytelling in the service of exploitation cheese whose only selling points were extreme violence and sweaty sex. Watch on the Rhine, from a writing standpoint, is more competent. Tom Kratman (remember, in these kinds of "collaborations," the less famous guy does about 85% of the work) can string a sentence together and assemble a narrative thread that flows adequately, even if all of his absurd dialogue sounds cribbed from Stan Lee comics of the early 1960's. Its badness, however, is far more ambitiously mounted. Morally, politically, and intellectually, the book is simply reprehensible. Because what it wants to do is give the Nazis — the Waffen-SS, no less — an extreme makeover. It wants us to accept them as misunderstood soldiers who did their duty under corrupt and evil leaders, whose true goal was simply the defense of their Fatherland, and whose rank and file consisted mostly of men of high integrity and scruples who were quietly appalled by the Holocaust and only too happy to tell Hitler and Himmler "fuck you." And then it resurrects them in the present day and asks us to support them as the only hope for humanity faced with a ruthless alien horde.
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
Okay — talents like Bujold and Weber aside, Baen Books has, even going back to the Reagan era, long been SF's home for jingoistic, hyper-violent right-wing power fantasies. And in the even more extremist George W. Bush era, I suppose it might follow that said power fantasies would become increasingly paranoid and extremist in a manner consistent with the zeitgeist. But even I never would have thought Baen would go this far. To think that any audience outside of hate groups monitored by the FBI would be attracted to a story in which the Waffen-SS is given a chance to "redeem" themselves borders on dementia. The book's added indulgences involving routine stereotyping and bashing of "liberals" — more accurately, the far right's straw-man image of the antiwar left — are merely the icing on an already stale cake. About the only thing that can be said in defense of Watch on the Rhine is that, early on, it crosses an event horizon beyond which it's just too stupid to be offensive. That doesn't mean, however, that you ought to read it, even in an MST3K mindset. Remember, guys like me take out the trash so you don't have to. You can trust me to do my job, folks.
I really want to get this over with, so I'll give you the plot in brief. The book is set in the present day in Ringo's Posleen universe, in which Earth is about to be invaded by hundreds of millions of those ferocious man-eating aliens, with our only allies the shady, elfin Darhel, who clearly have their own hidden agendas in aiding us. After America has been pretty savagely demolished by Posleen hordes, Europe must scramble to figure out what to do. In Germany, the proposal is advanced that, as no current army can be mustered with the discipline and fighting prowess to meet these invaders head on, the only solution is to use Darhel rejuvenation techniques to restore hundreds of aging ex-Waffen-SS geriatrics to the full flower of youth. The measure is passed by one vote, on the ludicrous grounds that the revived Nazis will be suitably isolated and prevented from spreading their political views while they're about the business of saving the human race. (In reply to an angry remark about the Nazis' human rights record, Kratman has the German chancellor say, "In that war everyone murdered prisoners." Yeah, well, not everyone murdered six million of them based on some "master race" ideology.)
Now, here's the thing. I suspect that if you asked Tom Kratman to his face, "Are you pro-Nazi?" he wouldn't answer in the affirmative. (Anyone who appears on his home page in his US Army fatigues wouldn't, I would hope.) The view this novel presents seems to fall more along the lines of deploring the Nazis' genocidal racial policies and crimes against humanity, while perversely admiring the perceived discipline, loyalty, and efficiency of its fascist, militarist caste system, especially as exemplified by the SS. In other words, we're meant to agree that the Nazis had some good ideas about how to run a country; it's just too bad all that Final Solution shit spoiled everything.
Now take note: the novel doesn't spell it out in those exact words. But it's impossible to read the unfolding story and not glean a sense of awe expressed by the writer(s) towards the ideal the SS was meant to represent: the ultimate soldier and perfect citizen. This is actually something I've seen firsthand from time I've spent among guys I used to know who held pretty far-right views. They were staunch about their American patriotism, collected guns, loved Reagan and Bush, and wore American flag T-shirts with slogans reading "Burn this one asshole!" And sometimes, they'd pin Nazi emblems to their jackets. Not because they thought the Nazis were good guys or anything. Heavens, no — bad guys, all the way. But man, did they have snazzy uniforms....
The political and historical naivety in those who find the window dressing of Nazism attractive — the bizarre appeal of a rigidly conformist society, with no long-haired lefty agitators to undermine good citizenship and "patriotism" — while repudiating or ignoring their innate evil may not be widespread, but it is out there and troubling. The jacket copy tries to tell us this book's depiction of the Nazis is "unbiased" and examines both "all that was good, and evil, about the most infamous military force in history...." Let's set aside the fact that the "unbiased" claim is about as laughable as Fox News's "fair and balanced" slogan. (The revived SS are unambiguously the heroes; the "liberals" who try to oppose them, thus making the world more vulnerable to Posleen attack, unambiguously the villains.) The mere fact that this book has the balls to use the phrase "all that was good" in reference to the fucking Nazis in the first place shows how morally adrift the entire enterprise is.
Kratman unwittingly makes things worse by his efforts to portray the disapproval his revived SS men are supposed to feel towards Nazi racial policies, a conceit that flies in the face of the historical record; racial purity was a tenet at the core of SS membership. (For the sake of fairness, one of the soldiers is portrayed as fanatically eager for a complete restoration of the bad old days of the Reich.) In one scene, the freshly-youthened Gruppenführer Mühlenkampf, touring a plant building a new tank to battle the Posleen, encounters a Jewish engineer. The scene follows:
"David Benjamin," answered the only truly swarthy man in the room. "Of Tel Aviv," he continued coldly, so as to keep a hostile note out of his voice. "I am here on loan from Israeli Military Industries. We intend to build a few of these ourselves, and to purchase several more."
The time for apologies passed before they ever became fully due, thought Mühlenkampf. None I could make would make up for anything.
Instead he answered, merely, "Very good. I have been most impressed with the design for all four versions of your Merkava panzer. Sensible. Wise. I am pleased you are here, Herr Benjamin."
The Israeli shrugged as if to say, It would please me more were you displeased to see me, SS man.
"David Benjamin," answered the only truly swarthy man in the room. "Of Tel Aviv," he continued coldly, so as to keep a hostile note out of his voice. "I am here on loan from Israeli Military Industries. We intend to build a few of these ourselves, and to purchase several more."
The time for apologies passed before they ever became fully due, thought Mühlenkampf. None I could make would make up for anything.
Instead he answered, merely, "Very good. I have been most impressed with the design for all four versions of your Merkava panzer. Sensible. Wise. I am pleased you are here, Herr Benjamin."
The Israeli shrugged as if to say, It would please me more were you displeased to see me, SS man.
So here we have a scene in which a Jew comes face to face with a prominent authority figure from the political party and military force best known to history for mounting a concerted effort towards the genocide of his whole race...and he's depicted as having some kind of attitude problem. Not to mention the completely unreal and ahistorical portrayal of a Waffen-SS leader feeling remorseful about the Holocaust. For Christ's sake, the Waffen-SS weren't hapless Wehrmacht draftees. Through its division the SS-Totenkopfverbände, these were the guys who worked the concentration camps. A more strident gang of racial-purity ideologues you couldn't find. Just who does Kratman think is buying this? Probably the same yahoos who reject evolution and global warming.
Finally, I suppose I shouldn't leave this review hanging without a comment or two about Kratman's pandering to the wingnut extreme of the far right (for the record: yes, I am aware there are wingnuts on the far left, too), and the biolerplate smears of "liberals" that have been a mainstay of America's poisoned political landscape since the turn of the century and the rise of Karl Rove. There's a rather stunning scene in the book's fourth chapter in which thousands of protestors beseige the headquarters of the Waffen-SS, outraged by the presense of Nazis in their midst. Kratman wastes no time in trying to stage this scene as a metaphor for the current antiwar movement. He trots out the usual canards that the antiwar movement are oblivious sympathizers/enablers of the enemy (replace the word "Posleen" with "terrorists" in the following passage)...
Not one of those rioters saw any incongruity in the fact that the signs bore slogans such as "Peace Now" and "Don't Grease the Wheels of the War Machine." Not one marcher found anything amiss in the attempt to sabotage the training of men who would save the Earth, if they could, from the Posleen who would destroy it. The protesters simply refused to acknowledge that the Posleen were any threat. Many of them refused even to acknowledge that the aliens existed.
Not one of those rioters saw any incongruity in the fact that the signs bore slogans such as "Peace Now" and "Don't Grease the Wheels of the War Machine." Not one marcher found anything amiss in the attempt to sabotage the training of men who would save the Earth, if they could, from the Posleen who would destroy it. The protesters simply refused to acknowledge that the Posleen were any threat. Many of them refused even to acknowledge that the aliens existed.
...as well as the one that casts them as unwitting dupes of treasonous conspiracies or secret well-funded organizations out to undermine Our Way of Life.
...the left of center of German politics, at least of that part which answered to those leaders of the left who had secretly sold out to the [Darhel]....
...the left of center of German politics, at least of that part which answered to those leaders of the left who had secretly sold out to the [Darhel]....
Both of these distortions, needless to say, are as off-the-mark as a fellatio scene in a Tom and Jerry cartoon, so their metaphorical value is only worthwhile to those assclowns who have bought into the Rush/Hannity/O'Reilly party line hook, line and sinker. (Though I don't like for politics to intrude on this site, it ought to be clarified to the clueless that the antiwar movement isn't made up of people who deny that terrorists exist, but those who are critical, to varying degrees of vitriol, of the current administration's policies in dealing with the problem. And with Bush's approval rating as of this writing down around 38%, it's no longer a fringe opinion, to say the least.) But Kratman knows his intended audience, and is only too happy to assuage the bloodlust of the red state rabble by letting our valiant SS paladins bust some hippie heads.
Presumably, the folks meant to swallow this stuff aren't supposed to notice that the dramatic goal of the whole scene is to depict Nazis as victims and have you cheer them as heroes!
I think I've said enough. Watch on the Rhine is so breathtakingly full of shit that it's possible a single copy, appropriately mulched, could fertilize enough arable land to end African famine for the next four centuries. But then, I imagine that helping the downtrodden and unfortunate is one of those stupid woolly-headed liberal ideas that's got no place in the brave new world, eh? Arbeit macht frei, swine.


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Boy, 17, missing after swimming mishap near dam
EDINBURGH, Ind. (AP) — A teenager was missing and two others were in critical condition Friday after a swimming outing turned tragic in southern Indiana.
The accident happened when a teenage girl was swept over the Edinburgh dam at the Big Blue River and became trapped, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources said in a written statement. Four other teens who were swimming with her then attempted to rescue the girl but were overcome by the force of the water, which was at flood stage.
Seventeen-year-old Jason Moran was still missing Friday night and the search for him was suspended until Saturday morning, the agency said.
"We don't know if he's still in there or if he got carried downstream," Conservation Officer Jet Quillen said. "We're holding out hope that we'll find him alive, but at this point we're in recovery mode."
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COLUMBIA — A three-year effort to evaluate and upgrade computer security systems at state agencies should begin in March, state officials said Tuesday.
The yet-to-be hired contractor will be asked to start with three agencies and issue recommendations by May 1 that include cost estimates, Budget and Control Board director Marcia Adams told the agency's oversight board. The report would come in time for budget discussions in the Senate.
Adams said her agency was collecting proposals and hoped to hire a contractor March 5.
That would be nearly six months after a cyber-thief stole unencrypted personal and financial data of millions of taxpayers from Department of Revenue computer servers. The state hired Mandiant, a Virginia-based information security firm, to immediately address the issues at that agency.
Gov. Nikki Haley said the consultant was needed to help officials upgrade data security across state government.
"I'm very happy with the progress made," Haley, chairwoman of the five-member oversight board, said after the meeting. "This is going to be something ongoing."
Senate Finance Chairman Hugh Leatherman, a board member, made clear the recommendations would be followed.
"Whatever comes out, the agencies will do it. They won't have the ability to said, 'No,"' he said.
The contractor will evaluate 18 agencies over three years, but the goal for May is to determine the most immediate security vulnerabilities, Adams said.
Her agency had help writing the request for expertise. Last month, the board approved hiring a consultant to help with the search. Cedric Bennett, former information security director at Stanford University, was awarded that $6,000 contract Dec. 20. He'll continue to help through the hiring process.
The agency initially posted its request Jan. 11. Companies should submit their proposals by Feb. 11. The March 5 start date assumes no one protests the state's selection, Adams said.
The consultant being hired will help the state centralize data security responsibilities. Currently, each agency develops its own computer security standards.
The Division of State Information Technology, which is part of the Budget and Control Board, can only suggest policies and offers security-monitoring services at no cost to agencies and local governments.
Inspector General Patrick Maley has said the current decentralized model is a recipe for disaster, and residents won't tolerate another security disaster.
"We have to be consistent across the board for every agency. We've got to have them under one umbrella," Haley said. "My only input to the consultant is, help us put as many walls up but make it consistent as possible."
Maley conducted a quick review of agencies' cyber security as per an executive order Haley issued Oct. 26, the same day she announced the mid-September hacking at the state's tax collection agency.


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