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Light-headed and gasping, I am at 4,900 metres elevation high above the Andes Mountains in an unpressurized Twin Otter airplane.
While most visitors to Peru make a beeline to Machu Picchu, I'm heading for the Amazon jungle. Happily, we soon descend into richer oxygen, and look down on a land of endless verdant jungle, interlaced by meandering, braided rivers. Dr. Charlie Munn, an internationally renowned conservation biologist, points to a long, silt-clogged stretch of river. "That's a mining operation. Other threats are logging and ranching," he says. "The Amazon is stunningly beautiful, but it's under attack."
We bump down on a small grass airstrip hacked out of the dense jungle. The smells are ripe and rich. The foliage is lush and alive with strange caws and chirps. Bugs buzz. Sweat pours down my back as I watch our luggage brought by wheelbarrows to the terminal.
A path leads through the jungle to a river where we board a long narrow native boat. For the next 90 minutes we travel down the Rio Madre de Dios (River of Mother of God), a fast-flowing, wide tributary of the Amazon, ever deeper into the jungle, ever deeper into an alien, lush world in which I feel totally lost.
We arrive at the Manu Wildlife Center. "It offers the best wildlife experience in the Amazon," promises Charlie. I am led to one of 17 small but comfortable thatch-roofed cabins on stilts. A mosquito net covers the bed and there is a modern toilet and shower. Almost all the staff consists of friendly local natives.
Almost immediately we are off on a long hike, sweltering along a soggy trail with wild and bizarre growth pressing in on both sides. Sweat soaks every stitch of my clothing. Finally, we reach a three-metre-high wooden blind and climb under mosquito nets. A caiman is below us, lethal and sinister, occasionally snapping at hummingbird moths that flit by. Then a troop of howler monkeys ambles past high overhead, grunting among themselves. Now it is dark and under my net, I feel alone, a million miles from civilization. As the jungle crackles, moans, hisses and, occasionally, screams, my childhood fears of monsters lurking under the bed return. "Psst," Jose, our guide, interrupts. "A tapir is coming." He turns on a powerful lamp, which reveals a 230-kilogram piglike animal lumbering to an earthen bank where it licks at the clay.
As we hike back to the lodge, Jose's flashlight illuminates a tailless whip scorpion, a blunt-headed snake and a gladiator tree frog, whose venomous sweat, he explains, is used by natives to make poison for their blow-darts. In the darkness I cling desperately close to the group; if I get separated, I know I won't last an hour.
On returning I shower and then wander past heliconia and palm trees to the lodge, a large, attractive building with a thatched-roof and screened sides. I chat with some guests, birders, who are abuzz about the remarkable birdlife they've witnessed. Dozens of candles cast flickering shadows and the bartender wears a headlamp. For dinner we savour rolled, stuffed trout with local wild coriander and risotto and wheat germ. There is a warm camaraderie as we discuss the day's adventure and the charismatic Charlie tells us about jaguars, macaws and the jungle.
As I curl up under the mosquito net, lightning and thunder crash through the night. An immense torrential downpour descends and shakes the roof with primordial power. But exhausted, I sleep through it like a baby.
Jose taps on my door at 5 the next morning. The rain has stopped and we travel to a 50-metre-long wooden blind comfortably equipped with chairs and tables. Charlie explains, "Macaws come from 10 kilometres distance. At first they circle around the upper canopy while sentinels check that there are no hawks or predators. Then they slowly venture downward." I enjoy watching the socializing and playing, it's like a giant bird festival with blue-headed, mealy and yellow-crowned parrots, courier toucans and green ibis. But the stars are red-and-green macaws, like technicolour rainbows.
There is constant motion and noise. Finally they reach the lick and I get goose bumps as more than 20 beautiful macaws are arrayed on the bank, munching on clay.
"A few years ago, natives shot 45 macaws here," says Charlie. "If we hadn't established the Manu Wildlife Centre and associated national park, none of this would be protected."
As if on cue, two macaws tumble and somersault down from on high; then they unlock their talons and glide away.
"My passion is to establish high-quality ecotourism," continues Charlie, "so natives will have jobs, respect and they realize that the land has value if it is preserved."
That afternoon, we head into the dense rainforest. We pass a giant strangler fig whose climbing tentacles have completely enveloped a host tree. A shaky, spiralling metal staircase leads us 35 metres up to a platform nestled in the upper reaches of a giant kapok tree. A delicate orchid cactus grows on a branch. Sweat bees seek the moisture on our arms. A stick-insect melds with the branches. Far below, we see parakeets flitting through the thick foliage. It is spiritual. Charlie quietly says, "It's biologically the most diverse place on Earth, a speciation machine."
Hiking back, something small and hard bonks me on the head, and then more fall around us. "Look," says Jose, "a troop of monkeys is eating nuts in the canopy." We laugh as nuts come showering down like hail.
The next few days pass in a whirl. We cruise on an oxbow lake and see endangered giant otters playing, lethal caimans cruising, wattled jacanas (birds with stilt-like legs) prancing on lily pads and listen to the to-and-fro between Charlie and Jose as they identify one exotic bird after another, often by just a sound or glimpse.
One afternoon, a troop of monkeys scampers over my hut. At night we cruise on the river with the luminous eyes of caimans shining in the spotlight.
On our final afternoon, Charlie leads us to a cliff's edge.
"This is the world's first artificial macaw lick," he says proudly. At his signal, macaw calls are played over a loudspeaker and corn is sprinkled on the ground. Within a minute, two pairs of scarlet macaws, magnificent splashes of brilliant colour, land almost at our feet.
"I want tourists to seek out Manu," says Charlie, "for the experience and to get trophy photos like in Africa."
As we boat up the Madre de Dios, I'm sad to be leaving. I have been immersed in the magnificent richness of life and felt the profound forces of evolution around me.
Silently, I wish Charlie luck with his passion to save the jungle.


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Hey, so it turns out war might actually be kinda a bad thing. Call Of Duty: Black Ops asserts this fifth-grader-level thesis statement throughout its seven-hour campaign, though it gets muddied by its glorification of how brutally you can kill animals, your fellow man, and eventually Fidel Castro. Breaking with the series' tradition of planting you in the combat boots of different soldiers from different countries, Black Ops focuses solely on a single man: Alex Mason, perhaps America's most resilient Cold War soldier. You'll take him through Cuba, Vietnam, and the Soviet Republic, even taking a direct order from President Kennedy. Somewhere in there, unbeknownst to anyone, Mason gets brainwashed. And although some of the story's twists and turns feel plucked straight out of Screenwriting For Dummies, how it all comes together in the end is blindsidingly clever.
And whereas specific battles are painstakingly recreated, like the hellish Battle of Khe Sanh, with its trench and hilltop sites being peppered by artillery, mortar, and rocket attacks, the realism is sapped by the occasionally dumb-as-dirt AI on both sides. Since this is a videogame, your brothers in arms are to a certain extent meant to be like movie extras: They'll shoot around a bit and take cover, but you're the only one who's going to keep the mission moving along. But charging in, guns blazing, doesn't feel particularly heroic when your fellow soldiers, left to their own devices, will take cover behind an abandoned vehicle and then unload rounds… into that vehicle's passenger-side door.
That just leaves all the more for you to do in Black Ops' most memorable moments, like guiding a missile toward a launched experimental rocket, or making your way through a nerve-gas-ravaged city while fighting off enemy soldiers through an infrared scope. Everyone's much more accountable in multiplayer, which this time has evolved to include a currency system that smartly lets you unlock and customize your loadout specifically to echo the preferences honed in last year's Modern Warfare 2.
When the super-seriousness about the ravages of war or the jerks in multiplayer start to yield diminishing returns, Black Ops offers a ton more by way of entire not-so-hidden extra games: Zork, the Smash TV-esque Dead Ops, and the ever-popular Zombie Mode. The latter, thankfully, doesn't even try to take itself seriously, allowing you to blast at zombies as President Kennedy, who quips stupid-funny one-liners like "Er, uh, inaugurate this, glass-eyes!" Really, what more do you need from a videogame?

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One day after the Cubs teased us all with the possibility of a thrilling comeback they actually delivered. Trailing 3-0 early because of mostly defensive miscues the Cubs pitching shut the door and for the first time all year the offense sprung to life when the team needed it the most. After inching closer on RBI ground outs from Rizzo in the 5th and Castro in the 7th the Cubs found a new level of clutch tying the game in the seventh then breaking it open in the eighth inning. The last two games the Cubs have shown some fight with two comebacks, well one and a half, and at this point that's all you can ask for, a team that fights.
At The Plate – Finally some production from the top of the order, after two listless at bats David DeJesus broke out. DeJesus was 3-for-5 with a double, two RBI's, and two runs scored. Anthony Rizzo showed a much better approach tonight as he went 1-for-2 with a huge game tying single off of lefty Michael Gonzalez (previously 0-for-6 vs LHP), he also had two walks, and two RBI's. Scott Hairston registered the game winning RBI with a sac fly in the eighth inning to give the Cubs a 4-3 lead.
On The Mound – Another outstanding effort from Travis Wood who could have easily mailed it in after a rough second inning in which his defense let him down. Wood ended up going 6.1 innings giving up three runs, two earned, on seven hits while walking three and striking out six. Hector Rondon continued his spotless work out of the bullpen as he worked two-thirds of an inning giving up nothing. Carlos Marmol entered the game in eighth, and I'm guessing I wasn't the only one holding my breath. Marmol was effective, he worked one inning giving up a triple and the was it, he was bailed out by a spectacular play by Castro to end the eighth and keep the game tied at three. Marmol ended up getting the win as Kyuji Fujikawa earned the save, Kyuji worked the ninth giving up one hit and striking out two to earn his second save of the season.
Up Next – The rubber game of the series as Scott Feldman makes his Wrigley Field debut against Brewers newcomer Kyle Lohse. The weather is supposed to be craptastic, we'll see if this one gets in, scheduled first pitch is 7:05 PM CST.
Stat Of The Night – David DeJesus had two hits on the season coming into this one, he had three hits tonight.
Game Highlights:
Castro's RBI groundout
Hairston's sac fly puts Cubs in front
Game saving play by Castro
Rizzo's RBI groundout
Rizzo's huge RBI double to tie the game
DeJesus pads the lead
Thanks for reading,
– George


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|Wabash Junior Wins Prestigious NEH Internship
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A Wabash College junior has won a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities summer internship in Washington D.C.
Greg Strodtman '07, Indianapolis, has been selected as one of 15 summer interns from a national pool of candidates. Strodtman will spend his summer reviewing grants.
"I'll be working in the challenge grant office, which is the largest grants NEH awards," the Mt. Vernon High School graduate said. "I'll be doing a review of the grants of the last five years, which totals about $40 million. I'll be looking into whether or not the organization that asked for the grant money made use for it in the same way they applied for it."
The NEH provides funding to cultural institutions, such as museums, archives, libraries, colleges, universities, public television, and radio stations, and individual scholars.
The NEH website offers a more detailed description of its mission: "Because democracy demands wisdom, the National Endowment for the Humanities serves and strengthens our Republic by promoting excellence in the humanities and conveying the lessons of history to all Americans. The Endowment accomplishes this mission by providing grants for high-quality humanities projects in four funding areas: preserving and providing access to cultural resources, education, research, and public programs."
Strodtman learned of the opportunity from Assistant Professor of History Michelle Rhoades. He had taken a course on 19th century European history from Rhoades and became interested in the history of medicine.
Rhoades has guided Strodtman's interest in medicine's history and suggested he study in London because of the close proximity to the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. He is currently collecting research and writing a paper that will be submitted for publication.
Strodtman has decided the interest in the history of medicine will become his career. "I'd like to go to graduate school in the history of medicine, science, and technology," he said. His goal would be to become a professor.
"Greg is one of our best students: he is dynamic, intellectually curious, and well on the road to developing a genuine expertise in the history of medicine," Rhoades said. "The NEH internship is a wonderful opportunity for him to learn more about the decisions the NEH makes and what winning grants look like.
"As he pursues his PhD, this information will be invaluable. A strong student with a great sense of humor, Greg should make all of us at Wabash very proud."
Strodtman said his family and friends were really excited about his earning the internship, noting only 15 students are selected nationwide. While in Washington, Strodtman learned he'll be able to stay with Hayden Wetzel '72. Wetzel is a research writer for the U.S. Dept. of Commerce and has previously opened his home to Wabash students during the spring break externship program.
The NEH was founded in 1965 and has funded such notable projects as: "Treasures of Tutankhamen," the exhibition which was seen by more than 1.5 million people; "The Civil War," the landmark television documentary on PBS by Ken Burns; and fifteen Pulitzer prize-winning books.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Tennessee State quarterback Ronald Butler was named to the 2013 National Freshman Performer of the Year Watch List today, by the College Football Performance Awards (CFPA).
Butler joins 31 other freshman on the "rough guide, highlighting freshmen whose performances merit recognition," according to the CFPA. The media outlet goes on to say that "freshmen are not preemptively eliminated from consideration, and all players are eligible for weekly, annual, and career awards at their respective positions".
Butler started the first four games for the Tigers, but only played the second half of last week's game against Centra State. In that contest, Butler was 5-of-8 for 69 yards and three touchdowns in the, 73-6, TSU romp.
This season, the Tallahassee, Fla. native has completed 49-of-77 passes for a team-high 540 yards and four touchdowns. He also has 41 rushing yards on the year and just three interceptions.
Butler and the rest of the Tigers will look to improve to 2-0 in OVC play when the squad hosts Southeast Missouri on Saturday at 6 p.m. at LP Field.


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Authority: Board of Trustees
- First Issued: March 1, 1999.
- Last Revised: January 22, 2013.
Related Policies:
- North Carolina General Statute § 126.34 – Employee Appeals of Grievances and Disciplinary Action
- North Carolina General Stature §126.34.1(a)(10) – Grounds for contested case under the State Personnel Act defined
- North Carolina General Statute § 168A-3 – Persons with Disabilities Protection Act
Additional References:
- North Carolina Office of Administrative Hearings
- North Carolina Office of State Personnel
- NC State Personnel Manual – Employee Appeal and Grievance Process
- 25 NC Administrative Code 01J.1101 – Unlawful Workplace Harassment and Retaliation
Contact Info: Office of Human Resources (910.521.6279)
1.1 The purpose of this policy is to establish that The University of North Carolina at Pembroke prohibits in any form unlawful workplace harassment or retaliation of State employees.
2.1 This policy covers all full-time, part-time, permanent, probationary, trainee, time-limited permanent, former employees or temporary employees of UNC Pembroke.
3.1 It is the policy of UNC Pembroke that no State employee may engage in conduct that falls under the definition of unlawful workplace harassment indicated below. All employees are guaranteed the right to work in an environment free from unlawful workplace harassment and retaliation.
4.1 Unlawful workplace harassment is unwelcomed or unsolicited speech or conduct based upon race, sex, creed, religion, national origin, age, color, or handicapping condition as defined by N.C.G.S. §168A-3 that creates a hostile work environment or circumstances involving quid pro quo.
4.2 Hostile work environment is one that both a reasonable person would find hostile or abusive and one that the particular person who is the object of the harassment perceives to be hostile or abusive. Hostile work environment is determined by looking at all of the circumstances, including the frequency of the allegedly harassing conduct, its severity, whether it is physically threatening or humiliating, and whether it unreasonably interferes with an employee's work performance.
4.3 Quid pro quo harassment consists of unwelcomed sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal or physical conduct when (1) submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual's employment or (2) submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for any employment decisions affecting such individual.
4.4 Retaliation is adverse treatment taken because of opposition to unlawful workplace harassment.
5.1 The procedure for filing a complaint of an alleged violation of this policy is available to any former employee, full-time or part-time employee with either a permanent, probationary, trainee, time-limited permanent or temporary appointment who feels that he/she has been unlawfully harassed in the workplace and is outlined below.
5.1.1 Submit a written complaint to the immediate supervisor and/or the UNC Pembroke Human Resources Office within 30 calendar days of the alleged harassing action.
5.1.2 UNC Pembroke shall respond with appropriate remedial action within 60 calendar days from receipt of written complaint unless the 60 calendar day period has been waived and the complainant has acknowledged such waiver. Waiver and acknowledgement shall be in writing.
5.1.3 UNC Pembroke, through the Human Resources Office, shall provide a written response to the complainant when the university has determined what action, if any, will result from the complainant's written complaint.
5.1.4 If the university fails to provide a response within the 60 calendar day period, the complainant may appeal to the North Carolina Office of Administrative Hearings within 30 calendar days after the 60 day response period. If the response of the university is unsatisfactory to the complainant, the complainant may appeal to the North Carolina Office of Administrative Hearings within 30 calendar days of receiving the university's written response in accordance with N.C.G.S. §126.34.
6.1 It is the intention of UNC Pembroke to create a work environment that is free of any conduct that falls under the definition of unlawful workplace harassment by:
6.1.a. developing and disseminating to all employees an unlawful workplace harassment policy statement for the agency;
6.1.b. sensitizing employees to the subject through training, orientation, and literature;
6.1.c. developing disciplinary actions addressing unlawful workplace harassment; and
6.1.d. establishing a procedure to review and resolve allegations of violations of this policy.
6.2 Components for implementing this policy
6.2.1 UNC Pembroke will distribute the workplace harassment policy statement to new employees during orientation.
6.2.2 The annual training schedule will include unlawful workplace harassment training for supervisors and employees.
7.1 Office of Human Resources' Responsibilities
7.1.1 Communicate the policy to new and existing employees.
7.1.2 Schedule workshops on unlawful workplace harassment.
7.1.3 Develop methods to evaluate program activities.
7.1.4 Coordinate related activities.
7.1.5 Investigate and obtain any additional information of cases alleging unlawful workplace harassment needed to complete documentation of the file.
7.1.6 Advise as appropriate and necessary all parties involved in cases alleging unlawful workplace harassment to include supervisor, complainant, and alleged harasser.
7.1.7 Monitor procedures and disciplinary action in all alleged cases.
7.1.8 Serve as resource to all supervisors and employees.
7.2 Supervisor's Responsibilities
7.2.1 Administer the university's policy.
7.2.2 Prevent and correct any identifiable discrimination and/or unlawful workplace harassment.
7.2.3 Counsel employees when appropriate to prevent and correct unlawful workplace harassment.
7.2.4 Create and maintain a work environment free of unlawful workplace harassment.
7.3 Employee's Responsibilities
7.3.1 Adhere to the policy of the university.
7.3.2 Report illegal discrimination and unlawful workplace harassment.
7.3.3 Maintain a work environment free of unlawful workplace harassment and retaliation.
7.4 Training
7.4.1 The Human Resources Office will provide training for all supervisors and staff to sensitize them to workplace harassment issues. Training for supervisors and staff will be conducted as recommended by the North Carolina Office of State Personnel's Equal Opportunity Services Division.
7.4.2 Training for supervisors will include:
7.4.2.a. the State's policy;
7.4.2.b. unlawful workplace harassment;
7.4.2.c. unlawful workplace harassment complaint procedures;
7.4.2.d. illegal discrimination and unlawful workplace harassment;
7.4.2.e. corrective steps;
7.4.2.f. State and Federal laws; and
7.4.2.g. appropriate disciplinary actions.
7.4.3 Training for employees will include:
7.4.3.a. discrimination and unlawful workplace harassment;
7.4.3.b. the State's policy;
7.4.3.c. employee rights;
7.4.3.d. complaint procedures;
7.4.3.e. State and Federal laws; and
7.4.3.f. disciplinary actions.
7.5 Counseling
7.5.1 Employees who claim unlawful workplace harassment will be referred to the Employee Assistance Program.
7.6 Disciplinary Action for Violation of this Policy
7.6.1 Appropriate disciplinary action will be taken against any employee found to have engaged in unlawful workplace harassment.
7.6.2 All cases alleging unlawful workplace harassment will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
7.6.3 UNC Pembroke prohibits against interference, coercion, restraint, or reprisal against any person complaining of unlawful workplace harassment.
7.6.4 For the purposes of the disciplinary policy, a violation of the Unlawful Workplace Prevention Harassment Policy shall be considered unacceptable personal conduct for which discipline up to and including dismissal may be imposed without prior warning.
8.1 All complaints and proceedings related to discrimination, harassment or retaliation will be subject to the university's legal obligations to assure resolution and normally will be kept confidential to the extent permitted by law. However, information about discrimination, harassment and retaliation complaints may be shared where necessary to investigate, prevent or remedy the prohibited conduct.
9.1 The unlawful workplace harassment policy shall be disseminated to all employees. New employees shall receive the policy during orientation. Existing employees will receive the policy through scheduled training sessions. The policy statement will be posted on the Human Resources bulletin board, the Human Resources website and the Policies and Regulations (PR) website.
10.1 The Unlawful Workplace Harassment Prevention Policy will be evaluated annually to review progress toward stated goals. All unlawful workplace harassment claims will be reported annually to the Office of State Personnel.


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In this episode, I speak with the brilliant Rachel Kleinfeld about her most recent book, A Savage Order. How do some countries manage to rise out of a past of great violence -- while others do not?
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Tonga Torcida, one of Gorongosa's best and brightest young safari guides, is studying at Wildlife College in Tanzania to polish his skills and deepen his knowledge of wildlife ecology.
Here you see Tonga studying vertebrate biology in the lab at school to prepare him for a field session in Arusha National Park next week.
The knowledge he's gaining in the lab will help him better to understand the complicated web of life when his class heads into the bush to study animals in the wild.
Stay tuned as we give you updates on Tonga's field courses and his return to Gorongosa!


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Lookouts advance in USSSA tourney
July 11, 2004
Sharae Kuchta of Clovis Spitfire is tagged out trying to get back to first base by Ruidoso Lady Warriors first baseman Kirstie Trotter during Saturday's 14-and-under matchup in the USSSA state championships at Guy Leeder Complex. Photo by Eric Kluth
On Saturday morning, first-round play of the state USSSA softball championships began at the Guy Leeder Softball Complex in Clovis. Those contests determined whether teams would be playing in "winners" or "losers" bracket games later that day in the double-elimination tournaments.
But whether the night contests were by nature elimination games or a chance to stay undefeated, excitement accompanied both kinds Saturday night.
Two Clovis teams, for instance, squared off in a 14-and-under winner's bracket game. The Lookouts recovered from a 3-0 deficit by chipping away for single runs in the third and fourth innings to come back against Girl Power.
Then, in the bottom of the sixth, Lookouts leadoff hitter Sonia Chavez singled up the middle to start the winning rally — which would give her team a 4-3 victory.
Crystal Lopez doubled home Chavez with a seeing-eye bloop down the left-field line, which was followed by the go-ahead run scoring on a groundout.
"When we were in 12-and-under, we never beat them. But we did tonight, so I'm pretty happy," Lopez said.
"That's our nemesis," Lookouts coach Arthur Gallegos said. "They've got a good team. We never had any doubt (after falling behind); we just needed to pick up our game."
The result kept the Lookouts unbeaten, while Girl Power now no longer has the luxury of absorbing another loss and staying alive for a state championship.
One Portales team knew that feeling of potential elimination right away in the 16-and-under division. After the Portales Lady Blues fell in their opening game to an Alamogordo squad, a do-or-die game was next up on the agenda.
The Lady Blues survived, however, by defeating the Hobbs Stars 7-6 in a nine-inning game early Saturday night.
The Hobbs squad nearly won the contest, rallying from a 6-4 deficit in the bottom of the seventh. But, with two runners on base and two outs, Lady Blues center fielder Shareesa Nusser made a diving catch on a shallow fly ball to send the game into extra innings.
In the ninth, after Portales' Jessica Adkins doubled and advanced to third on a grounder, Nusser drove home the winning run on a sacrifice fly to center.
"It's nerve-wracking, especially because we don't want to go home. We want to win this thing — we want to win it all," Nusser said. "You've got to do anything not to let the ball get by."
The slow-pitch softball state championships began with opening ceremonies on Friday night.
"We've got 61 teams here for the weekend. I'd say we had around 2,000 people here last night," said tournament coordinator Roger Jackson on Saturday. "We had four extra sets of bleachers and they were full all the way around. It was a blast."


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Washington: Paul Ryan may have taken a punch. But Tuesday night was far from a definitive blow for Mitt Romney's hard-driving presidential running mate, a veteran of Congress who according to one admirer is "just getting started."
History hasn't been kind to losing vice presidential candidates. Only two have gone on to become presidents themselves. The last two failed running mates were Sarah Palin and John Edwards - one went on to a reality television show, the other's personal life turned out to be fit for a soap opera.
No one expects Ryan to have a similar fate. In fact, Ryan actually won when the dust settled. Still only 42, he was easily reelected by voters in his southern Wisconsin district to represent them in Congress for the eighth time.
Ryan returns to the House of Representatives a larger figure. And even if 2016 feels distant right now, he will be quickly and insistently prodded about his own presidential ambitions.
Back to Washington, stature enhanced
When Romney picked him as his running mate in August, Ryan was already a leading member of Congress and a darling of conservative columnists and activists in Washington for his fiscal conservatism. The presidential race introduced him to thousands of voters, hundreds of state leaders, and the party's most generous donors.
His re-entry into daily politics in Washington comes as Congress enters a furious period of negotiations over averting a "fiscal cliff" - a series of expiring tax cuts and pending spending cuts that could push the United States back into recession if Congress cannot reach a deal by January 1.
Now, Ryan's status as House Budget committee chairman will be joined with a new political celebrity, giving the author of the Republicans' fiscal plans an even greater hand in directing the debate.
At the time of his selection by Romney, Ryan was a familiar figure to only 35 percent of people, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. Today, he is a household name.
Ryan's supporters say the campaign enhanced Ryan's stature. Speaking days before the election, Representative Sean Duffy recalled a warm reception from Democrats when Ryan returned to the chamber's floor this fall.
They say that the campaign reinforced a reputation for truth-telling and open-mindedness, pointing to his speech on Medicare at a convention for the AARP, a lobbying group for older Americans which has backed Obama administration proposals, as a sign of his political courage.
For Democrats and independents, it may be difficult to see Ryan outside the strongly partisan light that a presidential campaign inevitably shines on politicians.
Ryan's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in August, for instance, left liberals irate. Renowned among conservatives for intellectual honesty, critics said Ryan served up political fiction.
"I can't think of a single bipartisan thing he's ever done," said Representative Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat.
Leader of his generation
Ryan had been known as a Republican "young gun" and the campaign cemented his reputation as a leader of his generation in the party.
Romney's loss is bound to provoke soul-searching among Republicans who lost a presidential election despite Obama's vulnerability amid a weak economy. In theory, Ryan is positioned like few other leaders to step into the void.
Yet his place in Congress could prove as much a stumbling block as a platform. It may be difficult for Ryan to assume the leadership of a party that so often bristles with mistrust of Washington's influence.
That may not stop some Republicans from praising Ryan as revolutionary, as Ohio Governor John Kasich did at a recent rally for the losing campaign.
"I've been referring to Paul Ryan as the Paul Revere of the next generation," Kasich said, referring to the American Revolutionary War hero who warned Colonial forces of impending threats from the British.
"I'll tell you he's just getting started," he added.
Whatever he does in the longer term, Ryan may be found sitting extremely quietly in a tree in Wisconsin some time in the coming weeks.
Since last Christmas when he bought his daughter Liza a Remington rifle, the congressman has been preparing to take his oldest child, now 10, on her first deer hunt.
In Green Bay, Wisconsin last week, Ryan told a warehouse full of supporters that he couldn't wait to sit in a deer stand, knowing that Mitt Romney would be inaugurated as president of the United States in January.
After Tuesday's vote, he won't have that to relish. But he still has some hunting to do.
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C. N. Rajendran, Director for India
born 9th June 1950 – died 12th April 2009
To carry wisdom and success lightly is a gift. Rajendran was a wise man and also the most fun of any companion. He was a very successful man who also always honoured the traditions of the peasant farmers from his village – the village of Rayagiri, Tamil Nadu, India, where he had planned to retire some day but, alas, was buried on Monday 13th April at the age of only 59. He taught me how to climb a coconut tree and he also gave me true friendship. I loved him. My family loved him. Everyone who knew him fell under the spell of his sincerity, his smile and his charm.
Rajendran was born into a farming family owning a few acres of rice paddy in Rayagiri. He shone at primary school and made his way to the best secondary school in the nearby town of Sivagiri. He walked back and forth six miles a day, except for one day when, in an argument with his parents, he climbed a coconut tree and refused to come down. He did well enough to get to university to study sciences and then to study to be a teacher at Sopore College, Kashmir.
When he qualified, he had intended to go back to the warmer climate of South India but the College Principal persuaded him to try for a job at the local English-Medium school in Baramulla, Kashmir. "Do you speak any Kashmiri?" – this was the feared first question of the interview by the Dutch Headmaster, Fr James Borst. "Only a few words". "You're hired – because you'll have to speak to the children in English." Thus Rajendran got his first job. He came to owe more than his job to James Borst, a great headmaster, an enthusiast for mountain hikes, and a writer and thinker who combined the best of Catholic theology with the Indian tradition of meditation. Rajendran learned how to think in a multicultural way, how to organize a school and he learned the benefits of energetic work.
In 1977, Rajendran married Vijayrani. His parents had died when he was young and he had looked after his sisters by remitting as much as possible from his small teacher's income. Once they were married, he himself could marry the girl he loved from his own village. Vijayrani and Rajendran were to have a daughter, Sathya, and two sons Vijaya Prakash (Pabbu) and Deepak Raj (Dippu).
Returning to Tamil Nadu, Rajendran worked as an English teacher and then as Assistant Headmaster in the 10,000-pupil SHNV Secondary School in Sivakasi. While he was still teaching, Rajendran agreed in 1995 to take some English-teaching volunteers from my new organization, Teaching Abroad (later Projects Abroad) and send them to various schools in the Sivakasi area. Although neither Teaching Abroad nor Rajendran realized it at the time, this proved to be an idea whose time had come.
The early days of Projects Abroad were hard. Communications beyond India were bad and Rajendran would find that he frequently had to work till Midnight or beyond and then be back in school by 8 the next morning. Still, the numbers of volunteers grew year by year, as medical, care and conservation placements were added to teaching, and as Americans, Canadians, Germans and Dutch added themselves to the British volunteers. Vijayrani and Pabbu joined him in the work and eventually he himself retired as Assistant Headmaster to work full-time for Projects Abroad.
Freed from the constraints of the school timetable, Rajendran was able to help develop Projects Abroad around the world, especially in Ghana, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Nepal. As the numbers of volunteers climbed into hundreds and then thousands, Rajendran's steady hand and inventive mind overcame the inevitable crises and created the first band of happy alumni, former volunteers who are devoted to India, who keep going back and, in one case, have even called their daughter "India".
In 2005, Rajendran took responsibility for establishing a new office in Sivakasi which took on all of Projects Abroad's administration and travel departments. If any one thing has contributed to the ability of Projects Abroad to keep costs and charges down and to establish itself as the world leader in volunteering, it was Rajendran's ability to run a successful volunteering outfit while simultaneously establishing a global administrative centre in Sivakasi.
On 12th April, my friend was taken from us. I miss him deeply. We all do and we will continue to miss him for many years to come.
Peter Slowe
15th April 2009


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Hispanic leader brings 'Heart Revolution' to Liberty
Pastor, author and Hispanic leader Sergio De La Mora spoke at Liberty University on Friday, encouraging students to be "heart revolutionaries" to change the world for Christ.
De La Mora is the founder and pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Diego, Calif., one of America's fastest growing churches, according to a ranking in Outreach Magazine.
During Convocation, he used his book, "The Heart Revolution: Experience the Power of a Turned Heart," and the story of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-37 to illustrate the message of how to be a heart revolutionary.
"If there was ever a time and moment in history as a nation that God wants to raise up heart revolutionaries it's now," De La Mora said. " We need people that will go to their sphere of influence and bring dramatic change and establish the supremacy of the Kingdom of God so that His kingdom will come and His will be can done."
De La Mora focused on three "heart qualities" that a heart revolutionary should have: they should never forget the pain of the person who is being rescued, that turning hearts of others is their business, and they must risk their reputation and resources to love people back to life.
He explained that the way to reach the world is by going "heart to heart" with them instead of "head to head." By following Jesus's example with the lawyer in the Good Samaritan, it is not always about intellectual ability, but the compassionate desire to help others, he said.
De La Mora also reached the Hispanic community by speaking in Spanish about this subject for a brief moment, with students energetically responding to his message.
He closed with a charge to students: "[Jesus is asking you] 'Will you go now and let you me use you to capture this generation?' I believe now is the time, this is the university that is doing it. So Liberty, now it's your time, it's your hour to make a difference in this generation."


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Opened 8 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
#1412 closed enhancement (fixed)
Evaluate Expression in the debugger
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The p|x is button is basically evaluating an arbitrary expression and displaying it.
IMHO if there is a selection in the editor it should default to evaluate that expression so I can easily check the value of a variable by highlighting it and clicking on p|x.
Currently if the expression is $something it uses 'p' and if it is @something it uses 'x'. This isn't good if $something is already a reference. Probably this should behave in a clever way and first check if $something is a reference or not. If it is a reference it should use x.
Probably it should also be renamed to "Evaluate expression" and have a nice icon. The mouse-over explanation can be extended to explain the way it behaves.
Change History (4)
comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by bowtie
- Priority changed from major to minor
- Status changed from new to assigned
At present
$ -> p
@ -> x
% -> x
and it needs to be chained to
$ -> ref $ ? x : p;
As for p|x -> icon ( "Evaluate expression" ) is cool, plus tool tip
comment:2 Changed 8 years ago by bowtie
Debug2 has not got a Scooby-Doo as to whether $var_name is a var or a ref.
It's just a string prefixed with $.
I suggest that you just enable y=0 and click on the variable you wish to view
which will be displayed in it's corresponding colour in Debug-Output
correct as of Padre 0.95
comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by bowtie
- Priority changed from minor to trivial
if $string = one and $string_ref = \$string
if you enter '$string_ref' you will get
$string_ref = SCALAR(0xa0e6680)
then I suggest that you enter '${$string_ref}'
${$string_ref} = one
x $string_ref and click <Raw>
as for p|x it dose what it say's in wiki
comment:4 Changed 8 years ago by bowtie
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from assigned to closed


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Implementing the Wedge Approach to Climate Changeby -
As the world rapidly reaches consensus on the scientific understanding of climate change, policymakers are increasingly looking at how to address the challenge. There is no doubt that new and especially low-carbon technologies will be essential to the effort. But the sheer magnitude of the climate change challenge often makes it difficult to comprehend how the world might develop effective and efficient solutions.
Princeton professors Stephen Pacala and Rob Socolow introduced the wedge approach as a framework for the climate change dialogue (see earlier article here). In a nutshell, the wedge model suggests several large yet imaginable technology deployments that together could reduce global emissions on the scale we need to avoid the worst effects of global warming.
The wedge model is a compelling way to think about how the world might address global warming, but it begs the question: how do we do it? How can the world deploy low-carbon technologies--both those we have now and those still in development--on a massive scale and with unprecedented speed?
WRI and Goldman Sachs have been working to answer those questions, and today we release the first fruits of that work. The new report, Scaling Up: Global Technology Deployment to Stabilize Emissions, is the first release of a partnership between WRI and the Goldman Sachs Center for Environmental Markets. The multi-year partnership is aimed at designing and promoting the policy and market structures for deploying low-carbon technologies to mitigate climate change.
The Intersection of Technology, Investment and Policy
The report underscores the importance that technology will play in addressing climate change. But beyond that, it identifies the important roles that investment capital and policy design must play in the solution. And most importantly, the report shows how these three areas must coalesce into a coherent vision in order to achieve adequate emissions reductions. For instance:
- New technologies cannot be looked at in isolation; they must be viewed in concert with each other and with attendant considerations. For example, hydrogen and biofuels would require a new pipeline and distribution infrastructure, and greater wind power would entail significant upgrades to some electricity transmission grids.
- New technologies will not materialize without sufficient investment capital for not only the technologies themselves but for large scale deployment and infrastructure. This will require a significant level of financial innovation.
- Sufficient capital depends on the investment community's role in informing and supporting the necessary policies to stimulate new technology demand.
- Poorly designed policies or those that present significant uncertainties are major risks for the investment community and the private sector. That will in turn discourage investment capital and slow technology deployment. On the other hand, well-designed climate policies will create huge opportunities for innovative companies to flourish as new technology markets emerge around the world.
Smart Wedges and Threat Wedges
The original Pacala/Socolow model focuses on technology options that would reduce emissions from business-as-usual (BAU) projections. But there are a number of emerging energy technologies that could have exactly the opposite effect: driving emissions up instead of down. Scaling Up calls these "threat wedges." They would most likely be driven by concerns about energy security or consistently high fossil fuel prices.
Source: Scaling Up: Global Technology Deployment to Stabilize Emissions, Figure 3
The implication of threat wedges for policy is that not all emerging energy technologies are desirable from the perspective of climate change, even though they may be attractive for other reasons. For example, coal-to-liquid (CTL) technology might be attractive in China and the U.S. in terms of energy security because of large coal reserves. But its lifecycle emissions are roughly double those of oil-based gasoline. The challenge then is to develop policies that stimulate deployment of clean technologies but that don't run the risk of encouraging those that would actually cause emissions to rise above BAU projections.


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Many travel companies—airlines, cruise lines, resorts—offer travel insurance that will refund most or all of the cost of the trip in certain circumstances. Policies typically cover things like trip cancelations due to illness, civil unrest, job loss, or the carrier going out of business. They'll also pay for fees incurred by missed connections and delays; baggage damage or loss; medical expenses incurred by an injury or illness while traveling; emergency evacuation; car rental damage; and accidental death.
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Google told merchants and businesses to hold off on creating profiles on Google+ because the company is already working on a business-oriented user interface.
A YouTube video featuring Christian Oestlien, Google+ Project ads lead, literally seems to entreat businesses to wait before jumping on the Google+ bandwagon. From his Google+ profile:
The business experience we are creating should far exceed the consumer profile in terms of its usefulness to businesses. We just ask for your patience while we build it. In the meantime, we are discouraging businesses from using regular profiles to connect with Google+ users. Our policy team will actively work with profile owners to shut down non-user profiles. . . . Over the next few months we are going to be running a small experiment with a few marketing partners to see the effect of including brands in the Google+ experience.
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Google+ has also created a place for non-users to sign up for the "experiment," according to Mashable, one of the businesses who will likely be shut down. Several other businesses such as Ford, ABC News and The Next Web have also created profiles, Clickz reported.
Perhaps the excitement of a new social network made these businesses jump immediately onboard, or perhaps in the case of Mashable and The Next Web, not being on board Google+ and covering tech would almost be a crime. However, we should remember that Google+ is only a week old and will obviously have a few growing pains as it evolves. We think Google is wise to let people populate its social network before companies do.


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Until the 1983 expansion of New York's Museum of Modern Art, with its airy escalator ride and open view to the sculpture garden below, access to the painting galleries was via a simple staircase. On the landing, midway up to the second floor, hung the above canvas. It is Oskar Schlemmer's painting of students on the stairway of the Bauhaus, the experimental multi-disciplinary art school of 1920s Weimar Germany. It was difficult to enter MoMA's painting galleries without a close encounter with this seminal work. It was a beacon, signaling to every MoMA visitor just how much the museum's modernist aesthetic was tied to the Bauhaus and of MoMA's founding director Alfred Barr's "life-altering" 1927 visit to the school's Dessau campus.
Schlemmer may not be the most famous artist to have taught at the Bauhaus: a roster of 20th century masters that includes Gropius, Klee, Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy, Feininger and Albers. In the photo below, Schlemmer is at the far right:
But his painting of the Bauhaus stairway and its students has major symbolic importance in modern art, as cited by John-Paul Stonard in the July 2009 The Burlington Magazine:
Few works have borne such dramatic witness to the vicissitudes of twentieth-century political and cultural history as Oskar Schlemmer's painting Bauhaustreppe of 1932. It is the artist's last major painting, and an extraordinary synthesis of his work as a choreographer, easel- and wall-painter and theoretician, and capped the development of what Schlemmer termed a 'grand figural style', a classical, monumental approach to the human form that he had been developing throughout the 1920s. Schlemmer painted Bauhaustreppe in a studio at the Breslau Art Academy in September 1932, shortly before he left for a teaching job in Berlin, a final, short-lived employment before his career fell full victim to Nazi cultural politics. Schlemmer was one of the first artists to suffer persecution when his murals for the Weimar Bauhaus were painted over in October 1930.
Evidence of the continuing symbolic power of the painting as modernist icon is affirmed in Roy Lichtenstein's Ben-Day dot homage of 1989.
Bauhaus faculty artist T. Lux Feininger photographed students on the same stairway:
A drawing of the painting serves as a reductive window into the geometric, formalist world of Schlemmer's art.
Like many of the Bauhaus faculty, Schlemmer was attracted to a non-hierarchic integration of multiple arts—and nowhere was this mixture more dramatic than in his Triadic Ballet, an unconventional performance piece that, using a score by Paul Hindemith, featured geometric costumes, colorful sets, and abstract choreography—in a dynamic synthesis of the arts unlike any other modernist work. It was only a decade before the Triadic Ballet's 1922 debut that the world of dance and music had been shaken by the chthonic music, costumes, and design of The Rite of Spring. Last year I wrote about the centennial of its premiere and the reconstruction of Nijinsky's choreography by the Joffrey Ballet:
John's Bailiwick: "The Rite of Spring at 100" link
Black and white photos of the original production of The Triadic Ballet attest to the volumetric, geometric lines of the costumes.
A photo-collage by Schlemmer makes even more explicit his goal of reducing the human dancers to dynamic motion forces.
Costume mannequins further abstract the human figure.
C. Raman Schlemmer of the Schlemmer Theatre Estate describes the dance's choreography and color settings. The title "Triadic Ballet" comes simply from the triple division of the acts:
The first part, which takes place on a stage dressed in lemon yellow colors, is a comedic burlesque. The subject of the second part, on a stage dressed in pink, has a festival-ceremonial air. Finally, the third part is developed in a mystical-fantastical way before a totally black background. Three dancers, two men and a woman, perform twelve dances of alternating forms.
The costumes deliberately limit the participants' freedom of movement due to the weight of the materials they are made from, their forms, and the masks worn. They are walking architectural structures that move in a comic fashion, playful, sharp and clumsy across the entire stage. For his figurines, Oskar Schlemmer took advantage of the new technologies of the era, "the scientific apparatus of glass and metal, the artificial members that are used in surgery, the fantastic military and diving uniforms.
The dance and art worlds have maintained an abiding fascination with this ballet. Its abstractions in color and movement had a direct influence on the 30s experimental animation of another German artist, Oskar Fischinger, who was best known to Americans for his scene in Fantasia of the abstractions of the Bach Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
Here are frames from each of the ballet's three brief acts.
Fritz Lang's Metropolis costumes share a design aesthetic with the Triadic Ballet.
And its continuity is seen in Iris Van Herpen's 2013 costumes for dancers of The New York City Ballet.
In 1968, Margarete Hasting, Franz Schömbs, and Georg Verden reconstructed the ballet and filmed it using some motion picture techniques with cinematographer Kurt Gewissen. The score is by Erich Ferstl, not Paul Hindemith. The YouTube resolution is not the best—but it's definitely worth watching the swirling movement and primal colors of this seminal---- but seldom performed milestone in 20th century art.


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Povertys`s No Crime was founded in 1991 by Volker Walsemann (vocals and guitars), Marco Ahrens (guitars), Christian Scheele (bass), Marcello Maniscalco (keyboards) and Andreas Tegeler (drums). The first tentative musical steps were taken in their first demos. "My Favourite Delusion" and "Perfect Wings", with their first and most encouraging success coming in 1992 when they won the Newcomer Rockfestival organized by the North German radio station "FFN".Shortly after the band put their point over live to the public, as support to bands such as Depressive Age and Waltari, and took the opportunity of underlining their unusual talent. In the mid-90s the band signed for the Berlin record company Noise Records, who were known in the eighties as being the label of such German metal giants as Helloween and Gamma Ray.Their debut album, SYMBIOSIS, recorded in the T AND T-Studios in Gelsenkirchen and produced by John McGowan (Headhunter etc.), was released in Spring 1995 and was warmly greeted by the press. "With this homogenous, deep and convincing CD debut, Poverty`s No Crime have more fulfilled their inherent promise and have formed a solid foundation for their future", praised ROCK HARD, one of Germany`s two mega-metal-mags.The combo then began preparation for THE AUTUMN YEARS. Spring 1996 saw the release of their second album and once again the review pages of the metal press glowed with praise. This time, the ROCK HARD reviewer named the CD his Album of the month, whilst EMP, in their catalogue-mag raved, "Proggers of all shapes, color and sizes simply must buy the album of this absolutely unique band".THE AUTUMN YEARS was received with positive reactions not only in Germany, but also abroad. BURRN, Japan`s Heavy Metal-Bible, gave the album 88 out of 100 points and readers voted the Germany into the Top 20 of the Album Charts.The album had scarcely been released than the musicians - despite a distinct lack of suitable financial support from their record company - went on tour with Victory and followed this up with a special guest slot on the Virgin Steele/Angra-Tour Poverty`s No Crime tour which covered half of the European continent in 1996. Tremendous praise was showered on the band following their live performances in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Switzerland. Despite all this, Noise Records surprisingly ended their relationship with the band, yet the lads were more determined than ever before and gave more live shows, one of them with Skyclad.After a generous break to consolidate their ranks, the five musicians continued to follow their dream and, from January 1997, began writing songs for a new album. Poverty`s No Crime found a new business (and ideological) home at Inside Out, currently Germany`s most important Prog-Metal label, who also have such great bands as Spock`s Beard, Symphony X, Vanden Plas, Platypus (feat. members of Dream Theater and King`s X), Enchant and Eldritch under their contractual wing. Inside Out are known of signing only a certain, carefully and selected contingent of bands, whom they know they can support with great enthusiasm. In view of this, the liaison between Poverty`s No Crime and Inside Out seems to be under a lucky star.Reviewing SLAVE TO THE MIND, the first result of this hopeful relationship, "(Hardrock And Metal) Hammer", Germany`s Nr. 1 rock music magazine wrote in their August `99 edition, "This is what makes progmetal enjoyable - no long egoistic solos, no disturbing breaks, no endless I-love-me arias, but just - despite opulent decoration - straight arrangements, memorable hooks and melodic choruses... Some of the material remind me of the glorious Marillion days ("Wind And Light"), some of early Fates Warning ("The Senses Go Blind"), and yet SLAVE TO THE MIND never loses its own individual touch. A great album from a great band!"In the late 1999 Poverty`s No Crime faced the first major line-up change when Marcello Maniscalco on the keyboards and bass player Christian Scheele left the band for other projects. Unimpressed by this loss, new material was written just by the remaining three musicians. However, just before entering the studio for the recordings of ONE IN A MILION the right guy for the vacant position behind the keyboards was found: Jörg Springub proved his perfect fit for the band with an impressing performance on the record.ONE IN A MiLLION was released in June 2001 and once again the international music press showed remarkably positive reactions. Right after the album-release bass player Heiko Spaarmann completed the line up and the combo played some successful shows together with bands like Vanden Plas, Zero Hour, Pain Of Salvation and Anathema.Two years have passed since then and Poverty`s No Crime took a deep breath of fresh creativity. Again they spent two month at the Soundgarten Studio and the result will hit the record stores this fall. In the end of October THE CHEMICAL CHAOS, the bands` fifth record will be released in Europe as well as in North America via Inside Out Music. Initial plans for a tour are already in motion, whilst winter 2003 will see the band on stage at various shows. So let`s hope that the poverty in the combo`s name will soon become artistic fortune
German progressive metal act Poverty's No Crime will release their seventh album, entitled Spiral Of Fear, in North America on June 3rd via Metalville Records.Mixed and mastered by Simone Mularoni (DGM, Empyrios) at his Domination Studio in San Marino, the album represents possibly the most mature sounding piece of music the band has ever recorded. With an intuition for melodies that come with astonishing implicitness and songs that put the label "progressive" never close to being intrusive but make it just sound natural. It represents the band's complete musical scope from intoxicating heavy guitar riffs and inspiring melodies to intense instrumental passages and catchy choruses.Featuring Volker Walsemann (vocals & guitars), Marco Ahrens (guitars), Heiko Spaarmann (bass), Jörg Springub (keyboards) and Andreas Tegeler (drums), the album release will be accompanied by live activities during the next few months."Music has always helped us to temporarily dream away and escape from all the hopes and fears in life. The fears are dealt with in this record. The hopes were allowed to stay." - Poverty's No Crime
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Comment on Greens on Pine Gap: Move towards non-aligned foreign policy by Russell Guy.
The Greens, once declared an "alternative" political party, inherited the structural social and cultural goalposts, but they keep trying to kick goals through them.
Kinselas's, one of Sydney's long established pubs, was recently sold through the Sunsuper-backed Australian Pub Fund for $22m.
It was purchased in 2010 for $10m, but it's been said that it would have gone for $40m had the NSW government's lock-out laws not been enacted.
Senator Di Natale obviously supports other supply-reduction measures, but dealing with the structural wealth of Super funds and their investment in the alcohol industry is a bit more difficult than continuing to bang the party political donation route to government corruption.
It would be nice if politicians who eschew liberal social policy when it suits them, could tackle financial regulation through institutionalised investment in the alcohol industry.
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Alcohol floor price may breach Australian Constitution
The fact that no action is being taken by the Winemakers Federation, preferring instead to work with the NT Government; that there have been no casks larger than two litres in the NT for several years and in Alice Springs for several more, because they are banned, we should be encouraged by their example, along with other retailers who have shown similar intent.
Tourist tipple and alcohol problems in the NT are interrelated. In a recent post, I pointed out the illogic of sacrificing current levels of visible alcohol-related harm to the tourist economy, which will only cause further decline.
The Mandatory Treatment Act (2013), since repealed, highlighted how harmful and disempowering alcohol restrictions can be, particularly where Indigenous communities have not been involved in their development.
While Steve Brown appears to consider it a "do gooder" issue and appeals for ice containment, he ignores the need for alcohol supply restriction in the general community, a product, it could be argued, of laissez faire capitalism over 50 years, culminating in corner stores trading in takeaway alcohol seven days a week.
Mr Brown compounds his approach by wishing that crystal methamphetamine (ice) was not a problem, allegedly within Indigenous communities.
It would be better if he, and others of a similar opinion, evinced the same desire for alcohol management through community coalitions backed by government regulation or government‐initiated community partnerships, which according to a recent article in the Australian and New Zealand Public Health Journal, "have been successful in harnessing local knowledge and Indigenous social systems to curb the unintended impacts of alcohol regulation".
The article revealed that improved health and social outcomes, for example, by tethering demand reduction programs to supply restrictions had been achieved.
Outrage over the disempowerment of Grey Nomads to purchase a cask of cheap wine, while the harmful use of alcohol among Territorians continues at levels in excess of the national average, ignores the possibility of a community-led solution, even when governments repeal poorly consulted legislation such as the MTA.
In the mid-1980s, Territorians died from being stabbed by glass flagons. Casks were introduced by governments working with the winemakers and less harm eventuated.
It didn't curtail harmful levels of consumption, nor the granting of takeaway licenses, but the NT Government, acting on recommendations from Justice Riley's Report, is facing up to the cost of those unacceptable levels and investigating ways of working with the underlying cultural problems.
Learning from history on which evidence-based legislation like soft packaging and a demand reduction floor price is based seems more appropriate than sticking one's head in the sand.
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Four balls coming back over the net. Policy on the run.
@ Local 1: Comparing Queensland with the NT is apples and oranges. Been crossing the border all my life, not just for a week.
@ Steve Brown: I want to see evidence for your claims, not just anecdotal. Been there.
@ John Bell: Commonsense has been missing in action and @ Paul Parker, same thing.
Tolerance, common sense and reason were the founding values of the European Enlightenment. Not going well.
Finally, to all, I speak for myself, not for PAAC, whose evidence-based campaign assisted the NT Government in micro-managing the issue of liberal alcohol supply with a floor price. The claim that it makes all alcohol more expensive is incorrect.
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The floor price is not a "silver bullet."
There is none. There are only a suite of measures to reduce levels of supply, including the BDR.
A floor price targets the cheapest alcohol sold, mostly cask wine, consumed by the most desperate addicts, including pregnant women.
Canada and Scotland have a floor price.
It was introduced this week in the NT after a long evidence-based campaign.
Cynicism is an easy choice, but I've been involved in reducing alcohol-related harm in the NT since 1986 when I produced four songs with Indigenous band, Coloured Stone for the NT Road Safety Board.
If you allow yourself to get cynical and negative about drugs, of which alcohol is one of the most prevalent, then you might as well accept the carnage as inevitable.
Take the opposition over the recent Master's Games request by the police for light and midstrength beer.
One of your readers posted anonymously, calling those who lobby to turn the tap down a "mob" who are only interested in prohibition. That's hysteria.
The NT Government is currently looking into the seven days a week take away grog licensing regime.
Australia has a culture of alcoholism, particularly around sport.
Changing that culture, currently costing NT taxpayers $640m p.a. is a positive step towards putting money into ice rehab.
Apex Club 'fenced out' of running Masters Games bars
@ "Ray". My argument for turning the tap down (not off, as you insinuate with your anonymous post), exposes your confusion, but it clarifies one point.
It will be hypocritical for you to point to the Indigenous as being responsible for the town's social problems again.
While you busy yourself over being "the laughing stock of the country", the hospital and police records continue to speak for themselves and show no sign of abating, due to what is a culture of alcoholism.
It was the police who requested light and midstrength beer be served at this sporting event.
As an attendee at last Friday's National Police Remembrance Day, the names of those officers who were killed in the line of duty was sobering, yet they who we appoint to serve and protect are fobbed off.
Justifying the capitulation on the economy and giving back to the "community" is evidence of your confusion, but as cultural tourism is the vogue, it will be interesting to see how long before you start referring to "the section of the community that has the issue" again.
Apex Club 'fenced out' of running Masters Games bars
Why such despondency, "Ray"?
The streets of Alice Springs are paved with gold if you have eyes to see.
They need not be awash with the consequences of alcoholism.
Turn the tap down (not off) and you will see how a great town can come back from fifty years of an uncapped flow.


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Passenger numbers may be rising significantly at Shannon Airport this summer season but even in the rush these days, some still stand out more than others – particularly if they are world famous celebrities.
Among others, in June the airport had Irish-American royalty in Jean Kennedy Smith, last month it was Bruce Springsteen, since then it has hosted none other than Justin Timberlake and his movie star wife Jessica Biel.
But last weekend it was the turn of Oscar Award winner Tom Hanks and his family to arrive at Shannon as they transited the airport for a fuel-stop en route from Greece to the US.
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"Tom and his sons were in the bar having a drink and he was explaining hurling to them and said 'this is the game I have been telling you about'.
"His sons seemed to be enjoying the game also and then his daughter came over before they were joined by his wife."
Carmel said that the movie star could not have been nicer to people looking for a photo or autograph with him.
"He is such a nice man and happily posed for photos with staff and passengers. He could have gone to the VIP room but he just stayed there in the Sheridan bar with his family, watching the match the same as everyone else.
"He must have a grá for Galway as well as he wanted them to win the minor. There was plenty of Limerick staff around but we weren't going to challenge him on that," she joked.
"Mr Hanks has been through here before. In fact, the last time he flew into Shannon he was with Bruce Springsteen. You can imagine the heads that they turned.
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