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Orlando, FL – The Orlando Solar Bears, the ECHL, the City of Orlando, and Visit Orlando announced plans for a week of events surrounding the 2015 CCM/ECHL All-Star Classic presented by Visit Orlando. The Solar Bears will face-off against a team of All-Stars selected from the other ECHL clubs on Wednesday, January 21, 2015.
The week-long schedule of events begins with the Orlando Youth Hockey/Martin Luther King Day Tournament at the RDV Sportsplex Ice Den, starting on Friday, January 16th, and running through Monday, January 19th. More than 50 youth hockey teams from across the US and Canada will travel to Central Florida for the Tournament.
The ECHL All-Star Fan Fest with player appearances, interactive game, prizes, giveaways, auctions, memorabilia, and a special Hockey Hall of Fame exhibit will be held on All-Star Tuesday, January 20th. On All-Star Wednesday, January 21st, the day's events include the All-Star Open Practice at Amway Center, the ECHL Hall of Fame Luncheon, and the 2015 CCM/ECHL All-Star Classic presented by Visit Orlando. Select ECHL Skills competitions will be held the same night and will be incorporated into the evening's events. Specific event details will be provided in the future.
"We all know the city of Orlando is a great destination," said ECHL Commissioner Brian McKenna. "Couple that with a world-class arena and the strong following the Solar Bears have developed and we have a perfect location for our 2015 All-Star Classic. We are pleased to bring our flagship event to Orlando in January 2015." The Solar Bears were third in ECHL attendance, drawing more than 240,000 fans to the Amway Center.
"We would not have secured this great win for our community without the leadership support exhibited by the City of Orlando and Visit Orlando," said Solar Bears Managing Partner and CEO Jason Siegel. "We have assembled a tremendous group of community leaders to form our Local Organizing Committee (listed below) and we look forward to a successful week of events."
"The selection of Orlando to host the 2015 ECHL All-Star Game is another testament to our community's ability to host top-tier sporting events," said Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer. "The ECHL All-Star game will further showcase our hometown hockey team, the Orlando Solar Bears, and a fan experience like no other at our state-of-the-art Amway Center."
"We are delighted to be the presenting sponsor of the 2015 ECHL All-Star Game," said Visit Orlando President & CEO George Aguel. "We look forward to continuing to partner with the Solar Bears, the City of Orlando, and the Amway Center to enhance the fan experience and maximize attendance at the game, while leveraging the week's events to heighten exposure for our destination."
The format of the All-Star Classic features the Orlando Solar Bears battling a team of All-Stars selected from the other ECHL clubs. This format has been adopted in the ECHL on three separate occasions, with the Charlotte Checkers earning a 7-6 victory over the ECHL All-Stars in 1997, the All-Stars taking down the Bakersfield Condors 9-3 in 2011, and last season's 2013 All-Star Classic that saw the Colorado Eagles fall to the All-Stars 7-3. The first ECHL All-Star Classic was held in Wheeling, WV, in 1993, with an East vs. West format.
Previous All-Star Games have generated millions of dollars for the local economy as guests, players, coaches, and fans occupy hundreds of hotel rooms and spend several days in the host city. Past ECHL All-Star Games have been available live to millions of households on the NHL Network, as well as broadcast on multiple regional networks and satellite radio.
The logo for the 2015 CCM/ECHL All-Star Classic presented by Visit Orlando was created by the Joe Bosack Graphic Design Co. They were also responsible for designing the primary and secondary logos for the Orlando Solar Bears. In addition, CCM will provide the All-Star game jerseys which will be designed by one lucky winner of the ECHL All-Star Jersey Design Contest.
The ECHL celebrated its 25th Anniversary in 2012-13 and is the third-longest tenured professional hockey league behind only the National Hockey League and the American Hockey League. The league began in 1988-89 with five teams in four states and has grown to be a coast-to-coast league with 22 teams in 15 states in 2013-14, and officially changed its name from East Coast Hockey League to ECHL on May 19, 2003. A total of 512 players have played in the NHL after playing in the ECHL. A record 87 ECHL alumni were on NHL opening-day rosters in 2012-13 and the League had affiliations with 25 of the 30 NHL teams at the start of last season.
The Downtown Development Board, Orlando Venues, Central Florida Sports Commission, and Levy Restaurants have joined the City of Orlando and Visit Orlando as 2015 All-Star Classic corporate partners. Sponsorships for specific events are still available, call 407-951-8200 for more information.
2015 CCM/ECHL All-Star Classic presented by Visit Orlando – Local Organizing Committee:
- Jean-Claude Bergeron – CCM
- John Bisignano – Central Florida Sports Commission
- Erik Genrich – CenturyLink
- Doug Taylor – Church Street Entertainment
- Craig Swygert – Clear Channel Outdoor
- Bruce Stone – Clear Channel Radio
- Thomas C. Chatmon, Jr. – Downtown Development Board
- Ryan Crelin – ECHL
- Paul Mears – Mears Transportation
- Dianne Owen – Fairwinds Credit Union
- Bob Johnston – Florida Distributing
- David Cassidy – Florida Hospital
- Josh Mora – Full Sail
- Andrae Bailey – Impact Homelessness
- Joe Bosack – The Joe Bosack Graphic Design Co.
- Jim Breig & Luis Rivera – Levy Restaurants
- Skip Valet – Local 6
- Heather Fagan – City of Orlando/Mayor Dyer's Office
- Karl Droppers – MVP Sports/RDV Sportsplex
- Eric Ushkowitz – Orange County Government
- Jerry Demings – Orange County Sherriff's Office
- Martin Lewis – Orlando Business Journal
- Phil Rawlins – Orlando City Soccer
- John Miller – Orlando Fire Department
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- Danielle Courtenay – Visit Orlando
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The City Council of Wenatchee, WA, is considering asking voters to approve the creation of a new parks district. If voters approve the creation of Wenatchee Metropolitan Park District, that entity would have the authority to impose a property tax to raise funds for parks and recreation facilities and services.
The move is being considered because the city, which currently manages and funds parks and recreation facilities in the area, is facing massive budget cuts, according to local media reports.
The city budget now allows $550,000 per year for parks and recreation. However, that funding may be reduced or eliminated altogether because the city recently has committed to take over debt payments of a flailing local arena, according to a memo the city's park director, Dave Erickson, sent to the parks board.
In the memo, reported in the Wenatchee World newspaper, Erickson recommended that the parks district, if approved, institute a property tax of 35 cents (out of a permitted 75 cents) per $1,000 of the property's value. The rate would generate an estimated $775,000 per year to cover the current parks and recreation programming and establish a capital improvements fund, Erickson said.
If the parks district is approved, the city would have to decide whether it would continue to manage the park and recreation services with the revenues surrendered by the parks district or whether it would lease the facilities to the district to manage instead.


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>All that has been said about diving after a cesarean section (see Return to Diving After Giving Birth) applies to diving after general surgery, including a hysterectomy.
>Women may resume diving after a hysterectomy, but they should wait until they have recovered general strength and fitness before they take the plunge - usually six to eight weeks, and sometimes longer.
>Fitness and Diving Issues
>As far as it relates to scuba diving, a hysterectomy is considered major surgery. It is recommended that anyone undergoing an abdominal surgery allow six to eight weeks of recovery before resuming diving. If the procedure is complicated in any way, by infection, anemia or other serious issues, it may be wise to further delay diving.
>These recommendations apply to all types of hysterectomy:
1. Removing the uterus abdominally (total abdominal hysterectomy);
>2. Removing the uterus vaginally (vaginal hysterectomy);
>3. Removing the uterus plus the tubes and ovaries (hysterectomy plus salpingo-oophorectomy);
>4. Removing the top of the uterus, but leaving the cervix intact (subtotal hysterectomy).


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By COLLEEN LEDDY
I was going to write about this a few weeks ago, but I forgot.
And then I saw a post on Facebook from Grace Tarala Johnston and I remembered I was going to write about forgetting.
Grace, you might remember, is married to Jeff Johnston who used to write for the Observer back in the early 90s. He moved on to the Benton Harbor paper before settling in at the Flint Journal. I forget what he's doing now.
All that is neither here nor there, but I figure if you remember Grace and Jeff you might wonder what they are up to. They're in Flushing now and are the parents of four beautiful young daughters whom Grace was probably referring to when she posted this:
"I hid those gifts so well I can't find them!"
"Hate when that happens," commented a friend.
"I do that every year," said another.
I burst out laughing when I read the next comment.
"I do this too and it amazes me. One year we were sitting down to Easter dinner and my mom suddenly jumped up and remembered where she hid some pink knee high socks for my sister and I the previous Christmas. LOL It was too funny and we still laugh about this."
Grace commiserated with her friend who then commented, "I just get wackier. I am going for the dotty old lady. I embrace it."
I'm not really ready to embrace my dottiness, especially if people think of it as "mentally unbalanced" rather than "amiably eccentric." I'm much more inclined to want to conquer it, especially now that I know what causes me to forget why I'm standing in front of the computer with no idea what I was about to look up before walking into the room.
My daughter Rosie broke the news a few weeks ago. She told me when you walk through a doorway it makes you forget things. She read about it online. It's all over the internet. Here's a report from the Huffington Post:
You know when you walk into a room to do something and suddenly forget why you're there? It's not just you, recent research says the physical act of going through that doorway could be linked to forgetting things.
"Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an 'event boundary' in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away," study researcher Gabriel Radvansky, a psychology professor at the University of Notre Dame, said... "Recalling the decision or activity that was made in a different room is difficult because it has been compartmentalized."
During the study, researchers used three experiments, including one that tested out students' recall when moving between tables in the same room. They found that less was forgotten between tables than when the students went from room to room. Results were published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
"Sounds very plausible," said one reader about the Huffington Post story. "Works too when opening the refrigerator door. Now I know why I stand there looking. (It was for the pie I had forgotten I had finished off yesterday)."
I noticed comments on several sites about how opening a refrigerator door has the same effect on memory as walking through a doorway.
"...that's why I forget what is in the refrigerator," said one commenter.
"I'm not sure," countered another. 'Hoping something new miraculously appears' vs. 'forgetting what's in there"'are two different things. Right?"
I am not remembering to go to bed early, something I remind myself to do daily, but after reading this article, I have been stopping myself before going through a doorway and repeating what it is I need to remember.
"Sheets and extension cord. Sheets and extension cord. Sheets and extension cord." Over and over I say it so I won't forget as I head to the annex basement through two doorways from the library.
The Huffington Post article had better advice to avoid that problem:
So, if you never want to forget anything, just don't leave the room you're in right now, and you will be just fine.


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Large Male Orangutan Rescued.
15 October 2012 Tripa News
Issued by: Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme and BKSDA Aceh. - Medan, October 15, 2012
A large, fully adult male Sumatran Orangutan weighing around 90 kg was rescued yesterday (14/10/12) from an isolated forest fragment in the Tripa Peat Swamp Forests in the Nagan Raya District of Aceh Province, Sumatra, Indonesia, as illegal destruction of this unique ecosystem by rogue palm oil companies continues.
Thanks to the cooperation of a team of experts from the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) and the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry's Department of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation (PHKA), the orangutan, later named Seuneam after the nearest village to where he was found, was evacuated safely and later released early on Monday morning (15/10/12) at the SOCP's specialist Orangutan Reintroduction Centre in the Jantho Pine Nature Reserve in northern Aceh. Seuneam had been monitored in the field by SOCP staff for several days and had to be rescued as he was trapped in a small fragment of forest surrounded by palm oil plantations, isolated from the rest of the Tripa swamp forests and the rest of Tripa's surviving orangutan population, estimated today to be only around 200 individuals, and declining fast. Local informants even stated that there was a plan to poison him very soon if he continued to destroy young palm oil seedlings.
The team in the field comprised SOCP veterinarians, staff of BKSDA Aceh (the Government's provincial Conservation Agency), staff of the Indonesian Sustainable Ecosystem Foundation (Yayasan Ekosistem lestari, or YEL) and local community members.
Head of BKSDA Aceh, Mr Amon Zamora MSc, stated on Sunday evening "BKSDA Aceh strongly supports this orangutan rescue and I hope that other orangutans facing similar threats in Tripa can also be rescued before they are killed, or die of malnutrition. Evacuation efforts like this are essential to our efforts to save the Sumatran orangutan and reduce conflicts with local communities. It's a sad fact that orangutans are often regarded as pests by people and plantation companies, as when they have no other food to eat they can and do eat and damage agricultural crops.
Meanwhile, head of the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme, Dr Ian Singleton stated "We are always happy to see a successful rescue take place, but these activities are expensive, logistically challenging and also dangerous, for both staff and the orangutans themselves. There is always a serious risk of injury to the animals during capture, especially when they fall from the trees after being anaesthetized. We would much prefer not to have to intervene in this way and in reality we should not be having to rescue orangutans from Tripa, as it is part of the Leuser Ecosystem, now a protected area under National Spatial Planning laws. In fact, several of the palm oil companies
operating in Tripa are already under investigation for breaking Indonesian Law and one plantation has even be cancelled. But regrettably, forest clearance, drainage of the peatlands and burning of the land continue unabated, so we have no choice but to rescue orangutans when they will clearly die if we don't".
"Both locally, and Globally, people were inspired recently by the strong leadership of new Aceh Governor, Dr Zaini Abdullah, when the Aceh Government revoked an illegal oil palm plantation permit granted to PT Kalista Alam. But despite this, it is still clear to see that rogue palm oil companies are continuing to destroy Tripa's remaining forests, creating more conflicts between human and orangutan, and other wildlife. It's not the orangutans that should be leaving this area, it is the palm oil companies who are breaking the law." Dr Singleton added.
Drh Yenny Saraswati reiterated during a quiet moment after Seuneam's eventual return to the wild. "Rescues like this are not something we enjoy. There are serious risks of injury and even death to an orangutan like this during capture, however good modern equipment and drugs are these days. No matter what you do, orangutans climb higher when afraid, and then fall all the way to the ground. We have had several break bones in the past as a result of falls, even though we always try to get a capture net underneath them beforehand. As a veterinarian, its not pleasant to have to take such risks with an animal's welfare".
The Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP; www.sumatranorangutan.org) is a collaborative programme involving the Swiss based PanEco Foundation (www.paneco.ch), Indonesia's Yayasan Ecosystem Lestari (www.yelweb.org) and the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry's Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation (DitJen PHKA; www.dephut.go.id)
Main activities of the SOCP include:-
- Confiscation, quarantine, and reintroduction to the wild of illegal pet Sumatran orangutans
- Research and monitoring of remaining wild Sumatran orangutan populations
- Habitat protection and conservation
- Conservation education and awareness raising
To date the SOCP as returned to the wild more than 180 illegal captive orangutans and rescued a number of orangutans in similar situations to Seuneam.
For further information contact:-
- Mr Amon Zamora, MSc, Kepala BKSDA Aceh, Tel: +6282169313999.
- Dr Ian Singleton, Director of Conservation PanEco Foundation / Head of SOCP, Tel: +62811650491.


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It's twitter giveaway time once again at Da-Bike-Blog.
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the Great GoogaMooga. (Article in the New York Times. -and this one has Hall & Oates too!)-May 19th-20th-Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
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Conduct rigorous testing prior to deployment of an emergency preemption system to avoid potential problems and negative system impacts.
The experience of multiple agencies with emergency vehicle preemption systems.
January 2006
Fairfax County,Virginia,United States; Plano,Texas,United States; St. Paul,Minnesota,United States
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However, each EVP system needs to be tailored to fit the needs of the jurisdiction. Due to differences in traffic signal controllers and traffic signal systems, an EVP system is not simply a "plug and play" type system. During system installation, adjustments will need to be made prior to system-wide deployment. The system will need to be debugged using the parameters for that jurisdiction and, because of the nature of deploying this type of system and exposing the traveling public and the emergency vehicle to potential conflicts, a field test should be performed before system-wide deployment.
Interviews conducted at the three jurisdictions provide the following guidance for an EVP system installation:
- Bench test the equipment and software in the shop with the same equipment that is found in the field. Bench testing can help prevent potential problems that may occur in the field when the system is deployed. Traffic controllers should be set up in the shop the same way as in the field to replicate any issues that may occur. In Fairfax County, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) found that their traffic signal controller software required an upgrade to allow dual use of the technology for both EVP and transit signal priority. If provided, transit signal priority should always be a secondary request to an emergency vehicle preemption request. Prior to the software upgrade, VDOT found that the transit priority requests were granted the same level of precedence as an EVP request. If this situation had not been tested before deploying the system in the field, a serious situation may have occurred.
- Wire the vehicle emitter into the EV parking brake or transmission lever to turn the emitter off when the EV is stopped. When an emergency vehicle stops in the vicinity of an intersection, a continuously running emitter will hold the signal in the preemption phase indefinitely, possibly causing significant traffic problems. Preemption systems usually include factory-installed emitters that include a power interrupt tied to the transmission shift lever that disables the emitter when the vehicle is in "park." In both Fairfax County, Virginia and Plano, Texas the technicians had to develop custom power interrupt solutions for vehicles with locally-installed emitters.
- Maintain an open line of communication among stakeholders during the acceptance testing period to avoid poor system performance and perhaps avert a dangerous situation. Resolving system performance issues requires cooperation and communication between EV drivers and EVP maintenance technicians. Certain signalized intersections may pose problems in terms of emitter-detector line-of-sight reducing detection ranges. Finding the right solution requires detailed problem descriptions. The EV drivers need to be involved when the system is being installed and should continue to communicate to technicians any problems in order to maintain optimum system performance. In some cases the maintenance technicians may work for the traffic engineering department and in other cases the technicians may belong to the emergency service department. In either case, it is important that good communication is maintained to provide a high level of system performance and to avoid any possible dangerous situations.
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Traffic Signal Preemption for Emergency Vehicles: A Cross-Cutting Study
Author: William C. Louisell, SAIC
Published By: Prepared by the FHWA USDOT
Source Date: January 2006
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Hey everyone, today we're excited to have a GREAT special guest blogger, author and criminologist R. Barri Flowers. He's published multiple books in the mystery and romance genres as well as bestselling true crime books. And he's agreed to let the Killer Fiction readers pick his brain today, so I hope you all came loaded with lots of questions. Mr. Flowers, take it away…
Hello, all. My name's R. Barri Flowers, author of criminology books, true crime, and mystery novels (with some romance fiction under a pseudonym for good measure).
How nice of Gemma and the other gals at Killer Fiction to invite on as a guest blogger.
With the lion's share of my writings in the criminology field, I'm what's known as a literary criminologist. That is, I am one of those who writes the criminal justice and criminology textbooks used in colleges and universities by professors and students alike.
I take pride in making a contribution to higher education and hope that through my books and articles, graduates in the criminal justice/criminology/criminal law fields come out with more relevant knowledge than when they went in.
So what goes into criminology writing, you might ask? Well, lots of research, verification, studies, surveys, tables, graphs, notes, references, and information on crime, criminals, and criminal justice or lack thereof.
The fundamental questions in the study of criminality consist of: why are crimes committed, who commits them, what are the precursors, how are crimes solved, is their differential enforcement of the law, and can criminals really be rehabilitated?
With twenty-five such books covering the range of criminal behavior, I have written about virtually every type of popular perpetrator in crime fiction, including serial killers, psycho killers, female killers, mass killers, domestic-related killers, team killers, juvenile killers, terrorists, rapists, molesters, sadists, property offenders, drug-related criminals, and more.
Some general conclusions are as follows:
* Firearms are involved in two-thirds of the homicides in the U.S.
* Drug use is pervasive in our society and often a factor in the commission of other crimes, such as murder and sexual assaults.
* Crime is largely intraracial and not interracial in this country.
* Identity theft and cybercrime are two of the fastest growing crimes in the country.
* Two-thirds of all rapes and three-quarters of sexual assaults are committed by an intimate, acquaintance, or family member of victim.
* Males, not too surprisingly, constitute the higher percentage of violent, sexual, property, and drug offenders.
* When it comes to serial killers, a common theme in thrillers and romantic suspense, men rule the roost. However, more women have been serial killers throughout our history than one might imagine, such as black widows who kill their mates for financial gain.
* Females are slowly making inroads into traditionally male-dominated crimes, including homicide and property offenses.
* Men are predominantly the aggressors in domestic violence and women the passive victims. However, the actual incidence of verbal and physical abuse in relationships is more evenly divided by gender.
* Though we hear most often about men being arrested for child molestation, women may actually be just as involved in child sexual abuse but are more easily able to mask due to traditional female sex roles in society, such as child rearing and homemaker.
* Teens and young adults have the highest rate of involvement in violent crime.
* The laws are not always applied equally when it comes to arrests, conviction, and incarceration, often varying by offense, gender, race, ethnicity, and/or location.
My other main area of focus as a criminologist is on true crime. The genre was popularized by Truman Capote with his book, IN COLD BLOOD.
Though true crime books are nonfiction, they are separated from typical factual books by employing fiction techniques in combining a police procedural with mystery and suspense.
I wrote a bestselling true crime book, THE SEX SLAVE MURDERS (St. Martin's Press, 1996). It chronicles the sexual homicides of husband-wife serial killers, Gerald and Charlene Gallego.
The book is a basis of an upcoming episode of the popular Dateline like Canadian investigative crime TV series, Crime Stories, shown on A&E's Biography Channel.
Writing true crime differs from criminology books and a decidedly academic approach in that it involves reading transcripts, interviewing witnesses, law enforcement, and others in piecing together the time line of the crime, investigation, evidence gathering, apprehending the suspect, the trial, and outcome.
It certainly keeps me on my toes moving between these two branches of writing on criminality. Having a basic understanding of the dynamics of criminal behavior certainly helps the cause in doing true crime books.
Similarly, my expertise as a criminologist laid the perfect groundwork for a foray into crime fiction, with several novels, including the most recent, STATE'S EVIDENCE (Dorchester, 2006) and JUSTICE SERVED (Dorchester, 2005).
I enjoy the creative side of writing mystery fiction and using one's imagination and creative juices to blend with strong characterization and plotting in building to a dramatic climax.
Inspired by such crime novelists as James Patterson and John Grisham, along with male romance writers Robert Waller and Nicholas Sparks, I have also tried my hand at writing love stories.
Under the pseudonym, Devon Vaughn Archer, I have written four romance novels. The latest, CHRISTMAS HEAT (Kimani Romance, 2007), will be published in December by a Harlequin imprint.
Overall, I remain a criminology and true crime writer, first and foremost and am happy to lend my talents to the study of crime and criminals; along with trying to get a handle on how we can best deal with criminality in American society.
Feel free to ask me whatever suits your fancy and I will try my best to answer.
And visit my web site and pages on CrimeSpace and MySpace:
R. Barri Flowers
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Criminologist R. Barri Flowers
Hey everyone, today we're excited to have a GREAT special guest blogger, author and criminologist R. Barri Flowers. He's published multiple books in the mystery and romance genres as well as bestselling true crime books. And he's agreed to let the Killer Fiction readers pick his brain today, so I hope you all came loaded with lots of questions. Mr. Flowers, take it away…
Posted by Gemma Halliday at 11:51 AM
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Hi, Barri!
What a coup for Killer Fiction to have you as the guest blogger. It looks like you've written it all -- romances, thrillers and true crime. Here's my question:
What Must Have resource would you recommend for someone writing romance-mysteries, so we can get the crime procedure/protocol correct? Is there even such a thing?
- October 6, 2007 at 1:24 PM
- Christie Craig said...
Hi Barri,
Thank you for joining us at Killer Fiction.
I have a question for you. When you have escaped convicts from prison, who (what local authorities) all gets involved? Does this vary from state to state?
- October 6, 2007 at 1:36 PM
- Estella said...
I don't have a question, but enjoyed reading the statistics you posted.
- October 6, 2007 at 2:25 PM
- catslady said...
Lots of information in your post and I found it fascinating. For a new to me author, which one of your books would you think a new reader should pick to start with? and are any of your books series (such as a reoccuring detective, etc.) or stand alone? Thanks
- October 6, 2007 at 2:30 PM
- Lucy said...
Like Estella, I don't have a question but enjoyed the post.
- October 6, 2007 at 2:45 PM
Hey, Barri,
I've read your crime novels and your non-fiction, but I didn't realize you were also Devon Vaughn Archer. I'll have to try those too. I'm printing out your blog. Such good information for those of us trying to get it right in our mysteries.
- October 6, 2007 at 3:02 PM
Hello, Faye and everyone.
I understand that there were some technical difficulties on site, preventing me from getting in till now.
As for a must have resource, one that comes to mind is Police Procedure & Investigation: A Guide for Writers (Howdunit). It is published by Writers Digest Books and is jam packed with helpful info for romantic suspense writers on police processes, investigative techniques, etc.
Another great reference for those writing mysteries involving forensics is Murder and Mayhem: A Doctor Answers Medical and Forensic Questions for Mystery Writers, published by St. Martin's Minotaur.
Aside from these sources, for those of you who are simply seeking ideas for killers and motives, I would recommend my own nonfiction book, Murders In The United States: Crimes, Killers And Victims Of The Twentieth Century. Now in paperback, it chronicles true tales of some of histories worse or most unusual killers--including women and couples.
Hope these help.
- October 6, 2007 at 6:59 PM
Hello, Christie:
When someone escapes from prison, you have just about all law enforcement involved in trying to recapture--including correctional authorities, police, FBI, and U.S. Marshals.
- October 6, 2007 at 7:06 PM
Hi, Catslady:
For mystery lovers, I would recommend you start out with STATE'S EVIDENCE (Dorchester, 2006). It is a legal thriller as well as police procedural with a healthy dose of romance and suspense.
If you favor a heartwarming, nostalgic romance, you should definitely try CHRISTMAS HEAT (Kimani Romance, December 2007).
A good sampling of my fiction can be found in the Amazon Shorts program, where new short stories include the mystery, "Gone But Not Forgotten" and romance, "Doing the Right Thing."
Happy reading!
- October 6, 2007 at 8:01 PM
Hello, Lorena:
Glad you could drop by.
I believe that you have it right in your mysteries, friend. :>))
I love faith-based mysteries and you write them better than most.
I have enjoyed this blogging and am happy to impart a bit of knowledge and info.
- October 6, 2007 at 8:11 PM
- Gemma Halliday said...
Thanks for coming to chat with us Barri. Sorry again about the server troubles. Ugh, wouldn't you know it would happen on our special guest day. *thunking forehead*
I'll definitely be picking up one of your books when I start in on my next mystery. I'm always looking for killer inspiration. ;)
- October 6, 2007 at 11:09 PM
- ReadingIsSoMuchFun said...
Hello Barri,
I am glad to learn about a new to me author. It's a pleasure to have you hear and learn more about you. After this comment I make I am going right over to check out your website.
I enjoyed your post alot of great information I enjoyed reading this post.
Right now I don't have a question. I am sure I will once I check out your website :)
Christie's *NEW* Partner In Crime HeeeHeee Christie will know why I posted this part *G*
- October 7, 2007 at 2:19 AM
- Nathalie said...
it is the first time thta I hear a criminologist writes mystery romances... it seems a bit of a paradox! But then you also write non-fiction.
Thanx for the suggestions listed above.
- October 7, 2007 at 9:03 AM
- Christie Craig said...
Hi Barri,
Thanks so much for answering all our questions.
Crime Scene Christie
(waving at my partner in crime)
- October 7, 2007 at 9:29 AM
Hello, all:
How nice to have spent some time with you ladies. Had fun.
Although I am a literary criminologist, I've always been a true romantic at heart--loving such classic films as Casablanca, My Fair Lady, an Affair to Remember, and Roman Holiday.
I am also a big fan of film noir such as Laura, Double Indemnity, Notorious, and the Maltese Falcon; as well as great noir fiction, including those hard-boiled novels authored by Dashiell Hammett, James Cain, and Mickey Spillane.
These early influences helped shape my interest in crime fiction as well as romance and romantic suspense novels.
- October 7, 2007 at 1:07 PM
- Bethany True said...
Thank you thank you thank you for joining us!
- October 7, 2007 at 3:20 PM
- Lily said...
That was a very nice post... Thanx!
- October 8, 2007 at 10:38 AM
- ChristyJan said...
Thank you for the fascinating and informative post.
- October 8, 2007 at 1:49 PM
Hi guys. I wanted to thank Barri for mentioning my book, Police Procedure and Investigation, A Guide For Writers.
Also, please feel free to contact me with your police/CSI questions.
- October 18, 2007 at 9:54 PM
- Unknown said...
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شركة كشف تسربات المياه بجدة تقدم خدمة لعمل الاصلاح بدون اي خراب ونقدم النصيحة للعملاء بالابتعاد عن الاعمال التي تؤدي الي هذا الخراب فتعاملك مع شركة كشف تسربات بجدة لديها الخبرة الكافية تساعدك في الحفاظ علي منزلك كما اننا نتمكن في اننا سوف نرتقي بخدمة لاننا نقوم بالعمل السليم لها كما يوجد لدينا خدمات العوازل التي تمنع التسريبات من الاسقف لكم والحوائط والخزانات من خلال شركة تسمي الاولي في مجالها لذلك نحن نقدم شركة عزل خزانات بالرياض التي تعتبر في عل الخزانات الارضية من الداخل بواسطة مواد متميزة كما نقدم لكم شركة عزل اسطح بالرياض لعمل العوازل التي تمنع جميع التسريبات في الاسقف
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Cry for Argentina
With Obamacare at the Supreme Court, the presidential primary debates in full swing, and the federal government's continued unwillingness to liberate the economy and thus allow it to create jobs, it's easy to forget that there's a world outside America, one with its own economic issues and presidential elections.
Take Argentina, for example, a country near and dear to my heart ever since I studied abroad there nearly 15 years ago. A century ago, Argentina was emerging from oligarchic rule to an ever‐liberalizing democracy that was one of the richest countries in the world. By 1930 it had the seventh‐largest economy, outpacing fellow new‐world ex‐colonies like Canada and Australia and attracting waves of immigrants from Italy, Spain, and Eastern Europe. How did a country so rich in natural and human resources fall from that peak to become the butt of economists' jokes? (There are four types of countries in the world: developed, developing, Japan, and Argentina.)
The answer is the autarkic corporatism that came from the rule of Juan Domingo Peron, imposing an industrial policy that destroyed the burgeoning export‐import sector, nationalized railroads, and gave unions all the power they wanted (so much that they even began clashing with Peron — sound familiar?). Combine that macroeconomic insanity—leading inevitably to social unrest and repressive government reactions thereto—with an idiosyncratic "Third Way" foreign policy and redistributionist welfare schemes, and the jewel of Spain's former empire came back to the pack of faltering Latin American states.
Wild populist swings of both the left and the right followed, interrupted only by a string of coup d'etats—I recall the syllabus of my Argentine history class read, "primer golpe de estado; segundo golpe de estado; tercer golpe de estado…"—resulting in a Dirty War between the ideological extremes that ended in the tone‐deaf military triumvirate's disastrous excursion in the Falkland Islands. (Case in point: they thought President Reagan would support them over Thatcher's Britain.) Democracy returned for good in 1983 but, save for a brief illusory period in the 1990s, Argentina's economic house has never been in order. Recall that the country was a poster‐child for hyperinflation in the late 1980s and even now inflation runs north of 20 percent (nobody knows for sure because the official figures cannot be trusted).
After an economic crisis of Great‐Depression proportions (labeled simply La Crisis) in the early 2000s gave the country an extremely painful but long‐needed correction—unpegging the peso from the U.S. dollar among other long‐needed reforms—an accidental president from the south, Nestor Kirchner, began reimposing his brand of Peronism. This included defaulting on sovereign debt, government control of the energy sector, expanded social programs, and rapprochement with the likes of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. Deciding not to run for reelection, Kirchner handed the presidency to his wife, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who essentially continued his heterodox policies while governing with an increasingly heavy hand against protestors and the media.
A few weeks ago, Argentines overwhelmingly reelected Fernandez, easily beating back opposition groups that never coalesced into a single movement or candidate. This result wasn't surprising because the economy is expected to grow by eight percent this year and the middle class has largely recovered from the crisis—though most economists consider the current situation to be unsustainable, with the country eventually headed to a reckoning akin to the one it faced at the end of the '90s (recall the tragic cycles the country endures).
Argentina provides America a "teachable moment," to use one of our president's favorite expressions. Like Argentina has been many times over the last century, the United States is at a crossroads. Will it continue to stand for individual liberty, innovation, and social mobility, or will Americans trade their freedom for ever‐larger entitlements and evanescent protections from life's vicissitudes? As Mary Anastasia O'Grady wrote in a column that we can only hope fails to be prophetic:
On this, the experience of Mrs. Kirchner's Argentina is instructive. It abandoned free markets, ostensibly in the interest of social justice. The predictable result has been greater injustice, more poverty, and increasing concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the political class and its friends. Efforts to make the economy competitive have repeatedly been defeated even as the standard of living declined.
Argentina tests the theory that democracies have a built‐in capacity to correct the overreach of government. Not only has it been unable to extricate itself from the black hole of corporatism, it is getting sucked in further.
Or, as Cristina Fernandez put it on the eve of her reelection, "I don't know if Obama has read Peron, but let me tell you, it sure seems like it."
[Not coincidentally to the timing of this blogpost, I will be in Argentina all next week, a working vacation of sorts. I'm currently scheduled for two public talks: in Buenos Aires on Nov. 24 at 7pm at the business/economics university ESEADE on the topic of rule of law and economic development and in Tucuman on Nov.25 at 6pm at the Catalinas Park Hotel at a conference marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of Soviet communism, sponsored by the think tank Libertad y Progreso. Both events will be in Spanish.]


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Redbelly Water Snake
Scientific name: Nerodia erythrogaster erythrogaster (FORSTER 1771)
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* scientific names used through time
- Coluber erythrogaster – FORSTER 1771
- Tropidonotus erythrogaster – HOLBROOK 1842
- Nerodia erythrogaster – BAIRD & GIRARD 1853
- Natrix fasciata erythrogaster – COPE 1888
- Natrix sipedon erythrogaster – ALLEN 1932
- Natrix erythrogaster – BURT 1935
- Natrix erythrogaster erythrogaster – CONANT 1958
- Nerodia erythrogaster erythrogaster – CONANT & COLLINS 1991
Description: Average adult size is 28-48 inches (71.1-121.9 cm), record is 62 inches (157.4 cm). Adults are heavy-bodied with reddish-brown to no patterning on the back. The belly, neck, and labial scales are reddish-orange. The scales are keeled, and there are 23 dorsal scale rows at midbody. The pupil is round. Juveniles are grayish-brown with distinct dark crossbands and blotches, with pale yellow or pinkish bellies.
A. Top of the head
B. Underside of the head (chin and throat)
C. Elongated scales below the tail (subcaudal scales) are typically divided
D. Front (face view) of the head
E. Side of the head
F. Keeled scales
Range: In Florida, it is found from the northern peninsula west throughout the panhandle. In the western panhandle it intergrades (interbreeds) with the Yellowbelly Water Snake (Nerodia erythrogaster flavigaster). Outside of Florida, it is found from southern Alabama northeast along the Atlantic coast to Virginia.
Habitat: Commonly found in rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps, and cypress strands.
Comments: HARMLESS (Non-Venomous). The Red–bellied Water Snake is active mainly during the daytime. During the hot summer months it is active in the early morning, late afternoon, and at night.
It feeds on fishes and frogs. It is live-bearing. Usually 11-30 young from 9-11.5 inches (22.8-29.2 cm) in length are deposited during the summer.
Comparison with other species: The Mississippi Green Water Snake (Nerodia cyclopion) and Florida Green Water Snake (Nerodia floridana) have scales between the eye and the scales on the upper lip. Harmless Water Snake are often confused with the venomous Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus). However, there is no excuse for killing Water Snakes out of confusion since Cottonmouths can easily be distinguished from Water Snakes. The Cottonmouth has a triangular shaped head and vertical pupil. If the head is viewed from above, the eyes of Cottonmouths cannot be seen while the eyes of Water Snakes are visible; Cottonmouths have elliptical pupils and Water Snakes have round pupils; and Cottonmouths have a facial pit between the nostril and the eye, while Water Snakes do not.


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Mils (Tyrol, Austria)
Mils, a village near Hall, was one of the earliest centers of Anabaptism in Tyrol, Austria. In August 1529 in a forest near Mils 20 persons were seized in a worship service and taken to Hall on the Inn. On 14 September they were put into solitary confinement to prevent their encouraging each other. They received instruction in Catholic doctrine from Christoph Landtsperger, and most of them recanted. Two women, Anna Malerin and Ursula Ochsentreiberin, remaining constant to their faith, suffered a martyr's death.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 138.
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Hege, Christian. (1957). Mils (Tyrol, Austria). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 11 July 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Mils_(Tyrol,_Austria)&oldid=144411.
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So you're an emerging artist. That means by now, you probably feel like you've seen about a million articles from industry reps talking about how important it is for you have daily interaction with your fans. You need to be on Facebook getting "Likes," Youtube getting hits, tweeting until your hands are raw, etc. etc. You get it. But unless your last name is Gaga, your life probably isn't that fascinating on a daily basis.
So the question is, how can you create content that's actually cool and interesting to your fans on a daily basis? Well, I'm here to try and help answer that. Here are a couple ideas and tools to capture your daily activities and make them look pretty nifty too. Added bonus: these apps and tools all allow you to immediately share via Twitter, Facebook and more.
Take "Vintage" Digital Photos. Typing "Making my morning coffee" on Twitter doesn't sound that rad… when you say it like that. But using a photo is a fun and easy way to share something simple from your day. To make it even more exciting, there are a few fun "vintage photo" apps out there to make your morning coffee even look cool. See my super-awesome examples below. Voilà! An ordinary coffee cup is turned into a photo that could qualify for the wall of your local Starbucks (ok, that might be stretching it, but you get the idea). If you're a Droid user, my favorite app is Retro Cam. iPhone users should check out Instagram.
Mix Daily Video Clips with your Tunes. You've seen it a million times: A person sitting in front of their computer, the backdrop is a bedroom or basement, and it's just another talking head. This is fine every once and a while to give several updates at once (a nice alternative to a newsletter) but it's easy to expose daily activities in a more creative way. Check these out: Taking a ski trip? Pidgeon eat your lunch? Or maybe you're really happy about a Snow Day? Putting together a few clips taken with your data phone and using some of your music as a soundtrack can be a clever way to showcase a new demo or bring back an old tune you released a few years ago. Apps with cool video effects: 8MM Vintage Camera app for iPhone and Videocam Illusion for Android. Edit clips together on your phone with apps like Reel Director or Qik.
Make Gig or Studio Photos into a Mini Production. Sonicbids Product Manager (and pal) Lou gave me this idea and I'm a fan. Once you've taken all of your cool content in the ways listed above, use it to create a quick and easy mini production. Play a gig last night? This is a great way to showcase your favorite photos from the evening in a snappier way than your average Facebook photo gallery. Animoto, lets you create quick 30 second productions (which you can throw together in minutes) for free and seems to hit it out of the park. But you can also check out Masher, too.
So there you have it. A few ideas to make that experience waiting in line at Guitar Center staving off the headache from the florescent lighting an opportunity to engage your fans. Don't forget to show me a photo (@SonicbidsTess) when you do. This article is written by Tess Cychosz from Sonicbids.


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A facile answer, but also useless for you, I suppose, is that they all have a high bang/buck ratio, much more so than most the drivel out there. So let me explain their utility to me, and perhaps that will help you make a more informed decision as to how to proceed.
- To Mock a Mockingbird, Smullyan: I absolutely consumed. But are you ever going to use combinatory logic combinators when coding? I do, and no-one else in the world does (Okay, maybe David Turner still does an occasional SK bit of low-level coding). But as an introduction to the magic of first class functions and construction through composition (that is, in other words, "Coding in the Haskell-style") there is no equals as to its lightness of touch as well as the density of concepts. You learn from this book and delight in it.
- Algorithms, Rabhi & LaPalme. I carry this book incessantly, into meetings (where I am to be a passive participant), on trips, etc. Certainly it teaches one about data structures and algorithms in Haskell, using practical examples. But it also opens one's eyes to possibilities of programming. It is a powerful (but not dense), little book. It is, however, dated, especially in the light of the explosion of new ways to use more-recently developed mathematical structures (from category theory, particularly, monads, arrows, and comonads). It does not cover these recent developments, but the ones it does cover, it covers extraordinarily well.
- How to Solve It, Michaelwicz & Fogel. Thick, dense, impressive. I don't think I've gotten much further than chapter 2 — this is my fault, but it is also the book's unapologetic full coverage and well as its assumption that they are not addressing 7-year-olds that make progression, for me, at least, arduous. Worth reading? Absolutely, as it addresses the fundamental problems of problem-solving (at the top of their list is that problem solving is hard, and our education has flippantly ignored that bald fact) and proposes solutions that are novel, scintillating, simple, and, once discovered, obvious. I recommend you read more than the first three chapters in a book store (prepare to spend more than a few days in this task) to see if you can justify purchasing it for continued reading.


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September is all about closing strong, and your Latest Leaders did exactly that here at MLB.com Blogs. They're ready for a thrilling October, as an expanded Postseason crowns a champion and provides a wealth of things to discuss. The Reds claimed the NL Central this season, and it was a great September for Reds blogs, with Better Off Red and Mark My Word topping the Pro and MLB.com Beat Writer divisions, respectively. Amongst Fan blogs, The Baseball Haven and 9 Inning Know It All made big jumps up the standings.
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Greetings to all members of the community blogs MLB. Congratulations to the top. When can we expect the leaders of October?
I saw the message that the Pinstripe Birthday Blog made the top ten for the second consecutive month just seconds after my beloved Yankees officially clinched the AL East and captured the best record in the AL. Thanks to all of you who are faithful readers of the PBB and congrats to all my fellow bloggers who made this month's list for working as hard as you do to make your spaces entertaining places to visit.
Oh and Nick congratulations on the A's winning the west. I have to admit I picked them to fight for worst in the West with the M's this year but was happy to see that proven wrong.
I really like these Latest Leaders blog posts and not just because I jumped to #27 on the fan list, but because I've actually found a lot of great blogs to read on my spare time. Ballparks on a Budget is really good for anyone wanting to do a baseball trip and I really like Canadian Clippings because I am connected with the Northwest League.


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How can one work together accessibility and protection of heritage while dealing with statutory and architectural requirements? How can one break down the barriers to accessibility in historic monuments and cultural sites in Europe? How can one accept that sites or monuments inscribed on the World Heritage List, that are supposed to be universal and bring cultures together, can be still inaccessible to some categories of people? How can one facilitate an access to everything for all without threatening the heritage value of buildings and their environment? How are European countries working towards these goals that may seem contradictory at first sight?
These are the main questions that this conference will seek to answer.
In order for all of us to enjoy the city, it has become essential to find a balance between the ethical issue of equal opportunity, the acceptance of social diversity, the demand for accessibility and the duty of remembrance, of preserving and promoting heritage sites and landscapes. It is about finding a balance between the supporters of a restrictive protection of monuments and sites, and those in favour of a free access for all types of visitors, at the risk of altering this built heritage or participating in the artificialization of natural areas.
Upgrading the built frame is a necessary condition for disabled people to gain access to culture, knowledge and leisure. Adapting the offer to other kinds of audience is also essential.
The task is as much about creating tools of a cultural mediation that are adapted to all kinds of disabilities, as it is about raising awareness and training heritage stakeholders.
Feedback from European case studies will shed light on these topics to assert the values that we share regarding cultural identities and citizenship in order to design a more inclusive society.
Registration and information are available on the symposium website:


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LONGMONT — It was a brawl in the alleys at the Skyline baseball field on Tuesday afternoon. The super-squad that is the Twins Blue baseball team, though, got in all the good punches against Boulder.
Currently, the two teams might be on completely different levels as Legion A ball gets swinging, but for Twins coach Haas Pratt and Boulder's Colt Sedbrook, improvement is still the name of the game.
One wouldn't think the Twins Blue lineup has much room to grow, what with a team comprised of many players bound for college before the coming fall semester.
Pratt, however, is still viewing his coaching job as precisely that: winning by continuing to learn.
"I'm super pleased with the way these guys are going about their business," said Pratt after Twins Blue (4-0) scratched out 14-4 and 12-3 victories on Tuesday. "I've kind of laid it out on the table for them that I am here to get them ready for the next level. I had the opportunity to play at the next level, and I want them to be prepared so they're not going in blind.
"Once you get to that level, it really turns into more of a job. Then in pro ball, if you get that chance, it turns into a business. We're just trying to keep them playing the right way."
Sedbrook was in Pratt's position just a year ago, winning a lot of games as coach of the Twins with top-tier talent spread throughout the diamond. While it is unrealistic to think stars will be born overnight with the Panthers, Sedbrook's goals continue to be taking little bits of good out of every moment.
Tuesday, there were a lot of moments to learn from. The Panthers competed early in each game, but the experience of the Twins Blue was too much.
"For our guys, it's about finding an identity and finding a way to play the game comfortably and with confidence in their ability," Sedbrook said. "It comes down to applying themselves in a different way, and having a sense of urgency when you play a team like (the Twins). No complacency.
"We're learning how to battle in certain counts, how to position yourself off of certain hitters, if we see certain swings at the plate what do we need to do to execute the right pitch. It's a learned process."
The Twins used every part of the field to score 26 runs in 10 innings worth of at-bats between the two games. After hitting the alleys several times in the first game, things continued in the nightcap as Will Amen and Pate Katechis each had triples in the first two innings; Bryan Meek added another triple in the fourth inning, giving them eight for the day.
Tanner Kirkpatrick also hit a home run in the opener.
"It was awesome to see us mashing just all day, and I think confidence just rolled over each and every guy," Kirkpatrick said. "We were just swinging it really well, and it was nice to see."
Dana Sullivan had a breakout day for Boulder, one that Sedbrook hopes inspires him for the rest of the summer along with a few others. Sullivan went 2 for 3 in the first game with a home run and two RBIs, then went 2 for 2 with a run in the second game.
Sullivan, who will be just a sophomore in the fall, put things in perspective afterward, still focusing on the big picture for BHS.
"We're trying to raise standards at Boulder, make changes, do more on and off the field, practice harder," Sullivan said. "The standards have been the same for too long. We're still learning, trying to get better as a team and program."
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Colorado Twins Blue 14, Boulder 4
At Skyline HS
Boulder 102 100 — 4 5 2
Twins Blue 400 703 — 14 17 1
W — Meek. L — McBirney.
Boulder hitting (ab-r-h-rbi) — C. Stowe 3-2-1-0, Sullivan 3-2-2-2, Barnett 0-0-0-0, Guegan 3-0-0-1, Gould 3-0-1-1, Ryan 2-0-0-0, Davis 1-0-0-0, A. Stowe 2-0-1-0, Smith 2-0-0-0, Burke 3-0-0-0. Totals 22-4-5-4. HR —Sullivan.
Twins Blue hitting (ab-r-h-rbi) — Platt 4-3-2-1, Amen 4-1-3-2, Katechis 3-1-3-1, Kennison 3-1-0-0, Meek 3-1-1-0, Cintora 1-0-0-0, Reigle 3-2-1-2, Kirkpatrick 4-2-3-3, Caruso 4-2-2-1, Yee 4-1-2-2. Totals 33-14-17-12. 2B — Caruso. 3B —Platt, Amen, Reigle, Kirkpatrick, Caruso. HR —Kirkpatrick. SB —Platt 2, Amen, Katechis 2, Reigle, Caruso, Yee 2.
Boulder pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) — McBirney 3.2-12-11-8-3-0, Barnett 1.2-5-3-2-1-1.
Twins Blue pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) — Meek 4-5-4-3-5-4, Cintora 2-0-0-0-2-1.
Twins Blue 12, Boulder 3
At Skyline HS
Boulder 030 00 — 3 8 1
Twins Blue 433 2X — 12 12 0
W —Amen. L — Burke.
Boulder hitting (ab-r-h-rbi) — C. Stowe 3-0-1-0, Sullivan 2-1-2-0, Barnett 3-0-2-1, Davis 3-0-1-2, McBirney 2-0-0-0, Feigal 2-0-0-0, Gould 2-0-0-0, Ryan 2-1-2-0, A. Stowe 2-1-0-0. 2B —C. Stowe. SB —Ryan.
Twins Blue hitting (ab-r-h-rbi) — Platt 2-3-1-1, Meek 4-0-2-3, Katechis 4-2-2-1, Reigle 1-2-0-0, Amen 2-0-2-5, Caruso 0-1-0-0, Kirkpatrick 3-0-0-0, Soriano 3-2-3-0, Yee 2-1-1-0, Cintora 2-1-1-0. Totals 23-12-12-10. 2B — Cintora. 3B —Meek, Katechis, Amen. SB —Cintora.
Boulder pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) — Burke 2-8-9-8-2-1, Guegan 1.2-4-3-3-3-1, Davis 0.1-0-0-0-0-0.
Twins Blue pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) — Amen 3-5-3-3-5-5, Caruso 2-3-0-0-1-2.


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The folks at Investor's Business Daily opine on Obama's "rubelike gaffes" in the course of the presidential tour of Burma, Thailand and Cambodia. Analyze this. IBD catches Obama receiving the kind of contempt that he himself usually specializes in dishing out to his presumed inferiors:
On his trip to Cambodia, a country he claimed didn't deserve a visit due to its strongman government, first lady Bun Rany greeted Obama with a traditional "sampeah" pressed-hands greeting reserved for servants, a little dig that was probably lost on him but not to Asians.
In the sampeah, "the higher the hands and the lower the bow, the more respect is shown." Below is the ocular proof.
UPDATE: The Daily Mail takes up this story here, raising an issue regarding the meaning of the Cambodian first lady's gesture.


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I've had Bayonetta on my amazon wishlist FOREVER. Thanks a lot, universe. Thanks a lot, Marvel multiverse.
Also, the game is trying too hard to be "EPIC"
Quote from: TiamatNM on January 12, 2012, 01:21:51 PM Also, the game is trying too hard to be "EPIC"I'm no epicologist, but I reckon that was the point.
I mean special boss stuff is special, but you'll spend 75% of the game beating up standard thugs.
The demo only showed pieces of a couple of boss fights, not the whole thing.


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This summer Hudson Mohawke will release Lantern, his first solo full length in nearly 6 years. The producer has been on a meteoric rise the last few years, working with some of the biggest names in hip hop, pop and dance music but everything started in a bedroom in Glasgow when he was barely a teenager. From age 15 he was an award winning scratch DJ producing happy hardcore on cracked software – he came to define a generation of electronic fusion producers but unlike many of his peers, Hudson has matured into a fully-fledged contemporary hitmaker continually working to break the mold.
Born of the underground club scene in the UK, 'Hud Mo' has been releasing music for the last 10 years, cultivating a formidable presence in the community. His US break-out came in 2012 with TNGHT, the collaborative project with fellow producer Lunice, which saw their production influence the A-list in rap and help reintroduce the US dance / EDM scene to Hip Hop as club music. In the two years following, Hudson has worked on releases from Drake, Kanye West, John Legend, Young Thug, Pusha-T, and Antony Hegarty. Despite becoming one of hip hop's go-to producers, to his avid fans he's never been tied to one genre – and with Lantern we hear the realization of everything he has been working on since that Glasgow bedroom.
" This album is everything I've been working towards. I wanted to make a classic – at least for me and my friends. I never wanted to be any genre. I wanted to be my own thing. Everything." – Hudson Mohawke
01. Lantern
02. Very First Breath (ft. Irfane)
03. Ryderz
04. Warriors (ft. Ruckazoid & Devaeux)
05. Kettles
06. Scud Books
07. Indian Steps (ft. Antony)
08. Lil Djembe
09. Deepspace (ft. Miguel)
10. Shadows
11. Resistance (ft. Jhené Aiko)
12. Portrait Of Luci
13. System
14. Brand New World
Fri, Mar 13 – Bloc Weekender – Minehead, UK
Sat, Mar 14 – Buku Music Festival (DJ) – New Orleans, LA
Tue, Mar 17 – Mohawk @ SXSW – Austin, TX
Thu, Mar 19 – Spotify House @ SXSW – Austin, TX
Thu, Mar 19 – AM Only BBQ @ SXSW – Austin, TX
Sat, Mar 21 – Hype Hotel @ SXSW – Austin, TX
TBA FADER FORT @ SXSW – Austin, TX
Sat, Mar 28 – RBMA Guest House, Sagamore Hotel – Miami, FL
Sat, Jun 06 – Field Day – London, UK
Sat, Jun 06 – XOYO – Field Day After-party – London, UK
Sun, Jun 07 – Parklife – Manchester, UK
Sat, Jun 20 – We Are Electric Outdoor – Eersel, Netherlands
Sat, Jun 27 – Mula Fest – Madrid, Spain
Fri, Jul 17 – Melt! Festival – Graefenhainchen, Germany
Sat, Jul 18 – Longitude – Marley Park, Ireland
Fri, Jul 24 – Fuji Rock – Niigata, Japan
Thu, Aug 20 – Pukkelpop Festival – Hasselt, Belgium
Fri, Aug 21 – Lowlands Festival – Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
Sat, Aug 22 – Positiv Festival – Montpellier, France
Fri, Aug 28 – Leeds Festival – Leeds, UK
Sun, Aug 30 – Reading Festival – Reading, UK


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"Witch hunt".
With each one, I've been looking at the disproportionality of the response. I talk about the consequences of someone's behavior, and I get compared to the great villains of the 20th and 21st centuries. It's always seemed like overkill.
Then I noticed that Michael Shermer has invoked Niemoller against me.
To date, I have stayed out of this witch hunt against our most prominent leaders, thinking that "this too shall pass." Perhaps I should have said something earlier. As Martin Niemoller famously warned about the inactivity of German intellectuals during the rise of the Nazi party, "first they came for…" but "I didn't speak out because I wasn't a…"
That was when it clicked. This isn't overkill per se. It's horrendously bad argumentation.
To quote someone whose words have likely been repeated more frequently than Niemoller's and likely with more understanding:
With great power comes great responsibility.
No, that's not Uncle Ben, at least not ultimately. That's Voltaire, talking (apparently) about French politicians.
Politicians. Government.
Look at that list of characterizations again. Six terms, four of them explicitly relating to governmentss. The other two relate to religious power, particularly in times and places where religion actively and effectively compete(d) with the state for control.
Control. Power.
We're not talking about happy democracies with power-sharing strategies either. What happened to opponents of the powers listed above? They had their livelihoods taken away. They were locked up and forced into labor. They died. They were killed.
That's the kind of power Michael Shermer and others and who have used those terms claim for me. It seemed bizarre until I realized that this was an argument about how I'm supposed to behave if I want to be allowed to continue in these movements.
You see, I'm supposed to be circumspect to the point of sitting on my hands when we talk about rules that could ever be misinterpreted or misused in any way–despite the fact that the lack of rules has been badly abused. I'm supposed to settle any difference I have with a public figure with closed-door diplomacy–despite the fact that they speak about me, individually or as part of a group, from stages and in magazines that function as the mouthpieces of organizations. I am ever supposed to hold my temper–despite the people who take to the airwaves to yell about me.
I'm being told I should act, not as though I were submissive, but as though I held all the power in the world.
Just a note: It isn't going to happen. If you want me to behave as though everything and everyone trembled in response to my whims, you're going to have to give me the unassailable power to make that happen. Then you'd have to convince me to take it. Frankly, I don't think anyone is offering.
That isn't to say I have no responsibility. I do have some power. Any piece I write here may (no guarantee) be read by thousands of people. Some smaller number of those people trust me enough that they don't click on links. Another subset relies on me to articulate their positions. I have a responsibility to get things right.
I have a greater responsibility to accurately represent any person I write or talk about, even if my audience is small. That's a direct responsibility, though it too scales with power. No one will go knocking on the door of someone because I get something wrong. I still work to get it right.
Of course, the people with more readers, listeners, viewers, and constituents have an even greater responsibility on these scores. The people who have a crowd of fans ready to harass (no, not criticize, not disagree with–harass) have a heightened responsibility to be accurate when they speak about me. They have power, even if it isn't power they asked for, especially when it is power they haven't tried to undermine by, say, telling people that the currently ongoing harassment is unacceptable.
My power, however, is quite limited, and any argument that relies on the idea that I have more than I do is flawed. If you can't explain how and why I'm awful without assigning me the massive political power I obviously don't have, I don't see your point. At that point, the most I am is persuasive. And if a best-selling author can't develop a more persuasive counter-argument than "You should act like you're a government", nobody's shaken my confidence in my own argument.
As I write this, Shermer's full article has been placed online. "Inquisition" is added to the list at the start of this post. He invokes, as others have before, the concept of "innocent until proven guilty", which is a check on governmental powers of prosecution. Similarly, I apparently have recourse to have someone "pilloried".
All Shermer's article tells me is that, if I were someone other than who I am, if I had power I do not have, I should behave differently than I do. It contains not one single statement about why I, a single, private individual, should not point out that his behavior has consequences for the participation of women in the atheist and skeptical movements. It gives no reasons why other individuals should not agree with me or why any of us should not express any emotion invoked by those consequences.
It contains not one argument relevant to the circumstances in which any of the criticisms he lists were made. It has a lot to say about governmental power, and it lists a bunch of things Shermer doesn't like. It makes no effort to explain the connection between the two.
Should those in the government, de jure or de facto, limit their behavior? Absolutely. So what?
I am not the government. Using words that claim I am does nothing to make me rethink my behavior. It only makes me wonder whether you have any valid argument at all. This one didn't cut it.
Image Credit: "The Pillory – Clink Museum" by Frankie Roberto. Some rights reserved.


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Benjamin Peirce position in Mathematics
The Benjamin Peirce positions application process takes place through Math Jobs for jobs starting 2020/2021.
The department of Mathematics at Harvard University welcomes application for a Benjamin Peirce Fellowship. The appointment, which has the status equivalent to an Assistant Professor, is for three years. The position comes with a competitive starting salary for the nine-month academic year, which usually can be augmented by teaching at the Summer School or by working on a research contract, if funds are available. The teaching commitment is three half courses per year, including a one-term course on a subject of the fellow's choice, if desired. The Benjamin Peirce Fellows are expected to take part in the usual task of advising students. A Doctorate in Mathematics is required by the time the appointment begins. Demonstrated excellence in teaching is desired.
The Department values diversity among its faculty, is committed to building a diverse intellectual community, and strongly encourages applications from women and minorities. Harvard is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Applications should be sent to: Benjamin Peirce Fellowship Hiring Committee, c/o Pamela Brentana, Department of Mathematics, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 and should include a letter of application, a CV, and teaching and research statements. In addition, three letters of recommendation should be sent to the Hiring Committee. However, we strongly encourage applicants to apply through MathJobs.org. Completed applications are due by December 1, 2019.