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Dolph Ziggler was a sole survivor, beat The Miz and Randy Orton, and has the top feud in WWE with John Cena. All in a week's worth.
Dolph Ziggler is coming off one of the biggest weeks in WWE in recent memory.
Last Sunday, he was the last man standing in the traditional Survivor Series match -- a match that involved always-strong-at-Survivor Series Randy Orton, among others.
Then on Monday Night Raw, Ziggler cut one of the best promos in awhile -- from anyone -- when he was talking to AJ Lee. That was followed by a superb lockerroom brawl and a huge push for Ziggler vs. John Cena.
On Wednesday on Main Event, Ziggler beat The Miz in a superb match. First, Ziggler (and The Miz) dished out yet another great promo. Ziggler's dropkick and backflip to the outside of The Miz were match highlights in this brawl of two egos. There was also a sick-looking collision, finished off by a steel turnbuckle hit into the pin and a Ziggler victory.
On Friday on Smackdown, Ziggler beat Randy Orton in another superb match. It featured a dropkick on the outside of the ring. After an always-solid superplex by Orton, there was a solid rollup and hold of the tights on an RKO counter for the pinfall.
On Main Event, it was implied Ziggler is scared to cash in his Money in the Bank contract.
I look at it another way. Ziggler is waiting to cash it in on the biggest stage of them all.
There's too much going on with Ziggler the next few months. Right now, he's in a feud with Cena.
CM Punk and The Rock are will soon be battling for the WWE title.
I expect Ziggler to cash in at WrestleMania. He's that important to the future of WWE.
WWE Main Event
JBL and Michael Cole are shown up close. REACT: Usually, we see the Main Event announcers in the ring. This was a 360. They were too close to the monitor.
Dolph Ziggler beats The Miz. REACT: See above.
Wade Barrett beats Justin Gabriel. REACT: Gabriel's quickness is overshadowed by his high-flying moves.
Damien Sandow cuts promo on John Cena. REACT: I liked this "disease to purge" and "false idol" promo.
ANALYSIS: Great show. GRADE: B+.
TNA Wrestling
Wes Brisco beats Garett Bischoff. REACT: I like Kurt Angle paired as Brisco's friend. It was strange having friends Brisco-Bischoff face off, but it worked. Despite a slow tempo, it was a decent match with a solid rollup finish.
Chavo Guerrero beats Joey Ryan. REACT: Ryan's tag-team promo was solid. Match had decent pace. Ryan's dropkick was strong. Matt Morgan run-in DQ didn't bother me.
Austin Aries' promo. REACT: I liked his gut check, reality check comment.
Sam Shaw beats Alex Silva. REACT: Solid match, with a strong legdrop off the rope finisher.
Hulk Hogan/Eric Young segment. REACT: Hogan's "I want to be him when I grow up" comment about Young was funny.
Aces & Eights clips. REACT: Average.
Jeff Hardy beats Christian York. REACT: Credible opponent in York, as the athleticism and counters between these two delivered. Nice match time and pace. It almost seems like a big York push is necessary, though.
Robert Roode beats down Hardy. REACT: Solid.
Knockout Champion Tara beats Taeler Hendrix. REACT: Taeler dished out some solid headbutts and jabs to the face. Sad that Tara needed a distraction from Jesse Godderz to win.
Eric Young (with ODB) beats Jesse Godderz and Robbie E in the Turkey Suit Challenge. REACT: Young wrestling the referee always makes me laugh. Match pace didn't work for me. Yes, the referee was Stifler. Young beating Godderz wasn't a shock.
Aces and Eights beats down Eric Young. REACT: This was teased earlier, so it didn't shock me. What shocked me was Young getting no help.
AJ Styles beats Kazarian. REACT: Kazarian's flying DDT leap was superb. Love the Pele kick pin. Expected more from these two, though.
Austin Aries calls out Brooke Hogan? REACT: This came out of nowhere, and it was clearly the best part of the show. Aries had a superb promo. The Brooke Trump and Brooke McMahon lines were awesome, and it nicely led to the Miss Bully Ray and BullyManiacs lines. The turkey and stuffing line was a little overboard, but this isn't WWE PG.
ANALYSIS: The matches were slightly above average. However, there were too many Gut Check wrestlers on this show. The new Brooke Hogan-Bully Ray story line, introduced by Aries, is awesome. It's kind of creepy that Brooke and Bully Ray are an item in the story lines, but I think that's part of the point. GRADE: B.
WWE Smackdown
John Cena on MizTV. REACT: A little busy as AJ Lee, Dolph Ziggler and Vickie Guerrero came on board. WWE PG is dead with comments like "nuts."
Ryback beats Darren Young. REACT: Sad squash. Ryback then going over Titus O'Neil was surprising.
R-Truth beats Antonio Cesaro. Quick match. Too quick.
Alberto Del Rio beats Sin Cara. REACT: Slow pace picked up and finished as a solid match.
Kane said "Team No Show" to Daniel Bryan. REACT: Funny.
Kane to beat up Santa Claus. REACT: WWE PG. Dead.
Big Show beats Kane and Daniel Bryan. REACT: Sadly, match was thrown upon us. Great top-rope leap by Big Show. Strong match, though, with a surprising 2-on-1 winner.
Kofi Kingston beats Damien Sandow (with Wade Barrett on commentary). REACT: Kingston into the post was solid. Nice match brawl. Kingston's high fly leap was great. Barrett's post-match promo was superb.
Ziggler beats Orton. REACT: See above. Smart to push Alberto Del Rio-Orton post-match.
ANALYSIS: Outside of Ziggler-Orton, nothing superb. But nothing too horrible either, although some questionable match results. GRADE: C.
New NXT group of Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns may be called The Shield. REACT: Some of these names just don't work.
Kaitlyn, according to a recent traffic violation, is actually 5-foot-5 and 145 pounds and not what WWE bills her as 5-foot-6 and 135 pounds. REACT: Not surprising.
3MB's Heath Slater, Jinder Mahal and Drew McIntyre asking fans where to go out in cities they have shows at. REACT: Brilliant. I wonder if they actually go there.
Is it John Cena or CM Punk who spoke out against WWE's product. REACT: I think both.
CM Punk to beat The Rock at the Royal Rumble and face Undertaker at WrestleMania XXIX, with The Rock facing John Cena again? REACT: Unlikely, at least I hope so.
Cody Rhodes said there is "no such thing as a push." REACT: Wrong.
Mick Foley's career done? REACT: Doubtful.
50th anniversary of WWE title in 2013. REACT: More reason not to have The Rock win.
John Cena and AJ Lee vs. Vickie Guerrero and Dolph Ziggler? REACT: That would make the most sense, but to make it watchable, expect Tamina Snuka to be in for Vickie.


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Two images attest to Sara Bloomfield's success as director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — one clearly visible, the other hidden from sight.
The obvious marker of Bloomfield's success can be found daily alongside the museum's starkly designed building, where, even 20 years after its opening, lengthy lines of visitors snake for blocks. The museum has become a must-see attraction on Washington's National Mall.
The other sign, noticed by only those closely following the institute's short history, is what's missing: blaring headlines announcing new controversies about the museum's operation.
That's in marked contrast to the Holocaust museum's turbulent early years. And many observers credit Bloomfield with this achievement.
Bloomfield, said Michael Berenbaum, a prominent Holocaust scholar who conceptualized and created the content of the museum's permanent exhibition, brought "stability and leadership that were not there before."
At the time of the museum's 1993 opening, no one envisioned that Bloomfield, then a midlevel manager there, would one day head it, much less head it for the majority of its next two decades. An administrator whose expertise lay in operations rather than in academic research, Bloomfield lacked the name recognition of her more illustrious predecessors.
"On paper, people could say she is not the right person to run the museum," said Deborah Lipstadt, professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Emory University. "But what the museum needed was not a scholar but a real good administrator and fundraiser. She is a great administrator who is modest enough not to make a pretense of being a scholar."
The museum, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, was a focus of controversy even before its inauguration. Its roots lay in the decision by President Jimmy Carter to establish the President's Commission on the Holocaust, under the chairmanship of Elie Wiesel, to recommend an appropriate national memorial of the Holocaust. The commission's recommendation, to establish a museum in Washington, sparked heated debate. Unlike most of the other federal museums in the nation's capital, this one would not deal with an explicit aspect of the American experience, but with an atrocity committed by a foreign nation against its own citizens and nationals of other foreign nations, and all on foreign soil an ocean away.
Nevertheless, Congress voted unanimously in 1980 to establish the museum on the National Mall, on 1.9 acres of land adjacent to the Washington Monument. And the presidentially appointed United States Holocaust Memorial Council ultimately raised $190 million from private, mostly Jewish sources to supplement federal appropriations of $53 million to make the museum a reality.
Some in the community at the time questioned whether this large commitment of funds was the best use of Jewish philanthropic resources. But time and the enormous crowds of mostly non-Jews from across the nation that have thronged the institution have pretty much settled that debate.
Since its opening, on April 26, 1993, after a dedication by President Clinton and Wiesel, nearly 35 million people have visited the museum. The institution has also won recognition as one of the world's top Holocaust research institutes.
Bloomfield's life story did not prepare her for the task of heading up such a morally fraught historical museum. She grew up in Cleveland with no family connection to the Holocaust. Her first encounter with anti-Semitism, she recalled in a July 12 interview with the Forward, was after graduating as an English major and teaching school children in Australia. She assigned the students a reading of Wiesel's Holocaust memoir, "Night." When discussing the book, she revealed to the class she was Jewish, and the response shocked her.
"They asked, 'How can you be Jewish, because you're so normal?' and, 'How can you be Jewish, because you're so nice?' and, 'How can you be Jewish, because you're an American?'" she said. A few students found it hard to talk with her after learning she was Jewish. "It was a big moment for my life," she said, "but I don't think that [was what] set me on a path [to] devote my life to the Holocaust."
Bloomfield, 63, joined the Holocaust museum project in its early planning stages in 1986, and when it opened she was in charge of educational programs.
But the early years of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum were characterized by high-profile fault-lines. Today, Bloomfield dismisses them as "growing pains." Some stemmed from the inherent tensions between lay leaders and survivors, including Wiesel, on one side and the professional staff on the other. Other sources of tension were related to the difficulty the institution encountered in defining itself, both to its supporters and to the general public.
Survivors and leaders of the Jewish community viewed it primarily as a memorial to the killing of 6 million Jews and, in some ways, given the sources of its financial support, as a quasi-Jewish institution; Congress saw it as an American institution telling an American story; human rights activists wanted the museum to focus on preventing future acts resembling the Holocaust, and academics saw it as an opportunity to establish a well-funded research and archive center.
Even the issue of the museum's schedule was contentious. To the consternation of its Jewish backers, the museum's initial plan was to close only on Christmas Day, the same as many other institutions on the National Mall, and to remain open, as a secular American institution, on Jewish holidays. Eventually, the board agreed to also close on Yom Kippur.
Global politics also played a role, most notably in 1998, when State Department officials seeking to advance the Middle East peace process asked museum board members to invite Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to visit the museum. It was a move supported by some as a step toward Arafat's education and denounced by others as an effort to mitigate his image among many Jews as a terrorist motivated by anti-Semitism.
The museum's director at the time, Walter Reich — a psychiatrist and writer on the Holocaust who was born in Poland to parents in hiding from the Nazis — objected to the invitation, while the chairman of the museum's governing council, Miles Lerman, who was a survivor of the Holocaust and a Jewish anti-Nazi resistance fighter in wartime Poland, supported it. The invitation became a political hot potato that was revoked, reinstated and finally declined by Arafat as the furor grew.
One month later, with a push from Lerman, Reich was ousted as director.
Reich himself had taken the post in 1995, only after the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council's first choice, Cornell University professor Steven Katz, was forced to publicly withdraw before he took office, when The Washington Post disclosed that Cornell University had imposed disciplinary measures on him for misrepresenting his accomplishments and improperly taking a job while on paid leave from the university.
The appointment of Bloomfield, whom the Holocaust Memorial Council promoted quickly after Reich's abrupt departure, marked the end of such public dramas. Indeed, steering the museum to calmer waters virtually defined Bloomfield's first mission once she took over.
"The proof is in the pudding: How well is the institution run?" Bloomfield replies when asked about those who questioned her lack of professional background in the field of Holocaust research or her lack of a personal background involving the Holocaust. "I leave it to people to judge my record on what's happened here since 1999."
Fred Zeidman, who served as chair of the Holocaust Memorial Council from 2002 to 2010, is unreserved in his evaluation of Bloomfield's record since her ascension. "She's an example of choosing someone who is not from the field but ends up being the most talented one," he said.
Overcoming internal strife has allowed Bloomfield to focus on expanding the museum's outreach and the scope of its work. Getting visitors to enter the museum gates was never a problem, and the permanent exhibition (which has not been changed since the opening) and special exhibits have been seen widely as the best in their field. In recent years, however, the museum has increased its efforts to reach audiences outside the Washington building by developing the museum's website as a leading global resource on the Holocaust.
Bloomfield is also working hard to add to and enhance the museum's collection of Holocaust-related documents and artifacts. Keenly aware that Holocaust survivors, who have always been a key part of the museum's ability to communicate its story, are now dying off, she terms this effort "now our absolutely No. 1 priority."
"We know that when all the eye witnesses are gone, the collection will be the sole authentic witness to the Holocaust," Bloomfield said.
The museum has also increased significantly its investment in research under Bloomfield's direction. She negotiated the opening and sharing of Nazi-era documents from the International Tracing Service, in Bad Arolsen, Germany, helping establish the Holocaust museum as a prime resource for historians and researchers.
The conflicts that once bedeviled the museum's dual mission — memorializing the mass slaughter of Eastern European Jewry on the one hand and serving as a research institute devoted to examining the universal problem of hate and genocide through the lens of the Holocaust on the other — have largely subsided in recent years. Bloomfield herself believes it was always a false dichotomy. The institution she heads succeeds in both paying respect to the Jewish Holocaust and provoking thought about its causes and current-day parallels, she said. Bloomfield pointed to the museum's ongoing programs with law enforcement and military officers as a sign of its relevance in "building a moral compass" for those on America's frontlines.
But when it comes to the museum's lesser-known role, as a center for current-day genocide prevention, achievements are harder to find. The museum has served as the main venue for speeches, including by President Obama in April 2012, about the need to ensure that genocides do not take place. It has compiled a report detailing precursors to genocide and measures that can be taken to deal with them. But still, atrocities in Rwanda and Darfur have taken place in the past two decades with hardly any effort by the United States or the international community to intervene — a theme that is also highlighted in the museum's treatment of the Holocaust.
"Was there any institution that succeeded in preventing genocide?" asked Berenbaum, who immediately answered his own question: "No."
Bloomfield would not say whether she views the current situation in Syria, where more than 100,000 people have been killed in a bloody civil war, as genocide. The role of the museum when it comes to Syria and other cases of human rights abuses, she argued, is to educate, not to advocate policy. Zeidman even recalled that during his tenure as chairman of the museum, he received numerous requests regarding recognition of genocides, including one that talked about the "genocide of the unborn child."
Of the many challenges Bloomfield has faced as director of the Holocaust museum, nothing equaled the experience of June 10, 2009. Bloomfield and Zeidman were at a meeting on Capitol Hill, when their phones rang with the notice that an armed attacker had entered the museum and shot one of the guards. They rushed back, as roads closed and police helicopters circled the museum, only to learn that special police officer Stephen Tyrone Johns had been killed while trying to stop James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist, from carrying out an attack in the museum.
"It was, without a doubt, the worst day in my career here, and probably, other than losing members of my own family, the worst day of my life," said Bloomfield, who has since stayed in touch with Johns's widow. Bloomfield choked up when she recalled the outpour of support from the public after the incident. "The question was: 'Will the public show up? Will the public be scared away?' But not only did they show up, but they showed up in extraordinary numbers, and it was a great testament to what we stand for and what this country stands for."
Bloomfield's latest goal is establishing a $540 million endowment fund to secure the future of the museum, which is roughly equally funded both federally and privately. In 2012, the museum received $50 million in federal appropriations and $40 million in private donations. As the struggle for federal dollars becomes increasingly tough, private donations are needed to expand the museum's activity. Most of the donations so far have come from the Jewish community.
As for her personal future, Bloomfield has no plans for change. Colleagues and friends have noted her total devotion to the institution. Bloomfield insists that "as long as the United States Holocaust Memorial Council wants me, and I am healthy to do it, I would like to be able to serve."
Contact Nathan Guttman at firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter, @nathanguttman
Holocaust Museum Turns 20 as Sara Bloomfield Ends Controversies
Nathan Guttman
Nathan Guttman, staff writer, was the Forward's Washington bureau chief. He joined the staff in 2006 after serving for five years as Washington correspondent for the Israeli dailies Haaretz and The Jerusalem Post. In Israel, he was the features editor for Ha'aretz and chief editor of Channel 1 TV evening news. He was born in Canada and grew up in Israel. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.


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The Australian dollar hit a new three-month low as Asian markets remain closed due to Lunar New Year public holidays.
At 1200 AEDT on Tuesday, the local unit was trading at 102.59 US cents, down from 103.01 cents on Monday.
The currency fell to 102.48 US cents on Tuesday morning, its lowest level since October.
Stephen Dooley, head of research at ForexCT, said the currency had fallen sharply following the Reserve Bank of Australia's February board meeting last Tuesday.
The RBA kept the cash rate on hold but, in a statement accompanying the decision, said it had room to cut further if necessary.
Mr Dooley said the tone of the statement was more dovish than the market had expected.
"We've fallen from 104.80 US cents to 102.50 cents, a fall of more than 200 points, and it all stems from last week's RBA statement," he said.
"They hinted they might cut rates a little more and that's seen the Australian dollar move pretty sharply lower over the last week and a half."
Mr Dooley said he expected the Australian dollar to drop further over the next week, to 101.70 US cents against the greenback.
"The Australian dollar has been trading in a range - every time it comes down to 101.70 US cents it's a big buying opportunity, and every time it goes up to 106 US cents it's seen as a selling opportunity, and that's a pattern we've been in since July," he said.
As the dollar headed downwards, Mr Dooley said there was a possibility it would return to parity with the US dollar later this year.
The Australian bond market was also weaker at noon.
At 1200 AEDT on Tuesday, the March 10-year bond futures contract was trading at 96.545 (implying a yield of 3.455 per cent), down from 96.580 (3.420 per cent) on Monday.
The March three-year bond futures contract was at 97.190 (2.810 per cent), down from 97.230 (2.770 per cent).


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World's Observatories Watching 'Cool' Star
The dying star, a white dwarf identified as WDJ1524-0030, located in the constellation Ophiuchus in the southern sky, is losing its brightness as it cools, its nuclear fuel spent. It will be monitored continuously from May 15 to June 11 by WET, a global partnership of telescopes which was formed in 1986.
Like an international relay team, observers at Mt. Cuba Observatory in Greenville, Del., will focus on and photograph the white dwarf until sunrise, and then observers at McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, Texas, and at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Ariz., will stand watch while the star is in their sky, followed by observers in New Zealand, Australia, China, and so on, around the globe.
The thousands of photographs of the white dwarf taken by WET will be e-mailed to the command center at Mt. Cuba Observatory staffed by University of Delaware researchers, for archiving and eventual analysis using the fledgling science of "star quakes" known as asteroseismology.
"A white dwarf is the size of the Earth and as dense as the sun. This star pulsates or quakes as waves of energy travel through it -- its outer surface sloshes from side to side, like waves on the ocean," says Judi Provencial, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at UD and director of the Delaware Asteroseismic Research Center (DARC).
"What is of interest to scientists is the shape of the pulses," Provencal notes. "From them, we can measure how the atmosphere is moving around in these pulsating stars and figure out what's going on inside them. This one is really sloshing around."


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Anarchy and Lawlessnessby James E. Miller
Jan. 22, 2014
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Tavern Owners Press Charges Against Mayor Who Desecrated Confederate Flags
The etymology of the word "anarchy" is interesting. In Greek, "an" signifies an antonym, and stands for "without." The second root word "arkhe" means ruler and/or kingdom. Put together, that defines anarchy as "without rulers." For politics, no other word has come to be more dangerous. Anarchy as a concept threatens the very existence of politics as we know it. If there are no rulers, then there is certainly no governing authority by which to commandeer. This is why the term is still largely painted as a chaotic state of being, with every man fighting for himself.
Just as ideas are weapons for discovering or obfuscating the truth, words are potent for dispelling uncomfortable notions. Anarchy has long been used as a descriptor of mayhem for the layman. It has been used as a political label to identify radicals. The word has been constructed into a boogeyman to scare the faint-of-heart into compliance. Governments never tire of filling the public's collective head with images of barbarians at the gate, knocking to be let in and unleash bloody disarray. This whole paradigm of propaganda is called "anarchy" and it's fed to youngsters to inspire adoration of state authority.
It certainly doesn't help that radical, terrorists-leaning groups have called themselves anarchists in the past. The infamous punks who tossed bricks through the windows of Starbucks wore the banner of anarchy. Their beef was apparently with the tyranny of coffee conglomerates. That probably explains why destructive "anarchism" never caught on as a mass movement. If your idea of change constitutes destroying the livelihood of the downtrodden, the oppressed think twice about taking your side.
Lucky for actual anarchists, the destructive hoodlums who dress in all black and whine incessantly about Walmart's despotism are not purveyors of the philosophy, but petulant children. Destroying private property is not true philosophical anarchism. And the idea of an orderless society does not constitute anarchy. To the contrary, the core of libertarianism (what anarchy really is) does not deny law and order. It is only in a free society that the Law is held up as absolute, or at least to the extent flawed human beings can manage. The state, with its monopoly on legal force and violence, often flouts prevailing moral norms with little consequences.
Case in point: the recent verdict exonerating police officers in California who beat a schizophrenic homeless man to death. The murder – which was most definitely a conscious effort to render harm – would have ordinarily been charged a homicide had it been committed by a civilian. Instead, the simian-like protectors of the public got off scott-free for their transgression. There was no law. There was no order. Just a protectionist racket shielding certain individuals from the consequences of their immoral actions.
The whole gruesome incident occurred over two years ago after police received a tip concerning car vandalization. The responding shock troopers approached the alleged vandal Kelly Thomas and proceeded to pummel him endlessly. The aggressing officers first maintained they tried to search Thomas, who put up a fight. Video evidence emerged that contradicted the fabricated story. Thomas was compliant and obliging toward the "peace" officers. They repaid his compliance by serving him the Taser treatment five times and issuing a baton beating so horrendous, it left the victim an unrecognizable bloody mess. Thomas's last, pleading words before he lapsed into a fatal coma were, "Dad help me....God help me....Help me."
Years later, two of the accused public "servants" were found not guilty in a government courtroom. Thomas's father, the man identified in his son's dying plea, decried the verdict by asking "[W]here do we really find justice any more in our justice system?" The correct answer is: the prospect for real justice is slim to nil under the state's monopoly of law. As Anthony Gregory writes, it's "the nature of the state that acts that would be considered criminal if conducted by private individuals are legal if done by the government."
The great conservative thinker Russell Kirk advocated for liberty to the extent that society did not fall "into anarchy." For Kirk and his disciples, anarchy was incapable of lasing as it was "intolerable for everyone." It's from the fear of a tumultuous society where the conservative case for order arose. Man was made to be free but it's tough to exercise this freedom if crooks and muggers run afoul, committing crimes in impunity. This Hobbesian state of nature is the trope most used to discount the validity of anarchy's supposed lawlessness.
But here we are in a world populated by a multitude of states run by sociopaths. In a society where order and law are respected, the cops who beat Kelly Thompson into a lethal coma would be brought to justice. Anarchy does not deny the Law. It only holds that no person or persons can subvert it through the use of meaningless labels. As Rothbard writes, in a truly free society "there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of an individual."
Thompson's death was not a one-off incident caused by ignorance or accident. It was the logical result of men empowered to coerce without ramification. The same goes for eighteen-year-old Keith Vidal, a schizophrenic teenager recently gunned down in his own home by police who found it best to kill instead of subduing. Vidal was suffering from a breakdown and was threatening his mother. When police arrived, they saw fit to hold him down and end his life with a point-blank shot. One of the "protect and serve" officers reportedly declared "I don't have time for this" before killing the teenager. According to Vidal's stepfather "Keith was not threatening anybody... [he] was flat out murdered, there was no need for deadly force."
If history is any guide, the killer officers will not be brought to justice. The North Carolina government has promised an investigation into the murder. If I had to place a bet on the fruits of this inquiry, my chips would be placed on rottenness. The officers may be relieved of duty – with a taxpayer-funded payoff to boot – but they will not be punished accordingly for their crimes.
If a casual observer were ignorant, he may declare the needless murder of a mentally handicapped teenager proof of anarchy's existence. But of course he would be wrong. Under the state, there is already a caste of individuals who act "without leaders" and without regard to the Law. These men call themselves the government. They don't govern by upholding rationally-defined ethics. Rather, they govern with boots and clubs, with the occasional bullet thrown in the mix. If that's not the common definition of anarchy, then proponents of the state have some explaining to do.
James E. Miller is editor-in-chief of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada. Send him mail


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You can find impressive Indian designer salwar suits and Pakistani salwar kameez in the US. When it comes to looking for salwar kameez online usa then you will notice that there are many new styles available. For example, some designer salwar kameez styles come in high-slit style. Then there are other salwar suits available online in the USA that resemble a lehenga. Sharara style salwar kameez is becoming extremely popular too and so is palazzo style salwar. Straight cut salwar kameez styles in the US are becoming a favourite because of their no-nonsense vibe and style. Jacket style salwar kameez is another variant that is popular for formal and traditional attire.
When you buy salwar kameez online in the USA, you will notice that there are many fabrics you can choose from. Some salwars can be made with a different fabric than the kameez. Sometimes, the salwar suits are made with crepe or cotton. This is the case for simple salwar kameez suits. Crepe is one of the fabrics that is used to make salwar kameez suits. It has a distinct bumpy appearance. Crepe can be created with natural fibres or synthetic fibres. Cotton is the most common fabric used to make salwar kameez because of its breathability, durability, softness, and ability to hold a dye well.
Some Indian salwar kameez styles are made of silk. For example, if you buy churidars online especially party wear suits then you will notice they are in silk or georgette. Churidars or other suits in silk have a luxurious feel and look amazing. They give an elegant appeal which makes them a popular choice for salwar kameez. Georgette is another popular choice which comes under the crepe type fabric. Georgette is lightweight and sheer and is often a comfortable fabric. There are different types of georgette such as the silk georgette that resembles the silk chiffon.
When To Wear It
It has become quite easy to buy salwar kameez online because of salwar kameez sales online. Salwar kameez is a versatile clothing option and you can wear it as casual wear, formal wear, and party wear depending on the type. The salwar kameez with simple designs can be worn to work when you don't want to be the centre of attention. The designer and heavy work salwar kameez can be worn to special occasions.
Washing and storing tips
Always check the salwar kameez labels before you wash it. There are different ways of washing and storing your clothes depending on the fabric used to make the salwar kameez. Some luxury fabrics need to be taken care of in a different way than normal fabrics such as cotton. If a blended fabric has been used, then consider that as well. For example, cotton can be washed by hand, dry cleaned or machine washed. The composition and the fabric's color on the salwar kameez should determine the best washing method. If there are any stains on your salwar kameez then it is best to get rid of those before you wash them.


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*Evans, Barbara Jean. ''The New A to Zax: A Comprehensive Genealogical Dictionary for Genealogists and Historians''. Second Edition. Champaign, Illinois: B. J. Evans, 1990. (Family History Library book {{FHL|530737|title-id|disp=973 D26e}}.) Gives archaic, occupational, and legal definitions. Includes a list of nicknames.
*Evans, Barbara Jean. ''The New A to Zax: A Comprehensive Genealogical Dictionary for Genealogists and Historians''. Second Edition. Champaign, Illinois: B. J. Evans, 1990. (Family History Library book {{FHL|530737|title-id|disp=973 D26e}}.) Gives archaic, occupational, and legal definitions. Includes a list of nicknames.
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The [http://www..org/ National Center for State Courts ]has created a web site for ease in finding information about and address of individual state courts.
There are three main types of legal cases you may find in court records.
There are three main types of legal cases you may find in court records.
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Court records are usually searched after other records have already been investigated, but they should not be overlooked. Court records can establish family relationships and places of residence. They often provide occupations, descriptions of individuals, and other excellent family history information. Watch a class about U.S. Court Records.
Many of your ancestors' names will be found in court records—perhaps as defendants, plaintiffs, witnesses, or jurors. They may have participated in cases involving:
|Appointment to public offices
|Civil and criminal lawsuits
|Property disputes
Many other matters brought before a court.
Because of their great importance to family history research, United States Probate Records and United States Naturalization and Citizenship are discussed separately. Divorces are discussed under United states vital records.
Unfortunately, court records tend to be difficult to use. The records are usually not well-indexed, there are many records, court names and jurisdictions changed, and they use many legal terms and abbreviations. To interpret court records you may need to consult a dictionary, such as:
- Black, Henry Campbell. Black's Law Dictionary. Sixth Edition. St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing, 1990. (Family History Library book 340.03 B564L 1990.)
- Evans, Barbara Jean. The New A to Zax: A Comprehensive Genealogical Dictionary for Genealogists and Historians. Second Edition. Champaign, Illinois: B. J. Evans, 1990. (Family History Library book 973 D26e.) Gives archaic, occupational, and legal definitions. Includes a list of nicknames.
The National Center for State Courts has created a web site for ease in finding information about and address of individual state courts.
There are three main types of legal cases you may find in court records.
Civil. These cases involve violation of laws when an individual (but not society) is harmed, such as property damage, trespass, or libel. In these cases, one or more individuals file suit against other individuals to enforce private rights or to receive compensation for violation of rights.
Equity. These involve disputes or arguments between individuals and do not involve violation of laws. In these cases, individuals petition the court to reach a fair decision for both parties. Examples of equity action are cases involving probates of estates and property rights. Today this function is mostly handled by civil courts.
Criminal. These involve the violation of laws in which society is or may be harmed, such as drunk driving, theft, or murder. In these cases, the state (or "the people") file suit against the defendant. Serious crimes are felonies. Minor crimes are misdemeanors.
The United States has a dual judicial system. The federal (national) courts only try cases involving violations of the U.S. Constitution or federal statutory law. These are usually criminal cases.
The state court systems try both criminal and civil cases involving a state's constitution, laws, statutes, and local customs. Most civil cases and many criminal cases are tried in state courts. Most equity cases are tried in county or local courts.
Major Types of Court Records
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Dockets. Often called court calendars, these are lists of cases heard by the court. Dockets usually list the names of the plaintiff and defendant, the date the case was heard, the case file number, and all the documents related to the case. They are usually in chronological, not alphabetical, order, but they may be indexed. They serve as a table of contents to the case files.
Minutes. These are brief daily accounts kept by the clerk of the court of all actions taken by the court. They usually include the names of the plaintiff and defendant and a brief description of the action taken. They are in chronological order and are seldom indexed.
Orders. These are the specific judgments or orders of the court. They usually include a brief description of the case and the judgment to be carried out. Some court actions recorded in court orders—such as orders granting citizenship, appointments of guardians, and re-recording of deeds to replace destroyed land records—are not found in any other court records.
Case Files. These generally contain the most helpful family information. A case file consists of a packet or bundle of all the loose documents relating to the case, such as the copies of evidence, testimony, bonds, depositions, correspondence, and petitions. To find a case file, obtain a case file number from the docket, the minutes, or an index.
Federal Courts[edit | edit source]
The federal court system began in 1789. A federal district court was established in each state. As the population grew, some states were divided into two or more districts. There are presently 89 districts in the 50 states. The district courts usually had jurisdiction over federal civil and equity cases, with limited criminal jurisdiction until 1866. Their jurisdiction has included admiralty, trade, bankruptcy, land seizure, naturalization, and, after 1815, non-capital criminal cases.
Three federal circuits were established to cover the whole country in 1789. The number gradually expanded to nine by 1866. Federal circuit courts had jurisdiction over all matters (especially criminal) covered by federal law. They also had some appellate functions from the district courts. In 1891, U.S. circuit courts of appeal were created to hear appeals from the district courts. They had the same boundaries (or circuits) as the circuit courts. The original circuit courts retained limited powers that often overlapped those of the district courts. In 1911 the original circuit courts were abolished.
To learn more about federal courts and their records of genealogical value, see The Archives: A Guide to National Archives Field Branches (described in the United States Archives and Libraries).
To determine the counties located in a District or Circuit Court by state, click here United States District Court Jurisdictions.
State and Local Courts[edit | edit source]
Each state has the equivalent of a state supreme court and its own system of local courts, usually organized within counties or districts. Each court has jurisdiction over designated geographical areas and specific types of legal matters. The names and responsibilities of the courts in each state have changed and evolved throughout the years.
To learn about the courts where your ancestor lived, consult the "Court Records" section of the appropriate state research articles. You may need to contact a local courthouse to learn about the courts that have served in that area.
Locating United States Court Records[edit | edit source]
Some states and counties are microfilming their early court records or gathering them to central locations, such as the state archives. Most court records, however, are still at the local courthouses. You can usually request photocopies or search the indexes or dockets for the time period and surnames you need and, after obtaining a case file number, request photocopies of the complete case file.
Some court records and indexes have been printed. These are often summaries or abstracts of the records rather than the complete records. Many of the early court records of the original colonies and some later states have been published in various series called "archives," such as the Pennsylvania Archives (see the state research articles).
The Family History Library has copies of many of the published records and indexes. The library also has microfilm copies of indexes, minutes, dockets, and orders from many local courthouses. The library does not generally acquire copies of the complete case files or packets. You can find further information about court records in research articles available for each state. The holdings of the Family History Library are normally listed in the Place Search of the Family History Library Catalog under one of the following:
The records of most pre-1950 federal district and circuit federal courts are collected by the National Archives regional branch that serves the area. Records of the Supreme Court are indexed in the Supreme Court Digest. Records of the U.S. circuit courts of appeal are indexed in the Federal Digest. These publications are available at most law libraries and federal repository libraries. The Family History Library has copies of a few federal court records. For details about federal court records see:
- Sourcebook of Federal Courts: U.S. District and Bankruptcy. Public Record Research Library. Tempe, Arizona: BRB Publications, 1993. (Family History Library book 973 P2fc.) Explains court structure, record keeping, record searching, state-by-state districts, counties covered, addresses, telephone numbers, indexing information, and search fees.
- Szucs, Loretto Dennis, and Sandra Luebking. The Archives: A Guide to the National Archives Field Branches. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry Publishing, 1988. (Family History Library book 973 A3sz.) Pages 94-122 give federal court history and structure, record content and types, arrangement, finding aids, state-by-state location of records, and microfilm collections of court records at regional branches.
The Virtual Chase is a website for Teaching Legal Professionals How To Do Research.The resources listed help find criminal records. Many provide records about convictions only. Be aware: There is no national criminal database available to those outside of law enforcement. Conducting a criminal background history requires manual research in the county or counties where the individual lives or has resided.
Court Records by State[edit | edit source]
Adoption Records[edit | edit source]
Many adoptees desire to identify their birth parents. This information is found in adoption records kept by a court, but these records are usually sealed and can be obtained only for good reason by getting a court order. These modern court records are not available at the Family History Library. You will need legal assistance to request a court order. You can also contact one of the many organizations that have been established in most states to assist adoptees. Further suggestions and addresses, including suggestions for locating missing persons, are in:
- Askin, Jayne. Search: A Handbook for Adoptees and Birthparents. Second Edition. Phoenix, Arizona: Oryx Press, 1992. (Family History Library book 973 D27aj 1992.)
- Klunder, Virgil L. Lifeline: The Action Guide to Adoption Search. Cape Coral, Florida: Caradium Publishing, 1991. (Family History Library book 973 D27kL.)
For the most up-to-date information about people who can search this kind of court record contact:
- People Searching News
P.O. Box 22611
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33335-2611
Telephone: 407-768-2222
Related Content[edit | edit source]
- Anne Roach, Courthouse Records Overview (35 minute online video)
- FamilySearch Research Classes Online.
- http://userdb.rootsweb.ancestry.com/courtrecords/ Site has court records for numerous and various states and counties. Searchable by surname and state.


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They will be painting the snow and the bellies of their penguins next week. The week after that, they will be learning about a career in art, Fashion Design! We will talk about the clothes we are all wearing, the fabrics they are made with, and the colors and designs we see too. We will talk about Fashion Design and how everything we wear was first planned by an artist. Students will be asked to design a "one of a kind" fashionable hat for their penguins. They will cut and glue their hats in place to make sure their penguins are ready for the snow that will be falling soon. Be sure to check our Artsonia gallery soon so you can see their finished Penguins sporting their fashionable hats!
Here is the link to our B.A. Artsonia gallery if you would like to see other artworks by B.A. students: http://www.artsonia.com/schools/school.asp?id=1620


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Houston-based Martha Turner Properties, a decades-old residential real estate firm known for selling many of Houston's luxury homes, has been acquired by Sotheby's International Realty Inc. of New York.
The new firm will operate as Martha Turner Sotheby's International Realty. Its six local offices and more than 220 associates will be retained in the deal.
Founder Martha Turner and her business partner Tom Anderson will continue to lead the Houston operations, taking roles as co-presidents of the company.
"Under the leadership of Martha and Tom, Martha Turner Properties has earned a reputation as the most successful independent real estate brokerage in Houston and one of the nation's most highly productive residential real estate firms," Kathryn Korte, president and CEO of Sotheby's International Realty said in a statement.
This is the first acquisition for Sotheby's in the Texas market. Terms were not disclosed.
Turner co-founded Turner Owens Real Estate in 1981. That firm led to the formation of Martha Turner Properties in 1986.
The deal comes at time of significant growth in the local real estate market.
Martha Turner Properties said it had its strongest year ever in 2013 with more than $2 billion in closed sales volume. According to the REAL Trends 500, Martha Turner Properties ranked as No. 8 in the nation in 2012, based on closed sales volume per agent, with an average of more than $7 million per agent.
"Our commitment to Houston, our agents and staff, combined with our passion for real estate made this an exciting opportunity for us to become a strategic part of Sotheby's International Realty," Turner said in the statement."This partnership will ensure that the company not only evolves far into the future, but will thrive with the increased marketing exposure and far-reaching referral opportunities, giving our clients significant advantages."
Sotheby's International Realty, a subsidiary of NRT LLC, was founded in 1976 as a real estate service for the clients of Sotheby's auction house. The firm represents properties at a range of price points and operates brokerage offices in markets including San Francisco, Beverly Hills, Malibu, Santa Barbara and Carmel, Calif.; as well as in Santa Fe, NM; Greenwich, CT; Manhattan and the Hamptons, NY.


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The Wall Street Journal posted an interesting article about how full-time Flashers "can now command more than $150,000 a year in salary," according to GreeneSearch recruiting firm.
"In Silicon Valley, hot job categories come and go as different technologies shift in and out of favor. The latest example: Flash engineers." Writer Pui-Wing Tam says that start-ups, such as online gaming companies – are looking for Flash developers who are creative and can code. (That's you, right?) The Flash developer cited in the piece said, "I make 150% more than three years ago."
Here are some resources to help you hone your skills:
- Adobe Developer Connection
- Flash Platform Game Technology Center
- Learning ActionScript 3
- Going Multiscreen with the Flash Platform
- Optimizing Performance (Across Devices) for the Flash Platform


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Around the League: January 30, 2012 – February 5, 2012
For the remainder of the off season, we will provide you with a quick trip around MLB to recap what has happened in the past week, thanks for following.
Monday, January 30, 2012
- Victor Martinez had micro-fracture surgery to repair the medial and lateral meniscus in his left knee. He expects to have ACL surgery in six-to-eight weeks, officially ending his 2011 season before it started.
- Pat Burrell retired at the age of 35 due to chronic foot injury.
- Manager Ron Washington received a two-year extension through 2014.
- Orioles sign RHP Pat Neshek, C Ronny Paulino, and 17 year old LHP Seong-Min Kim to minor league contracts.
- Brewers sign former Cub outfielder Corey Patterson to a minor league contract.
- Yankees sign RHP Manny Delcarmen to a minor league contract
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
- Diamondbacks avoid arbitration with C Miguel Montero(1 yr. $5.9MM), Ryan Roberts (1 yr. $2.0125MM)
- Phillies sign RHP Chad Qualls (1 yr. $1.15MM). The Cubs were interested in Qualls as well.
- Yankees hire former Cubs GM Jim Hendry as a special assignment scout.
- Astros sign Livan Hernandez to a minor league deal.
- Padres avoid arbitration with RHP Dustin Moseley (1 yr. $2.0125MM).
- Jon Heyman hears that Davey Johnson wants RF Bryce Harper to start the season as Nationals.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
- White Sox sign 1B Dan Johnson to a minor league deal.
- Pirates sign former RHP Juan Cruz to a minor league deal.
- Nationals sign RHP Chard Durbin to a minor league deal.
- Padres sign RHP Micah Owings (1 yr. $1MM)
- Mariners sign INF Carlos Guillen to a minor league deal.
- Orioles sign LHP Casey Fossum to a minor league deal.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
- Indians avoid arbitration with LHP Rafael Perez (1 yr. $2.005MM plus incentives).
- Nationals beat LHP Lannan in arbitration (1 yr. $5 MM) and are actively looking to deal him.
- Nationals agree to sign RHP Edwin Jackson (1 yr. $11MM plus incentives).
Friday, February 3, 2012
- Indians sign 1B Casey Kotchman (1 yr. $3MM)
- Rockies agree on a one-year extension with RHP Matt Belisle.
- Pirates signed LHP Brian Tallet.
- Orioles release RHP Rick VandenHurk.
- Brewers avoid arbitration with RHP Shaun Marcum (1 yr. $7.725MM).
- The Rays beat RHP Jeff Niemann in arbitration (1 yr. 2.75MM).
- Dodgers sign RHP Todd Coffey to a one-year deal with a club option for 2013.
- After having a relapse with alcohol OF Josh Hamilton and the Rangers won't discuss contract extension at this time.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
- Manny Ramirez appears to be deciding between the Orioles, Blue Jays, and A's.
- According to Peter Gammons the A's are evaluating Magglio Ordonez for a spring tryout.
- Cardinals close to signing INF Alex Cora to a minor league contract.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
- Red Sox avoid arbitration with RHP Alfredo Aceves (1 yr. $1.2MM).
- Brad Penny signs with Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball.
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A Virginia man died after a tunnel he was digging on a beach in North Carolina's Outer Banks collapsed Tuesday afternoon.
David Frasier, 49, of Fredericksburg, was digging a tunnel between a pair of six-foot-deep holes at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore when the sand above him collapsed, several news outlets reported.
Friends, family and bystanders pulled Frasier from the sand, but he was unresponsive when emergency crews arrived. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
No deaths resulting from a sand collapse have been reported at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore in at least a decade, a National Park Service spokesperson told the Virginian-Pilot.
Officials say those digging holes in the sand shouldn't dig deeper than their knees, and they should refill the holes at the end of the day.


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Best novel:
- The City & The City by China Miéville
- The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
- In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield
- Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
- Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts
Best novella:
- "To Kiss the Granite Choir" by Michael Anthony Ashley (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Oct 8-22, 2009)
- "Earth II" by Stephen Baxter (Asimov's, July 2009)
Best novelette:
- "A Journal of Certain Events of Scientific Interest from the First Survey Voyage of the Southern Waters by HMS Ocelot, As Observed by Professor Thaddeus Boswell, DPhil, MSc; or, A Lullaby" by Helen Keeble (Strange Horizons, June 1-8, 2009)
- "It Takes Two" by Nicola Griffith (Eclipse 3)
- "The Island" by Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2)
- "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast" by Eugie Foster (Interzone 220)
- "Blood Dauber" by Ted Kosmatka & Michael Poore (Asimov's, October/November 2009)
Novelette is the category in which one usually makes painful concessions, but startlingly I found myself falling short of five beloved nominees this year. I've written already about the Keeble, Griffith and Watts stories, but I'd be open to replace Eugie Foster's Nebula-nominated novelette, or the Kosmatka/Poore. Both are impressive but not quite on the level of the other three. One prospective replacement is "The Armies of Elfland" by Eileen Gunn and Michael Swanwick, from the April/May 2009 Asimov's (Gunn and Swanwick seem to have hit on a winning formula--their collaboration in Tor.com, "Zeppelin City," was also quite successful). Another is "Kreisler's Automata" by Matthew David Surridge, from Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
Best short story:
- "Non-Zero Probabilities" by N.K. Jemisin (Clarkesworld, September 2009)
- "The Moon Over Tokyo Through Leaves in the Fall" by Jerome Stueart (Fantasy Magazine, September 7, 2009)
- "Hangman" by Erin Cashier (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, February 12, 2009)
- "Bridesicle" by Will McIntosh (Asimov's, January 2009)
- "Blue" by Derek Zumsteg (Asimov's, August 2009)
Some thoughts on short fiction venues: Strange Horizons isn't as well-represented here as I would have liked, but for overall quality and breadth of genres and topics it remains the best magazine in the field, on- or offline. Beneath Ceaseless Skies is nipping at its heels, though it's aided by its narrower focus on epic and secondary world fantasy. I found Fantasy Magazine extremely variable--some of its stories were excellent, some barely publishable--and Clarkesworld, though a great deal more professional, not usually to my taste. Tor.com is the big disappointment of the year. I don't know whether the site reads slush or accepts unsolicited submissions, but there must be good money in publishing there, and yet the stories one offer are depressingly samey--literally so, as the site published its second Charles Stross Laundry story in two years in 2009, and two stories in a single year by Harry Turtledove, both about has-been baseball players in the first half of the 20th century. So far its only real excuse for existing is having also published two Rachel Swirsky stories. In print, Fantasy & Science Fiction did not have a good year. The magazine switched to a bi-monthly format this year, and also, in celebration of its 60th anniversary, set aside a portion of each issue in order to reprint some of its editors' favorite stories. A nice idea in theory, but in practice these stories tended to overshadow the already reduced original offerings. Asimov's, meanwhile, improved on me quite a bit in 2009, with quite a few stories on my ballot and even more importantly, much higher overall quality.
Best dramatic presentation, long form:
- Moon
- Up
Best dramatic presentation, short form:
- The Sarah Connor Chronicles, "Born to Run"
- The Middleman, San Diego Comic Con table read
- Being Human, episode 1.3 (Annie learns the truth about her murder)
- Ashes to Ashes, episode 2.1
- Futurama, Into the Wild Green Yonder
Lots of people I know are nominating Dollhouse's "Epitaph One," but even before my crushing disappointment with the show's second season, and particularly with "Epitaph Two: The Return," I wasn't planning to do this--taken on its own it simply wasn't a very good hour of television. Not that most of these are much better. The Sarah Connor finale was magnificent and I loved the Middleman table read, but the other three are compromise choices. It simply wasn't a very good year for individual TV episodes.
Campbell award:
- J.M. McDermott
- Felix Gilman
- Erin Cashier
- Alice Sola Kim
- Patrick Ness


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WW2 veteran dies in fire
Don Running, 88, found dead inside home set ablaze
An early morning fire claimed the life of a World War II veteran.
Firefighters found Don Running, 88, just a few feet inside a house completely engulfed in flames at 2909 88th Court Saturday.
Firefighters said the fire had been burning for some time before they arrived. They believe the blaze started in the basement and moved to the first floor before engulfing the attic.
Neighbors told firefighters that possibly two men were inside, but firefighters pulled out due to safety concerns after finding the first body.
"If at three feet someone is deceased, anybody beyond that is going to be deceased," said Urbandale Fire Chief Jerry Holt. "I know that kind of sounds cold, but you have to do a risk-benefit. Do you want to put people in there when there's not a high potential to save somebody's lives?"
The other man, who was renting the basement, was gone for the weekend.
Neighbors said Running was a father of two, a retired corporate attorney and a World War II veteran who volunteered with the VFW and the Iowa Veteran's Hospital.
Running had lost his wife in 2012 and recently lost his daughter.


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- "And who are the Lords of Maidenpool? Remind me."
- ―Tywin Lannister to Arya Stark
Maidenpool is a town in the Riverlands, the region controlled by House Tully of Riverrun. It is the seat of House Mooton. It is located at the estuary of the Trident near the border of the Crownlands. It is located to the north of King's Landing and north-east of Harrenhal.[1]
Maidenpool is famed in song as the location where the foolish knight Florian met and fell in love with Jonquil. He fell in love with her when he saw her bathing with her sisters.[2]
Season 2
When Lord Tywin Lannister quizzes Arya Stark on where she is from, she says Maidenpool. Tywin realizes she is lying when she cannot identify House Mooton's sigil. She then admits to being from the North, but says that Barrowton is her home town. She identifies the arms of the ruling House Dustin accurately.[3]
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Maidenpool is a port town on the east coast of Westeros, on the Bay of Crabs. It is linked to King's Landing by two roads, one that runs along the coast of Crackclaw Point to the east and another that passes directly south through Duskendale in the Crownlands. Fisherfolk northwest of Maidenpool fish the waters in leather coracles and collect clams. Maidenpool's main gate is called the Fool's Gate.
Maidenpool is sacked during the War of the Five Kings. Jaime, Cleos Frey and Brienne pass through the town on their way to King's Landing, noticing that the town walls are deserted, the gates are smashed, and half the homes and shops are burned or plundered. After the Battle of Duskendale, Randyll Tarly marches on Maidenpool, takes the town and locks Lord William Mooton in a tower cell. Later he begins to rebuild the town while hunting the outlaws in the area.
See also
- Maidenpool on A Wiki of Ice and Fire (spoilers from the books)
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Seagard · Wendish Town · Fairmarket · The Twins · Harrenhal · Raventree Hall · Stone Hedge · Crossroads Inn · High Heart · Acorn Hall · Maidenpool · Pinkmaiden · Stoney Sept · Pennytree · Saltpans · Lord Harroway's Town
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In the first weeks of the New Year, Oaklanders have been met with a flurry of news reports highlighting the costs and consequences of Oakland Police Department conduct and policy in the past year. With two temporary injunctions in North Oakland and Fruitvale neighborhoods limping forward and still racking up costs, Stop the Injunctions Coalition is continuing its call for the City to abandon the controversial and failed policy.
Two weeks ago OPD officer John Hargraves was suspended for one month for purposefully obscuring his badge during an Occupy Oakland protest, and his commanding officer Lt. Clifford Wong was demoted for participating in Hargraves' violation. The incident was caught on video and joined dozens of other videos depicting police violence in Oakland, especially around the internationally notorious OPD raid of the Occupy Oakland encampment on October 25th. Police actions that day alone have cost an estimated $3million and have been the subject of at least 200 citizen complaints.
The policing of Occupy Oakland has rightfully received international attention and condemnation, but if we want to fully understand how the OPD has comported itself in our city in the past year, we have to look at the Occupy scandals next to:
Indeed, until Occupy Oakland took center stage regarding police scandal, gang injunctions were a heated and controversial issues for most of 2011. Legal costs of the injunctions have ticked over one million dollars in payment through the Oakland City Attorney's office and to outside private counsel Meyers Nave. While the OPD has not made public how many paid hours have been spent gathering initial data for the injunctions, testifying in court or meeting with attorneys to give statements, in November they reported that $133,089 have been spent to enforce the injunction and surveil those enjoined in North Oakland. The November 8 report also reveals that there has been a 43% increase in Part One crimes in North Oakland with the injunction in place, contradicting the same reports claims that the injunction "improve[s] public safety, thereby providing a safer environment for residents."
One thing is certain: Oakland can take a basic step forward regarding policing. The City has the opportunity to reprioritize how it thinks about public safety, to address budget shortfall, and to curb destructive police policy. We can begin by deauthorizing Gang Injunctions as a failed, costly, and divisive policy.


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Understanding Paul Auster
James Peacock
A survey of the work of an author best known for mixing absurdism and crime fiction
Understanding Paul Auster is a comprehensive companion to the work of a writer who effectively balances a particular combination of Jewish American identity and European sensibility across an impressive breadth of novels, screenplays, essays, and poetry. James Peacock views Auster as chiefly concerned with the individual's problematic relationship with language, a theme present from the enigmatic poetry of Auster's early career to the more inclusive and optimistic imaginings of the films Smoke and Blue in the Face and the novels Timbuktu, The Brooklyn Follies, and Man in the Dark.
Peacock's study maps the evolution of Auster's fiction and its forms, goals, and influences. Peacock argues that the key event for any Auster character is the realization that language should not be restricted to documenting reality but should instead be embraced for its metaphorical qualities and constantly shifting nature. Peacock finds in Auster a view of language as inherently ethical and communal because, to use language creatively, one must be immersed in the plurality of experience and listen to the voices of others. In celebrated works such as The Invention of Solitude and The New York Trilogy, these voices include Auster's literary antecedents. Increasingly in his recent work, however, they include those of ordinary people. Peacock suggests that in the aftermath of 9/11, much of Auster's fiction places even greater importance on sympathetic relations with ordinary individuals and advocates through artistic endeavors the merits of connecting with others.
James Peacock is a lecturer in English and American literatures at Keele University in the United Kingdom. His articles on contemporary American fiction and Quakerism in American literature have appeared in the Journal of American Studies, English, Quaker Studies, and other publications.
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Francisco Elias-Paths of Light Dvd Box
At Design Interviews
Interview with Francisco Elias : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Francisco Elias : The box contains a short animation, entirely produced by the artist Nelson Fernandes aka Zina Caramelo. The aesthetic essence contaminates the shape and appearance of the box. In conclusion, the inspiration behind our design comes literally from the inside. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Francisco Elias : To be as consistent as possible with the artist's original aesthetics, in such way that we could achieve a continuum between his work and the DVD box. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Francisco Elias : Present our DVD box on the "shelves of the world" and, simultaneously, spread the result of our co-production, at both levels, of design and art. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Francisco Elias : The project started in January 2013 in Fundão (Portugal) and finished in January 2014 in Fundão, and was published in March 2014. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Francisco Elias : The natural essence of wood defines the structure of the package and gives the organic texture with a burned cut through the fibers. Wood associates resistance with ligth-weigth, complex and simple at the same time. This solid material is a source of energy, of fire, of ligth - Paths of Ligth. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Francisco Elias : This was a true challenge. The investment in production as well as dissemination is our burden (designer and artist). However seek publishers and distributors interested in helping in the sale of our product. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Francisco Elias : People with special affection by the world of the arts (cinema, painting, sculpture, writing...), in particularly the short animation's lovers and collectors. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Francisco Elias : The name comes from "Paths of Light" short animation from Nelson Fernandes aka Zina Caramelo. "Paths of Light" is an abstract poetic journey that appeals the observer pure imagination. In this voyage it can be understood a kind of inverted apocalypse. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Francisco Elias : The medium used was a single wooden plank on which he reinvented/unrolled all his visual and poetic discourse, using multiple techniques. This life cycle resulted in a box, whose construction involved two distinct stages: a mechanical one and a manual one. The first stage - the mechanical one - involved cutting and laser printing operations (1 hour and 30 minutes) to produce 6 different pieces. The last stage - the manual one - involved the exploration of collage techniques using those 6 pieces, a drying period and a sandpaper finishing to create the final version. Each box is unique. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Francisco Elias : Francisco Elias (Graphic designer/Art Director) and Nelson Fernandes (Visual Artist/Art Director). Both develop together all details of this work. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Francisco Elias : Technology was permanently present in all phases of the process; however, manual work was essential at first and final stages. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Francisco Elias : I believe that this work has potential to achieve the internacional market. So, nothing better than this prize to submit it to the scrutiny of judges from all over the world. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Francisco Elias : Trough the direct and close collaboration with the artist, we found new work tools, new media and new challenges. All that is necessary to design brilliant ideas and continue developing future projects. .
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Archiv:Security bei Kerzenschein
Security by Candlelight
Security sometimes seems like a hard and long journey
But properly equipped it will be just like snapping with your fingers. I'm afraid we will not have a "Babylon Candle" to get us there but at least it will be much more fun to travel in a group and talk about the things and wonders we see along the road.
A Meeting Place for Security Enthusiasts at the Metalab in Vienna
The "library" at the Metalab in Vienna: Map
Upcoming Meetings
|To be Announced
|Host(s) and topics to be announced...
Next Meeting
|2010-01-14 Thu 19:45 c.t.
| Advanced Network Security
Hosted by Daniel Mende (ERNW Heidelberg)
Past Meetings
|2009-08-07 Fr 19:30
| Security by Candlelight at PlumberCon. Plumbercon is a security mini-con at the werkzeugH in the 5th district of Vienna.
Planned Topics: We would like to continue with our "Seven Layers of Insecurity" focusing on physical security, a topic which is often neglected when IT security is implemented.
|2009-07-23 Thu 19:30
| We were able to schedule another "Security by Candlelight" before the the PlumberCon. This time we have the following topics: Security Management and Risk Management. Now that we know about our possible enemies we will go the next step and evaluate how security breaches can affect information systems and which steps are apropriate to "mitigate" (dt.: abschwächen, mildern) any risks. Doing too much is expensive, doing too little is dangerous - finding the right balance is an art (and a science).
Hosted again by: Lynx, Naxx and MiKa (as planned, changes possible).
|2009-07-01 Mi 19:30
| Resurrection of Security by Candlelight: Meet, get to know each other and open discussion with Lynx, Naxx und MiKa.
We will present a little introduction to security based on our "Seven Layers of Insecurity" workshop, presented at the DeepSec 2007 Conference in Vienna and then hope to start to get a little interactive.
|2008-04-01 Tue 19:30
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Norman Bates' Mother: No! I tell you no! I won't have you bringing some young girl in for supper!
-- Psycho (1960 film)
And What's after Security by Candlelight?
I guess it will be just the normal evening at the Metalab...


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Dekalb County Black Foot Soldiers have reportedly issued a scathing condemnation against racist Doraville Police Regime Terrorist so called "detective" Robert Wilson saying they "thank God for the drunk driver reportedly driving eastbound in the westbound driven eastbound in the westbound on I-20.
"May this psychotic white devil who disguised himself as a police officer and dared to present himself as a representative of law burn in hell."
"May this psychotic white devil who disguised himself as a police officer and dared to present himself as a representative of law burn in hell," Atlanta Black Foot Soldier Isiah Nixon is quoted as saying.
Wilson is reported survived by his wife, reparations offender Katy, and son, suspected future racial terrorist Liam.
Although Dekalb County Soldiers allegedly say they have publicly expressed their condemnation for his family and the Police regime having a funeral for Wilson, it is being reported that a visitation for the State commissioned racial terrorist will be held Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Wednesday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. at Scott Ward Funeral Home in Conyers and a funeral will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Conyers.
While excitement about a celebration protest for the funeral is reportedly widespread, Soldiers declined comment on whether they would hold a "Piss & Shit Celebration" throughout Dekalb County on the days of his visitation and funeral.


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The major source of income to the Social Security Trust Funds is employment taxes, specifically taxes on wages as defined in the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) and taxes on self employment as defined in the Self Employment Contributions Act (SECA). The following describes how these Social Security taxes are deposited into the trust funds.
Employers are not required to distinguish Federal income taxes from Social Security taxes when they deposit taxes with Federal Reserve banks. Thus, Social Security taxes are first deposited in the trust funds on an estimated basis and are later adjusted to reflect actual employment data. By law, Social Security taxes must be based on employment records maintained by the Social Security Administration (SSA), not on the actual amount of taxes collected by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Estimates and deposits
The Social Security Administration (SSA) estimates future tax liability by calendar year and trust fund. SSA also estimates the portion of tax liabilities that will be collected quarterly. SSA sends these estimates to the Department of the Treasury, where the estimated quarterly tax collections are split into monthly tax collections. For each month, Treasury also splits the estimated tax collections into estimated tax liability amounts.
Treasury also estimates Federal income taxes withheld by month and computes monthly ratios of FICA taxes, one for each trust fund, to the sum of FICA taxes and income taxes. Then Treasury multiplies each day's actual tax receipts by each ratio, yielding the estimated FICA part, and deposits that part into the appropriate trust fund. If the sum of such daily deposits reaches the month's estimated total before the end of the month, no more taxes are deposited in that month. On the other hand, if the sum fails to reach the month's estimated total, extra money is deposited on the last day of the month to make up the shortfall. Either way, the estimated amount for a month is the total amount deposited. The same method is applied to SECA taxes.
For each month, Treasury estimates the portion of FICA taxes deposited that represent
- liability for that month's calendar quarter, and
- the remaining portion (if any) representing liability for the previous quarter.
Similarly, Treasury estimates the portion of SECA taxes deposited that represent
- liability for that month's calendar year, and
- the remaining portion (if any) representing liability for the previous year.
Adjustment of estimated tax liability
SSA collects wage data from three sources.
- W-2s processed by SSA provide individuals' wage information by calendar year.
- Employee tips and wages, not reported by employers, but reported on employee tax returns (Form 4137); IRS processes the data and sends them to SSA.
- Forms 941 processed by IRS provide aggregate wage data by calendar quarter. IRS sends the processed data to SSA four times per year.
SSA certifies aggregate earnings (wages and self-employment income) in letters sent quarterly to Treasury. Each such certification letter contains data for prior years, back to 1937, to the extent that the current earnings data differ from amounts previously certified. As there are generally fewer corrections (positive or negative) to earnings for years that are further in the past, certified earnings amounts become progressively smaller for years that are further in the past, and may include negative amounts.
SSA combines quarterly 941 data to provide annual totals comparable to the other wage data reported annually. In general, SSA then certifies the data from the source that provides the higher wage amount for a calendar year. Each certification letter shows wage data by calendar year, except for the most recent year shown. For this recent year, data are shown for the most recent reported quarter and data for other quarter(s) of the year (if any) are combined. Each letter also shows self-employment income by calendar year only.
To adjust FICA taxes for a particular quarter, taxes from the latest certification letter are compared to the estimated tax liability amount established by Treasury. This FICA tax liability for the quarter is subtracted from taxes on all wage data reported in a certification letter, including amounts for all previous quarters or years, and the difference is transferred either to or from a trust fund. The initial adjustment for a particular quarter occurs about one year after the close of that quarter. SECA taxes are adjusted similarly, except that the initial adjustment for a particular year is normally made in the last calendar quarter of the second following year.
The calculation of tax adjustments are done independently by Treasury and SSA. When agreement is reached, Treasury takes the steps necessary to transfer the funds.


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Converts the sample rate of an audio file at sample rate Rin to a sample rate of Rout. Optionally the ratio (Rin / Rout) may be linearly time-varying according to a set of (time, ratio) pairs in an auxiliary file.
|This utility is suspect. Better is to use libsamplerate. srconv will be removed or replaced soon.
-P num = pitch transposition ratio (srate / r) [don't specify both P and r]
-Q num =quality factor (1, 2, 3, or 4: default = 2)
-i filnam = auxiliary breakpoints file (no breakpoint by default. i.e. No ratio change)
-r num = output sample rate (must be specified)
-o fnam = sound output filename
-A = create an AIFF format output soundfile
-J = create an IRCAM format output soundfile
-W = create a WAV format output soundfile
-h = no header on output soundfile
-c = 8-bit signed_char sound samples
-a = alaw sound samples
-8 = 8-bit unsigned_char sound samples
-u = ulaw sound samples
-s = short_int sound samples
-l = long_int sound samples
-f = float sound samples
-r N = orchestra srate override
-K = Do not generate PEAK chunks
-R = continually rewrite header while writing soundfile (WAV/AIFF)
-H# = print a heartbeat style 1, 2 or 3 at each soundfile write
-N = notify (ring the bell) when score or miditrack is done
-- fnam = log output to file
This program performs arbitrary sample-rate conversion with high fidelity. The method is to step through the input at the desired sampling increment, and to compute the output points as appropriately weighted averages of the surrounding input points. There are two cases to consider:
sample rates are in a small-integer ratio - weights are obtained from table.
sample rates are in a large-integer ratio - weights are linearly interpolated from table.
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|The Nule cousins - not standing so tall anymore. (Photo: Semana.com)
|Ivan Moreno on his way to jail. (Photo: El Pais)
|El Dorado Ave: the canyon which swallowed the Nules and Morenos.
|Counterattack on the Palace.
|Escaping from the Justice Palace. Some of those who came out alive were later found dead.
|Sidewalk plaque in memorium to those 'disappeared' in the Justice Palace episode.
And, in Colombia's highly inbred politics, these two very different episodes have surprising connections. For one, the ex-M-19 guerrillas belong to Morenos' political party, the Polo Democratico Alternativo. And the M-19 was born out of alleged fraud against Colombian-dictator-turned-presidential-candidate Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, who happens to be the Moreno brothers' grandfather.
These stories are far from finished. One matter is the issue of prison conditions: there've been scandals recently about the pampered conditions in at least one military prison. And the Nules' prison accomodations also caused a stir: the three of them have their own private in-prison house, each with his own bedroom and bath, as well as common areas. That's not only far better than the way ordinary prisoners live, but luxurious compared to the housing of many Colombians outside prison.
By Mike Ceaser, of Bogotá Bike Tours