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By Samuel Njoku
The Super Bowl is two weeks away and Baltimore has already begun preparing for the huge showdown. The San Francisco 49ers will present challenges that the Ravens have dealt with in the past, but the NFC Champs also present new challenges for Baltimore to overcome.
The player that most analysts will be focused on is Colin Kaepernick. This is to be expected because he completely changed the dynamic of the 49ers' squad. Prior to his ascension, the 49ers had a decent offense supported by a great defense. Jim Harbaugh knew that for them to get over the hump, they would have to put more pressure on opposing defenses, and Colin Kaepernick does just that. His ability to both run and pass effectively could spell big trouble for the Ravens' defense.
Baltimore played a player similar to Kaepernick earlier this year. When the Ravens traveled to Washington to battle the Redskins, Baltimore was forced to deal with the dynamic plays of Robert Griffin III. Even though the Ravens came up short in that battle, it should be noted that Baltimore did a decent job of containing him. The Ravens will implore a similar gameplan to stop him from running with the football.
But Ravens fans shouldn't get too excited. For Baltimore to protect the edge in that game, they gave up a lot over the middle in the running game. This aspect makes the pistol formation extremely lethal for defenses. Frank Gore can gash defenses even with 8-men focused on him in the box. When you have defenders wondering whether or not to tackle him or the quarterback, it's easier for Gore to slip by the first line of defense. It'll be interesting to see how the Ravens contain the Pistol Formation. Dean Pees will have 2 weeks to figure it out.
If the Ravens somehow contain Kaepernick inside the pocket, they'll still have to worry about the 49ers' vaunted defense. They don't have the talent that Baltimore possesses on that side of the ball, but they do have the ability to shut opposing offenses down. The Ravens will need to pay close attention to how the defense plays in the early portion of next Sunday's game. The Ravens have the ability to beat in you in the ground or in the air. Jim Harbaugh may not want Flacco to torch them like he's done to every team he's faced this postseason. The result of that respect may mean bigger running lanes for Ray Rice and Bernard Pierce.
The 49ers' defense struggled early against the Falcons before the defense shut it down in the second half. The Ravens' offense is built very similar to that of the Falcons. Because of that, expect Caldwell to look closely to film from the NFC Championship game in order to pick up any weaknesses the Falcons may have exploited.
There are plenty of things for Baltimore to watch out for in this contest. The 49ers are a complete football team, but the Ravens have the right personnel in place to get the job done.
For more Local Football Bloggers and the latest Ravens news, see CBS Sports Baltimore
Samuel Njoku was born and raised in Baltimore, MD and is a graduate of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Samuel has covered the Ravens for Examiner.com since 2010. Prior to 2010, Samuel was an avid blogger and radio personality in Salisbury, MD. He can be reached for comments at email@example.com. His work can be found on Examiner.com. You can also follow him on Twitter @Ravens_Examiner.
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|Festa della Sensa
The Festa della Sensa -- even without the America's Cup in town -- traditionally commemorates two different, important events in Venetian history.
The first took place on May 9, 1000 when Doge Pietro Orseolo II rescued the Dalmatians from the Slavs.
The second event took place in 1177. Back in those days, the players involved were:
1. The Holy Roman Empire with the German Frederick I Barbarossa (aka Red Beard aka Kaiser Rotbart) as the Emperor.
a) Anti-pope Callixtus III, backed by Red Beard
2. The Republic of Venice, with Sebastiano Ziani as the Doge.
3. Pope Alexander III, backed by the Lombard League
|Barbarossa Pays Homage to Alexander III by Federico Zuccaro
Just WHO was God's vicar on Earth? The Pope or the Emperor? That was the question. It is not easy to get an Emperor and a Pope together in the same town, but Venice managed to do just that. Pope Alexander III came to Venice. Red Beard got as far as Chioggia, but was not allowed to land in Venice herself "until he had set aside his leonine ferocity and put on the gentleness of the lamb."
Barbarossa became lamb-like, and was allowed into Piazza San Marco, where he found Pope Alexander III surrounded by the Doge, the Patriarch, a host of cardinals and other luminaries. The Emperor prostrated himself in front of the Pope, and received the kiss of peace.
So, the Treaty, or Peace, of Venice in 1177 is also celebrated during the Festa della Sensa. From Old & Sold:
The astute Venetians extorted valuable privileges both from the Pope and from the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa as their reward for the part which they had played in the historic reconciliation.
During his stay in Venice Alexander III was present at the famous ceremony which was later known as the wedding of the Adriatic, a rite which had been inaugurated by the great Doge Pietro Orseolo II, the conqueror of Dalmatia. As a token of Papal approval of the ceremony the Pope handed the Doge Sebastiano Ziani a consecrated ring with the words: "Receive this as a pledge of the sovereignty which you and your successors shall have in perpetuity over the sea."
For over 600 years this magnificent ceremony was enacted annually. The Doge, surrounded by the Patriarch of Venice, the great officers of State, and the foreign ambassadors, embarked on the large gilded barge, the Bucintoro, and sailed through the Porto di Lido to the open Adriatic. Here the Patriarch blessed the ring and gave it to the Doge, who threw it into the sea, pronouncing the time-honoured formula: "Sea, we wed thee in token of our true and perpetual dominion over thee." The ceremony only came to an end with the extinction of the Republic in 1797.
|Festa della Sensa by Canaletto
|Festa della Sensa Today
Meanwhile, the America's Cup is one of the best things that has happened to Venice in a long time. Thousands of people are here from all over the world. The energy is terrific. I think the best way to show you what's going on is a video from the America's Cup site. This clip is from the French ENERGY Team, lead by Loick Peyron, who won the Fleet Racing Championship at the Venice America's Cup World Series. The Match Racing was won by the Swedish ARTEMIS Racing Team, while the American ORACLE TEAM USA Spithill widened its lead over EMIRATES Team New Zealand as the overall leaders in the America's Cup World Series. The next and final match will be in Newport, Rhode Island.
Have a look; it's really exciting:
From the America's Cup site:
"Hosting the America's Cup is a source of enormous satisfaction for the city – explained the Mayor Giorgio Orsoni - Here the event will find a setting that no other locations in the world can offer. The regattas before Palazzo Ducale in the presence of the famous bell tower of San Marco, the races in front of the Lido with its art nouveau heritage, and the Arsenal, which will be the base for the teams and a venue for the village, are unique places that are at once a source of fascination and an index of enormous developmental prospects. This historic city, Mestre and the mainland together comprise a single territorial unit that makes this area the heart of one the nation's most vital parts."
|America's Cup in the Venice Lagoon
In 1851 Commodore John Cox Stevens, a charter member of the fledgling New York Yacht Club (NYYC), formed a six-person syndicate to build a yacht with intention of taking her to England and making some money competing in yachting regattas and match races. The syndicate contracted with pilot-boat designer George Steers for a 101 ft (30.78 m) schooner, which was christened America and launched on 3 May 1851.
On 22 August 1851, America raced against 15 yachts of the Royal Yacht Squadron in the Club's annual 53-nautical-mile (98 km) regatta around the Isle of Wight. America won, finishing 8 minutes ahead of the closest rival. Apocryphally, Queen Victoria, who was watching at the finish line, asked who was second, the famous answer being: "Ah, Your Majesty, there is no second."
The America's Cup World Series is a new event, founded last year in 2011. It is a series of regattas, with each team racing the same type of boat. There are six different international venues for 2011-2012: Cascais, Portugal; Plymouth, England; San Diego, USA; Naples, Italy; Venice, Italy and Newport, USA. There is a winner for fleet racing, which is all the boats racing against each other, and a winner for match racing, which is only two boats racing against each other. From Wikipedia:
The America's Cup World Series is a series of match race regattas leading up to the 2013 America's Cup. The World Series uses AC45 catamarans, a one-design wingsail catamaran with foils designed specifically for the event by Mike Drummond and the Oracle Racing engineering team.
|Inside Arsenale
|The Winners Inside Arsenale
This amazingly large amount of ships required constant maintenance and outfitting. The Venetian Arsenal was not only able to function as a major shipyard, but was also responsible for these routine maintenance stops that most Venetian galleys required. This required a large amount of money and the Venetian government spent almost 10% of its income on the Arsenal.
However, this naval power resulted in the domination of Mediterranean commerce. Venice's leading families, largely merchants and nobleman, were responsible for creating some of the grandest palaces and employing some of the most famous artists ever known. This opulence and wealth would not have been possible without the naval force constructed by the Arsenal. Indeed with the creation of the Great Galley and the mass production capacity of the Arsenal, "the fleets of Venice were the basis for the greatest commercial power the European world had yet seen.
|Tiepolo - Neptune Offering Gifts to Venice
Ciao from Venice,
Venetian Cat - The Venice Blog
*NOTE: This was one of the most difficult posts I've ever written in terms of technical problems. Photos would not load. Formatting went awry. I was constantly logged out. Half the time I could not see what I was writing. I've tried to piece it together as best as I could; please forgive me if there are errors.This was supposed to have been published yesterday, Sunday, May 20, 2012.

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By Jason Noble and Jeffrey C. Kummer
For all the time and attention presidential candidates lavish on Iowa in the months leading up to its first-in-the-nation caucuses, they don't spend that much money here.
A Des Moines Register review of nine months' worth of campaign finance reports filed by the major Republican candidates revealed relatively few dollars flowing to Iowa businesses and individuals — a counterintuitive finding given the state's unending presidential publicity and outsized influence over the nominating process.
"There's a mythology that does exist nationally that there's this enormous financial windfall for the state of Iowa because of the caucuses," said Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn. "But the true windfall for Iowa is in the prestige of hosting the caucuses."
Indeed, from January through September of this year, Iowa expenditures totaled just $2.7 million — less than 5 percent of the $55.8 million spent nationwide by the campaigns of Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Thad McCotter, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.
Six states and the District of Columbia outpaced Iowa in campaign spending receipts, according to the Register's computer-assisted analysis.
The small sum belies months of harried activity here, including more than 350 candidate appearances, intense campaigning by Bachmann, Pawlenty, Paul and Santorum and sizable investments in one of the marquee events of the early campaign — the Iowa straw poll in Ames.
But it makes sense, political experts and a prominent Iowa economist said. The retail politicking practiced in Iowa just doesn't cost much in the grand scheme of a national campaign, and the expensive stuff gets outsourced.
"You get a tremendous amount of spending out in the world on behalf of what's going on here in Iowa, but not a lot of direct spending here in Iowa," explained Iowa State University economist David Swenson.
Commercials that light up television screens in Madison County, for example, are probably produced on Madison Avenue. Fliers filling mailboxes in Aplington, Iowa, are likely postmarked in Arlington, Va. Planes touch down at DSM, but they're ticketed at MSP or DFW or DCA — if not in the ether of Expedia and Travelocity.
"What happens is, we confuse the appearance of electioneering activity in Iowa with the economics of electioneering," Swenson said.
This isn't a new phenomenon. Swenson found similar spending patterns in the six months leading up to the 2008 caucuses, when the major Democratic and Republican campaigns combined to spend a whopping $352.5 million, but paid out just $15.5 million — 4.4 percent — to Iowans.
Iowa's meager share has remained steady even as overall primary campaign spending has dropped.
The $53 million spent in the first three quarters of 2011 by the top nine candidates is less than the total spent during the same time periods in 1999, 2003 and 2007, according to a Bloomberg analysis.
Iowa spending goes to GOP, consultants
Much of the money that actually reached Iowa this year ended up in very specific places.
From January to September, candidates forked over a collective $741,750 — 27 percent of their Iowa expenditures — to the Republican Party of Iowa. They paid the party hundreds of thousands for tent space and tickets — at $25 a pop — to the Iowa straw poll in August, and tens of thousands more for lists of registered voters.
That investment netted the party a sum in the "mid-six figures," Strawn said — money destined to be spent on Republicans at the local, state and federal levels in the general election to come.
"It's an incredible boost for our efforts to build a statewide victory program in 2012," he said.
The straw poll, in fact, proved to be a substantial drain on candidates' finances. In addition to the fees paid to the party, candidates spent big bucks on food, entertainment and transportation.
Pawlenty dropped nearly $27,000 on Famous Dave's barbecue to feed the straw poll crowd before finishing third and exiting the race the next day. Bachmann spent more than $40,000 renting buses to transport supporters to the poll — and another $7,000 on golf carts to shuttle folks around the grounds.
Beyond the straw poll, Iowa's political consultants and campaign vendors banked some serious campaign cash as well. The Romney campaign paid almost $150,000 to an Iowa consultant, while Pawlenty spent $99,000 and McCotter — the dead-last finisher at the straw poll, with 35 votes — shelled out just more than $88,000.
Past those broad categories — party spending, straw poll spending and spending on consultants — Iowa payments become very diffuse, and reflective of life on the campaign trail.
Hotels accounted for at least $150,000 in spending, and rental cars ate up another $47,000.
The campaigns collectively spent nearly $3,000 at Kum & Go gas stations and $1,600 more at Casey's General Stores.
Home states net money for pay, ads
The biggest expenditures, meanwhile, in almost every case flow back to the candidates' home states or the nation's political-industrial complex in Washington, D.C., and suburban Virginia.
The campaigns spent a combined $8.4 million in Virginia and $3.5 million in D.C.
Romney's home state of Massachusetts garnered $7.8 million, while $4.8 million flowed to Texas, home of Perry and Paul. With Minnesotans Bachmann and Pawlenty competing in Iowa throughout the summer, even Iowa's northerly neighbor garnered more campaign cash — $2.8 million — than the Hawkeye State.
Home-state and D.C.-area spending represented typical campaign expenses: things like consulting services, direct mail, TV ad buys and staff payroll.
Bachmann, for example, reported spending $433,000 on direct-mail services in Virginia — and $322,000 on postage. Perry's Texas payroll exceeded $768,000, while Paul spent $1.6 million in Washington, D.C., on television-advertising expenses.
The relative economy of campaigning in Iowa has always been one of the state's virtues, said Drake University political scientist Dennis Goldford.
That may be changing this time around, though, Goldford said.
Candidates running traditional Iowa campaigns this year — like Bachmann and Santorum — have gained little traction, and remain stuck with single-digit support here or elsewhere, he said.
The candidates who have excelled have done so on the strength of their debate performances and cable-TV appearances.
"Iowa has been a relatively inexpensive place where a relatively unknown and underfunded candidate can try to make an impression and do much better than expected," he said.
"That's Santorum this time around. We'll see if it works."
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APHELION FLASH FICTION CONTEST: August '13
A generous patron who wishes to remain anonymous has again offered $20 U.S.D. for August's Flash Fiction Challenge winner, to be awarded through PayPal or given to their favorite charity.
THE PREMISE: Arr!!! Unpack your tricorn hat and space suit and batten down the hatches. Come on ye swabs! It's time to bring a spring upon her cable and cast off for the nearest nebula to clash with some pirates. There'll be no quarter given this time.
In this challenge we'll get some practice using stock characters effectively. We'll use pirates, but in a science fiction setting. There's plenty of precedent. Whether we're talking about space pirates who seem to show up where there's a poorly armed space freighter orbiting, or steampunk pirates aboard an airship attempting to dominate the Victorian era skies, or alien pirates swashbuckling on the salty seas of some far off world, pirates are a science fiction staple.
But not all science fiction pirates are created equal. Some will look and talk as if they are transplanted from the 17th century Caribbean or the Barbary Coast. But your science fiction pirates certainly don't have to. As long as your characters are pirates in deed, they'll meet our needs. Even if they don't wear tricorn hats and say "Arr." So let's find our sea legs… er space legs…er... let's weigh anchor and have some fun.
SOME EXAMPLES: The science fiction setting and type of pirates you use in this challenge are up to you. If you need some sources of inspiration, below you'll find some examples that may spark your imagination.
"The Pirates of Ersatz" by Murray Leinster tells the story of Bron Hoddan, a brilliant electrical engineer who grew up on the pirate planet of Zan. During the story Hoddan resorts to space piracy himself several times humorously putting together an ersatz pirate crew to outsmart the planetary forces arrayed against him. This story was originally published in the February, March, and April issues of Astounding Science Fiction in 1959. According to Project Gutenberg, it is now in the public domain. So you can read it here if you like: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24035/24035-h/24035-h.htm
The cover art from the February issue is worth a look as it depicts a space pirate climbing a ladder with a slide rule in his mouth instead of the stereotypical dagger.
"Yesterday's Glory" by Aphelion's WebMaven and Production Editor, Robert Wynne, is set in the Mare Inebrium on Bethdish and contains, nestled within its romantic framework, the tale of two young men who outwit space pirates. Check it out here: http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/shorts/mare1rob.htm.
Aphelion Senior Editor, Dan Hollifield, provided a sample story titled "Her Majesty's Gift" for the June 2009 flash fiction challenge. The example is a steampunk story that ends with a battle between the story's protagonists and airship pirates. Check it out here: http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/newforum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=1165&start=150#p11249.
Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Pirates of Venus like ERB's Mars series can be classified as "sword and planet," a subgenre of science fiction where the plot follows a swashbuckling-type adventure that is set on another planet. In this case, the pirates of the title are made up of native Venusians who take up piracy while under the leadership of the novel's protagonist, earthling Carson Napier. These pirates navigate the seas of Amtor, plundering ships with sword and spear even though they have advanced technology and weaponry like r-ray and t-ray guns.
HONING YOUR WRITING SKILL: Since flash fiction is such a short format, we often have to rely on shortcuts to tell a good story. One shortcut would be to make use of stock characters. They are literary stereotypes that have been well established in a given genre. A reader familiar with the genre should have some idea what the stock characters are about without the writer establishing it every time. So in the case of this challenge, you can drop some pirates into your flash story and not waste valuable words explaining their modus operandi. The danger of using stock characters is that they can easily become cliché and, therefore, unconvincing or even silly if they aren't handled carefully.
THE CHALLENGE: So I've tried to leave this one open and give you some examples of possible directions to go. Place some pirates in a science fiction setting of your choosing. Take advantage of these stock characters, but keep them from being cliché. I challenge you to write a science fiction story involving pirates. Good luck, and good writing.
REQUIREMENTS: (1) Your story must be a science fiction or science fiction subgenre story which involves pirates; (2) You must have at least two characters that "talk" to each other in some fashion; (3) 1,000 words or less, not counting title, byline, or "The End"; (4) The characters and story must be fictional and not previously published, even in these challenges; (5) One entry per author; (6) Give your story a title and a byline; and (7) Keep it clean. Rated 'PG-13'. (Basically, think, "Could I see this on CSI?" That allows a lot, really.)
CHARACTERS & SETTING: No copyrighted characters or settings, or references thereto. Famous, non-copyrighted fictional characters like Santa Claus, or religious figures such as the Devil, named angels such as Gabriel, or gods like Thor, etc. as supporting characters at best and at my discretion. The Wicked Witch and Dracula may be in the public domain, but don't expect me to allow them. No person that was ever a "real life" human being may be used as a character, but can be referred to, as in "President Kennedy had declared it would be so." Except as noted above under non-copyrighted fictional persons, character names may not be copied from fiction or real life, even if changed, i.e. Char-less Darween. All non-copyrighted settings are ok. Famous, unique sites like Stonehenge may be used over and again. No fan fiction or sequels, so don't bother putting your story in the Land of Oz or that great place you thought up two challenges ago.
DISQUALIFICATIONS/REFUSALS: If, in my judgment, any requirement or rule is missed, I won't post the story for voting, but authors are free to resubmit with changes until the deadline. Should a story be initially accepted and posted in the challenge, but then later judged by me to be in violation, the story may be disqualified and removed from contention at any time before contest end. Authors who feel a story may be in violation should send me a PM and state their case.
HOW TO ENTER: Stories must be sent by PRIVATE MESSAGE to davidsonhero, and NOT posted into a thread. Just click the 'PM' button at the bottom of this post and paste your story in the message. You are responsible for doing your own formatting, and leave an extra line between paragraphs, just like when you see them in the 'zine. I will allow different colors, but not changed fonts or sizes, artwork, or any other embedded or external links.
DO NOT send a regular email to me.
Stories will be posted "blind"--without the author's name on them. All the story titles are literally tossed into a hat and chosen in random order. When the poll closes after the voting week, I'll post a list of the stories and who wrote them. All entries will then be reposted in the Flash Archive with the author's byline.
Entries from new authors are strongly encouraged. C'mon. Give it a try!
NOTE: ONLY REGISTERED MEMBERS who have posted at least one message may submit a story. Without that one post, the system will not let you send a PM.
DEADLINE: Stories should be in by 9 p.m. Central Standard Time (GMT-6), Sunday, August 18, 2013. The stories will then be posted for voting at approximately 10 p.m. Voting will close on Sunday, August 25th at approximately 9 p.m., GMT-6.
VOTING: Stories are rated on a scale of 0-10 in whole numbers in 6 different categories by filling in scores in a form that is posted by me immediately following the post containing the stories for this challenge. Voters copy and paste the form into a PM and send it to me for tallying. One vote per user (that is, per ip address), and authors may not vote for their own story.
IF YOU WISH TO SCORE A ZERO FOR A STORY, YOU MUST ENTER A ZERO IN THAT POSITION ON THE VOTING FORM. A challenge entrant who does not vote for the other stories will receive a 10% deduction in their own score at the time of contest close, and the other stories will be given marks equalling whatever their story's average is at the time of contest close.
If more than two stories are tied at the end of voting, there will be a succession of one-day runoff votes until a single winner is chosen or the number of winners is reduced to two.
WHAT YOU WIN: Writers get improved short fiction skills, increasing their chances in the marketplace, without the lengthy investment in time a longer story would take. That, as well as bragging rights and pride--there is stiff competition each month amongst some great stories.
LEGAL STUFF: I'll try to do my best lawyer impersonation: By entering this challenge you are technically granting Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction and Fantasy perpetual electronic rights only to post and archive your challenge entry. Aphelion would rather not lay any claim on them at all, but by posting them on a public site, they'd legally count as being published no matter what.
Example story, not eligible for entry:
To Starboard and Eden
by John David Rose
Chad looked up the inner wall of the crater, a vast stone curtain that was the backdrop for his life. Near the rim was a permanent bank of clouds and it was there that he trained his eyes. When a ship came in, it was always at the same trajectory so that it could avoid the yellow spires to the north and safely put down in Sulfur Bay.
"Still nothin'?" Dirck asked half-heartedly. He sat on the ground and lazily pulled clumps of the coarse marsh grass out to throw over the embankment into the water.
Chad didn't answer. He just kept scanning the sky and tried not to second guess what they were about to do. He certainly didn't need Dirck's apathy feeding into his already growing doubts. Then all at once, a big one came in, a Banzi pirate frigate. At first as it dropped into the crater the ship was clothed in a gown of clouds with a trailing train of white vapor. But then its gray jagged edges started to poke through. With excitement, Chad counted the cannon batteries that lined the gun deck. Along its hull from stem to stern were two rows of pulsing blue-flamed retrorockets that fought against gravity and inertia. Finally it set down in the murky water and columns of steam billowed up from its superheated hull. Several supply boats set out from Port Calm toward the frigate in a slow procession.
"Come on, it'll be a long swim, but we should be able to get there right before the sutler's loaders," Chad said. He took off his shirt and wrapped it around his head like a bandanna.
"So ye're surely goin' then?" Dirck asked, lazily getting to his feet. His smirk and persistent squint at once suggested both indolence and flippancy.
"Aye, there's nothin' fer me here anymore: a life in my da's field or workin' in the anorthite mine." He looked across the bay at the only way out of the crater, now floating in her steamy bath. But Port Calm was there in the corner of his right eye. The only city he ever knew. And in the governor's villa, he envisioned Neave, beautiful, spoiled Neave, who was also probably lazing in a steamy bath. It had been her choice. She was sure to be much happier with the vintner's son. Chad spat on the ground.
"Do ye still want to come or not?" he growled at Dirck.
"The glory of the stars's got my head turnin' too. B'sides, I hear them Banzi lasses 'ave four…" Dirck motioned over his chest as he grinned.
Pulling themselves onto the gangplank unseen was easy enough. The loaders, older men doing a job but keeping their eyes down so as not to meet the gaze of a Banz, didn't notice the two young men slip into line and march along into the strange cold and stale air of the hold. The first Banz they saw was two heads taller than a man. He had gray leathery skin covered with sinister looking tattoos and a wide mouth with stray teeth protruding. He wore a dark red bandanna that was similar to the style popular in Port Calm. But he also wore a black jumpsuit, adorned with valves and hoses, switches and knobs, that Chad rightly assumed was designed to protect against the rigors of space.
"E's a gruesome one!" Dirck whispered as they walked past. Chad wanted to slug his friend. He knew now it was a mistake bringing Dirck; it had reduced his chances of success. It wasn't until they were sneaking down a corridor leading further into the ship that Chad realized it was his own lack of planning that had actually doomed them. Shortly after, the rough hands of the quartermaster presented them to the captain.
"A woman is cap'ain?" Dirck didn't whisper this time.
"What smells of rotten eggs?" the captain asked. Her voice was lilting and slightly seductive. She lounged on a wide bed propped up by embroidered pillows. Her legs were crossed in a business-like manner. She looked at them with derision.
"Found 'em slinkin' in the engine room Cap'ain," the quartermaster said. He was as big as a bulkhead, the most imposing Banz among imposing Banz.
"You," she said pointing at Dirck who hadn't stopped grinning since they entered the cabin. "What were you looking for? Were you trying to scuttle my ship?"
Chad thought about driving his heel into Dirck's foot before he could speak.
"She does have four," Dirck muttered. Too late.
"Quartermaster, where is shore in relation to the ship?" she asked.
"Off port, Mam," the quartermaster replied.
"Then throw him off starboard."
The quartermaster grabbed Dirck by the shoulders and dragged him down the hall. Chad cringed as Dirck screamed his name in desperation.
"Now, you," the captain said. "What did you hope to find aboard my ship?"
Chad looked down at the floor afraid to raise his eyes. He could feel the fierceness of her gaze penetrating him. His mouth was dry. Now when it came to it, he could hardly speak.
"The… the stars, Mam. There's nothin' for me here."
"I see," she said. She got up from her bed and walked across the cabin. Like the other Banz she was taller than Chad, but not nearly as large as the males of her species.
"Long ago we brought your people here from another planet to maintain this port for us. From time to time we establish new ports as we expand our territory. It just so happens that we have been planning a new port on the third planet in a yellow star system 4.37 light years from here. Do you have a mate, Chad?"
"A… a mate? N… Neave, I love Neave, but she's chosen someone else."
"We're pirates," she said with a reptilian smile. "We take what we want. And I want you, Chad, and Neave to be the first humans to settle Port Eden."
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cpclean is a command-line tool that implements the 'bad' control points pruning available within the Hugin GUI. It is similar conceptually to apclean, but with some extra functionality. Both tools use a statistical filter to remove points with an error above a statistical threshold.
The idea is to remove all non-credible control points. To do this it optimises each pair of photos one at a time and deletes all points that can't be made to fit, it then optimises the whole project together using more conservative assumptions and deletes another round of points. The .pto project file is returned unoptimised, the only change is that there are less control points, this means the project doesn't have to be optimised before you start.
By using this optimisation step cplean is able to look not just at the current project settings and find 'bad' points, but is able to find points that are 'bad' under a range of circumstances.
A typical usage would be:
cpclean -o output.pto project.pto
Vary the threshold with the -n parameter (defaults to 2, i.e. points with a distance error greater than twice the standard deviation are deleted):
cpclean -n 1 -o output.pto project.pto
cpclean is based on ptoclean.


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The University of North Carolina Pembroke announced on Friday, February 21, that Shane Richardson, who has spent the last seven seasons as the Brave's defensive coordinator, will be its next head coach.
The university conducted a national search to replace head coach Pete Shinnick, who started UNCP's highly successful football program in 2007 with Richardson at his side. As defensive coordinator, he consistently coached outstanding defensive sides and was a top recruiter.
Richardson, who served as interim head coach for a month, was introduced at a press conference inside the Caton Fieldhouse. It is Richardson's first collegiate head coaching job.
"Shane is the total package and we are so excited to keep him and Jenna in the UNC Pembroke family," said director of athletics Dick Christy. "His dedication to developing our students on and off the field is unwavering, and he has the organizational skills and tenacity to be a tremendous leader of men. His desire to win and build a program grounded in integrity is evident with the way he prepares and carries himself on a daily basis.
"Over the past two weeks, Shane has exceeded all expectations in his interim capacity and, via a national search, clearly separated himself as the right person for the job," Christy said.
Under Richardson, the Black and Gold ranked among the nation's top 30 teams in total defense four times and once among the nation's top 10. In addition to the nation's top scoring defense (11.2 points/game), the Braves also ranked second in total defense (226.6 yards/game), fourth in rushing defense (71.6 yards/game) and fourth in sacks per game (4.0). Richardson coached three all-Americans in seven seasons.
"I am humbled and honored to be standing here today as the next head football coach at UNC Pembroke," Richardson said. "I believe in this University, football program and all of the people involved with both of those things and I'm thrilled to be a part of this.
"Two groups that deserve extra special recognition throughout this process are our players and our assistant coaches. They have not waivered through these last three weeks, and their commitment, focus and patience has allowed us to not miss a beat," he continued. "It speaks to the level of character and buy-in that they represent. I have spoken to our staff this morning and we are on the same page. They certainly have a home at UNCP."
Richardson's coaching career began in 2001 at Northern Michigan, his alma mater, as a graduate assistant charged with coaching the linebackers and assisting with special teams, strength and conditioning and recruiting. He next stop was as linebackers coach and strength and conditioning coordinator at Jamestown College in 2002. Then, he spent a year at North Dakota State, where he coached one of the nation's best defenses.
As a player, Richardson was a three-year starter at linebacker at Northern Michigan (1997-00), where he earned all-Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference He was also an academic all-conference performer.
Richardson earned his bachelor's degree in secondary education in social studies from Northern Michigan in 2001 and his master's degree in physical education and athletic administration from North Dakota State in 2005.
Richardson and his wife, Jenna, reside in Lumberton. The couple is the parents of two sons, Ford and Jude, and a daughter, Bo. They are expecting their fourth child.


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In Holocaust exhibition, objects give insight into survivors' pasts (Jewish Journal)
August 31, 2011
In Holocaust exhibition, objects give insight into survivors' pasts
By Ryan Torok
In a photograph currently hanging in the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMH), Holocaust survivor Sophie Zeidman Hamburger drapes a garment she wore while escaping from a Nazi death march over her arms, one of which bears a number tattoo. In another, Toby Fainzylber Tambor holds her mother's shawl and a handmade spoon, given to her by a friend tasked with caring for Tambor during the war should her mother die.
The photographs are part of "Café Europa: Portraits in Black and White," a new exhibition at LAMH, featuring black-and-white photographs of 42 members of Café Europa, a social club for survivors run by Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles. The exhibition was recently extended to run through October.
Barbara Mack, a local photographer who has taken pictures of celebrities and politicians during events at American Jewish University, shot the photographs for the exhibition, and it was her idea to have the survivors pose with objects from their pasts.
"I had an idea that I would ask these people to bring something that was important to them," said Mack, a retired psychologist. "It was very effective, those pictures with the objects."
In other photographs, survivor John Gordon holds an etched-glass mug from a Hungarian spa where his mother vacationed before the war; Halina Schejnfinkiel Wolf, who crocheted for Germans in a ghetto, holds a doily; Vivian Sidranski Chakin holds a metal disc with an identification number on it, issued to her when she was forced to work in an assembly line in an airplane factory. Brief biographies of each survivor, written by Jane Jelenko, accompany the photographs in the exhibition.
"The interrelationship between their faces, the stark power of the black-and-white and these very powerful archival objects, it confronts the visitor with a number of dimensions where they can find ways into individual Holocaust stories," said Mark Rothman, executive director of the museum.
The museum published the photographs in a book this past summer. Rothman said that the book has become a "bestseller at the museum," which moved to its new location in Pan Pacific Park in late 2010.
The exhibition opened in June, culminating a three-year-long process that began when Susie Forer-Dehrey, chief operating officer of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles, visited Mack's studio and asked her to shoot portraits of Café Europa members. Although nobody at the time knew that the photographs would eventually wind up in an exhibition, Mack's hunch was that the photos would go further than the plans Forer-Dehrey had for them, which was that they would be distributed to Café Europa members, Mack said.
"As soon as I started taking the pictures, I knew this had to be a book, and I knew it had to be a museum exhibit," Mack said.
Café Europa has approximately 300 members, who meet weekly at the Westside Jewish Community Center and the Valley Store Front Senior Center in North Hollywood.
For the exhibition, Mack only photographed members who meet at the Westside JCC, but Forer-Dehrey said that after the High Holy Days, Mack plans to photograph Valley-based members, so that they, too, can be given professional-quality pictures of themselves.
"When the Valley people saw [Mack's photographs], they said, 'When is it our turn?' " Forer-Dehrey said.
Gordon, a survivor who has been involved with Café Europa for more than 10 years, spoke fondly of the experience of working with Mack.
"All of us who were photographed had a wonderful experience," Gordon said. "She was very thoughtful, and I think the photographs reflect that."
"CAFÉ EUROPA: Portraits in Black and White" runs through Oct. XXXX at the Los Angeles Museum of The Holocaust, 100 S. The Grove Dr. in Los Angeles. (323) 651-3704. lamoth.org.
Please see the article at jewishjournal.com
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Good-bye kabobs, hello meatballs
That little space on 29 North beside Pizza Hut, the former home to two Middle Eastern restaurants, Zandi's, and more recently, Zam Zam Kabob, has yet another international tenant.
Hint: "B¶rk, b¶rk, dee doo!"
However, unlike the Muppet's Swedish chef, Little Sweden Caf© owner Eva Elm doesn't speak gibberish, wear a toque blanche, or fling utensils. Plus, she really knows how to cook!
Originally from M¶lndal, Sweden, and a graduate of one of the country's top cooking schools, Elm moved to the States in 1992 and began work catering in Maryland. In 2003, she and her husband moved their family to Charlottesville and she ran Little Sweden Catering on her own. But she had always wanted a restaurant of her own. That dream became a reality on Wednesday, September 1.
"This is something I have planned for a long-time," she says. "I was just looking for the right location."
As for the food, Elm says you can expect traditional Swedish dishes like the famous meatballs (second only to Greta Garbo and ABBA as widely familiar Swedish imports), smoked salmon, shrimp, and pork chops, plus the "open face" type sandwiches the country is known for. Indeed, Dish learned that smorgasbord, a word he has been using his entire adult life, actually breaks down as sm¶rg¥s (open-faced sandwich) and bord (table). Thanks Wikipedia!
However, Elm also points out that she'll be serving up American favorites as well, things like burgers and fries, club sandwiches, and bacon and eggs, etc. Little Sweden Caf© will also be open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner six days a week. And get this: Elm says nothing on the menu is over $10.
"Plus, I make everything from scratch," says Elm, "my own breads, my own soups."
But Dish had a question: what makes Swedish meatballs so special? While Elm isn't willing to divulge her recipe, she does reveal that it's all in the blend of spices, particularly allspice.
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The income of just one 1 percenter, coming in at an average of $16.4 million each year, could pay off student loans for 631 people (at $26,000 each, the average student debt compiled by the class of 2011), 109 mortgages (at $149,981 each, the average household mortgage debt), or the credit card debt of 3,600 others (at $4,554,000 each), according to Total Bankruptcy Attorneys, which released two infographics analyzing the wealth of the 1 percent.
The top 10 percent of earners in the United States have seen their average incomes rise by an additional $116,071 to $254,867 since 1966 -- an increase of 84 percent -- according to a new study of tax data from Pulitzer Prize-winner David Cay Johnston. Meanwhile, the bottom 90 percent, or most of the country, saw their incomes rise by a paltry $59 during that same period.
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Season 10 Episode #1001
10-Year Retrospective; Blues Musician Norman Sylvester; Glass Artist David Schwarz
10-Year Retrospective; Blues Musician Norman Sylvester; Glass Artist David Schwarz
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Oregon Art Beat
Glass Artist David Schwarz
Glass artist David Schwarz creates colored globes that look like strange new planets.
Oregon Art Beat
Blues Musician Norman Sylvester
There's no need to travel to Louisiana for your next dose of the blues. Just track down the Northwest Boogie Cat, Norman Sylvester.
Oregon Art Beat
10-Year Retrospective
Art Beat takes a look back at 10 years of profiling great artists from around the state.
All Season 10
Deborah Dewit-Marchant; Hiawatha Johnson; Magda Druzdzel; Muralist Carolyn Johnson-Bell (1032)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1032
Original Broadcast: June 4, 2009
Earl Newman; Portland Symphonic Girlchoir; Richard Hay (1031)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1031
Original Broadcast: May 21, 2009
Holly Andres; Irene Farrera; Kathy Deggendorfer (1029)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1029
Original Broadcast: May 7, 2009
Painter Don Bailey; Luthier Jon Franke; Niel DePonte, Metro Arts (1028)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1028
Original Broadcast: April 30, 2009
Casey Neill and the Norway Rats; Dee Maaske; Tryon Creek Installation (1027)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1027
Original Broadcast: April 23, 2009
Katie Estvold; Pete Krebs Trio; Vanessa Renwick (1026)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1026
Original Broadcast: April 16, 2009
David Ornette Cherry; Ruth Greenberg Mosaics; Sculptor Greg Congleton (1025)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1025
Original Broadcast: April 9, 2009
Brain Chemistry for Lovers; Clem Starck; Wendy Thompson (1024)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1024
Original Broadcast: April 2, 2009
Ramsey Embick; Ceramicist Richard Rowland; Sue Allen (1023)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1023
Original Broadcast: March 26, 2009
Author Lauren Kessler; Deborah Horrell; Painter Eva Speer (1022)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1022
Original Broadcast: March 19, 2009
Kate Davis; Kim Hamblin; Sculptor Mel Katz (1021)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1021
Original Broadcast: February 26, 2009
Fresco Painter Jack Portland; Kimry Jelen; Midnight Serenaders (1020)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1020
Original Broadcast: February 19, 2009
Icefire Glassworks, James Kingwell and Suzanne Kindland; Lions of Batucada; Shop People (1019)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1019
Original Broadcast: February 12, 2009
Fabric Artist Alma Cox; Painter Milo; The Weary Weaver: Kathleen Kanas (1018)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1018
Original Broadcast: February 5, 2009
Musician Gary Ogan; J. Chester Armstrong; Jepson Lonnquist (1017)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1017
Original Broadcast: January 29, 2009
Central Oregon Symphony Orchestra; Crow's Shadow Institute; George Leverett's Hurdy-Gurdy (1016)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1016
Original Broadcast: January 22, 2009
Jazz Violinist Eddie Parente; Printmaker Gene Flores; Teacher and Dancer Chungilang Al Huang (1015)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1015
Original Broadcast: January 15, 2009
Jazz pianist Darrell Grant; Jo Brody, healing arts; Lee Barker - Barker Bass (1014)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1014
Original Broadcast: January 8, 2009
Painter Tom Browning; Quantum Sculptures with Julian Voss-Andreae; Thom Bray, actor and educator (1012)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1012
Original Broadcast: December 18, 2008
Broadway Rose Theatre; Gospel Christmas; Roberta Lavadour, Book Artist (1011)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1011
Original Broadcast: December 11, 2008
Joelle Smith; Mary Alice & Ray Beard; Peanut Butter Conspiracy (1010)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1010
Original Broadcast: November 27, 2008
Christmas Revels; Portland Baroque Orchestra Turns 25 (1009)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1009
Original Broadcast: November 20, 2008
Glass Artist Andy Paiko; Painter Trude Parkinson; Singer Linda Hornbuckle (1008)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1008
Original Broadcast: November 13, 2008
Lyle Ritz, Jazz Ukulele Master; Pendleton Center for Arts; Toby Kimmey; Writer Marc Acito (1007)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1007
Original Broadcast: November 6, 2008
Guitarist Don Latarski; Watercolor Artist Jeffrey Hull; Retro Modern with George Perrou (1006)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1006
Original Broadcast: October 30, 2008
Jeanne Henry; Mood Area 52; Virginia Flynn Paper Cutting (1005)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1005
Original Broadcast: October 23, 2008
Bluegrass Musician Molly Adkins; Metal Sculptor Marie Maretska; Portland Sacred Harp (1004)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1004
Original Broadcast: October 16, 2008
Crafting; OBT's Prima Ballerinas (1003)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1003
Original Broadcast: October 9, 2008
Josh Smith, Oregon College of Art and Craft; Musical Trio Dirty Martini (1002)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1002
Original Broadcast: September 25, 2008
10-Year Retrospective; Blues Musician Norman Sylvester; Glass Artist David Schwarz (1001)
Oregon Art Beat: Episode #1001
Original Broadcast: September 18, 2008
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I remember the newspaper article mentions concern of fish that might potentially suffer from DLH's house project. And to quote somebody who has visited DLH's house (and who is also a seasoned tea drinker), "... I'm sure no fish would be unhappy living downstream of DLH's house..." (I paraphrased.)
I'm not sure a tea drinker however seasoned can speak for fish feeling happy about Hoffman's biowaste potentially leaching into the aquifers.
I'm a serious vermicomposter myself and had read all about humanures but have never tried it. Safety is dependent on the practice of the composter. I personally don't feel entirely comfortable having my tea vendor who has to package my tea be in frequent contact with human manure esp. when they are not anal about cleanliness.
But if Hoffman's open sewage ponds don't alarm you as being a public health hazard, we are on very different planes of thought.


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