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Did you hear that today is Charles Dickens 200th birthday? What better way to celebrate than by highlighting one of my (and certainly his!) favorite things: bookshelves.
To be fair, the two projects I applied this to today don't actually hold books, though the latter will once we get another DVD rack, however they're still bookshelves! Our house is actually overrun with bookshelves. We have zillions, and still we don't have enough spaces for all of our books. It's kind of shocking, actually.
Now I'd love to take credit for this project and say it was my idea, but it wasn't. I saw it in an Ikea catalog and thought it may be something fun to do with some of the shelving units in our home, specifically in our living room. I still had some (though now we're down to just *one* remaining fabric...) material left over from our homemade (big mistake) photo booth at our wedding. It's kind of a tricky pattern. It works in small doses, but large scale it isn't as nice. I've been looking for something to do with it for a long time now and I think this was absolutely perfect.
For this project, you'll only need material and a staple gun. Sooooo easy. I have some alternate ways to use this at the bottom, too, so make sure you check it out.
First we made over our coffee table. There wasn't anything wrong with it, really, but there were some wax stains on one of the shelves and then a massive chunk was taken out of the other. I thought this would be a good way to cover that up, and it was. I liked how it looked and had so much fabric left over that I decided to do the bookshelf in our living room as well. Let's get started! I'm going to do the steps using the coffee table, which was harder than the bookshelf.
(1) Lay your shelf out. Lay your shelf on top of your fabric and decide how much you'd like to cover. I recommend covering the entire shelf, like a wrapped present. It looks much cleaner. However, you can always just do a middle section- like we did on the third shelf in our bookcase. If you aren't going to cover the whole thing, remember to hem or fray check the edges of your fabric.
(2) Staple it. You know this looks much better if you iron the fabric first. I'm not sure why I didn't do that, but hey... if your fabric is wrinkled, you should iron it. Then, staple! I start with one side at a time and then do the side directly opposite of it. Remember to pull realllyyyy tightly. Be careful around the edges, too, you don't want it to bunch up too much.
(3) Add it. Throw the shelf back on! This may mean needing to cut out fabric where screws should be, etc, or it may just be laying the shelf back down (as was the case for my bookshelf). For my coffee table, I ended up putting masking tape down at the point where the shelf slide into the table. The fabric kept catching and bunching up, but the tape solved that entirely. You can peel off the visible part once your shelf is in place.
There were some differences with the bookcase. First of all, I wrapped the entire shelf in fabric. With the coffee table, the shelf is SO low to the ground that no one will ever see underneath. Not so with the bookshelf. My suggestion is to overlap the fabric on the underside.
There are so many other things I want to do with this. I plan on doing the *entire* DVD bookcase in fabric. The only reason I didn't do it with this one was a) not enough fabric and b) I would have had to disassemble it. I also got a little table top from IKEA for our sewing machine, which I'm going to fabric over as well to make match the room it's going in. I LOVE fabric! I hope you're inspired by this and see all sorts of wooden pieces in your home that can be so much more lovely with a touch of material.
There's ONE more thing I need to mention today... Charles Dickens may be 200, but my sweet little niece, Lilah is having her very first birthday! Lilah is a precious little darling and I absolutely love her. She's a joy and a delight. And she looks *exactly* like my brother. Her big sister, Penelope, seems to really favor her mother, but Lilah is a dead ringer for my brother. It's incredible. I've never seen anything like it.
Lilah is a very special blessing to our family. She was born 5 weeks early, and just in time to meet her Great Grandpa. He died about 3 weeks after she was born, and his body was really shutting down for the latter two. I really believe that God sent Lilah early because he knew that her Great Grandpa was leaving earth. My Grandpa and my brother had a very, very strong bond. I think they both would have been devastated if Grandpa couldn't have met Lilah.
So, little Lilah Bean- happiest birthday wishes for your Auntie Auna! I love you so, so much and I can't wait to cuddle you up and celebrate your life!
I hope you have a beautiful day. As always, thanks for reading!


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When did you last buy a book? How often do you buy books? How often do you go to libraries- I spent the weekend in the British library thumbing through newly published works about the seventeenth century- when did you last go? How often do you read a book- on the train to work, at dinner, in a captured moment in a lift, for work? I'm not turning into Italo Calvino here but if any of the answers to those questions are yes or I frequently read or buy books, then you fall into a category that Gladstone defines in his essay on books. The nineteenth century statesman stated in an essay that 'I shall assume that the book buyer is a book lover, that his love is a tenacious not a transitory love and that for him the question is how to keep his books'. Gladstone's essay is about how to build a library- what sort of room should it be, how should the shelves be positioned. Its not a thought we all have all the time- but as someone who loves books it might be one you have had. I've definitely wondered about it- all my life- the dream library has filled my imagination. It would be cosy, have plenty of alcoves and niches, an endless supply of tea which would never spill and include plenty of writing materials and be indexed (by magic).
What's interesting about Gladstone's essay isn't his invocation of an ideal library. He talks of a library of 10,000 volumes sorted under the major headings- philosophy, history et al. That might be possible at Hawarden but in crowded central London, Manhatten or Moscow its probably out of the ken of most ordinary mortals. No its not the explicit subject that I loved about Gladstone's essay: its the fact that he loved books and what he writes about he writes with a sense of why he loves books. Firstly take this passage,
There is a lot of hyperbole in this first passage. I'll quite freely admit I have felt alone in a room filled with books. I'll also quite freely admit that there are times when I'd prefer they offered some consolation bar a wall of letters. But in the moments when I truly love books, I think Gladstone is right. My fairly squat Everyman edition of Gibbon for example carries with it real affection. It is the writers of the books, the spirits which live in the pages which I care about and am linked to as I read.
books are the voices of the dead. They are a main instrument of comunion with the vast human procession of the other world. They are the allies of the thought of man. They are in a certain sense at enmity with the world. Their work is, at least, in the two higher components of our threefold life. In a room well equipped with them, no one has felt or can feel solitary. Second to none as friends to the individual, they are first and formost among the compages, the bonds and rivets of the race onward form that time when they were first written on the tablets of Babylonia and Assyria, the rocks of Asia Minor and the monuments of Egypt, down to the diamond editions of Mr Pickering and Mr Froude.
Gladstone gets to this when he talks about the differing characters of books. Some he says can never be stored in the back of a shelf (Gibbon for example) but as he comments 'neither all men nor all books are equally sociable. For my part I find but little sociability in a huge wall of Hansards or (though a great improvement) in the Gentleman's magazine, in the Annual Registers, in the Edinburgh and Quarterly Review or in the vast range of volumes which present pamphlets innumerable'. The point he is making is that we relate to books in different ways- the sign of a true lover of books in a way is the sense that she relates to the books she owns and she reads in a different way. So Hansards or old copies of the Gentleman's Magazine (a serious journal) deserve different treatment from old friends like Austen and Bronte- one is written for ephemera, the other for eternity. You don't have to agree with Gladstone about his library or even be able to maintain it to understand that central point. And ultimately having understood that, it really doesn't matter how or what you read- just that you feel what Gladstone self evidently felt. That the printed page is a door from your mind into other minds, from your world into other worlds.

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I recently was in Georgia on a wine-tour in combination with EWBC. Now Georgia also poses lots of interesting archaeological finds and some of the oldest that can be connected to wine and wine producing.
We visited the Georgian National Museums archaeological exhibit and also got to see some finds that as yet has not reached the exhibit. If you go to Georgia this is a museum not to miss, lots of nice and interesting finds that shows both relations to West Europe, the Middle East and Asia – there's really no question that you are on the Silk road.
Most of these finds are found in graves and there are several fantastic gold and silver artifacts. The exhibition represent the history of Georgian gold smithery from the 3rd millennium B.C. To the 4th century A.D. So lets get ready for some archeo- artifact – pornography! The pictures are just a few the objects on display and a few in the end that are not on display as yet.
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I Finally Got A Gun: Tragic Last Tweet Of 17-Year-Old High School Teen Who Shot Herself Over Her Ex Girlfriend! (Hundreds Of Online Friends Were Ignored)
A popular high school student committed suicide after her cries for help to her hundreds of online friends were ignored. Ashley Duncan, 17, wrote 'I finally got a gun' and then posted a picture of a revolver which, soon after, it is believed she used to shoot herself dead. It followed a series of increasingly dark posts on Tumblr and Twitter where she talked of suicide, questioned the meaning of her life and said she was 'miserable'. She wrote: 'Life ain't worth the pain. if you know or have known what it feels like to want to die every minute second hour day week month year then you feel me. 'I might not struggle financially but I struggle emotionally and mentally and I think that's the worst struggle. 'So in asking why can't it be my choice to die now?… I'm miserable. 'One day I won't be here anymore and that'll be the happiest day of my life… I'm tired and I'm done with this life.' 'It's like God is torturing me by keeping me here.' She also wrote: 'The only thing that made me happy is gone…I'm miserable.' The 'thing' she refers to is not clear, but a previous post suggests she had just split up with a partner. She had written: 'My heart is broken. I'm not picking up the pieces and I'm not gonna rely on anybody to put my heart back together. It's just that destroyed.'
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On Tuesday, August 1, 2017 Wayne Lamicela (60 years old) from Middletown parked at the Seager Parking Lot to hike in the Big Indian Wilderness. Lamicela had recently moved to the area from Rochester NY region where he had worked as an Engineer. The Big Indian Wilderness is a 33,500 acre wilderness located on the NYS Public Property. Additionally there are thousands of acres of forest owned by private property owns adjacent to the NYS public land. Around 6:30pm that day, Lamicela called 911 to state that he was lost and needed help. After the DEC could not locate him, a large Search and Rescue with over 50 people was started to look for him. SAR from multiple states, NYS Police helicopter, local fire departments, DEC Rangers, and local hikers all participated in trying to find him. He was found on Saturday August 5, 2017 by the care taker to the Gould Property, which owns DoubleTop and Graham Mountains. The care taker found him barefoot and sore while patrolling the property. He was able to escort the hiker down to the end of Hiram Todd Road. The DEC was called and he was transported to Margaretville Community Hospital where he stayed overnight. We wish Wayne a speedy recovery.
DEC Press Release #1: http://www.dec.ny.gov/press/110965.html
DEC Press Release #2: Search for Wayne Lamicela
On Saturday, at approximately 1pm, a caretaker for private property located Mr. Lamicela, in a wooded area, while checking on the property. Mr. Lamicela was barefoot but still mobile and able to walk on his own power with the assistance of the reporting party who helped him to the end of the Hiram Todd Rd. There, a DEC Forest Ranger was able to positively identify Mr. Lamicela and assist with the final evacuation to a waiting ambulance. Mr. Lamicela was evaluated by the ambulance crew and transported to the Margaretville Community Hospital for further evaluation and monitoring where he remains at the time of this report.
Crews are currently still returning from their assignments in the field, it is anticipated that it will be several hours before all units are clear and back to the staging area. DEC thanks all emergency responders who aided in the successful search for Mr. Lamicela.


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and take great care to not walk under the mistletoe at the same time as your mom does. LET'S GO!
A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS – 8:00PM (ABC) The annual holiday classic airs tonight. "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, 'Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.' That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown." Surprisingly heavy stuff coming from a kid who drags a blanket around everywhere he goes. Stay tuned afterwards for a new seven-minute holiday short called, "Operation Secret Santa," featuring the voice of Betty White as Mrs. Claus. Betty White is like MSG. She finds her way into everything these days. ANTICIPATION: BETTY WHITENESS!
GLEE – 8:00PM (Fox) If traditional Christmas specials aren't your thing, then head on over to Fox for the first Christmas episode in "Glee" history. It's like having carolers come to your door, and then staying for an hour, and then doing a mashup of "Silver Bells" and "Mo Money Mo Problems". There are people who might like that sort of thing. I don't know any of them, but they must be out there. ANTICIPATION: GLOLIDAY!
HEAVEN HELP HER – 10:00PM (Discovery Health) The Rev. Alexandra Conrads is an Episcopal priest by day and a heavy metal goddess by night. And wouldn't you know it, she's lookin' for LOVE. So join her in this new reality show as she prowls the streets of LA looking for faces to rock and men to kiss. ANTICIPATION: LITAFORDY!
INSIDE THE ACTOR'S STUDIO – 8:00PM (Bravo – an NBC/Universal Network) James Franco is your brownnosing recipient this evening. "And then, you were in a little film that went by the name of… oh yes, what was it? Oh, of course. SPIDERMAN." (cue wild applause for three minutes). ANTICIPATION: FOR DEVOTED FRANCOPHILES!
BILLY THE EXTERMINATOR – 9:30PM (A&E) Billy kills himself some feral boars. Now THAT qualifies as a household pest. Also, he saves an injured baby bunny. And then exterminates it. Just kidding. He doesn't kill it. Billy has the capacity for love as well as for merciless rodent genocide. ANTICIPATION: GOOD BUNNY!
Tuesday Watch List: Gleemas!
Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and take great care to not walk under the mistletoe at the same time as your mom does. LET'S GO!


text: Chadwick Dillon created this incredible Grey Knight hoodie a couple of months ago for his Etsy shop, but was flooded with so many requests that he couldn't keep up with demand. Now all we can do is hope he'll open up shop again and give us the armor we have so long desired. Or perhaps that some other valiant hoodie maker will create another set of armor — maybe with green and gold elastic fabric at the waist for those of us who read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.


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Editor's note: I can't connect to the hotel wifi, so it looks like it will be phone posts all weekend. Please forgive the lack of links and poor formatting.
Jonathan Sanchez took the mound tonight looking to stake a claim to a spot in the rotation. 5 shutout innings with 4 Ks and only 3 baserunners should do it. Other than a two batters in the third, when he walked Lew Ford, then sent him to second on a wild pitch, Sanchez was in control the whole time. This wasn't against minor leaguers either, as Baltimore had 7 regulars in the lineup.
Chris Leroux and Justin Wilson both solid in their relief stints.
The offense looked a lot like last year. Eight hits, but never more than one in an inning, and nine Ks. Starling Marte and Neil Walker both reached base twice. Travis Snider had two hits and two walks, plus made some tricky plays against the twilight sky.
On the bad side, Brad Hawpe had a hat trick and clearly disagreed with the umpire on both of his called strikeouts. Jose Tabata pinch hit for Hawpe in the ninth when the Pirates were trying to rally but missed a bunt sign and left pinch runner Alex Presley out to dry at second.
It would have been nice to win, but all-in-all there were a lot if positive things to take away from the game. I also got to meet Pat Lackey from Whygavs.com, who seemed to be having a good time. Which is really what it's all about.
Some pictures:
Jonathan Sanchez warms up.
Pedro Alvarez watches Andrew McCutchen at bat.
Swing and a miss.
A great night for baseball.
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I made this little quilt from a charm pack of "Peace on Earth" by 3 Sisters for Moda. My swap partner, Cheryl, indicated that she likes traditional Christmas colors and patterns and I thought that this selection fit the bill just perfectly.
I took this opportunity to audition a block pattern for a larger quilt that I am also currently working on. It's from the Fall '08 Easy Quilts magazine. It's very easy to cut and piece and I love the look of the simple blocks.
The quilt's about 24" x 24" or so.
I've been trying to find a labeling method that I like. I love designing labels that can be printed on my computer, but I haven't mastered hand-stitching it on the back yet. Plus, I went through an entire 5-sheet pack of $12 printer fabric that all had to go in the trash because of printer issues.
So this time, I tried simply taking a 5.5" square of white fabric, ironing it in half, lining up the raw edges with the corner of the quilt and stitching it under my binding. I then used a Micron pigma pen to write out the deets. I'm pretty happy with this method, though I'm not too proud of my handwriting!
Another fun swap. Thanks, Toni, for setting it up! Now I can look forward to receiving my Christmas-themed quilt in the mail soon ...


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Pyramid Bamboo
Luck and good fortune are two things we wish for all the people we care about. Our pyramid of bamboo greenery is a powerful symbol of both. And because indoor plants are known for fostering good health by cleaning impurities from the air and enhancing mood, these lush, leafy stalks will bring a sense of balance and harmony while creating a calming natural indoor landscape. As a complement to this special gift, add our mini wind chime set, which provides peace and tranquility.
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A foreign lottery scheme has a terrifying new twist. And this scam may actually pose a danger.
While Jamaica has beautiful beaches and tropical weather, United States Postal Inspectors say the island is also home base for a foreign lottery scam, involving con men who are now threatening their victims.
"The individuals who are actually perpetrating these schemes are incredibly violent individuals and extremely aggressive," said Antonio Gomez, a U.S. postal inspector.
Inspectors say this is a troubling new trend. Typically, con men involved in lottery schemes call their victims, tell them they've won a prize and then try to convince them to pay a tax or fee to collect their winnings. But the Jamaican ringleaders don't stop there.
"If there is any kind of push back from the victims, they are incredibly aggressive," said Gomez.
With new technology like Google Earth, the con artists are able to see a satellite photo of their victim's home up close, and then use that information to threaten them.
"I see you live at 1234 Main Street and I see your red door with the blue bird on it and if you don't send us the money, we will have someone deal with you personally," said Gomez.
Because of this, Postal Inspectors are stepping up efforts to combat this new crime gang and protect U.S. citizens.
"We currently are working with the Department of Justice and extraditing individuals from Jamaica to US to face federal charges," said Gomez. "There is no foreign lottery-- not out of Jamaica, not out of Costa Rica, not out of Spain, not out of anywhere else."
Ignore all mail and phone solicitations for foreign lottery promotions. If you receive what looks like lottery material from a foreign country, give it to your local Postmaster.
If you believe you've responded to a scam, you can file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and Florida's State Attorney General.


text: First published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has consistently been Jane Austen's most popular novel. It portrays life in the genteel rural society of the day, and tells of the initial misunderstandings and later mutual enlightenment between Elizabeth Bennet (whose liveliness and quick wit have often attracted readers) and the haughty Darcy. The title Pride and Prejudice refers (among other things) to the ways in which Elizabeth and Darcy first view each other.


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Using Globetrotter HSDPA Module Network Card
Subject description: Make the globetrotter card work, like on Fujitsu Siemens Notebook for example.
I ran the network wizard for hours and tried to get connected but to no avail. Puppy only recognizes the wlan0 device and so I assumed that was it.
But then I tried GPRS connection and that worked, but only after I put the proper settings in.
PUPPY VERSION - 4.31 and also 5.01
Fujitsu Siemens Laptop
2Ghz CPU
768MB Memory
80GB Harddisk
Atheros Wireless Adapter
Globetrotter HSDPA Module Network Card(The modem that connects via GPRS!)
So when I try and configure GPRS it was asking me for password and APN and all this kind of thing, so for this you must reboot to windows Vista or XP if you have that and get the following items from the HSDPA settings in Device Manager in Windows.
The APN is just a string or address. Here it is just "Internet" but you can easily get it from the Globetrotter Connect software program in windows.
The other settings are harder and require you to go into the device properties page in Device Manager. On this machine there are funny strings for Username and Password that have Unicode characters so I saved to UTF8 format text file so I could copy and paste once I rebooted to linux.
The Phone Pin is the same one you use with Globetrotter Connect software.
Other than that there was nothing else to do. It is just a case of using GPRS to connect, and then filling in the right settings. If you get a setting wrong you might find the modem stops working alltogether, and so you can just turn the PC off for ten seconds and then restart. Seriously, if you just reboot, the modem will not even appear in Windows, well maybe as Unknown Device or something like that.
So if you have PPY431 or PPY501(LUPU) then you can just boot up a fresh RAM boot, and then go to Internet Connection Wizard, and then Select GPRS connection, and finally fill in the correct details that you got from windows.
Now with the HSDPA and the Fujitsu Siemens it can be temperamental so you can use the FN/Wireless Keys to toggle the modem on off. That is if you connect and it seems to connect but all the IP address is wrong, then use the keyboard to toggle the modems power and then retry. It works! I am now posting this from Puppy Linux 501 after wasting all the night with the wlan0" dialogs in the network setup wizard!!!
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I'll found another solution to connect Internet with HSDPA and a OPTION Globetrotter interface from my ASUS notebook.
It uses wvdial program and a few script, like other distros i've seen in Internet.
I don't like PGPRS, i prefer to use wvdial program, not wvdial's GUI interface.
Quickly I'll post files to use to connect correctly (I am an Italian Vodafone customer)
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These files can launch a connection via wvdial program,
To start you can create this SCRIPT, with name HSDPA, in the directory /root/my-applications:
modprobe usbserial vendor=0x0af0 product=0x7601
cp /etc/hsdpa.conf /etc/wvdial.conf
cp /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial.bak /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial
/sbin/route del default
rxvt -exec wvdial
Obviously you must write exact product code of your OPTION interface (this is the one in my SONY VAIO, you can obtain with HARDINFO or PUPSCAN programs), sometimes the last line works (in various PUPPY version) with this syntax:
rxvt -e wvdial
You can copy this script to your desktop to launch easily Internet Connection with a single click from desktop.
You can create in directory /etc/ppp/peers a file called wvdial with these lines:
plugin passwordfd.so
name wvdial
Then, copy this file to wvdial.bak, to mantain a secure copy.
Now, you can create in /etc/ a configuration file called hsdpa.conf, like this:
[Dialer Defaults]
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
Baud = 115200
Init1 =
Init2 = ATZ
Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","web.omnitel.it"
Carrier Check = yes
Dial Command = ATDT
Phone = *99***1#
Username = guest
Password = guest
Stupid Mode = yes
Auto Reconnect = yes
[Dialer isp2]
Phone =
Username =
Password =
Stupid Mode = no
Auto Reconnect = yes
[Dialer pin]
Init1 = AT+CPIN=
[Dialer apn]
Init5 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","web.omnitel.it"
[Dialer wireless]
#To force only 2G or 3G, uncomment the Init4 line and append 0 (2G) or 2 (3G), and substitute your operator's name for MYOPS.
#Init4 = AT+COPS=0,0,"MYOPS",
#To force the 3G quality of service level, uncomment the Init6/Init7 line pair and set value two places each, for 384k/144k/64k, omitting the "k" (e.g., =1,4,64,384,64,384).
#Init6 = AT+CGEQMIN=1,4,64,384,64,384
#Init7 = AT+CGEQREQ=1,4,64,384,64,384
Please insert your parameters in this script, (correct port interface at line 2 at Modem parameter, phone number, username, password, pin etc.)
Everytime you launch HSDPA script, this copies hsdpa.conf into wvdial.conf and launches it.
This works fine for me.
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Most people have heard a thing or two about the home based business industry but in reality they don't know anything. It is very important for you to gather as much home based business information as you can before deciding to venture into this kind of business. The crucial information that you need to know will be revealed in this article and it will definitely be beneficial for you to know.
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Thursday, October 20, 2005
OPTIONS 2005 stuff
"The artists themselves represent a wildly diverse demographic" and "among the twenty artists represented in the WPA\Corcoran OPTIONS 2005 exhibition, the connecting thread may be somewhat difficult to find". It continues with - "some are still tethered to parental beneficence, while others have day jobs. One has abandoned a career as an architect; another appears to have made his way from the street. Still others were found in the most domestic netherworld of the bourgeois suburbs that constitutes the culture most foreign to the edgy domain of contemporary art."
Well... six of the seven included Richmond artists were found on a visit to VCU's MFA program, so I'm not too sure of what she is talking about. The connecting thread is pretty obvious to me. How many of the others were found on visits to MICA or elsewhere? It is pretty ridiculous that she doesn't mention the grad program studio visits in that message about how she selected work.
I haven't seen the show and most probably won't be going up, but I'll link here to all of the coverage mentioning the Richmond artists:
Michael O'Sullivan's review for the Washington Post - positive on Tim Devoe, negative on Judith Baumann.
JT Kirkland writes a response to O'Sullivan's review - agrees with O'Sullivan on Baumann and Devoe, but very much disagrees on a non-Richmond artist, Susan Noyes Vaughan.
JT Kirkland on individual works - JT has posted a bunch of photos of individual works from the show and is writing a short review of each directly below each photo. So far he has talked about Randy Toy (+), Tim Devoe, Suzanna Fields, and Ryan Mulligan (-). Still to come is Emily Hall, probably next week.
Here are some photos from the opening, including a couple from Ryan's performance.
Alexandra Silverthorne - is doing one artist a day, alphabetically. She is critical of Baumann and really liked Jorge Benitez.
James Bailey is anti-OPTIONS and anti-Lumpkin.
Although I haven't seen the show I am more than a little disappointed to note that both Judith Baumann and Emily Hall are showing the same work they exhibited six months ago at their thesis shows in April, especially considering the fact that both of them were recipients of $8,000 VMFA professional grants. Money well spent? I liked Emily's thesis installation of six or seven little "homes" in that little room with that title, but the one red structure removed and included in radius250 was a bit of a letdown, and now here it is again in the OPTIONS show.
I'd like to suggest to the VMFA that for their next round of grants they give the undergrad grants to undergrads, grad grants to grads, and the professional grants to artists who can demonstrate that they might be in it for the long haul. Also, if maybe they didn't choose a juror doing private studio visits with VCU grads that year, that might be nice.
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- Anonymous said...
Only about a third of the show passes muster, true. Still, it's more than a numbers game. There's just something about the cumulative weight of the show's failures -- its over-reliance on the work of recent art school grads, particularly from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond; its inability to distinguish between the nostalgic and the stale, between the novel and novelty; and the feeling that it has been juried rather than curated -- that seems to rob even the worthy artists of the pleasure their work would otherwise evoke.
--The Washington Post, link above.
It's nice to see people seriously disagreeing with the notion of "one-stop-shopping" for juried art shows. I like my school, and I don't think this type of behavior makes for good press. Are we "branding" art shows now? Ick...
- Anonymous said...
I was at this show during setup day helping Senor Benitez and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. There are some drawings of somebody's friends doing what friends do you know hanging out together. Good drawings but just refined foundation type work. Also there was some girl from Mica who was just a knock off Bruce Wilhem well a Bruce without a sense of humor. A Bored Wilhem? Then there are the what Jorge and I (mainly I) called the Crap Boxes, literally boxes of random shit found here and there flea market style by some 40+ woman who looked terribly bored as she was arranging them. I did meet the curator lady and I would agree that she did one stop art show shopping and really put off a sense of 'I just liked this work from here and then this stuff from over here and now that all the work and artists are here I don't know how to arrange them'. She kept moving people around to different spaces and only stopped that when an artist started to hang their stuff. Let's not forget about the "painter" next to Jorge who did a full length portrait of a character from Grand Theft Auto Vice City and then a close up of another character's face. The show is worth seeing it'll make you feel a thousand times better about your own work. Hours are Friday 6 to 10 pm, Sat and Sun during the day.
- Martin said...
Wow - Yes, blanding. Not good for anybody.
Dennis - You are a brave and foolish hater, I cringe for you.
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I first "met "Dr. Charles Leale, the physician who tried to save Abraham Lincoln when I visited the Ford's Theatre in Wahington, D.C.recently. In that theatre while sitting in the seats, looking at the balcony where Lincoln, his wife and friends were seated, I listened to the Park Ranger tell the story of the shot that killed Lincoln, and as I heard about this young doctor, I wondered what his story was. I was interested to learn that this was a topic of interest to Hershey Felder, too and that "An American Story for Actor and Orchestra", now playing in a limited engagement at The Royal George Theatre, 1641 North Halsted, focused on the doctor's telling of that terrible day and what came later. What I did not know before seeing this production was that Dr. Charles Leale lived to be 90 and had a remarkable life.
Set in New York City in 1932, 90-year old Dr. Charles Leale tells his true story as he travels back in time and recounts the events that changed his life forever 67 years prior. Hershey Felder stars as "Dr. Leale," the 23-year-old unknown Union Army medic who was the first individual to reach the presidential box at Ford's Theatre on the night President Lincoln was shot. Per the request of Mrs. Lincoln, Dr. Leale cared for the President throughout his final hours. "An American Story"is based on Dr. Leale's account, "Lincoln's Last Hours", as well as his original report from 1865, which created an international sensation when it was discovered amongst Lincoln's papers in Washington, D.C. in June 2012.
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Great care was taken to create the atmosphere of the period in which the performance took place. Walking into the Royal George Theatre, "wanted" posters lined some of the walls in the lobby. The unusual playbill offered to the audience was modeled after one you would have received attending the Fords Theatre the night of the assassination. And the interior of the theatre was very reminiscent of the Ford's Theatre. The use of photos projected onto the curtains was wonderfully done, and provided a feeling of both photographs of the time and also an unreality depicting an earlier time. All of this set the tone for the story as it was told. The Hershey Felder in this performance was a different one that I have seen before. He did not play the piano, and he was a consummate storyteller. The orchestra, which added charm and warmth sometimes overshadowed his songing.
I was riveted while history played out before me. The series of stories and events were amazing and also a contrast of good and evil with many ironic twists and turns. We learn that the young doctor loved the theater and why. In parallel and also in contrast were the three Booth brothers (out of 10 children) who performed on stage, John Wilkes being the youngest. The fateful night when Dr. Leale was unable to keep his promise to Mrs. Lincoln to save her husband haunted him during his lifetime and the telling of the moment when the injury was discovered was so poignant and powerful, I found tears on my cheeks.
My recent Lincoln experience (here) converged perfectly with Dr. Leale's descriptions and I could "see" the places mentioned in my mind. I thought it was a brilliant presentation of history. I learned some new factss related to what I already knew in a new way. Ultimately, it was inspirational and hopeful…and highly recommended.
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Peatross decides: Judge pens halt to Cuccinelli inquest
The controversial "climategate" inquest by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli came to a halt Monday as an Albemarle County judge issued a declaration that set aside a demand for old emails from Michael Mann, the former UVA professor and creator of the so-called "hockey stick graph," which posits that global temperatures are undergoing an unprecedented spike.
In a case that drew international attention, both sides spun the decision their way.
On the hot-button issue of whether such an inquest would have harmed academic freedom–- something that was argued by four rights groups in an amicus brief–- retired judge Paul Peatross seemed reluctant to carve out such a privilege.
"The Attorney General has the right to investigate if he meets the other requirements of the statute," wrote Peatross, noting that he was preserving Cuccinelli's right to refile a narrower inquest.
"I am pleased that the judge has agreed with my office on several key legal points," Cuccinelli said in a prepared statement, "and has given us a framework for issuing a new civil investigative demand to get the information necessary to continue our investigation into whether or not fraud has been committed against the Commonwealth."
Judge Peatross heard arguments from the two sides on Friday, August 20–- the same day that a small protest of UVA professors and students took place on the steps of the Rotunda.
The Peatross ruling blistered the AG's office on several points including the state's failure to state precisely why it believes that old emails relate to a monetary fraud. Additionally, Peatross found that only one of the five grants Mann received at UVA actually consisted of state money, and so it didn't meet the requirements of the Fraud Against Taxpayers Act, or FATA, the 2003 Virginia law that gave the AG the right to his so-called Civil Investigative Demand.
Peatross also found that most of the grants preceded FATA, which was designed for frauds against the Commonwealth, but he left the door open to a refiling if the Attorney General can show that Virginia funds were paid during a time when FATA was in effect.
–story updated for print with UVA's spin at 2:50pm, Tuesday, August 31
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Soviet and Russian propaganda have often accused their own scientists as well as Western scientists of concocting criminal plots. In 1992, the KGB even admitted right in Izvestia that they had spread the lie that Pentagon scientists made AIDS to genocide blacks.
Izvestiya (3-19-92) reported:
"[Russian intelligence chief Yevgeni Primakov]mentioned the well known articles printed a few years ago in our central newspapers about AIDS supposedly originating from secret Pentagon laboratories. According to Yevgeni Primakov, the articles exposing US scientists' 'crafty' plots were fabricated in KGB offices."
During the so-called "Climategate" email scandal, which began on November 20, 2009, the Kremlin-financed satellite channel Russia Today used the Western denialist Lord Monckton to advance the view that global warming was a "swindle" being perpetrated by Western scientists. The Russian propaganda said the same thing as British and American global warming denialists. Pravda was literally quoting FOX News.
American politicians who are global warming denialists tend to be conservative, right-wing Republicans such as Senator James Inhofe and Virginia's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. Denialist politicians often get money from fossil fuel interests.
Some American denialists are also in the conspiracist "9-11 Truth Movement." These people claim that President George W. Bush or his minions are the true masterminds behind the 9-11 attacks. One example of a "Truther" publication is the "Rock Creek Free Press", which titled an article on Climategate "Science Scandal of the Century: The World's Most Influential Climate Scientists Get Caught 'Fudging' the Data."
Virginia's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli continues to spread ignorant denialist propaganda even though the official Russian media is no longer promoting the view that global warming is a scientific "swindle."
This summer, perhaps because of the forest fires, the official Russian media and President Medvedev began to say that global warming is happening.
Last fall, the Kremlin-financed satellite channel Russia Today promoted the conspiracy theory that global warming was a "hoax" perpetrated by British and American climate scientists. For example, Russia Today interviewed the British global warming denialist Lord Monckton. Western "experts" may be viewed as having more credibility with English-speaking Russia Today audiences.
This summer, the conspiracist historian Andrei Areshev, the lunatic deputy director of Russia's Strategic Culture Foundation, [a "think tank" that sometimes tests Russia's new political line] claimed that global warming exists but that U.S. climate scientists are CAUSING global warming with secret "climate weapons."
This clown made this fantastic claim while NASA was trying to pinpoint the fires in Russia so they could be extinguished.
In America, foundations and so-called "scientific" institutes also advance conspiracies about climate scientists. I think they all get money from fossil fuel interests to do this dirty work. The American foundations and "scientific" institutes typically claim that global warming doesn't exist, that it exists but is not caused by man, and that global warming is not a big problem.
The propagandists got so absurd in Russia that American climate scientists were accused of making up the HOAX of global warming and of CAUSING global warming with "secret climate weapons." Russian global Warming conspiracists evidently do not share a scientific consensus about the "plots" of our climate scientists.
This preposterous lie about our scientists beaming "secret climate weapons" at certain countries was spread while NASA was trying to help Russians locate hundreds of forest fires.
Responsible scholars and politicians help mankind solve problems, but Dr. Areshev and AG Cuccinelli seem to be creating extra problems by sowing distrust. I think the world needs help from Russian and American scientists, not from Russian and American conspiracists who are on the take from the fossil fuel companies!
Ed, can't you do a cursory scan of the scientific literature?
The VS04 results have been interpreted to cast serious doubt on the MBH reconstruction. [Note that a newer method has since been presented and evaluated (8, 9).] However, these results are in large part dependent on a detrending step not used by MBH, which is physically inappropriate and statistically not required. The take-away message for the climate community should be strong encouragement for more vigorous cross-comparisons of the various reconstruction implementations, based on real-world proxy series, model emulations, and simulated modifications to real-world data. Such a step would help eliminate unnecessary confusion that can distract from the crucial contributions of climate change research to important scientific and policy questions.
"ââ?¬Å?I am pleased that the judge has agreed with my office on several key legal points," Cuccinelli said in a prepared statement, ââ?¬Å?and has given us a framework for issuing a new civil investigative demand to get the information necessary to continue our investigation into whether or not fraud has been committed against the Commonwealth."
As the Black Knight said in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail": "It's only a flesh wound!"
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Why is Cucc wasting VA Taxpayer funds? Can we CID him? I'll listen to his twist on climate after he goes to school for six years to become a climatologist and THEN spends another six years to study the climate. The only fraud that Cucc can claim is that Mann claimed he was gonna study big boobs but then used the money to study climate instead. I've no opinion on the climate either way, but he sounds like somebody screaming that the apple falls upward. Go away and leave us alone, like move to NKorea where you like their government style.
Or even produce an allegation of fraud.
Peatross was substituting for a judge that was out on vacation, which is why he got this case even though he is retired.
Cucc is getting on my nerves.
I like this part from Section 2:
"What the Attorney General suspects that Dr. Mann did that was false or fraudulent in obtaining funds from the Commonwealth is simply not stated."
Gee, the paranoid fringe continually claims that it's so obvious from "Climategate" that Mann engaged in fraudulent research. And yet the judge said that Cucc couldn't provide any evidence of fraud.
@Arlen, I'm not sure what you're referring to when you say the judge gave the AG "full authorization in his decision for the AG to investigate Mann and get the documents from UVA."
Having just read the declaration, I take away two important points:
1) 4 of the 5 grants were federal grants, and therefore the AG cannot investigate them (see section 5).
2) The 5th grant was a state grant, but apparently was granted in 2001. Therefore FATA (not enacted until 2003) does not apply and the AG cannot issue a CID under FATA for it (see section 6).
So sure, the AG "may investigate grants made with Commonwealth of Virginia funds to professors such as Dr. Mann." (see the conclusion), but presumably not the 5 from his original CID. But what then does that leave him?
(on an unrelated side note, I think there's a typo in the conclusion: "For the reasons stated above, this Court rules that the two CIDs in question SO not show a "reason to believe"..."). Pretty sloppy!
He'll be back with vengeance. In reading the decision I saw nothing that will stop Cuccinelli from winning this battle. The main point of the decision was that UVA is a State School and that Mann at the time was a State Employee and therefor the judge gave full authorization in his decision for the AG to investigate Mann and get the documents from UVA. All Peatross said was go dot your i's and cross your t's, see you again real soon.
Well, Arlen, according to the article the judge also appeared to say that about 90% of what Cucc asked for was irrelevant or outside of his jurisdiction.
On the one grant that came from Virginia did the AG's office attach a copy of his request for the grant as an exhibit?. Seems like you would have to prove something fraudulent in his application but AG office wouldn't even bother to attach a copy? Suppose the one application for a grant from Va. says I suspect humans are effecting global warming I would like 100K to prove it. Or I'm totally neutral on if humans effect global warming and I would like 100 K to objectively study it. You expect UVa to search for all these old emails but you won't bother to attach a copy of the request for a grant in question?
I'm curious. Why is a retired judge issuing rulings at all? Is he not really retired? Is that normal in the courts? That just seems to me like something the conspiracy minded would get all freaky over.
It's amazing how many comment here without reading the actual ruling. Don't take what you read as gospel, use your eyes and your brain. As one who works in the Justice System, I am appalled at the sheep.
Here is another riot. Who is the Judge most overturned by the Virginia Supreme Court of those currently on the bench? Who was recently removed as Head of the Albemarle Circuit Court?
That's right Peatross. I've never argued in front of him but 27 investigations, 4 disciplinary actions and title for most overturned by the VASC, not much of a judicial career.
Google can educate those with open eyes.
Here one from the Hook about him being overturned: http://www.readthehook.com/Stories/2004/07/29/coverHousingKappaSigHeadqu...
Or just go to http://lp.findlaw.com/ and search his record for a good laugh.
I don't think Ken Cucinelli is too worried tonight.
a nice article that deserves to be refuted... if you can...
Arlen, the actual ruling throws out 90% of Cucc's demands. It rules that 4 of the 5 grants cannot be investigated by Cucc because they weren't awarded by the state. It says that the remaining 2001 grant can only be investigated if funds were allocated after January 1, 2003. The judge also says that the Attorney General has to demonstrate a clear "reason to believe" on an objective basis that Mann committed fraud before an investigation can be authorized. The judge goes on to state that the Attorney General did not do this by failing to provide even a clear allegation of fraud, let alone any evidence of such an act.
Rather than calling other people sheep, you might want to enroll in remedial literacy classes.
It also says that if you punched phone numbers from the phone book into his computer program they all came up as a hockey stick and Mann refuses to address the accusation.
@Arlen, a few of us obviously have read the ruling. That's how we are able to refer to sections and quote from it.
You seem to think that it's a victory of sorts for the AG and all he has to do is "go dot your i's and cross your t's.".
Let's see what those "i's" and "t's" are:
1) The four federal grants are outside the AG's FATA jurisdiction. Scratch those off the list.
2) The one state grant was awarded 2 years before FATA, so it's not subject to a FATA investigation (unless some of that money was awarded after 2003, which I suppose is a possibility, does anyone out there know?)
3) Even if the grants were actionable under FATA, Cuccinelli still needs to state plainly the suspected fraud by Dr. Mann, which the ruling finds he did NOT do.
4) Even if the grants were actionable AND he were able to state plainly what he thinks he's looking for, the scope of requested documents, emails, etc in the original CID would be considerably more narrow and limited only to papers having to do with the grant application. (See section 6.) If memory serves, the CID asked for any emails (among other things) to/from/about 20-30 scientists over the course of several years.
So, I suppose besides all that, Cuccinelli has the green light to proceed.
I have voted Republican for 40 years, and I voted for Ken Cuccinelli; but now I see that Virginia's Attorney General is persecuting the famous climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann on trumped-up fraud charges. I deeply regret my ignorant vote.
I noticed on the Internet that Virginia's Attorney General Cuccinelli's father used to be an executive at the American Gas Associationââ?¬â??the lobby for the gas industry.
The elder Cuccinelli worked in the Division of Marketing Services according to a March 1986 Oak Ridge National Laboratory document. (See page 78 "#118 Kenneth Cuccinelli" on the External Distribution list for this document.)
Currently the father is an executive at Quest Fore Strategic Marketing, an advertising, marketing, and communications company with offices in Pittsburg, Cleveland, and Washington D.C.
According to the biographical information about the elder Cuccinelli:
"When he joined Quest Fore in 1999 as chairman, Ken brought with him a wealth of strategic marketing experience. A former head of marketing for a Fortune 500 company (CNG Pittsburgh), Ken was named 1994 Gas Marketing executive and also served as chief operating officer of CNG Energy prior to joining Quest Fore. In addition to his chairman duties, he also serves as president of International Business Ventures LLC, a worldwide consulting and prospect development company that is active in Europe and Latin America. In 2005, Ken earned his ABC (Business Communications Accreditation) from the International Association of Business Communicators."
Attorney General Cuccinelli's opponent in the AG race, Steve Shannon, says that Cuccinelli got 55,000 dollars from his political sugar daddy, the mysterious Florida criminal ââ?¬Å?Bobby Thompson," around the time that Cuccinelli tried to put Virginia's Office of Consumer Affairs under the authority of the Attorney General's office.
Cuccinelli is making a big deal about the safety of abortion clinics, but perhaps the Attorney General got money from the mysterious Florida criminal ââ?¬Å?Bobby Thompson" to put the Office of Consumer Affairs under the AG's office in order to protect the fossil fuel interests, not the health of women.
Cuccinelli doesn't really care about safety and health issues or he would not mislead people about the dangers of global warming. I am not pro-abortion, but abortion is a safe proceedure (for the woman). It is certainly a lot safer (for the woman) than global warming.
I think that the abortion "safety" issue is just a red herring to disguise the real motives for putting Virginia's Office of Consumer Affairs under the authority of the Attorney General.
Climate denialists like Cuccinelli are spreading what used to be the party line of the Russian petrostate, which spreads global warming denialist propaganda to protect its gas industry. Until the horrific forest fires in Russia this summer, the Kremlin-financed media claimed that our "greedy" scientists were trying to trick people with the "hoax" of global warming.
This summer, our great scientists at NASA were helping the Russians find their forest fires, so the Russians stopped mischaracterizing our scientists as greedy liars. President Medvedev recently affirmed in RIA Novosti that global warming is real. Last winter, however, Medvedev claimed that global warming was some ââ?¬Å?some kind of tricky campaign made up by some commercial structures to promote their business projects." For the moment, President Medvedev has changed his tune about the "tricky campaign" of global warming.
I think that investigative journalists and the authorities should look into the Cuccinelli family's financial interests because I think there may be a conflict of interest. I think Attorney General Cuccinelli is probably using his AG office to advance his family's financial interests. To paraphrase Medvedev, I think global warming denialism is some ââ?¬Å?some kind of tricky campaign made up by some commercial structures to promote their business projects."
According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, ââ?¬Å?Cuccinelli falsely maintains [in his July 13, 2010 court filing] that climate scientists are primarily motivated by money, and suggests they are skewing their research results to attract grants."
Well, I think the truth may be that Cuccinelli's family is getting money from domestic and foreign fossil fuel businesses. After all, the elder Cuccinelli was a lobbyist for the American Gas Association in marketing. The elder Cuccinelli's new company is probably also getting paid to promote the interests of domestic and foreign fossil fuel companies because the elder Cuccinelli is touted in his biography as an expert in gas marketing.
Attorney General Cuccinelli tries to discredit Dr. Mann and get him in trouble for submitting fraudulent information in order to get government research grants, but Cuccinelli is probably the one who is using taxpayer money to perpetrate a fraud.
Cuccinelli has been spreading the same propaganda about our ââ?¬Å?greedy scientists" as the Kremlin, which depends heavily on its profits from the natural gas industry. Russia's President Medvedev is the former CEO of Russia's natural gas company GAZPROM.
Who will investigate Virginia's Attorney General?
I know that the FBI investigated Congressman Weldon because he was a shill for the Russian gas company ITERA, and Weldon's daughter got 500,000 dollars from ITERA for ââ?¬Å?consulting fees." I think the FBI should also investigate how Cuccinelli's family profits from the gas industry. I think Attorney General Cuccinelli is the greedy "moneybags," not the college professor Dr. Mann and the other climate scientists who work in government and academia.
Cuccinelli seems to have hijacked the AG office and is using it for his family's financial benefit. He is using my tax money to persecute the great climate scientist Dr. Mann on trumped-up fraud charges. It is disgusting, immoral, and perhaps illegal.
Attorney General Cuccinelli is Catholic, and the Vatican has asked the U.N. to fight global warming. Students in Catholic educational institutions read about global warming in their science textbooks because it is good science and because Christians are supposed to be stewards of the earth and protect God's creation. Are science teachers in Catholic educational institutions teaching lies about global warming? Is the Pope also a greedy liar who is perpetrating a hoax?
Perhaps Cuccinelli would like to use his power to force Virginia's public schools to teach the fossil fuel-inspired junk science about the "hoax" of global warming; but Catholic educational institutions will continue to teach the science of global warming, not the propaganda spread by Kremlin moneybags and the fossil fuel industry's political operatives.
Links to quotes and evidence here.
Scissorhands, what an insightful article. It starts out:
"The East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) revelations come as no real surprise to anyone who has closely followed the global-warming saga. The Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) thesis, to give it its semi-official name, is no stranger to fraud. It is no real exaggeration to state that it was fertilized with fraud, marinated in fraud, stewed in fraud, and at last served up to the world as prime, grade-A fraud with nice side orders of fakery and disingenuousness. Damning as they may be, the CRU e-mails are merely the climactic element in an exhaustively long line."
Just by calling something a "fraud" doesn't make it a fraud. If there was proof that Mann's research was fraudulent, perhaps it would have been wise for Cuccinelli to show this evidence to the judge. Oops, that's right - they didn't have any evidence.
Ed, I don't have the tolerance for cargo cult science to read the whole article, but this explains the first point:
And to be honest, it really doesn't matter particular year was the hottest in the US, but rather what the long-term trend is.
cookiejar, it's because our courts are overloaded with cases and Peatross has been asked by the court to pick up the slack.
Almost all of the other cases are legitimate. This one, clearly, is not.
gee Arlen, did you miss this tidbit:
Cuccinelli did not show, Peatross wrote, any evidence that Mann's work was ââ?¬Å?misleading, false or fraudulent in obtaining funds from the Commonwealth of Virginia."
ââ?¬Å?It is a victory not just for me and the university, but for all scientists who live in fear that they may be subject to a politically motivated witch hunt when their research findings prove inconvenient to powerful vested interests," Mann said in an e-mail to The Daily Progress. ââ?¬Å?I'm looking forward now to trying to get back full time to the things I really care about: doing research and extending the forefront of our scientific understanding of the science of climate and climate change, advising students and postdoctoral scholars, and doing the best I can to communicate to the public important scientific findings"
The good guys win, the bad guys lose. The balls in Coochi-coochi-coo's coo-coo court!
"I'm curious. Why is a retired judge issuing rulings at all? Is he not really retired? Is that normal in the courts? That just seems to me like something the conspiracy minded would get all freaky over."
Peatross "retired" in 2006 after a series of complaints were filed against him, but he is actually hearing as many cases as ever as a substitute judge. He has too many friends in high places to have been forced out.
Hey Arlen: the sheep are quite often appalled by the justice system.
Not, however, this time.
In my opinion, Cuccinelli is wasting our money and my time. He should resign today simply because he should feel so ashamed of himself, that he can't bear to see his own miserable reflection in his own sorry mirror, and that revelation makes him so horribly depressed that it has rendered him unable to function adequately, or make an informed decision on any relevant issue in an important elected position, in my opinion.
Bjžrn Lomborg has just been defriended by our attorney general.
"Bjžrn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change"


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TEPCO started using large remote-controlled excavation vehicles to clear the debris around the Fukishima plants this past weekend, including power shovels and bulldozers. The work is being controlled by operators in lead-covered operating rooms using cameras mounted on the robots and around the area.
These machines are being used in conjunction with the remote controlled Honeywell T-Hawk micro air vehicles to shoot videos like the one below, along with Qinetiq Talons (small recon bots) and radiation measuring bots.
Qinetiq also donated Bobcat power loaders that can lift cars, but those machines are still being evaluated for use at the plant. [CNet]


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Argument recap: Justices struggle with rules for resentencing after Booker
Pepper v. United States (No. 09-6822) requires the Court to further sort through the implications and consequences of its landmark ruling in United States v. Booker (2005). Booker made the federal Sentencing Guidelines "effectively advisory" after ruling that judicial fact-finding within a mandatory guidelines system was unconstitutional, and follow-up rulings have stressed that district judges now possess broad discretion to consider a range of facts and factors at initial sentencing. Pepper raises two issues concerning the scope and limits of a district judge's discretion at resentencing: (1) whether a new judge must under the "law of the case" doctrine follow undisturbed sentencing findings by the original judge, and (2) whether a judge may consider a defendant's post-sentencing rehabilitation as a mitigating factor under federal sentencing laws.
In the first question asked of Alfredo Parrish, arguing on behalf of petitioner Jason Pepper, Chief Justice Roberts suggested there was "tension" in the defendant's arguments because he urges that a new judge must be bound at resentencing by certain (pro-defendant) rulings made at initial sentencing, but also urges that a judge have discretion to consider post-sentencing developments that might justify a further sentence reduction for a defendant. Though Parrish claimed these issues "are like apples and oranges," the Chief Justice's question spotlighted an easy means for the Court to resolve Pepper: the Justices could declare that the broad post-Booker sentencing discretion afforded to district judges extends fully to all aspects of resentencing proceedings.
The United States urged the Justice not to impose limits on resentencing considerations. Acting Deputy Solicitor General Roy McLeese argued the Eighth Circuit was wrong to restrict consideration of post-sentencing rehabilitation, but he also argued that the "law of the case" doctrine should not restrict resentencing considerations whenever a circuit court calls for de novo resentencing on remand. Justice Alito pressed concerns about the unfairness that could result when one defendant gets to benefit at a resentencing from post-sentencing rehabilitation, when another similar defendant whose sentence is affirmed on appeal will not so benefit from identical rehabilitation. McLeese conceded that there will be "differences of opportunity, where one defendant [gets a] resentenc[ing] and new information will be considered as to that defendant [while] a similarly situated defendant will not get a resentencing." But, he stressed, this will not always unfairly benefit the resentenced defendant because there may be new aggravating factors that can and should impact the resentencing proceeding.
Arguing for more limited resentencing proceedings, Adam Ciongoli "" who was appointed by the Court to brief and argue the case as an amicus in support of the judgment below "" defended the Eighth Circuit's limit on post-sentencing rehabilitation issue by stressing the provisions of 18 U.S.C. §3742(g)(2), in which Congress sought to prohibit district courts at resentencing from imposing a lower sentence based on grounds that were "not specifically and affirmatively" included in the original statement of sentencing reasons. The Justices expressed concern that this statutory provision created constitutional difficulties in light of Booker and that Ciongoli's argument would also prevent district judges from considering post-sentencing aggravating factors that would justify an increased sentence. Justice Ginsburg expressed further concern that ignoring the defendant's good behavior after sentencing would undermine the statutory requirement to impose a sentence "sufficient but not greater than necessary to deter criminal conduct . . . and protect public against future crimes."
Throughout the Pepper argument, Justice Breyer, the chief architect of the Booker advisory guidelines remedy, seemed uniquely interested in reviewing past jurisprudential battles. He highlighted (yet again) that he had persistently dissented from the constitutional holdings that prompted the Booker ruling, and he complained repeatedly about how lower courts (and the Court itself in a prior ruling from which Justice Breyer also dissented) have sought to distinguish between departures and variances from the federal Sentencing Guidelines in the exercise of post-Booker sentencing discretion.
The questions posed by various Justices strongly suggested that a majority of the Court is likely to declare that the broad post-Booker sentencing discretion possessed by district judges extends fully to all aspects of resentencing proceedings. But the argument also spotlighted that the three Justices with the most professional history with the federal criminal justice system — former federal prosecutor Justices Alito, former U.S. Sentencing Commission Justice Breyer and former federal district judge Justice Sotomayor — may each want their own diverse ideological and idiosyncratic concerns about federal sentencing law and policy to find expression in the Court's work in Pepper. While I suspect that the Court may largely seek to avoid addressing the broader constitutional and policy principles implicated in Pepper, the sympathetic facts presented by the defendants and other dynamic sentencing realities might well prompt some Justices in Pepper to opine on the current state and potential future direction of the federal sentencing system.
Recommended Citation: Doug Berman, Argument recap: Justices struggle with rules for resentencing after Booker, SCOTUSblog (Dec. 7, 2010, 4:54 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2010/12/argument-recap-justices-struggle-with-rules-for-resentencing-after-booker/


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First "Syrup" Movie Stills
Stills! Where do they come from? How do they get out there? I don't know. But they have begun popping up on sites like Amber Heard Web, Shiloh Fernandez Source, Kellan Lutz Online, and Syrup Movie Fans. So: behold!
(Unless you want to completely avoid spoilers. As in, you haven't read the book. And you don't intend to. But you really want to see the movie. And you're browsing my site. You're a strange person.)
Amber Heard as 6, Shiloh Fernandez as Scat:
Scat gazes skyward while a machine lurks ominously in the background:
Kellan Lutz as Sneaky Pete:
Now for some ANSWERS to COMMON QUESTIONS. I don't believe there's an official release date yet, but it can't be too far away now, can it? Not with these STILLS. So I'm guessing within the next six months.
I haven't seen the film; I am waiting until I can see it in a cinema. Because having a novel turned into a feature film, that's kind of a big deal. I don't want to watch the end result of that on a DVD. I want to sit in a theater and crane my neck and eat popcorn. Right?
The movie doesn't strictly follow the plot of the book. I can say that without seeing it because I wrote many screenplay drafts, and they didn't strictly follow the plot of the book. I don't think movies should be like books only with all the parts you'd normally imagine filled in. I think they should do their own thing. They should be true to the core of the book but express that in whichever ways work best. Also, you know how I rewrite my novels to death? Oh. Well, I do. I change a lot in each new draft. So imagine me adapting my own novel. It's a miracle anything survived.
If you missed it before, here is a teaser. I think it's awesome. I was so happy when I saw this. I watched it about thirty times in a row.


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Export Controls and OFAC Regulations (I.A.2)
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