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Venezuela detains ship with 5 US citizens on board in water claimed by Guyana
Guyana's government said Friday that Venezuela's navy has detained a ship operated by a U.S. oil company in waters disputed by the neighboring South American countries.
The ship, which has five U.S. citizens on board, was conducting a seismic survey under contract for Anadarko Petroleum Corp. on Thursday when it was stopped by a Venezuelan navy vessel. It was ordered to sail under escort to Margarita Island in Venezuela, the Guyanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
"It was then clear that the vessel and its crew were not only being escorted out of Guyana's waters, but were under arrest," the ministry said. "These actions by the Venezuelan naval vessel are unprecedented in Guyana Venezuela relations."
Venezuela said it legitimately detained the vessel for operating without authorization in its waters. Its government said the ship, Teknik Perdana, was expected to arrive on Margarita Island on Saturday.
Guyana said the crew was well within its territorial waters but that the Venezuelan navy informed them that they were operating in that country's exclusive economic zone and ordered an immediate halt to the survey. The two countries have been disputing their land and ocean borders for decades.
The government of Guyana said it has expressed its "grave concerns" to Venezuela and requested the immediate release of the vessel and its crew.
"The actions taken by the Venezuelan navy vessel constitute a serious threat to the peace of this sub-region and the Government of Guyana therefore strongly condemns these actions," the Foreign Ministry said.
Venezuelan oil minister Rafael Ramirez said the country was obligated to act if a ship was in its maritime zone without authorization. "We will jealously defend our country and our sovereignty," he said when asked about the incident at a news conference in Caracas.
The minister said that Guyana and Venezuela have been in discussions over oil exploration in the area but he declined to discuss the status of those talks.
John Christiansen, a spokesman for Anadarko, based near Houston, Texas, said the company, which has received a concession from Guyana to explore the area off the country's northern coast, was working with the governments of Guyana and the U.S. to secure the release of the crew and the vessel.
The total number of crew members was not available, but there were at least five U.S. citizens, including Anadarko contractors and employees of TDI Brooks International, a company based in College Station, Texas, which was contracted to do the acoustic survey of the ocean floor.
Peter Tatro, the director of operations for TDI, said the company is in contact with its employees.
"The people are fine. Our concern is just sort of what happens next," Tatro said. "We don't know what to expect when they arrive in Venezuela."
The U.S. State Department had no immediate comment.
The Teknik Perdana, a 285-foot survey vessel, is flagged in Panama and owned by TL Geohydrographics Ltd. of Singapore. The ship was operating in what is known as the Roraima concession block, an area of the Atlantic off Guyana and Venezuela that that has drawn increased exploration interest in recent years.
Guyana said that the vessel was merely collecting seismic data and that there was "ample time" to discuss any differences over the region with Venezuela since the actual exploration work had not yet started.


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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At least 33 people were killed and 20 wounded in a suicide car bombing targeting a national reconciliation conference in Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official told CNN.
Abu Ghraib attack victim in Yarmouk Hospital in Baghdad, Amjad Hameed
The attack -- which occurred outside the municipal building of Abu Ghraib in western Baghdad -- also wounded 46 others, the official said.
The attacker was targeting the latest effort by the government to foster national reconciliation between religious and ethnic groups.
Sunni Arab and Shiite tribal leaders were attending the meeting, backed by the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government.
Another Interior Ministry official told CNN the attack occurred when people gathered outside as the conference in the building ended.
Al-Baghdadiya TV said two of its journalists were killed in the explosion. An Iraqi journalists' group confirmed those deaths and said a number of journalists were also wounded.
Along with meeting attendees and journalists, Iraqi soldiers were among the casualties.
No one has claimed responsibility for the strike, but in the past, such gatherings have been targeted by al Qaeda in Iraq, the anti-American Sunni Arab militant group.
Staffan de Mistura, special representative of the U.N. secretary-general for Iraq, deplored the attack and passed along condolences to grieving families. He said the bombing targeted the tribal leaders after their meeting, and called the strike a "horrible crime that is designed to sabotage reconciliatory efforts by the Iraqi people, who, I am confident, will continue on the road of dialogue."
The blast follows another huge attack on Sunday, when a man wearing an explosives-laden vest drove a motorcycle rigged with bombs into a group of police recruits in eastern Baghdad. That attack killed 30 people and wounded 61 others.
Most of the victims of Sunday's strike were police officers and recruits who had gathered outside a police academy on Palestine Street. The same academy was targeted on December 1 in a double bombing that killed 16 and wounded 46.
The violence came after Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday rallied sheikhs of the nation's tribes to participate in Iraq's government.
It was the latest official effort to further reconciliation among Sunnis, Shiites and tribes of different sects and bring some former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party into the political fold.
After the invasion, the U.S.-led coalition decided to purge Iraqi institutions of Baathists, most of whom were Sunni Arabs.
Al-Maliki, who is Shiite, has been criticized in the past by minority groups for not fairly representing Iraqi's ethnic groups.
CNN's Yousif Bassil and Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report.
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Elizabeth Anne (Passarelli) Barker, 86, of North Smithfield, died Sunday, June 23, 2013, at Miriam Hospital in Providence. She was the wife of the late Thomas Calvin Barker.
Born in Providence, R.I., "Betty" was the daughter of the late Michael and Susan (Green) Passarelli.
Elizabeth was a clerical supervisor with Providence Washington Insurance. She was a communicant of St. John the Evangelist Church. Betty was an avid reader and enjoyed complex crossword puzzles.
She leaves her son, Anthony T. Barker of Zurich, Switzerland; her daughter, Elizabeth J. Barker of North Smithfield; and her sister, Doris Tomyako of Virginia Beach, Va. She was predeceased by her brother, Michael "Bob" Passarelli.
Her funeral will be held Saturday, June 29, 2013, at 10 a.m. in St. John the Evangelist Church, 63 Church St., North Smithfield. Burial will be private. Calling hours are omitted.
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On Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping days on the year, a group of seven Democratic lawmakers came out in support of Wal-Mart employees who are protesting the company to improve labor standards.
"Across the country, there are countless Wal-Mart workers who are paid poverty wages, cannot get enough hours, and have erratic work schedules that make it difficult to survive," said the statement, issued by Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Ed Markey (D-Mass) and Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill), Judy Chu (D-Calif.), William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.), Gwen Moore (D-Wis.), and Jim McDermott (D-Wash.).
As shoppers by the thousands head to the store's locations, 1,500 protests will also be held across the nation Friday, the statement said.
"We stand with the courageous Wal-Mart workers who are demanding better wages and an end to illegal retaliation," the statement said, adding low wages are costing taxpayers nearly $1 million in public assistance. "Taxpayers should not have to pick up the tab because Wal-Mart refuses to pay workers a living wage."


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BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) Greg Gantt posted his fifth straight 20-point game and hit a late 3-pointer to help Florida Atlantic hold off Hofstra 61-57 Tuesday in the final nonconference game for the Owls.
Gantt, who became FAU's all-time leading scorer in the Owl's Dec. 27 win against Troy, finished with 24 points and Stefan Moody hit four 3-pointers en route to 16 points.
Hofstra (3-10) led by as much as 10, 32-22, and took a 36-29 lead into intermission behind a 55.6 percent (15 of 27) first-half shooting performance. FAU (7-8) cut the deficit to one, 55-54, with 5:11 left to play and Gantt's 3-pointer gave the Owl's just their fourth lead of the half.
A Stevie Mejia jumper tied the game for Hofstra but the Pride managed just one field goal over the final 6:16.
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GOP immigration plan makes sense: Our view
- Legalization beats stalemate on the deportation vs. citizenship problem.
- Hispanics agree by 55%25 to 35%25.
- If election trend continues%2C Latinos could give Democratic nominee a 7 million-vote margin.
To conservatives who regard anything but deportation of undocumented workers as amnesty, House Speaker John Boehner's new immigration plan is heresy. And some Republican strategists fret that an immigration deal now would depress conservative turnout going into this year's elections.
But if the party would wake up to reality, it would see that Boehner's plan makes sense, both practically and politically.
The plan, outlined last week at a House GOP retreat, would improve the nation's legal immigration system, strengthen efforts to thwart illegal immigration, and allow many of the the 11 million or so undocumented workers to remain in this country lawfully. Unlike the bipartisan Senate plan passed last year, it would not provide a path to citizenship for those workers.
As a practical matter, granting legal status to undocumented workers would allow them to come out of the shadows and participate fully in their communities. A long, arduous path to citizenship would be preferable, but legalization beats continued stalemate on the festering immigration problem.
President Obama sounds open to compromise, and so, too, do many pro-immigration groups. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that, by 55% to 35%, Hispanics believe that it is more important for undocumented immigrants to get relief from the threat of deportation than a pathway to citizenship.
A comprehensive law would also help address some critical immigration issues that don't have enough traction to pass as free-standing measures. One is the nation's system of visas and green cards for highly skilled workers, which needs a major overhaul. Another is the E-Verify program for checking the status of workers as they apply for jobs.
But it is the politics of immigration reform that could sharpen the more compelling argument in favor of Boehner's outline. Republicans should stop kidding themselves and see the growing cadre of immigrant voters for what it is: a threat to their future — and an opportunity.
Republicans need to find common cause with a surging community of voters who could be allies, as many hold conservative views on family, religion and social issues. But continued hostility and calls for "self-deportation" will cut in the other direction.
An earlier Pew study of Latino voters found that in 2008, 9.7 million Latinos turned out and gave Barack Obama their support by a margin of 3.5 million votes. Four years later, 12.5 million Latinos participated and gave Obama a 5.5 million-vote margin. If the trend continued, more than 16 million Latino voters would turn out in 2016, and they'd give the Democratic nominee a 7 million-vote margin.
That would be a disaster for the GOP ticket, and a problem for a nation that benefits from having two broadly competitive parties. Any way you look at it, immigration overhaul makes sense, and the year to get it done is this one.
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6 comments:
- HolleyGarden said...
How fun! Uh-Oh, I think I cut mine down! I'll have to try to remember to let them be.
- 10 October 2011 at 00:24
- Becky said...
That allium is one of my favorites. I got my original bulbs years ago the the NY Botanic gardens.I've never planted the seeds but I have had side bulbs form. I hope you have good luck. They are spectacular in the garden!
- 10 October 2011 at 00:29
- Chrissy said...
Football and gardens dont mix too well...niether do dog bones and dogs...grrr..
Luv CHRISSYxx
- 10 October 2011 at 05:03
- Alistair said...
Busy with work, keeping family in tow, all behind us now, well thats what I thought until our fantastic grand children started to arrive. Alliums are fantastic, hope you have good success with raising the little ones. Go on, find time to read a good book.
- 10 October 2011 at 10:57
- NHGarden said...
Oh, I need one of those :)
- 11 October 2011 at 04:42
- Indie said...
Beautiful! I hope the death threats work, and it makes lots of baby alliums for you :)
I tried planting alliums a couple years ago, but the area where I planted them was too full of clay and they rotted. At some point I'm going to try again with a better draining site - they are such pretty plants!
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I am new to C programming, i am currently working on a program where i must accept keyboard input and reproduce the text after eliminating white space. unless the text is in a string literal, then it must be reproduced with spaces. i have the first part (printing without spaces) but im not quite sure how to make it print normally within string literals....can anyone help me? here is my code
Code:#include <stdio.h> int main() { int c; printf("This program eliminates whitespace from an input stream,\n"); printf("except from within string literals in double quotes.\n"); printf("\n"); printf("Type characters, and enter EOF after <enter> to finish:\n"); while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) if ( c != ' ') putchar(c); system("pause"); return 0; }


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Victor Talking Machine Company 78 rpm recording of Ja-Da (Arthur Fields, tenor vocal; Bob Carleton, composer and lyricist; Josef Pasternak, conductor): recording made 15 November 1918 (National Jukebox / Library of Congress)
The porchlight coming on again,
Early November, the dead leaves
Raked in piles, the wicker swing
Creaking. Across the lots
A phonograph is playing Ja-Da.
An orange moon. I see the lives
Of neighborhoods, mapped and marred
Like all the wars ahead, and R.
Insane, B. with his throat cut,
Fifteen years from now, in Omaha.
I did not know them then.
My airedale scratches at the door.
And I am back from seeing Milton Sills
And Doris Kenyon. Twelve years old.
The porchlight coming on again.
House in Beatrice, Nebraska: photo by John Vachon, October 1938 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
Lunar eclipse on winter solstice, 21 December 2010, Strathcona County, Alberta: photo by 42things, 2010
1918 sheet music cover of Bob Carleton's Ja-Da: image by Jafeluv, 20 November 2009
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
NASCAR On Four TV Networks Starting Friday
After almost nine months of chasing NASCAR around the TV dial, this weekend fans will truly enter the NASCAR Twilight Zone.
Coverage of all three NASCAR series will skip across four TV networks and include a live race simulcast. There will be well over 30 hours of NASCAR programming from Friday to Sunday.
This one is going to take a little advance planning. There are DVR's and TiVo's to coordinate, viewing schedules to adjust and TV networks to even find on the dial. We are here to help.
On the right side of The Daly Planet main page is the complete layout of the Friday through Sunday NASCAR TV schedule. The networks to know are ESPN2, SPEED, ESPN Classic and ABC.
All three of NASCAR's national touring series are in action. The Craftsman Trucks will be in Atlanta sharing the track with the Sprint Cup Series. Meanwhile, the Nationwide Series travels to Memphis Motorsports Park for a big Saturday afternoon race.
Friday is the first day of on-track activity and SPEED starts the day with long block of coverage from Atlanta. The Craftsman Trucks practice at 11:30AM and 1:30PM with John Roberts and NASCAR Live covering the lunch break at 1:00PM. Rick Allen, Phil Parsons and Michael Waltrip will be handling the Truck action.
At 3PM, stick with SPEED as that network switches gears and covers the Sprint Cup Series practice session. Steve Byrnes, Jeff Hammond and Larry McReynolds will be along as the action will be fast and wild on this high-speed track with a whole lot on the line.
Marty Reid and his Memphis Nationwide Series crew will be next at 4:30PM. Fans have to spin the dial to ESPN Classic for this coverage. ESPN is just flat out of channel space and this is the unofficial NASCAR overflow network. That does not help fans who do not have it on the cable dial.
Back to SPEED at 6PM for Trackside. Thankfully, this program has stepped-up and invited Truck Series driver Johnny Benson on as a guest. Carl Edwards will also be on the program. Byrnes, Hammond and McReynolds are joined by Elliott Sadler as the panelists on this show.
The feature event of the evening will be live Sprint Cup Series qualifying on ESPN2 at 7PM Eastern Time. This will be the first time that the ESPN crew of Dr. Jerry Punch, Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree will be on-the-air. Jamie Little and Dave Burns will be handling the interviews.
Over the following two days, there will be more than 20 hours of NASCAR coverage on the four TV networks mentioned above. We will preview the coverage completely the day prior, so that fans can sort through this mess of a weekend on the cable TV dial.
The weather forecast for Atlanta on Friday calls for a high of 55 degrees with rain and thunderstorms. The chance of precipitation is listed as 80% by The Weather Channel. Over in Memphis, Friday looks much better with only a 20% chance of rain and a high near 70.
Stay with us over the weekend and we will walk you through the TV maze day-by-day. We welcome your comments on these topics. To add your opinion, just click on the COMMENTS button below and follow the easy instructions. The rules for posting are located on the right side of the main page. Thanks for taking the time to stop by The Daly Planet.
20 comments:
- rb218 said...
I find it interesting that ESPN still hasn't mentioned the Speed simulcast of the race yet.
The Weather Channel is more hopeful than some of the local weatherpeople here. Local TV listed the chance of rain for Friday at 100% on one of the newscasts today.
- October 22, 2008 at 7:27 PM
- Vicky D said...
Don't tell me there might be a chance of rain in Memphis on Saturday. That would mess my TIVO recording since I won't be home. I'll hope for a nice sunny day.
- October 22, 2008 at 7:41 PM
- rb218 said...
I guess I should clarify. Here for me is Atlanta. Friday is the day that looks bad right now, the rest of the weekend looks good. The forecast looks good Memphis all weekend.
- October 22, 2008 at 7:53 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks for keeping us up to date JD :)
DVR is updated :). Talk about working OT! PTL for my DVR I'd never keep track of all the times and when I need to be on what channel!
- October 22, 2008 at 9:06 PM
- Anonymous said...
JD- Am I mistaken or somehow is Shannon S. always the pit reporter assigned to run Dale, Jr. down after the race for a comment?
- October 22, 2008 at 10:57 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Just by chance. The reporters get pit stall assignments by the race, so they really never have all the same drivers all the time.
- October 23, 2008 at 4:59 AM
- Vicky D said...
Richard, I always thought I noticed a sparkle in SS's eyes when she interviews Jr. but I guess that's only dust in the air!
- October 23, 2008 at 7:41 AM
- Anonymous said...
Richard just the way Jr.'s luck has been lately. Hope the weather holds out looking forward to Friday night qualifying.No more ran outs. Keep good spare remote batteries on hand.
- October 23, 2008 at 8:09 AM
- Anonymous said...
Are you going to add that the NW series race can also be seen on SPEED at 3:30 on Saturday, not just ESPN Classic?
- October 23, 2008 at 10:23 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you JD for all the schedule updates, keeping that straightened out is a full time job in itself. This weekend Should show NASCAR PTBs just how far down espns priority list the sport is.
- October 23, 2008 at 11:26 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Anon 10:23AM,
That Nationwide Series airing is listed as being after the Truck Series race on SPEED in the front page listings. Thanks!
- October 23, 2008 at 11:30 AM
- Anonymous said...
Sheesh! Memphis and Atlanta are NOT that far apart, couldn't AB shoot over and call the NN race and be back in time to do countdown? Just once this last part of the season before it goes dark I'd like to see on nasCAR race with good play by play!
- October 23, 2008 at 11:45 AM
- Labbie said...
ri88girl said...
Sheesh! Memphis and Atlanta are NOT that far apart, couldn't AB shoot over and call the NN race and be back in time to do countdown? Just once this last part of the season before it goes dark I'd like to see on nasCAR race with good play by play!
October 23, 2008 11:45 AM
But that's just it, ESPN DOESN'T want you to see good race PxP!!!
It would actually show the world how bad they are with their current booth staff.
- October 23, 2008 at 12:31 PM
- Anonymous said...
more garbage from ESPN, no wonder the tv ratings are on a downward slide, not every one has espn classic, just another reason why espn shouldn't get as contract with nascar. If NASCAR has another rain out on qualifying they might just as well hand the championship to JJ. I think NASCAR is going to have to rethink qualifying on race day like the nationwide cars do it.
- October 23, 2008 at 1:38 PM
- Geeze said...
Be aware that my local listings (even on the internet) show the Nationwide race on ESPN2, so don't be fooled by that. Go by what you see here.
I don't find it strange that ESPN isn't pointing out the fact that you can also watch the race on a non-disney network, why would they?
Just like they ignore the Craftsman (soon to Camping World) Truck Series.
- October 23, 2008 at 1:47 PM
- Sophia said...
Thanks for all the updates JD. Been out of the loop and hope to catch the guys on SPEED tv Friday. Will watch the Truck race...not sure about the others on ESPN but highly doubtful.
Depends on weather here and at the tracks. Great to have all the info I need here though. Thanks for the extra work you do here.
- October 23, 2008 at 1:58 PM
- Unknown said...
Ironic that prior to the first big TV contract back in 2001, the complaint was that you had to have a TV guide to know where NASCAR was on TV that weekend. Now, it seems like you need that even more.
- October 23, 2008 at 8:01 PM
- PammH said...
alex, you hit the nail on the head! And imho, we've been doing that for yrs! The networks have just been trying to hide this a looong time.
- October 23, 2008 at 9:11 PM
- Anonymous said...
JD- I guess it must be me, or maybe her interviews are just more memorable, but in recent weeks it seems that Shannon S. is always the pit reporter interviewing Dale, Jr. at his hauler. I wondered whether she might have been assigned to chase Dale, Jr. because of the unique phrasing of her questions.
- October 23, 2008 at 10:01 PM
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After years ably playing the sexy/funny eye-candy, Jenna Fischer is taking her shot as a leading lady.
Fischer has signed on to star in "The Giant Mechanical Man," in which she'll play a zookeeper who falls for a street performer, Chris Messina, while her sister, Malin Ackerman, tries to set her up with a douche-y motivational speaker, Topher Grace.
This marks the third film inn the pipeline that features a lead character working in a zoo, with Kevin James "The Zookeeper" coming July 8, and "We Bought a Zoo, starring Matt Damon (and maybe Scarlett Johansson) arriving Dec. 23, 2011. More than coincidence? You decide!
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How did Ms. Fischer come upon such a plum role? It was written by her husband Lee Kirk, who will also be directing. Messina no doubt got involved thanks to his relationship with Fischer's "Office" husband, John Krasinski, with whom he's done a couple of films.
Having reached her saturation/over-exposure point on "The Office," Fischer is finally getting her movie career in gear. Just before "Mechanical" was announced, the trailer for "Hall Pass," about a couple of husbands, Owen Wilson and Jason Sudekis, who are given one week off from their marriage by their wives, played by Fischer and Christina Applegate. It looks pretty flat and unfunny, but it's loaded with some hella funny people, so maybe there's hope.
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- Unbaked dough can be frozen
Nutrition: per biscuit
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- fat14g
- saturates7g
- carbs36g
- sugars20g
- fibre0g
- protein4g
- salt0.27g
- 175g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
- ½ tsp baking powder
Baking powderbay-king pow-dah
Baking powder is a raising agent that is commonly used in cake-making. It is made from an alkali…
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- 175g golden caster sugar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 140g butter, chopped
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 70g pack dried blueberry (or use raisins or dried cranberries)
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- External Core.
We've designed our compiler to use GHC as its frontend. This means that GHC will handle the parsing and type-checking of the Haskell code in addition to some of the optimization (GHC particularly excels at high-level local optimizations). LHC benefits greatly by automatically supporting many of the Haskell extensions offered by GHC.
Notable characteristics: Non-strict, local functions, complex let-bindings. Pretty much just Haskell code with zero syntactic sugar.
Example snippet:
base:Data.Either.$fShowEither :: ghc-prim:GHC.Types.Int =
ghc-prim:GHC.Types.I# (11::ghc-prim:GHC.Prim.Int#);
- Simple Core.
Since External Core isn't immediately ready to be processed into GRIN code, we first translate it to Simple Core by removing or simplifying out a couple of features. The most noticeable feature of External Core is locally scoped functions which simply does not fit in with the GRIN model. When translating to Simple Core, we hoist out all local functions to the top-level.
Notable characteristics: Non-strict, no local functions, simplified let-bindings.
- Grin Stage 1.
Let me start by introducing GRIN: GRIN (Graph Reduction Intermediate Notation) is a first order, strict, (somewhat) functional language.
The purpose of this first stage of grin code is to encode the laziness explicitly. It turns out that you can translate a lazy language (like Simple Core) to a strict language (like GRIN) using only two primitives: Eval and apply. The 'eval' primitives takes a closure, evaluates it if need be and returns the resulting object. The 'apply' primitives simply adds an argument to a closure. Haskell compilers such as GHC, JHC and UHC all use this model for implementing laziness.
Notable characteristics: Strict, explicit laziness, opaque closures.
Example snippet:
base:Foreign.C.Types.@lifted_exp@ w ws =
do x2508 <- @eval ws
case x2508 of
(Cbase:GHC.Int.I32# x#)
-> do x2510 <- unit 11
base:GHC.Show.$wshowSignedInt x2510 x# w
- Grin Stage 2.
At the time of writing, each of the mentioned compilers stop at the previous stage (or at what would be their equivalent of that stage).[1] LHC follows in the footsteps of the original GRIN compiler and applies a global control-flow analysis to eliminate/inline all eval/apply primitives. In the end, a lazy/suspended function taking, say, two arguments simply becomes a data constructor with two fields.
Notable characteristics: Strict, transparent closures.
Example snippet:
base:Foreign.Marshal.Utils.toBool1_caf =
do [x2422] <- constant 0
[x2423] <- @realWorld#
[x2424 x2425] <- (foreign lhc_mp_from_int) x2422 x2423
[x2426] <- constant Cinteger-gmp:GHC.Integer.Type.Integer
unit [x2426 x2425]
- Grin Stage 3.
Things are starting to get fairly low-level already at stage 2. However, stage 2 is still a bit too high-level for some optimizations to be easily implemented. Stage 3 breaks the code into smaller blocks that can easily be moved, inlined and short-circuited. The code is now sufficiently low-level that it can be pretty-printed as C.
Notable characteristics: Functions are broken down to functional units. Otherwise same as stage 2.
Example snippet:
base:GHC.IO.Encoding.Iconv.@lifted@_lvl60swYU38 rb3 rb4 =
do [x21578] <- @-# rb4 rb3
case x21578 of
0 -> constant Cghc-prim:GHC.Bool.False
() -> constant Cghc-prim:GHC.Bool.True
- Grin--.
Grin-- is the latest addition to the heap and not much is known about it for certain. It is even up for debate whether it belongs to the GRIN family at all since it diverge from the SSA style.
The purpose of Grin-- is to provide a vessel for expressing stack operations.
Notable characteristics: Operates on global virtual registers, enables explicit stack management.
Example snippet:
do x21578 := -# rb4 rb3
case x21578 of
0 -> do x88175 := Cghc-prim:GHC.Bool.False
() -> do x88175 := Cghc-prim:GHC.Bool.True
Feel free to ask if you have any questions on the how and why of LHC.
[1] UHC does have the mechanics for lowering the eval/apply primitives but it is not enabled by default.


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BOSTON - A beloved classic has been given a modern and lean spin in the Lyric Stage Company of Boston's new production of "Camelot," the musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, the same writing team known for "My Fair Lady" and "Brigadoon."
Although I'm a musical theater geek, somehow I had never managed to catch this show. "Camelot" is well known to a generation of baby boomers who grew up on the cast recording with Julie Andrews, Richard Burton and Robert Goulet.
While I'm a newbie to the world of "Camelot," I can't imagine a more compelling and satisfying production. Director Spiro Veloudos, now in his 19th season as producing artistic director of the Lyric Stage, has made wonderful use of the Lyric's intimate space to conjure up the classic King Arthur legend with all the familiar references to the wizard Merlin and the sword Excalibur.
The story has been stripped down in a new adaptation by David Lee that is rarely produced, and the Lyric Stage was given special permission to use after their sparkling version of "My Fair Lady" in 2015. Lee says he eliminated anything and anyone from the story that did not directly connect to the intriguing love triangle between King Arthur, his wife Guenevere and the noble Sir Lancelot of the Knights of the Round Table.
Two songs usually cut have been added back into the show, including "Fie on Goodness!" in which the evil Mordred, deliciously played by Rory Boyd, aims to turn the knights against the good intentions of their King Arthur.
The small cast ably fills out the wonderful world of Camelot. As noted in a question-and-answer session with the actors after the May 21 performance, some of the action happens off stage, and years can go by between scenes, allowing the audience to fill in the gaps with their imagination. The wonderful number of "The Jousts" is a great example of the knights and ladies simply narrating the action off stage and getting the audience wrapped up in the excitement.
The small set, wonderfully designed by Shelley Barish, lends itself to some great dance numbers choreographed by Rachel Bertone, including "The Lusty Month of May" with a charming routine around a maypole, and a cute number between Arthur and Guenevere in the second act titled "What Do the Simple Folk Do?"
Jared Troilo as Lancelot shows off his powerful voice in the classic "If Ever I Would Leave You" (my mother was particularly impressed), and reveals his comic chops in our first introduction to his noble persona in "C'est Moi."
And you'll likely leave the theater with the title song "Camelot" stuck in your head for a couple of days (which I heard for the first time recently while watching the Oscar-nominated film "Jackie").
King Arthur is nobly played by Ed Hoopman, trying to impart some decorum and civility into his kingdom, including the creation of a system of trial by judge and jury. Maritza Bostic, with her beautiful singing voice, puts her own unique spin on Guenevere.
The stunning costumes by Elisabetta Polito include some modern-day touches, such as the knights wearing jeans, helping to express the idea that the actors are doubling as modern-day storytellers who are passing down the legend of King Arthur. Even Guenevere's hairstyle has been updated with stunning red streaks.
One audience member said after the performance that this lean version allows more focus on the characters and the music, including some lovely duets, and that it tells the story well. The creators themselves, Lerner and Loewe, are given a shout-out in the new script at the end, helping to pass down the legend of King Arthur's nobility to future generations. This is truly a "Camelot" that speaks to our times.
Michael Wyner can be reached at 508-626-4441 or email@example.com.
WHEN: Through June 25
WHERE: Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon St.
TICKETS: Start at $25
INFO: 617-585-5678; lyricstage.com


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Atkinson, Luther. Remembrances. N.p., 1992. 88 pp. (taken from the author's newspaper columns).
Best of the Fentress County Bluegrass & Crafts Festival. Cookeville, WCTE- TV, 1983. 1 videocassette, 60 min.
Biographical directory, TN General Assembly (Fentress County, Preliminary #20). Nashville, TSLA, 1970. 49 pp.
Butts, Charles. Geology & oil possibilities of the northern part of Overton County, TN & of adjoining parts of Clay, Pickett & Fentress counties. Nashville, Williams Print. Co., 1919. 45 pp.
Clarke, James N. To those seeking homes & health: Fentress County, TN, its advantages. Allardt, the author, 1883. 11 pp.
Ensor, Allison. "The birthplace of Samuel Clemens: a new Mark Twain letter." TN Studies in Lit. 14 (1969), pp. 31-34.
Fellowship United Baptist Church, 1857-1992. Jamestown, Courier, 1993. 83 pp.
Fentress County Hist. Soc. History of Fentress County, TN. Dallas, TX, Curtis Media Corp., 1987. 707 pp.
Fentress County, 1980-1987: an economic analysis. Nashville, TN Dept. Emp. Sec., 1988. 12 pp.
Fentress, Willie B. "James Fentress." AHM 7 (1902), p. 178.
Glenn, Leonidas C. The northern coal field included in Fentress [& other] counties. Nashville, TN Div. Geol., 1925. 478 pp. (TN Geol. Survey Bull. 33-B).
Goodpasture, Albert V. "Mark Twain, southerner." THM (ser. 2), 1 (1931), pp. 253-260. (reprinted in TN old & new, vol. 2, pp. 280-287).
Hogue, Albert R. Davy Crockett & others in Fentress County who have given the county a prominent place in history. Jamestown, n.p., 1955. 32 pp.
Hogue, Albert R. History of Fentress County, TN, the old home of Mark Twain's ancestors. Nashville, Williams Print. Co., 1916. 165 pp. (reprinted 1994 by Genealogical Pub. Co.).
Hogue, Albert R. John M. Clemens, the father of Mark Twain. N.p., 1927. 7 pp.
Hogue, Albert R. Mark Twain's Obedstown & Knobs of TN: a history of Jamestown & Fentress County, TN. Jamestown, Cumberland Print. Co., 1951. 91 pp.
Hogue, Albert R. One hundred years in the Cumberland Mountains along the continental line. McMinnville, Standard Print. Co., 1933. 92 pp. (reprinted 1977 by Fentress County Hist. Soc.).
Humphrey, Valerie L. "The burial customs of Fentress County, TN." 1973. 10 pp. (student paper, Riedl Collection, UT Library)
Kort, John R. An economic profile of Fentress County, TN: a statistical overview. Knoxville, UT Tech. Assistance Center, 1975. 81 pp.
Newsletter. Vol. 1, 1989-. Fentress County Hist. Soc.
Patton, C.D. Conflict in the Cumberlands. N.p., n.d. 85 pp.
Pinckley, Wilma R. Fentress County history as I reviewed it. Jamestown, Fentress Courier, 1987. 160 pp.
Pinckley, Wilma R. Hill country history as I renewed it. Jamestown, Courier, 1989. 112 pp.
Pinckley, Wilma R. Little Crab as I knew it. Jamestown, Courier, 1986. 52 pp.
Pinckley, Wilma R. Local history as I pursued it. Jamestown, Courier, 1988. 80 pp.
Pinckley, Wilma R. Mountain history as I rescued it. Jamestown, Courier, 1990. 140 pp.
Pinckley, Wilma R. Our upper Cumberland heritage. Jamestown, Courier, 1993. 80 pp.
Pinckley, Wilma R. Wilma recalls: local history. Jamestown, Courier, 1991. 124 pp.
Pinckley, Wilma R. Wilma recalls-- treasured memories. Jamestown, Courier, 1992. 132 pp.
Soil survey, Fentress & Pickett counties, TN. Washington, D.C., US GPO, 1995. 117 pp.
Study of natural gas availability in Fentress County, TN for development of a gas transmission system for the TN Dept. Ec. & Comm. Dev. Oct. 19, 1981. Tulsa, OK, Keplinger & Associates, Inc., 1981. 2 vols.
TN Dept. Transportation [county maps] issued periodically.
TN Taxpayers Assn. Report upon its survey of the finances & management of the government of Fentress County, TN, an analysis of the county's income, expenditures & indebtedness, 1934. Nashville, TN Taxpayers Assn., 1935. 107 pp.
TN Valley Authority. Ind. Div. Agricultural-industrial survey of Fentress County. Knoxville, TVA, 1934. var. pp.
TN Valley Authority. Regional Soils Database. Important farmland in Fentress County, TN. Nashville, TVA, 1981. 1 map.
Tharp, Mel. "Johnson rods, horseshoe bread & other TN colloquialisms." TN Folklore Soc. Bull. 40 (1983), pp. 74-77.
Tharp, Mel. "A social study of mountain folk humor." TN Folklore Soc. Bull. 43 (1977), pp. 186-187.
US Farm Sec. Admin. Survey of agricultural labor conditions. Washington, D.C., n.p., 1937. 11 vols. in 1.
US Geol. Survey [topographic maps] issued periodically. Quadrangles: Moodyville, Pall Mall, Sharp Place, Barthell SW, Riverton, Jamestown, Stockton, Honey Creek, Wilder, Grimsley, Burrville, Rugby, Clarkrange, Jones Knobb.
Wheeler, Hazel. The history of Wilder, Davidson, Highland Junction, Sandy & the hollow. N.p., 1992. 60 pp.
Wright, Rev. A. B. Autobiography of Rev. A. B. Wright. Cincinnati, Cranston & Curts, 1896. 447 pp. (reprinted 1977 by Fentress County Hist. Soc.).
Allardt, a history. Jamestown, Fentress Courier, 1986. 132 pp.
Allardt Missionary Society, Allardt, TN. The Allardt cookbook. (5th ed., rev.) Allardt, Lola Gernt & June Bagse, 1953. 76 pp.
Clarke, James N. & Annetta Gerntt. "History of Allardt." THM 9 (1925-26), pp. 185-189.
Peavyhouse, Will C. A history of Buffalo Cove, Fentress County, TN. N.p., 1969. 32 pp.
Hale, William T. True stories of Jamestown & its environs. Nashville, Methodist Pub. House, 1907. 156 pp.
Wheeler, Hazel. Jamestown: back then... & now: containing 194 photographs reminiscent of the past & the progress in recent years. N.p., 1990. 100 pp.
Wright, Absalom B. "Jamestown Circuit". (In Autobiography of Rev. A. B. Wright of the Holston Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, pp. 63-78, 94-173)
Crabtree, Font F. The Wilder coal strike of 1932-33. George Peabody College thesis, 1937. pp.
Alvin C. York Industrial Institute (Jamestown, TN): information about the Alvin C. York Industrial Institute, "America's tribute to Sergeant York." Jamestown, n.p., 1927. 16 pp.
Andrews, Peter. Sergeant York: reluctant hero. Illustrated by Charles Brey. NY, Putnam, 1969. 95 pp. (juvenile).
Birdwell, Michael E. The making of the movie Sergeant York: a journey from reality to myth. TTU thesis, 1990. 113 pp.
Cowan, Samuel K. Sergeant York & his people. NY, Funk, 1922. 292 pp. (reprinted 1960 by Fentress County Hist. Soc.).
Hoobler, James A. "Sergeant York Historic Area." THQ 38 (1979), pp. 3-8.
Humble, R.G. Sgt. Alvin C. York: a Christian patriot. Circleville, OH, the Churches of Christ in Christian Union, 1966. 41 pp.
Kinder, Sambra R. A brief history of the early years of the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute. Carson Newman College thesis, 1990. 56 pp.
Lee, David D. Sergeant York: an American hero. Lexington, KY, U. Press of KY, 1985. 162 pp.
McGaw, Robert A. "A likeness to Sergeant York." THQ 27 (1968), pp. 329- 340.
Pattullo, George. The second elder gives battle. Nashville, Brandon Print. Co., 1919. 19 pp.
Ridout, George W. The greatest soldier of the war: story of Sergeant Alvin York, the Christian soldier who went through the great war winning the highest honors ever given a private, his testimony & life sketch. Louisville, KY, Pentecostal Pub. Co., 1923. 16 pp.
Sergeant York: a Warner Bros./ First National picture; directed by Howard Hawks; produced by Jesse L. Lasky & Hal B. Wallis; screen play by Abem Finkel, Harry Chandlee, Howard Koch & John Houston. MGA/UA, 1969. 137 min.
Sergeant York & Red Dust. [2 complete radio dramas; sound recording]. Pelican, 1973. (Sergeant York originally broadcast Jan. 18, 1942, starring Gary Cooper with Joan Leslie & Walter Brennan; Red Dust originally broadcast Oct. 6, 1949, starring Clark Gable & Ann Southern.)
Sergeant York: the man behind the hero: unit containing four lesson plans. Murfreesboro, MTSU, 1992. 18 pp. (elementary school lesson plans)
Shanks, Maudean W. History of Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute, Jamestown, TN, 1926-1992. Allardt, the author, 1994. 345 pp.
Skeyhill, Thomas J. Sergeant York, last of the long hunters. Philadelphia, PA, Winston, 1930. 240 pp. (reprinted 1993 by Christian Book Gallery, St. John, IN.).
Testimony of German officers & men anent Sergeant York. Fort Humphreys, D.C., Army War College, 1936. 26 pp.
Weddle, Ethel H. Alvin C. York, young marksman. Indianapolis, IN, Bobbs- Merrill, 1967. 200 pp. (juvenile fiction)
York, Alvin C. Sergeant York, his own life story & war diary. NY, Doubleday, 1928. 309 pp.
York Farm, Pall Mall, TN. Washington, D.C., National Park Service, 1991. 1 sheet.
York, Gracie Williams. The reminiscences of Mrs. Alvin "Sergeant" York. Glen Rock, NJ, MCA, 1976. (series: TN Regional Oral History Collection of the Memphis Public Library, pt. l, no. 8)


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Wow. Food Stamp Spending Has More Than Doubled Since 2008. Brietbart.
The federal government spent $39 BILLION in 2008, and now it has shot up to $81 BILLION in 2012. Oh, just add another billion to make it a cool $82 BILLION projected cash outlay by 2013. All in just one presidential election cycle.
Nothing wrong with subsidizing those in need.
But the staggering escalation in cost is dizzying. Primarily because taxpayers are footing this bill, and recipients in need have swollen the food stamp rolls. Recipients that oddly had no need before 2008. So what is being done to rein in costs? To prevent others from falling into the food stamp line?
Hmmm. Maybe if jobs were a little more easy to come by, more folks would not find themselves in need. It would also help to monitor the program for loopholes and inefficiencies that facilitate fraud.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. is experiencing a "food stamp crime wave," as the program is now rife with fraud, abuse, and waste.
As Rev. Jesse Jackson has stated, President Barack Obama should consider it "an honor to be a food stamp president."
Food stamp rolls at 45 million people is a very sad reflection of the state of things in this country. It is a far disturbing that the federal government, namely the Executive and Legislative branches of the government, are unable to turn the tide towards prosperity.
Business-friendly has the power to fuel prosperity by opening up employment opportunities. Poison the waters from which business drinks by undue regulation and taxes, starve the masses that also come to drink from the well. Instead, they will eat from the food stamp line.
"Food stamp spending has more than doubled since 2008."
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Telstra has confirmed it is tracking websites visited by its mobile users in the lead up to a launch of a new web filtering solution.
Days after suspicions of Telstra's networking monitoring activity was first aroused, the telco has revealed it captures web addresses visited by millions of subscribers on its Next G network.
The addresses are compared to a blacklist of criminal sites curated by web filtering company Netsweeper, and held both in Australia and the US.
Users first noticed the new activity when they directed their Telstra devices to the telco's web servers and noticed it was also visited split seconds after by a Chicago IP address, believed to be held in a Rackspace facility.
Network engineers and users on the Whirlpool user forums suspected the activity was a marketing effort used to gather intelligence on the activities of Telstra customers.
A spokesman for the telco told iTnews' sister publication SC last week that the activity was part of a "normal network operation".
However, Telstra has since clarified that the activity was conducted ahead of a launch of a voluntary web filtering offering for mobile users.
The monitoring appears to relate to an as-yet unreleased feature dubbed "Smart Controls" that would allow users to access "mobile internet browsing restrictions and call restrictions on Telstra mobile services".
According to Telstra documentation (pdf) updated on Tuesday — and uploaded after SC approached the telco for comment — users who opt into the feature would pay $2.95 per month for the ability to restrict internet access on mobiles associated with their account based on specific URLs and content categories, or allow access to only specific URLs.
The feature would only be available to newer Telstra customers — those on its Siebel-based billing system. It would also provide regular reports of internet use for users when the Smart Controls function is enabled.
"Whilst we take care in filtering content based on the preset internet categories, we cannot guarantee that any or all of the content will be filtered accurately or in accordance with these categories," the documentation reads.
The filtering appears to be only restricted to Telstra mobiles operating over the Next G network; those accessing the internet over a local wi-fi connection would not face the same restrictions.
However, preparation for launch of the service has seen Telstra monitor internet use for all mobile subscribers.
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Spokesman James Howe told SC that user data was "completely anonymised" before it was sent offshore to be compared against Netsweeper's URL blacklist.
He was unable to confirm if users could opt-out of the data slurping procedure at the time of writing. Senior Telstra technicians reportedly told some engineers that users could not opt out of the website tracking but could request a list of tracked sites through the company's billing department.
Telstra was waiting on confirmation from its legal team before it is expected to issue a statement later today.
Users contended the activity was far from normal. Former Internode network engineer Mark Newton issued a strongly-worded statement to Telstra's privacy wing requesting information on the activity in lieu of a request to the federal privacy office.
Greens senator Scott Ludlam told SC sending even anonymised traffic offshore could have serious privacy implications.
"It is potentially probelematic. Anything in the US is subject to the Patriot Act, even if the data is anonymised, or sent as batches," Ludlam said.
"Why weren't people asked if they could opt-in?"
The US Patriot Act, introduced in 2001, allows the US Government to grab any user data stored within the country for intelligence purposes.
Senator Ludlam said it was unfortunate that it took a gang of network engineers to spot Telstra's "capturing of shadow traffic", especially if Telstra was to launch a volunteer net filter product.
"Maybe it is of noble intent, and Telstra had gone about it in a subversive way," he said.
The use of voluntary filters has been seen as a favourable alternative to the Federal Government's proposed internet filtering scheme.
A similar system, blocking access to child pornography sites, is also run by Telstra for all its subscribers, based on a blacklist curated by Interpol and held by the Australian Federal Police locally.
In a demonstration of the tracking activity, Mark Newton wrote:
"a visit to "http://my-server/13uf2n232.html" yields this hit from my iPad:
188.8.131.52 - - [25/Jun/2012:17:24:59 +0930] "GET /13uf2n232.html HTTP/1.1" 200 736 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 5_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9B206 Safari/7534.48.3"
and, approximately 250 milliseconds later, this hit from 22.214.171.124 in Chicago
18.104.22.168 - - [25/Jun/2012:17:25:00 +0930] "GET /13uf2n232.html HTTP/1.0" 200 736 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0" end"
He alleged the transmission of user traffic data off-shore could be a breach of Australian privacy legislation.


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"Ishiguro is, as always, a master of style and tone . . . . [Nocturnes] build[s] into a melancholic soundtrack. We're helpless to do anything but listen."–Time Out New York
"Tight and assured. . . . Suffused with sympathy." –-Time
"These stories recall Ishiguro's best known novel, The Remains of the Day. . . . By now it is clear that this exquisite stylist is serious in his pursuit of a minimal – perhaps even universal – mode of expression for the emotional experiences that define our lives as human."—The Times, London
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Winter Ice Skating May Be Coming To Roosevelt Island Next Year, FDR Memorial Construction Phasing and Other Notes From 2/19 RIOC Board Meeting
At last night's RIOC Board Hearing, RIOC President Steve Shane reported that the operators of the Bryant Park Skating Rink have expressed an interest in setting up a facility on Roosevelt Island.
The Roosevelt Island location for the Skating Rink mentioned was Firemen's Field.
I think a better place for a skating rink would be the southern tip of Southpoint Park which has these fantastic views of the NYC Waterfront and Skyline but is the controversial site of the proposed Kahn/FDR Memorial Boondoggle.
The supporters of the Kahn/FDR Memorial gave a presentation at last night's RIOC Board Meeting on their proposed construction phasing and of course they said that they had to build the granite room first despite the overwhelming objections of Roosevelt Island residents as expressed in the referendum held last November. (830 votes in favor of building the park before the granite room memorial and 247 against the resolution)
Some good news is that the RIOC Board will have another vote sometime this summer, probably in June, on the proposed construction phasing so there is still an opportunity to stop this unwanted and out-of-date project. Also, approvals/permits still need to be obtained from the NY State Department of Conservation, the Army Corp of Engineers, Coast Guard, NYPD, Homeland Security among many others, and there is time to register our objections with these agencies. Much more on this soon.
Other highlights of the RIOC Board meeting include:
- approving the deferral of certain payments due from Hudson/Related, developers of Riverwalk Buildings 5 & 6, due to slow condo sales and rentals
- approving of the building renovation for the Public Safety Department and
- disclosure of a "temporary" parking lot for the customers of the Roosevelt Island Tennis Club to be located adjacent to the Riverwalk Sales Office in Southtown during the time of the Tram outage.


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There's a man who's been out sailingIs love just the release of chemicals in the brain to aid in the procreation of the species? Do you know anyone over 50 who is in love?
In a decade full of dreams
And he takes her to a schooner
And he treats her like a queen
A girl pours a shot of expresso into my coffee at Starbucks. It's 6:00am and I am not at my best. I think and feel, yes, I can fall in love with her. But all that comes out is a "Thank you," and a one dollar tip. Out of some distant memory I hear Joni Mitchell.
I sent M a text message about our times together. It was too early to call her and by writing it down I wouldn't catch her by surprise. Maybe what comes back is thought out, felt out, honesty.
There's a man who's sent a letterThirty years ago, by now I would be holding hands with the girl from Starbucks. Small talk chit-chat would have led to the abandonment of our customer-barista roles and lead to the magical creation of chemicals, hope and budding feelings The dance of love. But now the days turn colder, light becomes dimmer, we don't think about love, we think about the end of days. Love never is lost, it just disappears.
And he's waiting for reply
He has asked her of her travels
Since the day they said goodbye
He writes "Wish you were beside me
We can make it if we try"
There's a man who's climbed a mountainThen one day we find ourselves in that one last great love of our lives. We won't know when its over until its gone. I can count them all on one hand, the real ones, the great ones, the magical, romantic, intense ones, before they disappeared.
And he's calling out her name
And he hopes her heart can hear
Three thousand miles he calls again
He can think her there beside him
He can miss her just the same
But not this one. I'm not ready to let her go.
She will love them when she sees them
They will lose her if they follow
And she only means to please them
And her heart is full and hollow
Like a cactus tree
While she's so busy being free


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Last month, after a trial that garnered worldwide coverage, two high-school football players in Steubenville, Ohio, were sentenced to youth prison for raping a 16-year-old girl.
She was so intoxicated at the time of the attacks that she only discovered what had happened to her after the cellphone photos and crude text messages began circulating.
That is only one of the many troubling details in this case, which is not over yet. Next week, the grand jury will begin calling witnesses as it weighs more charges. Surely, the football team�s coach, Reno Saccoccia , will be a primary target of this continued investigation.
During the trial for the convicted rapists, 16-year-old Ma�lik Richmond and 17-year-old Trent Mays, Saccoccia�s name came up. A lot.
Mays had a text message on his cellphone that read: �I got Reno. He took care of it and s�- ain�t gonna happen, even if they did take it to court. Like he was joking about it so I�m not worried.�
This led many to question what Saccoccia knew, when he knew it and why he let his star players continue to suit up for games. May the next round of grand jury questioning get to the heart of those questions.
Meanwhile, in a stealth move forging Steubenville�s willful disregard for its women, the school board quietly renewed Saccoccia�s contract as director of administrative services. He remains as coach, too.
The news of Saccoccia�s contract renewal was buried in a matter-of-fact regurgitation of the board�s minutes in the Ohio Valley�s Herald Star. Fortunately, word got out quickly. Once again, this small town on the Ohio River is the focus of a round of national scorn and ridicule. As it should be, says this mournful Ohioan.
In a story published last December, New York Times reporters Juliet Macur and Nate Schweber described this exchange with Steubenville�s coach:
�When asked again about the players involved and why he chose not to discipline them, he became agitated.
��You made me mad now,� he said, throwing in several expletives as he walked from the high school to his car.
�Nearly nose to nose with a reporter, he growled: �You�re going to get yours. And if you don�t get yours, somebody close to you will.��
After news broke of Saccoccia�s contract renewal, an online petition went up demanding that Saccoccia be fired. As of Wednesday afternoon, it had more than 135,000 signatures. A petition supporting him had 721 signatures. Online furor should not prompt Saccoccia�s demise, but it does telegraph how badly Steubenville officials continue to respond to this tragedy.
Or not respond.
Christopher Evans, an editorial writer for Cleveland�s Plain Dealer, got nowhere this week trying to talk to Saccoccia .
�If I haven�t said anything since August, why would I talk now?� he said. When Evans said evidence suggests that Saccoccia knew about Mays� cellphone texts, the coach said, �I�ve got no comment.� End of interview.
I had even worse luck Wednesday trying to reach Edward Littlejohn Sr., the president of the school board.
First, I called the school district�s main number and was told that the only way to talk to Littlejohn is to leave a message in a generic voice mailbox. Done.
Next, I called the karate studio owned by Littlejohn and left two messages. I mistakenly called the law offices of his son Edward Littlejohn Jr., who promptly returned my call and told me his father would be in the studio by 4 p.m.
Shortly after 4 p.m., I called the karate studio again. When I asked for Littlejohn, the woman who answered hesitated and said, �Um, let me see.�
A few moments later, Vicki Littlejohn, Edward�s wife, was on the phone. Our exchange:
�Actually, I�m calling for Mr. Littlejohn.�
�I�m Mrs. Littlejohn.�
�Yes, but I need to speak to Mr. Littlejohn, please.�
�Well, he�s not here.�
�Your son told me he�d be in after 4.�
�Yes, well, on Wednesdays, I never know where he is. I�ll take a message.�
�May I have his cellphone number?�
�No, that won�t work. I know because I just tried. He�s in a dead zone now.�
I�ll resist the obvious metaphor and simply list the questions Littlejohn should answer:
1) Why did the school board renew Reno Saccoccia�s contract as director of administrative services?
2) Why didn�t the board at least delay this contract renewal until the grand jury finished its investigation?
3) Why didn�t the board make a public acknowledgment of the controversial nature of Saccoccia�s contract renewal and explain to Steubenville residents and the rest of the world why it thinks this coach deserves to keep his job, administrative or otherwise?
Finally, the city of Steubenville could have stood tall for its women and the men who cherish them and sent a strong message to its young people.
Instead, it has hunkered down, burnishing its reputation as a town that cares more about football than it does about the children it will launch into the world.
Connie Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and an essayist for Parade magazine.


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Friday, January 14, 2011
Will the Real "Norden" Please Flap Your Sails?
A good part of my research for a recently published family history dealt with the emigrant voyage of my great great grandparents, Baard and Thibertine Johnson, and their two children, Ole and Ellen Julie (Julia). There was no doubt, according to Digitalarkivet (Norwegian census), that the family sailed from Bergen, Norway aboard the bark-rigged ship, Norden, on May 5, 1866. Many of the passengers, including my ancestors, were destined for the midwestern United States via Quebec. It was a common route for America-travelers at that time.
Though my family book has been published, I am a firm believer in always keeping an eye out for new sources and details. So, even though the ink has dried on the page, it does not mean that every last word has been written. While sleuthing around for information concerning a different project, I found an obscure bibliographic reference on the Norwegian-American Historical Association (NAHA) website that caught my interest: Tollefson, Arne. "The Voyage of the three-masted vessel, the 'Norden,' in 1866, from Bodoe, Norway, to Quebec." Norden, 23 (Dec. 1931). The article is based on the recounting of voyage events by a surviving Norden passenger.
Wow! What's this? I excitedly tracked down the journal via interlibrary loan. When it arrived, I was a bit disappointed to find it is only two pages long, yet it is quite interesting, nonetheless. I had hoped to find detailed information about the exact voyage my great great grandparents experienced. Instead, I found something quite different--a valuable lesson.
It turns out there was not just one ship named Norden that made a voyage from Norway to Quebec during the spring of 1866, but two! How could that be? Well, I cannot claim to know how the mid-19th-century shipping industry handled vessel identification concerns, but from a 21st-century research perspective, the potential for making an incorrect assumption loomed large.
According to the article, the other Norden was built at Bath, Maine in 1849, and was sold in 1863 to a Bergen shipowner, who renamed it from the original: Zenobia. By 1866, this Norden was described as " ...old and decrepit. The hull was mellow with age. The masts were rotten. It was wide of beam and a slow sailer." "My" Norden was eight years older than that, so what did that make her, I wonder? At least she held together long enough to get my ancestors to dry land in North America.
Another interesting fact is that the Norden on which my ancestors sailed left Bergen on May 5, 1866, and took only 30 days to reach Quebec. The Maine-built Norden left Bodoe, Norway on June 3, 1866, carrying about 700 passengers, and it did not arrive in Quebec until ten weeks later. "...the Norden staggered westward on her unhurried way day after day, and through-out the long nights for weeks and weeks--aye months." The ship's supplies were running out, and the water supply was low, and what there was on hand became foul. At the end of the tenth week, another ship was hailed off the New Foundland coast so that flour and salt pork could be purchased. Ten whole weeks at sea... I can only think the good ship and crew must have fought a head wind the whole way.
Though fairly short, the article relates a compelling story, well told, even though it is not my own ancestors' story, as I had hoped.
Perhaps the moral of this story is that before we can assert something as a fact, we should always seek the "triangle of proof": three sources that indicate roughly the same thing. The instructors in a certificate program in genealogy and family history that I attended always cautioned their neophyte genealogists to seek the triangle of proof as a method of weighing the truth of any fact.
Early on in my research, had I not known from another source that "my" Norden was built in 1841 at Åbo Gamla Skeppsvarv, Finland (thank you, Norway Heritage), or seen the passenger list information, complete with dates, on Digitalarkivet, or known from family members that my Johnson ancestors lived closer to the port of Trondheim than Bodoe, Norway, I might have turned a wistful blind eye to some minor inconsistencies in the article and globbed onto it as one of my prime sources. And, I would have been completely mistaken. Thank goodness I was on the track of the correct Norden from the very beginning, and, thank goodness both "old and decrepit" ships named Norden managed to limp from one side of the Atlantic the other in 1866.
3 comments:
- Free Genealogy Guide said...
At the time the Norden crossed the Atlantic, old-time navigation methods required their own "triangle of proof," which consisted of latitude from a sextant, precise time from a chronometer, and the use of these two to calculate the longitude. This was the information necessary to determine the ship's location at any point.
- February 02, 2011
- Matt Johnson said...
My Great Grandfather was on the Bodo Norden ship. I am searching for these two pages now. If anyone knows how to find them let me know. Otherwise I will keep looking.
- July 19, 2011
- Chery Kinnick said...
Hi Matt,
The article "The Voyage of the Norden, by Arne Tollefson (NORDIC journal, v.23 (December 1931) is referenced on the NAHA website (Norwegian American Historical Association). You can check with your local library about getting a copy of the article via Interlibrary Loan. OR, send your e-mail to me at firstname.lastname@example.com and I'll see if I still have a paper copy. - Chery
- July 20, 2011


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Awesome! That looks great. Congrats on your build-in-progress. I actually had Gunmetal spec'ed for a while until I changed my mind. It is a very "serious" looking color and compliments the "seriousness" of the car
I've been reading in the news how bad the weather continues to be in the UK, sorry to hear :-( When are you anticipating taking delivery?
Delivery should be within the next couple of weeks....fingers crossed!
How exciting! Please post up pics and your thoughts when you get it? So I can live vicariously!
man that looks great! AA121 what did you spec out?
From the spec list it looks like you have an eye to do some tracking
The spec does lend itself a bit to that but I had more of an eye on future resale and what might appeal to any future owner to be honest..... bit cynical I know!!! I currently race a Caterham 7 so most of my track time will be testing in that. Much less precious about a race car and way, way cheaper to fix should I have any car on car or car on barrier action!
awww man that is sick looking!!!!