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The gangly, 46-year-old father of three speaks five languages and talks effortlessly about international politics. What he can't do, for the moment at least, is kick his cocaine and heroin habit.
But when he shoots up, Kais Neni now goes to a supervised, state-funded drug consumption room—Denmark's 18-month-old approach to a problem with no easy solution.
"It's better than being in the streets," said Neni, before getting his fix in the space where a medical professional remains on hand to help drug users if they overdose.
After kicking his 15-year habit three years ago, Neni relapsed and headed back to the streets of Vesterbro, a seedy but gentrifying neighbourhood behind Copenhagen's main train station.
The area is home to Scandinavia's largest and most open drug scene, where for years residents and tourists have grown used to seeing addicts shoot up in phone booths, stairwells or simply on the pavements.
"Having a drug consumption room is accepting something that is already happening," said Rasmus Koberg Christiansen, the manager of two of the three state-funded drug consumption rooms in Copenhagen.
The first one opened in the capital in October 2012 and there are now rooms in every one of Denmark's main cities.
"No country has solved the drug problem. There are countries that hand down death sentences for taking drugs but they still have problems," he said.
"It's an acknowledgement of the fact that there really are some people whom we can't reach with rehab—right now. And what do we do with those people?" he added.
The approach contrasts markedly with Scandinavian neighbour Sweden's strict "zero tolerance" policy, which is credited with giving Sweden one of Europe's lowest illicit drug consumption rates—but is also blamed for a rising number of drug-related deaths as addicts fear seeking help for an overdose.
Little opposition
Proponents of drug consumption rooms say they reduce the drug paraphernalia on the streets—children in the area have been caught playing with needles—and help prevent the spread of disease among addicts. They also restore some dignity to a highly vulnerable group by allowing them to take their drugs in a safe, hygienic environment.
More importantly, advocates believe it prevents deadly overdoses. In 2011, Denmark recorded 285 drug overdose deaths, an all-time high. In 2012, it was down to 210, the lowest number in 19 years and believed in part thanks to the drug rooms.
Safe rooms where addicts can take drugs without fear of prosecution first appeared in Switzerland in the 1980s.
Supervised injection sites in Germany, Spain and the Netherlands followed, but Denmark has drawn attention abroad because it's the first country in more than a decade to have introduced them.
Police do not go inside the safe rooms. While they do not tolerate the sale of drugs and can still arrest someone for illicit drug possession in Vesterbro, they usually won't confiscate the drugs of a user headed to a safe room.
Unlike certain other countries, Denmark has had little opposition to opening drug rooms, either in major cities or smaller towns.
Danish policy makers have tried to make the centres more accessible than in other European countries, notably by limiting bureaucracy.
Users simply have to register an alias, their hometown and what drugs they use before they can enter the facility. Addicts are never banned from the premises even if they turn violent or threaten staff.
The users have to bring their own drugs but the centre provides clean needles, special exhaust fans for smokers, and even a machine to help addicts find veins that haven't collapsed.
Since Denmark opened its first drug consumption rooms a year and a half ago, there have been 150 overdoses, none of which were fatal, official figures show.
'In no way fancy'
Last August, the government decided to provide national funding for drug taking rooms after the ones financed by the city of Copenhagen were deemed a success.
Official figures show that one of the capital's rooms recorded 2,400 unique users and 500 to 800 instances of drug consumption— by injection or smoking —a day.
Not all agree with the initiative, however.
"Drug consumption rooms are the same as giving up on people instead of working to give them a second chance in life," conservative lawmaker Tom Behnke wrote before the first room opened.
Others fear the rooms will create more addicts by making life for drug users "too easy".
But Koberg Christiansen disagrees. "A drug consumption room is in no way fancy," he said. "This is a very, very tough environment. It's hardcore, and there's nobody who's getting an easier life."
Typical is the safe room addict Neni uses, inside a homeless shelter. Though spotless, the air had a funky smell and blood splattered on the floor as a man next to Neni tried to inject himself.
"There aren't any young people who come here just because they think it's fun," said Koberg Christiansen.
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(Reuters) - The death of a New York college student from brain trauma in a suspected fraternity hazing incident in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania in December was a homicide, a county coroner said on Saturday.
Chun "Michael" Deng, a freshman at Baruch College in Manhattan, died of injuries inflicted by one or more persons, the definition of homicide, said William Lisman, coroner of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
Further details would have to come from police, Lisman added.
Deng, 19, had traveled with about 30 people to Tunkhannock Township, Pennsylvania, about 75 miles from New York City, for the weekend and took part in a pledging ritual for the fraternity Pi Delta Psi, authorities said shortly after his December death.
E. David Christine Jr, district attorney for Monroe County, said in December that Deng "got tackled too many times" during a hazing incident and that criminal investigators were seeking the identities of people responsible for Deng's injuries.
Pocono Mountain Regional Police have been investigating Deng's death, but no one was available to comment about it on Saturday, a patrol shift supervisor said.
No one has yet been charged in connection with Deng's death.
Deng was among four pledges involved in a fraternity ritual in someone's yard and after getting injured, he was driven by friends to a hospital where he died on December 9, police said at the time.
Prosecutors initially gave Deng's first name as Chen, but according to CNN, Baruch College listed him as Chun, the name used by other media organizations in reports this month.
A search warrant says items recovered during the investigation include fraternity clothing, two dozen cellphones, a number of laptop computers and pledge paddles, according to The Morning Call, an Allentown, Pennsylvania newspaper.
Deng was injured in Monroe County, but the hospital where he died is in Luzerne County, which makes Lisman responsible for ruling on the cause of death, he said.
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Despite taking its title from a memorable, menacing note delivered to Edwige Fenech in director Sergio Martino's 1971 giallo classic The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, as well as calling back two of that movie's stars (Fenech and uber-Eurobaddie Ivan Rassimov), Martino's 1972 effort Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key is not a sequel. In fact, a viewer might well struggle to see how that admittedly awesome title applies to this flick at all. There's plenty of vice going on, to be sure, but I can't remember a single locked room, even when it would have made sense to throw the bolts to keep nosy police inspectors and ex- or current lovers in the dark.
But looking for representational logic in gialli titles is surely a pathway to madness, and moreover, it doesn't really matter. What matters is that on the other side of that title card (which is superimposed over a soft-focused couple making hot Italian love in white satin sheets--zang), Martino delivers a wild, thrilling, and entertainingly perverse mystery/slasher that has as its touchstones both the macabre sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe and the high-octane excitement of muddy motocross. Add heaping helpings of Naked Edwige and enough J&B to pickle a pachyderm, and you've got a winner by any standard of measure.
Oliviero Rouvigny (Luigi Pistilli), a decadent writer-type who achieved a great deal of fame in his early career but has since gone completely to seed. He shares the house with his gorgeous but obviously disturbed young wife Irina (Anita Strindberg), his beloved black cat Satan, and just about every acid-trippin', folk-singin', bra-slingin' hippie within spitting distance of the villa. While the flower children sing horrible folk songs and dance naked on his twelve-seater dining room table, Oliviero entertains himself by getting sweaty-drunk, groping his Afro-Italian maid , and subjecting Irina to varying levels of social and sexual humiliation. (During the opening free-love party, he collects all his guest's unfinished drinks in a large silver bowl and forces Irina to gulp it down, eventually soaking her with the backwash-laden vintage.)
As luck would have it, the Awful Author also has a not-quite-innocent Oedipal fixation. The Lady of the Manor, deceased only two or three years now, was apparently famous for being an actress and infamous for her sexual conquests, a subject her devoted son can't seem to talk about enough. Mommy is a constant presence in his life, thanks not only to Satan (who was her kitty) and the life-sized portrait of her in the main hall, but also the fabulous costume gown she wore in said portrait, which Oliviero still has and forces his lovers to wear while he engages them in rough sex! Is it any wonder Irina's mascara never seems to be on straight?
her throat spilling copious amounts of red tempra paint. (Of course we the audience get to see her stalked through the darkened terrain by the requisite black-gloved, fedora-wearing shadow, allowing Martino to show off some of the super-stylish camera work that is a constant joy in this film.) The police visit the next morning, merely as a formality, though the Inspector drops some not-too-subtle hints about Oliviero's suspect status. (His memorable aside, "Murder has a habit of involving all sorts of people, for no reason whatever!" could be a genre definition for gialli films in general!) When the maid tries on Mom's Sexy Dress and ends up similarly gutted in the Rouvigny Estate itself, one can't help thinking perhaps the fat cop is onto something.
In one of leaps that can really only happen in Italian sex-thrillers of the 70s, Oliviero offhandedly proclaims his innocence but refuses to call the police; rather, he decides they should immediately hide the maid's body by bricking her up behind a damaged wall in the wine cellar and never speaking of it again. Never mind the fact that a woman was murdered in his own home, and if he didn't do it, someone else did. Irina protests, but soon Oliviero browbeats her into helping him with his home- and alibi-improvement project.
Having established what day-to-day life is like for the Rouvignys, it's now time to throw a monkey wrench into the well-oiled machinery of their marital bliss. That wrench arrives in the form of Oliviero's niece Floriana, played of course by Vicar pantsthrob Edwige Fenech, who has decided for who knows what reason to come stay with her dear old unk for a few weeks. Floriana has grown up quite a bit since the last time her uncle bounced her on his knee, and his icky way of leering at her leaves no doubt he'd like to re-enact that memory, only further up the lap.
Floriana is a no-nonsense, self-assured free spirit, a strong woman who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to go after it. She's also not shy about playing to her uncle's obvious incestuous lust, as they engage in sexy banter within moments of her arrival. "Sex is a very demanding occupation," Oliviero opines, "the basic requirement is imagination." To which Floriana replies, "All the imagination in the world woudn't do you any good--if you couldn't get a hard-on!" Irina stands by silently, looking uncomfortable--though the longing looks she also casts Floriana's way hint at something mysterious and sexy a-brewin'.
It's not long before Martino brings that mixture to a full rolling boil: noticing the palpable tension between husband and wife, Floriana quickly becomes Irina's confidant, hinting that perhaps the best way out of her bad marriage would be the removal of the offending party via tossing-off-a-cliff. Irina is too timid to enact that plan, but not too timid to succumb to Floriana's lesbonic advances later that evening in an incredibly sensuous love scene. Making the most of her country vacation, the naughty niece also seduces a local delivery boy, attending his weekend motocross race before taking him up to the Rouvigny barn loft to clean the grime off his sparkplugs, IYKWIMAITYD. Floriana then completes the hat-trick of hawtness by inviting her drunken uncle into her bedroom and popping out of bed in Dear Dead Mom's ornate gown before having her way with him as well. As a result, Irina and Oliviero grow increasingly jealous of each other, and both start thinking about filing for a Sicilian divorce.
The movie is absolutely bursting with atmosphere and visual richness. Martino gets in some hugely stylish and satisfying shots throughout, and his use of bright primary colors against gloomy shadowed backgrounds is often breathtaking. The story also pegs the perverso-meter again and again, with sexual humiliation, adultery, and strong implications of incest being just a few of the items on the menu. (In a particularly entertaining exchange, Floriana spars with Oliviero on this subject, asking flatly, "Is it true you slept with your mother?" Her uncle retorts, "Is it true you're a two-bit WHORE?" Touchy touchy!) The director is also helped by the jaw-dropping gorgeousness of both his female leads--Strindberg has a unique, striking beauty, with near-superhuman cheekbones and piercing blue eyes that convey vulnerability on the brink of madness most effectively, and of course Edwige is Edwige, which is to say, ZANG.
The black cat Satan is also a major player in the movie, popping up interstitially to stalk Irina's caged doves or wade through pools of blood like a dark furry metaphor. The cat also significantly hates Irina, who almost seems to believe the beast contains the jealous soul of Oliviero's mother, taking revenge via hissing and scratching for her having stolen Mommy's little boy away. The mutual loathing between Irina and Satan comes to a head in a scene that will surprise no one who's ever read Edgar Allan Poe seriously, but still manages to be shocking and more than a little creepy.
Of course since this is a giallo, things need to get all twisty-wisty in the third act, as the Black-Gloved killer strikes again and is proven to be someone you couldn't have reasonably suspected, other masks fall away as the motivations of the principals are revealed, main characters die, and it all wraps up in an homage to Poe that again is not unexpected, but because of that has something of the poetically inescapable in it, the gears of Fate clicking home and turning in the only way they ever could. (Also: look for a scene that prefigures an iconic scene in The Shining by about eight years; was Kubrick a fan?)
I've stated previously that All the Colors of the Dark was my favorite Martino giallo, but now I think Your Vice is a Locked Room... has wrested that title from its claws. The movie looks gorgeous, Martino's camera work and color schemes are divine, and the story is as perverse and exciting as you could ask for. The acting is great across the board--Pistilli is perfectly cast as the run-dry decadent author surviving on booze and psychosexual issues, and Strindberg is great as the frightened, slowly going-mad wife. Fenech is gorgeous as always, here rockin' the bob-haircut and go-go boots like no other; she also gets to work her acting muscles a bit by playing a sexy, confident schemer instead of the sexy damsel in distress, and she pulls it off beautifully. (Also beautifully pulled off by Edwige: her clothes.) Ivan Rassimov appears in a surprisingly small role, but makes the most of his limited screen time.
The only thing that works against the film for my money is some fairly ugly racism directed at the Rogivny's black maid by just about everyone in the flick--although it could be argued that this is meant to be indicitive of the moral wasteland in which even the "good" characters live and operate. Still, Your Vice is a Locked Room... hit on all other cylinders for me, and hit them so hard and fast that I am pleased to give it the 3+ Thumb rating. Even if you don't think you like gialli, check this one out.
Some more great images from Your Vice is a Locked Room...(1972)
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972): or, I Really Have Nothing to Add to That Title
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 11:46 AM
Labels: '70s, 3+ Thumbs, Edwige Fenech, Giallo, Incest, JB Shots, Poe, Psycho Killer, Sergio Martino
6 comments:
- The Duke of DVD said...
Damn, Vicar! Of course, you had me at "naked Edwige", for she casts a spell upon me too, as you well know. However, the movie itself sounds fantastic. I must snag this one for my media library, post haste.
Bravo on such a fantastic review, and by the by, that shot of Rassimov rules.
- March 4, 2010 at 4:27 PM
- Jay Clarke said...
Vice is one of my favourites too and is actually the movie that introduced me to Edwige. ZANG indeed! :D
Great review!
- March 4, 2010 at 5:24 PM
- Samuel Wilson said...
Titles like this one make me wonder whether Italian movie theaters had marquees and if someone was getting paid by the letter. But can you imagine the creative abbreviation that might be practiced? Still, Italian title loquacity is part of the giallo genre's charms, along with La Fenech and her cohorts. I definitely need to see more of these movies.
- March 4, 2010 at 10:27 PM
- dfordoom said...
Vicar, "Naked Edwige" is definitely not easy to resist! I've just ordered a copy of The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh. I may have to get this one as well.
- March 5, 2010 at 8:39 AM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Glad to see I'm not alone in my worship of The Goddess Fenech. :)
@The Duke--Rassimov is one steel-eyed sonuvagun. In that shot he kind of reminds me of the Goblin King in Labyrinth. Of course had he played that part instead of David Bowie, young Jennifer Connelly would have ended up with her throat slit, endlessly tumbling down the stairs of an M.C. Escher nightmare!
@Jay Clarke--Thanks! ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK was my intro to Edwige, and it's been sweaty-sappy love ever since!
@Samuel--I don't know from abbreviations (you can tell by the length of my posts that I seldom abbreviate ANYTHING), but I acronymized the title to YVIALRAOIHTK, which means nothing in Englis or Italian. Also, the only anagram I could come up with from it was HOARY VIAL KIT. My Dan Brown-like search for meaning continues...
@dfordoom--Not easy to resist? Try UNPOSSIBLE. I think even my great aunt Hilda would hit that. ;) I think you'll enjoy TSVOMW, but definitely check this one out as well. And ATCOTD while you're at it. It's good stuff. ;)
- March 5, 2010 at 3:52 PM
- dfordoom said...
Vicar, I've seen All the Colors of the Dark and loved it. In fact it was my first Edwige Fenech movie!
- March 5, 2010 at 9:49 PM


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Annual to shrubs, generally glandular, some green root-parasites
Stem generally round
Leaves generally alternate, simple, generally ± entire; stipules generally 0
Inflorescence: spike to panicle, generally bracted, or flowers 12 in axils
Flower bisexual; calyx lobes generally 5; corolla generally strongly bilateral, generally 2-lipped (upper lip generally 2-lobed, lower lip generally 3-lobed); stamens generally 4 in 2 pairs, generally included, a 5th (generally uppermost) sometimes present as a staminode; pistil 1, ovary superior, chambers generally 2, placentas axile, style 1, stigma lobes generally 2
Fruit: capsule, generally ± ovoid, loculicidal or septicidal
Seed: coat sculpture often characteristic
Genera in family: ± 200 genera, 3000 species: ± worldwide; some cultivated as ornamental (e.g., Antirrhinum, Mimulus, Penstemon ) or medicinal (Digitalis )
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include only Buddleja, Scrophularia, and Verbascum in CA; other genera moved to Orobanchaceae (Castilleja, Cordylanthus, Orthocarpus, Pedicularis, Triphysaria), Phrymaceae (Mimulus), and Plantaginaceae (= Veronicaceae sensu Olmstead et al.)
Key to genera by Elizabeth Chase Neese & Margriet Wetherwax.
Annual to subshrub, green root-parasites
Leaves sessile, entire to dissected
Inflorescence spike-like; bracts becoming shorter, wider, more lobed than leaves, tips generally colored
Flower: calyx generally unequally 4-lobed, generally colored like bract tips; corolla upper lip beak-like, tip open, lower lip generally reduced, 3-toothed to -pouched; stamens 4; anther sacs 2, unequal; stigma entire to 2-lobed, generally exserted
Fruit loculicidal, ± ovoid, ± asymmetric
Seed generally ± brown, attached at base; coat netted, net-like walls sometimes aligned ladder-like
Species in genus: ± 200 species: especially w North America
Etymology: (Domingo Castillejo, Spanish botanist)
Reference: [Chuang & Heckard 1991 Syst Bot 16:644666]
Highly variable within and between populations.
Hybridization and polyploidy common;polyploid forms may have separate ranges or be ± identifiable within populations by minor characters. Biologically consistent taxa very difficult to define
Horticultural information: TRY with host; usually DFCLT.
Annual 1040 cm, subglabrous
Leaf 2080 mm; lobes 03, linear-lanceolate
Inflorescence 325 cm, 2.54 cm wide; bracts 1025 mm, tipped white or purplish, lobes 35, linear
Flower: calyx 520 mm, divided 1/2 in front and on sides, 2/3 in back, lobes ± linear, tip wider; corolla 1025 mm, pale yellow, pink, or purplish red, beak 56 mm, straight, puberulent, lower lip 45 mm, pouches 46 mm wide, 23 mm deep; stigma ± exserted, ± 2-lobed
Fruit 710 mm
Seed ± 0.5 mm; coat shallowly netted, loose-fitting
Chromosomes: 2n=24 (all subspp.)
Ecology: Grassland
Elevation: < 1400 m.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast Ranges, c Sierra Nevada Foothills, s Central Coast, South Coast Ranges, Southwestern California
Distribution outside California: n Baja California
Synonyms: Orthocarpus d. Benth
Highly variable; many local forms; more study needed.
See the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
Inflorescence white to pale yellow; bracts = flowers
Flower: corolla ± included, lower lip widened gradually, pouches longer than deep, teeth ± 2 mm
Ecology: Coastal grassland
Elevation: < 100 m.
Bioregional distribution: s Central Coast (San Luis Obispo Co.)
Synonyms: O. d. var. o. D.D. Keck


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Join us as we partner with Friendship Haven and Unity Point and the City of Fort Dodge to pick up trash along Kenyon Road. We will meet in the lobby of the Bio Science Health Science Building at 3p.m. on Thursday, April 24. (Bags are provided by the city).


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NEA Takes it "From the Top" on Friendship Night
By Cindy Long
Jennifer Flores, a K-5 librarian from Tucson, Arizona, had never heard NPR's From the Top before seeing the live taping at Friendship Night at the Arie Crown Theater in McCormick Place, but now she plans to be a regular listener to the popular radio broadcast that showcases America's best young musicians.
"They were incredible," said Flores. "They not only had impressive musical talent, they were all so poised and self-assured. That kind of confidence comes from arts and music education. It provides opportunities for kids to excel in school beyond traditional academics and sports."
Broadcast on over 200 stations nationwide to an audience of more than 700,000 listeners each week, From the Top is one of the most popular classical music programs on radio.
Hosted by acclaimed pianist Christopher O'Riley, each one-hour broadcast presents five performances along with interviews and sketches, revealing the heart and soul behind extraordinary young musicians. Now in its twelfth year on air, From the Top is taped before live audiences in concert halls from Boston to Honolulu.
"Today I stand before a very important and very energetic and rather massive crowd of America's educators," host Christopher O'Riley said after the theater darkened and the red "ON AIR" light went on. "For a show that celebrates the power of music education every week, how cool is that?"
He said the show was honored to be the guests of the National Education Association.
"What is the NEA?" he asked his radio listeners. "It's public school teachers, administrators, and the people behind the scenes, like bus drivers, cafeteria workers, and secretaries. It's retired teachers and students studying to be teachers. It's people passionately dedicated to improving the lives of our children. And we salute you!"
Photo: From the Top.
He said that all of the kids performing on the night's program were public school students, like 17-year-old Stephanie Block, a violinist who attends Barrington High School, just outside of Chicago. Before performing Fritz Kreisler's Praeludium and Allegro, Block said that she wanted to thank her sixth grade English teacher.
"He was the first person who knew I wanted to pursue music," she said. "I was only 11, but he supported that and encouraged me." (See Ms. Bloock's performance here.)
Geoffrey Hahn, 18, a baritone from Carpinteria, California, attends Santa Barbara High School where he's a member of the Madrigal and A Cappella choirs. He said he's been taking singing lessons since he was just four years old, and he performed what O'Riley called a "gorgeous" rendition of Ralph Vaughan Williams "Whither I Must Wander."
Hahn thanked his high school choir director and music teacher, who took him under his wing when Hahn was in eighth grade and has been a mentor and a friend ever since. "He makes music fun," said Hahn.
Photo: From the Top
A 19-year-old cellist named Nikita Annenkov first won over the audience with his disarming personality, and then with his spectacular performance of "Impromptu" by Alexander Arutiunian.
Annenkov, who moved to America from Uzbekistan with his mother five years ago, is from Columbus, Ohio and is a senior at Dublin Scioto High School.
"My high school English teacher was a great motivator for me," said Annenkov. "He said that as much as I loved music, I wouldn't get very far without good grades. It was a good push for me."
Photo: From the Top
A chamber music ensemble from Chicago's Merit School of Music followed Annenkov with a performance of Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale, and the show ended with Avner Dorman's Presto by Kate Liu, a 17-year-old pianist from Winnetka, Illinois, whose stirring performance got the entire theater on their feet in a standing ovation.
When the creators of From the Top proposed a radio series that would celebrate the performances and personal stories of the nation's top student classical musicians, a lot of people were skeptical of its appeal. But when the program debuted in 2000, it became the fastest growing weekly classical music show in public radio history. And after Friendship Night, it's likely to grow even more.
"I'll be tuning in every week," said Flores.
NPR's From the Top, taped live from the Friendship Night performances at the Aire Crown Theater in Chicago.


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I kept thinking about how at the close of next summer Henry will be a whopping almost-two! It was kind of off-putting for a minute, and I got really sad...but then really excited. It's hard watching your baby grow up so quickly, the changes happen so fast and in the blink of an eye it seems like your little newborn is crawling, standing, walking. Heartbreaking that you can never go back, but equally as joyous that life is moving forward. Bittersweet is the best way to describe it. More sweet than bitter, but bitter none the less. So today in the late afternoon sun, I promised myself that I would stop focusing on the 'bitter' part of it. Just to accept it. Be happy. Celebrate the new stages and all of the new milestones. And instead of being half-happy, holding back a part of that to focus on being sad, I'm going to try my best to just be happy. Keyword: try. ;)
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This packet sows up to 25 ft.
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When to sow outside: RECOMMENDED. 1 to 2 weeks after average last frost, and when soil temperature is at least 65°F, ideally 70° ?85°F. Successive Sowings: Every 7 to 14 days up to 80 days before first fall frost. NOTE: In very hot summer areas, sow as recommended above but skip the heat of summer as daytime temperatures consistently above 90°F will cause bean flowers to drop off (no bean formation).
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Williams forecasted the news that J.J. Putz apparently signed with Arizona to become the Diamondbacks' closer, saying, "We wanted him back, but [Putz is] headed elsewhere."
As for the recently non-tendered Bobby Jenks, Williams remained open to a return by his five-year closer, with logical hesitation: "He's new to the market, and he's got to flesh some things out before he gets back to us."
With holes in the pen (just Matt Thornton, Sergio Santos, and possibly Chris Sale and Tony Pena project as holdovers in 2011), Williams knows he needs at least one recognizable addition in the trenches.
"[A trade is] quite possibly the way we might have to go because we've taken ourselves to—or beyond—our payroll limits," he said. "I might have to get a little creative with trades…[but] I don't think a reliever is going to come at these meetings for us. That will be after."
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The last ten years has been an exciting and challenging journey for me and I'm very proud of the technology and community that my SpringSource cofounders and I fostered. However, there always comes a time to make a choice about the places you'll go, and it's time for me to leave VMware and pursue other interests. I wish VMware and my colleagues continued success, and know that Spring will continue to thrive.
Rod Johnson leaving SpringSource (3 messages)
This should get the attention of TheServerSide community:
- Posted by: R.J. Byron
- Posted on: July 11 2012 23:42 EDT
Threaded Messages (3)
- Spring dependent on a single person? by John Lusk on July 12 2012 11:14 EDT
- Dependency ejection? by Andrew Clifford on July 16 2012 12:28 EDT
- Congrats to Rod by Jason Carreira on July 16 2012 16:00 EDT
Spring dependent on a single person?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: John Lusk
- Posted on: July 12 2012 11:14 EDT
- in response to R.J. Byron
Ya know... when I first saw a news post with a title like "Rod Johnson leaving SpringSource; what will the direction be now?" I had to think, "Really? The departure of a single person (no matter who) affects a product that much? And people are making decisions to weave this product into their enterprise products?"
Who do we know (or care about) who've left Oracle or Microsoft or even Sun (back in the day)? Even Gosling stopped messing with Java long ago (in a serious way that affected product direction) and nobody really cared.
Dependency ejection?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Andrew Clifford
- Posted on: July 16 2012 12:28 EDT
- in response to John Lusk
Rod is just a factory bean of the RodJohnsonTemplate class. I'm sure VMWare has new injetions in the wings that they can load (annotatons or XML). Hope VMWare has all the old unit tests to run against the bean too.
Thanks Rod!
Congrats to Rod[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Jason Carreira
- Posted on: July 16 2012 16:00 EDT
- in response to R.J. Byron
Congrats to Rod on a great job building a platform and a business. A job well done.


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"For me, the most entertaining evening would be to go sit with entrepreneurs and talk with them about how they're building their companies and how we can help to make them better. That's the one thing in the world – well, I love doing that."
Quotes by Ashton Kutcher
"A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people."
"A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!"
"Acting can be so much fun that it's easy to forget that what you're doing is a job. But if I've got my tie on, I'm going to work."
"After 'Punk'd,' my company Katalyst did a deal with AOL to produce short-form content for the Web. At that time it was a different game. If you got front-page coverage on any popular website, you could probably get a push."
"Always roll up the sleeves on your shirt. It gives the impression that you're working, even if you're not."
"Anyone who has tried to build something that changes people's lives sometimes finds life to be a distraction, and finds people who don't care as much as they do to be annoying."
"Anyone who wants to be an entrepreneur like someone else is actually looking in the wrong direction. You don't look out for inspiration, you look in. You have to ask yourself how can I be better today, at solving the problem I am trying to solve for my company. I wouldn't encourage anyone to be like me. Just be like you."
"As marriage goes, I think most people sort of set being – you know getting married as the goal as opposed to being married."
"Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it… so let's stop judging people."
"Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew."
"For me, the most entertaining evening would be to go sit with entrepreneurs and talk with them about how they're building their companies and how we can help to make them better. That's the one thing in the world – well, I love doing that."
"I certainly don't think I'm deserving of taking up space forever as a human. There's a whole generation of people yet to be born that are going to be so much more evolved than I am. I don't want to take up space. They're going to be better equipped to make the world a better place than I am."
"I didn't come from the worst of situations, and I didn't come into the best of situations. But I've appreciated the best situations. And I've made the best of the worst situations. I'm lucky to be where I am."
"I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still."
"I don't buy these rag magazines that feed off of stolen, you know, press. They're basically stealing someone's image in order to make money for themselves… They wait at the end of my street in their cars. Every time I exit my home, I have company."
"I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary."
"I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me."
"I don't think opposites attract. I think like attracts like. So I don't think that they do attract, opposites. Only when you're talking about magnetic poles."
"I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it."
"I have someone that cooks for me… that's the best thing ever. I just want to show up and I want my house to be like a hotel… so I want to have a couple of options… I like to have a couple of options."
"I learned what a Birkin bag is from the price tag. You'll never forget what it is once you've paid for one."
"I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control – when they write lies at least – because the laws can't really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it."
"I never thought in my life, I never really thought I would get married. I watched my parents go through a divorce, and I thought, like, this is just not something people are supposed to do."
"I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that."
"I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person."
"I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person. That's my take."
"I say whatever I think and whatever is on my mind, and I just hope that it comes out good. I just try to have a lot of fun."
"I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I don't think I'm great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me."
"I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays a character, he plays it in a way that nobody else would."
"I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly."
"I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there."
"I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman."
"I think privacy is valuable. You don't have to share everything, and it's healthy to occasionally hit the pause button and ask yourself if you're oversharing. But at the end of the day, if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to hide."
"I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic. So it can be something as simple as, like, if you're someone who doesn't cook, you can make a meal."
"I think that the way that Steve Jobs sought after love was to create products that people loved. And when people loved his products, in turn they – he felt like they loved him."
"I think that when we start thought-policing people and idea-policing people, then that's crossing a line. And I think, you know, everybody's so afraid of this imaginary line of thought police that they forget their own personal safety."
"I think we've all been in the middle of doing something we cared about, when someone coming in the room and saying 'hello' was annoying. I personally can understand that, as someone who tries to create."
"I trust my government. I actually have a trust for my government with my data, and I trust them to protect me. They've protected me – they've made the best efforts to protect me my whole life."
"I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time."
"I wanted to be a genetic engineer. That was my goal in college. I wanted to figure out what the codon sequence was that causes replication in a cardio myopathic virus. That was my goal."
"I was on Facebook. I was on MySpace. And somebody said to me, You should check out this thing called Twitter. I knew five people that were on it, so I started following those people and seeing what they were doing, and then I applied my own sensibility to it. The more that I shared, the more people started following me."
"I would just like a woman someday, somewhere, at some point in my life to say to me, 'You're a great listener.' Haven't heard it yet, and that's a superior compliment to get from a woman. But I'm going to work on it."
"I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call."
"I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me."
"I wouldn't say I'm personally trying to transition from comedy into drama. I don't look at things like, 'Oh, I need to do a drama now.' I get a lot of material sent to me, and if I feel like something has the creative integrity and the right director and the right whoever involved, the right actors and is a great story, then I do it."
"I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists."
"I'm a guy's guy. I don't comb my hair unless I have to, and I don't use lotions or fancy shampoos."
"I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing."
"I'm not a follower of this or that religious leader. More wars are started because of religious leaders, and people are following and they don't know why… That is religiosity. That is what turns people into robots."
"I'm very awkward when I have time off. I don't know what to do with myself. It's weird not to work."
"I'm very tech-forward. However, I also think hitting the pause button is not a bad thing, and really connecting with people one-to-one viscerally, having a connection with someone, is really important."
"I've already exceeded my expectations for myself. I'm one of the most influential people! I mean come on! I wanted to be… I never thought the things I've experienced in my life, I didn't think that was the life that I was gonna get to live."
"I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me."
"I've had some really, really wild fun nights in Vegas. I ended up on stage once with this band, The Digital Underground, doing the Humpty Dance."
"I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them."
"I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job."
"I've usually found that the greatest rewards in my life come from taking on things that are a little bit scary."
"If Facebook gets your entire social graph, you don't necessarily want to share everything with your entire social graph. You might wanna parse that social graph. So there's a company called PASS that is a private social network that I personally use for my friends and my family."
"If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone's search history, there's a litany of things they could idea police you about, and if it was published, you would be publicly shamed. Everyone would be publicly shamed. But we trust Google, and we trust the people that run that company."
"If you really want to make a relationship work, at some point in time, you're going to have to make some sacrifices and do some things that are a little bit uncomfortable."
"In e-commerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product."
"In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'"
"It's hard to appreciate success in modeling, because it's not something you feel like you've earned, so there is a little bit of bread of shame that comes with that. It's like somebody giving you a puzzle that's already put together."
"It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones."
"Katalyst is a merger of three industries. A piece of us is connected to ad agencies. Because we get the complex overlay of the social Web, we know how to engage an audience and how to make entertainment for the social Web. And we know how to gain and activate and retain an audience. So we create social networks for brands."
"Leapfrog innovation – consistent, constant, ridiculous leapfrog innovation – only happens within a dictatorship. Any time you try to do something really innovative, most people aren't going to understand it until after they experience it. So when you're developing in innovation, you have to be a dictator."
"Life can be a lot broader… when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy."
"Modeling is the best because you have to look hot, which comes easy to me, you know. I'm blessed with that."
"My goal is to embrace the people, the 'natural resources' of Israel, and to build businesses with the creative Israelis."
"My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers fans. My mom's a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy. So that gets ugly. My mom sits upstairs watching the Bears game; he sits in the basement. They can't watch it together. Football's a violent anger in our family dynamic."
"My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad."
"One of the things I've become immune to is people talking about market cap and social media platforms."
"One of the things about being on Twitter, for me, is mostly about just being on the pulse of what people are interested in, what people are doing and what people are looking for. I look at entertainment projects and storytelling, and I really try to think about what people want."
"People used to behave morally because they thought God was always watching – in some ways God today is the collective, and the collective is watching."
"Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and you can feel them and you know just what's right, and generally it's something that will be very unimpressive to a room of strangers."
"Seriously, women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much. Learning how to do that more has been a valuable add."
"Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better."
"The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms."
"The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it's flawed."
"The reality is that we communicate with every part of our being, and there are times when we must use it all. When someone needs us, he or she needs all of us. There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting."
"The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous."
"The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!"
"The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary."
"The truth is that I'm an idiot. I am. I don't do things by the rules sometimes. I say things that I probably shouldn't say. I push buttons. I deserve to be made fun of. And I feel like, as soon as you can make fun of something, it instantly removes the fear."
"There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there's a negative, and then it all kind of balances out."
"There is some argument about who actually invented text messaging, but I think it's safe to say it was a man. Multiple studies have shown that the average man uses about half as many words per day as women, thus text messaging. It eliminates hellos and goodbyes and cuts right to the chase."
"There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better."
"There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have."
"True luxury is being able to own your time – to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation."
"Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history."
"Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'"
"We haven't lost romance in the digital age, but we may be neglecting it. In doing so, antiquated art forms are taking on new importance. The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will."
"We're all living in a casino. It's just Vegas. Everything is on camera. Everything is being recorded. Everything is on audio. The truth is we all have access to everybody else's information."
"Wear a belt! It's an easy way to pull together your outfit. Just be sure to match it to your shoes."
"What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail."
"When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground."
"When I was on the '70s Show,' I had that and I had 'Punk'd' and I had my own production company. That pretty much sealed up all my time."
"When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character."
"When you do movies, it's you have a 3-month family and then everybody goes away and then joins another family, you know?"
"Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male."
"Women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much."
"You know, I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic."
"You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words."


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Tonight, we cover the latest in the Whitey Bulger Story with T.J. English and Richard Stratton – plus, we get the lowdown from Leslie Kean on a startling UFO event – caught on camera by multiple people in multiple locations.
We'll give you the show links first this week, as there's a LOT of guest information:
Whitey's girlfriend pleads: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/15/whitey-bulger-s-girlfriend-avoids-trial-with-guilty-plea-angers-his-victims.html
FBI Sting: http://www.lvrj.com/news/fbi-stung-after-sting-involving-corrupt-foreign-practices-140838393.html
Amazing UFO video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leslie-kean/the-extraordinary-ufo-sig_b_1342585.html
About the guests:
Thomas Joseph "T.J." English comes from a large Irish Catholic family of ten brothers and sisters. Early in his writing career, English worked as a freelance journalist in New York City during the day and drove a taxi at night. He often refers to cab driving as a metaphor for what he does as a writer – cruising the streets, interviewing strangers, exploring the unknown, reporting on what he sees and hears from his sojourns in and around the underworld.
In 1990, English published his first book, The Westies, an account of the last of the Irish Mob in the infamous Manhattan neighborhood known as "Hell's Kitchen." The book was the result of a series of reports English wrote for a weekly Irish American newspaper based in New York…
His second book, Born to Kill (1995), was an unprecedented inside account of a violent Vietnamese gang based in New York's Chinatown, that operated up and down the East Coast. In 2005, English published Paddy Whacked, a sweeping history of the Irish American gangster in New York, Chicago, Boston, New Orleans, and other U.S. cities. Most recently, English published Havana Nocturne (2008), an investigative account of U.S. mobster infiltration of Havana, Cuba, in the years before the Revolution swept Fidel Castro into power.
As a journalist, English has written for many magazines and newspapers including: Esquire, Playboy, Irish America, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times…
In the mid-1990s, he wrote a three-part series for Playboy entitled "The New Mob" that explored the changing face of organized crime in America. His work as a writer has taken him to Cuba, Jamaica, Hong Kong, Mexico, Ireland, and all around the U.S… Most of his articles are on the subject of crime and criminal justice, though English writes on a wide variety of subjects including music, politics, and movies. He has published full-length interviews with Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, actor Bill Murray, director Martin Scorsese, and comedy legend George Carlin, to name a few.
In addition, English is a screenwriter and has penned episodes for the television crime dramas "NYPD Blue" and "Homicide," for which he was awarded the prestigious Humanitas Prize.
His new book, THE SAVAGE CITY – Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge, is out Now.
He lives in New York City.
Richard Stratton is the author of the underground cult classic novel, Smack Goddess. He was a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1970.
In 1982 he was convicted of conspiracy to import marijuana and hashish and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. He wrote Smack Goddess while incarcerated. He also became a jailhouse lawyer, had his sentence vacated and was released after serving eight years.
In 1989 he was awarded first prize for short fiction in the PEN American Prison Writing contest.
His work has been published in Story Magazine, Rolling Stone, High Times, Spin, Newsweek, Penthouse, Esquire and a number of literary quarterlies. He formerly edited Fortune News, the newspaper of the Fortune Society, a non-profit organization which aids prisoners and ex-offenders and advocates for criminal justice reform.
He worked as a producer and creative consultant on a number of HBO productions including Prisoners of the War on Drugs, The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row, Thug Life in D.C. and the dramatic prison series, Oz. He is qualified as an expert witness in state and federal courts in the areas of prison violence and prison culture, and has testified in capital prison murder cases in Texas, Oklahoma, Utah and California. He co-wrote and produced Slam, the movie, and co-edited Slam, the book. He is co-producer and co-writer of the feature film Whiteboys, and Executive Producer and show runner for Street Time, a dramatic television series.
Richard's most recent novel is "Altered States of America.", and his Piece "Super Rat" – about Whitey Bulger, was featured in the February 2009 issue of Playboy magazine. He has many works on his slate at the present time. One of which is the film Dog Eat Dog based on the novel by Eddie Bunker. Richard is the director and the screenplay writer. He resides in New York with his wife Antoinette and their son Ivan and his stepdaughter, Bianca. He has three children from a former marriage, Maxx, Dash and Sasha.
LESLIE KEAN is an independent investigative journalist with a background in freelance writing and radio broadcasting. She has contributed articles to dozens of publications here and abroad including the Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Atlanta-Journal Constitution, Providence Journal, International Herald Tribune, Globe and Mail, Sydney Morning Herald, Bangkok Post, The Nation, and The Journal for Scientific Exploration. Her stories have been syndicated through Knight Ridder/Tribune, Scripps-Howard, New York Times wire service, Pacific News Service, and the National Publishers Association. While spending many years reporting on Burma, she co-authored Burma's Revolution of the Spirit: The Struggle for Democratic Freedom and Dignity (Aperture, 1994) and she has contributed essays for a number of anthologies published between 1998 and 2009. Her freelance journalism has been supported by grants from numerous foundations including the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation, The Fund for Investigative Journalism, and the Nation Institute.
Kean was also a producer and on-air host for a daily investigative news program on KPFA radio, a Pacifica station in California. She began covering the UFO subject in 2000 with a feature story in the Boston Globe, and followed with additional mainstream stories. In 2002, she co-founded the Coalition for Freedom of Information (CFi), an independent alliance advocating for greater government openness on information about UFOs, and for responsible coverage by the media based on a rational and credible approach. As director of the CFi, she was the plaintiff in a successful, five-year Freedom of Information Act federal lawsuit against NASA. In 2007, she co-organized a landmark Washington DC international press conference on official UFO investigations, which received media coverage around the world.
Kean was a producer for the 2009 independent documentary I Know What I Saw and is currently working with Break Thru Films, an award-winning film company, on a new feature documentary. She and her coalition have launched an ongoing initiative to affect US government policy so that scientists and aviation authorities can gain greater understanding of the still-unexplained UFO phenomenon.


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The impressive Robin Ventura White Sox brought out the broom today, completing a three-game sweep of the home-standing Mariners.
The Sox overcame another so-so John Danks effort and some shoddy defensive to defeat the Mariners, 7-4. The heroes? The resurgent Alex Rios, who went 3 for 4 with three RBIs including a triple that tied the score at four; Kosuke Fukudome, who drive in his first two runs in a Sox uniform; and the bullpen in the persons of Addison Reed (7th inning), Matt Thornton (8th) and Hector Santiago (9th), who shut down Seattle with each pitching a scoreless inning.
The South Siders head to Oakland with Rios (.333), Paul Konerko (.362) and A.J. Pierzynski (.348) sporting pretty gaudy batting averages. Add Adam Dunn's long balls and 14 RBIs and it's suddenly quite a middle of the lineup.
Even though red-hot Jake Peavy is on the mound tomorrow night against the A's, the Sox are going to need all that offense and more with the ageless Bartolo Colon on the mound. The former Good Guy has been out of this world thus far this season and last week even hurled 38 straight strikes.
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There's a good piece on Seeking Alpha today on the prospects for global commodity appreciation if and when the Chinese Yuan starts appreciation vs. the US dollar.
At the same time, there's also a sentiment of unease about inflation given the amount of new currency created in the wake of the financial crisis but it puzzles some that this hasn't kicked in yet. Also from Seeking Alpha:
Logic dictates that we should all be gearing up for inflation, now, but the data does not lie and I can pull the most aggressive data I want and it shows ultra low inflation rates, which is scary, frankly. With the massive printing and monetization of debt that we have seen over the past 2 years, we should see some inflationary pressure, somewhere, but nothing.
There's already an obvious relation between the two ideas, but we might have to rely on Kedrosky to hammer the point. In order to keep the Yuan stable, China has been buying greater and greater amounts of US Dollars over the years.
Ergo: the biggest reason why inflation hasn't hit, is because all the new dollars are in China.
Ergo: if the Yuan appreciates, dollar drops, inflation hits, interest rates rise,
recession worsens??
Wait, I thought the Yuan thing was supposed to be a good thing?
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FERNIE - Conservation officers in Fernie are searching for a wounded mother grizzly bear after two men were attacked Wednesday morning on the ridge of Proctor Mountain.
Sgt. Joe Caravetta, a B.C. conservation officer, said two men in their mid-30s from Fernie were walking on a popular hiking and mountain biking trail between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. when they encountered a sow and her cub.
He said the sow became "very defensive" of her cub and attacked one of the men and pushed him about six metres down the steep trail near the peak of the mountain.
The man used his bear spray and the grizzly retreated, said Caravetta. The sow then went after the other hiker and knocked him to the ground before chewing on his arms and upper body.
Caravetta said the hiker pulled out his gun and shot the bear at close range. The wounded animal ran away with her cub. The men administered their own first-aid from supplies they were carrying in their packs.
Limping with wounds to their legs, arms and bodies, the two men made their way back down the mountain and to Elk Valley Hospital.
One man was treated at Elk Valley and released, while the other was taken to Lethbridge Hospital in Alberta with non-life-threatening injuries.
Conservation officers don't know how badly hurt the bear is or whether it died, but will try and locate the bear today. Caravetta said they may have to kill the bear if it is in pain.
"If it's suffering we will put it out of its misery. We don't want an animal to suffer," he said.
The attack was defensive and not predatory, said Caravetta, adding that the hikers were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The Fairy Creek recreation trail has been closed as a precaution while conservation officers investigate.
Although grizzly bear attacks are rare in B.C., there have been some cases of severe maulings in the province in recent years.
Two years ago, 51-year-old John Johnson was picking salmonberries near Bella Bella on B.C.'s central coast when he was attacked by a mother grizzly protecting her two cubs. He survived but suffered a broken arm, cuts and puncture wounds in the attack. He also needed skin grafts on his head.
Since 2000, three people have died as a result of bear attacks in B.C. The latest was in the summer of 2011 when 72-year-old Bernice Adolph was mauled by a black bear near Lillooet.


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Geoffrey H. Short (born in New Zealand, 1962) graduated with honors from the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2009. He has participated in numerous solo and group shows in New Zealand, and his work is held in the collections of the Musée d'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, and Michaelis School of Fine Arts, Cape Town, South Aftrica.


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Jan Sheldon is a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Law, where she served as Articles Editor of the Kansas Law Review and was a member of Order of the Coif. She also holds a Ph.D. in developmental and child psychology. After finishing law school, Sheldon began teaching at the University of Kansas. She is currently a professor in applied behavioral sciences and director of the Edna A. Hill Child Development Center. Sheldon works closely with personnel in the juvenile justice system and has been co-director of the Truancy Prevention and Diversion Program for more than 25 years. Sheldon and her colleagues also developed a community-based program that provides residential and day services for more than 350 children and adults with developmental disabilities and autism. Sheldon has received numerous teaching and advising awards including the W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence (1998), the Steeples Service to Kansas Award (2002), and the J. Michael Young Academic Advising Award (2009). She has published three books and more than 60 articles and chapters.
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Assistant Professor, Kansas, 1977-1982; Associate Professor, Kansas, 1982-1994; Professor, 1995-present.
Interventions for adolescents and their families, developmental disabilities, juvenile delinquency, autism, legal and ethical issues affecting dependent populations
Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi; Order of the Coif; Fellow, American Psychological Association; Kansas Bar Association; American Bar Association; Association for Applied Behavior Analysts.
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- "Law and Mental Health: Kansas" (with S. Letts) (American Psychological Association, 2008)
- "The Kansas Juvenile Code as it relates to Children in Need of Care" Kansas Bar Association (1996)
- "Mandatory AIDS Testing for Persons with a Developmental Disability in Residential Facilities," 39 Kansas Law Review 585 (with H.R. Turnbull and A. Paul) (1991)
- "Group Training for Social Skills: A Program for Court-Adjudicated, Probationary Youths," 9 Criminal Justice and Behavior 35 (with J.S. Hazel, J.B. Schumaker and J.A. Sherman) (1982)
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Late last night, a reader pointed us to a Carlos Beltran tweet, the latest in a series of strange tweets from the resurgent Cardinals outfielder. And it was pretty odd: "I hope you have enjoyed chewing gum today." A nice sentiment, to be sure. We at Deadspin certainly hope you have enjoyed chewing gum today, if chewing gum is your thing. But odd, without context.
There was context, though. Toward the end of last night's win over Colorado, Beltran treated fans behind the Cards' dugout to the players-only stash of Dubble Bubble. It's all smiles for Beltran, who's nearly put up his best statistical year since 2008, and it's not even the All-Star break.