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JUST DENNIS: Labour behold your presidentDominica News Online - Monday, September 30th, 2013 at 12:25 PM
The lady was really freaking out as she blurted out "Enough foolishness now, enough, enough. So what I should call him President Compere Lapen, or President Ayatollah or President Coul Woche Brigade because I will not call him President Savarin?" Then she went on after a moment, "I think Skerrit doing foolishness now." Then in another moment she said with passion, "God be praised for Q95."
My attempt to cool her down included a short history of Q95. I told her that it was Edison James the people should thank as God's instrument for the existence of Q95 because when a week or so before the 2000 elections as the one who conceived the station I urged then PM James who I met at the GIS studio doing a recording to give us the broadcast license before election day and to that he asked me curiously, "Are you afraid we will lose? Fear no more." He went ahead and granted the licence anyway.
We would never have gotten a licence from the DLP/Freedom coalition which included Charles Savarin and there would have been no Q95. I had conceived the station as a music station so James could not know then how this station would serve the people as an effective talk radio thanks to Lennox, Matt and Angelo, especially those in opposition to the policies of the rulers without which they would have no voice at all. Viva Edison! But all my lecture did was to bring out an even somewhat sexy rebuff from the lady, "I telling you about Savarin you telling me Edison. So who you rolling with den?" Does that statement make sense? She just could not stand Savarin.
It is not just that Savarin's controversial image is the total opposite to the declaration regarding the decorum of our president as written up on the government's own website which stresses that the president should be non-partisan and a great unifier for I know that means nothing to this 'no law not even the Constitution can stop me" prime minister.
It is not only that Savarin is a serial boycotter calling for the boycott of Brizee Mart which is now closed down and while General Secretary of the CSA calling for the boycott of HHV Whitchurch in a CSA newsletter, while leader of the opposition calling for the boycott of then President Vernon Shaw and there is more. While after the death of Pierre Charles Bosso and the others of the Freedom Party executive sat in a meeting with him to plan their negotiations with the Labour Party which with ten seats was one short of the 11 needed he then slipped out of the meeting and went to make his personal deal with newly appointed PM Skerrit. No one can convince me that was not pre-arranged otherwise why would then President Liverpool go ahead and swear in Skerrit as PM if he only had ten seats at the time?
But what really itches my bleeper today is that Charles Savarin is elevated to the presidency by the government of the Dominica Labour Party-yes the DLP which he openly wanted to wipe off the face of the earth. Do you hear laughter labourites?
I was just listening perhaps for the hundredth time to one of my favourite songs from the gospel band Hillsong titled 'Let the weak say I am strong' based on Joel 3:10 in the Scriptures and that always takes my mind back to the time when the Labour Party meant something besides just shouting "Labour Power" in lockstep with nothing more than winning an election. It was a time of the fifties when the futures of many children of the poor were limited by low expectations, poverty and lack of opportunities for social and intellectual development.
A time of seriously low wages like less than a dollar a day, a time when the little people were condemned to be 'carriers of water and hewers of wood.' A time of strict class division of upper and very much lower classes and of "gwo boug" and "peti garcon" and "neg bod la mer," of misery and hopelessness and near slavery type servitude and then came hope like a shining star of light in the name of Dominica Labour Party emerging out of the poor people's trade unions. The clear goal of the DLP then was "Let the weak say I am strong." It was Dominica's first political party created by the people for the people and I was in my teens a zealous follower of the giants who strode across the fields of oppression crushing the obnoxious heads of the snakes of repression wherever they found them.
That was the Labour Party I rolled with and joined in the struggle for the liberation of the common people as we were called. Those of us who were upfront came under serious fire from the upper classes furious over this movement which was an exodus out of poverty. And that is the essential difference with the Labour Party of today for it is no more a movement but just a party loading up with all the wheelers and dealers until it has become mainly an expedient name to cover a collection of persons with personal interests which have nothing to do with the uplifting of the poor.
One of the persons used in the 70's by the uppers to get at the labourites with an aim to kill the Labour Party was General Secretary of the Civil Service Association Charles Savarin and he did his work well locking down the island with strikes as often as he breathed air using the civil servants who fell for his charm. His tactics were brilliant as he was able to force the DLP to enact laws to control the outrageous strikes situation damaging down the economy and those laws were made to seem oppressive antagonizing the masses. The DLP was eventually overthrown by force in 1979, surrendering when ministers and labour supporters were under siege in their own homes as gangs surrounded their houses raining stones and other things on their dwellings and looting the shops of Labourites and others. President DeGazon fled the island and was replaced by Sir Cools Lartigue whose home was promptly and seriously stoned and the cake shop (Frans) of the family looted and their car burned in broad daylight. President Cools Lartigue resigned in terror.
Even deadly bullets were used to pepper the home of George Karam and his family seeking to kill them. Who was the main conductor of that orchestra? You guessed it-Charles Savarin. When the dust settled the Freedom Party then ruled the roost and it was again a politically blood thirsty Savarin who proclaimed a "we eh finish with them yet" demolition job on us labourites urging his followers to seek us out "in every nook and cranny." Those were the days and nights of terror as the Ayattolah as he was named strutted his stuff and preened and spoke in special tongues about the mobilisa-shon and agita-shon of the popula-shon against the DLP.
It was just fifteen years later that the Freedom Party went into meltdown and to save their withering tails the party then morphed into – yes – the Labour Party, an unthinkable case of politics making strange bedfellows.
Former Freedomite Skerrit became the leader of the Labour Party and moved in his Freedom party friends right under the noses of the Labourites. It seems that the party's main plank embraced in the words of the song, "Let the weak say I am strong, Let the blind say I can see, What the Lord has done in me," is now set aside.
Now there are bands of assault weapon equipped special police outside our House of Assembly to ensure Savarin is appointed President against the people's wishes. Skerrit has crash landed Savarin on the people of the Labour Party and Charles Savarin is laughing out loud as he enters the new 27 million dollar all too white and much too huge Presidential palace, expects to draw $10,000 this month end and reflects with amusement on who placed him there and just cannot believe it is-yes- you rewarding him for stoning you.
"Labourites behold your President, your gift to Dominica."
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If there is one former labourite who have every right to hold Savarin in grudge to death is Mr. Denis Joseph. It was savarin who led the masses to challenge the status quo that Denis was enjoying back in the 1970's. He was "the man with the master plan". he was the Director of communications when the the amendment was tabled to amend the Libel and Slander Ordinance. It was Denis who actively supported the creation of a 45 square mile Freeport in the north of the island by an American business man. Yes Denis saw his Patrick John inspired empire crumble before his very eyes. Charles Savarin led the demolition crew. So I understand his vexation with President Charles Angelo Savarin.
But Denis, that was in the 1970's. Have you ever heard about a man called Nelson Mandela and how he treated his jailors and murderers of black people in South Africa? Tell me how difficult is it to borrow a leaf from Mandela's book?
"Stop the hatred. Do you know the number of DA children/ kids(as you call them ) at universities all over the world" ( Some DA Choo).
Here we go again!
The twisted, all bent-up warped; Dominica, mentality being displayed here again. My position here is not playing politics, nevertheless, what amazes me the most in reading such crap, is I am unable to comprehend why each time a writer, or communicate say anything interesting about our nations history, as to how it was, in comparison to how it has become, some uneducated person "cry's " hate!
In all that Denis conveyed in his commentary, the only thing that small minded person saw and focus on is "hate."
You know the truth hurts, some people would rather die, than to read or here the truth spoken. In a democracy people have the right to say what they wish, wether we like it or not it seems to me in Dominica the truth is like a curse, however, all the political lies are accepted as truth.
That's shameful; this person speaks of how many Dominicans are overseas in Universities, that may be so, but I can tell you right this minuet of at least one person who went to sleep last night without eating anything, and I am thousands of miles away in California; look around you see what you find.
You talk about people in university, around the world. What's the point of going to China, Cuba, Morocco, Venezuela, and mediocre places like that to study, and after completion you cannot even use such education in the Caribbean, Dominica included.
Haven't you heard there are people in Dominica, who apparently have civil engineering degree in their pocket, in Dominica, and cannot even use it there; so what's your point?
If you think I simply wants to be political about it, whatever degree earned in the places I mentioned above, if you want to prove me ignorant and hateful, I suggest you send all your Dominica graduates into the modern world, Europe, North America, and see how much employment they will find based on the degree they now holds obtained from Cuba, Venezuela, and China, such degrees are not recognized in America.
Call me a hater if you wish!
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
Dennis has a right to his opinion, but I suspect MOST mainstream Doominicans DISAGREE with him. Savarin has mich appropriate experience INCLUDING how he managed our 1979 constitutional crisis as CNS Chairman, an event that could have ended far more tragically as we have seen in other countries. I am sure he is capable of displaying independence and fairplay.
so we do hav da same constitutional crisis now… all of allu is fool shoutin and supportin labour..den allu coming say allu is christian nation. allu is real hypocrite… wat real christian would blatantly support corruption and stealing. den allu want to say allu good… nah allu is jus doe good. if u poor and support labour u can stay hungry…
mr man you wanted the president man, or Eddison James. please give me one good reaason to support uwp?
Dennis Joseph,I suspect you will not becoming back here often just to read the readers comments, but if I had to write an article, mine would look just like yours minus the anecdote at the start. I was one of those who in my teens was excited about the Labour Party and couldn't wait to turn 18 so I could become a card-carrying member. And then Charles destroyed the Party right before my very eyes! I never joined any Party since then. I often wonder if anybody tells our young people their history. Time passes so quickly! Alas!
Dennis, you must not be one-sided if you're relating history; tell it as it was. The then DLP administration acted like dictators. They were a bunch of ruthless guys who threatened to jail Civil Servants in the Cabrits if they went on strike. Since you're naming names, do you remember AG Leo Austin? After the DLP was ousted from power do you remember the attempted coup? A family member of mine was gunned down at Police Headquarters while sitting at his desk. There would have been so much bloodshed if they had gained entry to the Armory. This was a failed attempt to reinstate the defunct DLP. You were one of their drinking buddies; therefore I do not expect the truth from you.
For your information, during the coup one PC was killed coming into police headquarters, by the entrance gate. He died on the spot.Those in control room had to jump for their lives as the bullets came flying in. Many won't remember, except for those on duty at the time or those who had to assume duty the following day. Thanks be to God, because it could have been worse!
Congrats Charlo.It seems Linnox Linton is following in your footsteps with the same tatics to promote himself to the political top.We must also remember he and his two sisters were part of the stoning gang. Even Brian Alleyne was part of that troop.Life has change. So if Linton can be P M and Brian can be president so can Charles Saverin.Skeritte was 9 years old then.
Indeed all today I have been feeling like I attended a funeral
The P M is 40 .When the 47 days happened he was only 6 years old. He cannot live in the past.He has to move forward the best he can. He too started in the freedom party. So give the young man a chance. You may not agree with his policy but he was duly elected in a record 18 to 3
Do you remember when Savarin threatened to strike on the Interim Government in December 1979 when most Dominicans were still living in tents in the Botanical Gardens and elsewhere, most without housing, jobs, and we were still getting help from outside of Dominica to maintain us Dominicans? Why? For the same reason he is being installed as president, because the Labour Party had been forced out of office then, and the Interim Government had been placed.
It is easier said then done. Forgiveness is usually preceded by apologies. I am not aware, Charles Savarin had seek forgiveness or even apologise to Mr. Dennis Joseph or Mr. Ferdinand Frampton and family or Mrs. Flossie Joseph, who in my opinion, was the one to have suffered the worse. As for me, I might forgive Savarin for what he did to me personally as an executive member of the Patrick John Labor Party, but I will never forget the wickedness.
I too cannot forget the wickedness. People were possessed with hatred ,the same kind that Lennox and his crew are brandishing in their fight for power.I too was a victim and am still a friend of P J .Given a chance the opposition will do the same as Charles.It is just a struggle for power and all polititions are trying to get support however they can.So chose your side and wait for next election. Both sides must stop with their hatred.
Mr. Joseph are you a Christian? Do you believe in the Risen Lord? Do you have a forgiving heart or are you going to carry such hatred of an individual to your grave?
I am certain that Mr. Savarin does not carry such hatred towards you. You a blinded by hate of an individual. The rank and file of the Dominica Labour Party have forgiven Charles Savarin as the Good Lord has taught us to. It shows that true Labourites are kind forgiving and all embracing individuals.
Give Charles Savarin a chance in his new role to further prove himself in a humble way.
And by the Way Charles Savarin was never appointed as Leader of the Opposition more so to boycott Mr. Vernon Shaw.
It is high time that skerrit is removed from office. Rally up Dominicans and gain your independence which was stolen from you since this man wa$ placed in office. It is high time that we wipe the wax from our eyes and see the truth. Rally Dominicans before it is too late-
Mr. Joseph you must learn to forgive in this life.
It is clear that Flossie Joseph has forgiven Charles Savarin. I can say the same for Son Joseph as well. That couple suffered during 1979 but remained true to Labour and with their prayers and forgiving hearts accepted Savarin's membership into the Roseau Central Constituency and by extension his membership into Dominica Labour Party.
God has shown us that he can lower the mighty and raise them up again once they have humbled and asked for forgiveness.
It cannot be all laughs for Mr. Charles Savarin!!! He still has a functioning brain and a brilliant memory and will be awarded by God with three scores and ten in age.
Do you remember Saul Mr. Joseph in the Bible? Yes President Charles Angelo Savarin is our modern day Saul. He was not blinded like Saul whose name was changed to Paul but was muted for several weeks. Moomoo!!!
The good God has given him his just punishments and rewards.
Let's see what would be his legacy as President of the Commonwealth of Dominica – for that now is his burden.
I call on the Karams, Girauds, Latigues, Thomas, Josephs, Framptons, Johns, Kentish, Newtons, Pipers, and all the other families that suffered in one way or the other to find it within themselves to forgive President Charles Angelo Savarin and by extension Dominica.
namby September 30, 2013
How they can forget Charles Savarin when you PM Skerrit put him in their face Mr.Dennis didnt so what a you saying maybe you should face fact as they are instead of sweeping them under the rug.
"God has shown us that he can lower the mighty and raise them up again once they have humbled and asked for forgiveness."
SHOES………When, where and how has Savarin shown any signs of humility? You need to INFORM the nation because I know I am not the only un-informed one here.
Sot ou ka parlay!
You have just reminded us of all the reasons why Charles Angelo Savarin is unfit to bring Dominica together, to heal, mediate and preside over our Constitution as President of the Commonwealth of Dominica, the Head of State! Too many wounds, too many scars, to many bad memories, too much hurt! As you rightfully said God will do his bit but we are not God we are only human!
SHOES : how about the ones who died screaming in pain during 47 days of abandonment at the hospital?
the mothers who had to cut their own umbilical cords then watch their newborns die without nurses to help. And recent amputees who rotted alive while their relatives were blockaded – do you remember semi-literate patients administering medication to other patients?
How do you forgive over a month with no lights at a hospital AND PATIENTS DISCHARGING THEMSELVES CGHOOSING RATHER TO DIE AT HOME (and die some did)- and lets not even go down by the psychiatric ward for give DENNIS but remind us for the history is being passed on by word of mouth of the sufferers
Dear Shoes, where is the Atonement? when were we told, we were sorry for that black day in our history. My daddy went to his grave with the hurt. for 35 years my family have never been told by anyone, we are sorry, please forgive us. never not once. so keep your shoes on tight bro.
Many politicians, when seeming to approach the zenith of their powers suddenly gravitate to self-destruction. What level of madness would lead anyone to appoint a notorious political agitator with a penchant for anarchy to a post that symbolizes social stability? The Presidency should not be a gift!
Charles is going to finished the Labour Party finally his dream revenge for the sacking as a school teacher from DGS in 1969. Yes I have lived to see it. Charles Saverine is getting his revenge on the Labour Party. Let the young know how deceived they have been. The man is being rewarded for his work as a good son of the church ……..
So really he should enjoy the state palace as he outshines mr skerrit in the number of things that is listed that he has done coming out the right dictator without effort. yes i. Jah Come down and rescue us. and to be given the highest honorary title as well hmmm all rather interesting.
All this is is a good read. I will point out that Mr. Savarin the man from Portsmouth who supported the Freedom Party is a good example of putting your differences aside for the development of Dominica. He did not let politics and his political views to polarize him into opposing everything that which the ruling party did just to oppose. He served Dominica and Dominicans in many capacities. Calling for a boycott of Brizee Mart did not shut down Brizee Mart. The poor business practices of Brizee Mart caused it to close down. Although calling for the boycott was extreme, the owners letter was a bit more dangerous calling on foreign governments to boycott Dominica. From history, a boycott of certain individuals does not affect those individuals, but affects the citizens of the country. I believe that Savarin will be a good representative of the Office of the President, and I do believe that he can be impartial in his decisions. If anyone has a nominee who has been and is without any political preference in Dominica, let the names/nomination flow. The Opposition should get in Parliament so that their disagreement to the nomination can be recorded. As of now, the news will be; "Savarin elected without opposition." I pray that our Dominican people who decide to demonstrate do so peacefully and without disrupting the normal movement of people, vehicles etc. My humble opinion.
Remember: The Ultimate measure of a man (and by extension a people) is not where you (they) stand in moments of comfort, but where he (they) stand at times of challenges and controversy….The who said those words believed in peaceful demonstrations. So I will say to Dominicans, do not let a fool or fools insight you to cause harm to your fellow Dominican.
One Love Dominicans.
I'm sure it hurts you Mr. Joseph but even a blind man can see what the uwp is up to. Enough of the petty politics and show us that you mean it when you are talking about good governance and integrity in government which, by the look of things, we are not going to get if uwp gets into power. Put this bitter history behind you and look at things as they stand today. The Labour Party makes mistakes but uwp are showing they will probably be worse than Labour by their many questionable actions.
Dennis, I'm with you totally. I am dumbfounded to see that the DLP has put this man, a man who throughout his career has systematically worked on destroying the Labour Party. How could this happen? These twists and turns generally reside in hollywood movies. I know you are a genuine Labourite – going way back, you are the quintessential "Labourite", and I am certain that what has befell the Labour Party aches your heart; I am in the same boat. This DLP as it manifests itself today, is NOT what the DLP at its core, represents; this is a disease that threatens the very existence of the DLP, and if it is allowed to continue, will result in the DLP being relegated to the dustbin of history, pretty much the same way the Freedom Party has been. I am ashamed. My cousin Claudia, rest her soul, is most likely rolling in her grave looking down on this charade, this pox on the Labour Party. This black sagitoka disease, aka Charles Savarin, is laughing at us all. I remember much of this history lesson you have brought forward here today; I remembered when they were stoning; the shutting down of the country; all the obvious backroom dealings of this man and the Freedom Party.
LABOURITES: Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of the past are condemned to repeat it. Let us take back this party from the cartel that has foisted itself upon us. Marcus Garvey once said; "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots".
thanks mr.joseph
Wow what a story…I could almost picture 1979 again. Also the way that the Freedom party infiltrated the labour camp. Now we have an ex young Freedom movement leader as Prime Minister and an exx Freedom party leader as President.. way to go Freedom. who say Ffreedom dead…I think we should say that the labor party is now possessed ……by the Fredom party
What a masterpiece! Very well put together, brings back memories, a classical essay. Freedomites will now recognize how we were betrayed. The price is much more than 30 pieces of silver. How can Tony let this happen? Who is guarding the chicken coop. PLUIS TARTE PLUIS TWISTE. AH MA GWEY SA.
Why are you scared? Are you scared of the truth? The truth which a certain historian will never tell you. I was a civil servant in 1979, my mother was a devoted labour supporter and my sympathies lay with the labour party and nothing said by Dennis is incorrect.
I hear people talking about forgiveness and I am one who believes in forgiveness but to those people I ask, what has saverin done or said to show that he deserves the forgiveness of "TRUE LABOURITES"? Some may try to get religious with me and say that God forgives us even though we do not merit it and with that I agree too. However we are humans and subjected to human frailties.
It was not so long ago that saverin displayed his hatred and intolerance by calling for the boycott of Jerry Brisbane' s business. As part of that call he went on to remind us, labourites included , of what he had done and how proud he was/ is of doing so. Is that a man who is worthy of forgiveness. To forgive this man is like a woman forgiving a man who sexually assaulted her while the man is saying to her just remember what I did to you and if I catch you again it will be more of the same.
Saverin is such a deceptive and selfish person that he was prepared to sit with people like the mayor while on his hert there is no love for him. I can say without apology that this man is a hateful person and is motivated by greed. He hates mr James because his party was toppled by UWP and now he hates supporters of the UWP because there seems to be a real possibility of labour being ousted by them.
You got it right Kubuli
"But one must know how to disguise this nature well, and how to be a fine liar and hypocrite; and men are so simple-minded and so dominated by their present needs that one who deceives will always find one who will allow himself to be deceived." Niccolo Machiavelli
So tell me. Had the UWP made a nomination would that have stopped the nomination of saverin? Do you really think that if they had nominated sombody like miss Nicholas for example, that skerritt would agree? You people make me sick with your silly excuses for not speaking out against wrong


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Othman was asked to comment on a statement by Professor Zakaria Stapa of the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, who stated that yoga's origins could be traced back to Hinduism.
On Tuesday, Zakaria called on Muslims not to take up yoga and asked those already doing so to stop practising its art of meditation. He said practising yoga could cause Muslims to deviate from the teachings of Islam.
"I do not understand why Muslims would want to practise yoga for the purpose of finding serenity when Islam, through its teachings, enables its followers to do just that.
"Muslims should just practise what Islam has taught them," he said after giving a lecture entitled "False Islamic Teachings in Malaysia".
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April 23, 2005
But if you read how the calculations are done, you'll see it's all about the length of your words and sentences. So a person who likes to start a new sentence with "and" or "but," instead of going with a comma when there's an independent clause, will get a lower grade level score. So will a person who follows Strunk and White and chooses Anglo Saxon rather than Latin-derived words. I'd say you're probably writing better if you end up with a lower grade-level score.
These simplistic calculations don't encompass enough factors to really tell us how hard or easy it is to read someone's prose. Mark Twain scores lower than Reader's Digest in one calculation, because, I'm guessing, he likes to insert periods, spices things up with some very short sentences, and edits out stuffy polysyllabic words. But I'll bet you can skim through Reader's Digest faster, because there aren't so many surprising observations.
The real question is how sophisticated your ideas are. If you are saying simple things in convoluted prose, you're a terrible writer who doesn't deserve to be read. Point me to the writer -- like Mark Twain -- who's saying striking, new things in clear prose! Blogs, especially, should be easy to read. But blog posts should contribute something new to the mix. Do you seriously think you're doing a better job if you're writing something harder to read? Don't you think Mark Twain worked over his prose to make it readable?
Frankly, I'm disgusted by the atrocious writing I have to read every day as part of my job. Frequently, reading judicial decisions and law review articles, I struggle to get the point, I take the time to decode the eye-glazing verbiage, and when I get it translated into plain English, I see it's a pretty simple point. This kind of writing is a product of laziness, the lack of genuinely interesting ideas, a careerist effort to seem smart and high-level, and a selfish lack of consideration for the reader.
UPDATE: Sissy Willis agrees with me and is nice enough to point out that my post is easy to read and adds something to the mix -- which is the standard I set for blogs. Also, people seem to be assuming that these calculations are something new, but I can remember when a grammar check on Microsoft Word ended with these numbers. And there's another problem with assessing a blogger's writing this way: a good portion of the writing on a blog is in the quotes. I'd like to see my numbers with the quotes excluded: a lot of the fusty writing is in the quotes.
13 comments:
- Rick Lee said...
I just put through my blog (http://rickleephoto.blogspot.com) and while I was pleased with most of the scores, it was a little disconcerting to see that one would need only 4.5 years of education to read it!
I used to write some magazine articles (on computer gaming) and the editors effectively beat out of me my college-induced tendency to elaborate and use overly long sentences in the passive voice. I had developed those habits primarily to pad the length of essay question answers and I felt I was rewarded for doing so.
I was pleased to receive this in email from a friend who was educated at Cambridge: "What an extraordinary blog... so concise, visually stunning... the tags well written." Perhaps I might receive similar letters from 4th graders in the future?
- Dean said...
Ann wrote, " the atrocious writing I have to read every day as part of my job. Frequently, reading judicial decisions and law review articles, I struggle to get the point, I take the time to decode the eye-glazing verbiage." My complaint exactly which why I prefer to do my legal research at the Wi State Library -- more and better bars to help translate shadlow side of the verbiage.
- Stephen said...
Thanks for writing this post, Ann. It's always nice to read a good rant on the writing of clear prose.
- Richard Lawrence Cohen said...
All of us who use Microsoft Word have built-in Flesch-Kinkaid readability statistics available on our grammar check. Many other readability formulas exist, such as Fry. Most use quantitative measures of sentence length and syllable count, but there's at least one (I forget the name) that uses a vocabulary list. I often need to use readability counts in my work as a textbook writer, required to produce copy on a specified grade level. It's a simple trick to break up long sentences and use a lot of one-syllable words when necessary. I find that my own writing settles down to middle school level for fiction, high school for nonfiction. Hemingway probably would score at about fourth grade. I aspire to get there. (Substitute "hope" for "aspire" and I'd lose about a tenth of a grade.)
- Dave said...
Excellent post.
Your point (and Bainbridge's) is especially interesting and poignant since both of you belong to groups (lawyers and professors) for whom "clarity of prose" is not a well-known quality.
- irish guard said...
I work at an investment bank and am routinely surprised by the poor writing skills, as well as grammer, of my associates. Most of them have MBAs and lord them over others, yet cannot put a reasonably constructed sentence, let alone paragraph together.
- Marcus Aurelius said...
I graduated from UW-Platteville and the prof I had for my first English class told us to junk our thesauruses! He said too many students try to impress their professors by using the most obscure word possible and while two words may be close enough in meaning to be linked by a thesaurus their "nuances" are often completely different.
I ran my blog through the readability check and did not do too badly one score had me writing at grade level 6 and another in grade 9.
- Ann Althouse said...
Dave: people say that about lawyers, but the best lawyers try hard to communicate clearly and clear writing is stressed in law school. Ask anyone who teaches a writing class in law school. I bet Strunk and White is their standard.
- Alan Kellogg said...
Not all who pad their writing come from an academic background. A chap I know (who we'll call Gary because that's his name.) is notorious in my avocation for his run-on sentences that contain enough punctuation to supply a small book, and can change subject 5 times before the end.
He's also fond of verbiage last used around the 8th century. Often to the dismay of potential readers. Holding to the belief that using difficult language builds character and weeds out the lazy and self-indulgent.
Funny thing is, you get used to it. Indeed you come to expect it from Gary. Read enough of his work and it starts to be the expected for him. In short, it becomes his style and you adjust for it.
No, he doesn't do it to impress people. He just likes big words, and he sometimes forgets to end his sentences until they've become a tad long. He's also not a good self-editor. Something he's admitted himself.
So it isn't just the overeducated/undersocialized.:)
- Marcus Aurelius said...
We have a lawyer in our vast ?-wing conspiracy here in Outagamie County who is known throughout the state party as a stickler for proper grammar and punctuation. I have read his writing for the party and it is just fine.
A buddy of mine takes 1000 words to say what can be said in 10. I tried to give him some instruction but he barely made it through HS so while he is smart and has good ideas he can not express himself very well in written language. Oh well, he is aware of it and takes editing well.
Lawyers should write well! There whole job revolves around putting things into documents that make meanings very clear.
- Abraham said...
I actually told my Note and Comment people for Law Review to read Orwell's Politics and the English Language. It's a fantastic essay on writing, and I strongly recommend it to anybody who writes! In case you've never read it, it includes Orwell's famous rules:
1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never us a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
- Ann Althouse said...
Abraham: Thanks for bringing up "Politics and the English Language." I can't believe I've never blogged a recommendation of that essay, but I haven't. Everyone needs to read that! I've reread it many times and have contemplated making it part of law school class assignments just to get more people to read it. Possibly the best essay ever.
- Nick said...
I think everyone is missing an important part of readability... and thats screen readability. The website shown actually only deals with the actual words being used.
Another important part of readability is type face, and colors used. I can barely read some blogs because they use dark backgrounds with light text... which drives my eyes insane after only a minute.


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Can-Do Film Fest and Competition
Posted 17 December 2009 - 06:28 AM
Good luck and happy shooting! (Ok so it's only the 500D and 5D MkII which have housings now but you can also join the topside categories!
"Journalism is what someone else does not want printed, everything else is public relations."
"I was born not knowing, and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Posted 18 December 2009 - 01:29 PM
Are you gonna enter the "anemone" video??? LOL
PS: Still awaiting a copy...
Edited by wydeangle, 18 December 2009 - 01:32 PM.
Posted 19 December 2009 - 06:31 AM
"I hereby grant RAWworks and Canon Inc the right to use my short film material for any publicity purposes they require."
Worldwide unlimited rights? No time limit? No restrictions?
Normally competitions restrict the rights to promoting future contests for up to a maximum of 2 years.....and only the winning images/video.
These terms could be considered a rights grab. Which are great if you are a large corporation and want lots of material for minimal cost.....
Edited by decosnapper, 19 December 2009 - 06:32 AM.
Posted 20 December 2009 - 07:00 AM
"Journalism is what someone else does not want printed, everything else is public relations."
"I was born not knowing, and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Posted 20 December 2009 - 08:19 AM
Well I'm not sure about that. They can use the entry to promote the event, which promotes the winner, plus as a winner you get a prize. It's a fair exchange. It's not like. Any budding DP would gladly sign up if Rick McCullum likes what he sees and hires him/her for the next project. It's a fair demand that is pretty much standard in most competitions.
If they only want to promote the event, why are the rights not restricted to "event promotion" and time limited? Worldwide unrestricted rights is very broad indeed.
And why to they want the rights to use all the entries, not just the winner? Losers have to surrender their rights too? Remember, only the winner gets the prize and exposure. Losers have surrendered their rights to the organiser and Canon and get nothing in return.
Its high risk. You have some great footage but it's not placed. Canon and the organiser can still do whatever they like with your footage......they are under no obligation to credit so who is exactly winning here and why is this fair?
Pro-imaging run a "Rights On" and "Rights Off" list for good and bad photographic competitions. They actively challenge those competitions that grab rights to images, and promote those that don't. Is there anything similar in the moving footage world? If there isn't, there should be.
Edited by decosnapper, 20 December 2009 - 08:24 AM.


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For this method, the tool sux (http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/sux-readme.shtml) is required. sux is available on most distributions. Otherwise you could rely on the normal shell without sux method below. sux allows you to change to another user with an implicit managing of the X forwarding details (authentication and DISPLAY exporting) in a clean and simple way.
To login, type
sux - kde-devel
All environment variables and everything else should be set up correctly by your .bashrc. To start an application, simply type it's name; for example
|If you get errors about missing mimetypes or such, try running the following:
unset XDG_DATA_DIRS ; kbuildsycoca4
The simplest method to launch KDE 4 applications is using su to login as the kde-devel user and then simply start any KDE 4 application from command line. To login, type
su - kde-devel
and then, after entering your password
export DISPLAY=:0
|Exporting the DISPLAY variable is necessary so that the KDE 4 applications appear on your normal KDE 3 desktop.
All environment variables and everything else should be set up correctly by your .bashrc. To start an application, simply type it's name; for example
|If you get errors about missing mimetypes or such, try the following:
The simplest way to run a KDE 4 application with SSH in your current desktop environment is to get an X-aware shell prompt as the kde-devel user like this:
ssh -X kde-devel@localhost
Now you can launch KDE apps as usual, for example:
The two lines can be conveniently combined:
ssh -X kde-devel@localhost kwrite
|If this gives you any errors, try the troubleshooting tips from the section above. If you receive something like "kwrite: cannot connect to X server", open /etc/ssh/sshd_config and enable the "X11Forwarding" key. Restart sshd and it should work fine.
Before anything serious can be done using this method, a passwordless login needs to be set up. To start, run the following command as the regular desktop user:
ssh-keygen -t rsa
Hit enter three times to accept the path of ~/.ssh/id_rsa and an empty passphrase. Now, copy the single line in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub that's printed after running this command:
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
After that line is copied, ssh back into the kde-devel user and put the copied line in the file $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys:
ssh -X kde-devel@localhost $HOME/kde/bin/kwrite \
Paste in the line, save the file, and quit KWrite.
Next make sure $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys has the correct permissions:
ssh kde-devel@localhost chmod og-xrw ~kde-devel/.ssh/authorized_keys
Now try running KWrite again with the same SSH command; you shouldn't have to enter a password anymore:
ssh -X kde-devel@localhost $HOME/kde/bin/kwrite
|Using a passwordless SSH login has certain security risks, so make sure you protect your ~/.ssh/id_rsa file by restricting access to it with
chmod og-xrw ~/.ssh/id_rsa(although the file should have these permissions when it is created)
If you want to be able to launch apps more easily than running them with an SSH command from the command line, one way is to create .desktop files that ssh into the other account.
|This will only be useful if your desktop environment supports .desktop files, but at least KDE and GNOME do.
You can start with an existing .desktop file as a template (like one from your desktop) or you can make one from scratch. The main idea is to prefix the command being run with this string:
ssh -X kde-devel@localhost $HOME/kde/bin/
A simple .desktop file that runs KWrite would have the following contents:
[Desktop Entry]
Exec=ssh -X kde-devel@localhost /home/kde-devel/kde/bin/kwrite %U
GenericName=Text Editor
Name=KWrite (kde-devel)
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Planning a getaway to Big Bear Lake? Whether you're planning a ski trip or summer break, a vacation rental home is a relaxing way to enjoy in the best of this Southern California mountain resort. If you're planning a ski trip with friends and family, consider a chalet rental with your own fireplace to cozy up to after a day in the snow. If you're visiting in summer, check out lakeside cabin or condo rentals. Discounts are available on rentals in all budget ranges. With our unbiased user reviews, you can be sure you're getting your money's worth.
If you're heading up to Big Bear for skiing or snowboarding, a cabin rental near one of the two ski resorts, Summit Resort and Big Bear Mountain, will put you close to the slopes. Big Bear has cabin rentals that vary from luxury to rustic and many can accommodate big groups. The area also has plenty of cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. Kids will enjoy taking a bobsled ride at the Alpine Slide at Magic Mountain. Or rent an innertube for a slide down the snow-covered hills.
Once the snow melts, Big Bear turns into a refreshing summer paradise. Lakeside cabin rentals will put you close to some of the area's most popular activities. If you love to play in the water, go swimming in the lake off Meadow Park. Or rent a sailboat to explore more of the lake. There are also windsurf, paddleboat and jet-ski rentals. Golfers can tee off at Big Bear Mountain. There are numerous biking and hiking trails in the mountains surrounding the lake. Head to Baldwin Lake Stables for a horseback ride through the mountains. For more thrills, try ziplining.
A vacation rental home can make a trip to Big Bear an affordable getaway in any season. Whether you choose an lakefront cabin or a smaller condo rental, we've got great deals. Vacation rentals also save you money because you can dine in rather than eating out at every meal.


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Adolescent Brain Development
Jessica M. Black
Although it was once widely held that development through toddlerhood was the only significant time of tremendous brain growth, findings from neuroscience have identified adolescence as a second significant period of brain-based changes. Profound modification of brain structure, function, and connectivity, paired with heightened sensitivity to environment, places adolescence both as a heightened period of risk and importantly as a time of tremendous opportunity. These findings are of key relevance for social-work policy and practice, for they speak to the ways in which the adolescent brain both is vulnerable to adverse conditions and remains responsive to positive environmental input such as interventions that support recovery and resilience.
Adolescent Populations: An Overview of Issues and Social Problems
Todd Michael Franke and Diane de Anda
This entry begins with a presentation of demographic data from the U.S. Census 2010 on the adolescent population 12 to 19 years by age, gender, and ethnicity. A summary of the information available on major issues and problems affecting adolescent populations is presented from numerous governmental and empirical research sources on the following topics: education, runaway and homeless youth, sexual behavior, substance abuse, suicide, victimization and criminal behavior, and texting while driving.
Adolescents: Practice Interventions
David L. Hussey
This chapter summarizes literature and research related to advances in direct practice work with adolescents. Social workers are on the forefront of developing and utilizing a variety of evidence-based practices to address complex client and community needs.
Adolescents: Pregnancy
Kathleen A. Rounds and Traci L. Wike
Although rates of adolescent pregnancy have exhibited a downward trend since 1991, the United States continues to have a significantly higher rate than other industrialized nations. Adolescent pregnancy, especially in early and middle adolescence, has long-term developmental and economic impact on the teen and her child, in addition to high social costs. This entry describes the current trends in adolescent pregnancy in the United States, and examines factors reported in the research literature as associated with adolescent pregnancy, discusses federal policy directed toward adolescent pregnancy prevention, and identifies various intervention programs.
Adolescents: A Historical Overview of Developmental Theories
Diane de Anda
This article begins with an overview of biological development based upon empirical research. The main focus of the article is the presentation of the major theoretical frameworks that have been employed to explain the processes involved in the psychological, cognitive, moral, social, and sexual development of the adolescent and empirical research findings where appropriate.
Adoption: Intercountry
Karen Smith Rotabi
The practice of intercountry adoption is considered from a historical framework, beginning with World War II to other conflicts and the global dynamics of child circulation for adoption. Significant sources of children are presented, including Russia, China, and Guatemala, as well as moratoriums related to poor practice and fraud. Framed from a social justice perspective, the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption is presented with an exploration of child sales and abduction into intercountry adoption. A global market for children creates significant practice challenges for social workers who engage in assessment, both in the country of child origin and in the destination country. Follow-up care includes case management to support families and children in the intercountry adoption process. In conclusion, the significant decline in the practice is reflected upon pragmatically; the need for true reform in the practice is necessary to preserve intercountry adoption for orphaned and vulnerable children.
Adoption: Lesbian and Gay Adoptive Parents
Abbie E. Goldberg and April Moyer
Adoption by lesbian and gay parents is becomingly increasingly common. This entry presents an overview of the limited research that has focused on lesbian and gay adoptive parents. Specifically, this entry addresses the experience of adoptive parenthood for lesbian and gay parents, with emphasis on the decision-making process (that is, choosing adoption, choosing an agency, choosing an adoption type, and specifying child characteristics), the transition to adoptive parenthood, the psychological adjustment of the adoptive parents and their children, and the adoptive parent–child relationship. We end with recommendations for future research and implications for practitioners and policymakers.
African Americans: Practice Interventions
Sharon E. Moore
African Americans number about 35 million or 12% of the U.S. population. Their life expectancy is lower than that of White Americans, and despite the educational gains made since mid-1980s, the unemployment gap between African Americans and Whites has increased. Similarly, although the number of African Americans working in white-collar occupations has increased, the disparity in wage earnings between African American and White workers continues. Regardless of social class African Americans are made to be cognizant of their race at all times. Today they are still at risk for social issues such as substance abuse, teen pregnancy, incarceration, poverty, high rates of female headed households, infant mortality that is twice as high as Whites, residential segregation, racism, and discrimination. As daunting as these problems are, the strengths of the African American community have allowed it to thrive even amid arduous circumstances.
Alternative Education
Cynthia Franklin, Linda Webb, and Hannah Szlyk
This article will cover the current best practices in designing and establishing alternative programs for at-risk students and suggest how social workers can assist in program development and sustainability. At-risk students are youth considered more likely than others to drop out of school due to various factors, including truancy, poor grades, disruptive behaviors, pregnancy, and repeated expulsions or suspensions. The history of alternative education in the United States will be reviewed and the types of alternative educations programs in practice outlined. How the framework of an alternative school differs from that of a disciplinary program will be examined along with initial steps toward development and implementation. Effective strategies explained include establishing a task force, involving the greater community, and implementing evidence-based interventions such as Response to Intervention (RTI) into the school curriculum. An example of a sustainable public alternative education program grounded in solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) is presented.
Attachment Research, Developmental Implications, and Clinical Interventions with Children, Adults, and Couples
Shoshana Ringel
This review summarizes contributions to attachment theory and research by John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth, Mary Main, and many other researchers. It addresses contributions from the Adult Attachment Interview to the understanding of loss and trauma as well as the intergenerational transmission of attachment patterns from parent to child. The review describes current findings from infant research, and the implications of attachment theory to clinical interventions with children, families, adults, and couples.


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NHL CapsulesNHL.com @NHLdotcom
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Henrik Lundqvist stopped 30 shots and came within 1:53 of his second shutout in three games, and the New York Rangers stretched their season-best winning streak to five games with a 3-1 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday night.
The second-place Rangers moved three points ahead of third-place Philadelphia in the Metropolitan Division race by winning what could be a playoff preview. New York has eight games remaining, and the Flyers have 10 left.
Derek Dorsett scored in the first period, defenceman Ryan McDonagh added a goal in the second, and Dominic Moore made it 3-0 in the third against Steve Mason, who made 26 saves.
The Flyers' Jakub Voracek scored his 21st goal off a faceoff with 1:53 to go to make it 3-1.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ? David Booth scored two unassisted goals and Eddie Lack made 29 saves to lead Vancouver.
Zack Kassian, Daniel Sedin and Ryan Kesler also scored for Vancouver as the Canucks try to make a late push to overtake Phoenix and Dallas for the Western Conference's final wild-card playoff spot.
Minnesota outshot Vancouver 31-19 and got goals from Charlie Coyle and Nino Niederreiter, but lost its third straight at home.
Booth scored for the second consecutive game after going scoreless in his previous 32.


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Police: 2 intruders shot, killed at marijuana grow house
by KOMO Staff
Thursday, December 6th 2012
PUYALLUP, Wash. - Two heavily armed intruders who forced their way into a home with an illegal marijuana grow operation were shot and killed by the homeowner Thursday morning near Puyallup, officials said.
Law enforcement personnel responded to the scene, a luxury home in the 5900 block of 132nd Street, just after 8 a.m. when the homeowner called to report a break-in, said Ed Troyer of the Pierce County Sheriff's Office. The homeowner then called back a few minutes later to say shots were fired.
The arriving deputy found two armed people with masks on their faces on the floor of the home's six-car garage. Medics were unable to revive them.
The homeowner told detectives that he opened fire at the intruders when they forced their way into the home, which houses an illegal marijuana grow operation in the attic, Troyer said.
He said it appears the intruders were after the marijuana and possibly cash.
The 35-year-old homeowner and the homeowner's 9-year-old son were not hurt in the incident.
"In this particular case we have two people dead, multiple shots fired. The homeowner is OK; unfortunately it could have gone the other way. We could have had a dead 9-year-old and a dead homeowner," Troyer said.
Ironically, the deadly shootings came on the first day of marijuana legalization in Washington state.
While it is now legal for adults 21 or over to possess up to an ounce of marijuana in Washington state, it is still illegal to grow or sell the drug. The state has until late next year to come up with a system of state-licensed growers, processors and retail stores, with the marijuana taxed 25 percent at each stage.
Marijuana also remains illegal under federal law. That means federal agents can still arrest people for it, and it's banned from federal properties, including military bases and national parks.
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Some who work with the U.S. Cuban community enthusiastically welcomed the Obama administrations announcement that restrictions will be lifted on Cuban-Americans travel, gifts of money and other kinds of aid to their homeland. But they agreed that how the Cuban government responds is the key to whether the gesture will help bring the changes that a 47-year-old embargo against the communist country has not accomplished. "This is a step in the right direction," said Father Jose Espino, a priest of the Miami Archdiocese and a Cuban native.
The White House announced April 13 that Cuban-Americans would no longer be restricted to one two-week visit every three years. President Obamas executive order did not affect the overall trade embargo on Cuba, nor will it allow more general travel to the island nation by non-Cuban-Americans.
The order also expanded the definition of family to allow visits to distant relatives. Thats particularly important, said Father Espino, because Cubans have a broad definition of family that encompasses more than immediate relatives. For instance, Espino said, his father has two elderly cousins in Cuba, with nobody to support them. The changed definition of family would allow distant relatives from the United States to help tend to the cousins.
The order also lifted limits on the amount and frequency of money Cuban-Americans can send to family and will allow banks to forward funds to Cuba. It also broadened the scope of humanitarian donations that may be sent and it authorized the creation of new licenses permitting U.S. telecommunications companies to provide telephone, satellite radio and television service and equipment in Cuba.
Father Espino helps Catholic Relief Services coordinate some activities with its Cuban counterparts. He told Catholic News Service April 14 that, as seen last year after Cuba was hit by four hurricanes, "family-to-family help is always the best and easiest way" to provide aid. But, he cautioned, "its a two-way street." The Cuban government could still withhold visas from U.S. citizens trying to visit their relatives. Cuba also requires any native who left the country after 1970 to use a Cuban passport on a return visit. Such passports can take months or years to obtain.
Some critics said that the entire trade embargo should have been lifted or that the relaxed rules on money to Cuba will put more dollars in the hands of the communist government. At a White House news briefing, Dan Restrepo, special assistant to the president and senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs, said that although some funds will find their way to the government "we think the positive benefits here will way outweigh any negative effects," adding that the president "is very clear that were getting the United States out of the business of regulating the relationship between Cuban families. The Cuban government should get out of the business of regulating the relationship between Cuban families. It should stop charging the usurious fees that it does on these remittances."
Lynn Renner, regional representative for the Caribbean for CRS, the U.S. bishops overseas relief and development agency, said the eased restrictions "are in keeping with what the U.S. bishops have been asking for years." Renner said the changes will make it easier for people to help their relatives, easing the everyday needs of a largely impoverished country.
In an April 15 letter to Restrepo, Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, N.Y., chairman of the U.S. bishops Committee on International Justice and Peace, said that, "despite the fact that the current trade embargo and travel restrictions largely remain, the presidents decision to relax restrictions on Cuban-American travel and the regulation in remittances to Cuba is long overdue. This action represents an important change to U.S. policy toward Cuba." Bishop Hubbard said the restrictions and embargo "have largely failed to promote greater freedom, democracy and respect for human rights in Cuba" and "unnecessarily alienated many in the hemisphere." More contact, rather than less, between Cubans and the United States will best improve the lives of Cubans and advance the cause of improved human rights, he said. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has long argued that the principal effect of the U.S. embargo against Cuba has been to strengthen the governments control. The Cuban Catholic bishops oppose the embargo and the USCCB supports its eventual end.
It is illegal for U.S. citizens to visit Cuba without a license issued by the Treasury Department for a limited number of specific purposes. Legislation introduced this term by sponsors from both parties in Congress would open travel to all U.S. citizens. Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., one of the bills sponsors, said in a statement that it "never made sense" for the U.S. government to tell its citizens they cant travel to Cuba. Flake said Obamas memorandum is "the first step in lifting travel restrictions for all Americans. The administration has done what it can; congressional action is needed to take the next step."


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VIDEO: David Stern's Hall of Fame speech
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — They made for an eclectic group: two players who came from long distances to make their true legacy impacts, Alonzo Mourning and Sarunas Marciulionis; two non-players who never went anywhere, David Stern and Bob Leonard; and one player, Mitch Richmond, who uniquely rode a bad team into the Hall of Fame.
The Class of 2014 was officially enshrined Friday night inside Symphony Hall, and the newest living Hall members with NBA ties framed so much about the league and the game.
Mourning was the toughness. That would have been the case anyway, Zo and tenacity having become close acquaintances long before, but he retired, played again, and played well. After a kidney transplant. Briefly choking up early in his acceptance speech, Zo, also someone who goes way back with strong emotions, changed nothing.
Marciulionis was the globalization. Once named one of the 50 greatest players in FIBA history for leading roles with the national teams of the Soviet Union and his native Lithuania, he reached the Hall through the International Committee. But he reached a new level by refusing to back down from his dream of the NBA and became one of the symbols of expansion. What he fought through showed he could do the toughness thing, too.
Leonard and Richmond were the local ties, the grassroots feel of the league even as it grew into a conglomerate, Leonard home-spun Indiana as coach of the ABA and NBA Pacers and then a team broadcaster to this day, Richmond one of the reasons the link between the small-market Kings and the fans remained strong from one losing season to the next. Far from the bright lights, with Indy literally trying to save its pro basketball life and Sacramento screaming itself hoarse every home game with little payback in the standings, they were reason for optimism in hard times.
It's like Leonard said in concluding his acceptance speech: "The only thing left to say is I've had a love affair with the fans and the people in the state of Indiana. We call ourselves Hoosiers. And they've been very supportive. It's a love affair that has gone on for years, since I was [a player] at Indiana University. And I wish that it could last forever. But I know better than that. So as I look around this room, the Lord has had His hand on my shoulder. Here's what I hope for all of you: That the Lord puts His hand on your shoulder and He blesses you all the years of your life. Thank you."
Stern was pretty much everything, of course. Like Leonard, he was a constant, in Stern's case as commissioner through the days drenched in money falling from the sky to the tumultuous moments that also define his rule from 1984 until 2014. And the swagger. There had to be a grand display because Stern could be so good at brash.
So display of power it shall be. Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and other all-time greats appeared in the video introduction. Then five tall, bar-stool chairs were lined up on stage. Bill Russell sat in one, a few feet off Stern's left shoulder. Magic Johnson sat next to Russell. Russ Granik, Stern's former No. 2, sat next to Johnson. Larry Bird sat next to Granik. Bob Lanier sat next to Bird.
Some people get big names. Stern gets Mt. Olympus.
"You've got to love the game," he told the crowd. "Everything we do is always about the game. Always about the game. When [wife] Dianne and I were in China, we had a guide that told us she was a big fan of the Red Oxen. Of course, she was corrected. She meant Bulls. When we were in Lithuania, the head of the Communist party of Kaunas, Sarunas' hometown, wanted to argue with me. It was 1988. Didn't I think the NBA salary cap was un-American because there was no room for Portland to sign [Arvydas] Sabonis. We were all over. When I was in Paris, I was sitting with the prime minister of France at a game. He said because it was the Bulls, could he go into the locker room? I thought, here it comes. Michael Jordan. He said, 'I'd like to meet Dennis Rodman.' It's always about the game."
There is a different feel to every induction class, and the 2014 group that also included the Immaculata women's teams of the 1970s, Nolan Richardson, Gary Williams, the late Nat Clifton and the late Guy Rodgers was every angle, and sometimes every unusual angle, to the point of being comprehensive. They touched a lot of what makes the game special. They framed the league.


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The U.S. Supreme Court could decide as early as two weeks from now whether to take up the titanic legal battle over President Obama's health care law.
The court revealed today that the first of the challenges to reach the Supreme Court will come before the justices on Nov. 10th, during one of their regular weekly conferences where they decide, in private, which cases to hear. Legal experts are nearly unanimous in believing that the court will agree to hear the health-care issue during its current term, but there's no deadline for the justices to act on whether to do so. If the court agrees in November to take up the health care issue, it would probably be argued in March, with a decision by late June.
The Supreme Court could decide as early as two weeks from now whether to take up the titanic legal battle over President Obama's health care law. NBC's Pete Williams reports.
If the court agrees on Nov. 10th to take any or all of the cases, we could hear that day, or we might hear the following Monday when court orders are typically announced. But contentious cases are often discussed several times before the court gets around to taking a vote on whether to grant them, so it could take a few weeks before we know.
The five cases ready for the justices to consider ask the court to decide these questions:
- Did Congress exceed its powers in requiring that virtually all Americans buy health insurance, and, if it did, must the entire health care law fall or can parts of it survive?
- Can a challenge to the insurance requirement be brought now, before the law goes into effect in 2014?
- Do new Medicaid requirements in the law impose excessive burdens on the states?


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Next Week's Theme: Nasty Pigeons
Next Week's Prize: Kidrobot's El Chupacabra... Illustrator Sara Antoinette Martin's El Chupacabra lived off goats' blood until a famine turned this brown, flocked beast into an endangered species... Kidrobot could only save 500 from total extinction.
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Computer Science: A Structured Programming Approach Using C++
Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 2000 - C (Computer program language) - 881 pages
This book, in the words of the authors, "teaches students first how to write good functions, and then how to implement them in classes." Designed for students with no prior programming experience, the book explains each basic principle of programming first in general, language-independent terms, and then discusses how the programming construct in question is implemented in C++. Given this approach, classes are presented in the second half of the text. The book incorporates coverage of software engineering principles and procedures throughout (starting with flowcharts), with each chapter concluding with a discussion of underlying software engineering concepts. Unlike competing books that are too difficult for first-year students, Forouzan and Gilberg take special pains to make their programming examples consistent and easy to read. This careful writing makes this book a solid choice for professors looking for a book that is easy to read and follow, without compromising the material's rigor.
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Fine, competent work - but very 'straight.'
That same year, Brackett art from Cosmopolitan magazine. Here once again you can see Brackett using the opportunity of story illustration to try something just a little bit different. But hardly adventurous.
Fast forward to 1962, again in Cosmo magazine.
Now, this is not your father's Ward Brackett.
What triggered the change... and was Brackett a leader or a follower?
In Walt Reed's seminal book, The Illustrator in America, Reed writes that Ward Brackett decided in mid-career to return to school, to the Brooklyn Museum, where he studied with Reuben Tam. Is this stylistic transformation a result of those studies?
Here's more Ward Brackett art from around the same period - from a 1963 Reader's Digest Condensed Books story.
While researching Brackett online last weekend I came across an interesting anecdote from French comics writer, Jean-Pierre Dionnet.
Dionnet recounts how, a few years ago, while discussing the work of Bob Peak and Bernie Fuchs with Jim Steranko, the legendary comic artist/illustrator told Dionnet to look at Ward Brackett's work, suggesting that was where Peak and Fuchs had first found the inspiration for their early revolutionary stylistic efforts.
Dionnet writes, "One day I finally found an original Ward Brackett and I understood. Yes, yes, this style - falsely fast but all the necessary details are there..."
"... just good Ward Brackett, who was a GI who married a Japanese woman and stayed fifteen years after the war, inventing the new American style from then some Japanization." [Google's imperfect translation from the French]
The story sounds mixed up - because we know Brackett didn't stay in Japan for 15 years after WWII. But still... could it be that Ward Brackett, enjoying a fine but much less spectacular career than Peak and Fuchs, was actually the stylistic catalyst for these two giants of the illustration business?
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Anish Kapoor Goes 'Gangnam Style' for Ai Weiwei
Why is Anish Kapoor dancing with wrist flourishes towards the camera, wearing handcuffs and black tape over his mouth?
It's to make a statement in support of Chinese dissidents like fellow artist Ai Weiwei. All to the viral K-pop tune "Gangnam Style."
The Indian-born British artist is shown doing Psy's horse-riding dance with friends and activists, wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Mr. Ai.
Others bounce around wearing black-and-white masks of Mr. Ai and Gao Zhisheng, a Chinese human rights lawyer who went missing in 2009.
This comes weeks after Mr. Ai's own spoof of the video, a veiled critique against censorship in China.
The tone of Mr. Kapoor's video is more somber – he partnered with human rights group Amnesty International to put it together – so the artist frequently interrupts his dancing to hold up signs, including one calling to "end repression, allow expression."
"Our film aims to make a serious point about freedom of speech and freedom of expression," said Mr. Kapoor, according to Amnesty. "It is our hope that this gesture of support for Ai Weiwei and all prisoners of conscience will be wide-ranging and will help to emphasize how important these freedoms are to us all."
In the second half of the video, footage shows staff from contemporary art galleries in the U.S. and elsewhere – including New York's Museum of Modern Art and London's Serpentine Gallery – horsing around in solidarity.
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Barbara and Richard Quillen of Decatur, Ga., celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Jan. 1, 2013.
On Jan. 1, 1953, Barbara Angle, daughter of Mina and Harry Angle, and Richard Quillen, son of Margaret and Delbert Quillen, were united in marriage at the home of the bride, 329 W. State St., Newcomerstown.
The Rev. J. Donald Carrico officiated the ceremony.
Grace Haugh and William J. Welsch attended the couple.
Mrs. Quillen retired from GenCorp Polymer Products.
Mr. Quillen retired from Alsco Anaconda. He is a member of Coshocton Sportsmen Club.
The couple are members of Kimbolton United Methodist Church.
They have two sons, Roger (Joanna) Quillen, Decatur, Ga., and Ronald Quillen, Phoenix, Ariz.
Completing the family circle are grandchildren, Kelsey (Ben) Emerson, Robert, Emma Quillen and Lydia and Ross Quillen.
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The Mini Long would make the perfect first 'proper' surfboard after mastering the basics on a foamy or a moulded board in the surf-school. Far from being purely a learners board, the Mini Long is the ideal craft to fine tune your surfing and a good option for the longboarder looking for a more manoeuvrable craft. This classic format offers easy wave catching with a nice stable platform that is still loose enough to really chuck around should the mood take you. This tried and tested shape has been fine tuned over the years by board shapers who surf, so competant surfers can still have a blast in smaller weaker conditions. The full nose allows the board to plane and catch waves early and the soft, forgiving rails up front and sharp at the back are forgiving but with enough bite to hold in steeper waves.
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This unique combination of advanced materials and high-tech construction produces a board that performs at the very highest level, offering lightweight shapes with a responsive flex (missing on some cheaper Epoxy boards) but also makes for a really durable and strong surfboard. Your new Torq surfboard will keep you stoked from your first wave to your last. Enjoy!
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VeriSign offers registry services that operate the authoritative directory of .com, .net, .cc, .tv, .gov, .jobs, and .edu domain names. On October 25, 2012, after the markets closed, VeriSign issued a press release containing the Company's third quarter 2012 results. The Company also disclosed that the DOJ was reviewing its domain name pricing arrangements and that as a result, the Commerce Department would likely be unable to renew the Company's contract prior to its expiration on November 30, 2012.
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Farmers' Market: Trout Lake
12:00 am
Lakewood drive and 13th avenue
Popular among chefs, home cooks, and local gastronomes, farmers' markets have become an integral part of Vancouver's food landscape.
The spring, summer, and fall months are a bustling time for crops, and there are many terrific farmers' markets running in the city, including the one at Trout Lake, one of the most popular markets in Vancouver!
Open on Saturdays until October 22 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., they have food trucks on site and a variety of vendors selling all manner of food.


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View from the canopy: an introduction from the new HoB leader
Posted on 08 February 2013
Taking over the leadership of the Heart of Borneo for WWF is both a deeply daunting and incredibly exciting task.Six months ago I was in a comfortable position at a good University in a peaceful British town with a contract for life. A chance email from a friend at WWF changed all that and I find myself beginning 2013 pulled in multiple directions by maelstrom of urgent issues amidst a city of angry traffic and sweaty heat. But it feels wonderful.
Taking over the leadership of the Heart of Borneo for WWF is both a deeply daunting and incredibly exciting task. When the governments of Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei signed the Heart of Borneo Declaration they gave birth to one of the most forward-thinking and exciting environmental initiatives in the world. WWF has played a key role in nurturing this vision. For years WWF staff have been on the front line of wildlife conservation and local community development in Kalimantan, Sabah, Sarawak and Brunei. But the establishment of the Global Initiative helped channel these efforts into something bigger than the sum of its parts. Governments and businesses are now working hand in hand with NGOs and civil society in an example of cutting edge conservation and what could well be the new standard for environmentally sustainable development.
Over the past five years, Adam Tomasek and his team have led WWF's contribution to the Heart of Borneo and they leave a most impressive legacy. During this time they honed the direction of the initiative from something visionary but conceptual to something visionary and real. National and international support and leadership was cultivated, the private sector was brought into the discussion and the seminal 'Investing in Nature' report was launched. The report coalesced the essence of the Heart of Borneo into a simple economic choice. Development could continue on a 'business as usual' path for short term profit but little long term sustainability or equitability or it could take the 'green economy' path, integrating the value of natural resources into economic decision making and establishing long term sustainability and equitability. For the first time there was a clear, rational and economically grounded basis for conserving Borneo's biodiversity.
But of course the work is not complete. The next challenge is to demonstrate a green economy can work in practice. The economic arguments for change are clear, but can they be translated into practical, feasible policies? Can these policies be implemented on the ground and generate clear, conservation outcomes? And can these outcomes be replicated at scale, bringing the transformational change that is required? Answering this challenge will rely heavily on those on the ground with the power to bring change – on the regional policy makers that govern the Heart of Borneo and on the people who vote them into power and face the consequences of their decisions. More than ever the Heart of Borneo therefore relies on the WWF national staff who have the experience, the information and the respect to drive such changes. The focus of the GI moving into the future must therefore focus on supporting the national offices. We must provide the regional vision into which national activities can feed, help harmonise existing activities across national borders and draw in the resources and support they need to succeed.
I feel honoured to be taking on this challenge. Nearly twenty years ago Borneo was where I took my first steps into conservation working with the orang utans in and around Tanjung Puting National Park. The intervening years have taken me to the work with meerkats in the Kalahari, cheetahs and Maasai in Tanzania, tigers and oil palm in Sumatra and renewable energy in the Himalayas. Most recently I have focussed specifically on the role of business on the environment, working with companies to account for their reliance and impacts on 'natural capital'. I now return full circle to where I began, married, as it happens, to my beautiful Bornean wife. The site I started out on in Borneo has now disappeared, one of countless examples of the environment losing out to economic development. A sustainable future cannot be based on such a dichotomy. The Heart of Borneo offers a vision of an alternate world, one where the true values of nature are recognised and integrated into an equitable, sustainable and prosperous society. As leader I will be doing everything in my power to realise this vision.
- Tom Maddox