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Crash: Racist, Insightful, Brilliant
White Filmmaker Paul Haggis fixates on the audience gaining compassion for a monstrously racist, Mark Furman-like cop, whose sickly father suffers tragically - before our eyes - from health ailments. (And of course the racist is seen crying and embracing his sickly father). This same racist cop is shown justifying—to the audience—the genesis of his racist perspectives, explaining this to a Black woman reluctant to give his father medical coverage. In a previous scene the same character, racistly and viciously molests a Black woman
Screenwriter/director Paul Haggis' latest film "Crash� (he's also writer of the 2004 Oscar Winner Million Dollar Baby, has met with great enthusiasm since its May 6, 2005 release. Even Tavis Smiley set aside two consecutive evenings of his PBS talk show - featuring Maxine Waters, Don Cheadle and Paul Haggis to discuss the film. Crash apparently has tapped at the core of many people's idealizations on race in society. Americans, Americans of African descent included, possibly especially, rarely directly or meaningfully address the issue of race. Given this factor, it comes as no surprise that Crash's electric portrayal of "racialized" unrest has caused such a stir. Movies are a powerful medium, and can be observed as if they are in real time and true to life experiences, especially when written and directed as well as Crash. Audiences can be transfixed forgetting or not realizing that film (especially of this genre) is a construction, fiction, created to provoke a certain response, agenda or influence on film goers. While numerous elements of Crash were believable and provocative, it also perpetuated a tendency in Hollywood not to fully dimensionalize Black people. Full dimensionalization would be to depict Black people - without buffoonery or attitude- functionally loving and respecting them selves, their family, their child, their spouse, their community or each other, as a central theme. (Though, over the top, and a bad movie, Denzel Washington's John Q attempted to do this). Another classic Hollywood tendency occurred in Crash that always seems to happen when a White filmmaker does a film about "race."
No matter how brutal the White supremacist or racist character is, great lengths are taken to make sure the audience (especially Black people) humanizes and cares deeply about that person - anyway. In Crash White Filmmaker Paul Haggis fixates on the audience gaining compassion for a monstrously racist, Mark Furman-like cop, whose sickly father suffers tragically - before our eyes - from health ailments. (And of course the racist is seen crying and embracing his sickly father). This same racist cop is shown justifying (to the audience) the genesis of his racist perspectives, explaining this to a Black woman reluctant to give his father medical coverage. In a previous scene the same character, racistly and viciously molests a Black woman publicly after pulling her and her husband over when noticing them having oral sex while driving in their Navigator. The molestation takes place right in front of the woman's "successful," meek, White people pleasing, psychically castrated, husband! Then later, in a completely over-the-top and manipulative move (by the filmmaker) this racist/abusive White cop heroically saves the same Black woman he molested - on-duty - from a fiery death. Yet Crash is a uniquely powerful film. For example, in unusually insightful ways it depicts how internalized White supremacy can behaviorally manifest among Black people. But, rarely (if ever) is an opportunity created for the audience to fall in love with or gain poignant levels of concern about the Black characters.
Almost every one of these characters is a thief, corrupt, dead, a drug addict, interracially involved, confused or crazy. These portrayals may have been more tolerable if the audience was also allowed - by the filmmaker - to witness deep levels of context, love, warmth and compassion (and screen-time) allowed the White racist cop. Yes, the Brother's murder realized at the end was sad. But who was this Brother? Who was his father? Why did he turn out as he did? Why did his Brother, the interracialist cop, turn out as he did? We were never told that. These are examples of the lack of humanizing dimension had by people of African descent in the film. Still, I think Crash, while being racistly manipulative, is a brilliant, riveting and occasionally insightful (about Black self-hate) piece of cinematic work. I am aware of how movies can affect its audience. So, it left me wondering—when was the last time the death or life of a Black fictional character in film, in a popular film, warmed my heart, and the characters had functional family and self love, and instilled deep compassion or concern among its audience. The answer was almost never.
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"A Colorful Dream" is a family-friendly exhibit by contemporary fine art photographer Adrien Broom. This nationally touring show is from ExhibitsUSA and has many large scale images in monochromatic colors telling the story of a young girl's journey in a fairy tale setting. Each image began as a full-scale set in Broom's studio, carefully constructed down to the smallest details. Encountering creatures, characters and vivid landscapes, the young girl discovers colorful worlds. With 40 photographic images and time-lapse videos, this is an exhibit that will inspire imaginations and spark creativity. Make plans to visit to experience this colorful journey during its stay in Oklahoma – only at the Chisholm Trail Heritage Center!
Adrien Broom is a contemporary fine art and commercial photographer living in Brooklyn, New York. Broom's fine art photography often alludes to themes of childhood fantasy, using young women as protagonists. Her commercial work includes music, fashion, and portrait photography. Trained as a computer animator, she has studied fine art in Florence, Italy, and art history in London, England.
Chisholm Trail Heritage Center is open 7 days a week, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Located at 1000 Chisholm Trail Parkway in Duncan. Call 580-252-6692 for information. It is an official "Best Heritage Attraction," an Oklahoma Outstanding Attraction, a National Day of the Cowboy 'Cowboy Keeper" and a Top Ten Western Museum – True West Magazine. Chisholm Trail Heritage Center Association is a 501c3 non-profit.

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With heartfelt gratitude, we present the five phenomenal volunteers honored through our eighth annual Classic Woman Awards. They stand tall among many other heroic women throughout the country who were also nominated. Each of our classic women saw a deep need and decided to fill it. As honoree Evelyn Castellar puts it: "I didn't start my organization—it started me."
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Evelyn Castellar
Projecto Honduras
Federal Way, Washington
Evelyn Castellar went to Honduras in 2002 in search of respite because of her failing health and ended up saving lives.
The successful businesswoman—founder and CEO of an insurance training school—had heart and lung conditions as well as breast cancer. She and husband Jose fell in love with the eerie beauty of the Honduran cloud forests (like rain forests only they "catch" precipitation in the form of clouds rather than rain). Evelyn and Jose built a winter home near one.
One stormy night, they were startled by a knock on their door. A frantic neighbor led the Castellars to his home, where a just-born infant, placenta still attached, lay choking on a dirt floor. His mother languished on a cardboard bed nearby. Both survived, but after learning how dangerous the combination of unsanitary water, dirt floors, and the lack of shoes and medical care was for her neighbors, Evelyn opened a small, free medical clinic in her guest room in 2002. Soon she was seeing hundreds of people a day, consulting with Honduran medical personnel, and imploring friends back home in Washington to assist. Today, Projecto Honduras, founded in 2008, provides medical care, education, housing, and community programs to 15,000 Hondurans with the help of more than 200 volunteers.
Evelyn (who divides her time between Honduras and Washington and whose health is still fragile) leads volunteers to Honduras twice a year to work with the organization's myriad projects. Honduras has a desperately high infant-child mortality rate, and it is the malnourished children (two of whom she has informally adopted) who tug hardest at her heart. Her goal for her agency is simple: "To keep children from dying. To see them live."
Linda Davidson
Our Military Kids
McLean, Virginia
Displayed in Linda Davidsons office are the words that inspire her: A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world will be different because I was important in the life of a child.
Serendipity led Linda to found Our Military Kids in 2004. While she was using her business expertise from her former career at IBM to help a friend organize a military nonprofit organization, she noticed a disturbing trend: When National Guard and Reserve members went overseas, their families suffered a gap in services. Before 9/11, these soldiers were often sent to help after natural disasters. But deployments to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan brought new problems. Because families of the deployed often did not live close to military bases, they felt isolated. Dips in pay caused by the change from civilian to military duty sometimes forced the elimination of kids' extracurricular activities.
Our Military Kids fills this gap. Recently, Linda heard from the grandfather of a boy living with his grandparents while his mother was deployed as a medic. He called when his grandson returned from the summer camp arranged by Our Military Kids, tearful with gratitude. "He had been afraid the boy would hurt himself, but camp refocused him, blew off some of his anger, and gave him new pride in his mom," Linda recalls.
Linda launched her agency in Virginia, then took it national. But she didn't stop there. Seeing the invisible wounds of the children of wounded warriors, she included them, too. Our Military Kids has provided $14 million in piano lessons, sports programs, tutoring, and hope to what our brave servicemen and women hold most dear: their children.
Nancy Chance
Good Samaritan Network of Hamilton County
Noblesville, Indiana
When Nancy Chance was visiting her grandfather at the age of 4, she saw six men jump from a train and gather under a bridge for shelter. When she speculated that they might be hungry, her grandfather challenged her to come up with a solution. She cut her own sandwich into six pieces, walked to the bridge, and distributed it to the homeless men. That rare combination of pragmatism and compassion is still Nancy's gift. In 1995, she founded the Good Samaritan Network, which connects clubs, agencies, and businesses in Hamilton County, Indiana, to share resources and unite for the common good rather than duplicate efforts and compete for funding.
Having experienced tough times as a child when her father was injured and hospitalized for months, Nancy says: "It's hard to get a total picture of the working poor—families who struggle at low-paying jobs or have two or more part-time jobs with no benefits. It only takes one emergency to derail a family."
Numbers tell the story: Good Samaritan unites 64 agencies, 240 churches, 9 township trustees, 32 food pantries, and 3 free medical clinics to serve 20,000 people a year with everything from food to used cars. Nancy directs its efforts while working full-time as a blood bank coordinator. The former sheriff of Hamilton County, Douglas G. Carter, puts it this way: "Nancy is known all around the county as the go-to person. There is never any doubt that if there is a way to help, she will."
Pascha Peay
Imagine Me Ministries
Baltimore, Maryland
Pascha Peay, who grew up in inner-city Baltimore as the child of a single mother in a loving extended family, recalls: "I loved my early years. They were full of love and excitement and unity and camaraderie. I didn't know that I grew up in a low-income area until I got to college and realized my norm wasn't everyone else's."
While completing her master's degree at Johns Hopkins in 2003 (and hoping to earn a huge income, she admits with a chuckle), the thought kept nagging her that not every girl growing up in her neighborhood was so fortunate. She credits Jesus Christ with guiding her to establish Imagine Me in 2007 at her alma mater, Calverton Middle School, in a high-crime area in Baltimore. She was prompted to do so by her previous experience in a corporate mentoring program with Latoya, a middle school child whose parents were both deceased. Against the odds, Latoya just graduated from college. "I have learned more from her than she has from me," Pascha says. "Her strength just pushes her through."
Since 2007, Pascha has held after-school sessions with groups of girls twice weekly. She also organizes outings, such as visits to women in prison, who urge the girls to make good choices. Having lost her job during the recession, Pascha nonetheless continues to help fund the program herself while attending seminary. Today, Imagine Me provides group, peer, and individual mentoring. It has matched more than 50 caring women to girls (many of whom are in foster care) for long-term, one-on-one mentoring that encourages them to embrace a life of promise.
Pascha's wisdom shows in her request that the term "at-risk" not be used to label her girls. "We're all at risk," she says.
Shannon Thompson
Shakti Rising
San Diego, California
Shannon Thompson had it all. A high school leader, soccer player, and yearbook staffer headed to UCLA, she had told her mom she planned to be the first female president. But her plans changed abruptly and dramatically when substance abuse and an eating disorder sent her to rehab. She recovered but was stricken by how low the bar was set afterward—it was suggested that she might be able to swing high school graduation with a General Equivalency Diploma. "I was treated as if I had been damaged beyond repair," she recalls, "as if I no longer had dreams, ambition, and talent."
Ever since, she has focused on empowering other women. Shakti Rising, which she founded in 1999, is the culmination of those efforts. Shakti is the Sanskrit word for female energy. Her agency harnesses the power of women's empathy, creativity, and community-building through Transformational Recovery (achieving wellness after substance abuse or trauma), Educational and Community Wellness (cultivating healthy, purposeful living), and Transformation Through Service (developing leadership skills). It also provides a home for women in recovery. Shannon's holistic approach incorporates art and massage therapy, meditation, and yoga into Shakti Rising's healing repertoire. The organization changes the lives of more than 1,500 women and children a year, employing 10 staffers and relying on more than 300 volunteers to help 10 women in residence and 300 off-site.
"Fail forward" is Shannon's slogan. "When we get people together and unleash our leadership," she says, "I am astounded by what we are collectively capable of."


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Have you ever seen a yogi with a paunch? Yeah, I thought not. Yoga moves, like these yogi crunches — a variation of the popular boat pose — challenge the core muscles, giving practitioners flat abs and a supported back.
The crunches are demonstrated by Tamal Dodge, co-founder of Santa Monica's Yoga Collective and the yogi behind the "Element: Hatha & Flow Yoga for Beginners" DVD.
What it does
This super-effective exercise will work your core muscles from top to bottom. It's difficult — no question — but it gets results. Six-pack, here you come.
What to do
Start in a seated position with your knees bent and hands on the floor at your sides. Lean back slightly, bringing your knees into a tabletop position in front of you. Make sure your weight is over your sit bones. Inhale and straighten your legs and upper body as you lower down into a straight line with your arms at your sides, palms facing each other. Exhale and bring your knees back up to your chest at the same time you raise your upper body to meet it. If this is too difficult, you can modify the exercise by grasping your legs above your knees as you crunch.
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Hopefully just paper shit or it would be quite embarrassing if he has said anything,as if Sanchez would even think about coming here.The Allardyce one would be nearer the mark.
Shy kids don't get sweets, palWe need to be making approaches if we want anything. We asked Mourinho if he would be our manager, he took the United jobWe asked Rooney to come back, he didWe were close to both Giroud and Costa, but Girouds wife wears his kecks and Costa always wanted Atletico. If you don't ask though, then you don't get. Offer £60m and see what they say. He'd make my willy dribble if he came here.
Reminds me of when Blackburn were after Ronaldinho. 🙄
There's absolutely no chance of us signing Sanchez. We'd have to offer him about half a million a week for him to even spend a moment thinking about it.
There are no quotes there from Moshiri, so it's hardly him being a cringe bag.I saw a link in that article to us also wanting Sam Allardyce... So they're saying he's hugely ambitious in one article who also wants Fat Sam in another.It's just the usual paper bullshit that no one should take seriously.
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The Avengers is officially a record-shattering box office success - a film revered by millions of fans that even managed to impress a lot of those 'snobby critics' out there. Here at Screen Rant we gave the film a 4.5 out of 5 star review, and filled over an hour and a half of our Avengers Podcast Special with glowing praise for writer/director Joss Whedon's blockbuster Marvel superhero team-up. No doubt about it: Avengers is a monumental success on many levels.
However, it's important to remember the road that led to The Avengers as Marvel Studios enters the next phase of its shared movie universe, in the build up to The Avengers 2. A few years ago, we posed the question of whether the road to Avengers was being paved at the expense of the solo character films. Now that Avengers is here, we once again have to ask ourselves: was the big payoff worth the comprises in storytelling it took to get there?
To be clear: we're not going to debate the quality of The Avengers. Us giving the film a good review obviously says that we thought Joss Whedon and company did a good job. What we will do here is look back at Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor and Captain America, and identify which elements of those films were crucial to the story of The Avengers, and if each solo film was well-served by its inclusion in (and obligations to) a larger cinematic universe.
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Iron Man was the film that started it all. By earning a worldwide total of $585 million, it proved that even second-tier Marvel superheroes (i.e., not Spider-Man or Wolverine) had legitimate box office appeal. Iron Man also proved that Marvel Studios was indeed the best place for these heroes to be adapted for the big screen - in full accordance with their source material origins and mythos - instead of being tinkered with and altered, as some third-party studios had done (see: Fox's (mis-)handling of the X-Men movie franchise).
Of course, being released so early in the game - when Marvel's plan to build a cinematic universe was largely still a gamble married to a pipe dream - Iron Man was free from some of the pressures that its followers (including its own sequel) would inevitably face. After all, the most direct connections between IM and The Avengers are S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) and the brief post-credits "button scene," which revealed Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury - more of a fun nod to fans than the obligatory weaving of a larger mythos.
In the end, Iron Man was mostly left free to tell its own story: How an arrogant arms dealer is nearly destroyed by his own hubris, and must learn to use his talents for a greater good. As a standalone narrative it's complete and well-developed - even though it didn't even have a fully-formed script as it entered production. Thanks to star Robert Downey Jr.'s charisma and his ability to successfully collaborate with director Jon Favreau, Iron Man was more than just a solid story: It was a fun introduction to the Marvel Movie Universe.
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Smiths of Winterforge
Smiths of Winterforge is a board game for 2 to 5 players set in the heart of Winterforge (SOLO AND 6-PLAYER VARIANTS UNLOCKED). The six legendary guilds of Winterforge compete once more for the favour of the royal family. Hire your crew, hone your skills, and forge epic items to become the most renowned blacksmith in all of Winterforge!
Each turn, players travel throughout the great city of Winterforge. You have limited actions available; do you hire a crew and expand your capabilities, shop for exquisite raw materials, or try your hand at forging legendary items? The choice is yours.
Forging the best armour, weapons, and trinkets is the only way to win favour with the royal family. Plan your path to the forge carefully by patiently collecting only the highest quality materials, vastly improving your chances of success, or take a risk and rush in early in an attempt to outpace your rivals. The decision is up to you.
You don't have to do things alone. Boost your capabilities by hiring the right crew from the tavern, giving you unique skills and abilities. Tailor your guild to suit your playstyle and improve your chances of successfully crafting your Royal contract.
Out-wit, outpace and out-skill your rivals to earn the Royal Centenary Contract and become the most renowned blacksmith of Winterforge!
The Anvil pledge reward tier comes with a copy of Smiths of Winterforge:
From the beautifully illustrated game box to the epic quad-fold board, dice, wooden bits, punchboard tokens, and over a hundred cards, the Smiths of Winterforge box is packed full of awesome, high quality, components.
Every pledge also comes with 50 Kickstarter exclusive, limited edition custom designed metal coins. The Kickstarter exclusive reward will not be made available outside of the campaign, special events and conventions.
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Due to the size of this game, please contact us if you are from any for the following regions: South America, Russia, Ukraine, or if shipping for your country does not show up when you attempt to pledge.
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As with all our campaigns, we offer EU friendly shipping to our EU based backers (including add-ons). The shipping is a bit more expensive, but you're guaranteed not to get charged any additional fees such as VAT or other customs charges. Rewards will take a little longer to arrive since we ship everything to a European fulfilment company first.
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We want every reward to arrive in excellent condition. As such, every copy of Smiths of Winterforge will be pre-packed in a durable, custom, cardboard mailer box complete with corner protectors.
You've taken the time to support our campaign, and put your faith in us, so the least we can do is give your copy every chance of arriving unscathed.
Given that Smiths of Winterforge is a fairly large game—both in dimension and weight—there are going to be slightly different requirements, depending on your region, which can affect discounts we're able to offer. For anyone interested in group or retailer pledges, we'd ask that you please get in touch with us so we can work out pricing with you.
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Drawing from our experiences in the print industry and our previous campaigns, we know how to produce a high-quality game. We've set up manufacturing supply chains with several component manufacturers and are confident we can produce a top-notch product.
Shipping can add significant delays and costs, and much of the process is largely out of our control. To mitigate this, and improve delivery reliability as much as possible, we will be using a combination of fulfilment services. Most rewards will fulfil directly from China, however, we may choose to use fulfilment centres in UK, AUS, and USA, where appropriate.
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Aston Villa have confirmed goalkeeper Brad Guzan has signed a new four-year contract with the club.
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The American, 28, arrived at Villa Park in 2008 from Chivas and has recently established himself as the Villans' first-choice - earning an extension to his deal.
Guzan told the club's official website: "This is just the start now, the start of hard work. We have to build on last year and go forward and that is very much the collective mindset at the club.
"We grew together as a team last season and now it's time to kick on again. We'll welcome the new guys with open arms and allow them to join this special family that we've started to create from last season. It's an exciting time for the club for sure.
"When you bring in new players you have fresh bodies, fresh blood, fresh excitement and you need that to prevent things from becoming stale and guys getting complacent. You want competition for places, you want guys pushing each other and helping each other. When you bring in new faces it lifts everybody.
"For me, it's an honour and a privilege to play for Aston Villa Football Club and to commit my future long-term. I'm overjoyed by it.
"To have this opportunity to commit my future, with the plans and the future being what they are going forward, it's tremendously exciting and I know that's not just for me but for everybody, including the fans.
"This is what Aston Villa Football Club is all about, we're a very connected and very committed group and we want to strive to be the best we can possibly be going forward. What we're building here as a club, what the manager is building could be very special.
"From a personal standpoint, especially after last season playing consistently through virtually the entire season, hopefully now I'm coming in to some good years ahead and to be able to do that at Villa is exciting. It's going to be good times ahead.
"It's always nice when you're wanted by a club. I've had some good years here at Aston Villa and to be able to commit my future just puts a smile on my face. I'm looking forward to the future and to the challenge ahead."
Villa manager Paul Lambert added: "Brad has been exceptional for the club, really fantastic on and off the pitch.
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Cabin fever: Woods, wood define homestead
ADDRESS: 2854 Secretary's Road
NEIGHBORHOOD: Woodridge, Albemarle County
COUNTY ASSESSMENT: $251,100 ($173,500, under "land use" tax break)
YEAR BUILT: c. 1879
SIZE: 1,716 fin. sq. ft.
LAND: 48 acres
CURB APPEAL: 8.5 out of 10
LISTED BY: Jim Faulconer of McLean Faulconer Realtors, 295-1131
This house demonstrates how an 1870's log cabin can be updated while honoring the spirit and sensibilities of the original. The owners have significantly changed the structure over the past 25 years, but, interestingly, their approach to modernization seems to have more in common with the practices, mindset, and lifestyle of the first homesteaders than the approach of renovators who strive to preserve as much of an original structure as possible.
The owners and some friends did almost all the work, using wood and stone from the land and surrounding areas. Employing traditional rustic construction techniques, they shifted from one building project to the next, leaving loose ends and unfinished projects, and they were willing to add, tear down, or change things to suit their needs– undoubtedly characteristics of the original builders.
The original cabin consisted of a big single room with a loft above, and this room with a huge stone fireplace is still the center of the house. Chestnut logs have been cleaned to reveal their smoky patina, and the original daubing– said to have been a mix of dirt, hog's blood, and straw– has been replaced with whitish concrete. The loft has been converted into a modest bathroom and an open guest sleeping area snugged under the pitched roof.
A huge beam, at least 14 inches square, was taken from another part of the cabin to serve as a central ceiling beam reinforcing smaller beams supporting the floor above. The original 5.5-foot-high front door (with wooden hinges) now serves as a door to the upstairs bathroom. The extra-tall replacement front door has a large window that admits much-needed light, but the style jars in a log cabin.
The stone fireplace provides lots of heat, thanks to some creative improvements. The owner lined the firebox with three-inch-thick slabs of soapstone that capture and radiate heat efficiently. The same soapstone, from a quarry in Schuyler, is also used for floors.
On one side of this main room was space originally used an open-air kitchen covered by a lean-to roof supported by posts. The owners have kept that basic shape, but enclosed and expanded the room with stone walls and big windows to create one large kitchen/dining room/sunroom.
Off the back of the cabin, they almost doubled the size of the house by incorporating an old livestock pen to create a new bedroom of concrete block, Albemarle fieldstone, and lumber harvested on the property and cut at the nearby Red Brook sawmill.
The original exterior has been covered with "live-edge" cedar siding, a material with the bark and natural undulations of the tree's shape visible on its running edge. This rustic style is naturally resistant to insect and moisture damage, and it suits the building well. But it's a shame that it hides the beautiful dovetailed corners of the original logs.
The interior is almost entirely finished in wood paneling and trim of wormy maple, cedar, heart pine, cherry, walnut, and oak, and paint colors echo the colors of the wood.
But as might be expected in a do-it-yourself renovation, every room has at least one unfinished project: dangling wires in the downstairs closet, little gaps of insulation and unfinished walls throughout the house, and a questionable kitchen stove arrangement. Perhaps these are inevitable in an extensive project spanning 25 years.
The property sits atop a promontory in the middle of its 48 rolling, mostly forested acres surrounded by a couple of thousand acres of woods and fields, a slate-bottomed creek and a tiny waterfall. No other house intrudes on the solitude except the neighbor who shares the 1.5-mile gravel driveway.
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Through a series of tweets with the hashtag #Justice4Luna, the office led a social media campaign that included the tweets "HELP!!!" and "Why are you taking me? Why are you doing this? Nothing will ever be the same after this."
The Washington Post calls it "an eerily unorthodox campaign to resurrect the girl's story — by resurrecting the girl."
And while many seem to agree the tweets are disturbing, the social media response has been largely positive, with people thanking the department for trying to revive interest in the 33-year-old case.
The last time anyone saw her, Marjorie "Christy" Luna had slipped out of her house in a turquoise swimsuit and walked to Belk's General Store to buy cat food while her mother napped, reports the New York Daily News.
The Post reports authorities suspect Victor Wonyetye is responsible.
He was at a party in her neighborhood the day she went missing and soon moved to New Hampshire, where an 8-year-old girl went missing while walking to school.
He died in 2012 after being released from prison for indecent exposure and burglary, and inmates claim he admitted to killing both girls.
Canadian authorities used a similar social media campaign in the hopes of finding a girl who went missing in 1986 and say it brought information that made it "absolutely worthwhile." (This cold case has had numerous twists.)
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Replying to a WWF application under access-to-document law, the EU Council of Ministers (General Affairs) has today formally confirmed that it is "unable to identify" any written basis for agreeing Council conclusions.
Brussels - Replying to a WWF application under access-to-document law, the EU Council of Ministers (General Affairs) has today formally confirmed that it is "unable to identify" any written basis for agreeing Council conclusions.WWF strongly criticises this legal void, which has led to three vetoes by Poland over new EU policies between June 2011 and June 2012. Further development of 2050 low-carbon economy and energy roadmaps has thus been held-up, and elsewhere the EU position in UN negotiations has been watered down.
"Citizens deserve to know why the Council has silenced itself on the fight against climate change", said Jason Anderson, Head of Climate & Energy at WWF's European Policy Office. "The arctic ice sheet now appears to be melting faster than our politicians can make crucial decisions. It's not acceptable that ministers work outside the treaty and rules-based system that ought to be the basis of European progress."
In today's decision, ministers told WWF that "after a thorough enquiry" the Council "is unable to identify" a document describing the basis on which it adopts conclusions. (Link to the WWF application and the Council reply in the public register.)
However, in contrast, the EU treaties state that the Council "shall act by a qualified majority" both for general measures (Article 16 TEU) and in particular "throughout the procedure" when entering into new international agreements such as those under United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (Article 218 TFEU).
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Scientific Committee to Evaluate PseudoSkeptic Criticism of the Paranormal
Debunking Pseudoskepticism: Common fallacies on ET/UFO
Discussion about UFO's, Aliens, ET's, Alien Abductions, Ancient Astronaut theories, etc.
Re: Debunking Pseudoskepticism: Common fallacies on ET/UFO
Since you chose to bad mouth me I bet you can't name the mathematical case in which there are 2 possible outcomes for a probabilistic event. Can you do that without doing a search? Can you calculate the expected variance of such an event?
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Re: Debunking Pseudoskepticism: Common fallacies on ET/UFO
Nostradamus, you are playing with semantics now. The first escape clause for
somebody losing an argument. If they find they are losing an argument, they start
quibbiling over the language.
On coins and probability. No, your original argument was that the probability of something
can be found by tossing the coin, in order to demonstrate your argument that something can
be shown to be probable by increasing the sample size. When I said that no amont of repeat
instances will make anything more probable or likely. As the coin tossing demonstrates that the
only two outcomes are heads or tails and the probability in an ideal coin will be 50% on every trial.
It does not increase or decrease by any observations of repeat instances.
Relating it back to the earth like planets discussion, if we find 5 earth like planets or 500 earth like
planets we cannot know the probability of life. One can only know the probability of something if they
know the possible outcomes. In the case of the coin the outcomes are 1/2 for head or tail, in the case
of 6 sided dice, the outcome are 1/6 for any number. Since, as we do not understand how life happens,
how can we determine any probabilty of life? Therefore your suggestion that this can be done by frequency
is absurd, because that commits the same fallacy of trying to find out the probability of something through
the amount of times an instance appears. If does not matter how many times a coin tossed produces shows
up heads, even 1 million times in a row, the probability of it turning up heads on the next trial is still 50%.
Now, briging this back to the next issue of induction in a scientific experiment. Again you are quibbling over the
meaning of "confirmation", "truth" and "validation" You say that an experimental trial "validates" a theory. Then
say this is not the same as saying it is true? To say something is valid means you are saying it has truth-value.
So you are actually saying it is true lol
What you should be saying is what modern philosophy of science says, "No scientific trial ever confirms a scientific theory,
only shows that the theory has been yet to be falsified" This means there is no verification/validation/confirmation
or what other word you want to play with. Newtonian physics was experimentally tested over centuries. Does this establish
that Newtonian physics is confirmed/validated/verified or made more probable? No, because it then shown to be wrong by
General relativity. So what this shows us that no amount of experimental trials or repeat observations will ever establish a rule.
And I am flattered you think this is my logic, but this in fact the logical work of one of the most celebrated philosophers and
logicians of 20th century, Karl Popper. If you want to dispute him, you better do better than, "No, its weak" lol
Re: Debunking Pseudoskepticism: Common fallacies on ET/UFO
That's simply wrong. Your claim of a 50% outcome is a theoretical claim, not an empirical claim. It is an arbitrary assignment. It is a property that you have chosen to assign. Just as science cannot know for sure about something you cannot know for sure that this arbitrary assignment of yours is related to real events. To claim otherwise is a failure to understand how science works. Your insistence that a coin toss must be fair or result in a uniform probability for all of the outcomes is a misunderstanding of probabilities.
What this means is that you have a very poor understanding of math. You have a poor understanding of probabilities.
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Re: Debunking Pseudoskepticism: Common fallacies on ET/UFO
Nope. I am talking about probabability in mathematics, where one sets probability based on possible outcomes.
You are the one trying to apply mathematics to empirical science, by making the absurd claim that one can show
something is probable in the real world based on the frequency of instances.
Mathematics does not apply to the real world, because mathematics is purely theoretical. It sounds like even you
are accepting this now as you are starting to accept that science cannot know anything certainly and that probability
cannot be applied to real events. Thank god the penny has dropped(heads or tails?) lol
So therefore you are back to my challenge you either reject science and all inferences, including the inference that
other minds exist because they are inductions, or you accept my argument that earth like planets have life(including intelligent life)
on them. Both work on the basis of inducing a conclusion from particular to universal.
You can either be inconsistent or reject science.
Re: Debunking Pseudoskepticism: Common fallacies on ET/UFO
Again, this is an arbitrary property that you have assigned and that does not have to be the case.
Again, this is all nonsense based on your rather rudimentary understanding of stochastic processes. You have assigned a probability to be 0.5, yet the evidence is that is NOT correct.
This is obviously stagnating on your ignorance of mathematics, probabilities, the scientific process, sampling, and who knows what else.
Maybe you need to take a basic class in science and logic. It wouldn't hurt for you to learn that a fact is not necessarily true. We can never know if something is true. That's an ideal separate from what we observe.
When a scientific idea is confirmed it means that more support exists to believe that something is true.
It's not necessarily true. When you state
I get to chuckle out loud.
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Re: Debunking Pseudoskepticism: Common fallacies on ET/UFO
How stunningly inane.
Another inane comment.
A final inane comment.
Where do dream up this drivel? You can't understand even rudimentary probabilities.
What it all boils down to is this really, really stupid game.
1. Something happened once.
2. The universe is big
3. It happened more than once
Okey, dokey.
Any evidence posted anywhere? No, unless you include the Noetic Institute, which is a group choosing to avoid the peer review process.
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Re: Debunking Pseudoskepticism: Common fallacies on ET/UFO
At the risk of being reprimanded by the mods, I am going to ask you, are you an idiot?
The probability of a coin landing head or tails is 50% or 1/2, because there are only two outcomes.
Are you serious you are a matematician? I am truly astonished you are contesting this with me lol
From mathforum.com:
Yawn, from wiki:
You have no idea how ridiculous you look right now
Re: Debunking Pseudoskepticism: Common fallacies on ET/UFO
I just want to make an observation based on this debate. I have long noted that whenever you engage
in a discussion with a pseudoskeptic, the quality and tone of a discussion is always downgraded with
stupid and ignorant statements like "the probability of a coin landing heads or tails is not 50%" and "
scientific theories are confirmed" and relentless adhominems.
I would like to say thank Nostradamus for being a living example of pseudoskepticism, and showing
us what is exactly wrong with pseudoskepticism and why it needs to be dealt with and removed from
intelligent discussion on paranormal matters. Nothing is contributed by pseudoskeptics to any discussion,
their arguments are just an endless list of logical fallacies.
Re: Debunking Pseudoskepticism: Common fallacies on ET/UFO
I ask the mods to step back for a second.
Only an idiot would say that. How stupid can somebody be about math to say this? They have to utterly and completely stupid. I mean how dense does somebody have to be. It boggles the mind. Why are you assigning the same probability to the events? Only an idiot thinks this is the only outcome. I am amazed at the overwhelming lack of education displayed by this statement after I have repeatedly stated this is not necessary.
Please go get an education and learn some basic mathematics.
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Re: Debunking Pseudoskepticism: Common fallacies on ET/UFO
Did you see the title of the web page "Probability in the Real World". This simplistic web page offers a solution for the naive person and is not a general solution. What yo
Sorry, but learn something. A discrete bimodal event can have any probability p with the counterpart event having a probability of 1-p. This type of distribution is common with uniform probabilities exhibited when the value of p=0.5.
Do you realize how lame you are?
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Re: Debunking Pseudoskepticism: Common fallacies on ET/UFO
So after your pointless commentary you still have been unable to provide anything but a lame claim to life outside the earth
What it all boils down to is this inane claim with no supporting evidence:
1. Something happened once.
2. The universe is big
3. It happened more than once
Do you realize how weak your argument is? Do you have any evidence to support your position? So far you have avoided supporting any of your arguments.
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I think we can safely saying at this point you are beyond reason lol
So far I have cited two maths sources which have confirmed the probability
of heads or tails on any trial is 50%. You say it isn't. If you're a mathmatician,
I am an astronaut
Anyway you long lost the debate with me pal. Do yourself a favour read a book
on probability(maths), quantum physics(physics) and philosophy of science(philosophy)
In short get an education.
If you are actually going to be prove me wrong and actually show me you are capable of
being reasonable then stop with the ceaseless adhominems, and actually engage the
arguments. There are 3 arguments we have looked at so far, which I have backed by
strong argument.
1) The argument of induction to show that earth like planets have life
2) The teleological argument that shows that the function of earth like planets is to support life
3) The probability argument that shows that it impossible that no other planet would have life in the universe.
Here is what you need to show.
1) You need to show my induction is invalid and remain consistent with other inductions you accept as valid(gravity, mind)
2) You need to show how it can be at all possible to have coherence between organic matter, inorganic matter and mind, and
disprove studies which show that ones biology actually transforms in relation to ones environment(epigenetics)
3) You need to show why it is reasonable to accept and take seriously the idea that Earth, out of a estimated 40 billion
trillion planets would be the only planet to have life on it.
Re: Debunking Pseudoskepticism: Common fallacies on ET/UFO
You referred to 2 articles directed at children offering simplified math you could understand.
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Re: Debunking Pseudoskepticism: Common fallacies on ET/UFO
You have not made any strong arguments for life on other planets. You have provided no evidence for your claims.
Your teleological claim is not based on any evidence.
The probability argument doe snot make it impossible.
1. You need to show evidence that life can exist outside of the earth
2. You need to show evidence for your teleological claims
3. You need to show evidence that any of these planets can support life
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Re: Debunking Pseudoskepticism: Common fallacies on ET/UFO
On the contrary I have provided a lot of logical arguments and evidence. You have simply chosen
to pretend no evidence has been offered and failed to engage in any discussion on points being
made. From the very start you have simply asserted something is wrong, without giving any reason
for why it is wrong. I am starting to think you are a troll. I am not going to waste my time.
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As some kind folks here have pointed out, shading of the panels can be an issue. Even a little shade from vents or air conditioners pretty much removes the panel, and anything connected in series with it, from the array. The panels I chose have 3 bypass diodes, which, IIUC, means the panel is divided into 3 areas. Shading will remove only the portion of the panel that is shaded from the array. As I chose 'high voltage' panels, I did not need to put them in series to provide the optimum input voltage to the Outback FM80 MPPT solar controller, which likes about 40V input to do its job. If one panel is shaded, only it is removed from the array, and then only if the whole thing is shaded...........So here is my installation thus far using 6 x 205 watt Mexican panels. I will add to this thread as installation continues.First two pictures is the roof before I started doing anything.
Hope you're going to put a meter on one of those panels to see the output... I'm guessing the diodes may knock that back a bit
Don't you just love looking at the output of an MPPT controller that's converting volts to amps. (http://www.rvforum.net/SMF_forum/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
50 amps per hour is great Frank, and I'm quite sure it's significantly more than your consumption.
Just remember that the US/Canadian exchange rate is about 1.275 to 1 right now, so you're not going to get as much sunshine up there as you will down here. (http://www.rvforum.net/SMF_forum/Smileys/default/cool.gif)
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Corporate reports kept U.S. stock markets humming this week.
Microsoft, IBM, Chrysler and Apple posted strong numbers in their quarterly reports, the latter two showing surprising gains.
Chrysler reported a profit of $474 million, more than four times its earnings in the same quarter a year earlier. Apple Inc. said revenues soared to $39.2 billion and quarterly net profit hit $11.6 billion, nearly double last year's $6 billion profit from January through March.
Tellingly, international sales accounted for 64 percent of the quarter's revenue and there is no end in sight for the popularity of tablet devices, a mainstay in Apple's repertoire.
With numbers that are nothing short of staggering, Apple said it sold 35 million iPhones and 12 million iPads in the first quarter. But then there are more staggering numbers ahead.
Futuresource Consulting, an independent research firm, said global tablet sales would hit 232 million by 2016 with a 200 percent increase in the United States and Europe.
What had been 13 million consumers using a tablet at least once a month has jumped to 75.6 million, eMarketer said.
The corner bookstore is headed for museum status. By 2016, researchers predict, 70 percent of all book sales will be in digital form. Welcome to tomorrow.
Given all the above, one might expect that every other person walking down Main Street would be carrying a tablet.
One might expect Apple would be applying for permission to build a factory in your hometown.
But that's not the case quite yet. Apple produced huge sales gains in China in the first quarter and, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, jobs are on the way. They're just not on their way to the United States.
Analyzing corporate reports, the Journal said 35 huge U.S. corporations beat other U.S. employers in the pace of hiring in the past two years -- utterly stunning news given Labor Department reports that, month after month, show small businesses adding the huge majority of U.S. jobs while mid-sized firms have added considerably less. Firms with more than 500 employees have added a negligible number of U.S. jobs.
Seventy-five percent of the jobs added by multinational corporations were overseas, the Journal said.
Let's name names. In 2009-2011, the size of payrolls at Walmart Stores Inc., International Paper Co., Honeywell International Inc. and United Parcel Service Inc. grew 3.1 percent on the addition of 113,000 jobs, the Journal said.
But overseas, they added 333,000 jobs in the same period.
Walmart, to focus on one firm, hired an additional 100,000 workers in 2011, but the size of its payroll has been stagnant in the United States since 2007.
The moral of the story is clear. Spelled out by UPS spokesman Norman Black: "This is a business you can only go so far with technology. At a certain point, when volume starts to climb, we do add people," he said.
With all those tablets to deliver, a UPS prerequisite for many drivers may be the ability to read road signs in Chinese.
In international markets Friday, the Nikkei 225 index in Japan shed 0.43 percent and the Shanghai composite index in China lost 0.35 percent. The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong lost 0.33 percent and the Sensex in India was flat, up 0.02 percent.
The S&P/ASX 200 in Australia gave up 0.19 percent.
In midday trading in Europe, the FTSE 100 index in Britain rose 0.22 percent while the DAX 30 in Germany rose 0.13 percent. The CAC 40 in France added 0.43 percent and the Stoxx Europe 600 rose 0.32 percent.


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On a cold day in February, i caught one of the luckiest breaks in my life.
My partner Chip and I had just landed a large installation project for a new restaurant chain that was building several locations throughout our city, Nashville, Tennessee. However, at that time, our company consisted of only two men, just Chip and I. We had recently started the business, and were firmly in our infancy and eager to prove ourselves in the landscape industry on this larger scale project. In that moment, we did not have the manpower to complete such a project on time.
The long-term implications of this project were huge for our young company. We knew that if we performed well on this project, there would be opportunities for several more in the months to come.
Chip and I called everyone we knew; I called friends of mine from high school, and he called friends of his from his rodeo days (yes, he had spent the previous ten years of his life on the Pro Rodeo circuit). On the first day of the project, I vividly recall a feeling of disappointment and some panic when I realized the ragtag army of men we had assembled at the last minute was the landscapers' version of the Bad News Bears.
These men had little to no experience, and also had left their work ethic at the house where it was warm. Chip and I worked as hard as we could to make up the slack, and pushed the motley crew as hard as possible, but it was like pushing on a string. Ultimately, with the restaurant opening in less than 48 hours, it was painfully obvious that we were not going to finish the project on time. I remember sitting in the truck with Chip, talking about the gravity of the situation. As we warmed up with the truck heater on, we shared a laugh. These men were so lazy that all we could do was chuckle; we even named one "the rodeo clown." The laughter turned to seriousness when the realization set in that we probably were not going to finish on time.
Chip and I always had a bias towards action, so we picked up the shovels again and returned to work. It was in that moment that one of the biggest breaks in my business life occurred. An older Hispanic gentleman walking down the sidewalk approached me. He spoke very little English; however, my high school Spanish classes quickly helped me understand that he was asking if we had any work. Yes! We needed help. "Do you need any more men?" he asked. "Yes—at least ten," Chip and I blurted in unison.
His name was Olvido, and when he later returned with able-bodied men eager to go to work, I could have kissed him. Within an hour, I quickly came to observe that these were exceptionally hardworking men who viewed their work and this project very seriously. We paid the Bad News Bears that night and let them know they could enjoy the rest of the week in their comfortable, toasty warm homes. Olvido and his amigos saved Chip and I from certain landscaper humiliation; with their help, the project was delivered, complete and on time. It was a miracle; they were the miracle.
Respect is not given, it is earned. Those men earned my respect and showed me what a dedicated, serious work ethic looks like. From that day forward, I had an affinity for Hispanic team members.
Based on our performance on that project, our company earned the opportunity to provide the installation for the landscape and irrigation for fifteen additional restaurants throughout the Tennessee region. This initial surge of workload in the early days of our company proved to be instrumental to our success in building an organization from scratch. Had it not been for Olvido and his friends and family, we would not have even been in the game, and certainly would not have progressed onto stages of real company building.
It was in those early years of our organization that I decided to learn the Spanish language in its entirety, and form our company as a multicultural workplace. In hindsight, this was a smart move, as our Hispanic-based team members proved to be some of the most loyal, hardworking men I have ever had the pleasure to work with. The consistency of our operating core served as a long lasting, sustainable competitive advantage for our company. We enjoyed zero employee turnover and a work force with a craftsman mindset, which afforded us the enjoyment of beating the pants off our competition.
So how do you foster a multicultural workplace to build a sustainable, competitive advantage?
Show respect. The Hispanic culture is prideful. I learned early on that many of the men who worked for our company were smarter than I was in many ways, and I let them know it every chance I got. We regularly recognized and applauded team members who excelled.
Make it feel like home. Many of our men were temporary guest workers on the H-2B visa program; they came to the states temporarily for eight to ten months at a time. Many were coming to America for the first time. We held monthly cookouts, grilling foods that they loved (it only took me a few parties to realize that they hated pizza). We hung huge, beautiful flags in our shop representing Guatemala, Mexico, and America. We also held weekly meetings in Spanish. Our culture was authentically influenced by their heritage.
Celebrate the victories happening back home. It is no secret that most Hispanic workers send most of their money back to their homeland to support their families there. Many of our long-tenured team members were able to build houses, farms with livestock, ranches, and stores. We loved that. We would hang pictures of these victories on the walls in the shop and office for everyone to see and celebrate. This, ultimately, became the reason why we excelled as a company.
Above all, be a diverse family. Our company was one big family. We would go to soccer games together, fall festivals, and weekly breakfasts. We implemented a program to provide interest-free, flexible loans to team members for cars, family emergencies, and even houses. It was a no-brainer, because it felt like helping a family member.
A strong multicultural workplace is achieved over many years of leading your organization with an authentic, intentional disposition to care about your people. This stuff is easy to do and can come naturally when you bridge the cultural gap, by having empathy for your people and by really caring about them and their success. As a green industry entrepreneur, you need to focus on the success and fulfillment of your people by recognizing and leveraging the cultural differences. Over time, you will earn loyalty, and the byproduct will be your company's success. It's also extremely exciting to be a part of something so magical.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Bryan Clayton is a former landscape industry entrepreneuer, and co-founder of GreenPal.