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August 7, 2008 – by Barry Cauchon.
August 6 – 9 marks the 63rd anniversary of the bombing of Japan with two atomic bombs which effectively ended the Pacific War and World War II between the Japanese and the Allies.
When the United States made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Monday, August 6, 1945, the hope was that this action would end the war. The bomb, nicknamed "Little Boy", was dropped by the B-29 Superfortress bomber Enola Gay. And although it took a second atomic bomb to force Japan to surrender, the Enola Gay's name has gone down in history as the plane that was responsible for ending WWII.
But the crew of the Enola Gay only dropped the first bomb. Three days later, on Thursday, August 9, a second atomic bomb, this one nicknamed "Fat Man" was dropped on Nagasaki. The B-29 that delivered this, the final blow to the Japanese, was known as Bockscar.
Bockscar was part of the same squadron as the Enola Gay, the 393d Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, of the 509th Composite Group (USAAF). It was named after its commander Captain Frederick C. Bock who, along with his crew C-13, participated in several bombing runs on Japan prior to the events that occurred in early August, 1945.
Originally, The Great Artiste commanded by Major Charles W. Sweeney was the plane scheduled to drop the second atomic bomb. Sweeney and his crew C-15 had previously flown The Great Artiste with the Enola Gay on her flight to Hiroshima on August 6, carrying instrumentation to record and support the mission. Upon their return Sweeney and his crew began to prepare for their turn. The next mission was planned for August 11 but due to a poor weather forecast, the commanders decided to move the attack up by two days, setting a new date of August 9. Sweeney and his crew had been doing training runs in Captain Bock's plane Bockscar while The Great Artiste was to have its instruments removed and installed in another plane. However, when the mission date moved forward, it did not give the ground crews enough time to do the transfer, so it was decided that Sweeney and Bock would switch planes. Hence, Bock and his crew flew The Great Artiste in a support role on the mission and Sweeney and his crew, aboard Bockscar, became the primary unit to drop the second atomic bomb on Japan.
The primary target for the August 9 bombing mission was the industrial city of Kokura. However, when the Bockscar arrived over the city with Fat Man ready to be deployed, the crew found that visibility over the city was obscured by clouds and smog. Sweeney's orders were specific in that the atomic bomb had to be dropped visually on the target. Failing to spot their target after passing over Kokura three times, Sweeney decided to proceed to the secondary target of Nagasaki. At 11:02am, Fat Man, the atomic bomb with 14.1 lbs of plutonium-239, was dropped. The bomb detonated about 43 seconds later at an altitude of about 1,540 feet above the ground. Approximately 40% of Nagasaki was destroyed.
Although Fat Man was considered a more powerful bomb than Little Boy, the hilly terrain helped to deaden the destruction whereas Hiroshima was flat and open and thus suffered much greater devastation. What twist of fate saved the people of Kokura and yet doomed so many citizens of Nagasaki?
It's also known that many survivors of the Hiroshima bombing made their way to Nagasaki only to experience the second terrifying explosion all over again. Many of them did not survive the second time.
The overall death toll from these attacks was astounding. Not only did people die from the initial bomb blasts, but later died from burns, injuries or radiation poisoning. In Hiroshima, a city estimated with a population of about 350,000 people, over 70,000 died in the blast itself with estimates ranging from 70,000 to 130,000 potentially dying within the next 5 years. In Nagasaki, a city of 270,000 citizens, approximately 70,000 people died by the end of 1945.
It is hard for us, in this day of global cooperation and unity, to imagine how such destructive acts could have been implemented. But 63 years ago, a bitter war was raging and no mercy could be shown to the enemy, especially when the memories of Pearl Harbor were still so fresh in people's minds. The Bockscar and her crew were part of this history, whether morally right or wrong. She did the job she was sent out to do and accomplished her mission. But history has almost forgotten her involvement and the Enola Gay still takes the spotlight.
Forgotten (by the masses), but not gone, the Bockscar lives on to this day.
In 1961, Bockscar was restored and put on permanent display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force Museum at Wrights-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Signage near the plane states "The aircraft that ended WWII". Never has a statement been more true. But alas, the notoriety for dropping the atomic bomb that ended the war still goes to her sister ship, the famous Enola Gay.
This link will take you to the National Museum of the United States Air Force Museum. Hit it and type in Bockscar in the search bar.
Here is the list of the 13 airmen who flew on the Bockscar on that historic mission 63 years ago and truly, ended World War II.
Crew C-15 of the Bockscar
- Major Charles Sweeney, Commander
- Captain Charles Donald Albury, Co-Pilot
- 2nd Lieutenant Fred Olivi, Third Pilot
- Captain James Van Pelt, Jr., Navigator
- Captain Raymond "Kermit" Beahan, Bombardier
- Master Sergeant John Kuharek, Flight Engineer
- Sergeant Raymond Gallagher, Assistant Flight Engineer
- Staff Sergeant Ed Buckley, Radar Operator
- Sergeant Abe Spitzer, Radio Operator
- Staff Sergeant Albert Dehart, Tail Gunner
Additional Mission Crew on board August 9, 1945
- Cmdr. Frederick L. Ashworth (USN), Weaponeer
- Lt. Philip Barnes (USN), Assistant Weaponeer
- 2nd Lt. Jacob Beser, Radar Countermeasures
Be sure to read "An Awesometalk With" ROBERT KRAUSS, 509TH COMPOSITE GROUP HISTORIAN. This was an interview I did with Mr. Krauss and it will give you a really great insight into the 509th and the men that participated in the group and their missions.
Also, take a look at Mr. Krauss' book "The 509th Remembered" which you can find on his website at www.enolagay509th.com . If you do order one, please tell him that you saw it here so he can track where people are hearing about his book.


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'UPFRONT with Mike Gousha' recap for Oct. 21
-- The leaders of the Wisconsin Senate touted their parties' fall election chances on "UPFRONT with Mike Gousha."
Majority Leader Mark Miller believes Democrats will easily hold onto their majority. Miller, D-Monona, said two important districts are worth watching: the open 12th in northern Wisconsin, and the 18th, where Jessica King, D-Oshkosh, is seeking re-election. "Our polls show she has a comfortable lead on her opponent," Miller said on the show, produced in conjunction with WisPolitics.com.
He said the 12th Senate District features a three-way race with a libertarian in the mix. "It has been a seat that has been represented by Democrats in the state Senate since 1983 and Barack Obama carried that in 2008," he said of the seat now held by retiring Sen. Jim Holperin, D-Conover.
On the other hand, Senate Republican leader Scott Fitzgerald said the Republicans will take back the majority and probably by more than one seat. "I don't think there is any doubt Tom Tiffany is going to win the 12th Senate seat," the Juneau Republican said.
"Right now we are looking for the 18th or even 19th seat, and that could come down to the 30th Senate seat and which is in Green Bay as well," Fitzgerald said. "So it's a pretty wide open field."
-- Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette University Law School Poll, was also on the program to explain the shifts in polling data.
In polls after the first presidential debate, the race between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama tightened dramatically.
Persuadable voters are shaping the polls. Franklin defined this class of voters: "At the moment they will tell you I think I will vote for Romney or I think I will vote for Obama. But if you talk to them a couple of weeks later they may have changed their minds. Not because they are fickle, but because events have occurred."
According to Franklin, undecided voters only make up 3 percent to 5 percent of the voters, 7 percent to 15 percent of voters are persuadable.
-- And WISN-TV reporter Kent Wainscott and Wisconsin Public Radio's Shawn Johnson talked about the negative U.S. Senate race between Tommy Thompson and Tammy Baldwin.
"They were on the attack almost in each other's face on several occasions," Wainscott said of last week's debate. The third debate, this Friday at Marquette Law School, is co-sponsored by UpFront, WisPolitics.com and WISN-TV.
According to Wainscott, both candidates have been successful in redefining the other's image. Baldwin paints Thompson as not for Wisconsin anymore and Thompson accuses Baldwin of being too liberal for Wisconsin.
"I think it has just been a conscience decision by them that this is how they win," Johnson said of the Senate race. "They tear down the other candidate."
Added Johnson: "It is interesting they both use healthcare to get there. Tommy Thompson has gone after Tammy Baldwin because of the federal health care law and the statements she has made in the past that she would actually like to go farther than federal healthcare law.
"Tammy Baldwin has also gone after Thompson on healthcare and has decided to talk about it on a different playing field: Medicare Part D."
--Mike Gousha says an analysis from NBCNews.com shows that of the top 10 markets for campaign TV ad spending, two of them are in Wisconsin, with the Green Bay market No. 1.

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Over a year ago, my Princess started exhibiting strange behavior at meal times. It was unbearable for her to be around any one that was eating. She would either run down the hallway to her room screaming with her ears plugged and slam the door or she would fall to the ground and hold her ears while she sobbed. She has always been quite dramatic and so we started punishing her for this behavior...which only seemed to make things worse. We didn't know what else to do and we thought it was a behavioral issue that we needed to nip in the butt.
As the weeks went by, her sensitivity only seemed to get worse. Not only did her outbursts happen when someone was chewing, but it was also when someone came down with a runny nose. The sniffing and stuffy breathing sent her through the roof. It also was happening when someone would clink their spoon or fork on their bowl or plate.
At her nine year appointment, I brought it up to her pediatrician to see what he had to say about it. I was disappointed when he had no answers but rather referred her to a psychiatrist. I will admit, we are all a little crazy in this family, but I know my Princess is not a headcase. The thought of taking her to someone and her having that label was not a route I was willing to take. I needed answers before anything else. Why was she acting this way?
So, in the days that followed, I turned to the Internet. I wouldn't always recommend doing this, but in this particular case, I found the answer I was looking for : Misophonia...which literally means - "the hatred of sound". I found article upon article and several blogs that seemed to be describing my Princess to a "t".
Misophonia is defined as a neurological disorder in which negative experiences (anger, flight, hatred, disgust) are triggered by specific sounds. Although I was encouraged to have answers as to "what", it was discouraging to read about how this disorder effects a persons every day life. I didn't understand all of the "hows" or "whys" but it gave me the little understanding that I needed.
At the start of dinner, I looked around the table and said, "Everyone, I would like to welcome a guest to our table tonight." It was a little bit of a joke, but there was a lot of truth. It's been a long time since we were five around the table.
It may be a fluke. It may not happen again for another few weeks, months, maybe even a year. I am trying not to get my hopes up...but, I had to celebrate this little victory tonight...so I baked a loaf of apple cinnamon bread...and hopefully we can all eat it in the same room.


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A Tale of Two Schools in Hawaii
Nanakuli High and Intermediate School. Moanalua High School. Both of these public schools have big reputations, good and bad. We spent time on each campus to find out what they're really like. It may surprise you.
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2012 Grading the Public Schools Chart
"Don't leave for recess until you think of something to protest," hollers Dennis Tynan over the chatter of 50 tenth graders. No, Tynan isn't trying to incite a school riot. Rather, in small groups, his students need to come up with something, anything, to protest for their next humanities class project: Occupy American Studies.
The sophomores sit grouped at tables. Every student wears a gold T-shirt, emblazoned with the school's mascot, a hawk; it's their school uniform. In front of them are black, 13-inch Toshiba laptops, used to research and create their projects. Next to the classroom's whiteboard is a poster with the Batman logo; below it reads, "Be a Hero."
This is Nanakuli High and Intermediate School's New Tech Academy, the school's innovative project-based learning model. They are early adopters; the academy is supposed to include all Nanakuli high-school students by school year 2013-2014.
For more than a decade, HONOLULU Magazine has scrutinized Hawaii's public education system, and ranked the schools using DOE data. Year after year, Hawaii state assessment scores and school surveys show a wide performance gap. We wanted to spend time in two of Oahu's high schools to explore why that might be, to see what life is like, for students, teachers and administrators. Nanakuli, for instance, has an islandwide reputation as a rough school in a rough, low-income neighborhood. Start typing "Nanakuli" in the YouTube search box and the first suggestions that appear are "Nanakuli fights" and "Nanakuli riots." But the school is more than the on-campus fights, its students are more than they've been stereotyped to be and not all of its teachers give up and leave. Not that the school doesn't face big challenges.
We also went 23 miles east and visited Moanalua High School, another public school with a reputation, albeit a more positive one. The school is perhaps best known for its prestigious orchestra and symphony, and its high-achieving students. We wanted to know, why is Moanalua well ranked and why does Nanakuli struggle?
What's Working: New Tech Academy
It's 8 a.m. on a sunny Tuesday at Nanakuli. The sprawling campus, with the Waianae Mountains as its backdrop, has undergone recent, modest renovations. Inside the round, one-story E Building, most New Tech students are in their classrooms staring at their computer screens.
In 2010, Kamehameha Schools granted $1.4 million to provide teacher training and support to get New Tech—part of the national New Tech Network—off the ground, at both Nanakuli and Waianae High School. So far, among its participating students, attendance has skyrocketed to 98 percent and the ninth-grade failure rate has dropped 15 percent from the 2009-2010 school year. Right now, it's the most concrete example of Hawaii's Race to the Top reforms in progress at the school level. (Race to the Top is a federal education initiative: In 2010, the Hawaii DOE was awarded $75 million over four years, for several statewide initiatives.)
How does project-based learning work? It's markedly different from traditional teaching, or "sage on the stage," as teachers call it. Many teachers were wary of the model at first, says Tynan, including himself. Instead of students listening to a lecture, scribbling notes and taking tests to show they retained—or memorized—the content, they learn by working in groups on workshops and projects as well as individual assignments.
"For the vast majority of kids, I don't think they retained the content anyway from my traditional teaching," says Tynan. "Whereas, with project-based learning, what I see with kids is they really retain the content … I see it from project to project."
These projects require extensive teacher planning. "You have to be communicating constantly," says Kim Coleman, who teaches American Studies together with Tynan. Coleman and her colleagues mold each project around what students need to learn in their core subjects by using DOE education benchmarks. The teachers also meet every Thursday. "This is something that never happened when I was in the traditional classroom."
Want to read more of our education coverage from May 2012? Check out the links below.
Video Q&A with Don Horner and Kathryn Matayoshi
From Iolani School to Moanalua High School: A Parents' Tale
Q&A: How is the DOE helping poor-performing schools?
Q&A: Why don't all public schools have midterms and final exam weeks?
Q&A: Why don't student representatives get a vote?
Q&A: What do schools have in place to ensure communication with parents?
Q&A: Kamehameha Schools Focuses on Public Schools Along the Waianae Coast


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Photos of Deers in the deer rehabilitation centre from the forests of Thenmala/ Kollam/ Kerala/ India. This deer park of Thenmala is a distant part of Thenmala eco tourism and is built within the Kallada river side forest. Apart from various varieties of deers what you can see interesting here is a Tree House and a small Childrens park with some ecologically blended resting places.
Various walking routes into the forests can be seen and if you a group of people with plenty of time to spend here no harm in walking into the park forests. What you will witness for sure in these forests in big trees of the western ghats and most of them with a name board fixed by the park authorities, So that you won't end up disappointed thinking of what tree this can be.
In the deer park you can see Barking Deer (Kezha Maan in Malayalam), Sambar Deer (Mlave), Spotted deer[Chittal, Cheetal, Axis deer, Pulli Maan in Malayalam].
The forest in deer rehabilitation centre is a collection of huge trees and many of them are having interesting trunk shapes. The deers are fenced inside the forested land and you can walk around the fence and watch for the deers. Deer herds can be seen around the water tanks near to the fencings. Am giving you some photos of the deers we saw here within our limited time we spent in this deer rehabilitation centre.The info about deers given here are obtained from the tourist info board fixed at some places of the deer park.
This will be the first deer you will witness coming into the park. Even though its a lifeless sculpture, it stands tall over a big rock there in the park as a monument of a spotted deer once lived here. The dead deer was that special to the people taking care of deers here to make a deer sculpture monument.
The tourist info board below the deer sculpture says it is for the memory of a deer named Krishnan. The male spotted deer was bought to the centre in 1999 at the age of 5. Krishnan remained as the main attraction of Thenmala Ecotourism deer park for 10 years. The antlers in the deer statue are the original antlers of the stag. After spending a decade of royal life in the banks of River Kallada, he took his last breath on 27 October 2009.
You have to take your right turn from this statue and walk along the side of the deer park fencing and watch for the deers. What about a walk with me now. I will show you the deers i saw inside the park fences.
A spotted deer with two others, may be some among the barking deers or samba deers in the park. The deers are seen eating something from the feeding tanks. Water and extra food other than what they can get from the park forests are given in small concrete tanks like this. Most of the tanks are built near to the park's fencing thereby helping tourists to get a sight of the deers.
As per the tourist information boards in the park, giving you some information on Sambar Deer.
Scientific Name: Cervus Unicolor
Common Name: Sambar Deer
Vernacular Name: Mlave
Conservation Status: Not threatened
Physical Characteristics of Sambar Deer
Sambar deer attains height of 102 to 160cms (40-63 inches) in the shoulder and may weight as much as 546Kg(1200pounds), though more typically 162-260Kg. Sambar is a typical forest deer with shaggy dark brown coat. It's India's largest deer. The large rugged antlers are typically rusine, the brown lines being simple and the beams forked at the tip. In some sambar deers the antlers exceed 101 cms.
Ecology and lifestyle of Sambar Deers
Sambars are primarily browsers that live in woodlands and feed mainly on coarse vegetation, grass and herbs. They are diurnal animals that live in herds of 5-6 deer members.These deers seldom far from water bodies and although primarily of the tropics are hardy and may range from sea level upto high elevations.These deers are seen in habitats ranging from tropical dry forests and seasonal moist evergreen forests, sub tropical mixed forests to tropical rain forests.In tropical rain forests their densities are probably very low. In these areas the deer prefers clearings and areas adjacent to water bodies. Sambars are favourite prey items for the Tigers.
Though Sambar deers have no specific mating season they usually mates from September onto January in the northern hemisphere. Males defend rutting territories and attempt to attract females by vocal and olfactory displays.The male deers are solitary and highly aggressive to other males during this time.Female sambars usually live in group of eight.A male sambar deer may have a whole female group in his territory.The gestation period for female sambars is around 9 months with one fawn born at a time.Sambar fawns have brown hair with light spots which they loose shortly.Fawns stay with their mothers upto 2 years.
Sambar Deer Distribution across the world.
Sambar deers inhabit much of Southern Asia(as far north as the south facing slopes of Himalayan mountains), mainland south east Asia, southern China, Taiwan, and the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia. Sambars are seen congregating in large herds in protected areas such as national parks and wildlife reserves in India.Sri Lanka and Thailand. their main threats are poaching Habitat loss and diseases.
Just Spotted a 'Spotted Deer' alone under a named forest tree inside the deer park
Spotted Deer Info provided by Kerala Forestry Wildlife Department
Scientific Name: Axis axis
Common Names: Spotted deer, Chittal, Axis deer, Cheetal.
Vernacular Name: Pulli Maan
Conservation Status: Least Concern
Physical Characteristics of Spotted Deer
Chittal's coat is reddish fawn marked with white spots, and its under part is white. The deer's antlers which it sheds annually are usually three-pronged and curve in a lyre shape and may extend to 75 cm, ie 2.5 feet.Axis Deers have a protracted breeding season due in part to the tropical climate and births can occur throughout the year. For this reason males do not have their antler cycles in synchrony and there are some fertile female deers at all times of the year.Male sporting hard antlers are dominant over those in velvet or those deers without antlers, irrespective of their size and other factors. A chital stands about 90 cm, 3 feet tall, at the shoulder and weights about 85 kg. Lifespan is around 20-30 years.
Ecology and Lifestyle of Axis Deers
Chittal or spotted deers occur in herds of 10 to 30 deers, with one or two stags and a number of females and young deers.They are often fairly tolerant to human approach and vehicles especially where they are accustomed to human disturbance.Their most preferred habitat is deciduous forests especially around fringes.Chitals eats primarily grasses and vegetation. These spotted deers have a sharp Ack, Ack Call anda loud WOW alarm call.
Spotted deer distribution around the world.
Spotted deer is a deer which commonly inhabits wooded regions of Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and most of India.It is the most common and visible deer species in Indian forests. Their major threats are poaching and cattle grazing.
A deer heard found in the park. One is spotted deer for sure and the others can be barking deers or sambars or both. Anyway i haven't heard anyone barking in them. The antlers of the deers are found velvet skin covered saying they are in the preliminary stages of growth.The deer photos are taken holding the cellphone inside the fence through small gaps in which our hands can hardly go in. No fear of ma hand as haven't heard about a carnivore deer yet, but if ma cellphone is dropped in, i won't think there will be a kind deer to return it back. If you having a digital cam with you having proper optical zoom, you can zoom in through the fence and get the deer closeups.
Barking Deer Info @ Tourist info boards in the Deer park.
Scientific Name: Muntiacus muntjak
Common Name: Barking Deer
Vernacular Name: Kezha Maan
Conservation Status: Least Concern
Physical Characteristics of Barking Deer
The muntjac's coat is golden tan on the dorsal side and white on ventral side of the body, limbs are dark brown to reddish brown, and the face is dark brown.Barking deers have soft, short, brownish or greyish hair, sometimes with creamy markings.Male muntjacs have antlers that are very short,about 1-2 inches.Female deers have tufts of fur and small bony knobs where the antlers are located in male deers.Male deers are usually larger than females.The body length of muntjacs varies from 35-53 inches and their heights ranges from 15-26 inches. Male barking deers are extremely territorial and can be fierce for their size.They will fight each other for territory using their antlers or their tusk like upper canine teeth., and can defend themselves against predators.
Ecology and Lifestyle of Barking deers
Barking deers usually feeds on seeds, fruits, shoots and leaves. They are usually found feeding at the edges of forests or abandoned clearings. Barking deers gives calls similar to barks on sensing predators. The Indian Muntjacs are polygamous animals. Female deers sexually mature during their first or second year of life.The gestation period is six to seven months and they usually bear one offspring at a time but sometimes produce twins.Indian barking deers are considered extremely solitary animals. Male deers acquire territories that they mark with scent markers on the ground and on trees, scraping their hooves against the ground and scraping the bark of the trees with their lower incisors. Muntjacs exhibit both diurnality and nocturnality.They are more likely to be heard in the mornings and evenings. A sharp bark of the deer indicates danger while a slightly longer shriller version is normal call.
Barking deer Distribution round the world
Barking deers are found in north Eastern Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Southern China and Vietnam. Muntjacs are usually found in plentiful forests and places with dense vegetation such as Grass Lands, Savannas, Tropical deciduous forests, and tropical scrub forests. They are also populated in the hilly country on the slopes of Himalayas.barking deers are found at both sea level and medium height altitudes upto 9800 feet. They never wander far from water bodies.
Thenmala Deer Rehabilitation Park Tourist Info
How to reach the deer park: The park is situated in Kollam District of Kerala / India, beside NH 208 between Ottakkal lookout weir dam and Thenmala Parappar dam or eco tourism project office.
Deer Park Visiting Times
8 am to 6 pm the park is open for tourists.
Thenmala Deer Park Ticket Rates
Adults have to take tickets of charge 15 INR and Children of height from 76-137 cm have to take tickets of INR 10/-. International tourists are charged 30 INR for visiting the park for a day.
As in most of the forested and wildlife tourist spots in Kerala, this place also demands the tourists not to litter any plastics,and the plastic carry bags etc should be kept in the park ticket counter. Smoking and drinking inside the deer park is strictly prohibited.
Coming from Kollam side after passing the lookout point Weir dam, the deer park is the first visiting spot intended for tourists. If you are just exploring the places than in a planned strictly timed tour trip, you may find many spots by the Kallada river banks interesting before reaching here in this deer park. Reminding you many portions of the river is classified under river danger zones and don't try to step into in the river even though the water appear calm and slow flowing.
The tree house in this deer park is a main attraction around. For the money you are spending in this deer rehabilitation centre its worth if you like wild life and big forest trees beside a calm flowing forest river.
In the coming posts you are gonna visit the eco tourism spots of Thenmala through Pixelshots. Be updated on comin posts with this photo post feed or get the pixelshots posts by RSS feeds.


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Often times you only see POA for clinical studies or studies involving humans. However, I'm under the impression that ANY scientist should perform POA before conducting and experiment to determine the correct sample size for an experiment. An underpowered study has the well known problem of having type II statistical errors, but I also found this interesting paper that say that paradoxically, if one finds a statistically significant finding in an underpowered study, it might actually be a type I error.
However, how do cell biologists conduct POA? The sample sizes needed that are mentioned in a POA are often huge (say 50-200 samples for an experiment designed for ANOVA w/ a power of 0.8 and moderate effect size). What am I doing wrong? Obviously it is impossible for the cell biologist to collect that many biologically independent samples, how do you calculate POA then? I know the "triplicate biological w/ triplicate technical" is quite standard, but what is so magical about 3x3? POA should be done to address proper sample size, I'm just not sure how I go about doing it relative to cell biology work.
Submit your paper to J Biol Methods today!
How do/should cell biologists calculate power of analysis?
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Posted 12 March 2013 - 08:39 PM
A lot of people use the incorrect statistical tests for their work, parametric tests such as ANOVA are usually not appropriate for the types of data being generated. Ideally cell biologists would be using non-parametric tests that have a lower power, but are more appropriate to the sample sizes and data generated (e.g. ANOVA assumes normally distributed data, non-parametrics don't).


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"The Glass Show" at Jonathan Viner
Artists: Nicolas Deshayes, Elias Hansen, Dan Rees, John Smith, Oscar Tuazon
Venue: Jonathan Viner, London
Exhibition Title: The Glass Show
Date: January 11 – February 16, 2013
John Smith, excerpt from Slow Glass, 1988-91, 16mm film, 40 mins. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin.
Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.
Images courtesy of Jonathan Viner, London
Press Release:
Jonathan Viner is pleased to present The Glass Show, including works by five artists, each of which approach the materiality, context and history of glass in a different way.
The exhibition begins with This is the easy part, a sculpture by Elias Hansen consisting of two hand blown glass vessels placed on an unfinished wooden shelf. Developed from his work as a glass blower, Hansen's practice sources materials from his home in the Pacific Northwest and from his immediate work environment to emphasize and explore the histories of and relationships between objects. The sculptures' rough aesthetics are juxtapositioned with meticulous craftsmanship and skill, evoking the DIY qualities of a meth lab or an old apothecary. Referencing altered states and the notions of experimentation, Hansen challenges the notions of traditional glassmaking and draws attention to the personal narratives that can be found in the material itself.
Dan Rees' large glass vitrines in the center of the gallery hold suspended white canvases, each sealed into a vacuum sealed storage bag. The canvas surfaces are marked with traces of paint, the patterns of which have been determined by the suction that occurs when the air is removed from the bags. With these works, Rees abides to a process that forces him to relinquish control over the paintings' compositions, thus allowing them to exist symbolically. However, the categorization of these works as paintings is complicated by Rees' decision to place the canvases in glass vitrines. By implementing this method of presentation the objects shift to an ambiguous place between painting and sculpture, making a critical and humorous statement about these maleable terms.
Oscar Tuazon's Untitled is a collage of broken everyday objects, compounded in a slab of resin. The glass shards represent familiar glasses, bowls and ashtrays, emphasising the fragility of the material and suggesting a brutality in its demise. The shards are rejoined into one solid and stable slab that rests confidently yet uncharacteristically against the wall. The destruction and reconfiguration of these parts in their various and finally single form, extend Tuazon's interest in pushing objects to their physical limits.
The title of Nicolas Deshayes' Soleil Pourri, refers to a Bataille text which looks at the Greek myth of Icarus, whos excitement and foolishness made him fly so close to the sun that his wax wings melted, causing him to drop into the ocean and drown. It is the danger and the appeal of extreme light and heat that is crucial in the process of glass production, an erotic liquidity Deshayes' antique stained glass bears resemblance to. The height and acid color of the work on the wall suggest a relationship to the viewer's body that draws parallels with a public toilet or urinal. The panel's amorphous-forms point insistently to human fluids while the yellow reflection it casts on the wall is remnicent of the sun.
The exhibition concludes downstairs with John Smith's video Slow Glass. As A.L. Rees writes, "The film begins with a shout in the street and a smashed pane, and ends with a bricked-up window. Between these literal images of opening and closing, spins immaculately shot puns and paradoxes that play on reflection and speculation – words that refer both to acts of seeing and of mind. Glass is the key, as a narrator's running commentary sketches the glassmaker's art, splicing a history lesson with a quasi-autobiography. The authority of word, voice and picture is questioned through the film's gradual revelation of its own (highly pleasurable) artifice. The cutting of glass is matched to the editing of film, and the camera's lens to the surface, which it captures." (London Film-Makers' Co-op catalogue, 1993)


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NM runners react to tragedy at Boston Marathon
Dozens of New Mexicans participated in Monday's Boston Marathon where two bombs exploded near the finish line.
At least two people were killed and more than 80 were injured in the blasts.
ABQ Road Runners Association president Martha Potter said she started frantically reaching runners in Boston after getting an alert about the explosions via the KOAT mobile app.
Nineteen runners from the club participated in the Boston Marathon. Overall, New Mexico had 80 participants in the event.
Action 7 News was with Potter when runner Ken Gordon called to confirm he was safe. He had just finished the race and was in his hotel just one block away when heard the sirens and saw emergency crews rushing to the finish line.
"(It's) pretty chaotic here, there's sirens all over the city," Gordon said. "We're OK. Everyone can't believe this happened. It's very surreal."
Seven New Mexico runners were still on the course when the bombs exploded. They were diverted to safer ground.
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It's Easter time
As evidenced by the throngs of people in town. Traffic was atrocious, perhaps the two cars parked opposite each other at the top of Bridge Street helped that. Silly me they can't be there, they'd have been moved on by the crack troop of traffic wardens patrolling the town in order to keep the traffic moving. Must of been figments of my imagination.
Anyway the hordes were basically treating Bridge Street as a pedestrianised area - see a shop; cross the road. Difficult to blame them when the lane leaving town is unmoving, just step between the cars - and get hit by the free-flowing traffic entering the town. Well free-flowing until someone decides to use the pedestrian crossing. I've said it before I'll say it again, put the bloody settings back to the way they were a few years ago just until the bridge is back to full operation. I'm not kidding coming back into town I got past the bridge lights and the pedestrian ones had changed three time before I reached them.
I was surprised to get through though, heading to the bridge no cars ahead of me "They'll switch to red just as I get there" I thought, they didn't and I met up with the tail-end of the queue just before the point that the other queue starts (meaning if their light turns green they can't get past) that's down to the first change in the pedestrian lights. I got through that point with a small sigh of relief and was surprised to note more cars coming over to join me. Got off the bridge and stopped (lights again) and still traffic was coming over the bridge, moved up to Raven Street and stopped (guess) and still traffic was following me. By the time I got up to High Street it still hadn't changed. In the meantime people were walking across the road whenever the traffic was halted.
Not to worry it'll all soon be over Oo they're running one of their famous polls
"...but what would you prefer – short-term major disruption with all the work done in one stint or the current long-term minor disruption?"Define major disruption for me and I'll let you know.
Point being the schools are out and the traffic is getting bad, now come the Bank Holiday weekend Stourport traffic tends to grind to a halt normally with this lot going on... ah well what do I care I've some books in the attic I can look through and I still haven't finished Okami.


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ST. LOUIS -- The Missouri National Guard, after initially refusing to divulge reports about suspected looting by soldiers after the Joplin tornado, publicly released them this week under orders from Gov. Jay Nixon.
The investigative memos show that one day after a devastating tornado struck Joplin last year, four soldiers assigned to look for survivors pocketed video game equipment and a digital camera they found at a ruined Wal-Mart.
The heavily redacted documents do not identify the soldiers involved in what the documents refer to as incidents of "theft," but the memos give the soldiers' ranks: one sergeant and three specialists.
All the soldiers were demoted and had letters of reprimand placed in their personnel files, said Major Tammy Spicer, a spokeswoman for the Guard.
The soldiers believed that the merchandise was going to be destroyed, according to a memo written by Captain Matthew J. Brown, who investigated the matter.
The sergeant who took merchandise was told by someone he believed to be a Wal-Mart employee that the items would be discarded, and all the men told investigators they saw bulldozers pushing debris and merchandise away from the site, Brown wrote in one of the memos.
The 13 pages released by the Guard include Brown's recommendations for discipline: demote the sergeant to specialist and the other soldiers to the rank of private first class. Spicer said the Guard followed Brown's recommendations.
The thefts happened on the same day, but in two separate and unrelated incidents. The sergeant gave one of the specialists permission to take merchandise, the documents show.
Tipped off by another soldier on the scene, the Guard launched an investigation days after the thefts. The four soldiers confessed and "expressed regret over taking the items," according to the documents.
Although the incidents may appear minor, Spicer said the Guard believed it was a serious matter.
"They were briefed not to take things, so this was a breach of their mission and the public trust," she said.
Last week, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the Guard refused to provide investigative reports and other documents requested by the newspaper. The Guard is not subject to the Missouri Sunshine Law, which requires government agencies to keep most records and meetings open to the public.
Missouri is the only state in the nation that completely exempts the National Guard from state open-records law, according to Sunshine Review, a nonprofit organization dedicated to state and local government transparency.
On Saturday - three days after the Post-Dispatch story was published - Nixon signed a letter ordering Major General Stephen Danner, the Guard's adjutant general, to release the documents.
Nixon, a Democrat, is the Guard's commander in chief. He appointed Danner, a former Democratic state representative and state senator, to head the Guard.
"Governor Nixon wanted the citizens of Missouri to understand the details of what happened," Spicer said.
The merchandise taken by the soldiers included three Nintendo game consoles, two Xbox video games, a Kodak digital camera and a headset. Brown set the retail value of the items at $776, excluding the headset, which had no identification and could not be valued.
Jean Maneke, a board member of the Missouri Sunshine Coalition and legal consultant for the Missouri Press Association, praised the Guard for releasing the documents. But she said decisions on releasing records shouldn't be left to the Guard, as it is under current Missouri law.
"There needs to be more transparency," Maneke said, noting that local police forces and other state departments are subject to the Sunshine Law. "Why is there a different standard for the Guard?"
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Governors group skirts 'radioactive' Common Core
Facing opposition from staunch conservatives, the Common Core education standards designed to improve schools and student competitiveness are being modified by some Republican governors. They cite concern about the federal government's role in the classroom.
The educational standards were not on the formal agenda during a three-day meeting of the National Governors Association in Nashville, but were discussed along the sidelines of the meeting.
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad says the words, "Common Core," have become "radioactive," echoing a sentiment from tea party leaders who say the education plan amounts to a federal takeover of local education.
Governors in Indiana, South Carolina and Oklahoma have signed legislation to repeal the standards while Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is taking steps to block the use of tests tied to the standards.
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A close shave
Last Sunday afternoon, just this side of Coon Hollow, the engineer on the south bound accommodation train, upon coming round a sharp curve, discovered a man lying by the track with his neck across one of the rails. He blew the whistle and reversed the engine at once, but the distance was so short that the engine stopped within six inches of the man's neck. He proved to be an Irishman employed at a distillery nearby, who was intoxicated and had lain down and gone to sleep.
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Word to the wise
Next Monday will be County Court Day. Let everyone who has stock to sell bring it in. Let those who want to buy stock come in. Let every man who this week borrows and reads his neighbor's Standard come in Monday and subscribe for it, and let every subscriber whose time is about to expire step in and renew his subscription.
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May 1, 1953
Slated for blacktopping
The State Highway Department is staking the St. Rose Road this week in preparation for the application of a blacktop surface extending a distance of 9.3 miles from the city limits of Lebanon to a junction with Hwy. 152 near St. Rose. The contract for the job is held by the Carey Construction Company of Lexington, which intends to send a crew here shortly.
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Arrives in Vietnam
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April 16, 1873
Sign here, please
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April 21, 1933
Many apply for new jobs
The Department of Forestation of the United States Government, in an effort to aid the unemployment situation in the country, will give jobs to 250,000 men between the ages of 18 and 25 years. It is specified that men applying for such places must be unmarried but have dependents.
60 years ago
April 10, 1953
15 tapped for duty
Fifteen Marion County men, most of whom are 20 and 21 years of age, were ordered this week by the local Selective Service board to prepare for Army induction on April 21.
Mrs. John D. Foote, clerk of the board, said an additional 15 are to be called for induction on April 28.
140 years ago
April 4, 1873
Report exaggerated
Some idiot at Versailles describing himself as "James Jeff" sent us a few weeks ago a notice of death of Mr. and Mrs. Ed M. Elder, which we inserted, supposing it to be correct. It turns out that Mr. Elder is alive and well. It was a very poor joke and has caused Mr. Elder's relatives considerable trouble.
One of the most intricate questions with which the human mind has to grapple is to consider what such beings as the so-called "Jeff" were created for.
80 years ago
March 24, 1933
Legal beer next month
130 years ago
March 7, 1883
Skating rink items
We postponed the rink on last Friday night to give the people a rest, and because there was a show in town…On next Friday night we will have a sack race. A prize of $5 will be given to the party making three rounds in 40 seconds, a prize of $2 for 45 seconds and prize of $1 for 60 seconds. In preparing the contestant for the race the end of the sack will be cut off to allow the feet to pass through, thus leaving the feet free to make short, quick strokes.
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Q. Some businesses in my area are run on a "cash only" basis. Can I patronize these businesses, or is this encouraging tax evasion? IK
A. There are three possible answers to your question:
Answer one: It's fine -- paying taxes is the proprietor's responsibility, not yours.
Answer two: You can patronize these businesses, but you yourself should demand a receipt so that you are not encouraging deceit.
Answer three: You should boycott dishonest places of business.
Which answer is correct? All three! It depends on the exact situation.
Jewish law forbids abetting wrongdoing. The basic source for this prohibition is the verse, "Don't put a stumbling block before the blind." (Leviticus 19:14.) Our tradition interprets this as a spiritual obstacle that will aid someone in a transgression. Let us examine the parameters of this prohibition.
On the one hand, Jewish tradition urges us to show moral leadership and take responsibility for the moral progress of the world. This means that we cannot shirk responsibility when our actions encourage wrongdoing. On the other hand, Jewish tradition tells us that we should give others the benefit of the doubt, as the very next verse tells us, "Judge your neighbor favorably." (Leviticus 19:15.) And certainly it is not a mitzvah to be a busybody.
Therefore, Jewish law states that even if someone may seem to be involved in wrongdoing, we don't have to scrutinize his or her activities if a favorable interpretation is reasonable, even if it is somewhat improbable. The example given in the Mishna is someone who buys an ox in the Sabbatical year. Even though most such oxen are used for plowing, which is forbidden in the Sabbatical year, it is not unusual for someone to buy an ox for its meat. So we are allowed to give the person the benefit of the doubt and sell them the ox.
So if the cash basis of the business has a reasonable explanation besides tax evasion, then we don't need to scrutinize the proprietor's motives. Possible examples: a retail business constantly dealing with small amounts of cash, or someone for whom writing receipts would be impractical -- such as a peddler.
However, if a permissible explanation is quite improbable, or if the person tells us right out that they intend to do something wrong, then we must avoid helping them. So if someone's competitors use written receipts or a cash register but he refuses, or if the proprietor mentions that he can't give a receipt because then he will have to pay tax, then paying cash will help him evade taxes and is improper. In this case, explain that you will be able to patronize his business only if he is willing to give a proper receipt.
In some cases it would be necessary to avoid the business altogether. This is because of an additional problem called "marit ayin," meaning giving the appearance of wrongdoing. If the business in question is well known as one which evades taxes, and others can easily see that you patronize the business but have no way of knowing that you individually are demanding a receipt, then you could be giving the impression of abetting the seller's subterfuge. In this case it would be necessary to find a way to publicize your insistence on a receipt or to avoid the place of business altogether.
SOURCES: Mishna Sheviit 5:8; 3:4.
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Mr. Speaker, the government announced its tax reform during the summer vacation, when everyone was trying to relax around the pool. That was 140 days ago. This reform will adversely affect businesses, workers, and the people who create jobs across Canada. The tax reform we are hearing about is to come into effect in a few days, on January 1, and no one knows the details.
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Here's someone we haven't heard from in a while. Check out Alexander Skarsgard who IS NOT DATING ELLEN PAGE, though there was a very hardcore group of people who desperately wanted to believe this, leaving the gym yesterday. True Blood usually premieres in June. They're almost half way through shooting Season 7, the final season of the series. Will you check back in with them for the last ride? Ryan Kwanten said recently that some will die. Some you still care about. As far as I'm concerned, they could all die but Pam and we'd be in good shape.
After True Blood, Skarsgard will likely focus on Tarzan. Warner Bros confirmed last month that pre-production on the film, directed by David Yates, is underway and the movie is scheduled for release on July 1, 2016. In other words, they're putting big bank on it. They're putting big bank on Alexander Skarsgard. It's his big push to become a major motion picture star and a franchise player. I'm not sold on the project but I do believe in the team. In addition to David Yates, Jerry Weintraub is producing. And also David Barron who also oversaw the Harry Potter collection. In other words, Skarsgard is working with proven winners.


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The Slow Death of Christian Rock
March 8, 2009 in Commentary | Tags: Christian Rock, Christian Ska, corporate ownership of music, Five Iron Frenzy, Heart and Soul Cafe, Keith Green, message before music, MxPx, NCC Union, North Central College Union, not ashamed of the Gospel, polarization of Christian music, Poor Old Lu, selling Jesus, SF59, Starflyer, Starflyer 59, Steven Curtis Chapman, Strongarm, the death of the CD, The Huntingtons, Tooth and Nail, Tooth and Nail Records, True Tunes, YouTube | 9 comments
I was thinking about the Christian music scene that I grew up with and what exists today, and I came to the conclusion that most of my favorite music is in the past. I'm not saying there aren't great bands out there now or new music that will be enjoyable, but most of my favorite music has been out for several years. (Do a test yourself. Sit down with a pen and paper and try to think of how many of your favorite albums were released within the last year.)
The Christian scene I grew up with is mostly non-existent. True Tunes closed, the Heart and Soul Cafe doesn't do shows that I know of and the ska scene is mostly dead. I went into a Family Bookstore the other day and asked if they had a "Christian Happenings" Magazine and they looked at me like I was from another planet. I also feel old every time I look at the Cornerstone lineup and I don't know who most of the bands are. Thankfully the North Central College Union has saved a good part of the scene for me.
I get nostalgic thinking about bands like MxPx, Starflyer, the Huntingtons, Five Iron Frenzy and Poor Old Lu. It was a time where there were tons of cool bands and every band that Tooth and Nail signed was awesome, even the hardcore bands like Strongarm.
It seems to me that the Christian industry has become more polarized with bands either totally playing Christian venues or not playing Christian venues at all, which means it's CCM or the bar. Sure I understand that a lot of Christian musicians are not youth pastors, but historically speaking bands in the Christian market have talked a lot during shows (i.e. Keith Green, Steven Curtis Chapman, etc…). The essence of their music was the message before the music.
I know that Christian stigma exists and that bands want to be taken seriously by non-Christians—probably mostly for their egos or record sales. But I just wonder why some bands have such a hard time talking about God. It seems like either Jesus is the product the band is selling or he has no place on the stage. I know that talking about God on a stage is awkward, but we shouldn't ever have to feel like we're ashamed of his name.
So I realize that I can't go back in time, but I still like to listen to the old albums and reflect on a time when we weren't looking at the death of the CD or the corporate ownership of human expression. Maybe there are bands that don't tour any more, but I can still listen to their music and I can still watch them perform live thanks to YouTube and you can too.


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Phew! We made it back, finally. I'm talking about the DJIA, of course. After years and years of giving us absolutely no comfort at all, the DJIA is back in record territory (assuming no great market collapse between now and press time).
Remember the good old days when the DJIA was hitting new records seemingly every day? Of course you do. The money was flowing and every move you made for your clients was golden. Life was good. And then, suddenly, it wasn't.
All those years of smooth sailing got wiped out by one big hurricane. For investors near retirement it was an especially terrifying blow. This financial storm blew major damage to nearly all of us.
The industry veterans had seen markets go up and down. They've all had plenty of clients lose money before. They told themselves, "We've been through this before, and we can get through it again. Stay the course." The old-timers preached patience to all the young whippersnappers.
And then, the bottom fell out.
Investors started to learn that the very industry they had trusted with their life savings was the very industry whose own greed and stupidity was about to bring us all to our knees.
Portfolios were cut in half. Bonuses were lost. Long-time mainstream financial institutions vanished. Thousands and thousands of jobs and promising careers got flushed down the toilet. And it was the financial industry's entire fault. Ouch.
I knew this crisis was serious when one broker-dealer was forced to cancel its previously scheduled broker "awards trip" to Las Vegas. As word of this trip became public, newly poor investors began gathering rope and looking for tall trees. The firm's decision to scrap the outing was wise.
That started an avalanche of trip cancellations. There wasn't a financial advisor in the world who wanted to get caught doing the chicken dance in Maui while his clients were home applying for food stamps. It's one thing to recommend an investment that loses money. It's another thing to create the investment, sell it and then mismanage it.
I drag you through this quagmire again, not to depress you but as further evidence that the good old days are back upon us. The following is my accidental research.
I called a broker friend of mine, Matt, recently. One of our mutual friends had gotten a new cell number and I was trying to get it. Matt was just returning from a due diligence trip to California. I pressed him for details, "Did you learn anything new about amortization table calculations used for an immediate annuity?"
Matt replied, "The steak house they took us to before the Lakers game was great! The wine was flowing."
"Sounds like money well spent," I said.
He gave me our buddy's new phone number. He then started to complain that he was only going to be home three days before he had to go to the Dominican Republic for some awards trip he had won.
When I got home, I called our mutual friend Tom. Tom is in the biz as well. He's my one big-shot executive friend. When I spoke with his secretary, she told me he was in Fiji hosting an awards trip. A tough gig, but somebody's got to do it.
Let me be the first to welcome you back to the good old days. As we all know, the bull market has finally scratched and clawed its way back to new heights. This climb (or re-climb) has allowed the excesses of our industry to begin returning as well.
With the awards trip season in full swing, it's back to business as usual. Enjoy it. Don't forget to pack the sunscreen.


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Camblos ousted in 53 to 47 percent shocker
Jim Camblos finds himself heading out of office after voters delivered a rebuke to the prosecutor whose biggest case last year was prosecuting four bombless teen bombers. With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, Democratic challenger Denise Lunsford won 12,187 to Republican Camblos' 10,794 votes, according to the Virginia Board of Elections.
"I just wanted this to go well for all the people that worked so hard on this campaign," said a victorious Lunsford amid the celebration at the Democrats' election night party at the Aberdeen Barn. "Soon we should have a Commonwealth's Attorney's office that's responsive, competent, respectable, and one that people can be proud of."
As early precincts trickled in, Lunsford and company tried to keep the mood light by wearing silver-spangled bowties, a possible dig at Camblos' choice in neckwear. But as WINA broadcast the results, the veteran defense attorney began wearing her heart– and ever-changing vote total– on her sleeve. While nursing a Jack Daniels and ginger ale, Lunsford applauded each precinct that went her way, but could not help but pace the floor, bite her nails, wipe her brow and even go down on one knee at one point.
But once the Cale Elementary precinct gave Lunsford a 1500 vote margin (see video at left) with only the Crozet Elementary precinct yet to report, WINA declared her the winner as the victor pumped her fist in triumph– the first woman Commonwealth's Attorney in Albemarle County history.
In a closely contested Albemarle Board of Supervisors race, Republican incumbent Ken Boyd edged Democratic challenger Marcia Joseph in the Rivanna District while Democratic Scottsville incumbent supervisor Lindsay Dorrier held off two independent challengers, Kevin Fletcher and Denny King.
And in what may come as a surprise to some, Democratic challenger Ann Huckle Mallek, with 55.67 percent of the vote, defeated the Republican incumbent for the White Hall district supervisor seat, David C. Wyant.
"I didn't give myself a chance to win by this much," said Mallek of her 10 percent margin of victory. "We started a conversation with the district with this campaign, walking down a lot of long driveways in a very rural district, and I plan to continue that conversation."
Meanwhile, Charlottesville Police Lieutenant Chip Harding, a Republican, won the open seat for Albemarle County Sheriff over rescue squad veteran and Democrat Larry Claytor.
In the City, surprises were few. All three Democratic nominees– Holly Edwards, Satyendra Huja, and Mayor David Brown– won election to City Council over the two independent challengers.
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.....never trust a guy with a bow tie.
Camblos praised the fact that he supposedly ran a "clean" campaign. If only he'd run a "clean" office.
Still the land of the free after all.
Screw tough. I want sane, fair, legitimate, law-biding, honest, decent, and objective.
Amen, Gail! Commitment to the truth! And this includes truthfulness from the police officers that she, as the top law enforcement official in Albemarle County, has to use in court. It's been a pretty big problem in the past and present, a problem Jim Camblos refused to address for 15 years.
This was a critical election. Conratulations to Ms Lunsford from the supporters of www.uvavictimsofrape.com!
Conratulations Denise!! You won it with good merits!
Seriously, a shocker?
Wyant was surprising but Lunsford race was predictable because moderate republicans seemed fatigued by Camblos. I heard few defend him when asked. I think you could run a negative race against for any who has been in the Commonwealth Attorney for 16 years.
I also think Lunsford image on her commercials seemed tough- just what I want from a C.A. in Albemarle.
How about competence and a commitment to the truth?


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House has passed a bill aimed at salvaging 2.8 million jobs and forestalling a sharp increase in interest rates on college loans.
The measure, which cleared the House on a 373-52 vote, and Senate approval is expected shortly. The legislation also would shore up the federal flood insurance program.
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In 1848, a reviewer for Graham's Magazine described "Wuthering Heights" as "a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors, such as we might suppose a person, inspired by a mixture of brandy and gunpowder, might write for the edification of fifth-rate blackguards." Presumably, this grumpy writer would have cared even less for the Thug Notes version.
That Emily Brontë novel is among the latest subjects tackled on Thug-Notes.com, a website where fine literature is reduced to its hip-hop essence. A genial fellow using the moniker Sparky Sweets, Ph.D. serves up video summaries of classics in the language of the street, throwing in a minute or two of analysis for good measure. Dr. Sweets, a black man whose wardrobe leans toward shorts, tank tops and assorted do-rags and caps, sits in a somber-looking library worthy of PBS and holds forth about a new volume each week. The site's motto: "Classical Literature. Original Gangster."
In the world of Dr. Sweets (who is actually a comedian named Greg Edwards), Queequeg from "Moby-Dick" is "some tatted-up harpooner." Jay Gatsby is "a rich playboy with that mad Mitt Romney money." And the characters of a beloved Shakespeare play include "Romeo's homieos, Benvolio and Mercutio."
SparkNotes and others, of course, have been summarizing the classics for years, but their cheat sheets have merely made literature's dusty volumes drastically shorter, not less boring for the lazy and unappreciative. Mr. Edwards, speaking in character as Dr. Sweets in an interview with The Tampa Bay Times last fall, described Thug Notes as "my way of trivializing academia's attempt at making literature exclusionary by showing that even highbrow academic concepts can be communicated in a clear and open fashion."
The site manages to turn "Wuthering Heights," "Pride and Prejudice" and other tomes into bite-size fun (the videos are generally under five minutes) while conveying a certain respect toward the source material.
The good doctor's summary of "Romeo and Juliet" may be full of unpublishable slang, but it ends with a discussion of the clashes of opposites in the work and whether it can rightly be labeled a tragedy. He may dismiss the core of "Moby-Dick" as "about 500 pages of Ishmael going off about whaling" (finishing that phrase with an expletive), but he has thesis-worthy thoughts about the symbolism of the whale, of the quest and of the ship — the Rachel — that rescues Ishmael.
"Keep floating, homies," he concludes, " 'cause somewhere out there, we all got our own Rachel that's there to save us."
Thug Notes is a deliciously executed example of a trend that has been around for years: the application of street sensibility to high-culture, high-concept areas and, more generally, any place where it's not expected. Shakespeare was getting the hip-hop treatment ("The Bomb-itty of Errors") back in the last century. Teachers seeking to boost their cool quotient have been assigning rap-battle debates and giving hip-hop lectures about this or that for years.
Use of the technique seems only to be increasing. Put "rap" and any high-culture term into a search engine and you're bound to get multiple hits. Yes, someone has turned the "Ring" cycle into "Gangsta Wagner."
A little of this gimmick goes a long way, which is why the Internet, land of the short video, is its natural home. And some of the current practitioners are getting the formula just right.
The artist Jayson Musson's "Art Thoughtz" videos, made by his alter ego, Hennessy Youngman, have taken up subjects like Damien Hirst's worldwide Gagosian Gallery exhibition in 2012 ("some perfect storm of banality") with a drollness grounded in knowledge. Baba Brinkman has made a well-received stage show out of raps about evolution, but his short videos on the same subject ("Creationist Cousins" is one; "I'm a African" another) are amusing in their own rapid-fire way.
Kate McAlpine, a science writer whose 2008 "Large Hadron Rap" video attracted all kinds of attention, has added a "Black Hole Rap" and a "Rare Isotope Rap" to her résumé. Epic Rap Battles of History has drawn tens of millions of viewers with its ridiculous, raunchy verbal slugfests ("Nikola Tesla vs. Thomas Edison," "Cleopatra vs. Marilyn Monroe"). And if you can stand the irreverence, BubalaPlease.com mashes up gangsta and Judaism hilariously (Episode 4: "We Doin' Purim"; Episode 7: "Gangsta Bris").
This isn't just a hip-hop/gangsta thing. Incongruity is a versatile tool. Take, for instance, Yelping With Cormac, tongue-in-cheek dining reviews written in the style of Cormac McCarthy. But the language of the urban streets dominates the field.
Practically anyone can try this sort of thing, and it seems as if practically anyone has. No creativity is even required, since there are web tools like Gizoogle.net that will give any phrase you care to type in a gangsta incarnation. Racist? Some people seem to think so. In any case, here's how Gizoogle renders the opening sentences of the prepared text of Tuesday's inaugural address by Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey: "Today, once again, tha playaz of New Jersey have given me tha opportunitizzle ta serve fo' realz. And I give props ta each n' every last [expletive] playa hater fo' dat honor."
Anyway, as good as Thug Notes is, we don't want this trend to go much further than it already has, especially educationally. Apparently, almost everything in schools these days is taught in rap. "Civil War rap," "integer rap," "geography rap" or any similar search gets you to someone's classroom video. Seems harmless. But picture yourself going in for neurosurgery.
"Doc, you read all the latest texts on brain surgery in medical school, didn't you?"
"Read them? No. But I did see the major points of 'Advanced Neurosurgical Navigation' debated in a rap battle."
The phenomenon is also creeping way too far into the mainstream. This month, Alex Trebek rapped, sort of, an entire category's worth of clues on "Jeopardy!" We have to put a stop to inappropriate hip-hop appropriation before we get the Fox News "Rap the Headlines Hour" or "Gangsta 60 Minutes."
Yes, that means new laws mandating that only skilled professionals like Dr. Sweets try this kind of stuff. That may sound like a civil liberties infringement, but chill. The Bill of Rights ensures "tha right of tha playas peaceably ta assemble, n' ta petizzle tha Posse fo' a redress of grievances." It doesn't say anything about the right to rap.