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If, as an American, you visit a globalized megacity like Seoul, you'll find plenty that feels familiar. Take chain bookstores: There's bad lighting, as many smartphone accessories for sale as books, and sneaky customer habits. "I check out the covers," says Claire, a young South Korean who's showing me around. "If I like one, I go back to my apartment and buy it online."
Claire and I are ambling through the Kyobo Book Center in Seoul's Gangnam district. Gangnam, of course, is the place PSY raps about in "Gangnam Style," a song that sends up his country's materialism and wealth. Gangnam is home to Samsung's corporate headquarters, the city's neon-saturated nightlife, and outposts for the top international brands, all spread out on a grid of spacious boulevards. It's the polished, cosmopolitan Korea.
What feels less familiar—more messy and alive—is the rest of the city. The streets twist and taper in a never-ending game of chicken, motorcycles versus taxis. The architecture seems to come in only two options, gray apartment tower and squat villa, with most of it dating to the period after the Korean War when Seoul grew so quickly it needed buildings finished more than it needed them pretty. The city's oldest residents shuffle proudly along, smaller than their compatriots, a reminder of just how recently life in Korea was defined by deficit rather than surplus. Young people scurry to their hagwons, or afterschool tutoring centers. The billboards and ads chatter in a delightful Konglish. The phrase that sticks with me comes from Skin Food, a popular cosmetics chain: "Beauty food for urban sweety."
In Gangnam, the signs are more precise. "Welcome to Gangnam, Global City." Its branch of the Kyobo Book Center occupies the basement of a striking brick-and-glass skyscraper. Claire, who, like many 20-something Koreans in Seoul, dresses in a style best described as sexed-up Harry Potter, points me to a section with table after table of test-prep books. "Korean parents make it so Korean students don't even have time to read," she says. "They study English, mostly."
Claire perfected her English while attending college in Canada—that's also where she Westernized her name—and now she works at the Literature Translation Institute of Korea, a government-run agency everyone calls LTI Korea. But as she shows me more of the bookstore, even it starts to feel strange and new. The employees wear lavish uniforms, a sort of flight-attendant ensemble with indigo sweaters and sparkly gold ties. On the best-seller wall sits a big stack of copies of Lolita. For years, Vladimir Nabokov's novel had languished in a prim Korean translation that relied on ambiguity and euphemism. Now a new edition has restored the original's squirming detail, and Lolita is selling like crazy.
The country still pines for its own world-famous writer. No Korean has ever won the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Ko Un, a former Buddhist monk who's the country's best-known poet, has been rumored as a finalist in the last few years. Each October, in the days leading up to the announcement, reporters camp outside his house. Koreans care about the Nobel for two reasons: first, because they're anxious about how the world perceives them; and second, because they're so good at exporting other kinds of culture. The country pumps out syrupy K-pop songs, violent cinema, and soapy, smash-hit TV. One of its most popular shows in the last decade, Dae Jang Geum, is a drama set in the 16th century about a female physician to the king. According to one rumor I heard, the show counted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad among its superfans, and once, when Iran and South Korea were negotiating a meeting, Ahmadinejad issued a demand that he meet the show's heroine. She happened to be traveling, so South Korea suggested her popular co-star. Iran sent its vice president instead.
In 2006, The New Yorker published poetry by Ko Un, and translations of two younger writers, the experimental Kim Young-ha and the realist Shin Kyung-Sook, have done well here. Shin's Please Look After Mom, a novel about a family's guilt after its tradition-minded mother goes missing, even hit The New York Times best-seller list, prompting excited coverage in Korean newspapers. This fall, Dalkey Archive Press has teamed up with LTI Korea to publish the Library of Korean Literature, a series of 25 newly translated works and the most comprehensive introduction so far to Korean literature. Still, when it comes to American recognition, Korea has a ways to go. Charles Montgomery, a California native who's now a professor in Seoul and the proprietor of a lively literary blog, puts it this way: "Imagine, we're drinking martinis with a bunch of educated people, and I say, 'Who is your favorite Japanese author?' You can say one of ten names. 'Who is your favorite French author?' One of ten names." Montgomery continues: "But 'Who is your favorite Korean author?' Everyone will run to refill their drinks."
It's easy to forget, standing in Gangnam today, that a few decades ago the district was mostly rice paddies and that South Korea was poor and devastated, a nation with staggering depth to its grief. Korea sits between China and Japan, and throughout the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) it battled with both. Still, it remained independent until 1910, when Japan finally colonized its neighbor. Over the next 35 years, the Japanese practiced a bloody and repressive imperialism. Then came the Korean War, in which millions of Koreans died or were cleaved from their families. Then came a series of dictators, notably General Park Chung Hee, who jump-started South Korea's economy (before it was a tech giant, the country was a steel giant thanks to state-run plants like POSCO) even as he imprisoned and executed his own people.
Perhaps the hardest thing to comprehend is just how compressed all this was. In Korea, the kind of issues historians debate in monographs—capitalism versus communism, industry versus agriculture—can be debated whenever a family sits down to a meal, with each generation drawing on its own discrete experiences.
The other thing to remember is Korea's tradition of collectivism. Grounded in Confucianism, it elevates family, community, and society in what Bruce Cumings, in his excellent Korea's Place in the Sun, calls "hierarchy without shame." The conformity that flows from this is often overstated. On Seoul's subway, which is so efficient it drives Western visitors to nearly combust with envy, I watched a surly, thoroughly pierced young man board a car to no reaction. But when, at the next stop, a mother with two small children got on, he sprang up and offered her his seat.
So much in modern Korea mixes fragmenting tragedy with centripetal tradition. That includes modern Korean literature. The country had always esteemed its poets and scholars. At Seoul's Changdeokgung Palace, you can still find an artificial stream curving through trees and pavilions. There, the Joseon kings and their courtiers would release a cup of wine into the water. Whoever it floated to had to drink it, then compose a poem on the spot. If he failed, he had to drink three more cups.
Under Japanese rule, however, Korea's writers turned to novels and short stories, with Yi Kwang-su's The Heartless (1917) generally seen as the key book. It's a bit like Robinson Crusoe in this respect—tough to pin down as the earliest but easy to see as a turning point. Yi belonged to a wave of thinkers and writers who'd watched their country collapse. Now they wanted to embrace Western ideas like educational reform and marrying for love.
The Heartless dramatizes those ideas through a love triangle between a representative Korean man, a traditional woman, and a more Westernized woman. In other words, it barely dramatizes them at all, with Yi prioritizing his causes over his characters and imagery. The writers who followed chose new causes—some calling for further change, others lamenting what had been lost—but they joined Yi in producing a largely didactic body of literature. Ko Un, for example, has described one strain of his work as "anti-government, politically resistant poetry." But consider his life: a teenager who watched the Korean War ravage his home, a dissident whom dictators threw into prison and beat until his eardrum ruptured. How could he write poetry that was not political?
Today, an author like Kim Young-ha can produce a dark and playful novel like I Have the Right to Destroy Myself, which has been translated into multiple languages. But he is an exception. Many writers are still exploring the country's recent history, and most hew to the rules and habits of its literary system. "[It's] absolutely Korean and absolutely Confucian," says Charles Montgomery. "It's a series of tests." The biggest one is the battalion of new-author contests run by Seoul's newspapers and journals. In South Korea, it's virtually impossible to be an author—to publish—until you win one of these annual contests and make a formal debut. So would-be writers avoid genre lit (there's little science fiction in this, the most wired of nations) and strive to satisfy the older critics who often judge the contests. "Once you're past that step," Montgomery says, "you're in the same world of finding agents to represent you, and trying to find publishers, and working in a world where people don't read that much anymore."
The tests never really stop. Even established writers aim for bigger prizes like the Yi Sang Literary Award. In 2004, Kim Young-ha won several of these awards—"what they call his golden year," Montgomery says. That's perhaps the only way to transform one's career in a small literary scene that's getting smaller. (Last year, even including e-books, the amount the average household spent on books hit its lowest point ever.) But it keeps authors focused on their own country. "Very few Korean writers," Montgomery says, "have international success as a goal as they write or publish."
Yet the rest of Korea frets that its promotion and translation trail China's and Japan's, two countries that have won literary Nobels. "We can't just wait for a translation expert to simply pop out," a professor told The Korea Times in 2000. "We have to concentrate on training young talents into an elite force."
That's a pretty good description of what's happening at LTI Korea. The institute, which reports to South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, has an annual budget of 8.1 billion won (or more than $7 million). Its headquarters, a five-story building near the Han River, in a quieter part of Gangnam, feels less like a literary salon than a disciplined office. In addition to its translation academy, LTI Korea provides generous grants and support staff to translators (that's Claire's job); pays for Korean authors to go on international book tours and take residencies at places like the University of Iowa; and runs booths at book fairs like the one in Frankfurt.
Kim Seong-kon is the president of LTI Korea, and on the same day I visit the Book Center, I interview him in his fifth-floor office. He's wearing a cardigan and a pinstriped suit, a snazzy blend of professor and preppy Korean. It makes sense given that Kim has taught at universities around the world, including Harvard and Oxford. Now, as we sit across from each other in leather chairs, he tells me about his two-part plan for breaking Korea's authors into the American market.
The first part centers on the authors. "We do have splendid writers," Kim says. But many haven't updated their techniques or subjects since the postcolonial period. "The scope of their literary world is so confined," he says. Kim wants them to reconsider the reasons they write—not for a local audience but a global one. "They should constantly read other foreign writers," he says, "so they can learn what the main issues and concerns are among famous international writers." Korean literature needs more irony, more ambiguity, more experimentation. "You have to embrace contradictions," Kim says.
Once Korean authors settle on more universal themes—"universal" has become a buzzword at LTI Korea—they can add in some Korean flourishes. Kim checks off models like Orhan Pamuk, Umberto Eco, even Dan Brown. "You can adopt similar themes that Dan Brown uses in his fiction," he says, "but the background can be uniquely Korean—an ancient Korean kingdom, for example."
In the middle of our interview, a photographer pops in. Kim quietly slides to the chair next to me—a visit from an American journalist, it seems, merits a photo op. When the photographer finishes, Kim turns to the second part of his plan. For years, LTI Korea relied on local critics to choose what would be translated and offered to Western publishers. "They do not care about the universality of Korean literature," Kim says. Instead, they chose more traditional fiction. "When we try to market that particular work overseas, it's not working," Kim says. "Foreign publishers do not like it, and foreign readers do not find it appealing."
So Kim has created a new policy where foreign publishers are consulted first on what books LTI Korea will subsidize. A good example is the Library of Korean Literature and Dalkey Archive Press. After Dalkey's publisher, John O'Brien, approached Kim, they worked together to select the books and cover the series' estimated $750,000 cost. O'Brien traveled to Seoul and pushed for more experimental fiction—the sort of thing Kim wanted to encourage anyway. At the same time, Dalkey has promised to keep a range of titles in print, offering readers unprecedented access to Korea's literary history. "You can see Korea's literature from a bird's-eye view," Kim says.
The Library of Korean Literature is just the start. "We can have both the universality and also the uniquely Korean cultural heritage," Kim says. "It's only a matter of time until a South Korean writer receives the Nobel Prize."
The Library of Korean Literature's first ten titles appear this November, with the rest arriving next year. Already, the initial batch offers that bird's-eye view. A Western reader can start with The Soil, another novel by Yi Kwang-su first published as a serial in 1932. But there's also When Adam Opens His Eyes (1990), the Jang Jung-il novel that stirred up a scandal with its explicit descriptions of straight and gay sex. Yet reading the old next to the new, I was surprised to find myself thinking something Kim might not want to hear—namely, that the titles moving me the most were the ones most steeped in tradition.
Take Kim Won-il's The House with a Sunken Courtyard (1989). The novel begins at the end of the Korean War when Gilnam, a young boy and stand-in for the author, whose family was ripped apart by the conflict, drops out of school to help his mother. "You are the eldest son in this family with no father," she reminds him in one of the novel's many laborious monologues. Gilnam starts selling newspapers to help cover food and rent. In a house packed with 26 people, he squeezes into a single room with his mother and three siblings. Like other refugees, the family has moved so often the residences blur together. Gilnam remembers this one by its courtyard.
Kim's characters tend to be archetypes—the drunken head of house, the military deserter on the lam, the kind-hearted prostitute servicing American soldiers. There's not much plot beyond Gilnam selling newspapers in the city, where he always seems to run into those characters and their hard, lesson-filled lives. The prose can seem impossibly arid. (Here's how Gilnam describes his father leaving: "My father defected to the North alone because he had lost contact with us. That turned out to be a permanent separation.") Yet The House with a Sunken Courtyard remains powerful because of its relentless detail. Gilnam's mother sews for the prostitutes, but it doesn't pay much. Her youngest son, born just as war breaks out, eats so little that "blue veins showed on his protruding belly." During the winter, the family's indoor drinking water freezes. They burn their kerosene lamp only when the mother faces a sewing deadline or the daughter needs to study.
Kim also reveals the house—a hanok, or traditional Korean residence with a stately gateway and a carefully tiled roof—to be a fascinating and contradictory place. The current owner's great-grandfather built it at the end of the Joseon dynasty; his father worked for the Japanese. But now, Kim writes, "from between the tiles of the roof, weeds grew." In the courtyard, the many renters must build an outdoor toilet and cook their meals. Yet when the owner's haughty wife goes out, wearing expensive traditional outfits, the people pause and smile: "There goes our lady." The novel may contain one of world literature's more on-the-nose endings. (The hanok is torn down and replaced by a "Western-style house.") Still, it subtly critiques the residents' fealty to their lady and animates a historical moment and mind-set in ways a work of nonfiction never could.
It's hard to imagine a bigger contrast than the one between Kim and Lee Ki-ho, a younger writer whose spare style and absurd humor recall Donald Barthelme or Kurt Vonnegut. In Lee's haunting At Least We Can Apologize (2009), the narrator is an unnamed adult who's been institutionalized by his family. Along with Si-bong, a mysterious character who crops up in many of Lee's works (sort of his Kilgore Trout), he spends his days swallowing unnamed pills and packing up crate after crate of socks.
When the institution shuts down, the men find themselves free but aimless. Lee generates plenty of laughs through the pair's simplicity, gullibility, and astounding deference. "He asked us if we had ever worked in a convenience store before," the narrator says of someone interviewing them for a job. "Si-bong and I answered at the same time: 'We've done a lot of packing.'"
Eventually, the two turn to their other skill set. Each day at the institution, a pair of porn-addled guards beats them for fun. One day, the narrator realizes the guards will go easier on him when he invents and confesses to various crimes. "We always started with the confessions," the narrator explains. "That was on account of our being beaten less for confessing than for not confessing." Now, outside the institution, he and Si-bong launch a personal service apologizing for other people's offenses. In their passivity, the characters and their clients seem to reflect the inflexibility of South Korea's many hierarchies.
Or maybe not. Lee keeps his novel fable-ish and detail-free, and its satire will resonate anywhere that's plagued by office drudgery and technological speedup. One of Lee's running gags is that his two heroes repeatedly (and proudly) refer to themselves as "pillars of the institution," and the first time I read it, I thought back to another monologue from The House with a Sunken Courtyard. There, Gilnam's mother demands he become "the pillar of our family." But Kim's novel is about Korea. Lee's novel could be about anywhere.
The first time Charles Montgomery met Kim Young-ha, he asked the novelist why South Korea approached the rest of the literary world with its mix of diligent production and top-down control. "He pulled out his iPad, just because he wanted to show it off," Montgomery says with a smile. Then Kim drew a diagram—a big block he labeled "the POSCO strategy," after the company, and a bunch of smaller blocks streaming from it. "He said, 'You have to understand that Korea has had all its success based on a model where we create something that is supported by the government and we pump out units,'" Montgomery recalls.
It's true that South Korea's industries are famous less for their innovation than for their ability to imitate and improve. (Even Samsung's name, which means "three stars," is a tight homage to Japan's Mitsubishi, which means "three diamonds.") It's also true that, historically, Korea's authors have loved and drawn on Western literature. Yi Kwang-su even wrote an essay titled "Tolstoy and I."
But I worry that Korea's methodical desire for international success could one day endanger authors who deserve it. A novel like The House with a Sunken Courtyard may seem strange to Western readers, but there is power in that strangeness. South Korea and its people continue to change and fracture at a remarkable speed. That change can create much for us to learn. It also creates much to write about.


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Word of the Day
bacchanalia bak-uh-NAIL-yuh noun; A riotous, boisterous, or drunken festivity; a revel. � Dictionary.com
This Day in History
Aug. 27, 1883: The volcanic island of Krakatoa near Indonesia undergoes the largest of its eruptions, with powerful blasts lasting some four and a half hours, killing thousands. The largest of the blasts created what are believed to be the loudest sound ever heard on earth.
Number to Know
3,000: The number of miles away from Krakatoa where the sounds of the eruption could be heard.
Website of the Day: Krakatoa Volcano - The Son Also Rises
NPR special report on the famous volcanic eruption.
Today�s Featured Birthday
Aaron Paul, American actor, 35.
Daily Quote
�I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn�t protect it or cherish it.� � Aaron Paul
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Investors would do well to eat their Wheaties. After drifting downward from their four-year high of $9.43 a bushel in July, U.S. wheat futures are poised to bounce back.
Just a few months ago, analysts and traders thought the world's wheat supplies remained ample enough to easily meet demand, despite a range of threats to crops. But those threats have grown, and the outlook for wheat supplies is tightening. Add in a likely uptick in demand for U.S. wheat exports, and futures should rise in the coming weeks.
Top exporters of wheat, including the U.S., Russia, and Australia, have seen their crops damaged by drought or are now facing a drought. As a result, the Agriculture Department has repeatedly cut its forecast for world wheat output for the current crop year six times since its initial forecast in May. Its November estimate, 651.4 million metric tons, is 3.9% below what it projected in May.
In the U.S., the winter-wheat crop now in the ground is in the worst shape for this point in the season since the USDA began releasing crop ratings in 1986. Just 34% of the crop was rated in "good" or "excellent" condition in a USDA report on Monday, compared with 50% a year earlier, due to drought in the Great Plains. "Unless there is a significant improvement in this year's winter-wheat crop conditions, we fear a repeat of the 'summer drought shock,' this time in winter, for wheat prices," Credit Suisse analysts said in a Nov. 15 research note.
Dry weather has also reduced the outlook for Australia's wheat crop. The USDA this month cut its forecast for Australia's wheat harvest by 8.7% to 21 million metric tons. In the Black Sea region, major producers, including Russia and Ukraine, saw drought-reduced harvests translate into fewer exports. In Argentina, meanwhile, excessive rain has raised concerns about crop disease reducing the quality of the country's crop.
WHEAT PRICES COULD ALSO benefit in coming weeks from concerns about tight corn supplies, since both grains are used in animal feed. Many analysts expect the USDA's final corn-production estimates in January to reflect that U.S. farmers harvested fewer acres of corn this year than previously expected, since many farmers abandoned fields that sustained heavy drought damage. Goldman Sachs analyst Damien Courvalin estimates harvested corn acreage totaled 87.3 million acres, 0.5% less than last projected by the USDA.
Front-month wheat futures (the nearest-term contract, which usually has the highest trading volume) at the Chicago Board of Trade are likely to trade at $9.50 a bushel in February due to a range of threats to world production, Courvalin added in a Nov. 9 research note. Dwindling supplies elsewhere could also boost demand for U.S. wheat, he wrote. Wheat futures for December delivery finished the week up 9.75 cents, or 1.2%, at $8.48 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade. "We believe that a window will open soon for U.S. wheat exports," Courvalin said. "Its magnitude will be key to wheat prices."
U.S. wheat exports have already started to pick up. The USDA on Friday reported net wheat-export sales of 657,400 metric tons in the week through Nov. 15, well above the range of 200,000 to 450,000 tons predicted by analysts.
Christian Mayer, a market adviser at Northstar Commodity in Minneapolis, likes what that augurs: "That was a solid sign," he says.
OWEN FLETCHER covers agriculture and other topics for Dow Jones Newswires.
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Rick Chynoweth was named the new Florida director of operations for Campers Inn.
"We see tremendous growth potential and opportunity in Florida and we feel that there is no one better who knows the market," Scott Hayden, director of operations for Campers Inn, stated in a news release. "Rick's immediate focus will be to assist Patti Parenteau with the ongoing expansion of our Leesburg location that was started last year. Now that the physical property has grown we need to further build and develop product lines that will increase our market share. At the same time we will continue to pursue potential locations that will enhance the Campers Inn family of dealerships which will fall under Rick's direction."
Chynoweth began his RV career in 2002 at Suncoast RV where he opened the Ocala, Fla., location in June of that year. In January 2008 he became vice president of operations while business was very difficult and stayed in that position until business stabilized in late 2010.
Prior to Suncoast, Chynoweth spent seven years in the automobile business and another seven years in the boat business. Chynoweth grew up in the RV business at his family's RV dealership through 1982.
Chynoweth is excited about the position stating, "I will bring a lot of experience to Campers Inn and intend to capture more of the Florida market. Campers Inn already has a great reputation not only with their customers but throughout the industry. I am proud to say I am now part of the team and want to help take Campers Inn to the next level."
Chynoweth is committed to the Campers Inn purpose of "Making sure that our customers feel so good about the product they bought and their decision to buy from us that they become our customers for life."
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Glenbrooke Real Estate
Del Webb communities are quiet neighborhoods designed for active adults over the age of 55. The Del Webb in Elk Grove, also known as Del Webb Glenbrooke, is located close to Highway 99 between Elk Grove Boulevard and Whitelock Parkway, along Bruceville Road. It is conveniently located near many shopping areas, but is set back enough to be away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life.
The benefits to living in Del Webb are plentiful. A dedicated homeowners association maintains all the common areas and amenities, so your neighborhood will never look run down, which is vital, since upon entering the gates, the overall atmosphere is pleasant. There are walking paths and benches and an abundance of trees. Across from the lodge is a lovely arbor and communal rose garden. There's also Storybook Woods Park, perfect for entertaining families (especially the little ones).
Signature amenities include a 9,000-square foot clubhouse (Arbour Lodge), fitness center, tennis courts, outdoor pool and spa, craft room, billiards, outdoor fireplaces, and a plethora of social clubs and classes. Emphasizing social and healthy lifestyles is a key theme among Del Webb communities and Glenbrooke offers groups and clubs for ballroom dance, golf, bike, Zumba, theatre outings, bridge, singles, quilters, and many more.
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Savage claimed Brock has "the lisp," called him "Brockstein"
On the May 18 nationally syndicated radio show Savage Nation, host Michael Savage took shots at Media Matters for America President and CEO David Brock, who is openly gay. Referring to David Brock as "David Broken" and "David Brockstein," Savage played clips from Brock's May 18 appearance on NBC's Today show and made comments in response, including: "Turn it off, I don't like his voice, I don't like the lisp. ... I don't like guys who sound like that they give me the creeps" and "[Y]our voice sucks. People don't listen to guys with voices like that no matter what their politics are. You gotta have a pair of balls!" Savage hosted a short-lived televised version of his show for MSNBC, also called The Savage Nation, before being fired by the cable channel for referring on the air to a caller as a "sodomite" and saying that the caller should "get AIDS and die."
From the May 18 Savage Nation:
SAVAGE: We have -- I don't know who this guy is, David Broken, or David Brockstein, David Brock -- talking about right-wing media. Let's hear clip two.
CLIP OF BROCK FROM TODAY: It was doing the research on the Hillary Clinton book. I could start to see through the Republican attack machine. In other words, I saw all the lies that were being propagated. The Right Wing was going crazy in the mid-1990's with Clinton.
SAVAGE: Turn it off, I don't like his voice, I don't like the lisp. I don't like the innuendo; I don't like guys who sound like that they give me the creeps. I don't trust 'em, that's all. Play clip three; see if it gets any better.
CLIP OF BROCK FROM TODAY: I've also started an organization, as you know, which launched two weeks ago. Which posts now every day.
SAVAGE: Oh well your mommy must be very proud of you -- turn him off. Oh I started a website two weeks ago -- you're so self-righteous. It's all about your website isn't it -- but you don't have a radio show, do you? [Brock's 30-minute radio segment "We Will Brock You" airs on the Air America Radio program The O'Franken Factor every Wednesday at 1 p.m.] And you're never going to have one, because your voice sucks. People don't listen to guys with voices like that no matter what their politics are. You gotta have a pair of balls! That's what they wanna hear. Left or Right, you've gotta have a voice that roars like a lion, bubala. I hear their Aunt Sarah, they could tune in on -- they can call the Bronx, instead of this garbage. Too late for all of this.
According to an article by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)'s senior analyst, Steve Rendall, in the July/August 2003 issue of FAIR's Extra! magazine, "Savage likes to single out progressives with Jewish-sounding names and ridicule them with an exaggerated Brooklyn accent. Thus Rebekah Wolf of the People's Law Collective and Donna Lieberman of the New York Civil Liberties Union were mocked as 'Communist lawyers' (pronounced 'loy-yahs') and 'verminous, left-wing garbage ... with law degrees' (1/9/03). Savage has even invented a fictional ACLU whipping boy, a 'loy-yah' tellingly named 'Mark Nobodyberg.'"
The FAIR report also noted: "Savage was born Michael Weiner into a Jewish family in the Bronx, New York, in the 1940s. Savage adopted his new name when he began hosting his first radio show in 1994. On-air and elsewhere, 'his Jewish upbringing is strictly taboo,' reported Salon.com writer David Gilson in a March profile (3/5/03)."
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Get the vote out! Student elections are April 8-9, 7 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.
All currently enrolled students are eligible to vote for Student Trustee for the Los Rios Community College District Board of Trustees, the SCC Student Senate, and the Clubs and Events Board.
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MIAMI - Roughly 1 million uninsured Floridians who repeatedly heard affordable health insurance was just around the corner for them thanks to President Barack Obama's new law are finding a harsh reality - they're too poor to qualify.
The Florida House voted last year not to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act because of fears that it could eventually cost the state hundreds of millions annually, meaning those earning below the poverty line, $11,490 for an individual or $23,550 for a family of four, aren't eligible for tax credits through the online marketplace.
Without those tax credits, most people living below the poverty line can't afford coverage. In Florida, generally only children, pregnant women, the disabled and single parents or caretakers of underage children are eligible for Medicaid, the government's free health plan for the poor.
"It's the hardest thing to explain to a consumer that they're falling in this gap," said Juanita Mainster, a Miami counselor who helps consumers sign up for health insurance.
She and other counselors estimate only 30 percent of applicants at their Miami office end up signing up for a health plan because they can't afford it.
Christina Coello, a 27-year-old full-time law student with a pre-existing medical condition, hasn't had insurance for seven years.
"So when I heard about Obamacare, I thought this is a really good thing for people that have pre-existing conditions."
But when Coella tried to enroll, she learned she was about $2,500 shy of qualifying for a tax credit, making the premiums impossible to afford on her part-time paralegal salary. Yet, her meager salary is still a bit too much to qualify for Medicaid.
"It's very frustrating because (the Florida House) doesn't want to cover people who are supposedly lazy. It's not only lazy people who need insurance. A lot of students fall into that category," said Coello, who has a 7-year-old son.
Health advocates are doing what they can so consumers don't leave appointments feeling hopeless. Florida CHAIN and navigator groups like the Epilepsy Foundation of Florida, which received a federal grant to sign people up for health coverage, are referring consumers to local health departments and community health centers that treat patients on a sliding scale and offer discounted drug programs.
"They'll keep saying, 'I'm poor. I should qualify for something.' And they're right they should but the fact is this is a state that chose not to expand Medicaid," said counselor Adrian Madriz.
CHAIN and Florida Legal Services are handing out educational material at community centers, colleges and libraries so consumers can share their frustrations with lawmakers. The League of Women Voters of Florida has also launched a campaign to educate business leaders, and cultivate allies among local Chambers of Commerce, trying to convince them that Medicaid expansion is an economic stimulus opportunity for the state.
Medicaid expansion may be a dead deal before the legislative session even begins in a few months. Scott said he supported the expansion, but never made it a priority and nothing has signaled that's changed.
Republican House Speaker Will Weatherford has been adamant about turning down any proposal that relies on federal dollars. In a recent editorial, Weatherford showed no sign of changing, calling the decision not to expand a flawed Medicaid program "a common-sense, quality solution to address our health care challenges."
Lucy Driver, 57, doesn't have a computer so she recently went to her church to get in-person help signing up for health insurance. But Driver, who was laid off from her job as a day care worker, learned that she also falls into the gap. Her premium would cost more than $380 a month because she falls below the poverty line, meaning she doesn't qualify for a tax credit.
"I thought that's what (the Affordable Care Act) is for - the poor people. But we can't even afford that," said Driver, a diabetic, who needs nearly $100 a month in insulin, needles and other medication. Sometimes she has to skip her insulin shots or borrow medication from a friend because she can't afford them. Driver, whose four adopted teenagers are all on Medicaid, gets a roughly $1,000 monthly adoption stipend - a bit too much to qualify for Medicaid.
Florida lawmakers will need to act fast if they hope to take advantage of the federal government's offer to pick up the tab. Full funding for the Medicaid expansion population up to 138 percent of the poverty level is available for only three calendar years: 2014, 2015, 2016. That means a state that expanded Medicaid this year will get three years of full federal funding, but a state that expands Medicaid in January of 2015 will get only two years of full federal funding
The federal match starts phasing down to 95 percent in 2017. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has said she has no authority to change the statute.
Christine Armario contributed to this report.


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Johnson Controls Recognizes Top SuppliersMetalformers Included
• Automated Spring Products Inc., Grand Haven, MI, a manufacturer of custom designed compression, extension, and torsion springs, wire forms, flat springs, stampings, spring and shim washers, and assemblies;
• Guelph Tool, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, a custom tool-and-die machine shop that also manufactures metal stampings, assemblies, headrest and armrest inserts, wireforms and other metal components;
• Superior Roll Forming, Valley City, OH, a supplier of rollformed components and welded assemblies; and
• E & E Manufacturing, Plymouth, MI, a metal-stamping company that also manufactures drawn structural extrusions and fasteners and welded assemblies. E & E Manufacturing also received a Leadership Award for Community Partnership for its collaborative work with Johnson Controls to serve and support the local community.
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Man Without Fear: David Mack, Daredevil, and the Bounds of Difference (Part Four)/
If Project Superior pulls the superhero genre into the space of independent comics, then a range of recent Marvel and DC projects have pulled the independent and avant garde comics artists into the realm of mainstream comics publishing, again via the figure of the superhero. Here, again, they seek to motivate the experimentation through appeals to character psychology. In this case, DC invites us to imagine what its superhero sagas would look like if they were produced by the denizens of the Bizarro World, noted for their confusion and often reversal of the norms of human society.
Matt Groenig (The Simpsons) shows the Justice League characters as being blown out of the pipe of Bizarro Superman, helping to set up the premise of the collection as a whole. If Project Superior is drawn towards forms of abstraction, the Bizarro comics have more room for the ugly realism that we associate with certain strands of indie comics, a tendency to deflate the heroic pretensions of the characters through various forms of the grotesque, as in this image by Tony Millionaire,
or the everyday, as in these images by Dave Cooper,
Danny Hellman
and Leela Corman.
These superheros are very down-to-earth, their human faults and foibles on full display; the heroes are often shown off-duty doing the kinds of things their readers regularly do. These images depend on our pre-existing relationship with the superheros for much of their pleasures. Project Superior depended on generic versions of the superhero, while these stories work with Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and the others, with the artists incorporating just enough of the familiar iconography and color palette to make it easy to recognize which characters are being evoked and spoofed.
Anyone who has read a Batman comic will no doubt recognize much of the debris in the Bat Cave depicted in this drawing by Kylie Baker, yet his cartoonish style is very different from what we would expect to see within the Batman franchise itself. This Jason Little page depicts the superheroes as bath toys, suggesting that they only come alive in the imagination of the child who is playing with them.
Mack himself relies on the image of superhero action figures, in this case of Marvel characters, in Wake Up, as another way into the tortured imagination of his young protagonist.
Mack's work involves a fascinating blurring of the distinction between graphic novels and artist books. Artist books are artworks which are intended to explore the nature of the book as a genre. Sometimes, they are printed in limited editions. More often, they are one of a kind items. They play with the shape, texture, and format of the book in ways that are idiosyncratic to the individual artists. They often are focused on the materiality of print culture rather than on the content of the book.
Nothing could contrast more totally with the cheaply printed, mass produced and circulated comic book. Historically, the art work which went into producing the comic was presumed to have no value and was often discarded once the book has been printed, much as we might toss the manuscript once the words have been set into type.
Yet, Mack is very interested in creating pages which are artworks on their own terms. He deploys innovative techniques and unexpected pigments (such as coffee grinds) to construct his images. Often, he layers physical and material objects onto the page so it is not a flat representation but something with its own shape and feel. Mack publishes books which remove these images from their context in the unfolding stories of his graphic novels and call attention to them on their own terms as artist's constructions, often describing and documenting the techniques which went into their production. His process has been documented in a film called The Alchemy of Art, which shows him creating some of the images contained within Vision-Quest and includes his comments on the process. Here, the printed comic becomes almost a byproduct of his creative process which is concentrated on the production of beautiful one-of-a-kind pages.
Throughout Vision-Quest, Mack calls attention to the often invisible but always important framelines and buffers in his layout by using physical materials rather than drawn lines to separate out his panels. In other instances, he glues objects such as leaves or bird's wings directly onto the page in what amounts to the graphic novel equivalent of Stan Brakhage's Mothlight.
In other cases, he creates designs which play with the orientation of the page, demanding that we physically turn the book around in order to follow the text or the action.
In his own graphic novel series, Kabuki, he plays with the notion of origami -- encouraging the reader to think of the page as something which can be folded and sculpted rather than simply part of the printed book.
In each of these cases, Mack builds on practices associated with the art book movement, but deploys them in relation to mass produced artifacts. He wants us to remain conscious that we are holding a printed object in our hands that has particular properties and expects particular behaviors from us. Here, again, he has both built upon and broken out of the visual language of mainstream superhero comics.
This is not what a superhero comic is "supposed to look like", even if it is telling the kind of story which might be readily accepted if communicated through a different style or mode of representation. Exploring the ways that Mack pushes against these expectations even as he operates at the heart of one of Marvel's cash cow franchises is what helps us to understand the "bounds of difference." And in the process, it helps us to understand how diversity operates within a genre which has otherwise come to dominate the comics medium.


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At last week's South Central School District Board meeting, along-time assistant coach and athletic director at South Central High School, Rick Simmons, was named head coach of the high school boys basketball team.
Simmons being named the new head coach came as very little of a surprise to most in the area. The only shocking thing for most is that Simmons was not named the coach last season following the retirement of Gary Shirley.
"The thing I've said all along is that I really wanted to have consistency," Simmons said. "My hope was that we would hire a young coach that would be here for a long period of time, and it just didn't work out."
South Central hired Matt Sturgeon at the start of last season. Earlier this summer, Sturgeon left South Central to take an administrative job at a Salem Junior High.
"It wasn't anything Coach Sturgeon did; it was just one of those things. He had the opportunity to move up, and I can't fault him on that," Simmons said.
Some credit Simmons with building up South Central's athletic program, always looking years down the road and doing what's best for the students, school and athletics.
He's only been the Cougars basketball coach for about a week, but it didn't take long for the news to spread and for people to start getting excited about basketball season.
"I've had a lot of people come up to me and be supportive, and I hope that continues. I tell them to wait until February to congratulate me," Simmons said.
He knows better than anyone how much success is demanded of the sports programs at South Central. He is one who has helped build that demand for success, and it doesn't change now that he is leading one of the programs.
In the past, Simmons has coached the junior varsity squads and assisted in the varsity games.
"Instead of coaching the first game (junior varsity), I'll be coaching more the second game," he said. "I've done it before; it's not a situation that bothers me. The biggest difference is, I get to make more decisions."
He doesn't plan on shaking the program up too much, but said he will be putting his stamp on it in his attempt to get the program back to the top after a down year.
"I'll take what I learned from Coach Shirley and add a little bit of my own." Simmons said. "To get the program back to where we want it. We had a down year, but one year doesn't mean a whole lot."
Simmons is optimistic about his new role and has already pulled some of his old notes and files to see what they've done in the past. He has even pulled some film and sat down to watch a bit.
Following July's school board meeting when Sturgeon's resignation was announced, the board approached Simmons about taking over the job. He was hesitant at first, knowing that he probably had only six more years until retirement. He wanted the new coach to be at South Central for more than six years, more like 20 years. He waited on giving an answer, hoping someone new, young and fresh would step up.
Even while waiting and hoping, Simmons knew in the back of his mind that it would probably be him standing up at the next board meeting accepting the head coaching position.
"It's a great job; I can't imagine anyone not wanting it. That's probably why a lot of people are wondering why I waited till now," Simmons said.
"I told the school board last week, I could care less whether my name ever makes the paper or if my picture is ever in the paper. It's all about what the players achieve and the success they have, what they carry on later in life. I want to build on what we have had and re-establish the pride in the program and just do those things that make us successful – hard work, desire, determination and show a lot of heart on the court. And when we leave, I want people to respect us, win or lose," Simmons said.
Simmons has said one thing will change. In past years, Simmons has declined to stand with the team during preseason pictures, he says he will only stand in pictures following championship (for baseball or basketball). His attitude serves as another driving force to win for the Cougars, as just about every spring and summer he has his picture taken with a championship team. But now, as the head basketball coach, he thinks he'll step into the photo before the season.
"Yeah, I suppose I will. It's only fair that at some point they know what I look like. To me, it's still all about the kids," Simmons said.
With basketball season still a couple of months off, Simmons is focused on his athletic director and baseball duties, but building the basketball program back up is his next challenge.
"I don't know that I have the miracles that Coach Shirley had. I don't have many tricks up my sleeves. I did say some of his mojo would maybe rub off on me, but I don't know. We'll just have to see what happens," Simmons said.
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Venerable Therapon, Abbot of Monza
Saint Therapon of Monza was a monk in the monastery of Saint Adrian (May 5) at the River Monza. The monk began his ascetic deeds in Moscow, and then transferred to the city of Kostroma at the Elevation of the Cross monastery, and was tonsured there.
The pious monks Adrian and Paphnutius, from the monastery of Saint Paul of Obnora (January 10), seeking solitude, moved to the Monza and founded a monastery 25 versts from Galich. Saint Therapon transferred to this monastery, where he labored in asceticism until the end of his life. Each day, with the blessing of the igumen, he withdrew into a forest thicket and prayed. By night he read and transcribed copies of spiritually useful books.
In his life he emulated Blessed Basil of Moscow (August 2), whom he called his friend, although personally he never saw him. Even during his life, Saint Therapon was glorified with a gift of wonderworking. Before his death he predicted a year of famine (1601). He surrendered his soul to God in the year 1597. The monastery at the River Monza was called after him the Theraponov.


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Last weekend Sydney City Council had the official opening of the new Town Hall replete in solar panel splendour. As part of the celebrations, the Live Green House was on location as were volunteers from the WWF Earth Hour team. We were approached to ask if we could send along someone to teach beeswax candle-rolling. With over 20,000 candles rolled, we sent in Ade (bung knee and all) and from all accounts it was very popular.
Earth Hour is traditionally one of our busier times of year thanks to the 'naturally carbon neutral' status of pure beeswax candles (according to the organisers themselves). Of course it makes sense that pure beeswax, made by bees to store honey WOULD be more earth friendly than petro-chemical candles (paraffin) or hydrogenated/bleached soya oil or palm oil candles. Then again, based on our sales, about 99.99999% of people are turning off their lights and lighting environmentally damaging (not to mention the damage to your health) candles.
For more information on the toxicity of candles, read our post on the article I wrote for Living Wisdom.
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I made just a couple minor changes to a recipe from Simply Recipes, cutting the squash larger than called for and using dried chives. This is definitely one of our favorite recipes!
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6-8 cups vegetable broth
5 tablespoons butter, divided
1 small onion, finely chopped
2 cups butternut squash, peeled and chopped
2 cups arborio rice
1 cup dry white wine (I used Sauvignon Blanc)
1 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1 tablespoon dried chives
salt and pepper
The chef at one of the cooking classes I recently attended stressed how important it is to add hot stock when making risotto and using a wide pan. In the past, I haven't heated my stock thinking it couldn't be that important, but I have to admit that tonight's risotto was very creamy...perhaps hot stock does help?


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With any luck the Bears-Packers game Sunday will measure up to the sniping it's getting as the teams continue the back-and-forth that resumed Wednesday when Brandon Marshall talked for nearly 20 minutes about his disdain for the neighbors to the north.
Lance Briggs didn't need to carry a prop with him a day after Marshall hauled around a Christmas tree to discuss what is at stake. He has lived the rivalry for a decade, riding the ups — including a 6-2 record for Lovie Smith vs. Brett Favre — and the downs — a current five-game losing streak to Aaron Rodgers.
"(Marshall) said it best," Briggs said. "Doesn't like them and is going to play this game like it's his last. I feel the same way."
On Thursday, Brian Urlacher, sidelined with a pulled hamstring, traded barbs with Packers tight end Jermichael Finley, who suggested the Bears defense could be better without the aging middle linebacker because he has slowed in recent seasons.
"I don't think they're losing too much if he's out. Putting another guy (Nick Roach) in might help them a little," Finley told FoxSportsWisconsin.com
"He's an idiot," Briggs said. "Just suit up and play ball. His comments aren't going to change the outcome of the game. They're not going to help him or anybody play better."
Urlacher then took to SiriusXM NFL Radio to say the Packers offense was better off in its 2010 Super Bowl run without Finley, who was lost to a torn meniscus in the first half of the season.
"If he thinks that, that's fine," Urlacher said. "Just like a couple of years ago, I think, he tore his ACL (in fact meniscus) and the Packers were actually better without him. You know, they won the Super Bowl. I hope we can duplicate that. It won't hurt my feelings if we win the Super Bowl without me like they did without him.
"People can say what they want. It feels like I deal with something like this every year. It doesn't hurt my feelings. I don't like it when they talk about my teammates. It's like your kids. It's OK to be talking about me or whatever but don't talk about my kids or my family. That really pisses me off."
Otherwise, the Packers treated Marshall's comments mostly in a lighthearted manner. He basically said the Green Bay secondary wasn't man enough to cover him one-on-one. The idea is absurd on its face when you consider the Bears' next closest wide receiver is 1,086 yards behind Marshall. Why wouldn't the Packers devote more attention to him?
"I don't know exactly what he said but he's smart so I'm going to be smart, too," Packers wide receiver Greg Jennings said, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "Man, I wish the Bears would play us one on one and man to man. It's reverse psychology. It's pretty impressive. So, yeah, man the Bears always are playing Cover-2. I think they're scared not to play Cover-2."
Soon, these teams are going to have to play the game. A Packers' victory will clinch the NFC North for them. If the Bears win, they not only remain alive in the division race, they continue to control their own playoff destiny.
More than that, a Bears victory would provide a badly needed dose of momentum and confidence. It also would change the entire tone at Halas Hall, where everyone has been tight after four losses in the last five games.
"(The talking) really doesn't matter," Briggs said. "It really doesn't change the way we're going to play. It doesn't change anything.
"It means the world right now. We have to win this game. There are so many reasons that go into it. It's the Packers. It's the playoffs. Everything is on the line. We have to leave it all out there."
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"Please sirs, my grandmother lives just beyond the forest"
In the far reaches of a long-lost wilderness, there stands a forgotten town inhabited only by children. Though they appear normal enough, their eyes burn with madness, and they speak in a foreign, archaic tongue. Nearly a millenia ago, a powerful spell had gone awry, or maybe it had succeeded - in any case, it ended up blessing, or cursing, an entire generation of children with agelessness. However, as the centuries passed, the children's parents grew old and died, the buildings of the town crumbled to earth, and even the civilization itself faded into history, becoming lost to time. All that remained were the children, driven mad by the psychological toll of living for hundreds of years beyond their age. In time, most children died, killed off by fighting amongst themselves, while many others were driven to suicide. Only a small handful remain, and they are a strange people indeed.


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The Vocation of Marriage is the divine call to show forth the love of God for the world in the love of husband and wife for each other.
The bride and the groom at the wedding are themselves the "ministers" of this sacrament. For Roman Catholics, a priest or deacon must witness the marriage with two other witnesses (normally the best man and maid of honor).
The Church imposes numerous requirements on a couple to marry validly because the commitment of married love is so important for the couple and plays such an integral role in the sacramental life of the Church. Thus, an extensive pre-marital preparation program is in place, which normally requires at least six months to complete.
If you wish to celebrate your wedding at St. Ignatius, contact Maureen Haley at the Parish House (212-288-3588 x636) as soon as possible after your engagement and certainly before any plans are made about a reception or other arrangements.
If you plan to celebrate your wedding somewhere other than St. Ignatius, the Parish can offer pastoral assistance to you, if necessary, with your preparation and meeting the Church requirements.


text: I admit that I am not super familiar with the comics. Most of my superhero knowledge comes from movies, cartoons, and video games. There is one thing I've noticed, though, that I was wondering about. Why is Joker always falling off of buildings? In Michael Keaton's Batman movie, Joker falls off a building to his death, and we hear him laughing. In The Dark Knight, Joker falls off a building, and it would have been to his death had Batman not saved him. I've been playing the new game Arkham Origins, and there's a scene where Joker falls off a building, and once again Batman saves him. It seems to be a recurring theme, and I was wondering if all of these scenes were paying an homage to something from the comics.


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Benched Luongo ready for any trade scenario, praises fellow stopper Schneider as 'probably best goalie right now' in NHL
NHL trade deadline looms next Wednesday
Vancouver Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo (right) is fellow netminder Cory Schneider's biggest fan. 'We've all seen how Schneids is playing right now so there is absolutely no reason they would take him out,' says Luongo.
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VANCOUVER — When the Vancouver Canucks coaching staff opted Wednesday to turn a scheduled full team practice into a six-man optional, Roberto Luongo was among the six on the ice at UBC.
It never used to be this way. Luongo was always the main man. He was always the goalie playing every night and he was always the goalie resting while his backup took shots from the healthy scratches and fourth-liners.
But there he was Wednesday as Tom Sestito, Andrew Gordon, Steve Pinizzotto, Zack Kassian and Jordan Schroeder peppered him with pucks under the direction of goalie coach Rollie Melanson.
Luongo has worn a ballcap and watched Cory Schneider start five straight games, all wins. He will sit again Thursday when the Canucks entertain the Colorado Avalanche at Rogers Arena (7 p.m., Sportsnet Pacific, Team 1040) but he will not be sitting anxiously by his phone awaiting word on a possible trade out of Vancouver.
Make no mistake. Luongo is in play. He has been in play since last summer when Schneider supplanted him as the No. 1 netminder. Even Luongo himself declared it was time to move on. So far, general manager Mike Gillis has not pulled the trigger. The NHL trade deadline is next Wednesday at noon Pacific time and, if Gillis can't move Luongo, Bobby Lou could start the playoffs as Schneider's backup and remain there all spring.
"Yeah, those are all the things I thought about before the season started," Luongo told a large scrum of reporters. "I was fully aware of all the scenarios, especially being here past the deadline, or whatnot. It's stuff that I had a lot of time to think about during the lockout and I'm fully prepared for. Whatever happens, I'll accept and be a good teammate.
"I'm trying to be as positive as I can and work hard and make sure that I'm ready. Things change quickly in the league. It's not for me to be in a bad spot in my mind if something were to happen and I have to play. I'm in the NHL and I'm happy and, hopefully, it all works out for the best and we have a good Cup run here."
Canucks assistant coach Rick Bowness, who handled media duties Wednesday, lauded Luongo for his professionalism.
"I give Roberto an awful lot of credit for the way he's handled a very tough situation for him," stated Bowness. "He is a very proud man. He is an elite goaltender and this is very, very difficult on him — and you wouldn't know it. He won't allow it to affect the locker room. He won't allow it to affect his preparation and his work habits. That's just not the type of man he is. He is an excellent teammate and he will never let his status affect this locker room."
Luongo, now in his seventh season with the Canucks, had his opportunity earlier this month to seize the net but was unable to do so.
After an outstanding 2-1 shootout victory in Columbus on March 12, he allowed 12 goals on 84 shots in his next three starts (.857 save percentage) and the coaches went back to Schneider. The redhead from Marblehead, Mass., responded with the aforementioned five consecutive victories, two by shutout. Luongo has no trouble assessing the situation.
"We've all seen how Schneids is playing right now so there is absolutely no reason they would take him out," Luongo commented. "I mean, he's playing unreal and he's probably the best goalie in the league right now. So, obviously, you just have to roll with the hot hand and that's totally understandable."
Luongo is 7-4-3 this season with a 2.47 goals against average and .904 save rate, the latter stat ranking him 32nd in the league prior to Wednesday's action. Those numbers plus his onerous contract — nine years and more than $40 million remaining — appear to make him a difficult sell.
"I'm obviously not exactly sure what's going to happen but, that being said, I'm just going to just keep doing what I'm doing and work hard and make sure I'm ready to go," he said. "I'm trying not to think about it too much and just see where it goes."
Asked about a best-case scenario for himself, Luongo replied: "I don't have a best-case scenario. I just try to do my best every day. Sometimes you don't have things in your control and there is no use worrying about that stuff and letting it creep into your mind and affecting you."
Thursday's date with the Avalanche is the Canucks' last home game before the deadline. If Luongo is moved, it could be his last time wearing the Vancouver home blues. He claimed that had not even entered his mind.
"I don't think about it that way at all," he said. "I haven't heard anything from Mike so there is no reason to think that."


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The week in review
Lamest legislature: The Virginia General Assembly extends its session without resolving the $2.4 billion budget gap between the Senate and the House of Delegates– and then the House decides to take a break March 21.
Worst arson: The apartment of single-mother Carmen Iris Hillegan is destroyed March 18. Benjamin Lopez Rivera is charged with arson and breaking and entering.
Best interview with a fugitive: Arson suspect Rivera chats by cell phone with award-winning Daily Progress reporter Reed Williams March 22, and vows to elude authorities until he can prove his innocence.
Longest sentence: Vernon Lydell Buggs, a deaf man who stabbed a deaf acquaintance, gets 18 years in prison March 18. Judge Edward Hogshire adds two years to the maximum recommended time because of the brutality of the attack, reports award-winning Liesel Nowak in the Progress.
Worst hangover from the September 27 Wake Forest game: Greene County planning director Nick Hahn is sentenced to 60 days in jail for running over a police officer and leaving the scene after drinking a pint of whiskey at the game. The officer, Michael A. Howard, is suing Hahn for $850,000, according to a Nowak article.
Worst warnings: Three Charlottesville schools– Johnson, Jackson-Via, and Clark- land on a federal watch list under the No Child Left Behind Act, enabling parents to transfer their children to other city schools this fall even though Johnson and Jackson-Via are accredited by the state. Julie Stavitski has the story in the Progress.
Worst hospitality: During an attack on Luis Avila, a guest at a September 20, 2003, party at the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, member Joshua Weatherbee allegedly said, "You should go back to Mexico," and "You should be washing my dishes," according to a $300,000 lawsuit filed by Avila, a fourth year commerce student. Weatherbee pleaded guilty to assault and battery in December, the Cavalier Daily reports.
Best place to look up: Developer Keith Woodard proposes a 7-10 story building on the site of four storefronts beside the Wachovia Tower on the Downtown Mall.
Biggest sigh of relief for Buckeyes: Ohio sniper suspect Charles A. McCoy Jr., wanted in two dozen shootings, is captured in Las Vegas March 17.
Worst antidepressant side effect: Suicide. The Food and Drug Administration calls for warning labels March 22 on 10 drugs, including the popular Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil.
Biggest media transaction: Blake DeMaso of Summit Publishing buys Blue Ridge Outdoors from Portico Publications, and plans to distribute the outdoors sports mag in the Atlanta area.
Biggest spud drop: 40,000 pounds of potatoes are delivered to Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church March 19 and bagged for local hunger relief agencies.
Best news for low-income, wannabe first-time homebuyers: Piedmont Housing Authority is offering help with mortgages to families of four earning less than $38,220 or singles making less than $26,760.
Best recusal: Albemarle Commonwealth's Attorney James Camblos steps down as special prosecutor in the 1982 murder of Rebecca Lynn Williams, for which Earl Washington Jr. was nearly executed. Eighteen years ago, Camblos represented Kenneth Tinsley, whose DNA was found at the scene.
Most historic: The Virginia Department of Historic Resources designates the Town of Stanardsville a historic district.
Worst resume addition: UVA students Conner Hyland Ginley and Heather Lynn Horn are arrested on the grounds of Monticello early March 21 and charged with felony breaking and entering.
Best firewalkers: Vice Mayor Meredith Richards ponies up $81 to walk on fire, and the Daily Progress' award-winning David Maurer also strolls on coals, he reports March 13.


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When Brides Have No Budget (Or Taste)
Obviously someone needed to rein in this woman during the wedding planning. What kind of ego does it require to commission a life-sized replica of yourself in cake? But what really baffles me is this: the details are exact right down to the hair clip, so what the heck is UP with that tacky red rick-rack down the skirt of the cake? "Sure, we hand-painted a matching bodice-design, copied the make-up and hairstyle, and have identical veils - but then we thought this giant rick-rack would add just the right extra touch!" ?!?
Obviously Bridezilla shares my opinion: she's eying that red trim with murder in her eyes.


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How can I force Mathematica to completely evaluate a subexpression before using a replacement rule?
For example, consider the following definition (for the series of
n correction factors in Stirling's formula):
stirlingSeries[n_] :=
Total[Table[(-1)^(k - 1)/k t^k h^(k/2 - 1), {k, 3,
2 n + 2}]]], {h, 0, n}] /.
t^m_ -> If[Mod[m, 2] == 0, (m - 1)!!, 0]
What I want to tell Mathematica to do is replace powers of
t at the end, as the very last step in calculating
stirlingSeries[n]. Instead, it replaces them first. This changes the result of the calculation.


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BRUSSELS, April 10 (UPI) -- A European decision on the extractive industries will bring a "new era of transparency" to an industry that often escapes scrutiny, an EU commissioner said.
The European Parliament passed new regulations on disclosure requirements for the extractive and forestry industries.
European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Michel Barnier said the measure will give local communities that are rich in resources like oil and natural gas a better idea of how their governments work with multinational companies.
"The agreement will bring in a new era of transparency to an industry which is far too often shrouded in secrecy and help fight tax evasion and corruption as well as create the framework so both companies and governments can be held to account on the use of revenues from natural resources," he said in a statement.
The EU government in 2011 adopted a proposal that would require the full disclosure of payments made by multinational companies to governments hosting reserves like oil, natural gas, minerals and forestry products.
Barnier said the new legislation put the EU on the same page as the United States.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last year ruled that oil and natural gas companies must disclose payments made to foreign governments. The SEC said it was adopting the rules through the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform act.


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It was an Ivy League-caliber fete as prestigious alumni gathered at the Harvard Club of Chicago Annual Award Dinner at the Chicago Club. Every year, the Harvard Club honors remarkable locals for their efforts to better the community. This year's awardees were Mary Beth Kravets, for her service in education, and Jack Schuler, whose foundation offers college scholarships to underserved high school students. Guest speaker Craig A. Lambert, deputy editor of Harvard Magazine, delivered a lively address on the evolution of American humor. Funds from the event, the club's only annual fundraiser, benefit Chicagoland Harvard students. -Photos by Dan Kuruna


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There's been a lot of discussions on the web about Java and the support for bean properties. People would like to have a mechanism that relies less on java bean conventions (reflection on method names, find getters and setters) and more on explicit language constructs. The goal is to simplify bean and property handling, have stronger type checks, be able to reference the property and not its values, etc... Most proposals involve additions to the Java syntax. I don't want to add to the confusion, but I just played around with what we have now in Java 5.
What we could have is instead of defining classes directly with fields in them, we could have them reference Property objects instead. Property objects carry the type information and the value itself. An inheritance hierarchy can provide for read-only, write-only and read-write hierarchy. Using public final fields we can have an access syntax that is not the same as the current getter and setter methods, but pretty close.
public class PersonBean {
public final IFullProperty
name=new NonNullProperty ();
public final IReadProperty
public final IFullProperty
email=new FullProperty (){
public void set(String value) {
if (value.indexOf('@')==-1){
throw new IllegalArgumentException("email does not contain @");
public PersonBean(int id,String name){
this.id=new ReadOnlyProperty
Of course, the generic madness means the type information has to be typed twice, but when generics syntax is cleaned up it'd be a lot more readable. This bean says that it has a changeable name property, a String that cannot be null. It has an id integer property that cannot be changed. Finally it has an email property that has ad hoc constraint checking. The Property interfaces and its sub interfaces define a get() and a set() method so accessing the fields becomes:
bean.getName() -> bean.name.get()
bean.setName(name) -> bean.name.set(name)
The property change listener can be attached to the property object so that the bean doesn't have to have any line of code related to listeners. Everything can be done via static methods:
static void addPropertyChangeListener(Object bean,PropertyChangeListener pcl);
to add a listener on all properties
static void addPropertyChangeListener(Object bean,PropertyChangeListener pcl,IProperty p);
to add a listener on a specific property. Note that since we're taking a property object, and not a property name for example we cannot register a listener on a non existing property. The property does not have a back link to its bean (to avoid disgracious constructors with this), so we need to have both the bean and the propert.
If anybody's interested, all the code with unit tests is available here.


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Northern Air Cargo Leases Space for Charter Passenger Terminal
(Anchorage, Alaska) – Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) is pleased to announce that Northern Air Cargo (NAC) has entered in to a lease agreement with ANC for aeronautical use of space at the former Kulis Air National Guard base, located at 5005 Raspberry Road. This is the first air operator to make use of the opportunity to lease the space.
Northern Aviation Services, a division of NAC, has reconfigured the building that once served as the mess hall and kitchen, transforming it into a first class charter terminal for the use of their client, Shell Alaska Exploration. The facility will be supporting transportation of Shell's employees and contractors during the summer offshore exploration season. NAC has also chartered a Boeing 737-400 passenger aircraft from Miami Air which will be based at Kulis as well.
"Northern Air Cargo has done a fantastic job turning the former mess hall into a first class charter passenger terminal, and we are delighted that the Airport has been able to assist and support this project," stated Steve Hatter, Deputy Commissioner of Aviation for the State of Alaska.
"We're very fortunate that the airport has this type of facility available to meet the needs of the aviation industry and that of our expanding customer base. We believe the transfer of Kulis to the state, and subsequent availability to private sector will facilitate new growth at the Anchorage Airport," said David Karp, NAC's President and Chief Executive Officer.
The former Kulis Air National Guard base is located on 129 acres of property owned by the State of Alaska. The Air National Guard operated Kulis on the site from the 1950's until February, 2011, when the Air National Guard's operations were relocated to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) as part of a Base Realignment and Closure action.
The State of Alaska received the property in October, 2011, and has been preparing it for lease over the last eight months. "It's a great location with tremendous potential," said Katie Gage, Land Manager for ANC. "However, there were a number of older facilities and structures that needed to be demolished, as they had little value or purpose on a commercial service airport."
Approximately 230,000 square feet of building space remains available for lease. This includes three C130 hangars, four office buildings, and a large warehouse. Existing improvements also include approximately 15 acres of aircraft parking apron and three acres of vehicle parking lots. The State is working with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to designate approximately half of the land as non-aeronautical to improve the leasing potential of four office-type buildings on uplands near Raspberry Road.
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) oversees 254 airports, 11 ferries serving 35 communities, 5,700 miles of highway and 660 public facilities throughout the state of Alaska. The mission of ADOT&PF is to "Get Alaska Moving through service and infrastructure."
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Design and Evaluation of a Keyframe Arrangement Framework for Video Storyboard Surrogates
Hyunhee Kim and Yongho Kim
ASIS&T 2008 Annual Meeting (AM08 2008)
Columbus, Ohio, October 24-29, 2008
This study examines the design and evaluation of a keyframe arrangement framework for video storyboard surrogates. First, we constructed an arrangement model of keyframes for a storyboard based on the Preserved Context Indexing System (PRECIS) indexing and narrative theories. Second, we evaluated the model using six sample videos and 26 participants, and then analyzed the results using a t-test and repeated-measure MANOVA. The results revealed that viewing two storyboard versions of a video in a fixed order (first browsing its sequential storyboard and then browsing its proposed model-based arrangement) is the most effective method of improving the storyboards ability to summarize a video. Based on the results, we propose two methods for utilizing video storyboard surrogates in digital video libraries: (1) designing a video browsing interface where, for each video, users can use its sequential storyboard as a default, and then use its model-based arrangement (non-sequential) storyboard for viewing it again; and (2) utilizing non-sequential storyboards as structured match sources of image-based queries.
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Brick is the effective solution for breaking glass.
The Citizen is set parallel to the events of the original Half-Life 2. The player takes the role of an ordinary man, pushed over the edge by the oppressive regime controlling his life. His home trashed, his family dead, The Citizen leaves his apartment for the last time. He seeks new friends, and a way to help the human resistance to smash the iron grip of the Combine. What follows is a winding tale of betrayal, determination and grief. Many obstacles lie in his path which require a sleek combination of agility, stealth, intelligence, and sheer violence to overcome
Brick is the effective solution for breaking glass.
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text: History first class . In the year 1821, Person Noyes, a pioneer who had settled in the foothills of the White Mountains in New Hampshire, near the present village of Pike happened to pick up a piece of stone which he tried on the edge of his ax. It gave such good results that the following spring he quarried a few pieces which he broke into rough scythe stone shape and were used by local farmers with great satisfaction. Thus, quite by accident, the finest deposit of Mica Schist in the entire world was discovered in a tiny mountain village of New Hampshire. The Mica Schist quarries in the Pike area produced high grade scythe stones for well over a century. In 1897, PIKE Manufacturing Company took over the sale of INDIA Oilstones manufactured by the Norton Company, and years later, those made of silicon carbide under the CRYSTOLON brand. These two stones composed of the electric furnace abrasives - aluminum oxide and silicon carbide respectively are among the fastest cutting sharpening stones made and are produce to meet every sharpening requirement. In 1932 the NORTON Company purchased the PIKE Manufacturing Company and changed the name to Norton Pike Company. Ground was broken in 1946 for a one story brick and steel factory building in Littleton, NH which was completed and occupied in the next year. And now a word from the president of PIKE. [/IMG]


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Rick Ross Sued by Jeweler Over $90,000 Bill
Do you know what time it is? It's time for a lawsuit. Rick Ross is being sued by a jeweler for an overdue luxury bill. TMZ has the scoop on the legalities.
According to the suit, Rozay visited Johnny's Custom Jewelry store in Texas in August 2012, and purchased three diamond Rolexes for $89,847.50. The trio of timepieces consists of one 18K gold watch with 7 carat diamonds ($14,000), one two-tone watch with 5 carat diamonds ($14,000) and another 18K gold watch with 30 carat diamonds ($55,000).
The owner, nicknamed "King Johnny," says he delivered the watches as ordered and now he wants Rozay to cut a check. Johnny is seeking the money that he's owed plus interest.
Johnny's Custom Jewelry is a popular jewelry store in the Lone Star state having outfitted pieces for various artists including Soulja Boy, Nelly, Paul Wall, Sean Kingston, Flo Rida and many others.
Rick Ross' reps had no comment on the lawsuit.


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William "Bill" Bass has done a lot for the Coastal Conservation Association of Louisiana.
William "Bill" Bass has done a lot for the Coastal Conservation Association of Louisiana.
Bass, 70, a Lafayette native who also resides in Houma, is a lawyer by trade, and he has used those skills to help the CCA Louisiana. He has provided legal advice to the organization over the years and testified on behalf of the group before state legislative committees, the U.S. Corp of Engineers and the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission.
But that's only the beginning of Bass' association with CCA Louisiana. He served as the Acadiana Chapter president, CCA Louisiana State President and on CCA's national board. He also has played a major role in the organization's reef program.
Those efforts have allowed Bass to earn a special place with CCA Louisiana. On Feb. 16, Bass was one of three new members inducted into the organization's Hall of Fame.
Bass, who owns a camp in Cocodrie, was inducted into the CCA Louisiana Hall of Fame along with Ted Beaullieu Sr. of Lafayette and Bob Bush of Lake Charles.
"Along with the other guys honored, we put a lot of time and effort into this organization," Bass said. "It was an exciting time to be recognized."
Bass shared the award with his family and friends at the group's annual state convention in Lafayette.
"Ted Beaullieu, Bill Bass and Bob Bush laid the foundation that enables CCA Louisiana to fulfill our goals of conservation, coastal restoration and common sense fishing regulations," CCA Louisiana president Charlie Caplinger said in a press release. "Without their selfless contributions, we would have been unable to accomplish many of our successes over the years. They are all very deserving of their induction into the CCA Louisiana Hall of Fame."
Bass said he always takes pride in the work he has done helping CCA Louisiana with the gill-net laws and with the efforts to restart the organization's chapter in Louisiana.
Although he spent countless hours helping the organization in a variety of ways, Bass said he was never alone.
"It was never a one-man show," he said. "Everybody on the group worked hard to achieve our goals over the years."
Also at the convention:
--The CCA Louisiana 2013 Jerry Stone Conservationist of the Year Award was presented to State Sen. Gerald Long, R-Natchitoches.
--CCA Vermilion Chapter President Joey Russo received the Albert Bankston Volunteer of the Year Award.
Bass said he considers himself an avid outdoorsman and has a love for duck hunting, but when it comes down to it, fishing will always be his favorite.
"If I had to rank them, there's nothing better than walking the barrier islands and fishing," he said. "It's one of my favorite things to do."


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Corrective Maintenance and Retrofits
Corrective Maintenance is carried out after a fault is detected and is aimed at restoring your crane to a condition in which it can perform its intended function. Timely repair of known faults reduces the likelihood of emergency breakdowns and is often mandated by regulation.
Retrofits are a relatively easy and economical way to add current features and technologies to your existing overhead crane. Common retrofits include hoist and component replacements, variable speed control, radio remote control and LED lighting. Compared to modernizations, retrofits typically require much less pre-planning and downtime.
Planned crane repairs
Correcting known faults is good for safety and makes economic sense. Component faults identified during inspections and preventive maintenance are documented, and corrective actions are discussed with you. We will coordinate crane and hoist repairs around your production schedule in order to minimize downtime.
In the event of a breakdown, contact us for emergency repairs.
Hoist replacement
Has your hoist reached the end of its productive design life? No matter how well maintained, your hoist will not last forever.
Konecranes CXT® hoists can be retrofitted onto most cranes. Our pre-engineered hoist retrofits are designed for easy installation, causing minimal disturbance to your production.
Crane component replacement
In addition to hoists, there are numerous other components that can be replaced or retrofitted:
• Travelling machinery, end trucks, wheels, drives, etc.
• Ladders, platforms and other means of crane access
• Safety apparatus such as tie-off lines and limit switches
• Drive and hoist motors
Control upgrades
There are a variety of retrofits that can improve the way your crane is powered and controlled.
Load control: Stepless speed controls, collision avoidance systems and other technologies can often be added or upgraded to bring current technologies into use.
Radios: Pendant controls require the operator to move with the crane. With radio controls, the operator can stand in a position that gives them a better view of the load.
Conductor systems: Konecranes offers conductor systems, including festoons, energy chain and conductor bar systems to improve safety and reduce operating costs.
Smart Features
A host of Smart Features can be added to your overhead crane to give you more control over material handling in your production process.
Sway Control is designed to automatically limit load swing by controlling the bridge and trolley acceleration and deceleration rates.
Shock Load Prevention allows for smooth load control. If an attempt is made to pick up a load too abruptly, hoisting speed is automatically and immediately adjusted.
Protected Areas are no-go areas, which the crane operator cannot override or adjust.
LED Lighting Retrofit for Cranes
Traditional metal-halide or halogen lights have a short service life and can suffer from damage due to vibrations, resulting in increased costs and less-efficient operations. With an LED Lighting Retrofit you get lights that have a much longer service life, and your lights will be far less prone to damage from vibration.
Traditional lighting can account for 50 to 90 percent of electricity used by a crane. Lighting is, therefore, a major cost in all crane operations. LED lights provide the same degree of lighting to the working area than standard lights, yet consume little more than one third of the energy.
Get connected to your crane fleet
A remote service connection can be installed as a retrofit kit for your existing industrial cranes to give you access to TRUCONNECT® Remote Monitoring. TRUCONNECT Remote Monitoring provides asset usage and operating information that is used to assess crane condition. It also notifies you of hoist overloads, emergency-stops and over-temperature occurrences through text or email alerts, allowing for prompt response.


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