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In August of 1976, a lone gunman dressed in black entered the mansion owned by millionaire oilman T. Cullen Davis and shot four people, including Davis' estranged wife Priscilla, who had legal possession of the home at the time, according to the terms of their pending divorce proceedings. Two people survived the shootings, but Priscilla' daughter, Andrea Willborn, and her boyfriend, Stan Farr, did not.
Cullen Davis, who was then said to be worth approximately $400 million, was indicted for the murders. The next year, after a change of venue moved the case to Amarillo, Texas, Davis, at the time reported to be the "the richest man to stand trial on murder charges," was acquitted of murder in one of the most notorious and globally-televised events of the decade. (Davis was also later acquitted of murder-for-hire charges in a separate case where it was alleged that he attempted to arrange for the presiding judge of his divorce action to meet an untimely and violent death as well.)
Davis was never tried in Farr's death, but in 1990, he agreed to settle the wrongful death civil action which had been filed on behalf of Farr's two teenage children. In the settlement agreement, Davis agreed to pay the children $250,000. The agreed judgment based on the settlement was entered on February 15, 1990, but the settlement was amended three years later to include a provision requiring Davis to pay the balance of the judgment by 1997. The judgment was never paid.
On September 27, 2002, the children, who were by this time adults, filed a suit to recover the debt in the 352nd District Court, Judge Bonnie Sudderth presiding. Davis responded by claiming that the statute of limitations barred the children's claims against him – that he no longer legally owed the judgment because the children had waited too long to collect it.
Davis argued that the original judgment had become "dormant" on February 14, 2000 (ten years after the original judgment was signed) because the children had not sought a writ of execution of the judgment during the 10-year period of time. Texas law provides that judgments become dormant after 10 years if no writ of execution is issued.
However, Texas law also provides that a dormant judgment may be "revived" by filing a lawsuit on the debt if not brought later than the second anniversary of the date the judgment becomes dormant. The problem, Davis pointed out, was that the children waited two years and seven months to bring the debt action, and, therefore, he contended, the debt was no longer owed.
The Farr children sought summary judgment, asking Judge Sudderth to rule that their claims were not time-barred, since they were both minors at the time the settlement was entered into. Texas law stops the clock on limitations during a child's minority years, if they are under the age of 18 at the time a cause of action accrues.
Judge Bonnie Sudderth agreed with the Farr children that their claims against Davis were not time-barred. The effect of Judge Sudderth's ruling affirmed that Davis still owed the Farr children $125,000 each, plus interest as provided by law.

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Roman Bioarchaeology Carnival XXXII
Some Roman(ish) bioarch news for the month of August...
Finds and Features
Finds and Features
|Wealthy Sarmatian burial (via RiaNovosti)
|"Mass grave" at Pisidia Antiocheia (via Hurriyet)
|Skeleton and mask found at Aizanoi (via Hurriyet)
- 6 August. Archaeologists find treasures at ancient Russian burial cite [sic]. [PanArmenian.net] Originally, this find, likely associated with the Sarmatians (roughly 500 BC to 400 AD) in southern Russia, was heralded as the tomb of a noble woman on account of the jewelry, mirror, and other decorations covering the body. Later in the month (20 August), however, it was reported that Russian "Amazon" buried with cosmetics could be man [RiaNovosti]. Seems that the original sex determination was made on the artifacts alone and that after an osteologist had a look at them, they were much more male in morphology. I suspect that the archaeologists will want a DNA analysis to confirm because *gasp* a man buried with "woman" things? We may have another gay caveman on our hands...
- 8 August. Crossrail tunnel project uncovers ancient burial ground - including Bedlam patients. [Independent] It sounds like the majority of the 4,000 skeletons they expect to find as excavation continues in London are from only about 150 years ago, but there have also been plenty of Roman-era coins, roads, and other stuff found. Should be a neat project to follow up on.
- 16 August. Mass grave found in the ancient city of Pisidia Antiocheia. [Hurriyet Daily News] A well in a Roman villa containing the remains of at least 6 humans and one pig was discovered at Pisidia Antiocheia in Turkey. Seems another set of bodies was found in a well a month or so ago, just nearby. No osteological report, unfortunately, as I'd like to know if these are adults or kids. If these are neonatal bodies, their disposal or burial in a well is not terribly surprising. If these are just adult heads, well, that's a bit more puzzling. Either way, not sure the "mass grave" terminology applies. Hopefully there will be more info out soon.
- 20 August. Rome's start to architectural hubris. [New York Times] Great piece on Gabii, the site at which I've been working since 2010. It mostly covers the architecture, which is telling us new and cool things about, in particular, monumentality prior to the Empire, but there are also a few dozen bodies at the site from a number of time periods.
- 20 August. Archaeologists discover hidden slave tunnel beneath Hadrian's villa. [Telegraph] Over two miles of tunnels were recently discovered underneath emperor Hadrian's sprawling villa at Tivoli, just outside of Rome. Archaeologists are suggesting these underground passageways were for slaves moving from one part of the villa to another. Pretty neat! (And would you believe that I've still never been to Tivoli? I tried -- twice -- and was thwarted both times by public transport and/or Italians' penchant for closing sites randomly.)
- 20 August. 2,000-year-old skeleton mask discovered in Turkey. [Hurriyet] Not much news on this. Just a skeleton with a mask. Pretty cool, though -- see pic above.
- 23 August. Ancient Libyan necropolis threatened by real estate speculators. [France 24] Technically Greek-era rather than Roman (600-400 BC), but some sad destruction to a massive necropolis at Cyrene that includes (included?) over 1,000 burials with sarcophagi.
- 7 August. Another summer, another series of breathless press releases from Silvano Vinceti, who is convinced that he has found or will soon find the skeleton of Lisa del Giocondo, the woman who purportedly posed for Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. In 2011, I wrote about this ridiculousness over at Past Horizons with "The Skull with the Mona Lisa Smile," and in 2012, I wrote a follow-up on the "Return of the Mona Lisa" here at PbO. This summer, we get "DNA testing could confirm Mona Lisa model" [via Gazzetta del Sud]. I spoke with a science reporter at NBC News about this -- since I still think it's ridiculous and amounts to nothing more than historical voyeurism -- in "Mona Lisa skeleton and her kin's remains are due for DNA testing."
- 21 August. Tomb of Alexander the Great unearthed? [Greek Reporter] This brief and really vague piece kicked off a torrent of speculation by media outlets around the web, but it seems to be based on, well, nothing. The Rogue Classicist has a fantastic round-up of the coverage and the problems with said coverage. And a blog post over at Archaiologia.gr tries to set the record straight with quotes from archaeologist Ekaterini Peristeri.
- 30 August. Pompeii ruins preservation to begin in 2014 after years of neglect. [Guardian] This seems to be a German-led project that will work to provide advice and help with the conservation and restoration of Pompeii, which has been falling down over the past few years due to lack of funding and interest from the Italian government.
- 1 August. Genetic evidence does not support an Etruscan origin in Anatolia [F. Tassi et al., AJPA 152(1) 11-18]. I haven't read the original article, but Dienekes has a nice blog post about it, and there's a decent discussion happening in the commentary section.
- 6 August. Roman sex, sexuality, slaves, and lex scantina. [M. Milligan, Heritage Daily] Only tangentially related to bioarchaeology, but this essay interestingly lays out some of the culture and laws behind sexuality, specifically sexual relationships between men.
- 9 August. Catalhoyuk 2013: Week 7 - Ghost town. [S. Haddow, A Bone to Pick] Quick post on post-excavation analysis of burials at Catalhoyuk, including a photo of a Roman-era skeleton.
- 5-22 August. Over here at Powered by Osteons, I blogged about my efforts to put some of my Roman skeletal/isotope data online at GitHub, and about how my article "Food for Rome" was one of the top-downloaded articles this year, meaning JAA is giving it away for free through the end of October. So if you didn't get a copy before, check it out now.
Finally, a neat video. It dates from 2008, but I'd never seen it before. This is "Opening a Roman Coffin at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, UK, by Wessex Archaeology." Enjoy! [Watch on YouTube]


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Since Alfresco was first released in 2005, I have led a number of projects that required some sort of custom user interface on top of the Alfresco repository. In a few cases, we customized Alfresco's standard web client. For others, we built custom interfaces that were stand-alone web applications or were exposed via portlets within a portal framework like Liferay or JBoss Portal.
In most cases, we needed a user interface that was not embedded within the repository, but rather was hosted remotely as a standalone web application. To do this, the main choices for the web application to communicate remotely with Alfresco are the following mechanisms:
- Alfresco Surf and Web Scripts
- Alfresco web services
- Rivet Logic's Remote Alfresco API rivet (aka RAAr)
Each one of these approaches has its pros and cons and the choice is highly influenced by the client's needs.
However, we also have customers who want a Java-based UI solution too. Alfresco's original web client UI is a JSF/Spring based application that is customizable in many ways and is the only available alternative in this case (short of building your own web client). It is built using a large number of custom JSF components that are very nice as long as your target UI is expected to behave similarly to Alfresco's web client. If you were asked to change the way one or more of these components work things start to get a little hairy especially when you realize how much work is required to make it do exactly what was needed. There was an apparent need for developing a Java-based UI platform that shared some of the Share features.
So we set out to fill this void: To create an open source, Java-based UI platform for Alfresco.
We turned to JSF for the view framework, as it is the predominant standard in the Java community. One of the challenges of JSF component development has always been ease of customization, or the lack of it. Even though the JSF spec allows for extending UI components, it is still not trivial to make your components very flexible. And what typically happens in those situations is that smart people decide to put in a lot of work into getting rid of the problem. That's where the JSF component suites come in. There are a lot of them out there. Some open source, some not. Naturally I'm only interested in the open source ones.
When working with JSF components suites like JBoss RichFaces you gain a lot of leverage when you incorporate a framework that makes dealing with the JSF lifecycle both intuitive and easy. If you guessed that I was talking about JBoss Seam, you're right.
Projects that are more Java-centric and make use of web frameworks such as JSF would find that a remote Java API that provides access to the Alfresco Foundation Services (AFS) is necessary. In this case, our own Remote Alfresco API rivet is ideal. It is both scalable and fits within the JEE tiered approach quite nicely.
For these reasons, the technology stack we used for building our Java-based Alfresco web client is comprised of JBoss Seam, RichFaces/Facelets, and RAAr.
So here was the perfect opportunity to bring all this technology together and provide the Alfresco community with an example of a new way for developing Web 2.0 rich web clients for the Alfresco repository. We decided that the web client had to be rich (AJAX is key here and RichFaces among other JSF component suites makes it possible), remote from the Alfresco repository, and modular so that it could be reused in other projects in the future. And while we were at it, it needed to be easy for new developers to contribute to.
We gave the web client a name that explains what it really is; Seam Client for Alfresco rivet — SCAr. (As an aside, because we incorporate RichFaces we also considered calling it ScarFaces :^)
From a high level, SCAr makes use of RAAr to utilize a complete suite of services that fully expose Alfresco ECM's core services at the back-end, and a number of out of the box JBoss RichFaces AJAX enabled UI components at the front-end tied together using JBoss Seam to provide a single page multi-user interface to Alfresco ECM's document management system. The following diagram shows a high-level overview of SCAr. The power of this architecture is in its inherent simplicity without sacrificing flexibility.
The internal architecture of SCAr is broken down into a number of RichFaces components each exposing one or more of Alfresco's document management features. Each RichFaces component is backed by a Seam action class (POJO), where each Seam listener has access to a RAAr abstraction layer providing it with an easy to use domain specific API into Alfresco ECM. By making use of Seam observers each user action triggers one or more events at the back-end allowing one UI component to manipulate the state of the other components on the screen as needed.
The following is a screenshot of what SCAr looks like to a typical end user:
This development framework makes enabling new features and customizing the behavior of existing ones straightforward.
A demo site running SCAr can be accessed at http://scar.rivetlogic.com.
If you want to know more about SCAr you can visit its wiki pages here: http://wiki.rivetlogic.org/display/SCAr/


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Salem considers building public safety complex
SALEM, N.H. (AP) � Selectmen in Salem, N.H., have started planning for the construction of a public safety complex for the police and fire stations.
The board made its decision Monday as it reviewed millions of dollars in proposed capital improvement projects for the next several years.
The Eagle-Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/13dFg9q) selectman James Keller said it would be more efficient and cost-effective to have a combined facility.
He said a committee would be formed to plan the project.
Information from: Eagle Tribune (North Andover, Mass.), http://www.eagletribune.com


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Be very afraid: Science Fiction is about to be invaded by cute, generic computer-generated animation. The family-friendly cast of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Jessica Biel and Justin Long will provide the voices for New Line Cinema's first 3D CGI-movie, Planet 51. With a script written by the man behind the first two Shrek movies, could this movie sound any more unappealing? Learn more, and decide for yourself, after the jump.
Planet 51 is about a planet of paranoid aliens who are terrified of invaders. So when astronaut Chuck Baker (The Rock) shows up, they fear the worst. That in itself doesn't sound too bad, but the presence of a young cowardly alien trying to overcome his fears by helping Chuck evade capture, return to his spaceship and find his way home tends to suggest that there may be an uplifting Elton John-esque ballad or two in there somewhere, between culture-shock jokes and "Hey, aliens are, you know, just like us, why don't we all love each other?" moments. Biel and Long play aliens who fall in love. And Seann William Scott (Stiffler from American Pie) will play another alien.
The film's directed by Jorge Blanco, better known as the chief graphic artist on 1998's Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines PC game. It's due to be finished by March of next year, at which point we can all fondly remember such cinematic greats as Happy Feet. Click here for more pics. [Variety.com]


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It can be a trial to be trying to conceive. When my husband and I married, we had decided to wait a year before trying for a munchkin. One year and one month after tying the knot, I was staring at a positive pregnancy test! Since family knew that we were going to wait the year to start trying, we told them right away that we were expecting.
This go around, it hasn't been nearly as quick. We started trying again right after my son was born and I got the "all clear" from my doctor at my six-week postpartum check up. My son is almost eight months old and I'm not pregnant yet. Obviously (since I blog here — and quite publicly!) many people know that it's our desire to have more children and to not waste much time. So we get questions every so often on how it's going.
Many women do keep their "trying to get pregnant" status more quiet than I have. For good reason. It can be annoying to be asked. Sometimes, you can feel like people are looking at you and analyzing body changes: "Is that a baby bump or just a big lunch?" It can be emotionally difficult to say "No baby yet." Even worse is the people who give you suggestions like "Just have a few too many glasses of wine — that's what got my girlfriend pregnant!" or "Just relax and it'll happen!" I would have to say that the worst is when I-hope-they-mean-well people ask "What's the problem? Don't ya know what causes a baby?" Like you're just dying to tell them the intimate details of your personal life…
And if you let people know that you're trying, it gets even trickier once you know you're pregnant, but aren't quite ready to tell everyone. Should you lie? Skirt the truth? I can very easily see why many women don't tell anyone that they are trying to get pregnant. For me, I haven't minded the questions. Too much. So far, everyone has been very kind and they haven't been too nosy. But I'll be honest — I didn't expect to be here. I expected to have an eight-month-old and have another well on its way. I didn't expect to try for longer than a month or two. So, it's frustrating. But really, I'm embarrassed. The reason it's embarrassing is because I was just so sure that I wouldn't be here. Here, with an eight-month-old and no second baby in sight. Embarrassing because I was so sure that it wouldn't be me that would struggle to get pregnant. Embarrassing because I was just so prideful and self-confident over something that I (apparently) have little control over!
The truth is that I had unrealistic expectations. Maybe I just got lucky with getting pregnant so quickly with my son. Maybe things are still a little 'off' since my pregnancy. Maybe things have changed with my body and I'll need to seek fertility help eventually (it's still too early for that). The fact is that you just never know how long it will take.
I'm not sure that I'd do anything different though — I don't regret telling people that we want more children and want them soon. Next time, though, I'll set expectations better. Expectations with other people, telling them "This could take a while," but more importantly, expectations with myself!
How did you decide whether or not to tell people that you were trying to get pregnant?


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Friday, May 14, 2010
My Ninth Period
10 comments:
- Ricochet said...
OMG you peaked in my room!!
I have one who stares into space, 2 druggies (they say they are off drugs - don't think so), one really slow - and angry, 4 who work really hard, 1 who never comes (well, every 10th day), 1 who keeps telling me he'll be going to jail - but he never goes, 1 really slow skater, 1 who is ok in another class but likes the evil queen, 1 evil queen, 1 spoiled only son of a single mom, and one boy who I swear has PMS.
I think I can get most of them to pass my lowered expectations. But not all.
- 10:37 PM, May 14, 2010
- Anonymous said...
This begs the question: Why are kids like this in a regular school when they obviously need outside help to resolve their problems, before they can learn? They have a right to an education, but so do the other kids in the class. The situation benefits nobody. These kids get no better, those around them struggle to learn past the distractions, and you get told your not a good teacher. How about putting Mr. Klein in charge of your ninth period class? Let's see how his evaluation will look.
- 6:04 AM, May 15, 2010
- Kim said...
I counted up 26 students in your list. How many others are there? What a circus!
I still think upper-level admins and politicians should have to spend a month in class (and plan the instruction) before they tell us how to teach, or make our salary dependent on our students' performance. What a joke!
- 7:28 AM, May 15, 2010
- Anonymous said...
I would like to see how the charter schools would handle children with these challenges and still keep their "news worthy" scores impressive.
That is why we have public education and only experienced teachers would be able to devise lessons that meet their needs.
Well, I guess your 9th period class is not 7th heaven, for sure!
- 8:26 AM, May 15, 2010
- One Boys Mom said...
Yes, they're sure going to attract quality people to our profession with that kind of craziness :( glad I Don't teach in NY. Wondering if it's a matter of time... Just did state testing and in some anonymous feedback one student wrote "didn't do my best" - nice. Yes, tie my job security and wages to that please !?!?!!!!!
- 8:41 AM, May 15, 2010
- NYC Educator said...
Great, pithy post and great point.
- 9:17 AM, May 15, 2010
- Anonymous said...
These are the facts that never reach the media. The UFT is well aware that any administrator can make any class a disaster in order to find fault with the teacher when it's time for evaluation.
I know you like to work with at risk kids, but I think these students are well beyond your (and any teacher's) pay grade. And you have to ask yourself was this done deliberately?? If you think you are a "target", I hope you get better classes next year and still continue your tutoring sessions.
- 12:37 PM, May 15, 2010
- mathman42 said...
I'm impressed by how well you know these kids. Most with these modalities just don't show up for period 9 or 2.
- 7:14 PM, May 15, 2010
- One Boys Mom said...
Really just the fact we're discussing a "9th" period class is a bit like hmmmmm, how long are your class periods? And as for the charter school question, did you see the video this week of a charter school teacher beating up (no exaggeration) one of her 8th grade students for being mouthy?
- 9:44 AM, May 16, 2010
- Anonymous said...
I teach at the elementary school level (1st grade, if you can believe that...) and I have approximately 6 students who engage in such disruptive and often violent behavior that teaching is nearly impossible and the other 17 can't learn. I've been at my school for 10 years, am known as having good classroom management skills, and have never had a situation like this, although any given year there are often a couple of classes in the school like mine. Not only has this been the most harrowing year of my career, I have never worked harder, and the powers that be (with the UFT's blessing)want to fire me if I have the misfortune of being assigned a class like this 2 years in a row..? It's absolutely scandalous that classes like this are allowed to exist in the first place and school administrations do nothing about it but put it back on the teachers. No child is well-served academically in these kind of classrooms, not to mention, at least in mine, they are often in danger physically. I can only imagine what the long-term emotional impact will be on both the students who think the school doesn't care enough to help them and the others who are exposed to this every day. All are getting the message that this is an acceptable way to behave, and no matter how high their test scores may be, are more likely headed for a lifetime of dysfunction from this being allowed to take place.
There has to be a way those of us who have worked in schools where this is allowed to go on can band together and make the public aware of what is happening. My class/school is obviously not an anomaly...this is, and probably has always been, widespread, but now highly competent, hard-working teachers can lose their jobs because of it?
- 6:28 AM, May 17, 2010


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The Decline of Christian School Sports
The Decline of Christian School Sports
by Daily Press - Victorville, California
Oct. 08--Three years ago, Tom Anderson had to make one of his toughest decisions as a father.
His construction business had been decimated by the recession and the single father of two found himself in a financial bind.
After cutting various expenses and rearranging his finances as best he could, he had to make the decision he hoped to avoid: He was going to have to pull his children out of their private Christian school because he could no longer afford the tuition.
"After eighth grade I told the school that we needed a break because we can't afford it," Anderson said. "They said, 'If we give you a break we have to give everyone a break.' ... As a single parent with two kids it was too hard for me."
One of those children was Tommy Anderson, a small but athletically gifted teenager.
At his new school, Anderson grew into his potential. He was Oak Hills' starting shortstop in the division championship game as a freshman, was named the Mojave River League Player of the Year as a sophomore and is now receiving considerable recruiting interest from a host of major college baseball programs as he enters his junior year.
As far as he is concerned, Tommy Anderson is glad that things worked out the way they did.
"The (Christian school) sports teams weren't really that competitive," he said. "The better athletes want to be pushed. I think I would've left (even if we could have afforded tuition) because you get more exposure in a regular high school. If you're being compared at a Christian school to players at a real school, they are going to pick the other guy because you're in a lower league."
The Anderson's story is a familiar one across the High Desert.
With an unemployment rate of 15 percent in the area, hundreds of children have been pulled out of the area's three private Christian schools -- Apple Valley Christian, Hesperia Christian and Victor Valley Christian -- over the past few years because parents can no longer afford the tuition. Scores more have left because they saw a bleak future for the private schools or to seek out better athletic opportunities.
One of the many consequences of this new reality has been the steep decline of Christian school sports.
Getting Hit Harder A brief look across the Christian school sports landscape paints a sobering picture.
Victor Valley Christian canceled its football season last year with three weeks remaining because it didn't have enough healthy players left to field a team, and has already canceled one game for the same reason this year. VVCS also had only four girls on the court at times during its basketball season last year, and its volleyball team this season has barely enough players, only two years after that program reached the State playoffs.
Even the VVCS baseball program, which has reached the playoffs four straight years, is struggling to field a full team.
"I used to get maybe 15-20 kids that would come out for the team," VVCS baseball coach Paul Hobbs said. "Now I have to go and beg kids to come out."
Apple Valley Christian was supposed to shut down entirely at the end of the last school year before private donors stepped in to save the school. AVCS was only able to field six full teams, none of which had an above .500 record last season.
Hesperia Christian has fared the best of all of the Christian schools, with seven of its programs qualifying for the playoffs last school year. But HCS suffered a debilitating blow this year when it had to cancel its football season because it didn't have enough players to field an 8-man team.
How did things get this way?
While no region was spared the effects of the Great Recession, the High Desert suffered a concentrated blow and has not yet seen the recovery that other areas have.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for the High Desert currently stands at 15 percent. San Bernardino County as whole has an unemployment rate of 11.8 percent, while the national unemployment rate is 7.8 percent.
Per the U.S. Census Bureau, the median household incomes for Apple Valley, Hesperia and Victorville -- the locations of the three schools -- are all less than $54,000. At least 18 percent of people live below the poverty line in each of the three cities.
With the High Desert economy in such a state and tuition ranging from $3-7,000 per student per year at the Christian schools, an exodus has taken place. All three of the schools have seen their enrollments decline by roughly 50 percent since 2006.
With vastly fewer students to draw from, the Christian schools have found themselves struggling to compete, or even survive, athletically.
"The overall quality of the athletes we're getting just isn't the same," Hobbs said. "In the past we've had five or six really good players come up together. Now there are only two or three kids at times and they see what's around them and who else is playing, and a lot of times they choose to leave."
Just about the only programs that have maintained their previous levels of success are the HCS boys and girls basketball programs. The boys team has reached the division semifinals three of the last four years, while the girls have 15 straight playoff appearances.
But even they are feeling the pinch to various degrees.
"For my first eight years as the coach I would have no less than 30-40 kids come out for my basketball program every year, and I'd keep 12 on varsity and 12 on JV," HCS boys basketball coach Scott Dobyns said. "Last year was the first year we didn't have a JV, and this year I have only 13 kids who are working out with me."
Some of the defecting athletes moved out of the area entirely. But for those whose families stayed, an attractive option existed.
The Charter School Explosion Many of the parents who could no longer afford to send their children to the private Christian schools remain wary of the public school system.
As such, many chose to send their children to charter schools, which are free to attend and are regarded as on par with the private Christian schools academically.
As the Christian schools have cut sports programs and struggled with enrollment, the three largest charter schools in the High Desert -- Academy for Academic Excellence, Excelsior and Riverside Prep -- have seen their enrollments double or even triple in recent years. They have experienced a boom athletically as well, in stark contrast to the Christian schools.
Excelsior has reached the past two CIF-Southern Section 8-Man Division 1 title games in football, and just opened a brand new $34 million campus that includes a sparkling new gym. Riverside Prep debuted its $2 million football field last season and will open a new gym this year. AAE has taken hold of the Agape League, the same league the Christian schools play in, in numerous sports, and fields more teams than any of the Christian schools.
University Prep, which is not technically a charter school but serves as an alternative to large public schools and the Christian schools, is coming off a CIF-SS Division 7 championship game appearance in boys soccer, and six of the seven sports teams it fields reached the postseason last year.
Chris Fore has been on both sides of the equation. As athletic director of Capistrano Valley Christian in Orange County, he witnessed more than a quarter of his student population leave. Now the athletic director at Excelsior, he's trying to handle all the students transferring into his school. The football team has seen a 30 percent rise in participation in the past year alone.
"What starts happening is you lose a few kids and then it's that inevitable cliff you start falling off of," Fore said. "One or two transfers, then other kids don't want to play and it becomes a locomotive you can't stop. It felt like there with some of our sports that we were on the operating table, we didn't know whether the thing was going to live or not. ... It's night and day (compared to Excelsior)."
The most prominent athlete who transferred from a Christian school to a charter school is Joe Harrison, a football player who spent his freshman year at Hesperia Christian and then moved to Excelsior.
As an Eagle, he rushed for 6,428 yards and 97 touchdowns in his three years and was also named the CIF-SS 8-Man Division I Defensive Player of the Year for his play at linebacker as a senior.
"I was in foster care and I was getting money from the state (for school)," Harrison said. "But it wasn't enough because HCS was raising the prices each year. It was just becoming too much and I wasn't benefiting from it."
Not Just the Charters The charter schools have not been the only area schools that are growing, building new sports complexes and drawing former Christian school athletes.
Despite budget cuts from the state, two new large public schools have opened in the past three years -- Oak Hills in 2009 and Adelanto in 2012. Both have gyms and on-campus fields for football, baseball and softball that are some of the finest facilities in the High Desert. Additionally, Silverado will complete a $13.5 million sports complex renovation in January and Hesperia opened its new football field in 2007.
Just as with the charter schools, the public school sports programs are growing in spite of the recession.
Dane Barton is one of the most recent athletes to defect from a Christian school to a large public school. The talented basketball was a key part of Hesperia Christian's run to the semifinals last year, but elected to transfer to Oak Hills even though his family could have afforded for him stay. He said the primary reason he transferred was that all of his closest friends had transferred out.
"It was really hard leaving one of the best programs up here," he said. "But all my friends had left. They were all gone."
The Future Enrollment at Christian schools has been declining for nearly half a decade now, and the sports teams are falling further and further behind in terms of success, number of athletes participating and facilities.
So is this just a temporary down cycle? Or is this the new reality for the High Desert private schools -- one where many teams have to be dropped altogether due to lack of participation, and even the teams that are left are barely able to put together a roster?
Looking out across the landscape, it's hard to be optimistic.
But many Christian school coaches believe it can be turned around and that their schools will once again be able to field full, competitive teams.
That all depends on one thing, however.
"As the economy goes," Hobbs said, "we go."
Kyle Glaser can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or at (760) 951-6274.
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Just curious how Austrian side players in PBEM handle Sweden. In the game, their army is isolated in the north, locked for the first few turns. Even if you get the major reinforcement, their corps commander cannot be used because there is no nearby army. Their uncommanded force is commanded by leaders with zero skills, literally. Despite command of the sea, the game gives you no transports, so you can't leave Stralsund even if you want to. Marching the Russian or Reichsarmee three star up there is possible, I suppose, although that leaves the Russians (and Empire forces) without their own three star.
In the game I am in, the Prussians marched an army twice the size of the Swedes up to Stralsund and have earned about 20 NM beating them down (the remnants of the Swedes are now besieged), while training up Prince Henry some more.
The only thing I can think of doing different is not getting the major reinforcement, letting the Prussians siege (and destroy) the starting Swedish force, then wait for the Prussians to leave and, at some time when perhaps the Russian three-star is close enough to give command, time the big reinforcement for then. That, or getting the aforementioned three-star from the Empire or Russia up there early. But that would see to just delay the inevitable, since the Swedes are so isolated, so terrible and unable to sail away by sea.


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I have been on a bit of a weight loss journey for the last few months and I finally have had enough success to blog about it.
After I tried a round of IVF in February (it failed) I found that I had gained another 5 lbs on top of the 20 or so pounds I had gained from the time I got married in July 2009.
The IVF hormones and drugs seemed to make me puff up around the middle and I am sure that there was some stress eating along the way also.
I had been battling my lifestyle, stress and eating behavior for years thinking that just changing one thing, or giving up one key item would be the turning point to weight loss success. Boy was I wrong. People who say that are lying.
I had been pretty successful at losing weight when I needed to earlier in life. Once in high school (90's) while very active in sports and discovering lean cuisine and diet coke and another time in my 20s while dancing up to 7 days a week (2000's).
Now in 2012 with a sedentary desk job that demanded hours of excel analysis and implementation and a husband/home/cats/yard to take care of I had given up all of my personal interests and hobbies. Yep, every single one of them. I had no way to exercise and no time.
I finally have had some weight loss success because of several factors coming together to change a lot of things in my life. Like hundreds of things. Lifestyle change isn't really the right word for it, it is more like millions of really small decisions adding up every day. I don't actually feel like my lifestyle is any different. I am not sure how much of your lifestyle is really about food anyway.
Some of these changes were:
1. I was diagnosed with ADHD, documented by years of childhood report cards with attention issues. Medication helps me concentrate and stick to things until I get them finished, and keeping the long term goal in mind has always been a problem for me with weight loss. Some people may cry foul because many ADHD meds do lessen appetite, but I counter that with the fact that my stomach still growls if I am hungry while taking it. I just eat a more normal amount and I don't use food as a stress reliever as much since I'm less frazzled in the first place.
2. I mostly gave up cooking, and certainly the idea that I had to provide my husband with a fancy full course dinner several times a week. (I never cooked before we were married) This led to less groceries being bought, less exotic ingredients in the house, less opportunity to snack. Less choice in the matter of snacking. And fewer trips to the store, which are tempting within themselves. I also canceled all those email recipe newsletters, unsubscribed to the food blogs and droped the idea that desert was needed at all. It actually gives me more time to do other things if I don't have to always be meal planning, cooking, cleaning and prepping. I have a few staple things I still make, (roast chicken, onion/green pepper/mushroom omelette with egg beaters, quinoa veg salad, organic cornbread) but overall the cooking is much less frequent.
3. I reduced portion size by half. It is important and needed its own mention separate from the previous item on the list. Small plates help but someone isn't going to lose weight on that method alone as certain statistical studies and books suggest. Basically I have the slowest metabolism in the world so my body can make a tiny bit of food last forever. It may have been an evolutionary bonus but now its a huge negative. I probably live on 1000 calories a day because I don't exercise. There has also been research lately that states that people who have been overweight have cells that have a history of expecting overeating and slow processing. My take on that is I will always have to eat less than my contemporaries because of my history and extra slow metabolism.
4. I don't eat breakfast. All you breakfast eaters that hate my method can shove it. I know that my eating snowballs during the day. I start out with lots of motivation/focus and as I get more tired/frustrated/stressed I eat more. My resolve weakens. I also have a kind of weird rebound effect to eating where I get hungry again within 2 hours especially if it is sweet stuff. So why sabotage myself by eating first thing in the morning if I'm not hungry? My metabolism isn't going to get jump started by eating but my stomach cravings will. Sometimes I wonder if this suggestion is deliberate sabotage by the skinny people of the world that seem to talk about food constantly and eat nothing. Here is an article stating that you never start burning fat reserves unless you fast for 12 hours.
5. I don't drink soda – I drink organic coffee with organic creamer in the morning (I guess instead of breakfast) and sparkling water the rest of the day. I'm not a big alcohol drinker so cutting that out is pretty much status quo for me. ( a 1/2 beer is enough to make me sleepy) I don't think soda is inherently evil but I do think I can't afford its calories and my teeth don't need the sugar/nutrasweet. (just like most parents thought back in the 70's when I was a kid). I don't drink diet soda because my body was past the point of being tricked by sweet tasting stuff that has no actual nutritional value in it and my body was pissed. About an hour after drinking diet soda I get incredibly hungry and inhale just about any food around me because my stomach hurts so much. Sparkling water seems soda-ish enough with the carbonation, but not sweet or with any calories. (avoid the flavored waters with nutrasweet or splenda) Other people make their own infused waters with cucumber, mint or orange/lemon/lime. That is cool too but I'm not going to cut up produce and do dishes at work, so my sparkling mountain bottle just sits on my desk.
6. The only exercise I do occasionally get is yard work and walking. At first I had no stamina to do basic things like mow the lawn (it's not self-propelled but still it isn't like we live on a hill either). I did force myself to get through yard tasks whether I liked it or not because I am incredibly embarrassed if the yard looks bad. This is only really something I have time for on weekends so if I have a bonus of some time during the week I do walk around the subdivision. There is a 1 mile loop around it that takes about 45 minutes. I even go out after dark. No excuses. The dog walkers are still out there and the weather is nice in the evenings now that it is summer.
7. I don't obsess over lunch. If I bring lunch it is a Tupperware of fruit (pineapple, grapes, oranges & apples) or something like broccoli salad. I have also learned that the potbelly chickpea salad is the healthiest thing within walking distance of the office. I also get chipotle burrito bowls from time to time but only eat half. And the rest is for dinner. I told you I could make a few calories go a long way.
8. I like organic products but I am wary of some since they seem to have more fat, sugar and calories than their non-organic counterparts. I think the organic decision is more about long term health and less processed food, fewer chemicals, fewer hormones and pesticides that you ingest to hopefully avoid cancer. This may be more meaningful for some than others depending on your genetics and other factors, but I just think its safer to minimize the risks a bit. Its impossible to go totally organic so I don't try but when I find a good organic alternative I usually stick to it even if it is a bit more expensive. Just avoid the organic granola/energy bars. Some have as much fat as a big mac.
In summary it took a lot of changes and a lot of time but after 4 months I have lost 15 lbs (to fit into things I wore in 2009). My hope is to lose another 5 and I hope this blog post doesn't jinx it!


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Peter Pan scenario
Act One
Scene 1: The Children's Room On The Top Floor Of Number 14. Night.
Mrs Darling encounters a strange being in her children's room. It escapes but leaves its shadow behind. It is the end of the day and the children, Michael, John and Wendy, with their dog Nana, play and have supper. Mr and Mrs Darling are preparing to go out to a dinner party and, with Liza their maid, get the children ready for bed before they leave.
As the children sleep, Tinker Bell, a fairy, flies into and around the room, followed by Peter Pan, whose fairy she is. Peter is looking for his shadow but when he finds it, can't get it to join on again. Wendy wakes up and sews it back on, and as Peter flies about the room her brothers wake too. Peter teaches them all to fly, with the help of Tinker Bell's fairy dust, and as Nana and their parents run into the room, they all fly out of the window and up to the stars…
Scene 2: The Stars. The First Adventure.
They fly over London, the sky and the seas, and arrive at the Island of The Neverland.
Scene 3: The Jungle. The Second Adventure.
Lost Boys, Captain Hook, the Pirates and Wild Beasts are all following each other through the jungle. There is a terrific explosion from the Pirates' cannon. Tinker Bell tells the Lost Boys that Peter has brought them some prey to shoot down. Tootles fires his arrow and Wendy falls down from the skies. On Peter's return the boys realise that jealous Tinker Bell has duped them. Wendy revives, and as her brothers arrive in the jungle, Peter leads them all off to the Mermaids' Lagoon.
Scene 4: The Mermaids Lagoon. The Third Adventure.
Mermaids are sunning themselves as the children play, eat and rest on the beach. The Pirates arrive by boat, and a fierce fight ensues. Hook is chased away by the Crocodile who wants to eat the rest of him, having eaten his arm already. Peter and Wendy are left alone on Marooner's Rock as the waters begin to rise. Wendy flies away on the tail of a kite. It won't carry two and Peter is unable to fly as Hook slashed him in the fight. He prepares to die, the biggest Adventure of all, but the Neverbird gives him her nest for a boat and he sails away and into the next Adventure.
Act Two
Scene 1: The Children's Room at Number 14. Night
Mrs Darling is asleep by the fire and Peter flies in to look at her as she sleeps. In her dreams she weeps. Peter is moved by her but flies away as she wakes to the realisation that the room is empty.
Scene 2: The Underground Home. Fourth Adventure.
Wendy is cooking supper and Peter arrives home with the day's catch. The boys go to sleep and Wendy gives Peter his medicine, drawing close to him. The two children are momentarily enchanted with one another, but Peter soon returns to his defiant self and abandons Wendy for sleep. Wendy mends their clothes and falls asleep. The pirates and Captain Hook abduct the children but Hook can't reach Peter so poisons his medicine instead. Tinker Bell wakes Peter who realises what has happened. As he prepares to rescue them all Tinker Bell tries to prevent him from drinking his medicine before he goes. She drinks it herself to save his life and begins to die. Peter asks us all to believe in fairies and to clap our hands to save her life. Tinker Bell rallies and they fly off to find Wendy and the boys.
Scene 3: The Jolly Roger – The Pirate ship. The Fifth and Last Adventure.
On board ship the pirates, except Captain Hook, celebrate the capture of the children and the imminent death of Peter Pan. Hook has the boys herded towards the plank. The Crocodile has swum out to the ship, looking for Hook. Peter Pan flies on to the ship and the great and final fight begins. Peter is triumphant and Hook jumps overboard and into the jaws of the Crocodile. Peter and the boys now take over the ship becoming pirates themselves before Peter orders them to take down the pirate flag. Tinker Bell sprinkles the ship with fairy dust as the sails unfurl and the ship begins to take flight – for home.
Scene 4: The Children's Room at Number 14. Night.
Mrs Darling and Liza are preparing the beds for the night as they always do. When Mrs Darling is alone Peter flies in and fights Mrs Darling for the children. Peter bars the window but is moved by her distress and flies away, leaving the window open for the children's return. They fly in and seeing their mother asleep creep into their beds. Nana wakes Mrs Darling up and the children are reunited with their parents and Nana. The Lost Boys are welcomed into the family by Mr Darling and Wendy and her mother are left alone. Wendy asks Peter to come and live with them all too but he realises he would have to grow up and flies off into the night, up into the stars and back to the Neverland.


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DUMMERSTON—It happened overnight.
In the spring of 1992. Brattleboro woke to find itself plastered with posters announcing a concert by an all-black, 100-voice church gospel choir from New Jersey. The poster photo alone was a revelation — all those black faces coming to one of the whitest towns in the country! Lift up your voices! Make a joyful sound unto the Lord!
Truth be told, I was irrationally exuberant about this concert. I was a music critic back then, in love with old-fashioned blues and rhythm and blues, which is the other side of black gospel. As T-Bone Walker sang in Stormy Monday, "The eagle flies on Friday/and Saturday I go out and play/Sunday I go to church, then I kneel down and pray."
Same beat, different words.
The concert had the potential of being a topnotch musical event, and all I could think of was, "How in the hell can this be happening in Brattleboro?"
The answer, I discovered, was Bruce Talbot, who died on Jan. 23 at the age of 61.
Talbot had been living in Brattleboro for only a few months when he decided to bring the choir to town.
He had already worked in the Montpelier bureau of United Press International. He had been a high school teacher, the editor of company publications for the National Life Insurance Company, and a public relations guy for the Barre Granite Association, and he was then organizing tours for Basketville.
But gospel music?
* * *
It seems that a few years before, Talbot had had an epiphany involving an Aretha Franklin gospel song — and who hasn't?
But Talbot took his enchantment deeper than most. He and his close friend, Paul Erlbaum, started seeking similar epiphanies in Harlem churches. And the people of Harlem told them, "If you want to hear the best gospel, you gotta go to Newark, to the New Hope Baptist Church." So they did.
Soon, they were adopted as family by the New Hope congregation and realized they had found musical as well as spiritual nirvana.
The 11 O'Clock Choir of the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., had some serious musical chops. Its director was the elegant Ann Drinkard-Moss, sister of the great singer Cissy Houston and aunt of the celebrated pop singers Dionne Warwick and Whitney Houston.
Talbot and Erlbaum decided to share this wealth of musical talent with Brattleboro.
"The purpose of my life is to enable people to have joy-filled, fulfilled lives," Talbot told me then. "I make it up as I go along; I'm not looking at church or religious work. There's a love that occurs in the music that to me goes beyond all differences and transcends everything."
When the three buses from New Jersey pulled into Brattleboro, the singers and their friends and families murmured: "Everybody's white here. What are we going to do?" And then someone said, "We're going to sing for the Lord."
And that's exactly what they did.
As the 100 singers, in their navy blue robes, started marching down the aisles of the First Baptist Church, the audience was swept up by their majestic, stirring, thrilling sound and the power and the glory of their faith. Later, I wrote, "For me, ecstasy was followed by rapture, and there I stayed."
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During the next week, I called Drinkard-Moss in New Jersey to get a follow-up from the New Hope perspective.
She said, "All our hearts came together, and we were one in the spirit. If Jesus had come walking in the door, I wouldn't be surprised.
"It was the best experience the choir ever had. It didn't have anything to do with black or white. The exuberance that the audience had was so great, we responded accordingly and sang our hearts out."
Talbot brought the choir back four more times to Vermont, the last two times to the Barre Auditorium, which holds an audience of 2,000. All the concerts were sold out. In 1999, he also brought, for a separate concert, the Newark Boys Chorus to the Barre Auditorium. It also sold out.
After the Talbot family moved to Barre, we stayed in touch mostly by phone and e-mail. But in 2001, Talbot and Erlbaum took me down to New Hope for an elevating musical experience from the source. By then, he and Erlbaum were habitually introducing Vermonters to African-American culture and vice versa. Cross-cultural communication without confrontation: it was a revelation.
"There was such a built-in cultural rift," Talbot told me. "Yet over the years, Paul and I and others from Vermont have been completely and unexpectedly embraced. All we had to do was reach out a little bit and snap, there were these instant, loving relationships.... We're all inherently anxious, if not fearful, about other people. If someone just makes a little step, boom, snap, these things just open up."
In 1994, Talbot was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. It didn't seem to slow him down at all. With energy and great good humor, he wrote, exercised. and founded and served as the president of the Vermont chapter of the American Parkinson's Disease Association. In 2007, Talbot was named to the first national patients' advisory council of the Parkinson's Disease Foundation.
In February of 2010, Talbot was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor. It didn't seem to faze him. According to his obituary, his reaction was, "I've had a wonderful life."
He fought the good fight, surrounded and supported by his family and many friends, and he died peacefully among them. Besides his wife, Judith Sutphen of Putney, he leaves three children, his brother and sister-in-law, and their four sons and families.
* * *
Erlbaum, who contacted me with the news of Talbot's death, refused to speak about him in the past tense.
"Bruce is all about joy," Erlbaum said. "He finds his joy in his daily morning meditation and spends the rest of each day spreading that joy to others. In meditation, Bruce gives his thanks and praise silently. At New Hope Baptist Church, Bruce finds people who shout their thanks and praise. This completes his world."
After the first concert, Moss said, "Bruce, you have fulfilled your purpose." In his life, this lovely, brave, and irreverently funny man managed to fulfill many purposes. He spread a lot of happiness, took many people on great personal adventures, and enriched the cultural life of Vermont. I have always felt honored to know him.


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Hugin Compiling Gentoo
These are instructions to build hugin and the whole set of helper applications required from CVS/SVN.
These instructions are work in progress. They're testet on x86 only (though amd64 should work just fine). (Maybe ppc as well. If you try on ppc, please tell me if it works or not.)
If anything does not work: Bugs
Setting up the overlay
If you've never worked with a overlay, please read http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds to get an idea of what we're doing here.
The next steps are:
- Download the tarball for the overlay.
- Unpack the tarball.
- Tell portage about the overlay.
First sudo, so you have sufficient permissions:
sudo -s (enter your password)
Download the tarball:
wget http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0726415/download/hugin_overlay-0.1.tar.bz2
Create an overlay directory: (if you already have one, you can leave this out)
mkdir /usr/portage/local/
Unpack the overlay tarball:
tar xjf hugin_overlay-0.1.tar.bz2 -C /usr/portage/local/
Add the overlay to your overlay list:
vim /etc/make.conf
to the list in PORTDIR_OVERLAY (space separated).
If there is no PORTDIR_OVERLAY defined, just put the line
in there.
Save and exit.
The versions in the overlay are masked as unstable. You'll have to unmask them:
Open /etc/portage/package.keywords (if it doesn't exist, create it) and add the following lines:
=media-gfx/hugin-9999 ~x86 =media-gfx/enblend-9999 ~x86 =media-libs/libpano13-9999 ~x86 =media-gfx/autopano-sift-c-9999 ~x86
Now the fun part! Run
emerge -av hugin
If you have libpano12 installed, you'll run in into a blocker warning. Please unmerge libpano12 (you'll get libpano13 for it ;) ):
emerge --unmerge libpano12
Please DO NOT report bugs to Gentoo's bugzilla. Instead, send a message to the hugin-ptx mailing list, or contact me directly.


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Last Saturday, we had a lovely family day. We decided to get some work done around the house in the morning, and then that afternoon, take the kids to the movies!
Movies are super expensive--even the bargain shows!--so the boys don't get to go to many. They were very excited when we informed them of what we were doing....
....going to see....
It looks terribly blurry, because we saw the show in 3D!
The very first one for me (and I will admit, very cool!)
I think Lola with a pair of 3D glasses on is about the cutest thing ever!
She watched the whole thing and kept the glasses on the whole entire time.
After the movie, we went to Toys R Us. The boys had gotten gift cards for Christmas from my dad and stepmom, and we decided to not let them burn holes in their pockets any longer!
Cameron and Ethan both chose Star Wars things...but Shane and I agreed that the best selection of the whole group was definitely Ethan's choice! He desperately wants to be 'a real Dark Vader' and, thanks to an $11 dollar costume (mask and cape) and a half price red light saber...
....he got his chance.
We are trying to do our best to teach the boys how to be responsible with their money. They lucked out, because the Star Wars things were B1G1 half off....they were able to get TWO things with their gift cards, instead of only one! Cameron chose a white-snow-man-creature-thing and was able to get a blue Luke Skywalker light saber for half price as well.
(You can not imagine how much fun these light sabers have been for the boys!)
Colin chose to spend a little bit of his cleaning money to go a bit over his gift card
and get the biggest nerf gun I have ever seen. It is almost bigger than he is!
And Lola picked...what else? A new dollie. She had her choice of practically the entire aisle,
but she insisted on this one. It came with a sling and she "wears" her all around the house!
She also got the cutest little house toy that folds up and has a little mouse with it. But this
girl is certainly partial to her babies.
This is how she was sitting while watching a Veggie the other day. All on her own. It just amazes me sometimes how girls don't have to learn to be girly or mothery...they just are.
Thank you Dad and Amy for their gifts! They love them and helped contribute nicely to our wonderful day together as a family. We ALL love you!


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If you've been been keeping up with the underground blog scene during the past year, chances are you've run by Kevin Debroux's Pink Reason more than a handful of times. After a string of very successful single releases ("By A Thread", "Winona") Kevin dropped his first full-length on the recently rejuvenated legendary label Siltbreeze in early 2007. If you had been keeping up with Kevin's releases to that point, you were instantly surprised at how different this release sounded from the singles. In fact, with each new release it becomes more and more clear that there isn't really a common thread to the "sound" of Pink Reason. The easiest comparison to draw with Kevin's vocals are with that of Ian Curtis, but somehow Kevin manages to sound even more tortured and depressed. Other than that, it seems as though anything is fair game: from the sparse acoustic strumming of "Goodbye", to the drunken sing along of "Motherfucker" to the drum machine dirge of "Storming Heaven", there is a lot of emotional ground covered on this release. With a 7" coming out this year on Woodsist & and a rumored 2xLP follow-up due on Siltbreeze it will be very interesting to see where the Pink Reason sound evolves to next.
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A trip to the Toy Museum of Nuremberg is an unforgettable journey into the past.
Children and grown-ups alike marvel at the exquisite doll's houses and 1950s Japanese tin cars. Outside there are more than 700 square metres where visitors can play with toys from their great-grandmother's time, and for a bit of quiet there is also La Kritz café in the cosy courtyard. The history of toys provides a rich insight into the history of human culture.
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The fact that Senator Dianne Feinstein's gun control bill exempts government officials from the planned semi-auto assault weapons ban illustrates the astounding hypocrisy of gun control advocates who, while working feverishly to disarm the American people, own firearms and surround themselves with armed men.
As the Washington Times reported last week, "Mrs. Feinstein's measure would exempt more than 2,200 types of hunting and sporting rifles; guns manually operated by bolt, pump, lever or slide action; and weapons used by government officials."
Back in 1995, while carrying a concealed weapon for her own protection, Feinstein simultaneously called for Mr. and Mrs America to "turn em all in."
Feinstein's hypocrisy has been matched or surpassed by virtually every other public figure now pushing for the second amendment to be eviscerated.
– Barack Obama himself, while leading a gun control agenda he planned "under the radar" back in 2011, admits that he goes shooting "all the time."
– While Obama claims that semi-automatic assault rifles should only be in the hands of members of the military, the Department of Homeland Security has purchased no less than 7,000 fully automatic assault weapons for the purposes of "personal defense," in addition to more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition over the last 10 months alone.
– While refusing to even consider the idea of arming teachers and school officials to prevent school shootings,Obama recently signed a law that would give him and all past and future presidents armed Secret Service protection for life.
– During an ABC Nightline interview broadcast on December 26 yet recorded before the Sandy Hook shooting, Obama said one of the benefits of his re-election was the ability "to have men with guns around at all times," in order to protect his daughters. In addition, the school attended by Obama's daughters in Washington D.C. has no less than 11 armed security guards on duty at all times.
– A new investigation by the Daily Caller has found that Media Matters For America, a pro-gun control organization that admittedly conspires with the White House to influence news, hired a staffer to carry a firearm to protect founder David Brock. The staffer had no permit to carry a concealed firearm and was later hit with multiple felony charges. The Glock handgun used to defend Brock was bought using Media Matters' funds.
– When investigative reporter Jason Mattera asked New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg if he plans to disarm his entire security team to comply with his own gun control mandate, Mattera was accosted, harrassed and followed by security and Bloomberg refused to answer the question.
– Michael Moore, another vehement proponent for gun control, also has armed bodyguards, one of whom was arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon at New York's JFK airport back in 2005.
– Despite the fact that its subsidiary Warner Bros. routinely distributes blockbuster movies that are replete with gratuitous gun violence, Time Warner Cable recently issued a company-wide ban on television ads that show "guns pointed at people."
– Numerous celebrities involved in a PSA campaign called 'Demand a Plan' that exploited the Sandy Hook massacre to push for gun control routinely star in movies and television productions in which depictions of gun violence is commonplace.
– Prominent gun control advocates like Piers Morgan, who base their argument on reducing gun violence, routinely threaten violence against ideological adversaries. Morgan once spoke of his desire to use machine guns to "take out" his critics, while also making jokes with his guests about murdering second amendment advocate Alex Jones with a semi-automatic assault rifle during his CNN show on January 8.
The agenda-driven and factually bankrupt political arguments of gun control advocates may be somewhat easier to stomach if the people making them were not rampant hypocrites who – while calling for the American people to be stripped of their right to bear arms – are precluding themselves from being subjected to the same treatment.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.


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