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Unfriended: UVA's Corks & Curls yearbook out of business
After a nearly 120-year run, there'll be no University of Virginia yearbook for sale this year, say UVA officials.
"The Corks & Curls yearbook is traditionally published by UVA students, but the group is currently not active," says Karen Shaffer, UVA's director of student services. "While they may choose to regroup and publish a yearbook in the future, there is no plan to do so in the 2009-10 academic year."
The news came as a shocker for historian Coy Barefoot, who says he drew heavily on archival copies of Corks & Curls in compiling his own book, The Corner: A History of Student Life at the University of Virginia.
"It's a prime historical resource," says Barefoot, who is teaching a local history course this semester. "This is just awful from a historian's standpoint."
However, according to Cavalier Daily editor Andrew T. Baker, the yearbook hasn't been making much of an impression on current UVA students.
"I haven't seen much publicity or presence from the yearbook around Grounds in the four years I've been here," he says.
"I've tried testing the waters with some of my friends, casually mentioning that the yearbook isn't going to be published," says UVA student and Hook music writer Stephanie Garcia, "and no one seemed to really care."
An even bigger shocker, according to Aaron Josephson, who serves on the executive committee of the Class of 2009, was that the historic treasure wasn't published for the Class of 2009 either, something UVA officials like Shaffer appear not to have realized. Indeed, recent staffer Michelle Burch says that the decision to suspend publication of Cork & Curls was made after publishing the 2008 edition, the 119th issue of Corks & Curls.
"It was a difficult decision, and one that the staff regretted because of the tradition," says Burch, who blames declining sales, networking websites, and financial insolvency for the yearbook's demise.
"We had great interest in keeping the book alive, but overall student interest and the financial reality of publishing it in its traditional form make that very difficult," says Burch.
So, might Corks & Curls be revived?
"I don't know," says Burch. "It would take a completely different approach to bring it back to life in this digital world."
They seemed to care about the yearbook back in 1888, when the first issue was published, and the name–- originally chosen at random–- was ascribed an arcane meaning via a contest won by med student Leander Fogg, who reasoned that "corks" were students who didn't know what to say when called upon in class (like corks silently plugging a bottle), whereas "curls" were students who knew all the answers, as one who "curleth his tail for delight." A few years later, the student publishers–- all men in a pre-coeducation UVA–- described their book:
"A monument raised by the students, to be a memorial to them of each other, of the University, and of all things common to them and to the University."
In effect, it was a 19th Century version of social media, something that allowed students to preserve a shared experience. Ironically, the 21st Century's version, Facebook, appears to have been a contributing factor in the demise of the storied yearbook.
"A sign of the times," says UVA spokesperson Carol Wood, who was unaware that the yearbook wasn't published last year either. "Apparently, there was little interest on the part of students to want a yearbook, as more and more students were deciding not to purchase them. I have heard this happening elsewhere.''
Indeed, in the last few years, college annuals across America have seen shrinking sales as free media blossom, but UVA appears to be the largest and most prominent university losing its yearbook. And some UVA ex-staffers lay more of the blame on finances, not Facebook.
"There were financial issues due to decreased sales and staff as well as a couple years of poor management," says one recent editor, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "It was essentially run as a small business staffed by students. Obviously, when a business doesn't have enough people or sales to support operations, it closes."
"The book has always been a hard sell because of the sheer size," explains Anthony Whitten, who was Corks & Curls' business manager from 2000 to 2003. "It was a 400-plus page book that covered close to 20,000 people. Most people didn't think they would be featured."
He says it cost $100,000 to $120,000 to create about 1,600 copies. The last edition sold for $85 a copy.
"The book was relatively affordable," says Whitten. "It cost less than most books students purchased in high school."
To Whitten, who says he was "completely devastated" about the news about the oldest publication on grounds, it was the 2003 shift from spring to fall publication that doomed Corks & Curls.
"It's hard to sell a book to seniors," he explains, "after they have graduated and are no longer at the University."
With pages dedicated to everything from wild fraternities to bookish honorary societies, from dormitory life to athletic teams, Corks & Curls covered extensive territory.
"I remember that we had a difficult time selling books and getting students to get their photos taken when I was on staff," says 2005 UVA alum and four-year staffer Whitney Spivey, who curated a 2004 exhibition in the Rotunda, 116 Years of Corks & Curls.
"I understand there's something to be said for the immediacy of capturing college memories via the Internet," says Spivey, "but in my mind, digital media will never be able to compete with a 400-plus page book that completely and accurately documents every aspect of life at the University."
Spivey says she took great pride in creating a piece of UVA history that her classmates would carry with them for the rest of their lives. "Each year has its own personality," she says, "from the material on the cover to the issues discussed inside. I think it's a shame that this tradition will end. The books are a valuable gauge of the University's views and values throughout history."
Of course, Corks & Curls hasn't completely disappeared, thanks to the staff's Facebook page.
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How can you write " I love you " on the page of your yearbook, as a memento of four years at the University, if a book no longer exists. Facebook will never replace the wonderful messages on the pages of my college yearbook --there are some things that computers will never replicate.
I graduated from UVA in 1985 and only bought one yearbook the entire time I was there. It just wasn't that meaningful when there were so many people in the book you didn't know at all.
this can be a money making venture if marketed and sold properly. what it cant do is try to do business like it has always done. if i was the school, i want put the brand out to bid and see if a few entrepeneurs (sp) want to take it and run with it.
Corks and Curls has been obsolete for a while, and I don't think it is Facebook's fault. A year book just doesn't work at a school as big as UVA has become. Still its sad to see a 120 year old tradition go away.
Honestly, it is a tragedy to see so many people not appreciate yearbooks for what they really are. A way to capture your memories.
The problem is, the yearbook you are used to is bulky and limiting. You don't want to have to flip through pages trying to find pictures that involve you and your friends, it would be much easier to just sit down and find hundreds of pictures that you will actually care about.
A yearbook is a visual copy of your memories, so you can gaze into the past. Even so, there is always a price that you are not willing to exceed, and 85 dollars is probably far past that. Why not 10 or 20 dollars, and while we are at it, why not allow the school to profit off of just that small amount of money per person.
Let's add some video clips to capture the animated memories, like sports games or drama productions, or maybe just a video commentary that you would like to have for all time. And also, nobody wants to sit in a dark room and look at pictures in silence. How about we add in some custom soundtracks, whether it be songs released by big name artists, or a personal composition, either way, lets get some background music involved.
This is all possible in the digital age, and for a substantially lower price than the printed yearbooks. The printed copies were costing the school over $100,000.00, but this is just $499.00 for a 1 year license. Then limitless amounts of projects can be created. Clubs and extracurricular activities can even make their own if they want.
This seems to be the way many schools are leaning towards these days. Look at the Ivy League University Yale, even they are doing a digital yearbook now.
And as for the written portion of signing each others yearbooks, a lot of schools are dropping over to an establishment like Kinko's and requesting a DVD case sized booklet, with several pages, leaving enough room for all of your friends to sign their thoughts for years to come.
Keep your memories alive and vibrant, don't let them fade out of sight and out of mind. I happen to have the solution to all of this.
The answer is www.yearbookalive.com
Take a look at it. The software is free for anyone to download and play around with. See how you like it, think of the possibilities and opportunities to be had. You can't go wrong.
Thank you for listening. My name is Corey, and I am from YearBook Alive, give me a call and tell me what you think of the software. Thanks. Have yourselves a wonderful day.
Why heck! I went to a very small high school .. only 57 people in my graduating class .. and we didn't have a year book. Can't say that I missed out on anything by not having one. The college I graduated from had them, but sold very few. My children bought some in high school, and all they do is sit on the shelf and collect dust anyway.


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LAST winter's storms and flooding are set to cost Winchester City Council hundreds of thousands of pounds in repairs to its council houses.
Almost £160,000 has already been spent – but the local authority anticipates the total bill for the bad weather will be far higher.
It has recently completed a Stock Condition Survey of its properties.
The results are expected to reveal just how much further work is needed.
"After a wet winter we have a lot of damp issues in Stanmore," said ward councillor Jamie Scott.
"I am very, very keen to see the results from the stock survey."
Cllr Steve Miller said a lot of the repair jobs had yet to be done: "The survey is going to give us headaches in terms of expenditure.
"The knock-on effect of last winter is still coming through and there's a backlog of work from that period."
Chief housing officer Richard Botham said: "We've been working our way through a significant amount of small works since Christmas.
"It wasn't the flooding, it was the high winds and the rain.
"We know we haven't got enough set apart in the subsidies plan to fund roofing works," he added.

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In Matt Damon's 'Promised Land,' roots run deep
- USA TODAY review: * * * out of four
- Stars: Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski, Hal Holbrook
- Rated PG-13; Running time: 1 hour, 46 minutes; opens Friday nationwide
What will it take for poor farmers to willingly scorch the earth beneath their feet?
That's the central question underlying Promised Land ( * * * out of four; rated PG-13; opening Friday nationwide), which pits the decreasing value of acreage against the valuable gases housed beneath.
No anti-corporate screed, this gentle tale is modest in its ambitions, with a cast of sympathetic characters and an unpredictable arc. That blend of elements is the key to its appeal, undermined by a rather pat final resolution.
Director Gus Van Sant explores greed in this story of a rural Pennsylvania community in which Steve (Matt Damon), a salesman for Global, an aptly named $9-billion-a-year company, arrives to persuade locals — most of them struggling farmers — to sell drilling rights on their property to extract natural gas. The process is called fracking, and what Steve is selling is not simple, despite his earnest claims.
Nothing is clear-cut, except for the inherent decency of ordinary people as envisioned by screenwriter Damon and co-star John Krasinski from a story by Dave Eggers.
Damon's performance as corporate salesman Steve Butler is one of his best. Initially a true believer in the cause, Steve, informed by his own rural roots, sees his conviction falter over time. Damon is low-key and well-meaning as his character becomes increasingly conflicted.
Early on Steve establishes his familiarity with small-town America, as well as his compassion: "I grew up in a large farming community: football Fridays, tractor pulls, cow tipping, all of it. We had a Caterpillar plant down in Davenport that closed down in my junior year. ... By the time my senior prom came around, I saw how little we had left to stand on. The whole farming town fantasy just shattered. Without the plant, we had nothing. I'm not selling them natural gas. I'm selling them the only way they have to get back."
Steve pulls into this financially strapped town with co-worker Sue Thomason (Frances McDormand). Their expectation is that the local residents will embrace an infusion of cash in exchange for drilling rights. Never mind the controversy over water contamination and potential toxins. Blessed with winning smiles and easy charm, Damon and McDormand probably were selected for their "just folks" affability.
No slick greedmeister, Steve is clearly well-intentioned. He befriends townsfolk and believes he's helping with modest cash windfalls that accompany signing on the dotted line.
But the citizenry is understandably wary. They decide to put the question to a vote.
McDormand brings an earthy humanity to her part. She sees things in black-and-white, influenced by her need as a single mom to support her child. "This is a job, and then I go home, " she reminds Steve.
McDormand delivers the straightforward Sue's snappy lines with aplomb, but her character lacks dimension. Why cast someone as multifaceted and talented as McDormand and saddle her with an underdeveloped role?
John Krasinski plays Dustin Noble, an environmentalist who ostensibly comes to start up a grass-roots campaign against the project. Krasinski is engaging as a bleeding heart who's more complex than he appears. Kudos to him and Damon for leading the story into unexpected turns.
Meanwhile, Steve strikes sparks with Alice (Rosemarie DeWitt), a friendly schoolteacher to whom both he and Dustin are drawn.
Fracking resistance is furthered by wise Frank Yates (Hal Holbrook), a respected elderly high school science teacher.
"Sure, it's a clean and efficient resource," Holbrook says in a heartfelt performance. "But the way they go about getting it is some dirty business."
Promised Land is an involving and timely tale that explores the changing nature and complex challenges of rural life.


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Occupy: Stage Two
Bloomberg cleared Zuccotti Park in the early morning hours of November 15 just like university administrators often push through unpopular changes during the summer, when students are sparse. His rationale? Safety and health. This in a city where there are potholes inside of potholes, vomit and urine regularly on subway platforms, and gunshots within earshot of most neighborhoods. Walking through the cleared out park the next day, newly lit up for the holidays yet now devoid of life, I found myself with tears of frustration.


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It is a weeping, and a moaning, and a gnashing of teeth
It is a weeping, and a moaning, and a gnashing of teeth
When it comes to my sound which is the champion sound
Believe! Believe!
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Lamborghini Mercy, your chick she so thirsty
I'm in that two seat Lambo with your girl she tryna jerk me
[Verse 1: Rick Ross]
I'm rocking bally walking the valley of death
Vacheron cost a Lambo, you niggas in debt
I ain't want to fuck your girl, I just wanted a fresh
After BIG, Puff told me I was the best
Still is that drop nigga
Cocaine, Ciroc nigga
Pull up on that yacht nigga
Detectors know I'm hot nigga
Hostile, mob style, rough childs
Trench coat, half cal, my dick hang to my caf now
Real nigga, I woke up with a kilo
Real bitch, keep kissing on my pee hole
Paid in full, bitch I think I'm Rico
It's Rozay, I sold food like C Lo
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It is a weeping, and a moaning, and a gnashing of teeth
It is a weeping, and a moaning, and a gnashing of teeth
When it comes to my sound which is the champion sound
Believe! Believe!
[Verse 2: Rockie Fresh]
I'm in that Lamborghini drop top
Gunning for the top spot
Gold Rollie, my watch froze
You would think the clock stopped
Countin hella 20's, get into my dreams
Ballin with my niggas
Your girl gon fuck the team
Now I been off that Jameson so I might need her name again
I came to win, she's just tryna kick it like it's 4th and 10
Give it as she gon run it back
Her legs spread like a jumping jack
Her other man, he hella whack
And he don't stack it like Rockie stacks
Seen more clothes than a laundry man
More whips then Kunta back
Like racism, I'mma be around
Cigar niggas get used to that
[Hook x2]
[Bridge x2]
[Verse 3: Kanye West]
Let the suicide doors up
I do suicides on the tour bus
I do suicides on the private jet
You know what that mean, I'm fly to death
I step in death jam building like I'm the shit
Tell em give me 50 million and I'mma quit
Most rappers taste level ain't at my waist level
Turn up the bass til it's up in your face level
Don't do no press but I get the most press key
Plus you're my bitch, make your bitch look like precious
Talk about Mary, she gon off that Molly
Navajo party, it's melted like Dali
Now everybody is moving their body
Don't sell me apartment, I move in the lobby
Niggas is loadin just to feel important
You gon see lawyers and niggas and Jordans
[Verse 4: 2 Chainz]
Now catch up to my campaign
Coupe the color of mayonnaise
I'm drunk and high at the same time
Drinkin' champagne on the airplane
Spit rounds like the gun range
Beat it up like Rampage
100 bands, cut ya girl now your girl need a bandaid
Grade A, A1, chain the color of Akon
Black diamonds backpack around me
Cosigned by Louis Vuitton
Horse power, horse power
All this Polo on I got horse power
Pound of this cost 4 thousand
I make it rain, she want more showers
Rain pourin', all my cars is foreign
All my broads is foreign, money tall like Jordan
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Fellows' Forum: Why Rheumatology Fellows Should Get Involved with Advocacy
Introduction Interest in rheumatology continues to grow, with more than 240 new adult and pediatric fellows to begin their training in the coming academic year. Given the broad and diverse career opportunities, it is an ACR goal to help guide trainees in their career decisions and professional development. Rheumatology fellowship often marks the transition from... [Read More]


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Dr. Ferdinand Peter Herff was born in the late 19th century in San Antonio, Texas. Like his Father and Grandfather before him; Ferdinand worked as a physician in San Antonio for many years. Dr. Herff's bronze hands were sculpted by Waldine Tauch, who was Pompeo L. Coppini's pupil. The McNay generously donated the hands in 1995.
For more information about the Herff Family consider checking out their memoir at the Briscoe Library: http://briscoe.uthscsa.edu/search/Y?SEARCH=doctors+herff or come to the P. I. Nixon Medical Historical Library and see the hands up close. The Nixon Library is open Monday – Friday 8AM-5PM. We prefer appointments, but walk-ins are always welcome. Any questions about this post, please send to Mellisa DeThorne at firstname.lastname@example.com or 210-567-2470
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A picture made avaliable on December 24 shows a general view of Turkish navy boat after an accident in Izmir, Turkey. Ten people died when a Turkish navy tug boat capsized in near the port city of Izmir, news reports said. Another 17 people were injured when the boat capsized after being released from a navy shipyard where it had undergone repairs, the news agency Anadolu said. The cause of the tug boat to capsize was unknown. An investigation was under way.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish navy tugboat capsized while docked for repairs at a shipyard on the Aegean coast on Monday, killing 10 people, the military said.
Eight of the dead were military personnel and two were civilian workers, local media said. Seventeen other military personnel were injured.
The tugboat, TCG Degirmendere, was being lowered into the sea after maintenance work at the Izmir shipyard when it suddenly listed to one side, taking on water, the military said in a statement.


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Paydirt indeed: Panorama wins permission for bigger weddings
Couples searching for that perfect wedding spot can add one more full-size contender to their short lists, as Panorama Farms in Earlysville recently won approval for a permit to hold special events for up to 200 people on the 850-acre farm that is best known for hosting off-road cycling and running events. Central Virginia's status as a national (and arguably international) wedding destination has sparked a lucrative market, and the Murrays of Panorama Farms can get a bigger slice of that cake thanks to the Albemarle Board of Supervisors' June 6 go-ahead.
"Ninety percent of the business will be focused on weddings," said Margaret Murray as she answered Supes' questions about why Panorama needs this permit, points of access to the area, and of course, what the neighbors think about Panorama's plans to regularly host weddings and receptions.
As she explained her family's shift from athletics to weddings, Murray cited a thriving wedding industry around Charlottesville and the fact that wait lists stretch to two years at some of the more popular wedding-hosting vineyards. The Murray family has owned Panorama Farms since 1953, and in addition to providing a top-notch cross-country running and biking race venue— the farm is the UVA cross-country team's home course— the Murrays started an eco-friendly compost company in the mid-1990s called Panorama Paydirt.
Clients will be able to choose between having their ceremonies and receptions outdoors or in Panorama's rustic barn that has catering space and bridal dressing suites— but no AC or heat.
The permit approved June 6 limits the number of events per year to 24, places restrictions on outdoor amplified sound and lighting, and caps the guest list at 200, up from a previous limit of 150.
Murray noted that the increased head count is aimed at keeping Panorama competitive with other wedding venues and that the typical size of a wedding on the farm is more in the neighborhood of 100-125 people. In order to avoid any irked neighbors, Murray said she planned to send out neighborly e-mail updates detailing when to expect increased activity in the area at the start of wedding seasons, usually fall and spring.
Everything in the permit is reversible, and no paved parking lots or new construction are in the cards, for now at least. Board members recognized the Murray family's long history of stewardship and voted unanimously to approve the permit.Read more on: panorama farms
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Would be nice if you all could list that "short" list, it is complicated to find a place in this area to host a wedding
Really interesting article for C-ville's thriving hospitality industry!
Catering space? When I was there for a wedding I all I saw was a room with a couple tables, no sinks or anything. They don't even have running water out there. Pretty spot, but it has a very long way to go before it can compete with even the most basic of vineyard based wedding venues.
Interesting article. I think a follow up article on venues for weddings around the area by the article author would make an excellent piece. I am curious about where else and how they compare.
It would have been nice if someone had asked the neighbors. We live on the only access road to the farm/venue. It is a dirt road with a 'suggested' speed of 25 mph. The previous events have resulted in a large volume of speeding cars. The 200 guests, catering vans, assorted people associated with these events that translates into a lot of traffic. Our dirt road was NOT designed for this. I, for one, am not happy with this decision.
i got married at panorama and it was fabulous. margaret is great to work with and really knows what she's doing. she'll treat you better than any vineyard spot in three counties.
as for catering space, there's plenty. it's tucked away so you don't notice it. clever, huh?
How is that clever? Just like any other venue except they don't give the caterers much to work with. I used to work for a catering company when I was in college, and I can assure you, venues like this piss of caterers and cost clients money because of the additional hassle they require.
How many is a "piss of caterers"? It must be like a "gaggle of geese"
I misspoke earlier...the speed limit is 15mph. So this evening I am outside my home and over 15 cars go speeding down my dirt road to leave the venue/farm. By speeding I mean at least 30mph in a 15mph zone. Now, we are covered in dust. Go inside, you say? Why should I stop enjoying my own yard because someone wants to get married. Slow down!


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Share Your Sweets: Apple Pie
The Serious Eats community shares their sweet recipes.
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If only an apple-a-day applied to pies, we'd be the healthiest (and happiest) people around. Well, maybe we'll take our chances and bake up your recipes for apple pie, which range from sky high to adorable miniatures.
If you haven't had a chance to raise a pint to Oktoberfest, fear not. You can still celebrate by baking some German desserts for next week's edition of Share Your Sweets. Whether it's strudel, springerle, or good old black forest cake, tell us about your recipe, shoot us a photo (along with a link to the recipe!) and we'll include it in next week's roundup. Be sure to send it in no later than Tuesday, October 9th so we can include it in next Thursday's Share Your Sweets on October 11th.
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Vin Scully on Opening Day
When ESPN announced that it would pick up Opening Day against the Giants, some people wondered if this meant that Vin Scully would miss his first home opener since the team came to Los Angeles.
Worry no more. Vin is on board to play a role in the KABC radio broadcast on March 31 and will be in the house. Exact details of what innings he'll call and any other role he might play in the ceremonies have yet to be determined, but rest assured, he has every intention of being here. And we're planning a memorable ceremony that we truly hope our fans will enjoy.
For what it's worth, when we mentioned the idea to Rick Monday and Charley Steiner, both were fully on board. As Rick put it, "It wouldn't be Opening Day without Vin Scully."
We couldn't agree more.
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Awesome. No one will ever come close to being as good as Vin Scully.
I'll make a post about this in my blog soon, but I wanted to let everyone know that a group of season ticket holders in the left field pavilion will be dressing up for Opening Day, wearing suits and ties, and I'd love for that to spread around the stadium. Opening Day should be a classy event, especially now that we know Vinny will be there! The Dodgers can't do enough tributes to Scully this year.
That's good to know about Vin, and I wouldn't expect anything less from Rick Monday. He is a class act himself.
BTW – we signed MacDougal today 🙂
The only thing funnier than Ned's signings are the comments in that article! HAW! That "Labeldude" just kills me!!!
WOHOO! ::dancing:: Thanks Josh!! The best news of this early year!
I ran into my friend Erik at Union Stadium yesterday and first I asked him if he still will like me to get him a tix for Opening Day. He said yes so the next question was "should we wear our outfits again this year?" He said sure! so again, we will be dressed as the Brooklyn Bum and Hilda Chester. Erik looked great as the bum but I want to improve on my outfit.
If you did not see the bad video last year here it is
Oh Josh, I hope security does not give us a hard time like last year.
Looking forward to see the group dressed up in the LF pav. I know a few fans from the LF pav. Is nice that you will get dressed up but I also like seeing the sea of Dodger Blue!
I can't wait for Caravan Day, Pitchers and Catchers reporting, going to Spring Training, and Opening Day.
Great news about Vinny! That's all I have to say!!!! Wouldn't want to get myself in trouble 🙂
Happy about Scully
Long live the king.
Not sure why but I find myself looking up at Vinny from time to time when I attend a game at Dodger Stadium. Does anyone else to that?
lbirken – everytime I am there 🙂
Me, too, lbirken 🙂
All the time when I arrive early for BP. Afterwards I can't see him from where I sit the majority of times but sometimes we can see him leaving and he'll acknowlege our greeting like in here
Is no trouble at all. I always end up with extras. Sometimes they go ahead and give you the mag schedule at a preseason game even though is not on the schedule as a promo. Last year I ended up with a few team calendars and I posted it on FB that the first few people that responded and wanted a calendar to let me know so I mailed those to four different fans.
For anyone interested in the Dodger's farmhands, True Blue L.A. has an excellent breakdown going of the top 200 prospects:
Enchanted, I love ya bro…….never forget that day we were formaly introduced. Long live Nelly!
Like I said, That meeting was a big plus in my life……..
You tend to make alot of sence…..alot of sence!!
However if we win 100 games, and thats the GOAL!!!
Your going to look like a fool…………and in my book, never been a better fool than you!!
Love ya brother, man do I love ya!!
But your so wrong on this one!!!
I am stocking up on the Victory FlasK!!!
Love ya E………..Man the fun we could of had in our youth………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Anybody that has the priveledge to wear the uniform and call themselves a TRUE DODGER believes in the same things as I.
Bring The Ring Baby!!
It hoovers that I can't watch youtube videos at work
Yay! 🙂 Dodger related activities are picking up! I am already signed up for two. Now to see if my boss will agree to the vacation days. He should as I always have the work laptop with me in case of an emergency and even my back East users have my cell #.
For those non-believers who were not satisfied after the signing of Mike McDougal, we now have signed.
Merkin Valdez!
WOOOO HOOOO!!! We signed Merkin Valdez!!!! I was waiting for that!!! Now we are really set! Thanks Ned!!!! Blah!
15 days until pitchers and catchers report 🙂
You all know what a merkin is right?
Proving once again that Ned never met an ex-Gnat he wouldn't sign. And of course, you know, that he's also an idiot.
I would like add fishing to the word idiot 🙂
It's opening day…Vin Scully should be callling ALL the innings.


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"German philosophy, political theory and economics in the nineteenth century were very different from their counterparts in Britain. The dominant position of utilitarianism and classical political economy in the latter country was not reproduced in Germany, where these were held at arm's length by the influence of Idealism and, in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, by the growing impact of Marxism. In Britain, J. S. Mill's System of Logic (1843) unified the natural and social sciences in a framework that fitted comfortably within existing traditions in that country. Mill was Comte's most distinguished British disciple, if sharply critical of some of his excesses.
Comte's positivism never found a ready soil in Germany; and Dilthey's sympathetic but critical reception of Mill's version of the 'moral sciences' gave an added impulse to what came to be known as the Geisteswissenschaften (originally coined precisely as a translation of 'moral sciences'). The tradition of the Geisteswissenschaften, or the 'hermeneutic' tradition, stretches back well before Dilthey, and from the middle of the eighteenth century onwards was intertwined with, but also partly set off from, the broader stream of Idealistic philosophy. Those associated with the hermeneutic viewpoint insisted upon the differentiation of the sciences of nature from the study of man. While we can 'explain' natural occurrences in terms of the application of causal laws, human conduct is intrinsically meaningful, and has to be 'interpreted' or 'understood' in a way which has no counterpart in nature. Such an emphasis linked closely with a stress upon the centrality of history in the study of human conduct, in economic action as in other areas, because the cultural values that lend meanings to human life, it was held, are created by specific processes of social development.
Just as he accepted the thesis that history is of focal importance to the social sciences, Weber adopted the idea that the 'understanding' (Verstehen) of meaning is essential to the explication of human action. But he was critical of the notions of 'intuition', 'empathy', etc. that were regarded by many others as necessarily tied to the interpretative understanding of conduct. Most important, he rejected the view that recognition of the 'meaningful' character of human conduct entails that causal explanation cannot be undertaken in the social sciences. On the level of abstract method, Weber was not able to work out a satisfactory reconciliation of the diverse threads that he tried to knit together; but his effort at synthesis produced a distinctive style of historical study, combining a sensitivity to diverse cultural meanings with an insistence upon the fundamental causal role of 'material' factors in influencing the course of history.
It was from such an intellectual background that Weber approached Marxism, both as a set of doctrines and a political force promoting practical ends. Weber was closely associated with the Verein für Sozialpolitik (Association for Social Policy), a group of liberal scholars interested in the promotion of progressive social reform. He was a member of the so-called 'younger generation' associated with the Verein, the first group to acquire a sophisticated knowledge of Marxist theory and to attempt to creatively employ elements drawn from Marxism – without ever accepting it as an overall system of thought, and recoiling from its revolutionary politics. While acknowledging the contributions of Marx, Weber held a more reserved attitude towards Marxism (often being bitterly critical of the works and political involvements of some of Marx's professed followers) than did his illustrious contemporary, Sombart. Each shared, however, a concern with the origins and likely course of evolution of industrial capitalism, in Germany specifically and in the West as a whole. Specifically, they saw the economic conditions that Marx believed determined the development and future transformation of capitalism as embedded within a unique cultural totality. Both devoted much of their work to identifying the emergence of this 'ethos' or 'spirit' (Geist) of modern Western capitalism. "


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Jennie was the wife of my great granduncle Francis Lee Turner. Jennie & Frank were married 21 May 1882 in Hill County, Texas. Three children were born of this union: Mattie (27 June 1883), Lizzie (19 Oct 1884) and Baby Claudie (19 Apr 1887).
Jennie unexpectedly died on 21 May 1887, her 5th wedding anniversary and barely a month after Claudie's birth.
Claudie himself died 25 Jan 1888 of unknown causes.
Apparently the loss of his beloved wife and only son just months apart was more than Frank Turner could bare. He sent his surviving girls to live with his brother John Joseph Turner, and disappeared… never to be seen again!
Jennie and Claudie are buried together in Graham-Mason Cemetery in rural Hill County, Texas.
Oldest daughter Mattie Turner died in 1984 at age 101, and Lizzie survived until a month past her 98th birthday.


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Category Archives: Wizard of Oz
Courage is a Lot Like Love
"Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment." -Napoleon
In the story, The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy, on her way down the yellow brick road helps the Scarecrow from being impaled on the pole he has been on, helps the Tin Woodman move again with a simple oil can and encourages them and the Cowardly Lion to journey with her and Toto to the Emerald City. The Scarecrow wants to get a brain, the Tin Woodman a heart, and the Cowardly Lion, courage. All are convinced by Dorothy that the Wizard can help them too. Together, they overcome obstacles on the way including narrow pieces of the yellow brick road, Kalidahs, a river, and the Deadly Poppies.
When each traveler meets with the Wizard of Emerald City, he appears each time as someone or something different. To Dorothy, the Wizard is a giant head; the Scarecrow sees a beautiful woman; the Tin Woodman sees a ravenous beast; the Cowardly Lion sees a ball of fire. The Wizard agrees to help each of them, but one of them must kill the Wicked Witch of the West. The Wizard provides the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion with a head full of bran, pins, and needles ("a lot of bran-new brains"), a silk heart stuffed with sawdust, and a potion of "courage." Because of their faith in the Wizard's power, these otherwise useless items offer a focus for their desires.
Courage never operates in a vacuüm; we can always try hard and see ourselves as courageous about something. We also need to believe that there will be some consequence to our acts of bravery. It seems we are all looking at the long-term for a deliverance for ourselves and others.
Love, too, needs a sense of future, time to develop and flower. It is only passion that lives for an instant and passion, like the red rose, doesn't last out the full year.
So I believe, love and courage are similar and work together for our own good and the good of others. By working on ourselves through a form of personal growth and development we treasure love and courage as we find ourselves with greater wisdom and more abundance of peace with ourselves and others. I believe that this is one of the ways we have faith in the long-term and in things that endure. No one is suggesting we can change overnight, but with love and courage and the hope on which they depend, we can all work wonders! I believe in my courage to change day-by-day.
Related Articles
- Finding Courage In Life (psychologytoday.com)
- You Are Wonderful and I Love You (christophersmark.wordpress.com)
- The Priceless Gift of Personal Growth (christophersmark.wordpress.com)


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Which Former Steeler Icon/Legend would you like to see an episode on?
Which Former Steeler Icon/Legend would you like to see an episode on?
Chuck Noll,one of the most intresting legends of the game,.......But,I don't think it would ever happen,he is a very private person.
Dan Rooney for the simple reason all the football that man has seen in all of his years....
Dick lebeau. The man has been in football for over 50 years. If there's one guy who's life LITERALLY is a football life it's him
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I'd like to see one on Dan Rooney as well, I think that would be extremely interesting. Hearing all he has to say about his dad and how things have changed over the years.
I'd also like to see one on Joe Greene as well!
andy russell or le beau
LeBeau would be good but other than the Rooneys the true Pittsburgh guy would be Dick Hoak. Raised in Western Pa, played for Penn State, the Steelers, and coached just the Steelers. He was part of every playoff game in the teams history when he retired. The man was all Pittsburgh.
"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."
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Powerful Preferences
This past weekend, I taught Accordance training seminars in Washington DC and Williamsburg, Virginia. Both groups included some pretty experienced Accordance users, and their questions prompted me to cover some more in depth aspects of Accordance than I usually get to. One thing I noticed in answering those questions was how much I turned to the Preferences panel.
Over the past two decades of development, we've added numerous options you can set in order to tailor Accordance to your specific needs. Most of them can be found by choosing Preferences… from the Accordance menu. This will open the Preferences panel.
On the left side of the Preferences panel, you'll see a list of setting categories. Let's start with the General settings.
The first option you can choose is how you want Accordance to start up. You have the following options:
Default Search Tab: Accordance will open with a single workspace showing a single tab containing your default Bible. It's clean and simple, but you then have to open any additional resources yourself. (Note: You can set your default Bible in the Search Tabs settings.)
Default Session: If you find yourself spending a few minutes each time you launch Accordance opening the same group of resources and arranging them a certain way, you would do better to set things up the way you want them and then save that setup as a Default Session. Then that setup would come up every time you launch Accordance. When you choose the Default Session option, the Set Default Session button will become active. Click this button after you have set Accordance up the way you want, and the current arrangement of workspaces, zones, and tabs will now appear each time Accordance starts up.
Last Session: This is the setting I use. Whenever you quit Accordance, whatever you have open will be saved. When you launch Accordance again, you'll pick right back up where you left off.
Daily Reading: Want Accordance to start up with today's reading from your favorite devotional? Choose the Daily Reading option. (Note: You can set which devotional you want as your default in the Reading/Search All settings.)
In addition to choosing how you want Accordance to start up, you can choose to suppress certain kinds of information dialogs.
Suppress opening splash screen: When you first launch Accordance, you'll see the opening splash screen with our lovely artwork and copyright info.
Naturally, we leave it up there for a moment so you can appreciate the artwork and read the info. But if you would like to shave a second or two off the time it takes to launch Accordance, check Suppress opening splash screen and you'll never have to see it again. (Don't worry, if you want to see it again, you can always choose About Accordance from the Accordance menu.)
Suppress opening text information: This option is now checked by default, but it used to be that the first time you opened a new module, a window would appear showing that module's copyright information. This made the copyright holders happy, but it was a waste of your time. If you still have these dialogs appear, check the option to suppress them. (When you want the copyright info for a module, you can still get it by clicking the info icon next to its name in the Library, or by choosing About the Text… from the Accordance menu.)
Suppress save warnings: If you open a resource and perform a search or make some other change, then decide to close that resource, Accordance will ask you if you want to save that tab. Yet if you use Accordance like I do, you're constantly opening resources, searching them for information, and then closing them when you no longer need them. If I actually want to save some complicated search, I'll do that by choosing Save… from the File menu. The rest of the time, I don't want to be interrupted with save warnings. So I have the Suppress save warnings option checked. Just be warned that if you check this option, you could accidentally close some elaborate construct window and lose your work without warning.
Suppress information tips: There are a handful of tips that appear when you use certain aspects of Accordance. For example, the first time you apply a highlight style, you may get a tip informing you that you can use the keyboard shortcut command-8 to apply that same style to other words you select. These tips are relatively infrequent, so I recommend leaving this option unchecked. Still, if they get in your way, you can easily suppress them.
I'll cover the rest of the General preferences in my next post, and I'll cover other settings categories in future posts.
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Bobby, there is not currently an option to Copy As No Superscript or Citation from the Instant Details, but it's an interesting idea. We can certainly consider it.


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Messinger served as interim director of the Center for Imaging Science after the departure of then-director Stefi Baum in August 2014. Prior to that, he was the director of DIRS (the Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing) Research Laboratory in the center.
"David brings to this position collaborative decision-making, a sense of community building, strong leadership and management skills, and dedication to the mission of the center, our college and RIT," Maggelakis said. "As director of DIRS, he has done an excellent job leading the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science to many accomplishments that earned RIT national and international recognition."
Messinger's expertise in image processing helped produce useful imagery for crisis managers following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, the Japanese nuclear disaster in Fukushima Daiichi after the earthquake and tsunami in 2011, and flooding in the southern tier of New York caused by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee in 2011.
More recently, Messinger has strengthened industry and government connections in Washington, D.C., and advocated for a national commitment to train imaging scientists to fill nationally sensitive positions held by an aging workforce. Messinger, RIT President Bill Destler and industry representatives, in 2013, briefed a congressional panel on the workforce need—and national defense concern—in a hearing made possible by Rep. Louise Slaughter.
"I am very happy and honored to be asked to be the next director of the Center for Imaging Science," Messinger said. "The center, as a multidisciplinary academic and research program, serves a very diverse community of scientists, engineers and applications specialists working in many fields that use imaging systems. I look forward to the opportunities that await our faculty, staff and especially our students, to solve important problems using imaging systems."
The Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science is a multidisciplinary academic and research center that focuses on systems used to create, perceive, analyze and optimize images. Researchers at the center use and develop imaging systems to answer fundamental scientific questions, monitor and protect the environment, enhance national security, aid medical research and digitally recover historical documents. The Center for Imaging Science offers BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees in imaging science.
As a mentor, Messinger has advised more than 25 MS and Ph.D. students, and involves students in his research projects. His work focuses on remotely sensed spectral image exploitation using physics-based approaches and advanced mathematical techniques with an emphasis on large-area search and target detection. Messinger's scholarly activity extends to participating in national and international collaborations and organizing scientific expeditions. He has written more than 100 scholarly articles and numerous successful grant proposals.
Messinger is an associate editor of the journal Optical Engineering and serves as co-chair of the SPIE Conference on Algorithms and Technology for Multispectral, Hyperspectral and Ultraspectral Imaging, and on the technical committee of the Department of Energy Conference on Data Analysis, or CODA.
He is a member of the GEOINT Research and Development Working Group and a member of both the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Activities Based Intelligence Working Group and Academic Advisory Board. He is a prior academic adviser to the Remote Sensing Advisory Board for the Department of Homeland Security and has served on several program review boards for various government agencies and national laboratories.
Messinger earned his Ph.D. in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his BS in physics from Clarkson University. Before joining RIT in 2002, he worked as an analyst for XonTech Inc. and for Northrop Grumman on the National Missile Defense Program for Northrop Grumman.


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KSR v. Teleflex ruling by US Supreme Court on 30 April 2007
KSR vs Teleflex was a court case at the US Supreme Court. The opinion of the court was written by Justice Kennedy.
This case raised the bar for the "obviousness" test, saying that a:
combination of familiar elements according to known methods is likely to be obvious when it does no more than yield predictable results.
This decision lead to a revision of the USPTO's examiner guidelines.[1]
For the period 2007-2010, it was the third most cited patent case by the CAFC.[2]
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A student once asked Professor Hegel, "Professor Hegel. Why are you so smart?" Hegel responded by claiming that any thought which he thinks; any portrayal of the development of thought; any insight regarding the delicate manner in which concepts slide into their opposites ; these are the result not of an empirical subject denominated "Hegel"; rather, it is the work and labor of Thought itself. Indeed, philologically, Hegel's choice of vocabulary indicates he takes the work and employment of thinking Thought and its development and nature quite seriously. Unlike Wittgenstein in Über Gewißheit Hegel, as perhaps the greatest of modern philosophers, will not allow even the slightest presupposition to pass unaccounted for in order to eliminate arbitrariness but most importantly to eliminate the ordinary conception of methodological thinking. Standard methodological thinking takes as given a reflective notion of method as "application", a given domain of objects to which the inquirer applies her or his presupposed method, and an epistemological Zweck (das Absolut). The presuppositions of standard methodological thinking is anathema to Hegel's presuppositional account of thought.
Zizek, one of our best readers of Hegel (as much as it pains me to say it), and one of our best pilferers of Hegel, appropriates the aforementioned anecdote (re Hegel's response to his student's inquiry) in his remarks concerning the difference between a Stalinist and Communist leader. After a rousing speech delivered to supports and enthusiasts, after receiving thunderous and reassuring applause, the Stalinist leader will stand stoically, soaking in and savoring the excitement and applause for he's done something magnificient and historic. However, the Communist leader, like our Hegel, claps along with the throngs of devoted enthusiasts in order to indicate and symbolize that he or she has done nothing: It's not me; it's the party. Or, perhaps more historically palatable: It's not me; it's the Idea. It shouldn't be ignored that clapping and cheering involve a rhythm and, oftentimes, a melody. Contrary to textbook depictions of Hegel's method as a tripartite dialectic which presupposes an end (Absolut) and operates in according with this end throughout its development thereto, I believe that Hegel's method works and labors much more improvisationally, much more akin to Jazz than Kant's preferred marching music. Furthermore, I believe that Hegel's improvisational/presuppositionless "method" plays an essential role to Hegel's work than has been noted hitherto by the secondary literature . Only if we take seriously the idea that Hegel's philosophical thought entertains and enacts a presuppositionless procedure, assuming nothing like good modern philosophers, can we see the parallel to both Jazz improvisation as well as improvisational comedy. While for most readers of this submission Jazz's improvisational procedures are relatively well-known and understood it's less likely that readers are equally as familiar with the ins-n-outs of improvisational comedy. For example, within the context of presuppositionless thought and NOT in the context (yet) of thought's development (because I'd have to deal with improvisational comedy's aversion to negation) a member of an improv troupe is determined as an individual or, more relevant, "funny" only to the extent that she or he moves within the give-and-take of improvisational structure. Often, as is the case with Will Ferrell, people are off-put when they encounter improvisational comedians outside the context of their (the comedians) normal station because the improvisational dynamic isn't governing the interaction and they don't appear within the new context as "funny". My point here is simply the following: An improv troupe functions presuppositionlessly insofar as the comedian must submit her or himself to the development of the structure of the comedic situation. Furthermore, the synthetic interaction between both the general comedic structure (form) and the local comedic structure (the comedians' sentences or exclaimations) creates a logical space in which the comedian can be funny. Be one can be funny only insofar as she or he is set up to be funny.A properly functioning improvisational troupe functions properly if and only if the persons composing the group properly set up each other qua group and qua person.
There's a schizophrenic element at work here. Per Hegel, Hegel's point in the SL is that the activity of philosophy is actively passive. It's certainly not the case that Hegel subtracts the emprical or logical subject from the SL. Analogously, it's not the case that an improvisational setting subtracts the individual. On the contrary, an empirical logical subject has penned the book and many empirical logical persons have found solace, exasperation, and insight in reading the arguments presented therein. To employ a Heideggerian etymological ploy, Hegel's philosophy is speculative in the etymological sense that speculative philosophy "watches closely" (from the Latin speculari). One is simultaneously a part and a non-part. A participant and an aparticipant. Once confronted with the thought of pure being as unmediated indeterminacy, there is nothing else to do than simply watch closely what happens when one thinks through this first thought. There's a religious dimension to Hegel's conception of the philosopher: the philosopher must actively prepare herself to let go of one's individual rub in order to let thought develop, as Socrates said thereof, whereever it may lead us. Or, in more christian imagery, to abide or dwell with thought. As I've often argued concerning Bill Evans Trio (here Jazz artists reveal themselves as good Hegelians, forming Trios) when he deconstructed the hierarchical presuppositional structure of Jazz –that is, an authority brings a melodic idea to the set from a place external to the set– and opted for a more democratic set-structure, one in which chaos reigned in the form of each artist autonomously developing his own musical thoughts until a melody (or method) emerged from WITHIN the musical notes and their relations themselves. The melody (method) wasn't imported from an external place; rather, much more in sync with Hegel's presuppositionless labor, it developed internally according to the whims of music and the music itself. Pure thinking constitutes its own method in the course of thinking itself through. I argue that this internal self-positing of thinking Hegel calls "the absolute method of knowing" precisely because it is nothing but the "immanent soul of the content itself". Hegel claims further, "It is this self-constructing path alone which enables philosophy to be an objective, demonstrated science". Only later, ex post, can we gaze behind us and find some kind of necessity in thought's development; we can peer into developED thought and determine the way thought has paved for itself. Hegel, in the Phenomenology, stresses exactly this point that the absolute is to be grasped not, as his detractors commonly argue, as a presupposition of thought but, rather, as the result of thinking. Indeed, the absoulte as the result of thinking is precisely what Hegel means by Absolute Idea: thinking of thinking which thinks itself as such. It shouldn't come as a surprise, then,why the entire chapter on the Absolute Idea consists solely of the articulation of the method of dialectic: Thinking comes to itself, that is, that it grasps itself as self-determining thinking, is nothing else than the reconstruction of the path of which can be said retrospectively, that thinking has taken it. The Will-Have-Been is essential here. Determinate negation Will-Have-Been central to dialectics am Ende not, as in standard method, at the beginning of the investigation. The dialectical slippage exists but it's philosophical/conceptually indeterminate insofar as the dialectical negation of X into Y is not yet posited as a principle of thought. The philosopher lacks the conceptual resources with which to determine thought's movement as A, for example determinate negation. The philosopher functions, in some way, as Thought's analyst insofar as it allows Thought to articulate its own problems and thereby (the philosopher) becomes a receptor for those problems rather than framing those problems, or to some degree creating those problems via framing, in terms of one's terms of reference. The iversion of the personal problems into the impersonal is necessary here. One needs to pursue the experience of personal alienation to a point where one realizes that one's self is a vehicle to a necessarily impersonal conceptual domain: pushing the personal appropriation of philosophical problems to the point where the problems themselves appropriate one's person. To engage in philosophy conceived thus is no easy task. Hegel, humourously, provides his readers with some practical advice: go read some abstract logic texts; practice in your real life abstract thinking. I imagine Hegel had his students in mind when composing these passges given that he composed SL while a gymnasium teacher in Nürnberg. (Attached, see the photo I snapped of the Hegel-Schule. Interestingly, the Schule is located on Neue Hegelstrasse, and now more than ever we need to think Hegel anew. Also of note, Tucherstrasse is just around the corner, named after the local Weissbier brewery, Tucher. Hegel's wife's nachname was Tucher. Not sure whether there's any relation.)
Street leading to Gymnasium
Sadly, once one has managed to abide in the concept, giving up oneself to the concept, losing one's life in order to gain it: This is only the beginning. A mere first step. One has been born again in a sense in thought to Thought and that wobbly, unbalanced first step awakens an active-passivity. To begin to move toward philosophy one must sharpen one's understanding of her or his own inabilities at least so that such inability receives articulation in conceptual form.
Hegel's thought is strange indeed.Komisch: both comedic and strange. The English equivalent being "Funny". Terry Pinkard's biography is wonderful for many things but, for my purposes here, his details concerning Hegel's interest and enjoyment of dance is relevant. One must feel the rhythm of thought in order to walz appropriately to its internal movement. But, Hegel's thought seems counter-intuitive. Therefore to dance with thought in the pale moonlight one must become attunedto discordant, dissonant, even alien harmonies while refusing to walk away exasperated, holding one's hands over her or his ears.


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Friday, March 14, 2008
Spitzer, Double Standards, and Our Tabloid Society
For example, I'd say the growing number of states suing Eli Lilly over its marketing of Zyprexa and its alleged coverup of the drug's risks is more newsworthy than two adults having consensual sexual relations. Yes, Spitzer is a gold-medal winning hypocrite who damaged his family. His behavior was immoral. Duh. But why should a crime that included so very few victims become such a blockbuster media sensation when there are problems of much grander scale occurring at the same time about which the public is essentially unaware?
For more on the incredibly strange logic involved in all of the Spitzer rigamarole, please check out Glenn Greenwald's smokin' hot post.
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When you put it that way, good points. His crimes do include many fewer victims and are just lesser crimes than the crimes committed by Eli Lilly, and I might add, while I didn't like everything Spitzer did, he did some courageous ground breaking work in exposing the criminal activities of large corporations and insurance companies.
- Friday, March 14, 2008 6:33:00 AM
- CL Psych said...
Thanks. Let me reiterate that Lilly's actions regarding Zyprexa are "alleged crimes" at this point. But you can read all about their actions on this site and many others, and the infamous Zyprexa documents are residing at Furious Seasons.
I agree that much of Spitzer's work as attorney general was commendable. GlaxoSmithKline may disagree...
- Friday, March 14, 2008 7:35:00 AM
- Kass said...
It's unfortunate that Spitzer's hypocrisy brought him down like this. He had a good track record of prosecuting corruption as attorney general especially with outing J&J and GSK for off-label usage. Spitzer was certainly fearless - for good and bad.
- Friday, March 14, 2008 9:54:00 AM
Not to belabor the obvious, but I think it's a blockbuster media sensation because it involves sex.
As a fellow attorney, I have no sympathy for Spitzer whatsoever. He knew he was breaking the law. Unless there are new facts that come to light, however, I do not think he should lose his law license over this.
- Friday, March 14, 2008 12:25:00 PM
Sex sell individually wrapped. Death sells too, but only in packs of five or more unless blood is gushing. NEXT!
- Friday, March 14, 2008 3:19:00 PM
- Radagast said...
I'm sure it's just coincidence, in that the media is more interested in stain on the mattress-type stories, but reading your comments, above, I was reminded how the Wesbecker (sp?) business was largely ignored, courtesy of OJ, as I recall.
- Saturday, March 15, 2008 4:05:00 PM
- soulful sepulcher said...
it would be interesting to compare the sales revenue of tabloids vs.Lilly [for example]. How about a story involving a pharma exec and a 4700$ hooker? I bet that would garner attention in the health blogosphere.
- Monday, March 17, 2008 12:14:00 AM
- ladybroadoak said...
Truth is - Spitzer was going after the deregulated stock market scandals, and in particular the vulture funds.
The pay down of debts by poor nations is what is making it appear that the US is not the in the economic collapse mode YET, but it is - those nations are making payments to keep the "balance sheet" neat. (not that we get REAL Figures anymore). so it was time for Spitzer to go, that was not tolerable.
I think he was positively stoopid to walk into the Mayflower Hotel considering we already know how the US power mongers have used sex to destroy their opponents - and Spitzer surely knew the risks. THe Palfrey case had already highlighted them.
It sets up the US when its officials don't think about the risks they take for being spied up and blackmailed. This issue rarely gets discussed on postings about Vitter and a whole host of other reckless individuals who have sworn oaths!! Yet it is the major factor. The DoD runs its own sex rings; been that way since FDR.
BLACKMAIL has been a regular feature of the current administration and it is a shame that the press continually refuses to discuss it.
Can you imagine this scene. You want to run for VEEP - you go see Dick Cheney who says he is vetting you and you must tell him all your secrets . every last one, so that there will be NO surprises and he'll do the "damage control". Then you find out he appoints himself VEEP and has decades of experience of setting people up! and HE is his own pick for the POWER CHAIR.
Now that would explain alot of the spinelessness in CONgress would it not? It might explain, too, how many in the FDA and other places feel such a compulsion to keep quiet at strategic times? Especially if you have children and don't want them hurt.
Someday, SOME day, someone is going to write a work on all the dirty tricks and corruption that went on at the tippy top - Spitzer and some of the other preyed-on patsies won't look quite so bad maybe.
A real problem about the Big Pharma companies stems from the SCOTUS set up .. who bend over backwards to accomodate CORPORATE interests - they've worked to do that for DECADES.
We the People must just keep working away at exposing ALL the rot.
And just give a passing thought to ALL the pharmaceuticals that these jerks at the top take so they don't face their consciences. I can read the drugs they are on alot of times .. Occasionally I post piocs or videos of the pill popping by Condi and others ..
SOCIALISM FOR THE RICH, drug taking decriminalized for the powerful; that's the way it's "working".
The rest of us are just supposed to have our brains turned into MUSH thanx to our ever-caring friends at Eli Lilly, Merck, and the rest. Such a "small price" to pay for maintaining EMPIRE.
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By Jason Miks
GPS Editor Jason Miks speaks with Bill Keller, former executive editor of the New York Times, about media bias and the presidential campaign. Watch Keller on "Fareed Zakaria GPS" this Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET.
Both presidential candidates have come in for criticism for playing hard and fast with the truth during the campaign. How bad has this campaign really been, and is the media doing enough to hold the candidates to account?
In the heat of it, we always think it's the worst election ever, but I'm sure there have been other elections where the misstating of facts and the outright fabrications have been more egregious than they are in this one.
I think by and large this election cycle will be remembered as the coming of age of the fact checker. My newspaper, the New York Times, has done fact checking for several election cycles, but there has been a really big commitment to it this time. The Washington Post has been doing this, and there are websites like PolitiFact that exist only to fact check statements made in the campaign and in the advertisements, and I think that's a real public service.
It's a dream that you can get candidates to only speak careful, nuanced truths in a campaign. Even when they're not abusing the facts, they are putting a questionable spin on them. So the only antidote to that is that someone watches closely and points out when they get it wrong. Social media has been a big contributor to this and has raised the level of skepticism. Sometimes I think it has turned us into a nation of cynics, but it has contributed considerably to the likelihood that if you say something that's false, you'll get caught.
Speaking of fact checking, there sometimes seems a temptation in the media when holding either side to account for their statements for them to try too hard to be even-handed, and they end up creating a false equivalence. Is that a fair assessment?
Yes, and it's a danger that doesn't just apply to fact checking. There is a potential in journalism in aiming to be impartial, that you develop a misleading impartiality in that you always treat two opposing positions as equal. That didn't originate in the fact checking business, and it's something to be on guard against. I think editors and reporters have to watch very closely to make sure we're not giving one to the other side, whether it deserves it or not in an attempt to be even handed.
But it's also important that we're seen as impartial, so you also want to second guess yourself when you're doing these stories – you need to ask yourself if you are going too easy on one candidate or the other. And you need to ask yourself if you're just responding to what the talking heads said on the TV after the debate. That said, I read a lot of the fact checking out there and find it quite helpful, and amongst the serious fact checking outfits there's plenty of nuance and fairness.
The talking heads were scathing about President Obama's debate performance last week. Did the commentary fairly reflect his performance?
I think Obama had a really, really bad night. But what I think has gotten less attention is that Romney had a really good night. I did a blog post the next day, the headline of which was "Scoring Obama's debacle". That tells you what I thought of it. I did watch the talking heads on Fox and MSNBC, and it's sometimes entertaining to toggle back and forth between the two. In an election year as polarizing as this one it's interesting to see the two takes, and sometimes it's from the friction between the two of them that you get a sharper sense in your own mind of what you've just watched.
Some argue that the rise of channels such as MSNBC and Fox News creates a troubling echo chamber effect as viewers are only exposed to their own point of view. Does this worry you?
It does. I think the kind of MSNBC/Fox news dichotomy is a symptom of a larger, polarized quality in our public conversation. The same is true on the internet. You can easily put together a diet of news and information that just confirms your prejudices. I don't think it's the end of the world, but it does cause me some serious concern because I think it contributes to the kind of gridlock you get in Washington where one party is pandering to one audience that only listens to MSNBC or reads Daily Kos, while another is pandering to an audience that reads Tea Party websites and watches Fox News. I'm something of a centrist, so I find this a little disconcerting.
What would repeal of "Obamacare" mean?
– Cheaper drugs for seniors in the doughnut hole – REPEALED!
– Coverage for children with pre-existing conditions – REPEALED!
– Free access to preventive services – REPEALED!
– Women won't pay more than men – REPEALED!
– No lifetime cap on coverage – REPEALED!
– Protection from insurance company abuses – REPEALED!
– Being a woman won't be a pre-existing condition – REPEALED!
Our country not running itself off a fiscal cliff (you probably won't know what that means) in the next 4 years beats the reasons you listed to a pulp. Obama is in over his head, he wasn't ready for the job, just as Hillary Clinton tried to tell everyone in 2008.
Give Obama the break he needs, let him go home, wherever THAT is.
Vote Romney and save the USA from becoming like the EU or Greece! (Nancy, you may not know where those are!)
The facts alone are not enough when you can get away with flip flopping. Flip flopping can evade honesty because it's about what the candidate believes. The best we can do is look at the candidates past record and hold him accountable. If there is any truth to the polls and they shift in favor of a flip flopper its because the undecideds are either too
misinformed or too forgiving.
People always complain about dirty politics. We want an honest candidate but if flip flopping wins the election then we reward the flip flopper for playing dirty, we disregard the more honest politician and it's our own fault. We have running diagrams for the electorates per state. Now give us diagrams for fact checking and flip flopping so the swing voters have some place to go in their busy lives to get a quick idea about the candidates.
Let me guess Dino, you'd say Romney 'flip-flops' while Obama 'evolves'.
Obama is in over his head, just like Hillary Clinton said he would be.
Evenhanded and fair with sematical distortions and outright lies?! Impossible. Especially in this world of 'fact checking' by viewers. Sometimes within minutes.
To be clean and fair to most of the media reporting, faux news is not even on the same playing field of news reporting. They apparently have modeled themselves into an entertainment media.
I'm living and working in a foreign country, dealing daily with three translations, and the amount of deceptions available within our English language is unbelievable, especially when you factor in the skill level of presentations that our political system now requires.
Especially when people like you call out an opposing view 'faux'.
This is old, childish and beneath the seriousness of this election.
Glad you're not here.
Scott, Geraldo is a life-long Democrat who has only voted Republican since 9/11, and then only because he's hawkish on national security. In every other area – and especially on illegal immigration / amnesty – he's a flaming liberal. He's pro-redistribution, pro-choice, pro-gay-marriage...honestly, where has he every shown a conservative leaning but with war? O'Reilley is certainly not a moderate, but neither is he far or consistently to the right. He's wishy-washy on gun control, left on energy and business regulation (he absolutely lambasted Bush for "allowing" oil companies to make profits when prices got high back then), at best middle-of-the-road on social spending, and he opposes the death penalty. The fact that they pick stories critical of Democrats is the proof that they lean to the right; but they are not hard right like MSNBC is to the left.
Fekt, the fact that you feel NPR is balanced and unbiased, because supposedly Republicans are just wrong all the time, proves the point about their bias. Just like Scott says about Fox News – NPR picks left-wing-slanted stories...but more importantly they only give the liberal view on those stories most of the time, and when they do get a conservative response in it's with biased questioning and, frankly, moderates actually giving the conservative point of view rather than real conservatives. If you have an actual study that shows the RNC lies 80% of the time and the DNC only lies 40% of the time, I'd love to see it.
Fox News talk shows are definitely conservative, but CNN and MSNBC are further left than Fox is right. Watching Blitzer or Matthews or NBC's yes-men to the Prez is laughable. Then the shrill constant whining about the repubs of the MSNBC other shows makes an abcessed tooth seem pleasant. They have no shame in taking a comment, cutting out parts that do not fit their storyline and create absolute fabrications and call it NEWS. I also hate when this is done on conservatve outlets. this only hurts the country as talented and wonderful people want nothing to do with politics and we get stuck with... well uh.. Palin and Joe Biden... sigh...


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Ay, Attack the Block, count it down
Talib Kweli, Z-Trip
This a prelude to P.O.C
Attack the Block, Attack the Block
Attack the Block, Attack the Block
Better strap your boots up, time is running low low
Clock's running down, gotta run, gotta go go
Bet it ain't safe here, only getting worse now
Fighting for survival, only way we know how
Backs to the wall, so we looking to the sky
[But the sky saying nothing, we failed but tried?]
We stand and we breathe and we push and we go
And we run, run, run 'til we can't no more
Yea, the final countdown
The countdown to Armageddon
Chuck got it right
He got it right, y'all
Eleven pipers piping, they lying just like the reverend
Seven represent the divine, the devil triple six
Five is the stigmata, according to Big Poppa
Never trust nobody, commandment number three
And players only love you when they playing, word to Stevie Nicks
Yea and numbers never lie, they simply plead the fifth
No I'm not quite on the edge but I can see the cliff
And niggas out here snitch for a dire slice and some pita chips
Now they reading the script, niggas get beat up quick
Stomped out, shipped, probably why we call our sneakers kicks
Industry niggas is tweaking because they need a hit
Reading from the Anarchist Cookbook because we need a ?
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Pentecostalism, worldwide 20th–21st-century Christian movement that emphasizes the experience of Spirit baptism, generally evidenced by speaking in tongues ( glossolalia). The name derives from Pentecost, the Greek name for the Jewish Feast of Weeks, which falls on the fiftieth day after Passover. On this day the Holy Spirit descended upon the first Christians enabling them to
speak in other tongues(see Acts 2:1–4). Besides glossolalia, Pentecostals promote other gifts of the Spirit ( charismata), including faith healing, prophecy, and exorcism. Ecstatic experience remains the unifying element of the movement. Pentecostals in America are generally conservative evangelical in their beliefs (see fundamentalism), but no unified stance on matters of doctrine and polity exists among adherents. Pentecostal churches are also strong in Indonesia, sub-Saharan Africa, and parts of Latin America and Europe. Pentecostal churches around the world cooperate through the Pentecostal World Conference, first held in Sweden (1939). The American counterpart to the conference is the Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches of North America; it is not a policy-setting organization.
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It was only a matter of time before Ryan Reynolds officially listed the love nest he once shared with now ex-wife Scarlett Johansson. The Hollywood couple, who officially divorced last year after three years of marriage, hoisted onto the market their Buff & Hensman-designed Wong House with a steep $3.65 million list price, reports the L.A. Times.
The former couple bought the posh Los Feliz spread for $2.9 million just a couple of months before announcing their divorce in December 2010 after three years of marriage. According to the L.A. Times, the $1,000 per square foot was considered high for the area at the time.
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While no interior photos are available of the home where ScarJo and RyRey spent their better days, the crib features two bedrooms, three bathrooms, a living room, den, library and dining room.
Although it's unclear whether the couple even shacked up in this contemporary pad as man and wife, they apparently spent the last year upgrading and restoring the digs to make it more eco-friendly, including adding solar power. Perhaps, the inflated price (according to Zillow, the media list price of homes in Los Feliz was $950,000 through November 2011) is serving to offset the cost the couple poured into making their old love nest more green.
Reynolds could use the extra cash since he's rumored to be looking at some swanky Manhattan apartments with his new woman of the hour, Blake Lively.
A view of the grassy backyard and swimming pool in Reynolds's and Johansson's former love nest.
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Frederick Gerner is my great-grandfather. Round-about research and vague memories of his youngest daughter led me to people who were probably his parents, Christian and Elizabeth, in census records from 1860 to 1880. Those records gave me a list of children that corresponded with the vague memories of Fred's youngest daughter. So I set off to find Fred's siblings as adults in the hopes of learning more about their parents.
Census records gave me
- Emma, born about 1847
- Frederick, born about 1849
- Isabell / Elisabeth / Lizzie, born about 1851
- Charles, born about 1853
- Christian, born about 1854, and
- John, born about 1856
To date, I've learned that
- Emma married Alfred Vensel in 1869 in Fairview Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania. She and Afred had one son, John, and three daughters, Laura, Maude, and Ida. They stayed close to home, living in Fairview Township, Chicora, and Butler. Alfred was a carpenter who committed suicide at the age of 59, on April 5, 1906. Emma was already blind at the time. Emma passed away at the age of 76 on December 7, 1922.
- Frederick - well, there have been plenty of posts about him already, but the briefest information is that he married Elvira Bartley and died on March 26, 1926.
- Charles married Eva D. Adams in 1881. They had at least five children: Francis, Bertha, Mary, Dale, and Ada. Charles worked as an oil producer. He died at the age of 77 on June 12, 1929.
- Christian was born on July 12, 1854, in Clarion County, Pennsylvania (according to his marriage record). He married Amanda Daubenspeck on October 22, 1886. For a while they lived in S. Washington Borough, Washington County, Pennsylvania. They had two sons: Maurice L., born in 1890, and Russell D., born in 1892. Sometime after 1900, the family moved to McKim District, West Virginia, and by 1920 were living in Anaheim, Orange County, California. Christian worked as an oil pumper/producer for 43 years, last working in 1918. He died at the age of 81 on October 9, 1935, in Anaheim.
I began researching Fred's siblings because his death certificate named only his father. I hoped that the death records of his siblings would give the name of their mother, too. And they did! Emma's, Charles's, and Christian's death certificates all name their father as Christian Gerner and their mother as Mary E. Stahl (or variant spelling/misspelling, Sthal). If the E. doesn't stand for Elizabeth, I'm way off base with this research, but there are so many other indications that this is my Fred's family that I have little doubt.
I've found four siblings but I'll continue to search for more information about them and their parents. I'd like to obtain a copy of Christian's obituary (assuming there is one) but I haven't found an online source for a 1935 Anaheim newspaper. I continue to wish for a will for the senior Christian Gerner and some death information for his wife, Elizabeth or Mary E. But for now, I'm happy with the progress I've made. If these ancestors are playing hide and seek, I think I'm beginning to win a round or two.


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WASHINGTON - Sunday's political talk show circuit illustrated another deep divide at the Republican Party's highest levels, with a Tennessee senator promoting a balanced approach to America's defict and House Speaker John Boehner rejecting compromise in a partisan appeal to conservative budget slashers.
Striking a moderate tone, U.S. Sen. Bob Corker said he and other Senate Republicans are open to raising further tax revenue as part of a deficit reduction deal, calling a sweeping agreement possible a week after President Barack Obama's Capitol Hill visits.
"I think there, by the way, is a chance on a deal," the Tennessee Republican said on "Fox News Sunday." "I know the president is saying the right things, and we have an opportunity over the next four to five months."
Just as Corker opened a door to compromise, Boehner slammed it shut. He said House Republicans are rejecting all ideas for fresh tax revenue and would only consider spending cuts to close the nation's financial gap. The speaker appeared pessimistic at the chances for an elusive "grand bargain."
"I don't know whether we can come to a big agreement," Boehner said on ABC's "This Week."
Coming days after rising-star Sens. Marco Rubio and Rand Paul took veiled shots at Mitt Romney and John McCain at a national retreat for conservatives, the fiscal schism could undermine the GOP's efforts to unify for budget season, 2014 elections and beyond.
Corker said it will take a "75-year solution to entitlements" such as Medicare and Social Security to encourage Republicans to consider more tax revenue.
"I think Republicans, if they saw true entitlement reform, would be able to look at tax reform that generates additional revenue," Corker said. "And that doesn't mean increasing rates. That means closing loopholes."
Corker didn't identify specific loopholes, but Boehner shunned revenue talk altogether. He said "the president got his tax hikes on January 1," referring to the "fiscal cliff" deal that raised rates for individuals making more than $400,000 per year and households taking in more than $450,000.
"The talk about raising revenue is over," Boehner said.
Meanwhile, Corker expressed a willingness to collaborate with the president. The former Chattanooga mayor repeated his belief that Congress can't do it alone, imploring the president "or a designee" to maintain a physical presence on Capitol Hill.
Still, compromise seems a long way off, according to 10-year budget proposals released last week: House Republicans exclusively use spending cuts to narrow the deficit by $4.6 trillion, while Senate Democrats combine tax increases and cuts to slice the gap by $1.8 trillion.
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