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Creator and the Catalyst
by Mark Edgemon
During a phone conversation with actor and director Jim Meskimen , he
mentioned a project he wanted to produce if I had the time and
inclination. Jim has been a great friend over the years and I look forward
to the times we collaborate on creative projects. I said, "Sure" without
needing to know what it was.
Motivating someone to rise to a challenge isn't easy, unless they already
have a strong desire to succeed and to find out for themselves what they
can do with the gifts they have been given. It is not easy, but it is
worthwhile, especially when you see someone reach far beyond what those in
society are individually able to do. That's the thing about gifts, they're
special and should be labored to perfection. Bringing one's talent to the
highest level is the greatest motivation for others. Creative fulfillment
breeds encouragement, something we all need day to day.
Creator and the Catalyst will be hosting writing events in our forum for writers around the world in various genres. The events will take place under the heading, "Writing Events" and everyone can participate.
This is a great way to hone writing skills, enjoy the camaraderie in the forum and have a great time. There will also be prizes when listed in the event set up.
Art Masterpiece Inspires Literary Work Which In Turn Inspires Audio Story Production
|I stared at the image for a long time before conceiving the plot and direction for the story. Rewriting history, I recounted the years before Queen Elizabeth II ascended the throne of England when her uncle, the Prince of Wales was king. He was a young man and it was unlikely that she being third in line would ever take the throne. However as fate would have it, her uncle fell in love and married a divorced socialite, forbidden in British law. He eventually abdicated his throne for the woman he loved putting Elizabeth second in line to power. When her father died, she passed from the title of princess to queen and assumed power as the Queen of England.
In the picture above, actress and art patron Anne Archer stands with artist and actor Jim Meskimen to the right of his masterpiece "Wind in Iraq" which sold for a high dollar amount at a gallery in New York.
It all started with a dare...a challenge! I bet Jim I could write a convincing story based around any art piece he cared to send me and all in a twenty four hour time limit. It wasn't long before he sent his submission for the challenge, the most unusual painting I had ever seen. It was beautiful and captivating, but outside the normal concepts usually considered for art subjects. The painting was off his daughter sitting on a bed in a white gown holding a strange sort of mask in front of her face. Odd, but captivating.
this story, now in her eighties, she wandered passed her bedroom door late
one evening and saw a young girl standing at the foot of her bed staring
at a portrait hanging on the wall above the fireplace. Upon entering the
room, the girl seemed familiar although they had never met before and the
two began a revealing conversation that leads the queen to believe this
girl was an apparition, a spiritual visitation from her younger self.
When Jim read the story, he responded positively in a return e-mail, and proceeded to record a voice performance of the story. I in turn produced and scored the production with effects and music.
Jim is a multi-talented gentlemen, who is not only a visual artist in several mediums including charcoal, oil painting, sketches and digital art, but a top flight voice artist as well as an actor, writer and director.
You can listen and download this audio story titled, "The Party Favor" in the audio fiction section of this site.
Vincent Price Is Still Around Inside Voice Actor Piotr Walczuk
needed the great one to come back from the great beyond to perform a poem
I had written about the last surviving Grimm brother, but there is never a
medium around when you need one.
Fortunately, I had recently met a young voice artist, who had a remarkable gift for mimicry and who sounded more like Vincent than Vincent did. His name is Piotr Walczuk.
He was sensational with each of
his dead on celebrity impressions, an impressive talent to say the least.
He created the perfect tone for this piece. When set to music, Piotr's
performance captured the very essence of his soul. It was "Priceless"!
You will also find more of Piotr's voice work in the audio fiction and audio comedy sections on this site.
Much like when Tim Burton wrote a short poem titled, "Vincent" about the great Vincent Price, then got the one and only to perform it for a short animated film production, I also
J. W. Henson: Adventurer/Journalist
The Voice Behind Commercials and Commercial Parodies
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Lights That Never Went Out In Georgia
There are many experiences that help train and perfect an actor/performer's skill and viability, but there are a precious few times in someone's career that become a part of them for the rest of their lives.
One such experience for me was back in 1981 on the set of the motion picture, "The Nights the Lights Went Out in Georgia". I worked as a stand in with Mark Hamill who was in between his second and third Star Wars film as well as
Mark Edgemon and Mark Hamill
Jerry Rushing and Jerry Campbell
Director Ron Maxwell with Mark Hamill and Kristy McNichol
Jerry Rushing and Mark Edgemon
|to be up in just a few hours for the next day filming. After a knife fight scene outside of the bar where we shot with actors Jerry Rushing and Jerry Campbell, I was pulled into it as photos were be snapped, which left these lasting memories. Another veteran character actor, Arlen Dean Snyder who played the bar owner stopped for a photo, who was later seen that year in an episode of "M.A.S.H. as an intoxicated sergeant who punches
Mark Edgemon and Sunny Johnson
Arlen Dean Snyder and Mark Edgemon
|other notable actors Kristy McNichol, Dennis Quaid, Sunny Johnson and Don Stroud. It was my first time on a movie production and I remember feeling at home in the hustle of film schedules and chumming around with cast and crew. I had lunch with Mark Hamill each day on the set and we talked about Star Wars and the rigorous demands of an actor's life.
During late night shoots, I got to know Sunny Johnson who hadn't made her
mark yet as an actress, but would in her next film, "Flashdance" playing
the supporting lead of Jennifer Beals character's best friend. She was
bright, curious and beautiful. I enjoyed those times especially. I lost
touch with her the year following the film's debut and regrettably heard a
few years later that she died of a brain tumor, which was heart breaking.
She was special.
The cast and crew would often horse around in between takes and I eventually got pulled into it. After all, it was one in the morning and we had
Oscar Nominated, Emmy Award Winning Special Effects Make Up Artist, Ed French is also a Top Notch Voice Actor
Marion Ross (Happy Days) Narrates "The Witch Princess"
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Charles Winchester in the mouth, prompting him to learn self defense
The sheriff in the movie played by Wayne Sharpnack was an actor who knew what he was doing when it came to character development with very little preparation.
It was this experience more than any other that caused me to realize the love I had for production. I will never forget it or the people that shaped my life.
Wayne Sharpnack and Mark Edgemon
Rod Serling Is Back and Goode To Go
D. C. Goode
Dead on describes in more ways than one D. C. Goode's celebrity voice impression of Rod Serling of The Twilight Zone. Knowing of his ability to capture not only the Sci Fi media mogul's voice, but also his essence, I wrote D. C. some time back and asked if he'd be willing to help create a new Twilight Zone episode (audio version only). He agreed and was enthusiastic for the challenge as I was to write a script in the Twilight Zone style. Artist Jim Meskimen offered up his talents as well and created a haunting digital art piece, which became not only the center piece for the poster art, but the inspiration for the story, seeing he provided the art before the story was written.
Dennis has been working full time in VO since the
Rod Serling of The Twilight Zone
Artwork Used For Poster Design by Jim Meskimen
80's as a variety artist in Southern California for such notables as the
Righteous Brothers and Disney. His commercials, narrations and various
other projects have totaled in the thousands.
Some of his recent clients include, Netflix, US Cellular, Narration of the New testament (Old King James version), and has appeared in films and TV shows such as "Pursuit of Happyness", The Mentalist (CBS), Trauma (NBC) and in the Anime series "The Chiang Mai Rascals" where he played over a dozen different characters. His most recent audio book narration, "God's Debris" by Scott Adams who was the creator of the Dilbert comic strip.
In addition to his voice acting and voice over work, he specializes as a ADR, IT and multi-technology-systems integrator/technician, an audio engineer and as a director and producer.
I have grown to depend on D. C. Goode through the years for being able to conjure whatever voice is needed with an awesome depth and vibrancy.
The new "Twilight Zone" audio movie is titled "The Remembrance" and can be heard and downloaded in the audio fiction section. While you are there, peruse other D. C. Goode entertainment with, "The Deiform Sovereign Mind of Meaglia Vox" and "My Brief Affair With Marilyn Monroe".
injustice that a free person should not have to endure. But the female
character who was telling the story, had a life changing experience when
she encountered a minister, who although white himself, seemed to have the
hand of God on his shoulder.
Sabrina was pleased to record it, but warned me she had not used her voice in this way before. I knew there would be some do overs and excepted that as a reality. There was not even one. She nailed it in her first try. It was simply amazing! There was a lot of editing popping sounds and breath support noise, but that was to be expected from a first timer. But her performance was professional and brought out the emotion of a woman who had been redeemed from a broken spirit and who had the weight of prejudice lifted off of her shoulders, which personified a spiritual healing we all need often in our lives.
Once again, it was Jim Meskimen to the rescue with an art piece that became the signature inspiration for the script and captured as usual, the heart of what the story was about. Coincidentally, the image of the bruised and battered "savior type" hero in the artwork, happens to be the image of Jim himself.
You can listen and download "Saint Jim" in the audio fiction section as well as read and listen to Sabrina Cummings poems in the poetry section. You can also view Jim Meskimen's artwork in the visual art section on this site.
Sabrina M. Cummings has many talents; professional vocalist, poet and now voice narrator. When I first contacted her to narrate the audio story "Saint Jim", I explained that this was a sensitive story with racial undertones set in the mid west during the 1950's. I told her I needed a warmth from the performance of a middle aged black woman, who lived in a predominately white town, who had been beaten down by accepting
Professional Singer Brings Depth To First Time Voice Narration
J. W. Henson
I was born on a rainy night on November 30, 1930 in a small isolated farming community. The great worldwide depression was heating up. My father died when I was six months old leaving mother and me to face the world alone. She never remarried, but was industrious, thrifty and God-fearing so that life was comfortable enough for us. Through necessity, I learned the ways of hard work on the farm at a very young age.
I began high school on an accelerated schedule of study and hard work. I worked nights and weekends at a local printing establishment forty hours a week, to pay my expenses. I continued this schedule through college, graduating in 1954 with a BA degree in Chemistry.
I married on June 3, 1951 and have had happy years together with many more to come. Three children came to bless our home. Brenda, our oldest, was a manager with the Nabisco Baking Company in California. John IV is Director of Neurology at the Swedish Institute in Seattle, Washington. Shandelle, our youngest, is Professor of Mathematics, with a PhD, at the Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. Sadly, none of them chose to remain near their parents.
I taught High School Chemistry, and Math in a country High School in Missouri in the mid 1950s. It did not take long for me to realize that teaching was not for me, so I returned to the rumble and roar of the printing pressroom. I had started Printing in 1947 as a janitor and retired in 1992 as President of the company.
My wife and I have crossed the ocean 38 times, most of which were to visit her cousins in Germany. We have traveled South America. I have crossed the Russian wasteland on the Trans-Siberian railroad. We have made trips to Africa and have developed a love and respect for all cultures.
Story telling was always very important to our family. We spent long winter nights before the hearth of a fireplace, and the glow of a kerosene lamp, reading and telling stories. I grew to believe that there was an important story in the life of every human being and that it was my task to unravel it from the happenings of the day. Mother and I began keeping a diary in the early 1940s, and I have perhaps the best-documented personal history of any one I know. I have encouraged many friends to start diary keeping. It gives one a continuity to their life that nothing else can.
His adventures spanning decades include titles such as, "A Night In Frankfurt: Fear Comes With the Night", "Crossing the Red Zone", "The Mark of Cain", "The Gray Veil" and "A Pilgrimage To Walden's Pond".
World Class Poets From Around the World
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|Site Director - Mark Edgemon
Poetry Editor - Marla Deaton
Reader for PDF files.
Recording and audio editing software for Windows.
Recording and editing software for Windows.
Recording and editing software for Mac.
Gifted poets are rare, especially in these times when movies, television and video games take center stage. And yet we are fortunate to have several greats who are published frequently on this site. A great poet says so much in unobvious ways whether through allegories, symbolism, metaphors, similes and or by using examples of truth either from within themselves or through others.
Every poet has their own style so choosing a poem to read depends on one's personality and interests. So whether you peruse through the poetry of Helen J. Dixon, Marla J. Deaton, Sabrina M. Cummings, Mark Edgemon, Andrew Pell, Richard Tornello or others, you are bound to find words that you can identify and connect with.
Helen J. Dixon is a fiery poet using raw emotion to convey her mood along with her message. Her poetry is full of depth and soul and stirs the spirit of her audience with her honest assessment of her own heart and the truth found inside. Helen is a prominent New York attorney who legally cares for many neglected children through the New York State Child Care Services.
Marla J. Deaton is a Southern poet who personifies grace and quiet wisdom in her ponderings of the human condition. She searches truth and declares it with simplicity, personalizing it so she and her audience can understand what is often explained in life through broad, general terms. Marla is the poetry editor for the Creator and the Catalyst site.
Sabrina M. Cummings has a spiritual revival type style that sees the wonder in life through one's relationships and the daily path we all most walk. Warmth and love are trade marks of her writing and her naturally gifted speaking voice. Sabrina is a professional singer residing in Texas.
Andrew Pell is a Christian poet from Sidney, Australia who has written and published hundreds of poems from his perspective of the spiritual journey of man. He is a composer of music and often plays in numerous churches throughout Sidney.
You can read and listen to poetry by these great poets from the poetry section of this site.
Thomas Bromhead
Celebrity Impressionist Thomas Bromhead Lends Sean Connery's Voice to Medieval Tale
voice behind many of today's radio and television spots is veteran voice
talent Matt Baker. A few years ago, he joined the Creator and the Catalyst
team and lent his voice to many audio stories and commercial parodies.
Check out "The Way-mart Promise" in the audio comedy section on this site.
I met Thomas through a mutual friend Piotr Walczuk another remarkable voice talent also living in Los Angeles. I have found Thomas to be a quick study, able to follow direction and record in a heartbeat with consistent quality and style. After reviewing his celebrity voice list I asked if he could do Sean Connery for the Medieval story, "The Forger and the Flame" a short tale about loyalty and redemption. He said yes, but I was amazed at his recorded performance. He chose an older Sean Connery voice performance and leaned into more of a Scottish Brogue which brought depth and believability to the finished recorded production.
Master Impressionist: Jim Meskimen
look forward to working with this talented voice actor in the future.
Tom Bromhead is a multi award winning voice artist. He won a 2008 Emmy for "I Got a Rocket" which was also nominated for an AFI award.
He has lived in England and Australia and now resides in Los Angeles. He is a unique international voice artist performing multiple accents and dialects to make each voice sound uniquely different.
Thomas was trained in drama at Richmond Drama School in London and in improvisation at Second City in LA.
You can listen and download, "The Forger and the Flame" as well as other stories performed by Thomas Bromhead such as his multi-celebrity voice performance of "American Enginuity" and as Dr. Evil in the comic horror story, "Unhinged" in the audio fiction section on this site.
|By Phil Proctor
"Jim is 'Meskerising' in his multiple-personality, one-man show deftly directed by Tait Ruppert. Famous stars past and present crowd the stage magically conjured by the
silly, singular Meskimen, a vocal magician who pulls characters out of his
head -- and even more amazing, like Penn & Teller, Jim shows us how he
does it.
Is there no end to his wizardry? No! Act Two introduces his charming British "altered ego", Professor Knestor Jackdaws, for a terrific and different topper of inspired artistic improvisation.
Go see Jimpressions, you may see yourself..."
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The image above is actor Tony Shalhoub (left) from the series "Monk", actor Ray Porter (center) as series character Dale the Whale and Ed French (right), virtuoso make up artist.
Ed French is an Oscar nominated, Emmy Award-winning makeup effects artist. He counts LeVar Burton, John de Lancie, Iman, Christopher Plummer and William Shatner among his star clients.
Ed has created many great characters for notable actors over the last several decades and is continuing to move into even greater areas of achievement in movies and television.
What people may not know about Ed is he is a gifted voice talent, providing narration and voice work to many audio productions.
He was makeup artist on Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1989 through 1993 and received an Emmy Award nomination for his work on the episode "Identity Crisis". He also worked as special makeup effects artist and special alien makeup creator on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, earning a Best Makeup Oscar nomination from the Academy Awards. In 1999, he provided alien prosthetic applications for Star Trek: Voyager.
Edward French won his first Emmy Award for his work on Alien Nation, a series which starred Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, and Michele Scarabelli. He has received Emmy Award nominations for his work on Space Rangers, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. His most recent Emmy nomination in 2007 for the prosthetic makeup used in an episode of House which resulted in his second win.
Other films in which Edward French's make-up effects can be seen includes Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Batman Returns, True Lies, Eraser, Batman & Robin, Armageddon, Being John Malkovich, Blade and White Chicks. His television credits also include Tales from the Darkside, Sliders, The X-Files, Charmed, Monk, and NCIS.
Images of Ed French's make up expertise can be viewed in a gallery within the visual art section.
You can e-mail us by clicking "Contact Us".
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and pulls the reader into her stories.
Michele holds a bachelor of science in education and minors in art, sociology and theology. Her educational background is woven into the fabric of her story writing giving the reader a smooth ride through her imaginative adventures.
Michele started out as a short story writer by entering into online competitions and wowing her publishers with her ability to create worlds and move situations by mere words alone. Later, she expanded several of her short stories adding depth and richness to the plot and character development, eventually turning them into novels.
In her first success, "Heaven's Door" Michele explores the world of nanotechnology.
|Compelling Sci Fi writer Michele Dutcher has been cranking out hits, captivating audiences with can't miss storylines for years. Residing in a carriage house in a Victorian area of Louisville, KY., she is a keen observer of human traits from people in different walks of life and translates them into robust characters that reaches
Robin Lipinski: Painter of Poetry
You can e-mail us by clicking "Contact Us".
of us harbors, and about how we can all open up and, indeed, "free our
Along the way,
Lipinski offers six "exercises" he feels readers can use to free up their
thinking and thereby "open themselves up." One of these involves eating
foods, for a week, that "you have never tried before," not just food you
"currently love."
|"Fancy words are like taking an old, worn-out tennis shoe, putting it in a cardboard box, and wrapping it with bright, shiny, colorful paper," says Robin B. Lipinski in the Preface of his intriguing new book, Signs of a Free Mind. His story is not about fancy words but of simplicity. It is about the closed mind
|Creator and the
Catalyst is a website that encourages people's talent and creativity. Our
purpose is to develop collaborative projects that draw
people's involvement. In that way, we produce works that could otherwise never become a
The promotion of writers, musicians, actors, artists and those with many
other forms of talent, can introduce creative people to a wider audience,
from their peers to the general public.
We accept creative works for publication including fiction, non fiction, poetry, art, music and more. Submissions can be sent through our e-mail, which can be accessed by clicking "contact us". Contact information can be published along with each person's work. All submitted material remains the rights of the creator/owner and we only reserve the right to publish it on our site.
Join us, we are looking forward to hearing from you.
S. Strout is a pathologist, who draws from their rich background in
medicine to create characters of great depth and spine tingling plots that
draw their audience into their stories.
Eugene was born in Minneapolis MN. in 1930 and spent his early years in rural Minnesota town. At 17, he joined the Navy where he served 10 years as a Hospital Corpsman for two Navy Hospitals as well as on board two aircraft carriers and a ship of research.
He graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1964. He completed his Pathology residency in San Diego in 1972 and retiring from the Navy in 1974. He served as a pathologist at a civilian hospital and on the faculty of the U C Irvine Medical Center until retiring in November of 2009.
He took a writing course, beginning in 1995 and presently submits science fiction to publishers.
E. S. Strout MD Physician, Writer


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AT&T has a sneaky plan.
It wants to exploit a loophole in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s rules to kill what remains of the public telecommunications network – and all of the consumer protections that go with it. It's the final step in AT&T's decade-long effort to end all telecommunications regulation, and the simplicity of the plan highlights a dysfunction unique to the American regulatory system.
AT&T and other big telecom carriers want to replace the portions of their networks that still use circuit-switching technology with equipment that uses Internet Protocol (IP) to route voice and data traffic. But because the FCC previously decided that it has no direct authority over communications networks that use IP, this otherwise routine technological upgrade could lead to a state of total deregulation.
We are already living with the consequences of the FCC IP decision: an uncompetitive broadband market. Our broadband providers enjoy the kinds of high profit margins that would make a 19th-century robber baron blush. And our ability to use these networks to communicate openly and freely is under constant assault. Meanwhile, consumers in other countries not only have better access, but they pay far less for far better services.
But there are large portions of the public telecom network that don't use IP, and that are still subject to varying degrees of regulatory oversight – including traditional landlines, alarm circuits, and many of the "special access" connections that carry voice and data traffic from cellular towers.
Now AT&T wants approval to convert all of this to an all-IP system. And because of the FCC's flawed view of IP, this move would jettison all of the public interest protections that govern common carriers like AT&T. (The centuries-old "common carriage" concept applied to entities like railroads, shippers, and telecoms that transport goods often using public rights-of-way; since these functions are critical to commerce, common carriers are usually regulated even if they don't operate in monopoly markets).
The immediate consumer impact of AT&T's proposal would be swift and severe:
__Higher prices.* Remember what happened after California partially deregulated AT&T in 2006? The price of some basic voice services tripled. AT&T wants to make this happen everywhere. Also, the ability of many smaller wireless carriers to offer competitively priced services is based on specific regulations that prevent special access providers like AT&T and Verizon from charging exorbitant rates. *__These protections against monopoly prices will disappear if AT&T gets its way.
__Service disruptions.* *__Brinksmanship between AT&T and smaller wireless carriers that use the public network to transport their own traffic would lead to telecom blackouts. Just look at how cable customers are held hostage in carriage spats between cable providers and content owners. The rules that require carriers to get networks back online after outages would also be history if the FCC approves AT&T's petition.
Inequality and discrimination. Seniors, low-income families, and rural residents – all of whom are more likely to rely on fixed-line voice services or dial-up internet access – would especially feel the pinch. Carriers that are now required to offer universal service will be free to redline poor neighborhoods and disconnect consumers at will. Elderly grandmothers living on fixed incomes rely on rate-regulated landlines to stay connected, but they need not worry: AT&T has an expensive wireless plan they can purchase instead.
It's bad enough that we're on the verge of losing all of the consumer protections that keep the price of basic voice service reasonable and ensure the most vulnerable stay connected. But by putting the last nail in the coffin of the public telecommunications network, AT&T's plan poses an even greater threat to the future of American innovation and internet freedom.
This is because the internet itself would not exist if it were not for a delicate balance of public policies that made sure the public telecommunications network was an open platform: Anyone could use it as a building block for innovation.
Before the FCC adopted rules to keep the public network open, companies like AT&T were able to prohibit customers from using the network for anything other than what it approved. (We wouldn't have been allowed to have answering machines, for example, if AT&T didn't approve them.) Thanks to the FCC's intervention then and continuing oversight, Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf didn't need AT&T's permission to connect computers. They simply used the public network as a platform to launch the IP technology that led to the internet we all use today.
When Congress updated the Communications Act in 1996, lawmakers reinforced this clear separation between devices on the edges of networks and the wires that connect them. And this approach worked: Consumers had choices for cheap long distance. There were dozens of dial-up ISPs, and even multiple options for DSL and cable modem service. Prices dropped, quality improved, and investment soared.
While the rest of the world followed this American blueprint to great success, our captive regulators dismantled the competitive framework, replacing it with nothing more than the vain hope the market would sort it all out. So it should come as no surprise that the rest of the world is busy undertaking its own transition to all-IP networks without threatening the basic consumer protections that ensure universal access to essential communications services.
We stand at the edge of a cliff, and AT&T is eager to jump. It's the FCC's own bad decisions that led us to this cliff. But it's not too late to step back. In updating its rules for an all-IP world, the FCC shouldn't let the carriers kill off the public telecom network. We can protect consumer rights and free-market commerce without sacrificing the infrastructure's open nature and its potential as a platform for innovation.
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Order is the essential ingredient in a modernist culture, where hierarchical authority is the skeleton around which everything is built. A century ago, Henry Adams wrote that "the way of nature is chaos, but the dream of man is order." However, order is really the dream of the haves, or those who can exploit it to become one of the haves. Order is a control mechanism, and while it serves humankind well in many ways, it best serves the status quo.
The Web disrupts many things, but its biggest cultural influence is that it disrupts hierarchical order. It does so by turning order on its head, for individuals have the power, not institutions.
One of order's weapons is restricted access, a little gem that is so prevalent in our culture that we take it for granted. Telephone answering systems, for example, are less about customer service than they are tools for restricting access. Ever try to speak with a real human being in, for example, the government's immigration department?
As consumers, we confront these restrictions every day, and most of us wouldn't dream of violating them. Why go through the "Employees Only" door, for example? Laws are written to protect the culture's systems of order. Ever heard of a TV show called "Law & Order?" However, occasionally something comes up where such barriers pose serious impediments for those in need, and we have to find ways around them. I've been in the media for a long time, so I know, for example, that the easiest path to the CEO is often to by-pass the company's restrictions and go through the public relations department.
Restricted access is upside-down on the Web, because it's not about institutions restricting access from us; it's about us restricting access from them.
The Web disrupts hierarchical order by creating an order of its own, because the infrastructure itself isn't hierarchical. Links challenge institutional authority by taking people to information's sources, essentially saying, "We don't need learned experts, because the expert's knowledge is at my fingertips." And if knowledge is just a mouse click away, there's no need to trust people whose knowledge grants them "expert" status in the culture. After all, they're generally in it for themselves anyway. This is a great threat to the status quo and the order it uses to maintain control, but what the modernist views as chaos is actually a different form of order, and the real question for culture in the 21st Century is who or what will be the governor of all of this?
Those of us in media look at this disruption as our enemy, and justifiably so. The reality is that the technological innovations of the Web have birthed a certain irrelevance for traditional media companies, whose business model is built around advertising attached to (formerly) scarce content. Businesses don't need us anymore to reach customers or potential customers, and this is the real threat to all media. In this sense, the people formerly known as our advertisers are by-passing our system of order, and we should be concerned.
The Jerry Damson Automotive Group in North Alabama is my client. Ben Boles is the head of digital operations there, and he maintains six websites, 250 microsites, a blog, four eBay stores, four YouTube channels, a large Facebook presence, a video production company, email marketing software, and he serves his own online ads. In every way, Jerry Damson Automotive functions as a new media company, and a big one at that. Boles understands the Web like few others, and his primary focus these days isn't traditional advertising.
"Every minute of every day is spent thinking about the consequences of our decisions as it relates to Google," he told me recently. This remarkable statement is one that more advertisers will be making as they, too, grow in their understanding of the Web and how advertising can by-pass anybody's system of order.
We begin each chunk (morning, mid-day, afternoon and evening) of the day with Google Analytics. The easy stuff is obvious — where does your web traffic live and what are they consuming? Google tells us this thru Analytics. But our custom tracking is what sets us apart and the live, real-time reporting of what works and what doesn't — when correlated with logs from our ad-server — paints the picture of what's working and what's not. We have tagged thousands of ads with custom tracking on websites all over the world to determine what is working and how sites are operating. In most cases, we can tell what's happening on someone else's website just as fast as they can from our data alone. It's that rich. Google Analytics facilitates this.
Boles is far ahead of most, but others will catch up, for people like him are paving the way for a future generation of new strategies and tactics that enable commerce.
While this is certainly threatening to traditional media companies, the threat blinds us to fact that the same tools that enable Boles to reach across traditional advertising can also be used by us to reach across the hindrances that we face in taking our messages to the masses. Instead of always being buffeted by the disruptions, we should be using them to benefit ourselves.
Twitter is just one of many examples. The technology that runs Twitter is the most advanced notification system man has ever created, and we're just beginning to understand the many uses for such an application. The objective for media company participants is to gain followers, something that is easy to do when you have a big legacy property driving the train. But the secret of Twitter — and the real reason media people need to be using it — is not the people following any reporter; it's the people following the people who are following the reporter.
Let's take the case of a TV anchor with 5,000 Twitter followers. We can safely assume that those people are fans of this particular anchor, and it's also logical to assume that these people are likewise fans of the TV station for which the anchor works. Therefore, sending tweets to this group is another way of serving the same audience that the anchor already reaches on-the-air. It's a nice use of Twitter, but it produces a shoulder shrug and a "so what," until we look beneath the surface.
Twitter's own data reveals that the average active Twitter user has 100 followers. Therefore, the potential reach of our anchor is 500,000, if every follower retweeted something from the anchor. Moreover — and more importantly — those people are not necessarily fans of either the anchor or the anchor's TV station, so the act of retweeting by-passes the station's reach and adds a whole new weapon in the quest to "sell" that anchor to the broader audience. Twitter frees television personalities from bondage to the crumbs of the promotion department, and yet we fight it, "because it's more work." It disrupts the system of order that traditional media companies all accept as a way of doing business in the "real" world and exploits the powerful concept of friend referrals that is the bread and butter of a hyperconnected universe.
And it doesn't cost a dime.
Ben Boles is building microsites, because it helps him with organic results in Google searches. By creating sites based on the keywords that people already use to find cars in North Alabama, he is reaching beyond the Damson Automotive Group's conventional reach. Since he already runs his own server, the cost of these microsites is only the $6.95 annual fee from GoDaddy for the domain name that matches the keyword search.
This may seem like heady stuff, but it is practiced every hour of every day by people who understand that the Web has its own system of order and that it's built around the searching of an enormous database. As David Weinberger so brilliantly pointed out in his book Everything Is Miscellaneous, Google organizes information for people "on the way out" instead of the traditional system of organizing things before people begin looking. Ever wonder why the bread bowls aren't in the soup section of the deli at the supermarket? Because somebody has decided that they belong in the bread aisle. One person's logic is another's foolishness, and this is Weinberger's point about organizing information on the way out. Let the searcher determine the organization.
This is the Web's system of order, and it's why vast portal websites, with information organized "on the way in" simply cannot compete with search.
Another disruption to order that traditional media companies refuse to participate with is RSS, really simple syndication. RSS is an XML application that separates content from the form in which it was originally presented. People who subscribe to an RSS "feed," therefore, can bring specific items from the database that is the Web to their own desktops. In other words, I can read a story from a media company without "visiting" that company's website. Most media companies offer RSS feeds to consumers, but very few provide what's known as "full feed," choosing instead to "tease" people in an effort to force them to the company's website in order to read the story. This is not how the technology was created to work.
Blinded by the laws of mass marketing, we seem unable to fully unbundle our "content" and release it into the wild. The belief is that we lose our ability to "monetize" that content, if we let it go, but this narrow view closes the door to revenue possibilities heretofore not practiced. Ads "as items" in the RSS feed of a traditional media company aren't viable, if everything in the feed is a link back to a portal website. This has to change.
And because RSS items each have their own link, they, too, can be passed around the hyperconnected world of the Web. This is another way to participate in the friend-based, referral-driven, real-time social Web. The world of RSS ads has yet to be created, but its creation is inevitable.
The Web has certainly disrupted things for media companies. Our orderly way of doing things — gathering an audience around our stage — has been trampled by a new order. At first, it appears chaotic, counterintuitive and impossible to understand, but it's really quite simple. Here are ten characteristics of the order of the web:
This is the essence of all that is Media 2.0. We are who we employ, for an accumulation of individual voices is stronger than combining those to produce only one. Where access is restricted for one, it may not be restricted for another, for such decisions aren't hierarchical; they are made one-by-one. This is the new order, and those who wish to prosper are required to play by its rules.
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WASHINGTON The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday named a former director, William H. Webster, to conduct an independent review of the bureau's handling of information about the Army major charged with murder in the Fort Hood shootings.
The F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, has asked Mr. Webster to examine how the bureau dealt with information about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan before the Nov. 5 shootings in which he is accused of killing 13 people.
Mr. Mueller had ordered an internal review, and the F.B.I. late last month turned over a preliminary report to the White House describing its actions related to Major Hasan, a military psychiatrist.
Mr. Webster will now lead what the F.B.I. described in a statement as an "outside effort" that will review the initial findings and do further investigation to evaluate policies and procedures.
Mr. Mueller said Mr. Webster would coordinate his work with a Defense Department investigation and criminal prosecution in the case, adding that he had in the past led independent reviews of F.B.I. policies.
"We must be sure that the systems we have in place give investigators the tools they need to carry out their responsibilities," Mr. Mueller said. "At the same time, we must ensure constitutional protections and the confidence of the American public we serve."
In the fall of 2008, an F.B.I. counterterrorism team with members from several government agencies obtained about 20 e-mail messages exchanged between Major Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born radical cleric who now lives in Yemen.
A Defense Department investigator on the F.B.I. team reviewed the e-mail and Major Hasan's personnel records at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The investigator determined that the e-mail messages were consistent with Major Hasan's academic research, and no further action was taken.


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Here we are again on out post. It is pretty cool today. The mornings here are fine. I am fine. We are eating pretty good now. Did you all get my card with the poem on it? Isnt this some card? I am glad Madge is better. But say Em did you receive that envelope with the check in it yet? It is about time it got there, for I sent it the first of last week. I am only sending this any way to let you know Im not sick.
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Gen. David Petraeus' resignation from the highest levels of government service started with a seemingly unrelated complaint to the FBI. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.
"He's not perfect, he's made a mistake," said Steven Boylan, who worked for Gen. David Petraeus before the CIA director resigned following the discovery of his extramarital affair. NBC's Kristen Welker reports.
An FBI investigation into a complaint about Paula Broadwell, who authored a biography of Gen. David Petraeus, turned up emails indicative of an extramarital affair between the writer and the general, senior law enforcement officials and government officials familiar with the investigation told NBC News.
Petraeus, widely respected for his leadership, strategic acumen and reputation as a straight shooter, sent shock waves through Washington on Friday by resigning as director of the CIA, ending a career of nearly four decades in intelligence, citing an extramarital affair.
The FBI's involvement began when a woman turned to the bureau for help after receiving what she considered harassing emails, the officials said. The officials did not name the woman, but stressed she was not Petraeus' wife or a family member.
The FBI soon discovered that the emails were coming from Broadwell, which in turn led to the discovery that Broadwell was sending explicit emails to Petraeus, according to the officials.
At first, investigators were concerned that a stranger had somehow hacked into Petraeus' email account, but then learned that his emailing her was consensual and indicative of an affair, they said.
One senior law enforcement official, who had been aware of the probe for several weeks, said the complaint to the FBI about Broadwell's behavior "raised concerns, and we had to check it out. It wasn't apparent at first what was going on."
"That clarified our concern. We had to talk to him," the official said. "He made the decision to tell the White House. We handled it discreetly." The FBI did not tell the White House about the findings, as some sources had suggested Friday night, the official added.
Broadwell had extensive access to Petraeus while writing a biography of the general, "All In: The education of General David Petraeus," and had given numerous television interviews speaking about him.
NBC's Kristen Welker looks at the days leading up to Friday's stunning announcement by Gen. David Petraeus.
Investigators concluded that there was no criminal violation, law enforcement sources told NBC News.
Agents interviewed Petraeus in late October, the senior law enforcement official said.
Asked about criticism from some on Capitol Hill that the FBI didn't tell members of the intelligence committees about this sooner, the official said investigators determined "this was not an intelligence matter. It did not fall on that side of things."
Broadwell could not be reached for comment.
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Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. That branch of applied chemistry that deals with fermentation, such as that involved in wine-making or brewing. 2. The practice or art of fermentation in brewing, distilling, wine-making, and so forth.
Notes: This rather rare word would be an excellent play in a game of Scrabble. It is analogical to metallurgy, liturgy, and dramaturgy, so it has an adjective, zymurgical, and an adverb, zymurgically, but that is the extent of its derivational family.
In Play: If you don't want your friends to be certain about the shady activities of your relatives, today's is a word that can help you out in certain situations: "Uncle Skeeter was caught in an act of zymurgy somewhere out in the woods by the revenuers. I don't think he was making merlot." Of course, zymurgy can also be a perfectly legitimate academic pursuit, too: "While writing his master's thesis on the zymurgy of the grape, Felix accidentally fell into a vat of his subject matter and nearly drowned."
Word History: Less is known about the origin of this word than is known about the bug itself. It is common to say that it comes from New Latin Zyzzyva, a genus name, probably from Zyzza, a former genus of leafhoppers. The reason for the mystery of this word's origin is probably that it is an onomatopoetic word based on the sound bugs make, especially beetles, when they fly.
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EcoWatch Interviews Public Herald About Fracking & Triple Divide
With high-profile activists like Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon taking a stand against fracking, the controversial drilling practice has been pulled from the periphery and placed in the public's main line-of-sight at a scale sparking movement from Hollywood.
Promised Land, a film starring Matt Damon as a salesman for a natural gas company, hits theaters tonight, lending cinematic drama to the issue of fracking.
While the large-scale exposure is valuable, Melissa Troutman, co-creator of another film on fracking, is careful to iterate an important fact, "Promised Land is a story, but this [Triple Divide] is a true story."
Triple Divide, a documentary by Joshua Pribanic and Melissa Troutman of Public Herald, carefully investigates the effects of fracking in the Marcellus Shale Region of Pennsylvania from the ground up, focusing its lens on the true accounts of neighbors who have lost their water well to contamination from drilling, and farmers, like the ones in Promised Land, who have lost their land to pollution from a nearby well pad.
In their first live interview about the film, journalists Joshua and Melissa discussed Triple Divide and the impact of fracking with Stefanie Spear, Founder and Editor of EcoWatch, a news service designed to promote and build a community of grassroots environmental activism.
You can watch the full interview HERE or at EcoWatch.
Information on Triple Divide and fracking in Pennsylvania can be found at tripledividefilm.org or publicherald.org.
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EcoWatch Interviews Public Herald About Fracking & Triple Divide
EcoWatch Interviews Public Herald About Fracking & Triple Divide
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If you are reading the articles posted on this site you are concerned about aging and health. If you live in America, you are hopefully already on the alert about the cavalier fashion with which our government is actively destroying the nutrient and enzyme content of our food and land while creating artifical subsitutes for real food. While I believe in the benefits of a plant-based diet, I am horrified by the growing GMO crops and products, the drive to eradicate labels for GMO foods, the impact on our ecosystem/land and the high cost of organic eating. What is truly amazing is how most of our presidential candidates support GMOs. Hilary Clinton has expressed her support for genetically modified crops and crop biotechnology and she is a BIG supporter of Monsanto – the agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology group who makes the herbocide-of-death, Roundup, which is sprayed on GMO crops. Jeb Bush has also spoken in support of GMOs. When your government is trying to kill you – it's time to vote with your fork!
Choose organic or find a local farmers market. Stop going out to restaurants and start getting excited to cook at home for your family with ethically sourced plants. Start asking questions about what your kids are eating at school.
The below article by Sayer Ji will give you the shivers and make you contemplate growing a garden!
The Invisible Nuclear Threat Within Non-Organic Food
By: Sayer Ji Founder of Green Med Info is an author, educator, and advisory board member of the National Health Federation and Steering Committee Member of the Global GMO Free Coalition (GGFC).
Whether you know it or not, nuclear waste (cobalt-60) has been used for decades to make your food "safer."
There is a profound misunderstanding in the mass market today about the value of certified organic food. The question is not whether the 50% higher or more you pay at the register for an organic product is really worth the added vitamin, mineral and phytonutrient content you receive. Even though organic food does usually have considerably higher nutrient density, it is not always the positive quality of what it contains that makes it so special. Rather, it is what you know the organic food does not contain, or what has not happened to it on its journey to your table, that makes buying organic a no-brainer to the educated consumer. Let me explain.
The FDA presently supports and actively promotes the use of cobalt-60 culled from nuclear reactors as a form of "electronic pasteurization" on all domestically produced conventional food. They claim it makes the food "safer."1 The use of euphemisms like "food additive" and "pasteurization" to describe the process of blasting food with inordinately high levels of gamma radiation cannot obviate the fact that the very same death rays generated by thermonuclear warfare to destroy life are now being applied to food to "make it safer." This sort of Orwellian logic, e.g. WAR is PEACE, is the bread and butter of State-sponsored industry propaganda, and also informs other ostensibly "humanitarian" applications of weapons of mass destruction such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy.


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Fundamental rights
Fundamental rights are a group of rights that have been recognized by a high degree of protection from encroachment. These rights are specifically identified in a Constitution, or have been found under Due Process of law.
List of important rightsEdit
Some universally recognised rights that are seen as fundamental, i.e., contained in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the U.N. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, or the U.N. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, include the following:
- Right to self-determination[1]
- Right to liberty[2]
- Right to due process of law[2]
- Right to freedom of movement[3]
- Right to privacy[4]
- Right to freedom of thought[5]
- Right to freedom of religion[5]
- Right to freedom of expression[6]
- Right to peaceful assembly[7]
- Right to freedom of association[8]
Specific jurisdictionsEdit
The Canadian Bill of Rights Citation: S.C. 1960, c. 44 Enacted by: Parliament of Canada is the most important document in the protection of the human rights of Canadians.
Enacted by: Parliament of Canada
Date assented to: 10 August 1960
Citation: S.C. 1960, c. 44
In Canada, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms outlines four Fundamental Freedoms.[9] These are freedom of:
- Conscience and religion
- Thought, belief, opinion, and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication
- Peaceful assembly
- Association.
European UnionEdit
Europe does not have an identical doctrine. EU law recognizes many human rights and protects them through other ways.[citation needed]
The Indian fundamental rights, contrasted with such rights contained in the US bill of rights, present several peculiarities. The fundamental rights in India are far more elaborate than in the United States. Thus, for example, the US bill of rights (first ten amendments) only names some rights. The Supreme Court, through the process of judicial review, decides the limitations on There are seven main fundamental rights of India:
- right to equality
- right to freedom, which includes freedom of speech and expression, right to assemble peacefully, freedom to form associations or unions, right to move freely throughout the territory of India, right to reside or settle in any part of the territory of India, right to practice any profession or to carry on any occupation.
- right to freedom of religion
- right against exploitation
- cultural and educational rights
- right to constitutional remedies
- right to vote(but above 18 years)
Newly implemented 7th Fundamental right in India is
- right to education
It was added in the constitution after the 86th amendment in the year 2002 under article 21A. It is the most recently implemented fundamental right. The RTE Act enabled this right in the year 2010.
A recent addition was made to the list of fundamental rights in India in 2017.
- right to privacy.
United StatesEdit
Though many fundamental rights are also widely considered human rights, the classification of a right as "fundamental" invokes specific legal tests courts use to determine the constrained conditions under which the United States government and various state governments may limit these rights. In such legal contexts, courts determine whether rights are fundamental by examining the historical foundations of those rights and by determining whether their protection is part of a longstanding tradition. Individual states may guarantee other rights as fundamental. That is, States may add to fundamental rights but can never diminish or infringe upon fundamental rights by legislative processes. Any such attempt, if challenged, may involve a "strict scrutiny" review in court.
In American Constitutional Law, fundamental rights have special significance under the U.S. Constitution. Those rights enumerated in the U.S. Constitution are recognized as "fundamental" by the U.S. Supreme Court. According to the Supreme Court, enumerated rights that are incorporated are so fundamental that any law restricting such a right must both serve a compelling state purpose and be narrowly tailored to that compelling purpose.
The original interpretation of the United States Bill of Rights was that only the Federal Government was bound by it. In 1835, the U.S. Supreme Court in Barron v Baltimore unanimously ruled that the Bill of Rights did not apply to the states. During post-Civil War Reconstruction, the 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868 to rectify this condition, and to specifically apply the whole of the Constitution to all U.S. states. In 1873, the Supreme Court essentially nullified the key language of the 14th Amendment that guaranteed all "privileges or immunities" to all U.S. citizens, in a series of cases called the Slaughterhouse cases. This decision and others allowed post-emancipation racial discrimination to continue largely unabated.
Later Supreme Court justices found a way around these limitations without overturning the Slaughterhouse precedent: they created a concept called Selective Incorporation. Under this legal theory, the court used the remaining 14th Amendment protections for equal protection and due process to "incorporate" individual elements of the Bill of Rights against the states. "The test usually articulated for determining fundamentality under the Due Process Clause is that the putative right must be 'implicit in the concept of ordered liberty', or 'deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition.'" Compare page 267 Lutz v. City of York, Pa., 899 F. 2d 255 - United States Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit, 1990.
This set in motion a continuous process under which each individual right under the Bill of Rights was incorporated, one by one. That process has extended more than half a century, with the free speech clause of the First Amendment first incorporated in 1925 in Gitlow v New York. The most recent amendment completely incorporated as fundamental was the Second Amendment right to possess and bear arms for personal self-defense, in McDonald v Chicago, handed down in 2010 and the Eighth Amendment's restrictions on excessive fines in Timbs v. Indiana in 2019.
Not all clauses of all amendments have been incorporated. For example, states are not required to obey the Fifth Amendment's requirement of indictment by grand jury. Many states choose to use preliminary hearings instead of grand juries. It is possible that future cases may incorporate additional clauses of the Bill of Rights against the states.
The Bill of Rights lists specifically enumerated rights. The Supreme Court has extended fundamental rights by recognizing several fundamental rights not specifically enumerated in the Constitution, including but not limited to:
- The right to interstate travel
- The right to parent one's children[10]
- The right to privacy[11]
- The right to marriage[12]
- The right of self-defense
Any restrictions a government statute or policy places on these rights are evaluated with strict scrutiny. If a right is denied to everyone, it is an issue of substantive due process. If a right is denied to some individuals but not others, it is also an issue of equal protection. However, any action that abridges a right deemed fundamental, when also violating equal protection, is still held to the more exacting standard of strict scrutiny, instead of the less demanding rational basis test.
During the Lochner era, the right to freedom of contract was considered fundamental, and thus restrictions on that right were subject to strict scrutiny. Following the 1937 Supreme Court decision in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, though, the right to contract became considerably less important in the context of substantive due process and restrictions on it were evaluated under the rational basis standard.
See alsoEdit
- Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union
- Inalienable rights
- Universal human rights
- ^ "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Article 1".
- ^ a b "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Article 9".
- ^ "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Article 12".
- ^ "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Article 17".
- ^ a b "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Article 18".
- ^ "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Article 19".
- ^ "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Article 21".
- ^ "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Article 22".
- ^ "Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms". Efc.ca. Archived from the original on 2018-12-12. Retrieved 2012-11-05.
- ^ Troxel v. Granville
- ^ see Union Pacific R. Co. v. Botsford, 141 U.S. 250 (1891)
- ^ Loving v. Virginia & Obergefell v. Hodges


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We have reconfigured our servers in the South East Asia and China regions today to improve the play experience there. I'm posting here about our servers in the region to provide players with more information so they can test and provide feedback more effectively as the beta test continues.
We currently have servers in three locations in the South East Asia and China matchmaking regions. South East Asia has two server locations in Singapore and Malaysia. The China matchmaking group has servers located in Shanghai. When a match is made in the South East Asia matchmaking region, the matchmaker will choose either Singapore or Malaysia on which is closer based on the average geographical distance of the players in the match. When making a practice game, you can specifically select which location the game will be played on in the Game Setup options.
Shanghai and Singapore are currently the busiest locations and may be full during primetime play hours for the region. We recently added a lot of capacity to the Malaysia location and players may find it easier to play there at this time.
We will be adding more servers to the both regions in the coming weeks as we expand capacity during the beta.


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SALINAS, Calif.—A Salinas restaurant owner convicted in connection with the near-fatal beating of a homeless man has been sentenced to 180 days in jail and three years of probation.
The Salinas Californian reports (http://bit.ly/YGwE5W) that a Monterey County judge issued the sentence against 32-year-old James DeLeon on Tuesday. DeLeon had pleaded no contest to being an accessory after the fact in the October assault on the 55-year-old man.
His brother, 43-year-old Robert DeLeon, is still facing an attempted murder charge in the attack. He has pleaded not guilty.
Authorities have said the brothers—owners of the XL Grindhouse restaurant in Oldtown Salinas—did not like that the man often loitered around their business.
James DeLeon"s attorney, Juliet Peck, said her client did not know the attack was going to occur and had very limited participation.
Information from: The Salinas Californian, http://www.californianonline.com


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Now accepting applications for the Fall Semester. Interns will have the opportunity to work remotely until the COVID pandemic abates.
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is always looking for enthusiastic interns to join our team! We are a non-partisan, non-profit organization committed to educating the public on issues with significant fiscal policy impact. Our bipartisan leadership comprises some of the nation's leading budget experts, including many past heads of the House and Senate Budget Committees, the Congressional Budget Office, the Office of Management and Budget, the Government Accountability Office, and the Federal Reserve Board.
We welcome applications from highly motivated undergraduate or graduate students year-round. Hours are flexible. Interns may work full-time, or part-time while attending classes in the DC area, and are paid an hourly rate. Interns work as a full member of our team, and have the opportunity to participate in a variety of projects according to their specific interest.
- Serve as an assistant to the Chief of Staff, supporting various management and administrative functions
- Review media and relevant policy related websites for relevant articles about CRFB and its issues
- Attend events related to fiscal and budget policy
- Contribute to policy publications, papers, press releases, policy explainers, and op-eds
- Support Social Media engagement by drafting tweets and Facebook posts
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- Other tasks as assigned
- Enrollment in or recent completion of an undergraduate or graduate program
- Interest in fiscal policy and budgetary & economic issues
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- A flexible and enthusiastic team player
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E-mail resumé and cover letter to firstname.lastname@example.com. No phone calls, please. When applying, please write "Intern Application" in the subject line, along with the term you are applying for (e.g., Spring 2019). Applicants must be currently eligible to be employed in the United States. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is an equal opportunity employer.


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Northeast business groups get behind Amtrak
Amtrak has a new booster club.
More than 50 chambers of commerce and other business groups on the East Coast joined together Wednesday, May 5 to lobby Congress to fully fund the railroad's $1.8 billion budget request.
The Bush administration has sent Congress a $900 million figure for Amtrak– an amount Amtrak President David Gunn says would eventually force a shutdown of the system. The railroad urgently needs capital investments, he says, warning that "Time is running out" for some of its aging infrastructure.
The newly formed Amtrak Business Coalition sent a letter Wednesday to congressional appropriations leaders urging them to meet Amtrak's full funding request for fiscal year 2005.
The group announced its efforts at a boarding gate in Union Station as passengers alighted from trains in the background. Union Station was the third busiest station in the Amtrak system last year, behind Penn Station in New York and 30th St. Station in Philadelphia.
John D. Porcari, a member of the transportation committee of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, and a former Maryland transportation secretary, calls Amtrak the "lifeblood" of the northeast's economy. He says the railroad serves more than six million riders and employs nearly 4,000 people in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.
"If Amtrak were not to run tomorrow morning, imagine the incredible congestion we would experience throughout the northeast corridor," says Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D-MD. "You'd have absolute gridlock."
Gunn, who took over Amtrak in May 2002, says the rail service has been neglected and "desperately" needs cash. Tracks, rail ties, and power cables need replacing or upgrading. At one point, Gunn says, a 12,000-volt cable installed in the 1930s was powering the rail system's entire northeast corridor.
There are also three bridges in Connecticut that need repair, although they're not in danger of collapse, Gunn says.
[Due to a proofing error, the authorship of this piece was miscredited in our print edition; as mentioned above, it was written by the Associated Press.]


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- Sexual assault charges could land Brig. Gen. Sinclair life in a military prison if convicted
- Former lead prosecutor wanted most charges dropped against Sinclair because of doubts about victim
- He also carried on a three-year extramarital affair with the junior officer during war tours
FORT BRAGG, North Carolina (AP) — About a month before a U.S. Army general's trial on sexual assault charges, the lead prosecutor broke down in tears, appearing drunk and suicidal as he told a superior he didn't think the closely watched case should go forward, according to testimony Tuesday.
Lt. Col. William Helixon said he was convinced the accuser had lied about crucial evidence but thought the case against Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair was of such strategic importance to the military's crackdown on sexual assaults, he felt pressured to pursue it, according to testimony from Brigadier Gen. Paul Wilson, who said he found the prosecutor distraught in a Washington hotel room.
Sinclair faces a court-martial on charges that include physically forcing a female captain under his command to perform oral sex. His attorneys have asked a judge to dismiss the most serious of the charges against him, saying top brass at the Pentagon have unlawfully interfered with prosecutorial decisions in the case. Helixon was removed from the case last month, and a new prosecutor was assigned to take it to trial, which is set to begin this week.
The case against Sinclair, believed to be the most senior member of the U.S. military ever to face trial for sexual assault, comes as the Pentagon grapples with a troubling string of revelations involving rape and sexual misconduct within the ranks.
Helixon wasn't called to testify, but Wilson took the stand and talked about finding Helixon in the hotel room Feb. 8. Wilson testified Tuesday that Helixon appeared drunk and suicidal, and he was taken for a mental health evaluation.
"He was in the midst of a personal crisis. He was crying. He was illogical," Wilson said. "I truly believed if he could have stepped in front of a bus at the time, I think he would have."
Sinclair, who was the deputy commander of the 82nd Airborne and a rising star among the U.S. Army's top battle commanders, is fighting charges that could land him life in a military prison if convicted. He has pleaded not guilty to eight criminal charges including forcible sodomy, indecent acts, violating orders and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.
Lawyers for the married father of two have said he carried on a three-year extramarital affair with an officer under his command during war tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. The admission of an affair will almost certainly end his Army career.
In pretrial hearings, prosecutors painted Sinclair as a sexual predator who abused his position of authority to prey on a subordinate. They also say he threatened to kill her and her family if she told anyone of their relationship.
But the lead prosecutor became convinced the accuser lied to him when she testified in January about evidence collected from her cellphone. The captain testified that on Dec. 9, shortly after what she described as a contentious meeting with prosecutors, she rediscovered an old iPhone stored in a box at her home that still contained saved text messages and voicemails from the general. After charging the phone, she testified she synced it with her computer to save photos before contacting her attorney.
However, a defense expert's examination suggested the captain powered up the device more than two weeks before the meeting with prosecutors. She also tried to make a call and performed a number of other operations.
Wilson testified that Helixon was distraught that the accuser had lied to him.
"I served with him in combat in Afghanistan, making targeting decisions with people's lives on the line. I have never seen another human being in a state like that," he said of their meeting at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington.
Wilson said he took Helixon to the emergency room of a nearby military hospital for a mental health evaluation. Though a psychiatrist who interviewed the prosecutor declined to admit him for treatment, Wilson said he told Helixon's immediate superior back at Fort Bragg that the prosecutor was no longer fit to handle the case.
"He was not fit for any kind of duty. I would not have trusted him to drive a car," Wilson said.
Neither the defense nor prosecutors called Helixon to testify.
Sinclair's defense lawyers suggest it is the general who is the victim, both of a jealous ex-lover and of overzealous prosecutors facing intense pressure from top military and political leaders to send a message that sexual misconduct will not be tolerated.
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Name: Hjalmar S. Kühl
Date of Birth: 01.03.1973
Place of Birth: Bochum, Germany
Current Position: Senior scientist
Recent and current activities
- Project manager A.P.E.S. database
- Supervision of PhD students
- Ape/large mammal monitoring projects using camera traps and acoustic devices in Taï NP, Côte d'Ivoire, and Loango NP, Gabon
- Set up of 'Pan African research and monitoring program' to fill gaps in available ape population information
- Conducting or consulting on ape surveys in Moukalaba Doudou NP, Gabon; Nouabalé-Ndoki NP, Rep. Congo; Taï NP, Côte d'Ivoire; Loango NP, Gabon; Gola forest and nationwide, Sierra Leone; Sangaredi, Haut Niger, Guinea; Gunung Leuser NP, Indonesia;
- Training and data analysis workshop in survey methodology in Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, and Sumatra.
Fields of expertise
- Design of monitoring programs
- Development of survey methods, including acoustic and camera trapping methods
- Statistical analysis of survey data
- GIS and Remote sensing
- Statistical modeling
- Meta- and large scale data analysis
- Wildlife ecology
- Epidemiology and infectious disease dynamics
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|Postdoc in the Department of Primatology at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
|2003 – 2008
|PhD student in the Department of Primatology at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
|2002 – 2003
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|Research assistant for habituation of chimpanzee group in the Taϊ Chimpanzee Project, Côte d'Ivoire
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|Study of biology at the universities of Freiburg and Konstanz, Germany
|1992 – 1994
|Civilian national service in ornithological station, Karlsruhe, Germany
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When I first started running, a marathon seemed like an impossible feat. But if you did it, if you somehow managed to run 26 miles, your time didn't matter.
That changed when I started running them.
As with any other race, it was never enough to finish. I had to beat them. I'm not exactly proud of that. But it was what attracted me to running in the first place. Every year I saw progress. That progress was intoxicating. I measured that progress by my times.
My first marathon didn't go well. I cramped up to the point where I couldn't run after mile 20. I had to do better, and next year, I did. I ran the whole way, with no cramping, and finished well. I began to think I could do even better.
Last year, I ran a small marathon in South Carolina with some good friends. It was a wonderful experience. I ran a solid time, even PRd by a minute, but I believed it could have been so much better. Cramping, again, slowed me down. I didn't feel too bad about it, but there was an asterisk next to it.
That's why I targeted the Chicago Marathon. I thought I was finally ready to run fast and hard for a long time, just like I did in my half marathons. I wanted that perfect race. I even dreamed of qualifying for Boston.
The Boston Marathon is the crown jewel of marathons. I thought it about it a lot. I wondered how good it would feel to cross the finish line, and this is embarrassing to say, post on Facebook and see the accolades pour in. I wanted to shock people. I wanted to shock myself. I especially wanted to shock all those people who picked on me when I was much younger for, among other things, being a lousy athlete.
I didn't approach the Chicago Marathon to qualify for Boston. But I wasn't afraid of trying. I told myself I would run what felt good, but that I would also push it. I knew, going in, that it was risky to run a hard first half, given what happened in South Carolina last year. But I wanted to try it.
I tried not to obsess about it. I was still a father, and a husband, and a guy with a job. For the most part, I didn't. I would think about it late at night, when everyone else was asleep. Or when I'd go on one of my frequent training runs. Everything seemed to point to a great marathon. My six half marathons all went well this year, and I PRd three times. I knew the course was usually cool and flat almost the whole way.
I really, honestly thought I was ready. I was wrong.
But this is not a sob story about another failed attempt at a perfect marathon. It is an examination of the human spirit - not my own - and how a little kindness can ease a painful situation and leave you with a smile on your face.
• • •
Marathons bring out the best in people, but I always thought it was the runners who benefitted, not the people watching. When the cramps hit in my first, other runners stopped to share pretzels, bananas and their drinks. A marathon, if you hadn't guessed by now, is unpredictable, and all you can do is plan for the worst and pray for the best. These runners had planned for the worst, meticulously, in fact, and at mile 20, when the worst was probably yet to come, they crumpled up and threw that planning and caution in the trash to help a fellow runner who they didn't know. Marathoners bond over the grueling training and distance of the race, and they cheer each other when they pass, talk about their plans and offer words of encouragement about their training.
I changed my mind a little bit about spectators after Boston, when it was the spectators, not the runners, who felt most of the bombs' wrath, and yet many others stepped forward to help the runners after the explosions. There were stories about neighbors bringing out water and juice and fruit for the trapped runners who wouldn't get to finish.
So I was excited to run Chicago because I'd never been in a race that attracted a lot of spectators. Chicago, I was told, had spectators three deep, all 26 miles of the course, for a total of 1.7 million. It seemed almost impossible to comprehend. Surely, I thought, those people had to be passive. There were 45,000 running the race. Wouldn't your hands hurt from clapping so much?
• • •
It was a cool morning, almost too perfect, when me and a friend strolled out of our hotel to walk the mile to the race. It was dark, but I could sense the anticipation of the other runners as they swept past me. I was not the only one, it seemed, who had high hopes for the race. My friends, three of them who traveled with me, had the same high hopes. Everyone does before a race.
By that point, I was already blown away by the enormity of it all. The race expo was big. HUGE. There were booths from every major apparel and shoe company. Hal Higdon, whose plan I followed for my marathons, was there. The walkway had to be the size of at least a football field, if not two, and it went five rows deep.
The city, too, was massive. Think about the fact that I liked Denver, and enjoyed Denver, but considered Denver too big for my tastes. Chicago seemed three times as large as Denver. It probably is.
I walked around the city with wide eyes, trying, at first, to avoid contact with anyone who came in my way. I had assumed that people in large cities were hurried, busy and, well, a little rude. Again, I'm not proud of that, but that was the mid-sized city in me. My fears seemed justified, too, when the first desk clerk at the hotel hissed at our request for a late check-out to grab a quick shower after the race. Too many people, she said, would want one.
I began to change my mind when strangers would look us over while waiting for a light at the street corner, then smile and ask if we were running. They didn't have to ask about the race. Just "are you running?" When we said yes, they would tell us good luck.
So my fears about Chicago had dissipated as we walked toward the race. But as the race began, I would be pleasantly surprised.
Almost euphorically so.
• • •
I felt good as the race began, but I always feel good the first few miles of a marathon. It's a deadly trap. I told myself, over and over, to slow down, and so I was careful about sticking to my plan. But even my plan was aggressive, and I was happy to realize it felt good. As soon as two years ago, my pace would have PRd my half by four minutes. But it had been two years. Again, I thought I was ready for it. I was barely breathing hard as my pace crept down to 7:35 per mile. I felt elated. Maybe this would be THE race.
By the time I crossed the halfway mark at 1:41, I was a little concerned. If I stopped now, I thought, I'd be tired. I'd consider that a pretty good race. I might even have a hard time making it back to my hotel without limping a touch. But I was confident, too, that I had run smart.
The thing was, yes, I ran well, and yes, I felt elated, but my stomach was a little crampy. I began to walk through the aid stations to try to get more fluids in my body, but that seemed to make it worse, and I was having trouble breathing. It was as if someone had inflated a balloon in my mid-section. Well, I thought, I'd just have to back off on fluids and nutrition for a bit.
Well, that works in a half. I've ran whole halves without eating or drinking a damn thing. A marathon is two halves. And this would be a tale of two of them.
My calves began to twitch at mile 16. I knew that wasn't good. I changed my running style a bit, and it seemed to work, for a while, anyway. I threw down a 7:50 mile and prayed I'd be OK.
Prayers don't work in a marathon. I'm sorry if that offends your religious nature. But they don't.
By mile 18, the road sloped down a touch, into a short tunnel, and when I came out the other side, my hamstring began tightening. OK, OK, I whispered to it, gently. We'll take it easy. But my hamstring froze, and I couldn't move my right leg. I was helpless. Pain radiated down my leg and into my foot. I felt like the tin man without his oil can.
A police officer approached me. "Are you OK?" he asked. "Yes," I said, and it was the truth. I was positive, lucid and had energy.
I just couldn't move.
"Cramps?" the officer said.
"Yeah," I said. "This is the marathon for you."
"Well," he said, "if you need me to support you, you just lean on my shoulder and let me know, OK?"
I almost began tearing up. Here was an officer who had a lot on his mind, like, you know, terrorism. Chicago was the biggest race since Boston. It was a natural target. And there's always crowd control. But he seemed more worried about me.
That's when I looked around me, and I saw a group of about 50 all cheering for me. "YOU GOT THIS COLORADO" many yelled, referring to my tank top with the Colorado flag out front. I smiled and gave a little wave, and they nearly burst my eardrums.
I"d never experienced anything like it in my life.
I began to walk, to work out the cramp, but I had no hopes at that point of my best race. I knew I'd have to play cat and mouse with the cramps. I could run, but it would only be for a while, and then I'd have to stop to ward them off again. I hoped I could still run, say, 3:30 or 3:35. It seemed realistic. I'd only have to run a half slower than any time I'd run in five years.
I continued to walk, and then I jogged a bit and took a look around. The spectators were roaring at this point. It was almost unnerving. They were shaking signs, hilarious ones at that, stuff that read "You've done dumber things drunk."
A mile later, when I had to walk again, a spectator reached out to pat me on the back. Her hand lingered on my shoulder. "It's OK hun," she said. "It's a long way to the finish. You take your time."
That's when it hit me. These people were not only here to cheer me on. They were here to will me to the end.
At that point, I dropped all my natural defenses and hesitations and let them wash over me. I gave thumbs up, high fives and cheered right along with them, even when I had to frequently walk.
I had a smile on my face the whole time. But more than that, even when it was apparent I'd just miss the four-hour mark, a landmark that most marathoners consider a goal, I just shrugged my shoulders. I ran the last mile the whole way, even when I had to grit my teeth through it, and I didn't do it for myself. I did it for them.
The people who didn't know me did something amazing. They made me not care, at least not too much, about my time. They forced me to understand what a cool thing it is to be able to run a marathon in a big city. I preach all the time to my friends to be grateful for what they can do before they start a race. Chicago made me follow my own advice.
Later, dozens of people passed us on the street, and they continued to lift me up. Far too many congratulated us. I thanked them as best I could. But I prefer to think about when I crossed the finish line.
I didn't cheer, raise my arms or clap. I simply turned around and blew them all a kiss, before I turned around, joined the hundreds crowding around me, and reveled at how comfortable I was in their masses.


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To Love is Not to Possess
James Kavanaugh
To love is not to possess,
To own or imprison,
Nor to lose one's self in another.
Love is to join and separate,
To walk alone and together,
To find a laughing freedom
That lonely isolation does not permit.
It is finally to be able
To be who we really are
No longer clinging in childish dependency
Nor docilely living separate lives in silence,
It is to be perfectly one's self
And perfectly joined in permanent commitment
To another--and to one's inner self.
Love only endures when it moves like waves,
Receding and returning gently or passionately,
Or moving lovingly like the tide
In the moon's own predictable harmony,
Because finally, despite a child's scars
Or an adult's deepest wounds,
They are openly free to be
Who they really are--and always secretly were,
In the very core of their being
Where true and lasting love can alone abide.
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