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The biggest obstacle to his candidacy is making headlines again. If he wants to win anything, he's going to need to confront it.
Did you know about the racist newsletters published in the late 1980s and early 1990s under Ron Paul's name? As the Texas Congressman surges in the GOP primary, the story of the newsletters is garnering headlines, as it did during his 1996 House campaign and his 2008 presidential run. He's always insisted that he didn't write the egregiously offensive material, and long ago repudiated it (though not as soon as he should have). Is this an old story voters will look beyond, like Newt Gingrich's affairs? Or a new story for the vast majority of voters and the plurality of journalists who are less familiar with Paul than the other GOP frontrunners? Is it coming up now "for political reasons"? Or because it's a legitimate subject of inquiry despite having been aired before in the media?
It seems to me that the story's reemergence was inevitable and necessary to fully inform primary voters about their choices. This level of scrutiny is rightly what comes with contending for the presidency.
In any case, the story is once again in the news.
In The Weekly Standard, Jamie Kirchick has returned to the subject, which he first tackled in a 2008 piece for The New Republic. Jonathan Chait has titled a New York magazine item on the matter "Ron Paul Is a Huge Racist." At The Washington Examiner, Tim Carney complains that if Ron Paul wins Iowa the GOP establishment is going to try to illegitimately tar him as a racist. Jonah Goldberg says at National Review that it's perfectly legitimate to rehash these questions.
Philip Klein agrees.
Who is right?
The question is complicated by facts not in evidence and inherently subjective judgments about politics, race, and the norms that govern how much a candidate's bygone associations matter. My conclusions are conflicted -- more on that shortly -- but this much I can say: a thorough airing of the facts is the best place to begin. (If you've read the major pieces already skip down to the next subhead).
Let's start with Kirchick's piece from 1998:
Paul's newsletters have carried different titles over the years--Ron Paul's Freedom Report, Ron Paul Political Report, The Ron Paul Survival Report--but they generally seem to have been published on a monthly basis since at least 1978. (Paul, an OB-GYN and former U.S. Air Force surgeon, was first elected to Congress in 1976.) During some periods, the newsletters were published by the Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, a nonprofit Paul founded in 1976; at other times, they were published by Ron Paul & Associates, a now-defunct entity in which Paul owned a minority stake, according to his campaign spokesman. The Freedom Report claimed to have over 100,000 readers in 1984. At one point, Ron Paul & Associates also put out a monthly publication called The Ron Paul Investment Letter.
...whoever actually wrote them, the newsletters I saw all had one thing in common: They were published under a banner containing Paul's name, and the articles (except for one special edition of a newsletter that contained the byline of another writer) seem designed to create the impression that they were written by him--and reflected his views. What they reveal are decades worth of obsession with conspiracies, sympathy for the right-wing militia movement, and deeply held bigotry against blacks, Jews, and gays.
In 2008, the libertarian magazine Reason reacted to the Kirchick story by trying to figure out whether Paul in fact wrote the newsletters -- or if he didn't write them, who was directly responsible. Two journalists, Dave Weigel and Julian Sanchez, were assigned to the story.
Here's what they found:
In interviews with reason, a half-dozen longtime libertarian activists--including some still close to Paul--all named the same man as Paul's chief ghostwriter: Ludwig von Mises Institute founder Llewellyn Rockwell, Jr. Financial records from 1985 and 2001 show that Rockwell, Paul's congressional chief of staff from 1978 to 1982, was a vice president of Ron Paul & Associates, the corporation that published the Ron Paul Political Report and the Ron Paul Survival Report. The company was dissolved in 2001. During the period when the most incendiary items appeared--roughly 1989 to 1994--Rockwell and the prominent libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard championed an open strategy of exploiting racial and class resentment to build a coalition with populist "paleoconservatives," producing a flurry of articles and manifestos whose racially charged talking points and vocabulary mirrored the controversial Paul newsletters recently unearthed by The New Republic. To this day Rockwell remains a friend and advisor to Paul--accompanying him to major media appearances; promoting his candidacy on the LewRockwell.com blog; publishing his books; and peddling an array of the avuncular Texas congressman's recent writings and audio recordings.
Rockwell has denied responsibility for the newsletters' contents to The New Republic's Jamie Kirchick. Rockwell twice declined to discuss the matter with reason, maintaining this week that he had "nothing to say." He has characterized discussion of the newsletters as "hysterical smears aimed at political enemies" of The New Republic. Paul himself called the controversy "old news" and "ancient history" when we reached him last week, and he has not responded to further request for comment. But a source close to the Paul presidential campaign told reason that Rockwell authored much of the content of the Political Report and Survival Report. "If Rockwell had any honor he'd come out and I say, 'I wrote this stuff,'" said the source, who asked not to be named because Paul remains friendly with Rockwell and is reluctant to assign responsibility for the letters. "He should have done it 10 years ago."
They go on to report that the publishing operation was lucrative, generating almost $1 million dollars per year, and that "if Paul
didn't know who was writing his newsletters, he knew they were a
crucial source of income and a successful tool for building his
fundraising base for a political comeback." At best, he didn't ask questions about an association that brought him a lot of money.
Do I think that Paul wrote the offending newsletters? I do not. Their style and racially bigoted philosophy is so starkly different from anything he has publicly espoused during his long career in public life -- and he is so forthright and uncensored in his pronouncements, even when they depart from mainstream or politically correct opinion -- that I'd wager substantially against his authorship if Las Vegas took such bets. Did I mention how bad some of the newsletters are? It's a level of bigotry that would be exceptionally difficult for a longtime public figure to hide.
For that reason, I cannot agree with Kirchick when he concludes that "Ron Paul is not the plain-speaking antiwar activist his supporters
believe they are backing -- but rather a member in good standing of some
of the oldest and ugliest traditions in American politics."
On the other hand, it doesn't seem credible that Paul was unaware of who wrote the execrable newsletters, and although almost a million dollars per year in revenue is a substantial
incentive to look away from despicable content, having done so was at minimum an act of gross negligence and at worst an act of deep corruption. Indeed, Paul himself has acknowledged that he "bears moral responsibility" for the content.
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4 Stages to grow with your child: Guided - 9months + learning - 12 months + Developing 18 months + Independent - 30 months.
Useful info:
- Removable shade canopy
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- Seat adjusts to 4 positions
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Little Tikes 4-in-1 Sports Edition Trike - Blue
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Your child will love this funky 4-in-1 Sports Edition trike from Little Tikes that has been specifically developed for early riders.
Suitable for children from the age of only 9 months, it will help toddlers develop vital early stages of confidence with their own set of wheels, and ensure that you can keep a very close eye on them during those nerve-racking early attempts.
It's designed to grow with your child through 4 stages: Guided - 9 months; Learning - 12 months; Developing - 18 months; Independent - 30 months.
Use the Little Tikes Trike's adjustable push handle to take the little ones for an adventure while they put their feet up on the footrests, which are then removable for when the toddlers are ready to start pedaling.
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The parent handle can be removed once they are ready to go out on their own and the shade canopy can also be detached if needed. And don't forget, the extra large storage bucket means they can take all their favourite toys along for the ride!
Useful info:
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Children love being behind the wheel of this Little Tikes Cozy Truck.
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With four rugged wheels this Little Tikes Cozy Truck is a sturdy way to let your child get some exercise as they play.
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- Requires 2 x LR44 batteries (included)
- Foot-to-floor design
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This tool bench and work station has all the tools your little tike needs! Whether you're assembling the engine, building, planning projects, or working with your power tools, this bench is full of Little Tike tool power! 2-in-1!
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This adorable Little Tikes Princess Cozy Truck is sure to capture your little one's imagination, for hours of fun zooming around outside.
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Born the Day You Kissed Me by CLee
Rated: 6th-7th Years [Reviews - 1262]
Summary: I was born the day you kissed me...I died inside the night you left me...But oh how I lived while you loved me. . . .
The sequel Agapanthus is up!
DUDE!!!! THAT'S TOTALLY SAD!!!! i hope they get back together in the sequel!!!
The Sweetest Sin by annie
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Summary: In the years following Voldemort's victory in the second war, Muggle-borns must become slaves and servants to pure-bloods in order to survive. Over time, Hermione Granger has learned to suppress her pride and independence in households where she is considered lower than dirt. She thought she would be prepared for this new family, just like she was for all the previous ones. What she didn't know was that this new family was none other than Draco Malfoy's. Will she manage hold up when she finds herself struggling to withhold her sharp tongue, returning hatred, and...something else?
The last chapter of this story has been posted! Thanks for reading :)
Thank you to everyone who voted "The Sweetest Sin" as the Best Tearjerker in round 4 of the Dramione Awards!
Thanks to some of my amazing readers, The Sweetest Sin has been/is being translated into seven languages: French, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Czech, Latvian, and Chinese. If you would like the links to any of the translations, please e-mail me or leave a review :)
Umm, students finish Hogwarts at 16 and you said it was 3 years after graduation which means they have to be at least 19! and tommy and Kathryn should be a little bit older... just saying
but the story is awesome so far
Umm, students finish Hogwarts at 16 and you said it was 3 years after graduation which means they have to be at least 19! and tommy and Kathryn should be a little bit older... just saying
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Summary: It's Lavender Brown's sixth year at Hogwarts. Her best friend, Seamus, is madly in love with her, but there's one complication: Terry Boot, a Ravenclaw girls drool over, starts to show interest in her. Will Lavender be able to keep her head? (I've already posted this story on FF.Net but i love it so much i wanted to see if it would go anywhere else)
hey are u going to finish the story? i really want to read the rest of it, its very interesting.
hey are u going to finish the story? i really want to read the rest of it, its very interesting.
Agapanthus by CLee
Rated: 6th-7th Years [Reviews - 1412]
Summary: A Sequel to Born the Day You Kissed Me
After losing Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger is determined to have him back…so determined that she will go as far as inventing a spell that reverses the affects of the "Obliviate" curse. In this anticipated sequel, Hermione and Draco's lives will collide, along with opportunities for Hermione to perform her new creation on her most valuable subject. However, when a new relationship between the two forms, will Hermione be able to summon the courage to expose their lost love? Will she reveal to him the missing portion of his life? Or will she simply accept the new Draco and without spells, attempt to revive the love that she knows is buried down deep in his soul....
This story is pre-HBP/DH CH 16 Coming Soon
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Summary: Set Post-Hogwart's, Voldemort has been defeated and the Wizarding world has returned to normal - well, as normal as Wizarding worlds could be. Hermione has a job at Gringott's, the Wizarding bank, but what will happen when an old enemy turns up as a colleague?
Lovely story, you should really have your own book if you haven't already...
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Summary: They fear the dark. Not me. They call it evil. What is evil? They say it consumes, controls.. No one controls me.. Not anymore. They hate me. I don't care. I'll have my revenge yet. They don't understand. But I'll show them.. I'll show them all.. especially him...
Greatness lurks in the dark, one witch must embrace the darkness that is feared and loathed by many in order to rid the wizarding world of its ultimate evil and finally redeem the house of her forefathers. The past is not set in stone and things are never what they seem.
A journey filled with love, lust, lies, revenge and betrayal; desperate lovers, unrequited love and reunited soulmates. Dubious prophecies, dueling Marauders and uncovering deeply buried secrets. When the truth is revealed, the wizarding world will be rocked to its ancient magical foundation and every witch and wizard will question their once firmly-held beliefs... (SS/OFC)
please please finish the story! i am dying of anticipation!
Reluctant Promises by Penny1200
Rated: Professors [Reviews - 97]
As a part of his punishment for his part in the war, Draco was sentenced to a year living as a Muggle in the Muggle world. Harry ropes Hermione into serving as Draco's liaison with the Ministry and guide to the Muggle world. Can she open his eyes to the joys of Muggle living or will she Avada him first? Set post-DH, ignores epilogue.
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Ideas for Freezer Meals That Can Be Reheated in a Microwave?
Good Questions
Most options I find call for preparing the ingredients ahead of time, freezing, and then baking an entire casserole dish before eating.
Sent by Julie
Editor: Take a look at this round-up for some ideas:
Readers, what are your favorite freezer meals?
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(Image: Tomato, Broccoli, and Mozzarella Casserole / Faith Durand)
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If you think about pre-cooked frozen dinners in terms of techniques rather than recipes, you might be able to adapt a lot of the things you already make, which I'm sure would be nice, both in terms of ease of cooking and for your husband to have familiar foods he already knows and likes.
First, remember that certain things -- many dairy items, potatoes, etc. -- do not freeze well. No potato gratins in the freezer.
Secondly, think like a t.v. dinner manufacturer (but only a little). When you open up a frozen dinner, each item is usually frozen in as small a unit as possible. Meat will be sliced rather than whole, and vegetables will be more or less separate. When you're microwaving, this helps everything thaw at the same rate, instead of leaving a pile of dried up peas beside a still-frozen whole chicken breast. (Of course, don't duplicate the manufactured frozen dinner's love affair with sodium and preservatives).
If you stick to a few principles, there's no reason not to adapt the recipes you already love.
Happy microwaving!
Ground meat does waaaaay better than intact meat. Think chilis, meat sauces to put on top of steamed veggies. Soup is also great - though some will have better textures than others.
Thanks for the advice - I don't eat meat but my husband does, so I'm particularly clueless when it comes to freezing meat. Keeping things small is a great idea. Will something like a sliced brisket freeze well if I cook one over the weekend and slice it before freezing? I've had luck with pulled pork freezing well - maybe I should do a pulled brisket instead?
My grandmother makes a ton of brisket, slices it, and freezes it with baked carrots and all the juice...the juice is the key! She reheats it with all the fat/juice so it isn't dry. She always has like three in the freezer. I'm looking for answers too, as I'm preparing for a baby and trying to stock my freezer. So far I've made Jambalaya, two different chilis, beef stew, and a pasta dish (pasta, ground beef, chicken sausage, and tomato sauce all mixed together). I just store everything in big tupperwares. I also made a chicken and veggie soup with a tomato base (aka, threw in every frozen veggie I had in the freezer!). Check out pinterest, there's lots of good ideas on there!
Sloppy joe filing freezes great and reheats in the microwave. (Vegetarian or meat, it freezes well either way). You can also google for "freezer slaw" which is a sweet, vinegar based cole slaw. Those together sound like a tasty enough dinner to me.
I have tons of smallish ziplock containers that I freeze servings of soups in and freeze. Potato/cheddar is a favorite that holds up well in the microwave. I've also had good luck freezing "sides" like servings of my favorite scalloped potatoes in single servings like that (my husband reheats them for lunch often.) Also, never underestimate the power of a homemade frozen burrito. We very much prefer freezing things in single servings than in giant blocks. Good luck!
I find stews work really well--anything that has enough liquid to cover the solids. That seems to help prevent freezer burn.
All freeze well: soups, stews, tomato sauces (with veggies already in it), roast chicken and veggies, stir fries, casseroles, and even things like calzones. There are also lots of resources for meals to prepare ahead (meal-in-a-bag type thing) and bake later.
Also, maybe your husband would like to learn how to make a few dishes he likes? There are lots of great YouTube videos that are really helpful for a beginner cook. I also highly recommend Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything. It has great basic recipes (with variations) that are easy to follow. My husband has used it many times successfully.
Amy - I've seen a lot of meal-in-a-bag type recipes, but can they be completely prepared and cooked ahead of time? I always see them as toss in a bag, then bake or add to your slow cooker. I'm afraid things won't reheat well if they're just tossed in a microwave. My husband is working 16+ hour days as a fellow, and if it's not something that can be ready and consumed in under 5 minutes, he'll just eat junk food instead. While I'm sure man can survive on ice cream and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for a year, I'd like to at least give him the option of well-prepared, healthy, homemade frozen dinner options.
I know exactly those days. The bag meals are not ready-made, but may be something easy enough for a person who doesn't have the energy to prep but enough to cook. Just throw in a baking dish and bake for X minutes.
I just did a ton of pre cooking before school starts, because my husband is so easily trebled to buy lunch if there isn't something easy to grab at home. I made:
- sloppyJoe and a roll packaged in individual portions
- several varieties of pizza, wrapped individual slices
- packs including two tortillas, shredded Monterrey Jack, and taco style ground beef
- egg and sausage casserole slices
now, he has his own basket in the freezer and grabs whatever he wants in the morning! these all seem a little boring to me, since he won't eat veggies...
Meatloaf. I never make one. I make at least two. We only eat 1/2 so the other goes for lunches and the second gets well wrapped and put in the freezer.
It's one of those "It takes the same amount of time, energy and effort" things and makes it so easy on nights that I don't feel like cooking. Defrost in the microwave, toss in the oven and make some mashed and beans and I have a dinner everyone will like with little effort.
the washington post, in the food section, had an article about freezing meals. Just a quick search in their recipe file resulted in this:
found this:
and at the bottom of the recipe is:
Adapted from "Cook & Freeze: 150 Delicious Dishes to Serve Now and Later," by Dana Jacobi (Rodale, 2010).
The question was about reheating meals AT WORK. Few workplaces have anything other than a microwave.
"Oh, its just as easy to use the oven".. NO ITS NOT, when you are AT WORK. Read the question!
Tamales, I will make a triple batch (40ish) using leftover brisket or pork or beans and freeze them all in a ziplock bag. You can pull them out and microwave them for two minutes, or pull them out in the morning and let them thaw in the fridge and steam them for five.
I've made this minestrone soup recipe several times and it freezes GREAT: http://www.cravebyrandomhouse.ca/2012/10/30/winter-minestrone-garlic-bruschetta/
Freeze in individual portions and it's a quick re-heat in the microwave!
I freeze scalooped and augratin potatoes with no troubles. I also freeze meats, such as turkey in gravey, meatloaf in gravy, pretty most cooked meats will freeze well in gravy sauce, or broth. Ham with brown sugar pinapple does well too. I make a chiken breast stuffed with basil leaves tomato slices and provelone chese, wrap it in bacon and bake it, it does great reheated.
It would be great if he had a toaster oven or other oven such as nu wav. If the food is defrosted in the fridge, then taken out an hour before reheating it to bring to room temperture. It will take very little to bring it up to temp. for consumption. Hope this helps.....


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Kwame Kwei-Armah has a way of pulling others into his gravitational field, whirling them around and then depositing them in a place at some distance from where they started out.
People leave an encounter with Center Stage's incoming artistic director staggering a bit and with their hair mussed, but visibly charged up.
The 45-year-old Kwei-Armah, who takes over leadership of Maryland's largest regional theater on July 1 from Irene Lewis, was in town last week for a five-day visit. He met a range of Baltimoreans, from civic bigwigs to subscribers to leaders of local arts groups, and during the entire time, he barely stopped talking. Big idea after big idea tumbled out of Kwei-Armah's mouth:
He's told the board of directors that he wants 50 percent of the repertoire to be new works. For that matter, he has already selected the shows that will fill two of the three available slots in the 2012-2013 season. (The plays to be mounted during Kwei-Armah's debut year have already been selected.)
He hates, loathes and detests Center Stage's current facade, and wants to create a more alive and inviting space where people will gather to listen to a lecture or engage in an interactive media display.
"There isn't a taxi driver in Baltimore that can tell you where Center Stage is located," he says. "That has to change."
As the father of three sons and a daughter, ages 6 to 19, the London-born Kwei-Armah worries that kids attending American public schools aren't being exposed to the arts. So he wants Center Stage to sponsor a "monologue slam" for high school students.
He has even had a tantalizing brain wave that could transform Mount Vernon Place into a venue for warm-weather theater.
"Center Stage is not a two-space theater company," he says. "It's a three-theater space. There are the two theaters we have inside and the square around the corner that would be perfect for a summer show. We should be thinking about that. It could be wonderful."
Like many people with a compelling vision and enthusiasm to spare, Kwei-Armah tends to glide over potential obstacles.
Will a season of so many new shows cause his troupe to shed subscribers? Kwei-Armah hopes Center Stage's longtime customers will bear with him and give his plan a chance. And besides, nothing is cast in granite.
Does it make sense to attempt a major building project when the economy remains depressed? Kwei-Armah will make raising the necessary money one of his top priorities.
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Perhaps that's because when his own road got rough, Kwei-Armah never stopped moving, though he may have picked up a few stones in his shoes.
Kwei-Armah's parents immigrated to London from Grenada. He grew up in one of London's poorest and toughest neighborhoods. His father was a factory worker, and his mother took on three jobs (as a nurse, hairstylist and baby sitter) to pay for her son and two daughters to attend private schools.
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They get really imaginative with the I-phone apps. I think this is a good one for someone who is in this situation often.
this would be great for Chicago, NYC and LA
@kid007 This is a great app, but something this simple should be free, right. It's little more than a notepad and a timer.
About parking, I spent some time in Maryland last year and near the town hall they had advanced network parking setup. Basically as you entered the lot it would tell you how many spaces were left on each level. Simple, but it saved us a lot of time trying to look for parking.
Singapore has similar systems where a GPS will even guide you to an open parking spot and even alert you when a parking spot near you opens up.
The next step would be digitize all major city parking spots and have an passive RFID device like an EZ Pass in each car. As you pull into a metered spot, it will automatically charge you, without you worrying about having enough quarters or running out of time. It will cost the city millions of dollars in parking fines though...
Yeah they have some like that in downtown Atlanta. I think it was Suntrust headquarters that had the first guided to the space parking. Either way it made it very efficient.
gibber i understand but don't forget we live in a country that is rule by capitalism. people have to make money for their "invention" look here is my metaphor i'm on a vacation for 2 weeks and last night my wife tells me i want to see a movie i'm like ok what movie you want to see? she picks up The Saint, i was like oh boy here we go with the chick flicks but hey lets watch it just for her to be happy... and when I stared thinking about the whole theme of the movie it made me realized that her intention was to give free energy to the world but there were people like Val that wanted make millions. here where i come in and tell you it would be nice to have free things heck it would be nice if i could give a 4.5% 30 year loan for free but i can't and that why you would see apps that make sense "finally" but you would have to pay for it.
I've taken a look at some of these, which seldom work well on the iPod Touch (whose GPS is based on known WiFi hotspots-- and therefore is a little less capable than the true GPS of the iPhone). What I'm wondering is why none of them take walking time into consideration.
Here in Philadelphia it's easy. In Center City and surrounding neighborhoods, every single block is 1/8 of a mile long and wide, thanks to William Penn's city plan. So if you walk at US Army marching speed, 4 MPH, it will take you 2 minutes to walk one block. Average adult walking speed of 3 MPH means 2.5 minutes, and if you have kids, plan on 3.5 minutes per block. The point is that it's a known factor.
So, why not a calculator that will (1) keep track of your car's location and time left, and (2) interface with the map service to find your true distance-- as the ape walks and not as the crow flies-- thereby (3) finding out how long it will take you to walk back there and (4) alerting you when you'd better get your butt out of that coffee house sofa to avoid a ticket? THAT would be worth $4.99.
Don't you think that you should have just made that app?
I think the concept is neat and imaginative but like Gib mentioned, it's really just a basic timer...you could just use your alarm function (already on your phone, free too!)
I'm not much in the app-writing field any more. Once you get hauled into a conference room by Naval Intelligence officers because you found a way to work around Unix security, you lose your taste for it. I haven't kept up with the state of the art, though I do crank out a World of Warcraft add-on every once in a while.
Mobile devices, though, are about convenience. Goodness, you don't even need a $300 handheld computer to remind you of your events, including parking meters; a 79¢ wire-bound notepad will do the same, and will feature handwriting recognition as well. The "where did I leave my car" problem is one which has been addressed by setting a GPS waypoint (which you can also do without a specialized app), and it's entirely possible for people to look at the map, jot down the lengths of the blocks that would provide a walking route back to the car (online maps are famous for only offering driving directions), and calculating how loing at average walking speed it would take to get back to it, then updating that every time you change location-- but I imagine that there are people who would prefer that calculation to be made by their iPhone. Leaves them more time at the Museum of Modern Art.
Oh! And while we're on the subject: Why are the map applications so driving-centric? I'd pay dearly for one which interfaced with SEPTA's trip planner and gave public transit/walking directions.
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There's been a minor controversy brewing throughout the day due to a CBS camera shot of Jets OC Brian Shottenheimer at the beginning of the second quarter. Now, there's nothing wrong with Shottenheimer (except maybe his playcalling at times), but you can clearly see in the background a Jets employee videotaping the game (see my screen cap above). Now, isn't videotaping from the sidelines supposed to be illegal? I mean, we did go through a lot here in New England over videotaping.
Apparently not, according to the Jets and the NFL.
According to league spokesman Greg Aiello, the Jets operated within league guidelines and that this is a "non-issue." A Jets spokesman said the following:
"The camera man in the picture works for Jets TV and shoots footage for our team programming."
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So as long as you say that the cameraman is working for team programming and he/she wears a green vest, you're OK? I'm willing to take the Jets at their word (ahem), but does the NFL check those tapes to verify that they are just used, or used at all, for team programming? Does the NFL just take the team's word for it? This seems a little sketchy to me. What do you think?
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THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE LINCOLN BIRTHPLACE MEMORIAL, 1906-1911 (continued)
The first large-scale public memorials erected in the United States followed the War of 1812. In the twenty-five years following the Revolution and the establishment of the American government, the public's desire for large-scale commemorative monuments intensified. Based on European models, early American monuments featured simple iconographic programs, free of the complex allegories that characterized English and French neo-classical monuments. Al though the relative merits of the obelisk and column were debated, both were viewed as the most effective architectural forms for symbolizing a single idea or gesture. [11] Robert Mills, considered the first American-born professional architect, designed many early monuments, including two of the nation's most significant memorials: the Baltimore Washington Monument and the Washington National Monument. The deification of Washington began long before his death in December 1799, and the dedication of a memorial in his honor seemed certain. In 1811, the first of six lotteries, authorized by the Maryland General Assembly, was held, eventually raising enough funds to construct a Washington monument in Baltimore. Mills's design was chosen in an architectural competition in 1813. The white marble monument rises 175 feet and consists of three main elements: a low, rectangular base containing a museum; a plain, unfluted column; and, atop the column, a standing figure of Washington. By the time of the monument's completion in 1829, financial constraints had forced a series of design compromises. Early designs included rich ornamentation, six iron galleries dividing the hollow shaft into seven sections, and a quadriga surmounting the column. The design of the completed column is very similar to the Colonne Vendome, which ultimately derived from Trajan's Column.
Columns utilized in a memorial context, however, never achieved the popularity or the widespread use of the obelisk. The Bunker Hill Monument, designed by Solomon Willard in 1825, commemorates the Revolutionary War battle fought there June 17, 1775, and is the first monumental obelisk built in the United States. In choosing an obelisk over a column for the Bunker Hill Monument, Horatio Greenough reasoned that the obelisk was "complete in itself; the column normally stood beneath the weight of a pediment and supported an entablature. It was taken out of a created unity to become a new and inappropriate whole when utilized as a monument." [12] As a practical matter, the column is simply a pedestal to support a sculpture while the "complete" obelisk offers four flat sides for virtually unlimited inscriptions. Mills also recommended constructing an obelisk at Bunker Hill, noting "its lofty character, great strength, and furnishing a fine surface for inscriptions," and because it "combined simplicity and economy with grandeur." [13] Some later analyses have suggested phallic associations with memorial columns and obelisks, pointing to the almost universal fact that they were made by, and honored, men. Whatever the motivation, it was the obelisk that captured the fancy of most memorial designers during the nineteenth century.
The Washington National Monument was designed by Robert Mills from 1845 to 1852 and is among the seminal public memorials erected in nineteenth-century America. Efforts to raise the one million dollars needed to complete a monument concentrated on donations from patriotic Americans which would not exceed one dollar. []14 After five years, only $31,000 had been collected, and in 1845, the monument committee accepted a proposal by Mills estimated to cost $200,000. Mills's de sign consisted of a 600-foot obelisk rising from a colonnaded pantheon 100 feet tall and 250 feet in diameter. The interior was to contain statues of the signers of the Declaration of In dependence and paintings depicting events in American history. The decorated obelisk emphasized Washington's military career. Design sources for this form can be traced to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century interpretations of the appearance of ancient mausolea, including the aforementioned tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassos and Hadrian's Tomb. [15]
Completed by Thomas L. Casey in 1884, the obelisk was reduced in height to 555 feet, and much of the decoration was eliminated. The pantheon surrounding the base was also eliminated, thus creating a monument dedicated solely to Washington. It was constructed of smooth white granite with a plain finish and exceeded the height of all previously erected monuments. The grand scale of the Washington Monument served to validate an already popular architectural form. Nine of the first sixteen Presidents are commemorated with obelisks at their places of birth and/or burial sites: Washing ton, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, Van Buren, Tyler Fillmore, Pierce, and Lincoln.
During the nineteenth century, American public memorials, especially memorials with patriotic themes, were thought to improve "national morality" and the "national principles" themselves. [16] Petitions appealing for a Washington monument warned that "inattention to the fame, and insensibility to the merits of those who magnanimously protected and laboriously achieved our liberties, may be justly viewed as the decay of that public virtue which is the only solid and natural foundation for a free government." [17] Monuments served to "resharpen distinctions which have grown ambiguous and symbolized creeds and principles in danger of being forgotten." [18] Without a king and imposing ceremony, the United States had few obvious external forms of government. Monuments made the abstract tangible, evoking feelings of patriotism and pride and connected people with the "idea of country." [19]
The majority of post-Civil War memorials erected in the United States were either statues or what were commonly referred to as shafts. This category included obelisks, columns, and other tower-like forms. Beginning in the mid-1860s, large numbers of shafts were built to honor the war dead. These shafts, also called soldier's monuments, were frequently topped with an allegorical figure or soldier and included highly decorated bases with inscriptions. [20] Historian David M. Kahn asserts that the popular use of shafts and their close relationship to funerary architecture resulted from the sudden demand for monuments at the end of the war and the lack of an American memorial architecture other than funerary monuments. [21]
Memorial architecture forms derived from antiquity and revived in neo-classical Europe remained popular in the United States through the nineteenth century. In 1800, Benjamin West, President of the British Royal Academy, asked English architect George Dance to produce de signs for a monument to George Washington. Dance sketched three proposals based on a pyramid form, similar to European monuments such as the mausoleum at Blickling. Ornamental pyramids constructed of uncoursed rubble mark the birthplaces of Presidents Polk, erected in 1904, and Buchanan, built after 1868. The pyramid form was also deemed appropriate to commemorate Civil War dead; a rusticated granite pyramid erected in 1869 in Richmond, Virginia, honors 18,000 Confederate soldiers killed during the war. [22]
In a design competition for the Baltimore Washington Monument, French architects Maximilian Godefroy and Joseph Ramee each submitted designs for triumphal arches based on neo-classical models. Triumphal arches gained currency at the end of the nineteenth century with the ebb of picturesque eclecticism and the rise of Beaux-Arts classicism. George B. Keller's Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch in Hartford, Connecticut, built 1884-1886, illustrates the former with its rusticated Gothic arch and conical towers. [23] Contemporaneously, McKim, Mead and White designed two monumental arches in New York, the arch in Prospect Park of 1888-89 and the Washington Memorial Arch in Washington Square of 1889-92. Both single arches incorporate elaborate sculptural programs reminiscent of classical and Napoleonic arches. [24]
Public mausolea, also derived from ancient and neo-classical sources, were first con structed in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. Private, small-scale mausolea were erected throughout the century but remained largely in cemeteries. These were designed in the popular styles of their day, including Egyptian revival, Romanesque revival, and High Victorian Gothic. The tomb of James Monroe, built in 1858 when the president was reinterred in Richmond, Virginia's Hollywood Cemetery, is a typical example. Resembling a large reliquary, it is constructed of iron in the Gothic Revival style and includes lancet and trefoil windows, colonettes, and finials. [25]
The Lincoln Mausoleum in Springfield, Illinois (see Fig. 9), established an early American prototype for the monumental public tomb. The tomb was designed by sculptor Larkin G. Mead in 1869 and completed under the supervision of Russell Sturgis in 1874. As rebuilt in 1900-01, the 117-foot tall granite monument is composed of an obelisk set on a base that contains the Lincoln family burials. A statue of Lincoln at the base of the obelisk is surrounded by four bronze military groups. The mausoleum contained Lincoln artifacts, statues of Lincoln, and relief scenes of the President's life. The tomb is closer to sculpture than architecture, and represents only a partial realization of the public mausolea. The interior memorial spaces were secondary to the exterior sculptural expression, and the rotunda and burial chamber were sealed in 1930-31. [26]
The tomb of James A. Garfield, located in Cleveland, Ohio, represents the first American mausoleum to serve as a public memorial, focusing memorial efforts inside the building. Designed by George B. Keller in 1885 and completed in 1889, the tomb expresses both the Romanesque and Gothic idioms in an original composition. The building is comprised of a circular tower which encloses the memorial chapel and Garfield's crypt, two engaged stair towers, and a three-portal, rectangular entrance block. [27] Funds for the memorial were raised by a popular subscription, with its sponsors referring to it as "the first real Mausoleum ever to be erected to the honor of an American statesman." [28]
The Garfield tomb is among the first complete expressions of the public mausoleum, with interior spaces provided for the contemplation of the late president. Although Keller gave much thought to the exterior appearance of the tomb, its mission remained unfulfilled until the visitor entered the chapel and burial chamber. Constructed shortly after Garfield's tomb, the mausolea of Presidents Grant and McKinley were designed in this new form of American funerary architecture and are discussed below.
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I have several. And yes, I am still not done unpacking)...but I caught a glimpse of Lola peeping up in the window. She was looking for a dreidel, no doubt. Cat's love playing dreidel you know...
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First thing you should know about Tom Hopp is that he is very likely smarter than you. I know he's smarter than me. I mean, anyone who clones and patents, as Tom describes, "human immune system hormone genes" and "produced the first commercially successful nanotechnology device" is probably smarter than most anyone, right?
But Tom is also a great storyteller, as anyone who has read a book or two from his Dinosaur Wars series can attest. I've have the opportunity to listen to Tom talk about biological warefare and other fascinating topics as a featured speaker MWA Northwest, as well as over beers a few times, so needless to say I was also very happy to get his short, "The Ghost Trees", as part of West Coast Crime Wave.
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Tell us what makes your city/location a unique and interesting setting for crime fiction.
West Seattle is the navel of the universe. It's the place where Chief Seattle's Duwamish Tribe chose to dwell from ancient times until the coming of global corporate culture swept them away. I was raised in a housing project along the banks of that muddy old Duwamish River and probably picked up some of its industrial contamination on my shoes as a toddler. Now Seattle rain falls down gently on my head as if to wash me clean and remind me of those old days. I rarely avoid a drizzle. The very definition of a Seattleite could be "someone without the sense to come out of the rain." I guess that includes me.
Tell us a little bit about the story's main character.
Peyton McKean is a very smart guy. Some say he's got the "greatest mind since Sherlock Holmes" and I don't doubt it's true. Like Holmes and I, he's a biotechnology researcher. I remind you that Holmes, in his first adventure "A Study In Scarlet," invented a biochemical test to detect blood stains. Peyton McKean works with DNA tests but don't assume he'll just swab some bullet or bloodstain or kitchen knife and cry, "Aha, we've got our man!" the way they do on TV shows. Dr. McKean is not so much a user of DNA tests as an inventor of DNA tests. When he's summoned to a crime scene, odds are that something has gone terribly wrong with a DNA test and the master is needed to figure out why.
Like Holmes, McKean is usually accompanied by an able-bodied helper. Phineas (Fin) Morton is an ex-Iraq medical corpsman and now a medical journalist, who often gets swept up in McKean's adventures as the driver of a midnight blue Ford Mustang and chronicler of McKean's deeds. It's good that Fin has had some combat experience. As often as not the two adventurers are cast into a life-or-death struggle with the bad guys before the crime gets solved.
This anthology is an e-book from a new publisher. In general, how do you as an author see the opportunities in publishing changing with the growth of e-books?
I would have to characterize my personal experience of e-book publishing as explosive. I write science fiction as well as mystery stories, and within three months of having released the Kindle edition of my Dinosaur Wars: Earthfall novel, a Hollywood director called me on the phone and told me he'd read my book cover-to-cover, loved it, and wanted to make a major motion picture out of it. I said, "Abda, abda, abda, O.K!" and signed over the rights as quickly as I could. Stay tuned.
Obviously, I'm a big advocate of the e-book approach to publishing. There's nothing much wrong with paper publishing, but that dinosaur book languished for ten years as an overpriced paperback. Then three months as an e-book and wham! Not only are sales running amok at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.com but I'm starting to actually make a little money at this. Before long I believe most authors will publish e-books first and then chat with some paper publishers as a second approach, not the other way around. It's all good.
Tell us what's in store for you over the next 6 to 12 months.
I've been developing two separate lines of fiction stories. "The Ghost Trees" in West Coast Crime Wave is one adventure in my Peyton McKean Mystery series of short stories and novels. Others can be found at most e-book sellers, including "The Re-Election Plot," about a faked Osama bin Laden tape and election tampering. That one is still very current, even if Osama isn't. The about-to-be released "A Dangerous Breed" is my answer to Conan Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles." Talk about yer scary dogs.
The other line is the aforementioned Dinosaur Wars series of novels dealing with space invaders who happen to be intelligent dinosaurs returning to claim their home world — our world — after 65 million years. Don't prepare to be scared, prepare to be eaten! I've also been putting out short stories featuring the young heroes Chase Armstrong and Kit Daniels. Chase is featured in the recently released, "Something in the Jungle," where he investigates a series of deaths in the jungles of Mexico's Costa Verde coast. Kit gets her featured role in an up-coming adventure set at her ranch in Montana, entitled "Riding Quetzalcoatlus." Check all this and more out on my blog if you'd like to keep abreast of future developments. I'm writing as fast as I possibly can and I've got lot of new stories in the works.
Oh, and — this shouldn't be an afterthought — I do still have a couple of stories circulating on paper: "Blood Tide," about a Duwamish Indian suspect and a murdered geoduck digger featured as the lead-off story in the anthology Seattle Noir, and the first Peyton McKean Mystery novel, The Jihad Virus. Paper can be nice, too.
If you want to read Tom's story The Ghost Trees, check out West Coast Crime Wave at Amazon or at Barnes & Noble today.
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The Nicaragua Network laments and condemns the brutal attacks by armed men on two busses carrying people home from the celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Revolution in Managua. Five people were killed and 19 wounded in the two attacks which took place at Km. 75 on the highway from Managua to Matagalpa and on the road from San Ramon to El Jobo, both in the Department of Matagalpa.
Nicaragua Vive! 35 years since the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution
By Chuck Kaufman, National Co-Coordinator, Nicaragua Network/Alliance for Global Justice
July 19, 2014 marks the 35th anniversary of the Triumph of the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua. On that day, the Sandinista troops led by the nine commanders of the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN), entered the capital city of Managua where they were greeted by hundreds of thousands of jubilant Nicaraguans. The triumphant guerrillas found a country in ruins. The last dictator, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, had bombed the cities during the final offensive. When he fled the country two days earlier, he took not only the caskets containing his parents remains, but all the money in the national treasury as well. The Sandinistas were left with no money and a $1.9 billion international debt.
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