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TFC Jay Thomas
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Post 1, Mayfield
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Investigation into Theft by unlawful taking (TBUT) over $300
Date of News Release: 8/2/2004
(Eddyville, KY) - At approximately 1130 hours, five miles north of Eddyville at a residence on KY 373, persons unknown stole a 16 foot utility trailer. A witness at the residence observed a dark red or maroon pickup truck, possibly a Ford F-150, pulling out of the driveway after having hooked up to a black utility trailer owned by Dublin. The dual axle trailer was made of tubular box steel with wooden flooring. The exact direction of travel is not known, but it is believed the vehicle went north, possibly into Crittenden county. A quick canvas of state and local roads revealed no trace of the vehicle or trailer. The investigation is continuing by the state police.
Anyone with information is asked to call 1-800-222-5555 (in the state of Kentucky only, does not work out of state).


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Allow me to preface this post by stating that I am in no way trying to downplay the effects and the devastation caused by Hurricane Irene. I know there are parts of the country that have experienced much more serious consequences of the hurricane than Philly did. This post is not about the hurricane itself, rather it is about how the television media hypes things up as a ploy to make people more scared then they should be.
I woke up on the morning of Saturday, August 27, 2011 around 8:15am. I turned on my television, which was still at FOX 29 because I had been watching the late night showing of King of the Hill the night before. Much to my surprise, FOX's Philadelphia anchors including chief meteorologist John Bolaris were already covering this hurricane that hadn't even happened yet and showing pictures of the destruction in North Carolina. This coverage would continue all day, and all night, and well into the early morning hours when I went to bed around 2:00am.
Around 1:00pm I turned on the Phillies game that never started due to the rain, which was falling steadily by that point. The first thing the Phillies showed in their opening was the intimidating radar image of Hurricane Irene crawling up the east coast, video of the storm, and then Tom McCarthy's mundane banter about the impending hurricane. The game was called almost immediately, but not before McCarthy and the Phillies Broadcast Team talked more about the hurricane. People watch sports as an escape from the stresses of everyday reality, and even the Phillies couldn't resist the urge of using the hurricane in their broadcast.
I understand that hurricanes are a somewhat rare occurrence in the Philadelphia region, and there are many people who may not know what to do in a hurricane situation. I also understand that they are serious, and deserving of media attention. However, in the age of 24-hour news and instant information at our fingertips, I feel as though the media went way overboard in their coverage of Hurricane Irene.
I'm not trying to invoke Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye here, but to me the media outlets such as NBC, FOX, CBS, etc. are extremely phony. They present these round-the-clock storm coverage events as informative in nature and use phrases like "on your side" when telling you about how you need to go out and buy a lot of bottled water, canned food, and batteries for your flashlight. Really, all they are doing with the constant and redundant analysis, pictures of previous destruction, and "helpful hurricane hints" is just scaring people.
It's like when you don't feel well. The last thing you should ever do when you're sick is go on WebMD because what is likely something minor such as a sore throat, will suddenly make you paranoid and think you have something more serious. Hurricanes are a natural occurrence, there is nothing that can be done to prevent them. That said, I feel as though the media's role in hurricane or any weather disaster for that matter, should be to help people prepare and provide knowledge, rather than hours of coverage that just wind up scaring people.
Another thing the news media likes to do is to have a field reporter standing on the boardwalk or some other extremely vulnerable place to show first hand how horrible the hurricane actually is and how the ocean communities are doomed. Is this really necessary? That's pretty much the ultimate scare-tactic. Instead of focusing on the scores of fire/police personnel who are out there keeping people safe in a crisis situation and doing an admirable job protecting the residents of a town or city, FOX 29 wants to show Steve Keeley getting pelted with rain and screaming into a microphone over the wind. People wouldn't not get freaked out during hurricanes if they interviewed these fire/police people; rather they'd likely feel reassured and safer because they know there are people out there looking out for them. That is what the media's job should be: to reassure, not to invoke panic.
The scenes of Hurricane Irene will live in my memory for a long time. Walking to the store and seeing people fighting over things like bottled water and D batteries for the flashlight was difficult for me to witness It's a frenzied-panic situation that makes me question the good in people, and makes me wonder how people manage to cast aside all common decency just because of a storm. Human beings are a resilient people, and crisis can bring out the best in people as we have seen in previous disasters past both at home and abroad.
If I am coming off as trying to downplay the impact that a hurricane can have, I am not. As we've seen with Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Andrew in 1992, these can be catastrophic storms of unbelievable destruction, and I am certainly keeping those affected by the worst of this storm in my thoughts at this time. What I am encouraging, however, is that people do more independent research themselves rather than rely on a television news media who seems to care more about reporting death and destruction than state what people really need to know and hear.
I don't like seeing people I know and love get whipped into a frenzy because of what they see and hear on the news. The South gets hurricanes all the time, the West gets earthquakes all the time. Yet this past week, one would have thought that Philadelphia was on the verge of collapse from each one! The hardest lesson I've ever had to learn in my 25 years on this earth was to stop worrying about stuff that has not happened yet. Humans are instinctive, we will know when it is time to start worrying and will deal with that accordingly. However, if there's nothing to worry about, then the television media needs to tone it down and stop scaring people.
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As busy as most professionals are today..., ...a simple visit can cost you half a day's work or more.
Fortunately, the world of technology gives us the opportunity to educate ourselves to a certain degree with respect to our ailments prior to our taking time out of the work week or weekend schedules for something that may not be serious. If something is mildly painful or constantly irritating, and online suggestions haven't reduced your discomfort, yet you don't have or can't take the time to visit a doctor in person, RapidRemedy.com's Doctor Video Chat may be a solution.
Though Doctor Video Chat can not replace emergency care, it is extremely useful for those of us who need a consultation for a benign medical situation, but can not justify or afford to lose half a day commuting to the doctor's office and waiting until they can speak to us, especially for advice like, ''take to aspirin and call me in the morning.''
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MEXORC (Mexican Ocean Racing Circuit) series began in the 1970's, and is held every second year (following the San Diego to PV Yacht Race)... Vallarta Race Week is a similar event that occurs on alternate ('odd') years. Both events are fed with competitors arriving from California in the offshore Puerto Vallarta race, and boats coming up to Banderas Bay from Acapulco. This is a truly fantastic event, with warm weather, great sailing, and a huge variety of off the water events organized by the regatta hosts. The 2010 event even had the President of Mexico stop by for a couple of days! The nightly parties (including the on-the-beach dinner at Caletas on the south shore, complete with shuttle ferries back to the resort and the closing dinner/ceremonies) were not to be missed!
J/World, the Performance Sailing School, is entering our turboed 52 foot Hula Girl in the 2012 event. We'll have a team of four to six of our top tier coaches overseeing the campaign, and everyone aboard gets to be an active member of the team. The event runs for seven days, with a healthy mix of distance racing and buoy racing. Eight races are scheduled, with a lay-day on Wednesday.
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With the NHL Entry Draft completed and the future of the Philadelphia Flyers a couple of years away, the Flyers can begin to look ahead to free agency to fill some major needs in their current rosters. Still, with the draft fresh in our minds, its time to review what the Flyers did that will hopefully help return them to respectably.
The team had several needs heading into the draft: left wing, goaltender, center, and defense. Left wing was definitely the worst position in terms of depth for the Flyers heading into the draft. Needless to say, the Flyers addressed the position with four of their seven picks with left wingers.
With the second pick overall, the Flyers wasted no time in addressing their left wing need by taking James Van Riemsdyk from U.S. hockey's under-18 program. At 6' 3" and 191 pounds, JVR is a prototypical Flyer. Some comparisons are being made to former Flyer John LeClair, only with speed. A better comparison could be made to Rick Nash from the Columbus Blue Jackets.
The Flyers could have addressed their need for a number one center by taking probably the most gifted player in the draft in Kyle Turris, who the Phoenix Coyotes selected right after the Flyers passed on him with the third pick overall. Only time will tell if the Flyers made the right choose, but for now, Flyers fans should be more than happy with the pick of Van Riemsdyk.
Here is a breakdown on all of the Flyers picks (profiles courtesy of the Philadelphia Flyers):
James Van Riemsdyk
First Round (second overall)
Middletown, NJ
Left Wing
6'3", 200 pounds
USDP, USA Under-18
Notes: Was selected by the Flyers in the first round (second overall) of the 2007 NHL Entry Draft. Born on May 4, 1989 in Middletown, New Jersey…6'3", 200 pounds…Shoots left…Played this past season for the United States Under-18 National Team Development Program team…Recorded 33 goals and 30 assists for 63 points and 81 penalty minutes in 42 games…Led the team in goals (33), points (63), penalty minutes (81), power play goals (11) and game-winning goals (6)…Was second on the team in assists with 30…Was a member of bronze medal-winning Team USA at the 2007 World Junior Championship tournament, scoring a goal in seven games…Played for the U.S. Under-17 NTDP team during the 2005-06 season, recording 42 point s (26G ,16A) in 55 games…Won a gold medal with Team USA at the Under-18 World Championships…Helped Team USA to a silver medal at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge, where he posted nine points (5G, 4A) in seven games and was named to the All-Tournament Team…Will attend the University of New Hampshire for the 2007-08 school year…Ranked third among North American prospects on Central Scouting's final report.
Central Scouting on Van Riemsdyk: "A power forward with great physical presence and ability to protect the puck…shows good stickhandling skill…is a good skater with great acceleration…does not give up on the play and has an impressive work ethic…can play in all situations and has a hard shot."
JVR is a very good pick for the Flyers; he most likely will never see a day in the minors, but there is a small chance he could be in the AHL if he leaves college after only one year, otherwise he will go straight to the NHL.
Kevin Marshall
Second Round (41st overall)
Boucherville, BC
6'1", 191 pounds
Lewiston, QMJHL
Notes: Selected by the Flyers in the second round (41st overall) of the 2007 NHL Entry Draft…Born on March 10, 1989 in Boucherville, Quebec…6'1", 191 pounds…Shoots left…Played this past season for the Lewiston MAINE-iacs of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League…Registered five goals and 27 assists for 32 points and 141 penalty minutes in 141 regular season games for the MAINE-iacs…Led the team in penalty minutes with 141…Posted seven assists and 38 penalty minutes in 17 playoff games as Lewiston won the QMJHL Championship…Was one of 40 draft-eligible players selected to play in the 2007 CHL Top Prospects Game and played for Team White…Attended the Team Canada Selection Camp for the 2006 Junior World Cup…Ranked 63rd among North American prospects on Central Scouting' s final report.
Central Scouting on Marshall: "A stay-at-home defenseman with a good work ethic…has good balance and agility…has a steady style and likes to keep it simple…moves the puck well…needs to improve his puck handling skills…needs to make better offensive decisions."
If he can have a career like his idol Chris Chelios, Marshall will be a great pickup for the Flyers. Once Marshall is finished at major juniors, he will most likely go straight to the AHL with the Phantoms for at least one season.
Garrett Klotz
Third Round (66th overall)
Regina, Saskatchewan
Left Wing
6'6", 225 pounds
Saskatoon, WHL
Notes: Selected by the Flyers in the third round (66th overall) of the 2007 NHL Entry Draft…Born November 27, 1988 in Regina, Saskatchewan…6'5", 235 pounds…Shoots left…Played for the Saskatoon Blades this past season… Recorded two goals and two assists for four points and 107 penalty minutes in 63 games…Was named the Blades' Most Improved Player for the 2006-07 season…Was acquired by the Blades from the Red Deer Rebels on June 22, 2006…Registered two goals and 26 penalty minutes in 32 games for Red Deer during the 2005-06 season.
What a shock, the Flyers took another big guy. Oddly enough, he is known as a very good skater for his size. If he makes it all the way to the NHL, it might be as either a third or fourth-liner. Once he is finished at Regina, he will most likely go straight to the AHL, but could start in the ECHL with whomever the Flyers new ECHL affiliate turns out to be.
Mario Kempe
Fifth Round (122nd overall)
Kramfors, Sweden
Right Wing
6'0", 179 pounds
St. John's, QMJHL
Notes: Selected by the Flyers in the fifth round (122nd overall) of the 2007 NHL Entry Draft…Born September 19, 1988 in Kramfors, Sweden…6' 0", 180 pounds…Shoots left…Played this past season for St. John's Fog Devils… Recorded 23 goals and 19 assists for 42 points and 51 penalty minutes in 62 games…Was second on the team in goals with 23…Was tied for sixth among QMJHL rookies in goals (23) and 11th in points (42)…Played for Team Sweden at the 2006 Under-18 World Championships…Ranked 50th among North American prospects on Central Scouting's final report.
Central Scouting on Kempe: "A skilled forward who works hard every shift, has good puck sense and the ability to beat a defender one-on-one, not afraid of playing in traffic and needs to utilize his linemates more often and needs to be more consistent with his physical play."
Despite the Flyers already being deep with right wingers in the system, Kempe could turn out to be a steal. It is hard to say right now if his pro career will start in the ECHL or AHL, but he is a prospect that he will no doubt be closely looked at by Flyers brass.
Jonathan Kalinski
Sixth Round (152nd overall)
Bonnyville, Alberta
Left Wing
6'1", 175 pounds
Minnesota St., NCAA
Notes: Selected by the Flyers in the sixth round (152nd overall) of the 2007 NHL Entry Draft…Born May 25, 1987 in Bonnyville, Alberta…6'1", 175 pounds… Shoots left…Played this past season for Minnesota State University of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association…Recorded 17 goals and 10 assists for 27 points and 74 penalty minutes in 37 games for Minnesota State…Led the team in shorthanded goals with four…Tied for first on the team in goals (17) and game-winning goals (3)…Was second on the team in plus/minus (+4) and shots (93) and third in penalty minutes (74)…Received Minnesota State's Most Improved Player award for the 2005-06 season…Registered four goals and seven assists for 11 points in 30 games as a freshman…Was second on the team in plus/minus at +8 during the 2005-06 season.
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Big data that ranges from social media to real-time operational information is permeating the business environment - utilities included. Internally, a business's effectiveness in engaging and leveraging talent is increasingly determined by how well it manages the social capital in its work force. Externally. call centers are being supplanted by communication with and between consumers on Facebook.
For utilities, these trends reflect and contribute to a
flood of real-time data that ranges from customers' online comments
to automatic alerts from remote sensors. The rollout of smart grids
means this data deluge is potentially greater in the utility sector
than any ouier industry. Utilities that apply sophisticated
analytics to transform this information into actionable business
intelligence will become the industry's high performers.
Utilities that seek to lead in generating value from customer and operational data also are identifying a further imperative: cloud computing. Data management and analytics to this scale are only feasible by leveraging flexible, scalable, pay-per-use access to massive storage and processing power. Cloud computing is a natural fit for big data analytics that require supercomputer-type capabilities. This will open the way for utilities to manage data and analytics related to operational and social networking, enabling better, faster and more responsive decisions in areas from network outage prevention to dynamic customer tariffs.
Getting Social With Customers
The first signs of these changes are clear as utilities move to position themselves as social media-enabled organizations that engage in constant, close, two-way interaction with customers. Some utilities have connected customer services to social media to improve satisfaction and project a techsavvy image.
Several U.S. utilities, including Pepeo Holdings Inc. and Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., use Twitter and Facebook to inform customers about outages and crisis communication plans. BC Hydro's Facebook page includes customer forums on issues such as smart metering, advice on what to do during an outage and a "Save like Steve" challenge for conservationconscious consumers. TXU Energy Retail Company LLC offers 'TXU Energy in Your Community" links to donate to TXU Energy Aid and videos of donors. And Dominion Virginia Power has more than 16,500 Twitter followers for its latest news and community events.
As Figure 1 illustrates, a 201 1 study showed that about one- third of utilities were using social media to engage with customers. More surprisingly, nearly 40 percent were not. The proportion that ignores social media will decline rapidly as social networks strengthen their grip as consumers' favorite channel for communicating with their utilities, and also for discussing their utilities' service quality with other customers.
And for utilities that want to build a social presence, Accenture Retail and Business Services for Utilities research shows that one- way messages are not enough. To engage consumers, energy providers must offer a range of social capabilities including service convenience, access to exclusive offers and online communities built through social media.
Further evidence of the rising power of social media for communication with and between utility customers was provided by Superstorm Sandy in October. At the height of the storm, postings onto Facebook's photo-sharing app Instagram were running at 10 photos per second, and Facebook and Twitter became the main channels people used to let friends know they were safe. More significant, social networks also were key to utilities' real-time customer communications on the severity and duration of power outages.
From the industry's viewpoint, these social communications do more than alleviate customers' immediate distress. Social communications let utilities play a positive role in enabling consumers to understand evolving situations and plan for the lengui of outages, and they also build longterm engagement and loyalty. If power is restored at the local hospital before residential homes, then it's valuable to explain this to customers.
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Equally important, the communication during and after Sandy also flowed the other way. Customers informed utilities in real time about local conditions and outages, which helped utilities mount the right responses. This highlights a further game-changing impact of social media and cloud: a better understanding of what customers are saying, which can be enhanced by analytics-driven segmentation and targeting.
This trend has two aspects: One is a rising tendency for consumers to use social media to contact and seek information from their utilities. In response, many utilities are reshaping their customer relationship management strategies. They're moving away from traditional phone-based call centers and toward online and mobile social contact centers.
... by Joining Their Conversations in the Cloud
To harness the full potential of social media, some utilities are going further - tracking what is said about them on social networks and in die blogosphere or leveraging die data consumers share on social networks. Harvesting this disparate, unstructured, tfiirdparty data and applying analytics to it can enable utilities to head off issues before they become problems and take proactive steps to keep customers happy. Utilities also can use die information to join customers' conversations, better design the service experience for specific groups, and deliver targeted offers mat appeal to particular groups of consumers.
The scalability and flexibility of cloud computing makes it ideally suited to such applications, and new cloud-based tools are emerging all me time. Examples include the Firehose service through which Twitter sells access to die huge stream of tweets that flows through its ecosystem every day, enabling companies to track how diey are perceived.
And cloud-based social media and analytics enable utilities to drive internal and external online collaboration and innovation through techniques such as crowdsourcing. The industry also is seeing more use of cloud applications such as salesforce.com. As me accompanying sidebar describes, Accenture recently helped Schneider Electric implement a salesforce.com-based solution to sharpen its focus on customers.
Cloud Analytics, Operations Management
Cloud-based analytics should have equally game-changing impacts in utilities' operations. To support smart grid and meter network rollouts, utilities are seeking to integrate information technology and operational technology while focusing on data-intensive distributed intelligence and temporal and spatial visualization and decision support. As more information flows from thousands of smart devices across the grid, the deluge of data on the operational side is as dramatic as that from customers.
The ability to turn this flood of operational data into business intelligence Uiat supports better decisions and more responsive network management will be a major future differentiator for utilities. A recent experiment conducted by Accenture Technology Labs (see sidebar) verified the applicability of cloud-based analytics for producing the necessary business intelligence in smart meter environments. Such findings suggest mat utilities will increase their adoption of cloud-based operational analytics in the next few years to produce business intelligence uiat is more timely, accurate, relevant, comprehensive and reliable man ever before.
Uniting Customer, Operations Management in the Cloud
As utilities develop and retine their strategies for managing me twin deluges of data from customers' social media and smart grids, the next step is becoming clear. Although mese complementary data streams might have emerged from different places, they demand sophisticated and powerful analytics to realize their value. By converging and integrating their customer and operational data and applying analytics across the merged dataset, utilities can optimize and coordinate their management of the customer and operational domains within a single cloud-powered analytics environment.
Where could Ulis lead? Other industries provide pointers to the future. Automotive manufacturers are building social networking capabilities into their cars. For example, Toyota has collaborated with salesforce.com to offer Toyota Friend, a private social network that allows Toyota car owners to connect with their electric vehicles and enables the car to send an alert when its battery needs recharging, according to the mashable.com article 'Toyota Owners to Get a Private Social Network."
Given such developments, it might not be farfetched to imagine consumers would appreciate a similar ability to connect via social media with their electricity meters, which would enable them to track usage and costs remotely in real time and manage domestic appliances to conserve energy. The same social network would be an ideal channel for utilities to manage customer relationships, interactions and tariffs.
Third-party vendors such as Tendril and Simple Energy Inc. are developing cloud-based platforms to enable social comparisons and energy usage analysis. All of the customer information and feedback would supplement the smart data generated from the network to help manage the operational issues and upgrades more responsively - all supported and enabled by cloud-based analytics. This future is already taking shape. For example, a large U.K.
electricity provider soon will have its smart meters plugged into AlertMe's energy-monitoring service, which takes readings of energy use every 30 minutes and provides ways to draw insights from the information. The aim is to reduce use, cut carbon emissions and help consumers save money - providing the benefits of big data to ordinary customers in their own homes.
The utility of the future will be a data-rich organization. Utilities that harness the power of the cloud to gather, integrate and analyze their big data will put themselves in position to be tomorrow's industry leaders.
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Big data that ranges from social media to real-time operational information is permeating the business environment - utilities included. Internally, a business's effectiveness in engaging and leveraging talent is increasingly determined by how well it manages the social capital in its work force. Externally. call centers are being supplanted by communication with and between consumers on Facebook.
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Holocaust survivor Aharon Appelfeld, Israel's greatest living writer and author of the new Until the Dawn's Light, retains his capacity for wonder
I would like to begin with two quotations from Sigmund Freud:
E.T.A. Hoffmann used to explain the wealth of imaginative figures that offered themselves to him for his stories by the quickly changing pictures and impressions he had received during a journey of some weeks in a post chaise, while still a babe at his mother's breast.
What a child has experienced but not understood by the age of two he may never again recover, except in his dreams.
Many years ago I asked Aharon Appelfeld, the great Israeli novelist, why he did not write an autobiography—even though his best title, his only title, A Child of Our Time, had already been used.
"If I do," he answered, "I will no longer be able to write my novels."
The notion that the exploration of one's own life, particularly one's childhood, will drain the well of imagination is of course common enough. Call It Sleep and Midnight's Children are among the greatest novels of the last century. That neither Henry Roth nor Salmon Rushdie, having re-experienced, having revivified, their boyhoods, could produce another work remotely as beautiful is enough to give anyone pause.
Nonetheless, the answer Appelfeld gave to my question—as he surely knows—is both true and insufficient. A more complex response lies in his small 1993 book Beyond Despair, which is as profound a meditation on the relation of memory to imagination as anything I know. Once, at Boston University, he gave a lecture based on one of its chapters. Afterward, my students stood together, not moving, not speaking, in the courtyard. "I can't stop trembling," said one of them, as I approached this little grove of human aspens. Holding the book now, I can't help trembling myself.
Appelfeld, who survived a concentration camp as a child before immigrating to Palestine in 1946, begins by describing the equivocal relationship he and all survivors had with memory. The first task for all of them was not to remember. "Anyone who underwent the Holocaust will be as wary of memory as of fire. … People learned how to live without it the way one learns to live without a limb of one's body."
Naturally enough, among this remnant the need to think and write about what had befallen them could not be repressed. But how to do so? The disproportion between the events themselves and the means to express them was too great: "The sights were dreadful and immense, and words are frail and impotent." The inevitable result was a kind of distortion, a falseness, a misemphasis. The testimonies and memoirs were written in haste, without skill, with no sense of proportion or introspection. In each a battle raged between revelation and concealment. Most were marked by "a search for relief" and not the search for truth. Moreover, in Israel there existed a sense of shame, a feeling of guilt, that exerted a constant pressure to celebrate brave Ghetto fighters and partisans and noble peasants who risked their lives to save Jews, rather than expose the overwhelming majority who were at best indifferent or actively tried to kill them.
But even worse than faulty or distorted recollections were those unfettered by personal experience at all. These writers of fiction were attracted to "the bizarre, to the exceptional, to the speculative and—far worse—to the perverted." Appelfeld does not give an example, but I will: the Grand Guignol and inauthentic horror in The Painted Bird.
Do not think that Appelfeld exempts his own work from such criticism. On the one hand, "memory itself proved to be the enemy of my writing." But when he turned to imagination, his poetry and fiction consisted mainly of sentimental excess and cries to God. Caught between a memory that failed him and an imagination he could not trust, he came to the turning point when he stopped writing about himself and instead focused on a Jewish girl with similar experiences. "Miraculously, as though with a magic wand, my compulsive memory was removed" and in its place came a redefinition of memory itself: not so much recollection, or thoughts that could be put in words, but certain sights, sounds, smells, colors, sensations, what, significantly, Hoffmann called "quickly changing pictures and impressions."
Then, in the place of actual memory came the freedom to experience, or re-experience, what we can call privileged moments: something as simple, Appelfeld tells us, as a few twigs floating on the surface of a pond, the sun on them, the way they shiver in the wind and turn, and turn again, on the current. In such moments, and in their recollection, one may undergo a feeling of enchantment that Appelfeld calls "true memory," or "inner memory," or "a warm emotion." (Here we should very much think of such moments, such recapturings—a madeleine in a teaspoon, an uneven paving stone, a few notes from a sonata—in Proust, who has been neglected as one of Appelfeld's masters.) Once in possession of "inner memory," Appelfeld was able to write not "what happened but what had to have happened." That is say, his work, moved from history to art, not only to his Tzili, the Story of a Life but to all the other wonderful novels as well.
But we have yet to answer fully the question: why no A Child of Our Time? The answer may be in another Appelfeld book that, like Tzili, is called A Story of a Life. This is less an autobiography than what Appelfeld called it, "segments of contemplation and memory," just as Beyond Despair is called "reflections and feelings," or, elsewhere, "a series of sensations and images and above all emotions." In that non-autobiography Appelfeld says what I think any sensitive reader might have deduced from his entire oeuvre: that, in fact, about those six years of war, "I don't remember, and that's the whole truth."
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Moved back into my old room at Marta's tonite. Of course she was out with her professor friend.
I didn't realize how much I had missed the television and bar-b-que flavored snacks.
Moved back into my old room at Marta's tonite. Of course she was out with her professor friend.
I didn't realize how much I had missed the television and bar-b-que flavored snacks.
I finally got in touch with Marta today. She was in the car with that creative writing teacher from VCU - not that it matters - not sure why I even mentioning that. I could here classical music playing on the radio …
Anyway she says I can come by today while she's at work to get my stuff. Finally!
Kuvaa utu wako kama ngozi
under the overpass I met my best friend mrjoey
sharing a jerky and a wild irish
the stories of mrjoey makes me cry
well it might be the mrjoey stories of dropped babies and missed trains
but it might just be
might just be the sun going down on the great state of Richmond Virginni and all the Massas in their cut lawn homes in Windsor Farms on this good wednesday thursdayfriday night dinner time with wine and tapioca pudding.
I find it hardly breathable under this overpass - under this over - ha! Ha!
Don't judge mrjoey's eye
don't look good
don't look good
it always closes up puffy up when he tilts his head back so's he can knock back here under the over smelling like mildew and cat pee
makes the wild irish taste not good like it should…
like it should …
Got me fiddy with the sign at boulevard and broad till it came to fight or flight and I decided to flight today
flight away to the under the over where I meet up with my best friend mrjoey
my best friend got hisself half a hat he found behind the Rite Aid and it makes him look important for the sun going down
mrjoey says it's prayers for the sun going down red and orange and blue and purple like a squinty wink at the trains heading out of town
heading to who knows where
even MrEinstein don't know that.
Kwa uaminifu ni kwa kutoheshimu
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This is Gracie and Jimbo Emory. Gracie cuts hair at the salon where Marta works. We've gone out for drinks a couple of times and they seem ok. Every once in while I think I'll catch Gracie giving me the eye - could just be my imagination. And Jimbo … he's got a Tumblr blog called timjerry that's kind of interesting. He can come off a little arrogant sometimes, like he's some kind of whoopee-shit artist who has a deeper understanding than anybody else of how the world works. But he's listened to a good bit of music and we usually end up talking about that while Marta and Gracie bitch about their customers. It's usually a pretty good time. They're coming over for a cookout on the 4th - beer and ribs, mmmmmm!
Marta's actually studying to become a citizen. Her goal is to take her oath next year on the 4th. She takes Independence Day very seriously.
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NEWS FOUR'S MIKE MCCORMICK REPORTS ON HOW --YOUR-- GENEROSITY AND RESPECT.. CAN MAKE UP FOR THOSE.. WHO DON'T SHOW ANY. IN THIS PEACEFUL PLACE FOUNDED IN 18-85.. THE PAST.. AND THE PRESENT.. ARE ABOUT TO MEET IN A WAY YOU'D NEVER EXPECT. 48:55 "it's unfortunate that we have to go to these measures, but I think it's necessary." SINCE 2009.AT LEAST 27 PROBLEMS BROUGHT POLICE HERE TO OAKWOOD CEMETERY IN SPARTANBURG. THE ISSUES INCLUDE VANDALISM. AFTER A CASE OF IT IN 2012 - THOSE IN CHARGE HERE - HOPED GATES LIKE THIS - WOULD HELP PROTECT THE PROPERTY. BUT... A RECENT RASH OF DESTRUCTION.. IS CAUSING THE NEED TO RETHINK SECURITY HERE. 47:57 "hopefully those will be deterrents." SCOTT MONTGOMERY - PRESIDENT OF THE CEMETERY'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS - SAYS THEY'RE WORKING WITH A SECURITY FIRM TO INSTALL SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS. THEY'RE ALSO WORKING WITH DUKE ENERGY TO BRING IN SAFETY LIGHTS. 48:21 "I think we've spent 50 or 60 thousand dollars over the last several years on vandalism, I think it's the right time to spend the money." THE CEMETERY COVERS THE COST OF FIXING VANDALIZED HEADSTONES. THAT'S ON TOP OF THE 50 TO 60-THOUSAND DOLLARS SPENT EVERY YEAR ON TREE AND LAWN MAINTENANCE. NOW ADD-IN THE PRICE OF SETTING UP THE SECURITY.. AND MONITORING IT. EVERYTHING IS PAID FOR BY DONATIONS.. AND THE PURCHASE OF PLOTS IN A NEW SECTION. 49:24 "we feel it's necessary to protect the cemetery." HIGH TECH HELP.. TO MAKE THE PAST.. CRIME'S FINAL RESTING PLACE. 50:15 "it's a historic part of the heritage of Spartanburg, and that's why we look after the cemetery." "those new security features should be up and running here in July. If you have some extra cash and want to help them afford the new security or just the upkeep here, you can make a donation to the Spartanburg County Foundation. We've put the link in the ONTV section of
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YouTube video downloading tools come and go, and most of them are not really that good. They're slow cumbersome, and so mired in banner advertising and pop-ups that it's easy to give them up. But one free tool that stands out from the crowd in a really big way and makes downloading YouTube videos a delight is Free YouTube Download.
What makes FYD different from the others? Well, apart from its ease of use, it lets you download complete YouTube playlists, videos from a YouTube channel, and even video responses to videos, simply by cutting and pasting the necessary link. Downloading is fast, the quality is excellent, and during downloading, the advertising isn't in your face(compared to what many of FYD's rivals do), which is always a bonus in my book.
Free YouTube Download is extremely simple to use. After installing it, open it up and you will see the download window. Beneath that is where you choose your file format and your quality. Once you have made your choices, copy/paste the desired YouTube URL into the main download window and let FYD take care of the rest.
One of FYD's really neat features is its ability to auto-detect YouTube URLs in the Windows clipboard. So if you have FYD open, and you copy/paste a YouTube video link, it will immediately appear in the main FYD download window, ready to download. Some people may find this irritating and turn the feature off. It just all depends on how intuitive you want your software to be.
One big warning: During the installation process, the company attempts to persuade you to install a toolbar and other bloatware. This can be easily avoided by paying very close attention to what boxes you are checking and what you are agreeing to. Plus, everytime you close FYD, you get a nag screen giving you the sales pitch for a paid app. You can easily close this, but it does get tiresome after a while. It's these drawbacks which prevents FYD from getting 5 stars.
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I first met Ryan and Kerri Beth from Rubrics when Ryan's old hardcore band This Mountain Is Man was on tour and played Dead Broke HQ. His wife Kerri Beth was along too. This Mountain Is Man was fucking killer. I bought a tee-shirt, a hand screened CD-r demo, and exchanged phone…
I made this patch because sexual assault/violence is real, contrary to what a lot of us/you/me/everyone may or may not believe. I know that some people like to think that sexual assault/violence, rape, and abuse don't reflect the actions and behaviors of our communities inside our "safe" countercultures and subcultures such as the punk one (some people like to think that radical and punk communities are immune to rape culture) Well, it surely fucking does. Sexism, racism, classism, ageism, homophobia, transphobia, cissexism, and all other forms of discrimination exist. This is not to say that every community is faced with issues involving these behaviors/actions, but it is to say that we all need to be more conscious of what goes on in and out of our small/large/any sized community.
Due to the ever-growing Internet population (whether for better or for worse, that's another discussion), it has become apparent to me that sexual comments constantly get tossed around on social media sites as well as other sites. A surprisingly close friend of mine (who shall remain nameless, unless it comes to my attention that it's a persistent issue, not to mention I called them out on it a few days ago) posted a gross comment on a picture on the Internet of a womyn with her pants off. This is the ever-growing Internet culture that I never want to associate myself with. Posting "playful/flirty" (let's face it…grotesque) comments on naked pictures of people promotes sexism and the objectification of humyns of all genders/classes/races etc. I do not know why or how the picture was found, or why the picture exists, but I do know that I don't consider it acceptable behavior to comment on other's bodies, no matter the intention. Learning to accept my body and my body image is something that I and millions of other people struggle with all of my/their life. So, I sure as hell wouldn't want people commenting on my body or my body image on the Internet or anywhere else.
I would like to quickly address that it is acceptable if a consenting partner (casual or intimate) to (privately, in most cases) comment on and compliment their body or appearance. This is a lot different than a non-consenting stranger on the street, or an image of a stranger on the internet. With that being said, it's also important to dispel the myth of people "asking for it" by dressing certain ways. Consent should be explicit, not implied.
With that being said, don't ever be afraid to call out a friend/stranger/classmate/acquaintance/anyone that makes you feel unsafe or uncomfortable. Don't let their negative reaction belittle your beliefs on the matter. Calling someone out is empowering just as the self-reflection of being called out should/can be. When I call someone out I reflect on the issue for a while, and I feel empowered to know that I am (hopefully) empowering that person's ability to learn, grow, and change. Like Chris Hannah of Propagandhi said, "I'll call you on your shit, please call me on mine".
This simple patch is meant to create awareness that we won't accept rape culture, and we will do everything we can to create safe spaces in our communities that don't discriminate against race, nationality, class, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, and everything else that people identify as ourselves as. We will make sure that the term "no" will always and forever mean "no" and we will make sure that the people in our community feel safe, welcomed, fearless, empowered, and proud of who they are. Let's take back the streets and never forget to lookout for one another because we live on this shit-hole planet (or rather, this shit-hole society on a beautiful, endangered planet) together, so why not do everything we can to make it worth living in?
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So my band, well, not band anymore, Burning Bridges, isn't a thing now. We're all in our last year of school, people are moving, and it just won't be able to work out anymore. I know I can be kinda sarcastic with this whole thing, but I really want to thank each and every one of you who ever gave…
Calendar: August 24: Earth First! Report back on RAMPS Campaign @ Firestorm Asheville. 5:30. -This will be a report back from Radical Action for Mountain People's Survival, which is an organization that is fighting mountaintop removal in the Appalachains.
Band: Siren Songs
Location: Vancouver
Genre: Punk/Pop Punk/Awesome
Website: Facebook Bandcamp Blog
You should be able to download a lot of their stuff off their bandcamp.
Out of every 100 rapes:
- 46 are reported to the police
- 12 rapes will resort in an arrest
- 9 rape cases are prosecuted
- 5 rape cases lead to a felony conviction
- Only 3 rapists will ever spend a day in jail
In a survey of 11-14 year-old boys:
- 51% believed rape was acceptable if a boy spent a lot of money on a girl
- 31% believed rape was acceptable if a girl had past sexual experience
- 65% believed rape were acceptable if a girl and boy had been dating for more than 6 months
- 87% believed rape were acceptable if the woman and man are married
A woman might not even have grown up understanding what rape is…because in a survey of 11-14 year-old girls:
- 41% believed rape was acceptable if a boy spent a lot of money on a girl
- 32% believed rape was acceptable if a girl had past sexual experience
- 47% believed rape were acceptable if a girl and boy had been dating for more than 6 months
- 79% believed rape were acceptable if the woman and man are married
In a survey of college males:
- 35% admit - anonymously - that they would rape under the circumstances that they could get away with it
- 1 in 12 admitted to committing acts defined as rape, but 84% of rapists did not recognize those acts as rapeIn yet another survey of college males:
- 43% of college-aged men admitted to using coercive behavior to have sex, including ignoring a woman's protest, using physical aggression, and forcing intercourse.
- 15% acknowledged they had committed acquaintance rape; 11% acknowledged using physical restraints to force a woman to have sex.I could go on, but attitudinal surveys and acceptance of rape myths are far more telling than legal statistics.
Alex Lichtenauer (Get Better Records)
Jeff Ott (Fifteen/Crimpshire)
Aside from maintaining a healthy family, what has been keeping you busy since FIFTEEN stopped playing?
I've been working at needle exchanges the whole time. I went to nursing school. I'm going to nurse practitioner school now. I'm on the board of the Redwood Justice Fund (ran judi bari's lawsuit against the FBI). I work at my local health department. I did a lot of substitute teaching when I was looking for nursing work, but now I only sub for the science teacher at the "alternative" high school that has metal bands that practice during lunch and breaks. I have some music and writing in the works.
I notice that you are on facebook quite often, mainly posting new reports and such. Are you in the group of people who like facebook, or do you use it merely because that is where most of the kids in the world are going to communicate with each other and stay on top of things?
I have facebook has enabled me to find every person I have ever known who is still alive. I also find that it is incredibly helpful when one's job is to find & treat the 16 year old who doesn't know they have gonorrhea and chlamydia yet, and they gave fake phone numbers and addresses to whatever clinic they went to.
All of the most recent FIFTEEN lyrics are very politically driven, and even talk about being in political bands in "Punk Song". How do you feel about bands who are politically active themselves, but their music doesn't have any political message? And how do you feel about bands who are just fun to listen to, with no real message?
I would like to complain about the bands who appear apolitical but actually aren't, but I can't. For example, in the hight of the 1980's the premiere commercial and apolitial band was journey. It turns out they were funding NORML the whole time. David Bowie on the other hand almost seems political in some of his music, but it turns out he is one of the wealthiest people on earth (ie – responsible directly for others poverty). Bands who are just fun are great. I got nothing against music at all. I guess my problem is when bands pimp pretend politics and convince the next generation of teenagers that greenday is what punk is, or is what rebellion is, that one of the stupidest mistakes I have ever seen in my entire life.
If any of your bands were around in today, would you not press vinyl, CDs and cassettes, and just have it all be digital? How do you feel about the internet and how people can get most albums they want for free?
For me there is no ideal. The first time I wrote a song that had human population it was 5 billion, in 2 months we will have 7 billion. There is no right way to sell things on earth. I feel ok knowing that I never sold too much of anything. The second book I wrote sold so much less than the first, that I will probably make the next one a pdf instead. Any music I put out in the future might be on lp/cd/etc. but maybe not. It wouldn't sell very much so I'm not really concerned. Just switching from oil based cds and lps doesn't alter the fact that the ipod, pc and electricity used to run them come from coal and oil. That being said if someone is going to put out music on cds or make shirts etc, it is totally inexcusable to not do those things in the least harmful way possible.
Getting music for free? Again I think what our society calls stealing is based on the founders, what they did, what they stole, who they genocided, etc. Is downloading a Metallica song stealing? According to the law it is. When you do it, who loses their land? Who goes hungry as a result? No one. I think that is not stealing and is totally moral. What if it's my music? On one hand I could care less, on the other hand I get a bazillion emails asking why don't I keep doing bands – well if a band is a thing that costs money and gives everything away it obviously can't work that long. So what can you do? I think that the notion that people own things in America is predicated on the papal bull (declaration of the pope) in 15?? Saying if you find land without Christians than you can have it. European people stole 9.5 million acres of land and everything on it, but that is not considered theft, I have been convicted of theft for taking a 7 cent razor blade, and a second time for taking a bottle of shampoo. As I see it, if you're not rich, you're not a thief, if you are rich; it is very likely that you are.
Being so politically and socially conscious, how do you feel about the meat/dairy industry, and how does it affect how you live your life? In the end of "Lucky" you talk about how your daughter wouldn't like it if she knew you were eating meat.
Well my daughter and my granddaughter are both lifelong vegetarians, although I might contend that breast milk isn't exactly vegetarian. I would say that every industry in the western world is completely corrupt and should be stopped, including the meat and dairy industry. That being said I really don't agree with the dietary or moral reasoning behind vegetarianism/veganism at all. I am very aware that every problem I have with my species behavior is directly tied back to the point in history where humans began to grow grain: hierarchy, oppressive government, war, slavery, ecosystem destruction, diabetes, obesity, alcoholism, all of it. The notion that we should assume a diet that is 100% farmed is absurd and one of the most destructive forces on earth. We will have at least 7 billion people when we no longer have enough oil to keep the worlds already depleted topsoil fertile. We are going to face a day when in a short period of time when the majority of the people on earth will either starve to death or be killed for what they have.
Who are your favorite bands right now/who have you been listening to lately?
For the most part I leave the radio choices up to my daughter, so I listen to a lot of lady gaga, ke$ha, whatever else is on the radio. By myself I guess I mainly listen to old music.
What is your relationship like with your Vanessa's' mother?
It's good now days. It was awful for a long period of time because I abandoned them when we got pregnant in 1985. Now I'm extra nice to her since she became a lawyer. God knows I'm gonna really need a lawyer some day.
Do you think punk still posses a legitimate threat against the established order? Did it ever?
It could if it did, or if it wanted to. Did it ever? Sure. My only complaint lyrically with opiv is the line "what was once rebellion is now clearly just a social sect". While that was very true of a portion of the scene around Gilman street at the time (1988?89?) throughout the early 1990s I saw a large portion of people involved with punk, every place I went become increasingly politically active. I would have to say that as much as I loved the offspring or greenday ,etc they ruined it by portraying it to younger people as though it were something to be purchased from the worlds largest thieves.
Are you still actively working with Food Not Bombs?
Not currently except in a fund raising capacity. I think about starting one where I live now, but everyone is strung out on speed and they sort of don't eat.
Can we expect to see any new music or books released?
I have one year left of school at which point I should be able to settle down and have the time to finish two books I've started and record a bunch of music.
How do you balance your profession life, and still being in one of the most influential punk bands?
I dont. Ive hardly ever done both at the same time.
How has you being abused affect how you raise your children?
It has made it really clear that discipline cant be corporal at all, that kids aren't a possession, adults aren't to be trusted, and its a really good idea to have your kids watch law and order svu as much as possible
What parent techniques,? How do you apply being punk to being a dad, whats your approach? How do you coach them through situations they get themselves involved in?
I think I'm a fairly routine dad, i try to keep grace firmly rooted in the fact that the nation we live in is immoral and empire, i try to make sure sports are fun for her so she doesn't get discouraged by lack off being the best "whatever" and stop. I guess in some ways nursing school has affected my parenting than punk has. She only 12, so when she's old enough we'll try some dam removal together to bond.
Would fifteen ever play an east coast show!?
15 played tons of east coast shows, the band is not back together or anything, but a long time very good friend of the band is trying to deal with the cost of his wife's cancer, so when asked I said sure.
Do you believe punk has become more or less isolated with the influence of the internet, and how punk has changed since you were first involved in it?
We used to own it, now very few of us do.
At what point in your life did you start believing in God again? Were you ever atheist/agnostic? I started to believe in god when i was, 18 i guess. I took a lot of LSD then and i think mainly i interpreted the awareness of everything being connected as "all the god stuff is true". I would say that today I am an atheist, although I think all of the uses people have for a higher power can be easily satisfied if you just considers the planet god, not to anthropomorphize it, but just to understand that it is all there is, it is much much larger than us, and it has nearly infinite lessons to teach us. I am certain any idea about a conscious god that intervenes in human affairs is not real. If it was then god would be an asshole, i my experience is that the world we live in is perfect except in as much as we fuck it up. The nature of being here is not suffering, it is being provided for. Every breath, every drink, meal, etc
Is there anything you want to leave this interview saying, something for new people entering the punk subculture?
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