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February 06, 2014
SACRAMENTO, Calif.— Morris "Morrie" Turner, the creator of the "Wee Pals" comic strip and the first African American cartoonist to be syndicated nationally, has died. He was 90.
Family spokesman David Bellard says the Oakland, Calif.-born Turner died peacefully at a hospital in Sacramento, Calif., on Saturday.
Turner developed the humorous, ethnically diverse comic strip about a group of buddies, "Wee Pals," in 1965 at the urging of his mentor, Charles Schulz. Schulz created the widely popular Peanuts comic strip.
Turner's strip was also known for its "Soul Corner" that often recognized historical black figures.
In 2003, Turner was recognized by the National Cartoonist Society for his work.
Bellard said Turner was surrounded by family members when he passed away. Services are pending.
January 30, 2014
By Jazelle Hunt
Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – George Zimmerman. Paula Deen. And, more recently, Seattle Seahawks star defensive back Richard Sherman. Just the mention of their name ignites a passionate discussion about race.
The good news is that we're talking about race. The bad news is that the discussions too often fall short of the mark, focusing on the latest incident, but not the underlying causes of racism. At least, that's the conclusion of a new report by Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice and Innovation (formerly Applied Research Center). Race Forward seeks to build awareness, solutions and leadership for racial justice by generating transformative ideas, information and experiences.
As the introduction of the report explains, "'Moving the Race Conversation Forward' is a two-part report that first, describes some of the major impediments to productive racial discourse in the United States, and second, profiles and provides lessons from several recent interventions and initiatives that are breaking down significant barriers toward racial justice."
In its analysis of nearly 1,200 race-related content from 14 print and television media outlets across the country, the report finds that just 32.7 percent were "systematically aware." The report considers an article or TV segment systematically aware if it mentions or highlights policies and/or practices that lead to racial disparities; if it describes the root causes of disparities including the history and compounding effects of institutions; and/or describes or challenges the aforementioned.
According to their findings, only one-third of the sampled media mentioned the root causes of racial discrimination in their coverage of race-related news.
The least likely to do so were Fox News, The [Cleveland] Plain Dealer, and USA Today. The most systematically aware were MSNBC The Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. Media coverage on the economy and criminal justice topics had the highest proportion of systematically aware content.
At the same time, the report finds that coverage of policies, reforms, and racial organizing efforts that actually challenged systemic-level racism was less than 4 percent of all race and racism coverage at each of the outlets.
"There's a disproportionate level of attention given to incidents like Paula Deen last year," says Dominique Apollon, research director at Race Forward, and one of the report's authors. "We get stuck on questions like 'Who's racist?' 'Did Paula Deen mean to be racist?' 'Does she have Black friends, what do her Black customers think?' We get stuck talking about [that] rather than focusing on the policies and practices that cause racism and disparities in this country."
Part one of the report also highlighted seven pervasive, harmful pitfalls in the general discourse on racism (in media and otherwise): Individualizing racism; falsely equating incomparable acts; diverting from race, disregarding it in favor of another social construct such as class or gender; portraying government as overreaching; prioritizing intent over impact; condemning through coded language; and silencing history.
These pitfalls and the hollow analysis of racism creates the phenomenon in which the conversation centers on individual overt racist acts, yet neglects to acknowledge or fully examine the impact of institutional racism (which exists within a system, such as the criminal justice system), and structural racism (which exists across institutions and permeates all of society).
Part two of the report attempts to move the race conversation forward by highlighting recent interventions and initiatives that challenge the narrow national conversation on racism. For example, multi-racial civil rights organization, Advancement Project, campaigned against the "Schoolhouse-to-Jailhouse" pipeline, helping reverse the impact of zero-tolerance policies. Other featured initiatives include the film Fruitvale Station and the Migration is Beautiful art series, which recognizes the humanity of the nation's migrant workers.
Both parts of the report offer recommendations for including systemic awareness in analyses, and improving the conversation around racism overall. Part one offers suggestions for individuals and media professionals: Expanding one's understanding of racism; focusing on actions and impacts instead of attitudes and intentions; examining race within conversations on class, gender, sexuality, etc.; and featuring the humanity and leadership of people of color.
Part two's recommendations are for those in the trenches of anti-racist activism. These include the importance of framing issues properly (Fruitvale Station, for example, reclaims Oscar Grant's story by focusing on his humanity); connecting individual experiences to systematic problems; and alerting media outlets and professions to their racial bias blind spots. Apollon asserts that these recommendations are not just for activists or media professionals, but also for anyone who sees racism in media or in their daily lives.
The report also points out the near-absence of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in discussions of racism and race. Collectively, these groups (not including multiracial Americans) are 5.6 percent of the population, according to 2010 Census data. Yet only 2.36 percent of all the content studied covered these communities.
A video produced by Jay Smooth, activist and Race Forward video and multimedia producer, accompanies the report. In it, Smooth explains the report and its takeaway points. In its first two days, the video garnered more than 39,000 Youtube views. Apollon hopes it continues to reach as many people as possible, and sparks accurate conversations around race.
"It's important to push back against all the 'post-racial' and 'colorblindness' rhetoric we hear. Because being silent about it is not going to eliminate the challenges we face," he says. "Insert race into conversations about class, gender, sexuality. Engage with us and each other about our definition of racism and the deficiencies in our racial discourse."
By George E. Curry
NNPA Editor-in-Chief
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – With a largely uncooperative, highly-partisan Congress headed into a mid-term election, President Obama declared in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night that he will have 'a year of action' by expanding economic opportunity through executive orders and other action that do not require legislative approval.
"I'm eager to work with all of you," Obama said in a speech that lasted a little longer than an hour. "But America does not stand still – and neither will I. So wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more American families, that's what I'm going to do."
Repeating many of the themes he sounded in his State of the Union speech a year ago – and having seen congressional inaction on most of them – a frustrated Barack Obama promised to be more aggressive in using the power of the presidency.
In glowing review of his first five years in office, Obama said, "Here are the results of your efforts: The lowest unemployment rate in over five years. A rebounding housing market. A manufacturing sector that's adding jobs for the first time since the 1990s. More oil produced at home than we buy from the rest of the world – the first time that's happened in nearly twenty years. Our deficits – cut by more than half. And for the first time in over a decade, business leaders around the world have declared that China is no longer the world's number one place to invest; America is."
He continued, "…The question for everyone in this chamber, running through every decision we make this year, is whether we are going to help or hinder this progress. For several years now, this town has been consumed by a rancorous argument over the proper size of the federal government. It's an important debate – one that dates back to our very founding. But when that debate prevents us from carrying out even the most basic functions of our democracy – when our differences shut down government or threaten the full faith and credit of the United States – then we are not doing right by the American people."
A major theme of the president's speech was providing expanded opportunity for all Americans – an opportunity to get a job, to earn fair wages, to get an education and to have access to affordable health care.
"Today, after four years of economic growth, corporate profits and stock prices have rarely been higher, and those at the top have never done better. But average wages have barely budged. Inequality has deepened. Upward mobility has stalled. The cold, hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery, too many Americans are working more than ever just to get by – let alone get ahead. And too many still aren't working at all."
Unlike past State of the Union speeches, Obama did not call for higher tax rates on high-income earners. He also toned down his rhetoric on income inequality from a month ago when he called it "the defining challenge of our time" and referred to a "dangerous and growing inequality and lack of upward mobility."
A recent report by Oxfam, a London based organization that seeks to eradicate poverty, found that the wealth of 1 percent of the richest people in the world ($110 trillion) is 65 times the total wealth of the bottom half of the world's population.
The Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, collected data that shows the top fifth of the U.S. population receives 66 percent of tax-expenditure benefits, the middle 60 percent of the population receives slightly more than 31 percent and the bottom fifth receives just 2.8 percent of tax-expenditure benefits. The top 1 percent of the population alone receives 23.9 percent of tax-expenditure benefits.
According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, 60 percent of Americans believe the "economic system in this country unfairly favors the wealthy." And even larger margin – 65 percent – believe the gap between the rich and everyone else has increased over the past 10 years.
But instead of getting into what his Republican critics like to call a class war, the president framed the issue Tuesday night through the lens of a lack of progress for working-class Americans.
"Let's make this a year of action," President Obama said. "That's what most Americans want – for all of us in this chamber to focus on their lives, their hopes, their aspirations. And what I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead."
In an action on Tuesday, President Obama issued an executive order raising the minimum wage for federal contract workers from $7.25 an hour to $10.10.
To raise the minimum wage beyond federal contractors, as Obama has been urging for more than a year, he will need the support of Congress. He will also need cooperation from the House and Senate to act on other issues such as immigration, extending unemployment benefits, tax reform and expanding pre-K education.
Although White House officials are predicting some progress on farm legislation and immigration, they recognize that partisan politics traditionally grow even more partisan in a mid-term election, especially during a president's second term. Consequently, the administration is advancing a series of modest initiatives, including:
Directing the Treasury Department to create a starter retirement savings account, called "myRA"; Hosting a White House summit on working families; Having Vice President Joe Biden lead a review of the federal job training system; Streamlining federal regulations covering construction of manufacturing factories that rely on natural gas and Convening a group of CEOs to solicit their ideas on how best to get unemployed workers back into the job market.
On CNN Tuesday night, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich criticized President Obama for taking so long to use the authority he has to issue executive orders, which are presidential directives that interpret the constitution and federal laws without needing the approval of Congress.
According to the National Archives and The American Presidency Project, President Obama has issued 168 executive orders. His 147 during his first term was the fewest by a president in more than 100 years. By contrast, in their first terms, Ronald Reagan issued 213, Bill Clinton 200 and George W. Bush 173.
Obama defenders say many of his executive orders have been far reaching, delaying enforcement of certain sections of the Affordable Care Act, federal recognition of same-sex marriages and delaying deportation of some illegal immigrants.
At a White House briefing with a small group of reporters Tuesday afternoon, a senior administration official responded to critics who contend that President Obama would be more effective if he socialized more with House Republicans. But that's been impossible with the Tea Party wing of the GOP, the official said.
"They said he should schmooze a little bit more, if he would just go play golf with them," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "They don't want to be seen playing golf with him. They don't want to be seen having dinner with him. They don't want to work with the president and they've told us that every way they know how."
January 23, 2014
By Saeed Shabazz
Special to the NNPA from The Final Call
(FinalCall.com) – The federal government represented by agencies including the Dept. of Homeland Security, Labor Dept. and Environmental Protection Agency will continue Public Listening Sessions in February, according to federal officials.
Attendees will have opportunities to offer input on presidential Executive Order 13650 "Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security" issued last summer. Topics will include improving operational coordination with state, tribal, territorial and local partners; enhanced information collection and sharing; modernizing regulations, guidance, and policies; and identifying best practices in chemical safety and security, federal officials said.
Michele Roberts, community coordinator for the Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Justice and Health Alliance, told The Final Call "the importance of the Listening Sessions is to engage, full public input into the process. From the process, we are hoping strong policy guidance, standard and regulation language will be forthcoming."
"We are tired of our communities being 'sacrifice zones' or 'kill zones,' " Ms. Roberts added.
Ms. Roberts was referring to what the environmental injustice movement refers to as "the disproportionate" pollution burden borne by communities of color and poorer White communities, often located near freeways, power plants, toxic waste sites, oil refineries, rail yards, chemical plants and other major sources of pollution.
However, some believe these communities do not possess the political power to achieve real regulatory legislation because of opposition from the Republican right-wing.
One environmental injustice activist who plans to approach the Listening Sessions carefully is Dr. Henry Clark, PhD., executive director of the West County Toxics Coalition located in Richmond, Calif., home to Chevron refineries with 11 million pounds of toxic explosives and corrosive chemicals.
"Now they want to hear our concerns for the umpteenth time," Dr. Clark told The Final Call. "We want to see some results."
Dr. Clark said there is some good language in Executive Order 13650 that speaks to protecting environmental justice in communities. Richmond is located on the San Francisco Bay, one of the poorest communities in the state with 44.2 percent of children under 18 living in poverty, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Listening sessions were held in Sacramento Jan. 7, in Los Angeles on Jan. 9 and Jan. 10; and government officials head east Jan. 14 to Wash., D.C., and to Houston, Texas Jan. 24.
Dorothy Felix, president of Mossville Environmental Action Now, said people in her Louisiana town want the Listening Sessions to hear demands that residents be moved out of harms' way. On Dec. 20, a fire occurred in the vinyl chloride manufacturing area at the Axiall compound in nearby Lake Charles, La.
Ms. Felix said Mossville residents were ordered to "stay in place," but were not informed of what toxins were released into the air. Axiall is an integrated chemicals and products company that manufactures building and home improvement products that contain chemicals such as chlorine, caustic soda, vinyl chloride, polyvinyl chloride, acetone and ethylene dichloride.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been reporting since 1975 on Trends in Environmentally Related Childhood Diseases. Asthma prevalence has doubled, childhood cancers, impaired fertility birth defects, learning disabilities, leukemia, and brain cancer increasing, according to the agency. Environmental health and security activists say these rising trends reflect the need for Listening Sessions to result in policy changes.
Dave Gilmore of Let's Save Paterson said, "As a resident in the oldest industrial city in America, Paterson, N.J. with all the textile mills and other industrial chemicals being dumped in the Passaic river, now the third most polluted body of water in the nation snaking through our town, we can't be but attentive to these types of initiatives (listening sessions)."
The end game is results, activists stated clearly: "Listening and doing nothing different, have to wait and see," said Dorothy Felix of Mossville Environmental Action Now in Louisiana.
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Govt thwarts film industry lobbyists by keeping copyright infringement notice fee at $25
The government is set to keep the fee for an infringement notice under the new file sharing law at $25. Commerce Minister Craig Foss proposes no change to the controvesial fee in a briefing paper to cabinet, made public this afteroon.
NZFACT - representing the major Hollywood studios - had wanted the fee dropped to "pennies". (The fee is charged by an ISP to recoup the cost, or part of the cost, of investigating an alleged offence, then sending a warning notice to the customer concerned.)
The Recording Industry Association of NZ (Rianz), representing multinational and local music labels, submitted the fee needed to be dropped to $2 or less for it to send a serious number of infringement notices.
While Rianz has sent a substantial number of copyright infringement notices to ISPs (who in turn pass them on to a customer suspected of piracy), the number has been in the region of dozens to low hundreds each month (see table end of article) rather than the 5000 or so some in the industry had envisaged.
NZFACT has issued no infringement notices on behalf of movie studios, major ISPs tell NBR.
The review of the $25 fee began on the six month anniversary of the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act (2011), which came into force in November last year. It was carried out by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), the super ministry that includes the old Ministry of Economic Development (MED).
Telecom, the largest retail ISP, had submitted the cost of an infringement notice should be raised to $104 to reflect the true cost of processing notice. TelstraClear wanted the fee raised to $32.64 to reflect costs. Vodafone wanted it kept at $25, and said economies of scale would kick in if infringement notice volume increased.
The Telecommunications Users Association (Tuanz) also submitted it should be kept at $25.
In his briefing to cabinet, the Commerce Minister says:
I consider there is currently no case for either increasing or decreasing the fee. The current $25 fee is set at an appropriate level because:
• There has been a significant reduction in the volume of illegal file sharing in the first six months of the regime being in force. This suggests that the level of the fee has not initially prevented the regime from having the desired outcome; and
• While the fee does not allow full cost recovery by IPAPs [internet service providers], it does allow recovery of an appropriate proportion of their costs, and at a level which appears to be consistent with similar regimes overseas. Lowering the fee at this time would impose an inappropriate level of costs on IPAPs.
Rianz submitted a study that said there had been an 18% drop in online music piracy since the act came into force last November. However, it said rates were still too high.
NZFACT submitted that there were 110,000 movie download infringements in August 2011, but that the rate had since plateaued to 40,000 to 60,000 per month.
The briefing paper notes that online download volumes fluctuate around the timing of major releases.
It also notes that several submitters mentioned a study by Waikato University that found many downloaders had simply switched tactics, moving from peer-to-peer services to those that allowed them to mask their identiy.
Mr Foss also says because the Copyright Tribunal has yet to hear a claim, "the full deterrent impact of the regime is not certain."
On Friday, Rianz lodged three claims with the Tribunal, relating to alleged offending by three separate Telecom customers. Each faces a penalty of up to $15,000. The Tribunal has yet to set a time to hear the claims.
The Copyright Tribunal hearings follow a series of notices sent under the file sharing act's so-called three-strikes warning system.
The briefing paper reveals the number of notices sent by four of the five largest ISPs:
Telecom: 1238
Vodafone: 417
TelstraClear: 398
Orcon: 115
InternetNZ supports the fee staying at $25. Policy lead Susan Chalmers told NBR not all ISPs have received notice requests from Rianz. "So it would be premature to adjust the fee before the actual financial impact on these businesses can be evaluated. MBIE and the Minister have rightfully acknowledged this."
Telecom submitted that the $25 fee covers only 24% of its costs for processing an infringement notice.
Ms Chalmers said larger ISPs had been able to absorb the cost of sending out notices - at least so far.
"If the fee were lowered, they would likely feel greater pressure to pass these costs on to their customers. By deciding to keep the $25 fee, the government has taken a step in the right direction for this reason and others."
One of InternetNZ's main concerns is the cost of the regime to ISPs, and the attendant risk that such cost to be passed onto the ordinary account holder, regardless of whether that person infringes copyright, Ms Chalmers said. (NBR has its own concerns with the act, and the first three claims; read more here.)
RAW DATA: Commerce Minister Craig Foss' briefing paper to cabinet (PDF)
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Is the high fee supposed to ensure that copyright owners don't chase spurious cases of infringement?
#1 - The fee isn't high. It costs the ISPs more than that to process the claims.
In effect, they're passing the cost onto their customers, rather than being able to bill RIANZ/Sony for the 'service'
Agreed - Even at the current rate I am certain the true cost is a mega amount more in real cost to an ISP and further puts the ISP into a point of conflict with a customer deemed guilty until proven innocent. This whole issue is a mess and no wonder Kim Dotcom is now so popular.
The ISPs should invoice Sony etc separately for "professional services in connection with..."
NZFACT - representing the major Hollywood studios - had wanted the fee dropped to "pennies".
The Recording Industry Association of NZ (Rianz), submitted the fee needed to be dropped to $2.
This new file sharing law has the stink of American litigators all over it.
Innocent until proven guilty, thats law founded on justice, not money...
ISP's should just charge the $25 fee plus a little extra, say $75 waiver deposit in case it is spurious charge/claim by copyright 'holders' ... they can recoup the total $75 extra it costs them by then returning the $75 but charging a $50 admin. fee for handling the deposit waiver. ... done, get their full costs back.
Meanwhile, there is good evidence that illegal down-loaders in NZ have done the logical thing, they moved into the cloud .... and disappeared with a poof.
Now what about that cyber-bullying meddling from the next Einstein politician that wants to make themselves look like an idiot by legislating the Intertubes?
It costs Telecom 4 x $25 to process a claim so they'll have to pass it on to the consumer. Somewhere some American's are saying "nice of those hayseed Kiwis to subsidise our record-profit-making-global-media-company".
The various recording industry bodies have put forward their estimates of how much piracy costs. Arguing for the 'Skynet' legislation, they claimed piracy cost New Zealand $70M per annum for movies alone.
The numbers above suggest around 2170 notices have been issued, at $25 a pop, about $54,000 in notice fees.
Now if piracy has dropped 18%, as they claim, then presumably the cost of piracy has been reduced by $12.6 million.
That is a staggeringly good return on investment for the industry, at the expense of ISPs who had to bear the costs of setting up a regime to punish their customers. They should easily be able to afford to issue more notices.
Unless they have been lying to the public about the cost of piracy, but whose fault is that now?
Not a clue the bunch of you #1-7.
For a full list of legal services available to consumers in New Zealand, have a look at this site!
$2??? Keep it at least at $25.
ISPs and Telcos are not given a subsidy by RIANZ to increase their staffing levels to be able to handle these investigations. So basically this $25 covers:
- administration of the to-ing and fro-ing between the ISP and RIANZ
- root-cause-analysis on the core network to find the owner of the infringing IP address at the time of the alleged infringement
- creation of a default "strike" template letter/email that will be sent to infringers, which needs to be checked by lawyers to make sure there's nothing out-of-line PLUS checked by branding/marketing staff to make sure the language is not going to encourage the customer to just leave said ISP
Hate to tell you RIANZ, but I'd estimate that at more like $150 or $200 worth of tangible cost to the ISP. You're getting a hell of a lot of bang for your 25 bucks!


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Apparently last summer's Hurricane Irene sparked a whole bunch of baby making. Was it the blackout-related candlelight or the blackout-related lack of Facebook? Either way, nine months later, we've got a spring baby boom in the forecast … and a list of storm-related names to go along with it!
Hailey – For those golf-ball-size ice rocks that dented up your minivan.
Ace – An acronym describing a hurricane's accumulated cyclone energy. (Who knew?)
Noah – Ark and animals not included.
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Attorneys on both sides got about 30 minutes to make their case to the justices Wednesday. We probably won't know which way they vote until next year so those with stakes in the decision they say they'll be waiting with bated breath.
Julaine Appling and Wisconsin Family Action filed the lawsuit in 2010. "I'm cautiously optimistic that the rule of law will prevail," Appling tells 27 News.
The group's attorney, Austin Nimocks argues the partnership is too similar to marriage and gay marriage was banned in Wisconsin in 2006. "As to every other legal status in Wisconsin law, there is no other that requires sex specificity. Marriage and domestic partnership stand alone," he told the court. Nimocks says requirements on age, sex and blood relationship also make the law too similar to a married status.
Christopher Clark represented advocacy group Fair Wisconsin and focused on differences between the two statuses and the benefits that would disappear. "There are enormous ramifications," Clark told the justices.
Fair Wisconsin points to Crystal Hyslop and Janice Czyscon as one of the families that will be affected. They were the first couple to sign up under the domestic partnership law. They say as they grow older, if one of them gets sick, these legal rights will be key.
"To lose any of the benefits where we have access to each other in these situations would be just... it would kill me," Czyscon says.
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MADISON (WKOW) -- Conservative attorneys tried to persuade justices to wipe out the state's domestic partner registry during oral arguments before the Wisconsin Supreme Court today.
The conservative group Wisconsin Family Action filed a lawsuit in 2010, claiming the registry violates the state's 2006 constitutional amendment banning gay marriage or anything substantially similar.
Austin Nimocks, an attorney for Wisconsin Family Action, told justices during Wednesday's oral arguments the qualifications to get married and get on the registry are substantially similar.
Christopher Clark, an attorney for Fair Wisconsin, the state's largest gay rights group, argued the registry doesn't come close to marriage, claiming marriage is a civil contract that comes with obligations the registry doesn't require.
The registry provides several legal rights to same-sex couples.
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It's always nice when the chef comes out to clearly explain safe and not safe choices. I had the Mahi Mahi grilled which came with mashed potatoes and green beans. All were good. The shrimp scampi style side was good. I appreciate the knowledge of all staff from top to bottom at any restaurant that claims to understand Gluten Free. I had high expectations and my gluten eating family did, too. My fish was a tad dry, my husband's steak was not his favorite (we love Flemings) and I blame that on being there on a Monday when the real chef probably had their "weekend". Overall a nice dinner in a nice restaurant. Spoil yourself and give it a try!
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Here's the last in my Ever After typography series, taking a creepy approach to Heartless Queen Carolina. I know that By Now isn't necessarily a creepy song, but I felt that these lyrics could be used in that context.
I was bored and in florida, so I drew out my first and middle names.
This is the second part of my Ever After typography series, it's been done for a while, I've just been really lazy when it comes to uploading. This piece is representing Porcelain, pretty obviously. Also, I decided not to do a piece for the Stuttering Wise Man in this series, so there will be only one piece more after this.
And I did the same thing with the wristband for the current theatre department theme.
I drew out my school's theatre department's theme from last year using the wristband that they gave out as a reference.
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In today's exciting update of "Will They or Won't They Make All the Nerds Happy?," Carrie Fisher said she will be in the next "Star Wars."
During an interview with Palm Beach Illustrated, Fisher was asked point-blank if she would return to play Princess Leia in "Star Wars: Episode VII."
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Genealogy in Faeto
If you know (or you think) that your ancestors were from Faeto, you could find info about your Italian family at Registrar of Vital Statistics in the City Office or at the parishes.
Registry offices in Puglia and in Foggia province were established in early 1800: it means that you could find information in Faeto registrar as of that date.
Before to start your genealogy research in Faeto, we suggest you to read our tips for your search . They are useful to search in Puglia and in Faeto too.
In the next picture you can see the demographic trends in Faeto from the Italian Unification (1861).
It could be important to know if the last name you are investigating is a frequent surname in Faeto. As more your surname is common in Faeto, as more it could be difficult to find the right info about your ancestors in Faeto archives if you have not exact dates.
It could be useful for you to know that some of the most common surnames in Foggia province are:
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will parts for the wrx or Sti fit a 2.5 rs such as intake exhaust it is hard to find parts for a 2005 2.5 rs but easy to find 99 and down
The taillights will fight with out any problems. As for the intake this will not fit because the wrx has the induction system with a intercooler so the intake will be shorter and differently shaped. The exhaust I am not 100% sure about I have never looked into it. I believe the WRX already has stock 2.5 inch tubing, bigger than stock 2.5RS so I believe there would be an issue there as well. There are parts out there, try searching sites like www.summitracing.com and search for vehicle and motor specific applications for intake and exhaust.Good luck!
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Always faster than myself, so I'm turning into a reblogger, haha. Totally enjoyed to take these pictures of this awesome band!
Matt Rise Above made some pictures as well last night! They turned out awesome as always!
Always faster than myself, so I'm turning into a reblogger, haha. Totally enjoyed to take these pictures of this awesome band!
Matt Rise Above made some pictures as well last night! They turned out awesome as always!
Some photos I made as a teaser for a coming music video. I'm stoked!
So Matt Rise Above joined us the first two days of tour to film some footage for a music video!
The music video, which will come out as soon as Matt is done with the cutting and editing, will be for a song of Hopeward Bound!
Can you guess which one it's going to be?
Spontaneously shot and edited – from a given occasion.
With a last destination of their farewell tour through Europe in Stuttgart, The Carrier celebrated their second last show ever with a venue filled to the edges with fans.
Only on this particular date, their tour and the one we've been on with Azriel, The Haverbrook Disaster and Demoraliser, overlapped. So we had the exclusive chance to tape some bits of this awesome show!
Thanks to The Carrier and everyone who made this gig possible, thanks to the bands mentioned above, thanks to Matt West for doing additional camera work, and last but not least, thank you to everyone who came out to share these moments with all of us.
The new merch is online NOW! Go for it!
Last night was so short, my whole day was such a pain. Above you can see the reason. Shooting (or this time: getting shot) and editing merch pics in the middle of the night, then having a productivity-flash and launching a new website. I'm glad I can enjoy a glass of bourbon right now and then go to sleep, haha.
Wish you all a nice weekend. I'm going to be shooting a tour advertising video tomorrow and then watching Star Wars Episode I in 3D with my closest friends. It's so nice having so much to do even if it gets me a headache regularly..
We did a spontaneous shooting with our brother Matt aka Rise Above in a local pub last week! The shots turned out so good! Matt RSBV is the man!
The family!
Haha, do you hear? I'm the man! :D
Pretty fuckin hated to shoot that as of light issues. But during the editing process I regained hope for maximum sufficiency. Hope you like it!
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Since I've been blogging Carpathian stuff (one of my favourite hardcore hands, RIP) I thought I'd repost this. Matt Lebowski an aspiring music video director got in touch with me and told me he was off to see Carpathian near his home town. He said he was filming it to do a live footage video. He knew that I was pretty gutted I couldn't make this tour with them and Defeater (due to there being not enough van space), so he dedicated the video to me.
It's really touching to see people aspiring to do great things with video, and along the route dedicating something to me. I started off filming bands live, and it's a cruel kinda world because you often get looked down upon for starting out in videos this way. You can be misinterpreted as someone who's purely out to hang with the bands. But in the long run it makes it even more rewarding when you slog through the naysayers, and start making progress. I'm all about stamping out, hard, the people that shut down others who are merely trying to make a dream come true. We don't want you fucking people in our lives. Well done to Matt for this, I look forward to seeing his career progress.
You can check out his blog here - http://notafilmmakeryet.tumblr.com (he's posting great content and keeping it real, you should all be linking up with this guy!)
Ryan, thank you very much for your kind words and support!
I totally agree with your message; Don't ever let your dreams get belittled.
You're a maker, and this is what inspires thousands of followers.
I already wrote you that if you're ever in Germany again, tell me.
I owe you a high five.
Here is the Stick To Your Guns live video I promised. I totally loved to do it, the light turned out pretty intense, there was no kind of colour correction at all, I just added the title and branded it with the Rise Above logo.
Thank you, Stick To Your Guns, for this awesome show, and thank you The Haverbrook Disaster for taking me there. Also thanks to the crowd, you gave your best. And those crowds are making better videos, haha.
Feel free to share and retweet it! Spread the music of this excellent band.
Totally enjoyed this evening, too.
The Enough Is Enough video is just rendering and might be up tomorrow.
Good times w/ Stick To Your Guns!
Some of the pics I shot ten days ago.
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An electron behaves as a particle only in situations where an approximate semiclassical description is applicable. This is _not_ the case for a tightly bound electron such as in an ordinary atom or molecule, but it is often the case for an electron in a beam, when one doesn't aske too detailed questions. (Electron beams in full generality are treated in electron optics, where the Dirac equation is treated as a classical field.)
Depending on the preparation, you may regard it as a particle before it passes the screen, but afterwards no longer - passing the screen turns the electron into a delocalized object - the more delocalized the further away from the slits.
Indeed. There is no quantum mystery.
Not as a fundamental quantum law. But the Born rule has limited validity, which can be discussed in the framework of the thermal interpretation.
Talking about it hear is the first part of spreading it. I am gathering experience in how people respond and what must be said to make the case. For publishing it, the Scientific American is not the right place - this is a journal for expaining things to the interested public, not for describing new results to the scientific community.
But sooner or later, my thermal interpretation will be published - a full, convincing account of it is not written in a few pages, but takes time.
And in 10 years time, it will be the consensus of the scientific community, since unlike with all other interpretations, there is nothing weird about the thermal interpretation.
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Let us focus on the double slit experiment as Feymann said it's the main mystery. If it's solved, the entire quantum mystery solved.
I can't understand what you meant by "passing the screen turns the electron into a delocalized object". You said the electron is a particle before it passes the screen. Since it is already a particle, how can it turned into a delocalized particle at the screen?
The electron is always a quantum field. The quantum field can be regarded to describe a particle if and only if the field has a nonzero expectation only in a region small compared to the whole system considered. Thus we may say that the field is a particle as long as this condition is satisfied. Because of the dispersion of the field caused by the slits, this condition stops to be satisfied almost immediately after the field (with support large enough to cover both slits) passed the double slit. Thus it is no longer justified to talk about a particle.
The situation is similar as with a sphere of glass. If you throw it, you may regard it as a particle. But if it hits an obstacle and fragmentizes, it is no longer localized enogh to deserve the name of a particle.
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Let's go from the beginner in the emission. So the electron is emitted. You believed it travels as particle? But where does it pass, the left or right slit? And what caused the interferences in the screen. Standard explanation says it interferes with itself because it is a wave after it is emitted.. and only become a particle at the detection screen. Pls. elaborate what happened to your electron after emission.. before it reaches the slits.. after it exits the slits and after detection in the screen.
The field passes the doulbe slit in a fashion similar as a water wave would do, except with quantum corrections.


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'One Man's Dream': Italy's Ai Pioppi, the personal theme park
Written by James Koehl
While traveling down a tree-lined road through a forest near the northern Italian town of Treviso, drivers start to see row-upon-row of wooden picnic tables through the trees. A tall metal slide whose top is hidden in the canopy of leaves appears. Swings, hand-powered merry-go-rounds, even a metal roller coaster seems to have grown up out of the forest. An open-air restaurant causes the smells of cooking to blend with the smells of the forest. And a man with the facial lines of an eighty-year-old and the infectious smile of an eight-year-old can be found welding in a ram-shackle workshop. The man's name is Bruno. He built this place.Tweet
This is Ai Pioppi.
Bruno started Ai Pioppi in 1969 with two jugs of wine, some sausages and a salami. He hung the meat from a tree branch, set up a small grill, and declared his restaurant open. Since that day this restaurant in the forest has grown into a popular family attraction, both for the good, basic menu and for the unique attractions that Bruno has built to attract diners to his restaurant. (Sound familiar?)
Is Ai Pioppi an amusement park? Not in the traditional sense that most of us would think of, but perhaps it is an amusement park in the purest sense. It is a place when guests find joy, fun and a child-like thrill while playing on an amazing mixture of unique playground equipment and one-of-a-kind amusement rides, all constructed by Bruno himself in his on-site workshop. Some are as simple as a basic slide while others are actual roller coasters, but everything at Ai Pioppi was born in the mind of Bruno. They say that Walt Disney built Disneyland — Bruno actually constructed Ai Pioppi with his own hands, welding the metal and creating the attractions to appear to be part of the forest itself.
It is hard to imagine what such a place as Ai Pioppi is like without experiencing it, but a trip to northern Italy is not practical for most theme park fans, and to be honest Ai Pioppi is probably not a "destination park." As unique a place as it is, it would probably remain a local attraction with little exposure to the outside world were it not for Fabrica, a communications research, studio and school located in Italy. They recently completed a short documentary about Ai Pioppi, thus bringing this remarkable amusement park to the attention of the theme park world.
The video was directed by Luiz Romero, Coleman Guyon and Giacomo Pennicchi. It was written by Luiz Romero and scored by Coleman Guyon.
Most of us think of amusement/theme parks as big, flashy, carefully detailed entertainment worlds where the motto "bigger, better, faster, higher," etc. is what they brag about and aim for. A park such as has been created by Bruno at Ai Pioppi is as foreign a concept as northern Italy is a foreign country to most of us. Perhaps Bruno has created a new kind of theme park, one that is inseparable from the forest where it stands and where it was created. The broad smiles of the visitors, the laughter of the children and the look of child-like delight on the faces of the adults who are enjoying this experience tells me that this place is important, a valuable addition to the concept of the theme park.
It truly is "One Man's Dream," a dream brought to life in a northern Italian forest by a man named Bruno with a ramshackle workshop, a welding torch and the vision to bring his dream to life and share it with the world.
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From Rod Whitenack on November 9, 2013 at 1:20 PM
Fascinating article and video! Thank you for presenting me with something I would have otherwise never had known about. This is the kind of story that fires my own dreams. I can't even imagine the memories this individual has given to the children living in small towns near the forest. Bravo.
From James Rao on November 9, 2013 at 2:56 PM
What TPI Regular would NOT want to build something like Ai Pioppi?
Great stuff, James. I never even knew a place like this amusement park existed. So, were you actually there or did you just find out about it and want to share your discovery with the rest of TPI?
Being as I am 3rd generation Italian born in America, it would behoove me to get back to the Motherland at some point, and if so, why not stop by a one of a kind place like Ai Pioppi? By the time I can afford to go, these "smaller, shorter, slower" personal rides may be all I can handle! ;)
Good stuff, Mr. K.!
From James Koehl on November 9, 2013 at 4:43 PM
I wish I could claim the discovery of this remarkable park or the documentary revealing it to the world. I believe that Fabrica sent the link to Robert, and he offered me the chance to write an article about it. I am so glad he did- I found the documentary fascinating to watch on several levels. I thought it was a visually beautiful film, and as a Theme Park Apprentice veteran I was intrigued at the concept of someone actually building his own park with his own two hands.
Thank you for the kind words about the article. My article is only as good as the material I have to work with, and Ai Pioppi and the film that brought it to our attention is a true masterpiece. I am just the messenger.
From Jonah Sirota on November 9, 2013 at 9:45 PM
Thank you, James. This is profoundly cool. I see in this a little bit of that spirit of homegrown joy-making that I've found at Knoebel's, which, although different from Ai Pioppo, is equally unique, I believe. Also, the hand-welded rides at Ai Pioppi reminded me of images I've seen of the City Museum in St. Louis, which I've never visited, but which is supposed to be a similarly open-ended, semi-chaotic, and joyous experience to visit.
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