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Update: 55-acre Smartsville vegetation fire contained (VIDEO)
July 12, 2013
Highway 50 closed in Meyers due to grass fire:
U.S. Highway 50 has been closed in Meyers because of a grass fire producing heavy smoke, making the area unsafe for motorists, according to Caltrans.
Eastbound traffic is being held at Sly Park Road in Pollock Pines and westbound traffic is being held in Meyers, just west of South Lake Tahoe.
The fire started in a rural section of the highway between White Hall and Kyburz. It is spreading east. The CHP is reporting that the fire started when a vehicle blew a tire.
There are no detours in place yet and no estimated time when the highway will reopen. Follow Caltrans on Twitter @D3PIO for the latest updates.
Air tankers and ground crews were able to contain an estimated 55-acre vegetation blaze, which collaborating fire agencies battled for hours Monday.
"There is a line around the fire to prevent its forward spread," said Cal Fire spokeswoman Lynne Tolmachoff Monday afternoon. "When we call it controlled, that is when fire crews are no longer working on it."
Only an outbuilding was damaged Monday and no injuries were reported, Tolmachoff said.
The fire was first reported at just before 10 a.m. at 15 acres, but by 1 p.m. the inferno had grown to 55 acres, Tolmachoff said. A final estimate of total acreage had not been determined as of press time. Tolmachoff estimated that crews would be attending to hot spots for several days to completely stamp out the blaze.
While no evacuations were reported by Cal Fire, Tolmachoff said that two structures were threatened.
"They were able to mitigate the problem before there was a need for any formal evacuation," she said.
A freelance photographer, Annita Kasparian, told The Union that animals from a ranch on Hammonton-Smartsville Road had been evacuated. She said the ranch belonged to Dennis and Cammy Jacobson.
"The issues we were having is right now the temperatures have come up since this started and we are seeing some winds," Tolmachoff said earlier in the day amid the battle with the blaze.
As the fire spread from McGanney Lane all the way to Highway 20, the California Department of Transportation initially closed that road in both directions at Hammonton-Smartsville Road. By the afternoon, Tolmachoff said that the eastbound lane had been reopened under the guidance of traffic control, while westbound traffic was being diverted through Smartsville. Cal Trans indicated that the traffic control could last until around 8 p.m. in a Tweet.
"They are doing traffic control with a lead car," she said. "People are getting through, but there is a good chance they will get delayed going through there."
The cause of the fire was not immediately known, but Tolmachoff said the investigation will be ongoing.
Cal Fire enlisted the help of aerial fire fighting methods as well as neighboring fire fighting agencies from Marysville, Smartsville, Penn Valley, Linda, Nevada County Consolidated, a helicopter from the Tahoe National Forest and a water tender from Beale Air Force Base, Tolmachoff said.
Grass fire closes Highway 50 in Meyers
A fire on the north side of the highway closed down Highway 50 at the Sand Flat Campground in Pollock Pines, between South Lake Tahoe and Placerville, Monday.
According to the U.S. Forest Service, the Kyburz Fire in the Eldorado National Forest was between 40-50 acres as of press time. Eight air tankers and five helicopters were assigned to the blaze.
The fire started in a rural section of the highway between White Hall and Kyburz, spreading east. The CHP is reporting that the fire started when a vehicle blew a tire.
Several small vegetation fires were quickly contained over the holiday weekend.
A 50 by 50 spot in thick grass and blackberries was contained at about 2:45 p.m. Friday in a field between Highway 20 and Searls Avenue.
There was a small vegetation fire that spread into a wood pile at about 7 p.m. Sunday, that was threatening a structure on Donald Avenue nears Slate Creek Road. That fire was contained and the cause remains under investigation.
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Before I started writing this, I've browsed our #Lego collection for fun. It has dozens of interesting posts, some of them even I completely forgot about. What I've noticed is that most of the themes repeat themselves, specially impossible triangles (I think there is no need to post any more triangles for some time now). Anyhow, I've collected rest of the unpublished Lego illusions, and decided to close the trend. First one is obviously most complex, but I have some doubts whether photoshop has been used. Rest of the collection should be free of digital manipulation, but fortunately I have you to judge. Can you guess how each of them was built?


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Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: Modernists Go Off-MenuBy Jacob Leland
The opening scenes of Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times demonstrate the indignities mechanized factory production perpetrates upon the bodies of its workers. The first shot, of sheep herded into a pen, dissolves into one of men leaving the subway. They're bound, the viewer assumes, for the kind of job in which the next cut finds Chaplin's Little Tramp: working on an assembly line, his motions so repetitive that they become reflexive. He can't stop twisting his wrists, as if to tighten bolts, even when he leaves the station where he tightens bolts all day. His body is so bound to the line and to the factory that the same boss who controls the conveyor belt's speed also controls the movements of the Tramp's body. Finally, the factory extends its control to the Tramp's last autonomous function: eating his lunch.
A salesman so committed to mechanization that he lets a machine speak for him has brought to the factory boss's office a prototype of "the Billows Feeding Machine, a practical device which automatically feeds your men while at work." He asks the boss to pick one of his workers for a demonstration, and of course Chaplin's Tramp is volunteered. Strapped into the machine, hands incapacitated, the helpless Tramp watches the machine rotate plates before him: soup, air-cooled between spoonfuls; corn, spinning on its cob; cubes of meat, pushed by a mechanical arm from the plate into his mouth; and finally cake for dessert. The machine promises to "eliminate the lunch hour."
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Watford striker Matej Vydra is nominated for the Championship's Player of the Month award for January.
The talented 20-year-old scored six goals last month with three consecutive doubles coming in Watford victories against Middlesborough, Huddersfield and Nottingham Forest.
The Czech striker scored in every league game he started and Gianfranco Zola's men lost the other two matches in which he was a substitute, against Charlton Athletic and Bristol City.
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Williams Names Varnado Acting Commissioner of GSAs Federal Acquisition Service
September 19, 2008
Contact: Michael Collins, (202) 501-1231
WASHINGTON – Acting Administrator James A. Williams today announced Tyree Varnado will assume the role of Acting Commissioner of the U.S. General Services Administration's (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) effective September 21, 2008.
Varnado, Assistant Regional Administrator for FAS in GSA's Greater Southwest Region, will succeed former Acting FAS Commissioner Barnaby L. Brasseux, who was named this week as the GSA's Deputy Administrator, also effective September 21.
"Tyree is well-respected among GSA's employees nationwide. Coming from one of GSA's field offices, Tyree will bring to FAS headquarters a valuable perspective as a regional leader," Williams said. "Tyree brings outstanding experience in delivering services to customers across all FAS business lines."
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As a GSA field executive, Varnado managed the region's FAS operations. These included the Central Fleet Program, Marketing, and Property Management within the Greater Southwest and Rocky Mountain Regions, as well as several significant and unique programs: the Greater Southwest Acquisition Center, the Southwest Supply Center, the Information Technology Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts (GWAC) Center, and the Fleet Payment Processing Center.
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Topic: Please Say A Prayer for Firefighters
A very SAD day for Arizona. 19 Firefighters of an elite group of 20 gave their lives. As they were entering an area where only they had the expertise, (they were called the Green Beret of Firefighters) the wind changed and they got blocked in, used their special fire blocking equipment but never had a chance. All in their 20's. Not a newscaster, not a Firefighter not a Politician has been able to speak without crying. There was a special transport like some kind of morbid parade to take each body to Phoenix to the Medical examiner. It was a 2 hour trip and along the way all cars stopped and people in this torrid heat, got out to show their respect. Others driving all over Phoenix drove with their headlights on. God Bless each and every Firefighter and their families! I always thank Soldiers when I see then I will now add a big thank you when I see a Firefighter.
My 21 yr. old Granddaughter went to Israel 2 years ago and rockets were falling, she returned from S. Africa a month ago where she is pictured cuddling any imaginable animal and went sky diving, also helped remodel an old schoolhouse. Comes home and is now a counselor at a summer camp less than 30 miles from this latest fire near Prescott. Had to come home to see this tragedy? As of late last night there was no containment yet.


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We knew to expect some fireworks when Kevin Fine rode the 2008 Democratic wave into a district-judge seat. After all, being a heavily tattoed former cocaine addict is not the typical way to get to the bench, unless it's as a defendant. The fireworks came this year when Fine declared the state's death-penalty law unconstitutional. "We execute innocent people," he said, simply. His ruling won't have any lasting effect unless pigs begin to fly, but it was still a provocative, challenging move.
While everybody else is jumping on the Westbury bandwagon, you'd be wise to check out Sharpstown, which is less a "hidden" neighborhood than it is one that's undervalued and underrated. Like Westbury, Sharpstown offers spacious, mid-century mod houses on generous lots and is pretty convenient to everything worth going to — in fact, perhaps even more convenient, as Westbury's freeway access is poor. Unlike Westbury, Sharpstown happens also to be a riotous cavalcade of pan-American, pan-African and especially pan-Asian sights, sounds and smells, a far cry from that utterly outdated Baby Boomer-era myth of Sharpstown as a Levittown-style suburb of cookie-cutter houses and whitebread values. That Sharpstown has been dead and buried since about 1985. The neighborhood's single-family homes on the backstreets are still a bargain, and that will only increase as those once-scrubby little trees continue to grow and start throwing some serious shade.
These community newspapers in West University, River Oaks, Memorial and Bellaire are as thoughtful and researched as they are feisty. Bellaire Examiner Editor Charlotte Aguilar keeps things going at a steady pace, making sure these papers provoke discussion as much as they celebrate neighborhood achievements. Reporter Steve Mark stays on top of Houston Independent School District business, and not always in the more comfortable manner that some other media members adopt. This is a group of community papers that remains focused on its readers in both print and online editions, and that not infrequently breaks news that its bigger brethren would love to have.
READERS' CHOICE: Houston Press
As everyone knows — because we've been told so over and over — talk radio from the left side of the political spectrum is boring, earnest and dull. Unless you listen to Partisan Gridlock on KPFT-FM Friday afternoons from 3-4. Host Geoffrey Berg, an attorney, is funny and sharp; he gets good guests (from the right as well as left) and doesn't let them off the hook (again, whether they're from the right or left). Entertaining talk radio from a progressive view? Sure, Air America died, but its spirit burns on here in Houston.
When Texas favorites Rick Perry, Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent showed up for a rally at the Berry Center in Cypress, the crowds followed. Wearing camouflage and hats decorated like American flags, the people listened to The Nuge shred the "Star Spangled Banner" and Palin say things like, "A lot of us in our states proudly cling to our guns and religion." But when a Houston Press photographer snapped a picture of one Perry/Palin supporter, thanks to the Internet, the picture became the symbol of the Houston rally. The supporter, apparently homeschooled, held up an errantly spelled sign: "Homescholers for Perry."
Vanity Fair reporter and Barbarians at the Gate author and native Texan Bryan Burrough was raised on tales of the exploits of the great oil men, and The Big Rich is likely the only book you will ever need on their successes and excesses. While Dallas-Fort Worth barons like the wise Richardsons, the crackpot Hunts and the dissolute Murchisons do occupy a broad swath of the tome's pages, Houston is well represented, with a full accounting of the mighty Cullen family and a swift and punchy (literally) retelling of the rise and fall of pugnacious Glenn McCarthy and his Shamrock Hotel. For Burrough, the demise of the Shamrock was the end of an era that began with the gusher at Spindletop, and never has that age, with all its whiskey-soaked infidelities, rampant anticommunist paranoia, family feuds and sheer myth-creating grandiosity been better captured on the page. Read it and weep, if only because they don't craft icy stares (or philanthropic souls) like Roy Cullen's anymore, nor wildcatters like Glenn McCarthy, who could not only inspire James Dean's character in Giant but also probably drink Donald Draper under the table and steal his best girl to boot. (Not to mention kick his ass.) All that, and now forgotten, once ubiquitous local socialite Baron Ricky DiPortanova and his River Oaks swankienda soirees, too.


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I am currently dual-booted (vista/btr3) to my main machine, which, might I add, I use for my job.
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Lt. Col. (Ret.) Gary Cooke, chairman of National Business Aviation Association's Bird Strike Working Group and FAASTeam member, will discuss how wildlife hazards are an increasing risk to aviation on Wednesday, Dec. 4 at 5:30 p.m. in the Maxwell Library's Lecture Hall, Room 013. His presentation, made possible by the Bridgewater State University Chapter of the Flight Safety Foundation, will cover the threat that exists today and how it is increasing. The lecture will also provide risk mitigation strategies and techniques for all aviation professionals in dealing with bird strike risks. For more information, contact Greg Bongiorno, aviation program manager, at 508.531.2654.


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SO (significant other) yesterday we finally got out of the hospital and we took DS (dear son) to his pediatrician. We were one of the last people seen for the day. The nurse is across the hall and both of our doors are wide open. She is being REALLY loud talking about some personal non sense that's going on in her life, uses the F word (there are still children around!), and then starts asking the other lady if she has seen Michael. Then she proceeds to say "He's one of those babies that are ugly, but cute" I almost lost my shit. If BF's mom wasn't there I would have gone OFF on this monkey looking b**ch. Looking like she got hit by a bus! Still makes me so made! I can't wait to see her again..... And to make things so much better we went to walmart after to drop off DS's prescription. I was waiting in line to the bathroom and some old lady gets in line behind me and starts complaining that she had bladder surgery and has to go. So I let her in front of me. When a stall opened up the lady ahead of her said she could go. But the old lady decides turn around and say "pregnant" should go ahead of her, and said I could go first ... The other lady there said I did NOT look pregnant at least.. yeah yesterday sucked. Apparently I have an "ugly" baby and still look pregnant.
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Mentor nursing home evacuated
(Mentor) – All the residents of a nursing home are safe after a Thursday morning sprinkler pipe leak that forced their evacuation.
The Mentor Fire Department says that about 3:30 a.m. Thursday, the sprinkler pipe leak occurred at Heartland of Mentor, 8200 Mentor Hills Drive. The city dispatched emergency crews, and residents were temporarily moved to unaffected parts of the building.
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2014-15Skated in all 40 games … notched a career-best 14 points on five goals and nine assists … recorded a three-game point streak where he posted four points (1 goal, 3 assists) from Nov. 8-15 … posted three multi-point games … scored a goal and added an assist in a 3-2 win at North Dakota (11/14) … dished out two assists in the Hockey City Classic against Western Michigan (2/7) … scored twice, which included the game-winning goal, at Denver (2/27).
2013-14Played in 37 of 38 games for the RedHawks, totaling three goals and four assists for seven points … placed on the NCHC Academic All-Conference team … recorded his first career multi-goal game with two tallies at Bemidji State (Nov. 29) …set a personal record with a plus/minus rating of +2 twice, once vs. Canisius (Nov. 2) and the other at Bemidji State (Nov. 29) … whistled for eight penalties, all minor infractions for a total of 16 minutes in the box … received Miami's Tom Brown Unsung Hero award.
2012-13Played in 36 games, totaling three goals and four assists for seven points ... his first point came on a goal against Michigan (Oct. 27) ... notched his first career assist at Wisconsin (Jan. 19), which came on a game-winner ... all three of his goals came against Big Ten Hockey Conference teams (Nov. 16 vs. Michigan State and Dec. 15 vs. Ohio State) ... saw first action in the season opener vs. Colgate Oct. 12 ... posted a +3 rating on the year and committed three penalties for six minutes.
Prior to MiamiSuited up for the Youngstown Phantoms of the USHL in 2011-12, playing in 57 regular-season games while tallying 32 points on 13 goals and 19 helpers ... posted a +15 rating during the year as well, which was second on the team ... helped the Phantoms make the playoffs in 2012, scoring three goals and adding two assists in six games ... started 2010-11 with the Indiana Ice, playing in seven games, before moving over to Youngstown, where he handed out seven assists in 34 games while battling an injury ... played in the Eastern Junior Hockey League in 2009-10 for the New Hampshire Jr. Monarchs and led them to the league title ... totaled 61 points on 33 goals and 28 assists in just 40 regular-season games while he potted three goals in four playoff games with New Hampshire ... was a finalist for EJHL Rookie of the Year ... earned academic honors in high school at Ursuline School.
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COLUMBIA, Ky. -- If experience is the most valuable thing
someone has to offer, then the more than 460 freshmen preparing to
move Saturday in to Lindsey Wilson College residence halls might
want to heed the words more than 30 current LWC students, staff
members and alumni.
The students, staff members and alumni replied to the
recent post on Twitter on Facebook: "Question for LWC alumni &
current students: what items should no LWC freshman leave home
without? #OpeningWeekLWC"
Responses included: the practical (change for the campus
laundry machines); the unusual (a couch to haul to Walter S.
Reuling Stadium for one of the soccer teams' couch nights); and the
spiritual (hugs from a family member).
On Twitter, @grilledcheese4u posted: "Mini
fridge and A LOT of quarters. #OpeningWeekLWC"
Former LWC Sports Information intern @NelsonPouliot added on
Twitter: "Don't forget to bring a couch for the annual #CouchNight
soccer game!"
Patience and the right tools are also important,
according to @Lilred_85: "Bring a hammer
and screwdriver, scissors, keep track of your ID, and patience is
But don't overlook comfort items and talismans from home,
posted @thatgrl_LO: "No freshman
should leave without their favorite stuffed animal."
Here's a sample of some of the advice posted on the LWC Facebook page:
* Tammy Wright: A scale to keep up with
that freshman fifteen from all the good food at the dining
* John Brown: Device with a reliable alarm.
* Allen Prigge: A hearty appetite for
biscuits and gravy
* Cherise Mingus: Clorox cleaning wipes.
Those suckers are life-savers for cleaning in a hurry!
* Dustin Harris: Ping pong paddle.
* Allen Prigge: Tennis racket.
* Jared Radford: All you need are
clothes and bed stuff. Anything else is just extra.
* Lindsay Sharp: Notecards and plenty of
* Sarah Smith: An egg crate or memory
foam mattress pad.
* Alison Hayes: Something to cover the
mattress, like a mattress pad! Your back will thank you!
* Tiffany Calender: Day planner
* Haley Burton: An umbrella and rain
boots for the ladies!
* Charlie Gibson: Flip flops.
* Mandy Cote McElwee: Hugs from their
* Roger Todd DeWilde: Bible underwear,
and a quarter.
* Matt Bridges: A bike and an open
Officially, LWC residence halls open at 9 a.m. CT
Saturday, Aug. 17. The fall semester begins Aug. 19, and Aug. 21 is
the first day of classes for undergraduate students on the A.P.
White Campus.
More …
Click here for FAQs about LWC residence life --
including what is allowed in residence halls.
Click here for more information about Opening
Click here to go to the LWC Facebook page.
(And "like" it while you're there.)
here to go to the LWC Twitter page. (And "follow" it while
you're there. If you tweet a suggestion, use #OpeningWeekLWC.)


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LONG BEACH — The Long Beach Fire Department will take a Belmont Shore fire engine out of service next month to meet budget constraints, according to a memorandum from Fire Chief Mike DuRee made public Monday.
Station 8, 5365 E. 2 nd St., will lose its engine company Jan. 2.
Response times on the west end of the Station 8 district - defined as around Ocean Boulevard and Livingston Drive - could increase by 10 to 30 seconds, DuRee told the Press-Telegram.
The LBFD has cut more than $10 million from its operations in the last five years, including four fire engines, a fire truck and an ambulance.
DuRee emphasized that removing a fifth engine to save another $2 million would not have been considered in a better fiscal environment.
"I don't want to minimize that, but this is going to have the least impact on the system," DuRee said.
Shuttering the engine will have a minimal effect on response times in the district's southeast area, around Naples Island, Alamitos Bay and Second Street and Pacific Coast Highway, according to DuRee.
Station 8 won't close under the plan announced Monday. A paramedic rescue ambulance will be relocated there from Station 14 near Colorado Lagoon.
The Department will also split the "Light Force," a fire truck and fire engine temporarily operating at Station 14, by moving the fire truck to Station 17, by Stearns Park.
Fire officials had intended to remove a fire engine from service on Oct. 1, the start of the fiscal year, under budget cuts approved by the council.
The decision was delayed when the department's response-modeling software suggested choosing from several West Long Beach stations, DuRee revealed.
The effects of the closure would have caused surrounding engine companies to experience rises in call volumes from 3,000 to 4,500 per year to almost 6,000 calls a year, DuRee said.
Rex Pritchard, president of Long Beach Firefighters Local 372, commended DuRee for an "efficient" reallocation of resources in a difficult situation.
However, he said the continuing budget cuts have had a dramatic impact on firefighters' ability to provide public safety to citizens.
"Everyone just kind of understands there's a lesser level of service with it," Pritchard said.
Third District City Councilman Gary DeLong, who represents Belmont Shore, didn't return phone calls seeking comment Monday.
Fourth District Councilman Patrick O'Donnell, who is strongly supported by the city's public safety unions, reserved judgment Monday until he had been briefed on the forthcoming changes.
O'Donnell called the cuts made to public safety "the toughest decisions I've had to make in my 8 1/2 years on City Council."
Long Beach has adopted a proportionate-share budgeting approach in recent years, in which a department lowers spending by a figure aligned with its share of the general fund.
That means public safety, accounting for 68 percent of Long Beach's daily expenses, take the largest hit.
The council passed a $396.8 million budget in September that contained $12.9 million in reductions to public safety, libraries, parks and other departments.
Multi-million dollar budget deficits are forecast for the city in 2014 and 2015.
On Tuesday the council's Public Safety Committee is scheduled to meet at 4 p.m. in City Hall to hear, among other things, a year-end report on fire safety from the Fire Department.
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Elemental materials are at play in this gut renovation of a 1,200-square-foot loft in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood—the now-trendy former warehouse and light-industrial district. Local firm LineOffice Architecture designed a sculptural "spine" to create separate domestic zones for living, dining, cooking, and sleeping in the open-plan space. This low-slung divider houses storage behind walnut veneer panels with blackened steel accents and is two-sided, with general storage near the front door and dresser space in the slightly raised bedroom hung off the same structure. The bathroom and laundry areas are enclosed within a plaster-walled volume, punctuated by steel and walnut doors, near the loft entry. "It's impeccable," juror Cary Bernstein said. "It's well edited and really well executed." The two sculptural interventions complement the exposed timbers and industrial aesthetic of the space without disrupting view lines. "The additions are just enough, but not too much," juror Gregory Hoss said. "It's very difficult to do that."
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Project Credits
Project San Francisco Loft, San Francisco
Architect LineOffice Architecture, San Francisco—Ross Hummel, AIA
Photography Joe Fletcher
Project Size 1,200 square feet
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Capitalism is often deeply intertwined with the American's idea of patriotism and Christianity, and for good reason. Capitalism, like the Christian life, encourages discipline. As seen through America's rise as an economic super power over the past century, capitalism can give a man with a good work ethic the opportunity to move from rags to riches, achieving the American dream of full life, liberty, and happiness. In recent years, however, more Christians have questioned the negative affects of capitalism on humanity and whether American Christians should accept all capitalistic ideas as part of their worldview.
Like Victoria Van Vlear, who recently posted an article on Evangelical Outpost called Why You Should Listen to Communists, I believe we can learn more about capitalism and its limitations by studying the economic system that juxtaposes it: communism. Unlike Victoria, however, I am not surprised that communism's founder, Karl Marx, was able to revolutionize entire countries with his theory. Marx was eccentric, yes. And there is no denying that communism has been used to oppress people in horrific ways. Yet Marx's ideas point out some serious flaws in capitalism, flaws that we American Christians cannot ignore if we are to be responsible stewards of our possessions and love others well.
Therefore, I'd like to take a Marxist perspective on some of the harmful effects of capitalism. The problems capitalism creates, though different than those of socialism, can still be severe and debilitating. Capitalism creates vast wealth but also immense poverty. It provides jobs and products for consumption, but it also promotes alienation, overconsumption, and exploitation. Capitalism has brought us wealth, but this wealth might come at too great a price.
– Let's begin with alienation. Marx tells us that capitalism alienates us from the purpose of our labor, because in a capitalistic society the worker ceases to labor out of his or her own will and volition and begins to labor to meet another person's goal. In other words, most of us are working for The Man. According to Marx's essay Alienated Labor, man differs from the animal inasmuch as he "makes his vital activity itself into an object of his will and consciousness." Man creates through conscious, vital activity. As beings created in the image of the Creator, an essential part of our being must be to create and labor to bring our ideas into reality. In a capitalist society, however, we waive our right to labor for our own purposes, trading our labor for wages in order to fulfill the desires of another human being. In Alienated Labor, Marx goes on to argue that the result of this is "man (the worker) only feels himself freely active in his animal functions…and feels himself an animal in his human functions." In other words, when we sell our labor instead of experiencing the fruits of it ourselves, we can feel enslaved. Work can become the thing we do just to make money rather than a sacred opportunity to exercise our image-bearing quality of creativity. As a result of this shift in our understanding of labor, work becomes the place where we feel least human and least fulfilled, which entirely contradicts the intrinsic nature of labor as an expression of our purpose and humanness. In a capitalist society, our labor is only as valuable as the wage we are receiving. In a perfect society, however, our labor would do more to enhance human dignity: we would see the whole fruits of our labor rather than paper money equivalent to our labor.
– Next comes overconsumption, which is partially a result of alienation from labor. Because his work makes him feel like an animal, man looks to physical pleasure to help him feel more human. It is for this reason that Americans live for the weekend: we have sold our entire week to someone else, working in someone else's office for someone else's purpose, so that on the weekend (the only time that wholly belongs to us) we can live in excess for the final and exclusive end of experiencing pleasure and fulfillment. As man grasps at appetitive pleasures in search of purpose, capitalist society continuously uses advertising and stereotypes about economic status to suggest that consuming makes him more human. Capitalism encourages consumption to a fault: industry purposely engineers dispensable things, and the things industry creates still don't fulfill the majority of humanity's basic needs. A trip to a majority world country like Swaziland brings the realization that a number of people have cell phones that will break in three years but come from a village that still has no access to clean water. While many go without food, there are thousands of cars in dealerships all over our own country with no one to buy them. Instead of focusing on improving the health of humanity, capitalism has led to an excess of material things falsely deemed necessary and ignored true necessities.
– Finally, capitalism allows for the fulfillment of the purposes of some at the expense and exploitation of the majority. As we grow alienated from our labor and our humanness, we become alienated from one another. As demonstrated in the documentary The Corporation, virtually every corporation in the United States outsources labor from parts of the world where protection for workers simply does not exist. CEOs like Phil Knight of Nike Inc., have, in the past, completely ignored the conditions in their factories because their factories exist halfway around the world.* Few have ever actually visited their factories to see the working conditions, allowing the CEO's primary focus to be monetary gain rather than concern for the human condition. Capitalist society is structured in such a way that exploitation becomes a necessary evil in order to create competition, and the capitalist can even exploit without coming face to face with the consequences of his actions. In this way, capitalism damages the morality of the capitalist.
I am not positing that communism represents an adequate solution for or response to the problems created by capitalism. I am positing, however, that Marx predicted the negative effects of capitalism that we are experiencing today, and that makes him worth listening to. I never would have been able to identify these problems if I hadn't read Marx. We ought to listen to communists, and not just to compose better arguments against their ideology. We ought to listen to communists because they can help us see the problems with our system and work with us to respond to these problems in ways that improve the quality of life for the worker.
Realizing some of the flaws of capitalism helps us remember that the American Christian is not inherently a capitalist. To be a rich Christian (and that includes us—most American Christians are rich compared to the majority of the world) amidst poverty and hunger is to contradict the main focus of the Christian faith: human reconciliation and flourishing and the advancement of God's kingdom. You might believe that the pros of capitalism outweigh the cons, but Christians, at least, should think hard about what it means to subscribe to any system that does not promote human flourishing for all.
*Nike has, as of late, improved their social responsibility. For details, click here.


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Hello, Columbus
Yes, I know LinuxCon has come and gone, and I think they've got the publicity thing covered, especially with the 20-year thing, the gala party, and with Linus being there and all. The buzz is still going, and that's good. But if you're going to a Linux show, make it the Ohio LinuxFest in September. Bradley Kuhn and Cathy Malmrose are keynoting, so you'll not want to miss that (especially Cathy — Go ZaReason!) Oh, look! It's a blog item having to do with OLF below.
With the Utah Open Source Conference off the table this fall — rumor has it is coming back as a spring event starting in 2012 — one of the last chances to get in a Linux conference in 2011 is to head to Columbus, Ohio, next weekend for the Ohio Linux Fest.
Ohio Linux Fest runs from Sept. 9-11 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in downtown Columbus. For the ninth time in as many years, OLF opens its doors again for Open Software professionals, enthusiasts, and everyone interested in learning more about Free and Open Source Software.
That, I hope, includes you.
OLF has three outstanding keynoters this year: Bradley Kuhn, a free software advocate with portfolio, is director of the Software Freedom Conservancy. Cathy Malmrose is a cofounder and CEO of ZaReason, an optimized-for-Linux computer company. Cathy also is a founder of Partimus, an organization which supports computers in education by setting up and maintaining Linux-based computer labs in San Francisco Bay Area schools. Last, and certainly not least, is Jon "maddog" Hall, who of course needs little introduction, but for the record he is the executive director of Linux International, an association of computer users who wish to support and promote the Linux operating system (which accompanies a resume of digital accomplishments too extensive to go into here).
Friday features sessions, an all-day Medical track focusing on the use of Linux and open source software in the health care field, and an all-day Ubucon presented by the Ubuntu project. The day closes with maddog's keynote.
Saturday opens with Cathy's keynote followed by a full slate of talks on four different tracks and company demonstrations on the Open Source Solutions Stage. A talk by Bradley will focus on the issues of freedom with software as a service (SaaS). And maddog wraps up Saturday's talks with a look forward 20 years to free software in the year 2031 before music by Dual Core ends the day.
On Sunday, sharpen your No. 2 pencils: The Linux Professional Institute will host exams, and the Diversity in Open Source workshop takes place on Sunday as well.
Were I to go to this event, naturally I'd catch all the keynotes — especially Cathy Malmrose's — and this would be my so-called Linux expo "dance card" for the weekend:
On Friday, Three must-see talks would be Mark Terranova's presentation on "So What Kind of Cult is Linux, Anyway?" — and wondering aloud whether Mark's going to dress up in the penguin suit — and follow it up with Edward Cherlin's "Linux for All" before going to Ruth Suehle's "Off Your Linux Machine and Into Your Doctor's Office."
After some stiff coffee Saturday morning, I'd make a point to go to Mel Chua's "Level-up with Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: turn your life into a data-driven video game with FOSS" (and anyone who can say that in one breath wins), followed Karlie Robinson's "The Business of Linux – How Individuals Can Get in the Game," and later in the afternoon I'd catch Paul Frields' "Graduating to GUI: PyGObject for Beginners."
On Sunday, I would take the LPI exam — I should have taken it at SCALE but I was so swamped with double duty in the Fedora booth and in the SCALE front office (I'm co-chair of publicity) that I didn't have time to put pencil to paper. Next year, count on it.
If you live within driving distance of Columbus — and my definition of driving distance means if you can drive there in a day — you should attend this event. Of course, you can fly there as well if you live further, but get there to be at what has become Linux's must-attend fall event.
This blog, and all other blogs by Larry the Free Software Guy and Larry Cafiero, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND license. In short, this license allows others to download this work and share it with others as long as they credit me as the author, but others can't change it in any way or use it commercially.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software in his new home office. Watch this space.)
August 29, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Send the Colonel to Ohio.
The well trained and courageous Colonel Panik will cover
the Ohio Linux Fest in your honor.
$500 will do it! If 2,000 of you each send $0.50 it will cover
enough of the shipping and handling that Colonel Panik can
get to the OLF and hit all the bases. Even pictures of Mark
Terranova will be posted here or sent to your email.
Send the Colonel to Ohio
Peace, Bob
September 2, 2011 at 8:03 am
We are also having a Fedora Docs Activity Day at the Drury Hotel on Sunday. If you are going to be around come in and help make Fedora Docs great!


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Greg and Sim Hankerson's business, Vintage Industrial, expanded from their backyard to a 6,000 square-foot warehouse in less than one year.
After surviving a brain tumor, Greg Hankerson realized success in life and business is about doing something you love. He was previously the chief financial officer of his family's investment banking firm and decided to search for something more rewarding.
"I just realized how precious life was and that I really needed to do something that I love because I may not be here tomorrow," Greg Hankerson says. "And that involves taking risks, and this has been the greatest risk of my life."
But the risk, co-owning a new business — Vintage Industrial, which offers custom vintage furniture — with his wife Sim, quickly paid off. In less than one year, Greg and Sim expanded their business from their backyard to a 6,000-square-foot warehouse.
Their work, which can be found in residential homes and commercial venues, is inspired by the French Industrial Era, and the furniture is usually composed of steel and wood with a decorative twist. Greg Hankerson says he can create almost anything that's needed in that style, from various types of tables in residential homes to retail fixtures and hostess stands.
"A lot of industrial furniture is really cold, but the French seem to add a little beauty to it," Greg Hankerson says. "They add curves that softens it up, and people seem to gravitate towards it."
Part of what's rewarding to him is creating American-made furniture that will last. He said that he thinks America is taking the cheap route by having everything imported and having nothing to show for it.
"I found pieces that were built over 100 years ago, and they're still just as good as the day they built them," Greg Hankerson says. "They're lasting; people are reselling them or giving them to their kids. I think that's awesome rather than something that's just going to break in a year."
Greg has had many offers to manufacture outside of the country for pennies-on-the-dollar, but he says that's not what he's about – even if it means he makes more money.
"I really love American manufacturing," Greg Hankerson says. "It's giving us jobs, and I'm doing something that I believe in. That makes me feel good."
Customers also have a hand in the finished product because most of their work is custom. Sim Hankerson says she respects the fact that people like to have some artistic control over the product they are buying.
"I'm sure a lot of people, especially women, go shopping and are like, 'Oh, I wish it was like this or I wish it was that," Sim Hankerson says. "We bring their wish into reality."
The Hankerson's credit their success to their passion and personal involvement in the company.
"We have so many hats," Sim Hankerson says. "Whatever gaps need to be filled, we fill them, whether it's in our positions or any of the guys'. We are owners who are not afraid to get our hands dirty."
She says working with her life partner has also contributed to their success.
"We lift one another up when one is down and fill gaps not only for our employees but emotionally for ourselves as well."
"It's really, really nice to have a partner that you trust and that you know is there for you," she adds. "Someone to be a great cheerleader and cheer you on to succeed."
Greg Hankerson says the challenge now is trying to expand and keep the quality up as well. He says it seems that when companies get large, the quality tends to go down, and he has made a point to avoid that pitfall.
"We have made so much more product, and it's difficult to keep the quality up and still put out the quantity," Greg says. "But we are working hard at it and I think we are doing a pretty good job."


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Holiday Lights as Wreath
Ring in the season with a brilliant mantelpiece. Start with a wire wreath frame (this one is 18 inches in diameter, but you can use any size). Then wrap a string of lights around the frame, making sure to leave enough slack to reach the plug; otherwise use an extension cord.


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The Westin Kierland Golf Club
Only at The Westin Kierland Golf Club can a golfer – the novice to the experienced – enjoy innovative amenities and experiences such as Segway transportation, Fore-MAX golf training, climate-controlled golfing and Scottish-themed golf.
Practice facility hours of operation vary seasonally.
The practice facility fee is $20 plus tax.
Guests are welcome to use the putting and chipping greens free of charge.
Book your tee time online or contact The Westin Kierland Golf Club at:
(480) 922-9283.
The Westin Kierland Golf Club
15636 Clubgate Drive
Scottsdale, AZ 85254
The Segway's gyroscopes, tilt sensors, high-speed microprocessors and powerful electric motors keep it balanced using technology called dynamic stabilization. With their low impact on fairways and greens, Segways help keep the course pristine and beautiful. Play delays on full tee-sheet days are also minimized. Plus, Segways are much quieter than traditional golf carts and run on emission-free battery power.
The Westin Kierland Golf Club custom designed the Segway GT to hold scorecards, tees, golf balls and drinks, and the two-wheeled devices are offered to guests as an upgrade to Golf Club's air-conditioned golf cart. Segway can be reserved for use when booking tee times.
Award-winning golf instructor Mike LaBauve worked with the Resort Fitness Director Steve Heller to create a program that blends the best of exercise physiology with top golf instruction. The result is a personalized workout program that is virtually guaranteed to increase driving distance and stamina on the course.
- How it works – for the golfer: After identifying a golfer's strengths and weaknesses in swing, short game, driving and general fitness, the trainers develop a well-rounded regimen which combines cardio, flexibility, strength and nutrition. Trainers then monitor progress and adjusting the program as necessary.
- How it works – for the non-golfer: Fitness Director Steve Heller creates a personalized workout regimen and guides guests through a custom workout to fit the guest's overall fitness needs and goals.
For more information on FORE-MAX or to schedule a session, contact Steve Heller at (480) 624-1500.
The climate-controlled experience continues with mister-cooled golf carts. The patented system directs cool air onto the guests and reduces the all-around temperature inside the cart.
Book your Scottish Golf tee time and reserve your kilt! Advanced reservations required.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Jackie Chan says his mission is complete.
Chan wrote, directed and stars in "Chinese Zodiac," an action comedy which centers on a team attempting to steal some of the 12 bronze statues looted from a Chinese palace in 1860.
Since the movie was released in China last year, two of the real statues were returned to China by Francois Pinault, head of Gucci's parent company.
The 59-year-old Hong Kong star praised their return, saying he hopes all such looted artifacts can be returned from Western museums.
Chan says he isn't quitting anytime soon. He completed filming on another installment in his "Police Story" franchise and is discussing another movie alongside "Rush Hour" co-star Chris Tucker. He said scheduling conflicts prevented him from joining Sylvester Stallone's "Expendables 3" ensemble.


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Itaka Hostel
Young Hostel welcoming the international crowd. Located at easy walking distance from the city center on a lively, tree lined avenue crowded with outdoor bars and pubs at night, yet with a calm backyard and a chilled out atmosphere.
Directions Ítaka Hostel, Arístides Villanueva 480, Mendoza, 5500, Argentina.
This Hostel is located in Aristides Villanueva Street, which is full of bars and pubs, that all the mendocinian people chose for fun and go out with friends. A few blocks from the city and the " Parque General San Martìn ". Transportation Bus, Taxi and Remis
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Hostel Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Reception
- 24 Hour Security
- Age Restriction
- Air Conditioning
- Bar
- Bicycle hire
- Cable TV
- Card Phones
- Common Room
- Credit Cards Not Accepted
- Free City Maps
- Free Internet Access
- Free WiFi
- Internet Access
- Self-Catering Facilities
- Linen Included
- Meals Available
- No Curfew
- Outdoor Swimming Pool
- Outdoor Terrace
- Pool Table
- Restaurant
- Swimming Pool
- Taxes included
- Tours/Travel Desk
- Towels For Hire
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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Getting there:From the airport you can take a taxi or Remis for about $ 70 Argentine pesos.From the Bus Terminal you can take a taxi or Remis for $ 25 Argentine pesos. Another option is to get here by bus: you have to take Bus number 5 intern 72 (the light green one with dark green details) on Rioja St. The cost of the ticket is $ 2.50 (coin) and leaves you at the door of the Hostel. If you want you can walk, WE DO NOT RECCOMEND IT because it's a long distance to walk carrying a heavy backpack!If you want to do it anyway, you have to take Leandro N. Alem Avenue unitl you reach San Martin Avenue, take a left and walk two blocks until you get to Colon Avenue. From ther,e you just continue right on Colon Avenue, and when it changes its name to Aristides Villanueva find the hostel on the fourth block on the left side. By car: you have to enter to the city through Jos V. Zapata Avenue, that you can take from Acceso Este (National Route 7) and also from the Costanera Avenue (National Route 40), followed right by Vicente Zapata Avenue. If you head west, when crossing Saint Martin Avenue Vicente Zapata Avenue changes its name to Colon and then changes again to Aristides Villanueva Avenue when crossing Avenida Belgrano. Continue straight ahead until you reach number 480.
Located Near
Park 'General San Martïÿýn '
Restaurants, Pubs and Bars
Ski Center 'Penitentes'
Hot Springs 'Spa Cacheuta'
Several activities (rafting, paragliding, mountain biking, canopy, etc.).


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The Federal Aviation Administration decided Friday to delay until June 15 the closure of 149 federal contract airport control towers including those in Ogden and Provo. Managers at those Utah airports hope the delay could lead federal officials to reconsider and save their towers.
Closures at 24 of the airports had been scheduled for this Sunday, with others following over coming weeks. The towers in Provo and Ogden had been scheduled to close on May 5. The closures were designed to help the FAA make $637 million in budget cuts ordered under sequestration.
The FAA said the delay will give it time to attempt to resolve several legal challenges to the closures, and time to help ensure a safe transition.
"This has been a complex process and we need to get this right," said U.S. Transportation Ray LaHood. "Safety is our top priority. We will use this additional time to make sure communities and pilots understand the changes at their local airports."
Provo airport manager Steve Gleason welcomed the delay.
"I'm relieved that they are going to take a closer look at it. I hope they will give us the opportunity to make all of the arguments of why the tower should be left open and not just the specific arguments they want to hear."
Ogden-Hinckely Airport Manager Royal Eccles also was happy to hear of the decision.
"It gives us more time also to present our case in a better way." He said his facility affects national security "because we are so close to Hill Air Force Base," and the base "is pattern flying directly over the top of our airport, separated by 500 feet. It's imperative that we keep the tower."
Eccles said Ogden is joining a lawsuit filed by several other airports with towers planned for closure. Gleason said Provo is considering joining and also is considering several other options to try to keep the tower open, including reviewing whether it can come up with money itself to pay for its operation.
The FAA is encouraging airport authorities to fund tower operations themselves, and said Friday that about 50 are considering it. The agency said the delay could help facilitate transition to self-funding.
Gleason said the FAA should reconsider the closures.
"I don't think they were taking into account the national safety hazards that would occur because of all the frequency changes, and having to reprint all of the charts and books not to mention that some airports are really busy and it makes it tough for the traffic to get in and out without a tower," Gleason said.
Eccles agreed saying, "They need to do what they require all of us to do, and that's ... to see what's safe and what's not safe. I think it was too quick." He encourages Utahns to call members of Congress to urge them to support a bill expected to be introduced in the Senate next week that would ban the FAA from closing any towers.
The FAA said it is willing to work with airport and community officials.
"We will continue outreach to the user community to answer any questions and address their concerns about these tower closures," FAA Adminstrator Michael Huerta said.


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Ars Lyrica Houston to Present HEART AND SOUL German Baroque Program with Ryland Angel, 2/3
Grammy-nominated early music ensemble Ars Lyrica Houston presents "Heart and Soul", a program of devotional works from the German Baroque for voice, strings, and organ on Sunday, February 3, 2013 at 6 pm at St Philip Presbyterian Church. The concert features renowned British counter-tenor Ryland Angel, Ars Lyrica Artistic Director Matthew Dirst on the newly installed Baroque-style Fritts organ, and a quintet of Ars Lyrica string players. Tickets are available at the door for $15.
"It's a program that explores the richly expressive repertory of 17th-century German sacred music for voice and instruments. This was the first great flowering of art music in the Protestant church: sophisticated yet heartfelt music that encapsulates the joys and sorrows of the early modern age."- Artistic Director Matthew Dirst describes the repertoire.
The "Heart and Soul" program will be recorded and published in 2013: this will be the fourth commercial release for the Houston- based early music ensemble in the last three years. Previous Ars Lyrica recordings garnered considerable international acclaim: Gramophone, the leading journal of the classical recording industry, praised Ars Lyrica's debut CD for its "exemplary skill and taste," the ensemble's musicians for their "impassioned performance" of never-before recorded works by Alessandro Scarlatti; while Ars Lyrica's world première recording of Johann Adolf Hasse's Marc Antonio e Cleopatra, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Opera 2011.
On Saturday, February 16 at 6pm, Ars Lyrica will hold a benefit concert and dinner at a private River Oaks residence. The event, entitled "Songs from the Heart", will feature Ryland Angel in Baroque and crossover repertoire and will help underwrite the production of this new recording project. For more information and reservations please call Kinga Ferguson at 281-636-4951.
About the "Heart and Soul" Program
Vocal works:
Christoph Bernhard, "Was betrubst du dich, meine Seele"
Heinrich Schütz, "Was hast du verwirket"
Philipp Erlebach, "Trocknet euch ihr heißen Zähren"
Johann Michael Bach, "Auf, laßt uns den Herren loben"
Instrumental works:
Dietrich Buxtehude: selections from the Sonatas Op 1 & 2
Samuel Scheidt: Chorale Partita on "Warum betrübst du dich, meine Seele" (organ)
Founded in 1998 by harpsichordist and conductor Matthew Dirst, Ars Lyrica Houston is a Texas-based ensemble that performs world-class Baroque music on period instruments. Ars Lyrica's world premiere recording of J.A. Hasse's Marc Antonio e Cleopatra brought the ensemble its first Grammy nomination for "a thrilling performance that glows in its quieter moments and sparkles with vitality" (Early Music America). Ars Lyrica's distinctive programming, drawn from the rich chamber and dramatic repertories of the 17th and 18th centuries, "sets the agenda for imaginative period instrument programming in Houston," according to the Houston Chronicle. The ensemble's first commercial release, on Naxos International, features the world première recordings of Alessandro Scarlatti's La Concettione della Beata Vergine and Euridice dall'Inferno. This disc brought international recognition to the ensemble: Gramophone, the leading journal of the classical recording industry, praised this CD for its "exemplary skill and taste," and Ars Lyrica's musicians for their "impassioned performance" of never-before recorded works. Ars Lyrica's latest Sono Luminus recording, of Domenico Scarlatti's comic intermezzo La Dirindina and his chamber cantata Pur nel sonno, was released in August 2012. For more information visit www.arslyricahouston.org.
Born on St. Cecilia's Day, Ryland Angel was a chorister at Bristol Cathedral and a lay-clerk at Chester Cathedral. He trained as a lawyer before deciding to pursue a professional career as a singer in 1991 when he started studying with David Mason. Since then, Mr. Angel has received a Grammy nomination He has performed with William Christie, Rene Jacobs, Ivor Bolton, Roy Goodman, Christophe Rousset, Philippe Herreweghe, Christophe Coin, Gabriel Garrido, Cantus Köln, Le Concert Spirituel, Le Parlement de Musique, the Ensemble of Early Music of New York and Ensemble La Fenice. This season he looks forward to performing with the National Chorale in the Handel Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall. Mr. Angel has a new CD with Rick Errickson and the Bach Players of New York City of Buxtehude Cantatas about to be released and is featured on the Grammy Nominated Bobby McFerrin "Vocabularies" (Universal) album. This season Mr. Angel performs in Charpentier's The Prodigal Son with Musica Sacra at Avery Fisher Hall in New York's Lincoln Center.
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On the Shelf
Witchcraft Then and Now, and Other NewsBy Dan Piepenbring
- Profiling William T. Vollmann: "Although Vollmann these days sports the punctilious mustache of a maître d', he still resembles the baby-faced boy wonder readers first encountered in his shocking late '80s author photo, in which he affectlessly held a pistol to his own head … Along with the Internet and e-mail, Vollmann also foregoes cell phones, credit-card use, checking accounts, and driving."
- On David Mitchell's Twitter story, "The Right Sort": "The effect of reading was not feelings of disjunction and separation but rather one of surprising connection, a sense of disappearing into the scroll and the vortex of the story."
- From the Guardian, July 24, 1844: "a most lamentable difference exists between the witchcraft of modern romance and the witchcraft of ancient superstition."
- "Is there any consistent relationship between a book's quality and its sales? Or again between the press and critics' response to a work and its sales? … As of a few days ago UK sales of all three volumes of Knausgaard work in hardback and paperback had barely topped 22,000 copies … In the US, which has a much larger market, that figure— total sales of all three volumes (minus e-books)—stood at about 32,000."
- "As Amazon gains market share, we can no longer abide its self-proclaimed conceit that unfettered growth is invariably in the consumers' interest … Amazon ought no longer to be permitted to behave like a parasite that hollows out its host. A serious Justice Department investigation is past due."


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By almost any account, Melanie Washington should be a bitter, angry woman.
She was raped when she was a young girl. At age 10, she witnessed the murders of her mother and sister by her stepfather. She says when he turned to her, his gun jammed and she escaped with her life.
After graduating from high school, she married an abusive man who later was killed by a gang member. But that wasn't the end of tragic events in Melanie's life.
In 1995, Dee, 19, one of Melanie's three sons, was shot and killed by Donte Carothers, a gang member her son had befriended and was trying to mentor.
All of this violence sent Melanie into a downward spiral.
"I hated life," she told me. "I had been weaned on blame. Since childhood, I had experienced so much pain and suffering that the only thing I knew was to point a finger at myself."
She hit rock bottom and tried to commit suicide but failed. With the help of God and others, she started pulling herself out of the depths and did the unthinkable. She went to the prison where her son's killer was. Not only did she meet with him, she befriended him and continues to this day to correspond with him.
In 1999 she formed Mentoring: A Touch From Above, a Long Beach-based nonprofit organization to provide mentoring and other services for young people incarcerated in the California Youth Authority system and juvenile detention centers like Los Padrinos in Downey.
I recently went with Melanie on one of her visits to youths at Los Padrinos. It was an eye-opening experience.
Los Padrinos opened in 1957 as the second-oldest juvenile detention facility in Los Angeles County. Youths are housed there while awaiting court action or transfer to another probation facility such as juvenile camp or a commitment at the California Youth Authority.
Melanie likes going to Los Padrinos because she feels she can have more influence on these young people before they get into deeper trouble.
We entered a room with about 20 young men watching TV. With no fanfare, Melanie introduces herself and starts talking.
"You don't belong in this place. You're young men. You were doing it your own way, but you can do better with your lives."
She doesn't pull any punches.
"You're going to have to learn to live in the world with other people. If you don't straighten out, your next trip will be to the penitentiary," she tells them.
At this point, I sense the young men are not fully listening to Melanie. Melanie has been through this many times with other young men and, almost as if she's reading their minds, she responds: "About this time, you're probably wondering who is this crazy woman. She seems like she wants to help us, but what does she know?"
Melanie then tells them about the tragedies in her life. That gets their attention.
"You need a plan to get out of here," she says. "Do you have a plan?"
A youth raises his hand and says he wants to get into politics.
"Do you want to be president?" Melanie asks.
Young man: "Oh, no."
"Why not?" Melanie responds. "Don't let anybody hold you back. You can do anything you set your mind to if you work hard enough."
She continues: "You have to learn to forgive yourself. Get rid of your anger and bitterness. Forgive your parents. Forgive your enemies. I had to forgive the boy who killed my boy and shot his face off. I asked him why he shot my boy and he said he got tired of my son telling him to go to school. I'll never get over the loss of my son, but I had to forgive that boy. He's 32 now and he'll die in prison. You don't want that happening to you. I'm doing this for my son. God is allowing me to do that."
Melanie then tells the youths that she is writing a book, "Standing in the Midst of a Storm."
"We all go through storms, and it never ends, but we must face them," she says. She asks the youths to stand. She says she's going to ask them a question to which they should respond, "Standing."
"How are you doing?" she asks.
"Standing," the youths reply softly.
"Are you tired? You're young men. I asked you how are you doing?" Melanie says.
"STANDING!" the youths shout in loud unison.
"That's better. You did good," Melanie says to the beaming boys, proud that they have pleased this woman whose name they didn't even know one hour before.
Melanie finishes her session with a prayer and a soft, "I love you."
Will this turn their young lives around? Melanie hopes it helps.
Supporters such as attorney Skip Keesal know it will. He received the Humanitarian Award at MATFA's annual dinner last week.
"Melanie is doing something really good. I can't imagine a better mission in life, especially with all the difficulties and pain she has encountered," Keesal said.
Melanie adds: "A lot of people say there is no hope for youth these days. I want to prove them wrong."
If you want to help Melanie as a volunteer or donate to MATFA, you can call her at 562-490-2402.
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LISTEN: Ariana Grande releases 'Boyfriend Material' as a thanks to fans
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Grande's new single, featuring Iggy Azalea, "Problem," is a smash hit. It claimed the No. 3 spot on the US Billboard Hot 100s and sold over 438,000+ copies in its first week. Her debut album Yours Truly includes hits like "The Way," and "Right There." Fans absolutely loved "Boyfriend Material," however it didn't make the cut. While, she's already working on her second studio album, she wants to share some of her oldies.
Here's a message from Grande to her fans:
A little surprise for my loves, as a thank you for all of your constant love, support and dedication. I know how much y'all love this song, and how disappointed you were when it didn't make it on to my first album, so I knew I had to get it to you, somehow, someday. This song means a lot to me and holds such a special place in my heart, as it was one of the first songs I did when I started working on Yours Truly when I was like 17. Don't worry, you'll get more of these oldies too as time goes on! I'm working on it for you. Love you all so much. You are everything. Love you.
Aww Ari! She's such a doll! That's not all the superstar shared, she also said that the "Problem" music video may be due next week.
As for the song, it's awesome.. Not sure what we love more, "Problem" or "Boyfriend Material." But what we do know is, we're excited for the ZEDD and Justin Bieber collaboration, she has in the works. Take a listen to "Boyfriend Material," below.
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