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"This is really a love story, an affair betwixt a town and a team. A town that waited and waited for what seemed like an Impossible Dream."
These words, the opening words of an album produced by the now defunct WHDH-AM and uttered by long time Red Sox announcer Ken Coleman are perhaps the best summation of the 1967 Boston Red Sox season. As a historian of the Red Sox and diehard fan, the 1967 season is perhaps my favorite season. 2004 may have been the breaking of the Curse but 1967 saved baseball in New England. This is the year that Yaz won the Triple Crown, Jim Lonborg won the Cy Young, and the Sox almost took down the Cardinals to win it all. It was the year of an intense pennant race, back before the advent of the Division and Championship Series, when the teams with the best record in their respective leagues squared off in the World Series. It was a year that strung us along, only to rip our hearts out in the bitter end. 1967 and its offseason saw the aforementioned loss to the Cardinals in the World Series, the career altering (and ultimately ending) injury to Tony Conigliaro, and the skiing accident in the offseason that derailed Lonborg's career. We may never know what Tony C. and Lonborg may have contributed to the team, we got but a glimpse.
It was also a light at the end of the tunnel, the redemption of a team whose mediocrity had doomed them to the back burner of New England's cultural conscience. It was the year that may have saved Fenway Park, then seemingly doomed to meet the wrecking ball. 1967 means so much in the history of the team on Yawkey Way. It was a turning point, it was a shining light, it was the Impossible Dream.
This is the first post in a series on the 1967 Boston Red Sox. I'll sprinkle these through the rest of the season. I hope you enjoy either reliving or learning for the first time.
"We'll win more than we'll lose"
The above statement, uttered by new Boston Red Sox manager Dick Williams, on the eve of the 1967 season would today be taken as a pessimistic take on the team's chances in the coming season, a dismissal of the team's chances of making the postseason and a concession that merely having a winning season was sufficient. In 1967 however, the Red Sox were perennial basement dwellers that had last posted a winning season in 1958. They also hadn't finished higher than 7th in the American League since the decade began and last made the World Series in 1945. In fact, the most recent Boston team to play in the World Series, the Braves, had departed for Milwaukee in 1953. Fenway Park, which today stands as monument to sports culture in New England, could barely fill half of its seats and baseball had been placed on the back burner of New England's collective conscience.
The 1966 Boston Red Sox had posted 90 losses, finishing 26 games behind American League Champions Baltimore Orioles. The only bright spot of the 1966 season was that the only team worse than the Sox were the New York Yankees. The team's attendance was also dismal, averaging approximately 10,000 fans per game. In the American League, only the Kansas City Athletics had lower. Manager Billy Herman, who had also led the Red Sox to a 100 loss season in 1965 was fired before the season ended.
On September 28, 1966, it was announced that Dick Williams had signed a one year contract with the team. Williams came to the Sox with impressive managerial credentials. He had just managed Sox's Triple A affiliate Toronto Maple Leafs to playoff appearances in 1965 and 66 and won the International League's Manager of the Year. Despite these accolades, the idea that Williams could do anything with the perennial basement dwellers at Fenway was still far-fetched. On the eve of the 1967 season, Boston Globe sports writer Harold Kease predicted that the Sox would climb three spots to finish sixth in the American League and largely attributed his prediction to Williams's competency as a manager. Pessimism about the team's chances wasn't just limited to the usually pessimistic Boston media however, when asked by Boston Globe writer Will McDonough about the team's chances, right fielder Tony Conigliaro said, "at least fifth. I think Baltimore, Minnesota, and Detroit are better ball clubs than we are. But I think that we can be as good as anybody else. If we get real good pitching we could even sneak into fourth." Carl Yastrzemski agreed with Conigliaro and said that, "I think our pitching is good enough to get us into fifth place."
In the April 11th "Editorial Points" in the Boston Globe, it was said that, "[i]n other years the cynics expected the Red Sox to go nowhere. The experts say that they'll go halfway to somewhere." Fifth place was the expectation, possibly fourth, anything else seemed like an Impossible Dream.


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Friday, October 23, 2015 - 03:09
Sanford Bernstein's Ali Dibadj says despite the better-than-expected quarterly results, Procter & Gamble is still too slow to adapt to popular consumer trends, and might be a candidate for a break-up. Bobbi Rebell reports.
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Pitcher out effort that consumer products that Procter & Gamble meat he's starting to pay off results came in better than expected in their quarterly earnings. But they are not out of the woods just yet let's get more from Ali G but he covers the company over at Sanford Bernstein great to have you. Things happen right so like I said the numbers looked good on the surface the stock has been up that you have some reservations. Well for such as has been and expectations as well in the expectations rushing quite low so they're getting a little bit better yes but you're not quite sure how to deliver going forward. And looking at they're the organic sales which actually take out things like her which has been a problem for many multinationals those were down. Right those are down about 1% the last time they're down this much room June 2009. So really does suggest that there's some some underlying pain company's point. So what is wrong now that you see when a talented PG because like access service people are reacting very well for us yeah look I think that they're too big buckets of what's wrong. One is very analytical very understandable which is that their price caps the value gaps vs their peers actually quite hot. You know type as double the price other competitors does that make sense for the consumer to decide to buy time. In some cases it doesn't focus is dozens of the do you have a problem being too high prices in a category that's I think fixable. They're spending money to fix that men think that back improvement and let's hope that's the major problem. There's another bucket though which is which is cultural which is slow to adapt they don't have many natural organic products. Done anything that really folks is with consumer ones and that's a decision making change. They have to come through a bit more difficult tactical vote. But again. They use the new management as still as an internal persons are summaries had. Almost three decades or more of expo experience at PNG that doesn't bode well for big change to their strategy it changed their minds that. But yes it's a step in the right direction and if people. The international markets are so essential for Procter gamble two thirds of their revenue comes from outside. North America so how they've played this sentiment especially with the strong dollar and especially in China which is their number two market in her ex tells American effort out there like 8%. That's right racism 8% today for the past quarter as they reported today but I think that's a classic example and on a justice what happened in China for example from our perspective as. That consumer treated upwards they want it more quality products and property of providing quality products are competitors and so they they're a little bit behind me politics from decision making perspective. International is a big piece there doesn't have to get that right as well defined very similar problems from price cap perspective. And investors which they take stock. We do we have an app forming on the stock because we believe there's some potential. We believe that eventually one way or the other this will turn around either they get themselves fixed on business or frankly something comes via science from them. Do you think of it. Well look I think it's a very easy act case he means that this company as a whole is will be too complex. You could actually easily argue for a break up of this company all of the I'm more focused smaller competitors appeal endeared him better than PG we bargained for awhile that if you can't get through this hurdle but your own culture media to break up and and do better. It will keep watching thank you so that tonight. I think she without thinking gosh that's Sanford Bernstein about your about this is writers.
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Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 (first published 26 September 2004)
In July 1942 Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in a house on
Prinsengracht Street in Amsterdam. Anne had recently gotten a diary for
her thirteenth birthday, and she spent the two years of their seclusion
fillings its pages with notes, letters, and stories. In late 1944 the
family was betrayed to the Nazis, and the Franks were taken to
concentration camps, where all but Otto, the father, died. After the war
ended, Otto made his way back to Amsterdam and read Anne's diary for the
first time. Despite the desperateness of their surroundings, the
discomfort, and the danger, Anne was hopeful. "I still believe that
people are really good at heart," she wrote. What makes some people
optimistic in the face of seemingly contradictory reality? Jeremiah lived
through two sieges of Jerusalem, the second of which would result in the
destruction of the city and the temple. As Nebuchadnezzar's troops
surrounded the city that they would destroy in less than a year,
Jeremiah's cousin came and asked him to redeem a field in Anathoth to
which Jeremiah had the rights. Jeremiah agreed to do so. It was a
terrible business decision. The land would soon be worthless if the
Babylonians decided to appropriate it, and in any case there was a strong
likelihood that Jeremiah himself would be killed in the onslaught of the
Babylonian army. Why did Jeremiah agree to purchase the field? He did so
because, at heart, Jeremiah was a man of hope. It may seem strange that a
prophet of doom could also be called a man of hope, but he was both. He
preached God's judgment on his own people, because he believed that that
was the message that God wanted him to proclaim. However, he also had a
profound conviction that God would not abandon his people. He bought the
field not because he expected to get use of it. In fact, elsewhere
Jeremiah predicts that Judah will be in exile for seventy years. He
bought the field to show that in the darkest of hours, hope still existed.
Like Anne Frank, Jeremiah never saw the end of the period of darkness in
which he lived, but he hoped--he knew--that evil could not prevail
Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16 (first published 26 September 2004)
Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16 (first published 26 September 2004)
In the 1965 movie The Naked Prey, a group of British hunters
insults an African tribe with whom they are negotiating, and the tribe, in
retaliation, kills the entire party, with the exception of the guide, who
tried to stop his colleagues' foolishness. The tribe strips him almost
naked and gives him a short head start before a war party takes off after
him. The bulk of the movie is consumed with the chase, and the man (he is
never given a name--it's easier to kill someone who doesn't have a name)
is in constant danger for his life. The psalmist describes three
terrifying threats to his life: pursuing enemies (metaphorically portrayed
as fowlers), demons of the night, and full-scale war. Despite his
circumstances, however, the psalmist proclaims that he is not afraid, for
God is on his side. The psalm ends with a prophetic oracle of salvation
in vv. 14-16, in which a cultic prophet speaks for God with a message of
personal deliverance. Seven times God says "I" to the one who is
persecuted: I will deliver, I will protect, I will answer, I will be with
them, I will rescue, I will honor, I will satisfy. The terrors that the
psalmist describes are all too real in our modern world. A pursuing enemy
might be a stalker or a motorist caught up in road rage. We don't believe
in night demons or demons of the desert any more, but there is plenty of
random evil to go around: stray bullets from a gang shootout (even more
likely now that assault weapons are back on sale in the U.S.), a drunk
driver careening across the median, a drug dealer in your child's school.
The danger of war is seemingly everpresent, either in its traditional form
for soldiers and sailors called to serve on the battlefield or in the form
that those without armies unleash on their enemies: terrorism. Our own
government wants to keep us in constant fear, warning us that we are
currently under an "elevated" threat advisory (Yellow Alert), meaning that
there is "significant risk of terrorist attacks." Yes, there is danger
all around, perhaps more so than at any time in history, but we don't have
to live in fear. The message of Psalm 91 is that we are not alone in the
struggle, for God is with us. We can live our lives without paralyzing
fear, because we know God has not abandoned us. We have no control over
where evil strikes, whether close to home or far away. There is little we
can do to stop it, but we can refuse to surrender to fear. As followers
of God, we live our lives every day in God, and when it comes time to die,
we will die in God as well. Until then, let us live courageous lives in
the presence of our faithful God.
1 Timothy 6:6-19
1 Timothy 6:6-19
We often hear that money is the root of all evil, but the exact
quotation is "The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil."
Money itself can be either good or bad, but when someone loves it, it
becomes an idol, an end it itself, that turns people from better
pursuits. The Citizens United ruling earlier this year by the
U.S. Supreme Court is a good illustration of the corrosive power of
money. Free speech is good, but when spending money is confused with
free speech, the political process is corrupted. Corporations will buy
candidates outright, and those with the most wealth will have the
greatest voice in government. The Tea Party movement began with the
funding of a couple of California billionaires, and Tea Party
candidates, whether out of conviction or out of fealty to their
contributors, call for reducing taxes on the very rich, as well as on
the middle class (although interestingly, never for the poor). On a
smaller scale, we are in the middle of a giving campaign at work, and
all employees are encouraged to give a small portion of their incomes to
a charity of their choice. Most choose to contribute, but there are
some who, for one reason or another, keep their wallets closed. The
current economic crisis was caused in no small part by people who wanted
to buy houses that they couldn't afford, loaned by mortgage companies
and banks that knew they could pass on their risks to other companies,
or be bailed out by the government. In all sorts of ways, both great
and small, the desire for money corrupts the hearts of men and women,
throws the world into crisis, and fails to live up to its promise to
satisfy the innermost longings of people. In contrast to this
attachment to money, there is a movement among some of the wealthiest
people in the country to give as much as half of their fortunes away to
support education, counteract poverty, and fight disease. Cynics will
say, "Sure, but if you have a couple of billion dollars and give away a
billion, you still have a billion." True, but the needy now have a
billion as well. I doubt there are many billionaires among the readers
of this blog, and I know there are none among the writers, so why do I
even mention it? Because it reminds those of us of more modest means
that it is possible to overcome the lure of money. We can use the money
we have for good. We can give to those less fortunate than ourselves.
We can work at jobs that pay less but help other people more. Love of
money may be the root of all kinds of evil, but the proper use of money
can be a godsend to those in need.
Luke 16:19-31 (first published 26 September 2004)
Luke 16:19-31 (first published 26 September 2004)
In his book, The Literary Function of Possessions in Luke-Acts, Luke Timothy Johnson traces Luke's use of wealth as a literary device in Luke-Acts. For Luke, "possessions are a sign of power" (p. 221). Wealth is a great danger to those who possess it in these books, for they have a tendency to rely on money rather than God. Luke's portrayal of the Rich Young Ruler, for example, is less sympathetic than in the other gospels. In Luke, for example, he is not "Young," so he is mature enough to be responsible for his actions, or his inaction. The parable of the rich man and Lazarus is one of the most striking indictments of the corrupting influence of wealth and its consequences in the gospels. The rich man in the story lives a life of comfort, while Lazarus suffers right outside the gates of his house. In the afterlife their roles are reversed, with Lazarus resting in the "bosom of Abraham" and the rich man suffering the torments of hell. Nowhere in the story does it say that the rich man was bad or that the poor man was good, much less anything about justification by faith. The clear implication is that those who are poor and who suffer in this life are destined for a blissful afterlife, while those who are rich and live extravagantly now will suffer torment in the hereafter. But there is more to the story. Although the story doesn't explicitly say that the rich man was bad or that he persecuted the poor, his attitude toward them can be deduced. First, he wore fancy clothes and feasted every day, a clear case of conspicuous consumption. Second, he was aware of the fact that Lazarus lay outside his gates day by day, for he calls specifically for Lazarus by name to bring him water. Had he ever sent water out to Lazarus, much less food? Apparently not. Third, he shows concern for his brothers' fate, implying that he now understands that his former lifestyle led directly to his current condition. The rich man didn't consciously harm Lazarus. In fact, he hardly seemed to notice him at all. That fact is an indictment of almost all of us who live in the affluent West. To some extent we've managed, like the rich man, to keep the poor outside our gates so we won't notice them. We live in neighborhoods where there are no poor people, or if there are, we don't know about it. We drive through the run-down, poor parts of our cities with our doors locked and our windows rolled up. And as for the poor in other countries, well, who really cares about them, anyway? If they were more ambitious, we tell ourselves, they would be able to drag themselves up out of poverty. When Jesus told the story of the rich man and Lazarus, his disciples probably identified with Lazarus, because most of them were poor, too. When we read the story today, we should probably identify with the rich man. Are riches a help or a hindrance to our Christian testimony? How can we use our money to help the poor? There are of course many good non-profit organizations that minister to the poor, and many churches do as well. In addition to giving our money, we can give our time. We can build a Habitat House, or work in a clothes closet, or help out in a homeless shelter, or go on a mission trip to help build a new school in a poor village. The parable of the rich man and Lazarus ends on a note of irony that is doubly ironic today. In response to the rich man's request to send Lazarus to warn his brothers, Abraham reminds the rich man that they have Moses and the prophets to warn them. "'No, father Abraham; but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.' He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even in someone rises from the dead.'" The irony in the story is that Jesus is the one who rose from the dead, but many of his contemporaries still refused to listen to the testimony of the disciples. The second irony applies in our time, because modern Christians have supposedly accepted Jesus as the risen Lord, yet we still ignore the warnings of Moses and the Old Testament prophets, not to mention the message of Jesus himself. Christians today buy into the culture of consumerism with gusto, so that it is difficult or impossible to tell a Christian from his non-practicing neighbor. God calls us to be different from the crowd around us, and God specifically calls us to care for the poor. When we do that, we will demonstrate that we have been truly transformed by our contact with Christ.


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I have an interview up on Kela McClelland's blog, Teardrops on my Book. Come pop by.
What is a nebula?
Dust. More scientifically, an interstellar cloud of dust and ionized gases. There are nebulae which are remnants of dead or dying stars, and nebulae which are forming new stars.
From dead or dying stars, there are two types of nebulae. One is supernova remnants. A notable example is the Veil nebula in Cygnus. It's not very visible by telescopes unless you have an Oxygen III filter. Then it appears as a greenish smudge in the eyepiece. We don't get the spectacular color the computers add in for the Hubble shots.
The second type from a dying star is the planetary nebula. The final stages of a main sequence star's life (our own Sun will die this way), it's shedding off its gases. Prime examples are the Ring nebula and the Dumbbell nebula.
The Ring appears as named and has a blue tint in eyepieces. Bigger telescopes which gather more light can show a star in the center of the nebula. It's in the Lyra constellation near Cygnus.
The Dumbbell is in the Cygnus constellation. It's a planetary nebula sideways. It appears with a greenish tint in the eyepiece. This photo taken by the camera attached to the 24" Cassegrain at Pine Mountain Observatory.
Prominent examples of nebulae forming new stars are the Orion nebula (in Orion's sword--the closest region of star formation to Earth) and the Lagoon nebula near Sagittarius. Since Orion is a winter constellation, the Lagoon is what I usually show to visitors at the observatory in the summer. The Orion nebula is below it. Both photos also taken at PMO.
There are also H II Region nebulae which include diffuse, bright and reflection nebulae. By definition they contain no well-defined boundaries, which actually applies to almost all nebulae. A nebula can have more than one classification. It can have dark and bright regions, be forming new stars and parts of it may reflect light.
The Swan nebula, also know as Omega, Checkmark, Lobster and Horsehead nebula is a group of newly formed stars. It's also a nebula we often show in the summer, located near Sagittarius.
My favorite nebula is Orion. But since it isn't visible most of the summer (unless I stay up until dawn), the Lagoon is my favorite summer nebula.
OK, my X, Xploring, is really lame. The observatory opens in one month though. So, I'm Xcited, too. It's possible one or more of the nebula contain Xenon, and I'm sure they've all been looked at by X-ray telescopes. There we go, PaX.
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It was at a typically chaotic breakfast time a few weeks back when I found myself asking, not for the first time: why on earth we had moved to China? Anyone with young children – we have a litter of three aged between two and five – will be familiar with the farmyard scene: the smallest, ignored as ever, was yelling for her "mulk", while her elder sister was throwing a magnificently pointless tantrum over the colour of the plastic spoon she'd been allocated for her Weetabix.
Their elder brother was unusually silent, staring out of the window of our 16th-floor flat. The view was much the same as the day before and the day before that: a looming forest of tower blocks receding into the murk of a grey Beijing morning. I asked him what was up.
"It's all smoggy," he said. "The red flag will be up. Miss Kate won't let us outside."
How I hate that red flag; not the Chinese one with its five golden-yellow stars representing the Party and the four old revolutionary classes, but the one that hangs accusingly outside my son's classroom when it is too polluted to go out and play.
What kind of parent chooses to bring his children up in a place where the air isn't fit to breathe? If we aspire to give our children something better than what we ourselves enjoyed, then on mornings like this, I can't help but reflect that I have failed.
When I was my son's age, my daily alarm call was an old Massey Ferguson tractor firing up outside my bedroom window and a lowing herd of bleary-eyed Friesians stumbling into the Shropshire farmyard that formed the playpen of my early years.
Mawkish nostalgia that may be, but every time my son's school bus disappears into a honking snake of traffic, I recall the cow-parsley country lanes of my own school run. As my wife acidly observed one particularly smog-bound morning: "This was never how I imagined bringing up our children."
So why did we come? Well, I know why I came. I was lured by the challenge of reporting on the story of the century: the great conundrum that is China and its role in the emerging post-Cold War order. No foreign correspondent worth his expenses would pass up that assignment. But it's also fair to ask what's in it for my wife and children, beyond a lungful of soot particles and a life cooped up like battery hens in a Beijing high-rise.
It was my son who helped answer that question, one afternoon a few days ago when I came home from work early to surprise him off the school bus. He emerged with a huge smile, the only British child in a polyglot of preschoolers – Chinese, French, Thai, German, Vietnamese – all prattling away in the common language of their playground: Mandarin Chinese.
As it happened, his ayi (our wonderful Chinese nanny, who speaks not a word of English) had also come to pick him up and, after a cursory "Hi, Dad", he proceeded to recount his school day in rapid-fire Chinese. I caught something about bean seeds and how they grow, and then a snatched phrase about jet planes and how they fly, but for the most part my own language skills (not too bad, I thought, after more than a year of early morning classes) were utterly unequal to the task.
It is an exhilarating, if faintly unnerving, sensation not to be able to follow your own child as he speaks a foreign language. It was only 15 months since we had arrived in China from rural New Zealand, the children dazed and culture shocked, unable even to ask for a cup of milk.
Everyone will tell you "how quickly" children adapt to their new environment, but those are either people with selective memories or friends at home who have never lived outside the M25. Perhaps we made it hard by deliberately choosing total immersion – an ayi who spoke no English, a Chinese kindergarten for the girls – but the truth is that there have been moments of serious doubt.
Just how many days is it fair to leave your usually bubbly three year-old silent and bewildered at the school gates as she contemplates another morning unable to follow a word? How many times can you explain to your then four year-old that he no longer has a garden to play in, or a vegetable patch where he can help his father plant sweetcorn, radishes and sugar-snap peas?
Children can be painfully direct. Shortly after we arrived in China and had (what I at least thought was) a fun day by the Great Wall I asked if they enjoyed living here. "No!" came the unanimous chorus from the back seat. "We liked New Zealand."
But such are the calculations that all expatriates must make. Listening to my children forming friendships with Chinese children, I take heart in the belief that we are preparing them for the world in which they must live, not the one we once enjoyed. It is a world in which China, and all things Chinese, will play an ever-growing role and which they will approach with an assurance born of friendship and familiarity.
Back home, friends often say my children's grasp of Chinese will give them an enviable edge over their peers in Britain. At this juncture, I cannot tell, but if there is an advantage it will be primarily cultural, not commercial. Even if the younger ones don't remember a single word of their Chinese (these things can fade quickly), there's plenty of research that shows it is good for brain development to have grappled with two such different languages.
My son's school, an experimental establishment affiliated to the University of Michigan, has also required an adjustment of my expectations. The campus is split into two hemispheres, one side exclusively in Chinese – teachers who don't speak a word of English, wall posters and books all in Chinese characters – the other in English where the same strictures apply in reverse.
The curriculum, compared with test-obsessed Britain, is sometimes unnervingly relaxed. There are no sums, spelling tests or formal teaching of reading before the age of six, but instead the slower, learning-through-play formula that was advocated – and rejected – for Britain by last year's Cambridge-based Primary Review.
What's also been pleasantly surprising – particularly after the agonies of those first few months – is the pleasure the children take in being able to speak a second language. This is not just confined to the talkative five year-old who likes nothing better than stepping in to assist his parents when they get stuck.
Even the two and a half year-old gets a thrill; the other day she summoned me from the kitchen by calling "Baba! Baba!" (Daddy! Daddy!) and then, when I finally arrived, dissolving into giggles before saying (in case daddy had missed the point): "Daddy, I called you Chinese 'Baba'."
The children have no problem in accommodating Chinese New Year or India's Diwali (they were all born in New Delhi) into their annual calendar of festivals. One month they're munching toffee apples and eating jaozi (dumplings) at a Chinese New Year temple fair, the next they're hunting for Easter eggs in the shrubbery of Beijing's Chaoyang Park.
Of course, what seems culturally liberating and exhilarating one day can appear dangerously like rootlessness the next.
My own firmly monocultural Christian upbringing did at least have the advantage of forcing me to master one culture before attempting to get to grips with another. Modern Chinese society, eviscerated during the Cultural Revolution, frets constantly over its lack of moral backbone.
This invites the question of whether expat children, dragged around the world after their parents – "privileged refugees", a friend calls them – really know who they are. My four-year-old daughter reckons she's from New Zealand (the first place she remembers living) while her brother always raises a laugh by informing people he's "Indian" – the country of his birth. Perhaps for now, I can say only that we are a family, wherever we are, and leave it at that.
Their upbringing certainly breeds an enviable racial blindness. My son was playing with a Chinese boy in the playground last week and noticed that a friend of ours, an Australian-born Chinese woman married to an Italian, was watching him.
"He's my friend, he's Chinese," he said, gauchely.
"I can see that," she replied.
He stopped, puzzled for a moment, then asked: "How did you know?"
She thought for a second. "Well, he looks like me and I'm Chinese."
Billy looked back at her in incomprehension. "No you're not," he said, before running off to play.
Smog and concrete jungle aside, Beijing has its better days as a city. Although faceless and oppressive in the redeveloped high-rise districts, it is still capable of beguiling intimacy in the winding hutong alleyways that survive in old Beijing. On a cold, crisp winter's day, when the moat of the Forbidden City is frozen into a milky cataract, there are few more enjoyable ways to spend a morning than skating on the old imperial lake at Hou-Hai before hunting the alleyways for wintry snacks – steaming white buns, sizzling kebabs and sticks of scarlet crab-apples encased in glassy caramel.
But perhaps Beijing's real saving grace is the ease, thanks to China's legendary appetite for road building, of escaping the city.
Just an hour and a half's drive outside Beijing lies the Great Wall, much of it surprisingly unspoilt if you keep off the tourist trail. In the winter there are rough-and-ready ski resorts within an hour's drive of the city. And increasingly foreigners are renting and renovating village houses as weekend getaways.
It's not Tuscany or the Cotswolds, but for those who need to see the sky and the stars at least two nights a week, it does provide some essential therapeutic space. There is, we think, clean air to breathe. There are certainly miles of chestnut orchards for the children to play hide and seek and make dens in, a vegetable patch in the courtyard and a steady supply of fresh eggs from the landlord's flock of chickens. Breakfast is served to a backdrop of hills and forests.
It is also a valuable chance to experience a softer side of China that is obscured by the pell-mell development of cities like Beijing. Not a visit to our weekend house passes without a delivery of fresh baozi (steamed buns) from our landlady, who dotes on the children as if they were her own.
Here it is possible to find at least a partial absolution from the guilt inflicted by those red flags back in Beijing.
In truth, our doubts remain; but they are tempered by the knowledge that parenting is an uncertain, make-it-up-as-you-go-along kind of business, wherever you happen to find yourself. Living in urban China is no idyll, but – callous though this might sound – for the children of the 21st century, it's possible that might not be such a bad thing.


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Freedom Lost and Won: Exoneree Sings Their Story
Antoine Day clearly remembers the moment he was released from prison, after serving 10 years for a murder he didn't commit.
Innocence Project Garners 300 Exonerations
As "Innocence Project" garners 300 exonerations, directors say milestone equals small victory in large fight.
Fingerprint Misidentification Leads To Wrongful Conviction In Indiana
Damon Thibodeaux 300th person to be exonerated by DNA evidence
On September 28th, Damon Thibodeaux became the 300th person to be exonerated by DNA evidence. Tragically, Damon, who was just 22 when he was arrested for the murder of his 14-year-old cousin, is also the 18th person to have served time on death row before being proven innocent by DNA. Damon is expected to be released later today after serving the past 15 years in solitary confinement in Angola. Jefferson Parrish District Attorney Paul Connick cooperated with Damon's legal team on an extensive multi-year reinvestigation of the murder that included numerous rounds of DNA testing excluding Damon as the perpetrator. A prosecution expert also analyzed Damon's interrogation with the police and concluded that he falsely confessed to the crime largely out of fear that he would be executed.
To mark this momentous occasion, we have developed a public education campaign that we hope you will help us publicize through your websites and social networking channels. We have developed a mini-website about the 300 exonerations at https://www.innocenceproject.org/cases/damon-thibodeaux/. On this page you will find additional information about Damon's case, a 300 exoneration infographic that we are encouraging people to share via Facebook and Twitter, videos of exonerees whose cases illustrate the major causes of wrongful convictions and a pledge urging people to take to stand up for the innocent.
DNA Excludes Kerry Robinson
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Idaho Innocence Project Update
Mr. Big Technique used in Burns/Rafay Confession under scrutiny.
There is a hearing on Monday in Georgia for Kerry Robinson's case.
CHRIS TAPP vs. STATE OF IDAHO
Pocatello Local News 8 has obtained a copy of a petition that could alter the
case against Christopher Tapp, who was convicted 15 years ago for the
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This Friday, September 28th, Director of the Idaho Innocence Project Dr. Greg Hampikian will be spotlighted as the first guest on National Public Radio's Science Friday with Ira Flato. The show is locally sponsored by the Micron Foundation and Idaho National Laboratory and will be presented LIVE by Boise State Public Radio and Boise State University STEM Station .
Veteran NPR science correspondent and award-winning TV journalist Ira Flatow is the host of Science Friday. Flatow brings an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand by connecting listeners with scientists. Science Friday has become known for its informative discussions about science, technology, health, medicine, space, and the environment.
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Forensic investigation needs more science – Innocence Project calls on chemists to support forensics reform.
Written by David Cressey for Nature and Scientific American August 23rd 2012
A group that has used DNA evidence to free nearly 300 wrongly convicted people from prison reached out to scientists this week, asking chemists to engage with forensic science. Peter Neufeld, co-founder of the Innocence Project, an organization based in New York that investigates potential wrongful convictions, asked researchers at the American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to do more to improve the troubled field of forensic science.
Complaints about the unreliability of some scientific evidence used in courts worldwide are long-standing, and a 2009 report by the US National Research Council called for major reforms to the US forensic-science system, including better standardization of protocols and more research into the reliability of methods used. The US Congress is now considering a bill that would provide money for forensics research and require the US National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish standards in the area (see 'Proposed bill calls for better forensic science').
But despite such concerns, little has changed on the ground, says Justin McShane, an attorney at the McShane Firm in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, who works with the Pennsylvania Innocence Project and serves as co-chair of the ACS Division of Chemistry and the Law. "It's still a Wild Wild West out there in forensic science."
Neufeld says that misuse of forensic science is a major factor in nearly half the cases investigated by the Innocence Project. He is calling on chemists to lobby Congress individually and through the ACS in support of the bill. But he also wants more scientists to engage with forensic science research. "What we want to do is make forensic science more about science and less about law enforcement," he says, so it becomes an impartial assessor of evidence rather than a branch of law enforcement.
This call was echoed by Frederick Whitehurst, a chemist and former investigator for the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. "What we seem to know in the world of science is that there are some real problems in the world of forensic science, and we'd rather work on something cleaner," he told an ACS session on chemistry and the law. "We don't seem to want to work with dirty crime sciences."
Whitehurst says that crime-laboratory technicians are often under pressure to produce evidence that agrees with police or prosecutor theories. Scientists can "run into a sledgehammer" when their evidence doesn't confirm prosecutors' hypotheses, says Whitehurst, potentially putting their careers at risk.
Greg Hampikian, a geneticist at Boise State University in Idaho and director of the Idaho Innocence Project, told the meeting that he regularly has nightmares about the ease with which innocent people can be convicted because of flaws in forensics systems.
Hampikian has worked on such high-profile cases as that of Meredith Kercher, a British student who was murdered in Italy in 2007. Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were convicted of the murder, partly on the basis of DNA evidence, but were freed in 2011, in part because Hampikian showed that DNA can easily be transferred via gloves from an item a person has touched to another item — such as a knife — that they have not touched. As new techniques allow ever smaller amounts of DNA to be detected, such contamination will be an increasing problem, Hampikian says.
But DNA analysis can also prove innocence: several attendees at the ACS meeting had been exonerated through investigations by the Innocence Project.
Steven Barnes was convicted of rape and second-degree murder in 1989 and spent nearly 20 years in prison before DNA testing showed that sperm cells from the crime scene did not match his. Ray Krone was sentenced to death on the basis of a bite-mark analysis in a 1991 murder case. He was proven innocent by DNA testing after serving ten years in prison. "I had never been in trouble in my life. They put me on death row. This could happen to you," said Krone. "I'm calling on the ACS to get more involved in forensic science."
ACS president Bassam Shakhashiri, a chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been a strong supporter of the Innocence Project, and he appeared with many of the speakers for the Innocence Project at a press conference on Monday. He told Nature that before the society could lobby Congress in favour of the bill, the board would need to approve a policy statement on the matter, but that he planned to speak to several of the governance committees that oversee the topics involved.
"The topics discussed by the Innocence Project are vitally important to all of us," he says.
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Forensic Science And The Innocence Project : A symposium at the ACS meeting illuminates challenges for and rifts in the justice system
Published in Chemical and Engineering News Volume 90 Issue 37 | pp. 11-15. September 10, 2012
Written by Carmen Drahl
Steven Barnes's truck was muddy. As he pulled up on a September day in 1985 to a roadblock for what he thought was a routine traffic stop, the dirt was close to the last thing on his mind. But the mud caught the attention of local police officers in Barnes's small, upstate New York town. They were investigating the rape and murder of high school student Kimberly Simon, whose body had been found days before, on the side of a muddy dirt road. Barnes, 19, went to the station for more than 12 hours of questioning. He explained to investigators he'd been at a local bowling alley at the time of the murder. He gave police permission to search his truck and figured that was that. Then, two years later, investigators asked Barnes for blood, saliva, and hair samples.
Barnes was arrested in 1988. At his trial, forensic experts testified that soil, hair, and an imprint from denim on his muddy truck matched samples from Simon. It proved a convincing combination to the jury, along with vague statements from eyewitnesses and a jailhouse snitch. In June 1989, Barnes was convicted and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
From his cell in 1992, Barnes wrote a letter to a new legal organization he hoped might set him free. That organization, called the Innocence Project, agreed to take his case in 1993.
The Innocence Project is a nationwide legal network that works to exonerate innocent prisoners through DNA testing. Experts agree that the Innocence Project has changed the justice system for the better, both by freeing the innocent and by encouraging scrutiny of all types of evidence presented in the courtroom.
It is perhaps the most visible player in a movement that is challenging improper use of forensic science in the legal system. That role has led to tensions with some members of the forensic science community, who are concerned that the criticism of crime labs that has emerged is unfairly broad. In an effort to spark a dialogue with chemists and rally them to the cause, the Innocence Project held a symposium at last month's American Chemical Society national meeting in Philadelphia. The session highlighted challenges in forensic science as well as forensic techniques that lack scientific vetting.
Before the Innocence Project existed, says Peter M. Marone, director of the Virginia Department of Forensic Science, "was the little guy getting a fair shake? No." The organization's efforts to free its mostly destitute clients date to 1992, when attorneys Peter J. Neufeld and Barry C. Scheck, both members of O. J. Simpson's defense team, established the Innocence Project as part of Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Since its founding, the Innocence Project has had a hand in nearly 300 exonerations.
Of the first 289 convictions overturned by DNA testing, 45% involved faulty forensics.NOTE: Many convictions have more than one contributing cause. SOURCE: Innocence Project
One of those exonerated is Ray Krone. An honorably discharged veteran, Krone served 10 years "in a cell the size of most of y'all's bathroom," he said in Philadelphia, for a murder in Phoenix he did not commit. An expert for the prosecution had testified that bite marks on the victim matched an impression Krone made for police on a Styrofoam cup. With help from the Innocence Project, DNA evidence cleared him in 2002. "I can't tell you what it was like to be called a monster," he said. "Thank God for DNA."
It was DNA that made the Innocence Project possible, says chemist Jay A. Siegel, a longtime forensic scientist and adjunct professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. The technology matured in the academic community, and if used properly, makes it possible to link an individual to evidence such as bloody knives or semen-stained clothing. The absence of DNA doesn't always mean a person is innocent, so DNA alone isn't enough to solve a crime, Siegel cautions. "That's a myth perpetuated by 'CSI,' " the popular TV show.
What's more, some types of DNA technology have shortcomings, as Boise State University geneticist Greg Hampikian cautioned Philadelphia meeting attendees. Sample collection methods haven't changed since DNA's courtroom debut in the 1980s, even though assay sensitivity has increased dramatically, he said. His group has shown that detectable amounts of DNA can transfer between specimens if a handler forgets to change gloves. Hampikian, director of an Innocence Project affiliate in Idaho, also showed that if exposed to extraneous details about a case, experts can give very different interpretations when analyzing DNA mixtures, as can appear in cases of gang rape (Sci. Justice, DOI: 10.1016/j.scijus.2011.08.004). Despite these caveats, DNA testing is the gold standard among forensic disciplines, because it has undergone thorough scientific vetting.
Other forensic tests lag behind DNA in several ways. These tests include fingerprinting, as well as the hair, soil, and denim imprint analysis used in Barnes's trial, and the bite-mark analysis from Krone's trial. They cannot point to an individual, and little to no research has been conducted toward standardizing them or defining their error rates. Problems arise when attorneys, judges, or juries attach the same aura of reliability to all forensic sciences regardless of their scientific merit, says attorney Josh D. Lee, cochair of the Forensic Science section of ACS's Division of Chemistry & the Law and coorganizer of the Philadelphia session.
To John J. Lentini, arson investigation is a particularly troubling example. Much of the field has been "witchcraft that passes for science," he said in Philadelphia. Lentini, a fire investigator, discussed the 1980 "Fire Investigation Handbook," which codified unwarranted generalizations. It was published by the National Bureau of Standards, the agency that predated the National Institute of Standards & Technology. The book associated irregular cracks in glass—called crazed glass—with rapid heating, which suggests the use of fire accelerants. It also stated that narrow V-shaped char patterns on walls indicate fast-developing, hot fires. These myths, as Lentini called them, were once considered scientific fact in courtrooms. As an example, Lentini said, they were cited in the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, a Texas man executed in 2004 for setting an arson fire that almost certainly wasn't arson.
V-shaped patterns, as research from Lentini and others shows, can occur in fires set accidentally, not just arson fires. Crazed glass actually forms during rapid cooling, such as when fires are put out, not during rapid heating. The National Fire Protection Association has published scientific-based guidelines for arson investigations since 1992. But Lentini cautioned that misperceptions still abound.
Traditional forensic science got grandfathered into the justice system, says Carrie Leonetti, an attorney who has served on the American Bar Association's Task Force on Biological Evidence. "It's a lot harder to ask a court to exclude evidence that has been admitted for a hundred years than to exclude evidence it's never seen before," Leonetti, of the University of Oregon School of Law, explains. "Because DNA was so new, it went through incredible vetting." That didn't happen for other forensic disciplines, she adds.
As courts became willing to consider DNA technology, it enabled unprecedented reanalysis of old cases. The first DNA exoneration took place in 1989, just three years before Barnes contacted the Innocence Project from prison. In 1996, the Innocence Project obtained DNA test results on old evidence from the 1985 crime scene. DNA tests conducted before Barnes's trial had been inconclusive. This second round came back inconclusive again. It would take more than a decade before scientific advances would give Barnes another chance.
Santana pushes open a door to leave for good the correctional facility where he was held for five years.
Credit: Associated Press
Research conducted by the Innocence Project suggests that the number one contributor to wrongful convictions is eyewitness misidentification. But number two, involved 45% of the time, is faulty forensics, which the Innocence Project defines as testimony that isn't scientifically vetted, exaggerated testimony, and forensic misconduct.
In Philadelphia, Frederic W. Whitehurst, a Ph.D. chemist and former supervisory special agent at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory, discussed a colleague's false or misleading forensic testimony in multiple cases. He also described how scientists would "run dead flat into a sledgehammer" when their results didn't agree with their supervisors' thinking. Whitehurst's whistle-blowing led to a 1995 Justice Department investigation of the FBI Lab.
The institutional pressure Whitehurst experienced is not the norm, says José R. Almirall, a forensic scientist who worked for the Miami-Dade Police Department Crime Laboratory before becoming director of the International Forensics Research Institute at Florida International University. "In the 12 years I worked at a police agency, I never felt in any way forced to opine in one way or another."
Nor is exaggeration or falsification of forensic testimony commonplace, adds Philadelphia Department Police Forensic Services Bureau chemist David J. Wolf. "We don't say whatever we feel like in court," he says. "We have mock trials within our laboratory to teach new chemists how to go about testifying. It takes years to learn how to testify really well."
Wolf, who was in the audience in Philadelphia, says he felt wounded by the session. Attendance in the vast ballroom was sparse, but a handful of people, including Wolf, asked pointed questions. "It was the only lecture I've ever been to where I felt like I was being torn apart."
At a press conference during the ACS National Meeting in Philadelphia, ACS President Bassam Z. Shakhashiri joined Innocence Project session speakers, who urged support for forensic science reform.
Credit: ACS Office of Public Affairs
The long-festering wound for forensic scientists is the Innocence Project's 45% figure, which they argue is unfairly high. "I think the Innocence Project underestimates bad lawyering as a cause of wrongful convictions," Siegel says. Prosecutors may withhold evidence that could exonerate a defendant, and defense teams may not be trained to mount an argument against inappropriate testimony, he explains.
When DNA evidence overturns a conviction, that doesn't necessarily mean a forensic scientist was doing bad work, adds Thomas A. Brettell, a forensic chemist at Cedar Crest College who retired from the New Jersey State Police Office of Forensic Sciences in 2007. Before DNA, no way existed to definitively link an individual to evidence, he says, and the vast majority of experts interpreted results in good faith.
"Where the Innocence Project lost credibility with me was in trying to put blame squarely on the shoulders of forensic science," says John M. Collins, emeritus Forensic Science Division director for the Michigan State Police. "There are some practitioners who don't do a very good job in the courtroom, but that shouldn't be an indictment of the science."
Collins copublished a report that puts the percentage of exonerations involving faulty forensics closer to 11%. The criticisms of forensic techniques have been published in law reviews, not peer-reviewed scientific journals, Collins says. Forensic experts' opinions, he says, should be good enough.
That's not good enough, Whitehurst argues. A 1993 Supreme Court decision in ruled that forensic evidence at trials must be validated and subject to peer review in the scientific community, with known error rates and appropriate controls. A set of opinions, even expert opinions, doesn't amount to science, he adds.
Barnes (left) wipes a tear while standing with his mother, Sylvia Bouchard, on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008, the day he was freed after 19 years in prison.
Credit: Associated Press
Determining what contributes to wrongful convictions is more complicated than assembling a list of percentages, social scientists say. Considering only erroneous convictions is a recipe for selection bias, explains statistician Russell V. Lenth of the University of Iowa, who studies forensic science. "We can't make claims about all lawyers, or about all forensic scientists, based only on cases where one or both of these groups failed."
Whitehurst acknowledged this complexity in Philadelphia. "We stand here in judgment of forensic science labs," he said. "But this is a bigger problem than just crime laboratories. This is a social problem."
Social pressures outweighed forensic evidence in the case of Raymond Santana. He and four others, all young teenagers, went to jail in 1990, convicted of raping and assaulting a New York City woman in the infamous "Central Park jogger case." DNA evidence existed that pointed to the teens' innocence, but under intense media scrutiny, police and prosecutors "made up their minds we were guilty, and that was it," Santana said in Philadelphia. It wasn't until the real perpetrator, a serial rapist, came forward, and DNA confirmed his involvement, that Santana and the others were exonerated. After a five-year jail term, Santana had a difficult time adjusting, turning to selling drugs for a time. He thanked forensic scientists for securing his freedom. "Without you," he said, "I wouldn't be able to be talking here today."
In Philadelphia, Innocence Project cofounder Neufeld asked ACS members to get involved in developing standards for forensic science. He also urged ACS to stand behind two bills making their way through Congress that would mandate changes to how forensic science in the U.S. is funded, organized, and regulated. Forensics have been in the federal limelight since a 2009 National Research Council report found much of the science in crime labs wanting (C&EN, June 25, page 32).
Credit: The Innocence Project
Change is going to take time for forensic science, says Cedar Crest's Brettell. "Everybody has the same goals in mind," he says. But the legal community and the crime labs "are coming from two different directions."
"It's a big cultural divide," and a great amount of training must take place, Brettell adds. "That's not going to happen without resources and understanding."
Barnes served more than 19 years in prison before DNA technology could be brought to bear on his case. In 2008, a test of short tandem repeats on the Y chromosomes of sperm found on the victim showed that Barnes wasn't a match.
He returned to a world that seemed to have moved on without him. "I didn't know what the Internet was, what a cell phone was," he said in Philadelphia. Now a free man, he said he's passionate about his new purpose—speaking on behalf of the Innocence Project around the country.
"I am trying to dedicate my life to the Innocence Project," he said. "They gave me my life back."
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So far have managed to do OK with short term trades in 2016. Past week was not great, less than 1% gain, but have a small position at week end in RWM that I feel positive about.
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Hi, do you see a bear market now underway once the longterm cycles bottom mid February 2016. Whats your experience of cycles during bear market ? Can you share some charts ?Many thanks, JazeReplyDelete
Some indexes (Transport, Russell 2000, foreign indexes (China, FTSE, etc.)) are in bear market territory if you use the down 20% standard definition. I believe the odds favor the SPX and DJIA achieving "bear" levels in February. Or, are we already in a bear market as some Indices suggest?
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I'm getting a little nervous about our financial situation, but I know something will come along. If I've learned anything since my marriage, it's that I've joined up with a very blessed (and peculiar) people. When my husband exercises his priesthood authority in prayer, Heavenly Father takes notice. Sometimes I feel as though I'm just sitting there in amazement, watching mountains move.
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Bethesda, MD, January 4, 2016 – Farrington Law is pleased to announce the promotion of Margaret Jacobsen Scheele and Sarah K. Biran to Partner.
"Margaret and Sarah have been indispensable members of our team for some time now," said Dan Farrington, Farrington Law's Managing Partner. "Their promotion is, in many ways, a recognition of the leadership roles Margaret and Sarah have already been serving in the firm. They both practice with a passion for our firm's values and I am honored to call them my 'partners.'"
Margaret Jacobsen Scheele has been practicing employment law for almost twenty-five years and joined Farrington Law in 2004 as the firm's second attorney. Margaret previously practiced employment law with Miles & Stockbridge and Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, and served as an in-house employment attorney for seven years with MCI Communications Corporation. Margaret received her B.A. in English, summa cum laude, from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, her M.A., in History, with honors, from Syracuse University and her J.D., with honors, from the University of Maryland School of Law.
Sarah K. Biran joined Farrington Law in 2007. Before joining the firm, Sarah practiced complex litigation in O'Melveny & Myers LLP's Washington, DC office and served as Associate General Counsel at Yale University. Sarah received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Williams College and her J.D. from Stanford Law School. After law school, Sarah served as a law clerk for the Honorable David F. Levi, then of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California.


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Everybody's having sex with everybody! Let's discuss. Day Five of LGBT Week.
Dir. Brittany Blockman & Josephine Decker, 2008, 85 min
Bisexuality is on the rise in America, especially among the youth. Adults call us the "whatever generation," and is that lack of concern about labels the reason for this bicurious boom? Or have there always been this many bisexuals, and it's just now, in a more accepting society, that more people are able to come out? Is bisexuality even "a thing" or are there just a lot of kids playing around and a few gay people unwilling to come out of the closet? Or is the answer something much more complicated? Are these even the right questions to be asking, or does there need to be a paradigm shift in how we think about sex and sexuality?
To explore this phenomenon, directors Brittany Blockman and Josephine Decker set out on a road trip, visiting various young people experimenting with their sexuality. Among other subjects, they meet with a Tennessee teen who is afraid to reveal that she likes girls as well as boys to her parents, a dancer in New York who fears it's "not black" to be bi, and an eleven-year-old in Texas who constantly wonders how he'll turn out when he hits puberty, due to having a straight mother and gay father. The directors also talk with psychologists, biologists, anthropologists, and other "ologists" to learn the academic side of these issues.
Unfortunately, the film's analysis doesn't really go further than asking the same questions that I posed in the opening paragraph. It's not terribly thought-provoking, which is a shame, since this is a provocative topic. But really, everything about this movie is amateur hour. Despite supposedly structuring itself around a road trip, the story skips all over the country at will. The directors don't seem to have grasped the reason you bother with the narrative spine of a road trip. "Cute" asides like the duo asking a drive-thru attendant where they can find a bisexual Mormon just made me roll my eyes. But then, I believe that a director shouldn't step in front of the camera so often unless they're willing to make themselves a part of the story, which these two don't, so it's just artistically incongruous.
But the doc could have still been a light, fluffy curiosity if it had brought in better characters. Except this is a film about modern youth, so finding legitimately introspective subjects, or scratching the surface of seemingly shallow subjects to probe their minds, was going to be difficult. The people here range from boring (the dancer) to annoying (the kid) to flat-out contemptible. One self-involved couple experimenting in open relationships is especially awful. The man calls himself "Rage," which should give you a good idea of what a douche he is.
I've been out-of-step with my generation about many, many things. In fact, I think that "whatever" is a terrible response to most things. So perhaps I missed the boat on bisexuality the way I did on, say, popular music. At any rate, I couldn't really relate to any of these characters or the things they're talking about, and not because I'm straight, but because they're either apathetic or un-self-aware about themselves. And as an outsider, the film should have helped me empathize with them. It didn't, and I think it's because it was directed by two young people, who took for granted that everything they captured made sense. It doesn't. I learned nothing new about bisexuality either intellectually or, more importantly, emotionally.


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Friday, March 23, 2007
ORANGEBURG, SC – The South Carolina State football team resumed spring drills Friday afternoon, following a day off on Thursday, working out in pads for the first time and prepping for its first scrimmage, set for 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Dawson Bulldog Stadium.
Friday's workout was a little sluggish at the beginning, according to head coach Buddy Pough, however, the session got more enthusiastic later in the drill as the players adjusted to wearing pads for the first time.
"It was our first day in pads," said Pough, "and you could tell early on, however, as we got deeper into our drills, the enthusiasm picked up. We are working hard towards getting in shape and installing our alignments.
"In the short time that we have been working out," he continued, "I think the players are beginning to get a better feel for what we are trying to accomplish. I was especially impressed with the defense."
In Saturday's scrimmage, the Bulldogs will have just one quarterback – last year's backup Bryan Hardy, a redshirt junior. Senior Cleve McCoy, the starter the last two seasons, is out with a flu-like illness, and Russell Hemby, who shared the backup duties with Hardy last year, has been shifted to defense.
"The quarterback situation is kind of a tough deal for us right now with McCoy out," Pough said, "but we will get it done. Hardy will get all the work and we will get a good feel of what he can do."
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Everton defender Tony Hibbert has spoken of his delight at his recent run of games in the first-team.
The 33-year-old right-back has made four successive appearances in all competitions for the Toffees, which is more than the entirety of last season.
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First-choice right-back Seamus Coleman has been out since mid-September and therefore manager Roberto Martinez has called upon Hibbert to fill the young Irishman's boots.
Despite some criticism coming his way after some defensive lapses, the player insisted that he is delighted with his run in the first-team.
Injury issues
Speaking on Everton's official website, Hibbert said, "It's been good to get back out there playing. It's been a long time because I've had quite a few injuries and I've been trying to get back into the squad.
"The manager has shown some faith in me, given me a chance when the numbers were down and I'm happy with that.
"The manager stuck with me since Swansea really – I don't think I was supposed to play as many games as I have, but there were injuries so he stuck with me."
Loyal servant
Hibbert's first appeared for the Toffees in the 2000/1 season and since then, the player has made 262 league appearances.
Though he can be dependable in defensive terms, Hibbert is one of the few professional outfield players to have never scored a goal.
In the summer, he signed a two-year contract extension and therefore remains part of Martinez's plans, if only as a squad player.
In terms of Martinez's attacking style of play where the full-backs are expected to move up the pitch and contribute to attacks, Hibbert admitted that it can be difficult with regards to the physical demands of getting up and down the pitch.
Tactical switch
"I think the system he plays means he's [Martinez] happy for us to go forward and get involved more but we've also still got to keep a defensive mind in that when we do attack.
"We've got to keep our shape and be covering ourselves defensively.
"It's difficult [getting up and down] – you've got to be fit to do it but you can pick and choose your times to get forward.
"But the system also means that if we do get caught out going forward, there may be one or two midfielders that can help out behind you.
"That's the modern age now and the full-backs have to get forward as much as possible."
With Coleman still out injured, it is expected that Hibbert's run in the side will continue for at least Everton's fixture with Aston Villa next week.


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Columbus Short's list of troubles just got longer as the actor just announced he won't be back on "Scandal" when the hit ABC drama returns for its fourth season.
Short, who has been on the show since Season 1, released a statement to the media on Friday that said, "At this time I must confirm my exit from a show I've called home for three years, with what is the most talented ensemble in television today. I would like to first thank ['Scandal' creator] Shonda Rhimes for the opportunity to work with such an amazing cast. Thank you GLADIATORS, who have supported me throughout my entire career and of course to ABC and Shondaland for allowing me to play such a pivotal role in the 'Scandal' series. I have enjoyed every single minute of it. Everything must come to an end and unfortunately the time has come for [Short's character] Harrison Wright to exit the canvas. I wish nothing but the best for Shonda, Kerry [Washington] and the rest of the cast, who have become like a second family to me in such a short amount of time. For this, I will forever be grateful."
The option on Short's contract was not picked up.
Short, who played right-hand man to series star Kerry Washington, has had a string of legal problems this year, including an arrest after an alleged bar fight and accusations from his wife of domestic abuse. In mid-April, Short's estranged wife, Tanee Short, filed for divorce from the actor, obtained a temporary restraining order against him and sought full legal and physical custody of their 2-year-old daughter.
At the same time Short's personal life was falling apart, his acting career was higher-profile than ever. "Scandal" gained audience and buzz in its third season, with the season finale grabbing 10.6 viewers. That was the highest-rated episode of the series to date.
Short's character's fate was left uncertain in the season finale. When viewers last saw him, he was being held at gunpoint by members of the Secret Service.


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I am loving using colour at the moment and today I have a card using Dina Wakley's Mod stencil.
Thursday, 9 February 2017
Stand Boldly
Posted by Craft Addicts - Tracy Evans at 13:24
Labels: Cards, Dina Wakley, Mixed Media, Ranger Inc., Tim Holtz, Tracy Evans
9 comments:
- Joi at RR said...
REally FUN! Love the bold colors Tracy. And the sentiments. By the way... HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!! Xj.
- 9 February 2017 at 14:10
- Redanne said...
This is such a pretty and fun card Tracy, it reminds me of those lovely lava lamps from a few years ago - so cheery and the colours are beautiful! Hugs, Anne xx
- 9 February 2017 at 19:49
- Amanda said...
Love this Tracy colours look fab
Amanda x
- 9 February 2017 at 20:38
- Julia Aston said...
Love the colors you used with this wonderful bold stencil Tracy! Julia xx
- 10 February 2017 at 00:01
- Brenda Brown said...
Fantastic retro looking card, love it xxx
- 10 February 2017 at 08:15
- catherine said...
Looks wonderful Tracy and love how you have used the stencil with all those wonderful colours
- 12 February 2017 at 17:54
- A Pink said...
Loving the funky retro feel of this card! Tracy . The black bakground adds real depth . x
- 16 February 2017 at 11:00
- butterfly said...
That's so much fun!
Alison x
- 17 February 2017 at 14:16
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I love the colors and the modern look of this!
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