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Indiana's 8th District didn't have a representative in the U.S. Congress from January 1st to May 1st in 1985. Why? Because Bunky, The Democrat-controlled House simply refused to seat the Republican winner, and after a few disputed recounts that still pointed to the Democrat losing, finally decided to simply seat him against the will of the people who deigned to presume that voting makes a difference. The blatant abuse of power was so obvious that the Republicans walked out in protest when the Democrat "loser" was arbitrarily declared the winner.
Doubt this is true? Look it up yourself if you wish, here's the digest version- The Republican, Rick McIntyre, won by 39 votes on election night, led by 418 votes after a recount, and was certified by the Secretary of State of Indiana as the winner. The House refused to seat him however, recounted the ballots themselves, and decided that McIntyre's opponent actually won by 4 votes. Indiana's 8th District has earned its contentious moniker, and the saga continues.
In 2008, a well-liked local sheriff rode the Obama Wave and handily defeated a little-known Republican, setting up a monumental battle in 2010 fueled by anti-Obama Tea Party fervor. The real battle, as it turned out, was in the Republican Primary. There were several serious challengers, and the vast majority identified themselves as pro-Constitution and aligned with the Tea Party. Early on it appeared that the Republicans would place a Tea Party conservative on the general election ballot in November of 2010.
Enter the Republican Establishment…
Despite the strong and conservative field in the Republican Primary the NRCC (National Republican Congressional Committee) quickly settled on Dr. Larry Bucshon as their choice and money and talent flowed into his campaign. With the large field of Tea Party candidates guaranteeing a split vote among their ranks, the only nominal RINO in the race eased into victory lane.
End of story? Not yet.
Among the Tea Party candidates in 2008 was a tenacious married mother of four with a penchant for quoting the Constitution, Kristi Risk. In a large field of similarly staunch conservatives she nearly beat Bucshon anyway, and because of that strong showing has set up yet another bloody battle in the notorious 8th District.
Risk excelled in the numerous Tea Party-sponsored debates that were held in 2010. Many, if not all of these debates, are still available on Youtube. After watching a few of these one conclusion is inescapable; not only did Risk win every debate, Bucshon never ranked anywhere near the top tier, and among the serious contenders he probably should have been ranked dead last in every contest. His weak understanding of the issues, and uninspired defense of the conservative agenda, is no doubt why he was only able to narrowly win in what should have been a landslide under the aegis of the Republican Establishment.
Bucshon's Facebook posts read like a laundry list of items on a campaign check-off sheet, while Risk's Facebook posts are invariably dedicated to exposing the Leftist agenda and defending Constitutional principles. What becomes quickly apparent when comparing their campaign narratives is that Risk is an ideologue, while Bucshon is a conservative caricature.
Her ideology isn't academic either, and even a cursory glance at some of her debate performances reveal a deep passion for God and Country. Kristi Risk is the Tea Party, and during the 2010 campaign season she emerged as the favorite in the conservative wing of the Republican Party.
Recently Risk announced she was running again and the rematch was set, this time with a less-crowded field, and a clear choice for the 8th District voters. Working against her is Bucshon's incumbency and a large campaign coffer that has blossomed with the imprimatur of Washington power.
One thing is clear: The battle for supremacy in the 8th is no longer between Republicans and Democrats, it's between RINO's and the Tea Party. Whoever wins the Republican nomination will probably cruise to victory in the political climate that currently exists in Southwestern Indiana.
Indiana is a bellweather for the Tea Party in 2012. Besides the Bloody 8th, Republican Senator Dick Lugar is facing a strong challenge from tea Party favorite Richard Mourdock. If both Risk and Mourdock win their primary challenge of the establishment choices in their respective races ignoring the Tea Party will no longer be an option for the Republican Party, and the likelihood that general election races everywhere will actually offer a choice will increase dramatically.
If Risk wins her primary it is certain that there will be no ambiguity in her cause, and if you doubt that, you haven't heard the lady speak.


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In the summer of 2007, his campaign for the White House well under way, Senator Barack Obama waded into the minefield of racial politics and accused President George W. Bush of sitting idly by as a "quiet riot" simmered in black communities.
The news created a stir. NBC News featured it on its "Nightly News" broadcast. The Washington Post and The Chicago Tribune wrote about it, and it was mentioned in a New York Times Op-Ed column. The conservative writer and pundit Tucker Carlson devoted an entire segment to it on his MSNBC program.
Then the speech largely faded away — until last month, when someone calling himself "Sore Throwt" started e-mailing conservative activists and news media outlets claiming to have a bombshell video that would jolt the presidential election.
On Tuesday, the eve of the first presidential debate between Mr. Obama and Mitt Romney, Mr. Carlson's current venture, The Daily Caller, a Web site started with financial help from the conservative donor Foster Friess, put the video back in circulation.
And its report brought to the forefront a wave of questions that have long been favorite topics in conservative circles: about Mr. Obama's views on race; his associations with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.; and whether the mainstream media was willfully ignoring embarrassing episodes from Mr. Obama's past.Continue reading the main story
The video of Mr. Obama's 2007 remarks shows him saying complimentary things about Mr. Wright, questioning whether race was a reason that federal aid was slow to reach New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and speaking in a more distinctly African-American cadence than he normally uses in public addresses. By Wednesday morning, it had mushroomed into a lead story on the network news programs, a dominant theme of cable news coverage and a developing story online.
For conservatives like Mr. Carlson, the episode was complete vindication. Months ago, many Republicans rushed to distance themselves from an aborted plan by another conservative donor, Joe Ricketts, to finance a campaign that would have touched on similar themes, and Democrats dismissed the video this time as old news. Yet with the campaign moving into its final stages, and Republicans struggling to overcome the fallout from a video in which Mr. Romney was secretly taped making disparaging comments about the "47 percent," the Obama video quickly caught fire.
Mr. Carlson and the editors of his Web site, which was founded with $3.5 million in seed money from Mr. Friess, who was a leading backer of Rick Santorum's "super PAC," immediately saw the relevance of the tape to their conservative audience. To them, what Mr. Obama said in the video was a perfect confluence of all their complaints about the way the mainstream media has covered Mr. Obama: credulously and insufficiently.
The Drudge Report picked up word of the news before it broke, alerting readers on Tuesday afternoon that a major scoop was coming. "The Accent ... The Anger ... The Accusations," the headline teased.
After Mr. Carlson posted the article on his Web site, timed for the prime-time Fox News programming lineup, he appeared on the Sean Hannity program on Fox to explain what he had found. More than three million people tuned in, a substantially larger audience than usual. There was the president, speaking in a way that he usually does not in public, telling a black audience, a group of clergy members at Hampton University in Virginia, that the government did not care about them.
The president was using racial tensions to try to divide America into different classes of people, Mr. Carlson argued. And the accent? To him, it was further evidence of the argument that many Obama opponents on the right have been pushing in their writings, talk shows and films for years: We don't really know who this man is.
A conspiracy theory cottage industry has sprung up around the notion that Mr. Obama is somehow foreign, if not by birth than by ideology. Donald Trump breathed new life into a career as a cable news pundit by repeatedly questioning if the president's birth certificate was authentic.
Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative author and filmmaker, has a new movie in theatrical release called "Obama 2016" that argues that Mr. Obama's father, a Kenyan, instilled anti-Americanism in his son at an early age.
One of the film's financial backers was Mr. Ricketts, the founder of TD Ameritrade, who considered getting behind a multimillion-dollar ad campaign that would have linked Mr. Obama to his former pastor, Mr. Wright, who became a source of embarrassment for the president.
In many ways, Mr. Hannity was an ideal first stop for Mr. Carlson. Throughout the year Mr. Hannity has featured a segment called "Vetting the President," often focusing on foibles from Mr. Obama's past or over his tenure. As Mr. Hannity said in March, "We call it 'Vetting the President.' Because the mainstream media, they're not going to do it. They helped elect him. They hid a lot of things about his past."
And after the video's release on The Daily Caller and Mr. Hannity's program, it was the talk of the rest of the conservative news media. "Clearly race-baiting, clearly angry, and I'm telling you: This is who he is to this day," Rush Limbaugh told his radio audience on Wednesday. Mr. Carlson declined to say on Tuesday how he acquired the video, which news networks have had in their libraries since it was shot. He said only that he had received the video in the last few days.
The video had apparently been circulating in conservative circles at least a week. One person contacted about it described receiving an e-mail pitch from someone calling himself Sore Throwt, a pun on Deep Throat, who helped uncover the Watergate scandal.
Sore Throwt wanted to be paid in exchange for handing over the video, this person said, speaking anonymously in order to divulge a conversation he had promised to keep confidential.
Mr. Carlson would not say whether he paid for the tape.
But he scoffed at the notion that he was merely recycling old news. What he thought was most provocative about it — Mr. Obama's apparent attempt to link race to the slow Katrina recovery effort — did not, he said, receive coverage at the time, including on his own program. "We've already seen this? Really? That's untrue," he said, objecting to criticisms that the tape offered little new. "I feel like I'm in an alternative universe."Continue reading the main story


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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
David Letterman Tonight!
Also, the Charlie Rose show just put up last night's interview with Michael, so go here to check it out! I'm one of the few who don't watch TV, so I missed it last night. I will watch this when I get home. He looks good and very sophisticated.
ps. if you are on twitter, please follow me @fassfass I post a lot of links to articles and interviews on Michael which do not appear here at Fassinating Fassbender. And if you don't mind a few personal 'Simone' tweets, I encourage you to follow me. Thanks!
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npr highlights actual audio is going to be posted 5pm nyc time today
- January 18, 2012 at 12:37 PM
- mopes11 said...
hey guys!
i got tickets for letterman's show today! heading over in a few. I'll be sure to give you the inside scoop. Love Love Love fassy :-)
- January 18, 2012 at 1:51 PM
- Simone said...
Have fun mopes11 and get exclusive info and photos sister! :D
- January 18, 2012 at 3:00 PM
- Dionne said...
mopes11 you lucky person you! I'm jealous. Have fun and try to get pics, etc. anything!
- January 18, 2012 at 3:23 PM
sam b listening now ( he sounds amazing on radio)....please have pics mopes11
- January 18, 2012 at 5:11 PM
The David Letterman Show was fun! Just wish it could be longer!!
- January 19, 2012 at 12:36 AM
To be honest, I enjoyed Charlie Rose much, much more than Letterman. Letterman didn't seem as well prepared for this interview as Charlie Rose. He didn't even get Michael's jokes, either. On the contrary, the audience laughed and seemed enjoying them much. (That was quite ironic to me. A host doesn't get what even his audience get;)) Michael looked a bit nervous, but he was very adorable, playful and cute. Congratulations on his US talk show debut! Maybe next time, Craig Ferguson or Jimmy Fallon, I hope?
- January 19, 2012 at 2:22 AM
- Vicky B said...
I found it hilarious that they couldn't get away from sexual references, no matter how they tried.
- January 19, 2012 at 3:12 AM
- Simone said...
I'll watch the interview sometime today, as soon as it's available to view.
Letterman is no Charlie Rose, never will be, so the interview styles are polar opposites. One is cerebral, one is pure schtick and fun.
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Banbridge man Rory Best has been named Ireland captain for the upcoming RBS Six Nations Championship.
The 33 year-old has been confirmed as the man to replace ex-skipper Paul O'Connell. Coach Joe Schmidt made the announcement via email as the squad for February's opener against Wales was also named.
Best is Ireland's most-capped hooker with 89 appearances and has previously captained Ireland on four occasions, overseeing three wins.
Luke Marshall and fellow Ulsterman Darren Cave, who missed out on the squad, had thrown their support behind Best's candidacy, Marshall hailing the Ulster skipper's inspirational half-time team talk in the remarkable 24-23 Champions Cup comeback win in Oyonnax.
Best's home truths kick-started Ulster to turn their 23-0 deficit on its head in the thrilling January 10 victory, leaving Marshall extolling his provincial captain's virtues for the vacant Test role.
"He's an incredible player and someone who leads from the front," said Marshall. "That's one of the first things you look for in a captain."
And fellow international centre Cave added his endorsement as well.
"I think Rory is one of the main reasons that this club has turned itself around since I started playing, we have signed well and certain people upstairs have done a good job and got good signings in.
"Rory has been the one that the team has been built around.
"Even when he wasn't captain he was the main man and he has always been the main leader.
"I think it would be a great honour for him and I hope he gets it."
Leinster's Jamie Heaslip was thought to be Best's main rival for the role. The 32 year-old led an injury-hit Irish side to the 43-20 World Cup quarter-final defeat to Argentina in O'Connell's absence. Heaslip's overall record as Ireland captain is six wins, five defeats and a draw.
But at the Aviva Stadium on Sunday February 7 against Wales, it will be Poyntzpass farmer and Ulster captain Best who will lead out the Ireland team.
Ulster players Luke Marshall, Jared Payne, Paddy Jackson, Rob Herring, Stuart McCloskey and Andrew Trimble have also been named in Schmidt's squad.


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I think that with Charles Clarke as education secretary, we might finally have an opportunity for a serious debate about the purpose of the university. I did not sit in the audience at University College, Worcester, and therefore did not hear his musing on medieval history and culture. But I have no problem in accepting his subsequent claim that he did not attack the discipline of medieval history in his speech. An examination of his subsequently published transcript indicates that this speech had little to do with the discipline of history as such. The aim of Clarke's intervention was to promote his belief that the justification for a state-funded university was its ability to deliver subjects that are useful for the labour market and for stimulating economic growth.
With the present political regime you know where you stand. Back in January, Margaret Hodge, the higher education minister, warned universities against trying to meet government targets by putting students on "Mickey Mouse" courses. When pressed on the definition of a "Mickey Mouse" course, Hodge stated that she was worried about degrees that "may not have huge relevance to the labour market". The belief that the mission of university is to provide students with degrees that employers want is also vigorously advocated by Clarke. As he noted, education for its own sake is "a bit dodgy" and students need a relationship "with the workplace". The Worcester speech simply elaborated Clarke's technocratic vision of university life.
It is surprising that the initial reports of Clarke's remarks have raised such a furore. It is worth recalling that since the early 80s successive governments have sought to turn higher education into a servicing agency for the labour market. Throughout this period politicians and their officials have systematically directed the academic profession towards more work-related and vocational forms of course provision. This process was not confined to displays of subtle pressure but was accompanied by an unprecedented intervention into the domain of curriculum design and development. Years of relentless pressure have ensured that universities have internalised the instrumentalist ethos that regards higher education as a period of preparation for employment.
The new technocratic jargon associated with the ascendancy of "key skills" and "competencies" is now used to justify course outlines. Subject-related benchmarking statements and departmental mission statements promise to provide students with the skills that will make them highly employable.
Everyone plays the game and swears on the bible of relevance. In British academic life this is the only way you can justify your existence. Last week supporters of medieval history defended their position by arguing that history graduates were "extremely employable". Martha Lane Fox, the head of Lastminute.com and a graduate in ancient and medieval history at Oxford University, was hailed as living testimony to the value of medieval studies.
Unfortunately it is not possible to win the argument against philistinism by competing in the relevance stakes. Such an approach fails to challenge the vocational orientation of current policy on higher education. And by accepting the premise that the worth of a course is affirmed through its relevance, the battle for a more academic focus for higher education will be lost. Clarke and his predecessors seek to associate the idea of education for its own sake with some elitist medieval institution. In reality no institution has ever pursued activities for their own sake, in the medieval past or today. The aim of this caricature is to deprecate the idea that the pursuit of knowledge and truth has some intrinsic value in and of itself.
Somehow the aspiration for knowledge has been turned into a medieval prejudice.
Taylorist higher education focused on skills and relevance may sound pragmatic and down to earth. In reality its value to society is open to question. It offers formulaic, off-the-shelf, easily quantifiable bits of knowledge whose contribution to a modern flexible society remains unproven.
Prosperity, creativity and enterprise depend on an environment of creative thought in which people have an opportunity to develop their ideas in relation to a variety of subjects and problems.
So what should be the purpose of a forward-looking 21st century university? We need universities to provide expert teaching and cutting edge research and to provide an environment for the unrestrained pursuit of knowledge. Not the kind of knowledge that flatters authorities. Not knowledge that is deemed to be a stimulant to economic growth but knowledge driven by a complex mix of passions that cannot be given a technocratic label.
One final point. Medieval institutions were bitterly hostile to the unrestrained pursuit of knowledge and those in authority were no less happy to intrude in the affairs of scholars than their colleagues today. Today, the spirit of medievalism may well be thriving in the most unexpected of places.
· Frank Furedi is professor of sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury.


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Gregorys Coffee is a GQ-approved coffee shop chain in N.Y.C. that balances a quality product with a smart approach to design. A case in point: its logo, which is two coffee cups that form the glasses of the bespectacled founder combined with his spiky-haired silhouette. The Gregory behind the coffee, Greg Zamfotis, has attracted attention not just because as an independent business owner going up against the big guys, but also because he's as meticulous about menswear as he is about brewing methods and roasting beans.
We caught up with Zamfotis at his Battery Park pad—early in the day for us, but just about in the middle of his—where we got a glimpse of how he spends his down time, and what he wears off the clock. He answered the door clad in a patched-up, paint-stained J.Crew sweatshirt and crisp white Thom Browne oord worn over a pair of black trousers from cult designer Boris Bidjan Saberi and broken-in Viberg boots. It's a look that blends the best of off-duty style with Zamfotis's penchant for high-end men's fashion, and definitely speaks to his taste. Here's what a true man at ease looks like.
GQ: What is your typical morning like?
Greg Zamfotis: I usually get up around 5-5:30 a.m. and try to get into the shops definitely before 7. People drink coffee in the morning, so I need to get there before to make sure everything's going right. We start rockin' and rollin' around 7-7:30. I don't have to necessarily be in the shops—we have more than one—but I like to wander around and make sure things are going good, and if anyone has any issues, it's good for me to be around.
GQ: What do you normally wear when you have to go to work?
Greg Zamfotis: It's a nice little mix. I get suited up if I'm dealing with lawyers or landlords. I'm a New York-certified, bar-approved lawyer. I never actually practiced though. I went straight to the food service industry. Specifically coffee, obviously.
GQ: From "bar" to "barista," you might say?
Greg Zamfotis: Exactly. So I was already preparing for life in a suit in a different kind of way—and it's funny when I'm behind the bar making coffees in a suit, people are kind of like "what's going on over here?" But I try not to do that too often when I'm wearing my really nice stuff. Normally I like to mix denim with nice oords, stuff I can beat up and is easy to wash. I don't have to worry about if it's wrinkled or not. It's always a mid bag depending on what I'm doing. Usually I like to keep things pretty tight, clean, and organized.
GQ: Does your style change when the weekend hits?
Greg Zamfotis: The funny thing is I work seven days a week, but on the weekend it's a little bit less stressful. I have a little bit less going on so I can let more of my casual side come out and I definitely get more cozy. You know, maybe bust out some nice tailored sweatpants.
GQ: Who are your go-to brands for sweatpants right now?
Greg Zamfotis: I've got some from John Elliott, Thom Browne, and Rick Owens. I've also been wearing my Thom Browne oord shirts a lot lately, I have like ten. I just rotate them constantly, they're my go-to.
GQ: We've also spotted you in Visvim on TV. When do you pull those pieces out?
Greg Zamfotis: Yeah my Visvim one is for special occasions, when I want to go a little bit bananas. I'm 90% sure I'm never going to get it dirty. They all need to be handwashed, you can't put them in the washing machine otherwise it'll ruin the fabric. So, of course the last time I wore it I got sprinkled with some espresso and I was pretty disappointed. Now it's a little bit more worn in.


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I know its been a while, but all has not been forgotten. Life has just been nuts lately. But, some progress has been made with the "softIK" solution for Maya. I came across a website from a couple years back (which makes me feel really dated) that had this ability functioning. Sadly, it was in Japanese, so all I could actually glean was the example file they sent. So my next plans are to go through the code and try to find a good way to clearly explain how the joints are being driven, and try to generate a script to automate the process. After all, that's what MEL is good for. Hopefully that update will come sooner rather than later.
In the meantime, here's a link to the site I'm basing this off of. You can download the file there as well.
Hey, I just had an ingenious idea... So, I went to the XSIBlog site (link below) and downloaded his plugin for XSI to see if I could make any sense out of it. Looks like it was written in JScript. So you should be able to open it up in a decent text editor and begin to thumb your way through it. Though I'm not familiar with JScript myself, I'm sure I can talk to some programmers at work about it and they can shed some light on the topic. More to come, but in the meantime feel free to download the plugin and see if you can make any sense out of it. It'd be a good excercise... Here's a link to the download.


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Students estimate the true mean of a population when the standard deviation is known by finding the sample mean, margin of error and confidence interval.
Students work through multiple-choice questions on the worksheet to review the standard normal curve and the percentiles.
The Central Limit Theorem is also reviewed and built on to enable students to construct confidence intervals when trying to estimate the mean of the population.
Students will estimate the true mean of the longest reception for all American Football League receivers, given the standard deviation of the population.
The teacher will lead them through each step, calculating the sample mean, z-score, margin of error, and the confidence interval. Students will then interpret the confidence interval and confirm their answer with the ZInterval command.
Students are given homework problems that ask them to find different confidence intervals using the sample data.
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The Atlantic Division remains at 4 teams for the 2017 season. New sponsors this year are the Stifel Financial Corporation and the O'Brien Service Company. Returning team sponsors are K&W Cafeteria and Cambridge Village. We tip our caps to our returning and new sponsors and thank you for your generous support of senior softball in the Wilmington area. THANK YOU!
Around 1937, the original investors (T.K. Knight and his brothers-in-law, Thomas, Kenneth and William Wilson) decided to change the coffee shop's name. Using their initials, they created the name K&W Restaurant. With his original one third interest in the company and his recognition of the company's potential, Grady T. Allred increased his share of ownership. In1941, Allred became K&W's sole owner after acquiring the last remaining share from Thomas Wilson.
It wasn't long before Allred involved his family in the new acquisition. His wife, Vivian, worked as a cashier and Allred's brothers, Ted and Coy, joined the business as managers. Soon, a second K&W location opened in nearby High Point. Both restaurants flourished until December of 1951, when a fire forced the downtown Winston-Salem location to close for several months. After extensive repairs and restoration, the restaurant reopened in 1952 with a slight twist - it was now a restaurant/cafeteria combination.
Today, K&W Cafeterias is still owned and operated by the Allred family. K&W is headquartered in Winston-Salem, N.C. and has 33 locations: 23 in North Carolina, 5 in South Carolina, 4 in Virginia, and 1 in West Virginia. They are a big supporters of charities in the ares they serve and continue to offer a large variety of great home-cooked food at very low prices.
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Are tar sands oil pipelines safe? Do they ever leak?
Tar sands oil pipelines are definitely NOT safe, they spill all the time!
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration ("PHMSA") is the primary
federal regulatory agency responsible for energy pipeline safety in the U.S. This
agency maintains records and statistics for pipeline incidents in the U.S. According
to PHMSA records, there have been 10,273 reported incidents between 1992 and 2011.
These incidents include 384 fatalities, 1,568 injuries, $5,354,942,041 in property
damage, and 2,529,868 barrels of spilled hazardous liquid (including crude oil).
In 2011 alone, there were 600 incidents resulting in 151,173 barrels of spilled
hazardous liquid.
In fact, the Keystone I pipeline had a whopping 14 spills in just a 12-month period.
Because Keystone I is owned by the same company that wants to build Keystone XL,
and because Keystone I carries the same product that Keystone XL would carry, a look
at Keystone I provides a good indication of what to expect from Keystone XL.
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Bangalore-based mobile development toolkit startup, Hansel.io, has raised funding led by Endiya Partners, a newly floated fund by Sateesh Andra (previously VentureEast and DFJ India), through TracxnSyndicate. The round saw participation from Tracxn Labs and angels including Mekin Maheshwari, Rajesh Sawhney besides others. Sateesh and Rajesh were also investors at Little Eye Labs, acquired by Facebook in 2014.
Aimed towards helping the 8.7 million plus mobile developer community, Hansel.io is a complete toolkit that automatically reproduces issues, allows developers to fix crashes at runtime and dynamically communicate with users at issue level. Through its solutions, the startup helps mobile developers take control of their apps at runtime.
The company addresses two big gaps in the mobile developer market. First, is the lack of solutions that effectively work within the guidelines of the Operating Systems to provide developers control at runtime. The second gap is the lack of a solution that closes the diagnosis-resolution-
Moreover, rather than intending to make stack traces or helpdesks work better, Hansel.io aims to transform mobile software management in the production environment. Speaking on the company's vision, Parminder Singh, CTO, Hansel.io said, "The development timelines are getting compressed, the tolerance to bugs from consumers are getting thinner and the customer acquisition costs are skyrocketing. Any system that attempts to unify development, QA and post production management thereby improving agility will be godsend for companies. That is our long term aim as well"
Before creating Hansel.io, the founders – Varun Ramamurthy (CEO), Parminder Singh (CTO) and Mudit Mathur (VP) had worked on a product called Elfi that let users live stream media from their phones to their friends across the world. With the initial beta testers being developers and product managers, the constant feedback received by the founders was to license the technology so that they could understand what their users were seeing in real time. Thus the idea of Hansel.io was born. Today, the company has a tech team including engineers from Flipkart, inMobi and Amazon.
The company, although in closed beta until now, claims to be seen healthy signups. Developers can sign up from their homepage. It currently has a waitlist system through which the SDK is currently distributed in a closed group. The startup aims to announce a public launch soon.


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Saturday, June 07, 2008
EPISODE76 - Talking 80s Music with Martin Hennessy
It was Bret Michaels Week. Well, not nationally or anything but we celebrated it in style. We gave away a copy of his new album, Rock My World, earlier in the week via our newsletter. We wrapped up the week by giving away a copy during the show and playing a few tracks ("Go That Far," "Fallen," "Raine" and "Start Again") from the album. A review of the album is also up in the Reviews section of 80sMusicCentral.com.
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The New Golf Club in St Andrews has witnessed excellent success in the Scottish Boys Open Championhip at Monifieth Links.
John Paterson won the Championship on one under par for the four rounds, two clear of last year's Scottish Boys order of merit winner Jamie Stewart.
And fellow New Golf Club junior team members Ben Caton finished tied ninth on 11 over par, and Pol Berge tied 13th on 14 over par.
John, Ben and Pol are all members of the New Golf Club junior team, developing their games at the St Andrews Golf Academy, having benefited from golf development training via the St Andrews Links Junior Golf Association and associated infrastructure, with their support network of coaching.
To have three boys in the top 15 is an excellent achievement for the New Golf Club.
From 144 starters in the a broad international field at the April 12-14 event, a cut was made for the top 40 players and ties after rounds one adn two on the Wednesday and Thursday, and the final field played 36 holes last Friday morning and afternoon.
The Championship winner, John Paterson shot a final round 67, including eagles at the 1st and 8th, narrowly missing a third eagle at the 18th.
He made an outstanding speech at the presentation, thanking his family and his local golf network of support and coaches who lead his development, together with the Monifieth Links, which had had presented the course in superb condition.
The magnificent Scottish Boys Open Championship trophy and Gold Medal was handed over by vice-president of Scottish Golf, Malcolm Mitchell, who is also a past captain of the New Golf Club.
Malcolm declared himself "very proud of the three outstanding young golfers representing the New Golf Club, St Andrews, playing in a large field, representing 15 countries from across the globe".
He added: "The boys have our congratulations for their excellent achievements. I understand they are all very excited for the season ahead, and they are looking forward to playing in more Junior and Senior Amateur Golf Championships in the near future, we wish them well in their continued development."
Pictured is John Paterson receiving the Scottish Boys Open Championship trophy, with Malcolm Mitchell, vice-president of Scottish Golf and Graeme Waghorn, chairman of Monifieth Golf Links Trust, at the 18th green of Monifieth Golf Links. Inset, Pol Berge and Ben Caton, shortly after finishing the final round of the Championship.


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Accounts of high-profile library thefts tend to focus on the more sensationalistic aspects of the crimes. Less frequently discussed are the actions an institution must undertake to ensure that stolen materials are identified, located, and repatriated. Using the recent E. Forbes Smiley map thefts as a case study, Michael Inman, curator of Rare Books at The New York Public Library, will discuss the theft recovery process, from identifying purloined collection items and assigning ownership to dealing with law enforcement and insurance carriers. Particular attention will be paid to the important role that bibliography and cataloging plays in the recovery process.
Michael Inman, "A Long Road Home: Investigation and Recovery in the E. Forbes Smiley Map Thefts"
14 April 2011
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Maungataniwha Kiwi Project
The Maungataniwha Kiwi Project is fast carving out a name for itself as one of the most prolific and successful kiwi conservation initiatives in the country. The number of kiwi chicks which have been successfully hatched and released into the wild is approaching 300.
The goals of the Maungataniwha Kiwi Project are twofold:
Half of them are then released back into the wild at Maungataniwha, while the other half remain at The Cape Sanctuary. This process of taking eggs from the wild, to be incubated and raised in a controlled environment and then released back to the wild, is part of BNZ Operation Nest Egg.
The Maungataniwha Native Forest site was chosen as the predominant kiwi source population for The Cape Sanctuary as it's within the East Coast, Hawkes Bay kiwi taxa region and still contains good numbers of birds. Other source populations of kiwi are the Kaweka Ranges and Northern Ruahine Ranges, also within the East Coast Hawkes Bay region.
The Maungataniwha Kiwi Project continues as a successful liaison between all organisations and individuals involved. The project is funded substantially by The Kiwi Trust.
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BareNakedIslam operator accused of not being a true Jew for linking to my site
I just randomly came across this (link) article posted around two years ago on another blog. The author accuses the operator of the BareNakedIslam site of not being truly Jewish because she occasionally links to this blog. Apparently, this is a "Jew-hating" site. Who knew? Being critical of Jews in any way means you hate them.


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Replay could use some tweaks, but the system needn't be overturned
Amid the furor over instant replay in baseball, I'd like to raise a few points.
1. A lot of us — fans, media, players, managers, team and league executives — argued for years that the sport needed to expand its replay system. This year, Major League Baseball spent millions of dollars to make that happen. To now criticize the in-game delays caused by replay would be disingenuous.
2. In the vast majority of cases this season, replay has resulted in correct outcomes and relatively little controversy. It just so happened that one blatant mistake (and another questionable reversal) occurred over the weekend under circumstances that tend to generate considerable media attention: a Red Sox-Yankees series in New York.
3. The stall/review/deliberation time — the pitch-to-pitch delay — needs to be shortened. I understand MLB's interest in allowing communication with replay coaches, in an effort to better regulate the inevitable use of clever means of relaying messages. But manager-umpire chitchat while waiting for a dugout thumbs-up does not improve the product or fan experience.
The system ought to require managers to initiate a challenge — either verbally or by throwing a flag — within a more tightly controlled interval after a pitch. Baseball requires keen perception and immediate judgment of its players; managers should be no different. Managers should need to rely on skill and strategy with instant replay, not an unseen coach.
4. To follow up on that point, faster decisions by managers would lessen the time crunch on replay officials as they try to take an exhaustive look at the footage. I'm told that part of the issue in Saturday's blown call in New York — the Dean Anna play — was that the replay official wasn't completely clear on what Boston manager John Farrell was challenging.
The replay official knew that Farrell was challenging the "safe" call at second base . . . but the message wasn't fully understood that the Red Sox agreed Anna beat the play initially before coming off the bag. It's not clear where the communication broke down, but anyone who has watched the on-field theatrics of replay can imagine this game of "telephone."
In the end, communications to the New York replay center should be made more quickly (from the manager) and more clearly (from the on-field crew chief).
5. We need to accept one inherent shortcoming of this system: Managers are going to challenge calls way more often than an impartial observer would like.
As conceptualized by MLB commissioner Bud Selig, baseball's expanded replay system was designed to fix massive, game-altering, and potentially championship-deciding mistakes (e.g., Don Denkinger and Jim Joyce). It was not designed for a bang-bang play at first base that is unclear even in slo-mo. But managers are going to deploy replay in those circumstances, because (a) such calls can change games and (b) their jobs are on the line each day.
Think about it: If asking someone to take a second look at something could save your job — or help you become incredibly wealthy and successful — you'd want them to do it, too. The stakes are high in this business; the heavy use of replay early this season is further evidence of that.
6. Finally, just a little more transparency would go a long way.
I'm sure part of Farrell's frustration Sunday was the lack of a thorough explanation for why Saturday's call was so obviously blown. And when a person of Farrell's stature in the game suggests that he has lost faith in the system so quickly, MLB's response needs to be greater transparency.
Here's what I mean: It would not be difficult for MLB to tweet (or post on a blog) a brief account of why the replay umpire reached each decision during the course of a night. This could be accomplished at the end of that particular inning; the replay umpire would dictate his analysis of the play, and, after a quick transcription and edit by another MLB employee, fans everywhere could see the rationale behind the ruling.
Great news: At last check, @ReplayUmp is still available.


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Palm Done Right means going beyond the standard.
Industrial palm plantations use conventional growing methods. With a primary focus on cost savings and high volume, they rely on chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, and heavy machinery for planting and harvesting.
"Conventional" growing methods deplete the soil and produce waste and pollution.
This creates a vicious cycle, where fertilizers contaminate water sources, increase the salinity of the soil and kill off micronutrients, requiring more and more fertilizer for plants to grow. Pesticides kill not only pests, but beneficial insects as well, requiring more and more powerful pesticides.
Not only is this detrimental to the soil and the ecosystem, but more and more evidence is showing that these chemicals have negative effects on our health, too.
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In contrast, Palm Done Right farmers use organic growing practices. By definition, growing organically means growing without synthetic pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers.
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Farmers who grow organically become stewards of the land and soil, rather than takers from it.
Palm Done Right combines experience and wisdom from indigenous cultures with the technical know-how of professional agronomists to empower farmers with the knowledge, support and resources they need to grow organically.
Organic and sustainable practices used for Palm Done Right include:
- Cultivating diverse, non-commercial crops to attract beneficial insects
- Planting leguminous (i.e. "nitrogen fixing") cover crops to nurture the soil and provide "green compost"
- Multi-cropping for both biodiversity and economic stability
- Reusing palm leaves and cuttings for mulch and compost to naturally increase the soil's carbon content
- Collecting gray water through drainage systems to reuse elsewhere on the farm
- Opting for non-fossil fuel run equipment and transportation—like mules and oxen—as much as possible
- Using empty palm bunches as fuel for the processing of the palm oil or as a nutrient-rich mulch
There's More to Multi-Cropping
Farmer with cacao ... a crop that grows well with palm, increases biodiversity, and provides another revenue stream for farmers
Multi-cropping—in the case of palm, interplanting with other crops such as passionfruit, cacao or pineapple—increases the biodiversity of the land. Each plant's root system, nutritional "footprint" and insect attraction profile benefits the other, making a healthier whole. In West Africa, small oil palm plots, typically 2-4 hectares, neighbor plots on which cocoa, citrus, cassava and maize are grown, promoting the area's biodiversity.
Multi-cropping helps the farmer economically too. Additional crops give farmers a supplemental source of income, and can help to even out cash flow depending on how fast a crop yields and when it produces.
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
Graduated Chipboard & Acetate Album
I found this totally cute album on Heather Scott's blog. I modified slightly but I think it came out superb! For this class, I will have a variety of colors for you to choose from with the same accents of black and white. You can later add in any photos you want and keep or give as a gift.
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Last night, after working a particularly grueling 13-hour day and anticipating an early call and stressful morning today, I arrived home at about 8:30pm, totally wired. It was too late to go to karate and I was too cabin crazy to stay in and do a workout video. (Plus, I try to do my embarrassing workout videos during the day, when the naked gay couple across the street are less likely to stare at me while I gyrate in bizarre motions alone in my living room.)
So last night, I decided to go for a run. Overlooking for a moment the fact that it was 'snowing' (I use that term loosely since it was mostly ice chunks and rain), and that it was about 36 degrees outside, I'd been cooped up in an overheated office with overheated workmates for too long and needed to vent some energy and get some air, even if it was frozen air. I live in midtown Manhattan, on the East Side - what's considered a very safe neighborhood (or, as safe as it can be with millions of people literally living on top of one another).
The few times that I've actually run in my neighborhood, I prefer to run north on Park Avenue because of the wide sidewalks (that are well-kept) and minimal pedestrian traffic. Third Avenue is more convenient, but the pedestrian density in front of the popular after-work bars is often challenging to navigate, and the twisting and dodging risks a broken ankle or full-body impact with someone who's had too many beers. Ew. Lexington has the shops and tourists who believe that walking down the street with their eyes closed is a good idea. And riding the subway to Central Park to run at night is just dumb.
I also have it worked out that 20 blocks is approximately a mile, so I can also easily keep track of how far I've gone. And overall, Park Ave. is a pretty good route that is only plagued with some slight inclines around 68th street - but it only lasts about two or three blocks.
Of course, the last few times I've had the bizarre urge to go running, I went during the day. This was the first time I was going to jog at night, and honestly, I thought nothing about it. Until I called the elevator. When I got in, I asked the doorman if he could hold on to my key, because I was going running. And I told him my route - go up Park Ave, and then come back down Park Ave. At least this way, someone will know where I am, right? (See? I'm not totally clueless.)
To this commentary, my doorman looked me up and down (in my uber-baggy ripped sweatpants, lint-laden hoodie, bad-hair-inducing wool cap, and super-cozy and super-unstylish mittens) and said to me worriedly "Do you think that's safe?"... and then, before I could reply, he shook his head and said, "Oh, never mind. You'll be fine. You take karate."
I take karate. And therefore it's okay for me to be on Park Avenue alone on a Tuesday at 8:30pm in my sweatpants with uber-ugly hat hair. And if I didn't take karate, would it be unacceptable? It's a compliment, I think, for people to be watching out for you and telling you to be careful... and that they worry enough about you to warn you of what they think may be unsafe situations. But the interaction got me thinking... what if I didn't take karate? Would I therefore be unsafe? More or less at risk?
I kept track of who I passed along the way. There was a fine selection of upper-East-side fare, including the puttering mini-grannies with their matching mini-dogs; the dapper couples out for a stroll after dinner in long furs and clippy-clop high heels; groups of businessmen finishing up post-work networking cocktails, walking in long-wool-dress-coat herds towards a subway or Grand Central to tardily join in the commute; a few boxed-up homeless folks that were sleeping in stair alcoves in front of churches. So far no one who deserved any karate-chopping.
I did pass two other runners, and we nodded at one another, acknowledging that a) we were committed to our health, and b) we were stupid idiots to be running in the freezing rain. The only people that actually said anything directly to me were the more-than-a-few doormen standing bundled in front of East Side high-rises and hotels who told me to "go for it" or asked me "who are you racing?" One guy in front of the Bentley car display window asked - as I passed - if I could buy him a car. (I told him I'd forgotten my wallet.)
But heck, there aren't even any bars on Park Avenue for drunkards to come out of and bother people. It's just not that kind of Avenue.
But after running for a few dozen blocks, I couldn't help but realize that if someone came up behind me with their mind set on clocking me over the back of the head with a tire iron, no amount of karate training could possibly do anything about it. After all, if I'm unconscious on the pavement at 72nd street and Park Ave., karate isn't going to do much to help me out. Perhaps there would be a few puzzled faces at my funeral saying things like "It's too bad they never taught her any moves when it came to people attacking her from behind with a tire iron on Park Avenue" or speaking in low tones saying, "Which karate studio did she go to? I hope her family gets a refund...")
But this really comes down to my observations about 'safety' in New York City. Sure, there are some truly stupid things to do, like taking out your wallet and counting your twenties on the subway at 3am. Or picking a fight with a man who is muttering nonsensical profanities on a street corner. Or trying to jump a taxi line by going 1/2 a block further up from the person that's been trying to flag a cab for 15 minutes. Now those are the ways to get hurt in NYC.
(Not that I want to seem insensitive to those who do get into trouble, like the woman who was raped in her apartment last week. I am certainly aware of these things as a single woman in New York, and I think here, one is more cautious purely out of habit. After all, when someone approaches you on the street in New York City and says "How are you today?", the first reaction is "What do you want, and why did you pick me, and if I ignore you will you go away? And if not, I can claim self defense, you know." If this happened in pretty much any other part of the country, the response would more likely be, "Fine, how are you?" It's just the way the city works.)
But the true threat comes from the taxis running yellow lights, and potholes that can suck you and your ankles down faster than quicksand in the Amazon basin, and the buses who apparently think that pedestrians have point-values in some twisted video game. There are the few people who try to "get out of your way" by dodging right into your path, or the tourists who stop short in front of you to do some window shopping.
Running at night as rather satisfying, knowing that you're ending your day with something healthy, and allowing yourself to vent out the frustrations of the day by sweating a little bit. I found the whole experience rather soothing, to be honest.
All in all, the most terrifying part of my evening run was when one woman at a corner nearly poked my eye out... with her umbrella. But there was nary a tire iron to be found... and I was looking.
On a plus side of the training regimen, adding a bit of paranoia and fear to your running routine does up your pace a little.


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Copyright (c) 2017 by Randall R. Peterson ALL RIGHTS RESERVED This is a work of fiction. All persons, locations and actions are from the author's imagination or have been used in a fictitious manner.
By R. Peterson
Cloverdale school officials tried to get Mr. and Mrs. Huang Lee to let them call their daughter by initials or another name but they refused. Ug was an honored ancestral name in China and they were proud immigrants. The fact that Ug was born with horrible facial deformities made no difference. Surprisingly most of the other students didn't tease … they were all terrified … for good reason.
The first hour science classroom went as cold as the inside of an ice cream truck when Mrs. Williams read the role-call.
"Arlene Adams?"
"Samuel Brown?"
Everyone kept sneaking glances at the husky new kid, Tommy Everett; he'd only been in town about a week and was labeled an army brat and a bully by those who walked sheepishly into Cloverdale junior high school sporting black eyes and swollen noses. Tommy the Terrible as he was already being called behind his back squirmed in his seat wearing a tight white t-shirt with a box of Junior Mints rolled under one sleeve like a greaser car-hood carries his cigarettes. Ug was sitting two seats behind me, not that I looked, that would have been insane, but I knew she was there. It was as if I could feel her two dissimilar oriental eyes drilling holes into the back of my head.
"Vicky Cartwell?"
"Allen Davis?'
"Tommy Everett?"
There was silence as Tommy sat there shaking his head in exaggerated disbelief. He was sitting on the front row under a portrait of President Lyndon B. Johnson, the place where all new students sat. Mrs. Williams paused for a moment and then called him name again. "Tommy Everett?"
Tommy looked around the classroom as if the teacher had just asked the stupidest question he'd ever heard then banged his fist on his desk. "Yo!" he blurted, then added with a smirk. "When did I become invisible … and where is the girl's locker room?" No one laughed.
Mrs. Williams adjusted the glasses on her nose and then stared at the new student sitting less than a yard from her. "You are requested to answer here or present when I call your name!"
Tommy stared at her for a full ten seconds before he replied slowly and loudly "Here or present!" The "You old cow!" that followed was barely more than an exhale … but most of the class heard.
Mrs. Williams ignored him and went back to the role-call. Tommy unwrapped and crammed two sticks of Juicy Fruit gum in his mouth and began to chew loudly imitating the teacher's stilted movements.
"Ben Johnson?"
"Lester Kelly?"
"He's not here today," Vicky Cartwell replied. "I sat next to his little brother on the bus and he said Lester has the flu."
"Nancy Killion?"
Everyone except Tommy Everett held their breath; we all knew what was coming.
"Judy Lambford?'
"Ug Lee?"
Tommy burst out laughing. He whirled and kneeled up on his seat so that he could scan the classroom. Malicious eyes searched for the owner of the hilarious moniker. I couldn't help myself … I looked too.
Ug was in the middle row, near the back, reading Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. She closed the book and looked up. The near normal blue eye stared at Mrs. Williams while the much larger brown one rotated until it was aligned like a futuristic laser gun at Tommy Everett.
"Here!" she said. Her voice was not much above a whisper but with the smothering tomb-like silence in the classroom she could have been yelling.
Tommy's face was as white as the sheets on my mother's clothesline as he turned and settled in his seat.
I glanced at Tommy several times during the period but his head was always buried in his arms.
Recess came, and I was the last to leave. I was trying to finish an essay on space travel that was due on Friday. Mrs. Williams prodded Tommy out of his seat and told him about the baseball game the boys always held behind the school. After Tommy left, I got up to sharpen my pencil and saw the puddle of urine where he'd been sitting before the janitor showed up with Pine Sol to make it go away.
Tommy didn't return after the twenty minute break. Mrs. Williams said, with what sounded like a sigh of relief, that he had gone home sick.
My last class ended at three twenty. If I ran all the way home I could watch Lost in Space before I had to meet the truck at the corner of Townsend and Wallace at four thirty and pick up my sixty-four copies of the Vanishing River Tribune for my evening paper route. I had a Schwinn three-speed bicycle with crooked handlebars but the duel canvas paper-bags, thirty-two papers on each side, balanced and rode nicely across the top tube with the extra wide tires. On television you always watched the paper boys ride past on bikes and toss the papers onto the lawns or sidewalks, not so in Coverdale. Each paper was folded in half and placed between the screen and the front door unless the subscriber had a special receptacle … few did.
I left my bike parked in front of the vacant house on Garlow while I walked across the street to deliver three papers to a group of apartments. When I came back I realized the white house with the peeling paint was no longer vacant. Tommy Everett was just pushing my bike - newspapers and all - into the neighbor's fish pond. "Hey!" I yelled, secretly glad that he turned and ran back into the dilapidated rental home before he could beat me up. I had a hard time pulling the bike out of the water. Landscaping plants, weeds and dead water lilies tangled around the handlebars like fishing nets. When I finally got the bike onto dry ground my newspapers were gone. "Looking for these?" Ug Lee appeared and handed me the green canvas bags with Vanishing River Tribune printed in bold yellow letters on the sides. "I think I pulled them out before they got too wet!"
Before that day I don't think I ever knew exactly where the monster-of-the-seventh-grade lived. She had only been in Cloverdale for six weeks and we all just took it for granted that the she-beast slept in the dark dungeon of a mossy castle on a foggy hill somewhere, not in an unfinished basement-house in a lot overgrown with weeds on west Garlow. I would have grabbed the newspapers and ran, but my legs felt weak. I sat down on the un-mowed lawn instead. She was right the newspapers were miraculously dry except for the two on the top. They were the overprints the newspaper company always sent along … just in case and prospective customers were interested.
"I'll take this one for my trouble," Ug said pulling the soggy paper out of my hand. "You still have one extra and I've been wanting to find out more about the community I'm living in."
My train of thought had derailed and didn't know what to say. "Nice place you have here." The instant the words left my mouth I felt like a stupid jerk.
Ug shook her head and smiled. Her lips looked like they belonged on a large sea-fish. "It was left to my family by my uncle," she said. "My father plans to restore the gardens and the fountain when he has the time … and the money."
"I better go; I'm going to be late … thank you!" I gulped as I hung the bags back on my bike.
"Thanks for the delivery, Jeffery Roland Bland." She said as she held up her free newspaper.
I peddled away as fast as I could without actually looking like I was speeding. I don't know how the newspapers stayed so dry I had watched the entire bike go underwater. And how did she know how many extra papers I had? I shivered as I peddled down the street. My wet tires left wiggly water lines on the sidewalk. And she knew my name … that was the scariest thing of all. She knew the name only my mother and grandmother ever called me.
Tommy Everett's father Butch, was inside the glasses-in foyer of the principal's office when I arrived at school the next morning. I could hear him and Principal Marcus Dunn arguing even from the hallway, so could most of the other arriving students, that part of Cloverdale Junior High was deserted … there's nothing like loud angry voices to clear a room. I picked up shouted words like "abomination" and "It's bad enough we have to live next door to that freak!" and I hurried along also.
Tommy the Terrible was not in class, Mrs. Williams announced that he had been transferred to another home-room. I held a book in front of my face to hide my smile. Everyone was stealing glances at Ug. I couldn't help myself; I stole a glance too and then quickly turned away. The monster of the seventh grade had her head buried in a book. I watched a tear roll down a bulging cheek from the overlarge brown eye … then I too turned away. There is a certain social order in early adolescence … hang with the wrong crowd and you become them.
The fact that Marine Corps Drill-Sergeant Butch Everett had gotten his son transferred to a different classroom seemed to embolden Tommy. I couldn't help but remember the puddle of urine on his seat the day before; fear always brings out the worst in anyone including our hero's children.
Tommy was next to home plate on the baseball field choosing team members for a one inning game at recess. Stan Morris was the other captain. "I'll take the Hicks Brothers, Joe Martin and Larry Stump … you can have all the rest of these retards on your team!" Tommy looked around for approval then turned on Stan. "If you don't like it ask for my uncle … this was his idea!" He slapped Stan playfully in the side of the head, so hard Stan's glasses fell into the dust.
"You need to get a strap for those," Tommy said. "You might need to see if you ever get a hit and have to run the bases." He looked around smiling. "As if that's ever going to happen!"
Tommy was pitching of course. The first pitch was high and to the outside. When Kevin Bates didn't swing and declared it a ball Tommy just smiled. "Like 'em a little closer do ya?"
The second pitch was a fastball that hit Kevin in the leg. He could barely stand as he limped to first base. After that, every player on my team swung at every pitch … no matter how outrageous. Tommy walked one, then struck out two in a row. Tom McLeary miraculously hit a fly ball to right field and it was caught by Louis Hicks. Once Tommy's team came up to bat they never left. Tommy was just as intimidating running the bases as he was pitching. He stood directly between first and second and when he'd charge to steal second he wait till the pitcher threw then move back toward first until finally one of the basemen missed the catch then he'd run all the way home. He made all the rules … there was no arguing with him.
Mrs. Williams came out to announce that recess was over and insisted that both teams line up and shake hands to show good sportsmanship. "You need to get some water-wings on that bike of yours," Tommy said when he slapped my hand. "What if next time you ride it into the river?"
I couldn't help but glace toward where the girls were playing as Mrs. Williams herded us into the school. Ug sat alone on a swing set while other girls played hop scotch and jumped rope. Loneliness is worse than hunger Mother Teresa would say some years later … she was right.
There were two extra newspapers in my stack when I picked them up on my bike after watching Lost in Space. I was still thinking about how Greedy Dr. Smith had used an alien ring to turn all the lost space-traveler's food into useless platinum when I saw the new subscription notice. Mr. Huang Lee didn't surprise me; Ug had shown an interest in the soggy paper that I'd given her. It was the next name on the list that made me groan. I figured Robert "Butch" Everett was too busy destroying new recruit's self-esteem to read the Vanishing River Tribune. This had to be Tommy's idea.
I put off delivering to West Garlow until last. Huang or his wife had made a receptacle for the paper out of a plastic milk jug with one end cut away. They had nailed it to a post with The Vanishing River Tribune blocked in artfully with a blue Magic Marker. I slid the paper in the receptacle and was just turning toward my bike when Ug stepped out of a clump of still dormant early-April rose bushes with pruning-shears in her hand. "I convinced my mom and dad that subscribing to the local newspaper would be a great way for them to learn to speak proper English," she said. Then she added almost as an afterthought, "although it was quite expensive."
Every month, I had to collect for the newspaper. Three forty-five didn't seem like a whole lot of money to me.
"Where does your father work?'
A look of anguish crossed Ug's deformed face. "He works for Lemont Hick's at his garage and my mom cooks for the Hicks family and cleans their house on weekends."
I knew the entire Hick's clan and they were a bunch of illiterate, selfish, hillbillies … I felt sorry for anyone who had anything to do with them. If they were employing Ug's family they were paying peanuts for wages … if anything at all.
"You could have asked," I told her. "I usually always have a couple of extra papers and this is almost my last stop. One half of her face smiled and it almost made up for the desolation of the other side.
"Thank you for thinking of me," she said. Her brown eye closed, but the blue one stayed partially open. "I don't have too many friends."
She turned and scuttled back toward the basement house before I could answer. You don't have any I thought. Thank God I didn't say it. Looking back my life has been one long list of regrets and things that I am ashamed of … something that heavy might have torn the page.
The screen door was hanging crooked on the Everett house; rusted screws were pulling out of rotted wood and it almost fell off its hinges when I opened it to slip the newspaper inside. "What did you do to our door?" Tommy had come around the side of the house and stood behind me glaring with his fists clenched.
"I didn't do anything," I stammered. "It was that way when I found it."
"Bullshit!" He shouted so loud my ears rang. "It was just fine before you showed up!"
He jerked the paper from my hand and smiled. "Don't bother trying to collect for this month's paper," he growled. "My father agreed to let me handle all of our transactions." He added figures with his pudgy fingers and I could see the reflections of things he was going to buy with my money in his eyes. "A box of screws, wood putty and my labor … you'll be lucky if you don't owe us for next month's delivery too."
I turned and pedaled away as fast as I could on my bike. I was furious and intimidated … mostly scared and miserable. If this was what I had to look forward to seven days a week then I might as well quit. There goes the motorcycle I'd been saving for. "Next time roll the paper in a plastic bag and put it on the step like a white man," he called as I was halfway down the sidewalk. The tears in my eyes kept me from seeing where I was going and I ran off the curb and tipped over my bike just around the corner. Thank God Tommy didn't see me fall. I don't think I would have ever gotten his laughter out of my head.
The next week might have been a nightmare, except Tommy secured a spot on the seventh grade wrestling team and they practiced each night after school until five. I started delivering his paper first, rolled and put into a clean plastic grocery bag, I got a hundred of them from Hunter's market for a quarter and managed to always miss him. I was feeling almost happy. My birthday was on Tuesday April 12th. and my mom and dad had promised me a mysterious something special.
Special turned out to be a gangly Border Collie - Lab mix pup and he was tied to our front porch with a piece of old clothesline when I came home from my newspaper-route. My parents had rescued him from an animal shelter and they said his name was Sparky but I could choose something else if I wished. Something surely lit my fire that day I turned thirteen and Sparky he stayed.
As the days went by me and my new best friend became inseparable. We played fetch and cops and robber dogs every night until the street lights came on. I didn't want him tagging along when I went on my paper route but he whined and looked at me with those soft brown canine eyes filled with such misery that I couldn't resist. Using the same clothesline my mom had used when he'd first arrived, I tied him to the metal carrier on the back of my bike and he ran alongside as I went house to house. Sparky waged his tail every time I collected money from my route and licked my face, as if healing a wound, each time Tommy Everett laughed and refused to pay. Tommy always managed to let me glimse the three dollar bills the quarter and two dimes his father had given him tucked into his t-shirt pocket.
The papers were late on Tuesday, April nineteenth. A semi-tractor trailer hauling fuel oil had jack-knifed on the highway north of town and the newspaper's editor wanted pictures on the front page. It was a quarter after five when I picked up my papers and pedaled directly for Tommy Everett's house. I left Sparky tied to the bike while I hurried up to the step with the newspaper carefully wrapped in plastic. In the same place I usually left the paper a note taped to the cement said. Please put the paper on the back step. I thought I heard Sparky bark once when I went around the house. Someone had left a sprinkler going and I had to walk around it. I was just placing the newspaper on the back porch when I heard Sparky barking loudly and I knew there was trouble.
I rounded the corner at a run just in time to see Tommy Everett dragging Sparky into his back yard and closing the gate. "Give me back my dog," I screamed as I chased after him.
"You're too late," Tommy laughed. "My dad says I get to shoot any dog that crosses our property." Tommy latched the gate behind him and by the time I found an empty milk box to stand on and pulled myself over the wooden fence, Tommy had Sparks tied to a tree and was loading a rifle. "No!" I screamed as he took aim and I lunged. I grabbed the rifle barrel and thrust it to the side just as Tommy fired. Rage made me tear the weapon out of his hands. There was a smell like dead animals and a hissing noise coming from the house next door. My captive dog was barking furiously and straining against the old clothesline. A bang like a car back-firing sounded and then a flash of light and the sound of breaking glass just as Sparky broke free and leaped toward a broken-out window. Tommy's stray bullet had ruptured a propane line going into the basement home. In a matter of seconds the whole dwelling, fed by the pressurized gas, burst into a raging inferno.
The smoke and heat burned my eyes and I forgot about Tommy Everett as I stumbled toward the flames. I fell to the ground coughing just as Ug's piercing scream came from inside the burning basement. A second later, Sparky's terrified yelping told me that he was inside with her.


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Stephen Ream, Director of Re-Solv, welcomed the publication of the annual report Trends in UK Deaths Associated with Abuse of Volatile Substances 1971-2009 by the International Centre for Drug Policy (ICDP) at St George's, University of London.
Key points from the report:
- Deaths of young people aged 15-19 rose to 13 (from 8 in 2008).
- Inhalation of Nitrous Oxide was associated with 5 deaths, bringing the total number of deaths in the UK associated with Nitrous Oxide since 1971 to 52.
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Jesus also tells us in the Sermon on the Mount that only the "pure in heart" will see God, which is how we describe the ultimate achievement of our life's purpose in perfect happiness. But what is purity of heart? According to Soren Kierkegaard, "Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing". If we investigate this notion a bit further, we find it provides the key to understanding the religious impulse. In The One and the Many, W. Norris Clarke SJ writes of Unity "as a positive energy by which each being actively coheres within itself holding its parts together – if it has any – in a dynamic, self-unifying act" (p. 63). This goes for atoms, it goes for living organisms, it goes for people. It even goes for God, where the "active divine energy of love that is the bond of unity between Father and Son" is the Holy Spirit.
Here is the lesson we can draw from this rather abstract idea: "to be anything real it is necessary to be one, integrated." Religion is the striving for unity in the soul. This enables us to see the grain of truth in Gurdjieff's teaching, because as Clarke says, "the unity of what is called our psychological 'personality' is not given to us ready-made. It is something we must work at and achieve by our own conscious action." The transformation we are seeking is a unification of ourselves, such that we are no longer composed of bits pulling in different directions (Romans 7: "the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do"). Achieving such an integrated personality seems impossible. To this, Jesus replies, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible" (Matthew19:26). Clarke answers that we must be unified by "one great love".
Unity; "one-pointedness"; integrity; purity of heart; being "true" to ourselves. All these words and phrases refer to the same thing. Buddhism speaks of "mindfulness". We can only become happy by becoming real, and we become real by becoming one. The missing element is "grace". That is the thing or force that enables us to be transformed, to become real. We call it "becoming holy" or becoming a saint. Grace is "gift", the help of the "Higher Power" as AA puts it. Grace is everywhere available from a loving God to anyone who opens himself or herself to receive it. That is the point of the sacraments – not that they automatically make us holy, but that through them, if we are receptive, we can obtain the grace we need.
Illustration: "Prayer Without End" by Nicholas Maes (1656), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Illustration: "Prayer Without End" by Nicholas Maes (1656), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.


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Membership Booklet Application Form (Free)
Greetings, fellow Italian Club Members!
We are in the process of producing a little phonebook for members to help us all get to know each other. This is published by permissions only in printed form and online. No address details will be published, only your phone number and/or email. Should you not want to be in the booklet, that is fine, just let us know, please. (We respect your privacy)
If you would like to be available to connect and share interests with other Italian Club of Cape Town members, please fill out the questionnaire below and send us a photo of yourself (or, couple / family – depends upon your membership type) You can also request to have a picture taken at the club (no charge). For queries or photos, please contact Ellen Casalena at firstname.lastname@example.com
So the plan is to have a little profile on each member so we get know each other and connect more.
The booklet will be published free annually, and there will be an online membership profile as well which you will be able to update yourself. (We'll give you more information on this once the booklet has been published)
Please add me/us to the Italian Club Membership Booklet.
Note: If you do not want to fill in this online form, you are welcome to pick up a paper form from Giordana at the Italian Club of Cape Town Admin Office during office hours. Fill it in and add a photo as requested. Place it in an envelope marked 'Membership Booklet' and pop it into the Admin Box outside her office, or give it to Tony Marchbank or Roxy, at the Restaurant.