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Football is kicking butt at this year's World Cup in South Africa.
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Smoking is also banned on all public transport so people cannot smoke while travelling to and from the venues (if by public transport).
The South African government initiated the smoke-free ban, which is igniting other tobacco-free plans throughout the country.
South Africa is also planning to prevent smoking outside in public places while the National Council Against Smoking is lobbying to make all sporting facilities smoke-free in South Africa.
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"I'm unaware that weather would have affected this crash," Berardi said, adding that it was sunny and clear at the time of the collision.


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The day started with three 'police' tickets, and ended with two; two that I did not start the day with. If you are counting that is 5 tickets. Yep, I was determined to get the right tickets for Malin and I to take in Sting, Stewart and Andy return in concert as 'The Police'.
In a single word: awesome!!! There was really only one thing that surprised me about the performance tonite. And that is how incredible a drummer Stewart Copeland is.
Whatever I say about Stewart's abilities won't do it justice. As I am clearly not one qualified to give such acclaim. Just go see him for yourself, truly awesome!
Sting was in great form, pumping out hit after hit. He did seem to hold back a little (or maybe he just can't hold those highs anymore) but overall an inspiring performance.
Andy was good. I wasn't shocked to see he did appear to stumble at times but still filled the air with brilliance.
Overall, a very powerful and entertaining show. I would see it again in a heartbeat. Speaking of which, Vancouver is only the first stop of many on their world tour. So it could be another Police concert is in the cards. We'll have to figure out where that next vacation is first!
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Klaus Komenda Says:
June 3rd, 2007 at 3:44 am
Gosh, wish I had been there. Seeing Police back in business is amazing. Where took the gig place? GM Place?
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June 7th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Yep, GM Place. You'll have to get some tickets for when they get to London.


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Saturday, April 12, 2014
K is for : Kolchak, The Night Stalker!!
After The Twilight Zone and before The X-Files, there was a little show about an investigative reporter who stumbled upon all sorts of stories that just couldn't be explained.
It was called Kolchak: The Night Stalker and it was one of the few shows, that scared the bejeebus out of me, that I would watch regularly.
The plot revolved around Carl Kolchak (played by Darrin McGavin), a reporter for the Independent News Service (INS) and how he would manage, each week, to find strange and "unexplainable" cases to report....much to the gastric distress of his editor, Tony Vincenzo. (played by character actor Simon Oakland)
The show started out as books in the early 70s, then made for t.v. movies before being turned into an ongoing series.
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is said to be one of Chris Carter's strongest influences in coming up with The X-Files and that he wanted McGavin to reprise his role as Carl Kolchak on that show, as well. McGavin didn't want to come back as the intrepid INS reporter, but he did appear as retired FBI agent, Arthur Dales...described as the "father" of the X-Files division.
In 2005 ABC tried to reboot the series with Stuart Townsend and Gabrielle Union, but it never took off. I watched a few of those episodes and could see why.
Even though it only lasted about twenty episodes, Kolchak: The Night Stalker remains an influential show as well as an awesome "cult classic".
Honorable Mentions: Knight Rider, Kojak, and Kung Fu
Tune in Monday for love.....exciting and new......
19 comments:
- Alex J. Cavanaugh said...
That was such a fun show! I watched the original all the time. I can see how it influenced Carter and the X-Files.
- April 12, 2014 at 10:48 AM
- Susan Gourley/Kelley said...
I never watched that show but I remember my dad never missed Kojak.
- April 12, 2014 at 11:29 AM
I don't remember that show. I was thinking Kojak, like Susan. It's rare shows get a reboot, not surprised the remake didn't work.
- April 12, 2014 at 12:27 PM
- randi lee said...
Never saw that one but it does sound quite entertaining!
- April 12, 2014 at 12:41 PM
- Morgan said...
I haven't even heard of this! Too bad it didn't take off!
- April 12, 2014 at 3:23 PM
- Fanny Barnes Thornton said...
I've never heard of the Night Stalker - perhaps it's not been in the UK?
I loved The Twilight Zone and The X-Files.
This seems like a great blog and A-Z.
- April 12, 2014 at 5:11 PM
- mshatch said...
I remember Kolchak - maybe that's why I loved the X-Files so much.
- April 12, 2014 at 10:05 PM
- Andrew Leon said...
On a boat?
And, yeah, I need to finish my re-watch of Kolchak.
- April 12, 2014 at 10:07 PM
- Lisa said...
I don't know how I missed Kolchak, but I did see the other three, all of them, and loved especially Kung Fu... Wonder if Kolchak was an influence for Josh Wheden at all...
- April 13, 2014 at 6:53 AM
I've not heard of Kolchak either but I am going to seek it out now.
What made me really laugh was the use of "Beejebus" I thought it was only me and my sis who said that. I nearly squealed, ha ha ha...
Happy A-Z'ing :)
- April 13, 2014 at 11:00 AM
- Julie Baswell said...
My favorite show totally. I thought it lasted longer than that though.
- April 13, 2014 at 12:45 PM
- Robin said...
So many reboots have not turned out well. One network tried to reboot The Bionic Woman a few years ago. Nope. A successful reboot... Hawaii Five-O. That is the only one that comes to mind right now.
- April 13, 2014 at 3:32 PM
- Jennifer said...
I've never seen this show, but I do know it was an influence on The X-files. I LOVED Knight Rider. Don't remember much about it, but I was obsessed with KITT as a kid.
- April 13, 2014 at 6:42 PM
- Leslie S. Rose said...
Yep, this show was HUGE in our household. I'm also a crazy X-Files fan. Never made the connection before.
- April 13, 2014 at 8:05 PM
- Trisha F said...
I never saw this show. Thanks for edumacating me :D
I do love the X-Files, though. :)
- April 13, 2014 at 10:06 PM
- Lynda Dietz said...
I remember watching Kolchack and thinking it was the scariest show around. Until now, the only person I know who'd remembered it was my husband (who also remembered the movie).
Liked the other shows, too, especially Kung Fu.
- April 14, 2014 at 1:05 AM
- Elizabeth Seckman said...
I've never heard of it. But then I wasn't overly brave. I remember Night Gallery would come on after Twilight Zone and it would freak me out. I hated that show.
- April 14, 2014 at 10:50 AM
- cleemckenzie said...
Darrin McGavin made that show! Perfect role for him.
- April 14, 2014 at 12:45 PM
- Maurice Mitchell said...
Good one Mark! This show had a really creepy feel that made you believe these things were happening at night. Back then reporters were like amateur detectives.
- April 14, 2014 at 1:49 PM


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The favorite round up of this weekends soccer is here! There was a lot of action on both sides of the pond. Let's get started with MLS this time.
Friday night will be one to forget for Vancouver Whitecap fans. The Whitecaps went to visit Sporting Kansas City and came out with a 6-0 shellacking at the hands of what seems to be shaping up as the Western Conference's top contender for MLS Cup. Russell got a hat trick and a spot on MLS' team of the week. Another notable piece of this game, in a surprising decision after a VAR review, Efrain Juarez and Yordy Reyna got sent off for some after the play antics around the 40th minute, definitely contributed to the scoreline but not the whole reason (already 3-0 down).
Another notable game was the LAFC's comeback win at Montreal, a hard fought 3-5 scoreline. Ciman had an emotional return to his former club but in the end came away with the upper hand. This will help further get the team back on track to the form they were in before the dismantling by Zlatan. Remi Garde's men also suffered from a red card but could not be the only thing to blame for the very poor defensive play, although not the worst of the weekend.
Some quick fire for the bulk of the weekend, the Concacaf Champion's League effect is still in MLS as Toronto dropped another game protecting players for the important game against Chivas in the final. New York Red Bulls lost again, still feeling a hangover after the elimination they haven't regained their footing.
Atlanta wins at LA Galaxy 0-2. Zlatan played all 90 but could not make the impact he wanted with a stunted lineup which didn't include either Dos Santos brothers for most of the match. Atlanta did control the game however, and the offensive pressure they provided paid off in the end with a goal by Martinez. As the Galaxy pressed for an equalizer their defense was spread open and with a pass from Kratz to Williams who made his way into the LA box where he was taken down rather lightly, one could argue. Regardless, the penalty taken by Almiron was a dagger and the game was essentially over. Galaxy paid for their lack of offense, and the pressure on the Galaxy defense broke them and decided this game.
Sunday featured only two games, first was the miraculous Portland 3, NYCFC 0 win where Portland had only 25% possession. With some amazing saves from Gleeson denying the NYC players, Portland was able to capitalize on New York's terrible defensive mishaps. However, when called upon Portland did show their finish, great win at home for Portland against the best team in the East. Lastly, Seattle wins their first game, to avoid worst start in franchise history, against Minnesota United by a score of 3-1. Alonso shows why he is instrumental to Seattle's midfield and its composure. Also, Dempsey did not start showing that Seattle can make it happen without him, but he did make a great impact when he came in as a sub to contribute to Delem's goal.
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So other than taking some time off to recover and rest I have been in full swing of finishing up my B.Ed and teaching certificate. It has been a very long and busy road, I guess I did not realize the amount of work involved in prepping to teach. However, the business is very much worth the rewards! I have enjoyed working with my students over the past 3 months and will be sad to go in the next 2 weeks but I will be ready to the next step and hope that in my subbing ventures I will come across them again!
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Rwanda's chief tourism chair just became vacant
After just completing a successful 11th edition of Rwanda's tourism and conservation showcase event, Kwita Izina, and meeting this correspondent yesterday morning at her office in Kigali on the 3rd
After just completing a successful 11th edition of Rwanda's tourism and conservation showcase event, Kwita Izina, and meeting this correspondent yesterday morning at her office in Kigali on the 3rd floor of the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) Building, it appears that Ambassador Yamina will return to diplomatic service as the new High Commissioner of Rwanda to the Court of St. James, i.e., the United Kingdom.
Prior to becoming the Head of Tourism and Conservation nearly two years ago, Amb. Yamina served as Rwanda's High Commissioner to Kenya before taking over from Rica Rwigamba.
RDB has over the past two years undergone some restructuring and in retrospect, when discussing various aspects of RDB's operations yesterday, the cryptic message was that more change is on the way, clearly attributed to Amb. Yamina herself, something she could not reveal until the Rwandan cabinet office had made a formal announcement.
While Rwanda's Senate must still assent to the new appointment, this is largely expected to be a mere formality after the Rwandan cabinet had yesterday approved this and three other new ambassadorial appointments. Among those will be the first Rwandan resident ambassador to Angola, a new ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium, and a new ambassador to Ethiopia.
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Amb. Yamina is also a member of the Board of Directors of RwandAir, where she currently serves as Vice Chairperson of the Board. It could, in view of the rapid developments of the past few hours, not be ascertained if she will remain on the board or step down to have her successor at RDB take over that position, too.
Amb. Yamina yesterday spoke of both the successes as well as the challenges of both conservation and tourism – she looks after the combined portfolio at the Rwanda Development Board – while expressing her confidence that after bagging nearly US$305 million in revenues last year, 2015 will again see another rise in both numbers, as well as money earned from the sector.
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As soon as I heard that Oscar Wilde was arrested and bail refused, I tried to get permission to visit him in Holloway. I was told I should have to see him in a kind of barred cage; and talk to him from the distance of at least a yard. It seemed to me too painful for both of us, so I went to the higher authorities and got permission to see him in a private room. The Governor met me at the entrance of the prison: to my surprise he was more than courteous; charmingly kind and sympathetic.
"We all hope," he said, "that he will soon be free; this is no place for him. Everyone likes him, everyone. It is a great pity."
He evidently felt much more than he said, and my heart went out to him. He left me in a bare room furnished with a small square deal table and two kitchen chairs. In a moment or two Oscar came in accompanied by a warder. In silence we clasped hands. He looked miserably anxious and pulled down and I felt that I had nothing to do but cheer him up.
"I am glad to see you," I cried. "I hope the warders are kind to you?"
"Yes, Frank," he replied in a hopeless way, "but everyone else is against me: it is hard."
"Don't harbour that thought," I answered; "many whom you don't know, and whom you will never know, are on your side. Stand for them and for the myriads who are coming afterwards and make a fight of it."
"I'm afraid I'm not a fighter, Frank, as you once said," he replied sadly, "and they won't give me bail. How can I get evidence or think in this place of torture? Fancy refusing me bail," he went on, "though I stayed in London when I might have gone abroad."
"You should have gone," I cried in French, hot with indignation; "why didn't you go, the moment you came out of the court?"
"I couldn't think at first," he answered in the same tongue; "I couldn't think at all: I was numbed."
"Your friends should have thought of it," I insisted, not knowing then that they had done their best.
At this moment the warder, who had turned away towards the door, came back.
"You are not allowed, sir, to talk in a foreign language," he said quietly. "You will understand we have to obey the rules. Besides, the prisoner must not speak of this prison as a place of torture. I ought to report that; I'm sorry."
The misery of it all brought tears to my eyes: his gaolers even felt sorry for him. I thanked the warder and turned again to Oscar.
"Don't let yourself fear at all," I exclaimed. "You will have your chance again and must take it; only don't lose heart and don't be witty next time in court. The jury hate it. They regard it as intellectual superiority and impudence. Treat all things seriously and with grave dignity. Defend yourself as David would have defended his love for Jonathan. Make them all listen to you. I would undertake to get free with half your talent even if I were guilty; a resolution not to be beaten is always half the battle. . . . Make your trial memorable from your entrance into the court to the decision of the jury. Use every opportunity and give your real character a chance to fight for you."
I spoke with tears in my eyes and rage in my heart.
"I will do my best, Frank," he said despondingly, "I will do my best. If I were out of this place, I might think of something, but it is dreadful to be here. One has to go to bed by daylight and the nights are interminable."
"Haven't you a watch?" I cried.
"They don't allow you to have a watch in prison," he replied.
"But why not?" I asked in amazement. I did not know that every rule in an English prison is cunningly devised to annoy and degrade the unfortunate prisoner.
Oscar lifted his hands hopelessly:
"One may not smoke; not even a cigarette; and so I cannot sleep. All the past comes back; the golden hours; the June days in London with the sunshine dappling the grass and the silken rustling of the wind in the trees. Do you remember Wordsworth speaks 'of the wind in the trees'? How I wish I could hear it now, breathe it once again. I might get strength then to fight."
"Is the food good?" I asked.
"It's all right; I get it from outside. The food doesn't matter. It is the smoking I miss, the freedom, the companionship. My mind will not act when I'm alone. I can only think of what has been and torment myself. Already I've been punished enough for the sins of a lifetime."
"Is there nothing I can do for you, nothing you want?" I asked.
"No, Frank," he answered, "it was kind of you to come to see me, I wish I could tell you how kind."
"Don't think of it," I said; "if I'm any good send for me at any moment: a word will bring me. They allow you books, don't they?"
"Yes, Frank."
"I wish you would get the 'Apologia of Plato'," I said, "and take a big draught of that deathless smiling courage of Socrates."
"Ah, Frank, how much more humane were the Greeks. They let his friends see him and talk to him by the hour, though he was condemned to death. There were no warders there to listen, no degrading conditions."
"Quite true," I cried, suddenly realising how much better Oscar Wilde would have been treated in Athens two thousand years ago. "Our progress is mainly change; we don't shed our cruelty; even Christ has not been able to humanise us."
He nodded his head. At first he seemed greatly distressed; but I managed to encourage him a little, for at the close of the talk he questioned me:
"Do you really think I may win, Frank?"
"Of course you'll win," I replied. "You must win: you must not think of being beaten. Take it that they will not want to convict you. Say it to yourself in the court; don't let yourself fear for a moment. Your enemies are merely stupid, unhappy creatures crawling about for a few miserable years between earth and sun; fated to die and leave no trace, no memory. Remember you are fighting for all of us, for every artist and thinker who is to be born into the English world. . . . It is better to win like Galileo than to be burnt like Giordano Bruno. Don't let them make another martyr. Use all your brains and eloquence and charm. Don't be afraid. They will not condemn you if they know you."
"I have been trying to think," he said, "trying to make up my mind to bear one whole year of this life. It's dreadful, Frank, I had no idea that prison was so dreadful."
The warder again drew down his brows. I hastened to change the subject.
"That's why you must resolve not to have any more of it," I said; "I wish I had seen you when you came out of court, but I really thought you didn't want me; you turned away from me."
"Oh, Frank, how could I?" he cried. "I should have been so grateful to you."
"I'm very shortsighted," I rejoined, "and I thought you did. It is our foolish little vanities which prevent us acting as we should. But let me know if I can do anything for you. If you want me, I'll come at any moment."
I said this because the warder had already given me a sign; he now said:
"Time is up."
Once again we clasped hands.
"You must win," I said; "don't think of defeat. Even your enemies are human. Convert them. You can do it, believe me," and I went with dread in my heart, and pity and indignation.
Be still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season:
Let us endure an hour and see injustice done.
The Governor met me almost at the door.
"It is terrible," I exclaimed.
"This is no place for him," he answered. He has nothing to do with us here. Everyone likes him and pities him: the warders, everyone. Anything I can do to make his stay tolerable shall be done."
We shook hands. I think there were tears in both our eyes as we parted. This humane Governor had taught me that Oscar's gentleness and kindness — his sweetness of nature — would win all hearts if it had time to make itself known. Yet there he was in prison. His face and figure came before me again and again: the unshaven face; the frightened, sad air; the hopeless, toneless voice. The cleanliness even of the bare hard room was ugly; the English are foolish enough to degrade those they punish. Revolt was blazing in me.
As I went away I looked up at the mediæval castellated gateway of the place, and thought how perfectly the architecture suited the spirit of the institution. The whole thing belongs to the middle ages, and not to our modern life. Fancy having both prison and hospital side by side; indeed a hospital even in the prison; torture and lovingkindness; punishment and pity under the same roof. What a blank contradiction and stupidity. Will civilisation never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?
Oscar Wilde was committed on the 19th of April; a "true bill" was found against him by the grand jury on the 24th; and, as the case was put down for trial at the Old Bailey almost immediately, a postponement was asked for till the May sessions, on the ground first that the defence had not had time to prepare their case and further, that in the state of popular feeling at the moment, Mr. Wilde would not get a fair and impartial trial. Mr. Justice Charles, who was to try the case, heard the application and refused it peremptorily: "Any suggestion that the defendant would not have a fair trial was groundless," he declared; yet he knew better. In his summing up of the case on May 1st he stated that "for weeks it had been impossible to open a newspaper without reading some reference to the case," and when he asked the jury not to allow "preconceived opinions to weigh with them" he was admitting the truth that every newspaper reference was charged with dislike and contempt of Oscar Wilde. A fair trial indeed!
The trial took place at the Old Bailey, three days later, April 27th, 1895, before Mr. Justice Charles. Mr. C.F. Gill and A. Gill with Mr. Horace Avory appeared for the Public Prosecutor. Mr. Wilde was again defended by Sir Edward Clarke, Mr. Charles Mathews and Mr. Travers Humphreys, while Mr. J.P. Grain and Mr. Paul Taylor were counsel for the other prisoner. The trial began on a Saturday and the whole of the day was taken up with a legal argument. I am not going to give the details of the case. I shall only note the chief features of it and the unfairness which characterised it.
Sir Edward Clarke pointed out that there was one set of charges under the Criminal Law Amendment Act and another set of charges of conspiracy. He urged that the charges of conspiracy should be dropped. Under the counts alleging conspiracy, the defendants could not be called on as witnesses, which put the defence at a disadvantage. In the end the Judge decided that there were inconveniences; but he would not accede to Sir Edward Clarke's request. Later in the trial, however, Mr. Gill himself withdrew the charges of conspiracy, and the Judge admitted explicitly in his summing up that, if he had known the evidence which was to be offered, he would not have allowed these charges of conspiracy to be made. By this confession he apparently cleared his conscience just as Pilate washed his hands. But the wrong had already been done. Not only did this charge of conspiracy embarrass the defence, but if it had never been made, as it should never have been made, then Sir Edward Clarke would have insisted and could have insisted properly that the two men should be tried separately, and Wilde would not have been discredited by being coupled with Taylor, whose character was notorious and who had already been in the hands of the police on a similar charge.
This was not the only instance of unfairness in the conduct of the prosecution. The Treasury put a youth called Atkins in the box, thus declaring him to be at least a credible witness; but Atkins was proved by Sir Edward Clarke to have perjured himself in the court in the most barefaced way. In fact the Treasury witnesses against Wilde were all blackmailers and people of the lowest character, with two exceptions. The exceptions were a boy named Mavor and a youth named Shelley. With regard to Mavor the judge admitted that no evidence had been offered that he could place before the jury; but in his summing up he was greatly affected by the evidence of Shelley. Shelley was a young man who seemed to be afflicted with a species of religious mania. Mr. Justice Charles gave great weight to his testimony. He invited the jury to say that "although there was, in his correspondence which had been read, evidence of excitability, to talk of him as a young man who did not know what he was saying was to exaggerate the effect of his letters." He went on to ask with much solemnity: "Why should this young man have invented a tale, which must have been unpleasant to him to present from the witness box?"
In the later trial before Mr. Justice Wills the Judge had to rule out the evidence of Shelley in toto, because it was wholly without corroboration. If the case before Mr. Justice Charles had not been confused with the charges of conspiracy, there is no doubt that he too would have ruled out the evidence of Shelley, and then his summing up must have been entirely in favour of Wilde.
The singular malevolence of the prosecution also can be estimated by their use of the so-called "literary argument." Wilde had written in a magazine called The Chameleon. The Chameleon contained an immoral story, with which Wilde had nothing to do, and which he had repudiated as offensive. Yet the prosecution tried to make him responsible in some way for the immorality of a writing which he knew nothing about.
Wilde had said two poems of Lord Alfred Douglas were "beautiful." The prosecution declared that these poems were in essence a defence of the vilest immorality, but is it not possible for the most passionate poem, even the most vicious, to be "beautiful"? Nothing was ever written more passionate than one of the poems of Sappho. Yet a fragment has been selected out and preserved by the admiration of a hundred generations of men. The prosecution was in the position all the time of one who declared that a man who praised a nude picture must necessarily be immoral. Such a contention would be inconceivable in any other civilised country. Even the Judge was on much the same intellectual level. It would not be fair, he admitted, to condemn a poet or dramatic writer by his works and he went on:
"It is unfortunately true that while some of our greatest writers have passed long years in writing nothing but the most wholesome literature — literature of the highest genius, and which anybody can read, such as the literature of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens; it is also true that there were other great writers, more especially in the eighteenth century, perfectly noble-minded men themselves, who somehow or other have permitted themselves to pen volumes which it is painful for persons of ordinary modesty and decency to read."
It would have been more honest and more liberal to have brushed away the nonsensical indictment in a sentence. Would the Treasury have put Shakespeare on trial for "Hamlet" or "Lear," or would they have condemned the writer of "The Song of Solomon" for immorality, or sent St. Paul to prison for his "Epistle to the Corinthians"?
Middle-class prejudice and hypocritic canting twaddle from Judge and advocate dragged their weary length along for days and days. On Wednesday Sir Edward Clarke made his speech for the defence. He pointed out the unfairness of the charges of conspiracy which had tardily been withdrawn. He went on to say that the most remarkable characteristic of the case was the fact that it had been the occasion for conduct on the part of certain sections of the press which was disgraceful, and which imperilled the administration of justice, and was in the highest degree injurious to the client for whom he was pleading. Nothing, he concluded, could be more unfair than the way Mr. Wilde had been criticised in the press for weeks and weeks. But no judge interfered on his behalf.
Sir Edward Clarke evidently thought that to prove unfairness would not even influence the minds of the London jury. He was content to repudiate the attempt to judge Mr. Wilde by his books or by an article which he had condemned, or by poems which he had not written. He laid stress on the fact that Mr. Wilde had himself brought the charge against Lord Queensberry which had provoked the whole investigation: "on March 30th, Mr. Wilde," he said, "knew the catalogue of accusations"; and he asked: did the jury believe that, if he had been guilty, he would have stayed in England and brought about the first trial? Insane would hardly be the word for such conduct, if Mr. Wilde really had been guilty. Moreover, before even hearing the specific accusations, Mr. Wilde had gone into the witness box to deny them.
Clarke's speech was a good one, but nothing out of the common: no new arguments were used in it; not one striking illustration. Needless to say the higher advocacy of sympathy was conspicuous by its absence.
Again, the interesting part of the trial was the cross-examination of Oscar Wilde.
Mr. Gill examined him at length on the two poems which Lord Alfred Douglas had contributed to The Chameleon, which Mr. Wilde had called "beautiful." The first was in "Praise of Shame," the second was one called "Two Loves." Sir Edward Clarke, interposing, said:
"That's not Mr. Wilde's, Mr. Gill."
Mr. Gill: "I am not aware that I said it was."
Sir Edward Clarke: "I thought you would be glad to say it was not."
Mr. Gill insisted that Mr. Wilde should explain the poem in "Praise of Shame."
Mr. Wilde said that the first poem seemed obscure, but, when pressed as to the "love" described in the second poem, he let himself go for the first time and perhaps the only time during the trial; he said:
"The 'love' that dare not speak its name in this century is such a great affection of an older for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very base of his philosophy and such as you find in the sonnets of Michaelangelo and Shakespeare — a deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect, and dictates great works of art like those of Shakespeare and Michaelangelo and those two letters of mine, such as they are, and which is in this century misunderstood — so misunderstood that, on account of it, I am placed where I am now. It is beautiful; it is fine; it is the noblest form of affection. It is intellectual, and it repeatedly exists between an elder and younger man, when the elder man has intellect, and the younger man has all the joy, hope and glamour of life. That it should be so the world does not understand. It mocks at it and sometimes puts one into the pillory for it."
At this stage there was loud applause in the gallery of the court, and the learned Judge at once said: "I shall have the Court cleared if there is the slightest manifestation of feeling. There must be complete silence preserved."
Mr. Justice Charles repressed the cheering in favour of Mr. Oscar Wilde with great severity, though Mr. Justice Collins did not attempt to restrain the cheering which filled his court and accompanied the dispersing crowd into the street on the acquittal of Lord Queensberry.
In spite, however, of the unfair criticisms of the press; in spite of the unfair conduct of the prosecution, and in spite of the manifest prejudice and Philistine ignorance of the Judge, the jury disagreed.
Then followed the most dramatic incident of the whole trial. Once more Sir Edward Clarke applied for bail on behalf of Oscar Wilde. "After what has happened," he said, "I do not think the Crown will make any objection to this application." The Crown left the matter to the Judge, no doubt in all security; for the Judge immediately refused the application. Sir Edward Clarke then went on to say that, in the case of a re-trial, it ought not to take place immediately. He continued:
"The burden of those engaged in the case is very heavy, and I think it only right that the Treasury should have an opportunity between this and another session of considering the mode in which the case should be presented, if indeed it is presented at all."
Mr. Gill immediately rose to the challenge.
"The case will certainly be tried again," he declared, "whether it is to be tried again at once or in the next sessions will be a matter of convenience. Probably the most desirable course will be for the case to go to the next sessions. That is the usual course."
Mr. Justice Charles: "If that is the usual course, let it be so."
The next session of the Central Criminal Court opened on the 20th of the same month.
Not three weeks' respite, still it might be enough: it was inconceivable that a Judge in Chambers would refuse to accept bail: fortunately the law allows him no option.
The application for bail was made in due course to a Judge in Chambers, and in spite of the bad example of the magistrate, and of Mr. Justice Charles, it was granted and Wilde was set free in his own recognizance of £2,500 with two other sureties for £1,250 each. It spoke volumes for the charm and fascination of the man that people were found to undertake this onerous responsibility. Their names deserve to be recorded; one was Lord Douglas of Hawick, the other a clergyman, the Rev. Stewart Headlam. I offered to be one bail: but I was not a householder at the time and my name was, therefore, not acceptable. I suppose the Treasury objected, which shows, I am inclined to think, some glimmering of sense on its part.
As soon as the bail was accepted I began to think of preparations for Oscar's escape. It was high time something was done to save him from the wolves. The day after his release a London morning journal was not ashamed to publish what it declared was a correct analysis of the voting of the jury on the various counts. According to this authority, ten jurors were generally for conviction and two against, in the case of Wilde; the statement was widely accepted because it added that the voting was more favourable to Taylor than to Wilde, which was so unexpected and so senseless that it carried with it a certain plausibility: Credo quia incredible.
I had seen enough of English justice and English judges and English journals to convince me that Oscar Wilde had no more chance of a fair trial than if he had been an Irish "Invincible." Everyone had made up his mind and would not even listen to reason: he was practically certain to be convicted, and if convicted perfectly certain to be punished with savage ferocity. The judge would probably think he was showing impartiality by punishing him for his qualities of charm and high intelligence. For the first time in my life I understood the full significance of Montaigne's confession that if he were accused of stealing the towers of Notre Dame, he would fly the kingdom rather than risk a trial, and Montaigne was a lawyer. I set to work at once to complete my preparations.
I did not think I ran any risk in helping Oscar to get away. The newspapers had seized the opportunity of the trials before the magistrate and before Mr. Justice Charles and had overwhelmed the public with such a sea of nauseous filth and impurity as could only be exposed to the public nostrils in pudibond England. Everyone, I thought, must be sick of the testimony and eager to have done with the whole thing. In this I may have been mistaken. The hatred of Wilde seemed universal and extraordinarily malignant.
I wanted a steam yacht. Curiously enough on the very day when I was thinking of running down to Cowes to hire one, a gentleman at lunch mentioned that he had one in the Thames. I asked him could I charter it?
"Certainly," he replied, "and I will let you have it for the bare cost for the next month or two."
"One month will do for me," I said.
"Where are you going?" he asked.
I don't know why, but a thought came into my head: I would tell him the truth, and see what he would say. I took him aside and told him the bare facts. At once he declared that the yacht was at my service for such work as that without money: he would be too glad to lend it to me: it was horrible that such a man as Wilde should be treated as a common criminal.
He felt as Henry VIII felt in Shakespeare's play of that name:
" . . . there's some of ye, I see,
More out of malice than integrity,
Would try him to the utmost, . . . "
It was not the generosity in my friend's offer that astonished me, but the consideration for Wilde; I thought the lenity so singular in England that I feel compelled to explain it. Though an Englishman born and bred my friend was by race a Jew — a man of the widest culture, who had no sympathy whatever with the vice attributed to Oscar. Feeling consoled because there was at least one generous, kind heart in the world, I went next day to Willie Wilde's house in Oakley Street to see Oscar. I had written to him on the previous evening that I was coming to take Oscar out to lunch.
Willie Wilde met me at the door; he was much excited apparently by the notoriety attaching to Oscar; he was volubly eager to tell me that, though we had not been friends, yet my support of Oscar was most friendly and he would therefore bury the hatchet. He had never interested me, and I was unconscious of any hatchet and careless whether he buried it or blessed it. I repeated drily that I had come to take Oscar to lunch.
"I know you have," he said, "and it's most kind of you; but he can't go."
"Why not?" I asked as I went in.
Oscar was gloomy, depressed, and evidently suffering. Willie's theatrical insincerity had annoyed me a little, and I was eager to get away. Suddenly I saw Sherard, who has since done his best for Oscar's memory. In his book there is a record of this visit of mine. He was standing silently by the wall.
"I've come to take you to lunch," I said to Oscar.
"But he cannot go out," cried Willie.
"Of course he can," I insisted, "I've come to take him."
"But where to?" asked Willie.
"Yes, Frank, where to?" repeated Oscar meekly.
"Anywhere you like," I said, "the Savoy if you like, the Café Royal for choice."
"Oh, Frank, I dare not," cried Oscar.
"No, no," cried Willie, "there would be a scandal; someone'll insult him and it would do harm; set people's backs up."
"Oh, Frank, I dare not," echoed Oscar.
"No one will insult him. There will be no scandal," I replied, "and it will do good."
"But what will people say?" cried Willie.
"No one ever knows what people will say," I retorted, "and people always speak best of those who don't care a damn what they do say."
"Oh, Frank, I could not go to a place like the Savoy where I am well known," objected Oscar.
"All right," I agreed, "you shall go where you like. All London is before us. I must have a talk with you, and it will do you good to get out into the air, and sun yourself and feel the wind in your face. Come, there's a hansom at the door."
It was not long before I had conquered his objections and Willie's absurdities and taken him with me. Scarcely had we left the house when his spirits began to lift, and he rippled into laughter.
"Really, Frank, it is strange, but I do not feel frightened and depressed any more, and the people don't boo and hiss at me. Is it not dreadful the way they insult the fallen?"
"We are not going to talk about it," I said; "we are going to talk of victories and not of defeats."
"Ah, Frank, there will be no more victories for me."
"Nonsense," I cried; "now where are we going?"
"Some quiet place where I shall not be known."
"You really would not like the Café Royal?" I asked. "Nothing will happen to you, and I think you would probably find that one or two people would wish you luck. You have had a rare bad time, and there must be some people who understand what you have gone through and know that it is sufficient punishment for any sin."
"No, Frank," he persisted, "I cannot, I really cannot."
At length we decided on a restaurant in Great Portland Street. We drove there and had a private room.
I had two purposes in me, springing from the one root, the intense desire to help him. I felt sure that if the case came up again for trial he would only be convicted through what I may call good, honest testimony. The jury with their English prejudice; or rather I should say with their healthy English instincts would not take the evidence of vile blackmailers against him; he could only be convicted through untainted evidence such as the evidence of the chambermaids at the Savoy Hotel, and their evidence was over two years old and was weak, inasmuch as the facts, if facts, were not acted upon by the management. Still their testimony was very clear and very positive, and, taken together with that of the blackmailers, sufficient to ensure conviction. After our lunch I laid this view before Oscar. He agreed with me that it was probably the chambermaids' testimony which had weighed most heavily against him. Their statement and Shelley's had brought about the injurious tone in the Judge's summing up. The Judge himself had admitted as much.
"The chambermaids' evidence is wrong," Oscar declared. "They are mistaken, Frank. It was not me they spoke about at the Savoy Hotel. It was ——. I was never bold enough. I went to see —— in the morning in his room."
"Thank God," I said, "but why didn't Sir Edward Clarke bring that out?"
"He wanted to; but I would not let him. I told him he must not. I must be true to my friend. I could not let him."
"But he must," I said, "at any rate if he does not I will. I have three weeks and in that three weeks I am going to find the chambermaid. I am going to get a plan of your room and your friend's room, and I'm going to make her understand that she was mistaken. She probably remembered you because of your size: she mistook you for the guilty person; everybody has always taken you for the ringleader and not the follower."
"But what good is it, Frank, what good is it?" he cried. "Even if you convinced the chambermaid and she retracted; there would still be Shelley, and the Judge laid stress on Shelley's evidence as untainted."
"Shelley is an accomplice," I cried, "his testimony needs corroboration. You don't understand these legal quibbles; but there was not a particle of corroboration. Sir Edward Clarke should have had his testimony ruled out. 'Twas that conspiracy charge," I cried, "which complicated the matter. Shelley's evidence, too, will be ruled out at the next trial, you'll see."
"Oh, Frank," he said, "you talk with passion and conviction, as if I were innocent."
"But you are innocent," I cried in amaze, "aren't you?"
"No, Frank," he said, "I thought you knew that all along."
I stared at him stupidly. "No," I said dully, "I did not know. I did not believe the accusation. I did not believe it for a moment."
I suppose the difference in my tone and manner struck him, for he said, timidly putting out his hand:
"This will make a great difference to you, Frank?"
"No," I said, pulling myself together and taking his hand; and after a pause I went on: "No: curiously enough it has made no difference to me at all. I do not know why; I suppose I have got more sympathy than morality in me. It has surprised me, dumbfounded me. The thing has always seemed fantastic and incredible to me and now you make it exist for me; but it has no effect on my friendship; none upon my resolve to help you. But I see that the battle is going to be infinitely harder than I imagined. In fact, now I don't think we have a chance of winning a verdict. I came here hoping against fear that it could be won, though I always felt that it would be better in the present state of English feeling to go abroad and avoid the risk of a trial. Now there is no question: you would be insane, as Clarke said, to stay in England. But why on earth did Alfred Douglas, knowing the truth, ever wish you to attack Queensberry?"
"He's very bold and obstinate, Frank," said Oscar weakly.
"Well, now I must play Crito," I resumed, smiling, "and take you away before the ship comes from Delos."
"Oh, Frank, that would be wonderful; but it's impossible, quite impossible. I should be arrested before I left London, and shamed again in public: they would boo at me and shout insults. . . . Oh, it is impossible; I could not risk it."
"Nonsense," I replied, "I believe the authorities would be only too glad if you went. I think Clarke's challenge to Gill was curiously ill-advised. He should have let sleeping dogs lie. Combative Gill was certain to take up the gauntlet. If Clarke had lain low there might have been no second trial. But that can't be helped now. Don't believe that it's even difficult to get away; it's easy. I don't propose to go by Folkestone or Dover."
"But, Frank, what about the people who have stood bail for me? I couldn't leave them to suffer; they would lose their thousands."
"I shan't let them lose," I replied, "I am quite willing to take half on my own shoulders at once and you can pay the other thousand or so within a very short time by writing a couple of plays. American papers would be only too glad to pay you for an interview. The story of your escape would be worth a thousand pounds; they would give you almost any price for it.
"Leave everything to me, but in the meantime I want you to get out in the air as much as possible. You are not looking well; you are not yourself."
"That house is depressing, Frank. Willie makes such a merit of giving me shelter; he means well, I suppose; but it is all dreadful."
My notes of this talk finish in this way, but the conversation left on me a deep impression of Oscar's extraordinary weakness or rather extraordinary softness of nature backed up and redeemed by a certain magnanimity: he would not leave the friends in the lurch who had gone bail for him; he would not give his friend away even to save himself; but neither would he exert himself greatly to win free. He was like a woman, I said to myself in wonder, and my pity for him grew keener. He seemed mentally stunned by the sudden fall, by the discovery of how violently men can hate. He had never seen the wolf in man before; the vile brute instinct that preys upon the fallen. He had not believed that such exultant savagery existed; it had never come within his ken; now it appalled him. And so he stood there waiting for what might happen without courage to do anything but suffer. My heart ached with pity for him, and yet I felt a little impatient with him as well. Why give up like that? The eternal quarrel of the combative nature with those who can't or won't fight.
Before getting into the carriage to drive back to his brother's, I ascertained that he did not need any money. He told me that he had sufficient even for the expenses of a second trial: this surprised me greatly, for he was very careless about money; but I found out from him later that a very noble and cultured woman, a friend of both of us, Miss S— — a Jewess by race tho' not by religion, had written to him asking if she could help him financially, as she had been distressed by hearing of his bankruptcy, and feared that he might be in need. If that were the case she begged him to let her be his banker, in order that he might be properly defended. He wrote in reply, saying that he was indeed in uttermost distress, that he wanted money, too, to help his mother as he had always helped her, and that he supposed the expenses of the second trial would be from £500 to £1,000. Thereupon Miss S—— sent him a cheque for £1,000, assuring him that it cost her little even in self-sacrifice, and declaring that it was only inadequate recognition of the pleasure she had had through his delightful talks. Such actions are beyond praise; it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage of a world habitable for men.
Before parting we had agreed to meet a few nights afterwards at Mrs. Leverson's, where he had been invited to dinner, and where I also had been invited. By that time, I thought to myself, all my preparations would be perfected.
Looking back now I see clearly that my affection for Oscar Wilde dates from his confession to me that afternoon. I had been a friend of his for years; but what had bound us together had been purely intellectual, a community of literary tastes and ambitions. Now his trust in me and frankness had thrown down the barrier between us; and made me conscious of the extraordinary femininity and gentle weakness of his nature, and, instead of condemning him as I have always condemned that form of sexual indulgence, I felt only pity for him and a desire to protect and help him. From that day on our friendship became intimate: I began to divine him; I knew now that his words would always be more generous and noble than his actions; knew too that I must take his charm of manner and vivacity of intercourse for real virtues, and indeed they were as real as the beauty of flowers; and I was aware as by some sixth sense that, where his vanity was concerned, I might expect any injustice from him. I was sure beforehand, however, that I should always forgive him, or rather that I should always accept whatever he did and love him for the charm and sweetness and intellect in him and hold myself more than recompensed for anything I might be able to do, by his delightful companionship.
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I occasionally poke my head in at Digby's to see what's occupying the minds of liberals, and what should I see today but this:
There is, of course, an actual left libertarianism and it is best articulated by Noam Chomsky, not some wealthy twit like Mackey. Chomsky (and, in some respects, Ralph Nader) have made the case very well for a long time [...].
If you haven't read any books by Chomsky, now is a good time to do it since there seems to be a developing discussion of liberal libertarian philosophy in the commentariat. He's been writing about this stuff for decades and has a fully developed critique right there at the ready.
Digby approvingly mentioning Chomsky and Nader in a single posting? Isn't this a sign of the end times? Should I be watching out for the Midgard Serpent? Really, you could have knocked me over with a twig. Notice that she even included a link to Chomsky's Wikipedia page, apparently fearing—probably with good reason—that some non-trivial number of her regulars would have no idea who the dude with the zany Russian-sounding name was.
Is the great mass of Obama-backing Democrats on the verge of becoming deeply radicalized by exposure to reality? Not bloody likely. Still, I'd much rather see Digby quoting Chomsky than, say, Keith Olbermann.
(See here for some of Chomsky's fully-developed critique of right libertarianism, by the way.)
And a Happy New Year to you all...though personally I won't really be happy about a new year until 2013, when we can start using a sane decadal moniker again.


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I have a small problem or big i u will...
i have a file zs.inc and the contents of
the file is just date (ex: 2.2.2003).
now here the code to open that file
and get the contents into string:
$filename = "zs.inc";
$fp = fopen ($filename, "r+");
$read_file = fread($fp, filesize ($filename));
$str_read = $read_file;
$str_date = "$date";
$str_read1 = str_replace($str_read, $str_datum, $str_read);
fputs ($fp, $str_read1);
fclose ($fp);
What's the problem? The problem is that this doesn't
replaces the contents of the file, it appends the
new date a line under the first.
here's the example:
contents of the file, before running code:
after running the code:
I just want to replace the first date (2.2.2003)
with the current date(3.2.2003).
See my problem? Intead of replacing the first date
with the current it appends it self a line under.
How to fox this?
I also tied with fwrite but it's the same s...
help me...
Replacing string in file problems...
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Trying to follow what IBM was doing has always been complicated. Part of the problem is that IBM has been around a long time and has an impact in most parts of the information processing industry. It has consequently produced a large number of connectivity products over the years, and with the 1990's coming they were attempting to bring some order out of its own somewhat chaotic product inventory of the time. At the same time, it had to avoid alienating large customers who have a major impact on IBM sales. An IBM networking environment would therefore always be a compromise among what is best, what is new, and what is installed. Moreover, even within IBM, these compromises were not entirely driven by technology. Different divisions of IBM engineer and manufacture different connectivity products. Consequently, there was the inevitable jockeying for position and prestige within IBM's organization. The competitive tools for the contending groups were the old and new products they produce. As a result of those conflicts, there were many political as well as technical compromises. The concept of an overarching connectivity architecture such as SAA was one approach to managing these compromises. One clearly evident (if not explicitly stated) IBM strategy in managing outside competition was to coopt popular technology. This was evidenced by the growing number of products supporting Ethernet and connectivity to asynchronous computers at that time.
Over the mid 80's to early 90's, several developments had taken place that were important to note. First, the PS/2 family of computers had not taken over the PC market as IBM initially hoped, and it was being downgraded in importance internally. Much of the sales promotion of the PS/2s had touted them as LAN servers. Interestingly, a server could also be purchased from IBM preloaded with either its own LAN Server, based on OS/2, or with Novell's NetWare 3.1x or NetWare 4.x. This phenomenon introduced the second point: From all appearances, IBM was in the process of getting out of the LAN NOS business, at least from the standpoint of having any major impact on the market. For all intents and purposes, the server-based LAN market had been preempted by Novell in the late 80s, followed distantly by Banyan, while the peer-to-peer LAN NOS market was being dominated by Artisoft, with Microsoft coming on very strongly with their Windows for Workgroups products. IBM was at a cross roads in the LAN OS market. The original plan was to bring Apple and Microsoft together with them for a unified server/desktop OS platform under Project Pink, but they never managed to get this relationship off the ground. OS/2 was the output of that relationship along with Windows NT from Microsoft. While OS/2 had some merits as a server OS, it was clunky and difficult to code for, so there was little 3rd party software coming available outside of platforms that IBM was offering. It essentially looked like it would turn into another mainframe lock-in strategy for IBM and the market wouldn't have it.


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A road trip a month, makes the life going. And if that road trip is clubbed with some super-cool gadgets, then you get the whole of added comforts. Gadgets make our lives more easier than we can imagine. While on a road trip, it is inevitable for the drivers to face road rage issues because of some other people's ill driving skills. In such conditions, we bring you a list of some ultra-cool gadgets to get you prepared for some on road glitches.
1. ABLEGRID HD Video Recorder Dash Cam
Dashcams are made to get you your part of memories while on your road trip. You don't need to worry about involving into an mishap because they also come in handy. Also, in case of any kind of mishap, the camera can get you the recording of what exactly happened and who is responsible for that.
2. Trackr Bravo
Misplacing your car keys is a very common problem which sometimes proves to be vigorously time consuming. To avoid this, you can add a Trackr Bravo on the keychain to ensure that you always get to find your keys. They help you to locate your lost items with the help of their app, so you can get it attached on anything worthwhile.
3. Belkin Bluetooth Car Kit
Bluetooth is one luxury piece of technology for the cars, but if your car is still deprived of Bluetooth abilities then we have one handy and practical gadget for you. You can plug this with your phone and it works with your car's aux port, so no hassle of finding for a FM channel. You can also make calls, so that you don't have to grab your phone every time you need to answer a call or make a call.
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This magic gadget allows 4 people to charge their phones simultaneously. It gives you a long 6-foot cable with which all people, whether sitting in front or back can get their phones charged. It is equipped with 4 USB ports, two of which are in front and a dock that gives power via two other USB ports.
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With these handy and practical gadgets, your road trip will give the memories of only leisure and fun, eliminating all unwanted fuss out of it.


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So um, yeah… this happened.
A viewer was kind (?) enough to email the video to us, and I thought I'd pass it along. The title is "A Christian's Response To 'The Atheist Experience'. (Bible Truth And Commonsense)" and the description text is "A RESPONSE TO THE ABSURDITIES AND FALLACIES OF THE SHOW" (all caps preserved).
There are about a dozen remarks that I don't think I need to make, but my thoughts can be summed up like this: If noimplant4me were to call in to the show, I fear that he would be accused of trolling us, or we would be accused of inventing him to make ourselves look good.
Needless to say, he is welcome to call in any time. Atheists are already mostly on top of the comment thread, although you probably already know how useful I think YouTube comments are. (Not useful at all.) But if you make your way there, feel free to let him know that we've publicized his delightful video, and link the page with instructions on how to call the show.
I think the only response I'll make — as politely as possible — is that he has perhaps misunderstood the notion that there is some kind of "rule" against quoting the Bible at us. You can quote the Bible all you want, but since we don't believe the Bible is divinely inspired or has a particular claim to the truth, it just isn't particularly useful to us in a conversation, absent some prior discussion about why we should change our minds about that.
He refused to link to the show on principle, so I don't know exactly what was being discussed in the clip he mentioned. But the reference to Captain Kirk was undoubtedly because of my frequent observation that somebody who quotes the Bible is no more credible to us than a Trekkie who constantly quotes from Star Trek. It's all fiction, from our point of view.
Updated: A Facebook commenter informs me that he was responding to this video.


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Congratulations! You are about to join the world of herbal soap making. Our kits include pre-measured materials for one batch of soap. These instructions, combined with our detailed PDF instructions*, will guide you through the cold-process method of soap making. At first, these instructions may seem a bit overwhelming, so read them first and familiarize yourself with them. When you make the soap, however, you will see how easy and fun this is.
*We do not recommend using this page solely for your soap making instructions. Please use the instructions that come with your soap making kit (or see the soap making instructions in a new window), as they come with more detail and safety and cleaning instructions for handling the lye solution.
Before you start, gather up all the required materials and familiarize yourself with them. You will need a heavy duty rubber spatula, metal whisk, sauce pan or stock pot, 2 gallon white, high density plastic bucket, liquid measuring cup, rubber dish-washing gloves, safety goggles, thermometer, one quart cartons, and a blanket or Styrofoam cooler. If you have a stainless steel stock pot, you can use it for both heating the oils and mixing the soap (you would not need the 2 gallon bucket if you chose this method) Last, for the stirring stage, our instructions discuss stirring by hand. However, we highly recommend using an immersion/stick blender (plastic is fine). You can pick one up at your major retailer for about $12.99. This will speed up the mixing process. It is not required but makes things a lot easier and faster!
Our soap making kits include all the necessary pre-measured ingredients. These ingredients include: Our base oil blend (sunflower oil, safflower oil, coconut oil, and palm oil), Lye, herbs/botanical additive, and essential oil. The image to the right displays all the ingredients for our Peppermint Soap Making Kit. Other kits will include different herb/botanical additive and essential oil depending on which kit is chosen.
Prepare the Oils
1. Prepare the oils by heating them over medium heat. They will be ready when they turn clear and you can see the bottom of the pot.
Prepare the Lye
2. Prepare the Lye Solution. The mixing should only be for about 10 seconds. You can use either the heavy duty spatula or metal whisk.
Get the Temperatures
3. Get both the lye and oil down to 95 degrees. Use hot and cold water baths to raise or lower the temperatures until they are the same.
Pour Oils Into Bucket
4. Pour the oils into the 2 gallon bucket. Use a spatula to get all of the oil out of the pot. Have on your long sleeve shirt and rubber gloves to be ready for the lye.
Pour Lye Into Bucket
5. Pour the lye into the oils. Make sure not to splash the lye solution as you are pouring. Remember to have on your long sleeve shirt and rubber gloves.
6. Make sure to stir the same direction the whole time. The stirring pattern should be around the perimeter of the bucket as well as through the center.
Mix Until Trace
7. With a blender, it should take about 3-5 minutes to reach "trace". If drizzled soap stays on top of the mixture, you have reached trace.
At Trace, Add Herbs
8. Once you have reached trace, go ahead and add the herbs. Blend the herbs thoroughly and make sure that you continue to stir the
Mix In Herbs
mixture the same way as you did before (same direction, around the perimeter, and through the center). Make sure to mix thoroughly.
Add Essential Oil
9. After you have mixed the herbs, go ahead and add the essential oil. Make sure to mix the essential oil thoroughly. If you are not mixing
Mix In Essential Oil
enough, you will still be able to see the essential oil sitting on top of the soap. Only stir the essential oil for about 10-15 seconds.
Pour Into Cartons
10. Add the soap to your three 1 quart cartons (molds). Stop about 1/2 inch from the crease that separates the main carton body from the top section.
Staple Top of Carton
11. Once you have filled your molds, fold them back up and staple across top.
Cover All Openings
12. Cover any other openings. We did not have the original caps so we used duck tape!
Insulate Cartons
13. Insulate with blankets or towels and wait 4-5 days (keep in a warm part of your house).
Remove the Cartons
14. Peel off the carton molds from the loaves. The carton has a waxy inside so this should be pretty easy to peel off.
Cut Loaves Into Bars
15. Cut the loaves into individual bars of soap. You can you a knife or wire. Cut the bars 1 inch thick to make a 4oz bar.
Let Soap Cure!
16. Last, place the bars in a well-ventilated part of your house and allow them to cure for three weeks. Enjoy the soap!
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As we've done on Wednesday night for a while, after game night, a few friends and I sat down to watch the latest episode of Survivor. The beginning of the episode was interrupted by a weather update about a cloud that kind of looked like a tornado, and I anxiously fast forwarded in the hopes it wouldn't last long.
Thirty minutes later, the update was over. We were left with only the final half hour of the show (which was fine, but not ideal).
Why does any weather interruption need to last 30 minutes? I figure there are two types of people who watch television:
So…why do lengthy weather updates exist anymore? Were people in St. Louis who sat down to watch Survivor live tonight happy that CBS spent 30 minutes talking about a weird cloud? Maybe I'm missing something.


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Remember summer afternoons spent with a Hanes T-shirt, a pack of rubber bands, and some buckets filled with Rit dye? You'd tie a couple of random knots, dunk the shirt in a bucket, and voila: Your very own tie-dyed T-shirt.
Think of shibori—an ancient form of wrapping, binding, and hand-dyeing fabric—as tie-dye for grown-ups. Big-deal designers like Stella McCartney, Band of Outsiders, and Michael Kors have recently sent shibori-inspired patterns down their catwalks, and high-street stores like Madewell, Anthropologie, and Free People are all offering up intricately patterned, indigo hued pieces too. Shibori is definitely having a moment.
"Shibori gives fabric a vibrant liveliness that other prints can't offer," explains Kalen Kaminski, who along with pal Astrid Chastka, founded shibori-based clothing label Upstate four years ago. "There are always inconsistencies with shibori that must be embraced."
With that in mind, I asked Kaminski and Chastka to walk me through my very own shibori DIY.
What we used:
—silk caftan (use any white cotton or silk item you like, but be sure to choose 100 percent natural fibers as those absorb dyes best)
—bendable tube (or any cylindrical item—a branch, wood dowel—you don't mind getting dye on)
—string (rubber bands work too!)
—two-gallon bucket
—indigo dye, salt, soda ash, synthropol (try a handy indigo dye kit, priced from $9 to $14, or classic Rit dye.)
What we did:
1. Fold
Fold the fabric in an accordion lengthwise, like you're making a fan. We folded ours about four times. Since we were going for the "Arashi" technique, which literally means storm in Japanese, we werent' trying to be too careful with our folds. "Every crinkle and fold in the binding process registers as a dyed texture, and these are graphic but still organic," Chastka says.
2. Wrap
Lay the fabric on a flat surface and place the tube across it lengthwise so that you can wrap the fabric completely around it. Use a clamp at the top to hold the fabric tightly in place.
3. Scrunch
Starting near the clamp, scrunch the fabric together. You want to push it so it looks like a long hair scrunchie and is about one-third of its starting length. Use a clamp at the bottom to secure it.
4. Tie
Tightly wrap your scrunched-up bundle with string to further secure it. The tighter you wrap, the better: It'll protect the fabric from the dye and you'll end up with more white areas.
5. Dye
Mix your dye bath in the bucket and dunk your masterpiece in. We let ours sit for a few hours to fully absorb. (Follow the directions on your dye packet.)
6. Rinse
Carefully cut the string, remove the clamps, and rinse your fabric in cold water. We soaked ours in a bucket of synthropol to set the dye, then we washed it in a gentle cycle in a washing machine. (Follow the directions on your dye packet.)
__7. Enjoy! __
Now you've got one heck of a cool shibori item. And it's one-of-kind! "The beauty of shibori is how versatile it is," Kaminski explains. "Each piece is adaptable from day to night, from vacation to office."


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Welcome to Skills
Meet our President & CEO
Meet our President & CEO
I would like to introduce myself. I am Rebecca Aungst, President & CEO of the Skills organization. It is my pleasure to share a bit of information about our organization and how far we've come since our beginning in 1960.
Currently, we are known primarily as a provider of multiple services for people with intellectual disabilities. However, over the past several years, we have diversified our services to include Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Peer Support Services for people with mental health challenges and our more recent effort at diversification of services – an outpatient Drug & Alcohol Program in Cambria County.
In addition to diversifying services, we are also focusing our efforts on expanding existing services to other populations and other geographical areas. We now provide the opportunity to access many of our services in 17 counties.
At Skills, we operate from the premise of supporting people to have "everyday life" as per the office of Developmental Programs. Also, we firmly believe in the principles of Person Centered Thinking and strive to support people in our services as well as the employees using these principles as our guide. The focus is on listening to what people need, finding out how to best support them and developing services and standards to help them be successful. We recognize the employees as our most valuable asset, and their success is our success and the key to being a quality provider.
I hope that you will consider us as a provider for someone you know who is in need of supports or as an employer if searching for a career. As per our mission and our strategic plan, we will always strive to be a quality provider and a premier employer as we work to enhance peoples lives together.
Thank you for visiting our website.
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It's an odd story of confession. A Florida man uses a "wanted sign" for his own arrest as his Facebook profile picture.
Police began looking for 'Mack Yearwood' after officers were called to a home this week for reports of a battery.
During their search they decided to look the guy up on social media.
That's when Yearwood's own Facebook profile picture alerted them.
"They went on Facebook and found that he had open warrants from another county," said Stuart Police Sgt Heather Rothe.
But that's not all. Somebody commented on the picture, warning Yearwood, saying she wished he would take it down because the cops use Facebook now.
His response: At least they won't come get me in Tennessee, which is where Yearwood lives.
The next day police arrested the man.
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The Obama administration national security apparatus has to leave a knowledgeable man feeling a little queasy. You've got national security advisor Susan Rice, a knave or a fool with credibility somewhere south of zero. You've got assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor for strategic communications Ben Rhodes. What is this man doing here?
You've got Secretary of State John Kerry, the man whom Obama has entrusted to bring home the bacon in negotiations with his counterpart from Iran. Who will represent the United States?
You've got Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. He seems to be in over his head as he occasionally blurts out the truth. That's a distinction with a difference in this crowd.
You've got Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, an apparently serious man.
You've got Valerie Jarrett, the woman with her finger in every pot. What is she doing here? Even former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates found her tough to take in matters involving national security.
And you've got CIA Director John Brennan. In their recent Wall Street Journal column on the need for a CIA Team B on Iran, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Kevin Carroll open with a recitation of some of Brennan's greatest hits, here denominated "gaffes":
Many of CIA Director John Brennan's gaffes over the years have raised eyebrows, but none has suggested the need for a legislative remedy—until the one he launched at Harvard last week.
His past indiscretions have included, in 2010 when he was a counterterrorism adviser at the White House, referring to Jerusalem by its Arabic name, "al Quds"; referring to the "moderate" elements in Hezbollah, the Iran surrogate in Lebanon and a group the U.S. designates a terrorist organization; and insisting that our enemies should not be called "jihadists" because jihad is "a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam."
There was also the time in 2010 when he derided the notion of a war on terrorism or terror because "terrorism is but a tactic" and "terror is a state of mind."
In the clip below, Brennan refers to Jerusalem as "al Quds." I had forgotten about this. In this and each of the other statements cited Brennan seems to be speaking from a perspective deeply sympathetic to those from whom he is charged to keep us safe. What is he doing here?
Mukasey and Carroll use the statements above as the predicate of an examination of Brennan's latest and perhaps greatest hit:
[I]n an interview last week at Harvard's Institute for Politics, Mr. Brennan said that anyone who both knew the facts surrounding the Obama administration's "framework" agreement regarding the Iranian nuclear program, and said that it "provides a pathway for Iran to a bomb," was being "wholly disingenuous."
Mukasey and Carroll comment: "That was foolish, insofar as it applied to many serious-minded people in and out of government, but it was also dangerous."
Mukasey and Carroll write with considerable tact. Obama and his national security team are clearly willing to say anything in a bad cause. In Brennan's case, however, the man appears to harbor deep personal belief in the statements Mukasey and Carroll call "gaffes."