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"A Clarkson on the Hill"
A Look Back in Time - Memories from Malone
Senior Nudka Anyanwu Helps Smart Students Make Smart Choices
Grad Student Returns to Middle East in Different Role
Lessons From History: Small Compromises Can Lead to Bigger Ones
Eyewitness to History
Behind the Scenes in Antarctica and the Arctic
Shared Values
Outwitting Hackers
Combined Ingenuity
Renewable Energy Research Gets the Green Light
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Sheila Faith Weiss hopes people can learn from history
how easy it is to compromise our ethics when we move step by step away from our moral values.
The Clarkson history professor is embarking on a biography of Dr. Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, perhaps Germany's most controversial human geneticist of the 20th century who worked under the Third Reich. Her project is supported by a $277,000 National Science Foundation grant.
Von Verschuer was mentor to the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele, otherwise known as the "Angel of Death" at Auschwitz. Mengele sent data and sometimes body parts to von Verschuer that supported the latter's genetic research, which primarily focused on twins. Mengele hoped to profit professionally from his collaboration with his former doctoral advisor. At the time, von Verschuer was director of the prestigious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics in Berlin.
Weiss says her research will, in part, examine "the ethical lessons we can take away from this study of a man who, in a sense, made a Faustian bargain with a devilish regime." She said von Verschuer seems not to have been a horrible person by nature, but someone who started making ethical compromises and was "pulled into a direction he perhaps did not wish to go, when all of a sudden he finds himself in the moral abyss."
Von Verschuer's career spanned from 1919 to 1969, which covered four periods of German history: the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, Allied Occupation and the early decades of West Germany.
"I don't believe that in 1933 von Verschuer could have ever imagined getting himself involved in research that involved involuntary subjects at Auschwitz — work that frequently led to their death," said Weiss, "but by 1943, owing to all the small ethical compromises made along the way, he found himself engaged in just such medical transgressions."
She hopes people learn from her work "that it's these small steps we're not aware of, accommodations we do not think much about at the time we make them, which could lead us to places we could hardly have earlier imagined."
Weiss says that it is natural for scientists to find common cause with the regime they find themselves in so that they can secure research funding. Von Verschuer not only made the necessary accommodations to work with the Nazis, but with democratic governments as well. "So the same man who collaborated with Mengele in the Third Reich ultimately gained a position in the post-war period and became one of West Germany's leading medical geneticists until his death in 1969," said Weiss. How this was possible is a central part of the story she has to tell.
She believes her biography will also help people realize that they need to contribute to the public debates surrounding new and emerging genetic technologies. "The study will help eliminate black-and-white thinking about the moral issues we face stemming from biomedical developments in the 21st century. The lay public needs to be intellectually armed for the debates that will surely come; we cannot leave these important policy decisions up to the scientists."
Weiss says it's not easy to weigh the deaths of six million people in Nazi concentration camps against her historical obligations not to judge her subject. "It's a very difficult balancing act and I think it takes some finessing to find the proper framework to contextualize this story — to write a biography of 'the man in full'," she says.
The new project continues Weiss' work involving the history of human genetics and eugenics in Germany. Her latest book, The Nazi Synthesis: Human Heredity and Politics in the Third Reich, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2010. It was funded by an $86,000 NSF grant.
Weiss has authored many articles and has received several fellowships, including the National Endowment for the Humanities and two Fulbright awards to Germany. In 2006, she was the Daimler-Chrysler Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.


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Adelaide, South Australia 5005,Australia
Institut für Topologie, TU Braunschweig
Pockelsstr. 14, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Abstract: The connection between semi-biplanes and antiregular generalized quadrangles is employed to construct different plane models of semi-biplanes. The connection between antiregular generalized quadrangles and circle planes is used to generalize these models. The plane models of the classical semi-biplane are described explicitely. They can be visualized easily. The treatment shows how the different models are connected.
Keywords: Semi-biplanes, generalized quadrangles, antiregular quadrangles, circle planes
Classification (MSC91): 51A50, 51E12, 51B05, 51H15.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Senior Trinity Leonard (Mill Valley, Calif.) and junior Kristine Bunker (Falmouth, Mass.) both generated nine kills to lead a balanced attack as the MIT women's volleyball team fell to Springfield College, 25-22, 24-26, 25-13, 25-21, on Tuesday night. With the loss, the Engineers' ledger dipped to 10-2 on the year and 2-1 in NEWMAC play.
Leonard added seven digs to MIT's cause while freshman Ada Taylor (Durham, N.C.) posted eight kills and a .353 hitting performance. Freshman Meryl Gibbs (Bellaire, Texas) notched seven kills and an ace as junior Tatiana Berger (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) tacked on six kills and two blocks. Senior Katie Spielbauer (Lakeview, Mich.) generated a career-high 32 digs to go along with two aces, followed by 11 digs from freshman Lindsey Wang (Cupertino, Calif.) and seven by junior Sharon Hao (San Jose, Calif.). Senior Alyssa Rothman (Plainview, N.Y.) tallied 24 assists and four digs while sophomore Nicole Gagnier (Atlanta, Ga.) dished out 11 assists of her own.
The opening set was a back-and-forth affair as Wang's kill produced the ninth tie of the frame and evened the score at 15. MIT rattled off the next five points to go up, 20-15; however, after a Springfield timeout the hosts replied with their own five-point spurt. Strikes by Leonard and Bunker kept the Engineers in front, but the Pride recorded three straight points which forced the visitors to use a timeout. After the break, back-to-back hitting errors gave Springfield the win at 25-22.
In the second stanza, the Pride inched out to a 10-5 lead. The Cardinal and Gray stayed close, narrowing the gap to one on six occasions, the last at 24-23 courtesy of a Taylor kill. Strong serving by Wang coupled with strikes by Gibbs, Leonard, and Taylor propelled MIT to the victory.
Springfield jumped out to an 8-1 advantage in the third set, but the Engineers continued to attack as they trimmed their deficit to 13-9. This was as close as it would get as the Pride maintained their comfortable cushion en route to a 25-13 win.
The early stages of the fourth set were closely played until Springfield built a 17-10 advantage. MIT battled back, capitalizing on two miscues to narrow the gap to 20-18. The Pride picked up three of the next four points to gain some breathing room at 23-19; however, back-to-back kills by Taylor reestablished the two-point margin. Springfield thwarted the Engineers' attempt at a late rally by scoring the next two points to close out the match.
MIT returns to non-conference play this weekend as it competes in the MIT Invitational which will be hosted by Brandeis University. The Engineers will square off with Bates College and Roger Williams University on Friday, Sept. 21 and will then take on the Judges and Tufts University the next day.


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Yes, I'm talking to you -- you owners of Research In Motion
Those stocks have been jaw-dropping investments, doubling over the past 12 months.
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- Given the value of your entire portfolio -- not just your market-crushing picks -- when will you be able to retire?
- How much income would your portfolio produce in 10 years? Twenty? Tomorrow?
- Given that you'll have to sell investments to pay your retirement bills, how do you know your portfolio will last as long as you do?
- How will you keep taxes from devouring your gains when you do sell?
Earning great returns on your stocks is just one part of the picture. Unless you're investing for the fun of it, at some point you're going to want to convert those returns into cash -- whether to buy that vacation home, that education for a kid or grandkid, or just to pay the bills in retirement. And you must know now whether enough money will be there and the smartest way to access it.
Run your numbers
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Unfortunately, as with many things in life, you get what you pay for; many of these calculators don't factor in everything that goes into determining whether you'll have a retirement of abundance or subsistence. Go ahead and try three calculators; you'll get three different answers (probably very different answers).
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This article was originally published on Feb. 20, 2007. It has been updated.
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Season 3 of Luther Is Finally in Production
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Drama, BBC, Announcements, News, Renewals, Video,
After waiting for more than a year after British crime thriller Luther's season two finale aired, fans finally get word about season three - à la YouTube Q&A.
In the clip, the folks behind the show reveal that the hit show will begin filming the season's four episodes this month and that everyone's favorite female killer Alice might return. There's no word yet as to an expected air date, but they assure fans in the clip that "it will be worth the wait."
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Maine newspaper rescinds request for concealed weapons permit data
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � A Maine newspaper says it's withdrawing its request to police agencies across the state for their lists of concealed-weapons permit holders, a day after the governor and key lawmakers lambasted the publication for its actions.
The Bangor Daily News said on its website Friday it's told agencies who received its Freedom of Access request to disregard it. The News says it told agencies that have responded that their records will be destroyed.
Republican legislative leaders expressed outrage after the Bangor paper's request became public, saying that publishing the permit holders' names could endanger them. Gov. Paul LePage, who identified himself as a permit holder, said the newspaper's request would incite fear among gun owners and non-gun owners about safety.
The Bangor paper said it never intended to publish the names.


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If you're familiar with the Providence Wintertime Farmers Market, you already know about the stunning array of locally-produced foods available all winter long. This past Saturday, the Wintertime Market provided inspiration for chefs from each of the Newport Restaurant Group's restaurants.
On Saturday morning at the start of the market, teams of chefs from each of the Newport Restaurant Group's restaurants arrived at the Wintertime Market at Hope Artiste Village in Pawtucket to participate in their first Farm Fresh Initiative.
The teams were given Fresh Bucks to choose a selection of ingredients that they would turn into specials featured that evening in each restaurant. As the group gathered the excitement was palpable, most went out and scouted the market to see what might be waiting for them. The market was filled with so many amazing locally grown and raised options including a variety of greens, apples, cider, potatoes, beets, parsnips, turnips, winter squash, oysters, beef, pork, cheeses, eggs, honey, and maple syrup. There were also many artisan products; jams, jellies, chutneys, artisan breads and pastries, nuts and chocolates.
The chefs were extremely enthusiastic as they surveyed all the booths with an abundance of great local options in the winter in New England. After perusing and selecting an assortment of ingredients they headed back to their respective restaurants where they brainstormed and finalizing their ideas. Before beginning their prep, they also sent out a teaser email of what they would be offering. The creations were amazing; many chose not just one menu item but multiple course offerings.
See for yourself:
From Trio:
~Farm Fresh Salad – Jeffrey's baby greens, mutsun apples, Westfield Farm goat cheese, Purple Pear ginger pecans + Smithfield honey
~Entrée - Windmist Farm Beef Pot Pie - slow simmered beef stew, Maplewood Farm potatoes, carrots, green peas + house made pastry crust
~Dessert - Crème Brulee - Ocean State chocolate, Zephyr Farms custard + Grand Marnier meringue
From The Boathouse:
~Westport Farm fresh egg bruschetta ~ Olga's bread with Westport Farm fresh eggs, Jeffrey's greens, Cato Farms "Bridgid's Abbey" cow's milk cheese and Marcia's Pepper Jelly
~ D'artagnan pasture raised rack of lamb with Simmons Farm Bok Choy, Allen Farms oregano and orange mint, Marcia's pear ginger chutney, Capri goat cheese and Olga's Cup and Saucer bread
From 22 Bowens:
~Blue corn crusted Cod loin over chipotle braised yellow eyed beans, topped with a citrus salsa.
From Waterman Grille:
~ Matunuck oyster on the half shell with a honey dew melon and wasabi mignonette
~ Kenyon's Blue corn meal crusted Boston Blue Cod served with roasted creamers and an Asian vegetable slaw finished with Farm Fresh grapefruit segments and Jeffrey's micro greens.
~ 16oz.Hereford Ribeye with Farm Fresh butternut squash fries and Agraria Farm apple and shallot brown sugar demi glaze
~ Fresh strawberries with Aquidneck farm granola, vanilla ice cream finish with lavender scented honey and fresh mint
Castle Hill Inn's Chile-braised Simmons Farm Pork and Matunuck Little Neck StewFrom Castle Hill Inn:
~Amuse ~ Kenyons Cornmeal Jonny cakes, topped with Blueberry preserve crème fraiche
~Chile Braised Simmons Farm pork and Matunuck Farms little neck stew, Czajkowski Farms Butternut squash and potatoes, Allen Farms Pea shoot pesto topped on a Seven Stars Crostini
From The Mooring:
~ Housemade Narragansett Creamery ricotta ravioli, butter poached Maine lobster, Farm Fresh butternut cream, Seven Stars Focaccia
~ Grilled beef tenderloin, Harmony Hill Farm egg and crab frittata, chipotle hollandaise, Allen Farms pea shoots
Newport Harbor Corporation, which is the parent company of Newport Restaurant Group, believes that utilizing locally grown, organic produce in their dishes supports the local farming industry, enhances the connection between the plate and its source, and ultimately increases the quality of the culinary experience.
This initiative brought that belief to life and gave an opportunity to a team of talented young chefs to meet and talk with the growers and producers and purchase their products right from the source. Building these connections and highlighting the Wintertime Market are two great reasons to love this project, the other is delicious, fresh food prepared with attention and thoughtful consideration.
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You must answer all questions on the application and attach required documentation. Failure to provide complete and accurate information or to submit the required documentation* with your application will result in a nonresident classification. Please include any additional information you feel will help support your application for Vermont residency. Photocopy the application for your records and submit only COPIES of your supporting documents. All material you submit becomes the property of The University of Vermont and will not be returned or forwarded. The information contained in the Application for In-State Status as well as all accompanying documentation is confidential and used only by the Residency Office. We maintain your file in accordance the University's Student Records Access policy. Your application and supporting material will remain on file in our office and will be kept confidential to the extent permitted by law.
There are very strict timelines for submitting your application for in-state status, which apply to all UVM schools and colleges. An application can be submitted as early as 75 days in advance of the first day of classes for a term. The deadline date for continuing or previously enrolled students is always the last day to add/drop classes of the term under consideration. Applicants to degree programs and new non-degree students must submit materials by the date requested by the Residency Office. Applications must be dropped off at the Student Service Center in the Waterman Building (before 4:00 p.m.) or mailed to the Residency Officer with a postmark no later than the deadline date. Applications received after the deadline will be processed for the following term.
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FAIRHAVEN — The Board of Selectmen will take steps to convert the position of executive secretary to town administrator, a move that would greatly expand the position's jurisdiction.
FAIRHAVEN — The Board of Selectmen will take steps to convert the position of executive secretary to town administrator, a move that would greatly expand the position's jurisdiction.
Currently, the executive secretary position is technically responsible for only departments that fall under selectmen's purview. If the position is changed to a town administrator, the post would oversee all other town employees and departments, including the School Department.
The suggestion to convert the position was first made by the state Department of Revenue in a report including 34 recommendations for how Fairhaven could be more efficiently governed.
Conversion of the executive secretary position was one focus of a meeting between selectmen and members of the DOR Thursday afternoon to discuss how best to implement some of the recommendations.
DOR financial management analyst Zack Blake said changing the job description, which would have to be approved by Town Meeting, makes sense because current Executive Secretary Jeffrey Osuch "has been operating beyond the formal authority of that position because of his longevity in office and skill at managing people."
"Why not have this person overseeing all the departments," he said. "If you do that, every person working for the town reports to their department head and every department head reports to the town administrator. That way, there are no questions, and the town can move in one direction all at the same time."
Board Chairman Brian Bowcock agreed, saying "We have been fortunate enough to have Mr. (Jeffrey) Osuch as our executive secretary."
"In reading this report, it seems that he is doing some of your recommendations informally but we need to formalize that into policies," he said.
Osuch, who was present at the meeting, would not comment publicly on his potential change in position and job description.
Blake said giving Osuch more power over financial management and town personnel overall will help to "streamline town organization" and allow for the combining of a town treasurer, finance director and collector position.
Selectmen have already taken steps to making this change a reality. At their Tuesday meeting, the board voted unanimously to combine the positions of town treasurer and finance director with the collector's position.
Bowcock said selectmen "haven't had any discussions of salary yet of any kind" either for the town administrator position or for the finance director/treasurer/collector position.
He also said those measures, along with whatever other steps they take relating to the DOR recommendations, will need to be passed by Town Meeting in May and then approved by the state Legislature. The entire process could take a year and a half, he said.
Once the change is approved by the Legislature, Bowcock said, "That's when the discussions of salary would happen."


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S-216 The President's Room 05:30 PM
The purpose of the business meeting is to approve the subcommittee assignments for Senator Baldwin.
The meeting will be held immediately following the first Senate vote of the day. The time and location have not been finalized. Please check back for updates.


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Harvey Weinstein loves a good fight -- especially if it helps him promote one of his company's movies.
So when the MPAA's title registration bureau decided this week that the Weinstein Co. couldn't use the title "The Butler" on Lee Daniels' upcoming biopic about the life of a longtime White House butler because it's also the title of a 1916 short film owned by Warner Bros., Weinstein immediately went into outrage mode.
Today, he announced the hiring of prominent attorney David Boies, who represented Al Gore in the 2000 recount fight and gay marriage advocates in the recent Supreme Court challenge to California's same-sex marriage ban, as well as filmmaker Michael Moore when he ran afoul of the Treasury Department after visiting Cuba for the Weinstein Co. film "Sicko."
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Boies is already threatening to file an antitrust suit, arguing that "the suggestion that there is a danger of confusion between the Weinstein Co.'s 2013 feature movie and a 1917 short that has not been shown in theaters, television, DVDs or in any other way for almost a century makes no sense. The award has no purpose except to restrict competition and is contrary to public policy."
It's actually a 1916 short, counselor, but, hey, what's a year for a silent, black-and-white movie that practically no one had heard of before this week? It's hard to argue Boies' point and even harder to guess the reason why Warner Bros. decided to stick it to Weinstein by taking the matter to industry arbitration in the first place.
Might Warner Bros. be settling a score from this past Oscar season when Weinstein's "Silver Linings Playbook" competed against its own "Argo" for best picture? "Argo" did ultimately prevail, but perhaps egos remain bruised months after the combative campaign.
"The Butler" will likely retain its title, though Weinstein might have to give up a little something to make this happen. With the movie's Aug. 16 release date a mere six weeks away, it's a little late to rebrand it now. And Weinstein clearly believes it has some awards-season potential, what with its gentle, historical uplift and a cast that includes Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Robin Williams, Jane Fonda and John Cusack.
But just in case Weinstein finds himself in a last-minute bind, social media users have been volunteering to lend a hand in retitling the film. The hashtag #NewButlerTitles began trending last night. Among the nominees:
"You Got Served"
"The Presidents' Butler"
"Da Butler"
"He Who Butled"
"Django: Still Chained"
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"I Can't Believe It's Not ('The Butler')"
"The Man Who Set the Table"
"Paula Deen's New Nightmare"
"Butler. Gerard Butler"
"Glad I Got Out Before I Had to Clean Up After Clinton"
"Oscar Bait: The Movie"
"The Help 2"
Or maybe he could go the Tyler Perry route and simply call it "Lee Daniels' The Butler." For a filmmaker who already has the wordy "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push by Sapphire'" on his resume, it's (almost) a step in the right direction.
'The Lone Ranger' an Old West washout, critics say
'The Butler' puts new spin on LBJ, says Liev Schreiber
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Astros coming back from injury, but is it too late?
"They want me to run. I haven't run at full speed. Then we'll see Tuesday or Wednesday."
He has run in the pool and done calf exercises in the weight room. He'll be on the field today or tomorrow and hopes to come off the DL during this series against Florida.
Threw a 40-pitch bullpen Sunday and is ready to take the mound tomorrow in Florida.
"The biggest thing is just command right now. In the bullpen, it's OK, but you can tell when you get in the game if your command is going to be there. I don't have any pain."
"It's a little bit sore. I guess I kind of expected to find something going on in there. I'll go out there and throw a bullpen on Tuesday and see how it goes. Hopefully, it goes well and I can pitch. It's just something I'm going to have to deal with the rest of the year. I don't think surgery is an option right now because it would pretty much end my season, and I don't want to do that. I've had two meniscus tears in my left knee in prior seasons, and it's just something I've dealt with. I talked with the doc, and he said as long as I can handle the pain I'll be all right to get out there and pitch, and it's something we can take care of in the offseason."
This will probably be a topic of discussion later today, but it's mentioned that if Hampton can't go on his next scheduled start (series finale @ Florida), Bazardo would take his place in the rotation. Which I would be in favor of, anyway...
Spring Training begins today. Boone will begin a lengthy rehab at Corpus today, and will be eased in "as if he were beginning the start of the Grapefruit League schedule."
"I'm ready to do this. I'm playing five innings at third base (tonight), and then I think I'm five at first the next night after that, then another five at third or DH. I'm excited. I'll be in Corpus, I think, 10 or 12 days. Then assuming things are going well, I'll go to Round Rock for a week or so and then join the team in Arizona and hopefully be activated on the first (of September), I guess I felt like (playing again) was possible. It was just pretty low on the list at the time. I knew probably in the back of my mind if things went well and I progressed well that I would try. That's been kind of my approach to it the whole time. If I'm feeling up to it, I want to try, and I am."
If Boone is activated on 1 Sept, wouldn't that mean he would technically be a September call-up?
Will throw a simulated game today in anticipation of his activation date on Wednesday.
"I'm facing hitters, and we'll see how it goes. I still have an aftershock every now and then, but it's part of the whole shingles thing."
So the Astros sit four games behind the Cubs, six games behind the Cardinals, and six games behind the Rockies and Giants (with six teams between them) for the Wild Card lead. It will be easier to win the division than the Wild Card. However, one of those six teams is the Marlins, against whom the Astros have a chance to put a dent in that space.
The Astros only have 22 home games left, compared to 28 away games. The teams between the Astros and the Wild Card lead are, in order: Rockies/Giants, Cubs, Marlins, Braves, and Brewers.
How many games remain against each team?
Rockies/Giants: In both cases, zero
Cubs: Three, all away
Marlins: Six, 3h/3a
Braves: Three, all home
Brewers: Six, all away
And then there are three games with the Cardinals, at Beck's Stadium, remaining.
So it's a possibility. A long-shot, but a possibility. According to Buster Olney, there is "a lot more waiver-claiming going on than expected." He also notes that, with the Brewers six games back, they could be waving the white flag. Know who else is six games back? Yep. Will the Astros wave the white flag? Probably not.
2 comments:
- David.Sessions said...
It's time to start a ground roots overhaul of the Astros uniform. It is in the bottom 10 of all major league uniforms which seriously discrourages casual fandom. Which, in turn, discourages ticket sales, which affects money that could actually bring Houston a championship. I'll even call into question the mascot "Astros" itself. What is that!? I get its connection to Houston and the aerospace program, but who gets excited about "Astros"?
(As of now I will only refer to them as the Houston Club)
This off-season would be a great time to consider a complete paradigm shift for the Houston Club and it would not be too ridiculous to start with a name change. It worked for the (Devil) Rays, and it can work for Houston too.
- August 10, 2009 at 11:33 AM
- The Constable. said...
How dare you call into question Junction Jack? Scoundrel!
I could abide by a uniform change, but the only name change I'll agree to is the Colt .45s. I'd even take the Billy Dee Williamses.
- August 10, 2009 at 12:34 PM


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Midfielder Kevin De Bruyne admits "something has to change" for him at Chelsea but insists he has not yet considered looking elsewhere for opportunities.
The Belgium international made his first appearance in a month as he started Tuesday's Capital One Cup win over Arsenal but he has played just five times this season for the Stamford Bridge side.
Limited chances could damage his World Cup hopes but the 22-year-old said for the time being he is committed to doing better at Chelsea rather than trying to get game time somewhere else.
"To be honest, I haven't thought about it yet. I know something has to change. Sooner or later, I will have to play," he told Belgian newspaper told Het Laatste Nieuws.
"But what can I do at this moment besides training hard and keeping quiet?
"I feel really strong at this time - I think I have never been this fit before.
"I got a lot of support off family and friends who visit me over here.
"My team-mates have been fantastic. You know, I haven't worried much about my situation.
"My career has always gone up but then it's sometimes normal it makes a horizontal line."
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Orthodox Answers had the following in a Q&A (note, this is the complete response there): QUESTION: 11/22/2008: If Irenaeus and other early Fathers believed in the Millennium on earth and taught this doctrine, why is this not taught by the Orthodox Church (since its position is amillenialism). ANSWER: It is true that St. Irenaeus and other early Christian Father believed and taught that the 1000 years of Revelation 20 would be fulfilled in an early kingdom. (http://www.orthodoxanswers.org/details.asp?ID=4 viewed 06/13/09)Yet, this teaching changed amongst many Orthodox. CHILIASM: Chiliasm, from the Greek word meaning "1000," is a belief based on Revelation 20:2-7. In its classical form (which interprets the Revelation 20 verses verbatim), Chiliasm teaches that Satan will be bound by Christ for 1000 years, at which time Jesus and the Saints will reign on earth, and after which, Satan will be finally defeated and the Eternal Kingdom of God will be inaugurated. In modern times, Chiliasm has been "boiled down" to the teaching that the world will end after one thousand years (or a number of years that is a multiple of one thousand). Though some Ancient Church Fathers of the first three centuries AD had Chiliast leanings, the Orthodox Church formally denounced Chiliasm at the Second Ecumenical Council, in 381 (Orthodox Christian Beliefs and Practices. © 2006-2007 Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada. http://www.uocc.ca/en-ca/faith/beliefs/ 08/18/07).In other words, Orthodox Church scholars know that early Christian leaders, which it calls, "Ancient Church Fathers" taught chiliasm (called millenarianism in Latin), yet it CHANGED that teaching AND CONDEMNED it in a church council.
Both the Bible and early church writings confirm that Jesus is God, but that He emptied Himself of many of the prerogatives of His divinity while on the earth. Jesus became man. So, while on earth, Jesus (who was tempted as we are) was human and not fully divine.However, before being on earth and after the resurrection, Jesus was God.Jesus is now God and is once again with God.
The Living Church of God is:1.) A heretical group of "Binitarians" and Judaizers2.) A destructive cult. See here: http://www.exitsupportnetwork.com/artcls/meredith.htmGood scholarship does not equal sound doctrine.
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It's pretty clear that the recently-sprung Billy is a man out of control. You won't need any more evidence of this than when you go to the clubhouse to speak with Billy and end up getting this mission. After yet another confrontation between Johnny and Billy, some "deadbeats" show up outside. When the crew heads on outside to see what's going on, they find a trio of rival gang members from the Angels of Death attempting to crash the party. When one gets smart with Billy, he puts a bullet point-blank in his back. And then his friends scamper off. It's up to you to catch up.
The drive is a relatively leisurely one, simply because you're in such a huge group of bikers (and are chasing such a huge group of bikers), that's it's essentially impossible to get lost or not keep up. Plus, you and your crew are represented as blue dots on the HUD, while your enemies have red arrows over them and are represented on the HUD as red dots. You'll have the option, en route, of using your sawed-off shotgun on enemies in front of you. This is a good idea, and the game seems to encourage you to do so by making a biker or two fall behind the rest of the group and attack you here and there. But, this leaves you susceptible to being damaged by enemy fire and runs the risk of shooting and killing a friendly, which will result in an automatic mission failure.
Whether or not you thinned out the enemy ranks is irrelevant to where the fight will end up -- a lot off of Union Drive West on the western edge of Algonquin. If you thinned the enemy ranks, then you'll have to deal with less foes here, but either way, you're going to have your hands full. An interesting technique to employ at the outset of the mission is to go to the overpass overlooking the lot. Fill the cars below full of gunfire and watch them light up and explode, taking some thugs with them. Then, drive down off of the overpass and seek refuge behind one of the concrete support beams, laying into the enemy contingent once you're nice and safe. When all are dead, scour their bodies for some valuable ammunition. In addition to your sawed-off, you should now have a pistol to tote as well.
When the dust has settled, your crew will take off, reestablishing itself at an overpass off of Beaverhead Avenue at the far north end of Algonquin. Get back on your bike and head over to their location to finish this mission off.
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September 10, 2009Arnold, Ava, Marble Hill, Maryville, Poplar Bluff & Trenton License Offices Awarded After Competitive Bidding Process
JEFFERSON CITY - Six more local motor vehicle/license offices have been awarded to agents after undergoing a competitive bidding process championed by Gov. Jay Nixon.
The offices awarded today are in Arnold, Ava, Marble Hill, Maryville, Poplar Bluff and Trenton. This brings to 81 the total number of offices granted under the new system.
The Community Service Arnold Jaycees will continue to operate the license office in Arnold. The not-for-profit group has been the office agent since 1976. The location of the office will stay at 3540 Jeffco Blvd., Suite 120.
Alternative Opportunities, Inc. of Springfield has been awarded the Ava License Office. The not-for-profit-corporation, which provides employment services and assistance to young people, the disabled and families in crisis, is a new agent for the office. The office will move to a new location in Ava - 304 NW 12th Ave.
Alternative Opportunities has also earned the contract for the Poplar Bluff License Office. The corporation is a new agent for the office, which will continue to be at 1875 N. Westwood Blvd.
Richard E. VanGennip will continue in his role as the agent of the Marble Hill License Office. He has run the office since 2005. The office will remain at 606 Highway 34 West.
The Maryville License Office will continue to be operated by the Maryville Chamber of Commerce. It has been the office agent since 1982. The office will stay at its current location of 423 N. Market St.
The Trenton License Office will continue to be run by the Trenton Chamber of Commerce. The chamber has operated the office since 1981, and the office will stay at 617 Main St.
Details about any changes in office operations, if any, will be announced by the agents.
The six offices awarded today are the latest to have their management chosen using a comprehensive bidding process that was implemented when Gov. Nixon took office on Jan. 12. The process calls for people or groups to submit detailed bids to obtain the management contracts to operate the offices. The Arnold, Maryville and Trenton license offices each received one bid; Ava and Marble Hill each received two bids; and Poplar Bluff received four bids.
This new process was codified in state law when Gov. Nixon signed legislation on July 1 that made the new system a permanent part of state law. The bill endorsing the change passed with overwhelming bipartisan majorities in the Missouri Senate and House.
"This new system takes the politics out of the system," Gov. Nixon said. "Under the old system, offices were handed out mainly to political supporters, and there was no thought given to customer service or office efficiencies. Now, anyone can bid on an office, and the person or group who develops the best proposal gets to run the office."
Alana M. Barragán-Scott, acting director of the Missouri Department of Revenue, also applauded the new process.
"The new system provides incentives for both current agents and new bidders to improve the operations at the offices," she said. "Although incumbent agents have earned the right to continue to operate several of the offices, they can no longer be complacent because they could lose a bid if a competitor offers a better plan."
Some winning bidders have chosen to return part of their estimated office revenues to the state. The Ava License Office will return 2 percent ($1,576) of its first-year revenues, Marble Hill will return 2 percent ($1,327), and Poplar Bluff will return 5 percent ($13,378). The Arnold, Maryville and Trenton bid proposals did not include a return to the state. The cumulative amount of estimated funds that will be returned to the state in the first contract year from the 81 license offices that have been awarded so far is $489,879.
Of the 183 license offices, 81 have been awarded and the bidding time has closed for another 83. The remaining 19 offices are still open for bid. For a list of winning bidders for license offices, please go to http://oa.mo.gov/purch/awardedfeeoffices.pdf.
All local license offices provide services that are overseen by the Missouri Department of Revenue, but each office is operated by an independent contractor. Transactions that are conducted at these offices include the issuance and renewal of driver licenses, applying for titles for motor vehicles, and the issuance and renewal of registration for motor vehicles, boats and outboard motors.
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Hey guys. I'm trying to make a class called "purse" where I make an array list and store String in it (quarters, dimes, etc), and then I print out the names of each coin I stored in the purse. I got the printing out part just fine. Then I have to make a method where I reverse the order of the names and prints them out as well. I think I got this one right until I print them out and notice that I get an error in the output. This is the "reverse" method. Could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here?
import java.util.ArrayList; public class Purse { private ArrayList<String> coins; private ArrayList<String> reverseArray; public Purse() { ArrayList<String> coin = new ArrayList<String>(); coins = coin; } public void addCoin(String coinName) { coins.add(coinName); } public String reverse() { int n = coins.size(); for(int i = n; i == 0; i--) { String s = coins.get(n); reverseArray.add(s); } String reverseWords = reverseArray.toString(); return reverseWords; } public String toString() { String words = coins.toString(); return words; } }
public class PurseTester { public static void main(String[] args) { Purse jean = new Purse(); jean.addCoin("Quarter"); jean.addCoin("Dime"); jean.addCoin("Nickel"); jean.addCoin("Dime"); System.out.println(jean.toString()); System.out.println(jean.reverse()); } }
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And it seems to be growing day by day. Brazil, which has been one of the more vocal protesters concerning NSA surveillance, has just awarded a $4.5 billion contract for new fighter jets to Saab, rather than Boeing, which many expected to get the deal. And, Brazilian officials are making it clear that the NSA surveillance issue played a major role in throwing the contract from the Americans to the Swedes.
Until earlier this year, Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet had been considered the front runner. But revelations of spying by the U.S. National Security Agency in Brazil, including personal communication by Rousseff, led Brazil to believe it could not trust a U.S. company.So, as someone asks in the article, did the NSA's spying on Brazil provide over $4 billion in benefits to the US? That seems unlikely. Maybe now, someone, somewhere within the US government will finally start to do a cost-benefit analysis on the NSA's surveillance that actually takes into account how people will react when it is inevitably revealed how far the spying goes.
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Koloa, Kauai, March 23rd.
I am spending a few days on some quaint old mission premises, and the "guest house," where I am lodged, is a dobe house, with walls two feet thick, and a very thick grass roof comes down six feet all round to shade the windows. It is itself shaded by date palms and algarobas, and is surrounded by hibiscus, oleanders, and the datura arborea(?), which at night fill the air with sweetness. I am the only guest, and the solitude of the guest house in which I am writing is most refreshing to tired nerves. There is not a sound but the rustling of trees.
The first event to record is that the trade winds have set in, and though they may yet yield once or twice to the kona, they will soon be firmly established for nine months. They are not soft airs as I supposed, but riotous, rollicking breezes, which keep up a constant clamour, blowing the trees about, slamming doors, taking liberties with papers, making themselves heard and felt everywhere, flecking the blue Pacific with foam, lowering the mercury three degrees, bringing new health and vigour with them — wholesome, cheery, frolicsome north-easters. They brought me here from Oahu in eighteen hours, for which I thank them heartily.
You will think me a Sybarite for howling about those eighteen hours of running to leeward, when the residents of Kauai, if they have to go to Honolulu in the intervals between the quarterly trips of the Kilauea, have to spend from three to nine days in beating to windward. These inter-island voyages of extreme detention, rolling on a lazy swell in tropical heat, or beating for days against the strong trades without shelter from the sun, and without anything that could be called accommodation, were among the inevitable hardships to which the missionaries' wives and children were exposed in every migration for nearly forty years.
When I reached the wharf at Honolulu the sight of the Jenny, the small sixty-ton schooner by which I was to travel, nearly made me give up this pleasant plan, so small she looked, and so cumbered with natives and their accompaniments of mats, dogs, and calabashes of poi. But she is clean, and as sweet as a boat can be which carries through the tropics cattle, hides, sugar, and molasses. She is very low in the water, her deck is the real "fisherman's walk, two steps and overboard;" and on this occasion was occupied solely by natives. The Attorney General and Mrs. Judd were to have been my fellow voyagers, but my disappointment at their non-appearance was considerably mitigated by the fact that there was not stowage room for more than one white passenger! Mrs. Dexter pitied me heartily, for it made her quite ill to look down the cabin hatch; but I convinced her that no inconveniences are legitimate subjects for sympathy which are endured in the pursuit of pleasure. There was just room on deck for me to sit on a box, and the obliging, gentlemanly master, who, with his son and myself, were the only whites on board, sat on the taffrail.
The Jenny spread her white duck sails, glided gracefully away from the wharf, and bounded through the coral reef; the red sunlight faded, the stars came out, the Honolulu light went down in the distance, and in two hours the little craft was out of sight of land on the broad, crisp Pacific. It was so chilly, that after admiring as long as I could, I dived into the cabin, a mere den, with a table, and a berth on each side, in one of which I lay down, and the other was alternately occupied by the captain and his son. But limited as I thought it, boards have been placed across on some occasions, and eleven whites have been packed into a space six feet by eight! The heat and suffocation were nearly intolerable, the black flies swarming, the mosquitos countless and vicious, the fleas agile beyond anything, and the cockroaches gigantic. Some of the finer cargo was in the cabin, and large rats, only too visible by the light of a swinging lamp, were assailing it, and one with a portentous tail ran over my berth more than once, producing a stampede among the cockroaches each time. I have seldom spent a more miserable night, though there was the extreme satisfaction of knowing that every inch of canvas was drawing.
Towards morning the short jerking motion of a ship close hauled, made me know that we were standing in for the land, and at daylight we anchored in Koloa Roads. The view is a pleasant one. The rains have been abundant, and the land, which here rises rather gradually from the sea, is dotted with houses, abounds in signs of cultivation, and then spreads up into a rolling country between precipitous ranges of mountains. The hills look something like those of Oahu, but their wonderful greenness denotes a cooler climate and more copious rains, also their slopes and valleys are densely wooded, and Kauai obviously has its characteristic features, one of which must certainly be a superabundance of that most unsightly cactus, the prickly pear, to which the motto nemo me impune lacessit most literally applies.
I had not time to tell you before that this trip to Kauai was hastily arranged for me by several of my Honolulu friends, some of whom gave me letters of introduction, while others wrote forewarning their friends of my arrival. I am often reminded of Hazael's question, "Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing?" There is no inn or boarding house on the island, and I had hitherto believed that I could not be concussed into following the usual custom whereby a traveller throws himself on the hospitality of the residents. Yet, under the influence of Honolulu persuasions, I am doing this very thing, but with an amount of mauvaise honte and trepidation, which I will not voluntarily undergo again.
My first introduction was to Mrs. Smith, wife of a secular member of the Mission, and it requested her to find means of forwarding me a distance of twenty-three miles. Her son was at the landing with a buggy, a most unpleasant index of the existence of carriage roads, and brought me here; and Mrs. Smith most courteously met me at the door. When I presented my letter I felt like a thief detected in a first offence, but I was at once made welcome, and my kind hosts insist on my remaining with them for some days. Their house is a pretty old-fashioned looking tropical dwelling, much shaded by exotics, and the parlour is homelike with new books. There are two sons and two daughters at home, all, as well as their parents, interesting themselves assiduously in the welfare of the natives. Six bright-looking native girls are receiving an industrial training in the house. Yesterday being Sunday, the young people taught a Sunday school twice, besides attending the native church, an act of respect to Divine service in Hawaiian which always has an influence on the native attendance.
We have had some beautiful rides in the neighbourhood. It is a wild, lonely, picturesque coast, and the Pacific moans along it, casting itself on it in heavy surges, with a singularly dreary sound. There are some very fine specimens of the phenomena called "blow-holes" on the shore, not like the "spouting cave" at Iona, however. We spent a long time in watching the action of one, though not the finest. At half tide this "spouting horn" throws up a column of water over sixty feet in height from a very small orifice, and the effect of the compressed air rushing through a crevice near it, sometimes with groans and shrieks, and at others with a hollow roar like the warning fog-horn on a coast, is magnificent, when, as today, there is a heavy swell on the coast.
Kauai is much out of the island world, owing to the infrequent visits of the Kilauea, but really it is only twelve hours by steam from the capital. Strangers visit it seldom, as it has no active volcano like Hawaii, or colossal crater like Maui, or anything sensational of any kind. It is called the "Garden Island," and has no great wastes of black lava and red ash like its neighbours. It is queerly shaped, almost circular, with a diameter of from twenty-eight to thirty miles, and its area is about 500 square miles. Waialeale, its highest mountain, is 4,800 feet high, but little is known of it, for it is swampy and dangerous, and a part of it is a forest-covered and little explored tableland, terminating on the sea in a range of perpendicular precipices 2,000 feet in depth, so steep it is said, that a wild cat could not get round them. Owing to these, and the virtual inaccessibility of a large region behind them, no one can travel round the island by land, and small as it is, very little seems to be known of portions of its area.
Kauai has apparently two centres of formation, and its mountains are thickly dotted with craters. The age and density of the vegetation within and without those in this Koloa district, indicate a very long cessation from volcanic action. It is truly an oddly contrived island. An elevated rolling region, park-like, liberally ornamented with clumps of ohia, lauhala, hau, (hibiscus) and koa, and intersected with gullies full of large eugenias, lies outside the mountain spurs behind Koloa. It is only the tropical trees, specially the lauhala or "screw pine," the whimsical shapes of outlying ridges, which now and then lie like the leaves in a book, and the strange forms of extinct craters, which distinguish it from some of our most beautiful park scenery, such as Windsor Great Park or Belvoir. It is a soft tranquil beauty, and a tolerable road which owes little enough to art, increases the likeness to the sweet home scenery of England. In this part of the island the ground seems devoid of stones, and the grass is as fine and smooth as a race course.
The latest traces of volcanic action are found here. From the Koloa Ridge to, and into the sea, a barren uneven surface of pahoehoe extends, often bulged up in immense bubbles, some of which have partially burst, leaving caverns, one of which, near the shore, is paved with the ancient coral reef!
The valleys of Kauai are long, and widen to the sea, and their dark rich soil is often ten feet deep. On the windward side the rivers are very numerous and picturesque. Between the strong winds and the lightness of the soil, I should think that like some parts of the Highlands, "it would take a shower every day." The leeward side, quite close to the sea, is flushed and nearly barren, but there is very little of this desert region. Kauai is less legible in its formation than the other islands. Its mountains, from their impenetrable forests, dangerous breaks, and swampiness, are difficult of access, and its ridges are said to be more utterly irregular, its lavas more decomposed, and its natural sections more completely smothered under a profuse vegetation than those of any other island in the tropical Pacific. Geologists suppose, from the degradation of its ridges, and the absence of any recent volcanic products, that it is the oldest of the group, but so far as I have read, none of them venture to conjecture how many ages it has taken to convert its hard basalt into the rich soil which now sustains trees of enormous size. If this theory be correct, the volcanoes must have gone on dying out from west to east, from north to south, till only Kilauea remains, and its energies appear to be declining. The central mountain of this island is built of a heavy ferruginous basalt, but the shore ridges contain less iron, are more porous, and vary in their structure from a compact phonolite, to a ponderous basalt.
The population of Kauai is a widely scattered one of 4,900, and as it is an out of the world region the people are probably better, and less sophisticated. They are accounted rustics, or "pagans," in the classical sense, elsewhere. Horses are good and very cheap, and the natives of both sexes are most expert riders. Among their feats, are picking up small coins from the ground while going at full gallop, or while riding at the same speed wringing off the heads of unfortunate fowls, whose bodies are buried in the earth.
There are very few foreigners, and they appear on the whole a good set, and very friendly among each other. Many of them are actively interested in promoting the improvement of the natives, but it is uphill work, and ill-rewarded, at least on earth. The four sugar plantations employ a good deal of Chinese labour, and I fear that the Chinamen are stealthily tempting the Hawaiians to smoke opium.
All the world over, however far behind aborigines are in the useful arts, they exercise a singular ingenuity in devising means for intoxicating and stupifying themselves. On these islands distillation is illegal, and a foreigner is liable to conviction and punishment for giving spirits to a native Hawaiian, yet the natives contrive to distil very intoxicating drinks, specially from the root of the ti tree, and as the spirit is unrectified it is both fiery and unwholesome. Licences to sell spirits are confined to the capital. In spite of the notoriously bad effect of alcohol in the tropics, people drink hard, and the number of deaths which can be distinctly traced to spirit drinking is quite startling.
The prohibition on selling liquor to natives is the subject of incessant discussions and "interpellations" in the national legislature. Probably all the natives agree in regarding it as a badge of the "inferiority of colour;" but I have been told generally that the most intelligent and thoughtful among them are in favour of its continuance, on the ground that if additional facilities for drinking were afforded, the decrease in the population would be accelerated. In the printed "Parliamentary Proceedings," I see that petitions are constantly presented praying that the distillation of spirits may be declared free, while a few are in favour of "total prohibition." Another prayer is "that Hawaiians may have the same privileges as white people in buying and drinking spirituous liquors."
A bill to repeal the invidious distinction was brought into the legislature not long since; but the influence of the descendants of the missionaries and of an influential part of the white community is so strongly against spirit drinking, as well as against the sale of drink to the natives, that the law remains on the Statute-book.
The tone in which it was discussed is well indicated by the language of Kalakaua, the present king's rival: "The restrictions imposed by this law do the people no good, but rather harm; for instead of inculcating the principles of honour, they teach them to steal behind the bar, the stable, and the closet, where they may be sheltered from the eyes of the law. The heavy licence imposed on the liquor dealers, and the prohibition against selling to the natives are an infringement of our civil rights, binding not only the purchaser but the dealer against acquiring and possessing property. Then, Mr. President, I ask, where lies virtue, where lies justice? Not in those that bind the liberty of this people, by refusing them the privilege that they now crave, of drinking spirituous liquors without restriction. Will you by persisting that this law remain in force make us a nation of hypocrites? or will you repeal it, that honour and virtue may for once be yours, O Hawaii." A committee of the Assembly, in reporting on the question of the prohibition of the sale of intoxicants to anybody, through its chairman, Mr. Carter, stated, "Experience teaches that such prohibition could not be enforced without a strong public sentiment to indorse it, and such a sentiment does not prevail in this community, as is evidenced by the fact that the sale of intoxicating drinks to natives is largely practised in defiance of law and the executive, and that the manufacture of intoxicating drinks, though prohibited, is carried on in every district of the kingdom." So the question which is rising in every country ruled or colonised by Anglo–Saxons, is also agitated here with very strong feeling on both sides.
I was led to this digression by seeing, for the first time, some very fine plants of the Piper methysticum. This is awa, truly a "plant of renown" throughout Polynesia. Strange tales are told of it. It is said to produce profound sleep, with visions more enchanting than those of opium or hasheesh, and that its repetition, instead of being deleterious, is harmless and even wholesome. Its sale is prohibited, except on the production of evidence that it has been prescribed as a drug. Nevertheless no law on the islands is so grossly violated. It is easy to GIVE it, and easy to grow it, or dig it up in the woods, so that, in spite of the legal restrictions, it is used to an enormous extent. It was proposed absolutely to prohibit the sale of it, though the sum paid for the licence is no inconsiderable item in the revenue of a kingdom, which, like many others, is experiencing the difficulty of "making both ends meet;" but the committee which sat upon the subject reported "that such prohibition is not practicable, unless its growth and cultivation are prevented. So long as public sentiment permits the open violation of the existing laws regulating its sale without rebuke, so long will it be of little use to attempt prohibition." One cannot be a day on the islands without hearing wonderful stories about awa; and its use is defended by some who are strongly opposed to the use as well as abuse of intoxicants. People who like "The Earl and the Doctor" delight themselves in the strongly sensuous element which pervades Polynesian life, delight themselves too, in contemplating the preparation and results of the awa beverage; but both are to me extremely disgusting, and I cannot believe that a drink, which stupifies the senses, and deprives a human being of the power to exercise reason and will, is anything but hurtful to the moral nature.
While passing the Navigator group, one of my fellow-passengers, who had been for some time in Tutuila, described the preparation of awa poetically, the root "being masticated by the pearly teeth of dusky flower-clad maidens;" but I was an accidental witness of a nocturnal "awa drinking" on Hawaii, and saw nothing but very plain prose. I feel as if I must approach the subject mysteriously. I had no time to tell you of the circumstance when it occurred, when also I was completely ignorant that it was an illegal affair; and, now with a sort of "guilty knowledge" I tremble to relate what I saw, and to divulge that though I could not touch the beverage, I tasted the root, which has an acrid pungent taste, something like horse-radish, with an aromatic flavour in addition, and I can imagine that the acquired taste for it must, like other acquired tastes, be perfectly irresistible, even without the additional gratification of the results which follow its exercise.
In the particular instance which I saw, two girls who were not beautiful, and an old man who would have been hideous but for a set of sound regular teeth, were sitting on the ground masticating the awa root, the process being contemplated with extreme interest by a number of adults. When, by careful chewing, they had reduced the root to a pulpy consistence, they tossed it into a large calabash, and relieved their mouths of superfluous saliva before preparing a fresh mouthful. This went on till a considerable quantity was provided, and then water was added, and the mass was kneaded and stirred with the hands till it looked like soap suds. It was then strained; and after more water had been added it was poured into cocoa-nut calabashes, and handed round. Its appearance eventually was like weak, frothy coffee and milk. The appearance of purely animal gratification on the faces of those who drank it, instead of being poetic, was of the low gross earth. Heads thrown back, lips parted with a feeble sensual smile, eyes hazy and unfocussed, arms folded on the breast, and the mental faculties numbed and sliding out of reach.
Those who drink it pass through the stage of idiocy into a deep sleep, which it is said can be reproduced once without an extra dose, by bathing in cold water. Confirmed awa drinkers might be mistaken for lepers, for they are covered with whitish scales, and have inflamed eyes and a leathery skin, for the epidermis is thickened and whitened, and eventually peels off. The habit has been adopted by not a few whites, specially on Hawaii, though, of course, to a certain extent clandestinely. Awa is taken also as a medicine, and was supposed to be a certain cure for corpulence.
The root and base of the stem are the parts used, and it is best when these are fresh. It seems to exercise a powerful fascination, and to be loved and glorified as whisky is in Scotland, and wine in southern Europe. In some of the other islands of Polynesia, on festive occasions, when the chewed root is placed in the calabash, and the water is poured on, the whole assemblage sings appropriate songs in its praise; and this is kept up until the decoction has been strained to its dregs. But here, as the using it as a beverage is an illicit process, a great mystery attends it. It is said that awa drinking is again on the increase, and with the illicit distillation of unwholesome spirits, and the illicit sale of imported spirits and the opium smoking, the consumption of stimulants and narcotics on the islands is very considerable. 27
To turn from drink to climate. It is strange that with such a heavy rainfall, dwellings built on the ground and never dried by fires should be so perfectly free from damp as they are. On seeing the houses here and in Honolulu, buried away in dense foliage, my first thought was, "how lovely in summer, but how unendurably damp in winter," forgetting that I arrived in the nominal winter, and that it is really summer all the year. Lest you should think that I am perversely exaggerating the charms of the climate, I copy a sentence from a speech made by Kamehameha IV., at the opening of an Hawaiian agricultural society:—
"Who ever heard of winter on our shores? Where among us shall we find the numberless drawbacks which, in less favoured countries, the labourer has to contend with? They have no place in our beautiful group, which rests like a water lily on the swelling bosom of the Pacific. The heaven is tranquil above our heads, and the sun keeps his jealous eye upon us every day, while his rays are so tempered that they never wither prematurely what they have warmed into life."28 The kindness of my hosts is quite overwhelming. They will not hear of my buying a horse, but insist on my taking away with me the one which I have been riding since I came, the best I have ridden on the islands, surefooted, fast, easy, and ambitious. I have complete sympathy with the passion which the natives have for riding. Horses are abundant and cheap on Kauai: a fairly good one can be bought for $20. I think every child possesses one. Indeed the horses seem to outnumber the people.
The eight native girls who are being trained and educated here as a "family school" have their horses, and go out to ride as English children go for a romp into a play-ground. Yesterday Mrs. S. said, "Now, girls, get the horses," and soon two little creatures of eight and ten came galloping up on two spirited animals. They had not only caught and bridled them, but had put on the complicated Mexican saddles as securely as if men had done it; and I got a lesson from them in making the Mexican knot with the thong which secures the cinch, which will make me independent henceforward.
These children can all speak English, and their remarks are most original and amusing. They have not a particle of respect of manner, as we understand it, but seem very docile. They are naive and fascinating in their manners, and the most joyous children I ever saw. When they are not at their lessons, or household occupations, they are dancing on stilts, acting plays of their own invention, riding or bathing, and they laugh all day long. Mrs. S. has trained nearly seventy since she has been here. If there were nothing else they see family life in a pure and happy form, which must in itself be a moral training, and by dint of untiring watchfulness they are kept aloof from the corrupt native associations. Indeed they are not allowed to have any intercourse with natives, for, according to one of the missionaries who has spent many years on the islands: "None know or can conceive without personal observation the nameless taint that pervades the whole garrulous talk and gregarious life of all heathen peoples, and above which our poor Hawaiian friends have not yet risen." Of this universal impurity of speech every one speaks in the strongest terms, and careful white parents not only seclude their children in early years from unrestrained intercourse with the natives, but prevent them from acquiring the Hawaiian tongue. In this respect the training of native girls involves a degree of patient watchfulness which must at times press heavily on those who undertake it, as the carefulness of years might fail of its result, if it were intermitted for one afternoon.
27 According to the revenue returns for the biennial period ending March 31, 1874, the revenue derived from awa was over $9000, and that from opium over $46,000.
28 The following paragraph from Dr. Rupert Anderson's sober-minded book on the Sandwich Islands fully bears out the king's remarks: "The islands all lie within the range of the trade winds, which blow with great regularity nine months of the year, and on the leeward side, where their course is obstructed by mountains, there are regular land and sea breezes. The weather at all seasons is delightful, the sky usually cloudless, the atmosphere clear and bracing. Nothing can exceed the soft brilliancy of the moonlight nights. Thunderstorms are rare and light in their nature. Hurricanes are unknown. The general temperature is the nearest in the world to that point regarded by physiologists as most conducive to health and longevity. By ascending the mountains any desirable degree of temperature may be obtained."
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Author Gloria Wolk has a commendable motivation in writing a federal criminal justice thriller, but her book is unimaginative and contains a jumble of clichéd situations.
Creatively, it is not recognizable as a literary endeavor. Dozens of one-dimensional characters appear, but there is nary a nod to singularity, depth, or meaningful descriptions — except that the characters have soap opera names such as Carly, Blake, Arden, Ethan, Kyle, Phoebe, and Vito Capone, an insurance scam victim.
The author is writing about federal obstruction of justice in an insurance case in which Carly, the main character, fears a 10-year prison term. (Her fears are warranted; recall the impulses of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz in the Aaron Swartz case.)
Perhaps this book "coulda been a contender" as pulp fiction. The initial pages are about America's downtrodden, but the style is like a movie on Lifetime. All sorts of social problems are filtered through Accidental Felon — autism, cruelty to animals, AIDS, and transparent mala fides, such as Carly's boss, who drives a Ferrari and is the CEO of a shady insurance company.
Would a lawyer discuss an indictment and plea over a cell phone with Carly while she is in the backyard because her son Ethan is on the computer and might hear their conversation? Yes, and so goes the author's ingenuousness. Then, when Carly does meet with her lawyer, he wants to take her immediately to meet with the prosecutors because he knows she's innocent. The lawyer's first name is Irwin. He is "squat" and untrustworthy, whereas U.S. Attorney Calvin Cutter has "movie star features."
An experienced lawyer will toss this as flotsam. Contrary to what this author erroneously believes about Carly's cooperation, there is little compassion from politically appointed federal judges. Federal prosecutors get away with whatever, notwithstanding years of complaints of prosecutorial misconduct or overreaching. Immunity is an excellent cover. But this scenario is not woven persuasively into the threads of this harried defendant's story. The spirit and message are well-intentioned in Accidental Felon, but the narrative is a stew without steam or complexity.
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