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Scorpio gets a bad rap. You hear things like "Watch out: Matthew is a triple Scorpio!" or "I'm nervous - Joe's ex-girlfriend has a Scorpio Moon." People expect behavior that's devious or perverse from this sign, though I think that's unfair. Even so, I can't resist sharing the following story. It happened to my friend Wendy as Pluto - Scorpio's modern ruler - opposed her 5th house Moon. When transiting planets meet natal planets, the archetypes might suddenly spring to life and enter our lives as real people. Fifth house transits can stage a romance, and sure enough, on the day this transit was exact, Wendy met a man eager to romance her. She was waiting for an elevator in an office high rise when he handed her his business card: he worked at the coroner's office. His eyes were intense. "During the day I cut into corpses," he said, "and at night I dabble in black magic." Standing much too close, he whispered that he could get a little voodoo doll that would make her crazy to have sex with him. His Sun sign? Scorpio, of course!
But I haven't met any Scorpios like that. They may be out there; however, the ones I know are about as twisted and diabolical as the average surgeon, therapist, or tax consultant. So I'm sympathetic when a Scorpio comes somewhat defensively into my office, mumbling "I know I've got the same sign as Charles Manson but most of what I read sounds scary and not true of me."
This sign's clichés are creepy. Pick up a pop astrology book and you'll find that having Scorpio planets can make you secretive, controlling, vengeful, power-mad, paranoid, obsessive, and over sexed. They can also bring you passion, determination, resourcefulness, and a keen intuition - but these positive Scorpio traits aren't on the tip of most people's tongues. After all, this is the sign of scorpions, snakes, and vampires. It rules tyranny, quagmires and rotting garbage; also: the underworld, death, and body parts we don't openly discuss (the colon, anus, and genitals). When people talk astrology at parties, rarely do the Scorpios cheer and "high five!" each other the way other signs do. Yet theirs is one of the most powerful signs of the zodiac. Focused on transformation, Scorpio holds the keys to life, death, and rebirth. It digs deep, solves mysteries, heals sickness, saves lives, builds wealth, and surrenders to high-voltage ecstasy. It governs depth psychology, metaphysics and magic. Without it we'd be hapless amateurs when struggling against our unconscious demons or bargaining with the powers from invisible realms.
It's strange that a sign so concerned with control would do such a poor job of marketing its own gifts; perhaps there is method to this madness. Like a magician skilled in misdirection, Scorpio may want us distracted with its creepier expressions. When cultural ecologist David Abram studied Indonesian magicians and shamans, he was surprised that nasty rumors often swirled about them, spread by the very people these healers routinely cured.[1] The villagers whispered that the dukuns danced with demons or would recite their spells backward at night to reverse their daytime cures. Curiously, the shamans did nothing to dispel suspicion. Eventually Abram understood why. Community fear bought the magicians a precious gift: privacy and the space to do their deeper work.
Scorpio needs space for its deep work too, unlike the sign that precedes it, beautiful and charming Libra, that graceful doyenne of harmony and smooth surfaces. Scorpio is fascinated with what's underneath the surface. Libra throws open the curtains and invites others in, but Scorpio prefers the shadows, comfortable with what people avoid or hide. It overturns the rock and studies the wriggling creatures underneath. Like a root tip poking through the dirt, or the worm feeling its way to the rotting corpse, Scorpio thrives on the riches of the underworld. This is why those with Scorpio planets make such good therapists, researchers, and mystery writers; also detectives, claims adjustors, surgeons, satirists, investors, and tax accountants - not to mention, the occasional devil worshipper or serial killer. We may not always know what our Scorpio friends are thinking - and that may be just how they like it.
Every sign corrects the weaknesses of its preceding sign. Libra can be superficial, apathetic, and vacillating; Scorpio is anything but wishy-washy. Its judgments are firm. Its style is tenacious. As a water sign, it's motivated by emotion, as is Pisces and Cancer, though each sign maneuvers in its own way. If we say that imaginative Pisces floats like a dreamy mist, and nurturing Cancer rolls like a soft and nourishing stream, then Scorpio pools as ground water, powerful, sustaining, and unseen. The water element is sensitive and intuitive, but Scorpio is also tough. Robert Hand says it's the only water sign that's willing to fight [2] (although I know a few Cancers who might disagree).
Scorpio's emblem is the scorpion, an eight-legged predator with a venomous sting. When Gaia learned that Orion was planning to slaughter her beloved wild beasts, out of all her myriad creatures, she chose the scorpion to attack him. The mighty hunter ran all the way to the ocean. Artemis eventually killed Orion - some say with an arrow, others claim it was the scorpion she sent that did the deed. Eventually the huntress repented and tearfully granted Orion immortality in the stars. But there was the scorpion waiting in the constellations; still on the case. Rising as Orion sets and setting as he rises, even now Scorpio is scuttling through the heavens, forever in pursuit.
Scorpio's sting is unnerving, but this sign's intensity can be quite beneficial. With it we can revive projects and partnerships weakened by half-heartedness or fear. Considering what may have slipped through our fingers over the years, we might agree that tenacious Scorpio is a style worth cultivating. Whether or not we have Scorpio planets, we all have Scorpio in our chart somewhere, plus an 8th house, this sign's natural home. When planets or progressions move through these areas, "doing" Scorpio may be necessary. Particularly if we aspire to wholeness, we should be willing to cultivate every sign - as a mode of being, a style of perception, another angle on the truth. Yet it's wise to be cautious with Scorpio. Like Mickey Mouse as the overreaching magician's assistant in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, we could fall victim to the very forces we hope to control. Scorpio's power can surge to extremes. Its focus can lock into obsessive loops. Its ruthlessness can sting itself in the end. Or so the stories go. Let's see what Hercules discovers on his Scorpio mission, when he must kill the nine-headed Hydra of Lerna.
In Greece, south of Argos, on a narrow strip of land between Mount Potinos and the sea, lies a storied region of abysses and springs. There through the bottomless waters of Lerna, Dionysos entered and returned from the underworld. There the fifty daughters of Danaus decapitated their husbands and buried their heads. Guarding this abyss is a giant serpent known as the Hydra - or water snake - though some call her the murderous bitch of Lerna. She has nine heads; one is indestructible and immortal. Her breath is deadly, as is her poisonous venom. Hercules is eager to meet her. With his nephew Iolaus by his side, Hercules locates her lair and shoots flaming arrows into the abyss. Out she slithers, furiously hissing and spitting. Hercules charges forward; her heads writhe and reach for him. He chops off one head. Before it hits the ground, two heads grow in its place! Meanwhile the Hydra wraps herself around his leg, and a crab begins attacking his trapped foot. He can't escape, but he doesn't want to. Furiously, Hercules starts chopping heads as fast as they keep multiplying. It's a stand off. But the Hydra seems to be winning.
Such are the steel nerves of this sign. It stands firm. It's got grit-backed by the competitive nature of Mars, Scorpio's traditional ruler. Why are there so many heads in this story? Lest we miss its deeper meaning, the gods wants us to know that this is a tale about consciousness. The labor begins with Hercules shooting the arrows of conscious awareness into the darkness, exposing an unconscious demon. The Hydra represents Scorpio's shadow. With her many heads in the dark, she depicts the twisted memories, desires, and thoughts we don't often see or admit we have. Hercules models the right response. Don't recoil from what comes to light: we must go after it. His first instinct is to kill it-which is the rational mind's usual reaction to unpleasant shadow material. Our hero quickly learns that what he chops off only grows stronger. This is an important law of underworld physics: what we resist or repress we will energize. As the Hydra's heads multiply, we have a chilling portrait of Scorpio in the grip of its own obsessions.
But there is more. The serpent also depicts the alert presence of Scorpio's deeper intuition, the way it seems to have ears in all directions and eyes in the back of its head. When our Scorpio planets are seized with determination, we could say there's an inner Hydra empowering them. She is the potent force behind Scorpio's obsessions and drives, also its uncannily accurate hunches. What really sends the jealous Scorpio lover into a fit of violence? What nails the Scorpio detective to that thirty-year-old murder case? The stalker obsessed with a celebrity may not be so different from the Scorpio novelist gripped by the murmuring world of his characters. The jealous lover, the driven detective, the novelist writing for days without sleep-all are Hydra-fueled. This power can be as constructive as it is destructive.
Storytellers typically describe the Hydra as foul and loathsome, yet this is a Scorpio tale. That means there's more to it than what meets the eye. Scorpio is the sign of the "occult" after all - a word whose Latin root means to conceal or hide. We should ask what hides behind the Hydra's foul and deadly breath. She is a serpent. To an initiate of the mysteries, this is code for sacred power. In cultures throughout the ancient world, snakes and serpents were revered as the guardians of immortality, shedding their skin when they got old, and thus rebirthing themselves. Snakes were emissaries of the Great Goddess, wisdom-keepers, holding the secrets to life and death. Snakes have been associated with prophecy, their venom used for mystical trances. Cassandra, the great oracle at Delphi, was once found as a child with snakes licking her ears.
Though ruled by masculine Mars, Scorpio is a feminine sign. One of the deeper instructions of Scorpio's labor is to unite masculine and feminine, just as the sign draws its testosterone-driven ruler into the feminine mysteries. The labor is about reconciling the Hero with the Great Goddess. Indeed, with the Hydra coiled around his leg, we could say our hero is merged with her! But how does he hold his own against such power? This is the question inside each of our Scorpio planets, as they take us into painful love affairs, odd hobbies, unpleasant pasts, and other people's secrets. How does the focused and incisive masculine dance with the many-headed intuitions of the sacred feminine? Scorpio wants us to enter into her deep wisdom and absorb its essence without losing ourselves. But the ancient temples are far away. Initiates are no longer identified and taken to the priestess for proper training. Today most of us meet the potency in our Scorpio planets on our own. I have Mercury and Venus conjunct in Scorpio. I still remember the afternoon in college when these two made themselves known.
It was one of those periods when I was living at the library. I'd shifted venues to my boyfriend's house, hoping to renew my concentration. After my boyfriend and roommates went out, I could focus on nothing but the stillness of the house. Suddenly I was startled into motion. Without the slightest idea why (though now I know it was the Hydra's prompting), I made a bee-line for my boyfriend's closet. Digging behind his hiking boots and tennis racket, I pulled out the stack of letters I didn't know he had written to the girl he'd been seeing behind my back. The letter on top was from her. She said she was returning his poetry and love letters because he lacked the courage to act on them. It might have consoled her to know that he had saved them - and that he'd never written poetry like that to me.
My Venus snake was aroused; no shrinking violet, she got him back. Eventually he married me. Ten years later, Mercury and Venus brought me hidden information again. I startled my husband by recounting a dream in which a sexy woman appeared. As I described her, he gulped. She looked just like the secretary I didn't know he was secretly in love with. It took months for this dream information to reach my conscious awareness. But when it finally did, my Venus snake was done; she let him go. Scorpio planets bring many transformations.
It takes courage to poke after mysteries. The underworld is an uncomfortable place. It is also vast, containing so many things, the hidden letters of cheating lovers, the secrets of replicating viruses in a researcher's lab, what happened to that still-missing child, as well as the literal underworld where corpses decompose, and where gems, oil and ores are formed. There is truth down there. And wealth. It's not for nothing that Lord Pluto, god of the underworld, is also the god of lucre. Scorpio likes the power wealth can bring, and it appreciates what forms under pressure. Hence the interrogator, the psychotherapist, and the oil tycoon share a common bond. Yet whatever Scorpio unearths generally needs refining. Before one can cash out the treasure, transformation is required. Stones are split, the gems shaped and polished, ores are smelted and tempered.
Arduous as this work might be, it's certainly more straightforward than the refinement of matter from that inner world in which most of us toil. Our personal underworlds hold memories, repressed desires, our family complexes, the collective unconscious with its gifts and neuroses, all of which is bound-up energy and power. How do we make riches of it? Maybe Hercules can show the way. Remember that he brought assistance on his Scorpio mission. The sign which treasures its privacy instinctively knows that it can do more in partnership than alone, like the patient with her therapist, or the spiritual master who reaches higher levels of realization with his consort.
"Iolaus!" Hercules shouts. "Take a flaming tree and hold it on the monster's neck just as I sever the head." After nearly a forest is cleared, the Hydra's wounds are fully cauterized and no new heads grow back. Next Hercules slices off the immortal head and buries it underground, back in the underworld, where the serpent's eternal wisdom belongs. The hero dips his arrows into her blood, gaining the potency of her poison. He has successfully merged and received her teachings in life, death, and rebirth - until the next transformation is required.
In our Scorpio planets and houses, we all have wounds like the ones Iolaus cauterized with transformative fire. From these tender areas vengeful heads can sprout. Or we can prevent their growth if we're willing to endure the pain that comes from touching them with awareness. At times this process feels just as death-defying as the meeting between Hercules, Iolaus and the Hydra.
"The general rule in nature," writes Annie Dillard, "is that live things are soft within and rigid without."[3] Of the water signs, Pisces's fish are the exception, living as they do in such a supple medium. But Cancer's crab and Scorpio's scorpion know the wisdom of armoring. Life is so sharp against our soft insides. It pierces us. The Buddhists call this inner soft spot "bodhichitta," our good heart. It is our naked tenderness and vulnerability, the inner raw material that is perhaps what's best about us. This psychic ore of the underworld, when refined, can become the great love and selfless compassion of a bodhisattva or saint. Yet in its raw form, this tenderness more commonly inspires great defensiveness. Ironically, protecting our soft spot is how we usually develop our indifference, even hatred of the world. We have a choice with our Scorpio process. We can cauterize our wounds with awareness or simply burn the vulnerability into a hard surface.
I think of a few bad-ass Scorpio risings I've known. They sport looks that refuse to give themselves away, that just dare you to guess what they're feeling. But stay with them long enough, and a moment will come when the cover drops, and inside their usually indifferent eye, you'll see something soft and unprotected. A pool of sadness. A deep and silent record of some early vulnerability and torment. A horoscope's rising sign represents that first covering of personality, the psychological skin grown to suit one's early environment. Scorpio rising children were perhaps more naked than most, wearing their soft spot like a target. Such vulnerability may have made them the first among us to learn the arts of defensive covering. I think of this Scorpio sensitivity every year during the annual bikers Christmas toy drive. It attracts hundreds of bikers, tattooed, bladed, pierced, bearded, greased, defiant, the kind of people you wouldn't want your family to meet on a deserted highway. Yet on this day every biker carries a plush bunny, bright frog or teddy bear-sweet offerings "for the children," as those interviewed on the local news tearfully explain, revealing the soft spot underneath their leather and chains.
Like a piece of god's own heart inside of us, this divine tenderness may be just too much voltage to control. When it's hurt, it's like a live wire dancing on the pavement, or a nine-headed Hydra hissing from its cave. How do we contain this power? Before we fully understand Scorpio's mysteries, we often dance fitfully, jealous, vengeful, raging, and in grief. But we must ground and empower ourselves, through right management of this more-than-human power. This is the deeper instruction of Hercules' final two acts-placing the immortal head in the ground and dipping arrows in the Hydra's poison. What do these actions mean? If you want Scorpio's respect, you must contemplate this mystery and discover the message for yourself.
Whenever I write an astrology article, the gods visit. First I must sit like a beggar outside the Zen master's gate, empty and uninspired. The sentences come slowly. After a mysterious interval that proves my sincerity - sometimes weeks, sometimes days - the teacher arrives. The archetype I write about begins appearing everywhere, on TV shows, in the blogs, at the grocery store. The sign or planet takes over my thoughts. It winds through my sentences, tells me where to go next, and lets me know when I'm done. I enjoy this surrender. But I was not prepared for the event that Scorpio arranged. When I was three hundred words into the article, my Scorpio rising father died. He was two weeks away from his 89th birthday. At three in the morning his sister heard him mutter "Christ!" It wasn't until daybreak that she discovered him on the floor of his bedroom unable to get up. He fell again that afternoon while opening a can of tuna. "Shit!" he moaned. Blood poured from his head.
Death is another Scorpio mystery that hides behind a hideous surface. It's universally sad. We consider it a defeat. But as my father lay barely conscious in the hospital, his upper body thin and wasting, his legs swollen three times their size, with a fatty tumor bigger than a cantaloupe in his belly, death seemed more friend than enemy. The final week my father was in the hospital, I began to think of him as Christopher Columbus heading off for a New World, the pioneer of our nuclear family, embarking on the greatest adventure of all. Indeed, when he finally passed, it was within hours of the Jupiter Uranus conjunction, that wonderful aspect of discovery and invention. It was trine his Scorpio Ascendant.
I once heard the great astrologer and data collector Lois Rodden talk about death. I was surprised when she said that benefic Jupiter was often involved. Yet why not? From the soul's point of view, it's such a gift to move on. Grim Reaper Saturn also takes an interest, and the day my father died, Saturn was marching toward his Libra Sun. But when I put the transits of my father's death chart around his natal wheel, it was neither Saturn nor Jupiter who vied for my attention. To an astrologer's eye, the planets will often wink, vibrate, or grow larger to announce that they're involved. The blinking planets this time were Mercury and Mars. Transiting Mars in Scorpio was conjunct my dad's natal Mercury (ruler of his 8th house of death); transiting Mercury in Virgo was conjunct his natal Mars (ruler of his Ascendant and the body). These were the psychopomps who arrived at 1:10 pm to escort my father into the other world. He took two gasping breaths and was gone.
I did not want to write this article after my father died. I'm sure my editors would have been kind to me. But I had already engaged Scorpio's archetype and its steely grit insisted I drive to the finish. And the very psychopomps that took my father on his journey were also at work in my chart (they're my Ascendant and 8th house rulers too). When Dad fell, Mars was conjunct my 3rd house Scorpio Saturn.[4] Mercury was conjunct my Virgo Ascendant. Together they urged: "Keep writing. Scorpio wants its story told." I hope I've done it well.
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Guilty as Charged: The rise and fall of Charles Taylor
The case against Charles Taylor was far from air-tight and international courts tend to mainly convict Africans, but for Sierra Leonean attorney Alpha Sesay, there's no denying that those convicted deserve to be in the dock.
- Alpha SESAY. Lawyer, The "Open Society Justice Initiative" (from The Hague);
- Jonathan RANDAL. Journalist and writer. Former war correspondent, The Washington Post;
- Alex VINES. Head of the Africa Programme, Chatham House.
Produced by François Picard, Anelise Borges, Mary Colombel, Wassim Nasr, Pauline Heilmann.

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WORCESTER -- Emerging from a four-year hiring freeze that started to thaw last fall, top officials in the judiciary warned legislators Wednesday that without more funding, the rule of law itself is at risk.
"I know that you're accustomed to hearing everyone come through and say, 'We need more money.' Well, we need more money, but we're not a state agency. And I want to emphasize that with you. We're a branch of government," Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Roderick Ireland told members of the Joint Committee on Ways and Means during a budget hearing at Worcester State University. "In theory, we're an independent branch of government."
Budgetary constrictions have sunk judges pay, as adjusted for cost of living, to 48th in the nation, including Washington, D.C., Ireland said. Falling staffing levels caused by attrition and the hiring freeze have caused 44 courthouses to reduce their hours, according to Trial Court Administrator Harry Spence. Court managers were recently at risk of union employees surpassing their pay, Spence said.
Ireland, who dispensed with his prepared remarks, beseeched the committee to add more funding to allow judicial pay raises and more hiring.
"We have not had a pay raise in over seven years; one in the last 14 years," Ireland said.
He said, "The judges have, I think, gone a very long period of time, and fair is fair."
According to the National Center for State Courts, Massachusetts trial court judges make $129,694 annually, which ranks 31st in the nation, and 48th, just behind Oregon and ahead of Vermont, Maine and Hawaii once cost of living is factored in.
On judicial pay, Ireland may have found an ally in the governor's office. Patrick has called on lawmakers to create an advisory commission to study court realignment and judicial salaries. In her prepared testimony to lawmakers, Public Safety Secretary Andrea Cabral said judicial salaries are among the lowest in the nation when adjusted for inflation.
"This advisory commission will lay the groundwork to begin to address this imbalance by analyzing cost of living, salaries of comparable judges in other states, and other factors," Cabral said. She added that the goal of court realignment is to close or re-align at least 15 courts over the next ten years.
Joined by other chief justices and Spence in seeking more funding, Ireland asked for $12 million more for the judiciary than what was contained in Gov. Deval Patrick's budget.
Patrick's courts budget adds roughly $27 million in spending over the roughly $589 million in projected spending in fiscal year 2013 within the SJC, Appeals Court and Trial Court. The bulk of the judiciary's requested additional spending is for the Trial Court, which the governor's budget increases by $16.6 million over the $561 million included in the fiscal year 2013 budget.
Spence said the governor's budget looks like a "big leap" but includes only an additional $1 million in discretionary spending, in part because "the administration did not include funding for collective bargaining agreements in the current fiscal year."
In the past five years, the judiciary, which made up only 9 percent of the state's workforce, took on 22 percent of cuts to the state's workforce, dropping by 1,360 employees since 2007.
"I don't think that our constituents - if they knew about it - would support the level of cuts that have come down already, and would happen next year. And I don't think they're aware of them," said Sen. Patricia Jehlen (D-Somerville).
Jehlen also noted that the judiciary is seeking more funding on top of Patrick's budget, which already relies on new revenue that has inspired "resistance" from constituents as well.
"I say to you the rule of law really is in jeopardy," Trial Court Chief Justice Mulligan told the committee, noting that without enough court officers witnesses might not feel secure after offering testimony, and without enough court staff people are not guaranteed a "speedy" trial.
Lawmakers did not challenge the judges on the financial situation they described.
Last year, the court started filling some positions, mostly court officers, Ireland said. Ireland said he is seeking a "modest increase," bringing the judiciary's staff to 6,450, which would be 1,200 fewer positions than the 2007.
Spence, who was appointed to the new administrator position last spring, said that hopefully in two or three years, the judiciary could reach sufficient staffing levels and modernize itself. Spence also laid out benefits that increased funding would pay for, including $1 million to return normal operating hours to courthouses, $500,000 to open 20 drug courts statewide, and $2.47 million to hire 84 court officers and hardware.
In his prepared remarks, Ireland noted that the courts have "committed to absorb" costs associated with the Hinton crime lab - where chemist Annie Dookhan allegedly manipulated drug evidence throwing thousands of convictions into question and leading to special "Dookhan" courts to handle defendants whose cases were tied up with Dookhan.
"Those people haven't even been identified yet," said Committee for Public Counsel Services Chief Counsel Anthony Benedetti during his own testimony before the committee about the costs of handling Dookhan cases. He said that her actions - which allegedly included identifying drugs by sight, corrupting evidence so it tested positive as drugs and lying about her resume - should call into question all of the cases processed at the now shuttered Jamaica Plain lab. Benedetti said, "This is a much bigger problem than one person."
Mulligan said the trial court has undertaken "every considerable cost saving measure," noting that the court canceled bottled water and required judges to pay their own copying cost for educational materials. More than 90 percent of judges elected to forfeit five days' pay "so no one in the trenches would be laid off," he said.
Ireland noted the courts are "a 24-hour system as well," with judges on call to handle emergency restraining orders and other matters.
The hearing room filled with laughter after Sen. Benjamin Downing (D-Pittsfield) poked fun at the last step in any individuals' successful quest for a judgeship, an appearance before a sometimes raucous eight-member elected body that confirms or rejects the appointment.
"I guess I would just add this piece about judicial salaries: I don't know if there's enough money to go before the Governor's Council," Downing said.


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LITTLETON -- The town's tentative sewer-easement agreement with Omni Properties, which is developing dozens of acres near the Acton border, could generate an estimated $1.2 million in municipal revenue if all goes as proposed.
But in Planning Board member Don MacIver's eyes, the deal that would allow Omni to construct a private wastewater-treatment plant at the 190-unit affordable-housing complex it is proposing off Great Road and tie all other developments around it to the system spells nothing but trouble for the future.
If something goes wrong with the plant, owners of single-family homes that are on the sewer system could find themselves having no control over the problem, MacIver said.
Then, "the town would have to swoop in and help out," MacIver said.
William Murray, consultant for Omni, said all homeowners will be equally in control of the sewer plant. But Planning Board Chairman Mark Montanari wants to make sure The Orchards, the 19-lot single-family subdivision proposed by Omni, can be developed without relying on the sewer plant next door.
Louis Levine, attorney for Omni, wants the board to know that the agreement is the result of Omni's good-faith negotiation with the town's negotiators, fully aware of the developer's right under state law to build such a sewer plant, which the Zoning Board of Appeals is reviewing.
If the town goes against the construction of the plant, "I would suggest we have every right in the world to appeal the decision," and the town would face "a whole bunch of litigation," Levine said.
The Planning Board's public hearing on The Orchards drew a standing-room-only crowd Thursday night. The proposed open space subdivision calls for connections to the sewer-treatment plant mainly designed for the large apartment complex, which would make 13.9 percent of Littleton's entire housing stock affordable, far surpassing the 10 percent affordability requirement under state law. Several other single-family lots that Omni plans to develop near the complex would also be tied to the sewer plant, but Omni must secure an easement over public roads to make the sewer plan a reality.
Planning Board member Richard Crowley expressed his support for the town's agreement with Omni, saying such a facility serving an entire neighborhood would be environmentally better than having sewer pumps for each home.
But the majority of board members spoke against tying the single-family lots to the apartment complex's plant. Some board members also expressed their reservation about allowing the project as an open-space subdivision, saying it would leave little useful open space for recreational purposes.
Resident Henry Christle agreed with MacIver that malfunctioning of the sewer system could force the town to step in and repair it in the future. Resident Chris Simone also noted that the agreement with Omni should require the apartment units to remain rental units in perpetuity so that the town will not lose any of its affordable units.
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Is that speed reachable by A human finger? and what if you timed an autococker slightly off so at high rates of fire when the timing starts to go out it actually starts to go in 'time'?
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The Bay Area News Group has been talking to voters at places like the Rossmoor retirement community in Walnut Creek, the cheering section of San Jose's Crossfire soccer team and Santa Clara University's debate class.
After Thursday night's showdown between Vice President Joe Biden and vice presidential GOP hopeful Paul Ryan in Kentucky, we got back to some of those voters to ask them how they thought the candidates did.
John Lund, 19, debate class student at Santa Clara University
Winner: Ryan
Before the debate: Undecided
After the debate: Romney-Ryan
"This has made me much more inclined to vote for Romney. Ryan really handled himself extremely well, and I just hope that he runs for president in 2016. His answers were concise, and he has the ideas and principles to get things done. Biden showed himself as an angry guy, very unprofessional, especially on foreign policy where Ryan's performance was truly outstanding."
Barney Rubin, 88, retired chemical engineer who lives in the Rossmoor retirement community in Walnut Creek.
Who won?: Biden
Before the debate: Obama-Biden
After the debate: Obama-Biden
Takeaway: "Obviously both men were very intense. It was very different from the first debate in the sense that people were disappointed with Obama's withdrawn over-politeness. In my view, it will counter the boost Romney got from the first debate. Ryan really didn't have a clue how to answer questions about Afghanistan."
Tom Fryer, 75, a retired educator who also lives in Rossmoor.
Who won? "I think it was a draw."
Before the debate: Romney-Ryan
After the debate: Romney-Ryan
Takeaway: "I thought Ryan acquitted himself very well, and I thought Biden is a very experienced guy. But I did think Biden was unconscionably impolite, abrupt and abrasive."
Pam Romero, 49, a butcher whose 12-year-old granddaughter plays for the Crossfire soccer team in San Jose.
Who won?: Biden
Before the debate: Obama-Biden (but disappointed by Obama's debate performance).
After the debate: Obama-Biden
Takeaway: "I thought Biden did a great job. I like how he wanted to level the playing field for the rich and the middle class, how he wants to tax the wealthy and give the middle class a break. He knew his game. When he said 'malarkey,' I thought that was very professional compared to dropping the f-bomb, because he's known for doing that."
Jacqueline Bornino, 19, another student in SCU's debate class
Who won?: Ryan
Before the debate: Romney-Ryan
After the debate: Romney-Ryan
"I was really impressed with Ryan. And I was shocked by how Biden was grinning and laughing. He was so condescending and it made him look like an elitist who's out of touch with America. And I was also really impressed with Ryan's grasp of the figures. This was a much better debate than the presidential one."
Staff writers Patrick May, Gary Peterson, Julia Prodis Sulek and Josh Richman contributed to this report.


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No matter what culinary indulgence you are searching for, it's only a flight away. A recent Travel Industry Association of America (TIA) study, shows 58 per cent of all American leisure travellers say they are somewhat/very interested in taking a trip to engage in culinary or wine-related activities. With this in mind, editors of the website Travelocity.ca say they "scoured the globe" to highlight unique foodie finds.
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"Culinary tourism has become very popular over the past few years," Jennifer Gaines, Travelocity.ca editor, said in a news release. "People are travelling to cities around the world just to have an opportunity to savour the local cuisine."
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This Spanish city started getting recognition just within the last five years. Catalan influences dominate both the culture and cuisine with French and Mediterranean-inspired dishes more prevalent than traditional Spanish fare. Catalan cuisine features a unique combination of ingredients such as red meat and fish; poultry and fruit; and pork sausage with white beans. Each dish is unique, original and utterly impossible to put down.
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We know Boulder is about as eco-friendly and earthy as it gets, but what may come as a surprise is how the recent addition of urban dwellers has led to a more sophisticated and trend-setting approach to organic dining. Take The Kitchen Cafe for example, which offers an eclectic menu with superior organic ingredients, but moreover, is completely green -- they even compost all of the kitchen scraps and use wind power. On top of this green approach, Boulderites have access to some of America's finest boutique ingredients, such as hormone-free Colorado lamb, local cheeses, and even organic microbrews.
Some may call it soul food, but in Charleston they call it Low Country cuisine. Prevailing as the undisputed local favourite, this culinary specialty infuses restaurant menus with dishes such as Frogmore Stew, She-Crab Soup and Hoppin' John. Rice, grits and fresh, local produce play an integral role in the creation of these truly Southern meals, and the waters that surround South Carolina's Low Country inspire local cooks more often than not with seafood dishes found on just about every menu.
In the spirit of Liberace, Vegas's recent restaurant boom is completely over the top -- and we mean that in the best possible way. If you want your foie gras topped with shaved truffles and dusted with gold, it's a sure bet it can be found here. Top chefs from NYC, Paris, and London are opening namesake outposts in hotels and casinos with much fanfare, so keep an eye out for Emeril, Thomas Keller, and Bobby Flay. Fortunately for our wallets, Vegas's famous buffets are still a beloved part of life on The Strip.
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London is shaking its reputation for having mediocre cuisine (we think it was undeserved anyway!). Celebrity chefs like Gordon Ramsey have built on the English penchant for exquisite service and fine surroundings, and have made the current restaurant scene world famous. All the while, specialty gourmet shops have continued operations for nearly 300 years, as in the case of Fortnum & Mason, known for its fine teas, and Paxton & Whitfield, cheesemonger to the royal family. Choose from afternoon tea, Indian curries, and classic pub fare, like shepherd's pie -- then wash it down with a black and tan before hitting the museums.
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Known for its French cuisine, the Montreal culinary scene also boasts imaginative carte du jours from more than 80 countries. Dine at one of the city's 5,000 restaurants, or spend the day meandering through local markets in search of the same culinary treasures used by Montreal chefs. While there, sample a Montreal-style bagel topped with cream cheese or a smoked meat sandwich, two local treats.
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Many first time visitors head to New Orleans to experience events such as Mardi Gras or JazzFest, but they return time and time again for its food. The most famous restaurants include Emeril's, Commander's Palace and Antoine's, but local favourites such as Jacques-Imos and Port of Call deserve a spot on the map of culinary treasures as well. Cajun and Creole dishes throughout the city tempt the taste buds, and no visit to Crescent City is complete without indulging in a beignet dusted with powdered sugar and a cup of cafe au lait laced with chicory at Cafe Du Monde.
Cabbies and billionaires alike clamour for the city's famous slices, pretzels with mustard and roasted chestnuts in paper bags, but beyond street food, NYC boasts more restaurants per capita than any other American city. Whether one is looking for a neighbourhood Italian joint or sweeping views of Central Park at Per Se, there's something for everyone. The city is also home to some of the best foodie souvenir shops around, including DiPalo's homemade mozzarella, the Doughnut Plant's pistachio glazed version, and Vintage's Long Island wines.
Alice Waters is credited with changing the way Americans eat, and now her local, seasonal approach to cuisine is an integral part of San Francisco's venerable restaurant scene. With Wine Country vintages at hand, Bodega Bay oysters on the half-shell, and Northern California's bounty, visitors are able to try ingredients they wouldn't have access to at home.
Yes, our own city made the list: Top restaurants in Vancouver subscribe to the "buy local, eat seasonal" philosophy, using the freshest ingredients from the area. Many menus feature fresh seafood from the Pacific and homegrown veggies from farms in the Fraser Valley. Spend a day in the scenic Okanagan Valley sipping B.C. wines, which are often overlooked by wine enthusiasts but well deserving of a taste.
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It certainly wasn't easy for Michelle Metje and her family to cope with the maelstrom of sudden circumstances after her son Corey Laykovich was killed last summer.
But given her 26 years in social work and her father's career as a police officer, Metje says she had some mental capability of handling media opportunities and communications with the police – at least, more than a lot of murder victims' family members.
Laykovich, 22, was the victim of the overnight stabbing July 27, 2013, near his home at the 4000 block of Crackerneck Road in Independence. He returned home about 2 a.m. after the attack, too much blood lost to explain what all had happened, and died the next day at a local hospital. The homicide remains unsolved.
"I've been in front of a few cameras," Metje said. "A person without my background wouldn't have managed as well."
Now she aims to help others in her position.
Metje and Bob Norris, Laykovich's stepfather, are starting "Corey's Network: A foundation for hope," with a vision of creating a network to help families of homicide victims around the metro region with immediate needs.
"What we found out through the whole process is, outside of Kansas City, there's no city-level victim's advocate, to explain what the process is with police, media, counseling, help for funds," Metje said. "We had to stumble on it."
A meeting for prospective board members, partners and those interested in supporting the foundation is 1-3 p.m. Sunday at DiCarlo's Mustard Seed, 15015 E. 40 in Kansas City. Metje said personnel from the Independence and Kansas City police departments are among the 20 people scheduled so far to view her presentation at DiCarlo's.
"We don't care too much for people having to flounder and deal with it on their own," she said.
In addition to being comfortable talking with media, and knowing when not to talk – Metje said she refused an offer from the Maury Povich Show to try discovering her son's killer by via psychic – the foundation aims to help families understand how police work such cases.
"Because of the way police have to handle the case, families have to understand that some of the processes may be offensive," she said, "and they can't take it personally."
Metje, who has a master's degree in organizational development and is working on another master's in fundraising, also wants to connect families with counseling or therapy services. Lastly – and most important, she said – people often need help accessing funds to pay for the sudden funeral costs, whether it be through victim's compensation (Missouri has the crime victims compensation fund), writing grants or soliciting donations.
Metje said her family was fortunate to receive private financial help in covering Corey's funeral costs, and Corey's brother Justin Laykovich added that "A lot of people have had our back." But for those who can't afford to pay a funeral home, the county then cremates the body and family receives a box of ashes. That becomes problematic, she said, depending on certain religious preferences or if an investigation could have been aided by exhuming the body.
In five years, Metje hopes Corey's Network can be headquartered in a free-standing office, perhaps a house, to provide victims' families with a comfortable, calm environment.
"We may not be able to save lives, but maybe we can change them and help people," she said. "There are people that have gone through what I've gone through. I think God has put me in a position where I'm able to help.
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(AP) -- With its militant wing no longer a terror organization as far as the U.S. government is concerned, an Iranian opposition group hosted a U.S. House delegation for the first time Sunday and briefed the lawmakers on the fallout of a deadly rocket attack at a refugee camp in Iraq.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran, a France-based Iranian opposition group, gave a raucous welcome at a Paris hotel to the four representatives, with rhythmic clapping and chants of "Thank You!"
But the talks focused on a Feb. 9 rocket attack at a refugee camp in Iraq that houses many of members of Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or MEK, the group's militant wing. Seven people died and dozens were wounded, the exile group said.
U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican, accused Iraq of breaking its promise to help protect the 3,100 refugees who now live on the former American military base known as Camp Liberty. He said he hopes the attack will help accelerate international efforts to resettle them abroad, while issuing a warning to the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
"Put everybody on notice -- and I think I speak for our whole delegation. ... If there is another attack on these helpless refugees by the government, obviously cleared by the government of Iraq, we will move in the United States Congress and put forward a resolution not only just condemning the act but declaring Prime Minister Maliki and his government state sponsors of terrorism," Rohrabacher told reporters.
Iraq's Shiite-led, pro-Iranian government considers MEK a terrorist group and wants the international community to speed up the resettlement of the refugees elsewhere. NCRI officials say only a handful of refugees have been resettled.
The refugee camp is meant to be a temporary way station while the United Nations works to find host countries for the refugees. They are unlikely to return to Iran because of their opposition to the Islamic regime. Before being moved to the Baghdad area camp, members of the MEK lived in another camp, called Ashraf, in northeastern Iraq
-- itself the hub of deadly violence in the past.
The MEK, which is also called the People's Mujahedeen of Iran, opposes Iran's clerical regime and has carried out assassinations and bombings in Iran. It fought in the 1980s alongside Saddam Hussein's forces in the Iran-Iraq war, and several thousand of its members were given sanctuary in Iraq by Saddam. The group renounced violence in 2001 and the Obama administration took the MEK off the U.S. terrorism list in September.
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"It was our belief that once we took that unwarranted designation off the MEK, that it would help facilitate the transfer of these helpless and defenseless refugees ... to safe havens in other countries," said Rohrabacher, who heads the subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats of the House Foreign Affairs committee. "I personally am disappointed in our government
-- and other governments -- that we have not stepped forward more quickly to do this. Hopefully this attack, this murder of these innocent and unarmed people will speed up this process."
But Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said through a spokesman that "there has been no change in resettlement since last week" and "a similar attack can take place any day and any minute."
Rohrabacher all but accused Iran of a hand in the Feb. 9 killings.
"We have to assume that the Iranian government and the Iraqi government are working together in order to murder unarmed opponents of the Iranian mullah regime. I don't believe that it is irrational for anyone to think that this act of terrorism that results in the death of these innocent people isn't a calculated effort
-- and the mullahs couldn't do it on their own," he said.
"So we know that Prime Minister Maliki must be working with the mullah dictatorship to accomplish this end."
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Local closings in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
All city and county offices will be closed Monday in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Both City Hall and the Adair County Courthouse will be closed Monday, reopening Tuesday for regular business hours.
The Kirksville License Bureau will also be closed Monday, reopening Tuesday.
The Kirksville Aquatic Center will remain open on the holiday for morning lap-swimming from 6 to 9 a.m. and open and lap swimming from noon to 7 p.m.
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ADRIAN — A hearing on evidence implicating a Jackson County man in the murder of a Woodstock Township woman was put off to January after a defense attorney asked Monday for more time to prepare.
Steven Daniel Storm, 42, was returned to the Lenawee County Jail without bond to await a Jan. 11 preliminary examination. He faces an open murder charge in the Nov. 16 killing of Sandra Johnson, 63. Her body was found Nov. 17 at a boat launch at Crispell Lake in Jackson County's Liberty Township. Her hands were bound.
A death certificate stated Johnson died of asphyxia in a homicide. Authorities continue to say little about what they believe led up to the killing.
Public defender John Glaser asked for a delay Monday in an appearance before Lenawee County District Judge James E. Sheridan.
Glaser said he received some reports last week from the Lenawee County Sheriff's Department, but not enough to get a complete picture of the investigation.
"It's my understanding there's quite a bit more police report to come," Glaser told the court.
Storm waived his right to have a preliminary examination within 14 days of his Nov. 23 arraignment.
The prosecution is prepared to go ahead with an examination this week, said Scott Baker, chief assistant Lenawee County prosecutor.
Sheridan granted the defense request to reschedule the hearing for Jan. 11, but said he does not expect any further delays.
"We'll do something that day to move this thing along," Sheridan said. He said he expects the preliminary examination to be conducted that day or the hearing waived and Storm bound over to circuit court for trial.
Family members of Storm and Johnson quickly left the courtroom in separate groups after the adjournment was announced.
Baker said there is still an active police investigation of the murder, leaving him unable to comment on what is believed to have happened and why.
"We're doing a thorough investigation on the background of the defendant as well as on the victim," Baker said.
Storm and Johnson did know each other, Baker said, and there is a financial connection that appears to be related to the murder. The relationship was not romantic, Baker said, but declined to describe their connection.
Glaser said he expects many of the questions about the prosecution's theory of what happened will become clear when a preliminary examination takes place.
He said Storm seems to be an unlikely subject to commit a violent crime of this type. Storm lived quietly with his wife and children in the village of Vandercook Lake, he said, and has no criminal history at all.
Hearing delayed in Woodstock Township woman's murder
ADRIAN — A hearing on evidence implicating a Jackson County man in the murder of a Woodstock Township woman was put off to January after a defense attorney asked Monday for more time to prepare.


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Super Replay – Trapt
Some longtime gamers may have memories of the Tecmo's Deception series, but not many recall its Playstation 2 entry Trapt. When Reiner showed me the box and told me it would be a good Super Replay candidate, I honestly had no idea what it was. By the end of the first episode, I realized that I was in for a novel experience involving torturing dozens of foes as they attempted to invade my castle.
We'll be updating this Super Replay on Sundays and Thursdays until Trapt is complete. Watch below and let us know your thoughts in the comments!
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I have been looking for information about WHY my grandfather worked on a farm in South East, Putnam County, New York. Have visited the property and knew who the Doctor who was the owner. Searching for what I know would not provide the NAME of the sanitarium. The rumor was that it was a place for Civil War soldiers.
While attending the New England Regional Genealogy Conference, I stopped by the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society booth and asked "where can I find more." While telling the story, asking my question, I was reminded to look at in the Census.
Well, I had, because I was looking at the 1910 Census Record for my grandfather. Couldn't find him and didn't go back nor try to find him. The very nice people at the table, said "did you check the census record". What I was reminded was to go back and look for the Doctor. I only knew the Doctor's surname.
Found a couple of likely hints in my search, looked that a record that had the most correct information. It was a 'hint' for a female. Looking at the Census Record had the female (wife), AND the Census Record was a little difference, in that it was on a separate page, what appeared to be at the end of the Census Record for that town. It was a complete listing of everyone who was either employed there, patients, and lived on the property.
Still looking at Census Records for my grandfather again, in 1910 when he should be there, the town, nor neighboring towns wouldn't come up. Oh to find that census record.
In a lecture at NERGC given by Sharon Sargeant, she reminded us to go back and look at where you have already looked. After all, you probably have more information when you looked that "last time". This was a great example, to go back and look.


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Ask anyone who had the good fortune to work with former Evergreen Newspapers publisher Brad Bradberry about their old boss, and they'll tell you about the best boss they ever had.
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WMATA ramped up rebuilding effort in 2012Written by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's (WMATA) massive rebuilding and modernization efforts accelerated in the fourth quarter of 2012, with $230 million invested in projects to make the system safer and more reliable.
The major projects advanced during the quarter included platform reconstruction at selected outdoor stations on the Red and Orange lines, upgrades to power and signal systems, replacement of sections of rail, new turnouts, third-rail improvements and replacement of ventilation equipment.
"We are beginning to see results in the form of improved safety, better reliability on Metrobus and Metrorail and more escalators in service each day," said WMATA General Manager and CEO Richard Sarles. "I know that this period of rebuilding requires patience on the part of our customers, we are always mindful of the customer impact of rebuilding, but I want to emphasize that the work we are doing today is essential for good, safe service for the long term."
WMATA's safety and reliability improved last year in 10 out of 12 categories, including on-time performance, railcar reliability, employee and customer safety and escalator availability. WMATA tracks and reports its performance on a quarterly basis through the Vital Signs report. Working nearly every night and most weekends, WMATA crews achieved the following during the September-through-December period:
• Replacement of 13 track circuits modules and 16 bonds as recommended by National Transportation Safety Board.
• Completion of nine escalator rehabilitation projects at Judiciary Square, Rosslyn, L'Enfant Plaza, Pentagon City, Gallery Place, Pentagon and Metro Center.
• Replacement of six miles of running rail.
• Completion of 15 miles of track tamping.
• Replacement of 7,522 crossties.
• Replacement of nearly 17,000 rail fasteners.
• Completion of 326 weld joints for a smoother ride.
WMATA is investing in the largest and most aggressive capital program since its construction. WMATA is being rebuilt during the next six years to provide safer and more reliable service. The agency is forecasting that $945 million of capital investments will be delivered during FY2013. Between FY2013 and FY2018, a total capital investment of $5 billion is planned.


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Welcome to The Permanent Mission of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The Permanent Mission of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines represents the the Government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines at the United Nations.
The Permanent Mission is the primary channel for communications between the Vincentian Government and the United Nations in New York City.
Ambassador I. Rhonda King, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Permanent Representative to the United Nations, leads the delegation. Through diplomacy, negotiation and daily monitoring of UN activities, we work to advance Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' interests, promote international development, security and human rights, and keep our Government informed on multilateral issues.
Our diplomats represent Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the General Assembly, on the Economic and Social Council, and at the many specialized UN commissions, committees, and conferences. At these UN meetings, Vincentian diplomats explain our national positions on global issues and learn the views of other member states. By negotiating the resolutions and international treaties that guide state behaviour, they help to promote peaceful relations and a stable, prosperous world..


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When I first walked through the door of Fred Ho's apartment in the Greenpoint area of Brooklyn, I asked, "How are you?" And he said, "Not good. I'm dying."
Ho has always been matter-of-fact and in-your-face. He painted himself green and posed naked for the cover his album, Celestial Green Monster. In the photo, he has a baritone saxophone placed strategically between his legs. He looks strong — like the Hulk.
Ho is an accomplished jazz musician with 12 operas and several albums to his name. But he avoids the term "jazz" because he says it originally denigrated the work of black musicians. (He instead refers to some of his work as "Afro-Asian Futurism.") Ho helped solidify Asian-American music as a genre of its own.
And now, 56-year-old Ho is in hospice, dealing with stage four colorectal cancer.
"You push the Hulk too far, you know, the Hulk would become this raging behemoth that would just smash everything this way, and that's how I saw myself fighting the system," Ho says about the photos. It's mid-morning on a Friday, but already he seems tired, speaking slowly, lying on his couch with a catheter tucked underneath the elastic waistband of his pants.
(Ho, who makes his own clothing out of bright fabrics, tells me that he's wearing the only T-shirt he owns. It's a shirt that says "BRAISED PORK — WITH FAT" in Chinese and English. Ho loved braised pork so much that one of his friends made it for him after his cancer diagnosis back in 2006. They had a "fat back fan club," he recalls with a grin.)
Fred says there's a stereotype that Asian American men aren't strong — or sexy — and he's trying to help break that.
And he's always been fighting against something since he was very young. When Ho was growing up, his father, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, faced a lot of discrimination at work. Ho says his dad was one of the college's most published professors but also the lowest paid.
"He took it out on us — his anger, his frustrations — rather than fight the white establishment. So I learned a lesson, and it was to never internalize that stuff. So early on I became a fighter. A fighter both against the white establishment, white society, but also against our own kind that internalizes oppression."
Ho says his father didn't let his mother drive or even learn to speak English.
"She was on an allowance of 50 cents a week. I saw her arrested for shoplifting sanitary napkins at the age of 6. ... The metaphor for my life is to turn pain into power, is never to become a victim. Become a revolutionary," Ho says. He once told Harvard Magazine that he intervened as his father was beating his mother and gave his father two black eyes.
Ho is known both for his music — rowdy sounds that mix the thin, warbling noises of Chinese instruments with the swinging tunes of big-band music — and for his outspoken political views.
He's prone to talking at great length about the history of the Black Power movement, or even explaining details of something he calls the Scientific Soul Sessions. The latter is his latest brainchild, born after his cancer diagnosis in August 2006. Scientific Soul Session members are "united by the drive to prefigure a new society free of imperialism, colonization, racism, heteropatriarchy & capitalist exploitation," according to its website.
He was 14 when he read Malcolm X's autobiography for the first time. Ho says art from the Black Power movement influenced many Asian Americans — including himself.
"We looked to the black experience as a reference, as a metaphor to our own," Ho says.
Ho was also 14 when he started playing the baritone saxophone; he took it up and immediately felt a connection.
"This big horn that had this unyielding, raucous, raw and uncontrollable sound. And that came — that became my voice," Ho says.
Decades later, Ho can coax six octaves out of his baritone — most players are lucky to hit five. There's even a legend about Ho's playing and how he knew he was hitting those high notes. He was at a music residency, practicing his baritone saxophone in his cabin late at night.
"I would notice that some points, the wolves and the coyotes were very close to my cabin because I could see their eyes, would be howling, and other times when I was playing in a normal hearing range they'd still be there but not saying anything," Ho recalls.
But politics are never far from his music, and it's not just about making beautiful sounds or hitting the high notes. Ho is also known for creating a new type of opera.
In Journey Beyond The West, a three-part opera, Ho re-imagines the ancient Chinese legend of The Monkey King. Monkey is born from stone and gets super powers through Taoist practices. And Monkey is a rebel who wants to become immortal, like the gods who oppress him. You'll notice that unlike the original story, Fred doesn't call Monkey a "king." He's just "Monkey," since Ho's story is set in a Communist paradise.
"It allowed me to create my own genre of opera that combined martial arts movement with fantastical characters and settings ... it was filled with humor and satire," Ho says.
Bill Shoemaker, a jazz critic who's followed Ho's work for more than 20 years, says that an artist who can change the dialogue that's ongoing in jazz is just as important as the artist who creates a masterpiece.
"I think if you took 10 people who really know Fred's music inside-out and you ask 'em, 'OK, what's Fred Ho's masterpiece?' I don't think you'd get a unanimous verdict," Shoemaker says. "But if you ask the same 10 people about artists who really change the dialogue, who really change the term of engagement between artist and audience, then they would say, 'Yep, that's Fred Ho.' "
Ho has even been trying to change the dialogue around cancer.
He was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2006. He's had 10 surgeries, five rounds of chemotherapy and all the different types of treatments you can imagine. Yet he's still in-your-face. He sent graphic emails to friends about his cancer, all his symptoms, all his side effects. He thinks that cancer and capitalism are both toxic. One is bad for the body, one is bad for society. Now he's published the emails in a book.
"I feel like for a long time, I thought, 'Fred Ho will never die.' ... He is forever," says Joseph Yoon, Ho's long time friend and music manager.
And it seems like Ho is often getting calls from his friends. They phone rings. Multiple times. They ask how he is — even during our conversation.
"Personally, I've thought of [Fred Ho as] someone who I've both loved and feared over the years. But I think the former has overtaken the latter of late ... he's really helped me grow so much that I don't have to fear him," says Ben Barson, a student of Fred's. Barson is one of Ho's friends who are taking a 16-piece band on a tour of the Northeast. They want to introduce a new audience to the voice of Fred Ho.
"I've gotten over [dying] now. What hurts me most is the loss of my friendships. That's the hardest difficulty I have... the physical death doesn't scare me," Ho says, his voice cracking. "What devastates me the most is the loss of what future joys and discovers might have happened if I didn't die so young."
Fred Ho has been a musician for more than 30 years. For most of that time, the jazz saxophonist has combined improvisation with Asian melodies to create music that is its own form of political activism. Fred Ho has composed 12 jazz operas and recorded several albums. He's also a published author. And now, at the age of 56, he has cancer and is thinking about the legacy that he wants to leave behind. NPR's Kat Chow recently visited him at his home in Brooklyn.
KAT CHOW, BYLINE: When I first walked in to Fred Ho's apartment, I asked how are you? He said not good. I'm dying. Ho has always been in your face.
CHOW: He painted himself green and posed naked - with a baritone saxophone placed strategically between his legs - for the cover of his album, "Celestial Green Monster."
CHOW: He kind of looks like the Hulk.
FRED HO: The Hulk was one of my favorite superheroes, because you would push the Hulk too far, the Hulk would become this raging behemoth that would just smash everything in its way, and that's how I saw myself fighting the system.
CHOW: Ho says there's a stereotype that Asian-American men aren't strong - and he's trying to break it. That's been a goal his whole life. He was born in California but grew up in Massachusetts. His dad was a professor there who Ho says faced a lot of racism at work.
HO: He took it out on us, his anger, his frustrations, rather than fight the white establishment.
CHOW: He says his father didn't let his mother drive or even learn English.
HO: She was on an allowance of 50 cents a week. I saw her arrested for shoplifting sanitary napkins at the age of 6. So, I experienced a lot of pain growing up. But the metaphor for my life is to turn pain into power, is never to become a victim. Become a revolutionary.
CHOW: An Asian-American activist who's been inspired by the Black Power movement, Ho wants to change the way people think about the world. And he realized he could do that with music when he picked up the baritone for the first time. He was 14.
HO: This big horn that had this unyielding, raucous, raw and uncontrollable sound. And that became my voice.
CHOW: That voice helped him make his political points.
CHOW: Ho's composed for big band, and he's written twelve operas. "Journey Beyond the West" is about a Chinese folk character called Monkey who fights the gods who oppress it.
CHOW: In this opera, Monkey is androgynous. But in many of Ho's works, the heroes are women fighting against a society that oppresses them.
CHOW: Ho's tried to extend what a jazz musician can do.
CHOW: He can coax six octaves out of a baritone. Most players are lucky to hit five.
BILL SHOEMAKER: The thing about Fred's music is that you don't have to know any of this to enjoy it.
CHOW: That's Bill Shoemaker. He's a jazz critic who's followed Ho's work for more than 20 years.
SHOEMAKER: It swings, it sings, it has heat, it has passion, it's full of song.
CHOW: Shoemaker says if you ask 10 jazz experts about artists who really change the dialogue...
SHOEMAKER: Who really change the term of engagement between artist and audience, then they would say, yep, that's Fred Ho.
CHOW: And Ho has even been trying to change the dialogue around cancer. Ho was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2006. He's had ten surgeries, five rounds of chemotherapy and all the different types of treatments you can imagine. Yet he's still in-your-face. He sent graphic emails to friends about his cancer, all his symptoms, all his side effects. He compared cancer to capitalism. He said both were toxic. Now he's published the emails in a book.
JOSEPH YOON: I feel like for a long time, I felt like Fred Ho will never die.
CHOW: That's Fred's long-time friend and music manager, Joseph Yoon.
YOON: This man is a survivor. He is forever.
CHOW: He helps Ho. Takes out trash, brings tea, pours ginger ale. Ho does not seem to be alone.
HO: Hello? Hi Ann, not too bad, though I was vomiting last night, a few times.
CHOW: Ho is lying on his couch. He has a catheter. After a couple of hours, it seemed like he was getting tired, like he was trying to gracefully kick me out. But I wanted to know, are you afraid of dying?
HO: No. I've gotten over that now. What hurts me the most is the loss of my friendships. The physical death doesn't scare me. I've known all along that this would be a possibility and when I would reach Stage 4 metastatic cancer, I knew this was a certainty. What devastates me the most is the loss of what future joys and discoveries might of happened if I didn't die so young.
CHOW: Fred Ho's last completed work is a music and dance tribute to Muhammad Ali. Ho says watching Ali videos helped him keep fighting. Meanwhile, a group of Ho's friends are taking a 16-piece band on a tour of the Northeast. They want to introduce new audiences to the voice of Fred Ho. Kat Chow, NPR News.
SIMON: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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I need a board and thought I would help out, money sent for two boards. So 2-3 boards to go?
money sent for second board
ill take one more then.
this should put us into production then.
please jai,
when you get the time can you update thread #1 with:
the amount people owe,
and the amount of boards or orders they will receive.
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Are we any closer to getting some of these boards out?
If there is one more slot for a board available I will take one as well.
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OMG where all most there !!
I'm pretty stoked for all parties involved that this will be going forward. Cheers.
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Jai.. are we ready to get these boards build?!
Oh damn,... :-(
I leave for a month and you guys fill the order in.
Im so sorry guys,...... what a waste of time that was.
Its Saturday and I called to confirm the files again for the boards with the board house (I want to be CERTAIN they place the right parts in the right places)
So that will mean we can start moving Monday morning at 10am EST.
I will post a follow up of pictures when all parts have shipped from me to them. From there we can track the assembly process in the forums rather than ask me for updates.
Again,.. very sorry for my absence. Life came apart for a few weeks,... But I am back here now.
To avoid this in the future: How many of you guys have my phone number???? We may need to spread that around to keep even further communication.
Jai "P8ntbal4me" Menard
and on a side note:
I have NOT updated the first thread with paypal information, payments, shipping,.. etc.
I dont know why paypal never sent me a notice that over $600 came into the account,....
I will call to figure that issue out.
How's it looking with the board house?
It took some time for the board house to accept the new (old really) gerber files.
That all was completed on Wednesday of this week.
Issue with original layout and one power resistor spec.... Ended up changing one footprint. I had them make the change.
Parts are shipping Tuesday morning,.... Hope to hear from them as soon as they arrive.
Those of you coming to my house this week can look over the finished product before assembly..... Just remind me!!!!!
I dropped the ball Guys..... Sorry for my absence.
The parts are gone! Off to the board house :-)
Sent out Tuesday morning,... Picked up my place Tuesday 5:23pm
One more step down the road to closing the book on this over due project :-)
This is not a good update,....
I made a mistake and somehow did not send in one of the 3 boxes a RSA form that the board house requires in each package sent in.
The result was having all the parts sent back to me in the mail.
It was my fault guys,.... im really sorry!
I took the day off work to get the boxes re-inventoried and the forms all re-signed in each box.
With the holiday I am not sure when the boxes will get there,... but with the insurance and over night shipping,.. it should be some time next week (thinking wednesday)
Again,... im very sorry guys,.... trying to make this right.
No worries mate; stuff happens! Thank you very much for keeping us in the loop!
At this point, I wouldn't bother with overnight shipping. We've waited this long, we can wait a few extra days for cheap shipping.
I've been dreading to post this update for a few days,.... Waiting on confirmation from the manufacturer with an answer....
It's bad news,... No reason to sugar coat it.
The boards that were printed last year,... Are all junk.
They all have to be re-made.
There is a part which is not critital to the board operation per say, but effects ROF and power loss over a 2 hour period.
What that means (for me): I am having all the 100 boards remade
What that means (for you): you have yet another delay
What that means (for everyone): you will get what you paid for 100%
In the next 20 days this won't be an issue as they are turning the Gerber files now to have the boards re-made.
Immediately after that, assembly begins.
I wasn't sure if posting this would be to anyone's benefit. As it really isn't.
But I assumed you would want to know what was going on.
The details on who screwed up the boards is still being looked into,... Which is a money thing on my end. But I have already paid for the boards to be re-made in full so there is no delay on the assembly any more.
I apologize for the bad news. I wish there was something positive to say about it.
Thanks for the update, Jai; always appreciated regardless if good or bad.
Not that it matters, but I'm curious what the issue was. Was it an issue with trace width, copper weight, etc?
Around 1/19/2012 the software engineer suggested an added comment to the power switch. This part is a "53.2k" resistor. In a 1206 package.... Tiny.....
What was happening before (and now with the boards made wrong) was at a full 100% charge everything works just fine.
But you pulse the regulator and power switches, or the HES, or eyes, etc,.... And the ground back feeds to the shutdown pin on the regulator.
It's a safety feature so you guys don't fry your boards.
The problem is the safety feature is a himderance on the CPS load at 10% pulse voltage load.
So at a high ROF,... Your board will believe there is a short and by default,... Shut down,... Protecting the circuit.
So we adds this resistor based on a suggestion and the designer saw it as a "must have" to ensure circuit protection under pulse loads.
There was two options:
One was to Hand solder a non- SMT part (which you would have seen the second you saw it) and use the old boards
Two was to have them re- made.
I'm not made of money,..... But my gut tells me to have them remade.... So that's what I did
So if you were to look at the top of the board,... You would have this "radio shack" hand soldered resistor running from the top to the bottom of the board.
It wouldn't be protected. And it would look hidiois.
I haven't found it yet,... But I believe I promised a "SMD/SMT component made board" somewhere in the thread.
Given all that..... I know making new ones will be the right choice.


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It's only been a week since the news broke that Britney Spears is on the verge of signing a deal to write a novel — and, dammit, I want to read it NOW!
I know, I know. There's an incredible backlash in the literary community because a lot of deserving authors are struggling as the publishing industry throws huge sums of money at certain pop culture icons to "write" novels. Included in this trend are Lauren Conrad, Snooki, Bethenny Frankel, and all three of the Kardashian sisters.
Here's why I think we should all give Spears the benefit of the doubt.
I was in the room one time when Spears, David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen were playing cards and talking about writing. It was a nice suite in a five-star Vegas casino. That was back in the day when, every summer, I'd take a few weeks off from The Day to indulge my favorite leisure time activity: working as a hotel maid.
I hadn't known anyone was actually staying in the room and was just dropping off some of the house-made Cumin-dusted porkskins that we placed on guest pillows – and imagine my surprise, on opening the door with the pass-key, to see three such talented writers hanging out. (You probably know that, along with her mother, Lynn Spears, Brit has co-authored two of the greatest novels the world has ever known.)
I apologized profusely for my untoward entrance, but Wallace, with a Bret Michaels signature do-rag around his head, grinned and said, "C'mon in! Help yourself to some refreshments!" He pointed at a buffet table laid out against the back wall. It was heaped with fresh fruit, cheeses, bottles of wine and, for some reason, a towering pile of melting and unwrapped Eskimo pies.
Franzen and Brit waved hello as I tiptoed by the card table and helped myself to a hunk of Jarlsberg cheese. The trio went back to their game and conversation and I basically played the role of fly-on-the-wall. It was fascinating.
For one, the card game they were playing was Authors – which I thought was, in terms of a literary device, ironic.
For another, as I nibbled and unobtrusively listened to their banter, it became obvious Spears' knowledge of literature was comprehensive. It was also clear — perhaps surprisingly — that Franzen and Wallace were soaking up her every word like acolytes at the feet of Socrates. It was dizzying. She would make observations or ask questions – then wait for Franzen and Wallace to reflect and then respond.
Spears: "Should the that fact that Knut Hamsun was a Nazi sympathizer detract from his body of work? Or is it the reader's responsibility to separate his or her thoughts on Hamsun's personal life from the act of reading Pan or Mysteries?"
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Spears: "Look! I just completed the Louisa May Alcott set! Seems as though I win again, suckas!"
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This is why I'm happy about Britney Spears getting a presumably nice advance to write a novel. It's gonna be fantastic.
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