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Movie review: Katen no Shiro
|Katen no Shiro PR poster
|Azuchi Castle replica in Azuchi, Shiga Prefecture.
Released in Japan on Sept. 12, 2009, Katen no Shiro is a movie about Okabe Mataemon, a Nagoya (Atsuta)-based master carpenter who in 1576 was ordered by Japan's leading warlord Oda Nobunaga to build Azuchi Castle on a mountain fronting Lake Biwa in Omi Province (Shiga Prefecture). The main castle tower or donjon was to have an unprecedented five stories. It was to be the grandest and most lavish castle Japan had ever seen. Mataemon and his crew had only three years to complete the epic construction which they did. The movie shows the major and minor tribulations Mataemon and his crew went through during the construction. The movie is also unusual because it has no battle scenes despite being a samurai movie.
Although based on historical facts and persons, the movie is fictional despite having a serious and factual tone. Therefore, to the layman, it is difficult to distinguish between historical fact and the fictional elements. For one thing, in the movie, Mataemon has a daughter named Rin, whereas he actually had only a son who was groomed to take over his father's hereditary craft specializing in shrine and temple carpentry. The movie is based on the Matsumoto Seicho Award-winning novel of the same name by Yamamoto Ken'ichi. (I haven't read the novel.)
Being a castle fan, I really looked forward to this movie. However, I was somewhat disappointed with the quality of the acting, completeness of the story, believability, and overall visual and emotional impact. The movie does have a few outstanding scenes with what looks like thousands of people working, but they were too few and too short. Computer graphics depicting the construction of the mountaintop castle were impressive enough. But I thought there were too many story lines and characters which could not be fully developed or explained within the movie's 139 min.
For those of you who want to see the movie but cannot understand Japanese, I provide a rundown of the movie below so you'll know what's going on.
Historical Background
Azuchi Castle (安土城) was one of the grandest and tallest castles Japan had ever seen. Roof tiles with gold leaf and rooms with paintings by renown artists. They say it cost over 100 billion yen based on today's monetary value, and over 1 million workers were involved. They used 40,000 pieces of wood just for the castle tower alone and the main pillar was made with a 2,000-year-old tree. The castle tower was 35 meters high. Nobunaga lived in the castle tower instead of in a separate palace building. Unfortunately, upon the death of Nobunaga in 1582, the castle was burnt to the ground only three years after it was completed in 1579. Nobunaga was attacked at Honnoji temple in Kyoto where he was staying and forced to commit seppuku by Akechi Mitsuhide, one of his top generals. It is unknown who or what burned down the castle. SInce the castle existed in its full glory for only three years, there are few surviving illustrations showing what the castle looked like. Nobunaga had ordered a painting of his castle on a folding screen. This screen was later given to the Pope by a Japanese mission to the Vatican. Azuchi town officials have been trying in vain to find this elusive folding screen, but even the Vatican is unable to sift through its vast holdings to find it.
Today, the castle tower's foundation stones and stone walls remain in Azuchi, Shiga Prefecture. It is a pretty easy climb to the top of Mt. Azuchi where you can see the castle tower's foundation stones. Although Mt. Azuchi was on the shore of Lake Biwa, it is now quite far from the water's edge due to land reclamation. There is also a splendid, life-size replica of the top floors of the castle tower displayed in a museum in Azuchi called Nobunaga no Yakata. The castle site is near Azuchi Station on the JR Tokaido Line. The Azuchi-Momoyama Period of Japanese history is partially named after this castle.
Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) is one of Japan's most famous and fabled historical samurai figures. He was the one who put Japan on the road to eventual unification following a period of endless civil wars between daimyo samurai warlords. He rose to power upon the demise of the Kyoto-based Ashikaga shogunate which was losing its national power and authority over the fragmented provinces of Japan. The loss of centralized power resulted in civil wars between rival warlords seeking to expand their territory. One key domain was Kyoto which was the Imperial capital and home of the emperor. Control Kyoto, and you have a good chance of controlling the entire country.
After winning a number of key battles, Nobunaga came to control Kyoto and became one of the most powerful daimyo with about one-third of Japan under his control. One key to his success in battle was the introduction of firearms. Matchlock guns came to Japan from Europe with which Japan had trade relations. Nobunaga developed an efficient way to use guns in battle which were no match for the swords of his enemy. After the decisive Battle of Nagashino in 1575 when Nobunaga defeated the Takeda clan, he wanted to show off his power and authority by building the grandest castle ever at Azuchi. He thought Azuchi was the hub of Japan's major domains including Kyoto.
Nobunaga also favored European culture. In the movie, you can see a few things from Europe such as a globe that showed that the world was round. (Although Nobunaga believed the Europeans, the Japanese still thought the world was flat.)
Nobunaga was bent on conquering all of Japan and would likely have succeeded if he weren't assassinated. Nobunaga was succeeded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi who did succeed in unifying Japan. However, his death led Edo-based Tokugawa Ieyasu to seize the opportunity to take over the country. After a pivotal battle at Sekigahara in Gifu Prefecture, he and his descendants maintained peace in a unified Japan for over 250 years from 1600.
Okabe Mataemon (岡部又右衛門) was a master carpenter specializing in building shrines and temples. He was the head carpenter for Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya. Atsuta is one of the three most important shrines in Japan (besides Ise in Mie and Izumo in Shimane). Nagoya is in Aichi Prefecture which was known as Owari Province. Nobunaga also hailed from Owari so he already knew about Mataemon. Mataemon's carpentry skills were considered so legendary that he was called the man with "Kami no te" (God's Hand or Divine Hand). He was a great influence on succeeding generations of shrine/temple carpenters which was a hereditary occupation. To become a master shrine/temple carpenter, you had to be born into it. Mataemon had 20 carpenters working under him. He is presumed to have been with Nobunaga during the attack at the Kyoto temple and thus presumed to have died with Nobunaga.
Movie Plot
|Azuchi Castle's unique octagonal shape.
|Red lacquer, gold leaf, and exquisite paintings.
|Azuchi Castle ruins today.
|Azuchi Castle foundation stones.
The movie opens with Mataemon's daughter Rin hugging or listening to a large tree when she sees a small group of samurai on horseback speeding toward Mataemon and his crew who were building a shrine. It turned out to be Nobunaga himself who first requested a drink of water. He then reveals the real purpose of his sudden visit. That he wanted Mataemon to build an unheard-of, five-story castle on a mountain in Azuchi. Mataemon accepts the challenge with great honor.
However, Nobunaga later makes it a castle design competition between three famous carpenter clans including Mataemon. The other two competitors were the Kyoto-based Ikegami who designed the Gold Pavilion (Kinkakuji) in Kyoto and the Nara-based Nakai who built Todaiji temple's Great Buddha Hall in Nara. In front of Nobunaga, the three bidders formally presented their impressive designs one by one with drawings and a scale model. Nobunaga had instructed the designers to include an atrium inside the castle tower. The center of the building would be an empty space up to the upper floors. Nobunaga apparently wanted to imitate the interior of a cathedral with a high ceiling. The Ikegami and Nakai complied and showed the high open space inside the castle tower in their designs.
Lastly, Mataemon presented his design as a seven-story structure including two basement floors. However, he did not incorporate an atrium in what seemed to be a defiant act. This enraged Nobunaga so much that he drew his sword. However, Mataemon tearfully explained and dramatically demonstrated (one of the movie's best scenes) his reasons. That having an atrium in the castle would make it a firetrap. That a carpenter's job is to protect the life of the master (Nobunaga) and that he could not build something that would be hazardous to his lord's life in case the castle fell. Nobunaga acquiesced and declared Mataemon as the Head Carpenter (So-toryo) for building the castle. (This scene was impressive, however, there was no explanation of the tower's unique octagonal top floor.)
The castle construction started in Jan. 1576. Tens of thousands of craftsmen and workers were mobilized from 66 provinces to construct the castle in three years. The entire mountain was to be converted into a fortress and grand residence for Nobunaga. Computer graphics created the scenes of the castle being built on the mountaintop. The story then turned to Mataemon in search of a giant cypress (hinoki) which can serve as the castle tower's main pillar. He explains to Nobunaga that for a tree that big, it would have to be 2,000 years old, and such a tree might only be found in the Kiso mountains (in Nagano Prefecture). However, the Kiso area was in enemy territory under the Takeda clan. Even though it might be suicidal to go there searching for a tree, Nobunaga allows Mataemon to travel to Kiso while carrying a letter of introduction from him. Mataemon is soon caught by local lord Kiso Yoshiaki. At knifepoint, he tearfully begs for permission to search the mountains for the tree. He even offers his life in exchange for the tree. Lord Kiso reluctantly allows him to search for the tree, without actually intending to let him get the tree.
Mataemon is accompanied by a local woodsman named Jinbe. They spend days searching for the perfect tree. After hearing Mataemon's motivation and sense of mission, Jinbe warms up to Mataemon saying that he would love to see such a tree rendering great service to the land's greatest castle. Just when Jinbe had all but given up in finding such a tree, Mataemon wanders around by himself and miraculously finds it. He hugs the tree, and while Lord Kiso's spies watch them, Jinbe starts hitting Mataemon to mislead them. While giving a good beating, Jinbe promises Mataemon that he would get him the tree when it rains heavily. With this, Mataemon returns to Azuchi with a firm belief in Jinbe's promise to deliver. (Part of this scene in the forest was filmed in Taiwan. Apparently Japan does not have any trees that look that big.)
Meanwhile, there were military orders to send five of Mataemon's carpenters to the battlefront. Young Ichizo volunteered to go. He was a love interest of Mataemon's daughter Rin who tearfully sees him off to war. Later when the army returned, Rin searches for Ichizo, but does not find him among the returnees. One of the returning men broke down and cried when she asked him about Ichizo. We can only presume that he was killed in battle.
Time passed by, and with no heavy rains, the giant tree still did not arrive. This made everyone very anxious. Mataemon's wife Tazuru went to pray at various shrines when finally pouring rain falls. In the heavy rain, Mataemon falls to his knees on the main pillar's foundation stone and prays in gratitude. Apparently, a lot of rain was needed to haul the big tree down the mountain river. Later, while praying at a shrine on a sunny day, Mataemon's wife finally sees a welcome sight on the lake. The giant tree on rafts on Lake Biwa was heading toward Azuchi with Hashiba (Toyotomi) Hideyoshi on board. Everyone is greatly relieved and happy. However, by delivering the tree, Jinbe defied Lord Kiso's order not to give the tree. Jinbe is beheaded. A letter from Jinbe to Mataemon implied that Jinbe gave his life to fulfill Mataemon's dream. Mataemon cries for Jinbe in what might be the movie's most touching moment.
With great ceremony and hundreds of men pulling ropes, they erect the castle's main pillar cut from the giant tree from the Kiso mountains. The pillar is erected on the central foundation stone. It is one of the most dramatic scenes of the movie, showing various contraptions to pull the giant pillar from a horizontal to vertical position. Meanwhile, Mataemon's wife falls ill and dies. Mataemon rushes home and mourns her for a night before he goes back to work.
A few of Nobunaga's men notice a huge and nice looking boulder in the mountain and decide that it would befit Nobunaga's castle. They order it to be removed and used for the castle. However, the stonecutter opposes, saying that it was a sacred rock and removing it would result in a curse. The samurai disagreed and was ready to behead the stonecutter who was a close friend of Mataemon. Mataemon intervenes and the stonecutter reluctantly gives in to the demand.
The next epic scene shows the hauling of the giant boulder up the hill on a path of rolling logs. Good mix of computer graphics and real men hauling the rock. However, as they were pulling, there was a gunpowder explosion on the path as a distraction and several ninja-like assassins (called rappa) disguised as workers went after Nobunaga who was standing on a very high platform to watch the hauling of the boulder. One female assassin disguised as a kitchen worker, named Une, leaped (actually flew) up to Nobunaga's grandstand and engaged him in a sword fight. She was thrown to the ground where she was stabbed by Nobunaga's men. Une had appeared in the movie a few times before, working as a kitchen helper. She was the love interest of Kumazo, one of the construction workers who wanted to marry her (but she laughed off his proposal). He saw Une being attacked and tried to protect her, but he was killed as well. The scene with Une flying up to Nobunaga and fighting him was like a Chinese kung fu movie, complete with sound effects (of clothes ruffling in the wind). I thought, "Whaaa?? What is that??" Until then, it was a serious movie, and it suddenly turned into a Nintendo-like sequence. Quite out of place. The story behind Une is not explained either. She just came out of the blue and was killed off. We don't know who she was working for.
Meanwhile, the giant boulder broke loose and went tumbling down the hill squashing many people in its path. (I bet this accident is fictional.) Everyone is greatly saddened by the death of Kumazo and many others. Mataemon orders a break in the construction so everyone can mourn. However, Nobunaga orders Mataemon to resume the construction immediately even though Mataemon pleads that it wouldn't work if the workers' hearts were not in it.
Later, during heavy rains at night, Mataemon was inside the castle tower and noticed water dripping from above. He climbs up on a ladder and walks on a few wooden beams to try and find out what was wrong. He tries to "listen to the wood." He concludes that the foundation stones under the pillars surrounding the main pillar had sunk slightly. This made the main pillar, at the center, slightly too tall for the beams connected to it. This height difference would eventually cause the connected beams to break or the main pillar to crack. So he decides that the main pillar had to be shaved off at the bottom by 12 centimeters. His crew is aghast, exclaiming that it was impossible.
Then suddenly, a haggard-looking Ichizo, who was presumed to have died in battle, enters the building shouting, "It's not impossible, he has God's Hand!" (Ichizo idolized Mataemon.) An elaborate system to lift the pillars and beams was constructed and we see men, women (including Rin), and even children pulling the ropes to raise the pillars by some centimeters. They hung on to the ropes lifting the pillars as their hands bled. A carpenter sawed off the bottom of the main pillar and Mataemon and Ichizo shaved it some more until Mataemon gave the okay signal. All the pillars and beams then creaked back into the correct position. It's hard to tell what the timeline is in the movie, but apparently the job took overnight.
In the end we see Nobunaga in the castle praising the castle and saying a few words to his retainer.
My Impressions
|Hauling a giant boulder.
|No scene like this in the movie.
What I liked:
- Grand scenes such as when they are raising the castle's main pillar and pulling a giant boulder. That pillar, BTW, was an actual hinoki pillar they bought for 8 million yen.
- Computer graphics showing the building of Azuchi Castle.
- Ogata Naoto's acting performance as Jinbe the woodsman. (He's become quite a good actor like his father.)
What I didn't like:
- Although Okabe Mataemon and Azuchi Castle actually existed, the movie's story is still fiction. Mataemon had a son instead of a daughter as depicted in the movie. And so it is difficult to distinguish fact from fiction in the movie.
- Except for Ogata Naoto (and maybe Shiina Kippei who played Nobunaga), the quality of the acting in general was not very high. It seemed more like a made-for-TV drama than a movie.
- A few story lines and characters were not adequately developed or explained such as the love interest of Rin and Kumazo, and the ninja-like sabotage by Une.
- The movie's passage of time is difficult to distinguish. Like how many days or weeks passed until the big log arrived from Kiso?
- There were too few epic scenes like when they were erecting the main pillar and pulling the giant boulder. And those scenes were too short as well.
- The scene where they were pulling a giant boulder ended too abruptly when ninja-like saboteurs appeared and tried to kill Nobunaga who was watching the spectacle. One of the female ninja (Une, played by Mizuno Miki) jumped (flew) up to the high platform where Nobunaga was standing and engaged in a sword fight. It was like a Chinese kung fu movie. She was superhuman to be able to jump up that high. Nintendo-like scene in a serious movie. (They put wires on her and she flew up 10 meters. The actress commented that it was more thrilling than an amusement park ride.)
- There was no element of suspense or mystery or story line leading up to a final conclusion. The movie really didn't have a climax.
- No scenes showing other aspects of the castle's construction such as the stone walls and especially the gorgeous Kano-style paintings and gold leaf inside the castle rooms.
- No scene showing Nobunaga praising Mataemon for his great job.
- No scenes showing Nobunaga actually living inside the castle.
- No scenes of the Christian missionaries and other dignitaries who saw the castle and marveled at its beauty. This could have been the movie's climax.
- No scene related to the legendary folding screen with a painting of Azuchi Castle ordered by Nobunaga. The folding screen was later given to the Pope and the town of Azuchi has been searching for it since there is little documentation of the castle's appearance.
- No scenes of the castle burning three years after it was completed. It is only mentioned in the end narration.
- The movie does not mention the word "Shiga" or "Omi." The movie does not promote any places (other than Azuchi), people, or products of Shiga. We only see chado instruments (tea cups, etc.), Western things like a globe (shown by Nobunaga) and fancy dress by women (from Sakai, Osaka).
- None of the main actors/actresses are from Shiga Prefecture.
- Shiga Governor Kada Yukiko did not make a cameo appearance. I heard that actor Nishida Toshiyuki asked her to make an appearance, and I thought she agreed. But you don't see her in the movie.
I know the movie is based on the Naoki Prize-winning novel which probably did not include the scenes I described above. But to make it more dramatic and entertaining, I think the screenwriters should have included such scenes. As I listed above, there are just too many scenes missing in this movie. Perhaps they didn't have enough time to fit it all in. They should have cut out the romances between Rin-Ichizo and Une-Kumazo. I thought it was a waste of time. The movie is not a love story. If it supposed to be a love story, it failed completely.
Even for history buffs, it might be frustrating because the movie is obviously not historically accurate since it is a work of fiction. For castle fans, the movie does not show all the major aspects of building a castle. I wish they showed more scenes of the actual construction (which sped by too quickly). Work on the stone walls, interior, moats, etc., are missing. Seeing the stones being cut and fitted onto the walls, the beams being fitted to the main pillar, the construction of the roof, moat digging, interior painting, gold leafing, etc., etc. So the educational value of this movie is not very high.
The movie does have many interesting story lines. Construction of a major castle with mostly manual labor, Mataemon the carpenter prodigy, Nobunaga's affection for imported goods, merchants getting rich from European trade, ninja-like assassins, and a few love stories. But the movie was too short to adequately cover them all. It tries to cover everything, but in doing so, it never really developed any story to its fullest and best potential. It might have been better to make it a TV series rather than a movie.
But I still recommend seeing this movie. It is worth seeing the few outstanding scenes that it has. The movie was filmed in Kyoto; Adogawa in Takashima, Shiga where they filmed the giant boulder scene with 200 extras; Awajishima island in Hyogo for scenes atop Mt. Azuchi overlooking Lake Biwa; Kiso-Fukushima in Nagano for forest scenes; and Taiwan for the big tree scene.
Key Words
If you are studying Japanese, this list of words may be helpful to know before watching the movie.
- Katen no Shiro 火天の城 - Movie title. "Katen" is not a normal Japanese word. It is the name of one of the twelve Deva guardians (Juniten 十二天) guarding twelve directions in esoteric Buddhism. The twelve deities protect the world. Katen is the God of Fire in the southeast. This god burns one's ignorance and illuminates the darkness to show a confused person the correct path. Other Deva guardians include Bishamonten, Taishakuten, and Suiten." Shiro" means castle.
- Azuchi 安土 - Name of the place and mountain where Azuchi Castle was built in Shiga Prefecture. Azuchi is next to the city of Omi-Hachiman and the castle site is nearest to JR Azuchi Station on the Tokaido Line. The Azuchi-Momoyama Period of Japanese history partially refers to Nobunaga's Azuchi Castle. ("Momoyama" refers to Toyotomi HIdeyoshi's castle in Fushimi, Kyoto.)
- miya-daiku 宮大工 - Carpenter specializing in shrine/temple construction. Okabe Mataemon was one of Japan's most famous miya-daiku.
- touryou or So-touryou 棟梁/総棟梁 - Master carpenter or head carpenter like a foreman at the construction site. It is also an honorary title used to called the master carpenter, similar to the use of "sensei" for a teacher. Mataemon is addressed as "Touryou" by his underlings.
- Goju no tenshu or Goju no shiro 五重の天守 - Five-story castle tower. "Goju" might sound like the number 50, but it means five stories. Later you will hear "nanaju," which means seven stories since there were two basement floors.
- Tenshu 天守 - Castle's central tower or donjon.
- sashizu 指図 - Design blueprint for a building. Called sekkei-zu 設計図 in modern language.
- sakuji 作事 - Construction work.
- oyabashira 親柱 - Main pillar of a building.
- hinoki 檜 - Japanese cypress, famous for its fragrance and beauty. This is the type of tree used for the castle's main pillar.
- kami no te 神の手 - God's hand or divine hand. Refers to Mataemon's top-class carpentry skills.
- fukinuke 吹き抜け - Atrium.
You could call it an all-star cast with big names such as Nishida Toshiyuki, Otake Shinobu, Shiina Kippei, and Ogata Naoto. *All names have the family name first.
- Nishida Toshiyuki - Okabe Mataemon the head carpenter.
- Shiina Kippei - Warlord Oda Nobunaga.
- Ôtake Shinobu - Mataemon's wife Tazuru.
- Ogata Naoto - Jinbe the woodsman
- Natsuyagi Isao - Stonecutter.
- Terajima Susumu - Senior carpenter 平次
- Fukuda Saki - Mataemon's daughter Rin.
- Ishida Takuya - Ichizo, carpenter who idolizes Mataemon. Love interest of Rin.
- Yamamoto Tarô - Kumazo, somewhat rebellious carpenter who liked Une.
- Ueda Kôichi - Senior carpenter and father of Ichizo. 弥吉
- Mizuno Miki - Une, the female assassin disguised as kitchen worker and the love interest of Kumazo.
- Nishioka Tokuma - Nobunaga retainer and castle construction supervisor
- Sasano Takashi - Lord Kiso Yoshiaki, local lord under the Takeda clan.
- Kômoto Jun'ichi - Hashiba (Toyotomi) Hideyoshi.
- Maeda Ken - Carpenter.
- Pe Jyonmyon - Carpenter.
- Watanabe Ikkei - Nobunaga retainer.
- Taguchi Hiromasa - Nobunaga retainer.
- Kumagaya Mami - Kitchen worker Fusa.
- Ishibashi Renji - Famous carpenter Ikegami of Kyoto who bid for the Azuchi Castle design.
- Uchida Asahi - Famous carpenter Nakai from Nara who bid for the Azuchi Castle design.
- Endô Shôzô - Merchant from Sakai, Osaka who got rich from European trade and paraded with young women in fancy western dress.
- Director: Tanaka Mitsutoshi
- Producer: Fujita Shigeki


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Was Bush Lying About WMD?
Maybe not. Here's how they could've misread the evidence.
We may never know if Saddam Hussein really had weapons of mass destructionduring the final months or years before his ouster, but it is worth asking why the Bush administration claimed he did with a degree of certainty far exceeding that of U.S. intelligence reports.
Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and the other Pentagon officials who made these claims so fiercely probably weren't lying. Clearly, they had formed their conclusions first, then went scrounging for the evidence. Clearly, they stretched the evidence they found right up to, and in some cases beyond, the logical limits. However, it's a fair bet that they genuinely believed that Saddam had these weapons. They probably also believed that the analysts in the CIA and DIA, who were uncertain or skeptical about the matter, just didn't, or didn't want to, look hard enough.
In this sense, Rumsfeld and company saw themselves as something like a district attorney who twists the facts a bit to "frame a guilty man"—or like Dean Acheson, Harry Truman's secretary of state, who admitted in his memoirs that, while pushing for a massive U.S. arms buildup against what he saw as a grave Soviet threat, he made his points "clearer than truth."
In fact, the history of the Cold War offers many parallels to this pattern, few more enlightening or pertinent than the controversy over the "missile gap"—another case of a threat that everyone perceived as real and immediate (it even helped elect a president) but that, in this case, turned out to be completely false.
It started in 1957, when the CIA's annual top-secret National Intelligence Estimate stated that the Soviets could deploy 100 intercontinental ballistic missiles by the end of 1960 or, if they built them on a crash basis, even the end of '59—500 by the end of 1961 or '62. Not only would such an arsenal greatly outnumber the U.S. missile force, it would also be large enough to wipe out America's entire nuclear arsenal in a surprise first-strike.
This estimate reinforced a report that same year, by a top-level Air Force panel, concluding that the USSR's primary strategic objective was to destroy so much of our arsenal that we would not be able to retaliate effectively—with the result that "the Soviets might well consider that they would be in a position to initiate general [nuclear] war with very little risk."
The estimate was based on Air Force Intelligence data, but its numbers—and its underlying assumptions about Soviet aims and motives—were accepted as truth by the entire intelligence community. (The only dissent came from the Strategic Air Command's intelligence wing, which predicted the Soviets would have not 500 ICBMs but 1,000.)
However, by mid-1958, analysts in the CIA's science and technology division began to notice something strange: The Soviets were still testing plenty of short- and medium-range missiles, but they were dramatically slowing down their ICBM testing; they'd tested only six ICBMs, all told, and hadn't tested any for several months. (The United States had a secret radar site in Turkey that looked out across the Black Sea. The Soviets had two missile test-ranges—one for ICBMs, one for shorter-range missiles, both within this radar's view.)
The CIA analysts wondered: How could the Soviets have 100 missiles in the next couple years when they haven't been testing any lately?
As a response to this skepticism, Air Force officers started spreading the word, to the press and among Democratic hawks in Congress, that CIA chief Allen Dulles and, by implication, President Dwight Eisenhower were dangerously underestimating the Soviet threat. From this stemmed the widespread charges of the administration's complacency about a "missile gap."
The Air Force had a vested interest in the missile gap: The best argument, after all, for a large U.S. arsenal of ICBMs—and thus a large Air Force budget—was that the Soviets were building a still bigger arsenal. In the bureaucratic battles that began to break out, Air Force officers started to stretch the evidence in their favor—arguing that the Soviets were in fact performing a lot of ICBM tests and that the CIA was falsely or mistakenly reporting them as tests of shorter-range missiles. Officers in SAC Intelligence prepared slide-show briefings, in which photos taken by spies inside the Soviet Union—of medieval towers, farm silos, and strange-looking objects plunked down in the middle of nowhere—were interpreted as covert missile sites.
Most of these officers weren't lying; they probably believed what they were saying. They certainly believed the underlying premise about Soviet first-strike intentions. They therefore asked the same question that the CIA analysts asked: How could the Soviets accomplish their strategic aim—which would require building hundreds of ICBMs over the next few years—and yet test so little? The Air Force officers' answer was: They can't; therefore, the CIA must be wrong; the Soviets must be testing a lot more.
Even the CIA analysts were baffled by their own observations. They, no less than Air Force officers, had an alarmist view of Soviet intentions. Therefore, nobody pressed for a change in the 1958 National Intelligence Estimate; it read pretty much like the one in 1957. It was still too soon to draw conclusive inferences.
But by 1960, the absence of evidence had persisted long enough, and the CIA—joined by Army and Navy Intelligence (which had their own motives for fighting the Air Force)—mounted systematic opposition to the Air Force view. The matter was settled later that year when the first Discoverer * photo-reconnaissance satellites started sending back images showing quite conclusively that the Soviets had no more than four operational ICBMs.
John F. Kennedy campaigned for president in 1960 on a platform that assailed Eisenhower for allowing a "missile gap." (He didn't know about the Discoverer shots, nor did Eisenhower tell him or any other Democratic critic.) In February 1961, just one month after taking office, Kennedy's secretary of defense, Robert McNamara, was briefed on the new evidence, and gave Kennedy the news that there was no missile gap—or, rather, that there was, but the United States, not the USSR, was way ahead.
On Dec. 5, 1962, shortly after the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy was meeting in the Cabinet Room with some of his top advisers and suddenly started to talk about the old missile gap. "There was created a myth in this country that did great harm," he told them. "It was created by, I would say, emotionally guided but nonetheless patriotic individuals in the Pentagon." Calling himself, in a self-deprecating tone, "one of those who put that myth around—a patriotic and misguided man," he said, "I want some research … dig up the record. … Otherwise, what it looks like is we, some of us, distorted the facts and created a myth of the gap that didn't exist." A lot of people, including Kennedy, "really believed there would be" a gap, he said. Now he wanted to know how that happened. (His secret tape-recording of this meeting was declassified by the JFK Library in February 2002.)
The resulting study was finished in May 1963. Written by a Pentagon aide named Lawrence McQuade and addressed to Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Nitze, the report was titled "But Where Did the Missile Gap Go?" The chronicle of the missile gap that I have laid out here is based largely, though not entirely, on its conclusions. (A partial version of the report, though missing the last few crucial pages, can be found online here. The complete version, which was declassified in 1979, is at the JFK Library. For a fuller history of the missile gap, and of the "bomber gap" that preceded it, see my 1983 book, The Wizards of Armageddon.)
In this past year's Achesonian campaign to make points "clearer than truth"—the much-reported pressure on the CIA to stiffen its stance and drop its caveats on the question of Iraqi WMD—there are similar patterns. In the beginning, as Rumsfeld has correctly noted, there was little disagreement within official circles over whether Saddam possessed at least the ingredients for biological or chemical weapons and had at least the desire to develop nuclear weapons. Paul Wolfowitz said in an oft-quoted Vanity Fair interview that he saw many reasons for going to war with Iraq, and that he settled on WMD for "bureaucratic" reasons because it was the one rationale that everyone could agree on. The point worth emphasizing here is that, at least for a while, everyone (or nearly everyone) agreed on it. The debates mainly concerned the degree to which Saddam had converted his wishes into real weapons—and, to the extent he had, whether he could be deterred from using them or whether he had to be overthrown. However, as doubts grew, both before and especially after the war, Rumsfeld and his team felt compelled—as the Air Force felt compelled when dealing with the CIA's slight dissent during the 1958 National Intelligence Estimate, and as Acheson felt compelled when dealing with anti-hawk sentiment in 1950—to turn up the heat, to make their points "clearer than truth." Rumsfeld even set up his own intelligence outfit, within the office of the secretary of defense, to search for evidence—about WMD and about Saddam's alleged links to al-Qaida—that he just knew existed.
At his Cabinet Room meeting in December 1962, Kennedy said of the officials who created the missile-gap myth, "There are still people of that kind in the Pentagon. I wouldn't give them any foundation for creating another myth." It is extremely doubtful that George W. Bush is currently saying anything like this about his own Pentagon officials—likewise "emotionally guided but nonetheless patriotic individuals"—who, at the very least, exaggerated claims about Iraqi chemical, biological, and nuclear programs. But Congress might consider following Kennedy's example by doing its own study. Call it, "But Where Did the WMD Go?"
[Correction, June 30, 2003: This article initially misstated the name of the spy satellite. It was "Discoverer," not "Discovery."]

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Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Tuesday discussed Russia's actions in the Ukraine, comparing them to those of the Nazis in Germany in the late 1930s. Her remarks came at a private fund-raiser for the Boys & Girls Club of Long Beach, Calif., and were reported by the Long Beach Press Telegram.
Russian President Vladimir Putin last week sent troops to the Ukraine, saying his country had a valid interest in protecting ethnic Russians living in the peninsula of Crimea.
"Now if this sounds familiar, it's what Hitler did back in the 30s," Clinton said, according to the Press Telegram. "All the Germans that were ... the ethnic Germans, the Germans by ancestry who were in places like Czechoslovakia and Romania and other places, Hitler kept saying they're not being treated right. I must go and protect my people and that's what's gotten everybody so nervous."
Clinton reportedly said that when Putin "looks at Ukraine, he sees a place that he believes is by its very nature part of Mother Russia."


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Carlton Cuse Turned Down a TV Show About a 'Hot Dolphin Trainer'
In order to make one about the CIvil War. Ho hum.
Carlton Cuse has written an essay for the New York Times about his post-Lost experience. It begins with an anecdote about Cuse being yelled at on a Swiss mountaintop for not explaining the polar bears, catalogues his withdrawal from the series, and ends with some words about his new, previously announced TV project for ABC, Point of Honor, "which in its simplest form is about the journey of a Confederate family in Virginia through the turmoil of the Civil War." Before deciding to make Point of Honor, Cuse was in talks about a number of other projects — everything from an adaptation of Stephen King's novel Under the Dome to a show about "a guy and a ghost detective team." Alas, one of the shows Cuse decided not to make was "about a hot dolphin trainer and her dolphins who work at an aquarium by day but perform secret missions for the government by night. (I know what you're thinking: No, I don't know how they get the dolphins back to the aquarium every morning by dawn.)" We hope someone figures this particular brain teaser out. [NYT]


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Looking for any information about the DALEY family from KILMARNOCK, please. My grandmother Albertha (nee DALEY/Daly) married "Old T" THOMAS possibly between 1910-1930s. Albertha died July 2006 and "Old T" died 1940s/50s I think.
Have since been told that Albertha had a brother called Clarence, and "Old T" had a brother, Josiah.
Also any info on BURNETT (Mocho/New Market, St Elizabeth), BRAE (Mocho/New Market, St Elizabeth) and THOMAS (Kilmarnock) would be appreciated, thanks.


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Bed wetting due to urination is also medically termed as sleep enuresis or nocturnal enuresis (if it happens at night). This is a condition characterized by involuntary (not by will) urination on bed while an individual is asleep.
It is a fairly common condition in young children and is seen as a sign of an immature, developing bladder. It is estimated that 15% of children over three, and 10% over five wet the bed occasionally. Medically, bed wetting in children is not considered to be a sign of a problem unless the child is older than seven years old, or the child has begun wetting the bed again after six months of maintaining overnight bladder control.
However, when adults wet the bed it is often an indication of an underlying illness, disease, or a symptom of other untreated medical conditions simply because normal adults had a mature genitourinary system capable of controlling urination at night. This also can be embarrassing, lead to development of low self esteem or relationship problems
Here are some of the causes of bed wetting in adults
- Genetics is implicated as its often observed in more than one family member with same parents
- Stress, anxiety, fear, and other psychological issues
- Urinary tract infections (UTIs)
- Small size of the bladder caused by cancer, compression by pregnancy or fibroids, or surgical complication
- Damage of sphincters (which control urinary flow along the urethra) due to accidents, surgery or serious infections
- Diabetes
- Side effects of medications e.g. some used in treatment of high blood pressure, mental problems
- Nerve disorders due to accidents affecting the spinal cord, nutrient deficiencies or old age
- An imbalance of the antidiuretic hormone (ADH), which reduces on the amount of water in urine hence frequency of urination
Alcohol intake or consumption of caffeine containing products like coffee and some beverages can worsen the problem
An adult will need a complete thorough assessment by a doctor to find out the cause of bed wetting hence facilitate its treatment which may be done by use of drugs or surgery in addition to lifestyle modifications
Here are some home remedies and lifestyle modifications which may help:
- Set fluid intake limitations at least 3 hours before sleep
- Reduce or cut out caffeine and alcohol from diet
- Make urinating a routine. Use an alarm clock to wake you up to urinate at least once every night
- Empty the bladder before bedtime even when you don't quite feel like urinating
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If you are looking for some coupons and freebies to to help you save on dinner on the town, date nights, and for when you need a break from cooking, then you're in the right spot!
While we certainly know that eating out is more expensive than eating in, it is nice to treat yourself and your family every now and again to a meal out on the town. Our family eats out 2 or 3 times a month, and we've been able to do so for less than $60 for the month…in part because of all the great coupons, daily deals, and other offers from restaurants in our area.
Check out the latest coupons, deals and offers that will help you spend less on your next "out to dinner" night!
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VICTORIA - Outgoing oil shipments, ongoing construction and continuing development are evidence that projects continue at the Port of Victoria. July was the port's biggest month yet with 1.7 million barrels of oil shipped — about three barges per day.
Construction is underway for both a container dock and liquid cargo dock, while plans are also in the works to locate fleeting, or what is essentially a large parking lot, near the waterway. A proposed update to automate the port's lift bridge has also already gone to bid.
The board has a tentative agreement with a group from Louisiana to create the approximately $3 million lot that would ease the traffic jam currently felt by the growing port, said Navigation district Commissioner Robert Loeb. Lot construction is slated to begin within the next 60 days.
In 2007, a partnership with the City of Victoria allowed the port to purchase about 1,800 acres to ready itself for growth but then sell the land's water rights to the city.
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Purchased a phone after January 26, 2013? If you live in the U.S., unlocking that device without your carrier's permission is technically against the law. However, major U.S. wireless carriers (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular, and Verizon) have now agreed to implement new rules that could make legal phone unlocking more straightforward—sort of.
As part of those rules, carriers will "unlock . . . or provide the necessary information to unlock" devices upon request once a customer's contract ends, if that customer pays off his device, or if he cancels his subscription and pays an early termination fee. Carriers will also let folks unlock pre-paid devices, though only if the unlocking request is made within a year of the device being activated.
In addition, the rules mandate that carriers unlock "eligible devices" within just two business days without charging a fee. And when a device becomes eligible for unlocking, carriers will be required either to "clearly notify" the customer or to unlock the device automatically.
CITA, the nonprofit organization that represents the wireless industry, outlines the rules here. It plans to "recommend that this set of principles be included in the CTIA Consumer Code for Wireless Service." Once that's done, CITA says carriers will "move quickly to implement these principles."


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RDS is a national independent body. We campaign
for better rail services with the aim of allowing passenger and
freight to transfer from road to rail. We have a central office
in London and we lobby on national rail issues supported by specialist
groups in rail policy and promotion. We have a network of about
100 local branches and user groups for passenger and freight.
There is a wealth of local knowledge and practical experience
to inform the points we are making.
We welcome the much improved positive environment
for rail investment, as evidenced by:
However, there are serious concerns about the
present direction which we think ought to receive priority attention
from the Government.
It is very clear to us from our discussions
with Railtrack senior management that funding from private sources
is far short of what is needed to finance the infrastructure upgrading
detailed in their NMS. In other words private finance on its own
will not deliver the track and route capacity needed to bring
about a major modal shift from road to rail as envisaged by the
Government in their 1998 Transport White Paper.
We think that a major injection of new money
from the Treasury is essential to augment additional private finance.
This should start well before the next General Election and be
linked to the Government's 10 year transport plan expected to
be announced in July. As an immediate first step the Treasury
should plough all premiums paid by the profitable TOCs back into
rail investment.
The issue of financing for rail infrastructure
investment schemes needs to be addressed urgently along with protection
of land assets and disused routes. Leaving matters to be resolved
largely by the industry in the private sector is not sufficient
and fail to generate enough investment either in new infrastructure,
electrification or reopenings. Some Government policies as set
out in the Transport White Paper will not happen because they
are not in the commercial interests of the industry.
As part of this the Government should provide
infrastructure support to the railways to enable them to compete
with 44-tonne lorries which the Government has recently allowed
and financed the upgrading of the road network to take them.
The Government should make extra efforts to
facilitate the use of EU money for Britain's railways.
Access charges by Railtrack should be reviewed
for reopened lines and stations. The expected high level of these
charges is inhibiting reopenings that could well have occurred
under British Rail when costs were lower, for example Ivanhoe
lineLeicester to Burton.
The SRA should have a strategic vision for the
whole Rail Network and its potential for expansion. So far they
have tended to be reactive to proposals rather than proactive
in expressing transport requirements. The new Authority has not
yet shown that it is fulfilling expectations in this respect.
We are concerned that promoters of schemes such
as the East Coast passenger upgrades and the Central Railway proposals
for a new freight route seem to be working in isolation to tackle
specific problems or needs they have identified. There is a crying
need to take an overview of new capacity requirements for the
network as a whole.
Railtrack NMS begins to do this for the short
to medium term requirements, but not for the major long-term projects.
The rail industry is looking to the SRA to provide the strategic
vision that UK rail needs, and RDS believes that the SRA should
be the guiding force behind implementing these strategic decisions.
In our view some of the principles that should
guide an investment programme are:
During the last five years Thameslink 2000 has
progressed much too slowly and CrossRail not at all. The orbital
rail network within London needs major refurbishment and proper
integration by links such as the East London Line extension and
the Woolwich river crossing. Other gaps in the network need to
be filled by light rail or conventional rail links.
The Chelsea Hackney line is another valuable
cross-centre rail link which should be very high on the agenda.
London has one crosslink worthy of the name (Thameslink) whereas
Paris now has six which have been created over the last 15 years.
The electrification programme needs to be reactivated.
No electrification has been completed since Heathrow. No new schemes
authorised since privatisation. And, with one or two minor exceptions,
no part of the industry sees electrification as in its commercial
interest yet the case for it remains a strong one for the community
at large. We think the SRA should take the lead in recommending
which parts of the network should be electrified in the short
and long term giving due consideration to network, commercial
and environmental benefits.
Line restoration and service reopenings also
need reactivating. Station reopenings have continued thanks to
local authority sponsorship but have almost halved in number post
British Rail (14 per year down to eight per year). Line reopenings
have slowed down very much. This is because costs have somehow
greatly escalated while it seems much harder to put together agreements
in a commercial environment. Well researched schemes ranging from
Ivanhoe in Leicestershire to Alloa in Scotland have made little
Reopenings involving line restorations (as opposed
to those where the line still exists but is not in use) face even
greater hurdles. We and other groups have called for suitable
procedures for safeguarding potential routes for restoration.
We are not satisfied with the response. Indeed the programme of
"asset-stripping" by selling rail land continues uncomfortably
fast, possibly removing important options for the future.
The current land sell-offs by Rail Property
Limited are occurring before the rail industry as a whole can
plan what is needed for an improved future network. There are
sites that may have transport uses but are not yet identified
as such. There are sites that at present lack a transport bidder.
In either case they may end up with a supermarket or ill-placed
housing development built on top of them.
These land sales are preempting the completion
of processes that will determine rail development. For example,
the passenger refranchising process is in its early stages, the
Government's 10 year plan has not been announced yet; local transport
plans are only just being finalised. We urge the Government to
rethink the land sell-offs to address these issues.
Bids should be ambitious with radical ideas
for rail expansion, realistic and deliverable and able to bring
about modal shift from road. Performance track-record of present
franchises should be considered in connection with any candidate
TOC bidding for the new franchises.
Investment in rail rolling stock has recovered
from the three-year hiatus at privatisation, but there is still
insufficient spare stock available to deal with exceptional demand
or breakdowns. The period between a train operating company ordering
new stock and the stock coming into practical commercial service
has often been more than three years and must be reduced for the
benefit of long-suffering commuters and other passengers.
Lack of extra equipment means less reliable
and more overcrowded services. This makes it more difficult to
persuade new users from their cars.
We have reports from our regions which suggest
Railtrack is falling far short of fulfilling its stewardship role
for the national rail network. We have examples of the company
choosing to ignore simple low cost developments, which could greatly
improve the lot of local communities. Even more disturbing is
the total neglect of some potentially useful assets when these
do not have an immediately profitable purpose.
We quote three examples from the Midlands area
to illustrate what we mean:
negative attitude to operational flexibility and
service development.
The Government and the Nation would like to
see significant heavy and longer distance freight transferred
from road to rail for social and environmental reasons. Some parts
of the network round London and other major centres are already
full to capacity. Network expansion is needed to deal with the
bottlenecks, provide alternative routes on former rail trackbeds,
and more terminals to connect with the road network or directly
into manufacturers sites. We are very concerned indeed that existing
railway land may be sold too hastily without time for realistic
consultation with railfreight users. Again we reiterate the need
for the SRA and local authorities to work closely with the industry
looking carefully at long term strategic needs before land is
disposed of.
The UK rail network is experiencing a most welcome
"renaissance" in terms of increasing passenger miles
and freight tonnage. This renewed patronage must be encouraged
further by investment in the network to facilitate the accessible,
inclusive, reliable service which the British public want and
deserve. We welcome the private capital which has been injected
into the railways since privatisation. This must be complemented
by a much greater level of Government financial support to realise
the goal of major modal shift from road to rail.
We would very much welcome the opportunity to
present further evidence orally at the Palace of Westminster when
the sessions are arranged in due course.
June 2000


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Honeywell security flaw shows danger of controlling facility systems via the InternetFebruary 15, 2013
Computer security experts recently found a flaw in a widely used Honeywell product, allowing them to take unauthorized control of buildings' key systems. The findings underscore that caution is essential for long-term care facilities using an industrial control system (ICS) to operate heating and cooling, elevators, alarms or medical equipment, experts say.
Are computers overtaking the therapy department?October 18, 2012
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Prince William and Kate Middleton'sRoyal Wedding
Expected to draw record breaking TV audiences
A record breaking TV audience is supposed to tune in as Kate and
Prince William tie the knot later this month. An estimated 2 billion people
are expected to tune in as Prince William and Kate Middleton exchange vows
at their greatly-anticipated Prince William and Kate's Royal wedding later this month, a spokesperson for British Prime Minister David Cameron told Reuters.
That's more than a quarter of the world's population turning on their
television sets to watch as the Prince William and Kate say "I do"
during the April 29 ceremony.


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Stream the Black Lips' New Album, Arabia Mountain
All of it!
Grooveshark has the entire Mark Ronson–produced album ahead of its June 7 release. And here are a bunch of photos of the Black Lips gallivanting around on a cruise ship, in case you need visuals. Enjoy.
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Exeter-based Flybe secures £323m finance for 20 new aircraft
The Exeter-based airline Flybe has secured £323m ($500m) of funding to buy 20 new aircraft.
The Brazilian Embraer E175 jets will join and replace some of the existing fleet between now and July 2014.
The finance was secured from the Brazilian Export Development Bank (BNDES) following a deal in 2010 to buy up to 140 new aircraft.
Flybe said it was definitely buying 35 aircraft, with the BNDES contract securing funding for 20 of that order.
Increased profit
The airline said 29 of the aircraft would replace existing planes and six would be "earmarked for growth".
Jim French, Flybe's Chief Executive Officer said: "The BNDES financing secures all our planned aircraft financing requirements through to July 2014 and is an important milestone for Flybe."
The deal with Embraer comprised 35 firm orders for Embraer E175s, with options and purchase rights for a further 105 E-series aircraft.
He said the finance deal followed news that the company's interim results for 2011/12, showed a 74% increase in profits before tax to £14.3m, up from £8.2m last year.
The company, which was formerly Jersey European, currently operates 200 routes across 13 countries.


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Open Thread: Talk About What Matters Most to You
Discuss and debate the issues that mean the most to you.
Rape is a horrific experience to endure, and the pain doesn't stop when it's over; the aftermath of rape can be traumatic, upending your life in both small and large ways. For many rape victims, it's a struggle to even be believed, and that lack of understanding and compassion extends not just to supposed friends and loved ones or strangers passing casual judgment, but to the very people who are supposed to help rape victims.
Police, doctors, nurses, and other members of the system that's designed to address reports of sexual assault may turn on a victim on a dime for failing to meet expectations about who victims are supposed to be, and how victims are supposed to behave.
That was certainly the case for Sara Reedy when she was forced to perform oral sex and then robbed while she was working at a fuel station in Pittsburgh. The gunman threatened her with death if she didn't perform, so she "closed [her] eyes and just tried to get it over with."
Then she did what you're supposed to do after being sexually assaulted: She reported the crime to law enforcement. Initially her interaction went well, she says; the police officer who took her to the hospital was friendly and understanding. Once she got there, though, a detective, doctor, and nurse questioned her story and accused her of lying.
She went from victim to suspect, accused of stealing the money herself and fabricating a sexual assault to cover it up. Reedy was jailed, and although she was able to get out on bail, there was no job waiting for her. The only reason her trial didn't go badly was because her assailant committed a very similar crime shortly before her trial, and when he was caught, he confessed to the earlier crime.
Sara Reedy had been telling the truth, as she'd insisted she was to friends, family and the people around her. As she'd insisted, in fact, to the crisis center that turned her away when she asked for help. In the aftermath of her abuse at the hands of police and the people around her, she experienced post-traumatic stress, had trouble returning to work, and couldn't go back to college. Her life had changed forever as a result of the rape and how it was handled.
In 2009, she brought suit against the police department, and the matter was dismissed. That didn't stop her from doing the same in 2010, and winning, with the help of the Women's Law Project. Reedy didn't just advocate for herself in this matter; she also testified before Congress in hearings that later resulted in a reform to the definition of rape, including men and oral sex.
And this year, she won a $1.5 million settlement to compensate her.
The initial facts of Reedy's case are not that unique. In fact, they are disturbingly common. Many victims of rape are not believed by law enforcement because they don't match expectations, and in fact, Pittsburgh tosses 34% of rape accusations on the grounds that they are "unfounded," perpetuating the myth that women lie about sexual assault.
What makes her case stand out is that she refused to go down without a fight. Rather than accepting what happened to her, she took the ball into the police department's court and made it clear that she wasn't leaving until she saw justice, and she had a very clear vision of what justice was. The judge who ruled in her civil rights case made some important statements, noting that "sexual assault victims have 'no duty' to pursue counseling or to physically resist their assailants."
In debunking myths about rape, the judge sent a clear message to law enforcement and the nation as a whole; I wish all judges were this with it. Rape is complex. The circumstances of rape can be highly variable, chaotic and traumatic. Anyone can potentially be a rape victim, and victims respond in many different ways; there is no wrong or right way to be raped, or to handle a rape. And victims reporting the crime, doing as they've been told to do, shouldn't be abruptly interrogated and turned into suspects.
Reedy's justice was unusual. Many women in her situation fade away into the background, never being vindicated, let alone receiving any kind of compensation for their treatment at the hands of the justice system. I'm proud of her for standing up, for advocating for other women, and for smashing rape myths in the face. It takes a lot of courage to do that, and to persist through multiple years and numerous setbacks.


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Las Vegas CBS KXNT – October is Pedestrian Safety Month, launched locally by a gathering of police officers and elected officials, reminding drivers and pedestrians to watch out for each other.
Mayor Carolyn Goodman spoke about the perils pedestrians have faced while waiting for the bus, challenging RTC to improve bus stop safety. The city has appropriated a million dollars to buy property rights that would move bus stops back from vehicle traffic, Goodman said.
Family members and victims of pedestrian auto crashes spoke about the incidents that took the lives of loved ones.
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In the north, running in the spring is a special kind of challenge. Special as in 'we don't have a choice so we adapt.'
Recreational trails where I live aren't plowed of snow, so footing is nearly impossible. Rutted, packed snow melts a bit and then ices over, creating a slippery dome that invites ankle sprains and spectacular plunges into slushy snowbanks.
So I reluctantly take to the sidewalks in spring, those narrow canyons bordered by a ridge of ice on one side (courtesy of roadway graders) and the front yards of homes and businesses on the other (where a winter's worth of white stuff is mounded and slowly melting).
The running lane, if I can call it that, is a patchy strip of concrete spotted with puddles, ice and lurking potholes.
We northern runners learn the survival skills of instant groundcover analysis – guessing which puddle is shallow enough to not immerse our ankles. Sometimes we get it right.
Our trajectory on these spring runs isn't straightforward. Bobbing sideways we do bad imitations of Muhammad Ali – float like a butterfly, splash like a duck. We revive long-neglected long jump skills when we realize that our normal stride is about to land us approximately in the middle of a looming Lake Superior.
Forget pace. Accept intuition. Live with a little slipping and sliding and splashing. The route is a winding one.
Running, in the north, in the spring, is all about adaptation.
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Minor Final for Fergal
Congratulations to referee, Fergal Kelly, son of Michael and Carmel who has been appointed to officiate at Sunday's All-Ireland Minor Football Final between Kerry and Donegal at Croke Park. We wish the best of luck on the day to Fergal who has been refereeing since 2005 and also to all his umpires.
Church Choir
St. Matthews Church Choir has resumed practice after the summer break. The group have their weekly practice sessions in the church on Wednesday nights at 8.30p.m. New members always welcome.
We wish to extend our deepest sympathy to Sr. Evelyn Moran , Sisters of Mercy, former teacher with Ballymahon National School on the death last week of her brother, Phonsie, at his home in Ballyleague, Lanesboro. We also extend our deepest sympathy to Phonsie's wife, Peggy, sons Sean and Noel, daughter in law, Olivia, Noel's partner Emer, sister Margaret (Kilroy), brother Fr. Pat, grandchildren, and to all his relatives and friends. May he rest in peace.
Art Classes
Art classes will resume on Tuesday night, Sept 23rd from 8p.m. to 10.00p.m. at Betty Fox's, Ballymahon. There will be six classes for beginners and Improvers. Enquiries please to Christine at 087-2816763.
Pilgrimage to Knock
A Legion of Mary annual Pilgrimage to Knock Shrine will take place on Sunday Sept 28th. A bus will leave from Granard Bayhorse at 9.30a.m. From Edgeworthstown Parkhouse at 9.45a.m. From Longford Cathedral car park at 10.15a.m. Killashee Church at 10.45a.m. Lanesboro Church at 10.55a.m. Ballyleague Church at 11.00a.m. and from Roscommon at 11.30a.m. For booking please contact Kitty on 086- 040 5621 or Marie on 086-1900 640.
Community Library
Everyone welcome to join the Library. Adults €2.50, Students and children free. Library opening hours are: Monday – closed. Tuesday – 10a.m. to 1p.m. and 1.30p.m. to 8pm. Wednesday- 10a.m. to 1p.m. and 2p.m. to 5.30p.m. Thursday – 1.00p.m. to 6p.m. Friday – 10a.m. to 1p.m. and 2p.m. to 5p.m. Saturday – 10a.m. to 1p.m. Thank you to all who came to storytelling on Heritage Day.
Thank you
St. Christopher's Services wish to acknowledge and thank the people of Ballymahon for their donation of €880 which was collected at a church gate collection here during the year. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.
Better Estates
Congratulations to everyone in Foxhall Crescent in Legan who were announced the overall winners of the 2014 Better Estates in Co Longford last week. At the 10th annual award ceremony in the Canal Studio in Slashers, Marian Terrace, Ballymahon was awarded 3rd place in the "Estates built before 1997" and in the Estates built after 2005 Category, Sli na Mona, Ballymahon also came in third. The Best Garden gong went to Avril Kiernan, Sli na Mona and the most Improved Estate prize went to Parkside Gardens. Very well done to everyone involved, it was certainly well worth the effort.
Wedding Bells
Congratulations to Patrick Rock, son of Noel and Marian, St. Matthews Park who got married on Sept 5th last to Elaine Hogan, daughter of Brendan and Maura, Empor, Ballynacargy at St. Matthews Church, Empor. The lovely wedding ceremony was celebrated by Fr. John Nally, Ballynacargy assisted by Fr. Padraig McGowan, Ballymahon with the beautiful music provided by Kerrie Penrose, Niamh Penrose and Jacquie O'Meara. Elaine looked stunning on her special day in an ivory coloured Wedding gown assisted by her Bridesmaids, her friend Marie McDonald and Patrick's sister Lisa both of whom looked great in their one-shouldered magenta dresses. Also looking very pretty was the Flower girl Laura Hogan, niece of the Bride. The beautiful flowers at the Church and also the Bridal party's flowers were arranged by Elaine's mother, Maura , well done Maura. The newly-weds Patrick and Elaine, their families and lots of friends celebrated the marriage at a Reception in Glasson Golf and Country Club and danced the night away to the music of "Moon Light". Well done also to Elaine's father, Brendan who made the 3-tier Cake for the Wedding. Among the many guests who attended were Patrick's aunt Mary and her husband Sean and their family who travelled over from England for the event. We hope you all enjoyed the day. Patrick and Elaine wish to thank everybody who joined them on their very special day and for all the lovely presents, also to John Martin, their Driver for the day, to Andrea Duncan who did the photography and Michael Carey on Video. We wish the happy couple, who are presently on Honeymoon touring America, many long years of good health, wealth and happiness.
Innyside singers
The Innyside singers will resume after their summer break at 8p.m. on Thursday, 25th September at the usual venue, Skellys, Main Street. Newcomers always welcome, male and female. If you would like to sing as part of a group, please come along on Thursday nights.
Welcome home
To Troy Millar, Cartronboy who recently returned from his trip to Australia. We hope you enjoyed the experience Troy. Best of luck to you for the future.
Memorial Mass
A month's mind Mass for the late Taoiseach, Albert Reynolds will take place in St. Mel's Cathedral Centre, Longford at 12 noon on Saturday next, 20th September.
G.A.A. Lotto
Numbers drawn 3, 6, 12, 17. The €30 winners were Gary Molloy, Cloncallow, Valerie Casey, Lisaniskey, Marian Diffley, Creevaghbeg and Michael Greally, Drynan. The club's fundraising night at the Dogs in Mullingar Greyhound Track will take place on October 25th. Tickets cost €20 with a chance to win the €1500 euro Jackpot.
Death of Brendan Flynn
We wish to extend our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Brendan Flynn, Clooneen, Bornacoola, Co. Longford whose brother Liam was a former Rent collector here in Ballymahon. Brendan's death occurred on Sept 11th at the Autumn Lodge Care Centre in Longford. Our condolences to Brendan's brothers J.J. (Mullingar), Gene,(Sligo), Seamus (Lanesboro) and Liam (Newtownforbes, sisters Jeanette Ford, (Mullingar ) and Maura Sheridan, (Granard) brother-in-law, sisters-in-law and to all his relatives and friends. May he rest in peace.
Welcome home
To David McKnight, son of Breda and the late Niall, Main Street who is over from Australia visiting his family and friends in Ireland. We hope you enjoy your holiday David.
Off to the Army
Congratulations to Lee Masters, son of Matthew and Valerie, St. Matthews Park, who recently joined the Irish Army. We wish Lee the best of luck and hopes he enjoys life in his new job.
Home from hospital
Welcome home to Eddie Noonan, Rathmore who is home from hospital recovering from his hip replacement. We wish Eddie a speedy recovery.
Childminders grant
The Parent and Toddler Group Initiative is a nationally available fund from POBAL/Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA). Parent and Toddler groups (P&T's) are organised on a not for profit basis and encourage parent participation in childhood development and support, a kind of peer support. Grants will range from €100 to €800 for existing P&T's, with up to €1000 for new start-ups. Funding is available for Equipment, Training, Materials for Activities, and Minor Refurbishments. The new Child-minder Grant criteria apply if you are minding or intend to mind 2 children, minimum 1 Full Time and 1 Part Time. You must voluntarily notify with HSE and you must not have received a grant previously. You must give undertaking to attend training and network with other minders. You must provide a service for 2 years after receiving the funding. It is recommended that only 1/3 of funding is spent on consumables like paint, sand, and materials for crafts. Further Information and application forms from email@example.com the LCC office, or 087 7873054.


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Nick Johnson scored 25 points and No. 3 Arizona beat Oregon State 74-69 on Wednesday night in a back-and-forth game that wasn't decided until the final minutes.
Kaleb Tarczewski added 12 points and nine rebounds for the Wildcats (28-2, 15-2 Pac-12), who had already clinched the regular season conference title.
Roberto Nelson scored 25 points and Devon Collier had 14 points and 11 rebounds for the Beavers (15-14, 7-10).
Arizona built several leads during the game but couldn't pull far away from a feisty Oregon State team.
Arizona opened the game on a 7-0 run before Oregon State responded and took a 10-9 lead on a steal and layup by Hallice Cooke at the 14:13 mark.
The Wildcats gradually crept away, and an alley-oop pass from T.J. McConnell to Johnson for a dunk that put the Wildcats up 31-22 with 3:53 left in the half, their largest lead of the game. Arizona led 36-33 at halftime.


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Corporations have been given the short end of the stick. In many cases, they hold the weight of the stability of the economy while being demonized in the media and culturally scrutinized. This is of course not without good reason, but many large corporations are trying to battle back with a new idea of "shared value." The idea that a company can set itself with an ethos that both betters itself and increases profit while keeping the society and sustainability in mind and in some cases even increasing the two with a common synergy.
David Boyle's comment, April 24, 2013 7:42 PM
Vine, the video format of Twitter, provides 4-6 second quick frames similar to GIF's and early adapters are trying to use it to tap into a social market
David Boyle's comment, April 24, 2013 7:40 PM
Kickstarter is an example of crowdfunding showing how social media is leveling the playing field and letting consumers aware of the power that they always have: money. Crowdfunding makes voting with your wallet more apparent and transforms "consumers" into "backers."
David Boyle's comment, April 24, 2013 7:41 PM
In order to remain relevant, brands need to do more than just sell a functional product. They need to enter into the ethos and become "culturally relevant" with the people that they engage with. They are selling a lifestyle: think Red Bull, Monster, Stella Artois, Budweiser, etc


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Fortcha Raja is a Famous Ganesh Murti from South Mumbai
- "Fort Cha Raja" is a famous Ganesh Murti (Idol) from South Mumbai.
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- In addition to having a great Ganesh Idol, "Fort Cha Raja" also has a very nice Ganesh Pandal.
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text: Lately I get a lot of questions regarding how I handle my authority sites, so in order to not explain the method to each of you separately via Skype, I decided to write a short FAQ on how I do it and how I earn money from them. First of all nobody was born smart, so I guess that some of you don't know what an authority site is. It's a site with more then 100 articles, targeting more then 100 keywords and a site which offers more value then regular Micro Niche sites with which everybody starts with. Although the initial investment is bigger then building MNS sites, its a long term solution for getting passive income and I got rid of almost all of my MNS sites and focused on authority sites. KEYWORD RESEARCH You need to make a proper research where you can get keywords which you then can monetize via three or more different income models. I usually monetize them via these methods (more regarding how to monetize them properly a few rows down): - contextual ads via infolinks - banner ads via adsense - content locking - my own e-book for sale This means that you can not target keywords like "BMW X5", or any other similar keyword which can't ask of the user to make some action. But more keywords like: [chicken recipe] [chicken salad recipe] [fried chicken recipe] [chicken noodle soup recipe] [chicken soup recipe] [chicken curry recipe] [butter chicken recipe] [chicken enchilada recipe] With keywords like the ones above you can offer the user a chicken recipe, which is evergreen content, you can monetize the content via contextual ads and adsense, you can offer your own e-book which explains the best chicken recipes out there, and you can also give free books for download in a download section and content lock the download button with a mail submit. So, as you can see, in the above example we have several sources of income for one site. Now, let's say that we gathered 100 keywords which cover the above topic of recipes, now we are going to the other step GETTING CONTENT Get 100 articles which target all of your keywords. The content should have at least 400 words, it has to be unique and informative. I usually tell my writers to write some fun facts about chickens, recipes, cooking or any other similar stuff to fill the word count, but to keep the content interesting. PUBLISHING THE CONTENT AND RANKING IT Now this is the interesting part. This is my way of doing it and it worked in the last 6 months, so I don't see a problem why it would not work in the next 6 months also. So let's say that you have 80 articles, the first thing which I do is buy a domain and publish 20 articles on it, where each post has one picture, one youtube video and one internal link. I then let it breath for at least one month without any backlinking to it. After that I have a pattern which I follow: STEP 1: backlinking the first batch of 20 articles - I bookmark the published articles via this service - I then drip feed google +1 to all the 20 articles, a random number to each article, if you can't do it manually I recommend this service - I wait for the services to finish, around 1 week. - Then I add high PR comments in a random number to each article, usually from 5 to 20, if you can't do it manually I recommend this service - After that I build 40 web 2.0 blog posts with unique articles on them, targeting either my homepage (raw URL) or the sub-pages (main keyword) . If you can't do it manually, I can provide you with that service here - I then bookmark the web 2.0 blog posts again with the above mentioned bookmarking service and build high PR comments to them also. I also submit them via a spintax article to a blog network. - After that I have around 61 URL's (1 homepage, 20 subpages and 40 web 2.0 blog posts), I scrapebox each URL under anchor texts like "Mario, Karmen, Maria, Read more, More info" or any other similar anchor which is not targeting my keywords. The list which I use is an Auto Approve list with OBL below 200. - I then collect all the links and submit them to linkilicious and wait for another two weeks. It is crucial to build proper backlinks to the first 20 articles which you have on the site STEP 2: backlinking the second batch of 20 articles 30 days later, almost all of my keywords are in top 5, if you found good keywords, some may also be on #1. I then publish the other batch of 20 articles, which again target 20 different (but similar) keywords. And again start my backlinking, but a little bit different then the first part: - each of the articles is again published to facebook or twitter - each of the articles again get some Google +1 likes - each of the articles get's high PR comments, but the double amount of the first batch And that's it, I again leave it breath for another one to two weeks. The fact is that we have build proper backlinks to the first batch of articles, and the second batch will automatically gain authority on google and they will be crawled in seconds and ranked properly, without any additional backlinking. STEP 3: backlinking the third batch of 20 articles Here I repeat the Step 1 STEP 4: Backlinking the fourth batch of 20 articles Here I repeat the Step 2 STEP 5: Building high PR to your domain After the whole thing I start building HIGH PR comments to the domain, my RAW url. In this case I also love to include .edu backlinks, like Big Budies pyramid As you can see, each batch will look different to Google because it has random numbers of backlinks, it's diverse and it has multiple sources of backlinks. I usually get 70% of the keywords to the top 5 and I'm more then happy with the number of visitors. I repeat, this is just my way of ranking sites, you can use other methods if you don't like my way of doing it. MONETIZING THE AUTHORITY SITE CONTENT LOCKING - on your right/left side you should have a link to the download section (which is just a separate page with 5 links and descriptions). In the download section I have 5 free e-books about cooking which a user can download after filling out a CPA offer via MeatHeads content locker ADSENSE - each page has two adsense blocks. I usually take one block and one leaderboard banner. CONTEXTUAL ADS - I integrate the infolinks script which offers a few dollars here and now PROMOTING YOUR OWN E-BOOK - you can either promote some clickbank products, or you can give your writers to write you a proper e-book, which in this example would have chicken recipes. Like, top 50 chicken recipes with nice pictures, graphics and good content. I usually sell them for $9.99, put it on a separate page on the site and mention the page IN EACH POST. And that's it, I let it earn and each month I add another, smaller, batch of articles to the site. To sum it all up: - build authority sites which offer evergreen content - put quality content on them, don't put bullshit, you will get natural links if the content is good - each article should have a picture and a YouTube video - diversify your linkbuilding - have several ways of monetizing the site - keep updating it with articles and backlinks If there are any questions feel free to post here or PM me.


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Coastal upwelling in a warming future
Mote, P.W., and N.J. Mantua. 2002. Coastal upwelling in a warming future. Geophysical Research Letters 29(23), 2138 doi: 10.1029/2002GL016086.
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Coastal upwelling helps set the physical context for marine ecosystems, and upwelling zones are among the most productive regions of the global ocean. Unlike earlier models, two state-of-the-art climate models exhibit little change during the next century in the magnitude and seasonality of coastal upwelling, but climate models are still probably not sufficiently developed (for example, they underestimate interdecadal variability in upwelling) to provide valid projections of this key component of the coastal environment.
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Workopolis.com offers a basic search tool that checks for the location of the company posting the job and either the job title or a keyword within the posting, and it includes the logo of the employer and posting date in each listing. Filtering options allow you to choose cities near Sudbury and focus on different industries, career levels or job types.
Indeed.com allows you to set the search radius from your initial location and choose from a list of different job titles to see matching results. It also features a direct application process on some listings and the option to sign up for email alerts about new job postings that match your criteria.
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Special Interest Groups
Special Interests Groups provide the opportunity for people to gather together who have specific interests, life stages (situations) in common. Our groups fellowship, study, and pray as well as go on outings together.
Cuddle Quilters and Knit 2gether
Wednesdays at 9am in the Choir Room
This group began in order to make quilts for the Royal Family Kids Camp graduates (those who age out at 11 years). In addition to continue this service, we also gather for fellowship and fun. Several work on their own projects as well. Quilters, Knitters, and those that Crochet are all welcome to join us. For more information, please contact Rosalyn Douglass or Mary Fugate.
GriefShare is a special 13 week seminar/support group for people who are grieving the death of someone close to them. Each session includes a video seminar and group discussion. A workbook assists you with note-taking, journaling and grief study. The videos feature top experts on grief recovery, dramatic reenactments about living with grief and real-life stories of people who have experienced losses like yours.
You are welcome to begin attending the GriefShare group at any session. Each is "self-contained", so you don't have to attend in sequence. You will find encouragement and help whenever you begin. Please contact Rosalyn Douglass for more information.
Newly Weds
Providing a warm friendly context at individuals homes for young married couples to fellowship with Christ and one another. Contact the church office.
College Group
Men and women in college gathering to study Gods word, fellowship and go on outings together. Contact Pastor Tom Greenwald.
Men's Groups
Men of all ages gather to be challenged and encouraged by one another and by God's word. Activities that are gender specific are also enjoyed. Click here for more information.
Women's Groups
Women of all ages gather to be challenged and encouraged by one another and by God's word. Activities that are gender specific are also enjoyed. Click here for more information.
Senior Adults 55+ (Ambassadors)
Senior's ministry that includes outings and fellowship events. Contact Jerry Walter
Prayer Ministry (Wednesday Nights)
This vital ministry supports the church through prayer and is led by our Lay Pastor, Bob Watson. Click here for more information.


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The following table summarizes estimated expenses for Central Maine Community College students during the 2017-2018 academic year. Charges for the 2018-2019 academic year are subject to change.
Meals: Students are allocated $22 per day Monday through Sunday. Meals include a $100 overage that can only be credited back prior to the start of the semester.
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I do this other thing with art and writing and design where I tell myself I'm not talented and I'm a failure. I go through my work and I hate on in and I look at other, more experienced artist/designers/writers' works and compare my work to theirs and tell myself I'll never be as good as those people. That, I might as well give up.
Right now, I'm doing a combination of both of these things and it's making me miserable. I'm internally freaking out and berating myself. The true is, though, I'm mostly doing the best I can at work. I'm trying, I'm learning and I'm learning to ask for help and say "I don't know." And, of course I'm not as good as my coworker who has been a designer for 15 years, of course!
Also, if I'm going to compare myself to other designers, illustrators and amazing hand-letterers, I need to practice those things outside of work (which I plan to do soon, I just finished up my last knitted Christmas present).
All I have is this moment. I can't berate and punish myself for not working as hard as I could have at school (not true, I was killing myself with not sleeping) or not working every second of 8 hours at work (sometimes I need a few minutes to look at Facebook or go to the bathroom or take a lunch break). I have to stay in the moment, which is with Chico, in the bed (sick day, probably because I'm running myself down telling myself how much I suck). I try and I'm passionate and I don't suck.
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As we head into November, we are left feeling like the prettiest girls (and boy) at the ball; our dance cards are completely full. Coming off back-to-back team 5k runs, two weekends of music festivals, several client grand openings and then Halloween, we barely have time to take a breath before diving into the madness that is "season".
We began our October by running in the Y Be Fit Palm Desert Challenge 5k, where Chelsea and Stephanie started their day off with a run and ended it with congratulatory Bloody Marys! Next up was Rock the Ribbon, a ROCKIN' fun event at an exciting new venue, Big Rock Pub located in the Indian Springs Golf Club. This event was the kick-off for Paint El Paseo Pink, which was that weekend. Speaking of Paint El Paseo Pink, this is one of our very favorite charitable events! The sea of pink all throughout our favorite street serves as encouragement as you walk (or run) the 5k that goes to supporting Desert Cancer Foundation and their amazing cause.
Then came Desert Trip, which can be summed up with this quote, "If you remember Desert Trip, you weren't really at Desert Trip." And that's really all we have to say about that! We all had the one-of-a-kind vintage shirts from BG's El Paseo and still are arguing over which one was the best… Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, or the one with the Rolling Stones logo. We'll update once the decisions are final.
Over the past month, we've been launching new websites left and right. Check them out!
Needless to say, we've been keeping our tech guru, Chelsea, busy!
This evening, we have a grand opening celebration for one of our favorite clients, Barton CPA. Another grand (re)opening follows in November, with another one of our favorite clients, CODA Gallery. (Fine, they're all our favorites!)
After this week, we can finally catch our breaths. Just kidding! Just after Halloween, we have a weekend of events we've been anticipating all summer long – Palm Desert First Weekend (see above for link!) We love this event every year, but this particular one has us bursting with excitement. The weekend of November 4 kicks off the season of First Weekend events, starting on our favorite street, with El Paseo Cruise Night and Art Walk El Paseo. Then we head just a tad further west for Street at the Westfield Mall. This exciting, edgy event combines art with food, music, fashion, and fun. Get a feel for what goes on there on their website: www.palmdesertstreetscene.com. There are many, many other events to suit anyone's fancy. I could list off the fun ones, but I'd just be naming all of them, so here they are: www.pdfirstweekend.com
Then on Saturday night, November 5, we're getting our cowgirl on with Family YMCA of the Desert's annual Hoedown at Sundown at Agua Caliente Casino & Resort. We're shining up those boots and dusting off those hats and heading on over for the best auction items and BBQ dinner in town! Plus we hear there's line dancing and a hosted bar, so we're pretty excited about that too.
Whew…so that's our fall so far, in a nutshell. Stop in and say hello to us – some of us may be too busy to say hello back, but sweet Cindy always has a bowl full of Halloween candy you can dip into.
Happy "Season" to all – don't forget to turn your clocks back an hour on the 30th!