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Now that I have finished wiping away my tears, I can write about Mockingbird. Kathryn Erskine's Mockingbird is this year's National Book Award winner for Young People's Literature, and even though I've only read one other finalist book so far, I can't imagine a more deserving winner than this.
Mockingbird is about a girl named Caitlin whose brother Devon calls her Scout because he loves the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird. (As one does.) Atticus tells his children, of course, what his father told him, that it's a sin to kill a mockingbird, and his daughter Scout comes to understand that mockingbirds "don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
Readers see early on that Caitlin isn't quite like other children, and it's not just because something has happened to her brother. Her brain doesn't work quite the same way that other people's do, and this book is the story of how Caitlin tries to learn how to live in the world and of how the world learns to let her.
Caitlin's brother Devon is gone. Before he dies, he explains this to her about To Kill a Mockingbird: "It's about people. You shouldn't hurt innocent people, Scout. That's what it means." He explains a lot of things to her, and now that he's not around, she is a bit more lost than usual.
There are many lessons that Caitlin's dad and her teachers try to impart to her. How to Look At The Person. How not to have a Tantrum Rage Meltdown. How to understand the emotions on the Facial Expressions Chart, to respect Personal Space, to Get It, to Deal With It, to Talk About It, to Work At It. To understand The Day Our Life Fell Apart.
Caitlin is an artist who prefers black and white to color. She gets along better with books than with people. "Books are not like people. Books are safe." She counts her dictionary, her TV, and her computer among her friends, but no one else. Her counselor, in the effort to help her make friends, sends her on an extra recess, the one with the younger kids, and she meets Michael, with whom it turns out she has something in common.
As part of Let's Make Friends, her counselor also teaches her about making eye contact with people, and how it's all about "finesse," explaining that it means "doing something tactfully and skillfully while dealing with a difficult situation." Caitlin thinks, "I'm surprised I'm only learning this word now. This word is all about me! It's what I'm trying to do every day to Deal With this difficult situation called life."
This is the little dedication line at the beginning of this book:
In hopes that we may all
understand each other better
There are many things that Caitlin doesn't innately understand. Empathy. Emotions. Figures of speech. Metaphor. But there are things she sees that maybe other people can't sometimes. Like when she looks at someone's face and can tell that his eyes and his mouth don't match. And when she knows to tell her dad what Devon would have told him: "You have to Work At It Dad. You have to try even if it's hard and you think you can never do it and you just want to scream and hide and shake your hands over and over and over."
One of the main things Caitlin tries to understand is Closure, which she looks up in her dictionary, of course: "the state of experiencing an emotional conclusion to a difficult life event." And she sets about looking for her own way to Closure. She and Michael talk about it on the playground.
"What's Closure anyway?"
"It helps you feel better after someone dies."
"Oh. Can I have some?"
"No because I don't have any and I don't know how to get it."
His head droops down. I think this means sad.
"But I'm going to find it."
"Will you share it with me?"
It might be a sin to kill a mockingbird and to kill a brother, but that doesn't mean that mockingbirds and brothers aren't killed. And of the many things Caitlin struggles to understand, that might be the hardest of all. But somehow people learn to stand what they'll never understand. Caitlin learns this, and she does it with humor and tears, wonderfully, heartbreakingly, and magnificently.
It doesn't come as a surprise to the reader when Caitlin figures out a way to try and get Closure, but it's still totally moving and cool when she does, and it's handled in a way that is totally real. You can work towards Closure. You will still be sad. That is just death, and that is just life.
And Caitlin starts to realize that "after the hurt I think maybe something good and strong and beautiful will come out of it." And maybe most importantly, she takes steps toward accepting that sometimes it's okay to draw and live in color.
This little book that I love knows that for Caitlin and her dad and their community -- and for each of us, no matter what that day is — nothing can change The Day Our Life Fell Apart. It also knows that, beautifully and mercifully and little by little, they -- and we all -- can work on Putting Our Life Back Together.
I love this book for reminding us of that.


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Severely injured dog found in bag in Va. Beach
Severely injured dog found in bag in Va. Beach
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. —
Virginia Beach officials are looking for the owner of a severely injured dog found behind a city recycling center wrapped in a burlap sack.
Michael Dimino found the elderly female Boston terrier next to the Virginia Beach Municipal Center on Thursday morning.
He was dropping off cardboard when he heard a sound and then found the dog injured, but still breathing.
WAVY-TV reports that Dimino put the dog in a tote and rushed it to the vet. The dog had suffered a severe head injury and veterinarians had no choice but to put the dog to sleep.
Veterinarians say the least 10-year-old dog was suffering from a bad flea infestation and had one of its eyes was surgically removed at some point in the past.


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Three more days….Two more days….One more day….
Thanksgiving break is almost here!! My favorite meal of the year is only a few more sleeps away, and I can barely sleep thinking about it! This is our first technical break all semester and I'm sure I'm not the only one who couldn't be more ready and excited. Many other colleges have some sort of Fall Break but not FIT. I'm assuming it's because we recognize many of the Jewish holidays in September? Think about it FIT, I take the liberty of speaking for the students when I say we would definitely not be opposed to some long weekend maybe in mid-October?? Like I said, Think about it 😉
With Thanksgiving falling so late in the month this year, it's very very close to finals week. I technically only have a week and a half left of this semester after Thanksgiving! Where the heck did time go?! I can't begin to explain how fast this semester flew by. I feel like just yesterday I was complaining about how hot it was outside, now its below freezing and windy and can't seem to stay warm! I'd like to think I'm not the only one when I say how stressed I've been this past week with finals prep. My term papers are piling up – well, not literally since I've only actually completed one… My final exams are looming over my head. Lately I've been feeling like there aren't enough hours in the day to accomplish all I need to get done!
However, there is an extremely bright light at the end of this weeks tunnel. THANKSGIVING! Thanksgiving technically marks the beginning of my absolute favorite time of the year – Christmas! I am so looking forward to escaping the city for a few days, retreating to my childhood home in Saratoga, New York and spending Turkey Day with my wonderful family and friends. I also plan on proudly gaining about 50 pounds within that day…only kidding hehe.
I am extremely thankful to go to school so close to my home, allowing me to be with my family on Thanksgiving. I know so many students at FIT are from across the nation or even across the world and are not able to have the proper meal and spend the day with their families. If I could bring you all to my house I would – but my house is only so big!
If you're lucky enough to be with your loved ones this Thanksgiving, I urge you to take the time to tell yourself how blessed you are and to tell your family and friends how much you love them. Despite being very stressed and busy the past few days, I've been reminding myself of the upcoming holiday. I know I have SO much to be thankful for, oddly enough including the stress I've been feeling. Because if I wasn't here at FIT then I wouldn't be in New York, taking these classes, completing these papers, which are making me stressed. Sounds like far fetched idea but it's true. I am thankful for FIT final papers and all. 🙂
Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving everyone!
xx, Brendan


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Farmington man arrested after hitting stepdaughter with his van
February 15. 2014 8:36PM
FARMINGTON — A Farmington man was arrested after he allegedly struck his 16-year-old stepdaughter with his vehicle during a domestic dispute at their home Saturday afternoon, police said.
Edmond Seale, 34, of 136 Golden Circle Drive, was charged with felony reckless conduct and simple assault, a misdemeanor, after the incident, according to police.
Sgt. Brian Driscoll said the two were arguing and the 16-year-old was trying to stop Seale from leaving in a van. "In the process of the van leaving, the pedestrian's legs had gotten pinned underneath the vehicle," he said.
The teenager was taken to Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester for treatment of what Driscoll said appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries.
Seale was released on bail with a court hearing set for March 4.


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Frenchie is an avid crafter. She wants to join UK Crafts Forum but I won't
let her yet. She keeps sneaking on when my back is turned.
Meet Frenchie! She has been my hangover cure for the afternoon. Kiddie has been at her friend's house all day. OH has been diving all day. I've been home alone all day. I should've been sorting out the bedrooms now that one of the wardrobes has arrived and been built, but I thought - "Huh! They're both off doing what they want to. Why shouldn't I?" I was sadly lacking in energy and enthusiasm to do anything too physical (nothing new there then!), whereas sitting on my backside stitching held much greater appeal! And Frenchie is the result. My first dolly designed and made all by myself. She needs a fair bit of tweaking still, but I thought I should introduce her and see what everyone thinks. The hair was obviously pink in honour of my new 'do'. And the name? That's for kiddie, after her fave character in her fave film and who also had pink hair for a time. Needless to say my kiddie has now nabbed said Frenchie and sleeping with her in bed. Good job I made a pattern. Will make some more in the coming days, making refinements as I go.
Hmm yes. I didn't really make much of a song and dance about this when I announced it the other day. Thought I would mention it again. To celebrate getting permission to use the Silly Girls doll pattern I decided to do my first giveaway. If you would like to win 'something' (I'm not sure what yet but it will be something I've made) for free then please leave a comment on my blog. I will put the names in a hat and on 19th April draw out a lucky winner. That's not long - only next Saturday - so get your comments in.
Right. That's more than enough from me for one day. Onto real life. I have to reach the summit of Mount Ironing if anyone wants any clothes to wear tomorrow. Flippin' 'eck - it's Monday again already!!!


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As the row of his pudgy orange-backed volumes lengthens on the shelf, it becomes evident that Sinclair Lewis is the bad boy of American letters whose thoughts are on bent-pins while the deacon is laboring in prayer. His irrepressible satire belongs to a new and irritatingly effective school. He has studied the technique of the realists, and under the beguiling pretense of telling the truth objectively and dispassionately, he insists on revealing to us un-accommodated man as a poor, bare, forked animal, who like Jurgen persists in thinking himself a monstrous clever fellow. He is maliciously severe on all respectable dignities. In his hands the noble homo sapiens of common repute is translated into an ignoble homo libidinus et ventosissimus-an unattractive animal that runs in herds, serves its belly, and has a taking way with the dams. The free-born American citizen, master of the earth and its destiny, is little flattered by the portrait he draws, and Mr. Lewis finds himself, in consequence, persona non grata in any convention of Elks or Rotarians.
The method he has chosen to adopt is a clever advance over the technique of the eighteenth century, when pricking balloons was the business of every wit. Those older satirists-nagging souls like Pope and bold bad fellows like Churchill-were mainly concerned to annoy their victims with pin-pricks. They were too completely the gentleman to grow chummy with base fellows whom they frankly despised; and--in consequence they never discovered half the possibilities of the gentle art of satire. Sinclair Lewis is wiser than they were. He has learned that before one can effectively impale one's victim, one must know all his weaknesses and take him off his guard. So he ingratiatingly makes up to George F. Babbitt of Zenith, drinks chummily with him, swaps greasy jokes, learns all the hidden vanities and secret obscenities that slip out in the confidences of the cups, beguiles him into painting his own portrait in the manly midnight hours; and when the last garment that covers his nakedness is stripped off, the flashlight explodes and the camera has caught the victim in every feature of his mean and vacuous reality.
No doubt it is an ungentlemanly thing to do-a calculating betrayal of trusting human nature done in the sacred name of art; and. it is certain that the unhappy victim will hate the artist when he sees the developed print next morning. Yet the picture is extraordinarily lifelike. All the unlovely details of fat stomach and flabby muscles are sharply revealed. It is too late to put on one's clothes, and homo sapiens in the person of George F. Babbitt is revealed as a shambling, two-legged animal, for the world to laugh at. The method is immensely clever; it is the last word in the technique of despoiling one's victim of adventitious dignity, without which life becomes a mean, bleak affair; but it is scarcely charitable. To think well of oneself and to wish to impose that good opinion upon others, are common human weaknesses that every tailor blesses. Without clothes man is only a caricature of the godlike, and the artist who betrays our nakedness to our enemies is very far from a gentleman. The confidences of the cups must be held sacred, for if we cannot drink without fear of our babbling being reported, what becomes of goodfellowship?
But the charge of betraying goodfellowship leaves Sinclair Lewis unconcerned. His satire knows no compunctions. An irreverent soul, he dares the wrath not only of George F. Babbitt, but of the innumerable clubs to which Babbitt belongs. A buoyant scoffer, he does not permit even the organized wrath of the Chamber of Commerce to disturb his equanimity. He provokes respectable people on principle, and he has laid a devilish plan to work systematically through our sacred American decalogue, smashing one commandment after another. Already behind him is strewn a sorry wreckage of established creeds and authoritative slogans-a wreck-age that delights the wicked and gives aid and comfort to all evil-wishers in our comfortable and excellent society. Not even a banker is sacred to him. Rotarians and Kiwanians, Billy Sundays and Billy Bryans, voluble Congressmen and silent Presidents, even our venerable Constitution itself, he scoffs at and makes merry over. And to add insult to injury, he prospers in his sins. His calculating wickedness returns him a fattening bank account. His impudent satires sell like bargain-counter silk stockings. We pay handsomely to see ourselves most unhandsomely depicted. If we would only take a lesson from the strategy of the heathen Chinese, men who would not recognize faith or chivalry or imagination if they met them on the golf course, and who understand democracy as little as they understand Christianity. In this land of material abundance the good life is reduced to being measured in commissions and percentages; civilization comes to flower in the broker; the mahogany desk is the altar at which we sacrifice in a land of triumphant materialism. "God help the country," said Fenimore Cooper, years ago when the herd was small, "that has only commercial towns for its capitals." "Such a country is past helping," retorts Sinclair Lewis. "God cannot help it, or the Devil. In the name of George F. Babbitt and Dr. Almus Pickerbaugh and the Reverend Elmer Gantry, what can be expected of such a country? A people that worships the great god Bunk shall have its reward!"
To prove his amiable thesis Mr. Lewis has been at enormous pains to gather his materials at their sources. He has taken upon himself to become a specialist in depicting the genus Americanus. He has loafed along Main Street, played poker in back rooms with wicked young men, drunk in respectable clubs, and exchanged hearty back-slappings with the sons of Rotary. He has devoted days to the smoking-compartments of Pullmans, garnering the ripest wisdom and choicest stories of traveling salesmen. He has listened to philosophic brokers discourse on ethics, studied political and constitutional theory with realtors, learned all about Bolshevism from presidents of Chambers of Commerce, been instructed in the elements of economics by Republican Congressmen, discovered the fallacies in Darwinian evolution from clerical fundamentalists and the superiority of Fascism over democracy from the greatest captains of industry. No field of American experience has escaped his minute investigation, no authority has eluded his catechizing. In the course of his studies he has come to master the lusty American language in its subtlest shades and manliest nuances, from the comic supplement to Dunn and Bradstreet, and he talks easily with Main Street in its own vernacular. His rich and copious vocabulary fills a commonplace scholar with envy, and his ebullient slang, his easy slovenliness of enunciation, inflict on the simple-minded user of the King's English a hopeless inferiority complex.
Thus amply equipped with all the resources of scholarship, he has written four learned treatises in exemplification of the thesis that the genus Americanus is cousin-german to the scoffing Mr. Mencken's latelyy discovered boobus Americanus. The introductory study, Main Street, provided a comprehensive background and setting for the full-length portraits he was to draw later. Gopher Prairie, situated in the heart of agricultural America-in Meredith Nicholson's Valley of Democracy where the old-fashioned, kindly, neighborly, wholesome, democratic virtues are presumed to thrive in a congenial habitat-becomes in his unsympathetic analysis a place that William Allen White would not recognize as his home town. Here, he tells us, is respectability made sluggish and sterile. Here is "slavery self-sought and self-defended." Here is "dullness made God." Here, diluted and spread over a vast territory, the spirit of Babbitt has erupted in cheap and pretentious county-seats, parasites on the producing hinterland over whose politics and credit and morals Main Street tradesmen have set up a strict custodian-ship-futile and complacent and drab, mere echoes of the greater cities that lie on the horizon and to which the sons of Main Street turn for light and guidance.
It is these greater cities that constitute the true capitals of our red-blooded Americans who proclaim themselves "the greatest race in the world"-fruitful centers from which radiates the pphilosophy of pep, punch, and progress for the upbuilding anenlightenment ofof the world. Of these centers the hustling and mighty Zenith is the wonder and admiration of all right-minded citizens; it is the brightest and bloomiest sunflower of the great American garden. And in Zenith dwells George F. Babbitt, realtor, Sinclair Lewis's full-length portrait of a hero sprung from the loins of America, the completest embodiment of the triumphant American genius that is conquering the earth. Babbitt as an upstanding he-member of the great herd is a marvel, the apotheosis of the regnant middle class, the finished product of our snappy civilization. Other lands, no doubt, have produced men accounted great. Plato and Saul of Tarsus, St. Francis and Leonardo, Pascal and Galileo and Hegel, were no doubt esteemed in their own times and by their own cities; but Zenith does not go in for out-of-date merchandise; it is up-to-the-minute and it specialized in George F. Babbitts. And so when the Reverend Elmer Gantry rises to influence in Gopher Prairie, he is called to Zenith as its spiritual counselor, and becomes the custodian of the Zenith moralities, the apostle of Zenith Bunk, the devotee of the Zenith Mumbo Jumbo. And through Zenith passes also Martin Arrowsmith the rebel, the perverse outlandish scientist who refuses to worship Mumbo Jumbo, on his solitary way to discover reality in a world of Zenith chicanery. Babbitt, Gantry, Arrowsmith-these are the figures that Sinclair Lewis comes upon in his exploration of the land of the free and the home of the brave. A somewhat curious showing at the best.
So slashing an attack upon our common creed and practice has naturally aroused vigorous protest. Human nature does not like to have its idols assailed; even the devotees of Mumbo Jumbo will defend their god against the heretics; and Sinclair Lewis has become the target for many a shaft. The critics have pressed home their counter attack with ardor. They insist that he is suffering from an aggravated case of astigmatism, and that in consequence he does not see eye to eye with those of normal vision. The world is out of focus to him-askew in all its structural lines; and this distorted vision prompts those jaundiced opinions and malicious judgments in regard to the ideals cherished by our best citizens. He has deliberately cultivated a spleen that makes him dislike his neighbors because they are comfortable and contented. Diogenes railing at mankind gained a vast reputation, but it is a nice question if Diogenes was a useful citizen. What did he do to further the well-being of his community? How much time and money did he give to charity and the upbuilding of his city? For all his talking Mr. Lewis does not seem to know what the good life is. He rails at Babbitt for not being Plato, but does he understand the A B C of service? To take a homely figure: the family cow, standing knee-deep in June and chewing the cud of contentment, would excite his Diogenic scorn. As a fault-finder and knocker, Brindle is not the equal of Diogenes; but to criticize her mentality and mannersforgetful ofof the fact that from the contented chewing of a plentiful cud will come a plentiful supply of milk and cream and butter to sweeten the bread of life, is a somewhat sorry business. In her modest, democratic sphere she is devoted to service, and if there is a nobler function, Rotary humbly confesses it had not discovered it. One must not, of course, press too far the analogy between Brindle and Babbitt; the figure is useful only to suggest that even in the lowliest spheres Mr. Lewis completely fails to understand the fine ethical values that underlie and animate the common American life at which he rails. How, then, shall he understand them in the higher? Comfort and service are excellent things in themselves, and if they can be merged in everyday experience, surely the good life is in the way of achievement.
The point is of vast importance, for it is here that Diogenes Lewis, his critics assert, has totally misread the meaning and faith of America. Here in this prosperous land the union between com-fort and service-or to put it in more dignified phrase, thsynthesis ofof Hellenism and Hebraism-has been achieved in practice. A rich and abundant life, motivated by a fine sense of ethicaresponsibility andnd disciplined by a democratic public school, is, in sober fact, the distinguishing characteristic of America that sets our country apart from all other lands in western civilization. Call it a Babbitt warren if you will, nevertheless where else has the industrial revolution been brought so completely and happily under dominion to the democratic ideal, or been so ennobled by ethical values? Here it has scattered its wealth amongst the plain people with a bountiful hand, until the poorest family enjoys its nickel-plated plumbing, its flivver, its telephone, its radio, its movies, its funnies, and all the thousand aids to comfort and intelligence which a few generations ago were denied kings-the result of all which is a standard of living that our forefathers would have en-vied. Our Hellenism is, happily, not Greek. That, as every school-boy in America knows, was established in slavery; whereas our modern Hellenism is established in democracy and ennobled by a sensitive social conscience. Here the master serves. The richest and greatest amongst us--our judge Garys and Andrew Mellons-are servants of the nameless public, and dedicate their creative genius to the common democratic prosperity. Our Hellenism, in short, is engrafted on a sturdy Hebraic root and flowers in righteousness-in charity, in education, in free clinics and hospitals, in scientific foundations, in great public libraries, in all the vast gifts that wealth freely offers to the cause of social amelioration. The Puritan strain is fortunately still the American strain, and we owe much to those excellent origins that Mr. Lewis scoffs at without understanding. Comfort and service-Hellenism and Hebraism: if this is not the good life, where shall one find it? In Bolshevik Russia? After all Diogenes Lewis is no more important--or useful -than the gad-fly that Brindle brushes from her glossy sides as she chews her cud. What gad-fly ever produced butter?
If Sinclair Lewis is unimpressed by such arguments it is because he is quite disillusioned with the current ideal of material progress. His dreams do not find their satisfaction in good roads and cheap gasoline. He would seem to be an incorrigible idealist who has been bred up on the vigorous Utopianisms of the late nineteenth century. In the golden days before the deluge he had gone blithely to school to all the current idealisms that flourished in the land-tJeffersonianan democracy and to Marxian socialism; and in the well-stocked pharmacopoeias of hopeful young liberals he professed to discover specifics for all our social ills. But the war destroyed his faith in nostrums and removed his Utopia to a dim and foggy future. He has not yet traveled so far in disillusion as Mr. Cabell, who has seen fit to dwarf man to the compass of a flea on thepidermisis of earth; nor has he achieved the irony-or the technique-of Clarence Darrow, who suggests casually: "Of course I know that Confucius was as great a philosopher as Billy Sunday, and that as a thinker Buddha was the equal of Billy Bryan. But still all orthodox people know that Confucius and Buddha were spurious and the Billy brothers genuine." He has not even achieved the smug satisfaction of the psychologists who impose theipreposterousus intelligence tests on simple folk and triumphantly discover morons in respectable neighbors. Some lingering faith in our poor human nature he still clings to. In the great American mass that human nature is certainly foolish and unlovely enough. It is too often blown up with flatulence, corroded with lust, on familiar terms with chicanery and lying; it openly delights in hocus-pocus and discovers its miracle-workers in its Comstocks and Aimee Semple McPhersons. But for all its pitiful flabbiness human nature is not wholly bad, nor is man so helpless a creature of circumstance as the cynics would have us believe. There are other and greater gods than Mumbo jumbo worshiped in America, worthier things than hocus-pocus; and in rare moments even Babbitt dimlperceiveses that the feet of his idol are clay. There are Martin Arrow-smiths as well as Elmer Gantrys, and human nature, if it will, can pull itself out of the trap. Bad social machinery makes bad men. Put the banker in the scullery instead of the drawing-room; exalt the test-tube and deflate the cash register; rid society of thdictatorshipip of the middle class; and the artist and the scientist will erect in America a civilization that may become what civilization was in earlier days, a thing to be respected. For all his modernity and the disillusion learned from Pullman-car philosophers, Sinclair Lewis is still an echo of Jean Jacques and the golden hopes of the Enlightenment-thin and far off, no doubt, but still an authentic echo.
Whether we like Mr. Lewis's technique or not, whether we agree with his indictment of middle-class ideals or dissent from it, his writings are suggestive documents symptomatic of a dissatisfied generation given over to disillusion. The optimistic dreams of middle-class capitalism are not so golden as they seemed to us before the war; and these pudgy novels are slashing attacks on a world that in mouthing empty shibboleths is only whistling to keep up its courage. The faith of America is dead. These brisk pages are filled with the doings of automata-not living men but thesimulacraa of men, done with astonishing verisimilitude, speaking an amazingly realistic language, professing a surprising lifelikeness; yet nevertheless only shells from which the life has departed, without faith or hope or creative energy, not even aware that they are dead.
It is this consciousness of sketching in a morgue thatdifferentiatess Mr. Lewis from the earlier satirists of middle-class America, who in the hopeful years before the war were busily engaged in re-building the American temple. The preceding generation-earnest souls like Robert Herrick and Jack London and Upton Sinclair-were as well aware of the shortcomings of our industrial order asSinclairr Lewis, and hated them as vigorously. From the days ofEmersonn and George Ripley, of Carlyle and Ruskin, capitalistic society had been persistently subjected to sharp and devastating analysis; its drabness and regimentation, its sterility and emptiness andjoylessnesss, had been pointed out by many pens. The Victorians long ago discovered that no generous or humane civilization was to be expected from the hands of Plugson of Undershot-that the banker conceiving of human felicity in terms of eight per cent. is a mean and shabby fellow in comparison with St. Francis or Michelangelo. Long before Sherwood Anderson, William Morris had observed that the workman no longer sings in the factory as in other days he sang over his tool, and concluded that the creation of beauty is more important for human happiness than figuring profits from mass production.
But those earlier analysts were dealing with causes of which they could only forecast the ultimate consequences, whereas Sinclair Lewis is dealing with effects. Plugson of Undershot is now the universal dictator. Before the war there was still life and hope in western civilization; it was not yet reduced to being a common Babbitt warren, with its Billy Sundays and Almus Pickerbaughs, its artists and editors and scientists, on the Plugson pay-roll. What emerges from the drab pages of Sinclair Lewis that is suggestive is the authoritative pronouncement that the effects forecast by the earlier critics have become in our day the regnant order of things. Babbitt is the son of Plugson of Undershot, and Babbitt is a walking corpse who refuses to be put decently away to make room for living men. An empty soul, he is the symbol of our common emptiness. Historically he marks the final passing in America of the civilization that came from the fruitful loins of the eighteenth century. For a hundred and fifty years western civilization had sustained its hopes on the rich nourishment provided by the great age of the Enlightenment. Faith in the excellence of man, in the law of progress, in the ultimate reign of justice, in the conquest of nature, in the finality and sufficiency of democracy, faith in short in the excellence of life, was the great driving force in those earlier, simpler days. It was a noble dream-that dream of the Enlightenment -but it was slowly dissipated by an encompassing materialism that came likewise out of the eighteenth century. Faith in machinery came to supersede faith in man; the Industrial Revolution submerged the hopes of the French Revolution. And now we have fallen so low that our faith in justice, progress, the potentialities of human nature, the excellence of democracy, is stricken with pernicious anemia, and even faith in the machine is dying. Only science remains to take the place of the old romantic creed, and science with its psychology and physics is fast reducing man to a complex bundle of glands, at the mercy of a mechanistic universe. Babbitt, to be sure, has not yet discovered the predicament he is in, but Martin Arrowsmith knows; and while Babbitt is whistling somewhat futilely, Arrowsmith is hard at work in the laboratory seeking a new philosophy to take the place of the old. The outlook is not promising, but until a new faith emerges from the test-tube Sinclair Lewis will wander in the fogs of disillusion.
But enough of such crape--hanging at a time when our best minds are engaged in the great work of stabilizing prosperity. What are test-tubes in comparison with the infallible statistics patriotically disseminated by the National City Bank? To parade such heresies in the face of the progressive American public is enough to damn any man, genius or not. We want no carpers or cynics in our congenial membership. We must all get together to put across the drive for a bigger and richer and better America; and so, reluctantly, despite the fact that in many ways he is a good fellow, we blackball Sinclair Lewis.
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CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - The holidays are supposed to be the happiest time of the year.
But with shorter days, family events, and pressure to buy the perfect Christmas gift, the holidays can be the most stressful time of the year.
Neruropsychologist Dr. Stephen Jordan with Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau has these tips on dealing with typical holiday stress.
On dealing with shorter days -- "When it's dark, all of our emotions seem more amplified. Sometimes it gets so bad, we call it Seasonal Affective Disorder. But I think it affects all of us. I go to work in the dark, and come home in the dark, and you miss the daylight."
On dealing with family -- "We sometimes try to expect that people are going to act differently than they do every year. This year it's going to be better. And sometimes we think that if we act differently, people will behave better. And often, that doesn't happen."
On preventing stress -- "Whether it's holiday stress or any other type of stress, it's time to set some priorities. Of the traditions you really enjoy, pick the ones that are most important and simplify them in some way. If it's financial stress, try to do things a little more cheaply. Or don't go to as many parties or gatherings."
On physical signs of stress -- "Exhaustion and not sleeping. Many times we get out of our normal routines during the holidays. It's important when you're feeling stressed to get back to good nutrition and try to maintain your exercise regimen and try to sleep at a regular time. So I think sleep and exhaustion is number one, number two is irritability or sadness."
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Metallica's Lars Ulrich Celebrates Lou Reed in Heartfelt Tribute
Since rock legend Lou Reed passed away on Oct. 27, an incredible amount of musicians have offered their condolences. However, not much had been heard from the members of Metallica, who recorded the collaborative album 'Lulu' with Reed in 2011. However, one day shy of the 'Lulu' album's second anniversary, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has offered a lengthy and heartfelt tribute to Reed.
Although 'Lulu' was critically panned and commercially unsuccessful, recording the album created a very close bond between Reed and the thrash quartet. In a new article published by The Guardian earlier today (Oct. 30), Ulrich shares his fond memories of Reed.
"We were both outsiders," Ulrich shares. "We both never felt comfortable going down the same path that everyone else was doing. Metallica's always been autonomous, and Lou Reed is the godfather of being an outsider, being autonomous, marching to his own drum, making every project different from the previous one and never feeling like he had a responsibility to anybody other than himself. We shared kinship over that."
Ulrich goes on to describe how he feels 'Lulu' will be perceived in the future. "Twenty-five years from now, you're going to have millions of people claiming they owned the record or loved it when it came out, of course neither will be true," Ulrich predicts. "I think it's going to age well – when I played it yesterday it sounded f—ing awesome."
"I'll always remember his fragility," Ulrich recounts. "I felt in some way that I connected to his fragility, and identified with it. He was very open, he would say, 'Lars, I love you', and text me a heart. It was so beautiful. The way he was so unfiltered is what I will remember most, and his fragility, and how I've never met anybody who, no matter what he was saying, he was always speaking his truth."
To read the entirety of Lars Ulrich's memorial article on Lou Reed, head over to The Guardian.


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This week we a special Latina for you by the name of Stephanie Rios. She is smoking hot and went all out in this 8th Street Latinas episode titled, That Phat Cat. Stephanie caught our eye when we saw her selling flowers by the side of the road. This gorgeous girl was so impressive, we pulled over to buy all her flowers. Of course we had something else in mind, and she was game.
We we offered her big cash to come back for some nude modeling, and she agreed. As soon as Stephanie's clothes came off, we knew we were dealing with some exceptional. Even Jmac couldn't hold back a "Daaaaamn!" And the best part was that Stephanie Rose loved handling that cock. First she sucked on it, then she rode it like a true veteran.
If you like what you see here, then be sure to catch the full episode at 8th Street Latinas. If you like the free video we featured above, you'll find the entire movie at Reality Kings.


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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone's governing party said Monday it was confident that incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma would win the weekend election without the need for a second round.
The announcement came as Sierra Leoneans awaited official results from the country's National Electoral Commission, which legally has 10 days to announce the results from Saturday's vote.
Observers said Monday that the West African nation still recovering from a brutal civil war that ended a decade ago had managed to carry out a largely peaceful and well-conducted election.
Koroma must garner 55 percent of the ballots cast or he will face his main opponent Julius Maada Bio in a second round of voting.
"The electoral laws give NEC 10 days within which to announce the results. We may be lucky that NEC works faster. I do not think there will be surprises," said Victor Bockarie Foh, National Secretary-General of the ruling All Peoples Congress party.
Earlier in the day, chief European Union observer Richard Howitt stressed that it was up to the country's election body to make a decision on when to announce the results.
"Clearly the National Electoral Commission will want to take sufficient time and care to ensure the accurate accounting of the vote but they will want to move as quickly as possible with the announcement of the results before any risks of instability or unrest," Howitt said.
Sierra Leone's chief elections officer Christiana Thorpe said that polling "was reported to be peaceful and orderly in almost all polling stations nationwide."
She, however, noted that polling was disrupted by a swarm of honey bees in ward 135 in the Kambia District.
"The polling station was automatically relocated and polling went on peacefully," she said.
The EU mission noted that there were isolated reports of the governing party distributing cash payments. While the mission was assured that the amount of money involved amounted to a local "handshake," Howitt said in one case there was "a significant amount of money involved."
There also was a report of one polling station where voters who presented ID cards were allowed to vote though they ultimately were not on the voter registry, Howitt said. The ballot boxes in question were under quarantine pending an investigation, he added.
The U.S.-based Carter Center also said Monday that Sierra Leone's vote had been "peaceful, orderly and transparent." Some polled opened late and in some cases there were shortages of election materials, the observers noted.
"These shortfalls were generally addressed by midday and they did not undermine the fundamental integrity of the electoral process," said former Zambian President Rupiah Banda who is with the Carter Center delegation.
The observer mission from the West African regional bloc ECOWAS also noted a few isolated incidents, including the absence of back-up lighting which required party agents to improvise with cellphones and flashlights to enable counting in the dark.
Sierra Leone's presidential race has hinged on which candidate can best uplift this West African country trying to shed its past after a brutal 1991-2002 civil war.
A decade after the war's end, Sierra Leone remains one of the poorest countries in the world despite its diamonds and other riches. Several recent offshore oil discoveries, though, are raising hopes for economic development.
Most of the country's nearly 6 million people live on less than $1.25 a day, and it remains among the deadliest places in the world for women to give birth. Earlier this year, the capital was hard-hit by a cholera outbreak.
While Sierra Leone already had held two mostly peaceful votes since the war's end, experts said Saturday's vote would be a crucial test of whether those gains were irreversible.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised Sierra Leonean voters for the "peaceful and largely orderly elections.
"The high voter turnout and the remarkable calm displayed by the country's citizens as they cast their votes are a clear manifestation of their desire for peace, democracy and development," said a statement released by his spokesperson.
The incumbent president, Koroma, has pointed to his accomplishments during his first term, pleading with voters in his campaign signs: "I Will Do More."
He faced eight opponents including leading opposition figure Julius Maada Bio, a retired brigadier-general who calls himself the "father of democracy" after his brief three-month tenure at the country's helm in 1996.
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NORFOLK — Typical William and Mary. Competitive, creative, but not quite good enough.
Typical Old Dominion. Explosive, athletic, but just sloppy enough to keep things interesting.
And so the collision of these neighboring football programs transpired about as expected.
Monarchs 41, Tribe 31.
"I thought we came in with a pretty good plan and played pretty well," William and Mary coach Jimmye Laycock said.
Couldn't agree more. The Tribe was aggressive on offense, surprising the Monarchs with deep passes that produced touchdowns of 51 and 72 yards in the first quarter. Defensively, William and Mary was unpredictable, varying coverages and pressures throughout.
"They were getting into my head a little bit there at the beginning," ODU quarterback Taylor Heinicke said.
A cursory glance at these teams said blowout. After all, the Monarchs (9-1, 6-1 Colonial Athletic Association) are ranked fourth nationally, while the Tribe is on track for its worst season in 32 years.
But rocked by injuries, especially at quarterback, William and Mary (2-8, 1-6 CAA) is far better than you might think. The Tribe lost by one at Maryland to open the season and fell to Towson, James Madison and New Hampshire — all three ranked and on the road — by a combined seven points.
Even William and Mary's most lopsided defeat, 51-21 to Delaware, was fluky. The Tribe outgained the Blue Hens but gave up three return touchdowns: interception, fumble and blocked field goal.
Moreover, for all its offensive pyrotechnics, ODU often keeps games unnecessarily close, witness victories over New Hampshire (64-61) and Richmond (45-37).
Sure enough, Michael Graham, William and Mary's No. 3 quarterback, threw for 222 yards and four touchdowns in the first half alone Saturday. The last, a 4-yarder to Tre McBride 48 seconds before halftime, sent the Tribe to intermission ahead 28-27.
ODU coach Bobby Wilder couldn't have been more impressed with Graham's moxie.
"I thought we hit him at least a dozen times," Wilder said. "I thought we just beat the crap out of the kid. We kept hittin' him and hittin' him and hittin' him, and he hung in there."
But the Monarchs were far more disciplined in pass coverage after halftime. They limited Graham to 9-of-21 passing, intercepted him twice and, most important, held the Tribe to three points.
As admirable as William and Mary's defense was — linebacker Dante Cook and safety Jerome Couplin combined for 26 tackles — 31 points simply weren't going to be enough against the nation's most prolific offense.
Heinicke threw for 291 yards and four scores without an interception and kept countless plays alive with his sneaky speed and uncommon awareness. Tailback Tyree Lee burrowed to 166 yards, 16 on the decisive touchdown with 6:51 to play.
"We took away (Heinicke's) first, second and third reads sometimes, and he still kept the play alive," said Laycock, a quarterback connoisseur. "I think he has 360-degree vision."
The Monarchs and Tribe now head to regular-season finales that couldn't be more different.
William and Mary hosts Richmond hoping to avoid its first 2-9 finish since 1980, Laycock's first year on the job. If the Spiders remain in the top 25 next week, they'll be the sixth ranked team the Tribe has faced.
Meanwhile, playoff-bound ODU heads to No. 9 James Madison, thumped Saturday by Villanova, the only team to beat the Monarchs. Win in Harrisonburg, and the worst ODU can do is tie New Hampshire atop the CAA standings.
Since the Monarchs defeated the Wildcats, they would win a tie-breaker ...
Hold that thought. As you'll recall, when ODU announced last spring its move to Conference USA, the CAA affirmed its bylaws and voted to bar the Monarchs from winning conference titles.
ODU's field hockey team mocked the ruling by going through the CAA undefeated and qualifying for postseason, and now it's football's turn.
"We're treating it as we want to win the conference, we want to win the championship," Wilder said. "That is something I will address again this week with our players. I addressed with them at the start of the year and now that it's a real possibility, I'll address it with them tomorrow in the team meeting.
"If we win next week, we're the league champions, and we deserve to be league champions. Those kids will be treated that way."
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Music Review: Anthrax covers 1970s rock on new EP
Music Review: Anthrax covers 1970s rock on new EP
Mar. 18, 2013
Anthrax "Anthems" (MRI/Megaforce)
There's a revelation on Anthrax's "Anthems" EP: Rush's music is annoying, no matter who plays it.
The speed metal kings, driven by drummer Charlie Benante's infatuation with early Neil Peart, chose Rush's "Anthem" as the inspiration for their eight-track EP in which they cover classic 1970s rock bands that influenced them. Suffice it to say the jarring stop-and-start timing and riffing of a Rush song doesn't work with the heaviest of heavy metal bands, either.
But the rest of this all-too-short disc is like hard-rock comfort food, hewing closely to the originals, with some special Anthrax sauce on the side. Best is a cover of Cheap Trick's "Big Eyes," which blends the band's melody with Anthrax's harder edge.
"Smokin'" is a cover of the classic Boston ode to inhalables, and "Jailbreak" puts a fine point on the Thin Lizzy classic.
Singer Joey Belladonna shows his vocal versatility here. On "TNT," the AC/DC anthem, he sounds just like Bon Scott; when he covers Cheap Trick, you'd swear it was Robin Zander singing. He even nails Steve Perry in covering Journey's "Keep on Runnin.'"
"Crawl" and a remix of it are the two original new tracks on the disc, which lend a little more texture to the trademark Anthrax crunch.


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|2009 Honorary Degree Luncheon
Wabash President Pat White offers a toast to honorary degree recipients Rev. Edward "Monk" Malloy, Clay Robbins '79, and Max Servies '58.
"With character and dignity, you serve as exemplars to all of us, especially to the young men who receive degrees with you today. We commend your careers and service and what you have accomplished; even more, we praise who you are. Gentlemen, we salute you."


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Why mergers LOSE money, but are GOOD for the economy
Takeovers never deliver... and disties are no different
So the distribution sector has had yet another round of consolidation. Mergers, takeovers - these are the things that make an M&A banker's heart* thumpety-thump with joy.
The big question, though, is whether this actually does any good for the shareholders of the various companies - you know, the people who actually own them? The usual answer from the economist is, 'No, not really, at least not very often'.
It doesn't really matter, for our purposes here, who has been buying whom or why. In fact, given the reasoning I'm going to use, it's probably better that we don't run down the list. It's also true that the analysis isn't specific to the distribution channel: as a general rule economists are convinced that the average merger or takeover reduces value, not adds to it. And the people who usually lose the most are the shareholders of the acquiring company.
On the other side the beancounters are also convinced that such mergers and takeovers are, in one sense at least, absolutely vital for the continuing functioning of the economy. So we've got a bit of a bind here: something that's usually value-reducing but also something vital.
The path through this contrariness comes in four parts.
1: Sometimes, it just makes sense
The first is the traditional justification for a takeover. We see something in that other company over there that no one else does. We can get that hidden gem very cheap, before anyone else realises.
This does actually happen at times. But it's rare: at least economists think it's rare. For the general assumption is that no one's all that clever and everyone else is all that stupid. Things tend to get valued at around and about what everyone thinks they're worth, and that tends to be close to the realistic level of profits that can be made out of it in the future: or at least closely related to it.
There are exceptions: say your new product needs vast quantities of unobtanium and you're able to buy the world's unobtanium mine before anyone knows that. OK, that would work. But that isn't where we think that most takeovers germinate. That's rather more something to do with the principal/agent problem.
2: Extra cash for CEO, or profit for the shareholders?
This is one of the thorny problems in economics that doesn't really have a solution. There's the people that actually own something, the principals (it has wider application than this but let's stay simple), and then there are the agents they hire to run it for them - for example, the shareholders and the management. And the interests of these two groups diverge to some extent. Managers would like huge salaries and job security, while shareholders would like a rise in profits. These aren't the same thing - for example, it's entirely possible for managers to reduce profits by awarding themselves huge pay rises. This is just an example but the basic problem, the divergence of interests, can be acute.
One of the ways of getting a huge salary is to be running a huge firm. Everyone knows that the top banana at a firm of 100,000 people deserves to go first class through life with millions in winga each year. But the bloke running a profitable company of only 5,000 people doesn't get to turn left on entering the plane. Nor is he feted nationally or fawned over by reporters. Which is one of the things that economists think drives merger mania.
It might be a conscious effort (if I buy lots of companies then I'll earn the dosh) or it might be an unconscious willingness to overlook the risks (it really is a good deal, honest) but many economists postulate that at least some of the temptation for management to expand by acquisition is this very status and income motivation. The problem is, as we've seen above, that the same economists are also convinced that most such acquisitions do not benefit the shareholders of the acquiring company. Far from it in fact. So much so that the standard action on hearing of a stock market takeover is to buy the shares of the company to be bought and sell those of that which is buying it. The former will rise, the latter fall - purely as a result of the offer.
It's that principal/agent problem. Or here, what makes the management rich may well not make the shareholders rich but it's the agents who have most of the say over what happens.
The third line of reasoning for an acquisition is an adaptation of this aforementioned problem. There really are times when it's better for the shareholders that a company just dies.
Not immediately of course: but over time.


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A Kitchen With a Long History
A few years ago Apartment Therapy took a tour of a fantastic two-story apartment in Hayes Valley, San Francisco. The apartment building is actually one of those rare San Francisco structures that predates the 1906 earthquake and subsequent fire. Over the years it's been used as a boarding house and a single family home, but at the time of the tour three roommates were making use of its 4,000 square footage.
The kitchen is on the second floor and, thanks to all windows and open doorways, receives plenty of light. The whole tour is really a treasure, and because the home is so huge, it's in two parts!
See the Full Tour at Apartment Therapy:
• Lanz, Michael, and Brett's Evolving History House - Part 1
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The Cimarron Bluejays, Hodgeman County Longhorns, Kiowa County Mavericks and Meade Buffaloes Two area teams claimed playoff spots in Eight-Man Division I Friday night.
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Cimarron beat Southwestern Heights 56-14 and will face the Holcomb Longhorns to determine the champion and runner-up from Class 3A-District 16 title. Holcomb beat Lakin 34-17 in the other game.
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The Hodgeman County Longhorns claimed a share of the Eight-Man I -District 7 title and home field for a first round game in the playoffs after a 58-0 rout of Deerfield in a game ended at halftime due to the 45-point rule.
The Longhorns' victory and Spearville's 26-20 victory over South Gray assures the Longhorns of hosting with their final game of the regular season at South Gray. The winner of the Spearville at Minneola game Thursday night will grab the second playoff spot of the district.
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The Kiowa County Mavericks played out of district tonight, beating Attica 60-0; but earned one of two playoff spots after St. John beat Fairfield 54-36 in Eight-Man District 6 play. St. John plays at Kiowa County Thursday night to determine the division champion and runner-up.
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The Meade Buffaloes clinched the top spot in the Class 2A-District 8 with a 71-0 win over Elkhart. The Buffaloes will host a playoff game on Nov. 2.
In area summaries:
Spearville 26, South Gray 20 at Spearville -- Brandon Davis scored three touchdowns — including two plays of 70 or more yards in the third quarter — to lead the Royal Lancers to the win and keep their playoff hopes alive.
Davis returned the opening kickoff of the second half 70 yards for one score and later scored on a 76-yard touchdown run. Davis also had a 13-yard run in the opening quarter.
The Lancers also got a 18-yard touchdown pass from Nathan Stein to Hunter Stephenson.
Colton Dirks scored all three touchdowns from South Gray, who was eliminated from the playoff scene with the loss. Dirks had a 27-yard touchdown run in the first quarter, a 12-yard touchdown pass from Gabriel Loya in the third and a two-yard run for a score in the final quarter.
Kiowa County 60, Attica 0 at Greensburg -- The Mavericks scored 38 points in the first quarter and 22 in the second to end the rout at halftime due to the 45-point mercy rule.
Trever Powell had three touchdowns for the Mavericks in the win, while Creighton McDonald added two more.


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The Walrus Says
Were your descendants part of the original settlers here on Jamestown 350 years ago?
Then, we want to hear from you. Tell us your name and your ancestor' s name and anything else we might find of interest concerning that person.
Send the information to the email address or call the telephone numbers listed at the end of the column.
Blending the stories of several familiar fairy tales with an original story - all looking for "happily ever after" endings - is the theme of the beautiful, thoughtful and amusing Steven Sondheim musical "Into the Woods," the next production of the Jamestown Community Theatre to be staged in November.
Producer Joan McCauley poses the question, "But what happens after "happily ever after?" "There are consequences! For example, what does Jack, of "Jack and the Beanstalk" fame, do with a dead giant in the backyard?"
Joan said that the selection committee, led by Artistic Director Mary Wright, wanted to stage a "big play," one that could accommodate everyone who wants to participate in the ensemble cast.
Julie Andrews will direct "Into the Woods," and she urges Jamestown residents, ages 8 to 98, who have ever wanted to try their hand at theater, to audition - for a lead, a supporting part, or a chorus spot.
Auditions are scheduled for Sept. 5 and those auditioning for a lead part need to prepare 32 bars of a song from a Broadway musical. All others will sing America the Beautiful in small groups.
Rehearsals will be held late Sunday afternoons and Monday and Wednesday nights beginning Sept. 9. Stay tuned!
We had a great response to our query concerning Red Skelton's seagull. Actually, there were two seagulls and the first person in by phone with the correct answers was council President David Long who informed us of the two seagulls named Gertrude and Heathcliff. His call was immediately followed by Walter Paolozzi of Warwick, the island's Verizon man, who also phoned in the correct answers.
Marlene Murphy shouted the names across the counter at BankNewport and Charlie and Joan Shaffer called in. Gertrude and Heathcliff e-mails arrived from Carol Fuquea of Coventry; Helen A. Richardson; Betty Kinder came in with only Heathcliff, but noted, "This made me think of my deceased mother - she could have answered easily. I can still remember her laughing at that skit;" Debbie Richards, who remembered watching it with her father many years ago; Bob Fuquea; Cindy Waterman and Gaylin Cordes remembered only Heathcliff, but as Cindy wrote, "it was a long, long time ago! And this from Christine Weglowski Forster of Middletown, who wrote, "Red Skelton's seagulls were Gertrude and Heathcliff. As a child, I loved it when he fluffed up his (thinning) hair, put his hands under his arms and did the seagull bits. Always funny and cute."
Thanks to all. He was a wonderfully, funny man.
Due to an editing error Carolyn Jaques' name was misspelled in last week's column.
Sorry, Carolyn.
Kudos to the new officers of JEMS (Jamestown Emergency Medical Services) who were elected at its annual meeting July 24.
Keith Godena is deputy to Director Rick Hodges; Chris Reilly is training officer; Nancy Beye, supply officer; Ralph Aresti, administrator; Anna Auld, secretary; and Marlene Murphy, treasurer.
The membership voted to purchase an air filtration system for the ambulance bay, and to upgrade the landscaping around the building to improve visibility and safety. Money for both projects will come from donated funds.
On the subject of JEMS, Judy Bell reports that former member Alex DeMolles is now a new officer with the Coventry Police Department and graduated valedictorian from the police academy.
Great job, Alex!
Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic suggests checking out all options when deciding on a new pet. "Besides our cats and dogs, there are quite a few other pets out there that can be just as much a part of the family as Fluffy. Rabbits are excellent pets for those with limited space and they also don't make much noise! They can be easily house trained and have a lot of character. With rabbits please make sure that their food and housing are appropriate to avoid illness and check out excellent websites like www.rabbit. org for more information. Ferrets are another small pet with great personality that can be excellent pets for some people. They are very mischievous and do better with other ferrets around. In Rhode Island ferret ownership requires a permit through the Department of Environmental Management (www.dem.ri.gov) so be aware of that if you intend to purchase or adopt ferrets. Do your homework before bringing home any new pet, but realize there are a lot of options that can be just as rewarding!"
Anne Lane reports that Madeline, 8, and James, 6, Doherty and their dad, Ed, have been on the island for the past two weeks. For those who may want to keep in touch, their new address is 100 Riverview Drive, Etters, Penn, 17319.
Mom Mel Doherty has been activated to Kuwait and her e-mail is firstname.lastname@example.com or regular mail to CDR M. Doherty, MNC-I, IAG, APO AE 09330.
You're doing a great job commander.
Greg Cooney returns to the Jamestown Philomenian Library tonight at 7 p.m. with songs and stories and that get the audience up and involved with performance.
Children age 4 and over are invited to bring their families and explore how music is made and enjoy 45-minutes of songs. Registration is not required, just come on down.
Rose Fraley called in with the answer to last week's poser. It's the lyrics from "Blues in the Night," and according to Bob Kinder in his e-mail it was a "great WWII song."
Barbara-Ann Mac Intosh calls it "an oldie but goodie" and provides the rest of the lyrics:
My mama done told me, when I was in knee pants,
My mama done told me son, a woman will sweet talk and give you a big eye,
But when the talkin's done, a woman's a two face a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing The Blues in the Night, etc.
There's a lot of great music out there.
Jim Pemantell asks, "Ever try and get a street light fixed? The one at Narragansett and Marine has been out for some time. I called this morning and the lady said it would take 10 days. Must be sending someone over from Europe."
Either that or they have to round up enough guys to turn the ladder.
Businesses and residences with flags hanging in front of their buildings had better check their annoyance factor or be the subject of a public letter from the chair- person of CPPOPWFALHFOB. The head of the Committee to Protect Places Ordinary People Walk From Annoying Low-Hanging Flags and Other Banneraria has sent a letter to Lila Delman Real Estate to the effect that: "As you have noticed, your company flag is missing from outside your office. I see that you have replaced it with a generic "Open" flag, and that's too bad, because the official blue and white flag, with the embroidered image of the Narragansett Towers, is a handsome thing, indeed.
"Where is your flag? In a secure, undisclosed location. It is being treated humanely.
"Why is your flag missing? Because it was offensive - not in a politically correct sense, but in a football kind of way. Like the way a 280-pound pulling guard laying a body block on a 170-pound cornerback is offensive.
"It happened like this: On a quiet weeknight recently, I was strolling up the sidewalk back to my car, following a tasty snack at the Trattoria. The sidewalk was mostly deserted and pretty dark, so I had my eyes trained on the concrete, watching my step, when suddenly - Whack! - I was assaulted by something. It struck me first in the face and then attempted to wrap itself around my neck like a hungry python.
"Being a person with catlike reflexes and nerves like cool computer chips, even in the hottest of circumstances, I recovered in a flash and sprang into a tai-bo fighting posture, prepared to defend my way of life and burn some calories at the same time - when I discovered that my assailant was none other than your darn flag.
"I deduced the problem immediately: the flag poles's mounting bracket on your building was set so low that the large flag hung well out into the path of pedestrians like me, only a few feet off the sidewalk.
"This could not stand. The sidewalk is for people, not flags. So, I phoned our 24-hour ERU (Emergency Response Unit), and it dispatched a commando team to the site to capture the flag before it could do any more harm.
"Now, I'm sure that by day you folks at Lila Delman are nice, hard-working people. And if I were a local millionaire, I'd be happy to have you help me find just the right cozy, 10-bed, 20-bath McMansion on the island. But as flag wavers you are in violation of basic pedestrian rights.
"As I said, your flag is secure and is not being mistreated, and you can have it back - on one condition: move the flagpole bracket high enough on the wall that the flag will not interfere with the passage of innocent pedestrians along the sidewalk.
"Our undercover inspectors will be checking your building periodically, and, as soon as they report that you have complied with our conditions, your flag will be returned."
Signed Bett C. Ross, chairperson CPPOPWFALHFOB.
Meanwhile, opposition and disgust at the actions described in the above letter has been voiced by Strait Walker, chairman of the newly formed JAAFACABAT (Jamestowners Against Attacking Flags After Consuming Adult Beverages At Trattoria).
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MOGADISHU, Somalia—Michael Stock sees things that others don't. "Imagine this," he says one recent afternoon, standing on the sunny second-floor deck of his new oceanside hotel in Somalia's war-battered capital. "There are banana trees where there's desert now, and there's this view."
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Combine two channels on that chip...?
Quote from: fungus on Feb 08, 2013, 07:35 pmCombine two channels on that chip...?Thought of that, but have gotten conflicting answers as to whether that would work or not. Doing it with one chip would also be a bit easier.
Plus, finding anyone who sells that 150 mA chip (Mos-Tech MT508) has proven to be difficult. If anyone knows of a dealer who might carry these ...
It's hard to give guarantees ... but I can't think of a commonly used circuit where it wouldn't work.
With a transistor it has a negative coefficient, the hotter it gets the lower is the resistance. Therefore when one transistor gets more current it gets hotter and so draws more current.
But...how can it draw more current if it's in a constant current circuit?
To answer your question, fungus, I'm planning an 8x8 direct drive LED matrix with LEDs that individually run on either 100 mA or 300 mA, full power (no dimming). Only one LED will be lit at a time, so total current draw at any time from all the LEDs will be that 100/300 mA figure. Will control it with an Arduino.


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LACASSINE, La. — Farmer Donald Berken had anticipated that his rice crop would bring a handsome yield this year. But the harvest for Berken and many others has been anything but a bumper crop. Average yields from last year appear to be down, while production costs were up, according to LSU AgCenter experts.
"I was hoping it would be good, but it's not panning out that way," Berken said between hauling loads off a 57-acre field, explaining that one field brought in just 31 barrels an acre — below the current state average and well off last year's record pace for the state.
By last week, Berken had harvested about 75 percent of his crop and said he would try to make up for some of the lost yield on this crop with a second crop.
"On most of the earlier harvested fields, we will," Berken said.
Eddie Eskew, an LSU AgCenter county agent in Jefferson Davis Parish, said the average yield appears to be about 34 to 36 barrels an acre. That's 15 percent less than last year's record harvest, he said, adding that this year's costs of production were 30 percent higher.
"It's disappointing and discouraging," Eskew said. "The yields are off, but we're still attributing it to the stress of all the rain in May and June — and the lack of sunshine."
Inadequate sunlight from cloudy weather reduced the amount of carbohydrates produced by rice plants, Eskew said, adding that rainfall in June also interfered with pollination.
For a few farmers, yields were excellent — in the mid-40s — but they were dismal for others, Eskew said.
The expert also pointed out that harvest is 10 days behind most years, which could prevent some fields from being put into a second crop.
Ron Levy, an LSU AgCenter county agent in Acadia Parish, said harvest in that area is almost 95 percent done, with yields 10 percent off from last year. That could signal a less-than-average yield for the ratoon, Levy said.
Keith Fontenot, LSU AgCenter county agent for Evangeline Parish, said it's a different picture in his area.
"Yields are pretty good," he said, averaging around 37 barrels with three-fourths of the crop harvested.
Some farmers in Evangeline Parish are reporting yields of 40 to 45 barrels an acre, according to Fontenot.
"Some of this later-planted rice is pretty good," he said. But the earlier rice was marked by uneven maturity, Fontenot said.
In Vermilion Parish, the harvest is off by 3 barrels to 4 barrels an acre, according to Howard Cormier, an LSU AgCenter county agent there. Many farmers who usually harvest more than 40 barrels an acre have reported cutting in the mid-30s, he said.
Cool weather early in the season probably played a role in the less-than-average crop, Cormier said.
"I think most of them will try a second crop to recoup their costs," Cormier said.
As for good news, dry fields enabled farmers to harvest without rutting up their fields, he said. "Many farmers were able to drive the 18-wheelers into the field," he said.
Further complicating the economic situation, not only are rice yields down, so are rice prices and the amounts paid for government supports, according to LSU AgCenter economist Gene Johnson.
"This year, the world market price is increasing and the Loan Deficiency Payment is shrinking," he said. So buyers are waiting to see how the market moves. "The rice market seems to be stalled and needs a jumpstart of demand to spark the market."
Johnson said USDA could stimulate the market by executing commitments to sell 81,000 metric tons under the PL 480 program.
"The paddy market continues to be a situation of offsetting pressures of low supply and light demand. Thus the result is a market that continues in the doldrums."
The Texas harvest is behind schedule, and the yields are about 10 percent below average, similar to the yield in Louisiana, Johnson said.
The overseas market is dominated by Thailand, which is likely to get the next Iraqi tender for 100,000 metric tons. Johnson said other countries don't have rice supplies for export and that Thailand's rice is cheaper than U.S. rice.
So when should a farmer sell his rice? "That's a tough one to call," Johnson said. "It just depends on the situation."
The economist said it might be a good idea to wait on a sale if a farmer has adequate drying and storage capability.
Johnson said he generally urges farmers to sell their crop in stages, similar to diversifying stock investments.
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Taft erupts for 45 points during final two periods in victory
There's nothing worse for a team than to lose a game they were supposed to win. It nearly happened to the Taft varsity boys basketball team Monday night before they pulled away in the second half to defeat the Arvin Bears 68-52 in Taft.
With the victory, Taft improves to 10-10 overall and 4-3 in the South Sequoia League.
The first half was a much different story than the second half.
Taft went on a 6-2 run to begin the first quarter thanks to Danny Romo's two free throws and layups from Steven Gee and Jacob Lopez. The game turned into a seesaw battle with Arvin staying in striking distance at 6-4 and 8-7 on a fall away jumper and Eddie Herrera's three-pointer.
The Wildcats threatened to pull away with a 4-2 run to lead by five with 1:40 to go. However, Arvin's Homer Avalos scored on a layup with 49 seconds remaining to cut the deficit to three.
Gee gave Taft a five point lead 12 seconds into the second quarter. Despite the basket, the Wildcats were unable to increase the difference but were able to hold on to a small lead.
Arvin finally erased the deficit with 4:13 to go with Herrera's three-pointer.
The Bears went on to outscore the Wildcats 5-1 the rest of the way to hold a 27-23 lead at the halftime break.
"We were pretty lethargic in the first half," said Taft coach Harold Heiter.
The dynamics of the game changed in the third quarter. Within the first minute of the quarter, Taft reeled off seven straight points with Gee scoring four points while Romo completed a three-point play.
Arvin's Alezae Suggs ended the scoring surge with a layup at the 6:23 mark to cut the deficit to 32-29. Josh Tiger followed up with a pass top Lopez for a layup. The Bears stayed within striking distance, eventually cutting the lead down to two on David Cardenas turnaround jumper.
Taft took off from there by going on a 10-2 run over the remaining minutes of the quarter to lead 44-34. After Mitchell Emberson extended the lead to 12 10 seconds into the final quarter, Arvin roared back on Andreas Hernandez's three-pointer, Suggs' completion of a three-point play, Avalos' steal and layup and Malachi Longmire's steal and layup. The ten straight points whittled the deficit down to 46-44 with 6:54 to go.
Momentum changed for good when the Wildcats went on a 17-4 run with Gee scoring four points in a matter of seconds on a fastbreak layup and a steal and layup underneath the Arvin basket.
Arvin's offense came alive again in the final 2:31 of the game with six points but Taft countered with seven to seal the victory.
Gee and Lopez each led Taft in scoring with 18. Romo followed with 10.
Taft returns to action Wednesday when they travel up to Delano to face Cesar Chavez. The game begins at 6:45 p.m.


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A lot of soybeans: That's what USDA analysts are predicting for the 2004/05 crop, which they're forecasting to yield a record 2,930 million bushels — a more than 20 percent increase over 2003/04.
Market prices are projected to average $5.90 per bushel in 2004/05.
The higher production, according to the report by USDA's Interagency Commodity Estimates Committees that was presented at the annual Agricultural Outlook Forum at Arlington, Va., will be due to higher planted area and to an expected recovery from the adverse conditions that held 2003 yields to the lowest level since 1993.
Soybean harvested area is forecast at 73.2 million acres, says William Tierney, commodity analyst for the World Agricultural Outlook Board, Office of the Chief Economist, USDA, who presented the report.
"Although disease pressure and dry conditions in key areas have limited growth in recent years, a return to more normal late summer weather patterns and better, more timely pest management are expected to boost yields this year." The analysts are predicting a 2004 average yield of 40 bushels, well above last year's 33.5 bushels, although slightly below the 1994 record of 41.4 bushels.
The projected yield is based on regional yield trends for 1978-2002 and reflects the expected planting increases in the Plains and eastern corn belt. Soybean supplies for 2004/05 are projected to be 18 percent above 2003/04. The higher production will be partly offset by lower beginning stocks, estimated at a 27-year low of 125 million bushels.
Domestic disappearance of soybeans is projected at 1,790 million bushels, up sharply from last year, and the first annual increase since 2001/02. Soybean crush is forecast at 1,635 million bushels, up 12 percent from last year. Domestic soybean meal demand is projected to increase by 8 percent as soybean supplies increase and meal prices become relatively more competitive with other feed ingredients. Increased poultry production is also expected to boost consumption of soybean meal.
Domestic soybean oil use is projected to increase by about 6 percent, following a 4 percent decline in 2003/04. Although the oil market is expected to remain tight in 2004/05, increased crush and oil production will allow domestic disappearance to recover from last year's downturn.
"Despite only limited gains for soybean oil exports over the very low levels for 2003/04, ending stocks of soybean oil are projected to recover only modestly to 1. 2 billion pounds," Tierney says. "Prices are forecast at 26 cents per pound, down 3 cents from the midpoint of last year's range."
Growth in foreign oilseed and meal production has more than offset lower U.S. oilseed production over the last two years, he says.
"Rapidly expanding soybean production in South America has accounted for much of the growth, helping to push world oilseed production to new record levels for eight consecutive years. For 2004/05, the trend toward increasing global oilseed production is expected to continue, led by increasing U.S. production. Higher planted area and a return to more normal yields in the U.S., combined with larger South American crops, especially in Brazil, could result in up to a 7 percent increase in global oilseed output this year. Only moderate growth in other oilseeds is expected."
Gains in global soybean imports will depend primarily on increases for China, Tierney says. "Modest protein consumption growth for other regions, including the European Union and other Asian countries, will slow the rate of growth in overall global import demand from the 2002/03 level. Although South American soybean production is expected to increase again in 2005, better U.S. crop prospects and lower prices may dampen the rate of expansion of South American production and exports, particularly in Argentina."
The outlook for U.S. exports, he says, is "considerably brighter" than for 2003/04. "A much larger and more competitively-priced crop will enable U.S. soybean exports to recover to a projected 1,060 million bushels, up 18 percent from the level projected this year. U.S. soybean meal exports are also expected to rebound to 5.6 million short tons, up about 30 percent.
"After slumping sharply in 2003/04, the U.S. export share is expected to recover to about 41 percent of world soybean exports, and 11 percent of global soybean meal trade. Although higher than 2003/04, projected export shares for this year reflect continuation of the downward trend seen in recent years."
Following two years of declining U.S. soybean oil exports, including a sharp downturn for 2003/04, the outlook for this year is "only slightly improved," Tierney says. "Despite a larger crop and expanded soybean crush, the domestic vegetable oil market is projected to claim the biggest share of increased production. Strong competition from South American soybean oil buyers will hold U.S. soybean oil exports to a projected 1.1 billion pounds, up modestly from last year, but still only about half of 2002/03 export levels."
Soybean ending stocks for 2004/05 are forecast at 210 million bushels, up 85 million bushels from the projected level for 2003/04. "The ending stocks-to-use ratio of 7 percent would be above the 2003/04 level of 5 percent," Tierney says, "and would be the highest in four years."
Relatively high soybean prices toward the end of the 2003/04 marketing year and projected strong corn prices for 2004/05 will partly offset the effect of increased U.S. stocks, record-large South American soybean crops expected tin 2004 and 2005, and limited growth in foreign soybean import demand.


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Nashua man charged with assault
December 07. 2012 9:23AM
NASHUA - A city man is accused of breaking a bone in another man's face in an assault outside a downtown bar last October.
Jesus Figueroa, 37, of 108 Pine St., is charged with a class B felony of second degree assault.
Police learned of the assault when someone called for an ambulance on Oct. 4 at 10:11 p.m. for a man who reportedly was injured after falling on a sidewalk.
Investigators determined the man was the victim of an assault and suffered a fracture to his face. Figueroa became a suspect and ultimately was arrested after investigators obtained a warrant.
What's next:Figueroa is being held on $10,000 cash/surety bail pending arraignment Friday in 9th Circuit Court - Nashua District Division.