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Young Men's Transition Home
The goal of the Young Men's' Transition Home is to provide a supportive path from the street to self-sufficiency, so young men experiencing homelessness don't become homeless adults. The home serves young men ages 18 through 24 who are struggling with homelessness--often because they have been turned away from their families or have aged out of foster care.
This residential program provides the safety net and support these young men need to reach their full potential. It fills a critical gap in our society today by providing the encouragement, love, respect and expectations these homeless young men need to succeed. By helping them finish their education, find employment and develop critical life skills, we put them on the path to self-sufficiency.
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CNET Prizefight
Apple 20-inch iMac vs. Sony Vaio JS250JIt's a battle in the Prizefight ring for all-in-one desktop supremacy. Will Apple's iMac punch out Sony's Blu-ray beast?
>> Brian Tong: What's up Prizefight fans, I'm Brian Tong and normally we face off pocket friendly products but in today's battle we're going large. It's a throw down show down between Apples 20 inch iMac and Sony's own 20 inch contender the JS 250J. Our judges for this fight are bringing it from the NYC. We've got senior Editor Rich Brown, Associate Editor Justin Yu and yours truly. Now we'll take all 3 judges scores and average them out to the nearest 10th each round. The final Prizefight score will be an average of all rounds using the same decimal system. Which all in one is gonna get it done? We're going 5 rounds, first round is design. [Bell] The Sony Vaio might have a plastic body and stand but the machine looks classy overall. It comes in multiple colors for your color coordinators and I like the design but then you look at the iMac and you just can't stop starring. It's all metal body is striking and manages to dwarf the Vaio at the same time, and after all this time its competitors still haven't come close. Apples iMac [bell] hits hard with a 5 and the Vaio gets a 3.3. Next round is features [bell]. Sony is bringing Blu-ray to this fight and it's the only all in one on the market to do so. Plus, you're getting twice the amount of RAM and the 500 gig hard drive standard. The iMac has no Blu-ray, it has Bluetooth unlike the Sony but with storage being so cheap 320 gigs is pretty puny. Now sure you could download HD movies through iTunes but you can also do that on the Vaio. Sony throws [bell] a perfect blow to its own with a 5 and the iMac gets a 4. After averaging 2 rounds the iMac leads by 3/10 of a point. Next round is [bell] performance. There's nothing to hide here. The iMac dances all over the Vaio beating it out in 3 of our 4 major tests. Now compared to every other all in one Sony ended up last in 3 of the 4 tests and the iMac more than doubled it in our most telling 1; multimedia, multitasking. It's a unanimous decision for the judges, the iMac [bell] gets a perfect 5 and the Vaio gets a 3. These guys will be used a whole lot [bell] and if energy efficiency matters next round is green. Both of these machines are energy star compliant and although the Vaio costs less than 2 bucks a month to use and just under 20 bucks for the year, it just isn't as efficient a the Mac. Now Apples 20 inch iMac is the greenest all in one desktop on the market. It'll cost you less than $13 per year and it's the most efficient computer we've tested to date. The iMac scores its 3rd perfect round with a 5 and the Vaio is still respectable with a 4. So after averaging 4 rounds, Apple has really taken control leading by a full point. Does Sony have anything left in the tank? The final round that decides it all is value. The Vaio can be found for under $1000 online it does everything you'd expect with a computer and comes with a Blu-ray drive for home entertainment. Apple's iMac pricing stays pretty firm at $1200 where ever you look and the all in one newcomers bring even larger screens with comparable prices these days. [Bell] Sony takes the final round with a 5 to give it a fighting chance and Apple gets a 3.7. So let's average out all 5 rounds and in a battle where Sony scored 2 perfect rounds but Apple bested them with 3, the iMac holds on with a 4.5 and is your Prizefight winner. [Bell] I'm Brian Tong, thanks for watching and we'll catch you guys next time on another Prizefight. ^M00:03:29 [ Music ]


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Will The Legacy Of Alex Rodriguez Be Tainted Like Barry Bonds?
Alex Rodriguez is currently sitting 599 home runs and—barring a freak injury that puts him out for the rest of the season—will reach the 600 plateau (7th all time) before the end of the season. Only six other players in the history of the league have surpassed 600 home runs and A-Rod will be the only active player in the elite club. Chances are, at the age of 34, Rodriguez will take the #1 spot before his career ends. The man who currently occupies the #1 slot with 762 home runs is none other than Barry Bonds.
It's no secret that Bonds and PEDs have been linked together since his torrid home-run pace blasted off into the new millennium. But there has never been proof Bonds knowingly used performance enhancing drugs. However, his career will always be tainted by the notion and he will always be one of the most polarizing figures in sport's history. Rodriguez, on the other hand, has actually admitted to using steroids from 2001 to 2003 (where he hit 52, 57 and 47 home runs) after vehemently denying he used any performance enhancing drugs for years.
So my question is this: Should A-Rod's legacy be tainted like the one which belongs to Barry Bonds?
Bonds may have never been a media darling, but his level of skill is undeniable, with or without steroids. No matter what anyone says about Bonds accomplishments, without any proof, there shouldn't be an asterisk by his stat totals. He should easily waltz into the hall of fame and go down as arguably the best all-around player in baseball history. It's hard to deny the records he broke and the fact he is a 7x NL MVP, 14x All Star, 8x Gold Glove Award Winner, 12x Silver Slugger and 3x Hank Aaron Award Winner. His career totals of 762 home runs, 2,558 walks, 688 intentional walks—all MLB records—to go along with a career batting average of .298, 1996 RBIs, 2227 runs scored and 1440 extra base hits are nothing short of remarkable. Yet, Bonds will always be demonized with the belief that he knowingly used PEDs.
If you are going to put Bonds' entire career into question, you absolutely must put A-Rod's career in that same space. How could you not? He admitted in a tearful 60 Minutes interview to knowingly used steroids because he was under "an enormous amount of pressure" to perform. I'm not saying I think Rodriguez is a villain. I'm saying he should be subject to the same scrutiny—if not worse—than Bonds. Currently, A-Rod is on pace to break a number of records before his career is over. He's 7th in home runs (599), 20th in RBIs (1784), 18th in extra base hits (1097) and 22nd in runs scored (1733). If A-Rod can play into his 40′s, he's likely to crush a few. But will the media and fans come down on him as much as Bonds? For some reason, I do not think so.
Everything from racism to plain old hate have hovered as reasons why Bonds will not go down in history like Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron or Willie Mays. As for Rodriguez, he may not be the superstar he was before admitting to using steroids, but he is still one of the most recognizable faces in all of sports. Once he hits home run 600, fans will adore him and the media will follow his march towards 763. It'll be interesting to see if the steroid scandal comes up as he inches closer. In all fairness, if they had left Bonds alone, then nobody should bother A-Rod either. Baseball has a tainted past two decades. We will never know who did and didn't use PEDs and perhaps we should just get over it. There are many players who used PEDs and couldn't post numbers close to that of Bonds and A-Rod.
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The below is a repost from Paddlinglight.com Some great helpful hits and gear ideas for winter paddling trips. ~Guy DIRECT LINK: http://www.paddlinglight.com/articles/winter-kayaking-checklist/
Winter Kayaking Checklist
By BRYAN HANSEL | Published: FEBRUARY 23, 2011
Winter offers a constantly changing shorelines to explore when paddling. As the waves roll and the pack ice blows in the shore becomes coated with ice and sometimes the ice piles so high it seems mountainous. Kayaking during the winter presents great risks versus other times of the year… Direct link: http://www.paddlinglight.com/articles/winter-kayaking-checklist/
Gear Checklist Gear choice is so personal that it's hard to make specific recommendations, so I'll list what I think is essential and is on my checklist. When something I've used stands out for winter kayaking, I'll list the specific product with a link.
Drysuit: Other than your kayak, a drysuit will probably be the most expensive piece of gear you buy for kayaking, but it's worth it, because it keeps you warm and dry when paddling in bad conditions. I think back to the days before I had a drysuit and feel grateful that I bought one. My favorite is Kokatat's Gore-tex Meridian Drysuit. Get a relief zipper and get a suit with Gore-tex feet sewn in — there's no negotiation on this point, because you'll regret it if you don't and drysuits last a long time. I like having a sprayskirt tunnel, because it helps prevent water that runs between the suit and the skirt from leaking into the cockpit.
Long underwear: A drysuit only keeps out water and breaks the wind. It's like a winter shell. To stay warm, you need to wear something under. I like to wear Terramar long underwear combined with an union suit. I find that two base layers works well for my legs, but my torso requires more.
Mid-layer: You need a mid-layer or two to keep warm while kayaking in winter. My suggestion is a fleece, crew-neck pullover without a zipper. Once you're on the water, you won't be able to unzip the mid-layer, so the zipper just gets in the way and could rip the drysuit's neck gasket.
Wool socks: When combined with the drysuit's Gore-tex socks and neoprene boots, a wool hiking sock keeps my feet warm.
Neoprene hood: To help minimize cold shock and to keep your head warm wear a neoprene hood, such as NRS's Mystery Storm Hood. I like something thicker, such as a cold-water diver's hood. These hoods should fit tightly to help prevent cold water from flowing in and out of the hood. I have a friend who paddles with swim goggles in winter to help keep the hood tighter on his head.
Neoprene gloves or mittens: It doesn't take long for the winter water to penetrate your gloves and turn your fingers to ice. That's why I suggest thick neoprene gloves for your checklist, such as NRS's Natural Gloves or Toaster Mittens. I prefer the mittens, because they really keep my hands warm. Sometimes too warm! They do restrict your ability to fiddle with stuff, so it's a trade-off you'll need to accept.
Warm neoprene boots: I wear the same ankle high neoprene that I wear all year. Make sure that yours are big enough to fit over wool sock and drysuit socks. On some days, I seal launch from the pack ice and land on it at the end without getting my shoes wet.
Neoprene sprayskirt: It keeps the wind out, gives a secure fit and for some reason doesn't seem to ice to the deck as quickly as other fabrics, but it still ices up. Make sure that your sprayskirt has a wide grab loop and watch it to keep it from freezing closed or to the kayak's deck.
Lifevest: With all the extra clothing on, your regular lifevest might not fit. Before you head out, check it. The other issue with lifevests are the zippers. After they get iced up, it's hard to open them, so if you use the pockets in the vest often think about a vest that using a buckle instead of zippers to close the pockets.
Tow ropes: Because the cold water can quickly incapacitate a swimmer after a wet exit, towing might become necessary. The winter spray often freezes everything to the boat's deck, so those of you that use deck mounted tow ropes or short tows need to switch to waist or pfd mounted systems. Consider a pig tail tow for a quick tow to get paddlers away from the ice.
Rescue Stirrup: The cold water saps the energy out of a swimmer after a wet exit — even one wearing layers of insulation and a drysuit. It can take so much energy out of the paddler that he has a hard time reentering the kayak. An adjustable stirrup can help the paddler get back into the boat by acting as a fabric ladder. Loop it around the cockpit coaming, adjust the height and the paddler can step right up onto it and get back into the boat. Just beware that the buckle might freeze quickly. If it does dip it back into the water until it thaws.
Ice picks: Getting out of the water and onto the ice is difficult and sometimes impossible. You need ice picks that stick into the ice to pull on. Some people use knives or screwdrivers, but with an expensive drysuit near having a tool that covers the sharp points when not in use just seems like a good idea to me.
Communication tools: Carry the standard communication tools, such as a whistle, VHF radio, flares, strobe light and the like. Essentially everything that's on a well-stocked checklist, you should carry in winter.
Other items: Like any kayaking trip prepare by bringing the normal emergency items, such as a two-person or four-person bothy bag, first aid kit, ditch kit, extra clothing, fire starter, stove, hot water, food and so on.
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Here's a list of all the projects I have going ... far too many, but I hope to reduce this number by quite a bit this year.
Ocean Waves
Blue Hydrangeas
Aunt Grace kit
Stained Glass Phoenix
Pete & Jackie's applique wedding quilt
Venice Rose
Lillie's butterflies
Judy Niedermyer Double Wedding Ring
UFOs (ready to be quilted)
Posies & Kittens (Ana Lucia) - finishedMulti-Ethnic Baby Quilt
Amber's Album Quilt - finishedIrish Chain
Lillie's Butterflies
Kaffe Snowballs - finished
UFOs (some blocks done)
1930's Pinwheels & Snowballs
Delectable Mountains
Ohio Stars (HBS-exchange)
Anvils (set with borders)
Orient Express - finishedAlbum Blocks
Dear Jane
President's Blocks
Ross' T-shirts
Tapestry Garden
UFOs (vintage rescues)
Vintage double wedding ring (add border & handquilt)
Vintage Lone Star
Molas from Panama
Sashiko jacket
Burda top & skirt
slip dress & jacket
UFO = UnFinished Object
WHIMM = Work Hidden In My Mind
WIP - Work In Progress (one that takes a while)
I've joined a yahoo group called StashBusters to help with this and for now, here are a couple baby quilts that are going to be the first to get finished. And the Snowballs? They have a date with the quilter at the end of April so that I can have them all finished by my birthday!


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Chicago police this afternoon shot and wounded a teenage robbery suspect they say rammed one officer's vehicle and dragged another officer in a stolen car in the city's Avalon Park neighborhood.
The two officers received only slight injuries, police said.
The 16-year-old suspect was treated and released from a local hospital for a gunshot wound to the hand, Independent Police Review Authority spokesman Mark Payne said.
The suspect remained in custody late Monday but had not been charged.
The speeding car crashed a block away and the offender fled on foot, until he was caught and taken into custody, police said.


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The nightmare's over
Kayla and her kids have you to thank for the new life they have found at Metropolitan Ministries
All Kayla wanted was a second chance after she lost her job as a nurse at a St. Petersburg rehabilitation center. These days, second chances are hard to come by. But being homeless with two kids turned out to be a nightmare.
"All I could think about was making sure my kids got something to eat . . ."
Many nights they stayed at McDonald's until closing. Then she'd either take refuge in a nearby laundromat or find an abandoned building where they could get out of the rain. Until a room opened up at Metropolitan Ministries, they stayed in a local boarding home. But the place was crawling with bedbugs and cockroaches, which "always came back no matter how hard I cleaned." Toward the end, they slept scrunched together in one twin-sized bed. You can imagine the relief when a spot at Metropolitan Ministries opened up.
"Sometimes, you have to gothrough the worst to get something better."
"It was wonderful," Kayla recalls. "And the kids enjoyed being on a bed where they didn't get bit in the middle of the night," she adds. Thanks to your gifts, Kayla is now a full-time student in the premed program at Hillsborough Community College. Her plan is to transfer to the University of South Florida, where she's already qualified for a Pell Grant that covers the cost of tuition and lab fees as long as she lives here. Eventually, she wants to become a doctor, specializing in obstetrics/gynecology. "Troubles from my past are just stepping stones to where I'm going," she says, reflecting on her days on the streets. "Sometimes, you have to go through the worst to get something better."
Kayla and her kids are no longer struggling from day to day. They're thriving, thanks to your kindness. That's the kind of impact you make every time you give!


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Franny Nudelman. John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. x + 226 pp. $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-5557-7; $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2883-0.
Reviewed by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie (Department of History, Howard University)
Published on H-CivWar (January, 2007)
The Death of Nationalism
More than 620,000 soldiers lost their lives during America's Civil War. This human cost exceeded all other wars combined in the nation's history. Such massive casualties have long fascinated American scholars. Robert Penn Warren, Edward Ayers, and James McPherson have all linked civil war violence to the regeneration of American political ideals.[1] Such scholars follow in hallowed footsteps. In what was to become his most famous speech, President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address insisted "that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
Franny Nudelman, an associate orofessor of English at the University of Virginia, is uncomfortable with this traditional linkage of blood sacrifice and national identity. John Brown's Body is one of a series of recent historical works seeking to break with traditional approaches toward America's Great War, especially its nationalist, heroic, and tragic dimensions. Their alternative focus is upon social and cultural topics that fit uneasily into the established narrative.[2] Published in the series Cultural Studies of the United States edited by Alan Trachtenberg, Nudelman's book joins a growing scholarly trend examining the American Civil War outside of its traditional framework.
John Brown's Body examines the role of death in the making of national identity. Using Benedict Anderson's influential notion of "imagined political community," Nudelman shows how the corpse, "an object of commemorative practice and discursive meditation," facilitated the development of familial and national emotional attachments among nineteenth century Americans.[3] At the same time, Nudelman is interested in "how the war dead reveal the limits of such devotion" (p. 177). It is the transformation of mass casualties into new nationhood that is reflected in the book's title. The popular song "John Brown's Body" registers the transformation of a moldering body in the grave into an onward marching soul. As such, "the popular tune exemplifies the tendency of nationalist culture to abstract the effects of violence" (p. 2). The author seeks to reverse this trajectory by focusing upon the first part, the corpse and other dead bodies. Professor Nudelman's methodology draws largely from the Foucauldian notion of the body as a medium of power, in this case the dead body or corpse as representative of real suffering as well as an abstraction for nationalism.[4] These topics--corpses, battlefield dead, dissection, executions, mourning, and violence--loom large in the book's index. In particular, Nudelman scours "the culture of slavery and war to find those rare moments when the dead appear unavailable to transformation-beyond redemption--because I want to make the simple point that far from breeding life, or strengthening community, violence wreaks havoc on our physical and conceptual worlds" (p. 3).
This short book is organized into an introduction, five chapters, and an epilogue spanning 176 pages. The first chapter deals with the regenerative violence of John Brown, how his "martyrdom prefigured a wartime nationalism" (p. 17), and the ways in which Brown's public stature grew notwithstanding Virginia Governor Henry Wise's best efforts to the contrary. The heart of the book consists of the following three chapters organized around those "rare moments" in three discursive contexts of science, sentiment, and punishment respectively. Chapter 2 examines body dissection as racial violence and its literary rupture in Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" (1856), David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829), Thomas Gray's The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831), and the published prison letters of Harpers Ferry black rebel John Copeland. These texts all produced a "radically expanded interiority for the insurgent spirit" (p. 42). It remains unclear, however, what more we learn about these important black revolts and their representative texts through Nudelman's treatment. In addition, it is hard to know why the author uses Charles Wiltse's 1965 edition version of Walker's Appeal when the most authoritative version has been available since 2000.[5]
Chapter 3 contrasts civil war poetry, specifically Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps and its "contribution to a nationalist aesthetic of silence and abstraction" (p. 73), with a series of poetic anthologies by Sallie Brock, Richard White, and others characterized by veracity, immediacy, and ordinariness. I found this to be the most engaging part of the book. Chapter 4 examines photographs of dead corpses, and refutes the argument that these photographs shocked contemporaries with the contention that photographs of dead bodies established a new technological distancing of death far removed from its familial ante-bellum pattern. The author makes much of the contrast between the photographs in Alexander Gardiner's Sketch Book (1866) narrating war as means to national power, and the "poignant and repulsive" (p. 129) images of soldiers' wounds depicted in Thomas Roches's photographs. Having dealt with science and sentiment, chapter 5, oddly titled "After Emancipation," probes punishment, specifically the theatrics of military executions for desertion and rape, and contrasts their major purpose of enforcing state discipline with the questioning of this discipline and its subversion in illustrated weeklies and satirical pictorial envelopes. The point about the disproportionate number of black soldiers who received punishment in the Union army is an important critique of the existing historical literature still primarily concerned with demonstrating the contribution of black soldiers to the Union war effort. The epilogue contrasts Julie Ward Howe's 1861 war anthem with her 1869 Appeal to Womanhood, to demonstrate how an "antebellum utopianism, which imagined the many ways that individuals, martyrs among them, might remake the world, was solely tested by the carnage of war" (p. 171).
The sources for John Brown's Body are eclectic and include violence studies, death studies, and cultural studies, as well as civil war songs, poems, illustrations, and photographs. It should be noted that the identification of historical documents, books, and other sources is difficult because of the absence of a bibliography. This is annoying to those interested in locating the documentary basis of the book who must sift through a half-remembered note to locate an exact citation.
There appear to be three major objectives to this book. Most obviously, the work adds its voice to those who wish to debunk the heroic/tragic narrative of the American Civil War.[6] Moreover, Nudelman seeks to not only "offer historical context for how we continue to think about death in war," but also to "move toward a methodology that reverses the trajectory of abstraction by reconsidering the process of idealization in light of some of the war's particulars" (p. 12). Finally, the author hopes that people in the future will attend to the "effects of violence" and "allow their actions to be transformed by what they learn" (p. 176).
I must challenge some of Nudelman's interpretations. In several places (pp. 150, 152, 156), the author describes emancipation as a state process when many historians argue that it represented a complicated historical process involving self-emancipating slaves and the federal government.[7] Furthermore, I would disagree with the author's view of painter Thomas Waterman Wood's triptych of an ex-slave being changed into a soldier and a wounded veteran as suggesting ultimate dependency on the state (pp. 156-160). Most contemporaries, I think, would have seen an image of loyalty to the federal government. In addition, the author's deconstruction of ex-slave Tripp's whipping in the movie Glory (1989) is ingenious, except it fails to make the obvious point that the 54th Massachusetts Regiment was comprised of free black northern men.
Fanny Nudelman's John Brown's Body raises numerous issues. I will comment on four. There seems to be a major problem documenting those "rare moments" of counter-narrative. In critiquing the argument that photographs of the dead shocked contemporaries, Nudelman makes the reasonable point that it "is not only impossible to gauge the effects of these photographs but also difficult to determine their popularity" (p. 200). Yet, the same criticism may be leveled at the author's own argument for popular responses toward disruptive texts, poems, illustrations, and photographs. Where is Nudelman's evidence that Boche's photographs elicited mass distaste? Moreover, it is hard to avoid the impression that the Civil War's violence did not build beliefs in belonging and nationhood. Indeed, my impression is that at times Nudelman does not seem entirely convinced by her own argument.
While I agree that there is little emotional difference over the loss of a loved one, is there not an important political difference between the deaths of ordinary and extra-ordinary people? Surely the corpses of John Brown and Abraham Lincoln were much more important to the stuff of Union nationalism than those other dead bodies of 360,000 Yankees? The former Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic's unofficial public funeral in Belgrade last March drew a crowd of over 50,000 people. Was this not the death of nationalism? Moreover, it must be emphasized that revolutionary violence is not the same thing as violence in the name of the state. Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, and John Brown were all trying to overthrow the American slave system. This tradition of revolutionary violence was deliberately destructive rather than regenerative of a nation's ideals. Even if there is an argument for its subversive nature beyond the obvious point that it was subversive, both Turner and Brown were depicted as "mad" rather than ideal Americans, a description that continues to resonate today in the minds of many Americans.
Finally, I am surprised at the absence of any serious discussion, or even suggestive commentary, on the most recent manifestation of the problem the author is trying to address in a book published at least one year into the illegal invasion of Iraq. One of the book's aims--that people learn from the effects of violence--could have been better met if the author had focused more on questions of contemporary wartime violence, regenerative nationalism, and those "rare moments" of challenge. After all, the state explains military deaths as the price to be paid for spreading freedom, while at the same time refusing public coverage of returning coffins. In response, the mothers of dead soldiers question the loss of their loved ones, mainstream news organizations report daily on the battlefield casualties, while photograph specials on injured soldiers in the progressive media are poignant reminders of the havoc and loss of wartime violence on a personal level.[8]
John Brown's Body has a place in that historical literature which seeks to challenge the grand narrative of the American Civil War. I would recommend this book to students, educators, scholars, and readers eager for such alternative approaches. Unfortunately, this book and those like it will fly over the heads of most American readers, for whom Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, the dramatic surrender at Appomattox, and the deaths of over 620,000 soldiers continue to inspire unquestioning awe. One is struck by the irony that cultural studies in U.S. history remain distinctly unpopular with American readers. The death of nationalism is alive and well.
[1]. Robert Penn Warren, The Legacy of the Civil War (1961: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983); Edward Ayers, "Worrying about the Civil War," in Moral Problems in American Life: New Perspectives on Cultural History, ed. Karen Halttunen and Lewis Perry (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998); and James M. Mcpherson, What They Fought For, 1861-1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994).
[2]. Alan Trachtenberg, Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans (New York: Hill and Wang, 1989); Timothy Sweet, Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1990); and Alice Fahs, The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001).
[3]. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983), 6-7.
[4]. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (1977; New York: Vintage, 1995), 11, 33.
[5]. David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, ed. Peter P. Hinks (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000).
[6]. For a provocative study of the reality of suffering as a basis for tragedy, see Terry Eagleton, Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003).
[7]. Ira Berlin et al., Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
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About 100 Tea Partiers protested President Barack Obama in Arlington on Sunday, as he was set to give his endorsement of Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe.
The Tea Partiers, who held Ken Cuccinelli signs and shouted out questions regarding Obamacare, Benghazi, the Fast and Furious scandal, and other issues, assembled peacefully across the street from Obama-supporting attendees waiting to enter Washington and Lee public school.
"I just want to be part of showing the great support for Ken Cuccinelli and the great angst at bad government by Obama, and if McAuliffe were to be elected, the coming bad government-they're two of the same kind and cast from the same mold," said Arlene Smith, head of the Arlington County Tea Party. "They don't tell the truth. It's all about getting more power. It's not good for the people. And a lot of people are just being fooled."
Local Young Republicans told Breitbart News their members were among the sign wavers and are out and about, recruiting activists to help with door knocking and phone banking.
"We have two more days to stop Obamacare and help Cuccinelli get over the top. I'm optimistic. The truth is, six out of ten people will come to the polls and vote," said Larry Cirignano of American Catholics for Religious Liberty. "If we get any of those people motivated to come out to vote against McAuliffe or for Cuccinelli, we win."
Attendees appeared more interested in seeing President Obama than McAuliffe himself.
Pat Washington, an Alexandria resident, told Breitbart News, "I'm working the polls on Tuesday, but I am voting for Terry. And I've been an advocate for President Obama since he was running the first time and I helped out when he ran a second time. I went door to door this afternoon for Terry as well."
"I'm here for President Obama. I went to some of his rallies when he was running for re-election and I wanted to see him once he was president," said Jim Hines of Shenandoah County, adding, "I know pretty much about [McAuliffe]. I've been to two of his presentations when he spoke and I read at least one of his websites."


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GREENSBORO, NC --Prosecutors expect to rest their case against John Edwards without calling the former presidential candidate's mistress to the witness stand.
Lead prosecutor David Harbach said in court Wednesday the government expects to finish presenting evidence Thursday with testimony from three federal agents who investigated Edwards. If so, the prosecution will not call Rielle Hunter, the woman whose affair with the married Democrat left him facing six criminal counts related to campaign finance violations.
Defense lawyers also listed Hunter, who has an immunity agreement with the government, as a potential witness. They could still call her to the stand next week.
Prosecutors say Edwards masterminded a plan to use secret payments from two wealthy donors to hide his pregnant mistress during his 2008 campaign. Edwards has pleaded not guilty.


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Whether you are young or old, the Southbroom section of the South Coast has plenty of interesting activities choose from.
Some of the more popular activities are:
Deep-sea fishing -- offered at Shelly Beach & Port Edward (close to Southbroom)
Dolphin / whale watching -- southern right whales and humpback whales appear around the South African coastline from May to December and can often be seen close inshore and near river mouths. Southbroom has many elevated vantage points from which to enjoy the whales. Several coastal dolphin species can be seen throughout the year, especially during the annual sardine run.
Golfing / golf courses -- The KwaZulu-Natal South Coast is also commonly referred to as the "Golf Coast", blessed with nine superb 18-hole Golf Courses. Five of the Top 50 golf courses in South Africa are situated within a 45 minutes drive of Southbroom & the White Shores Guesthouse. The Southbroom Golf Course is one of the finest golf courses to be found anywhere in KwaZulu Natal and offers spectacular sea and surf views from the 4th and 5th tees.
• Southbroom Golf Course - about 1 km away
Beaches -- Swimming & Surfing -- Southbroom boasts two recognised swimming beaches and the coastal walk between them is truly spectacular thanks to the pristine condition of the primary dunes. Its two tidal pools further ensure that the needs of every beachcomber are satisfied.
Bird watching -- Southbroom is a bird lover's paradise with a myriad of habitats to explore.
Diving / shark diving -- Launching from Shelley Beach, the Protea Banks reef is rated as one of the world's best shark diving spots. Species encountered on the reef include: Bull (Zambezi), Tiger, Hammerhead, Thresher, Copper, Dusky, Ragged Tooth, Black Tip, and even the odd Mako shark. There is also a variety of reef fish, ribbon tail skates, moray eels, spotted eagle rays, manta rays and large schools of pelagic fish. Depending on the season one can also see dolphins and whales.
Horse riding -- A number of operators offer horse trails through the coastal bush or along the beaches, including the Oribi Gorge and overnight trips along the Eastern Cape Wild Coast.
Nature reserves -- There are a number of nature reserves in the area offering hiking trails, picnic sites and bird watching -- Oribi Gorge Nature Reserve and the Umtamvuna Nature Reserve are the most well known.
Chartered flights & microlighting -- trips on microlight aircraft allow guests to view and photograph the magnificent scenery of the South Coast from the air.
Hiking trails -- Oribi Gorge, just inland from Port Shepstone, has some excellent hiking trails.
Mountain biking / MTB trails -- Mountain bike trails are offered around Port Edward, and adjacent to the Umtamvuna Nature Reserve. Exciting overnight trails are offered into the Wild Coast, just across the Umtamvuna River.
The sardine run -- (June / July) -- When the sardine run gets going in June / July, Southbroom is the place to be. Schools of up to 500 dolphins make a spectacular sight and can often be seen at play during the sardine run. The guest house is a perfect vantage point!
River bend Crocodile Farm -- One of the South Coast's most popular attractions and home to some of South Africa's the largest crocodiles. The farm also has an enlightening information centre, art gallery and restaurant.
Wild Coast Sun Casino -- A popular entertainment destination located just south of Southbroom.
Arts and crafts -- Original paintings, hand-crafted pottery, beadwork and jewellery from some of South Africa's top artists and crafters can be found in the local galleries.
Dining / Restaurants -- Southbroom has number of good restaurants to choose from.
Extreme adventure -- The more adventurous can enjoy the exhilaration of abseiling by doing the 101 metre rock face at the Oribi Gorge or the king swing, or white-water rafting!
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Home at Last (Abingdon, February 2017)
Why did their differences matter so much?
Link Whitman has settled into the role of bachelor without ever intending to. Now he's stuck in a dead-end job and, as the next Whitman wedding fast approaches, he is the last one standing. The pressure from his sisters' efforts to play matchmaker is getting hard to bear as Link pulls extra shifts at work, and helps his parents at the Chicory Inn.
All her life, Shayla Michaels has felt as if she straddled two worlds. Her mother's white family labeled her African American father with names Shayla didn't repeat in polite–well, in any company. Her father's family disapproved as well, though they eventually embraced Shayla as their own. After the death of her mother, and her brother Jerry's incarceration, life has left Shayla's father bitter, her niece, Portia, an orphan, and Shayla responsible for them all. She knows God loves them all, but why couldn't people accept each other for what was on the inside? For their hearts?
Everything changes one icy morning when a child runs into the street and Link nearly hits her with his pickup. Soon he is falling in love with the little girl's aunt, Shayla, the beautiful woman who runs Coffee's On, the bakery in Langhorne. Can Shayla and Link overcome society's view of their differences and find true love? Is there hope of changing the sometimes-ugly world around them into something better for them all?
About the author:
Deborah Raney's novels have won numerous awards including the RITA, National Readers' Choice Award, HOLT Medallion, the Carol Award, and have three times been Christy Award finalists. She and her husband, Ken Raney have traded small-town life in Kansas-the setting of many of Deb's novels-for life in the city of Wichita.
Find out more about Deborah at http://deborahraney.com.
MY THOUGHTS AND REVIEW OF THIS READ: This is the fifth in the Chicory Inn Series. Deborah draws you into the stories where you feel like you really know the family and the issues that they face. Sometimes, we can all relate to a good story.
In the final installment of this series, Deborah has taken a very tough issue that is so prevalent in our society today. She has taken a look at the prejudices that still exist today. Whether it is against a particular race or even a biracial person too. She also addresses the issue of where a parent is absent and the grandparent(s) have to step in and raise a grandchild.
This follows the journey of Link Whitman and Shayla Michaels as they navigate a relationship that a lot of times society frowns upon and is prejudice against. Will the prejudices bring them together or will it tear them apart? Come follow Deborah Raney in the final installment of the Chicory Inn Series and the Whitman family to see how the story ends.
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Squier Jim Root Telecaster Review
Fans of the guitarist can now get their hands of his signature model more affordably – but how does the Squier Jim Root Telecaster fare?
Jim Root has been one of the key players in two of rock's most noteworthy bands over the past two decades, with Slipknot and Stone Sour. His musical contribution was recognised back in 2007, when Fender honoured him with his own signature Telecaster.
As you might expect, this was a sonically supercharged affair. Now, a more affordable Squier version has been made- a move guaranteed to please the hordes of fans. How does it stack up against its 'full-fat' Fender version?
We take a look in our Squier Jim Root Telecaster review.
Looks and construction
The Squier Jim Root Telecaster is, as the name suggests, based on a Telecaster. The hardware and electronics onboard this guitar makes it a very different instrument from an average telecaster, however.
The body is the familiar, Telecaster Silhouette, crafted, slightly more unusually, from solid Mahogany, and is finished in the same, satin, 'flat' style of the original, in either black or white, with contrasting white or black scratchplate, respectively. A modern 'C' profile maple neck is equipped, which feels a bit slimmer than a typical Tele (to me, anyway…)
The pickups on the Squier are twin, passive humbuckers with plain, black covers. Though they look like active pickups, they're actually passive.
A black, 6-saddle bridge with through-body design, and black tuners finish the guitar's dark, rock aesthetic nicely.
In use
Picking it up, the Jim Root immediately feels like a very well put together instrument. In particular, the neck is a bit of a treat. It has a really nice 'just so' profile, that is not ultra-thin, but certainly feels fast. In part, this is due to the satin matte finish, which is a real pleasure to play.
I suspect that it you regularly play to sweaty mosh-pits (likely, given whose signature model this is…), then this is a feature you'll grow to love- no sticky, gloss finishes here.
You may be disappointed that the two pickups aren't active, but before you start writing to your MP about it, hear me out… It's true that the pickups don't have the same level of gain as the active counterparts on the Fender version. However, they still put in an admirable performance, and are plenty hot.
The flipside is that they're actually pretty versatile, too. Specifying active pickups would have increased cost, or reduced the high quality of build elsewhere, so it's easy to see why Squier did it. Clean tones are nice and thick, and it has plenty of gain for when you need to turn things up to 'metal' levels…
When affordable versions of signature models appear, it's easy to be cynical, or a bit suspicious. It's nice to be able to report that the Squier Jim Root Telecaster is a really great guitar that stands up as a superbly playable, well-built and great sounding instrument, regardless of the celebrity tie-in.
Yes, it doesn't have the active pups of the Fender, but the passive models sound great anyway, and look at the price!! A great spin on the classic Tele and a worthy foil to the more expensive Fender version.


text: Zenfolio | Lincsbirder wildlife photography | My in flight photographs Lincsbirder wildlife photography Home About me My Blog Flickr photostream Published work All photographs Birds in flight Favourites Sue's photos Latest updates Equipment Contact me Home»British birds»My in flight photographs Created 19-May-09 Modified 25-Feb-16 Visitors 2383 1395 photos As you will probably notice from the amount of photographs in this gallery in flight photography is a great favourite of mine.I find it very challenging but at the same time very satisfying, especially when I manage to get it right. There are many aspects that need to be considered in taking good flight photographs, so I have given a few tips below.I'm not guaranteeing that after reading these tips that you will be able to take good bird in flight shots but this is the way I do it and I think you will agree that this method works for me.As you read these tips you will find that in general I use Canon's terminology for most of the camera and lens settings etc. However other makes of cameras usually have the same or very similar settings that can be applied although they may be named slightly differently.Camera bodyI would recommend a DSLR camera body that can shoot at least five frames per second in continuous shooting mode. The more frames per second the better as this will give you a greater chance of catching the wings of the bird in the position you most desire. This isn't to say you can't shoot birds in flight at less than five frames per second it just means your hit rate of keepeable shots may be lower.LensesIdeally a fast focussing telephoto lens. I use the Canon 400mm F5.6L USM lens. It's probably not the fastest 400mm lens but it is light for a 400mm, it's exceptionally sharp even wide open and it's generally acknowledged as one of the best lenses available for in flight photography. I wouldn't attempt birds in flight with anything less than a 300mm lens and idealy 400mm. 500mm lenses and zoom lenses can be used but generally the higher the magnification the larger and heavier the lens. This makes hand holding the lens much harder and can be very tiring on the arms. It is possible to use a tripod for photographing birds in flight but personally having tried this I found a tripod to be far to restricting and I missed many shots that would have been possible if I had been hand holding.I am now also using the Canon 500mm F4 USM IS lens for a lot of my in flight shots finding that the longer reach gives me a few more opportunities than the Canon 400mm F5.6L lens. It is heavy without a doubt but I seem to have found a technique with it that works for me.Camera and lens settings.Set the manual/auto focus switch on the lens to auto. If the lens has a focus limiter switch set this to it's furthest setting, limiting the focus distance of the lens will enable it to lock on to the subject more easily. Set the camera to high speed continuous shooting mode. Set the camera auto focus to A1 Servo AF mode. I use the centre focus point and with the Canon 7D I use the expanded auto focus mode. Set the camera metering mode to centre weighted average. Set the camera to aperture value mode. In aperture value mode the camera looks after the shutter speed. I find an aperture of F5.6 to F8 is usually the best, depending on how close the birds are going to be. On a bright day these aperture settings combined with an ISO speed of 400 will generally give you a fast enough shutter speed to freeze the action. I like to achieve a shutter speed of at least 1/1600sec and preferably higher. If you can't get a shutter speed of at least 1/1600sec then increase the ISO speed until you can or try again on a day with better lighting conditions.ExposureIf the birds are against a lightish background such a a pale blue sky then you will need to apply positive + exposure compensation by + 2/3rds of a stop or even more. If the birds flight path takes it down to the point where you have a landscape background such as water, grass or reeds then you will need to apply normal or even minus - exposure compensation. Most DSLR cameras will allow you to change the exposure compensation whilst firing a burst of shots off although you have to be pretty quick and nimble with you hands to do this.There is no hard and fast rule to exposure settings it all depends on the lighting conditions at the time and the colouration of the bird you are photographing. Experience is the key to this one.TechniqueFirstly you have to learn how to find and track the flying bird in the viewfinder of the camera. Not as easy as you might think but with practice it does become much easier. I'm not going to tell you how to hold the camera and lens that is something that many people do very differently. What I will say is hold the camera and lens in a manner that you are comfortable with and in a way that you can pan and follow the birds movement. Smooth panning is one of the secrets of holding the auto focus point on the bird and getting good sharp images. When you are certain the camera has achieved correct focus on the bird by holding the shutter button halfway down then depress and hold the shutter button fully down and fire the sequence of shots, remembering the smooth panning technique. Always carry on panning for a while after you have taken the last shot in a sequence. Don't abruptly stop the panning movement as the last shot is taken or the last shot will be blurred. If you lose focus by letting the auto focus point move off the bird and the camera focusses on something in the background just release the shutter button altogether and refocus. It's the quickest and easiest way to get that focus locked on the bird again.Lighting conditionsEarly morning or late afternoon is best with the light coming from behind you. You can get the shutter speeds required at other times of the day but the light is often a bit harsh around the midday period. Obviously sunlight is best to achieve the shutter speeds needed and to bring out the detail in the birds plumage.Finally.Practice, practice and practice more. It's not an easy subject to master but is very rewarding when you get it right. I'm no expert and what works for me may not work for you but you will certainly have fun trying.Please note: All the photographs in this gallery can also be viewed in there respective galleries as well. © Lincsbirder wildlife photography Guestbook for My in flight photographs Pete Tanton(non-registered) WOW Fantastic photograpy Luke Broughton(non-registered) Stunning photography! Luke Broughton(non-registered) Fantastic pictures!! Luke Randy Wegener(non-registered) Amazing photography Roger, very impressive!!! Bob Hawkins(non-registered) Great photographs. Very Sharp. Great eyes. Stopped movement completely. The guestbook is empty. Loading... 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WED, DAY 106: The 16% SolutionMay 18, 2005 11:48 pm by Gene Borio
updated May 19, 2005, 8:53 AM
For awhile there, it seemed Philip Morris USA attorney Ted Wells was out in the country happily duck-shooting. And he seemed to have them all in a row and was picking them off one by one.
Over the course of a nearly 8-hour cross, he seemed to establish that there was very little science-based evidence for many of the figures on which Dr. Michael Fiore based the utilization and cost of his National Action Plan for smoking cessation.
I think it made a great deal of sense for the 2002-03 Subcommittee on Cessation of the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health (ICSH), charged by DHHS Secretary Tommy Thompson to develop a national cessation plan, to assemble leaders in the field of smoking cessation programs–local, private and statewide. I think it made sense to accept their avowed figures and their advice, and to extrapolate from their experiences to create a national model. And yet the figures on utilization rates and costs seemed to be plucked out of the air and accepted at face value, with little hard data to back them up, and with little concrete discussion of, say, how much weight the Subcommittee should give the various factors that may increase utilization rates.
Also, I think it made sense to leave the practical details of such a plan for others to develop as part of the actual construction of such a "National Tobacco Quitline Network." And yet the lack of some practicalities seemed to paint the plan as somewhat pie-in-the-sky.
And I think it makes sense that you would have to go about developing something so unprecedented this way; I can understand how with limited science you could — and should–make certain assumptions based on the opinions of the most qualified and experienced people in the country.
But then, I'm biased. And then again, I'm not rule 702 under Daubert.
Mr. Wells' main sticking-point was Dr. Fiore's projected program utilization rate of 16%, ie, that with a "barrier-free" and well-promoted NTQN, 16% of smokers who want to quit would use the service.
The 16% rate posited in Dr. Fiore's plan is based primarily on figures from the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound in Washington. (It has now spun off its smoking cessation arm to create "Free and Clear," a cessation services company that provides smoking cessation quitlines for 8 states.) The figure is a doubling of Group Health's 8% utilization rate from a 600,000-person study of their comprehensive (free counseling and free meds) program. The program had no promotion beyond "physician referral." This 8% figure was doubled –by someone, somewhere, somehow–to achieve Dr. Fiore's projected 16% utilization rate–if the program were promoted.
However, Mr. Wells emphasized that the GHC study participants were far from typical. GHC's program dealt only with enrollees in GHC's managed care group, and those enrollees had steady jobs, had health care, were educated and lived in a region that had relatively low smoking rates. Thus, that 8% figure could be seen as extemely unrepresentative of the U.S. population as a whole, which has a quitline usage rate of 1-2%. Even though there is evidence that aggressive media promotion increases the use of tobacco control programs, the Subcommittee's rationale for doubling the 8% GHC rate simply didn't exist. It apparently just seemed right to the experts.
Mr. Wells pointed out that if you have 16% of smokers using the program, the program will have a high cost–Dr. Fiore's $3.2 billion/year. But at 8%, costs would go down to $1.6 billion, at 4%, only $800 million, etc.
In fact, Mr. Wells accused the subcommittee of ignoring GHC's later experience running Washington's own statewide quitline, where the rate was more consistent with the 1-2% national utilization rate.
Mr. Wells went through all 5 meetings of the Subcommittee, scouring the transcripts to see if there were any discussion of the appropriateness of using the 8% figure, or why it was doubled. There appeared to be no real record of any such discussions.
This became an extremely contentious issue, as Dr. Fiore seemed reluctant to cede any ground at all to the defense. His answers seemed oblique to the questions, and Mr. Wells even began crowding the witness stand, asking forcefully,
MR. WELLS: DID THEY (the Subcommittee members) HAVE DISCUSSIONS AMONG THEMSELVES?
DR. FIORE: I'm not sure what I can add.. .
Mr. Brody objected, saying the question had been "asked and answered," and wondering why Mr. Wells had to ask the question from so near the witness stand rather than back at the podium.
Mr. Wells apologized and scurried back while Judge Kessler asked Dr. Fiore, "It's a simple question, yes or no, did the subcommittee discuss the issue?"
Dr. Fiore obviously had no recollection of such a discussion, but told how the Subcommittee had listened to the Free and Clear presentation, and had talked about it and ultimately had adopted its recommendations. Mr. Wells said this implied a discusion, so was there a discussion, "in any way, shape or form" about the appropriateness of using the 8% utilization rate? "How could they not consider it appropriate, by voting on it and endorsing it?" Dr. Fiore said. "I can't give you specific words, on specific days."
Judge Kessler came in again, and said, "That wasn't the question. At some point, was the subject discussed? I'm not asking what the substance was."
Dr. Fiore said, "We discussed the presentation of Free and Clear in detail. Others responded to it as well, in other testimony."
Judge Kessler didn't physically throw up her hands, but yes, she threw up her hands. "All right, Mr. Wells, please [go on]."
Dr. Fiore didn't seem to be purposefully evasive, for the most part. I don't know how he was coached for this session, but he seemed unreasonably unwilling to concede an inch, and there were definitely times when he should have. After this episode, there were several other similar instances, and, for the first time in the trial, the reporters in the gallery actually got a bit vociferous in their impatience with his answers, muttering lowly but intensely, "Just say, yes!" or "Just say, right!"
Altria litigation spokesman John Sorrells felt Dr. Fiore's awkwardness was because of his inexperience. I had assumed otherwise, because of all the "you read that correctly"s, but yes, lack of previous live testimony might explain his unease on the stand.
But Dr. Fiore could do little about the dangerous record Mr. Wells was inexorably constructing, a record that could make a strong impact on an appeals court judge–or even Judge Kessler herself in a Daubert challenge: a record that could conceivably demonstrate a dire lack of "sufficient facts or data" to back up his expert opinion, as required by Federal Rules of Evidence #702.
Mr. Wells started to go through each transcript of the 5 subcommittee meetings–and these transcripts were filled with misspellings and even, at one critical point for this trial, stopped altogether while the tape was changed(!)–asking Dr. Fiore, "would you accept my representation that there was no discussion or evaluation of any subcommittee member in regards to the appropriateness of using the 16% figure for the purposes of costing out a national quitline?"
Judge Kessler stopped him at the second such question:
JUDGE KESSLER: Why do we have to go through this? I know the record you are trying to build. In making that argument, it is either in the record–or not–of the subcommittee's proceedings. I don't think any of it is necessary at this point.
Mr. Wells similarly attacked Dr. Fiore's other funding proposals–the $1 billion/year for a comprehensive media campaign for smoking cessation (this figure was extrapolated from the "Fairness Doctrine" years 1966-1970), the $500 million/year for research on cessation, and the $500 million/year for medical school cessation training.
Mr. Wells' cross will not only provide fodder for an appeals court overturn, but, should anyone decide a National Quitline is an appropriate remedy, the cost to the Defendants may be considerably scaled down.
Mr. Wells attacked Dr. Fiore's acceptance of pharmaceutical company funds for research and consulting. He showed that the American Journal of Public Health article in which he described the National Action Plan did not include a disclosure of these funds. Judge Kessler asked, "Isn't it general procedure or requirement for peer-reviewed journals that the authors disclose any financial connections whatsoever creating the appearance of a conflict?"
"Yes," said Dr. Fiore, "and what I can't recall is at the time, what if any discussion there was about copying the conflict of interest form to the actual article. This is an oversight and I don't know why it was made."
[Mr. Brody later introduced evidence that a disclosure letter had indeed been sent to AJPH.]
Mr. Wells then attempted to highlight the legal obstacles to a court-ordered "barrier-free" national cessation program–that there would be no requirement that a smoker prove he or she smoked the defendants' brands, or had relied in any way on misrepresentations of any of the defendants.
DOJ attorney Stephen Brody delivered a fairly robust reclamation of Dr. Fiore, successfully dismissing at least one important Defense document with a dubious provenance, and providing Dr. Fiore with at least some semblance of "sufficient facts and data." (I'm not sure why we were missing so much of it before Mr. Brody rode to the rescue.)
He established real-world cost estimates of daily patch use, and the legitimacy and necessity of extrapolating the experiences of other quitlines and promotions to a national level.
Judge Kessler admitted Dr. Fiore as an expert–but the Daubert question still hangs over his testimony. Defense will file written papers, undoubtedly requesting the heart of his testimony be thrown out.
On a deeper level, it is unclear to me how DOJ will justify this particular "remedy."
Dr. Fiore does address February's Appeals Court decision, but only in one short, cryptic sentence in his Expert Report:
It is my understanding that one of the goals of a cessation program will be to prevent and restrain future conduct by defendant tobacco manufacturers through the reduction or elimination of smoking within many groups.
If that makes little sense to you, you're not alone. Presumably, the how of this restraint will be discussed in closing arguments.
Another odd aspect of Dr. Fiore's filings is that the actual assigning of the cost of the program to the Defendants is never stated either in his Expert Report nor in his Written Direct. Everyone–including Defense and DOJ–just seems to assume the bill is to be laid at Defendants' door, and Dr. Fiore verbally confirmed that on the stand Tuesday.
The court was able to squeeze in about 30″ of testimony from Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids CEO Matt Meyers. Mr. Myers' written direct testimony has already been eviscerated, and is now down to maybe 20 pages, less than 1/3 what it was. He is not allowed to address the negotiations leading up to the June 20, 1997 Proposed Resolution. I believe this is because a) the PR was a package deal–all the elements were a part of a package, and can not be considered individually, and b) it was never enacted.
However, Mr. Myers may discuss the differences between the 1997 PR and the 1998 MSA.
I must say I worried for Mr. Bernick as he began his cross of Mr. Myers. He stumbled badly when he began, "Your organization is called the Cen–Center- the Coalit –the–the—???." He actually began to sputter! Finally, mercifully, he nonverbally asked Mr. Myers to remind him of the name, "Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids." Oh, I tell you it was a terrible sight to see.
I know it's been a long trial, and yes, Mr. Bernick must be under a lot of strain–he has certainly been doing most of the heavy lifting here, laboring away while Mr. Wells and Mr. Webb "supervise." But, even so, in all that vast trove of knowledge he has, for him to lose that one piece of information–his own witness' organization . . . !
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO will hold its next summit in Britain in 2014, as the alliance winds down combat operations in Afghanistan, it said on Friday.
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In Vietnam, Denmark has chosen three areas to focus on in regard to green growth: energy efficiency, renewable energy and environmental protection. These are areas where Danish companies and institutions have cutting-edge technologies that match Vietnamese needs and challenges for green transition.
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Under a bilateral agreement between the Danish Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate (MEUC) and the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT), Danish Energy Agency assists Vietnam in increasing the national power sector planning. The outcome of this activity will be better understanding among decision makers on how to best integrate renewable energy, such as solar and wind energy, into the power system at the least cost and with a high level of security of supply. A power sector analysis model is being implemented, and national institutes are being trained in the use of it.
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Nature, it seems, must always clash with Art,
And yet, before we know it, both are one;
I too have learnt: their enmity is none,
Since each compels me, and in equal part.
Hard honest work counts most! And once we start
To measure our the hours and never shun
Art's daily labor till our task is done,
Nature once more freely may move the heart.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
I used to be completely unaware of politics in America. That changed several years ago when I found myself working for a non-profit devoted to keeping manufacturing jobs alive in America as part of a national network, our focus area was the Chicago metropolitan area.
That work required that I be able to think and act as a non-partisan, and understand Illinois, Chicago and national politics particularly when I wrote grants for government-funded projects. The non-partisan perspective has stayed with me.
That's why I watched the Republican National Convention tonight, which to my surprise, was emotionally riveting at times. I found myself crying at the stories of some of the common people who knew Mitt Romney as a decent and generous person. Various speakers brought up some thought provoking points, and the odd appearance by Clint Eastwood made me laugh.
I was able to appreciate Mitt Romney's talking points until he said that Obama's goal was to lower the level of the seas and heal the earth as President, while his goal would be to help families.
To me, this is the same as saying that there must be a conflict between nature and art as we see in this poem of Goethe from the 19th century.
In the 21st century, too many people seem to believe we can't care for nature, create jobs and build a strong economy. The truth is that what we believe becomes true.
The creation of green jobs could have been a focal point of the last four years for Obama, but it wasn't. There are only so many changes any administration can push through, and healthcare ended up becoming Obama's signature program.
Going into 2008, there was a momentum in the business world to create partnerships with government. I had been involved in one of them and had such high hopes for what Obama could accomplish.
When the Republicans embellished Climategate (taking a position many large businesses did not share), Obama allowed the creation of green jobs to be put on the back burner for the most part. I was telling a friend the other day, that it is a sad truth that it was easier to get funding for environmental projects when George W. Bush was in office than it has been under Obama.
In his speech tonight, Romney pointed to the fact that most Americans are not better off than they were 4 years ago. This is not good for Obama's re-election chances. Memory reminds me that Bush Sr lost to Bill Clinton because of jobs, and Jimmy Carter to Reagan too. Romney is neither a Clinton or Reagan, but he might not have to be.
We live in a time when humans have the potential to find a way to create art with our lives working with nature, not in opposition to it. This opportunity does not need to impede us from caring for our families or creating meaningful work. Ideally greener work could build stronger families.
Tonight my sustainable heart saddened noting how little progress the federal government has made in supporting green and clean technology in America. You would think if America could send a man to the moon in the 1960's, we could develop renewable energy rapidly too!
I hope whomever the next American president turns out to be in November, will realize that we can and must care for the earth and take climate change seriously while working to create new jobs for our citizens.
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What do you think of the idea that nature must clash with art?
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After 29 years in advertising I retired to work full time on painting with watercolors. In business we often did illustrations for our print media... but always quite product specific. Now I paint semirealistic images as well as abstracts that are considerably more gratifying. For instance, above I've incorporated a depression era glass bowl which was my grandmother's.
I received my bachelor's degree in graphic design from The University of Illinois in 1979. And after that aforementioned little stint in advertising, I now work exclusively in watercolors traveling to an average of ten art shows a year.
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There is only one being, continuous, material and motionless. Let's take a moment to examine a number line.
It's pretty simple to understand. The line represents a distance and the | characters symbolize different points on the line-the exact points are differentiated by the number below them. Any number line is understood to have contained points which aren't necessarily designated by a number. For example, on the above number line we know that between 5 and 10 we can find the point 7. This example is illustrated below.
In fact, it is understood that there are an infinite number of points on any number line. Between 5 and 7 we can find the points
Rulers are examples of how we might commonly use a number line. Different rulers mark off different distances such as yards, feet, inches, centimeters and millimeters and so on. Obviously rulers cannot be used to measure all distances because some distances may be too small to be measured practically with the naked eye.
Hypothetically speaking, let's say you had a worm and a razor blade. Let's also hypothesize that this particular worm is two inches long. Now if you were to cut this worm exactly in half you should have two worms each one inch long. If you then took one of those one inch pieces and cut it in half you would then have two pieces each one fourth of an inch long-I don't really know how many times you can cut a worm in half before it stops becoming two worms and just becomes pieces of worm.
Theoretically, if you had the right tools, you should be able to continue cutting that worm in half forever. You simply take one of those 1/4 inch pieces, cut it and then you have a 1/8 inch piece. Then you cut it again and you have a 1/16..1/34..1/68..1/136..etc. And why not? If you placed this worm (prior to cutting it at all) on a number line and found it covered the distance between 1 and 2 (and we all know there are an infinite number of points on a number line) then you should be able to use the worm as a kind of ruler and be able to locate an infinite number of points on it.
Okay, so now we know worms are an infinite number of points long. Skyscrapers are also an infinite number of points long. Therefore, worms are as tall as skyscrapers. Skyscrapers as tall as worms.
Because everything has an infinite number of points and is infinitely divisible, and then everything must be equal in length (width, height, etc.). How is this possible? Simple. The universe isn't made up of many different things. It's just one singular object. Okay, let's consider another point. You might think it's reasonable to believe that you walked across the room and sat down in the chair in front of your computer, yet, as I will explain momentarily, such a notion is ludicrous because motion is an illusion.
If motion is an illusion then clearly the universe is not made up of many different objects (e.g. a chair, a battleship, a moon) but rather the universe is one large singular object. When you see someone walk across a basketball court you tend to think you are observing motion. But what are you really observing? This person appears to be traversing from point A to point B across the court.
Let's say that it takes this person 15 seconds to appear to move from point A to point B. If this is the case, then the person is traveling through an infinite number of points in a finite amount of time because the line the person walks from point A to point B can be represented as a number line (and we know that number lines contain an infinite number of points).
Because infinity implies no end, it's impossible for anything to travel through an infinite number of points in a finite (limited) amount of time. Therefore any apparent motion is actually an illusion. The reason this person cannot move across the basketball court is because the assumption that many things exist also assumes that everything is divisible and therefore the distance that anything must move is divisible into an infinite number of points. And if, then, a person moving across a basketball court can never reach any point without first reaching its previous midpoint and if there are an infinite number of points, it is impossible to traverse this infinite number of points in a finite amount of time. Motion, then, is an illusion and there is only one being, continuous, material and motionless.
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But there is single player mode, I would love to see a trainer for this game.
Being online only has two effects.
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2. It makes changing stats difficult if they're stored online. This makes options very limited.
Diablo 3 was a very good example of always having an online connection destroying an opportunity to make a good trainer.
I've read on their forum they plan an ingame shop, might be the reason why there is no offline mode. However as long as there is no offline single player, there won't be a trainer on CH for this game.
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It was after the first year that people began talking about the change in Edward Derby. It was very casual talk, for the change was purely psychological; but it brought up some interesting points. Now and then, it seemed Edward was observed to wear an expression and to do things wholly incompatible with his usual flabby nature. For example - although in the old days he could not drive a car, he was now seen occasionally to dash into or out of the old Crowninshield driveway with Asenath's powerful Packard, handling it like a master, and meeting traffic entanglements with a skill and determination utterly alien to his accustomed nature. In such cases he seemed always to be just back from some trip or just starting on one - what sort of trip, no one could guess, although he mostly favoured the Innsmouth road.
Oddly, the metamorphosis did not seem altogether pleasing. People said he looked too much like his wife, or like old Ephraim Waite himself, in these moments - or perhaps these moment
This story, along with The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, is one of Lovecraft's best-written. The Necronomicon stuff barely intrudes at all in a story that slowly builds in dread until a horrifying ending. The characters have depth and the descriptions are precise and effective. It even has a woman as a character (rare, for Lovecraft.)
It deals with a narrator who gradually watches a friend change over the years as he investigates black magic and marries a creepy woman.
Glub . . . glub . . . glub. Let's all have ourselves cremated when we die.
Awesome read!! I couldn't move my eyes from the screen! Not scary but definitely interesting. Loved it!
Creepy horror story about one man's experiments with black magic and marriage. His wife turns out to be more than he bargained for.
Like many of Lovecraft's classic horror stories this one shows just how alone we really are. When the inexplicable occurs there is nobody to turn to and madness steals over the world unchecked. A powerful tale of black magic.


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"In Luxe Knits I wanted to show how design evolves: from an initial inspiration to an interpretation of technique; from technique to fashion sketches; and from sketches to an actual garment."
So begins the introduction to Laura Zukaite's new book, a collection of 26 sweaters and accessories. The 'luxe' part has to do with the fibers she chose to work with—silks, cashmeres, handpainted linen, etc. But even if you can't afford to treat yourself to an expensive skein of yarn, Laura's garments are well worth working up in more affordable fibers. And her creative exploration of tried and true knitting moves make this book well worth investing in.
For example, the first chapter explores knitted folds in stockinette stitch—the technique in which you knit a few rows then pick up a previous row of stitches to create a horizontal tuck. Laura uses delicate rings of sculpted tucks to trim the cuffs on sleek cashmere gloves and to embellish a simple striped hat. In other projects, tuck-folds help an attached scarf fold and drape and on a simple rectangular shrug, they make a striking design element
In subsequent chapters, Laura explores the possibilities in smocking, cables, combining yarns of different colors to create tonal effects, honeycomb patterns, and freeform crochet. (A perfectly plain stockinette sweater with a crocheted butterfly to fill in the cut-out back is one of several truly knockout pieces.) Bags, gloves, mitts, even jewelry find a place in Luxe Knits, as well as sweaters, wraps, and two very wearable skirts.
Not least of the pleasures in Luxe Knits are Laura Zukaite's fashion illustrations. It's fun to see the imagined piece in counterpoint to the photo of the final, realized sweater. And knitters will appreciate the book's layout. Instructions for each design are shown with multiple photos of the garment. As you knit, you can check the instructions against the pictureS.