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Not much has changed. For instance, let's examine one of Slate's contributions to the 200th anniversary of Abraham' Lincoln's birth this week: Timothy Noah's "belated review" of Our American Cousin, the play that Lincoln was watching as he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865.
It's an oh-so-Slate experience. The play, it turns out, is "terrible." Noah adds that its author, Tom Taylor, was "widely excoriated as a hack" roughly 35 years after that tragic performance at Ford's Theatre for which it is remembered. (Ford's Theatre, by the way, has now reopened after a few years of rehab. Full review next weekend.)
Before he launches into a snarky plot summation of the play, Noah writes:
What was it like to watch? To grasp that, you really have to read it, something I did recently to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth. To spare you from doing the same, I provide what is (as best I can tell) the only detailed synopsis available anywhere.
Insert heavy sigh here. There are so many things going wrong here that I'm frankly astonished. (And we'll get to all of them in a moment.) But larger questions loom: What precisely is the point of this exercise? How is it educating the reader at all?
I ask because -- when you scratch a bit below the surface -- there are any number of very interesting things lurking in any exploration of Our American Cousin. About theater. About women's history in American theatre. About Lincoln.
First, let's take the merits of the play -- a discussion that Noah flubs comprehensively. No, I am not going to say that Our American Cousin is some sort of neglected classic. But we can't really know much about how good or bad Taylor's version of Our American Cousin was because we don't have a copy of his original script.
Here's why we don't have it. According to Welford Dunaway Taylor, who edited an edition of the play published in 1990 (Beacham Publishing), Our American Cousin was written by Tom Taylor in 1851 as a melodrama based on his experience of the cultural clashes imported by numerous American visitors to the famous exhibition of Britain's Victorian culture at Crystal Palace in 1851. He sold to a British producer for 80 pounds, but that producer never put the show on in Britain. The playwright gave the American rights to Joshua Silsbee -- the American actor for whom Taylor wrote the main part of Asa Trenchard (the "American cousin").
When Silsbee died without the play being done, Taylor tried again -- assigning a British journalist to find a buyer for the play. That journalist found Laura Keene, whose name is forever linked to Lincoln's assassination as the actress who was featured in the production at which the president was killed. (That's her name in big letters on the playbill above from that fatal night.)
Keene's story is one of the most interesting in 19th Century American theatre without any mention of Lincoln or Ford's Theater. Indeed, her life has all the stuff of the American dream: Keene emigrated from Britain as a single mother with two children -- and she rose quickly on her talents as an actress to become the first female entrepreneur in the bumptious world of New York theatre. (There is an excellent account of her astonishing and fleetingly successful career as a theater mogul in Faye E. Dudden's Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences 1790-1870, published in 1994 by Yale University Press.)
But back to that lost script. Keene was always desperate for new material to fill her calendar, so she bought the play lock, stock and barrel for $1000. (Dudden writes that Keene's "most pressing problem was the never-ending struggle to find the next new play, the next new draw.")
In his introduction to the 1990 edition, Welford Dunaway Taylor observes that when Keene took possession of Our American Cousin, she altered it greatly -- largely in an effort to get actors to play in it. Taylor's melodrama suddenly became a comedy. And some of the actors that agreed to take parts demanded permission to "gag" (i.e. "improvise") their parts to cull laughs from the audience.
The actor who took the part of the lisping and effeminate Lord Dundreary, for instance, managed to "gag" his part from a mere 47 lines to become the center of the comic business of the play -- actually displacing the "American cousin." Edward Askew Sothern became a star as he did so, and much of the play's continuing popularity from its New York opening in 1858 and past 1865 to Keene's death in 1873, came not from Taylor but from the new funny business that Sothern and the rest of the original cast wove into the British play about a funny talkin' American in Britain. (So the play that Noah synopsizes is likely less the play written by Taylor than it is a sort of collaboration -- or collision -- between playwright and ensemble.)
Even on the night of Lincoln's assassination, the actors found ways to ham it up in topical ways. The end of the war a few days before the April 14th performance -- and the end of the conscription of troops -- occasioned this bit of ad-libbed nonsense between Dundreary and a female character:
GEORGINA: If you please, ask the dairy maid to let me have a seat in the dairy. I am afraid of the draft here.
DUNDREARY: Don't be alarmed. There is no more draft.
The Dundreary character in particular became a staple of American culture -- inspiring numerous spinoffs and ripoffs. Which brings us to Abraham Lincoln -- and why he might have liked Our American Cousin.
The cult of Lincoln loves to drone on and on about his love of Shakespeare -- and he certainly was fond of the historical tragedies. But you don't hear much about Lincoln quoting the Bard's comedies. His tastes in humor ran in a coarser and folksier vein -- such as the comic epistlatory fiction of David Ross Locke, who wrote under the nom de plume "Rev. Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby." The Nasby letters were stinging satires of the Democratic party and its willingness to compromise with the rebels (a sampling here), and Lincoln loved to read them aloud to Cabinet members and other guests -- many of whom loathed the experience.
The comedy of Our American Cousin runs largely in that vein. Silly physical comedy. Wordplay that emphasizes the rich descriptive vulgarity of American speech -- and central characters who prick at the puffery of "Old Europe" and celebrate the fair play and common sense of the American character. The perfect light-hearted nonsense for a war-weary president.
So far from worrying, as Noah does, about the "aesthetic experience" that Lincoln had in his last hours, it's easy to see that he was likely after some good old-fashioned and utterly familiar comic relief.
And when you look more deeply into it, there are some fascinating stories as well.
(Playbill image from the Library of Congress.)


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|2012-02-14, 07:50
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Join Date: Mar 2010
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Age: 29
It's bothering me a bit. Is the protagonist really strong? What is the hierarchy of titles like "breeder" and "arch-dragoneer" as well as "paladin"? Also, what is "knight of Avalon"? And why Ash is the only one who can ride any dragons.
And from LN illustrations, why are there so many tentacle scenes in this series!?
I also wonder out of the 4 princesses of that knight country, which of them have fallen in love with him. I want to know how many strong people who can't become a breeder but still kick-ass like Veronica. Also, the identity of the mask guy.
|2012-02-14, 08:23
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let see..
- each breeder must make contact with some entity called Mother Dragon
- if mother dragon accept the breeder, he/she will gained some mark on the body
- the mark grow and unique pattern shown your dragon progress and power
- as the dragon ready, it'll born to the world through the mark
- possibility for the dragon to die before birth also present like normal pregnancy
- Most dragon have serpent or lizard like appearance but Eiko is special case
- Ash mark is extra ordinary wide, almost cover his entire left hand
- Ash 'pregnancy' also extra ordinary long, like what happened if you cook lot's of food in one go
- Eiko human like appearance is temporary, since we see her in the cover with her own dragon body
probably because Ash 'pregnancy' of Eiko took longer than usual, much dragon take a sympathy, thus make them ride-able for Ash, or may be Mother Dragon designated Ash to be like that and bestowed him with Eiko
(I suspect Eiko to be Mother Dragon too or it's successor)
Ash still newbie in combat, but in term of special power, he's extraordinary, if in combat he meet stronger dragon, he'll just kick the rider off and ride it himself
Breeder is the standard title..but Arch Dragonar..much like Arch-Mage..is high class level..like Sage or Guru.
Paladin..it's tied to allegiance of one Breeder to some kingdom or royalty or honor/praise for his/her ability
Veronica is not chosen by Mother Dragon may be because some trait in her that not need such aid or unfit for dragon host
and due to the rejection, she designated her self to be more badass than the one bestowed upon, by become researcher with the desire to research (dissect) unique dragon or/and it host
to find out why Mother Dragon reject her
|2012-02-14, 08:47
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I suppose the reason why Veronica and Angela weren't accepted as breeders was because the mother dragon knew they'd be too much to handle (trying to dissect dragon) imo.
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|2012-02-15, 17:44
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|2012-02-15, 18:02
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hey,guys look in link the picture of Eiko in vol.7 which launched late last month.
it appears Eiko in her adult form, navi in vol. whole and I think it will look like in the next vol. also.
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|2012-02-15, 23:28
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But why her horn change color?, Loli Eiko have a pair of cute horn that look like golden orb or hair accessories, but her sexy form have it more like normal-pointed upside-horn with dark color
Yuuto case:
he want to copulate with Himari, but if he did, he'll strangled to death by Rinko, choked with allergies by Himari's fur, have his dick shriveled down by Kuesu magic, and poisoned by Shuzuku's bite
Ash case:
he want to ride any dragon, but can't since Eiko won't like it, but if he try to ride Eiko, he'll be punished by Student council President, the Princess, and others, since Eiko is the mascot. Leave that aside, Eiko is too selfish and didn't want to be ridden, but riding Ash
And as if it not enough, other girl want to "ride" him too XD
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|2012-02-19, 05:24
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I finished reading the first two volume and half way through volume 3 and it was interesting. The first 7 chapter of manga covers volume 1 of the LN and chapter 8 is the start of volume 2.
There are 4 Titles of those who have Dragons.
People who was granted a dragon larva from the *Mother Dragon* and who successfully gave birth to them. The first title everyone gets if they have a dragon.
Those who successfully made their pal(partner) mature into a *Holy-Dragon*. The second title people can get. So far there are 3 or 4 people at the Academy who has this title(Up to volume 3).
-Ark Dragnar
Those who gained an armor from their *Holy-Dragon* gets this title. They also get special power(?) called Koyu-masou. In the Academy only Rebecca has this title(Up to volume 3). Only a certain number of people has them, and it's very high title.
A title above Ark Dragnar. Seems like the title for the King(Silvia's father).
Also so far there are 3 types of baby dragons.
-Earth Dragon, Aashia. Stands on four legs and has no wings. It is said to look like a big lizard.
-Wing Dragon, Strider. Has two legs and a gigantic wing.
-Water Dragon, Hydra. It has a snake like torso.
The three dragon above then mature and evolve into:
-Holy Dragon, Maestro. So far 5 people only have this dragon at the Academy. Each Maestro has the attribute of "Light" and their former attribute(eg. water, wind, earth). They have a silver white colour. Maestro looks basically the same but with certain difference. Their horn has a different shape. Or the size is different. Rebbeca's Maestro is much larger than others.
Other Dragons
Well I'm only up to volume 3 but there are other dragons who is different from above.
-Mother Dragon
-Necromancia. A dragon created from the Ash of dragon. It has a regeneration ability and gains lots of tentacles like things.
|2012-02-19, 05:41
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|2012-02-19, 05:45
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I still wonder what Eiko really is...I mean I know she is a dragon but like yuo say she is not like the other.XD I hope the manga cath up fast.
|2012-02-19, 05:57
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That's Ash and Navi. Navi is like a another conscious of Eiko. I think She says that her appearance is based on Eiko in 5 years time
|2012-02-19, 06:08
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No to mention how a dragon can be like that lol.
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Local Park Profile – Jason Lee Park is Quiet and Clean
Across the street from Jason Lee Elementary School, Jason Lee Park had everything my 5-year-old son and I needed for a perfect a bonding time.
It has one small set of climbing toys for children, several beautiful evergreen trees, a very small batting fence for kick-ball games or non-serious batting practice, two or three benches and tables perfect for picnics and a wide open field.
My son's favorite thing about this park was its climbable trees. My favorite thing was how clean it was.
The surface below the climbing toys was wood chips. The grass was not mowed recently, but was dense and even – perfect for throwing a Frisbee or kicking a soccer ball around.
This park was in a nice neighborhood and was close to, but not on, Van Giesen.
This is not the right park for a serious baseball, softball or soccer game. Nor would it be right for a large family reunion. It would be perfect for playing catch with Fido or a small get-together.


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Invitation to Spider Fest, Oct. 29
October 24, 2012
Hello Community,
It's that time again - there's a chill in the air, leaves are turning, and spiders are ballooning and decorating our world with webs.
It's SpiderFest Time!
You, your family and friends are cordially invited to SpiderFest
First floor hallway of Bodine and the Binford lab (Bodine 102)
Monday, October 29
5-8 pm
Our goals for SpiderFest are to welcome you into the lab, celebrate the phenomenal biodiversity represented in arachnids, and introduce you to the science we do. We hope to inspire you, demystify arachnids and debunk some of the myths around them.
We will:
• demonstrate how we collect venom by electrostimulation
• show how we bioassay the activity of venom chemicals on insects
• have demonstrations of live spiders catching prey by biting them
• have student demonstrations/presentations about their research projects
• do whatever else my creative group of students comes up with!
If that's not enough, we will serve spider inspired treats and venomous brew punch, have "make your own spider stations", AND you can try your luck at pin-the-tail-on-the-vinegaroon!
If you want to know what a vinegaroon is, you'll have to come by SpiderFest.
Please bring your curiosity and your friends of all ages.
Happy October!
Greta and her excellent lab team.
p.s. Meanwhile, you can admire photos of the Spiders of Lewis & Clark at the following website - http://library.lclark.edu/projects/spiders/
This is a website put together by students in my Fall, 2010 Perspectives in Biology course in collaboration with Watzek Digital Initiatives.


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So Germany and Argentina are the the final two teams remaining in what has arguably been the best World Cup ever.
This will be the the third time the two sides have met in a final - 1986 in Mexico (when Argentina won 3-2) and 1990 when West Germany were 1-0 victors in a bad-tempered contest in Rome.
Brazilians, so chastened by that 7-1 drubbing on Tuesday, have been urged by Germany to support their conquerors over bitter rivals Argentina. Neymar, however, is backing his Barcelona team-mates Lionel Messi and Javier Mascherano to beat Germany at the Maracana on Sunday.
So will Joachim Low's men become the first European team to win in the Americas? Or can Messi finally justify those comparisons with Diego Maradona and win football's highest accolade?
Debating these issues and more are Argentine writer Marcela Mora y Araujo (@marc_cart) and sports journalist and blogger Tobi Remberg (@TobySoprano) from German TV station MDR.


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DynaZoo turns animal matching into a fun frenzy. A world of 100 different kinds of animals. Challenge? They move. They flip. They hide. They change size. And they fade in and out. Catch and pair them as fast as you can because every second counts.
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"Easy to play, hard to master." "Addictive and fun." DynaZoo helps you develop memorization, cognitive and tracking skills. Each session is short (less than 5 min) but intense because you'll be competing against time. Every time you'll be asked to match 28 random pairs. In Easy mode, animals move. In Medium mode, they move and change size. In Hard mode (full version), they move, change size, and flip horizontally. In Pro mode (full version), they do all of the above but become more elusive by constantly fading in and out. Animals also move faster at higher levels. Sometimes animals like to cluster and make it harder for you to spot or catch them. Solution? Double tap to create a thunder and catch them when they run amuck and relocate.
Filled with lively music and dynamic animals, DynaZoo is a fun game for all ages. Having a couple of minutes to kill? DynaZoo definitely lets you pick up a quick good game.
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Last week, good friends Andy Warde and Stefan Janoski teamed up for a show of paintings and sculptures at the UNIV Work Shop in Encinitas, California. The show, titled, Voyages was an epic success, bring skaters, artists, friends, and family together for a fun night of art, music, and good vibes. Andy Warde's surrealistic paintings along with Janoski's whimsical sculptures mesmerized the guests while the sounds of Yovee and DJ Chris Cote set the epic vibe. Check out andywarde.com for more of Andy's work, and be sure to go to afuckingwebsite.com for you Janoski fix.
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Rickey Bustle begins his first season as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for North Carolina A&T's football program in 2013.
Bustle has been a part of nine bowl teams during his collegiate coaching career and brings 33 years of Division I experience to the Aggies staff, including nine years (2002-2010) as the head football coach at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. Bustle also spent 14 seasons (1987-93, 1995-2001) at Virginia Tech, where he was the offensive coordinator in the Hokies Bowl Championship Series title game against Florida State in 2000.
Bustle's two most recent stops were at Southern Mississippi as the running backs coach in 2012 and at Tulane as the quarterbacks coach in 2011.
During his head coaching stint, Bustle had many successes. Bustle won 41 games at ULL, including a win over A&T in 2006. In 2005, he led the Rajin' Cajuns to the Sun Belt championship and their first winning season in 10 years. They were bowl eligible in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009.
The Cajuns also won six games in four of his final six seasons, a stretch not equaled at UL since 1986-89, and four-time All-Sun Belt selection Tyrell Fenroy became just the seventh player in NCAA history to rush for 1,000 yards in four consecutive seasons.
He is credited with 51 All-Sun Belt selections and 19 Cajuns were either drafted or signed free agent contracts. In addition, 11 players were invited to play in postseason all-star bowl games, with a handful of those players earning multiple invitations.
Prior to ULL, Bustle served as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Virginia Tech for seven seasons. With the Hokies, Bustle developed some of the finest quarterbacks the college football world has seen in recent years, including former 49er Jim Druckenmiller and 2001No. 1 overall pick Michael Vick. In fact, Bustle coached the top three quarterbacks on Tech's career list for touchdown passes and guided players who have accounted for eight of the Hokies' Top 10 all-time single season offensive totals and seven of Tech's Top 10 all-time single season passing totals.
The 1999 Hokies averaged a national-best 41.4 points per game, as Tech reached the national championship game. In Bustle's first seven seasons as offensive coordinator, the Hokies fielded seven of the eight highest-scoring teams in school history.
The team posted a 67-17 record and won three Big East Conference championships. Virginia Tech went to a bowl game every year he served as offensive coordinator, winning the 1993 Independence Bowl, 1995 Sugar Bowl, 1998 Music City Bowl and 2001 Gator Bowl.
Bustle spent all but one season at Virginia Tech from 1987-2001, leaving the Hokies in 1994 for a one year stint as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at South Carolina. While at USC, Bustle helped the Gamecocks post a 7-5 record and record a Carquest Bowl championship.
From 1987-92, he was the quarterbacks and receivers coach at Virginia Tech before moving to offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 1993.
His other coaching stops includes a three-year stint at UL-Monroe from 1984-86, where he coached the running backs for two seasons before becoming the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He met another young assistant coach named Rod Broadway when he spent three years (1980-82) at East Carolina as a wide receivers and secondary coach. In 1983, he took a position as the running backs coach for the United States Football League's Arizona Wranglers Football League's Arizona Wranglers. He broke into the full-time coaching ranks as the defensive coordinator at Gardner-Webb in 1979.
The Summerville, S.C., native, is a 1976 graduate of Clemson, where he received a bachelor's degree in parks and recreation administration. He was a four-year letterwinner as a wide receiver for the Tigers.
Bustle's wife, Lynn, of Charleston, S.C., received her PhD. in curriculum and instruction from Virginia Tech in December 1997. They have a son, Brad, who was a two-time All-Sun Belt offensive lineman at ULL and signed professionally with Hartford of the United Football League.


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Shonda Brooks necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 102 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a new health plan serving very frail elderly people in New York but who come from many counties (the US, Latin American countries, Russia, China, Haiti, etc). Our goal is to make our patients feel better and have more rewarding lives.
99designs has created our logo, our website and our brochure. Our staff desperately need business cards to match.
Directors of Housing for Seniors, social services agencies, hospital discharge planners, religious leaders, frail elderly people and their adult children.
Use our logo, make it possible to have business cards in just English, but to also have some people's cards be in two languages, e.g. English and Chinese (we are thinking one side English, one side Chinese) or some other way to have two languages on the same card. The print should be clear and easily legible for our target audiences, and if such a thing is possible, should convey caring and quality.


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Food Funnies: You Write the Cartoon Caption - October 2013
Harvest a few good laughs by coming up with a caption for our October cartoon.
Here at Food Processing, we understand how stressful life can be so we're encouraging you to take 5 minutes to add a little fun into your life. Food Funnies is our way of letting you take a break from all the serious stuff you deal with at work — by coming up with appropriate light-hearted captions.
Here's how it works: Submit your caption by October 18, via email, for the cartoon that appears below. On October 21, the captions will put to a vote by you, our faithful readers. The winning captions will be featured on the FoodProcessing.com Web site and in an upcoming FoodProcessing.com eNewsletter.
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The judicial commission is separately investigating the case for violations of the state's code of ethics for judges. That code says that a judge "shall avoid impropriety" and "shall respect and comply with the law and shall act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary."Clearly, leaking the story — and leaking it in a deceptive form — was a decision to diminish public confidence in the court. (You might want to question whether the code should say that: What if the court doesn't deserve public confidence in its integrity and impartiality? Are the judges compelled to keep quiet about it?)
If the judicial commission found any wrongdoing, the case would go first to a three-judge panel and then to the Supreme Court to consider.... If the Supreme Court finds misconduct in a judicial ethics case, it can reprimand, censure, suspend or remove a judge.So, wouldn't Prosser and Bradley recuse themselves? That would leave a 3-2 conservative majority on the court. If the commission found wrongdoing by both Bradley and Prosser, then that majority could attempt to display neutrality by voting to remove both justices. I'm partly serious, but mainly being amusing. You do see what is amusing about portraying that as neutral-looking. Governor Scott Walker would have the power to make 2 appointments. From a political perspective, losing Prosser would put conservatives in a better position. They'd have a new justice, without the baggage, and he/she would be smart, strong, and relatively young. And, of course, Bradley would be replaced by a smart, strong, relatively young justice too. Both new justices would naturally be principled conservatives with excellent credentials.
But they aren't going to be removed. I predict a reprimand or at most censure. Still, I must say, that if the tables were turned and the liberal justice had done what Prosser did and the conservative justice had done what Bradley did, there would be cries for removing the justice who did what Bradley did. Look at the investigative file. Picture the Wisconsin protesters picking through that in search of material to make the strongest case against the justice who did what Bradley did. And if the Democratic party controlled the legislature? The protesters would be screaming for impeachment.
But the conservatives are mostly giving Bradley a pass. As long as Prosser's going to be okay, let's just forget about it. That means it paid off to frame a completely unfair charge against Prosser and demonize him in the press, which is exactly what damaged public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary. Who did that? Who leaked the story to the politically partisan journalist, Bill Lueders? Surely, the judicial commission is going to tell us. It may not have been relevant to the question whether there should be a criminal prosecution — which would explain why the police investigative file doesn't tell us. But it's obviously central to the inquiry into judicial ethics.


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During the will-he-or-won't-he delay in the hiring of coach Chip Kelly, the Eagles apparently moved on with business.
According to a report in the San Antonio Express-News, (via PhillyMag.com), the Eagles offered the job to Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin.
Sumlin himself said he had interest from the NFL, but didn't name teams. But the report said the Eagles and Auburn offered Sumlin their head coaching job.
"I don't have to say anything," Sumlin said in response to NFL rumors. "Everybody knows what I do (now). I've never coached in the NFL. I've had plenty of opportunities to do that, both as an assistant coach and even as a head coach. But there's a reason I coach college football, and we've got a lot of work to do here."
Sumlin's name has percolated around league circles in recent years, and it wouldn't be a surprise if he eventually takes an NFL job.
And at the time the Eagles would have talked to him, Kelly hadn't yet circled back to take the job, and their interest in other college coaches was real.
He got a raise from the Aggies out of the deal, and the next time he negotiates, it doesn't hurt him at all if the perception exists that others might like to give him one too.


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MIDDLEBURY — Arson investigators have ruled that a Thursday, July 19 fire at Mister Ups Restaurant was caused by the spontaneous combustion of bark mulch that had been piled up against the base of the building.
VERGENNES — The Vergennes City Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted a revised set of zoning regulations that reflect the newly created Historic Neighborhood and Northern Gateway districts, and also endorsed the first rewrite of the city's subdivision laws since the 1970s.
It was in 2009, after approval of the updated city plan, that officials began revising the related zoning and subdivision regulations.
BRISTOL — After almost a decade of helping shape a proposed town plan, the Bristol Planning Commission may have considered the document for the last time on Tuesday.
At its monthly meeting, the planning commission unanimously OK'd the 42 revisions proposed by the selectboard.
BRISTOL — For roughly half a decade, a local nonprofit has sought to set up the Addison County Dental Center, a dental facility for low- to moderate-income citizens. Now, with Bristol health facilities shifting spaces and one clinic applying for special federal status, chair of the center's board, Peg Martin, thinks the nonprofit's stars might finally align in Bristol.
WEYBRIDGE –– Michael Claudon managed to combine three of his passions –– antique clocks, economics and wooden boats –– into one successful business venture.
Claudon started Snake Mountain Boatworks in 2008, opening it for customers in 2011. Before that, he worked with antique clocks and taught economics at Middlebury College. He explained that the jump from restoring clocks to wooden boats is not as farfetched as it seems.
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text: It's the best scraper we've ever used! Revolutionary tools, unsurpassed for smoothing wood surfaces, arched instrument tops, bindings and more. For an ultra-smooth wood surface, nothing beats a good sharp scraper. Veteran luthier Al Carruth has given the simple scraper a revolutionary makeover, with practical improvements for stringed instrument work: the original Ultimate Scraper. We added a second mini version that's popular for working in tighter areas. Go for the rectangle/concave scraper when you need to keep a good, tight, square corner in binding channels and neck pockets. Also great for smoothing bindings and many steps of making a new neck. Thanks to renowned bass luthier Michael Tobias for suggesting this new shape! Refined shapes are superior for arched tops and flat or curved surfaces. 1/8" thickness adds stiffness and greatly reduces chatter. Two working edges for scraping with both pull and push strokes. Durable tempered steel edges, for smoothing harder woods. At 1/8" thick, Ultimate scrapers are much beefier than standard scraper blades. Two cutting edges let the tool work in both directions, without flexing and with less chattering. That saves a lot of time and effort! The tempered tool steel holds a more durable edge, too. The shapes are specially refined for hand-contouring and graduating arched instrument tops and backs, as well as smoothing bindings and flat surfaces. Dimensions #0631 Original: 3-3/4" x 1-11/16" (95.25mm x 42.86mm) #0632 Mini: 2-1/2" x 1-1/2" (63mm x 38mm) #0623 Rectangle/Concave: 3-7/16" x 1-13/16" (87.31mm x 46.04mm); three straight edges plus 20"-radius concave edge From luthier Al Carruth: "In Il Segreti di Stradivari, violin maker Simone Sacconi wrote 'scrapers were made from blades of sabers. Since they were of very hard steel one could not turn the edge and therefore they were used like a knife.' When I began working with violin maker Carleen Hutchins she used such a scraper. This is, in my estimation, the best possible scraper for builders of arched instruments. "It works on the same principle as scraping with a broken piece of glass; a common technique among carpenters. A very hard material can take an exceedingly keen edge and when it is perpendicular, as it is in broken glass, it can last for a long time even if the material is brittle. This tool has the advantage over glass of having a shape that is well defined and re-sharpenable." How Al sharpens his scraper:"I find it easiest to hollow grind the edge perpendicular to the centerline of the scraper. Simply set the tool rest on your grinder perpendicular to the wheel and grind all around. Use as fine a wheel as possible and don't apply too much pressure. If desired, the edge can be further dressed on a fine stone with or without a guide block. "In use, this scraper will give an extremely smooth cut even on soft or highly figured wood. It has little tendency to chatter due to its weight and does not heat up. It is much easier on the thumbs than a "normal" scraper as it is not "sprung" in use. To re-sharpen simply lap the surface on a fine stone and re-grind the edge." Watch the video! Al Carruth shows how to use and sharpen the Ultimate Scraper. Watching Al, you'll see how easy this is. CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 65 WARNING WARNING: Cancer and Reproductive Harm - www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.


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Get ready for an evening of fun!! This Thursday, wonderful Language Assistant Ivan will be showing the film También La Lluvia (Even the Rain), open to all. The film takes place in Bolivia during the water riots, and provides an in-depth view into the politics and culture of Bolivia. It is highly rated on the site Rotten Tomatoes–a full description can be viewed here.
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Yup. As much as I respect the people in this forum and even your team, I was pissed that you pulled that one out. While it still left my Saints with an outside chance for a wildcard, it squeezed it down to the size of a gnat's pecker.
I has been a while seen I pulled against y'all the hard, but I know how good your new QB is. I went to NCSU and Wilson was the man and I knew you got steal with him.
Anyway, congrats and I hope you lose enough the rest of the way to let us sneak in.


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Fire rally for 2-2 tie at DC United
WASHINGTON (AP) Quincy Amarikwa's goal in the 82nd minute lifted the Chicago Fire into a soggy 2-2 draw against D.C. United on Saturday.
Playing through a steady rain at RFK Stadium, United (0-2-1) extended its club-record winless streak in league play to 15 games dating to the 2013 season. It's the fifth-longest streak in MLS history.
Jhon Kennedy Hurtado scored in the 27th minute for Chicago (0-1-3), which has ties in each of its last three matches after a season-opening loss.
Fabian Espindola scored in the first half for United, and Perry Kitchen made it 2-1 when he scored his third career goal in the second half.
United lost all three games against Chicago last season and have not beaten the Fire at home since 2012.
The Fire grabbed a first-half lead off a Harrison Shipp corner kick for the second consecutive game. Hurtado found space in between two United defenders and headed home the cross for his first goal of the season and just his second since joining MLS in 2009.
After failing to score in their opening two games of the season, United drew even when Espindola converted a left-footed shot in the 35th minute. D.C. earned the free kick after Eddie Johnson was tackled just outside the box. Nick DeLeon then stepped over the ball before heeling the free kick back to Espindola, who scored his first goal since coming over from the New York Red Bulls in the offseason.
United took the lead in the 73rd minute when Kitchen cleaned up a scrum in front of the Chicago goal, slotting home United's fourth chance after the ball bounced off Fire defenders and the goalpost.
Chicago goalie Sean Johnson had six saves, including four in the first half.


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Brady Quinn is working his way into NFL obscurity
That sound you hear in Denver is Brady Quinn tumbling down the Broncos' depth chart.
After completing just 6 of 16 passes for 68 yards and throwing an interception that was returned for a touchdown in the Broncos' preseason opener Sunday against the Bengals, Quinn is off to a rocky (no pun intended) start in his new city. For a player that was once thought to be a top 10 pick, Quinn looked completely befuddled and it shouldn't be long before he's demoted and Tim Tebow (who had a strong debut, albeit against third-stringers) is promoted.
Considering it was only one preseason game and his first attempt at running Josh McDaniels' offense in live action, maybe people should cut Quinn some slack. After all, Kyle Orton (who looked fantastic on Sunday) threw three interceptions in his preseason debut with the Broncos last year.
But considering Quinn showed next to nothing in Cleveland and is now off to a less than ideal start in Denver, the clock is ticking for the 25-year-old to prove himself.
Quinn's problems are the same now as they were at Notre Dame: His footwork sucks, he doesn't make quick decisions and he can't make throws beyond the 10-to-12-yard range. Making matters worse, he still has trouble reading defenses, even though this is now his fourth year in the league. While he still has plenty of time to turn it around, he hasn't improved at all from year to year, which is obviously troublesome.
Fair or not, first rounders will always have higher expectations when it comes to succeeding. It just comes with the territory, which is why Quinn needs to step up his game before he soon finds himself searching for work outside the NFL. Again, it was only one preseason game and he could come out in his next game and tear it up. But considering he was playing mostly against second-teamers and is battling against a QB in Tebow that the Broncos view as their future, he doesn't get any mulligans.
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Report by Kiki Georgiou on 30 September 2012.
With their hair slicked back to a low chignon, their lips a bold red and their bags clutched to their sides, Vever's women looked on the move, busy. But there was a certain vibrancy to them and a sensuality previously unseen. Vevers was inspired by Gala Dali, that'd be Salvador's wife, so perhaps she was rushing to get to one of her many lovers.
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We are not here for the next couple of days. Leigh has a wedding to attend and drinks to drink.
We discuss Jupiter Broadcasting and the owner of that network Chris Fisher. His hair may be plastic allegedly.
Leigh and Ben tell stories of their respective lives, the common element is a box.
Its Marty from the Women's Institute's birthday today. Happy Birthday!
We have zombie news! A Michigan university professor hopes her students take away life lessons from a mini zombie apocalypse in the area.
Allegedly, fashionably goatee Jesus was a hipster.
How does one combat the bad PR stuntage the church has had? We reveal the best ways.
Ronald Clark, a Kiwi man, went to jail for having cartoons of elves and pixies having sex. He faces 10 years of state supervision if convicted.
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NMT Students to Join Cross-Border Technology Program, April 1, 2006
by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., April 1, 2006 – A design team comprised of three to four New Mexico Tech undergraduates will soon be formed to participate in a cross-border technology development program sponsored by the National Science Foundation, which seeks to develop an interdisciplinary approach to educating scientists and technology managers in New Mexico and the neighboring Mexican state of Chihuahua.
Through the "New Mexico – Chihuahua Partnership for Innovation," a development program being administered by New Mexico State University, a select group of New Mexico Tech students will pool together their knowledge and skills to complete the testing phase of the technology development program, working with actual companies and, possibly, maquiladoras to get new products and technology to commercial markets.
Similar teams of students also are being formed at the partnership's other participating universities, besides New Mexico Tech and New Mexico State, such as Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez and Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey-Chihuahua.
Other participating members of the New Mexico- Chihuahua Partnership for Innovation include Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories, the Chihuahua Trade Office, the New Mexico Economic Development Department, and various other industry and economic development organizations on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border.
Any New Mexico Tech student who is interested in becoming a member of the university's design team for this cross-border economic development project is asked to submit a letter of interest and a current résumé to the New Mexico Tech Department of Management, via e-mail to:email@example.com.
Through the NSF-funded program, Tech students chosen to make up the design team will be paid to work up to ten hours a week on their project, all the while gaining first-hand knowledge of the unique challenges associated with economic development and technology transfer in the New Mexico-Chihuahua border region.
Since the duration of the program is scheduled to last at least two years, preference will be given to New Mexico Tech sophomores and juniors who apply.
University students participating in the New Mexico-Chihuahua Partnership for Innovation, which gets underway this summer, will also be eligible to apply for internships with some of the industries, organizations, universities, and national laboratories involved with the program.
"This is a great opportunity for an interdisciplinary team of Tech students to get a real feel for the process of getting technologies to industrial markets," said Peter Anselmo, chair of New Mexico Tech's management department and director of the university's role in the partnership.
"I think that the students who participate in this program will have a huge advantage when they start their professional careers after they graduate from New Mexico Tech," Anselmo added.
In addition to forming and supporting the student design teams, New Mexico Tech and the other partner universities will each host technical seminars, workshops, and conventions throughout the course of the multi-year economic development program.


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Artist Chrystel Lebas and Museum biologist and botanist Kath Castillo are exploring the E J Salisbury collection at the Natural History Museum and Kew Gardens Archives. They hope to use Salisbury's images of Scottish landscapes to reconstruct environmental change over the last 50 years.
Article in the New Scientist 11 June 1959, Courtesy of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Library & Archives.
Chrystel and Kath began looking for clues that could reveal more about Salisbury's research on ecology and botany through his methods of recording data, his travel journals and field notes. Delving into the 30 boxes of Salisbury's documents has also revealed a small collection of hand written quotations, puns and limericks.
The Salisbury archive at Kew Gardens is currently in the condition in which it was received and will be fully conserved when resources allow.
Museum biologist and botanist Kath Castillo and Artist Chrystel Lebas, researching the E J Salisbury collection at Kew Gardens. Photograph by Bergit Arends, project curator.
One of the notebooks found in Kew Library & Archives reveals a wealth of information including experimental data and research annotations on ecology. Courtesy of the Royal Botany Gardens Kew Library & Archives.
Funding from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation permitted Kath Castillo to join Chrystel on her research in Scotland. Kath, who joined the project in September 2013, provides the necessary scientific knowledge (botanical and ecological) that enables geographical and botanical determinations in the field, based on Salisbury's recorded images in the same locations.
Kath and Chrystel on fieldwork in Scotland, October 2013 (Photographs by Bergit Arends).
Kath and Chrystel began the research and comparative study in Rothiemurchus Estate, a privately owned Highland estate within the Strathspey, northeast of the river Spey, in theCairngorms National Park.
Kath and Chrystel comparing and searching for Salisbury's locations from his landscape images in Rothiemurchus Estate. Photograph by Bergit Arends.
The project engages with environmental change, particularly in the Scottish landscape, and creates new understandings of the artistic and scientific gaze onto the natural environment and its representation. The project is supported by a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundationand the University of the Arts London.
Kath holding one of E J Salisbury's photographs against the Rothiemurchus landscape. Photograph by Bergit Arends.
Above left: Kath identifying a specimen. Right: Chrystel photographing 'Vaccinium vitis-idaea on remains of pine bole in Rothiemurchus forest'. Bottom: Chrystel recording a view of the fens at twilight.
The Salisbury collection has, until recently, remained un-catalogued and undervalued. A collaborative approach to these materials is important as the plates represent an important piece of landscape and wildlife photographic history – UK natural history and photographic history knowledge and expertise will be essential to unlock the arts and science potential of this collection.
The images represent a unique record of landscapes that may have changed dramatically. They are an irreplaceable piece of the scientific information that may be used to investigate environmental change, either through natural processes or the hand of man.


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A wonderful quote
"Creativity does not come packaged with any camera, digital or film. It doesn't come with artistic filters or with endless shooting settings. It doesn't come from a Leica or a Canon 7d. It doesn't come with HDR or optical stabilization or any of the next amazing things out there. Creativity comes from being able to see the world, not like everyone else, but by the creative ability to express what we see through our own unique vision. Uniqueness can come from following your own path, making your own decisions and choosing your own tools, being confident in your abilities and having a keen awareness of your subject." (emphasis added)
That passage struck a chord because it's so applicable to many other endeavors, including cycling. It certainly applies to writing. Neel's comparison of digital and film would be analogous to the use of a word processor or a finely crafted notebook. One is a digital process, the other is paper, but neither provides a guarantee that the thoughts expressed will be creative or even coherent.
This has particular relevance; "...following your own path, making your own decisions,...being confident in your abilities..." because I went through a crisis of confidence earlier this year when I doubted my capability as a writer. An editor and I had a falling out over a piece he wanted. It was my impression that he really wanted a hatchet job on an organization, yet he said I was free to reach my own conclusions and that he'd accept them. I spent most of August doing research, wrote a first draft and submitted it. He rejected all of it, and said I'd have to start over or he could simply spike it and pay me a kill fee.
I was pissed off. I'd spent hours doing research and interviews, and with a deadline looming, a do-over was simply impossible. I agreed to the kill fee. It was slow in arriving, and when it finally did - after some back and forth emails - it was short.
The whole episode left a very bad taste and it's obvious I won't be doing any work for that publication again.
But the worst aspect of the whole debacle was the effect on my self-confidence. I was depressed and miserable, conditions that impede writing, especially comedy like the Wally Crankset stuff. I gave brief consideration to that universal writer's crutch - alcohol - but after a couple of headaches and the inevitable midnight marches to the bathroom, that went by the wayside. Alcohol kicks my kidneys into high gear and only seems to inspire my bladder, effects I can duplicate by having a several glasses of water right before bed.
I don't write for the money. If I did, we'd all starve. But there's a kind of satisfaction found in doing something well, whether that's writing, photography, or even trout fishing. As Neel points out, we go about these things in unique ways as we discover our individual paths. That's what makes this so much fun, that act of discovery and the surprises along the way.


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It may seem a likely series of events: economic troubles make it harder and harder for young people to get a job when they get out of high school, causing a slight rise in college enrollment throughout the state of Texas.
But Texas students aren't just testing the waters when it comes to higher education in Texas. The middle and high schoolers who watched helplessly as the financial jabberwocky of Wall Street decimated the college fund and retirement their parents had so carefully saved are not letting the largest financial meltdown since the Great Depression get them down.
The newest generation of college kids are coming in full force. College enrollment isn't just up in Texas, it's way up.
According to preliminary numbers released today by the Texas Higher Education Board, over 62,000 more students enrolled in Texas' universities this fall than at this time last year. At colleges such as Texas State in San Marcos, officials saw an increase of more than 2,000 students from last semester alone. College officials are scrambling to accommodate for an influx of students, including student housing, financial aid and classroom space.
Officials at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board attribute the increase in part to a campaign emphasizing higher education.
"We've worked hard to promote going to college," such as Dominic Chavez, senior director of external relations for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. "Higher education is more critical now than it has ever been, especially for the technical jobs we need to compete world wide."
President Obama has not let the trend go unnoticed. The president is doubling up on promises he made to students, announcing a plan during a speech in Colorado yesterday that would forgive student debt after 20 years, lower interest rates by as much as 5 percent, cap payments students must make at 10 percent of their current salary and make it easier to package all private and other student loans into one low interest rate.
In Texas, lawmakers are watching closely a ballot initiative that would give the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board more bonding authority to issue low-interest loans to students. Opponents of Amendment Three say the state of Texas should not be saddling students with more and more student debt and point to the fact that for the first time ever, student debt has surpassed that of mortgage and credit card debt nationally.
Nonetheless, the amendment would make low-interest loans more available to students in a political climate that has slashed public education funding and continues to shrink state grant aid.
Chavez said the Higher Education Board's loan program is better than that of private lenders because the state's interest rates are much lower.
"We have no profit motive," he said. "We get the interest rates just low enough to support the program. We pay back the bond obligations by allowing the students to pay the loan back."


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Kevin Grandia | February 28, 2013
By Kevin Grandia • Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 13:09
Yesterday, Gary Doer, Canada's Ambassador to the United States, made headlines when he stated that:
"If you ask the question: Do you want your oil from (Venezuelan President) Hugo Chavez or (Alberta Premier) Alison Redford, I think I know the answer."
Doer is making the argument that US President Barack Obama should approve the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, so America can get its oil from the friendly North, instead of the much maligned Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela.
What Doer fails to mention, or maybe he just doesn't know, is that the largest import commodity Canada receives from Venezuela is crude oil.
According to a 2011 government report [PDF] on Venezuelan-Canadian trade relations:
"Imports from Venezuela are dominated by crude oil. In 2009, Canadian oil imports [from Venezuela] were valued at $778 million, making up nearly 86% of Canada's total imports from that country."
A May 2011 Natural Resources Canada report [PDF] notes that Canada imported 33,000 barrels per day of crude oil from Venezuela in 2009. That works out to about 12 million barrels of oil that year.
While Venezuela has had issues in the past around their oil industry, Canada imports even more oil from countries with much more serious human rights and environmental issues. Canada's largest source of imported crude is Algeria, which has been mired in an armed conflict with Islamist extremists for more than 20 years. Canada also imports oil from Angola, Iraq and Nigeria - all countries that make Venezuela look like paradise.
Ambassador Doer and the Harper government are working overtime at the moment to convince the U.S. government to green light the Keystone XL pipeline.
This latest Hugo Chavez scare tactic is pretty ridiculous when one considers the fact that Canada is more than happy to receive millions of barrels a year from Hugo Chavez.
An Ambassador's role is typically apolitical, and that is for good reason. An Ambassdor's job is to represent the country, not the Prime Minister and his political party. Making undiplomatic statements to the U.S., our largest trading partner, is what happens when this division between ideology and diplomacy gets blurry, as it appears right now.
A single pipeline is not worth ruining our relationship with the sleeping giant Canada sits above. It might wake up and realize it's being duped into helping Canada reach the highest bidder on export markets, which will be no help to the U.S. consumer as gas prices will go up for many, contrary to the fictitious story that Gary Doer and the Harper government is feeding the U.S. media.
What I'm hearing from you is that Canada should practice what it preaches?
Canada should buy oil from 'ethical' sources. Preferably, Canada should produce and consumer is own oil. Neither of which Canada does.
Lastly, Americans should just pony up and PAY MORE for their oil. They should pay what Canada wants so Canadians can make more money off of them. That is what Canadians really want. After all this oil is ALL destined for the US. Just ask any Republican.
Any Americans just turning into this post, the biggest concern in Alberta right now is that you are paying 2/3 the going rate for oil from the oil sands. Therefore our government is loosing money. That's what's our government is saying here, and this pipeline will allow us to charge you more.
Kevin Grandia replied on Permalink
Destined to the US
Yes it goes to the US to be refined in Texas and most of it gets shipped off to the EU and Latin America.
I knew all that.
I just enjoy repeating Pro Keystone mantra when it doesn't make any sense. The contorted convolutions of their stories just keep gyrating in ever more wild circles.
If the oil is for US consumption, then Americans will pay more (bad idea). If the oil is for export, then why would Americans care? Pick one America.
Even better is that if the oil is destined for export no tax revenue is generated. (Those refineries are in tax free zones… if its exported, the US charges no tax, but gets the jobs, or so the story goes.) Soo… Why should Americans get upset that its not being refined? Its not like refineries generate jobs or much tax revenue during operation.
The Keystone won't generate much in the way of jobs or income. (According to the oil and gas industry in Canada, the Northern Gateway won't generate much more than $50 million a year in tax revenue. Keystone would be a drop in the bucket by US standards.)
In reality I think that the solution for Canada's energy and refining, etc is more complicated. It makes no sense to do it all ourselves since it costs a ton build new refineries and pipes. It makes more sense to do what the industry is trying to do. IMHO
Personally, I feel that I'm OK with pipes and refineries as long as a whopping Carbon Tax is in place. Preferably something that taxes imports and exports.
Climate Change must be dealt with. And right now, the industry is protecting itself to the point where its position will become untenable.
There is a striking similarity between Oil and Gas's position and Unions. Unions protect jobs no matter what. Even as the world moves on, the union protects its outdated workers because that is what they do. Eventually their position becomes untenable and they are wholesale tossed out.
That happened in BC, the Provincial Employees Union protected call center jobs to the bitter end. Even though the rest of the world had moved on to touch tone automated attendants. When those workers had to be let go, A) They had been de-skilled and were unsuitable for work in the real world, and B) they had been laid off on mass so they had to compete with one another in a world that did not want them.
That in large part is where North America is headed. We're exporting know how for green technologies because we are not adopting them. (Therefore we will have to import it later on.) We are going to have a huge part of our economy severely damaged because so many of us are directly or indirectly tied up in the industry.
(Sorry for such a long rant.)
Kevin Grandia replied on Permalink
Completely agree
Canada should start producing oil for Canada, not selling off this resource to foreign markets. Slow down production and start making this massive resource work for Canadian, not Petro China, ExxonMobil, BP and the Koch Brothers.
Peter Moss replied on Permalink
Made in Canada Solution?
Some of the tar sands oil does go for domestic consumption, just not very much. And under NAFTA, we have to keep supplying the US with the same amount of oil we are now.
Canada also imports oil from Saudi Arabia and Algeria. Chavez isn't the worst dictator in the world. Venezuela is probably more democratic than any of the Mid-East OPEC nations. Considering the way oil is produced, by who, in which countries, at what cost, by corrupt oil companies, and all the big investment deals needed to fund the projects, and the ruthless and vociferous interests involved, I doubt there is any oil produced by any country which could be considered "ethical".
Someone needs to tell Ezra Levant how much oil we import from all those "evil" countries.


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Look Before You Make the Leap to Hulu Plus for Android
Apr 20, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Hulu Plus, an app from Hulu, is available for free at Google Play, but the service requires a US$7.99/month subscription. The 5-year-old subscription streaming video service known as "Hulu Plus" has doubled its subscriber numbers in the last seven months to more than 2 million, according to numbers bandied about by the company.
Hulu is a joint venture between investors and television operators: Comcast's NBCUniversal, Fox Entertainment and the Walt Disney Company. Competitors include Netflix and cable providers like Time Warner Cable that can stream live television to unrooted Ice Cream Sandwich OS devices.
Hulu Plus, the paid model, is now available on seven Android tablets, so LinuxInsider decided to take a look at just what you get for the $7.99 a month subscription, and why you'd want to pay when there's a free Hulu version available.
Supported Devices
Supported Tablets: Asus Eee Pad Transformer; Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime; Motorola Xoom; Motorola XYBoard 10.1; Toshiba Thrive; Acer Iconia; LG G-Slate; HTC Flyer; and Vizio 8" Tablet.
Supported phones include a bunch of HTCs and Motorolas, plus the G2, Nexus One, Nexus S, LG G2X and LG Revolution.
Trouble in Paradise
Here's the caveat though, and it's possibly the deal breaker. Rooted devices are not supported, and the HDMI (High Definition Multimedia) output is disabled on my device, a Toshiba Thrive.
HDMI is the output that you'd use to send the audio and video to a television. It's one of the connections on your device. This double-play nobbling is related to DRM (Digital Rights Management.)
Installing the App
Installing and loading the app work just fine on both rooted and unrooted devices. If rooted, the app can be used to manage your Hulu Plus queue for other Hulu Plus-enabled devices, which include PCs, Smart TVs and game consoles.
Managing your queue via phone or tablet for viewing at another time on your television is not a bad use for the app, if a little castrating, and it works well. It would be worth installing it just for that.
Using the App
Browsing for TV shows and films is lively and colorful, with splashy stills from the shows. A "More Details" text description is helpful for figuring out if you've seen an episode already before you add it to your queue.
If you've used the free Hulu Web-based app, the interface is similar with useful "Recently Added," "TV Genre" and other panels. Touching a panel lets you drill down.
Display Glitch
One problem I encountered involved a portrait to landscape issue. Hulu Plus failed to display properly in portrait mode on my tablet.
This is a minor issue, and I can't see any reason why you'd want to use Hulu Plus in portrait mode anyway, bearing in mind landscape more closely resembles the 16:1 aspect ratio seen in televisions.
Video OK?
Video reportedly plays fine, although I didn't test it because I wasn't prepared to unroot my tablet -- out of principle.
I've not heard of widespread playback complaints.
Real-World Benefits
I was interested to see what the real-world benefit for me would be in buying the $7.99 monthly subscription after the week-long trial, compared to using the Web-browser-based free Hulu version on a PC hooked-up to my television.
I performed a search for some shows I commonly watch for free on the plain Hulu website. Shows from recent "In Plain Sight" seasons were available on free Hulu, but not on paid Hulu Plus. Recent "Cougar Town" episodes were available on paid Hulu Plus, but not on free Hulu.
Therefore, I strongly recommend browsing and searching for the shows you commonly watch before plonking down any cash, because you may find the free Hulu will suffice for your needs.
The Monkey Wrench
Plain, free Hulu streaming can now be obtained on mobile devices with Daniel Lockard's fabulous $0.99 Flash Video Browser app that lets you play any flash video as if you were on a PC.
The app is available in the Google Play store and also handles mobile-blocked You Tube videos.
In Conclusion
Check that the shows you want to watch are included in the Hulu Plus subscription, because you may find you can get by with the free Hulu. There doesn't seem to be any logic to the selection of shows available on Hulu compared to Hulu Plus.
You may find you need both Hulu and Hulu Plus. However, be aware that you may not be able to use the Hulu Plus Android app to watch anything if you're rooted. Don't expect to output to a big-screen either.


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BOSTON (AP) ? Build a new stadium, host the Super Bowl to show it off.
BOSTON (AP) ? Build a new stadium, host the Super Bowl to show it off.
The NFL rewarded the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday with hosting rights for the 2016 championship game, slotting the 50th Super Bowl in the 49ers' high-tech Santa Clara stadium scheduled to open next year.
The league also voted at its spring meetings to give the 2017 game to Houston, which last hosted the big game in 2004.
"After losing a Super Bowl, it feels really good to win a Super Bowl," said 49ers CEO Jed York, whose team lost to Baltimore in the NFL title game in February. "We are so excited to be able to put on the 'Golden Super Bowl' in the Golden State."
The back-to-back, first-ballot votes also sent a message to South Florida that it needs to settle its squabble over renovations at the Miami Dolphins' stadium before it will get a chance to host its 11th Super Bowl.
"I can tell you that I think the stadium is a very import part of any of these proposals. The condition of the stadium is a factor," commissioner Roger Goodell said. "I think it's the stadium, at the end of the day. Their proposal was really quite exciting. I think owners would like to be in Miami. But it's competitive right now."
The 49ers are preparing to begin play in 2014 in what they are billing as the most technologically advanced stadium in the world ? the first cashless, ticketless venue in NFL championship history, with WiFi capability for 75,000 people. The 2016 Super Bowl will be the first in northern California since the 1985 game at Stanford Stadium.
When Goodell announced the 2016 decision, members of the San Francisco bid committee let out a roar of approval, then toasted each other with champagne. Asked what he believed swayed the owners to vote for San Francisco, York added: "It's the willpower of an entire area that gave an overwhelming push for us."
It was the first time in a decade that a Super Bowl was awarded on the first ballot. York said 25 percent of the proceeds from the game will be donated to fight poverty in the Bay Area.
"The Bay Area has been waiting for a (title) game since 1985. We have a stadium now," said Daniel Lurie, a leader of the San Francisco bid. "We are just thrilled and couldn't be happier about this."
Houston staged the 2004 Super Bowl, which is perhaps best known for Janet Jackson's halftime "wardrobe malfunction." That was just two years after Reliant Stadium opened.
"I think a lot of them just felt like, 'Hey, it's Houston's time,'" Texans owner Robert McNair said. "They knew we could do a good job. From 2004 to '17, that's 13 years. So I agree, I think it's Houston's time."
Miami has hosted 10 of them ? including the Jets' upset of the Colts in 1969 ? and is tied with New Orleans for the most. But South Florida got rejected twice after the Florida Legislature did not support financing to renovate Sun Life Stadium ? a likely backlash over the Marlins' new baseball stadium.
Multibillionaire Dolphins owner Stephen Ross contends $350 million in stadium improvements are badly needed, but he doesn't want to pay for them by himself. Nor does he want a scaled-down renovation of the 26-year-old facility.
"I suspect there's a couple of state reps down in Miami-Dade County where I live who are going to look at this and realize this was a huge mistake," South Florida bid committee chairman Rodney Barreto said. "We had the better bid. I could just look at the body language from the NFL staff. It's a shame. We may not see another Super Bowl for another 10 years."
Ross said South Florida "won't stop trying" to get one.
Next Feb. 2, the game goes outdoors in a cold-weather site for the first time, at MetLife Stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands. If that gamble pays off for the NFL, look for other cities in similar climates ? Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver ? to bid for future Super Bowls.
The 2015 game will be played in the Phoenix area.
Earlier Tuesday, owners approved a $200 million loan for stadium construction in Atlanta. The multipurpose stadium could cost as much as $1 billion, with team owner Arthur Blank committed to funding most of it. Blank called the decision by the team owners an "important milestone" in moving the project forward. The owners also approved financing for renovations of stadiums in Charlotte and Philadelphia.
Speaking with reporters after the votes, Goodell also said:
? The draft will be held between May 8 and May 17 next year because the venue, Radio City Music Hall, is hosting an Easter show in April. He expects the draft will remain in May, with other adjustments to the NFL's calendar, including the dates for the combine and the opening of free agency, to be discussed with the players' union.
? A third international game in upcoming seasons could be added now that both games for 2013 in London have sold out.
? The Pro Bowl could be moved from Hawaii back to mainland cities after the 2014 game, but will still be held on the Sunday one week before the Super Bowl.
? Expanding the playoffs, and cutting two games off the preseason, still are being discussed. A reduced preseason could happen with either the current 16-game regular season or with an 18-game schedule.


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