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Sunday, June 03, 2007
The Inhabited World by David Long
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006
Fiction; 277 pgs
Started: 06/01/2007
Completed: 06/03/2007
Rating: (Good +)
First Sentence: When he looks at his hand, he sees the hand he remembers—ropy branching veins, a ridge of waxy skin on the inside of the wrist where he fumbled a glowing iron rod at his father's forge one afternoon in 1966.
Reason for Reading: This is my second selection for the New York Times Notable Book Challenge and my seventh for the Spring Reading Thing. I first came across this title through Kookiejar at A Fraternity of Dreamers. The author had visited her blog to recommend she consider reading his book. Out of curiosity, I did a little research and discovered that the subject matter intrigued me, and so onto my list it went.
Comments: The Inhabited World is not an easy book to describe. It is not quite a ghost story. It is more of a story about life, redemption, and moving on. The main character just happens to be dead. It is about a man, Evan Molloy, who died by his own hand. He is stuck in a state of limbo, unable to leave the property his Washington house is set on, and so his days and nights are spent observing the new residents as they come and go. Evan does not understand where exactly he is or why.
Maureen Keniston is the most recent tenant, a woman who is running away from her old life, trying to reestablish herself and find her footing after a long affair with a married man. Although her story is an important part of the narrative, Evan's story is the main focal point throughout most of the novel. As Evan watches Maureen and begins to understand her situation, all the while wishing he could offer her some solace, he is lost in his own memories, the recounting of his life and how he ended up where is today, including what led him to pull the trigger.
David Long's novel had an "it could happen to me" feel to it right from the very start. Evan was an average man whose life did not stand out much beyond the norm. His families, both in childhood and adulthood, were no more dysfunctional than most in today's society. Evan was really never made out to be a victim of his circumstances, which is a definite strength in this novel, fitting in with the overall atmosphere set by the author. I never felt sorry for Evan, although I could empathize with his plight.
I was most drawn to Evan's experience with depression, including the onset and his cycles in and out of it. Although it's named, the illness is never fully accepted by Evan for what it is, which itself is not too uncommon. There is a stigma about depression in its many forms and other mental illnesses as we see with not only Evan, but his stepdaughter, Janey as well. Physical health problems have always been more acceptable; those of the mind, even if the root may be physical, are still hard to accept.
There was a constant layer of melancholy that settled over the novel, both in the author's prose and woven into the lives of his characters. The Inhabited World is not one that stands out in the sense of climax and melodrama, and yet there is a quality about it that lingers because of the subtleness and the realness of it.
One side effect of having read this book is that now I find myself wondering if I am truly ever alone. Is there a spiritual being sitting in the pink (Anjin says it's brown) armchair, watching as I write this?
Note: You can learn more about the author and his other works by visiting David Long's website. Lovers of book lists might especially enjoy reading through the author's own lists.
Miscellaneous: It didn't take long to fall asleep once my head settled onto my pillow for my afternoon nap today. I had a blog related dream in which I was writing a very long and involved post in which I had hoped to challenge an unnamed blogger to read a particular book (title and author of said book unknown) and write a review. I could not get a hold of the blogger and so I decided to instead offer the friend of the blogger a chance at the challenge. I only hoped that The Literate Kitten would agree. As with most of my dreams, I awoke before I could see the outcome and no attempts to recapture the dream worked.
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That sounds interesting!ReplyDelete
Your review was interesting, Kitty. I was struck by how Evan still killed himself even after seeing how suicide (and attempted suicide) can affect the people left behind. But, perhaps it was for the best, if it was his presence that helped Maureen through her ordeal.ReplyDelete
Kelly - It was an interesting read. Worth the time, I think. :-)ReplyDelete
Kookie - With depression, a person isn't always thinking rationally and so his actions wouldn't necessarily be impacted by reason and logical and empathetic thought. I also can't help but wonder how much of it is hindsight. Because he committed suicide, was he more focused on the suicides of those around him (shaped, colored and interpreted by life experiences and feelings in hindsight as memories often are) or were his recollections true in their form? I don't know if that makes any sense at all, but it does in my head. LOL I doubt the author ever intended a reader to try and delve that deeply into his character. Haha For me, it just raised some interesting thoughts.
I like that you add "Reasons for reading" to your review. I often feel the need/desire to explain this as well. Glad I'm not alone!ReplyDelete
Wendy, I enjoyed your review and I absolutely do like the sound of this book..I am not sure I have ever read a book narrated by a ghost, especially one who took his own life. I am sure that as the story unravels the reasons why he did what he did makes for very interesting reading. I like also that you took so much away from the book..I love it when a book does that to me. Thank you for the recommendation, I will have to look for it.ReplyDelete
This does sound interesting, especially the exploration of depression. I enjoyed your review--thanks!ReplyDelete
Great review!! I do have this book on my list for the NY Times challenge. I'm hoping to get to it sometime this summer!ReplyDelete
I hadn't even thought of the hindsight aspect, Kitty. I think you are right.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousTuesday, June 05, 2007 10:33:00 AM
I hadn't heard of this book before but am now putting it on my TBR list. Great review!ReplyDelete
I've been eyeing this one. Thanks for the great review!ReplyDelete
Great review Wendy, this book does sound very interesting.ReplyDelete
About your dream...isn't it funny how things such as blogging can infiltrate our sleeping minds?? Love it!
I've read this review twice now...very intriguing. Ohhhhh, can I stand one more TBR???? I am feeling so overwhelmed!ReplyDelete
I have one of Longs other works on my to be read list, but I don't remember which one...hmmm. This one sounds very interesting! I will have to put it on my TBR list!ReplyDelete
I think I'll add this to my infinitely long list of books I'd like to read after I get through the towering pile on the floor beside my bed.ReplyDelete
John - Thank you for visiting. It can be interesting to see why a person selected a particular book to read, although I'm not sure my reasons are always of interest to anyone other than me and perhaps the person who may have recommended it. :-)ReplyDelete
Lotus - Thank you. I thought the author did a good job with the narration--keeping it more literary than fantastical (not that there would be anything wrong with that, but it might have defeated the purpose of this particular book).
Gentle Reader - I think it is worth reading. I realized now after rereading my review that someone might think this book is about depression--and it's not, not really. That was just a part of the story that most stood out for me. The whole depression story line is actually subtle. I think it's my own experiences that bring it to the forefront for me.
Stephanie - I am glad I followed Kookiejar's lead and read this one. I hope you enjoy it too!
Kookie - It's probably just me overanalyzing. :-) Funny how I don't do that with everything I read, but with others I do.
Iliana - Thank you! I hope you like if you do get it.
Andi - It's worth picking up and giving a closer look at if you get the chance. :-)
Karina - Thanks!
I would rather dream about blogging then work, that's for sure. :-)
LK - One more probably won't topple the stack just yet. :-)
Shannon - I'd be curious to know what you think of the book you do have on your to read list.
JMC - Boy, do I know that feeling! LOL
I enjoyed reading your review. I rated this book a 4/5.ReplyDelete
I like your new look! I love my 3 column page. It's been fun learning new things.
This book sounds really interesting; I may have to pick it up. The family is having a "use all our B&N gift certificates" afternoon this weekend, fun!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the vote, by the way. You have made me reconsider, so with a little adjustment to my initial plans for daily posting, I am back in the presidential race. :)
Joy - I must go over and see your new look. :-)ReplyDelete
Hey there, JMC! I am envious of your B&N shopping spree this weekend. That sounds like so much fun. Can I come along??
- AnonymousSunday, June 10, 2007 8:10:00 AM
I've had this one on my wishlist for awhile since hearing about it in a prior issue of Bookmarks. Glad to hear it is worth the read!ReplyDelete
This book really sounds intriguing. I think it's already on my wishlist, but I better double check!ReplyDelete
Lesley - I hope you will enjoy it when you get to it. It's not a book that has a big punch but it is a worthwhile read just the same.ReplyDelete
Dewey - Thanks for stopping by! If it's not on your wishlist, add it quick!
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Lawyers for former Pennsylvania state Sen. Vincent Fumo say he's scheduled to leave a federal prison in Kentucky after spending four years behind bars for defrauding the state Senate, a South Philadelphia nonprofit and a seaport museum of millions of dollars.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the 70-year-old Democrat is expected to leave the prison in Ashland, Ky., on Tuesday.
The newspaper reports his fiancee, Carolyn Zinni, is scheduled to pick him up and make the drive back to Philadelphia.
Fumo must report to a halfway house and will be transferred to the supervision of the community corrections managers of the Bureau of Prisons for the last six months of his sentence.
He'll work as a $10-an-hour assistant at the law firm of his lead attorney, Dennis Cogan.

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Yes, Sarah Palin, Your Fans Are Racists
Hours before Sarah Palin showed up to get BOOED at the Flyers opener in Philadelphia, she hosted a rally in Johnstown, PA. And the citizen at left showed up with a stuffed monkey with an Obama sticker on its head. "This is little Hussein," he boasted smugly to cameras. Surely the other McCain/Palin supporters admonished him in the no uncertain terms, yes? No. They giggled and clapped. Watch after the jump.


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Holy crap, they're still trying to shove SOPA down our throats? After all that, they still don't get the problem with it? In case you haven't heard, the MPAA is still hard at work making deals with senators and congressmen in shadowy back rooms, even after all the previous pains such efforts brought on them.
I'm still sticking to my hypothesis that the problem of piracy is the fault of the studios themselves, and that it's their problem to fix. At best, legislation like SOPA (surely they won't be stupid enough to keep the same name?) will probably have no effect on piracy whatsoever, only hurting legitimate business and file transfers. At worst, it creates a dangerous precedent that will hurt everything but piracy.
The fact is, they're going to keep trying to pass laws like SOPA until it actually slips through. Maybe it'll be some shadowy back room deal that no one has a chance to oppose, or maybe it'll be hidden deep within some seemingly harmless bill. Maybe they'll even pass it openly, in one final, flamboyant middle finger to free speech.
At this point, I'm afraid that the only way that scenario doesn't happen is if there's a (not really) radical overhaul of existing free speech laws. It's going to take more than a pledge from the President not to pass any legislation that impacts access to or free speech on the Internet. It's going to take a Constitutional amendment to keep them from doing just that. I think the same argument can apply to pretty much any country, just replace 'Constitutional amendment' with the nearest legal equivalent.
Technically, the Constitution and basic human rights laws the world over should protect against such legislation. Any kind of law that says free speech and unrestricted access to information is a basic right should be totally redundant and unneeded. Sadly, that's being completely ignored.
This is as much a technological issue as it is a political one, but it seems to me that the Internet fills the same role as the literal free press did in its time in the spotlight. Sure, lots of it is drivel, but so was (and is) much of the literal press. There lots of good nuggets out there to be found by the discerning eye. In the modern world, more and more people are going to rely exclusively on the Internet and connected devices to get their information. Sure, I believe that libraries and books will live on, but I think that newspapers will be largely replaced in the future.
Any law that regulates what you can say on the Internet or cuts off access to it isn't any different than regulating what a paper can print or banning reading. A vital part of democracy and culture is threatened, and that's pretty scary.
Have no doubt: there's a storm coming, a showdown that will only end in the total defeat of one side. It's a battle between money, corruption, dying industries and the free and open Internet. Where will you stand?


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Five New Dark Knight TV Spots And Five Minutes Of Gotham Knight
Warner Bros has begun to ramp up the advertising for The Dark Knight. Check out five new television spots for the film below, followed by a five minute segment from the upcoming direct-to-DVD animated anthology Batman: Gotham Knight (think Animatrix, but with Batman) thanks to MTV. Enjoy.
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This Wine Blogging Wednesday thing is becoming a problem for me. No, it's not the themes but my lack of organization and focus to actually post on time or near to the actual event. I did my last event on the weekend after the Wednesday in question and there have been too many months where I've missed posting these on the day prescribed.
So in the "better late than never" category goes this entry, which I actually started last Wednesday but ran out of time to complete; my apologies to our host Remy from The Wine Case for my late entry this time, a week behind the curve. This is after sitting out the last outing (stupidly, as will become obvious in future tasting notes).
But getting back to the task at hand, this month we are challenged by Remy from Quebec City's The Wine Case blog to taste a variety from the North and South and compare them. This can be by any measure but I thought it best to compare wines made from the same variety from different hemispheres. I also decided to turn to a white grape since I nearly always feature reds for WBW. So I picked Sauvignon Blanc, the variety from Bordeaux that travels well around the world to create interesting wines.
Sauvignon Blanc is one of those ancient varieties that seems to produce pleasing wines no matter what the style. From bone dry to sweet, the variety does well from it's home in France to California, the valleys of Chile and the vineyards of New Zealand. DNA profiling has connected Sauvignon Blanc as the parent of the noble Cabernet Sauvignon (along with Cabernet Franc) and related to Chenin Blanc and even Traminer. This grape has a lot to tell from several angles and I hoped to be able to triangulate common characteristics from this tasting.
For my northerly selection I chose a recent sample sent from Rued Winery in Dry Creek Valley. I'm a frequent visitor to this part of Sonoma but have not had the pleasure of visiting this winery. From this, and subsequent tastings of other varieties, I will have to drop by to taste more. From the south, we have the ever reliable Kim Crawford from Marlborough, New Zealand. Unlike some wineries acquired and expanded based upon the reputation of early efforts, this brand seems to continue to deliver the goods.
But who will take this North vs. South Sauvignon Blanc showdown?
Tasting Notes:
Rued Winery, Sauvignon Blanc, Dry Creek Valley 2007Â ($16/sample) – Very light straw in color with a green tinge. Citrus and stone fruit aromas with flavors of lime, grapefruit and peach finishing with a burst of acidity and nice mineral notes. A very nice California SB in a style I'd like to see more producers make. Also an excellent value. Paired well with Japanese food but would also be a natural for any seafood you'd squeeze lemon on before eating.
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Kim Crawford, Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough 2008 ($17/sample) – Light straw in color with aromas of grapefruit, gooseberry and fresh hay. Bright grapefruit and lime flavors finishing very clean with good acidity. A reliable and food friendly SB for current drinking.
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So a draw this time with perhaps a slight nod to the North. It seems the northern entry was more mineral while the southern selection more herbaceous. But either would make a great pairing with spring food and are highly recommended. I look forward to next month when I will dare to publish these notes on the correct Wednesday 😉
Check out Remy's summary for those who posted on time.


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Starting Tuesday we will be adhering to the mandated 30 day shutdown in Johnson County. This development will affect all appointments scheduled from March 24 – April 24. If you have an appointment on the books during this time, then we will be in touch soon to reschedule you for a later date.
I highly recommend looking over your product supply to see what you might need to get through the next 8 weeks (just to be safe!). I will be going in today and tomorrow to fill orders for anyone who may run out of product.
If you would like to place an order for product pickup or delivery before Tuesday, then you must text me at 913-215-1980 by Monday morning so I can help you out!
Thank you in advance for your patience as we shuffle everyone around and try to make things work.
Something to consider….
Please keep all your favorite service based professionals in your thoughts & prayers. Being self-employed in this industry means that when we aren't working, we aren't earning…yet our financial obligations still carry on. It also means we are ineligible for any employee based recovery help & benefits.
The upcoming months will be extremely tough on all your favorite local small businesses & our survival will depend on the support we receive from the community. I encourage you to look for creative ways to support your service providers during these difficult times….even if it's just to offer words of encouragement & moral support!
I do not have a crystal ball & cannot predict exactly when business will return to normal. We will simply take things one step at a time and adjust as we receive more information.
I'm sending a social distance hug to everyone & hope we can all stay safe, healthy…..and sane!


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For some strange reason, the Republicans are no longer bragging about the austerity movement in the UK.
In case you wondered why, check it out for yourself. It's a colossal failure and it's getting worse.
Just as many had predicted, austerity during a declining economy doesn't fix anything. It only makes the problem worse, by cutting off critical finances and services when they're needed the most. It's much cheaper for governments to borrow the money and keep money moving during soft economic periods like this.
Conservatives laughed off criticism of austerity, but it's clear they were wrong.
Joe Stiglitz previously compared austerity to "medieval medicine."
Paul Krugman said it was a recipe for ten more years of a depression.
The IMF reported that it was costing tens of billions in the UK alone. The UK deficit has increased despite claims of the opposite and austerity already triggered a double dip in the UK. Again, outside of the right wing fantasy-land, this was all predicted from the beginning.
The next time any Republican, or center-right Democrat, calls for austerity, wake them up and tell them to read the news beyond their home town or inside the Beltway. The end result of austerity is ugly, especially in these economic times, and we have plenty of examples of how destructive and costly it is. When they're done looking at the failures in the UK, they can turn to Spain and Greece for more.
The economic update in the UK is not pretty and it just gets worse. What fool would want to inflict this kind of damage in the US? From the Guardian:
Fitch expressed concern at Osborne's decision to put back by a year to 2016-17 the date by which Britain's national debt will start to fall as a proportion of gross domestic product. "In our view, missing the target weakens the credibility of the UK's fiscal framework, which is one of the factors supporting the [AAA] rating," the ratings agency said.
Although two years of zero growth will mean that the government's budget deficit next year will be almost double the £60bn predicted in Osborne's first budget in June 2010, the chancellor said progress was being made. By including the expected £3.5bn proceeds of the auction of the 4G spectrum he was able to say that the deficit was coming down in each year of the current parliament.
More promises and more failures. Each time the right wing finance minister plays around with the economy, the worse it gets. Growth was talked about, never materialized, and now here come cuts to the social system (sound familiar?). But of course, that's what all of this was about from the beginning – conservatives forcing budget crises that then force cuts in social programs.
Just as Republicans want to hack the social system to pieces in the US, that's what the Tories have wanted to do in the UK from the start. In the case of the UK, they are raising taxes on the rich, but they're also dismembering the social system. There will be a cost to the middle class as well as to the overall economy. The system is there to help people and without it, something has to give.
Once again, it's an austerity bomb. That's the point of these policies.
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This exhibition, as I indicated in my earlier post, RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2012 - Selected artists & artwork, this exhibition is 100% open. There are no works by members of the RWS.
General impressions of the exhibition
|RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition - the feature wall
That said, I also have to note that I came across what I considered to be some weak examples of watercolour art which I found rather surprising. I'm not going to name names or otherwise characterise them - although if you're a watercolour artist whose work I rate highly you may find me dropping you a line to suggest you enter next year! ;)
I also noticed that I was seeing more than one painting for the second or third time in the last 12 months. Good though they may be, I think a competition of this sort really should have a condition that the entries have not been previously exhibited in London. Not least because those paintings I saw are also produced by artists whose work I rate and I know they have more good paintings in their portfolios! Maybe a point for the RWS to ponder on?
|RWS Open 2012 - South Wall
|RWS Open 2012 - The Alcove Wall
In general terms - and for the benefit of those thinking of entering next year - this is what I found in terms of subject matter, media, style and presentation
|Winner of St Cuthbert's Mill Prize
(top) Stu by Mark Haddon
- styles lean towards the impressionistic and figurative (ie freehand rather than traced) and there is relatively little hyper/photographic realism
- mainly watercolour and gouache, limited use of inks and acrylic
- there's an awful lot of landscapes of every size and style
- there's more botanical work and still lives involving flowers, fruit and vegetables than I've seen before. I think the botanical artists have just begun to realise they can also apply to become members of the RWS!
- the portraits and paintings of figures varied enormously - and two won prizes. There were very few straight portraits. There were some very stylised treatments of people. Interestingly these carried more conviction than those where it was very evident the figure had been painted from a photo. I was somewhat surprised there weren't more out and out portrait painters submitting work in watercolour
- there's not a lot of abstract work although there are some 'statement' paintings
- framing is neutral, light wood, white or black. Study my photos to see what I mean. Most but not all are matted. Relatively few were floated.
- the paintings with impact tended to be either bigger than average (eg whole sheet of watercolour paper) or smaller than average and technically skilled.
These are the award winners
|Top left - Winner of the David Gluck Memorial Award
After the Storm 2 by Maki Kiryu
- Royal Watercolour Society Award (£500 cash prize) - Matchbox Seascapes by David Cass
- David Glück Memorial Award (£1000 cash prize) - After the Storm 2 by Maki Kiryu
- St Cuthbert's Mill (£300 worth of paper) - Stu by Mark Haddon
- Daler Rowney Prize (Daler Rowney Artist Watercolour Set) - Jess Puts up the Boards by Malcolm Wilkinson - see below
- Winsor & Newton Prizes
- 1st Prize (£250 RRP worth of Winsor & Newton Art Materials) - Unknown Lady by Dong Li-Blackwell
- Runner up (Artists' Watercolour Box) Waiting for the End Boys by Bob Ballard
- Runner up (Artists' Watercolour Box) Dhaka by Robin Storey
- The Artist Prize (An article in a future issue of The Artist magazine) - Bathers, Sandycove, County Dublin by John Short
|Winner of The Artist Prize (top centre)
Bathers, Sandycove, County Dublin by John Short
|Winner of the Daler Rowney Prize
Jess puts up the boards (sold) by Malcolm Wilkinson
|Extract from Jess puts up the boards (sold) by Malcolm Wilkinson
|The White Van by Philip Rundall
|In a French Kitchen and From the Wild Wood by Tessa Shedley Jordan
|It's raining, it's pouring by Christopher Dunn
watercolour and gouache
Note: Joy of joys - Blackfriars tube station is now open again and the Thames Path has been reinstated which makes getting to the Bankside Gallery a lot easier.
However The Thames Path is closed on 10-11 March due to the continued work on the new entrance to Blackfriars Station which is a now hop, skip and a jump from the front door to the Bankside Gallery


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Life changes after a cancer diagnosis, and this can take time to get used to.
It is important to know that there are people who can support you, and things you can do to help yourself physically and emotionally.
What is survivorship?
Survivorship is a fairly new area of cancer care and research. In the past, health professionals focused on diagnosis and treatment rather than what happened to people after that. Now many people are being cured of cancer, or living longer with cancer. These people need ongoing care and support and this is what survivorship is about.
Not everyone describes survivorship in the same way. Some people think it starts after cancer treatment. Others say that anyone with cancer is a survivor from the day they are diagnosed.
What is agreed is that people with cancer need long-term care and support. This is to manage their general health, deal with problems from the cancer or its treatment, and cope with the emotional effects of cancer and fears of it coming back.
Finding a 'new normal'
A cancer diagnosis changes many things. People may have:
- side effects from their cancer or treatment
- changes to the way their body looks or feels
- changes to their work situation
- financial concerns.
Even if you don't have these problems, cancer can change your view of life. Many people re-evaluate their goals, values and priorities in life.
Sometimes, people say that you need to find a 'new normal'. Not everyone likes this expression but it does explain some things. Your life will never be exactly the same as before but you can still find ways to make the most of it.
It isn't about being strong. It is about taking care of yourself. That may include getting help from other people or a support group. The Cancer Council has programs and support groups to help people after they have finished treatment.
Worrying about cancer coming back
Many people worry about their cancer coming back after treatment. The chance of this happening is different for everyone. It depends on the type of cancer, the stage and grade, your general health, and the treatment you had.
If you are worried about recurrence, it may help to talk to someone. People who can help include your GP, a social worker, a clinical psychologist or the Cancer Council. Some people find that mindfulness, meditation, yoga or tai chi can help manage these feelings.
You can also try to reduce your risk of recurrence by having a healthy lifestyle.
Other resources we recommend
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A vote of confidence from Ed Wade for Jeff Keppinger:
"He's been exactly what our scouts saw since he came over here. I had [Lance] Berkman tell me during the season last year that he's very impressed with Keppinger because he's as prepared as any of the guys on our club. He prepares very well for the game. I've said before that with a 12-man pitching staff, you get a short bench, which then to me requires you to have a lot of versatility and have guys like Keppinger who can play all the field positions and pinch-hit and hit-and-run and move runners and those types of things."
Keppinger, on versatility:
"That means it gives me more options to get in a game. If you're stuck in one position and there's only 30 teams, it's tough to break through and get on a team. I spent my time in the Minors trying to do whatever I could to get up here, whether as a backup or starter. I'm happy to be here."
So the question is: Was Keppinger worth trading Drew Sutton for?


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Ash Wednesday Masses 10am & 8pm
18 Feb 2015
Wednesday Feb 18th is Ash Wednesday: a Day of Fast and Abstinence.
Ashes distributed after 10a.m. Mass and at Evening Mass at 8p.m.
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Season of Lent. It is a season of penance, reflection, and fasting which prepares us for Christ's Resurrection on Easter Sunday, through which we attain redemption.
Why we receive the ashes
Following the example of the Nine vites, who did penance in sackcloth and ashes, our foreheads are marked with ashes to humble our hearts and reminds us that life passes away on Earth. We remember this when we are told
"Remember, Man is dust, and unto dust you shall return."
Ashes are a symbol of penance made sacramental by the blessing of the Church, and they help us develop a spirit of humility and sacrifice.
The distribution of ashes comes from a ceremony of ages past. Christians who had committed grave faults performed public penance. On Ash Wednesday, the Bishop blessed the hair shirts which they were to wear during the forty days of penance, and sprinkled over them ashes made from the palms from the previous year. Then, while the faithful recited the Seven Penitential Psalms, the penitents were turned out of the church because of their sins — just as Adam, the first man, was turned out of Paradise because of his disobedience. The penitents did not enter the church again until Maundy Thursday after having won reconciliation by the toil of forty days' penance and sacramental absolution. Later, all Christians, whether public or secret penitents, came to receive ashes out of devotion. In earlier times, the distribution of ashes was followed by a penitential procession.
The Ashes
The ashes are made from the blessed palms used in the Palm Sunday celebration of the previous year. The ashes are christened with Holy Water and are scented by exposure to incense. While the ashes symbolize penance and contrition, they are also a reminder that God is gracious and merciful to those who call on Him with repentant hearts. His Divine mercy is of utmost importance during the season of Lent, and the Church calls on us to seek that mercy during the entire Lenten season with reflection, prayer and penance.


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ALFRED, Maine — Two more men, including a Kennebunk lawyer who is on the town's zoning board of appeals, have been fined on charges of engaging the services of alleged prostitute Alexis Wright.
Wright, 30, of Wells is charged with running a prostitution operation out of her Kennebunk Zumba studio and nearby office space for more than a year and a half. She has pleaded not guilty to 106 counts, including prostitution, violation of privacy and tax-related offenses. Her business partner, Mark Strong Sr., 57, of Thomaston is charged with 59 counts, including promotion of prostitution and violation of privacy. He also has pleaded not guilty.
So far, more than 60 men and one woman have been charged with engaging a prostitute, including the 14 who have been fined. In response to a request from the York County Coast Star, Deputy District Attorney Justina McGettigan identified two more men who recently pleaded guilty directly through the court.
On Monday, Dec. 31, Jens-Peter Bergen, 54, of Kennebunk and Dale Madore, 44, of North Yarmouth both pleaded guilty through their attorney. Bergen, a local lawyer who sits on the Kennebunk Zoning Board of Appeals, was fined $730, including surcharges. Madore was fined $1,210, including surcharges.
Strong is scheduled for trial in January. Wright's trial is scheduled for May.


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my laugh lines and of course my music play listReplyDelete
My grey hairsReplyDelete
my age giveaway is my two girls and my love for 80's music (classic rock baby)ReplyDelete
One of my age giveaways is the 80's playlist on my Ipod. (Judy Cowan)ReplyDelete
Well I am mostly totally grey, I blame my dad who went grey in his 20's. I love Jackson Five music, Midnight at the Oasis, Brandy (the song not the singer) and everything from the 70's when I was in Junior and High School.ReplyDelete
How tired I am all the time, lol!ReplyDelete
My life lines as I like to call themReplyDelete
My age giveaway is definitely my new grey hair.ReplyDelete
MY AGE GIVEAWAY IS MY GREY HAIRReplyDelete
Rocking out to awesome 80's music!ReplyDelete
Besides my three kids that are with me everywhere I go, my biggest age giveaway has to be my grey roots! I try desperately to get rid of them, but they never fully disappear...ReplyDelete
One of my age giveaways is the TV shows I use to watch including Full House, Blossom and Family Ties.ReplyDeleteReplies
OMG! I remember Blossom!Delete
My dry, wrinkly hands are an age giveaway for me.ReplyDelete
One of my age 'giveaway' is definitely the songs I like listening to.ReplyDelete
On of my age giveaways is when I talk about my 25 year old son ~ people are usually shocked to learn I'm old enough to have a 25 year oldReplyDelete
Grey Hair, wrinkles and mostly attitude & fear of dentists.ReplyDelete
my age giveaway are my laugh lines, love of 80's music and my teenage sonReplyDelete
My grey hair, my grandchildren and the fine lines around my eyes and mouth give my age away!ReplyDelete
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I have thinning grey hair, and laugh lines that give my age awayReplyDelete
One of my age giveaways are the fine lines around my eyes and forehead.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 22, 2016 at 5:20 PM
making sure a show is programmed to 'tape'ReplyDelete
When the grey roots start to show.ReplyDelete
Florence C
my grey rootsReplyDelete
The lines in between my eyebrows. :(ReplyDelete
My reading glasses, the grey in my hair and teenage kids give me away :)ReplyDelete
One of my age giveaways is my grey hair..so many..too too many!ReplyDelete
My laugh lines,a few grey hairs and my loving the 80'smusic giveaway my age.ReplyDelete
My eyes and my neckReplyDelete
My dark circles under my eyes.ReplyDelete
I would say sun spot areas on my complexionReplyDelete
Lines around my eyes and my handsReplyDelete
My two grandsons are my age giveaways,and some fine lines around my eyes.ReplyDelete
My hands are my age giveaway and my love of 70's music.ReplyDelete
my grey hair, and the fact that I still have pogs is an age giveaway! lolReplyDelete
SABINA EDWARDS - MY AGE giveaway is how the grey hairs just seem to POOF and pop up and bam..there's another oneReplyDeleteReplies
THE above is physical, the words I use also give me away, I say bunny hug not hoody, gibbled is a word i've been known to use lol and I say "don't have a hernia", something I said when we were 13Delete
My giveaway is my hands and crows feetReplyDelete
My giveaway is my hands and crows feetReplyDelete
My age giveaway would be being my hands and the greys in my hair.ReplyDelete
My age give away are the fine lines around my eyes , lips and cheeksReplyDelete
My grey hair until I have time to cover them, and then I am 30 again :)ReplyDelete
My age giveaway is having teenagers at 35 and gray hairs lolReplyDelete
My 18 and 21 year old sons.ReplyDelete
My grey roots!!ReplyDelete
My daughter turns 30 next year. How's that for age?ReplyDelete
(Debbie W)
My deep laugh lines give my age away!ReplyDelete
Having 4 grandchildren gives my age away!!ReplyDelete
my 16yo is my age giveawayReplyDelete
One of my age give aways is that my oldest son turned 16 this past weekReplyDelete
Definitely my gray hair although I try to hide them!!ReplyDelete
My age giveaway is my dry skin that also results in wrinkles on my face.ReplyDelete
It is definitely the age spots showing up on my hands.ReplyDelete
My Laugh lines is my age giveaway and my dry wrinkled hands are a dead giveaway :) (Treen Goodwin)ReplyDelete
The growing crows feet, laugh lines, deepening wrinkles....ReplyDelete
My music is my age giveaway.ReplyDelete
My dark spots!ReplyDelete
I have crows feet at my eyesReplyDelete
The wrinkles around my eyes are my age giveaway.ReplyDelete
My kids and the starting of my grey hair gives my age away!ReplyDelete
One of my age giveaways is my grey hairReplyDelete
My style of cloths is my age giveaway!! And our 3 kids!! :)ReplyDelete
My age giveaway are my dark circles and fine lines.ReplyDelete
The fact that I know all the lyrics to the Depeche Mode catalogue is a good giveaway!ReplyDelete
- Eldon LJanuary 25, 2016 at 8:06 PM
My eye creasesReplyDelete
my age giveaway is my laugh linesReplyDelete
I listen to ABBA...and own a tape of theirs!ReplyDelete
All my white hairs are my giveaway!ReplyDelete
One of my age giveaways is when my grey roots start to showReplyDelete
Having grey hair at 35 lolReplyDelete
The wrinkles around my eyes when I smile give me away.ReplyDelete
crows feet for meReplyDelete
My predeliction for ABBA.ReplyDeleteReplies
Mamma mia, chiqiuitita! You've got great taste in music!Delete
The 90's music I listen to is one of my giveaways.ReplyDelete
It would be great to win an Olay Regenerist prize pack.ReplyDelete
In response to your question of
What is one of your age "giveaways."?
The grey hair in my beard and moustache
make me look older than i am.
Thank you for having this giveaway.
The fact that I will leap onto the dance floor when 80s music comes on is a bit of a giveaway.ReplyDelete
i know who new kids on the block areReplyDelete
Shoot Diana I put my tweet in the Facebook box..sorry :(ReplyDelete
White hairs in my beard are a dead giveaway!ReplyDelete
The lines around my eyes are the biggest giveaway.ReplyDelete
My music playlist and I do not know the new singers or actors.ReplyDelete
Knowing the theme songs to all the kids shows. ;)ReplyDelete
I won this on another blog so PLEASE delete my entries and thanks OLAYReplyDelete
The bags under my eyes and the tired face you see on me tells you I am old.ReplyDelete
My grey hair... :(ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2016 at 6:45 PM
Bailey Dexter For me it is my neck that shows my age as well as the crows feet!ReplyDelete
MY age giveaways are my tired eyes.ReplyDelete
- Yan DengJanuary 30, 2016 at 8:52 PM
my age giveaway is my eye bagsReplyDelete
The music I listen toReplyDelete
I would say the grey around my templesReplyDelete
- noodlemomJanuary 31, 2016 at 9:19 PM
my skin ages meReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2016 at 11:22 PM
My handsReplyDelete
- Anne DoughertyFebruary 2, 2016 at 2:28 PM
Fine lines and grey hairs :(ReplyDelete
The 'smile lines' (sounds nicer than crows feet ugh) around my eyes give me away *sigh*ReplyDelete
Those very sensible wool winter boots are an age giveaway.ReplyDelete
My grey roots and love for 80s music gives me away!ReplyDelete
The music that was new when I was in high school is now classic rock.ReplyDelete
My giveaway is I now have fine lines when I smileReplyDelete
My age giveaway are my gray hairs and crow's feet near eyes!ReplyDelete
My age giveaway is my wrinkles and saggy skin:)ReplyDelete
That would be my gray hair. =(ReplyDelete
My smiling and laughing lines may be showing the signs of time!ReplyDelete
The white strands poking throughReplyDelete
Crows feet on my eyes and that my skin just looks old and tired.ReplyDelete
Besos, Sarah
Journeys of The Zoo
The grey hair that is appearing is my age giveaway!ReplyDelete
well I'm 62 so everything is biting it now but I'd have to say the lines around my mouth are a real giveawayReplyDelete
fine lines around my eyesReplyDelete
My amazing kids, they grow so fast I know I must be aging too!ReplyDelete
My amazing kids, they grow so fast I know I must be aging too!ReplyDelete
- Luzviminda Gunter-SmithFebruary 11, 2016 at 9:09 PM
My laugh linesReplyDelete
- LaurencFebruary 13, 2016 at 8:22 AM
My laugh lines!ReplyDelete
wrinkles around my eyes and damn gray hairReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 14, 2016 at 7:56 PM
One of my age giveaways are my grey roots.ReplyDelete
The tiny wrinkles around my eyes give away my age.ReplyDelete
My eyes and the puffiness around gives away my ageReplyDelete
After watching a movie, I sometimes will comment about rewinding it - Lol!ReplyDelete
The crowsfeet around my eyesReplyDelete
I think my taste in music gives me awayReplyDelete
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First, let's look at what happens when ELSA makes a query. ELSA uses Sphinx as its search engine, and it uses two types of Sphinx indexes. The first is a "temporary" index that ELSA initially creates for new logs which stores the fields (technically, attributes) of the events in RAM, deduplicated, using Sphinx's default "extern" docinfo. The other is the "permanent" form which stores the attributes using Sphinx's "inline" docinfo. Inline means that the attributes are something like a database table, where the name of the table is the keyword being searched, and all entries in the table correspond to the hits for that keyword.
So let's say we have log entries that look like this:
term1 term2 id=1, timestamp=x1, host=y, class=z
term1 term3 id=2, timestamp=x2, host=y, class=z
Sphinx's inline docinfo would store this as three total keywords, each with the list of attributes beneath it like a database table:
id | timestamp | host | class
1 | x1 | y | z
2 | x2 | y | z
id | timestamp | host | class
1 | x1 | y | z
id | timestamp | host | class
2 | x2 | y | z
So when you query for +term1 +term2, Sphinx does a pseudo-SQL query like this:
SELECT * FROM term1 JOIN term2 WHERE term1.id=term2.id
Most terms are fairly rare, so the join is incredibly fast. However, consider a situation in which "term1" appeared in hundreds of millions of events. If your query includes "term1," then the number of "rows" in the "table" for that term could be millions or even billions, making that JOIN extremely expensive, especially if you've asked for the query to filter the results to specific time values or do a group by.
In addition to the slow querying, note that the disk required to store the Sphinx indexes is a function of the number of attributes it must store in these pseudo-tables. So, a very common term will incur a massive disk cost to store the large pseudo-table.
Below is the count of the one hundred most common terms in a test dataset of ten million events. You can think of each bar representing the number of rows in the pseudo-tables, so a query for 0 - (the two most common terms) would require a join across a pseudo-table with 45,355,729 rows multiplied with another with 33,907,455 rows. Note how quickly the hit count of a given term drops off.
StopwordsThis is where Sphinx stopwords save the day. Sphinx's indexer has an option to calculate the frequency with which keywords exist in data to be indexed. You can invoke this by adding --buildstops <outfile> <n> --buildfreqs to the indexing command and it will find the top n most frequent keywords and write them to outfile, along with the count for how many times the keyword appeared. This file can be referred to by a subsequent run of indexer, sans the stopword options, to ignore these n most frequent keywords. This will save a massive amount of disk space (expect savings of around 60% percent) and also guarantee that queries including the word won't take forever, because the index won't have any knowledge of them.
However, this obviously means that the keywords can't be searched. To cope with this, ELSA has a configuration item in the elsa_web.conf file where you can specify a hash of stopwords. If a query attempts to search one of these keywords, then one of several things can happen:
- If some terms are stopwords and some are not, then the query will use the non-stopwords as the basis for the Sphinx search, and results will be filtered using the stopwords in ELSA.
- If all terms are stopwords, the query is run against the raw SQL database and Sphinx is not queried at all.
- If a query contains no keywords, just attributes (such as a query for just a class or a range query), the query will be run against the raw SQL database and not Sphinx.


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September Releases Part 1: Mike Reed (x2), Vince Mendoza on 9/9
Drummer/composer Mike Reed releases two new recordings on the same day.
Mike Reed's Loose Assembly – The Speed of Change. Loose Assembly is Mike's quintet with multi-reedist Greg Ward, bassist Josh Abrams, Tomeka Reid on cello, and vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz. According to the press release, the group moves from pastoral sonic explorations to edgy post-bop and even to Chicago post rock. "In the end, I guess I'm still thinking about early AACM bands like [Henry Threadgill's] Air, as templates for what is possible," says Reed.
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Proliferation is the debut outing by Reed's quartet People, Places & Things. Reed, with alto saxophonist Greg Ward, tenor man Tim Haldeman, and bassist Jason Roebke, set out to reinvestigate the under-recognized influence of Chicago's Jazz scene from 1954-60. "We tried to re-invent the music we were covering," says Reed. "In order for it to be as current as it was back then, we had to find ways to incorporate styles and influences of improvising that pertain to us."
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Vince Mendoza – Blauklang. The composer/arranger, whom I know from his work with Yellowjackets and the Breckers, releases a "textural masterpiece" based on painting by German modern artist Ernst Wilhelm Nay. It features guitarist Nguyên Lê, trumpeter Markus Stockhausen, bassist Lars Danielsson, and drummer Peter Erskine, plus the WDR Big Band.
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Other Releases This Month (look for details on some of these in future posts):
- Javon Jackson – Once Upon A Melody (9/16)
- Patricia Barber – The Cole Porter Mix (9/16)
- The Millenium Promise Jazz Project (with Kirk Whalum, 9/16)
- Fourplay – Energy (9/23)
- Spyro Gyra – A Night Before Christmas (9/23)
- Kenny Garrett – Sketches Of MD: Live At The Iridium Featuring Pharoah Sanders (9/23)
- Herbie Hancock – Then and Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock (9/23)
- Will Bernard – Blue Plate Special (9/30)
- Take 6 – The Standard (9/30)
- Jeff Lorber – Heard That (9/30)
- Jason Miles – 2 Grover With Love (9/30)
- Bela Fleck & the Flecktones – Jingle All the Way (9/30) – read my post on this


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The Danger of the 'Black Lives Matter' Movement
The following is adapted from a speech delivered on April 27, 2016, at Hillsdale College's Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C., as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series.
For almost two years, a protest movement known as "Black Lives Matter" has convulsed the nation. Triggered by the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014, the Black Lives Matter movement holds that racist police officers are the greatest threat facing young black men today. This belief has triggered riots, "die-ins," the murder and attempted murder of police officers, a campaign to eliminate traditional grand jury proceedings when police use lethal force, and a presidential task force on policing.
Even though the U.S. Justice Department has resoundingly disproven the lie that a pacific Michael Brown was shot in cold blood while trying to surrender, Brown is still venerated as a martyr. And now police officers are backing off of proactive policing in the face of the relentless venom directed at them on the street and in the media. As a result, violent crime is on the rise.
The need is urgent, therefore, to examine the Black Lives Matter movement's central thesis—that police pose the greatest threat to young black men. I propose two counter hypotheses: first, that there is no government agency more dedicated to the idea that black lives matter than the police; and second, that we have been talking obsessively about alleged police racism over the last 20 years in order to avoid talking about a far larger problem—black-on-black crime.
Let's be clear at the outset: police have an indefeasible obligation to treat everyone with courtesy and respect, and to act within the confines of the law. Too often, officers develop a hardened, obnoxious attitude. It is also true that being stopped when you are innocent of any wrongdoing is infuriating, humiliating, and sometimes terrifying. And needless to say, every unjustified police shooting of an unarmed civilian is a stomach-churning tragedy.
Given the history of racism in this country and the complicity of the police in that history, police shootings of black men are particularly and understandably fraught. That history informs how many people view the police. But however intolerable and inexcusable every act of police brutality is, and while we need to make sure that the police are properly trained in the Constitution and in courtesy, there is a larger reality behind the issue of policing, crime, and race that remains a taboo topic. The problem of black-on-black crime is an uncomfortable truth, but unless we acknowledge it, we won't get very far in understanding patterns of policing.
Every year, approximately 6,000 blacks are murdered. This is a number greater than white and Hispanic homicide victims combined, even though blacks are only 13 percent of the national population. Blacks are killed at six times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined. In Los Angeles, blacks between the ages of 20 and 24 die at a rate 20 to 30 times the national mean. Who is killing them? Not the police, and not white civilians, but other blacks. The astronomical black death-by-homicide rate is a function of the black crime rate. Black males between the ages of 14 and 17 commit homicide at ten times the rate of white and Hispanic male teens combined. Blacks of all ages commit homicide at eight times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined, and at eleven times the rate of whites alone.
The police could end all lethal uses of force tomorrow and it would have at most a trivial effect on the black death-by-homicide rate. The nation's police killed 987 civilians in 2015, according to a database compiled by The Washington Post. Whites were 50 percent—or 493—of those victims, and blacks were 26 percent—or 258. Most of those victims of police shootings, white and black, were armed or otherwise threatening the officer with potentially lethal force.
The black violent crime rate would actually predict that more than 26 percent of police victims would be black. Officer use of force will occur where the police interact most often with violent criminals, armed suspects, and those resisting arrest, and that is in black neighborhoods. In America's 75 largest counties in 2009, for example, blacks constituted 62 percent of all robbery defendants, 57 percent of all murder defendants, 45 percent of all assault defendants—but only 15 percent of the population.
Moreover, 40 percent of all cop killers have been black over the last decade. And a larger proportion of white and Hispanic homicide deaths are a result of police killings than black homicide deaths—but don't expect to hear that from the media or from the political enablers of the Black Lives Matter movement. Twelve percent of all white and Hispanic homicide victims are killed by police officers, compared to four percent of all black homicide victims. If we're going to have a "Lives Matter" anti-police movement, it would be more appropriately named "White and Hispanic Lives Matter."
Standard anti-cop ideology, whether emanating from the ACLU or the academy, holds that law enforcement actions are racist if they don't mirror population data. New York City illustrates why that expectation is so misguided. Blacks make up 23 percent of New York City's population, but they commit 75 percent of all shootings, 70 percent of all robberies, and 66 percent of all violent crime, according to victims and witnesses. Add Hispanic shootings and you account for 98 percent of all illegal gunfire in the city. Whites are 33 percent of the city's population, but they commit fewer than two percent of all shootings, four percent of all robberies, and five percent of all violent crime. These disparities mean that virtually every time the police in New York are called out on a gun run—meaning that someone has just been shot—they are being summoned to minority neighborhoods looking for minority suspects.
Officers hope against hope that they will receive descriptions of white shooting suspects, but it almost never happens. This incidence of crime means that innocent black men have a much higher chance than innocent white men of being stopped by the police because they match the description of a suspect. This is not something the police choose. It is a reality forced on them by the facts of crime.
The geographic disparities are also huge. In Brownsville, Brooklyn, the per capita shooting rate is 81 times higher than in nearby Bay Ridge, Brooklyn—the first neighborhood predominantly black, the second neighborhood predominantly white and Asian. As a result, police presence and use of proactive tactics are much higher in Brownsville than in Bay Ridge. Every time there is a shooting, the police will flood the area looking to make stops in order to avert a retaliatory shooting. They are in Brownsville not because of racism, but because they want to provide protection to its many law-abiding residents who deserve safety.
Who are some of the victims of elevated urban crime? On March 11, 2015, as protesters were once again converging on the Ferguson police headquarters demanding the resignation of the entire department, a six-year-old boy named Marcus Johnson was killed a few miles away in a St. Louis park, the victim of a drive-by shooting. No one protested his killing. Al Sharpton did not demand a federal investigation. Few people outside of his immediate community know his name.
Ten children under the age of ten were killed in Baltimore last year. In Cleveland, three children five and younger were killed in September. A seven-year-old boy was killed in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend by a bullet intended for his father. In November, a nine-year-old in Chicago was lured into an alley and killed by his father's gang enemies; the father refused to cooperate with the police. In August, a nine-year-old girl was doing her homework on her mother's bed in Ferguson when a bullet fired into the house killed her. In Cincinnati in July, a four-year-old girl was shot in the head and a six-year-old girl was left paralyzed and partially blind from two separate drive-by shootings. This mindless violence seems almost to be regarded as normal, given the lack of attention it receives from the same people who would be out in droves if any of these had been police shootings. As horrific as such stories are, crime rates were much higher 20 years ago. In New York City in 1990, for example, there were 2,245 homicides. In 2014 there were 333—a decrease of 85 percent. The drop in New York's crime rate is the steepest in the nation, but crime has fallen at a historic rate nationwide as well—by about 40 percent—since the early 1990s. The greatest beneficiaries of these declining rates have been minorities. Over 10,000 minority males alive today in New York would be dead if the city's homicide rate had remained at its early 1990s level.
What is behind this historic crime drop? A policing revolution that began in New York and spread nationally, and that is now being threatened. Starting in 1994, the top brass of the NYPD embraced the then-radical idea that the police can actually prevent crime, not just respond to it. They started gathering and analyzing crime data on a daily and then hourly basis. They looked for patterns, and strategized on tactics to try to quell crime outbreaks as they were emerging. Equally important, they held commanders accountable for crime in their jurisdictions. Department leaders started meeting weekly with precinct commanders to grill them on crime patterns on their watch. These weekly accountability sessions came to be known as Compstat. They were ruthless, high tension affairs. If a commander was not fully informed about every local crime outbreak and ready with a strategy to combat it, his career was in jeopardy.
Compstat created a sense of urgency about fighting crime that has never left the NYPD. For decades, the rap against the police was that they ignored crime in minority neighborhoods. Compstat keeps New York commanders focused like a laser beam on where people are being victimized most, and that is in minority communities. Compstat spread nationwide. Departments across the country now send officers to emerging crime hot spots to try to interrupt criminal behavior before it happens.
In terms of economic stimulus alone, no other government program has come close to the success of data-driven policing. In New York City, businesses that had shunned previously drug-infested areas now set up shop there, offering residents a choice in shopping and creating a demand for workers. Senior citizens felt safe to go to the store or to the post office to pick up their Social Security checks. Children could ride their bikes on city sidewalks without their mothers worrying that they would be shot. But the crime victories of the last two decades, and the moral support on which law and order depends, are now in jeopardy thanks to the falsehoods of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Police operating in inner-city neighborhoods now find themselves routinely surrounded by cursing, jeering crowds when they make a pedestrian stop or try to arrest a suspect. Sometimes bottles and rocks are thrown. Bystanders stick cell phones in the officers' faces, daring them to proceed with their duties. Officers are worried about becoming the next racist cop of the week and possibly losing their livelihood thanks to an incomplete cell phone video that inevitably fails to show the antecedents to their use of force. Officer use of force is never pretty, but the public is clueless about how hard it is to subdue a suspect who is determined to resist arrest.
As a result of the anti-cop campaign of the last two years and the resulting push-back in the streets, officers in urban areas are cutting back on precisely the kind of policing that led to the crime decline of the 1990s and 2000s. Arrests and summons are down, particularly for low-level offenses. Police officers continue to rush to 911 calls when there is already a victim. But when it comes to making discretionary stops—such as getting out of their cars and questioning people hanging out on drug corners at 1:00 a.m.—many cops worry that doing so could put their careers on the line. Police officers are, after all, human. When they are repeatedly called racist for stopping and questioning suspicious individuals in high-crime areas, they will perform less of those stops. That is not only understandable—in a sense, it is how thingsshould work. Policing is political. If a powerful political block has denied the legitimacy of assertive policing, we will get less of it.
On the other hand, the people demanding that the police back off are by no means representative of the entire black community. Go to any police-neighborhood meeting in Harlem, the South Bronx, or South Central Los Angeles, and you will invariably hear variants of the following: "We want the dealers off the corner." "You arrest them and they're back the next day." "There are kids hanging out on my stoop. Why can't you arrest them for loitering?" "I smell weed in my hallway. Can't you do something?" I met an elderly cancer amputee in the Mount Hope section of the Bronx who was terrified to go to her lobby mailbox because of the young men trespassing there and selling drugs. The only time she felt safe was when the police were there. "Please, Jesus," she said to me, "send more police!" The irony is that the police cannot respond to these heartfelt requests for order without generating the racially disproportionate statistics that will be used against them in an ACLU or Justice Department lawsuit.
Unfortunately, when officers back off in high crime neighborhoods, crime shoots through the roof. Our country is in the midst of the first sustained violent crime spike in two decades. Murders rose nearly 17 percent in the nation's 50 largest cities in 2015, and it was in cities with large black populations where the violence increased the most. Baltimore's per capita homicide rate last year was the highest in its history. Milwaukee had its deadliest year in a decade, with a 72 percent increase in homicides. Homicides in Cleveland increased 90 percent over the previous year. Murders rose 83 percent in Nashville, 54 percent in Washington, D.C., and 61 percent in Minneapolis. In Chicago, where pedestrian stops are down by 90 percent, shootings were up 80 percent through March 2016.
I first identified the increase in violent crime in May 2015 and dubbed it "the Ferguson effect." My diagnosis set off a firestorm of controversy on the anti-cop Left and in criminology circles. Despite that furor, FBI Director James Comey confirmed the Ferguson effect in a speech at the University of Chicago Law School last October. Comey decried the "chill wind" that had been blowing through law enforcement over the previous year, and attributed the sharp rise in homicides and shootings to the campaign against cops. Several days later, President Obama had the temerity to rebuke Comey, accusing him (while leaving him unnamed) of "cherry-pick[ing] data" and using "anecdotal evidence to drive policy [and] feed political agendas." The idea that President Obama knows more about crime and policing than his FBI director is of course ludicrous. But the President thought it necessary to take Comey down, because to recognize the connection between proactive policing and public safety undermines the entire premise of the anti-cop Left: that the police oppress minority communities rather than bring them surcease from disorder.
As crime rates continue to rise, the overwhelming majority of victims are, as usual, black—as are their assailants. But police officers are coming under attack as well. In August 2015, an officer in Birmingham, Alabama, was beaten unconscious by a convicted felon after a car stop. The suspect had grabbed the officer's gun, as Michael Brown had tried to do in Ferguson, but the officer hesitated to use force against him for fear of being charged with racism. Such incidents will likely multiply as the media continues to amplify the Black Lives Matter activists' poisonous slander against the nation's police forces.
The number of police officers killed in shootings more than doubled during the first three months of 2016. In fact, officers are at much greater risk from blacks than unarmed blacks are from the police. Over the last decade, an officer's chance of getting killed by a black has been 18.5 times higher than the chance of an unarmed black getting killed by a cop.
The favorite conceit of the Black Lives Matter movement is, of course, the racist white officer gunning down a black man. According to available studies, it is a canard. A March 2015 Justice Department report on the Philadelphia Police Department found that black and Hispanic officers were much more likely than white officers to shoot blacks based on "threat misperception," i.e., the incorrect belief that a civilian is armed. A study by University of Pennsylvania criminologist Greg Ridgeway, formerly acting director of the National Institute of Justice, has found that black officers in the NYPD were 3.3 times more likely to fire their weapons at shooting scenes than other officers present. The April 2015 death of drug dealer Freddie Gray in Baltimore has been slotted into the Black Lives Matter master narrative, even though the three most consequential officers in Gray's arrest and transport are black. There is no evidence that a white drug dealer in Gray's circumstances, with a similar history of faking injuries, would have been treated any differently.
We have been here before. In the 1960s and early 1970s, black and white radicals directed hatred and occasional violence against the police. The difference today is that anti-cop ideology is embraced at the highest reaches of the establishment: by the President, by his Attorney General, by college presidents, by foundation heads, and by the press. The presidential candidates of one party are competing to see who can out-demagogue President Obama's persistent race-based calumnies against the criminal justice system, while those of the other party have not emphasized the issue as they might have.
I don't know what will end the current frenzy against the police. What I do know is that we are playing with fire, and if it keeps spreading, it will be hard to put out.
This piece originally appeared in Imprimis, adapted from a speech delivered at Hillsdale College's Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center
This piece originally appeared in Imprimis


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Watch: The Moment of Victory for Marriage Equality
Tuesday night's election brought historic victories for LGBT people, when voters approved marriage equality at the ballot box for the first time in U.S. history.
Tuesday's election was historic for many reasons — including the reelection of the first sitting president to endorse marriage equality, the election of the nation's first out lesbian senator, and more than 100 other LGBT candidates elected to office — but perhaps none were more groundbreaking and heartwarming than victories for marriage equality in Washington State, Maryland and Maine. In case that weren't notable enough, on Tuesday Minnesota became the first state in the country's history to reject an amendment banning same-sex marriage.
We reached out to SheWired readers across the nation, asking for pictures that immortalized the moment history was made in LGBT equality in this country. Readers submitted tender, beautiful photos, and we scoured the internet to find a few additional images, and one video you MUST watch. So grab a box of tissues (if you're the emotional type like me) and click through the following pages to see the expressions of LGBT people the moment they realize that the majority has just cast a ballot recognizing our fundamental human rights — for the first time in U.S. history.
Let's start off with these gorgeous snapshots from Washington, featured in the music video for "Same Love" by Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, and Mary Lambert. You'll want to watch the video, too. Here it is:
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Ngoc Tran was in Seattle's Capital Hill district, a traditionally queer neighborhood, when results began flowing in showing that Washington's Referendum 74 was likely to be approved by voters. Check out more of Tran's work at Sashimi Images.
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Celebrations ring out in Seattle as news begins to break that Washington voters have approved the marriage equality law put forward by the legislature and signed by Gov. Christine Gregoire in February. Photo by Ngoc Tran.
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Kristen Libby contemplates shiry as it happens in Washington state. Photo by Ngoc Tran.
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Maine was officially the first state to declare victory on its marriage equality referendum, a particularly poignant moment considering that just three years earlier, Maine voters had rejected a proposed marriage equality law. Mainers United for Marriage tweeted the photo above, and then published video of the moment. Watch it below, but turn down your volume first — there's a good deal of joyful screaming.
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In Minnesota, the campaign fighting to defeat an antigay constitutional amendment was just about to call it a night, without conclusive results at 1:45 am, when Minnesotans United for All Families' communications director Kelly Schwinghammer reported that the Associated Press just called the race in favor of equality. What followed was a joyous, impromptu celebration of historic magnitude. Relive that moment below — jump to the 3:00 mark if you want to bypass campaign manager Richard Carlbom's measured-but-hopeful speech to campaign workers leading up to the unexpected moment of victory.
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A disposal, plastic listening device that attaches to the abdomen may help doctors definitively determine which post-operative patients should be fed and which should not, an invention that may improve outcomes, decrease healthcare costs and shorten hospital stays, according to a UCLA study.
Some patients who undergo surgery develop a condition called post-operative ileus (POI), a malfunction of the intestines. The condition causes patients to become ill if they eat too soon, which can lengthen an affected patient's hospital stay by two to three days. Until now, there was no way to monitor for POI other than listening to the belly for short periods with a stethoscope, said study first author Dr. Brennan Spiegel, a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
If proven successful, the device, a non-invasive acoustic gastrointestinal surveillance biosensor called AbStats, could also be used to help diagnose irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease, in addition to helping obese people learn by the sounds from their gut when they should or shouldn't eat to help them lose weight.
Spiegel and his team worked with researchers at the UCLA Wireless Health Institute at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science to develop the sensor, which resembles a small plastic cap and has a tiny microphone inside to monitor digestion.
"We think what we've invented is a way to monitor a new vital sign, one to go along with heart rate, blood pressure and respiration. This new vital sign, intestinal rate, could prove to be important in diagnosing and treating patients," Spiegel said. "The role of wearable sensors in healthcare has reached mainstream consciousness and has the capacity to transform how we monitor and deliver care. Yet, there are very few biosensors that are supported by any peer-reviewed evidence. This study represents peer-reviewed evidence supporting use of a biosensor, a device born and bred out of UCLA multidisciplinary research."
The study appears in the early online edition of the peer-reviewed Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery.
In this study, the biosensor was used to listen to sounds emanating from the intestines and was connected to a computer that measured the rate of acoustic events – movement of the intestines – as they occurred. The research team compared intestinal rates of healthy subjects using the device for 60 minutes after a standardized meal to rates recorded in two post-operative groups, patients who were tolerating food and those that had POI.
Using the biosensor, Spiegel and his team could distinguish patients with POI from patients who did not suffer from the condition by the sounds made by their intestines. In the future, doctors may use the biosensor to determine which patients can be fed, making an evidence-based decision instead of just guessing based on less specific information, Spiegel said.
Going forward, Spiegel hopes to be able to determine if the biosensor can be used to identify patients at risk for POI to help doctors make post-operative feeding decisions.
"After surgery, the bowels shut down under stress as the body is focused on keeping the brain, heart and lungs alive," Spiegel said. "We also give patients narcotic medications for pain that can also cause the bowels to freeze up. The way doctors currently monitor for POI is putting a stethoscope on the patient's belly for 15 seconds, briefly listening for sounds of intestinal awakening, and asking about flatulence. It's all very rudimentary and inaccurate. With this new vital sign, the team can now monitor the intestines empirically and make more informed decisions."
When the bowels shut down, they become very quiet, moving only a few times per minute versus the digestion of a healthy person, who generates 10 or more intestinal movements per minute. The movements make a "clicking" noise, and it is that noise the biosensor picks up and sends to a computer for analysis.
William J. Kaiser, a professor of electrical engineering and co-director of the UCLA Wireless Health Institute, said development of the biosensor system has been a primary focus of the institute.
"It has been rewarding and exciting for our entire team. The institute develops wearable biomedical sensor systems to support our physician colleagues and fulfill our mission of advancing healthcare delivery," Kaiser said. "The biosensor system is an important example of this rapid development that has resulted in a low-cost instrument that serves an unmet need for continuous, non-invasive monitoring of the human digestive processes. The potential for this biosensor has been thrilling, since it will serve many applications from monitoring of POI to a wide range of digestive process diagnostic applications. The biosensor can operate in the clinic, at home and at any location on the globe."
Gastrointestinal disorders are highly prevalent in both inpatient and outpatient settings. A recent study commissioned by the National Institutes of Health found that there are more than 70 million ambulatory care visits every year in the U.S. with a gastrointestinal disorder listed as the first diagnosis. That number swelled to more than 100 million visits when gastrointestinal disorders were mentioned anywhere in the diagnosis, the equivalent of nearly 36,000 outpatient visits per 100,000 Americans.
Gastrointestinal disorders also have enormous direct and indirect societal costs, Spiegel said. The total direct cost of care for gastrointestinal disorders is estimated at $100 billion annually. Indirect costs increase that figure to more than $140 billion.
"With the aging of the American population and the rising incidence of obesity, it is certain that the economic impact of gastrointestinal disorders will get increasingly worse over the next decade and beyond," Spiegel said.
For more information, visit www.uclahealth.org.
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Fox News Latino has only been around for a few months, but it's already become a hotbed of controversy. It's less than a year old, and was created to target Latino audiences with news from both the U.S. and Central and South America. Yet while the it does the uncomfortable dance of trying to court more Latino viewers, that effort likely gets swallowed by the larger network's venomous approach to important issues like the DREAM Act and border violence. Now, Media Matters is pushing for the network to make up its mind.
Fox News is the most-watched cable news channel in the country. In 2009-2010 the network surpassed CNN and MSNBC's weekly viewership. A study released this week by Public Policy Polling found that PBS is the most trusted news outlet the U.S., followed by Fox News. (Fox News is the second-most trusted network, but also the most distrusted one, with 42 percent trusting it and 46 percent not trusting it.)
Last month they ran a story saying Spanish Actress Penélope Cruz was going to give birth to an "anchor baby," but after some uproar from a group of Latino conservatives Fox News retracted the entire story, and today there is no sign of the story on their site.
Back when the network launched its Latino website, its leadership seemed optimistic.
"The launch of Fox News Latino creates an unprecedented opportunity to expand our reach by engaging the fastest growing minority audience and providing a unique platform for compelling and original content focused on the Latino community and the American dream," said Fox News senior vice president Michael Clemente in a statement.
But of course, very little of that optimism has shown through to any coverage that's "fair and balanced," to go along with the network's slogan.
They provide airtime to hosts and pundits who are anti-immigration or "anti-amnesty," as they would call it — views that could be in conflict with the same audience they're trying to reach with Fox News Latino.
"I don't think there'll be conflict," Clemente told Reuters in an interview. "We will do what we always do on the news side which is to be very fair and balanced on all sides of the issue in our reporting."
Another study found Fox News viewers are much more likely than others to believe false information about U.S. politics.
Take the DREAM Act, for instance. Media Matters found that from Nov. 23 through Dec. 1, 2010, Fox gave DREAM Act opponents more than 40 minutes of airtime versus about seven minutes for supporters. Host Sean Hannity called the DREAM Act a "free college education" and "basically amnesty." Doug McKelway of Special Report called it a "free ride to college. But in fact the DREAM Act would've never provided any "free" grants to students.
And sometimes the hosts just go for knee-jerking acts. Bill O'Reilly dedicated several segments of prime time television to discrediting Nicky Diaz, former California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's undocumented housekeeper. O'Reilley went as far as asking U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano what she was going do about "the highest profile illegal alien" in the country, and made her promise that she would look in to Diaz's case.
But Fox News Latino told Diaz's story in a completely different light. For starters, Diaz was an "undocumented housekeeper" and "mystery maid" 'who "Whitman abruptly fired," not an "illegal alien," as she was identified on Fox News' O'Reilly Factor. Fox News Latino also painted Diaz in a good light when Whitman settled with her for unpaid wages. "Whitman settles with housekeeper for chump change" the headline read.
This week Media Matters looked at the dichotomy of the coverage on both Fox News and Fox News Latino when they reported news that the family of a Mexican teenager who was shot and killed by a border patrol agent for allegedly throwing rocks at them is filing a wrongful death suit.
Media Matters' Simon Maloy points out that Fox News Latino reported news of the lawsuit in a "straightforward manner," but on Fox News the tone was much more incendiary:
Yesterday on Fox News' Happening Now, anchor Jon Scott conducted an interview with the slain teenager's family's attorney. In introducing the combative segment, Scott referred to undocumented immigrants simply as "illegals" — a dehumanizing shorthand frequently encountered on the network — and aired several grainy video clips of rocks being thrown at the U.S./Mexico border. Remember, the family attorney denies the claim that the boy threw rocks and that the video of the shooting corroborates this. But Fox News aired other video clips of other people throwing rocks at the border.
It seems like the "conflict" Fox News senior vice president Michael Clemente said wouldn't occur has manifested itself. Their solution to avoid conflict may just be that Fox News Latino not cover all the news Fox News covers; current top news stories on Fox News Latino includes stories about childhood obesity, pop singers being arrested, physic octopus and political prisoners in Cuba, none of which are present on Fox News. The big lesson here? You just can't have it both ways.


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The one-and-done Kentucky stud needed an A in a certain high school class to be academically eligible for college. The grade report shows he made a C average. What gives?
Bledsoe took Algebra 3 in night school as a senior at Parker High School in Birmingham. Based on his ACT score and his GPA, nothing less than an A in that class would have made him eligible to play for the Wildcats. He got that A, maybe.
His transcript shows he received a 90 in each of the two class sessions, averaging to an A. But the Birmingham News reports that the grade report from that class shows he scored a low C in one session, and a low B in the other.
"You've got the wrong grade," the algebra teacher told the reporter, before hanging up. And maybe they do! Maybe it's a typo. Maybe this is all on the up-and-up.
Then you learn that Bledsoe "aced" Algebra 3 before taking Algebra 2. He pulled an A in that class too, even though he had never scored higher than a C in any math class before attending Parker High.
The NCAA's investigating. It's a good thing Kentucky doesn't hang Elite Eight banners at Rupp Arena. Because last year's might not stay up for too long.
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