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How to "Green" Your Meeting
One of the best 'green' decisions you can make for your meeting or event is choosing the Fredericton Convention Centre (FCC). It's no accident that our primary logo colour is green. Green is truly a part of what we do at the FCC. Every day. The FCC was built with many earth-saving green building features included.
A few additional suggestions for consideration:
- Choose our water station approach, where guests choose to fill their glasses from attractive water dispensers. Even better than water pitchers (and lots better than plastic water bottles!), this approach wastes less water and ensures glassware does not need to be re-washed if not used
- Choose locally produced, seasonal and/or organic foods from our extensive menu options
- Consider the menu options that require less packaging and less waste. Muffins, for example, instead of packaged granola bars
- A supply of pens and pads of paper placed at the water station for your delegates to take, rather than setting each place with a pad and pen
- Use our digital signage, both the way-finding and those directly outside your meeting rooms, to reduce sign printing
- Use the FCC plasma screens to thank your sponsors
- Most of the forms and contracts we need you to fill out can be done electronically on this site, saving the paper from printing and faxing
- Request that delegates return their name badges and lanyards for use at future events
These are just a few ideas that you may consider to increase the green-friendliness of your event. You can trust that the FCC always thinks green first.


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Northeast digs out after first snowstorm of 2014
The first snow storm of 2014 hit not only Maryland, but much of New England, the Midwest and the Atlantic Coast, with some regions receiving as much as two feet of snow. Several airports were closed, while flights elsewhere were delayed. Schools closed up and down the East Coast on Friday, while sub-zero wind chills took effect, leaving many to shovel themselves out in the frigid air, including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

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Eve and Brent 04.22.18
This was the most beautiful spring day, in one of our areas most beauitful venues. Delille Cellars offers photo opps like no other. A few fun details about this wedding: First, the bride broke her foot earlier that week! And look how she made it through the day, fully enjoyed it even - impressive! Also, this is the first wedding I have attended where the entire cocktail hour was video game music. (Complimenting the bride's processional song as the Zelda theme.)The mother of the bride did most of the planning, and I was amazed! The details are some of the prettiest I have seen. It was a truly personal, stunning and joyful day!Read More
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Blake Shelton, Chris Stapleton, Kelly Clarkson, Kelsea Ballerini, Sam Hunt and Luke Bryan will be performing live at the CMT Awards show next month.
The performers were announced Wednesday for the June 6 awards show held in Nashville, Tennessee, and airing on CMT.
Clarkson is making her CMT Awards show debut with a performance of the classic rock song "American Woman." The song will be the theme song for a new TV show of the same name on Paramount Network starring Alicia Silverstone and Mena Suvari.
Stapleton and Shelton are both nominated for video of the year, while Carrie Underwood, Florida Georgia Line and Jason Aldean are tied for the most nominations with four each.


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The whole world in his hands?
My parents were amused. Interpreting my confusion as a sign of tiredness, they sent me to bed before I could upset by a satellite's snapshot of the eastern hemisphere. I may be mistaken, but I believe that my mother said something like "You'll understand when you're older, dear", as she tugged me down the hallway towards my bed.
My parents might try to deny it, but they are partly responsible for my cartophilia. When I was too young to remember it, they pinned an enormous map of the world on the bedroom I shared with my brother. As I lay in bed before falling asleep or rising, I stared, fascinated, at the shapes of the world's continents, the tangle of its political boundaries, and the fissures made by its great rivers. Accustomed to reports of famine in Africa on the television news, I came to see the continent as an enormous skull, with its cranium bulging into the Atlantic and its mandible extending south. As the Cold War got colder in the early and middle eighties, and movies like Red Dawn and Rocky IV turned the prospect of a Hot War into the stuff of schoolboy fantasy, I became fascinated by that long and cryptic name The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which marched east across the wastes of Siberia towards the Bering Strait, where Alaska seemed to wait like an enormous fist.
It is easy to appreciate the contingent, political nature of maps which show national boundaries, but harder to grasp that even the most scrupulously detailed map of the world's non-human features is incapable of anything approaching objectivity. In the poem which, seven or so years ago, supplied this blog with its name, the great cartographer of regional New Zealand Kendrick Smithyman explained the limitations of his art:
Look for an unformed road
lifting suddenly, steep. But get over the crest,
you're on top of packed sand.
Carry on to the Head. You cross
the old tramway which used to go up to
the Harbour, remains of the one time main road
to gumfields (south of the river and this next
river) out from the edge of the Forest. It went on
down the coast, then climbed inland on the line
Of a Maori trail. Of course, the map doesn't
say anything about that. Maps can
tell you about what is supposedly present.
They know little about what's past and only
so much about outcomes. They work within
tacit limits. They're not good at predicting.
If everything is anywhere in flux
Perhaps we may not read the same map twice.
The political boundaries on Aneirin's globe are up-to-date, and yet not necessarily unassailable. His version of Europe includes Kosovo, which has been widely recognised as independent since 2008, and his Africa distinguishes South Sudan from Sudan, in recognition of the 2011 referendum where 99% of the people of the south voted to secede from their northern oppressors.
With their attempts to sum up a complex and contested reality with a few shapes and symbols, maps are a metaphor for the limits of all human attempts to know the world. They are both essential and inherently flawed. They should be seen as an invitation to discussion and redefinition, rather than as final definitions. That, at any rate, is what I think I overheard Aneirin saying to himself when he was playing with his present on Christmas day...


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Chubb Rock - A Message to the B.A.N. lyrics
1991 Grilled Cgeese goes on it's way to different cities
Rocking for the kiddies
To do shows for rows, no foes, dough in escrow
All the money went to goddamned Joe
For cleaning the bus, we cussed, caps were bust
On us, Joe should have adjust to the goddamn musk
We were the Christmas and Joe Damn was merry
And kids had nothing but jokes just like Perry
Every night at the show was a good night
Hot Dog and Ev in the morning had a food fight
Chicken all over, rice, ham, beverage, pastrami
Yo it was comedy -- The B.A.N.
Back on the bust take the musk to the next city
And snoring by Frank Nitty
I'ma tell you I was about to be outtie
Lucky for me that homeboy Kirk Gowdy
Brought his tapes so flexed cause we were vexed
And seeked salvation in Derek X
So thank you thank you and alladat
Played the hell out of the Nubians -- the shit was fat
So now we're in Lafayette, Louisiana
Bought a three eighty from some little Dan Tana
Ripped the show got the dough and gained some fans
The grill dusty message to the B.A.N.
On the whole tour Rob was a fiend
He had the ugliest girl I've ever seen
He was with her the whole time after the show
He turned the light on -- me and Jojo said YOOOOOO!
What is that?
Rob you're bugging G damn her grill is wack
Your grill ain't alladat but you can do better
My man even had phone calls and sent her letters
In at the Denny's on the corner no one seen us
On Pokey's burger -- everything on it -- even penis
But Kirk Pone went and told the man
1991 Grilled Cheese Tour -- a message to the B.A.N.


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What Does It Mean That A Person Will Not Inherit The Kingdom Of God
"What does it mean that a person will not inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9-11)?"Answer: The first mention of not inheriting the kingdom of God is found in Paul's first letter to the church at Corinth. "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Corinthians 6:9-11).By saying the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God, Paul is stating that the wicked are not children of God, nor are they heirs of eternal life (Romans 8:17). This does not mean that anybody who has ever committed one of these sins will be denied entrance to heaven. What differentiates a Christian's life from that of a non-Christian is the struggle against sin and the ability to overcome it. A true Christian will always repent, will always eventually return to God, and will always resume the struggle against sin. But the Bible gives no support for the idea that a person who perpetually and unrepentantly engages in sin can indeed be a Christian. The 1 Corinthians passage lists sins that, if indulged in continuously, identify a person as not being redeemed by Christ.The Christian's response to sin is to hate it, repent of it, and forsake it. We still struggle with sin, but by the power of the Holy Spirit who lives in us, we are able to resist and overcome sin. The hallmark of a true Christian is the decreasing presence of sin in his life. As Christians grow and mature in the faith, sin has less and less of a hold on us. Of course, sinless perfection is impossible in this life, but our hatred for sin becomes greater as we mature. Like Paul, we are distressed that sin still exists in our flesh, causing us at times to do what we don't want to do and looking to Christ for relief from this "body of death" (Romans 7:18-25).If a person actively, perpetually, and unrepentantly lives a homosexual lifestyle, the lifestyle of a thief, a greedy lifestyle, a drunken lifestyle, etc., it is not possible for such a person to be a Christian, and such a person will definitely not inherit the kingdom of God.


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10 executions that defined the 1980s
June 25th, 2012 Headsman
The Me decade marks the end of the "short century" and the transition out of the postwar period or the Cold War into … well, into whatever it is that's come since.
While Communism and apartheid went out with hair bands, it was Back to the Future with the rise of terrorism, nationalism, and religious extremists. And if the warmest memories of the decade are of divided peoples breaching the walls that separated them, our world today is shaped just as surely by the violent ends meted out to many others.
10. Many Tiananmen Square protestors
China's abortive liberal moment in 1989 was notoriously crushed by tanks. Although the fate of the famous anonymous man who wasn't crushed is not known, executions for some "rioters" began within weeks of the June 4 crackdown.
9. Ted Bundy
The creepy-charismatic sex slayer whose diabolical crime spree from Seattle, Wash., to Gainesville, Fla., made his name synonymous with human brutality, Bundy left his still-unknown body count in the Seventies but his front-page persona while he scrambled to avoid Old Sparky was quintessential Eighties: oleaginous salesmanship, celebrity narcissism, cannibalistic hyperconsumption, and lethal sexuality. He even made time in his very last hours to horn in on the era's trendy anti-porn racket.
Rivaled by few before or since for the volume, ferocity, and notoriety of his crimes, Bundy arguably remains the name in serial killing — as attested by the 5,000-plus comment thread he's generated on this site and the new true-crime titles he continues to underwrite.
8. Satwat Singh and Kehar Singh
Shaheedi to their own minds and not a few of their admirers, these unapologetic assassins of India Prime Minister Indira Gandhi retaliated for one notorious anti-Sikh rampage … and triggered a second.
7. Benjamin Moloise
"I am proud to give my life / My one solitary life" wrote the poet, condemned as a terrorist (and not the only one) to worldwide outrage by South Africa's increasingly desperate white government during the mid-1980s crisis that eventually collapsed apartheid.
6. Khalid Islambouli
The militant Islamic officer turned the page on an epoch of Middle East history by assassinating Nasserite Egyptian President Anwar Sadat after the latter made peace with Israel at Camp David.
5. Mehdi Hashemi
This Iranian revolutionary exposed the shocking Iran-contra scandal to a Lebanese magazine, and shook clandestine national security apparatuses all around the globe.
Ultimately, those who had dirtied their hands in this nefarious scheme, from the Nicaraguan bush to the White House to Hezbollah to Tel Aviv to Tehran, walked away with punishments ranging from a slap on the wrist to their name on an airport … but the whistleblower himself was tortured into a televised self-denunciation and his liberal political faction destroyed in Iran.
4. Maqbool Bhat
Patron martyr of the armed conflict for Kashmiri independence that's been running for decades since his 1984 hanging. The return of Maqbool Bhat's remains by the India government is still a going demand of Kashmiri separatists.
3. Kim Jaegyu
Had you composed the "10.26 incident" as fiction, no reader would have believed that the head of South Korea's intelligence agency would have personally shot the country's dictatorial president at a debaucherous wingding for (in Kim's words) "democracy of this country." Even more bizarrely, it kind of worked.
Our top two executions eerily bookend the decade with trends whose symbolic beginning and end were among that era's defining events.
2. Militants who seized the Grand Mosque
On January 9, 1980, the Saudi Arabia had over 60 Islamic militants beheaded in several cities around the kingdom.
These men had shockingly seized the sacred Grand Mosque the previous year … and the political price for the Saudi state for profaning that holy place with soldiers to arrest them was an arrangement that immensely strengthened the hand of Wahhabi clerics and directly inspired a young Osama bin Laden.
1. Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu
1989's stunning collapse of Communist authority across Eastern Europe culminated with the fall of venerable Romanian strongman Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena. Their drumhead Christmas Day, 1989 trial (and resultant bloodied corpses) were captured on video for the ages, and symbolically tied up the decade with just days to spare.
Honorable Mentions
A few other executions to remember the Eighties by…
KGB agent Valery Martynov, one of several U.S. assets betrayed by notorious moles Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen
Cuban Gen. Arnaldo Ochoa, supposedly for drug-running
Dead Man Walking inspiration Elmo Patrick Sonnier
Singapore's Adrian Lim, the white-collar drone turned predatory faith healer
Allegedly — though Iran disputes the fact — the titular sufferer in The Stoning of Soraya M
More historically certain but still opaque in its extent, Iran's 1988 mass executions of political prisoners by the unnumbered thousands
The last hanging in Poland, an abolition hastened by one of the decade's more arresting cinematic achievements
The Vice-President of Guinea-Bissau
The former compatriots and co-rulers of the guy who's still president of Burkina Faso to this day
"Fourteen Days in May" subject (and actual-innocence candidate) Edward Earl Johnson
Spree killer Stephen Morin, converted to evangelical Christianity by his last victim (whom Morin spared)
Nigerian General and poet Mamman Jiya Vatsa
Suriname's summary December murders
Marxist Grenada President Maurice Bishop, whose overthrow in a Communist intra-party coup offered a pretext for the U.S. to invade
Progressive Sudanese theologian Mahmoud Taha
The first modern Texas execution, which was also the first lethal injection in the U.S.
On this day..
- 1950: The Martyred, at the outset of the Korean War - 2020
- 1999: Eduardo Agbayani, omnishambles execution - 2019
- 1942: Gordon Cummins, the Blackout Ripper - 2018
- 1880: Three juvenile offenders in Canton, Ohio - 2017
- 1942: Evzen Rosicky, athlete - 2016
- 1483: Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers - 2015
- 1646: Jan Creoli, for sodomy in slavery - 2014
- 2003: He Xiuling, Ma Qingxui, Li Juhua and Dai Donggui - 2013
- 1804: Georges Cadoudal, Chouan - 2012
- 1790: Thomas Bird, the first federal execution under the U.S. constitution - 2011
- 1591: Euphane MacCalzean, witch - 2010
- 1579: Hatano Hideharu, en route to the Tokugawa Shogunate - 2009
- 1959: Charles Starkweather, Nebraska spree killer - 2008
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Those are history that people will never forget.
Sometimes you feel like this game rigged nederlands-rijbewijs
I was an aid worker in a Romanian orphanage in Criova Romania as part of the 1990 BBC Blue Peter Appeal. Ceausescu made a law that each Romanian family must have five children. This was to increase the countries work force. Many people could not afford these children and they were sent to dangerously understaffed orphanages. Ratio 1/50. The children were well fed but because of the lack of staff they were left in their cots for safety. One needle would be shared between every child in the orphanage for vaccinations. By the time our team arrived Hep B, HIV and AIDs were extremely common. The needle sharing stopped once we arrived with more supplies. Older children had been tied to their cots for safety. We worked alongside the Untrained staff teaching by example in terrible conditions. The TV footage of the orphanages was horrible but the reality was far worse. The smell was overpowering too. The systematic institutional abuse of children is still too distressing for me to write about but our work had many positive outcomes. We watched a repeat of the execution with my Romanian colleagues on Romanian state TV. Many of the Romanian staff were very upset by the footage. The problem with any political system is that we humans are corruptible. I met some of the kindest people in Romania and I often wonder what happened to the children we cared for.
after the fall of the communism only shit and crime spread up on the east, anarchy and greed…thanks, western intelligence agencies..
I remember spending all of Christmas Day, 1989 – my eldest's third Christmas – trying to ring a help line to donate money to Romanian orphanages as the news was coming through about how the children had not been fed but given AIDS infected blood to make them seem more healthy.


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For a second consecutive year, a Barnard alumna has been named a Luce Scholar. The Luce Foundation announced that Ana Maria Cruz '09 is one of 18 Luce Scholars chosen for 2012-13. Adriana Akers '09 won the prestigious prize in 2011. The Luce Scholars Program, a nationally competitive fellowship program, was launched by the Henry Luce Foundation in 1974 to enhance the understanding of Asia among potential leaders in American society.
"I am truly excited about the Luce Scholars program, and very grateful for the immense time that Dean James Runsdorf spent in helping me prepare for this adventure and for the support given to me by Barnard. He helped me feel confident in who I was and showed me that I had the skill set to become a Luce Scholar," said Cruz, who will be working to provide services for migrant workers in China. She added, "I hope with that experience to come back to New York and create a community organization that truly unites the community instead of serving just one population on the basis of language or ethnicity."
Cruz is the daughter of immigrants from Latin America. She grew up in a household where the goal was to achieve the American Dream, yet the daily struggle was to place food on the table. At Barnard College she became dedicated to improving the quality of life of working families in New York and gradually came to realize that one solution could be the labor movement. As an Urban Studies major with a concentration in Sociology, she took courses that examined different aspects of living in urban America, including healthcare, politics, education, and social movements. While conducting fieldwork for her thesis on immigrants achieving workplace justice, she helped undocumented immigrants find their voice in the workplace through education, collective action, and mobilization. Soon after graduating from Barnard, she interned in the political department of 32BJ SEIU, the Building Service Workers Union, working on New York City legislative campaigns affecting the working family. She was soon hired by the union as a public relations and communications assistant; in this capacity she works with a team of spokespeople and local reporters on developing stories about the members of the union. She is currently working on her master's degree in Labor Studies at the Murphy Institute, part of the CUNY School of Professional Studies. Her new yet familiar goal is to create a community organization that brings together different racial and ethnic groups to support positive legislation that improves working conditions and provides support for the working family.
The Henry Luce Foundation was established in 1936 by Henry R. Luce, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Time Inc., to honor his parents who were missionary educators in China. The Foundation builds upon the vision and values of four generations of the Luce family: broadening knowledge and encouraging the highest standards of service and leadership.


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Blog as Narrative Archive
The lecture that I'm set to give tomorrow, which I'm doing some heavy-duty work on this morning, is part of a series of lectures, classes, and screenings collectively titled "The New Documentary Impulse." Much of this series, as you might expect, has to do with recent work in politically focused documentary film and video, but there are a number of lectures exploring other manifestations of the documentary impulse as well.
As you might guess, I'm focusing on the blog, and particularly the ways that the blog — particularly, though not exclusively, the personal blog — contructs a diachronic narrative archive of the self, a sort of first-person database documentary, in which the "character" of the self is constructed gradually, over time.
This talk is aimed at a pretty generalist, non-blogging audience, and so might not be terrifically revolutionary in its materials or its implications, but there are a couple of claims that I'm making that I think are worth pondering at greater length, in a deeper fashion. I'm not going to attempt to expand on that treatment much right now, but I do want at least to rehearse the claims here before unloading them in the lecture.
The first is about the misguided notion, put forward in no small part by the bloggers themselves, but exacerbated by the treatment they've gotten in the mainstream media, that "serious" blogs become documentary by virtue of their focus on archiving the materials of the public sphere. This phenomenon has of course been most pronounced with regard to the so-called "political" bloggers, the obvious importance of whose subject over the last few years and the symbiotic nature of whose relationship with the news media has resulted in a kind of visibility that has defined, for the mainstream audience, what blogging might be. But many other sorts of blogs reach for this same kind of public documentary presence without necessarily focusing on the political realm; in this category I might include any number of the more research- or debate-focused academic blogs (such as Crooked Timber or The Valve, to name only two particularly visible examples) or the scads of technical blogs in the software community. These are the blogs that are frequently pointed to as evidence of what "good" blogs can be, and do.
And I don't intend here to argue with the "goodness" of those blogs. What I want to do, however, is take a closer look at what gets left out of such assessments, and why. Blogs that focus on the private sphere are much too often dismissed as being the work of teenage girls and other hysterics. Witness, for instance, the rash of dismissive articles some time back (frankly, I don't want to go hunt them down) on the "mommy bloggers"; witness, too, the characterization of such a private-sphere blog by the infamous Ivan Tribble, who suggested that the author of one such blog might be well advised to seek counseling. And witness the overwhelming condescension with which "serious" bloggers greet the entire phenomenon of LiveJournal.
There is of course a relationship to be posited between the dismissal of such private-sphere blogs and the historical dismissal of feminine modes of writing; such personal bloggers are certainly not exclusively female, but they bear much in common with the "damn'd mob of scribbling women" lamented by Hawthorne. By dismissing private-sphere blogs as no more than online diaries or domestic ranting, we are effectively casting aside untheorized an entire mode of blogging that has, I believe, significant literary potential.
That's claim number one. Claim number two has to do with how we understand blogs in relationship to the literary, and what kinds of theories are useful in exploring them. Traditional hypertextual theory (and I have to admit that there's something somewhat amusing to me in referring to any mode of theory about something as clearly incunabular as hypertext as "traditional") has focused in on the lexeme and the rhizome as figures for the construction of the networked literary text, which becomes a system of nodes and pathways that the reader can explore at something like "will." And clearly these figures are in some sense operational in the blog; each entry links both to other entries in the same blog, entries in other blogs, and the vast store of other resources on the internet, creating a rhizomatically distributed mode of meaning production.
But what I want to suggest is that this is utterly insufficient to understanding the ways that narrative is constructed in a blog, because it fails to contend with the ways that the blog both is and is not a time-based medium. Notions of the rhizomatic are useful for thinking about the nonlinear aspects of the blog, but they can't contend with the diachronic, the steady release of new text, new pathways, new information over time, and the ways that the serial aspect of blog reading results in an ongoing sense of the development of character and even of plot.
I'm arguing, then, that the blog might require some interweaving of theories of hypertext and theories of time-based media, such as film, in order to be fully explored as a narrative form. And in thinking through the private sphere blog in particular, the ways in which it constructs the self both as an ongoing narrative and as a historical archive, demands a hybrid mode of reading that brings together the literary, the cinematic, and the digital. In imagining such a mode of reading, we might look at the debate of sorts between Lev Manovich and Marsha Kinder, each of whom are fundamentally interested in the relationship between narrative and the database in the future of cinema.
Manovich, in both The Language of New Media and Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database, argues that the relationship between narrative and database is one of conflict, and that new media "favors" the database over the narrative as a privileged mode of meaning-making. This bears much in common with the rhizomatic argument of much hypertextual theory, that meaning is created in the accretion of materials and of links amongst them.
Marsha Kinder, by contrast, has argued that the future of digital cinema is developing precisely in the nexus of narrative and database. Her writing has for some time now revolved around the ways that the work of certain filmmakers, such as Bu?±uel, has been database driven avant la lettre, and how their examples might translate into interactive environments. The series of database narratives that she has built with the Labyrinth Project put such ideas into play, creating a new mode of storytelling with the database at its disposal. And it's particularly pertinent to point out that Labyrinth's projects have taken two primary forms — the "digital city symphony," which explores public spaces both through the archives and through the recollections of those who cross through those spaces, and the "database memoir," which explores private spaces through the same structures.
In allowing us to think both rhizomatically and diachronically, and in encouraging access to and exploration of the archives of both the public and the private sphere, Kinder's model seems to provide a needed complexity for our encounter with the blog as a narrative form.
More pondering of these claims will no doubt follow, as I keep working on this project. Of course, any of you who actually show up at the talk tomorrow will now find parts of it pretty familiar. But any comments, corrections, complaints, or complications that you might want to lodge before I have to go deliver this in person would be appreciated. The beauty of the both time-based and nonlinear nature of the blog is that it allows for development, revision, change; the linearity of the lecture, coupled with its facade of synchronicity, presents an obstacle to such rethinking, trapping ideas under glass and concretizing them at a moment when they most need fluidity in order to develop.
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01 Jul 1996 Time to End the Inquisition Against Black Conservatives, July 1996
A New Visions Commentary published July 1996 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 20 F Street NW, Suite 700 , Washington, D.C. 20001, (202) 507-6398, Fax (301) 498-1301, E-Mail [email protected].
During the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church and the Spanish held heresy trials. Hundreds of individuals were killed because of their beliefs, and religious freedom and thought were restricted. Today's inquisitors, while usually non-violent, still use intimidation to enforce their intolerant attitudes and beliefs. Black conservatives often are the targets of their tactics. Pursing the strategy that the rebels will disband when their leaders are weakened, the inquisitors have made Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas their prime target. Ridiculed by the 'elite' because of his tough stance on criminals, and his views concerning affirmative action, he is often considered a heretic and outcast.
The liberal elite has sought to intimidate Justice Thomas ever since his nomination to be a Supreme Court Justice. They have held candlelight vigils and prayer services outside of his house in their efforts to lead him in their direction. However, these same inquisitors do not lead their own misguided when they wander in the wrong direction. When former Representative Mel Reynolds was found guilty of rape, there was no liberal elite lynch mob after him — or after Mayor Marion Barry, despite his long list of indiscretions, not to mention potholes.
In the latest assault on Justice Thomas, a Prince George's County School Board member, the county's superintendent of schools, and the principal of a school in the county rescinded an invitation for Thomas to speak to eighth-graders at an awards ceremony. The inquisitors, it appears, do not believe Justice Thomas is an "authentic" black man. I beg to differ, and would like to know what traits these elitists are hoping Clarence Thomas will adopt or exhibit to demonstrate his blackness. Unlike any other community, for years, we black Americans have told one another what black is and what black isn't. Not being a sociologist, I am unable to come up with a scientific description for this brand of 'inner stereotyping.' However, this is an innate problem that is not just affecting the adults whose arguments are the offspring of differences in ideology and the future course of the black community. Children who also aren't part of the 'black mode' reap the effects of this stereotyping.
Some prominent leaders of the black community seem to think we are all supposed to think, act and talk alike. Except for some geographical differences, we black people are supposed to be clones of each other. We should all act alike, have the same beliefs, and walk in line behind those leaders in Washington, like Jesse Jackson, the Congressional Black Caucus, and others who have legislated and led us into a nearly insurmountable wall of helplessness. Simply put, it is time for these 'leaders' to step down and stop harassing those who do not believe in their views.
I firmly believe that most of these black leaders have the positive interest of their community at heart. However, the leaders of the inquisition must realize that we cannot all follow the same path. For each one of us, the path to the mountain of success is different. Yet, when some black Americans like myself attempt to pave a new path, the Inquisitors stop construction, charge tolls, and throw sand in our eyes to prevent us from searching for a new path.
Our leaders are killing future generations of black Americans whose thought process, socialization and integration in American culture is a totally different experience from theirs. Clearly, members of the black community must break the mold, and renew the idea that freedom of thought and expression are paramount for the success of any civilized society.
by Stuart DeVeaux, a national Advisory Council member of the African-American leadership group Project 21. DeVeaux has served on numerous political campaigns, and in the offices of several public policy organizations including Empower America and Black America's PAC.
(New Visions Commentaries are the opinion of their authors, and not necessarily those of Project 21.)


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Country of Origin: Blend of various dried fruits and herbs from Canada, USA, Thailand, Spain
Cup Characteristics: Bold strawberry kiwi flavor, tart, full bodied
Infusion: Deep reddish
Ingredients: Hibiscus petals, Rosehip chips, Dried apple pieces, Dried sweet orange peel, Natural Flavors
Herb and fruit tea; in some circles is considered a new type of tea. We formulated this blend to accommodate tastes of people who wanted to experience a refreshing healthy new style drink without caffeine. What we got was a terrific 'tea' that is unbelievably delicious and enjoyed Hot or Cold! This tea has a very exotic flavor profile. The delicious blend of strawberry and kiwi flavors combined with the natural flavors and tartness of the various dried fruits create a summertime cooler or a winter time summer reminder.
This fruit and herb tea is one of our favorites. It is a full flavored tea with good body. During the spring in the northern latitudes when the strawberries become available they have a deep strawberry taste. This tea is like that but tempered with subtle essence of kiwi and the astringent tartness of hibiscus. We remember a holiday in Long Island picking strawberries at a 'Pick Your Own' out in The Hamptons - very pleasant memories. This tea will evoke similar feelings for you.
For a summer time drink Strawberry Kiwi iced is hard to beat. It is refreshing and thirst quenching and not overly sweet. For formal times garnish the glass with a strawberry and a sprig of mint - for non formal times pour it into your glass and enjoy it gulp after gulp! If you have small children use the Strawberry Kiwi tea to make popsicles - they taste great and contain very little sugar.
By virtue of the fact that these blends do not contain any tea and are a special blend of fruits and herbs - they are caffeine free!. An additional benefit is that these 'teas' contain Vitamin C. What could be better - a healthy drink that tastes GREAT!
Hot tea brewing method: Place 1.5 to 2 teaspoons of Strawberry Kiwi per cup (and add 1 teaspoon for the pot) into the teapot. Pour boiling water into pot and let it steep for 5-7 minutes (or longer - the longer the steeping time to more intense the flavor becomes). Pour into your cup and add sugar to taste. **do not add milk - the milk will curdle due to the ingredients in this blend.
Iced tea brewing method (makes 1 quart/liter): Put 12-15 teaspoons of Strawberry Kiwi into a heat resistant pitcher. Pour 1 1/4 cups of freshly boiled water over the tea. Steep for 5-7 minutes or longer. Quarter fill a serving pitcher with cold water. Pour the tea into the pitcher straining the ingredients. Add ice and top-up with cold water. Garnish and sweeten to taste.


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Dez Bryant defends his sideline outbursts
The first of Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant's rants was mild by comparison, just your run of the mill yelling at the quarterback and the receivers coach.
The next one had a little more heat behind it, as he jawed back and forth with tight end Jason Witten, to the extent that injured teammate DeMarcus Ware stepped between them.
But after the fact, and after the Cowboys lost a crushing 31-30 decision to the Lions, Bryant wasn't about to apologize.
"My passion is always positive," Bryant said, via Tim McMahon of ESPNDallas.com. "It's always positive. It's going to remain the same way. I'm not saying anything wrong. I'm not saying anything bad. It's all positive. That's just what it is.
"I'm the nicest person off the field. When I'm on the field, even when I look angry, it's still all good passion. It's all good passion. I feel like that's what we need. I'm going to remain the same way. I feel like I love this game. I love it. In order to win, you've got to be passionate about this game. You have to be. You've got to let that dog come out and just put it all out there on the line."
There was barking, and maybe he felt a bit like a chihuahua after his own good day three catches for 72 yards and two touchdowns) was eclipsed by the true big dog in the neighborhood (Calvin Johnson's 329-yard event).
But he said he didn't care how the outbursts were received.
"That's [the media's] problem, because everybody knows up in this locker room who I am," Bryant said. "It's been that way since Day 1. The day that I got drafted, like I told y'all, don't get it twisted: I love this game. I love my teammates. That's what it is.
"It's going to forever remain the same. It started in Pop Warner, went to middle school, went to high school, went to college, and it's here. It's going to stay that way. It won't change."
Tony Romo shrugged off the first one, saying Bryant was more concerned with team welfare than his own stats, pointing out they scored touchdowns on the next two drives. Likewise, the man who signs the checks didn't mind either.
"Not in any way did it concern me," owner Jerry Jones said. "It's not a negative for our team. Matter of fact, when he started that as I saw timing-wise, we started playing better on our offense and the defense didn't hear it. They were out on the field. It's not an issue.
"I'm not trying to make light of it. But he's a very passionate player and he competes and works and does all the things that give him the collateral to use with his teammates and with me relative to a few awkward moments on the sideline, overexpression of passion. He's bought enough slack with me."
As long as he continues making plays, most teammates will accept it as part of the package.


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Yosemite Falls (Photography)
Yosemite National Park spans the eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa, and Madera counties of California. The park covers an area of 761,268 acres and reaches across the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain chain. Over 3.7 million people visit Yosemite each year - most spend their time in the seven square miles of Yosemite Valley. Designated a World Heritage Site in 1984, Yosemite is internationally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biological diversity. Almost 95% of the park is designated wilderness.
Yosemite was central to the development of the national park idea. First, Galen Clark and others lobbied to protect Yosemite Valley from development, ultimately leading to President Abraham Lincoln signing the Yosemite Grant in 1864. Later, John Muir led a successful movement to establish a larger national park encompassing not just the valley, but surrounding mountains and forests as well - paving the way for the United States national park system.
Photographer: Carol Highsmith
Date: June 2013
Location: Yosemite National Park, California


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In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well—some inspired by a weekly theme and some not, but always songs worth hearing. This week, we asked, "What song makes you laugh?"
Recently, I was reminded that, shockingly, Adam Sandler's They're All Gonna Laugh At You! is now 20 years old. That bit of information sent me down a Wikipedia wormhole, where I learned that the record has sold more than 2 million copies, and then into a YouTube frenzy as I watched clips of tracks I kind of remembered, like "The Beating Of A High School Janitor" and "At A Medium Pace." One cut I remember vividly, though, is "Lunchlady Land," which, for some reason, I think about almost daily. Whether I'm at the grocery store ("navy beans, navy beans"), getting lunch with Josh Modell ("hoagies and grinders"), or trying to make some philosophical point about the cyclical nature of life ("yesterday's meatloaf is today's sloppy joes"), I'm always struck by just how poignant and applicable "Lunchlady Land" actually is to any situation. Plus, it's funny. Add the video of Chris Farley mincing around on stage clad in knee-high stockings to the mix and I'm a goner.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tiffany Clarke scored 23 points, and the Vanderbilt Commodores upset No. 11 Tennessee 93-79 on Thursday night for their fifth straight win overall and a very rare victory over their in-state rival.
The Commodores (19-5, 7-4 Southeastern Conference) got their first win against Tennessee since Jan. 11, 2009, by scoring their most points ever against their rival. For coach Melanie Balcomb, it was just her second win in 23 games against Tennessee since coming to Vanderbilt.
Tennessee (17-7, 8-3) had won 23 of the last 24 in this rivalry and seven straight. The Lady Vols, who fell out of the top 10 on Monday, now have lost two of three.
Christina Foggie scored 22 points for Vanderbilt, and Stephanie Holzer added 19. Jasmine Lister had her first double-double with 19 points and a career-high 13 assists.
Glory Johnson led Tennessee with 19 points before fouling out with 5:59 left. Meighan Simmons had a team-high 20 points, and Shekinna Stricklen 17.
The Commodores outworked, outshot and simply outplayed Tennessee from start to finish. They shot 55.7 percent (39 of 70) compared to 45.9 percent (28 of 61) for Tennessee as they drove past the Lady Vols time and again for easy layups with plenty of room to hit jumpers. They also outrebounded the Lady Vols 41-27.
The result was Vanaderbilt's highest scoring half in this series for a 42-34 halftime lead. The Commodores built that to 48-36 on a layup by Kady Schrann with 17:00 left in the second half when Tennessee finally put together its best stretch.
Johnson hit a jumper starting a 16-4 run. Stricklen, held to two points in the first half, hit a jumper and added a 3-pointer and another jumper. Taber Spani hit a pair of free throws, then Cierra Burdick tied it up at 52 with 12:33 left.
That was the Lady Vols' first lead since 6-5 and finally gave the fans wearing orange something to cheer. It didn't last because Vanderbilt didn't wither.
Foggie hit back-to-back 3s putting Vanderbilt ahead to stay, and her 3-pointer with 8:43 left made it a 65-56 lead with 8:43 left. The Commodores just kept scoring from there and went up by as much as 14 down the stretch.
Tennessee led only twice in a first half where the Lady Vols struggled and bounced off the Commodores at times. The Lady Vols took far too many jumpers, especially early that came up short. Only Johnson scoring 15 points with Simmons adding 13 kept them from being blown out early.


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When we talk about what you eat, we mean food as the source of essential building blocks and energy for your body. The quality of foods you take in affects how you feel, your metabolism and your lifespan!
While there is no proof that one specific type of diet is the "healthiest," what we know for certain is that giving priority to vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, lentils, nuts, seeds, plain water for thirst and food that is minimally processed is truly associated with health and wellness. These foods are rich in vitamins, essential elements, anti-oxidants, healthy unsaturated fats and omega-3 fatty acids. They have lower amounts of saturated fats and sugars, while processed foods yield empty calories. Scientific evidence suggests healthy eating is associated with lower incidences of diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and obesity. However, it is important to check with your doctor about your personal specific nutritional needs and adjust accordingly.
One version of this healthy nutrition is a purely plant based diet, also called a vegetarian diet. A person can obtain all the essential components of healthy nutrition without animal fats or proteins. Increasingly there are new and exciting options – even fast food can be a tasty vegetarian meal! Click here for a few ideas.
The Mediterranean diet also has plant based food groups as its primary source of nutrition but does include animal proteins and fats. It uses "extra virgin" olive oil in place of butter, herbs and spices instead of salt for flavoring and animal proteins and fats in moderation. Specifically, and importantly, fish is usually eaten twice a week, poultry once or twice a week and lean beef or pork a few times a month. Low fat dairy such as skim milk, fat free yogurt and low fat cheese and a single glass of wine or grape juice complete the meal. More information can be found here.
Live healthy and live longer. Making just a few changes to your diet, combined with physical exercise can help you live a healthier, more wholesome life. Remember, healthy eating is all about balance.


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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
Looking to keep track of all the various projects in development? Click here to visit our newly revamped "Series in Development" charts. Visitors can now filter our listings by network, genre and even development stage (ordered to pilot, cast-contingent, script, etc.). It's updated every day!
EXTREME MAKEOVER (ABC) - The previously scheduled June 30 episode ("Episode 321," which had yet to air this season) will now run on Thursday, July 14 at 8:00/7:00c. Said installment will serve as a lead-in to the premiere of the ABC News limited series "Hooking Up" (previously "look@love") that same night at 9:00/8:00c.
MTV MOVIE AWARDS (MTV) - The show's 2005 broadcast was seen by 4.67 million viewers on average during its initial Thursday airing, including a 2.3 rating/7 share in adults 18-49 and a 12 share in viewers 12-34. Said numbers mark a rough 20% decline in year-to-year comparisons.
MTV ORIGINAL SERIES (MTV) - The cable channel has renewed four of its current entries ("Punk'd," "Pimp My Ride," "Meet the Barkers" and the afternoon dating show "Next") as well as committed to three new previously unannounced series ("The Reality Show," "Bad Dads, Phat Mums" and the weekday dating show "Parental Control"). "Sunday Stew" members "Punk'd" and "Pimp My Ride," both of which return with new episodes on June 26, have been extended through at least their seventh and fourth cycles respectively while "Barkers" will return for its second season at an unspecified date.
As for the newcomers, "The Reality Show" features viewers who think their life is interesting enough to make it on TV; "Bad Dads, Phat Mums" tracks two fans competing to re-create shot-for-shot a music video from their favorite artist using the fan's mother and father; and "Parental Control" allows parents fed up with their kids' current love interest get to choose new dates for their offspring. "Reality," which will include appearances by Andy Dick and other comedians, comes from Superdelicious Productions ("The Assistant") while U.K. MTV import "Dads" comes from Scout Productions ("Queer Eye") with Ben Silverman's Reveille being behind "Control."
All three freshman entries will join the previously announced "The Andy Milonakis Show" (premieres Sunday, June 26 at 10:30/9:30c), "The '70s House" (Tuesday, July 5 at 10:30/9:30c), "Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N' Out" (Thursday, July 21 at 10:00/9:00c; moved back from July 13), "Trailer Fabulous" (later this summer, exact time/date TBA), "Project Seventeen" (this fall, exact time/date TBA), "Score" (this fall, weekdays, exact dates/times TBA) and "Run's House" (October, exact date/time TBA).
NIP/TUCK (FX) - Rhona Mitra ("Boston Legal") has booked a recurring role on the cable drama as a gorgeous and tough New York detective who comes to Miami to investigate the attack against Julian McMahon's character. In addition, FX (with a small assist from Warner Bros. Television) has reportedly paid a $280,000-$320,000 bonus to both Julian McMahon and Dylan Walsh. It's understood the bonuses will bring each actor's respective salary to the $60,000 per episode range for the show's third season, which begins production this week. The news comes after earlier rumblings of salary renegotiations between the actors, network and studio, a typical development at this point in a successful show's run.
SKATING WITH CELEBRITIES (FOX, New!) - Taking a cue from ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," FOX is fast-tracking a new six-episode reality competition series in which celebrities are teamed with well-known figure skaters. Arthur Smith ("Hell's Kitchen") is behind the project, full details of which have yet to be specified.
SHOWTIME DRAMA PILOTS (Showtime) - The pay channel has greenlighted a quartet of new drama pilots, all of which are being targeted for the 2006-07 season. The group includes two previously announced projects - "The Tudors" (a.k.a. "Untitled Henry VIII Project"), about the early years of Henry VIII, his first encounter with Anne Boleyn and the marriage that would turn his world upside down; and "Dexter" (a.k.a. "Untitled Dexter Morgan Project"), based on Jeff Lindsay's books about a highly respected lab technician for the Miami Dade police department who also happens to be a sociopathic serial killer. Michael Hirst ("Elizabeth"), Ben Silverman's Reveille ("The Office") and Working Title's Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan are behind the former while James Manos Jr. ("The Sopranos"), John Goldwyn ("The Secret Life of Walter Mitty") and Sara Colleton ("Live From Baghdad") are behind the latter.
The two newly announced projects are "Filthy Gorgeous," about the employees and clients of New York's most lucrative male and female escort service; and "The Bastard," about a young lawyer who schemes to claim his birthright in a wealthy dysfunctional family that owns a lavish resort. Ron Nyswaner ("Philadelphia") is behind "Gorgeous," which he'll write and executive produce with Craig Zadan and Neil Meron ("Chicago"). Robert Allan Ackerman ("The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone") is also attached to direct and executive produce. "The Bastard" comes from David Greenwalt ("Profit," "Angel"). Casting is currently underway on all four projects.
Sources: Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Reuters


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John Lennon – Instant Karma (We All Shine On)
John Ono Lennon, MBE, born John Winston Lennon; (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980), was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of the rock band the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. With Paul McCartney, he formed a songwriting partnership that is one of the most celebrated of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Liverpool, as a teenager Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze; his first band, the Quarrymen, evolved into the Beatles in 1960.
When the group disbanded in 1970, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Working Class Hero".
After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to raise his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.
Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, on film and in interviews. Controversial through his political and peace activism, he moved to Manhattan in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while some of his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement and the larger counterculture.
As of 2012, Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceeded 14 million and, as writer, co-writer or performer, he is responsible for 25 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart.
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MixAmp 5.8 turns any wired headset into a wireless surround sound system
Being wired for sound to a games console can be a somewhat restricting experience, especially if you're trying to release your inner rock star with games like Rock Band 3. Astro Gaming has taken its pro-gaming MixAmp audio technology and made it both wireless and home-friendly. Users of the MixAmp 5.8 system can plug in just about any pair of wired headphones to the wireless receiver and benefit from 7.1-channel Dolby Surround Sound and a virtually interference-free wireless connection to the transmitter.
There are two parts to Astro Gaming's new personal audio gaming system – the transmitter and the receiver. The MixAmp 5.8 plugs into the TOSLink Optical port of a games console such as the Xbox 360 or PS3 and sends a 5.8GHz secure wireless signal to a paired receiver. The company says that the less populated 5.8GHz spectrum should mean little, if any, interference from other wireless devices, many of which operate at 2.4GHz. One transmitter can support up to four simultaneous receivers.
The receiver has a headphone jack to plug in your favorite set of cans and has a master volume and game/voice balance control to the front. The unit features a bass expander button, which gives some low-end wallop and an output of 70mW 32ohm per channel, with a frequency response of 35Hz to 20kHz. The system fully supports 7.1 Dolby Surround Sound for a completely immersive gaming experience.
The MixAmp 5.8 has a recommended usable range of 100 feet (30.5 meters), although the system can transmit its wireless signal for quite a bit more.
The transmitter also has a couple of USB ports thrown into the mix, for which Astro plans to develop accessories, and that can currently be used as a power source for the receiver unit when the included batteries run out of juice.
The MixAmp 5.8 system is available now for a special introductory price of US$99.95, with various options also on offer. The product is shipped with a set of AAA-sized batteries and belt clip for the receiver, an AC adapter for the transmitter, an optical audio cable, Xbox Live Chat cable and a USB play/charge cable.
It's worth repeating that the only audio input available on the MixAmp 5.8 is a TOSLink Optical port, so if your games console doesn't have optical input, then this is not the solution for you.


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Once upon a time, not so long ago, everybody agreed what the label "steampunk" referred to. But now the term is being used to refer to all sorts of entertainments, from future history to adventures on other planets. Is it time to rethink what steampunk means?
As recently as 2005, F. Brett Cox's entry in the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy defined steampunk in essentially the same way as Peter Nicholls did in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993). Nicholls' definition, in turn, was little changed from K.W. Jeter's coining of the term in a letter published in the April 1987 issue of Locus magazine to refer to his "gonzo-historical" explorations of "Victorian fantasies" and alternative technologies.
Now, though… Neal Stephenson's science fictional novel The Diamond Age, which is full of nanotech and a radically altered future history, is "steampunk." The fantasy tv series The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra, which has superpowered humans on a different planet, is "steampunk." Martin Scorcese's Hugo (based on a YA novel by Brian Selznick), which is entirely mimetic apart from a marginal unreality involving a writing automaton, is "steampunk."
It's time we rethought the term, and rethought how we define the genre, and how we formulate genre definitions.
The problem is that there are two conflicting approaches to how "steampunk" is defined. The prescriptivists maintain that there's only one true definition of the term, and the descriptivists, whose preferred definition is much broader. Most (though by no means all) prescriptivists hew to the traditional, Jeter/Nicholls definition, while the descriptivists usually alter their definition to fit whatever their favored book, comic, t.v. show or movie.
The conflict between these two has been going on for nearly a decade, and the descriptivists are winning-as can be seen by the range of "steampunk" works listed above. At the moment steampunk is a fad, similar to cyberpunk, and once the faddists move on, steampunk will in all likelihood return to being primarily a literary category. But until then, steampunk will remain a catch-all term without an agreed-upon definition, and thus a term of little critical utility.
So how to reconcile the two sides, so that "steampunk" can be reclaimed for use by everyone? The answer lies in something that Cherie Priest (Boneshaker, Ganymede, Dreadnought) wrote when I asked her to define steampunk: "I don't believe in steampunk as a binary. I see it as more like a spectrum." Cherie is a wise woman as well as a fine writer, and she's hit upon the solution to the semantic problem of "steampunk."
The key is to begin thinking of steampunk not as a binary-is/is not steampunk — but through the use of fuzzy logic. Fuzzy logic is a mathematical, engineering, and philosophical approach that arose in the 1960s. In philosophy, fuzzy logic is applied to statements like "Many writers are poor," which use imprecise vocabulary to create a statement for which the law of the excluded middle ("either 'x is true' or 'x is not true,' there is no in-between") does not apply. Because "many" and "poor" are ambiguous and subjective, "many writers are poor" can be partially or mostly true rather than simply true or not true.
Which brings us back to Cherie Priest's "continuum." If we apply the approach of fuzzy logic to steampunk, stories and novels become "more steampunk" or "less steampunk" rather than defined in a binary, is/is-not fashion. All the endless attempts to define steampunk, and the consequent time-wasting arguments over those definitions, can give way to more profitable discussions of the interpretations and meanings of those works. A fuzzy steampunk continuum will contain traditionally steampunk novels like Gibson and Sterling's Difference Engine, disputed steampunk novels like Stephenson's Diamond Age, and the even more imaginative and outré works of the future.
Rather than assembling a list of elements which a work must have to qualify as "steampunk," we can say that as long as a work has some of those elements, it is steampunk. This frees us from having to define the list and number the elements, which might include "Victorian setting," "alternate history," "steam-powered technology," and so on. Any combination of those will do to make a work "partially steampunk," and a large number of those elements together will make a story "mostly steampunk."
Admittedly, this seems counterintuitive. We're used to defining things in an is/is-not way. But the truth is that there are several critical terms similar to "steampunk" whose definitions are similarly fuzzy, including "hard-boiled," "noir," "pulp," and "slapstick." All of these terms have been used so broadly since their inception their current definitions have strayed inseparably far from their original definitions. "Hard-boiled" et al. are now terms applied in as many different contexts as "steampunk" is now, and with the fuzzy logic approach I think steampunk users should adopt.
Images by Cabbit, Raymond Larose, Kordite and SteamBride on Flickr.


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Libertas LX Specification
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The Chime Master 2206 Libertas Basic is an automatic bell control system for one to six bells. This product is designed and built specifically for the purpose of automatic church bell ringing.
Included weekly scheduling features provide flawless performance year after year without intervention for most congregations. Additional flexibility can be added with the optional Premium Management software for automated schedule changes.
Swinging bells, pealing bells, clock striking and prayer bells are all included.
Ringing features
- Call to Worship/Mass bells
- Festive Pealing Bells
- Swinging bells
- Prayer and Angelus Bells
- DeProfundis
- Funeral Tolls
- Timed tolling
- Counted tolling up to 199
- Time striking
- with or without chime melodies
- easy setup for ringing times
- choose full quarters, half or top strike only
- Selectable clock bell voice (3 choices)
- Selectable time strike melodies (for supported bell combinations)
- Westminster (5-bells)
- Westminster (4-bells)
- Christus Vincit (6-bells)
- Warren
- Bigelow
- Parsifal
- Avondale (Ding-Dong on two bells or Dong-Dong on one bell)
- Nautical (authentic Ship's Time)
Distinguishing features
- Made in Ohio, USA
- Five Year Chime Care Warranty for electronic components
- Set it and forget it ease of use
- Nonvolatile memory and battery backup for clock
- Ensures ringing schedule recovery
- Tower clocks recover from power outages
- PIN code keypad access security
- Automatic Daylight time switching
- Management Suite ready - free lite download includes:
- Windows™ compatible
- Graphical weekly schedule editing
- Special concert Jukebox
- Backup
- System settings
- Schedules
- Wall mount or Rack mountable chassis option
- Radio remote control
- Tower clock driver and interface box
- Control for modern minute impulse clock movements
- Automatic correction of clock dials after power interruption
- Clock status monitoring and error display
- Premium Management Suite license
- Mobile remote app support (Apple and Android)
- Administer remote user names and passwords
- Set user access times and functions
- Customize remote functionality
- Annual and special event scheduling
- Mobile remote app support (Apple and Android)
- Standard CAT5 cable to tower
- Optional optical fiber interface to tower
- Optional wireless interface to tower
- Data
- USB computer interface
- Tower accessory interface with standard CAT5 cabling
- Supports Chime Master clock movements
- Radio remote control (eight-function proprietary serial interface)
- Power
- Supplied with tower accessory cable (Wall mounted chassis option)
- 120 VAC 50-60 Hz (Rack mounted chassis option)
- Wall Mount Dimensions
- Height is 9 inches
- Width is 9 inches
- Depth is 2 inches
- Rack Mount Dimensions
- Height is 5-1/4 inches (3U rackspace)
- Width is 19 inches
- Depth is 15-3/4 (allow 17 inches for cabling)
- Optional rack wood cabinet dimensions
- 7-1/2 H x 20-1/2 W x 16-3/4 D
- Weight
- Wall mount option
- 6 lb.
- Rack mount option
- No options: 20 lb.
- Oak cabinet +14 lb.
- Walnut cabinet +13 lb.
- Wall mount option


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Can a homosexual person adopt his or her partner's child? The case of Gas and Dubois v France.
29 March 2012
Gas and Dubois v France (2012) (application no 25951/07). Read judgment (in French).
The French government did not violate articles 8 (right to respect for private and family life) and 14 ECHR (right not to be discriminated against in one's enjoyment of Convention rights and freedoms) in not allowing one partner in a homosexual couple to adopt the child of the other. And the Daily Mail goes off on another frolic of its own.
Ms Valerie Gas and Ms Nathalie Dubois, now in their 50s, lived together as a lesbian couple, obtaining the French equivalent of a civil partnership (the pacte civil de solidarité, or PACS) in 2002. Ms Dubois, through artificial insemination in Belgium using an anonymous sperm donor, gave birth to a girl in September 2000. Together, they took care of the child and, in 2006 , Ms Gas, applied to adopt the girl with the consent of her partner, Ms Dubois. The application was rejected by the French courts by virtue of article 365 of the French Civil Code. Under article 365, the adoption would have transferred Ms Dubois's parental authority to Ms Gas, leaving Ms Dubois with no parental authority over her own biological daughter. Article 365's only exception is when a spouse adopts the child, in which case parental authority can be shared between the spouses. Under French law, however, Ms Gas and Dubois could not qualify as spouses since homosexual couples cannot get married (article 144 of the Civil Code). The French tribunal thus rejected the request for adoption on the grounds that it would have legal consequences contrary to the intentions of the applicants and, by depriving the biological mother of her legal rights over the child, to the interests of the child.
And so the aggrieved applicants went to the European Court of Human Rights, invoking Article 8 (right to respect for his private and family life) and Article 14 ECHR (right not to be discriminated against in one's enjoyment of Convention rights and freedoms).
The French government argued that Article 8 was not engaged since it did not guarantee a right to adopt or a right to parentage. With Article 8 removed, the government argued, the Article 14 claim should also collapse since Article 14 has no independent existence. It is parasitic on other Convention rights.
The European Court, however, held that the issue touched upon family life and that sexual orientation fell within the protective scope of Article 8.
Ms Gas and Dubois's argued that the 'unintended legal consequences' argument affected only same-sex couples since, unlike heterosexual couples, they could not get married and rely on the exception in article 365 of the Civil Code. They asserted discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Unmarried heterosexuals could always get married to benefit from the article 365 exception, but not so their homosexual counterparts. The applicants called for legislative change to end this discrimination.
The French government denied that article 365 was discriminatory: it applies to all unmarried couples. The 'spouse' exception was introduced to protect the interests of the child. The French government's view was that marriage forms a more stable basis for a couple than any other type of union. When a marriage breaks down, for example, divorce proceedings are automatically engaged. With the PACS, matters are far more informal, the process and consequences less onerous. This explains the married-unmarried distinction for the purposes of adoption. The government also denied indirect discrimination, for family life can be enjoyed without marriage and without parenthood. And if a change in the law should be needed, argued the government, then this was a matter for the legislature to consider, following a democratic debate.
A number of third party groups, including the International Federation for Human Rights, the British Association for Adoption and Fostering, and LGBT associations, made a common submission to the Court. They pointed out that 10 European member states, and many other jurisdictions, allow adoption by the second parent. They submitted that, contrary to the government's view, granting parental authority to both parents could enhance the well-being of children and better protect their interests. This view was echoed by Judge Villiger in his impassioned, child-centred dissenting judgment.
So what did the European Court conclude? First, it referred to its decision in Schalk and Kopf v Austria, n. 30141/04): Article 12 (right to marry and establish a family) does not impose an obligation to allow homosexual couples to marry, and the Article 8-Article 14 combination cannot show otherwise. When member states do offer homosexual couples a form of legal recognition (such as civil partnerships or the French PACS), they enjoy a margin of appreciation in determining the exact nature of this recognition.
The European Court, by six votes to one, rejected the discrimination argument of Ms Gas and Ms Dubois. The Court supported the view that marriage conferred a special status on a couple and was replete with social, personal and legal consequences. The Court did not consider the applicant's situation as legally analogous to that of a married couple who wished to adopt. A better analogy, said the Court, was that of unmarried heterosexual couples wishing to adopt, and since they too could not adopt and benefit from the article 365 spousal exception, there was no discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Ah, but what about the applicant's argument based on indirect discrimination: unlike unmarried heterosexual couples, they could get not married. The Court simply – and somewhat disappointingly – referred back to earlier paragraphs in the judgment about Article 12 ECHR not obliging member states to allow homosexual couples to marry, the special status of marriage, and the non-analogous legal situation with married couples (paragraphs 66 to 68).
The Daily Mail's interpretation
That, in essence, is the Court's judgment. It is puzzling, therefore, to read an account of the case in the Daily Mail of 20 March 2012. The article, dramatically entitled "Gay marriage is not a 'human right': European ruling torpedoes Coalition stance", notes:
"The ruling also says that if gay couples are allowed to marry, any church that offers weddings will be guilty of discrimination if it declines to marry same-sex couples. It means that if MPs legislate for same-sex marriage, the Coalition's promise that churches will not be compelled to conduct the weddings will be worthless."
The judgment says no such thing. There is no mention of churches, or of the wider legal implications of the judgment on marriage and discrimination. It is perfectly acceptable to use a judgment as a 'peg' for a more topical discussion, but this appears to be pure fabrication.
In Capability and Well-being, Amyarta Sen warned against ironing out the complexities and ambiguities of an idea: 'if an underlying idea has an essential ambiguity, a precise formulation of that idea must try to capture that ambiguity rather than hide or eliminate it.' There is a great danger, in writing newspaper articles (and short blog posts) on human rights cases, of over simplifying matters, of creating a false impression that the issue is straightforward. The case of Gas and Dubois v France is a good illustration of a simple set of facts – a homosexual woman wishing to adopt her partner's child – hiding a plenitude of legal, social, political and moral issues. Of this, the European Court was acutely aware and accordingly adopted a cautious approach.
Daniel Sokol is a pupil barrister a 1COR and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics at Imperial College London.
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Having read the ECtHR press release – I'm afraid that reading the full judgement in French is rather beyond my linguistic capabilities – I think it's very difficult to generalise from this ruling to the UK as it primarily deals with aspects of French adoption law for which there are no real parallels in English Law.
The significance of Schalk & Kopf v Austria is that it clearly sets out the court's position on same-sex marriage, which is simply that it is not minded to impose its recognition on countries that are are unwilling to take that step by creating a Europe-wide precedent but equally it it will present no barriers to those countries that are willing to make such a move.
Its a compromise position but, at least for the time being, a sensible one for the court to take in cases of this nature.
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Mike Munchak says he understands Bud Adams' anger
After watching his team get blown out by the Bears, Titans owner Bud Adams ranted that Tennessee had been, among other things, "grossly outcoached." Titans coach Mike Munchak says he got the message loud and clear.
Munchak said he had a brief conversation with Adams on Monday, and although Munchak declined to say how that conversation went, he did say he realizes that he's accountable for the state of the team, and that the 3-6 Titans aren't good enough.
"Obviously Mr. Adams is very much entitled to his opinion, and I probably would have said the same thing if I were him," Munchak said at his press conference today, via Jim Wyatt of the Tennessean. "This is his team, he expects us to play well, especially at home, that is our job. That is my job, to make sure we are out there playing our best and winning games at home. And we didn't do that and we didn't play well and I would be upset too if I were him."
Adams seems to be troubled not just by the Titans' record, but by the fact that most of their losses haven't even been close. Five of the Titans' six losses were blowouts, while their three wins were all by a field goal or less, and Tennessee ranks dead last in the league in net points, at minus-126. The average score of the Titans' nine games is a 34-20 loss.
If Munchak doesn't turn things around, in seven weeks he may be saying at a farewell press conference that he understands why Adams fired him.


text: For all the sophistication and power of the modern cell phone or tablet, people think of them more or less like pens: You can use the generic ballpoints they have at the office, or you can bring the one you like from home. That's a consequence of high technology becoming pervasive. People use technology widely, and they might prefer what they use on their own time. \t \t\t "I have no trouble with people bringing their own machines to work if, and only if, they are competent to run them."\t\t \t\t Dan Geer, CISO, In-Q-Tel\t\t Pens, of course, can't access corporate networks (yet). But cell phones and tablets represent powerful computing devices; people might even be able to get more done using their personal devices for work. That's given rise to the BYOD (bring your own device) phenomenon. Just five [almost] years ago, in January 2008, only 10 percent of U.S. companies responding to an Aberdeen survey said they allowed workers to use their home devices. In July 2012, that jumped to more than 80 percent of U.S. respondents. The same trend exists outside the U.S., though fewer companies elsewhere allow BYOD, with companies in the Asia-Pacific region most resistant. Companies mostly allow BYOD for mobile phones and tablets, aiming to get the productivity benefits of mobile technology without having to shell out a lot of money for corporate cell phones. Notebook computers still tend to be provisioned by corporations. [Also read BYOD keeps expanding and IT just has to deal with it]One looming problem with BYOD: Just because workers have smart phones does not mean they'll be smart about security. "I have no trouble with people bringing their own machines to work if, and only if, they are competent to run them," Dan Geer, a security researcher and chief information security officer at In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm, said in an email. "If they are mere subscribers with a penchant for shiny things, then keep them out of the network."The trouble is, when the worker who likes shiny things is the CEO, and wants to use his or her new iPad to run business intelligence dashboards, it creates real pressure on a CISO to respond. Common sense would say, "of course, the CISO will do the right thing and preserve the security of the network." Common sense would be sadly disappointed."When I started here a year ago, we had execs with an iPhones or iPads and they'd bring it in and hook it up and walk around with it," says Ben Haines, CIO at Pabst Brewing Co. in Los Angeles. Haines said that when he pointed out the risks inherent in walking around with insecure connections, the executives immediately understood the issues. Haines set up a mobile device management policy and found a provider to handle it (MaaS 360 from Fiberlink), and in two weeks it was up and running.More on BYOD and mobile security\t\t\t\tShould security be responsible for BYOD policy?\t\t\t\tGadget evolution, from the Sharp Dial Master to the iPhone\t\t\t\tThe mobile security survival guide\t\t\tPabst is far from alone in its approach to BYOD. In fact, Aberdeen found more than half of the U.S. companies that allow employees to BYOD set no restrictions on devices. "Look, scream it from the rooftop, we know that mobility gives a real competitive advantage," says Andrew Borg, an analyst at Aberdeen. "But it appears that 'we've gotta go mobile now, we'll figure it out later' appears to be what many organizations are doing."Borg says there's no reason for companies to take such risks. Aberdeen says that a single compliance lapse could cost a company between $10,600 and $461,699, depending on the number of compliance violations on the device. Borg and another analysts interviewed for this story acknowledge that we have not seen a major incident with BYOD devices publicized yet. But why be the headline, Borg asks.The challenge for CISOs is palpable. For one thing, it's hard to keep up with best practices, says Adam T. Shapiro, Chief Technology Officer of Breakthrough Technology Group, a managed service provider based in Morganville, N.J. Shapiro was previously in charge of Citigroup's Client Infrastructure Engineering, where the company's efforts to allow remote work showed a huge thirst for BYOD. The company used Citrix Receiver, a virtualization client, to allow for remote access. Once in place, "you saw every single person that was a Mac user start to use their personal Mac," Shapiro says.He also says technology is moving too fast for policies to keep up. "There were people coming in with early releases of Windows Tablets" and other new devices, he says. Then they would complain that they couldn't get access. "Best practices are no longer even best practices. It's an evolving game," he says.Citigroup had not done things willy-nilly \u2014 it had a process of meetings and discussion to develop a BYOD model that went through a wide variety of use cases, and had built custom wireless networks to help. Even so, the organization was surprised by how 'creatively' some people decide to use technology. "There were some use cases where you would say, 'Really, people do that?'" Shapiro says.Citigroup's example illustrates that each company will have its own complexities, with technology and policy decisions to iron out. At any rate, don't be the headline. Emulate smart companies and avoid BYOD's most basic blunders.Blunder Number 1: Just jump in - the water's fine!In fact, the water is murky. Companies that just open their networks to BYOD without a plan might hit riptides, stingrays, sharks even. Do you have a lifeguard? Do you even know who should be on the beach?"Step back and think about your company and what the mobile worker population of the company might look like," says Stacy Crook, an analyst at International Data Corp.Blunder Number 2: Take on all comersIt's a great concept for a UFC special, but why do you want your network exposed to every device known to humankind? "Companies shouldn't recommend what type of phone employees get, but some Android phones are better than others," says Dan Shey, an analyst at ABI Research Inc.Blunder Number 3: Give employees access to everythingDo all your employees really need access to all applications? Really? It's one thing to open up access to email, another to give access to ERP, says Shey, an analyst at ABI Research. Email "tends to be a closed system\u2014you can connect to it and not connect to corporate systems and databases," he says. As Crook notes, once consumer devices enter the enterprise, consumer applications and corporate applications can commingle. What if employees want to dump things into Dropbox?Using geo-sensing policies, where devices only have access to applications and data when in a certain zip code or GPS coordinate, can be helpful in some circumstances.Blunder Number 4: Fail to train employees"That's a big no-no," says Crook. Employees need to have some guidance on what they should and shouldn't do with their devices on the corporate network. That's obviously true for companies that have compliance requirements, like healthcare and financial firms. But any company can have employees overstep their bounds. Give them education and training, and then ask them to sign a document about complying with your company's policies. Without those things, "you're setting yourself up for lawsuits." Especially if you commit sin number five&. Blunder Number 5: Assume people won't lose a device when it's their own.They do, and they will. What kind of attachments might be on email? What if there's a password file on the device? Or authentication for the network? Blunder Number 6: Expect you can just wipe your hands of things.There are lots of tools that let you wipe systems remotely, ranging from features in Microsoft Exchange to mobile device management software. Remote wiping is a powerful tool, but when you zap all their personal data, even employees who leave on good terms could end up suing you. Mobile device management software is useful, but should you really just wipe the box? Or can you revoke access to specific applications?Blunder Number 7: Assume the worst and just ban BYOD.BYOD is manageable. CISOs can mitigate risks. They just need to have a plan and a process that meets the needs of their company.Finally, learn from those who've gone before you. One of the first companies to allow BYOD is IBM. It started back in 2000 with the Blackberry, and after trials made BYOD a corporate initiative in 2004. It has more than 130,000 employees using their own devices, primarily smart phones and tablets.IBM has a set of corporate security guidelines its workers must follow. Managers approve BYOD requests. The company then assigns workers an eight-digit alphanumeric password, and it has full remote wipe capabilities if someone loses their device, or has it stolen, though it has 'containerized' its applications so that it does not have to wipe an entire device to protect its data. IBM also limits the applications people can access, usually to things like email and IBM's collaboration suite. "We don't deliver the keys to the kingdom," says Bill Bodin, IBM's chief technology officer for mobility, who is responsible for the company's BYOD initiative.By the end of 2012, all workers who want to use their own devices will have to become 'certified.' IBM has developed about 45 minutes of video modules on the principles of secure mobile computing, and workers have to pass a test on the videos to be eligible to use their own devices. It's also developing a "persona" app for its internal app store, so that employees can download IBM-specific apps that match their roles.Bodin's advice for BYODers? "I would start small. Qualify a particular device. Ask, 'what are my core capabilities I need to mobilize?' And don't put the company's data at risk."


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JUPITER, Fla. – Atlanta Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez was more surprised than concerned after Kris Medlen was hit by two line drives Wednesday night.
Medlen pitched 4 2-3 scoreless innings, then left the Braves' 2-1 win over the Miami Marlins when he was hit by a line drive for the second time.
"I'm surprised the balls hit him because usually he makes those plays. He's that good of an athlete," Gonzalez said. "I think we dodged a bullet with him getting hit."
Rob Brantly lined a single off Medlen's left shoe with one out in the fourth, and Casey Kotchman hit the right-hander's pitching arm in the fifth. Medlen was replaced for precautionary reasons by Jonny Venters.
"It's tightening up a tad bit, but I don't anticipate any changes in scheduling," said Medlen, who was hit on the back of his triceps. "It feels fine. Ready to go for next time."
Brantly's liner hit the tip of Medlen's spikes before ricocheting toward shortstop.
"I wear 10 1-2 shoes, but I wear 11 in cleats," Medlen said. "So it was nowhere near my foot."
Medlen struck out three and 33 of his 49 pitches were strikes. The balls off Medlen were the Marlins' only hits.
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Freddie Freeman homered off Nathan Eovaldi leading off the second, his third home run of spring training. Chris Johnson added a tiebreaking single against Jonathan Albaladejo with two outs in the ninth.
Eovaldi gave up three hits and struck out four in five innings.
"Playing under the lights is just a different atmosphere," Eovaldi said. "We're so used to playing under the lights, so being able to get out and get a start out there was nice. It was fun."
Venters forced in a run in the sixth when he walked four straight batters.
B.J. Upton had a single and double in three at-bats for the Braves and is batting .429 (18 for 42).
NOTES: Miami used the designated hitter; Atlanta did not. ... The Marlins reassigned RHP Jose Fernandez and OF Jake Marisnick to minor league camp. RHP Chris Hatcher was optioned to Triple-A New Orleans (Pacific Coast League). Fernandez, Miami's top prospect, is expected to start the season at Double-A. "He was very impressive. His day will come," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said. ... Gonzalez said Matt Kennelly probably won't be able to catch Thursday after developing a blood blister on a right-hand finger when he was hit by a pitch while attempting to bunt. ... Former NFL coach Bill Parcells attended the game and stood near the batting cage while each team took batting practice. "He said he saw me play Double-A at Portland," Redmond said. ... Marlins 1B Joe Mahoney (oblique) was sidelined and in Redmond's words, "unable to do anything." Redmond said Mahoney would be evaluated again Thursday.