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On July 9, Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi composed a puff piece to honor Stephen Colbert, "fake news" commentator and satirical fake conservative. It turns out Colbert is becoming an "obsession in academia," with a new collegiate submersion in "Truthinessology."
Let us agree that he can be very funny. Let's also agree that his satire being taken seriously by academia says something about the state of academia.
It also says something about those in the press who agree. Farhi winked in his story that this obsession is a problem, but then unfurled a long list of academic tributes. Parents are now paying tens of thousands of dollars each year for their children to skateboard around boring old Aristotle and Locke and instead immerse themselves in the study of smirking liberal TV wise-crackers.
Colbert, we are told, is a television icon already, like CBS legend Edward R. Murrow. This would be more upsetting if Murrow weren't in reality one partisan hack in a long line of truth-mangling CBS News partisan hacks.
Professor Geoffrey Baym proclaimed, "I'm sure there are still a lot more books out there on CBS News and Edward R. Murrow, but you could argue that the emergence of satire news at this level is an important phenomenon that I don't think we still completely understand." Baym wrote a book titled "From Cronkite to Colbert: The Evolution of Broadcast News."
Maybe we don't understand because it's nonsensical. I get it that liberals believe in evolution, but do they really think journalism is growing more profound by transforming from long-form documentaries on migrant workers to Colbert's self-promotional, punchline-packed congressional testimony on migrant workers?
Apparently, they do.
This is Baym's dustcover Colbert-smooching: "'From Cronkite to Colbert' makes the case that rather than fake news, those shows should be understood as a new kind of journalism, one that has the potential to save the news and reinvigorate the conversation of democracy in today's society."
Translation: We had to destroy the news in order to save it.
Baym noted that there are "still a lot more books" on Murrow and CBS, but Amazon will quickly assemble for its consumers a wagonload of fake-news flattery oozing out of supposedly sober academe:
-- "The Stewart/Colbert Effect: Essays on the Real Impacts of Fake News" (with Jon Stewart and Colbert on the cover);
-- "And Nothing but the Truthiness: The Rise (and Further Rise) of Stephen Colbert" (Colbert on the cover);
-- "The Daily Show and Rhetoric: Arguments, Issues, and Strategies" (Stewart on the cover)
-- "Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era" (Colbert on the cover);
-- "Entertaining Politics: Satiric Television and Political Engagement" (Stewart and Barack Obama on the cover).
This is a partial list (one mostly different from a Post list of treatises). Farhi reported, "The college crowd says Colbert is worthy of study because his single-character political satire is unique in the annals of television. His character, an egomaniacal right-wing gasbag, connects him to a long Western satirical tradition going all the way back to the Roman poet Horace and the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles."
Obviously, these educators wouldn't insult the ancient Romans and Greeks to make comparisons to a conservative topical comedian like Dennis Miller. Professor Don Waisanen analyzed Miller after his turn to the right and lamented that he was "disoriented" and his humor was destined to "neuter socio-political action."
Professors, being professorial, add gravitas to the unbearable lightness of their comedic heroes by applying jargon, explaining that Colbert and Stewart ably employ "parodic polyglossia," "satirical specificity" and "contextual clash" to evoke both laughter and social change.
Farhi even found one super-fan: Penn State Professor Sophia McClennen. McClennen compares Colbert to Ben Franklin and Mark Twain as one of the greatest satirists in our nation's entire 236-year history and argues that "our democracy is in a tough spot now, when corporations are exercising increasing power over government, and that Colbert captures this moment as they did."
I bet even Colbert laughed at that.
As much as liberals claim to treasure irony, McClennen didn't grasp that Colbert is "exercising increasing power over government" through a large media corporation called Viacom. This corporation's greedy devotion to the bottom line led them to spit on those obsessed academics who watch Colbert and Stewart via satellite on DirecTV. Viacom not only cut off 20 million subscribers to DirecTV after a failed attempt to wring an estimated $1 billion in additional carriage fees, but they removed online streaming of full episodes on the Comedy Central website.
After all, applying "parodic polyglossia" to promote progressive politics is only worthwhile if a corporation is maximizing their profits. That is certainly a "contextual clash" the academics were not expecting.


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PEARSON, BARTHOLOMEW, yeoman of Wollaton, Nottingham, settler in the first English colony in Newfoundland; fl. 1612–34.
Pearson was one of a group of settlers who went to Cuper's Cove (now Cupids) in 1612 at the instigation and expense of Sir Percival Willoughby, also of Wollaton, a prominent member of the Merchant Venturers company formed in 1610 for the plantation of Newfoundland. Pearson's function seems to have been to assess the agricultural possibilities of Newfoundland but, after only a few months there, he condemned both the land and the climate. However, his letters reveal a genuine interest in the island's animal life. In October 1612 he took part in John Guy's expedition to Trinity Bay and was among those ship-wrecked at Green Bay (Bay de Verde) on the way back. Nine days later, near starvation, they regained Cuper's Cove, having walked to Carbonear where they had found a boat.
With 60 others Pearson wintered in Newfoundland but in April 1613 he wrote asking Willoughby for permission to come home. His letter was critical not only of Newfoundland but also of the management of the undertaking. He probably left with others of Willoughby's men later that year; he was certainly in Nottingham early in 1617, when he married Elizabeth Baguleughe. The remainder of Pearson's life seems to have been spent, less adventurously, in Nottinghamshire where he maintained his connection with Willoughby, leasing land and coal-pits from him.
Pearson's letters from Newfoundland and other papers relating to the colony are at Nottingham University, Middleton mss, Mi X 1/1–66. For his subsequent career see: Middleton mss, 1/1/9, 1/38/26, 6/170/117. Nottinghamshire marriage licences, ed. T. M. Blagg, I (Br. Record Soc., 1930).
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Brightly colored landscapes, intriguing sea life large and small, and the shadowy hulks of rusting shipwrecks are only some of the photographic subjects that await you and your underwater camera. There are few places more beautiful to photograph but, like scuba diving, underwater photography requires an understanding of this strange but intriguing environment.
Equipment choice is, of course, an essential part of underwater photography. Beyond that, however, it's important to understand some of the challenges you'll encounter under the sea.
Let there be light and color (or not)
Perhaps one of the most critical lessons to learn is that water is almost 800 times denser than air. In and of itself, that fact may seem like an irrelevant bit of trivia, but it has a profound effect on underwater photography.
Water absorbs light, which means that individual colors (each represented by a different wavelength) disappear as their respective light waves are absorbed. Red is the first to go and totally disappears by a depth of about 15 to 20 feet. Orange is next, followed by yellow, which is why pictures taken without a flash look either blue or green. The only way to bring back color while you're underwater is to use a flash or other artificial light source.
If you're using the camera's built-in flash, it should be set to forced on, and the housing's plastic flash diffuser should be put in place (if available) when the camera-to-subject distance is no more than 3 to 4 feet (the flash has to go from camera-to-subject and back again, no easy feat). When shooting at a distance of 4 feet or more, the flash should be turned off. It won't be effective and, more importantly, the light will bounce off the ever-present particulates in the water and create backscatter—an effect that looks like the photo was taken in a snowstorm.
One or two external strobes, on adjustable arms, can be added to some housings, providing broader and more powerful coverage. Strobes can be angled so that the light doesn't hit the particulates straight on. That way, you can better illuminate the subject and avoid backscatter.
When shooting with flash, you can set white balance to auto, daylight (recommended), or flash. Without flash, white balance choices include: underwater (available on some compact models), cloudy, or custom. Underwater and cloudy settings will help compensate for the overwhelming blue cast. For custom, use a white diver's slate to register manual white balance and be sure to change it every 10 to 20 feet, or as the light changes. Shooting in RAW or RAW+JPEG is another option, although you should be comfortable using Adobe Camera RAW or a similar program that comes with your camera for post-processing.
Distance and exposure
Water density, along with water clarity, also affects contrast, sharpness, and other image attributes, so it's important to get as close to the subject as possible. That's why wide-angle and macro are the two most appropriate focal lengths for underwater photography. Even without a flash, shooting through large spans of water is somewhat like shooting through a dirty window.
The best time of day to shoot underwater is between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. when the sun is highest in the sky. Keep your ISO as low as possible to avoid image noise, but be sure it's high enough that your shutter speed is at least 1/125th of a second when shooting without flash. For macro shots, adjust the aperture whenever you can to a high number (small aperture) for the greatest depth of field. If your camera doesn't have manual exposure controls, adjust the ISO until the desired shutter speed or aperture has been achieved (the settings should appear on the LCD when you half-press the shutter).
Focusing and metering
As long as there is sufficient contrast, autofocus should work just fine—spot focus or center focus settings work well. You can always attach a small dive light to the housing as a modeling light to assist with AF if necessary. It's probably best to avoid continuous AF though, since it can be easily fooled and will put an extra drain on the battery.
If your camera has a manual focus option, learn how to use it. Just keep in mind that if you measure focus by a distance scale, everything looks 25 percent closer underwater than it really is.
Like autofocus, spot or center-weighted are the best options for metering. And it's always a good idea to fill the frame with your subject whenever possible.
Simple concepts
Underwater photography can be point-and-shoot simple but these tips will help you capture better-than-snapshot photos. Get comfortable with your camera and housing and practice as much as possible.
Just remember to work in wide angle or macro, get close to your subject, be mindful of when to use flash and adjust your white balance accordingly, and you'll be on the road to bringing home great photos of your underwater adventures.
Tips for selecting an underwater digital camera
While you already knew what you wanted when you chose your current camera, the focus is somewhat different when selecting a digital camera for the aquatic environment. Here are some of the major items to look for. Be sure to check with your camera vendor to see if it offers an underwater housing for the model you already have.
- Large, bright (ideally with brightness adjustments), high resolution LCD. Avoid touchscreens unless manual controls are also available.
- Long battery life
- Wide-angle lens (e.g., 24mm); double-check to make sure that the housing provides a full angle of view for the lens at its widest setting.
- A macro mode that focuses down to a minimum of a couple of inches
- Underwater and/or manual white balance options
- Good low light/low image noise performance
- The ability to display shutter speed and aperture settings on LCD, even if it's a point-and-shoot model
- Manually selectable focus points (optional)
- Adjustable flash power (optional)
- Manual focus (optional)
- The ability to enlarge a section of the image to check focus before capture (optional)
[Theano Nikitas, a full-time freelance writer and photographer, has been writing about photography for the past 19 years. Her digital imaging reviews, features, how-to articles, and images have appeared in a wide variety of publications and websites. Her first underwater photos were shot with a Nikonos IV.]
Note: This is the second of a two-part series on underwater photography. Part one, which ran yesterday, talks about how to choose an underwater housing for your camera.


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An interesting article from controldesign.com on 12 November 2012 explains the recent trend in vision systems to make setting up and running inspection applications easier for non-machine vision experts by creating tools and terminology that are easy to understand.
A perfect example of this trend is Cognex's release of the In-Sight 7010.
Getting the optics and lighting correct is often the most challenging part of a machine vision project. In-Sight 7010 is an entry-level vision system that features integrated lighting and autofocus.
Autofocus makes changeovers from one part size to another much easier. Previously, that required manual intervention. Now with the click of an auto-focus button, one can adjust for the best focus value during part changeovers without needing to manually adjust the focus.
It's even possible to preprogram several different focal settings into the device, allowing machine builders and their customers to set up recipes ahead of time. To extend its usefulness, the system was introduced with five different integrated lens options. These allow it to match requirements for working distance and field of view.


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Last week I discussed how Google is making incumbent ISPs look like fools. By dropping cheap gigabit Internet connections into homes, Google is upping the ante significantly, even if it's only in one market for now. Let's hope the ripples cruising outward from Google Fiber in Kansas City will be be very significant for the broadband industry and, more important, for society in general. Ubiquitous broadband Internet at those speeds would have a revolutionary effect on modern life.
I hear many people claim they "barely use" their existing broadband connection. They may have only 3Mbps or 5Mbps, perhaps up to 15Mbps, but they seem to think they barely touch those speeds; therefore, the 700Mbps-plus offered by Google Fiber is a waste. In fact, there were comments to that effect on last week's post.
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To me, that's a failure of imagination. The idea that some capacity is so vast that it could never be consumed is nonsense. This is the kind of thinking that led to the famous "nobody needs more than 640K" quote, however dubious the attribution may be. It's the kind of thinking that led Xerox PARC to blithely part with innovations that later took the world by storm in the hands of others. It's the mindset that led to the concept that there was nothing left to invent, way back in 1899. Now, there are questions as to whether that quote was real or not, but Henry Ellsworth's statement echoing that same sentiment in 1843 is a matter of public record.
Modern history offers countless examples of new technologies that were considered to be "enough" at the time, but look downright primitive today. There was a time when an entire neighborhood needed only a single phone line and a house needed only one telephone, a few electrical outlets, or a single radio or television. Of course, not so long ago, people who wanted to use a computer would go where the computers were located, rather than have the computer come to them.
The false limitations that we tend to impose on technological advances only serve as higher-definition contrast to those advances when they appear. Where we shook our heads in wonder when the first terabyte hard drives were shipped, we now do the same when we see four terabyte hard drives. The same goes with smartphones, tablets, and most of the other technologies we rely on. As rapidly as we move forward, we still maintain a sense of awe at our ability to do so.
But broadband has been essentially stagnant for years. You could get roughly the same service several years ago that you can get now, except in many places the service is worse and costs the same or more than it once did. Broadband and wireless networks seem to be treading water at best and going backward at worst. Sure, you might see speeds of 50Mbps offered by your (only) cable ISP, but in far too many U.S. markets, that's an unobtainable number, especially in higher-density areas. Think about that for a second, and juxtapose it with what you were thinking when I mentioned telephone party lines above. How quaint.


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MUMBAI (AFP) - An Indian policeman who got lost as a child at a crowded railway station has been reunited with his family after 24 years - thanks to a tattoo on his arm.
Mr Ganesh Raghunath Dhangade was separated from his parents in 1989 aged just six when they were boarding a train. He ended up on his own in Mumbai, where he was cared for by a fisherman and then at two orphanages.
A car accident later left him unconscious for four months, struggling to remember details of his family or home, and he spent years rummaging through missing person records at police stations - before joining the force himself in 2011.
"I had not given up on finding my family," Mr Dhangade said on Thursday.
He pressed on with his search using the only clue he had: a tattoo of his mother's name, Manda, on his right arm.
Another piece of the puzzle - forgotten after his car crash - came from records at his first orphanage, where he had given his home place as Mama Bhanja, a forested area in a district neighbouring Mumbai.
Earlier this month, Mr Dhangade went back to the area with his police colleagues asking for Manda, and he was directed to the hut of an old lady who had been staying in the hills there for years.
"She recounted that she had lost her son years earlier. Asked if he had any identification marks, she said he had a tattoo on his arm. I showed it to her and she immediately recognised it," Mr Dhangade said.
"We were silent for minutes, then we both just hugged and kept on crying." Mr Dhangade now ensures he spends as much lost time as he can with his mother, two brothers and sister.
"I still cannot believe what has happened in recent weeks," he said.
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Last week's news that Egypt has cancelled its agreement to sell gas to Israel sounds disturbing. But is it? Forgive my cynicism, but are we sure this isn't just about business? Contracts get cancelled all the time, perhaps more in the USA than Europe, and often it is simply a business gambit to get more money. I have just been reading Daniel Yergin's book, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power. It was written in 1991 and won the Pulitzer Prize the following year, so it is hardly the last word on the subject. But it was such a fascinating and instructive read. It and taught me so much about how the Two World Wars were won thanks to superior oil supplies. It reiterated how the post-war discovery of cheap easily accessible oil in the Arab world got the powers scrambling to get a piece of the action and to hell with anything else.
One message comes through loud and clear. No matter whether it is Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Kuwait, or whichever emirate you care to mention, the record shows that the producer states constantly cancelled contracts, engaged in brinkmanship, nationalized their resources, played one company and country off against the other, all to get a better deal and more money. That is the way they do things. That is how most capitalists everywhere do it. It is why diplomats are described as "whores who lie for their country". It is just that the Arabs do it with such charm and dissimulation one simply ends up admiring their Chutzpah. And it is the absence of such roguish charm that is often why Israelis do not make so many friends. In the Free World a contract, in theory, is a contract. There are supposed to be transparent legal systems, even though anyone who thinks they are beyond corruption is living in cloud-cuckoo-land. Why are China and Russia supporting Syrian oppression, or Mugabe or Omar Bashar? It is not out of love, I assure you.
It could be for political purposes that Egypt is canceling the deal with Israel. The Egyptians, almost to a man and woman, hate Israel, hate the Peace Treaty, and enjoy nothing more than burning Israeli flags, as the most recent demonstrations in Cairo illustrate. But just maybe it is also true that the Mubarak cronies who negotiated the deal were taking huge cuts and bribes and kickbacks and feathered their own nests. And dare I say it, the same is probably true for the Israeli negotiators who made the deal. Anyone who thinks Israeli businessmen are as pure as the driven snow deserves to be sentenced to life in an igloo. But whereas Israel has a relatively open and democratic society, 90% of the Arab world does not.
When they think of the West, they think of immorality, imperialism, the forces that sustain repressive dictators who themselves often came to power as modernizers and secularists and then proceeded to torture, rape, and pillage their own citizens. The Arab world has been corrupted and dehumanized for so long that they have not progressed since the days in 1958, when in Iraq they tortured and mutilated their king and princes to death and dragged their bodies through the streets–or wait, 2011 and Gaddafi. The West used to do that as a matter of routine 500 years ago. Over time they learnt to torture in private rather than as public entertainment spectacles.
Since the only people who stood up to repressive regimes tended not so much to be the religious establishments, but ordinary lay religious Muslims, it is not surprising that popular support now flows in the direction of those religious antiestablishment movements–be they the Brotherhood, the Salafists, Hamas, or Hezbollah–who offer the only rays of hope to the poor, unemployed, and disenfranchised of the Muslim world. Now is their time to see if they can do a better job. The beauty of any kind of democracy, however distorted or limited, is that if they fail, someone else may get a chance to do better.
But in the meantime they want to win elections, if there are any. And how do you do a George Galloway? The easiest way is by appealing to the very lowest and crudest levels of voter mentality, to the most jingoistic and prejudiced. That, of course, is what happens in the UK, let alone Cairo. And I guess that's how Sarkozy hopes to get back in in France. And sadly, it happens in Israel, where the right wing is pushing to recognize more and more settlements and Netanyahu is giving in because it helps him get elected. But we also know, thank goodness, that as people have more to lose they are much more circumspect; even Oil Sheiks soon learn which side their pita is buttered on.
Wherever you look, dictatorship or democracy, it is clear that lobbies, money, and moneyed interests–be they of the Left or the Right–play the major role in winning elections. But it is also true that "it's the economy, stupid" that decides how the votes go.
That is why, sad as I am at the anti-Israeli rhetoric and doubtless worse is to come, it is inevitable. If hatred has been fed to so many for so long, it cannot change overnight. If you play with people's minds and souls, a quick session with a shrink will change as little as a quick dip in the Mikvah. So let us not overreact. Change that brings progress always takes time. Meanwhile, Please God, the Mediterranean will soon provide as much gas and oil as Israel could possibly want.


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Prep basketball takes backseat to AAU in recruiting game
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Back when Bruce Weber was an up-and-coming assistant on Gene Keady's staff at Purdue, the coach would spend countless hours on planes and behind the wheel to catch as many high school basketball games as possible.
He would walk into the gymnasium of an elite prospect on a cold January night and wedge his way into a crowd of half a dozen other coaches, all trying to scout their next potential star.
"These young guys, they can't even imagine," said Weber, now the coach at Kansas State, "but there was no AAU, and the young guys that grew up in it, played in it, that's all they know."
A gradual but pronounced change has occurred in basketball recruiting, one that has taken much of the importance away from the high school game. Instead, more and more college coaches spend the majority of their time and budgets to watch travel teams playing on the sneaker circuits sponsored by the likes of Adidas and Nike, and the multitude of high-profile summer tournaments that have cropped up.
It makes sense, too: Weber can see dozens of top recruits in a single night at the Peach Jam event in July than he'd see by logging thousands of frequent flyer miles to see their high school teams.
Is prep basketball becoming an afterthought for those who stock rosters in college?
"Many college programs still make an effort to watch and recruit student-athletes at high school competitions, but elite showcases and summer basketball definitely offer these programs more chances to see kids in the offseason than ever before," said Alex Schobert, the coach of Belleville West High School in Illinois, which sent elite prospect EJ Liddell to Ohio State this season. "The landscape of college basketball and recruiting has changed tremendously the last few years."
The powerbrokers of the NCAA have noticed it, too.
The governing body made sweeping changes this past year to off-season recruiting and evaluation periods over the summer months. Among the many moves was the addition of a second three-day evaluation weekend at the end of June that is only for scholastic events, an attempt to bring some of the focus back to the high school basketball programs that once formed the backbone of recruiting.
"Being in Dallas, we get a lot of college coaches through here," said David Peavy, the coach of powerhouse Duncanville High School, whose son Micah is a top-50 recruit headed to Texas Tech.
"But it's tough. It's tough on the schools," Peavy said. "I'm glad in a way for the way it is now — that these kids get so much exposure — but it's tough on high schools."
It doesn't help them that their seasons coincide with the college season, when coaches find it difficult to slip away for a few days to drop in on high school games.
John Oxton, who has spent three decades coaching Lakeville North High School in Minnesota, also has seen the trend. But he points out that if a coach is really interested in a player, they still get in touch with the high school coach, who often can offer a broader assessment of the individual.
Shooting, rebounding and scoring matter. So do academics, personality and general disposition.
"It's not an exact science, recruiting," said Oregon coach Dana Altman, who spent nearly two decades seeking the best mid-major prospects for Marshall and Creighton, and who now is landing five-star recruits with regularity in the Pac-12.
Part of recruiting, Altman said, becomes a game of who you know.
That is where the value still exists in high schools.
"I don't know if there's been more focus put on elite events and the like, but I do know that relationship building seems to be one of the main focuses now," said Mike Jones, who coaches perennial power DeMatha High School outside Washington, D.C., and USA Basketball's under-16 national team.
"I would agree that being seen in gyms of top-level players has become a priority," Jones said, "but rules allow for only a certain number of visits, so coaches have to be very strategic."
It's not just that coaches are putting more emphasis on summer games, either. The kids taking the court understand a showcase tournament that attracts dozens of high-level coaches usually means more to their future than a regular-season game with their high school friends.
"In high school, it's all about winning," said Kansas State freshman DaJuan Gordon, who was Mr. Chicago at Curie High School last season, and who starred for Team Rose on the Adidas Gauntlet circuit in the summer months. "With AAU, it's about winning and your individual achievement."
Gordon's new college teammate, Antonio Gordon, agreed that summer games pack more pressure, along with more exposure and more opportunities.
"I feel like the games we played were more fun at AAU rather than high school games," said Gordon, who played alongside Christian Braun (Kansas), Malik Hall (Michigan State) and Grant Sherfield (UCLA) for MoKan Elite and helped his team to the Peach Jam semifinals last year.
"Games were pretty easy in high school," Gordon said, "but AAU games are against people that are similar to you, just as good as you and even better than you, going to big schools."
That talent level — and the volume of players at that level — are why Weber and his coach staff at Kansas State have embraced the trend toward scouting the summer leagues and sneaker circuits.
It's why every other coach in America emphasizes them over the prep season, too.
"I hope we get a little mixture of both. That's the goal of the NCAA," he said. "Hopefully we can meet with the AAU and work with the shoe companies and make this a very positive thing."


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Those programmers…so literal-minded, sometimes.
(thiz onez fer u, slackferno.)
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(From Midgy in Madison, Wisconsin.)
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A booby-trapped soup — sans note — probably would have been the more effective (and more passive-aggressive) approach, but, um, to each his own?
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This ranks right up there with the notice from an aspiring personal-injury lawyer as one of my favorite roommate notes of all time.
Gillian in Albany, New York points out that the malapropism here ("I am the narcotic one") was actually deliciously appropriate, because "she cleaned exactly like cocaine."
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On Saturday, June 4 2011 the sluts shall go a-marching. Sorry, "sluts". These aren't actual sluts, alas. These are, to borrow from the classic joke, bitches. But for now, let's pretend they are sluts. They're dumb sluts, we've already covered this. But the stupidity of their cause isn't relegated to just not knowing where to put their feet. It's not knowing what not to put their feet (and other various body parts) into.
First let's get to the basics: if you do dress slutty, men are going to stare at you. We're going to catcall. We are going to tell you all sorts of sexual things we want to do to your body. And if you dress slutty and wave your ass in our face, we will do them. The organizers of this event are not oblivious to this point: what they want is a fake sexual revolution. They want to be able to impersonate sluts without actually being sluts, and that's unacceptable. If you don't want to be treated as a piece of meat, don't marinate and grill yourself and sit perched on a piece of garlic toast. You dress slutty, you show off the goods, you try to get a reaction, you will get one. Hint: it's not always going to be the one you want. If this is new or shocking to the sluts, then I suggest they go visit another universe because they are simply not going to be happy with the one they currently live in. [re-read the "Dumb Sluts on the Highway" post if you're a slut wanting an easy way to free yourself of this universe on June 4th and go visit another... -ed].
The slut marchers are so loud, so dominant, that we forget that we're talking here about a tiny loopy minority (the Edmonton fag parade comes with much the same caveat). Women are kowtowed by their uber-feminist sisters on this one: I've had a couple emails from readers who loved the "Dumb Sluts on the Highway" but were scared to even anonymously comment on it. Last weekend out on the town I overheard a group of 5 women all trashing Slut Walk for its insane silliness. "I can't complain about sexual harassment when I'm dressing like a girl who gets off on being sexually harassed". What next harsh reality are these girls planning to protest? If you walk into the Hell's Angels club on the Yellowhead wearing a rival club jacket, you're gonna get murdered. Do we 'blame the victim' for this crime? Uh, yeah. If you do something stupid, bad things happen to you. As I wrote last week:
if they don't want to pay the city they can have their little meeting at the Legislature grounds and then walk to City Hall: crossing on marked crosswalks when the light indicates its safe to do so. If the city is really worried about them stepping onto the road that's easy enough to fix: declare a full clemency to any driver who hits and/or kills one of these sluts if she happens to step off the sidewalk and onto the street. It's the slut's fault for defying the rules and social conventions, not yours. So in other words, pretty much the same harsh reality that the sluts are marching to try and defy in the whole "dress like a streetwalker" meme.In both cases, the easiest and most cost effective solution is just to declare "if you dress like a slut you might just get raped, and if you can't keep your protest on the sidewalks understand that any man mad at his ex-wife has de facto authority to kill you with his car". We've already had all of this sorted out, we don't need slut marches and demands that judges ignore reality messing it all up.
Now let's turn to the sluts vs. "sluts" problem alluded to earlier. If you impersonate a police officer, or a massage therapist, or a doctor, or even an auto mechanic you'll be fined at best and more than likely spend some time in the slammer. Now when you impersonate a slut we don't fine you, and we don't throw you in jail. There's really only one punishment for dressing like a streetwalker when you aren't one: you do have to endure the occasional rape. You should really suffer it in silence. Accept the character flaw within you that caused this, and move on. Police and court resources are already busy enough with real criminals: like actual rapists who do nasty things to their niece or the homeless native chick passed out under the bridge, or a conservatively dressed urban professional walking to her car, or a girl out jogging in a track suit. To equate the act of actually violating and raping one of these people with having sex with a girl who's every square millimetre of public persona screams anybody who wants to can screw me right now is ridiculous. It reduces women to helpless automatons [the proper spelling is "reduces", not "highlights". I fixed the spelling and grammatical errors for you -ed], who are just out on Whyte Avenue in a blue Lycra mini and 3" red heels wearing more makeup than the average Sears store stocks when from out of the blue for a completely alien and unknown reason some man stuck his hand down her boob. It's utterly ridiculous. Society has established rules like this for thousands of years: there's a cultural undertone that is the equivalent of the fake sign on the photo at the top of this post. If you go out on the street in an outfit that would make Britney Spears feel uncomfortable, you do so knowing that your ultimate aim is to make men want you. Well, they want you now. Congrats. Oh, wait, you mean you didn't understand what that implied? That in the great Bell curve of sexual congress you've just pushed everybody on the right-hand side of the -2 std devs line past that imaginary barrier that says "there is no power in the universe powerful enough to stop me from sliding my finger inside your panties"? I call bullshit. You do know. But you want to be a virginal slut, to dress in ways that makes men helpless to their urges but still leaves you fully in restrictive control. If you give Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a machine gun and slowly parade Jewish dykes past him for an hour and a half, don't be surprised if the magazine ends the experiment a little on the empty side.
But, as the post title implies, the Edmonton Slutwalk girls have gone a step further. They are explicitly passing themselves off as sluts. This is fortunate, as it means that now we can start bringing the legal and moral force of society to bear upon them. To re-iterate:
Now if you disagree, if you think that's not what this is about at all, then two things come to mind:
- If a bunch of women stand on the street claiming that they are shoe shiners, and they refuse to shine your shoes, you not only have a false advertising charge you can lay on them, but also discriminatory business practices. Women claiming to be nymphomaniacs who can't get enough may just find themselves having to explain why they are so prudish.
- By their own admission, they are lying bitches. The worst kind of woman. All marching on the street. Together.
If your wife is one of them, I'm very very sorry. Maybe a good rape might make her a little more manageable around the house.


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If you're planning on visiting the Vatican any time soon, take plenty of cash for tickets and souvenirs.
Vatican museums and shops have been unable to accept credit or debit card payments since Jan. 1, after the Bank of Italy prevented Deutsche Bank from providing the service due to concerns about financial oversight in the city-state, sources familiar with the matter told CNNMoney.
The world's smallest state is home to the Pope and such popular tourist sites as St. Peter's Basilica and the Sistine Chapel, attracting some 5 million visitors per year.
The Vatican has taken several steps in recent years to improve its record on banking supervision. But a report last year by Moneyval -- an independent group of European experts -- found it was still falling short of international standards to tackle money laundering and other financial crimes.
Related: Swiss bank to close after U.S. tax case
The Vatican said in a statement that an agreement with one of its contractors was about to expire. It was talking with other service providers and the interruption of service "should be short." Neither Deutsche Bank nor the Bank of Italy issued statements.
Deutsche Bank's Italian arm had run the payments system since 1997. It was told in 2010 by the Bank of Italy that it needed authorization, which it duly sought. The request triggered an in-depth assessment of the Vatican's banking regulation by the Bank of Italy, the sources said.
Related: EU strikes deal to bring banks under single supervisor
The review by the central bank revealed similar concerns to the Moneyval report, and as a consequence Deutsche Bank was told in December it would not receive permission to continue arranging payments, the sources said.
Any bank with operations in Italy would run into the same problem, they added.
Vatican Museums apologized on its website for the inconvenience caused. Tickets can still be bought online using a credit or debit card, but that service will also be suspended beginning Jan. 15.
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It doesn't take a deep reading of supply-chain tea leaves to see that smaller tablets are taking over. Offering lower prices and better portability, tablets such as Apple's iPad mini, Amazon's Kindle Fire, and Google's Nexus 7 are loaded with consumer appeal.
Nonetheless, analytics firm NPD DisplaySearch has done the dirty work and confirmed our suspicions. In January, 9.7-inch touch-panel shipments dropped drastically, DisplaySearch's latest report claims, while the biggest gains came from 7-inch to 7.9-inch displays.
It's an interesting trend given that the full-size iPad was supposed to be a laptop killer. Apple's granddaddy tablet has certainly slain the netbook market, but if smaller tablets continue their healthy sales trajectory, it gets harder to imagine all those little screens standing in for a proper laptop.
So we must ask: Will people who buy the iPad mini and its small-fry brethren continue to purchase larger tablets as well? Or does the popularity of smaller tablets actually leave more room for the laptop—or perhaps the laptop-tablet hybrid—to thrive?
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Let's back up for a moment and take a closer look at DisplaySearch's latest report, which the firm released Thursday. The researchers say that shipments of 9.7-inch touch panels—the kind that Apple's full-size iPad uses—dropped to 1.3 million units in January, down from 7.4 million units the month before. Although shipments of displays measuring 7 inches to 8 inches increased only modestly over the same period, from 12 million units to 14 million units, DisplaySearch still concludes that "the iPad mini has been more popular than the iPad."
Keep in mind, though, that DisplaySearch's estimates are based on supply-chain sources, and aren't official figures from Apple. As Matthew Panzarino pointed out recently, even Apple CEO Tim Cook warned against interpreting supply-chain estimates as gospel. "Our supply chain is very complex, and we have multiple sources for our components. Yields can vary … supplier performance can vary," Cook said during an earnings call in January.
All that said, it seems like only a matter of time before small tablets do in fact take over. IHS, another market-analysis firm, predicted last October that small hardware will account for 33 percent of all tablets sold in 2013, up from 28 percent the year before. But IHS also called that a "conservative" estimate, noting that the percentage could grow even higher if Apple's suppliers could meet demand.
"There's no question that smaller sizes in tablets are going to become the main size category for tablets starting in 2013," Richard Shim, senior analyst for DisplaySearch's PC group, said in an interview. Like many other industry watchers, Shim believes that tablets will outsell laptops in the long run, with smaller, cheaper devices leading the charge.
But the laptop hangs on
We've been hearing about the iPad's potential to cannibalize the laptop market ever since Apple debuted the tablet in 2010. But Shim says that notion was always a bit misunderstood. Although it's true that consumers in developing markets might be primed to purchase more tablets instead of full-size notebooks, consumers in mature markets will more likely delay their next laptop purchases—but not give up on laptops entirely.
"The tablet is very complementary because PC buyers, instead of buying a notebook, may delay that purchase until later, and get a tablet instead," Shim says. "But at the end of the day, they're going to get both devices."
Not everyone sees it quite that way. In January, Gartner released a report stating that PC shipments declined during the holiday season, despite the launch of Windows 8. Mikako Kitagawa, a principal analyst for Gartner, said at the time that although families may keep a single desktop or laptop around for creative tasks, most individuals would not own both.
"There will be some individuals who retain both, but we believe they will be the exception and not the norm," Kitagawa wrote. "Therefore, we hypothesize that buyers will not replace secondary PCs in the household, instead allowing them to age out and shifting consumption to a tablet."
The rise of inexpensive tablets, she said, makes the transition even easier. In other words, small and cheap tablets may be accelerating the decline of laptops, not helping to bring them back.
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If there's any hope for a laptop resurgence, it rests on the shoulders of hybrids and convertible devices, particularly those with screens that are larger than the 9.7-inch display in Apple's full-size iPad.
PC makers now see 13-inch devices as a big opportunity, says Rhoda Alexander, IHS's director of tablet and monitor research. It's easier to sell 13-inch devices at higher prices, and they also offer clear, easily distinguished benefits over the new class of tiny tablets, which are so obviously geared toward media consumption rather than productivity.
Still, Alexander isn't sure that consumers will latch on to Windows 8. The value of 13-inch hybrids, she says, is more for businesses that might want a single device that's portable enough for tablet use in the field yet powerful enough for office work. Consumers, Alexander says, aren't married to Windows anymore, and now have a wider range of choices across the whole spectrum of devices.
"From feature phones to smartphones to phablets to media tablets to PC tablets to traditional PCs, there's just tremendous competition in this whole sector," Alexander says.
Patrick Moorhead, president and principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, is more optimistic about the future of Windows hybrids. He believes that the market for premium 10-inch tablets will shrink as smaller tablets take over, while users will opt for hybrids to serve their content-creation needs.
"I think that people's redefinition of what the ultimate tablet is—7 inches—actually helps Ultrabooks, notebooks, and convertibles get more popular," Moorhead says.
The key, Moorhead adds, will be faster processors and more refined versions of Windows, combined with lower prices. At that point, it won't make much sense to buy a full-size iPad instead of something like Microsoft's Surface. "I can see, at the end of 2013 or the beginning of 2014, where this space gets sexy again, because it's just so demonstrably different from what [consumers] can do today," Moorhead says.
That sounds a lot like Microsoft's own message: That we're still in the early days of Windows 8. The best hope for the PC market is that as people start gobbling up smaller tablets, they'll also go looking for larger devices that offer much more than just the same iOS and Android apps on a slightly larger tablet display.
Still, even then, Windows machines will face the usual competition from Macs, which are increasingly converging software-wise with iOS devices, as well as new competition from Chromebooks, which are looking more interesting by the day. Though all signs point to a smaller-tablet takeover led by the iPad mini, the remains of the computing market are very much up for grabs.


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Starbucks said Thursday its mobile app and Starbucks Card are now integrated with Apple's Passbook, enabling users with iPhones running iOS6 to use their phones for buying coffee.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
They Brought Down the Curtain - Literally
Notice anything different? Yep. The kittens took down the drapes. I'm not sure who did it or how it happened, but yesterday afternoon I walked into the living room and discovered the drapes draped on the back of the couch, with kittens napping on top of them. I fear the cellular shades are next.
That's right, naughty kittens. You better run.
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- AnonymousJune 23, 2010 at 8:22 AM
I suppose it wasn't funny at the time, but who needs window dressing when kittens grace the view? I just adore the A-E group.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 23, 2010 at 8:38 AM
Oh dear! This happened when my RD - not a kitten, but a 10 lb. orange terror - decided to take a running jump at my bedroom curtains... Down they came, tearing a hole in the plaster and lathe wall into which the rod brackets were screwed!ReplyDelete
We had that a couple weeks back - but at our house it makes sense because the curtains are on those clip thingies. But yeah, the kittens favorite place to play is in the curtains - I am surprised you don't have it happen more often!ReplyDelete
- OhlookachickenJune 23, 2010 at 8:42 AM
*giggle-snort* That's one wild, itty-bitty litter!ReplyDelete
Bad kitties! (hehehe) I suspect it took several kitties hanging from the drapes to bring them down. But they all agreed to play innocent. :)ReplyDelete
Aww, they just want the sunlight! My cats tend to squeeze in behind the blinds. I come home and there's this telltale lump in the blinds, usually in the big living room window. The thing is, they don't even have the excuse of being kittens! My youngest cat is a good year old now, practically a teenager. And the older one could be her grandpa. Where is the dignity, I ask you.ReplyDelete
Ooooo you little stinkers! This litter does seem naughtier than most. I love it. :DReplyDelete
Naughty bunch of kitties warms my heart, but I'm not sure how warm my heart would be if it were my curtains.ReplyDelete
snicker snicker
Is it wrong of me to laugh???? [snicker]ReplyDelete
Don't they know the curtain comes down on the 24th of July when we have raised $40 squillion?ReplyDelete
You have a very mischievous bundle of kittens don't you?ReplyDelete
That's what happens when you have a big bunch of kids. I have a friend with triplets, and man! do they CONSPIRE.ReplyDelete
- oceansJune 23, 2010 at 9:46 AM
It looks like if there's havoc to be had, Clement and Emory are right in the middle of it.ReplyDelete
- Tony JamesJune 23, 2010 at 9:51 AM
If you can't eat them, play with them, or sleep on them, what's the point of them?!ReplyDelete
And when the sun has been shining on the drapes all day long then they're warm and snuggly - perfect for kittin-napping.
Why is this always so amusing when it happens to someone else? Time to nap in the sun, Mama Kitty.ReplyDelete
- Kodiak and Kenai's momJune 23, 2010 at 10:07 AM
Oh my goodness, that really cracked me up. I'm on vacation in Alaska and have very limited internet access. The first thing I do when I manage to get online is come visit the A-Es, and it was definitely worth it today. Who cares if I actually get to read any of my e-mail, (public library computers have a 30 minute limit)I'd much rather spend the time following the antics of these guys. I wish there were someone at my house updating the status of my cats (Hi K&K)so I could check in on them too. Fortunately, we have no curtains only unreachable valances!ReplyDelete
Also, I'm glad to read from G's comment that the fundraiser goes until the 24th of July. I won't be back home until the 13th and I certainly don't want to access my PayPal account from a public computer. I was thinking I would miss a chance to donate to this wonderful cause but it looks like I'll be home in plenty of time.
IBKC kitties rule!
- AnonymousJune 23, 2010 at 10:29 AM
My one year old cats have taken down my curtains and curtain rod multiple times as they try to get to the lizards (preferrably the green ones) outside the window. I gave up and take down the curtains on days that the lizards are around. Not much you can to other than laugh and take pictures (which is what I did)ReplyDelete
Oh you know that cats view your drapes as entertainment. They think when they see you put them up, oh good, time for fun now. Naughty kittehs! ;-)ReplyDelete
Jeeze Louise, is this litter the Wild Bunch or what??? And it's true, this is seriously amusing when it happens in someone else's home.ReplyDelete
- JenniferJune 23, 2010 at 5:22 PM
Judging from who was silhouetted on them in a previous post I'm pointing the finger at the innocent looking, but thouroughly guilty Clement. Probably why he was hiding in the t-shirt drawer...LOLReplyDelete
The curtains must have been a) in the way b) fun to climb on c) sprinkled with catnip. (Cute pictures!)ReplyDelete
LOL..Sweet little cute devil kitties..this litter is really a bunch of naughty babies...but we love them soooo much to forgive all their naugty actions...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 24, 2010 at 8:08 AM
Well, now you know the kitten load bearing capacity of those curtains...ReplyDelete
LOL! So mischievous and so cute at the same time. ^__^ReplyDelete


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A Grand Rapids woman who found out her wedding venue wouldn't be ready by May 27 is getting help from another hotel.
After her story aired on WZZM 13 last week, Kenesha Cox says she got several offers for help. One of them was from the new Hilton Garden Inn in Grand Rapids.
The hotel offered her its ballroom for her reception.
For Cox, it all started on September 2016, when she signed a contract for $3,917 with the Ramada Plaza in Grand Rapids. A few months later, she found out the hotel would be undergoing renovations. Cox was told the reception hall would be done and ready by May 27.
But when she met with the manager last week, she says it was not even close to being done.
The management company for Ramada Plaza, National Hospitality Services, says it was willing to help her find a new venue and pay about $500 toward the new cost, which was more expensive at $7,091. They also offered to pay for her $300 chair covers she is unable to use.
The construction company was also going to contribute $500. However, it was still un-affordable for Cox.
Shortly after our story aired, she says she got several messages. But it was the Hilton Garden Inn, set to open this week, that came through in the end.
"I think anyone planning a wedding and finding out two weeks before that it's not going to happen is a gut punch," said Nick Haughton, general manage of the Hilton Garden Inn. "I could see the relief in her eyes when we gave her a walkthrough of our facility.
"As a company, it's about doing the right thing. It's not about dollars and cents, it's about the way we treat people. We just happen to have the room available and it worked out the best for her."
The hotel is located on the East Beltline, near 28th Street, which is only a few minutes away from Cox's original location. The hotel is going to honor her original contract with Ramada Plaza $3,917.
That includes everything from the room to the food and drinks.
Cox says it is a huge relief not to worry about where her reception is going to be on what should be her happiest day.
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Robin Williams' spirit will live on in the virtual world of Azeroth.
After thousands of fans petitioned the developers of the online role-playing video game "World of Warcraft" to memorialize Williams, the game's lead designer said Thursday that Blizzard Entertainment planned to create a character inspired by the actor, comedian and avid gamer, who was found dead on Monday at the age of 63. Lt. Keith Boyd of the Marin County sheriff's office said Williams committed suicide.
Williams was a notable fan of the popular fantasy series, which is played online by about 6.8 million people.
"We haven't decided, but it will most likely be a character inspired by him or some of his favorite roles of the past," said lead game designer Ion Hazzikostas at a Thursday event in downtown Los Angeles unveiling the game's fifth expansion, "World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor."
Several late "Warcraft" players have been memorialized in the game's virtual world since it launched in 2004 with virtual monuments, non-playable characters and other tributes.
"All of us are massive Robin Williams fans," said Hazzikostas. "We love and appreciate his work. We grew up watching his movies and stand-up. We knew he was an avid 'WoW' player, which was awesome. We have a number of pop culture references and things that reflect great figures of our time here and there. We're just thinking about the appropriate and right way to do it."
The fifth expansion of the popular game, which celebrates its 10th anniversary in December, takes place in the home land of Azeroth's orcs and features several new additions, including the ability to construct personal garrisons and raid new dungeons. "Warlords of Draenor" is set for release Nov. 13.
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Following on from Ron's Green Guessing Game (GGG) at http://ron.outcrop.org/blog/?p=144, I'm posting these photos via email. Feel free to name the main mineral, or any others you see. I hope these will turn out, as I have only tested email posting once.
Well, the email thing didn't quite work, so here they are, late on St. Pat's Day. Oh, and the orange is for my dad.
Update: Tuff Cookie has some green rocks and an explanation about what they are.
And: Andrew has another green rock, a bit of a mystery.
More green rocks/minerals: Julian has a green mystery mineral, The Lost Geologist finally found a green mineral, and Brian has a green outcrop!


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Sarah Hicks
Noted in the New York Times as part of "a new wave of female conductors in their late 20's through early 40's", Sarah Hicks's versatile and vibrant
musicianship has secured her place in "the next generation of up-and-coming American conductors". In October of 2009 she was named Principal
Conductor, Pops and Presentations of the Minnesota Orchestra; in addition to conducting most Pops and Special Presentations, she has been
instrumental in creating new Pops productions while also heading the innovative classical series, "Inside the Classics" with which she recently
completed a Microcommission Project with composer Judd Greenstein. Hicks concurrently holds the positions of Staff Conductor of the Curtis Institute
of Music. Throughout her career she has collaborated with diverse artists, from Jamie Laredo and Hilary Hahn to Josh Groban and Smokey Robinson;
during the summer of 2011 she was on a two-month tour with Sting as conductor of the final leg of his Symphonicities Tour. In June of 2012 she
conducted the opening concert of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, and program featuring Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sumi Jo and Jackie
Ms. Hicks has guest conducted extensively both in the States and abroad, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Detroit Symphony, National Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Phoenix Symphony and Prime Philharmonic (Seoul, Korea), and the Orchestra of la Teatro Fenice. She has led the Los Angeles Philharmonic in July 4th concerts at the Hollywood Bowl in 2012 and 2013; upcoming concerts include return engagements in San Francisco and Philadelphia as well as debuts with the Boston Pops, Pittsburgh Symphony and Cincinnati Pops.
Ms. Hicks's past positions include Associate Conductor of the North Carolina Symphony Associate Conductor of the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Resident Conductor of the Florida Philharmonic, and Assistant Conductor of the Philadelphia Singers, the chorus of the Philadelphia Orchestra, whom she has led in radio broadcasts heard nationwide. She has also been Music Director of the Hawaii Summer Symphony, an ensemble she founded in 1991 in her hometown of Honolulu and which she led for five seasons.
Ms. Hicks was invited to Japan by the New National Theatre Tokyo, where she acted as assistant conductor to a production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and has performed Verdi's Aïda with the East Slovak State Opera Theater. Her extensive work with the Curtis Opera Studio include performances of Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites and numerous vocal concerts; she led the Opera Studio's production of Handel's Alcina in 2005 and led the Minnesota Orchestra in a semi-staged production of Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel in 2009.
A committed proponent of the performance of new music, Ms. Hicks recently completed a Microcommission Project (the first of its kind) with the Minnesota Orchestra in which hundreds of people made microdonations to fund a major new work by composer Judd Greenstein. She regularly leads the Curtis Symphony Orchestra in readings, recordings and performances of contemporary works. In addition to premiering works by young composers from both the Curtis Institute and the University of Pennsylvania, she has collaborated with Ned Rorem and Jennifer Higdon. Her recording project with the Vermont Symphony, "Triple Doubles", featuring music of Richard Danielpour and David Ludwig with Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson, soloists was recently released on the Bridge Label. She has also conducted performances with Composers in the Shape of a Pear (Cleveland) and the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble.
Ms. Hicks was a member of the Faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music from 2000-2005 and continues her affiliation with Curtis as Staff Conductor. She has prepared the Symphony Orchestra of the Curtis Institute for readings and concerts with leading conductors including Wolfgang Sawallisch and Sir Simon Rattle. Her work with the Curtis Symphony led to a one-season appointment as assistant conductor to the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra, and ensemble she trained intensively for Music Director James Levine, to whom she acted as assistant conductor.
Sarah Hicks was born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in Honolulu, HI. Trained on both the piano and viola, she was a prizewinning pianist by her early teens. She received her BA magna cum laude from Harvard University in composition; her AIDS Oratorio was premiered in May of 1993 and received a second performance at the Fogg Art Museum the following December. She holds an Artists' Degree in conducting from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with renowned pedagogue Otto-Werner Mueller. Ms. Hicks's talents have been recognized with numerous prized and scholarships; she received the Thomas Hoopes Prize for composition and the Doris Cohen Levy Prize for conducting from Harvard University, and she was the recipient of the Helen F. Whitaker Fund Scholarship and a Presser Award during her time at Curtis.
In her spare time, Ms. Hicks enjoys running, yoga, her German Shepherd, cooking (and eating) with her husband, traveling and sketching.
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Los Angeles, CA – The Los Angeles Lakers are finally back to being average.
At least record-wise.
Kobe Bryant had 34 points, including the go-ahead layup with nine seconds left in the Lakers' 99-98 win over the Atlanta Hawks.
Bryant got the ball along the right wing and drove past Al Horford with the right-handed dribble before meeting Josh Smith at the rim and getting his layup to drop from high off the glass.
Steve Blake stole Smith's pass at the other end to seal the win for the Los Angeles.
"I attacked and took the game to them," Bryant said of his play down the stretch.
At 30-30, the Lakers are .500 for the first time since Dec. 28 when they were 15-15. Los Angeles is 2 1/2 games behind the Houston Rockets for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference.
Dwight Howard added 11 points and 15 rebounds for the Lakers.
Horford donated 24 points for Atlanta, which has lost two straight on the heels of a four-game winning streak. Smith recorded 19 points, seven boards and seven assists in defeat.
"We turned the ball over at crucial times and it cost us," Hawks head coach Larry Drew said.
Four points from Jeff Teague, sandwiched around a Metta World Peace 3-pointer, gave Atlanta a 94-93 edge with 2:37 to play before Bryant brought the crowd to its feet.
From the top of the key, Bryant drove hard past Smith down the right side of the lane before emphatically throwing down a one-handed dunk over him. The pendulum swung back in Atlanta's favor, though, as Teague got his high-arching floater to drop over Howard for a 96-95 Hawks edge with 45.2 seconds on the clock.
Bryant sunk two free throws with 33.5 ticks to play, but Horford got free behind Howard for a dunk with 26.7 seconds left for a 98-97 Atlanta margin.
The Lakers took a 30-26 lead after a quarter of play, a 52-45 edge into the break and a 79-73 cushion heading into the final frame. Atlanta, though, began the fourth on a 7-1 spring to tie the score at 80-80 and the tilt remained a one-possession contest the rest of the way.
"Kobe's willpower is incredible. The last three minutes was all his. His belief in himself is huge," Lakers head coach Mike D'Antoni said.
Game Notes
Atlanta hasn't beaten the Lakers in Los Angeles since Feb. 15, 2006 ... Steve Nash finished with 15 points and 10 assists for Los Angeles ... Los Angeles turned the ball over 21 times, which led to 29 Atlanta points.


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Dropbox and Amazon are making more storage options available that just about any business can afford.
Amazon has widened the availability of its Zocalo cloud storage service. This is another product offered through Amazon Web Services. Right now, Amazon is offering Zocalo to its Amazon Web Services users for free for 30 days.
Each new Zocalo account gets 200 GB of storage. The service currently enables collaboration of up to 50 users per account with an emphasis on storage and shared workspace. After the trial is expires, Zocalo will be available for $5 per month per user. The company will soon open Zocalo's API to allow developers to create apps that integrate with the cloud storage service, explains Amazon Web Services chief evangelist Jeff Barr.
In a post on the official Amazon Web Services Blog explaining how the Amazon team is already using the service, Barr explains:
"I generally have between 5 and 10 blog post drafts under way at any given time. I write the first draft, upload it to Zocalo, and share it with the Product Manager for initial review. We iterate on the early drafts to smooth out any kinks, and then share it with a wider audience for final review. When multiple reviewers provide feedback on the same document, Zocalo's Feedback tab lets me scan, summarize, and respond to the feedback quickly and efficiently."
As Amazon expands its suite of services, Dropbox is adding on to its premium cloud storage option. The company announced it is adding more storage space to its Dropbox Pro service recently.
There are also new security features added to the Dropbox Pro service. They allow you to keep your files out of the wrong hands. Dropbox Pro allows users to create security measures to protect their work — like passwords, expiring passwords, and the ability to wipe a device clear of any Dropbox files if it's lost or stolen.
For existing Dropbox Pro users, you'll soon receive notice of an upgrade to 1 TB of space. Dropbox says it's keeping the same price point for the Pro service, $9.99 per month. New users will get offered the 1 TB of space automatically.
It's not the first example of ongoing efforts by digital storage companies to offer customers more at a cheaper price. Last month, for example, storage giant Box announced a new integration with Microsoft's cloud-based Office 365. The new integration will make it easier to work seamlessly between the two services for businesses that use both.
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Correction: Weed Killer-Label story
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In a story Aug. 9 about a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announcement regarding the chemical glyphosate, The Associated Press misspelled the first name of a spokeswoman from Bayer AG. She is Charla Lord, not Chandra Lord. Also, in an early version of the story, the AP reported that the EPA had instructed companies not to warn customers about glyphosate. The EPA's announcement said it would no longer approve labels warning that glyphosate could pose a cancer risk.
A corrected version of the story is below:
EPA won't approve warning labels for Roundup chemical
The Trump administration says it won't approve warning labels for products that contain glyphosate, a chemical in the weed killer Roundup.
By ADAM BEAM
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Trump administration says it won't approve warning labels for products that contain glyphosate, a move aimed at California as it fights one of the world's largest agriculture companies about the potentially cancer-causing chemical.
California requires warning labels on glyphosate products — widely known as the weed killer Roundup — because the International Agency for Research on Cancer has said it is "probably carcinogenic."
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency disagrees, saying its research shows the chemical poses no risks to public health. California has not enforced the warning label for glyphosate because Monsanto, the company that makes Roundup, sued and a federal judge temporarily blocked the warning labels last year until the lawsuit could be resolved.
"It is irresponsible to require labels on products that are inaccurate when EPA knows the product does not pose a cancer risk," EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said in a statement. "We will not allow California's flawed program to dictate federal policy."
California's Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, approved by voters in 1986, requires the government to publish a list of chemicals known to cause cancer, as determined by a variety of outside groups that include the EPA and IARC. The law also requires companies to warn customers about those chemicals.
California regulators have twice concluded glyphosate did not pose a cancer risk for drinking water. But in 2015, the IARC classified the chemical as "probably carcinogenic," triggering a warning label under California law.
Federal law regulates how pesticides are used and how they are labeled. States can impose their own requirements, but they can't be weaker than the federal law, according to Brett Hartl, government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity.
Hartl said it is unusual for the EPA to tell a state it can't go beyond the federal requirements.
"It's a little bit sad the EPA is the biggest cheerleader and defender of glyphosate," Hartl said. "It's the Environmental Protection Agency, not the pesticide protection agency."
In a letter to companies explaining its decision, Michael L. Goodis, director of EPA's registration division in its Office of Pesticide Programs, said the agency considers labels warning glyphosate to cause cancer to "constitute a false and misleading statement," which is prohibited by federal law.
Charla Lord, a representative for Monsanto's parent company Bayer AG, said the EPA's announcement "is fully consistent with the science-based conclusions reached by the agency and leading health regulators worldwide for more than four decades."
"Glyphosate is not carcinogenic," Lord said.
An estimated 13,000 plaintiffs have pending lawsuits against Monsanto concerning glyphosate. Three of those cases went to trial in California, and juries awarded damages in each case, although judges later reduced the amounts.
In May, a jury ordered Monsanto to pay a California couple $2.055 billion dollars after a trial where they blamed the company's product for caused their cancers. Last month, a judge reduced that award to $87 million.


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She's in love with herself
She likes the dark
On her milk white neck
The Devil's mark
It's All Hallows Eve
The moon is full
Will she trick or treat
I bet she will
She's got a date at midnight
With Nosferatu
Oh baby, Lilly Munster
Ain't got nothing on you
Well, when I called her evil
She just laft
And cast that spell on me
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And clove cigarettes
An erotic funeral
For witch, she's dressed
Her perfume smells like
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Everyday is Halloween
Loving you was like loving the dead