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New Delhi Feb 14 (IANS) The RapeRoko campaign launched by the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chairperson Swati Maliwal will now be taken to the streets of national capital through Nukkad Nataks (street plays) an official statement on Wednesday said.
Maliwal on Tuesday launched the campaign at Delhi University as a mark of protest against the sexual harassment of a DU student in a moving bus. With DCW s intervention into the matter an FIR was registered in the Vasant Vihar Police Station.
According to DCW the street plays will be conducted across Delhi until March 8 to raise awareness amongst the people and make them join the movement and fight sexual crimes against women and children.
"After the Nukkad Natak is performed which is based on crimes against women volunteers of RapeRoko movement will speak to the crowd and discuss with them the demands of the movement " a statement by DCW said.
"Real change will happen when the government and society awakens against the evil of crimes against women and children. The Nukkad Nataks are a great way of reaching out to the people and raising awareness. We should no longer remain quiet. When people throng the streets on March 8 change is bound to happen!" Maliwal stated.


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The Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to United States Constitution requires that "[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right…to be confronted with the witnesses against him…." With it's decision last week in Bullcoming v. New Mexico, the Supreme Court strengthened the Confrontation Clause when it ruled that a criminal defendant has the right to cross examine the actual analyst who performed crime lab testing on evidence in the case, rather than a surrogate witness.
The effect of cross examining the State's witnesses can make or break a defendant's case. Whether the issue is cross examining the analyst who read the defendant's breathalyzer results in a drunk driving case, or asking questions of the individual who analyzed DNA samples from the crime scene in a murder case, cross examination is the defense's most effective tool. A Maryland criminal defense attorney experienced at using cross examination effectively can be the central factor to whether a criminal defendant is convicted or acquitted of the charges he or she faces.
In the New Mexico case, the defendant, Donald Bullcoming, was found guilty at trial of driving while intoxicated. The focus of the prosecution's case was a crime lab report which showed that his blood-alcohol level was above New Mexico's legal limit for driving. The prosecution in the Bullcoming case called an analyst to testify about the results of the lab test which showed Bullcoming's blood-alcohol content, but called a different analyst than the analyst who actually performed the analysis.
The Supreme Court said that the substitute analyst was not sufficient under its prior holding in Crawford v. Washington. In the courtroom, evidence typically must be submitted through a witness with personal knowledge of the substance of the evidence. Then, the defense must be given the opportunity to cross examine that witness. Justice Ginsberg, writing for the Court, stated that "[t]he Sixth Amendment does not tolerate dispensing with confrontation simply because a court believes that questioning one witness about another's testimonial statements provides a fair enough opportunity for cross-examination."
The importance of a defense attorney that is experienced in the local criminal courtrooms cannot be overstated. Our Maryland criminal defense attorneys, including two former State's Attorneys, are experienced at using effective cross examination techniques to defend our clients in criminal courts.


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The people and businesses of Georgia have beaten back anti-gay religious "freedom" legislation year after year. And yet the GOP keeps bringing it back. Why are Georgia Republicans so determined to pass legislation based on hate?
On Saturday, the four leading Republican gubernatorial candidates stood together behind Georgia's controversial religious "freedom" measure. Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, Sec. of State Brian Kemp, former State Sen. Hunter Hill and State Sen. Michael Williams have all pledged to sign the religious liberty proposal if elected governor.
Cagle continues to claim that the measure isn't discriminatory, but the ACLU has seen business owners refusing to provide insurance coverage for contraception for their employees, social work graduate students refusing to counsel gay people and pharmacies turning away women seeking to fill birth control prescriptions. All of these examples of discrimination have been in the name of "religious liberty."
Also, the fact remains that Georgians, Georgia businesses, and even Gov. Deal have said no to the discriminatory legislation year after year. Why are GOP candidates doubling down on hate?
If the discriminatory measure is passed, we will see widespread employee discrimination mislabeled as "religious freedom," and the state could also see huge economic losses due to companies pulling out of Georgia and the inability to attract new, major employers and economic drivers like sports events and large conventions.
But more importantly, a new pro-discrimination law would be a major step backwards for civil rights in Georgia. Until our state is a welcoming place for everyone, we must all continue fighting for the inalienable rights of all Georgians by pushing back against bigotry whenever we see it.


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Alpine Angling serves the Upper Roaring Fork Valley including Aspen, Basalt, Snowmass, & Carbondale. The shop started in 1989 and merged with Roaring Fork Anglers in 1998 to better serve our clientele. Alpine Angling in Carbondale, is located right across the Roaring Fork River from Hwy 82, at 995 Cowen Drive in Carbondale.
This location is convenient for fishermen coming from Aspen and for our guided fly fishing trips or if you are going to the mid to upper Roaring Fork River, Crystal River and the Frying Pan River. The fly selection is as plentiful as the selection at Roaring Fork Anglers, but has a selection of flies better suited for the rivers in the mid-valley region.
Alpine Angling is also the headquarters for our Adventure Travel specialists. We can make arrangements for your next Saltwater Fly Fishing trip or you can choose to attend one of our Hosted Saltwater Fly Fishing Trips or our Freshwater Adventure Travel. Some of our guides, who love to fish salty world, will accompany you to one of our favorite destinations and ensure you have a great time.
Driving Directions to Alpine Angling
Directions to Alpine Angling from Upvalley: (Aspen, Snowmass, Basalt): Head northwest (downvalley) on Highway 82 to the main entrance to Carbondale, which is the light at the intersection of Highways 82 and 133. Ater you cross the bridge over the Roaring Fork River you will need to take the first left on to Cowen Drive, then a right turn into the parking lot. Alpine Angling is on the side of the building facing Hwy 133.
Directions to Alpine Angling from Downvalley: (Glenwood Springs, Grand Junction, Denver): Take I-70 (east or west) to Exit 116 at Glenwood Springs then head southeast towards Aspen (upvalley) on Highway 82 (Grand Ave). Turn right at the main light for Carbondale, just past Aspen Glen on Highway 133. Ater you cross the bridge over the Roaring Fork River you will need to take the first left then a right turn into the parking lot. Alpine Angling is on the side of the building facing Hwy 133.


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LONDON -- The shares of BAE Systems (LSE:BA) (NASDAQOTH:BAESY) advanced 3 pence to 378 pence this morning as investors studied the defense group's latest update and its 5.2% yield.
BAE said today that trading since the start of the year had been "consistent with management expectations" and confirmed underlying earnings per share were expected to grow "modestly" during 2013.
The FTSE 100 member added that underlying earnings per share could be increased by a further 3 pence should discussions concerning the Salam Typhoon program conclude satisfactorily.
The Salam Typhoon program concerns an order of 72 Eurofighter Typhoons for the Royal Saudi Air Force, the requirements of which were changed during 2011 and have since prompted protracted price negotiations.
BAE admitted today's forecast did not reflect the potential impact on the U.S. defense sector arising from any automatic cuts to the country's government spending.
However, the company did say it was awarded a £504 million contract from the U.S. Army during March to manage an ammunition plant for five years.
Based on BAE's 2012 results, the company is currently valued at less than 10 times earnings and offers a 5.2% yield.
Of course, whether those ratings, today's update and the general outlook for the defense industry all combine to make BAE a buy right now is something only you can decide.
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MAYNARD, Mass., July 29 /PRNewswire/ — Stratus Technologies Avance(TM) software meets a growing need for affordable, high availability computing solutions tailored to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), according to a recent Aberdeen Group Market Alert.
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Citing data from a benchmark survey of 120 organizations, Aberdeen identified a spending pattern that established availability as the goal behind major IT purchases. Stratus(R) Avance software is designed to provide high availability in a simple, cost-effective form by linking standard x86 servers without clustering or a storage area network (SAN).
"Companies using or considering application and IT infrastructure monitoring and management solutions are doing so largely to maximize the availability of business-critical applications," according to the Market Alert, titled "Stratus Technologies Avance: New Alternatives for High Availability." Avance, it said, "could aid many companies in their pursuit of greater availability, reliability, business benefit, and value from their IT investments."
Aberdeen reported that 80 percent of companies considered "best in class" are implementing monitoring and management solutions to improve application availability. It also cited maximizing information availability, managing infrastructure complexity and pressure to meet internal service level agreements.
Avance provides levels of application availability superior to, and without the complexity of, high-availability cluster solutions for Linux and Windows applications. Avance installs in less than 15 minutes after a customer enters three commands. Once installed on two Ethernet-connected x86 servers with operating systems, a customer can be deploying virtual machines in even less time with the embedded Citrix XenServer virtualization engine and point- and-click wizards.
"Aberdeen's research findings clearly illustrate the growing demand for high availability computing, which reaffirms Stratus' assertion that the Avance software is the right availability solution at the right time in the marketplace," said Susan Deeney, Stratus director of Avance worldwide channels program. "Avance is part of a continuum of solutions that Stratus offers to make high-availability virtualization a reality at any company regardless of its size or technology expertise."
To read the full report, please visit: www.stratus.com/news/analysts/index.htm.
About Stratus Technologies
Stratus Technologies focuses exclusively on helping its customers keep critical business operations online without interruption. Business continuity requires resiliency and superior availability throughout the IT infrastructure, including virtual environments. Stratus delivers a range of solutions that includes software-based high availability, fault-tolerant servers, availability consulting and assessment, and remote systems management services. Based on its 28 years of expertise in product and services technology for total availability, Stratus is a trusted solutions provider to customers in manufacturing, health care, financial services, public safety, transportation & logistics, and other industries. For more information, visit www.stratus.com.
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HaiVision Launches Complete End-to-End HD H.264 Solution at NAB — Video Furnace System 5
MONTREAL and CHICAGO — April 14, 2009 —
HaiVision Network Video, the world's leading vendor of high-performance H.264 encoders, codecs, and video-over-IP systems, today announced the availability of Video Furnace System 5. With HaiVision's new compact and affordable MAKITO HD H.264 encoder, the combined integrated solution provides a complete end-to-end HD H.264 video-over-IP distribution system.
HaiVision's Video Furnace provides a secure, easy-to-use, and simple-to-deploy system for encoding and distributing live video to computers and set-top boxes, for creating scheduled playback channels for enterprise TV and signage, and for recording content and delivering video on demand. H.264 is the most prevalent standard today for video compression and provides the bandwidth efficiency to better utilize network and storage resources when dealing with high-definition video.
"This is perhaps the most important release for the Video Furnace product," said Peter Maag, HaiVision's senior vice president. "Mass high-quality media delivery depends on performance, efficiency, and ubiquity. H.264 provides these benefits, and now the Furnace fully supports H.264 throughout the encoding, management, and delivery process."
Video Furnace System 5 provides complete end-to-end capabilities. The Furnace Portal Server controls the direct and secure distribution of SD and HD H.264 video to both the "zero footprint" InStream player and the STINGRAY set-top box. The Furnace Playback Manager supports scheduled channels for IP video broadcast and signage. The Furnace Media Server enables high-definition video-on-demand, leveraging the efficiencies of H.264. Furthermore, System 5 incorporates direct support of HaiVision's revolutionary MAKITO encoder, all in full high definition. Both will be shown publicly for the first time next week at HaiVision booth SL4126 at the 2009 NAB Show, which runs April 20 to 23 in Las Vegas.
"The marriage of the capabilities of Video Furnace System 5 and the affordability and performance of the MAKITO HD H.264 encoding platform yields the most powerful and complete video-over-IP solution available today," said Joe Gaucher, HaiVision's chief technology officer and founder of the Video Furnace technology. "Video Furnace System 5 is a remarkable harmony of technology and development teams, and we've only started paving the future of H.264 IP video. Stay tuned!"
Complete information on HaiVision products, including recent case studies and application notes, is available at
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Based in Montreal, Quebec, and in Chicago, Ill., HaiVision Network Video is a private company and a world leader in delivering the most advanced video networking technology and IPTV solutions. HaiVision's products are deployed worldwide within the foremost Fortune 100 companies, in the most rigorous military and defense applications, in healthcare facilities for video collaboration and training, for education and remote learning, in interactive broadcast applications, IPTV, and within the world's leading TelePresence suites. HaiVision distributes its products through value-added resellers, system integrators, distributors, and OEMs worldwide.
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I have been thinking about something "apple" that a teacher would actually like getting as a gift! Then I remembered Bath & Body Works has apple scents!
I was happy to find a new apple fragrance when I was looking around called Kitchen Apple and Fresh Mint! It smells really good!
I picked up a few hand soaps.
Furthermore, this is what I did to put together a cute gift to my sons teacher for the first day!
I traced my sons hand on a piece of red paper.
Then cut it out.
I wrote this cute little note to let her know that I am available if she needs help.
A sweet gift that any teacher would love!
Happy Back To School! =)


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I sometimes find myself on public hotspots at a hotel or airport or what have you. And sometimes, the reason I'm online is because I have to pay a bill or do some other sort of business. I know that on an open network, I'm putting myself at risk and it always makes me really queasy and I've been wondering what the best way to handle it is.
So I just now came across Hotspot Shield by Anchor Free. It works by creating a VPN (virtual private network) that tunnels securely to their servers and then from there out onto the web. The idea is, basically, that everything that is travel across the unsecured, public network, gets encrypted and so the weak point is thus locked down.
Not bad. They tout all over that it's "totally free", which it is – it's Ad Supported. I don't necessarily have a problem with that, but there's adware and there's adware. In other words, Opera and Eudora were long ad-supported and all they did was show ads at the top of the application while you were using it. That's fine with me and more or less like visiting a website with banner ads. You have to pay for stuff somehow. As long as it doesn't install some ad server on my computer that runs in the background whether I'm actively using their product or not, I don't mind (though I might like the option of paying a reasonable fee to upgrade to paid, ad-free version).
A bit more looking and I came across a bunch of other VPN clients and settles on Security KISS which is free if you keep usage to reasonable levels and works fine, but of course adding in this proxy and encryption will slow things down a fair bit.
Anyway, if you've tried it and have any info on what sort of ads it runs, I'd much appreciate it!
Okay, I did a bit more poking around and it looks legit.
- PC Magazine lists it among their five favorite free security tools in 2008.
- I looked around the anchor free site and it seems that the way they work is that by going through their platform, it allows advertisers to place ads on wifi hotspot login screens and on websites themselves. Basically, they have signup forums for both wifi providers and site publishers to opt in to running ads associated with their platform and then presumably they have a way for advertisers to put their stock on selected websites. For example, the page for web publishers says:
Join thousands of premium web sites who are earning from AnchorFree's patented technology that touches our in-transit audience…. Allow us to place contextually relevant advertising directly on your site to earn incremental revenue attributed to our multi-channel platform.
So essentially, it's similar to Google ads. Actually, a clever business model if I understand it correctly.
Anyway, it seems all relatively open and legitimate and definitely worth a few ads for the peace of mind it would give me when on an unsecured network. I'll try it I think, but I would still really appreciate a comment from someone who can verify whether or not it will show popup ads on my computer or silly things like that.


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One of Owen's best little buddies turned 5.
Lucky for him, his Dad works at a real life Fire Station.
A boy's dream.
So, for his 5th B'day, guess where the par-tay was?
Oh yeah. Ladder 84 was the Place to Be!
First thing my son spotted was the weight lifting and workout area
This punching bag made his Kiddlestix one look ree-donkulous!
I now know what to put in Owen's dream room...
Time for the Fireman Show!
Something a lil' guy takes veeeery seriously
Next Up - Cake & Ice Cream in a real life Firehouse!!
He had been counting down til' this moment...
Miss H was the Hit of the Party! She would giggle and run while the rest of the gang chased her!
Last but certainly not least, the Fire Pole demo!
It was crazy loud and super fast!! I was astonished at how tall it was!
When that flap opened, you couldn't blink or you'd miss the drop!
Kids couldn't go down it, but they definitely tried to go up it!
Can't take his eyes off that flap!
Happy Boy
Owen doin' his Fire Groove Thang!


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5 Reasons To Be Happy You Are Left-Handed
As a "lefty," I have always felt a little different. At times, I have struggled with trying to fit into a right-handed world.
In school, I had to contort myself so I could write on a right-handed desk. I struggled to keep my hand clean and often ended up with ink smudges on both the paper and my hand; writing in those spiral-bound notebooks is difficult, if not impossible, for lefties. From can openers to scissors and my garden pruners, most household items are made for righties. And when eating with groups, I have to fight to sit on the far left side of the table so I don't bump the person next to me the entire time I'm eating.
I have often wondered if I really am that unique. With an estimated 10 percent of the population being left-handed, and almost 30 million people in the U.S. being lefties, it's not as rare as it feels.
Aside from feeling different myself, there seems to be a history of discrimination toward my left-handed comrades, embedded in language:
- There are over two dozen negative references to left-handedness in the bible.
- Some common English phrases portray the left as negative — such as a "left-handed" compliment.
- In Latin, the word for left is "sinister," which of course means evil in English.
- The English word for left comes from the Old English word "lyft" meaning broken or weak.
One of the things that I have also heard my whole life is that I am clumsy and have no eye-hand coordination. But as I have learned by researching, this is probably not due to a default in my natural abilities, but in having to use right-handed tools and items that are backward for me.
Given all this negativity surrounding us, it's hard not to feel a little slighted. But there are some really great things about being left-handed. Next time somebody tries to bring you down for being a lefty, point out these things that might make him wish he was part of the left-handed crew:
We are right-brain dominated. Being "right brained" comes with all kinds of positives. We tend to be visual thinkers; we are more creative, have a greater imagination, are better at expressing feelings even non-verbally, and are great at daydreaming.
Lefties remember the tunes of songs better than righties do. I know this is true of me. All I need to hear are a few notes of a song and I usually know exactly what the song is.
Speaking of music, according to Medical Daily, we also have a better sense of rhythm, which might explain why I love to dance so much.
Lefties also seem to have a better chance of having a high IQ, or being considered a genius. Twenty percent of all Mensa members say they are left-handed, and among the famous "smart" lefties: Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Isaac Newton. And a study conducted at St. Lawrence University found that more left-handed people had IQs over 140 than their right-handed counterparts.
Lefties are better able to multitask. The theory is that being left-hand forces your brain to think more quickly. So we usually have an easier time dealing with a lot of unorganized information and are able to sort through it all.
Lefties: do these qualities pertain to you? Speak out in the comment section below!
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The cluttered, cavernous workshop in Glen Burnie hardly looks impressive.
The Michelob poster girls pinned up on sooty walls, smudged wooden and cast-iron equipment strewn everywhere -- the whole get-up says small-time.
But from McShane Bell Foundry have come more than 300,000 huge bells since 1856, bells that now ring in churches, city halls, statehouses and fire stations throughout the 50 states and in at least seven foreign countries.
The foundry, at 100 Arundel Corporation Road, is the only large Western-style bell maker in the United States, one of about seven in the world. Western-style bells are rung with a clapper inside while oriental bells are struck from the outside.
Among the foundry's more famous handiwork are the 7,000-pound bell that graces Baltimore's City Hall, the bells at Hawaii's Pearl Harbor Memorial chapel and Liberty Bell replicas in Portland, Ore., and Wilmington, Del.
"This is a lost art," said owner William Parker Jr. "It's something I'd like to see continue."
Henry McShane, who named Dundalk after his Irish birthplace about 100 years ago, founded the company in Baltimore in 1856. The company moved to Glen Burnie in 1979.
In its heyday in the 1880s, the firm employed 90 people. As demand for big custom-made bells waned, that number has dwindled to six workers today.
They are kept busy refurbishing bells and wiring them to ring on their own. Making new bells constitutes only about 40 percent of their work.
The company plies its antiquated trade with tools that date to its first year. The mammoth cast-iron molds used to make 100-pound to 4,000-pound bells and the wooden "sweeps" -- half-bell-shapes used to mold the insides of bells -- are Henry McShane's originals.
They're valued at more than $250,000, and the company still uses them because replacements would be too expensive, Parker said. "We'd be out of business if something happened to them," he said.
A six-alarm fire in 1946 almost accomplished that, said Parker. By luck, the equipment was stored in a safe and survived.
Two other U.S. foundries folded years ago, said William Wakeland, a bell enthusiast who lectures about handbells at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. The cost of equipment and the small market make staying in business difficult.
"Even in England and France, these companies are somewhat hand-held by the government," Wakeland said. "They're considered to be national treasures and they get into financial trouble. They don't sell enough, and there are not many places that can afford them, so they are subsidized to some degree."
A McShane bell costs from $3,696 for a 100-pounder to $13,310 for a half-ton model. The foundry can make bells as large as 7,000 pounds, but most are closer to 1,000 pounds, Parker said.
The durability of bells also has kept demand for new ones down, Wakeland said.
"Bells will way, way, way outlast you," he said. "In Boston, they're still ringing the bells that Paul Revere rang in 1750."
Parker, 50, hopes the company his father acquired in 1935 will outlast him. There's a good chance of that: His son, William Parker III, 28, is the company's vice president.
About the company
Henry McShane founded McShane Bell Foundry in Baltimore in 1856. The company reached its peak production in the late 19th century. In 1935, the company was sold to William Parker, whose son runs it today. The company moved to Glen Burnie in 1979.
Pub Date: 9/26/97


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Blockbuster in San Mateo
It's Search Engine Thursday! You know what that means, don't you? It means we've been spending much too much time doing Real Work and completely forgot about this blog. So, no house today. Don't worry, it was pending anyway.
Recently someone used a Search Engine, which amazingly Did Not Rhyme With Kugel, and typed in the following:
car block driveway which number i should call in san mateo
Here's what they found out when that Search Engine That Also Does Not Rhyme With Ping sent them here.
Wait, if this driveway had a 4+ car capacity, wouldn't it being blocked make you want to do more than just call a number? If it were us, we may very well DO a number on that car block driveway.
Speaking of doing numbers, this house last sold for $512,000. In 2008. And for $649,000. In 2005. Looks like that $868K was a wishing price that never, ever came true. Maybe car block driveway open house which number I should overbid in san mateo.


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NFL.com says "Last season (2015) marked a downturn for him (Brees)..."
In 2015 Brees was in the top 10 of every QB stat except for interceptions, which he was #12 (min 300 attempts). The Saints led the league in offense yards, and ranked #8 in points. You can't ask for more from the guy.
He can't play defense too. The Saints defense ranked #2 in defensive yards and points given up. An offense can't overcome that very often. With a terrible defense, they still managed to win 7 games. Hell, just a few years ago the Saints set the all-time record for the most yards allowed in a season.
I don't expect much different from the Saints in 2016. We are one game in, and it looks like more of the same. They scored 34 points, but gave up 35. Brees threw for 400+ yards and 4 TDs with no interceptions. He even threw a franchise long 98 yard TD to WR Brandin Cooks.
At 37 years old, we can't expect more than a couple of more good years out of Drew. Even the all-time greats (which he is one) hit a huge wall in their late 30s. By 37, most have already hit that wall, but even ironmen like Favre and Peyton eventually can't do it anymore, and 39-40 seams to be the absolute max.
Brees will be in Canton one day and the Saints will kick themselves for wasting his last few productive years. At least that's the way it's heading, but I would love to be surprised. We'll see.


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1. Introduction
One day it had to happen, one day the British tabloids would publish something like this about the Maddie case:
"But Leanne Baulch, 22, of Birmingham, created the page and wrote the fund was created "as a quest for justice and backed by supporters from all over the globe, in solidarity, friendship and above all, in the interest of furthering the investigation of the case into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann".
"There are many who follow Amaral's dissatisfaction, and whom, like him, urge for the day the truth, or some more of it will emerge."
Unquestionable and unequivocal support shown for Mr Amaral in a British tabloid.
The same press that smeared him shamelessly and ruthlessly has published, in very explicit terms, words saying that one day the truth will emerge on the Maddie case.
A truth that stems from Mr Amaral's dissatisfaction or, to say it even more plainly, a truth that is not the one the McCanns say it is.
Those following the case from its beginning can fully understand the magnitude of this. The days when it was easier to call for Satan in Salem than saying anything against the McCanns seem to be over.
2. Then and now
If the reader thinks we're quoting the article from the Mail of May 13 2016 that is now known either as the "Mail doorstepping" article or the "Honourable Troll" one, we're not.
We are instead quoting one that preceded that one by more than a year, published by the Express on May 4, 2015, "Online trolls pay Madeleine McCann libel detective's legal bills on eight year anniversary".
Then it was said truth would emerge and that supporting Mr Amaral was a quest for justice, as shown above.
Then, the British police was mentioned in the Express article for supporting Mr Amaral in the name of a retired policeman, John Green:
"A British policeman is one of more than 330 people who have donated more than £5,300 towards Goncalo Amaral's legal bills after he was sued by Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry" and "John Green paid £10 to the fund and wrote: I am a retired police officer and will never understand how criminal proceedings have never been taken against the McCanns."
A year later on May 13 2016 the Mail published the article "Web trolls raise £50,000 for the Portuguese policeman who wrote a book claiming the McCanns killed their daughter Madeleine".
To be more specific 375 days, £47,600 (fund would reach £52,900) and 2,484 people (fund would have 2,814 donors) later.
And in between the 2 articles the British police is supposedly to have donated more £990 than John Green's £10 – in no way are we minimising Mr Green's donation, on the contrary, it deserves all the visibility possible, but it shows the progression the fund had, even in donations from police officers, retired or on active duty.
3. Imprecisions
The Mail article fell like a drop of liquid detergent falling in the middle of dark grease in a pan of a TV ad, a sudden patch of clarity in the middle of dirty filth. Filth removed to never return.
The article contains some relevant imprecisions such as stating Mr Amaral accuses the McCanns of killing/murdering Maddie: "a Portuguese detective who claimed Madeleine McCann was killed by her parents" and "wrote a book accusing them of murdering their three-year-old daughter and then faking her abduction".
We all know this is not true.
The thesis which Mr Amaral defends in his book – and one we don't agree with – is that Maddie died in an accident when she fell off the couch while alone in the apartment.
When the book hits the stands in Britain that will be very clear and will work against those now saying that Mr Amaral has accused the McCanns of something which he hasn't.
The article also wrongly states that "the Portuguese authorities formally closed the inquiry in 2008 and cleared the couple of any wrongdoing".
Again, we all know this is not true, the McCanns were never cleared, they were not charged.
It was deemed by whomever had the legitimate authority to decide that the existing evidence in the process wasn't enough to charge the McCanns – an assumption with which we don't agree with and have proved how wrong it was through many posts in the blog.
To those thinking we're playing with words, we're not. There's a huge difference between the McCanns being cleared and not being charged.
That difference is them being or not being able to be charged today with wrongdoings in the case.
When one is cleared it means the system once having judged about a precise matter of fact and confronted with the fact there exists no evidence to charge (note the difference between not existing or not having been found, one is a certainty, the other something that can be changed any time) it makes a statement which exempts the individual of any accountability before justice about the facts in question.
With this statement the process is over for that individual, as the principle of justice that says that one cannot be judged twice for the same facts is put automatically in place.
The justice system analyses and decides about a matter of fact and cannot do it more than once.
But if one is not cleared but just not charged one can still be charged in relation to the same matter of fact. The justice system is in this instance saying it doesn't have all the possible facts to decide. The difference of a case closed (cleared) and archived (not charged).
The McCanns can still be charged with the facts relating to Maddie's disappearance. That's a fact that alone shows very clearly they were not cleared.
Next time one reads someone saying the McCanns have been cleared, one only has to ask of whoever says so if they think the McCanns can or cannot be charged in the Maddie case.
If they can, as they can, then it's very clear they weren't cleared.
We will later return in the post as to why we think the terms killing and murder were used, which we think has the same motive of saying they were cleared.
4. Honourable Trolls
Let's now look at the content of the article.
The word "Troll" appears right in the title. But immediately in the bullet points below, it quickly becomes a "Group of Britons" right away.
Inside the article is a very clear and precise explanation as to why "some of whom admit they are internet 'trolls'":
"After the donors were accused of being 'trolls', some were furious, insisting they were 'truth-seekers'. Others adopted the term as a badge of honour, with one even using the name 'Honourable Troll'"
When troll is said in the Maddie case, please read troll-as-in-truth-seeker. And very honoured to be one. "Honourable Troll", what 2 wonderful, powerful words when talking about Maddie.
Then let's read what these trolls-as-in-truth-seekers had to say in the article:
- "Met police officers who said they were 'outraged' at the way the officer had been treated";
- "This strikes at the very basis of the way investigations should be conducted, without fear or favour, malice or ill will. The world can clearly see where the malice and ill will are in this case";
- "I set up the page to help him [Amaral] with his appeal because I felt he had suffered an injustice. His assets had been frozen so he had no way to defend himself";
- "I'm not anti-Kate and Gerry McCann. I don't know what happened and I don't claim to know. But I do believe there are hard questions that need to be answered";
- "The people who donated are very passionate and are pro-truth and justice, not against the McCanns";
- "The fund was part of a 'quest for justice' backed by supporters 'in solidarity, friendship and above all, in the interest of furthering the investigation...";
- "She was delighted to have helped Amaral";
- "I think it's a marvellous result that he won his appeal. I think it was an outrage the case was ever brought … We don't live in the 14th century or under the Stasi";
- "Said her interest in the case stemmed from taking holidays in Praia da Luz. She said Amaral 'was a policeman doing his job and was persecuted for giving his opinion".
Is this article really about trolling? Because it doesn't seem to, so much so that one is bombarded with such positive messages about trolls that one just grows a fondness for them. Exactly the intention.
Indeed, there's no question everyone can clearly see where the truth is and where malice and ill will are in this case.
And the Met is mentioned three times in the article:
#1 – "£1,000 claimed to be from a 'very large' group of Met police officers";
#2 – "More than £50,000 was raised by Britons – including an apparent group of police – in support of a Portuguese detective who claimed Madeleine McCann was killed by her parents";
#3 – "One of the biggest payments to the detective's appeal fund was £1,000 claimed to be from a 'very large' group of unnamed Met police officers who said they were 'outraged' at the way the officer had been treated".
No matter how much politicians have humiliated the Met with Operation Grange, with the help of some of its members and heads, there are those in the force who won't allow this shame to shame them. And it is a very large group of Met police officers.
And to wrap it all up, the article is very clear how important this support was for the April 19 court sentence:
"In an online post thanking his supporters after he won his appeal, Amaral said he felt 'extremely humble'. He added: 'None of this would have been possible without you.'"
Words mean what they are meant to mean at the moment and context in which they are said. From now on the word Troll used in the context of the Maddie case has become definitely a synonym of truth-seeking. A badge of honour to be worn with the utmost pride.
The word Troll has now been emptied of any derogatory meaning when said about those looking for the truth about Maddie and has instead gained a whole new meaning of altruistic justice seeking.
Even the Sun had to go with the flow on this one and published the article "Web trolls raise £50,000 for Portuguese cop who wrote book claiming Kate and Gerry killed Madeleine McCann... And even 'Brit police donated'" by Guy Birchall on May 14:
- "One of the donations was £1,000 which came from a "very large group of unnamed Metropolitan Police officers" who claimed to be "outraged" by the treatment the cop had received";
- "This strikes at the very basis of the way investigations should be conducted, without fear or favour, malice or ill will. The world can clearly see where the malice and ill will are in this case";
- "I set up the page to help him (Amaral) with his appeal because I felt he had suffered an injustice. His assets had been frozen so he had no way to defend himself. I'm not anti-Kate and Gerry McCann. I don't know what happened and I don't claim to know.But I do believe there are hard questions that need to be answered";
- "The people who donated are very passionate and are pro-truth and justice, not against the McCanns";
- "Some donors were livid after being accused of being "trolls" but others wore the slur as a badge of honour with one adopting the username "Honourable Troll"".
Was this really in the Sun?
Yes, we pinched ourselves and it really was.
Quoting ourselves from our post "The Last Chance Saloon" on April 29:
"As we said above this issue has had, it seems, quite an interesting development. It seems that the Mail is doorstepping, directly or mandating others to do it for them, donors to the GoFund to ask them ask them why they donated.
To the best of our knowledge this has happened to 2 people so far but it seems the intention was to do this to hundreds.
If one really intends to sell the colour blue, then one seeks the weakest link within the sellers of red and then one does the best one can to discredit that colour and those selling it.
If one goes after hundreds of red colour salesmen, then one will know beforehand that what one will get is a bucketful of compliments and reasons to buy red instead of blue.
For someone who sells blue to attack one or 2 people selling red, means that someone really wants to sell the colour blue. But to go after hundreds of them is to really want to sell red even if one says one wants to sell blue.
We don't know what the intentions of the Mail on this are. But let's be naïve for a minute and allow the possibility of that paper wanting to do a complimentary piece on the so-labelled trolls, showing what good natured and well-intentioned people they are.
To do that the paper would have to contact people directly and the best way to do that is to look up the names of those who opted not to donate anonymously to the fund."
It's always nice to be proven right especially when everyone else was banging the Mail left, right and centre for doorstepping people.
When they pick beautiful, polite and intelligent people to doorstep, like they did in this article, they are not stealthily selling red while professing they are blue, they are as brazenly as they can saying they are selling red.
5. The Settlement of the truth
Note that the GoFund was closed on Sept 2015. The appeal court victory was on April 19 this year. So why bring this up now?
We think it was to make the point the McCann supporters most dreaded hearing: the water has now overflowed the dam and is unstoppably running down the valley.
The 2015 Express article was what the Portuguese say to "put a spear in Africa" – the equivalent expression as setting the Thames on fire – as it opened the doors to what could follow.
However an open door is just a meaningless passage if no one walks through it.
The 2016 Mail one proves that a year later many people did. Or better, it reminds us all, at this crucial time that many people did. And that these people mattered.
The 2016 Mail article makes the 2015 Express to not be a Roanoke Colony but a Jamestown Settlement. Not an unsuccessful venture but a settlement with a promising future.
It is saying clearly that resolute people, people who mattered when it was needed to matter, are putting their shoulders together and pushing truth along no matter what resistance they find.
The other side understood how important this article was.
Truth has now disembarked on the Maddie beaches and is out to rescue justice from the claws that are imprisoning it.
This was nothing like what happened with the tragic Brenda Leyland doorstepping, starting with the most important fact that they didn't control it.
They knew this article would be adverse, but never crossed their minds it would be so much against them.
We believe they thought they would get messages from those supporting Mr Amaral. They hoped it would describe one or two violent reactions to the doorstepping. They never expected an article clearly showing the support, how people stepped up the plate when it mattered and counted, including a very large group of Police officers from the Met.
For some reason the McCann supporters are flying away like pigeons being chased by a border collie.
6. The 2016 press and Maddie
The fact that the Mail – in our opinion engaging in a war for the lead on Maddie with James Murray's Express – felt it possible to publish such an article speaks loads. First of all it means the MSM is rebelling. They seem to have lost the fear. With Mr Amaral's victory the libel threats have become whimpers.
The press is just not openly brazen because they need to go through a transition period. Between night and day, dawn must happen.
What is really important to be noted is that it has crossed a line and there's no possible going back for them.
After what was reported about Mr Amaral's victory the British MSM closed all archival doors behind them.
In 2007, they backtracked, they first accused the McCanns in August and September and but then sanctified the couple from September onwards.
But in 2007 they had something that allowed them to do that, which they don't have in 2016: Mr Amaral, the PJ, the Portuguese and Portugal.
They all could be called incompetent to justify the British change of heart about the McCanns.
Now, in 2016, who is there to pin the blame on if they want to backtrack?
The SY, from which a very large group of police officers donated significantly to support Mr Amaral? Don't think so.
It can easily be seen that it will be ridiculous to try to justify the archival after all that has been published in the British press about Mr Amaral and his British supporters.
7. The Great Maddie War again
Let's get back to the use of "murder/killing" and the mention that the McCanns were cleared.
The other side is struggling about who will have to fall. We think very soon, if not already, we are back into "Great Maddie War" mode, or in practical terms, it's a free-for-all with the McCanns but only with them.
The more attention the McCanns get, the less it will be focused on others and that allows some to escape from getting wet when the thunderstorm hits.
So the flames of hatred for the McCann have to be stoked.
They are the ones who are evil. That has to be made clear.
Note how in the title of the Mail article it's said very explicitly "the McCanns killed their daughter Madeleine".
Even the good guy, Mr Amaral, they say, has said they killed Maddie, or even worse, they murdered her.
The association of ideas is very simple to make. The court has said Mr Amaral was right to accuse the McCanns and he's accusing them of killing Maddie, so they did it, the murdering scum.
When the book gets out and people read that Mr Amaral has never said such a thing won't matter as the message will have travelled its way independent of possible correction afterwards.
The carrot has been placed in front of the donkey and we'll see if the donkey trots after it.
Saying they were cleared causes an equal and opposite reaction, oh, no they weren't!
Say the McCanns were cleared and the hatred for them just goes up a notch. Quite simple and effective. The more they are hated the less attention others will get.
We remind all that nailing the McCanns alone is not justice. They are to face justice, no question about that, but not on their own. Same is said about the remainder T7.
We do say this almost nonchalantly as we know it will be impossible for that to happen but will say it anyway as a warning for people not to fall in such an appetising trap and avoid contributing actively to such a primal campaign.
8. Walking with the lions
The fact that one walks with the lions doesn't mean at all one is a lion.
When one is not a lion and walks with them, one is but a walking meal that the lions don't even have the trouble of carrying and is just there for them to consume when they feel like it.
Even if one is a lion among lions one has to be on permanent alert, not being one is just stupid to walk with them because of their protection.
Yes, other predators may be dissuaded but the biggest threat is right there, a breath away.
When the lions feel the time has come to eat, they will mercilessly rip the flesh right off the bone before one can even utter a whimper.
We don't think Lorraine Kelly is a lioness but she has clearly shown that the McCanns' flesh has now become really appetising for the lions, and is taking a step aside to avoid getting blood spatters on her blouse when the predatory teeth sink into the couples' flesh.
The McCanns were not the only ones who walked with the lions and Lorraine is just trying to make sure she isn't part of the menu when McCanns a-la-carte is served.
Lorraine Kelly is just doing what many who walked with the lions in the Maddie journey are doing, trying put to the McCanns between herself and the lions.
She first clarified that she never invited the McCanns this year for the "anniversary celebrations" and now is using Ben Needham with the same intention.
We do not wish to get into the Ben Needham case as we don't know enough about it to give our opinion, however we cannot have avoided noticing how Lorraine Kelly uses Ben in the article from the Sun on May 14 "Lorraine Kelly: Shameful cops must know the hell Ben's mum has suffered":
"Mum's agony as search for Maddy McCann receives millions, while Ben is forgotten".
Really? Only realised that after hosting the McCanns for eight years and so contribute to the big differential between both cases?
"Kerry had to watch as the campaign to find Madeleine McCann went global and raised millions of pounds."
"In stark contrast, she received virtually no help or money from the authorities and while full of sympathy for Kate and Gerry McCann, Kerry understandably found this unfair and frustrating."
No doubt she has. We think she should speak out against those who did all they could to shamelessly spread that "sympathy campaign" for the McCanns. Really shame of them, especially those hosting TV shows.
Lorraine Kelly abandoning ship is very symptomatic. The truth smiles while watching this spectacle.
To Ms Kelly, please do not play the naïve virgin now, you're fooling no one. Accept that your name will be placed in history where it was put by your own doing.
9. Conclusion
Things are in a way that only massive doses of shamelessness can stop any conclusion other than charging the McCanns for something.
After Hillsborough we're not seeing Operation Grange being archived.
The scandal would be huge and the people who mattered and showed they could be counted on, will not be silent.
The media would either have to backtrack on all that has been said lately or save face and fight the archival. Again, Hillsborough as a reminder.
It seems to us that it's no longer a question of IF the McCanns will be charged but of WHEN.
We will now go back to the case. Mr Amaral has challenged the UK to do a reconstruction. We think it would be nice if we gave the UK a hand.


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Knicks Gladly Accept Dwight Howard's Gift
So, let's see, the Knicks this year have had: a fortnight of global popularity called Linsanity unparalleled in recent NBA history; seven different win/loss streaks of three games or more; injuries to every member of its starting lineup (save Landry Fields) and most of its bench; its coach fired because he couldn't get along with the star player; its owner run another one of those non-press-conference press conferences in which he reminded everyone why they'll forever be suspicious of this franchise; and probably some sort of secret plot to invade Bulgaria. It's been a dramatic year, is what we're saying. But the Knicks still haven't had any sort of madness like the Orlando Magic did yesterday. The Knicks seem like Quakers compared to that.
The Knicks beat the Magic 96-80 last night, but even though the Knicks played well, it was hard to get past the sense that the Knicks were just fortunate to happen to be playing the Magic on this particular evening. After the Stan Van Gundy–Dwight Howard madness yesterday — the video of that press conference has not become any less excruciating to watch overnight — the Magic were clearly in no mood to be playing basketball, and the Knicks simply took advantage. Howard was plainly unengaged, not making a basket until late in the third quarter, and had little interest in fighting off Tyson Chandler's constant pestering. So he just sort walked around in a fog, and so did the rest of the Magic. The Magic have now lost five in a row and look like a team that's ready to sleep until fall, a problem when they're currently the No. 5 seed in the playoffs.
Meanwhile, the Knicks wouldn't stop hitting three-pointers, shooting 52 percent from long range on the night. Seven different Knicks hit threes, and as lethargic as the Magic were, that's still some smokin' shooting from the Knicks. (That's to say: Don't get used to it.) Five different Knicks reached double figures, led by Carmelo Anthony with nineteen and including, hey, Toney Douglas, with fifteen.
So, the Knicks are now back at one game over .500, a game and a half ahead of the Bucks for the No. 8 seed. (And, if you're counting, one game behind Philadelphia, two and a half behind Boston, and four behind Orlando and Atlanta.) They haven't lost two in a row under coach Mike Woodson ... but they're gonna be in serious danger of that this week. They get two days off before two straight games against the Chicago Bulls, who will have Derrick Rose back after he missed the last twelve games. Then they play those damn Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday in the biggest game of the season. It's gonna stay stressful for the Knicks, but hey — at least they're not the Magic.
Knicks 96, Magic 80 [Posting and Toasting]


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Miloslav Penicka (1935-2019) : Represented Artist
Random Audio Sample: Up in the fluffy clouds by Miloslav Penicka, from the CD 2002 Education Program
Miloslav Penicka was born in Ostrava, Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia) in 1935. In 1950 he moved to Prague, where he matriculated in 1953. Five years of study at the Prague Conservatorium of Music were rewarded with a high distinction diploma in composition in 1958. Two years of compulsory military service followed. Then he enrolled at the Charles University's Philosophical Faculty which included the Prague Academy of Music Arts, graduating in 1964, also with high distinction in composition, equivalent to BA Hons or MA.
In 1964 Penicka married the Australian violinist Janet Harvey, and followed her to Australia. He taught piano, and worked in the ABC's music library and as NSW music librarian to the SSO, positions which have all informed his composition style. In 1977 he took up a position at Abbotsleigh Secondary School in Sydney.
He received Czech Government Scholarships for 1953-58 and 1960-64 and commissions, in Czechoslovakia and Australia, from organisations and ensembles such as the Pilsen Radio Orchestra (1962), Vycpaleks' Ensemble of Dances and Song, Sydney Grammar School (1980), and the Lane Cove Youth Orchestra (1994) and Nova Youth Orchestra.
Selected Commissions
|Commission Details
|Movement 1 : for alto saxophone with multiphonics and piano (1998)
|Commissioned by Franziska Schroeder.
|Once upon a time : full orchestra : youth orchestra (1995)
|Commissioned by Anne Phelan for Public School Symphony Orchestra (N.S.W.)


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September 30, 2001
Trade Group Staff Escapes Tragedy
Story Utilities
On the morning of Sept. 11, Lee Korins was on a conference call in the 45th floor offices of the STA in the north tower of the World Trade Center. It was an ordinary morning that was changed by an extraordinary event.
Korins remembers hearing a tremendous explosive sound around 8.45 a.m. "I lived in California for 10 years. I've being through several earthquakes there. This explosion shook the building, at least initially more than any building in California I had been in during an earthquake," recalled the STA president.
Then he began to see debris falling outside his window and he smelled smoke.
Korins knew immediately it was time to evacuate. He headed for the stairwell with STA staffers, Walter Dolengo and Renee Johnson. "At that point I had no way to know it was an airplane that had struck the building. I thought maybe it was a bomb. I thought maybe some of the heavy equipment up on top of the building had been damaged," Korins said.
It took them about 45 harrowing minutes to walk down the stairwell. "At one point everyone had to move aside because they were bringing down some people who were badly burned. That was a horrendous sight," Korins said.
On the 10th floor there was a sudden rush of water from a burst pipe, soaking the stairwell. When they reached the first floor they escaped the building through an opening made by firefighters. Korins learned from the crowds fleeing uptown that the building had been struck by a plane. He will never forget what he saw next.
"I made it up six blocks heading north in about 45 minutes when suddenly the north tower came down," he recalled. "You could taste the dirt in the air."
Korins said it is hard for him to find meaning in the destruction. "It was an act of wild-eye revolutionaries, a despicable act on innocent people," he said.


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While in the Crescent City, I made my way to some favorites…..
*Pat O's (try the less famous Cyclone rather than a hurricane….amazing)
*Bourbon Rocks (take your most extrovert friends and get them onstage for the music / comedy acts)
*Acme Oyster House (try the char grilled oysters)
*The Palace (or any of Brennan's famed restaurants)
I even squeezed in a little antique shopping down Royal Street. I am still dreaming about the 4 carat diamond and yellow gold / platinum mix cocktail ring…..oh that baby was beautiful! And yes, it would have been a cocktail ring :) I did miss a favorite, Scriptura, which is a fabulous stationary and paper store. Guess I will have to wait for next year at Mardi Gras!
As you can see, I wore my finest OCD pieces. Here are some fun pics from the weekend!
Large Gold Vermeil hoop earrings $26
Gold "Van Cleef" Cut-out Vermeil necklace $36
Enjoying the 2nd Line Parade band at the wedding!
Dripping pearl earrings --beige and gold $22
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Laissez les bon temps roulez! (let the good times roll!)


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25 September 2013
The America's Cup
It's also American football season. I kind of started watching American college football last year. I understand it more now, but I still find it a rather unusual game. (I'm used to games based on tactics, rather than strategy.) And I'm still trying to work out if anyone can actually be sent off. (Red carded as they say in rugby.)
So, do you watch sport and, if so, what the weirdest sport you've ever watched? (Olympic sports [as in sports you watch only while the Olympics are on] don't count as there are some sports I only watch at the Olympics :)
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This is so interesting--I never thought to ask why it's called the America's Cup.ReplyDelete
It's been years since I've had a functioning tv around the place, so I can't say I watch anything current, and I've never been big on sports to begin with, so I can't comment any further...
You know that winter sport somewhat similar to bowling, only it's not a ball but a...thing that looks like a teapot, and people skate around with...brooms? I wanna say it's brooms...sweeping the ice in front of it as it moves. And, if I got this right, the one that goes the farthest wins...
Well, one afternoon a few years ago I caught a telecast of some sort of tournament of that, and spent at least a good half hour trying to figure out what the heck were those people doing, and how on earth can it be considered a sport (instead of, I don't know, a game of skill?). But then, I don't consider bowling or darts sports either, so...
People can be sent off in football. I think. I honestly don't understand most of what's going on, I just drink beer. :pReplyDelete
I think the most unusual sport I've watched is sumo wrestling. It was really fascinating! I wish they showed more of it on TV. I also love boxing, which some people find strange.


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L. Neil Smith's
Number 273, May 30, 2004
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on."
President George W. Bush, speaking at a Gridiron Club dinner, Washington, D.C., March 2001
Molon Labe: The World's Most Authoritarian Freedom Book
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Molon Labe by Boston T. Party claims to be a novel about 40,000 libertarians moving to Wyoming and turning it into a free state. Don't believe that claim. "Molon Labe" isn't a novel and it isn't about 40,000 libertarians. It is actually about one surprising authoritarianthe author himself.
This book is 1/3 how-to manual, 1/3 lecture, 1/3 fiction and 100 percent self-congratulatory mess. As an experienced writer and self-publisher who has written some excellent non-fiction books in the past, Mr. Party should have had enough self discipline to entirely throw out the lectures. Then he should have either decided to write a story or write a non-fiction manual and should have stuck with that decision. Unfortunately the evidence is that Mr. Party was simply too in love with his own brilliance to apply the basics of an author's craft.
For example he uses his story to praise a certain large green book about guns and he gushes at length over the prophetic foresight of the writer of another book, Hologram of Liberty. (The author of both these books is one Boston T. Party, aka Kenneth W. Royce.) He also repeatedly interrupts the story with articles and speeches by a certain "Whisk E. Rebellion." (I leave it as an exercise for the reader to surmise who that might be intended to represent.) Finally, he salts the book with full-length "Playboy interviews" with his main character (a character so obviously based on Boston himself that both of them are salsa dancing firearms experts). In these "interviews" the character expounds endlessly on Mr. Party's own views on such subjects as the divinity of Jesus, the correctness of creationism, and the immorality of abortionnone of which topics otherwise play the slightest role in Molon Labe's plot.
Such self-stroking circular references are embarrassing. They are also the mark of an amateur writer who doesn't grasp that his job is to tell a story, not pound his opinions into our skulls. Such self admiration is strange in somebody so determined to promote his Christianity, a religion that emphasizes humility.
But Mr. Party's preening self-adoration isn't the worst element of this very mixed up book. The worst thing is that while spelling out an alleged plan for creating freedom Molon Labe is totally authoritarian in its premises and its action.
It is all about how central planners control silent, faceless, obedient masses. The only difference is that the "good" leader has a central plan for libertarianism and his faceless masses are libertarian masses.
Let us go back to those 40,000 migrating souls. This book is supposed to be about them, is it not? It is supposed to be about their migration to Wyoming, their hopes, their motivations, their actions, and in the end their achievements.
Then why don't we meet a single "relocator" until the last two pages of the story? That's right. Not one of the 40,000 is ever seen or even named. The 40,000 appear only as statistics. They are voters and resources only. They appear, that is, very much as they would appear to a sociologist or a government planner.
They are soldiers in an army moved around at will by one James Wayne Preston, the main character of the book, the salsa dancing firearms expert who eventually uses them to raise himself to the position of governor of Wyoming. Every single thing that happens in the liberation of Wyoming is initiated and executed or ordered top down by Preston.
That's right. Even after the state is supposedly filled with dedicated, hardcore, intelligent political activists who surrendered their settled lives because they craved liberty with total passion, not one relocated activist has an independent idea, makes an independent proposal, or initiates any action that advances the plot of the book or the plan to free Wyoming. Preston just decides what should be done and all the relocators obey.
How did this remarkable robot-like behavior suddenly strike thousands of famously unherdable libertarian cats? Mr. Party conveniently disregards that question as if it didn't exist.
Before the book opens, Preston has already recruited at least 9,000 libertarians and gotten them to agree to move to Wyoming. Mr. Party never tells us how the recruitment was done or the unanimity achieved. This omission alone requires an enormous suspension of disbelief, since we know that the real-life Free State Project is struggling mightily to raise its membership above 5,000 and that its members rarely ever calmly agree on anything. Once again, however, that omission isn't the most unbelievable aspect of the matter.
Not only that, but the Preston/Party relocators have agreed to move into the five remote rural counties Preston assigns them to, and they have agreed to move again to other counties as Preston's central plan and central command dictate.
Once again, the author gives us no information about how this miracle came to occur.
Mr. Party has argued that he doesn't have to show how the 40,000 are recruited or how 9,000 of them at least happen to be ready and willing to behave like ants in a nest. He says he doesn't have to explain this miracle because he never intended to write a blueprint for action. But in the same interview he stated that "Molon Labe is a pretty thorough guide on how 40,000 of us could 'liberate' Wyoming." (http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/04/03/30/ladylib.htm) Which is it, Mr. Party?
These aren't the only areas where Mr. Party leaves us in the dark and where he destroys his own credibility by doing so. Neither a manual nor a novel works without a believable foundation. In a manual one cannot write steps 50-100 with credibility if one pretends steps 1-49 do not exist. In a novel, the author must make us care about his characters as though they were real individuals. He must show us people and place them in situations we believe. He must show them in believable action.
Whether Mr. Party indended to write an action plan for his own free state project or whether he just intended to write believable fiction, he had to answer at least some questions such as the following:
Mr. Party writes as though no such merely mundane matters could affect, let alone interfere with, his grand plan. Generally, he assumes the questions don't even exist. When he addresses them at all, his attitude is dismissive. Or ludicrous.
On the question of earning a living, for example, we are merely assured in three isolated paragraphs that the newcomers eventually make the economy boom, which perhaps they would, if they survived the first years. Their survival in those first years is not the concern of Mr. Party. There is simply "a fund," you see. It is mentioned in an appendix. It is of unknown size, derivation, and allocation. It conveniently helps Mr. Party's centrally planned horde move along so they can get on with Mr. Preston's centrally planned business. Deus ex machina.
Understand that I am not implying the Mr. Party owed his readers a slice of life story. No, but without at least touching on how real people or realistic fictional characters fit into the grand Wyoming plan, he destroys the value of his work by making it unbelievable. Frankly, had he cut out all his endless lectures, he would have had ample time to create characters from his mass of relocators and put them into the action as believable humans and believable activists. At that moment, the book would have begun to show promise.
Aside from the rigid libertarian authority figure of James Preston and the statist authority figures he battles, only a few individual characters appear. Several of these are shown as victims of the state. One is shown as a murdering avenger (ala Henry Bowman in Unintended Consequences. One or two of them, especially the old vet Harold Krassny, are even likeable and touching. But these characters don't play any role in a coherent plot. They're used as examples, not as integral players in the overall action of freeing Wyoming from statism.
Now, do I have nothing good to say about this book? After all, I've admired many of Mr. Party's past works and surely there must be something of merit in the nearly 450 pages and six years of this latest collosal effort. Yes. There are some isolated scenes which do make the heart race or appeal to the mind. His descriptions of anonymous encrypted email are intriguing. Two scenes of revenge murder are eerily engaging in their level of detail and suspense. A few federal raids are drawn straight from the real world. The legislation Preston proposes and the strategies he uses to win are sound and often clever (despite the fact that it is always Preston proposing and disposing). The final confrontation with the federal government is dramatic and surprising, even if it's hard to believe that federal officials were so blind as to miss what was coming. And of course, Mr. Party does know his firarms very well, a fact that will no doubt earn this book high praise from gun owners desperate for the slightest hint of sympathy and understanding.
Unfortunately, there are also some amateur howlers I haven't mentioned yet, like the one you will find on page 250, where we suddenly learn that the leaders of the federal government are all some sort of New Age devil worshippers. Perhaps they are, in real life. Who knows? But Mr. Party slaps us with this vast revelation in mid-book, then never mentions or shows it again. My goodness, you'd think a little matter like that would be worth pursuing in your plot, if you are going to mention it at all. Molon Labe is full of such surprises. It is rife with earnest (unproven) forays into wild conspiracy theories, digressions into the irrelevant which are mentioned once and dropped.
In short, although there are isolated intriguing sequences in Molon Labe, as a book it reads as though Mr. Party simply got out of bed every morning for the last six years, had a cup of coffee, and wrote whatever happened to be on his mind that day, without reference to whether his latest entry enhanced or detracted from the whole effort. Although he does present us with a fairly coherent legislative plan, he fails to present us with a coherent world in which that plan could become a reality and believable activists who could excute that plan. He lets down both the reader seeking an exciting story and the reader seeking a blueprint for real world action.
Mr. Party says he plans to write another novel. If so, I would like to see him take his 20 or 30 promising pages, douse his shockingly overbearing ego with a splash of Christian humility, examine and excise his authoritarianism, and show (not tell) the story of how individuals create freedom. That is, if he can bring himself to believe that mere individuals are worthy of writing about. Then we might have a book worth purchasing.
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A New York man battling cancer was notified after his surgery that his Obamacare insurance does not cover his doctors' bills and is now struggling to pay them.
Fred Rosamilia and his wife Lynne enrolled in the most expensive Horizon plan in the Obamacare system because they wanted their copays to be low. They pay $800 a month for gold Horizon BlueCross BlueShield plan. It was chosen specifically with Fred's cancer doctors in mind.
The Rosamilia's told Fred's doctors that they had enrolled in the new plan. They were met with positive reactions from the doctors. The doctors told them that it was a great plan and that they accepted it.
After his surgery, the Rosamilia's received their bills and were disappointed to find that their insurance company had only covered lower costing, high co-pay procedures.
Lynne then overheard the nurses saying that they would not be able to treat Fred for the next 60 days, now leaving them with huge medical bills.
Horizon eventually allowed the Rosamilia's to switch to the silver insurance plan, but they still must pay the 60 days worth of medical bills.
The family is disheartened and worried about how they will pay the bills.


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|Day 1
Depart from JFK for overnight flight to Warsaw, Poland. Dinner and breakfast served on flight.
Day 2
Upon our arrival in Warsaw we will be met by our tour guide and bus and transfer to our hotel.
Day 3
Visit Warsaw – St. Stanislaus church, the burial place of venerated Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest killed by communist secret service. We will also visit the convent where Helena Kowalska joined Our Lady of Mercy congregation. In the afternoon we will visit Niepokalanow, the city of the Immaculata, founded by St. Maximilian Kolbe. Dinner and overnight
Day 4
We will visit Jasna Gora to the shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa. We will have Holy Mass at the chapel of the miraculous image of Our Lady of Czestochowa. This chapel has been visited by many Popes including John Paul II and Benedict the XVI. It has also been visited by St. Faustina and St. Maximillian Kolbe. It is one of the holiest places in Poland. We will also have a guided tour of the Shrine.
|Day 5
Today we will travel to Wadowice to visit the birthplace of Pope John Paul, II. You will see the Basilica of the Blessed Virgin Mary's Sacrifice, where Karol Wojtyla was baptized and served as an altar boy. You may also visit the family's apartment, now a museum located just across the street from the church.
|Day 6
We will have Mass in the chapel at St. Faustina's Convent or the Shrine of Divine Mercy and a talk by one of the sisters of St. Faustina's order. She will explain a little about the life of Saint Faustina and the revelations about Divine Mercy that she received from Jesus. You will have time to visit the chapel which houses St. Faustina's remains; walk the lovely grounds around the convent or spend some time in the Basilica or the Adoration Chapel. The 3:00 pm Hour of Mercy is celebrated at the Chapel each day with the nuns. Later we will travel to Budapest for dinner and overnight.
Day 7
Today we will visit St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest, the capital of Hungary where we will have Holy Mass. We will then have a tour of the city. Dinner and overnight
|Day 8
|Today we will travel to Medjugorje arriving in the evening
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While in Medjugorje we will attend the services at St. James Church, climb Apparition Hill and Cross Mountain and hear one of the visionaries (if available. You will have time for private prayer and meditation.
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Today we will leave Medjugorje and travel to Padua where we will visit St. Anthony Basilica. You will have the opportunity to see the relics of St. Anthony.
Day 14
Today we will travel from Padua to Laus. We will spend the day in Laus. Dinner and overnight
Day 15
Today we will travel from Laus to Lourdes, reaching Lourdes by evening. Dinner and overnight
Day 16
We will spend three days in Lourdes where you may visit the Basilica and the Grotto where Our Lady appeared to St. Bernadette. You may bath in the spring that St. Bernadette dug at Our Lady's request and where many miracles have taken place. visit the Basilica and the Grotto where Our Lady appeared to St.
Day 19
We then continue our pilgrimage to Paray le Monial.
Day 20
Spend the day in Paray-le-Monial, a place marked by the message of Sacred Heart of Jesus to Saint Margaret Mary in the 17th century. Sister Margaret Mary, so little in her own eyes, is proclaimed today a saint by the Church, before the world. Faithful come from everywhere to meditate close to her relics and to implore her intercession. Paray-le-Monial has become the center of an intense spiritual life.
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Today we will visit the convent of St. Gildard in Nevers, France where the crystal tomb of Saint Bernadette has remained undisturbed since August 3, 1925. You will have the opportunity to see and venerate her incorrupt body. After our visit we will travel to Paris for dinner and overnight.
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Transfer to the airport with cherished memories for your return flight to JFK.
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text: Anyone else have this issue? When I mute my iPad 2 by holding the volume rocker all the way down for a second or so, I can still hear keyboard clicks when composing an email. This wasn't the case with my original iPad running OS 4.2. Of course, I can turn the keyboard sound off in the Settings/Sound area, but I shouldn't have to while muted.


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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Leigh Nash
the bayonet, the blue grass at dawn, the sunset
sent like a dart. The crisp sheets, chipped shutters,
worn trails between house and barn, the porch light
left burning, the braying. The crying. The sound
of bees drinking honey. The sound of money.
The sound of being pushed up against the wall.
The barrel over the falls, cramped coal
chute dark as winter, the cur's bone. The tannins,
the whitening irises. The whiskey-stained teeth,
the clattering teeth, china teacup atop a loose knee.
Paper curling like toenail, like horse tail. Swish.
Morning a bright, white picket fence: the rocket.
The red. But for the wall pushed up against.
Leigh Nash is a partner in the editing firm Re:word Communications, a publishing assistant with Coach House Books and a co-founder of The Emergency Response Unit, a chapbook press. Her first book of poetry, Goodbye, Ukulele, was published by Mansfield Press in 2010. She lives in Toronto.
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Hello there and Happy June! I know I've been more than two-weeks-worth of remiss with my posts, but I've got some new ideas and am excited to get started with them. I'm introducing three new types of posts: Connections, Reading 'Round the Nation, and to-be-titled section on literary awards and prizes (and their winners).
First, Connections: As the appendices to The Wasteland or Ulysses clearly show, literature is full of references and allusions. Authors create their texts in relation to other works around them, so novels, poems and plays etc. are filled with intentional and unintentional references to other writing and other writers. This dense and ever-growing tapestry of connections threads the broad expanse of literature together, bringing disparate works into conversation with one another. The more I read, the richer these connections become for me, which apparently is lucky, because "reference and allusion" are major chopping blocks for the GRE Literature in English Subject Test. Joy.
I'm hopeful the GRE will stick to references as direct as Faulkner titling The Sound and the Fury after that line in Macbeth or John Steinbeck refashioning the Genesis story of Cain and Able into East of Eden. That way, I can pretend I have a fighting chance. For my purposes, however, "connections" mean resonances as well as references: passages whose tones remind me of one another, disparate images which coalesce in the bizarre arena of my headspace, or single lines from one text which seem as if they could have been drawn word for word from another.
I love these connections because they remind me of the role my own mind plays in my reading, and they show me the improvements I've made as a reader, how much broader my reading experiences have become. So look out for new "Connections" posts, which will likely come in the form of "I was reading this, which reminded me of this, which reminded me of this…" Thrilling for you, I know. And probably, for the psychoanalytically-minded among you, far too revealing of my mental landscape. Please keep your observations to yourself…I don't want to be told anything about myself that I don't already know.
Next new post type, Reading 'Round the Nation: I'm not exactly sure what form this project will take, but the basic premise is that I'll read a book a week from a particular state (I'm starting with this moment's home sweet home: Rhode Island) and write about it. I think I may choose to only write about books by contemporary authors, as that will be the surest way to expose myself to as much new literature as possible. Stay tuned.
And finally: I'm going to start writing more about the world's myriad literary awards and prizes. There are gazillions of these, even if you've only heard of the Pulitzer. All sorts of organizations give out prizes to writers, and I'm going to uncover a lot of prizes and a lot of writers I've never heard of before.
That's the theme of this summer for me: discovering new writers and new writing. Realistically, my theme should probably be "Memorizing the Norton Anthology in preparation for the GRE" but that doesn't sound like much fun. Especially not for summer. Cramming works much better for me in the fall.
More coming soon, and promptly this time!


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Samuel Arnold (TCU): Right-wing Rawlsianism: A Critique. Jacob T. Levy (McGill): Contra Politanism: Against the Teleology of Political Forms. Arash Abizadeh (McGill): On the Demos and its Kin: Nationalism, Democracy, and the Boundary Problem. Benjamin Barber (CUNY): Liberal Values in the Age of Interdependence. Carol Atack (Cambridge): How to Be a Good King in Athens: Manipulating Monarchy in the Democratic Political Imaginary. Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman (Michigan): The Challenge of Aristocratic Radicalism. Simon Tormey (Sydney): Representation: An Exhausted Paradigm? Frank I. Michelman (Harvard): Poverty in Liberalism: A Comment on the Constitutional Essentials. The introduction to The Making of Modern Liberalism by Alan Ryan. What are constitutions for? Everything promised by a democratic constitutional convention is at odds with what a constitution actually does. A review of Truth and Democracy. Democracy is a bitter pill to swallow; but what, then, is the alternative? A review of Defending Politics: Why Democracy Matters in the Twenty-First Century by Matthew Flinders. Does oxytocin solve the Adam Smith problem? Larry Arnhart investigates.
Simon Springer (Victoria) et al.: Leaky Geopolitics: The Ruptures and Transgressions of WikiLeaks. How to be an Assangelite: George Osborn explains the steps necessary for a thinking person to maintain their admiration of the Wikileaks founder. From The University Bookman, here is some advice to students coming back this fall on how to make the best of their education; and Eugene Schlanger writes to college students considering a course in American poetry. Occupy Wall Street, Year Two: Approaching its anniversary, the movement isn't dead — it's growing up. Judith Butler responds to hostile Jerusalem Post article on her having been awarded the Adorno Prize. Lance Armstrong and the philosophy of making bad decisions: When body enhancement is the norm, is there any other way to be competitive? Thomas Nagel says Intelligent Design arguments should "be taken seriously".
A new issue of Naval War College Review is out. From Infinity Journal (reg. req.), Benjamin "BJ" Armstrong (USN): Living in a Mahanian World. From Information Dissemination, is China the real Mahanian maritime power of the 21st century?; and with so few U.S.-flagged ships and carriers, is America still a maritime power? Increasingly, Information Dissemination is the go-to site for meaningful public discussion of maritime strategy. A review of Utmost Gallantry: The U.S. and Royal Navies at Sea in the War of 1812 by Kevin McCranie. Air-Sea Battle: Without ground forces, the U.S. cannot counter Chinese aggression. China's navy goes global — and develops a cruise missile to supplement its seagoing arsenal. From Beijing Review, a special section on Diaoyu Islands dispute (and more). Japan's most volatile politician is making a splash in the South China Sea — and the Chinese are beating the drums of war. James Holmes on the Sino-Japanese Naval War of 2012: OK, it's probably not going to happen — but if it did, who would win? When it comes to warships, bigger is usually better, and the most successful vessels are often those that are adaptable to changing times and technologies.
A new issue of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies is out. Martha Albertson Fineman (Emory): Dependencies ("All individuals in our society, including those who consider themselves independent, receive some form of subsidization. Dependency and subsidy as social phenomena are inevitable and universal.") Stephen T. Asma on 9 reasons why life isn't fair. From NYRB, a specter is haunting the Republican National Convention — the specter of ideology: Timothy Snyder on Grand Old Marxists. The Noun Project, cofounded by the designer and developer Scott Thomas, is a collection of universal symbols (like the one for child soldiers) that allow for quick comprehension across a wide audience. Clay Dillow on how to steal personal data from someone's brain, using a $300 off-the-shelf brain scanner. "Crypto-cultists" and "cranks": Bruce Wilson on the video Paul Ryan hoped would go away.
Peter-Ben Smit (VU): The Quest for the Historical Jesus in Postmodern Perspective: A Hypothetical Argument. Yoshke of Nazareth: Jesus has many names, not all nice. From Review of Biblical Literature, a review of Key Questions about Biblical Interpretation: Old Testament Answers by John Goldingay; and a review of The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture by Christian Smith. What really happened "in the beginning": How two evangelicals — one a young-earth creationist, the other an evolutionary creationist — have lived out their faith and professions. What is Biblical justice? Tim Keller on one of the Bible's most misunderstood ideas. From the Distributist Review, Christopher Ferrara on the logic of Christendom: With the Greco-Catholic synthesis comes an understanding of human freedom as involving, not only the practice of virtue, but liberation of the soul from the effects of sin. From Homiletic and Pastoral Review, John Splinter on preaching about pornography and addiction. A review of Purgatory: The Logic of Total Transformation by Jerry Walls. Where the sidewalk ends: Ric Hudgens on the spirituality of apocalypse (and part 2).