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Didymos is know as the Pioneer of Modern Babywearing. They were the first modern wrap manufacturer in the market, created in the early 70's. Didymos was created in 1972 by Erika Hoffman. Just like many parents and caregivers today, the struggle to meet household and older children's needs in addition to carrying for new babies was a challenge that Erika was determined to find a solution for.
After discovering a traditional carrying cloth, Erika began experimenting with carrying her twins in this cloth and developed her own front carrying method. The interest from her community grew and subsequently, "Heilbronner Stimme" and "Stern" magazine published articles about Erika and her children. They were amazed that Erika could be intimately attached to her babies and still carry on with her day.
Therefore, Erika created Didymos - Greek for twin. The success rapidly grew in Germany and Didymos subsequently became internationally known with a reputation for an environmentally friendly baby carrier with impeccable quality.
Didymos began its journey with creating and producing purposefully woven baby wraps and then later introduced the didysling and didytai made from the Didymos wrap fabric.
People wanted these carrying cloths but they were difficult to import at that time. In addition, with Erika's new ideas on tying methods and the need for a fabric with elasticity to make the carries more comfortable, the imported fabric did not meet all of her needs. Erika also wanted environmentally friendly textiles which was a rarity to find in the early days.
Over the years, Didymos continued to develop new carrying methods, adjusted the length of the wraps to suit the new carries and designed new patterns. The first wraps that Erika had made featured a simple striped pattern with tassels/fringe that were initially sewn on and then later woven in. She named them after her four children Tom, Anna, Lisa and Tina. Shortly afterwards she designed jacquard patterns in many colours and fibre combinations.
New tying methods were developed 'around the kitchen table'. After the 'hip carry' came the 'rucksack' and the 'kangaroo' carry methods. It soon became clear that taller people were finding it difficult to tie the short wraps in sizes 1 (approx. 220 cm) and 2 (approx. 270 cm). Therefore sizes 3 and 4 were created and produced. Nowadays, this sizing method developed by Erika Hoffmann has become a standard that is used by many other baby carrier manufacturers up to size 8. But that wasn't the only standard that Erika set for baby wraps. By extending the product range to include four sizes, it became increasingly difficult to weaves tassels into the ends of the wraps as it was too difficult to divide the woven products. Something new was required. Erika, the daughter of a tailor, was quick to find a solution. A tailor will cut curtains on a slant so they will fall better when gathered. The typical parallelogram shape for the wraps was created which is also used by many other baby carrier manufacturers.
In the mid-1980s, the short cross carry tying method was invented and it proved very easy to use. Two crossed lengths of fabric hold the baby tightly. This method evolved into the front wrap cross carry method. Today there is a wealth of variations and versions of all these basic carrying methods. At the end of the 1980s, Erika decided to trial fabrics that were not woven from pure orgnanic cotton, but featured weft threads of other natural ethically sourced fibres such as hemp, linen and wool. These are fibres that are now essential to the DIDYMOS range and offerings we see today.
Erika Hoffmann was always open to new things and was always very curious. As the internet slowly began emerging from the crevices of science in the mid-1990s and becoming more accessible to the general public, she had to have one of those so-called 'websites'. In 1996, the DIDYMOS homepage www.didymos.de was launched. The incredible development that the internet has made since then doesn't need to be explained here. However, its significance for 'baby wearing' is enormous. Extensive information on the topic was suddenly available everywhere and created a real breakthrough for baby wearing. Finally, after 25 years, the idea become popular everywhere.
From 2005, Erika and Tina Hoffmann, one of the twins, shared the management of the company. In this way, Erika was able to introduce the second generation to continue the company. Up until her death in 2015, Erika put in a few hours every day designing patterns, writing texts and advising customers. Her idea of 'wearing' our children and carrying them out into the world was her life's work.


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NEW DELHI India should review its monetary policy framework, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's top economic adviser Arvind Panagariya told Reuters, suggesting that the lower bound of the Reserve Bank of India's inflation target range was on the low side.
Panagariya also said in an interview that the RBI's main policy rate should be 50 basis points lower than it is now.
That puts him at odds with RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, who is seen as unlikely to ease the repo rate further when the central bank reviews policy on February 2. The RBI cut the rate several times last year to reduce it by 125 basis points to the current 6.75 percent.
While stressing he had an open mind, Panagariya said the time was right to review the RBI's target for consumer price inflation that sets a central goal of 4 percent, with a band of 2 percentage points either side.
He expressed particular concern over the lower end of the range, effectively 2 percent, saying this level was typical for advanced economies but unusual for emerging nations.
"I think we should go back to review the monetary policy framework," said Panagariya, appointed by Modi a year ago to run the Policy Commission, the government's main advisory body.
"The framework is fine, but the target needs to be revisited. It's been there for a year and we should review it."
If there is any revision to India's inflation target "it is not going to be downward", the former Columbia University economics professor added.
"It is premature to speculate what I would say. But I would go in with an open mind. If revisions have to happen, they will have to be upward," he said.
"Who has a floor of 2 percent among the developing countries? I have never heard of a developing country on a sustained basis having 2 percent or 3 percent inflation. That is the sort of target that most of developed countries have."
India formally adopted its monetary policy framework a year ago, shifting its focus to targeting consumer inflation from wholesale prices in a bid to subdue the country's historically volatile prices.
Asked about interest rates, Panagariya said that he had argued for a cut of 100 basis points before the RBI last eased rates by 50 basis points on September 29.
"My calculation is that 50 basis points still remains," he said.
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Los Angeles Unified School District officials declined to identify the employees who were removed from the school and assigned to district offices, but district sources said Principal Sharon Thomas and volleyball coach Arman Mercado were among them.
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Lions, Eagles, and Snow – A Photographer's Toughest Challenge
This past Sunday the weather forecast for the Philadelphia area had called for a light coating of snow, but just before the start of the Eagles game it looked like a blizzard outside. While I sat comfortably on my couch watching one of the craziest football games I've ever seen, the snow didn't seem to let up, accumulating to over 6 inches on the field by halftime. I watched as both teams struggled in the beginning to adjust to the elements, trying to get traction and keep their footing. As the game went on some players adjusted better then others, making for some big plays and a great game.
Just as the players had to quickly try and adjust to the elements and harsh conditions, so did the photographers on the sidelines. Shooting an NFL game in light flurries is one thing, shooting in a complete white out is another, especially when trying to auto-focus on moving players that are a good distance away.
Kyle Grantham, a staff photographer with The News Journal in Wilmington, Del was one of the photographers on the sidelines struggling to get a good shot through the wall of snow coming down. Watching as the other photographers gave up trying to get shots of the action from across the field, he thought he would try something a little different then the others. It paid off.
Kyle explained that while shooting a football game in the snow makes for fantastic photos, it's also the most challenging scenario a modern photojournalist can find themselves. Cameras today rely so heavily on autofocus for sports that snow renders them functionally useless.
Imagine trying to photograph someone standing behind a waterfall. Even if you can see them clearly, no matter what you do your camera focuses only the water. The same went for every thick snowflake between me and the players on the field, and when you consider there were thousands falling every second the challenge was daunting.
Some photographers coped by abandoning their long glass and switching to a 70-200. While plays in the middle of the field would be hard to capture, you could document features on the sidelines and hope the storm let up soon enough to bring the long glass back. About midway through the first quarter, with the snow falling so hard it was beginning to accumulate inside my lens hood, I decided to switch my 400mm lens to manual focus, and literally try my hand at focusing on my own. I've never shot football on full manual but it was the only way I'd come back with something different.
Kyle compared shooting in manual mode to that of driving a car without power steering, or trying to fly the space shuttle without autopilot, but he tried it anyway. He came back with some of the best photos he has ever taken at a football game, and when the snow let up in the second half he had a new appreciation for the autofocus button.
Eagle's running back LeSean McCoy found a way to adjust to the elements and found traction when it seemed like no one else could, rushing for career high 217 yards. Photographer Kyle Grantham found a way to adjust as well, taking a chance rather than playing it safe and it paid off in a career day for him as well. Football is considered a game of inches. One inch can be the difference between winning and losing. Photography can be game of seconds, one second can be the difference between getting the shot of lifetime and missing it. Kyle could have packed up and hoped for the weather to clear. Instead he kept at it, took a chance, and it paid off. "If you don't dare to fail you'll never succeed", he says.
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Bitty Mohanty's Denial - Poem by Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan
I did not do it - it just happened one night
we could have slept easily in separate rooms
but she said a single room could be cheaper
she also felt lonely and needed someone near
it was she who had told me to accompany her
on that trip - it was she who had started it all
flirting all the while, it was she who had bought
that bottle of wine, which she made me to share
with her in that bedroom. What do you expect
a man to do when a woman gets fully drunk
with him in her bedroom, with no clothes on,
in the middle of night? Had I wanted, I could
have done it much earlier, for opportunities
were galore - we had travelled together, dined
together, played together, laughed together
she never even minded undressing before me
completely, down to bra, panty and stockings
she even kissed me on more than one occasion
why should a girl kiss a boy unless she wanted
it, and desired it? Did I love her? Maybe… yes
I loved her. Would I have married her? Maybe….
Yes, who knows. But she spoiled it all with that
one foolish act of hers. It was misunderstanding -
just plain misunderstanding, that's all. She gave
all indication that she was in love with me,
but when this thing happened that night she
simply deserted me, not only deserted, but…
but she accused me… of all…. of… this? ?
And for this thing they put me in jail, you know
how things are in this country. All the bloody laws
favour the women. What chance did I have, my life
was finished - I had to take this chance - I was
not going to rot in a lonely dark cell. I was
tortured, I was given what I wanted - mutton
biryani, chilly chicken, egg fry twice a day - yet
my soul was tortured and - and so I escaped.
I do not blame my father, he played no role in it
He just helped me to escape - any father would -
I forged my mark sheets
That I admit
I got a job on a fake identity
That I admit
But I swear before all the Gods, one and all
And the Supreme Almighty Puttaparthy Babaji -
that I committed no other crime.
Note: - Based on the fascinating story of Bitty Mohanty (see below) .
Topic(s) of this poem: cheating
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Comments about Bitty Mohanty's Denial by Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan
B. Laxmi Priya (2/17/2015 9:12:00 AM)
Amazing conversion of a real life story into a captivating poem! The author does not take any side. He simply offers the point of view of the accused, who is possibly in the Denial Mode. In my opinion the ending could have been a little better though. (Report) Reply
Mary Amrutha (3/10/2014 12:46:00 AM)
WHY you justify him.. It can be the other way also.. writhing on something that created a lot of controversies is really appreciable but I don't agree with this... (Report) Reply
Thomas Vaughan Jones (2/22/2014 11:02:00 AM)
Poor old Bitty. Surely a victim of circumstance? His major crime it would seem, is that it is always a woman's prerogative to say no. But the tale is well told. (Report) Reply
Patricia Grantham (2/11/2014 7:14:00 AM)
A person is presumed innocent until pronounced guilty in a court of law.
The escapades of Bitty Mohanty's will soon come to an end. Very good. (Report) Reply
Marvin Brato (1/29/2014 1:51:00 PM)
Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi (1/27/2014 6:50:00 PM)
we can judge everything and everyone to our convenience and this trend should be changed..a crime is a crime, who ever and under what ever circumstances it has been done... India is full of masked people like us... (Report) Reply
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Dan Kelson glanced out the window of the doctor's clinic next to the general store. Larabee, damn.
Doctor Sheppard was still in examining Sam, which left Kelson alone to try to come up with a solution to this new predicament.
All the stories he had heard about Larabee flashed through his mind in a matter of seconds.
The last thing in the world he wanted to do was get into a gunfight with the man. Kelson knew if that happened he'd end up ethier in jail or dead. But as he looked back at the closed door of the doctor's office Dan knew what he had to do.
If Noah could make a deal with a mad man to keep his brother safe the least Kelson could do was draw Larabee's attention away.
Chris split up the rest of the group sending Buck and JD to the general store. He glanced at Vin as they walked toward the Saloon. The younger man had been unusually quiet and reserved since they had left Four Corners. Chris knew Vin was concerned about Casey but he suspected that something else was bothering the tracker. His instincts were tellin' him that this all lead back to the bounty on Vin's head.
"Somebody' on your trail, cowboy?"Chris asked quietly as they paused just outside the saloon.
Vin glanced at his friend. "Somebody's always on my trail."
Chris wasn't letting it go. He knew they had more important things to do but he had to get to the bottom of what was troubling Vin. The tracker had been edgy since Casey had been attacked.
"You think Casey's attack is your fault."Chris concluded.
Vin sighed knowing Chris wasn't going to give up until he knew the whole story. "You remember the noose?"
Chris nodded recalling the package Vin had gotten a week ago.
"I've gotten three more since. All in the same wrappin', all the same handwriting."The tracker replied quietly.
"What was in them?"Larabee asked.
Vin shook his head. "Don't matter, they were just a way to tell me that somebody's on my trail. I got to comfortable, Chris, should've moved on a long time ago and Casey may have paid the price for that."
Larabee nodded as he took a step onto the sidewalk when the first shots rang out. Instinctively he jumped behind the horse trough using it for cover. He glanced to his right and saw that Vin had dove into an alley.
"See anything?"Chris shouted over the roar of gunfire.
Vin nodded as he squeezed of a shot before slamming back against the wall of the alley. "Roof, one guy."
Chris cautiously raised his head and looked at the rooftops across the street. Finally he spotted a silhouette on top of the General Store. Two more shots came at him causing Larabee to duck back down. As he did he heard the familiar sound of Buck's gun followed close behind by the double shot of JD's twin colts.
Frustrated that one man could hold them at bay, Chris stood and fired three shots. He was rewarded with a sharp cry of pain as one of the bullets found it's mark.
"Everybody alright?"Larabee asked as he walked into the street glancing back to make sure Vin was behind him.
Josiah nodded as he came to stand next to Chris rifle in hand; Ezra close behind. "Yes, do we know who our friend is?"
Larabee shook his head. "Obviously we're gettin' close. Vin, Buck, go get our 'friend'. If he's still alive take him to the jail, I'd like a few words."
The two men nodded and quickly crossed the street to the general store.
"What's going on?"Sam Cole demanded weakly as the doctor rose from his hiding place near the small stove.
Sheppard shook his head in amazement. "Some fool took on a group of gunslingers."
Sam closed his eyes tiredly knowing that Kelson had to be the one who started the gunfight. He could only hope that his friend was alive.
There'd been too much blood shed in this mess already.
J.D. fought to keep a reign on his tangled emotions as he leaned against the wall of the jail. Vin and Buck had found their attacker alive but he hadn't said a word since they had placed him in the cell. The black haired wry man was just barely older than Vin.
Chris crossed the short length of the cell to the cot where the young man sat clutching his injured shoulder.
"I'm only going to ask you this once."Chris began quietly."Who are you?"
Normally Dan would have let Larabee stew for awhile, despite the man's dark reputation. But he had forgotten how much pain one little bullet could cause. His shoulder felt like it was going to tear apart into a million pieces.
With a sigh Kelson slumped against the wall, closing his eyes."Dan Kelson."
Vin exchanged a surprised glance with Ezra as they stood near the sheriff's desk. They had both been expecting the man to be one of the Cole brothers.
"Why were you shooting at us?"Buck asked as he leaned the cell door.
Kelson opened his eyes looking past Buck to the window. "Figured I'd draw your attention away from my friends."
"Who are your friends?"Larabee demanded.
Kelson met his gaze."Noah and Sam Cole, you may have heard of them."
Chris grabbed the man's shirt collar and yanked him roughly to his feet. It'd been a long two weeks which showed no sign of ending. He was in no mood for a kid who thought he was funny.
"Where are they?"Chris asked in a tight voice as he shoved the younger man against the wall.
Dan cried out as pain sliced through his wounded shoulder. It took him a long moment to catch his breath enough so he could speak.
"C-Camped fifteen miles north of town."Kelson replied in a strained voice. "Can't miss it, twenty men."
Chris frowned at the number of men. He knew from Josiah's information that the Cole brothers worked in small groups.
"Who are they workin' for?"Larabee asked as he released his hold slightly.
Kelson squeezed his eyes shut as another wave of pain washed over him. "Never should've taken this job....the guy's a complete nutcase. Name's Eli.....Eli Joe."
Chris dropped the man none to gently onto the cot as he turned to look at Vin.
"Well that certainly makes this more intriguing."Ezra commented dryly breaking the silence.
Chris glared at the gambler slightly as he exited the cell. "Ezra, go wire the Judge, we're going to need the army to pick up what's left."
Standish nodded and quickly left.
"Josiah, get the Doc to look at our friend."Larabee ordered as he came to stand next to Tanner.
"Think he's tellin' the truth?"Chris asked as Josiah left the small room.
The tracker nodded as he glanced over at J.D. "This whole mess makes sense now. Should've known that Eli was behind it."
Chris placed a supportive hand on Tanner's shoulder. "We'll get him, Vin, I promise."He turned to face the others. "Get your gear, we ride in ten minutes."
The men filed out, Buck and J.D. being the last ones.
"How's the girl?"Kelson asked softly as J.D. reached the end of the cell.
The youth froze then slowly turned around.
Buck stopped by the sheriff's desk and turned around quickly. He crossed over to the cell watching J.D. closely.
J.D. gripped the bars of the cell fighting the overwhelming urge to open the door and beat the man to a bloody pulp.
"She's alive, no thanks to you."J.D. spat, each word an effort.
Kelson nodded relief washing over him. "Good, never meant to hurt her."
J.D. shook his head fighting his rage but all he saw was Casey's battered and bruised body.
"Why?"Dunne demanded in a choked voice.
Buck stepped forward. "J.D., son, let's go."
J.D. shook his head. "No, not until we know why. We nearly lost her, Buck, there has to be a reason."
Kelson met the younger man's gaze. "She saw Noah.....Eli made it clear to take care of any witnesses."
J.D. literally saw red and he lunged for Kelson momentarily forgetting about the cell door.
Buck grabbed the youth before he hit the cell door and dragged him toward the door.
"Damnit Buck, let me go!!"J.D. shouted as he tried to break his friend's grasp.
Wilmington tightened his hold. "Listen to me, J.D., he's not worth it."
J.D. continued to struggle. "They broke Casey's spirit, Buck, she's never gonna be the same and all because the Bastard's didn't want a witness!"
"I know, son, I know."Buck replied gently. "Casey will get the justice she deserves, I promise you that."
The anger left J.D. as quickly as it had come. Buck released his friend and J.D. started for the door.
Dunne paused in the doorway turning to face Kelson. "You better pray that we find your friends. If we don't you'll hang for what happened to Casey."
Chris stopped the group about ten miles outside of town allowing Vin and Ezra to scout ahead.
With what was at stake Chris had to be sure about what they were up against. This was a bad situation to begin with but with Eli Joe added to the mix all hell could break loose very easily.
"How's J.D.?"Larabee asked as Buck came to stand next to him.
Wilmington looked back toward the small stream where Josiah and J.D. were watering the horses.
Buck shook his head wearily. "After you left the jail J.D. went after Kelson. I just barely got the kid away from the cell before he strangled the guy. I don't know how he's gonna react when we come face to face with Eli."
Chris nodded as he glanced toward the horizon. He hadn't wanted to send Vin to scout ahead but the tracker was the only one who knew what Joe looked like.
"Keep an eye on him."Chris replied even though he knew he was stating the obvious.
"Always."Buck replied quietly. "I just hope this nightmare ends today."
Chris nodded as he spotted Ezra and Vin heading their way. "It will, one way or another."
With Vin's confirmation of Kelson's story the six peacekeepers headed out.
"You okay?"Chris asked as he pulled his horse along side of Tanner's.
The former bounty hunter nodded his blue eyes fixed on the horizon. "Think this will finally be over, Chris?"Vin asked softly. "Think I'll be able to put Tucsoca behind me?"
"Yes."Chris replied just as the camp came into view.
Mary looked up from her printing press as her father-in-law stepped through the door.
"Hello Orrin."Mary greeted as she stepped toward him. "Billy's looking forward to having lunch with you."
Travis nodded. "So am I. Just wanted to let you know I received a telegram."
Mary's face brightened. "From Chris?"
"Indirectly."Travis replied as he leaned against the desk."Standish wired saying Larabee requested Army backup."
"That sounds like they've run into trouble."Mary concluded worriedly.
Orrin shook his head. "Or they could have found the one's responsible for Ms. Well's attack and are taking precautions."
The reporter nodded as she glanced at the clock above the desk. "Billy should be out of school by now."
"Everything will be alright, Mary."Orrin assured her as he briefly touched her left shoulder before turning and leaving The Clarion.
Chris wished they had more cover. That worried him more than the number of men in Joe's camp. Upon arrival Chris had split the group up between the only cover there was. He, Vin and Josiah behind a grass mound to the right of the camp and Ezra, J.D. and Buck behind a similar grass mound to the south.
It was a miracle they hadn't been spotted yet.
"So do we rush 'em?"Vin asked with a grim smile.
"Sounds like a good plan."Chris replied with a grin.


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- Super thin and Super Light, 1:1 iPhone clone
- 3.2" Pure Flat Touch Screen with handwriting recognition
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TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - "Glorious 39" sends mixed signals. One minute it seems like a conspiracy thriller and the next one of those well-upholstered English melodramas about the privileged class pushing back against threats to their way of life. Either way, it's a lot of hokum that relies on contrivance and chance to move its dubious plot forward.
"Glorious 39" could see box-office coin during a U.K. release slated for November, especially if it manages to stir up historical controversy over just how far the proponents of appeasement with Hitler, led by Tory PM Neville Chamberlain, actually were willing to go on the eve of World War II. A top-notch British cast could bring sales in other territories, but audience response is likely to be lukewarm at best. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The film marks writer-director Stephen Poliakoff's return to cinema after a 10-year absence, during which he helmed dramas for BBC television. He hasn't much left the BBC world, though, as "Glorious 39" relies heavily on performances, costumes, lavish interiors and the bucolic countryside.
In 1939, the powerful Keyes family watches the gathering clouds of war with wary eyes. The father (Bill Nighy), a conservative MP, well remembers the carnage of the last war. His son (Eddie Redmayne), a government official, urges the womenfolk to continue their social activities while the men worry about war.
The film's heroine, Anne (Romola Garai), is the eldest Keyes daughter, who happens to be adopted, a fact that becomes increasingly emphasized, especially by her brother, as the story progresses. Her career as an actress is on the verge of taking off even as she falls in love with a Foreign Office official (Charlie Cox).
At a dinner on the family estate, a hot-headed politician (David Tennant) spouts off about the appeasement policy, which draws cryptic comments and dark stares from a mysterious visitor (Jeremy Northam). Next thing you know, the politician is dead from "suicide."
Then, as Anne chases down a cat in out-buildings on the estate where she never goes, she stumbles across recordings of secret meetings by political conspirators. A maid manages to break one record that captures the voice of the frantic, now deceased politician. But another record remains intact, which Anne shares with a fellow actor (Hugh Bonneville) and, whoops, now he's dead from suicide, too.
Anne makes further headway uncovering betrayals and schemes, but ominous signposts of danger dot her path. A baby she is supposed to be tending gets whisked away by unseen hands. A threatening man in dark clothes follows her on a bicycle. A nasty little boy watches her intently. Soldiers arrest her without provocation.
Trouble is, these menacing signs begin too early, before Anne even logically knows anything about a conspiracy. Even more troubling is that just when Poliakoff has built tension to a certain pitch — albeit without complete credibility — he gets sidetracked with family affairs and Anne's emotional outbursts.
Although she may be a flighty actress, Anne might at least possess the wisdom to realize that as deaths mount and suspicions widen, her acting might come in handy. Hysteria and angry diatribes against those who might harm her are hardly going to lessen the danger.
Garai is encouraged to play fluster and panic rather than sagacious calm. The actors portraying family members, including Julie Christie as an aunt, let their behavior grow more menacing toward Anne. By movie's end, however, it's not clear how real any of that menace is.
An awkward framing device, in which Anne's story is related years later by the youngest family members, only increases the ambiguity. The third act is a definite dramatic fumble that never follows through on the menace implied.
The production is a handsome one. The story smartly stays out of 1939 London as much as possible so as not to put undue pressure on the budget. When necessary, London is represented with a handful of striking interiors. The cast all dresses its period best, while recordings of old songs get viewers in the mood.


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Twinsburg -- A Fantasy TV Parody
For reasons I can no longer fathom, I sat down and wrote a parody of the pilot episode before Twin Peaks returned for a few weeks in late March. As I had grown up in northeast Ohio, I called my script Twinsburg, and I incorporated elements of my own life as well as characters I'd created in my college Creative Writing classes. I found the result pretty amusing, and I shared it with my family. After the final broadcast of Twin Peaks in June 1991, I returned to my parody and planned out an eight-episode season. I'd just graduated from college and hadn't secured gainful employment, so I suppose writing the scripts provided a refuge from the stress of job-hunting.
I finished Episode 8 a few days before Halloween, but within a week I started planning out season two. I just had too many ideas to put it away yet, and chronic underemployment meant I still had too much time on my hands. So I kept writing scripts through the winter, spring, and summer of 1992. In late August, I finished Episode 19, and the very next day went to a midnight screening of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. I was one of the few people who loved the movie. Inspired, I completed the cliffhanger final episode, number 20, within a week or two.
Then I was off to graduate school, and I didn't do anything more with Twinsburg. I literally put it in a drawer. In early 1995, I wrote a treatment for a grand finale "movie" inspired by Fire Walk With Me, but didn't get around to actually writing the script for it. But when Mark Frost and David Lynch announced they were returning to Twin Peaks 25 years later, I decided the time had come to dust off my parody series and share it online. As such, I finally wrote the grand finale script between Thanksgiving and Christmas 2014.
Each episode of Twinsburg tries to capture the soap-opera melodrama, quirky humor, chilling violence, and moody mystery that made Twin Peaks such a treat. The scripts are peppered with references to the original, sometimes lifting scenes directly and sometimes intentionally going the opposite way. I also tried to tighten up my overall story, as one of the main critiques of Twin Peaks is that it wandered around too much during its second season. Anyway, I played around with it, I had fun, and ultimately let the story go where it wanted to go.
I hope you enjoy Twinsburg.
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Hey bloggers!
It's that time of year...Teacher Appreciation Week! And in honor of all of the wonderful teachers, TpT & TN are throwing sales & I'm joining in on the fun!
Everything in my TN Shop will be 20% off on May 3rd, May 4th, & May 5th!
Everything in my TpT store will be 20% off on May 6th & May 7th!
If you use the Promo Code: TPTXO you will get an additional 10% off!
Some of my best sellers that you may want to check out at a discounted price:
ALSO...I'm doing a review of this pencil sharpener from Classroom Friendly Supplies. Be sure to check back next week for the review as well as a chance to win one of your own!!


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There's some troubling news this morning for fans of the DC Comics television series "Constantine." Following a halt in production last fall, NBC has now officially cancelled the show.
While Matt Ryan's John Constantine may not be returning to the network, executive producer Daniel Cerone has taken to Twitter to remind fans that "Constantine" isn't dead yet and that the show is now looking for a home elsewhere.
NBC a "no" for Season 2. Warner Bros working hard to find #Constantine new home. Stay active. Stream. Tweet. #SaveConstantine #Hellblazers
The series, which has so far aired a single 13-episode first season, stars Ryan ("Criminal Minds") as the chain-smoking supernatural detective first introduced by Alan Moore in "Saga of the Swamp Thing" and later spun off into his own series, "Hellblazer." The first season also stars Angélica Celaya ("Dallas"), Harold Perrineau ("Lost") and Charles Halford.
Produced by Bonanza Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, "Constantine" is written and is executive produced by Daniel Cerone ("Dexter"), David S. Goyer and Mark Verheiden.
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Hey everybody!
All the Rage has a very important and exciting announcement to make today! We now have a youtube channel. Woot woot!
If you're a fan of our blogs, please subscribe :)
Our first video is of me giving a quick tip and it's tres tres awkward! You have to bare with us because this is our first time using a youtube channel for fashion and beauty tips.
It's a video on how you can keep rings from turning your finger green. It might be still processing at the point, so the quality may be a little fuzzy until it's done.
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Life has been really hectic and busy! Hope you guys enjoy our new channel
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Quinn Gets an Upgrade!
Roar-EE Loves the New Web Site! (CREDIT: GoColumbiaLions.com)
A computer thingy, (that's the technical term), short-changed the number of tackles for just about every Columbia defender in the Fordham game. Here are the official totals for the top 5 Lion tacklers:
1) Drew Quinn 16
2) Andy Shalbrack 9
3) Daniel Myers 8
4) Alex Gross 8
5) Lou Miller 8
This means that Drew Quinn is leading the Ivies in tackles after week one. Congratulations Drew!
Catch us on 970 AM!!
Columbia Football and Basketball will be back on 970 AM, but the station has a stronger signal now and is also known as "The Apple." If you can't make it to Baltimore this Saturday for the game vs. Towson, please tune in!
Musgrove's Status
Chad Musgrove is a student assistant according to the game program after injuring himself last spring. He will not play this season, but we know he'll be contributing in any way he can.
Matt Moretto is out for the year as well according to the game program. I saw him on crutches after the game. That's a tough loss.
More Random Thoughts:
1) Be sure to check out the new Columbia Athletics Web Site! Take some time to get used to it and enjoy.
2) Freshman corner Kalasi Huggins is tied for the Ivy lead with two pass breakups.
3) Columbia seemed to have the middle buttoned up against the run vs. Fordham, so it will be interesting to see if Towson will attack on the edges.
4) A new study shows that those "energy drinks" are really bad for you especially if mixed with alcohol. I see a lot of college kids drinking them and so this is a concern. The full report is here.
Of course, when it comes to caffeine I am a Hassid. I have never had a cup of coffee in my life! And I am financially and physically richer for it. Coffee cake, on the other hand, is pretty damn good.


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NEW YORK – When Genesis gets inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next month, founding member Peter Gabriel won't be there.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame president Joel Peresman said in a statement Thursday that Gabriel says he has a scheduling conflict with his tour that begins in Europe.
Along with Gabriel, the band's original lineup included Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips and Steve Hackett. Phil Collins joined the band later and replaced Gabriel as lead vocalist in 1976.
Genesis was inspirational in the progressive rock movement. Gabriel's vision helped define the genre's theatrical approach to a rock show with costume changes, innovative stage design, and intricate lighting effects.
The induction ceremony takes place March 15 in New York.
As previously reported, you can listen to Gabriel's forthcoming covers album "Scratch My Back" here.
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I hope you have all been keeping busy making memories but not so busy that you haven't been able to scrap those memories you have made. Let's face it though... somedays there just don't seem to be enough hours in the day after dealing with kids, work, house stuff and life in general. Perhaps I can help?
As you all know my Artsy Adventure Class Kit Club has been in full swing for what will be TWO years in December! Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought that I would be able to share my projects that I have created with scrappers AROUND THE WORLD. For that I will always be extremely thankful and feel so blessed to have the opportunities I do.
I LOVE creating projects of all sorts. This kit club has given me the opportunity to explore techniques and work with my favourite brands and discover new ones along the way too. Being able to share them with you has been an honour and one I look forward to continuing to do.
It's also been a learning curve. Some things have worked... other things.... well, not so much. Some things have been an out of this world success and I would be a fool to not listen to you lovely folks. You have spoken and I have listened! So without further adieu.....
I am thrilled to present:
Over the past couple of months I have tried with a couple of layout kits as a test to see how they would do and thanks to you... they have done great! That being said I am happy to now offer this as an option to you all. Here's how it will work:
Each month you will receive a kit containing enough fabulous products to create three 12X12 layouts. One of the layouts will be a DOUBLE page layout (an absolute rarity nowadays!!!!). Themes and manufacturers will differ with each kit and you will alway learn some fun new tips and tricks for documenting your cherished memories in your scrapbooks.
These are some sneak peek examples from the first OFFICIAL Triple Threat Class Kit featuring the adorable Oh, Deer! Collection by Fancy Pants Designs. I loved so many things about this fun spirited collection that I have a hard time choosing my favourite of the 3 layouts included.
The Double Page layout is a new challenge for me. Truthfully, up until recently, I have not done as many double pagers as I have been as professional designer for so many years that we just don't "do" them... certainly not as often as most of my students would like. They are a little more difficult to do in many ways but the scrapbooker in us LOVES how they look more uniform in our albums.
I am so pleased with how the first one turned out for my Class kit Club members and I hope you will be too! As usual, there will always be lots of layers, interactive components and tactile elements.
This double pager even has a secret hiding spot for even more of the story to be stored away safely.
The last layout in this months kit is true to "Trisha" style with flips, flaps, pockets and tags. Incorporating these sorts of elements allows for you to maximize the real estate on a single page.
The little details throughout make this a PERFECT project for many of your holiday memories from wither years gone by or in preparation for the upcoming ones that are just around the corner now!
Have I gotten your attention yet? I hope so!
Are you wondering how you can get on board? There are a VERY LIMITED number of spaces this first time out so we can get a feel for how many we will need each month! You need to email firstname.lastname@example.com ASAP to get your name on the list!
Typical price packages are as follows:
$60/ month
$60/ month -10% with a 3 month subscription
$60/ month- 15% discount with a 6 month subscription
However, I want to add an extra incentive to get this kicked off in grand style so until November 15 (or kits are gone):
$60/ month
$60/ month -15% with a 3 month subscription
$60/ month- 20% discount with a 6 month subscription
PLUS get a free bonus layout! That's right... you will get a FOURTH layout in this months new kit.
If you are an EXISTING Artsy Adventure Class kit Club Member you will save an additional 5% (your existing subscription must not expire before December 31, 2014).
All 6 month subscriptions will get a layout kit featuring Authentique beautiful papers and embellishments (while quantities last).
Lastly, I have several Prima Triple Threat Class kits left... those will be offered for $40 (1/3 off!!!!) to anyone who subscribes for 3 or 6 months (while quantities last).
So there you have it! I hope you will join me on another Artsy Adventure where the focus will be just layouts! I should also mention, the main Artsy Adventure Class kit club with the assortment of projects is still up an running! Subscribe to BOTH and get 25% off!!!!
Email email@example.com and be sure to LIKE the Facebook page if you haven't already done so as that is where you will always find the most up to date info!
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This miniature, presumably from early on, shows Empress Eugenie wearing a hurluberlu coifure and skirt that seems to not have a cage below.
From Antiques and Uncommon Treasures.
Keywords: Empress Eugenie, Empress, Bonaparte family, French, hurluberlu coiffure, off shoulder vee neckline bertha, lace, deep vee waistline, full skirt, wrap, bows, necklace, bracelets


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About A Girl Lyrics
Artist: Voltaire
Album: Boo Hoo
You learn a lot about a girl
The way that you meet her
Was she with a guy when you me her?
How did she treat him?
Was she lying to her man
To be out holding your hand
Yeah, you learn a lot about a girl
Do you really believe that with you
it will be different?
Man, listen to me I did that too
Now it's here that I'm missing
I'm a guy that she lied to
Soon enough that guy will be you
Yeah, you learn a lot about a girl
Was it a nice clean even split
before you and she got into it?
Yeah, you learn a lot about a girl
Now here's a fact that is true
All men are dumb, all women are crazy
Hey, open your eyes
If you don't see this you're just being lazy
She's no saint as you can see
"Cause she's out with you
While she's living with me
Yeah, you learn a lot
Don't think you will not
Yeah, you learn a lot about a girl
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E3 2012 Roundup 3: PENNY ARCADE, YOUNG JUSTICE, Much More
Penny Arcade Adventures 3
Fate has delivered a lot of games over the past year that were once thought to only exist in the hopes of fans and another one is on the precipice (if you will) of release, but not without being transformed in its long journey to release. Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - Episode 3's most significant change is the radical alteration of it's visual style from the signature look of the Penny Arcade web comic to the 16-bit style of new developer Zeboyd Games (Breath of Death VII: The Beginning).
The new partnership is ultimately a plus, Zeboyd's loving parody style meshes well with the wit of the PA crew in an experience that both adds and subtracts from the established canon of the series. Gone is the custom player character that had joined Gabe and Tycho on their steam-punk fantasy adventure (though his or her fate will be incorporated in to the story) and in are playable PA characters like Anne and Jim's skull as well as other more obscure and new teammates that join and leave the maximum four character party throughout the game. Another new addition is a job system that will grant skills, buffs and magic powers to characters and instead of the standard job types like fighter or mage, the dozen or so skill sets better reflect the sensibility of the game and have such as like Tube Samurai, Hobo and the strangely compelling but practically useless 'job' of Slacker.
The turn based combat includes a meter to allow you to plan for the attack order, a system where MP builds up from scratch each round to keep the player from spamming powerful attacks at the start, foes that get steadily stronger (like in Breath of Death) and items the regenerate after each fight but all of these rules can be canceled by 'Special Battle Conditions' that the game can trigger before each fight. Battles in the game mostly will take place at fixed locations visible on screen, but it was shared that locations for grinding out levels will be made available. Just like Zeboyd's other titles, Penny Arcade Adventures 3 will feel instantly natural to any experienced 16-bit RPGer and fans of PA webcomic author Tycho's unique style and sense of humor will forget about any issue they have with the visuals very quickly. This reported 9-12 hour experience looks to be released on July 10th on the Xbox Indie Game network or on PC for about $5 and plans for free DLC were hinted at.
Young Justice: Legacy
Promising to bridge the five year narrative gap between the first and second seasons of the Young Justice animated series, is this one to three player action title that quickly brings to mind other superhero team up games like X-Men Legends and Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Out of a pool of over 12 characters (among the announced notables include are a still loyal Aqualad, a second season newbie Beast Boy and Dick Grayson in his Nightwing persona) each will command regular attacks and four superpower/tech based special attacks that can be upgraded with a light RPG system. A new wrinkle is combination attack meter that awards cooperative play, 'just as in the spirit of the series' it is described. The game itself is in a rough alpha, but will ultimately fit into the show's canon through the work of series writers and an effort to sign the show's vocal cast. Set for a February 2013 release, Young Justice: Legacy will also feature online co-op play.
DC Universe Online: Last LaughThe fourth major update to Sony's and DC's superheroic MMO is set for release on June 19, 2012 and will feature the machinations of the Joker (who will be voiced by Mark Hamill in what may be his last released performance in the role). Joker, tired of the heroes and villains working together to counter the threat of Brainiac has stolen the access codes to all of the game's safehouses and headquarters (the Watchtower and The Hall of Doom) to get the two sides fighting each other again for his own amusement. With this game update, $9.99 to non-Legendary subscribers, these new 4v4 and 8v8 player vs player maps will now also include random appearances by DC characters on both sides and new 2-round scoring system. The roster of the Legends PvP matches, that allow you to play as the iconic characters will also expand to include heroic/villainous Kryptonians like Power Girl and Ursa as well as new Green and Yellow Lanterns like Kilowog, John Stewart and Amon Sur. Instead of a new power for this update, there is a new weapon: the shield, which is utilized in battle just like that famous shield bearing hero...The Guardian (Captain who?). After prompting, the only references that DCUO is making to the now year-old New 52 revamp are legal changes to character names, in particular Captain Marvel is now Shazam! and that New 52 versions of costumes can be found inside this game's version of Team Fortress 2 crates: Promethium lockboxes.
Double Dragon: NeonFittingly set to be released in time for the franchise's 25th anniversary, Double Dragon: Neon is a loving homage to not only the seminal co-op brawler, but to the 1980s themselves. That 'totally radical' decade is celebrated in Neon's bright, big and colorful style, from the mullet sporting Lee brothers to a soundtrack of not only remixed classic Double Dragon music but original compositions that sound like they'd be right in place in the Billboard charts 25 years ago. While Neon has at its core that classic brawling gameplay, it is not a remake, but instead expands on the original games in fun and thematically appropriate ways including augmenting your base stats by creating a 'mix tape' of buffs and special attacks, saving your downed brother by 'rewinding' the cassette tape of their life and triggering a team attack, pooling and equally dividing your remaining life or boosting attack power temporally by initiating a "High Five" right in the middle of a fight. Neon will also support drop-in/out online co-op, a range of difficulty modes and is projected to be released late this summer as a downloadable title.
NintendoLandWhat might be initially scoffed at as just a minigame collection, NintendoLand, which got a prominent spot in Nintendo's pre-E3 media event (but not their pre-pre-E3 media event) had five of their promised 12 games ready for demo on the Wii U, and it might just be the same kind of crossover hit Wii Sports was for the original Wii. Takamaru's Ninja Castle is a single player game where you use the Wii U controller's touch screen to 'throw' paper shuriken at origami ninjas. Basically a new take on Duck Hunt the wireless aiming is sharp and the flinging of ninja stars is a lot of fun. Donkey Kong's Crash Course was the other single player game where you carefully navigate an obstacle course with a fragile wheeled cart that you control by tilting the Wii U controller, but you need to continually watch your speed: too fast and you'll smash yourself against the walls, too slow and you risk tipping over when you drop off low ledges. You are scored on time and distance and it gets real tense when you have to use the small hand-held touch screen to see were you are going in the short term and the wide view from the television to try and plan for where you need to go. Luigi's Ghost Mansion and Animal Crossing: Sweet Day are up to five player games of tag. In the former you are an invisible ghost trying to stalk and knock out four human players trying to capture you with their flashlights, in the latter game the Wii U controller player controls two hunters at the same time as they try to corner candy stealing animals who have to collect 50 pieces of candy collectively, a task made harder since carrying candy slows you down. Finally The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest is a hack-slash action game on a rail, where three players share a single life bar, two Wiimote wielding swordsmen with Skyward Sword style directional cutting ability while the Wii U controller holding player is an archer who can cover the fighters using the touch screen monitor to scan the gameplay area for distant foes to shoot.
NBA Baller BeatsThe hybrid game to end all hybrid games is only one way to describe NBA Baller Beats, a title that combines the Kinect motion controller, music/rhythm games, exercise titles and licensed sports simulators in a way that developers will be trying to top for years. Simply put, the object of the game is to dribble/manipulate a basketball to the beat of licensed popular music. At its most basic level the Kinect ably tracks the ball's movement up and down, sensing when it stops and changes course (hopefully) back up and if it is on the correct side of your body and scores you accordingly, the game breaks up the dribbling by requiring you to perform ball handling skill moves like a cross-over dribble or a pump fake at key moments during a song. It's not a stretch to say that everyone who tries this game, from the most avid gamer who is a novice athlete to the compete inverse of that person will think the exact same three things in the same order during their first game: 1) This will be easy. 2) This is harder then it looks. 3) This is actually kinda fun. If you are tired of plastic guitar music games, and you are allowed by your mom/significant other/landlord to play ball in the house, NBA Baller Beats has to be attempted at least once. Bonus: you can use your own ball! (Unless it is black, reportedly the Kinect won't read it.)
The CaveThe Double Fine game that is not the one being Kickstarted is Ron Gilbert's The Cave, a cartoony Metroidvania-style downloadable game that adds a dash of the legendary LucasArts title Maniac Mansion (which Gilbert worked on in 1987). Like that title you are charged at the beginning with choosing three heroes out of seven (the Monk, the Adventurer, the Hillbilly, the Scientist, the Creepy Twins (they count as one), the Knight or the Time Traveler) to complete a co-op adventure/environmental puzzle solving mission inside the titular Cave, a sentient, underground labyrinth that can talk and is rumored to hold to answer to the problem that all seven characters (maybe only think) they have. Each character has a special ability to help aid in the exploration, for example the Knight can make himself invincible, albeit immobile, and the Hillbilly can hold his breath indefinitely, and each has a special area of the cave to explore that reveals more of their individual motivations. When prompted the developers revealed that unlike Maniac Mansion, the game can be played through to conclusion with any set of 3 player characters.
SiNG (working title)A standout application of the Wii U technology is the karaoke party game SiNG. Designed to counter the perception that party/dance/rhythm games are played against the TV and not with your friends based on what direction you are facing when they are operating, SiNG places the lyric readout on the Wii U controller's touch screen, turning the lead player into not only the singer, but the director of the rest of his or her fiends in the room, prompting them when to sing along, when to clap and when to dance. While the primary party mode is just for fun, there will be an option for scoring where the game will not only rate your for pitch and rhythm but 'track your effort' and award points that way as well. With the Wii U controller in hand, more functionality is revealed including duet mode and the ability to drop out certain parts of a single track. For example, you can remove the recorded voice track entirely or go a capella and turn off the melody instead. Finally you can also play DJ with the controller, setting a 20 song playlist in advance to avoid having to go through a menu after each song.
Quantum ConundrumThis highly anticipated title from one of the core designers of the original Portal shares a lot with that ground breaking title and that is paying it a huge complement. Instead of portals, the puzzle solving technology employed in this game is a dimension shifting device that allows you to change the world around you to change the properties of the world around you in a flash. In the demoed tutorial stage you are introduced to three of the four alternate universes, the 'Fluffy' dimension where everything is 10 times lighter then in the 'real' world, the 'Heavy' dimension where everything is 10 times as dense and the "Slow Motion" dimension where objects move slowly. The 'Reverse Gravity' dimension was not seen in the demo. The tutorial does a great job in allowing you to quickly absorb how it all works, and an experienced gamer will get the hang of changing the universe around them right away, doing such things as lightning a safe so you can carry/throw it, then making it heavy while it is in midair to break a pane of glass. Quantum Conundrum also borrows Portal's use of humor to move the game forward, but instead of an malevolent AI, it's a batty professor voiced by John "Q" de Lancie.


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"It's not what it is. It's what it means."
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It is October 4, 2004 and Astronaut, Brian Binnie in SpaceShipOne has punched through the Earth's atmosphere again to near-Earth spaceto win the Ansari X-Prize of a beautiful trophy and a check for ten million dollars. He also won the hearts and minds of Ethnically American Folk of all countries and nationalitiesby proving, with solid performance, that mankind can go to space without any input from, and despite interference from, government.
How about that, indeed!?
I was a bit earlier arriving at the spaceport than the previous time, as I anticipated a larger crowd would attend. I was not disappointed; with attendance about three times the first prize-flight of last week, as I saw it from the middle of the whole thing. The traffic jam at the spaceport was fair to middling. The weather was less worrisome this time, being warmer and with almost no wind as thousands of "rocket boosters" congregated by the side of the taxi-way.
Launch from the spaceport was scheduled for 7:00 a.m. and started just about on time; as the chase planes and White Knight with his burden, SpaceShipOne, started down the taxi-way to the south end for a northbound takeoff. The climb to a drop-launch altitude of 47,000 feet was much the same as the previous flights, although this time the humidity was enough to form contrails above about 20,000 feet altitude, giving us the ability to easily follow the ships as they climbed. And again, thousands of rocket boosters did the Rutan Salute, shading our eyes and turning our gaze to the vertical.
When the ships got to launch altitude the voice of mission control gave us a five-minute warning, then a one-minute warning, and then the White Knight released SpaceShipOne for the final attempt at the X-Prize.
Once again we yelled our very heads off and watched that thin, white line ascend the heavens as Brian Binnie rode the flame to spaceto claim the X-Prize and put mankind firmly on the road to the stars.
It's not what it is. It's what it means.
These first three space missions of SpaceShipOne are doing again, for free-market space travel, the jobs of others who have gone before, both free Men and government employees. The first, in June of this year, did the job for free-market space travel that the Wright brothers did at Kitty Hawk for aviation. The second and third missions, to win the X-Prize, did the job for Mankind that the Mercury program did for the United States in its race with the Soviet Union during their "cold war".
Burt Rutan apocryphally quoted the government and large aerospace corporations on this day as saying "We're screwed!"
This time, though, the good guys are the Human race. The bad guys are the governmentsand the asteroids who's orbits cross that of the Earth. The governments are determined to hold all of Mankind down, as slaves in the mud, through eternity. The asteroids have no agenda. They are just rocks. Rocks that can, and did in the past, wipe-out most of life on Earth, including all the dominant species; by colliding with our planetlike the mother of all fusion bombs.
Remember what happened to the dinosaurs. They ruled the world for millions of years. Then "the rock" came and hit Yucatan. All that is left of them now is fossils and the birds.
Man has several reasons to go to space now.
It is necessary for the survival of the race, as the dinosaurs showed us. We must get some of our "eggs" out of the "basket" of the Earth, so Man will not die when the next bit rock hits. Only a civilization beyond the sky can do that. We must press on to orbit, Luna, the asteroids of the belt, the other planets and their moons. Then, perhaps, we can catch those Earth-crossing asteroids and mine them for mineral wealth; instead of letting them kill all of us off, as the politicians would let them do.
It is necessary for the progress of Humanity to obtain and use the vast resources of energy, materials and living space that lie beyond Earth orbit. The resources of the Earth for energy and materials are limited, in forms that are economical to use. The resources of space; the Sun and the other astronomical bodies of our Solar system; are limited too, but are vastly more than we have here on Earth.
Americans got rich and developed the highest culture Mankind has ever seen by going to the Western Frontieras free Men who understood anarchy and capitalism, which are free enterprise. Now all of Mankind can start going to the high frontier to do the sameon a limitless scale. This can only be done by escaping governments through free-market space flight.
It is necessary for our spiritual and psychological health to go to space. Without a frontier there is no "safety valve" for people who need more elbow-room and freedom of action than the average person. Without a frontier there is nowhere to escape the ravages of government and build a new life. Without a frontier there is no hope, even for those who stay at home and only dream of going. Then, all we have left is civil war. Without a frontier it is cruelly hard to experiment with new social, family and economic systems that may be better; and surely will be different from the old ones; for those among us who need that.
All the other species specialize as species. They each, as a species, occupy an ecological niche. Man, on the other hand, specializes in being a generalist. Each individual tries, both biologically and behaviorally, to be as different from his fellows as he can. The normal differences between individual humans are greater than those between many of the other species. In that way we occupy all of the ecological niches that we can, for the greatest diversity and the greatest chance of survival of our race against all the dangers that we face. Even asteroid impacts. Politicians and socialists cannot understand any of this.
Even America, that paragon of cultural diversity and open space, is stewing in its own juice and ready to explode from the strain of social and political confinement.
We need that next hill to cross; we need a frontier to settle, to build our next civilizations and raise our families, to remain Human and to grow.
No government will ever do any of that. Politicians only want slaves, not neighbors.
Only free folk, like Burt Rutan, Paul Allen, Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie will do that.
Only the free folk can do that.
About twenty minutes after he topped-out at apogee above 100 kilometers, Brian Binnie made final approach to the runway of Mojave Spaceport, flared-out on ground effect just as smooth as you please, and greased another perfect two-point landing to bring SpaceShipOne back to Earthand a richly deserved, and noisy, welcome.
Ad Astra!
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On Monday night Marc Jacobs will co-host possibly the biggest night in fashion, the Met Ball in New York, alongside co-hosts Anna Wintour and Kate Moss.
Confirming Madonna and Victoria Beckham among the 'good friends' he has invited to join him on his table we're wondering if the ball will be a dress rehearsal for his wedding which he and his fiancee Lorenzo Martone last night revealed to US fashion site The Daily, would take place in just 8 weeks.
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Mr. James Landis Russell, Sr., 78, of Lewisburg, owner of Russell Vending and Catering, died Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009 in Maury Regional Hospital.
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A judge in Washington, D.C., has approved a government request to access data from a website used to organize protests against President Trump's inauguration — with the caveat that the Department of Justice must establish "additional protections" to safeguard users' privacy and right to free speech.
The DOJ already had a warrant approved by a judge to search records related to the site DisruptJ20.org, which organized protests on Jan. 20. More than 200 protesters were charged with rioting, and the Justice Department is looking for evidence in some of those cases. But the Web hosting company DreamHost, which holds the records, challenged the government's request, calling it overly broad and saying it threatens privacy and free speech.
D.C. Superior Court Chief Judge Robert Morin told lawyers for the Justice Department that they could proceed with a narrower version of their warrant. But the government needs to develop a plan to "minimize" the exposure of "innocent users," as he put it.
The U.S. government had already scaled back the scope of its request before Thursday's hearing.
The original request would have compelled DreamHost to disclose 1.3 million IP addresses, which could reveal information about visitors to the protest-organizing site, the Web hosting company says.
DreamHost took the Department of Justice to court to challenge the scope of that request. Earlier this week, the government agreed to drop the request for visitor data en masse and also exclude data from after Jan. 20 and unpublished drafts of the website.
DreamHost welcomed that as a victory but still expressed concerns over the revised warrant.
In the hearing on Thursday, lawyers for the Web hosting company highlighted the fact that the warrant still asks for content from all email accounts on the DisruptJ20.org domain. Raymond Aghaian, representing DreamHost, compared that request with searching every apartment in a building with a single search warrant.
DreamHost also objected to the "two-step" process for executing the warrant. That is one way that law enforcement searches for evidence in digital files.
Step one is to acquire a large pool of data, which will include items that have no connection to a criminal case; step two is to filter out the innocuous content and only "seize" the relevant evidence. In the DreamHost matter, for instance, emails about hosting visitors to D.C. might be set aside, but an email arranging to bring crowbars to a protest might be kept. Everything not seized as evidence is then sealed.
"The fact that an FBI agent will be sitting there and actually reviewing the emails and knowing who this person is ... is an issue in and of itself," Aghaian told NPR. Even if a person's data is ultimately never seized, the fact that it was provided to the government in the first place could still have a "chilling effect," he said. For instance, someone who wants to email an advocacy group might decide not to, knowing their email might later be accessible by the government under a search warrant.
The judge said he had to balance two legitimate interests — free speech and law enforcement needs — and ultimately ruled for a two-step warrant process with additional safeguards.
He said the Department of Justice will need to specify in advance which people would have access to the data, describe how they would be filtering or searching through it and present the courts with a detailed list of what they had seized and why.
The Department of Justice would also be barred from sharing the data with anyone else, including other government agencies, and would need to design and present a system to "minimize" the impact on users not charged with crimes. It's not clear what such a system would look like.
In the meantime, DreamHost is supposed to pull all the data together and deliver it to the government; the Department of Justice will agree to not search through the data until they have the go-ahead from the courts.
Lawyers for DreamHost say they are evaluating their options, including the possibility of appeal. The Department of Justice declined to comment on a pending case.
Now a court decision in a case that pits president Trump's Justice Department against a web hosting company whose services were used by anti-Trump activists. The company DreamHost challenged the U.S. government over what it saw as an excessive request for information. Well, today a federal judge sided mostly with the government but not entirely. And here to walk us through this case is NPR's Camila Domonoske. Hiya.
CAMILA DOMONOSKE, BYLINE: Hi. How are you?
SIEGEL: This story's a bit complicated, so remind us how it began.
DOMONOSKE: So back before the inauguration, this website disruptj20.org was organizing protests. And then on the day of the inauguration, more than 200 people were arrested, charged with felony rioting. Nearly 200 of those cases are still pending. And the Department of Justice has asked for records relating to that website - lot of data from DreamHost, the company that hosted the website. And they have resisted. They've challenged that in court.
SIEGEL: Yeah. Last week, our co-host Audie Cornish spoke with the CEO of DreamHost, and he said that the company's objection to the warrant wasn't political. So what is the problem with the request?
DOMONOSKE: Well, they had real concerns about privacy and free speech. Initially DreamHost was particularly concerned about the fact that the request from the government would require them to disclose 1.3 million IP addresses. And you could use that information to get some information about the visitors to the website. So they fought that really fiercely. And earlier this week, the Department of Justice decided to narrow its request and no longer seek those visitor logs.
SIEGEL: Why did they agree to do that?
DOMONOSKE: Well, the Department of Justice said that they didn't realize how much information DreamHost had, so they didn't know how much they were asking for. Lawyers for DreamHost are a little skeptical of that explanation. They say that they told the Department of Justice very early on what this meant.
SIEGEL: Well, in that case, what is the issue now?
DOMONOSKE: Well, there's still a lot of data that the government is asking permission to look through, including email accounts associated with the organization. And they're asking for the ability to search through, find what's significant and then basically set the rest of this information aside. Now, lawyers for DreamHost say that's still problematic. I talked to Raymond Aghaian.
RAYMOND AGHAIAN: The fact that an FBI agent will be sitting there and actually reviewing and reading the emails and knowing who this person is is the issue in and of itself.
DOMONOSKE: Basically before they can decide that something's not relevant to a court case, you still have the Department of Justice looking at it. And DreamHost says that that could have a chilling effect on speech.
SIEGEL: And presented with these problems, what did the judge decide?
DOMONOSKE: Basically he said that DreamHost should hand over that big pool of data to the government and let the government search through it to find the evidence that it's looking for. But at the same time, the judge said that there are serious concerns about privacy and free speech. And as a result, the Department of Justice has to come up with some procedures to minimize the exposure of, quote, "innocent users." That's what the judge called them.
We don't know exactly what that would look like. And in the meantime, DreamHost is supposed to hand over all of this data to the government, and the Department of Justice will wait until they've got the go-ahead to actually filter through it. Lawyers for DreamHost are evaluating their options. That includes a possible appeal. The Department of Justice won't comment on a pending case.
SIEGEL: NPR's Camila Domonoske, thanks.
DOMONOSKE: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.