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by John J. Fanning
While current reports indicate that the economy is improving, there is still a lot of people out of work today and many of them have a great deal of education. While economists predict that employment will pick up in 2011, I thought we would take a look at some emerging technologies that hold great promise not only for the creation of jobs but for the creation of a whole new world.
Just last month, for example, scientists at MIT's Nocera Lab succeeded in creating what is, for all practical purposes, an artificial leaf. The device, which is made of silicone, catalysts and electronic components, is about the size of a typical playing card.
What makes this artificial leaf valuable is its ability to split water into two components, hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen removed from the water can be stored in a fuel cell and used later for the generation of electricity. It is believed that just one of these new devices, suspended in a gallon of water, will have the ability to furnish the electrical needs of a small home.
Such technology has the potential for powering buildings, vehicles and almost anything else that can operate using electrical energy. Obviously, this amazing manmade leaf has the potential to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels and help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But more than that, the technology also has the ability to spawn hundreds of new devices and modify existing systems, which would result in creation of both new entrepreneurs as well as thousands of workers.
Technically, this is not the first artificial leaf to be developed. Over ten years ago, John Turner of the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratories in Boulder, Colorado developed an artificial leaf made of rare earth metals. Turner's device was costly to produce and was highly unstable. The device developed by the MIT team uses inexpen-
sive materials that are readily available and can use water coming from any source. Thus far, the device has operated over extended periods of time in a laboratory without decreasing performance.
Comprised of silicone and an electrode, when water and solar produced electricity is directed through the electrode and catalysts of nickel or cobalt, hydrogen and oxygen molecules in the water are separated. The stored hydrogen can be used to continue powering devices when sunlight is no longer available.
Next for researchers will be to increase efficiency and energy output of these leaves so they can be mass-produced and used in a variety of green technologies.
Also last month, another scientific breakthrough was announced by scientists at IBM Research who discovered a new type of nanoparticle that attacks and kills cells comprising Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) bacteria. MRSA is an infection caused by a strain of staph bacteria that is highly resistant to most antibiotics.
The nanoparticles discovered at IBM ignore all other cells and zero in on the cells within the MRSA bacteria. Commercially produced, these nanoparticles can be injected into patients or applied topically to an infected area on a patient to kill MRSA. And because the nanoparticles are biodegradable and do not linger in the environment, they
pose no danger in affecting other organisms and resistance to them is – dare I say, futile?
Nanotechnology involves the alteration of mater at the atomic and molecular level. In a sense, it is Alchemy. Scientists around the world have been experimenting with nanotechnology to both unlock the secrets of and alter the composition of matter. Over five years ago, Kraft Foods was experimenting on the development of nanotech beverages that could change flavoring and coloring in accordance with a users biological state. If you just finished a workout, your favorite beverage could be a bright red. If you were chilling in front of the television, it might be dark blue.
Nanotechnology has also been deployed to increase the efficiency of solar panels, produce barnacle resistant paints for the bottom of ships and change food product structure. A most encouraging use of the technology will come in the biomedical field when miniscule devices are deployed to attack and devour the cells of harmful bacteria, arterial blockages and a host of other maladies. Nanotechnology can also be used to alter food crops so that they can withstand climate change and increase harvests.
Nanotechnology can make skis move faster down the slope and make the color of your car change in accordance with daylight. There are literally so many applications that can come from nanotechnology that it boggles the imagination. And along with each of these applications come careers and jobs
that will appear in the future.
This month, scientists at Penn State University will publish a paper in the journal "Nature Materials" announcing discovery of a new way to understand the structure of proteins, minerals and polymers. This research will pave the way for development of new ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials, leading to next generation computers and other technology.
Prior to this discovery, scientists and engineers had only five types of symmetries to use for creating patterns and understanding the structure of materials. Four of those types – rotation, inversion, rotation-inversion and translation, have been known for thousands of years. The fifth type, time reversal, was discovered over 50 years ago.
The Penn State researchers have defined a sixth way called, rotation reversal, which will increase the known ways of combining crystalline materials from today's 1,651 to more than 17,500.
In the very near future, humans will be able to use types of glass, polymers and ceramics that have never before existed. New materials will be created with thousands or millions of applications, opening the door to new industries and creating thousands of new jobs.
I could go on relating other breakthroughs that have come in the past two months but I think you get the point. As bad as the past few years have been for most Americans who are just trying to make a living, the world of science and engineering continues to provide a bright and promising future for engineers and anyone else who is prepared to meet the future. In the same way that science is "reinventing" the way we treat illness or look at matter, people have to reinvent themselves to welcome new opportunities that are brought about by these technological advances.
What this means is that those thousands of Americans who went back to community colleges and universities these past few years to gain new skills or stay current with technological advancement will prosper. And those who sat around all day waiting for their employer to call can plan on sitting around a lot longer.
We live in a rapidly changing world today. And in today's world the skills that people possess typically become obsolete long before they reach retirement age. The average factory worker today is producing a product that will be obsolete in less than three years. A building engineer is working with environmental controls, software and other technology that will be obsolete in less than two years.
Entrepreneurs who have not shaped and changed their business models to keep pace with the new economy that has arisen will continue to perish. A new business paradigm has emerged that demands business owners operate diverse enterprises with the flexibility to rapidly adapt to and adopt change. Today, an entrepreneur's most valuable asset is the knowledge they and their staff possess about the technology under development that will alter the industry they serve. The moment such insight falters or fades, the business begins an inevitable spiral into ruin.
I began this column by describing three scientific breakthroughs with the potential to change the world. All three of those breakthroughs came within the last thirty days of my writing these words. The next thirty days will see more scientific breakthroughs that will further change and alter our lives. Because new technology increases the speed of developing newer technology – everything is coming faster and faster.
All that we know or thought we knew is in a state of change and such change is increasing in speed at an exponential rate.
That being said, the choice for everyone who wishes to remain a part of an advanced society is clear. You can either commit to continuing your education throughout your career so as to be current with new technology and equipped to adopt that technology or you can deliver pizza.
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RUFC - Moore talks about the Chief Scout
Rotherham United Manager, Ronnie Moore has recently brought Graham Brown back to the club as chief scout, saying he thinks 'he can only benefit us.'
'One thing about Graham,' Moore told MillersPlayer, 'is that he knows the Championship, he knows the League and he knows the non-league and has good contacts in the game.
'We've got a good working relationship and I leave him to get on with it. I don't tell him where to go. He sees a lot of football, does a lot of mileage and hopefully that will make us a better club with better players because of advice from the chief scout.
'I've told him where we need to improve and he's thrown a few names in so hopefully something will be done in the near future.'
Goalkeeper, Graham, first came into the Millers' team in the 1979/80 season and was in the side the following year when they won the Division Three title. In his later years he came back to Millmoor as a valuable goalkeeping coach. Graham, born in Matlock, started his career with Millwall before moving to Mansfied in 1969. He played for Doncaster, Swansea and York before moving to Rotherham and then back to Mansfield again.

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Will Myck Kabongo Be Miami Heat's Free-Agent Steal Of 2013 Offseason?July 10, 2013
The Miami Heat summer league roster is exactly 24 players deep, but a single free agent stands out from the rest of his nearly two dozen peers.
Two years ago, Myck Kabongo was a higher-rated prospect coming out of high school than Otto Porter, Ben McLemore and Michael Carter-Williams. Today, the former University of Texas guard is struggling to earn a roster spot with the Heat after going undrafted in June.
The past 24 months haven't exactly gone according to plan for Kabongo. The 6'1" point guard struggled during his freshman year with the Longhorns, shooting just 39.1 percent from the floor.
A season later, Kabongo's stock took a massive hit after he was forced to sit out the first 23 games of the 2012-13 campaign due to inappropriate contact with a trainer who works for agent Rich Paul. Kabongo put up fairly decent numbers when he did finally get to play (14.6 PPG, 5.5 APG, 5.0 RPG), but his 3.4 turnovers per game last season is a bit disconcerting.
Talent evaluators across the NBA thought so as well, and a player who was once expected to take the Big 12 by storm turned pro only to fail to hear his name called on draft night. Perhaps Kabongo should have stayed at Texas for his junior year in order to improve his draft status. But by that same token, perhaps the NCAA shouldn't have taken two-thirds of the most important season of Kabongo's life because of an honest mistake.
"I just feel like everyone's journey is different," said Kabongo, when asked about his NCAA sanctions by Surya Fernandez of Hot Hot Hoops. "I think it's a blessing in disguise."
Off-court issues aside, Kabongo is one of the few pure point guards in the 2013 draft class. Based on his athleticism and willingness to play defense alone, Kabongo should have little trouble latching on with an NBA team by the time training camp rolls around. Kabongo is the perfect low-risk, high-reward gamble for a Heat team whose only two proven options at the point are Mario Chalmers and Norris Cole.
In an interview with the Miami Herald, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said that Kabongo "has big upside," and the team thought enough of the 20-year-old point guard to invite him to both the Orlando and Vegas Summer League.
Also working in Kabongo's favor is the fact that he and LeBron James share the same agent: the aforementioned Rich Paul. Kabongo said that he has known the two-time champion since high school, and the pair have remained friends ever since.
Alex Kennedy of HoopsWorld was stunned that Kabongo wasn't drafted in June, and said that "[i]n a few years, we might look back on that and laugh." Given Kabongo's talent and desire to improve every time that he steps out onto the court, it may only take a few months for the former Longhorn to prove the doubters wrong.


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GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. -- A 90-year-old woman managed to escape house fire thought to have been caused by lightning Wednesday in Gwinnett County.
The family said they've lived at the home on Trailblazer Way in Lilburn for more than 20 years. They said they were having coffee when they heard an explosion, but had no idea that their home was on fire until they began smelling smoke about 20 minutes later.
"We went outside and looked, and that's when we noticed the ceiling -- the roof was on fire," said the homeowner.
The three people inside, including an elderly woman, were able to get out.
"I've never seen her move that fast," the homeowner said. "She got out really fast."
There were no injuries, but the house appeared to be ruined.
PHOTOS: Storm damage in Gwinnett County
PHOTOS: Storm damage in Gwinnett County
The fire was one of three thought to be caused by lightning were reported Wednesday in Gwinnett County.
According to Gwinnett County Fire Captain Tommy Rutledge, crews worked numerous fires as a strong storm system moved through the county.
One fire was reported on Winchester in Loganville; another on Bowers Brook Drive in Lilburn; and another on Trailblazer Way in Lilburn.
Elsewhere in Lilburn, a downed tree took out the second floor of a home on Tred Avon Way. The occupants managed to get out of the house unharmed.
Gwinnett County Police said weather and spend were factors in an accident that damaged a 15-foot guardrail on Fence Road. They also reported that water under the Alcovy River bridge over New Hope Road was rising fast.
A giant oak splits, crashing on this Lilburn house. Family just now getting home to assess the damage. #11alive pic.twitter.com/dH9QHVJA7z— Rebecca Lindstrom (@LindstromNews) April 5, 2017
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An injury time penalty from Benjamin Boyet secured Bayonne a 15-16 Basque derby win over Biarritz last Friday night as Bayonne edged out of the relegation zone.
It had been a difficult week for Bayonne leading into what was essentially a cup final for both teams in terms of the table, and purely for local bragging rights. Mike Phillips was charged for taking the moral high ground by protesting his side's poor form with blind drunkenness. Thankfully there were no dwarfs or golf buggies in sight but Cedric Heymans took things too far by openly criticising his side's poor performances in public.
For a fixture that can sometimes boil over there was remarkably only one yellow card to Joe Rokocoko for a dangerous tackle. The lead changed hands several times in the closing stages of the match, but the final page of part 1 to the Basque story was written by the 30-metre injury time penalty from Benjamin Boyet after Biarritz pulled down a maul. There was, fortunately, no fists of fury cameo role for Imanol Harinordoquy's Dad, but rest assured, plenty of baguettes will be broken and wine glasses smashed in anger in the red and white side of the Basque country.
Elsewhere, Toulon suffered their first defeat of the season away to Toulouse. It was a fairly comprehensive victory for Toulouse, but Toulon will hardly cavil over the result. Bernard Laporte selected a pick n mix side, clearly picking this one as a fight not worth fighting. This attitude could not be better illustrated than by Luke McAlister's first half try that meet less resistance than Europe meet on the final day of the Ryder cup from America. Although, credit must go to Bernard Laporte for revealing, after all these years, that Nick Kennedy's strongest position is as a scavenging openside.
If last weekend's other results proved anything, it is that this Top 14 season could be the tightest one yet. Outside of Mont-de-Marsan, the make-up of the final standings is far from a given. Clermont snuck passed Stade at home, Grenoble beat Racing, Montpellier beat Castres and Agen beat Bordeaux. Such inconsistency across the league has already ruined my chances of a Superbru league predictions win.
The two fixtures this week to warm up any unlikely South Western French Autumn nip take place at the Stade Pierre Antoine, where Castres host the far from convincing table toppers Clermont and the Stade Aguilera where Biarritz welcome Toulon.
My Superbru picks round 8
Castres v Clermont. Clermont by 2
Biarritz v Toulon. Toulon by 5
Bayonne v Agen. Bayonne by 4
Grenoble v Perpignan. Grenoble by 6
Racing v Montpellier. Racing by 5
Mont-de-Marsan v Stade. Stade by 7
Bordeaux Begles v Toulouse. Toulouse by 15
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post8134972686067191627..comments2015-07-29T15:40:46.673-04:00Comments on Awful Announcing: Nike's Olympic Courage AdDeROKhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-40042392073395435882008-08-18T23:59:00.000-04:002008-08-18T23:59:00.000-04:00I loved it! By the final shot of the guy running w...I loved it! By the final shot of the guy running with prosthetics I was cheering in my living room! Yeh some of the images were out there but Nike's taken it to the next level. This is cutting edge in my opinion as a professional still firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-9627985096352092622008-08-11T14:57:00.000-04:002008-08-11T14:57:00.000-04:00I thought it was well done. Maybe it was just me,...I thought it was well done. Maybe it was just me, but I thought the music was well-placed (and I usually hate the Killers, but this song isn't so bad).firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-14732370622569933962008-08-10T21:41:00.000-04:002008-08-10T21:41:00.000-04:00Great commercial. The song is "All These Things Th...Great commercial. The song is "All These Things That I've Done" by The firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-47790039174918125072008-07-31T12:10:00.000-04:002008-07-31T12:10:00.000-04:00I'd LOVE to know who the director is?I'd LOVE to know who the director email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-1650301523329197592008-07-20T02:19:00.000-04:002008-07-20T02:19:00.000-04:00Good commercial. I was like some of the other com...Good commercial. I was like some of the other commenters who thought it seemed like a mish mash of pictures and videos thrown together. But then I started to realize that many of the people shown were athletes who overcame something to make an impact (i.e. Armstrong and Jon Lester, both cancer survivors)email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-48104628687773952992008-07-19T14:21:00.000-04:002008-07-19T14:21:00.000-04:00"I've got soul... but I'm not a soldier" is a pret..."I've got soul... but I'm not a soldier" is a pretty lame play on words.

Otherwise, the commercial is nice, even if it's completely based on the myth the professional athletes are somehow heroic for playing sports.Montyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-54260974522147167512008-07-19T11:32:00.000-04:002008-07-19T11:32:00.000-04:00Ugh, The Killers are The Dave Mathews Band of Emo....Ugh, The Killers are The Dave Mathews Band of Emo. Wake me when the hipsters decide they've sold out.
Big step down from Gnarls Barkley.Chip Bankheadhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-77955233207879113662008-07-18T21:53:00.000-04:002008-07-18T21:53:00.000-04:00Steve Prefontaine......Steve Prefontaine......firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-75284459993722058412008-07-18T18:35:00.000-04:002008-07-18T18:35:00.000-04:00Good ad! it takes courage to flip a whole lot of ...Good ad! it takes courage to flip a whole lot of times and land on your heard like that female gymnast. Ouch!CaliSurferhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-34603869048656592412008-07-18T16:05:00.000-04:002008-07-18T16:05:00.000-04:00I don't get video at work but I'm assuming that th...I don't get video at work but I'm assuming that this ad is old footage of Ricky Davis shooting at the wrong rim to get a triple double. Now THAT was the definition of courage.GMoneyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-80281132181916907712008-07-18T16:04:00.000-04:002008-07-18T16:04:00.000-04:00I'm with Matt on this one. It's just not as good ...I'm with Matt on this one. It's just not as good as the other Nike commercials in this vein, because it lacks a narrative theme that made the other commercials work. It's also simply not as cool as the "Leave Nothing" or "Next Level" commercials.Patrickhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-51439136559505655712008-07-18T15:29:00.000-04:002008-07-18T15:29:00.000-04:00Nike ads are the Rolling Stones (60's version) of ...Nike ads are the Rolling Stones (60's version) of commercials. Sure, they can be be interesting, but they're trying too hard to be relevant.

Now, as for the Beatles of commercials...well, no such thing email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-22303685820874071392008-07-18T15:11:00.000-04:002008-07-18T15:11:00.000-04:00I love this kind of advertisement. I'm a sucker f...I love this kind of advertisement. I'm a sucker for any advertisement with clips of sports triumphs and tribulations. Makes me semi-excited for the Olympics.

I'm not too sure why they had all the random clips of indigenous people dancing and buffaloes roaming the wild though.frankingeneralhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-49428523194081993322008-07-18T14:49:00.000-04:002008-07-18T14:49:00.000-04:00Oscar Pizturis (sp) was what made it for me at the...Oscar Pizturis (sp) was what made it for me at the end. awesome.Jakehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-58203199322764147442008-07-18T14:05:00.000-04:002008-07-18T14:05:00.000-04:00Too much cutting of the clips I thought, granted t...Too much cutting of the clips I thought, granted they couldn't stretch things to two minutes, but longer clips of the sprinter being carried by his dad and other famous "goosebump" Olympic moments would have really made it. They tried to fit 100 images/clips into one minute and it didn't really captivate firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-89329231083438394212008-07-18T13:44:00.000-04:002008-07-18T13:44:00.000-04:00They chopped that song up too much, but it still d...They chopped that song up too much, but it still did give me goosebumps.rs27https://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-30362724892291419322008-07-18T13:34:00.000-04:002008-07-18T13:34:00.000-04:00It's a cool ad, but the message doesn't really mak...It's a cool ad, but the message doesn't really make sense. The song, the video cut-ins, and the final "courage" tagline all have no clear connection to each other. I just don't get email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-16530283561152753082008-07-18T13:29:00.000-04:002008-07-18T13:29:00.000-04:00That ad's Killer.That ad's firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-40220244452266070382008-07-18T13:20:00.000-04:002008-07-18T13:20:00.000-04:00I like it but I think they could've chosen better ...I like it but I think they could've chosen better music. I love the song but I don't think it quite fits. As sad as it is to say this about a commercial, for Nike, the song just isn't epic enough.My Phenomenal Swaghttps://email@example.com


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Cassadee Pope, the winner of the third season of "The Voice," has released the music video for her next single, "I Wish I Could Break Your Heart."
"It's not make or break," she explained. "It's not a heartbroken song where the world's going to end but it's a song about loving somebody."
"It's a great relationship; you're happy but you know that they could break you so easily and you feel so vulnerable," she said. "And you feel too weak compared to them and you wish if you could see if you could break them if they would fall apart. If they would fall to pieces. I think that's a really cool and honest lyric. It's an outside song and I just love what it says."
Pope said she liked that the song reminded her of Faith Hill's 2002 hit, "Cry."
"You just wish that that other person would feel a little more and you wish that you could almost make them cry, just to know that you have that power over them," she explained. "But, it's overall a very happy song. I love the silly, playful undertone that that song has."


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In an interesting chain of events, I recently enjoyed a 30-minute telephone call with Sen. Lisa Murkowski. She called me from Washington D.C. in March. I really have Matthew Felling, Murkowski's communication director, to thank for this.
Some may know Felling better as the former anchor and lead political reporter for Anchorage's KTVA Channel 11 News. I didn't have any idea, but he's quite the fan of mine. Somewhere along the line, he got the idea that I wasn't aware of Senator Lisa Murkowski's love of the Alaska craft brewing industry. Sadly enough, he was right.
The root of my ignorance isn't apathy, but rather my steadfast writing objective. When I sat down to pen the very first beer column I wrote (going on 18 years ago), I thought back to what I'd learned about writing in school. I remembered that every piece had to have an objective. A good writer always asks, "What do I want the reader to come away with when they read this?"
The answer I came up with was "to be thirsty for good beer."
Writing about beer politics doesn't do that. I might just break my unwavering rule today.
Unbeknownst to me, Felling enjoyed my beer column and continues to read it online from afar. Somewhere along the line, he got the idea that Murkowski and I needed to connect.
Murkowski was born in Ketchikan, but she doesn't just visit that community when she comes back to Alaska. On a trip to Kodiak, she traveled to Kodiak Island Brewing Company where she found great interest in the impact that a small brewing operation can have on a community both from a social standpoint and as an economic engine.
As the executive director of the Brewer's Guild of Alaska, which oversees our state's whopping 23 breweries (with seven more in planning), I am well aware of what our craft beer industry contributes to Alaska.
Murkowski undeniably has a lot more clout and political influence than I do, and I'm excited that she's on craft brewing's side. Murkowski works to promote, protect and enhance Alaska's craft breweries as co-chair of the bipartisan Senate Brewer's Caucus.
The Caucus "is dedicated to educating Members of Congress and their staff about legislation, regulations, and other unique issues faced by small American breweries."
Murkowski told me, "the Small Brewer's Caucus is one of the many in the U.S. Senate, but this is one that I think feels good. When you're doing something to help your small businesses around your state it feels good."
She's also a supporter of the Small Brew Act, which seeks to reduce the federal beer excise tax for our nation's smallest brewers. Under current federal law, brewers making less than 2 million barrels of beer pay $7 a barrel in taxes on the first 60,000 barrels of beer they produce and $18 a barrel for anything over that. The Act seeks to reduce the tax to $3.50 a barrel on the first 60,000 barrels, then to $16 a barrel for amounts between 60,001 and 2 million barrels. For any amounts above that, the rate would be the current, full $18 per barrel.
"What we're trying to do is really help to reduce the taxes ... by cutting taxes on the first 60,000 barrels in half, it clears the way for more small brewers to expand, hire more folks and it just allows them to really engage in a business that want to be involved in." she explained.
One of the things Murkowski is doing is attempting to visit all of our craft breweries in the state during her travels. "I have a map of the breweries in the state and I'm trying to get in and talk to these folks. I want to ask them what's impacting you and your operations? What can we be doing better? It's about giving these folks encouragement. It's a point of community pride," she says.
Murkowski was particularly enamored of the HooDoo Brewing Company in Fairbanks. Hoo Doo's the creation of brewer/owner Bobby Wilken. It opened in November 2012 and has been amazingly successful since then.
"When I was at HooDoo talking to Bobby Wilken and how he got into it, he talks about his desire to be a businessmen but that he also wants to have a family life. He's got kids. There's a tricycle there in the brewery. It says a lot. He wanted the quality of life where it's not all about making the big bucks; it's also about what's going on in your community and a desire to be where you want to be making a living and supporting your family," Murkowski said.
I'm proud that she feels that craft beer here is as deserving of the Made in Alaska logo as any other locally produced product, if not more so.
"We have our brewpubs and little breweries are giving us identity and local pride aspects to their communities. I think it's great to build community or regional pride in something that's truly Alaska grown," Murkowski said.
I don't know about you, but as a craft beer lover and a staunch supporter of our small craft brewing operations and their presence within and contribution to their local communities, I know I have a friend in Lisa. She gets my vote.


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Source : Fortean Times
Point Place West Virginia
In 1978, journalist RICK MORAN was asked to test his theory that journalists are better equipped to investigate paranormal mysteries than those seeking to prove or disprove them. The subject of the challenge was the series of events enshrined in John Keels book The Mothman Prophecies (1975). With a small group of fellow researchers, he set out for Mothmans stomping ground, but did not reckon on the Men in Black.
In 1978, I had just finished a round of radio and television talk shows, playing counterpoint to Jay Anson, then promoting his notorious book The Amityville Horror (1977). Anson claimed that the house was infested with demons, but his chief proof amounted to nothing more than that the haunting had attracted a visit from the Psychical Research Foundation (PRF). Asked to address the staff of the PRF on the Campus of Duke University, I proposed that field researchers looking into cases of the unexplained should adopt the tenets of investigative journalism; to look at the human stories together with the unvarnished facts (insofar as they could be discovered). This might better help us understand strange events than either the logical data and natural scepticism of scientists or the efforts of so-called paranormal researchers looking for proof of their pre-existing beliefs.
After the presentation, one PRF researcher asked me whether I had read John Keels book The Mothman Prophecies. I had not, so I was challenged to take a look at the events described therein and to see whether journalistic methods could shed any more light on the mystery.
Beginning in late 1966 and throughout 1967, the village of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, was abuzz with tales of the unexplained. On 15 December 1967, the Silver Bridge that linked West Virginia with Ohio, across the Ohio River, collapsed. These events which, strangely, ended as abruptly as they began formed the core of Keels investigations and The Mothman Prophecies, first published in 1975, records flying creatures, UFOs, animal mutilations, Men in Black and what we now call experiences of missing time.
Like Jay Ansons Amityville Horror, which offered a wide-ranging mix of hauntings and otherworldly phenomena, Mothman seemed to synthesize all UFO-related phenomena into one book. Like Amityville, too, it claimed to be a true story one that many thoughtful readers felt was too good to be true.
The criteria set by Anson in his own defence of Amityville were simple. On several occasions, during our radio and television debates, he told me: Youre a journalist, therefore you have to follow the rules of journalism. Im a writer and your rules simply do not apply to me. In the end, Anson had a bestseller and a movie deal and several folks were quick to tell me that I had done more to stir up interest in Amityville than Anson ever did.
In looking at Mothman, I assumed the same criteria were in place. John Keel was a best selling author in the field of UFOs and, at first glance, Mothman seemed perfect grist for the mill that fed interest in the unexplained. At least one good friend of mine, Joel Martin a talk show host for WBAB on Long Island said that Keel should not be compared with writers like Anson; Keel was a good researcher not prone to hyping, Martin said. And so, in the summer of 1978, just over a decade after the bridge tragedy, I was on the road to West Virginia in a small RV, a well-annotated copy of Mothman in hand and a sheaf of questions in a worn ring-binder under my arm.
Point Pleasant was a congenial little town of about 5,000 people, and still bore the scars of the Silver Bridge collapse. The bridge supports still stood in the middle of the Ohio River (see below) and a plaque now commemorates those who died there in 1967. It was easy to see that the town had grown up around the bridge as it fed traffic across the Ohio River directly into the centre of town. On that fatal day, inbound rush hour traffic had been halted by a traffic signal a block from the bridge and had backed up traffic across it, putting an unbearable load on the old structure.
Of course, Point Pleasant predated the bridge by several hundred years. Once home to Daniel Boone, it saw a great battle on 10 October 1774 at which the Virginians defeated the American Indians. My RV and company of colleagues camped at the battle site Tu-Endie Wei Park. The treaty that followed the battle stripped Native Americans of their rights to the surrounding lands, forcing them to leave their ancestral hunting and fishing grounds and, eventually, to leave the area altogether. Familiarising ourselves with some basic history and the lay of the land including a brief visit to the TNT area at the heart of the Mothman story we settled into the camp-ground to plan our next few days.
We agreed early on that the suggestion of a connection between the phenomenon and a curse by the chief of the defeated Indians was not an issue for us to consider. Whether Chief Cornstalk had cursed future residents of the land was immaterial to our investigation, unless we were willing to follow a thread that might tie all UFO phenomena worldwide to ancient curses.
Likewise the Silver Bridge collapse, which so dramatically concluded the phenomenon, was not up for further investigation. Its cause was thoroughly investigated by officials from several state and federal agencies and blamed on a combination of metal wear, structural deterioration, weather, and the weight of static traffic on the bridge at the time; we could add nothing to that. We also agreed that the reported cattle mutilations were now 20 years in the past. Thus we focused on the UFO activity, which included the reported sightings of Mothman during the 13 months prior to the bridge collapse and the associated appearance of Men in Black (MIBs).
However, we immediately hit a problem; our foray into the TNT area (above) had an unexpected effect on two team members. Although we went in broad daylight, my resident psychic said she had a bad feeling about the place; then my usually-analytical research partner admitted that her blood ran cold just driving through the area. I saw that maintaining our objectivity might be difficult We agreed to leave any further visits to the area to the end of our stay.
Early the next morning, I hit the streets, first stopping at a coffee shop in town and then visiting both the police station and the local newspaper office. My colleagues phoned around, trying to locate people mentioned in the book and set up interviews with them. Bringing up the topic of Mothman in the coffee shop had an interesting result; nearly everyone I spoke to remembered the year of the UFOs and had a theory about it. Most seemed to know someone directly connected to the phenomenon and were willing to vouch for their veracity. Most residents had seen something, whether it was strange lights in the sky or abnormal activity on the outskirts of town during that period. Even the more spectacular claims, they said, were made by people who were not otherwise prone to telling tall tales.
We got a similar reaction at the police station and newspaper office; not one person took the claims lightly, but vouched for the sincerity of those people who told of their close encounters with the phenomenon. I was used to scepticism from public officials and professional journalists and finding its opposite was quite unexpected. Even more intriguing was the fact that many people had other stories to tell, ones which were not included in Keels book.
I was hoping to find a witness who might further embellish their testimony as reported in the book, or even recant. In my experience, the passage of time allowed witnesses to relax and, as years passed, they were more likely to admit it if they were wrong. Several of Keels original witnesses had either moved from the area or had died; but of those we were able to contact by telephone, only one person refused to speak to us.
First, we interviewed those who had witnessed Mothman at close proximity, then those involved with the MIB visits; not one witness swerved from their original account. Statistically, this had to be some sort of record. The deeper our questions got, the more we were convinced that the witness had indeed seen or interacted with something.
One particularly memorable subject, who was up-front about what she had seen, was an older woman who said she had encountered Mothman in her backyard. Her property was close to the boundaries of the TNT area and, hearing a buzzing or humming sound coming from the back of her home, she went out to investigate. It was mid-afternoon, and when she opened the back door she found herself face to face with Mothman, hovering about 10 feet in front of her. Her description was detailed, suggesting something more like a machine than an animal. She had no conscious memory of communicating with the visitor; to the best of her recollection, she simply backed up into the house and closed the door.
This woman was not frightened by what she had seen, in fact she was astonished at her own calmness. On returning to her living room she noticed that the TV show she had been watching prior to hearing the noise in the backyard had ended and the next program was about two-thirds through. More than 25 minutes of time was missing. She returned to the back door and looked out through the window, but the visitor had gone. Her testimony seemed to rule out any kind of nocturnal creature.
Most of the other encounters, however, took place well after sunset. As suggested in Keels book, the TNT area had become the place for teenagers to go for biological experimentation. In the very first sighting, the terrified witnesses, surprised while parked there, fled back to town at high speed with the Mothman in hot pursuit. Somehow, the creature was able to keep up with the car at nearly 100 mph, according to the witnesses, whose statement to the police is now part of the public record. One older officer, when asked about that report, said that he knew the officer who had written it and swore that he was not the kind of man to put anything in the record that he did not believe happened.
Other witnesses mentioned in the book told of glowing red eyes and a buzzing or humming sound. UFO sightings were even more routine during this period, so common in fact that the local newspaper stopped reporting them on a regular basis. The entire community became desensitised to the phenomenon and spoke matter-of-factly about nightly sightings of UFOs or the latest news on the creature.
You might expect that frightened residents would avoid the TNT area; the opposite happened. Saturday night in Point Pleasant now had a diversion far superior to the local movie house. Dozens of cars flocked to the site nightly in hopes of catching a glimpse of the red-eyed monster from outer space. If anything, this attests to the widely-held local belief that whatever the UFO was, it was not dangerous. One officer told us that, at times, there were so many sightseers that police officers turned out to direct traffic.
The reaction of residents to the mysterious visitors that followed was not so laid back. The Men in Black were seen and are remembered as truly malevolent individuals, despite their sometimes amusing quirks. More than 10 years after their last visitation, those who had invited the MIBs into their homes still remembered the very real feeling of danger in their presence.
Of course, MIBs were not unique to Point Pleasant; they had been well documented in earlier UFO lore and were being researched. Unlike Mothman, the MIBs sent a shockwave of fear through their contactees. As chronicled by Keel, they arrived in shiny black cars which, like their equally shiny shoes, seemed impervious to the weather.
As the MIBs passed themselves off as officials involved in the UFO investigation, their aura of menace was combined with an absurd fascination for quite mundane objects. Keels most memorable example is that when offered Jell-O, an MIB saved a sample in a paper napkin, tucking it into his coat. They asked questions about common food items and their speech seemed somehow odd and disjointed. Most importantly, witnesses noticed the MIB had no ears, or seemed to talk without moving their lips. Youd think the witnesses would be terrified, having seen such obvious warning signs, but a strange calm prevailed until after the visitors left; only then did people realise how odd, even horrifying, their visitors were.
Were the MIBs just an interesting sideshow to the Mothman tales? Our team conducted interviews, looked for deviations from the original stories and then departed. One witness told us, as we were leaving her home, that she believed the MIBs veiled threats were very real and that anyone looking seriously into the phenomenon was placing themselves in harms way. There was little question in my mind that someone or something had toyed with anyone who had directly encountered a UFO.
Eventually, it was time to go back to the TNT area. In fact we made two visits that day, one in daylight and the second late at night. Even in daylight the place was quite surreal. Its domed containment buildings (used for storing the TNT) were stark, looking like rows of igloos. The landscape was criss-crossed by deteriorated roads, their paving broken up by clumps of grass. There were several larger buildings including a power plant that looks much like Draculas castle and other outbuildings, now gutted and crumbling.
Back at camp, we considered several alternatives. Was Mothman a government experiment, a test of the common mans reaction to things otherworldly? Maybe, but in 10 years one might expect to see some of that technology surface in the real world. There were other problems with this scenario, such as where such technology was housed and where the support system could be for such a project. It simply did not seem an appropriate theory in this case; Point Pleasant wasnt Groom Lake!
Perhaps Mothman and his dark kin were mental projections; a mind control experiment of some sort? Theoretically, this kind of project wouldnt require a large support base. Could it be that those visited by MIBs were actually visited by normal humans who then, somehow, planted the image of earless, non-verbal investigators with shiny black shoes in their stead?
As our campfire debate went on under the stars, the group concluded that this was just too far-fetched. We began, slowly, to consider the reality of UFO activity, an area none of us had ever thought likely before coming to Point Pleasant, and with that possibility came a new idea about the reality of the MIBs.
That evening, we went back to take a last look at the TNT area, now a black landscape. We waited two hours; nothing happened no flashing red lights from radio towers or buzzing noises from nearby transformers. Nothing!
One team member recalled the old quote from Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of Four: When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. As a group, we were well versed in paranormal activity, but this was not just another ghost story and, try as we might, we could not fit the UFO pegs into any of the paranormal holes we were familiar with. If our goal had been to find the common threads between ghosts, apparitions and UFOs, we had failed. If it had been to find another suposedly true story woven from strands of fiction, that too had failed.
It was not until we returned to New York that we realised we had, indeed, learned something. As the time came to tell our colleagues at PRF that we had failed to find a chink in the Mothman armour, two occurrences convinced us that we could no longer sit on the fence in this case.
It was never my intention to speak out publicly about Mothman, but the first of the two occurrences caused me to change my mind. Only two days after returning to New York, my children began to complain that there was something wrong with our telephones. In fact, the next time I went to use one of them, the classic clicks and whirs of a phone tap were evident. Next, the kids reported that they were picking up the phone to hear conversations in progress and the topic was our family.
While this was interesting, I was not overly concerned until a close friend told me the following story. She had phoned and, according to her account, began having a conversation with me. She swore that it was my voice and that the conversation touched upon things that only she and the immediate family would have known. After about 10 minutes, the voice at the other end stopped her and began to laugh demonically as she put it. Then it paused and said in a totally different tone, Oh, you wanted to talk to Rick. Sorry, Im here all alone with the children. Whoever it was hung up and my friends follow-up call got a busy signal. This was a near impossibility, given that the house had four lines, including one reserved for my personal use only; the system would roll over a call if any of the lines being called were busy. The children were indeed at home, alone, and said they had not been using any of the phones.
This one incident was quite enough but, the very next day, a call was made to my home by a man who told my wife that, if she cared at all about her children, she would convince me to drop my interest in UFOs and forget Point Pleasant. Because of the earlier call, we had a device on all of the phones in the house that would give the phone company information on the source of the caller. But when the trace was finally read, the technician said that the call appeared to originate from within my house a good trick considering my wife was at home alone that day.
A week after this, I was to be a guest on Joel Martins talk show at WBAB on Long Island. The topic for the evening had nothing to do with UFOs or haunted houses; it was about the defoliant Agent Orange and its use in Vietnam, but when I arrived at the station there had been a change.
Joel met me in the lobby of the station, which was unusual. Usually, his producer would be on hand to get me settled in, with Joel busy up to airtime. But this time, Joel was sitting in the hall with his producer and even before he exchanged the usual greetings, he asked me what I knew about MIBs. I was, to say the least, shaken. He told me that he had been visited by a classic MIB, who cautioned him about doing shows about UFOs. Joel had known about my trip to Point Pleasant and the Mothman story. After some momentary conversation, we agreed that it was time to go public. Whenever a journalist feels he is in danger, the best advice is to put everything he knows before the public in the hope that, once it is public knowledge, there is no reason to threaten the source.
That program went off without a hitch and to the best of my knowledge neither Joel, nor any member of my family, were contacted again. The experience was, however, an eye-opener. Having spent a good part of my life reporting about crime and criminals, including covering the mob families of New York, I had never received any threat to my family apart from this incident. The world of UFOs, I had thought, up to that point, was harmless; just part of the wide range of things that go bump in the night. Now, my mind had been changed.
I also came to believe that The Mothman Prophecies was based on very real events and while I still cant buy the tie-in to either Chief Cornstalk or the Silver Bridge disaster, I do think that the reports of UFOs, Mothman and the MIBs were based on truthful accounts by honest people. So, what do I think really happened in Point Pleasant over those 13 months? I think that someone or something was involved in a complex human experiment. Whether this project originated with the government or an otherworldly source, I cannot say. The UFOs, the cattle mutilations, Mothman and the MIBs were all an orchestrated experiment, which ended when the Silver Bridge collapsed, shaking the community of Point Pleasant profoundly.


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Mixing Metaphors and Diluting Memory: Lynching - The Reality
— Gode Davis and Peter Ian Asen
ON OCTOBER 9, 2005, U.S. Senator Arlen Specter appeared on ABC's "This Week" to defend Harriet Miers, President Bush's confidante whose nomination to the Supreme Court had evoked howls of protest, particularly from the Christian Right. Specter told George Stephanopoulos that Miers' verbal critics made up "one of the toughest lynch mobs ever assembled in Washington, DC, and we assemble some tough lynch mobs." In claiming Washington's penchant for "tough lynch mobs," Senator Specter was not speaking literally—though he could have been. It is unlikely that Specter meant to evoke the actual lynch mobs roaming the streets of Washington D.C. for four days during the "Red Summer" of 1919, attacking African-Americans in a frenzy whipped up by racism, anti-communism, fears of joblessness, and post-war jingoism.
On the night of July 19, 1919, an angry white crowd hundreds strong descended upon a Black neighborhood in Washington, fracturing skulls with bricks and violently harassing any African American it could find. The fuse of the mob's anger had been lit by rumors that a Black man had sexually assaulted a white woman, the wife of a Navy sailor.
These rumors came on the heels of weeks of articles in local papers highlighting a "Negro sex fiend" supposedly raping white women throughout the area, the reports substantiated in the minds of white readers by sensational headlines such as "NEGRO FIEND SOUGHT ANEW."
From the first night, violence spread in sporadic incidents throughout the city, with perpetrators brazen enough to declare their lynching intentions. On the third day, according to a 1999 historical account by Peter Perl in the Washington Post:
James Scott, a World War I veteran, boarded a streetcar at Seventh Street and Florida Avenue NW late Monday night and quickly noticed he was the only black man on board. As he headed for a vacant seat, a white soldier barred his way and shouted, "Where are you going, nigger?"
"Lynch him!" yelled another white. "Kill him! Throw him out the window," others yelled.
"I was being grabbed from all sides. I forced my way to the rear door and was hit by something as I stepped off, which cut my ear and bruised my head," Scott recalled in a statement to the NAACP. "As the car moved away, the conductor fired three shots at me."
The violence flowed for four days, with African Americans reacting with their own mob violence, before President Woodrow Wilson finally called out the National Guard. Senator Specter's use of the phrase "lynch mob"—like the emotionally charged claim by Clarence Thomas in 1991 that he was the victim of an "electronic lynching"—suggests that lynching's bloody history has been sufficiently diluted in the American imagination so as to become mere rhetoric for political discourse.
Fourteen years after Thomas transformed "lynching" into a personal metaphor dependent upon his black skin, a political "lynch mob" can be said to descend on an elite, white, Christian woman (a seemingly unlikely lynching victim) for the "crime" of not being far enough to the right.
No Apology
Collective memory of lynching has also been diluted to the extent that some of Specter's Senate colleagues could brazenly refuse to add their own names to a June 13, 2005 resolution apologizing for their legislative body's collective failure to ever pass Federal anti-lynching legislation. The resolution—introduced by Senators Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and George Allen (R-Va.)—lacked the names of 11 Republican senators.
Even sponsorship of this non-binding apology, a goodwill gesture with no real implications for contemporary racism and hate crimes, was not exactly evidence of a commitment to seriously condemn America's history of mob violence. In fact, one of the original cosponsors (Allen) had recently received negative press for displaying a noose in his law office and a Confederate flag in his home.
Still, Sen. Lamar Alexander told Roll Call that he did not cosponsor the resolution because, "rather than begin to catalog and apologize for all those times that some Americans have failed to reach our goals, I prefer to look ahead. I prefer to look to correct current injustices rather than to look to the past."
Thankfully for Alexander, his fellow Tennessean and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist blocked a roll call vote on the resolution, preventing Alexander from having to go on the record as officially opposing or supporting the measure. But the media reports of the resolution focused far more on the pomp and circumstance of the apology, and less on the political machinations that left supporters of the resolution with a tepid conclusion. A sparsely attended voice vote at 7 p.m. on June 13 featured only a handful of Senators.
Haunting Memories
They got me up to the tree, they put the rope up around my neck, they threw the end of the rope round the limb of the tree. I kept looking to the right and to the left and begging for help, telling people to help me, that I hadn't done anything to deserve this. And they were getting ready to pull me back up, when I prayed to God, said Lord, have mercy, forgive me my sins. As soon as I prayed, a voice came out and said, 'take this boy down, he had nothing to do with any killing or raping.' And that voice came from far away, drifting down. And…that mob, that had already killed two human beings, those hands became soft and kind and tender, and they took that rope off my neck, and allowed me to stumble back to the jail, which was just a half a block away. —H. James Cameron, in an interview for the in-progress documentary "American Lynching"
As the lynching resolution gave way to posturing and political maneuverings, any hope of new self-examination by America of its own sordid lynching record was quickly deflated. Also left unchallenged was the prevailing impression that the only "other" victimized by American lynch mobs were African-Americans. Historians William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb have documented that at least 605 Hispanic Americans were lynched in the United States between 1848 and 1928—and this number may well be conservative.
In fact, once vociferously targeted groups such as Mexican-Americans, Chinese laborers, Italians, anti-Capitalist and "unpatriotic" union activists, homosexuals, Jews, and Mormons were never emphasized throughout a spate of Capitol activities on June 13, 2005. Attacks on American-Arabs, Moslems and Sikhs attacked by self-styled "patriots" in misplaced retribution for 2001's horrific "9-11" events were unmentioned.
It was a bittersweet moment for the resolution's major advocates, like H. James Cameron, now a 91-year old who had barely survived an August 7, 1930 lynching event in Marion, Indiana at the age of 16.
Cameron served several years in prison as an accessory before the fact in the murder of Claude Deeter—a crime committed by one of the two young Black men lynched on that fateful day. Nearly six decades later, Cameron founded America's Black Holocaust Museum in 1988. Haunting memories of August 7, 1930 still enable him to articulate his experience of lynching seventy-five years on.
Cameron's eloquence, combined with his ancient presence, at a Hart Senate Building press conference prior to the historic vote led to many reminders, in media accounts surrounding the hoopla, of his status as "the only living survivor" of a lynching. These emphatic proclamations of Cameron's unique position, whatever their intentions, seemed to erase lynching as an American phenomenon even as reporters documented a supposed moment of remembrance—implying that such hateful violence was tucked deep in the past.
The same could be said for Lamar Alexander's presumptuous decree that he "prefer[s] to look ahead"—as if more than 1000 incidents of anti-Arab, anti-Moslem, and anti-Sikh violence occurring in a vitriolic five-month window after September 11, 2001 had never been conceived, let alone perpetrated.
Left unsaid, almost too obvious to point out and yet still somehow ignored, was the real reason there is only one known survivor of lynching. It is not that so much time has passed since lynchings have occurred, but rather the simple fact that in most lynchings, the victim is killed. Even H. James Cameron was spared that ignominious fate by an unknown voice audible at the last minute as if in a dark and twisted fairy tale.
Forgotten too is the reality that two other young African-American men were summarily hanged—if only to satisfy the self-righteous lust of a lynch mob.
Absent History, Mob Hysteria
The history of lynching in the U.S. is an important part of our nation's complex heritage, yet it remains largely absent from the American consciousness. A desire to erase lynching is not simply disdain for history; it is also an aversion to "catalog [ing]" America's "fail [ure] to reach its goals," as Lamar Alexander would have it.
Lynching is so disturbing not just for its nasty brutality but for its stark exposure of what the banality of evil really is. The idea of entire families—including impressionable children—going out to a lynching after church on Sunday strikes at the core of this most uncomfortable aspect of the phenomenon.
In an interview for our in-progress documentary "American Lynching," H. James Cameron was asked who made up a lynch mob. "Ordinary people—your neighbors. People you wouldn't think. Good people, bad people, angry people, loving people, churchgoing people. All of them get caught up in that mob hysteria."
In a lynch mob, the individual becomes anonymous. In a 1981 article for the scholarly journal Social Behavior and Personality, Peter Peretti and Deborah Singletary wrote of the lynch mob participant:
He is free from individual restraints and control during the deviant act... As a fragment of a faceless mob, the individual can say or do things that he would never dare say or do when facing society on his own. After the conclusion of the lynching, with the tension relieved and the mob dispersed, he can again become an ordinary member of society behaving according to its prescribed norms and restraints.
While hysteria was certainly an element of lynch mob behavior, and perhaps a persistent one, other aspects seemed more deliberate and conscious. Many of these public displays of unimaginable brutality were ritualized affairs, carefully orchestrated.
History records a "Captain Pratt" whose macabre skill was much in demand throughout the Deep South and Southwest during the lynch-crazy 1890s. A socially approved serial killer, he would travel to different communities in order to teach the practiced "art" of burning mob victims alive—as a means of earning his livelihood.
Under the post-9/11 rubric of the "war on terror," certain aspects of the still unresolved lynch mob mentality have become permissible or at least judged more palatable. Dora Apel, writing in a recent issue of Art Journal, has associated the black and white sepia prints culled from historic lynching events with recent color photos depicting torture and abuse of prisoners in facilities administered by American military and civilian personnel in Iraq.
"Both sets of perpetrators," Apel writes, "in their loftiest rationalizations, believe they are committing their deeds for the good of the nation, or at least, their actions are sanctioned by a larger community and serve the interests of that community." Senator Arlen Specter may have been reluctant to link one American event distant in time to atrocities more recent. Rather, he was content to relegate lynching to the status of mere metaphor in the discussion about a beleaguered U.S. Supreme Court nominee.
While history is a product of memory, our memories are all too fleeting. Remembering lynching as a phenomenon might provoke us to enact a fundamental shift in our thinking as a way to truly repudiate lynching's legacy. In the meantime, the essence of lynching's malignant mindset keeps on keeping on.
ATC 120, January-February 2006


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Caracol Inauguration: Replacing Durable Economic Activity with Dependence on Foreign Factories
By Etant Dupain
Today is the official opening of the Caracol industrial park in northern Haiti, despite major concerns about the environmental risks within a region that is part of the country's touristic and artistic heritage.
Before the official inauguration, several thousand employees have been working in the Caracol park for the last three months at a wage of 150 gourdes ($3.75 US) a day. Since October 1st, the new minimum wage law has gone into effect, with the government setting the minimum at 300 gourdes a day. Despite this, the managers of the factory operating at Caracol aren't respecting the new official minimum wage.
Over four hundred farming families, who worked the land that was taken to construct the Caracol park, are now trying to survive however they can without work. They are also waiting for the government to fulfill the promises they made when they took their land two years ago. The Haitian government promised to give them new land so they could continue to work as farmers, but it appears that the land that was designated is not fertile, according to the farmers. It seems counter-productive that the government took fertile land to pave over and build an industrial park, and will now have to spend a huge quantity of money to prepare the land so that it can produce food in soil that has a high quantity of salt. It will cost $7,000 US to prepare each hectare of land, whereas the government paid the farmers only $500-1,500 to cover two years of harvests while they wait for new land.
According to the farmers, they consider themselves to be victims of discrimination, the same kind of discrimination they experienced during the eradication of the creole pigs. Their most durable economic activity - in this case, farming - has been taken from them and replaced with dependence on foreign owned factories.
Here are some articles and video that explain the impact of the Caracol park, and the problems it will create in the future.


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Discussion in 'Drum & Bass' started by TheNitwits, Oct 20, 2014.
it's in here , minute 28:20
Can't get enough of Break, everything he puts out is fucking ridiculous
Wow he did re-edit Framework I'm missing the "come up with some new drumkits smiley" on here.
Die played this at Outlook, fuck off
This couldn't be that forthcoming release on Playaz he keeps talking about could it?
Edit: I mean I'm pretty sure the sample he used mentions jump up.
Could easily see this b/w with Strictly Entertainment
Hopefully not playaz!!
Where can I find audio for that?
Nothing wrong with their output a ATM, I don't even really even like classic jump up, thank God for Annix and Hazard (and now Break as well I guess) are trying to take it in a more tasteful direction. Only problem is them not pressing anything, but I've got my panties in a twist too many times about this kind of stuff.
Its on Playaz, coming out Nov. 10th I think with Strictly Entertainment on the flip
Love that gritty distorted bass sound that Break makes sound so clean!
Strictly Entertainment in here a few secs after 25:00 http://www.bassblog.pro/2013/12/dj-hype-kiss-fm-11122013.html
Also a bit of Audio - http://vk.com/dnb2day?w=wall-35461153_26393
Both sounding big! But another one not seeing wax, shame
Playaz' release of the year
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A camouflage backdrop to delight George W. Bush stripped any ambiguity from Harper's message: Even soft-spoken middle powers must carry a big stick.
It's the Prime Minister's familiar claim that wielding that stick in Afghanistan centres Canada on the world stage. Even if true, the disasters now dominating the news are reminders that international relevance relies on more than force.
Relevance for a country with a military more respected for professionalism than feared for its firepower is measured by diplomatic influence. Against that yardstick, Canada is backsliding.
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China, having just eclipsed Canada in U.S. trade, is the wind driving the global power shift reshaping economies and international institutions. It's also a deciding factor in many of today's trouble spots.
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