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Multiple fires occurred in our area compounded by lightning strikes, heat, wind and, Fourth of July fireworks. A fire in the Fruitland Ridge area burned one home and threatened another, prompting an attack on the fire using ground crews as well as multiple aircraft.
Also, Fourth of July fireworks are suspected causes of fires in Shelter Cove, including several small fires and a larger fire near Little Black Sands Beach that threatened several homes and presented challenges to fire fighters.
Additionally, several lightening-related fires, including one in the Harris area, were reported and extinguished on July 3. Another fire, that occurred near the intersection of Redwood Drive and Alderpoint Rd., Garberville, on Thurs. July 4, was also extinguished-see photos, above and below, taken by Felix Omai.
Use the player below to hear two fire-related stories, aired on the KMUD Local News Fri., July 5, 2013, by KMUD News correspondent Eileen Russell. The first piece gives details on the recent fires and includes interviews with Cheryl Anthony, Public Information Officer for the Shelter Cove Volunteer Fire Dept., and David Janssen Spokesman for Calfire. The second story is a report from Eric Black focusing on fire and other health-related issues associated with climate change and includes excerpts from a talk given by Dr. Wendy Ring, a 56-year old family physician who is riding a bicycle across the country to draw attention to the negative health impacts of climate change.
Brian Elie and Eric Kirk were recipients of the first-ever recognition for exceptional volunteerism and professional pro-bono work to KMUD for their assistance in handling the legal and real estate issues involved in two estates bequeathed to KMUD.
Brian Elie, the broker and owner of the Madrone Reality in Garberville and longtime KMUD programmer (Brian's World- Fridays 10 am - noon), was warmly applauded as he received a lifetime membership award and KMUD sweatshirt at the KMUD 2013 Annual KMUD Membership Meeting held last Tues., June 25 at the Healy Senior Center in Redway.
Eric Kirk, Attorney at Law with offices at 864 Locust St # A, Garberville, does a talk show on KMUD called "All Things Reconsidered" airing on the third Thurs. of each month from 7-8 pm. Kirk was not able to attend the membership meeting for the presentation.
According to Board Treasurer, Julia Minton, "In addition to their years of volunteer service to KMUD, both Brian Elie and Eric Kirk worked very diligently and selflessly on KMUD's two bequests. We are eternally grateful for their dedication and volunteer service."
Other highlights of the annual meeting included a final call for Member Representative Nominations for the Board and a "Strategic Planning Input Process" that gave those attending the meeting an opportunity to write answers to several questions, including questions about what KMUD does well and what would be the perfect KMUD programming? These responses will be taken into consideration as the Board continues developing its strategic plan.
Click here for a copy of the Agenda for the meeting.
The Photo below shows KMUD Board President Suzanne Beers presenting the Life Time Membership Award and KMUD Sweatshirt to Brian Elie. Photos on this page by Terri Klemetson.
Update: Fri., June 28, 2013- Anthony Lane located, and arrested for suspicion of murder and possession of a stolen vehicle.
Anthony Ray Lane, a person of interest sought in connection with the homicide investigation of a 57 year-old man in the 3700 block of Rancho Sequoia Drive, Alderpoint, was located in a motel in Willits and arrested early this morning by Willits Police Officers, assisted by Mendocino County Sheriff's Officers. Lane was booked into the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office for suspicion of murder and possession of a stolen vehicle. More details can be found in the HCSO press release below.
HCSO Press Release, Fri., June 28, 2013:
On Thursday June 27, 2013 at about 11:30 PM, Officers from the Willits Police Department located the black Jeep Cherokee that was believed to be operated by suspect Anthony Lane. The Willits Police Officers had received a "be on the lookout" broadcast issued by the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office for this homicide investigation. The vehicle was found in the parking lot of a motel in the Willits area. On June 28, 2013 at about 12:30 AM, officers of the Willits Police Department, with the assistance of deputies from the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office, located Lane in one of the rooms of the hotel. Lane was taken into custody without incident and was transported to the Humboldt County Line, where deputies from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office took custody of Lane. Lane was booked into the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office for suspicion of murder and possession of
a stolen vehicle (the black Jeep Cherokee).
At this time the motive for the crime is being investigated. There does not appear at this time to be a connection with this homicide to the earlier marijuana cultivation investigation and arrests that took place in the same area. The homicide does not appear to be a home invasion, marijuana related or in association with the Garret Rodriguez missing person investigation.
The Humboldt County Coroner's Office is still in the process of notification of family members of the victim of this suspected homicide. For that reason, the name of the victim is not being released. An autopsy is scheduled for Saturday June 29, 2013 and the cause of death is not being released until after the autopsy is concluded and it will not jeopardize the investigation. The lead investigator is Detective Franco (707) 268-3644 or (707) 445-7251, anyone with information about this investigation is encouraged to telephone Detective Franco at the listed
Latest arrest booking photo of Lane shown below.
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A woman reported to the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office that she found her 57 year-old step father deceased at his residence in the 3700 block of Rancho Sequoia Drive, Alderpoint, stating that she had not heard from him for four days and drove to his home to check on him. Upon investigation, deputies and dectectives ruled the death to be suspicious and are investigating the death as a homicide.
Presently detectives are looking for a black 2000 Jeep Cherokee, CA Lic. 5HNG536 which may be driven by Anthony Ray Lane (shown in the photo above), described as a 37 year-old white male adult, 5'10", 185 lbs., redish brown hair. Lane is reportedly a person of interest in this investigation and is being sought for questioning by the Sheriff's Office. Persons should not approach Lane, if located, and are asked to call the Sheriff's Office if he is spotted. The lead investigator is Detective Franco (707) 268-3644 or (707) 445-7251. The press release appears below.
HCSO press release, dated, Thurs., June 27, 2013:
Detectives from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office are currently investigating a
death that has been determined to be suspicious and suspected to be a homicide. The
location of occurrence is the 3700 block of Rancho Sequoia Drive, Alderpoint, CA.
The reporting party called the Sheriff's Office at 8:50 AM. The reporting party
stated that she had not heard from her step-father for the last four (4) days and
drove to his residence in the 3700 block of Rancho Sequoia Drive. When she arrived
she discovered her 57 year old step-father was deceased. Deputies and Detectives
were dispatched to the residence and have ruled the death to be suspicious and are
investigating the death as a homicide.
Detectives are looking for a black 2000 Jeep Cherokee, CA 5HNG536 which may be
driven by Anthony Ray Lane, WMA, 510, 185, red and brown (DOB 09-18-1975). Lane is
a person of interest in this investigation and is being sought for questioning by
the Sheriff's Office. Persons should not approach Lane, if located, and are asked
to call the Sheriff's Office if he is spotted. The lead investigator is Detective
Franco (707) 268-3644 or (707) 445-7251.
The motive for this suspected homicide is not known at this time. Detectives are
just now arriving at the time of this release. The name of the victim is not being
released until additional family members can be notified. Due to the infancy of
this investigation, the suspected cause of death is not being released, and will be
once the Coroner is able to arrange for an autopsy.
A man entered the Bank of America in McKinleyville this morning (Thurs., June 27, 2013 ) and reportedly waved a black revolver at tellers and customers announcing that it was a bank robbery. The suspect then, according to the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office press release, jumped over the counter and began loading money into a bag. The suspect (see photo above) fled westbound on Hiller Avenue, dropping money as he ran, and drove away in a white Nissan Pathfinder or Xterra type vehicle with tinted rear windows driven by a second suspect. The vehicle was last seen westbound on Hiller Avenue.
The suspect is described as a Black Male Adult, 5-9 to 5-10" tall, around 30 years of age, wearing black tennis shoes with thin white strips on the arches, grey sweat pants, black sweat shirt, red under shirt, grey cotton style gloves, aviator style sunglasses, white bandana across face and a short cropped mustache to lip line. The HCSO press release appears below.
Anyone with information for the Sheriffs Office regarding this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Sheriffs Office at 707-445-7251 or the Sheriffs Office Crime Tip line at 707-268-2539.
HCSO press release:
On 06-27-2013, approximately 10:03 a.m. the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office was notified of an armed robbery which just occurred at the Bank of America, McKinleyville. The Humboldt County Sheriff's Dispatch center was advised by witnesses that the suspect was dropping money as he fled the bank and was armed with a handgun.
When deputies arrived on scene they met with witnesses who told them the suspect entered the bank and immediately began waving a black revolver around, pointing it at the tellers and customers while telling them it was a Bank Robbery. The suspect jumped over the counter and loaded up a bag that he brought with him with the banks money. After loading up the bag, the suspect fled the bank on foot, westbound on Hiller Avenue dropping money as he fled. Witnesses saw the suspect get into a vehicle being driven by another person. The suspect was seen by witnesses getting into a white Nissan Pathfinder or Xterra type vehicle with tinted rear windows. It was being driven by a second suspect. The vehicle was last seen westbound on Hiller Avenue.
An immediate broadcast of the Bank Robbery suspect and vehicle description was sent to all local law enforcement agencies. Law Enforcement Units from all Humboldt County Agencies immediately began searching for the vehicle and suspect. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) responded and is assisting with the investigation. Bank of America has provided security photos of the suspect.
Suspect description: Black Male Adult, 5-9 to 5-10" tall, around 30 years of age, wearing black tennis shoes with thin white strips on the arches, grey sweat pants, black sweat shirt, red under shirt, grey cotton style gloves, aviator style sunglasses, white bandana across face and a short cropped mustache to lip line.
Anyone with information for the Sheriffs Office regarding this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Sheriffs Office at 707-445-7251 or the Sheriffs Office Crime Tip line at 707-268-2539.
Eric Allan Brown, age 27 from Redding, and Samuel O'Dennell Barton, 24 from Arcata, are being held on $265,000 bail for multiple offenses relating to marijuana cultivation on public land in the Six Rivers National Forest. According to a press release from the Trinity County Sheriff's Office, dated June 26, 2013, Officers entered a grow site, acting on information that unknown subjects had been stealing water from the town of Slayer.
At the site, Officers reportedly observed an area that had been clear cut and found planter boxes that had been constructed out of the trees from the clear cut. Officers located a tent on the property from which a pitbull mix dog emerged that bit an Officer's K9 in the face and then reportedly threatened the Officers. The pitbull was subsequently shot and killed by Officers on the scene. Brown and Barton were found inside the tent along with a loaded pistol. The suspects were arrested and transported to Trinity County Jail.
Click here for a pdf copy of the press release.
Pictured below are: Eric Allan Brown (left), and Samuel O'Dennell Barton (right).
Update Thurs., June 27, 2013- According to a telephone conversation today with Bob Rinker, Manager of the Statements and Use Program, California State Water Board, the goal of the program is to get people to comply voluntarily in reporting their water diversions. If the enforcement section of the program does a review and finds that a person has complied voluntarily, even though they missed the initial filing in 2010, the agency is less likely to take any punitive action against that person. In other words, he suggests that people required to report do so ASAP. The form for filing your water diversion for the first time can be obtained using the link below.
Click here to download State Water Resources Control Board "Initial Statement of Water Diversion and Use Form."
The original post on this story appears below.
The deadline for complying with California State Water Board requirements for reporting water diversions (taking and using water from rivers streams and springs) is July 1, 2013. Most diversions covered by this mandatory reporting requirement are from surface water taken and used from rivers and streams or from springs that flow off the property in which the total amount of spring water diverted is 25 acre-feet or more per year. More information on what diversions are specifically required for this reporting requirement can be obtained by clicking here.
According to the State Water Board website, the main purpose of the "Statement Program" is to create a central repository for records of diversions and uses of water. The site also states that: "Failure to file a statement may subject you to civil liabilities that carry a maximum fine of $1,000 plus $500 for each day the violation continues after 30 days of the State Water Board notifying you of the violation."
- Click here for KMUD News coverage of the first round of reporting which was due July 1, 2010 covering water usage for 2009. This piece inclues an interview with Bob Rinker, Manager of the Statements and Use Program, California State Water Board and aired on the KMUD Local News on June 18, 2010 - report submitted by KMUD Community Journalist Bob Froehlich.
- Click here to access the archive to locate and listen to an archived show with Scott Greacen, from Friends of the Eel River, talking about water rights, water diversion, water storage and reporting requirements. This show is found on the KMUD Archive and aired on Tues., June 18, 2013 at 7 pm.
- Click here for the archived CLMP show hosted by Bonnie Blackberry who welcomes Jane Arnold and Shane Embrey of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and local activist Tom Grover. They discuss the expanding enforcement of state water diversion laws. This show aired on KMUD on Wed., June 5, 2013 at 7 pm, navigate to that time and date to listen to the show.
According to a press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office, a routine contact with a parked driver netted two police scanners, a window punch for breaking windows, bolt cutters, a 9 mm luger semi-automatic handgun and ammunition, approximately 5 grams of suspected methamphetamine, a scale, torch, night vision goggles and a collapsible baton (known as an ASP). Also recovered was property from a recent vehicle burglary. David Tatro, 40-years old from Eureka, (pictured above) was arrested and is being held with a $50,000 bail. More details are found in the press release below.
HCSO Press Release from Mon., June 24, 2013:
On 06-24-2013, approximately 8:30 a.m. two Humboldt County Sheriff's Deputies patrolling on US 101 between Big Lagoon and Dry Lagoon, spotted a 1998 Ford white van parked in a no overnight camping spot near Kane Road, Orick. The deputies pulled in behind the van to speak with the driver and make sure he had not been camping there or intended to camp there. When the deputies contacted the driver they saw he was in the driver seat of the vehicle and heard the engine running. The driver identified himself as David Tatro, 40 years old from Eureka. When the deputies spoke with Tatro they noticed he was wearing gloves, they also saw there was a box of live ammunition on the dashboard of the van. They saw two personal checks on the ground near the van that were not in Tatro's name. The deputies detained Tatro for driving on a suspended driver's license and searched the van. Inside the van they located two police scanners, a window punch for breaking windows, bolt cutters, a 9 mm luger semi-auto handgun, ammunition approximately 5 grams of suspected methamphetamine, scale, torch, night vision goggles and a collapsible baton (known as an ASP). During the search the deputies were contacted by Sheriff's Office Dispatch advising them a man and his wife just reported being the victim of a vehicle burglary at Dry Lagoon. The citizens reported parking their vehicle in the parking lot of Dry Lagoon and going for approximately one hour hike. When they returned to their vehicle the citizens saw the vehicles drivers' side window was smashed and all their items were stolen.
The deputies located all of the victim's stolen property in the white van, including jewelry, the wife' purse, husband's wallet, keys, I-Pad, luggage and computer. The victims were shown the property by the deputies who confirmed it was all theirs.
David Tatro was arrested for being a felon in possession of a firearm, carrying a loaded firearm, possession of methamphetamine, possession of stolen property, driving on a suspended license, possession of burglary tools and possession of an illegal weapon. He was transported to the Humboldt County Correctional Facility where he was booked and his bail was set at $50,000.00.
Anyone with information for the Sheriffs Office regarding this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Sheriffs Office at 707-445-7251 or the Sheriffs Office Crime Tip line at 707-268-2539.
Items confiscated from Tatro's Van:
The energy company, PacificCorp, has plans to conduct algaecide experiments in the Klamath River this summer. Additionally, gold miners have found a way to get around the law banning suction dredge mining, and Native American tribes and environmental acitivists are rallying to stop both practices.
The player below contains a news piece submitted by News Correspondent Eric Black. The story aired on the KMUD Local News on June 17, 2013.
An additional story, submitted by Eric Black on low water flows in the Klamath River, can be heard using the player below. This piece aired on the KMUD Local News Mon., June 24, 2013.
Additional Resource:
- PacifiCorp-Draft Technical Report, "2012 Localized Treatment of Copco Cove in Copco Reservoir Using Environmentally Safe Algaecide"
Ben Schill (see photo above), a 70 year-old retired carpenter, handiman and local historian, from Phillipsville, is on a mission to restore the Wailaki Languge. The Native-American Wailaki people lived along the Eel River in an area that now lies in Mendocino and Humboldt Counties.
Schill gave a presentation at a Southern Humboldt Working Together (SHWT) meeting on Wed., June 5, 2013. A short part of Schill's presentation was aired in a story about him on the KMUD Local News, Wed., June 19, 2013.
Use the player below to hear the entire presentation by Ben Schill. The Audio was recorded by KMUD News Correspondent Eileen Russell. Note: the first few words of the presentation were not recorded.
The Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) has filed a suit to challenge the actions of officials in the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to fund, administer, and operate the Trinity River fish hatchery on the Trinity River in northern California. The Trinity River fish hatchery (shown in the photo above) is located on Highway 299; 24 miles west of Redding. Click here to see a copy of the lawsuit.
Use the player below to hear more on this story in a report submitted by KMUD News Correspondent Dan Young. This piece aired on the KMUD Local News Fri., June 14, 2013.
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There has been lately some discussion going on regarding User Interaction in Panoramio, and it is for this reason I thought it was a good moment to clarify the team's position in this matter. In Panoramio we believe in open communication, and this is the reason we believe in our current system of comments, a system that allows each member of the Panoramio community to comment in any photo within Panoramio.
The way users interact with each other and the way users use features and functionalities is a very fascinating world. Lately Panoramio users have converted the Like and Starring functionalities of Panoramio together with contest votes into a kind of badging/reward system. Some users are very excited about this while others are completely annoyed and here is where the problem comes: perception. While some users perceive this as a fun way to reward the quality of other users photos, there are some users who consider this way of interaction as spam.
There has been many suggestions you all have given us in order to improve and minimize the negative effects of this. Some of them were in the line of reducing functionality within Panoramio ( we will not go this way ) and some of them were nice suggestions that we will consider to include in Panoramio. Meanwhile we keep working to make Panoramio better I would just repeat what it is already written in our help content:
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Benjamin A. Plotinsky
How Science Fiction Found Religion
Once overtly political, the genre increasingly employs Christian allegory.
Winter 2009
There is a young man, different from other young men. Ancient prophecies foretell his coming, and he performs miraculous feats. Eventually, confronted by his enemies, he must sacrifice his own life-an act that saves mankind from calamity-but in a mystery as great as that of his origin, he is reborn, to preside in glory over a world redeemed. Tell this story to one of the world's 2 billion Christians, and he'll recognize it instantly. Tell it to a science-fiction and fantasy fan, and he'll ask why you're making minor alterations to the plot of The Matrix or Superman Returns. For reasons that have as much to do with global politics as with our cultural moment, some of this generation's most successful sci-fi and fantasy movie franchises follow an essentially Christian plotline.
Hallelujah!" cries a minor character early in The Matrix, the 1999 cyberpunk flick, directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, that took the nation by storm and, together with its two sequels, raked in about $600 million domestically. "You're my savior, man, my own personal Jesus Christ." The character is addressing Thomas Anderson, a restless computer hacker, played by Keanu Reeves, who goes by the handle "Neo" and has sold him some precious illegal software. It's just one of the movie's many references to its central inspiration. Neo, we learn eventually, is in fact a nearly divine savior, the Jesus Christ of the bizarre world in which he lives.
Anderson doesn't realize it yet, however. First, a mysterious man named Morpheus must contact him, conveying a shocking truth: the universe isn't real but is actually a "Matrix"-a "neural interactive simulation," a "computer-generated dreamworld"-and the year isn't 1999 but something like 2199. Early in the twenty-first century, Morpheus explains, human beings and intelligent machines went to war against one another. The machines, seeking a constant source of bioelectrical energy, started to breed people and use them as human generators, keeping them in little cells but convincing them, through illusion-conveying cables attached to their brains, that they still lived in an ordinary world. "You are a slave, Neo," Morpheus says. "Like everyone else, you were born into bondage."
Yet escape from bondage is possible. "When the Matrix was first built, there was a man born inside who had the ability to change whatever he wanted, to remake the Matrix as he saw fit," Morpheus tells Neo. "It was he who freed the first of us, taught us the truth. . . . After he died, the Oracle prophesied his return-that his coming would hail the destruction of the Matrix, end the war, bring freedom to our people." Is Neo this reincarnated savior-the "One" whom Morpheus and his fellow rebels await? We don't know until near the movie's end, when a comrade-in-arms betrays Neo and Morpheus. Neo chooses to save Morpheus's life by surrendering his own. The machines kill him-but then he mysteriously returns to life and obliterates his enemies, to the grand accompaniment of trumpets and a choir. He is indeed the One.
It takes no great perception to recognize how closely this plot tracks the basic Christian narrative, though it conflates the Passion with the End Days, adding the betrayal of a Judas to a messianic Second Coming. Neo's very name isn't just an anagram of "One" but also a prefix meaning "new," a word with important Christian overtones: Jesus is a "new man," we read in Ephesians 2:15, who says that he brings a new testament.
Bryan Singer's underrated Superman Returns (2006) sought to answer an age-old question: Does humanity need gods? Lex Luthor, Superman's eternal nemesis, answers early on. After Luthor compares himself to Prometheus, an accomplice retorts: "Sounds great, Lex, but you're not a god." "Gods are selfish beings who fly around in little red capes and don't share their power with mankind," Luthor snarls. He's in agreement with Lois Lane, who has won a Pulitzer for an op-ed titled "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman." Superman, you see, has just returned to Earth after a five-year absence spent searching for his lost homeworld, Krypton. "How could you leave us like that?" Lois demands. "I moved on; so did the rest of us. That's why I wrote it. The world doesn't need a savior."
Is she right? In one scene, as Superman floats above the Earth, we hear his alien father in a voiceover. Human beings "can be a great people," Jor-El says. "They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all-their capacity for good-I have sent them you, my only son." The line, of course, echoes John 3:16: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son." When Marlon Brando first spoke it in Superman (1978), it was the earlier movie's only explicit Christian reference.
The recent installment not only resurrects the line; it piles on further biblical allusions. "You wrote that the world doesn't need a savior," Superman himself tells Lois, "but every day I hear people crying for one." Isaiah 19:20: "When they cry to the Lord because of oppressors, he will send them a savior." Later, as Superman tries to save the world from Luthor, the villain plunges a Kryptonite dagger into his side. John 19:34: "One of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear." And then, after saving the day by hurling Luthor's death machine-a rapidly expanding new continent that threatens to destroy the United States-into outer space, a poisoned and exhausted Superman plummets to earth, his arms outspread at right angles to his body and legs, a crucified figure lacking only a cross. He remains in a coma until his son (Lois Lane is the unwed mother in this updated Superman: don't ask) restores him to life. He leaves his hospital room empty until a nurse discovers it, just as Mary and Mary Magdalene find Jesus's empty tomb.
Superman's heroism thus answers the movie's fundamental question. In one of the last scenes, we see Lois struggling to write a new essay: "Why the World Needs Superman." Perhaps the nation's recent superhero obsession, from the smash Spider-Man movies to The Dark Knight (the biggest film of 2008) to the TV hit Heroes, owes more than we commonly recognize to religious impulses. As Gabriel McKee writes in The Gospel According to Science Fiction, "There are inherent messianic qualities in the . . . concept of the superhero-an individual with exceptional abilities who sacrifices part of his or her life for the greater good."
Both The Matrix and Superman Returns show the hero's discovery of his powers. We see Neo learning martial arts almost instantaneously through the cable leading to his brain-a computer nerd's fantasy; in a euphoric flashback, we watch the young Clark Kent finding out that he can fly. No parallels to these episodes of joyful self-discovery exist in the New Testament. But turn your attention from the canonical Bible to the Apocrypha-in particular, to the Gospel of Thomas, one of the so-called Infancy Gospels, stories of Jesus's childhood nearly 2,000 years old-and you'll find the child Jesus animating clay sparrows, restoring people to life, and even exacting revenge on his enemies. "He was again passing through the village," the text relates, "and a boy ran up against Him, and struck His shoulder. And Jesus was angry, and said to him: You shall not go back the way you came. And immediately he fell down dead."
If that last story sounds vaguely familiar, maybe you're one of the millions around the world who have read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1997), the first installment in J. K. Rowling's unprecedentedly successful seven-volume series of fantasy novels, the first five of which have been made into blockbuster movies. Early on in The Sorcerer's Stone, before Harry discovers his magical powers, his loutish cousin Dudley punches him in the ribs during a visit to the zoo. Unconsciously, an angry Harry makes the glass separating Dudley from a boa constrictor disappear. We soon learn that Harry, like so many of today's fantasy heroes, is marked for greatness from infancy as the only person who can defeat a world-crushing evil. The final book in the series, Harry Potter and the Interminable Sequels-no, wait, that's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-has Harry (you guessed it) choosing to die to save the world and then returning to life, after a brief journey to an afterworld resembling (note the place) London's King's Cross railway station.
One reason that Disney finally made a movie out of C. S. Lewis's Christian allegory The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in 2005 may be that popular fantasy has become increasingly religious at heart. Peter Jackson's brilliant film adaptations of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, on the other hand, probably don't fall into the category of messianic fantasy, despite a quick episode in which the wizard Gandalf experiences a sort of death and rebirth; Tolkien's chief inspiration was political, not religious, and Jackson remains faithful to that intention.
The best illustration of the science-fiction and fantasy world's recent shift toward Christian themes, though, is the most successful sci-fi franchise in history. George Lucas's Star Wars appeared in 1977 and instantly became a huge hit. It told the story of Luke Skywalker, a gifted youth raised by his uncle and aunt on the planet Tatooine, who soon finds himself caught up in the struggle between a group of noble rebels and an "evil Galactic Empire"-in the words of the movie's famous opening scene, in which a few prefatory sentences of exposition crawl slowly into a distant field of stars. An old man named Obi-Wan Kenobi, one of the last remaining members of the virtuous "Jedi knights," takes Luke under his wing, but he must sacrifice himself to the Empire's dreaded Darth Vader to save the young man from capture. In the end, Luke joins the rebels and helps win an important battle against the Empire. To date, Star Wars has grossed nearly $461 million in the United States, making it the third-biggest film in American history.
It doubtless owes much of that success to mythologist Joseph Campbell, whose book The Hero with a Thousand Faces described certain features of the "standard path of the mythological adventure of the hero." The adventure's outline was simple: "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man." Many myths shared even more than this, explained Campbell; for example, "the first encounter of the hero-journey is with a protective figure (often a little old crone or an old man) who provides the adventurer with amulets against the dragon forces he is about to pass." Think of Arthur, Merlin, and Excalibur.
Such scholars as Otto Rank and Lord Raglan had earlier written comparative studies of hero-myths. In 1936, for instance, Raglan compiled a list of characteristics common to many mythological heroes: "The hero's mother is a royal virgin"; "the circumstances of his conception are unusual"; "he is also reputed to be the son of a god"; and 19 others. But it was Campbell's book that Lucas stumbled upon as he wrote his screenplay. "It's possible that if I had not run across him I would still be writing Star Wars today," Lucas acknowledged later. Presumably, too, he would never have invented the "protective figure" Obi-Wan, who gives Luke a "lightsaber" not long after meeting him.
Scholars have noted the correspondence of parts of the Christian narrative to the hero-myths, and perhaps this affinity accounts for what little Christian imagery does show up in Star Wars. "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine," Obi-Wan warns Darth Vader. But it's largely an empty boast: after his death, Obi-Wan does nothing more than appear as a sort of ghost from time to time. The movie's main plot spends far more time on outer-space dogfights. Two sequels swiftly followed: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and The Return of the Jedi (1983). Both were entertaining, but neither drew on Christianity.
As the world knows to its sorrow, Lucas revived the franchise in 1999 with The Phantom Menace, the first movie in another Star Wars trilogy that chronicled events prior to those in the original three movies. Episode I, as The Phantom Menace is also confusingly known, differed from the first Star Wars movie in many respects, among them a plot that no suspension of disbelief could render convincing and dialogue that sounded even more mechanical coming from the people than from the robots. In one respect, however, The Phantom Menace consciously mirrored its predecessor, portraying a Jedi knight-Qui-Gon Jinn, played by Liam Neeson-who meets a talented Skywalker boy, this one named Anakin (Jake Lloyd), on the Tatooine sands.
But where the original movie never deified Luke, The Phantom Menace describes Anakin-the future Darth Vader, Luke's father-in terms so messianic as to make Neo blush, repeatedly calling him "the Chosen One." The source of the term is in Luke-the Evangelist, that is-where Jewish leaders say of the soon-to-be-crucified Jesus: "Let him save himself if he is the Messiah of God, his chosen one!" The movie is fuzzy about who exactly has done the choosing, however-a failure doubtless rooted in Lucas's carelessness with plots.
The Phantom Menace proves equally vague when prophecy enters the story. When Qui-Gon first intimates that Anakin may be the Chosen One, another Jedi knight says, "You refer to the prophecy of the One who will bring balance to the Force," but we never learn who prophesied and when. The prophecy echoes the Gospels' repeatedly stated thesis that certain passages in the Hebrew Bible foretell Jesus's coming.
"The Force" is one detail in which the new films are actually less spiritual than the old. In the 1977 movie, Obi-Wan described this mysterious entity as "what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things; it surrounds us, penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together." In the 1980 sequel, Yoda-a character, created by Jim Henson, who looked suspiciously like Kermit the Frog and sounded suspiciously like Fozzie Bear-instructed Luke to "feel the Force around you: here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere!" Such language, smacking of the period's flirtation with natural mysticism, gave way in the new movies to an explanation more in keeping with our current fascination with molecular biology: the Force, we learned in The Phantom Menace, was actually the product of microorganisms in the blood. It's as though Lucas, instinctively realizing the intellectual poverty of the New Age, gave it up, exchanged it for something resembling science, and then turned, elsewhere in the script, to a far older, more powerful story.
That story, though, he inverted. Anakin will be not the world's savior but its destroyer, more Antichrist than Christ. He will slaughter nearly all the Jedi knights and-after almost dying at Obi-Wan's hands and enduring a sort of rebirth as the masked Darth Vader-help remake a galactic republic into a dictatorship. Still, in one respect he is explicitly a Christ figure. A bit of early dialogue between Qui-Gon and Anakin's mother, one Shmi-names aren't Lucas's strong suit, either-reveals that Anakin is the product of a virgin birth:
Qui-Gon: You should be very proud of your son. He gives without any thought of reward.
Shmi: Well, he knows nothing of greed. He has a-
Qui-Gon: He has special powers.
Shmi: Yes.
Qui-Gon: He can see things before they happen. . . . The Force is unusually strong with him, that much is clear. Who was his father?
Shmi: There was no father. I carried him, I gave birth, I raised him. I can't explain what happened.
What did happen? Not to Shmi, whose curious reproductive history the Star Wars movies also never bothered to explain, but to the Star Wars movies themselves-whose earlier trilogy mostly avoided biblical inspiration but whose more recent installments shifted so sharply toward Christianity? More generally, why has mainstream sci-fi and fantasy as a whole become so religious? One reason may be the religious revival that the United States and much of the world have been undergoing since the 1970s. This "revenge of God," in French scholar Gilles Kepel's phrase, has seemingly begun to be felt even in secular Hollywood.
But another reason surely lies in geopolitics. During the sixties and seventies, popular American science fiction looked to the stars and saw a Cold War there. Consider Star Trek, the franchise that, as a TV show from 1966 to 1969 and later as a series of movies, chronicled the adventures of Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and the crew of the USS-"United Starship"-Enterprise, representatives of a democratic United Federation of Planets that held an uneasy truce with the warlike, autocratic Klingon Empire. The real-world parallels were unmistakable. "Of course Star Trek was about the Cold War," critic Paul Cantor recently observed. "The United Federation of Planets was the United States and its free-world allies, the Klingons were the Soviet Union and the Communist bloc."
The original Star Wars films were similarly political at heart. Like Star Trek, they portrayed a universe caught between two great rivals, one free and democratic, the other hierarchical and autocratic. Not for nothing did the first film use "evil Galactic Empire" to describe Darth Vader's dominion. (One wonders whether Ronald Reagan drew his famous excoriation from Lucas's hit.)
When the Soviet Union began to thaw in the mid-eighties and collapsed entirely in 1991, however, that neat good-versus-evil scheme resonated less, and mainstream science fiction started to cast about for alternative inspirations. Often it failed. Star Trek, for example, continued to imitate geopolitics as it launched a phenomenally boring new TV series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, in 1987 (it would end its run in 1994). The Federation and the Klingons were now at peace, and the Enterprise resembled a spaceborne United Nations, a bustling enclave safe enough for the crew to bring children with them. So yawn-inducing was the galaxy that the show frequently sought to introduce drama with a device called the "holodeck," a virtual-reality entertainment area where the characters could cavort in more exciting locales-the Wild West, say, or 221B Baker Street. Two more Trek series, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, tried to restore excitement-the first was set on a frontier space station, the second in a galaxy far from our own tedious one-but with little effect. Too often, the Star Trek franchise called to mind the end of history on an intergalactic scale.
But while Star Trek floundered, other sci-fi, less committed to explicit Political Relevance, seized on a ready-to-hand story that exerted enormous power on American audiences-and not only because of its biblical source. The story has roots deep in humanity's ancient past, as Campbell, Raglan, and Rank understood. It is a story that, in one variant or another, our ancestors told one another so long ago that its sources are as mysterious as the story itself.
Messianic sci-fi movies and TV programs, despite their own interest in parthenogenesis, did not spring forth fully formed from the New Testament. Science fiction of the written kind has long taken advantage of the cultural power of the Christ story. In fact, two of the twentieth century's most popular sci-fi novels, Frank Herbert's Dune and Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, were overtly messianic, a fact noted by the sizable critical literature that exists on the books.
Christian themes aren't an entirely new development in filmed science fiction, either. In the Terminator franchise-which produced three fine films as far apart as 1984, 1991, and 2003-robots from the future repeatedly attempt to kill the suggestively initialed John Connor, a man destined to lead humanity in a war against the robots. Connor's birth is positively paradoxical, if not miraculous: a warrior sent back in time by Connor himself to fight the first movie's robot killer sleeps with Connor's mother . . . conceiving Connor. Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend, in which the world's last surviving human being battles vampire-like creatures, has inspired three Hollywood versions, but The Omega Man (1971)-in which Charlton Heston is first nearly crucified, then saves the world with his (antibody-carrying) blood, and winds up speared through the side and dead in, once more, a T shape-is more suggestively Christian than either The Last Man on Earth (1964) or last year's Will Smith vehicle I Am Legend. Even in that most political of Cold War sci-fi movies, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), we meet an alien who adopts the name "Carpenter" and, after being killed by the earthlings among whom he has landed, returns to life to offer them peace or a sword. Steven Spielberg's E.T. (1982) similarly gave us a being who descended from heaven, cured disease miraculously, and then returned from death.
Yet despite the evocative power of the Christian narrative, it seems likely that geopolitics will return to mainstream science fiction, now that we realize how terribly exciting-I use the adverb carefully-our world still is. In fact, it's already begun to happen. A fifth Star Trek series, called Enterprise, began its four-season run on September 26, 2001-just 15 days after 9/11 and just before our subsequent war against the Taliban-with the good guys fighting a new race of aliens called, by a curious coincidence, the Suliban. The action-packed series quickly became the best Trek since the original, and its references to 9/11 and the War on Terror only became more explicit as the show went on. In Enterprise's penultimate season, aliens terroristically destroy a swath of Florida and the Enterprise goes on a mission to hunt them down and punish them.
Then there's Battlestar Galactica. The corny 1978 original mercifully died after a single season. Five years ago, however, the franchise was reborn-first as a three-hour miniseries, then as a weekly show-in a compelling new form. As in the original, the show's heroes, the last remnants of a human civilization destroyed by mechanical beings called Cylons, are fleeing their persecutors and seeking Earth, the legendary planet of their origin. But instead of the clunky robots of the 1978 series, the new Cylons are indistinguishable from human beings-a detail that helps turn the show into an ongoing examination of the War on Terror: Is it ethical to torture Cylons, for example? Other questions also echo our current conflict: How should the show's hero deal with members of a (human) fifth column that has tried to sabotage his ship? How much access to sensitive information should he grant to an apparently hostile reporter? The show declines to answer straightforwardly, instead presenting viewers with a world whose politics, like our own, are filled with moral ambiguities and difficult trade-offs.
Now that science fiction again has politics to draw on, will it abandon its religious impulses? Predicting the future is a task best left to sci-fi writers themselves, but I'd bet not. In a genre less committed than most to the this-worldly, there will always be messiahs to save the world from evil robots or invading aliens. And at movie theaters and on TV screens nationwide, there will always be legions of worshipful fans.
Benjamin A. Plotinsky is the managing editor of City Journal.
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Lady Gaga Bitten by Animal While Shooting Her New Music Video!
Lady Gaga was given a nasty shock while filming her new music video when she was reportedly bitten by an animal on the set.
The pop superstar has been filming the promo for her latest single, G.U.Y. (Girl Under You), at California's Hearst Castle and is said to have brought in a number of exotic creatures to take part in the filming.
The trainer on the set reportedly provided a slow loris, a baby kangaroo and an exotic goat, but none of the creatures were used in the shoot after Gaga was bitten.
The singer was nipped by the slow loris as she handled the animal, according to New York Post gossip column Page Six.
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TWA Rating System
Robert Parker's rating system employs a 50-100 point quality scale (Parker Points®). It is my belief that the various twenty (20) point rating systems do not provide enough flexibility and often result in compressed and inflated wine ratings. The Wine Advocate takes a hard, very critical look at wine, since I would prefer to underestimate the wine's quality than to overestimate it. The numerical ratings are utilized only to enhance and complement the thorough tasting notes, which are my primary means of communicating my judgments to you.
An extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety. Wines of this caliber are worth a special effort to find, purchase, and consume.
90 – 95
An outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character. In short, these are terrific wines.
80 – 89
A barely above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavor as well as character with no noticeable flaws.
70 – 79
An average wine with little distinction except that it is a soundly made. In essence, a straightforward, innocuous wine.
60 – 69
A below average wine containing noticeable deficiencies, such as excessive acidity and/or tannin, an absence of flavor, or possibly dirty aromas or flavors.
50 – 59
A wine deemed to be unacceptable.
Scores in parentheses indicate that the wine was tasted from barrel.
Tasting Notes & Ratings
When possible all of my tastings are done in peer-group, single-blind conditions (meaning that the same types of wines are tasted against each other and the producers' names are not known). There are exceptions to this policy with respect to (1) all barrel tastings, (2) all specific appellation tastings where at least 25 of the best estates will not submit samples for group tastings and (3) for all wines under $25. The ratings reflect an independent, critical look at the wines. Neither price nor the reputation of the producer/grower affect the rating in any manner. I spend three months of every year tasting in vineyards. During the other nine months of the year, six and sometimes seven-day workweeks are devoted solely to tasting and writing. I do not participate in wine judgings or trade tastings for many reasons, but principal among these are the following: (1) I prefer to taste from an entire bottle of wine, (2) I find it essential to have properly sized and cleaned professional tasting glasses, (3) the temperature of the wine must be correct, and (4) I prefer to determine the time allocated to the number of wines to be critiqued.
The numeral rating given is a guide to what I think of the wine vis-à-vis its peer group. Certainly, wines rated above 85 are very good to excellent, and any wine rated 90 or above will be outstanding for its particular type. While some have suggested that scoring is not well suited to a beverage that has been romantically extolled for centuries, wine is no different from any consumer product. There are specific standards of quality that full-time wine professionals recognize, and there are benchmark wines against which others can be judged. I know of no one with three or four different glasses of wine in front of him or her, regardless of how good or bad the wines might be, who cannot say, "I prefer this one to that one." Scoring wines is simply taking a professional's opinion and applying some sort of numerical system to it on a consistent basis. Scoring permits rapid communication of information to expert and novice alike.
The score given for a specific wine reflects the quality of the wine at its best. I often tell people that evaluating a wine and assigning a score to a beverage that will change and evolve in many cases for up to 10 or more years is analogous to taking a photograph of a marathon runner. Much can be ascertained but, like a picture of a moving object, the wine will also evolve and change. Wines from obviously badly corked or defective bottles are retasted, since a wine from a single bad bottle does not indicate an entirely spoiled batch. Many of the wines reviewed have been tasted many times, and the score represents a cumulative average of the wine's performance in tastings to date. Scores, however, do not reveal the important facts about a wine. The written commentary that accompanies the ratings is a better source of information regarding the wine's style and personality, its relative quality vis-à-vis its peers, and its value and aging potential than any score could ever indicate.
Here then is a general guide to interpreting the numerical ratings:
90-100 is equivalent to an A and is given only for an outstanding or special effort. Wines in this category are the very best produced of their type. There is a big difference between a 90 and 99, but both are top marks. As you will note through the text, there are few wines that actually make it into this top category because there are not many great wines.
80-89 is equivalent to a B in school and such a wine, particularly in the 85-89 range, is very, very good; many of the wines that fall into this range often are great values as well. I have many of these wines in my personal collection.
70-79 represents a C, or average mark, but obviously 79 is a much more desirable score than 70. Wines that receive scores between 75 and 79 are generally pleasant, straightforward wines that lack complexity, character, or depth. If inexpensive, they may be ideal for uncritical quaffing.
Below 70 is a D or F, depending on where you went to school. For wine, it is a sign of an imbalanced, flawed, or terribly dull or diluted product that will be of little interest to the discriminating consumer.
In terms of awarding points, my scoring system gives every wine a base of 50 points. The wine's general color and appearance merit up to 5 points. Since most wines today are well made, thanks to modern technology and the increased use of professional oenologists, they tend to receive at least 4, often 5 points. The aroma and bouquet merit up to 15 points, depending on the intensity level and dimension of the aroma and bouquet as well as the cleanliness of the wine. The flavor and finish merit up to 20 points, and again, intensity of flavor, balance, cleanliness, and depth and length on the palate are all important considerations when giving out points. Finally, the overall quality level or potential for further evolution and improvement—aging—merits up to 10 points.
Scores are important for the reader to gauge a professional critic's overall qualitative placement of a wine vis-à-vis its peer group. However, it is also vital to consider the description of the wine's style, personality, and potential. No scoring system is perfect, but a system that provides for flexibility in scores, if applied by the same taster without prejudice, can quantify different levels of wine quality and provide the reader with one professional's judgment. However, there can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.


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Grand Coulee Dam Area residents may dispose of household hazardous waste for free on Friday, September 9, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Delano Regional Transfer Station. Only hazardous waste generated by households will be accepted.
Hazardous products have labels with words such as warning, danger, caustic, flammable, and poison. These chemicals should be disposed of through hazardous waste collection opportunities; not in the garbage, down the drain, or on the ground. Examples include: oil-based paint, contaminated used motor oil, thinners, household batteries, solvents, brake fluid, spot removers, drain openers, insecticides, weed killers, items containing mercury, and swimming pool and hobby chemicals. Contaminated used motor oil contains substances such as antifreeze, solvents, degreasers, paint, or brake fluid.
Residents and businesses may bring a maximum of 10 mercury- containing lights to the event. The types of lights accepted are Fluorescent Light Tubes, Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFLs), and High Intensity Discharge Lights (HIDs).
There are several items that will not be accepted at the event. Propane tanks, uncontaminated motor oil, and used automotive batteries are not accepted because year-round collection sites are available in the area. Latex paint may be placed in the garbage after the paint is hardened and the lid is removed. Other items not accepted at the event include: empty containers, agricultural waste, commercial waste, explosives, ammunition, asbestos, radioactive material, unknown cylinders, Poison A gases, refrigerant compressors, leaking containers, containers larger than 5 gallons, and white goods (appliances and televisions). Empty containers may be thrown away in the normal trash and will not be accepted at the event. Pesticide and herbicide containers must first be triple rinsed before throwing in the trash.
Products should be brought in original labeled containers if possible. Pack the waste to prevent spills during transportation and keep the waste away from passenger compartments of vehicles.
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Los Angeles: Singer-actress Jennifer Love Hewitt is likely to go nude in the new season of her hit TV drama 'The Client List'.
The 33-year-old plays a masseuse who makes extra cash by having sex with clients in the saucy series. She has already bared her cleavage on screen in several skimpy outfits.
If sources are to be believed, she will go a step further in the forthcoming second season, reports thesun.co.uk.
However, bosses at cable network Lifetime will be forced to blur out her more intimate parts.
Her friends say she is currently hitting the gym four times a week so that she looks in the best possible shape.
Shooting for the new series has already begun.


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Demaryius Thomas' shoulder injury didn't prevent him from setting a Super Bowl record with 13 receptions.
Although Thomas reportedly still is recovering, he joined Peyton Manning at Duke University for workouts on Wednesday.
The Broncos have played coy with details on the injury. It's believed to have occurred on a vicious hit from Kam Chancellor early in Super Bowl XLVIII.
According to Mike Klis of the Denver Post, the injury is not a separation of the shoulder -- as was reported in early February.
We will have a better idea of Thomas' status once Broncos' spring practices begin and offseason training activities start in late May.
In the latest edition of the "Around The League Podcast," the guys begin the offseason Roster Reset series with the AFC West and dive into the ATL mailbag.


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Even geniuses make mistakes. That's the reassuring message of the engrossing new book Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein—Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe, by theoretical astrophysicist and noted writer Mario Livio.
Livio, who will give a Frontiers Lecture on Monday, June 10, at the Museum, traces the careers of—and notable "blunders" by—such towering scientific figures as Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein, as well as two-time Nobel Prize-winning chemist Linus Pauling; engineer and physicist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin; and pioneering astrophysicist Fred Hoyle.
We recently talked with Livio about what makes a blunder brilliant; his work as an astrophysicist; and whether he has made any brilliant blunders of his own.
So, what is a brilliant blunder?
Whether based on too much confidence, isolation, or ignoring unforeseen possibilities, intellectual blunders are a fact of life for scientists, technologists, engineers—anyone who thinks for a living.
A brilliant blunder is a blunder that was not done because the scientist did sloppy science, or was an inexperienced researcher, but rather because the person was really trying to think innovatively, to think outside the box. Also, it is best if the blunder eventually led to a breakthrough by someone in the field.
Why did you choose to profile the brilliant blunders of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Lord Kelvin, Linus Pauling, and Fred Hoyle?
Each of them contributed immensely to our understanding of some type of evolution—evolution of life on Earth, of the Earth itself, of stars, and of the evolution of the universe.
You say that Charles Darwin developed "humankind's most inspiring nonmathematical theory": the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. So, what was his blunder?
Darwin [who lived from 1809-1882] thought in terms of the theory of heredity that existed at the time. This theory was basically of blending—like mixing of paint, the characteristics of the father and mother were mixed in offspring like you mix paint.
Darwin's blunder was in not grasping, at least initially, that [his theory of] natural selection would not actually have worked if that theory of heredity were also correct. Suppose that the color yellow confers some advantage on some butterfly, but suppose that most of the individuals in a species are blue. If a yellow butterfly mates with a blue, you'd get green—not yellow. And if you continue to mix it with more blue butterflies, eventually the yellow will disappear.
Darwin didn't get that at first, and in fact it wasn't until sometime later that the world came to accept Gregor Mendel's research—which was the first to elucidate the idea that what Mendel called "factors" (what we would later call genes) are not like paint, they are more like decks of cards—if it's a queen it stays a queen.
Have you made any brilliant blunders in your work as a theoretical astrophysicist?
I think I've made many blunders—I don't think any of them were particularly brilliant! At one point an astronomer claimed to have discovered that objects at the center of six planetary nebulae were actually binary stars. I immediately started working on explaining the formation of those systems—as it turned out, none of these ended up being binary stars. But other astronomers eventually did find nebulae with binary stars at the center, so my theoretical work was useful after all, though it was based on a wrong observation.
It could have been that there were no binary central stars. I could have explained a phenomenon that didn't exist!
What do you hope your readers take away from this book?
I hope that by the end of the book they'll understand that in science there isn't some sort of direct path, but rather that the path can be very, very winding and zigzagging. And you encounter blunders left and right, before you are guided to the correct way.
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by Pete Mazzaccaro
This week, it's a bit of a mixed bag for Pastorius Park.
On one hand, the park's annual concert series, a popular summer institution organized by the Chestnut Hill Community Association, was funded again by a $10,000 donation from Chestnut Hill Hospital. The money will go a long way to ensure that the park will host more than a half dozen free concerts for the public.
On the other hand, the park was visited some time last week by a group of vandals who destroyed several old park benches and uprooted a few garbage cans. One bench was essentially ripped in half and the wooden slats were tossed in the park's pond.
The Friends of Pastorius Park was quick to respond as reported in the front-page story this week by contributing writer Lane Blackmer. Within days, the group had hired a construction contractor to repair what it could. The bench that was tossed in the pond, though, was beyond repair.
It's a good thing that Pastorius Park has such a strong Friends group. The park, an easy two-block stroll down W. Hartwell Lane from Germantown Avenue, is a real urban gem. It is not only a great site for the annual summer concert series, but also a daily destination for casual strolls and dog walks. It's a great place for a picnic or a Frisbee toss, too (just be sure to set up away from the daily dog gatherings). It's a great public space that adds a lot of value to living or working in Chestnut Hill. Without the Friends, it's not hard to imagine that even Pastorius would not be nearly so inviting.
So what can be done about a group of bozos (no offense to legitimate clowns intended) who decide to get their kicks by wrecking public property?
As Friends president Pete O'Connor points out in Blackmer's story, there's only so much average citizens can do.
"There's nothing we can do other than call 9-1-1," he told Blackmer. "[And police and park rangers] can't be there 24 hours a day."
The Friends are planning to schedule a public meeting with the police to discuss better ways to protect the park and its furniture. It's hard to imagine police will be able to patrol the area regularly. And it's equally hard to fathom the use of video surveillance for the park. It's tough to get into the mood of a quiet, meditative pastoral retreat when you know you're being monitored.
Perhaps, though, surveillance is the best way to prevent future mayhem. O'Connor said that past efforts to light the park were met with the new lights getting smashed.
Perhaps, the destruction of the benches was a one-time thing that we won't see repeated any time soon. But even that seems to be nothing but wishful thinking.
When the Friends set a date for the meeting, we'll definitely publicize it. Maintenance of the park is something we should all be responsible for in some way. We all owe the Friends thanks for keeping the park as nice and inviting as it is.
And a quick welcome
to new staff
Last week was the first for our new Associate Editor, Sue Ann Rybak. You'll find a handful of stories and photos this week with her byline.
Sue Ann is a longtime Northwest Philadelphia resident and a 2010 graduate of Temple University's journalism program. She comes to us after a stint at the Roxborough Review and a handful of freelance efforts for Newsworks and the Local before that.
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Lockheed Martin Corp, the largest U.S. defense contractor, on Wednesday became the latest weapons maker in recent months to announce layoffs, saying it would let go of 600 workers in its Mission Systems and Training Division later this month.
Lockheed spokesman Keith Little said the layoffs were not linked to the partial U.S. government shutdown, but reflected the increasingly challenging business environment.
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The company said it would provide details by November 6 about which of its 100 locations around the country would be affected. Most of the affected workers would leave their jobs by late November.
"This action is necessary to address continuing challenges in our business environment, including continued uncertain program funding, delays in contract awards and an extremely competitive market," Little said in a statement.
Lockheed has already cut its workforce by over 30,000 employees since 2008 and consolidated facilities as it braced for tighter military budgets. A company spokeswoman said the workforce now totaled 116,000.
Lockheed is one of many defense contractors laying off workers and consolidating facilities as the Pentagon braces for over $1 billion in spending cuts over the next decade. when?
This week, Britain's BAE Systems Plc said it would close its Sealy, Texas plant where it builds ground combat vehicles, resulting in over 300 expected job losses.
Dan Stohr, spokesman for the Aerospace Industries Association, the industry's biggest lobbying group, said the layoffs and plant closures were not surprising, since companies were trying to position themselves to weather the downturn.
"Our greatest worry is that important skills and capabilities will be lost as workers transition to other industries as a result of these layoffs," Stohr said.
"We urge Congress and President Obama to work together to put aside sequestration, address the real drivers of our debt and deficit issues, and avoid slashing the very innovation and investments we need to grow in the future."
Last week, Lockheed scaled back by 20 percent its plans to furlough 3,000 employees as a result of the partial government shutdown, after Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recalled most civilian defense employees.
Industry executives say ongoing uncertainty about future funding levels and a continuing impasse over mandatory cuts in defense spending are slowing government orders, which is beginning to reduce revenues and earnings across the sector.
AIA says the downturn is hitting small and medium-sized business particularly hard since many of them lack the diverse portfolios of larger firms like Lockheed.
In June the group released a survey which showed that 88 percent of small and medium sized defense companies expected a downturn in orders and resulting layoffs.
(Reporting by Andrea Shalal-Esa; Editing by Carol Bishopric and Leslie Adler)


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SALT LAKE CITY — For 48 seasons, from the day he put a whistle around his neck to help with the freshman team at Utah State University to the day two years ago he stepped down from the Utah Jazz in lockstep with Jerry Sloan, he coached basketball.
And now? What in the world is Phil Johnson doing now?
That's easy. Taking them one day at a time, of course.
Once a coach, always a coach, and few have dignified the profession more fully, at more levels, or for more duration, than the native of Grace, Idaho, (pop. 761) who showed up for seventh-grade basketball tryouts at Grace Junior High only to be greeted by none other than legendary NBA coach Dick Motta.
Granted, this was before Motta would win his 935 games in the NBA, including the one that clinched the 1978 title for the Washington Bullets. Well before. This was 1954. Motta was 23 years old, in his first year of teaching school; Johnson was 12. But their meeting was serendipitous with a capital "S" because the story of where they would go from the little potato-farming town 70 miles north of Logan is one of the greatest examples you'll find of being able to get anywhere from anywhere.
After playing for Motta at Grace Junior High and Grace High School, Johnson played for Motta again at Weber Junior College (now Weber State University) before moving on to two NCAA tournament teams for the Utah State University Aggies.
He was a good college player – third on the team in scoring (behind Cornell Green and Darnell Haney) and rebounding – but there were nine teams in the NBA when he graduated in 1963 and supply far exceeded demand. At 21, he hired on to coach the freshmen at Utah State while he stayed in school to get married and earn his master's degree.
Then he was back to Weber, and Motta. Johnson was an assistant for four years until Motta went to the NBA. Johnson stayed three more years as head coach, won three Big Sky Championships, was named Coach of the Year every season (his 39-5 overall record is to this day the highest winning percentage in conference history), and then left for the Chicago Bulls to join you know who.
He stayed in the NBA 40 years. Forty years! Other than Red Auerbach, who does that?
Particularly someone who got fired three times — twice as head coach of the Kings and once as part of Jerry Sloan's staff with the Chicago Bulls. But every time one door closed another one opened, and more often than not it was one that had formerly closed.
Phil Johnson has the rare distinction of having been hired and then re-hired by every franchise he worked for. The Kansas City Kings let him go as head coach in 1978 and hired him again when they moved to Sacramento in 1984; he left the Chicago Bulls to take the Kings job in 1973 and the Bulls brought him back in 1979 as part of Sloan's staff; and the Jazz first hired him as part of Frank Layden's staff in 1982 after he left the Bulls and later, following the Kings II stint in Sacramento, hired him back in 1988 as part of Sloan's staff.
That's staying power. That's riding out the highs and lows, which points to another of Johnson's distinctions: he is the only man in history to be named NBA Coach of the Year (Kansas City 1975) and NBA Assistant Coach of the Year (four times, all in Utah, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2010).
The ride might have gone on even longer if not for Sloan's decision to abruptly step down as Jazz head coach two years ago. Johnson could have stayed on, but he'd had Sloan's back for too long not to have it now. At the age of 69, he retired too.
It's never easy leaving the good old days, especially when they really were good old days, but for Johnson the angst, as always, has been minimal. He's a broadcaster now. He does pregame, halftime and postgame commentary on television for Jazz home games and occasionally does color commentary on radio play-by-play. He also does a radio call-in show after every Jazz home game with another former coach, Tom Nissalke.
Regrets? Too few to mention. He says the Millers, who took care of him all those years when he was on the coaching staff, still treat him like royalty, as do Kevin O'Connor and the rest of the Jazz family. "They don't have to," he says, "but they do. I can't say enough good about them."
Asked what advice he might have for coaches who'd like to stay in business for half a century, he points to what worked for him: "I'd say check your ego at the door, and don't burn any bridges."
But he never has been one for telling other people what to do, or for looking at the past.
"You've got to move on," he says as he gets ready to watch a game involving a future Jazz opponent.
Only now it's so he can talk intelligently about the team on TV, not to figure out how to beat them.
Either way, you still gotta take them one game at a time.
Lee Benson's About Utah column runs Mondays. Email: [email protected]


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Nicknamed "The Hit Dog," Vaughn is a former MLB first baseman. He played from 1991 to 2003 with the Boston Red Sox, Anaheim Angels, and New York Mets, as stated by the Hartford Courant. Vaughn was a three-time All-Star selection and won the American League MVP award in 1995. He was born in Norwalk.
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A would-be mugger learnt a very painful lesson – after he was hit by a BUS as he tried to flee.
CCTV captured the man snatching a mobile phone from his unsuspecting victim as she waited at a bus station in Bogota, Colombia.
The shocking footage shows the two struggle before the thief runs off with the phone – straight into the path of an oncoming bus.
The man is knocked to the ground and underneath the wheels of the vehicle, to the horror of bystanders waiting at the stop.
Incredibly, the mugging victim helped pull her attacker to from under the bus and recovered her stolen phone.
The man escaped with minor injuries and was prosecuted after he was discharged from hospital.