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Students desiring to file a complaint about services, staff, or activities should initially contact the Dean of Student Services. Based on the nature of the complaint, the student may be referred to the division of Academic Affairs or some other division of Lamar State College Orange. Policies and procedures for specific types of complaints/grievances can be found in the Texas State University Rules and Regulations, the LSCO Faculty Handbook, or the LSCO Student Handbook. These publications may be obtained from the Vice President for Student Services, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Director of Human Resources, and/or the Office of the President.
Complaints regarding academic issues including: instruction, classroom management, grading, program regulations, competitive program admissions and/or criteria, etc., should first be filed with the instructor. If resolution is not achieved, the complainant may appeal through the chain-of-command (division chair/director, VPAA) possibly culminating with a hearing before the Academic Grievance Committee. The student is notified, in writing, of the decision. Students may expect a maximum of five (5) working days per step in the grievance procedure.
Complaints regarding non-academic issues such as: student organizations and activities, fees, parking, security, building use, etc., should first be filed with the director/sponsor responsible for the activity. If resolution is not achieved, the complainant may appeal to the Vice President for Student Services. The student is notified, in writing, of the decision. Students may expect a maximum of five (5) working days per step in the complaint resolution procedure. The decision of the Vice President is final.
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Patty Collins, Interim Dean of Student Services
Ron Lewis Library Building, Room 355
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By Jonathan Kaminsky
DARRINGTON, Washington (Reuters) - The death toll from a massive landslide in Washington state stood at 24 on Wednesday, but the mud-stricken community braced for a higher body count as search teams combed through debris looking for scores of people still missing four days after the disaster.
Emergency management officials said as many as 176 people remained unaccounted for on Wednesday near the rural town of Oso, where a rain-soaked hillside collapsed on Saturday, cascaded over a river and engulfed dozens of homes on the opposite bank.
Meanwhile, Snohomish County officials began to address criticism for allowing new home construction on parts of the disaster site after a 2006 landslide in the same vicinity, which itself followed numerous reports detailing the risks of slides dating back to the 1950s.
A 1999 study by geologist Daniel Miller for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers warned of the potential for a "large catastrophic failure" in the area, northeast of Seattle.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, the county's emergency management director, John Pennington, said local authorities had spent millions of dollars on work to reduce landslide risks in the area after the 2006 event.
He suggested that while officials and residents were aware of vulnerability to unstable hill slopes, Saturday's tragedy came out of the blue.
"We really did a great job of mitigating the potential for smaller slides to come in and impact the community," Pennington said. "So from 2006 to this point, the community did feel safe, they fully understood the risks."
But he also said: "People knew that this is a landslide-prone area. Sometimes big events just happen. Sometimes large events that nobody sees happens. And this event happened, and I want to find out why. I don't have those answers right now."
Pennington told a Wednesday morning news conference that he expected to have updated figures later in the day on the number of missing individuals, and presumably the death toll.
Search and rescue operations tapered off overnight but ramped up to full strength again at first light on Wednesday, using dogs to pinpoint the possible location of victims, as well as electronic equipment such as listening devices and cameras capable of probing tight voids in the debris.
"We're not backing off. We're still going at this with all eight cylinders to get everyone out there who is unaccounted for," local fire chief Travis Hots said.
The discovery of additional bodies came as crews searched in
drizzling rain for survivors amid fading hopes that anyone could still be plucked alive from the massive pile of heavy muck and debris.
Officials said they were hoping that the number of missing would decline as some of those listed turned out to have been double-counted or were slow to alert family and officials of their whereabouts. Eight people were injured.
Although authorities have said chances were low of finding more survivors in the cement-like mud blanketing the landscape, Hots said about 50 more searchers had been brought in to sift through the square-mile disaster zone in hopes of a miracle.
The slide already ranks as one of the worst in the United States and has devastated residents of the roughly square-mile area where they had their homes on the banks of a river.
In 1969, 150 people were killed in landslides and floods in Nelson County, Virginia, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Pennington said he expected President Barack Obama would soon issue a formal disaster declaration for landslide victims, making direct federal assistance available to survivors of the tragedy.
(Additional reporting by Bill Rigby; Writing by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Dan Grebler)


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LG announced the Optimus L9 back at the end of August, when it took its place at the top of the L Series range, one dedicated to attractive, well-specced Android phones. It seems the L9's good looks attracted an American suitor, as T-Mobile has let its intention to release the L9 later this year be known.
T-Mobile swoons over the L9's styling in its press release, gushing about its modern, square style and "floating mass technology," a phrase we probably wouldn't use to describe a loved one. The truth is, the L9's minimalist design may not appeal to everyone, and the 9.1mm thick chassis isn't all that svelte these days.
The big 4.5-inch touchscreen is welcome though, even if its 960 x 540 pixel resolution doesn't match up to many of its more expensive peers, and there is a capable 5-megapixel camera with an LED flash and 1080p video recording on the rear. Inside is a 1GHz, dual-core processor with 1GB of RAM, which may not sound that impressive in these heady quad-core times, but it's a considerable step up from the Optimus L7.
LG has blessed the L9 with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but doesn't mention anything about an upgrade to 4.1 Jelly Bean, however news could follow its release. A sturdy 2,150mAh battery should provide lengthy standby and talk times, although no official data has been released.
Other features include LG's QuickMemo software, DLNA connectivity, Dolby Mobile, Wi-Fi Calling, Bluetooth 3.0 and for the camera, simultaneous still and video capture, plus the bizarre "Cheese" mode, where the phone takes a snap when it hears someone say "cheese." Yes, really.
The Optimus L9 will connect to T-Mobile's HSPA+ network and will go on sale later this year, but no exact date or information on pricing has been revealed. It joins the Nokia Lumia 810 as the second new device announcement from T-Mobile this week.


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Cervical Cancer Undermines Gender Equality in Africa
This blog post is co-authored with: Sheila Dutta
The 2012 World Development Report (WDR) "Gender Equality and Development" found that, while many disadvantages faced by women and girls have shrunk thanks to development, major gaps remain.
A significant gap is the excess female mortality in many low- and middle income countries, especially in childhood and during reproductive years. Cervical cancer —a preventable condition that usually results from a viral infection by the human papillomavirus (HPV) that is generally sexually transmitted— is one of the leading causes of premature death and ill health among women in sub-Saharan Africa. As the figure shows, the Eastern, Western and Southern African regions have the highest incidence rates of cervical cancer in the world. Rates exceed 50 per 100,000 populations and age-standardized mortality exceeds 40 per 100,000 populations.


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The Tragic Life of Sophia Jane Whitmore - COG 103
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How depressing. So much death. Consumption is bad enough but that pitch fork in the eye...ReplyDelete
I wonder if it is possible that Carrie Sophia Colby died of Consumption also? Tuberculosis can affect the brain as I have found out. My mother's sister was diagnosed in the 30s with Schizophrenia and was institutionalized for the rest of her life. In the 90s the Institution told us her actual illness was "Tuberculosis of the Brain". My paternal great grandfather, his mother, and all 8 of his siblings died of TB. At least one of them died from her brain being affected by it. Just a thought.ReplyDelete
Eewww...I agree with Kristen, the pitch fork in the eye made me flinch!
Oh, what a sad life! So many tragedies for one family to bear. We hardly hear of people having TB these days and yet, then, without antibiotics, there was no help. So sad for your ancestors. This was a great post to share for the CoG. Thank you.ReplyDelete


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Cemeteries aren't usually thought of as hotbeds of activity, but last Saturday night at the Forest Lawn Museum, atop the memorial park's Glendale grounds, proved the exception. As a blues band blared and colored lights splashed off the white walls of an adjacent chapel, several hundred guests ate, drank, danced and kibitzed in the museum plaza — all in the name of art.
The occasion was "Drew & Bob: Masters of the Movies," the latest exhibit in the museum's series of open-to-the-public cultural events. The show runs through May 26.
One can be excused if the names Drew and Bob don't immediately ring bells. To a great many film buffs, illustrators, directors and producers, they need no introduction. The rest of us are acquainted with Drew Struzan and Bob Peak through the iconic movie posters they created: more than 200 in all, including Struzan's classic paintings for "Stars Wars," "Rambo," "Indiana Jones" and "Back to the Future," and Peak's designs for "Apocalypse Now," "My Fair Lady," "Star Trek" and "Camelot." Some 50 early sketches and finished art for Struzan and Peak's posters (the two men worked separately) were on display at the museum, along with abstract and straightforward paintings from each artist's career. Struzan, 66, was on hand to meet and greet. Peak, who died in 1992 at 65, was represented by his son, Tom Peak.
Both men, whose work literally defines the art of the film poster, had ties to Southern California and its design community. Kansas-raised Peak realized that a career in art might be feasible when, as a sailor during the Korean War, he drew portraits of his shipmates to send to their loved ones back home. He moved to Los Angeles to attend the Art Center, when the prestigious school (now Pasadena's Art Center College of Design) was located on Third Street in Hancock Park.
Upon graduation, says Tom Peak, his father "headed straight for New York, to work in advertising. It was the real 'Mad Men' era. He did work for Coke, Time magazine, fashion layouts, then got the call to work on the campaign for 'West Side Story.' Then came 'The Birdman of Alcatraz,' 'Camelot' and he was on his way." Despite the movie connection, Bob Peak continued to live and work in New York and Connecticut.
"Almost everybody at Art Center went on to New York, because that's where the illustration work was," explains Drew Struzan, who, as a promising teenage art student in San Francisco, trekked to Art Center sometime after Bob Peak. "I didn't. We'd gotten married in 1968 and had a baby, so I took what work I could get here: doing album covers for record companies, at $50 a cover."
If the pay was low, Struzan's visibility was high. His numerous designs for such acts as the Beach Boys and Alice Cooper led to his first calls from film studios, who asked his record-label employers, "Who's the guy who did this cover?" Struzan left music for movies, never looked back, and eventually wound up as the go-to guy for filmmakers like Spielberg, Lucas and Guillermo del Toro.
"Ultimately that did happen," Struzan says with a laugh, "but it took 30 years. Most of the time, you're working for a studio, for a thousand bosses, each one with a different opinion about the project. It's tough."
Still, meeting Bob Zemeckis, who told Struzan, "I've been waiting all my life to make a movie good enough for you to do my poster," provided considerable validation. Struzan drew posters for all three "Back to the Future" features.
Their work-for-hire arrangements didn't stop Struzan and Peak from generating dazzling work that not only sold tickets but imprinted itself upon American popular culture. Among Peak's original artwork on display at "Drew & Bob" are his ominous depiction of Marlon Brando as Colonel Kurtz for "Apocalypse Now," the steely blade of "Excalibur" and the rainbow shaft of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." Struzan is represented by, among other works, the hatted visage of Harrison Ford for "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," the helmeted Darth Vader of "Return of the Jedi," and the Maxfield Parrish-inspired art for "Pan's Labyrinth."
Both Peak and Struzan are the subjects of new studies: the just-issued coffee-table book "The Art of Bob Peak" and the documentary (on DVD and available via Netflix) "Drew: The Man Behind the Poster."
At last weekend's reception, guests included some esteemed peers in art and Hollywood, including comics artist/production designer William Stout, Disney animator Floyd Norman, "Blade Runner"' designer Syd Mead, and "How to Train Your Dragon" co-writer/director Dean DeBlois.
For Pasadena resident Struzan, there's always the possibility of the phone ringing with new offers, particularly since rumors are rife about "Star Wars Episode VII." "No, Disney hasn't called me," he says. "I do have other directors and studios saying, 'When we're ready with a project, would you consider us?' It's kind of a wonderful place to be."
What: "Drew & Bob: Masters of the Movies"
Where: Forest Lawn Museum, 1712 S. Glendale Ave, Glendale.
When: Through May 26. Open every day except Monday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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GENE SCULATTI is a Los Angeles music journalist and the author of "The Catalog of Cool" and "100 Best Selling Albums of the '60s."


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Here's the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
State of the Fukushima Reactors
TEPCO is once again under fire this week, after two separate leaks were reported in underground tanks designed to hold radioactive water used to cool reactors. On April 5, TEPCO reported that 120 tons (almost 29,000 gallons or nearly 110,000 liters) of highly radioactive water had leaked from tank #2, which is approximately the size of several football fields and holds 13,000 tons of water. There are seven tanks at the facility, each consisting of a hole dug into the ground and then lined with two layers of polyethylene, and an outer layer of clay. Each layer is separated by felt.
Officials said that water leaking from tank #2 contained 6,000 Bq/cm 3 of radiation, based on water discovered between two of the polyethylene sheets, for a total of 710 billion becquerels. However, experts suspect that the water may actually be far more radioactive, because levels of water within the tank itself measured 290,000 becquerels. They surmise that groundwater may now be seeping in, diluting the water found beneath the plastic sheets. If so, the overall amount of water leaked may actually be 50 times more radioactive than TEPCO has admitted, for a whopping total of 35 trillion becquerels. Hideo Yamazaki, a professor at Kinki University, said, "I cannot understand why TEPCO used a lower figure as the basis for this calculation. Such calculations should be conducted strictly from the viewpoint of ensuring safety." Professor Masanori Aritomi, from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, agreed: "There's a common understanding that such calculations should be based on the initial concentration of radioactive substances. I'm afraid TEPCO is underestimating the seriousness of this incident."
In addition, the utility determined that 120 tons of water leaked, based on water levels within the tank. If groundwater has entered the tanks, it means that the original water levels might be even lower than thought, and more highly radioactive water may have escaped.
Officials said that the leak was first discovered on April 3, but they waited two days to report it to the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), saying, "We believed a detailed investigation was needed [before submitting the report]." Based on falling water levels in the tank, officials now believe that the leak began as early as March 20, but the discrepancy wasn't investigated at the time and was simply attributed to margin of error. At the same time, radioactivity concentrations in the water changed, but again, the utility failed to notice. Earlier this month, TEPCO was widely criticized for failing to report power loss to spent fuel pools, which could have ultimately resulted in a major nuclear disaster, to the NRA, local government officials, and the media for several hours.
On April 7, TEPCO reported a second, smaller leak in tank #3, which holds 11,000 tons. So far, water levels in that tank have not dropped significantly. Officials suspect that both leaks are a result of failures in the polyethylene sheets. A TEPCO spokesman explained, "There is the possibility that joints in the water-shielding sheets have been damaged. The sheets turned out not to have the ability for which they were designed." Officials believe that the issue may be a result of inadequate seals on the sheets, resulting in their being compromised when the weight of the water caused stress on seams. However, that theory cannot be tested until water is drained from the pools and the structure is examined. Experts are now raising concerns that all seven underground tanks, which are all constructed similarly, may be at risk of leaking. Some have charged TEPCO with trying to save money by cutting corners and digging what are essentially storage pits, rather than building more expensive steel-reinforced tanks.
TEPCO has been grappling with issues regarding contaminated water since the disaster first began in March 2011. Each day, the utility pumps 370 tons of water into the damaged reactors in order to keep them cool. In addition, an estimated 400 tons of groundwater seep into the reactor basements, through cracks in the buildings. That water also becomes contaminated. The plant currently has capacity to store 325,000 tons of water in hundreds of holding tanks on the premises, but has already used 80% of that space. Overall, the Fukushima Daiichi facility is currently holding 370,000 tons of radioactive water, including water in the reactors themselves. More tanks are being built. But, because the decommissioning process is expected to take 40 years or more, company officials are scrambling to come up with a better plan. So far, they have not been able to do so.
Meanwhile, the utility admitted that power to critical cooling systems at reactor #3's spent fuel pool was lost for a second time in less than a month, after workers installing a net designed to keep rodents away from a switchbox accidentally touched cables, causing a short in the system. Power was out for several hours, and although temperatures at the pool did not go up significantly, analysts say that the incident highlights poor safety conditions at the plant. The power loss could have been avoided had TEPCO purposely shut power down before beginning the job, but workers neglected to do so. The company admitted that it made a poor choice, saying, "We are sorry for causing the trouble. We will be more careful so that we will not make [more] mistakes." Workers were installing nets in response to a larger power loss last month, in which cooling systems connected to several spent fuel pools at the plant were halted for over 29 hours, after a rat ran across cables on a switchbox that had been operating outdoors on a truck for more than two years. The spent fuel pool at reactor #3 contains 566 fuel assemblies (of these, 514 contain spent fuel.)
The leaks and power losses follow several other problems and missteps over the past few weeks, in which a water purification system stopped when a worker accidentally hit the wrong switch, and alarms connected to radiation monitors near the plant's main gate went off, signaling high radiation levels. Officials said that incident was presumably caused by an equipment malfunction.
In fact, experts say that many of the problems that the plant is currently facing are the result of TEPCO's failure to replace and upgrade temporary and makeshift equipment, more than two years after the nuclear disaster first began to unfold. This week, 10 members of the Diet's investigative panel into the causes of the Fukushima disaster, led by Kiyoshi Kurokawa, testified before a special Lower House committee. Their report, which was released last July, said that the Fukushima nuclear crisis was "a man-made disaster." On Monday, Kurokawa observed, "Obviously, the crisis is not yet under control," referring to the many recent technical and human failures. He added, "Moreover, a response to victims of the crisis has not been progressing." Another member, Shuya Nomura, criticized Parliament for leaving all decision making to TEPCO and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's pro-nuclear Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) administration, rather than overseeing the process. "The public is extremely concerned, especially about the latest contaminated water leak. Many people worry if it's a good idea to leave the plant up to TEPCO and the regulators. Is it all right to leave the response to contaminated water and other problems to the discretion of TEPCO and the executive branch of the government? As representatives of the people, Diet members should have expertise and get involved with the mindset of the general public," he said.
In response to the recent leaks, the NRA has ordered TEPCO to find the cause and determine its environmental impact, adding that it may increase monitoring at the Daiichi plant. Nevertheless, analysts say that TEPCO continues to respond to crises only after they occur, rather than proactively working to prevent them. For instance, the company set up a task force to address water capacity issues at the plant, but only did so this week, two days after the leaks in holding tanks occurred.
TEPCO is currently working to transfer water from tank #2 to another tank, a process that will take five days; they hope to finish Wednesday. By that time, an additional estimated 47 tons of highly radioactive water will have leaked into the ground.
Officials insist that none of the water has seeped into the ocean, which lies approximately 800 meters away. Nevertheless, local fishermen remain highly concerned that their livelihoods, already destroyed by the Fukushima disaster, will be further damaged. "I am afraid that we will continue to be plagued by this kind of problem until the reactors are finally decommissioned [40 years from now]…We fishermen are the ones who will have to suffer until the end, due to the increasing amount of contaminated water at the plant," lamented one fisherman.
In other news, workers have begun to move spent fuel assemblies from a combined storage pool to a depot on the premises of the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The depot will temporarily store dry casks containing the spent fuel rods, which need to be moved from the common pool, in order to make room for spent fuel that will be transferred from the pool at reactor #4 beginning in November.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe admitted last week that it will be difficult to restart four reactors at TEPCO's Fukushima Daini power plant, located approximately 10 km from the crippled Daiichi plant, because of staunchly anti-nuclear sentiment by local residents. "Even if safety is secured, it is difficult to restart operations without the understanding of local residents. It is not easy with evacuees still unable to return to their hometowns," he said. However, he added that TEPCO, rather than the government, should decide whether or not the plant should be permanently decommissioned. Abe, who has been pushing hard for restarting reactors across Japan, was speaking before a Lower House Budget Committee meeting.
Nuclear Regulation Authority
The NRA said this week that it will require nuclear power companies which host reactors within 160 km of volcanoes to assess risks and determine how long it would take to transfer nuclear fuel from those reactors before lava reached them. Experts say that the new ruling will affect the majority of Japan's nuclear reactors, most of which sit relatively near to volcanoes, and may lead to decommissioning for some.
However, NRA officials also decided to relax new requirements—originally scheduled to take effect in July—mandating offsite control rooms located at least 100 meters away from nuclear reactors. Instead, officials said that utilities will have up to five years to build those, as well as to install remote-controlled cooling systems. In the interim, the NRA said that power companies can use mobile operation centers. The original regulation was prompted by the Fukushima crisis, during which TEPCO officials were unable to use central control rooms to manage the emergency because radiation levels there were too high.
Other Nuclear Politics in Japan
New analysis by the Asahi Shimbun shows that the cost of reprocessing Japanese nuclear fuel has tripled since 1995, from 44 million yen to 122 million yen ($1.28 million), further raising the overall cost of nuclear power. Japan hoped to process nuclear waste by removing plutonium, which would then be used to make new nuclear fuel. However, the remaining highly radioactive waste must be treated via a process called vitrification, in which radioactive materials are encased into glass, in order to more easily disposed of them. Currently, it is a complex and expensive process. Initially, reprocessing was supposed to be done for a short time by Great Britain and France, while Japan readied its own reprocessing facilities at the Rokkasho plant in Aomori Prefecture, slated to open in 1997. However, completion of that facility has gone through 19 delays and numerous technical issues. Meanwhile, the costs of transporting fuel overseas and the vitrification process itself have gone up considerably. The reprocessing plant in Britain has also suffered problems, including leaks of highly contaminated waste.
Yesterday, the government filed suit against protesters who set up tents in front of the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) building in September 2011 and have been camping there ever since, in an effort to demonstrate against the dangers of nuclear energy. The government is now trying to force the protesters to leave the area. One activist said, "[We] intend to show that this is an important location to conduct a national debate on nuclear power."
A new exposè by The Mainichi Daily News shows that workers tasked with decontaminating cities and towns near the Fukushima nuclear disaster are living in Spartan conditions and receiving very low pay, as multiple layers of contractors and subcontractors shave off percentages of their wages. Workers are forced to sleep in tiny areas, and most are provided only vegetables to eat, despite working in fields all day, clearing radioactive grass and brush. "We aren't treated like human beings," said one worker. "We were treated almost unbelievably roughly, especially as we were doing hard physical labor." The government mandates that decontamination workers receive 10,000 yen ($100) per day in hazard pay on top of regular wages, but once that's subtracted, many firms are only paying approximately 1,000 yen ($10) to each worker per day. One contracting firm said, "We did pay the workers danger pay [as required by law] in addition to their pay, but in the absence of a labor agreement with the workers concerning deductions, we subtracted costs for room and board." Another firm representative noted the difficulty of working with so many layers of contracting and subcontracting firms, each of which takes a share of the profit. He noted, "You can't really turn a profit unless you hit the workers' wages or shave them down somehow. In the end, the whole system is designed to make money for the big construction companies at the top."
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Wow, where do I start. TEPCO either has incompetent managers or bad cover ups that eventually expose them selves. Murphy's law really is in full f...
Wow, where do I start. TEPCO either has incompetent managers or bad cover ups that eventually expose them selves. Murphy's law really is in full force. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong. Prime minister Abe seems hell bent on restarting idle reactors no matter if they follow safety guidelines or not. They seem to disregard the dangers of radiation on the population. As for the workers doing the decontaminating of radioactive brush and grass it is a crime the way they are being treated. Poor living conditions and less than the pay they were Promised equals Poor morale and usually equals poor quality work. Thank you Greenpeace for all the great information.
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Those build by Tepco are not "underground tanks" by any means; rather they could be described as large swimming pools obtained by quickly di...
Those build by Tepco are not "underground tanks" by any means; rather they could be described as large swimming pools obtained by quickly digging a hole in the ground and laying clay and polyethilene sheets on the walls and the bottom.
By the way, it is Rokkasho rather than Rokkosho -- just for those readers who might try to google out a few more details by themselves.
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HYANNIS — This will end with a break-up song. That's the going bet. After that, there are just questions upon questions cascading out of the central riddle: What is Taylor Swift up to with the Kennedys?
The basic story involves a 22-year-old pop star engaged in a summer romance with an 18-year-old boy whose last name is Kennedy.
Swift moved swiftly into her role as a Kennedy woman. Her style shifted toward Jackie O: polka dot bathing suits at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port; a scarf with Ray Ban Wayfarers on the sailboat for the paparazzi.
The romance has been going on since early July, and so has the buzz, but as another weekend began in Hyannis, it followed a week of weird news in the story of Swift and Conor Kennedy, the son of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. It was reported that the couple "crashed" a Kennedy family wedding in Boston and refused to leave when asked by the mother of the bride. There were also still-unconfirmed reports that Swift might have bought a house next door to the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port.
"It seems like she got very comfortable very quickly," Joannie Lynch said as she waited for a friend on the street in Hyannis. She's 18, Conor's age, and said that 22 is too old.
So what is Swift up to?
"Isn't it apparent?" Lynch asked.
On the street in Hyannis, there were two schools of thought on what Taylor Swift was up to. One was that she had fallen in love with the black-and-white photograph of the Kennedy dynasty. The other was that she was simply young and in love.
Swift's songwriting success depends heavily on her willingness to fall hard, and despite her youthful age, she has a good number of breakup songs in the can, including those said to be about a Jonas brother, one of the guys from the "Twilight" films, and the prolific singer-songwriter John Mayer. Now, it's Conor Kennedy, soon to be a junior at Deerfield Academy.
"He'll be her muse," Erica Nanni said. She was in Hyannis with her friend, Elitta Picard. They're 22, Swift's age, and well past wanting anything to do with 18-year-old boys.
"It's going to be a good song," Picard said.
"The video will be set here," Nanni said. "She wants to play the part."
In the story of the Kennedys, the role of a starlet has a history. First, it is said, there was actress Marilyn Monroe. JFK Jr. dated actress Daryl Hannah for a while. But the arrival of Swift, in such a fashion and at such a time – the most recent bit of big Kennedy news was tragic, when Conor's mother took her life in May — adds a bit of a shine to the dynasty when it could use a little.
As far as 22-year-old country singers go, Taylor Swift is a gigantic star. The retro polka dot bikini she wore playing ball on the lawn of the compound quickly sold out. There's a reason the mother of the bride didn't want her stealing the spotlight.
In Hyannis, the latest twists in the Swift story certainly had people talking about the Kennedys. That's not rare on these streets, but this was an interesting string of gossip, questions about a young starlet trying on the princess crown in Camelot.
If Swift did indeed buy the oceanfront mansion – no one seems able to confirm the rumor yet – there was general agreement in Hyannis that it may be moving a bit too fast.
"I don't think she's as mature as people think she is," Philip Picariello of Wakefield said as he held his infant son in his arms. "Because at the end of the day, I don't know why she would want to get involved with that family."
It's an easy thing to say, given the complicated drama of the Kennedy family, but there's still something else. That other thing they call the Kennedy mystique, and many said it was hard to fault a young woman who enjoys feeling Kennedy-glamorous on a summer's day on Cape Cod.Billy Baker can be reached at email@example.com.


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Conor Oberst didn't make the top 40 of No Depression? This is an outrage.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 3 January 2009 00:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
wtf does 'quietly using' synths even mean
― choom gangsta (deej), Saturday, 3 January 2009 01:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
xptheyre waiting for a depression year-end list
― k3vin k., Saturday, 3 January 2009 01:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
^^ the dadjoke force is strong in this one
― some dude, Saturday, 3 January 2009 02:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
Question: I haven't heard Black Milk yet, but is he really taking such a "huge" risk?
Not sure if his beats are risky... but personally, I find them really satisfying.
I think there's a full song on the Cokemachineglow list, embedded track. Did you listen?
― ilxor, Saturday, 3 January 2009 06:13 (ten years ago) Permalink
Yes and it does not prove his point
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 3 January 2009 14:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
Did you watch the embedded YouTube video, also?
― ilxor, Saturday, 3 January 2009 17:21 (ten years ago) Permalink
I'm not going to typet his out but here's Philadelphia City Paper's list:
With supplemental material:
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Saturday, 3 January 2009 21:52 (ten years ago) Permalink
x-post to ilxor,
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 4 January 2009 00:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
Here ya go:
― ilxor, Sunday, 4 January 2009 01:38 (ten years ago) Permalink
im hearing basically no synths
― choom gangsta (deej), Sunday, 4 January 2009 02:01 (ten years ago) Permalink
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 4 January 2009 05:53 (ten years ago) Permalink
Jane Dark, Top 40 singles:
piratemoggy, Top 30:
Jason Gross, fave albums/singles/reissues:
Phil Dellio, Top 10 singles:
Dave Dimartino, Top 10 albums:
Chris Stigliano, year-end wrapup:
MetalJazz, top metal/jazz albums:
Alex Macpherson, top 122 tracks:
Frank Kogan, top 25 albums:
Frank Kogan, top 50 singles:
Matos, top 50 albums:
― xhuxk, Sunday, 4 January 2009 19:11 (ten years ago) Permalink
did not know the lex had a lj
― k3vin k., Sunday, 4 January 2009 19:23 (ten years ago) Permalink
poptimist polls so far:
― xhuxk, Sunday, 4 January 2009 19:29 (ten years ago) Permalink
here's my top 100 if anyone cares:http://www.aprilfish.net/?p=18
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 4 January 2009 19:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
Think he means not having album covers like this:
Which is a "risk" because real heads, true schoolers etc. will reject you.
― subroc back to haunt, Sunday, 4 January 2009 20:37 (ten years ago) Permalink
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Sunday, 4 January 2009 20:45 (ten years ago) Permalink
My top 50 albums, top 75 tracks, top 63 gigs.
And, rather more thrillingly... The Disastrous Rocktimists UK Pop Critics Poll 2008!
― mike t-diva, Monday, 5 January 2009 00:38 (ten years ago) Permalink
^change you can believe in
― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 5 January 2009 00:48 (ten years ago) Permalink
I thought I might have more of the Disastrous Poll up before it showed up here. Instead I have been drinking cans in the hope I fall asleep sometime before I gotta get up for work.
― Enrique (Raw Patrick), Monday, 5 January 2009 01:05 (ten years ago) Permalink
Mixmag's 2008 Top 100 Tunes (copied from Rocklist.co.uk):
1. Hercules And Love Affair – Blind2. MGMT – Kids3. Hot Chip – Ready For The Floor4. Johnny D – Orbitalife5. Fake Blood – Mars6. Radio Slave – Grindhouse7. The Kills - Cheap And Cheerful8. MIA – Paper Planes9. Eric Prydz - Pjanoo10. Mujava – Township Funk
11. Crystal Castles – Crimewave12. SIS – Standing13. Sia – The Girl You Lost To Cocaine14. Friendly Fires – Paris15. Surkin – White Knight Two/Next Of Kin16. Mgmt – Electric Feel17. Little Boots – Stuck On Repeat18. Wiley – Wearing My Rolex19. Sam Sparro – Black And Gold20. Portishead – Machine Gun
21. Zomby – Zomby EP22. Afefe Iku – Mirror Dance23. Deadmau5 – I Remember24. Matt John – Boeing Highfly25. Sebo K – Diva26. Booka Shade – Charlotte27. Zoo Brazil – Technik28. Midnight Juggernauts – Into The Galaxy29. N*E*R*D – Everyone Nose30. Underworld – Ring Road
31. ZTT – The Worm32. Ilario Alicante – Vacaciones En Chilie33. Underworld – Beautiful Burnout34. Rolling Stones – You Can't Always Get What You Want – Soulwax Re Mix35. Sis – Trompeta36. The Chemical Brothers – Midnight Madness37. Guillame & The Coutu Dumonts – They Only Come Out At Night38. Heartbreak – We're Back39. Mystery Jets – Two Doors Down40. Melchior Productions – Who Can Find Me
41. Late Of The Pier – Bathroom Gargle42. The Bug Feat. Killa P & Flowdan – Ganja43. Estelle – American Boy44. TRG – Broken Heart45. Sebastian Teller – L'Amour Et La Violence46. Friendly Fires – Jump Into The Pool47. Mathew Johnson – Marionette48. Chase & Status – Eastern Jam49. Audion – Billy Says Go50. Sasha – Mongoose
51. Mark August – Warm52. Santogold – L.E.S. Artistes53. Alphabeat – Boyfriend54. DJ Shah – Back To You55. D'Julz – Just So You Know56. Fabrikat Feat. Peter Juergens – Discolicker57. Felix Da Housecat – Radio58. Grace Jones – William's Blood59. Larry Tee Feat. Princess Superstar – Licky60. Lemon & Einark – Anticipation
61. TC – Where's My Money62. Solomun Vs Ost & Klex – Federgewicht63. Santogold – Say A-Ha64. Stereo:Type Feat. Foreign Beggers – Bangers & Mash65. Mandy Vs Booka Shade Feat. Laurie Anderson – O Superman66. Tricky – Council Estate67. Andy Duguid – Wasted68. Dizzee Rascal Feat. Calvin Harris – Dance With Me69. Don Rimini – Rave On70. Luciano – Nin
71. Flying Lotus – Parisian Goldfish72. Foals – Hummer73. Friendly Fires – Ex-Lover74. Geiom Feat. Marita – Reminissin75. Pedro – Fleute And Clarinette76. Kabala Und Lauhus – Makake77. Kris G – Feel My Love78. Kuffdam & Plant – Burning Up79. Late Of The Pier – The Bears Are Coming80. Martina Topley-Bird – Carnies
81. Math Head – Turn The Music Up82. Kryptic Minds & Leon Switch – Minor Nine83. Moby – I Love To Move In Here84. Shonky – Time Zero85. The Ting Tings – Great DJ86. Italoboyz – Bahia87. The Ting Tings – That's Not My Name88. Tyrrell – Lalalalalala89. Buraka Som Sistema – Sound Of Kuduro90. Christian Burkhart – Maison Noire
91. Crystal Fighters – I Love London92. Deadest – Acid Radar93. Toddla T – Manabadman94. Bloc Party – Mercury95. Flying Lotus – Breath96. Hercules And Love Affair – Raise Me Up97. Joker – Snake Eater98. Martin Eyerer – Furthermore99. Drums Of Death – Cursed By Magick100. Utah Jazz – Back In Time
― Matos W.K., Monday, 5 January 2009 05:41 (ten years ago) Permalink
I'm glad "Wearing My Rolex" is getting so much <3
― The Reverend, Monday, 5 January 2009 05:42 (ten years ago) Permalink
I'm sorry it took me so damn long to hear it! Would have been in my Top 20 easy.
― Matos W.K., Monday, 5 January 2009 05:45 (ten years ago) Permalink
is little boots any good? i downloaded them but it was from the same ppl who recommended me garbage like fleet foxes, bon iver and little joy
― k3vin k., Monday, 5 January 2009 06:19 (ten years ago) Permalink
she's ok, definitely much better than those people, but if that's the sort of thing you're after you may as well just go get the last roisin murphy album instead, next to which little boots is sort of redundant
'wearing my rolex' fans should also hear 'if you're going out, i'm going out too':
― lex pretend, Monday, 5 January 2009 09:44 (ten years ago) Permalink
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 January 2009 10:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
you may as well just go get the last roisin murphy album instead, next to which little boots is sort of redundant
this is like saying you don't need both ciara and cassie in yr life
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Monday, 5 January 2009 14:26 (ten years ago) Permalink
When, in fact, you actually need neither of them...
― ilxor, Monday, 5 January 2009 17:51 (ten years ago) Permalink
uh oh
― k3vin k., Monday, 5 January 2009 17:52 (ten years ago) Permalink
"Stuck on Repeat" I prolly like better than anything off the last Roisin, all the other stuff I've heard is kinda eh.
― Maciej (maciej recognizing trill), Monday, 5 January 2009 18:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
poptimists tracks of 08 part one (42-50)
― xhuxk, Monday, 5 January 2009 19:12 (ten years ago) Permalink
poptimists tracks of 08 part two (31-40)
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:31 (ten years ago) Permalink
Nashville Scene Country Critics Poll: http://www.nashvillescene.com/2009-01-15/news/the-ninth-annual-nashville-scene-country-music-critics-poll-the-results/
― Matos W.K., Friday, 16 January 2009 03:25 (ten years ago) Permalink
Didn't Christgau in his consumer poll give a 'dud' to the Nashville Scene Critics poll winner Jamey Johnson? Wonder why he hates him so. Maybe he says why in that Slate discussion upthread
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 January 2009 12:45 (ten years ago) Permalink
it's probably bcuz he's old
― xhuxk e deej (k3vin k.), Friday, 16 January 2009 16:57 (ten years ago) Permalink
Nah, that hasn't stopped him before.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 January 2009 17:09 (ten years ago) Permalink
if that's the sort of thing you're after you may as well just go get the last roisin murphy album instead, next to which little boots is sort of redundant
Little Boots sounds nothing like Roisin Murphy and more like Hot Chip with a female singer.
― Matt DC, Friday, 16 January 2009 17:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
that "stuck on a groove" single is better than anything hot chip's done in a long time
― gr8080, Friday, 16 January 2009 19:46 (ten years ago) Permalink
lex to thread:
― Ioannis, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 13:59 (ten years ago) Permalink
Pazz & Jop 2008
Lex and others to thread
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 19:08 (ten years ago) Permalink
Not sure how they compiled it but here's the Offbeat, New Orleans magazine, top 10:
1. Theresa Andersson-Hummingbird Go2. Irma Thomas-Simply Grand3. Michael Doucet-From Now On4. Dr. Michael White-Blue Crescent5. Lil' Wayne-Tha Carter III6. The Iguanas-If You Should Ever Fall On Hard Times7. Tom McDermott and Connie Jones- Creole Nocturne8. Dr. John-The City That Care Forgot9. David Egan-You Don't know Your Mind10. Porter-Batiste-Stolz-Moodoo
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 25 January 2009 04:56 (ten years ago) Permalink
Rock-a-Rolla top 40:
1. Harvey Milk – Life…The Best Game in Town2. Earth – The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull3. Melvins – Nude with Boots4. Dub Trio – Another Sound is Dying5. Asva – What You Don't know is Frontier6. Grails – Doomsdayer's Holiday7. Secret Chiefs 3 – Xaphan: Book of Angel8. Kayo Dot – Blue Lambency Downward9. Mike Patton – A Perfect Place10. Racebanon – Acid or Blood11. Torche – Meanderthal12. Portishead – Third13. The Mars Volta – The Bedlam in Goliath14. Lustmord – [Other]15. Zach Hill – Astrological Straits16. Steve Von Till – A Grave is a Grim Horse17. Ascend – Ample Fire Within18. Akimbo – Jersey Shores19. Conifer – Corown Fire20. Bohren & Der Club of Gore – Dolores21. Meshuggah – Obzen22. Philip Jeck – Sano23. UFOmammut – Idolum24. Wildildlife – Six25. Moha! – One Way Ticket to Candyland26. Helms Alee – Night Terror27. Mogwai – The Hawk is Howling28. Krallice – Krallice29. Jarboe – Mahakali 30. Hey Colossus – Happy Birthday31. Merzbow – Anicca32. Gnaw Their Tongues – An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood33. Lucky Dragons – Dream Island Laughing Language34. Jucifer – L'Autrichienne35. Mothlite – The Flax of Reverie36. Boris – Smile37. No Age – Nouns38. Black Sun – Paralyser39. Subtle – Exitingarm40. Prurient – And Still Waiting
― m the g, Sunday, 25 January 2009 08:16 (ten years ago) Permalink
DJ Premier's top 20 '08
20. Ill Bill - The Hour of Reprisal19. 88-Keys - The Death of Adam18. EPMD - We Mean Business17. Craig G & Marley Marl - Operation Take Back Hip-Hop16. Ice Cube - Raw Footage15. Q-Tip - The Renaissance14. Guilty Simpson - Ode to the Ghetto13. Termanology - Politics as Usual12. Big Shug - Otherside of the Game11. Ludacris - Theater of the Mind
10. Heltah Skeltah - D.I.R.T. (Da Incredible Rap Team)09. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III08. The P Brothers - The Gas07. eMC - The Show06. Jake One - White Van Music05. D.I.T.C. - The Movement04. Scarface - Emeritus03. Statik Selektah - Stick 2 the Script02. Evidence - The Layover EP01. DJ Revolution - King of the Decks
― twitty milk (deej), Sunday, 1 February 2009 02:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
― The Reverend, Sunday, 1 February 2009 09:07 (ten years ago) Permalink
he had a track on it :-/
― twitty milk (deej), Sunday, 1 February 2009 10:24 (ten years ago) Permalink
with a few glaring exceptions, I was surprisingly happy with the results of this year's WXYC DJ poll:
The Top 20 of 2008 (technically the Top 21 b/c the #20 slot was a tie):
1. Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill (TYPE)2. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont (Kranky/4AD)3. Tape - Luminarium (Häpna)4. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguar)5. Lil Wayne- tha carter 3 (Cash Money)6. Robbie Basho - Bonn Ist Supreme (Bo'Weavil)7. Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lions Skull (Southern Lord)7. Fleet Foxes- fleet foxes (Sub Pop)9. 70's Thai Orchestra - 70's Thai Orchestra (MISSISSIPPI/EXILED)10. Lau Nau - Nukkuu (Locust)11. v/a - 1970's algerian proto-rai underground (SUBLIME FREQUENCIES)12. Alan Licht & Aki Onda - Everydays (FAMILY VINEYARD)13. Gang Gang Dance- St. Dymphna (Social Registry)14. Animal Collective - Water Curses EP (Domino/Paw Tracks)14. Man Man - Rabbit Habits (ANTI-)16. The Cool Kids - The Bake Sale EP (Chocolate Industries)17. Girl talk - Feed the animals (Illegal Art)18. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing (ATP Recordings)18. The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace (self-released)20. Ponytail- ice cream social (We Are Free)20. Burning Star Core - Challenger (Hospital/Plastic)
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It's the single biggest game of the year for both squads.
If either the Los Alamos Hilltopper or Santa Fe Demon football teams have aspirations to earn the District 2-4A title, they will have to pick up a victory over the other Friday night.
Los Alamos will host Santa Fe at 7 p.m. Friday. The winner will have clear sailing to the district championship, while the loser will likely be shut out from the 2012 playoffs completely.
The Hilltoppers opened the 2-4A season with a big 34-0 win over the Bernalillo Spartans last week in Bernalillo.
In last week's game, Los Alamos faced a very good running quarterback in Ralf Olguin.
This week, Los Alamos will face the best running quarterback and one of the top all-around athletes the district has to offer, Jordan Booth-Homer.
Booth-Homer is averaging better than 4 yards a carry and has 6 rushing touchdowns.
If that was all Santa Fe's offense featured, things would be simple for the Hilltopper defense, but Santa Fe also sports one of the district's best running backs, Anthony Abeyta. Abeyta, a 170-pound senior, is on pace for a 1,000-yard season and is averaging nearly 7 yards per carry.
Los Alamos clinched the 2-4A title in 2011, its first in three years, in large part because of a wild 30-20 victory at Ivan Head Stadium, a game that wasn't decided until the final minutes.
Late in that contest, the Demons drove deep into Hilltopper territory when Booth-Homer's apparent rushing touchdown was called back on a chop-block penalty. Three snaps later, the Demons were facing a fourth-and-goal from the 42-yard line, but a Los Alamos roughing the passer penalty gave the Demons new life.
Santa Fe couldn't capitalize, however, as Jake Downs picked off Booth-Homer near the goal line. Santa Fe would get the ball back with a little over a minute remaining but couldn't do anything with the possession.
Following that win, Los Alamos cruised past both Española Valley and Capital to clinch the 2-4A crown. Although Española Valley has shown signs of improvement, the Sundevils will be hard-pressed to hang with the Hilltoppers this year and Capital has managed just 3 points in the 2012 season.
The Demons picked up just their second win last week, blasting Española Valley 65-22. Prior to that, their only win came against hapless Albuquerque in the second week of the season and the Demons had been held to 26 points in three games before last week.
Against Española Valley, Abeyta ran for 150 yards while Booth-Homer threw for 137 yards and a touchdown.
The turning point in Los Alamos' contest with Bernalillo was a 95-yard catch-and-run by slotback Seth Drop from quarterback Brice Van Etten midway through the third quarter. The touchdown, which put the Hilltoppers up by three scores, came on a third-and-10 play with the Spartans just one stop away from a chance to get back into the ballgame.
Los Alamos' top rusher, Arnoldo Ortiz, finished with 116 yards last week.
While the winner Friday will be in a position to salt away the district race — Santa Fe would have the tougher route, however, as it still must face Bernalillo Nov. 2 — the loser will be in position to be frozen out of the postseason.
Santa Fe would most likely be seeded 12th in the playoffs if it does go on to claim the district title, negating any chance for the Hilltoppers to sneak in, and the Demons don't appear to have the credentials they'd need to get into any serious at-large discussion if they lose.
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Friday, January 29, 2010
Slow handclap, geniuses.
Boy, that protest really rocked, eh? I hope at least one of you got laid.
Update!: Additional cursewords that would only bring contempt upon the author.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Chilcot - The Case For War
I am, however, loving the reactions it's bringing out around the internet.
Twittering anti-war lefty types seem to veer from cold suspicion to outbursts of wild optimism every time generic civil servant (x) makes a vague admission that yes, the case for war may possibly have been full of bullshit.
Why this should be, I have no idea. Obviously the case for war was crammed to bursting with bullshit, bulging and groaning at the seams. Hilariously though, this inquiry marks at least the third time that the British state has told the anti-war left that the word gullible isn't in the dictionary, and the third instance of enthusiastic, puppy-eyed lefties saying Really? Surely not, rushing off to check the OED.
I imagine that Chilcot will cast Tony Blair as a shifty, pompous, dishonest twerp who sent the armed forces into a boiling disaster, much as an inquiry into Myra Hindley's behaviour would probably raise doubts over her suitability for childminding duties. Sadly, the chances of it finding criminal culpability in the former PM's aggressive warmaking are somewhere between jack and shit, and Jack just nipped into Ladbrokes to put a whopping great bet on a whitewash.
I guess this is my point - the question of the war's legality is an enticing carrot for anti-war types to chase in perpetuity. I'm working on the assumption that for some, a fiery official condemnation would prove them right once and for all and force the nation to face reality, as if the last seven years weren't quite real enough.
Whether Chilcot nails Blair's balls to the floor or not, the war's defenders are not about to throw up their hands in horror and join in the massive bout of Bodysnatchers-style finger-pointing and howling. There will be no Thank you protestors for being right about this epic clusterfuck after-show party.
A sizeable number of the war's cheerleaders have cheerfully blown off its horrific consequences, from the Iraqi insurgents' bloodbaths, through the sectarian death squads and the ensuing civil war and micro-partitioning of the country, by waving their hands and chanting the magical exculpatory incantation, Al-Qaeda terrorists ate our homework!
These people would rather cram their scrotums down their own throats than give an inch to Chilcot, and the odds of say, the Times, running a Sorry we fed you all lies editorial are woeful.
Further, regardless of the outcome, the former PM isn't going to be clapped in irons, chained to a heavy radiator and thrown into the Thames. He's going to continue shambling around the world jamming great fistfuls of dollars into his pockets in the full glare of the public eye.
No, the only service the inquiry can perform is to utterly expose the lunacy at the heart of our decision to join the Americans in their deranged Iraq enterprise, and to make sure the lesson is drummed into the public one more time, hard enough to prevent even partial repeats. Here's a brief recap of exactly how we wound up taking part...
Let's recall that the Americans invaded Iraq to fend off Iraqi aggression.
I'll write that again, for clarity. The United States - the world's only remaining superpower, with a defence budget of five hundred billion dollars per annum - invaded the castrated, two-soldiers-in-a-Fiat-Panda dictatorship of Iraq in self-defence.
Now, I can already hear the objections about Tony Blair's humanitarian agenda, but none of that matters at all. Tony wasn't in charge - the US was deploying the most terrifying military machine in history, and made it clear they could squash the Iraqi military like an asthmatic beetle without our help.
This was the Bush White House's war, and they wouldn't start babbling about painting schools and helping those poor women vote until the collapse of Iraq had turned the country into the Hammer House of Horror. Their justifications were the terrifying, anthrax-filled model planes that Saddam might use to genocide Dogdick, Alabama and those awful mushroom clouds that would be shaped like smoking guns, or whatever.
And the plan? The plan went like this - Invade Iraq = Freedom!
You know when you've got a suitcase that's so full you can't shut it, and you wedge everything down and shove a fork through the zipper and pull to no avail, and eventually two of your mates have to sit on the damn thing until you eventually get the bulging, straining case shut?
That is just how full of bullshit the case for war was.
The Americans were standing, pumped-up and raring to dive into the new Vietnam they've been looking for ever since they fled the original with their tails between their legs, loudly bellowing that they would totally have kicked those skinny pyjama guys asses, if their buddies hadn't stopped them...
...And the former Prime Minister looked at this situation and thought, This looks like the kind of ultraviolent dipshit escapade I could really get my teeth into!
So there's your one and only question for the PM on Friday - What the hell were you thinking, numbnuts?
Of course, we know the answer to that one, but I don't think it'll do the country any harm to hear Tony Blair spell out his reasoning, one more time.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
On The Giving Of Offence
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Learning About War With Hitchens
"Any fight you're going to have eventually, have it now... We should pick the time, not them".
...And a belated happy new year to Chris Hitchens, who I'm starting to suspect is neither misguided nor a deluded optimist, but rather a brutal psychopath and a raving homicidal maniac.
The subject matter is, of course, the hated Iranian regime: aggressions and provocations by, and the tonnage of bombs we will have to drop on the Iranian populace in order to bring them the joy of freedom.
Today's tipple is Johnnie Walker Black Label, and the crimes of the mullahs - or the Revolutionary Guard, as Hitch now terms the Iranian regime - they go into countries where they're not wanted, arm violent insurgent groups and militias, shoot protestors in the streets, send death squads to the other side of the planet, seek nuclear weapons and they torture, rape and disappear prisoners. "The existence of such regimes is incompatible with us," Hitchens says, with a straight face.
Fear not, though - Chris has the solution...
"...If there is going to be a confrontation, we should pick the time, not them... They'll say I'm asking for war, but I'll say no. I'm not. I'm recognizing that someone is looking for war. We should be firm enough to say "Alright." We didn't look for it. We've tried everything short of war for a long time. Everything..."
Reel your eyes back into their sockets, folks, because Hitchens is actually contending that the Iranians - whose experience of war in the last five decades was fending off a western-backed assault from our previous intolerable modern Hitler, Saddam Hussein, at the cost of half a million lives - are gearing up to make war upon their neighbours. This aggression will not stand, man.
Sharp-eyed readers will note that we, the injured and passive western democracies, have actually attacked, invaded and currently occupy the territories immediately to Iran's west and north, not to mention bombing Yemen to their south. If we include the Israelis in our thinking - and we really should - we can add Lebanon, Gaza and Syria to the list of local countries we have been forced to attack.
Should we mention that two of the US presidential candidates threatened to attack Iran with nuclear weapons during the recent primaries; and that prominent public figures have been calling for war with Iran for most of the decade?
Still, let us not forget that the Iranians are warmongering, irrational lunatics who cannot be deterred.
Other readers might notice that our attempts to democratise Iraq and Afghanistan have been a long, outrageously expensive and horrifically bloody nightmare, and that Hitchens is one of the few commentators who has refused to budge an inch from his previous, lunatic aggressiveness. Thank God, Hitch knows how to avoid a re-run of our hideous failures...
"(We'll say) ...We're not going to stay. We're handing the country over to you. We're not occupying... (Earlier) ....How many Iranian dissidents are going to be nationalistically upset by an intervention that comes in and removes the Revolutionary Guards?"
How many indeed? Perhaps our troops will be greeted with flowers and our not-occupation will pay for itsnotself during this hypothetical war, in which we might as well clad our soldiers in natty white uniforms with red crosses on the front. Where these soldiers are going to come from is another matter, but not one that I expect to trouble Hitchens' fevered dreams of explosions and righteous violence.
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By John Robin Witt
This story is not about humankind's first landing on the moon. It concerns humans watching over and protecting the nest of two American bald eagles (Patriot and Liberty), who in recent years have raised several broods in a welcoming cottonwood in downtown Redding, about 190 miles north of Sacramento.
It's also about Caltrans and concerned Redding community members who took the adult eagles under their wing and then literally watched their eaglets hatch, thrive and fledge from their aerie in this city of 110,000 people. The issue arose because the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) required Caltrans to monitor the eagles as part of the environmental phase of a major construction project now underway in Redding.
The story of Patriot and Liberty began as early as 2004 when they established a nest at Turtle Bay on the Sacramento River – a good location, since about 90 percent of a bald eagle's diet consists of fish. DFG scientists have been keeping an eye on the parents and various offspring ever since. The public later gave the pair their names via an online poll.
However, a simmering situation began to boil in 2007 when Caltrans began construction on the $64 million Dana to Downtown Project, one of the largest transportation improvements in the seven-county District 2, situated in the largely rural section of northeast California. The project, scheduled for completion in early 2011, is intended to relieve congestion on State Highway 44 between Interstate 5 and downtown Redding. Once completed, it will improve westbound access to the city's center, replace a bridge over the Sacramento River and create a new bicycle path.
DFG required Caltrans to monitor the eagles to determine whether construction was affecting the eagle's nesting activities. At first, a team of biologists physically monitored the birds, concerned that construction cranes and building activity would disturb the raptors. In fact, DFG officials asked Caltrans to encourage the birds to nest elsewhere. Caltrans responded by placing a large, black cone over the nest and building another nest about two miles downstream
Patriot and Liberty were undeterred, as they dive-bombed the interloping plastic cone in an attempt to knock it from their rightful perch. The cone was removed, and Patriot and Liberty soon became parents to hatchlings, Conehead and Freedom.
Caltrans decided that during the 2008-2009 nesting season, a video camera would be installed as a more efficient way to monitor the eagles, and that the video would be streamed to the public via the Web. Moreover, the Turtle Bay Exploration Park, a museum located adjacent to the project and nest, agreed to house the equipment necessary for the video and to put the broadcast live on its Web site.
Hence, the "eagle cam" was born, attracting nearly 1.2 million "hits" between December 1, 2008, and May 30, 2009, according to the Turtle Bay Exploration Park. Unfortunately, the broadcast feed suffered problems almost from its conception. The equipment was not "hard-wired," and its signals were easily blocked by foliage and treated roughly by Shasta County's weather. The system began to deteriorate seriously at the very time the pair, despite the cacophony of construction, produced three eggs (which ornithologists consider a rare occurrence). The public dubbed them Freedom, Hope and Spirit.
However, the public was concerned about another development. The "eagle cam" went kaputt in June 2009, about the time the eaglets were scheduled to leave the nest. In frustration, bird-watching eagle enthusiasts organized two "fledgefests," gathering near the aerie with binoculars to watch the fledglings leap from branch to twig and back in a nervous preflight exercise. As one Redding resident described the countdown to liftoff, "It's like watching a movie or reading a book and getting to the exciting part, and, all of a sudden, you lose your book or the cable goes out."
Thereafter, Caltrans decided to upgrade the monitoring equipment, employing a brief window of opportunity between the eagles leaving their nest for the season and returning in the autumn to start a new family. A new camera was installed and hardwired by fiber optic cable to the Turtle Bay Exploration Park.
Moreover, the City of Redding assisted with a $15,000 grant specifically intended for eagle education. During the summer of 2009, Caltrans completed the major camera upgrade, just in time for the eagles' return in October.
In early December, Caltrans and the community held an "Eagle Camera Premiere" at Turtle Bay in celebration of the improved camera and fiber optic cable designed to stand up to Northern California's uncompromising winter climate. The effort is an excellent example of collaboration among Caltrans, the City of Redding, and the Turtle Bay Exploration Park.
The Dana to Downtown Project is scheduled for completion in early 2011, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the "eagle cam" will go black any time soon. In fact, officials hope the new equipment will be operable for a quarter century, and continue to capture the lives of the Redding eagles for generations to come.
Due to protection by federal and state governments, the bald eagle's population is now considered stable, and in 1995 the United States officially reclassified the birds from "endangered" to "threatened". In 2007,
the bald eagle was taken off the endangered and threatened wildlife list altogether. The State of California considers both bald and golden eagles as fully protected species.
For a virtual tour of the nest, including State Highway 44 in the background, visit Caltrans District 2's Web site: http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist2/eagles.htm, or Turtle Bay Exploration Park at http://www.turtlebay.org/.


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Nina Garcia has had to do quite a bit more than click her vertiginous Tom Ford heels to make herself feel at home. For years she was too busy juggling the roles of mother, fashion director of Marie Claire, and judge on the popular reality show Project Runway, now airing its tenth season, to focus on creating a stellar personal haven. But with help from the right designer, it finally came together.
After weeks of attending fashion shows in Paris or Milan, along with the affiliated cavalcade of dinners and parties, the New York City–based Garcia prefers to retreat into a private world where the volume is dialed all the way down. "When I come home, I need to feel instantly disconnected," the native Colombian says. "In the rest of my life, I feel overstimulated. Here, I want things to be serene and unfussy, full of objects I love—but not too many of them."
Seven years ago she and her husband, David Conrod, a managing partner and cofounder of G2 Investment Group, purchased a three-bedroom apartment in a 1908 building on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The space, once part of a larger flat, was a tangle of small rooms, but with work dominating their lives at the time, it was more than adequate. Then, in 2006, as real-estate fairy tales so often go, shortly before Garcia became pregnant with the couple's first child, Lucas, the adjoining unit came on the market. (Another son, Alexander, followed in 2010.) That apartment was their residence's missing half, and the pair pounced on it and started making plans.
Initially, the renovation and decoration of the now-four- bedroom abode proved to be "slow, expensive, hit or miss, sometimes a nightmare," Garcia says. "It's not like buying a dress. With furniture you have to proceed carefully." On one of her Paris trips she spotted a set of Carl Malmsten klismos-style chairs that haunted her on the flight back to the States. A friend suggested she might find something similar at the SoHo decorative-arts gallery BAC, which is owned by Cuban-born designer Carlos Aparicio and known for fine midcentury works. "Amazingly, Carlos had the same chairs," Garcia recalls. "And that started the whole conversation."
The chat was fruitful, and a bond was formed. Aparicio soon took over the Garcia-Conrod project, which included restoring architectural details, as well as enlarging the living room so the couple could entertain more comfortably. Meanwhile, architect and client explored their shared affinity for French and Scandinavian furnishings of the 1930s and '40s. "Back then there was a tight relationship between furniture designers and the fashion world," Aparicio says. "Jean-Michel Frank, for example, created interiors for Schiaparelli, Lelong, and Guerlain. I think Nina liked the fact that many of the pieces had a link to her professional world."
While visiting Milan, Garcia wandered into Galleria Nilufar and fell in love with the chic emporium's early-20th-century Swedish carpets—a passion of Aparicio's, too. Often with long piles and vivid hues, the floor coverings recall the weavings of lesser-known Berber tribes, and it's easy to imagine their unusual charms appealing to stylesetters who have embraced neutral, diamond-motif Beni Ouarain carpets in recent years. "I'm all about my rugs," says Garcia. "I don't like a lot of color. The apartment isn't exactly monotone, but it's full of very soft shades. So, really, the fun is with the carpets." Aparicio, for his part, thrills to the clash of the shaggy Scandinavian textiles against all that polished minimalism.
The living room, with its blue, beige, and chestnut palette and low, laid-back furnishings, communicates its personality most vigorously through textures: the iron of a Jean Royère lamp, the raw silk of the sweeping curtains. "Nina's not a prints or patterns person," Aparicio says. "No paisleys, no little flowers." That muted scheme continues in the master bedroom, though the materials become more sumptuous; the curtains, for instance, are gray cashmere. There, Garcia cobbled together a combined work space and vanity by teaming a Frank desk with a standing triptych mirror made for fashion designer Geoffrey Beene. "I wanted a place where I could write checks and get things done and do my makeup and jewelry," the editor says. "But I didn't want David feeling like, Whose room is this? The room also had to be a place where the kids could jump into our bed in the morning and watch TV."


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It's the basically the same message that Google sends out if you are showing AdSense ads on a site that has content that violates the Google guidelines (such as adult content or gambling). They will stop showing ads on that site but they don't ban you from being an AdSense publisher simply because you own a site that they deem unsuitable for their ads.


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TV Debates: A New Role in Italian Politics
Italian politicians are used to fighting, not debating, on television. But the country's Democratic Party held a debate between five contestants wanting to head the party. WSJ's Alessandra Galloni gives a recap. Photo: Zuma Press
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Anniversary Series: Featured Artists Roundup
This is the first article of the Anniversary Series and it's all about Featured Artists. More than 40 inspirational designers from all over the world have been featured in the last year and this post is a roundup of all of them. The styles vary from retro grunge to shiny cosmic. With so many different creative minds being showcased there's certainly something to get your juices flowing. Make sure to visit the artists' portfolios for even more inspiration. + Continue Reading


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Tomgoss needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 79 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
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I'm an independent musician based out of Washington, DC.
Music listeners and music press. My audience tends to skew older and more male than the top 40 chart folks but the design needs to be clean and fresh to engage publicity and listeners alike.
I'm developing a new website and I need a banner for the top of the website. The design needs to be in line with the rest of my imagery. I like clean design and warm colors. Right now the color on the site is blue but I can adjust that as needed. The new album has a yellow look to it. I've attached the full design of the new album for reference. I'd like to keep the feel of this in that same style.
The design needs to be engaging. It will be at the top of every page on the site.
Please reference: http://www.tomgossmusic.net/home
That's the website in progress. You'll see the blank photo at the top where I've just pasted stuff for now. Dimensions are width960 height305.
The problem I'm running into is that most of my pics are vertical and this is a very horizontal image. I need someone who can weave a couple images together seamlessly to create one cohesive image. It might be nice to use the bright lights behind it like the album cover but that's up to you.
I'd like to use 2 or 3 different images, playing, standing etc... to get a spectrum. Reference: http://soundtracktomyday.blogspot.com/
Now I don't want that design, it's done by someone who doesn't have design experience so the effect is limited but I like his idea.
I've also attached my logo for integration into the design.
Please let me know if there are any more questions.