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Ruby was walking her five-year-old son, Cash, home, and we were keeping them company on the journey. I was pulling the kids in the trailer, but peddling so slowly that my bike was wobbling to maintain equilibrium. I was in happy conversation with Ruby; she's an artist and a like-minded soul in this suburban enclave.
Children often point and smile when they see me riding around town. If I'm in a good mood, I grin back and hold my arm up high like a salute to the sky. If I'm feeling grumpy, I'm just annoyed that anyone thinks it's unusual or worthy of remark to see a flower-bedecked, rainbow-striped retro cruiser pulling a trailer full of children down the side of a busy street.
And oh, this challenging winter and spring we've had . . . I can't endure the struggle anymore! Day after day of glittering sunshine, crisp mild breezes, and skies so clear you can glimpse the purple snow-capped peaks of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the distance, between the strip malls and rows of redwoods. Such hardship. Such complain.
I keep waiting for my teen daughter to announce that she hates me and the jangly sort of lifestyle that has formed around us in these lean times, or at least to be embarrassed by our shabby home and lack of car. It's actually been sort of disconcerting, as she seems to not care at all. Maybe it's because of the circle of support and friendship we have around us. We never find ourselves stranded without a ride if we need one, for example.
So this afternoon, on this fine sparkling day, Ruby's son asked, in the guileless way of the kindergartner: "Why don't you have a car?"
"Because they're expensive to own and operate, and we decided we couldn't really afford it if we wanted to stay where we're living."
"No one really does that," Cash said, in his lisp that's an artifact of his toddler days, so recently passed. "No one doesn't have a car."
He paused, and Ruby had the grace to avoid filling the silence with embarrassed, polite excusing and correcting. "It's actually kind of weird," he said after some thought.
My children–possibly in a precocious desire not to hurt my feelings, which upon reflection gives me great parental satisfaction–don't ever say anything like that; they'd censor the word "weird" from their commentary as naturally as we censor "stupid" from ours. I even press them sometimes, gently trying to goad them into confessing the frustrations and embarrassments that sometimes come with being a "poor" family. We review what we do have instead of a car: electronics we wouldn't otherwise be able to afford, a biggish house instead of a small apartment, a yard where we can grow vegetables and swing from fruit trees.
When I was growing up, it was forever in the most polite corners of suburbia, worlds of genteel middle class-itude, where no one leaves toys in the front yard, paints their homes controversial colors, or parks their cars on the street. (And I never knew curbs symbolized a certain affluence until I was an adult and lived in neighborhoods where my parents would mutter, "no curbs," with some distaste.) I wasn't even allowed to tack posters to my bedroom walls, which were always painted "Navajo White"–a blandly popular neutral–in an effort to maximize resale value. There was the ticking of a clock in the living room, its carpet ever striated with vacuum cleaner markings; you could hear it in the silence like a metronome.
For a few years while I was a teenager we lived in a leafy suburb of metro New York, on the so-called "Gold Coast" that borders Long Island Sound. I made a friend there, Amy Hendrix (no mean feat when you're an outspoken, acne-riddled wearer of grandpa's overcoat and unflattering vintage sheath dresses,) who was also a self-identified writer and social outcast. I remember the first time I went to her house. It was one of those experiences that, looking back, showed me what life's potential held, and it wasn't all painted in Navajo White and at a decibel that wouldn't be heard by the neighbors.
They had a small artful sign decoupaged to their front door, made of letters cut from magazines: "criminals are not as intelligent as other people." Amy explained that her sister thought it both wise and useful as a burglary deterrent. The parents let her glue it above the doorknob! On the front door! Inside, they had a giant black-and-white photograph over the mantle. It was a picture of the older daughter, who was possessed of the most phenomenal head of hair I've ever seen: platinum ringlets, wild and long, dancing around and above her head, down to the dip of her lower back. This picture was of her, clearly topless but discreetly posed from just below her clavicle up to that balletic face and hair that had its own life and will.
The only other art in the living room was a framed album cover, and walls and walls of bookshelves filled so that some had to be laid on top of the others. I couldn't remember whether the album was of the Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Frank Zappa, perhaps? But since Skyping with Amy, I've learned it that it was Bob Dylan. And couch-matching was of no concern.
In the dining room, they had painted the walls a deep bordello rose pink, and hung dozens of faded old portraits in dark frames, mostly of somber-looking men and women, looking dolefully at the camera. "Wow, are these all relatives?"
My friend and her mother made eye contact and snorted knowingly. Apparently they had bought the whole lot of framed photos –which were, of course, of complete and utter strangers!–at a yard sale, the same yard sale where they had bought this rather wild paint color. "See? We ran out. They only had one container." The bordello pink ended three-quarters of the way around the room with some halfhearted W- and M-zigzag swipes, before giving over to the unattractive wallpaper they'd been attempting to cover.
I'd never seen any family make such carefree aesthetic choices. We'd lived all over the country during the course of my childhood; I had attended five elementary schools and two junior high schools in areas as diverse as Oklahoma, Florida, Texas, and New Hampshire. Yet still, my exposure had been limited to the sorts of families ("corporate transients," my parents called them, our familiars,) who lived the sorts of lives we did, families where there were two cars, tidy garages, well-kept lawns, and tastefully-appointed homes. Families who moved often, as one does in the military, when promotions or new career opportunities arose, leaving the houses easy to empty, scrub down, and stage for sale as we kids stared out the back windows of station wagons awaiting the next application of Navajo White.
So, I hadn't met any artists, until then.
I hadn't met anyone who was bucking tradition, or flying in the face of convention. When I met this family I felt this strong "YES," feeling inside me; it made me feel whole and thrilled and gave me a deeper sense of belonging than I ever remember having felt.
One thing I've noticed since we, as a family, moved out of our tidy suburban enclave and "downsized" to a shabbier existence in line with our new-found financial straits: we are meeting and bonding with more artists, eccentrics, and cheerful outcasts. There is this feeling like we're pioneers in a new sort of Wild West. Bartering is common, urban homesteading is a survival mechanism, and looking and acting "right" for the neighbors never enters the picture. Mostly, the neighbors are "weirdos," too: underemployed engineers creating bike trailer modifications and popping up their welding masks to say hi, people giving over more time to their art than to their accounting ledgers, folks learning to monetize their creative impulses because that's all we really have right now.
So today, walking alongside one of my dearest friends, I listened to her son's un-coached commentary. He spoke ingenuously and without hostile judgment. Just this: "not having a car is weird."
"Yes, but I think it's a good weird, don't you?"


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So Scott Disick wore an eye patch to the beach the other day, because that is what one does. It was monogrammed, of course. Just so you know? Always have your eye patches monogrammed. White on black, never the other way around, and never, ever in Comic Sans or Helvetica. It is the gentleman's way.
No but really, why is Scott wearing an eye patch to the beach? I know I shouldn't care. And yet I do! I'm intrigued. What is he up to? And why are the initials "LD" and not "SD"? (UPDATE: Apparently it stands for Lord Disick. SMH) I've spent a good part of my afternoon speculating on the matter (so much for productivity), and here's what I came up with: 20 reasons that may explain why Scott Disick is wearing an eye patch.
- Because Kourtney poked him in the eye with her new engagement ring.
- To distract us from what appears to be his terrible case of the crabs (this picture!).
- To block out Kourtney's terrible pants (this picture!).
- To go with his black, suede slippers.
- Because some big guy just kicked sand in his eyes. Again.
- Because he wants to be a pirate.
- Boredom, man.
- Because it ties the whole scruffy beard/tattoo/purple and turquoise zebra shorts look together so nicely.
- Something about a drinking game last night? He can't remember.
- Because Mason keeps throwing that ball in his face.
- For protection from Penelope's projectile spit-up.
- He is filled with ennui.
- He accidentally sold his eyeball instead of his soul to the devil.
- Kourtney wouldn't let him borrow a headband and this is the next best thing.
- What eye patch?
- Because that is what the people demand. Are you not entertained?!?
- He forgot his sunglasses at the hotel room.
- He forgot his left eyeball at the hotel room.
- Parce que ... pourquois pas?
- Because he's Scott Disick.
All right, Disick, you win. You got us talking! Damn you, it works every time.
Why do you think Scott is wearing an eye patch?
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Those of us who grew up playing video games usually had a certain friend who was a controller hog. You'd go over to his house, hoping to do something fun, and end up watching him play video games for the next three hours. Invites to join in were rare or nonexistent. You were stuck looking on, helpless, as he monopolized those precious hours with Mario or Sonic or Link.
It wasn't generally a fun experience, which is why it's interesting that such a vibrant, messy subculture of gaming videos on YouTube has emerged. The site is chock-full of people recording themselves playing video games and providing commentary, criticism, or stream-of-consciousness rambling as they do so. Some of these videos are poorly produced train wrecks that attract maybe a few dozen viewers. Others are professional efforts that win millions of viewers. Though the quality and popularity of these efforts vary greatly, what's clear is that this genre is here to stay, and that some people have started building large followings out of it.
Why does there appear to be such an appetite for watching other people play games while they talk about playing games? The main reason is that, notwithstanding stereotypes of lonely teens hunched over computers in darkened rooms, gaming has developed into an immensely popular social pastime, and many young people grew up sitting around consoles with their friends, playing games and shooting the breeze, often more fully focused on the latter than the former. Many gaming videos on YouTube re-create that feeling.
One of the most popular subgenres of YouTube gaming is "Let's Play X," where X is some game. It's more or less what it sounds like: A person or group of people play a game and narrate along with the action. Sometimes the point of the video is to explain and give first impressions of a new release, sometimes it's to a revisit a classic, and sometimes it's to beat up on a notoriously unpopular game. Type "let's play" into YouTube's search bar, and you'll see the results span decades of gaming, over every genre and console, some of the titles long forgotten by all but their most ardent fans.
It may not sound like the most exciting thing in the world, and yet the most popular "Let's Play" videos on YouTube attract hundreds of thousands of viewers (with a few outliers garnering even more). Achievement Hunter, a gaming website that has built something of a YouTube empire by producing thousands of videos over the last few years, uploads a new one every weekday.
Many of these videos give off the same vibe as a morning talk show — just a bunch of guys (all guys, in most cases) hanging out, making fun of this or that, trying to one-up one another with an onslaught of witticisms. It's more about the people than the game itself. You don't tune into your favorite morning show because it's the best news analysis around; you tune in because you like, trust, and enjoy listening to the people who will be doing the riffing. The Achievement Hunter guys, for example, know how to banter ("Do you think we should make a fortress of dreams?" Gavin Free asks Michael Jones at one point as the two are trying to figure out what to build in "Minecraft." "A house," responds Jones, drily. "Let's start with a house.")
Setting aside this social component, perhaps most interesting, and surprisingly compelling, are the videos that focus on abject gaming failure. Some are simply short clips of nerds freaking out over their gaming shortcomings. Others are more involved. Jones, for example, does a series of videos called "Rage Quit" — "rage quitting" being a gaming term for getting so mad at a game you exit out of it — in which he lets various games wallop him and records his subsequent entertaining, R-rated paroxysms of rage.
"Why would you make the game this hard?" asks Jones, whose nasal voice is a bit similar to that of Jay from "Clerks" and various other Kevin Smith movies, as a demon hacks him to death in the notoriously difficult "Demon's Souls." "This is like 10 seconds into the [bleeping] game. I put the game in the [bleeping] [console] and I've died like 40 [bleeping] times. 'You will die over and over and over.' Who would want to do that?!" The rant continues in that vein for some time, and by the end he sounds like an overgrown toddler screaming about some slight that adults simply can't understand.
It shouldn't work as entertainment, but it does. It's funny not just because of how Jones works himself up, but because he can't tear himself away from these games that torture him so. For those whose lives are drenched in gaming, it's compelling: They see themselves in Jones, in the frustrated gamer chained to an unforgiving game.Jesse Singal can be reached at email@example.com.


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Sweden took the first step towards keeping their Division A status until 2007 with victory over Poland at the relegation tournament in Novi Sad on Sunday night.
The tournament, which features Sweden, Poland and the Netherlands, will determine the two teams which will be relegated to Division B, as only the winner will get to stay in Division A.
With the scores tied at 38-38 midway through the third quarter, the game was a low scoring affair as both teams battled for survival.
But it was Sweden who managed to find an offensive boost at the right moment.
They closed the third quarter with an 11-2 run which put them firmly in the driving seat with one quarter to play.
Trailing 42-49, Poland were still very much within contention, but Sweden blew them out of the water with an explosive start to the final period.
After missing their first two shots, Per Ringstrom hit a three-pointer to spark a 15-5 run which ended Poland's hopes.
Ringström hit 3 three-pointers during the run, which saw Sweden's lead reach 17 points (47-64) with just over 3 minutes remaining.
Point guard Mats Levin finished with 21 points and 5 assists for Sweden, who will take on the Netherlands on Monday night.


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Sheriff of Marion County to the Secretary of Housing & Urban Development of Washington, D.C., sheriff's deed; Lots 13, 14, Block 4, Beebe's Addition, Hillsboro.
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Q: Will there be as much of a fight on immigration as last time?
A: We've got McCain and we've got a few others. I don't expect much of a fight at all. Now health care is going to be difficult. That's a very complicated issue. We debated at great length immigration. People understand the issues very well. We have not debated health care, so that's going to take a lot more time to do.
What's that? "We've got McCain.."??? That certainly implies that McCain has gone over to their camp, at least in the view of Harry Reid. But last I heard, McCain changed his immigration view somewhat from a pro-open-border view to one in which he believes the borders should be sealed first, and then those illegals remaining would be dealt with humanely. The latter view is one with which I have no problem.
It has been my own contention (not certain of Kev's complete view on this issue) that the border should be sealed tightly for national security. But I do not subscribe to any draconian view saying that those already here should all be deported immediately. Some certainly should, of course. But those who have long established ties, who have been productive contributors to our society should, IMHO, be allowed some sort of fast track to citizenship. And while that might not seem fair to those who've waited in line for years, it is certianly not fair, in my humble opinion, to toss all illegals over the fence when they were, for many years, beckoned to come here by our businesses and politicians, both of whom made it all too easy and tempting while looking the other way. I have sympathy for those poor neighbors south of our borders looking for a better life for themselves and their families, but I also have plenty of loathing for irresponsible authorities who allowed our sovereignty to dissolve over these many years by inviting desperate people to trash our borders. The punishment should go to the politicians.
- First, contact NumbersUSA by clicking HERE and registering with them. They are a one-stop-shop for keeping up to date on all border related issues, keeping track of all Congressional voting on immigration matters, and sending faxes and emails to your Congressmen (they will do both, you simply click on the letter you want faxed --- It's really easy!) I have sent faxes to mine, and I actually heard back from one of them. So I know that no one is faking the faxing.
- Second, send a fax! But register HERE first. Then a couple of clicks later your Congressman's (or woman's) ears will turn crimson while reading your objection to the proposed irresponsible immigration plan hatched by Democrats. It is, at the very least, a fun way to let off steam.
- Third, if you have a blog or website on which you can post a banner or two, then by all means post a banner or two. Here is one that I just added to our left column:
- Fourth, sign the petition to President-elect Obama asking him NOT to support general amnesty.


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What Core Shortage? Universal Machinery Powers Recycling Operations at Pallet Management Group
Core Strength: Pallet Machinery Group has turned to Mona Tracy to develop a mammoth pallet disassembly system that keeps it flush with recycled lumber to compete using combo pallets to avoid lumber market fluctuations.
By Chaille Brindley
Date Posted: 3/3/2014
Pallet Management Group (PMG) Inc. of Ontario, Canada finds itself in an enviable position in the pallet industry. It has plenty of cores to process and to turn into combo pallets as well as to sell excess used lumber to nearby pallet companies. One of the key reasons for this is the local demographics of the market as well as the equipment it uses supplied by Mona Tracy of Universal Machinery Sales.
With Ontario locations in Toronto, London and Hamilton, PMG demonstrates the reliability and leadership demanded by top clients, such as General Motors, Toyota, Magna and The Home Depot. PMG does mostly recycled pallets and makes very few new pallets although it does produce lots of combo pallets for customers. The company produces about two million pallets per year for customers with the majority of its production being recycled or combo pallets.
Tim McGillion, president and owner of PMG, said, "We have had tremendous success with Mona and her equipment." He added that except for a few pieces of machinery almost everything that he has acquired since 1998 has come from Mona Tracy. She has even assisted with the sale of excess equipment that McGillion no longer used.
No Core Shortage Problem Here
Most U.S. recyclers might be surprised to find out that getting cores is not a problem for the Ontario pallet market. McGillion said, "We haven't had a core problem here in Ontario…We have more cores than we know what to do with."
The reason is simple. Ontario has become a major distribution center for the region, which means lots of products coming in on pallets and not that many are going out on 48 x 40s. Some of the large exporters in the area, such as the automotive sector, do not ship on a standard GMA pallet. Also, Target and other retailers have located DCs in the area, which means a continuous influx of pallets.
This large supply of cores means that PMG can supply its customers with recycled and combo pallets and not have to worry about the ebb and flow of new lumber markets.
McGillion explained, "I have pushed pallet recycling, especially reusing old lumber because that is a huge benefit to us. It has allowed us to avoid wide raw material price swings due to up and down lumber prices. Our lumber stays the same because it is primarily a factor of labor and machinery costs, which doesn't go up much each year."
He added, "One of the unique things about us is that we have a very large pallet disassembly system with TRIM-TRAC saws. We have nine positions for cutting boards. We cut boards as soon as they are produced. We are producing 25,000 usable pieces of lumber for pallets every day across three facilities. We actually sell excess recycled lumber of certain sizes to other pallet companies. "
All of the PMG facilities have large sortation areas due to a wide variety of odd-sized pallets. This process is done by hand because automation tends to work better when you have fewer sizes to sort, according to McGillion. He said, "You have to sort all those odd-sizes because they tend to be higher margin pallets than just a 48 x 40."
The Right Equipment Makes All the Difference
The Toronto facility receives about 20,000 pallets per week that are first sorted. About 30% get taken apart for combo pallets, 10% are turned into scrap and the remainder are repaired and resold.
PMG uses RUN-A-GADE high-volume band dismantlers supplied by Universal Machinery. McGillion said, "The RUN-A-GADE dismantlers are phenomenally heavy machines, constructed of thick steel. Nothing moves. Everybody knows that employees just throw pallets on these dismantlers and it doesn't move."
PMG has six RUN-A-GADE units scattered across its three locations. It also uses a custom machine that has a larger opening with the capacity to process up to 72-inch boards.
Speaking about the RUN-A-GADE systems, McGillion commented, "We also love the speed of the blades. We can do 600-700 pallets per blade. It's not just the type of blade that you buy. It is the speed of the machine as it cuts through the lumber and nails."
McGillion also preferred the RUN-A-GADE systems because he wanted one-man machines instead of two-man units to reduce the number of employees needed to operate his dismantling operations.
Dismantled lumber is dropped onto a conveyor and moved automatically to a table near the TRIM-TRAC saws for cutting the boards to size. McGillion explained, "Lumber is not put into bins like in a lot of operations. We don't do any double handling of boards or scrap material. One person handles the boards from two machines, so we love that part of it."
Pallet lumber pieces are sorted into size, width, species (hardwood versus softwood) as the material comes off the TRIM-TRAC saws. Finished stacks are marked and moved to the yard for inventory. A big key for PMG is the efficient storage of used lumber. This helps keep its yard clean, reduces clutter, improves efficiency and ensures that excess material is turned into something profitable instead of just staying on the yard forever. McGillion stated, "When we look at our inventories, I don't allow us to keep bundles of recycled components that we are not actually using. We can grind that material or sell off excess lumber. We have a unique ability not to have any excess inventory or scrap that doesn't have any market for us."
PMG has installed customized TRIM-TRACs that are bit longer than standard units. These saws cut one side of the stringer at a time. PMG has setup its saws to easily produce nine different sizes. The staff can easily changeover from one size to another. This allows for huge savings on wasted wood and creates a large amount of usable recycled lumber.
McGillion boasted, "Mona builds a brute of a machine. She knows that wood is a tough material to deal with, and her equipment is heavy duty."
Scrap material goes to a Peterson horizontal grinder or Morbark 1200 grinder to produce colored wood chips. PMG produces about 50,000 yards of the material each year. PMG uses colorants from Colorbiotics. McGillion spoke positively about all three of these suppliers. He said, "Colorbiotics is a very professional company with fantastic sales people and a quality product. Colorbiotics gets everything done on time and delivers on what it promises."
Although the company does not have its own heat treatment system, it will provide heat treated pallets by sending them out to be done by a third party provider.
Pallets are repaired at stations using hand tools. Some of the new or combo pallets are produced on a WOODPECKER fully-automatic nailing system, which has been introduced by Mona Tracy. Because it can produce up to three pallets per minute, PMG uses the WOODPECKER for large and small orders where quality and precision are a must. It can efficiently use recycled lumber to produce new or combo pallets. McGillion said, "The WOODPECKER is very stable and can withstand the beating that recycled lumber can put on a nailing line."
One boost to its combo pallet business has been the addition of the Pallet Design System (PDS) to its arsenal. McGillion explained, "We started using the PDS software about 3-4 years ago. That has helped us immensely with our customers to be able to show them what you can do with pallets that we can manufacture from recycled lumber instead of new lumber." PDS software is widely used to analyze and specify pallet designs to ensure strength and performance.
Customer service has become a hallmark of PMG. It offers phone services 24 hours, 7 days a week as well as regulatory compliant recyclables collection. These little differences mean a lot for customers.
Backing Into the Pallet Business
McGillion kind of fell into the pallet business by accident. His company originally started as a wood grinding operation and quickly became the largest company of its kind in the region. As the company grew, it was collecting pallets and was not able to find a wholesaler that would buy them due to the recession.
Today, PMG has 65-70 employees offering service throughout the Ontario area. Committed to serving its customer with competitive pricing and quality service, PMG has grown steadily since its humble beginnings.
RUN-A-GADE Bandsaw Dismantler
Sold by Mona Tracy of Universal Machinery, the RUN-A-GADE is a mammoth bandsaw dismantler that can take a beating while increasing yield in board processing. Equipped with large rubber tires and extra-duty blade guides, this one-man machine combines safety, longer blade life and ease-of-operation.
The RUN-A-GADE features a large table size that will accommodate up to 60" pallets and a pneumatic blade tensioning system. The 15hp, 3-phase motor with starter allows for the right amount of power to easily dismantle the toughest pallets all the while improving blade life.
Connect multiple machines to create the configuration that will be best for your plant layout and production goals. Optional conveyors, round tables and trim saws can improve your efficiency in your recycled lumber operation.
For information on this or any other piece of equipment sold by Universal Machinery, contact Mona Tracy at 855-298-8890 or 812-298-8090. You can also find more details at www.universalmachinerysales.net
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Comments by Israel's ambassador to Sweden comparing the recently-released Palestinian prisoners to the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik who, on 22 July 2011, bombed government buildings in Oslo, killing 8, then killed 69 on a vacation island, have left relatives of victims of the Utøya massacre seething, Swedish news website The Local reports.
In a Tuesday interview with Svergies Radio (SR), Israeli ambassador Isaac Bachman compared the release of Palestinian prisoners to setting the monster Breivik free.
"The horrors that [the Palestinian prisoners] did, to put it in a Scandinavian understanding, it's like what happened in Norway with Breivik," Bachman told SR.
"Imagine if Breivik was released as a gesture of some sort," he added, and complained that Israel is not getting enough credit for agreeing to the release.
Pointing out the enormous risk Israel was taking with its gesture, Bachman noted that "research has shown that these people will return to crime. It's not easy to get public support for releasing these people."
It turns out the good ambassador was completely wrong in his comparison, which seemed completely reasonable to him, but not to the listeners. You see, Breivik – he killed sweet, pink skinned, blond Norwegians, which was a crime against humanity, while the Palestinians only killed Jews. Big difference, apparently, in Scandinavia.
The comments, which came on the eve of Israel's Wednesday release of 26 Palestinian prisoners, sparked outrage from none other than survivors and family members of victims of Breivik's 2011 attack, The Local reported.
"I think it is ridiculous to compare this with a mass murderer from Norway," Trond Blattmann, whose son Torjusdatter was killed when Breivik opened fire on Utøya, told The Local. "There's no similarity at all. This is a ridiculous way to talk."
"The comparison does not make sense," added Bjørn Ihler, who survived the Breivik massacre by hiding on the southern tip of the island. "Breivik was a solo terrorist whose actions were based purely on an unreal situation. The situation in the Middle East is very different. There is a real fight for Palestinian freedom going on."
You see, when an entire Jewish family, babies and all, is butchered in its own kitchen – that's freedom fighting. You have to think blond.
Even Middle East expert Per Jönsson with the Swedish Institute for International Affairs (Utrikespolitiska institutets – UI) slammed Bachman's Breivik comparison.
"The comparison with Brevik is insane in several ways. Breivik is very special. These people that Israel is now releasing are freedom fighters, murderers, and in some cases terrorists, but they are nevertheless rather normal people," he told the Aftonbladet newspaper.
We have to understand that the reactions from Sweden are an expression of pure, unadulterated Jew hatred, whether those people are aware of it or not. The world is changing around us, and being Jewish is no longer for the faint of heart.


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The city of Palm Coast agreed to fork over more than $90,000 to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office to ensure the purchase of 80 new defibrillators. All deputies will have the equipment in his or her car, said Flagler County Sheriff Jim Manfre.
PALM COAST — Flagler deputies in the field are going to be armed with one more life-saving tool.
The city of Palm Coast agreed to fork over more than $90,000 to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office to ensure the purchase of 80 new defibrillators. All deputies will have the equipment in his or her car, said Flagler County Sheriff Jim Manfre.
"I believe very strongly that our deputies are not only responders to calls, we're also proactive (public servants)," Manfre told the Palm Coast City Council during Tuesday's public workshop.
A defibrillator is a device that connects to a cardiac patient's chest and sends a dose of electric energy to that patient's heart, which can have a life-saving effect.
The state collects revenue each year from traffic citations. The city receives thousands of dollars per year from that pot and the money is to be used for technologies related to law enforcement, said City Manager Jim Landon.
The City Council, if it agrees to the resolution proposed by Manfre, would hand over a portion of that revenue to the Sheriff's Office for the purchase of 80 defibrillators. Bound Tree Medical out of Dublin, Ohio, is selling the equipment for $90,400, according to city records.
Six other bidders made offers in the $100,000 to $150,000 range.
The Sheriff's Office handles law enforcement responses for Palm Coast. The cities of Flagler Beach and Bunnell have their own police departments.
Palm Coast Fire Chief Mike Beadle said during the meeting that a deputy was the first to respond to an area fire this week. Manfre added that deputies often are the first to arrive at a medical call and that is why they need to be equipped to handle as many emergencies as they can.
Manfre said when he first served as the county's sheriff in the early 2000s, his desire then was for deputies to have defibrillators in their vehicles. He is renewing his commitment this time around, he said.
Every deputy will be trained to use the new defibrillators, which Manfre said are user-friendly.
"It sells itself," he said of the equipment.
During the same meeting, the City Council also heard from Beadle about a resolution to approve the purchase of six new cardiac monitors for his department.
The city applied for a grant through the Florida Department of Health and was awarded $96,000 for the purchase of six newly upgraded monitors. In order to receive the grant money, the city must pay $32,000.
Both resolutions are expected to go before the City Council next month for an official vote.


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Iraq at ten years
Cartoon found here (in an FT op-ed that fits this post nicely - if orthogonally).
Read through a variety of the tenth-year anniversary reviews, and I thought Thomas Friedman's was the best - despite the weird title (Democrats, Dragons or Drones?).
His basic notion that it takes the next generation to create and shape the subsequent reality is correct. Friedman pegs it at "9 months and 21 years to develop."
Fair enough. But the question (as he also notes) hinges on that generation's journey. Done well, it works. Done badly enough and a vicious spiral ensues. In truth, the jury remains out on that score.
We won the war - no doubt, and then took a pass on the postwar. If we hadn't, then questions of "why?" fade away. In the post-9/11 mood, America possessed the desire to reshape the region and Saddam was the obvious target. Direct causality was not the issue, although Dick Cheney tried to sell that. Nor was direct threat, referring to the late and frantic oversell of the WMD to Congress. The purpose - all along - was structural retribution: as in, you reshaped our world, now we reshape yours. Americans are just deeply uncomfortable admitting that, so we needed a clear and present storyline to drive our revenge-flick dynamics.
The resulting strategic "pre-emption" was oddly symmetrical in ambition but certainly not in cost (and why should it be so between a superpower and a non-state actor?).
So when we take that pass on the aftermath of the war, and basically pretend that what comes next doesn't really matter, we abort the entire regional restructuring ambition (which, if you remember, was on a nice roll for 2-3 years there) and we allow ourselves to be swallowed up (in terms of strategic effort and attention) by an insurgency that was completely foreseeable and completely manageable - if we had bothered to embrace that inevitability.
But instead of embracing it, we did what we always do and called the postwar another war. And wars yield a singular answer in US military history - called, more firepower. And then we found that made things worse (go figure).
And then the White House, chastened finally by the 2006 midterms, relabeled the conflict and rebranded the mission - and then we succeeded again.
But by then the public narrative had already been cast (Bush lied, too many deaths, too much cost).
So ultimately the Bush administration pays the legacy cost for its mistakes, which mostly had to do with stubbornness. They had their narrative of a successful war and stuck to it - until it hurt so bad that they had to change.
So what are we left with?
In structural terms, I like what the Middle East has become. The inevitabilities are being processed and Iran is more isolated than ever. And thanks to larger structural changes in the global economy, the area is coming under new superpower management - inexorably. None of it is nice, but it was never going to be anything but painful and violent. The Arab world has an enormous amount of catching up to do WRT globalization, and it will be awful in execution (and with Africa leaping ahead on many fronts, the Middle East and North Africa - or large portions of it - risk becoming globalization's long-term basket case).
If the US had handed off the region still encased in its many dictatorships, China would have a much easier time over the next two decades. Now, it faces challenges that are likely to alter its own political structure significantly - just like it did to the US. Some naturally see the "defeat of American empire" in the region, but since empire was never America's goal, that judgment is meaningless.
All that matters is the relative evolutions of the three superpowers of the 21st century: China, India and America.
America did, per my original Esquire piece, take strategic ownership of the Middle East in a big way. That ambition was both debilitating and liberating: we took our shot (badly) and now we're done "owning" things there (besides Iran's nukes). In that way, Iraq processed our inevitable post-9/11 over-reaching response (we are a democracy) and hurried us along the exhaustion-collapse-rock bottom-recovery-resurrection dynamic that was always slated for us in the post-Cold War world (our inability to handle the success of the "end of history" - aka, the globalization of our economic connectivity model). We had gotten used to running things, and we weren't going to stop until something made us stop - an unpleasant journey but a necesssary one.
Now, in grand structural terms, the race among my C-I-A trio is well underway. The Obama administration, needing a switch-over target, sells its Asian pivot. This is not a good answer, as I have noted frequently - but rather a red herring. The real struggle in Asia doesn't involve us except in an off-shore balancing role.
Instead, the real struggles of the future involve the very same frontier integration I've been talking about for a decade now. On that score, we are looking fine enough in our ongoing restructuring of our portfolio, while China's grows frighteningly larger relative to its ability to deliver and manage regions distant from its shores. India is just begining to recognize what responsibilities lie ahead.
You'll say that China will do it differently, but the structure of the system will force the same responses: China cannot afford to lose its growing overseas dependencies (much greater than any borne by the US), and so the responses will be mounted. And when they don't go well (whoever gets it right - right off the bat?), change will double back upon China - to its general benefit (along with the world's).
Iraq was always a means to an end (when in history has great power war ever been anything else?). During the real-time execution, it seems like everything - as does every war throughout history. But half a century later? It looks very different. It's a stepping stone for superpowers: some step up and some step down, some step away and some step in. None of it is exactly what it appears to be in the light of present-day reporting. Per Zhou Enlai's take on the French Revolution, we will be witnessing the downstream consequences across the century.


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Decided to style my hair with a side plait and the fringe. Big earrings, kohl lined eyes and my nerdy glasses complete the look.
What do you guys think about it ?
Decided to style my hair with a side plait and the fringe. Big earrings, kohl lined eyes and my nerdy glasses complete the look.
What do you guys think about it ?
Picked these up during a recent shopping trip. Can't stop wearing them everywhere I go. Other than the fact that they are pretty, they are also super comfortable.
Looking forward to wearing them again very soon.
Recently got a haircut. Love it a lot! I have been wanting to experiment with my hair for a long time and summer gave me the perfect opportunity. Though a tad bit difficult to maintain., the fringe especially, I still adore it.
Hope you like it too.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I was visiting New Zealand and Australia. And with travel comes shopping.
So, I picked up these jade earrings and a black pearl pendant from New Zealand. The black pearl pendant is one of my favorites from all the shopping I did.
For all of those planning to visit New Zealand, I would recommend picking up black pearl, jade, blue pearl and paua shell jewellery. They look amazing and you know you would be taking a bit of New Zealand back with you.
So, I recently travelled to Australia and New Zealand. Hence the lapse in posting. Anyway, now that I am back, here is one of my travel wears. The blue embroidered harem pants combined with the grey top from Mango, the necklace from Accesorize, the red hat I picked up at Covent Garden in London and shoes I picked up at Sydney is perfect for visiting Bondi beach.
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The day we got married, Jen and I corralled our wedding party and celebrated with drinks at Flatiron Lounge. Six months later, it's time to celebrate, so my bride and I convened Friday evening at Flatiron for after-work drinks.
Because I leave work at 4:15 each day, I find it fun to arrive at a good bar like Flatiron or Pegu early so that I can sit grab a stool and talk to the bartender before he or she gets weeded with the after-work crowd. We've been back to Flatiron twice now since the wedding, and both times bartender Katie has provided our drinks service. She's friendly, professional, and easy to talk to, so it's fun to go in and chat a little about drinks.
I knew already that I wanted to start with a rum-based drink. I'm still learning rums. Too many experiences with badly mixed Captain Morgan drinks have turned me off the taste, I'm afraid, but I know it's important that I rectify that if I'm to be serious about this hobby. So it's time to develop my palate.
Luckily, Flatiron had mai-tais on its guest-mixologist menu; a classic drink for all the right reasons, a well-mixed mai tai is balanced and tasty. I know I've had them before, with cheap rum, poured to the point of overpowerment. Sad. But Flatiron does them right, of course, so I asked Katie what rum she used for it, and she showed me the bottle of Appleton Estate. This sparked a good conversation about rum brands, distilling methods, cane syrup vs. molasses, and so on.
I had nearly finished the mai tai when Jen arrived. I let her sample some of the remainders, and she liked it too. It's one for the repertoire.
Jen and I worked through the menu. My second was a Singapore Sling, while Jen ordered a Gin Shagler for her first–muddled cucumber and mint, mixed with gin and topped off with Champagne. Quite tasty.
I then ordered a Negroni, but Jen stumbled her way into something interesting. I blogged earlier about going to Dressler and getting served an impromptu Seelbach. We've experimented a bit with the recipe at home, and Jen wanted to see how Katie would make one.
But when Jen asked, Katie said she'd never heard of it. We described the drink, but by this point, I couldn't remember the proportions, just the ingredients. (And not even those, really–I forgot the triple sec.) So she thought for a moment and said, "Do you mind if I offer you my take on that?"
When she came back, she sat down my Negroni and a fluted drink for Jen, who took a sip and was pleased. Katie said, "That's a Red Hook, but topped with Champagne." Paul's got more on the Red Hook at Cocktail Chronicles, but it's basically a variation on the Brooklyn cocktail. Made with rye, Punt y Mes, and maraschino, the Red Hook is hard-bitten and ribald, and the champagne smooths it out without sacrificing its character. Think James Woods in a tux.
Jen liked it enough to have two.


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Instacart uses React
Before two weeks ago or so, it used to be Backbone views and models, and everything was on our main store app, and our mobile web app, but actually, we just switched our mobile web app to using ReactJS for the interface. So it's using Backbone models but ReactJS front-end components. Really, it was borne out of the frustration with how the Backbone model-view bindings worked, and it wasn't especially performant for large views, and we had to do lots of tricks to make it performant. But swapping that out with React views meant that it could be both simpler and faster without having to spend a lot of time on that.
One other interesting thing about that is, since React actually works okay with the Backbone models and the Backbone router and stuff like that, we didn't have to rewrite the mobile web application and update it to ReactJS. Rewrites are almost always a bad idea. We were able to upgrade pieces of it at a time, move on to React, and now the entire thing is using React and just has the Backbone router and models and stuff like that that we already had, so it's a lot faster.
Netflix uses React
At the beginning of last year, Netflix UI engineers embarked on several ambitious projects to dramatically transform the user experience on our desktop and mobile platforms. Given a UI redesign of a scale similar to that undergone by TVs and game consoles, it was essential for us to re-evaluate our existing UI technology stack and to determine whether to explore new solutions. Do we have the right building blocks to create best-in-class single-page web applications? And what specific problems are we looking to solve? Much of our existing front-end infrastructure consists of hand-rolled components optimized for the current website and iOS application. Our decision to adopt React was influenced by a number of factors, most notably: 1) startup speed, 2) runtime performance, and 3) modularity.
React has exceeded our requirements and enabled us to build a tremendous foundation on which to innovate the Netflix experience.
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Web-frontend programming prior to React: like banging rocks together. With React: Like wearing fusion powered underwear. Gives you a nice warm feeling. Using React for Cloudcraft.co allowed us to create a beautiful UI in record time (1 month start to launch), with virtually no bugs popping up during development. The functional approach to just rendering your component given a state just makes so much sense, with React figuring out the delta between your current and desired representation. It's the future kids!
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React is choice number 1 when it comes to JS development at Kurzor. We choose React because it solves many issues with web applications in a elegant way. Writing an app in components is useful for coordination and isolation of concerns. React forces you to abandon state and use vertical passing through props instead. And having as many Pure Components as possible helps to write cleaner code.
With React we usually use: Redux, React Router, React Toolbox, Styled Components.
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Feb. 18, 2006
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Although MIT women's swimming and diving was unable to reduce the gap with first-place Springfield College during the second day of the NEWMAC Championships, the Engineers solidified their spot in second with another fantastic performance in the water. Freshman Nicole O'Keeffe headlined the effort after destroying the meet record in the 400 IM by nearly seven seconds.
The team of Julianna Edwards, Kate Thornton, O'Keeffe and Stephanie Sidelko opened the finals session on Saturday with an incredible victory in the 200 medley relay. After conceding the 400 medley by a razor-thin margin to Springfield on Friday, the Engineers returned the favor by out-touching the Pride, 1:50.45-1:50.55. Thornton split 30.57 on the breaststroke leg, while O'Keeffe's meet-best 26.28 split in the fly set the stage for her record-breaking performance in the next event.
Springfield freshman Kristen Schadow grabbed an early lead in the 400 IM with a powerful first two legs, but O'Keeffe thundered back into the race with a strong effort on the breaststroke leg before turning on the jets in the final 100 yards. Her last 50 split registered 29.28 as she touched the wall with a winning mark of 4:34.96; an NCAA "B" cut and a seven-second improvement on the previous meet standard.
Sophomore Sasha Brophy also made it to the top of the medal stand with a phenomenal swim in the 200 free. Brophy led the entire field by nearly one full second after an explosive first 50 propelled her well in front of the field. Brophy refused to let up, actually building upon her lead over the next 50, while setting a personal record for the 100 free in the process. While the chase pack tightened it grip during the final lap, Brophy held on for the win and an NCAA "B" cut with a clip of 1:54.32.
After smashing her own school mark in the 500 free on Friday, Thornton went back to the record books to set a new mark in the 100 breast. Although the MIT junior finished second to NCAA qualifier Moria Price (Springfield), she broke one of the oldest records on the swimming and diving logs with a time of 1:08.26. The previous record was set by Tina Grosskopf in 1992 (1:08.94).


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Friday, February 5, 2010
Mom dot prom backslash dream date
My friend Doree Shafrir wrote the book on moms. Mom emails specifically. Her popular book Love Mom (with the brills Jessica Grose) and blog Postcards from Yo Momma is the seminal reference guide to emailing with mom. Here's how it's done.
-----Original Message-----
From: Doree
To: Mom
Subject: Re: important question
My friend Piper does a blog called My Mom the Style Icon. I submitted this photo of you and Nana. Was it for your senior prom? Junior prom? What's with the gloves? Was that expected (like did everyone wear them)? Did they come with the dress? Who did your hair? (Who did NANA'S crazy hair?)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: mom
Subject: Re: important question
To: doree
hey, women wore gloves! everyone did. i had several pairs of gloves, bought separately.don't you remember that philip roth novel? i had my hair done. maybe it was for my high school sorority dance......or prom since nana was in shorts. i remember that i got the dress that was long and had the dressmaker make it short. i LOVED that dress. i want to say filene's (upstairs). i was class treasurer. i went with jimmy schaye. martha starr fixed me up since he went to private school. his father owned a department store in boston. tres riche but i didn't go out with him before or after that.
Thanks Mrs. Shafrir! Not only am I a fan of the ballroom dancing gloves. I also love your 60's hair curl. I don't care what private school he went to, that Jimmy Shaye is one lucky guy.
1 comment:
- Nicole said...
I love that dress too, and the hair flip? Awesome.
- February 5, 2010 at 4:46 PM
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Unusual reasons for calling in sick
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About this time every year TransWorld Business puts out the results of their Exposure Meter. This sums up all the editorial and advertising coverage riders have had in the North American snowboard magazines from the previous season. In addition they tally up all the photos that ran from our industry's talented pool of photographers. The results are in and we are proud to say that our Senior Photograghers made the top three. Congratulations to Andy Wright for coming out on top in the number one spot! Over the next weeks, we will be featuring photo galleries of Andy Wright, Scott Serfas, and Frode Sandbech.
You've seen Andy's photos in every issue of TransWorld SNOWboarding over the 14 years. He photographs with the best snowboarders in the industry. His images have inspired you to shred harder and inspired young photographers to shoot better photography. In addition Andy Wright's photography has helped launch and support hundreds of professional snowboarder's careers. By no means is any of this an easy feat. Andy Wright works efficiently and is endlessly dedicated to creating his images. He's known to work with multiple crews in one day. His schedule his fully booked all season. Talk about getting some hefty airline miles.
More than this, let Andy's photography speak for itself. Below is a photo gallery featuring a selection of Andy's favorites images from last season with behind the scenes captions he's written. Following the gallery is a little Q&A. Enjoy!
TWS: How long have you been a TransWorld Senior Photographer?
AW: Nine years. I was a steady contributor for about five years before joining the senior ranks.
TWS: Explain your typical season.
AW: My season usually begins end of November and is predominantly street-boarding up until end of January. At that time the backcountry is starting to fill in and is ready. I'm also usually pretty sick of shoveling landings and stair sets at that point. It's nice to switch gears and get into the mountains. By end of March I'm usually in Alaska. Although this year that didn't happen because they are having a really strange snow year and it's just now getting good. I might head up there before the end of this month, but in the meanwhile, April is usually filled with (yawn) park shoots. Those actually can be pretty sweet if shot at the proper hour of the day. My displeasure in shooting them stems mostly from how bright and blown out the mid-day sun makes everything in the spring. It feels good to be warm after freezing all winter, but the light is so harsh, I'd rather be in sub-zero temps to get some of that early season light where the sun is at a lower angle in the sky.
TWS: How is this season treating you? Compared to last year?
AW: This season has been really rough compared to last year. Lots of bad luck with weather and the shoots I wanted to be part of overlapping with other commitments. Last season, the one this photo gallery highlights, was by far my best year shooting. I think I used up all my luck then, maybe went even a little in to debt for this season because it's been a struggle. I say this every year about this same point in the season and have minor freakouts. Then at some point in the middle of the summer, after I've finally decompressed from the stresses of the season I look at my library of photos with fresh eyes and I usually get pretty happy with the amount of work that is in there. I'm trying to not let myself freak out knowing that this will probably happen, but right now it really seems like I'm a little off this year compared to the last few.
TWS: How do you do it? Endure it? Plan it?
AW: There isn't much of a plan other than trying to stay flexible. I usually only commit to one or two shoots on specific dates at the beginning of the year, and the rest of the time I just take it as it comes. Of course I spend a lot of time sniffing stuff out, but I have crews I like to work with, and we stay in contact. So it's just a matter of waiting for the stars to line up. Living in Salt Lake during the winter makes it pretty easy to stay busy between trips, not to mention get some riding in on down days. As far as endurance, I couldn't do it if it didn't love it. There is a long list of stuff that comes with the job I don't particularly dig; packing, airports, cops, politics, weather, shit food, sunscreen, border crossings, etc.. But once all that stuff is dealt with and I actually have a camera in my hand pointed at something to shoot I couldn't be happier. This is about 10% (at most) of my winter; the other 90% is the aforementioned.
TWS: What were some break through moments or at least one major one that you feel launched in your career?
AW: I completely owe it all to my friends who happened to be really good at snowboarding and trusted me to take their photos. There was probably three big break though moments and a lot of little ones along the way. It probably all started when shortly after getting my first camera my friend Jason Brown who rode for Burton and was seriously on the come-up would shoot with me. Even though I hardly knew what I was doing, it was difficult to take a bad picture of him. All I really needed to do was make sure it was in focus at that point. Having his photos definitely opened some doors. Around that same time I was dabbling in photography, my main gig was graphic design. I had been designing box covers and ads for Whitey McConnaughy of Kingpin movie fame. He used to take all the photos and film on his shoots, but as his productions grew he focused more on the filming and I somehow convinced him to let me come out and snap some pics. That was a pretty major turning point and introduced me to a lot more riders than the just the ones I had known from living in Salt Lake. When Kingpin was dissolving, Mack Dawg was in the process of making a big comeback, and put together a "dream team" of riders for the video The Shakedown. I had become pretty good friends with Mikey LeBlanc during the Kingpin run. He was signed up for the MDP project and made sure I was the principal photographer on just about every major shoot they did. That probably sealed the deal for me as far putting my career in the fastlane.
TWS: Who are some of your favorite shredders to shoot with?
AW: My favorites are always people who have an incredible passion for snowboarding. They would be doing exactly what they are doing now without the cameras, paychecks and fame. They also tend to be really good at snowboarding and have a damn good time when doing it. There are a lot of stress cases out there; I prefer those of the easy-style persuasion. If you want names, look at the shots in this gallery, it's those guys (and you too Laura).
TWS: Give us a little more inside info. I heard a rumor that you worked with five crews in one day?
AW: Not true. It was five spots in one day, which was actually a record for me. I've done four a few times. It was only with three different crews though, hahaha. I'm definitely known as "crew hopper", which probably has hurt a few feelings here and there. I just like shooting, and if I'm with some guys and they are done for the day and someone else is calling me why wouldn't I go out shoot them thatthat night? Cameras don't take pictures inside the bag while I'm sleeping.
TWS: Advice to the young photographers out there?
AW: Take it slow, it's not gonna happen over night. You gotta pay your dues and never ever tell a rider what to snowboard on or how to snowboard. You're there to document not direct. You can make suggestions here and there. Like "Hey bro, maybe don't wear that camo one-piece when we shoot in the trees today" or "do you have any other grabs besides tindy?." Otherwise leave the snowboarding to them.
TWS: You came out on top of the TWS Exposure Meter for Snowboard Editorial Photographers this year, how do you feel?
AW: For sure it puts a smile on my face. It's been a few years since I won, and it's nice to be back on top. If for any reason it's about the only measured mark, that you are doing your job at a high level. I will look at an issue of the magazine and be convinced that I'm getting robbed on the number of photos of mine getting run. I literally freak out all winter, which you can ask just about anyone who has seen my look at a copy of TransWorld. So when this little tally comes out it eases my mind that I am in fact getting my shots published — maybe just not all of them that I would want published.


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Tony Motley, a former U.S. ambassador to Brazil and great pal of the late Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, often joked of writing a Washington novel someday with the title "Beyond the Merits."
But who could have guessed the Senate would beat him to the punch, penning the first chapter itself Monday night when the "world's greatest deliberative body" derailed a popular sportsmen's bill because of a fight over how to count a proposed $10 increase in the price of duck stamps?
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Here was a bipartisan bill backed by a rare marriage of conservation and gun groups and boasting endorsements from the White House and National Rifle Association — not exactly political bedfellows. It came to the Senate floor just three weeks after national elections in which both parties swore they had learned a lesson that the American people wanted them to work together.
But down it went — and all because of duck stamps, those artful engravings sold by the government since 1934 as a way for hunters and increasingly conservationists to support wetlands for migratory water fowl.
All this in, well, a lame-duck session.
"I was surprised and I was hugely disappointed as an American that they could not cooperate on a hugely bipartisan bill. It's an embarrassment," said Vaughn Collins, legislative director for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, a centrist coalition of sportsmen groups.
"We got caught in the crossfire," said one lobbyist working on behalf of the package. "This had nothing to do with the bill. It was a bigger fight."
Indeed the pivotal vote on the fatal point of order followed a day of sharply partisan exchanges on the Senate floor in which Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) mixed it up with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) over proposed changes in the Senate's filibuster rules. When the roll call began at 5:30, proponents soon realized they were in trouble as a handful of Republican allies switched their votes. And while Reid vainly kept the roll call open for more than an hour, he ended up at 50-44 — 10 votes short of the 60 needed to secure the required budget waiver.
Tuesday afternoon, talks began to try to break the impasse. But precious time and political momentum have been lost forever. The whole incident speaks volumes about the level of partisan dysfunction in the Senate, even as Congress and the White House face huge year-end decisions regarding taxes and spending.
As raised by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the budget violation was highly technical and goes to the question of how to allocate revenues and spending among Senate committees under the Budget Control Act adopted in 2011.


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A Laurelton barbershop owner used scissors to fatally stab a 19-year-old during a fight over a pair of headphones, police said.
Carl Richardson, 19, came to the 227-14 Merrick Blvd. business about 2 p.m. Thursday to collect money from 34-year-old Cedric Simpson, the shop's co-owner, who had purchased the headphones from the teen, cops said.
The two began arguing over the debt and Simpson stabbed Richardson three times with the scissors—twice in the chest and once in the neck, the NYPD said.
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QPR have completed the signing of Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton on a four-year contract, the north east club have confirmed.
QPR have completed the signing of Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton on a four-year contract, the north east club have confirmed.
The 28-year-old was in the final year of his contract at St James' Park and made available on a free transfer recently after criticising Newcastle's recruitment policy via his Twitter account.
Barton passed a medical at QPR's training ground in Harlington on Thursday but left without penning a deal. Having mulled over the move overnight, Barton has now penned a deal with the west London club and could make his debut against Wigan on Saturday or at home to Newcastle after the international break.
"It's been quite a whirlwind, so to get things finally sorted and draw a line under it all is a great relief," he told the club's official website, www.qpr.co.uk.
"The ambition of the club really impressed me. There's obviously a great set of lads here already and that's why they had such a great season in the Championship. The gaffer is talking about adding two or three more bodies and that, combined with the potential of the club and the new owners' ambitions, bodes really well for the future."
Barton becomes the first signing at QPR since AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes completed his takeover of the club last week.
Rangers boss Neil Warnock has since had little time to make his mark on the transfer market but is delighted to get the first of the five new faces he hopes to bring to Loftus Road before Wednesday's deadline.
"We've got a very, very good player on our hands," he said of Barton, who will wear the number 17 jersey. "He's coming here to show people what he can do. He wants to get back into the England team.
"He's very enthusiastic. People will say one or two things about him, but they've said stuff about me in the past too, so I won't worry about that."
He added: "He's a winner. Even without the armband on, he's a captain every week."