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Zeitgeist Creator Peter Joseph supports Israeli actress Orly Weinerman's plight for justice for Gaddafi son Saif
TZM EXCLUSIVE: A TRAGEDY OF CIRCUMSTANCE | BY PETER JOSEPH Israeli actress Orly Weinerman seeks the world's attention to the plight of her beloved Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Muammar Gaddafi.
Love Story
The love story - A staple of our history and culture. As much as modern economic theory and the dubious claims about our supposed "Human Nature" would have us believe that all humans are merely selfish organisms that would rather sacrifice each other than save each other for the sake of mere convenience, the archetypal love story prolific in our artwork challenges all - and reminds us of our deeply empathic and social nature - a clear characteristic of our evolutionary psychology and perhaps even the hidden saving grace of our evolutionary fitness as a species.
However, likely the most grand of all love stories in our history might be the heartbreaking depiction found in Shakespeare's classic: Romeo and Juliet. Among the many themes in this play is the taboo of their love due to their feuding, enemy families and in their pressured attempts to overcome - they meet a doleful, epic demise.
The reaction of the audience to this tragic romance is fairly predictable. Rarely does the sympathy of the reader turn to support the families, which were at odds, while thinking that Romeo and Juliet got what they deserved. Rather, we identify with the desperate, loving couple whose lives are vanquished due to the circumstance they found themselves in.
At the core of this play, love story aside, is a broader concept we will call the "Tragedy of Circumstance". Perhaps the true brilliance of this work is its hidden message of how each of us are born into familial, cultural, political, religious and other preexisting sociological "establishments" which, without our choice in many ways, influence our thoughts, biases, loyalties, ambitions, ideas, social affiliations and the like.
In this sense, we are all victims, just like Romeo and Juliet, and likely the most tragic part of all comes when these influences, once given a human face or group association, clash with the influences of other persons or groups - each side having no idea they are both victims of circumstance in their ultimately vain opposition.
Miss Orly Weinerman
In early September 2012 I was introduced to an Israeli actress named Orly Weinerman through a friend involved in the Israeli Chapter of "The Zeitgeist Movement", a Global Sustainability Advocacy Group seeking social reformation. A glamorous model as well, quite famous in Israel and blessed with the prestige and comforts of her successful career, she has recently taken a very bold position which many in her home country and in the Western world might gawk in moral outrage.
She wishes to see her now incarcerated love, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the infamous, so called "Tyrant Dictator" Muammar Gaddafi, be removed from his current Libyan rebel captors, who intend to try him for war crimes, and brought to the International Criminal Court instead for his pending trial. No proof has been given as to these accusations and the ongoing postponement of the trial suggests the opposition might be struggling to manifest such evidence.Click Here for Petition
Since the fall of the Gaddafi regime in 2011, some of the now captive Gaddafi family and loyalists face severe charges, many under the most despised of distinctions: Crimes Against Humanity. Saif is currently facing the death penalty in Libya, where he is, most notably, accused of participating in the killing of civilian protesters during last year's Western backed coup d'état against his father. Weinerman's concern is that Saif has no chance of a fair trial in the hands of the new power establishment in Libya and also feels the nature of the Western backed invasion was not for the interests of the Libyan people but rather for geo-political and geo-economic advantage - a criminal act.
British Prime Minister David Cameron's notable public statement: "We must not tolerate this regime using military force against its own people", was just one of many sound bites heard from US and UK politicians as they worked with NATO to take out the Gaddafi regime under the guise of a "humanitarian mandate". The mainstream media describes the Libyan Revolution as an organic rebellion originating from an opposing group of citizens, often categorizing the event as part of the mass protests and revolutions now known as the "Arab Spring" uprisings that effected Tunisia, Egypt and many others. However, a closer look at the rapid dethroning of the Gaddafi regime starts to take a different picture - a picture all too familiar to those who have had the sad fortune of following the history of covert warfare coming from Western powers and their economic interests.
A History Lesson
In the past 70 years, the idea of using the facade of civil uprisings to execute Geo-Economic/Politic reformations favorable to Western economic interests has become increasingly more common. We know this not only because of the now declassified CIA documents that boast of such measures - such as the overthrow of the democratically elected Iranian leader Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 which returned commercial power to Western oil interests as a response to the unwanted nationalization of Iranian oil fields by Mosaddegh prior - we also have the testimony of whistleblowers, such as famed "Economic Hit Man" John Perkins, who has admitted in great detail as to his involvement in such affairs in Latin America.
Another little known yet declassified example of a CIA sponsored overthrow for corporate and financial interests was the 1954 coup d'état that ousted President Jacobo Ãrbenz Guzmán of Guatemala. The United States engineered this for the benefit of the United Fruit Company which had been lobbying the CIA to oust reformist governments in the Republic of Guatemala for years prior to secure its commercial interests. Similar CIA behavior can also be linked in one variation or another to the overthrows and/or assassinations of Ecuador's Jaime Roldós Aguilera in 1981 due to energy interests; Panama's Omar Torrijos also in 1981, due to conflicts over the Panama Canal (a key conduit for international maritime trade), along with perhaps the most interesting recent example - the failed 2002 coup d'état against President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela.
As detailed by journalist Eva Golinger who obtained top-secret documents from the CIA and State Department through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the United States' Bush administration had prior knowledge of and was complicit in the 2002 coup against President Hugo Chávez and had apparently provided over $30 million in funding aid to opposition groups to help execute the public uprising against him. Why? Oil Interests.
Not to say it is a new thing for CIA to covertly arm rebel forces in other countries as they try to remove the power structure, as can be exemplified from Afghanistan to Cuba to Iraq to Argentina to Honduras to many, many other cases - but the recipe for the covert war that doesn't cause public outcry within the invading nation, without serious military commitment, is a special circumstance.
The basic requirement is an initial, ideally organic public rebellion. From there, the task is to fuel the conflict and escalate destabilization which serves as a cover for covert moves. Public perception can be exploited with the conflict artificially magnified by the media. Then, some type of knee-jerk accusation that draws public sympathy is needed to generate acute disdain for the targeted parties and enable follow through.
For example, before the 1991 invasion of Iraq, a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl gave public testimony stating she watched Iraqi soldiers "come into the hospital with guns and go into the room where...babies were in incubators. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators, and left the babies on the cold floor to die." This testimony was repeated as fact in further Congressional Testimony, on TV and radio shows, at the UN Security Council and even by then President George H.W. Bush. It had a clearly relevant effect on public opinion and support for the 1991 invasion. However, what was not discussed, was that this 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl was a member of the Kuwaiti Royal Family. Her father was Saud Nasir al-Sabah, Kuwait's Ambassador to the USA and her entire testimony was a lie. Again, this is public record.
Libya Decoded
So what is the story with Libya? Does it fit any of these profiles? Were the US & UK simply being good parents and working to altruistically protect humanity from some rouge tyrant or is there something else going on? Is there evidence to show they were complicit in the uprising, exploiting mass sympathy by some event, while holding deep ulterior motives to serve their financial and political interests? Yes. In fact, the event appears to be just about as textbook as the case was with Mosaddegh in 1954 and Chavez in 2002.
First, let's start with the state of affairs. If you are like most Westerners, you have likely never met anyone from Libya nor do you know anything about it other than that odd looking man with the funky sunglasses who had been in charge for 40 some years. The idea of autocratic rule is deeply opposed in the West and perhaps that is a legitimate concern given the patterns of history in general. However, let's leave our ideologies aside and ask about the relative state of the culture before the uprising and invasion.
In 2010, Libya ranked 53rd on the Human Development Index (out of 170 U.N. member states), making it a "high human development" country. The U.N. Development Program said Libya had "high human development" in every major index category, including education, empowerment, economy and infrastructure, access to information, civic and community well being, and gender inequality. In a 2005 Country Profile report by the Library of Congress' Federal Research Division, it noted: "In comparison to other states in the Middle East, the health status of the population is relatively good. Childhood immunization is almost universal. The clean water supply has increased, and sanitation has been improved."
As far as accusations of terrorism or weapons of mass destruction, it also stated: "During the period 1999-2003, Qadhafi, ever the pragmatist, eventually fulfilled all the terms of the UN Security Council Resolutions required to lift the sanctions against Libya. He accepted responsibility for the actions of his officials and agreed to provide financial compensation to the families of the victims of Pan Am 103. As a result, the UN sanctions were lifted on September 12, 2003. In December 2003, Qadhafi publicly announced that Libya was ridding itself of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile development programs, and fully cooperated with the United States, the United Kingdom, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Through these actions and decisions, Qadhafi brought Libya back into the world community."
Any general research on Libya shows that it was improving and stable and while accusations of social oppression and misdeeds might hold true on some level, as with many countries in that region, we need to be honest with ourselves and consider the realistic nature of the circumstance in comparison. If we were to examine all the oppressive regimes the United States and United Kingdom coexist with without objection, Libya was far from the worst and it wasn't until the 2011 uprising that the accusation of Libya using force against its own citizens become a heated claim for intervention.
If the Western powers cared about the humanitarian crisis in Africa or the Middle-East, both general and oppressive, forces would have taken control of the Sudan long ago, where the genocide and barbarian abuses are almost beyond comprehension, not to mention intervene to end the virtual prison still existing in the West Bank due to the illegal, US sponsored Israeli occupation. This list could go on and on and the bottom line is that the very idea that the West "cares" about the citizenry of any such country to inspire such intervention is enormously naive and completely ignorant of history.
The central "war crime" accusation itself, which gives the appearance that Gaddafi forces just decided to start killing civilian protestors for fun, is void of its true context, which was a response to an armed conflict from rebel forces. Does this justify the death of human beings? Of course not but this is an issue of circumstance. If an armed militia began to make its way towards the White House, do you have any doubt that once the first shot was fired, the Police, Military and Secret Service would not hesitate to shoot anyone in their line of fire under such pressure? Again, this justifies nothing in and of itself but such is the nature of circumstance in the discordant, power sick zeitgeist we share today and the "Crimes Against Humanity" charges being propagated around the now fallen regime needs a much closer examination.
The central charge against Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who actually didn't hold any political office, is this claim of "civilian murder", which appears as an act of defense, not cold blooded execution that would define a "war crime". It is estimated that the United States and its allies are responsible for ¾ to a million civilian deaths in Iraq and likely 10s of thousands more during the prior UN sanctions that crippled the nation for many years prior - yet we see no one on trial here. Let's also not discount the score of civilian deaths achieved by NATO as it bombed Libya for months.
Currency Wars
Have you ever wondered how the United States can operate with 16 trillion dollars in debt and growing? It has the Global Reserve Currency. Of all the Macro Economic factors that favor Western domination in the world today, the fact the Euro and the US Dollar are used for not only the majority of oil transactions, which in many ways serves as the virtual "backing" of these fiat currencies, many other major goods are priced in Dollars and Euros, requiring most nations to purchase these currencies in order to engage in global trade, maintaining demand.
In fact, approximately two thirds of world trade is done in dollars and two thirds of central banks' currency reserves are held in the American currency, which remains the sole currency used by global institutions such as the IMF. This gives the US a major economic advantage as they have the ability to run a constant trade deficit because foreign countries need those dollars to repay their debts to the IMF; to conduct international trade and to build up their currency reserves. As long as the dollar remains the main international currency, the US can continue consuming more than it produces, as it has been doing for decades now.
Well, guess what? Muammar Gaddafi had been openly advocating the creation of a new currency that would counter the dollar and the euro. He called upon African and Muslim nations to join an alliance that would make this new currency, the "Gold Dinar", their main currency. They would sell oil and other resources to the US and the rest of the world only for gold dinars. If this were to happen, it would have had dramatic effects on US economic hegemony. In fact, some might remember that Saddam Hussein was pushing for a similar petrodollar shift before the 2003 US Invasion. This is a very serious yet little discussed reality.
That noted, we shouldn't dismiss the energy interests even though they may be secondary in importance. The National Oil Corporation, Libya's nationalized oil company, was ranked 25 among the world's Top 100 oil companies and while its reserves might be minor compared to the reserves of Saudi Arabia, the liberating of previously off-limit business contracts is clearly a positive for the West.
NATO Intervention
The Libyan "rebel" forces that took to the street in February 2011 were depicted by the media and Western political commentary as an unexpected organic uprising mirroring the Arab Spring revolts nearby. Yet, a closer examination reveals a deep premeditation and clear connection to CIA involvement. Former Gaddafi army commander, Khalifa Haftar, who had been living in exile for 20 years essentially next to CIA headquarters in Virginia, with tremendous evidence to indicate ties to the agency, was quickly brought to Libya after the uprising and put into position as commander for the rebel forces. How convenient.
All that was left was a trigger for intervention and it wasn't long before Libya fought back against what could very well have been a mercenary group set in motion to enable a larger mobilization against Gaddafi. This violence was quickly emphasized and set the stage for the so called "Humanitarian Intervention" less than 2 weeks after with "Resolution 1973" from the UN Security Council. Quickly and semi-covertly, the US began to add more arms to the rebels. Something, again, they have done in so many other cases to secure their interests, such as with the tens of millions of dollars going to anti-Soviet Afghan rebels for the 1980's Afghanistan War.
This is the earmark. The earmark that links dozens of US covert interventions in the past 100 years and there is even evidence the US has been funding opposition groups in Iran, if not many other places in this turbulent world we see rising. It's a great strategy - low budget; mostly hidden from the general public - and completely against international law.
And once the fireworks started with NATO, there was no turning back - another coup d'état success. Today Libya is a fragmented and destabilized terrain. Apparently is it now a "Democracy" for whatever that is really worth since it is looking more like another post-war Iraq than anything else and it will likely be a long time before progress is achieved.
Saving Face
Now coming back to our "Love Story", there is little that can be done now with respect to the irresponsible overthrow of Libya but perhaps a little poetic sensitivity could heal these global wounds in some small way... So let's return to Ms. Weinerman's struggle to save someone dear to her - someone who might be deeply misunderstood - Muammar's son: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.
Today, she has not only spoken out in praise of Saif's moral character, interest to reform Libya into a true democracy, defiance of his father on many issues regarding needed change and equality, she has also publicly implored Saif's known associate and long time friend, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, to intervene. She is also working to petition for his release from the Libyan successors - an effort the reader is encouraged to review and hopefully participate in: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/surrender-saif-al-islam-gaddafi-to-the-icc
Since that time she has been criticized and even targeted for criminal wrong-doing by political powers in her home country, such as by a member of the National Union Party who wrote to the attorney general that she was involved with a 'terrorist' who wanted to 'destroy the Jewish people', as reported by The Times of Israel.
A fascinating circumstance indeed. Geo-Politics, warfare and corruption aside, their very relationship challenges some common taboos all too common in the world today. In the story of Romeo and Juliet the tragedy of circumstance rested mostly with a disruption of traditional loyalty to the feuding families. In this story, there is a disruption of loyalty across multiple cultural lines.
First, we have the Nationalist disruption: If the state of Israel is against another state and vice versa, the implication is that citizens of that state must also be opposed. Second, we have the Religious disruption: Ms. Weinerman of the Jewish faith and Saif of the Muslim faith, which, unlike other combinations, is particularly rare. Third, we have the Race disruption, which is a corollary to the Nationalist loyalty, and while less relevant today in general, is still notable given the deep racial tension still existing in the Middle East; and fourth we have what we will call the Disruption of Associated Bias which, in this case, is the prima facie assumption that Saif, who, again, never officially held political office and has yet to be named in any documents for such criminal evidence, is still to be associated with the alleged crimes of his father.
That determination, of course, is the role and importance of the fair trial to which Ms. Weinerman pursues. This Bias of Association is a powerful influence of perspective and to expect a fair trial from what is to be, in effect, a court run by the "rebel opposition" in Libya, might be wishful thinking.
Below is an exclusive interview with Ms.Weinerman:
Question: Please briefly discuss your upbringing, especially given the context of tension in your homeland, Israel; in the Middle East.
O.W.: "I was born in Tel Aviv to a pianist mother and an engineer father who specializes in the field of renewable energy. I've been acting and modeling since I was a child and as a teenager I already started being socially and politically involved. However, activism wasn't something I picked up at home but was rather my natural response to all the wrongdoings I witnessed growing up. Spending 3 years in South Africa during the apartheid years in the mid 1980's, between the ages of 13-16, shaped the way I view the world today.
I was constantly asking questions about the human inequality and neglect that I saw around me, rather than accept it as "natural" or "normal". I've always been a social activist in Israel with a special interest in human rights, especially around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I worked with "B'tselem"- a non-governmental non-profit organization promoting human rights in the occupied territories. I worked in fundraising for "Alon"- an association dedicated to bridging social gaps through education, and am currently working in fundraising for Israeli Flying Aid. It has always been important to me to use my "celebrity" and my connections for a greater cause."
Question: Please describe your impression and experience with Saif.
O.W.: "Saif is the best person I've ever known. He's a warm, kind, friendly, open-minded, peaceful, calm and loving man. A real gentleman and pure hearted. He is honest and that's something admirable in a time like ours. Saif's vision was to turn Libya into a modern society and he did the best within his power to help the Libyan people. He brought reforms to his country and had so many more ideas of reforms to bring about. Saif had an agenda for promoting human rights not only in his country but in the international community as well. He worked on a roadmap for peace in Cashmere, amongst other human rights projects and charities he was involved in. He was the one to convince his father to give up his program for weapons of mass destruction.
Saif has always been very popular amongst the people of his country, and especially loved by the younger generation there. He used to meet with the people directly in the city square every week and talk to them without the protection of any guards. He was always challenging and even openly criticizing his father's regime. He even set up a free media organization that his father kept shutting down, so he had to keep relocating it, from Libya, to Jordan, to London, etc.
He was also popular outside his country; he was the one connecting Libya to the west in his efforts to open his country to the world and bring balance and peace to his region. He had a good relationship with the west, especially England, to the extent that he was titled "Europe's darling", before the west (mainly the US, France and the UK) decided to invade his country for corporate profit. Then, all of a sudden, they started to portray him very differently, in order to manipulate public opinion to legitimize their acts.
The accusations made against him sound even more unbelievable, when you consider he wasn't even a part of the regime, he had no political or military position in the time of the war. If there were any concrete evidence against him- be sure we would be bombarded with it, brainwashed with it in the mainstream media. It's very convenient for the west to leave him there to silence the facts & hide the evidence. The sad truth is that they turned their back on him once they had taken over the country and its resources and they don't need him anymore.
Question: Please explain the Petition Click Here for Petition you are pushing and why you feel Saif must to be removed from Libya in order to achieve a fair trial?
O.W.: "Firstly, the underlying meaning of this petition, or every other petition, really, is the people's understanding that we need to empower ourselves, unite and take responsibility for the affairs of our world, because justice will not be served by the powers that be. I think there is a growing understanding that we can't let the super powers lead our world anymore, as we found they are immoral in their deeds. Using the people's ignorance to fool them with cheap propaganda, the powers that be allow themselves, on our behalf (the international community), to harm the innocent & portray their victims as "evil".
Specifically, the same Security Council that had passed a resolution allowing the NATO forces to intervene in the Libya conflict has also passed a resolution giving the International Criminal Court a jurisdiction over crimes committed during the conflict. It is obvious that the so-called "justice system" of the current Libyan administration is unable to conduct a fair trial which will ensure basic human rights and due process.
Therefore, in accordance with its resolution & the importance of true justice, the security council & every member state within it has a moral interest, responsibility, and obligation to bring Saif to justice before the ICC, where he can receive a fair trial before a competent court. Moreover, the fact that Saif was captured during an armed conflict makes him a prisoner of war, and therefore he is entitled to the full legal protection declared by the Geneva Convention, which includes visits from the Red Cross or the Red Crescent representatives, but he has been held incommunicado and no information about his captive conditions or his health condition has been provided.
We can't go on looking the other way or shutting our mouths about these violations of human rights sponsored by USA, France, England and their corporations. Somebody must be gaining something out of all of this... and those ones should be the ones to be put on trial."
Question: Do you feel Tony Blair is avoiding intervention due to his need to preserve his political persona? If you had anything to say to him directly, in person, what would it be?
O.W.: "It's no secret that Saif and Mr. Blair were good friends, have worked together and Mr. Blair has even helped Saif with his PHD. I do believe Mr. Blair is not doing or saying anything not because he thinks Saif deserves anything he's been going through, or that he should have an unfair trial before an incompetent court. But that his silence and his inactivity about the injustice that Saif is dealing with comes from fear of losing his own position and more than that, he is probably threatened that if he says or does anything about the matter, he will be punished by people and entities that don't want anything done to change this horrible policy of silencing the truth about western corporate crime in the international arena.
Mr. Blair and other high-profile influential politicians and corporate businessmen that were good friends with Saif, have now renounced him as it's no longer in their interest, they now have free access to all they needed from him. If I was to meet Mr. Blair, I would ask him if everything that he has, position-wise, materialistic-wise, is worth giving up the values of being human, and that means being loyal to your friends, not letting them be victims of propaganda intended to wash off other people's sins. As a Christian man he should help his friend and speak the truth.
All we have in our lives is our word, and a man who doesn't live telling the truth, speaking out what he knows, has nothing, for our property in this life is nothing. Not even our bodies. When we leave this world we take nothing with us, and the only thing that will be left of us is our good words, good deeds and the influence they will keep on making long after we are gone."
Question: In the course of this mission you have reached out to The Zeitgeist Movement, a Global Sustainability Advocacy group interested in declaring all the world's resources as common heritage for all the world's people and works with new economic ideas to unify humanity and improve conditions. Why do you feel this audience might well understand your circumstance? Do you identify with such broad cultural changes?
O.W: "Of course. The people who are now in control of the world's wealth, and therefore control the rest of the population (through the use of the monetary system and the state system) are being cruel & thoughtless in their actions, seeing the entire world as their own playground \ back yard. They do not show any regard to the way our economy is destroying our planet, as if we have more than one, or as if there would be no one left to live here after them. However, I do not accuse them of being "evil" but I see them as victims of their own disproportionate power.
I agree with The Zeitgeist Movement's understanding that a new system that will allow us a more open-source, "flat" way of managing our affairs on this planet, is the only way to build a more humane and environmentally responsible society, and I think that now, for the first time in history, we have the technology that can enable us to do just that."
In many ways, what is done is done and Libya will never be the same. We can speculate upon its future and even try to be optimistic that it will recover and maybe even progress to a level never known before. Yet, that doesn't change history and the Means never justifies the End. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is still in prison and awaiting a trial that may decide if he is to live or die. He also sits in a symbolic position in many ways as the corruption inherent to the Libyan invasion has yet to find an end and the outcome of Saif sets the tone for what we as a people are willing to tolerate within the criminal meltdown of power abuse so common on the tragic global stage today.
Orly Weinerman's plead works on many levels. We can't return the many lives taken when NATO blanketed bombs over Libya nor can we bring Colonel Muammar Gaddafi back so he can face a trial to determine the legitimacy of the accusations against him. However, we can reduce ourselves to the recognition of one shared mortal reality and that is that we are all human and our personal relationships can transcend the circumstantial baggage and cultural victimizations that seem to divide us in the broad view. The saving of just one life in this play might be the key to shift it from tragedy to redemption.
What if we as a species were able elevate ourselves outside of the ongoing Tragedy of Thought we all to often find our values and loyalties. What if we were to show compassion for a man who just might have been trying to change an outdated regime from the inside, but was not given enough time to do so and was taken down prematurely by a criminal mafia that has no concern for the well being of the state of Libya.
What if our loyalist illusions of "peace keeping", "protecting civilians" and other clearly hypocritical and false claims used to justify the overtaking of other societies recently by the Western powers, [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuqZfaj34nc ] were seen for what they were? How would that affect your sense of responsibility?
And most broadly, what if our loyalty to retribution and the reciprocated hatred of each other's misdeeds was relinquished and replaced by a more rational understanding of how we are all Victims of Circumstance - Victims of Culture - involved in a seemingly never ending play of tragic proportions where we harm those who harm us or our loyalties - all justified under the guise of an ideological perversion of "Justice" itself.
All human actions are consequences of conditions, past or present, and it is only when we shed the primitive, narrow loyalties to our ancient traditions of Nation, Religion, Race & Circumstance that we will likely see that the only loyalty we can possibly have is to truth and each other - as one species, sharing one habitat.
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PICTURE POSTCARD: Whenever we see a contemporary take on Christmas or a modern spin on holiday merriment, well. We're enchanted. We like the minimalist trees and gewgaws and such. But, honest? We tend to return to the classic ways a lot of people mark late November and early December. What do we mean by the rather vague "classic ways"? 1. Gingerbread villages. 2. Twinkly lights. 3. Grand, applause-laden tree lightings. 4. Carolers. 5. Snowmen. Oh, we should have said "in no particular order" there, because we do want and expect all of them during the yuletide season. And if the whole caboodle happens to boast a fir-pretty mountain setting? Say not too far from Lake Tahoe, which always looks as if it should be on the front of a holiday card, regardless of the time of year? Happiness. The Resort at Squaw Creek has several of those goodies going, plus a few mountain-nice happenings, during its "Magical Memories" Holiday Celebration.
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PROVIDENCE, RI-For the first time since the 1977 season, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's golf team is headed to the national tournament.
The Corsairs shot a team score of 320 for a 36-hole total of 652 and finished 16 strokes ahead of defending champion Johnson & Wales to win the Great Northeast Athletic Conference championship, which concluded Sunday at the par-72 Triggs Memorial Golf Course.
Host Rhode Island College was third at 674; St. Joseph's (Maine) was fourth at 688, Southern Maine fifth at 695, Emmanuel sixth at 721 and Suffolk seventh 739.
For UMass Dartmouth, sophomore Matt Connolly (Lynnfield, MA/Lynnfield HS) shot a 78 for a two-day total of 157 and finished one stroke behind the medalist, Joe Connor of Johnson % Wales. Junior George Gillmore (Cotuit, MA/Barnstable HS/Fairfield) shot an 83 for a total of 164 and finished fifth, junior Nick Jagoe (Westport, MA/Westport HS) shot an 80 for 165 and was sixth, sophomore Brandon Oldham (Mattapoisett, MA/ORR HS/Allegheny/BCC) shot a 79 for 167 and tied for seventh, and senior Scott Woodacre (Westborough, MA/Westborough HS) shot an 85 for 172 and tied for 16th. The Corsairs' Sunday round was the best round of the tournament by any team.
"Needless to say, I'm absolutely ecstatic," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Joel Baptista. "This is what you play for all year, this was our goal, and anything short would have been a disappointment. Our team knew what was at stake, and they came to play. Matt Connolly had an outstanding season, Nick Jagoe proved again why he is a captain, leading by example, and the other guys on the team feed off that. We have a deep team, everyone pushed each other in practice, and it made everyone better. It's going to be an honor to represent the university and the GNAC at the national championships."
The Corsairs will return to action next spring before they head for the NCAAs, scheduled for May 10th-13th at the Grandover Resort in Greensboro, NC.
10/30-31/2010 -- GNAC Championships Triggs Memorial Golf Course -- Providence, RI Par 72, 6522 yards -- 0 teams, 0 players UMass Dartmouth 332 320 652 +76 1st Matt Connolly 79 78 157 +13 2nd George Gillmore 81 83 164 +20 5th Nick Jagoe 85 80 165 +21 6th Brandon Oldham 88 79 167 +23 t-7th Scott Woodacre 87 85 172 +28 t-16th


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DescriptionBeamrider is a 3D arcade action game. You control a beam riding spaceship on a mission to clear 99 sectors of space from hostile aliens. The spaceship is located at the bottom of the screen and it can only stop on one of five beams. You are armed with both lasers and torpedoes; torpedoes are more powerful and can destroy more enemies compared to lasers, however you only get three per level. To complete a sector, you need to destroy fifteen white flying saucers. After all saucers are destroyed, the sector sentinel passes by which can be destroyed for extra points. Each even number sector up until sector 16 will add a new type of enemy to deal with. These additional enemies will just try to slow your mission, though, only the saucers need to be destroyed to advance. Occasionally a rejeuvinator will appear; if this is collected, you can earn an extra life. But be careful, because if you accidentally shoot the rejeuvinator it will turn into an enemy!
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ROCKLEDGE, FL - Who do you think has a better understanding of the healthcare needs of Brevard County residents?
An out-of-town health insurance company that may not even be able to find Brevard County on a map?
Health First Health Plans, which was founded in Brevard County by Brevard County residents, is headquartered in Brevard County, and is driven by its Mission to serve the healthcare needs of Brevard residents?
Every day, Health First Health Plans representatives take calls from local residents desperate to understand Original Medicare and how it will affect them and their family right here on the Space Coast.
To help unravel the web that is Original Medicare, Health First Health Plans is launching a new "Ask a Local Expert" public forums where Health First Health Plans experts will answer questions and explain the alphabet soup of Medicare Part 'A', Medicare Part 'B', Medicare Part 'C', Medicare Part 'D', etc.
"As the only local health plan in Brevard County, we understand that we have a responsibility to the community for those who have questions about Original Medicare," said Margaret Haney, president and CEO. "We are proud to offer these educational seminars to enhance their understanding."
These lectures are not sales pitches! No specific information on Health First Health Plans details, benefits, or programs will be provided!
This program is intended to meet the increasing demand among local residents for locally-based information from the people who know Brevard best. Our Original Medicare "Ask a Local Expert" sessions are being offered on the following dates, times, and locations over the next three months:
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Steve Glazer has seen politics up close as a veteran campaign consultant, most notably as the manager of Jerry Brown's comeback election as governor three years ago.
That familiarity, one might think, would breed contempt, but instead, Glazer yearns to join the ranks of the elected. He's already an Orinda city councilman and wants to serve in the state Assembly.
Glazer's opening comes via term limits. Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo, will be forced to give up her seat next year, and Glazer wants to succeed her in the 16th Assembly District, which covers the affluent suburbs along the Interstate 680 corridor in Contra Costa County.
The already unusual specter of a campaign manager wanting to become a legislator becomes even odder as Democrat Glazer seeks office in a strongly Democratic district by positioning himself as an outspoken adversary of California's very powerful labor unions.
After managing Brown's campaign – and while still an unpaid Brown adviser – Glazer also became a consultant to the California Chamber of Commerce on 2012 election strategy.
The chamber made a major effort to elect business-friendly Democrats and had some notable successes, including backing two Democrats who knocked off Democratic incumbents.
That effort earned Glazer the enmity of unions. Earlier this year, the California Labor Federation blacklisted Glazer, pollster Jim Moore and four other consultants for their work on the two successful incumbent challenges that elected Marc Levine and Richard Bloom to the Assembly.
The statewide labor organization put them on its "do not hire" list for "two campaigns in 2012 that directly attacked labor unions and caused damage to the labor movement."
"I was proud to support independent, locally based Democratic leaders against the hand-picked Sacramento politicians," Glazer responded. "Their victory against entrenched interests is a step forward for a Capitol that is polarized and limited in its ability to solve problems."
Glazer's feud with unions is escalating. Dublin Mayor Tim Sbranti, a California Teachers Association leader, is his chief rival, and Glazer is making a threatened Bay Area Rapid Transit strike his issue, calling for a state ban on transit worker strikes.
"BART riders are in the crosshairs of this bargaining brinkmanship," Glazer tweeted Wednesday as a strike became probable. "It is unnecessary, it is wrong, and it needs to be changed."
He insists that his position has nothing to do with his Assembly campaign and told the Contra Costa Times he is merely "trying to do the right thing," citing other states' bans on transit worker strikes.
Whether the "right thing" or political ploy, Glazer's stance makes the 16th AD a major battleground next year as he gets business support and unions pour money into Sbranti's campaign.


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THE MGH DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY has announced that Richard Hodin, MD, has been appointed as chief for Academic Affairs. In his new role, Hodin – who also will continue in his roles as chief of Endocrine Surgery and surgical director of the MGH Crohn's and Colitis Center – will be actively involved in faculty development and academic promotions and will join the leadership of the department on the Chiefs' Council.
A main focus of this new position will be to create a mentorship program aimed at connecting senior faculty with junior members of the department. "This new program will play an important role in helping our faculty advance and achieve higher levels of visibility in their fields," says Keith Lillemoe, MD, chief of the Department of Surgery. "This role nicely complements the work that Rich has done for a number of years in advising surgical residents and coordinating research activities within the department."
Hodin says he is thrilled to be part of this new endeavor. "For me, this is a great opportunity to continue doing something I've always loved. I especially enjoy helping young people advance in their careers and am particularly looking forward to developing a comprehensive mentorship program."
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10 Incredible Mobile Pizza Operations
Running a successful food truck with limited refrigeration, climate control, and space is a feat in itself. Now imagine introducing an 800 degree fire-breathing oven into the equation. That's what the best mobile pizza operations around the country have managed to do, and to do well. The ways in which pizza makers have tackled these challenges are not only incredibly varied, but incredibly impressive.
Form repurposing a 1949 REO Speedwagon to transforming a simple trailer into a steel-encased mortar oven than can survive the potholes of New York City, or modifying a transatlantic shipping container into a museum-worthy roving pizzeria with a 5000 pound oven, serious pizza makers are able to take their skills to the road. And because pizza is such a democratic food, there's a poetry to being able to bring great pizza making into more public spaces, parks, and outdoor markets. After all, pizza has a long history as a street food.
Here are ten incredible mobile pizza operations that not only demonstrate ingenuity and creativity in their designs, but turn out great pies that we can get behind. What else would you add to our list?
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- Roberta's
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- Bola Pizza
- Casey's Pizza Truck
- Pitruco
- The Pizza Pilgrims
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Sir Alex Ferguson admitted he was shocked when he heard Rio Ferdinand had got an international recall and has urged the England staff to follow Manchester United's lead and manage the 34-year-old's workload in both games and training sessions.
The centre-back, who has not played for his country since June 2011, was included in Roy Hodgson's squad to face San Marino and Montenegro.
Ferdinand's international career seemed to be over when, despite injuries to other defenders, he was omitted from the squad for Euro 2012 - with Hodgson arguing it was "for footballing reasons" - and then the England manager said after last month's win over Brazil that he had "moved on".
But the veteran has earned praise for his recent performances for United and is now set to add to his 81 England caps after Hodgson picked him ahead of Joleon Lescott.
"I was as surprised as anyone when I heard that [Ferdinand was in the squad]," Ferguson said.
After several injury-hit years, the defender has started 24 games this season which his manager believes is down to the way United look after Ferdinand. Ferguson hopes Hodgson will adhere to their advice about keeping him fit.
"I need to speak to our doctor," the United manager added. "We prepare Rio in certain ways and he has certain treatments he has to go through.
"The procedures have been the same all season, which has given him fantastic performance levels when he's playing for us. We have to consider that and Rio is considering that. And we'll see what the outcome of that is.
"[Rio] has to make sure he's going to be okay in terms of the number of games he plays. We've been doing that for two years with him. And it's worked.
"The way we've detailed his training programmes and given him the treatments he needs for the various complaints he has in terms of his back and groin and things like that. So far it's worked very well. We have to look at all these things before Rio decides."


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Métaboles was created for the Paris Opéra's Soirée MacMillan, the first time an entire evening by a British choreographer had been programmed there. The invitation had come from the then ballet director Violette Verdy and also on the programme was Four Seasons along with Song of the Earth.
In a programme note on Métaboles MacMillan quoted from Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol ("Yet each man kills the thing he loves....) The curtain rises on five men in evening dress and a woman in long violet dress. Marie-Françoise Ridout described the action in Dance and Dancers. "Soon they rip off her long pleated dress and, like sadistic vampires, apply themselves collectively or singly to eating her"
Barry Kay had set high above the performance space a gigantically enlarged x-ray photograph of a human chest. From this Peter Williams, also of Dance and Dancers implied that "the area occupied by the dancers is by implication the stomach of a giant. Within it, a strange process of digestion is taking place."
Clement Crisp of The Financial Times was also in the audience. "As in La Grande Bouffe, or the dinner scene in the film of Tom Jones, eating and eroticism are correlated. As the audience discovered, Métabole generated an obsessive emotional force. MacMillan uses an almost expressionistic manner at times (the men mime-eating, with hands rising and falling like pistons over a table) and the neurotic mood becomes very tense. Khalfouni and Bart were both excellent: Khalfouni, a pallid victim enjoying her fate, gave her role a morbid sensuality as she was handled in a variety of acrobatic/passionate lifts; Bart's speed and impetuosity made the central male role as disquieting as that of the lunatic teacher in Flindt's La Leçon."
Dutilleux's score, an exploration of the metamorphosis of orchestral ideas (and with some obvious debts to Messiaen) had five sections: Incantatory, Linear, Obsessional, Torpid, Flamboyant. A dense and abstract work, it was a curious choice for MacMillan. Nonetheless, Peter Williams thought it contributed to the theatricality of the ballet. But for Ivor Guest, the historian of Paris Opera Ballet, Métaboles "proved one of MacMillan's less happy creations – a disappointment partly assuaged by the acclaim awarded to the revival of his Mahler masterpiece, Song of the Earth." Violette Verdy was pithier. "A bit much, even for the French", she told Jann Parry.
First performance: Paris, 23 November 1978
Company: Paris Opera Ballet
Cast: Dominique Khalfouni, Patrice Bart, Patrick Dupond
Music: Henri Dutilleux
Design: Barry Kay
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Thank you for your support. Millions of people like you contacted Brazilian President Dilma (via a joint Greenpeace, WWF and Avaaz effort), and asked her to veto the damaging new law. You were heard and in the end President Dilma did issue a partial veto blocking 12 parts of the new law.
Our work to protect the Amazon continues and we need you to stay part of it.
One of our planets largest remaining rainforests is under threat from changes to the laws that govern forest protection in Brazil. The new Forest Code being proposed severely weakens protections for the Amazon rainforest and opens up vast areas to destruction, which would contribute to accelerating climate change.
But there is still time. Right now the only thing standing between the Amazon rainforest and destruction is Brazilian President Dilma. She can protect the Amazon by vetoing this new Forest Code. Send her a message now and let her know we all have a stake in protecting this amazing ecosystem.
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Arild Angelsen of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and CIFOR gives a 'cynical optimist's' view on whether REDD will work.
REDD is not only a buzzword in climate negotiations. The mechanism – and the potentially large amount of money and policy reforms associated with it – might become the tallest landmark in modern forest conservation history.
REDD is based on a simple idea: reward individuals,communities, firms, projects and countries that reduce forest-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. According to the proponents it has a huge potential (one-fifth of current global GHG emissions), is cheap (many deforestation and degradation activities are only marginally profitable), can be done quickly ('stroke-of-pen' reforms and no new technologies needed), and produce win-win-win outcomes (climate, biodiversity and livelihood benefits).
Contrast this optimism with the dismal record of the Tropical Forestry Action Plan, a very mixed history of forestry and forest conservation projects, continuously high deforestation over several decades, and the temptations (read: corruption) that big money tends to generate. The most important question to be asked about REDD is thus: Why should we succeed this time?
To achieve the main aim – reduced emissions – REDD must succeed at different levels. First, at the international level, sufficient funding must be mobilized, and sound mechanisms established to channel funding to countries. The post-2012 climate protocol to be agreed on at COP 15 in Copenhagen (or at later meetings), must include REDD and significant funding mechanisms.
Although all countries may have an interest in minimizing climate change, the interests in the global negotiations are divergent. One common assumption is that rich countries should pay poor countries to reduce forestry emissions. Looking at it cynically, as I'm trained to do as an economist, poor countries have an interest in maximizing funding received while doing as little as possible about their deforestation and degradation. Rich (Annex I) countries have the opposite interest: they want as much "bang for their buck" as possible, including some costs to be borne by REDD countries themselves. Rich countries also want to use REDD (and mitigation in poor countries generally) to partially offset their domestic emissions reduction targets.
This leads to a distributional game about 'who will pay how much for what'. Should, for example, middle income countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Gabon and Malaysia not assume higher responsibilities and commitments than poor nations like DRC, Tanzania and Laos? Being labeled as poor (non-Annex I) can be lucrative. This game is the most serious hurdle for progress in climate negotiations.
Second, at the national level, the REDD money received must be used to undertake policy reforms and create incentive mechanisms that deliver real emissions reductions. Many actors will be seeking REDD rents – and 'rent seeking' is the root cause of corruption. Good governance reforms won't come easy and we know from the aid and conditionality experience that aid is not effective as a means to buy political (or policy) reforms. REDD success therefore hinges on domesticallydriven democratic reforms.
Effective REDD policies must also be identified and designed. Many foresee that REDD can be simply an upscale of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) systems, to make forest conservation profitable by paying those that reduce deforestation and degradation. But implementing PES down to village, household and firm levels is information-intensive and costly. More importantly, many deforestation hotspots are characterized by unclear land rights and weak access controls. Who are to be paid in those situations? PES systems will therefore have to be complemented by old-fashioned forest conservation and broader policy reforms.
Will REDD make a significant difference in climate change mitigation? I choose to be an optimist, and can see some grounds for this stance. First, increasing evidence of climate change impacts will make international negotiators and political leaders more focused on action than on who should pay. Second, REDD has sufficient momentum to generate substantial international funding. Third, many watchdogs create awareness of any mismanagement, corruption and inefficient uses of REDD money. Fourth, international REDD payment will – much more than development aid – be linked to performance and measureable results. And finally, many good brains and practitioners are working hard to find innovative ways of making REDD come true.
In 10 years, I think we will probably look back and say: in spite of – and partly because of - our sound initial skepticism, REDD actually came to make a real difference!
This article is taken from issue 40 of arborvitae, the newsletter of IUCN's Forest Conservation Programme
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Anyone willing to suspend a bit of disbelief and not get too bogged down in the film's logic will likely be ready for an entertaining and worthwhile experience.
The ups and downs of The Cabin in the Woods release delay had little to do with co-writer and producer Joss Whedon, or writer-turned-director Drew Goddard's movie; rather, the horror genre hybrid was simply caught in the middle of the MGM Studios collapse. Despite a few big names being attached to the long-withheld project - Avengers star Chris Hemsworth and director Joss Whedon - does The Cabin in the Woods actually offer a fresh and enjoyable horror experience? Or is the film little more than a middle-of-the-road effort that could have easily been left on the shelf?
Much like Eli Craig's tongue-in-cheek effort, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, The Cabin in the Woods is far-from a typical horror film. The trailers for the movie spoil one of the most intriguing elements - which not only differentiates the project from regular slasher films, but also gives the writers and cast an opportunity to poke fun at the cliches of the genre without entirely undermining the scares.
In an effort to prevent spoiling the film for others, I'm not going to directly discuss the "twist" or where the filmmakers take the especially ambitious premise; however, I will say that, for readers who are already interested in checking out the film, it's unlikely that the experience is going to disappoint. The Cabin in the Woods is hardly the most serious, or smartest, horror film audiences will have seen in a while - there are plenty of eye-roll-inducing dialogue moments and the over-arching setup might be hard for some moviegoers to accept - but, for anyone that's ready for an entertaining (albeit over-the-top) horror movie, avoid the film's spoiler-filled trailer and head to your favorite cineplex knowing as little as possible.
On the surface level, the story follows five friends Curt (Chris Hemsworth), Holden (Jesse Williams), Jules (Anna Hutchison), Marty (Fran Kranz) and Dana (Kristen Connolly) as they journey up to an isolated cabin for a weekend of drinking, swimming, truth or dare, and other scandalous behavior typically associated with college student getaways. A pre-trip meet up spells out the group dynamics: Dana is the good girl, Curt and Jules play-against stereotype as a hot blond and jock couple that in addition to good looks are also accomplished students, Holden is Curt's bookish but still charming friend, and Marty is the group's lovable pot-smoker.
Once on the road, the group encounter an ill-tempered gas pump attendant that, despite his disdain for the college kids, warns the group about their destination - asserting that visitors regularly disappear up in the woods. Dismissing the warnings, the group reach the cabin where, that's right, things quickly devolve into bloody mayhem.
While many of the proceeding events center around good girl Dana, all of the friends are utilized in interesting ways - especially as the film toys more and more with genre stereotypes. As mentioned, these aren't the dumb college kids audiences normally see in slasher-type films - and, while the plot can be somewhat convenient at times, there are plenty of interesting twists that arise out of having characters that, despite their basic caricature origins, defy expectation by making different (and, subsequently, more interesting) decisions. Given the difficult task of both embracing and rejecting these horror stereotypes, the cast (which, at the time, included a lot of untested talent) does a surprising job with the more serious moments - coupled with plenty of humorous nods to the audience.
That said, The Cabin in the Woods isn't just different because it includes smarter versions of typical horror archetypes, the over-arching premise of the film is a game-changer, splitting open the genre format more and more as the film progresses - resulting in a final act that offers some truly enjoyable reveals. Where other filmmakers might attempt to setup the project as the first in a multi-installment franchise, Whedon and Goddard hold nothing back - peeling layer after layer away until they show audiences all that there is to see in The Cabin in the Woods universe. Nearly every recurring piece of mythology, horror, or comedy eventually comes full circle - offering a solid pay-off for moviegoers who can lock into the film's wild (or absurd), but still satisfying, setup.
While the movie has a lot going for it in the way of an intriguing twist, the "horror" in The Cabin in the Woods might be underwhelming for some die-hards in the genre. There are plenty of tense moments, but many of the surface-level scares will be familiar (and easily anticipated) by a good portion of the audience. This might initially come across as lazy set-piece planning, but as the story plays-out, it's clear these were intentional choices by Goddard and Whedon - which works to the success (and logic) of the overarching plot.
Ultimately, The Cabin in the Woods is a surprisingly entertaining effort that works because it strikes a smart balance - embracing, as well as rejecting, the viewer's expectations and knowledge of the horror genre. The set-up is executed with a tongue-in-cheek attitude but presented with a straight face that could be off-putting for viewers who are expecting a straightforward slasher film or a "gritty" and serious scare-fest (such as The Descent or Hostel). However, the final product succeeds in paying homage to the movies that inspired it, poking fun at the often static state of the horror genre, all while simultaneously delivering a few fresh surprises. Anyone willing to suspend a bit of disbelief and not get too bogged down in the film's logic will likely be ready for an entertaining and worthwhile experience. For many, this trip to The Cabin in the Woods will have definitely been worth the wait.
If you've seen the movie and want to discuss details about the film without worrying about spoiling it for those who haven't seen it, please head over to our The Cabin in the Woods Spoilers Discussion!
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The Cabin in the Woods is Rated R for strong bloody horror violence and gore, language, drug use and some sexuality/nudity.


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December a great time for stripers
Jason Jadach, proprietor of Bobby J's Bait & Tackle in Milford, says December is his favorite part of the fishing season.
"You know exactly where the fish are," he says, "no guesswork is needed."
The fish Jadach is talking about are striped bass, mostly shorts below the 28-inch minimum, but a few keepers mixed in. As December opened, the bass were right on schedule. They had left the open Sound and were moving steadily up the river.
In the Housatonic, they were swarming off Caswell's Cove last week. Mild days allowed anglers to cast 9-inch Slug-Gos and plastic shad to take them by the dozen. Others chucked big Rebels, and Yo-Zuri Mag Darters got some keepers at Sullivan's Island in Derby.
From another vantage point, an email brought a few reflections on the overall 2012 fishing season last week.
Bob Brezosky, who fishes out of the Miamogue Yacht Club, says that while he did not get to do as much fishing as usual this year, when he did, "for the most part it stunk."
One good day, he said, was the mid-summer Interclub Bluefish Tournament. Bob and his boat mates cruised to Branford to catch some large choppers. A recent blackfish fishing trip to the Branford wreck, Townsend's Ledge, the New Haven wall, and Middleground yielded not a single bite in five hours of fishing.
Based on his observation of his fellow members of the Miamogue Yacht Club in Bridgeport, Brezosky rated the flounder fishing poor, although maybe a little better than in recent years. Fluke fishing was fair to middling with more fish on this side of the Sound (for a change), but it required fishing through 20 shorts for each keeper.
Porgy fishing was fantastic this season, says Brezosky. "I never saw so many big fish," he said. "We have a couple on the board over 3 pounds." Blackfishing, too, was great. "The guys limited out every time I saw them," he said. One fish weighed in at well over 14 pounds.
Brezosky, who does not mince words, describes the 2012 bluefish fishing "putrid: very spotty in the local harbors and practically non-existent in 60-80 ft. Many anglers got skunked in the club tournaments."
As for the stripers, Brezosky says it was an OK season, but certainly not gangbusters. One Miamogue member took "five or six" trophy bass fishing in Bridgeport Harbor off Seaside Park. Other anglers who keep boats in Clinton got "fish in the 35- to 45-pound range, mostly before dawn."
Ever the optimist, Brezosky says he'll be heading to local harbors soon to start fishing for herring, which he pickles and jars up for later consumption. (It's an acquired taste.)
The striped bass picture became cleared when Jim Micinilio weighed in with his assessment. As of a couple of weeks ago, Jim and brother Mike had caught and released (bravo!) about 1,400 stripers, including 175 keepers.
"This will be the first year since 2008 we'll be below 3000 stripers for the year," Jim says. Their worst year was 2005, Jim says, when the catch was 553 bass and only 18 keepers.
"The keepers we did get this year were nice, a lot of fish in the high teens and 20s, one 30-pounder."
The top fish was a 43-pound lady. Jim credits the early surge of bunker for the good bass fishing.
The difficulty in picking up smaller bass on tube and worm rigs in the late spring, summer and fall causes Jim to worry about the future, when there's less schoolies to grow into big bass. Jim says most of the bass fishermen he knows release their fish, but that's not the case for the meat fisherman or the charter boats. He would like to see a slot limit for bass similar to what they have in the South for red drum. There you can only keep a 24- to 28-inch fish, but all the large breeders are released.
The bass fishing has not tapered off. The Micinilios got 105, all shorts, on a recent trip.


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Robotics Industry News
National Robotics Week: Intelligrated Hosts Local Students at St. Louis Robotics Lab
Honeywell Intelligrated Posted 04/15/2014Educational demonstrations and facility tours build interest in robotics engineering
(ST. LOUIS) - Intelligrated®, a leading North American-based automated material handling solutions provider, celebrates National Robotics Week, April 5-13, with a series of educational events at its St. Louis facility to build interest in robotics engineering careers.
Intelligrated hosted students from the Jefferson College robotics program on Wednesday. The company plans to welcome additional robotics student groups and alumni from Washington University in St. Louis and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville on Friday. Local elementary school students from the Rockwood school district will visit in May.
Established by Congress in 2010 to raise awareness about robots and their important role in shaping the future of education, industry and the U.S. economy, National Robotics Week brings together students, educators and influencers who share a passion for robots and technology. The event recognizes robotics technology as a pillar of 21st century American innovation and seeks to inspire students of all ages to pursue careers in robotics or other science, technology, engineering or math-related fields.
Intelligrated's National Robotics Week events feature presentations from company engineers, followed by tours of the company's manufacturing facility and 5,050-square-foot Alvey® robotics lab. Opened in 2011, the lab hosts research and development efforts that focus on concepting and applying new robotic innovations, and offers students live demonstrations of robotics in action.
"Intelligrated has participated in National Robotics Week for three consecutive years," said Earl Wohlrab, robotic and palletizing systems product manager. "The demand for robotics engineers continues to grow, and we strongly support educational initiatives to inspire the next generation of innovators."


text: Thanks for the response and clarification, steve. -Ryan On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:35 PM, steve <steve at openmoko.com> wrote: > Very simply If at this point in the delivery of freerunner I have to > answer every posting about the next product, then > > the current product will not ship and the next will not ship. So I'm > trying to structure a public dialog on the future product, > > in the future. On the other hand, I could of course stop everything I am > doing on shipping freerunner and have nice long > > debates with everybody about what we should ship a year from now. Not > going to do it So, I wanted to explain to him, > > I'm not ignoring his questions and explain a bit of the marketing > background, basically personal stuff like what his > > experiences were and what my history was so we could communicate better. I > don't like to thump my chest > > in public so I thought it better to share with him in private. Sorry that > you took it the way you did. > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org [mailto: > community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] *On Behalf Of *Ryan Prior > *Sent:* Sunday, April 27, 2008 4:46 PM > *To:* List for Openmoko community discussion > *Subject:* Re: Engineering Driven vs. Community Driven (was Re: Ugliness) > > > > A synopsis: > > Lowell: "Let's make this project community-driven." > Steve: "Please talk to me about it privately." > > WTF? > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 2:48 PM, steve <steve at openmoko.com> wrote: > > Lowell, > > > > You can send me a personal mail and I will address your concerns. > > You are a valuable asset in the community and I value your opinion. > > Then you can feed that back to people, agreeing or disagreeing as you see > fit. > > > > I'd rather take this offline with you, since the main focus here and now > is how to get the product that > > is actually built into people's hands. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org [mailto: > community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] *On Behalf Of *Lowell Higley > *Sent:* Sunday, April 27, 2008 10:16 AM > *To:* List for Openmoko community discussion > *Subject:* Engineering Driven vs. Community Driven (was Re: Ugliness) > > > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Lowell Higley <higleylh at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Stroller <linux.luser at myrealbox.com> > wrote: > >So please don't be offended but saying "I don't like it and neither do my > friends" is totally irrelevant - come back when you've interviewed a hundred > different people and >they've scored the Freerunner (alongside several other > phones) in a range of 1 - 10 on size, colour, design attractiveness, > comfort-to-hold and so on. You need to establish >with each respondent why > they chose their last phone - was price a factor? features? You can probably > rule out everyone who got their phone "free" from their mobile >supplier, > because the Freerunner's market is those who are prepared to pay a premium > for the features they want in a phone. Now interview another 100 people, > those who >are prepared to pay a premium for the features they want in a > smart- or business-phone - do they find the Freerunner attractive or ugly? > Do they care? > > I'm not sure if I agree or disagree with you so I'll just dump my thoughts > and you decide.. > > I have spent the majority of my adult life in hi-tech, and much of that in > product marketing. My specialty has been taking "engineering driven" > projects and turning them into actual market driven products. I have come > into multi-million dollar projects and bet the engineering team a month's > salary that they would sell less than "x" products. Why? Because they had > NO clue what the customers wanted. They just built what THEY wanted. Each > time I made that bet, I won. No, I never collected the money but my point > was made. > > When I see a product I like and it doesn't seem to have "marketing polish" > I do a little informal research. I ask various people what they think. > These people aren't my friends. Ok, some of them are but not many. No, it > isn't a full focus group but I have learned over the years as a professional > marketer than I can get a pretty good idea of how a product would sell based > on the feedback I get from my little research projects. Just informal chats > with people on their likes and dislikes. There was a statement someone made > earlier about us techie types forcing complex phones with unwanted features > down people's throats. VERY true statement. Unfortunately, the FreeRunner > Consumer Edition will have to fight products like the iPhone head to head. > Consumers see the "bling" of the iPhone and have very high expectations, all > based on cosmetcis and the "wow" factor. To make matters even worse, if you > can't get the FCE (FreeRunner Consumer Edition) into the phone shops > (Orange, TMobile, etc.) it will never sell big numbers. In Europe I think > there is a better chance of that happening. In the US, the carriers LOVE > their closed, crippled phones. The deck is stacked against Openmoko ever > making inroads as a major Treo, Blackberry or iPhone alternative. Maybe > this niche market it perfect for them? > > To me, FreeRunner has the smell of being an engineering driven project. > Shawn has put a lot of effort in making it marketing driven but I don't see > the conclusive results. (Forgive me Shawn) I do acknowledge at this point > that we are NOT targeting consumers. That's ok. But if we all want this > product to REALLY succeed, we have to at some point. Who knows, perhaps > Shawn has a business case that involves just the niche market of hobbiests > and developers such as ourselves. At one point I asked on this list how the > design was derived. I received no response from the core team but did get a > heresay response that a company approached FIC to make a prototype, which > they did. That company then decided not to go forward, Shawn got a hold of > the prototype and Openmoko was born. If that story is true, I don't see any > overt marketing involved there on FIC's part. > > Marketing is much more than holding focus groups and creating sales copy. > There is competitive analysis, business cases, marketing requirements, > "negotiating" with engineering over the final product, schedule.. and the > list goes on. My point is, as I look at things and put the picture > together, I see no strong marketing presence in the FreeRunner. Where's the > MRD? Where's the focus group? Where's the business case? I'm not saying > this to throw dirt on the Openmoko project, just to point out that there is > a LOT of work involved on the part of marketing. Most of it we never see > and perhaps we shouldn't. > > Let's look at this another way.. I have spent most of my professional life > in Silicon Valley... Home of Apple, Netscape, Google, and Yahoo, Between > 1998 and 2001, I received invites almost weekly to interview with some new > startup. Sometimes I would accept and go talk to them. In two years, I > probably interviewed with 15 companies. I would always insist on talking > with the Director of Engineering (or whatever his title was) prior to > talking offer, etc. I would always ask the same question. "Why do you want > to hire a Marketing Manager?" The first 14 companies responded with > something like "Because our venture funding says we have to." If I pressed > the issue it would come out that they thought they had the best product and > technology and it would sell itself. No marketing required. Silicon Valley > is littered with the remains of companies like that. We won't talk about > company 15 because I did go work for them and the did pretty well. :) > > My last statement. Openmoko and FreeRunner is REALLY cool stuff.... but > it's not going to sell itself. Ok, I'm late to my LUG meeting. I'll get off > my soapbox now. > > Lowell > > > > So I woke this morning thinking about this.. Yes, I am a sick man. First, > I realized I made a mistake.. I spelled Sean's name wrong. Oops. My > apologies. > > Second, I was thinking about "engineering driven" vs. "community driven". > My impressions thus far is that Openmoko is engineering driven. That is a > bunch of techie types sitting around and deciding what the product should > be. The decisions usually made in an engineering vacuum. Openmoko is an > open project. So a lot of the traditional aspects of defining, developing, > and releasing a product may not apply in the traditional sense. They should > still apply, but definitely in a much different aspect. I think sometimes > that is what I have troubles wrapping my mind around. It makes sense that > it would come across engineering driven as most people that are involved in > the community have a technical background. So for that epiphany, I > apologize for some of my earlier, possibly strongly worded statements. > > So I spent some time in the wiki and noticed the new main page was > implemented. Right on that page is an "Openmoko Roadmap" link which is > blank with the exception of the telephony piece which is also skimpy on > content. So I guess my thoughts transitioned to this morning was how does > the community take these traditional roles of defining product requirements, > creating a development specifications, schedule, etc. From that I had > several core questions rattling around in the back of my head. I've stated > a few of those questions below and referenced items that I found in the > wiki... > > 1) What is the ultimate goal of Openmoko? > > >From the wiki: > *Openmoko is an attempt to create the world's first completely open mobile > phone software stack.* > > Is this the ultimate goal? Dunno but it seems like an admirable goal.. > just a little short on details. Here's something else I found (keyword > search: goal) > > *The long term goal is that phone software won't be tied to any particular > phone. You can install any OpenMoko software over the whole range of phones, > and if you upgrade your phone, you don't lose the software. Bugs fixed on > one phone are fixed on all.* > > Again, admirable goal. But is this the overarching goal of Openmoko > project? I think the above statement is a little out of context but the > best I could find to answer my question. > > > 2) Is there commercialization plans for Openmoko products? That is, will > there be an attempt to put it in consumers' hands? > > >From the wiki: > > *OpenMoko, while being an open-source project, cannot flourish and become > a major milestone in human history without advanced commercialization > planning. Without an attractive market potential there will be little > interest for companies to invest resources (funding, production capacity, > ISV community) to make OpenMoko a true advanced mobile computing platform. > This section is devoted to the discussion of business-related applications > of OpenMoko for the purpose of attracting more resources into the > development of OpenMoko.* > > [edit<http://wiki.openmoko.org/index.php?title=Business_Development&action=edit§ion=1> > ] > > The way I read this is we (the community as well as Openmoko, Inc) want to > get this device into consumer hands. We have a lot to do to get there and > very little time to do it. Time to market is crucial and I think we've > already missed the best window. > > > 3) Is there a roadmap? > > As discussed above, there is a prominent Roadmap link from the new wiki > main page. In fact, it is the second link of the first contrasted table (the > dark colored ones). But you drill down and pretty much everything is > blank. The Telephony team put some good tidbits in there but the details > (schedule, for example) are still missing. > > > 4) Who defines the roadmap and how? > > I really couldn't find much in the wiki about this. It looks like the > limited roadmap I did find was created by the Openmoko, Inc. team, probably > with input from the community. Are the wish lists that are contained in > the wiki how we get our requirements to the Openmoko team for inclusion into > the product/roadmap? > > > Well, I think I beat the horse a little too much. My personal thought is > the community needs to take some responsibility and initiative to do some of > these things a typical corporate marketing team would do. I think a lot of > us, myself included, thought that the Openmoko, Inc guys were taking care > most of these tasks. Maybe they are but if we really want this to be a > community driven project and our ultimate goal is to get this product to > consumers, we need to step up to the plate. We need to do focus groups, > competitive analysis, requirements definition, etc. I think this would be a > lot more productive than people like myself stating "no one is going to buy, > it's ugly." Let's organize, gather the needed information and let's get > this product to the consumers. I'm tired of sounding whiny and putting > forth no solutions. Let's truly make this community driven. > > If I am stepping on someone's toes, please let me know. Tell me to sit > down and shut up and I will. I am willing to help anyway I can. I'd love > to hear other people's thoughts. Ok, I'm off to Europe for the week so I > need to do some laundry/packing. 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Pictured: Laurent Rivard had a game-high 21 points in just 20 minutes minutes as Harvard raced past Fordham on Wednesday night.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard men's basketball team made 15 three-pointers en route to an 80-57 victory over Fordham in a non-conference matchup Wednesday evening at Lavietes Pavilion. The 15 treys on only 27 shots (56 percent) mark the most for the Crimson since Harvard made 17-of-42 attempts against Rice Dec. 10, 2002.
The win improves Harvard's record to 5-1 on the season, while the Rams drop to 2-4.
Laurent Rivard posted the best game of his rookie season, shooting 5-of-8 from three-point land and 6-of-11 overall for 21 points in just 20 minutes. Christian Webster added 18 points and four rebounds, while Kyle Casey hit three triples while collecting six rebounds and scoring 13 in his strongest performance of the year in 17 minutes. Brandyn Curry handed out nine assists, while Oliver McNally had seven dimes.
In what has become a common occurrence, Keith Wright carried
Harvard's offense early, as he netted the team's first six points
on two layups and a dunk, putting the Crimson up 6-4 after the
first three minutes. Following a 6-0 run by the Rams to give them a
10-6 advantage, McNally and Andrew Van Nest
drained back-to-back threes to put Harvard back on top, 12-10, at
the first media timeout. Wright finished the game with 10
points in the balanced attack.
Casey also got into a groove offensively in the first half, as he threw down a dunk and then buried a trey from the top of the key to put Harvard up 17-15 just before the second media timeout with 11:52 to play in the first half. The Crimson continued to attack the basket midway through the frame, going on a 10-0 run to pull ahead, 24-15, with nine minutes to play. McNally handed out two of his six assists in the half during the scoring run, which was capped by a layup from under the right side of the basket by Wright.
The Crimson, which led by as much as 16 in the half, shot 45 percent from the floor and was 6-of-13 from three-point land (46 percent) to take a 42-29 lead into the intermission. Harvard also made all six of its free throws in the period and was led offensively by Casey, who had 10 points at the break. The Crimson capitalized on Fordham turnovers in the half, scoring 13 points on miscues by the Rams in the first 20 periods.
Fordham opened up the second half with consecutive layups by Chris Gaston and Kervin Bristol to help the Rams pull within eight, 46-38, with 17:02 to play. The Crimson, though, used long-distance shots to keep Fordham at bay, as Webster drained a trey from beyond the arc to give Harvard a 14-point edge with 13:55 remaining. Harvard continued to work the ball from deep, as Rivard hit two threes and Casey and Van Nest made a trey apiece, as the Crimson connected on four consecutive triples in grabbing a 24-point advantage, 66-42. Over that time span, Harvard went on a 24-6 run to put the game away.
In its best all-around performance of the season, the Crimson
committed only nine turnovers in the game and was an impressive
9-o-11 (82 percent) from the line, while Harvard had 21 assists on
28 field goals.
Gaston (14 points and 10 rebounds) and Butler (11 points) paced Fordham's offense.
Up next, Harvard will travel to Ann Arbor, Mich., to face Michigan Saturday, Dec. 4 at 1 p.m.