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MLB Notebook: Stanton powering surprising Marlins
When Hack Wilson drove in an astounding 191 runs in 1930, the Cubs outfielder averaged about 1.23 RBIs per game played. But that year, Wilson didn't get off to an extraordinary start (at least in terms of piling up the RBIs). By the conclusion of his team's 35th game, Wilson had driven in 36 -- good enough for second most in the National League at that point, behind Chuck Klein's 39. By the end of July, Klein was still ahead of Wilson, 116 to 104.
And then August happened. In 30 games that month, Wilson posted a 1.284 OPS, knocked out 13 homers and drove in 53 runs to turn that 12-RBI deficit from a month earlier into a 16-RBI advantage.
When Hack Wilson drove in an astounding 191 runs in 1930, the Cubs outfielder averaged about 1.23 RBIs per game played. But that year, Wilson didn't get off to an extraordinary start (at least in terms of piling up the RBIs). By the conclusion of his team's 35th game, Wilson had driven in 36 -- good enough for second most in the National League at that point, behind Chuck Klein's 39. By the end of July, Klein was still ahead of Wilson, 116 to 104.
And then August happened. In 30 games that month, Wilson posted a 1.284 OPS, knocked out 13 homers and drove in 53 runs to turn that 12-RBI deficit from a month earlier into a 16-RBI advantage.
These are the kinds of stories that are fun to ponder in light of Giancarlo Stanton's superb -- if not historic -- start to the 2014 campaign.
Giancarlo off to torrid start
After enjoying a homestand in which they won eight of nine, the Marlins continued their recent success Thursday with an uncommon road win, defeating the Padres, 3-1.
With the victory, Miami improved to 3-10 on the road this season. The difference in this latest victory came from a two-run home run from Stanton in the 11th inning, giving the No. 3 hitter an NL-leading 40 RBIs and a league-leading 11 homers. The 40 RBIs through 35 team games are the most in Marlins franchise history, with Stanton's total surpassing Moises Alou's mark of 34 in 1997.
Stanton is the fifth player in the past 10 seasons to have at least 40 RBIs through his team's first 35 games. Evan Longoria had 45 in 2009, Josh Hamilton collected 44 in '12, Albert Pujols tallied 43 in '06, and Miguel Cabrera had 40 last season. None of these four players finished the year with the most RBIs in his league.
Stanton's 11 home runs through 35 team games rank as the fifth highest in Marlins history. Cliff Floyd set the mark with 13 in 2001.
Indians break out the heavy lumber
The Indians collected nine extra-base hits in a 9-4 victory against the Twins, with left fielder Michael Brantley contributing a double and a homer in a three-hit day.
Cleveland had three players -- Mike Aviles, Asdrubal Cabrera and David Murphy -- each collect two doubles. Since 1914, this game marked the eighth time the team has done this, with the most recent previous occurrence having taken place in a 14-2 win over the Cardinals on July 6, 2001. In that game -- one that also saw Jim Thome hit three homers -- Einar Diaz, Juan Gonzalez and Wil Cordero each produced a pair of two-base hits. In the past 101 seasons, the Tribe has never had more than three players accomplish the feat in a game.
Both Brantley and Cabrera fell a triple shy of the cycle -- the first time since 2009 the Indians have experienced two players doing that in the same game. In '09, they had two such games within the first 28 contests of the season (April 18 against the Yankees and May 6 against the Red Sox).
Astros cut down on whiffs to beat Tigers
Houston snapped Detroit's eight-game winning streak, defeating the Tigers 6-2. In this game, Astros batters fanned only three times, matching the second-lowest total the team has posted since moving to the American League for the 2013 season.
Last year, the Astros and Tigers faced each other seven times, and in those seven games, Houston's offense totaled 76 strikeouts. Since 1914, the Tigers-Astros matchup in 2013 produced the 38th-highest strikeout rate per nine innings (with a minimum of seven games).
The highest mark came from Cubs pitchers against D-backs hitters in 2010, when Chicago's hurlers averaged 11.57 strikeouts per nine in seven games. The high mark for any AL matchup came last year, when Detroit's staff averaged 11.42 K's per nine against the Mariners.
Road warriors
The Orioles defeated the Rays, 3-1, in St. Petersburg to complete a three-game sweep and improve to 11-8 on the road. The O's .579 road winning percentage is the sixth highest in the Majors, and among all AL teams when they are on the road, the club is first in batting average, second in slugging percentage and second in OPS, at .772.
Since moving to Baltimore for the 1954 season, the club's highest OPS on the road for a full season belongs to the 1996 team, which posted an .846 mark away from home. That .846 mark is the fourth highest for any team since 1954, with the '94 Yankees (.866), '96 Mariners (.852) and '99 Yankees (.847) the only teams with higher rates.
Another wrinkle in Dodgers-Giants rivalry
In a no-decision, the Giants' Ryan Vogelsong finished his start with 7 1/3 innings of one-run ball, and San Francisco eventually came away with a 10-inning, 3-1 victory over the Dodgers.
Vogelsong has made three starts against the Dodgers this season, and while he has not picked up a victory in any of the games, his team has won all of them. Since both teams swapped coasts for the 1958 season, the high mark for this sort of thing (within the Giants-Dodgers rivalry, the most team wins in an individual pitcher's starts) belongs to three hurlers on each side, with all six claiming five such games in one season.
For the Giants, Mike McCormick (1960), Juan Marichal ('69) and Mike Krukow ('86) each claimed the five, while for the Dodgers, the five in one season belong to Don Drysdale ('59), Burt Hooton ('78) and Clayton Kershaw (2011). Among these six, only Marichal and Kershaw recorded individual wins in all five of the team wins.
Here and there
• In Toronto's 12-6 victory over Philadelphia, Jose Bautista (1-for-4) extended his streak of reaching safely to 35 games. Since 1985, Bautista's run is tied for the 11th longest to open a season, and it is tied for the fourth-longest streak in a season in franchise history. Bautista is three shy of matching the record of 38 set by Carlos Delgado from July 31-Sept. 11, 1998.
• Making his second appearance of the 2014 season, Mariners right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma allowed four singles in eight shutout innings, fanned seven with no walks, and Seattle defeated Kansas City, 1-0. Among the 100 pitchers with at least 30 combined starts since the beginning last year, Iwakuma's 0.990 WHIP is the fourth lowest. The three men with the lower marks: Kershaw (0.925), Jose Fernandez (0.962) and Max Scherzer (0.968).
• Facing a Rockies offense that had produced a .377/.407/.627 line and had averaged more than eight runs per game over its previous seven contests, Matt Harrison (5 1/3 innings, three hits) and four Rangers relievers combined on a five-hit shutout, and Texas came away with a 5-0 win. The Rangers lead the Majors with seven team shutouts, with those seven through 35 games representing the most in franchise history. The seven through 35 games for Texas in 2014 also stands as the most at this point for any AL team since the 1989 Angels also had seven.
Roger Schlueter is senior researcher for MLB Productions.


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The Crimson splits up for five regattas week 2 (photo courtesy Athletic Communications).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard sailing teams will split up for five regattas this weekend, as the women compete at the 18th Mrs. Hurst Bowl at Dartmouth and the Regis Bowl at Boston University, while the coeds sail in the Nevin's Trophy at King's Point and the Hatch Brown Trophy at MIT. The Crimson will also sail at the Boston Harbor Invitational hosted by Boston College and the BU Invitational hosted by the Terriers.
Fans can follow results from each of the regattas live, here.
Follow Harvard Athletics on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to stay connected with all the breaking news from around Cambridge and to get inside access to your favorite Crimson programs.
Last Time on the Water
On its first weekend of racing this autumn, Harvard turned in a trio of top-five performances in four regattas. The Crimson claimed its first victory of the season at the Harvard Invitational, took second at the 39th Harry Anderson Trophy and placed fifth at the Lark Invitational. The women finished seventh at the Toni Deutsch Trophy.
Related Link: Sailing Nets Three Top-Five Finishes Opening Weekend
About the Hatch Brown Trophy
At the Hatch Brown Trophy, 17 teams, including 10 ranked squads, will take the water. The intersectional, three division, coed regatta, hosted by BU at MIT, will be raced in FJ's and Fireflies with the three divisions switching between the classes. Last season, Harvard placed 10th overall.
About the 64th Nevins Trophy
The Nevins Trophy, at the US Merchant Marine Academy at King's Point, features a field of 20 teams that includes 14 in the top-20. The three-division, intersectional event has the A division and B division rotating between FJs and 420s, while the C division will sail Laser Full Rigs. The Crimson finished 11th in the B and C divisions last season, to lead the team to a 14th-place finish.
About the 18th Mrs. Hurst Bowl
The 18th Mrs. Bowl marks the first ever two-fleet regatta on Mascoma Lake. Sixteen teams will clash on the water in Hanover, N.H., at the two-division, intersectional event. All divisions will compete in 420s. A year ago, Harvard tallied 277 team points, good for 13th place and finished ahead of local opponents Boston University and Northeastern.
About the Invites
Nine teams will compete on the Charles River at the BU Invitational. The Invite is a two-division, in-conference event with all divisions racing in FJs.
The Boston Harbor Invite, hosted by Boston College, will see a number of top-ranked teams competing in an in-conference regatta sailing FJs.
Moving Up
After a weekend of three top-five finishes, Harvard's coed sailing team has moved up to No. 10 in the SailingWorld.com rankings, presented by Sperry Top-Sider. The Crimson was initially ranked 16th in the national preseason poll. Harvard is one-of-four Ivy League schools to make the list, trailing No. 1 Yale, No. 5 Dartmouth and No. 6 Brown.
Related Link: Sailing World's College Rankings
To Be the Best, You Have to Beat the Best
This weekend the Crimson coeds will face 16 of the top-20 ranked schools on the water including top-seeded Yale at the Hatch Brown Trophy, the 64th Nevins Trophy and the Boston Harbor Invitational. Seven of the women's weekend opponents are currently ranked in SailingWorld.com's poll including No. 1 Boston College, No. 2 Dartmouth and No. 3 Yale.
Boats will take the water Saturday morning with south winds blowing 5 to 10 knots, which will increase to 10 to 15 knots, with gusts up to 20 knots in the afternoon. Sailors will face similar conditions Sunday, with a south breeze blowing 10 to 15 knots, however, showers are likely.
Coming Up
Next weekend the NEISA men's singlehanded champion will be crowed at Yale. The Crimson coeds will compete at the 31st Hood Trophy Sept. 28-29 while the women take the water at the Regis Bowl.

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I would never have believed that my first snow of Winter 2008 would be experienced in Dublin. The locals don't believe it either. "It never snows here in October," was the refrain heard again and again. "We don't usually get any snow until January."
Palms trees the Irish call cordelines are a part of many landscapes, so I do believe that. But ice and snow snarled traffic and caused accidents early today.
A yummy carrot and coriander soup warmed us up at Malehide Castle, the ancestral home of the Talbot family since 1167. Rose Talbot lived there and joined tours until the mid70s, when she could no longer afford the upkeep.She's now in her 90s and living in Tasmania. The basement lunchroom where we ate had antlers and a turtle's head mounted on the wall. I can't imagine making a trophy of a sea turtle but it probably was used for another soup.
For dessert petite chef Mary Byrne brought us an apple tart still warm from the oven along with a raspberry roulade, that to me appeared related to the meringue pavlova I'd enjoyed in Australia. I'd always thought it was an Aussie original, not even thinking that prisoners brought from Ireland comprised much of Australia's early population - so OF COURSE there's a food connection.
Seaside villages en route to tonight's hotel in Drogheda are idyllic off the beaten track destinations for visitors. They're perhaps a half hour by train from Dublin with all the delights and lower prices on village life but still an easy daytrip to the considerable attractions of Dublin.
I'm showing you a seaside photo of the village of Skerries today, where a thatched roof bed and breakfast called O'Leary's caught my eye. Click on the photo to enlarge it and perhaps you can even see the seals that frolic on the rocks off the coast.
Many rock groups are native to these seaside towns and stars such as Bob Geldorf, Bono and U2 still keep homes here. Although today's weather is dreadful , the Irish Sea is beautiful and I can just imagine how nice it would be along here in summer. I'm told that at low tide one can walk out a mile and the water's only knee deep.


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A state probe into evidence that Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon misused taxpayer resources to campaign for his 2011 re-election is unlikely to move ahead until next year.
The state Public Disclosure Commission confirmed it was looking into Reardon's campaign practices in June, after a Washington State Patrol criminal investigation ended without charges. Then the state elections watchdog became inundated with more time-sensitive complaints related to the 2012 elections. That's left staff playing catch-up, and unable, so far, to address the Reardon matter.
"Since July, we've gotten 100 new complaints," commission spokeswoman Lori Anderson said last week.
Compounding the workload was the loss this fall of half of the commission's investigative staff. That leaves two people largely responsible for 28 open investigations, including the Reardon case. Six of the pending cases have higher priority, Anderson said, because the state is legally obligated to complete the investigations within 45 days or risks getting stuck with court costs.
The Reardon case revolves around public records showing that the executive campaigned using his county-issued cellphone and staff at times when official calendars suggested he was conducting county business. The Herald and The Seattle Times early this year reported on the documents' contents, which were released as part of the patrol investigation.
It's up to the commission's staff to decide whether to recommend civil charges against Reardon. If they do, the commission will schedule an enforcement hearing.
The PDC has the authority to levy civil fines. It may increase penalties for officials with previous run-ins over campaign issues. Reardon last year received a $750 fine from the PDC, with $500 of the amount suspended, for failing to report that outside groups paid for business trips in 2009.
While the state investigation remains on pause, Reardon faces a recall effort spearheaded by a Gold Bar political blogger who's also an attorney. A hearing is scheduled Dec. 5 in Skagit County Superior Court, where the case was moved to avoid potential conflicts of interest in Snohomish County.
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Beaumont among nation's worst areas for well-being
Beaumont has been named among the worst cities in the nation for well-being, according to a national survey just released.
The Gallup-Healthways study is based on phone calls to residents asking them to answer questions about the quality of life in their area.
Everything from financial security to work environments, physical and emotional health and access to healthy food are included in the questionnaire.
For the second year in a row, the Beaumont-Port Arthur area came among the lowest ranked places: 184 out of 189 metro areas.
Conversely Austin-Round Rock with its bike friendly, healthy eating and outdoor lifestyle came in at number 30, the highest spot for any Texas city.
Researchers argue that overall well-being of the population is key to national growth.
"Increased well-being is vital to improving the physical, emotional and financial health of Americans," said Dan Witters, research director of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index in a news release. "Communities that score high in well-being have achieved success in creating environments where people can live their best lives."
The news was met with consternation by some Beaumont residents who say people should go there and see for themselves what Southeast Texas is like.
"I really don't see anything negative," local resident Jean Davis told 12News. "I think it's a nice place to live and people that don't like it or disagree should come check it out."
Others said they fear nearby industry does have a negative impact on health.
"I got breast cancer after moving here and I work at a hospital," B. J. Scott said. "I see other patients with cancer and I think it might be environmentally related."
Gallup-Healthways say the study is not designed to criticize but to help shape communities and formulate policies to promote well-being.
"Policies that nudge people into healthy activities - where it's easy to walk to the store, bike to a friend's house, get access to fresh produce, and be surrounded by healthy-minded, supportive friends are ones that make healthy choice also the eay choice," said New York Times best selling author Dan Buettner.
Top of the list were Provo-Orem, Utah, which has the lowest self-reported smoking rate in the nation, and Boulder, Colo., the only city in the country with an obesity rate below the national target of 15 per cent.
Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown made it to number 60 while Texas overall came in with a similarly mediocre ranking of 21 out of 50 states.
The survey also painted a grim picture for young men, confirming what many mothers and girlfriends bemoan, that 18-29 year old males are the worst at taking care of themselves.
Blue collar young men earning under $36,000 were the most likely to be obese, smoke, not go to the doctor or dentist, not have health insurance at all and be disastified with their jobs.
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Computer Chompers has made a business out of making Apple products more expensive.
The company takes all sorts of electronics, from Nintendo game controllers to iPhones and Blackberries, strips them down, and plates them in 24-caret gold.
It then adds engravings and diamonds to the golden shells. Each device looks a little different for each customer.
Alex Wiley has been creating the computers for a few years now. Fortune recently interviewed him on some of the most expensive Apple products his team has sold (although he sells Microsoft, Nintendo and Rim products too, Apple products are most popular with his customers).
Wiley says he sold a $30,000 13-inch MacBook Pro (picture below). He's also created a $14,500 Rose Gold Plated iMac with a 24-inch screen, and a $20,000 platinum MacBook Pro with a customized, multi-color diamond logo.
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Outdoorsman necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 114 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
Gear Freak
I like shooting stuff. I am an avid hunter and outdoors man. Everything that I purchase to get out in the great outdoors seems to fall apart. I figured out that I should be building some of the gear I am using rather than paying a ton of money for something that fails the second time I use it. I wanted to give people an affordable option in hunting and outdoor gear and clothing. I want my products not to just last, but outlast everything. I want them to be the best, and more durable and reliable than anything else on the market. So the reason I started this company, and my first product line is because of an ATV bag I purchased. I spent $180 on it, and when I was putting it on my 4-wheeler, snaps were breaking on it. After the second trip, it was leaking water and the zipper broke. So that was my first project. After several prototypes, and testing, it is ready for mass manufacture. I have several more ideas on products, but I need to get this flagship product out there first, and get a name for myself that shows quality and cost effectiveness.
Outdoors people. People who hunt, fish, climb, camp, survive, take a stroll in the woods, whatever. I want to reach across the boundaries of house hold income as well. Typically, you have the people who make money, and spend a stupid amount for a Jacket because it is made by Sitka. (Hunting Clothing Company) When that same jacket made by North face is half the price. But Sitka makes it in camo, and they have done some serious marketing. Joe who makes decent income, but doesn't want to spend $300 on a hunting jacket, will go purchase the $75 jacket at his local sporting goods store, but it might fall short of what he needs. I want a product that entices both parties to purchase it. A good quality product, priced right for both the average Joe, and the guy who can purchase something three times the cost.
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2. I want it to look serious/ hard core. Not fluffy or bubbly.
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4. Antlers and Mountains are a bit overdone in this industry. Not saying that it is a absolute no, but my limited creative mind can't think of anything unique enough to incorporate it into a design. They are almost so overdone, that people don't take it seriously anymore.
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Here's the latest development in the Alabama-LSU teabagging affair. From tipster "Big Nic" comes this photo and accompanying [sic]'d message.
Yo. I was in Mobile yesterday for the senior bowl and saw this shirt. I asked the guy if he made it. He said they were selling them in the parking lot for $5. Then he asked, "You see the video!? We teebaged that mutha f!cker" Keep it classy Alabama.
The shirt also includes the final score and, colleague Tim informs me, a reference to the restaurant wherein the teabagging took place: "A Crimson Sackful."
This is just the final straw for me with you hick southerners and your backward ways. It's called a "crave case" and it's from White Castle, got it?


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The Old Timer of Royal Oak, Mich., was a regular contributor to H&P years before we ever even heard of the internet. But most of his advice is just as ueful — and interesting — today.
So rather than leave his wisdom printed on pages archived in our storage room, I pulled out issues from the late 1980s and early 1990s and reproduce relevant entries in this blog. Here is my fourth entry, which was originally published in the August 1987 issue:
Maintenance tip: don't forget square one
Even when an industry or company makes a concerted effort to standardize, it's more than likely that a large manufacturing facility will wind up with a variety of production machines from many OEMs. All these machines will include components from even more manufacturers. Add a three-shift operation with a large maintenance staff, and you can see how difficult it is for any individual to become familiar with all the elements on any piece of equipment. Finally, throw in the natural tendency to assume that the person who installed the equipment knew what he was doing, and you have all the ingredients to turn a simple error into a major puzzle.
In our plant, a pressure-compensated pump from a reputable manufacturer ran hot from the day it was first started—eventually raising the reservoir temperature and tripping a safety switch. The machine involved also seemed sluggish.
Someone decided to rebuild the pump, but bearings, rings, vanes, plates, and such all checked out OK and the pump still ran hot. The next step was to replace it and when the new pump didn't solve the problem and the shaft seal flew, we had to go back to square on.
With only four pump connections—inlet, outlet, gauge, and drain—what could be wrong? In fact, there wasn't even a gauge in the gauge port. It had been plugged because we used downstream gauge ports with quick-connect couplings in our plant. Let's take a look anyhow.
And there it was. The set-up man had interchanged the case drain and the gauge port. He plugged the case drain and the pump had been pushing about 3-gpm through the gauge port to tank whenever it ran. Because this port was part of the governor, it caused the pump to be sluggish on recovery. That one little line didn't stop the system but it sure caused some headaches.
To try to avoid this type of situation on other machines, we began to make copies of all instruction and service sheets for each machine and send them in protective plastic folders to the departments where hydraulic equipment to located. We believe the time spent doing this saved many maintenance hours on the production floor later on.


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Walmart: Obamacare Could Hurt Holiday Spending
Looks like the Affordable Care Act has another potential critic: Walmart (WMT).
The discount retail giant mentioned the ACA as a potential factor that will hurt consumer spending this holiday season on an analysts press call Thursday.
"While it is not coming through in customer research, we do know that some of our customers are concerned about the impact of the Affordable Care Act," Carol Schumacher, vice president of investor relations said, according to the Wall Street Journal. "For many of our customers, having to afford health care and insurance may be another line item in their personal budget that they may not have had to cover previously."
FOXBusiness.com reached out to Walmart for additional comment, but a spokesperson was not immediately available.
The retailer listed many reasons consumers might pull the purse strings tight this shopping season, and specifically pointed to the individual mandate requirement of the ACA as having the potential to weigh on consumers' budgets.
Come 2014 all Americans are mandated to have health insurance or they will face a fine of $95 per year or 1 percent of their annual salary, starting April for every three consecutive months they are not covered.
And while those making up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level, which comes to about $45,000 for individuals and $94,000 for a family of four, are qualified to receive subsidies, according to the Kaiser Foundation, others could be facing a hefty bill for the care they are now federally mandated to have. %VIRTUAL-article-sponsoredlinks%The Department of Health and Human Services estimates monthly health care costs for the average American will be about $328 for a mid-tier silver plan, before subsidies.
Sales projections for the 2013 holiday season have been less than jolly before Walmart's accusation. Last week, new figures from Gallup showed consumers plan to spend an average of $704 this year on gifts compared to $786 last year. Back in Septmeber, store traffic measurement firm ShopperTrak, predicted 2013 was supposed to be the weakest shopping since 2009. Retail sales for November and December, which is when the bulk of holiday shopping is done, were expected to rise 2.4 percent, less than the 3 percent increase in 2012 and the 4 percent increase in 2011 and 2010.
Chris Christopher, director of consumer economics at IHS, says potentially-higher insurance premium costs aren't the only reasons bringing down holiday sales projections this year. "It's clear consumers' mood and confidence took a hit in October due to the government shutdown; as did the bickering over the debt ceiling. Consumer sentiment fell a bit further in November as well. And related to the consumer mood, when they see the ACA site not operating very well, they think the government is not effective -- that is a big downer."
Peter Galvin, senior vice president of marketing for SOASTA, a company that performs cloud and mobile testing for brands, says consumers' lack of confidence in the government has shoppers preferring to shop online over brick-and-mortar shops.
"When you see uncertainty in the marketplace on the economic side of things, it gives consumers pause," Galvin says. "They believe they may be able to get better deals online or can control the amount of money they spend and save on gas."
Jack Kleinhenz, chief economist at the National Retail Federation, says overall economic uncertainty will have an impact on consumer spending this holiday season. Health-care for many is a necessity, and not just an optional expense, he says.
"There are so many uncertainties in the economy this year," Kleinhenz says. "To the effect of consumers receiving cancellation notices ... this is certainly politically a problem and health-care is likely to be more expensive. There are budget challenges for consumers. But at the same time, the economy has been performing."
Consumers may decide to rein in their spending this year in anticipating of higher health-care cost next year, Christopher says. "There are a lot of people who think costs will increase next year and they are worried about that. But that is not what is driving the overall decline in holiday sales. There just has been a loss of consumer confidence and momentum over the past few months."
Comparatively, sales were weak in 2012, so spending may appear to be better this year, Christopher says.
"Year over year, things may not look so bad. Last year's spending was above water, but it still wasn't a great holiday season -- we had Hurricane Sandy, the fiscal cliff crisis, and there was the school shooting [at Sandy Hook] in Connecticut that kept people out of the malls for a bit," he says. "So it may be possible that holiday sales will look stronger than last year, but only because last year was very weak."


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Release Date: 2011 |
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffThis record is growing on me with every listen. It's easily a high 4.5 right now.
If you notice any big typos or anything, tell me so I can fix them.
Album Rating: 4.0this really good?
Digging: Seizures - Reverie of the Revolving Diamond
fuck yes vesselssss
Album Rating: 4.5FUCKKKKKKKKKK YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Finally a review. I preordered it on double vinyl last night. Check with the boys on facebook and they said it'll be shipped in one to two weeks. I can't fucking wait. Not going to listen to it until I get my vinyl/cd. Until then I'll have White Fields on nonstop. Going to read review now.
Album Rating: 4.5Just read the review. AWESOME, dude. I've not yet heard it, but I'm quite sure that Meatman, Piano Tuner, Prostitute features a
guest vocal appearance by Stuart Warwick (Jacob's Stories).
Album Rating: 4.5Also a bit disappointed to hear that there are less vocals than there are on White Fields. I was really hoping it'd have the same amount, if not more, vocals.
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffIt might be just me that thinks it has less vocals. It's rather hard to tell. Overall there is this feeling of less vocal parts.
Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound OffAbsolutely stunning record. Vessels are probably my favourite UK band now that Oceansize have departed.
As Acorncheese has noted, Stuart Warwick is the man providing the Thom Yorke-ish beauty on Meatman. Stuart, and his previous act Jacob's Stories, is well worth checking out, he's a real fucking talent.
Album Rating: 4.0Album is excellent. Not quite as good as their first though.
Album Rating: 4.0Good review, pos'd
Love the vocal sound, actually I love pretty much all the sounds.
Album Rating: 4.5Yeah, this is definitely some of the best post-rock I've heard in a while.
can see me bumping this to a 4.5 in a couple of listens.
Album Rating: 4.0Excellent review, hope it gets featured to get this band more attention. Album is fantastic as expected. Band is so underrated. These guys are the most exciting act in post-rock in my opinion. Percussion on this album is awesome - if you haven't seen the vid of them playing 'Trap Them' check it out. Great teamwork on that song, though, in my opinion, 'Meatman...' is among the absolute best tracks of the year. If fans of the first album haven't picked up their S/T EP do it now. It's incredible too. Also fans of this, pick up Six Gallery's album.
Album Rating: 4.5vessels are awesome. need to hear this.
Album Rating: 4.0Why am I having such difficulties finding this album?
someone link me in my shoutbox please
buy it
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffDefinitely buy it. With the bonus tracks on iTunes, you get 17 songs for $9.99
Not a bad deal.
Album Rating: 4.5Yep...4.5
PS. spend the ten dollars, it's worth it.
Album Rating: 4.0So it IS on itunes. Wasnt showing up for me....
It might only be on UK itunes right now.
Album Rating: 4.5Nah..I'm in America..got it here.
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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- Uploading pictures counts towards your postcount.
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In the field title you enter the name of your picture, preferable what the picture portraits.
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#1 A Conservative Welcome from Hell*
- Join Date
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The things I like are History, games, and political debate(though I keep from that for reasons explained bellow).
Politically I'm sorta like a Conservative Liberatarian. I tend to avoid social issues, like abortion and Gay marriage, as I see them as little more than distractions from the real fight. Though that doesn't mean that I avoid moral issues! I dispise the welfare system and the economic regulation(slavery) that is forced down our throats by a massive statist government.
One thing ya'll are probably going to ride on me is that I don't really think that Obama is a socialist, he gives lip service to it(obviously), but I don't believe he truely believes it in his bones. I'll be damned what his ideology is, though.
Over all I think the United States has followed a more merchantilistic tract. It is incredibly easy to mix the two. Both Socialism and merchantilism share two core concepts: That wealth is fixed and it can not be created and that the economy must bow to the wishes of the state. The latter is the key though. If wealth is fixed an can not be created, then the rich is obviously the the most evil group in existance because the obviously stole that wealth from someone else(total nonsense of course). Ideologically they're rather different, in practice they're almost identical. I believe that neo-merchantilists are hiding behind socialism to carry out their skewed aims.
This is probably complete BS, and I'm sorry you had to read it all, but that is what you get for not being able to speak out loud your political views for 6 months.
Also I live in dayton Job Corps, please don't hold that against me
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Liberals are not stupid, they are deluded. Liberals must've had done something intelligent to get themselve ingrained into our society.
I do not hate Liberals, I pitty them.
Very wordy, but welcome to the CU!..and tell me the truth is merchantilism really a word! ?
BTW the lord 0 is worse than a socialist he is a antiamericanist! < I made up that word!
:Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
I wondered why the rock was getting larger. Then it hit me.
Welcome to CU.
Keep that ya'll stuff to yourself willya.Be Not Afraid.
Welcome. Where are ya'll from? Hope you enjoy the board.
" To the world you are just one more person, but to a rescued pet, you are the world."
"A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!"
Flyover country are fighting words, Yankee. For your information, St Louis was a divided area during the Civil War, half Southern, half yankee. So we can speak Southern without being fake. So there.
" To the world you are just one more person, but to a rescued pet, you are the world."
"A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!"
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Mercantilism really is a word, although you have to be somewhat of a history student to know the word. It was a theory used around the time the U.S. was formed. I remember reading about it in "Patriot's History..." but the details are fuzzy. I distinctly remember their theory of limited wealth, though.
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WCVB Address, Directions
WCVB-TV is located in Needham, Mass., convenient to Route 128 (I-95) and the Massachusetts Turnpike.
The station's address is: WCVB-TV 5 TV Place Needham, Massachusetts 02494
The station's main telephone number is: 1-781-449-0400
DIRECTIONS: WCVB is located directly off Interstate 95 (Rte. 128), at Exit 19B, the Needham-Highland Ave. exit.
FROM THE NORTH: Take I-95, Route 3 or I-93 south until it merges with I-95 south (Route 128). Get off at the 19B exit. Exit onto Highland Avenue and take your first right at the first traffic light at Gould Street. Pass car dealership on the right (Muzi Ford) and turn right into WCVB driveway at the "5" sign. Park in the parking lot near the satellite dishes and follow the signs lobby.
FROM THE EAST: Take Interstate 90 (Massachusetts Turnpike) west to I-95 South (Cape Cod exit). Get on I-95 south and exit at 19B. Follow directions above.
FROM THE SOUTH: Take I-95 north, Route 24 north, or Route 3 north to I-95 (Route 128) north. Go toward Dedham. Take exit 19B. Follow directions above.
FROM THE WEST: Take I-90, the Massachusetts Turnpike, east to I-95 south. Go south on I-95 and exit at 19B. Follow directions above.
Since its on-air debut on March 19, 1972, WCVB-TV -- today a division of Hearst Television Inc. -- has attracted more viewers than any other area station to its comprehensive and insightful news, thorough coverage of special events, thought-provoking original programming, and its broad range of entertainment offerings.
No station in America has been honored with so many of broadcasting's top awards.
WCVB prides itself on being on the cutting edge of new technology.
The station was among the first in the country to have a presence on the Internet and, in 1996, WCVB became the first local station to report more than 1 million Web site hits in a single week. WCVB.com, WCVB-TV's fully-staffed digital newsroom, currently maintains a comprehensive and sophisticated website and mobile news apps.
Located in Needham, Mass., Channel 5 also has the region's most sophisticated weather technology, New England's first HDTV channel, highly advanced digital newsgathering trucks and a new state-of-the-art newsroom -- features that solidify WCVB's position as the station with "Coverage You Can Count On."
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5 Boys Vintage Gold
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In the Winter of 2008, a young man walked into the Democratic Republic of Congo. Five escaped child-soldiers told him that boys, too small to carry a gun, were being sent to the front lines, armed with only a whistle. Since that day, a coalition of young and old, rich and poor, have fought - side by side - toward a dream most would call impossible. PEACE in CONGO Make their weapon YOUR voice
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Geale crushed by Golovkin in New York
Gennady Golovkin shattered Daniel Geale's world-title dreams and now the Kazakh power puncher has his sights set on another Australian.
After knocking Geale down to the Madison Square Garden canvas twice on Saturday to claim a third round technical knockout victory, Golovkin called out Melbourne's Sam Soliman.
Soliman holds the International Boxing Federation middleweight belt.
Golovkin, who defended his World Boxing Association and International Boxing Organisation titles against Geale, is focused on claiming every belt in the division.
The Golovkin-Soliman fight could be held at Madison Square Garden in October or November.
"Just as Geale fought him here, Sam would come and fight him here," Golovkin's promoter, Tom Loeffler, said.
Golovkin also wants World Boxing Council champion Miguel Cotto.
The biggest bout would be super middleweight Julio Jesus Chavez Jr, but the Mexican has declined previous opportunities to fight Golovkin.
In the lead-up to the Golovkin-Geale fight the question was whether the Tasmanian could be elusive enough to avoid the Kazakh's power shots and last 12 rounds.
A timing error, an errant camera man and an accidental head-butt all worked against Geale.
The first round was four minutes long, instead of three minutes.
Also in the first round a camera man had the strap of his camera on the canvas and Geale, attempting to avoid Golovkin, got his feet tangled and fell heavily.
Then late in the round, when it should have been over, the head-butt opened a cut above Geale's right eye.
"A tough day at the office, hey?" Geale joked.
Despite the bad luck, Geale did not blame any of the incidents on his performance.
He was overpowered by a fighter who has the highest knockout percentage of any current champion and the highest of any middleweight in history.
Geale was Golovkin's 16th straight knockout scalp.
In the second round Golovkin stalked Geale and a right hand came down on the top of Geale's head and knocked him to the canvas.
In the third round Geale blasted Golovkin with a right hand, but the Kazakh instantaneously fired off a right that floored Geale and ended the fight.
"He has immense power and caught me with a great shot," Geale said.
The Australian said as he got up he was shaking his head because he was disappointed he let Golovkin hit him, but referee Mike Ortega stopped the fight and gave Golovkin the technical knockout win.
Again, Geale did not criticise the referee.
"I thought the referee was going to speak to me and ask me if I was OK," he said.
Geale said he would continue his boxing career and hoped one day he would get another shot at Golovkin.
The Geale bout begins a month of world-title fights in the US for Australians with Melbourne's Blake Caparello challenging Sergey Kovalev for the WBO light heavyweight belt in Atlantic City on August 2.
A week later Queenslander Jarrod Fletcher seeks the vacant WBA middleweight belt (Golovkin has the WBA's Super Champion belt) against Daniel Jacobs in Brooklyn and Sakio Bika defends his WBC super middleweight title against Anthony Dirrell on August 16 in Los Angeles after they battled for a draw last December.
Golovkin's professional record moves to 30 wins (27 knockouts) Geale's record drops to 30 wins (KO 16) and three losses.
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Heinlein, Hancock to join Hall of Famous Missourians
Citizen selection effort helps add 4 new names
A physician credited as the father of osteopathic medicine and a noted science fiction writer have won induction into the state Capitol's Hall of Famous Missourians. Joining them as the newest inductees are a suffragist and the catalyst of a citizens' initiative that limited state revenues and local taxes.
The hall is a collection of bronze busts that generally has honored people chosen by the House speaker. However, half the new honorees this time were selected through a public nomination and voting process. The four inductees were identified to The Associated Press by House Speaker Tim Jones before they were publicly announced.
Winning the vote was physician Andrew Taylor Still and science fiction author Robert Heinlein. To that list, Jones added Virginia Minor, who advocated for women's voting rights, and Mel Hancock, who authored a state constitutional amendment that won approval in 1980 and since has become known simply as the "Hancock Amendment."
Busts of the people in the hall are privately funded and displayed between the House and Senate chambers. Among those already included are President Harry Truman, Walt Disney, Mark Twain, George Washington Carver, Betty Grable and Ginger Rogers.
The use of a public vote for some of the inductions comes after acrimony following last year's selection by a different House speaker of commentator Rush Limbaugh. That choice was criticized by Democrats, some women's groups and other political foes.
Still received the most public support, claiming nearly 38 percent of more than 34,000 votes cast. He was born in Virginia and elected to the Kansas territorial Legislature. After the deaths of several children and serving as a Civil War doctor, Still looked for new medical methods. In 1892, he founded the American School of Osteopathy in Kirksville, according to the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine. It now is called A.T. Still University.
"Dr. Still revolutionized medicine as we know it today," said Brad Bates, a lobbyist for the Missouri Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons.
The public also opted for science fiction writer Heinlein. He was born in Butler, and his works include "Starship Troopers," ''Stranger in a Strange Land," and "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress." Heinlein received more than 10,000 votes.
Still and Heinlein combined to receive nearly 70 percent of the votes.
The speaker's selections for the Hall of Famous Missourians left their marks in the political arena.
Minor in 1867 helped found the Woman Suffrage Association of Missouri, which was the first organization that made enfranchising women its exclusive goal. Minor tried to register to vote in October 1872 but was refused because of her gender. Through her husband Francis Minor, she filed suit and argued the 14th Amendment allowed women to vote. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against her.
The suffragist finished sixth in the public vote for the Hall of Famous Missourians, and Jones said he decided to include Minor because of her importance to Missouri and U.S. history.
The speaker's other selection, Hancock, won approval for a measure establishing a state revenue limit, barring state government from imposing unfunded mandates on local governments and requiring voter approval for local tax increases. It helped propel him to a seat in Congress where he served four terms and built a reputation as a fiscal and social conservative.
Jones said Hancock had been on his mind the longest as a candidate for induction.
"The minute I was elected speaker back in September of last year, I had folks approaching me about Mel Hancock saying he should have been put in the hall by now," Jones said.


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from islands to other seas
New work by Graphic Studio printmakers Yoko Akino, Niamh Flanagan and Clare Henderson
Graphic Studio Gallery is delighted to present a new body of work by three gifted printmakers, Yoko Akino, Niamh Flanagan and Clare Henderson.
The works in this exhibition explore islands and the spaces around them. It is a theme that has been of interest to the artists for many years. Each artist has an approach that is highly stylized, creating images that linger and demand inspection, each work depicting otherworldly spaces of oceans, landscapes and islands.
In the works of Niamh Flanagan and Yoko Akino, images are punctuated by the use of strong bold colours. Akino's areas of intricate patterns create a sense of rhythm, that is often echoed in Flanagan's use of recurring motifs, from trees to dwellings. Clare Henderson's works more closely resemble a real rather than imagined world, but they portray a dream-like quality that is simultaneously beautiful and haunting.
Yoko Akino is surrounded by views of the ocean at her home on the Cooley Peninsiula, and is drawn to the dramatic shapes of the coastline. Her pared down expanses of vivid colour, adjacent to detailed blocks of patterned lines, represent views from the east and west coasts of Ireland, that are influenced by her memories of the Honshu coastline, between the Japanese and Pacific Ocean.
Niamh Flanagan's prints explore the search for utopias, and a restless desire to be somewhere else. She uses colour to set an emotionally complex tone, with suggestive elements of a personal landscape, both rural and urban, internal and external. They frequently explore notions of safety, containment and captivity, and conversely, freedom and alienation.
Clare Henderson's sparsely populated landscapes, wrest somewhere between un-spoilt perfection and desolation. They reflect upon the impact climate change has on humanity, and the natural world and what mass displacement and migration means to humans' collective condition.


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BEIRUT—Two car bombs exploded minutes apart in a suburban residential area of Damascus on Wednesday, killing at least 45 people and injuring 120, Syrian media reported.
The blasts targeted an area called Jaramana populated by Christians and Druze, minority groups that have mostly supported the Syrian regime.
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The "Grüner Gang" (not related to the Hellgrüner Gang und Dunkelgrüner Gang) is one of the old narrow passages in the Old Town of Lübeck, where formerly poor people and hand crafters used to live. Even until 1970s, not all of the houses in the Gänge were connected to the sewerage system! Today, most of the small houses (Ganghäuser) are in renewed state, and technically up to date. They are sought-after objects on the real estate market.
Germany? Before the beginning there was Ginnungagap, an empty space of nothingness, filled with pure creative power. (Sort of like the inside of my head.)And it ends with Ragnarok, the twilight of the Gods. In between is much fighting, betrayal and romance. Just as a good Godly story should be.Heroes have their own graveyard called Valhalla. Unfortunately we cannot show you a panorama of it at this time, nor of the lovely Valkyries who are its escort service.Hail Odin, wandering God wielding wisdom and wand! Hail Freya, hail Tyr, hail Thor!Odin made the many lakes and the fish in them. In his traverses across the lands he caused there to be the Mulheim Bridge in Cologne, as did he make the Mercury fountain, Mercury being of his nature.But it is to the mighty Thor that the Hammering Man gives service.Between the time of the Nordic old ones and that of modern Frankfort there may have been a T.Rex or two on the scene. At least some mastodons for sure came through for lunch, then fell into tar pits to become fossils for us to find.And there we must leave you, O my most pure and holy children.Text by Steve Smith.


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AMC Set to Debut Epic Drama "Hell on Wheels" on Sunday, November 6, 2011 at 10:00PM ET/PT
Original Series Stars Anson Mount, Common, Dominique McElligott, Colm Meaney, Ben Esler, Philip Burke and Eddie Spears.
Written and Created by Joe and Tony Gayton
(Faster, Murder by Numbers)
First Episode Directed by David von Ancken
(Californication, Seraphim Falls)
LOS ANGELES, CA- July 27, 2011-After breaking the Western mold with the hit mini-series "Broken Trail," AMC returns to the genre with the epic drama "Hell On Wheels," starring Anson Mount (City by the Sea, Cook County), Common (Just Wright, Date Night), Colm Meaney (Get Him to the Greek), Dominique McElligott (Moon), Ben Esler (The Pacific), Philip Burke (Mercy), and Eddie Spears (Into the West). The series is written and produced by Joe and Tony Gayton (Faster, Murder By Numbers) and John Shiban (X-Files, Breaking Bad). The project is developed by Endemol USA and Jeremy Gold, Endemol USA's SVP of scripted programming serves as executive producer. David Goldberg is Chairman of Endemol North America. The pilot is directed by David von Ancken (Californication, Seraphim Falls).
"Hell On Wheels," is set to premiere on the network with a ten episode run on Sunday, November 6, 2011 at 10PM ET/PT.
"Hell On Wheels" transports audiences back to post Civil War America and examines the struggles and hardships of rebuilding and repairing our country after the bloodiest war on American soil. The series examines the railroad's institutionalized greed and corruption, the immigrant experience, the plight of the newly emancipated African-Americans during Reconstruction, and the ravaging of the Native American land and people, in the name of progress. The main throughline of "HELL ON WHEELS" is the story of Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount) and his quest for revenge over the wartime death of his wife. Over time, "Hell on Wheels" chronicles this potent turning point in our nation's history, and how uncivilized the business of civilization can be.
Joel Stillerman, Senior Vice President of Original Programming, Production and Digital Content at AMC continues:
"Since "Broken Trail," AMC has looked for the next expression of an original Western series. "Hell on Wheels" is an incredibly powerful story that captures the intensity and inspiration of the American West at a time when nothing less than the future of the nation was at stake. The characters and the story that Joe and Tony Gayton, Jeremy Gold, and John Shiban have created; and that our terrific cast and crew have realized is compelling, epic, and a truly original take on a classic American genre of storytelling."
Based on true historical events, the series is shot in rural Alberta, Canada, using the province's extensive natural beauty to capture the feel of the American frontier. "HELL ON WHEELS" is led by a cast that includes Anson Mount as Cullen Bohannon, a former soldier hell bent on avenging his wife's death, musician/actor Common as Elam Ferguson, an emancipated slave working to achieve true freedom in a world entrenched in prejudice, Dominique McElligott as Lily Bell, a newly widowed woman trying to survive in a man's world, Colm Meaney as Thomas "Doc" Durant, a greedy entrepreneur taking full advantage of the changing times, Ben Esler as Sean McGinnes and Philip Burke as Mickey McGinnes, two young brothers looking to find their fortune in the new West and Eddie Spears as Joseph Black Moon, a Native American man torn between his culture and the changing world around him.
Joining the Gaytons as executive producer are Jeremy Gold (How You Look To Me) Endemol's SVP of scripted programming, writing Executive Producer John Shiban (Breaking Bad, The X-Files), and David Von Ancken (Californication, Seraphim Falls), who directed the series pilot. Co- Executive Producer of the series is Paul Kurta (Pan Am, Moonlight). Entertainment One Television's CEO John Morayniss (The Firm, Hung) and SVP creative affairs Michael Rosenberg (Hung, The Riches) oversee production in partnership with producers Mike Frislev and Chad Oakes at Nomadic Pictures. AMC's Joel Stillerman, SVP of original programming, production and digital content, Susie Fitzgerald, SVP of scripted programming, and Jason Fisher, SVP of production, oversee series production for the network.
The creative team also includes Director of Photography Marvin Rush (Moonlight, Close to Home), Production Designer John Blackie (The Last Rites Of Ransom Pride), Costume Designer Wendy Patridge (Broken Trail, Hellboy), and Editors Todd Desrosiers (Californication), Kevin Krasny (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) and Bridget Durnford (Tucker & Dale vs. Evil). The effects team includes make up supervisor Gail Kennedy (The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford), and visual effect supervisor Michael Gibney.
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AMC reigns as the only cable network in history to ever win the Emmy(R) Award for Outstanding Drama Series three years in a row, as well as the Golden Globe(R) Award for Best Television Series - Drama for three consecutive years. Whether commemorating favorite films from every genre and decade or creating acclaimed original programming, the AMC experience is an uncompromising celebration of great stories. AMC's original stories include "Mad Men," "Breaking Bad," "The Walking Dead," "The Killing" and "Hell on Wheels." AMC further demonstrates its commitment to the art of storytelling with AMC's Docu-Stories, a slate of unscripted original series, as well as curated movie franchises like AMC's Can't Get Enough and AMC's Crazy About.
Available in more than 97 million homes (Source: Nielsen Media Research), AMC is owned and operated by AMC Networks Inc. and its sister networks include IFC, Sundance Channel and WE tv. AMC is available across all platforms, including on-air, online, on demand and mobile. AMC: Story Matters HereSM.
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Endemol USA is a leading producer of television programming specializing in unscripted and scripted genres for network and cable television. The company produces the hit shows "Wipeout," "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," "Deal or No Deal," and "Big Brother." Endemol USA is a division of the Endemol Group, a leading international content developer, producer and distributor of television and online programming. The company, headquartered in the Netherlands and the UK, has subsidiaries and joint ventures in 26 countries, including the major European markets, the U.S., South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Australia. Endemol is owned by a consortium consisting of Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, Mediaset Group and Cyrte Group. For more information, please visit http://www.endemolusa.tv. Endemol is a privately held company.


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Carl Zimmer pointed me to a new paper, A genome-wide genetic signature of Jewish ancestry perfectly separates individuals with and without full Jewish ancestry in a large random sample of European Americans. The title is so informative that pasting the abstract is almost unnecessary, but here is the conclusion which gets to the point:
In conclusion, we show that, at least in the context of the studied sample, it is possible to predict full Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry with 100% sensitivity and 100% specificity, although it should be noted that the exact dividing line between a Jewish and non-Jewish cluster will vary across sample sets which in practice would reduce the accuracy of the prediction. While the full historical demographic explanations for this distinction remain to be resolved, it is clear that the genomes of individuals with full Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry carry an unambiguous signature of their Jewish heritage, and this seems more likely to be due to their specific Middle Eastern ancestry than to inbreeding.
There have been other papers which show that Ashkenazi Jews form a separate cluster from gentile whites in the United States. This is important again in the context of biomedical studies attempting to ascertain the genetic roots of particular diseases; population substructure (e.g., Jew vs. non-Jew) may result in confounded associations. Also, one of the authors of the paper is David Goldstein, author of the fascinating Jacob's Legacy.
In any case, on to the PC charts where the real action is. Do note that I've resized and added explanatory labels here & there for clarity.
As you can see, there is almost perfect separation between the Jewish and non-Jewish clusters here. PC 1 = first principle component of variation, and PC 2 second principle component of variation. These are the two largest independent dimensions of genetic variance extractable out of the data set. The authors note that there is almost perfect separation along PC 1, and, they note that most of the gentile whites who are closest to the Jews on this PC are of Italian or Eastern Mediterranean origin. This is important later.
As you can see here, the interesting point is that Jewish ancestral quanta is roughly predictive of genetic position. This shouldn't be that surprising once we know that Jews and non-Jews separate so cleanly (e.g., someone who is biracial would be located between their two parent racial clusters on any plot), but it is striking nonetheless in reaffirming the genetic reality of Jewishness. The United States has an easy genealogical history for Jews, as the ancestors of all self-identified American Jews today arrived on the order of 4-6 generations ago. These individuals were likely Jewish relatively far back in their lineages, and admixture is easy to recall because it is of recent vintage.
Finally, let's put Ashkenazi Jews in the worldwide context.
I labeled a few populations for clarity. Orcadians are individuals from the Orkney Islands, just off the northern coast of Scotland. As you can see, American whites occupy an expansive region, in large part due to their diverse origins and admixtures. The Druze have been genetically isolated for over 5 centuries, so it is not particularly surprising they form a distinct cluster. It is likely a function of drift due to bottlenecking, just like Iceland. The separation between the Ashkenazi and the Palestinians might be of interest to some because of political reasons.
As the authors note, the Ashkenazi are almost certainly a compound population. There are full-Jews who "look gentile" and full-Jews who could pass easily in the Middle East as a native. Most Ashkenazi Jews exhibit a mix of features. The genetic likelihood that the Ashkenazi have varied origins should no surprise. The paper notes that Askhenazi heterozygosity is actually somewhat greater than American whites, implying that the source of their distinctiveness has to do with genetic origin, not genetic history (i.e., population bottlenecks). Another population which I suspect resembles the population history of the Ashkenazi are Uyghurs, who fall between Europeans and Han Chinese in their ancestry. But the hybridization even occurred in the past, so the Uyghurs today can be thought of as a separate population with its own suite of genetic combinations, as opposed to a hybrid of two "pure" groups. Similarly, Ashkenazi Jews no doubt emerged from hybridization evens between Middle Eastern and European females, but over the generations they have been relatively endogamous (most gene flow has been out of the community into gentile Europeans through conversion) and so are a genetically coherent population in their own right.
Note that the authors had only a few non-Ashkenazi Jews in their sample, so the assertions above only apply to the Ashkenazi (95-99% of America's Jewish population, but only ~50% of Israel's).
Update: Dienekes emphasizes that the hypothesis that the admixture element which makes Ashkenazi Jews distinctive from other Europeans is Middle Eastern is somewhat speculative. I'm less skeptical than him seeing as how some Y lineages are Middle Eastern, but he offers this interesting point:
With that said, I do suspect that the distinctiveness of the Ashkenazi Jews is in part due to the possession of a Middle Eastern component of unspecified strength. I base this hypothesis on the results reported to me about the EURO-DNA-CALC test. This test distinguishes between NW, SE Europeans and Ashkenazi Jews; a few Arab individuals who have communicated their results to me have reported fairly high AJ components, indicating that part of what distinguishes an AJ from Europeans is related to the Middle Eastern Semitic background of that group.


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A pair of recent, thoughtful pieces from our friends at Religion News Service explore the church-based sanctuary movement through the lens of civil disobedience. First from RNS was Kimberly Winston's look at how sanctuary churches may be at odds with American law under the Trump administration, "Sanctuary for the undocumented comes with legal consequences." Then came Dave Gushee's column, "An ethical analysis of the 'New Sanctuary Movement.'"
Both of these examine the current movement with an eye toward the sanctuary movement of the Reagan years, when many liberal churches attempted to provide asylum to refugees fleeing the violence of American proxy wars in Central America. Gushee is upfront about viewing that as the historical precedent for current talk about sanctuary:
I encountered the first "Sanctuary Movement" in the 1980s, when some churches organized to shelter Salvadorans and Guatemalans who were at risk of being sent back to their violent and repressive homelands during the Reagan Administration. Since then the concept has never really gone away, and it is spiking today as the new Trump Administration has made clear its intent to heighten immigration-law enforcement.
The current wave of sanctuary talk borrows from that movement of 30 years ago in discussing sanctuary as a form of "civil disobedience." I'm not sure that's a helpful way to think about it. I'm not a lawyer or an ethicist or in any way an expert on this subject, but I don't think the framework of civil disobedience is a good fit here.
Sanctuary is too old for that. This is a practice that goes back thousands of years in various forms, and one essential thing about all that long history is this: Sanctuary has always been completely legal.
So before turning to those RNS articles about the current moment in American life, let's take a step back and review some of that very long history of sanctuary as a legitimate and legal practice — a tradition that was never outside of the law, but rather a part of the legal process. More than that, really, since sanctuary predates anything quite so formal as a "legal process." In its earliest forms, it was actually something that enabled something like a legal process to be developed.
We can see this in the books of Moses, which outline the laws for sanctuary in "cities of refuge" within the land of Israel. Here's Numbers 35:9-15:
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the Israelites, and say to them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, so that a slayer who kills a person without intent may flee there. The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, so that the slayer may not die until there is a trial before the congregation.
The cities that you designate shall be six cities of refuge for you: you shall designate three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge. These six cities shall serve as refuge for the Israelites, for the resident or transient alien among them, so that anyone who kills a person without intent may flee there.
These cities of refuge were Levite cities — priestly cities of the priestly clan and priestly class. They were a kind of holy place for the Israelites. In other places and among other peoples at that time, the same kind of refuge was provided by their priestly classes in their holy places — at Greek temples and shrines and those of other ancient religions.
This is one of the ancient forms of sanctuary — the provision of temporary refuge for accused/presumed criminals "until there is a trial before the congregation." Those provided refuge were criminals, but the sanctuary provided for them wasn't a way of fleeing from the law, but rather of fleeing to the law. These places of refuge provided shelter from lawless vengeance and mob justice. This form of sanctuary was itself a lawful practice, and a necessary part of what enabled these societies to have lawful practices.
This same form of sanctuary endured for centuries in Britain, where it was offered not in Levite cities or pagan temples, but in Christian churches and cathedrals. In a fascinating recent episode of Helen Zaltzman's Allusionist podcast, she discusses this history with John Jenkins of the University of York and with Rosalind Brown of Durham Cathedral:
HZ: Since the mid-16th century, the word 'sanctuary' has carried the more general sense of a place of refuge, not necessarily a religious one. But before then, the word had a meaning that is a pretty big contrast to the modern sanctuary movement: for at least a thousand years in England, until James I abolished it in 1623, sanctuary was not for people fleeing injustice, but for people fleeing justice.
JJ: If you'd committed a crime, if you could get yourself to a place of religious significance — a church, a cathedral, even things like a monastery or an abbot's house or even just land that belonged to the church or was near to it — then you were able to effectively evade justice for a period of time. … And after that period of time was up you might be asked to — you might be forced to — leave the country, or you could go to trial. So the idea is, it's a sort of extrajudicial way of apparently evading punishment, at least for a short period of time.
HZ: In England, that period of time was usually 37 or 40 days, depending on where you sought the sanctuary.
JJ: The sanctuary rights in England are very different to those on the continent. In general the idea of being able to seek sanctuary having committed a crime is almost universal in Christendom and is reflected in many ways to the world in all sorts of different systems.
HZ: In ancient Greece there were sanctuary temples, as well as statues that served a similar purpose. And the Torah mentions six cities in Judea that had been designated as sanctuaries for people who unintentionally caused the death of another, so they might be spared from revenge killings. So the sanctuary concept was not new when it came into law here in England in the fifth or sixth century.
You should listen to that whole episode (or read the whole transcript) for much more on the strange details, rules and traditions governing the way sanctuary was practiced in Durham. If you like weird history, you'll like this. (And if you don't like weird history, well, you should.)I don't think it's quite right to say, as Zaltzman does, that this form of sanctuary was "for people fleeing justice." They were fleeing from the informal "justice" of vengeance, but they were also fleeing toward formal justice in the form of either a trial or of exile. This form of sanctuary always existed within the law.
All the way back, of course, this form of the ancient tradition of sanctuary existed alongside the more familiar idea of the sort being revived and practiced by those American churches in those RNS articles. This more familiar form of sanctuary doesn't involve temporary refuge for those presumed to be guilty, but indefinite refuge for those presumed to be innocent.
That other form of "sanctuary" practiced by Levite cities of refuge and by the cathedrals of medieval England gradually faded as more formal legal systems developed. Formal courts of law removed much of the need for that practice, taking on the guarantee of safety before trial that it had previously provided. But the parallel form of sanctuary — indefinite refuge for the innocent fleeing injustice — has remained necessary, and it endures.
This enduring idea of sanctuary is best illustrated, I think, in a famous scene from Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Here is that scene in the Charles Laughton and Disney adaptations. First, from the 1939 classic film:
And the same scene, Disneyfied, in the 1996 animated film:
This is mainly the sort of thing we have in mind when we speak of "sanctuary" — Quasimodo swooping in to rescue Esmeralda from execution, whisking her back inside the walls of Notre Dame Cathedral where she is safely out of the reach of her would-be executioners. In this idea of sanctuary, the cathedral serves like "base" in a game of tag — an inviolate refuge outside of the usual legal jurisdiction (no "apple trees"). And, just like in that children's game, being safe on base is part of the rules.
To illustrate how enduring this ancient idea still is, just look at another common way we use the word "sanctuary" today, as a designation for nature preserves — for "wildlife sanctuaries" and "bird sanctuaries." These are special places set apart — sanctified — as refuges for the preservation of endangered life. They are not outside the law, but they are governed by a different set of laws, and the usual laws may not apply there.
That's the same general idea as the "Sanctuary! Sanctuary!" Quasimodo proclaims in the scenes above. And the same general idea advocated by sanctuary churches.
And again, this form of sanctuary is sanctioned. It doesn't involve disobedience or law-breaking. In Hunchback, Notre Dame's prerogative of extending sanctuary is its legal right. Esmeralda is safe there not because of the strength of the cathedral's walls, but because the same law that sought to execute her also makes it illegal to violate the sanctity of that sanctuary. If you read Hugo's novel or watch that full clip from the Laughton movie, you'll see how this idea of sanctuary always involved a negotiation between competing jurisdictions — both of which were legitimate and legal.
That's still true today, as we can see from what is probably the most famous current example of a person finding refuge in this form of sanctuary. I'm referring to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been living in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London since 2012. Assange, who is Australian, was arrested in the UK, from which he was to be extradited to Sweden to face trial on allegations of sexual assault and rape. (Assange denies those charges and insists that his asylum in the embassy isn't due to those actual criminal charges but rather to his fear of being extradited to America to face as-yet-unspecified charges for his role in leaking classified information from the U.S. government.) By staying within the embassy, Assange puts himself on the sovereign soil of Ecuador, and that is what protects him from arrest and trial by British or Swedish authorities.
This is the same mechanism that protected Esmeralda once Quasimodo secured her within the walls of the cathedral. In that time, in Paris, that cathedral was its own sovereign territory, and its sovereignty was respected by the King of France as a matter of French law. Alas for Esmeralda, the balance of power between the competing sovereignties of pope and king, church and state, was not as firmly inflexible as the contemporary balance of power that recognizes the national sovereignty of embassies, thereby ensuring Assange's refuge in a building that is in London yet also not part of London.
My point here is that those receiving the protection of sanctuary are not thereby breaking the law. They have physically relocated from one jurisdiction to another, placing themselves within a different legal framework, but not outside the law. Sanctuary isn't mainly about physical protection, but about legal legitimacy. The corrupt Parisian officials seeking the death of Esmeralda might have been physically capable of storming the cathedral to recapture her. They weren't prevented from doing so by the strength of the cathedral's guards, but by their own law which also, in part, conceded the legal legitimacy of the cathedral's jurisdiction. So too it isn't Ecuador's military might that prevents Scotland Yard from kicking in the doors of their embassy to re-arrest Assange. The British police refrain from doing so because their own law recognizes the legitimacy of Ecuador's sovereign prerogative to grant such asylum. Sanctuary is legal.
There's a big difference, though, between Esmeralda and Assange. I don't just mean that Esmeralda was fictional, or that she was not a creepy sexual predator (allegedly), or even that her legal innocence was firmly established. Assange has been granted sanctuary by Ecuador, a modern, secular nation. Esmeralda's sanctuary was provided, instead, by ecclesiastical authority dependent, in part, on some notion of a kind of spiritual jurisdiction.
This leads us to a much trickier, harder-to-articulate aspect of this idea of sanctuary, so let's leave off here and come back to that in a bit.
For now I just want to stress this first main point: Sanctuary has never been an outlaw practice or a form of disobedience — "civil" or otherwise. It has always been, instead, an assertion of jurisdiction recognized as legal. I think that's still true today.


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Gregory Isaacs, the reggae star whose smooth voice made him a fixture on the charts in the late 1970s and early 1980s, died of lung cancer.
Isaacs peaked with the landmark 1982 "Night Nurse" album, but later fell into a spiral of drugs and poor health. He died at his home in London, the BBC reported. Known by fans as "The Cool Ruler," Isaacs was 59.
"Gregory was well loved by everyone, his fans and his family, and he worked really hard to make sure he delivered the music they loved and enjoyed," Isaacs' wife Linda said. "He will be greatly missed by his family and friends."
Over the course of his prolific career, Isaacs released an estimated 500 albums within Jamaica, the UK and the U.S. He collaborated with reggae, dub and dancehall icons like Lee "Scratch" Perry, King Tubby, Sugar Minott, Freddie McGregor, Dennis Brown and Errol Holt. Isaacs recorded his masterpiece Night Nurse at Bob Marley's Tuff Gong Studios in 1982, the year after Marley's death.
Isaacs was on the brink of international stardom when Night Nurse climbed to No.2 on the British charts. But his ascent was interrupted by a six-month stint in a Jamaican prison on illegal firearm charges. It was one of an estimated 50 times he was arrested during his lifetime.
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