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In 1985, RMS Titanic, in pitch blackness two miles deep in the Atlantic, was first spotted by a towed camera sending up a TV image in simple black and white. It was live, sharp and sensational. And it opened a chapter in oceanography and optics that's still unfolding in an era of 3D, high-definition and wide-angle deep-sea images, including submersible 3D microscopes.
The feat, overcoming obstacles like pressure and marine snow, connected the crew of about 70 on the 244-foot oceanographic research vessel Knorr with the quiet scene on the ocean floor, a tribute to underwater explorer Robert Ballard and his team.
Mir 2 lights expose the bronze telemotor once used to operate the steering gear on the bridge of the RMS Titanic. Click to enlarge (Emory Kristof/National Geographic Stock).
Now, fast forward to 2012.
Just days before the 100th anniversary of the April 15 sinking of the Titanic, a colleague of Ballard, Dwight Coleman, was in Rhode Island watching color images fed by a robot exploring the Gulf of Mexico, and observed, "Well, that's a crab." By contrast to Ballard's awesome discovery, it was an ordinary day for Coleman, a research scientist at the University of Rhode Island and Director of the university's Inner Space Center, which creates real-time connectivity, or telepresence, between scientists on shore and remotely operated vehicle systems on research ships.
The people who helped to shape the new era should take a bow.
One of them is Bill Lange. He was looking at the screen on the Knorr that night in 1985 when he shouted, "It's a boiler!" and the word "boiler" echoed as celebrations began. The Titanic had been sighted, 73 years after it sank. Later Lange started the unit at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) called the Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory. "We had to put together a better underwater camcorder that could deliver," he said. "If something was not available, we needed to build it." Over a 30-year stretch, Lange has been designing ways to improve deep-sea images. "We've gone from low-quality color cams to broadcast quality. It's a great leap. We've just gotten better and better."
Video monitor showing Titanic wreckage. Click to enlarge (Simon Mills by arrangement with the Lone Wolf Documentary Group, ME).
Another pioneer is Jules Jaffe. He was an assistant scientist at Woods Hole in 1985, bringing a background in image processing from Silicon Valley. Now he runs the Jaffe Laboratory for Underwater Imaging at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. "The genius of Ballard is that he knew how to use light to take pictures in the deepest ocean," Jaffe recalled. "Before that people were using a 35-mm camera system to survey hydrothermal beds but there was no real-time telemetry. You would just send it down, tow it around like a dog on a chain, bring it up and develop the pictures, and that's what you saw, half a day later." With Ballard's system, "You drove around on the surface, watching TV."
Yet another pioneer is Dwight Coleman, the seagoing oceanographer who has worked with Ballard for 12 years and 20 expeditions. Among the challenges at Titanic's depth is enormous pressure, 5,283 pounds per square inch at 12,000 feet. "It's like an elephant on your thumb," Coleman said. "We use titanium housings with special glass lenses and seals to withstand it." At sea, steel-armored cables today have three fiber-optic cables and copper for power, Coleman said. He works with engineers who custom-design the cameras, with the work done by Insite Pacific Inc. (Solana Beach, CA). For lighting, today's systems use two 1,200-watt HMI (hydrargyrum medium-arc iodide) lamps with electronic ballast to eliminate flicker (see image below). Seeing things under water is like driving in a fog bank; turn on your brights and all you see is fog. Thus a car's fog lights are set low. On later trips to Titanic, lights and camera have been on separate vehicles, reducing fog, or backscatter. "We are creative in many ways," Coleman said.
A 1200W HMI light of the type used on Titanic missions, from DeepSea Power & Light (San Diego, CA).
The 1985 Milestone
In 1985, most optical surveys were carried out by submersibles that towed sleds with strobe lights, film cameras modified to work at up to 6,000 meters, and limited wide-area imaging. "It was very simplistic," Lange said. The strobes fired, triggered by the camera lens. Images were taken every 20 seconds. After 20 hours, the vehicle was recovered, the film was processed and analyzed. "You got to see where you had been a day or so before," Lange said.
The Ballard group at Woods Hole engineered a live TV feed to the surface. The cameras were fixed on an aluminum sled called the Argo, about 15 feet long, 4 feet high and 4 feet wide, with 35-mm cameras and a side-scan sonar. The sled was attached by RG8 armored coaxial cable. The technological milestone was that the Argo could deliver sonar and a channel of black-and-white video live, while taking 35-mm still pictures.
As the Argo was towed ("flown" was Ballard's fanciful word) back and forth, it used an ultra-light-sensitive video camera with a silicon-intensified tube, or SIT, placed in water-tight housings. "It had good sensitivity for very dim conditions," Jaffe said.
In the Titanic search, Ballard collaborated with a French team using sonar. (The approach is powerful. Jaffe recalled that in 2011 a Remus 6000 underwater vehicle used sonar imagery to locate the wreckage of Air France 447, lost in the Atlantic in 2009 about 2.5 miles deep.) Sonar can see about 300 meters. "You can map everything all around an area and look for an anomaly, and that becomes your target," Jaffe said. "Then you go back with an optical imaging system and verify it."
But in the Titanic search, the French survey of the ocean floor didn't come up with much. "Their system didn't work well," Jaffe said. "They did see something, maybe some aberration. They kept mapping, and at the end of three weeks, they had no idea where the Titanic was."
Ballard then started mapping in the same places, Jaffe said, switching from sonar to visual monitoring. "And after five to seven days or so, they run over this 20-foot boiler," he said. Most accounts, Jaffe said, remain a mix of legend and reality. "The reality is, Ballard's team ran over a boiler on the fifth to seventh day. They found it." And that showed that acoustic monitoring systems can't approach the fidelity or clarity of a good imaging system, Jaffe said.
Remotely operated vehicle Hercules exploring the deep. Equipped with a sensor array consisting of a pressure/depth sensor, altimeter, and Doppler, Hercules can conduct a variety of precision documentation functions. Click to enlarge (University of Rhode Island).
One of the Mir submersibles featured in James Cameron's 1997 movie Titanic, currently slated to give tourist dives to the site. The Mirs were chartered by the Lone Wolf Documentary Group in August 2005 for a History Channel project. The cameras were supplied by WHOI. Click to enlarge (Simon Mills by arrangement with the Lone Wolf Documentary Group, ME).
The Future
Since 1985, researchers have been improving the optical performance of deep-sea camera systems. Starting in the late 80s, cameras have used optically corrected domes. "There was no need to do any lens correction," Lange said. "The lens and the view ports were coupled so they worked very efficiently."
The sensors have been constantly improving. In 1985, systems did one color with internal recording. By the 1990s, they were able to do produce broadcast-quality images of Titanic. "We improved the lighting technology, the telemetry systems, the optics," Lange said. "From there we went on to 3D, and 3D HD, and even ultra-high-definition imaging systems."
"All of the 3D modeling, the mapping work, that's really set a whole new level of detail," Lange said. The breakthroughs have applications in both deep-sea mapping and documentary film making.
For example, Lange's lab can take the systems in a large Sony studio HD camera and redesign it to fit in a six-inch cylinder for deep-sea use. "We redo the power supply, the telemetry, the optics. We can take a sensor as good as the best used in broadcasting and modify it to work in the deep sea. That involves reprogramming the color response tables."
Lange's lab has come up with small high-resolution 2D and 3D cameras that can fit in the palm of your hand and work over 60 miles of cable. "We have a symbiotic relationship," Lange said. "We pair science with the needs of filmmakers."
Lowering a camera into the water off the coast of Greece during the exploration of the Britannic, sister ship to Titanic that was sunk during World War I. Click to enlarge (Simon Mills by arrangement with the Lone Wolf Documentary Group, ME).
On another frontier, the Jaffe lab is working on submersible tools to study the microscopic creatures between the surface and the ocean floor. He received a $1 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to create a 3D video rate underwater microscope to count - but more interestingly, observe - the behavior of organisms as small as tens of microns that make up 90 percent of the biomass of the oceans. (See SPIE Newsroom video: Jules Jaffe's photonic tools explore the secrets of the ocean.)
Lange's lab is also working with the National Park Service and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's marine archaeologists to turn the data from the Titanic site into an archaeological site plan. "We want policymakers to understand the size and condition of the site so they can better protect it," Lange said. His lab is working on converting 3D deep-sea cameras to produce images with the size and resolution of the Imax motion picture standards.
"Our goal for 3D camera systems is to put the public's mind in the deep sea, to make the technology seem transparent, with high-resolution sensors, better color, stereoscopic imaging," Lange said. "We want there to be no technology barriers to the public, and no distractions for a person doing quantitative analysis of the imagery."
(Research for this article was contributed by Eryn Burkhart, a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara.)


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The Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 that U.S. farmers will be hitched to for the next five years has something old, something new, something borrowed and certainly something to make a few farmers blue.
Here are key provisions of the 2008 farm bill developed by the National Cotton Council for a series of informational hearings on the new farm bill.
Direct payment reductions — For 2009, 2010 and 2011, the payment acres for direct payments will be reduced to 83.3 percent of base and restored to 85 percent of base for 2012.
Counter-cyclical payments — Producers may request partial payment up to 60 days prior to end of the marketing year. For 2008, 2009 and 2010, first partial is made after first 180 days of marketing year and final payment is made beginning Oct. 1. Partial may be up to 40 percent of projected final for 2008, 2009 and 2010 crops.
Direct payments — Producers may request up to 22 percent of direct payment in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 in any month beginning Dec. 1 of calendar year before harvest. For 2008, the Secretary shall make payment as soon as possible.
Payment acres — No payments made to operators on a farm with less than 10 total base acres. Base acres will be reduced on a farm which has been subdivided for non-farm uses.
Revenue program option — Beginning in 2009 in return for accepting a 20 percent reduction in direct payments and a 30 percent reduction in loan rate, producers may make an irrevocable election to enroll all covered commodities and peanuts in state-level revenue countercyclical program called Average Crop Revenue Election.
For producers with qualifying losses, the program makes payments on a portion of planted acres based on the difference between 90 percent of the product of a state average yield factor times the national season average price for the previous two years for the commodity and the actual state revenue for the commodity. Enrollment is for entered year of election through 2012 crop.
Planting flexibility — Retains prohibition on planting fruits and vegetables on payment acres. Establishes planting flexibility pilot program on 75,000 acres in seven states.
Loan repayment rate — Repayment rates for commodities with posted county prices will be calculated using a 30-day average of market prices for the commodity prior to the loan redemption, or request for loan deficiency payment. The secretary of agriculture is given authority to modify temporarily the repayment rate in the event of a severe disruption to marketing, transportation or infrastructure.
Payment eligibility and limitations (beginning with the 2009 crop) — This section contains perhaps the most significant changes from the 2002 farm bill, but at least farmers will have a year to figure out its impact. These changes could have a greater adverse impact on divorced or single farmers with large acreages.
• The 3-entity rule is terminated and direct attribution applies to all commodity program payments.
• Spouses may qualify as "person" eligible to receive payments. A spouse of an actively engaged spouse is automatically credited with making a significant contribution of labor and management. A spouse is defined as a "family member."
• No limitations on marketing loan gains/loan deficiency payments.
• Direct payment limit is $40,000 per person
• Countercyclical payment is $65,000 per person.
Income means test (beginning with the 2009 crop)
• A farmer is not eligible for any commodity program payments if in the three previous years he earned an average of more than $500,000 a year in adjusted non-farm income. In addition, a farmer is not eligible for direct payments if in the three previous years, he earned an average of more than $750,000 in adjusted farm, ranch and forestry income.
• If an individual or entity earned an average of more than $1 million in adjusted non-farm income or more than $1 million in adjusted gross income (if less than 66.66 percent is from farming, ranching or forestry) that individual or entity is ineligible for conservation program payments for the year. This does not apply to easement programs.
Crop insurance — Raises fee for catastrophic coverage to $300 per crop per county.
Permanent disaster program — Establishes a revenue based, whole farm permanent disaster program to partially cover losses due to weather-related causes.
Conservation Reserve Program — Allows up to 32 million acres in the conservation reserve at any one time in fiscal 2010-12.
Wetlands Reserve Program — Establishes a maximum enrollment of 3.041 million acres. Re-established the WRP baseline at $1.4 billion. Changes appraisal process to better reflect land and easement values. Establishes new payment schedule to WRP easements
Environmental Quality Incentives Program — Increases EQIP funding by $3.4 billion. Allows the secretary of agriculture to give priority to EQIP applications that are for water conservation or certain irrigation practices. Creates a new payment limitation of $300,000 but allow a waiver to raise the limitations to $450,000 if the project has special environmental significance.
Conservation Stewardship Program (formerly Conservation Security Program) — Provides $1.1 billion in new funds with an enrollment goal of 12.769 million acres each fiscal year, Oct. 1, 2008, through Sept. 30, 2017. Creates a payment limit of $200,000 for all contracts entered into during any five-year period. Expands eligible land to private forests.
Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program — Extends WHIP for the life of the bill. Creates payment limitation of $50,000 per year.
Selected tax provisions
• Effective for payments made after Dec. 31, 2007, CRP payments to retired or disabled individuals are to be treated as rental payments for tax purposes and are therefore excluded from self-employment taxes and will not reduce the individual's social security or disability payments.
• Extends through Dec. 31, 2009, the enhanced tax deduction for contributions of conservation easements which allows all taxpayers to deduct up to 50 percent of their adjusted gross income and carry forward the deduction for up to 15 years and allows farmers and ranchers to deduct up to 100 percent of their AGI for donation of conservation easement.
• Effective for expenditures paid or incurred after Dec. 31, 2008, establishes a tax deduction for the cost of actions to implement site-specific management measures included in recovery plans under the Endangered Species Act.
• Effective for taxable years after Dec. 31, 2009, improves "Aggie Bonds" by increasing loan limit from $250,000 to $450,000 and indexing for inflation. Eliminates dollar limitation in the definition of "substantial farmland." Aggie Bonds are tax-exempt bonds issued by state and local governments to provide low interest loans to first-time farmers and ranchers.
• Effective for taxable years after Dec. 31, 2009, limits amount of farming losses that a taxpayer who receives a direct or countercyclical payment or CCC loan may use to offset non-farm business income to the greater of $300,000 or net farm income the taxpayer has received over the last five years.
• Effective for taxable years after Dec. 31, 2007, modifies the farm optional method so that electing taxpayers may be eligible to secure four credits of Social Security benefit coverage each taxable year and makes similar modification to non-farm optional method.
• For all commodity loans repaid after Jan. 1, 2007, CCC must issue a Form 1099-G to report a market gain associated with the repayment of a CCC loan whether with cash or CCC certificates.
Trade — Repeals GSM-103 and 1 percent cap on GSM-102 to comply with WTO ruling. (GSM-102 and GSM-103 programs underwrite credit extended by the private banking sector in the United States to approved foreign banks, allowing the U.S. banks to offer competitive credit terms). Authorizes $4 billion in credit guarantees.
Market Access Program — $200 million per year.
Research — Replaces Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Services with new National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

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Fly to Hollywood, Fla. to See Kid Rock Live on New Year's Eve
Ring in 2013 with America's number one rebel rap-rocker, Kid Rock.
Enter below for a chance fly with one guest to ridiculously-beautiful Hollywood, Fla. to see Kid Rock perform on New Year's Eve at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. Plus, of course, two nights of rabble rousing at the casino – including $500 to spend any way you want.
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George Michael gets eight weeks in the pen after crashing his 4x4 while high.
Great, now swimming in chlorinated pools can cause cancer.
A spider monkey is on the loose in San Antonio.
A woman in Ohio is arrested for teaching her 2-year-old daughter how to smoke pot.
Apparently, money can buy you happiness according to this study.
Joaquin Phoenix gets another chance to make himself appear a little less odd on Letterman.
According to the FBI, violent crime has decreased in New Mexico.
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Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition is the ultimate Blood Bowl edition! 12 new playable races join the 8 races already available in the 2009 edition. Blood Bowl fans will thus find all their favourite races from the original board game. Undeads, Amazons, Ogres and 9 other races enter Blood Bowl's tournaments. All 20 races have their personal style, tactics and unique skills which give each game a diversity rarely seen in a strategy game.
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Eye Physicians and Surgeons, P.A. has served the eye care needs of the Wilmington, Delaware area for more than 30 years with the latest in laser vision correction, cataract surgery, retina laser and surgery, glaucoma laser and surgery, contact lens care and the treatment of many other eye diseases and routine eye care. We are a team of ophthalmic and optometric professionals who are committed to serving our community with the finest eye care available. Our staff is caring, warm, and friendly, and we recognize each patient as an individual, treating them in the way that we would want to be treated. We offer thorough examinations for each patient, taking the time for a thoughtful, unrushed discussion of our findings and recommendations, including the most advanced treatment options for all eye conditions, serious and routine. Known for many "firsts" in the first State, including Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery, in April 2012, we were again proud to introduce the newest laser refractive surgery technology to Delaware, with the 2016 founding of Laser Vision Delaware, LLC
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We'd like to think that this Chinese sunglass maker who's using Helen Keller to hawk its shades is a simple case of lost in translation. But we're finding it hard to believe that even the crudest of translators wouldn't pick up on the fact that she was completely blind. Even if the designer behind these sunglasses is also named Helen Keller, it's probably not the best idea to go with that for your company name.
Adding insult to injury, the company apparently even uses the tagline "You see the world, the world sees you." The only way it could make things worse was if they were to introduce a line of Helen Keller branded headphones too. But why stop at just her? We're sure a Stephen Hawking branded treadmill would sell just as well... Terrible. [Helen Keller Sunglasses via InventorSpot]


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Harnessing Energy From the Body to Run Devices
Scientists are studying how to tap the energy naturally created by people's bodies—such as heat, sound and movement—to power medical devices without the need to change batteries.
The development, still years from becoming a reality, could spare some of the millions of people with implanted devices like pacemakers from undergoing surgery to replace rundown batteries. Other products, including hearing aids, insulin pumps and pain-management devices, could be made to function without changing batteries, or at least sharply extend their power time. Harnessing the body's energy also could spur development of innovative medical technologies that could potentially monitor the body's inner workings.
In an experiment this month, researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School demonstrated in guinea pigs that it is possible to use energy produced by the inner ear, which is needed for hearing, to power tiny sensors without interfering with the animals' functioning. The researchers say the device, which resembles a semiconductor chip, is small enough to be implanted in the ear one day to monitor problems such as ear infections and hearing loss.
Scientists at other labs are trying to capture and convert energy from heart beats, blood flow, lung contractions and arm and leg movements.
Researchers compare the futuristic devices to solar-powered calculators, which work as long as there is sunlight. Some experts expect the first medical devices that tap the body's energy—known as bioenergy harvesting—could be available within a decade.
Pacemaker batteries typically last for five to 10 years before they wear out and need to be replaced with a new battery using surgery. Currently, there is no way to recharge the pacemaker battery once it's depleted. In the future, the hope is the battery will be continually powered by the energy from one's own heart beat. The ultimate goal "is what I call the perpetual device," says Gene Frantz, an expert in power dissipation and an engineer at semiconductor design and manufacturer Texas Instruments Inc. in Dallas. "It doesn't need to be plugged in or operated with" an external battery, he says. Dr. Frantz studies innovation in integrated circuits, including work from many academics and companies researching bioenergy harvesting.
The task is challenging on a number of fronts. Many biological sources of energy tend to emit very low power and often inconsistently, so the energy needs to be captured and stored, such as with batteries, so it can be used by the device, say researchers. Also, energy storage units have to be limited in size if they're going to fit within the body.
An additional hurdle: the devices must not siphon off too much energy, so as to preserve normal body function, says Paul Kohl, a Georgia Tech professor and director of a center that funds researchers, including the MIT group, with grants from the Semiconductor Research Corp., a technology research consortium.
In the work published earlier this month online in the journal Nature Biotechnology, Konstantina Stankovic, an ear surgeon, teamed up with MIT engineering professor Anantha Chandrakasan to figure out a way to tap a reservoir of energy produced by the inner ear to power a medical device. Scientists have been aware of this source of energy, which we need to use in order to hear properly, for some 60 years, but didn't know how to access it.
The researchers designed tiny electrode sensors that could be implanted in the inner ear and would draw just a small bit of current while maintaining normal hearing, says Dr. Chandrakasan, head of MIT's department of electrical engineering and computer science.
It was an engineering feat to design such an ultra-low-power device considering that the ear produces just 70 to 100 millivolts—not even enough juice to power a conventional electronic circuit like a sensor or Wi-Fi chip. A double-A battery generates more than 10 times that amount of voltage, says Dr. Chandrakasan.
The engineers found a way to kick-start a radio-frequency device wirelessly using an external power source initially, but running the device afterward on the output of power generated by the inner ear. To reduce the need for power, they designed a device to wake up and run only when it was taking measurements from the ear.
Dr. Stankovic, an otologic surgeon at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and a colleague implanted the electrodes into the inner-ear reservoirs of guinea pigs and connected them to the chip outside the animals. The chip, in turn, wirelessly powered a radio-wave device that was located a meter away and measured energy from the ear.
The scientists showed this biological battery was indeed able to be run the radio device and detect the inner-ear environment for about five hours without compromising the guinea pigs' ability to hear. The device is small enough to implant into the middle ear with electrodes connected to the inner ear.
The most immediate application for the device is sensing the inner-ear environment and its vicinity, which can be important to monitor for infection in people with ear disease or a cochlear implant, according to Dr. Stankovic.
Eventually, there may be the possibility that people with some hearing loss could be fitted with these devices to monitor their hearing-loss progression. This could let doctors intervene earlier and possibly help them understand why people lose hearing. The sensors could be used to measure treatment success with those receiving experimental therapies to regrow cells that restore hearing or to deliver drugs.
A University of Michigan team is working on harvesting energy from heart beats to power a pacemaker. M. Amin Karami, an aerospace engineering research fellow, presented data at the American Heart Association annual conference in November showing an experimental energy harvester can convert the energy from the beating of a heart into enough usable electrical energy to, in theory, operate a pacemaker. The harvester hasn't yet been implanted in animals or humans yet.
Their team showed that the device could generate 18 times the amount of energy needed to power a pacemaker using a normal heart beat, according to Dr. Karami. The group measured the vibrations emitted in the chests of pigs and sheep during surgeries, and then used those calculations to estimate how much electrical energy would be generated by the harvester.
"Our next step is to fabricate a complete self-powered pacemaker and examine it with animal tests," wrote Dr. Karami in an email.
At Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, electrical engineering professor Dong Ha and his team are in the early stages of studying how to employ body heat to power a circuit. Energy is generated by the body's adjustments to differences in temperature between the skin and the outside air, which can be harvested. If successful, such a device could be implanted just under the skin, or even worn in a jacket, to power a device, says Dr. Ha.
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I also wonder who decided which parts of cartoon characters have fur and which parts are shaved. Maybe Yogi would like to try different shaving styles sometime.
MAGNIFICENT! haha!
If Milt Gross drew HB characters, the world would be a much better place.
If Gross worked at HB, the look of the cartoons would be radically different, also making Ed Benedict furious.
They look great. All the poses look really dynamic.
Thank you for adding the book, it will help us to know what kind of drawing book will help us to develop our skills. It is kind of hard to find good material.
Hilarious! Gross's style actually does fit H&B, sort of. who would have thunk?
These are great John...along these lines, I'd like to see a hybrid Fred Flintrock and Yogi.
this is really neat to see. You should do more of these.
Wow, those are fantastic!
interesting idea, however i'm not sure if the drawings of huck in the gross style captures his character. I don't want to describe Huck's persona in words, but I think there is something lovable about him being really dumb, casual, and slow to do things that are not translated in these high energy drawings.
Perhaps you could draw people from the south in gross style, maybe it would help capture huck's personality better. (not to say I believe people in the south are dumb, but the mentality there is much different than the north.)
For one thing I'm betting it would be IMPOSSIBLE for the other animators to remain on-model. :)
Ah, and I always wondered about that piece of music, it was the one thing that always stood out in those early HB cartoons for some reason. How much of the music then came from stock to save money? Snooper and Blabber had their own specially-composed incidental music (it's on the Hanna-Barbera CD), so I'm wondering if that was the first H-B series of shorts to actually do that.
haha i love booboo in the last drawing, watching very sneeky behind yogi.
Wow! I love the fusion. I definitely think they'd turn out to be different cartoons if draw like this. I can't recall, but did you do this kind of fusion in any of your own cartoons?
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These are so awesome. Milt Gross meets early Hanna-Barbera! What a great combination.
Next time, could you try combining someone like Rod Scribner or Irv Spence in the mix?
So cool!!
Cool HB pictures. You should own the rights to all the HB characters.
EalaDubh.. H-B used stock music for all of Ruff and Reddy. Huck, Yogi and the Meeces had it for the first three seasons, Quick Draw, Augie and Snooper had it for the first two seasons. Then it was replaced by Hoyt Curtin's stuff.
The Quick Draw show, usually, used different music from the Huck show, though it was all from the same music libraries.
I agree with Bob. I don't know if the Gross style would suit a character like Huck. But I do think the animation on the characters was tamer as the seasons wore on. Carlo Vinci animated Huck and Jinks in ways in the first season you'd never see in the third.
That would have been really cool. But it would have been Zombie Milt Gross, because he was dead by then.
I hate to say it, but that looks like it could be the new modern look on cartoons. That would be neat!
I just read the title of this post and it got me excited. Great drawings John, even your quick doodles have bundles of energy!
This is the grossest thing I've seen in while.
That would be awesome I think, but at the same time would make ol' Ed pissed!


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Banda Islands
The Banda Islands (Kepulauan Banda) are an archipelago in South Maluku (Moluccas), Indonesia.
Other destinations
Once known as the Spice Islands, an epithet also applies to the entire Maluku area, the Bandas were famous as a source of spices, especially nutmeg. First colonized by the Portuguese, the Dutch soon wrested control of the islands and fought the Spice Wars with the British. In the Treaty of Breda in 1667, the British agreed to withdraw and gave up Pulau Run to the Dutch, partly in exchange for one small island on the other side of the world: New Amsterdam, now better known as Manhattan.
Get in
The Bandas are really off the beaten track. Most roads lead through Ambon, from where you can attempt to catch the exclusive perhaps-twice-weekly flight with NBA (previously operated by Merpati)(Wednesday and Friday, around Rp 320 000 one way). Flights oftenly get canceled due to bad weather and engine problems, so keep reconfirming! Please note that you cannot book a round trip from Ambon. You will need to book the return flight in Bandaneira! Occasionally Merpati serves Bandaneira from Amahai on Pulau Seram. Check upon arrival in Ambon!
An alternative is the rather more regular but still unpredictable twice-monthly Pelni ferry (KM Ciremai) to Bandaneira, usually it leaves Ambon on Saturday afternoon (7 hrs). Every other week a 150 passenger boat (KM Gravilla) is leaving for Banda (Rp 155.000, around 15hrs). Check at the small harbour in Ambon!
Get Around
Getting around on Bandaneira is either by foot, ojek or becak. The furthermost village in the north is a 45 minute walk. However most places of interest to tourists (airport, harbour, market, colonial houses, Pelni office) are within walking distance or located in the town of Bandaneira.
Access to other islands is provided by boat. Regular connections go to Pulau Banda Besar and Pulau Ai, the latter usually leaving during morning hours. Other islands can be reached for day-trips by chartered boats (Pulau Hatta Rp 500,000/day; Pulau Pisang + Batu Kapal Rp 350,000/day; Half-Day tour to the Lava Stream north of Gunung Api Rp 120,000). For mountain hikes up to Gunung Api local fishermen are more than happy to carry you across for Rp 10,000 each way.
There are no bars or restaurants serving alcoholic drinks in Bandaneira. However some guesthouses have chilled beer (Rp 30,000 per big bottle Bintang) and fresh juices (Rp 15,000).
Stay safe
Bandaneira is generally a safe place for tourists and there are no annoyances like in other Indonesian cities. Traffic is very little and calm.
Warning: There have been frequent reports of pickpocketing at the ferry terminal. The jostle upon arrival of the big Pelni boat is an ideal place to remove the wallet out of your pocket or to cut your money belt. It is advised to pay high attention and store your valuables safely!
Keep in mind that Indonesian ferries have generally low safety standards. In particular overloaded small boats e.g. to Pulau Ai might be hazardous during rough sea.
Other Information
There is still no ATM machine on the Banda Islands! The local BRI branch will not change any money. You might be able changing US$ to Rp at some guesthouses at an unfavorable rate of around Rp 8,000 for US$ 1. Therefore, come prepared and bring sufficient cash from Ambon or Tual.
For the time being there are only two mobile phone operators on the Banda Islands: Telkomsel and XL. SIM cards and top-up for the two providers can be bought in Bandaneira. Reception on Pulau Ai is limited to XL and is only available at the jetty.
Internet is available at Mutiara Guesthouse and the local school. Connections are unreliable and slow.
Get out
the prices are not correct as of dec 2011
-Mutiara buffet is 80.000 -Delfika guesthouses are missing


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Labor's primary vote stands at just 30 per cent, according to a Herald/Nielsen poll published in Fairfax newspapers.
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On a two-party-preferred basis, Labor's support is at 45 per cent, well behind the 55 per cent for the Coalition.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has also overtaken Julia Gillard in the preferred prime minister stakes, with his support leaping by 9 percentage points to 49 per cent compared with Ms Gillard on 45.
The national poll of 1400 voters found the gap between Ms Gillard and former prime minister Kevin Rudd has also grown, with Mr Rudd favoured by 61 per cent of respondents to just 35 per cent for her.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Former MIT men's basketball player and current assistant coach, Bill Johnson, recently signed a contract to play with ARBA-San Ramon, of the Costa Rican professional league, Liga Superior de Baloncesto. Johnson was also a member of the Class of 2005 at Kamiak High School in Mukilteo, Wash., where he was a standout on the school's basketball team.
Johnson '10 joined the coaching staff at MIT following one of the most successful careers in Institute history. The two-time captain, who was part of three 20-win seasons, finished his career as the all-time wins leader in MIT history, the 23rd player to reach the 1,000-point milestone, and finished in the top 10 all-time in three-point percentage, free throw percentage, and blocked shots. Johnson was two-time conference Player of the Week, a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) All-Conference selection, and earned a spot in the NEBCA Division III All-Star Game in 2010. His 40 points versus Clark University on February 18, 2009 sits behind Jimmy Bartolotta '09 and David Koch '62 as the 3rd highest point total in a game in Institute history.
During Johnson's first season on the bench, the Cardinal and Gray recorded a third-straight 20-win season and captured its second NEWMAC title in three years. The Engineers advanced to the NCAA Division III tournament for the third year in a row, defeating Ithaca College in the first round and coming just one game short of the National Sweet 16.
Johnson graduated MIT with a degree in Management Science with a concentration in Finance, a degree in Political Science with a concentration in International Studies, as well as minors in Economics and Theater.
At Kamiak, Johnson was a team captain for the 2004-2005 Knights, along with All-WESCO selection Sean Hermes and former Montana State quarterback Mark Iddins, while helping lead the Mukilteo school to its first and only WESCO 4A Conference Championship and first State Playoff appearance in the school's history.
Johnson takes his talents to San Ramon, COSTA RICA, where he will help ARBA-San Ramon try to capture its first LBS Championship in team history. He also will be working with a non-profit organization, "Beyond Study Abroad," which connects college athletes with disadvantaged communities in the region.


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I was hoping I could have some reccomendations for books that focus on the orthodox belief, and i'm hoping it will really give me the orthodox mindset. Even books written in serbian will be fine, for you serb members on this site.
By the types of things you are having issues with it seems that you have been listening to or speaking with Protestants/Non-Denominationalists/Free-Churchers, so I'd suggest a book geared towards Protestants even though you are from an Orthodox background. I'd try The Way: What Every Protestant Should Know About the Orthodox Church by Clark Carltonhttp://www.amazon.com/Way-Protestant-Orthodox-Church-Catechism/dp/0964914123/sr=8-1/qid=1160799787/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-0254817-5611926?ie=UTF8He also has a book called The Faith which is an explanation of Orthodoxy for Orthodox.Anastasios
When I was Catholic, I enjoyed Carlton and found him to be more grounded than for instance Michael Whelton (who I enjoyed AFTER converting to be Orthodox since I then agreed with him LOL, or maybe I was not ready to accept what he had to say back then). That's why I recommended him; I didn't think he was that hardcore. Sometimes it's hard to be nice when talking to Protestants I find; while as everyone on this site knows I am an advocate of being respectful of other people and their positions, I myself have a hard time sometimes when people accuse us of Mary worship, etc., and I cannot in any way relate to evangelical Protestantism, which even when I was Lutheran, seemed absolutely bizarre and unhistorical to me and my family. So I'm sorry if you thought the book was harsh; I never found it to be but I guess we have different ideas of what "harsh" is.Anastasios
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'Photojournalism as a profession has taken a bit of a nosedive in recent years. Although I've been fortunate enough to be in continuous employment, I'm not immune to the longer-term trend, which is pretty desperate if you're talking about make a living. I took a strategic decision to get more into video and it's been reasonably successful.'
Aftermath - The Japanese Tsunami from Dan Chung on Vimeo.
What sort of work are you doing now?'Initially I was shooting a lot of web video for The Guardian which I still do, but now I'm shooting more and more for TV, news, plus the odd advert here and there. I took the decision to stay basically within documentary and news shooting rather than go off and try and be a Hollywood filmmaker just yet!'
'I don't really see a future in photojournalism, if I'm completely honest, as a way to earn a living. But also there are a lot of creative opportunities with moving images that you couldn't possibly dream of doing with stills. I'm surprised though that relatively few other photographers have made that conversion.'
Why do you think that is?'I divide my time between the UK and China and it seems to me that photojournalists in the UK have been really slow to adopt video whereas China and in fact Asia in general there's a much higher take-up and the same is true of the US.'
'A lot of it has to do with what editors are asking photographers to do and my impression is that editors are basically asking for video more in the US and Asia than they are in the UK. I've been running DSLR video workshops in the UK now for a year and they're always packed out, so there's obviously an appetite there, but it's early days.'
North Korea's Military parade in Slow Motion from Dan Chung on Vimeo.
Was moving to video a hard choice for you?'It wasn't really a choice at all. The way I look at it is convert or die. It's a very steep learning curve but once you get into it, it's like anything - you get into your stride and away you go. I'm constantly amazed by the fact that amateurs seem to do a much better job of adapting to new ways of working than professionals.'
'If you look at Vimeo.com there's a lot of really good stuff on there, shot by amateurs. A lot of them have come from a stills photography background, and might have never shot a movie before, haven't been to film school, and don't know one end of a video camera from the other, but that doesn't stop them from going out and shooting great-looking videos.'
What does the future hold?'The arrival of DSLR video has been a great creative revolution and in the long run I think the beneficiaries are actually amateurs. Maybe they don't know it yet, and maybe not all of them realise the potential of video. Things like Nikon's Motion Snapshot mode on the V1 and J1 might seem kind of wacky right now, but maybe in a few years time functions like that will be perfectly normal.'
'I'm very upbeat about DSLR video actually, and I think it's here to stay. The functionality is getting better and better, and it's giving lots of people an opportunity to start doing some really creative multimedia shooting, mixing stills and video and everything else.'
Mongolian Racer from Dan Chung on Vimeo.
'We're looking at the tip of the iceberg really. Broadcast professionals have already figured out what to do with this technology and are using it, and are investing in a new generation of more expensive, pro-oriented cameras. For the rest of us, the increase in quality in DSLR video from a new generation of cameras like the Nikon D4 and the Canon EOS 1-DX means is that you don't need to go out and spend tens of thousands of dollars in order to compete.'
'Increasingly, as an enthusiast or semi-pro videographer, the quality of DSLR video is getting so good that it really doesn't matter what you shoot on. The technology isn't the barrier any more, the barrier is imagination.'
About Dan ChungAward-winning photojournalist and videomaker Dan Chung made his name working as a staff photographer at both The Guardian and Reuters news agency, and has since pioneered the use of
DSLRs in filmmaking, particularly in news coverage.
Iraqi families leave Basra via a bridge manned by British soldiers, in March 2003. This photo earned Dan the Photographer Of The Year Award at The Picture Editor Awards 2004. (Dan Chung, Pool Photo)
Dan's many accolades include the Picture Editors' Guild Photographer of the Year 2004, the Nikon Press Photographer of the Year awards in 2002 and he also won the Digital film category in the 2011 Press Photographer's Year.
Dan now lives and works in China, but travels the world on assignment. He also runs the industry blog www.dslrnewsshooter.com


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Justin Timberlake partners with Bud Light Platinum
The singer's first ad for the company will air during the Grammy Awards.
He might wear a Suit & Tie, but Justin Timberlake has no problem swigging a beer. The singer has partnered up with Bud Light Platinum, where he'll serve as the brand's creative director.
"Bud Light Platinum brings a refined, discerning aesthetic to beer that plays well with what I'm doing," Timberlake said in a statement released Thursday. "I'm looking forward to not only being a part of the creative process, but in bringing other talented musicians to the forefront as well."
The partnership kicks off during Sunday's Grammy Awards, when Timberlake appears in a new 60-second Bud Light Platinum ad, Platinum Night. The spot will, of course, feature Timberlake's new single Suit & Tie.
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I have forwarded a few of the more negative comments to Dr. Erdmann and I think his words help explain the context. I hope this helps everyone understand.
Mark's reply: "Thank you for your email of concern about the image of Dr. Gerry Allen and I photographing a new species in Cendrawasih Bay. I very much respect your concern, and I have no desire to create a polemic, but I do feel it may be of use for me to quickly clarify this photograph. Firstly, I note that Burt Jones and Maurine Shimlock should be absolved of any responsibility or blame; they were accompanying a scientific expedition (biodiversity survey) to Cendrawasih Bay with my organization (Conservation International) and were simply documenting the scientific process. As for the scientific equipment that is seen laying on the substrate in the photograph, this is indeed a real-life situation after I had just collected a new species of cryptic dottyback fish from 70m depth and we were taking specimen shots to document the live colouration of the fish for the purposes of the scientific description of the new species. I can imagine that this photograph may look as if there was significant coral crushing going on, but I can only assure you that:
a) the scientific equipment was carefully placed on the reef in a manner so as to not break any coral;
b) though Dr. Allen and I are indeed very close to the substrate to get the shot required for the description of the fish, both of us have well over 10,000 dives under our respective belts and most definitely are not "laying on the coral" and crushing it.
c) though the process of collecting and documenting new species may seem objectionable to some (and I certainly respect that opinion), it is in fact a "necessary evil" if new species are to be described and our global biodiversity heritage cataloged properly. I note that our efforts to describe patterns of biodiversity across the East Indies (and especially to highlight areas like Cendrawasih Bay that have high numbers of endemic species found nowhere else in the world) have helped governments in the region to prioritize where they invest conservation dollars and has led to the gazetting of millions of hectares of new marine parks - including the 1.5 million hectare park that now protects the marine biodiversity of Cendrawasih Bay.
Again, I have no desire to quarrel and I very much respect your concern for diver/photographer behaviour on reefs. I only note that the activity documented in this image is an important part of the scientific process that documents new species and directs governmental attention for conservation efforts, and I can assure you that we actively strive to minimize any damage to the reefs from our surveys. Thank you for your concern on behalf of the world's reefs - I can only affirm that we also share this concern. Thanks for your understanding."
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (Oct. 24, 2009) - Led by junior Grega Teraz (Mojstrana, Slovenia), the ETSU men's tennis team continued its great showing Saturday at the tough Wilson ITA Ohio Valley Regional inside the Varsity Tennis Center at Indiana University.
Teraz, a 2008 Atlantic Sun Conference Second-team member, picked up two wins on the day. During the morning session Teraz made quick work of Eastern Kentucky Alex Das Izquierdo 6-2, 6-1, while later in the afternoon the Mojstrana, Slovenia native showed his toughness with an outstanding 7-5, 7-5 Round of 16 win over Vanderbilt senior Vijay Paul. With his two victories Saturday, Teraz now sits with 7-1 mark this season, including two wins over No. 8 ranked Tennessee - No. 20 Boris Conkic and Matteo Fago -- players and a victory over Peter Frank of No. 38 ranked South Florida.
"Really what can you say other than Grega is playing outstanding right now," said head coach Yaser Zaatini. "He's played extremely solid in this tournament and really has all fall. The confidence and willpower Grega is showing is something that I'm truly proud of. He's always had great ability and talent and now he simply believes that he's going to perform at that top level everytime he takes the court."
Also in action for the Bucs Saturday was senior Daniel Isaza (Medellin, Colombia), who picked up a remarkable three set win over No. 62 ranked and fifth seed Viktor Maksimcuk of Louisville 6-1, 1-6, 7-6 (5). Unfortunately, for the Buc captain Isaza's run would come to end after falling to Fago of Tennesse 6-1, 6-3.
Also picking up one-on-one wins was freshman Jesus Bandres (Caracas, Venezuela), who defeated Davey Sandgren of the Vols in straight sets 6-4, 7-6 (3), before falling just short of the quarterfinals with a loss to Kentucky's No. 70th ranked Eric Quigley 6-2, 6-1.
Rounding out the singles scores for the Bucs was junior Charles Bottoni (Bois Guillaume, France), and sophomore Sander Gille (Kuringen, Belgium). Bottoni fell in a long-close contest to Victor Malo of in-state rival MTSU. The second-year Buc earned the first set 6-3, before Malo stromed back to take the final two sets 6-4, 6-2. Gille, fell to EKU's Alex Das in another long three-set match 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.
"Again today our guys continued to fight hard every match," said head coach Zaatini. "Sander and Charley (Charles) both fought hard and had a chance to win, but both of them ran out of gas a little at the end. Danny played great against a sturdy opponent in Maksimcuk. To comeback from being down 3-0 in the final set and win, showed true determination. Then if you look at Jesus, who comes into his first regional as a freshman and beats a senior in Sandgren, it just shows the confidence he's playing with."
In doubles action ETSU's two highlights came as Gille and Bandres defeated Purdue's No. 1 squad and ninth seeded team of Bijelica and Rose, 9-8 (2), while Bottoni and Teraz advanced to Sunday's Round of 8 with a pair of victories. The ETSU junior team earned wins over Tennessee's Fago and Brewer 8-5, before advancing past MTSU's Peers and Malo.
Attached above is a link to day three results of the Wilson ITA Ohio Valley Regional in Bloomingdale, Indiana.
For more on the championship ETSU men's tennis team please, visit ETSUBucs.com.


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J.D. Power and Associates has reaffirmed that the dealership F&I experience has a big effect on what customers think of the factory and the lender that finances the deal.
The research and consulting firm is about to unveil results of the 2012 Consumer Financing Satisfaction Study. The survey was redesigned and revived after a four-year hiatus. Paid subscribers to the study were expected to see the results starting Tuesday, Dec. 11. J.D. Power planned to release excerpts to the public Thursday, Dec. 13.
Based on a separate survey, the 2012 Dealer Financing Satisfaction Study, there's also a high correlation between dealers' satisfaction with auto lenders and customers' loyalty to the same lenders, J.D. Power said.
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Leighton Meester and Ed Westwick get intimately close in this new still from Gossip Girl.
In next week's episode "Monstrous Ball," After Eleanor (Margaret Colin) gives Blair (Meester) an ultimatum, Blair is even more determined to remedy Waldorf Designs' problems by making a splash with a dress at the upcoming Cotillion, but a shocking revelation at the ball affects everyone.
Serena (Blake Lively) becomes worried about Steven's (Barry Watson) attitude toward her, but after some investigating she discovers the surprising reason why.
Meanwhile, Dan (Penn Badgley) publishes another article, but the effect is just the opposite of what he was hoping for.
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March 4, 2009
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UC Santa Barbara head swim coach Gregg Wilson earned his 26th career Big West Coach of the Year honor it was announced on Wednesday by the conference. Wilson was named Women's Coach of the Year for the fourth consecutive season and for the 12th time in his career, while Kevin Ferguson was named the 2009 Men's Freshman of the Year.
Both of the awards come on the heels of the Gaucho men's and women's victories at the 2009 Big West Conference Swimming and Diving Championships last weekend at Bellmont Plaza. The Gaucho women won their 13th conference crown and their fourth straight and the men won their 28th all-time team title.
Ferguson, who hails from Sacramento, Calif., had an excellent Big West meet in his first year of competition. He took home the individual title in the 100 back (48.61), and also was a member of UCSB's champion 200 medley relay and 400 free relay. In the 400 free relay, Ferguson and his teammates Bradley Matsumoto, Kevin Kuhn and Scott Vogelgesang broke the meet, conference and the longest standing school record with a time of 2:54.93.
Ferguson was the lone freshman to win an individual event at the league meet and swam the fastest 100 free split (43.30) - tying Matsumoto - in the 400 free relay.
Wilson led the Gaucho women to their fourth consecutive Big West title, matching the 1987-90 UCSB teams for the most consecutive league titles in the program history. The UCSB women won 11 event titles at the Big West Championships, finished third at the Husky Invitational in December and had six Big West Athlete of the Week honors this season.
The Gauchos will be back in action at the NCAA Championships being held at Texas A&M during the weeks of Mar. 19-21 (women) and Mar. 26-28 (men).
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Hi Dany,
How are you?
>I would be very glad, if you improve my mistakes.<
I wouldn't say "improve my mistakes" here. This is really saying "make my mistakes better". I don't think you want your mistakes to be better.
I would say this: I would be very glad if you corrected my mistakes.
or: I would be very glad if you could correct my errors. (mistakes)
It's possible, however, to make improvements in writing that doesn't have any mistakes to begin with.
correction: When do I have to use "already" and when do I have to use "yet". - or: How do we use "already" and "yet"?
The auxiliary "do" is important.
Use "yet" for negative statements and questions.
Use "already" for positive statements and questions.
Have you gone shopping yet? No, I haven't gone shopping yet.
Have you already gone shopping? Yes, I've already gone shopping.
In Amercan English "already" and "yet" are sometimes used with the simple past. However, if you're doing any sort of formal writing, then it's best to use "already" and "yet" with the present perfect or past perfect.
The ordinary and simple idea that my example sentences communicate allow for the simple past to be used in American English.
Did you go shopping yet? Yes, I already went shopping.
Did you do that yet? Yes, I already did that. No, I didn't do that yet.
Have you done that yet? Yes, I've already done that.
Have you already done that? No, I haven't done that yet.
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An Everlasting Mark Of Infamy
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
"I cannot accept, your canon that we are to judge pope and king unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."… Lord Acton
What will it take to convince Americans that the people we place in office ought to be of high moral character? I no longer think it is even possible. I no longer think Americans even care… as evidenced by the results of the presidential election, and numerous congressional elections, and even state and local elections around the country in 2008 and again in 2012.
We have become so accustomed to self serving, double-dealing, dishonest, greedy, callous, crafty, deceitful, duplicitous politicians that we now accept it as "normal". What that says about Americans, as a people, is absolutely shameful. What it says about the future of America is terrifying!
I dare say ancient Rome was not as corrupt as America is today. We have managed to dumb down our populace, the voter base, the electorate, concerning what is expected of public servants, until we think nothing of electing to public office people of such low morals they ought not be allowed IN PUBLIC, let alone serve in a public office. Nowadays, the use of the phrase "choosing the lesser of two evils," when describing our choice of candidates, is in regular use… and we don't even raise an eyebrow. Why? Because it is true!
James L. Buckley once said: " What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes." He was spot on!
I am not surprised at the corruption of our politicians. How could I be? How could YOU be? It is we who elected them. It is we, the people of America, who bear the shame and the guilt for placing these people of low repute in offices that good men fought, bled, and died on foreign and domestic battlefields to secure for us. Do we not understand that we have disgraced our heritage? Do we not understand that we have brought shame upon our ancestors, upon our forefathers, upon The Founders of this nation, and… upon ourselves for not being good citizens and good stewards of this priceless jewel of a country?
Too long have we abrogated our singular duty to study the foundations of this country, the constitution of this country, the legal/judiciary system of this country, and, just as important, the government of this country, and… the way that government was intended to operate. We haven't done any of this.
Our public education system has failed, utterly, in educating our young about their heritage as Americans. It has failed at instilling pride in our young as Americans. The angry cries of "nationalism" have drowned out "patriotism" until one is frowned upon for any public display of pride in America. There is something intrinsically wrong about that! In modern day America education has been devalued while ignorance is celebrated… even unto the voting booth! It is revolting!
Yes, I am angry. It is an anger born of frustration. I am frustrated with my fellow Americans who absolutely refused to see that substance does trump style every time. The percentage of the electorate who voted to place a man in office, primarily because of the color of his skin and, secondly, his eloquent way with words, have done America a huge disservice. The cost is going to be monumental, biblical, even.
One of the great men of the American Revolution, Samuel Adams, said this: "The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men."
I would draw your attention to the last portion of the last sentence above: "… or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." THAT is precisely where we find ourselves in America today. And we have no one, no one, to blame… but ourselves.
J. D. Longstreet


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