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Adieu to 2012; Welcome 2013 by Angel Perkins
Last week we looked back at some of the major events that happened in your local area in the last year. This time of year many people have made resolutions, promises to themselves, and often others, that they plan to work on to better their (or others around them) lives in some way.
I have a personal promise I make to myself each year at this time and that is: not to make resolutions. Why set myself up for possible failure when life does that for me all by itself? Of course I am a work in progress — we all are — so picking a time to do that seems better a goal one would address at their birthday rather than the close of a calendar year.
I don't set goals then either, other than trying not to cry when I realize I have to answer people with a larger number when they ask my age. This time of year instead of resolving to change, I reflect on what all life dealt me in the past 365 days and hope and pray that it only gets better, or that I've learned from the challenges the year just passed to better deal with what lies ahead. I pride myself for accomplishments and admonish myself for things I didn't do that I should have — or that I did do but didn't do in the best way I could have.
Take hiding things from myself — what I like to call "putting things up in a safe place." I do that often and then don't handle it well. I get frantic to find the gift, receipt, form, or what-have-you and then start blaming other people for moving it at the same time I'm asking them for help. Not a good way to handle people who are probably the only people that are going to save me from myself.
Another thing I don't handle well is my mouth. I say things before I think, something that I could blame on my upbringing, my heritage or my genetic pool. I could blame it on the circumstances, my ADHD, or on the day's input, but it boils down to the fact that the little voice in one's head that whispers when to stop is instead thinking in my head the same thing my mouth is rambling — rude, inappropriate, hurtful or not.
I'm not a monster. I know monsters. I read about them in the news and see them on television. I've also met a few — but I do have things that I need to work on that doesn't take a holiday to recognize in myself. I also reflect on what I did that was good and make a point to do something often — regardless of how large or small the effort. I could count my blessings like some do, but again, that's something I do regularly so no annual event prompts it.
The New Year holiday does get me a little nostalgic. It happens when that song starts playing, Auld Lang Syne. It signifies the end of something that I was a miniscule part of — the world. And in the past year a lot has happened. There has been tragedy: crazy shooters at movie theaters and schools; suicide bombers; sinking cruise ships; fires; floods; even a hurricane.
And there has been downfall: Jason Russell of the Kony 2012 movement cracked under the pressure; sexual and political scandals (Armstrong, Petraeus, Madoff, Sandusky …. ugh, too many to list); and the rise in popularity of videos, shows and trends including the introduction of "Gangnam style," Honey Boo Boo and the mustache invasion. Don't even get me started with Hostess.
There have been history-making (or breaking depending on your preferences) — events like several states legalizing marijuana for personal purposes and same-sex marriage, teachers being graded for their performance and some of them picketing for their rights. There was societal acceptance of reading soft-core porn in public; Encyclopedia Britannica, announced it will no longer print volumes; an Austrian broke the sound barrier with his body; the royal family announce a pregnancy, celebrated the queen's Diamond Jubilee and addresses a lot of skin scandals; and a Swiss scientist found what is called The God particle, revered as a key to understanding of all mass in the universe.
And, there has also been progress: a Mars landing (not really sure what the point was but to say "woo-hoo; we did it!"); and there has been joy: selflessness was shown on many occasions: an officer gave a cold man a pair of boots (let's try not to think about what happened afterward); a young track star led her opponent over the finish line — in front of her — after she fell; a deaf girl heard for the first time with a bionic ear; and … take that Mayans; the world didn't end!
And those things are what we need to shoot for. With every passing year there is change in the world, and as long as we are alive, we are part of it, so we have a responsibility to make it better for ourselves and others. So if you made resolutions, add a couple more. Smile. Compliment someone. Offer some of what you have. Read to a child or to a senior citizen. Volunteer to do something … anything — and make a resolution not to let the ugly outweigh the lovely in 2013.


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Friday, April 27, 2012
Also, Marwin Gonzalez has been placed on the paternity list, so it seems that congratulations are in order.
To complement these two moves, the Astros have brought up Fernando Abad and hot-hitting Brian Bixler from Oklahoma City. Bixler has been flat-out raking at OKC, hitting .364/.417/.545 in his last ten games - and that's after going 2x12 with 6K:1BB in his last three games.
I'm quite surprised the Astros didn't call up a starter to replace Weiland. Under the current schedule, the rotation would go:
Today: Wandy
Saturday: Harrell
Sunday: Norris
Monday: Happ
Tuesday: Wandy
So unless the Astros plan on making another change in advance of Tuesday's start, Wandy would go on short rest, or some reliever will make a spot start. Unless there's something I'm just not thinking of...
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Maybe they are lining up the AAA starters to be ready for the Tuesday start and bringing up Abad in the interim. It is puzzling, but I doubt Wandy goes on four days.
- April 27, 2012 at 12:23 PM
maybe they go with Abad or Cruz on Tuesday...or maybe have them each go 3 or 4 innings
- April 27, 2012 at 12:46 PM
- Chris said...
Both of those comments were dumb as hell. Abad or Cruz to start and go 3-4 innings each?? What the hell are you talking about?
And it's Friday, they wouldn't be "lining up the AAA starts" to get ready for a Tuesday start. On regular rest, the Tuesday starter, if coming from AAA, started yesterday, which was Henry Sosa, who I could see as the Tuesday starter.
Probably bulking up the bullpen for the weekend series, and will swap Abad & Sosa after Sunday's games to get Sosa up here for the Tuesday start.
Some people, man....
- April 27, 2012 at 3:56 PM
Dude, you're the idiot. Lining up starts is not unusual. If a pitcher was scheduled for Sunday, but they were lining him up for Tuesday, they throw him a few tuneup innings on Sunday or so to keep him fresh. Even DeShaies was talking about it. With that much lead time, you don't need to be stuck with your scheduled AAA or AA starter. Learn something before you spout off stupid shit.
- April 28, 2012 at 12:23 AM

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With last year's Batman: Arkham Asylum nearly achieving mythical status, receiving the "Most Critically Acclaimed Superhero Game Ever Guinness World Record, it's not exactly a secret that its sequel is fervently awaited. It's called Batman: Arkham City, and much of the same creative team will be involved, which is always a plus for a sequel, particularly when its predecessor was so popular. Rocksteady has said that Arkham City builds upon the dark, atmospheric Batman mood established in the original. As the title and slogan "Arkham has moved imply, the scope of the action expands from the constraints of the last game's insane asylum to the thick of Gotham City.
This is because Quincy Sharp, the old warden of Arkham Asylum, has become Gotham's mayor, and decides to relocate inmates to a heavily-guarded slum overseen by the dubious psychiatrist, Hugo Strange. Meanwhile, Two-Face, looking to up his badass quotient, decides to publicly execute Catwoman in the compound, hoping to gain the admiration and respect of Arkham's rapscallions and his fellow villains. Once Batman catches wind of the scheme, he decides to infiltrate Arkham City and save his one-time love interest. With the Joker, Harley Quinn, and Mr. Freeze all slated for appearances, the cast of Arkham City is going to be an all-star one.
In addition to rescuing his girlfriend (or girl-foe), the Caped Crusader is also bent on uncovering the gritty details of Dr. Hugo Strange's past, as well as his true intentions for Arkham City's inhabitants. The sequel's story seems fairly complex, and Rocksteady says that there will be more plot-fueling interaction between Batman and villains, not just back-and-forth pummeling.
Part detective, part tech hound, and part ninja, Batman utilizes the same combination of gadgets and martial arts he did in the first installment. In fact, you'll start the game with all the items you acquired in the last game, and some of them will even have different or added properties. There'll also be new ones like smoke bombs and tracking devices. A notable difference in the battle system will be glorious group brawls, with more enemies attacking you at once than in Arkham Asylum. In this way, you'll get the sense that Arkham City is the African savannah of Gotham, with ferocious packs fighting to claim turf and Batman just voluntarily wandering in. He'll be able to taunt enemies and even bust down walls, giving players the element of surprise over their adversaries.
But make no mistake, it doesn't sound like the game will be using action and battles as crutches. This time, we're promised more puzzles and opportunities to actively help Batman figure things out and solve problems. The Riddler's challenges are back, but tougher, and we'll be able to interrogate enemies, access a criminal database, analyze radio frequencies, and assist Batman with forensic reports. Trophies will also be more difficult to win. However, Detective Mode, a skill Batman used in the previous game to locate hiding spots, enemies, and secret goodies, will be altered in Arkham City. Rocksteady recognized players relied on it too heavily, so its usefulness will probably be toned down this go-around.
Supplementing the main adventure are side-missions for the supporting cast, like the dagger-happy serial killer Victor Zsasz, who's scarred with self-inflicted tally marks representing his victims. He also appeared in the original game and will reportedly be one of a few characters whose points of view are represented throughout Arkham City. With DC Comics writer Paul Dini returning to pen the game's story, we can likely expect another rich, quality plot.
There has been no word on any sort of online play or multiplayer modes, however. If included, they'd run the risk of making it feel tacked-on, like so many games do with multiplayer modes. But if single player is anything like the one in Arkham Asylum, we probably don't have anything to be worried about.
Finally, several voice actors have confirmed reprisals of their roles in Batman's latest gaming adventure. Mark Hamill stars as the Joker (he says this'll be the last time he'll play the role), Kevin Conroy as Batman, and Wally Wingert as the Riddler.
Arkham Asylum left some pretty massive bat boots to fill, and it looks like its sequel is going to have no problems stepping up to the plate. An official release date has yet to be confirmed, but we're told Batman: Arkham City will hit stores sometime fall 2011.
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Darrell Issa Puts Old Leaked TPP IP Text Up For Discussion
from the why-isn't-ron-kirk-doing-this? dept
Issa recognizes how this is dangerous to a functioning democracy, when our federal government is negotiating deals in back rooms, despite the fact they will have a massive impact on the public:
"At a time when the American people and Internet users all around the world are rightfully wary of any closed-door negotiations that could adversely impact their ability to freely and openly access the Internet, the Obama Administration continues to pursue a secretive, closed-door negotiating process for the Trans Pacific Partnership," Issa said. "I have decided to publish the intellectual property rights chapter of TPP in Madison so that the public can provide input to those negotiating this agreement, and to push this Administration - and the federal government as a whole - to be open, transparent and inclusive when it comes to international intellectual property rights agreements that have potentially serious consequences for the Internet community."Again, it's great that he's added this text to the Madison platform, but it's disappointing that it's still the old leaked version, rather than anything more up to date. The version he posted is now 15 months old, and there have been a bunch of additional negotiations since then. Still, it's good to see others in the federal government trying to encourage discussion on this agreement, even if the USTR continues to hide in secrecy (unless you're a big corporate lobbyist, of course).


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|2013-01-14, 17:23
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LOL, she could be the mysterious Sumadera killer.
They actually wanted the Ushiromiya's money so they gave Ange something to make her look like she was sick and therefore couldn't travel then killed all the Ushiromiya so that Ange would inherit and they could control Ange.
Eva's survival put a loophole in their plan but Eva didn't have the guts to tell Ange her mom's family planned to off her so she just stole Ange from the Sumadera and put her under tight security.
Anyway she couldn't tell the police as she had no proofs and was afraid if she were to try to put the Sumadera in a corner they would send more killers.
Oh, by the way, Erika was in truth Amakusa's older sister. Amakusa was planning to discover what happened to her so he tried working for Eva but then got fond of Ange because somehow she reminded him of Erika.
And that's the truth of Prime.
Oh, about the bomb? Erika somehow escaped from Eva and hid in the house. To get rid of her as she believed Erika had already killed everyone Eva used extreme measures as typical of some horror and action movies to make sure Erika would be dead...
PieceBattler could be acting according to a plan prepared by Shannon, as everyone else moved in the other episodes according to Yasu's plans, and this would explain why Kanon left the room. Because Yasu was following her own agenda.
As Meta Battler knows the trick behind ShKanon he merely created a story in which that trick was the real one used, although on the surface apparently he was supposed to use another, then let Erika unravel the 'surface trick' and refused to use the real one.
It's like saying I know another trick to put a candy in an upturned cup that's different by the obvious solution but I won't let you know which is, so when you tell me you only faked closing your eyes and I'll insist you didn't saw me put the candy under the cup I'll end up in an apparent logic error about how the candy was placed under the cup.
Actually I've a second solution up on my sleeve but I'll let someone else expose it.
In short I'm not saying MetaBattler is completely incompetent, just that he's not genius either. He's more something in between that could have failed to guess some things in early episodes but then could have learnt to play the game better and have come up with interesting ideas for his own games.
Plus in Ep 5 & 6 Battler is in a pretty different situation.
Ep 5 assumes that PieceBattler knows that there are no dead people nor scary Beato's message so he can be calmer in how he solves things (for example Kinzo's escape) and in Ep 6 he's playing a game.
At the same time MetaBattler had learnt many tricks, had been given knox and, in Ep 6 he has figured out how the game work. He's bound to do better of Ep 1 MetaBattler.
The mangaka makes quite clear the tale is Dawn by writing it on the cover of the book and showing scenes of it when he could have avoided both things.
Also didn't Will said something about Battler's tale for Beato being a thing and Lion's existence being another? I can't remember the exact sentence nor find it tonight, it seems, but the way Will put it seemed to clearly imply Battler's tale for Beato is Dawn, not Requiem.
(though there had been a time where I too thought it could be requiem, to be honest... :P)
If we go with the 'PieceErika is mad' theory the letter could exist solely in Erika's mind. After all, are we sure that Erika's boyfriend cheated her or it was Erika who was paranoid and assumed innocent things were actually proofs of betrayal?
And okay... tonight I'm having fun with Erika being mad theory.
She seems a Mary Sue in Ep 3&4, coming to resque Battler and being smarter than him in guessing some things, although we know Ange isn't mystery expert contrary to Battler, she's probably not so strong or else she could have beaten up or tried to the people who bullied her and that according to her Battler was reliable.
Instead she's the one who goes to save him and that dies in a heroic sacrifice.
Also in Ep 4 she can .... make the Sakutarou's red Beato wanted to use void as if she was on a highter level than Beato.
In Ep 8 this could explain Battler's denial to give her a solution. Battler is in her mind and represent the side of her who just wants to believe in her family being made only of nice people.
After all Battler was resurrected by Ange during his fight with Bern as if he was her piece.
And note how Ange in Ep 8 is jealous of Battler and Beato and annoyed at how she seems to believe his family is in the golden land having fun while she's left out. It matches with Battler marrying Beato and forgetting to come back to her in Ep 6.
Natsuhi won't confess so continue with that torture is useless.
However, if Yasu secretly went on killing people (after all Krauss was killed so someone died prior to the bomb's explosion) this could cause her plan to blow up as the truth could end up being discovered. After all, if Battler confesses it was all a trick, people would end up trying to call Krauss and Co and if they turn up dead... well, I'm not sure Yasu would manage to have accomplices.
However the bomb ends up killing everyone without Yasu having the chance to continue with the epitaph murder.
It's hard to reply to your theory if we can't mention the stuffs that happened in Ep 8 and Our Confession that confirm or deny some of your theories.
Oh, also i recommend to read Ryukishi's interview.
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|2013-01-14, 17:32
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Actually from rereading some of ep4 and ep8, one thing I noticed is that Ange is... kind of stupid. Like, seriously. She isn't all that bright. She acts tough and she can be clever, but she has almost no grasp of subtlety, whether we're talking about the 6-year-old version or the 18-year-old version. She is constantly either misinterpreting indirect points people make to her (and not just Battler; she does it to Amakusa also) or ignoring them because they don't suit her. When she tries to think about things, she often settles on a wrong or incomplete conclusion and is perfectly satisfied with it. It's really only toward the end of ep8 that she even remotely begins to get the picture, and by that point the whole matter has been belabored dozens of times.
She also acts in a fairly arbitrary fashion, trusts people implicitly until they appear to "betray" her then refuses to ever trust them again about anything, and generally acts like kind of a dumbass. And it's not something you can chalk entirely to stubbornness, in the same way Erika's dumbness can be chalked up to hubris.
Basically what I'm saying is Ange is a moron and "Everybody Hated Ange" was probably canon because she's a dour whiny self-absorbed bitch even as a six-year-old. And that's when her older self isn't controlling her.
|2013-01-14, 17:47
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Also, noone is doubting the veracity of 'everyone hated Ange". She's neither book-smart or very sociable, and makes the Ushiromioya shareholders very nervous with her caprice.
"Land" was Ryu's original plan for EP3, which got scrapped. It was hand-waved in-universe as Beato's "greatest work" of a message bottle, that ended up sinking before being discovered by anyone.
|2013-01-14, 18:13
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Yes i mean exactly this "scrapped EP3" which was called "Land of the Golden Witch"... I could swear there was a consensus here some months ago that it was Land that Battler put into Beato's coffin at the beginning of EP7... well maybe I just assumed that.
Also i just checked the EP7 thread... the last page is full of spoilers for EP8 :/
|2013-01-14, 18:55
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In a way it's fitting that Amakusa would call her 'princess' as she really seems someone who is trying to rule the world even when that's not possible.
I mean... she claims she's on a quest for the truth, whatever she is.
Bern shows and unpleasant 'truth'. She rejects it.
Battler shows her a nice 'truth'. She rejects it.
Eva's diary shows her a very unpleasant 'truth'. She rejects it again.
She doesn't want the truth, she wants someone to tell her that yes, Eva did it all because she was mean.
There's no way of pleasing her unless you hand her what she wants. She's pretty rude with Nanjo's son and even with the others she sort of tends to act as the spoiled rich girl who must get and do what she wants no discussion allowed... which is odd because if her tale about how Eva handled her is true she probably wasn't spoiled at all...
Though sometimes I wonder if Ange isn't actually 6 years old Ange who exists solely in Tohya/Battler's mind (Ep 8 implied somewhere that Ange is still 6 inside...). Young Ange might have been spoiled and stubborn and in Tohya's mind that's how she remained.
Of course Ange's poor character might have been due to the trauma of losing her family of such a young age, not getting along with Eva and seeing her family being the focus of too many gossips.
|2013-01-14, 19:01
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|2013-01-14, 19:26
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And maybe it's just because it's late and I'm tired but sometimes I would really like for Umineko to give straight answers to all the questions it raised.
|2013-01-16, 17:56
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Umineko...giving straight answers? My mind can't even comprehend that idea. Even its more obvious answers go over some people's heads.
Anyways, it's been a while since I last came to this thread. Have any new consensuses on anything in this series been reached in the last few months?
|2013-01-16, 18:21
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So I guess it's not really consensus, more that we got additional info.
|2013-01-18, 05:04
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Well, I think he's put way too much time and effort into it to actually admit he's wrong at this stage. But he does seem to have become less hostile to the Shkanontrice advocates in his later videos, and he seems to have mostly stopped bothering to respond to comments on his videos, so I think it's fair to say that he's not really as certain of his theory as he used to be. Or he just realised that we'll never "see the light" and stopped caring.
|2013-01-18, 12:18
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TBH there are only a few things pointing to Rosatrice, while a lot more things are contradicting it.
- Hair color(not same but kind of similar)
- Clothes color
- Beatrice being surpirsed about Sakutaro (EP 4 - META)
For the entire EP 2 Rosa has an alibi. Will was allowed to counter blues with his VanDine reds so they are probably applicable too, so only one culprit with MINOR accomplices.
Though his idea of what george does is no longer 'minor'.
the rest is pretty circumstancial.
I guess he realized tha by now and just can't back down after all the work he did.
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|2013-01-18, 14:22
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That did not work out so well.
If anything, the best candidate for Beatrice would be someone with short hair, because short hair is easier to wear a wig with. Rosa has long hair, so that's automatically going to be an issue.
Also it would be way easier to style a wig the way Beatrice wears her hair than to actually attempt to style it oneself. I'm not sure it's even possible to style it like that without assistance, at least not with any sort of speed.
|2013-01-18, 14:34
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You can come up with a lot of reasons for anyone to be Beatrice if you try hard enough - and KNM certainly did. Personally I think the most hilarious one was that all the ridiculous outfits on Beatrice's demons counted as evidence towards Rosatrice, because it was said that Rosa had an unsuccessful fashion design company.
|2013-01-18, 14:36
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Well, there are so many special visual similarities between specific characters that hair colour could be seen as some sort of hint, but I would advise against using it as a basis for a new line of inquiry though.
|2013-01-18, 15:23
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For example, in Legend Battler comments on the portrait witch's blonde hair. He never remarks about the colors of Rosa or Jessica's hair in any way, nor does he use this as the basis for any sort of suspicion. In Requiem, Kinzo and Beatrice C. talk about Italian and Japanese hair, and no mention is made of Kinzo's hair apparently being white as a sheet in his 30s.
Also there's the whole thing with Battler and Ange having similar hair colors even though neither their father nor mother has a color matching them and also no one notices these similarities to argue against them being merely half-siblings.
From all this, we know two things:
Also no one ever remarks on Shannon, Kanon, or Yasu's hair color, so my assumption is that obvious European features are not present there. If they were, I would have to think somebody would've noticed that at some point, or else everyone is impossibly dense, or Yasu has always worn wigs at all times for no apparent reason.
|2013-01-18, 18:15
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There's also the thing about race that is conveniently ignored.
Though I guess this isn't too much of an issue: the Second Beatrice would be part Japanese and part Italian, then Yasu would probably be more Japanese than Italian. It's just that all mentions of Piece-Beatrice by other characters refer to her as "the Witch of the Portrait" (including Battler at the end of EP1, iirc). Maybe they were only referring to dress and hair style? I dunno, if I was certain that it was the Witch of the Portrait, then I would base that on facial features as well.
"Hey guys it's Beatrice. But it's Asian." => All characters have Asian features so you can't find out by looking at the face.
"Hey guys it's Beatrice. An Italian one." => Yasu is noticeably Italian, or he found his mother's grave, cut her face off and is using it as a mask.
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QVC Host Faints on Live Broadcast, Co-host Keeps Selling Product [VIDEO] [POLL]
I know the show must go on, but come on! A guest host on QVC Sunday night was pitching a product when she all of a sudden faints from low blood sugar.
She's ok, but what amazes me is her co-host! He just keeps right on selling the product! At least the camera man when to a shot of the product. Could the guy just say "Hey, lets take a break!"


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Officials to hold inaugural herring festival this weekend.
MIDDLEBORO – The herring are back, and Middleboro residents believe it's cause for celebration.
The town will host a weekend of entertainment, culture and history at the inaugural Herring Festival at Oliver Mill Park on Route 44. Last year, an estimated 1 million herring passed through Middleboro.
The festival will kick off Friday night with local ghost stories told around a bonfire at Town Hall. The event was scheduled to be held along the banks of the Nemasket River, but the forecast of rain forced it inside. The event continues on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with more than 60 crafters and venders.
The Middleboro/Lakeville Herring Fishery is the among most prolific in the world, largely due to the pristine Assawompset Pond complex where the fish spawn. Herring live most of their lives in the Atlantic Ocean, but each spring the adults make their way from Mount Hope Bay to the complex to spawn.
Females can lay up to 200 eggs each, but only one in 100 will mature to spawn in their natal pond.
The herring population is slowly declining in numbers, and there has been a ban against catching them along the entire East Coast since 2006. But children are in luck this weekend because the Middleboro/Lakeville Herring Fisheries Commission will be on hand to give them a chance to participate in an age-old Middleboro rite of spring and catch their own fish – as long as they put them back in the river.
Selectman Leilani Dalpe, who headed up the group that organized the festival, said there will be hourly demonstrations and live music on both days, a beer garden, kiosks chockfull of information, locally made goods and crafts and refreshments from Middleboro restaurants.
Entertainment includes the local duo Paul Colarusso and Judy Pavadore and Leilani's Zingers. Historian and former Selectman Frederick E. Eayrs will speak about the history of the herring and Oliver Mill during the Colonial period, and several state and local organizations will participate.
Throughout the weekend, Middleboro restaurants will offer Herring Run Fish Specials in honor of the festival, and Ella's Lemonade Shop will reopen for the season.
On Saturday night, the festival will return to Town Hall with a family-style dance. Tickets are $10 per person, $25 for a family. Brianna Grace will headline the show after some magic by Adam Bond. The lineup includes the Tuesday Night Jazz Band and entertainer Dennis Lewoczko.
On Sunday, noon to 4 p.m., the library will host local favorites Paramusia, Erik Lindgren and Leilani Dalpe while local authors Sheila Connolly, Marilyn Thayer, Mike Maddigan, Ed and Yolanda Lodi and Derel Lee Twombly will talk about their books and sign copies for the public.
Parking is free at the KOA Campground on Route 44, across from Oliver Mill Park, with free shuttles to the festival. A full schedule of events and vendors is on the Friends of the Middleborough-Lakeville Herring Run's Facebook and Twitter.


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Disclaimer: I am an engineer, not a psychologist or sociologist. That said, my guess would be that compassion is one of the first products of empathy and is closely correlated to the capacity of any given individual for an empathic response to another individual or situation. As for empathy itself, I suspect it is a response which has been cultured into Homo sapiens as a part of our "survival-by-group" strategy, which is likely how we managed the first several thousand years back when and how we largely continue to manage today.
I like your reply ... such feelings evolved as part of survival strategies. It flourishes because it is successful in sustaining human life. Thanks Loren. I wonder if such survival strategies will carry humans into the future? Can humans survive without empathy?
I think our problem is in part that basic survival is so taken for granted in the here and now that the mechanisms that allowed for it are being pushed aside in favor of other perceived priorities. I mean, can unfounded prejudice or discrimination be said to be favorable to the advancement of human society? Or, more egregiously, the support and advancement of irrationality and memes and organizations based in irrationality?
I think those who do promote such things need to look hard at the product they produce (not that they would) and ask what function such memes would have if it happened that survival was returned to a high priority and humankind's continued existence WERE on the line. Come to think of it ... climate change, anyone?
Some say humans participate in creating climate change is a scare tactic of environmentalists. What are the options? Humans do? Humans don't? Who knows? What does it matter?
OK, I am going to go on the assumption humans cause climate change and threaten life as we know it on Earth and it is possible to survive with a healthier planet and occupants. Now my next question is how?
There are two firsts: get control of human population growth and get off fossil fuels and stop playing games of "cap and trade" or any other such scheme.
Then we need to change our life styles by getting off fossil fuels at home. Return to community neighborhoods where we can walk to services or develop a CO2 public transportation. Perhaps a park-and-ride system to major services such as health centers and legal centers where a neighborhood can't support them.
Get control of assault weapons and do community policing. Not the kind that shoots first and asks later vigilanteism.
And here I am going to get the wrath come down around my head ... but here goes, women, great-grandmothers, grandmothers, mothers, daughters, wives, and sisters, go on strike until and unless all weapons get locked up and away from irresponsible users. Women have more power than they know, even as Lysistrata in her plan to end the wars between Athens and Sparta.
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I'm not a psychologist or sociologist. However, I do have a degree in anthropology - though I have not worked in the field for over 30 years. Having said that, I see it as a survival mechanism. Compassion, empathy, altruism are all, in my estimation, hard wired into us to make sure our genetic material survives. Starts with those closest to you in the gene pool, and while still present, lessens the farther away it gets from you immediate descendants.
How often have we heard a parent say they would throw themself under a bus to save their child? Now, while that same person may have monetarily contributed to Haitian earthquake relief and/or relief for the tsunami victims in Japan, or southeast Asia a few years before, I doubt they would be willing to sacrifice their life for those victims. Maybe a few would, but on the whole, I seriously doubt it. Nevertheless, there is still a feeling of kindred most of us share with with victims whom we will never meet. After all, they still share 26 pairs of very similar chromosomes to us.
Pat, We see a growing number of people falling under the bus worldwide. The human test involves how we respond. The Earth is clearly over populated. Millions starve to death, others suffer treatable diseases, some want to die and many cannot legally (that is a silly statement but true). What choices does one have?
Do nothing. Send a few dollars, not enough to solve the problem. Send clothes and food, not enough. Go to the root of the problem and challenge the church to take responsible action and require family planning, build coalitions to challenge government to face up to poverty and its causes.
There are 7,062,640,752 human beings on this planet and we do not have enough food for all or distribution systems in place, or the will to feed everyone. There are not enough jobs for people to earn their own way, especially in devastated areas caused by weather or war and now by changing weather patterns. Much of USA and China seem to trending toward loss of soils for food crops.
What are our choices here? Feed everyone? Feed only those who have the time, space, soil, water, and interest in growing their own food and let the others die slow deaths? Start wars to reduce populations?
As an individual, there are some things I can and am doing to protect my family and participate with neighbors in non-violent ways. One very important way is to have my home and garden as peaceful as I can possibly make it and as interesting and stimulating as one can have on 50' x 185' of land.
Do you have ideas to offer?
I suspect that the most basic evolutionary root of empathy is the mother child bond. If females didn't have compassion for their own young, we'd be functioning at the reptile level. Well, even crocodile moms help their newborn dig out and get to water safely.
And croc fathers too if I remember right.
And our choices? Have we got choices? I have to take care of myself, for that is my base: after that I can share wharever there is.
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My Son Avin LOVES trains. It was all he talked about for months prior to his birthday so deciding on a train theme was easy.
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Homemade train bunting decorated the party spaces and guests were each given a hat and bandanna as well as a goody bag filled with sidewalk chalk, snacks and a train coloring sheet with markers.
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by William Stafford
On the near pine rain hangs
the way I suppose it hangs
on the far.
Being yourself, you are always
on time - right where your kind
of person should be.
Why not wait here while the rest
of the world happens? It is better as
history than it is as news.
The dog, his head on the coffee table,
gazes tranquilly, resting his chin
on a volume of Martin Buber.
I especially like the rhetorical question - "Why not wait here while the rest/of the world happens?" and then what seems like an offhand remark: "It is better as/history than it is as news." And perhaps it is meant to be taken as a casual, offhand remark. Off course, in poetry, what seems like an offhand remark makes our ears perk up.
If you are willing to wait "while the rest of the world happens", consider what that reveals about you. It means you are willing to take yourself out of the picture, so to speak. It means that you are willing to consider whether the world is better as history or as news.
The rhetorical question and the offhand remark constitute nothing less than an invitation to an intellectual discussion. But there's more: the last stanza illustrates animal nature at ease with profundities such as those available in the writings of Martin Buber (1878 - 1965), a Jew so highly respected that the Nazis did not kill him - a fact that becomes especially interesting when you consider that Buber was known for his "philosophical dialogue". He believed in an apolitical Zionism. Even more, he believed in Hasidism.
I prefer here to focus on Stafford's poetics rather than on issues we may or may not be able to find in Stafford's poems. Consider, in contrast to the hospitality of "A Day at Home", the fiercely private posturing in the often-anthologized "Ask Me":
Ask Me
by William Stafford
Some time when the river is ice ask me
mistakes I have made. Ask me whether
what I have done is my life. Others
have come in their slow way into
my thought, and some have tried to help
or to hurt: ask me what difference
their strongest love or hate has made.
I will listen to what you say.
You and I can turn and look
at the silent river and wait. We know
the current is there, hidden; and there
are comings and goings from miles away
that hold the stillness exactly before us.
What the river says, that is what I say.
What seems at first an entirely cold facade turns out to be a very nice (i.e., thoughtful and engaging) way of saying "wait and see".
In the spirit of hospitality, I offer the reader the following poem by Derek Walcott and also a series of pictures I took at home the other day.
by Derek Walcott
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
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京都 ikitai~
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: massugu
I read chapter 00 a few days ago and I liked it so far--the whole chapter was backstory on Negi and Anya at their magic school and shows them taking their final exam together (which is more like a quest than a "use a number two pencil and fill in the bubbles completely" final). I had heard Negima Neo was going to follow Shaft's anime storyline, but chapter 00 was completely different from the brief scene with Negi, Anya, and his sister in Shaft's episode 1. That's fine with me, since I'm already watching the anime and wouldn't want the manga to just be a reproduction of what I've already watched. The artwork isn't bad, it looks very similar to Akamatsu's, and it's the most screentime I've seen Anya get in any incarnation of Negima which is also good in my book. There didn't seem to be as much fanservice as the original Negima (except for Anya getting her clothes blown off near the end of the chapter), but since that varies from chapter to chapter in the original it's hard to say for sure yet.
Looking forward to seeing more, I'm curious if this will go into the Evangeline arc next like Shaft did, or if this will go in a different direction completely.
|2007-01-24, 14:04
|Link #6
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2004
Age: 38
This is what I once posted in the Negima manga thread, even though its now old news :P
From ComiPress:
Unlike boy's manga magazines (shounen manga magazines), Comic BomBom is aimed at younger boys, so don't expect any fanservice from this magazine >.<
Anyway if anyone is interested here's the site for the manga:
And the first volume of Negima!? neo manga will be out next month (2/2007) I'll post its cover when its out
|2007-01-24, 14:24
|Link #7
cho~ kakkoii
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: 3rd Planet
yay! NeoSam is here. The site looks neat! Looking forward to those covers.
|2007-04-18, 15:01
|Link #11
Kanon Fotter!
Join Date: Mar 2007
Nodoka will be on the 2nd issue. For one i like the manga becasue at least ComicBoomBoom relativly kept the origanl character designs. (minor changes but not as sever as the Negima!? redesigns.)
This manga goes in a different order of the story then Negima!? does.
|2007-10-24, 11:19
|Link #14
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Cape Suzette
All production of Negima Neo has abrutly ended due to Comic Bonbon, the comic that publishes Negima!? Neo, going under. Chapters 13 and 14 are the last chapters that will be released. Because of this the plot is accerated to the end in 2 chapters.
I say good ridance. More proff that Negima!? fails.
|2008-01-22, 14:45
|Link #17
With this I'm Invincible!
Wait wait WHAT
Negima Neo 15 is out, the series CONTINUES
Good god this was unexpected
There was Anya and all those WTFs and Kotarou going for a cameo, this is probably the biggest SAVE in all of Negima!?dom.
|2008-07-25, 11:43
|Link #19
Neo now licensed by Del Rey.
lulz, can finally read the rest now ^^
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According to KCBS-TV in Los Angeles -- which first reported the incident -- Kobe thought the man was using the phone to take pics of Kobe and his wife ... but did not find any photos on the phone.
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Keith Parrish has let shoe leather and plain-spoken North Carolina tobacco truth do his talking since he embarked on a crusade to get Congress to pass a tobacco buyout for his fellow tobacco growers.
The collective work of grassroots agriculture and health groups may be about to pay off for tobacco growers. House and Senate conferees will be working out the differences between tobacco buyout bills in conference after they return from August recess.
At times, speaking the truth has meant talking from the heart.
What came out of Parrish's mouth at a U.S. Senate hearing about the tobacco bill earlier this year would likely send shivers up the spine of an elected official.
Asked what a 30-percent cut in tobacco quota would mean, the Harnett County, N.C., tobacco leader replied, "I wouldn't want to be a senator or congressman running for re-election in November if the tobacco buyout doesn't pass."
Unscripted, the remark reflected the feelings of tobacco farmers who have held out hope for more than six years for a tobacco buyout that would allow some to retire, some to get out of production and some to continue with a future.
Rather than an off-handed remark, it was one made from knowing a situation intimately from his heart.
For the past year, he and Lamar DeLoach, a Statesboro, Ga., tobacco leader, as well as other tobacco leaders, have taken the same message each week to legislators and staff.
The grassroots effort, aided by election-year politics, seems to have paid off, as a tobacco buyout bill is in conference committee after the Senate passed a bill in mid-July. "This is the closest we've ever been," Parrish says. "It's been a roller-coaster ride."
Even before the plight of tobacco farmers became common knowledge, Parrish and a group of tobacco farmers saw the handwriting on the wall about the slow, painful death of the U.S. tobacco program. They initiated and won a class-action lawsuit against the five major cigarette manufacturers. Some accused them of biting the hand that fed them.
"We just thought they were taking too much from the table," Parrish says. "It just looked like they were about to take the program for nothing. At first our push was to get the buyout before the manufacturers' killed the program. It was evident that the program was destined to get to the point where it is today. The lawsuit called their (the manufacturers') hand and brought attention to the problem. We drew a line in the sand and said we weren't going any farther."
Part of the money from the settlement has made it possible to travel back and forth to Washington, D.C., on a weekly basis.
Ironically, Parrish's grassroots public education came from the largest U.S. cigarette manufacturer, through the Philip Morris Leadership Training Program, the lead defendant in the growers' suit. He was a member of one of the first classes that received training in public speaking and lobbying.
"Keith has been in Washington a lot these days," says Martha Parrish, sitting in their Harnett County home where tobacco used to be stored.
On a brief respite at mid-week in early July, Parrish is engaged in a conversation no more than 10 minutes when he takes a call. In the next 30 minutes, he'll take two more calls, in addition to welcoming a neighbor to come in and visit. The calls these days are just as likely to come from U.S. congressmen or senators as they are from farmers seeking information about the tobacco buyout.
For the past year, Parrish and other grower representatives have been practicing grassroots politics, visiting Washington on an almost weekly basis for three days at a time to seek passage of a tobacco buyout.
It's involved talking with politicians, as well as groups with a vested interest in seeing the tobacco buyout pass.
Along with health groups, burley and flue-cured producer representatives met to clear the air about the Food and Drug Administration issue in the tobacco buyout in late June. The message was a definite 'we'll support your bill, you support our bill.' "It would have been very hard to move forward if you can see the blame laid at the feet of a certain group over a certain issue," Parrish says. The House bill that passed earlier in the year didn't have FDA regulation of cigarettes and tobacco products; the Senate bill included FDA regulation.
After years of false starts, the tobacco buyout gained momentum with its passage by the House earlier this year. Parrish believes the buyout gained further momentum when President George W. Bush, on a campaign stop, said he didn't see a need for any change in the tobacco program. "I believe that helped move it," Parrish says. "A lot of politicians were pumping the Kerry campaign to capitalize on the President's remarks. The President's comments helped bring out the issue.
"It's pure politics in D.C. now," Parrish said, a couple of weeks before the Senate passed a buyout bill. "I feel like it's going to happen."
Drawing on his training in the Philip Morris Leadership Program, as well as time spent as the CEO of the National Tobacco Growers and as a former president of the Tobacco Growers Association of North Carolina, Parrish and others pounded the pavement and talked to anyone in Congress who would listen.
"The PM program trained us in specialized short courses, sent us to Brazil and gave us courses in public speaking," Parrish says. "I went through their advanced program. The Tobacco Growers Association of North Carolina is where I got my start speaking up for tobacco."
Every time he has visited with legislators, his message has been the same, consistent truth: Tobacco growers have lost more than 50 percent of their quota since 1997 and need help. Without that help, many could lose their farms and livelihood and an entire region of the country could be decimated. And time is running out.
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"Don't ever shoot the bull with those guys," Parrish says, recounting the lessons he learned. "You tell them the truth. They like to be able to put a face with the truth, the same message presented the same way time and time again." He still encourages tobacco growers to call and write their representatives and senators in Congress.
"I'm down to 40 acres," Parrish says. "When people give away their bulk barns, you know there's something wrong. If we experience a 30-percent cut, on top of what we've already lost, everybody knows it's over."
Over the years that he's been fighting for a tobacco buyout, Parrish has heard a common theme: "Many farmers are holding out for the buyout, holding on for the buyout," he says.
Some farmers got out last year; others, if a tobacco buyout becomes a reality, will take the money and retire; still others will use the money to expand production.
For Parrish, he'll consider continuing tobacco production after looking at it. "All farmers will look at it in a business-like way."
Independent by nature, Parrish has never signed a contract to produce tobacco for a cigarette company. Post-buyout he feels there will still be a place for the independent producer and the auction system. "Foreign buyers like auctions because they get to see the tobacco," Parrish says. "The problem with no price support is, 'where do we go?' perhaps a new investment to make cigarettes," Parrish says, referencing the Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation's decision to manufacturer cigarettes.
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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers around the world:
July 24
The Khaleej Times, Dubai on Baby Cambridge:
For months, the media had given in-depth coverage on Kate Middleton's pregnancy that precariously bordered on utter voyeurism.
The hoax call placed by two Australian DJs to the hospital, where Kate was getting treatment for morning sickness, represents a tiny example of the great media interest in her pregnancy. But now the "great Kate wait" is over. The Duchess of Cambridge has delivered an eight-pound, six-ounce, baby boy, much to the delight of her compatriots, who are arriving in hordes outside the Buckingham Palace to celebrate his birth. Congratulatory messages have poured in from all over the world following the much-awaited birth of baby Cambridge.
The international interest in the arrival of the royal baby has been especially phenomenal. The media in the US — a country that has been historically bereft of an aristocratic class and prides itself for giving its citizens equal opportunities — has ironically shown a great obsession with the royal baby. The news of Kate's delivery made it to every major news bulletin and websites like the New York Post altered their layout to dedicate space to coverage on Baby Cambridge. It seems like the modern fairytale has generated much fascination among the Americans, despite their age-old dislike for the concept of nobility or a privileged class.
But there are some who are rather puzzled or annoyed by this abnormal fixation on the latest addition to the British royal family and have taken to the social media to express their views. These people, however, should know that the royal baby mania is not going to die anytime soon. Speculations regarding the baby's name are already rife in the media and soon the paparazzi will go in a mad rage to snap a picture of the newborn. Subsequently, the baby's looks will spawn columns in tabloids. So, everyone must get ready to hear and watch anything and everything about the future King of England. Baby Cambridge — named on Wednesday George Alexander Louis — is definitely going to be the most talked about baby in the world, and there's nothing that will change that.
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The Guardian, London, on Chinese corruption:
One of the most reliable indications that things are not well in an economy or a society is a rise in street trading and increased harshness in enforcing the rules that control it. When people can't find proper jobs or can't stand the ones that are available, they go to the streets with a barrow-load of vegetables, a swatch of scarves or a tray of cheap plastic toys. Sometimes they have licences; often they do not. Then the police or their auxiliaries appear, one day taking bribes, the next day confiscating produce, but in either case standing between ordinary men and women and what they see as their right, and sometimes their desperate need, to make a living.
China and Tunisia are about as different as two countries could be. Yet that has not stopped Chinese critics likening the death of a watermelon vendor in Linwu, in Hunan province, last week to the case of Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian fruitseller whose suicide led to the fall of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. Deng Zhengjia was apparently beaten up by chengguan, officials whose job is to keep China's cities free of the untidy open-air commerce other Asian countries generally tolerate.
The Chinese concern with order verges on the obsessive, but it is especially problematic when it is combined, as it is, with serious corruption, reaching to the highest levels of party and government. ...
Rivalling Deng as an object of sympathy at the moment is Ji Zhongxing, a former taxi driver who blew himself up in his own wheelchair at Beijing airport. He too appears to be a victim of the chengguan, who he says crippled him after a traffic incident in 2005.
When the evasion of planning regulations magnifies the suffering inflicted by natural disaster, as it has in the past, a particularly cruel form of suppression threatens those whose lives have already been shattered by the loss of loved ones, although Monday's earthquake near Dingxi in western China does not seem, so far, to have a dimension of that kind.
The corruption experienced by the average Chinese citizen is petty compared to what goes on higher up. In that stratosphere, the corrupt police the corrupt. The ubiquity in China of inducements that are legal, semi-legal and illegal, with vague boundaries between the three, has created a minefield for international corporations, as GlaxoSmithKline is discovering. Who in these circumstances is the corrupt, and who the corrupter?
July 24
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on U.S. intervention would come at too high a price and Syria's cost:
A letter from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee on the high cost of military intervention in Syria has probably put an end to any ideas of the United States taking such action.
The letter Friday from Gen. Martin E. Dempsey to Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., cited the experience of the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan and detailed the effort needed to overthrow the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Mr. Dempsey said hundreds of U.S. aircraft, ships and submarines would be used by thousands of American troops to make airstrikes, launch missiles, maintain no-fly zones and train Syria's opposition forces. He said training alone would cost $500 million a year. Air action would cost $1 billion a month.
Mr. Dempsey said that such action would be "an act of war," which would entail risks to Jordan, a neighboring U.S. ally, and could backfire in terms of overall U.S. policy.
His message came as the Syrian opposition continued to lose ground to Assad regime forces. One of the opposition's major problems is its divisions. Analysts say there may be up to 1,500 groups that make up the opposition. In principle they exist to some extent under the umbrella Free Syrian Army, but any unity among them is very tentative. A July 11 incident in which a jihadist group assassinated a senior Free Syrian Army officer underlined the depth of the divisions and the problems confronting the United States or other countries in trying to support them. The CIA continues to give covert training and small arms to the opposition.
President Barack Obama, who declared that Mr. Assad was finished in Syria, is now at the point of having to walk away both from that assessment and from any suggestion that the United States is going to achieve that result. The letter from Mr. Dempsey, the nation's most senior military officer, illustrates that, in spite of the wishes of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and others that the United States intervene in Syria, the costs would be too high and the outcome too uncertain.
July 21
The Miami Herald on Obama administration must push for stronger U.N. response:
The seizure in Panama of the Chong Chon Gang, a rusty old North Korean ship carrying last century's Soviet-era weapons from Cuba hidden under 250,000 sacks of brown sugar, may seem to have the wacky trappings of a Gilligan's Island episode with a Cold War flashback that includes a rioting crew and a captain threatening to kill himself when Panamanian soldiers boarded his ship.
But as the ship's containers begin to be cleared of the 100-pound bags of sugar and the weapons systems are exposed and analyzed by experts, no one's laughing. The case for maintaining a tough line on North Korea and Cuba has been strengthened.
The Obama administration, which has spent years tossing carrots at both communist countries, keeps finding that neither wants to nibble. They're too busy, after all, plotting against the United States and the United Nations.
Any talk of removing the communist island from the State Department's terror list remains a fool's errand when faced with more evidence of Cuba's role as a pass-through for every renegade nation and terrorist group that seeks harbor there.
The Cuban and North Korean communist dictatorships maintain Cuba was sending "obsolete defensive weapons" for repairs in North Korea so that Cuba can "protect its sovereignty." ...
U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and past chair, is right to call for North Korea to be put back on the terror list. And those hoping to get Cuba pulled off the terror list should have gotten their wake-up call about the Castro brothers' ill will, too.
This is no time to be chummy with rogue regimes. Keep Cuba where it belongs — on the terror list — and add North Korea to the membership because both countries have demonstrated that they cannot be trusted.
July 22
San Antonio Express-News on the House tackling 'amnesty':
The bipartisan group of U.S. House members working on its version of comprehensive immigration reform has reportedly come up with a different "trigger" for citizenship.
This involves E-Verify, the electronic system for employers to confirm workers have legal residency. Mostly, these triggers have focused on securing the border, where extensive security measures already are in place.
Under the proposal, E-Verify would have to be operational after five years. If it isn't, immigrants would be bumped out of "probation" and revert to undocumented status.
This was reported by Greg Sargent of the Washington Post last week.
This E-Verify component, at least, has the virtue of addressing the problem at a more critical point — in the workplace, giving employers the tools so that they can no longer claim that they "unknowingly" hired a person with no legal right to a job.
As long as jobs are available — and employers can evade legal responsibility for hiring those without papers — undocumented immigrants will come. And stay.
The border security measure in the Senate plan would cost $30 billion to nearly double the number of Border Patrol agents. It would also build 700 miles of fence.
This, though the country has already doubled the number of Border Patrol agents since 2005, spends more on border security than other federal law enforcement endeavors combined and net migration has dwindled to about net zero.
Politics drive this yen for border security, the need to give Republicans cover so that they can claim they are "getting tough" on immigration. ...
What does operational mean? And if this "admission" means fewer of the 11 million estimated undocumented workers here step forward, it will be counterproductive.
Why, after all, step forward if there is a chance you will have set yourself up for deportation if E-Verify isn't "operational?"
Still, the approach has more promise than border security, which can most charitably be described as pork whose only saving grace is that it gives some members cover to do the right thing.
We await details and, should the plan even get through the House, we are hopeful that a conference committee with the Senate will iron out the differences to the common good.
July 21
Kansas City Star on answers needed on Cuba's missile shipment to North Korea:
Given Cuba's long-running economic crisis, you could imagine that some entrepreneurial lieutenant of the revolutionary government got a gold star for inventing a possible new revenue stream.
It certainly sounds like a clever move to clean out the Cold War closet and dump some outmoded radar systems, Russian jets and missile parts on a willing taker. After all, Cuba's Museum of the Revolution can hold only so many military souvenirs. Were the parts going to North Korea for repair, as Cuba has confessed in the days since a North Korean ship was halted at the Panama Canal? Or is Kim Jong Un in the midst of refreshing his toy chest?
And burying the cargo under bags of sugar — that's the kind of low-tech comedy we've come to expect from the Cubans.
So, was Cuba paying North Korea in advance with sugar for the fix-it work or was it selling a fellow underfed nation one of the only exports of substance it has to offer, along with the military hardware?
Weapons analysts have said that even if the restored equipment made its way back to Cuba, it would be ineffective to useless. The Russians made these things a half-century ago. The Cubans can hardly keep Russia's leftover Lada cars running.
Seriously folks, this episode, which reportedly follows a similar Cuba-to-North Korea shipping event in 2012, comes right at a time when the U.S. and Cuba seemed ready for constructive engagement.
Is this another Cuban Missile Crisis, the edge-of-war standoff of 1962 that should've remained a distant memory?
That's doubtful. But what is certain is that Cuba owes the U.S. and the world a full explanation. The United Nations will take up the matter, and the U.S. government, thankfully, is not reacting in haste.
We've been led to expect better from Cuban President Raul Castro, who has seemed more open to repairing relations with the U.S. than was his older brother and predecessor, Fidel. But making nice with big boy Kim puts Castro on a par with — say it ain't so — Dennis Rodman.
That's a comedy and a tragedy all rolled up into one.
July 23
Los Angeles Times on trying again in the Mideast:
Like second marriages, attempts by the United States to promote a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians represent a triumph of hope over experience. But Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who has engaged in his own version of shuttle diplomacy in recent weeks, deserves credit for bringing the two sides back to the bargaining table. He announced Friday that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators would meet in Washington for initial talks within a week or so.
Of course, this initiative could unravel. On Sunday, a Palestinian spokesman warned that talks would be "conditioned on many clarifications about core issues" and that several "sticking points" remained unresolved. But Kerry obviously was confident enough to go public with the announcement, and there are indications that he has been able to finesse objections from both sides that have previously blocked the resumption of talks. For example, while Israel may not formally agree to suspend settlement activity in the West Bank, in practice it may be willing to exercise restraint.
The outlines of a so-called final-status agreement have been obvious for decades and can be found in dusty briefing books dating to the Clinton administration. The Palestinians would finally get an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in exchange for recognizing Israel and relinquishing the dream of a universal "right of return" for the descendants of those displaced when Israel was created after World War II. ...
It is true that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has always been skeptical of a two-state solution, and that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is a weak and unpopular leader (who does not even control the Gaza Strip, which is ruled by Hamas). But these complications needn't be fatal to a resumption of negotiations. For the Palestinians, an agreement would mean not only a long-dreamed-of state but an unprecedented infusion of economic and technical assistance. And a deal would allow Israel to remain both a Jewish and a democratic state, and would spare the country from the condemnations its occupation of the West Bank has provoked in Europe and the U.S. — a source of embarrassment and anger for many Israelis.
It's a truism that the United States can't dictate a peace agreement to the Israelis and Palestinians. But this country possesses unique leverage that administrations of both parties have exerted in the cause of a lasting peace. Kerry's initiative is in that tradition. We hope it succeeds.


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Herbs have many uses. They can be used for cooking, medicinal purposes, or for aromatic serenity.
For this blog post, we will be focusing on the symbolic meaning of herbs when they are used in the gift giving manner. Herbs have had symbolic meanings behind them for centuries. These meanings have been assigned to them through various religious and cultural reasoning.
In order to package these herbs as gifts in a usable manner, Natures Garden suggests making a bath tea for your herbal gift giving. A bath tea is a tea bag that is stuffed full with various herbs. These tea bags are then used by placing them into a tub filled with hot water and allowed to steep. The steeping of the herbs allows the passing of wonderful aromas as well as the medicinal capabilities of the herbs.
When selecting the herbs for gift giving, it is important to know the meaning behind each one. The herbs listed below offer a generally accepted symbolic meaning. However, please note: This post is just for fun, there may be varying differences in the meanings due to differences in religion and culture.
If considering making symbolic bath teas for loved ones, it is a good idea to also include small card explaining this symbolism. This will add a delightful sentimental aspect to your well thought out gift.
Below is a list of some of the more commonly used herbs for bath teas and their symbolic meaning. This list is by no means a complete herb list.
Herbs for Cleansing:
Acacia, Lavender, Lemon, Lemon Verbana, Peppermint, Turmeric
Herbs for Courage:
Fennel, Mullein, St. John's Wort, Thyme
Herbs for Friendship:
Lemon, Passion flower
Herbs for Happiness:
Calendula, Catnip, Dandelion, Lavender, Parsley, St. John's Wort
Herbs for Healing:
Aloe, Barley, Basil, Eucalyptus, Juniper, Mullein, Nettle, Olive, Peppermint, Spearmint
Herbs for Love:
Barley, Basil, Beet Powder, Catnip, Clove, Hibiscus, Jasmine, Juniper, Lemon, Mullein, Orange, Papaya, Peppermint, Red Clover, Rose, Rosemary, Spearmint, St. John's Wort, Yarrow
Herbs for Peace:
Lavender, Olive, Passion Flower
Herbs for Safety:
Aloe, Barley, Basil, Blueberry, Clove, Eucalyptus, Frankincense, Juniper, Mullein, Nettle, Olive, Papaya, Red Clover, St. John's Wort
Herbs for Sleep:
Chamomile, Passion flower, Peppermint
Herbs for Wealth:
Alfalfa, Chamomile, Clove, Comfrey, Jasmine, Orange, Patchouli, Pomegranate, Red Clover
Herbs for Wisdom:
Chamomile, Mint, Sage
Now, when making tea bags for gift giving; you may add extra scent to your herbs. This can be done with the addition of fragrance oils or essential oils. Just keep in mind of the final blend of aromas (the herbs with the scent oil because many herbs are aromatic in nature).
Place the herbs that you would like to use in a mixing bowl. Then, using a pipette, add a few drops of the scenting oil (whether it is essential oil or fragrance oil). Please note: For best absorption, you will need to have herbs that can soak up the oil. Then, stir using a mixing spoon. Finally, spoon the herbs into a tea bag, and tie shut. Optional: Then add your card explaining the symbolic meaning of the herbs and a cute ribbon.


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Definitions of fall
v. t. - To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer. 2
v. t. - To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees. 2
v. t. - To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean. 2
v. t. - To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. 2
v. t. - To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls. 2
v. t. - To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. 2
v. t. - To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points. 2
v. t. - To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. 2
v. t. - To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin. 2
v. t. - To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties. 2
v. t. - To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance. 2
v. t. - To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes. 2
v. t. - To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation. 2
v. t. - To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. 2
v. t. - To come; to occur; to arrive. 2
v. t. - To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. 2
v. t. - To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals. 2
v. t. - To belong or appertain. 2
v. t. - To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. 2
v. t. - To let fall; to drop. 2
v. t. - To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice. 2
v. t. - To diminish; to lessen or lower. 2
v. t. - To bring forth; as, to fall lambs. 2
v. t. - To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree. 2
n. - The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship. 2
n. - The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall. 2
n. - Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin. 2
n. - Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire. 2
n. - The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol. 2
n. - Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents. 2
n. - A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence. 2
n. - Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope. 2
n. - Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara. 2
n. - The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice. 2
n. - Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet. 2
n. - The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn. 2
n. - That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow. 2
n. - The act of felling or cutting down. 2
n. - Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels. 2
n. - Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule. 2
n. - That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting. 2
The word "fall" uses 4 letters: A F L L.
No direct anagrams for fall found in this word list.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after fall (in bold), or to afll in any order:
e - fella i - flail s - falls
Shorter words found within fall:
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Species: Bermuda cave amphipod (Pseudoniphargus grandimanus)
Status: Critically Endangered (CR)
Interesting Fact: Juvenile Bermuda cave amphipods are found far closer to the shore than adults.
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The Bermuda cave amphipod is a colourless, eyeless amphipod that lacks a rostrum (a forward-projecting spine found between the eyes of most crustaceans). The upper lip is broadly rounded and the lower lip has large inner lobes. Male Bermuda cave amphipods are known to reach lengths of 6.5 to 8 millimetres.
The Bermuda cave amphipod is found in anchialine caves. These are coastal caves that are flooded with seawater via subterranean connections with the ocean. This species has been found in water of varying levels of salt concentration throughout a wide variety of anchialine limestone cave and groundwater habitats. Juvenile Bermuda cave amphipods are found far closer to the sea coast than adults, typically just 11 to 180 metres away, compared to 147 to 853 metres for adults.
Large adults, but notably no specimens carrying eggs, have been found further inland from the sea coast than juveniles. This could indicate a dependence on coastal marine habitats for reproduction, and that juveniles may migrate inland to mature.
The Bermuda cave amphipod is endemic to Bermuda, as its name suggests. Is has been recorded from wells, waterworks and cave waters in Hamilton, St George's, Devonshire, Paget, Smith's and Warwick Parishes in Bermuda. Caves in which it has been found include Church, Wonderland, Admiral's and Government Quarry Caves.
Find out more about the Bermuda cave amphipod at Anchialine Caves and Cave Fauna of the World.
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This modular safety concept integrates common fieldbuses, including EtherNet/IP, CANopen, DeviceNet and Profinet IO. Diagnostic data about each of the sensors connected to the loop can be shared through these gateways, which can help troubleshoot problems and reduce machine downtime. Regardless of the number of sensors or switches, the Flexi Loop is able to maintain a performance level, as it monitors each sensor individually.
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Andy Blum wrote that he was still trying to get information from bis brother and cousins, and had had a very good visit with Katherine Mocine, her daughter Jean King and grand daughter Jennifer, and sent some photos.
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CFTC chairman: Congress 'sides with Wall Street'June 7, 2012: 5:11 PM ET
A battle is brewing over how the swaps or derivatives market is regulated.
As part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission agency was tasked with the job of monitoring the $700 trillion derivatives market. Derivatives are the instruments behind JPMorgan's (JPM) recent loss of at least $2 billion and the trades that helped blow up AIG (AIG), Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns.
But CFTC chairman Gary Gensler said Thursday that the agency can't do that if Congress enacts proposed cuts to its budget.
A House Appropriations Committee proposed on Wednesday to reduce the CFTC's budget by 12% to $180 million. President Obama had requested a 50% increase in the agency's budget.
Speaking before an audience Gensler acknowledged as potentially hostile to regulations at the Sandler O'Neill + Partners Global Exchange and Brokerage Conference Thursday afternoon, he called the proposed cuts an explicit acknowledgement that Congress "sides with Wall Street."
He said it's already difficult to regulate the futures industry with the CFTC's existing team of 700 people. Adding swaps, which are eight times the size of the futures market, to the CFTC's work makes regulation of either industry nearly impossible.
The House Appropriations Committee's proposed cuts will go to the entire House of Representatives later this month for a vote.
Still it's not the CFTC's only hurdle for regulating the swaps market. At this point neither the CFTC nor the Securities and Exchange Commission can say what a "swap" is. That's something that's being discussed at by both agencies.
Generally speaking, a swap or derivative is simply an insurance contract promising a certain stream of payments tied to a stock, bond or commodity price. Both sides take wagers on how the underlying asset will perform. One side gets the regular cash payments, and the other holds the security.
But that's my definition. The SEC and CFTC must continue to iron out what the U.S. government considers a swap. That's one of several issues that need to be resolved before swap dealers will be forced to register with the CFTC and submit to its regulations.
Gensler said he hopes that will happen by the fall, more than two years after Dodd-Frank legislation was passed by Congress.


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Jake Gyllenhaal debuted his "new" buff body and long brown locks while decked out in his "Prince of Persia" garb in North Africa.
His gal pal Reese, on other hand, looked ready to indulge in some boxed wine and a game of bridge.
We can't tell -- is that the real deal or just movie magic. What do you think?
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