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This is what it all comes down to. Tonight our questions will be answered.
Or so we thought.
The surprises kept coming one after another, but after a moment you realize there are more questions here now then when you started with.
It starts off easily enough. Hannah admits to poisoning Deb and Dexter admits he misses Hannah. Hannah wants to still run away together, but Dexter explains that it's impossible despite how perfectly they fit together. Okay, I get that. Two serial killers dating always had some risks involved.
I don't know much about prisons, but there was an awful lot of contact and kissing. She's up for murder -- shouldn't she be under more security?
After a sketchy conversation between Hannah and Arlene, we find out that Arlene slips Hannah a pill during her arraignment. Again, where is the security?
Back in Dexter's home, Harrison says he misses Hannah, but I wasn't aware he even spoke. Congrats little man, now if only you understood how wrong what you said truly was.
LaGuerta interrupts Dexter's blissful home scene to arrest him for the murder of Estrada. Weird, since he actually didn't do it. Or at least we didn't see it, because apparently LaGuerta took pictures.
At the time, it seems that Dexter's cockiness gets away from him. He doesn't ask for a lawyer, content to just push LaGuerta's buttons. Somehow, he did it again though. He set LaGuerta up, knowing she would be watching, with old evidence from a previous case. Now it appears to the rest of the department as if she tried to set him up. But this also means she's now positive that he's the Bay Harbor Butcher.
Dexter flashes back to reveal how this all started -- how Doakes became suspicious of Dexter in the first place. The three flashbacks shows Doakes acknowledging Dexter's sneaky qualities, seeing the Dark Passenger slip out at a crime scene, and finally shows when Doakes first called Dexter out for his fake behavior. The final flashback is also the only (and last for the season) that we get to see the donuts! Yes, 12 episodes later and I still haven't broken down to buy my own. They lose some of their awesomeness if Dexter Morgan doesn't hand-deliver them.
Deb, having figured out Dexter's ploy, visits Dexter to confront him about the lack of class of his actions. Not smooth to destroy LaGuerta's career. Despite having it out for Dexter, LaGuerta is still a good cop (though we haven't seen her do her job in a while. This also changes).
Dexter goes back to chasing Estrada, one of the many loose ends. He visits Estrada's wife, figuring that since she still was married to him, she might still be helping him. Even Catholics can get annulments if your husband is a crazy murderer and yet they didn't. She leads him to a park where Estrada is waiting. Dexter nabs him in broad daylight, right outside the park. His cockiness knows no end.
After Mathews gives her solid advice, to get back to work, she finds a DVD of surveillance of the gas station near the church where Travis Marshall (the DDK killer) died in her mail. Deb is filling up a gas can in the video, though her statement of the night said she hadn't been to the church.
The pill that Arlene slipped Hannah takes effect during transport, and she seizes before passing out. She's rushed to the hospital. One second, the doctors are being called in, the next, she is gone. She has an odd last scene where she is leaving a dark orchid (or some type of flower, I'm not great with identifying them) on Dexter's doorstep. Symbolism? There's a lot, as it appears blood red, the opposite of the previous one she gave him. Threat or vow of love?
For a moment, it looks like Deb will turn on her brother, when LaGuerta asks her about the night of Travis Marshall's death, but she pulls through.
Deb meets up with Dexter to find that he has Estrada knocked out in the trunk. Awkward family conversation, but probably better than when she professed her love.
Dexter breaks into LaGuerta's house, finding warrants for his cell phone information, along with Deb's, for the night of Travis Marshall's murder. This would be sufficient evidence to prove they were accomplices in his murder. While Dexter has the urge to flee, he denies it, stating that the fake life he built as a cover has become real. It's cute that hes finally ready to not run out on his family. Grown up time! Except that his version of that involves crossing his sacred line -- killing an innocent.
Estrada, strapped to Dexter's table, calls LaGuerta, luring her into Dexter's trap. While Dexter waits for her, he questions Estrada's decisions to kill Dexter's mother. But Estrada calls killing to survive "normal reasons." Dexter's killing of LaGuerta will be anything but that.
And so ends the life of Estrada.
At Batista's party, the tables are reversed as Jamie hits on Quinn. (Literally, that's all we get. I am so confused by Quinn and Jamie's plot line and even existence on the show. The biggest surprises of all might be that Quinn didn't get caught for stealing police evidence on a major case, that no one noticed Isaak was gone, and that Quinn's girlfriend actually broke up with him via stripper and went to Vegas.
But the mind-shattering ending comes as Deb, worried about Dexter's non-appearance, tracks LaGuerta's car to the ship yard. It's unclear who she'd choose to save between Dexter and LaGuerta, but she races off to find out.
Dexter lays out his plan to make it look like Estrada and LaGuerta shot each other. But Deb walks in halfway. LaGuerta wakes up, but Deb still can't decide. So Dexter gives up, quoting Hannah "Do what you gotta do."
And just as the line worked on Dexter, it worked on Deb, who promptly shoots LaGuerta. Are you surprised yet?
Deb and Dexter return to the party. It's unclear what happened to the bodies, where their relationship stands, and where the heck they'll go from here. Kinky love relationship? Joint serial killer spree? Who knows what the future holds, but for the moment, they still have one. So happy New Year everyone.


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Jordy Mont-Reynaud necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 294 diseños de 83 diseñadores freelance.
Goal Mafia
Goal Mafia (http://www.goalmafia.com) is the world's most dangerously effective motivational site.
It's a social game with a nefarious purpose: to help you be the Boss of your own life. With Goal Mafia, you can run your life like a well-oiled crime organization. Stick it to the man and "Execute Your Goals".
We're a brand new boot-strapped startup and need a logo to communicate our mafia manifesto to the world.
In a nutshell, the idea of the game is that you seek justice - the justice of realizing your full potential. But seeking justice and trying to achieve your goals using "the system" is too hard. You keep getting hassled by The Man (your own fears, not enough time, willpower etc). In short, you need protection. So you turn to the mafia - the Goal Mafia.
Your Goal Mafia is your group of real life friends who support you as you set goals and report progress. If you show commitment to your goals, your mafia rewards you with gifts - VIP tickets, bottles of champagne, etc. But if you start slacking off, you run the risk of being locked up by the Feds. So your mafia will send you a Sicilian message (sleeping with the fishes, bat-wielding henchman) to make sure you stay accountable.
Taglines for inspiration:
- "Reckless Empowerment"
- "We Have Ways Of Making You Succeed"
- "Putting The Enforcement In Positive Reinforcement"
- "Set A Goal You Can't Refuse"
Ultimately we hope that Goal Mafia appeals to anyone with a sense of humor who wants to make a positive change in their life. Initially we are targeting men and women in the 20/30-something range.
We're targeting a mass market, not hardcore goal-oriented people. The hardcore people have plenty of solutions (and most don't need that much help anyway). Through the game and the mafia theme, we're trying to make goal-setting more accessible. We're trying to reach all the rest of people who wouldn't consider themselves "self improvement types", but who still have some personal goals they'd like to achieve.
The ideal logo will convey 1) Motivation and 2) Mafia. It's a fun/sexy/dangerous blend of positivity and inspiration with guns and intimidation.
Check out the mafia photo shoot we did here: http://curiousjordy.zenfolio.com/goalmafia
In terms of time period, the vibe is more modern mafia (think 1970s Godfather to the present, Goodfellas, Casino, Sopranos). (as opposed to roaring 20s or 50s mobster)
Note that the emphasis is on "fun" or cartoony threats, as opposed to photo realistic blood spatters, for example.
We have a bunch of reference material to help you get inspired. You can see our current logo at http://www.goalmafia.com, along with a mafia-style photo shoot we did, some customer testimonials, etc.
Currently the site features a dark color scheme - blacks, yellows, red, and white. It would probably make sense to stick with this general theme.
Some reference images including our current logo are attached.
Logo should be a standalone image against a transparent background.
Have fun with this!!
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I've been asked a few times to list the reasons why manufacturers of ICDs won't release raw data to patients. (This data is collected via remote monitoring and shared with clinicians, but not with the patient who originates it.)
Here are their top five excuses:
Excuse #1: HIPAA.
"HIPAA prevents us from releasing data to patients."
This is the most ridiculous of all excuses. HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1996. HIPAA is the single most significant legislation affecting the health care industry since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid back in 1965. One of the reasons HIPAA was created, was to give patients control over the use of their health information. NOT to prevent us from having it.
Excuse #2: Too complex.
"This information is too complex, patients wouldn't understand it."
You heard the ridiculous, now you heard the top patronizing excuse. To that I say: try us!
Excuse #3: Let us help you first.
"Sure, we'll give patients their data. But first, let us figure out a way to put it into meaningful context for patients so they can understand it."
Paternalism at its best. How about putting it into meaningful context WITH patients? Having manufacturers put our data in context means that they get to spin it for us. That is not what we want. Just give us our damn data and let us partner with whomever we want: doctors, family, statisticians, researchers, other patients, app developers or our electrical engineer friends to make it meaningful. Plus, different patients have different needs and different levels of understanding. We're all in different phases of the same journey. It's our job to make our health information meaningful, not theirs.
Excuse #4: It will overwhelm doctors with calls.
"If we give patients their data, doctors will be flooded with phone calls for no important reasons."
Another patronizing excuse. I actually think that the exact opposite would happen. Instead of calling for every little thing, patients who are empowered with information and equipped with knowledge would only call their doctors for reasons that are important enough. Wouldn't you?
Excuse #5: Doesn't fit our business model.
"A pacemaker or defibrillator is put into a patient's body for the therapy it delivers, not for the information it gathers. Making data available to patients does not fit our business model." (Watch this on YouTube, here.)
In other words, "who's going to pay for this?" or "why should we commit dollars to creating an infrastructure that provides data to patients when they don't influence device purchase?" The doctor is the customer, in case you're wondering. Not the patient.
The issue of giving patients access to our data will only be settled when doctors start talking about this and demanding that their patients be empowered with information.
Thankfully, this has already started to happen. Yay!
Read these related posts by Dr. David Lee Scher:
- Five Reasons Why Patients with Implantable Defibrillators Deserve Their Data,
- Data from Implantable Defibrillators and Pacemaker: The World's Best Kept Secret


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Given a presentation $ < X ; R >$ of a group $G$. Suppose we know for some reason that $G$ is the fundamental group of a three-dimensional finite volume manifold.
Then there is a injective group homomorphism $G\rightarrow Isom(\mathbb{H}^3)$. Mostows rigidity theorem then tells us that it is unique up to composition with inner automorphisms of $\mathbb{H}^3$ from the left (and probably automorphisms of $G$ from the right).
As usual to speficy a homomorphism from a group with a specific presentation to another group we have to pick a image for each generator, such that all relators get mapped to the neutral element. My hope is that there might be an algorithm that starts with some first choice of the images of the generators. Note that $Isom(H^3)$ can be viewed as a subgroup of $GL_4(\mathbb{R})$. Then I would like to iteratively minimize the sum of some norm of the images of the relators (hoping that it will converge to a homomorphism). Of course there are also noninjective homomorphisms (like the trivial one) so I cannot hope that the sequence always converges to an injective homomorphism. But maybe it does with high probability for a reasonably random first choice of generators.
Has someone already done this ? If so I am interested in the convergence properties. They might also depend on the given presentation. So one could also hope that any fundamental group of a hyperbolic 3-manifold has a nice presentation.


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- TrueCrypt. Download here.
- Windows XP with Service Pack 2. Prior to SP2 you couldn't do autoplay on removable drives. You can do everything else described here though.
- A USB thumb drive. No special requirements. Any old one will do.
TrueCrypt files
- Move all your data off your usb drive so it's empty.
- Install TrueCrypt on your PC.
- From the TrueCrypt application directory (usually C:\Program Files\TrueCrypt\) copy TrueCrypt.exe to your usb drive.
- From your Windows drivers directory (probably C:\Windows\system32\drivers\) copy truecrypt.sys to your usb drive.
Note: The TrueCrypt download is a zip file. Inside the zip file is a folder called Setup Files that contains both TrueCrypt.exe and truescrypt.sys so it's possible to skip steps 2, 3 and 4 above and just copy the two files straight from that folder to your flash drive.
Autorun file
- Create another file on your flash drive called autorun.inf. Paste
in the following:
[autorun] label=Cruzer icon=truecrypt.exe action=Mount TrueCrypt Volume open=truecrypt /v data.tc /lz /q /a /m rm /e shell=mounttc shell\mounttc=&Mount shell\mounttc\command=truecrypt /v data.tc /lz /q /a /m rm /e shell=dismounttc shell\dismounttc=&Dismount shell\dismounttc\command=truecrypt /dz /q shell=runtc shell\runtc=Run &TrueCrypt shell\runtc\command=truecrypt
- The /lz and /dz above means you will mount your encrypted volume using drive letter Z. Change Z to something else in all three places if you want to use another drive letter.
- Change the label if you want to. You can also change the icon which is the icon that your usb drive has in My Computer. (I use an .ico file that I copied to my thumb drive also).
- So far your drive should look something like this: ...except for the file data.tc. That's the file that will contain all your encrypted files that we will create next.
Check the TrueCrypt manual to see what the other command line options do. You might want to tweak them to suit your preferences.
Note: In a file with more than one icon you can specify which icon you want by putting a comma then the icon number, eg icon=c:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll,12
Creating the encrypted volume
- Run TrueCrypt from your start menu and click "Create Volume".
- Choose "Create a standard TrueCrypt volume" (the default).
- Type L:\data.tc at "Volume Location" where L is the drive letter of your flash drive.
- Choose your favourite encryption algorithm. (Don't ask me!)
- Select a volume size. This is how much space you will have on your encrypted volume.
I like to make it fill the entire remaining space on the thumb drive. You make it fill it exactly by doing this:
- Get the free space in bytes of your flash drive by right clicking it in My Computer and clicking "Properties".
- Divide this number by 1024 to get kilobytes.
- Back in TrueCrypt, select KB and type the number.
- Make up a password and enter it. Remember your password because there is no way to crack it. That's the point of secure encryption.
- Wiggle your mouse a bit for extra randomness, then click "Format".
- When formatting is finished click "Exit" to exit.
- This concludes the setup process. The hard part is now over!
Note: If you didn't bother to install TrueCrypt in step 2, you can just double click TrueCrypt Format.exe in the Setup Files folder.
- Remove your thumb drive in the usual way. (Click the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in your Systray, select the drive to remove, then yank it out).
- Put it back in again. If the autoplay stuff is working you should see this:
- Click OK. You should then see this:
- Enter your password and up comes your encrypted drive. Voila!
- You can now put all your files back on it. They are now securely encrypted and can't be accessed without your password.
- To dismount
- Go to My Computer. Right click on your flash drive icon.
- Notice the menu options include Mount, Autoplay, Dismount and Run TrueCrypt.
- Choose Dismount to dismount the volume.
- Other notes
- Note that to open your flash drive now you have to right click and choose Open because a double click will run the Mount shell extension.
- You can also mount and dismount and change your password from the TrueCrypt program on your thumb drive. Read the TrueCrypt manual for more information.
Note: If you come to a PC where your chosen drive letter is already taken you can run TrueCrypt manually and mount your drive with a different drive letter.
- You can backup all your secure data just by copying your data.tc to your C: drive.
- I recommend adding a shortcut (to your real drive, not the virtual one) to your Quick Launch Bar for convenience. You can then access the right click menu from the shortcut.
Update 4-Nov-2005Since I wrote this version 4.0 of TrueCrypt has been released with a whole load of great new features and improvements. As yet I have not tested the new version with the above procedure, but it should work.
Update 7-Feb-2006Here are a couple of notes from commenters below. You have to have Adminstrator privilege on the Windows XP to mount. This probably prevents you accessing your data in internet cafes and student labs. When I wrote this I hadn't discovered the "Traveller Mode" section in the TrueCrypt manual. Read that to see how TrueCrypt can set most of this stuff up for you automatically!
Update 16-Feb-2006Remora USB Disk Guard might be worth trying. It doesn't require that you have Administrator privilege. Found it here.
Update 28-Feb-2006This article was recently featured at MakeZine. Welcome MakeZine readers! Also made it to del.icio.us popular.
Update 27-Apr-2006I have upgraded to TrueCrypt 4.2 and everything still works except that:
- There is now a second .sys file you should probably include called truecrypt-x64.sys
- TrueCrypt now wants to store some data in Configuration.xml on your thumb drive so you should leave a little bit of space on the drive instead of filling it exactly as described above. (The xml file is about 4kb but I decided to leave an extra 1MB of free space to be sure).
Update 15-June-2006I gave Remora USB File Guard a try. I'm not saying it's bad product but from a useability perspective it doesn't compare to using TrueCrypt as described above. Here's what you do to edit your "secure" data using this product. Insert your thumb drive and open it up the root folder. Double click the remora exe file. Type your password. You get a winzip style of application window. Click on your file. Click export. Choose where you want to export to. Now it decrypts the file and puts it in the folder of your choice. (By the way now your data it is completely in the clear). When your done with it you then go back to remora and import it back. Then make sure you delete it from where ever it was. (Actually maybe there is an import and delete function, I didn't hang around long enough to find out). The inconvenience of this process is enough to render it useless to me. I'd rather leave my bank details unencrypted than go through that every time I needed them. In comparison the TrueCrypt solution encrypts your data on the fly. Once it's mounted you have a fully secure virtual drive. Use it like a drive. Dismount when you're done.
Update 26-July-2006Someone asked about removing this once it's installed. It's quite simple. Here's what to do:
- Mount your encrypted drive
- Copy your stuff off it to your C: drive or whatever
- Dismount your encrypted drive
- Delete everything from your thumb drive (ie the truecrypt files and your data.tc file)
- Copy your stuff back to your thumb drive


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Shortly before the first performance of My Brother My Sisters, Kenneth MacMillan gave an interview to John Higgins, the arts editor of The Times. "Up to now with my story ballets", he told Higgins, "I've been giving the spectators more and more information about the characters. Here, quite deliberately, I'm giving them less. It's sufficient to say that there are five sisters and one brother; at the end of the work, which lasts about half an hour, you may be wondering whether they are related. I've based the ballet on real people, although fact and fiction are always blurred, and tried to realize their inner lives, not the ones they choose to show to the world. The idea has been with me for a considerable time. I read something, see something, forget it and then after an interval - four years in this case - it turns up again and is transformed into dance."
The family of MacMillan's ballet are, according to MacMillan's programme note "set apart by landscape and circumstance, intelligence and passion", the open moors beyond a graveyard in Yolanda Sonnabend's settings suggestive of Bronte country. A further quote in the programme from A.E Ellis's The Racksuggests that the children play in a graveyard, in which they themselves will one day lie. The reference to the Brontes is never explicit, but MacMillan did acknowledge it in a 1985 interview with Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times. "It was Branwell (their brother) who was the hero of all their books. So my ballet became a ballet about a brother and all the sisters, about their fantasies. I didn't want the public to know it was the Brontes."
As in several other works MacMillan also explores here the intensely focused feelings of introverted groups. But in My Brother, My Sisters he pushes familial passions well beyond the point of crisis. As the family turns on itself, children's games perverted through adult personality take on a psychotic logic. A highly sexual pas de deux depicts an incestuous relationship between the boy and the malign elder sister; younger sisters are coerced into an oppressive secrecy; the most vulnerable is endlessly bullied and in the end killed by her eldest sister. Throughout there is an outsider figure, a mysterious 'He', perhaps standing for MacMillan himself, who may be a dispassionate observer, or who may not exist at all.
"You can't pretend to 'like' a ballet of this nature but goodness how you have to admire", was Mary Clarke's verdict in The Guardian. "And the final curtain, when the children finally realise their playacting has gone too far and death really has happened is terrifying." For John Percival of The Times they were the most interesting cast of characters MacMillan had ever put on a stage: "all the more exciting to have such characters combined with an inventiveness of steps and phrases that exceeds even the youthful outpouring of his first professional ballet, Danses concertantes."
"I do not know", wrote Clement Crisp of The Financial Times, "if My Brother, My Sisters will become a 'popular' ballet; but its combination of action on two narrative levels, in that what we see at first glance is doubled by another and even more uneasy 'inner' narration, grips the mind, and demonstrates yet again MacMillan's mastery as a choreographer able to explore the convolutions of the human psyche in exciting movement."
First performance: Württembergische Staatstheater, Stuttgart, 21 May, 1978
Company: Stuttgart Ballet
Cast: Birgit Keil, Richard Cragun, Lucia Montagnon, Reid Anderson, Jean Allenby, Sylviane Bayard, Hilde Koch
Music: Arnold Schoenberg and Anton von Webern
Design: Yolanda Sonnabend
Benesh notation score: Georgette Tsinguirides and Eduard Greyling (1980). Master score


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You can thank the late Fred Heutte for many of the flowering trees and shrubs that embellish so many city streets, private yards and public gardens in Hampton Roads
Beauties like camellias that flower fall, winter and spring, azaleas that bloom with dogwoods and crape myrtles that show off 100 days of summer color.
It was his vision and love for all plants that introduced those species to our area during his gardening career.
"The legacy of Fred Heutte is forever woven into the cities and gardens of eastern Virginia," says Eddie Anderson, owner of McDonald Garden Center, who knew Heutte in his retirement years. Heutte was 80 when he died in 1979.
"My memory of Fred was that he was a real gardener. He knew gardening, he loved it and he lived it. I still have the shovel he used and it was used."
The legacy of Heutte, who used government stimulus money from the 1930s to shape what is now Norfolk Botanical Garden, lives on in the Fred Heutte Center, a nonprofit horticultural center in the Ghent section of Norfolk. There, residents enjoy its gardens and attend programs and meetings in a restored 1887 ferry terminal building that served Norfolk-Portsmouth ferry riders until 1952. The center organizes an annual Urban Gardener Lecture Series with low-cost programs for gardeners of all levels, and sponsors spring herb and fall pansy sales.
"Our whole purpose is to have a garden that you can continually visit and see something going on," says Bill Smoot, president of the board of directors for the 400-member Fred Heutte Foundation.
Smoot, a master gardener who lives in Portsmouth, knew Heutte in the 1970s when he was joining a men's garden club at the botanical garden.
"He was a nice man and we owe a lot to what he accomplished," says Smoot.
Heutte, who was born in Paris in 1899 and moved to the United States with his family when he was 12, began working in a New Jersey florist when he was just a young boy. Later stationed with the Army in the Canal Zone of the Panama Canal, he planted hibiscus everywhere, prompting his commanding officer to name him the "company gardener."
After World War I, Heutte married and worked as head gardener at President Coolidge's summer home in the Adirondacks, and then for a University of Virginia professor's wife in Charlottesville. She introduced him to the Norfolk city manager who drove Heutte all over town, discussing how the city could look better. Heutte took that challenge to heart, working as superintendent of parks for Norfolk for almost three decades.
With a religious-like fervor, he did everything he could to turn the city into the gardening capital of America. He was even known for knocking on doors, asking residents to plant crape myrtles.
"Fred planted two crape myrtles for any homeowner that would ask," says Anderson.
"In his book 'Gardening in the Temperate Zone,' Fred urged every gardener to consider the crape myrtle. It was Fred's encouragement that inspired McDonald Garden Center to hold our first Crepe Myrtle Festival in 1982, in order to help keep Hampton Roads focused o this valuable garden treasure."
As parks superintendent, Heutte also launched the Azalea Gardens, now called Norfolk Botanical Garden, hiring 200 unemployed farm hands and women to clear and plant 4,000 azaleas. Today, the botanical garden includes more than 100,000 azaleas, as well as a nationally recognized camellia collection.
"He envisioned a Camellia Trail from Tidewater to Florida, which now exists," says Sally Simon, a leader in the Virginia Camellia Society and founder of the Fred Heutte Center.
Heutte also started the Norfolk Botanical Garden Society, and used that to help develop the gardens, according to Anderson, who has been a member of its board of directors. Today, the society still guides the botanical garden's vision.
At the Fred Heutte Center, Smoot shows visitors how he and other volunteers continue to maintain Heutte's dream that public gardens and mini urban parks can benefit anyone of any age, income and gender.
An heirloom vegetable garden annually yields about 200 pounds of produce that's donated to the local food bank. A morning yoga group meets in an upstairs room where members can look down on the gardens.
"It's a really nice view up there," says Smoot, pointing to a second floor that was added to the terminal building.
Programs at the center teach homeowners how to make rain barrels, whip up herbal ice cream and create holiday decorations. The site can also be rented for small weddings, reception and other social gatherings.
"We are happy to give tours and share the history of the center," says Smoot.
"We try to garden year-round and give people something to enjoy whenever they visit. It's what Fred would have wanted."
Heutte happenings
Herbal ice creams & sorbets. 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 26. Billi Parus, Virginia Beach master gardener and member of the Herb Society of America, demonstrates how to make six cooling treats
Botanical bus trip. 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Aug. 28. Ride golf carts while you shop 25-acre Sandy's Plants nursery and then tour Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, both in Richmond.
Ornamental grasses. 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6. Marie Butler, landscape coordinator for the Virginia Zoo in Norfolk, shares tips on using heat- and drought-tolerant grasses in your yard.
Square foot gardening. 7 p.m. Sept. 21. Norfolk master gardener guides you on getting the most out of a small vegetable garden.
•Bus trip $35-$45; other programs free for members, $5 nonmembers. Register in advance for all events; 441-2513, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or http://www.fredheutte.org.
You can thank the late Fred Heutte for many of the flowering trees and shrubs that embellish so many city streets, private yards and public gardens in Hampton Roads


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The Magic Mike hunk and the Brazilian beauty walked down the aisle together last month (Jun12), and it's now emerged the blushing bride was hiding a small baby bump under her wedding dress.
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Welcome to the monthly meeting of the io9 Book Club. In November, we read Lavie Tidar's award-winning Osama. Jump into comments to get started talking about it!
For those unfamiliar with the io9 book club, here's how it works: You read the book. We create a special book club post on io9 when the meeting is in session. That would be the post you're reading right now. Then everybody talks about the book in comments for a few days, starting right now.
We hope that Tidhar will stop by later this week to talk with us about the book.
So, what did you think of the book?
Want to get a head start on our next book?
This month, we'll be going for pure fun by reading Soulless, the first novel in Gail Carriger's bestselling Parasol Protectorate series. The fifth book, Timeless, came out this year. But it's better to start a series with the beginning. Enjoy a month of supernatural steampunk escapism with Soulless, or read the whole series! We'll meet on January 8 to discuss it.


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Friday, December 31, 2010
2010 In A Nutshell...
Labels: music
well actually...
greg mitchell over at the nation
10:20 they did it, norway: that norwegian paper, which got cable dump late, remains most active now in posting them.
various n' sundry
if it's good enough for limbaugh: facebook page launched to encourage dems to switch affiliation to nominate palin for gop prez candidate
yes, the right wing is so stupid that they are boycotting justin bieber based on a hoax!
morning joe contemplating running for office again...gee, we wonder what lori klausutis's family has to say about that!
and it's a good time to donate to the uso: all donations are being matched by an anonymous donor, so give generously!
working for a living
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Labels: inspiration, music
Labels: philosophy, physics
haley barbour loves negroes!
the jon swift memorial roundup 2010
it's a bittersweet note upon which we mention our good buddy batocchio, aka the vagabond scholar, who has taken it upon himself to pick up the mantle that the late, great jon swift has left behind.
jon swift, the nome de bloggeur of al weisel, traditionally created a year-end round up of the best posts in blogtopia (and yes, we coined that phrase), all chosen by the bloggers themselves.
with the loss of al/jon last year, batocchio has decided to continue this year end festivity over @ the vagabond scholar. we respectfully suggest that you all head over there to continue this fine tradition, and perhaps to pay some year-end respects to the memory of al's work.
which reminds us, we will continue another tradition that al created: coming in februray is the annual blogroll amnesty day; this time, it will be doubly poignant w/o, but perhaps mainly for, al weisel.
is the hardly-ever-right wing smarter than a fifth grader?
fact: big snow storm hits the north east.
stupid wingnut statement: this disproves global warming!
this is the problem w/conservatives [ed. note: we're not saying there's only one problem]: their thinking stops on the surface, w/o any acknowledgement that life is complex, layered, intricate and involved. (hell, these people have trouble w/the concept of gray!)
without getting into the advanced climatology science that explains the nuance, we satisfy ourselves w/simple elementary school-level mr. wizardry that every kid above grade 5 knows.
storms come from, among other factors, large amounts of moisture (precipitation) in the atmosphere. when the air gets cold enough, the moisture freezes into flakes, and, voila, it snows!
now, the precipitation in the air comes from water evaporating on the surface of the earth. most kids can tell you that snow and ice evaporate slower than just plain water, ie, there is more moisture in the air above the ocean than above a glacier.
enter global warming. the artic ice caps have receded, thanks to warmer temperatures. ergo, there is more surface area of liquid ocean exposed to the atmosphere than surface are of ice, unlike before. so now more moisture evaporates into the air.
(also of note, tho this is more nuanced than we wanted to get into: big areas of white ice reflect light and therefor heat into the air, warming it; big areas of dark blue ocean absorb the light and heat, keep the air above it colder.)
so, w/o berating the conservatives for failing to remember the lessons of the day after tomorrow, the simple case is this: less ice = more moisture in the air; less ice = colder air; cold air + moisture = big snow storms!
and, it's not as if these huge blizzards are covering guatamela and nigeria; it's snowing where it always snows: europe and the northern part of n. america. it's simply snowing a great deal in the last couple of years.
if the average temperature of the earth hadn't have risen as of late, we'd cut the rightists a little more slack (ok, not much more); but things are getting hotter.
we wish the rightists would pay attention. but we know they won't.
down the penrose lane
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Labels: music
Visual Artwork...
For a guy who doesn't draw too often, I don't think this looks too bad. I picked a photo of a gray wolf to go by, and went from there.
Done entirely with pencils...
Labels: art
you can't tell your dicks without a scorecard
and we want to see our menorah's facebook page, too
bits n' pieces
baby boomers fear outliving medicare
the senate gallery won't issue ackerman press credentials as long as he's affiliated w/fdl, so he's moving his site
and let's all ride seattle's light rail without pants
blogging around
gov. christie pushes back against snow vacation criticisms
teabaggers love nepotism
the colorado springs zoo is love central for giraffes
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Question of the Day...
Labels: it is what it is
I Got a Vibe on First Time that I Saw You
And I decided I didn't need to go, because money was tight and there would be Other Times. And it looked like an Oldies Revue.
And now there won't be other times, and I don't even need to write a post here; Ta-Nehisi Coates has already said it all, in ways that I never could have, even not mentioning Rick James until the comments get things stirring.
So, since Brad DeLong took the crossover single, I'll put the other video here. Bet you'll want to look, even after Don Cornelius doing the introduction.
Labels: gender, history, music, pop culture, racism
riding out the storm
it took one woman four hours from brooklyn to jfk
one of new york's biggest storm problems: abandoned cars in the snow
massachusettes has massive blackouts, coastal flooding
Monday, December 27, 2010
tweet of the day
Labels: comedians, tweet of the day, tweets, twitter
this n' that
what mel gibson, the teabaggers, and others should have gotten for christmas
corporate america's plan to loot our pensions
Sunday, December 26, 2010
tweet of the day
Labels: tweet of the day, tweets, twitter
environmental news stories sunday
gravestones used to gauge air pollution's effect. - through the gravestone project, volunteers are using gps to create a worldwide database of how marble cemetery markers have weathered. marble is particularly susceptible to acidic pollution, and the dates on the stones make it easy to tell how long they've been in place - columbus dispatch
If colorado yellowcake uranium mill gets state's ok, customers would likely be in asia.
- if government environmental overseers grant a license to build the nation's first uranium mill since the cold war in western colorado, project leaders then would turn their attention to china, korea and other asian powers - denver post
california to rewrite toxic-chemical regulations. - california will take another stab at writing regulations that limit the toxic chemicals in consumer products after too many people said the rules weren't strict enough. california's regulations could eventually influence how other states govern such chemicals - san francisco chronicle
state mandate will power green job growth, but not in sacramento. - a new state mandate requiring utilities to buy more of their power from environmentally friendly sources is transforming communities around california with new solar farms, wind farms and geothermal projects - sacramento bee
environmentalists deplore schwarzenegger's corporate turn. - gov. arnold schwarzenegger's efforts to give a boost to corporate california are colliding with his image as an environmental crusader in his final days in office. the sierra club grumbles that the governor's plan for implementing the state's global warming law is a giveaway to industry. - latte times
under-reporting suspected in south county sewage spill. - officials at the san luis obispo south county sanitation district allegedly under-reported the amount of raw sewage recently spilled during heavy december rainstorms in an effort to protect an agency already being accused of firing whistleblowers. - cal coast news
what happened in 2010: climate and energy. - obama displayed high hopes in his state of the union address for the senate to consider a climate change bill and invest in clean energy, but bipartisan efforts failed and a bill didn't gain traction, despite the worst environmental disaster in history—the bp oil spill - wnyc public radio
integrity policy unveiled at last. - mixed reviews greet white house guidelines for preventing political interference in us government science - nature
bp oil spill's long-term threat to bluefin tuna. - evidence has emerged to suggest that bp's deepwater horizon oil spill may have an impact far beyond the gulf, threatening prized bluefin tuna, one of the world's most lucrative fishing species. the controversy surrounds dispersants, the chemical compounds that bp used to break up the spilled oil. - daily finance
shell pushes forward to drill well in arctic. - the deepwater horizon accident last april put a halt to offshore drilling — not just in the gulf of mexico but in alaska, too. despite that, shell is pushing ahead with plans to drill an exploratory well in the arctic ocean, in the beaufort sea off the north coast of alaska - npr morning edition
Labels: alaska, california, climate change, environment, epa, fish, global warming, gulf coast, jobs, ocean, offshore drilling, oil, pollution, power, toxins
boxing day miscellany
big blizzard headed towards new york
jane lynch, dan savage disappointed in obama
happy kwaanza
Been A While...
Labels: music
Saturday, December 25, 2010
ho ho ho
tweet of the day
Labels: christian, tweet of the day, tweets, twitter
thanksgiving on christmas
many are in need today and every day, and i hope you who have so much will take a moment to resolve, as i have, to lend a hand to those who have little. don't take this as a downer message...enjoy today and all the good things that may come with it, but tomorrow, give a thought to someone who has less. that's how i'm looking at it, and i won't be stinting on enjoying the good. steak au poivre with a good bottle of wine is on the menu for dinner. i don't spit in the face of joy, i just want to see more of it all over the place.
happy digital christmas!
Friday, December 24, 2010
Labels: music
This Ain't The First Time You've Seen This Here, Either...
crooks and liars loves david sedaris
stuff n' such
inmate denied hiv meds
charles ferguson of inside job: there is no difference between the parties
fox & friends' stupidest moments of 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
This Ain't the First Time You've Seen This Here...
skippy's thursday nite music club
Labels: christian, music, skippy's music club, youtube
united states of austerity (for some)
but the bush tax cut extension just passed by a political elite increasingly united on economic policy—a 'repo-demo' party dominated by corporate interests—is only the first of three phases in a new policy offensive designed to protect the incomes of the wealthy and corporate america for another decade, to be paid for directly by middle- and working-class america. together, the three phases represent the emerging u.s. variant of a general austerity strategy, similar in objective but different in content to other austerity programs now emerging as well in the eurozone, japan and elsewhere. - common dreams
Labels: austerity, class warfare, democrats, middle class, republicans, social security, workers
sorry kiddies
male reindeer shed their antlers at the beginning of december, whereas the females retain their antlers throughout the winter. so sorry kids, rudolph and "his" gang appear to be all be female! - scienceblogssometimes when you want the job done....well, you know the remainder of the phrase.
fcc goes comcastic
the federal communications commission's top official has given his approval to comcast corp's purchase of nbc universal with a number of tough and narrowly tailored conditions on the deal.
conditions for approval would address several key areas, including online video, program access and program carriage, according fcc officials who declined to be named. - reuters
kibbles n' bits
speaking of obama's administration, it's denying polar bears endangered species status
net neutrality & dadt: night and day explained
jay rosen pegs this blog post as the best piece written about wikileaks.
down the penrose lane
merry happy joyous festivus
you may commence with the airing of grievances and the feats of strength.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
skippy's wednesday nite music club
Labels: christian, music, skippy's music club
bob woodward and the new york times spill key secrets
Labels: journalists, nytimes, wikileaks
today ends the largest prison strike in america
according to an article by facing south, department of corrections have been nervous about deteriorating conditions in georgia's prisons since early 2010. wardens started triple bunking prisoners in response to budget cuts—squeezing three prisoners into cells intended for one. prison officials have kept a watchful eye out for prisoners meaning to riot, for prisoners' rights lawyers to litigate, or both.
poor conditions and substandard medical care are also on the inmates' list of demands. however, the jailed's main gripe seems to center on landing recognition as workers entitled to fair pay.
as it goes, prisoners in georgia are forced to work without pay for their labor—seemingly a violation of the 13th amendment, which prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude.
for months the prisoners had apparently used cell phones to get in touch with inmates from other prisons, organizing a non-violent strike. the outcome began the morning of dec. 9—by dec. 13 the gdc issued a statement that four prisons were completely on strike. - death and taxes
(tip o' the kangaroo tail to mark crispin miller.)
Labels: multi-millionaire media, prisoner, strikes
Bank of America: It Doesn't Just Blow, It SUCKS Too
In recent days, at least 439 Internet domain names that are critical of the bank's top officials were taken off the market. The registrations of the domain names, which include imaginative swipes at the bank's CEO, such as BrianMoynihanBlows.com and BrianTMoynihanSucks.net, effectively stop BofA-haters from slamming the bank's top executives and directors –- or at least blocks any slams using a couple of very specific pejoratives.
I dealt with a couple of the people on that list in a past life, and while I would assure anyone that Tom Montag doesn't suck, his description by the other Aaron (Ross0 Sorkin as 39.4 should be infamy enough.
Labels: banking, financial markets, internets
so what happened, barry?
january 26, 2008
if elected president, barack obama plans to prioritize, well, barring broadband providers like at&t and comcast from prioritizing internet content.seems you are letting the lobbyists dominate washington, yet again.
affixing his signature to federal net neutrality rules would be high on the list during his first year in the oval office, the junior senator from illinois said during an interactive forum monday afternoon with the popular contender put on by mtv and myspace at coe college in iowa. - cnet
Labels: net neutrality, obama
morning miscellany
gay rights a new tune for nashville
the 10 greediest people of the year
rain-soaked california braces for biggest storm yet
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
no-cal just loves puttin' in a dig at lo-cal
Labels: los angeles, san francisco, santa monica, weather
In Response...
Labels: it is what it is
it won't be an economic disaster for "everyone"
...when it comes to the fiscal problems with the states and cities, all you hear about are greedy, middle-class school teachers and firefighters. the 60 minutes interview even called their benefits "golden parachutes", as if they can be compared to the multi-billion dollar wall street benefits. what 60 minutes failed to mention was how wall street was extracting $4 billion from the states through financial wizardry. how many teachers and policemen could be paid with that much money?
...you might be under the impression that this class-based theft and destruction of the working class is self-defeating. after all, the wealthy have to live somewhere too. that would be naive, because the wealthy know exactly what they are doing and have planned for it.
...you see, if you have enough money you can go anywhere. the wealthy know that patriotism is for suckers. that's why you don't see the sons of the elite on the front lines of wars. war is a racket, a profitable one for a select few, and paid with the blood of the poor. - gjohnsit over at the great orange satan
most of us are pooched.
Labels: economics, economy, wall street, wealthy
to our democratic administration
blogging around
schwartzenegger wants to work for obama
jury pool in missouri refuses to be empanelled for marijuana possession case
and here's the rude pundit on haley barbour
happy zappadan
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A Depressing Interlude
Labels: holiday, music, pop culture
lunar eclipse - magical!
Lunar Eclipse #3 "Totality"
Originally uploaded by slitherjef
Labels: it is what it is
tweet of the evening
Labels: olbermann, tweet of the day, twitter
Monday, December 20, 2010
happy zappadan
jesus thinks you're a jerk
Sunday, December 19, 2010
happy zappadan
who are the brain police?
tweet of the day
people are so judgmental. you eat a few cookies & suddenly you're a "cookie monster". well maybe the cookies really deserved it.
Labels: cookies, tweet of the day, twitter
environmental news stories sunday
global warming: sandal-wearers won't save us but greed and the us navy will.
whatever sceptical republicans back in washington may think, the pentagon is deadly serious about global warming. It even has its own targets for cutting emissions of the greenhouse gases
osu climatologist takes stand on warming. - scientists often are reluctant to step onto a soapbox, choosing to let their research speak for itself. not anymore. lonnie thompson's latest paper includes for the first time his take on how the world has responded to the warnings that he and other scientists have sounded concerning global warming. - columbus dispatch
wikileaks: bp's 'other' offshore drilling disaster. - while the gulf explosion created an ongoing political firestorm, a similar incident in azerbaijan remained almost forgotten until last week, when another leak – this time of diplomatic cables released by wikileaks – showed just how close bp had come to a major disaster in the caspian. - time magazine
obama administration issues guidelines designed to ensure 'scientific integrity.' - the obama administration friday issued long-awaited guidelines designed to protect federal scientists from political interference – the first time the federal government has had an explicit government-wide policy of this kind - wapo
climate questions and fox news. - a top editor for fox news channel directed reporters last year to question the legitimacy of scientific findings showing that the planet is warming, according to an internal e-mail obtained by the media-watchdog group media matters - nytimes
white house's 'scientific integrity' memo is released -- at last -- to mixed reviews. - eighteen months after its deadline, the white house office of science and technology policy released guidelines today aimed at ensuring government scientists' work isn't altered for political purposes - greenwire
scottish cod stocks hit by food shortage. - dwindling cod stocks in the seas surrounding scotland have been partially caused by a rise in summer ocean temperatures which has left the fish with a deplenished food source, according to new research - edinburgh scotsman
Labels: bp, climate change, faux news, fish, food, global warming, obama, science, scotland, wikileaks
has obama really gulped the koolaid?
Labels: obama, republicans, social security, wtf
Saturday, December 18, 2010
happy zappadan
black napkins
false remedies to fix a false economy.
Labels: banking, england, financial markets, greed, wall street
Not Only Does It Never End With These People, It Never Stops Getting Worse And Worse....
Labels: it is what it is, life, republicans
the fcc vote is tuesday
just a week before the fcc holds a vote on whether to apply fairness rules to some of the nation's internet service providers, two companies that sell their services to the country's largest cellular companies showed off a different vision of the future: one where you'll have to pay extra to watch youtube or use facebook.senator al franken thinks that net neutrality is a first amendment issue....and so do i.
the companies, allot communications and openet — suppliers to large wireless companies including att and verizon — showed off a new product in a web seminar tuesday, which included a powerpoint presentation (1.5-MB .pdf) that was sent to wired by a trusted source.
the idea? make it possible for your wireless provider to monitor everything you do online and charge you extra for using facebook, skype or netflix. - wired
Labels: big brother, cell phones, congress, corporations, fcc, franken, net neutrality
Friday, December 17, 2010
unhappy zappadan
van vliet was probably best known for the album "trout mask replica," which was released in 1969 by captain beefheart and his magic band.
the album's angular, dissonant take on blues rock and van vliet's growling, surreal lyrics put him outside the mainstream, but staked his place in rock history.
rolling stone magazine recently ranked "trout mask replica" number 58 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. the album was produced by fellow experimental rock pioneer frank zappa, a high school friend from the desert town of lancaster, calif…
by shunning commercial success and a more accessible sound, van vliet became a role model for subsequent generations of musicians. his music is cited as an influence on the rise of punk, post-punk and new wave. beefheart is also claimed as a kindred spirit by free jazz musicians and avant-garde classical composers.
rest in peace, captain beefheart
@pres_bartlet has quite the twitter feed going this evening
some of the highlights of the twitterfeed.
Labels: christmas, gop, senate, tweet of the day, twitter, workers
an irishman telling it like it is
Labels: banking, financial markets, ireland, youtube
they should just change the name of their party
Labels: gop, mental illness, republicans, senate
tweet of the day
they should move the capitol building to wall street. it might speed things up.
Labels: tweet of the day, twitter, wall street
our patron saint, jon stewart
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Labels: 9/11, congress, daily show, gop, healthcare, jon stewart
california's mental hospitals
napa state hospital, a 135-year-old facility for the mentally ill, sprawls over hundreds of acres in wine country, its grounds dotted with palm, oak and redwood trees.
but in this pastoral setting, an epidemic of violence has scared staff members and patients, leading state legislators to call for emergency financing to help make the hospital safe.
in october, a psychiatric technician was strangled inside the hospital's "secured treatment area," where the criminally insane live. last saturday, a rehabilitation therapist sustained four skull fractures when he was assaulted, allegedly by a patient who, days earlier, was accused of attacking a custodian.
in interviews, staff members describe an environment in which predatory patients prey upon the more vulnerable. the secured treatment area, which is surrounded by a fence topped by razor wire, is rife with gang activity, methamphetamine use, pimping and extortion, staff members say. yet, hospital police officers are prohibited from carrying firearms or tasers.
..the department of mental health reports that 92 percent of patients in state mental hospitals were referred by the criminal justice system; 15 years ago it was just 20 percent.- bay citizen
Labels: california, healthcare, mental illness
happy zappadan
the illinois enema bandit
this n' that
study finds that watching fox makes you stupid
omaha steaks drops glenn beck
"is that your minkey?" "my what?" "your minkey?" "you said, 'minkey'!" "yes, yes, is that your minkey?!" blake edwards passes away @ age 88
Thursday, December 16, 2010
happy zappadan
camarillo brillo - live!
i "heart" bernie sanders
week after week, month after month, we watch politicians who disappoint us, not just as leaders but as people, failing to achieve the basic life-competency standard we expect of most grown-ups, doing things we wouldn't tolerate from 15-year-olds. whether it's mark foley writing sexy letters to little boys, or charlie rangel or duke cunningham or jerry lewis doing the pay-for-play game, or even assholes like orrin hatch roaring with partisan excitement when the individual mandate – his own idea – was recently declared unconstitutional by a federal judge (who himself has financial stake in the health care business), these guys fail the common decency/honesty test with unnerving regularity. It's sad but true, but in 99.9% of all cases, you wouldn't think of looking up to an elected official as a moral role model. which is why bernie sanders is such a rarity, and people should appreciate what he's doing not just for his home state of vermont, but for the reputation of all politicians in general.
...while everyone else in washington was debating the political efficacy of the deal – the hill actually published a piece talking cheerfully about how ceos found a "new friend" in obama, while the new york times shamelessly ran a front-page "analysis" talking up the deal's supposed benefits to the middle class and the political benefits from same that obama would enjoy – sanders blew all of that off and just looked at the deal's moral implications. which are these: this tax deal, frankly and unequivocally, is the result of a relatively small group of already-filthy rich people successfully lobbying an even smaller group of morally spineless politicians to shift an ever-bigger share of society's burdens to the lower and (what's left of the) middle classes. this is people who already have lots of shit just demanding more shit, for the sheer rotten sake of it.- matt taibbi at rolling stone
Labels: congress, matt taibbi, middle class, rolling stone, taxpayers, vermont
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
It's Loud With The Shop-Vac On...
Labels: music
the vampire squid that quite possibly destroyed our country
goldman sachs group inc.'s top executives will get about $111.3 million in stock next month in a delayed payout from last year and their record-setting 2007 awards, even as wall street prepares for lower bonuses.- bloomberg
Labels: goldman sachs, wall street
bradley manning, the accused leaker to wiki
...from the beginning of his detention, manning has been held in intensive solitary confinement. for 23 out of 24 hours every day -- for seven straight months and counting -- he sits completely alone in his cell. even inside his cell, his activities are heavily restricted; he's barred even from exercising and is under constant surveillance to enforce those restrictions. for reasons that appear completely punitive, he's being denied many of the most basic attributes of civilized imprisonment, including even a pillow or sheets for his bed (he is not and never has been on suicide watch). for the one hour per day when he is freed from this isolation, he is barred from accessing any news or current events programs. lt. villiard protested that the conditions are not "like jail movies where someone gets thrown into the hole," but confirmed that he is in solitary confinement, entirely alone in his cell except for the one hour per day he is taken out.
....this is why the conditions under which manning is being detained were once recognized in the u.s. -- and are still recognized in many western nations -- as not only cruel and inhumane, but torture. more than a century ago, u.s. courts understood that solitary confinement was a barbaric punishment that severely harmed the mental and physical health of those subjected to it. - glenn greenwald at salon
happy zappadan
i am the walrus
kibbles n' bits
lawsuits accuse knights of columbus of child abuse
florida gunman kills self @ school meeting
dem ny senate majority leader embezzles to fund broadway addiction - mama mia!
whole lotta shakin' goin' on
while some are conjecturing oil & gas drilling as the possible cause, reader joel hanes elucidates other scenarios in our comments section:
guy, ar sits at one end of the new madrid seismic zone; new madrid mo is at the other end.
this could get interesting in the "i've got a very bad feeling about this" way.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
when wendell potter blogs
....i have no doubt the insurance executives i used to work with were doing high fives when the public option bit the dust, and their favorite part of the bill — the mandate that will require us to buy their insurance products if we're not eligible for an existing public plan like medicare, medicaid or the va program — became the law of the land.
after the recent ruling by the federal judge in virginia that the mandate to purchase health insurance is unconstitutional, however, I'm sure my old buddies who are still in the industry are downright apoplectic.
as i noted in my essay in newsweek last month, the insurers, and the republicans they helped to elect to congress, have a real dilemma on their hands. the republicans led voters to believe that the new health reform law represents a "government takeover" of our health care system (it certainly does not, not by a long shot) and promised to "repeal and replace it." several politically-ambitious gop attorneys general (and one democrat) filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionally of the individual mandate so prized by the insurers.
now that the virginia judge has sided with those ags and other plaintiffs, the insurance industry flacks (like i used to be) are now spinning in overdrive. - wendell's post over at the great orange satan
Labels: daily kos, healthcare, insurance
happy zappadan
you are what you is
things n' stuff
michael steele will seek re-election
swarm of 549 earthquakes hits tiny arkansas town
the empire is collapsing, and americans will be the last to know
Monday, December 13, 2010
skippy's monday nite music club
Labels: music, skippy's music club, youtube
how america will collapse by 2025
...despite the aura of omnipotence most empires project, a look at their history should remind us that they are fragile organisms. so delicate is their ecology of power that, when things start to go truly bad, empires regularly unravel with unholy speed: just a year for portugal, two years for the soviet union, eight years for france, 11 years for the ottomans, 17 years for great britain, and, in all likelihood, 22 years for the united states, counting from the crucial year 2003.(tip o' the kangaroo tail to fallenmonk)
future historians are likely to identify the bush administration's rash invasion of iraq in that year as the start of america's downfall. however, instead of the bloodshed that marked the end of so many past empires, with cities burning and civilians slaughtered, this twenty-first century imperial collapse could come relatively quietly through the invisible tendrils of economic collapse or cyberwarfare. - salon.com
down the penrose lane
happy zappadan
watermelon in easter hay
richard holbrooke has passed away
krim sivaya
Labels: music
Sunday, December 12, 2010
happy zappadan
Brian Wilson...
Labels: music
I Like Playing Games, But...
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Apple has release a statement concerning the iOS 6.1 bug that, through a complex series of button pushes and taps, will allow someone with physical access to an iPhone to bypass the passcode lock and get at the private content inside.
An Apple spokesperson told Jim Dalrymple of The Loop that it's known and being worked on. No date was given for the next release, of course, though given the nature of the bug, as well as other issues like the Microsoft Exchange bug, it'll hopefully be soon.
To read Apple's comment in its entirety, hit the link below.
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Mario Parker
Tuesday, 07 May 2013 08:42 AM
After working 37 years in the coal mines of West Virginia, Ronny Justice punctuates his sentences with coughs. He lost his job a year ago, leaving him without health insurance just as he's battling the early stages of black-lung disease.
Justice, 57, had planned to work four more years in a job that paid him about $58,000 a year, enough to eat out anytime he wanted. Now he can't remember the last time he hit the Park Avenue Restaurant and Motel for a $6.95 steak dinner.
Boone County, where he lives, hosts 91 mines and an annual festival meant to celebrate "coal and its heritage." Like Justice's health, that heritage is under siege. In the next three years America will close a record number of coal-fired power plants, enough electricity to power 18.4 million households for a year, government estimates show. Lower-cost gas, new environmental rules and increased use of renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, are reducing coal usage.
"Things are looking grim," Justice says. "I've never seen it this bad, no. Coal's what pays the bills in West Virginia."
Pain is being felt from Appalachia to Wyoming as the U.S. reduces its dependence on coal to almost the lowest level in 63 years — the cost of the country becoming more energy self- sufficient through the production of more natural gas and oil.
Prices have retreated 57 percent from a record in June 2008 as coal's share of U.S. electricity generation sank to a record low of 37 percent last year from 50 percent in 2005. Its future looks even bleaker after President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address that fighting climate change would be a second-term priority.
Greenhouse Gases
Obama failed in his first term to get Congress to pass legislation controlling greenhouse gases. His new pick to run the Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy, helped create the U.S. Northeast's cap-and-trade program for power plants as Connecticut's environmental chief. Cap-and-trade is a system aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by allocating permits to polluters that must surrender enough allowances to cover their discharges of carbon dioxide or pay fines.
In his Feb. 12 State of the Union Address, Obama said more aggressive steps to address climate change are needed, citing natural disasters, from last year's drought that reduced Mississippi River levels to Hurricane Sandy, which pummeled the East Coast, killing at least 147 people and causing an estimated $50 billion in damage.
Superstorm Sandy
"We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy and the most severe drought in decades and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just freak coincidence," he said in his address. "Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science and act before it's too late."
Burning coal emits 205.7 pounds of carbon dioxide per million British thermal units compared with 117 pounds per million Btu for natural gas, according to data from the Energy Information Administration. Natural gas will fuel 28 percent of generation this year, compared with 30 percent last year and up from 16 percent in 2000.
Coal's decline is being exacerbated by increased reliance on renewable energy as its share of electricity jumps by about 54 percent during the next four years, spurred by federal and state mandates and tax incentives.
As many as 5,400 direct U.S. jobs could be lost by 2015 as regulations prompt utilities to shut plants to comply with tighter environmental laws, based on data from the Energy Department and estimates from Matt Preston, principal coal analyst for the Americas region at Wood Mackenzie in Annapolis, Maryland.
Mining Jobs
Another 30,000 more may disappear in the coalfields and ripple through the businesses that support them, from local diners to the companies that help replace worn tires on mining equipment, said Douglas Blackburn Jr., president of Blackacrellc, a Richmond, Virginia-based industry consultancy, whose clients include Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Duke Energy Corp. and the U.S. government.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has unlocked shale deposits that previously were uneconomical to produce. The losses in coal may be more than made up by the gains in shale. About 3.5 million new jobs will be created by 2035 as the U.S. exploits its shale reserves, a 2012 IHS study sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, the Natural Gas Supply Association and others estimated.
While most analysts expect a short-term bounce in coal this year as natural-gas prices rise, total U.S. coal production in March was down 3.3 percent from a year earlier, according to data from Bloomberg Industries. That trend is likely to continue because of tightening environmental restrictions and cheaper natural gas.
Appalachian Pain
No region is more affected than Appalachia, where West Virginia, the second-largest U.S. producer, accounted for 25 percent of the nation's 91,611 coal jobs in 2011, Energy Department data show. Nationwide, industry payrolls plunged 46 percent from 1985 to that year, according to the figures.
Houses and trailer homes line Route 85 as it slithers through hills to the foot of a mountain that holds Alpha Natural Resource Inc.'s Independence mine. Many of the units have sagging roofs and rotting wooden porches, one with a rusty water heater sitting on it.
The number of West Virginia miners or workers connected to mining who applied for unemployment benefits rose to almost 6,000 in 2012, from 2,045 in 2011, according to the state's Commerce Department. Like many of them, Justice has run out of jobless benefits. After being unable to find a job, he sought the help of the United Mine Workers of America to get his pension, worth less than half of what he was earning, and to secure medical insurance.
Unemployed Ranks
About a mile away, James Gray, 47, of Danville, has also joined the ranks of the unemployed. He worked in the mines for 24 years. He and his wife, a licensed practical nurse, live off her salary. After he was fired from his $65,000-a-year job in 2011, they canceled cable television, reduced their auto insurance to just liability coverage and stopped eating out.
"If she wasn't working, we wouldn't be making it," he said. "We're just barely getting by."
Linda Meeker has run the "Heart of God Soup Kitchen" in Danville since June 2010. The operation is open Monday through Friday for two hours in the last 10 days of the month. "That's when people run out of money," she said.
The kitchen served a record 8,100 meals in 2012, about 30 percent more than in 2011, Meeker, 64, said.
"In the past three months the meals have doubled because all the men have lost their jobs," she said as the smell of garlic, spaghetti sauce and fried chicken filled the air.
Food Stamps
The number of West Virginians receiving food stamps last year averaged 346,833, data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows, up 25 percent from 2008.
Even the prospect of employment in the mines can be ephemeral these days. Charles Williamson, of Logan, vowed to himself not to follow his father into the coal mines. After getting a bachelor's degree in finance from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, though, he was unable to find work as a stock broker. Burdened with student loans, he took a job with Alpha Natural Resources Inc. He was laid off before he started.
"I'm actually living with my parents," he said. "A 40- year-old man living with his parents -- there's no more jobs around here."
Blackburn, the industry consultant, is a fourth-generation miner. He has witnessed downturns before and heard about others from his father and grandfather.
Losing Miners
"It's different," he said. "We're going to lose a lot of miners. The difference is even in the '80s we were able to sell coal. Right now if you don't have contracts, I don't know where you're going to sell coal. This is intense."
Each of the coal industry's jobs generates six others, from hydraulic repair shops and fabrication businesses to conveyor belt repair, restaurants and health care, Blackburn said.
The fuel's decline is having the reverse effect. At Stephens Auto Center in Danville, new and used-car receipts were down 20 percent in November from a year earlier, said Richard Stephens, owner of the dealership. "There will come a time when I may have to make some hard decisions," possibly laying off his workers, he said.
Peabody, Arch Coal Inc. and Consol Energy Inc. are among the companies that have reduced production. Patriot Coal Corp., spun off from Peabody in 2007, filed for bankruptcy protection in July, saying "the coal industry is undergoing a major transformation."
'Painful Adjustment'
"It's got to go through a painful adjustment," said Gerard McCloskey, chairman of Merlin Trade & Consultancy and founder of IHS's McCloskey Group, a Petersfield, U.K-based coal market research company. "It's got to happen so quickly. That makes it that much more painful."
Global demand for coal isn't nearly as grim. Worldwide consumption will rise 2.6 percent annually in the next six years and even challenge oil as the top energy source, the International Energy Agency said Dec. 18 in its Medium-Term Coal Market Report.
U.S. producers also may benefit in the European Union as carbon permits have plunged 45 percent in the past year and lawmakers resist measures to boost the market because it may negatively impact the economy as it tries to recover from recession. Prices would first have to rise to a level that makes it economical for U.S. companies to ship the power-plant fuel to the continent, said Lucas Pipes, an analyst at Brean Capital LLC in New York.
Port Trouble
While coal from Wyoming's Powder River Basin and the Illinois Basin fair better domestically than the Appalachian variety because they're more competitive with gas, the ability to capitalize on Asian demand has been slowed as environmental groups block expansion of U.S. port capacity, Wood Mackenzie's Preston said.
Back in Boone County, West Virginia, Richard Light, 46, frets about how he and his three daughters will make it in the next three years.
He's still employed by Hobet Mining, where he took a $5-an- hour pay cut and saw his personal days cut to six from 24. If he can make it three more years he'll have 20 years of service, guaranteeing a pension and medical benefits.
"You don't know what's going to come out of this," he said. "People say there's other jobs, but that's not true. There's nothing around here."
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-- "Blade Brothers" Premieres Back-to-Back Episodes Friday, April 19th at 10PM ET/PT --
(NEW YORK) - Discovery Channel's BLADE BROTHERS introduces viewers to Todd Begg - a knife-making legend with twenty years of experience turning slabs of steel into five-figure collectables. Begg's clients, ranging from the eccentric billionaire to the novice collector, all seek out his talents for one-of-a-kind blades that combine art and function. As demand for Todd's skills lead to a six-year backlog of orders, Todd recruits his brothers to help run the business. The only problem is they know nothing about the making of knives. BLADE BROTHERS will consist of two 30-minute episodes premiering back-to-back on Friday, April 19 at 10PM ET/PT.
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