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Elena Kagan — policy adviser in the Clinton White House, dean of Harvard Law School, and Solicitor General in the Obama administration — won approval from the Senate on August 5, 2010 to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. She took her oaths of office on August 7, 2010 to become the 112th justice and only the 4th woman to serve on the high court. Kagan brings to the Court a raft of academic and political experience paired with a noticeably thin paper trail; she never held judicial office and rarely shared personal opinions. Kagan possesses a strategic world- view while maintaining an expert "poker-face." Kagan's path of ascent carried her to the pinnacle of academic institutions, including Princeton, Oxford, University of Chicago, and Harvard.
Her story began in a third-story apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her parents and two brothers. Her mother worked as an elementary school teacher; both of her brothers would become educators. While she would have a future in teaching, and indeed during confirmation hearings she described herself as an excellent teacher, the argumentative dynamism of the law suited her best. Her early model was her father, a World War II veteran who graduated Yale Law School. He represented renter associations and community boards in negotiations with real estate and development interests. He imparted to his daughter by example a strong inclination toward social involvement and an appreciation of the power of a likable persona and tactful warmth. Kagan's Jewish heritage richly colored her childhood and occasioned early moments of distinction. Family and friends remember clashes she had with her Orthodox rabbi in which she insisted her bat mitzvah include a formal component in the synagogue. Naturally she settled on a deal with the rabbi acceptable to all sides.
In the cultured, intellectually progressive environment where she grew up, her feisty independence paired with her canny diplomacy ultimately proved worthy qualities to possess. Kagan commented little about her childhood, although she expressed a general admiration of her parents and surroundings while describing in more detail her activities and habits. She enjoyed literature and intelligent conversation, smoked but never drank or partied, and appreciated friendships that included intellectual engagement. The happy embrace of the value for intellectual endeavor held by her family and in her surrounding environment underscored her whole childhood. Without a doubt she fully absorbed social expectations to excel intellectually, to argue rigorously, and to digest an impressive library of famous and influential books. The studious regime pleased her, and she recalls with particular affection rereading one of her favorite books, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, every year. Her elementary and high school peers shared more distinct memories. At Hunter College High School, still one of New York's elite public schools and entered only by way of high exam scores, they remember that she stood out as exceptionally bright and ambitious among a crowd of talented students. She ran successfully as student body president and impressed peers with her self-confident demeanor and thoughtful bearing in meetings and assemblies. These qualities were not lost to her either; and, peers affirmed that before the end of high school, Kagan talked about her desire to be a Supreme Court justice. Further, she already had in her mind strategic thoughts about how to stake a political future. Under her senior yearbook photo, where she posed in judicial robe and gavel in hand, she quoted Justice Felix Frankfurter, "Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of arts."
Matriculating at Princeton University in 1977, Kagan's undergraduate experience attested to her sharp mind and proved the period most revealing about her political and world-view opinions. Writing for The Princetonian quickly became a staple of her college life. She gained editorial influence and avidly mingled with a circle of friends with auspicious careers ahead, including future New York governor Eliot Spitzer and Bruce Reed, lead domestic policy adviser for President Bill Clinton. In contrast to the lightly satirical writing of her companions, Kagan remained "determined to have a serious discussion about the nation's problems" according to Reed. In one column, on her wish for "real Democrats," she reflected on the men and women of her Upper West Side neighborhood "committed to liberal principles and motivated by the ideal of an affirmative and compassionate government." On Election Night 1980, after spending the summer on Liz Holtzman's campaign for Senate, she lamented Ronald Reagan's victory as president and Holtzman's loss to Alfonse D'Amato. While she enjoyed her editorial position, academics remained at the forefront to Kagan and she displayed a remarkable intensity for all of her work. She wholeheartedly pursued her degree in history and graduated summa cum laude, received the esteemed Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, and produced a 153-page thesis on the decline of the Socialist Party. Her thesis adviser, Prof. Sean Wilentz, grasped early that she had a prodigious mind and viewed her as ripe to become a leading intellectual. Friends noted she appeared drawn to a career in academics, law, and politics, and after her senior year she accepted a graduate fellowship to study philosophy at Worcester College, Oxford.
Upon her return, Kagan entered Harvard Law School and earned a place on the law review. Amidst the sharp political divisions pervasive on campus, Kagan had to employ careful diplomacy, which colleagues remark she achieved with astounding competence and ease. By her third year she rose to articles editor of the law review, and in 1986 graduated summa cum laude. Kagan clerked in 1987 for Judge Abner Mikva of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The next year she clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. When her clerkship ended, she wanted to work for a Democratic administration but the election of George H.W. Bush ended that hope. Instead she practiced law at the D.C. firm of Williams & Connolly.
After gaining two years of experience, and drawn to neither the high-salary nor the commercial firm environment, Kagan joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School. She began as an assistant professor in 1991, the same year Barack Obama arrived to lecture. Her colleagues reported positively about her, while noting her characteristic tendency towards high focus and high expectations. The dean who hired her, Geoffrey Stone, called her an instant success and said that students admired her, even after her rigorously demanding class work. Sharing a defining insight about Kagan, Prof. Richard Epstein observed, "there was this desperate desire to get ahead of the world and make a mark for herself." So enwrapped could she become with her work that one professor noticed that she would occasionally forget to turn her car engine off when lost in thought. When considering whether to grant Kagan tenure in 1995, some faculty held reservations because of her limited publishing, but they decided her reputation as a legal ace more than compensated for this.
Over the course of her five years at Chicago, Kagan published three articles, one on hate speech and pornography regulation, another on "Government Motive in First Amendment Doctrine," and a review of Steve Carter's book discussing the judicial confirmation process, which would come up later in her own confirmation hearings. However, shortly after receiving tenure at Chicago the Clinton administration offered her a position she could hardly refuse. Judge Mikva, now chief legal counsel to the Clinton White House, had been greatly impressed by the young Kagan during her clerkship and asked her to join his White House team in 1995. Kagan found the invitation to join the administration irresistible and took leave from Chicago. She resigned from the White House in 1996 and planned to return to Chicago; but before she had the chance, Bruce Reed, her friend from Princeton and now Clinton's director of domestic policy, asked her to join as his top deputy. For Kagan, although accepting this position meant losing her tenure at Chicago, the opportunity in the administration suited her desire for a political future. Most importantly, proximity to the White House could yield a judicial appointment.
In 1999, President Clinton nominated her to the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia, where she had clerked for Judge Mikva. The appointment languished as Republicans stalled her confirmation hearing. As Deputy Domestic Policy Adviser, Kagan earned her greatest distinctions for work on legislative efforts to give the Food and Drug Administration regulatory authority over the tobacco industry. While the plan was unsuccessful at the time, falling three votes short in the Senate, it formed the basis for a regulatory bill passing in 2009. Having won the hard- fought support of key Republican senators including John McCain and Bill Frist, many from both parties applauded her skills at drafting constructive legislation and achieving consensus. Reed reflected that, "She brought Republicans and Democrats together on the toughest, most contentious issue in the tobacco debate." She built a reputation for giving ardent and sometimes brusque backing to the President's policy initiatives, which made her unpopular with some people yet also won respect from those who entrusted her with responsibility.
Kagan left the White House in 1999 and returned to academia. She first looked to return to Chicago but the school, concerned about her academic commitment, declined to re-instate her. Shortly thereafter Harvard Law School brought her on as a visiting professor and two years later named her a full professor. In 2001 she wrote an article for the law review on the role of aiding the president in forming regulatory and administration policy titled "Presidential Administration." This won the American Bar Association's award as the top scholarly article on administrative law for the year and contributed to Kagan's rising reputation at Harvard. In 2003, Harvard's president Lawrence Summers appointed Kagan dean of the law school, the first woman to hold this position. At the time, the law school was widely viewed as dysfunctional, beset with sharp ideological divides that stalled new hiring, aging facilities requiring new funding, and a curriculum that desperately demanded updates. Kagan energetically set herself the tasks at hand, and in her five years as dean achieved admirable results. Under her leadership, the school exceeded fundraising expectations, expanded its faculty size dramatically, and made significant strides toward building an academic climate that was at the same time more ideological diverse and socially harmonious. In its April's Fool's edition headline, the Harvard Law Record pithily summed up her activity, "Dean Kagan Hires Every Law Professor in the Country." In the process of reforming the school's curriculum, she attracted leading professors to come from other universities and managed to draft an instructional program with majority support. Prof. John Manning, one of her new hires who later succeeded her as dean, explained, "[s]he would have the corporate law people, then the public law people, then the criminal law people to her house for dinner and they would talk about it," eventually working out practicable conclusions. This pragmatic and coalition-building style of leadership became her signature, marking a lesson from her White House reputation as a forceful consensus builder. During her deanship, Kagan backed a university policy of disallowing military recruiters on campus, arguing that the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy discriminated against gays and lesbians. She supported a lawsuit brought by several leading law schools against the policy. In a stunning rejection, however, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the policy.
With the return of a Democratic administration, the White House again beckoned. On January 5, 2009 President Obama announced he would nominate Kagan as Solicitor General. She was confirmed on March 19, 2009 by a 61-31 vote. Up to this point she had never argued a case in the high court, but she soon had her change in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The Supreme Court decided the case 5-4 against the government, triggering disapproving remarks by President Obama and focusing more attention on the role of Kagan as legal advocate of the administration.
Although Kagan was first touted as a possible Court nominee after Justice David Souter's resignation in May 2009, the slot vacated by Justice John Paul Stevens in 2010 proved Kagan's opening. Kagan received the strongest boost of support from her base in academia, as the deans of over one-third of the country's law schools wrote her an open letter of endorsement. Outside of the academic cloister, many observer expressed concern that she had no record as a judge and vaunted the importance of a candid confirmation hearing. Kagan's book review on the confirmation process, which bemoaned its characteristic lack of substantial legal discussion, invited the opportunity for Senators to press her for details. Whatever her ideal view of the confirmation process, however, she recognized the reality of falling into political traps and tactfully steered clear of revealing pronouncements. Instead she described herself as technical, reasonable, and open-minded. She pledged that as a judge she would form opinions based solely on legal arguments and precedent. A few topics raised hairs on both sides of the aisle. Conservatives worried about her apparent politicizing of scientific findings to support partial birth abortion; more left-leaning liberals worried about her acceptance of wide executive powers. Yet with a strong Democratic majority in the Senate, her confirmation never was in doubt. On July 20 she passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 13-6 vote; and, on August 5 she received a 63-37 confirmation vote from the Senate, largely along party lines.
Kagan brings to the Court a sharp academic mind and high-level, policy-making experience. Her friend, Walter Dellinger, a former acting solicitor general in the Clinton administration, declared that "Elena is open-minded, pragmatic and progressive." From her earliest inclinations towards intelligent conversation to her respected scholarly articles, she has displayed open-mindedness based on argumentation and reasoned thought. Whether smoothing out disputes with her childhood rabbi or building a winning alliance among sharply divided Harvard academics, her talent for pragmatic leadership made her a useful ally even to those who found her intensity unsettling. Three distinct qualities–open- mindedness, pragmatism, and progressivism–remain Kagan's hallmarks. Moreover, the combination characterizes an emerging type of judicial ideal among liberals that may influence the Court for years to come.


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First awarded in 1943, the Silver Antelope Award is presented for outstanding service to youth within one of the four regions of the BSA. The criteria are similar to those for the Silver Buffalo, with one major difference: A recipient must be a registered adult member of the Boy Scouts of America. The awards are presented in connection with regional meetings or at other public functions within the region. The National Court of Honor bestows Silver Antelope Awards on the basis of the number of registered volunteers in a region.
The Silver Antelope Award is the regional distinguished service award and recognizes volunteers who have made a SIGNIFICANT contribution to the Scouting program at a Regional or Area level. There are no tenure requirements, but the competition is heavy and usually there is only one presented per Area. The committee usually looks for several years of service within one of the four regions of the BSA. The award is made by the National Court of Honor.
The award consists of a silver antelope suspended from a white and yellow ribbon worn around the neck. Recipients may wear the corresponding square knot, with a white strand over a yellow strand, on the BSA uniform.
The award was created in 1942 and first issued in 1943. A yellow-white-yellow ribbon bar was used for informal uniform wear until 1946, when ribbon bars were replaced by the current knot insignia
The Silver Antelope Award is not earned but awarded based upon nomination.
Distinguished Service Awards
The Boy Scouts of America recognizes the need to acknowledge the invaluable services that men and women render to youth. Of the millions of registered adult volunteers in Scouting, only a select few are presented distinguished service awards at these level:
- District Award of Merit for outstanding service at the district level
- Silver Beaver for service at the unit, district or council level
- Distinguished Commissioner Service Award - recognizes Unit Commissioner, District Commissioner service
- Silver Antelope for service at the regional or area level
- Silver Buffalo for service at the national level
- Distinguished Eagle Scout Award - recognizes the most eminent for their national service to youth
- Order of the Arrow Distinguished Service Award honors service to the Order of the Arrow beyond the lodge level
- Silver World for service to Scouting at an international level
- Distinguished Service Awards Fact Sheet — Scouting.org
- Rules and Regulations of the Boy Scouts of America — Scouting.org
- Illustrated History of BSA Square Knot Evolution and Private Issues — SageVenture.com
- Silver Beaver Medals Mitch Reis. Boy Scout Memorabilia, Patches And Collectibles — MitchReis.com
- The Silver Fawn Medal - The Virtual Cub Leader's Handbook. — sites.Google.com
- List of recipients of the Silver Buffalo Award — en.Wikipedia.org
- Silver Buffalo Time magazine article, May 10, 1926 — Time.com
See also
- Scouter Awards for information on over 30 adult leader awards
- Awards for information on over 30 awards for Cub Scouts, Scouts, Venturers, and Sea Scouts.

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[From Frank] i am constantly confronted with unforseen problems with the fanfare instruments. it seems the wireless communication between the computers is the main reason for all these problems, but also the unexpected 'low battery' problem, meaning that suddenly the computer stops working because there is no warning mechanism, is a major pain.
i am starting to become a bit desperate about this, tonight i will keep all three batteries charging, hopefully i can get some basic things working tomorrow, but as you may guess, it is a sloooooow process.
what worries me most is that the problems are not easily identifiable, meaning the whole system becomes unreliable and that is definitely NOT what we had in mind…
anyway, as you may guess this is a very frustrating experience and i think this should be put in the blog as well, because at this moment i am not so sure the system will ever work as we thought it would…….
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November 29, 2011 A Cameroonian Appendectomy: play by play
Last week I got appendicitis. Yes, the kind where your stupid non- working organ decides to act up and make your life miserable. Growing up with a nurse for a mother, you tend to over look real pain and think 'what can I do to make this go away so I can get back to real life?'.
3am Friday morning: I had started having stomach pain, but went back to sleep when it felt reasonable.I got up in the morning and dressed for work thinking I ate something weird the day before and made a conscious choice of Tea instead of coffee in the teachers lounge, and sitting while prepping for my class instead of standing. The pain increased by time I had to teach so I walked down to the kindergarten to ask them to wait untill I got back from the nurse. I felt light headed. After the nurse gave me Tylenol and Tums I went to take a nap on cushions that I sprawled out on the floor of my classroom. 5 mins later I realized this was a bad choice. I wouldn't be able to stand up to teach the 4th grade either. I decided to go home and wait out the pain till it stopped. haha. I drove home and realized lying down made the pain worse. I started to panic and woke up my mother in the states to ask what I should do. (asking her medical opinion has become a reflex)
I explained the pain I felt through out my abdomen and explained a strange sharper pain in the lower right hand side.
"Mom, is that where my appendix is?"
"Um, no."
"Its on the other side?"
" Um yes"
"Its probably just a gastric intestinal virus"
"Should I take any Cipro?" (I brought a portable pharmacy with me when I came in August, Cipro (and antibiotic) was one of those prescriptions.)
"No, don't take anything. Why haven't you gone to the doctors?"
"I don't know I thought I would feel better…"
"Well go to the doctors! Don't wait."
Later I found out that she thought I had appendicitis but didn't want to freak me out. And I would have. I wouldn't have handled the rest of the day quite as well.
The Nigerian school nurse and my savior, Comfort (yes her real name) came with a driver to start me on my tour to finding the truth.
11:30: We entered the doctor's office at the French Clinic. A simple room with a desk and a medical table (the kind with a cushion for laying down). The doctor didn't speak English so Comfort translated. Up on the table he felt around my entire abdominal area.
"Does this hurt?"
"Does this hurt?"
"Does this hurt?"
Then pushing on the lower right hand side,
"Does this hurt?"
"Voila!" …. Then non-discernable French and shaking yes of the head to Comfort.
Pushing again… in the same lower right hand side.
Pushing again..
Pushing again..
"owwwww…..owwww… ok…. (pathetically) …. Ha-ha um ok yes it hurts."
"viola!" then the same not non-discernable French with gesticulations towards Comfort.
"Ok Comfort, what is going on?"
Well the French Dr. thought it was my appendix… um duh. But like any good doctor wanted to make sure.
Around 12:00pm we arrived at a clinic where they do blood work. My hand vain is so small so they use a pediatric needle to get blood.
At 12:30 we arrive at clinic where they have ultrasounds. Everything is brown, the floors walls, and ceilings. The benches and even the flowers are made of dried strategically cut open chestnuts surrounded by wheat. I got to spend an hour watching pregnant ladies walk in and out of a room before I got to go in. The Cameroonian ultrasound technician was very nice, all smiles, I think if I was getting this ultrasound for a pregnancy I would have felt right at home. After using 4 different handles and angles to see the home of the culprit causing all the stress, we found out my appendix was 13 cm instead of the normal 6, and it would have to be taken out.
The technician informed us that the only doctor in Cameroon, yes the whole country, that could perform the surgery using laparoscopy was leaving for vacation the next day and I would have to rush to see him today to see if he should or could take it out.
2:30 We finally enter Hopital D'Esse where my Cameroonian doctor is located. Its next to the train station, about 8 mins from my apartment in Bastos. The hospital's aesthetics is of small concern to me. I had heard about African hospitals but had no idea what to expect. My friend Sarah called to see what was going on while I was walking in.
"Is it clean?"
"I don't know, I mean it's pretty shabby, but I don't know what standards I'm supposed to refer to."
Later I would learn that for African standards it was pretty good. Everything was on computers instead of notepads; the cockroach were small and few and far between, and there was a comfy chair, although falling apart, with a cushion in my hospital room… a room all to myself where I didn't have to share it with 4 other room mates.
My Doctor, Dr. Oumarou, knew little more english than the French dr. so he tried very hard to be clear with me when he could. He looked at the ultra sound pictures and my blood work that said my white blood cell count was high and explained that I could be in surgery in an hour. The 'Theater' was already prepped. He showed me a picture of what my appendix looked like at this time, and what would happen during surgery on his Ipad. He would even have a copy of the surgery on tape so I could watch!
So, basically I had just enough time to call my parents calmly and tell them I was getting surgery and would call them as soon as I got out.
So at that point, Nurse Comfort was given a list of the things I needed during surgery and sent out to get them so I could go under. Yes she had to go pick up the surgical items that pertained particularly to stereoscopic appendectomy, and the medications and saline I needed afterwards for shots and IVs.
4:00-5:00: Many things happened leading up to the surgery…first a man (male nurse, but didn't really know at the time) walking into my hospital room with a box cutter asking me in French to take my pants off, in which I replied "um.. no." 10 minutes later I was in a room full of nurses having a fun conversation while shaving my stomach. While, the male nurse kept telling everyone in my room that I was afraid of men.
5:30 the assistant director and his wife came to stay with me and bring money for the surgery. They were awesome and very comforting.
6:00: Tearing up a little before surgery, the anesthesiologist asked me why I was afraid and proceeded to tell me that "if you didn't stop being emotional you'll have to have the surgery tomorrow due to high blood pressure". Cameroonian's are not the most sympathetic to pain, or fear. They are pretty hardcore people and apparently la blanche are not.
On a side note:
To prove the point further I once saw a two-year-old fall smack face first onto cement. In the US the child would start crying and run to his mother for comfort. But not Cameroonian babies- this child stood up kept walking and looked at me with this scary angry face. His mother was right next to him and never once budged to pick him up.
Basically the Cameroonian staff thought I was acting weird.
At 7pm I left surgery and was wheeled into a room filled with a large amount of ASOY staff, who were making sure I was ok, my medication was all there, and my bills were being paid successfully. The school had to foot the bill ahead of time, hospitals here are afraid of people not paying because there is no way to track anyone down. Can you imagine being Cameroonian and doing this? You would have to ask every friend, family member and neighbor to lend you money in cash in a matter of hours. Unbelievable.
I spent two nights in the hospital after that where both nights Sarah and Nick, friends of mine, slept on a cushion on the floor. They were basically my nurses. If I needed anything they where the ones to get it, even reminding the nurses to change my medication or saline bag. I was never really alone, everyday my friends from work visited me in shifts.
I was supposed to stay in the hospital till Monday but convinced the doctor to let me go home. Sleeping in the hospital was making me increasingly nervous. The night before I left, Sarah had to search the floor to find the nurses sleeping in a lounge. So I figured I was ok to handle things in my own apt since I was only on Tylenol and antibiotics. That week a friend of mine stayed over night to make sure I could handle things and then was visited regularly.
In the end, although I could have gone skipping this whole experience, I feel very lucky to have the people around me that I do. This school pulls together like a family. This also made me realize how lucky we are for being born in the United States. We are all very comfortable in the US and although I have noticed this in the past 3 months pretty consistently, it is definitely engrained in my brain now. Although people in the US still have bad hospital experience, there is always toilette seat and toilet paper in the bathroom, possibly even soap- and you will most likely wake up with a pillow and blanket after surgery with some type of beeping contraption to tell an alert nurse your saline bag is empty.
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The Bruins Stanley Cup parade didn't go as well as Jennifer Nottage, her six-year-old daughter Alyana and 12-year-old son Elijah had hoped. Here's Nottage's email account of what happened on a commuter-rail stop's escalator, courtesy of Universal Hub:
My kids, ages 6 and 12 and I were about 3/4 of the way up. I was taking pics of the crowd.
At that moment, the chain or something snapped and the escalator flew backwards. People fell screaming ran up if they could. I lifted my daughter (the 6 year old) up. She grabbed the railing and held on. Someone on the stairs pulled her to safety.
My son's feet got sucked into the escalator stair part. He yanked them out, his shoes stayed behind. He was cut and bleeding.
When I fell forward, people trampled over me - foot prints on my back, etc.! My left thigh and knee were stuck slightly in the escalator stair; I pulled it out, raced to top where my kids were. We were all in shock! Went to hospital, etc., nothing broken but crazy intense pain in my leg and back. My son's ankle is a balloon this morning.
Noted a commenter 10 minutes after the account was posted...
Maybe if you hadn't been distracted by taking pictures while riding a moving escalator, you could have reacted quicker and not gotten trampled and injured. Best of luck on the lawsuit you're clearly attempting to lay the groundwork for.
To which "The mother in this story! (not verified)" retorted:
First I was contacted and my story was requested. I did not seek anyone out to air this! I was not laying "groundwork". However I am not even going to entertain those disgusting remarks. I am just thanking God that my children are OK. I am truly blessed that things were not worse. The photo I took was to capture my best friend and god son who were on the stairs.
I was not distracted and my iPhone was back placed away by the time the moment happened when the escalator malfunctioned. This incident was not due to passenger negligence this was due to a piece of machinery malfunctioning. One thing is for sure I will never ride one again! I am holding my children a little tighter today!
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Son's feet sucked in, mother trampled when escalator breaks at Back Bay station [Universal Hub] (H/T Stewart M.)
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I listen to Harry Potter whenever I am bored. They are like re chargers 4 me. Love the series. Hope to see more of ur reviews Divya :)
I just love this series too.
"The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don't deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don't surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover's skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don't. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won't. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again. That is their mystery and magic."
--- The God of Small Things
Kathakali discovered this long ago, Chapter 12: Kochu Thomban.
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Will Fermilab Announce Real Higgs Results Today?
So scientists at the Tevatron, the premier U.S. particle collider that was shut down last year, may be announcing their own results on the Higgs search today. Tommaso Dorigo, a physicist at CERN reports the status in his Quantum Diaries Survivor blog with a post called A Significant Higgs Signal From The Tevatron !
As Dorigo puts it
"Robbing the LHC experiments of media attention for 41 hours, the CDF and DZERO experiments are presenting today the results of their searches of the Higgs boson in the full datasets of proton-antiproton collisions acquired in the course of the last 10 years."
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An Internal Affairs captain in the NYPD was arrested for knocking out his girlfriend, who also happens to be an NYPD Sergeant. Seriously.
Reports the New York Post:
Aaron Wright, 38, commanding officer of IAB's Group 22, was lying in wait for 46th Precinct Domestic Violence Unit Sgt. Nicole McFarlane, 38, at her Queens home at 1:43 a.m., law-enforcement sources said.
When McFarlane pulled up in her 2006 Nissan Altima, Wright came out of the shadows and twice kicked the driver-side door, the sources said. Then he slugged her so hard with his right fist that she lost consciousness, according to court documents.
McFarlane was knocked out in the wee hours of Friday night (January 18) and reportedly the next thing she remembered was getting transported to Jamaica Hospital.
The kicker is that despite waking up with a swollen left eye and jaw, McFarlane (again, a Sergeant in the DOMESTIC VIOLENCE UNIT) initially tried to cover for Wright, saying that it was a stranger that blessed her with the fade. However, she changed her story after surveillance footage showed her account of the events was suspect.
Wright was involved in the investigation of the infamous ticket fixing scandal in The Bronx.
Wright, a 16-year NYPD veteran, was charged with criminal mischief, harassment and assault, has been suspended without pay and was released after his arraignment. We're thinking if he was a civilian he would still be in jail, though.
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View exhibitions from Ogden Museum of Southern Art & Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans. Marvel at artwork & photography created by Professional Artists from New Orleans & around the world including: Latin America, Middle East, Africa, Europe and Asia.
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First look: new MLB batting practice caps – UniWatch on ESPN
The latest MLB batting practice caps have been leaked to Paul Lukas of UniWatch. The Washington Nationals version is above, along with the previous version.
I guess we now know what the Opening Day giveaway is going to be. I don't care for it – I never liked the contrasting (usually white) front panel on a cap. The back of the cap is blue. Of course, whether it looks good or not is fairly unimportant, since not even the Nats players like wearing their BP caps:
UPDATE 12.28.2012: In case you were wondering what players think about BP caps, Nats Enquirer noted what Ian Desmond had to say.
Batting practice caps exist to sell more merchandise, yet they are typically ugly. The only decent BP cap the Nats ever had was the original one with the interlocking DC on blue with a red brim. Otherwise, they are nothing I'd want to wear for anything other than yard work to keep the sun out of my eyes and my good cap from getting dirty.
By the way, the New York Yankees new BP caps (they have two) are really awful too.


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Just as interesting, and certainly potentially as terrifying, is the phenomenon known as Craigslist. And while one certainly should be very selective when meeting someone through this site (public places, people!), once in a while, you can really get lucky. To save you time, I already went virtual garage sale shopping and wanted to bring to your attention some unique Packer items. Note: I am not receiving any sort of compensation from these listings (though I am not above that either if anyone is interested down the road;).
One of the first beauties I came across was this timeless Packers crock pot for just $25 (at the moment). I would love to try and sell you on its features and benefits, but the poster does such a great job I'll let "Curt's" words do the talking.
"Awesome! Great Rival crock pot with two heat settings (low and hi). The coolest part - it is adorned with the Green Bay Packers logos!!! Great for Packer Parties, Packer game day meals, or taking to the office on game day! Show your fan spirit for the Pack!!! The crock pot is in very good condition and works just fine!"
BAM. See what I mean? I totally agree that without the Packers logos, it's just your average-looking crock pot from the 90s. But with the logos, baby, it's simply awesome. Hell, you could inspire an entire man cave from that design. Maybe I will…
Speaking of interior design, why not spruce up your walls with these gorgeous, coordinating oil paintings? Best suited for those with an equally unbridled passion for Favre and the American bald eagle, these dual beauties measure almost as tall as a wooden ruler (shown) and are available at the economical price of $545 dollars each directly from the artist – no middle man here, treasure hunters.
Like most pieces of art, these painting probably have to be appreciated in person for the full effect. The only problem is the creepy basement you're going to have to venture into to view them. And hey, what's that séance-looking candle all about? On second thought, you may want to pass and/or alert the local authorities. "Yeah…"
Next, I found something that really knocked my socks off as far as uniqueness and vintage appeal is concerned. The owner of this "full-sized bed with rounded corners" in "fantastic condition" claims that it once belonged to Charlie Mathys. You see, the owner of the house purchased Mathys's former home and was left with the contents - awesome. Who's Charlie Mathys, you ask? (I know I did.) Oh, he's only the first Packers quarterback to beat the Bears back in 1925. Yeah, turns out he was inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame in 1977 along with some guy named Bart Starr. So, nothing special apparently, which is why the bed is only going for $500 OBO. (No word on whether the mattress and quilt come with though.)
Finally, this item caught my attention simply for the description alone: "Man's Box for Jewelry Green Bay Packers w/Free GB Watch" ($40). I have never seen a Man's Box before. In fact, I didn't even know they existed, but low and behold, this Man's Box has "two levels". That two freaking levels, people! I don't know exactly what the means, but I know two levels on a Man's Box has got to be better than one. But wait, there's more... As "Ray" explains, his Man Box is made of real wood (heyo!) and is also velvet lined (again, heyo!). You know what, I'm not even going to show you the picture in the listing and leave this one up to your imagination.
But I do get it, people. Times are tough and money is tight. So if these gems I picked out for you don't exactly blow your hair back, the interwebs is all yours. There are still a lot of gems out there, I've read somewhere a guy won some great sports memorabilia against some dude while playing poker, apparently the guy ran out of cash and opted to bet one of his collections. That would have been a good bargain if you're good at the game, might wanna start reading some tips from sites like this and look for fellow collectors to play against, and hope that a good collectible item will come it's way to the tables, while you're holding a winning hand, of course. Happy treasure hunting, Packer fans.


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Warner Bros/DC. is reported to have begun resurrecting plans for a Justice League movie before The Avengers hit theaters this past summer, but it was the overwhelming success of Joss Whedon's Marvel comic book movie blockbuster that cemented the studios' decision to move forward with their own superhero ensemble venture. Will Beall (writer of the much-buzzed-about Gangster Squad) is currently working on the script for the JL movie, while the search for a director is ongoing.
While it's seemingly a given that Justice League will reboot the Batman franchise (in the aftermath of Christopher Nolan's trilogy finale, The Dark Knight Rises), there has been some uncertainty about whether or not key new elements from the Superman mythos - featured in next summer's Man of Steel - will be sustained in Beall's script. Part of that can be attributed to Warner Bros.' ongoing battle with co-creator Joe Shuster's estates over the character rights (after their previous agreement runs out this year).
Following yesterday's announcement that Warner Bros./DC has won its battle against the Shuster estate, the studios no longer have to be concerned about not being able to carryover unique elements from Man of Steel in future movies, TV shows, or even comic books. Hence, Justice League (which may have ties to Zack Snyder's Superman reboot) is gearing up to begin production next year, in order to make a summer 2015 release date. That means the film will compete with Marvel's The Avengers 2 for the superhero movie box office crown - though, it goes without saying that the two will be hitting the big screen at different times of the season (to allow one another room to breath).
The LA Times expects development on Justice League to meet that target date, as progress should accelerate in the aftermath of the court victory for Superman rights. It appears the studios' plan is indeed to take the opposite route that Marvel took to shared universe construction. JL will therefore be the first in a new wave of DC movies to hit theaters after Man of Steel, with the subsequent films arriving in the forms of standalone vehicles for JL members such as Wonder Woman, The Flash, and possibly a rebooted Green Lantern arriving sometime thereafter (assuming JL proves to be a satisfactory success).
The ball is now in Warner Bros./DC's court, in terms of the risks and daring moves the studios are willing to take with Justice League (in addition to forgoing five movies of buildup, like what The Avengers had). We've offered our own advice on such matters as how to go about assembling the DC shared universe, how to properly reboot Batman post-Nolan, and even how incorporating an unusual DC anti-hero like Lobo could be an important maneuver to help set apart JL from Avengers. It's now up to Warner Bros./DC to find a candidate as qualified for the directing job as Joss Whedon proved to be for the task of bringing Earth's Mightiest Heroes together on the big screen (free advice: people like McG and Brett Ratner really don't seem to meet that criteria).
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A major piece of wrestling history was recently discovered: The title belt that Buddy Rogers dropped to Bruno Sammartino to start off the World Wide Wrestling Federation in May 1963.
It was in Johnny Barend's attic.
After Barend died in September 2011, it fell to his widow, Annie, to start going through their accumulated assets in their home in Avon, New York. She has plans to eventually move back to her native Hawaii.
She was as surprised as anyone to come across two title belts in the couple's attic, unglamorously wrapped in a bath towel. Johnny had never mentioned them to her, though she was more than familiar with his career.
Intrigued, Annie contacted me and got me a photo of the "World's Champion" title belt, that had a small, circular photo of Johnny Barend in the centre.
After consulting a few historians and beltmakers, it was quickly established that it had to be the United States title that "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers brought from Ohio to New York, the belt that was used when Vince McMahon Sr. decided to created a new world title.
"I'm not always that great with the older belts, but I recognized that one immediately," said beltmaker extraordinaire Dave Millican, who makes the belts for the WWE, among other contracts.
"It makes you wonder what else is stashed away in people's attics. It really does," Millican mused. "It makes you wonder what other historical belts, and not just belts, but pieces of wrestling history, are stashed away in attics that people don't even realize they have. Annie didn't even realize what she had -- and why would she?"
Millican decided that he wanted to own the piece of history, with the added bonus of the second belt, a United States tag team title belt, with "1962" burned into the leather.
As the matchmaker, I was invited along, and got to (briefly) wear the same title belt as Buddy Rogers and Bruno Sammartino.
In a phone interview, Sammartino admitted that he never knew what happened to the belt itself.
"That belt that Buddy had, they thought, I don't know what they thought, they felt it wasn't a good belt. I don't know who had it, who gave it to them, whatever, but they didn't think anything of it. They went and made the one that I wore all those years," said Sammartino, who does have the original title belt that was created for his first title reign that lasted just short of eight years. It turns out that title, which was retired after a new belt was made for Pedro Morales, was languishing in an office. "Phil Zacko and [Gorilla] Monsoon gave it to me. That one I have. I had it polished up, because it was kind of worn."
Worn would describe both of the belts found at the Barend home. But nowhere near worn out. Someone along the way had the foresight to use plastic ratchet straps to hold the leather in tight with the belt. The plates all need a good polishing, but are not significantly dented or worn in other ways.
Given that Rogers and Barend were very good friends, Millican said that it made sense that the title belt ended up where it did.
"I think that really the fact that it was obviously transferred back to Buddy, even though Bruno never lost the title back to Buddy, shows that it was really Buddy's belt," said Millican. "At some point, Johnny, because of the connection with Buddy, got the belt. I don't have those answers, but that's clearly how it happened -- it has to be part of the connection."
Beyond that, there are still many unanswered questions, some of which will never be answered.
- Why is Johnny Barend's photo on the belt? When and why was it put there? He was never a recognized world champion, but he did defend the title as a U.S. belt apparently.
- Did Barend get the title belt before or after Rogers died in 1992?
- What jeweler made the belt? When and where? It probably came out of Columbus, Ohio, where Rogers was established for so long and was the U.S. champion.
- Where is the other tag team title?
"This was from an era when even Buddy probably didn't think the belt was worth very much," said Millican.
Fortunately, it is now in the hands of someone who thinks otherwise.
Greg Oliver is the Producer of SLAM! Wrestling and this was easily the closest he's ever been to being a World champion. For the record, he never let his five-year-old son, Quinn, be the World champ, just the tag champ. Greg can be emailed at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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