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The Packers just completed one of its best regular seasons in franchise history. But, a 15-1 record guaranteed nothing, as the team fell in the first playoff game in miserable fashion. It's clear the Packers are just a few difference-makers on defense from claiming its 5th Super Bowl title. So, TT should be active in getting those difference-makers in free agency, right? Wrong. Although it would be nice, the Packers simply cannot be active in free agency.
We all know TT has done a helluva job building this team through the draft. Undoubtedly, TT is one of the best in the league in mining the middle- to late-rounds for talented players that can contribute and develop into key members for the squad: JMike (3rd Rd.), James Jones (3rd), Sitton (4th), T.J. Lang (4th), Newhouse (5th), Starks (6th), Bishop (6th), Crosby (6th), and D.J. Smith (6th). The list only grows longer when you consider the undrafted free agents he has hit on. But, as with all things in life, this success comes with a cost.
Of the players identified above, most have received a healthy new contract to keep them around for the foreseeable future. And, that is the reason why the Packers simply cannot participate in free agency. To keep the core that won Super Bowl XLV together, TT must have enough money to pay them. And coming down the pipeline are not simply core players needing new deals. Instead, TT has the daunting task of figuring out cap-friendly deals to keep Greg Jennings, Clay Matthews, and Aaron Rodgers.
First up is Greg Jennings. The star receiver is in his last year of a 4-year extension he signed in 2009. Jennings will hit free agency at the ripe age of 29 and is one of the best WR's in the business. If you've been paying attention at all to the free agency frenzy this past week, you know that WR's have been getting absurd contracts. Consider, Josh Morgan – all 9 career TD's in 4 seasons – is getting $12M over two years, $7.3M of which is fully guaranteed. Or, Pierre Garcon – he whose single-season career bests are 6 TDs and 947 yards – signed a 5-year, $42.5M contract, $20.5M guaranteed. (Sidenote – do you think other franchises have asterisks next to Redskins-signed players when agents use said contracts for favorable comparisons in negotiations? I've gotta think anytime an agent cites to a Dan Snyder contract, TT and Russ Ball smirk and say try again.) Needless to say, Jennings is in line for a substantial deal; one that is going to require TT and Russ Ball to get as creative as ever to not cripple the Pack's salary cap for the future.
Next, we have the Claymaker. Matthews is still only 25, but has already established himself as one of the best defensive players in the game. He was second for Defensive MVP in 2010 and is the best defensive player that has donned the Green-and-Gold since Reggie White. If you thought last season's defensive efforts were meager, just imagine if the offense didn't have to devote two players to Clay every snap. It's not a pretty thought. Matthews' rookie contract expires in 2014. He's in line for a massive contract extension. Super Mario Williams just got a 6-year, $100M contract, and this, off a season he finished with a knee injury. Last season, Da Bears (still suck) signed a 30-year-old Julius Peppers to a 6-year, $84M deal, with $42M guaranteed. When Matthews hits free agency, he will only be 27 and hardly have had a poor season (assuming he's healthy (knock on wood!!!)). This contract might be particularly difficult. I would not be shocked if the Pack slap the franchise tag on Clay to give them extra time to figure out a deal.
Finally, and probably the reason why Claymaker's contract may be on the back-burner for a while, Rodgers is in line for a new contract. Savvy as always, TT signed Rodgers to a healthy extension back in 2008 when Rodgers had yet to even complete his first season starting. Obviously, the contract extension was a shrewd move. And, Rodgers still has 3 years before he reaches free agency. But, to say Rodgers has outperformed his contract would be the understatement of the year – remember, if the Pack had franchised Flynn, the franchise number for Flynn would have been more than Rodgers' 2012 salary. TT will look to sign Rodgers to a deal to keep him in Green-and-Gold for the rest of his career (or at least until his good years are past and the Vikes will overpay out of desperation). Drew Brees' contract (whenever he signs it) will set a new benchmark for elite QBs. Right now, Mr. Bundchen is playing on a 5-year, $78.5M deal, of which $48.5M is guaranteed. Whenever Rodgers reaches a new deal, I imagine it will reach 9-figures.
Long story longer, if you weren't keeping track (and I'm not sure I even did), keeping those three players alone will likely cost the Packers upwards of $200M+. And that doesn't even account for B.J. Raji, Sam Shields (assuming he doesn't regress like last season), Bryan Bulaga, JMike (again), and Mike Neal (kidding) to name a few others that will also likely need to be resigned.
TT's drafting prowess is the reason the Packers are set to become the team of the decade. To do so, though, TT must forego free agency in order to ensure he can resign the best players. So, those hoping the Packers will make a run at Kamerion Wimbley, consider: do you want Wimbley or the cap room to ensure the core of our team is together? I think it's a no-brainer when you look at the big picture.


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They are the elderly, the infirm, the lonely and the housebound. Even the lovelorn.
"But we are making a lot of those people happy," says George Stewart. He's station manager and sometimes jock at 1368 AM or Village Radio 1XT, which on Sunday celebrates 35 years of broadcasting. These are George's people. They are Village Radio's audience.
"And if we are making them happy, then they will be going to the doctor's a lot less."
They are the folk right off the waveband of commercial radio audience surveys, the listeners that marketers poo-poo because they don't spend big discretionary dollars and they probably don't buy the stuff mainstream advertisers are pitching.
"And they're aged 60 to 100," says George Stewart proudly.
Brian Cotter hosts a Saturday morning show on Village Radio. "I call it the Village people." Not the American macho-gay 'YMCA' fantasy disco band type. "No,no,no! There's about 4,000 young people living in retirement villages around Tauranga – young people my age and I am coming up 90. They're the village people, our people, our listeners."
And the broadcaster who first climbed behind a radio mic half a century ago is pleasantly surprised Village Radio has endured. "It's only because the dedication of pioneers and volunteers has kept it going," says Brian. They are the 27 or 28 active volunteers who announce, who produce, who maintain and archive. "We volunteer because we love what we do. We love music."
It's the music spanning the 1930s to specifically 1989. "Because after that it gets a bit rocky," says George. But there's some 'fabulous' music at the other end of the Village Radio spectrum. " The big band era, Benny Goodman, Glen Miller and Arty Shaw."
He was the best of swing, the best of jazz. "And a balladeer," says Brian Cotter. Remember 'A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody', 'Back Bat Shuffle' and 'Sugar Foot Stomp'." Apparently one listener would ring Village Radio all the time identifying himself as the secretary of the Arty Shaw fan club. 'Back Bat Shuffle' would go back on the turntable.
"Most of our listeners are elderly, they know what they like and it's the music they grew up with. The classics, the dance music, the big band and rock and roll." There's no ad's, it's wall-to-wall music. "You might call that wallpaper," says George . Or music to be heard but not listened to. "Either way it's there and it's a constant companion for a lot of people. And it's loved."
The Weekend Sun is in the Village Radio studio, on the second floor of the historic Town Board Building, in amongst 120,000 tracks of music – LPs,45s,78s and CDs – some 50,000 titles and 10,000 artists. There's a lot of music. We pull one from the library. It's called "Before Rock and Roll", 22 hits of the 1950s by artists such as Rosemary Clooney, The Ink Spots, Orvon Grover Autrey – no wonder he became Gene – Billy Vaughn and Frankie Lane. You don't have to like the music to be fascinated.
And there are personal favourites – the manager George Stewart, himself a trained classical pianist opts for the "fabulous compositions" of singer, songwriter and actor Hoagland Howard 'Hoagy' Carmichael.
Frank Sinatra did it, Tony Bennett did it, but George's all-time favourite is Hoagy's "The Lady is a Tramp."
"I never bother with people that I hate," as the song goes. "That's why this chick is a tramp."
And the near 90 "young" radio jock, Brian Cotter goes for immortal "Never know how much I love you, Never know how much I care." Peggy Lee and 'Fever.' And he delivers a refrain for good measure. Peggy probably did it better.
So if nostalgia defines the playlist, and golden years defines the audience, what defines the listenership?
"Sixty-four thousand dollar question," laughs Brian. "I sometimes sit and think who the hell is listening? But you never really know." When someone calls in to say they are enjoying the show it would be really nice to think it represented another 200 who are tuned in but haven't bothered to call.
Brian Cotter stops and ponders.
"The value of Village Radio is the attention and acknowledgement of a certain demographic of a radio audience. An acknowledgment that they have their own music and some very good music that deserves to be played again and again."
Brian learned all the Irish and Scottish songs off his Mum and Dad – like "I will take you home again Kathleen, Across the ocean wide and wild." He says it's nice for people who live alone , like him, to have music you grew up with, music you are familiar with.
And so Village radio is more than music, it's a social responsibility. "You could say that," says George. "Because we are part of the social fabric of Tauranga. We are a hidden gem because a lot of people don't know we are here."


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Its been a very long time since I had to do a class report, but this one is worth the effort. Padakun was invited by Dr. Frances Garrett, Associate Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, and Associate Chair of the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto to present at the September 28 class of her History of Walking Cultures class . I presented a 3 part program which included:
- elaborate what we mean by "contemplative walking"; where that idea comes from, what it might refer to and some of the many ways it is performed;
- offer some actual experiences in two very broad forms of "contemplative walking", namely indoor and outdoor; and
- describe some of what The Padakun Centre for Contemplative Walking, proposes as our purpose and intention,particularly what we call our 4 Trails of study, namely: walkers' personal stories, walking forms and training, walking for social action and walking theory.
The class was a group of about 15 first year students.
We had a wonderful shared learning experience and Dr. Garret reports that " What you shared will give shape to the rest of the semester."


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Jesse James ducks civil suit payout
HollywoodNews.com: Fortune Fashion Industries was after Jesse James' financial hide for $6 million, but in a recent court decision, Sandra Bullock's ex only has to pay them about $168,000.
Back in 2008, Fortune Fashion filed a civil lawsuit against James, claiming he double-crossed them out of a rich deal with Walmart.
Fortune wanted $6 million for loss of profits, but the jury didn't see it that way per TMZ.
James co-created a line called "America's Brand." At the last minute, he cut Fortune Fashion out, taking one of their employees. In the end, James created a label named after himself which he sold through Walmart.
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BOSTON � A wounded 19-year-old man was charged by the U.S. government Monday with the bombing of the Boston Marathon, which killed three people, injured more than 170 and set off a four-day manhunt across the metropolitan area while triggering an international investigation.
BOSTON � A wounded 19-year-old man was charged by the U.S. government Monday with the bombing of the Boston Marathon, which killed three people, injured more than 170 and set off a four-day manhunt across the metropolitan area while triggering an international investigation.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is charged with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death, according to a filing in Boston federal court. He�s also charged with malicious destruction of property by means of an explosive device resulting in death.
If convicted, Tsarnaev faces possible execution in the federal death chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana, the same place Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was put to death. Prosecutors may later state whether they intend to seek capital punishment.
�We will hold those who are responsible for these heinous acts accountable to the fullest extent of the law,� U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday in a statement.
Tsarnaev, whose brother and alleged accomplice died during a shootout with police, had his initial court appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler Monday in his hospital room, where he�s being treated for injuries sustained trying to elude capture.
�Alert and able to respond to the charges,� he agreed to voluntary detention, and a probable-cause hearing was set for May 30, according to the case docket. He was handed over from FBI custody to the U.S. Marshals, and declined to answer bail questions.
Assistant Federal Defender William Fick represented Tsarnaev during Monday�s proceeding. Federal Public Defender Miriam Conrad in Boston will be his lead counsel in the case, which is being prosecuted by Boston U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz. Conrad declined to comment on the charges.
The April 15 marathon was shattered when two powerful bombs exploded about 10 seconds apart on a commercial stretch of Boylston Street. The blasts sent shrapnel ripping through spectators near the finish line. An 8-year-old boy, a 29-year- old woman and a Chinese graduate student at Boston University were killed. Many of the injured lost limbs.
Prosecutors cited surveillance video along the marathon route in its criminal complaint as giving them probable cause for the charges. In the complaint sworn out Sunday, FBI Agent Daniel Genck said the video showed Tsarnaev and his brother 11 minutes before the first explosion, carrying large knapsacks as they walked near the marathon route. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could be seen stopping in front of a restaurant, putting his bag down and fiddling with his phone, according to the complaint.
As the crowd reacted to the first explosion down the street, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could be seen on video walking �calmly but rapidly� in the other direction, leaving his bag behind, according to the complaint. A second explosion occurred about 10 seconds later in the spot where Tsarnaev had left his knapsack, Genck said.
Investigators combed a mile-wide crime scene and scrutinized evidence from scores of video recordings and photographs to identify the suspect and his elder brother.
On April 18, the FBI released pictures of the two men taken near the scene of the blasts. They showed one suspect wearing a black hat, and the other a white hat.
That night, a motorist was carjacked at gunpoint in Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston. The carjacker allegedly said: �Did you hear about the Boston explosion?� and �I did that,� according to the complaint.
The carjacker picked up a second man and the two spoke in a foreign language as they drove, the victim said, according to the complaint. They allegedly demanded cash and an ATM card from the victim. Later, when they stopped at a convenience store, the victim escaped, according to the complaint.
Security camera footage from an automated teller machine and the convenience store showed that the carjackers were also the men spotted at the marathon, according to the complaint. The people in those pictures resembled the Tsarnaev brothers, Genck said, citing motor vehicle records.
That same night, police converged on Boston�s northern suburbs following the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer.
When police caught up with the stolen car in Watertown, the occupants threw improvised bombs out the windows and a running gunfight ensued, Genck said. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was fatally wounded during the shootout, according to the complaint.
Investigators at the marathon bombing site had found that the explosives may have been contained in ordinary metal pressure cookers packed with shrapnel to maximize casualties, techniques easily found on the Internet, and popular with foreign terrorist groups including al-Qaida.
The explosives thrown in the car chase and found in the stolen car after it was abandoned were similar to those used at the marathon, according to Genck. At least one of the bombs used in the shootout may have been contained in the same brand of pressure cooker, he said.
With his brother dead, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev managed to escape. As police searched house to house, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick asked residents of Boston and several surrounding suburbs to stay inside with their doors locked. Public transit was shut down.
The chase came to an end April 19 when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found hiding in a boat stowed in the back yard of a Watertown home. The homeowner noticed blood on the boat, lifted up the covering and �saw a man covered in blood,� then immediately called police, according to Boston Police Department Commissioner Ed Davis.
During the ensuing standoff, officials operated with caution out of concern that the suspect was wearing an explosive vest or had an improvised explosive device with him, said a federal official, asking not to be identified due to the continuing investigation.
Police sent at least one helicopter with a thermal-imaging camera to confirm he was moving underneath the cover, Davis said.
The dead brother had explosives strapped to his body when killed, according to two federal law enforcement officials. That increased concerns about the type of weaponry the younger Tsarnaev might be carrying, one official said.
Genck, in the criminal complaint, said Tsarnaev was carrying school ID from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth when he was caught. A search of his dormitory turned up a �large pyrotechnic� as well as a jacket and hat matching the ones seen on the marathon surveillance video, the FBI agent said.
The bombing initially triggered suspicions of domestic terrorism, coming on the day income taxes filings are due and near the anniversaries of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and 1993 assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. U.S. investigators are now focusing outward after it was revealed the brothers were immigrants of Chechen descent.
�We will determine what happened,� President Barack Obama said April 19, after Tsarnaev�s capture. �The wounded � some of whom now have to learn how to stand, walk and live again � deserve answers.�
Jay Carney, a White House spokesman, said the suspect won�t be treated as an enemy combatant. No group or organization has claimed responsibility, and U.S. lawmakers and intelligence officials said there were no indications of a plot beforehand.
The blasts near Boston�s Copley Square occurred as thousands of runners were finishing the race. Among the dead was an 8-year-old from the Dorchester neighborhood, Martin Richard. The family of Krystle Campbell of Medford, Mass., identified the 29-year-old as another person who died in the blast. The third person, Lu Lingzi, was a graduate student at Boston University, the school said.
Of the injured, many were hospitalized with lower-extremity wounds from bombs laden with pellets and nail-like shrapnel. At least 13 people underwent amputations, hospital officials said.
Following his capture, Tsarnaev was hospitalized at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with gunshot wounds suffered as he battled police, authorities said. According to the medical center, Tsarnaev remains in serious condition, the FBI said.
At the Obama administration�s direction, police weren�t reading Tsarnaev the Miranda warning that gives suspects a chance to consult a lawyer before answering questions, according to a Justice Department official.
The administration invoked a public-safety exception that allows limited questioning. Statements from those interviews later can be entered into evidence, said the official, who asked not to be identified because the move wasn�t announced.
The exception, which stems from a 1984 Supreme Court case, would allow interrogators to push Tsarnaev on any training he received, associates or other potential plots before filing charges, the official said.
Authorities believe the two bombing suspects were acting alone and haven�t found connections to any groups or other suspects, said a person briefed on the investigation who asked not to be identified because it is a continuing probe.
The brothers are ethnic Chechens, said their uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, who lives in Gaithersburg, Md. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an amateur boxer and a Muslim who trained at a gym in the Allston section of Brighton and told friends, �I�m very religious,� according to an account by Johannes Hirn, a freelance photographer who profiled him.
Two years ago, the FBI interviewed the older brother �based on information that he was a follower of radical Islam� and preparing to join underground groups in that country, according to an agency statement. The interview and reviews of U.S. databases turned up no evidence of terror activity, the FBI said.
The Tsarnaev brothers and their two sisters moved to the Dagestan region of Russia in October 2001 from the central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan as refugees, and left for the U.S in March 2002, said Emirmagomed Davudov, director of Gimnasium Number 1 in Dagestan, where Tamerlan went to the seventh grade and Dzhokhar to first grade.
The parents first received asylum and then filed for the children, who were given �derivative asylum status� and didn�t come through the refugee admissions program, though the legal standard is essentially the same, said a State Department official who asked not to be identified to discuss the case.


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200 orders slip away for Boeing as Ryanair takes its ball and goes home – Suppliers Share Wrap
Boeing's December is looking very mixed. On the one hand it successfully test flew its B787 for the first time, with a second test flight reportedly due this week. It also booked a new order for 25 B787s, courtesy of United Airlines. However, at the same time a potential order of 200 narrowbodies has disappeared, with Ryanair walking away from negotiations on 18-Dec-2009.
At list prices, the Ryanair deal would be worth anywhere from USD14.5-16.2 billion, with aircraft delivered between 2013 and 2016.
Boeing has been tight-lipped on the negotiations, expressing its "disappointment" at the decision. Ryanair's CEO, Michael O'Leary, has been typically voluble. He squarely blames Boeing for the breakdown in the negotiations and Ryanair's decision to walk away from the order, although a change in strategy is nigh for the fast-charging LCC.
The current economic downturn appears not to have been as extreme or as lengthy as Ryanair needed to drive down aircraft prices and cause the level of attrition in rivals necessary to sustain its mid-term short-haul growth strategy. See related report: Where to next for Ryanair? Long-haul venture beckons
Even though this year has been a thin one for aircraft ordering (Boeing has just 213 gross and 101 net orders this year), it would be wrong to see Boeing negotiating from anywhere but a position of strength. The manufacturer's order backlog stretches back to more than 3,200 aircraft, better than seven years of production at current rates. It has already locked in B737 production rates for the majority of 2010.
Both Boeing or Airbus have been adamant that they are not offering discounts to encourage ordering, unlike the last major downturn when aircraft prices plummeted. Ryanair's largest order, for 100 B737s, was placed in early 2002. Both manufacturers believe that higher oil prices and other cost reduction requirements will continue to drive aircraft ordering.
2010 will be a year of slow recovery. Aircraft ordering is not expected to pick up until the end of next year or the beginning of 2011, and even then, better financed aircraft lessors are expected to play a larger hand in the market. But for Boeing (and similarly, Airbus), the loss of an order of the magnitude of Ryanair is significant for this year's tally, but more in what it says about the size LCCs can successfully grow.
Selected Aviation suppliers daily share price movements (% change): 18-Dec-09


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Besting the Bloat
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A gluten-free blog about the life of a celiac in college (and now grad school). Full of stories about life with celiac disease and fibromyalgia; gluten free, vegan and paleo recipes; and product and restaurant reviews. Plus, posts on body image, dating and more with a chronic illness!
|Well...you can have mine!
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I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS POST. It is so truthful and hits so close to home for me on so many levels, I am the SAME way, if I don't sleep enough/feel stressed/eating schedule is thrown off, my IBS goes into a tizzy...as it is now...sometimes I have to pick between socializing and fun events and getting sick...it's tough, but you covered my top tips already :) Thank you for your kind words, it is my dream to inspire others and help!ReplyDelete
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU gorgeous for the praise and the inspiraiton :) Stomach issues are def no fun to deal with - means we just have to be extra ninja about it! :DDelete
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AH THIS POST IS SO AWESOME AND I COULDN'T RELATE ANY BETTER!! :) I deal with bloating from IBS too, and mine is definitely affected by stress but also by food. I have tried following the low FODMAP diet, and it has definitely helped! I also found out that I am able to tolerate greek yogurt, which is a good thing! yoga has also helped me a lot with trapped gas. Stay strong casey. IBS and gluten free soul sistas <3ReplyDelete
Glad someone can relate - especially in terms of stress (not fun when midterms/finals week is around!). Yoga is also definitely amazing. Love me a good downward dog pose ;) And soul sisters - definitely! :DDelete


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years afterwards, in the House of Commons, Burke described this Number Forty-five as "a spiritless, though virulent, "performance, — a mere mixture of vinegar and water, at "once vapid and sour!"* A more timid statesmanthan Grenville might have shrunk from any conflict with the Press. A wiser would probably have left the cure of this libel to its own dullness and defects. But the new Prime Minister was eager to signalize his accession by a vigorous defence of the Prerogative, and thus, after a few days' deliberation, on the 30th of April Wilkes was arrested in his own apartment by the authority of a "General Warrant," that is, a Warrant not specifying the names of any person, but directed against the "authors, "printers, and publishers," whoever they might be, of the paper complained of. Under this Warrant, which, as will presently be seen, was at least of doubtful legality, Wilkes was carried to the house of Lord Halifax, by whom the Warrant had been signed. Here he was examined by Halifax and his brother Secretary Egremont, and then committed a prisoner to the Tower. At the same time his papers were seized and examined by Mr. Wood, the Under Secretary of State, and Mr. Carteret Webb, the Solicitor of the Treasury. His two printers, Balfe and Kearsley, being also taken into custody, acknowledged him to be the author of Number Forty-five. Wilkes in his confinement was at first denied the use of pen and paper, or the privilege of receiving visits, but these restraints were almost immediately afterwards removed. His high spirits and powers of wit did not for a moment forsake him. When brought to the Tower he asked in derision to be allowed the same room in which Lord Egremont's father had been confined on a charge of treason.* A few days afterwards he wrote a letter to his daughter, his only child, whom he had placed for her education at a * Debate of November 27. 1770. Mr. Adolphus, in referring to this passage, changes the "vinegar and water" into "milk and water," which entirely alters the meaning (perhaps I should rather say the flavour) intend1763. Wilkes D1scHARGED BY CHIEF JUSTICE PRATT. 33
ed by Mr. Burke. ** See vol. i. p. 164.
convent in France, and this letter he sent open for previous perusal to Lord Halifax. It was found to wish her joy of living in a free country! No sooner was the prison-rule relaxed than Lord Temple, who had once already called in vain, hastened ostentatiously to pay a visit to Wilkes. The same compliment was shown him by the Duke of Grafton; but in general men of character and station shrunk from any intercourse with this profligate adventurer. Wilkes had lost no time in applying for a writ of Habeas Corpus to the Court of Common Pleas, then presided over by Sir Charles Pratt, lately Attorney General, and afterwards Lord Chancellor Camden. Being carried before this eminent magistrate on the 3d of May, he (after a speech from his learned counsel, Serjeant Glynn,) spoke himself for an hour with no slight degree of flippancy, declaring that he had been "worse treated than any rebel "Scot." At these words, so consonant to the popular humour of the moment, the crowd in Westminster Hall raised a great shout until the Lord Chief Justice with much dignity reproved them. Wilkes proceeded to say, that the Ministry adopted this mode of persecution because they had failed in their earlier attempts to corrupt him. The effrontery of this assertion cannot be fully appreciated without remembering that in fact Wilkes himself had been a disappointed suitor for place, and that from such disappointment had all his libels sprung. The Court took time to consider the arguments, and Wilkes was led back to the Tower amidst the acclamations of the mob. Three days afterwards he again appeared in Westminster to hear the judgment which the Lord Chief Justice delivered in the name of his brethren. Waiving the question as to the legality of General Warrants, which the Crown lawyers by a technical contrivance had avoided, Sir Charles Pratt pronounced Wilkes entitled to his discharge, from his privilege as a Member of Parliament, since that privilege holds good in all cases, except treason, felony, and an actual breach of the peace. "We are all of opinion," Mahon, History. W. 3
he said, "that a libel is not a breach of the peace; it tends "to a breach of the peace, and that is the utmost. But that "which only tends to a breach of the peace cannot be an "actual breach of it. In the case of the Seven Bishops, "Judge Powell, the only honest man of the four Judges, "dissented, and I am bound to be of his opinion, and to say "that case is not law, - but it shows the miserable condition "to which the law was then reduced. Let Mr. Wilkes be "discharged from his imprisonment."* Much elated at this victory, and determined to pursue it to the utmost, Wilkes erected a printing press in his own house, pretended that his goods had been stolen by the messengers, set on foot an action for damages against them, and threatened Lord Egremont with a challenge as soon as these proceedings should be over. During the continued recess of Parliament he proceeded on a visit to his daughter at Paris, where he was himself challenged by Captain Forbes, a Scottish exile in the French service; the duel, however, being prevented by the interposition of the Lieutenant de Police. Meanwhile in England the Court could only show its chagrin by depriving him of his commission in the Buckinghamshire Militia. Earl Temple being looked upon, and not unreasonably, as his patron and his instigator, was dismissed from the Lord Lieutenancy of the same county, and likewise struck off the list of Privy Councillors, the former post being now bestowed on Lord Le Despencer. Such was the first campaign of that memorable Seven Years' War which the Government of England thought fit to wage against John Wilkes. Little blame beyond that of imprudence seems to reston the first proceedings,but far heavier the fault of those that followed, when, as will be seen, the powers of the House of Commons being brought into play, notwithstanding the popular voice, and against an Electoral
* Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, vol. v. p. 247. In referring for the first time to these most agreeable volumes I am anxious to bear my testimony to their merit, and to state how much new and valuable information I have derived from thcm.
body, were unconstitutionally wielded, and at last disgracefully foiled. So great were the acclamations and rejoicings at Wilkes's present release from the Tower, that they might well have warned any prudent statesman against the policy of a further prosecution. Nor were these confined to London alone. In the Cyder counties, still exasperated by the new tax laid upon them, the triumph over the administration was celebrated in a mode not extremely consistent with their boasted loyalty. Besides the usual emblems of the jackboot and petticoat, a figure was carried round, dressed in Scotch plaid and with a blue riband, to denote Lord Bute, and this figure was made to lead by the nose an ass Royally crowned!" CHAPTER XLII.
* Lord Orford's Memoirs of George III., vol. i. p. 280.
Mr. George GRENVILLE, the new Prime Minister, was (to sum up his character in three words) an excellent Speaker spoiled. All his first training, all his earlier inclinations, had qualified him to fill the Chair of the House of Commons with dignity, firmness, and learning. His whole mind, as Ihave elsewhere noticed, was cast in the mould of precedents and order. Of even his most familiar letters I should have guessed that they must have been grave and solemn; and I have been surprised to find that they do not all begin exactly like an Act of Parliament with the word "Whereas—."
It is worthy of note that whenever any man who has been most respectable and most respected in the Speaker's Chair is called on to assume the office of Prime Minister, — as Sir Spencer Compton in 1727, Mr. Addington in 1801, and Sir Charles Manners Sutton during a few days of negotiation in 1832, — the result in each instance has been far from satisfactory. Mr. George Grenville's might properly be added to this class of cases, since, although he was never in fact raised to the Chair, he had been designated for it by the Ministry in 1761, with the general concurrence of the House and of the public, until the retirement of Pitt brought before him, unhappily for himself, the allurements of political office. As a Minister his two principal measures were the Parliamentary expulsion of Wilkes and the Parliamentary taxation of America. Both have long since been acknowledged not only as disastrous, but as in the highest degree unwise. But both, it may be added, took their rise from one and the same feeling in his mind, - the most lofty notion, namely, of the rights and privileges of the House of Commons, – a feeling which, had he been only Speaker, would have been natural, praiseworthy, and harmless, may even beneficial. '


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Nestling in the very heart of the Scottish Highlands is the delightful age-old village of Carrbridge. The first of the Scottish ski villages, the history of this small but lively community dates back many hundreds of years with its past reflected in the curved arches of its ancient packhorse bridge - the oldest stone bridge in the Highlands.
Surrounded by spectacular mountain and moorland scenery and within easy reach of a host of exciting tourist attractions, Carrbridge has a great deal to offer both summer and winter visitors.
The village has its own pony trekking centre, a challenging nine hole golf course, a bowling green, miles of woodland trails suitable for walking and biking and The Landmark Centre. The local pub, post office and artists studio are a two minute walk from our front door.
Situated off the A9, Carrbridge provides an ideal base from which to explore the Cairngorm National Park as well as other areas of the Highlands from the Highland capital of Inverness to Loch Ness, the Malt Whisky Trail, Royal Deeside, the Moray Coast and the West Highlands and Skye.
Among the attractions which have helped put Carrbridge on the map is the Landmark Forestry Heritage (all our guests get a 10% discount) and Adventure Park with its wild water coaster, stream powered saw mill and tree top trail set in an ancient pine forest.
The famous Landmark Visitor Centre in Carrbridge, right on our doorstep - offers forest trails, a superb forest watch tower to climb, a working steam powered sawmill, an adventureland in the forest for children and the spectacular wildwatercoaster ride. There is also a restaurant and snack bar.
The centre also offers a superb 3-D audio-visual presentation on the The Great Wood of Caledon, narrated by David Bellamy.
The attractions include a Wildwatercoaster, a runaway Raft Ride for all ages in all weathers;the Red Squirrel Nature Trail with Treetop Trail and wildlife feeding area;'Ant City', a giant adventure playground;the Pinnacle climbing wall;electric mini-cars;remote controlled trucks;a working steam powered Sawmill;Clydesdale Horse demonstrations;giant viewing tower;fun Forest Maze;Microworld exhibition;Shop, Restaurant and Snack Bar. It's even fun in wet weather!
Join us for the chainsaw carving competition which is held annually at the end August/beginning of September and attracts entries from all over the world. Watch as the competitors create masterpiece sculptures from logs of wood in just 4 hours. For full details, see the website at:www.carvecarrbridge.com
Carrbridge's very own world championships! Competitors converge on the village to compete for the Golden Spurtle Trophy and the title of World Champion Porridge Maker by producing the perfect bowl of porridge. This event takes place at the beginning of October. See www.goldenspurtle.com for full details.
A triathlon event held annually in July to raise funds for Cancer Research. See new.wickedwolftriathlon.co.uk for full entry details.
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The protests in Ferguson, Mo., have captured the attention of the nation, focusing on the injustice and racial disparities in the justice system — in Ferguson.
The issues raised by the Ferguson protests are complex, but the frustrations with the disparities in our justice system have been well documented. A new report from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), points to the profound racial disparities in our nation's prison system and calls for an end to the mass incarceration of minorities — especially for low-level offenses. The report is based on research documenting that the negative consequences to our society from mass incarceration outweighs any benefits — and that the consequences are too profound for our nation to continue locking up a quarter of the world's prisoners.
Yes, that's right — a full quarter of the world's prisoners are in U.S. lockup facilities. The United States. has only about one-fifth of the world's population, but over the past 30 years the nation has quadrupled its number of prisoners. The misguided "war against drugs," along with expanded use of mandatory minimum and longer sentences, drove up the prison population exponentially over the past three decades. The U.S. prison increase fell disproportionately on impoverished inner city communities of people of color.
Our prisons reflect our social policies and priorities. As a society, we continue to pay high taxes to support our prison system without asking the logical question: What are we getting for our tax dollars? The answer in part is a lot of expense without significant crime reduction, according to the NAS report. What we are also getting is a tremendous disruption in certain poor and marginalized communities of color. These disruptions rip apart the foundations of our society, as we see so dramatically in the news from Ferguson.
The impact of our prison policies reaches far beyond the people who are incarcerated. Two million children in the nation have a parent in prison. Even upon release, the parent's prison record results in lower earnings that impact their families and their communities.
Additionally, the U.S. prison system impacts disproportionately on poor communities of people of color. What this means is dramatically illustrated in the NAS report. A young African-American male who was a high school dropout in the late 1940s stood a 15 percent chance of spending a year or more in prison. One generation later, by the late 1970s, the same African-American male who was a high school dropout stood a 68 percent chance of spending a year or more in prison. As the NAS Committee's Chair explained in an interview: Within one generation, it became a "normative experience" to go to prison.
The NAS report has a series of recommendations that must be swiftly implemented. Dismantle mandatory sentences, for it is a fundamental principle that sentences should be individualized and proportionate to the offender and the underlying conduct. Sentences should be crafted to enhance citizenship through rehabilitation back into society and the community. Community-based alternatives to incarceration cost less and have better outcomes at reducing offending. Prisons need to be revamped to provide offenders with the necessary skills and tools to return to their communities and become productive citizens.
Many of these recommendations have already been tested in the juvenile system. Across the nation, diversion in the form of counseling and restorative justice practices replaces pre-trial detention for children. Community-based alternatives are replacing juvenile prisons. More youth are being tried in the juvenile, rather than the adult, court.
As a result, juvenile crime is down, juvenile arrests are down, the number of juveniles incarcerated is down, and states are saving taxpayer dollars with better outcomes.
It is time to replicate these successful juvenile practices for adults — especially young adults in the 18-21 age group. Many of our young adults receive a second, and even a third and fourth chance through generous diversion policies practiced by law enforcement on college campuses, but it is now time to ensure that all our young adults receive the benefit of interventions, diversion and community-based alternatives. Only then will we begin to move past the disparities and tragedy we experienced in Ferguson.
Elizabeth Clarke of Evanston, Ill., is founder and president of the Juvenile Justice Initiative, a coalition working to transform the juvenile justice system in Illinois.
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Group A
Ravindra Jadeja scored his maiden first-class triple-century to carry Saurashtra to 545 against Orissa at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack. Jadeja's 314 became the highest-ever score by any Saurashtra batsman, going past Cheteshwar Pujara's 302, and is the 11th highest score overall in Ranji history. He got his runs at an impressive strike-rate of 83.73, including 29 fours and nine sixes, though it is not the fastest triple-hundred in the Ranji Trophy.
The rest of Saurashtra's middle and lower order could not get going, and no one managed more than Pratik Mehta's 39 on the second day. New-ball bowler Basant Mohanty finished with the best figures for Orissa: 4 for 86. Despite Saurashtra's daunting total, Orissa's openers managed to safely negotiate 18 overs and take their side to 51 for 0 at stumps. Saurashtra's spinners, Kamlesh Makvana and Jadeja, conceded one run in four overs between them.
Jadeja has so far only entered contention for a spot in India's limited-overs side, but has shown the ability to bat long in first-class cricket. His previous highest score was against Orissa as well - an unbeaten 232 in 2008-09 - and he had an unbeaten 170 in the Duleep Trophy semi-final last season.
KB Pawan, who did not manage a single century over eight matches last season, has started this year's Ranji Trophy with his highest score in first-class cricket - an unbeaten 251. Stuart Binny also got his highest first-class score, 151, and the two big innings gave Karnataka a total of 623 for 6 declared against Rajasthan at the Field Club Ground in Udaipur. Rajasthan, last year's champions, lost two early wickets in reply, leaving them under pressure at the end of the second day in Udaipur.
They had started the day under pressure too, with Karnataka having reached 273 for 3 by stumps on day one. But Pankaj Singh, who swung sides out for fun in the Plate League last season, got a couple of early wickets on the second morning, bowling Amit Verma for 69, and trapping CM Gautam in front for 10. Pawan, though, carried on from his 121 not out overnight, and at the other end Stuart Binny attacked. Binny, who had two centuries last season, scored his 151 at a strike-rate of 107.09, striking 23 fours and three sixes. His aggression meant Karnataka were able to lift their rate and scored 350 runs in 73.3 overs on the second day before declaring.
Deepak Chahar, the seamer who had an impressive first season last year, found the going hard in the Elite division, toiling for 42 overs for figures of 1 for 165. Rajasthan's problems were compounded when Vaibhav Deshpande, promoted to the opening slot in the absence of Aakash Chopra who is out for this game with a back spasm, was dismissed off the first ball of their innings by R Vinay Kumar. In the seventh over, their captain Hrishikesh Kanitkar perished to Abhimanyu Mithun and they ended the day on 49 for 2. Ashok Menaria, the 21-year-old allrounder of whom much is expected, has been promoted to No. 4 and will face the tough challenge of pulling his team back into the match on Saturday.
Punjab collapsed on the second morning at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, losing their last five wickets for 10 runs to finish with 350 against Uttar Pradesh. UP then got themselves to 221 for 3 and their first motive on Saturday will be to secure a first-innings lead
Punjab's remarkable slide started in the eighth over of the day, when RP Singh removed Sandeep Sharma to complete his ninth five-wicket haul in first-class cricket. In the next over Bhuvneshwar Kumar, UP's leading wicket-taker last season, took three wickets in four balls. First to go was Bipul Sharma, trapped lbw for a six-ball duck. That brought Harbhajan Singh, Punjab's captain, who was recently dropped from the India Test squad, to the crease; but he was sent straight back as Bhuvneshwar trapped him lbw too. Manpreet Gony denied Bhuvneshwar the hat-trick but was gone the ball after that, giving Bhuvneshwar figures of 4 for 82. Piyush Chawla took the last wicket and Punjab's Mandeep Singh, who had started the day on 158, was left stranded on 175.
UP lost opener Eklavya Dwivedi early to a run-out, but a century stand between Tanmay Srivastava and Mohammad Kaif steadied them. The pair were both dismissed in the 60s, but Parvinder Singh came in and got 57 not out, and he and Suresh Raina negotiated safely till stumps. Raina faces a battle to get back into India's Test squad after a poor tour of England. He did not feature in the Ranji Trophy at all last season because of international commitments but will be hoping to catch the selectors' eye with some big innings.
Mumbai's lower order backed up Rohit Sharma with steady cameos, to carry the team to 483 against Railways at the Karnail Singh Stadium. Mumbai resumed on 338 for 5 and lost Onkar Gurav in the first over of the day, to a run-out affected by Shivakant Shukla. Railways would have wanted to finish things off early after that bright start but Mumbai's tail wagged. Ankeet Chavan got 44, Ramesh Powar made 30 and Dhawal Kulkarni scored 26 not out. Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma got himself from his overnight score of 133 to 175 before being bowled by offspinner Shreyas Khanolkar, who finished the innings with figures of 5 for 78.
Railways' day got worse when they came out to bat and lost three wickets in the 23 overs they had to bat out at the end of the day. Aavishkar Salvi, the 30-year-old seamer, provided an early breakthrough, dismissing Khanolkar caught-behind. Mumbai captain Wasim Jaffer did not wait long before bringing on his spinners Iqbal Abdulla and Ramesh Powar, and the offspinner Powar picked up two wickets to leave Railways in trouble at 66 for 3.
Group B
Delhi, who missed out on the quarter-finals last year after winning just one match in the group stage, have made a positive start to this season, bowling neighbours Haryana out for 293 at the Roshanara Club Ground in Delhi, and then getting to 214 for 3. Delhi had to manage without their highest wicket-taker from last year, Sumit Narwal, and would have been encouraged that their young fast bowler Pradeep Sangwan took his first five-for since the 2009-10 season. Sangwan had picked up three wickets on the first day and did not waste time wiping out the tail, finishing with 5 for 67 as Haryana could only add 37 runs to their overnight score of 256 for 7.
Delhi's opening pair of Shikhar Dhawan and Unmukt Chand will be carefully watched this year. Dhawan has been on the fringes of the India one-day squad, while the 18-year-old Chand's performances in the Under-19 Quadrangular series in Visakhapatnam have marked him as someone to watch for the future. They both fell within the first 15 overs however, and it was debutant Milind Kumar and the experienced Rajat Bhatia who gave Delhi control with unbeaten half-centuries. Milind, a 20-year-old batsman, had only played three List A matches and a couple of Twenty20s for Delhi before this season but remained unbeaten on 84 at the end of the second day, and will be looking for a century on Ranji debut on Saturday.
Wriddhiman Saha's unbeaten 167 took Bengal to an imposing 560 for 6 declared against Gujarat at Eden Gardens. Bengal lost Manoj Tiwary, who was on 120 not out overnight, early to Amit Singh but Laxmi Ratan Shukla settled in to keep Saha company. Shukla and Saha were involved in a record-breaking 417-run stand last season. This time they did not quite manage something of that magnitude but the 130 runs they put together helped Bengal reach a formidable position.
Shukla edged Rikin Chauhan behind on 78. Saha then strung together his third-century stand of the innings, putting on 142 - the best partnership of the three - with Saurasish Lahiri at almost five runs an over. Tiwary declared late in the day, allowing his bowlers a six-over crack at Gujarat.
Parthiv Patel and Priyank Panchal batted till stumps. Parthiv is in direct competition with Saha for the spot of India's reserve wicketkeeper and will want to match Saha's performance. Gujarat will need a remarkable effort, though, to prevent Bengal from taking first-innings point at the least.
Heavy rain prevented any play in the Tamil Nadu v Baroda match at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, for the second day running.


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COLUMBUS — The Ohio House began deliberations Tuesday on legislation to revamp taxes charged on oil and gas produced in eastern Ohio's emerging shale oilfields.
House Bill 375 calls for lower taxes on existing conventional wells and increasing rates on those drilled horizontally, with excess proceeds devoted to plugging abandoned wells and potentially cutting income tax rates.
"I believe this comprehensive tax reform proposal is a fair and balanced approach that will provide oil and gas producers with more certainty," Rep. Matt Huffman (R-Lima) told members of the House Ways and Means Committee. "Certainty is an important factor to companies when weighing their tax burden and deciding whether or not to invest billions into energy exploration and development within our state."
He added, "Taxpayers, of course, will benefit from this proposal as the creation of two new offsets will impact royalty owners while additional revenues are earmarked for a reduction of the personal income tax."
The legislation is a departure from a plan pursued by Gov. John Kasich, who sought to increase severance tax rates on oil and gas produced through fracking, a process that involves pumping large volumes of water, chemicals and sand into shale formations deep underground.
Kasich wanted to use the proceeds of the tax increase to implement a corresponding decrease in the state's income tax rates.
The governor has said repeatedly that the changes are needed to ensure some economic benefit for Ohio from big profits expected by out-of-state energy companies. And he has said his rate proposal was still lower than other states.
Republicans balked at the plan, however, saying it could stifle shale oil development and prompt energy companies to focus their attention elsewhere.
House Bill 375
House Republicans' new bill, which has more than a dozen co-sponsors, calls for tax rates on non-horizontal wells to be cut in half.
Horizontal wells would be subject to a 1 percent tax on gross receipts over the first five years of production, then 2 percent thereafter as long as production remains above certain levels. The lower rate during the initial years will allow producers to recoup their costs, Huffman said.
Proceeds from the increased severance tax will first go to state regulators overseeing the fracking industry, with extra collections used to cap orphan oil and gas wells and for potential income tax rate cuts.
HB 375 also includes additional tax breaks for well owners.
House Speaker Bill Batchelder (R-Medina) is co-sponsoring the bill, calling it a "comprehensive, carefully constructed piece of legislation that incorporates many important aspects of oil and gas exploration in Ohio."
He added, "While I did not support previous proposals to institute a severance tax on the oil and gas industry, I believe that this legislation accomplishes many of the goals that needed to be addressed and can give Ohioans confidence in the process."
The governor has not yet taken a firm stance on the new legislation.
"Ohio's getting back on track because of jobs-friendly policies like the $3 billion in tax relief that the governor and the general assembly have enacted, and the governor is always interested in exploring additional ways to build on that tax relief and keep our economic recovery moving forward," Rob Nichols, Kasich's spokesman, said in a released statement. "We're glad the general assembly took this first step, we're studying the proposal in detail, and we look forward to working with the legislature closely as the bill moves through the legislative process."
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Industry groups are supporting the bill.
In a released statement, Tom Stewart, executive vice president of the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, called the legislation "rational, substantive and good for Ohio."
"If passed, the package would also provide much needed clarity for oil and gas producers who have already invested heavily and plan to invest billions more to explore the state's Utica Shale formation," he said. "The ongoing debate about increasing the severance tax has created an air of uncertainty within the industry.
Resolving this issue will allow oil and gas development to flourish in eastern Ohio, which will expand economic opportunity and job growth throughout the state."
Some House Democrats, however, remain opposed, saying lawmakers and the governor should push for a higher severance tax rate and use the proceeds to pay for more state inspectors to regulate the industry, plus provide a needed funding boost to schools and local governments.
"Every other state that has found this black and gray gold has benefited, whether it was school systems or whether it was making sure that people are being treated fairly at the local level," said Rep. Bob Hagan (D-Youngstown). "That's what we want to do. ... This has been under our feet for over a million years in the eastern part of the state. We're the ones that should be the biggest beneficiaries of it instead of giving it as a tax break...."


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Paul Collins is the author of Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism (published by Bloomsbury) and several other books. We invited him to review the audience at his reading at Elliott Bay Book Company on April 26, 2004.
In 1755, the London wag Samuel Foote made a bet with his friend Charles Macklin--an actor famed for his phenomenal memory--that he could utter a perfectly grammatical sentence so blitheringly nonsensical that Macklin could not remember it. You're on, Macklin said--or whatever the 1755 equivalent was. "Do tell," perhaps.
This was Foote's verbal throwdown:
So she went into the garden to pick a cabbage leaf, to make an apple-pie of; and a she-bear, coming up the street, put her head into the shop, and said, "Do you sell any soap?" So she died, and he very imprudently married the barber; and the powder fell out of the counselor's wig, and poor Mrs. Mackay's puddings were quite entirely spoilt; and there were present the Garnelies, and the Goblilies, and the Picninnies, and the Great Panjandrum himself, with the little round buttons at top, and they played at the ancient game of "Catch who catch can," till the gunpowder ran out of the heels of their boots.
I was put in the mind of poor Mr. Macklin recently when, at a reading at Elliott Bay Book Company, I was asked a question of such penetrating impenetrability that, god help me, I could not have told you what it was even before the woman asking it was halfway through the aforesaid question. If it was indeed a question. Then again, I'm not sure she could have recalled it either, even as she was asking it.
Let me say that I was very well equipped by the bookstore for any and all such contingencies. My water was cold, my latte was hot, and the stage so brilliantly lit that, if I looked up toward the ceiling, I was blinded in a warm white haze, like I was dying. Don't walk into the light, Paul--don't walk into the light! Incoherent people back on Earth need you!
So: I lived. But I do not recall a single word of her question, except perhaps for the presence of a "the." I am pretty sure that she somehow managed to speak for five or six minutes without using a single conjunction. Quite remarkable, really.
I was asked many perfectly intelligible questions by the rest of the crowd, though--shall I describe this crowd to you? No, no--I shall not. I will allow you to imagine it, because your conception--a great mass of people, all muttering something that vaguely sounds like rhubarb rhubarb as I approach the stage, or making a general hubbub like the Sgt. Pepper intro--this will outdo any crowd that I could actually conjure up in person. I actually half hid from this crowd during the introduction, browsing books on the shelf behind the platform because... well, it was a bookstore. It seemed the thing to do. There was a first-edition Kafka on that shelf selling for just $2, by the way. Put away your wallets: It was Mitzy Kafka.
The reading? Oh. Yes, there were words read aloud. I'd tell you about them, but a subsequent incident has blotted out all my memory of the other events of that evening. For as I passed Fourth and Lenora the next day on the Gray Line bus bound for Sea-Tac, there erupted a great commotion among my fellow passengers and the driver. They were gaping, gasping, and laughing incredulously all at once: It took a moment before I realized they were all looking out the front window. I followed their gaze, and there I saw a gentleman strolling down the street, in very windy weather, without a shirt. Also, he was without shoes. Or socks. Or pants. Or underwear. Or anything. I'm not sure that words suffice to express the nakedness of this fellow. Imagine a man without an atom of clothing on: Now, imagine that, miraculously, it is somehow possible to make this man even more naked. Having achieved this mental image, you still will have not begun to form a conception of the clothelessness of the gentleman on Fourth Avenue.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The Springfield Police Department expects to equip all of its 160 field officers with body cameras by year's end.
Deputy Chief Dyle Stokes tells The (Springfield) State Journal-Register (http://bit.ly/2dvyANL ) that 40 body cameras are already in use and another 15 to 20 will be issued to officers in the coming weeks.
Stokes says officers have not reported any issues with the cameras and the devices have already been used to investigate citizen complaints that turned out to be unfounded. He says the department is hiring a clerk to handle open records requests from the public to release video of incidents.
The president of the NAACP's Springfield branch, Teresa Haley, says body cameras could serve to deter negative behavior by the public and police officers.


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Teachers and parents slammed the government on Saturday for trying to "smash the state education system" with its academy school programme.
The Anti-Academies Alliance AGM brought together people concerned about their schools turning into academies, which are government-funded but controlled by private businesses and allowed to set their own curriculum and staff wages.
Steering committee member Alasdair Smith rubbished government claims that acadmies are about educational transformation and said reports show a narrowing of the curriculum.
"The whole thing is a lie and Gove is committing untold resources to force this through. Gove will do what he can get away with," he said.
Mr Smith added that the alliance's central task was to break down the myth that academies are about educational transformation.
"We need to keep up the message that academies are about smashing the state education system," he said.
Teachers from the Alec Reed Academy in London, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals, told the AGM that checks and balances are no longer there with academies.
And parents from the Gladstone Park Primary School in Willesden vowed to fight the decision to turn the school into an academy.


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Abstract: Zizek presents several motion pictures that he enjoys, including [amazon asin=B000ECX0QU&text=Topaz] (1969), [amazon asin=B0009NSCQW&text=Top Hat] (1935), Cossacks of the Kuban (1949), [amazon asin=B009AGEY98&text=The Black Cat] (1934), and [amazon asin=B0000VCZMK&text=Freddy vs. Jason] (2003). He believes that these motion pictures, although considered as insignificant commercial trash, political propaganda, artistic failures, or, in the best case, charming commercial films not to be taken seriously, are to be taken seriously.
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One of the standard exercises of Higher Hitchcockian Criticism is to pick the master's "failure" and proclaim it his great masterpiece: in France, there is a whole school of thought that claims [amazon asin=B003USBF3K&text=Under Capricorn], the ridiculous historical melodrama set in Australia, fulfills the role; Fredric Jameson's choice (from the same period) is [amazon asin=B0002HOEQW&text=Stage Fright]; and so on. As far as I am aware, nobody has dared to consider [amazon asin=B000ECX0QU&text=Topaz], the anti-Communist spy story generally dismissed as Hitchcock's worst film (at least after WWII). Although critics usually praise some scenes, they dismiss [amazon asin=B000ECX0QU&text=Topaz] as a clumsy, over‑long mixture of rehashed Hitchcock motifs and anti-Communist clichés. However, what if we re‑perceive Topaz as a European art film—with its complex love triangles, "cold" marriages where affairs are tolerated, echoes of the old camaraderie of the Resistance, chamber‑drama atmosphere, and strangely twisted non-linear narrative? This shift allows us to appreciate the film's qualities properly.
[Extract. Appeared in Film Comment, Vol. 41, No. 1, January-February 2006, pp. 12-13.]


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Closer International Cooperation to Fight Hostage-Taking, Kidnapping and Terrorism
ATLAS, the network of special intervention units, signs terms of cooperation with Europol
As the European Union faces increasing threats from organised crime groups and terrorist attacks inspired by religious, left- and right-wing ideologies, an effective law enforcement response must include the availability of well-trained and EU-wide interoperable special intervention units. Therefore, Europol and the ATLAS Network (the cooperation platform of 38 special intervention units of EU Member States and associated countries, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland) today signed the terms of enhanced cooperation. The document was signed by Herbert Kickl, Austria's Minister of the Interior, representing the Presidency of the Council of the European Union; ATLAS Chairman Commander Bernhard Treibenreif; and Europol's Executive Director Catherine De Bolle.
According to the terms of cooperation, an ATLAS Support Office will be established as a team attached to the European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC) within the Operations Directorate at Europol's headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands. The ATLAS Support Office will be the main interface of ATLAS with Europol and will support the ATLAS Chairmanship by providing contacts to strategic and operational experts at Europol in the relevant areas of combating terrorism and serious and organised crime.
Europol's Executive Director Catherine De Bolle: "I am very pleased to open a new chapter of cooperation between Europol and the Special Intervention Units of the EU Member States gathered in the ATLAS Network. I am sure that the closer relationship between Europol and ATLAS will bring added value to the preparedness of the law enforcement community and therefore for the safety of all European citizens. One important element we are pleased to see is the facilitation of cross-border deployment of Special Intervention Units. Europol is also committed to supporting ATLAS with the development of ambitious projects for the future, including the establishment of joint training activities and the pooling of resources. "
Herbert Kickl, Minister of the Interior of Austria: "Cooperation between the ATLAS Network and Europol is an important step in the EU and an essential element of the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. In a crisis situation, special intervention units must be able to support each other across borders."
The signing of the agreement coincides with the ATLAS common challenge, a counter terrorism exercise in seven European regions taking place from 8 to 11 October. The ATLAS common challenge exercise aims to test the effective operational readiness of European special intervention units as regards cross-border operations. Furthermore the exercise will gather information on warning systems and assistance procedures when tested under real-life circumstances.


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SteamVR/Combined Logging
From Valve Developer Community
Instructions for setting up combined logging for SteamVR.
1) Set environment variable to tell SteamVR to output a combined log file. From the Start menu, type 'env', wait a second for Windows to prompt you to 'Edit environment variables for your account', then hit return. Click 'New' in the top section and set:
- Variable name: VR_COMBINED_LOGGING
- Variable value: 1
2) Install two helper tools:
- Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools (for tail.exe). It will prompt you about compatibility; just click Run Program.
- ConEmu - A powerful command prompt that supports ANSI colors, and has a nice Quake-style fold up option using Ctrl+Tilde.
3) Open NotePad, paste the following, and save as log.cmd in C:\Users\<your username> (update paths if different).
- "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\tail.exe" -f "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\logs\vrcombined_log.txt" | grcat openvr.log
4) Launch SteamVR once to ensure vrcombined_log.txt gets generated. Then launch ConEmu (which should default to your User folder used above), type log, hit enter and you're done. Just leave it running and it'll update as SteamVR spits out data to its various logs.


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The Kurilpa Performance Poetry Cup
Rules of Engagement.
1. Sign on from 1.45 pm. First on, first up.
Cup Heats start 2.30pm.
2. Props and musical instruments are ok and you can have assistants or performing aquatic mammals to assist you.
3. No strict time limit but try and keep it at the 3-4 minute mark.
4. There are two rounds.
An undetermined number of worthy contestants
will be selected to go onto the final round,
so have two poems ready.
5. The winner will be presented with the Kurilpa Cup,
$50 in unmarked bills,
a loaf of bread, a bottle of wine and a Book of Verse,
AND a handsome certificate suitable for framing or wrapping fish.
Runners up will get something nice in the way of consolation.
6. The Judges' decision will be Arbitrary and Final.
They may or may not choose to explain their decisions
or utter some encouraging remarks.
7. The Cup is free to enter.
8. While "performance poets" will be assessed partly on their performance skills, contestants who are "readers" will be assessed on reading ability and vocal skills, eg. clarity, as well as their ability to make contact with their audience whilst reading.
9. Note; Performance Enhancing Drugs are allowed
as long as you share them with the Reverend before hand.
AND ONE LAST TIME, the address is:
91 CORDELIA Street, West End.