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8 ounces of beer (we prefer a dark beer, and since it will be in a 12-ounce bottle or can, you can enjoy the remaining four ounces while you make the syrup)
1/2 cup raw sugar (use any sugar you like, of course)
a few whole cardamom pods
one small vanilla bean, split
Put all ingredients into a small saucepan and bring to a low boil, stirring gently. Reduce heat to low and allow to reduce by half, generally about 30 minutes. Remove from heat, remove cardamom pods and vanilla bean, and cool thoroughly. Can be refrigerated for up to two weeks.


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Abortion push part of dark thinkingBy WALTER PATTERSON GUEST COLUMNIST,
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I was having early morning coffee with a friend of mine recently, and out of the blue he said, "A person who does not believe in God loses all ability to perform rational thought."
Now my friend is not known to be a very religious person. Surprised, I asked him to explain his statement.
"A person who does not believe in God has no boundaries. He can believe anything, do anything, no matter how absurd, and think he is rational. It is scary. The more disbelief we have in a Divine Being, the more we think that anything we think or do is alright. There are no consequences - no punishment. Apparently, there is no fear of the afterlife, no punishment for our sins, no accounting to God for our life on earth."
"You have got to be talking about the New York legislature and Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo," I offered. "Murder is now legal in New York." He took a sip of coffee and nodded.
New York has just passed the most liberal abortion law in the country. Late term abortions are now legal.
A woman can get an abortion right up to the time of delivery with no consequences.
The only consequence is to the baby. When this law was passed, those in the state legislature stood and applauded.
Did it ever occur to those legislators and to Andrew Cuomo that they had just legalized infanticide?
For my entire adult life, the Catholic Church has stood against abortion.
Andrew Cuomo is a Catholic, yet he signed a bill into law that allows abortions to occur right up to the time of delivery.
I don't know what the grounds for excommunication are in the Catholic Church, but this may be a good case.
But what is going on?
Why this new devotion to abortion by so many Democrats?
Why has the act of abortion evolved from the first trimester to the day of delivery?
But there is more.
Gov. Ralph Northam, (D-Virginia) is now advocating for abortions that occur after the mother has given birth, post-birth abortions.
In other words, kill the living, breathing baby after it is born.
Could it be that once the Democrats have gotten the American people accustomed to infanticide that they have something more in mind?
Do you remember studying about eugenics? "Eugenics is focused on manipulating heredity to produce better people and on eliminating those considered biologically inferior." Humans, in the eyes of those who believe in eugenics, are no better than the selective breeding of cattle.
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was a proponent of a brand of eugenics which "aimed to improve human hereditary traits through social intervention by reducing the reproduction of those who were considered unfit."
Are the Democrats dulling our senses to death by sacrificing infants? I ask this question because Obamacare had "death panels" baked into the law. What may be next? Well, let's guess.
What about doing away with people who have severe physical disabilities? The mentally ill?
The old?
Young people who are mentally challenged.
All of this is what The Eugenics Society advocated and what Margaret Sanger preached.
How long will it be before some government agency determines that those who think a certain way must be done away with for the good of the society?
How long will it be before this same agency decides that a particular race is impeding society and thus must be removed to make the society genetically better?
History tells us that this kind of thinking led to the extermination of over six million Jews.
We are headed down the wrong road at supersonic speed. It appears that states like New York, Virginia, Rhode Island and others sense that the U. S. Supreme Court may strike down Roe v. Wade, and they are getting ahead of the game.
That is why in many quarters, the Catholic Church is so hated. For many years it has stood against infanticide and euthanasia.
But Christianity in all forms and denominations is under vicious attack by the radical Democrats including the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi, by the way, professes to be a Catholic.
To those who don't believe in God, there are no consequences to their actions. Even the killing of innocent babies is without consequence.
Everything is done for the benefit of society, and irrational thought is accepted as rational. But there will be a day of reckoning, and that day will not be pleasant for those who lived outside the boundaries.

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In 2011, at the suggestion of her students, "Marketing Management in the Government, Business and Nonprofit Sectors," was developed by visiting professor of government, Constance Rossum P'01 P'08. At the time, the students told Rossum that these skills would enhance their performance in summer internships and their belief that as future leaders (as "walking billboards" for their organizations), they needed to understand basic marketing communication concepts.
The course introduces students to customer-centered marketing concepts that focus on results. Rossum uses case studies–– ranging from Mayor Bloomberg's efforts to "Market New York City," the collaboration of eBay and the U.S. Postal Service, Zappos' service orientation, Ford Fiesta's use of social media, and Pepsico's "Pepsi Refresh" campaign to highlight marketing successes and failures.
Rossum notes that one only needs to read the headlines to see the range of marketing, political, and policy challenges that leaders are facing: the government's unprecedented promotion of the Food Stamp Program results in record users, but many are unqualified; the highly regarded Susan B. Komen Foundation's decision to discontinue funding Planned Parenthood is met with passionate donor reaction (on both sides) and the resignation of a valued staff member; the beloved Penn State coach Joe Paterno and the university president are forced to resign after the revelation of Jerry Sandusky's years of the sexual abuse of young athletes; and, who has forgotten the Tiger Woods incident? Or, she says, "Has it been overshadowed by Lance Armstrong's admission of drug use?"
According to Rossum, these organizations and individuals have powerful "brand equity," earned after years of hard work by many individuals on behalf of their customers. She predicts that most organizations and public figures will face customer, employee and media scrutiny. Her course reviews the steps needed to restore trust and value to the "product" when reputation is damaged, as well as how to develop and nurture–– upfront ––what McKinsey executives have concluded: that we are all marketers now.
Rossum will be offering this class as part of CMC's Summer Session. Hers will be a three-week intensive, happening May 22 through June 12.
We talked with her about marketing strategies––what works and what doesn't–– and some of the best advice she ever received.
CMC: Marketing courses are usually connected with business schools. Why do you believe students in the liberal arts, government, leadership and nonprofits can benefit from this study as well?
Rossum: Marketing communications is the business of anyone who wants to get his message across effectively. President Obama was named "Marketer of the Year" in 2008 by Advertising Age, largely for his ability to connect with various voter segments and his brilliant use of social media. (The Ford Motor Company was chosen as winner in 2010.) BP's CEO was criticized for his poor crisis management skills following the oil leak. World Vision's president, Rich Stearns, succeeded in crafting a rationale to wary donors that helped support its new Project Hope AIDS initiative in Africa.
Peter F. Drucker, the "father of modern management" described management as "one of the liberal arts." He taught that the first responsibility of leaders is to "define the mission and communicate it clearly" to their primary and supporting customers. So, whether you are trying to influence customers to purchase a particular product, vote for a specific candidate or ballot measure, or convince individuals to change their destructive behavior, effective marketing skills are needed. Understanding marketing can also make us better consumers and informed citizens.
CMC: What would be some good examples of ethical problems in marketing?
Rossum: Besides those described earlier, there are many questions that lead to interesting discussions. For example, is it "unethical" to market to children (e.g., a toy in a McDonald's Happy Meal)? Or, is it an extension of the experience parents choose to give their children? Consider that word-of-mouth, even among children, is a powerful influencer. Clothing brands and make-up for tween girls are promoted by the users themselves.
Consumers are led to believe that the "truth in advertising" standard applies to all advertising. While commercial companies are restricted from making false claims about their products or their competition at significant risk, candidates and elected officials are not held to the same standards. Their statements and advertisements are considered "political speech" under the protection of the First Amendment. The ethics of marketing a position take on even more complexity when you are trying to sort out the "truth" of the dangers of global warming or the benefits of Obama Care. And, as public relations has become an increasingly important part of what we call "integrated marketing communications," how the media presents rival positions significantly affects public perception.
CMC: What aspect of your summer material do you most look forward to sharing with students? What changes, if any, do you plan to make in course content this summer?
Rossum: Last summer, I was asked by Dean Brock Blomberg of the Robert Day School to develop and teach a course on marketing and innovation for students from The Claremont Colleges participating in the new Silicon Valley internship Program. Interestingly, about half of each semester's class were assigned to a marketing department at their respective companies, and the others interfaced with some aspect of marketing communications. I assigned marketing cases centered on innovative organizations like Google, Apple, IDEO, Zappos, as well as Procter & Gamble. We were able to attract speakers to our Saturday classes from these organizations, as well as from CodeforAmerica (described as a "Peace Corps for Geeks") and from Goodby, Silverstein and Partners (an award winning marketing services agency, e.g, Got Milk?). I am excited to share the new lessons learned from these experiences with this year's summer school students.
CMC: Is there a big, demonstrable difference in marketing strategies for for-profit companies and nonprofit companies, or are the principles the same?
Rossum: The principles are the same so far as effective marketing strategies are research-based, customer-centered, and focus on delivering value. We used to talk about the 4Ps: Product, Price, Place and Promotion. Today, given the importance of the service sector, we recognize at least three additional "P's"––People, Process and Physical Evidence. All of these are touch points for effective marketing.
CMC: Tell us about your own marketing experiences. Are there successful campaigns with which you have been involved?
Rossum: As an account executive at Leo Burnett Advertising, my job was to help introduce Chicken McNuggets. Students today do not know of life pre-nuggets, but it was truly a new product/form that McDonald's developed and our agency needed to introduce successfully. I tell a lot of behind-the scenes stories in class, including why McNuggets were almost "killed" early on, despite their popularity. One I can share is that McRib, not McNuggets, was supposed to be "the star," but our research indicated that McRib was more an occasional taste and not one we could justify selling daily. Our recommendation then––and a tactic still practiced today––was to reintroduce McRib at different times throughout the year for an extra sales bump.
As director of marketing for Marriott-Host International, I was part of the team that helped reconfigure airports (we serviced 55 major airports) to improve the food service offerings and merchandising. Our goal was to enhance the airport experience. Over the years, we needed to work around deregulation, embrace the increases in passenger traffic (no longer primarily the business traveler), union issues, security challenges, and the rise and fall of various airlines (e.g., Hello Southwest and Virgin; goodbye Eastern, TWA and Pan Am).
I have very fond memories of working with the late Ruth Fertel (the "Ruth" of Ruth's Chris Steak House) and her staff in developing their national marketing plan. Part of the lessons learned for marketing students is the necessary evolution of a marketing plan as the social, cultural, technological environment changes. (I share this case in class so students can understand how research among key segments leads to informed decisions and effective marketing plans when each group has a very different idea on how to proceed.) The plans we developed are still in use today.
As a consultant, I have worked over the years with more than 100 nonprofit organizations––introducing them to strategic planning––leading to the development of successful marketing plans.
I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to know Peter and Doris Drucker; he served as an advisor on my Ph.D. dissertation, which built upon my work developing what is known as the "Drucker Tool." In 1997, I received the Drucker Management Center's Alumni Award for Outstanding Entrepreneurship. My CMC Management and Leadership classes have introduced students to Drucker's "Five Most Important Questions" as a framework for organizational planning and accountability. This summer course shares lessons learned from years of consulting on how organizations in the public, private, and social sectors can improve their marketing effectiveness.
CMC: Why are Peter Drucker's Principles of Management so important in a marketing course?
Rossum: This is best explained by reviewing Drucker's Five Most Important Questions: What is your business? (mission); Who is your customer? (primary and supporting); What does the customer consider value? (not what you think he ought to value); What have been the results (of the way you have been managing/marketing the enterprise)?; What is the plan? (Given the way you/staff/board have answered these questions, what are the next steps?)
Drucker acknowledged that these five questions were "simple, but not simplistic," and that they took a great deal of thought to answer. Consider that before organizations––business, government or nonprofit–– develop a business and marketing plan, they need first to have thought through these important questions and agree on each before developing specific programs, products, campaigns.
CMC: In your view, what is one of the better marketing campaigns in recent years, whether broadcast or print and why?
Rossum: My students' favorite include Ford's U.S. introduction of the Ford Fiesta, using social media techniques among their target youth audience. It was a brilliant campaign for careful planning, execution, and the results it achieved. And, we can't ignore the success of Obama's re-election campaign. Like Ford Fiesta, it became a "movement."
CMC: With the proliferation of enhanced technology and modes of marketing (blast e-mails, tweeting, etc.,), what do you say to people who sometimes feel the importance placed on different modes of marketing communication overshadows the message being marketed? Is there any validity in such a statement?
Rossum: Marshall McLuhan said nearly 50 years ago that "The medium is the message." But, we can get so caught up with the new methods of delivery and we fail to consider the differences among audiences, especially in the "global village," a term he coined.
CMC: Given the challenges that graduating seniors face entering a tough, global job market, what advice would you give to those students? How can they be more competitive? And, is there an advantage that a CMC education affords them?
Rossum: A CMC liberal arts education provides what employers value: critical thinking and strong writing and presentation skills. The rest, frankly, is on the job training. My teaching at a number of institutions reveal that CMC students compete very well against business majors from other institutions who lack a serious liberal arts curriculum and these basic Socratic skills.
I have six suggestions for students preparing to enter the job market:
– Take advantage of your summers and plan to work/volunteer or intern for at least two organizations–– in the U.S. or abroad.
– Don't wait until second semester of your senior year to get begin a serious job search.
– If interested in earning an MBA, delay graduate school until you have at least 3-5 years of work experience.
– Networking is important. The CMC experience results in life-long friendships
– Choose your senior thesis topic carefully and take it very seriously. It can be the springboard to your career, positions you as strategic thinker, and can showcase your written and oral communication skills during the interview process.
– If you leave a job, never burn bridges. In my past lives, I have worked for three companies, each two or three times, given mergers and acquisitions and frequent (family) geographic moves early in my career. This is the advice we gave to our two sons, Brent '01 and Pierce '08, and both are doing well.
CMC: In a nutshell, what's the best bit of instruction you, yourself, ever received about marketing either on the job or in class?
Rossum: There are several. The first is from Leo Burnett, the founder of the major Chicago- based advertising agency for which I worked, twice, that bears his name. Our mission was "reaching for the stars," a customer-centered ethical approach to marketing for our clients–– including P&G, Kellogg, McDonald's, United Airlines, Pillsbury, Green Giant, etc. As Leo put it: "We may not actually reach the stars, but we won't end up with a handful of mud either." (His was the folksy, Midwestern approach––the anti-Mad Men of Madison Avenue that is popularized on TV today.)
Next was Bill Marriott's constant reminder that "If we take good care of our employees (internal marketing), they will take good care of our customers (superior service.)" While he recently retired at the age of 80, he still visits the kitchen staff and the laundry rooms when he stops by any Marriott hotel.
Finally, there is Drucker's definition of marketing: "To make 'selling' superfluous." If you need a good example, consider AFLAC. The duck opens doors for the field staff who do not have to explain who they are and what they do.


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Akiva Schaffer, director of "The Watch," knows very to apply the group dynamic to comedy.
As a member of the sketch comedy troupe The Lonely Island, Schaffer teamed with pals Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone to create some of the funniest and most memorable memes to hit the airwaves and the Internet in the past several years, crafting "Saturday Night Live's" SNL Digital Shorts – including "Lazy Sunday," "I Just Had Sex," "Natalie's Rap," "Dick in a Box," "I'm On a Boat" and "The Creep."
Thus Schaffer made for a natural choice to oversee and fine-tune the comedy collaboration of superstars Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill and Vince Vaughn, as well as rising star Richard Ayoade playing members of a ill-prepared neighborhood watch team which stumbles upon a local crisis of intergalactic proportions. Schaffer cast a flashlight on his filmmaking process for PopcornBiz.
What part of your skill set that you already had, had you covered on this? And on what did you really have to get up to speed to prepare yourself to tackle a feature of this scale?
Schaffer: I was up to speed on a lot of comedy stuff: jokes, things like that. I was up to speed on camera stuff, for the most part, I would say. As much as anybody would be who hadn't done a big-time movie. Because I had done so many shorts and they had all been different genres, really. They're all comedy, but doing a version of a comedy that mixes with genre I had a lot, from a technical standpoint, of making it feel like from an editing standpoint or a music standpoint, special effects – I had done a lot of stuff with shorts. In the category of new stuff was the big CG alien-y stuff. I had never really worked with real computer graphics. And we did a practical guy with animatronics that Doug Jones played – he was in a real suit – I hadn't done anything with that. And just the planning that it takes to storyboard and all that I hadn't really done before – pre-visualization. And then the ensemble: at 'SNL' we have an ensemble, but everybody's just part of the cast, and then you have one person that's the host that you kind of cater around. And having an ensemble of big actors was interesting, just in terms of the scheduling and even the mini-scheduling of the day, of like, 'All right, well, he's got to do all these lines, and he's got to do all these lines, and how to not have one of them waiting in their trailer for eight hours?' With other movies where you only have one or two big stars, it's easier to just make sure that they get taken care of. Whereas this, there's nobody that you want to leave waiting – But there's too many of them. Somebody's going to wait.
I'm guessing that by the time you do 'SNL' live it's pretty tight. Everybody knows what they're going to do. This one, I imagine, in the moment you were able to be a little looser, and you were working with some of today's great improv comedians.
Right. 'SNL' is not exactly – I wouldn't call it tight, because lots of times there is new stuff written between dress and air that you've never literally said the words out loud and you say it for the first time out loud on air. But at least two minutes beforehand you can read a cue card and think 'These are the lines I'm going to say...' Whereas, yes, on this it was great to be able to be like, 'All right, we did three or four. It's written. We have it. Let's try it another way.' And then eventually I would just be like, 'Free one!' and it would be like, 'You don't even have to say a single word that's written. Just do anything.'
How much fun did you have with the film's mayhem? Did you find yourself getting really into blowing stuff up?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's part of really what attracted me to the movie. Not explosions literally, but the idea of comedies generally you might get to play with a funny outfit or a wig or something, but beyond that you have to be pretty standard, and usually they're lit up a certain way and all that. So it's pretty fun to get to do one – which is what I got to do on the shorts a lot. The shorts kept my interest because I could go, 'Oh, this week let's do a weird one that's kind of like a suspense film for no reason.' In the same way it's like, coming from a filmmaker's standpoint, the comedy is great but I get to also not light everything super-bright. I get to make things dark and use smoke, and have people shoot something from the ground. Things that you're not allowed to do in a comedy normally, which was really fun.
Were you taken by surprise by just how popular the 'SNL' Digital Shorts became? Because it seemed like one day you guys were fooling around and then the next day – Bam! Huge.
Definitely the difference between the day before 'Lazy Sunday' and the day after was awesome.
How quickly did Hollywood start courting you to do something large-scale like this?
Something at this level I still had to go after a little bit. With this level of stars and this level of a budget, I still had to go like, 'Hey – I'm interested'. And I was in New York, so phone calls with the studio and the producers and eventually a two-hour lunch with Ben Stiller, because he was already attached. This was not just a, 'Do you want to do it?' 'Okay, I'll do it.' It wasn't that. It was me reading it and then my agent going, 'Hey, if you are interested you should let me know and I'll tell them you're interested. And you'll go on the list of people they're considering.' But I did 'Hot Rod', the other movie I did pretty much, because Lorne was doing it, of course. I don't think a random person would have done it, but basically after 'Lazy Sunday', a month later we were signed on to do that movie. I don't think somebody else in Hollywood would have been like, 'I saw one short thing. Here you go. Direct the movie.' Which was great. It was awesome.
What was the key lesson from 'Hot Rod' that you brought over?
Oh, man, one key lesson is hard. I was 26 when we did that movie and we'd just gone from being unemployed in credit-card debt, to getting the show, to a movie. The main thing that frustrated me on that movie was the schedule. Because you had to do it like we had money. We could've even shot a couple more days but we stopped hard because it was time to go back to work at 'SNL'. And at the time that was so frustrating to me because I was just like, 'What? This is a movie.' You know what I mean? And I think I still took that lesson. Like, better to maybe not make something right away and wait until you're ready to make it. But I will say, the other lesson – which is one Lorne is more in favor of – is really true: if you wait until you're ready, you'll never do it. And at a certain point you've got to jump in and trust in your team and everybody around that we're all going to figure out how to, you know, that you're rewriting on the set. Even if you think you're ready, once you get to set and you try the scene you might be rewriting anyways to make it work, so you'll never know when you're ready. So you just got to give yourself the best tools and jump in. But on this one, even the script I read, in the very first draft that I read, which was still the Seth [Rogen] and Evan [Goldberg] draft in May, I read it and went, 'Oh, this is pretty good already.' So I felt more confident going in.
Do you and Andy have a couple film projects that you have in various stages now that he's a little more free?
Schaffer: We have a few things, but nothing that I feel like is our next thing. Me, him and Jorma [Taccone] really want to figure out something to do together next, because we've all kind of gone and done [something] – Jorma did 'MacGruber'. Andy did the Sandler movie and the one with Rashida Jones, 'Celeste and Jesse Forever'. So we're hoping to come back together now because in a week, for the first time in over a year, I'm free. And so I'm hoping that they are free, as well.


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Usher said that the reason he came to China was because of the audience. He described the Asian audience as respectful and quiet as opposed to an American crowd that likes to sing loud with the performer.
In other Usher news, the singer will release "Versus," a collection of eight new songs that is a sequel to his previous album "Raymond vs. Raymond," on Aug. 24. The new single off it is "DJ's Got Us Fallin' in Love" featuring Pitbull.


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"One could say that casting an ensemble film requires the greatest skill. In my opinion, there is no better example than the casting of 'The Help.' Kerry Bardem and Paul Schnee did an amazing job in finding such vivid and skilled performers, who pulled the audience into not just one but two very different worlds and many story lines.
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Explain the importance that everyone's equipment is on correctly the entire game. All jerseys have to be tucked in,
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and all excess belts have be looped and tucked away. Both flags have to be on each side of the playerm make sure they are not in front or back of the players hips.
Explain that you are there manage the Flag Football game by spotting the ball, keeping score, Running the clock and notify the Head Coach when a player or coach breaks a rule.
Explain how the out of bounds lines will be called, any player that touches the white out of bounds line will be called out of bounds. The referee will line up on the opposite side of the coaches on the sideline, the referee will be in charge of calling out of bounds on his side while the coaches on the sideline will be in charge of calling out of bounds on their sideline.
Explain how you are there to spot the ball and then running to the 7 yard mark off the line of scrimmage to make sure that all rushers are lined up at 7 yards or more. Ask that one asst coach on the other side of the field should be standing at the line of scrimmage for you to help you make sure the ball is marked in the correct spot after each play.
Manage the coin flip,
make sure the away team is in white jerseys and they get to call heads or tails. Use a coin or siri to flip a coin for you. Winner of the coin toss gets to choose offense or defense first. Loser of the coin toss gets to choose what side of the field they want to defend. Make sure to flip sides for the 2
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It is very important that our referees blow the whistle load and quick everytime someone is tackled. It is very important that our referees do not blow the whistle unless they are 100% that confident that a player stepped out of bounds are was tackled. If you do accidentally blow a whistle and a player was not tackle, they play will still have to stop where the ball was when you blew the whistle. This is something that has happened in a couple of our games and has upset the coaches very very much. Please do your best not to make a mistake and blow your whistle early.
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Explain that the Head coaches will be the ones calling/enforcing the penalties and you are there to assist with penalty warnings and walk off the penalty yardage.
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. After approximately 20 seconds the referee should be alerting the offense of the time if they are still in the huddle. We want to make sure every team takes no longer than 30 seconds to call a play so we can make sure each team gets as many offensive plays as possible. A delay of game penalty is -5 yards and a loss of down.
Offensive Charging & Defensive Unnecessary Roughness Penalty's.
Our Flag Football Rules allow a defensive player to break down in front of the ball carrier and try to force the runner to change directions. If the running back runs into the defensive player that would be considered a charging penalty as long as the defensive player is stationary and its clear the runner has initiated the contact.
If the defensive player is moving while trying to draw a charging penalty and it looks like the defensive player initiated the contact that is considered an Unnecessary Roughness penalty against the defensive player.
Both penalties are -10 yards and loss of down or automatic first down. This will be a penalty that our referees will be responsible for interpreting and calling as they see it. When deciding who initiated the contact if it is unclear, the penalty will be called on the defensive player. It has to be 100% clear that the runner initiated the contact for it to be called on the offense.
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- 6 dried New Mexico chiles
- 8 garlic cloves, chopped
- 3 tablespoons smoked paprika
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt plus more for seasoning
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 pounds ground pork
Recipe Preparation
Heat a large dry cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. Add chiles; toast, turning often, until just fragrant, about 1 minute. Remove from pan and let cool.
Using kitchen scissors and working over a medium bowl, cut chiles into 1" rings, reserving seeds and discarding stems. Cover with 1/2 cup hot water; let soak, stirring occasionally, until chiles are soft and pliable, about 10 minutes.
Transfer chiles with seeds and soaking liquid to a blender. Add garlic, paprika, 1 Tbsp. salt, and pepper; pulse until a paste forms.
Combine pork and chile paste in a large bowl. Gently mix until just blended (do not overwork the meat).
Heat a large cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. Working in 2 batches, cook chorizo until cooked through, 7–8 minutes. (Be sure to let meat brown before turning and breaking it up into small pieces with a spoon or spatula.) Season with salt. DO AHEAD: Chorizo can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill. Rewarm before serving.


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Talk to Arsène Wenger or Arrigo Sacchi and they'll tell you that it was the Ajax of the early 70s that shaped their philosophy. The basic tenets are simple: pass and move when in possession, squeeze the play when out of it. As Sacchi's Milan cut through Italian preconceptions in the late 80s, and Italy were beaten by Valeriy Lobanovskyi's USSR in the semi-final of Euro 88, Marcello Lippi acknowledged that "everybody plays a pressing game now".
That has long been true at Barcelona, to where Rinus Michels and Johan Cruyff exported their philosophy 40 years ago. The Ajax theory has underpinned their thinking ever since, through the Dream Team days of Cruyff in the early 90s to the present side of Pep Guardiola who, of course, played for Cruyff. In the past two decades, though, that style of play pioneered by Viktor Maslov with Dynamo Kyiv and by Michels at Ajax in the mid-60s had become, at the highest level, a universal default, at least for proactive teams.
Even those, such as the British long-ball theorist Charles Reep, who favoured a more direct approach, began to press, recognising the value of winning the ball back high up the pitch. Essentially the difference between the Reepian and Maslovian models was in what was done with the ball when it was won. Reep wanted the ball played forward quickly, believing each additional pass was the potential source of error. Maslov and Michels trusted the technique of their sides and looked to treasure the ball. After all, when you're in possession it takes spectacular bad luck or incompetence to let the opposition score.
It is possible, of course, to be successful with a reactive side, as José Mourinho was with Internazionale last season, for instance. Sit deep, absorb pressure and strike on the counterattack. The sense, though, is that the truly great sides, the 10 or a dozen who live not only in the record books but in the folk memory of the game, must be proactive.
Which is not to say they may not be defensive. There is a tendency in England to believe that defending means retreating to the edge of the penalty area and digging in for a protracted siege, but there are few better ways of defending than holding the ball in the opposition half. Look at Ajax's three successive European Cup wins: in the latter two, in 1972 and 1973, they took early leads and essentially passed the game into submission. At the World Cup, as every team bar Chile bunkered down against Spain, they opted for a policy of control, knowing that at some point the goal would come. And Barça can do that as well; often they are so superior to their opponents that they can attack almost without fear, but in big games – as in the Champions League final two years ago – they have proved themselves more than capable of protecting a lead by protecting the ball – the "sterile domination" of which Wenger spoke.
Manchester United were made to look very ordinary in that final in Rome, yet the truth is that until Samuel Eto'o put Barça ahead after 10 minutes, they were the better side. Once Barça had the lead, they simply kept the ball. The bad news for United is that the stats suggest they're getting better and better at doing so. In 2006-07, according to Opta, Barcelona had on average 61.1% possession in Champions League games. Since then that has gone up each year: to 63.2 then to 65.6 then 70.6 and this season 73.3. United will have to get used to spending long periods without the ball and will know there is an even greater imperative than normal not to concede the opening goal.
The suggestion, in fact, is that Barça have grown a little more cautious than they were two years ago, scoring 2.25 goals per game as opposed to 2.46, and conceding 0.67 per game as opposed to 1.00. It may be that you can't prioritise both position and possession, and Barça have opted to control the latter, the result being that they end up playing a little deeper. Their control of games is greater than it was, but their goal threat is lessened. Their pass completion rate is staggering: 89% at home and 90% away. United manage 82% at home and 80.2% away.
That is partly related to United's style of play. They do play the occasional longer pass partly because, having the ball less than Barcelona, they counter-attack more frequently. Similarly, United are more effective when crossing the ball – their cross completion rate is 21.7% as opposed to 17.4%. Given Gerard Piqué's occasional disquiet under aerial balls – which may have been why Sir Alex Ferguson sold him in the first place – and the possibility that Javier Mascherano will play in central defence if Carles Puyol has to cover at left-back, it is safe to assume that crosses, whether from open play or dead balls, will be one of United's two major modes of attack.
The other will be the counter-attack. United have always been adept on the break, but they are unlikely to have played many games in which they have had to rely upon it so completely. Barca hog the ball like nobody before them. How best, then, to combat them?
The Practical Hour-Glass
The best way – from a theoretical point of view anyway – may be something so radical as to be unthinkable. Given Lionel Messi plays as a false nine, dropping deep from his centre-forward's position, there is an argument to be made that a side requires only one central defender – no markers and a spare man, effectively – and that Messi is best tracked by a defensive midfielder, with the full-backs slightly tucked in to deal with the incursions from wide of Pedro and David Villa. That suggests a 3-3-3-1 shape, although not the three centre-backs, wing-back plus a holder, played by Marcelo Bielsa's Chile in the World Cup, but something more like an hour-glass: wide three, narrow three, wide three, centre-forward.
Ferguson is a tinkerer, and often comes up with something unexpected for major games, but the chances of him using an untried formation and breaking up the Rio Ferdinand-Nemanja Vidic partnership are nil. So taking the 3-3-3-1 paradigm and pushing the Messi-tracking defensive midfielder to centre-back, we're left with a 4-2-3-1, which is the shape all three sides to have beaten Barcelona in league or Champions League this season – Hercules, Arsenal and Real Sociedad – have used. That said, 27 teams have lined up in a 4-2-3-1 against Barça this season, and while three have won, 20 have lost. (The worst formation to use, statistically, is straight 4-4-2, which has a seven defeats out of seven record). What United must do at all costs is protect that space in front of the two centre-backs; Xabi Alonso did not have the best game for Real Madrid in the first leg of the semi-final, but it was after he had been forced by Pepe's red card to abandon his position just in front of the back four that Messi, granted a couple of yards of acceleration room, produced the second goal that effectively settled the tie.
United may draw hope, even, from the performance of Shakhtar Donetsk against Barça. Luiz Adriano wasted three presentable chances with the score at either 0-0 or 1-0 in the Camp Nou, before Shakhtar's defensive inadequacies were exploited. And that's part of Barça's strength; Espanyol, also playing a 4-2-3-1, really troubled them in the league game at Nou Sarria this season, pressing high, effectively taking them on at their own game, and they ended up losing 5-1. When that is the prospect for those who challenge them, it's little wonder many sides prefer simply to retreat and accept a two- or three-goal beating. The ferocity and effectiveness of United's pressing in the early stages of the recent league game against Chelsea suggest United intend to try to drive Barça back.
The Keegan Protocol
It will come as little surprise that the player in the Champions League to have averaged the most passes per game is Xavi with 106.9 (Michael Carrick is United's best with 74.4 – the ninth most in the Champions League this season). He is also the player to have had the most touches – 121.27 per game (United don't have a player in the top 10) – and to have received the most passes – 98.27 (again, there is no United player in the top 10). Trying to stop him settling is an obvious priority – and may persuade Ferguson to use Darren Fletcher rather than Ryan Giggs in one of the central midfield positions.
What is perhaps a little more intriguing is that second in those three categories is Sergio Busquets. Claude Makélélé's influence at Stamford Bridge began to wane after Kevin Keegan, while Manchester City manager, showed that Chelsea could be disrupted by sitting a player – in his case Antoine Sibierski – on the midfield holder. His role was ostensibly defensive, but he was also a metronome setting the tempo for everything Chelsea did. Busquets is similar, the conduit through whom almost every Barcelona move must pass; he is vital to their rhythm, something demonstrated by how much less fluent Barça have appeared when Mascherano has been used at the back of midfield.
That means Wayne Rooney has a vital role from a defensive as well as an attacking point of view, and also is a strong argument in favour of the 4-4-1-1-cum-4-2-3-1 shape United used in both quarter-finals against Chelsea. The alternative is a 4-3-3 with Rooney as a lone central striker, but that would mean breaking up his blossoming partnership with Javier Hernández, and would deny United the Mexican's pace, which could be of supreme value if they end up playing a counterattacking game. The danger is that Rooney snapping around Busquets sounds like a red card waiting to happen, but it's hard to see any other way of disrupting the metronome.
Behind the full-backs
One of the outstanding memories of Sevilla's Uefa Cup final victory over Espanyol in 2007 was of the recklessness of Dani Alves's sorties, which left Christian Poulsen, nominally the holding midfielder, operating as an auxiliary right-back. That meant there was either space high on the left flank or in front of the two centre-backs, and it was from those areas that both Espanyol's goals resulted. Barça's way of dealing with the surges of Alves, who astonishingly lies fourth in the table of most touches in the opponent's half per game, is more effective, with Busquets dropping in to become effectively a third centre-back, and one of the centre-backs edging wide.
Logic suggests that the space behind Alves should be exploitable, but no side has managed that. It would be fascinating to see Ferguson leave Nani high up the pitch on that flank and try to hit him early, but more realistically Park Ji-Sung, perhaps the best defensive forward in the game will be deployed to track and perhaps check him. United's attacking chance comes on the other flank, where Antonio Valencia, who has returned from his broken leg with enhanced strength and stamina, can both drop off to help out in midfield, and run at whoever plays at left-back. Eric Abidal, Adriano and Maxwell are returning from illness or injury, so it may be that Puyol operates there. His performance at right-back in the 2009 final was clear enough evidence that he is not as clumsy as some would suggest, but neither is he a natural full-back.
For the most part, though, United are likely to be on the back foot. The cavalier style of tradition and stereotype was abandoned long ago but, even so, for United Saturday is likely to be a game of unusual containment.


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Transform that dowdy den into a sleek space that refreshes your mood every time you enter it with ideas inspired by Western Canada's largest residential design show. Featuring 200 exhibitors showcasing the newest furnishings and accessories, a highlight of this year's show is a gorgeous Alair laneway home, which will be auctioned with no minimum bid — it could be yours for well under market value.
Sept. 19 to 22 | Vancouver Convention Centre
Info: idswest.com
The Lumineers
The Colorado trio skyrocketed to mainstream success with little more than a handful of banjo tunes and a fiddle player found on Craigslist. But those exuberant, infectious folk songs — lead singer Wesley Schulz likens their sound to a "bunch of sailors on a ship, arm-in-arm" — shout "sing along" and should turn Deer Lake Park into a massive hootenanny. See story on C8.
Sept. 19, 6:15 p.m. | Deer Lake Park
Tickets: Sold out
Girl Rising
World Vision Canada presents a screening of Oscar nominee Richard Robbins' documentary, which tells the stories of nine girls who face arranged marriages, child slavery and other heartbreaking injustices, and the role education plays in changing their story. The film attracted an A-list cast of narrators, including Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep. The film company's Justin Reeves helms a discussion following the screening.
Sept. 19, 7 p.m. | Michael J. Fox Theatre
Info: girlrising.ca
Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
Spend an hour or all day with like-minded environmentalists helping clean up areas that border oceans, lakes, rivers and other waterways. Last year's top five litter items in Canada: 351,238 cigarette butts, 110,018 food wrappers, 71,200 plastic bags, 65,220 caps and lids, and 39,308 plastic beverage bottles. But crews also found false teeth, wedding dresses, and even a rickshaw.
Sept. 21 to 29 | Various locations
Info: shorelinecleanup.ca has details on dozens of crews to join around the Lower Mainland
The National
The Brooklyn-based quintet excels at making music that's downbeat but expansive. Led by Matt Berninger's literate, cerebral lyrics, sung in his signature sombre baritone, it's the ultimate ruminative rock (see also adult-alternative music; and the New Sincerity, the movement of our times). Scotland's urgent yet emotive Frightened Rabbit are worthy openers.
Sept. 22, doors 5 p.m. | PNE Amphitheatre
Tickets: $40 at ticketleader.ca
England's most buzzed-about band finally arrives here. The all-female neo-punk quartet captures attention not just for the depth and ferocity delivered on its debut Silence Yourself, but for its intensely focused, hardcore live shows. Watch them and then try to erase "You have no face! You have no face! You have! No face!" from your head.
Sept. 24, doors 8 p.m. | Biltmore Cabaret
Tickets: $16 at ticketweb.ca
The Orb
Twenty-five years later and there's still nothing that sounds like the Orb. An ever-changing band of collaborators that has included Lee Scratch Perry and David Gilmour, Dr. Alex Patterson's group invented the genre ambient house in the early '90s, corkscrewed their way through drum 'n' bass, techno, soundscape and very nearly had a pop song hit with Once More in 2001. Their latest platter, The Dream, returns to the sounds of their origins in late '80s acid house, dub and rave. Catch the dance floor hallucination in an intimate setting at Venue.
Sept. 25, doors 8 p.m. | Venue
Tickets: $25 venuelive.ca
Other Desert Cities
Jon Robin Baitz's emotional and intellectual play tells the story of a leftie daughter who has written a book exposing her wealthy, Republican parents' terrible secret: Their eldest son bombed a Vietnam-era military recruitment facility and then shot himself. Her book blames the parents and its publication will ruin them. Crackling dialogue and a surprising twist fuel this roiling family battle, a Broadway hit when it debuted in 2011.
Sept. 19 to Oct. 20 | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage
Tickets: $29-$65 at artsclub.com
The prolific and wildly wordy Irish playwright Enda Walsh's revisionary take on The Odyssey presents four men of different ages and professions, all competing for the hand of a modern Penelope. Strange thing is — they're all living in an empty swimming pool on their beloved's estate. Rumble Theatre dives in with a cast including Sean Devine, Alex Ferguson, Kyle Jespersen, Patrick Keating and Lindsay Winch as Penelope
Sept. 25 to Oct. 13 | The Cultch
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Neko Case
The one-time Vancouver-based folk noir singer-songwriter has just released the most outstanding album of her Grammy-nominated career, The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You. But the beautiful album came to her only after a serious bout of depression caused by lost loved ones and the loneliness of being single. "I wanted so bad not to be me," she sings on Where Did I Leave That Fire. But while the album is emotionally wrenching, it's also bold and empowered, potent, a force of nature. Midway through is a brash, a cappella marvel; some songs revel in such starkness and honesty it's as though you're inside her thought loops; still others feature her most intricate arrangements ever. Already heaped with international praise (Rolling Stone calls it "perfectly turned"), let's hope Neko Case can love herself now as she enters perhaps the most triumphant phase of her stellar career.
Sept. 20, 8 p.m. | Orpheum
Tickets: $28.50/$35.50 at ticketmaster.ca


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The ATLAS experiment is one of two general-purpose detectors located on the Large Hadron Collider. When the LHC runs at full energy and intensity, about 600 million proton-proton collisions take place every second inside the vast ATLAS detector.
The data the ATLAS detector records during these high-energy particle collisions allows scientists to study the properties of known particles, such as the Higgs boson, and search for new physics and phenomena. More than 3,000 scientists from 37 countries sift through this data in search of tiny signals that could answer some of mankind's biggest questions.
More than 700 physicists, engineers, and graduate students from US universities and national laboratories contribute to ATLAS. Supported by the Department of Energy's Office of Science and the National Science Foundation, US ATLAS contributes to all of the detector's systems. Resources from six US ATLAS computing centers are integrated into the global LHC computing network. US scientists develop and test vital parts of the cutting-edge data acquisition system, which converts raw data from the ATLAS detector into a digital form that physicists use to search for and measure fundamental particles and forces.


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September 29, 1918
Dear Mother and Father:
We have passed a very busy week since I wrote you last. The big French and American drive north and west of [censored] opened up a couple of days ago and is keeping all of us almost constantly on the go. We hear reports of large gains in territory and prisoners. We feel confident of its success.
This has been a great week for the Allies with the big victories in Palestine, Serbia and Bulgaria, Verdun and around St. Quentin. It begins to look certain now that there can be only one outcome to the war, the only question is when.
The papers we get here do not tell us of any German gains nor is there ever anything the least unfavorable to our side. Some of us are not blind enough to think that everything is so rosy all the time. If you can I wish you would send me the Sunday Tribune. We can get Tribunes here but there isn't anything to them. They are only a half a sheet and there is no Chicago news in it.
There is a German prison camp near here and of late it has constantly been in use. The prisoners are kept here only a short time and then sent back somewhere. I don't know whether any have gone to the States yet, I think not. When Alice was here there was a train load going out. They were willing to trade almost anything for tobacco. We are issued tobacco now, so having some on hand I traded it off to them for a couple of poor rings, a cigarette holder and a few little buttons and things. It is hard to send these things home now.
I understand that the Red Cross has small boxes that can be filled and sent to us at Christmas. I saw a little article in the paper to that effect. I know that all the boys will be glad to get a little something from home, no matter what it is. We are not really suffering from want of anything but anything that comes from home makes us feel better than anything that we get over here.
I have one pupil now. A young fellow from a wireless station nearby comes over a couple of times a week. He isn't exactly an advanced pupil but he plays fairly well. He just came in and gave me a melon and some tomatoes that he managed from someplace. They will be welcome additions to my supper.
The weather is miserable lately. It is quite cold and very damp. We have already had a number of pneumonia patients. A Red Cross man attached to our hospital died of it this morning.
I am still awaiting news from the YMCA. It is hardly time yet for word to get back from Paris. I hope to hear this week, though. I wish I knew where some of my musician friends are as I might be able to get some of them to to, too. I know there are several in the service somewhere. I think I shall try to find out where Carl Hakes is. I don't know whether he has been called or not. The newspaper talk about Steindel and other orchestra men looks rather foolish. I am sure a lot of them were pro-German before the U.S. got into it, but one would expect that as nearly the whole organization is German. Haven't all the unnaturalized Germans been interned?
We have a number of prisoners at the hospital. Some are sick and some we are using to carry litters, dig graves and other work. They seem happy enough to do their little work. I enclose a German medical card. I don't know whether it is attached to the men when they are found on the field or after they are in the hospital.
In addressing me it might be well to include "France" as there are Americans in Russia and possibly Italy and a letter might go the wrong route and have to go all around the world to get to me. It took sixteen days for a letter to come 150 miles so I don't know how long it would take from Siberia. If it hadn't been for that delay in the letter from Paris I would have been out with the concert troupe a month ago. I need some strings and I understand that it is almost impossible to get them in Paris. I think they could be sent from home alright as there are envelopes for them so they would not come under the head of packages. I would like two G's and 6 A's and 6 E's. I have had one wire E on for a year and a half now. What I need more than anything is to have my bow rehaired.
If I leave here I will arrange to have my mail forwarded. I think I will write to Loomis in Emporia and have him make up a few of the pictures he took when I was there last April. I will send him some money and have him send the pictures to you. Give my regards to all.
Much Love from
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These aren't "Happy Days" for castmembers from the 1970s hit TV show, who say CBS cheated them out of millions in merchandising payments.
Anson Williams (Potsie), Donnie Most (Ralph Malph), Marion Ross (Mrs. C.) and Erin Moran (Joanie) all say they were owed upwards of $10 million from merchandising revenues. Biut CBS considers them even after sending each a check for around $6,500.
"We agree that funds are owed to the actors and have been working with them for quite some time to resolve the issue," CBS said in a statement before sending out the checks.
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The network says now the cast has been paid in full, according to the actors' attorney, Jon Pfeiffer. He told the "Today" show the actors, as well as the estate of Tom Bosley, who played the Cunningham patriarch, have not cashed the checks.
"In our view the checks were issued as a PR move so that CBS could say, 'We paid the actors something,'" he said. "The checks will have no impact on the cast's resolve to obtain what they feel is owed to them, and will continue to pursue their case."
The network made millions selling items marketed with the actors' likenesses include T-shirts, board games and even gambling machines. The two biggest stars of the show, which ran from 1974 to 1984, Henry Winkler and Ron Howard, are not inviolved in the suit.


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Kenyan national to face elder abuse charges in Baltimore
Woman fled country after 2007 incident
A woman who police said attacked a 90-year-old Baltimore man she was supposed to be taking care of will return to the city to face charges after fleeing the country years ago.
In August of 2007, Anastacia Olouch, a Kenyan national, was indicted on multiple charges of assault, abuse of a vulnerable adult and reckless endangerment in the beating of Jaki Taylor's 90-year-old father, John, as he lay helpless in a bed in his home.
Jaki Taylor said she was angered that Olouch was able to elude authorities and leave the country without facing trial for her alleged crimes.
Police arrested the 59-year-old after seeing video from the security cameras Jaki Taylor installed in their home. In the video, the caretaker was in the process of changing the elderly man's diaper when she started hitting him. The victim was naked and couldn't defend himself or communicate.
"This woman came into our country, beat on my dad, and the system said it was OK to do that," Taylor said in 2007.
Police said right before Olouch was supposed to stand trial on Aug. 8, 2007, she ran.
Detectives from Baltimore's warrant task force began searching for her, but she was able to get on a plane and fly back to Kenya. For the past five years, the FBI and Baltimore police have been working to bring her back. She is expected back in Baltimore sometime Thursday.
John Taylor has since passed away, but that has not stopped Jaki Taylor from seeking justice for him. She said she has been on the case since the abuse came to light.
"This is a woman who sat in my dining room every day, supposedly reading the Bible. And then you look at that video and say, 'Oh my God. What God was she serving?' Because it's not the one I know," Taylor said.
Olouch was expected to leave Kenya Wednesday night.


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- Design t-shirts to save the world. Be delusional that it mattered.
- Finally finish camera strap designs.
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Upcoming Catt Butt and Pirate Chef sweaters, not sweat-shirts. This will be our first Kickstarter (we don't plan to bombard you). Let us know if you want in on this new woven wonder.
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Landscape - Landscape (1979)
Update 12/23/2009: Dean Baird was kind enough (in the comments below) to point out that Cherry Pop Records has reissued this debut album in the UK as a two-fer with Landscape's third LP, 1982's Manhattan Boogie Woogie. As this album is now in-print, I'm removing my share. Go buy it!
Back in 1981 there was a great video on MTV for a song by Landscape called "Norman Bates." They almost never showed it, but it was an excellent adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. I watched MTV when I was eleven all the time and I only saw it three or four times. I could never find the album it was from, From the Tea-Rooms of Mars... To the Hell-Holes of Uranus. In 1992, Mau Mau/Demon Records Ltd. in the UK finally released this LP on CD. As a bonus, they included their entire first LP, the self-titled Landscape. I found out about it and bought it back in 1995 or 1996.
That twofer CD is out-of-print now, but From the Tea-Rooms of Mars... To the Hell-Holes of Uranus was re-released on CD back in 2002 with a few singles-only bonus tracks, but without the Landscape LP.
Landscape came together in 1975. The band was always first to try something new musically, including early use of the Fairlight, one of the first computer-based samplers. The band was highly influenced by Kraftwerk, but their roots were in jazz. This first LP shows this much better than their second. There is an improvisational nature to the music, but the sound blends orchestral jazz with a New Wave electronic sound. With their second LP, drummer and band leader Richard James Burgess started singing. This brought the band a bit away from their jazz roots and more firmly into the New Romantic sound of the early 80s. They released one more LP and then disbanded in 1984. The Landscape LP is an instrumental gem.
I couldn't resist the urge to include the incredible music video for Landscape's "Norman Bates" here, even though it doesn't appear on their debut LP. Check it out:
I had to boost the level of the LP by 1.27dB to maximize the volume. I used WavGain to group normalize the .wav files before encoding to .mp3, preserving the track-to-track level differences.
Landscape - Landscape (1979)
1. Japan (3:09)
2. Lost in the Small Ads (4:01)
3. The Mechanical Bride (3:20)
4. Neddy Sindrum (3:35)
5. Kaptin Whorlix (3:42)
6. Sonja Henie (3:24)
7. Many's the Time (3:22)
8. Highly Suspicious (3:32)
9. Gotham City (3:33)
10. Wandsworth Plain (2:58)


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I am a big fan of the idea of admitting failure and trying to learn from it. I like ambitious projects with potentially huge payoffs, but a lot of risk of failure – they're just much more interesting than going at things incrementally. Besides, if you are going to fail, why not fail spectacularly? As I tell my grad students, if you are going to ride it all the way to the ground, you might as well dig a big hole when you get there. At least people will notice the hole, and try to figure out what the hell you were up to . . . of course, I am an academic (with tenure), so I have a pretty big cushion to land on these days.
All that said, I wonder about the utility of these admitting failure efforts that I see coming from groups like Engineers without Borders. I had the good fortune to catch up with Tom Murphy (or, as the twitterati know him, @viewfromthecave) the other day while he was here in DC, and we started talking about learning from failure. In the course of our conversation, we came around to two key problems. First, really admitting failure requires reframing the public image of development as an inherently do-no-harm effort, where just doing something is better than nothing. Second, given this first problem, when we really start talking about what failure means, even in the most constructive of settings, we will call the entire development enterprise into question. How do we avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
We have long allowed ourselves and our donor constituencies to believe that development work should never have bad outcomes – there is a pervasive belief (under challenge right now, at least by some) that, at worst, a failed project will not change anything – that is what development failure means. Of course, this is simply untrue – development efforts can make things much, much worse for people if they are poorly framed, designed, and implemented – a point I try to make in Delivering Development. This has a lot to do with the very imagery of a helpless and oppressed global poor the aid world relies upon to raise funds. When people see someone in a situation that difficult, they assume things could not get worse. There is no discussion of what is working in the lives of the poor, and therefore the public has little sense that there are fragile things in peoples' lives and livelihoods that should be protected as we bring new programs and projects to ground. As a result, development takes on the image of a low-risk enterprise in which social protection and "do no harm" safeguards are superfluous, as the worst we could do is leave people as they were.
Up against that worldview, admitting failure seems just fine – "hey, we didn't really move the needle with that project, but we'll figure out what we did wrong and try again" sounds much better than "we are incredibly sorry for utterly devastating the physical basis of your livelihoods and forcing many of you to abandon your farms because we ignored your existing land management practices." Unfortunately, admitting failure means a lot of the latter, and I am not at all convinced that anyone has the stomach to really wade into that.
This issue has to be combined with a concern for the scale of failure. It is all well and good to admit failure, even ugly failures, at the project level – stuff happens. A failed project can usually be traced to concrete causes that can then be addressed and remedied. But how can a bilateral aid agency, or even a multilateral agency, do the same for its programs? It is one thing for such huge organizations to talk about the failure of individual projects, and learn from them, but how can we talk about learning from entire programs that don't live up to expectations without attracting serious challenges to the aid budget that end up wrecking even successful programs, or preventing the scale-up of things that we know work? Put another way, how can we create an environment where learning from our activities is truly possible, and balance that environment with the political reality of aid agencies and NGOs that answer to (different) constituencies that expect only good things to happen?
This framing of global poverty, and the persistent need to justify aid budgets, puts everyone involved with development on a terrible tightrope – at least for those of us interested in evidence-based programming and policy. Just saying that admitting failure is good does not begin to get us to a world in which we can see that as more than a slogan. We will have to unwind decades of public relations and fundraising practice, and back out of some very long-standing and pervasive views of global poverty, before we have any real hope of bringing real learning to the fore of development practice.
Or, we could just give everyone tenure . . .


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George Clooney was processed and released by about 2:15 p.m. following his arrest at a protest outside the Embassy of Sudan Friday morning.
Police arrested the actor and 17 others, including Martin Luther King III. At about 10:45 a.m., Clooney allowed an officer to secure his hands with a zip tie. With his hands behind his back, he was led from the embassy on Massachusetts Avenue NW and put into the back of a police car.
The Secret Service confirmed that 18 protesters were arrested, including Clooney, King, NAACP President Ben Jealous, Rep Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.).
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Clooney's father, journalist Nick Clooney, was also arrested.
The protesters went to the embassy to demand immediate action to stop Sudan's blockage of food and other humanitarian aid.
"We're trying to bring attention to an ongoing emergency, one that's got about a six-week timetable before the rainy season starts and a lot of people are going to die from it," Clooney said after his release. "So our job right now is to try to bring attention to it. One of those ways was apparently to get arrested. I guess we're not allowed to hang out at the Sudanese Embassy."
Police asked the protesters to move, telling them they would be arrested after the third ignored request.
"I'm just trying to raise attention, because attention is the only way these things ever happen," Clooney said at the protest, prior to his arrest.
Sudan needs to "stop randomly killing its own people. Stop raping them and stop starving them. That's all we ask," he said. "At the very least, [they need] some humanitarian aid. Let your senators, let your congressmen, let your president know."
Half a million people in Sudan's Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile regions risk starvation because President Omar-al-Bashir is blocking food and supplies from reaching them.
"It's about to start raining, and once it starts raining there, thousands of people are going to die," Clooney said.
Once in custody, he and the others were taken to the Second District Police for processing. All 18 are being charged with crossing a police line.
After processing, ink from fingerprinting was visible on Clooney's thumb. He said it was his first arrest, "and let's hope it's my last."
"Paid a fine, it was fun," Clooney said. "We were all in a cell together. It was nice."
On Thursday, Clooney, along with John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, testified at a hearing titled Sudan and South Sudan: Independence and Insecurity, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building. That evening, Clooney attended a state dinner in honor of British Prime Minister David Cameron at the White House.
Clooney has traveled to the region six times in his attempt to bring attention to Darfur and Sudan. On his most recent trip, he and his film crew came under fire. He told the Today Show's Ann Curry on Wednesday that the rockets overhead were "close enough to feel it."


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§3183. Fugitives from State, Territory, or Possession into extraterritorial jurisdiction of United States
Whenever the executive authority of any State, Territory, District, or possession of the United States demands any American citizen or national as a fugitive from justice who has fled to a country in which the United States exercises extraterritorial jurisdiction, and produces a copy of an indictment found or an affidavit made before a magistrate of the demanding jurisdiction, charging the fugitive so demanded with having committed treason, felony, or other offense, certified as authentic by the Governor or chief magistrate of such demanding jurisdiction, or other person authorized to act, the officer or representative of the United States vested with judicial authority to whom the demand has been made shall cause such fugitive to be arrested and secured, and notify the executive authorities making such demand, or the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and shall cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear.
If no such agent shall appear within three months from the time of the arrest, the prisoner may be discharged.
The agent who receives the fugitive into his custody shall be empowered to transport him to the jurisdiction from which he has fled.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645,
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Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §662c (Mar. 22, 1934, ch. 73, §2,
Said section 662c was incorporated in this section and sections 752 and 3195 of this title.
Provision as to costs or expenses to be paid by the demanding authority were incorporated in section 3196 of this title.
Reference to the Philippine Islands was deleted as obsolete in view of the independence of the Commonwealth of the Philippines effective July 4, 1946.
The attention of Congress is directed to the probability that this section may be of little, if any, possible use in view of present world conditions.
Minor changes were made in phraseology.