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Disarming Britain
The other interesting item I picked up on recently was about the Disarming Britain series on Channel 4. Mike Amos Sipmson has blogged about the tv programmes here and comments on "how much responsibility the popular media should take for glamourising gangs and street violence. How much of the fear that apparently drives some young people to carry weapons is actually rooted in the image of young people painted by the media, and how much do programmes like these improve matters or do they actually make them worse?"
The reason however that Disarming Britain popped up in my inbox was through a social issues games list that highlighted the game, Dead Ends that had been developed to run alongside the programmes. Reid Bryant Kimball writes about it in his blog here and offers some interesting ways in which the game could be developed, although I agree with the comment that Aaron Hung makes that it possibly should be more about the reasons why young people join violent gangs rather than why young people die in gang violence.
What I find really fascinating though is all the thought that has gone into trying to have a dialogue and involve everyone in the conversation. There is space to upload video, talk on facebook and bebo, blog comments etc. It is quite an integrated site (from my amateurs perspective!) for using the technology available although I am left wondering how Channel 4 are intending (or not) to take forward the issues raised. What will they do with the information and how / can this have an impact in a wider sense on developing support and understanding of knive crime? However what a great resource for youth workers looking for more facts, information and ways in which to raise and discuss the issues with young people.

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The Homes and Community Agency (HCA) published new figures today revealing that the Mayor of…
The Crown Estate has submitted four planning applications as part of a £450 million redevelopment plan that will transform the St James's area in central London and create new jobs.
A major part of St James's will be rebuilt to create nearly 340,000 sq ft of mixed-use accommodation between Regent Street and Haymarket.
The lead scheme, known as St James's Market, will see the building of a commercial redevelopment which will create offices, retail and restaurant space behind preserved historic facades in central London.
The proposals mark the next stage of the Crown Estate investment programme for St James which comprises nearly 50 per cent of the buildings in the area.
James Cooksey, Head of St James's Portfolio said: "Our investment in St James's builds on the area's status by providing a first rate destination amenity space for those living, working and visiting the area.
"Together with our Gateway scheme and investment in Trafalgar House and British Columbia House, it demonstrates the major progress we're making in delivering on our St James's strategy."
Commenting on the proposals, Alastair Smart, Head of Development said: "St James's Market is perhaps the most significant development we have ever undertaken and builds on the two schemes currently on site as part of our investment in St James's and Regent Street to provide modern space for global businesses."
The St James's Market proposals also include three associated private residential and affordable housing schemes. These will create new homes totalling 60,000 ft2, ranging from one bedroom apartments to four bedroom family homes.
In March 2012 The Crown Estate consulted the local community and received strong levels of positive feedback on the proposals, particularly in relation to the improvements to the accommodation and quality of the public areas in St James's.


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[From Greg: A followup to Erica's guest post yesterday, about the performance of Winterreise she did in a small town. Here she tells us what she said before the performance, to introduce the piece to an audience that doesn't know classical music. This is one of the best introductions to a classical piece I've ever seen. An inspiration, in my view, for us all.]
Ed and I are so glad that you have joined us here today. I've had the opportunity to perform this incredible set of songs before but I was struck today, as my husband and I were driving out here through the incredibly beautiful countryside, by how uncanny it is to be able to perform them here, in this place. The landscape that I saw out our car window is exactly what I have pictured for this set of songs – the rolling hills, the icy streams, the forests…I love performing for this reason — every new place I perform in, every new audience gives me a distinctly unique gift and today is no exception.
We have been looking forward to performing this epic group of songs by the German composer, Franz Schubert, for a while now because for both of us, this is a very special piece of music — it's one of those pieces of art that seems to get better with age (and I do mean that in the many senses of the word). It's one of those pieces that when we first ran through them and then at every subsequent rehearsal we found ourselves saying at the end of every piece, "Wow. I just love that one." You can be sure that's what we'll be thinking when we get to the end of each of these songs this afternoon.
So what is it about Winterreise that is so different? Why do we love it so much and why has it moved so many others?
For me, this piece of music is more than just a set of songs that are loosely tied together. It is a haunting autobiographical sketch of one man's struggle to come to grips with life, love, and his own death. And when I say autobiographical, I truly mean it. Schubert didn't write the poems, a poet by the name of Wilhelm Muller did. But Schubert found these poems and was drawn to set them to music when he, in his early thirties, was secretly dealing with syphilis which would lead to his death in less than a year after completing the songs. But in spite of the circumstances, in spite of the subject, these songs apparently made him very happy. As was typical for him, one evening he gathered together with some friends of his, in a room probably much the same size as this, and performed the cycle for them both playing the piano and singing. The reception was mixed and it's not hard to see why. His friends couldn't understand why these dark songs excited Schubert so much. Upon hearing their puzzlement, Schubert apparently jumped up, saying, "These songs please me more than all the rest, and in time they will please you as well."
These are not just ordinary songs.
They are not ordinary because in them so many things come to life. Throughout the course of the song cycle you can listen for so many things, especially in the piano part:
- walking
- a weathervane wildly changing direction
- ice cracking
- a river flowing underneath ice
- a crow circling overhead
- one solitary leaf dangling precariously from a branch
- dogs barking
- tree branches rustling
- an organ grinder slowly churning out a melody
And that's just to name a few. So as you follow along with the translation in the program, keep your ears open for a musical translation of what you're reading. And afterwards, feel free to come up and let us know if you heard anything else!
Winterreise is truly a journey. Not just for the protagonist in the song cycle but for everyone involved with the performance. For a singer to sing for an hour and 15 minutes without a break is quite a feat. For the pianist to maintain the concentration necessary to highlight the singer is also a challenge. And we can't leave out you, the audience. Listening can be a challenge too. But the challenge puts us all in the same shoes as the main character of these songs. So if you find yourself drifting off here or there, that's ok, just go with it. If you find yourself exhausted, that's ok too. But we hope that you will also find something moving in these notes and words.
To preserve the storyline and drama of these songs we will be performing without any applause in between pieces. And now here we go – we'll see you at the end!
Erica Sipes is primarily a pianist but also a cellist who has a passion for bringing joy, personality, and fun into making, listening to, and performing classical music. She is a blogger, freelance pianist, collaborator/accompanist, closet cellist, occasional private teacher, addicted chamber musician, and performer who is almost always willing and eager to perform with anyone who promises to try and have fun in return. She also loves helping people figure out more efficient ways to practice, prepare for recitals, and to accomplish their musical goals, big and small.
Her blog can be found at http://ericaannsipes.


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University of Vermont
Lyman S. Rowell (1966 - 1970)
Lyman Rowell was designated to succeed Shannon McCune at a meeting of the trustees held on August 7, 1966. Rowell was the consummate insider, who had served UVM throughout his professional career and had twice before been interim president of the university.
Lyman S. Rowell was born in Colebrook, New Hampshire, on May 8, 1904. His family moved to Vermont when he was eight years old. After graduating from UVM in 1925, he joined the faculty and received a master's degree in zoology in 1930. He married Mae Tinkham '31. Their daughter, Marjorie, graduated from the university in 1955. Prior to being selected as UVM's nineteenth president, Rowell had established a reputation as an excellent teacher who had also performed a staggering variety of administrative tasks, including acting director of the Fleming Museum (1932–33), director of the summer session (1951–58), director of adult education (1955–56), dean of administration (1956–65), acting president (1958 and 1964), and vice president for administrative and student affairs (1965–66).
In retrospect, the trustees made an astute choice in selecting Rowell because he had the background, experience, and ability to provide firm leadership during the tumultuous period of student unrest that marked the Vietnam era. During Rowell's four-year term as president, he dealt with a range of campus protests against institutions such as ROTC (which was retained) and Kake Walk (which was abolished in 1969), as well as other socially controversial issues. He attempted to maintain open channels of communication with students and dissident groups in an effort to find common solutions. As he noted in his 1969 report, "This is a time when all men of reason and good will must work together to minimize confrontation and emphasize dialogue." In speaking to an alumni luncheon that same year, he stated, "There are few earthly things more splendid than a university — wherever a university stands — it stands and shines. . . . I cannot subscribe to the solitary emphasis that the university is run for or by any of its constituent groups, be it the alumni or students or faculty or a political division of the state. We must seek to secure the participation of all groups on the councils of the university."
Despite the campus turmoil, Rowell was able to guide UVM forward into a new era of growth. When he became president in 1966, construction projects valued at more than $10 million were under way, with additional projects totaling another $5 million on the drawing board. In 1968 the $8.7 million Given Medical Building and the $2 million Marsh Life Sciences Building were both dedicated. By this time UVM had expanded to a point that Rowell thought it important to assert, "We are still a small university and we do not plan to become a mammoth one." Yet, questions remained about what this meant and how large UVM should grow in the future.
In the spring of 1969, the trustees devoted major attention to the future development of the university. After reaffirming the traditional policy of admitting all qualified Vermonters, they authorized continued expansion of future enrollments to a total of nine thousand students by 1975. During Rowell's presidency, UVM increased its undergraduate enrollment from 4,200 to 5,800 students. The university began an innovative experimental college program for undergraduates and a new overseas study program in France, established the Lake Champlain Studies Center, and continued to expand its graduate commitments by adding doctoral programs in psychology and electrical engineering. In addition, the university helped to launch a new state educational television network, established two new endowed faculty chairs (the Lawrence and Sanders professorships), and saw its budget double from $15 million in 1965 to almost $30 million in 1970.
After President Rowell retired in 1970, he continued to live in the Burlington area. He was active in the community, serving Champlain College, the Medical Center Hospital, and the Vermont Historical Society. When he died at the age of eighty on September 26, 1984, one of his former students, Dr. Edward C. Andrews, called him "a great teacher and a great mentor." Lyman S. Rowell had served The University of Vermont faithfully in many different capacities over the course of nearly a half-century.
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North End Grill: Danny Meyer Does Battery Park City
North End Grill
104 North End Avenue. New York NY 10282 (at Vesey; map); 646-747-1600; northendgrillnyc.com
Service: Charming and professional
Setting: Spacious and modern
Compare It To: Riverpark, Colicchio and Sons
Must-Haves: Berkshire Pork Chop, Butterscotch Budino
Cost: Starters around $15, mains $18-30
Grade: A-
Those of us who love Danny Meyer's restaurants are accustomed to thinking of him as a man who creates welcoming spaces, with stories and personalities and an intimate sense of place. Restaurants very much tied to their neighborhoods, which you couldn't really pluck up and set down somewhere else. Restaurants you want to be at, not just eat at.
That's not quite the case at Meyer's newest, North End Grill, which he opened in January in Battery Park City. It's not a restaurant that has you fall in love; not the kind where you say "For our anniversary, we're going to North End Grill" and your friends gasp in jealousy. Instead, it's a place to appeal to just about anyone—whether "pork sandwich" or "cod throats" is what catches your eye. It's a modern, energetic space that could be in Chicago or Atlanta, where you don't need to dress in any particular way but everyone around you will be in a suit. It's designed for a sort of sophisticated mass appeal, a place where everyone would be comfortable, while the discerning still find it to their liking. And, with chef Floyd Cardoz (formerly of Tabla) running the kitchen, it's a very fine place to eat.
In such a business-heavy neighborhood, it makes sense that North End Grill does a mean lunch business, with a menu just as developed as their dinner version—this is not a place of simple sandwiches. So we chose to visit at lunch, which, should you be in the neighborhood, we highly recommend.
Cardoz's menu meanders from updated comfort foods (there's a bacon-shrimp burger, a grilled clam pizza) to the more upscale (foie gras and caviar both make an appearance in the appetizers) to the more contemporary (at every meal, there's a whole section of the menu devoted to eggs—coddled, scrambled, slow poached). That sense of playfulness comes through first in the onion rings, using three different flours, along with toasted cumin, cayenne, and ground pomegranate seeds. Our table was divided on whether we liked them; I liked the spicing, but if you like batter and bold crunch on your onion rings, these won't be quite what you're looking for.
We have a hard time not ordering anything called "throat"; the Cod Throats Meuniére ($15) are coated in semolina before they're fried, with a Meuniére sauce using browned butter, lime, and veal stock. Texturally, they didn't have quite the crisp we wanted, but the Meuniére was rich and satisfying and paired beautifully. On the simpler side, Roasted Beets with Orange Ricotta and Grilled Bread ($14) are made better than usual with their housemade ricotta, enlivened just enough by orange zest. On the Grilled Clam Pizza ($18), Freshly shucked clams meet additional clam juice, olive oil, garlic, and chili flakes atop this pizza. We wanted a little more salt and a little more flavor from the dough, but the toppings work beautifully.
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Eggs earn their own section of the menu. The Slow-Poached Egg with Paddlefish Caviar, Celery Leaf Salad and Bottarga ($15) would be my first re-order on this menu. A base of kabocha squash that's roasted, then smoked is surrounded by a salad of celery leaves, pickled onions, and bottarga. The egg has been cooked for an hour at 62°C, to a perfect molten consistency, and topped with paddlefish caviar. It all essentially ends up stirred together in a vibrant chorus of smoky squash, rich egg, and the punctuation of caviar—it's strange to look at once de-composed a bit, but all in one mouthful is the way to get it. We found its flavors more vibrant than those of the Coddled Egg with Peekytoe Crab, Bacon and Leeks ($15); the grits in the dish add substance and heft, but the incredibly desirable-sounding trio of crab, bacon, and leeks don't quite deliver in flavor.
So often we find mains and desserts lacking the creativity of earlier courses; but at North End Grill, it's the opposite. The Berkshire Pork Chop with White Beans and Chorizo ($29) was beautifully done, brined for "at least six hours," according to the chef, before it's grilled; the white beans are rich and well-cooked (with ham hocks) and then paired with escarole, finished with grated apple and horseradish. Cardoz may be known for seafood, but pork was the winner at our meal.
We appreciate a spirit of adventure when it comes to sandwiches, so one with oork neck—of a Mangalitsa pig from Mosefund—was right up our alley. It's marinated overnight in cider, garlic, and rosemary before it's grilled slowly on a wood grill, "up to an hour and a half," says Cardoz. That smokiness comes through even with all the other elements of the sandwich. On Sullivan Street bread, it's a union of two excellent things.
And that spirit of adventure carries through to the "burger"—the Bacon-Shrimp Burger with Spice-Dusted Fries ($18). We're generally skeptical of non-meat burgers, but this was fantastic. It's rock shrimp ground together with bacon, spiced up with aleppo pepper and garlic, and then coated in an egg wash and panko breadcrumbs before it's cooked on the plancha. It gets nicely crusty and is smartly paired with a homemade pretzel roll, with quick-pickled fennel to top it off. Our only maybe-complaint? The flavors are so intense that we couldn't imagine eating a whole one. But that just means you should get one and share it. (The fries are great, too.)
I admire any chef who puts some effort into creative vegetarian dishes, like the Roasted Mushrooms and Kale "Risoato" ($19)—risotto made with steel-cut oats (get it)? They're toasted with clove and cinnamon before they're cooked risotto-style with vegetable stock and white wine. It's finished with kale puree and topped with pan-roasted hen of the woods mushrooms and grated horseradish. It's almost breakfastlike in its creamy, soul-satisfying way, and the cinnamon and cloves contribute to that effect, but the kale flavor is vivid. As a proponent of savory oats and kale in anything, this is one I'd order again.
You skip dessert at the risk of extreme lemon meringue pie envy, when slice after slice is whisked by and deposited at every table but yours.
Pastry chef Alexandra Ray has a way, like Nancy Olson of Gramercy Tavern, of making classic desserts memorable. The Butterscotch Pot de Creme ($9) would be incredible even without the salted caramel swirled in, or the "Single Maltmallows," actually made with Scotch, on top. But with them, it's a dessert we might make a point of returning for. A Chocolate Pecan Layer Cake ($8) wasn't quite as exciting, but the Lemon Meringue Pie with Candied Almonds ($8), which really does seem to land on every table, was superb—it looks like the ratio's out of balance, a 3-inch crown of meringue on a maybe half-inch layer of filling, but that filling is so powerfully tart, the meringue so supremely airy, that it works perfectly.
Both Ray and Cardoz show real skill here, and both seem to have fun with what they're doing; that said, there's no particular point of view that seems to be showcased. It's hard to deny that it all feels a bit deliberate, a restaurant designed from the calculation of a neighborhood and its needs, not from any particular creative impulse. But the kitchen doesn't suffer a bit. It may feel a bit like a hotel restaurant, but to say it feels like a hotel restaurant is to acknowledge how excellent many New York hotel restaurants have become. There's plenty to recommend North End Grill; whether it's enough to lure you to Battery Park City is a different question.
More than anything, North End Grill reminds me of Riverpark—the work of a highly respected restaurant group (Craft), headed up by a fine chef from that group (Sisha Ortuzar), in a somewhat remote location and without any particular focus that you could make an elevator pitch out of. And in both locations, the food is more than impressive, more than strong enough to carry the restaurant on its virtues alone. Have I been back to Riverpark? Well... no. But I would, were I ever in the neighborhood. And there's a neighborhood ready for North End Grill.


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Mom: Daughter brought BB gun to school to show off
Says her daughter didn't threaten to shoot anyone
The fourth-grader who brought her parents' Airsoft gun to Mountain View Elementary school on Tuesday never threatened anyone, her mother said.
Kathy Martinez was livid when she heard that her 10-year-old daughter brought the family's pellet gun to Mountain View Elementary.
"Our Airsoft gun was missing. I looked into my garage and I couldn't find it."
When the principal informed Martinez that her daughter was found with a pellet gun, she went to the school and saw her gun in the hands of school officials.
"I was furious, I'm still mad," said Martinez. "What my daughter did, was not OK, by all means, it's not OK. My heart just sunk, because that's my daughter. I never thought she would do something like this."
But Martinez is defending her daughter against allegations that the fourth-grader threatened to shoot a classmate. Martinez said her daughter never threatened anyone, and her only intention was to show off the pellet gun to her classmates.
"(She) never hurt anybody. She's a good kid and she just did something stupid. All kids do stupid things from time to time," Martinez said.
The fourth-grader was suspended for three days and will return to school on Monday.


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From its origin as Nanotech Dubai, the event grow for this year 2019 edition to become the Nanotech Middle East 2019 Exhibition and Conference to be held in the state-of-the-art venue, Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre (DICEC) / Dubai World Trade centre - www.dwtc.com, from 3 to 5 November 2019.
The successful conclusion of the previous Nanotech Conference and Exhibition editions were rewarding. The quality and number of Nanotech academia professionals and industry specialists who attended the three days event proved to be very effective and added a positive and encouraging facet to the existing status of the event. The organising committee was determined and motivated to extend the event scale through taking the important move to bring the event to the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre, label it as the main Nanotech event in Middle East, North Africa, Africa and South Asia Region and aiming to make it as one of the main Nanotechnology event, Exhibition and Conference, globally.
Nanotech Middle East 2019 conference will present a very comprehensive scientific program highlighting the latest topics and covers all frontier topics in nanotechnology. The conference includes plenary lectures and invited talks by eminent personalities from around the world in addition to contributed papers both oral and poster presentations. It brings together leading scientists, researchers, engineers, practitioners, technology developers and policy makers in nanotechnology to exchange information on their latest research progress, innovation and business opportunities. It's among the most important events in terms of international regulatory policies and it's opened to the participation of private companies. It's unique venue for companies to promote equipment and technology.
The Nanotech Middle East 2019 exhibition is the gateway to the emerging and far reaching nanotechnology market in the MENASA region. A wide-ranging products, equipment and services will be displayed. A number of practical and interactive activities will run alongside the exhibition halls.
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Lebanon crash injures 1
Truck, vehicle collide
A LifeFlight of Maine helicopter took a woman to Maine Maine Medical Center in Portland after a two-vehicle crash on Carl Broggi Highway in Lebanon on Thursday.
The woman's injuries were serious but not life-threatening, Lebanon Rescue Assistant Chief Jason Cole said in a release.
She was driving a 1996 GMC Jimmy east on the highway and stopped to turn into Colonial Mobile Home Park when her vehicle was struck in the rear by a 2002 Frieghtliner truck. The driver was blinded by the sun, Cole said.
A 2007 Mazda sport utility vehicle that was traveling west tried to avoid the vehicles and went off the road into a snow bank.
The driver of the GMC had to be extricated from her vehicle after the crash, which was reported 3:25 p.m., Cole said. Lebanon Ambulance took her to Goodall Hospital in Sanford, where she was later picked up by a LifeFlight helicopter.
The driver of the SUV suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.H. She was wearing a seat belt and her two children were in child seats and did not suffer injuries, Cole said.
Both the GMC and the truck were destroyed in the crash while the SUV had minor damage.
The highway was closed for about two hours after the crash and traffic was rerouted, Cole said.
The Rochester Fire Department, a North Berwick ambulance, advanced life support units from Frisbie Memorial Hospital and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection also responded to the crash.


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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Wordless Wednesday
7 comments:
- SarahMerritt said...
OH sweet Lola I think you look like your daddy! She is a doll and I am sure you are all having fun with the pink and frilly things that come with girls!
- April 7, 2010 at 4:00 PM
- Shelly said...
precious little angel!
- April 7, 2010 at 4:03 PM
- Kara said...
10 weeks...no way! man that is too fast! She looks so cute, wish I could come squeeze her!
- April 7, 2010 at 4:57 PM
- Kenzie said...
AHHHHH! I LOVE this picture and the baby legs. SO adorable! :) Thanks for being so excited for us too... we are so thankful that everything looks good so far. Praise God! On a different note, I can't believe how much she looks like the boys and especially Shane. Definitely y'alls baby! Beautiful.
- April 7, 2010 at 9:24 PM
- Julie said...
AWWW!! She's got (baby)leggs....she knows how to use them...bwahahahahaha!
- April 8, 2010 at 2:40 PM
- Amanda Hoyt said...
so so precious!
I'm so glad she's sleeping on her back. No trouble with that I guess?
- April 8, 2010 at 10:17 PM
- momma23 said...
Love the Baby legs! Where did you get them?
- April 13, 2010 at 1:37 PM


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Although it appears that Obama may be dumping the public option (for now) many of his supporters both in and out of government are still pushing for a taxpayer funded public option. Allegedly this public option would be a Government Sponsored Enterprise, after the fashion of such success stories as FNME or FDMC. It is called "alleged" because no part of the upcoming healthcare bill that will eventually be voted on by either the House or the Senate has actually been finalized.
On a libertarian internet site someone suggested that he would support the public option – including a 15% tax increase – in exchange for the private option actually being private.
The private system would be completely private. It would not be regulated in any way. It would be free of all FDA regulations, DEA regulations, and medical licensing. Anybody can be a healthcare practitioner, and can prescribe any medication. But any prescription would be considered nothing more than advice since no medications would be controlled.
So as an experiment, this idea was run by several supporters of socialist medicine.
Theoretically there should be no reason for them to oppose it. They get everything they allegedly want – full government run medicine with all the controls, paid for by those who do not want government medicine. They get free healthcare paid for by their opponents. They get all the controls they say people need. They get all the licencing, all the regulations, and all the restrictions they say people need. And they get to have those who prefer a private system pay for their public system.
The suggestion was greeted with horror.
For some reason, even though the suggestion gave them everything they say they want, they didn't want it.
They were obsessed with the question of how someone in the private system would know which medicines to take. It was suggested that people in the private system would go to any fraud who claims to be a doctor, and only wanted the medicinal freedom in order to "pop pills". Such arguments would indicate that advocates of socialist medicine need the government to prevent them from going to frauds and would need the government in order to not "pop pills".
It seems that the argument in favor of Socialist medicine is more than simply an attempt by the advocates of that system to have "free" healthcare. There is for some strange reason a desire to ensure that everyone else is in a controlled and regulated system as well, a desire to control and regulate everyone else.
Crossposted from Ayn R. Key's blog


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Considering Werner Herzog's fascination with humankind's relationship to the natural world, you would assume his latest documentary "Into the Abyss" has an oceanic or geological thrust. For his most recent nonfiction films, the German director traveled to Alaska to profile a doomed bear-lover ("Grizzly Man"); to Antarctica to interview scientists in their adopted habitat ("Encounters at the End of the World"); and to France to photograph Paleolithic art in 3-D ("Cave of Forgotten Dreams"). For this project, he ventured into equally forbidding and trenchant territory—the human chasm that is capital punishment as practiced by the State of Texas.
"Into the Abyss" centers on Michael Perry, a 28-year-old death-row inmate convicted for a triple homicide committed in the town of Conroe, Texas when he was a teenager. Herzog does not concern himself with guilt or innocence; he is not out to reinvestigate the crime or assess the merits of the legal case against Perry. Rather, with his trademark serendipity, tenacity and nose for the odd and offbeat, Herzog examines the conditions necessary for the murders and their aftermath. On July 1, 2010, eight days following Herzog's sole interview with him, Perry was put to death by means of lethal injection.
Without offering arguments, Herzog declares his opposition to capital punishment early on in the movie when he tells Perry, "I think human beings should not be executed." This typically forthright statement underscores Herzog's brilliance as a documentarian. Unlike most nonfiction filmmakers, he does not feign objectivity. He makes his views known and brings them into play honestly so they don't skew his analysis. By not pretending to filter out his own thoughts and opinions, while also eschewing judgment, Herzog is able to get at truths—to reveal what's going on without obscuring the complexity of the issue he is addressing and without closing himself and his audience off to discovery.
The gravity of the subject matter, along with Herzog's default mode of disarming frankness, gives "Into the Abyss" an appropriately somber tone. Partly because he chooses not to narrate, the deadpan irony he often deploys is muted, which isn't to say the movie is totally humorless or that Herzog's radar for wackiness has disappeared. He exhibits respectful sensitivity but it is possible to discern brief flashes of skeptical bemusement. As ever, he moves effortlessly between detailed anthropological investigation and imaginative, philosophical speculation.
His ability to put interviewees at ease is shown in the movie's prologue, which consists of a discussion with a Death House chaplain named Richard Lopez. We're taken aback when Herzog asks the reverend point blank, "Why does God allow capital punishment?" Typically, that question is posed in relation to the incipient crime, about a "senseless tragedy" that a death sentence is intended to somehow balance out. To his credit, Lopez responds "I don't know." As the interview proceeds, Lopez talks about golf and squirrels, and eventually starts to cry as Herzog invites him to reflect on his experience consoling the condemned.
For multiple reasons, presumably including logistical constraints, Herzog doesn't have similar success with Perry. Perry is already in a hugely vulnerable position as he sits on death row trying to fathom his fate. It is as if there is no point in revealing anything more, in letting his facade be broken down any further. His bewildered visage and the anxiety in his voice are more memorable than any words he utters during the jailhouse interview. He makes lukewarm mention of his Christian faith but almost a decade after the crime, appears to be in shock—unable or unwilling to take responsibility. His fear is all consuming.
Before we first encounter Perry, Herzog's camera has slowly studied the rooms at the Huntsville facility where he will die. Later, a police lieutenant offers a general description of the crime and we visit various relevant locations. It is difficult to piece together a coherent account of what transpired, other than that the perpetrators' drug-and-alcohol-fueled desire to steal a car led to the murders. Without discounting its severity, Herzog does not try to clarify the forensic circumstances. He is more interested in talking with the victims' family members, specifically to the woman whose mother and brother were killed and to an affectless, local man whose younger brother was the third casualty. Trawling for insight and gravitating toward anyone who might provide it, Herzog poses broad, open-ended questions such as "Why did they die?" No satisfying answers are forthcoming,
Herzog interviews an illiterate acquaintance of Perry and his accomplice Jason Burkett as well as Burkett himself, who is serving a life sentence. The director also videotapes a conversation with Burkett's father, in jail for unrelated crimes. Prodded to explain how his son came to such a bleak juncture, the elder Burkett laments his own past as a drug-user and felon. In a section of the film titled "A Glimmer of Hope," Herzog sits down with Jason Burkett's wife, Melyssa Thompson-Burkett, whom he wed while behind bars. Although it is not uncommon for prisoners to wed while incarcerated—and without the benefit of conjugal rights—it is fascinating to watch Melyssa explain her relationship with Burkett, her belief in his innocence, and about the child she is carrying. Their tabloid-worthy romance and the child that it has mysteriously produced do constitute some grounds for optimism. Still, as Herzog surely notices, its bizarre aura puts the absurd, surreal nature of the entire situation into relief. The deaths of three innocent people, plus the lethal punishment the state will carry out in the name of justice, cannot be offset by one marriage and one child (evidently conceived via artificial insemination).
Herzog moves beyond this one case, to reveal the extent of the damage involved in the film's final chapter, entitled "The Protocol of Death" during which the director interviews Fred Allen, a former Captain of the Texas Death House. Allen quit his job, thereby forsaking his pension, after overseeing 120 executions. His testimony about the toll the job exacted concludes with a simple claim, "Nobody has the right to take another life." The hole left in Allen is one of many figurative and literal voids encountered throughout the documentary. They include the lake in which a victim's car was scuttled, the green gurney inside the execution chamber, the demise of Perry (which the viewer half expects to be depicted on screen, but which is only described by a witness), the society in which the homicides were committed, and the culture of death that allows capital punishment to be pursued with such comparative zeal.
Werner Herzog has a well-deserved reputation for tackling difficult, risky subjects. It took courage to enter the Lone Star State and wade into the mire of capital punishment. He does not resort to sentimentality or rail against the practice (or the murders); he respects all those concerned. He does not bash the culture or wonder aloud about how the death penalty jibes with its dominant Christian ethos. His goal is to understand, and yet beyond a certain point comprehension is clearly futile. Those who come to the movie sincerely opposed to the death penalty won't find much to debate, nor will advocates.
In other words, "Into the Abyss" is unlikely to change many hearts or minds on either side of the issue. We are left at the edge of both reason and emotion, staring into the abyss that is capital punishment. It is scary and depressing to be near the brink of the unfathomable. Whether you step forward toward the darkness armed with faith and hope or remain still, hollow and resigned to injustice, is beyond the ken of even Werner Herzog.
"Into the Abyss" indeed documents a massive 'geological' impediment to civilization, i.e. the inability of modern self-appointed moralists to confront evil and deal with it. Be assured that any civilization that comes to actually utter en mass "I believe human beings should not be executed" will join the many cultures and civilizations that have gone before us and disappeared into the abyss of history, remembered if at all in museums of cultural anthropology.
Chris, it is curious you fault Texas for "allowing" Perry to live for ten years and spending millions on "maintaining" him. Would you deny him his Constitutional right to appeal his case? And surely you know that life in prison is actually cheaper than keeping a prisoner on death row. If your concerned about the taxpayer, then why spend millions on capital punishment?
I know you will not be convinced by the these facts, and I'm not interested in an extended argument, but your tendentious arguments call out for correction.
Thank you John McCarthy. The review made me interested in the film, and gave me reasons to want to see it.
Herzog's foundation for being against the death penalty is based upon the Holocaust. He was born in Germany in 1942.
The Nazis leadership and government programs were horrendous with mass killings of innocents, including genocide, mass incarcerations, horrendous medical experiements, and on and on and on.
Is Herzog apposed to all governments, all government leaders, all incarcerations, all medical treatments, etc, because the Nazi's were so horrendous in all of those areas?
Of course not. That would be stupid, just as Herzog's foundation of death penalty opposition is, based upon that same foundation.
The US executes very bad people for doing very bad things. The Nazis executed innocent people for being innocent, be those innocent Jews or any other group the Nazis didn't like.
Herzog asks Death House chaplain Richard Lopez "Why does God allow capital punishment?" Lopez responds "I don't know."
Oddly, author John McCarthy says Lopez' response is "To his credit".
As God is a just God, we know the answer is justice. Mr. McCarthy, why is it to Lopez' credit that he doesn't know that? Curious.
This is a very basic biblical/theological topic:
Even Quaker biblical scholar Dr. Gervas A. Carey gets it:
" . . . the decree of Genesis 9:5-6 is equally enduring and cannot be separated from the other pledges and instructions of its immediate context, Genesis 8:20-9:17; . . . that is true unless specific Biblical authority can be cited for the deletion, of which there appears to be none. It seems strange that any opponents of capital punishment who professes to recognize the authority of the Bible either overlook or disregard the divine decree in this covenant with Noah; . . . capital punishment should be recognized . . . as the divinely instituted penalty for murder; The basis of this decree . . . is as enduring as God; . . . murder not only deprives a man of a portion of his earthly life . . . it is a further sin against him as a creature made in the image of God and against God Himself whose image the murderer does not respect." "A Bible Study" (p. 111-113) Essays on the Death Penalty, T. Robert Ingram, ed., St. Thomas Press, Houston, 1963, 1992.
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God/Jesus: 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'Whoever curses father or mother must certainly be put to death.' Matthew 15:4 full context (NAB) www.usccb.org/nab/bible/matthew/matthew15.htm
Saint (& Pope) Pius V, "The just use of (executions), far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this (Fifth) Commandment which prohibits murder." "The Roman Catechism of the Council of Trent" (1566).
Pope Pius XII: "When it is a question of the execution of a man condemned to death it is then reserved to the public power to deprive the condemned of the benefit of life, in expiation of his fault, when already, by his fault, he has dispossessed himself of the right to live." 9/14/52.
"All interpretations, contrary to the biblical support of capital punishment, are false. Interpreters ought to listen to the Bible's own agenda, rather than to squeeze from it implications for their own agenda. As the ancient rabbis taught, "Do not seek to be more righteous than your Creator." (Ecclesiastes Rabbah 7.33.). Part of Synopsis of Professor Lloyd R. Bailey's book Capital Punishment: What the Bible Says, Abingdon Press, 1987.
Again, Quaker biblical scholar Dr. Gervas A. Carey agrees with Saints Augustine and Aquinas, that executions represent mercy to the wrongdoer: ". . . a secondary measure of the love of God may be said to appear. For capital punishment provides the murderer with incentive to repentance which the ordinary man does not have, that is a definite date on which he is to meet his God. It is as if God thus providentially granted him a special inducement to repentance out of consideration of the enormity of his crime . . . the law grants to the condemned an opportunity which he did not grant to his victim, the opportunity to prepare to meet his God. Even divine justice here may be said to be tempered with mercy." (p. 116). "A Bible Study" (p. 111-113) Essays on the Death Penalty, T. Robert Ingram, ed., St. Thomas Press, Houston, 1963, 1992.
Fred Allen, a former Captain of the Texas Death House states:"Nobody has the right to take another life."
Really? How odd. The moral foundations for killing an unjust aggressor, in defense of one self or defense of others, is well established, as is killing in a just war and killing by execution, as an act of justice in taking the lives of those who have committed horrendous crimes. There are 200 years of Catholic and other Christian biblical and theological teachings supportive of those moral killings.
I love McCarthy's take on Texas justice: "the culture of death that allows capital punishment to be pursued with such comparative zeal."
Texas has executed 0.8% of her murderers since 1973, after an average of 11 years of appellate review, prior to execution.
0.8%. Comparative zeal?
In interviews, not only does Herzog "wonder aloud about how the death penalty jibes with its dominant Christian ethos", he boldy states " I'm pretty certain that Jesus would not have been an advocate of capital punishment.", musing "I probably know the Bible better than my peers."
Which, I observe, means very little.
I should have been "2000" years, not "200".


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Romney said in a highly anticipated speech in Jerusalem that the combination of vehement hatred of Israel and the development of nuclear weapons made Iran a major threat that both nations would stand up to.
It would be foolish not to take Iran's leaders at their word," Romney said. "They are, after all, the product of a radical theocracy.
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Romney said the United States would stand firmly behind Israel amid the overall turmoil in the Middle East and predicted a more hands-off stance by Washington would only lead to tragedy.
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How about borrowing something from a totally different genre of gaming, like my wife's Wii Zumba? When she's performing within 90% of max, her character is highlighted in green. When she's between 60% and 90%, shades of yellow, and below 60%, shades of red. There's absolutely no reason a similar, personal system couldn't be implemented to let each individual player know, based on the minimum dps requirements for the fight, how they're individually performing. That provides the feedback you need without the immediate consequence of creating a hostile environment.This is a pretty cool idea. A simple green/yellow/red meter that was boss-dependent and displayed your personal DPS for that boss. If all the DPS stay in yellow or green for the entire fight, the boss will die before the enrage.
Of course, the one thing that might cause issues here is DPS during the execute phase. Most DPS classes see their boss damage jump upwards during the last 20% or so. Accounting for that might be a little tricky. But not insurmountable.
You could make this pretty complicated if you wanted to. If you know the fight, you could draw a damage curve that accounts for phase changes, interruptions, and execute phase. Then just draw the players total damage as time goes on and compare to the curve to determine if the player is ahead of schedule or falling behind.
Still, it's a pretty cool idea, and be enough feedback without needing exact numbers, or revealing performance to everyone. Or maybe the red/yellow/green light should be revealed to everyone. After all, it's not players imposing arbitrary and unrealistic standards on each other. It's the game revealing the basic performance.


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Thank you for stopping by the Weather Watch 12 blog! Muggy weather is here! Stay hydrated and get set to sweat. In today's blog we discuss the very humid conditions, talk fog and look ahead to on and off rain chances in the forecast.
Let's start with a quick outline of the upcoming weather. Remember 'June Gloom', where fog wore out it's welcome to start summer? It's back, only now we will call it 'Fogust'. Look for periods of fog through Monday, with areas near the lake seeing the
Very humid conditions will accompany the warmer stretch of weather we are currently in. And on and off rain chances mean keeping an umbrella on standby through the middle of next week.
The first rain chance ahead of us arrives Saturday afternoon. Look for a band of showers and thunderstorms to progress northeast across our area. The rain should lose some of its punch as it nears, but heavy downpours are possible.
Futurecast below shows scattered showers/t-storms around 3pm. Western areas(Walworth, Jefferson county) could see rain arrive by early afternoon. Rain totals within thunderstorms may quickly top 1".
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Just how uncomfortable is a dew point of 70 or higher? The chart below should help. Anytime the dew point reaches 60 most people say it feels muggy. By 70, it's a tropical feel. A tropical feel looks to hang around through at least next Tuesday! At times the dew point may hit 75 making it feel oppressive.
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The Wolf Pack is making more than trouble -- they're making serious money. The worldwide box office total of "The Hangover Part II" grew to $488.7 million this weekend, making it the world's highest-grossing R-rated comedy of all time, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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The Warner Bros.' flick has earned $256 million overseas and $232.7 million domestically, according to The Wrap. Internationally, it has been most popular in the United Kingdom ($48 million), Germany ($31.5 million) and Australia ($30.4), according to Hollywood Reporter.
And the international hangover isn't over yet; the film has yet to open in Spain and Japan, Hollywood Reporter wrote.
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A newly found fossil skull in Chad has confounded the proponents of the theory of evolution. Darwinist scientists confess that this fossil has rocked the very foundations of the theory of evolution. The fairy tale of "an evolutionary chain stretching from ape to man" has once again collapsed.
This new ape fossil found in Chad turned all evolutionary theses upside down.
"When I went to medical school in 1963, human evolution looked like a ladder." he [Bernard Wood] says. The ladder stepped from monkey to man through a progression of intermediates, each slightly less ape-like than the last. Now human evolution looks like a bush. We have a menagerie of fossil hominids... How they are related to each other and which, if any of them, are human forebears is still debated. (3)
Whatever the outcome, the skull shows, once and for all, that the old idea of a 'missing link' is bunk... It should now be quite plain that the very idea of the missing link, always shaky, is now completely untenable. (emphasis added) (4)
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Filed under: Capitalism, Economy, Election 2012, Freedom, Politics | Tags: Jobs Speech or Campaign Speech?, President Barack Obama, Speaker John Boehner
President Obama sent a message to Congress. He would like to make a televised address to a joint session of the House and the Senate, on Wednesday, September 1, at 8:00 p.m. The President may ask, but not order. Presidents are usually invited, and do not demand a time slot. Congress is a co-equal branch of government, a fact that the President sometimes forgets. A speech to a joint session of Congress is an unusual occurrence, usually reserved for the State of the Union, and the attack on America on 9/11.
Surely it is merely a coincidence that the Republicans have a major debate on that day and at that time. Not even reporters at the Washington Post could swallow that one, and were embarrassed that Jay Carney was sent out to claim coincidence. It was a clumsy political move, and a mistake.
Speaker Boehner responded for the House of Representatives that he would be washing his hair at that particular time. (Well, no, that's not what Speaker Boehner said. I lied) He returned a very polite letter explaining why Wednesday was not possible — first time Congress is in session with votes at 6:30 that evening, no time, requires 3 hours for a joint session speech, need full security sweep before receiving a president, etc. etc. We look forward to hearing your ideas, how about Thursday?
White House has said Thursday's fine, and will get done before the game. In the past 2½ years Obama has given over 200 speeches on jobs and the economy. Blogger Ed Morrissey noted that Obama previewed Obama's blockbuster speech in an interview with NBC's Brian Williams:
Williams: Let's talk about another topic that's part of the firmament here and everywhere. And that's the economy. The New York Times said this weekend, "President Obama has another new plan on the economy. Now would be a good time to find out about it." Do you have anything new on the economy? And while you've been away, we had a horrible GDP number last month.
Obama: Well, look, we–we anticipated that the recovery was slowing. The economy is still growing, but it's not growing as fast as it needs to. I've got things right now in–before Congress that we should move immediately. And I've said so before I went on vacation, and I'll keep on saying when I–now that I'm back.
This interview aired on Sunday Aug. 29, 2010. Over at the Wall Street Journal, James Taranto said that Obama is a one-man echo chamber. He keeps echoing the same ideas over and over. Taranto notes further that "the so-called mainstream media is engaged in a bizarre propaganda effort, aimed not so much at persuading voters to agree with Obama but at convincing politicians that voters agree with Obama.
President Obama has described the policies he plans to offer in his speech as "bipartisan ideas that ought to be the kind of proposals that everyone can get behind." One of them is the employer tax credit for those who hire. Both Democrats and Republicans oppose this as simply unworkable. Business will hire when there is enough demand for their product that they need more people. Economists point out that the cost of hiring a new full-time worker often costs more than the tax credit is worth.
He will propose his "infrastructure bank," and idea that will not go far in the House. The President does not seem to understand infrastructure. Projects will often take years to come to fruition, with planning, environmental reviews, funding, and politics. "Construction" workers laid off by the housing crisis carpenters, electricians, plumbers aren't the same people as the ironworkers who build high rises, nor the construction workers who build highways and bridges. Union workers don't get to move from trade to trade.
Obama's devotion to big government leads him to think that government programs can create jobs, when the problem is getting government out of the way. Business, over and over, has told the administration that government programs are the problem, but that is not what Obama wants to hear.
Republicans are readying a plan of their own. They ave been investigating and inventorying the regulatory burdens for job creators in the private sector. They will attempt to repeal job-destroying regulations and to lift the cloud of uncertainty hanging over the business community. They also want to tackle fundamental and structural reform of the rule-making system. Here is a memo from Majority Leader Eric Cantor outlining the ten most job-destroying regulations that will create even more job losses for American workers.
You might want to let your congressmen know that you want these execrable and foolish regulations repealed.
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My congressman is Jay Inslee and he makes as much sense as Jay Carney. I don't bother writing/calling Inslee's office, because he's brain dead.
Why don't we screw the tax credits for new hires, and rid ourselves of all the government regulations. the govt. needs to go away and let the private sector take over the economy.


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Mexican millionaire tied to money scheme is dead
A Mexican businessman embroiled in a high-profile fight in San Antonio over the government's seizure of more than $4 million of his assets has died.
Jose Villarreal Saldivar, was declared dead Dec. 22 at University Hospital, two days after police went to his home in The Dominion in response to reports of a possible suicide attempt.
The medical examiner has not made a ruling yet on his death.
"He was alone, and apparently fell and hit his head on a marble table," said one of his lawyers, Jose Garza, before referring a reporter to other attorneys in the case.
Numerous attempts to reach Villarreal's lead lawyer, Rolando Rios, were unsuccessful.
A police report said Villarreal, who was a dual citizen, called a security guard at The Dominion about 12:06 a.m. on Dec. 20 and summoned the guard to his home. There, Villarreal told the guard he wanted to kill himself, or asked if the guard would kill him, the report said.
Depressed and apparently intoxicated, Villarreal told the guard "he wanted his wife to come back home," the report said.
The guard called police, who later could not get anyone to answer the door or the phone. A decision was made to not break in the door, and Villarreal apparently was later transferred to the hospital.
The report said police had previously been to the home on a domestic disturbance call.
Villarreal's death comes as he battled the Texas Attorney General's Office and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration over the seizure in September of more than $4 million.
The agencies said in affidavits that they suspected him of being involved in money laundering. Prosecutors also said he faced potential criminal charges.
"He had not been indicted at the time of his death," Bexar County First Assistant District Attorney Cliff Herberg said.Villarreal and his lawyers previously had said he ran a propane company in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, that employs 700, and grosses about $40 million a year.
They also said he brought some of his money across the border from Ciudad Victoria — declaring it at the border — as he permanently relocated his family to San Antonio to escape the violence and turmoil in Mexico.
Villarreal fought the allegations and seizure in state and federal court, where he filed a lawsuit and sought a court order to get his money back. Villarreal testified at a hearing Nov. 19 in relation to the request, but struggled on the stand.
Chief U.S. District Judge Fred Biery at times pressed Villarreal when he wasn't consistent in his answers.
The judge put off a ruling until it was first established whether Biery has jurisdiction in the case.
Roland Garcia, another Villarreal lawyer, said Villarreal's wife also is a named party, and Villarreal's estate still can proceed in the court fight.


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Britney won't be the only pop star at the judges' table on the next season of "The X Factor."
Disney teen queen Demi Lovato is joining the Fox talent show, too, to round out its panel of four judges.
Fox finally confirmed that Lovato and Britney Spears would join the talent show's judges' panel at Fox's Upfronts presentation in New York Monday, according to Billboard.
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"Well, we delivered," creator Simon Cowell said, adding that "rumors are one thing, but delivery is something else."
Lovato gushed about her new gig. "I'm totally stoked to be here because of not only the opportunity to be a judge here but the presence of you guys is just an honor to be standing next to you," she said.
Spears added that she too was excited for the opportunity. "It's gonna be so much fun and so different from anything I've ever done," she said, according to Billboard. "I'm ready to find the true star."
The pop queens will join "X Factor" Cowell and producer-turned-hitmaker L.A. Reid as judges.
Cowell had been on the hunt for two new judges ever since a shake-up earlier this year, when he sacked one-time Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger and friend and former "American Idol" co-judge Paula Abdul.
Spears was reportedly handed a $15 million contract for the first season.
Hers had been one of several high-profile names — including Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson — that had been bandied about in talks of who might join the show. The new gig could help revive her career.
Also ousted in the shake-up this year was host Steve Jones. One "X Factor" producer told TV Guide back in February that Cowell wanted man and woman co-hosts "to make it feel a little bit like an award ceremony."


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Danica says she wasn't acting while flirting with boyfriend in new video
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Danica Patrick can't claim to be the biggest fan of country music star Colt Ford, but it was pretty easy to be in his recently released video when part of her role was flirting with boyfriend Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Patrick and Stenhouse star in Ford's new "Drivin' Around Song" video that hit the web earlier this week.
As part of the video, Patrick and Stenhouse, who plays a garage mechanic, spend a little bit of time flirting with each other before Patrick steals his golf cart and takes Ford for a ride.
What was it like for Patrick to have to "act" like she was flirting with her real-life beau?
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"That was not acting," Patrick said with a smile. "When I look at him, I smile. So that was not hard."
The two Sprint Cup drivers shot the video about six weeks ago in North Carolina, Patrick said Friday at Kansas Speedway.
"It's cool to see it out," she said. "It was a lot of fun to do. It was a beautiful day in Mooresville that day.
"Those are the fun things that you get to do outside of the car. I enjoyed that. That was good fun. Obviously, I had a pretty hot mechanic working on the car."
Patrick is listening to more country music since her blossoming relationship with Stenhouse, a cowboy-hat-wearing country fan.
"I had never met Colt Ford before," she said. "I obviously had heard his music on the radio over the last good year of being a country fan. Although, he is kind of a rapper."
The hit song is a mix of rap and country.
"I grew up listening to rap, growing up in Northern Illinois, that was the most common stuff we listened to was Tupac, Biggie Smalls, Mase, P. Diddy and all that music," Patrick said.
"For me, I like rap, especially the kind of rap you can understand, which is what he sings. Then put a Southern twist on it is good. I like it. I like unique sounding music, and he definitely has that for country music."
Stenhouse said there were several takes of the scenes.
"I winked at her in one of them and they didn't want that," Stenhouse said. "But that was fun. Colt Ford, he's a huge race fan."


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The Post-Partisan Court?
As F1@1F weekend reading, I am posting below a longer piece–previewed in my first post–that I wrote in early December on the Roberts Court's seemingly "post-partisan" posture in this new Obama era.
This hypothesis is by no means proven – it is merely culled from observations about the Court's docket this term as related to its decisions of the previous three terms. The hypothesis's true test will come as the Court continues to hand down its decisions.
Please keep your disagreements civil in the comments and keep coming back to F1@1F as the term goes on for follow-up analysis.
Every year, the Supreme Court hears several cases that inflame public passions, prompting Americans to line up on opposite sides of predictable partisan divides. The Court from Reagan to Bush II could be counted on to divide 5-4 on most any politically salient subjects such as abortion, affirmative action, separation of church and state, right to die, gay rights, and even the outcome of a Presidential election. Under the Roberts Court, the American public has come to expect the predictable configuration of justices on hot-button issues: Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia on the Right; Stevens, Ginsburg, Breyer, Souter (and now, presumably, Sotomayor) on the Left; and Kennedy going to whichever side his peculiar vision of individual liberties happens to fall.
Yet a funny thing happened on the way to the Obama era: the Court seems to be flirting with post-partisanship. When Chief Justice Roberts stood on the Capitol steps, his fellow justices bundled up behind him, and administered the Oath of Office to Obama, they overlooked the National Mall crammed with more than million freezing onlookers. The two representatives of their respective branches worked in concert, but not without momentarily tripping over each other's words. That scene may prove to be a metaphor for the interaction between our current political and judicial branches.
In the summer of 2007, at the end of the Roberts Court's first term with both Bush II appointees on the bench, Justice Breyer seethed that "[i]t is not often in the law that so few have so quickly changed so much." The Supreme Court had taken an aggressively rightward tack on abortion, student speech, school desegregation, gender discrimination, and campaign finance, enabled by the replacement of arch-moderate Justice O'Connor with the solidly conservative Justice Alito, and given political cover by a sympathetic President and Congress.
The following year found the two wings similarly uncompromising, going tit-for-tat over the war on terror and gun rights, as if to imitate the dynamics between the newly elected Democratic Congress and the legacy-seeking Republican Executive. In Boumediene v. Bush, Justice Kennedy swung into the liberal camp to pen its final victory over the Bush administration's detentions and prosecutions of enemy combatants held in Guantanamo. Justice Scalia, in a vituperative dissent, warned that the five-member majority's decision to grant habeas corpus rights to Guantanamo detainees "will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed."
Two weeks later, Scalia triumphantly announced the majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, in which Kennedy provided the fifth conservative vote, striking down D.C.'s handgun ban by defining the Second Amendment as securing an individual right to keep and bear arms. Justice Stevens, writing on behalf of the four liberals, condemned the majority as the very opposite of "genuine" judicial conservatives: results-driven activists. Indeed, some Court watchers wondered how the dissenters resisted using Scalia's inflammatory words in Boumediene against him in their argument for the importance of the myriad gun control laws Heller now called into question.
Fast-forward to this term, which officially began on Monday, October 5. Although the Court has yet to release any decisions, the high profile cases on its docket reflect the promises and pitfalls of the Obama era's post-partisan rhetoric. The Democratic Party, now controlling Congress and the Presidency, is struggling to reconcile the realities of big-tent governance with the demands of competing grassroots ideals. Meanwhile, United States v. Stevens, which the Court heard in early October, pits liberal values against liberal values in a contest between free expression and animal rights. And as the Republicans decide which bits of right-wing ideology to embrace or reject as they rebuild from the rubble of 2008, conservative concerns collided at the Court in early December's Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, when the Court considered whether to abandon principles of federalism in favor of property rights. Finally, Obama's overtures to his opponents in pursuing his agenda have their analogue in the Court's blockbuster of the term: McDonald v. City of Chicago may very well result in a political quid pro quo in which the conservative Heller majority can extend its interpretation of the Second Amendment to the states by breathing new life into a clause of the Fourteenth Amendment that could strengthen constitutional protection for liberal causes.
Of course, these three cases may not be so indicative of a new day rising at the Court. Justice Kennedy's vote remains the putative fifth vote in Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida, which questions whether the life imprisonment without parole of a juvenile for a non-homicidal crime violates the constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, and in Free Enterprise Fund and Beckstead and Watts, LLP v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, which could find the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's creation of the PCAOB in violation of separation of powers principles.
However, whereas recent history augurs a Kennedy-penned liberal win in Graham and Sullivan, the Court showed only last term in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Eric Holder, Jr, Attorney General, et al. (NAMUDNO) that it is willing to stop short of the type of ideologically-driven holding that Free Enterprise could bring. When the Court agreed to hear NAMUDNO, political liberals quivered in fear. At issue was the constitutionality of Congress's 2002 vote to extend for another twenty-five years Section Five of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which required districts with histories of voting rights violations to obtain "preclearance" from the Justice Department for any changes in a covered district's election procedures. NAMUDNO presented the conservative justices with its most sweeping opportunity yet to declare the work of the Civil Rights era complete and more fully institute colorblind law. This was, after all, the same Roberts Court that closed its 2006 term with a 5-4 decision that cited Brown v. Board of Education, the legendary case from 1954 that struck down public school segregation, to hold unconstitutional voluntary, race-conscious public school re-integration programs.
Yet the Court shocked observers when it handed down an 8-1 decision upholding Section Five's constitutionality. Chief Justice Roberts, the same man who three years earlier refused a remedy for de facto segregation by stating that "[t]he way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race," stopped short in his NAMUDNO decision from judicially willing this country's history of racial discrimination into obsolescence. Indeed, faced with the magnitude of exercising judicial review—the most powerful tool the Supreme Court wields over its co-equal branches—against a landmark Act of Congress, the conservatives blinked. Roberts corralled the conservatives and the liberals under his narrow holding while dispatching Justice Thomas to argue in dissent what ostensibly would have been the conservative majority opinion had Roberts not pulled his right-leaning brethren back from the brink of a certain political firestorm.
But why did the justices determine that NAMUDNO, which roared into the Court's docket like a lion, should go out like a lamb? After all, Roberts seldom before let his oft-professed ideal to guide the Court towards broad consensus and narrow holdings take precedence over his demonstrated commitment to conservative ideology. The Court, however, is not deaf to public opinion. The term began with a Republican President and a Democratic majority in Congress; the term ended with a Democratic President and a Democratic supermajority in Congress. Roberts was well aware that the last Court that mounted active resistance to the dominant political will of the American people and their representatives in government now rests in historical infamy.
In order to further a conservative agenda alongside a Democratic executive and legislature, the Court must jealously protect its legitimacy. The early Roberts Court's halcyon days of Republican political dominance is over: the conservative bloc, when Justice Kennedy agrees with them, must pick their battles carefully. That certainly seemed to be their strategy for last term's potential conservative victories: by balking on NAMUDNO, the Court had enough political capital for a smaller victory in Ricci v. DeStefano, in which the five-member majority held that New Haven discriminated against white firefighters when the city threw out the results of a promotion exam in which disproportionally less black firefighters qualified. Meanwhile, as if to tell the liberal wing not to get too optimistic over the NAMUDNO compromise, the Court ordered reargument in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and presented a new question to the parties that suggested that the conservatives were itching to invalidate federal election laws limiting corporate expenditures during Presidential and Congressional campaigns.
The Court's decision to schedule a rare September hearing for Citizens United made strategic sense for the Court's conservative wing in a manner that mirrors President Obama's own sly "post-partisanship." Just as the Right does not trust Obama's overtures as he pursues even moderately liberal policies, neither should the Left be lulled by NAMUDNO or the absence on this term's official docket of politically resonant Left vs. Right cases that the conservatives are likely to win. Indeed, even the potential partisan 5-4 cases are muted: juveniles sentenced to life without parole is hardly as galvanizing as challenges to the death penalty, and claims against administrative agencies do not have the same explosiveness as clashes between Congress and the President. By placing Citizens United among this term's cases, the Court, intentionally or not, now possesses the political capital where none existed last term for the conservative majority to open the floodgates for corporate cash in campaigns.
Nevertheless, even if our executive and judicial branches are deploying post-partisan strategy for ideological gain, the strategy significantly slows the traumatic political polarization that would—and did—occur when the branches enable or antagonize the other's agenda without restraint. I hope to test this hypothesis as the decisions come down this term and beyond…that is, until the Gay Marriage case hits the Supreme Court. Then it's back to judicial politics as usual.


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An Aotearoa Story
It was a holiday weekend and my Sheila was doing hard yaaka while I was pissing around. Luckily she did not go wobbly or whinge about it. She went to the local chippy shop to get a clipper. Well that went straight down the grugler. She had to go to wop wops but being no drongo she found the goods. The chick came home to bash my ear about it. I admit I was a bit of a dag when she couldn't figure out how use the clipper but for me it was a piece of piss. Some cockle, eh? I'm mean, I'm not skiting or anything. Then we went out for shark and taties. Since we aren't de facto any more we've been happy as larry.
Do you speak Kiwi? Did you follow me, mate?
This coming Monday though mid November I'm going to be on the land of the long white cloud, New Zealand, We'll even have some rellies visit us there. I plan to keep blogging, though, you can't get rid of me that easily.
I won't be able to reply quickly to remarks on my blogs after this date since it will be tomorrow where I am when the blog goes up here today, but I hope you will continue to read and comment.


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Plastic bags and condoms pile up there, sewage floods in when it rains, and it was the site of an oil spill estimated at three times the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster.
Schuck, 52, lived in his Commercial Street loft in Greenpoint for years before his landlord installed the fire door that opens onto the mouth of Newtown Creek.
At first, he saw only the strip of land, a fair-weather addition to his artist studio. But hours spent clearing trash and prepping garden beds expanded his outlook.
"I realized, hey, this is waterfront property," Schuck said. "I should get a boat."
He said neigbors thought he was crazy for wanting to kayak the polluted waterway, but attitudes have evolved in recent years. Today, boating clubs ply the creek, and skimmer boats sometimes come to clear the trash that flows in from storm drains around Brooklyn and Queens.
Last year the federal government committed to a Superfund cleanup of Newtown Creek.
From his doorway, Schuck has watched the ebb and flow over time.
"Water quality changes a lot with the tides," he said. "Sometimes it will look really bad, and sometimes it will look great. You know, clear-not clear water, but no trash in it."
Schuck signed on as a co-plaintiff with the Riverkeeper organization in a lawsuit against ExxonMobil over its decades-old underground oilspill. The decision against the company by a federal judge last November put over $25 million towards creek improvements.
"It's not going to be a pristine body of water in my lifetime, but that's the beauty of citizen
participation," Schuck said. "It's gotten better because people have gotten active and care about it. If the citizens don't care, then for sure the politicians and the polluters don't."
Schuck will show work in the Williamsburg 2000 group show at Art 101 (101 Grand St.), opening March 12.


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