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Tom Hanks swears. Not a blue streak, no, but it's bracing to hear profanity from the man who has defined decency for three decades in Hollywood, playing white knights in "Splash," "Forrest Gump," "Apollo 13" and the "Toy Story" series. If he is grandma-friendly on screen, he is looser and less predictable in person — as his old friend Nora Ephron was reminded several years ago when she sent him the screenplay for a biopic, "Lucky Guy." Mr. Hanks took an instant dislike to his character, Mike McAlary, the muckraking columnist of New York City tabloids in the 1980s and '90s.
"I told Nora that McAlary sounded like a real" jerk, Mr. Hanks said, using a more piquant word — and a perceptive one, since McAlary's power came from his determination to be the biggest, baddest, bona fide ... jerk who ever dug into corrupt cops.
Mr. Hanks reconsidered only years later, after running into Ephron while promoting his 2011 movie "Larry Crowne." He was a co-writer, a star and the director of that picture, and it was a critical and commercial disappointment. Ephron, by contrast, represented happier days, during their collaborations on "Sleepless in Seattle" and "You've Got Mail."
They got around to talking about "Lucky Guy" — she had turned it into a play, and Hugh Jackman had done a table reading — and Mr. Hanks asked to see the latest version. This time he felt drawn not only to McAlary's swagger, but also his drive to become the next Jimmy Breslin and to be worthy of his own celebrity.
"Look, the title is 'Lucky Guy.' It's about somebody who is almost good enough to deserve what he achieves. And I understand that," Mr. Hanks said during an interview on the stage of the Broadhurst Theater, where the play, his Broadway debut, is set to begin its 15-week run on Friday.
"I still feel sometimes that I'd like to be as good as so-and-so actor," he continued. "I see some other actors' work, and I think I'll never get there. I wish I could."
Hollywood stars often come to Broadway to prove something to themselves or to audiences, though they rarely admit it. With Academy Awards for "Philadelphia" and "Forrest Gump," Mr. Hanks is less hesitant. While he denied that, at 56, he is here because his film career has cooled — "I have two movies in the can. I have plenty to keep me busy" — he also appeared delighted that McAlary is pretty far from a predictable Tom Hanks part.
Will audiences buy him as unlikable? Mr. Hanks is still a genial guy, who tends to cope with pressure by yukking it up. But he has also thrown himself into a role that calls for no vanity, his director and fellow actors say. He has a gray-flecked mustache, as did McAlary, and is trying to preserve the columnist's rough edges.
"Anytime you go off to do something new, you've involved in a reinvention, and any actor who says otherwise is just trying to lower expectations," said Mr. Hanks, who trained to be a theater actor in the 1970s but quickly moved on to television and then movies.
It has been a twisting path to Broadway for Mr. Hanks and "Lucky Guy," and a heartbreaking one. The sharp-elbowed McAlary, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for his columns about the brutalization of Abner Louima by police officers, died later that year from colon cancer, at the age of 41. Soon after, Ephron, a former reporter for The New York Post who cherished the tabloids of yesteryear, began to research McAlary's life and spent years rewriting the script, at one point calling it "Stories About McAlary."
Once Mr. Hanks signed on, Ephron began meeting weekly with the play's director, the Tony Award winner George C. Wolfe ("Angels in America"), to sharpen the central device — other journalists sharing and arguing over anecdotes about McAlary — so that the lead character came into sharper focus. All the while, however, Ephron was quietly battling leukemia; to the shock of her "Lucky Guy" collaborators and many friends, she died last June, at 71.
"Nora was turning around new drafts of the play in a week, and it was confusing to me why she was working so quickly," Mr. Wolfe said. "I had no awareness of the invisible timetable she was on. After she died, we were even more determined to do the play."
Writers are a pretty hands-on lot, especially with new works going to Broadway. Without Ephron, Mr. Wolfe and Mr. Hanks have become keepers of the "Lucky Guy" flame. Aside from Ephron's script, there are pages of discarded dialogue that Mr. Wolfe has cherry-picked for an extra dash of nuance or sprinkle of clarity. "My motto is, 'When in doubt, reference Nora,' " Mr. Wolfe said, and he has done so with the blessing of her widower, the writer Nicholas Pileggi.
Mr. Hanks, meanwhile, read many of McAlary's columns and interviewed some of his old friends, coming away agreeing with a point Ephron once made about him. "Nora said Mac was good when he was covering the stuff he knew, cops and cop scandals, while other times he was clearly struggling," he recalled.
Seeing those imperfections has helped him avoid turning McAlary into a classically uplifting Hanks role. Or, as he put it bluntly: "not to" screw "this up."
Mr. Hanks first fell for theater at Skyline High School in Oakland, Calif., playing the small role of the bus driver in Tennessee Williams's "Night of the Iguana" and the juicier part of Luther Billis in "South Pacific." (His character is perhaps best known for the number "There's Nothing Like a Dame.") He made his first solo trips into San Francisco as a teenager, which he recalls as a rite of passage, to see favorite plays like "The Iceman Cometh." He preferred to attend without friends so he could concentrate on the stage.
Acting and theatergoing were only part of the appeal, he said. A born crowd pleaser, the high school Tom Hanks found friends backstage who lapped up his jovial sensibility and his loose body language, trademarks of his performance then and now.
"Nobody on my track team was funny; no one was looking to crack up; no one got me the way that my theater friends got me," Mr. Hanks said. "It was a fabulous hang."
The camaraderie continued during Mr. Hanks's three years as an actor cum stagehand at the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, where he had bit parts in Shakespeare plays. (He did understudy Cassio in "Othello" once and can still recite some of those lines from memory.) But when Mr. Hanks decided to try his hand in New York, he quickly came up short.
"I lived around the corner from Broadway, but I couldn't even get arrested," he recalled. "I didn't know how to dance, I hadn't taken a voice lesson, and I wasn't feeling confident." Lacking an agent, he rarely got auditions; when he did, he invariably got out only a few lines or lyrics before hearing a producer yell, "Thank you!" from the orchestra seats.
He did a few productions with a newly formed troupe, the Riverside Shakespeare Company, and usually found himself playing scoundrels, including the devious Callimaco in Machiavelli's "Mandrake" in 1979. But he had far better luck with television, landing a lead role in the series "Bosom Buddies," about two young ad guys who dress in drag to qualify for an affordable apartment in a women-only building.
His co-star on "Bosom Buddies," Peter Scolari, is also among the cast of "Lucky Guy," playing a friend and rival of McAlary. Mr. Scolari recalled that on the "Buddies" set he and Mr. Hanks often talked about theater; sometimes when they felt particularly silly in their dresses, they would recite the titles of their favorite plays for ballast — like "Charley's Aunt," the last play Mr. Hanks did (in 1981, at his junior college) before "Lucky Guy."
Mr. Scolari, who was last on Broadway in 2012 in "Magic/Bird," said that Mr. Hanks had changed little in the 31 years since "Bosom Buddies" ended, after two seasons.
"The work ethic and the looseness are still the same, still as strong," Mr. Scolari said, "and the lack of ego on set. George has been really challenging Tom, and Tom says, 'Well, I guess I was dead wrong on that choice,' just like the rest of us. It's interesting because Tom comes from a world where he has the keys to the kingdom as a movie icon. I don't know how often he is truly challenged like this anymore."
Perhaps the toughest task facing Mr. Hanks are the scenes between McAlary and his wife, Alice, with whom he moves to Bellport, Long Island, and then abandons many a night to chase a tip or blaze through barroom rounds with his buddies.
"Will audiences buy Tom Hanks treating his wife very shabbily?" said Maura Tierney, who plays Alice and is best known from the series "ER." "It's hugely important to the play that you buy Tom as a not-likable guy, and I think he's pulling it off. Tom has really put vanity aside here. I think he also feels a responsibility to Nora to get it right."
Broadway tends to measure success by ticket sales and critics' reviews, and the stakes are always higher when a star is involved. Buzz that "Lucky Guy" had only a $5 million advance in paid ticket sales — good but not great, considering the stature of Mr. Hanks — prompted the play's lead producer, Colin Callender, to say in a mid-February interview that the advance was $7 million. (Producers rarely speak on the record about the paid advance.)
For his part, Mr. Hanks said, only half-jokingly, that "my biggest dream is that there are fistfights out at the box office every night for whatever standing-room tickets are left." And he added that this hope had nothing to do with his compensation package, which includes the relatively unusual proviso that he will continue making thousands of dollars a week on "Lucky Guy" if the producers extend the show beyond its June 16 scheduled closing and recast his role.
"That deal was made by agents," Mr. Hanks said. "But it'd be nice to have happen because it meant the play was a success."
The reception from critics and audiences is hard to predict, partly because of myriad expectations surrounding a Hanks performance, as well as the thin track record of dramatizing journalism beyond the classic "The Front Page." Just 16 months ago another drama about McAlary ran Off Broadway: "The Wood," by the publicist and writer Dan Klores; most reviews harshly dismissed the characters and plot as thinly developed. And Mr. Hanks himself said he told Ephron, years ago, that he was skeptical that journalists and their trade would be gripping to audiences, and he pushed for added moments that reflect the intensity of chasing scoops and performing on deadline.
The pursuit of the news might be easier to show on film, Mr. Hanks acknowledged, and he said a "Lucky Guy" movie was possible if the play is a hit. But as for anticipating the reaction to the production, Mr. Hanks is relying on one of his best-known traits: laughing in the face of pressure.
"We're just resorting to imagining the headlines for bad reviews — 'Lucky Guy, Unlucky Audience!' 'Yucky Guy!' " Mr. Hanks said. "But O.K., here's the thing: I'm not afraid of the end result because I think we'll have a very good production. But I am afraid of blowing it myself. I'm afraid of having something being my responsibility, yet not having the wherewithal or lack of self-consciousness or stamina to pull it off. Look, I have just as impressive a track record of movies and projects that didn't work out.
"But when I walk home at night, that's when I hear Nora's voice the clearest," he added, "and that's when I feel the most excitement about taking on this play."


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Red Bull Dolomintenmann - 30th anniversary of the longest running Red Bull event
In 2017, the first ever "Red Bull" titled event and a real classic in Red Bull's Sports- and Event marketing history, celebrated its 30th anniversary. Dubbed as what is the world's toughest team event, the world´s best mountain runners, paragliders, mountainbikers and kayakers have been competing to find the strongest team for three decades and will remain pushing themselves to find their strongest in the future!
Red Bull Mind Gamers World Final
After the introduction of the global problem solving platform "Red Bull Mind Gamers" in 2016, the stage was set for the first Red Bull Mind Gamers World Championship in Budapest in March 2017. Teams from 24 countries followed the call to find the world´s best problem solvers and crown their world champions in Escape Rooms for the first time!
Red Bull Crashed Ice kicks off Sports Capital Year in Marseille
Marseille set a spectacular stage for the season start of the Red Bull Crashed Ice series with an action-packed night event in the heart of the city and started Marseille`s year as European Sports Capital 2017.
Red Bull female athlete Daniela Ryf takes the triple at the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii!
Daniela Ryf puts her name into the Ironman history books with 3 consecutive World Championship wins. After finishing in 8:50:47, she became the first woman to three-peat the Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona since Chrissie Wellington in 2009 and only the fourth woman to do so in the history of the race. In addition, no woman before her has ever succeeded to achieve three back-to-back wins at such an age (30). Her win in Hawaii adds an 8th overall World Title to her long-distance career.
Marcel Hirscher crowns his career with the incredible feat of winning six consecutive overall World Cup titles!
Marcel Hirscher has crowned his career with the incredible feat of winning six consecutive overall FIS World Cup titles. The 27-year-old Austrian superstar secured his latest title in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia a full two weeks before the end of the season.
Never seen before: French Wingsuit Flyers Vince Reffet and Fred Fugen BASE Jump into an aircraft!
The Soul Flyers (Vincent Reffet and Frederic Fugen) write history by re-entering in a flying Pilatus after base-jumping from the Jungfrau Summit together.
Red Bull athlete Daniel Bodin performs the world's first ever Double Backflip on a Snowmobile!
Daniel Bodin writes history by landing the world's first double backflip on a snowmobile. The dream of the double backflip has been on Daniels mind for a long time and the months of preparation before, have been a lot of hard work, but it paid off!
Kelly Sildaru - the youngest ever athlete to win Double Gold at X Games!
Just one year after being the youngest athlete to win a X Games Gold Medal, Kelly Sildaru not only defended her title in 2017, but also crowned herself the youngest athlete to have won two Winter X Games gold medals.
They did it! The young Bulls are European Champions!!!
FC Salzburg U19s have continued their sensational European winning run by beating Benfica 2-1 (H/T:0-1) in the Final to lift the UEFA Youth League trophy – and they thoroughly deserve it! The Young Bulls have set an historic milestone for Austrian football, adding to the hugely impressive way they have created sensation after sensation in recent months by outclassing many of the biggest name clubs in Europe to win the UEFA Youth League.
Red Bull and Capcom celebrating 30 years of Street Fighter
Hadoken is now available as a can! 7 of the most iconic Street Fighter characters made it to our can in 8 different markets and offer a cool swag & and collection opportunity for the Fighting Game Community.
Red Bull Kumite: Japanese legend "Nemo" unlocked his full potential.
Established as the most hyped and hardest Streetfighter tournament to win, Red Bull Kumite broke all the records and offered a platform for the Japanese pro player Nemo to express his talent!
Marc Marquez started out 2017 by becoming the first man to go up Austria's famous Hahnenkamm ski run on a MotoGP bike.
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Red Bull KTM Factory Team goes MotoGP
After years of dominance on both the motocross and junior moto circuits, team Red Bull KTM is making the jump to MotoGP, the pinnacle of motorcycle racing. It's the next step for Austria's most successful motorbike racing team."Ready to Race - KTM goes MotoGP" tells the heroic journey of entering the premier class of street racing. In cooperation with Red Bull TV, who accompanied the team for several months, from the first attempts on the test bench to the first roll-out right up to the first race, emerged a never before seen look behind the scenes of MotoGP.
Sebastién Ogier takes his fifth world title at Wales Rally GB
A third place at Dayinsure Wales Rally GB guaranteed the fifth consecutive FIA World Rally Championship for Sébastien Ogier with the 33-year-old Frenchman moving to second in the all-time rankings behind nine-time champion Sébastien Loeb.
Red Bull Desert Wings Team took 3 out of 4 category wins at Rally Dakar
Sam Sunderland made history by wrapping up the motorcycle category, as he became the first British entrant to ever win the Dakar Rally. Stephane Peterhansel claimed an incredible 13th Dakar Rally crown, his seventh on four wheels, after a magnificent race-long battle with Team Peugeot Total team-mate Sébastien Loeb. Eduard Nikolaev brought the truck title back to KAMAZ in style, with a stage victory that sealed the overall win for the Russian. Red Bull Athlete Iganicio Casale from Chile finished 2nd in Quad category.
Red Bull Amaphiko Academies on 3 Continents
The Red Bull Amaphiko Academy is a launch pad for grassroots social entrepreneurs - people who are using their talents, creativity an energy to solve problems in their community. 2017 saw the Amaphiko Academy travel from South Africa to Brazil and for the first time to Baltimore in the U.S.
Red Bull Amaphiko Social Entrepreneur reaches new heights
Wandisile had a crazy idea to put gangsterism in a museum. Growing up in a township in South Africa he experienced the ills caused by gangsterism every day. In 2015 he attended the Red Bull Amaphiko Academy in Langa, Cape Town. He was inspired and given the tools to make his idea a reality. We paired him up with a dream team of creatives, and the 18 Gangster Museum was born. To date over 3 500 at risk youth have visited the museum, making them think twice about their life choices. And he's developed a business model to keep the museum running, for every tourist that goes through the museum, they pay for one kid to experience it. "Over the 18 month Amaphiko development program there has been significant growth in me as an entrepreneur."
Just Like You by Virginia Tomarchio & Bboy Lil G
Watch what happens when B-boying and classical dance meet. An internationally renowned B-boy Lil G, side by side with a classical dancer, Virginia Tomarchio. The unusual meeting took place at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence, choreography created by Cristiano 'Kris' Buzzi.
Red Bull BC One All Stars Tour France & Secret Battle
10 Bboys, 9 cities, 6000 kilometers : The Red Bull BC One All Stars, a team that brings together some of the best dancers from all over the globe, truly representing B-Boying in all its forms crossed the French territory. While on tour in France, The BC One All Stars were challenged by a local Lyon B-Boy crew, and the boys had to answer the call. The team all showed up to dance, and Lyon's next generation of B-Boys surprised them all.
Red Bull BC One World Final Amsterdam
16 of the world's top breakers, from nine different countries, gathered at Amsterdam's Westergasfabriek for the 14th Red Bull BC One World Final. A judging panel comprised of veteran b-boys Crazy Legs, Hong 10, Niek, Intact and AT ran the rule over this year's finalists, which includes a b-girl for the first time ever. Menno from Holland representing the crew Red Bull BC One All Stars takes the win and recaptures the title he won in 2014.
3Style World Tour 2017
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The Best Artists. The Biggest Festivals. There is Always Music on Red Bull TV.
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DeKALB – A DeKalb city clerk who resigned under controversy is running for the same position as a write-in candidate in the April 9 election.
In February 2012, Steve Kapitan resigned from the position he was elected to in 2009 after failing to comply with the state's Open Meetings Act.
The controversy around Kapitan's exit led to the DeKalb City Council reducing the clerk's salary to $5,000 a year after DeKalb voters defeating a referendum to make the elected office an appointed position. Meanwhile, a deputy clerk will become a full-time position with benefits and likely will be assigned to handle much of the clerk's duties that are not prescribed by law.
No candidate petitions for DeKalb clerk were filed, but Kapitan and three others – Lynn Fazekas, Liz Cliffe Peerboom and Leonard LeGrand – registered as write-in candidates. They are among 33 people who registered as write-in candidates for elected positions throughout DeKalb County.
The trio said they knew about the reduced salary when they registered.
As someone who writes about local issues on her blog, City Barbs, Fazekas said she felt the clerk needed to be someone who respected taxpayers and residents. In addition to building her own website, Fazekas said she is well-versed in the Open Meetings Act, the Freedom of Information Act and research.
"I do see myself as a citizen watchdog," Fazekas said. "I think that is something that is needed."
Peerboom said she also knows what it takes to be clerk; she's actually the village clerk of Maple Park. A lifelong resident of DeKalb, Peerboom worked in different departments within the DeKalb government from 1991 to 2010.
Both Peerboom and Fazekas felt the reduction of the city clerk's pay and duties were unnecessary.
"The pay didn't affect my decision. $5,000 a year isn't enough, but I am willing to do it," Peerboom said. "It should be a full-time position, but I'll do my best to fulfill any duties."
LeGrand said he saw the clerk position as being a way to explore his interest in politics. He is the office manager of Student Athlete Academic Support Services at Northern Illinois University.
"I thought this would be a good way to get myself in the door," LeGrand said. "See how [DeKalb government] works."
LeGrand said he used to own a travel agency, but had to discontinue Allied Travel in 2005. He is working toward getting his bachelor's degree in theatre studies.


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Blendover Episode Seventy Eight:
The rise of the machines comes, as Stuart Pitchford from TheGeeksFTW guests and discusses "Smart Rifles" being tested by the US Army. We follow up on the Bischoff case, the deaths of a mother & daughter while in Bali. Later, we look at the murder of the vocalist from Surrender Of Divinity, killed for "not being Satanic enough" – and turn to Peter Parker, who returns to Spider-Man.
Topics Discussed:
- Shout-Outs
- Smart Rifles
- The Bischoff Case
- Dropbox (The Band)
- Surrender of Divinity: The Murder of Samong Traisttha
- Marvel News
BlendoveR is a fun, hard-hitting podcast where rules are regularly thrown out the window in favor of honest, open commentating opinions. Presented by Greg Davies (cGt2099 from The-TrukstoP.com), and Terr Ciavarra (Media Nox from medianox.bandcamp.com), we stray on to any topic that presents itself or wanders off onto its own tangent.
Sons of Tonatiuh – Official Site
Smart Rifles
The US Army Is Now Field-Testing Smart Rifles
US Military Testing Crazy Video Game-Like Weapons
The Bischoff Case
A careful analysis of the movements of Yvanna and Noelene Bischoff in the days before their deaths offers little clue to the cause
Confusion as bodies of Noelene and Yvana Bischoff leave Bali
Dropbox (The Band)
Surrender of Divinity: The Murder of Samong Traisttha
Fan kills black metal singer for not being Satanic enough
Fan Murders Black Metal Singer for Allegedly Being a False Satanist
Satanist kills black metal singer
Thai Black Metal musician dead – Satanic fan confesses
Surrender of Divinity – The Triumph of thy Majesty
Surrender of Divinity @ Amazon
Surrender of Divinity @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
Surrender of Divinity @ Facebook
Surrender of Divinity @ Last.fm
Surrender of Divinity @ MySpace
Official: Peter Parker Returns April 2014 in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1
Marvel Teams With NetFlix For 4 Superhero Shows Culminating To The Defenders
Michael Douglas to Play Hank Pym in Marvel's Ant-Man
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"Our wise men are called Fathers, and they truly sustain that character. Do you call yourselves Christians? Does the religion of Him who you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not.
It is recorded of him that a bruised reed he never broke. Cease then to call yourselves Christians, lest you declare to the world your hypocrisy. Cease too to call other nations savage, when you are tenfold more the children of cruelty than they.
No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthwhile action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.
I bow to no man for I am considered a prince among my own people. But I will gladly shake your hand."
Joseph Brant to King George III
The Story of Joseph Brant
by Tom Penick
The Mohawk Indian chief Joseph Brant served as a spokesman for his people, a Christian missionary of the Anglican church, and a British military officer during the U.S. War of Independence. He is remembered for his efforts in unifying upper New York Indian tribes and leading them in terrorizing raids against patriot communities in support of Great Britian's efforts to repress the rebellion. He is also credited for the establishment of the Indian reservation on the Grand River in Canada where the neighboring town of Brantford, Ontario, bears his name.
Brant was born in 1742 on the banks of the Ohio River and given the Indian name of Thayendanegea, meaning "he places two bets." He inherited the status of Mohawk chief from his father. He attended Moor's Charity School for Indians in Lebanon, Connecticut, where he learned to speak English and studied Western history and literature. He became an interpreter for an Anglican Missionary, the Reverend John Stuart, and together they translated the prayer book and the Gospel of Mark into Mohawk. Molly Brant, Joseph's sister, married General Sir William Johnson who was the British superintendent for northern Indian affairs. Sir William was called to duty during the last French and Indian War of 1754-1763. Joseph followed Sir William into battle at the age of 13, along with the other Indian braves at the school.
Following this frightening experience, Joseph returned to school for a short period. Sir William had need of an interpreter and aid in his business with the Indians and employed Joseph in this prestigious position. In his work with Sir William, Joseph discovered a trading company that was buying discarded guns from the Army, filling cracks in the barrels with lead, and then selling them to Indians. The guns would explode when fired, often injuring the owner. Joseph was able to prove this in court and the trading company's license was revoked.
It was the custom for young men not to marry until they had made their mark, and Joseph was now prepared to choose a wife. Around 1768 he married Christine, the daughter of an Oneida chief, whom he had met in school. They had both Indian and Anglican wedding ceremonies and lived on a farm which Joseph had inherited. Christine died of tuberculosis around 1771, leaving Joseph with a son and a daughter. During this time, Joseph resumed his religous work, translating the Acts of the Apostles into the Mohawk language. In 1773, he married Susannah, sister of his first wife. Susannah died a few months later, also of tuberculosis. In 1774 he was appointed secretary to Sir William's successor, Guy Johnson. In 1775 he received a captain's commission and was sent to England to assess whether the British would or would not help the Mohawk recover their lands. He met with the King on two occasions and a dinner was held in his honor.
While in England, Brant attended a performance of Romeo and Juliet. Lady Ossory, a member of a famous Irish family, asked him, "What do you think of that kind of love-making, Captain Brant?" He replied, "There is too much of it, your ladyship." "Why do you say that?', and Joseph answered quickly, "Because, your ladyship, no lover worth a lady's while would waste his time and breath in all that speech-making. If my people were to make love in that way our race would be extinct in two generations." [Monture, p. 36]
On his return to the colonies, he saw action in the Battle of Long Island in August 1776. He led four of the six nations of the Iroquois League in attacks against colonial outposts on the New York frontier. The Iroquois League was a confederation of upper New York State Indian tribes formed between 1570 and 1600 who called themselves "the people of the long house." Initially it was composed of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca. After the Tuscarora joined in 1722, the league became known to the English as the Six Nations and was recognized as such in Albany, New York, in 1722. They were better organized and more effective, especially in warfare, than other Indian confederacies in the region. As the longevity of this union would suggest, these Indians were more advanced socially than is often thought. Benjamin Franklin even cited their success in his argument for the unification of the colonies. They lived in comfortable homes, often better than those of the colonists, raised crops, and sent hunters to Ohio to supply meat for those living back in New York. These hunters were usually young braves or young married couples, as was the case with Joseph Brant's parents.
During the U.S. War of Independence a split developed in the Iroquois league, with the Oneida and Tuscarora favoring the American cause while the others fought for the British under the leadership of Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant. A few of the leaders favored a neutral stance, preferring to let the white men kill each other rather than become involved. Brant feared that the Indians would lose their lands if the colonists achieved independence. Basic to animosities between Indians and whites was the difference in views over land ownership. The Indians felt that the land was for the use of everyone and so initially saw no reason to not welcome the Europeans. The colonists, on the other hand, were well acquainted with the priviledges of ownership (or lack thereof) and were eager to acquire land of their own.
Brant commanded the Indians in the Battle of Oriskany on August 6, 1777. In early 1778 he gathered a force of Indians from the villages of Unadilla and Oquaga on the Susquehanna River. On September 17, 1778 they destroyed German Flats near Herkimer, New York. The patriots retalliated under the leadership of Col. William Butler and destroyed Unadilla and Oquaga on October 8th and 10th. Brant's forces, along with loyalists under Capt. Walter N. Butler, then set out to destroy the town and fort at Cherry Valley. There were 200-300 men stationed at the fort but they were unprepared for the attack on August 11, 1778. The attackers killed some 30 men, women, and children, burned houses, and took 71 prisoners. They killed 16 soldiers at the fort but withdrew the following day when 200 patriot reinforcements arrived. The settlement was abandoned and the event came to be known as the "Cherry Valley Massacre." Brant won a formidable reputation after this raid and in cooperation with loyalists and British regulars, he brought fear and destruction to the entire Mohawk Valley, southern New York, and northern Pennsylvania. He thwarted the attempts of a rival chief, Red Jacket, to persuade the Iroquois to make peace with the revolutionaries. In 1779, U.S. Major General John Sullivan led a retaliatory expedition of 3700 men against the Iroquois, destroying fields, orchards, granaries, and their morale. The Iroquois were defeated near present-day Elmira, N.Y. In spite of this, Indian raids persisted until the end of the war and many homesteads had to abandoned. The Iroquois League came to an end after admitting defeat in the Second Treaty of Ft. Stanwix in 1784.
Around 1782, Brant married his third wife, Catherine Croghan, daughter of an Irishman and a Mohawk. With the war over, and the British having surrendered lands to the colonists and not to the Indians, Brant was faced with finding a new home for himself and his people. He discouraged further Indian warfare and helped the U.S. commissioners to secure peace treaties with the Miamis and other tribes. He retained his commission in the British Army and was awarded a grant of land on the Grand River in Ontario by Govenor Sir Frederick Haldimand of Canada in 1784. The tract of 675,000 acres encompassed the Grand River from its mouth to its source, six miles deep on either side. Brant led 1843 Iroquois Loyalists from New York State to this site where they settled and established the Grand River Reservation for the Mohawk. The party included members of all six tribes, but primarily Mohawk and Cayugas, as well as a few Delaware, Nanticoke, Tutelo, Creek, and Cherokee, who had lived with the Iroquois before the war. They settled in small tribal villages along the river. Sir Haldimand had hurriedly pushed through the land agreement before his term of office expired and was unable to provide the Indians with legal title to the property. For this reason, Brant again traveled to England in 1785. He succeeded in obtaining compensation for Mohawk losses in the U.S. War for Independence and received funds for the first Episcopal Church in Upper Canada, but failed to obtain firm title to the Grand River reservation. The legality of the transfer remains under question today.
Her Majesty's Chapel of the Mohawks was built in 1785 at the order of King George III. The simple wooden structure survives today as the oldest Protestant church in Ontario and is the only church outside the United Kingdom with the status of Chapel Royal. The church contains some lavish appointments including a silver service and bible dating from 1712 when Queen Anne had a church erected for the Mohawk on the Mohawk River in New York. Also erected for the Indians in 1785 was a saw and grist mill and a school.
Brant continued with his missionary work. He felt that his followers could learn much from observing the ways of the white man and made a number of land sales of reservation property to white settlers to this end, despite the unsettled ownership. He tried unsuccessfully to arrange a settlement between the Iroquois and the United States. He traveled in the American West promoting an all-Indian confederacy to resist land cessions. Late in his life, he continued the work he had begun as a young man of translating the Creed and important passages of the Old and New Testament into the Mohawk language. He was a man who studied and was able to internalize the better qualities of the white man while always remaining loyal and devoted to his people. Joseph Brant died on the reservation on August 24, 1807.
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2. "Brant, Joseph," The Encyclopedia Americana, 1992.
3. "Brant, Joseph," The New Encyclopedia Britannica, 1991.
4. "Brantford," The New Encyclopedia Britannica, 1991.
5. "Cherry Valley Massacre," The Encyclopedia Americana, 1992.
6. Flick, A.C., "The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign of 1779," History of the State of New York, 1933-1937.
7. Green, Evarts Boutell, The Revolutionary Generation 1763-1790, 1943.
8. "Iroquois League," The new Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1991.
9. Mathews, R. V., "In Defense of Joseph Brant," Conservationist, 31:41, March 1977.
10. Mitchell, Lt.Col. Joseph B., Discipline & Bayonets, 1967.
1. Monture, Ethel Brant, Famous Indians, 1960.
12. Van Steen, M., "Brantford's Royal Chapel," Canadian Geographical Journal, 57:136-41, October 1958.
13. Weaver, Sally M., "Six Nations of the Grand River, Ontario," Handbook North American Indians, 1978.
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More Americans cut back on calories, choose healthier foods, cook meals at home, and eat out less often than they used to, according to a recent survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
On average, adults are consuming 118 fewer calories per day than they did a decade ago. While the reasons for the decline in consumption are not altogether clear, experts say there may be multiple factors at play, including greater awareness of diet-related health problems, the economic downturn, and also modifications made by food manufacturers and restaurant operators. They warn, however, that the latest findings are not to be interpreted as a turning of the tide, meaning that we are probably not seeing the end of the current obesity crisis just yet. Over one-third of Americans are still diagnosed as obese, and those numbers haven't noticeably changed.
"These are not huge shifts, but they are positive ones," said Dr. Kelly Brownell, dean of Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, who is best known for his work as director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, to the Wall Street Journal in response to the study release.
In any case, the reduction in calorie intake, even as miniscule as it is, may already have led to dietary improvements and overall diet quality for many Americans, said Dr. Jessica E. Todd, an agricultural economist at the USDA and author of the study report. Especially the fact that home-cooked family meals are on the rise again is a welcome step in the right direction.
Critics of the study, however, dispute these conclusions as overly optimistic and rather see the economic decline large parts of the population have gone through in recent years as the real reason for the changing behavior of consumers, including with regards to food consumption.
"The good news is we're getting healthier, the bad news is, we're poorer, said Harry Balzer, an analyst with the NPD Group, a market research firm.
Food companies and restaurants may also have contributed by making their products leaner. A study sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that a number of leading food and beverage companies have substantially reduced calorie content in their manufacturing processes. It is unclear, however, to what extend consumers have directly benefitted from these modifications.
Cutting out a few calories here and there may be helpful, but it is not enough when it comes to weight loss, cautioned Dr. Marion Nestle, professor for nutrition and food studies at New York University (NYU). For most people, to lose weight requires at least a deficit of 350 calories per day.
We also have to be realistic about what the average person can accomplish when navigating a food environment that is not always conducive to nutritional health.
"From a consumer perspective, we need to live in reality," said Dr. Joy Dubost, a dietitian and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) who just attended a meeting of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC), which is tasked with giving recommendations for a coming update of the government's Dietary Guidelines for Americans. "We can debate the science and look at the evidence, but we also need to spend some time in the shoes of consumers and think about what's affordable and practical," she said.
In an official statement to the DGAC, the Academy has urged committee members to recognize the "need for safe, sustainable and […] accessible food for the health of all Americans," and to be mindful of the experience of "food insecurity and health inequity."
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The elephant headed god Ganesh overcomes obstacles and ensures auspicious results. In the Indian state of Gujarat he features on small embroidered triangular or square panels ('stapanas') that are installed for worship within the home. On the 'stapana' the embroidered form of Ganesh is not only a representation of the god, it is also the god himself, present in the house. There is great variation in how Ganesh is depicted, depending on the conventions within the family, caste, village or locality of the embroiderer. These 1960s examples are from Kutch and Saurashtra in present-day Gujarat.
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Bloominglabs Log
Historical Document
This page is intended to document as much of our activities as possible so we can maintain a sense of history of what our group has done over time. It should be used for anything that happens outside of the Meeting_Minutes document.
July 2010
Bloominglabs is official!
Moved out of Jenett's basement and into our room at The Collaboration Room. Picked a name for our space. Formed Bloominglabs LLC and signed our lease for the room.
Held these workshops which where open to the public
- Soldering
- AVR programming I
- AVR programming II
- Arduino + RF/wireless
The Soldering workshop was our first and had 17 attendees (out of 6 RSVP's). The AVR workshops had 11 and 6 attendees respectively, and the Arduino RF workshop had 6 attendees. All went over extremely well and had very good feedback.
External Publicity
Local writer Kevin Makice wrote about The Collaboration Room and the Bloomington Hackerspace Initiative in his Wired blog Geek Dad. Member Joe Stone was at the Detroit Maker Faire the weekend of July 31st and sat on a panel about hackerspaces along with Mitch Altman.
August 2010
After the whirlwind that was July we relaxed and only held one workshop.


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Three hips for progress! I just got the proof of the upcoming issue, and I must say it looks fabulous! The new designer, Sarah, is doing a great job. I can't wait to see it in print.
Also this week – The HPU Marketing Team paid me a visit! Nora, Chad and Darrell came to Enventys Thursday morning for an interview and some shots of my Inventors Digest experience. (The tour was free.) Although a bit awkward being behind camera and under lights for the first time, I have to say it was a really cool experience! I am excited to see the results… except for the footage of me walking down a hall and up a flight of stairs. Not so much.
This office is always so exciting! This week, the hit SHOWTIME series "Homeland" is filming in downtown Charlotte. Our front desk girl/ tour guide/ walking advertisement Kara took it upon herself to go downtown and invite the show's producers to come look at the building as a possible filming site (she wears many hats.) Believe it or not, they actually took her up on it! Two producers from the show are currently touring the building with Kara, and possibly scoping out locations to film. Every company needs that go-getter that's not afraid to put their self out there. After all, she is the sole reason that we are partnered with Hitachi and have all the latest gadgets all over the office. We'll see if they decide to film here – you will know if you see 18,974,658 photos on the blog of me trying desperately to get a "selfie" with Clare Danes in the background.
I am sad to report that the frozen yogurt machine is back to tart, also known as sour cream. Blugh. Good thing the Coke Freestyle machine never runs out of vanilla root beer!


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In the global debate over neonicotinoid pesticides, the company that makes most of them has relied on one primary argument to defend its product: The evidence that these chemicals, commonly called "neonics," are harmful to bees has been gathered in artificial conditions, force-feeding bees in the laboratory, rather than in the real world of farm fields. That company, Bayer, states on its website that "no adverse effects to bee colonies were ever observed in field studies at field-realistic exposure conditions."
Bayer will have a harder time making that argument after today. (Although it still has another argument in its quiver. We'll get to that later.)
This week, the prestigious journal Science reveals results from the biggest field study ever conducted of bees and neonics, which are usually coated on seeds, like corn and soybean seeds, before planting. Scientists monitored bees — honeybees and two types of wild bees — at 33 sites across Europe, in the United Kingdom, Germany and Hungary. At each site, the bees were placed near large fields of canola. Some of the fields contained canola grown from seeds that were treated with neonicotinoid pesticides, along with a standard fungicide. Other fields were planted with canola treated only with fungicides.
At most sites — specifically in Hungary and the United Kingdom — bees feeding on neonic-treated canola fields generally fared worse than bees that got to live around untreated canola. When exposed to neonics, wild bees and honeybees had more difficulty reproducing, and fewer honeybee colonies survived the winter.
The scientist who led the experiment, Richard Pywell, from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in the U.K., called the results "cause for concern."
But the experiment also revealed a complicated picture, because results were very different in Germany. There, honeybee colonies seemed to prosper, whether or not they were living near canola fields treated with neonicotinoids. In fact, honeybee colonies near neonic-treated fields produced more eggs, and more larvae. (Fewer colonies survived the winter, but the difference wasn't statistically significant.)
Pywell doesn't seem bothered by this discrepancy. "We think this is a really interesting result," he says. "We believe that this goes some way toward explaining the inconsistency of previous [research results]."
Apparently, the local environment plays a big role in whether bees are harmed by neonics. "We believe that other factors interact with neonicotinoid exposure to cause negative effects on honeybees and wild bees," Pywell says.
Pywell doesn't know exactly what those "other factors" might be — his experiment wasn't set up to examine them. But it did yield some clues.
Honeybees in Germany managed to find a much wider variety of flowers to feed on. In Hungary and the United Kingdom, 40 or 50 percent of the pollen collected by honeybees was from canola; in Germany, it was only about 10 percent. In Hungary, Pywell says, the bees were surrounded by huge fields of canola, and in the U.K., "because of modern farming, we've lost many of our wild flowers, so the crops are pretty much all that's there in the springtime."
Also, honeybees in Germany were relatively free of parasites, compared to bees in the U.K. and Hungary.
Pywell suspects that bees are particularly vulnerable to neonic exposure when they're highly dependent on pesticide-treated crops for food, and when they already are weakened by disease.
This is what Jeffrey Donald, a Bayer spokesman, highlighted in an email to The Salt. He wrote that "the study shows that when hives are healthy and relatively disease free and when bees have access to diverse forage, neonics do not pose a danger to colony health."
Interestingly, this study was funded in part by Bayer and another neonic manufacturer, Syngenta, but Pywell says his team of researchers "operated very independently."
In a separate field study, also published this week in Science, a team of Canadian researchers measured the levels of neonicotinoid pesticides that honeybees were exposed to at several sites in Ontario and Quebec. They compared colonies located close to corn fields with those that were farther away.
"The first surprise was that bees were bringing in pollen that was contaminated with neonicotinoids for most of the growing season — three or four months," says Amro Zayed, a professor of biology at York University in Toronto. "The next surprise was that most of the pollen, 99 percent of the pollen, was from wild plants. Not corn, and not soybeans."
Zayed says that apparently, neonic residues in farm fields get dissolved in groundwater, and some are taken up by the roots of wild plants.
Zayed and his colleagues didn't monitor bee health in the field, but they tried to replicate this field exposure to neonics in experiments with laboratory bees. What they found: Bees exposed to neonicotinoids didn't keep their hives as clean and lost their queens more often.
Nigel Raine, a specialist on bees at the University of Guelph, in Ontario, says that these experiments have helped to fill in details of a picture that scientist still don't fully understand. "The story for honeybees is complicated, but these two papers, taken together, are kind of the first field-level evidence that there can be measurable impacts on important aspects of colony development and colony survival in the field," he says.
The European study, he says, shows just how complicated the picture is. It shows that pesticides like neonicotinoids affect bees, but also reveals the importance of other factors, too.
"We shouldn't just focus on insecticides. They're part of the problem, but if we focus on that and then just say, 'OK, we understand that now, the problem's fixed,' I don't think that's right," Raine says. "We need to be clear about how we're managing landscapes, both agricultural and urban and more natural landscapes, to support healthy biodiversity of pollinators," he says.
European regulators have imposed a partial moratorium on neonicotinoid use.
In the U.S., the Environmental Protection Agency is taking a closer look at neonics, but it hasn't proposed any new restrictions on them.
And now some bad news for bees. There is new evidence that they are being harmed by some widely used pesticides though it may be only if the bees already are vulnerable. Here's NPR's Dan Charles.
DAN CHARLES, BYLINE: These pesticides are called neonicotinoids or neonics. They're usually coated on seeds like corn and soybean seeds before planting. Laboratory experiments show they're highly toxic to bees, but the company that sells most of them, Bayer, has argued there's no good evidence that they harm bees in the real world on farms. So Richard Pywell from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in the United Kingdom organized a field study.
RICHARD PYWELL: It was across three European countries - so that was Hungary, Germany and the United Kingdom - on 33 commercial farms. So it was unprecedented in its scale.
CHARLES: It was also partially funded by companies that make neonics. This week, the journal Science published the results. Pywell and his colleagues found that honeybees and wild bees that were living near crops treated with neonics generally did not do as well. They had more trouble reproducing. Colonies were less likely to survive the winter. Pywell says it's cause for concern. There was a big exception, though. In Germany, bees living near neonic-treated crops did just fine.
PYWELL: We think this is a really interesting finding.
CHARLES: Pywell says the bees in Germany were relatively free of parasites and disease. Also, they were able to find a lot more wildflowers to feed on, so they were healthier and the pesticide didn't bother them. Another neonic study, published alongside Pywell's this week, shows that bees near cornfields in Canada are getting potentially harmful doses of neonics all summer long in pollen that they gather. Amro Zayed from York University in Toronto says it wasn't pollen from the crops that had been treated with neonics.
AMRO ZAYED: Most of the pollen, 99 percent of the pollen, was actually from wild plants.
CHARLES: Apparently, neonic residues in farm fields get dissolved in water and then are taken up by the roots of wild plants. European regulators have imposed a partial moratorium on neonicotinoid use. In the U.S., the Environmental Protection Agency is taking a closer look at the pesticides, but it hasn't proposed any new restrictions on them. Dan Charles, NPR News.
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For ordinary Americans, don't count on any sensitive emails suddenly disappearing in a Houdini-like fashion like they did for former Internal Revenue Service executive Lois Lerner. Security experts say most Americans should be more concerned with their company's IT department reading their emails — not losing them.
The IRS said this week that Lerner's computer crashed in 2011, which made it extremely difficult for the agency to piece together the chain of events surrounding the IRS treatment of conservative groups. Experts say this is highly unusual, especially for American workers. "As a forensics investigator, if there's one thing that I can count on it's finding email," says Darren Hayes, director of cyber security and assistant professor at Pace University. "If a computer has crashed we can typically clone a hard drive and retrieve whatever files we need to." And because email is so pervasive with copies available from the sender, recipient, they reside on smart devices, email servers and a plethora of other storage devices, he adds.
There is one exception: "There can be challenges accessing a hard disk drive if a number of years have passed since a computer was last booted up," Hayes says. "We are sometimes at the mercy of IT department and the retention policy for their email server."
The situation at the IRS also runs counter to revelations last year that the government runs a widespread surveillance program monitoring call logs and electronic communications and, according to privacy experts, the way office computers work. And while the IRS may have lost emails, he says it's highly unlikely to happen for anyone else. "Assume that your life will be an open book to your employer," says Adam Levin, co-founder of online-security company Identity Theft 911.
Email-scanning programs like Websense and Spector Pro that scan for spam can also search for expletives or other keywords, experts say. In 2012, trader Greg Smith resigned publicly from Goldman Sachs and alleged that five different managing directors referred to their own clients as "muppets," sometimes over internal email. In 2012 the company began scanning employee emails for terms like "muppets," CEO Lloyd Blankfein reportedly said during a conference call shortly after Smith's public resignation. "We are required by law to maintain records of communication inside the firm in a searchable format," a spokeswoman for Goldman Sachs says. Media company Bloomberg has said it has monitored emails for profanity for more than a decade; when profanity is found, employees get a pop-up message highlighting the offending word, or the email may be blocked from being sent.
"The U.S. Constitution protects individuals against abuses by the government," Hayes says. "But there's not a lot of protection of data collected on individuals." Most U.S. privacy regulation is based on self-regulation, he says, where companies dictate their own policies on handling employee and customer privacy. In Europe, there are stricter government rules about collecting and using personal data; individuals must give their unambiguous consent, he says.
There has been some resistance to employers snooping into their staff's digital life. U.S. Reps. Ed Perlmutter (D., Colo.) and Peter Welch (D., Vt.) introduced the Password Protection Act of 2013 last year, which is intended to prevent employers from gaining access to online passwords. And in one incident in 2012, Kimberly Hester, a teacher's aide at an elementary school in Cassopolis, Mich., refused to show the school superintendent her Facebook page and was reportedly suspended as a result.
And it's not just email. Some companies routinely check phone records of employees, monitor what websites they visit, and read emails and instant messages. All texts, emails and correspondence on a work phone or via social media are subject to surveillance by employers, experts say.
Private email and social networking are not protected either, although laws differ from state to state. In 2012, Maryland became one of the first states to stop employers from accessing staffers' Facebook accounts, after Maryland corrections officer Robert Collins approached the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland in 2010, disturbed that he was required to provide his Facebook login and password to the Maryland Division of Corrections during a recertification interview. At that time, the department had a policy to screen for gang affiliations. California introduced a similar privacy bill earlier this year.
Of course, employers sometimes have reason to worry about what their employees might say about them, although there may be little they can do to prevent it. Last April, Mozilla's CEO and founder resigned after an uprising on Twitter, complaining about his support of California's Proposition 8 donation in 2008, which was a ballot proposition to ban gay marriage. And in January 2013, staff at the U.K. entertainment retailer HMV live blogged from a meeting where staff was being fired. One tweet: "Just overheard our Marketing Director (he's staying, folks) ask, 'How do I shut down Twitter?'
The bottom line, however: Monitoring of staff email and social media is the norm, says Diane Rodgers, senior human resources operations manager at CBIZ Human Capital Service, a national accounting and professional services provider in St. Louis. And in many cases, the monitoring starts even before the employee's first day: Some 37% of employers check an applicant's Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn profile before hiring, a 2012 survey by jobs listing site Careerbuilder.com found. And there's little need to hire security experts. "Most employers have their own internal IT resources," she says, "and it doesn't take a lot of outside expertise to search."
This story was updated from an earlier version.
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update on knight news challenge
I'm into the 2nd round, and up for votes again:
small worlds network: My take at Knight News Challenge
At T-2hrs, I put in my own little bid for the Knight News Challenge. Have a look, have your say, and if you fancy – vote:
this project will connect existing open-source tools and web2.0 sites to create a platform that will allow users to broadcast and subscribe to news by location, time, and topic. Users will be able to send and receive items by SMS, MMS, email, microblogs, RSS, instant messengers and social networking sites. Users will also be able to tag and rate incoming items. The unique feature of the system is the ability to define a subscription "radius", which will direct news from the proximity of the selected location / time / topic. For example, if I subscribe to sport news in a radius of 10km of my home, I will receive any item posted to that topic within that range. The proximity variance will create a dynamics of information cross-over, engendering unexpected links between communities of shared, or close, interest. Thus, the "small worlds" property of human networks will be expressed and enhanced, empowering individuals to access the knowledge they want and build communities around common agendas. The core of the system will be the news routing engine, which will collate items from a variety of sources and distribute them to masses of subscribers. The system will provide several straightforward user interfaces, via web, SMS commands, and iPhone and Android apps. More elaborate interfaces will be provided as components for social networking sites and mashups (e.g. with googlemaps). The requested funding is intended to cover the fist year of development and operation. After that, the system should sustain itself through advertising and commissioned channels. Users will have a choice of several subscription options, from free and open ad-supported to corporate rented closed and ad free. The free option will always be available, and will be supported by the paid ones.


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A couple of weeks ago, a very generous friend brought me a five-gallon bucket full of apples. After a bit of work washing and quartering...
....they were ready to be turned into beautiful, Red Hot applesauce!
And, because I know you are going to ask:
- Wash, peel, core, and chunk up or slice your apples. {Only washing and quartering are necessary if you have a food mill!}
- Over medium high heat in a large stockpot filled with a couple inches of water, cook your apples down until they are soft enough to either be mashed manually or put through your mill. I always used an old fashioned potato masher until I got my mill. It worked great, and gave a nice, semi-chunky consistency! I do not drain the water I cook the apples in. It will cook down quickly, so leaving the water in allows you to choose how thick you want your applesauce. If you like it a bit thinner, you can be done right here--a bit thicker, and you can just cook it down for a few minutes!
- After the apples are mashed/ground down to an applesauce consistency, return them to a large pot (pictured above--I do this in batches because I make so much at a time) and add Red Hot candies. For the 21 pints you see in the photo (plus two 8-cup containers that I kept uncanned for eating RIGHT NOW *yum*), I used seven theater-sized boxes of Red Hots (which don't contain nearly as much as you might think-I'd say there was maybe 3/4 cup in each box.)
The Red Hots give a wonderful cinnamon flavor and a great pinkish-red color. You can add more or less to your taste--but remember, start with less! You can always add more Red Hots, but you can't take them out once they are in there! I added less this year than I usually do, and we liked the sauce just as much as we always have.
If you try this for yourself, let me know how you liked it!


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FARMINGTON — A Gonic man charged with driving while intoxicated who allegedly provided a false name to authorities has also been charged with theft of a motor vehicle by Rochester police.
Farmington police arrested Derek D. Ford, 36, of Church Street, Gonic, on Friday, Jan. 4 for a subsequent DWI charged, resisting arrest, disobeying an officer, driving after revocation or suspension, transporting alcoholic beverages, three bench warrants and receiving stolen property. Rochester police have subsequently charged Ford with theft of a motor vehicle for allegedly stealing his roommate's borrowed maroon 2000 Ford Windstar van from the Walmart parking lot on Farmington Road beyond the Farmington town line that same day. Ford is charged with receiving stolen property for driving the vehicle into Farmington.
According to court documents, a woman allowed another woman, identified as Ford's roommate, to borrow her van and drive it to Walmart on Jan. 4 in the early evening. The female roommate allowed Ford to accompany her on the trip and left him in the vehicle with keys while she went inside the store. The woman called police to report the missing vehicle around 6 p.m. when she returned to the parking lot and found it was gone.
Farmington Police Chief Kevin Willey said police were then called to the area of Poor Farm Road around 6:30 p.m. when a passerby reported a maroon van had gone off the road. The caller had interaction with the driver, Ford, and believed he had been drinking.
The responding officer found Ford intoxicated with a strong smell of alcohol, according to court documents, and the suspect allegedly told the officer his name was "Aaron Robidus."
As Ford was placed under arrest, he struggled with one of two officers on scene as he was being handcuffed. He was then put on the ground before being transported to Farmington station.
In a court document, a Farmington officer noted upon returning to the station he heard the Strafford County Dispatch Center had put out a "be on the lookout" request to area police departments for the missing maroon van. The dispatch center told the Farmington officer Ford was known to resist and provide false information to law enforcement, according to court documents. Ford then allegedly confessed to providing a false name and police found three bench warrants in his record from Merrimack County with $2,500 cash bail attached.
Ford reportedly refused bail from the Farmington Police Department and was housed at Strafford County House of Corrections where he awaited his Jan. 7 arraignment. He has since been ordered held on bail for $5,000 cash, to be released with GPS tracking if accepted into the Community Corrections programs. He is to refrain from possessing weapons, firearms or ammunition, to refrain for excessive alcohol and drugs and to have no contact with or go within 100 yards of his female roommate or her acquaintance from whom she borrowed the van.
Ford will face a probable cause hearing on that charge Tuesday afternoon at 1 p.m. in Rochester Circuit Court.


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Lip service to serving employees and preventing burnout won't suffice. Action works. Action that incorporates solutions and ideas suggested by your team will serve the ultimate client, the member.
Kate Larsen is president of Winning LifeStyles Inc. She is a keynote speaker, workshop leader, professionally certified coach and author specializing in leadership development, work/life balance and coaching skills. Her 16 of years experience as a fitness instructor and certified personal trainer give her practical expertise and knowledge. She can be reached at (888) Lif-Walk or www.katelarsen.com.
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Analysis of December 14, 2009 US Supreme Court Decision Regarding Chrysler Sale.
ANALYSIS OF US SUPREME COURT'S RULING in POLICE PENSION TRUST, ET AL. V. CHRYSLER LLC, ET AL by Leo Donofrio, Esq.
While today's ruling by the US Supreme Court is bad for the Indiana Pension Fund, it does not adversely affect our clients (a group of former Chrysler dealers lead by James Anderer) in any way. Our clients were never part of that appeal and the legal issues raised by the Indiana Pension Fund are vastly different from the issues we will raise. This decision today is somewhat helpful to our case in that by vacating the lower court's judgment, the US Supreme Court has stripped the prior Court of Appeals ruling of having any precedential effect on our clients.
The US Supreme Court has wisely ordered the 2d Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate its judgment below and therefore any precedent that might have been set as to the Indiana Pension Fund's lack of standing to challenge the use of TARP funds has been set aside by the US Supreme Court. This was a very wise choice by the SCOTUS. Had they simply denied certiorari without vacating the 2d Circuit's ruling, precedent would have been set. But since that ruling has been vacated, the TARP issue is still very much fair game.
The TARP issue is not related to our pending filing in the Bankruptcy Court, but it will be part of our Quo Warranto action in the DC District Court.
The SCOTUS today gave guidance on this issue by making reference to its prior decision in – United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), wherein it was held:
The established practice of the Court in dealing with a civil case from a court in the federal system which has become moot while on its way here or pending our decision on the merits is to reverse or vacate the judgment below and remand with a direction to dismiss. [Footnote 2] That was said in Duke Power Co. v. Greenwood County, 299 U. S. 259, 299 U. S. 267, to be "the duty of the appellate court".
That procedure clears the path for future relitigation of the issues between the parties and eliminates a judgment review of which was prevented through happenstance. When that procedure is followed, the rights of all parties are preserved; none is prejudiced by a decision which in the statutory scheme was only preliminary.
So, the first paragraph above sums up today's SCOTUS action perfectly. They vacated the Court of Appeals decision and remanded with an instruction to dismiss the appeal for mootness. The second paragraph above explains the rationale.
I anticipate a plethora of improper interpretations on this mootness issue in relation to our clients' rights. So it's important to explain what the Indiana Pension Fund was asking the upper courts to do. It was essentially asking that the sale of Chrysler (Old Car Co) to Fiat (New Car Co) be invalidated.
But the Indiana Pension Fund failed to provide the upper courts with a legal argument worthy of circumventing Section 363(m) of the Bankruptcy Code which states:
(363m) The reversal or modification on appeal of an authorization under subsection (b) or (c) of this section of a sale or lease of property does not affect the validity of a sale or lease under such authorization to an entity that purchased or leased such property in good faith, whether or not such entity knew of the pendency of the appeal, unless such authorization and such sale or lease were stayed pending appeal.
The Indiana Pension Fund has not challenged the sale on appeal by alleging that Fiat purchased Chrysler in bad faith. The following is from the Indiana Pension Fund's petition for certiorari to the US Supreme Court:
So, the Indiana Pension Fund waived its right to argue that Fiat purchased in bad faith and they got slammed to the mat today as a result. As to this issue, the Bankruptcy Court originally stated:
The sale was authorized by Judge Gonzalez in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York on June 1, 2009. And the protections of 363(m) – as to the purchaser – kicked in at that precise moment. The statute indicates that the mootness issue relates back to the date the sale was authorized (not the date the sale closed).
Therefore, even if authority for the sale could have been reversed on the grounds of illegal use of TARP funds or a finding that Old Chrysler acted in bad faith, absent a showing that Fiat acted in bad faith – or that the sale had been stayed pending appeal – the sale could not be invalidated due to the protections of 363(m). Hence, appealing the sale was held to be moot because the SCOTUS interpreted that the relief sought by the Indiana Pension Fund could not be accomplished without invalidating the sale. I will explain this in more detail below. But first we need to examine the original stay issued by the 2d Circuit Court of Appeals and thereafter extended by SCOTUS because this is what will puzzle many commentators the most.
The Indiana Pension Fund appealed to the 2d Circuit Court of Appeals and a stay pending appeal was issued by that court on June 2d, 2009. Therefore, at first glance it appears that 363(m) would not render a successful appeal moot in this case since the statute makes an exception that sale authorizations can be held invalid on appeal if the original sale authorization had been stayed pending appeal. But, on June 1st 2009, Judge Gonzalez did not stay his sale authorization pending appeal. It was only stayed on June 2d by the Court of Appeals.
Therefore, by the time the Indiana Pension Fund came to the 2d Circuit Court of Appeals on June 2d, 2009, according to 363(m), the issue as presented by the Indiana Pension Fund was moot because it did not allege that the purchaser (Fiat) acted in bad faith.
This is why the SCOTUS remanded the case back to the 2d Circuit Court of Appeals with an instruction to vacate their original judgment and dismiss the appeal as being moot. It doesn't matter that back on June 2d the Court of Appeals issued a stay and that the stay was extended by SCOTUS for a few days. After proper briefing on the issue and time to study the law, SCOTUS correctly determined that in order for an appeal such as this to not be moot under 363(m) – absent a bad faith purchaser – the court issuing authorization for the sale would have been required to also stay their own sale authorization at the time such authorization was issued, which did not happen here. Judge Gonzalez did not order the sale stayed pending appeal on June 1st.
The Indiana Pension Fund understood the power of 363(m) and tried a novel effort to circumvent it in their SCOTUS brief by arguing that the relief they requested wouldn't amount to an invalidation of the sale. But it appears that the SCOTUS did not agree the incredible relief requested could be granted without unwinding the sale.
The Indiana Pension Fund was asking that VEBA (United Auto Workers Union et. al.) return to the estate a $4.6 billion dollar note and common stock. But this would have effectively changed the entire sale drastically and it appears that SCOTUS saw this as an invalidation of the sale. Such invalidation is not authorized under 363(m). VEBA is now a 55 percent owner of New Chrysler and any attempt to circumvent their deal would have negative effects on the purchaser in that VEBA would have to begin negotiations with all parties again and the sale would certainly be invalidated by effect notwithstanding the lack of a court order stating as much.
So, I agree with SCOTUS that the relief requested by the Indiana Pension Fund would have amounted to an invalidation of the sale. However, the Indiana Pension Fund was correct to point out that legal precedent exists for other aspects of the sale proceeds to be redistributed upon a proper showing of cause. Relief associated to the direct cash payment of $2 billion dollars to Chrysler's first lien lenders would not have an effect on the validity of the sale as that money and its distribution has nothing to do with the purchaser (Fiat/New Chrysler) and does not concern the assets purchased. Unwinding that distribution is not protected by 363(m). Regardless, the Indiana Pensioners have already been given their share of those funds at 29 cents on the dollar.
I do not wish to reveal our litigation strategy going forward. Our clients were not part of the Indiana Pension Fund appeal and the issues we will raise are vastly different and pertain to other sections of the Bankruptcy Code and applicable case law not mentioned in this analysis. We also believe that the Indiana Pension Fund failed to identify a nexus of bad faith necessary to their case not being moot. We do not plan on making the same mistake.
Leo C. Donofrio for the Law Office of Pidgeon and Donofrio
December 14, 2009, 1:56PM
P.S. Today's SCOTUS ruling needed to be explained. Therefore, I have opened the blog up for this limited purpose. I do not anticipate publishing again until other court decisions are issued.


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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Once again, I am compelled to apologize for the title. I just couldn't help myself. If it's any consolation, there's more to the doggerel that I've spared you (ie, it didn't fit in the title field).
The story today is about scientists examining 6000-year-old bones excavated from Jericho decades ago to trace the evolution of tuberculosis. The bones show extensive evidence of TB infection, and given Jericho's advanced age, some of them might yield clues to the early transmission of the disease.
Examining human and animal bones will give the researchers insight into the first people living in a crowded situation and how they developed crowd diseases; the nature of human-animal interaction; the MTB strains that were present in founder populations, the changes in the DNA of both microbes and people and how those changes affected the disease's development.
"We may have an opportunity to identify the real bugs that harmed humankind," said Dr. Andreas Nerlich of Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich. The bones will be tested for tuberculosis, leprosy, leishmania and malaria, however, the primary focus in the first funding period will be mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC).
The most significant results, the researchers say, will come from comparing data for humans and corresponding animal remains. Initial results already contained one surprise, Nerlich said. "We did not find mycobacterium bovis. We tend to think that [diseases] come from cows to humans, but it could have been the other way around."
Spigelman adds that Atlit Yam is one of the first villages in which a large number of cow bones were found, indicating domestication of the animal. "And yet the TB strain is modern TB and not bovis. So the theory is that we gave TB to the cows," he said.
Oh man, we really don't need this information getting out. If the cows hear about it they will make us pay. And after they gave us cowpox to keep us safe from the far meaner pox. There will be bovine hell to pay.


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It seems that they are motivated enough by allegations involving a case which, if true, had nothing to do with the Oratory or Cardinal Burke, as the alleged perpetrator was not assigned to St. Francis de Sales parish during the alleged incidents and the alleged abuse took place before Cardinal Burke became Archbishop.
Ironically enough, the alleged abuse, if true, did take place while the priest was assigned to the "progressive" parish of St. Cronan. But I doubt the good folks at SNAP have any intention of causing a fuss there. Too many friends.
If you were wavering about whether to attend the Solemn Eucharistic Exposition and Benediction tonight at 5 pm, please consider going to support our beloved Archbishop-Emeritus.


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Well-heeled buyers of Audi's new 2006 A8 sedan (are there any other kind?) can choose optional seating packages that will boost the flagship's price by $11,500. The special interiors, available on standard and long-wheelbase models, are accompanied by enough suitably exotic-sounding verbiage to make a Soho interior decorator blush: Valcona leather in a choice of classic red, "Cognac" and "Mojave Sand" colors, wood trim in "Myrtle Nutmeg" (for the classic red leather), "Maple Copper" (Cognac) and "Poplar Saffron" (Mojave Sand), along with a "wooden" shift knob (hey, you tricked us!).
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Yeah, don't remind me. Next time the Dems should put out a better candidate.
Highly ammused by the idea of "evolutionists"...
I don't have the energy to rewrite it all. But my major point was that I disagree that everyone has a superiority complex, and in fact, I gave a compelling argument for my belief that the (at least in THIS country) fundamentalist christians have a stronger superiority complex than those with other beliefs.
I do see your point, and I concede that the visible fundamentalist Christians in this country do have a superiority complex. Who else can trash the judiciary without repercussion or suggest the assassination of a foreign leader? I like it when people work together, and I think they should, even fundamental Christians!
LOL, no, it's the truth. I'm a wait-for-marriage guy.
Oh, those pesky evolutionists, with their so-called "facts"... they are so stubborn!Spare me.


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bum out
1. To sadden one or cause one to feel disappointed. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "bum" and "out." I can't watch the news because it always bums me out. Todd just heard that he didn't get the job, and he's really bummed out.
2. To annoy. My parents were really bummed out when they heard from the principal that I had cut class.
3. To do something badly. I guess I bummed out on the interview because I didn't get the job.
4. To have an unpleasant experience with a recreational drug. I don't take that drug anymore because I really bummed out the last time.
bum someone out
Sl. to disappoint someone. This menial job really bums me out. The bad movie bummed out the entire audience.
bum out
Sl. to have a bad experience. (Originally referred to a bad experience with drugs.) Are you going to bum out again tonight? Man, is he bummed out!
bum out
1. Depress, sadden, dispirit, as in He's been really bummed out since his girlfriend moved to California. [Slang; late 1960s]
2. Annoy, irritate, vex, as in That haircut will really bum out his parents. [Slang; c. 1970]
3. Fail badly, as in I got through the midterm, but I bummed out totally on the final exam. This usage is student slang. [Late 1960s]
bum out
1. in. to have a bad experience with drugs. (Drugs.) I bummed out on angel dust.
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bum someone out
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bummed (out)
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Music is all about timing. So are movies. That's why the indie "Who Do You Love" sinks in the shallow end.
The film is biopic about Leonard Chess who founded Chess Records and introduced the world to the sounds of such musical luminaries as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Etta James and Bo Diddley. "At Last," the song the Obamas used to ring in the president's inauguration, was brought to you by Chess Records.
Are you having déjà vu? That's because you've already seen this film. It came out two years ago and it was called "Cadillac Records," but last time it had a much bigger budget and cast filled with marquee names like Adrien Brody and Beyonce Knowles. "Who Do You Love" only pales in comparison, which isn't saying much considering the lukewarm response its' predecessor received from audiences and critics.
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Following a similar paint-by-numbers musical biopic formula, Alessandro Nivola takes the lead as a driven but removed Chess, David Oyelowo proves a dynamic Muddy Waters, and Chi McBride is scene stealing as Dixon. But the film never rises above the expected and, with the exception of a few triumphant moments in the recording studio, director Jerry Zaks recreates a story that feels more like chamber music rather than rhythm and blues.
"Who Do You Love" is predictable and reductive (i.e.: when a red neck is cured of his racism through a harmonica duet), but the music is undeniable. The film's greatest achievement is in passing the Chess catalog along to new ears with songs like "Gone Fishing" and "Stuff You Gotta Watch." But that's a reason to visit iTunes, not your local movie theater.


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