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We've come a long, long way together – through the hard times and the good I need to celebrate you baby I need to praise you like I should…….
March 1971 was my first visit to The Goldstone Ground in Hove, to see Alan Duffy, Brian Powney in goal, John and Kit Napier, Peter O'Sullivan, John Templeman, Norman Gall. Amazing that I can remember pretty much the whole team. Tattooed on the brain. Went with a group of kids from the Lewes Priory football team : Martin Cooper, Conrad Ryle, Simon Lester – we played on Saturday morning then went into Brighton in the afternoon for a Division Three game v Port Vale. We stood in the North Stand with the hooligans, scarves wrapped around our wrists. Jumped up and down singing Knees Up Mother Brown and the Banana Splits Song. A year later, we were the hooligans, marching through the cold wet streets of Watford and Luton singing our songs of Albion and war. Andrew Holmes joined the gang. John Hawkins. Paul my brother. Conrad's older brother Martin was a regular too but he stood in the Chicken Run – the East Stand which was a stone terrace with a few metal railings to lean on (prized positions). That season we played Aston Villa on Good Friday and Reading on Easter Monday – maybe it was the season after, standing in a crowd of 36,000 people. As a slightly dysfunctional teenager with a tenuous and insecure family life, the idea of playing at home was powerful. For an atheist to stand with my fellow man and woman and sing in our thousands replaced any religious feelings I may have had left by the age of fourteen. In other words, I was hooked.
The legendary Brian Clough came down to manage us with his assistant Peter Taylor. The most memorable game from that tenure was an 8-2 home defeat to Bristol Rovers, still a club record failure, and a 0-4 defeat in the FA Cup to Walton & Hersham, a part-time club. Clough would go on to two European Cup wins with Nottingham Forest and was the best manager that England never appointed. Taylor stayed and signed Peter Ward who became club legend goalscorer, but was replaced with ex-Tottenham & England man Alan Mullery – he became a club legend manager himself and took us to promotion in 1979 away at Newcastle United. By now I was a student at the LSE. I would come down for games on a Saturday, and my Glaswegian friend Lewis McLeod would come along too, despite being a Rangers fan. By now we were standing in the Chicken Run. The team swept all before them and rose to the elite with a 3-1 win at St James' Park. I travelled up alone on the train, even bravely venturing into a Newcastle public house on my own before joining the huddled masses in the Away end, celebrating a legendary victory and travelling back on the train with the blue & white family and endless cans of beer and joy.
Manager Alan Mullery with the team 1980
The following season we went to some exciting away games – Manchester City, Aston Villa, Tottenham Hotspur. I got punched at Tottenham after the game. Martin Ryle told a mounted policeman about it and pointed out who'd hit me and we saw the kid getting sandwiched between two police horses just down the High Road. Enjoyed that. Four seasons in the top flight. On Match Of The Day now and again. Nobby Horton in midfield, Steve Foster playing centre-half, with a headband. Mike Robinson, Gordon Smith, Jimmy Case. Beating Liverpool in the Cup two seasons running, playing Sheffield Wednesday in the semi-final at Highbury literally a few hundred yards from where I lived with Mumtaz in Finsbury Park in 1983, Winning 2-1. Sitting on my stoop with my scarf on watching the fans streaming away from the game. Magic. Failing to get Cup Final tickets, watching on TV as Jimmy Melia's team drew with Manchester United 2-2 and almost winning in the final minute. And Smith Must Score…ohhhhh. But Robinson should have scored in retrospect. We lost the replay 4-0 and were relegated in the same season.
Things declined after that, gradually. At some point in the 1980s I started to collect grounds – and picked up places like Sheffield Wednesday, Ipswich Town, Fulham, Leicester City and Rochdale. The chairman Mike Bamber who'd brought in Mullery lost control and this fuckwit called Bill Archer took over. Greg Stanley was his stooge on the board. And David Bellotti, failed Lib Dem candidate for Eastbourne was his gofer. Between them they nearly took the club to extinction. By now I was sitting in the West Stand when I came down for games – I'd now watched the team from 3 sides of the Goldstone Ground. Just as I moved back to Sussex and had a season ticket for the first time in my life, things went downhill rapidly.
Albion walk out for their last home game at the Goldstone, 1997
I made friends with Ian Hart, Worthing undertaker who ran a fanzine called Gull's Eye with Peter Kennard and I wrote a few columns for them about the resistance movement. We became aware that Archer was planning to sell the ground "to pay debts". A huge campaign got underway to resist this asset-stripping. We picketed the ground one day and tried to stop fans from going in. Thousands stayed outside, then broke through the flimsy gate of the Chicken Run at half time and got onto the pitch and up into the director's box, mingled with the away fans too, all of whom were aware of our plight and supported us.
There was a Fans United match at the Goldstone (which I couldn't make) when we played Hartlepool, and Doncaster Rovers in particular had helped to organise fans from every club come down and publicise what was happening to the Albion. Bellotti was barracked at every game and had police protection – although he never came to any harm, often he would be asked to leave by the police.
Then the York City game at the end of the '96/97 season when the pitch invasion after 15 minutes left a broken crossbar and a huge sit-in with match abandoned. 2 Points deducted but now everyone knew what was afoot, too late to change the outcome.
Dick Knight took over but the sale was done. The last game at The Goldstone, our home, was against Doncaster Rovers. It was like a funeral. I sat in the South Stand for the first and last time, and had watched my team from all four sides of the Goldstone. We ran onto the pitch after the match and people started take the place apart for keepsakes. Seats. Signs. Anything. I got a large chunk of the pitch which I kept in a flowerpot in the garden, trimmed with scissors and sporting a subbuteo goal. Meanwhile after being 13 points adrift at the foot of the table we finally need a point in the last game, away to Hereford United which meant the losers were out of the League. I couldn't face the implications or the game and chose to go to the Dome for a Mahler concert on a Saturday afternoon, swerving the tension and feelings of sickness, coming out at 5pm and asking the nearest bystander the result. Pre-internet of course. We drew 1-1, Robbie Reinelt scoring the all important goal – Hereford were down and out, we'd survived. This period of the Albion's history – the guerrilla warfare, the back-stabbing, the surge of fan's anger and magnificent commitment to their club is recorded by Steve North and Paul Hodson in the memorable book Build A Bonfire.
Albion legend, another saviour : Dick Knight
But the ground had been sold for £7 million and we were homeless. Debts were paid but one year later the Goldstone was re-sold : this time for £28 million. It turned out that Bill Archer had sold the ground to himself and then made a £21 million profit out of our homelessness – the worst kind of scum. Albion played at Gillingham for two seasons, 75 miles away, to meagre crowds and an impoverished atmosphere. I usually drove there, and we'd congregate in the pub, defiant, phlegmatic. The spirit of the fans and our indomitable sense of humour is illustrated beautifully with a small anecdote from Colchester United FC where I'd gone with Martin Ryle and his son Jude for a League game. Fans being cruel the Colchester massive taunted us with "Where's The Goldstone gone, where's the Goldstone gone?" to the tune of Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. Came the immediate response from the Albion faithful : "It's a Toys R Us, it's a Toys R Us". We have the best songs – out of necessity. When we hear "Town full of queers" (Guantanamera) or "Does Your Boyfriend know you're here?" (Bread of Heaven) we traditionally sing "You're too ugly to be gay". I'm proud to be a Brighton fan, not afraid to sing about being gay. Came home with relief to the Withdean Stadium in 1999, an athletics track converted with temporary stands and a two-bob portakabin atmosphere. Micky Adams arrived and bought young striker Bobby Zamora and suddenly we were on the up again, winning two promotions in successive seasons. I met him once at a Club do, just as it had been announced he was leaving for Leicester. I think he'd been getting stick all night because when I thanked him for everything and wished him all the best for his future he was genuinely pleased and thanked me in return. But it was all two steps forward, one step back, what we needed more than anything else was a proper ground. The campaign for Falmer Stadium was long and bitter and took in various local heroes like Paul Samrah, Paul Whelch (RIP another LSE graduate), Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) and Skint Records, Paul Camillin, Dick Knight of course and John Baine – Attila The Stockbroker – with whom I'd made a protest single – 'We Want Falmer' b/w 'Sussex By The Sea' which got to number 17 in the charts (see My Pop Life #51). One of my more memorable days was the protest outside the Labour Party Conference on Brighton Seafront when one fan appeared with a sign reading : Prescott : Mother Cooked Socks In Hull.
Skint Records and Norman were having a moment or three in the sun. Based in Middle Street in The Lanes, with co-owner & Arsenal fan Damian Harris as Midfield General (I would later appear on one of his records) and Norman as Fatboy Slim they adopted the Seagulls in 1999 and provided shirt sponsorship during this critical 9-year period. My favourite Albion shirt has their name on it.
The logo was pertinent and a frank admission of status – we were broke. Rumour had it that Norman was paying Bobby Zamora's wages in exchange for a car-park space : the many ramifications of playing at Withdean included a no-parking zone around the stadium. I used to park and walk like many other fans – sometimes I'd take the bus from the bottom of Trafalgar Street after a few pints of Harveys.
Norman – and his wife Zoe Ball (now separated) – are integrated members of the Brighton & Hove community, around and about at openings, screenings, football matches, club nights and very supportive of the local scene – like their local successful brothers Stomp – in many and diverse ways. They were at the premiere of The Murmuration (see My Pop Life #87 ) at The Booth Museum in Dyke Road. Norm was an usher at Patrick Sullivan's wedding in Rottingdean when we all went to the pub both before and after the service. I once watched a Liverpool v Chelsea European Cup game round his house with Jim and Pat which was faintly awkward – I was the only one supporting Liverpool… then I called Norman once to ask about vintage recording equipment as texture for my abandoned Session Musician documentary Red Light Fever (see My Pop Life #116) and others) and he very kindly offered me some interesting space to shoot an interview with bass player Les Hurdle (who'd recorded with Giorgio Moroder and The Foundations among others). We've seen Norman DJ at two World Cups – in Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro parties, playing records for football fans. He is a proper decent bloke, and very good at his job needless to say. The records that Skint put out at the end of the 20th & beginning of the 21st Century helped to define Brighton as the number one party city in Europe – Rockefeller Skank, Right Here, Right Now, Praise You, Weapon of Choice, Gangster Trippin' and many remix remake remodels too. We all celebrated the big beat culture which started on Brighton seafront and conquered the world, peaking in July 2002 when 250,000 flocked and danced to Big Beat Boutique 2 where the Skint DJs partied all day and all night between the piers.
Big Beach Boutique II, July 2002, Brighton Beach
Planning permission for Falmer Stadium was finally granted after a long struggle. Nobody wanted the football fans on their doorstep. Every version of the plan for a stadium was met with objection. But it happened. We'd fought an imaginative campaign and got the nod – Martin Perry was instrumental in achieving the result and building the actual finished stadium, alongside every single Brighton fan from that time, including my friend Ian Andrews who'd worked at the club since the 90s being brought in by Dick Knight, and running the accounts through the Withdean years. I would sit with Ian, David Cuff, Adrian Simons, Julian Benkel and Mark Griffin – and indeed with actor Mark Williams during this period – or we would meet in the Lord Nelson on Trafalgar Street, famous Albion pub. All good friends still.
All the trials and tribulations have brought the club closer to the city of Brighton. We are now a true community club. After all the noise, litter and scare stories about the middle class enclave of Withdean being invaded by football hooligans, the last game there was rather emotional.
As promotion to the Championship beckoned, Julian and myself went on a few last away trips to places where I didn't think the team would be playing again (with respect to those clubs of course) : Hartlepool United, Northampton Town, Dagenham & Redbridge. Ian gave me a hard hat and showed me around the Falmer foundations one memorable afternoon in 2009 :
Myself and Ian Andrews, Falmer Stadium 1st December 2009
The Amex today – photograph ©Peter Whitcomb
The first game at the new stadium was a friendly against Tottenham Hotspur – my wife's team and all of her family. We had season tickets to the new ground, David Cuff had been among the first to gain access and we were 12 rows back from the front, bang central, near the dugouts where the managers, trainers and substitutes sat and alongside the press box. When the music of Sussex By The Sea started up across this magnificent sparkling brand new arena filled with fans, and the two teams walked out onto the sacred green sward, a tear rolled down my cheek and my chest was full of emotion. Home. Our Home. And the first League game was against… Doncaster Rovers. By then the chairman was Tony Bloom who been on the board for many years but slowly acquired a greater percentage of control. Dick Knight was made President for Life, and Tony funded the stadium and, later, the brand new state-of-the art training ground at Lancing near Shoreham Airport. A Brighton fan all of his life, two of his uncles were on previous Boards of the club. Bloom made his money in online gambling and has now invested over £250 million into Brighton & Hove Albion. That is a local hero.
We still can't match the budgets of our main rivals – this season Newcastle United, Aston Villa and Norwich. But life isn't all about money. There is something about trying to win games of football which is a mystical alchemical process – a team event at which all have to be present, an undefined nebulous concept called confidence, determination, spirit, something a manager worth his salt can produce in players, week in, week out. Gus Poyet managed it with a legendary season in the final year at Withdean ( final away game at Walsall pictured below) when we were promoted once again.
Andy Holmes (for it is he), Julian Benkel, David Cuff at Walsall
We opened Falmer Stadium – now called The Amex in the Championship. At the end of that magnificent 2nd season in the new arena, we stumbled at the final hurdle in a terrible match at home to Crystal Palace in the play-offs as Poyet reportedly had resigned to the players in the dressing room before the game. Or was he pushed? His relationship with the club had deteriorated to an alarming degree over those final months, but it was a fatal flaw in a great footballing brain. I met Gus on the tube once in London and he was sincerely enthusiastic and charming talking about The Seagulls. Oscar Garcia and Sami Hyypia came and went and then Chris Hughton, ex Spurs defender and living legend arrived and took us to the play-offs once again last season – the third time in four years. Over the disappointment of last summer – 2016 – he kept the same group of players together and added a spine – Duffy, Murray, Norwood, Sidwell. Anthony Knockaert was our enlightenment, Bruno Salter our soul, Lewis Dunk our local hero along with Hailsham boy Solly March, Dale Stephens our midfield maestro along with Beram Kayal, David Stockdale our rock between the sticks, Glen Murray our shark goalscorer, Tomer Hemed our spearhead. Chris Hughton our football genius. Tony Bloom our saviour.
Tony Bloom celebrates Promotion 2017
Since moving to New York in 2014 I've let my season ticket lapse. I've watched two games per season basically. Last season I wandered in to two more grounds – Bolton Wanderers and Wolverhampton Wanderers. I saw two games this season, both at home, against Huddersfield and Leeds : both tough games, both wins. We've been in the top two all season, have now been promoted to the Premiership and are one win away from the title – first place – and the Championship Trophy which will represent the finest achievement of this football club in it's 116-year history. A new chapter awaits.
Anthony Knockaert celebrates at the Amex. The Premiership beckons
I've been watching games on my computer where I can. Following on Twitter. I've had a lifetime of watching the Albion, ups and downs. I miss the pints and the cameraderie, the team sheet and the songs. The moaning about the ref. The irritating opposition player. The pies. But at least now I get to watch the team on TV – for here in America, all the Premiership games are screened live. You can record them. And doubtless I'll be in England to watch one or two.
We have come a long long way together. I need to celebrate you baby. Yesterday, 17th April 2017, my beloved Brighton & Hove Albion were promoted to the Premier League.


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Rancher says coal ash regulation is overdue
In Montana, clean water is the lifeblood of any successful ranch. I know this, because I am a fourth-generation rancher in southeastern Montana. My great-grandfather, a Scottish immigrant, settled along the banks of Rosebud Creek in the 1880s because of its abundance of clean water, both aboveground and below it.
I'm sure he never dreamed that, 100 years later, pollution from nearby coal-fired power plants would put everything he'd built in jeopardy.
In the small town of Colstrip, about 120 miles east of Billings, construction of four coal-fired power plants began in the 1970s and 1980s. Along with these power plants came huge coal-ash ponds and big open pits filled with coal ash, the toxic remains from burning coal. Coal ash is full of dangerous chemicals like arsenic, lead, selenium, chromium and mercury, and it constitutes our nation's second-largest industrial waste. Ranchers in my area were concerned that our water would be contaminated by this pollution, but we were always assured that the waste ponds would be lined with impermeable materials and would not leak.
That was just the first of many lies we were told.
One coal ash pond, built in the 1990s, has failed 18 times, affecting the people of Colstrip. Testing of a reservoir adjacent to another coal ash pond has shown sulfate levels to be at 2,000 parts per million -- higher than the toxic threshold for cattle. In 2009, a group of 57 homeowners were awarded $25 million after a successful lawsuit against Pennsylvania-based PPL, owner of the power plants, for contaminating drinking water wells in homes and businesses just north of town, just 10 miles from my ranch. But all of us residents worry that the water in our community continues to be contaminated by toxic coal ash, and thepower companies, the state government and the federal government aren't doing anything to stop it.
In 2008, a massive coal ash pond failed in Kingston, Tenn., spilling over 1 billion gallons of toxic coal ash into a nearby river and surrounding area. Three hundred acres were poisoned, and two dozen homes were damaged or destroyed. Miraculously, no one was injured, but residents of that small town have been forced to move in order to avoid the coal ash deluge. That catastrophe inspired the Environmental Protection Agency to introduce thefirst-ever federally enforceable safeguards against coal ash. Nearly four years after theKingston event, we Montanans still wait for those protections from coal ash to be applied to our community.
That delay could become permanent if a group of zealous members of Congress get their way. Last month, the House of Representatives passed a transportation bill that included an unrelated amendment that would prohibit the EPA from ever setting federal coal ash protections. The amendment would make coal ash less regulated than coffee grounds and banana peels. Republican Rep. David McKinley of West Virginia led the industry-favored legislation. The controversial group American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) adopted a resolution in 2010 that mirrors the legislation McKinley proposed. Tacking his dirty amendment to a must-pass bill that is designed to ensure the safety of our roads and communities insults the millions of Americans -- myself included -- who live near coal ash dumping grounds.
When will enough be enough? The EPA says that it has identified 46 coal ash dumpsites where containment failure will result in a loss of human life. Already, nearly 200 coal ash sites around the country have been found to be contaminated by arsenic, selenium, mercury, hexavalent chromium or other toxic chemicals. This is water that people fish in, swim in, boat on, and depend on. I know that my cattle drink from ponds containing chemicals from coal ash.
This threat is real, and even as the EPA moves slowly to enact federal safeguards, some people in Congress want to make sure those safeguards never happen at all. Yet it is clear that the status quo is a failure that makes the land and the people who live on it sick. It's time that our government becomes a government that is truly of the people, for the people, and by the people, with big polluters no longer getting a free pass.
Clint McRae is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a rancher in southeastern Montana.


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Social Cues Are Difficult for People with Schizophrenia
New research finds that impairment in a brain area make it difficult for people with schizophrenia to understand the nonverbal actions of others.
"Misunderstanding social situations and interactions are core deficits in schizophrenia," said psychologist Dr. Sohee Park of Vanderbilt University. "Our findings may help explain the origins of some of the delusions involving perception and thoughts experienced by those with schizophrenia."
Researchers found that a particular brain area, the posterior superior temporal sulcus or STS, appears to be implicated in this deficit.
"Using brain imaging together with perceptual testing, we found that a brain area in a neural network involved in perception of social stimuli responds abnormally in individuals with schizophrenia," said co-author Randolph Blake, Ph.D.
"We found this brain area fails to distinguish genuine biological motion from highly distorted versions of that motion."
"We have found… that people with schizophrenia tend to 'see' living things in randomness and this subjective experience is correlated with an increased activity in the (posterior) STS," the authors wrote.
"In the case of biological motion perception, these self-generated, false impressions of meaning can have negative social consequences, in that schizophrenia patients may misconstrue the actions or intentions of other people."
In their experiments, the researchers compared the performance of people with schizophrenia to that of healthy controls on two visual tasks.
One task involved deciding whether or not an animated series of lights depicted the movements of an actor's body. The second task entailed judging subtle differences in the actions depicted by two similar animations viewed side by side.
On both tasks, people with schizophrenia performed less well than the healthy controls.
Next, the researchers measured brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while the subjects—healthy controls and schizophrenia patients—performed a version of the side-by-side task.
Once again, the individuals with schizophrenia performed worse on the task. The researchers were then able to correlate those performance deficits with the brain activity in each person.
Researchers do not yet understand this specific brain area in schizophrenia patients fails to differentiate normal human activity from non-human motion. They speculate that this abnormal brain activation contributes to the patients' difficulties reading social cues in the actions of others.
Their findings are published in the journal PLoS ONE.
Source: Vanderbilt University
Nauert PhD, R. (2018). Social Cues Are Difficult for People with Schizophrenia. Psych Central. Retrieved on November 27, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2011/05/25/social-cues-are-difficult-for-people-with-schizophrenia/26462.html
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03. Posting a blog post to social mediaBecause many of you are familiar with blogging and many of you blog yourself, you know what this one is about. The way I understood it, it will be legal, and you just have to figure out if and how much I would need to pay Kerstin to share this wonderful story about clinical trials in Wiki{pedia|data} on Google+:
As with all original examples, Julia's post provides a lot of legal detail, which I reshare here for this item, because you may initially think this is just about news from newspapers, but here too, wording matters:
And while I have argued a long time ago, that there are many kinds of blogging (it's just a medium, like paper), many can certainly be considered of journalistic nature. In fact, some even use their blog for getting press tickets for scientific conferences (but that's another story ;).
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The last presidential inauguration ceremony in 2009 was considered by many to be the most interactive ever. But thanks to multimedia content -- including the return of high-resolution satellite imagery from GeoEye -- we may see just as many innovative forms of coverage for this year's event, even though this one is expected to be more low-key.
The public swearing-in ceremony begins at 11:30 a.m. ET, with the official event happening at 11:55 a.m.
Here's just a partial list of where to tune in. Feel free to add to it in the comments below.
The 2013 Presidential Inaugural Committee will be hosting a live stream of the swearing-in ceremony starting at 11:30 a.m. ET, as well as live video of the inaugural parade and the Commander-in-Chief's Ball.
The Wall Street Journal will be presenting the inauguration live at 11 a.m ET. It will be anchored by Washington bureau chief Gerald F. Seib, Wendy Bounds and Simon Constable from its New York studios. You can watch it on multiple platforms including WSJ Live, YouTube, Hulu, and Ustream.
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Interpol's Turn On The Bright Lights is the only album I have had to ban myself from listening to. Music being the key to a whole heap of memories, this was a record I had invested plenty of teenage angst in and was now locked away on iTunes never to be touched again. So why on earth I would volunteer to review its Tenth Anniversary Edition? In short: curiosity got the better of me.
I wanted to know whether time had diminished the debut album of a band who arrived fully formed but who are now more fractured than ever before. Carlos Dengler left Interpol two years ago, taking with him a magnetic talent for plucking infinite sorrow from a bass guitar. Worse still, the remaining band members are now on hiatus pursuing other solo projects and, much like The Strokes, seem to view their day job as exactly that.
Thankfully TOTBL is still a miserable record to experience in full. Like Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, its horrors crash over you in a relentlessly mundane manner. There's little drama in 'NYC' and 'Obstacle 1' yet their fog of intimacy is oppressive. Amidst a swirl of shrieking guitars and weary baritone, the private perversions of 'Roland' and 'Stella...' plead for your company so they can suffocate in shared isolation. 'Obstacle 1' is almost insurmountable, 'Obstacle 2' is inevitable and everything is purposefully vague so you can project your own anxieties onto the black canvas.
It is a wonderful record, but as is the eternal fate of all reissues, the tracklisting of TOTBL's Tenth Anniversary Edition favours completism rather than quality control. At least with the demos on disc two of this re-release, you'll understand just how much Interpol relied on producer Peter Katis to mould their songs. 'PDA' and 'Leif Erikson' sound worlds apart from their finished versions, lacking the endless, echoing sadness that will come to define them. On record Paul Banks' could sing the theme tune to Postman Pat and threaten to be submerged by a wave of uncontrollable distress. In these early recordings, he's positioned too high in the mix, dwarfing Daniel Kessler and co with an anemic drawl. No wonder Katis was signed up by The National to craft Alligator and Boxer into indie rock masterpieces.
Other than the usual array of B-sides and rarities, your real reason for re-investing in TOTBL is 'Gavilan (Cubed)'. From the album's surrounding sessions, this is the only previously unreleased track and a reminder of just how little material Interpol had at their disposal in their early days. A sprawling self-penned note to misery on a record that's full of sprawling self-penned notes to misery, it's dwarfed in stature by both 'The New' and 'Specialist'. If you don't own the Fukd ID #3 and Precipitate EPs, then this is an easy way to get your hands on 'Precipitate' and 'Song Seven' without becoming suicidal over the state of your overdraft.
All these 17 extra tracks really do is underline just how right Interpol got it the first time round. Some masochists will get a lot of pleasure out of poring over three versions of 'NYC' before deciding which one is the most gut-wrenching. They might even think TOTBL's minor key tragedy is enhanced by a remastering job which is mercifully faithful to the original. Personally, I wish I hadn't stared into the mechanics of an album which I'd left well alone for over four years. I'm sure this reissue experience has been therapeutic for everyone involved which is exactly why I preferred the underlying trauma.
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This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. And if the weather this past week put your brain in a deep freeze, have another cup of coffee to get the defrost going because it's time for the puzzle.
MARTIN: Joining me now is Will Shortz. He's the puzzle editor of the New York Times and he is WEEKEND EDITION's puzzle-master. Good morning, Will.
WILL SHORTZ, BYLINE: Good morning, Rachel.
MARTIN: OK. Let's just get right to it. Will, what was last week's challenge?
SHORTZ: Yes. I asked you to name something in five letters that's generally pleasant, something nice to have. And I said to add the letters A and Y and rearrange the result, keeping the A and Y together as a pair. And the answer is a seven-letter word that names an unpleasant version of the five-letter thing. What is it? Well, the five letter thing is a dream - nice thing to have. Add an A-Y, do that reshuffle, and you get a daymare, which is like a wakeful dream, which is - and it's like a nightmare during the day. Not a nice thing.
MARTIN: I had never heard of a daymare, but makes sense. Sounds terrifying. So, we got over 200 correct answers this week. Our randomly selected winner is Susan Lynn of Portland, Oregon. She joins us on the line now. Congratulations, Susan.
SUSAN LYNN: Thank you.
MARTIN: Have you ever had a daymare, Susan?
LYNN: I don't think so.
MARTIN: But you still managed to figure this one out.
LYNN: Yes. I got it from dream but I don't think I would have come up with the word daymare.
MARTIN: And what do you do in Portland?
LYNN: I'm a pastry chef.
MARTIN: Ooh, delicious. So, do you have a specialty?
LYNN: I like making pies probably the best. But pretty much anything. I love making creme brulees and cream puffs.
MARTIN: Oh man. Sounds dangerous. What is the key to a good pie crust, Susan?
LYNN: You need to chill the ingredients.
MARTIN: All the ingredients, OK.
LYNN: I do it in a mixer, like, with a paddle. It's better not to use your hands.
MARTIN: That's where I think I'm going wrong. So, are you ready to play the puzzle, Susan?
LYNN: I'm ready.
MARTIN: All right. Let's do it, Will.
SHORTZ: All right, Susan. You're making me hungry. Every answer today is a word that begins and ends with the letter A. I'll give you an anagram of the letters between the A's. You tell me the words. For example, if I said ern E-R-N, you would say arena.
SHORTZ: Starts and ends in A. Number one is rot R-O-T.
LYNN: Aorta.
SHORTZ: That's right. Number one is pen P-E-N.
LYNN: Apnea.
SHORTZ: Apnea, good. Clap C-L-A-P.
LYNN: Alpaca.
SHORTZ: That's it. Dram D-R-A-M.
LYNN: Armada.
SHORTZ: Uh-huh. Laze L-A-Z-E.
LYNN: Azalea.
SHORTZ: Good. Mine M-I-N-E.
LYNN: Anemia.
SHORTZ: Good. Deng D-E-N-G, as in Deng Xiaoping.
SHORTZ: That's it.
LYNN: Agenda.
SHORTZ: Excellent. Ice dam I-C-E D-A-M.
SHORTZ: Yeah.
LYNN: Academia.
SHORTZ: Academia, good. In sheets I-N S-H-E-E-T-S, like the rain comes down in sheets.
LYNN: Let's see.
MARTIN: They're getting harder.
SHORTZ: Suddenly they get longer, yeah.
LYNN: Anesthesia.
SHORTZ: Anesthesia, I'm impressed.
MARTIN: Susan, good one.
SHORTZ: Now, your final three answers are all geographical names. And your first one of these is crime C-R-I-M-E.
LYNN: America.
SHORTZ: Good. Renting R-E-N-T-I-N-G.
LYNN: Argentina.
SHORTZ: That's it. And your last one is rituals R-I-T-U-A-L-S.
LYNN: Australia.
SHORTZ: Australia. Susan, that was so fast.
MARTIN: I mean, that was amazing. Are you a word person? Do you do this a lot?
LYNN: I do the New York Times crossword every day and I love puzzles.
MARTIN: Wow. That was well played.
LYNN: This is a dream come true for me.
MARTIN: Well, you exceeded all of our expectations - not that they were low to begin with, but you just did great. Congratulations.
LYNN: Thank you.
MARTIN: And for playing the puzzle today, you get a WEEKEND EDITION lapel pin and puzzle books and games. You can read all about it at npr.org/puzzle. And before we let you go, what is your public radio station, Susan?
LYNN: KOPB in Portland, Oregon.
MARTIN: OPB. Susan Lynn of Portland, Oregon. Thanks so much for playing the puzzle, Susan.
LYNN: Thank you.
MARTIN: All right, Will. What's up for next week?
SHORTZ: Yes. Name a familiar form of exercise in two words. Switch the order of the two words then say them out loud and the result phonetically will name something to wear. What is it?
So, again. A familiar form of exercise in two words. Switch the order of the two words, say them out loud, the result phonetically will name something to wear. What is it?
MARTIN: You know what to do. When you've the answer, go to our website. It is, of course, npr.org/puzzle, and click on the Submit Your Answer link. Limit yourself to one entry per person, please. And don't forget, our deadline for entries is Thursday, this week, January 16th at 3 P.M. Eastern Time.
Please include a phone number where we can reach you at about that time. Because if you're the winner, we will give you a call, and then you'll get to play on the air with the puzzle editor of The New York Times and WEEKEND EDITION's puzzle-master, Will Shortz.
Thanks so much, Will.
SHORTZ: Thanks, Rachel.
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Alewives given new ladder to climb
The alewife herring is born in fresh native ponds, swims in a salt ocean with bigger fish for much of its young life, then comes home to spawn.
Dams and spillways like the one at Argyle Lake in Babylon Village have interrupted the natural order of things for more than a century, blocking the way for returning fish, leaving them vulnerable to predators and inhibiting their reproduction.
Now, with a fish ladder the Babylon Village Highway Department built and officials dedicated Thursday, the alewife is blocked no longer.
The ladder looks nothing like a ladder: more like an aluminum chute, 72 feet long and a foot wide, sunk into a trench leading from the lake down to the bottom of Argyle Falls just north of Montauk Highway -- a 10-foot drop.
Alewives will swim against the current, and gravity, up to the lake. "These fish are very capable swimmers," said Enrico Nardone, director of Seatuck Environmental Association, an Islip-based group that helped the village secure a $31,500 grant for the ladder from the National Association of Counties and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
"They can handle a substantial current. They can handle small jumps of a couple inches," he said. "But they're not jumping six feet into the air," like salmon.
The humbler alewife, green-gray and up to 15 inches long, has seen its numbers dwindle in recent decades and is being considered for federal protection, officials said. But as a bait fish near the bottom of the maritime and inland estuary food chains, it is critical, Nardone said: "It helps drive this whole coastal ecosystem . . . I tell people, you may not care about this foot-long fish, but if you want to catch stripers, if you want to catch bass and bluefish, this is a piece of that whole puzzle."
Navigating by instinct and opportunism, alewives travel from the Atlantic 150 miles or more up the Hudson or a much shorter distance up Long Island tributaries such as the Peconic River, Massapequa Creek or Carmans River. About half a dozen fish ladders have been installed elsewhere on Long Island, mostly out east, Nardone said. Not all scientists agree that the ladders are effective in growing fish population.
Any alewife taking the Babylon Village fish ladder would have a much shorter swim. Construction of a second ladder at Southards Pond, which officials Thursdaysaid was being considered, would open up the way to Belmont Lake, a distance of about four miles from Great South Bay.
Just one problem so far: After the highway department's Skip Gardner, Scott Glenn and Andrew Alvarez spent close to a month building it, with long Sandy-related interruptions, they say they have not yet seen any alewives. "I've seen eels, snapping turtles and trout that I can confirm," Alvarez said.
Gardner said he was optimistic, though. "Probably once the word gets out, they'll all come up at once."


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Zoya Nail Polish
Giovanna by Zoya can be best described as a stunning emerald green metallic with blue undertones.
Please note: This is a highly pigmented shade. Make sure to apply a base coat to prevent staining.
Finish - Metallic
Intensity - 5 (1 = Sheer - 5 = Opaque)
Tone - Cool
For Best Results
Step 1: Clean the nail plate with Remove Plus ( Remove ) nail polish remover and nail plate cleaner
Step 2: Choose and apply the right base coat: Zoya Anchor for regular healthy nails or Zoya GetEven for nails with ridges
Step 3: Apply 2 coats of your favorite Zoya Nail Polish Color
Step 4: Apply a coat of Zoya Armor Top Coat
Step 5: Drop one drop of Zoya Fast Drops to the base of your nail bed
Following these 5 steps guarantees up to 14 days of wear on natural nails.
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Ratings & Reviews
-NOT emerald green
This is not emerald green. It is not a true green. It is bluish green. If you want a blue green, great. But if you`re searching for a true metallic emerald green you will be disappointed.
-Green Envy
A long time ago, I bought a similar green from Wet n Wild. I hated it, as I don`t like green nail polish. I got Giovanna for my birthday, I assumed I`d hate it as well. On the contrary, I loved it! The green is very vibrant, and you don`t even need a second coat! I wore it for a week without chipping, and can honestly say it`s great for Christmas and Christmas themed nails! 8/10, I love it.


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(San Francisco, CA) Chrome is the original maker of Urban Bike Footwear that provides performance on and off the bike. Designed and developed to be worn all day, the Truk is the latest in Chrome's Pedal Series shoes created for commuters and messengers who want more riding performance without sacrificing walking comfort.
The Truk's upper is built with the same bombproof 1000 denier Cordura that Chrome uses in the bag-line and makes the Truk model 25 times stronger than typical canvas shoes. The Truk's sole construction includes a 100% vulcanized outsole, an integrated nylon shank for increased pedal power, a cushioning heel pad, resilient PU insole and Chrome's signature reflective heel detail for visibility at night. The Truk is BUILT to ride and is simply stiffer, stronger and bomber.
As a special addition to this launch, Chrome Familia hill-bomber, Massan has created a video for the new Chrome Truk model.
[vimeo width="610″ height="343″]https://vimeo.com/49348205[/vimeo]
Available online today and in all four Chrome HUB locations and retailers on Wednesday, September 19th: https://www.chromebagsstore.com/shoes/truk.html
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Noooooooooooooo. Is Dee Gordon a LeBron James fan?
During the new Dodgers Dreamfield in North Hollywood dedication last Saturday, I noticed the Nike's that Gordon was wearing. {linked here}
Two pictures that I shot of Gordon's shoes -
I made the comment that I needed to get these shoes. I received a few e-mails (Jorge, Mike, Jim) telling me that these Nike shoes are from the LeBron James line.
Nike LeBron 8 V2 Low "Sprite"
That picture doesn't look that great. But they look really nice in person.
I was checking online and they can go anywhere from $175 to $300 bucks since they are limited edition.
I'm not a LeBron James fan but I'd still buy these shoes.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Is Dee Gordon a LeBron James fan?
2 comments:
- BigScaryMexican said...
i have em, they are dope. eastbay restocked them not oo long ago. retail is 149.99
- August 15, 2011 at 7:44 AM
- ThinkBlueSucka said...
Im more of a jordan collector and would rather spend $150 on some retros but i like the colors.. only if Lebron wasnt such a scumbag..
- August 15, 2011 at 10:26 AM
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Tom Ford Noir Eau de Parfum
With a name like Noir, you'd assume this scent would be dark and spicy – and you'd be partially right. It is also quite refreshing and floral; a daub releases hints of powdery violets and iris. That may sound feminine, but give it a moment and the floral scent will quickly develop into something altogether darker, warmer, sexier, and quite ambery. While the spices eventually win out, the hint of floral lingers in the background. This is a sleek and sophisticated scent from one of the great designers of the 21st century. [$90 for 50 ml or $125 for 100 ml; sephora.com]
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Hundreds of bills in N.M. in limbo
State's biggest issues remain undecided
It's the final push for the 60-day legislative session, but hundreds of bills, including some on the most important issues facing lawmakers in 2013, are sitting in limbo.
For weeks, the roundhouse has been caught up in a whirlwind of budgets, bills and busy work, but when it's broken down to how much was actually done, the apparent progress comes to a grinding halt.
"To this day, I've signed two bills. This is a 60-day session. We have 11 days left, (and) I've only signed two bills," said Gov. Susana Martinez.
Officials said only 10 bills in total have passed both the House and Senate. Hundreds of other bills made it through one side, but not the other, including the issue of driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.
"I think the big key is compromise," said Ralph Arellanes, New Mexico state director of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
Also, there is still no vote on whether Hanna Skandera should be confirmed as Public Education secretary.
With just one week left in the session, some of the biggest issues, like gun control, lottery scholarships, early childhood education and state pensions, still hang in the balance.
Some lawmakers said they expect the next few days to include work sessions starting late into the night and a last-minute rush of bills getting passed.


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Flipped Instruction or No Instruction?
One premise of the flipped classroom model is that students should spend most of their time in class interacting with content rather than listening to teachers present content. And I couldn't agree more, as I wrote in an earlier post on differentiated instruction:
Improving at anything takes practice. And not just any practice, but productive practice. If, for example, you want to be a better swimmer, it's counterproductive to spend hour after hour in the pool when your stroke is dreadful. Correct your stroke first, then swim laps. And correcting your stroke requires skillful coaching. Coaches can only help, however, if they know what you need help with--e.g., a swimming coach must see what's wrong with your stroke in order to help you get it right. Same goes for acting, music, art, and pretty much anything--including academics! And when it comes to academics, you as the teacher must be that skillful coach. For students to become better writers, they should therefore not only write more, but write more in your presence. For them to master math, they need to do more math in your presence.
Another premise of the flipped classroom model is that in order for students to interact with content in class, they must watch a videotaped lecture on that content before class (courtesy of their teacher or a virtual teacher like Salman Khan). In short, students watch the lecture at home, then work in class the following day on what would have been their homework. Hence the term flipped instruction.
But what if students don't need any instruction? What if they could learn from an activity by simply engaging in that activity? What if lectures are unnecessary, as I asserted at a recent workshop for new teachers?
Granted, students can choose to not watch a video lesson if they already know the material. Yet even when a student is struggling with something, a video will only help if it addresses the source of that student's struggles. But usually teachers only present one approach. Take, for example, comparing the values of fractions with unlike denominators. Most lessons only cover the common denominator approach. Forget about converting to decimals, comparing to benchmark fractions, or any other method that may not only be more efficient than the common denominator approach but also improve students' conceptual understanding.
There's no way around it: one-size-fits-all direct instruction isn't conducive to differentiated instruction. And this is especially true when it's provided via video, since teachers can't ask questions that allow them to assess and address students' misconceptions.
And lectures aren't just unnecessary for material students have seen before. Even when they've had little or no prior exposure to a concept or skill, students can often learn that concept or skill through investigation or discussion that builds on their prior knowledge or sparks new knowledge. And when students are stuck, it doesn't always mean they need a lecture. Just asking kids the right question is often enough to help them move forward.
I'm not suggesting you kick back while students learn or don't learn on their own. But a true flipped classroom model would involve little or no direct instruction--live or via video--up front. Instead, students would have a chance to learn by doing, with free access to resources that can help them (technology--including cell phones, class notes, past assignments, each other, books, and as a last resort, you).
Teachers, meanwhile, would circulate to assess what students know and what they don't know (and why they don't know it). They would help students troubleshoot as necessary, and determine what if any post-activity whole-group instruction--correction: whole-group discussion--students would benefit from such as sharing solutions and insights, addressing common misconceptions, and scaffolding understanding to a deeper level.
Again, the flipped classroom movement has had a positive effect on teaching and learning by stressing the importance of kids doing more math, more writing, more science in our presence. But let's not do flips over this until teacher-led instruction--whether on site or on screen--is limited to what students need, when they need it, and how they need it.
Recommended reading if you're considering flipping your classroom or you've already flipped it:
Brian Bennett, Flipped Classrooms: Let's Change the Discussion
Arthur Camins, The Difference Between Live and Taped Lectures
Emily Hanford, Rethinking the Way College Students are Taught
Mary Beth Hertz, The Flipped Classroom: Pro and Con
Lisa Nielsen, Five Reasons I'm Not Flipping Over the Flipped Classroom
Shelley Wright, The Flip: End of a Love Affair
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Jay is a town in Orleans county, Vermont. It was formed in 1631 in Vt. from Chittenden county. The probate and court district for Jay is Orleans. For more information, contact the town at 1036 VT Rt. 242, Jay 05859. On the attached map, Jay is shown as 1 in Orleans county.
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Gillaspie eyes relaxed approach to ups, downs
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Conor Gillaspie readily admits that he'd like to play better defensively in 2014, and he understands that routine plays caused him more issues than challenging ones at third base last season.
But in looking for greater overall improvement for his second season with the White Sox, Gillaspie has turned more to the mental side of the game. Being confident and relaxed definitely make a difference in his mind.
"I'm starting to figure out a little bit more," Gillaspie said, "instead of coming in here tense and thinking about the game at 11 o'clock or noon. There's really no need for that. I'm starting to understand that won't help you in the long run.
"Quite frankly, I have days where my poor games last year were games where I couldn't let it go, couldn't escape from trying too hard. My goal this year is that I want to be somebody that will not be flustered by anything, that doesn't get down, doesn't get super excited.
"Basically, somebody that you can't get in their head. That's my goal this year, and I'm starting to kind of see how some of the older guys approach this game, and I can learn a lot from that."
When asked for a veteran player he's trying to learn from, Gillaspie pointed to Adam Dunn and his handling of the ups and downs in Chicago.
"He's had some rough spells. He's had some great spells. He's been through a lot," Gillaspie said. "The thing about him is, every day he comes in here with the same exact attitude, and if I can get to that point, it's going to make this job a lot more enjoyable for me because I'm so hard on myself.
"I'm so hard on losing games or if I screw up. There's going to come a point in my career where that's going to have to start tapering off a little bit. For some reason, since the first day I stepped in here this year, I've felt a little bit differently than I did last year. I was constantly worried about things last year and stressed out, and 'What if this happens? What if that happens?'
"Watching guys like Dunn, [Paul] Konerko even, those guys you wouldn't be able to tell how they've done throughout the course of game when they come in the locker room or when you see them the next day. That's going to be a big steppingstone for me as I get older."
Gillaspie, 26, hit .245 with 13 homers and 40 RBIs for the White Sox last season, while committing 16 errors over 113 games at third base. Gillaspie, who is out of Minor League options, is in competition with Jeff Keppinger, Marcus Semien and Matt Davidson for the third-base job.


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Rachida Dati built her against-the-odds career by defying convention. So it was in character when — while serving as France's justice minister — she had a daughter and refused to say who the father was.
Now, what was once thought to be an exercise in discretion has morphed into a messy scandal involving tales of power, sex and ambition. Dati, now 46, says simply: "I have a complicated private life."
Dati was the toast of Paris and foreign capitals when she served as justice minister under Sarkozy from June 2007 to June 2009. With her Algerian and Moroccan parents and humble origins as one of 11 children in a housing project, she was his emblem of diversity in a new France. Her bling-bling style — a penchant for Dior clothes, stiletto heels and expensive jewels — quickly transformed her into Cabinet cover girl.
This week, Dati took one of France's richest men to court in a bid to prove he is the father of her 3-year-old. A court in Versailles has set a Dec. 4 date to decide whether to order Dominique Desseigne, the multimillionaire owner of luxury hotels and casinos, to take a paternity test.
The 68-year-old Desseigne, a friend of former President Nicolas Sarkozy and the widowed father of two, is reportedly planning to exercise his right to refuse to provide a DNA sample. Experts say he would do so at his own risk.
The tale is the latest in a series of amorous sideshows that has spiced up the French political scene. These increasingly complicated liaisons have gnawed away at the country's long-standing veil of silence over top politicians' private lives.
Today, the press doesn't shirk at recounting the jealousies of President Francois Hollande's live-in companion toward the mother of his four children. Or Sarkozy's divorce while in office after his wife had an affair, and his quick remarriage to former model and singer Carla Bruni. Or the series of sexual lawsuits involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund.
Nor has it held back with the Dati case. The newspaper Le Monde suggested that Dati entertained a string of eight lovers at the time she was seeing Desseigne. Le Point ran a five-page spread entitled "The Incredible Story of Rachida Dati," prompting Dati to announce Friday that she plans to sue the magazine's director "and his band of so-called journalists."
"What bothers them about me? That I have a life ... that I'm a free woman?" she said on RTL radio, denouncing articles based on "rumors and calumny."
As the country's top judicial official, Dati had a bevy of detractors and raised the ire of lawyers, magistrates and aides who resigned one after the other. The nation, of course, was fascinated.
Still, her star was falling by the time Zohra was born on Jan. 2, 2009. She hung on until a government reshuffling in June. She now serves as a member of the European Parliament and keeps a link to the Paris power elite as the mayor of the capital's tony 7th district.
Throughout her pregnancy, rumors flew about the baby's father. An Arab sheik? A French politician? A Sarkozy brother? The name of the Spain's then-prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, was bandied about so prominently that he was forced to publicly deny it was him.
Dati still hasn't spoken about the little girl's father. But she wants Desseigne, chief of the Lucien Barriere casino group and owner of the famed Champs-Elysees establishment Fouquet's, to step forward. Doing so would give her daughter his name, access to child support and rights as an heir.
The court in Versailles has refused to release any information. But Desseigne, whose wife died in 2001, told M magazine he would contest the request for DNA.
Legal experts say that may be harder than he thinks.
Under the French Civil Code, paternity tests are given voluntarily. But text messages, emails, photos and airline tickets showing the two vacationed together all can be used to prove a relationship, said family law expert Laurence Mayer. And with such corroborating evidence, refusing a paternity test "can be analyzed as an admission."
The man denying fatherhood can try to discredit the woman by "showing she led a dissolute life," but Mayer said he does so "at his risk and peril."
Dati has already shown she is not to be taken lightly. Two men — both prison inmates who wrote letters claiming they were the father of Dati's child — have been convicted of insulting a public official.
Mayer doubts Dati would go this route without strong reason.
"If she does this, she is sure of herself," Mayer said. "Mrs. Dati is not just anyone. I don't think she will make herself ridiculous."


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ARCE convenes an annual 3-day meeting in the United States at which scholars are invited to present their research findings. Each of the days is broken out into concurrent speaker sessions, during which scholars and expedition leaders present their work and discuss the latest developments in their projects. Typically, speaker sessions begin on Friday morning and end mid-day Sunday and meetings include over 100 presentations.
This event provides a unique opportunity for scholars, ARCE members, and the general public to hear directly from those working in the field and network with each other.
Registration packets are typically mailed in January. Online information and registration become available at that time.


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Families purchase flood insurance so they don't lose their homes in a bad storm. But now, because of changes to FEMA's flood maps and unexpected insurance rate hikes, many families fear that the price of flood insurance could be just as devastating as any storm.
Families purchase flood insurance so they don't lose their homes in a bad storm. But now, because of changes to FEMA's flood maps and unexpected insurance rate hikes, many families fear that the price of flood insurance could be just as devastating as any storm.Congress changed the national flood program to move toward a more market-based system that more accurately reflects the true costs and risks of flood damage. This was a well-intentioned law, but unfortunately homeowners were blindsided by significant rate increases and new flood zone maps.
When FEMA released these flood maps, they knew they were placing many homeowners into a flood zone for the first time. Yet, there was inadequate warning. Here in Massachusetts, many families are learning for the first time from news reports and letters from their mortgage companies that they must purchase flood insurance. This is not an acceptable way of informing the public that flood insurance bills are skyrocketing.
While I'm pleased that the recent Omnibus Appropriations bills included a one-year premium increase delay that will help many families, I believe we need to enact comprehensive flood insurance reform that will further delay rate increases until FEMA addresses affordability concerns. That's why I was proud to work with Senators Menendez (D-NJ), Isakson (R-GA), Landrieu (D-LA), Cochran (R-MS), and my Massachusetts delegation colleagues to help design and draft the bipartisan Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act, which passed the Senate on Thursday. This important legislation will help homeowners across Massachusetts by delaying implementation of the new flood rates until the FEMA completes an affordability study and provides a plan to lessen the impact of these unacceptable rate increases. This bill also provides the government with the time it needs to make sure the new flood maps are accurate, reliable, and reflect the best available scientific data.
It's critical that these maps are accurate, but concerns are growing by the day. A recent independent review conducted by coastal scientists at the request of Congressman Bill Keating concluded that FEMA used outdated wave methodology better suited for the Pacific coast when they drafted the new flood maps for Massachusetts. These scientists believe this resulted in FEMA over-predicting the flooding that could occur from once-in-a-century storms for much of our state.
We need to make sure that hardworking families who played by the rules can afford these policies. Homeowners are facing flood insurance premium increases that can cost $500, $1,000, or much, much more per month. Most hard working families and seniors don't have that kind of extra money on hand to spend on flood insurance premiums that they never knew they needed.
Last week, I met with constituents in Marshfield who are being impacted by these rate hikes. I also stopped by T.K.O. Malley's restaurant in Scituate, and heard from employees about how the new flood insurance rates will affect their business.
One Massachusetts resident wrote to me, "I have owned my property for over 33 years. Twelve years ago I built a house according to the codes at the time. Recently the flood maps were redrawn putting my home in a new flood zone and out of compliance. The implementation of the Biggert-Waters Act is going to raise our flood insurance to $10,000 or more per year. I followed the rules, and now the rules are changing leaving me few options to comply." This isn't right.
The Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act will provide relief to homeowners who built to code and were later remapped into a higher risk area. The legislation will delay rate increases until FEMA completes the affordability study mandated by the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act and until subsequent affordability guidelines are put in place.
I also received a letter from a constituent who lives in Brockton. She was informed that if she wanted to appeal the new maps, she would have to pay more than $1,000 for an engineer to come and conduct an elevation study of a nearby brook. She has to spend this money even though the City of Brockton and the Army Corps of Engineers have no record of the brook ever overflowing. And if her appeal is successful, she's still out a thousand dollars due to FEMA's mistake.
FEMA has a lot of work to do, and in the meantime, families shouldn't be hit with high costs when they challenge the flood maps and win their appeals.
Hard working people shouldn't be paying for FEMA's mistakes. That's why I urged my colleagues to include a provision in the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act that will help address this injustice and will allow FEMA to utilize the National Flood Insurance Fund to reimburse people who successfully appeal a map determination. It also gives FEMA the added financial incentive to get the maps right the first time.
This is an issue of basic fairness, and I'm glad to join colleagues on both sides of the aisle in support of this legislation. Now that the Senate has passed this commonsense delay, I urge the House of Representatives to move swiftly to pass this bipartisan legislation, which will ensure that hardworking Massachusetts families are not slammed by unexpected and unaffordable rate hikes.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is the senior senator from Massachusetts.


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Fragrant shrubs we should see more in Toronto gardens
I can't think of too many fragrant flowering shrubs that are blooming now in Toronto. Yes, I know, lilacs will be doing their thing in another month but we need spring to smell heady and overpowering right now! Since I love hyacinths but can't grow them due to the presence of those beady-eyed devils that inevitably nip off blooms the day before they are set to open, a woody substitute is a fragrant viburnum.
My wife worked at Mount Pleasant Cemetery this past weekend and before meeting her after work, I strolled/stalked around looking at tree and flower buds which are just about to open. As an aside, if you are a tree "nut" (bad pun absolutely intended), the cemetery has a selection that rivals any arboretum in Toronto. Not expecting to smell anything besides that distinctive earthy/wet odour heightened by a month of solid rain (it seems), I was smacked nasally with a clove-y, sweet and sharp waft of viburnum pungency remarkably akin to vanilla Coke! (Other viburnums like V. dentatum and lantana smell of dirty socks, wet dog, or cat urine according to some sensitive noses!)
I followed my nose to this shrub....
|Farrer's viburnum in bloom
Lucky for me there was a label nearby as I was not familiar with this species. I have a Fragrant Snowball (Viburnum x carlcephalum) in my back garden but the leaves are different from those on this shrub that drew me in. This is Farrer's viburnum, named after the early 20th century plant explorer Reginald Farrer. The plant's height and width was around 8' by 8' or so with a loose and leggy structure. Like most viburnums, I suspect it doesn't need coddling with respect to soil and moisture needs. It's thriving in a cemetery after all!
After walking some more and clearing my head a little, I saw some pink-white blooms in the distance down-wind from me (the air flow direction will be pertinent in a moment.) Maybe Saucer Magnolia blooms? But with the slow spring and the fact that Star Magnolias are blooming now, the bigger and later blooming x soulangiana flowers were unlikely to be the answer. Purple leaf Sandcherries or a cherry in general? A little too early as well.
Getting closer...
|Bodnant viburnum blooms
That remarkable smell again but with pink flowers! No label to help me this time but with leaves very similar to V. farreri, I think this is a specimen of Bodnant Viburnum (Viburnum x bodnantense "Dawn".) The grouping of three of these viburnums amongst a grove of serviceberries produce a great show through most of the year in this part of the cemetery. The fall colour should be outstanding, I'll need to revisit. The viburnum's fruits ("drupes") will turn from red to purple-black and last much longer than those devoured from the serviceberry. Additional winter interest from the berries makes viburnums make the genus a multi-season choice.
Space permitting, consider placing a fragrant viburnum down-wind near a deck or patio to enjoy. Or right near a path so that you can stick your nose right into the blooms, inhale, and bliss out for a few moments!