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The Stockholm Octavo (Hardcover)
Ecco Press, 9780061995347, 416pp.
Publication Date: October 23, 2012
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One man's fortune holds the key to a nation's fate in this sensational debut novel set in 18th-century Sweden.
The Stockholm Octavo by Karen Engelmann transports readers to a colorful Scandinavian world of intrigue and magic in a dazzling golden age of high art, music, and opulent fashion.
A masterwork of historical fiction in the vein of Patrick Suskind's classic novel, Perfume, Karen Engelmann's The Stockholm Octavo is mysterious and romantic--as magical and enthralling as The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern--and features a brilliant and unforgettable cast of extraordinary characters.
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"Neatly mixing revolutionary politics with the erotic tension and cutthroat rivalry of the female conspirators...Engelmann has crafted a magnificent, suspenseful story set against the vibrant society of Sweden's zenith, with a cast of colorful characters balanced at a crux of history."
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In a world filled with seemingly daily disasters and endless turmoil, it's no wonder that superheroes are as popular as ever, from blockbuster movies all the way to the local toy shop.
"When the world gets scary, superheroes' sales go up," says Brad Meltzer, the bestselling political-thriller author and comic-book creator. "What resonates today is, as we look around at this scary world, we want someone to come save us."
And to Meltzer, no superhero resonates quite like Batman. It was May of 1939, during the run-up to World War II, when Batman made his debut in the Detective Comics (later shortened to "DC") book "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate." The Caped Crusader immediately found an eager national audience. Now, so many thousands of crime-fighting adventures later, DC Comics is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the iconic character by declaring today "Batman Day." Comic-book outlets around the country are partnering with the publisher to offer various Bat-birthday collectibles, as well as a new comic written by Meltzer.
DC is also timing its Batman event to coincide with the Wednesday-night kickoff of San Diego Comic-Con, the granddaddy of American pop-culture conventions and festivals that draws more than 125,000 fans to the San Diego Convention Center over four and a half days. And Batman has had a huge hand in that: Comic-Con -- which arose in the wake of the character's hit 1960s TV show -- enjoyed huge growth in the '90s as Tim Burton's Batman movies starring Michael Keaton reignited Hollywood's interest in superheroes.
To help celebrate the Batman anniversary, DC Entertainment will have a sizable presence at this year's festival, including a "Batman 75: Legends of the Dark Knight" panel. DC says it will continue the anniversary celebration Saturday by teaming with Random House for events at more than 1,000 American libraries.
And to think this was all spawned by a couple of young creators trying to come up with a character to rival the introduction of Superman - an emergence that sparked the entire multibillion-dollar superhero industry.
In 1938, the world's first popular superhero was launched by Detective Comics. "As World War II started encroaching on our shores," Meltzer says, "that's when Superman took off, selling over a million copies."
By the next year, the publisher was looking to replicate that success, and an editor tasked Bob Kane with creating another caped crime-fighter. Inspired partly by da Vinci's drawings of flight, Kane rendered a birdlike bat-man, then took his idea to artist-friend Bill Finger, who sharpened and darkened the look of "the Batman." In May 1939, in Detective Comics No. 27, Batman was born. (A copy of that issue can now fetch $1.5 million at auction.)
Soon, with help from teenage writer-illustrator Jerry Robinson, Batman had a sidekick (Robin) whose look was drawn from a Wyeth painting; a great villain (the Joker) inspired (according to Robinson) by a playing card; and a moody aesthetic influenced by everything from German expressionist films to Harry Clarke's illustrations for the books of Edgar Allan Poe.
Batman has persevered through so many phases, from a film-noir feel to the high camp of the '60s TV show starring Adam West to the Dark Knight of a shadowy, psychologically tortured figure as popularized by Frank Miller's graphic novels and Christopher Nolan's feature films. The character endures by having as many entry points to his story as he has incarnations.
"Through these 75 years, Batman has been fine-tuned by hundreds of writers and artists into honed perfection," Meltzer says. "He is perfectly defined and, I maintain, the most perfectly defined literary character. The odd part is, although he's moved from camp, to dark, to self-hating, to self-confidence, you always somehow know exactly what Batman 'would do.' There's a core that never changes."
For Batman Day, DC co-publisher Dan DiDio asked Meltzer to create a new comic that would rightly celebrate the Caped Crusader's entire history. "I wanted the story to stay true to that original and honor all the came after," Meltzer says. "No pressure."
"Batman has stayed relevant," DiDio says by phone from DC's New York offices, "because he is constantly reinvented and reinterpreted by every generation."
For the new comic, Meltzer and designer Chip Kidd deconstructed Kane and Finger's first Batman story, then weaved in a trove of character history. "We took the story apart and then rebuilt it with those original images from the first story," Meltzer says. "It was like doing a jigsaw puzzle."
Meltzer and Kidd's reimagined comic echoes the theme of need for superheroes in a scary world, as it alludes not only to young Bruce Wayne becoming an orphan after a theater performance, but also to the 2012 multiplex shooting in Aurora, Colorado, at a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises," the final installment of Nolan's recent "Batman" trilogy.
"First and foremost, that was of course a call to his dead parents," Meltzer says of a scene in his new Batman story. "But you better believe that those theater shootings were right there, too. For 75 years, Batman has been a cultural shield, protecting us from our deepest fears."
So beneath the savvy marketing and cool collectibles, why exactly does Batman endure as a pop-cultural force?
"Thanks to Bill Finger, Batman was the first comic-book superhero to have a psychological reason to wage war on crime," says Marc Tyler Nobleman, the Washington-based author of "Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman." "While he was an original fusion of elements of earlier characters, it was this emotional motive that stood out most. We identify with Batman/Bruce Wayne not only because he has no powers, but also because he has no parents. We empathize with his empathy."
Glen Weldon, a Washington-based comics contributor for NPR and author of the forthcoming book "The Caped Crusade: The Rise of Batman and the Triumph of Nerd Culture," believes Batman has remained relevant because of a crucial reinvention: He gained the psychology of obsession, thanks to writer Dennis O'Neil, who was hired to "fix" Batman after the campy TV show's demise.
"O'Neil's decision to introduce a note of obsession saved Batman, and indirectly the comics industry, by offering a masculine ideal with whom 1/8capital-N3/8 Nerds could identify, and cherish," Weldon says.
"Batman was obsessed. Driven. Consumed by his passionate devotion. Nerds read him, and saw themselves - their inner lives - reflected in a dark mirror," Weldon says.
Meltzer, by contrast, finds value in the constancy within Batman's creative malleability.
"The ears gets taller, then shorter. The costume will get darker, then lighter. The utility belt will get pouch-y, then sleeker. But Batman's character is as stubborn as the man beneath the cowl," Meltzer says. "He is immovable. He projects sheer will, convincing us we have a chance - even when we don't. And. He. Will. Not. Change. We, as a people, need someone that committed to an ideal."


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Preheat the oven to 350degreesF with a rack in the center of the oven. Line muffin tins with 16 "Texas" liners or 24 regular cupcake liners.
Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt, set aside.
Combine the melted butter with the sugar in a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat on medium speed for 1 minute. Add the eggs, egg yolks and vanilla, mix on medium speed for 3 minutes.
Add a third of the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix to combine on low speed. Add half of the buttermilk and mix to combine. Repeat with another third of the flour and the rest of the buttermilk, ending with the last third of flour, mixing after each addition. Mix the cake batter on medium-low speed for 1 minute.
Scoop the batter into the cupcake liners, not filling more than half way. You may end up having to fill a few more cupcake liners, but don't overfill.
Bake for about 20 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Let the cupcakes cool completely before decorating.
To make the Frosting:
Cream together the butter, shortening and sugar until perfectly smooth. Add the cream one tablespoon at a time until it is nice and creamy, but still holds its shape. Cover tightly if you don't use it immediately or it will develop a crisp crust.
You can use it white or tint the frosting with food coloring. I usually divide the frosting into a few bowls and color each a different color. Cover the frosting when not using.
To decorate your cupcakes with roses:
Using a disposable pastry bag, fitted with a large rose tip (Ateco #128) and an extra large rose nail (Ateco #914) you can create these large colorful roses.
Start by lining up the narrow end of the rose tip with the seam of the pastry bag. Place a thin line of the food coloring along the seam of the bag, that leads to the narrow end of the tip. Fill the bag half way with the frosting.
Once your pastry bag is set up with frosting you will create a mound of frosting on the rose nail. This will be the base of your rose. If the mound is too small your rose will tip over as you are piping it. Making it nice and broad along the bottom is key.
Hold the bag at a 45degrees angle, wide end of the tip touching the mound you just created, near its top. The narrow end of the tube should be nearly straight up and pointing toward the center of the nail.
Squeeze out a ribbon of frosting and turn the nail, holding it between your thumb and forefinger, counter clockwise; swing the rose tip up, around the top of the mound and back down to the starting point. This creates the rose bud.
Now make the first row of 3 petals. Hold the tip so the wide end is touching the mound about half way up, starting right where the bud finished off. Tilt the narrow end of the tip slightly away from the center. Squeeze out the frosting, turning the nail counterclockwise and move the tip up (increase the pressure) and then down (decreasing the pressure) in an arch. Form all three petals in this way, starting each one where the last petal finished.
Pipe a second row of 5 petals, under the row you just finished. Tilt the tip out even more with this row so the petals appear to be opening up. Overlap the petals to hide any openings between them.
You can stop at this point or continue on with a third row of 7 petals.
It may take you a few roses to get the hang of it, but then it will go together very fast. Once you are happy with the size and shape of your rose, take a pair of kitchen shears and cut the base of the rose off of the nail. You will want to cut only part way through, so you can lift up the rose on the blades of the shears. Then place the rose on the cooled cupcake. You can pipe leaves at the base of the rose with a leaf tip.


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Frankly, I don't really want to know how the drive went. If yestersol (272) didn't work, there's no reason to think thisol has a chance. Maybe we'll get lucky and at least make enough distance on the last leg of the drive to be sure we're safe to deploy the IDD, so they can do the magnet observations they had to cancel last week. Still, I don't want to know. I avoid the sequencing rooms altogether.
But I can't escape Jeff's email:
I see we're back on the paving stones - should be smooth
roving from here. Nice driving!
I stare at this for nearly a minute, not really believing it. Then I jump out of my seat and literally run upstairs to the fifth floor. Cooper and Ashitey are wearing the fancy 3-D goggles, looking at the front HAZCAM images. The front HAZCAM shows rocky stuff, not sand.
"We made it," Cooper says. "Great driving!" ("It was a beautiful drive," echoes Art, "and I hate you for it." Art wants out of the crater, and this success means we'll be staying a while. The traverse to Burns Cliff is back on.)
"Did you see that NAVCAM?" Ashitey asks.
One of the NAVCAM images shows where we started yestersol. It's worse than we thought -- at least three of the wheels were dug in, not just the left front wheel. In 3-D, it's a dramatic picture. It's hard to believe we got out.
It's even harder to believe we got all the way uphill. Much as I want to, I can't really take credit for the success. The imagery confirms our suspicions -- there was just a thick band of impassable soft sand, and we spent a couple of weeks getting repeatedly caught up in it. (Where the sand is deep enough to form an opaque layer -- common in the crater -- you can't tell how deep it is until you drive across it. Maybe the sandy layer is a mere 1cm deep, so the rover won't slip at all. Yestersol we got caught in stuff that was more than 25cm deep. It's like crossing a swamp, where at any minute you might plunge in right up to your neck.)
Sol 270's experimental drive worked, right up to the point where we got caught up in the stuff again, which explains why we made no progress on the following sol. Yestersol we happened to get across a shallower layer of sand and onto friendlier terrain -- apparently early on, too, so that the rest of the drive worked and we're way uphill now.
So what changed was maybe 10% a matter of skill (if that) and 90% a matter of what happened to be under the wheels. I can't take credit, but I can sure be happy about the outcome, and you'd better believe I do that for all I'm worth. It takes sustained conscious effort to wipe the dumb grin off my face.
It's still a long way to Burns Cliff. The promised (threatened?) traversability meeting -- which grows every time we hold it, incidentally -- works out a plan for driving there. Optimistically, it might take another two weeks; more likely, longer. There's still a "Bermuda Triangle" of sand along the way, which we're not sure we can pass. The slopes look worrisome.
But at least we're back in the running.
[Next post: sol 297 (Opportunity sol 276), November 2 (at nearly midnight).]
Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech. Holy smoke! It worked! ... Uh, I mean, I never had any doubts.
Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech. Well, that explains a lot. Two weeks of struggling, encapsulated in a single NAVCAM image -- with Wopmay lurking in the background, and the crater floor beyond.


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A Hymn to Spring
Cecil Gordon Lawson
Oil on canvas
circa 1871-1872; signed and dated 187- (last figure indistinct)
60 X 40 inches, 153 X 102 centimetres
Provenance. Guy Owen Esq.
Exhibited: London, Grosvenor Gallery, 1883, number 138, lent anonymously
Commentary by Hilary Morgan
Lawson rose to fame as a poetic landscape painter in the five years before his tragically early death at the age of thirty one. His main sources of inspiration were the Thames around Chelsea (he painted some twelve pictures of scenes in Cheyne Walk) and the richness of the English countryside.
He was born in Wellington in Shropshire and came to London with his family at the age of ten. His father, William Lawson (flourished 1819-1864) was a portrait painter and his brother Francis William Lawson (1842-1935) was a successful figure in the illustration revival of the 1860s and also a painter. Lawson received his art training from his father and especially from his brother. He too produced a number of illustrations at the beginning of his career but concentrated on painting, first exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1870 and also showing at the New British Institution and the Society of British Artists. The artists he most admired as painters and illustrators were John Everett Millais, Frederick Walker, George John Pinwell and William Small (Lawson, 2). He worked in their naturalistic pastoral vein, although his own style is always distinctive. although he visited Ireland in 1873 and Holland, Belgium and Paris in 1874, England remained the main source of his subject matter. Between 1870 and 1878 the Lawson family lived in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, and for part of this period they were the next door neighbors of Rossetti.
Lawson exhibited regularly at the Grosvenor Gallery from its second exhibition in 1878, creating a sensation in that year with the 'Minister's Garden' (Manchester City Art Gallery), a homage to Goldsmith. The following year he married Constance Philip, daughter of the sculptor J. Birnie Philip and herself an artist. They lived in Hastemere, Surrey, where Lawson painted the 'Atigust illoon' (Tate Gallery), exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 187O and presented to the nation by the artist's widow. For' Lawson's last years were marked by increasing fame and declining health. He spent the winter of 1881 in the Riviera, but returned to London too soon and died in Chelsea in June 1882, Edmund Gosse published Lawson: A Memoir in 1883 and an illustrated article by Heseltine Owen, In Memoriam: Cecil Gordon Lawson appeared in the Magazine of Art for 1894.
This painting was based on Lawson's illustration 'Spring', published in the short-lived magazine Dark Blue (1871-1872) and was painted at the beginning of the artist's career when he was in his early twenties. As a teenager, he had devoted himself to 'careful studies of fruit and flowers, bits of landscapes and special clouds or blossoms or grasses' (Bryan's Dictionary of Artists (1919), III, 189). This period of detailed study, perhaps undertaken in a Ruskinian spirit, comes to fruition in the present painting with its minute observation of the foreground detail.
Lawson seems to have been fascinated by the problem of representing a distant landscape seen through a frame or screen of tree trunks and foliage set in the immediate foreground. This is a compositional feature of many of his famous views of 'Cheyne Walk' where the far bank of the Thames is seen through the riverside trees. It also appears in 'A Pastoral, in the Vale of Mieford, North Wales' (reproduced Lawson, 69) the 'Minister's Garden (Manchester City Art Gallery) and the'August Moon' (Tate Gallery). In the period of 'A Hymn to Spring, Lawson began his canvases from nature but completed them in the studio. 'A Pastoral' was exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1873, and in this the screen of birch trunks was added at a late stage in the composition (Owen, 67-68). Perhaps 'A Hymn to Spring' underwent a similar process as the artist intensified the richness of the composition.
It is probable that the painting was owned by Heseltine Owen, writer on Lawson, as it is reproduced in his article and as the later owner shares the same surname.
Morgan, Hilary, and Peter Nahum. Burne-Jones, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Their Century. London: Peter Nahum, 1989. Catologue number 138.
Owen, Heseltine. "In Memoriam: Cecil Gordon Lawson." Magazine of Art (1894), pp. 1-6, 64-70.
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--The Definitive Documentary on the Fate of Bobby Thomson's Legendary 1951 Home Run Ball Premieres Saturday, September 29 at 8PM ET/PT with an Anniversary Encore on Wednesday, October 3 at 6:30PM ET/PT only on VELOCITY
(Silver Spring, Md.) –On October 3rd, 1951 New York Giants third baseman Bobby Thomson hit "The Shot Heard Round the World" - the walk-off home run against Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca clinching the National League pennant and achieving one of the most dramatic moments in baseball and American sports history. But the central artifact of the game - the home run ball - landed in the grandstand and vanished without a trace. For more than half a century, its fate became a tall tale of baseball lore to historians, collectors and fans alike. This fall, VELOCITY is officially revealing one of sports' greatest mysteries with the definitive documentary on the subject. The world television premiere of the award-winning baseball documentary MIRACLE BALL, by director Brian Biegel, will air Saturday, September 29 at 8pm ET/PT with a special encore anniversary presentation on Wednesday, October 3 at 6:30PM ET/PT only on VELOCITY.
MIRACLE BALL, documents one man's journey to search for sports history's biggest treasure, on a quest that takes him back through time. Follow director Biegel on his exploration to differentiate myth from fact and legend from truth. After his father, Jack, finds a baseball at a thrift store with clues dating back to 1951, he believes it could possibly be the most coveted artifact in sports history. Biegel becomes a man with a mission to prove its authenticity. Working with NYPD detectives, scientists, journalists, baseball historians and actual fans present at the game, no stone is left unturned in this ultimate hunt in the quest for the truth. Implementing forensic science, photographic evidence, and eyewitness accounts, the world will finally learn who walked out of the stadium with the legendary baseball and where it has been hiding for over six decades.
The search for the Thomson home run ball is the greatest historical conundrum in sports; but, this documentary is more than a story about baseball, it's about dreaming the impossible. It's a story between father and son and history versus legend.", said Robert Scanlon, Senior Vice President of Velocity. "Velocity is the perfect place for MIRACLE BALL because our viewers are extremely knowledgeable – they're curators and collectors with an acute appreciation of history."
"Having the opportunity to tell the story of Miracle Ball was truly a life-changing experience both as a filmmaker and as a person. Uncovering all the shocking clues and piecing together the unlikely evidence indeed was a first-hand look into the notion that truth is stranger than fiction," said director and author Brian Biegel.
MIRACLE BALL is produced for VELOCITY by Odyssey Entertainment. Brian Biegel is director and executive producer. Robert Scanlon is Senior Vice President of Velocity and David Lee is Director of Production for Velocity.
About Odyssey Entertainment
Odyssey Entertainment was founded by director/executive producer Brian Biegel, specializes in developing and producing original non-fiction content including feature documentaries, documentary shorts and docu-series. The company's feature documentary "Miracle Ball: The Hunt for the Shot Heard Around the World" won Best Documentary at the 2012 Garden State Film Festival, 2011 Big Apple Film Festival and the 2010 Long Island International Film Festival. Projects in development include a feature documentary starring a Hall of Fame baseball icon, a reality series about a diamond/jewel expert and a treasure-hunting docu-series. For more information please visit www.odysseyentertainment.tv
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Velocity, a division of Discovery Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK), is the upscale men's cable network that provides thrilling HD programming for its viewers. Velocity programming is diverse, intelligent and engaging, with series and specials representing the best of the automotive, sports and leisure, adventure and travel genres. Formerly HD Theater, the fully HD network is available in approximately 40 million homes. For more information on Velocity, please visit Velocity.tv, on Facebook at facebook.com/VelocityTV or on Twitter @VelocityTV1
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By Robert Cunningham, AngelsWin.com Staff Writer --
Moving Vargas to Anaheim switches one pitcher's park for another. However what has changed is the defensive arrangement playing behind him and the move to Anaheim should benefit a fly ball pitcher like Jason. Last season Vargas was really able to reduce the hits and walks he gave up; however he did give up an unusual amount of jimmy-jacks.
In 2013, what you see is what you will get with Jason: An innings eater, fly ball pitcher who will give our powerful offense the opportunity to win games. Vargas is a competitor and although he is not the flashiest pitcher in the Major's he is reliable and can buckle down when things get tight. Oh and don't forget that he is a former Dirt Bag, like Weaver, and how can any team not make the playoff's with two Cal State Long Beach grad's towing the rubber?


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This column deals with the aftermath of the revelation that the photos of President Obama announcing that Osama bin Laden had been killed were recreations.
This column appeared in the May 2011 issue of News Photographer Magazine.
By John Long
Icarus believed he was invincible and could fly anywhere he wanted with the wings he had made. But he died when he flew too close to the sun and his wings melted. He is usually depicted as the classic example of hubris.
From a photojournalist's perspective, the few days surrounding the Osama bin Laden shooting gave us a trifecta of ethical issues from the White House. There was the controversy over the non-release of the photograph of Osama dead in his compound. There was the digital altering of information within the photograph from the White House Situation Room. And there was the "fake" still photograph of President Obama speaking to the nation.
I am sensitive to the idea that it would be best to hold off on distributing the photograph of a dead bin Laden if it would cause harm, but sooner or later it should end up in some historical archive for the nation. We have seen thousands of images of the dead and dying from 9/11; this would be the final image in the series.
Then, as a colleague of mine said: "There has been much discussion in our photojournalism world about manipulated photographs during the bin Laden events. In this photograph, it was noted that documents on the table in the Situation Room were Photoshopped because they were top secret. The question I pose to my classes is that if we manipulate anything, any reader will ask, 'What else did they alter?'" Within one day I had a copy of that photograph with "The Situation" [from television's "Jersey Shore"] added to the Situation Room crew. I know the government cannot divulge secret information, but if there is no way to present an otherwise great picture (which this definitely is) than by destroying its integrity with Photoshop, then I am afraid the photograph should be left on the cutting room floor or filed away until the top secret information is no longer a problem.
Now, take a look at the photograph of President Obama speaking, staged for photographers after the actual televised address. Even if the caption says, "WARNING: THIS PHOTO IS A REENACTMENT," the picture itself is a visual lie. The picture itself deceives the reader because the photograph looks as though President Obama is addressing the nation – and he is not. It's a lie, and as I have said for years, no amount of captioning can make a visual lie acceptable.
It comes down to a matter of values and sticking by these values under pressure. People wanted to see the President addressing the country in their newspapers because they saw him do this on television. The temptation was to bend the rules and make this happen.
The White House knew they had an award winner in the Situation Room. The temptation was to bend the rules and obscure a detail in the center so the public could see the rest of the picture, which really is the photograph of the year. It is a question of values: Is it more important to protect the integrity of image or to show an otherwise iconic photograph to the public? We all know now what the answer to that question has been – The White House released the photograph, The New York Times ran it six columns and Time magazine ran it as a double truck. No one seems to believe the integrity of the image is more important. Isn't this why Allan Detrich was fired from The Toledo Blade?
To be fair, Detrich created images that intentionally deceived the reader while there was no intent to lie with what the White House did. Their intent was merely to cover up information that was sensitive and many people in our profession look at this as analogous to redacting words in a written document. Many people think that since the White House openly pointed out what they did and this did not change the meaning of the image, Photoshopping was permissible in this case, since it was such an iconic image. I have difficulty with this idea but I can understand the reasoning and I really like the photograph.
Television routinely shoots cutaways, B-roll, and other forms of reenactment footage due to the needs they say they have for sequencing. We in still photography find it disturbing when we shoot video and are told it is now okay to have a subject "do it again, for the camera," since this is how video works. Some news organizations are saying that when you shoot stills, use the ethics of still photojournalism and when you shoot video, use the ethics usually associated with television. I cannot buy this concept. Staging photographs is wrong. Period.
Those of us who work the local scene know you cannot restage a governor or mayor's event. If we do, we get fired. We look to the national level and see staging of photographs as a way of life, so much so that a Reuters photographer could write a blog on how it was done. Picture editors then tried to clear their consciences by making sure the caption indicated the timing was out of sequence (some captions were less than definitive, such as this from Reuters: "U. S. President Barack Obama is pictured after announcing live on television the death of Osama bin Laden…), but this does not forgive the fact that the photograph itself was a visual lie. Don't the rules apply to the top echelons as well as to the journeymen working outside the Beltway?
The impression is that the there are special needs around the White House, that there is a need for security not faced on the local level, that this is the way it has always been done, that dealing with the White House is dealing with an immoveable object. I may be a naïve provincial but isn't there a similarity here to the hubris of Icarus?
Maybe they should use or transmit only video frame grabs of the speech. Or maybe it is time to do what many of us have done on the local level with our court systems: establish a pool and use a blimp to silence the noise. Hollywood has been doing this for years to make stills while a movie is being shot. This takes shelving your ego and your desire to beat the competition, but it is a way of getting honest photographs in difficult situations and serving the needs of the public. There is enough hubris inside the Beltway without the photographers being guilty of it also.
Steve Raymer, a professor of journalism at Indiana University, a distinguished National Geographic photojournalist, and a member of the NPPA Ethics Committee, wrote: "As an ordinary reader and consumer (of) news, having been out of the Washington bubble for a few years, I feel deceived. My reaction is the same as anyone who feels betrayed or lied to – these images are fakes and we were led to believe they were authentic. ... My suspicion is that many have known about it, at least the day-to-day White House shooters and ex-shooters, and consider it business as usual. And that's the problem – the DC bubble."
Peter Southwick, associate professor of journalism at Boston University, a long-time Boston photojournalist and also a member of the Ethics Committee, added: "I can see no justification for excluding still photography from that event. We often talk about how we are recording history, but it is quite rare we photograph a moment we know to be historic at the time. This was one of those instances, and I cannot see how reasonable people would agree that a 're-creation' of the event is sufficient. … It has everything to do with being truthful communicators to the public, the citizenry, the people who elect the president and expect a level of honesty in the information that comes from him and his appointed representatives."
The NPPA Ethics Committee had a spirited discussion of all these matters and though there wasn't total agreement, the committee is saddened by a number of things. That the White House has historically believed that it is proper to create a fake speech photograph shows a lack of understanding of what photojournalists do and, to the extent that the wires and newspapers have participated in the fakery over many presidential administrations, shows a distain for the principles they say they live by.
NPPA's Code of Ethics, item #2, says, "Resist being manipulated by staged photo opportunities."
As we go to press, the White House has announced it will no longer stage photographs but will work with the photographers to create new protocols. This is exceptionally good news and NPPA applauds the White House for hearing our concerns and responding in such a positive way. If some sort of pool arrangement is the best option, I hope all parties set aside their egos and do what is best for the readers. Maybe Icarus can learn to stay away from the sun this time.
Ethics Committee members Steve Raymer and Peter Southwick contributed to this article.


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Adrian Peterson ran for 2,097 yards in 2012 and he had fullback Jerome Felton helping clear the path toward many of them.
Felton's headed toward free agency off that performance and he'll join Mike Florio on Tuesday's PFT Live to talk about what the future holds for him. Will he take less to stay with the Vikings or is Felton looking to cash in on what might be his only chance to navigate the waters of free agency? We'll do our best to find out.
Florio will also be unveiling his offseason to-do lists for a pair of teams that have faced each other in three Super Bowls. Neither the Cowboys nor Steelers made the playoffs in 2012, though, which means that both have plenty to keep them busy as they try to build teams capable of achieving more this time around.
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JC Penney: The Store Closing Conundrum
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As J.C. Penney (JCP) tries to fix itself so it can be around to make good on its 100-year bonds, Credit Suisse notes that the struggling retailer will have to shrink to restore its health.
Analyst Michael Exstein and team explain:
Since 2011, the JCP customer appears to have shifted their shopping patterns off the mall, favoring mass merchants and off pricers. As sales volumes are likely to remain well below peak levels for JCPenney for the foreseeable future, rationalizing its store base is a necessary step in its turnaround efforts. In the event that JCP takes measures to close stores, we think a combination of closing underproductive stores and stores in oversaturated markets is the best way to both increase productivity and drive upside to operating profit margins. We would view any announcement from JCP of plans to do so as another step in the right direction.
Exstein estimates that closing the most unproductive stores could increase productivity by 8.4%, while closing stores in oversaturated markets could boost operating profits by 2.7%.
The only problem: Closing those stores won't be so easy. Exstein explains:
It would be difficult to close locations that JCP owns given that most of its owned real estate is pledged as collateral to its $2.25 bn term loan. It would also be challenging in its leased locations, as JCP would need to work with the mall owners in order to exit leases. Mall owners would likely welcome the opportunity to bring more productive tenants into high-performing malls, whereas we expect mall owners would not release JCP of its lease payments in weaker-performing malls. Not surprisingly, we think the less productive JCP locations (and the locations likely most attractive for closing) would be in these lower-productivity malls.
Still, JC Penney's shares have stopped hitting new lows and are even-gasp--trying to start a winning streak. They've gained 1.4% to $6.63 after rising 2% yesterday. They're also bucking weakness among retailers, as Kohl's (KSS) has dipped 0.3% to $53.91, Macy's (M) has fallen 0.8% to $44.23 and Sears Holdings (SHLD) has dropped 2.1% to $54.98.


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Poisoning Children Even Before They Are Born
Editor's note: The tag line at the bottom of this story has been updated to correct a mistake. Terry Wallace, the author of this opinion piece, is a participant with the Cardinal Institute, not the CATO Institute.
Would you knowingly and deliberately poison your own child?
Would you allow anyone else to repeatedly inject your child with a poisonous substance?
Don't answer too fast, because that is exactly what's happening every day across America.
Cigarette smoking kills, wounds and damages children just as certainly as any unbalanced maniac who points a gun at their heads and pulls the trigger.
Mothers who smoke during pregnancy are doing just that, as they share the poisons from cigarette smoke through the common blood supply flowing from the placenta to the unborn child. Despite clear and compelling information, this goes on 24 hours per day for the 270-day gestation period, even though it is clear that smokers' babies have a higher likelihood of preterm delivery and low birth weight.
Both are markers for the panoply of other limiting or handicapping conditions, including subaverage general intellectual functioning, learning disabilities, and a whole range of behavior disorders, hyperactivity, and reading and math disabilities.
According to The American Lung Association, the approximately 20 percent of pregnant women who choose to smoke kill about 1,000 babies each year in America. Their cigarettes transmit deadly poisons, such as carbon monoxide, lead, arsenic, nicotine, formaldehyde and hundreds of other toxins to the fetus with every bit of smoke they inhale. By choosing to smoke, they cause nearly one-third of low-birth weight infants, about one-seventh of preterm deliveries and about one-in-ten of all infant deaths, along with increased risk of miscarriages and stillborn deliveries.
In addition, smoking mothers who nurse continue to give their babies breast milk that is laced with cigarette smoke poisons and provide second-hand smoke for the infants to inhale on a regular and ongoing basis.
This results in more colds and respiratory problems, including pneumonia and bronchitis, as well as long-term physical and general intellectual functioning deficits. Accumulated toxins from third-hand smoke are often concentrated in clothing, bedding, furniture and other household items, allowing physical/oral transmission to the infant and increasing susceptibility to asthma and cancer.
Studies also indicate nicotine can have a negative impact on brain development and functioning. Observable effects include significantly reduced thickness of the cerebral cortex, smaller cerebral cortex neurons, and reduced brain weight. Also noted is an overall decrease in dendritic branching (connections to other brain cells). Studies show, too, that the greater the dose of nicotine, the greater the effects upon the offspring. This research provides an excellent biological model to support the many other studies linking increased hyperactivity, attention deficits, lower IQ, and learning disabilities in children with parents who smoked during pregnancy. Other impacts of smoking can include conduct disorders such as, ADD, ADHD, and Oppositional Defiant behavior which can carry through to adulthood.
In many states, education officials are struggling to improve literacy rates, as well as overall academic performance of children in schools and the ongoing impact of smoking makes things even more difficult. Recent research indicates children of mothers who smoked during pregnancy score about 20 percent below their peers in reading, a key factor in learning.
West Virginia leads the nation in the rate of smoking among expectant mothers, at nearly 30 percent, and the rate in some of the state's counties exceeds 40 percent. Most of Appalachia and many major cities are not far behind.
Exacerbating things even further, abuse of prescription and illicit drugs, alcohol use and nutritional factors combine with smoking to virtually guarantee developmental damage to many children; damage that carries through to adulthood. The smoking impact cuts across all socio-economic and racial strata.
In taxpayer terms, the additional costs in special and compensatory education, medical resources, and what are often lifetime disability and medical payments are staggering and continuing to grow.
Until we remedy this situation, overall educational progress will continue to lag for many children despite improvements in curriculum, more effective teaching efforts and methods, and the infusion of even more money.
The shock and revulsion of more than a thousand child gun deaths annually, including school shootings, has evoked a passionate national outcry for some sort of action. Killing, wounding and damaging even more children with cigarettes, though, seems to be perfectly acceptable.
Dr. Terry Wallace serves as a Senior Fellow at the Public Policy Foundation of West Virginia and is a participant with the Cardinal Institute.


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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Pain & Central Nervous System Week --From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents obtained the following quote: "Central pain is defined as 'pain initiated or caused by a primary lesion or dysfunction in the central nervous system' (Merskey and Bogduk, 1994). The diversity of clinical characteristics led to the designation of this condition as Central Pain Syndrome (CPS).
The pain is most often steady and unrelenting, and has been described 'as if knives heated in Hell's hottest corner were tearing me to pieces' (Head and Holmes, 1911). It has no cure and is often resistant to conventional pharmacological treatment (Baastrup and Finnerup, 2008). CPS can result from a variety of conditions, and these may produce lesions at any level along the spinal cord or the brain. Common conditions include, for example, spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis (MS) and cerebrovascular lesions (stroke). The prevalence of CPS in these conditions is alarmingly high. A majority of spinal cord injury patients, almost 30% of MS patients, and nearly 10% of stroke patients suffer from CPS (Bonica, 1991; Yezierski, 2000; Boivie, 2005)."Many of the earliest reported cases of CPS involved damage to the thalamus (Edinger, 1891; Dejerine and Roussy, 1906; Head and Holmes, 1911). As a result, thalamic lesions were thought to be required for development of pain, and the syndrome was referred to for decades by the misleading term 'thalamic pain'. Research since that time has established that CPS can result from damage to any structure along spino-thalamo-cortical pathways that convey pain and temperature information (Schmahmann and Leifer, 1992; Bowsher, 1996; McGowan et al., 1997; Peyron et al., 2000; Finnerup et al., 2003; Boivie, 2005; Kim et al., 2007). "Immediately following spinal cord injury or stroke, somatosensation, including pain, is reduced (hypoalgesia). In most patients, pain starts within a few weeks after the original insult, and includes both increased pain with noxious stimulation (hyperalgesia) and pain in response to previously innocuous stimuli (allodynia). Perhaps most debilitating--and puzzling--is the presence, in the majority of patients, of spontaneous pain (Tasker, 1991; Greenspan et al., 2004; Boivie, 2005; Baliki et al., 2007). "One hypothesis that remains in favour of CPS, almost a century since it was first formulated, is that CPS results from abnormally suppressed inhibition in the thalamus (Head and Holmes, 1911). Unfortunately, any consensus appears to end there, as there are conflicting findings and hypotheses regarding the mechanisms and site of operation of this disinhibition (see Boivie, 2005; Canavero and Bonicalzi, 2007). To this end, there is a need in the art for determining mechanisms and targets for treatment of CPS. The inventors of the present invention have now discovered a novel mechanism and target for CPS. The inventors demonstrate herein that CPS results from, and can be treated by correcting, suppressed firing of inhibitory inputs from the inhibitory nucleus zona incerta (ZI) to the posterior thalamus (PO)." Supplementing the background information on this patent, NewsRx reporters also obtained the inventors' summary information for this patent: "The invention relates to neurophysiology. The invention further relates to pathophysiology related to pain. The invention even further relates to a method of treating pain (including, for example, CPS, hyperalgesia, and allodynia). "In certain aspects, the invention is drawn to a method of treating a symptom of central pain syndrome (CPS) in an individual in need thereof comprising stimulating a region of the brain wherein said region comprises the zona incertia (ZI). In further aspects, the region comprising the ZI consists of the ZI. "In certain aspects, the invention is drawn to a method of treating hyperalgesia in an individual in need thereof comprising stimulating a region of the brain wherein said region comprises the zona incertia (ZI). In further aspects, the region comprising the ZI consists of the ZI. "In certain aspects, stimulating a region of the brain is accomplished by electrical stimulation. In further aspects, electrical stimulation is performed either transcranially or subcranially. In even further aspects, electrical stimulation is performed subcranially. In even other further aspects, electrical stimulation that is performed subcranially is achieved by an electrode For thimplanted directly in the ZI. "The foregoing has outlined rather broadly the features and technical advantages of the present invention in order that the detailed description of the invention that follows may be better understood. see: Keller, Asaf; Masri, Radi; Quiton, Raimi. Methods for Treating Central Pain Syndrome and Other Pain Related Pathologies. U.S. Patent Number 8396558, filed February 4, 2010, and issued March 12, 2013. University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, MD) has been issued patent number 8396558, according to news reporting originating out of Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx editors (see also University of Maryland, Baltimore). The patent's inventors are Keller, Asaf (Baltimore, MD); Masri, Radi (Ellicott City, MD); Quiton, Raimi (Baltimore, MD). This patent was filed on February 4, 2010 and was cleared and issued on March 12, 2013. Our reports deliver fact-based news of research and discoveries from around the world. Copyright 2013, NewsRx LLC To see more of the NewsRx.com, or to subscribe, go to http://www.newsrx.com .


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What kinds of things does the North remember? Lots. Unfortunately, we can't list them off here because we don't want to spoil anyone who hasn't caught up on their reading/watching. The Starks and their bannermen always remember that Winter is Coming. Whether it's preparing for years of ice and cold or preparing to be betrayed by people you trusted, bloody times are always ahead.
But, you know, sometimes the North forgets, too, so it's always good to have the files with you, just in case you blank. And with one of these lovely flash drives, featuring either House Stark's Direwolf Sigil or the Hand of the King, even if you don't remember right offhand, you can look things up. The North's clever like that.Product Specifications
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- Gambas Ala Luna
Sauteed shrimps in butter and garlic with paprika, cayenne, bread crumbs. Garnished with parsley
- Gambas Al Ajillo
Sauteed shrimps in olive oil with garlic, paprika, cayenne, hot chili and tomato
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- Burrito Pescado
Rolled corn tortilla with fried fish fillet, lettuce, cheese and sour cream.
- Campesinos Jalapeño
Crispy corn tortillas with beef fillings, seasoned with chili powder, paprika, cheese, tomatoes and jalapeño.
- Chicken Flautas
Crispy-fried rolled corn tortilla filled with seasoned chicken breast and topped with salsa rojo, salsa fresca and sour cream. Topped with feta cheese.
- Tostaditas
Three crispy mini corn tortillas topped with lettuce, tender beef, refried beans, salsa, sour cream and cheese.
Pork, Beef & Chicken
- Mooon Steak
Sizzling pork steak topped with gravy sauce, served with garlic rice and vegetables.
- Beef Tips
Certified U.S Beef Sauteed sizzling beef strips topped with onion rings and gravy sauce served with garlic rice.
- Chicken Mozzarella Melt
Fried chicken fillet sprinkled with mozzarella cheese, sautted chopped tomatoes, served with rice.
- Pork Belly
Grilled marinated Pork belly with sbuttered vegetables and rice. Served with native sauce.
- Pork Chops
Grilled tender Pork chops. Sidings: butterd vegetables, rice and native sauce.
- Peppered Beef
Certified U.S Beef Beef strips with green and red pepper and ginger. Served with rice.
- Mexican Baby Back Ribs
500 grams Grilled Pork ribs marinated in herbs. Sidings: buttered vegetables, rice and native sauce.
- Six-Stick Pork Barbeque
Six sticks of pork barbeque marinated on special sauce. Served with atchara and rice.
- Steak Ala Pobre
Grilled tenderloin steak topped with fried crispy garlic served with butter vegetables, rice or mashed potato. Choice of mushroom or pepper sauce.
- Lechon Kawali
Crispy deef fried pork belly. Served with native sauce, garlic rice and vegetables
- Beef Stroganoff
Certified U.S Beef Beef sauteed in garlic and onion, with cream of mushroom sauce
- Tenderloin Steak
Juicy grilled tenderloin beef. Sidings: buttered vegetables, mashed potato or rice. Choice of mushroom or pepper sauce.
- Fillet Mignon
Beef fillet wrapped with bacon anad grilled to perfection, served with buttered vegetables, mashed potato or rice. Choice of mushroom or pepper sauce.
- Rib-eye Steak
Grilled rib-eye steak served with buttered vegetables and rice or mashed potato.
- Sizzling Chicken
Crispy sizzling chicken topped with gravy sauce.
- Fish Mozzrella Melt
Deep fried fish fillet topped with melted mozzarella cheese, sauteed chopped tomatoes and served with garlic rice.
- Blue Marlin
Sizzling marinated blue marlin in adobo sauce topped with onion rings, served with garlic rice.
- Tangigue Steak
Grilled marinated Tangigue steak with buttered, vegetables and rice. Choice of native sauce or lemon butter sauce
- Tuna Belly
Grilled marinated tuna belly topped with onion rings and garlic, served with buttered vegetables. Choice of native sauce or lemon butter sauce.
- Panseared Fish Fillet
Pan fried fish fillet with spicy coco.
- Breaded Fish Fillet
Deed fried breaded fish fillet with buttered vegetables served with garlic rice and mayonnaise.
Sausage Meal
- Frankfurter
Mouth-watering marinated pork strips topped onion rings. Served with vinegar dip with minced garlic.
- Cheese Hungarian
Marinated beef strips topped with onion rings served in minced garling with vinegar dip.
- Schublig
Crispy corn tortilla served with five salsa's: Salsa Fresca, Salsa Verde, Scorched Chili, Tropical Fruit Salsa and Sour Cream
- Spaghetti Ala Gambas
Shrimps sauteed in butter, garlic, cayenne and paprika.
- Pasta Mexicano
Sauteed beef fillings, salsa rojo, lettuce, cheese and sour cream.
- Spaghetti Bolognese
Minced beef, garlic, onions, carrots and tomato sauce simmered in red wine.
- Pasta Carbonara
Creamy white sauce with bacon and mushrooms topped with cheese.
- Spaghetti Ala Mooon
Sauteed chicken, shrimps, shitake mushroom, roasted peanut and oriental sauce
Side Orders
- Salsa Fresca
Red and green tomatoes, onion, chili, calamansi juice and cilantro. Seasoned with chili powder and paprika.
- Salsa Rojo
A tangy salsa made from red and green pepper, tomatoes, onions, jalapeno chilies, spring onion, fresh cilantro leaves and brandy.
- Sour Cream
Milk with cheese, vinegar, salt and basil leaves.
- Jalapeño Diablo
Jalapeño chillies, beef and chorizo, topped with tomatoes mozzarella and cheddar cheese. A pizza with a kick!
- Quatro Quezo
Combination of cheddar cheese, quickmelt, mozzarella and edam.
- Pizza Classico
Classic combination of beef salami, fresh tomato, onions, green bell pepper, mushroom, and bacon topped with mozzarella cheese.
- Pizza Margharitta
A distinctly flavor pizza with slided tomato, fresh basil leaves and olives oil topped with mozzarella cheese and herbs.
- Gardenia
A perfect vegetarian treat! Toppings: tomatoes, onions, eggplant, green bell pepper, olives, pineapple tidbits, button mushroom, lettuce and mozzarella cheese. Served with thousand island dressing on the side.
- Bacon and Mushroom
A duet of bacon and button mushrooms, combined with mozzarella cheese.
- Pizza Pilipino
Our creation of Spanish sardines & chorizo topped with mozzarella cheese.
- Ham and Pineapple
Hawaiian special with sliced ham topped with pineapple tidbits and mozzarella cheese.
- Karnes
Assorted cold cuts of beef salami, italian sausage, ham, bacon slices, onion rings and green olives, topped with mozzarella cheese.


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Thomas Sowell is the one and only. His newest book of many is The Thomas Sowell Reader. Peter Robinson sat down with Sowell to discuss the book a couple of weeks ago, but Peter leads off this installment of Uncommon Knowledge with William Buckley's introduction of Sowell on Firing Line 30 years ago. In the clip from Firing Line Buckley salutes Sowell for being "a scholar who has devoted his labors to looking behind the cliches of abjection." (Peter in turn salutes Buckley for his eloquence).
Through our arrangement with the Hoover Institution, we are pleased to present this installment of Uncommon Knowledge in its entirety. While I usually ask readers to "check it out," this time around I will simply say: Enjoy.


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The U.S. economy might be straining to gain ground overall, but for some it's as robust as ever. In fact, if you're in the top 1 percent, your share of the nation's household income has risen to levels not seen since 1928.
According to an analysis conducted by economists from Oxford University, the Paris School of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley, income inequality soared even higher in 2012. Incomes for the elite rose 20 percent last year, while the bottom 99 percent eked out a 1 percent raise. Since the Great Recession officially ended in mid-2009, the richest Americans have garnered 95 percent of all income gains.
Nothing new, right? The rich get richer while the poor, well, they fight for whatever scraps fall off the table. Distracted by societal arguments about what others should or should not do (ie abortion rights, gay marriage, prayer in schools, gun violence, drunk driving and the like), a vast majority of Americans simply do not pay attention to the widening disparity between the haves and the have-nots.
Even worse in our minds is the gullible nature of those without who fight for the rights of the elite -- and consistently vote against their own self-interest. It's no longer restricted to Kansas; "What's the Matter with America" should be the sequel's title.
We were encouraged by the message if not the organization of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Those attempting to highlight the existing inequality quickly were dismissed as malcontents -- and mainstream America went the route of the tea party. Blind to that movement's inspiration and deep pockets, once again we're galvanizing behind the efforts of "job creators."
How is that working out? We'll offer an example.
Despite the institutional banks' missteps that led to the latest recession, they were deemed too big to fail and were bailed out with tax dollars that hadn't even been collected yet. No problem, it was easy enough to throw onto the growing national debt.
In the second quarter of this year, the banking industry earned a record $42.2 billion -- the vast majority which was collected by the too-big-to-fail banks. These companies are expected to pay record amounts of compensation, including $23 billion in bonuses.
It just won't be going to as many people. Bank of America recorded more than $4 billion net revenue in the second quarter, yet announced this week another round of layoffs. The 2,100 employees receiving pink slips are part of the bank's Project New BAC and its goal to eliminate 30,000 jobs companywide by the end of 2013.
The same day the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. revealed the big banks' net income projections, fast-food workers around the country walked off the job to protest the meager minimum wage which hasn't budged from $7.25 since 2009.
Poverty, particularly amongst the nation's children, continues to rise but state governments fixate on busting unions, cutting unemployment benefits and demonizing those out of work. Corporate welfare continues unchecked -- and the comparably minimal assistance going to needy individuals receives the attention and the budget axe of elected officials.
Legislators at state and national levels are funded and directed by the 1 percent, yet elected by the 99 percent. We are not surprised that income and wealth disparity are both at such heights. We also are mindful of what happened one year after the last time inequality was measuring at this level.
We hope you recall reading about or living through The Depression, which hit in 1929. It will require the 99 percent's undivided attention to avoid repeating that history.
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BANNER ELK, N.C. --- The Lees-McRae College men's soccer team dropped a heartbreaker on Saturday afternoon during Homecoming Weekend, falling to visiting Barton College by a score of 1-0 in Conference Carolinas play on Tate Field.
Lees-McRae (5-4, 3-1 CC) controlled nearly every aspect of the match, outshooting Barton (3-5-1, 2-2 CC) by a 26-6 margin, including a 17-2 onslaught in the second half. Despite the disparity in attempts on goal, the Bulldog backline held firm for 90 minutes, keeping the Bobcats off the scoresheet while snapping LMC's five-match win streak.
Jordan Wright (West Lothian, Scotland) and Scott Alford (Hillsborough, N.C.) paced the Bobcat attack on the afternoon, combining for 17 attempts on frame, as James Galvani (High Wycombe, England) made his return to the pitch with four shots.
Wright and Alford were a constant threat to the Bulldog backline throughout the match, putting six shots on frame while each rung the bar in the second half. Thomas Rusling (Sheffield, England) turned in another strong performance between the pipes for the Bobcats, making a pair of saves as the Bobcats' shutout streak came to an end at 415:26.
Danilo Matos scored the lone goal of the match for the Bulldogs, connecting on his only attempt on frame, as Dante De Luca and Archer Bane each contributed an assist. Vasily Yakimkin delivered an outstanding effort in goal for Barton, stopping six shots as another was cleared off the line by a Bulldog defender.
The Bobcats nearly got off to a flying start in the 12th minute, when Alford pivoted on the edge of the box and sent a curling effort toward the top corner, only to be denied the opener when Yakimkin managed a leaping fingertip save to send the shot ricocheting off the bar. Rusling answered with an acrobatic stop of his own in the 21st, tipping Kevin Strassburger's chance over the bar after the Barton attacker shook his defender and ripped a shot destined for the far corner.
Barton would net the breakthrough midway through the 32nd minute, taking a 1-0 lead when De Luca and Bane combined to find an onrushing Matos, who streaked in alone and delivered the finish into the bottom corner.
The Bobcats quickly countered with a concerted push forward, as both Galvani and Wright came within inches of netting the equalizer in the 41st and 42nd minutes as Barton carried the one-goal advantage into the interval. Lees-McRae kept up the pressure in the second half, unleashing a seemingly endless barrage toward the Barton frame as the Bobcats outshot the Bulldogs, 11-2, in the first 20 minutes of the period.
Perhaps Wright's best opportunity of the second half came in the 56th minute, when his headed effort off a corner from Matthew Cureton (Waxhaw, N.C.) was cleared off the line. Yago Xavier (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) came within inches of the equalizer in the 63rd minute, making a brilliant run in behind as his finish struck the woodwork before rolling across the face of goal and out over the byline.
Alford unleashed a barrage of his own in the 67th minute, sending a trio of glorious attempts toward goal, including an effort which rung the bar from close range. Yakimkin would be equal to the task over the final 20 minutes, turning aside a part of Bobcat efforts, as Wright sent a rocket ringing off the bar late in the 83rd minute.
Lees-McRae returns to the pitch on Tuesday when the Bobcats host Southeast Region foe Francis Marion University in non-conference play at 7 p.m. on Tate Field.