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This is the courtyard of the camp jail, Block 11; a jail in the middle of a concentration and death camp! The cells were in the basement. Observe the concrete walls built around the cell windows to further isolate prisoners. Scrolling right, you see the street entrance to the courtyard and the boarded windows of Block 10, where Dr. Carl Clauberg conducted sterilization and other experiments on women prisoners. Scrolling to the right, notice two posts in the concrete walkway. On them were hooks with which to hang prisoners by their wrists bound behind their backs, thus dislocating shoulder joints. For a painting of the process experienced by the artist, Jan Komski see: [link].
Scroll a bit further to the right and you see the "Death Wall."
"From 1941-1943, the SS shot several thousand people at the Death Wall in the courtyard between Blocks No. 10 and 11. Those who died here were mostly Polish political prisoners, and above all leaders and members of the underground organization, people involved in planning escapes and aiding escapees, and those maintaining contacts with the outside world. Poles brought from outside the camp were also shot here. They included hostages arrested in reprisal for Polish resistance movement operations against the German occupation authorities."*
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Elizabeth Bowen
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Elizabeth Bowen (June 7 1899 – February 22 1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer.
The Last September (1929)Edit
- "What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually— our sense of personality is a sense of outrage and we'll never get outside of it."
But the hold of the country was that, she considered, it could be thought of in terms of oneself, so interpreted.
The House in Paris (1935)Edit
- Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
- This is the worst of love, this unmeant mystification — someone smiling and going out without saying where, or a letter arriving, being read in your presence, put away, not explained, or: "No, alas, I can't to-night" on the telephone — that, one person having set up without knowing, the other cannot undo without the where? who? why? that brings them both down a peg. Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
- And yet in a way I would rather fail point blank. Things one can do have no value. I don't mind feeling small myself, but I dread finding the world is.
- It is a wary business, walking about a strange house you are to know well. Only cats and dogs with their more expressive bodies enact the tension we share with them at such times. The you inside you gathers up defensively: something is stealing upon you every moment; you will never be quite the same again. These new unsmiling lights, reflections and objects are to become your memories, riveted to you closer than friends or lovers, going with you, even, into the grave: worse, they may become dear and fasten like so many leeches on your heart.
The Death of the Heart (1939)Edit
- Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself — in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
- The heart may think it knows better: The senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.
- Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.


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Timber Framing
This was a difficult choice for me, since my father was a wood worker and I grew up learning many of these skills; I love working with wood and I worked for years as a carpenter. It is certainly one of the most versatile of all building materials, and is a renewable resource, when harvested sensibly.
I have finally come to realize that building with wood (at least partially) can still be a sound ecological choice, which is particularly true in regions where forests have regenerated to the point that they can be harvested sustainably. This means that the trees are carefully monitored to make sure that the health and character of the forest is maintained; only certain trees are culled periodically, leaving the remaining trees to grow and contribute to a healthy ecosystem. It is possible to buy wood that has been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), but if this means that you are buying wood shipped great distances, then this becomes a less ecological choice; use local materials!
Furthermore, with timber framing it is possible to use large wooden posts and beams in such a way as to create strong and versatile load-bearing structures, which can then be completed by either in-filling between the wooden structural members, or completely wrapping the timber frame structure with a variety of other materials (as is recommended in colder climates). Since this method of building has been recognized and approved by most code authorities, it is a way of approaching a natural building project that would otherwise be difficult for the authorities to sanction.
So I have now created a page about Timber Framing, greenhomebuilding.com/timber, with lots of media resources and informative links listed. I have also enlisted the gracious assistance of a preeminent timber framing specialist to answer questions from the public about this ancient art.
Will Beemer is a charter member and co-Executive Director of the Timber Framers Guild, and is owner of the Heartwood School for the Homebuilding Crafts in Washington, MA. For over 30 years, this school has been offering students a chance to improve their woodworking and timber framing skills. Will helps teach many courses at Heartwood and has been designing and building houses for over 35 years. He was a construction foreman at the Arcosanti project in Arizona, and design instructor at Cornell University. He has organized and taught building workshops around the world, including timber framing courses through the Guild and at Palomar College in San Diego, the North House Folk School and at the Colorado State University Mountain Campus. He has written for Fine Homebuilding, Joiner's Quarterly, and Timber Framing magazines.
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Melbourne GP stalwart Ron Walker steps down
The long-serving chairman of Australia's grand prix in Melbourne is stepping down.
Ron Walker, a stalwart of the almost twenty-year-old Albert Park race and a close friend and political ally of Bernie Ecclestone, will retire after the 2015 event.
"I'm 75 this year and it's good governance to let someone fresh take the reins," he told News Limited publications in Australia.
Walker, a former Melbourne lord mayor and a multimillionaire businessman, selected his own replacement, current cricket world cup chairman John Harnden.
"It's not public knowledge," said Walker. "We haven't made the announcements, because we wanted to continue to do what we do without any fanfare."
The fact that Harnden will only take over for the 2016 race is a clear sign that Melbourne wants to keep the grand prix beyond its 2015 contract.
Walker, who was recently battling lung cancer, revealed last week that he has negotiated a basic new deal with Ecclestone.
"I think the foreplay is over so to speak and it's now a case of talking to the government about whether it is worth it or not," he is quoted by the AFP news agency.
"I think everyone in the government wants the race. The assessment is going to be made over the price," Walker added.
He told News Limited: "We are asking for three extra years. We are not like the Arab states and some other countries -- we have to be very careful the way we spend taxpayers' money."


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The dude is done. He and Armando were together long enough for the crappiness to rub off.
xbay wrote:The way I see it, if he doesn't rebound, we should just eat his contract and make Cain or Lincecum the ace of the staff.
I agree, it woulod be super expensive...but this dude has to be killing the morale of the team
Not to mention we have at least 5 guys that prove to be more of a reliable starter the Zito
One more time...
and now he's fuckin paris Hilton..i hope he has 20 losses this year.
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Why would you hope for 20 losses for one of our starting pitchers? Sometimes it feels like posters on this board actually want our players and teams to fail, just so they can be right. LOL
Rehren1296 wrote:and now he's fuckin paris Hilton..i hope he has 20 losses this year.
don't be mad at him for that, anybody who's been on TV has had a run in Paris. If you get on your local cable access tv, you'll probably get up in there yourself.


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Saturday, May 19, 2012
It's not the Rangers. It's their fans.
Of course there's going to be resentment. From 1998-2008, the Astros were 957-824 (.537) and went to the playoffs four times. The Rangers in the same period were 872-910 (.489), and went to the playoffs twice, in 1998 and 1999, getting swept in the first round both times. That was a fun time for Astros fans. The Rangers didn't even register on our radar, particularly during the 2004-05 seasons.
But now things are different. In 2010/11, the Rangers went to the World Series both times (cue the petty smile slowly sweeping across my face), and went 186-138. The Astros are the polar opposite, going 132-192. The Rangers were one strike away from being the best team in baseball (a few times). The Astros were the worst team in baseball. There's a reason that the Astros have to decide between Mark Appel and Byron Buxton in a few weeks.
Make no mistake. If the roles were reversed, I have no doubt that I would be a complete and utter jacknut, and question whether the Rangers were a Double-A or a Triple-A team. But the roles are not reversed, and every time the Newberg Report tweeted that if the Rangers were facing Feliz last night, they would have run-ruled him and left Feliz sitting on the mound, in tears, with one sock on, and wearing his glove like a shark fin (paraphrasing), I wanted to lash out. Or when our old buddy/whipping boy DMN writer Evan Grant says that Minute Maid Park has the Stupidest In Play Feature in an MLB Park (not paraphrasing. At all.) or that Rhiner Cruz looks stupid and like he doesn't belong in MLB, we can just say that the Red Mist descended over my eyes, and I took the dogs on an angry walk. (By the by, AC lost a decent number of followers on Twitter yesterday - scroll down - with our short fiction piece on George Postolos and Jeff Luhnow vs. Evan Grant. I don't mind it.) Is it petty? Absolutely.
That Rangers fans (and, apparently, even those who cover the Rangers - which seems a touch unprofessional) don't think, even with the randomness of baseball, that it's in the realm of possibility that the Astros can win a game this series...that's what pisses me off. I don't hate the Rangers. I'm starting to hate everyone who likes the Rangers. Especially...
Keep pinching that nipple, sir. It just might be your lucky nipple, and win a World Series someday.
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I'm on the same boat. I'm really, really starting to hate their fans. It's unbelievable how hard-headed they are. They act like we don't exist. One of my best friends is a Rangers' fan and it's impossible to get him to think that the Astros' are respectsble. He started my hate for their fans.
- May 19, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Four of them tried to pick a fight with a rather large Astros fan. Given that two security guards couldn't effectively restrain the Astros fan, but thankfully succeeded in calming him down, I imagine it would have ended badly for the Rangers fans.
Astros fan stayed at the game, by the way. Rangers fans were tossed.
Of course, I wasn't exactly on my best behaviour. When asked how I could possibly justify booing Josh Hamilton, my immediate response was, "Because he killed a guy last year"
- May 19, 2012 at 11:29 AM
Basically they talk loads of shit about us - or other teams - but when we boo or say something bad the Rangers', their fans say "how could you say something like that," and make you feel like crap. Jesus
- May 19, 2012 at 11:48 AM
I didn't feel like crap telling them that their crack addicted superman killed a fireman last year because of his noodle arm.
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Nice article. Do they still do the claw and antlers? Bunch of nipple-pinching rubes.
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Before I moved to Campbellsburg 11 years ago, I researched the town online and found the community I wanted to locate to. Democratic voting, liberal thinking small town with a sprinkling of diversified ethnic mix, I found my home online and moved my family in.
As a Democrat, I was proud to endorse Obama for president and proudly had an election sign put up in my front yard.
Foundation Fundraiser
I am pleased to announce that The Eminence Education Foundation, Inc. will hold their 22nd Annual Dinner and Silent Auction at 6 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014. This annual event will be in the Eminence Independent Schools Gymnasium. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and a buffet dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. The Silent Auction will occur throughout the evening followed by a live auction at the end of the program. Childcare will be provided (for free) with prior notice.
The five board members of the Eminence Independent Schools and the five board members of the Henry County Board of Education oversee budgets, make tough decisions, maintain the upkeep of our schools, and ensure academic excellence for all students. They also make it a priority that each individual child, in the Henry County and Eminence Independent district, gets what he or she needs to successfully learn in school and beyond. All that is done in the face of shrinking state and federal dollars for education.
Hello, my name is Shanda Scriber Archer, and I am writing to inform you that I have filed as a Democratic candidate for the office of Henry County Clerk. The date of the primary election will be Tuesday, May 20, 2014.
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I want to thank Shawn Golden for vocally opposing the Fairness Ordinance as well as taking a stand for Christianity. I want to encourage all Christians to do what is right and fight for our families. Research for yourself the Fairness Ordinance of Kentucky and take a look at what it has done to other Christian businesses in our state. Anyone who is not familiar with this topic should visit http://www.kentucky.com/2012/11/26/2421990/city-rules-hands-on-originals...
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The historic wrought iron fence, surrounding the Point Pleasant Cemetery that is located in a curve on KY 573, was silently removed last week. Its purpose had been to prevent speeding cars and weather related accidents from demolishing the tombstones. There seems to be no one in the community who witnessed it being taken down.
I'm writing in regards to the Point Pleasant Cemetery in Bethlehem.
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In Production: This week saw the read-through for episode twelve, written by Neil Gaiman; the writer commented on the experience over the last few days on Twitter: "Amazing hectic couple of days and stressed Doctor Who post-table-read rewrite in progress. On BBC legal advice Lampwick is no more." The read-through also gave him the chance to meet new girl Jenna-Louise Coleman!
Matt Smith praised Gaiman's script at the London MCM Expo: "It's very different, but again I think it will be a fan's favourite because, well, without giving anything away, it just will be, because there's something in it. Neil's brilliant ideas will always add a level to Doctor Who, which will be interesting."
One guest star for the episode will be Tamzin Outhwaite, who according to her CV will be playing the role of Capt Alice. A former EastEnders actress, other lead roles include Red Cap (2003), Hotel Babylon (2006), The Fixer (2008) and Paradox (2009). Asked about her role by Flicks and the City earlier in October, she said: "I'd like to play a baddie, but I haven't done a goodie for a while, so it'll be nice to play a goodie."
Another actor confirmed for the episode is Calvin Dean, whose CV indicated a character name of Ha-Ha (now removed); speaking on Twitter he said: "wow. things get out so quickly on here. So much for being secretive!". The actor was critically acclaimed for his role as Darren Mullet in Tormented, but is also familiar to the Doctor Who world, having played "Chris" in The Sarah Jane Adventures story The Gift.
Former singing contestant on The X Factor Zoe Alexander hopes that her appearance in episode seven (2013#3) will kick off an acting career: "It's great to be working on Doctor Who - the people are a lot nicer than some you get to meet working in TV. I'm loving it but I'm hoping that this is just a start for me." [WalesOnline, 30 Oct 2012]
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Episode six is undergoing editing, with director Colm McCarthy indicating yesterday that there's about two weeks to go. It's certainly busy work, with McCarthy commmenting this morning: "Got into the edit at 6AM. Started shouting "INCEPTION CAT!" at the editor at 6.05AM. Directing is hard."; he then added: "Temp music is fun when you have a bin full of genius thanks to Murray Gold".
Another actor identified for episode six (2013#1) is Robert Whitelock, whose CV indicates he plays a character named Mahler. The actor is about to appear as DC John Attwood in the second series of The Hour.
Meanwhile, Rachael Stirling talked about her recent filming experience in Doctor Who with her mother, Dame Diana Rigg: "We filmed Doctor Who in the summer, which was amazing. It's a juggernaut, I got to see all sorts of secret things I can't tell you about or I'll have to shoot you! Working with my mum was funny - I think it was a good experience for both of us, we really loved it; I was very proud of her and she said likewise, and that something we'll always remember. Working with Matt was gorgeous, he's brilliant, he's got that wonderful energy, I think he's a really admirable, brilliant man!" [Sky Tyne and Wear Video, 1 Nov 2012]
Matt Smith on the Steve Wright Show: Matt Smith was a guest on the Steve Wright Show on Monday afternoon, during which he managed to avoid giving away anything about the Christmas Special! "I can say it's set in Victorian England, we meet a Doctor who's been profoundly changed by the experiences before from losing the Ponds ... and into his life walks Jenna-Louise Coleman's character and off they go on new adventures!"
Talking about the series in general, he said: "I think that the Doctor is the same character fundamentally, that's why we tune in to watch the show, because there's a mad man who turns up and saves the universe with a ball of string and a toaster, and that's kind of it. That's why it's been going for fifty years - at its core and its heart beat that's what it's about. Of course it is going to evolve with CGI and now you get a bit more culture perhaps - but then is it more cultured, I don't know? I think sometimes there can be too much CG and 3D and all that sort of stuff can get a bit overwhelming. Hopefully you can be a bit more inventive with the stories and actually go and create space, or you can go back to Victorian England in a way that 40/50 years ago was more difficult to do."
Looking to next year, he said: "We're very fortunate to have Mr Steven Moffat, who's a complete genius, he really is. I've just read episode one of the next season and you think ... and there're some brilliant ideas in it, there's a moment in it which involves wheels - that is an exclusive, an actual honest exclusive! - and when you watch it you'll go ahhh. It's him, being brilliant."
Into the Future - 50th Anniversary: Peter Davison talks about the 50th Anniversary: "Every day I check the phone to see if Steven Moffat has called me! I don't know what's happening next year, I have nothing to report. I'm sure it will be something fantastic! But I don't know what. I think if [the classic Doctors] aren't invited, I'm going to make my own rival video. I'll do my own 50th anniversary special. Colin Baker's prepared to work for nothing!" [ComicBookResources, 26 Oct]
Meanwhile, the special documentary for the Anniversary seems to have fallen foul of recent revelations, according to the latest edition of Private Eye (number 1326): "As the sound of stable doors slamming shut resounds around the BBC the Jimmy Savile scandal is having some increasingly bizarre after-effects. A one-off docudrama about the creation of Doctor Who scripted by Mark Gatiss is in production, to be broadcast in November 2013 in celebration of the programme's 50th anniversary. Its makers have just been ordered to excise all scenes set in Television Centre dressing rooms."
Into the Future - cast/crew aspirations: Deep Space Nine actor Aron Eisenberg has said that he'd like to be in the show, especially if Peter Jackson does direct! "If they called me I'd be there. I want to to play some fun, interesting, crazy little character. I would love to get into something really fun and cool. It would be awesome. Doctor Who is on my Netflix queue, There's so many things on my Netflix queue, I still haven't been able to see Game of Thrones." [Waikato Times, 20 Oct]
As well as Jackson, Matt Smith continues to add to his wishlist of directors for the series: "Danny Boyle, I would just have a heart attack if he came anywhere near Doctor Who. I would love it. He's one of my favourite filmmakers around. He'd be an amazing director for Doctor Who, but I don't think we'd get him. I'll tell you who I'd also think would be great. Edgar Wright. He'd do something brilliant. I think he'd do something really, really clever with it." [Digital Spy, 31 Oct 2012]
Danny Boyle's collaborator for the Olympics Opening Ceremony, Frank Cottrell Boyce, would also like to write for the series: "I'm always slightly aggrieved that I never got asked to write for Doctor Who - that's in the same league (as the Olympics). I'd jump at that." [Digital Spy, 31 Oct 2012]
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) ? Michigan and Michigan State under the lights? Probably not at kickoff.
Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon says a night game between the Spartans and Wolverines is unlikely in the near future, at least not at Michigan Stadium.
Brandon says the annual game already is intense, on and off the sidelines. He says giving "everybody all day long to gear up for it" could detract from the game itself.
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SOCORRO – While most university faculty use sabbaticals or leaves of absence to catch up on research or publish scholarly papers, one New Mexico Tech faculty member is using his time away from work to launch an entirely new enterprise—an international university based in the Middle East.
Art Bukowski, a lecturer with the New Mexico Tech Department of Mathematics, currently is helping start up the Gulf University of Science and Technology (GUST), a private university that was initiated last year in Kuwait.
Bukowski recently took a yearlong leave of absence from the research university in Socorro to relocate to Kuwait to become GUST's first department coordinator for mathematics. In his appointed position, which is essentially that of a department chair, Bukowski also is tasked with teaching a full load of courses.
"GUST is the first private university granted approval by the Ministry of Higher Education in Kuwait," Bukowski says. "The educational, administrative methods, and standards are based on the American model of higher education."
GUST, which is owned by a consortium of educational companies in Kuwait, also is administered in partnership with the University of Missouri at St. Louis, and uses that university's curriculum as a model for its own course offerings.
"I have been reviewing applications for full-time and part-time positions with my department," Bukowski relates, "as well as determining which courses to offer for Spring Semester 2004 to support the programs at GUST. . . . In essence, I'm handling all the issues that a department chair would be handling at New Mexico Tech."
Whereas the long-established Kuwait University accepts only Kuwaitis, GUST accepts students of all nationalities, resulting in large numbers of students enrolled in freshman classes at the new university.
So far, the most popular fields of study declared by GUST students have proven to be management, management information system, and computer science.
"We are fortunate in that we have the University of Missouri at St. Louis (UMSL) curriculum to implement," Bukowski says.
"For example, adding a new course to the schedule of classes, such a calculus-based probability and statistics course, means we use UMSL's course description, along with their selected textbooks," he explains.
"A slight twist to this is that there will be two sections of this course offered—one for men and another for women, since they must be separated by government decree, even at the higher education level," Bukowski adds.
Bukowski's first faculty position was as an assistant professor at the King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dharan, Saudi Arabia, and he also later served as a department chair at the Egyptian Air Academy in Cairo, so he was already well acquainted with the nuances of Middle Eastern culture and how some things—such as segregation of the sexes—are typically done there.
"The starting of a new university is a huge and overwhelming job," Bukowski says. "But, it has been made easier because of the agreement with UMSL."
Nevertheless, the fledgling university has already begun to experience unanticipated growing pains right from the start, in large part because of the tremendous first-year response from students eager to enroll at the university who hail from neighboring nations such as Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan.
"There are a large number of students from Kuwait and these other countries who would have been traveling overseas to attend universities in the United States, but getting visas has been difficult for them lately," Bukowski points out.
"Lack of laboratories and a shortage of full-time faculty, however, are the major obstacles we are currently facing at GUST," Bukowski says.
In addition, Bukowski and other GUST faculty also have to deal with other minor problems associated with starting a new university, such as running out of textbooks, or having to wait a month or longer for textbooks to be delivered from publishers.
"Even so, education is taking place at GUST, and students are progressing into their sophomore years," Bukowksi emphasizes. "We are offering three new math classes in Spring Semester 2004 and many more in other departments as students advance into their respective programs. . . . GUST also will be opening up its second facility next month and will call that facility 'the men's campus.'"
Despite all the turmoil and mayhem occurring only 100 miles away in Iraq, the quiet campus of GUST seems far removed. Students come to classes, professors teach, and life seems fairly normal.
After his one-year stint at GUST, Bukowski says he hopes to return to New Mexico Tech with renewed energy and a heightened appreciation for the high quality of students at Tech.
"My primary duty at New Mexico Tech has always been teaching," Bukowski says. "I came to Tech with many years of experience in teaching at all levels of mathematics. After retiring as professor emeritus from the University of Alaska at Anchorage, I've focused solely on teaching mathematics. . . . However, I now want to help GUST get a great start, but also want to eventually return to my teaching duties at New Mexico Tech and help Tech students learn mathematics."


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I thought I would never taste anything from Shirakawa. The distillery closed around five years ago and I understood it was really hard to get hold of any of its single malts. Then, juking around on the internet, I found this site quietly selling it by the 100ml. I chuckled at the way this legendary old whisky arrived: in a placky bottle!
Beautiful! There was something very Rikyū about the whole thing. The masking tape used to secure the top was the piece de resistance.
We've had Nikka vs. Suntory. Now, among the niche marketers, we can have Ichiro's Malt vs. Vom Fass. While Ichiro is marked by its clever packaging and great market placement, the Vom Fass Shirakawa comes in a placky bottle with only "Shirakawa, Japanese Single Malt Whisky", "300ml" and "55 per cent alcohol" to tell you what it is. The website adds that this whisky is over 30 years old. How much older we are not told.
Ichiro (left) and Vom Fass (right)
Vom Fass is originally a German company which started out selling oil. The name literally means "from the barrel" and the company makes a thing of not bottling its products in fancy packaging. If you want packaging they will sell it to you separately, but their philosophy is to sell the product in whatever quantity the consumer wants and to separate the product price from the packaging price. It goes against the bottling culture of single malt whisky but it is refreshing. There are Vom Fass shops in lots of different counties doing the same sort of thing, but Vom Fass Japan`s Shirakawa cask is a bit of a coup. I put 180ml straight into an empty small glass whisky bottle I had to hand. Not sure whether the plastic bottle was going to harm it if kept in there for a long time but didn't want to take the risk at 1050 yen per 100ml.
What of the whisky? Without water, I liked the nose: butterscotch notes, orange liqueur, a developing smell of mown grass. For my mouth, it was too strong neat: plastic, burned rubber, eating a matchbox, soapy tongue. The finish was surprisingly short for all the early aggression. With a few drops of water it backed off a bit. The smell was much more in the grassy field in summer, chronic hayfever attack territory, and then a return of the matchy notes: a field after a firework display. It was much more drinkable with the water: sweet, slightly cabbagy, the taste of a glass of water after you have brushed your teeth.
If only this had been a classic! I could have reveled in my plastic bottled 30-year-old malt for years to come. My talk of cabbages etc. may give the impression to some people that this isn't very nice. Not the case. It is perfectly palatable and interesting. But not a classic, in my opinion.
"At least 30 years old", according to the website.
Straight from the cask.
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Available from this site.
Friday, May 4, 2007
Shirakawa 30 - "matches"
2 comments:
- dancing_with_bottles said...
Hallo there,
Mentioning to Shirakawa, I mind the last one was 32yo 55% at JPY 495 per 100g. I have got this in May 2004. I hear that this was supplied in a 1.8 litre bottle by Takara. Jim Murray rated this at 94 points in his bible. This was the cheapest 32yo malt whisky at the time but I think JPY 1050 is still too cheap. I met a member of Takara in Yokohama and he says the company uses this to blend standard whisky. Pity!
Slainte mhath gu Shirakawa!
Dancing with bottles
- May 6, 2007 at 2:08 AM
- Nonjatta said...
495 yen is very cheap! Wow. My guess is you can buy this Shirakawa in small casks from Takara at a very reasonable price, which allows Vom Fass to make a good profit.
- May 6, 2007 at 10:35 AM
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- Friday marks national Bike to Work Day
- Shorter commute, more bike lanes would inspire more commenters to bike to work
- "We belong on the road. ... Get over it. And STOP honking and yelling at us," one rider says
- "Cyclists, stay off the roads without bike lanes!! You slow down traffic," driver says
Shanna Kurth began biking to work three years ago to improve her health. Several times a month, she loaded her bike onto her car, drove most of the way and biked the last three miles to her office.
Bit by bit, she shortened her time in the car and extended the bike ride. Now, the 50-year-old Illinois woman says she bikes all the way to work several times a month from her home in Metamora to Peoria: 25 miles each way, amounting to about two hours of travel time.
It's no easy feat, and not something most Americans are willing or able to do, especially in suburban and rural communities, where bike paths are scant and cars are the only way to get around. The rate of workers commuting by bicycle doubled between 2001 and 2009, according to National Household Travel Survey data. But that still amounted to less than 1% of Americans reporting in 2009 that they used bicycles as their primary mode of transportation to work, according to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
In honor of National Bike Month and Bike to Work Week, CNN asked its Facebook fans what it would take to get them to bike to work more often. A shorter commute and more bike lanes were by far the most common responses.
"I would do it every day (if) the weather permitted, if my work was actually within biking distance," Kitty Dunn wrote. "I have an hour to travel by car. Probably take a day or two by bike."
Cleanliness and body odor were also frequent concerns. Others simply preferred the solace of a morning drive.
"The climate has to be right, the distance not too far, the commuter's health not an issue, a lack of fast, simple, reliable and safe public transportation needs to exist," Joshua Wertheim said. "A shower and locker to change clothes must be provided by my employer, and a way to blast Springsteen while I peddle must be allowed. Otherwise I ain't doing it."
Some suggested that the idea itself was outdated.
"What I think we really need to focus on are more fuel-efficient vehicles, better city planning for the number and types of vehicles on the road, and more public transportation options," Curtis Lewis said.
"This is the 21st century after all; trying to solve modern problems with solutions over 100 years old is just simply not going to work. Why not change this to 'What's Your Solution? Week (where you send your ideas to manufacturers, politicians, city officials, etc.)" instead of 'Bike to Work Week.' "
Or, in the words of Jun Zheng Wang: "Bike to work? Are you crazy? Time is money!!!"
But those who bike to work swear by the financial rewards and health benefits. And yes, there's a bit of a do-gooder element to it.
"It is a good way to clear your brain from all the sh*t at work," Maria Olivieri said. "The only thing I wish is there were more bike paths alongside the highways. I think if there were I bet a lot more people would be biking it to work; not only that it is good for the green factor (but) good for your health."
Kurth acknowledged that a considerable amount of time and planning goes into her ride. A neuropsychologist with her own practice, she bikes only when her morning schedule is open. When she does, she carpools home with her husband. She takes into consideration weather and wind conditions, avoiding snow, ice and high winds. Most importantly, she said she learned to ride with a light load and keep a set of professional attire at work to change into.
She said she uses side roads as much as possible, although there is a long stretch of highway that she cannot avoid. She said believes she has just as much right to use the roads as drivers.
"I don't do it more often because it requires the 'intersection' of a couple of factors," Kurth said in an e-mail. "We belong on the road. It is the law. It is safest for everyone for bicyclists to be on the road -- that is why it is the law. Get over it. And STOP honking and yelling at us."
She's right, though the rules vary from state to state, said Andy Clarke, president of the League of American Bicyclists. The group is the national sponsor of Bike Month.
Bicyclists are allowed to use most roads with the exception of high-speed limited access roads such as highways or interstates, which have few interchanges, Clarke said.
"As a general rule, particularly in urban areas, the road networks are such that there are viable alternatives to highways and interstates, and cyclists are able to use the rest of the roadwork," he said. "Outside of urban areas, cyclists are allowed to use interstates as well because they have no other options."
Each state has its own bicycle and pedestrian coordinator within the Department of Transportation that can provide specific information, he said.
If cyclists have the right to the same roads as cars, there are a few drivers who aren't happy about it. Dozens of Facebook commenters said cyclists had no place on the road if they didn't have a bike lane to ride in.
"Cyclists, stay off the roads without bike lanes!! You slow down traffic and are putting yourself in danger!" Greg Schneider said.
If cyclists want to share the road, they need to follow the same rules as cars, many said. Obey traffic lights, go in the same direction of traffic and ride single file when traveling in a group.
"Bikers need to follow the rules of the road, too. I cannot tell you how many times I'm at a four-way stop, etc., and they fly right through," Michelle Having said. "Also, keep in mind if you're biking, you're not Lance Armstrong. Watch out for pedestrians. I'm sick of seeing walkers hit by bikers."
When it comes to signaling for turns, many commenters said they felt that both drivers and cyclists could do better.
"Use your flippin' hand signs cyclists!!" Lucas McCain said. "Can't tell ya how many times I almost turned one of you guys into street pizza because you didn't warn me of your turns."
The matter of sidewalks was an area of dispute. Some said cyclists should use them in the absence of bike lanes, while others bristled at the thought of them stealing the space from pedestrians.
"Sidewalks are for pedestrians. Cyclists need to understand bike laws; to not ride on the sidewalks and to obey traffic signals," wrote Amanda Goebel, who also commented that "cuter bike helmets" would encourage her to bike more often.
On the flipsde, Schenider wrote, "I would much rather see a cyclist use the sidewalk than the street. How often do you really see people walking on sidewalks? What's more dangerous? #commonsense."
Cyclists also had advice for other cyclists: Earn the respect of drivers by following the rules and making your presence seen. Wear a helmet all the time and reflective gear at night, make sure to have insurance and don't assume drivers are paying attention.
They also had advice for drivers on how to share the road better: Put down the phone and pay greater attention.
"Stop TEXTING, EATING, PUTTING MAKE-UP (ON), TALKING ON THE PHONE while driving," Francisco Marcelo Gadelha said.
"Cars, depending on your city, you most likely have to treat bikes as vehicles whether you like it or not," Payton Powell said. "Remember that messing with bikers often results in needing new windshields, hoods, or mirrors due to U-Lock justice."
More than anything, they're asking for respect.
"Cyclists can ride faster than you think. We respect you so respect us," Kayla Nicole Lingerfelt said. "If you're worried about those five seconds to safely get around a cyclist so you won't be late for work, you should have left 30 minutes earlier. Share the road!"
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[Rose] has four grandchildren but isn't in contact with them. "They know where I live, but I don't know where they live," she said. "It's sad, but what can you do. That's life."
One commenter on Slate wrote, "How sad that her grandkids are not in contact with her! ... Call your Grandmother, visit her!" Several other readers posted similar comments, and a few people sent expressed these same sentiments to me via e-mail.
The situation regarding Rose's grandchildren was a tricky one. I assume there's a lot more to that story than simply "They know where I live, but I don't know where they live," but Rose didn't seem inclined to elaborate and I didn't want to push her. At one point I sort of circled back to the subject, but she didn't want to go there, so I backed off.
Little old ladies make for inherently sympathetic figures, and the notion of cutting off contact with a 95-year-old grandmother seems hard to fathom, so it's easy to paint the grandchildren as being in the wrong here. But who am I to say? I don't know the backstory. As most of us have experienced in one way or another, family dynamics can be very complicated affairs.
But here's the kicker: Rose may not know where her grandchildren are, but I do. The same research that led me to her turned up two grandsons living in New York. If I wanted, I could hop on the subway and be knocking on their doors in less than an hour.
That's a tempting idea, but I won't be doing it. One of my guiding principles with Permanent Record has been to avoid reopening anyone's old wounds. Likewise, I considered telling Rose what I know, but I decided it isn't my place to do that. (She doesn't use a computer, so I don't have to worry about her seeing this blog post.) Maybe her grandchildren will see the Slate article and decide they want to contact her, or maybe not. Like Rose said, that's life.


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COSTA MESA — City CEO Tom Hatch, Mayor Pro Tem Jim Righeimer and Councilman Steve Mensinger will join a panel discussion hosted by the Costa Mesa Taxpayers Assn. on a proposed city charter hosted Thursday at the Neighborhood Community Center.
The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the center, 1845 Park Ave., next to Lions Park, and is open to the public.
Oceanside City Councilman Jerome Kern, a proponent the city charter model, will also speak. Oceanside recently became a charter city.
The Taxpayers Assn. is led by Planning Commissioner Colin McCarthy and stresses fiscal conservatism. The public is expected to get a chance to ask questions about what a city charter is and how it would change the city's governance.
Righeimer and the council majority are urging for the city to switch over to a city charter, or city constitution, and are seeking to put it on the June primary ballot.
— Joseph Serna
Twitter: @JosephSerna


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Nov. 15: Farmingdale State - 71, Clarkson - 67
Nov. 16: Farmingdale State - 71, SUNY Potsdam - 63
Potsdam, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's basketball team opened the season this weekend at the Casella North Country Invitational hosted by SUNY Potsdam in the Jerry Welsh Gymnasium in Potsdam, N.Y. The Rams defeated Clarkson (1-1) on day one and Potsdam (1-1) this afternoon, to improve to 2-0 overall.
Against Clarkson on Friday night, the Rams edged Clarkson 71-67. Farmingdale senior guard Terence Henderson (Bronx, N.Y.) led the Rams with 21 points. Senior guards Tim Johnson (Queens, N.Y.) and Donald Lawes (Queens, N.Y.) scored 15 and 10, respectively, while senior Jonathan Annan (Staten Island, N.Y.) had nine points and a team-high eight boards.
Junior forward John Coleman (Potsdam, N.Y.) had a game-high 22 points and 10 rebounds in a losing cause for Clarkson. Senior guard Marques Charleton (Deer Park, N.Y.) had 13 points and junior guard Charles McAllister (Olathe, Kan.) chipped in nine more.
Farmingdale shot 50 percent from the floor to the Golden Knights' 38 percent. The Rams also finished with a 43-35 advantage in rebounds.
With the win on day one, the Rams faced host Potsdam in the Championship game today at 3:00 p.m. Farmingdale State came home with a 71-63 in the final game of the tournament, while Clarkson University (1-1) blew out SUNY Canton (0-2) in the early game, 85-67.
The Bears rallied from an early deficit to build a 41-30 lead with 15:00 remaining in the game. However, the Rams reversed the momentum with hot shooting from senior guard Tim Johnson (Queens, N.Y.). Johnson shot six-for-eight from three point range and scored all 24 of his points in the second half as Farmingdale led by as many as 11 in the final period. The Bears got to within eight on a three-pointer from Joe Estramonte (Greenwich, N.Y.) with 1:07 remaining, but could not get any closer as they would fall by eight.
Johnson's 24 points was a game-high, while Rams senior guard Jonathan Annan (Staten Island, N.Y.) added 17 points and seven assists. The tournament Most Valuable Player, senior guard Terence Henderson (Bronx, N.Y.), closed out the weekend with 14 points and eight rebounds.
Farmingdale outshot Potsdam 38 percent to 34 and edged the Bears 50-49 in rebounds.
2013 Casella North Country Invitational All-Tournament Team
- Clarkson: John Coleman (Potsdam, N.Y.), Marques Charlton (Deer Park, N.Y.)
- Potsdam: Rob Duquette (Peru, N.Y.), Zac Adams (Potsdam, N.Y.)
- Farmingdale State: Tim Johnson (Queens, N.Y.)
- MVP - Farmingdale State: Terence Henderson (Bronx, N.Y.)
The Rams will now face Medgar Evers in their home opener on Wednesday, November 20th at 7:30 p.m. The first 50 fans will receive NCAA Division III Farmingdale State Rams sling bags.


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~ Your Smile ~
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: 346Pro
Age: 33
For "Uchigane" vs "Blue Tears", here's Riz and Gin (Excerpt from their duel in Vandam):
Spoiler for Excerpt:
|2012-01-29, 09:24
|Link #19945
I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
@ Eras
This is related to non-sex Chromosome (Remember that human has 22 pair of chromosome plus additional pair that determined their gender, XX and XY). If someone has a way to get around this, Ichika can have all Chifuyu genes and yet is a guy.
@ Demi
I play 1, 3 and 4, I briefly play Online version as well. This is why I portray I.S. as real robot with super robot features instead of other way.
|2012-01-29, 09:28
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~ Your Smile ~
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: 346Pro
Age: 33
@Eras: That's the only time she's smart though, when watching IS fights, and when in an IS. Its the same reason why she stops being a dojiko inside a suit. IS compensation for physical impairments.
After all, I wanted to subvert the Falling Into The Cockpit trope by making Karon obviously competent at her trade.
|2012-01-29, 09:28
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That one guy
Join Date: Nov 2011
the biggest drawback in a realistic fight between uchigane and blue tears is flight capability. Uchigane can't fly at the same altitudes as the blue tears and blue tears has practically all range weaponry(if she could only get over her panic of getting in melee range :eyeroll: ). Taking into account ability of Uchigane to deflect laser beams with the sword(which requires godlike reflexes to dodge, let alone parry from 1 blaster though she's applying this to 5 blasters). Then there's Cecilia's other abilities to consider, unlesss you don't include thsoe D:
|2012-01-29, 09:31
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I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
I circumvent around this that Ichika has super reflex and ByakuShiki has Hi-grade sensor as default (normally additional parts), sacrificing basic Fire Control System in process.
And the fact that ByakuShiki has higher output than BT.
|2012-01-29, 09:32
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Titans Test Team Pilot
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The Elysium
I guess the the sniper rifle was at its last shot in the magazine? If it's a bolt-action rifle, I can understand the crippling reloading time but semi-autos usually use mags.
As for Tsurugi and Cecilia's case, the former manages to damage the latter's sniper rifle to the extent that it can no longer fire. (Though the katana suffers slight damage as well, in a form of a barely noticeable crack)
For the wing bits part:
Spoiler for Scene excerpt:
|2012-01-29, 09:35
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~ Your Smile ~
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: 346Pro
Age: 33
Which is why:
If it were normal pilots, the Tears wins by spam alone.
But its Riz, who has Oowashi flight pack equipped. She who could strike down a dozen IS at once with blindingly fast sword strikes.
And she's against Gin. The only non-graduate pilot in NCCS who can Double Shot, which is a move that puts 2 shots at the exact same spot from a semiauto. This causes shields to deform to the 1st shot, then the 2nd shot hits the weakened spot, causing it to break and trigger ABS. In other words, a 1 shot kill.
I guess though, Riz still has a chance as the MP version of Tears doesn't have funnels, but has the Hi-MAT system in its place. If Riz was against Cecily, the Oowashi pack would provide the means to close at high speed. Even without Oowashi, and with Tenmoku, Riz can still dodge around looking for an opening.
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LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland (Reuters) - World Cup winner Tina Maze ended her record-breaking season by winning the final giant slalom of the winter in Lenzerheide on Sunday.
The Slovenian, who began her remarkable season with a giant slalom victory, rounded off the campaign with her fifth win in that discipline to take her overall World Cup total to a remarkable 2,414 points.
With 11 World Cup wins, 24 podiums and a super-G world title, Maze's achievements will be hard to follow.
She crushed the previous record of 1,980 points, set last season by Lindsey Vonn, and left her closest rival Maria Hoefl-Riesch trailing 1,313 points adrift.
"This is the final win I expected. I won the first and last race of the season. It's perfect," said the 28-year-old, who had shed tears the previous day after missing out on the slalom title in the last race.
"After the disappointment yesterday, to end like this is unbelievable. I'm lost for words. Now it's time to celebrate and take some time off," she added.
Maze, who finished on the podium in every giant slalom she entered since the season opener in Soelden, clocked a combined time of two minutes and 16.67 seconds to beat world champion Tessa Worley of France by 0.35 seconds.
Worley was fastest in the morning run, but could not match the Slovenian's scorching pace in the second leg.
"I'm slightly disappointed especially after leading into the second leg. But it's a good second place and a motivation for all the work to be done in the summer," she said.
Swiss Lara Gut finished third on home snow, 1.38 seconds adrift, despite losing a pole in the final section.
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Indie developer Stoic Studio has released the first trailer for their new Viking-themed turn-based strategy role-playing game, The Banner Saga.
The three developers who form the studio all previously worked at BioWare, and drew attention with the earlier announcement of their new title.
While details regarding the game are still scarce, the art speaks for itself. The developers describe it as "painstakingly hand-animated," and it shows. The colors are lush, and the stylized scenes and characters as crisp and vivid as in any animated film, perhaps more so.
The Banner Saga [Stoic Studio]


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
EEOC Settles Suit With Qualex for Targeting Older Workers During RIF
BOSTON – Qualex, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Eastman Kodak, will pay $272,000 to settle an age discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The lawsuit, filed in May 2008 in federal court in Connecticut, alleged that Qualex, a photo processing company, and its parent company, Eastman Kodak, violated federal law by targeting older workers for termination through a reduction in force (RIF).
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Rochester, N.Y.-based Qualex subjected Teresa Cristelli and other workers aged 40 or older to age discrimination through the inequitable RIF at its facility in East Hartford, Conn. (since closed) in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). The average age of those who lost their jobs from the RIF was over 50, the EEOC said, and far exceeded the average age of employees retained following the action.
"Employers must be very careful in making layoff decisions to ensure they do not violate employment discrimination laws," said EEOC Acting Chairman Stuart J. Ishimaru. "Contrary to some stereotypes, older workers are productive, hard-working employees who can contribute to an employer's bottom line through their knowledge and experience."
The settlement with Qualex provides $272,000 to four employees affected by the RIF. Teresa Cristelli, who filed the initial discrimination charge with the EEOC, will receive $200,000, and three other former employees identified by the EEOC will receive payments ranging from $12,000 to $30,000.
In addition to the monetary payments, the consent decree resolving the litigation (Civil Action No. 3:08:CV-823 [MRK]), approved by Judge Mark Kravitz today, enjoins Qualex from violating the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act when it seeks waivers and releases in exchange for severance payments; mandates training of management on ADEA requirements; requires the issuance of a new anti-discrimination policy and the posting of a notice regarding the settlement; and allows the EEOC to monitor future severance agreements during RIFs.
"In these troubled times, employers still need to be aware that when they conduct a reduction in force, they have a duty to prohibit age discrimination," said Spencer H. Lewis, Jr., director of the EEOC's New York District Office. "The EEOC will continue to vigorously enforce such protections for workers."
EEOC Senior Trial Attorney Markus L. Penzel in Boston added, "The EEOC commends Qualex and Kodak for working cooperatively with us to resolve this case immediately upon its filing. We believe that the relief provided in the consent decree will help prevent what happened to Ms. Cristelli and the other employees from happening in the future."
During Fiscal Year 2008, the EEOC received a record 24,582 age discrimination charge filings, a 29% increase from the prior year and a 65% jump from the number of filings in FY 2005 (14,893).
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about EEOC is available on the agency's web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Saturday Morning Gaming: Old School Single Player RPGs
Remembering pen and paper single player games… specifically, the Dragonlance one with the gnomes.
/// February 9, 2019
Remembering pen and paper single player games… specifically, the Dragonlance one with the gnomes.
/// February 7, 2019
Preparing for the upcoming culturally mandatory "date-night".
/// February 2, 2019
Rivers, Roads, and Rails is a family-friendly board game that is suitable for the little ones and, at the same time, will appeal to the hard core gamer types.
/// February 1, 2019
I understand that there is a "Big Game" coming up.
/// January 26, 2019
Buying physical copies had its benefits
/// January 25, 2019
Not doing nothing and haven't for a while
/// January 20, 2019
A gold nugget hiding in the back of Netflix
/// January 19, 2019
I have been playing a *LOT* of Blackjack.
/// January 18, 2019
The joys of the three (or four) day weekend.
/// January 12, 2019
From the creators of The Original Plants vs. Zombies!
/// January 11, 2019
Getting back on that horse
/// January 6, 2019
The Punisher: Season 2
/// January 3, 2019
Holy cow, is it 2019 already?
Indeed it is.
/// December 31, 2018
Dying is easy.
Comedy is hard.
/// December 30, 2018
Batman: White Knight
/// December 29, 2018
Remember FTL? Well, the people who made it made another game.
And the game happens to be on sale on Steam this week.
Into the Breach
/// December 28, 2018
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne.
/// December 27, 2018
So my co-workers took me to Dragon Man's.
/// December 24, 2018
Are you ready for the ruffneck bass?
/// December 23, 2018
The joys of getting to know a little bit about the bad guy before the action scene takes place
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April 10, 2019
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Ain't that a Basta...
According to the allegations in the Indictment unsealed today[1]:
From August 2018 through February 2019, AVENATTI defrauded a client ("Victim-1") by diverting money owed to Victim-1 to AVENATTI's control and use. After assisting Victim-1 in securing a book contract, AVENATTI allegedly stole a significant portion of Victim-1's advance on that contract. He did so by, among other things, sending a fraudulent and unauthorized letter purporting to contain Victim-1's signature to Victim-1's literary agent, which instructed the agent to send payments not to Victim-1 but to a bank account controlled by AVENATTI. As alleged, Victim-1 had not signed or authorized the letter, and did not even know of its existence.
Specifically, prior to Victim-1's literary agent wiring the second of four installment payments due to Victim-1 as part of the book advance, AVENATTI sent a letter to Victim-1's literary agent purportedly signed by Victim-1 that instructed the literary agent to send all future payments to a client trust account in Victim-1's name and controlled by AVENATTI. The literary agent then wired $148,750 to the account, which AVENATTI promptly began spending for his own purposes, including on airfare, hotels, car services, restaurants and meal delivery, online retailers, payroll for his law firm and another business he owned, and insurance. When Victim-1 began inquiring of AVENATTI as to why Victim-1 had not received the second installment, AVENATTI lied to Victim-1, telling Victim-1 that he was still attempting to obtain the payment from Victim-1's publisher. Approximately one month after diverting the payment, AVENATTI used funds recently received from another source to pay $148,750 to Victim-1, so that Victim-1 would not realize that AVENATTI had previously taken and used Victim-1's money.
Approximately one week later, pursuant to AVENATTI's earlier fraudulent instructions, the literary agent sent another payment of $148,750 of Victim-1's book advance to the client account controlled by AVENATTI. AVENATTI promptly began spending the money for his own purposes, including to make payments to individuals with whom AVENATTI had a personal relationship, to make a monthly lease payment on a luxury automobile, and to pay for airfare, dry cleaning, hotels, restaurants and meals, payroll, and insurance costs. Moreover, to conceal his scheme, and despite repeated requests to AVENATTI, as Victim-1's lawyer, for assistance in obtaining the book payment that Victim-1 believed was missing, AVENATTI led Victim-1 to believe that Victim-1's publisher was refusing to make the payment to the literary agent, when, as AVENATTI knew, the publisher had made the payment to the literary agent, who had then sent the money to AVENATTI pursuant to AVENATTI's fraudulent instructions.
These charges are separate from the additional indictment relating to attempting to extort Nike.Comment →
There has been a bit of a cottage industry over which, if any, Republicans would be the first to breach the "I" word. Rep. Justin Amash appears to be your huckleberry, posting a tweet thread about his conclusions of the Mueller Report:
Here are my principal conclusions:
1. Attorney General Barr has deliberately misrepresented Mueller's report.
2. President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct.
3. Partisanship has eroded our system of checks and balances.
4. Few members of Congress have read the report.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 18, 2019
You can read the whole thread here. In the meantime:
Rep. Justin Amash, a critic of President Trump who entertained a run against him in 2020, became the first Republican congressman to say the president "engaged in impeachable conduct."
The Michigan lawmaker, often the lone Trump dissenter on his side of the aisle, shared his conclusions in a lengthy Twitter thread after reviewing the full special counsel report.
Amash wrote that after reading the 448-page report, he'd concluded that not only did Robert S. Mueller's team show Trump attempting to obstruct justice, but that Attorney General William Barr had "deliberately misrepresented" the findings and that few members of Congress had even read it.
"Contrary to Barr's portrayal, Mueller's report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment," Amash wrote.
The White House did not immediately respond to request for comment.
The president often says the report found "no collusion, no obstruction," though neither is true. Mueller did not establish a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, which did interfere in the 2016 election. He did not rule on the obstruction of justice question, saying it was something Congress should determine.
So, let's back up to March right quick before processing today's tweeting. Rep. Amash was chatting with Jake Tapper on State of the Union:
Amash, who was first elected to Congress in 2010, declined on Sunday to rule out a possible 2020 presidential run as a Libertarian candidate.
"Well, I would never rule anything out. That's not on my radar right now," he said of a 2020 bid to Tapper. "But I think that it is important that we have someone in there who is presenting a vision for America that is different from what these two parties are presenting."
Amash told Tapper he believes there is a "wild amount of partisan rhetoric on both sides" and that "Congress is totally broken."
"I think that we need to return to basic American principles, talk about what we have in common as a people -- because I believe we have a lot in common as Americans -- and try to move forward together, rather than fighting each other all the time," Amash said.
Question remains, is Justin Amash going to join any Democrat effort to curtail the president, or is he using this as prelude to something else -- such as his own run for the White House? Drama.Comment →
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is a Game of Thrones fan, and her favorite character is, perhaps unsurprisingly, Daenerys "Stormborn" Targaryen, who Warren says, "has been my favorite from the first moment she walked through fire." We learned this in a column Warren wrote for The Cut published Sunday evening.
In the piece, Warren outlines her reasons for her fandom. Daenerys is fair, she fights for the people, and she wants to end slavery. But in talking about Daenerys, Warren can also, subtly, talk about herself. Like the paragraph below, in which she describes the Dragon Queen—or is she describing herself?
"This is a revolutionary idea, in Westeros or anywhere else. A queen who declares that she doesn't serve the interests of the rich and powerful? A ruler who doesn't want to control the political system but to break the system as it is known? It's no wonder that the people she meets in Westeros are skeptical. Skeptical, because they've seen another kind of woman on the Iron Throne: the villain we love to hate, Queen Cersei of Casterly Rock."
(Featured image: Samwell Tarly looks skeptically at Jon Snow. Screenshot from Game of Thrones.)Comment →
Our own Michele Kerr made an appearance with Glenn Loury on The Glenn Show, talking about teaching, education, race, and student discipline:
This conversation follows a previous one between Loury and Mary Hudson, who wrote a piece for Quillette on the state of our public schools.Comment →
After a very long courtship, Joe Biden has decided to commit. For the third time, the former senator and VP will run for president.
The core values of this nation… our standing in the world… our very democracy...everything that has made America -- America --is at stake. That's why today I'm announcing my candidacy for President of the United States. #Joe2020 https://t.co/jzaQbyTEz3
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 25, 2019
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This will be Biden's third run for president. His first try came in 1988, ending amid plagiarism revelations. In 2008, Biden failed to gain any traction in the primary, but Obama did choose him as a running mate, bringing international experience from his time leading the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, something the junior senator from Illinois lacked. Their unlikely pairing ended up building a famous friendship, and the two enjoyed a good rapport and working relationship while in the White House and after, referring to each other as a "brother."
Biden's four-decade tenure in the Senate will also come under a microscope. The Washington Post recently examined his opposition to busing in 1975 as schools were struggling to desegregate and found that he suggested that the government's role in integration should be limited.
He has pushed for legislation to lengthen criminal drug sentences, which overwhelmingly affected minorities and have been revisited lately in new criminal justice reform efforts.
Biden's handling of confirmation hearings in 1991 for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has also come under new scrutiny in the wake of last year's controversial confirmation hearings for Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexual assault. Thomas was accused by Anita Hill of sexual harassment, and Biden's handling of the process as Senate Judiciary Committee chairman has been criticized because of unanswered attacks against Hill and the fact that witnesses were not called who might have supported her story.
All those concerns amid questions about his conduct toward women — and that Biden would be almost 78 on Election Day 2020 and is a white male in a party with younger, more diverse and more progressive presidential candidates — are challenges for Biden's candidacy, even if many early polls show he is atop the field in large measure because he is so well-known.
May 22, 2019
May 20, 2019
May 18, 2019
Weekend Plans Post: High School Graduations
May 23, 2019
May 23, 2019
May 23, 2019
Thursday Throughput for 5/23/19
May 23, 2019
May 23, 2019
Michael Avenatti Hit with Additional Indictment
May 22, 2019
May 22, 2019
When A Feller Doesn't Need Jackie Coogan
May 22, 2019
Tenshot: The Three Body Problem Trilogy
May 21, 2019
Elizabeth Warren's Bold Play on Student Loan Debt
April 30, 2019
The Internet Needs a Town Square
May 9, 2019
May 14, 2019
May 10, 2019
Confronting the Radicalism of Young Men Online
April 29, 2019
The Big Dog Or The Biggest Choke
May 16, 2019
There's Something About Mary Sue
May 7, 2019
A Conservative Case for Student Loan Forgiveness
April 25, 2019
Virtue Signaling the Civil War
May 3, 2019
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly: if the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
With his surcease success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We'ld jump the life to come. But [...]


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Taking Hubble's Universe to 3-D
This movie shows how the science visualization team at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., transforms Hubble Space Telescope 2-D photographs into 3-D environments, which give viewers the impression that they are space travelers taking a tour of Hubble's most popular targets. These 3-D astronomy visualizations are part of the new Imax film "Hubble 3D." The 43-minute Imax 3-D movie chronicles the 20-year life of the Hubble telescope and includes highlights from the May 2009 servicing mission, with footage taken by the astronauts.
Publication: March 19, 2010


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Regents OK 2011 State Special Project Funding Requests
SOCORRO, N.M. July 29, 2009 – The New Mexico Tech Board of Regents met in special session to approve the Fiscal Year 2011 requests for Research and Public Service Project funding.
The Board called the special meeting to meet the state Higher Education Department imposed an August 1 deadline for submitting requests for increased funding.
Tech President Dr. Daniel H. Lopez said the submitted requests are not related to the university's I&G general fund budget.
"With the current economic climate, we have little chance of getting budget expansions," he said. "But we have no chance at all if we don't submit requests."
The university's board approved 10 requests for increased funding:
1. Geophysical Research Center $1,085,432
An increase of $103,932 over Fiscal Year 2010
2. Petroleum Research Recovery Center $2,692,900
An increase of $392,900 over FY 2010
3. Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center $956,120
An increase of $108,120 over FY 2010
4. N.M. Bureau of Geology $4,931,308
An increase of $862,108 over FY 2010
5. Aquifer Mapping project $306,868
An increase of $47,968 over FY 2010
6. Institute for Complex Additive Systems Analysis $1,103,597
An increase of $124,797 over FY 2010
7. Magdalena Ridge K-12 Educational Enhancement $250,000
No request in FY 2010
8. Science Fair and Science Olympiad professional development $478,319
An increase of $29,719 over FY 2010
9. New Mexico Center for Energy Policy $350,000
An increase of $162,600 over FY 2010
An increase of $1,063,800 over FY 2010
The board also approved three special project funding requests that do not represent increases. These Research and Public Service Project requests are at the same funding level as the FY 2010 requests. Although not due until September, the board also approved these recommendations:
1. Intramural Athletics $248,100
2. Cave and Karst Institute $518,800
3. N.M. Bureau of Mine Inspection $302,100
By Thomas Guengerich


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New Car Review
2013 Maserati Quattroporte: Overview
Pros: Reasonable starting price for the panache of Maserati; engine note is distinctly exotic, unlike rivals; not as common as S-Class, or even Panamera
Cons: Tired design on the verge of replacement; depreciation will be strong, as with all Maserati models; interior isn't quite as upscale as 7 Series, S-Class cabins
What's new: The 2013 Maserati Quattroporte is largely unchanged aside from standard front-parking sensors. A redesigned Quattroporte is due out for the 2014 model year.
The Maserati Quattroporte debuted for the 2005 model year with a sequential manual transmission dubbed "DuoSelect." A traditional automatic replaced DuoSelect in 2008, while a major face-lift marked the 2009 model year. All Quattroporte models offer four doors, V8 power and seating for five.
Today's Quattroporte offers the same 4.7-liter V8 as its 2-door GranTurismo stablemate. Like the GranTurismo, different Quattroporte versions offer different power ratings. Base-level S models offer 425 horsepower, while the top-level Sport GT-S bumps that figure to 433 hp. Both models use a 6-speed automatic transmission. The Sport GT-S adds lowered suspension and an Alcantara interior.
The 2013 Maserati Quattroporte starts around $128,000 for a base-level S sedan. That puts it in competition with the Porsche Panamera Turbo and the Mercedes S63 AMG. Opting for the Quattroporte Sport GT-S boosts the base price to around $136,000. Fuel economy is 12 miles per gallon in the city and around 19 mpg on the highway, while 0-to-60 comes in around five seconds.