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Tanzania Family Adventure (DTFA)
Taking the kids to the zoo will occupy them for a day. Taking them to Africa itself will stick with them for the rest of their lives. There's a whole lot of amazingness crammed into this ten-day adventure through Tanzania – game drives in the Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti National Park, personal encounters with villagers in remote communities, plate upon plate of flavourful deliciousness on Zanzibar, and plenty more – but don't worry; you'll get to do it all (and then some).
Highlights: Spot the Big Five in the Serengeti, chill on the beach in Zanzibar, meet locals in the village of Mto wa Mbu, watch the sun set in the Ngorongoro Crater
Costa Rica Family Experience (CRFA)
Nothing brings learning to life like real-world experience. This week-long trip's engaging lesson plan gives your kids an education in biology and ecology they'll never get in a textbook. Here, you can spend your days studying the flora and fauna that inhabit the Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve and Manuel Antonio National Park. Elsewhere, you'll get in touch with the land by rappelling, rafting, swimming, horseback-riding, and even surfing all over it. Science + gym? You do the math.
Highlights: Kick back on Costa Rica's pristine beaches, visit a local family to learn to make tortillas, spot nature in dense cloud forest, enjoy the natural beauty of Manuel Antonio National Park, splash around kayaking and paddle-boarding in La Fortuna.
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Wanted for: Violating terms of probation on original charges of simple assault.
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Accused thief becomes Most Wanted after skipping court hearing
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Free motorcycle safety classes that may help riders save money are available locally at the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation garage on Route 322 in Vernon Township.
$1M federal grant goes to Conneaut Lake to aid revitalization effort
Conneaut Lake borough has been granted $1 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration to help pay for infrastructure improvements in the central business district that are projected to increase business, tourism and jobs for local residents.
Well inspectors trying to keep up during boom time
The state's 83 well inspectors face a daunting enough challenge keeping tabs on 120,000 active oil and gas wells that have been drilled over the last century.
Young stunt cyclist to bring show to 'Thunder'
V-v-v-v-eroom! is the high-pitched whine from the Honda CBR 600 sport motorcycle as Steven Pilic rolls back the throttle and speeds down the asphalt. In one quick, smooth motion — just like you put one foot in front of the other — he shifts his weight forward on the handlebars, jumps from the bike's foot pegs, lands his feet on the seat and pulls the 400-plus pounds of metal up onto its back wheel, using a combination of balance, brakes, clutch and speed to circle slowly at first and then faster and faster, tighter and tighter while doing a wheelie.
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The National Weather Service in Cleveland has issued a tornado watch for Crawford County.
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History majors rule at Pioneer & Art Festival
Those looking for living history exhibits at the 21st annual Pymatuning Pioneer & Art Festival weren't disappointed Saturday.
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This year, Off the Beading Path owner Denise Bush is looking for new beads, new designs, and time to experiment.
"A lot of my beaders keep me challenged, because some of them are just so creative," she said. "Right now, with the seed bead world, there are a lot of new beads coming out. New shapes, new patterns, and people are using them in new combinations."
Some of her customers think Bush just sits in her store and works on beading all day, she said. But she only gets about two hours a week to do such creative work, and much of it is spent creating samples to show customers what could be made out of her diverse collection of beads.
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"That's always a challenge, keeping things new and fresh," Bush said. She finds beads from a variety of sources. Some are sold directly to her, and some she finds herself. Every year, she attends a beading show in Denver.
Off the Beading Path offers up to five classes each weekend, most suitable for beginning beaders.
"A lot of our instructors started out teaching here, so that's been really exciting to watch them grow," Bush said.
Bush and six other instructors teach classes on using wire, stone, or making chainmail or bead weaving. In February, a guest instructor will teach silversmithing. Those interested in becoming an instructor can contact Bush at 703-492-2323.
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"Some of the ones that have started with us, we notice the consistent quality of their work, and their enthusiasm," she said. "Quality of work is a big thing. I've seen some YouTube videos out there where people aren't necessarily doing it the correct way."
Bush said that though "creativity doesn't have a right or wrong," there are certain techniques, especially with materials like wire, that make the finished product stronger or more secure.
"You put the time in, you want it to hold up well," she said.
As part of her drive to find more time to be creative, Bush plans to offer one free class a month.
"We eat, sleep and drink beads. I've got one caught in my tooth now," Bush said, laughing.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — There's a scene in "42" in which Jackie Robinson, the first black player in modern Major League Baseball, endures intolerably cruel racial slurs from the Philadelphia Phillies' manager.
It's early in the 1947 season. Each time the Brooklyn Dodgers' first baseman comes up to bat, manager Ben Chapman emerges from the dugout, stands on the field and taunts him with increasingly personal and vitriolic attacks. It's a visible struggle, but No. 42 maintains his composure before a crowd of thousands.
As a viewer, it's uncomfortable to watch — although as writer-director Brian Helgeland points out, "if anything, the language we have in that scene was cleaned up from what it was."
Such hatred may seem archaic, an ugly episode in our nation's history that we'd rather forget. But remembering Robinson's accomplishments is more important than ever, say people involved with "42" and baseball historians alike. And because he was such an inspiring cultural figure, it's more important than ever to get his story right.
Helgeland, an Oscar winner for his "L.A. Confidential" screenplay who previously directed "Payback" and "A Knight's Tale," said he felt "an enormous amount of pressure" to be faithful to Robinson's story, both because of his significance and because his life had been written about so extensively. That included recreating games right from the box scores. So when Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) homers during a crucial pennant-race game off a pitcher who'd dinged him earlier in the year, it's a dramatic moment, but it also actually happened.
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App Smackdown! Day Two, Thursday 24th May
Collect your lunch then bring it along to this fast-paced App Smackdown session to kick off at 12.45pm. What is it?? It's a chance for you to have two minutes of fame and share your favourite app with everyone else in the room. You have two minutes to step up, and use your iPad to project and demonstrate the app/apps you love. Just two minutes to tell all gathered why you love using that app in your classroom, therapy sessions, lectures, at home or just for your own enjoyment! Two minutes will go quickly but it means you will also have the chance to see many other ideas and thoughts re cool apps.
An online Google Doc compiling the apps presented and their links in the App Store will be built live as the session progresses – ready to be shared with all conference delegates and with all following the conference online via Twitter, Facebook, Scoop.It or Pinterest! If you have many apps to share, that's fine too. Just line up again for another go after your two minutes are up! Join us – this will be fun!
Early bird prize awarded – we have a winner!
The early bird conference registration prize was randomly drawn on Tuesday – it sure was a big draw with over 900 delegates in the pool!
A big congratulations to Kathy Johns of Queensland! She is the lucky winner of the dinner vouchers valued at $200. Enjoy Kathy and see you at the conference!
Reserved seats at lunch for parents and carers | QIAT Listers
We are setting aside some tables in the lunch pavilion for two separate meetings on Day One of the conference, Wednesday 23rd May. One set of tables will be reserved for parents and carers, the others setup for QIAT Listserve members. We hope this will give you all an opportunity to get together and catch up!
Let us know at firstname.lastname@example.com if you'd like a seat reserved at either of these meetings and we'll add this date to your personalised itinerary.
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Accommodation at Jupiters Gold Coast Hotel | An important update
Special delegate accommodation rates at Jupiters Gold Coast Hotel have been negotiated for conference participants – however, the hotel has advised that they are now almost fully booked. ALL accommodation needs to be booked directly with the hotel on 07 5592 8366 or international +61 7 5592 8366 (let them know you are with the Inclusive Learning Technologies Conference 2012) – if there are any rooms available for the nights you require they will be able to assist you. If it is more convenient you can also email the Group Reservation agent at firstname.lastname@example.com.
#ILT2012 Conversations starting on Twitter
If you are on Twitter, you may have noticed some chat starting up about the conference there. To follow, just search for messages with the #ILT2012 hashtag included. To contribute to the chat, just add #ILT2012 to the text of your tweets about the conference or of interest to other delegates attending. You should also follow the conference on Twitter. Search for our Twitter Name of @ILT2012 and click follow. We have added a listing of all Tweeters attending the conference on the conference Facebook Group. Please go in and add your details if not already listed there.
If you are not on Twitter, it is easy to create an account at https://twitter.com. If it is all too confusing, and we totally get that, all of the conference team will be available to help you out if you want to give Twitter a trial while onsite at the conference. Charlene Cullen (from Spectronics) and David Harraway (from ComTEC in Melbourne) will be able to help out too in their 90 minute presentation titled "OK I get that I need to use Social Media Tools. But HOW do I do it?" – scheduled for after lunch on Day One of the conference (Wednesday 23rd May).
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Our Facebook community is steadily growing – it's great to see the new members since our last update. Welcome!
Don't forget to actively invite your Facebook friends/colleagues/family who would like to be part of this fun forum! The Conference Committee also posts informative updates as they come to hand, so it is a useful tool to keep up-to-the-minute-up-to-date!
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Visas are required by all visitors travelling to Australia, except for New Zealand passport holders.
If you are planning a holiday or a short business trip to Australia, you will need to apply for either a visa or an ETA (Electronic Travel Authority). An ETA will let you spend up to three months in Australia. Further information on ETA eligible countries can be found online, click here.
European Union and some other European passport holders are eligible to apply individually for an eVisitor visa to travel to and enter Australia. Further information on eVistor eligible countries can be found on the Department of Immigration and Citizenship website. eVisitor applications can be made online. For more information contact the Australian Embassy in your country or visit the Australian Electronic Travel Authority.


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COPLEY TWP.: A Copley Township man, despondent over the likely loss of his beloved alpaca farm, set his home on fire before shooting himself in the head, police investigators have determined.
The recently concluded investigation into the Sept. 27 death of Edward Draher found that the 66-year-old man crafted an elaborate suicide plan over several days before taking his own life inside the house he held so precious.
Copley police released their investigation files Wednesday. The voluminous case file includes details of his plans, ominous emails Draher sent to friends in the days leading up to his death and his curious use of a sock to cover the gun used to kill himself.
Police say Draher's wife, Cindy, had been urging her husband to agree and sell the 27-acre farm on Earhart Avenue because of pressing financial concerns and their advancing ages.
Draher, however, loved the land and did not want to leave the property, where he and his wife had lived for about 20 years, his friends told police.
Ultimately, the farm became a source of contention between the Drahers and the apparent motivation behind his suicide plan, Detective Joe Krunich said Wednesday.
"They couldn't keep up with the farm. She wanted to sell it. But he didn't want to leave the farm," Krunich said.
In two emails to two different friends, Draher appears to blame his wife for his unhappiness. Police say Cindy Draher gave her husband an ultimatum on Sept. 24: Sell the house or divorce.
"My friend, please pray for me for I'm afraid and in despair. She is really doing a job on me and I don't know what's next or what to do," Draher wrote in one email.
"If anything happens to me, you will know she is behind it!"
Widow responds
Cindy Draher, 61, learned of the investigation details on Wednesday. She said her husband was struggling with the decision to move, but she doesn't believe he would plot a scheme in which she would be accused of killing him.
"I hope that's not the case where he was trying to set me up," she said. "I know he's not capable of something like that," she said. "We had some good times together. But I know I will never be able to figure out why this happened. No one can explain it and no one ever will. I know that.
"I just hope people don't judge my husband over this. He could be a good person."
Investigators learned through credit card bills that Draher visited a Montrose gas station in his diesel pickup truck Sept. 25 and filled several cans with fuel.
Police say the 4,000-square-foot home was equipped with a smoke and fire alarm system monitored by a private security company. However, wires to the fire system were cut before the fire was set, police said.
Krunich said investigators found two 2.5-gallon plastic gas cans inside Draher's home. At least one of them was punctured several times near the bottom as if to allow gas to pour out. One was located near a computer room where Draher's body was found. The other was found on the opposite end of the house where the fire appears to have been started.
Investigators from the State Fire Marshal's Office believe Draher set the fire and then walked to his computer room where he got on a couch. Using a .32-caliber handgun, Draher then shot himself in the back of his head, about 2 inches behind his left ear.
Oddly, it appears Draher covered the gun with a sock before firing the weapon.
Police Chief Michael Mier said investigators theorize that Draher covered the gun with a sock to conceal potential gunshot residue and the suicide. They also believe Draher hoped the sock might burn away in the fire. It did not.
Unsure of intent
Detectives, he said, can't be sure if by using the sock Draher was simply hoping to avoid the stigma of dying by suicide or attempting to make it appear that he was murdered and frame someone, possibly his wife, with the killing.
"Based on the emails and the sock, it is possible he was trying to make this look like a homicide," Mier said.
Cindy Draher had left for work shortly after 8 a.m., a fact noted by neighbors and friends. One neighbor told police she heard what sounded like a gunshot at about 8:30 a.m.
A handyman who worked for the Drahers for about 15 years found the burning house when he visited about 11:20 a.m. Police interviewed the 58-year-old man and he agreed to a polygraph exam. He passed. Police say there was no trace of gas on his clothing or any gunshot residue on his hands.
There were, however, traces of fuel on Draher's clothing and gunshot residue on his left hand, the reports show.
The Drahers met in Salem and married 21 years ago. They settled on the Earhart Avenue farm on the eastern edge of Copley Township.
Friends say the vast farm provided a quiet life for Draher, an avid outdoorsman. He had about a dozen alpacas at the time of his death.
While Cindy Draher operated a property management company in Akron, Draher received disability payments. He suffered from diabetes.
On Wednesday, Cindy Draher said the past several months have been emotionally draining. She has been living with a friend since the fire, visiting her charred home only to go through the remains in search of photographs or other personal items.
Although the house was insured, she is unsure whether the company will pay her claim because her husband set the fire. She wanted to thank her friends and family for their help.
"I lost my husband, my home and my dog in a split second," she said. "It's been unimaginable. I don't know where I'd be without the help of my friends and neighbors."
Police concluded their two-month investigation by eliminating any hint of foul play.
"There was nothing discovered in this investigation indicating that anyone other than Edward Draher was responsible for the events that took place on Sept. 27, 2012," Krunich concluded in his report.
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LOUISVILLE — The Madison Central High School Marching Band came in second Saturday night in the state 5-A championship.
MCHS, which was tied with Lafayette High School of Lexington at the conclusion of Saturday afternoon's semifinal round, was edged by Lafayette in the finals, according to Marc Whitt of the band's booster organization.
Dunbar High of Lexington finished third, followed by North Hardin High of Radcliff in the competition conducted by the Kentucky Music Educators Association.


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Search Engine Optimisation: The Shift To Engaging Content
It used to be that there was only one thing that you needed for effective search engine optimisation: keywords. As long as you had keywords all over your site pages, you would draw in all of the traffic that you needed.
This led to some "black hat" tactics for search engine optimisation that were not really fair for a worldwide marketplace, such as web designers who would put in blocks of keywords as the background images on their sites, turning the text and the background to the same colour. It looked like a blank page to a reader, but it drew in the search engines, and that was all they really needed.


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The Daily Star
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25 years ago
Feb. 2, 1988
WALTON — The Hubcap Man in Walton has agreed with officials at Bettiol Fuel Service of Oneonta to have his wares removed from their property by April 1.
Gilbert Lane said he is seeking options, such as renting a barn, to house the bulk of his trade. However, he said he plans to keep his thousands of hubcaps and some farm equipment on the 30-foot state-right of-way.
Lane occupies the land at Delaware and West streets, which Bettiol bought at an auction a year ago this April. The attorney representing Bettiol, Joseph Pondolfino Jr. of Oneonta, said in the beginning of January the company was looking for a "reasonable solution."
The April deadline for Lane will come five months after he received a civil notice on Nov. 6 to leave the property. Lane maintains he will continue his hubcap business, which was his first merchandise there, on a 30-foot piece of land in front of Bettiol's land, abutting Delaware Street.
He said he has had offers of places to move the large items of his buy-sell trade business. "I look at it as an expansion," said Lane. He said he has marked items at 50 percent off and will have a "liquidation sale" sometime in February or March.
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Feb. 2, 1963
Masked city firemen, breathing canned air, penetrated some 300 feet into a smoke filled tunnel deep beneath the SUCO campus shortly after noon Friday to extinguish a small blaze which filled the Home Economics building with smoke.
Assistant Chief Ronald Rarick said the fire was deep in a five by four foot tunnel that travels underground from the Home Economics Building to the new Science building containing plumbing and heating pipes.
Started by workmen thawing pipes, Chief Rarick said the blaze was confined to wooden materials deep in the tunnel which were thought to be remnants of forms left over from concrete work when the tunnel was constructed.
Damage, Chief Rarick said, was confined to some slight smoke damage. He said an open end of the tunnel at the Science building served as draft and forced the dense smoke into the basement of the building.


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I was having dinner some nights ago at a little Italian joint in Culver City. Got up to hit the men's room, but it was occupied, so I stood in a rather dank hallway to wait. Suddenly, a side door from the restaurant flew open and a fairy appeared, clad in semi-diaphanous robin's-egg-blue gown, gorgeous white hair swirled up like confectioner's art. Two steps, and the fairy disappeared, having either walked right through a wall or into the ladies' room, I wasn't sure which.
It was then that I realized that it wasn't a fairy. It was Judy Collins. Not that there is really much difference, for all intents and purposes.
So it was an odd bit of fateful foreshadowing, as it turns out, because a week later the vision reappeared in front of me--on stage at the Valley Performing Arts Center in decidedly earthly Northridge, doing what she has done since age three: singing. Lavender skirt, sparkly white blouse, red sequined jacket, cumulus cloud of white hair. And a voice a fairy would envy.
Actually, the voice appeared first, there in the darkened auditorium, a cappella, hauntingly intoning a few lines from "I'll Be Home For Christmas." The same song she sang, she later told the audience, when she debuted on stage as a child. "Of course, it was April," she said, to laughter.
And so did the great Judy Collins--sorry, Ms. Collins, you now are saddled with that honorific--begin a two-hour solo concert/bio narrative, beneath a Christmas candelabra of poinsettia and pine, last Friday night. She began with a rousing, sunny "Chelsea Morning" (Joni Mitchell), touched on Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Livingston-Evans, Stephen Stills, Irish folk, Jacques Brel, and a couple of her own songs along the way, finishing with a neatly understated reading of Stephen Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns" (which she must be tired of singing by now.)
Collins' life would be rejected as a novel. Her adored father was blind; she came down with polio at eleven and spent six months in isolation; she was groomed to be a child prodigy classical pianist; she bravely rejected Rachmaninov in favor of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.
"It was hard to explain to my piano teacher that I was going to sing 'Jimmy Crack Corn'," she told the audience, in what has become a famous anecdote. "And my teacher later sighed, 'Oh, little Judy, you could have gone somewhere. . .'"
Where she went, in the early '60s, was Greenwich Village, where she became part of the folk revival and the who's-who of now-legendary names (she sat outside a basement door one night and listened to Dylan write "Mr. Tambourine Man," which she lovingly sang in Northridge to great effect.) She made her big-time debut at Carnegie Hall in 1962, promptly contracted tuberculosis and spent six months in a hospital, became heavily involved in the protest movements of the '60s, drank with Janis Joplin, dropped with Michelle Phillips, became the namesake of Crosby, Stills & Nash's "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes." Somehow, she also managed to be a champion alcoholic ("In my family, they said if you couldn't drink, you probably couldn't read") rehabbed out of it in 1978, survived the unimaginable horror of losing her only son to suicide, wrote autobiographies, released a new album, Bohemian (with three very fine self-penned songs, on her own Wildflower label) last year. . .
And at a trim, toned, petite age 73(!), she performs about a hundred concerts a year. Her iconographic silvery soprano still sails out powerfully, even thrillingly.
"I went through all of it, the sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll," she told the full house, remembering that she wanted to use this well-worn phrase as the title of one of her autobiographies, Sweet Judy Blue Eyes. "My publisher said, 'people don't really think of you that way.' I said, 'Why don't you read the book?'"
The facts, debauched and otherwise, of this fabulous, tumultuous, tragic, triumphant life really become so much back-story when she performs, aside from narrative value. What you are seeing is an artist and trouper at work, skills strong, burnished, substantial, surprising. Oddly, when she la-la'd a line from the Rachmaninov piano concerto No. 2 (I think), it was so arresting that you almost wished she'd have just kept going, and you couldn't help but wonder what sort of pianist she might have been...
The evening came in two sets, the first with Collins strumming acoustic guitar and accompanist/musical director Russell Walden at piano (and some vocals), the second with Collins-in-black at the piano. She drifted in and out of snippets of songs as she told her story, here a bit of "My Funny Valentine," there a touch of "This Land is Your Land" and "Moon River." There was a nice John Denver medley of "Leaving on Jet Plane / Country Roads / Leaving on a Jet Plane," a singalong of "Silver Bells," and an a cappella rendition of "Danny Boy" that somehow made this impossibly sad old song impossibly sad all over again. (Credit: Irishness.) There were two Jacques Brel art-songs, "The Desperate Ones" (on her Bohemian album) "Sons Of," Stills' "Helplessly Hoping," Cohen's classic, "Susanne," but for this listener's interest, the highlights were her own songs: the epic, "The Blizzard of Colorado," and, notably the new "Big Sur" from Bohemian, a transcendant, poignant rhapsody: I know this stretch of road, I've been here often / The ocean rolls as far as you can see / The rocky coast is misty in the sunlight / The seagulls flying low are flying free / An the waves are like my memories and desires / Spreading out to carry me along / and I remember everything that mattered / The times when I was weak instead of strong...
It became apparent, as the evening of journeyman, or journeywoman, performance drew on, that Collins' still-glorious vocal instrument has been a great gift to her, one that has carried her along through a great deal in life, and that, at least for two hours in Northridge, was a gift to an appreciative audience. A Christmas gift.


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The Great Linux Revolt of 1998
When Sam Ockman's notice hit Slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org/) at 6:21PM, it read:
The 500 members of SVLUG are going to have a big rally tonight at the largest/most prestigious computer store in Silicon Valley, Fry's, when they stay open until 1AM to distribute Windows 98. We're going to hand out Linux CDs and stuff like that as well. We'd like to have more people at the rally than go to buy Windows 98.
While it was obvious the entire membership of the LUG was not planning on showing up for a midnight rally, it was clear this was an idea with great potential. A little after 10PM, Sam and I arrived at the Chili's restaurant near the rally site to meet with people beforehand. We hoped we wouldn't be alone at the table.
We were not disappointed. There were about 15 people waiting for Sam to arrive. Some we recognized from the SVLUG, and others had seen the notice on Slashdot. Remember, only four hours had gone by since the original posting. By the time we left, the crowd had grown to 25 people.
After consuming some munchies and a stout or two, we headed for Fry's Electronics in Sunnyvale. For those of you who aren't familiar with Fry's, it is a warehouse-sized electronics, software, hardware, test equipment, junk food, book and magazine retailer here on the West Coast. Picture Price-Costco, except with resistors. Most people have a love hate relationship with Fry's, mainly on customer service issues. It's important to note that this rally was not a protest against Fry's, but a rally for Linux on MS Windows 98's birthday.
We arrived at the Fry's store around 11:30PM. The 500 CD-ROMs from the generous folks at S.u.S.E. hadn't arrived yet, and we were a little nervous that they would be late. At Fry's our numbers had doubled to a little over 50 people. By now, our signs had been pulled out and we were actively agitating for Linux. This was a peaceful gathering; we made a point of not being too annoying and staying out of the way of cars.
The S.u.S.E. CDs arrived around midnight, coinciding with the beginning of the Windows 98 CD sale. We started handing them out along with pamphlets designed by Adam Richter (of Yggdrasil) to people who were coming into and out of Fry's. At this point we had two reporters show up to document the event (see Resources below).
Also at this point, we started noticing worried-looking guys with walkie-talkies watching us from the parking lot, and some Fry's managerial types talking into their cell phones. One of the protestors overheard one of their managers call the police, and then frustratedly say to another Fry's guy, "Why can't we just go over there and rip those signs out of their geek hands?" When we heard that, we were taken aback, but it did reconfirm our desire to continue.
A few minutes later, the Sunnyvale police began to arrive in numbers. Four police cars pulled forward into the lot. I offered myself up as their contact, while Sam controlled the Linux people.
The police officer asked us what we were doing there. I described Linux and how we were trying to get the word out about it. The police officer was cool about the situation, telling me he'd have to wait for his Lieutenant to arrive before deciding what to do. We were on Fry's private property, their parking lot. It turns out there are certain situations where it's okay to protest on someone's private property. It's pretty much always okay to protest on the sidewalk. We had been expecting to be asked to move to the sidewalk eventually.
Before his Lieutenant arrived, one of the other police officers asked more about Linux. The word is one of the Linux people got a CD into his hands on his way out of the lot. He did say, "Hey, good luck with your system" to me.
Additionally, the manager of Fry's came up to me (the same one who wanted to rip the signs out of our "geek hands") and asked me why I was doing this, as Fry's sold Linux in their book section. I pointed out that we knew this and indeed had a sign showing people which aisle to go to for the book. He then asked why the Linux marketing people or my (as if I'm in charge of Linux!) vendor relations people hadn't contacted Fry's management to arrange an event similar to the Windows 98 launch. Needless to say I was like a deer in the headlights. I told him that, in fact, Linux was a free operating system, and this was one way we saw to market it (not to mention the fact that no company, let alone a small user group, could match a MS launch when it comes down to the checkbook).
He was visibly upset, so I thought it was best to stop talking with him at this point. I told him any further communication between us would come to no good end, and we should only talk through the police. (His brains were melting out his ears by this point.)
The Lieutenant arrived and said we should move to the sidewalk, so we did, and it was just as well; cars were actually pulling over and picking up a copy of the Linux CD.
After about 15 minutes of this, we decided to hit the CompUSA store a few miles away. When we arrived, there were still a lot of people in line there. It turns out CompUSA was not only promoting Windows 98, but also doing all kinds of things to bring people into the store. They were selling computers for $98 to the first 10 people in line, and paying people $4 to take away 32MB of RAM. (Actually, the RAM was $32, but there was a $38 rebate—or something like that, it was weird.) This also meant there were a lot of people to promote Linux to. CompUSA's management people were cool; they took the rally in stride, telling Sam the rally was okay, as that was what the First Amendment was all about. Fry's had sent one of their security drones to CompUSA to warn them of our existence, but CompUSA just let us do our thing.
After CompUSA petered out, we converged on a local Denny's to nosh. Denny's flipped when they saw all the people, so we moved to a braver restaurant down the street. I got home around 3AM to find that people were already uploading pictures to the web.
By the end of the night, we had given out 500 CDs and hundreds of pamphlets. A total of six press people showed up and there were over a half-dozen mentions in major newspapers. This is not counting the coverage we received from other on-line sources, such as CNN and the BBC. Everyone involved had a rocking good time promoting Linux.
Whether or not you agree with this direct-action model of Linux marketing, we feel confident that we passed the Linux message to many thousands of people who otherwise had no real knowledge about the Linux revolution. Viva la revolución!
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And it is hard to define our culture or to say that something is part of Canadian culture. There are aspects in our society that we can say are uniquely Canadian, such as hockey or our entertainment scene.
There are traits that are not unique to Canadians, but they certainly seem to be more prevalent here than anywhere else. Being polite and courteous to a fault (and often beyond) is something that is attributed to Canadians. We also have a reputation for being level-headed thinkers, and we certainly love peace and would prefer to argue than fight physically.
We don't really have an internationally renowned dish, like blood pudding, pasta or sauerkraut, unless it's maple syrup.
What we do have is multiculturalism. We are willing to take in any culture and make it part of our own. We are a country of immigrants and that is our culture. In Canada, just about every language in the world is spoken. We have television channels and newspapers devoted to any cultural group that has a large enough market to support them.
In a city like Toronto, Vancouver or Montréal, you could have world-class dim sum for breakfast, kim chi for lunch and butter chicken for dinner and the next day have Belgian waffles and crêpes for breakfast, Yorkshire pudding for lunch and jerk chicken or kitfo for dinner. The possibilities are endless.
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Godsmack stole the show last night at Bristow. Its really not fair to whoever plays after them. This was my 7th time seeing them and they always kill it. Ill post more of a review later today as Ive had 1.5 hours of sleep and am going into work now (ugh). It was just a basic settlist, but that was ok with me. My fav song was The Enemy, just for the extended version with Shannon rockin the sh*t out of the double bass. That was just badass.
Ok now seriously going into work.
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U's thrash Stevenage to secure biggest win of the season (From Gazette)
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U's thrash Stevenage to secure biggest win of the season
Updated 7:19pm Thursday 26th December 2013 in Sport By Jonathan Waldron
Colchester United secured a convincing 4-0 win over Stevenage to make it back to back wins in League One.
Two goals from Craig Eastmond and strikes from Jabo Ibehre and Blair Turgott helped the U's register back to back wins.
Turgott gave the U's a tenth-minute lead after Stevenage keeper Chris Day dropped Brian Wilson's cross, under pressure from Jabo Ibehre.
And it was 2-0 less than three minutes later when Ibehre acrobatically volleyed home, after Day had once again struggled to deal with a cross, this time from Luke Garbutt.
Eastmond scored Colchester's third goal midway through the first half when he converted from Turgott's delivery.
And although U's keeper Sam Walker denied Luke Freeman and Luke Jones hit the bar with a header for Stevenage, the U's wrapped up a fine win with 13 minutes to go when Eastmond tapped in a pass from substitute Sanchez Watt, who made his first appearance since August after recovering from injury.
For a full match report, pictures and reaction to Colchester's win over Stevenage, see Friday's Gazette.
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6:03pm Thu 26 Dec 13
Noah4x4 says...
We have played 6/9 of the form sides AWAY and got decent points.
We have played 5/8 teams that WERE (struggling) around us AWAY and got decent points.
At the end of February 2013 we had 23 points....and where are we now with a game still to play before the end of DECEMBER?
We now must play all of our most critical games at HOME.
7:14pm Thu 26 Dec 13
25414nora says...
a 4-0 Us victory today is ample revenge, and Another 3 points closer to league one survival. Last season we only just escaped the dreaded drop, luck can go either way, but at least we are slightly better placed to achieve the magic 50/53 points to be sure.
10:33pm Thu 26 Dec 13
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12:39am Fri 27 Dec 13
Boris says...
The second goal was a gift too. Call it a 2-0 win, plus a couple of bunce goals. Still a good win, but really Stevenage were pretty poor.
Let's hope for another home win on Sunday, then we can look forward with confidence.
Up the U's.
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The GOP's rush to crack down on illegal immigration takes ever more vindictive turns. New legislation has been introduced in the House that would make illegal immigration a felony.
"This legislation aims to prevent illegal immigration and re-establish respect for our immigration laws," said Representative F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Republican of Wisconsin, who introduced the legislation in the House.
"Those breaking the law will be held accountable," Mr. Sensenbrenner said, "whether they are smugglers cruelly trafficking in human beings, employers hiring illegal workers or alien gang members terrorizing communities." (Link)
Apparently that includes priests and pastors ministering to immigrants, as the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has pointed out:
... the application of criminal penalties to individuals, including U.S. citizens, who assist aliens without legal status could jeopardize church programs which provide basic needs and life-saving assistance to these individuals. Current federal law does not require humanitarian groups to ascertain legal status of an individual prior to providing assistance. However, in our view, the provisions in Section 202 of the legislation would place parish, diocesan, and social service program staff at risk of criminal prosecution simply for performing their job. It also could apply to health care personnel or U.S. citizens who provide urgent or life-saving assistance to an undocumented individual.
Did the Good Samaritan check the immigration status of the "certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho"? Should he spend five years in jail for not doing so? Are we so desperate to keep out Hispanics looking for a better life that we would criminalize humanitarianism?
Update: Steve Benen, who is guest-blogging over at Kevin Drum's place, nicely captures the rather absurd politics of the House bill:
Indeed, in a manner of speaking, this is a Republican "faith-based initiative" gone awry. For all the talk about empowering churches to create "armies of compassion," House Republicans have endorsed legislation that essentially tells ministries, "We want you to help those in need, but if one of the needy turns out to be in the country illegally, be prepared to go to jail."
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In an earlier post on Delaware Chancellor William Chandler's recent decision in Unisuper Ltd. v. News Corporation, I observed:
... as I explain in my book Corporation Law and Economics, corporate law generally ought to be enabling rather than mandatory in nature. Because director primacy is such a fundamental norm of corporate governance, however, limitations on the directors' power of fiat should be in the corporation's articles of incorporation (at least when one is dealing with a public corporation).
As I've thought about it, however, I decided that I was wrong to suggest that such limitations should be valid only if they're included in the articles of incorporation. The relevant statute is Delaware General Corporation Law section 141(a), which provides:
The business and affairs of every corporation organized under this chapter shall be managed by or under the direction of a board of directors, except as may be otherwise provided in this chapter or in its certificate of incorporation. If any such provision is made in the certificate of incorporation, the powers and duties conferred or imposed upon the board of directors by this chapter shall be exercised or performed to such extent and by such person or persons as shall be provided in the certificate of incorporation.
On its face, § 141(a) is directed to an entirely different problem than the one raised by board-initiated restrictions on the board's powers. In particular, note the reference in the second sentence of § 141(a) to the "powers and duties" of the board being "exercised or performed" by such other persons as provided in the certificate of incorporation. This language clearly reflects a concern with the special problems of close corporations, whose shareholders often seek to modify the default rules of corporate governance so as to run the firm as though it were a partnership Delaware has a special set of statutory provisions for close corporations whose articles of incorporation contain an election to be governed by those provisions. Among the special rules applicable only to such so-called statutory close corporations is a provision authorizing shareholders to limit the powers of the board of directors by mere contract. Outside of that limited context, however, § 141(a) makes clear that any such shareholder-initiated limitation on the board's authority must be included in the articles of incorporation. Taken as a whole, therefore, § 141(a)'s language regarding exceptions to the board's authority is not concerned with self-imposed limitations on the board's authority. Instead, § 141(a) is concerned with ensuring the validity of such close corporation governance provisions, while requiring that they be included in the articles of incorporation rather than by mere contract. On its face, nothing in the statute compels a conclusion that the board cannot create self-imposed limitations on its authority.
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Whether someone is an employee (a.k.a. servant) or an independent contractor is a critical question for many reasons. An employer is generally responsible for torts committed by a servant, but generally is not liable for torts committed by an independent contractor. Employees are entitled to various job protections that independent contractors lack. And so on.
Christine Hurt blogged a recent Los Angeles Superior Court decision rejecting Federal Express' argument that its drivers are independent contractors rather than employees.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Howard Schwab said FedEx had violated California law by classifying all of its single-route drivers as independent contractors and forcing them to incur expenses the company should have covered, including paying for fuel, oil, tires, repairs and liability insurance. The judge ordered payments ranging from a few hundred dollars to as much as $98,000 for about 200 class members. The case was tried over nine weeks last year. ...
In court, FedEx has argued that while it sets work rules for some contractors, they aren't employees because they don't have set start times, they can hire and fire workers, they use their own vehicles, and they choose their own routes.
I discussed these delivery driver cases in my book Agency, Partnership, & LLCs, explaining that:
Frank Frausto was a delivery driver for the Arizona Republic newspaper. Frausto's car collided with a motorcycle driven by plaintiff William Santiago, who then sued the newspaper. The newspaper defended by claiming that Frausto was an independent contractor. The trial court agreed, granting the newspaper summary judgment on the issue as a matter of law. Applying an 8 factor test tracking Restatement (Second) § 220(2), the Arizona supreme court reversed and remanded for trial.
First, as to control by the alleged master, the court noted that the newspaper exercised little actual supervision, but was able to give Frausto specific instructions with the expectation that they would be followed. Pointing out that the power to fire is regarded as "one of the most effective methods of control," the court noted that Frausto could be terminated without cause on 28 days notice and, moreover, could be terminated for unsatisfactory service without any notice. Second, the court noted that Frausto had no independent delivery business. He worked only for the newspaper, payments went to the newspaper and not the carrier, and accounts were serviced by the newspaper. This distinguished the case at bar from other newspaper carrier cases in which the delivery firm bought the newspapers from the publisher and resold them to delivery customers at a profit. Third, the court noted that being a newspaper carrier required little specialized or skilled training, which suggests that Frausto was a servant. Fourth, while the newspaper did not provide all of the necessary supplies, it did supply the newspapers and designated the route to be covered. Fifth, the court observed that the relationship was of indefinite duration, which points towards finding that Frausto was a servant. Sixth, Frausto was paid a regular weekly salary. Seventh, newspaper delivery was a core part of the publisher's business. Finally, Frausto stated that he regarded himself as an employee. In sum, on all of the § 220 factors there was at least some support for treating Frausto as a servant and summary judgment was inappropriate.
I haven't seen Judge Schwab's decision, but my guess is that the key factors were (1) Fed Ex probably has the ability to fire the drivers on short notice if they fail to comply with instructions and (2) the drivers probably don't have an independent business (when Fed Ex comes to my door, the driver is in a Fed Ex truck wearing a Fed Ex uniform).
The business lesson is that out-sourcing only works if you outsource to a truly independent business. If you try to get the benefits of vertical integration, while avoiding the legal responsibilities that attach to a vertically integrated firm, California will put substance ahead of form.
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Tom Kirkendall does a great job of explaining the likely implications of the plea deal by former Enron chief accountant Richard Causey. In a later post, Tom details the Causey cooperation agreement and its implications. Unlike the hyperbolic press reports, Tom's careful analysis suggests that the plea deal may not be as much of a problem for Lay and Skilling as the press thinks:
... inasmuch as Causey and his counsel have participated under a joint defense agreement with the Lay and Skilling defense teams for over two years now, virtually any of Causey's testimony would be subject to challenge as being derived from that joint defense effort. Moreover, as noted in this earlier post, Causey had problems in defending himself against the charges that Lay and Skilling do not, and his credibility may be subject to impeachment at trial through portrayal of the eve-of-trial plea deal as an effort to save his skin at the expense of his co-defendants.
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Larry Ribstein's got a very thoughtful post on the recent Delaware Chancery Court decision in Unisuper Ltd. v. News Corporation. He writes:
... this case as it stands boils down to a simple one of statutory interpretation about what has to be in the certificate. It makes sense to require any contract in this situation to be clear. That's evident from the facts here, including the considerable uncertainty about the terms of the supposed contract, and even who the parties were – not shareholders themselves, but an institutional investor group supposedly acting on behalf of shareholders whose interests in the firm the opinion didn't specify. It follows that it's reasonable to require agreed managerial powers to be set forth in the certificate.
The more interesting question is what the certificate should be able to provide. Specifically, should a certificate that limits the board's power to enter into a poison pill be enforceable? I think the answer to this question as a matter of policy is clearly yes.
I think that's basically right. as I explain in my book Corporation Law and Economics, corporate law generally ought to be enabling rather than mandatory in nature. Because director primacy is such a fundamental norm of corporate governance, however, limitations on the directors' power of fiat should be in the corporation's articles of incorporation (at least when one is dealing with a public corporation).
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Tobias Buckell sent along a review copy of his forthcoming novel Crystal Rain. Like SM Stirling's Raj Whitehall series, whose premise it somewhat resembles, Crystal Rain is an interesting mix of fantasy and military science fiction. It starts off a bit slow, but especially picks up pace once main POV characters John deBrun and Pepper finally hook up.
Long ago, so the stories say, the old-fathers came to Nanagada through a worm's hole in the sky. Looking for a new world to call their own, they brought with them a rich mélange of cultures, religions, and dialects from a far-off planet called Earth. Mighty were the old-fathers, with the power to shape the world to their liking---but that was many generations ago, and what was once known has long been lost. Steamboats and gas-filled blimps now traverse the planet, where people once looked up to see great silver cities in the sky.
Like his world, John deBrun has forgotten more than he remembers. Twenty-seven years ago, he washed up onto the shore of Nanagada with no memory of his past. Although he has made a new life for himself among the peaceful islanders, his soul remains haunted by unanswered questions about his own identity.
These mysteries take on new urgency when the fearsome Azteca storm over the Wicked High Mountains in search of fresh blood and hearts to feed their cruel, inhuman gods. Nanagada's only hope lies in a mythical artifact, the Ma Wi Jung, said to be hidden somewhere in the frozen north. And only John deBrun knows the device's secrets, even if he can't remember why or how.
Tobias is an active blogger and is making a very aggressive effort to market the book through the blogosphere and I suspect it'll pay off. Buckell writes cleanly and skillfully, has a deft touch with plot twists, and is as good a world builder as any. What starts out shaping up as a Caribbean take on medieval fantasy turns into what Andrew Wheeler aptly calls "a lost-colony SF novel, low-tech division, conflict between more powerful alien races sub-division." Along the way, Buckell neatly avoids the Dark Lord cliche by creating bad guys who have some moral nuance. If I wasn't quite convinced by the ending, it was a plausible outcome and the ride getting there was fun.
I wouldn't put Buckell in the same class as my current favorites Charles Stross and John Scalzi, but I'd slot this book at about the same level as Andre Norton's best work, which is a pretty high standard IMHO.
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A while back, I wrote a post entitled What might have been, in which I argued that President Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq had "pissed away the conservative moment by pursuing a war of choice via policies that border on the criminally incompetent" and asked:
We control the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and (more-or-less) the judiciary for one of the few times in my nearly 5 decades, but what have we really accomplished? Is government smaller? Have we hacked away at the nanny state? Are the unborn any more protected? Have we really set the stage for a durable conservative majority?
Finally, I criticized Bush for giving us nothing but unrelenting positive spin.
I took a lot of flack for that post from my fellow conservatives, but I'm feeling more than a tad vindicated by an article in today's Washington Post, which reports that:
President Bush shifted his rhetoric on Iraq in recent weeks after an intense debate among advisers about how to pull out of his political free fall, with senior adviser Karl Rove urging a campaign-style attack on critics while younger aides pushed for more candor about setbacks in the war, according to Republican strategists. ...
The lessons drawn by a variety of Bush advisers inside and outside the White House as they map a road to recovery in 2006 include these: Overarching initiatives such as restructuring Social Security are unworkable in a time of war. The public wants a balanced appraisal of what is happening on the battlefield as well as pledges of victory. And Iraq trumps all.
"I don't think they realized that Iraq is the totality of their legacy until fairly recently," said former congressman Vin Weber (R-Minn.), an outside adviser to the White House. "There is not much of a market for other issues." ...
As the year ends, only some litigation limits have passed, and Social Security, tax and immigration plans are dead or comatose.
We can debate whether invading Iraq was a necessary step in the War on Terror. What we can no longer debate is that the Iraq War has brought the larger conservative agenda to a crashing halt, wasting a moment for which many of us in the conservative movement have waited for decades, and if public perceptions of the GOP don't improve soon, threatening to undermine the conservative realignment for which we long hoped. As I observed in that earlier post:
The conservative agenda has advanced hardly at all since the Iraq War began. Worse yet, the growing unpopularity of the war threatens to undo all the electoral gains we conservatives have achieved in this decade. Stalwarts like me are not going to vote for Birkenstock wearers no matter how bad things get in Iraq, but what about the proverbial soccer moms? Gerrymandering probably will save the House for us at least through the 2010 redistricting, but what about the Senate and the White House?
At the end of the day, that may well be George Bush's legacy. If so, he'll go down as the Impostor Bruce Bartlett's forthcoming book accuses him of being.
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TCS has posted my top 10 wines of 2005.
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I can't quite tell whether the market needs a valium or not. On the plus side, consumer confidence is way up. On the other hand, the yield curve keeps flirting with inverting, which is a traditional signal of investor lack of confidence and a frequent leading indicator of a recession. Also on the down side:
... more and more Americans seem to be stressed out, miserable and depressed, according to two new opinion polls. One long term survey shows that personal misery among Americans is at its highest levels since the early 1990s, with people saddled with woes over healthcare, unemployment, paying bills and romance. (Link)
It's all very puzzling, which makes it a good time to be in passively managed index funds. Of course, if you believe Burton Malkiel, as I do, anytime is a good time to be in passively managed index funds.
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Earler today I posted an excerpt from Jeffrey Hart's provocative essay The Burke Habit, in which Hart discussed the role of ntaionalism in conservative thought. In that essay, Hart also raised some very good points about the conservative attitude towards the market:
American conservatism emerged during a period when socialism in various forms had become a tacit orthodoxy. The thought of Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and Milton Friedman informed its understanding of economic questions. At length, the free market triumphed through much of the world, and today there are very few socialists in major university economics departments, an almost total transformation since 1953. But the utopian temptation can turn such free-market thought into a utopianism of its own--that is, free markets to be effected even while excluding every other value and purpose . . .
. . . such as Beauty, broadly defined. The desire for Beauty may be natural to human beings, like other natural desires. It appeared early, in prehistoric cave murals. In literature (for example, Dante) and in other forms of representation--painting, sculpture, music, architecture--Heaven is always beautiful, Hell ugly. Plato taught that the love of Beauty led to the Good. Among the needs of civilization is what Burke called the "unbought grace of life."
The word "unbought" should be pondered. Beauty has been clamorously present in the American Conservative Mind through its almost total absence. The tradition of regard for woodland and wildlife was present from the beginnings of the nation and continued through conservative exemplars such as the Republican Theodore Roosevelt, who established the National Parks. Embarrassingly for conservatives (at least one hopes it is embarrassing), stewardship of the environment is now left mostly to liberal Democrats.
Not all ideas and initiatives by liberals are bad ones. Burke's unbought beauties are part of civilized life, and therefore ought to occupy much of the Conservative Mind. The absence of this consideration remains a mark of yahooism and is prominent in Republicanism today. As if by an intrinsic law, when the free market becomes a kind of utopianism it maximizes ordinary human imperfection--here, greed, short views and the resulting barbarism.
It is precisely such considerations that motivated my critique of Wal-mart and prompted my on- going interest in using Catholic social thought to study the role of corporations in society.
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Jeffrey Hart has a very provocative piece on the state of American conservatism. Two parts jumped out at me as being worthy of discussion or, perhaps more precisely, highlighting. First, the role of the nation:
Soft utopianism speaks of the "nation-state" as if it were a passing nuisance. But the Conservative Mind knows that there must be much that is valid in the idea of the nation, because nations are rooted in history. Arising out of tribes, ancient cosmological empires, theocracies, city-states, imperial systems and feudal organization, we now have the nation. Imperfect as the nation may be, it alone--as far as we know--can protect many of the basic elements of civilized existence.
What Hart doesn't discuss here is the possibility that the United States is not a nation-state but rather a state-nation. Albert Wesibord writes:
What is a "nation," as we ought properly to use the term? Historically, a "nation" (a term derived from the Latin nascere, to be born) is developed from the "tribe," an enlarged "clan," which is, in turn, an enlarged "family" or "kindred." The "nation" has a base of common ancestry and blood relationship without which there could be no family, no kindred, no clan, and thus tribe. Various tribes of common origin may bind themselves into a brotherhood of "phratry" but when this occurs no "nation" has as yet developed, only the basis for one. ... At what point then did the United States become a "nation"? In our opinion never, for this process was blocked by slavery of the Africans and by an overwhelming non-English immigration from Europe.
Or, as Wikipedia puts it:
The term "state-nation" is sometimes used, for nations where the common identity derives from shared citizenship of a state. It implies that the state was formed first, and that the sense of national identity developed later, or in parallel.
Hence, Everett Ladd argues that "America is an idea -- a set of beliefs about people and their relationships and the kind of society which holds the best hope of satisfying the needs each of us brings as an individual."
This is a distinct challenge for American conservatism, especially the Anglophile strain represented by Russell Kirk, which looks back to English Tories like Edmund Burke for historical precedent and guidance. American conservatism thus finds itself torn between the polar extremes of nativists desperate to preserve a purported Anglo-American culture and open borders business types who seem to care nothing for cultural traditions (think National Review versus WSJ editorial board). One hopes for a middle ground, in which American remains open to anyone who embraces the "American idea," regardless of race or creed, while also striving to ensure assimilation to that idea.
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In pondering Tocqueville's insights on democracies' lack of martial spirit, Joseph Epstein concludes:
The thought of the U.S. fighting a Thirty Years War or engaging in something akin to the Peloponnesian War (which lasted 27 years) is unthinkable. These were wars fought by aristocrats, not democrats, who want chiefly to get on with their pleasurable lives.
Epstein says that like it's a bad thing. Personally, I'm increasingly convinced that the Powell Doctrine is the only sensible warmaking policy in the modern American polity. Again, let's see what Epstein says:
... why should democracies find it so difficult to start and to finish wars? Tocqueville's response is complex: The martial spirit is less in democracies than in aristocracies; moreover, "the wealthiest, best educated, most capable citizens of democratic nations are unlikely to pursue careers in the military." Citizens in a democracy have "an excessive love of tranquility," and war gets in the way of their striving for increased wealth and material comfort. Tocqueville himself wasn't opposed to war. He thought it "almost always enlarges the thought and ennobles the heart." But he felt that democracies were not in the best condition to wage it.
Does anybody still really believe that war "almost always enlarges the thought and ennobles the heart"? It is a necessary evil, at best. When we wage it, we should go in hard and fast with overwhelming force and get out just as fast.
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It's one thing for a college professor to express opinions on matters germane to the subject matter of the class, as when my Econ 101 professor left no doubt about his belief that markets work better than bureaucracies when it comes to setting prices. It is quite another, however, for a professor to use his bully pulpit and captive audience to express opinions on matters not germane to the subject matter of the course, as a Pennsylvania physics professor allegedly did:
"How could this happen?" Ms. Brown asked Representative Gibson C. Armstrong two summers ago, complaining about a physics professor at the York campus of Pennsylvania State University who she said routinely used class time to belittle President Bush and the war in Iraq. As an Air Force veteran, Ms. Brown said she felt the teacher's comments were inappropriate for the classroom.
The encounter has blossomed into an official legislative inquiry, putting Pennsylvania in the middle of a national debate spurred by conservatives over whether public universities are promoting largely liberal positions and discriminating against students who disagree with them.
The deniers and minimizers, of course, are quick to dismiss complaints:
"Mechanisms exist to address these glitches and to fix them," said Joan Wallach Scott, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and former chairwoman of the professors association committee on academic freedom, in testimony at the Pennsylvania Legislature's first hearing. "There is no need for interference from outside legislative or judicial agencies."
Sorry, but when was the last time you ever heard of a college professor being disciplined for veering off topic to attack conservatives? And, at least as far as state colleges are concerned, why shouldn't the tax payers representatives have a role in ensuring that the classroom is not a hostile learning environment? Speaking as an instructor at a state school, I would welcome such oversight.
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1. What do you love about the cover of CORNERSTONE?
Serious, B? I love everything about it!
I love that it's a clean, simple cover with meaning written all over it.
The torn paper is symbolic of Evangeline's Memories, but the writing on the paper- you'd find several names on there and some Memories that come from real people in my life. The stone that the title is carved on- love that- is symbolic of the Cornerstone itself and the sun burst shape over the title is meant to signify the (SPOILERYISH) sharp, gear-like flowers that Nali and Garrett find in their tea mugs.
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I guess if I've got to choose one, it's that self-publishing has taught me that having a readership is deeply satisfying and worlds more important than my mode of publication.
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It's takes a tremendous amount of time and commitment to pull all the levers and ring all the bells in order to keep your self-published-machine chugging along. It can also take a lot of cash. Some things you just have to do yourself and do as well as you can.
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The hardest part…huh. I suppose it is the uncertainty and doubt that leaks in. I find myself sometimes lost in the whole tail-chasing conversation of perceived expectations. The hardest part is figuring out how to let go and write with joy instead of expectation.
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Camp Natarswi a 30 acre rustic camp is located within the boundaries of Baxter State Park about 18 miles from Millinocket. With the Appalachian Trail and Mt. Katahdin at its doorstep, Natarswi offers a true north woods experience with many opportunities to explore one of the greatest gifts given to Maine's people, Baxter State Park, which has over 200,000 acres of trails forests, ponds and streams.
This seasonal site has 7 campsites (5 sites have platform tents, 1 has 3 small cabins, 1 has 4 adirondack shelters), a large dining hall that can seat 150-175, two program buildings, a picnic shelter, and flush toilets.
It has a sand beach on Lower Togue Pond and an archery range. Most of the campsites are located around the pond with spectacular views of Mt. Katahdin.
Natarswi is open from late May to early October. In the summer, Natarswi hosts a resident camp led by trained staff and serves girls 7-17. In June, August and September it hosts several mini camp weekends for troops. Natarswi is available for troops and groups at all other times it is open.
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Mailing Address for Camp Natarswi
Camp Natarswi
P.O. Box 270
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Directions to Camp Natarswi
From I-95, take exit 244 - Medway
Go west on Route 157 through Medway & East Millinocket to Millinocket.
Continue past McDonald's restaurant until Route 157 ends just past downtown Millinocket.
Turn right onto Katahdin Ave.
In less then .2 miles, turn left onto Bates Street. Follow the sign which points to Baxter State Park. Bates street changes to Millnocket Road, then to Baxter Park Road without any turns.
Follow this road 13.9 miles at which time you will see a very large painted rock ("Keep Maine Beautiful"), there will be another sign for Baxter State Park.
In 2 miles, you will see a sign which says "Watch for Speed Bumps."
"Natarswi" is on the right after the first speed bump.
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Dates: 17 - 22 August 2014
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Dates: 22 - 27 June 2014
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Dates: 6 - 12 July 2014
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General Information: Practicing meditation twice a day with support and guidance and enjoying a myriad of activities in this beautiful location makes this retreat an opportunity to really nurture yourself and learn new ways to make peace with yourself both inside and out.
Dates: 20 - 25 July 2014
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- Billy Beats Dancing Piano from MEGA Bloks
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- We recommend this product for ages 1 and up
What It Is
Little musicians and music lovers can make music and build with Billy Beats Dancing Piano, part of the MEGA Bloks First Builders line of toys. Billy includes eight First Builders blocks and eight pre-programmed songs. There are three modes of play. In Dance Along mode, kids press one of the eight colorful piano keys to hear a song and watch Billy dance. In Learn to Play, kids press the piano keys as they light up to play a song. When the song is complete, the whole song will play and Billy will dance. In Discover Music mode, kids can press the piano keys to hear individual notes played so that kids can make up their own song.
There are also eight music sheet stickers that parents can apply to the blocks. Place a block on top of Billy Beats and play the song by matching the colored notes to the colored piano keys. Songs include "Three Blind Mice", "The Itsy-Bitsy Spider", and more.
Kids can also change the sounds they hear when they press the piano keys. There is Classic Piano, which sounds like a real piano, but kids can also choose Animal Sounds to make each piano key play a different animal sound and Funky DJ to make each piano key play a different DJ sound.
Kids can stack the blocks on top of Billy Beat's red hat, and all the pieces store inside Billy when playtime is over.
Is It Fun?
This is a cute way to combine music with building. Little kids will love all the different sounds and songs and making up some of their own. The lights, music, and building blocks help engage kids in lots of imaginative and creative play.
Who It's For
Billy Beats Dancing Piano is for ages 1 and up.
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