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Or – "Fire BAD!!"
During the month of October, I set off on a plan to do weekly Hero Histories on Halloween-appropriate heroes, starting with Dracula, and ending with a secret character. Seein' as how we're about two weeks short of Christmas, you can see how well that worked. Nonethless, I think we're still holiday appropriate, seein' as how we're working with a hero who wears red and green (or atleast wears red and IS green.) Though a product of possibly evil intentions, he nonetheless overcame his creation to transform into something strongly resembling Superman. Like the original Man of Steel, the Man of Science (SCIENCE!) was not himself human, but still strove to protect the weak from natural disasters, crazed lunatics and the occasional killer gorilla. Striding forth out of his castle to fight crime in all it's forms, today's entrant had a short career at a time where superheroes were crawling out of the woodwork, and his uniqueness added to his legend. This, then, is your Major Spoiler Hero History of the creature who called himself Frank Stone, known publically by the name of his "father…" FRANKENSTEIN!
We've talked about Dell Comics before, and their unusual business model compared to other comic publishing outfits. Rather than hire writers and artists for their output, Dell served as a publishing house for material prepared by another company, Western Publishing. As a result, Dell Comics consist most of licensed content, from TV sitcoms to cartoon books to their long-running Movie Comics. As with Dracula, Dell's first issue of Frankenstein wasn't a superhero story, but a retelling of Mary Shelley's story (or at least the movie that was made from it circa 1931.)
"Yes, it was Abby… Something. Abby Normal?" The events of the movie take place in the 1800's, but a century later, a rogue bolt of lightning strikes the crumbling towers of Castle Fronkensteen, triggering one of the not-so-good doctor's experiments, and that experiment is… ALIVE! ALIIIIVE!!!
Returning to life by the power of science (SCIENCE!!!) the creature discovers that his creator planned for him to leave the castle in an unspecified "strange future," going to far as to create a mask that would allow the monster to walk unnoticed among normal humans. (The Perfectly Human Rubber Mask is a Silver Age staple, and would tell me this book came from the sixties even if I didn't already know about it, by the way.) How can a simple monster fathom the peculiarities of the 20th century? Not well, at least not at first…
The monster of Frankenstein finds a broken stone with half of his creator's name, dubbing himself Frank Stone and setting out into the world. In his first trip off the mountain, he discovers the usefulness his inhuman strength provides, as well as the reason why the doctor suspected that he would need to keep his identity secret…
Before the local (who can apparently afford a Rolls Royce) can assemble the torches and pitchforks, he reveals himself to be Mr. Knickerbocker, the richest man… IN THE WORLD!!! The old man has no heirs, and in his final hours, he agrees to make Frank the recipient of his massive fortune. Seconds after taking possession of the old man's mansion, he sees a woman being menaced on a roof directly across the street. (Unlikely, you say? This issue is drawn by Tony Tallarico, the master of getting everything into the page, regardless of whether or not it makes much sense.) Pulling off his rubber face, Frankenstein leaps into action for the first time.
It's never made entirely clear why the doctor created his creature wearing a red leotard, but that's not important right now. (The answer is simple: SCIENCE!!!) While saving the woman, though, Stone's home is invaded, and he is robbed, leading him to believe that all the horrible predictions in the late doctor's books are, indeed, true.
"Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot… Thus, I shall become a Frankenstein!" The simple expedient of adding a chest symbol to his ever-present red unitard ("YOU'RE a unitard!!") makes him into a superhero, and he takes stock of the powers that his synthetic body give him…
It's a good thing Frankenstein comes to this decision, actually, as evil is about to rear its shrouded head in agony… or something. Enter Mr. Freek and his super-strong gorilla pet, Bruto!
Mr. Freek and his ape partner go on a reign of terror, causing William the butler to buy him a newspaper explaining the rash of mysterious super-crimes. Of course, when he bursts into his boss' office, William ends up discovering a bit more than he bargained for…
With his Batman trappings now firmly in place (secret headquarters under a mansion, butler who assists him, massive fortune, head sewn together from three or four different heads) Frankenstein meets Mr. Freek in combat. Bruto's strength is pretty evenly matched by his own, but the sinister simian has a few tricks up his sleeve…
Rather than rest on his laurels having ripped off Batman in the strangest way possible, Frank sets forth to also steal a bit from Superman's arsenal, as the woman whom he saved returns to find her savior. Miss Ann Thrope (for that is her name) believes that Frank Stone and the mysterious heroic figure who saved her have some sort of connection. She puts herself in danger again, but Frankenstein realizes that she's bluffing, and plays along.
With a new life ahead, a new girlfriend trying to expose him, and one of the most ludicrous origin stories ever, Frankenstein takes a vow to rededicate himself to crime-fighting in a world gone mad…
I think that his arms and head must have been assembled from different bodies to have such different tones. Frank Stone's day to day life returns to something normal, as the appropriately named Miss Ann Thrope makes it her personal mission to reveal that Frank Stone is secretly Frankenstein.
His next foray into crime-fighting doesn't go nearly as well as the first one, as he discovers that he has an unexpected weakness…
Apparently, the doctor got his lungs from an asthmatic seven-year-old. Frankenstein is taken by the bad guys to their leader, which turns out to not only be a massive futuristic supercomputer, but also, the original creator of the LOLCATS.
"I can haz Frankenstine?" The computer sends out the hero as a mind-controlled slave, using Frankenstein's strength to forward it's evil schemes. The police believe that the hero has gone bad, but William knows better, arriving just in time to snatch his boss away from a hail of bullets. Of course, his plan to shake Frankenstein out of his stupor might have a tiny flaw…
The head injury gambit works (it was either that or he would have caved in his boss' skull completely, solving the problem one way or the other.) Frankenstein sets out again, only to get captured by the computer and trapped in the basement. Or so it SEEMS…
By cutting off the power to the whole city, Frankenstein foils the computers evil plan, and reprograms it to serve as a traffic announcer. It's nearly as exciting as it sounds… Miss Thrope discovers William in his Frankenstein costume, and redoubles her efforts to unmask Frank Stone as the hero (though why William dressing up as a superhero proves that his BOSS is one remains unclear.)
When Frankenstein accepts an invitation from the city to be rewarded for his heroism, he agrees to attend, unwittiingly stepping into a trap created by Mr. Freek!
Stronger even than NYLON??? That's… uh… that's not really all that strong, now that I think of it. Don't nylons get a run at the drop of a hat? With the hero as his prisoner, forced to dance (apparently, the bit of a giant tarantula fills you with the need to boogie down, sez the editor's box) Mr. Freek carries him off to his island hideaway, where Frankenstein is forced to fight off giant animals that want to eat him.
Ann's suspicions are roused again, as she and William are once again part of Frankenstein's adventure, and refuses to leave Frank for a second, forcing him to use his Frankenstein powers in her presence and out himself. When diamond thieves attack, Frankenstein outsmarts her by… doing exactly what she expected in the first place?
He explains his strength as the rage of the common man, but when Ann's apartment is robbed, she also responds with violence against the attackers, somehow proving Frank's point. I think… The fourth issue is a bit muddled, to be honest. We end with Frankenstein and William wondering about whether they can keep up this charade with Miss Ann Thrope dogging their heels…
I like to believe that Ann would become his sidekick, as B. B. Beebe did for Dracula, but alas this was the final issue of Frankenstein, leaving unanswered such burning questions as… um… as…
Anyway, the series ended. Frankenstein's adventures, no matter how silly, were both a forerunner of things to come and an echo of heroes past, as Frankenstein's no-nonsense origin gets him out fighting crime in a minimal amount of time, without much worry about how it all works. No matter how goofy the whole thing is, Frankenstein still takes his war on injustice seriously, turning what could have made him a bitter outcast into a tool to better the world, and proving that just because you have a green head and a permanent body stocking, you can still make a difference in the world. And isn't that what the holiday season is all about? I'm not sure any more, honestly, as this book has killed more brain cells than every ounce of alcohol I've ever imbibed, and I think there's some sort of vacuum forming in my temporal lobe as we speak. Still, you have to love a concept this bizarre, especially when it's played straightforward.
**If you've enjoyed this Hero History, you might want to 'Read All About It' at your Local Major Spoilers! You can just click "Hero History" in the "Columns" section on the main page, and read about a hundred or so other guys and gals who are likewise awesome as heck. The adventures of the superhero Frankenstein (SCIENCE!) were published by Dell Comics, but in this case, finding the books would be difficult, expensive, and mostly a novelty. Still, if you have the time, you could do worse…
Next up: The unplumbed depths of the Marvel Universe give rise to mysterious dark mystery men all the time, but who is the most mysterious of them all? He's the best there is at what he does, a mutant badass whose a love machine with all the chicks, and he's coming to Hero History…
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Frank Stone, man of SCIENCE! I just loved this review Matthew, it is so worth the wait. When Con season starts back up, I know what comics I will be looking for.
Wow, girlfriends were such jerks back then. I thought it was just Lois Lane who was a "%*&@#$*&^%", but I guess not.
I was sleepless at the late hour when this article went live, and while I didn't think it would help my insomnia, I thought it would amuse. It certainly did. I didn't sleep, but I had a good giggle, which is sometimes more rewarding.
Listening you the podcast piece on the article reminded me of this. Thanks for taking the time to shake down Mr Frankenstein (and apparently – thrashing your copies to scan them for your reader's incredulous pleasure).
Listening TO YOUR…
perhaps sleep would improve my engrish…
There is a third Dell super-monster book, Werewolf!
With the end of the DCU version of The Mighty Crusaders, will there be a chance we get to see a Hero History of at least one of them?
I love that the super computer also had the jump on ignorant teenage texting vocabulary and the fact that the book also got the jump by 37 years on Mega Python vs. Gatoroid.


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I had Liposuction done 12 weeks ago. I'm 35, 5'8 and pre-op I weighed 141.7lbs. Fat was removed from my outer and inner thighs, lovehandles and knees. I must admit that looking at my body (fully clothed) in a mirror right after surgery and before the appearance of the swelling the results were impressive beyond imagination.
Now, my feelings are rather mixed about having the liposuction. My appearance has improved greatly, and I get very encouraging feedback from my friends, but I'm not happy with my body when I see me naked. My cellulite now seems more pronounced and there still are bulging areas, not as bulging as they used to be, but my body contour is not completely trimmed either. Apart from that my hips seem to have dropped, and the skin, when pinched, seems to be loosely connected to the underlying muscle. It feels as if I have the body of a woman 10 years younger and the skin of a woman 15 years older.
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Slackware in vmware usb, video and time sync problems
Hello fellow Slackers,
I have installed Slackware with dropline gnome and kernel 2.6 (test26.s) into a virtual machine in vmware 5.0, on a windows xp host (because it is a business laptop).
But I'm having some problems:
1) my usb thumbdrive are not recognized when plugged in. No icon appears on the gnome desktop. It is not getting mounted:
- as a test I plugged the same usb stick in my desktop pc with also slackware and dropline gnome => drive appears on the desktop
- in a windows xp guest on the same vmware 5.0 the usb stick gets recognized
- is there anything, any trick to get the usb stick working in the slackware guest?
2) video's play in fast forward (gxine)
- on the same vmware 5.0 in a windows xp guest the video's play at normal speed
- what causes this problem?
3) the time in my slackware guest doesn't get synchronized with the windows host
- is there a solution to this problem?
thank you very much
I am not really a VMware expert (I dabble with QEMU a lot though)
/usr/sbin/ntpdate -b -s pool.ntp.org
NTP requires a high-resolution real-time clock to make small adjustments to the system time standard. If you ever get more than ten seconds out-of-sync, ntp will terminate quietly.
ntpdate in a cron job is a good solution for many users, but it may cause slight gaps or overlaps in time when it adjusts your system's clock. This can be inconvenient for some purposes.
VMWare has an official whitepaper on the matter of time-keeping in guest OSs: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf
append = "clocksource=pit nosmp noapic nolapic"
Then rerun lilo in the vm.
That should fix most if not all of the clock issue.
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I was in the upper level at this game and it was awesome. Benson's pitching, Koo's double, and Reyes' base running made this a great day (I took my Dad for his Birthday, Happy Birthday Pop). Mientkiewicz wasn't playing but I think he, Reyes, Beltran and Wright are our future. True fans have faith in you guys, keep going!
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A couple of weeks ago, a federal court representative reached out to an American citizen. She told that citizen that he could go to jail if he continued to blog about convicted perjurer and bomber Brett Kimberlin.
Given how the federal criminal justice system works, she was right.
An Ex-Con's View
The citizen in question was Paul Lemmen, a blogger who writes at An Ex-Con's View. As the title suggests, Paul is a convicted felon. The court official who offered the chilling warning was his probation officer, an agent of the United States courts.
Paul Lemmen has sustained multiple convictions for fraud. He's up front about it. In fact, it's part of the point of his blog. He's written a series of posts about his misdeeds, and about life as a prisoner. You can still find some stories about the more cinematic parts of his criminal history online — for instance, his elaborate fantasies claiming military ranks and records he did not earn to get jobs and money.
Most recently, Paul Lemmen was charged in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee with bank fraud and securities fraud. He entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison (a moderately tough federal sentence for white-collar crime these days, in my experience) and five years of supervised release — the post-sentence supervision that has replaced parole in the federal criminal justice system.
Based on his background, reasonable people view Paul Lemmen's claims with some skepticism. He understands that. He accepts that as a convicted con man, he may be treated like the boy who cried wolf when he seeks redress for actual injustice. As he put it to me, "[t]he issue of believability is one that I knew would be a thorny one. I am prepared for it to be raised and will bear the consequences of my past actions. . . .Part of being reformed is accepting the healthy skepticism of others."
The Knock On The Door
Paul Lemmen finds himself warned about returning to prison because his blog is not just about his past crimes and his life in prison. He also writes about politics. Recently, he began writing about Brett Kimberlin, and about Kimberlin's campaign of "lawfare" against his critics. We've covered that campaign extensively here, because I view Team Kimberlin's successful abuse of the courts as an important First Amendment issue.
As with others before him, Paul Lemmen faced dramatic consequences as a result of voicing his opinions about a public figure and a matter of public controversy.
Paul was convicted and sentenced in the Middle District of Tennessee, but he's living in Florida. During his term of supervised release, he's supervised by a United States Probation Officer there. In late May 2012, he was providing his probation officer with information about his new address, a modest apartment in Tampa. The probation officer asked to visit him — the first visit she'd requested in months. When she visited, after they had discussed his compliance with his residential and financial paperwork, the officer warned Lemmen that she "had been told" that he needed to "not write about anything that could get [him] in trouble" and that she didn't want him to "go back to prison to await a judge's ruling on possible defamation." This was the first time the probation officer had ever mentioned Paul Lemmen's blogging. Paul asked her if this had something to do with what he had written about Brett Kimberlin; she responded only that she didn't want to see someone so easy to supervise be violated (that is, be found in violation of supervised release and returned to prison) and that he needed to be careful and "watch his back."
Paul does not have a single bad thing to say about his probation officer, and says she seemed very uncomfortable telling him this.
Paul is the first to admit that he has no direct evidence linking this warning to the lawfare activities of Team Kimberlin. But I submit that the inference is strong — even overwhelming. I've talked about the facts before: Kimberlin has used bogus "peace orders" and false criminal complaints to retaliate against critics. Team Kimberlin relentlessly characterizes any criticism as "harassment" or "stalking" or "defamation," and Kimberlin — a convicted perjurer — regularly claims that criticism of him has led to death threats, and asserts that his critics are legally responsible for those threats. Team Kimberlin has attacked and harassed an attorney who offered pro bono help to one of his critics. Team Kimberlin wrote to Aaron Walker's employers and local police, in an effort that was part of what led to Walker and his wife being fired on the pretext that his participation in "Everyone Draw Mohammed Day" presented a risk to his coworkers. Team Kimberlin has retaliated against a blogger who set up a charitable fund to help Walker by publishing the home address of the blogger's mother and a picture of her house. Moreover, the timing of the warning — coming as it did within days of Paul Lemmen's posts about Brett Kimberlin — is powerful evidence. As I've said before, we don't know whether Kimberlin himself coordinates or even knows of the actions of all of his supporters. But it seems very highly unlikely that the U.S. Probation Office just happened across Paul Lemmen's blog, independently concluded that it might be "defamatory," and dispatched Paul's probation officer to warn him. Rather, the most reasonable and probable explanation is that Team Kimberlin continued its lawfare by calling the probation office and accusing Lemmen of defamation or "harassment."
If you've been following this story, you probably accept the inference that Team Kimberlin called the probation office and accused Paul Lemmen of misconduct for blogging about Kimberlin. But I'll wager many of you are having trouble with the next step. How could this be truly chilling? How could such a warning be a real threat? How can blogging be a supervised release revocation? Won't it be immediately self-evident to anyone — probation officer or judge — that this is bogus? Even if Paul were arrested, wouldn't a sensible judge release him immediately?
To understand why Paul Lemmen was worried — why his speech was so immediately and effectively chilled — you have to understand how the system "works."
It's Easy To Get A Ticket On Con Air
When Brett Kimbelin was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment by a federal court in the early 1980s, sentences were effectively indeterminate — the number imposed had little or nothing to do with the sentence served. The U.S. Parole Commission determined when federal prisoners were released on parole, and supervised them after they got out. As a result, Brett Kimberlin didn't serve anywhere near his 50 year sentence, any more than Phillip Garrido did.
Indeterminate sentencing fell out of favor for some good reasons and some bad. In 1984 Congress passed the Sentencing Reform Act, ending indeterminate sentencing for subsequent cases and creating the convoluted Sentencing Guidelines. The new law replaced parole for subsequent defendants with post-sentence supervised release under the auspices of the U.S. Probation Office, an arm of the court. Federal sentences were no longer gut-check judicial pronouncements of a number that would bear little or no relation to actual time of incarceration. Rather, determining a federal sentence became a wonkish exercise resembling a cross between mediating a squabble over a long-form tax return and rolling up a Runequest character whilst on methamphetamine. Moreover, sentences became more truthful — or at least truthier. For the most part, federal convicts served at least 85% of the sentence imposed, with up to 15% credit for good behavior for sentences over a year. That's how Paul Lemmen wound up with the seemingly odd sentence of 42 months, serving slightly less than that.
So, probation officers — like Paul's — now supervise ex-cons like Paul, giving them as much or as little scrutiny as they see fit during their court-imposed term of supervised release. If the probation officer believes that a supervisee has violated the terms of supervised release by taking drugs or getting arrested or failing to report, typically the officer petitions the court seeking either a summons or a warrant to start the process of revocation of supervised release — that is, the process by which the supervisee gets sent back to prison for up to his or her full term of supervised release. And here, friends and neighbors, is where the wheels start to fall of the wagon.
An arrest for violation of supervised release must be supported by probable cause. But the probation officer has the power to make the arrest herself without a warrant or prior judicial approval. Moreover, though federal judges generally give semblance of scrutiny to arrest and search warrant applications (at least compared to typical state judges), in my experience federal judges come as close as they ever do to a rubber-stamp when reviewing revocation petitions. Indeed, the laws requires nut minimal scrutiny. They don't even require the judge himself or herself to sign the warrant or summons. The probation officer need not make her petition request under oath, as a federal agent must to get an arrest or search warrant; the polite fiction is that judges are aware of the credibility of particular probation officers. (That fiction is particularly ridiculous in cases like this, where a probation officer in one district would be seeking a warrant from a judge in another district.)
Once a supervisee is arrested on a warrant, a rule-based process begins. But that process is notoriously slow. The rules only require that a supervisee be brought without "unnecessary delay" before a magistrate for his first appearance, a "prompt" probable cause determination, and a full contested hearing "within a reasonable time." Moreover, when a supervisee is arrested in a district other than where he was sentenced, he is typically transferred to his sentencing district for the full revocation hearing — at the speed deemed fit by the U.S. Marshals. A supervisee might seek bail at his first appearance — in theory. But unlike people arrested on a new crime, a released inmate facing supervised release revocation bears the burden of proving by "clear and convincing evidence" that he will not pose a danger to society or flee. Its usually an insurmountable hurdle for an ex-con.
It is routine for supervisees to spend months in custody awaiting a full revocation hearing. It is routine for the probable cause hearing — when there is one — to be a mere rubber-stamp. Do judges sometimes find an accusation not proven at the full revocation hearing? Yes. (On one memorable occasion, a judge found no violation and released a supervisee I was prosecuting, finding that the accused violation was physically impossible. The probation officer was convinced that the supervisee had thwarted a urine test by simultaneously manipulating his penis, a tube, a jar, a valve, and a false penis, all while under scrutiny by a monitor. The judge stormed into chambers for a few minutes, and returned thundering that what was claimed was not possible. His clerks, who followed him out and then in again, looked rather ashen-faced.)
But the bottom line is this: a probation officer's mere accusation is usually enough to cause a supervisee to be incarcerated for a few months.
Paul Lemmen's Choice
This is the context for the dilemma facing Paul Lemmen.
Paul knew that the accusation was bogus. He believed he had not committed defamation on his blog. I've read it; I think he's right — he offers opinion or facts supported by evidence. He knew that his terms of supervised release didn't even purport to prohibit defamation in the first place. (Read them through the link above to his judgment if you doubt it.) It's true that Florida has a criminal libel statute, but it is of highly dubious constitutionality and too narrow to be applicable to anything Lemmen said, unless Kimberlin is secretly either a bank or a very successful cross-dresser. There is no lawful, rational theory on which Paul Lemmen could be found in violation of his supervised release for blogging about Brett Kimberlin.
But Paul Lemmen knows enough about the system to know that legal merit doesn't matter much, at least in the short- and mid-term. If his probation officer saw fit to accuse him, in all likelihood he'd be arrested, sit in jail for a while before a hurried appearance in Florida, take a trip on Con Air, and wait a month or two in hopes that the U.S. District Judge hearing his revocation would understand (and care about) the First Amendment. Paul Lemmen knew that because he was an ex-con, continuing to write about Brett Kimberlin meant very possibly going to jail for a while, whatever the right or wrong of it was.
This was no casual matter for him. Sure, incarceration isn't a casual matter for most of you reading this blog. But Paul has long-term severe health problems. Thanks to a criminal justice system with an approach to inmate health care that is somewhere between spiteful and amorally indifferent, incarceration in America can be a death sentence for someone with health problems. Sure, the U.S. Marshals would have gotten Paul Lemmen his medication — eventually, after a few layers of indifferent review, in generic form, in limited quantities, if the bureaucracy was working just right that week.
But even unjust incarceration, and the grave health risks that come with it, were not what was first on his mind. Paul Lemmen is the sole caregiver for his wife, who suffers from debilitating MS — and who suffered brutally during his prior imprisonment:
I was immediately worried for Barbara, my wife. Anyone who has read my blog, especially my prison stories series know the hell she went through while I was in prison. Her health is very bad and she requires someone (me) to help her dress, to bathe, she cannot cook as her neck and spine have been fused and she cannot look down at a stove or cutting board. She cannot drive and due to the short term memory deficit caused by her MS, she cannot remember what she has just done, so I must monitor her medications, etc. That was my prime worry!
What would you choose, under those circumstances? Would you keep blogging? Would you even want to?
I don't admire what Paul Lemmen has done in his criminal career. I'd be lying if I said I'd trust him in a position of responsibility based on that history. But I don't know what I'd do in his position. I talk a lot about standing up. But if I were facing what he faced, I fear that I might just fold like a cheap lawn chair.
Paul Lemmen hasn't. Paul Lemmen isn't.
Standing Up For What's Left.
Paul is not backing down. Rather, Paul is standing up.
I asked Paul Lemmen why he'd insist, at this potential cost, on continuing to write posts on a modest blog, posts that very few people were likely to read. Here's what he said:
Because I firmly believe in the words and concepts formulated by our Founders. That just because, in my stupidity I threw away my 2nd amendment rights as well as my right to vote, I have not lessened the attendant obligations nor the rest of the obligations of a citizen, prime among them to my mind, is the obligation to speak out in the public square when I believe that our government is doing wrong. To advocate and participate in our political dialog, on the local, state and national level. My restriction is only the inability to vote, all the other obligations of a citizen are intact.
I asked Paul Lemmen what he felt he had to bring to the discussion of Kimberlin, and why he thought it was important that his voice be heard.
I believe that as a career con-artist, I have quite a bit of insight into what he is doing. . . . [I believe it is] necessary to show up the differences between myself, an ex-con that has accepted responsibility for his crimes and Brett Kimberlin, someone who has not, who has in fact, avoided his responsibilities as he has avoided paying the civil judgment levied against him. I feel that if there is to be future acceptance of ex-cons that have made the very difficult decision to adhere to the lawful conduct expected by society, those who resist in their unlawful conduct must be exposed and the public made aware of them.
And so Paul Lemmen will continue to write.
Paul's willing to continue to write because people have convinced him that he's not alone in standing up. When he reached out to me, and I put up the Popehat signal seeking appropriate counsel for him, I received many responses and offers of support. Many were from lawyers in different areas of practice who just wanted to do what they could. Lawyers from the First Amendment Lawyers Association — which I recently joined thanks to the sponsorship of a friend — offered their support. Finally I was able to connect Paul with a formidable attorney to advise him — a consummately qualified federal criminal practitioner in his area. Those people will stand up and help Paul Lemmen come what may. If the U.S. Probation Office seeks to violate him based on protected First Amendment activities, I can guarantee that the decision-makers will be subjected to massive scrutiny.
I've also had people offer help in making inquiries and referrals that could lead to appropriate authorities investigating Team Kimberlin's communications with U.S. Probation. I am curious about exactly what was said to probation in the complaint about Paul Lemmen, and whether the complaint involved any false statements of fact. The Feds abuse 18 U.S.C. section 1001 often enough; it would be nice to see them investigate a malevolent false statement that actually causes palpable harm. What with the recent related intimidation of bloggers attracting Congressional attention, it may even happen.
Paul is not alone.
Closing Thoughts
1. It could happen to you. You're thinking "I'm not an ex-con, it's can't happen to me." You're not an ex-con. But you can be sued in a bogus defamation case that can lead to your financial ruin — possibly by a plaintiff who will forum-shop for a state without an anti-SLAPP statute. You can be subjected to a bogus "peace order" approved by an indifferent judiciary, like Aaron Walker was. You can have your family's home address published and photographed to those hostile to you, like Ali Akbar. You can be SWATted, like some bloggers have been in incidents that may be related to Team Kimberlin. They can get to you. Perhaps you're thinking, "no, not me, I don't blog about controversial public issues." But politics is merely the current venue for the Kimberlin sociopathy and its various opening acts. Angry, crazy, narcissistic, vengeful people will pursue you for any reason or for none. When they do, you'll need to ask yourself —what have I done to stand up for people in this situation?
2. The dilemma of partisanship: I remain convinced that it is a mistake to treat the struggle against Team Kimberlin as a partisan issue. It's an illustration of the failures of a system that could be manipulated against anyone, and an occasion for support of fundamental First Amendment values that protect us all. Treating it as a conservative vs. liberal issue marginalizes it and makes it easy to dismiss. My view has been met with some genuine support, some lip service, and some open scorn.
But even I must admit that partisanship has its value. It's unlikely that members of Congress would be paying attention to this — and hopefully producing results — without the partisan angle. Similarly, the partisan spark has led to many people considering issues of freedom of expression and due process that they might otherwise dismiss as "liberal."
In that vein, I hope that the story of Team Kimberlin and Paul Lemmen will lead people to consider criminal justice issues that they might otherwise ignore. Most people hearing about the SWAtting of conservative bloggers seem to understand immediately how it puts the lives of the bloggers and their families at risk. I hope that instinct — that recognition — might lead people to be more open to hard questions about police use of force and police over-militarization. Similarly, I think that people will be appalled by the injustice that Paul Lemmen faces — but I hope that will then be more open to criticism of a system in which government misconduct usually goes unpunished. I hope that some people will question, a bit more, the odd worldview that government actors are obviously not to be trusted when armed with regulatory powers, but somehow very much to be trusted when armed with guns, badges, and the power to levy criminal accusations.
3. What distinguishes one ex-con from another? Why, you might ask, do I see ex-con Paul Lemmen as sympathetic, but not ex-con Brett Kimberlin? Well, if you have to ask . . . when Paul Lemmen's lies and fantasies were revealed and people on the internet lambasted him, he didn't publish his critics' addresses, file bogus restraining orders against them, seek criminal charges against them, or otherwise abuse them. He accepts responsibility for what he did. Is it possible that Brett Kimberlin has been subjected to injustice and unfairness at some point of the criminal proceedings against him? Certainly. But thousands of people aren't talking about him this month because he's a convict — they're talking about him because he's engaged in contemptible and fundamentally un-American lawfare against people who talked about him being a convict.
4. What can you do? If you've been reading this series of posts, I hope that you want to do something in some small way. You can, whoever you are. You can help tell the story on blogs and forums and social media, especially when victims need pro bono help. You can learn about, and support, stronger anti-SLAPP laws to make lawfare-through-defamation-suits more difficult. If you're an attorney, you can offer pro bono services — even the willingness to be local counsel is a huge help. You can help promote pro-free-speech attitudes by defending the rights of opinions you despise, and calling out lawfare and retaliation when "your side" uses it.
5. Be vigilant: Never forget — we are dealing with people who want Aaron Walker and Paul Lemmen to go to jail for criticizing them.
A lawyer's note: when Paul Lemmen sought my help, I determined that my best role would be securing local counsel for him. I have not revealed any confidential communications from when he first consulted me, and have only repeated what he told me during a subsequent interview he gave me for the express purpose of telling his story.
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Lindsay Lohan hasn't talked to her father, Michael Lohan, for some time, and the actress has turned to Access Hollywood to speak out against her big-mouthed dad.
Lindsay says she's tired of Michael publicly commenting on her mom Dina, sister Ali, and friend Samantha Ronson, and finds it unfortunate that he turns to the media to get attention.
"He's out of control," she told Access from the set of "Ugly Betty," where she's filming several guest appearances for the ABC show's third season.
"I want him to stop hurting and talking to the media about the people I love," she said.
In an interview with E! on Tuesday, Michael said Samantha was "using" his daughter after hearing rumors that the DJ might be writing a tell-all book.
"I've shut up about this long enough," Michael told E! "She's using my daughter. People never even knew who Samantha Ronson was until she met Lindsay. She was just some L.A. DJ. And now she's writing a book? I am at wit's end with this stuff. This is not in Lindsay's best interest."
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text: Working on the DOM code this weekend, I realized that quite a few things will be broken by going to the most recent draft. How important is backwards compatibility with the current DOM code? I'm not sure how much existing DOM code is out there that will be broken by incompatible changes, because I'm not sure if people were seriously using it or not. So if you're using the current DOM code for something, please let me know so I can gauge how important compatibility is. Thanks! -- A.M. Kuchling http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/ And as soon as he was sure that he was dead, he got up and shook himself, and looked around, and there waiting for him on the bed was his wife, with long claws out, and her eyes blazing like a green cat ready to spring. -- Magda's story, in SANDMAN #62: "The Kindly Ones:6"


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TRACTOR thieves were stopped in their tracks by badgers on Wednesday.
The thieves took the tractor and drove it through a fence before it got stuck in a badger sett on land between Chitterne and Tishead, where they abandoned it.
The incident came after an attempted theft of another tractor, valued at £15,000, from a farm in Shrewton last Monday, January 14.
The vehicle was driven to another part of the farm before the thieves were disturbed by the farmer. Wiltshire Police's Rural Crime Team is urging people to take security measures following a spate of similar incidents in south Wiltshire in the last few weeks.
Inspector Christian Lange said: "These offences can have a significant impact on farmers who are often unable to carry on with their work without the tractors and have to deal with costs to replacing this very expensive equipment."
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Source: Nana Yaw Wiredu – 18newspaper
New sensational hip life artiste 'Dadua' known in real life as Ismael Numan has added his voice to the peace campaign for elections 2012 coming up this weekend.
According to the artiste, He waited till this time simply because he wants to be the final remembrance message to the people of Ghana, telling them of how importance peace is in our country.
'Dadua' who is signed to Naf Entertainment an Accra base record label also disclosed that even though he could not release a peace song, he is very optimistic that the good people of Ghana will adhere to his humbly peace appeal he has brought before them as an artiste.
In a message from his record label, Naf Entertainment also noted that their artiste who is a product of the Ghettos in the country has worked had to get to where he is hence he deems it necessary to encourage his fellow young ones from the streets to give peace a chance if they want to get to the level Allah has brought him.
In Dadua's final message, he also mentioned that each and every day he prays to Allah for wisdom on behalf of our leaders and he knows; who ever Allah has chosen will definitely unite the country more than divide us.
He maintained that Ghana is more than a peaceful country hence we should be able as one people to guarantee ourselves peace before, during and after elections.
Dadua who has a new single and video ready to be released after the elections was grateful to his management team Naf Entertainment for all their support and hopes Allah will continue to bless us all.
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text: The Massachusetts State Police bomb squad exploded a pipe bomb Saturday on the Brant Rock Esplanade in Marshfield, State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan said. Someone reported a "suspicious object" in the 250 block of Ocean Streetshortly before 5 p.m., and Coan said the bomb squad identified the object as a pipe bomb. "It was so sensitive to shock that it went off and functioned as a pipe bomb is designed to, to set off and cause damage," he said. There were no injuries or property damage, and an evacuation order had been lifted as of about 7:15 p.m. The incident is not believed to be related to the pipe bomb found in Worcester Friday, Coan said. The state fire marshal's office and Marshfield Police were investigating.Anne Steele can be reached at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @AnneMarieSteele. Globe correspondent Gal Tziperman Lotan contributed to this report.


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It became apparent once again that the members of the International Christian Maritime Association (ICMA) benefit from our Association when individual members share expertise and publicly support one another's goals.
Commodore David Dickens (The Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishers), Alexander Campbell (Queen Victoria Seamen's Rest) and Reverend Hennie la Grange (outgoing general secretary of ICMA) met at the QVSR in East London on Friday.
From the meeting it was clear that funding was increasingly difficult to find. While funders have changed their funding priorities and have developed application procedures to ensure diligent grant giving, it has become tougher to get money for crucial services and emergency response. It was floated that, perhaps, the changing needs of the welfare sector have not been recognised or understood by our traditional supporters.
While funders were reluctant to support hostel-style accommodation in London, the QVSR boasted 99% occupation levels each year. QVSR's longer term residents from maritime backgrounds tended to resist being re-housed in council-supported private accommodation, as they needed the maritime feel of the Rest and its sense of community. Years at sea have severed their links to onshore community life, and that is what the Seamen's Rest is able to provide.
Similarly the Fisherman's Mission has deepening concern for foreign seafarers working in fishing. Recent incidents of foreign sailors incarcerated for being in the UK illegally, abandoned here due to failed contracts (a recent case highlighted by AOS GB), and of families abroad left destitute after loss of a fisher's life, strengthens the Fishers Mission's resolve to use the ICMA network internationally to reach these families, and to roll out assistance to international seafarers.
The leaders of RNMDSF and QVSR came away from the meeting committed to helping one another in matters of faith and resolved to collaborate on matters ofmutual interest.


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On 09/21/2011 11:43 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
On 09/21/2011 12:49 PM, Daniel Kauffman wrote:... for serving Adobe socket policy files.What's that? How do you make them?
Adobe Flash Player (since version 126.96.36.199) will not open a socket connection to a server unless the server first authorizes the connection via an Adobe socket policy. This module serves these policies. (Adobe uses a non-standard protocol for serving these policies, hence the existence of this module.)
Adobe socket policies are configured using XML. A selection of pre-configured socket policies are available in:
/usr/share/libapache2-mod-socket-policy-server/socket-policy/And more information about socket policies in particular, and cross domain policies in general, is available from the Adobe Cross Domain Policy File Specification:
https://www.adobe.com/devnet/articles/crossdomain_policy_file_spec.html Other useful links discussing Adobe socket policies: https://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/socket_policy_files.html https://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer9_security.html
The package is ready for sponsorship and can be downloaded from: http://socketpolicyserver.com
The updated package is ready for download.
1/ The package is a native package, which isn't required for an Apache module IMO. Please read about it in the Debian policy manual.
There is no upstream, so it seemed appropriate to create a native package... is that incorrect? I didn't see a reference to quilt in the Debian Policy Manual and the Debian New Maintainers' Guide section 2.9 seems to suggest that a native package is ok where there is no upstream. The native format seems a little simpler. But if I'm missing something, and the quilt format is preferable, I can switch to that.
2/ The package has apache2-threaded-dev as Build-Depends, any reason why it wouldn't work with apache2-prefork-dev also? Also, having a binary package with "apache2 | apache2-mpm" seems strange to me.
I agree, both of those seemed a little odd to me as well. I had referenced the instructions on:
http://wiki.debian.org/Apache/PackagingModulesAnd it seems that building against the threaded headers results in a module that works with both threaded and non-threaded versions of apache2. In my case, I built the module against apache2-threaded-dev and have no issues running the module with either apache2-mpm-worker or apache2-mpm-prefork.
The binary dependency on "apache2 | apache2-mpm" was from those same instructions. Some apache2 modules use this construct, and some don't. All four of the apache2-mpm-* packages provide both names. I'm not sure what the reasoning is behind this, though it is interesting that apache2 is a package and apache2-mpm is a virtual package. Perhaps this is some sort of historical artifact?
3/ It'd be nice to use the DEP5 format for debian/copyright. Please see http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/. It's still a candidate, so it's not a requirement though.
Updated, no problem.
4/ Your Standards-Version: isn't up-to-date. Did you build the package in SID and ran lintian there?
Reviewed checklist and updated Standards-Version. Re-built using pbuilder sid and checked using lintian from backports. No issues.
I: libapache2-mod-socket-policy-server: extended-description-is-probably-too-short You don't need the last dot at the end, but you do need a longer extended description. Lintian complains with less than 2 lines, but I think at least 10 lines sounds reasonable. By reading what you wrote, I still don't understand what your package is doing. :)
The description is now longer. Hopefully, it is also more descriptive. :-)
5/ Your debian/README explains how to use apt-get, that we can edit the config file of the module, and how to restart apache. I don't think you should do that, it's not helpful, but there might be other things you want to document (like what to put in the socket policy file for example?).
I updated the README to be a duplicate of the (new) description from the control file (including links describing the socket policy file format), plus a description of the configuration directives and a description of how to test that the module is configured as expected. Anything else come to mind that might be helpful here?
6/ Your package configures a VirtualHost in a /etc/apache2/conf.d file, don't you think it would be nicer in /etc/apache2/sites-available? If not, please explain here why.
True, VirtualHost doesn't really belong there. Not sure how I missed that. However, instead of moving the configuration, I removed the VirtualHost declaration, so that the default configuration is now a global configuration. None of the apache2 modules in the repository touch /etc/apache2/sites-available -- IMO the sites-available directory is more appropriate for something like a web application.
I hope the above helps,
It does, thank you.
Thanks for your will to contribute to Debian, Thomas
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I have been a food addict all my life. I am obese and 53 years old with T2 and high blood pressure, cholesteral, etc. If something doesn't change I am not going to last much longer, but how do I change over 50 years of bad behavior?
I thought if I came in here and got to know some people and spent some time in a cyber-community that focuses on a healthy life-style of getting diabetes under control and keeping it there, maybe something will rub off and make a difference.
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We hate to see anyone left out, particularly when there's cake involved.
So you pitched in to make sure Barbara Quartero can include her little granddaughters in an upcoming graduation celebration. Quartero, of Antioch, asked for cake recipes that don't include eggs or nuts. You offered a number of alternatives, ranging from cupcakes found in a favorite vegan cookbook to classic make-do recipes dating from eras when bakers learned to manage with shortages and rationing.
Of course, whether we're adjusting a recipe to accommodate allergies or simply because we don't want to run to the store for eggs, we also don't want to feel like we've compromised the end product. We want to enjoy our cake without noticing what it's missing. Plates readers assure Quartero their recipes won't seem like a sacrifice.
Sami Perkins offered the vegan golden vanilla cupcake recipe from "Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World" by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero. "I highly recommend the book, as it has many creative and delicious cupcake recipes," Perkins says. The vanilla cupcakes have become a go-to recipe.
"These cupcakes stand on their own merits and don't taste like you made sacrifices to leave out the eggs," says Perkins, who also likes the basic chocolate cupcake recipe in the cookbook. "In fact, I often use these recipes instead of regular cupcakes, because they are light and fluffy and very flavorful." Also, they don't require special ingredients. "There are times when I have run out of eggs, and these come in very handy. If you don't have any issues with dairy, then you can use regular milk in place of the soy milk."
Please note the recipe includes slightly different instructions, depending on whether you use margarine or canola oil. I'm sure you can substitute butter for the margarine and follow the mixing instructions for margarine. You can also vary the flavor a bit by using almond or caramel extract.
Several Plates readers sent a vintage recipe for wacky or crazy chocolate cake. The cake doesn't call for milk, butter or eggs. Most of us could assemble it out of the pantry if we had one of those late-night wish-I-had-some-chocolate cravings.
"I found this recipe online last year when I was cooking for a friend whose household had special dietary needs," Debbie E. says. "The cake tastes good and was a hit with my friend's children."
If, heaven forbid, you don't want a chocolate cake, you can leave the cocoa powder out. Reading several versions of this recipe, which some folks think dates to the Depression, I noted that the instructions have changed as the recipe passed from kitchen to kitchen. Some recipes now call for a greased, floured pan, while others say to leave the pan alone. Baking times vary. So, you may need to experiment a bit and watch the cake more carefully your first time. Never fear, though, because this is a very forgiving recipe, often a first-cake recipe for novice bakers. The recipe makes a moist cake that can be frosted or served on its own.
When Dona Dickie, of Livermore, was living in Germany back in the '70s, a German friend shared cake recipes she'd used during wartime, when shortages were rampant. Made in a Bundt pan, eggless apple cake includes plenty of apples and golden raisins. Apple juice and brown sugar sweeten the cake, which is spiced with cinnamon and cloves. Dickie tops the cake with cream cheese frosting.
"This is a pretty cake!" she says.
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A PFE colleague presented the following scenario and asked for the justification of what seemed to be, a priori, something inexplicable. The story was like this:
When I check the memory allocation using memory nodes and memory clerks DMVs the total amount of committed VM reported is a bit different. I can see similar difference around reserved VAS.
select memory_node_id as node,
virtual_address_space_committed_kb/(1024) as VirtualMemoryCommittedMB,
single_pages_kb/(1024) as SinglePagesMB,
multi_pages_kb/(1024) as MultiPagesMB,
locked_page_allocations_kb/(1024) as AWEPagesMB,
shared_memory_committed_kb/(1024) as SharedMemoryMB,
virtual_address_space_reserved_kb/(1024) as VAS_reserved_mb
from sys.dm_os_memory_nodes
where memory_node_id != 64
memory_node_id as node,
SUM(virtual_memory_committed_kb)/1024 AS VirtualMemoryCommittedMB,
SUM(single_pages_kb)/1024 AS SinglePagesMB,
SUM(multi_pages_kb)/1024 AS MultiPagesMB,
SUM(awe_allocated_kb)/1024 AS AWEPagesMB,
SUM(shared_memory_committed_kb)/1024 AS SharedMemoryMB,
SUM(virtual_memory_reserved_kb)/1024 AS VAS_reserved_mb
FROM sys.dm_os_memory_clerks
WHERE memory_node_id != 64
GROUP BY memory_node_id
The results are as follows:
Does anyone know the reason? Are there any allocation not done through the clerks?
The real reason (based on what I read in the code, not based in my guessing or anything I've found from any esoteric source available in the Wild Wide Web ) why those values do not match is the following:
sys.dm_os_memory_nodes exposes aggregated commitment at the node level, regardless of the clerk that may have interfaced (and accounted for) the allocation.
Whereas sys.dm_os_memory_clerks exposes commitment at the clerk level BUT (and here comes the important part that justifies the difference), the enumerator it uses to scan the list of clerks only exposes those of type 1 only (TYPE_MEMORYCLERK) and not those of types 2, 3, and 4 (TYPE_CACHESTORE, TYPE_USERSTORE, and TYPE_OBJECTSTORE).
Therefore, whatever charge any clerk of those three last types has put on any memory node is visible through the sys.dm_os_memory_nodes, but not through the sys.dm_os_memory_clerks.
What I refer to type 1 (TYPE_MEMORYCLERK) in this post is what Slava referred to as "generic" memory clerks in the Memory Clerks section of his SQLOS's memory manager and SQL Server's Buffer Pool post.


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The front garden has been laid with block paving which provides car parking for two large vehicles as well as access to the garage. There is gated side access to the landscaped rear garden.
The spacious reception hall provides an ideal introduction to the living space with wood flooring and part glazed double doors to the kitchen & sitting room. There is a cloakroom W.C with small corner wash hand basin.
The sitting room is immaculately presented with a neutral colour scheme and the focal point is the big, bright bay window that invites the afternoon sunshine. This room is subtly lit by numerous strategically placed down lights which could easily be used to draw attention to your display artwork or family portraits. There is an under stairs storage cupboard.
The truly impressive open plan kitchen/ dining/ family room is surely where the family will congregate there is a television point near the patio doors so there is scope for use as a family room. The space is designed in such a way that kids can complete their home-work; on time, at the dining table or play in the garden with a vigilant parent keeping half an eye upon them. There is a central island in the kitchen area which as well as concealing a microwave oven, provides discreet storage for cooking wine or olive oil. The matching base & eye level units include the expected cupboards & drawers. Integral appliances include dishwasher & fridge/ freezer. We must draw your attention to the Silestone work surfaces. Silestone is a partially man made material that provides a more consistent pattern and enables a wider range of colour choices than Granite for example. The utility room accommodates the washing machine as well as providing access to the integral garage.
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Washington, DC Welcomes Delta Sigma Theta Sorority's 51st National Convention and Centennial Celebration
National Convention Expected to Generate More Than $73.7 Million in Economic Impact for the City
(Washington, DC) – Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the single largest African American women's organization in the country, will convene in the nation's capital for their 51st National Convention, July 11 – 17. Attracting nearly 40,000 members, the week-long convention is expected to generate more than $73.7 million to the local economy. Founded on January 13, 1913, Delta Sigma Theta is also celebrating its 100th anniversary throughout the year, which commenced on New Year's Day then continued in Washington, DC with a Founder's Day Weekend event.
"As Washingtonians, we couldn't be more proud that this impressive organization was founded right here in our city – at Howard University - 100 years ago and has since grown to more than 200,000 members and 900 chapters worldwide," said Elliott L. Ferguson, president and CEO of Destination DC. "We are pleased to welcome Delta Sigma Theta back to DC to experience all of the great hotels, restaurants, attractions and amenities that make DC a powerful convention destination."
Delegates will participate in various activities throughout DC, including a 5K Health Walk on the National Mall and a special torch ceremony welcome event at the Lincoln Memorial. Wearing their official colors, crimson and cream, the Deltas will attend various luncheons and special events across town as well as business sessions at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Their presence will impact every part of the hospitality sector throughout the city in restaurants, attractions, retail and transportation.
"We look forward to once again opening our doors at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center to welcome nearly 40,000 women of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority," said Gregory A. O'Dell, president and CEO of Events DC. "This is a significant event for the Convention Center as it will serve as the heart of festivities during their week-long celebration, and our team at Events DC has worked tirelessly to provide a memorable celebration for the women of Delta during their National Convention and Centennial Celebration."
"The women of Delta Sigma Theta are excited to return 'home' to Washington, DC," said Cynthia M. A. Butler-McIntyre, National President of Delta Sigma Theta. "We could not aptly celebrate 100 years of sisterhood, scholarship and service without coming back to the very foundation of our organization. The District of Columbia will always have a special place in the hearts of Deltas around the world. We thank the entire city for opening their arms to us once again."
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (DST) is a private, non-profit organization whose purpose is to provide assistance and support through established programs in local communities throughout the world. A sisterhood of more than 200,000 predominantly black college-educated women, the Sorority currently has over 900 chapters located in the United States, England, Japan, Germany, the Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Jamaica and the Republic of Korea.
For more information, please visit www.deltasigmatheta.org.
About Destination DC
Destination DC, the lead destination marketing organization for the nation's capital, is a private, non-profit membership organization of more than 800 businesses committed to marketing the area as a premier global convention, tourism and special events destination with a special emphasis on the arts, cultural and historic communities. washington.org
About Events DC
Events DC, the official convention and sports authority for the District of Columbia, deliver premier event services and flexible venues across the nation's capital. Leveraging the power of a world-class destination and creating amazing attendee experiences, Events DC generates economic and community benefits through the attraction and promotion of business, athletic, entertainment and cultural activities. Events DC oversees the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, an anchor of the District's hospitality and tourism economy that generates over $400 million annually in total economic impact, and the historic Carnegie Library at Mt. Vernon Square. Events DC manages the Stadium-Armory campus, which includes Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium and surrounding Festival Grounds, the non-military functions of the DC Armory and Maloof Skate Park at RFK Stadium. Events DC also built and now serves as landlord for Nationals Park, the first LEED-certified major professional sports stadium in the United States. For more information, please visit eventsdc.com.


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I have an elmo cake coming up and I'd like to use a large sized grass tip to make his fur. What's the largest size grass tip that I can buy? And where can I get it? TIA!
I used a small grass tip on a monster cake recently and my hand was aching afterwards. It took me forever! I know there's a larger grass tip out there, I just need to find it! Thanks though
I've done Elmo cupcakes before and used tip 233. I pulled up the multi-opening tips listing on the Wilton website, and you might be able to use 234, but the openings are more square than round.
I made an Elmo cake...below:
and I used a triple star tip to achieve the look of Elmo's fur


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Happy Yess is a DIY music venue that exists to support local original Darwin music and art.
It is a not-for-profit arts organisation that only hosts original bands and runs on love from the dedicated crew of members, artists and volunteers.
Created in 2006 to champion the underground, Happy Yess provides a place for bands and artists of all genres to grow and experiment. located in the beautiful brown's mart precinct, it's a great place to meet and enjoy live music in a friendly, drama-free environment.
FRI & SAT 9pm - 1am
12 Smith Street, Darwin
(inside Brown's Mart,
opposite the bus terminal)
become a member
2017 Happy Yess Membership is only $10 and gives you:
- discounted entry to selected gigs throughout the year
- free entry to Happy Yess members events
- a Happy Yess membership keyring to show off your support for local live music and weirdness
Join at the door of any Happy Yess gig, or save some time by filling out the form here! Next time you're at Happy Yess you can pay your $10 and collect your membership keyring.


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Aliens make first contact at Myrtle Beach UFO exhibit
Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:15:35 GMT —
When it comes to UFOs, many people think "the truth is out there". Now, that belief has come in for a landing at a new attraction in Myrtle Beach.
Luke Skywalker couldn't make it, but a Star Wars-like alien rock band was there for Thursday's media tour of Encounters: UFO Experience at Broadway at the Beach.
Its creator claims the exhibit is the first of its kind anywhere, sort of an alien assortment of things out-of-this-worldish.
"We've basically put a collection of all of the exhibitions, all the museums that have been out there, all the information and put it into a crash course, if you will, of ufology," said Brian Bouquet, president of Intergalactic Brands.
From alleged evidence of ancient aliens, to props from science fiction movies, Encounters aims for a mish-mash of the fanciful and the clinical.
For the purposes of the media tour, the science part was provided by physicist and well-known UFO researcher Stanton Friedman.
In books and lectures, Friedman has often made the case for the existence of flying saucers. He says one of the most convincing examples on record is the radar tracking of a UFO in 1957.
"The characteristics and the appearance and the extraordinary flying behavior, we'd give anything to have a vehicle that could duplicate that, so it's a very solid case," Friedman said.
So will human beings who plunk down their earthly cash to visit Encounters: UFO Experience walk away convinced about the existence of extraterrestrials?
"I want them to come out of here saying, 'There's a lot of evidence there that has either been covered up or I haven't paid attention to it. Now I believe in it'," Bouquet said.
Bouquet says Encounters was supposed to open Thursday, but some artifacts weren't delivered on time, so the opening has been pushed back to Saturday, April 6.
Click here to see what Stanton Friedman says is the most convincing evidence of the existence of flying saucers.


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The Cold War lovers' tale appeared last week in a book that has captivated Germans. Regina Kaiser was arrested in 1981 for writing reports on East German life for a West German organisation, the kind of activity that usually led to long jail sentences.
Uwe Karlstedt was the ambitious young Stasi officer charged with interrogating her and compiling the report that would send her to prison.
Regina, then 31, feared the worst when, on 6 April 1981, she was arrested at her flat in the Köpenick area of Berlin and taken to the notorious Hohenschoen hausen Stasi headquarters for questioning.
But the 26-year-old, tall, blond, junior officer distractedly asking the questions was not the terrifying torturer she had expected.
'Astoundingly enough and despite everything, he was not despicable and not unattractive,' she thought later while waiting for the next interrogation.
'I always thought the Stasi had to be cunning. But the situation did not live up to my fears of psychological terror. The isolation and the humiliation of imprisonment was oppressive. But the interrogation - I looked forward to it.'
He describes his first impression thus: 'Fragile, charming and with open, smart eyes, a slim, boyish figure with long, almost black hair and absolutely my type.'
Their roles meant both had to hide their feelings while facing each other during two months of interrogation, but she kept scribbling the numbers 11 and 12 on a scrap of paper.
Eventually, in the hope that they might be a coded message, he asked her what the numbers meant. The 11 was the number of letters in ' Du bist schön ' (You are beautiful), while 12 meant ' Ich liebe dich ' (I love you).
But while the two shared furtive kisses, he would not betray his principles or risk his career to save her and she was jailed for three years.
At the end of her sentence, Regina was sent across the border to West Germany and was later reunited with her husband, also a dissident jailed in East Germany.
Uwe continued his career in the Stasi through the 1980s and rose to the rank of major before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, when he started working as an accountant, married and had two children.
Regina worked as a tour guide at the Stasi building where she had been interrogated by Uwe and decided to find him to see whether what they had both once felt had been real.
She phoned first, but he said he did not know what she was talking about, kicking himself as soon as he hung up, terrified she would not call again.
But she wrote and asked to meet, which, on 13 November 1997, they did, meeting outside the interrogation headquarters.
'I was excited like a schoolboy,' said Uwe. 'My heart was in my mouth.'
They could not speak at first and drove in silence to a café. 'In the middle of the café, he suddenly took me in his arms and kissed me,' said Regina.
Within months, Regina separated from her then partner, Uwe left his wife and family and they moved into a flat together.
He says now he regrets putting party and career above his feelings. 'Today I would say that comrade Karlstedt failed in humanity.
Last week the couple published their story in a book called 12 Means I Love You , telling their tale of star-crossed lovers who seem to have created a happy ending.


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Screen captures of the movie "Mr. Art Critic" (2007).
Screencaps made by Silver Fang. Thanks!
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This is one of my favorite films. Only Bronson could make such a mean and selfish character so loveable at the same time. Bronnie baby you totally rock.
People magazine please take note: BRONSON PINCHOT SEXIEST MAN ALIVE!


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I still don't get why Coach would care one whit where Ozzy or anyone else sleeps? Unless they were kicking him out of a plum spot, then let them sleep on the ground with the bugs! Just weird, how he seemed so incensed by the whole idea. :shrug
I *do* like Ozzy. Well, let me clarify...I like Ozzy v.1 from the first season. This one? Not that much. He's not the brightest bulb in the box, but he's so awesome at actual 'surviving' and in challenges that I enjoy watching him for that reason. He's not great at playing the game though.


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Four editors arrested
June 28, 2005
Four editors arrested
The Ethiopian Government arrested:
1. Befekadu Moreda, Tomar newspaper
2. Zelalem Gebre, Menilik newspaper
3. Dawit Fassil, Asqual newspaper
4. Tamrat Serbesa, Satenaw newspaper
today, 28 June 2005 at 11:00 local time.
The Ethiopian Free press Journalists' Association (EFJA) has been
quite worried about these recent unwelcome development.
We call on all the Ethiopian people, International press institutions
and International friends of the free press to closely follow the great danger hovering over the free press and the measures that could be taken to challenge its very existence.
The Ethiopian Free Press Journalists' Association (EFJA)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Kifle Mulat
President, EFJA
Tel/fax: + 251 1 22 21 07/ Mobile: + 251 9 22 29 39
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com
The Ethiopian Free Press Journalists' Association (EFJA) would keep
you all informed on the latest developments on this and other matter.