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Residents of an Illinois community were shocked to see a hot air balloon make an emergency landing on a neighborhood front lawn.
The pilot made an impromptu landing in Lake in the Hills on Wednesday after one of his five passengers lost consciousness, Al Schlick, the deputy chief of Huntley Fire Protection District, told CNN.
The balloon had been in the air for nearly an hour when an 80-year-old woman passenger started to feel light-headed.
"We looked out our window and here comes the hot air balloon, like right between the homes here. And then they were waving at us and we're waving, like, 'We don't know, this is awfully close'," a homeowner who caught the incident on her surveillance camera told CNN affiliate KVEO-TV.
The balloon landed safely and the passenger regained consciousness. She was examined by paramedics, but refused to go to a hospital, Schlick said.
"The pilot did a fantastic job landing it right between two houses with the help of his ground crew that was following them around. That took some incredible skill," he added.
"Hot air balloons aren't uncommon in this part of the country, but in my past 33 years in the fire service, this was the first time I've seen a medical emergency in a hot air balloon, let alone seeing it land in a residential neighborhood."
All of the passengers were evacuated from the balloon before it took to the air again.


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They lost their jobs, their careers, even their apartments in the Internet bust. But the final insult for many Web workers is learning that somewhere in the churn of e-mail addresses and phone numbers from the dot-com bust, they've lost their personal domains as well.
For many with stalled careers, a personal domain is a lifeboat for identity and self-esteem.
Computer scientist Scott Draves was laid off from his engineering job. Even the ISP that handled his personal e-mail had shut down. But Draves took heart that his personal programming project, the Electric Sheep screensaver, was doing well.
The software, which uses desktops to crunch animated fractals in the manner of SETI@Home, ships as part of most Linux distributions. The program's arresting graphics have appeared in Wired magazine and were selected for display at this week's 11th annual International Symposium on Electronic Art in Nagoya, Japan.
But shortly before ISEA began, Draves learned that someone else had revived his old e-mail address and used it to send a request to Network Solutions, changing electricsheep.org's administrative contact from Draves to a new name, address and phone number. The new administrative contact then transferred the domain to another registrar, and then to another in France, listing a fake address and phone number for contact.
"It's so frustrating," Draves said.
He claimed he opened a fraud report with Network Solutions this week, but added, "My initial discussion was not promising. They told me they didn't have any record of my ever owning electricsheep.org."
A representative for VeriSign, which owns Network Solutions, said it was company policy not to comment on specific cases.
Getting back a lost domain can be difficult, especially after it's been transferred to another registrar. "Every week they can't find anything, they're looking into it, they'll get back to me," Leslie Harpold said of the registrar she claimed erroneously transferred her Hoopla.com domain to someone else earlier this year.
More often, domain owners say they have only themselves to blame. Amid changing jobs, addresses and ISPs, they lost track of things until it was too late.
Business 2.0 reporter Owen Thomas said a Chinese firm snapped up the ditherati.com domain for his 5-year-old daily newsletter after it expired without his realization.
"I had assumed that Dotster had used my default contact information, but they took my old e-mail address from my Network Solutions registration," Thomas said.
As a result, his renewal notice went to an address he said he had "black-holed," meaning all e-mail to it was deleted as spam.
Spokespeople for several registrars claimed to follow procedures set by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers for validation of transfer and contact change requests.
To prevent fraudulent transfers, registrants can set up encrypted passwords or PGP keys to authenticate themselves. Network Solutions offers two encryption options for verifying contacts, neither of which Draves had used on the administrative contact information for electricsheep.org.
The registrar's FAQ pages warn that their default authentication method "has an inherent shortcoming, because e-mail messages can be falsified to appear to come from you when they don't."
But ICANN director of communications Mary Hewitt said most lost domains are the result of inattention, not fraud. "Ninety percent of the time when people claim that (their domain has been stolen), they had missed the mail notifying them, or they failed to renew it," Hewitt said. "You should really mark your calendar."


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I was recently reported for calling Britain's heir to the throne "foolish and immoral."1 The quote happens to be correct; it comes from our new book titled More Good Than Harm? The Moral Maze of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.2 In it, the ethicist Kevin Smith and I discuss the many ethical issues around alternative medicine and essentially conclude that it is not possible to practice alternative medicine ethically.
The exact quote from our book relates to Charles's promotion in 2004 of something called the Gerson diet for cancer:
Despite the fact that they have attained their high positions merely through accidents of birth, monarchs undoubtedly have a good deal of influence over their "subjects." It is therefore inescapable that many cancer patients will have been given false hope by the utterances of Prince Charles. Accordingly, we consider his public support for unproven cancer treatments to be both foolish and immoral.
Charles's foolishness in respect to the promotion of quackery has, in my opinion, been demonstrated multiple times.3 His love affair with all things alternative started early in his life. As a teenager, Charles was taken by Laurence van der Post on a journey of "spiritual discovery" into the wilderness of northern Kenya. The fantasist van der Post wanted to attune Charles to the vitalistic ideas of Carl Jung, and it clearly is this belief in vitalism that provides the link to alternative medicine.
Throughout the 1980s, Charles lobbied for the statutory regulation of chiropractors and osteopaths in the United Kingdom. In 1993, this finally became reality. In 1982, Charles was elected as president of the British Medical Association (BMA). In his inauguration speech, the prince lectured the medics:
Through the centuries healing has been practised by folk healers who are guided by traditional wisdom which sees illness as a disorder of the whole person, involving not only the patient's body, but his mind, his self-image, his dependence on the physical and social environment, as well as his relation to the cosmos.
In 1993, Charles founded his Foundation for Integrated Health (FIH), which was closed in 2010 amid allegations of money laundering and fraud. In 2005, Charles commissioned the "Smallwood Report,"4 which stated that up to £480 million ($675 million) could be saved if one in ten family doctors offered homeopathy as an "alternative" to standard asthma treatments and that savings of up to £3.5 billion ($5 billion) could be achieved by offering spinal manipulation rather than drugs to people with back pain. To avert such nonsense from being implemented, I had publicly commented on this report before its publication. Prince Charles's first private secretary therefore asked the vice chancellor of my university to investigate my alleged indiscretion; even though I was found to be not guilty of any wrong-doing, all local support at Exeter stopped, which eventually led to my early retirement.
In a 2006 speech to the general assembly of the World Health Organization, Charles urged the delegates to globally integrate conventional and alternative medicine into the mainstream. In 2009, the prince told our Secretary of Health that "despite waves of invective over the years from parts of the medical and scientific establishment … I cannot bear people suffering unnecessarily when a complementary approach could make a real difference" and opposed "large and threatened cuts" in the funding of homeopathic hospitals. He also complained that referrals to the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital were sabotaged by "what seems to amount to a recent anti-homeopathic campaign" despite "the fact that these homeopathic hospitals deal with many patients with real health problems who otherwise would require treatment elsewhere, often at greater expense." In 2010, Charles even stated that he was proud to be perceived as "an enemy of the enlightenment." In the same year, former fellows of the FIH launched a new organization, the College of Medicine and Integrated Health, aimed at supporting the use of alternative treatments on the National Health Service. One director of the college is Michael Dixon, formerly medical director of the FIH.5 Charles's 2010 book Harmony is full of praise for even the most absurd forms of alternative therapies and bogus diagnostic tests.6
In 2011, Charles launched his Duchy Herbals Detox Tincture, which I publicly called the "Dodgy Originals Detox Tincture."7 In 2015, The Guardian obtained the infamous "black spider memos," which revealed that Charles had repeatedly lobbied politicians in favor of alternative medicine. In 2016, speaking at a global leaders' summit on antimicrobial resistance, Charles explained that he had switched to organic farming on his estates because of the growing threat from antibiotic resistance and now treats his cattle with homeopathic remedies rather than conventional medication.
So, is it unfair to call Charles "foolish and immoral"? The late Christopher Hitchens would probably have denied this question:
So this is where all the vapid talk about the "soul" of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hands of credulous herbivores who keep crystals by their sides and swoon over the poems of Khalil Gibran. The "vacuum" will be invaded instead by determined fundamentalists of every stripe who already know the truth by means of revelation and who actually seek real and serious power in the here and now. One thinks of the painstaking, cloud-dispelling labor of British scientists from Isaac Newton to Joseph Priestley to Charles Darwin to Ernest Rutherford to Alan Turing and Francis Crick, much of it built upon the shoulders of Galileo and Copernicus, only to see it casually slandered by a moral and intellectual weakling from the usurping House of Hanover. An awful embarrassment awaits the British if they do not declare for a republic based on verifiable laws and principles, both political and scientific.8
- www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/01/17/professor-reignites-war-prince-charles-homeopathy-support/
- https://www.amazon.co.uk/More-Harm-than-Good-Complementary-ebook/dp/B078ZQXQNP/
- edzardernst.com/2017/11/happy-birthday-your-royal-highness/
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1821425/
- https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/dr-michael-dixon-a-pyromaniac-in-a-field-of-integrative-straw-men/
- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Harmony-New-Way-Looking-World/dp/0007348037/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1384092482&sr=8-1&keywords=harmony+by+prince+charles
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1165495/Dodgy-Originals-This-remedy-Prince-Charless-company-like-liquid-sunshine.html
- https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/british-royal-family


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1 – So much for Super Bowl experience.
The "inexperienced" (in the Super Bowl, anyway) Packers spread the Steelers out, just like the Patriots did in their 39-26 victory over the Steelers during the regular season. But for a few key drops, the Packers easily could have scored 45 points.
2 – Turnovers (as often happens) were the key to the game.
With a 3-0 Packer edge in turnovers (two Roethlisberger picks, one Mendenhall fumble, which led to 21 Packer points), the Packers won the all-important turnover battle. Before the game, teams with three or more turnovers were 30-4 in the Super Bowl. After the game, they were 31-4. Great credit to the Steelers for even having a chance to win the game late in the fourth quarter.
3 – The best Fox catch of the day was showing (on tape) Kevin Greene, former Steelers great and now Packers outside linebackers coach, telling Clay Matthews III, present Packers outside linebacker great (who should have been the NFL Defensive Player of the Year), "it's time, it is time" to make a play.
This was as the teams were switching sides for the fourth quarter. On the next play, Matthews caused Rashard Mendenhall to fumble the ball, which led to the game-clinching Super Bowl touchdown. The Matthews family (father Clay, Jr., uncle Bruce and, now, Clay III) have a combined 40 years in the NFL. And, now, one Super Bowl victory.
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4 – Some receivers have no feel for the game. Late in the fourth quarter, with the Packers driving and trying to run out (or, at least, run down) the clock with a three-point lead, MVP Aaron Rodgers threw a sideline completion to James Jones for a first down.
If James falls down, the clock keeps ticking. If he lets himself get knocked out of bounds, the clock stops. He tries to gain an extra yard and gets knocked out of bounds. Not-very-smart football. When Tom Crabtree makes a diving one-yard catch on the next play, the clock keeps ticking (nobody in the booth understood how important that catch was, because (of course), if Crabtree doesn't catch it, the clock stops).
Conversely, when the Steelers, down six with less than two minutes left and only one timeout remaining, have QB Ben Roethlisberger, left with no other choice, throw a five-yard pass to Hines Ward and Ward has to leave his feet to make a nice catch in the field of play, what's the point of catching that ball? Refusing to use their final timeout, the clock ran down from 1:33 to 1:08, a colossal waste of time late in the game.
In this case, Hines should have dropped the pass and saved his team a precious 25 seconds. Nobody in the Fox booth (Joe Buck, Troy Aikman) understood the importance of any of these plays.
5 – Antwaan Randle El, returning to the Steelers this season but unable to win a starting job, got his chance after an injury to rookie Emmanuel Sanders and made the most of it. A pretty good NFL wide receiver, with only 22 catches in 16 games this season, Randle El caught two passes for 50 yards (including a 37-yarder that set up the Steelers first touchdown right before the half) and took an option pitch from Ben Roethlisberger to score an important two-point conversion. At 31, he can still play effectively in the NFL.
6 – The Dumbest Play of the Game Award goes to #57 on Green Bay, Keyaron Fox, who got an incredibly stupid personal foul penalty (half the distance to the goal line) on Pittsburgh's final possession.
Aggravated that he got pushed, Fox, in front of an official, committed the foul that moved the starting position of the Steelers final drive from their 26 back to their 13. Earlier, Tramon Williams of Green Bay got a similarly stupid penalty after he failed to catch a punt and then got pushed around and retaliated. But, since the Packers won, Fox gets the dumbest play award. What are these guys thinking? Probably, they are not thinking at all.
7 – Did Maurice Jones-Drew, or any other NFL player, tweet about the lack of courage of either Charles Woodson or Donald Driver (both excellent players and team leaders), both of whom were unable to finish the Super Bowl due to injury? Just asking.
8 – While the Vince Lombardi Trophy, emblematic of a Super Bowl victory, was "returned" to Green Bay, it wasn't called the Vince Lombardi Trophy until after Vince Lombardi died in 1970.
9 – The biggest hero at the Super Bowl, by far, was Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta, who got the greatest ovation when introduced at the Super Bowl. Giunta is the first living Medal of Honor recipient (for saving the lives of members of his squad in Afghanistan in 2007) since the Vietnam War.
10 – If you are keeping score at home, it's Super Bowls Won:
Aaron Rodgers 1, Brett Favre, 1;
Super Bowl MVPs Won: Aaron Rodgers 1, Brett Favre 0.
What observations did you have of Super Bowl XLV? Sound off in the comments below!
Favre brought the Packers a Super Bowl victory and although I think Rogers is a better QB than Favre, Favre at the time got a Super Bowl victory. If Favre was not there at the time, the Packers may not have a Super Bowl victory, not knowing who would have been their QB. Saying that, I think he underachieved, because he should have had another SB victory, the year before and he should have definately beat the Broncos. I think Favre was a very talented QB who was terrible in the clutch, but without him the Pack may not have a SB victory in the 90's. So I appreciate what he did, but the decision to go to Rogers was the correct one.
Why do we have to have this conversation..Yes Rogers had a great Superbowl,much greater then Favre's 14/27 246 2TDs in his only Superbowl win.But really now, do you think Rogers will play in over 290+ games without missing a snap(already missed a game this yr) and im pretty sure Rogers wont come close to Favre's 30+ passing records.Lets have this conversation 10 yrs from now ok.and if your talking MVP's how many league MVP's has Rogers won? none ZERO 0 !..


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According to a new paper released today by CIRCLE:
- Forty-three states require students to learn about political parties; however, the language in the standards nearly always promotes a simplistic understanding of the role that political parties play in a democracy.
- Only eight states ask students to study the ideological underpinnings of the two major political parties.
- Only 10 states ask students to study controversial political issues and their relationship to political parties.
- There is very limited support for learning about political ideology. When states do include language about ideology, it is most commonly mentioned in history/social studies standards and very rarely linked to contemporary political parties.
"This generation has grown up in a vitriolic and polarized political climate. In order to sort through the noise, young people need to have a deep understanding of the ideological values that divide us and how those values do, and do not, map onto political parties," reports Paula McAvoy, lead author of the study and program director for the Center for Ethics and Education at UW-Madison, who completed this study with Rebecca Fine and Ann Herrera Ward. "Our team's findings show that state standards stop short of asking students to make meaningful connections between partisanship, ideology, and the issues of the day. If schools are to fulfill their mission of preparing young people for political participation, teachers need to be encouraged to bring these ideas into the classroom."
"Understanding what major political parties are and what they stand for is essential in navigating politics and elections in the U.S., but very little support exists. These findings emphasize the need to strengthen standards and support teachers in U.S. civic education," said Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Director of CIRCLE. "Encouraging this type of learning about politics, elections and voting is a major reason why we are collaborating with other organizations to support teachers during this election year via the Teaching for Democracy Alliance." For more on this Alliance see here.
For CIRCLE's full briefing, please see here or the interactive map here. More research and background on youth civic education can be found on CIRCLE's Quick Facts on Civic Education page.
CIRCLE's 2016 Election Center will continue to offer data products and analyses providing a comprehensive picture of the youth vote, including the Youth Electoral Significance Index, which offers insight into key states where young people have the potential to shape the 2016 general election.


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At 6'4, Christian Peter isn't only big in stature, but big in heart, dedication, and drive. Having known Christian for over 20 years, I've watched him grow from a young boy at the beginning of his NFL career, to the mature, committed, family and business man he is today.
Christian was taught at a young age that success can be achieved through hard work and dedication. His drive and determination on the field awarded him not only a full athletic scholarship to the University of Nebraska, but later landed him on the NY Giants, Indianapolis Colts, and Chicago Bears. As much as that "all or nothing" attitude resulted in positives on the field, it contributed toward some negatives off the field. While in college, Christian succumbed to temptations that unfortunately many face each and every day. He struggled with his own insecurities and fears and used alcohol and drugs to self-medicate. When Christian finally hit rock bottom, he had to take a close look at the things he didn't like about himself, and focus on changing certain aspects of his personality and subsequent lifestyle. Today, he uses that same drive to help others, saying it's what helps him the most in his everyday battle to fight addiction. Christian currently serves on the board of the Tigger House Foundation, a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization dedicated to achieving a positive impact by reducing the death rate of heroin and opiate addiction.
I always marvel to see how some players go from the locker room to the board room, and how they can adapt in the business world. Needless to say, it's not an easy transition for most. When I asked Christian about his transition, he admitted that he had a difficult time finding a new career path after retiring from the NFL in 2004. He jokingly said, "I didn't get offered a Right Guard deodorant commercial and wasn't going to be the next big sports commentator." He then continued "I thought about joining my father in the restaurant business, but he encouraged me to pursue other opportunities as that industry can often take you away from your family, and he understands how important family is to me."
Like many pro athletes, Christian tried his hand in a few different businesses, but ultimately found himself in the insurance industry after a recommendation from a close friend. "I met people in the business who taught me about residual income and how to build a book of business that I can sell later in life." Fast forward more than a decade, Christian has built and is currently President of The Competitive Advantage Companies, a full service insurance brokerage firm based out of Red Bank, NJ.
"When we first started the business, we primarily focused on group health benefits. We were able to keep health premiums down during the infancy of Obamacare and continue to provide outstanding service. We began to grow through word of mouth, and clients started to ask about other lines of insurance. I knew how beneficial it would be to have all insurance lines under one roof, so I grew my team and hired insurance experts that specialized in those different areas. Today the Competitive Advantage Companies consists of; Competitive Advantage Benefits, Competitive Advantage Property & Casualty, and Competitive Advantage Life & Annuity."
I asked Christian about his daily routine. Running a successful business and helping others, while being a husband, and father of three, must be tough. He responded, "I wake up at 4:00am, I'm in the gym by 5:00am, and at my desk by 8. Mondays and Fridays are spent getting organized, doing follow-ups, and meeting with my team to review the week. Tuesday through Thursday, I'm out on the road meeting with prospects and servicing current accounts. Our goal is to make each client feel as if they are our number one priority. We focus our attention on details and provide daily communication. Due to all the changes in the industry, they need our guidance now more than ever."
Christian speaks openly of his past struggles and about those who have helped him along the way. He shares his story to schools, businesses, communities, rehabs, and correctional facilities in hopes that someone struggling will be helped. He understands the challenges of being an addict, and the shame and embarrassment comes along with it. He stated, "My past happened, I wish certain aspects of it didn't, but I can't change it, I can only learn from it. What I can change is who I am today. I can happily say that I am someone who is present; I am a father, a husband, a business man, and a friend. I am a man who wants to give back and help those struggling in any way that I can." By attending AA and NA meetings, sponsoring the newcomer, living a life of service and taking it one day at a time, Christian has been sober for 10 years. I have found with Christian, whenever I have asked him to support a cause, he's the first one to clear his schedule and just ask me where and when.
"This has been an amazing journey, the ups and the downs. In my wildest dreams, I would have never imagined accomplishing the things that I have accomplished. In my darkest nightmares, the mistakes I've made turned out to be the most valuable lessons of my life. I am a very lucky and grateful man. I have a young, enthusiastic business that consistently grows year by year, but more importantly, I am blessed with my health, my beautiful wife Monica and my three children; Olivia 16, Juliette 13 and Christian Jr. 9 aka Little CP."
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Nigeria's Golden Eaglets know that they have to beat Australia in order to progress to the Quarter finals of the ongoing FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile.
The Golden Eaglets have made an impressive start to the competition, thrashing USA and Chile to qualify from their group. They'll be hoping their fine form continues in order to possibly win the competition.
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Inside us all, somewhere deep within,
Lays a poet in slumber deep.
Away from this worldly noise, this din
It chooses it's head to keep.
Time and again, from caverns wide,
Made with thoughts of the sparkling kind,
It fishes out some words to guide,
Our bumbling and oft-confused mind.
It tells us what words mean,
It leads us to ideas new.
It cooks up worlds umpteen,
Simply out of the blue.
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"Descending into madness" –> More details have emerged about Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock's state of mind. Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz report for ABC News that investigators say that his "mental state was deteriorating in the weeks before" the shooting and he'd shown "significant weight loss, an increasingly slovenly physical appearance and an obsession with his girlfriend's ex-husband."
We mentioned yesterday that the "bump-stock" Paddock used to attain machine-gun-like rates of fire from semi-automatic rifles were flying off the shelves of gun stores. Today, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Tiffany Hu report for The New York Times that congressional Democrats are proposing to ban them, and Republicans "signaled on Wednesday that they would be open to" such a measure.
Fraud on top of fraud –> David Dayen reports for The Nation that the country's biggest bank, JPMorgan Chase, paid a portion of the fines it incurred after the 2008 crash for committing mortgage fraud by writing down the value of mortgages it had already sold off. Dayen calls it "an elaborate shell game." Given the lack of high-level prosecutions in the mortgage crisis, the most interesting aspect of this story may be that "there is strong evidence that Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan's CEO and chairman, knew about and helped to implement" the scheme.
Secession –> Angus Berwick and Sonya Dowsett report for Reuters that "Catalonia will move on Monday to declare independence from Spain after holding a banned referendum, pushing the European Union nation toward a rupture that threatens the foundations of its young democracy."
A well-oiled machine –> Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held a press conference on Wednesday to reaffirm his loyalty to Donald Trump after it was reported that he had called the president a "moron," and had to be talked out of resigning. Carol Lee, Kristen Welker, Stephanie Ruhle and Dafna Linzer have more at NBC News.
Meanwhile, Nik Steinberg, who served in the US Mission to the UN under Obama, writes for Politico that Tillerson is "running the State Department into the ground," as "skilled and patriotic diplomats are leaving like never before in an exodus that is damaging the United States."
And Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), who is not running for re-election, defended Tillerson, telling reporters that the former ExxonMobil CEO and Gens. Kelly and Mattis were the only things standing between "our country" and "chaos," according to Aaron Blake at The Washington Post.
Hypocrisy –> Republican Rep. Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania, a staunch opponent of abortion, announced on Wednesday that he would not seek re-election after it was reported that he urged his mistress to have an abortion. The district favors Republican candidates by 11 points, according to the Cook Partisan Voting Index. NPR's James Doubek has more on that story.
At Salon, Amanda Marcotte explores Murphy's stated rationale behind a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Marcotte calls the legislation Murphy co-sponsored and which the GOP-led House passed this week "pure anti-woman propaganda."
Casualties in a war most don't know we're fighting –> Three US Green Berets were killed and two others were injured when their routine patrol was ambushed in Niger, Africa on Wednesday. Eric Schmitt has the details at The New York Times.
Revolt in the West –> Cliven Bundy is going to trial next week in connection with the standoff he led against the federal government in 2014, but Stephanie Mencimer at Mother Jones reports that Trump is being urged to pardon the scofflaw-turned-conservative-folk hero.
So much for that idea –> When Donald Trump mentioned that all of Puerto Rico's debt might have to be forgiven, lots of people rejoiced but Wall Street "freaked out," according to Politico's Ben White and Colin Wilhelm. Shortly afterward, the White House moved "swiftly to clean up Trump's seemingly offhand remarks," with Budget Director Mick Mulvaney saying "I wouldn't take it word for word."
Chutzpah –> The New York City police officer who "slammed tennis star James Blake to the ground in 2015 before wrongfully arresting him" is now suing Blake, the NYPD and others for defamation and emotional distress. Apparently, the furor surrounding the incident has made the officer's life "a living hell." Rachel Leah has more at Salon.
That "dodgy dossier" may not be so dodgy after all –> Special counsel Robert Mueller "has taken over FBI inquiries into a former British spy's dossier of allegations of Russian financial and personal links to President Donald Trump's campaign and associates," reports Mark Hosenball for Reuters.
The leading members of the Senate Intelligence Committee held a rare press conference on Wednesday to affirm the intelligence community's findings that Russia did interfere with last year's election and warn that we can expect more in the future. Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) said that whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians remained an "open question." Julian Borger has more at The Guardian.
Almost too good to be true –> The PBS show Finding Your Roots conducted DNA tests which revealed that Sen. Bernie Sanders and his Saturday Night Live doppelganger Larry David are in fact distant cousins. Jay Willis has a clip of the moment when the men found out about the connection at GQ.
Better not pout –> "Turkish archaeologists have dashed the hopes of millions of children by claiming to have uncovered the likely burial place of Saint Nicholas," reports Kareem Shaheen for The Guardian.
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Human CEO outlines safety policy for other humans
As CEO of Mobileye, Shashua has been on the forefront on self-driving car technology for some time. He started the company in 1999 and created the first version of its EyeQ chip five years later.
He is seen as a pioneer and a leading voice. And for that reason he given a prime keynote slot at the Intel Capital conference this week (Intel bought Mobileye last year for a staggering $15bn). It is clear Shashua sees himself as a thought leader and in that respect he chose to tackle one of the biggest issues facing the autonomous car industry: safety.
Everyone is understandably anxious about machines driving cars around. Propelling a huge piece of metal around at great speeds very close to other people undeniably calls for a cautious approach.
Such is the anxiety that if an autonomous vehicle is involved in a crash it becomes headline news – which is a little ridiculous when you consider that there are more than 15,000 car accidents per day in the United States alone. But autonomous cars are coming and accidents are going to happen. And so Shashua wants to get ahead of it.
Most of his presentation was therefore taken up with this questions: how do we approach this question of safety? And how do we ensure that when accidents do happen – as they will – that each one won't be viewed as yet another piece of evidence that autonomous cars are dangerous?
As an engineer, he took an engineer's perspective on the problem: breaking it down to its constituent parts, finding a solution for each, and putting it all together.
The first thing he did was make a persuasive case for why autonomous cars cannot be timid. He showed footage of a difficult stretch of busy road in Mobileye's home town of Jerusalem: one lane joins a larger road and then fades away. The road then splits.
It means drivers on the entry lane have no choice but to move over, while at the same time other cars on the larger road are trying to move across. It's the kind of intersection that every city has and all the locals gripe about.
Shashua points out that in this situation, there is literally no choice but to be assertive in your driving. If you aren't you will get stuck and create more problems as cars build up behind you. "No city would accept autonomous cars if they create traffic jams," he reasons.
Logically therefore, an autonomous car has to drive more like a human – with a degree of assertiveness. And with that notion accepted, you have to discard the idea of complete safety. In its place, he argues, what you need is a safety guarantee. That guarantee can't say "there will never be an accident" but it can say – and this is his core argument – "this car will never cause an accident."
At the same time, he argued, you have to address the issue of autonomous cars' "economic stability" – which is code for not being sued. If every time an autonomous car is in an accident there is a question over who is to blame, the manufacturer is unlikely to survive for very long.
Shashua then posited the question: how much safer does an autonomous car need to be than the average human driver? He immediately answered his question by saying a good rule of thumb is 1,000 times safer. Ok, that's hard to disagree with. That would be the equivalent of someone with the driving skills of Lewis Hamilton and the patience of an accountant.
He then does some math. Given that statistically there is one driver fatality per hundred million miles travelled and roughly one fatality per hour, that would mean to reach the required safety figure, autonomous cars would have to go through one billion hours of driving and cover 30 billion miles – which is, obviously, unfeasible if we want autonomous cars any time in the next decade.
Now, these figures are what we wrote down – it seemed a little hokey, it's possible we missed a part of the argument, but Shashua went through it fast and it's what we got. The effect however – at least in this reporter's mind – was to set off an early alarm bell.
The "big-figure, big-figure, big-figure, so that's why we have to do x" is a common way for engineers to push an argument past people – and it works. It's also a straw man argument: as far as we are aware no one has actually said that autonomous cars have to drive around for a billion hours before being allowed on the market.
As it turns out, strawman arguments are Shashua's preferred way of responding to any form of criticism, implied or otherwise. But more on that later.
The upshot of that first argument was that safety requirements should not be data driven. A company shouldn't have to prove it has driven x number of miles before it gets permission to sell an autonomous car. Even though that is precisely what autonomous car companies are effectively doing right now; it's just that it is their millions of miles that they are driving in order to test systems.
More importantly – and worryingly – the argument that data and safety shouldn't be matched suggests that it doesn't matter if autonomous cars are involved in lots of accidents in the coming years – even if they are statistically higher than human-driven vehicles – so long as the car did not cause the accident, according to the autonomous car owner's definition of what "cause" actually means.
That strikes us as a dangerously myopic approach to take.
Shashua then talked briefly about what safety and redundancy means when it comes to an autonomous car, making the argument that an array of cameras around a car can provide full vision and awareness, and so they can act as the main sensors for an autonomous car, granting full visibility. Then the other sensors – radar and lidar – can act as "true redundancy" since they work on a different system.
Which, again, is an argument. But it just so happens that Mobileye's technologies and patents are based on camera technology so it is clearly a biased perspective. Later on, he argues that this camera-first approach means all autonomous vehicles should have no less than 12 cameras to cover all eventualities.
Others who are further ahead in autonomous car technology have a completely different perspective: General Motors CTO Jon Lauckner, for example, told us that he views lidar as a critical component of an autonomous car's primary sensor system, in large part because it sees things in 3D whereas cameras do not. Using lidar also means you don't need as many cameras, he says.
And then there's the fact that other companies are moving forward with new hybrid sensors that include both a camers and lidar in one, providing combined additional benefits (one of them – AEye is also at the conference claiming it can offer greater intelligence at a lower processing rate – it could be the future of autonomous car sensors.)
Mobileye's Shashua moves on to another argument: "No one has ever defined what is a dangerous situation and what you should do in a such a situation."
But since we are talking about machines here, and machines needs to work from rules, if we are to have machines driving cars, and if we are to have some kind of system that can apportion blame for an accident – or, more specifically from his perspective, prove that an autonomous car did the "right" thing – then we have to have definitions. Ok, that's a fair point.


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I have been slowly plodding along mini wise, working on some mini kits for the Sweet Christmas Cottage living room. I'll share some of the progress here, and save the complete room photos for later. I still have much assembling and arranging to do, but more than anything I need to catch up reading what you've all been up to! A couple weeks is way too long for me to be out of touch!
I added a light and a new dial to the Jane Harrop 30's radio kit to add a bit of realism to the room. I have an extra kit, so when I feel inspired I may actually assemble it with a light and with a speaker so that it can play Christmas music. A good use for one of the old iPods we have filling up "junk" drawers around here.
I made a little SDK Mantle Clock Kit - super simple and fun, then filled the clock face recess with Glossy Accents for a bubble glass effect. It took several layers and lots of waiting but it's a great effect!
Betsy - I have a whole new admiration for your Secret Christmas House and all it's tiny detail after working on that dining room kit!
I have to take a moment here to say what excellent service I received on this order! The shipping from Germany was very reasonable to begin with, and then they even refunded me for part of it! And the package arrived so quickly! I will not hesitate to spend my mini budget there again in the future, and I already have my eye on several more kits! ;O)
I also purchased a digital file of Christmas cards on Etsy. At $3.00 it was a great deal. Lovely vintage art work, card files in two sizes, and I can use them as long as I can still print and cut. I'll also be using several of these cards as accents in the build.
The "vintage" Concord chairs that I purchased and planned to recover for the living room looked much too overbearing in the room. I loved the style of them though, so decided to adapt a couple HOM kits to resemble them and better fit in the space. By cutting the wings down and adding some curved bits of wood, I managed to come up with a happy compromise. I got the kits from eBay a couple years back. They were opened and the leg assemblies were missing. I rummaged up some Tim Holtz Hitch Fasteners from my stash for the legs and came up with a better height for the Heidi Ott dolls who will be sitting in them.
I made several poinsettia kits using both SDK and Bonnie Lavish kits. I've had both for a long time now, so the Bonnie Lavish one might be hard to find at this point. The SDK kit was wonderful, though, so you won't be disappointed.
The sleigh is a laser printed kit from Alpha Stamps. That is also where I got the kit to make the gingerbread house. The reindeer was a purchase from TinyTreasures on Etsy. He started out as an unfinished piece but I had fun giving him a nose, tail and a little vintage charm. I also swapped out his arrangement for mine and used his in other areas.
The Christmas tree has been a challenge. I had purchased a tree on eBay which was touted to be the perfect ready to decorate tree. It was somewhere around $30. Unfortunately, the minute I attempted to start stringing lights on it, it began to crumble in my fingers. There was no good way to reattach the very fragile "fur branches" back on to the pokey wires, so consider that a rough lesson learned. I rummaged through my landscaping stash and came up with a solution, but I will save that for the next post. I am still waiting for the topper, which is taking many steps and immense patience, to dry. Hopefully, the attaching will go perfectly!
Luckily for me, I know the perfect solution to keep the seasonal blues away. I will gleefully sit tomorrow morning, warm cup of coffee in hand, catching up on all the exciting blog posts I've missed! You all inspire me so much, giving my mini dreams and ideas wings!
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In the day of valor and holiday of the Bulgarian army, the frigate "Gordi" will open doors for visitors. On 5 May it will travel from its base point to Sea station at Port Burgas. "Gordi" is one of the three frigates from project "E-71", received from the Kingdom of Belgium and is part of the Navy corps from 22.08.2008.
Here is the full program of the events that will mark St. George's Day (6 May):
-From 20.10 hours – festive switching on of the lighting of the frigate "Gordi"
-From 21.30 hours – festive illumination of Sea station – Burgas, organized by Municipality Burgas
-From 09.00 hours – festive raising of the navy flags of the frigate "Gordi"
-From 09.30 to 17.00 hours – at square "Atanas Sirekov" in front of Municipality Burgas will be held an official ceremony of the military flags and public prayer for health of the Bulgarian soldiers from garrison Burgas by representatives of the Bulgarian Orthodox church, led by metropolitan bishop Yoanikius.
-From 12.20 hours – ceremony for laying wreaths and flowers to honor the fallen Bulgarian soldiers for the freedom and independence of Bulgaria at the monument of "24th infantry Black sea regiment" in front of Military club Burgas
-From 13.00 hours – ceremony and public prayer for health and success of the crew of frigate "Gordi", led by metropolitan bishop Yoanikius.
Due to security considerations the visit to the frigate "Gordi" will be done in groups on an appointed route. The people, who wish to visit the ship, need to have their personal IDs and not bring big luggage.


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Let me say this first, I am not one to bet against the Hoodie, because those are always long odds. However, this is certainly Bill Belichick's ego at work here. He believes, and rightfully so for the most part, that he can do what other coaches cannot. He also believes, again rightfully so, that he has the structure to take unwanted guys with attitude issues and get the best out of them, He has done it in the past, and now he gets to work his Hoodie magic on Albert Haynesworth and Chad Ochocinco.
Since the New England Patriots hoard draft picks, like this creepy old lady with her dolls on that A&E show Hoarders, they gave up four picks in total to get both of these players. I am not as worried about Ochocinco as I am Haynesworth. Chad is a guy, who is all about himself, and he can be a distraction, but in the end I think he is a good teammate. Haynesworth is a different case all together.
Let us put aside his overweight issues, his bad demeanor, and all of the negatives. His main complaint about the regime change in Washington was he did not want to play nose in the 3-4 system. The Patriots run a 3-4, and will expect him to play the nose and dominate folks. For me it is a contradiction that isn't easy to resolve. Of course going to a 14-2 team with an excellent shot at another Super Bowl title may cure Haynesworth's issues. Winning in football is usually the cure all.
In the end both of these moves are low risk because the Patriots will simply cut either one of these players if they step out of line or fail to produce. They proved that with Randy Moss last year, and maybe in the end that will be enough motivation to keep the Patriots clear of the issues these guys have caused for their other teams.
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Harrisburg, Pa. − April 30, 2019 − Senator Pam Iovino today announced grants for Western Pennsylvania to address school safety and community violence prevention.
"We need to do everything in our power at the state level to make sure that our students are safe in their schools and communities," said Senator Iovino. "I am pleased to see this money coming to western Pennsylvania and hopeful for the progress that these programs will make in reducing violence and keeping our children safer."
Schools in the 37th district that will receive grants include:
- $146,400 to Baldwin-Whitehall School District
- $476,660 to Mount Lebanon School District
- $45,426 to Parkway West Career and Technology Center
- $15,007 to Peters Township School District
- $160,154 to Quaker Valley School District
- $89,243 to West Allegheny School District
Community Safety grants coming to Allegheny County include:
- $349,654 to Amachi Pittsburgh's "ABC" for its Community Healing Initiative to Promote Safety (CHIPS) program
- $350,000 to the Community Empowerment Association for violence reduction and intervention
- $236,056 to Duquesne university to reduce violence
- $350,000 to Pittsburgh Action Against Rape to reduce sexual violence in the Mon Valley
Act 44 of 2018 created a School Safety and Security Fund for the purposes of providing funding to school districts for school safety and security concerns and addressing community violence. $60 million was put into the fund with $7.5 million for community anti-violence programs and the remaining 52.5 million for school safety.
Initial awards to school districts were made in October 2018 for $12.5 million. On Tuesday, April 30, the remaining $40 million was awarded.
PCCD received 638 applications for a total of $177.6 million in funding requests. After review of each application, 234 applications requesting $40 million were approved at the School Safety and Security Meeting.


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Hello everyone, today I will be reviewing The Thousandth Floor by Katherine McGee! I hope you enjoy this review!
Release date: August 30, 2016
Hardcover page count: 448
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The Thousandth Floor is the breathtaking tale of five teenagers living in the dazzling thousand floor tower of 2118 Manhattan. In this tower of futuristic technology where everything you dream is within reach, everyone has something they want, and everyone has something to lose. Take Leda Cole for example, the high floor girl whose flawless exterior hides a deadly addiction, or Eris Dodd-Radson, a beautiful it-girl whose life is ripped apart when a betrayal rips her family apart. And what about Rylin Myers whose new job as a high-floor maid fills her life with a romance that she never imagined, or Watt Bakradi, the tech genius whose simple task to spy for an upper floor girl turns out to be anything but. Above all sits Avery Fuller on the thousandth floor, a girl designed to be perfect and to have it all… except the one thing she can't have.
Though some might say that the opening of this was slow, it definitely did not feel like that the whole way through. McGee's writing felt electric as she took the plot into newer places with each chapter. I loved this about her writing because you never know what would happen next. Another thing that McGee did was overlap her individual character's storylines. While this sort of thing doesn't always work out, McGee found a way to work it out perfectly. An example of this is when one character goes to VR laser tag and at the same time meets another character. This might seem like something that happens frequently in books but in reality, the author is putting in two different character perspectives from different chapters. And as she does this, she is creating more room for surprises and plot twists as characters who might seem unconnected actually are, forming a web of interactions throughout the book. This leads me to another aspect of the book, the characters.
Though each character seemed to be steamed from a particular stereotype, each grew over the course of the book. Eris, for example, who started out as just your basic rich girl without a care in the world actually transforms into a character who some might sympatize with during her fall from grace. Though McGee did seem to be not the best at creating deep side characters in this first book, I can tell that these side characters will turn out to be better developed in the second or third books.
Lastly, I really enjoyed the setting of this book. The idea of all of Manhattan in one giant glittering tower is one that really intrigued me and made me want to keep reading. I was constantly wondering how people lived in the monstrosity of a giant tower like that so I was constantly interested in every mention the author made of it. I loved the technologies the author filled the tower with, especially all the futuristic restaurants and places to visit inside the tower. This novel was a great example of world building at its finest because McGee did not at all rely on previous ideas such as fairies or superheroes, but instead came out with an original setting for a dystopian novel without a complete government meltdown or radioactive monsters. She also made sure to ground this tower to reality by mentioning things such as the SAT or Model United Nations, something that made me feel like I can relate more to the book.
Overall, I would recommend this book to fans of Gossip Girl or One of Us is Lying because of its intricate web of lives and ulterior motives fueled by hidden secrets that each character has. Though it does have some mentions of drugs and sex, it is nothing overwhelming so readers over the age of fourteen should be able to enjoy this book greatly.
I hope that you enjoyed this review! This book was super fun to read and I am excited to read the next book. All the covers for this series are also super pretty and if you haven't seen them yet, I would definitely recommend checking them out. Please let me know in the comments if there are any books that you would like me to review!
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Aspiring author who, along with reading YA and with other genres, also fosters kittens, and play the piano and cello!
January 2020
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Big wave surfer Dave Wassel leads a scenic hike to one of the best views in all of Hawaii, along the way exploring old World War II bunkers and recounting one of the biggest swells to hit the North Shore in recent history.
Bodybuilder with hardly any fight experience has a friendly sparring session with professional boxer Allan Green, doesn't realise what he's in for!
New Zealand's best bomber! – Dan Tahere is the champion of his entire country, when it comes to making the biggest splash off a 10 meter tower!
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Wanting to help provide for her family, Amanda Hurst joined the military in 2009. Hurst, along with her husband and two children, moved from Florida to New York before she was trained and deployed to Iraq.
While overseas, Hurts's husband was responsible for the care of her children, then aged seven and eight. She was contacted shortly after arriving in Iraq and told that there was an emergency at home. Hurst took an emergency leave from her unit and traveled back to New York, where she learned that she needed to make alternate living arrangements for her children due to her husband having to spend time in jail.
With only two weeks away from her military service, she granted guardianship to her stepmother, who lived in Florida, of her two children. She continued to serve her country in Afghanistan and Iraq before being honorably discharged in 2013.
Her stepmother became estranged from the rest of the family while in charge or her two step-grandchildren and illegally moved them to New Jersey. Once they were in New Jersey, the two children developed emotional problems that were severe enough that the began to lash out. They were eventually removed from the home and put into foster care.
When Hurst returned, she found herself in a legal battle to get her children, now aged 13 and 14, back. The judge for the case has agreed that the children's best place is with their mother. Both of the government departments in New Jersey and Florida are deciding what kind of care should be given to the children and when they should be returned home.
Despite all of the challenges, Hurst is hopeful that she will be reunited with her children within the next 30 days and they can begin the next chapter of their lives together.


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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled on Tuesday a significant easing of the coronavirus lockdown in England, saying pubs, restaurants and bars can reopen from July 4 and people can meet more friends and family.
Following are the main measures the prime minister announced:
-- Where it is not possible to stay 2 metres apart, people are advised to keep to a social distance of "1 metre plus" with the plus referring to other mitigations, such as installing screens, facing away from each other, putting up hand-washing facilities and wearing masks on public transport.
-- The advice for gatherings indoors, which includes visits to pubs, restaurants or holidays in paid accommodation, is that one household can meet one other household at a time, including staying overnight, while observing social distancing. There is no limit on the size of those households and no exclusivity. Different households can mix at different times.
-- Outdoors, people can congregate in a park or garden in a group of up to six people drawn from up to six different households while observing social distancing. Two households of any size can also meet outdoors - e.g. for two large families or households there would be no limit on the size of that gathering.
Hotels, hostels, bed and breakfast accommodation, holiday apartments or homes, cottages or bungalows, campsites, caravan parks or boarding houses
Places of Worship
Community Centres
Restaurants, cafes and workplace canteens
Bingo Halls
Theatres and concert halls [guidance dictates no live performances]
Museums and galleries
Hair salons and barbers
Outdoor playgrounds
Outdoor gyms
Funfairs, theme parks and adventure parks and activities
Amusement arcades
Outdoor skating rinks
Other indoor leisure centres or facilities, including indoor games, recreation and entertainment venues
Social clubs
Model villages
Indoor attractions at aquariums, zoos, safari parks, farms, wildlife centres and any place where animals are exhibited to the public as an attraction
Bowling alleys and indoor skating rinks
Indoor play areas including soft-play
Nail bars and beauty salons
Massage, tattoo and piercing parlours
Indoor fitness and dance studios, and indoor gyms and sports venues/facilities
Swimming pools and water parks
Exhibition or Conference Centres - where they are to be used for exhibitions or conferences, other than for those who work for that venue.
WARNING - If the virus threatens to run out of control, the government says it would not hesitate to reverse some or all of the measures.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Piper and Michael Holden; editing by Stephen Addison)


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Kevin Carson on the utopian silliness of statism.
Posts Tagged 'progressives'
'Dozens' of American Citizens Maybe Targeted for Assassination by Obama AdministrationPosted: 28 June 2010 by Little Alex in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, National News, Political Science
Tags: ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Africa, airstrikes, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Anwar al-Awlaki, Bush Administration, Central Asia, CIA, civil liberties, Colombia, counterterrorism, Democrats, DHS, drones, due process, Eli Lake, extrajudicial assassinations, fascism, Glenn Greenwald, Homeland Security, human rights, international law, Jason Ditz, John Brennan, JSOC, law, liberals, libertarian, liberty, Middle East, Newspeak, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Philippines, progressives, Somalia, terrorism, US, War, War on Terror, Yemen
Glenn Greenwald was on "The Dylan Ratigan Show" at MSNBC discussing the Obama Administration's extension of the previous administration's extrajudicial assassination program to include citizens of the U.S. (h/t: Scott Horton – 3:28):
Democrats Driving Nail in the Coffin of Financial JusticePosted: 16 June 2010 by Little Alex in National News, Political Science
Tags: Alan Grayson, Andy Sullivan, Audit the Fed bill, bailouts, banking, BP, CDS, China, Chriss Dodd, Citigroup, corporatism, credit default swaps, currency manipulation, David Camp, Doug Palmer, Ed Schultz, Ezra Klein, Federal Reserve, financial regulation, FinReg, HR 1207, Kevin Drawbaugh, libertarian, monetary policy, Newspeak, Noam Chomsky, progressives, Reuters, Ron Paul, Ryan Grim, TARP, Timothy Geithner, US, Wall Street
Congress and the media further narrow the 'Wall St. reform debate' performance.
ACLU: National ID Card Mandate, Worker Fingerprinting Database Masqueraded as 'Immigration Reform'Posted: 30 April 2010 by Little Alex in National News, Political Science
Tags: 287(g), ACLU, Andrew Napolitano, Anis Shivani, Arizona, Big Brother, comprehensive immigration reform, Congress, conservatives, Daniel Tencer, Democrats, Ezra Klein, Hegelian Dialectic, immigration, law, national ID, national ID card, Newspeak, Nina Bernstein, politics, problem-reaction-solution, progressives, REAL ID, Republicans, SB 1070, Venita Gupta
Congressional Democrats exploit public outrage to enact a proposal 'with which people are more comfortable'.
Justin Raimondo is Wrong on ImmigrationPosted: 28 April 2010 by Editors in National News, Political Science
Tags: anarchism, anti-Statism, AntiWar.com, Arizona, civil rights, drug cartels, drug war, free markets, Homeland Security, human rights, illegal immigration, immigration, IRA, Jim Crow, Justin Raimondo, law, libertarian, liberty, Newspeak, progressives, prohibition, SB 1070, undocumented workers, US, War on Drugs
Little Alex and Sayyid's joint response to an editor of AntiWar.com's stance against open borders.
Waco and the New Brown ScarePosted: 19 April 2010 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Political Science
Tags: 9/11, Andrew Napolitano, anti-Statism, Bill Clinton, Birthers, blowback, Brach Davidians, Bush Administration, Clinton Administration, decentralization, DHS, fascism, FEMA, George Bush, George Tiller, Glenn Beck, Homeland Security, human rights, IRS, James von Brunn, JBS, John Birch Society, Joseph Farah, libertarian, liberty, Mark Potok, Michelle Bachmann, National Surveillance State, Newspeak, nullification, Obama, Obama Administration, Oklahoma City bombing, Osama bin Laden, progressives, Rachel Maddow, right wing extremism, Ron Paul, Saddam Hussein, Sarah Palin, Scott Roeder, seccession, Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC, tea party movement, Tenthers, terrorism, Timothy McVeigh, UN, US, Waco Massacre, War, War on Terror
Anthony Gregory on the real meanings of Waco and Oklahoma City on their anniversaries and the partisan fearmongering to create loyalty and submission to the ruling class because, of course, no matter who you vote for, the government wins and humanity loses.
[pictured: children murdered by the U.S. government during the Waco Massacre]
Was Joe Stack a Terrorist? (Video)Posted: 16 April 2010 by Editors in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, National News, Palestine-Israel, Political Science
Tags: 9/11, American Empire, anti-Americanism, Bush Administration, Chris Matthews, Democrats, fascism, imperialism, IRS, Islamic terrorism, Joe Stack, Joe Vernon, liberals, libertarian, liberty, Middle East, MSNBC, neoconservatives, Newspeak, Obama Administration, Osama bin Laden, progressives, Rachel Maddow, Republicans, Steve King, tea party movement, terrorism, US, War, War on Terror
Jack Hunter, a.k.a. "The Southern Avenger", doesn't think to nonsensically disagree he was. But adds that understanding terrorism isn't condoning it, but imperative to ending it—no matter what dirt on what hemisphere on which the terrorist was born (5:24):
Daily Briefing–31st March 2010Posted: 31 March 2010 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, al-Qaida, Alex Jones, AllanNairn, Arctic Conference, Argentina, banking, black widows, Bush Administration, Chechnya, corporate personhood, corporatism, drug war, fascism, FOX News, Gaza, Gaza Massacre, Haiti, Haiti earthquake, Hamid Karzai, healthcare, human rights, Hutaree, ICC, immigration, Indonesia, intellectual property, international law, Iran, Iraq War, Israel, JC Penney, Karl Rove, Kenya, law, Linux, military aid, militias, Moqtada al-Sadr, mutual funds, Newspeak, Obama Administration, Palestine, Palestine-Israel, Pentagon, progressives, Robert Dreyfuss, Russia, SCOTUS, SEI, Somalia, terrorism, truancy courts, UK, unemployment, Unix, US, Wal-Mart, War, war crimies, War on Terror, West Bank, Zionism
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Fascism: Why Can't It Happen Here?Posted: 6 October 2009 by Kevin Carson in National News, Political Science
Tags: 9/11, CIA, COINTELPRO, Democrats, doublethink, Ed Schultz, fascism, FDR, founding fathers, GARDEN ACT, GOP, Howard Zinn, Jose Padilla, liberals, libertarian, liberty, Liz Cheney, Lord Acton, Michelle Bachmann, nationalism, Newspeak, Oklahoma City bombing, Patriot Act, police state, Posse Comitatus, progressives, Red Scare, Republicans, Shays Rebellion, terrorism, US, War on Terror, Woodrow Wilson
Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS) Research Assosciate Kevin Carson on the ignorant bliss of "American exceptionalism". (more…)


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American Crime Story season 3: Penelope Cruz to play Donatella Versace
American Crime Story season 3 has announced its latest casting news, and once again, we're getting a rather big name!
FX confirmed on Monday that Penelope Cruz is going to play Donatella Versace in what is currently being called Versace: American Crime Story. She is the sister of famed designer Gianni Versace, who is being played by actor Edgar Ramirez of The Girl on the Train. Meanwhile, Darren Criss of Glee fame was already cast in the role of Andrew Cunanan, the serial killer responsible for Gianni's murder.
There were rumors for a time that Lady Gaga was going to play Donatella in the series, just because of a physical similarity and then also her own fondness for the brand; however, this was later denied by executive producer Ryan Murphy.
The second and third seasons of the show are being filmed in rather-close proximity to one another, and are both going to air (tentatively) at some point in 2018. We know that personally, we're far more intrigued by the Versace story than we are Katrina: American Crime Story, which is meant to be season 2. We personally wish that this series dropped the moniker and went just by Katrina, since it still doesn't fit the bill of what this series is supposed to be in spite of however Murphy or anyone else tries to spin it. If they were to re-name the show, we don't think anyone would mind and there would still be a good many people who opted to watch it in the end since Ryan Murphy's fan base is loyal.
More than anything, we're just hoping that these shows manage to continue the legacy established by the first American Crime Story season, which is one of the best shows on television that we've seen in a rather long span of time. Murphy is also proving that he has a knack with shows inspired by true stories with Feud: Bette & Joan, but we'd argue that this show is still missing something intangible, such as a soul underneath or a truly relatable character. Maybe we'll get more of that on these American Crime Story seasons.
For now, let us know what you think about Cruz's American Crime Story season 3 casting now in the comments section below! Meanwhile, head over here if you do want to get some further news when it comes to the franchise as a whole. (Photo: FX.)


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CAMBRIDGE — An unquestionable high point of 2015 was the transfixing production of George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan'' at Central Square Theater by the New York-based theater company known as Bedlam.
By the time this year draws to a close, it's likely that Bedlam's alternating versions at the same venue of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night'' will occupy an equally exalted status in the memory.
Uproarious and visually spellbinding by turns, artfully stylized yet characterized throughout by a surging immediacy, both versions — "Twelfth Night'' and "What You Will'' — are presented by Nora Theatre Company and performed in rotating repertory by the same five-member cast.
The skilled quintet includes director Eric Tucker, Kelley Curran, Edmund Lewis, Susannah Millonzi, and Tom O'Keefe, all of whom play multiple roles. They bring Shakespeare's play to life with a sheer joy in creation that proves infectious. Although the alternating productions could scarcely be more different in look and feel, each is exhilarating in its own way. Seldom has the verb form of the word "play'' seemed more germane to a stage performance.
Familiarity with the characters and plot of "Twelfth Night'' is helpful, though you're still likely to experience moments of bewilderment. But there are times in the theater when getting lost is half the fun; when the more your head spins, the more deeply you're able to see. This is one of those times.
A popular comedy that was performed by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company on Boston Common in 2014 and on Broadway in 2013-14 in an acclaimed production starring Mark Rylance, "Twelfth Night'' rests upon one of Shakespeare's favorite devices: gender-swapping disguises that lead to mistaken identity, general confusion, and eventual clarity about who should be with whom. Bedlam further ups the ante by having the actors switch from one character to another, and one gender to another, including a scene when they toss hats back and forth to one another and instantly switch into the roles associated with the hats.
The story line is, of course, preposterous. But the language is rich and the ideas are deep, and Bedlam scants neither. After twins Viola and Sebastian are separated by a shipwreck near the coast of Illyria, with Viola presuming her brother dead, she disguises herself as a man and, using the name of Cesario, enters the service of Duke Orsino.
The duke, who believes himself madly in love with Countess Olivia, dispatches Cesario/Viola to further argue his case with the countess. That fair lady, however, becomes captivated by the messenger rather than the message: She falls in love with Cesario/Viola, who has herself fallen in love with the duke. (Unsurprisingly, given that the most famous line in "Twelfth Night'' is "If music be the food of love, play on,'' the Bedlam productions are heavy on song: accompanied by live guitar in "Twelfth Night,'' and in recordings — Billie Holiday, Dusty Springfield — in "What You Will'').
Once those romantic complications lock satisfyingly into place, a subplot begins to unfold, more or less taking over the play. It revolves around Olivia's pretentious, self-deluding steward, Malvolio and the elaborate and even sadistic prank perpetrated on him by Sir Andrew Aguecheek; Sir Toby Belch (Olivia's uncle); Feste, her Fool; and a pair of servants, Maria and Fabian.
You don't need to attend both Bedlam productions to enjoy either one of them, though it's intriguing to see the differences in mood, style, emphasis, and interpretation. (They will be presented back to back on Saturdays.) "Twelfth Night'' is the more informal of the two productions. With the cast in T-shirts and jeans and a set consisting of not much more than a rough-hewn table — the actors will eventually engage in a high-speed chase around that table while spouting verse — the vibe is that of a rehearsal we've just happened upon. The effect is to remind us that the only necessities for great theater are a playing space and committed performers. Tucker indulges in the occasional ad lib; when one character says of another that "He plays the viola de gamba,'' Tucker confides to the audience: "I don't know what that is.''
"What You Will'' finds the cast attired in stylish white outfits that will eventually be smeared, one by one, with blood. It's an eerie image that brings to mind certain scenes from "Sleep No More,'' the haunting adaptation of "Macbeth'' by the British theater troupe Punchdrunk that was presented locally by the American Repertory Theater in 2009. There are times in "What You Will'' when the actors are concealed by veils, or when they suddenly lie down on the floor and deliver their lines from that prone position, or shift to robotic slow-motion, or simply walk offstage and deliver their lines from behind the audience's backs.
There is more, much more, and you don't know what to expect from moment to moment. For adventurous theatergoers, this tasty double-dose of Shakespeare just might be the event of the summer.
TWELFTH NIGHT and WHAT YOU WILL
Play by William Shakespeare. Directed by Eric Tucker. Production by Bedlam, presented in rotating repertory by Nora Theatre Company. At Central Square Theater, Cambridge, through July 10. Tickets: $20-$59, 617-576-9278, www.centralsquaretheater.org
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