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Zero Dark Mali
by Pepe Escobar
The imperialial juggernaut is once again on a roll in North Africa, with France in the lead. Secular-run Algeria had "better get its US$50 billion in reserves out of Western banks as soon as possible." But overwhelming arms do not guarantee victory. "The French are on their way to meet the American fate in both Iraq and Afghanistan."
Zero Dark Mali
by Pepe Escobar
This article originally appeared in Asia Times.
"This will be a protracted nomad war."
Goooooooood morning, Vietnam! No, sorry, that was another quagmire.
The soundtrack then was Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Motown and Stax. Now it's Goooooooooood morning, Mali! Yet the soundtrack can't be something as transcendental as Rokia Traore's Dounia, or as delightfully psychedelic as Amadou and Mariam's Dimanche a Bamako. It's way more menacing. Something like – he's inescapable – Hendrix in Machine Gun.
Timing – as in the expansion of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) – is everything. Carefully choreographed Libyan blowback in the Sahel could not be a better replacement for NATO raising a monster white flag in Afghanistan. There's no Goooooood morning, Kabul! anymore; there's just the sorry countdown to see the last NATO helicopter leaving Bagram – Saigon 1975-style.
The Economist – the voice of the City of London – is even promoting "Afrighanistan." There are nuances, of course. NATO had its ass kicked in Afghanistan by all sorts of Pashtun factions bundled up as "Taliban." But NATO "won" in Libya. With a certainly foreseen spin-off; the Islamist brigade which attacked the In Amenas gas field complex in the Algerian desert was using NATO-facilitated Kalashnikov AK-104s, F5 rockets, 60mm gun-mortars and, in a nifty NATOGCC fashion touch, the "chocolate chip" camouflage Qatar handed out to the NATO rebels in Libya (yellow flak jackets with brown patches). What next, the cover of Uomo Vogue?
I'm Your Bogeyman, Turn Me On
Inevitably, that most convenient of bogeymen – al-Qaeda – is once again back in fashion, the whole nebula of Salafi-jihadi groups and sub-groups promoted by the French-Anglo-American triad as the root of all evil in Northern Africa (but not in Libya, where they were exalted as "freedom fighters").
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, one of the founding members of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), is for all practical purposes an easily digestible Osama bin Laden remix. Belmokhtar was a classic "Arab Afghan" – part of that multi-national legion trained by the ISI/CIA axis to fight the Soviets in 1980s Afghanistan. When he was back in Algeria in 1993 he joined the local jihad, as part of the Salafi Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC).
AQIM since 2007 was very close to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), whose fighters were also trained in Afghanistan by ISI/CIA. And all the time LIFG was always conveniently manipulated by the CIA and MI6 against Col. Muammar Gaddafi.
"The key point is that Qatar is financing all these people."
After the targeted assassination of Gaddafi, AQIM was duly weaponized by LIFG, and even presented with scores of jihadis. Thus, unsurprisingly, there were plenty of LIFG fighters involved in the In Amenas raid. On top of it AQIM is also very close to the al-Nusra Front in Syria, which Washington branded as a terrorist organization (but not the eternally bickering "coalition" which wants to topple Bashar al-Assad).
The key point is that Qatar is financing all these people – AQIM, the splinter MUJAO, Belmokhtar's brigades and the Salafist Ansar Ed-Dine, a bunch of Wahhabi takfiris who have absolutely nothing to do with tolerant Mali culture.
What does stand out is the absolutely perfect pretext for NATO to get down to the groove in Northern Africa after its humiliating Afghan defeat. But wait; AFRICOM is already there! Still, Algeria – a secular Arab republic who historically has been pro-Cuban and pro-Soviet Union – better beware, and better get its US$50 billion in reserves out of Western banks as soon as possible. Sooner or later, the AFRICOM/NATO hydra is coming to get you.
Islamo-Gangsterism, Anyone?
For now we have the spectacle of Paris involved in the "cleansing" of Mali from not only weaponized Islamists – extraneous to Mali culture – but also indigenous, weaponized Tuaregs with legitimate grievances. The master plan is to support an absolutely corrupt regime in Bamako, led by a military coup plotter, the Fort Benning-trained Captain Amadou Sanogo.
This is the meat of the matter of the new mission civilisatrice, protected by a convenient, UN-enabled smokescreen; a batch of impoverished African countries who will foot most of the bill – and come up with the 5,800 soldiers for another one of those impossibly ridiculous UN acronyms, AFISMA (African-led International Support Mission in Mali). Who pays what is still a mess; there will be a meeting next Tuesday in Ethiopia where they will all be haggling with the proverbial, reluctant "international donors."
Even in France nobody knows who is fighting who and what are these people, really. Check out the hilarious semantic swamp here (in French). Le Monde believes it has solved the riddle; Paris is fighting "Islamo-gangsterism."
"The master plan is to support an absolutely corrupt regime in Bamako."
In this Folies de Pigalle in the desert, Washington will be "leading from behind." Wise move; shadow wars bypass quagmires. It's the French – with typical Gallic grandeur – who will remain infatuated with the illusion of soon ruling the Mali desert. In fact they won't even rule algae in the Niger river, because this will be a protracted nomad war. The prospect of a succession of sandy Dien Bien Phus looms.
And the minute most of Mali's impoverished population – for the moment in favor of getting rid of AQIM, MUJAO, Belmokhtar's gang and Ansar ed-Dine – feels the slightest whiff of neocolonial occupation, the French are on their way to meet the American fate in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
It's enlightening to regard all this under the perspective of President Obama 2.0 administration's foreign policy, as (vaguely) outlined in his inauguration. Obama promised to end US wars (shadow wars are much more cost-efficient). He promised multi-lateral cooperation with allies (while Washington effectively calls the shots), negotiation (as in our way or the highway) and no new war in the Middle East.
To take the president at his word, this translates into no US war against Syria (just the shadow variety); no Bomb, Bomb Iran (just murderous sanctions); and France gets the Mali prize. Or will it? Zero Dark pulp fiction starts now.
Pepe Escobar's column "The Roving Eye" appears in Asia Times.
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I love Pepe Escobar!
"feels the slightest whiff of neocolonial occupation", the slightest whiff?The farts are already wafting, the diarrehea can't be far behind.
About Asia Times Online:"it may be compromised"
I regularly read Pepe Escobar's column online at Asia Times Online, but had a problem with my email recently and started going to websites from google search, and I just checked again, Google has a note on the listing for Asia Times Online "This site may be compromised.". It's not defined exactly what that means, but when I checked further it suggests that going to the site is risky, something might come back on your computer in addition to the article.
Awhile ago, the NSA had a blinking ad on Asia Times Online
I posted in a comment on BAR awhile ago, when mentioning Pepe Escobar's earlier piece and going to Asia Times Online that there was this "moving" ad on the homepage - the NSA National Security Agency of the U.S., was looking for recruits, employees for the agency and I made a joke about it in my BAR comment. I rarely agree with conspiracy theories, but I do like the ones by former CIA analyst Ray McGovern on JFK's assination in his interviews in recent years, his analysis of the CIA since he left...But NSA running a jobs ad on Asia Times Onine? Weird.


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A crop of American cockroaches brings in serious cash.
In just the last couple weeks, seven people in the area have died of the flu. Five deaths have been reported in Lucas County, two in Monroe and one in Lenawee.
What about Wood County? The health department there says just because no deaths have been reported doesn't necessarily mean they haven't occurred. There is only one traditional hospital in Wood County, so residents may end up going to a Lucas County hospital, and would be reported as in Lucas County.
The Wood County Health Department does say there have been 48 reported cases of the flu in the county so far this year.
One person has died in Lenawee County, so health leaders there are hosting additional flu shot clinics and urging everyone to get vaccinated. They say the virus seems to be hitting especially hard this year and even healthy people should get the flu shot.
"The flu activity is continuing to increase," said health officer Patsy Bourgeois. "We don't know how long that will continue, but we do know that there are more cases of the flu today than yesterday and expect that to continue at least the next few days."
Health leaders there say there have been 500 reported cases of the flu in the county, and eight hospitalizations. They say almost all of the cases are H1N1, which most people have not built up immunity to yet.
"When it gets into the lungs, the lungs respond in a robust way, causing fluid to accumulate in the lungs, which can lead to respiratory distress and respiratory failure," explained Dennis Chernin, medical director of the Lucas County Health Department.
For more information on Lenawee County's added flu clinics, click here.
But in Sandusky County, the health department has run out of their supply of flu shots. Fortunately, residents still have options.
The Sandusky County Health Department stocked up on 1,400 flu vaccines last fall. There have only been 87 confirmed cases of the flu and five hospitalizations reported for the county, but that has not stopped people from getting vaccinated.
"When you hear about the ones in Toledo, seven deaths, it's scary," said Betty Kaltenbach, a Fremont resident. "It comes close to home."
Flu vaccines are more common at the beginning of flu season, but health officials say if you are at risk, you can get one at any time.
"If you have any sort of chronic disease," said Jennifer Burner, manager of the Walmart pharmacy in Fremont. "You can certainly be immunized through the end of April of May."
The county health department is currently evaluating if they will order additional vaccines, but in the meantime residents can get them at their local pharmacy or urgent care center.
"Actually I feel like I am contributing to the health of the community by being able to take care of them when they need it," Burner said. "Now, particularly, it's important with everyone being out of stock."
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This is the third acquisition of 2012 for K&M Tire. Earlier in 2012, the tire distributor purchased a warehouse in the Kansas City area and two Reliable Tire locations in Dallas and Houston, Texas.
Following the purchase, Steve Hubler of Michigan Tire & Wheel, joined the K&M Tire team. Cheryl Gossard, vice president of K&M Tire, emphasized the importance of retaining Steve Hubler, as this will help ensure a seamless transition, and his industry knowledge will help grow the sales in Michigan for K&M Tire.
"We are pleased to have the opportunity to acquire such a solid company. We appreciate the approach they take with the relationships with their customers and believe this change will positively benefit their customers by making additional tires available to them," he said.
K&M Tire plans to service their newly acquired customers from their existing warehouses in the Detroit and Grand Rapids area.
Founded in 1970, Delphos-based, K&M Tire operates 15 warehouses with a 16th distribution facility under construction in Barnesville, Minn., which is expected to begin operations during the first quarter of 2013. The company distributes more than 20 brands of passenger and light truck tires, seven brands of commercial truck tires, and eight brands of farm and utility tires. K&M Tire plans to continue to look for growth opportunities throughout the Midwest.


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GREENVILLE -- Early Friday morning, Corey Blair woke when smoke and flames filled the home in Hunt County he shared with his wife, Kellie, and their six-year-old son, Collin.
"He tried to wake them up and couldn't get them awake," said Kellie Blair's father, Russell Carpenter. "He got out of the house, cut himself up real bad."
Blair rushed next door to call 911.
"By the time they came back out and tried again, it was totally engulfed," Carpenter said. "Not a chance."
Hunt County Fire Marshal Richard Hill said authorities were alerted to the fire in the 500 block of County Road 1063 at about 2:20 a.m.
Relatives say Kellie and her son were sleeping in a separate bedroom when the fire started.
"My son-in-law was in their bedroom, on the safe end of the house" Carpenter said. "He had the flu, so she was sleeping with the baby in [Collin's] room and they were together. He was not able to get them out."
Relatives say Corey Blair suffered severe smoke inhalation and is in a medically-induced coma.
The home that burned was built more than 40 years ago. It's where most of the family grew up. Investigators believe faulty electrical wiring may have caused the fire.
The fire marshal said the deadly fire was the second tragedy for the Blair family in a two-year period; Kellie Blair's brother-in-law was killed in action while serving in Afghanistan.


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GETTYSBURG, PA— Music, Gettysburg! presents Bel Voce and the Gettysburg Children's Chorus in the "Lessons and Carols of a Festive Christmas," a concert filled with Christmas delight Sunday evening, December 16, at 7pm in the chapel of the Lutheran Theological Seminary.
This festive concert, one of the most popular in the Music, Gettysburg! season, will feature the two choruses plus Wayne Hill, baritone, Teresa Bowers, flute, Ed Stanley, oboe, David Erikson, organ, and Michael Matsinko, piano.
Christmas music from three centuries will be featured, including favorites such as the Wexford Carol, the French "Il est né!," "On Christmas Night," "Fum Fum Fum" and much, much more.
Bel Voce, under the leadership of artistic director Dr. Teresa R. Bowers, is a leading edge choral ensemble comprised of experienced auditioned singers from the South Central Pennsylvania region. Dedicated to engaging singers and audiences in skilled performances of a diverse choral repertoire, Bel Voce provides a series of concerts each season designed to reach audiences from a wide range of ages and backgrounds through music that educates, entertains and feeds the soul.
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The Lifelong Learning Imperative (LLI) project was initiated to assess current practices in lifelong learning for engineering professionals, reexamine the underlying assumptions behind those practices, and outline strategies for addressing unmet needs. The LLI project brought together leaders of U.S. industry, academia, government, and professional societies to assess the current state of lifelong learning of engineers; to examine the need for, and nature of, lifelong learning going forward; and to explore the responsibilities and potential actions for the primary stakeholders.
The United States is facing a crisis in its engineering workforce just as global competition is becoming very intense. During the next several years there will be massive retirements of skilled and experiences engineers, and the United States has one of the lowest rates of graduation of bachelor-level engineers in the world: only 4.5 percent of our university graduates are engineers. The issue is especially acute in the national security industry because of citizenship requirements. Perhaps even more critical, the pace of technological change continues to accelerate, making the specifics of engineering education and skill development obsolete in short order. A critical part of our corporate and national strategy to address this looming crisis should be to ramp up the quality of engineers' professional life, improve their capacity to innovate, and widen their fields of opportunity.
A project-framing workshop was organized by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in partnership with the National Academy of Engineering in June 2009 to examine the issues relevant to lifelong learning in engineering. A UIUC research team then conducted a survey-based assessment of the issues identified in the 2009 workshop. Preliminary findings from the UIUC study were examined more fully. Lifelong Learning Imperative in Engineering reflects the opinions of the authors based on the UIUS team's survey analysis and learning from the discussions at the 2011 workshop.
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VS Seeker (Japanese: バトルサーチャー Battle Searcher) is a Trainer card. It is part of the EX FireRed & LeafGreen expansion.
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This card was originally released in the EX FireRed & LeafGreen expansion with artwork by K. Utsunomiya. It was reprinted in the Supreme Victors expansion with new artwork by Wataru Kawahara.
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What is your point? I was wrong? Ok. You win. I was wrong.
Lack of sellouts by the Bucs disproves that theory.
No one in Tampa is driving across the bridge in the middle of the week on a work night. That's why it needs to be in Tampa ....simply more people close by.
Quote from: Morgan on August 16, 2013, 08:11:28 AMLack of sellouts by the Bucs disproves that theory.Apples and oranges . It takes 65,000 to sell-out ray-jay and there are other factors like a team that hasn't made the playoffs in nearly a decade...


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Feb 16, 2013Playful, patient and finally poignant, Schreier's deceptively placid odd-couple winner runs the risk of looking minor. But it carefully exceeds expectation, helped in no small measure by Langella's wily, wistful lead.
An enjoyable diversion, a lightweight bit of philosophizing that blends humor with the bittersweet. It won't likely stick in your memory for too terribly long.
There's a terrific balance between human comedy and just-this-side-of-science-fiction in Robot & Frank.
This is director Jake Schreier's first feature, and, working from a script by Christopher D. Ford, he creates an inviting world.
What a weird, winning little movie is Robot & Frank, which explores what happens to the essential self as the memory goes. Oh, and it's a heist picture. With robot butlers. I'm not sure I've ever seen anything quite like it.
Robot & Frank occasionally strains for emotion and stretches credulity, even for such fantasy circumstances. But it has two hearts - one human, one not - in the right place, and intelligence that is anything but artificial.
Langella's performance turns what might have been a "Twilight Zone"-style trifle into something more: a movie about a proud, ornery man combating his fearfulness.
The concept is schematic and predictable, and watching first-rate actors - the cast includes Susan Sarandon as a local librarian - doing third-rate material is a dubious pleasure.
Everything about Robot & Frank is as unlikely as it is irresistible. Charming, playful and sly, it makes us believe that a serene automaton and a snappish human being can be best friends forever.
Robot & Frank isn't sure whether it's a comedy or drama, buddy movie or sci-fi fantasy, family melodrama or social satire.
This is a framework that could have benefitted from more irony and complexity, especially with the resources of Langella, but at the end, I felt the movie was too easily satisfied.
At heart, Frank & Robot is, true to its title, a buddy movie about the complicated relationship between a thief and his mechanized sidekick (a sleek, white, helmeted creature voiced with unsettling politeness by Peter Sarsgaard). But it's also a rueful and funny reflection on aging, death, parenthood, and technology.
The feature directorial debut of Jake Schreier, has a smart script by C.D. Ford and an impressive supporting cast.
Robot & Frank is such a sly, dry, modest-seeming picture – part science fiction, part social satire, part geriatric comedy – that you don't realize how well it works until it's over.
Frank Langella plays so many variations on cute and crotchety and with such suppleness - he's by turns a charming codger, a silver fox and a wise graybeard - that his performance comes close to a saving grace.
While the premise certainly makes it stand out from the sea of dysfunctional family dramas, a cute idea alone doesn't quite cut it. In the end it's just not funny enough to be completely entertaining and the sentiment feels tacked on.
It also addresses questions of aging and neglect that Hollywood likes to run from. Langella, who's played everyone from Dracula to Nixon onscreen, is giving a master class in acting. Enroll now.
What I'm saying is that I resisted the film but it won me over, a little more than I care to admit.
Robot & Frank, like its protagonist, is charming enough to get by with the sleight-of-hand. Its irresponsibility redeems it - it's a raspberry blown against the dying of the light.
The pleasure of watching the star sling barbs at Sarsgaard's sandpaper-dry android, shyly court sexy librarian Susan Sarandon and rage against geriatric befuddlement doesn't offset what's essentially a mediocre character study dipped in sci-fi conventions and Social Security–age sentimentality.
Robot and Frank succeeds where "Ted" fails because, unlike McFarlane, Schreier and Ford render the relationship between the human character and the robot in largely credible terms.
Aug 14, 2012Christopher D. Ford's film is nothing more than a Lifetime movie dolled up in cheap Philip K. Dick drag.
Robot & Frank reminds quirk-hardened veterans that an odd premise and big heart don't have to add up to too-precious awards bait.
Aug 11, 2012Debuting helmer Jake Schreier, screenwriter Christopher D. Ford and a wry and wily Frank Langella all shine in a smart, plausible and resonant film.
Schreier elicits warm performances from Langella and Susan Sarandon, and even from his robot (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard).
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Sep 3, 2012Frank Langella plays a retired cat burglar who's starting to lose his memory. His concerned son buys him a service robot (this is the near future), which is greeted with disdain… Full Review »
Jul 19, 2014Robot & Frank was an alright movie. It's not what I expected, but it wasn't a complete waste of time watching it. Frank Langella was a great actor, so was Susan Sarandon. But then there was Liv Tyler...… Full Review »
Mar 17, 2014Great film with a great, touching story. Frank's relationship with the robot was both inspiring and depressing. Frank's relationship with his children seemed inconsistent, at it was never really clear whether or not they even liked each other. It also seemed to base Frank's character too much on old age stereotypes. Aside from the inconsistencies and unoriginal character portrayal, it was still an excellent film.… Full Review »


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12:00pm Friday 13th June 2014 in Sport By James Barrett
Carshalton Athletic midfielder Lewis Taylor is putting the past behind him to join Margate, where he will team up with the man who broke his cheek.
Charlie Wassmer was suspended for two games by the Blues following an alleged headbutt on Taylor at the end of the Ryman Premier clash at Colston Avenue in April.
Margate described the incident as "unacceptable" but Taylor now insists it is not an issue.
He said: "The incident has been spoken about and it has all been left in the past.
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Taylor, who rejoined the Robins last October and made 27 appearances during a season which ended in relegation, also admitted that the lure of joining big-spending Margate was too great to turn down.
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Taylor, who has also had spells with AFC Wimbledon and Kingstonian, said: "I have known manager Terry Brown a long time and we had an in-depth chat.
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3.75/5 rDev -3.4%
03-15-2014 17:28:51 | More by spycow
3.75/5 rDev -3.4%
01-11-2013 18:35:38 | More by westcoastbeerlvr
4.25/5 rDev +9.5%
Fair classification as an American Impy Stout - it seems very American to brew a Belgian themed Imperial Stout...
Tried on tap at the Local Taphouse's July AleStars evening with Murray's head brewer Shawn Sherlock.
Pours a deep and roasted black colour, very thick in the body with a toasty brown crust of head. The head could be a little creamier methinks, but it looks extremely big, rich and tasty nonetheless.
Big and rich on the nose, but with definite Belgian yeast characters. Noticetably, some banana esters, lightened, perhaps more like crushed banana leaf, and something dry and dusty with dark cocoa. Extremely interesting.
Taste is great - big, unapologetic and boozy, but leavened with the Belgian yeast character coming through to round out the palate a little. Some phenols and a light cherry acetone character. Bitter roasted finish, but again, this is tempered by the yeast nicely. The sugar probably dries it out a bit as well. Shawn mentions chocolate on the palate, but I don't get a lot of that - the sweetness comes from the leavening easters of the Belgian yeast, and the lighter body which ensures the palate doesn't get overwhelmed.
Very nice brew. Very dark but leavened. Hard not to compare this to the Wild Thing, which I prefer, but the Wild Thing is more straight down unapologetically heavy and rich. I think the Heart of Darkness more drinkable for its relative lightness, but maybe not as intense, and groinally stimulating.
07-16-2010 05:33:15 | More by lacqueredmouse
4/5 rDev +3.1%
08-11-2013 03:14:06 | More by tobelerone
4.1/5 rDev +5.7%
Very dark black with a moderate sized, tan head. Fair head retention.
Rounded, fruity esters with mild, sweet chocolate and a touch of roast. Mild citrus. All in all an interesting aroma.
Smooth, mild roast with some slightly bitter chocolate and mild fruity esters. There is a bit of a citrussy hop note here too. On the whole this is a complex and smooth Imperial Stout. Like a fruity version of Wild Thing.
Medium-full body with moderate carbonation. Good.
A solid effort from Murray's with a nice fruitiness adding depth and complexity to the stout.
06-06-2011 10:47:35 | More by dgilks
3.85/5 rDev -0.8%
Pours a heavily dark brown, almost pitch black with a mahogany tinge up to the light. Head is modest, sitting a long time in the glass but retaining a small half-finger's worth. Beige in colour. Lace is pretty decent, cascades slowly down and thick. Beautiful-looking stout.
Oh yeah, that's exactly the nose I was expecting. Lots of dark chocolate character with mild espresso bitterness. But lots of Belgian phenolic spice creeping up from behind. Slight green apple note with some vanilla and mild white peppery spice. Slightly sour with a milkiness to it as well, yeah great array of character but also great balance between the dark stout aroma and the Belgian spice notes.
Taste is...interesting. At first sip it seems a bit weak. Dark roasty notes that seem to swim a bit at first as though they're not pronounced enough. Mild espresso notes with unsweetened chocolate develop into a weak mid-palate but then go strong and roasty with growing strength on the back palate. Slight charcoaly bitterness that never quite reaches full burnt potential. It has a sweetness on the finish with hints of warming alcohol. But yeah, interesting. To my mind its weakest point is on the mid for sure. The finish makes it interesting but there is definitely a 'black spot' for flavour in the middle.
Swish mouthfeel. Pretty slick for something with such a high ABV. Good weight to the body but still maintains a nice fluidity. Very nice.
A strong-flavoured ale with a sweetness that makes it downable. Nice stout notes with a lot to like. I would suggest if it didn't have that flavour gap in the middle it might be less drinkable.
07-09-2010 06:18:10 | More by laituegonflable
Ontario (Canada)
3.73/5 rDev -3.9%
A - Pours black with a one finger mocha head that fades fast. Specs of lace and no retention.
S - Aromas of Belgian yeast, dark fruits, and chocolate. Interesting.
T - Lot's of sweet malt, chocolate, dark fruits, and Belgian yeast esters. Pretty interesting stuff.
M - Really smooth with nice carbonation, a full body, and a sweet finish.
O/D - While not being overly complex, Murray's has done a good job of constructing a beer that is flavourful and smooth. The incorporation of the Belgian yeast definitely sets it apart from other Australian examples of the style. A good one.
08-04-2012 11:34:28 | More by tbeckett
3.75/5 rDev -3.4%
10-01-2013 17:00:20 | More by francisweizen
3.9/5 rDev +0.5%
Pours pitch black with a large, tan head.
Nose shows chocolate, vanilla, roasted malt, liquorice and oats, alongside spicy phenols and higher alcohols.
Very similar flavours; quite sweet at first before the roasted malt bitterness and soft alcohol make their presence felt. Lots more liquorice, roast and spicy Belgian notes. Seems a little brash though.
Could use higher, creamier carbonation.
08-25-2012 01:08:37 | More by CrazyDavros
3.2/5 rDev -17.5%
Another cool beer from BobbyHeenan. Cheers!
From a bottle into a snifter
Belgio Imperial Stout
APPEARANCE: A clear black pour yields a half finger, medium looking, tan head with good retention. Black body with medium levels of carbonation evident. Head fades to a decent wisp, but only a slight wisp remains until the end leaving dots of lacing down the glass. Could be a bit darker for the style, but solid head.
SMELL: Chocolate malts, light notes of leather, some light caramel, and some spicy notes from the yeast. Okay. Medium strength.
TASTE: Some spicy yeast notes, chocolate and leather up front. Moves to a spicy and yeasty finish with a bold and lingering aftertaste of chocolate, toffee, spicy yeast, with leather and tobacco flavors as well. Flavorful and definitely Belgian in style.
PALATE: Slightly thinner body with higher levels of carbonation. A bit airy on the palate, goes down okay and finishes slightly sticky. Some spicy yeast lingers on the palate.
OVERALL: Definitely Belgian, but not really a stout. This can be more accurately described was a Belgian strong dark ale with some chocolate malt thrown in for good measure. Still, as it is, it's a good beer and well worth checking out if you get the chance. Cheers BobbyHeenan.
07-08-2014 15:21:48 | More by Jeffo
3.5/5 rDev -9.8%
01-01-2014 08:34:37 | More by bmwats
3.73/5 rDev -3.9%
A - Pours a very dark brown/borderline black with 3cm of dark tan head that slowly falls away leaving a bit of lacing.
S - The aroma is a mixture of stewed fruits, bitter cocoa, some light Belgian phenols with a waft of alcohol.
T - The alcohol comes through more in the taste along with more bittersweet cocoa nothes and Belgian yeast character.
M - Medium to full bodied with a medium level of carbonation.
D - Not something to session but well worth trying. Hoping I'll get to try it again.
07-28-2010 02:05:00 | More by brendan13
4.03/5 rDev +3.9%
On-tap at Murrays at Manly
Pours a black body, tan small head that dies to a film. Lacing good.
Aromas are subdued due to serving temp - a little roast, a little choc.
Taste is very complex with roast, chocolate, coffee. Integrated fruits balance out the roast flavours.
Mouthfeel is medium to hevyweight but not oily. Carbonation reasonably high.
Overall, the best of the three RISs on tap.
09-03-2012 03:57:34 | More by heygeebee
4.05/5 rDev +4.4%
Drank from my Stella tulip. Drank at room temperature.
A - Pours deep MAhogany almost Ebony colour, with a one fingered head that reduces to a film and laces the glass
S - Aromas are of spicey sugars and soem dark stewed fruit.
T - Taste up front is somewhat spicey and gives way to some nice cocoa and malt flavours the finish is a little bitter. There are some interesting toffee flavours to compliment the brew. The booze is very well hidden.
M - Full body and medium to low carbonation, and kind of oily.
O - I really enjoyed this beer, it does have some Belgian Royal stout carachteristics but is a long way short of Black Albert.
07-23-2011 17:03:51 | More by eric5bellies
3.63/5 rDev -6.4%
Note: listed as a American Double/ Imperial Stout, off the website it is listed as a Belgian Style Imperial Stout. Either way...
Had on Tap and in Growler format
A-- Poured reddish black, settling black with just a few tints of red on the sides and top of the glass. Just a bit of carbonation bubbles on the sides of the glass. Very short lived head that was a deep dark brown sugar color, became just a layer of film but had good head retention. Spotty but good lacing.
S-- Chocolate, lots of chocolate, sweet Belgian Chocolate, some bitter baking chocolate, and some coco powder. There is also a fruity quality to this. Think this is crossed with the Murrays Grand Cru. Get green apple and green banana with the smell. More like a chocolate fondue with apple and banana.
T-- When I tasted this at the brewery I first thought it was the Grand Cru but with chocolate. Very sweet, bitter chocolate, thick and a alcohol burn to this.
M-- Medium carbonation and medium to heavy bodied. Lots of chocolate in the mouth, bitter chocolate. Has a bit of an AVB spice burn to this. Thick and coating in the mouth on all levels.
D-- Would go back up and get another growler. It is good but not real keen on the Triple sweetness in this. Really like the full on chocolate but this could something like oak to smooth out the alcohol feel and taste. The 9.6 on the first beer I had at the brewery went straight to my head. Good beer and a very different attempt at an Imperial Stout.
07-05-2010 12:18:40 | More by mulder1010
4/5 rDev +3.1%
09-30-2012 23:57:16 | More by BdubleEdubleRUN
4.75/5 rDev +22.4%
09-18-2012 08:09:56 | More by mungus
4.5/5 rDev +16%
03-03-2013 08:24:24 | More by Rwalford74
3.85/5 rDev -0.8%
A - Pours black in colour looking almost like oil with a tan head that dissipates immediately to leave a thin film.
S - Roasted coffee with some chocolate, sweet malts and get a slight hint of vanilla.
T - Get alot of that roasted coffee and chocolate malts, some stewed dark fruits with a hint of liquorice that balances out beautifully.
M - Full bodied with medium carbonation
O - A fantastic stout and of the better ones from Murrays. Really like the chocolate/coffee malt character that is not too overpowering is balanced nicely. A must try.
08-27-2012 10:04:53 | More by PolarBear3
4/5 rDev +3.1%
06-06-2012 12:13:15 | More by MordeciaFunk
New York
3.2/5 rDev -17.5%
Appearance - Low head retention, light brown hue to head, dark brown colour, moderate carbonation
Smell - Chocolate, blackcurrant, cherry, malty, floral, alcohol presence
Taste - Fruit and dark berries, under-ripe cherries, over ripe plums, sweet, dried fruit, raisins, cognac like alcohol presence, slightly tart fruitiness. Bitterness in finish.
Mouthfeel - Lacks body, moderate carbonation, heavy fruit and alcohol
Drinkability - Heavy beer, doesn't sit well, lacks body
Overall - Unbalanced, too tart. Drinkable beer, good in ways, but has it's flaws
11-22-2011 13:26:03 | More by davidfoley
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Pat Rose, a former government manatee biologist who is now executive director of the Save the Manatee Club, said he could not recall another time when manatees were being killed under similar circumstances on both coasts at the same time.
Since last July, 55 manatees have died of similar symptoms in the Indian River Lagoon area -- 25 of them in just the past month, according to Kevin Baxter, a spokesman for the state's Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg.
"They have not been able to determine what the cause is," Baxter said Monday.
There is no Red Tide bloom on the East Coast, and the winter has not been cold enough to kill off more than a few manatees.
They suspect the deaths are connected to back-to-back blooms of a different kind of harmful algae, one that has stained the Indian River Lagoon a chocolate brown.
Over the past two years the blooms wiped out thousands of acres of sea grass in the 156-mile-long lagoon. Manatees eat sea grass, but with the sea grass gone, they may have turned to other, less healthful sources of nutrition.
The manatees that have turned up dead on the East Coast all appeared to have gone into shock and drowned after they "ingested large amounts of macroalgae," Baxter said. "Our researchers are thinking the deaths are related to some kind of dietary change."
"A big part of it is that there's just not that much left for them to feed on," Rose said. "The system is way out of balance."
Rose blamed the Indian River Lagoon's toxic algae blooms on nutrient pollution from storm runoff. The runoff carries into the waterways excess fertilizer, sewage and animal waste that fuels the growth of some kinds of algae.
Although scientists suspect something similar fuels Red Tide blooms too, they lack the evidence to prove it. Red Tide, an algae bloom that turns the water the color of rust and releases toxins that kill fish, dolphins and manatees, has killed more than 180 manatees so far this year in Lee County. That breaks the 1996 record of 151.
State biologists estimate the total Florida manatee population to be between 4,000 and 5,000. Manatees have been on the federal endangered species list since the list was created in 1967. They have been protected by state law since 1893.
Information from: Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, Fla.), http://www.tampabay.com.


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|Suever retiring as assistant director at Delphos library
|Monday, December 24, 2012 9:35 AM
DELPHOS — After working for the Delphos Public Library for 27 years, Assistant Director Margaret Suever is retiring.
Having only been in that position for 14 years of that time, Suever spent the other 13 trying almost every other library position on for size.
"I've done just about everything you can think of here," she said. "Well, everything except cataloguing. It seems like the years have passed really fast."
"I just needed a job at the time. My youngest kid had just started school, so I started to look for something," she said. "There was an opening here and it just worked out."
Suever made the decision to retire due to the upcoming changes in the retirement system. She says she will find plenty to keep her busy.
"I thought I might look for another job," she said. "Also, everyone keeps saying I'm going to clean out all the closets and drawers, which is true. That's something you never have time to do. I also do a lot of crafts and sewing at home, just something I do for me. I won't be doing any baking because then I'd be as big as a house. It always sounds good but when you bake, someone has to eat it and it would probably have to be me."
Suever's last official day at the library was Thursday. She says there are things she will miss about spending time there.
"I'll miss the people; that's my favorite part of the job. You really get to know the patrons working here," she added. "Who am I going to talk to now besides my husband? One thing I won't miss is working nights and weekends but then, who would miss that?"
Suever lives in Middle Point with her husband, Donald. They have three grown children and one grandchild.
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Fishing report for Jan. 31, 2011by
What's biting in area waters:
St. Lucie County
Guide Mark Dravo reports spotted seatrout continue to bite well on live shrimp and soft plastic jerkbaits along the flats on the east bank north of the inlet. Snook, flounder and snapper are the targeted species inside the Fort Pierce Inlet. Live mullet and pinfish are working for snook and live shrimp and cut bait are enticing the flounder and snapper. Bluefish and Spanish mackerel are hitting spoons and jigs along the beach even further offshore.
Martin County
Snook Nook in Jensen Beach reports dolphin were hitting earlier last week in 300 feet, weighing up to 25 pounds, hitting ballyhoo with blue and white skirts. Spotted seatrout up to 5 pounds and slot-size redfish are hitting on the east and west bank of the Indian River. Use small plastic jerkbaits in 3- to 4-inch, D.O.A. Baitbuster or Yo-Zuri Crystal Minnows to entice a strike. Bluefish and large jacks are being caught of the Jensen Causeway on jigs and cut bait.-
Northern Palm Beach County
Captain Ernie Small on the Baby Grand reports the sailfish and dolphin bite seem to be consistent when anglers can get out between the wind and rough seas. Bill Taylor on the Black Dog reports bottom fishing for mutton and yellowtail snapper continues to show good numbers. Small jigs tipped with a cut strip of squid is a great lure for enticing snapper to strike. Juno Beach Pier has seen plenty of bluefish and an occasional cobia being caught.
Southern Palm Beach County
Anglers on the Southern Comfort Charters are catching kingfish up to 20 pounds and 20 to 30 yellowtail snapper per trip during the morning trips off Boynton Inlet. Perks Bait and Tackle reports mutton and yellowtail snapper in 85 feet north and south of the Boynton Inlet hitting frozen sardines and cut squid. Wahoo are hitting deep trolled baits and lures in 180 to 220 feet. Bluefish, jacks, Spanish mackerel and a few pompano are being caught off the beaches and inside the Boynton Inlet. Mangrove snapper and sandperch continue to hit live and frozen shrimp along the seawall.
Freshwater Lakes
Bluegill are being found all around the grass edges of Lake Osborne, hitting grass shrimp and crickets and small jigs. Lake Ida and Osborne chain has been full of small bass around most of the lakes' edges. Water clarity is excellent. However, thick hydrilla mats are making it hard to fish the lakes' edges. Bass are hitting on live shad and shiners among grass beds and vegetation where the water clarity is better.
Lake Okeechobee
The water surface is 12.39 feet above sea level. Look for bass on beds in 1 to 3 feet around vegetation. Live shiners are the best suggestion for targeting bass. White spinnerbaits and Carolina rigs near flowing open water areas seem to be fooling bass over 5 pounds. Smaller bass are hitting plastics near grassy edges. Speckled perch are starting to show up all around the rim canal.
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Updated 4:36pm Friday 5th April 2013 in News By Geoff Barnes, Geoff Barnes
BEATLES music was denied to the youth of Russia for decades when the Soviet authorities banned it as bourgeois and subversive.
But reaction to a new Beatles book, describing people's personal contacts with John, Paul, George and Ringo, has demonstrated that the Russian people's passion for the Fab Four never waned despite the clampdown.
The Beatles and Me, compiled by Dean Johnson from Birkenhead, is set to become a best-seller in Russia after being featured in a national television report.
A camera crew from Zvezda (meaning The Star) TV visited Liverpool to interview Dean and to capture fabled Beatles landmarks in the city.
Dean said: "Liverpool represents a magical land to the Russians. It is the birthplace of a revolution in music created by The Beatles.
"Since we appeared on Soviet television the interest in the book there has been amazing."
The Beatles and Me is thought to be the first publication to feature recollections and pictures of the fans themselves.
Among them was a submission from Bob Dylan fan Chris Hockenhull who met George Harrison in Mathew Street, Liverpool in 1996.
Merseysider Chris recalled that George was with his wife Olivia and he was wearing a big black overcoat and scarf.
He said: "At first I didn't recognise him. George was very laid back and he had a cold. He had been visiting people up here. I bought them a drink and they bought me one.
"I remember his unassuming smile and the fact he listened – he was a good listener.
"I am lucky to have met him on that cold, drizzly day."
The Beatles and Me was published on March 22 – the 50th anniversary of the release of the first Beatles album Please Please Me.
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The Tao of Tilda Swinton
In the film Julia, Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton plays an alcoholic turned sloppy extortionist when she kidnaps a young boy and holds him for ransom. With her layered, spot-on performance, she transforms a train wreck of a woman into someone who's kind of sympathetic.
Ladies' Home Journal: There are scenes in this film where we're just watching Julia self-destruct. How do you prepare for a role like that?
Tilda Swinton: Well, it's a very practical business, really. Erick [Zonca, the director] was looking for something very precise, real, and documentary in feel, which means that nothing can feel stylized or fake. So knowing that, my main preparation was simply to look as if I had been living at large for 20 years...and once I had a few extra pounds, wearing clothes that were too tight, heels that were too high, and too much makeup, it was really very straightforward.
LHJ: You have to play drunk a lot during this film, which I've heard actors say is very difficult to do without going overboard.
TS: [Laughing] My direction was to go overboard. When it came time to do all the really drunk stuff, I was a little apprehensive because I'm not a good drunk myself. If I drink, I fall asleep or throw up. I'm not the kind of rolling, energetic drunk that Julia is. Then I suddenly realized that I've been pretending to be drunk all my life without actually having drunk anything. When I've been hanging out with my glorious drunk friends, I'm perfectly sober so that I can call the cops when the neighbors tell everybody to turn the music down. And I'm the designated driver.


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Labor Day Pop Quiz: What Are We Really Celebrating This Weekend?
Most people only think of Labor Day as a nice excuse for long weekend, the beginning of fall, or the start of football season. But it's actually one of the most controversial American holidays, a celebration of the unionized laborers -- who made America strong.


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Update: Call for U's fans to unite after Kassam sale talks (From Herald Series)
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Update: Call for U's fans to unite after Kassam sale talks
10:53am Friday 4th January 2013 in News By Damian Fantato, Council Reporter, also covering Oxford city centre. Call me on 01865 425429
THE chairman of Oxford United's supporters group has urged U's fans to unite following the news that London Welsh are looking into buying the Kassam Stadium.
Mark Sennett said: "This is a call to arms for Oxford United fans so I would urge them to join us and get their voice heard."
He added he wanted U's fans to oppose the move.
London Welsh moved to Oxford last summer and it has now emerged they are holding talks with the stadium's owner Firoz Kassam.
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Boycott games?
Make your voices heard to who? LW,IL,Kassaam?we dont own the stadium,we have first option but havent got the cash,so Kassaam can sell to LW if he wants.
He wanted £12mill with just Oxford paying rent,he will want a lot more now.
Negotiating and buying are 2 different things,dont expect any sale in the near future.
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If you feel you or someone else would be more representative, please feel free to join up and stand for election next AGM!
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I still think he is a jinx to our club and his name, maybe our luck will change in 2013, it is about time we had some good luck.
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Other than his inconveniently similar name, I usually have no beef with Tom Slee. His blog provides a reliably interesting perspective on how information technology is and isn't changing democracy. But I think that yesterday's post (the provocatively-titled "Why the 'Open Data Movement' is a Joke") suffers from a lack of perspective. And, since other smart people appear ready to accept its premises and conclusions, it seems worthwhile to respond to it in detail.
What Do We Stand For?
Tom's critique begins by noting the Canadian government's failure to stand behind the work of its scientists, and its decision to eliminate a valuable type of census data. The open data movement, Slee says, has not done much to oppose these developments.
I'll admit that Sunlight's attention does not often stray as far north as Ottawa, and protecting science from politics has never been a core part of our mission (though we often find ourselves at the table with people who work on the issue). But here in the U.S. the open data movement absolutely has engaged in activism to protect valuable and threatened information. Our Save The Data Campaign is a good example of this, as is the push (led primarily by the library sciences community) to save the Statistical Abstract.
Open Data and the Private Sector
But the core of Tom's complaint isn't about episodic failures of activism. Rather, he seems to be bothered by open data enthusiasts' adoption of language and an aesthetic that traditionally belong to projects with more expressly political (and progressive) aims. He seems suspicious that a self-described nonpartisan activist movement could be anything but a cynical lobbying ploy for private interests. Indeed, there's a clear strain of hostility toward business that runs through Tom's critique. Fair enough: more than a few such "movements" have turned out to be astroturfing operations, and it's certainly true that on some open data issues I expect a less than enthusiastic response from the corporate world.
But I think it's flatly wrong to consider private actors' interest in public data to be uniformly problematic. We should be clear: we won't tolerate those interests' occasional attempts to lock public data into exclusive monopolies. I think our community has done a pretty good job lately of identifying such situations and stopping them, and of course people like Carl Malamud have been doing important work on this question since well before most of us ever heard of "open data." But if commercial activity is enabled by data, that's all to the good—the great thing about digital information is that scarcity doesn't have to be a concern. Google Maps' uses of Census TIGER data, for instance, is proprietary, motivated by profit, and unquestionably a huge boon to human welfare. And the source data remains free for anyone else to use! Cutting off those kinds of uses with noncommercial licensing would be nothing more than a destructive act of pique.
The Big Tent
It is true that some people are primarily interested in open data for its commercial potential. I'm not one of them, particularly. But I'm very glad to have them on my side as I seek data that can enable oversight and accountability. This tension is thoughtfully discussed in Harlan Yu and David Robinson's recent paper, and was one of the subjects covered in a thought-provoking session moderated by Yu, Josh Tauberer and Justin Grimes at last weekend's Transparency Camp.
The paper discusses different dimensions of the open government movement, which I would characterize as "open-as-in-data.gov" and "open-as-in-FOIA". It's certainly possible to separate these strains of thought, but, as I argued in Saturday's conversation, doing so is likely to be politically counterproductive. Consider the case of the free software movement. Can there be any question that Richard Stallman's radical political project has benefited from consumers' pragmatically-minded enthusiasm for downloading Firefox? Stallman would be the first to explain the difference between his efforts and the less ideologically strident open source movement, but it seems obvious to me that our software is freer today than it would be in the absence of that useful ambiguity.
Open data's big-tent strategy naturally means gravitating toward noncontroversial points of agreement (everyone's in favor of weather data!). This can admittedly make the public face of the movement seem a bit too eager-to-please—perhaps even to the point of toothlessness. For Sunlight, this is a constant question: if the government releases a new site that simply reshuffles some existing datasets into a new presentation, should we raise hell? Or should we applaud their embrace of openness in the hopes that it will help to define future attitudes and expectations? That's a political question, and one that we answer in different ways at different times.


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I started working there last summer with a graduate student. I was working with him and learning about research. I'm now taking a research seminar at Boulder High, and I'm researching the diffusion of proteins out of hydro-gels.
That seems like an advanced topic for a high school
It's a lot to learn, because these are graduate students who've had a lot more time. I've learned a lot by reading scientific papers and going to group meetings, and just by being there and talking to the students. It's been amazing.
Why do you like studying science?
I just think science in general is amazing because of how much it allows us to understand and discover about the world. This has been my first really big jump into really high-level science. I think it's incredible how many disciplines of science you can combine in the Anseth lab to make these discoveries. The collaboration that it involves is amazing.
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I play viola in the Boulder High orchestra. I started viola in fifth grade. I do it for fun. It's just really fun to connect with the orchestra. The collaboration we do is really neat. You play your own instrument, but you have to connect with everyone else. Learning those collaboration skills through orchestra and applying them in my internship has been a really important life skill. I also play piano. I've been doing that for 11 years.
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I run cross-country and play ultimate Frisbee. I actually just started doing ultimate. I thought that it would be fun, and I have some friends who are really into it. It's been a lot of fun.
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I would love to be researching and working together with a group of interesting scientists. At this point, I'm not sure in what, but I'm really interested in chemistry, physics and engineering. Some sort of interdisciplinary research would be incredible.


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Harry Potter could find himself disappearing from the library shelves at Springfield [Missouri] Public Schools. That's because someone has filed a complaint with the district asking that the books be removed because of content involving witchcraft.


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Original post made by Paul Losch on Feb 23, 2011
We bitch and moan here in PA about traffic and trees.
In other parts of the state and the country, people's livelihoods are in jeopardy. Much of it due to stupid policies elected officials agreed to 20 or more years ago. They had the first chance to kick the proverbial can.
We are at the start of a process where we acknowledge we have a problem, actually a set of problems. They will not be solved easily or in one fell swoop.
I contrast what our local and state governments are faced with and of what transpiring across Northen Africa and countries in the Middle East.
Oppressive regimes are getting challenged, and I sense will get toppled. It is the Facebook generation that is bringing it about. Well educated, underemployed people who view their countries' leadership as working from the past and uninformed about the present, let alone the future.
So how come our Facebook generation isn't engaged in our local communities?
on Feb 23, 2011 at 11:49 pm
There are enough career or education or family opportunities to keep most of the "Facebook generation" happy or at least satisfied with their lives. The rest of them are not smart or well led or angry enough to start their own revolution. This ain't the 60s anymore when an unpopular war and mandatory draft and very obvious domestic inequality really got the kids organized.
on Feb 24, 2011 at 12:41 am
The nature of people these days is changing. The very nature of our lives creates differences that effect even the structure of our brains. 50 years ago we had the family, 30 years ago the nuclear family, and now we have a lot of single people that are isolated and more comfortable interfacing to the world through technology. A study in a book I read said that 30 years ago the average for a person was 3 good friends, confidants, people they could take to and were intimate with. Today that number is between 0 and 1, meaning that most people are completely alone, and our lack of support for community and our lack of social support systems is theorized by some to produce a low-level stress that causes humans to die earlier. See "Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?".
I would say that the technology has been a real tool of political indoctrination, combined with powerful psychological PR and marketing techniques there is little value perceived by our brains, "economically", in complaining or being political, when the framework is mostly about being trained to be selfish. We are so busy trying to compete and survive, being "political" that there is little bandwidth in the brain to devote to depth of knowledge or character.
We are hard at work changing the environment and the genetics of plants and animals, but we don't think about how we are changing the topography of people's minds, and engineering their habits to fit into the market, consumer and producer.
Human beings came out of world where we grew out brain's complexity to deal the first "social network" to compete in our environment better ... the book "Baboon Metaphysics" talks about how primates need to remember complex relationships between populations, because of politics. Today our survival depends on not being predated by our own kind ... that is we have to be political, but we have no reference to real people for that, so we've replace people, with corporations, and become apolitical because there is too much to know, too much history, too many facts, too much noise, and rational study and knowledge is severely undervalued. In other words we are morphing hard and fast away from being democratic in the US.
This has progressed to the point that our "social engineering technology" seems to be only used to manipulate, exploit or trick us in the United States to serving large economic interests that only seems to serve the people who own them at the top. We are not used to cooperating, and our political programming seems to take as a given that cooperation is bad and competes with the shadow authoritarian hierarchy that prefers to remain invisible and unconcsious lest it become a subject of study with words and concepts that develop to analyze the system and its effects on people.
on Feb 24, 2011 at 7:09 am
Sorry, Paul, if you do not see the differences between the countries in the Middle East and our form of government here, there is no point in even entering into a discussion with you.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-- Illinois Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka has requested a legal review of the governor's decision to use his amendatory veto power to stop compensation for General Assembly members.
Topinka released the following statement after Governor Quinn's announcement on Wednesday morning.
"While I understand and appreciate the Governor's focus on pension reform, real questions have been raised about the legality of his action. Specifically, Section 11 of our State Constitution states that 'changes in the salary of a member shall not take effect during the term for which he has been elected.' Therefore, I have requested a legal review which should be completed before lawmakers are scheduled to receive their next paychecks on August 1, 2013."


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A Bremerton man disbarred by order of the state Supreme Court in a 2010 decision authored by Justice Debra Stephens is now running against Stephens.
John Scannell filed for office Thursday and will show up on the ballot as John (Zamboni) Scannell. He lost the right to practice law after the Washington State Bar Association said he failed to cooperate with a disciplinary investigation into conflict-of-interest allegations.
Scannell would likely not be able to serve if elected. Judges are required to be lawyers. The bar association said Scannell remains disbarred.
In other Thursday filings, U.S. Rep. Adam Smith faces a challenge from a fellow Democrat, Don Rivers of Seattle. Smith of Bellevue represents a mostly King County district that extends south to Tacoma.
U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert picked up a second Democratic challenger. Keith Arnold of Auburn works for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He also challenged Reichert two years ago but did not raise money and lost in the primary election.
Arnold filed late Thursday to take on Auburn Republican Reichert and Issaquah Democrat Jason Ritchie in the district that straddles the Cascades and includes East Pierce County.
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If you feel scandalized by sex and pop culture this week, consider this: It was 41 years ago that Marlo Thomas and her friends put out an album called "Free to Be . . . You and Me." GenXers probably still know most of it by heart: an earnest crusade against gender stereotypes, which argued that girls could be doctors and boys should tap into their sensitive sides.
I downloaded it recently, for nostalgia's sake, and tried to play it for my 9-year-old. She wasn't interested. She's more into Miley Cyrus.