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Softball starts week Wednesday at Florida A&M
The Jacksonville University softball team will be on the diamond a lot this week starting Wednesday with a single game at Florida A&M in Tallahassee, Fla., at 6 p.m.
Following the road contest, the Dolphins (7-3) will host Seton Hall, Delaware, South Alabama and Mount St. Mary's in six games for a tournament at the JU Softball Complex beginning Friday.
"This is going to be a long week for us," JU head coach Ali Higgs said. "We have some tough competition, but as long as we do the little things right, we will be successful. Overall, we are ready to get going."
Last week, the Dolphins won four of the first six games at the JU Softball Complex to start the home schedule. They picked up two wins against Stony Brook, while also downing Ohio State and Bethune-Cookman. JU fought but fell to No. 5 Florida and No. 16 Louisville.
Senior Sarah Simon lead the JU offense after hitting .400 (8-20) with six RBI, three home runs and a double. She hit a home run against No. 5 Florida and hit her other two blasts in the wins against Stony Brook and Ohio State.
Sophomore Ashley Simon hit home runs on consecutive days, while freshman Victoria Brown had three doubles and five runs scored after hitting .389 (7-19) in six starts.
Brown also got the win in the circle against the Buckeyes after allowing two unearned runs on six hits and two strikeouts in seven innings. Freshman Cecile Gomez struck out 13 batters in 14 innings of work to get the wins against Stony Brook (2/15) and Bethune-Cookman.
The Lady Rattlers (1-8) lost four of their five games at the UCF Marriott Invitational last weekend. They did manage to knock off South Carolina, 5-4, for their lone win.
This is the second time the Dolphins have played the Lady Rattlers in the last two weeks. JU earned a 4-1 win behind two Sarah Simon home runs on the final day of the Panhandle Invitational on Feb. 10.
On Friday, JU starts its final home tourney against South Alabama (4:15 p.m.) and Seton Hall (6:30 p.m.). They will play Delaware and Mount St. Mary's Saturday beginning at 4:15 p.m. The Dolphins close the tourney Sunday with Seton Hall and South Alabama again starting at 11:15 a.m.
Of the four teams in the tourney, the Dolphins have only played Seton Hall previously before this season. The Pirates own a slight 3-2 edge in the all-time series, but fell to the Dolphins, 10-2, last season in the UCF Tournament.
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It was the offense taking it to the defense during the Idaho Vandals' first scrimmage of the summer on Tuesday.
The offense delivered nine touchdowns in the two hour practice, with four of the scores coming from the arm of Dominque Blackman.
The Vandals' defense ranked dead last in the WAC for passing yards allowed last year. With more than 400 yards given up on Tuesday, it wasn't the start the defense had hoped to see.
"We didn't have the usual energy that we have," said linebacker Thaad Thompson. "Usually we come out excited, ready to play but today we kind of came out a little flat."
"I've seen our defense perform a lot better in previous practices," said coach Robb Akey. "Hopefully this will grip their attention and they'll get after it. I'm glad to see the production that took place on the offensive side of the ball. I think it's a good first step."
Akey still hasn't decided who will be the team's starting quarterback when they step onto the field against Eastern Washington on Aug. 30. Blackman finished with 16 completions, four touchdowns and 181 yards. Taylor Davis was 6-for 14 for 75 yards and a touchdown. Former Coeur d'Alene High School star Chad Chalich had a 17-yard touchdown strike and 88 yards passing.

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The Falcons decided not to use the franchise tag on any of their potential free agents, so three starters on the offensive line — OLG Justin Blalock, ORG Harvey Dahl and ORT Tyson Clabo — could become unrestricted free agents this offseason. Some pegged Clabo, who made the Pro Bowl in 2010, as a candidate for the tag. His salary would have been about $10 million in 2011 with the tag, and while the Falcons would like to have Clabo back, they opted not to pay that steep price for one year of service.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — East Kingston resident Warren Williams narrowly escaped imprisonment after pleading guilty in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court to slashing the throat of a man who allegedly shot at him.
Williams pleaded guilty on Thursday to a charge of assault occasioning bodily harm for slashing the throat of Shawn McIntosh in Warieka Hill, St Andrew on July 30.
Following Williams' guilty plea, attorney Melrose Reid begged the court to impose a non-custodial sentence on her client whom she said had misunderstood the law of self-defence.
"You can't take the law into your own hands," magistrate Lorna Shelly-Williams scolded. "If you have a problem take the matter to the police."
Williams was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. However, Shelly-Williams suspended the sentence for two years.
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She explained to Williams that he would have to serve the 12 months if he is convicted within the two years for a crime for which he could be imprisoned.
The court was told that the man whose throat Williams slashed is currently facing the courts on a gun-related charge.
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EDITORIAL The pace of life under late capitalism seems to be speeding up these days, and so too have the bad news developments and warnings of impending doom come at a more rapid clip, at least according to the headlines over the last couple weeks.
First it was a report from the US Commerce Department showing that corporate profits are at the highest level in 85 years while employee compensation is at its lower level in 65 years. After-tax corporate profits are now 10 percent of gross domestic product (a record high) as a result of the effective corporate tax rate (figuring in loopholes) of 20.5 percent, the lowest tax rates since 1929, not coincidentally when the Great Depression began.
Then came the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, striking a more urgent tone than the four preceding reports as it documents the threats already unfolding and the major social upheaval to come. And then we were hit with the US Supreme Court's 5-4 McCutcheon vs FEC decision, which "eviscerates our nation's campaign finance laws," as Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in his dissent, striking down aggregate contribution caps and giving even more political power to those with the most economic power.
So wealthy individuals and corporations are hoarding more of the nation's resources than ever before, and now they'll be able to spend even more of it to influence and corrupt our already broken political system, weakening its ability to take on big challenges such as addressing global warming because the solutions — including slowing down economic activity (we'll have more on that in next week's issue) and helping poor countries deal with rising seas and social instability — require resources from the greedy rich. Call it self-perpetuating plutocracy, with life as we know it on planet Earth at stake.
Meanwhile, on the local front, a Tenants Together study of the economic displacement now underway in San Francisco found it is mostly real estate speculators who are evicting renters using the Ellis Act, a state law ostensibly designed for letting property owners eventually get out of the rental business. Instead, the report's analysis of eviction data since the Ellis Act was adopted in 1985 showed that 51 percent of Ellis evictions occurred within a year of the property changing hands, 68 percent within five years of new ownership, and 30 percent of Ellis evictions came from serial evictors — all told, displacing 10,000 San Francisco tenants, mostly from rent-controlled housing.
Prohibiting Ellis evictions for the first five years — which is part of Sen. Mark Leno's SB 1439, which had its first hearing this week — is a good idea that will help. But it also feels a bit like sticking a finger in the hole of a crumbling dike, when what we really need is a strong, new, progressive seawall to protect us against the rising tide of plutocracy, or rule by the rich, and its myriad ravages.
Capitalism has been going for centuries. Maybe millenia depending on how you define it. and it is stronger than ever. We've seen communist nations embrace it, socialist nations overhaul it, and :American doesn't even have a left of center party opposed to capitalism.
Meanwhile inequality never made anyone poorer. It just means that a few people who create real wealth and prosperity get rewarded for it. Sounds good to me.
The Revolution is always just around the corner.
The revolution will not be televised because it will never happen.
new owners have a high cost basis and so a building that was viable under a long-time owner no longer is when it resells.
And because some owners are too nice to Ellis, so sell instead, but the only people who can buy those buildings are compelled to Ellis because the numbers are terrible.
But wouldn't those numbers get better if the Ellis Act was repealed and the option of converting rent-controlled housing to other uses was removed? Presumably, the selling price for rent-controlled buildings wouldn't be artificially increased by real estate speculators, thus limiting buyers to those who actually want to be landlords.
It's true that the value of a rent-controlled building would decline if Ellis were repealed, because such a repeal reduces the options available for that building.
So you would be punishing those owner who have no Ellised and yyou would be rewarding those who have already Ellised and sold on. I'm not sure why you'd want that.
Put another way, by devaluing rental buildings you'd be giving a windfall loss to anyone who hasn't found a way of getting rid of his tenants already.
OTOH, it might attract new landlords because now the rental yields would be higher and the buildings more affordable.
If you talk to real landlords, you will learn that the real problem isn't the rents, but the total lack of control you get over your building, potentially forever.
Buy ten miles north, south or east of here, and you have no such problem. So why would anyone run a SF building and tolerate that? It is only because of the greater price appreciation.
So devalue SF buildings and you take away a major reason why folks buy and run them in the first place. In the long term, that means less rentals and higher rents.
How about incentives for landlords who do not Ellis? Say a property tax break?
It's called Prop 13. It's part of the reason the Ellis Act was brought around in the first place, because property taxes are frozen on purchased property which encourages landlords to sit on properties forever instead of return them to market.
Get rid of Prop 13 and the market can start helping landlords who want to get out of the landlord business.
1) Prop 13 applies to all owners. You do not have to rent out a home to get Prop 13
2) In both cases, property taxes are deductible so, again, no special break for landlords.
Also, property taxes are not "frozen" at all. They increase by 2% a year, plus parcel taxes, plus a rebase whenever a home is sold. Prop taxes revenues increase 7% a year on average.
What i am talking about is an extra tax break for not Ellis'ing a building.
I'll believe that we need to create incentives for people to buy apartment buildings when they're some indication that we need to attract new landlords, but that doesn't seem to be happening. In the meantime, repealing Ellis Act should help bring down the price of apartment buildings, maybe enough to hold down rents, which is a goal that everyone in town but the landlords seem to share. Plus, property owners have all kinds of tax option to deal with writing off depreciation of assets, I don't think they should be our top concern in a city where two-thirds of the citizens rent their homes.
The problem is getting them to run them as rentals. Rent control makes it more attractive to sell as TICs and TICs cannot be controlled locally, as Bierman discovered 15 years ago when she tried.
So even if Ellis was totally repealed the trend would continue of LL's leaving the business for as long as rents are controlled.
The problem is that the city has forced down rents but cannot force down home values. So the transition from renting to owner occupied will continue.
In 20 years there will not be many rent controlled units actually rented. The only rentals will be exempt units rented at market. The rest will be owner-occupied TICs and condos.
You should sit down with the LL folks and work out a better way.
What you're describing isn't landlords, it's real estate speculators, and I don't think we should negotiate with terrorists and extortionists, we just need to oppose them with everything we have and save rent-controlled housing for the people who need it
If I buy a rental building, run it as a rental for a year or two, decide it cannot compete with other investments, and then convert to TICs, that doesn't make me a speculator.
Sure there are folks who will facilitate Ellis, TICs etc but that is only because there is a demand for that. They are not ultimately the problem at all.
The problem is that a typical SF rental building is worth twice as much as TICs as it is as a rental if you have lifer tenants. How do you fix that? The city cannot legislate the price of a building, it cannot control TIC formations and it cannot force an owner to be a landlord if he doesn't want to be one.
So what then? As long as rent control causes a disconnect between the valuation as a rental and as TICs, then there is arbitrage opportunity. Someone will exploit that inevitably.
You are missing the real structural problem here, and tinkering around at the edges
Again, what you're describing is real estate speculation. If someone buys a property based on its value as a rental building, then decides he can make more money by changing the use of that property and trying to find someone to buy it for a higher price than it would command as a rental, that is real estate speculation. And it is an attack on the city's finite and dwindling rent-controlled housing supply. If the landlord who decided after a couple years that he didn't want to be a landlord anymore was behaving in an ethical fashion -- rather than acting out of greed and self-interest -- then he would sell the building to someone who wanted to be a landlord, perhaps even taking a small profit in the exchange.
only people who would buy it are people who would Ellis it.
What you are missing is my very point - that it is the numbers and cashflows that determine if a rental building is viable and sustainable. If it is not, then it WILL be Ellised because it MUST be Ellised. There is no alternative if the building provides an inadequate ROI.
You want landlords to be charities giving out welfare and handouts and subsidies. That was always unreasonable, which is why we have the Ellis Act.
Why not instead support policies that make being a landlord more attractive? Because until you do, landlords will continue to leave the business, and that only leaves speculators.
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No, they do not. Prop 13 freezes property taxes. You may be talking about city level which varies by city. Disney is still paying the same property taxes now on land they purchased in the 80s. The entire system is screwed up as a result.
Property renters do not get Prop 13 breaks because they do not pay property taxes.
Landlords do not need special breaks for not Ellis'ing a building they own because their frozen property tax rates guarantee them tons of money for sitting on property as long as possible
They get raised every year, just like in places with no Prop 13. The only difference is that the annual rise is capped, just like with rent control. you have a problem with rent control
And yes, tenants benefit from Prop13 because higher property tax raises would increase rents
will eventually no longer exist, meaning the tenants will lose their home.
Oh, and BTW, the rent ordinance specifically allows pass-thrus of property parcel tax increases.
So you managed to be wrong twice. Way to go.
please define "real estate speculators" and state how you, using a biased "study" know that most ellis act evictions are so called "please define "real estate speculators".
Some LL's want to Ellis but don't have the stomach to do it, so they sell to someone who will do it.
It looks like the buyer and Ellis'er there is a "speculator", but really it's just the inevitable consequence of a building no longer being viable.
If the numbers don't crunch, the building will not endure. Doesn't much matter who closes it down.
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text: Latest News My Show Planner and Social Media Tips at Vision Expo West By Staff Wednesday, August 15, 2012 12:18 AM NEW YORK—Vision Expo West attendees can use the My Show Planner system pre-show to maximize their show experience. Users can search for exhibitors and products, create a personal show agenda, email exhibitors directly and load appointments in Outlook. Map Your Show works with Vision Mobile, a smartphone application, which syncs with the floor plan in Map Your Show to enable attendees' mobile phones to work as a GPS for the exhibit hall. In addition, users can integrate all your pre-show efforts made through your My Show Planner account, as well as explore exhibitor show specials. On the Social Media education front, the Conference Advisory Board has added a hands-on workshop, interactive teaching and live online reviews of existing websites and Facebook pages to help guide eyecare professionals through the process of developing, setting up and using social media along with other web tools. Show management has been actively engaged in social media leading up to Vision Expo West, utilizing Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube to post videos, answer questions, and promote hundreds of show specials, contests and parties. In addition, Vision Expo continues to share information from the ophthalmic community on topics such as fall trends, product and technology advancements in the industry and business-building tips.


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Delivering Documents to the Office of Finance
Good news for departments who deliver documents to the Office of Finance.
- You are no longer required to date stamp documents that are delivered to the Customer Relations desk in Rollins Hall.
- The date stamp machine is available to those who wish to use it until it breaks down again, at which time it will not be replaced. It is not necessary that you date stamp documents.
- You are no longer required to stand in line to drop off documents at the Customer Relations desk.
New Process for Delivering Documents
We have placed a Blue Monarch Mail Box next to the elevator on the first floor of Rollins Hall. The mailbox is to be used to drop off Office of Finance documents only. Please ensure that all documents are placed in an envelope so that the contents do not get separated. Envelopes are available next to the mailbox for those who need them.
The Blue Monarch Mail Box will be emptied several times each day.
Questions about the document delivery process may be addressed to the Customer Relations Manager by telephone at 683-5288.


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Chapter 16 OFFENSES AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS*
Section 16-85 Ignorance and mistake.
(a) A person is not relieved of criminal liability for conduct because he engages in such conduct under a mistaken belief of fact or law unless such mistake negatives the existence of the mental state required by the offense.
(b) A person is not relieved of criminal liability for conduct because he believes his conduct does not constitute an offense unless his belief is reasonable and
(1) The offense is defined by an administrative regulation or order which is not known to him and has not been published or otherwise made reasonably available to him, and he could not have acquired such knowledge by the exercise of due diligence pursuant to facts known to him; or
(2) He acts in a reasonable reliance upon an official statement of the law, afterward determined to be invalid or erroneous, contained in:
a. A statute or ordinance;
b. An opinion or order of an appellate court;
c. An official interpretation of the statute, regulation or order defining the offense made by a public official or agency legally authorized to interpret such statute, regulation or order.
(c) The burden of injecting the issue of reasonable belief that conduct does not constitute an offense under subparagraphs (b)(l) and (2) of this section is on the defendant.
(Code 1964, § 7.565)
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Similar provisions, RSMo. § 562.031.


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Allison Cortez was a bit of a wild child.
"I wasn't making good choices at school," she said. "I was running away from home, stealing from my parents, just being a delinquent."
Her parents pressed charges for the theft, and a judge sent her to the Iowa Juvenile Home (IJH) in Toledo.
She was 15, and she didn't want to be there. But she said the staff and students at the Home quickly became her family.
"They changed my life," Cortez said. "Honestly, I think I would have ended up in jail if it weren't for a lot of them."
The facility has been the subject of a lot of controversy lately, for the use of isolation cells, and alleged abuse by the staff
This month, Governor Branstad ordered that all 21 girls be transferred out of the Home.
But Cortez said she thinks it's not fair to characterize the home by the negative attention. She said in her experience, the community there is so much more.
"It made me have a much closer relationship with my parents, which was very helpful," she said. "Sorry, I'm about to cry. I think the staff really helped make me a better person ... and it's just helped me build a lot of positive relationships, with I needed ... I think they're making a really bad choice by shutting it down."
There's currently a Facebook group called "Keep IJH Open," with more than 5000 members.
Cortez said she's now married, has two children, and work at a daycare as a teaching assistant. She said the worst part of the closure will be the loss of stability for the current residents.
The girls will all be transferred out in the next few weeks, and the 93 employee layoffs are slated for January 16.
Strange formation at bottom of Utah irrigation pond baffles farmers and scientists. John Hollenhorst reports.


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Mosinee's Aubree Antosch has been a stand out on the Indians with her play.
It's easy to spot her. The libero is the one you see wearing a different colored uniform than her teammates.
They're the ones that do it all: dig, get it to the setter, and basically all the dirty work that allows a team to win.
But like offensive linemen in football, liberos take great pride in their underappreciated position.
"I get really excited when I get a really good pass and when I get a really good kill, but I also get excited when I have a really nice save and I like being the one that saves it," Antosch said. "It doesn't really matter to me I guess. It's the team. I care more about what my team does than what I do."
"Everybody comes to watch the big hits, in basketball it's the slam dunks," said Mosinee head coach Justin Jacobs. "So it's a thankless position back there that doesn't really show up in the stat sheets, but without them it's very hard to run an offense so it's a very critical position."
Much like linemen have dreams of being the quarterback, liberos have thoughts of skying above the net for a kill to get the crowd on its feet.
"It would be a dream, but it's not going to happen," Antosch said. "I like playing libero better, but I love when Hannah sets me in the back row, it makes me feel like I'm part of the team if I get a kill."
Next time you're at a volleyball game, notice the libero. They're the ones that keep the team chugging along. Much like Antosch on the Indians.
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August 06, 2013
Recent Graduate Logan Nordquist Playing Baseball in AustriaRecent Lake Erie College graduate and former Storm baseball player Logan Nordquist (from Alliance, Ohio) is continuing to play baseball this summer with the opportunity of a lifetime.
Nordquist is pitching in the Austrian Baseball League for Attnang-Puchheim Athletics in Austria. He made his debut June 22, allowing four runs in five innings in a 7-6 loss to the Vienna Metro Stars, the top offensive team in the league.
"I only had four days between traveling to Austria and pitching, so I was a little rusty," Nordquist told Storm head coach Brian McGee. "But it's been a great experience so far."
Nordquist is currently under a one year contract to finish this season and perhaps move on to play in the Australian league in the winter or next year. The season ends in mid-September after playoffs.
The recent graduate also played in Niagra Falls in New York in the summer of 2011. Nordquist graduated from LEC in May 2013 with a degree in biology. He was a member of the bible study group, the student-athlete advisory committee and a student ambassador.
To follow his season and for more information on the Attnang-Puchheim Athletics, click here (translation required).


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There's no reason why there can't be a body with a built-in EVF and one without.
If Canon (or Canon USA, at least) is having trouble pushing one model, how will they feel about two? The other problem I see with that is that I'm afraid the two models will have different sensors - a cheap one (T5i/SL1 sensor, no EVF) and a more expensive one (70D sensor, EVF, and bigger).
I don't think the M system can survive with only one camera model. The implication would be that Canon isn't really serious about this system and Canon needs to start treating it like a system, even if a small one. As for using separate sensors for the two models, I agree with those who believe that the 70D sensor (or a close relative) is the minimum that could reasonably be put into any new M body. If not, why not just keep selling the current M body at the current price (or perhaps $100 higher)? That being said, one thing that has always puzzled me is why Canon went to the expense of revising the firmware in a model that was going to be replaced in a few months.
Just a guess... I don't think the price drop would have been enough to get people to buy into the system, the AF needed to be sped up.
+1. It was a smart move, actually, because there is certainly a buzz over the M that was non-existent three months ago. It may prove to be the springboard Canon needed to making the line a success with future models. Price sells - particularly in the North American market
Or maybe the cheaper upcoming body will be the same as the old body, but with manufacturing costs reduced, for example with a plastic body instead of a metal body.


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McIntosh Police said an elderly couple was found dead inside their home, shown here on Monday Sept. 10, by their son.
Jettie Tolbert and Freeman Tolbert were both dead by the time their son found them on Saturday. Paramedics said the temperature was over 110 degrees.
Credit: Letisha Bush/ WALA
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I can remember picking up a copy of the "End of year" Rolling Stone magazine and reading a small review on this album, which sounded very interesting to say the least and the cover actually seemed as intriguing! Marillion were "my 80's" band at the time who I enjoyed immensely together with Simple Minds, Big Country, Waterboys and U2. My 70's favorites were largely Genesis and Rush and for some reason I was looking for something a little different and bought this in late 1989.
It is certainly a classic to my ears. It's very melodic and reasonably "riffy" at the same time (check out "Everybody knows a little bit" – The lead vocals, backing vocals, "big" guitar riffs and bass lines, great drumming… a real reflection of the excitement the whole album has. On the other extreme "The Difference" – a beautiful acoustic number.
The music has a lot of depth in terms of its construction (it is very "layered"). At the end of the day it is very passionate, very well played, very well thought out and with the multi layered vocals, big guitar and bass riffs and free flowing drumming I find myself discovering new sounds on each listen.
Doug Pinnink (Lead and backing vocals, Bass), Ty Tabor (Lead and backing vocals, Guitar and Sitar), Jerry Gaskill (Backing vocals, Drums) do make a great sound together and there a lot of passion in the playing and singing. Producer Sam Taylor I think also works well with them in getting that sound. (A bit like, in my opinion, Rush with Terry Brown (it just feels complimentary – Band and producer).
I would suggest not passing this one up. Check out a few tracks, I believe you'll be keen to hear the whole thing and won't be disappointed – perhaps start with a few of the rockers ("Over my head", "Everybody knows a little bit", "Fall on me") and then a couple of more acoustic tracks ("Summerland", "The Difference", "Pleiades"), there is just so much superb music here.
The 90's and what was to become known as "Grunge" was just around the corner. For me this album was "the new sound" it really blew me away, never heard anything like it up to that point. It was a different style of music than I would normally have listened to and this album and the follow up "Faith, Hope, Love" (1990) were two of my favorite albums of the early 90's. Certainly a change in the type of music I'd experienced up till 1989, but one that just left me going "Wow!" from the first note to the last.
I hope you enjoy this album as much as I do, it's a classic.


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We've decoded part of that beta invitation... except it doesn't look like it was an invitation. It looks like it was a warning.
You really should've called them out on calling it "BC" rather than "BCE" while you were at it. What's pedantry without thoroughness?
Quite aside from tradition, which is great, there are situations where you need to send a message to a physical address. Maybe the occupant doesn't have a phone or email, or you don't know their contact details, or whether they even have a phone or email. If that message has to get there within three hours rather than overnight, then the $4.30 rate is pretty competitive with getting an express courier to carry a post-it note.
Sorry for the misunderstanding, I was referring to the game called Football Manager that used to be called Championship Manager, with the religious following.
If my experience at conferences has taught me anything, it's that without football we'd have a lot more very sober and very grumpy scientists in Europe.
I should explain for those unfamiliar with Football Manager (nee Championship Manager): it's not really like a game. It's more like an enormous spreadsheet crossed with a fanatical religion. There was uproar when they added a little simulation of the matches playing out using coloured dots... in 2003.
You kind of suspect that there's some huge archive of historical data about football in the back of a project like that, to parameterise the players and teams, but it never occurred to me that they had 1300 of their own scouts performing observations.
That's true for trademarks, but not patents.
Customisation. Pre-2010 there was a lot of aesthetic variety in devices' shape, size, materials, colour, etc. However phones are basically big rectangles these days, while logistics and manufacturing approaches in consumer electronics favour doing fewer models in bigger numbers. There's a desire to be able to reshape these devices to something that suits its owner a bit more.
I would think that going without a case on a £600 phone is a better signal of "I've got money to burn".
It's not plastic that's the issue; it's metal-effect plastic. The mutton-dressed-as-lamb factor of pleather, wood veneer, chromed plastic, and the like is tacky in itself, but a bit of an affront in a gizmo that costs a good part of a month's wages. In a market where all your similarly-specced competitors are using actual metal, being the guy who sends out fake metal sends a message to your customers along the lines of "you'll pay the same, but you'll get less".
I think you'll find that the hipsters are using old Nokias.
iPhone in front, Pleather in the back. This is the mullet of cellphones.
Why would they need a database of your preferences? I mean, it's something they could gather by data-mining what you put in there if they wanted to, but the same's true of Slashdot, and in neither case is it's something that their system actually uses to get its job done. (Their worked example uses a mixture of the contents of the query, your local address book, a couple of cookery sites, and a routing service.)
The meta-Turing test counts a thing as intelligent if it seeks to devise and apply Turing tests to objects of its own creation. -- Lew Mammel, Jr.


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Bear-centric mixed media sculptures and paintings by AJ Fosik. (Thanks Lizzy).
Bear-centric mixed media sculptures and paintings by AJ Fosik. (Thanks Lizzy).
Anna Valdez is the kind of artist who makes me want to swathe myself and everything around me in layers of tropical prints and geometric patterns and embrace a new sartorial existence as a wannabe art teacher. Her mastery of textiles is so thorough that some of her pieces almost feel like studies, an effect which makes sense considering her academic interests. With a background in anthropology she paints domestic interiors as though they were portraits, with every detail contributing to the overall effect, whether it be house plants, intricately reproduced book covers, woolly jumpers or oriental rugs.
Australian artist Kit Webster is has long been fascinated with the emotional and psychological tricks he can play through the manipulation of sound and light. His new piece Hypercube is a concentric cubic sculpture with a 120-metre LED set-up that can be controlled using specially-created software. The pre-recorded cycles allow Kit to control the viewer's experience, speeding the cube up to a frenzy and breaking the tension with meditative moments of calm.
Apologies if this is a slightly dismayed post, but upon thinking I had stumbled across a gem via Nieves' announcement of some new zines I was excited to be the first to write about Keegan McHargue on It's Nice That. Alas I was not, but it doesn't mean that we can't shout about his brilliance once more.
When I was a teenager I'd have given my right arm for patches emblazoned with the lyrics of my favourite songs. It was the height of cool to be covered in brightly-coloured band paraphernalia (or at least I thought so). German artist Selma Alaçam clearly thought so too as her latest project Heartstrings combines some of her favourite song lyrics from the likes of Fiona Apple and Depeche Mode. The seven woven rugs – based on the traditional kelim, native to Turkey – have been hand-embroidered with bold typographic verses, whose personal importance is known only to the artist. To the rest of us these embroideries are like beautifully ambiguous album covers, enticing you in with their bright, bold colours.
It's plain to see that Lee Marshall's artwork is a product of the digital age; his smooth gradients, vectorised objects and figures apparently created in an early version of Corel Draw all evoke the atmosphere of an abstract digital landscape. But Lee's creations all exist in the real world as paintings, drawings and sculptures, bringing a unique physicality to environments we'd expect to experience on a flat screen. The Norwich School of Art graduate has been perfecting this signature style since his student days, but with an ever-increasing list of group and solo shows to his name we're expecting more great things from Lee over the coming months and years.
Let's all give a big round of applause to the people behind Instagram who, in creating a convenient photo-based social media outlet, also paved the way for Instagram artists. If Instagram is the Impressionist salon of our time, then right at the forefront of this digital gallery is Kalen Hollomon, whose own brand of photo-collage is a tongue-in-cheek giggle at both the fashion industry and at commuters in general, and is hugely popular with it.
It's fair to say that Interview magazine, founded by Andy Warhol in 1969, had some serious sway over popular culture throughout the 1970s and 80s. With its pop art-driven aesthetic and its constant pursuit of features with the superstars of the day it has grown to occupy seminal status. And this is due in no small part to Richard Bernstein, the artist behind the publication's iconic cover imagery.
Imagine going to a party with a bunch of your favourite creatives and each picking up a paintbrush, a pot of ink, and creating the drawing equivalent of a huge, diverse orgy on a very long piece of paper. I'm sure for some people that kind of malarkey is the norm, but for most of us, we need the help of an organising body in making experimental ideas and collaborative practice come to life. Enter Sumi Ink Club, the participatory drawing project we first wrote about three years ago which was founded in 2005 by LA-based artists Sarah Rara (I know, right) and Luke Fishbeck. For 13 years now they've been the source behind a string of public meeting planned by anybody, anytime, which seek to mirror open social interactions with the act of putting paintbrush to paper.
It's 100 years since Britain entered the First World War and to mark the centenary, the Tower of London is being surrounded by nearly 900,00 ceramic poppies. Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red is the brainchild of artist Paul Cummins and stage designer Tom Piper and will grow between now and November when there will be 888,246 flowers in the dry moat, one for every British or British Colony soldier killed during the fighting.
There was a time when we at It's Nice That were inundated with internet art – we were having so much submitted to us on a daily basis that it was pouring out of our ears in waxy gifs. It's pleasing to be faced with it again, a year or two after the craze has kind of died out, when it's created by someone who actually has a passion and an eye for this stuff and isn't just jumping on a weird bandwagon.
It feels like Max and Adele at Atelier bingo lead a pretty charmed life. Camped out in the middle of the countryside with their converted studio/barn, it would be easy to resent the life they lead – in fact sometimes it's very easy indeed. But the work they're producing – stunning screen prints and collages of abstract forms – keeps me returning to their website time after time, and I just can't find it in my heart to resent their rural idyll. Though if they called me up tomorrow to invite me to come and live with them, I'd definitely have a hard time saying no.
Here at It's Nice That we spend an awful lot of time talking about, thinking about and writing about creatives but ultimately we don't get too many chances to really see what goes on in their day-to-day working lives…until now. Our new collaboration with super-cool eyewear brand Ace & Tate is taking us inside the studios, and inside the minds, of a host of some of our favourite creatives.
Some artists, immensely talented and original though they may be, simply don't make work that fits in the grandest art galleries of the world. Fortunately for them there are super-cool concept stores created specifically to house such work, and queen of all of these is Colette. Hiro Sugiyama's surreal, hilarious and altogether unsettling artwork is a natural fit for Paris store Colette's carefully curated collection of the avant-grade and the offbeat.


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Detectives have released a description of a vehicle they say was seen in the area after the suspicious death of a man found in an Orange County home thought to be vacant.
Investigators are looking for a dark-colored Mercury Villager driven by a Hispanic or black man. The Sheriff's Office has released few other details in the case but strongly think the victim's death is a homicide.Deputies were called out just before 8 p.m. Monday, after a relative of the victim discovered the man's body in the home and called 911.The home is in the 4700 block of Lake Sharp Drive, in the Watermill subdivision. The subdivision is just north of University Boulevard, a few blocks west of State Road 417.Forensics investigators wearing white protective gear could be seen gathering evidence from the scene overnight."The person is only 32 years old, and we have no medical history on this person. Finding them dead inside a residence with no witnesses, we want to find out what happened," Lt. Paul Hopkins said.The Sheriff's Office has not released the name of the victim, how he died or why they think he was in a home thought to be vacant.The medical examiner plans to complete an autopsy later today. Anyone with details on the case is asked to call the Orange County Sheriff's Office or Crimeline at 1-800-423-TIPS.
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A portion of the proceeds from the lessons will go back to SEMS to be used for supplies or other school needs. This program has already been successfully implemented at three schools in Jefferson County.
"What we do is talk to the principals and then we go in and teach the classes in their gym with our equipment," Jana Brasfield said.
Jana Brasfield has been teaching gymnastics since 1997 and opened the Brasfield Gymnastics location in Adamsville in 2006. She will continue to teach at the Adamsville location on Tuesday afternoons.
Brasfield believes this program is an advantage for students and parents because the students get to take a class they will enjoy and the parents don't have to worry about rushing to get them to classes.
The classes are open to boys or girls from age four on up, although the training is more focused on the requirements of women's gymnastics.
"We do gear towards the girls because we don't have all the equipment that men's gymnastics uses," Jana Brasfield said.
Brasfield Gymnastics will be at SEMS registration on August 14, for anyone interested. For more information, visit www.wetumble.com or call (205)674-1515.


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More than 20% of Australia's wildlife is threatened with extinction. Habitat loss, introduced species, disease and the impacts of climate change are increasing pressure on our unique native wildlife.
Zoos Victoria cares for more than 350 species of animals and 1500 botanical specimens. Many of these species are listed as endangered, some critically. Zoos Victoria is a not-for-profit conservation organisation. You can help by adopting an animal.
If your adoption is for a gift, you'll receive an animal adoption pack to send to your gift recipient. No postage or packing required! If your gift is urgent please call (03) 9340 2770. A gift adoption gives twice – to our wonderful animals who are under threat and to your loved one.
The animal adoption pack includes:
- A welcome pack featuring an image and factsheet of your chosen ambassador animal
- Regular e-newsletters update on your chosen animal family
- An opportunity to learn about Zoos Victoria's great conservation work
- Invitations to special animal adopter only events
Through your regular adoption donations you will help us fight extinction and provide the very best care for our wildlife.
Adoption is easy, just select either a monthly or annual plan then choose the animal you would like to adopt. For $15 a month or $180 for the year, you can adopt a precious animal.
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McKINNEY — Even with 16 acres worth of sleek new cars on the lot at Pat Lobb Toyota in McKinney, a slightly less-shiny silver number on the side of the dealership may be the coolest, most profitable piece of machinery on the premises.
"In the seven years we have been in business, we have probably saved about $600,000 in what would have been water bill charges," boasted sales manager Robert Castle, referring to a nearly 9,000 gallon tank that provides all the landscaping water for the entire property.
"Right now it's got about nine feet of water in it," he estimated.
Over the years, the tank has collected not just rain water, but also thousands of gallons of condensation coming from the air conditioning units that keep customers cool inside the showroom, which is always nice and chilly.
"You have to at least have 72... that's traditional," Castle said. "But here in Texas, it's more like 65 before you say, 'Okay, I'm okay.' When it's humid and stuff like that, there is a lot of condensation. You may as well capture it and do something with it."
A growing number of homeowners are figuring that out, too.
At the Texas A&M AgrilLfe Extension in Dallas, they teach people how to configure barrels to capture water from home air conditioning units.
"We turn it horizontal and feed the pipe directly into the barrel, and you can run a spigot off it," said Patrick Dickinson.
And for $50, they'll send you home with one of the barrels to collect your a/c condensate. You might be surprised how much water your unit is pulling out of the air and dripping out (usually down the sewer drain) as you're keeping cool inside.
"Five to 20 gallons a day, depending on the size home and A/C unit you have," Dickinson explained.
Harvesting all those drops could provide up to 600 extra gallons of water a month for your flower beds. Of course, that won't cut your water bill enough to save for one of those new cars back at the dealership, but it just might save some struggling spots in your landscape.
- Click here to sign up for the Dallas TAMU Agrilife Extension free rainwater/air conditioning condensate collection class on Tuesday, June 25, 2013 from 6 to 8 p.m
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The arsenal of allergy drugs includes dozens of medications that relieve allergy symptoms when confronted with a trigger known as an allergen. That trigger could be something from a plant, such as polle"...
Elidel Patient Information Including Side Effects
Brand Names: Elidel
Generic Name: pimecrolimus topical (Pronunciation: pih meh KRA lih muss TOP ik al)
- What is pimecrolimus topical (Elidel)?
- What are the possible side effects of pimecrolimus topical (Elidel)?
- What is the most important information I should know about pimecrolimus topical (Elidel)?
- What should I discuss with my healthcare provider before using pimecrolimus topical (Elidel)?
- How should I use pimecrolimus topical (Elidel)?
- What happens if I miss a dose (Elidel)?
- What happens if I overdose (Elidel)?
- What should I avoid while using pimecrolimus topical (Elidel)?
- What other drugs will affect pimecrolimus topical (Elidel)?
- Where can I get more information?
What is pimecrolimus topical (Elidel)?
Pimecrolimus is an immunosuppressant. It works by decreasing your body's immune system to help slow down the growth of atopic dermatitis (eczema) on your skin.
Pimecrolimus topical is used to treat severe atopic dermatitis when other medications have not worked well.
Pimecrolimus may also be used for purposes other than those listed here.
What are the possible side effects of pimecrolimus topical (Elidel)?
Stop using pimecrolimus and get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Stop using pimecrolimus and call your doctor if you have:
- worsened skin symptoms;
- signs of a skin infection (redness, swelling, itching, oozing);
- swollen glands; or
- fever, chills, body aches, flu symptoms.
Less serious side effects are more likely to occur. Continue using pimecrolimus and talk with your doctor if you have any of these side effects:
- burning, stinging, tingling, or soreness of treated skin (especially during the first few days of treatment);
- swollen hair follicles;
- acne or warts;
- upset stomach;
- muscle pain;
- runny or stuffy nose;
- headache; or
- feeling more sensitive to hot or cold temperatures.
Side effects other than those listed here may also occur. Talk to your doctor about any side effect that seems unusual or that is especially bothersome. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Read the Elidel (pimecrolimus cream) Side Effects Center for a complete guide to possible side effects
What is the most important information I should know about pimecrolimus topical (Elidel)?
Do not use pimecrolimus topical on a child 2 years of age or younger.
A small number of people have developed skin cancer after using tacrolimus (Protopic) skin medications. However, it is not known if either of these medicines causes skin cancer. Talk to your doctor about your individual risk.
Use this medication only on the skin, exactly as it was prescribed for you. Do not use it in larger doses or for longer than recommended by your doctor. Pimecrolimus is not for long-term use.
Before using this medication, tell your doctor if you are pregnant or breast-feeding.
Avoid sunlight, sun lamps, tanning beds, and phototherapy treatments with UVA or UVB light. If you must be outdoors, wear loose clothing over the skin areas treated with pimecrolimus topical. Do not use sunscreen on treated skin unless your doctor has told you to.
Talk to your doctor if your skin condition does not improve after using pimecrolimus topical for 6 weeks.
If you miss a dose, use the medication as soon as you remember. If it is almost time for the next dose, skip the missed dose and wait until your next regularly scheduled dose. Do not use extra medicine to make up the missed dose.
There may be other drugs or skin products that can affect pimecrolimus. Tell your doctor about all the prescription and over-the-counter medications you use. This includes vitamins, minerals, herbal products, and drugs prescribed by other doctors. Do not start using a new medication without telling your doctor.
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Sergei Bobrovsky made 35 saves, while Brayden Schenn and Sean Couturier scored to lead the Philadelphia Flyers over the Carolina Hurricanes by a 2-1 score Tuesday night at RBC Center in Raleigh, NC.
Bobrovsky, getting the call in place of Ilya Bryzgalov for just his 13th start in the club's 41st game of the season, made it obvious early that he was on his game. He was called upon to make difficult stops on Eric Staal and Jiri Tlusty in rapid succession in the contest's first minute, and showed a brash confidence throughout.
Following a scoreless first period, Schenn, who scored his first career goal on Jan. 2 at the Winter Classic, picked up a Wayne Simmonds rebound in front of the Carolina net, and chipped it up and over a fallen Cam Ward and under the crossbar to give Philadelphia a 1-0 lead at 4:20 of the second period. After having not recorded a single point while battling injuries in his first eight games this season, Schenn now has picked up points in three of the last five contests.
Despite a high number of shots on goal and some quality scoring chances, Schenn's goal held up until eight minutes after Schenn's goal.
Just nine seconds after Flyers' defenseman Kimmo Timonen was whistled for interfering with recently recalled forward Jerome Samson, the 24-year-old would score his first career NHL goal. Bobrovsky had made two stops on booming slap shots, one off the stick of Staal and the other by Justin Faulk, but couldn't control the rebounds on either. The result was half of an empty net with which to shoot for Samson, who quickly snapped a shot past the defenseless Bobrovsky to tie the score at 1-1 at the 12:37 mark of the middle frame.
Samson is the fifth player to have scored their first career NHL goals against the Flyers this season, with the previous being New Jersey's Adam Henrique, the Rangers' Carl Hagelin, Montreal's Louis Leblanc, and Chicago's Andrew Shaw.
The goaltenders were matching each other, save for save, until Philadelphia gained the lead for good thanks to the efforts of a couple of rookies early in the third period. Harry Zolnierczyk hustled down the puck and sent Couturier in on the right wing side in the Carolina zone. Couturier whipped a wrist shot from the right hash marks, beating Ward to the far side for his seventh goal of the year. Couturier has goals in consecutive games, and has picked up points in four of the six games he has played since returning from a concussion. It was the 19-year-old's only shot on goal of the game in just 9:58 of ice time, but he made it count by registering his first career game-winning goal.
Zolnierczyk similarly didn't get much time on ice (7:00), but he did manage to get four shots on Ward, blocked a shot, was credited with a takeaway, and most importantly, assisted on Couturier's game-winner.
As the Flyers nursed the one-goal lead late in regulation and with Ward pulled for an extra attacker, Philadelphia's defense turned the puck over in their own zone, only to be redeemed by Bobrovsky, who made a tremendous save on a blistering Staal one-timer from the right faceoff circle with less than a minute left in regulation to preserve the victory.
The win was Peter Laviolette's 100th win as head coach of the Flyers. He is now 100-59-21 with the club.
Philadelphia improved their road record to a sizzling 15-6-2, and kept pace with the conference-leading New York Rangers with the win. The Flyers trail the Blueshirts by four points (58-54). Bobrovsky increased his excellent numbers this year to 9-3-1, with a 2.45 goals-against average and .919 save percentage.
Even though he stopped 35 of 37 Philadelphia shots, Ward dropped to 14-16-6, as the Hurricanes fell to the bottom spot in the Eastern Conference standings.
The Flyers' top line of Claude Giroux, Jaromir Jagr, and Scott Hartnell was held off the score sheet for a third consecutive game, but the youngsters were there to pick them up.


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Scallop Kabobs for 2 Recipe
"I'm always on the lookout for recipes that are lower in fat and heart-healthy, too. These kabobs fill the bill. I like to serve them with a fruit salad and a light dessert." Edie DeSpain - Logan, UT
- 4-1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 4-1/2 teaspoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- Dash garlic powder
- Dash pepper
- 3/4 pound sea scallops
- 2 small green peppers, cut into 1-1/2-inch pieces
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes
- In a small bowl, combine the first five ingredients. Pour 2 tablespoons into a large resealable plastic bag; add scallops. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for 20 minutes. Cover and refrigerate remaining marinade for basting.
- Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, bring 3 cups water to a boil. Add peppers; cover and boil for 2 minutes. Drain and immediately place peppers in ice water. Drain and pat dry.
- Drain and discard marinade. On four metal or soaked wooden skewers, alternately thread the tomatoes, scallops and peppers.
- Using long-handled tongs, moisten a paper towel with cooking oil and lightly coat the grill rack. Grill, covered, over medium heat or broil 4 in. from the heat for 3-5 minutes on each side or until scallops are firm and opaque, basting occasionally with reserved marinade. Yield: 2 servings.
Originally published as Scallop Kabobs for 2 in Healthy Cooking
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Angiography is a medical imaging technique used to see the inside of blood vessels. The specialists at the Avera Heart Hospital use this technique to diagnose certain patients. We were allowed access in to North Central Heart's Cath Lab to watch an angiogram.
71 year old Cliff Albrecht from Spencer, Iowa has a history of vessel disease in his leg. His cardiologist Dr. Tom Isaacson with North Central Heart says that places him at a higher risk of having vessel trouble in other spots. Knowing that,when Cliff started having a severe episode of chest pain and rapid heart beat recently,he went straight to the Spencer hospital.
Dr. Isaacson says, "Since there was no sign of heart attack or symptoms, they treated him there and started him on medication. We saw him and recommended this as our next step to sort out what really is the best way to care for him."
He's having an angiogram done. It's an imaging test of that uses x-rays to view the body's blood vessels.
Dr. Isaacson says, "We are using looking at the vessels by direct injection of x-ray dye into the blood vessels that supply blood flow to the heart muscle. We are looking for narrowing or blockage. We are looking for restriction to blood flow and that will help us discover how we best care for that patient."
The patient is not under anesthesia, but they are medicated to keep them relaxed and calm.
Dr. Isaacson says, "They are calmly sedated and sometimes snoring loudly. A lot of times they aren't even aware of everything we are doing around them."
In an adjacent room to the cath lab, the cardiovascular tech charts everything that's used and done during the procedure and freezes some of the x-ray images that Dr. Isaacson sees during the angiogram. That way he can look at them immediately after the procedure.
Dr. Isaacson says, "This isn't necessarily a prelude to something else, say a stent or bipass surgery. It really is a test that helps decide what we do next. How do we best care for them. Then we sit down with the patient and their family and discuss it and decide together."
Cliff's minimally invasive angiogram showed no major blockage, which Dr. Isaacson says means no major surgery. A good tool to have at the hands of a great doctor who knows exactly what to look for.
Since Cliff does have vascular disease, he will be monitored frequently, take medication and watch what he eats.
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Top Pentagon officials developed the harsh interrogation methods used against detainees at
Top Pentagon officials developed the harsh interrogation methods used against detainees at
The documents undercut assertions by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and other senior administration officials that the brutal interrogations were the result of "a few bad apples" who acted on their own accord.
"How did it come about that American military personnel stripped detainees naked, put them in stress positions, used dogs to scare them, put leashes around their necks to humiliate them, hooded them, deprived them of sleep, and blasted music?" said Sen. Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the Armed Services Committee, in an opening statement before the hearing.
"Were these actions the result of 'a few bad apples' acting on their own? It would be a lot easier to accept if it were," Levin added. "But that's not the case. The truth is that senior officials in the
Tuesday's hearing provided the most revealing look yet at the White House's so-called "enhanced interrogation" program and offers up new details about the time frame in which the policy was drafted.
The hearing comes two weeks after a letter signed by 56 House Democrats was sent to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, requesting that he appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether White House officials, including President Bush, violated the War Crimes Act when they allowed interrogators to use brutal interrogation methods against detainees suspected of ties to terrorist organizations.
"The Bush administration may have systematically implemented, from the top down, detainee interrogation policies that constitute torture or otherwise violate the law," the letter to Mukasey says. "We believe that these serious and significant revelations warrant an immediate investigation to determine whether actions taken by the President, his Cabinet, and other Administration officials are in violation of the War Crimes Act, the Anti-Torture Act, and other
The Armed Services Committee's 18-month investigation, which generated 38,000 pages of documents, singled out former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and William "Jim" Haynes II, the Pentagon's former general counsel, as the officials who sought guidance on implementing more aggressive interrogation methods.
The committee is expected to release a full report later this year. So far, the probe has found that Rumsfeld and Haynes solicited input from military psychologists in July 2002, far earlier than they had previously acknowledged, about developing harsh methods interrogators could use against detainees held at
The report states that as early as July 2002, Rumsfeld, Haynes and other officials queried military psychologists about the use of waterboarding, and other brutal methods, interrogators could use against detainees at
Rumsfeld and Haynes' questions were raised one month before John Yoo, a former deputy in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, issued two memos that authorized interrogators to use stress positions, military dogs, and other still unknown methods against suspected terrorists being held at
Interrogation methods developed in July 2002, a summary of the Armed Services Report says, derived from the Army and Air Force's Survival, Evasion, Rescue, and Escape (SERE) training program. But those techniques were meant to prepare
The documents contradicted previous statements made by Haynes who told a Senate committee in 2006 that lower-level military personnel were responsible for raising questions with the DOD in October 2002 about the possibility of using more aggressive techniques against detainees.
Richard Shiffrin, Haynes' former deputy on intelligence issues testified to the committee that in July 2002 Haynes became interested in using the SERE techniques, such as waterboarding and sleep deprivation, as a form of interrogation against detainees, which Rumsfeld signed off on in December 2002.
Haynes was grilled by the committee Tuesday and repeatedly said he could not recall receiving written and oral communications from military attorneys who warned that the methods being implemented at
"We did not operate in a vacuum," Haynes said in response to questions by Sen. Jack Reed, (D-RI). The secretary of defense made the final decision" on interrogation methods.
Haynes repeated said he "could not recall," and "I don't remember" dozens of times in response to specific questions about interrogation methods. Haynes hired a criminal attorney after he resigned from the Pentagon. He is now an executive at Chevron.
In one document, Jonathan Fredman, who was chief counsel to the CIA's
"It can feel like you're drowning. The lymphatic system will react as if you're suffocating, but your body will not cease to function," Fredman said in October 2002 during a meeting with military officials where specific techniques were discussed, according to a copy of the meeting minutes released by the Armed Services Committee.
Fredman added that the "wet towel" technique would only be defined as torture "if the detainee dies."
"It is basically subject to perception," Fredman said, according to the minutes of the meeting. If the detainee dies you're doing it wrong."
Fredman's comment during the October 2002 meeting prompted Lt. Col. Diane Beaver, then the chief military lawyer at
Following the October 2002 meeting, Beaver drafted a legal memo that authorized military personnel at
Beaver testified Tuesday that she was surprised the Defense Department implemented the interrogation methods contained in her legal opinion.
"I did not expect that my opinion, as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, would become the final word on interrogation policies and practices within the Department of Defense," Beaver said. "For me, such a result was simply not foreseeable. Perhaps I was somewhat naïve, but I did not expect to be the only lawyer issuing a written opinion on this monumentally important issue."
At the same meeting, Beaver discussed hiding detainees from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The ICRC visited
"Officially it is not happening," Beaver is quoted as saying, according to minutes of an Oct. 2, 2002 meeting between the CIA and military officials. "It is not being reported officially. The ICRC is a serious concern. They will be in and out, scrutinizing our operations, unless they are displeased and decide to protest and leave. This would draw a lot of negative attention."
Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R-SC), said during Tuesday's hearing that the revelations about the brutal interrogation methods will" go down in history as some of the most irresponsible and shortsighted legal analysis ever provided to our nation's military and intelligence community."
Earlier Reports Scrutinized Rumsfeld
Rumsfeld was first identified as authorizing specific interrogation methods in a Dec. 20, 2005, Army Inspector General report, related to the capture and interrogation of Mohammad al-Qahtani, which included a sworn statement by Lt. Gen. Randall M. Schmidt. It said Secretary Rumsfeld was "personally involved" in the interrogation of al-Qahtani and spoke "weekly" with Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the commander at
Gitanjali S. Gutierrez, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights who represents al-Qahtani, said in a sworn declaration that his client, imprisoned at
"At Guantánamo, Mr. al-Qahtani was subjected to a regime of aggressive interrogation techniques, known as the 'First Special Interrogation Plan,' that were authorized by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld," Gutierrez said.
"Those techniques were implemented under the supervision and guidance of Secretary Rumsfeld and the commander of Guantánamo, Major General Geoffrey Miller. These methods included, but were not limited to, 48 days of severe sleep deprivation and 20-hour interrogations, forced nudity, sexual humiliation, religious humiliation, physical force, prolonged stress positions and prolonged sensory over-stimulation, and threats with military dogs."
According to the Schlesinger report, orders signed by Bush and Rumsfeld in 2002 and 2003 authorizing brutal interrogations "became policy" at
DOJ IG: Rumsfeld Authorized Methods
Last week, the Justice Department's inspector general, Glenn Fine, gave last week before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
During that hearing, Fine testified that Rumsfeld authorized the use of brutal interrogation techniques despite warnings from the FBI that the methods amounted to inhumane treatment, was possibly illegal, and would not produce reliable intelligence.
"The FBI believed that these techniques were not getting actionable information, that they were unsophisticated and unproductive," said Glenn Fine, the DOJ's inspector general, in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. "They raised their concerns with the Department of Defense, but the Department of Defense, from what we were told, dismissed those concerns and that no changes were made in the Department of Defense's strategy."
Rumsfeld, who resigned immediately after the 2006-midterm elections, has vehemently denied that he approved of the brutal interrogation methods.
But Fine's 437-page report last month on the Bush administration's interrogation policies, concluded that Rumsfeld and other top White House officials ignored FBI concerns about the treatment of detainees and signed off on the interrogations.
In October 2002, Fine said, FBI agents raised concerns with Marion Bowman, the Justice Department's deputy general counsel in charge of national security, about the methods used during interrogations at
The same day Bowman raised concerns with Haynes, Haynes advised Rumsfeld to approve of "enhanced interrogation" methods, according to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D-Calif.), who chaired last Tuesday's committee hearing.
"According to Mr. Bowman, Haynes claimed he didn't know anything about the coercive interrogation techniques that were occurring at
On Nov. 23, 2002, four days before the FBI agent alerted the DOJ about interrogation tactics he witnessed, Rumsfeld verbally authorized interrogators to used harsh methods during their interrogation of Mohammed al-Qahtani, the so-called 20th hijacker, who was being held at
Rumsfeld, Fine told the committee, ignored FBI agents' warnings and on Dec. 2, 2002, signed an action memorandum approving the use of "enhanced techniques" against prisoners at
JAG's Opposed Methods
In January 2003, Rumsfeld asked Haynes to form a "working group" to draft a report on legally permissible interrogation techniques to use at
The members of the group included former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, officials from the Defense Intelligence Agency, representatives of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and judge advocate generals (JAGs) from all four branches of the military.
Early drafts of the report advocated intimidating prisoners with dogs, removing prisoners' clothing, shaving their beards, slapping prisoners in the face and waterboarding.
Though some of the more extreme techniques were dropped as the list was winnowed down to 24 from 35, the final set of methods still included tactics for isolating and demeaning a detainee, known as "pride and ego down."
Stress positions were prohibited at
"Short-shackling in which a detainee's hands were shackled close to his feet to prevent him from standing or sitting comfortably, was another of the most frequently reported techniques observed by FBI agents at
The more extreme interrogation methods that made it into the final draft of the report rankled some of the JAGs, who feared the methods would put
"How would such perceptions affect our ability to prosecute the Global War on Terrorism," asked Lohr.
The admiral was so upset with the draft report and the advice provided by the Justice Department that he requested
Lohr was not alone. Maj. Gen. Jack Rives, who at the time was judge advocate general of the Air Force, also wrote a letter to
"Several of the exceptional techniques, on their face, amount to violations of domestic criminal law and the [Uniform Code of Military Justice]," Rives wrote. "Treating detainees inconsistently with the [
Maj. Gen. Thomas Romig, an Army JAG, and Brig. Gen. Kevin M. Sandkuhler, a Marine Corps JAG, also voiced concerns, specifically the determination that the President has the power to override the Uniform Code of Military Justice and other federal statutes and international treaties in the name of national security.
Despite the grave concerns by the legal officials in the military community, Rumsfeld signed off on the final 81-page working group report on April 2, 2003.
Though some of the more extreme techniques were dropped as the list was winnowed down to 24 from 35, the final set of interrogation methods Rumsfeld approved still included tactics for isolating and demeaning a detainee, known as "pride and ego down."
"The most commonly reported technique used by non-FBI interrogators on detainees at
Alberto Mora, the former general counsel of the Navy, criticized Rumsfeld's approval of certain interrogation methods outlined in the December 2002 action memorandum.
"The interrogation techniques approved by the Secretary [of Defense] should not have been authorized because some (but not all) of them, whether applied singly or in combination, could produce effects reaching the level of torture, a degree of mistreatment not otherwise proscribed by the memo because it did not articulate any bright-line standard for prohibited detainee treatment, a necessary element in any such document," Mora wrote in a 14-page letter to the Navy's inspector general.
Mora, who was a member of the working group, testified Tuesday that the "policy decision to use so-called 'harsh' interrogation techniques during the war on terror was a mistake of massive proportions."
Mora also took issue with the use of the words "harsh" and "enhanced" to describe interrogations that he believed amounted to torture and a "policy of cruelty."
"The choice of the adjectives "harsh" or "enhanced" to describe these interrogation techniques is euphemistic and misleading," Mora said in an opening statement. "The more precise legal term is "cruel." Many of the "counter-resistance techniques" authorized for use at


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Lenses / Re: Sleeper Lenses?« on: July 19, 2013, 03:06:53 AM »
Underrated lenses:
Overrated lenses:
This is all on crop, 7D, BTW.
- EF 135L ("so old!", "no IS") -- I hesitated waaay too long before I bought it...
- EF 35mm f/2 -- very sharp in center (in corners not so much), short minimum focusing distance, very accurate AF -- this is a viable alternative to my 24-70 f/2.8 Mk II in many situations, it's way lighter, it's way smaller. I often use it for video (manual focus is very OK, fairly accurate and barely audible). It's excellent for closeup portraits, with face details, like eyes.
Overrated lenses:
- EF 85mm f/1.8 -- no contrast, AF often misses (which negates the overall sharpness argument).
- EF-S 15-85mm f/1.8 -- AF unacceptable for a walkaround zoom.
This is all on crop, 7D, BTW.


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Following the restructuring of the AETTI (Arts & Entertainment Technical Training Initiative) on January 31, Matthew Griffiths, managing director of PLASA, has been elected as AETTI chairman for 2001. He joins Joe Aveline (secretary) and Henrietta Branwell (treasurer) on the AETTI's panel of officers.
The AETTI was first formed in 1987 at a fringe meeting of ABTT North, and has existed since as an informal body led by a steering committee. The AETTI last year helped to develop the first BTEC qualifications for stage technicians, in association with Loughborough College and with the assistance of funding from the European Social Fund.
The newly restructured body has signed a formal agreement with Loughborough College for a three-year continuation of the development and delivery of BTEC qualifications, subject to annual reviews. In addition, the possibility of running a theatre technician foundation course during the PLASA show in September is currently being investigated by the organization.
Other areas of current AETTI activity include a bid in association with Italian and Maltese theatres and drama organizations to apply for funding under the Leonardo Scheme. The aim of the program would be to convert the BTEC qualifications into distance learning courses in other languages, and to examine the possibility of conducting remote assessment of candidates.
In Scotland, the AETTI is working with the Scottish Theatres Technical Training Trust (S4T), based at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, to run the General Theatre Technician BTEC course as part of its Winter School. Early indications are that the scheme has attracted a great deal of interest.
To publicize the new developments within the organization, and to provide the opportunity for discussion on training issues with the theatre industry and the BTEC Award scheme, the AETTI will be exhibiting at the forthcoming ABTT Theatre Show in London (April 4-5).
Griffiths comments: "I am delighted to lend the support of PLASA to the efforts of the AETTI. I believe it is vital for the leading organizations representing the various strands of this industry to work closely together on the development of training. If we speak as one voice, it will benefit the members of all our organizations, and the industry as a whole."