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Islanders at Rangers … It's Go Time!
Game 4. Islanders at Rangers. Ya boys need to get it together pretty quickly here. As I said in my preview video (above), the last two games were worse and worser. They play the second of four in a row and 14 of 19 at the Garden, where last… Read More →
Islanders at Rangers tonight (7 p.m.) … pre-game notes
Pre-game notes from the NYR: NEW YORK RANGERS VS. NEW YORK ISLANDERS Tuesday, Oct. 14, 7:00 p.m. ET Madison Square Garden – New York, NY Islanders: 2-0-0 (4 pts) Rangers: 1-2-0 (2 pts) TONIGHT'S GAME The Rangers continue their four-game homestand against the New York Islanders at Madison Square Garden… Read More →
Rangers prospect report
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Got a new weekly feature courtesy of the NYR. It's a Monday update of their top prospects and their performances for the week, including quotes from players, coaches, scouts. Even a video (like this week, a highlight goal by Pavel Buchnevich). Had them the last two Mondays but… Read More →
Rangers-Maple Leaves in review
Happy Columbus Day. Click here for a photo gallery that is far better than that game deserved, from lohud.com. Thoughts: 1) This one was a top-to-bottomer. Actually, a couple of guys played well. But the big guys, Henrik Lundqvist, Ryan McDonagh, Dan Girardi … and many others? P.U. 2) If… Read More →
Maple Leaves 6, Rangers 3 … post-game notes
Post-game notes courtesy of the NYR: Maple Leaves 6, Rangers 3. Click here for boxscore. Team notes: - The Rangers registered 38 shots on goal in the contest. 17 of 18 skaters recorded at least one shot on goal, and ten skaters registered at least two shots on goal in… Read More →
Post-game audio: Alain Vigneault, Henrik Lundqvist, Ryan McDonagh
Maple Leaves at Rangers … It's Go Time!
Game 3. Maple Leaves at Rangers. Ya boys play their home opener, with some of their retired-numbers guys in the house, and a new banner in the ceiling for their first (real) Garden game since Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final. They come off a bad 5-2 loss… Read More →
PRE-GAME AUDIO: Alain Vigneault: Nash, Zuccarello questionable, Hayes will make his NHL debut
Rangers-Blue Jackets in review
Click here to see another great photo gallery from last night's game, at lohud.com. Thoughts: 1) I thought Columbus Day was Monday, not Saturday. The Blue Jackets are a good team, and they play really hard and come at you and all that. Given. But the Rangers probably lose that… Read More →
Rangers at Blue Jackets … It's Go Time!
Game 2. Rangers at Blue Jackets. The undefeated Rangers visit Rick Nash's old haunt. Nash is on pace for 164 goals and 246 points, which would both be records. Cam Talbot starts in goal, so Henrik Lundqvist gets the home opener Sunday against the Toronto Maple Leaves. Tanner Glass… Read More →
Rangers at Blue Jackets tonight … pre-game notes
Pre-game notes courtesy of the NYR: NEW YORK RANGERS at COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS Saturday, Oct. 11, 7:00 p.m. ET Nationwide Arena – Columbus, OH Rangers: 1-0-0 Blue Jackets: 1-0-0 TONIGHT'S GAME The Rangers conclude their two-game road trip against the Columbus Blue Jackets at Nationwide Arena (7:00 p.m. ET —TV:... Read More →
One game into the season, Rangers have to shake it up a bit
Here's my unedited story from lohud.com: By Rick Carpiniello For a team that, half a day earlier had opened its 2014-15 season with a strong win against a very good team in St. Louis, the Rangers sure had a lot going on in Columbus Friday. In the third period of… Read More →
Live Chat starts at noon, or you can replay it later … but it won't be live
Rick Carpiniello's Rangers Report Chat If you cannot view the chat above, find it here.?
Rangers-Blues in review; Live Chat Friday at noon
Reminder: First Live Chat of the regular season Friday at noon. Be there. Or else. Click here for a very cool photo gallery on the Rangers' opening-night victory in St. Louis. Thoughts: 1) For opening night, that was one heckuva hockey game. Not perfect. But great pace, physical, entertaining. 2)... Read More →
Rangers 3, Blues 2 … post-game notes
Click here for a very cool photo gallery off the opening-night victory. Post-game notes courtesy of the NYR: Rangers 3, Blues 2. Click here for boxscore. Team notes: - Dan Boyle, Anthony Duclair, Tanner Glass, and Lee Stempniak all made their Rangers debuts in tonight's contest. The Rangers have now… Read More →
Rangers at Blues … It's Go Time!
Game 1. Rangers at Blues. Ya boys set out to duplicate and surpass what they did last season. Tall task. But they are as good or better than they were last year, theoretically anyway. They leap right back onto the horse with three games in four nights, a visit… Read More →
Rangers at Blues tonight (8 p.m.) … pregame notes
Courtesy of the NYR: NEW YORK RANGERS at ST. LOUIS BLUES Thursday, Oct. 9, 8:00 p.m. ET Scottrade Center – St. Louis, MO Rangers: 45-31-6 (96 pts)* Blues: 52-23-7 (111 pts)* * Team records are from the 2013-14 regular season TONIGHT'S GAME The Rangers will open up the 2014-15… Read More →
Season preview: Predictions … Ducks over Bruins in Stanley Cup Final
Here we go. Or as Pitbull says, "Dale'." The regular season began last night and ya boys open up tonight. So below are my predictions. As you know I correctly predicted every division exactly last season, plus predicted in the preseason Los Angeles over the Rangers in five in the… Read More →
Rangers are better, but their quest will be more difficult
I'm a little surprised that only one person volunteered to do Three Rangers Stars with me and Kenny Albert this season. I'm not disappointed, but I thought you guys would have fun with this. If not, that's OK by me. But in case you missed the invitation, if you'd like… Read More →


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Location: UH Hilo Performing Arts Center
In honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Hilo Community Players, the University of Hawai'i at Hilo Performing Arts Department presents The Spoon River Project, a collaboration between UH Hilo and Hawai`i Island's oldest community theatre organization.
The show was adapted into script form by Tom Andolora, a composer and voice teacher in New York City. UH Hilo Professor Jackie Pualani Johnson has welcomed community director Jake McPherson to co-direct the adaptation of Edgar Lee Masters' free-form poems. McPherson served as president of the Players and has appeared as an actor at UH Hilo and in numerous Players' productions.
The play focuses on the departed residents of Spoon River who speak from the grave, examining life and their longing for what might have been. As the post-Civil war community reflects on the dreams, secrets and regrets of their lives, they paint a gritty and honest portrait of the fictional town. Actors include UH Hilo students and veteran community performers: Juli Dobbs, James Elliott, Erin Gallagher, Le`a Gleason, Dick Hershberger, Willyam Hudson, Sharon Justice, Pedro Ka`awaloa, John Marcus Love, Randal McEndree, Catherine McPherson, Lewis Moore, Jin Piper, Brian Wild, Denyse Woo-Ockerman, and Corey Yester. Musical Direction will be by Christopher Tomich, who fulfills his Senior Project for a degree in Performing Arts, Music Concentration.
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Album Review: Kacey Musgraves — Same Trailer Different Park
"You're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't," Kacey Musgraves admits on "Follow Your Arrow," a gentle rebuke of small-town gossip on her debut major-label album, Same Trailer Different Park. Amused by the self-righteous judgment handed down from nosy neighbors, she plays it off with a wink and a shrug: "So you might as well just do whatever you want."
Musgraves, an east Texas native and former contestant on Nashville Star, has been under the microscope of late for much different reasons; at 24, she's emerged as one of mainstream country's most potent and articulate voices. The hype around Trailer, a sharp effort that belongs in any conversation about the year's best country albums, reached a fever pitch largely on the strength of the album's first single, "Merry Go 'Round." Surveying the bleak landscape of small-town America, Musgraves and co-writers Josh Osborne and Shane McAnally address how even the best defense mechanisms—-marijuana, cosmetics, extramarital sex—-rarely ease the bone-deep melancholy of its residents. "Same hurt in every heart," Musgraves sighs, and it's clear the sentiment is concern, not contempt, for their well-worn routines.
As the chasm between wealthy elite and the lower class widens, both sides experience excess. For the hard-bitten characters Musgraves sings about, excess turns into addiction, which then leads into an oblivion from which most never recover. It's a far cry from the reality-show pageantry where she got her start. While wholesome images and fairytale endings dominate country radio, she instead stages a quiet rebellion with eleven more smart, tuneful songs that tweak genre conventions both musically and lyrically.
Trailer plays like the spiritual successor to Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, an Americana milestone that also mined the lives of this often ignored population for stories of loss and heartache. Both albums are rooted in acoustic arrangements and spellbinding songs. There are differences, though. While Car Wheels pointed towards place markers of the South, the scenes of Trailer, with no defined location, could have occurred in Anywhere, U.S.A. Williams' knotty drawl was the sound of full immersion; Musgraves keeps a safe distance with her measured readings. Her twang-rich voice, a supple, sturdy instrument that rarely overheats, highlights the tension felt by a hopeful 20-something plotting her escape route.
Some of Musgraves' performances come with the brash, irreverent statements of youth: 'Step Off," with its Jason Mraz-meets-banjo melody, is a pithy reply to a loose-lipped friend. "You screwed everybody over in this town," Musgraves sings with a sneer. Others find support in more mature, folksy stylings. On the hillbilly stomp "Stupid," she directs her anger inward as she tries to forget an ill-fated romance: "You can't tell anymore if you're the rabbit or the snake." Although country living might have its limits, Musgraves also knows those little dots on the map hold untold treasures. She embraces her homespun manner on the harmonica-fueled "My House," a charming ode to trailer life that closes with the album's most heartwarming line: "Anywhere beside you is the place that I call home." Beneath her modern-day attitude beats a traditionalist's heart.
For the most part, Musgraves is an even-keeled observer, just as likely to raise questions as offer opinions. On "Arrow," she preaches for an all-inclusive society, though there's sure to be some gnashing of teeth about what that really means. She also reflects about reconnecting with an ex from both sides of the coin ("Keep It to Yourself," "It Is What It Is"). It's with "Blowin' Smoke," a greasy roadhouse blues number, when Musgraves has a rare outburst of emotion. Working in a rundown diner, she watches one waitress after another succumb to her bad habit while scoping out the exits. "We all say that we'll quit someday," Musgraves growls along with her all-girl chorus. "When our nerves ain't shot and our hands don't shake." Her sistren will eventually give under the oppressive weight of their greatest expectations, and the outcome doesn't look good for her either. In a sea of hunky heartthrobs selling portraits of backwoods bliss, Musgraves is offering a real if not welcome alternative.
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A thematic and stylistic line to Lucinda Williams' opus "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" is not one I hear ,but a fine review. Great job Blake!
I think both women take the same source material (heartbreak, pain, rejection) and filter it through the lens of rural America with a matter-of-fact attitude. They do it without descending into hick cliches, critical judgment or parody. (The Pistol Annies' album, while excellent, which would seem to be the most likely comparison, isn't nearly as personal of a work.) How they record such a project stems from differences in musical styles and stages in life. Musgraves obviously has influences in pop and alt-rock, and her perspective is shaped with the irony and wry wisecracking of her generation.
Long story short: The main subjects and the approach to them is the same, but the albums are delivered differently.
Now that you've done your review, can I have your pre-order copy? Somehow I inexplicably I got left off the list. ;)
Eh, Blake, Williams writes/sings about herself and Musgraves looks at the lives of others. That is such a huge difference in approach that the emotional impact of the songs is very, very different.
There are other big differences as well: Williams locates her experiences in the South, and Musgraves locates her experiences in the working/lower class; Williams places her music in a roots-rock context and Musgraves's music comes out of a country context; I could go on.
That said, I agree with you that this is a fantastic album, and if what you mean by "the spiritual successor to Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" is that both of them express a woman's point of view honestly, you're right about that.
On Trailer, I'd only pick out two songs—"My House" and "Blowin' Smoke"—that don't seem drawn from Kacey's own personal experience. There are differences, sure, and I pointed out a few in the review, but I can imagine Lucinda Williams in her mid-20s making this sort of record. At that stage in life, what you don't know firsthand you tend to draw from other sources. Both women use country and rock materials to describe a series of flawed, conflicted individuals of the lower class doing the best they can in tough circumstances, even if they go about it in their own ways.
I think the difference is not in where the experiences are drawn from but in how they're expressed. Williams always tells you "I feel, I hurt" and Musgraves is more likely to tell you "you feel, she hurts" and that makes a huge difference in how the songs come across. Williams writes as one who experiences, and Musgraves writes as one who observes. That gives Williams's songs a level of emotional impact that Musgraves's don't reach, but at the same time Musgraves is able to express a level of empathy for others that Williams never does.
I enjoy them both, but not in the same way at all.
From the article: "It's a far cry from the reality-show pageantry where she got her start."
Ummm, Kasey was performing as a cowgirl yodeler and western swing artist in Texas back from the time she was in her early teens. It was way back then that she and Miranda Lambert first became friends and co-wrote songs together. Kacey had been in the business for many years prior to her short stint on Nashville Star, although that was the first time she received nationwide exposure as a music artist.
I remember reading Kacey's MySpace page a couple of years ago after she had moved to Nashville to pursue a songwriting career. She was being exposed to so much new music that she went off on a bunch of tangents unrelated to country music and even cut her hair really short. It's nice to see she's settled down a bit! (lol)
Blake, nice work on this review. I couldn't agree more on your verdict as the album is sublime. I love how the production leaves some room to breathe in each song and how her rebellious spark shines so brightly through such smartly written lyrics.
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Grover Norquist Absent at ALEC Debate
Posted by Larry Bergan in ALEC, Capitalism, Civil liberties Infringement, Election Fraud on October 3, 2014
I don't know if he got a note from his mother or not, but Grover Norquist was scheduled to be on the "Diane Rehm Show" on Thursday to defend ALEC. If he chickened out, it looks bad because the panel would have been stacked by 2.5 in his favor – two and a half because the American journalist for the Washington Post is only allowed to give lies and truth equal consideration.
It was a hard order for Norquist, because Google had announced it was not going to give funds to ALEC, a week earlier on the Rehm peogram, after an online petition promted the mega-corporation to reconsider it's association with that organization. Thanks Google!
I'm not so sure it was a bad thing the panel was stacked in favor of ALEC. It would have looked bad to finish off a wounded animal on a forum devoted to friendly, but incisive, discussion.
You have to hand it to the new chief executive officer of ALEC; She didn't call in sick and proceeded to praise ALEC for passing tons of legislation. All of the legislation that ALEC has passed is pro-business/anti-worker-voter, but heck!
And thanks to NPR and KUER for giving us information instead of just football. There is a place for everything though, and every Wedensday they feature a great sports commentator in the morning who always makes me laugh.
Listen or read the program here. Two important callers involved in this story near the end of the show.
the UN, NATO, and the trip-wire
Posted by Firmage Ed in 9/11, Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan, Biological Weapons, Bush Administration, Bush Failures, CIA, Civil liberties Infringement, Conservative, Crimes, Democracy, Democrats, Dick Cheney, Drone Strikes, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Hezbollah, Human Rights, Iran, Iraq, Israel, John McCain, Liberal, Libertarianism, Mahdi Army, Mormon LDS, National Politics, nazis, Neocons, NSA Surveillance, Nuclear Weapons, Oliver North, Pakistan, Proof Bush Lied, Rumsfeld, Syria, Syria, Terrorism, This Blog, War Crimes on June 5, 2014
I'm so sorry to write this missive as a lead article (for 15 minutes) but I don't remember how to find the comments and respond to them. The lonely little side-bar response to my article I've not seen, except for half a sentence. It seemed to be saying that the old days are gone now, and so we need NATO and the JN. I agree. With NATO, it is the trip-wire provision that we go to war, automatically if any NATO nation is attacked, regardless of who the attacker is. This takes not only the United States Congress, but the president, as Commander in Chief, from the decision to go to war. I support both the UN and, if handled correctly, NATO. But President J. Reuben Clark and I oppose the automatic going to war. Just like the fools, the ancient general staffs of all sides in WW I. No one wanted that war. There was no Adolph Hitler in that war that destroyed the entire 20th century. Better to have shot the general staffs, who came to deserve exactly that. What President Clark called for, and I, are what the United States has always done, before NATO. That is, to have treaties of peace and friendship with our allies and then, should hostilities commence, such treaties would call for all parties to go to war, or not, as their constitutions provide. In this way, we don't declare war against a nation, and surely all the people, have not yet been born. How, pray tell, do we justify going to war against, and for, people not, or no longer, live on earth. With a few caveats, ditto for the UN. No provision of law allows the UN to overreach Congress in the decision for war or peace. For anyone interested, read my book with the late Francis Wormuth, To Cain the Dog of War. It is by odds the best book ever written on the way we go to war. Every single war we've ever fought, including our wars against the Indian tribes, is there analyzed. Francis did not live to see this book in print. I worked two years after his death to finish it. And I updated it 4 or 5 times, alone. I still put my dear friend's name first, because I am honored to be linked, now, forever. Something like Mormon marriage through time and eternity. ed firmage xoxo
Surrender Your Constitutional Rights: Visit Texas
Posted by Cliff Lyon in Civil liberties Infringement, Conservatives, North and South politics, Racism, Republicans, Rick Perry on March 3, 2014
This amazing dash cam video and subsequent video of court proceedings well confirms the long tradition of utter lawlessness in the state of Texas.
"I verbally objected to an unconstitutional search of my vehicle in Electra, Texas. Police officers Matt Wood and Gary Ellis maliciously responded by issuing me two false citations. I got a copy of the dashboard-camera video at the pretrial hearing. It showed all. City attorney Todd Greenwood demanded I give my copy of the evidence back, and tried to have me arrested when I refused.
Todd Greenwood then compared rural Texas to the movie Deliverance, and warned me "What's written down in the Constitution is one thing, and the real practice is another."
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What madness is being unleashed in Russia?
Posted by Glenden Brown in Civil liberties Infringement, GLBT issues, Human Rights, This Blog on July 27, 2013
The news stories coming out of Russia are depressing and heart-breaking.
John Aravosis at Americablog has been all over it. First, Russia adopted a draconian anti-gay law.
It is now literally illegal in Russia to say that you are gay. It is illegal to kiss your partner in public – say, after you win a gold medal. It is illegal for a gay athlete to wear the rainbow flag. Or even to acknowledge during an interview that they are gay – or for the foreign press to acknowledge it – unless they mention that gay sexual orientation in a negative way . . .
Then there's the seemingly officially-sanctioned violence against gay, bisexual and trans people in Russia. It's been made clear for years now that Russian government will turn a blind eye towards anti-gay violence, and many have alleged that the Russian government is actually behind such violence. Will gay Olympic athletes and gay Olympic fans be targeted for violence while in Russia? No one knows.
In recent weeks, the situation in Russia has taken a turn for the horrific. Buzzfeed published a series of photos of anti-gay violence in Russia. Then the story broke about Russian neo-nazi skinheads arranging dates with gay teens then beating, abusing, and torturing them.
Oddly enough their idea of fighting pedophiles targets exclusively male teenagers who respond to the same-sex personal ads and show up for a date. Captured victims are bullied and often tortured while being recorded on video. These self-proclaimed "crime fighters" perform their actions under the broad day light, often outside and clearly visible to general public that indifferently passes by or even commend them. Video recordings of bullying and tortures are freely distributed on the Internet in order to out LGBT teens to their respective schools, parents and friends. Many victims were driven to suicides, the rest are deeply traumatized.
In an interview with the NY Times, Harvey Fierstein said:
Mr. Putin's campaign against lesbian, gay and bisexual people is one of distraction, a strategy of demonizing a minority for political gain taken straight from the Nazi playbook. Can we allow this war against human rights to go unanswered? Although Mr. Putin may think he can control his creation, history proves he cannot: his condemnations are permission to commit violence against gays and lesbians. In May a young gay man was murdered in the city of Volgograd. He was beaten, his body violated with beer bottles, his clothing set on fire, his head crushed with a rock. This is most likely just the beginning….
The Winter Olympics will be in Russia next year. The IOC's response has been pathetic. They claim they've received assurances that glbt athletes and tourists visiting the games will be safe. I'm sure the skinhead thugs are going to check who's Russian and who's not before they fag-bash.
Russia seems to be sliding backwards into the Dark Ages. I don't think this is going to end well.
The Mind Your Own Business Act
Posted by Larry Bergan in 4th Estate (Media), Civil liberties Infringement, Human Rights, Military Industrial Complex, nazis, Prisons, Privacy, This Blog on June 26, 2013
I love the fact that Alan Grayson was able to get back into congress along with Elizabeth Warren. NOW when I get the old, "they're all the same" refrain, I can say, "well not exactly".
Alan names his amendment to H.R. 1960 the, "The Mind Your Own Business Act". When was the last time you heard somebody in congress come up with a plan that didn't have an Orwellian name? Republicans are always so proud of people on their side who just come right out and say what they think. It's usually crazy as hell, but they say it anyway. Alan shoots from the hip too, but it sparks something in your brain that says: this really makes sense. Also, for years, Republicans were prohibited from disagreeing with anything a Republican in the hierarchy said. Grayson can say he disagrees with Obama's stance, because he's a Democrat. That's my hope.
MSNBC is supposed to be "the liberal channel", so why is the host of this segment trying to "get something" on Grayson for insinuating the Nazi's would have loved to have a "Total Information Awareness" type of system that is going in to full gear, very soon. Grayson answers a question with a question, but it's a good one, which the host, basically, answers by saying, 'I'm the one asking the questions here'.
The question Grayson asks is,
How do you feel about the fact that the Government is keeping a record of every single phone call that you make?
I'm totally perplexed at the media coverage Edward Snowden is getting at this late date. He's not the only whistle-blower on this matter. We have known for many years the government had planned to collect, and has been collecting as much information about every one of us as they could. Now that they are close to having the ability to get EVERYTHING, we get polls that tell us Americans WANT to have all their private information collected to…
Keep us safe.
If the government is serious about keeping me safe, they'd stop spending so much money on secret surveillance, prisons and war. What I really need to keep me "safe" is single payer healthcare and "food security".
I think Grayson's best quote in the video is this:
Martin, you are completely missing the point. The point is that we're taking measures that are not correlated in any sense with our safety, and even if they were it would be beneath our dignity as human beings. That's what this is all about. All right, listen. You could always make people safer by taking extreme measures. If, for instance, we lowered the speed limit to 10 miles per hour, people would be safer. If we outlawed knives and forks, people would be safer. If we made everybody fly on the airlines naked, people would be safer. None of those things corresponds to my sense of human dignity, and I think I'm not the only one who feels that way….
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Edward Snowden, NSA Whistleblower: 'We Hack Everyone Everywhere'
Posted by Richard Warnick in American People, Barack Obama, Civil liberties Infringement, Democracy, Internet, National Politics, The Constitution, This Blog, Wiretapping on June 10, 2013
Glenn Greenwald posted an interview with Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history.
Q: Why did you decide to become a whistleblower?
A: "The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.
"I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things … I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under."
Q: What do the leaked documents reveal?
A: "That the NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America. I believe that when [senator Ron] Wyden and [senator Mark] Udall asked about the scale of this, they [the NSA] said it did not have the tools to provide an answer. We do have the tools and I have maps showing where people have been scrutinized most. We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians."
Q: What about the Obama administration's protests about hacking by China?
A: "We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries."
Q: Is it possible to put security in place to protect against state surveillance?
A: "You are not even aware of what is possible. The extent of their capabilities is horrifying. We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine. You will never be safe whatever protections you put in place."
Thanks to this courageous man, we are now getting some official acknowledgement and confirmation of the continuous, widespread warrantless surveillance of Americans (not to mention the rest of the world) by the National Security Agency (NSA). To be continued.
More info:
Revealed: The NSA's powerful tool for cataloguing global surveillance data
UPDATE: 'I DID ANSWER YOUR QUESTION!' Mika Brzezinski plays dumb to defend White House talking points.
UPDATE: Greenwald Says 'There's A Lot More Coming'
UPDATE: ACLU Suing Obama Administration Over Phone Call Surveillance
'Papers Please' Now Can Be Enforced in Arizona
Posted by Richard Warnick in Civil liberties Infringement, Immigration, National Politics, Republicans, The Constitution on September 18, 2012
Thanks to our partisan right-wing Supreme Court, Arizona's un-American "Papers Please" law is now going to take effect despite being ruled unconstitutional by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton signed the formal order this afternoon dissolving the injunction she issued more than two years ago blocking the state from enforcing key provisions of the 2010 law.
Police can now demand to see proof of citizenship or legal residence. You will be arrested and taken to jail if your "papers" are not in order. If you visit Arizona, bring a passport. Or better yet, don't visit Arizona!
An Epidemic of Hostility Toward Religion or an Epidemic Christian Cry-babies?
Posted by Glenden Brown in Atheism, Bigotry, Civil liberties Infringement, Homophobia, Privacy, Religion, Religious Fundamentalism, This Blog on August 24, 2012
The Family Research Council (a group the SPLC identified as a hate group for its ongoing use of lies, distortions and untruths about glbt persons) and Liberty Institute, another right wing organization, recently released a study which they claim documents more than 600 instances of hostility toward religious liberty:
Liberty Institute attorney Justin Butterfield tells OneNewsNow what his group hopes to accomplish with the study's findings.
"We want to raise awareness of the issue. A lot of people think that hostility because of people's religious beliefs and attacks on religious liberty are things that happen elsewhere in the world, not in the United States," he notes. "We just want to show that it actually happens with increasing and alarming regularity here in the United States."
Liberty Institute President Kelly Shackelford and FRC President Tony Perkins are presenting the study before the Republican Party Convention platform committee to raise that awareness.
I've been very skeptical about claims made by the religious right concerning discrimination against and bigotry towards Christians. However, this report is based on an audacious claim – 600+ incidents of hostility towards religion? Documented and published? As a matter of due diligence I figured I owed it to myself to check out the report. I downloaded the report. It's 135 breezy pages long consisting of short summaries of instances the authors identify as hostility to religion and citations (either the case information or links to online news reports). The report is helpfully broken down in sections based on what type of hostility the authors deemed to have occurred (i.e. public expressions of faith, in schools, workplaces, about monuments and public displays, etc.)
I picked a few cases at random. Read the rest of this entry »
Damn voter fraud
Posted by Shane Smith in 2012 Elections, Civil liberties Infringement, Conservatives, Elections on July 24, 2012
Fun news for the voter fraud teams tomorrow:
Tomorrow, Judge Robert Simpson will hear the case the ACLU has brought on behalf of Viviette Applewhite and others against the state of Pennsylvania for its new voter ID law. That case should be significantly bolstered by the admission from the state itself that there is no history of in-person voter fraud in the state. Essentially it's a law in search of a problem.
Wait, why would anyone push for a law that solves a problem that doesn't exist?
"I don't want everybody to vote. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."
—Conservative leader Paul Weyrich
Nope, that can't be it. Despite the way various parts of the GOP are fined every election cycle for interfering with votes, and the near constant stories such as "GOP phone bank calls registered Dems and reminds them to vote… The day after the election" I am sure it is only because they love justice, America, and apple pie that these laws are drafted.


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People are weird about love. Everybody wants to be loved, but nobody wants to talk about it.
We'll tell a stranger how much we love our iPod. Yet we find it difficult to look into the eyes of our parent, spouse or child and proclaim the same thing. One place we're really weird about love is at work. We want our customers to love our products, we want our employees to love their jobs, and we want the market to love our stock. But bring up the "L word" in a management meeting, and people will start to get uncomfortable.
I used to be weird about love. I make my living as a sales and leadership expert. I speak at a lot of big meetings, and clients often call upon me to help get their people more enthused and inspired.
I used to use code words like passion and motivation. Then I realized, this is stupid. The subject we're really dancing around is love, and we need to be brave enough to just come right out and say it — not in a meaningless manner, but for real.
Think about it.
How weird is it that companies want their employees and customers to love them, yet they're reluctant to talk about how they, as an organization, can be more loving? How strange is it that, when someone says, "I love my job," or "I love my boss," it is a compliment to the organization, yet very few bosses are willing to stand up at a meeting and express their love for their team?
The truth is, expecting to get love back from your job, or the market or your staff, without being willing to put any love in is just as silly as expecting your kids to love you when you rarely treat them lovingly. Or expecting your spouse to love you when all you do is complain about the fact that they don't. Oh, right, we do that, too. Like I said, we're weird about love.
The problem is that we tend think of love as a noun. It's something we want to get, and we're reluctant to give any away until someone gives it to us first. But love doesn't work that way. It's a verb, and the way you create it is by putting it into action. We may be more comfortable throwing around the "L word" in inconsequential way, as in, "You're gonna love our new double-stack burger," or "Wow, I love these new computers." But if we truly want to generate passion and enthusiasm, we have to be willing to show up with it. And that means not only talking about love, but also demonstrating it.
Showing up with love for coworkers, your boss or your customers isn't really any different than showing up with love for your family. It's about listening, it's about caring, it's about making time for them and, above all, it's about deciding that you give a darn about their feelings, even when it's not convenient for you.
Love isn't some wimpy, woo-woo emotion. It's the most powerful motivator on this planet, and when you bring it into the workplace, amazing things happen. I used to be weird about love at work. But I'm not anymore. I love my people. I love the work that we do, and I love our clients. And I'm not the least bit embarrassed about it.
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JSR-314: JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2.0 is the third major revision of the JSF specification. It delivers a strong evolution of the framework driven by de facto standards that emerged from both the JSF community and participating vendor's products. Red Hat played a major role in promoting the JSF enhancements from Seam and RichFaces into JSR-314 and also worked with the Expert Group (EG) to refine additional features that were being incorporated. This series focuses on the features that Red Hat contributed or participated in extensively and provides example scenarios suggesting how these features might be used.
Author's Note: Many thanks to Pete Muir, who played a pivotal role as technical editor of this series.
Read the other parts in this article series:
Part 1 - JSF 2: Seam's Other Avenue to Standardization
Part 2 - JSF 2 GETs Bookmarkable URLs
Part 3 - Fluent Navigation in JSF 2
Part 4 - Ajax and JSF, Joined At Last
Part 5 - Introducing JSF 2 Client Behaviors
You've likely heard that Seam is being standardized through the Java
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for Java EE (CDI). However, that's not the whole story. The
generalization fails to credit Seam's pioneering enhancements to
JavaServer Faces (JSF). An important part of Seam's passage into
standardization is the collection of Red Hat-sponsored contributions to
JSR-314 that emerged from Seam, and also from Ajax4JSF (now rolled into
RichFaces), which are covered in this series.
The goals Red Hat and Exadel had for enhancing JSF tie nicely with CDI, no surprise given that both contributions originated from Seam. The overarching goal has always been to reduce the amount of glue code needed, or eliminate it altogether if possible. In JSF, you shouldn't need to write a layer of "view Java code". Instead, the declarative view layer should be able to interact directly with your transactional tier. Any obstacle obstructing this realization was identified and removed. Building on the goal to eliminate unnecessary code, Red Hat ensured that JSF could leverage the centralized Bean Validation constraints that reside on the model without any special configuration. And with the view layer and transactional layer working so closely in tandem, it made sense to focus on bringing them in more direct and frequent communication using Ajax. Finally, Red Hat listened to the community's cry for bookmarkability in JSF and delivered on it.
It's important to point out, however, that not all the improvements to JSF originate from Seam and RichFaces. The JSR-314 proposal specifically acknowledges that there are a lot of great ideas which extend from the JSF specification. From the outset, the stated goal of JSR-314 has been to harvest those ideas and align them with the Java EE platform as standards, primarily to ensure compatibility.
JSF gets practicalThe pragmatic approach of standardizing accepted enhancements is what makes JSF 2 successful. Rather than being yet another thought experiment produced in a think tank, the improvements to JSF 2 emerge from a broad pool of proven and accepted frameworks, and were further refined by the same people that coined them. Projects and their contributors include include Seam (Red Hat), ADF Faces (Oracle), Trinidad (Oracle/Apache), Ajax4JSF/RichFaces (Exadel/Red Hat), ICEFaces (ICESoft) and others. That means that instead of you having to learn something entirely new, you'll easily recognize the new features and how they've evolved from their origin. That translates into a gentler migration path.
To cite an quick example, if you have been using the Facelets view language with JSF 1.x, then you'll be happy to know that Facelets is now a standard part of JSF 2, albeit reasonably evolved. You won't have to change more than a couple of characters to take advantage of JSF 2 in this regard. Although not covered in this series, this is just one of many welcomed additions you'll discover in the new JSF specification.
Updating the specification means more than just dumping de facto standards into the framework, though. It also means introducing new APIs to accommodate present and future extensions, without them having to deviate far from the specification and thus compromising portability. In anticipation of other popular view declaration languages like Facelets, JSF 2 defines a generic View Declaration Language (VDL) API to make it easier for alternatives to be built and integrated. You'll discover later in the series that there is a similar API to accommodate extensions to the JavaScript and Ajax support. The point is that JSF EG continues to look for ways to make JSF more pluggable and for extensions to maintain as much compatibility as possible.
Fortifying JSFBeing a web UI framework, JSF naturally covers a lot of ground, from UI component infrastructure and a standard component set to form processing and navigation. Red Hat focused on solving the major pain points in JSF, which were naturally those areas that were the cause of criticism in the past. Most of these problems are already solved in Seam, but to put things in perspective, there's only so far you can go with the decorations to hide a foundation in disrepair. The problems needed to be fixed at the source.
Let's take a quick look at the features Red Hat contributed to JSF 2 that you'll visit in this series. The features will be covered in this order:
- View parameters and bookmarkable links
- Navigation improvements
- Ajax and component behaviors
- Bean Validation integration
- Exception handling
- "Pet peeve" fixes and a look ahead
We'll start with solution to the most common complaint, that "every request in JSF is a POST."
Not all requests that are interesting happen via POSTIn JSF, a faces request, which happens when a form is submitted using the HTTP POST method, is where all the action happens. The processing of a non-faces request, which occurs when a page is initially requested via HTTP GET, is far less interesting in comparison. Since HTTP GET requests are quite common, especially in web sites that use many hyperlinks between pages, JSF appears deficient. It's deficient because it fails to satisfy the "action-oriented" web scenario. What is needed is a "beefing up" of the non-faces request.
JSF 2 alleviates this problem by introducing view parameters, an evolution of Seam's page parameters. A view parameter is a mapping between a query string parameter and a model value. The collection of view parameters are stored in the view metadata facet, also introduced in JSF 2. The query string values are converted, validated and mapped to properties on the model during the Restore View phase (on both faces and non-faces requests), paralleling the life cycle that processes form input values on faces-requests.
View parameters accommodate "bookmarkable" URLs specifically because they are processed at the start of a non-faces request. They also aid in producing bookmarkable links. That's because view parameters are a two way mapping. Much like form values are displayed in input fields when a form is rendered, view parameters can be written into the query string of output URLs.
Since JSF didn't have a UI component to create a link from one view to another, two new standard UI components were introduced for this purpose in JSF 2, <h:link> and <h:button>. These components render bookmarkable links with view parameter values optionally encoded into the query string. View parameters can also be included in navigation rules that use a redirect, another form of an output URL.
One behavior that is still missing on a non-faces request is an action invocation that follows the model updates from view parameters. However, it's easy enough to emulate this feature using the PreRenderViewEvent that is raised before a view is rendered by the new system event infrastructure in JSF 2.
In JSF, action invocations are typically followed by navigation. Thankfully, navigation has become less of a hassle, and more savvy, in JSF 2.
Hassle free navigation, under one condition
When prototyping a user interaction in JSF that is followed by
navigation to another page, it's always a pain to have to go through
that extra step of mapping an action signature and logical outcome to a
target view ID in the faces-config.xml descriptor. Seam let's you
return the view ID from the action method as a shortcut. JSF 2 formally
defines this shortcut as implicit navigation.
The specification goes a step further by allowing you to drop the file extension from the view ID and have the navigation handler assume that the return value is the root of a view ID in the case no navigation rules can be matched. At last, the extra level of indirection is gone, if you decide you don't need it. You can lean on implicit navigation wherever a logical outcome is used by the framework (e.g., in the action attribute of <h:commandButton>).
Navigation rules aren't all bad, though. As you advance beyond the prototype stage, you'll likely want to rely on the navigation rules to direct the user to different pages based on the outcome of the event. Unfortunately, the JSF navigation rules are already decided in advance based the signature of the action method and the "logical" string outcome of the action (i.e., business) method. That means the navigation system requires that you pollute your business method's conditional logic used to select a string outcome as a return value in order to control navigation. It would be more "logical", and provide a cleaner separation of layers, if the navigation rule could pull state from the model to decide which navigation rule to choose, effectively introducing a declarative condition.
JSF 2 delivers on this design best practice by introducing a conditional expression that controls whether a rule is selected. The conditional expression is defined using value expression syntax. This allows you to decouple your business logic from your navigation system and, thus, further remove the glue code needed if you want to write a cleanly separated system.
As part of improving the navigation handler, the set of navigation rules was exposed through a public API. One way they are used is to support the bookmarkable links introduced above. When a bookmarkable link is rendered, the navigation rules can be evaluated in advance to determine which page to link to. By providing access to the navigation rules, third party libraries have greater insight and control into the navigation system, paving the way for future extensions. A future goal for navigation is define a fluent API for being able to define navigation rules to make navigation rules far less cumbersome to author.
Navigation is so Web 1.0 though, right? If it were possible to use Ajax, all this navigating wouldn't really be necessary. JSF 2 has just what you are looking for.


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I remember when we first moved to Wrightwood in 1996, there was a train derailment near the 15 & 138. Some of the rail cars were tankers filled with chemicals, and they were leaking. This derailment and clean-up closed the 138 for the better part of a week.
I remember pops telling us stories of having to dig through, carrot and tomato trucks that had been hit on 138. When you had to cross the tracks and not go over them like know.Can you all imagine having to stop on 138 for trains now?Local
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Facebook Is Awfully PopularPublished by Toronto Mike on January 2, 2008 @ 09:52 in Toronto News ~ Toronto Focus
In 2007, I got a Facebook account. I wasn't alone. Toronto became the first city in North America to break 1 million subscribers.
Last I checked Toronto proper had 2,503,281 residents. There's no way these grandiose claims that 1,000,000 of us have Facebook accounts is true. Metro Toronto's population is 5,555,912. I still don't buy that 20% have Facebook accounts, but I will make this observation. Facebook is awfully popular.
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Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., faced a tough crowd in his Coffee with Coats gathering Thursday morning in Fort Wayne – his own political party.
Many in the audience of about 50 people were Republican officeholders, volunteers and supporters.
I was not trying to turn this into a partisan rally, Coats joked near the end of the town hall meeting at the Aboite Township trustee's office and fire department.
But some in the audience seemed to want Coats to tack further to the right – to libertarian and tea-party territory – than he already has. They demanded the elimination of the IRS and the defunding of the Affordable Care Act. They rejected the notion of U.S. military intervention in Syria's civil war, even after allegations the Syrian regime used sarin nerve gas on its citizens.
One man said conservatives are tired of the Republican establishment attacking conservatives like Ted Cruz and Marlin Stutzman, Rand Paul, who are standing up for the conservative principles of our nation.
A woman chided Coats for having a dog-and-pony show. She said his public meeting should have been in the evening at a larger venue, such as nearby Homestead High School, and with more than a day's notice.
I got an earful here today, because I'm getting an earful as I go all over Indiana listening to people, but that's my job, Coats told reporters after Thursday's event.
Earlier, he observed that voters re-elected a Democratic president and Democratic Senate majority in 2012. He said just about everything Republicans pass in the House is dead on arrival in the Senate, including the repeal of the federal health care law.
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So just who will be voting to replace retiring Rep. Phyllis Pond, R-New Haven? A group of politically savvy precinct committee men and women who may or may not actually live in House District 85.
But not Rep. Bob Morris, R-Fort Wayne, who lives in and serves another district.
Briefly last week Morris thought he was a caucus member but it was later discovered not to be true.
Allen County GOP Chairman Steve Shine explained that to run for a four-year precinct committee post a person must reside in the district. But if a vacancy occurs during that term he can appoint any Allen County registered voter who is a Republican.
Shine said there are 76 precincts in the district – of which 67 are filled. He will not fill any vacancies between Pond's resignation announcement and the caucus as to avoid stacking votes for a specific candidate.
A lot of good people are seeking this office, he said. A caucus is a clear and distinct political animal than a general election.
Pond is resigning effective Oct. 15 – in the middle of her 18th term.
Ironically, Pond is a precinct committeewoman and can vote in the caucus for her successor. There are a number of other high-profile names on the list, and they are already being lobbied heavily from all sides.
The caucus to fill Pond's term – which runs through the end of 2014 – is scheduled for Oct. 8 at Allen County Republican Party Headquarters.
The deadline to file to run in the caucus is Oct. 4.
Shine said a ton of people have expressed interest in running in the caucus, and he expects more to materialize.
Each one has an interesting story on why they want to win the caucus and or the primary that will follow soon after, he said.
Whoever wins the caucus could have an advantage in the May primary for a new term.
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Gov. Mike Pence and first lady Karen Pence are officially empty-nesters.
They moved their youngest daughter, Audrey, into her college in Boston over Labor Day weekend.
Did you cry? a reporter asked.
That's classified, the governor said. Mrs. Pence and I are now empty-nesters and the people of Indiana have given us a pretty big nest so we've got some adjustments.
The couple's two other children, son Michael and daughter Charlotte, are also in college.
The Pences live in the 10,500-square-foot governor's residence that has 23 rooms and 11 bathrooms, along with a separate carriage house for guests.
Dan Stockman of The Journal Gazette contributed to this column.