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Margaret Atwood's Tale
The historical time of The Handmaid's Tale would seem to be 2005, no longer our uneasily shared "future." The novel in no way resembles science fiction but rather "speculative fiction": a psychologically "realistic" and persuasive exploration of a counterworld bearing a significant if surreal relationship to reality. It takes place in what was once the US, now renamed the Republic of Gilead by its Christian fundamentalist government. Because of environmental pollution, the number of fertile women is low and those who can still bear children are effectively prisoners of the government. When the Christian fundamentalists took power they removed fertile women from their husbands and children and sent them to live with government leaders—or "Commanders"—and their infertile wives so that they could conceive and bear children who would then be raised by the Commanders and their wives as their own. The novel is narrated by one of these fertile women, called Handmaids. In essence a Gothic tale of a young woman's cruel imprisonment, her shifting relationship with her captors, and her eventual escape, The Handmaid's Tale differs from its classic dystopian predecessors in the intimacy of the protagonist's voice and in the convincing domestic background Atwood has established for her.
The ominously named "Offred" (so named by her government captors because she is the daughter of a man named Fred) is rendered with the admirable attentiveness to detail and psychological nuance that is the province of the realistic novel, not the fable. Where the mostly male characters of H.G. Wells's prophetic novels, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and George Orwell's 1984 are primarily functions of plot, Atwood's character is distinct and individual, with sharp, painful memories of what she has lost (husband, daughter, radical feminist mother, college roommate). Narrated in the breathless present tense, like Surfacing, much of Alias Grace (another captive female novel), and The Blind Assassin as well as numerous short stories by Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale achieves the feat of rendering the bizarre, the ludicrous, and the improbable a new sort of quotidian as Offred moves through the prescribed routine of her essentially dull, housewifely day. She goes shopping for household items ("Our first stop is at a store with another wooden sign: three eggs, a bee, a cow. Milk and Honey. There's a line, and we wait our turn, two by two") and takes a stroll to the Wall, formerly the Harvard-Wall, now appropriated by the Republic of Gilead for displaying executed enemies of the state ("Beside the main gateway there are six more bodies hanging, by the necks, their hands tied in front of them, their heads in white bags tipped sideways onto their shoulders. There must have been a Men's Salvaging early this morning").
Offred comments slyly on her sexual rival in the Commander's household, the Commander's middle-aged wife Serena Joy, who'd been a Christian-family-values stump-speaker before the Gilead overthrow of the federal government:
She doesn't make speeches anymore. She has become speechless. She stays in her home, but it doesn't seem to agree with her. How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.
She's looking at the tulips. Her cane is beside her, on the grass. Her profile is towards me…. It's no longer a flawless cut-paper profile, her face is sinking in upon itself….
Atwood's greatest challenge in The Handmaid's Tale is to make the ritual copulation ceremony something other than comical, if not slapstick, as the Handmaid lies, mostly clothed, between the spread legs of the Wife, fully clothed, to be subjected to sexual intercourse as performed by the Commander, also mostly clothed. Granted the absurdity of the physical situation, and the improbability of a middle-aged man's sexual potency in such a situation, very likely this is how it might be:
Serena Joy grips my hands as if it is she, not I, who's being fucked, as if she finds it either pleasurable or painful, and the Commander fucks, with a regular two-four marching stroke, on and on like a tap dripping…. It's as if he's somewhere else, waiting for himself to come, drumming his fingers on the table while he waits…. Why does he have to wear that stupid uniform? But would I like his white, tufted raw body any better?
But how eerily prescient that the Republic of Gilead was established by a coup when Christian fundamentalists, revulsed by an overly liberal, godless, and promiscuous society, assassinated the president, machine-gunned Congress, declared a national state of emergency, and laid blame to "Islamic fanatics." As in Orwell's 1984, the Republic consolidates its strength by maintaining continual wars against demonized "enemies." Yet women beware women!—for the patriarchy has shrewdly conscripted categories of women to control and exploit other women: apart from the Handmaids, in the Gilead social hierarchy there are Wives, like Serena Joy; Aunts, who train Handmaids; and Marthas, household servants with grim, obligatory duties to perform. If they fail to bear children, or when they're beyond the age of childbearing, Handmaids are likely to be shipped off to the dread Colonies with other rebellious, useless, or elderly women, where their fate is to clear away corpses after battles, to prevent the outbreak of plague, and to clean up toxic dumps and radiation spills: "They figure you've got three years maximum, at those, before your nose falls off and your skin pulls away like rubber gloves."
As in pre-Gilead America, or Victorian England, men of the privileged class have access to brothels, in which, in secret, the hypocritical "family values" of their society are cheerfully flouted; the Commander takes Offred, in ludicrous sexpot costume, to Jezebel's, a Playboy-fantasy bordello exclusively for the use of officers and "trade delegations, of course." And, as in Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," ordinary, repressed individuals in Gilead, in this case women, are regularly forced to, or allowed to, participate in bloody Dionysian murders called Participutations, in which a man, said to be a "rapist," is literally torn into pieces: "The air is bright with adrenaline, we are permitted anything and this is freedom." Offred, who has no wish to participate in such bloodshed, finds herself ravenously hungry after the ceremony: "This is monstrous, but nevertheless it's true. Death makes me hungry."
In the startling appendix to the novel, titled "Historical Notes on The Handmaid's Tale," we learn that Offred has not been writing her story but recording it in a sequence of secret tapes, to be discovered long after her death in the ruins of what was once the city of Bangor, Maine. Abruptly the reader is catapulted into a more conventionally science-fiction future, provided with a "partial transcript of the proceedings of the Twelfth Symposium on Gileadean Studies…held at the University of Denay, Nunavit, on June 25, 2195"; our narrator Offred has long since vanished, like the nightmare Republic of Gilead, preserved two hundred years later in historical archives under the supervision of pompous (male) academics like Professor Pieixoto, "Director, Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century Archives, Cambridge University, England."
As the Handmaid's Tale is an urgent, personal, "female" document, so the academics' "male" commentary on it is glib, condescending, fatuous, and self-serving. Atwood has said in interviews that she wanted to end The Handmaid's Tale on an optimistic note,2 to indicate that the Republic of Gilead did not last forever, and to provide the reader with "historical" information unavailable to Offred, yet how deflating is this heavily ironic coda, how much more appropriate to that most perishable of literary genres, the academic satire, than to a work of such raw, urgent power as the Handmaid's Tale within The Handmaid's Tale. The appendix makes of the novel an astute, provocative social commentary, where its absence would have made the novel an abiding work of art ending with Offred's hopeful voice ("And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light").
The strikingly titled Oryx and Crake, Atwood's other notable work of speculative fiction, is a yet more ambitious and darkly prophetic work than The Handmaid's Tale, set in a near-future, post-apocalyptic terrain that is reverting to wilderness after a plague deliberately induced by the deranged scientist-genius called Crake has wiped out most of mankind. The madman/ idealist Crake, self-named for the red-necked crake, a rare Australian bird extinct by the era of Oryx and Crake, is a credible descendant of Mary Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein and a younger variant of the genocidal-minded idealist of "The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" by James Tiptree Jr.
Narrated from the perspective of Crake's childhood friend Jimmy, or Snowman, as he calls himself, Oryx and Crake is an ambitiously concerned, skillfully executed performance by a writer clearly impassioned by her subject: our endangered environment, and our endangered species. By turns tragic, seriocomic, farcical, and blackly satiric, the novel suggests such classic films as Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, and the Australian-set Mad Max films of George Miller; its literary predecessors run from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels ("The Voyage to Laputa") to Huxley's Brave New World.
In the nightmare world recalled by Jimmy, before Crake's plague-apocalypse, governments have effectively been replaced by gigantic global corporations ("HelthWyzer," "CorpSeCorps") whose control over individuals is invisible and near absolute; and whose financing of science is chillingly utilitarian and unprincipled. In this all-too-credible variant of Huxley's narcotized utopia, "demi-autistic" young scientists like Crake of the Watson-Crick Institute are developing drugs like BlyssPluss, a super-Viagra with, as Crake says enthusiastically, the power to "protect the user against all known sexually transmitted diseases" as well as simultaneously "provide an unlimited supply of libido and sexual prowess, coupled with a generalized sense of energy and well-being"—all this, and it prolongs youth. A fourth capability, Crake says, would not be advertised:
The BlyssPluss Pill would also act as a sure-fire one-time-does-it-all birth-control pill, for male and female alike, thus automatically lowering the population level….
"So basically you're going to sterilize people without them knowing it under the guise of giving them the ultra in orgies" [Jimmy said].
"That's a crude way of putting it," said Crake.
Yet more diabolically, pharmaceutical companies are researching new diseases for which expensive medical technologies and drugs will be required: "The best diseases," said Crake, "would be those that cause lingering illnesses."
Crake is the deranged idealist who wants to rid the world of human cruelty and destructiveness, though he doesn't himself believe in either God or Nature and would appear to be wholly amoral. In place of Homo sapiens Crake has created his new species of humanity: simple, placid, dull-normal creatures lacking any sense of ego, or humor, for whom sex is a routine physiological function and who are programmed by their creator to die suddenly at the age of thirty, in the prime of life. The Children of Crake, as Jimmy calls them, are physically beautiful, perfectly proportioned, of no more human interest than "animated statues." When Crake spreads his plague through the whole world, these super-humans, along with Jimmy, are the only ones to survive it. They remember almost nothing of the old civilization and Jimmy must create new myths for them.
The constraining mantle of post-apocalyptic genre is borne lightly by Atwood in Oryx and Crake, but such cautionary fantasies have become so popular in recent decades that revitalizing the form is a considerable challenge. Where there is an apocalypse, there must be an apocalypse-catalyst, or causer: the monomaniac Mad Scientist. Where there is such a villain, there must be a foil: the sensitive witness, the survivor who, like Ishmael, lives to tell the tale. There may even be a third person, a love object, for whom the two contend, in this case the former prostitute Oryx, whom Crake hires to educated the new breed of humans. She becomes for the Children of Crake the truly female figure. How to humanly register, still more feel any emotional involvement with characters like Jimmy/Snowman and the elusive Oryx when, as the novel hopes to persuade us, the earth's entire population, billions of men, women, children, are dying? Such vast cataclysms leave us unmoved no matter how skillfully rendered by so trenchant and committed a writer as Atwood, though visual dramatizations, as in Steven Spielberg's recent remake of The War of the Worlds, can rouse the viewer to a visceral horror that might seem to substitute for an emotional engagement. With its plethora of freaky forms, Oryx and Crake suggests one of those unnerving Saul Steinberg drawings in which recognizable human figures are surrounded by bizarre cartoon characters, human and animal and geometrical, some of them here stick figures.
Like The Handmaid's Tale and Surfacing, Oryx and Crake is tantalizingly open-ended. Jimmy/Snowman discovers that he isn't the last specimen of Homo sapiens left on earth after all—but will he, can he, dare he approach the other survivors? In a moment that replicates that of Atwood's unnamed protagonist in Surfacing, who contemplates her lover at a distance, undecided whether to answer his calls to her, Jimmy/Snowman contemplates his fellow human beings at a similar distance and withdraws: "Zero hour, Snowman thinks. Time to go."
Where Atwood's recent novels Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin, like Oryx and Crake, have been ambitiously high-concept fiction buttressed by a considerable amount of research, Moral Disorder, Atwood's newest gathering of short stories, is domestic realism at its most convincing: eleven sharply focused, intensely personal stories that function like chapters in an elliptical novel. In the seemingly artless, anecdotal prose of such previous stories of Atwood's as "Rape Fantasies," "Hair Jewellery," "Giving Birth," and the beautifully rendered "Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother," Atwood takes us through the life of her protagonist Nell from the age of eleven, when her sister is born, to late middle age when Nell's children are grown and gone and she and her husband Tig are living in an age of "bad news": "We don't like bad news, but we need it. We need to know about it in case it's coming our way." As Nell's life is inextricably entwined with the lives of others—family, friends, lovers, her husband and his family, even an assortment of wonderfully individualized farm animals—we come to know her small, concentrated world as if it were our own.
Moral Disorder is likely to be read, perhaps misread, as Margaret Atwood's most explicitly autobiographical fiction, though Nell is not a writer, or even a creative artist, but, simply, a decent, morally responsible, and astute person upon whom nothing is lost. As Nell thinks at the end of the title story:
Maybe she would grow cunning, up here on the farm. Maybe she would absorb some of the darkness, which might not be darkness at all but knowledge. She would turn into a woman others came to for advice. She would be called in emergencies. She would roll up her sleeves and dispense with sentimentality, and do whatever blood-soaked, bad-smelling thing had to be done. She would become adept with axes.
Early in Moral Disorder, in the ironically titled "The Art of Cooking and Serving," we return another time to the wilderness setting of Surfacing, except that the focus isn't now on an adult daughter who has lost both her parents but on an eleven-year-old girl anxiously caught up in the mystery and dread of her middle-aged mother's pregnancy. Warned by her father that her mother could become "very ill" unless the daughter takes over the most strenuous household tasks, the girl thinks: "He always thought I knew more than I knew, and that I was bigger than I was, and older, and hardier. What he mistook for calmness and competence was actually fright." Only after the baby's birth, when the family has returned to the city, and the girl is older, does she rebel against her mother and the household duties that have shadowed her; at the cusp of adolescence, Atwood's yet unnamed narrator is alert to "seductive and tawdry and frightening pleasures" of her own.
Subsequent linked stories—"The Headless Horseman," "My Last Duchess"—follow the girl through a relatively conventional middle-class adolescence, distinguished by an uncommon interior life:
I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was a lot smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier.
In flash-forwards we learn that the younger sister, imagined as a "menace" before her birth, has turned out to be in fact a menace of a kind: she is an emotionally unstable, chronically depressed girl for whom Atwood's narrator feels a helpless sort of sisterly responsibility. The depressed sister speaks obsessively of "leaving": "I should just check out. I'm useless here. It's too much effort," which the narrator interprets as:
She doesn't mean my house. She means her body. She means the planet Earth. I can see the same thing she's seeing: it's a cliff edge, it's a bridge with a steep drop, it's the end. That's what she wants: The End. Like the end of a story.
As Moral Disorder moves forward in time, out of the relatively staid 1950s and into the "moral disorder" of the 1960s, Atwood's unnamed narrator acquires the no-nonsense name of Nell. She also acquires a very nice man named Tig, and Tig's two sons for whom she must care, as a responsible (if unmarried) stepmother. Belatedly Nell realizes that Tig's first wife, Oona, has arranged for her to become Tig's lover. So that Oona could be free to pursue her own interests:
She was being interviewed, in a way: Oona had her fingered for the position of second wife, or if not a second wife exactly, something second. Something secondary. Something controllable. A sort of concubine. She was to serve as Tig's other company, so that Oona could get on with the life of her own she was so determined to lead.
Poor Nell, who doesn't even cheat at solitaire! In the heady 1960s, where "all games had changed at once and earlier structures had fallen apart and everyone had begun pretending that the very notion of rules was obsolete," Nell finds herself in approximately the position she'd been boxed into at eleven: caretaker.
In the linked stories "Moral Disorder" and "The White Horse" Atwood ventures into the rural Ontario that has been Alice Munro's literary province, as into a canny, often very funny dissection of the sexual politics of the era. These are poignant stories crammed with richly nostalgic detail, rueful, wise, elegiac; years later, Nell drives past the farm where she'd lived so crowded and tumultuous a life, seeing how "the farmhouse itself had lost its ramshackle appearance. It looked serene and welcoming, and somewhat suburban."
The story that ends the collection, "The Boys at the Lab," returns us to Atwood's unnamed narrator, now a middle-aged woman caring for her elderly parents. The story is essentially a portrait of the narrator's mother that will evoke, to readers familiar with Atwood's fiction, similar portraits of strong yet elusive maternal figures, including the ghostly mother of Surfacing. Now the mother is bedridden, near-blind, and near-deaf:
Talking into her ear is like talking into the end of a long narrow tunnel that leads through the darkness to a place I can't really imagine. What does she do in there all day? All day, and all night. What does she think about? Is she bored, is she sad, what's really going on?
Atwood's narrator understands that her function at her mother's bedside is to tell stories; to make "legendary" what was once, decades ago at the summer wilderness camp, the stuff of ordinary life: "The stories she most wants to hear are about herself, herself when younger; herself when much younger." When the mother's memory at last fades, the narrator must evoke, out of her own imagination, an ending to the final story she has told her mother. What more eloquent and heartrending ending to this work of fiction published nearly thirty-five years after Surfacing, a final evocation of the wilderness site in northern Quebec to which Atwood's father brought his family each summer: "Then they all climb up the hill, toward the Lab, and vanish among the trees."
As Atwood remarked in an interview with Geoff Hancock in 1986:
I'm an optimist. I like to show that the Third Reich, the Fourth Reich, the Fifth Reich did not last forever.
In fact, Orwell is much more optimistic than people give him credit for.... He has a text at the end of 1984. Most people think the book ends when Winston Smith comes to love Big Brother. But it doesn't. It ends with a note on Newspeak, which is written in the past tense, in standard English—which means that, at the time of writing the note, Newspeak is a thing of the past.
From Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood, edited by Earl G. Ingersoll (Ontario Review Press, 2006), p. 116.↩
Corrections November 30, 2006
As Atwood remarked in an interview with Geoff Hancock in 1986:
I'm an optimist. I like to show that the Third Reich, the Fourth Reich, the Fifth Reich did not last forever.
In fact, Orwell is much more optimistic than people give him credit for…. He has a text at the end of 1984. Most people think the book ends when Winston Smith comes to love Big Brother. But it doesn't. It ends with a note on Newspeak, which is written in the past tense, in standard English—which means that, at the time of writing the note, Newspeak is a thing of the past.
From Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood, edited by Earl G. Ingersoll (Ontario Review Press, 2006), p. 116.↩


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Museum is based in the United States Air Force (USAF) hardened command post on the former Bentwaters airbase which closed after the withdrawal of the USAF in 1993 and is believed to be the only such building open to the public in the UK and Europe.
Visitors can experience the Cold War history with guides and talks about the operations of the base with detailed displays of the units stationed at both RAF Bentwaters and nearby RAF Woodbridge since WWII.
Aircraft on display include English Electric Lightning, Hawker Hunter, BAC Jaguar, McDonnell Douglas Phantom & Harrier.
Plenty of car parking space and is suitable for all ages and has the added benefit of being an ideal all weather visitor attraction.
The new café and shop has proven to be a great success offering light refreshments and souvenirs.
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Adult: £5.00
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Volunteers provide guided tours and talks. Special tours can be provided to groups of 15 or more throughout the year subject to availability.
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Krill Oil Eases Inflammation and Arthritis
Abstracted June 18, 2012 by Marcia J. Egles, MD from
Evaluation of the Effect of Neptune Krill Oil on Chronic Inflammation and Arthritic Symptoms
by Luisa Deutsch, MD, MSC in
Journal of the American College of Nutrition,Vol. 26, No. 1,39-48 (2007). (1)
Krill oil, a dietary supplement rich in omega-3 fatty acids, has been reported to improve symptoms of arthritis in a small Canadian clinical trial. The study also reported a significant reduction in CRP (C-reactive protein), a clinical blood test which measures inflammation, in participants who took krill oil supplements during the one month trial.
krill oil is an oil extracted from Antarctic krill. The extraction is accomplished through a cold vacuum procedure which avoids the use of heat, light or oxygen which might be damaging to the oil. Neptune krill oil is high in omega-3 fatty acids with an omega-3 to omega-6 ratio of 15 to one. The oil contains 17 per cent EPA (eicosapentanoic acid) and 10 per cent DHA (docosahexanoic acid). It also contains the anti-oxidant astaxanthin (1). Both astaxanthin (2,3) and omega-3 fatty acids (4) in the diet may be beneficial in reducing inflammation .
The month long study recruited 47 men and 43 women, age 30 to 75, with an average age of 55, from primary care clinics in Ontario, Canada. Eligibility for the study required a diagnosis of cardiovascular disease or rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis. Additionally, the participants had to have stable CRP levels greater than 1.0mg per deciliter in the blood (normal is less than 1.0mg/dl) for 3 weeks prior to the study. They agreed to consume no alcohol, no dietary supplements, no anti-inflammatory medicines and no pain medications, except for Tylenol
(acetaminophen)as a "rescue" pain medicine, for the study period and one week prior.
Treatment or placebo designations were assigned in a randomized, double–blind fashion. Group A received a daily oral dose of a 300 milligram Neptune Krill Oil gelcap. Group B, the placebo group, consumed a similarly appearing, neutral soft gelatin capsule each day.
The study included patients with cardiac disease with or without arthritis, as well as patients with osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis and no cardiac disease. The largest population was those with osteoarthritis without known cardiac disease, with 18 participants in the krill oil treatment group and 16 in the placebo group.
After 7 days, CRP was reduced by 19.3% in the krill oil treatment group compared to an increase of 15.7% in the placebo group (
=0.049). The increase in the placebo group was thought to be because the patients had been required to forgo their usual anti-inflammatory medicines such as ibuprofen. After 14 and 30 days the treatment group had continued improvement in CRP levels with decreases of 29.7 %and 30.9% (
less than 0.001) from baseline respectively. The placebo group's CRP climbed to 32.1% above baseline at day 14, then leveled back to 25.1% above baseline at day 30.
The study also assessed the effects of krill oil on the patients' arthritic symptoms. At baseline and at each of three follow-up visits, patients with arthritis were asked to complete the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities (WOMAC) arthritic pain assessment questionnaire.
The WOMAC separately assesses pain, stiffness and loss of joint function, with brief "on a scale of 0 to 4" type questions. The krill oil group showed significant reduction in all three WOMAC parameters. After 7 days of krill oil treatment, pain scores were reduced 28.9%, stiffness by 20.3% and functional impairment by 22.8% as compared to the scores of the placebo group.
No significant side effects of krill oil were reported by the study.
The study proffered Neptune krill oil as an effective reducer of inflammation and as a potential alleviator of arthritic symptoms. The study did not comment as to how Neptune Krill Oil might compare to other marine sources of omega-3 fatty acids such as fish oils which lack astaxanthin.
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Impact of low vs moderate intakes of long-chain n-3 fatty acids on risk of coronary heart disease. 2011.
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Twin brothers arrested in San Juan Bautista
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Twin 21-year-old brothers were arrested by San Benito County Sheriff's deputies and accused of attacking a boy while he was walking home from school.
Brian Jenkins, Brandon Jenkins, and their friend, Arturo Sanchez, were charged with assault with a deadly weapon, vandalism, and possession of stolen property.
On March 20, a 17-year-old boy was walking home from school on the 300 block of Sixth St. when a car pulled up next to him. The Jenkins brothers and Sanchez were in the car together, Sheriff's Captain Tony LaMonica said.
"Sanchez got out of the vehicle and started to hit the 17 year old several times in the head with his fists," LaMonica said.
"The victim's father went to the Jenkins residence to ask the brothers why they jumped his son. When the victim's father approached the Jenkins residence, Brian Jenkins came out of his residence and pointed a rifle at him. Brandon Jenkins came out of the residence with a bat in his hand and Sanchez was holding some sort of metal club in his hands," LaMonica said.
The father feared for his life and left the area.
While the deputies were speaking to the father at his residence later that day, the two Jenkins brothers and Sanchez drove by. They were chased down and arrested.
When deputies searched the Jenkins brothers' vehicle, they found stolen property. The following day, deputies conducted a search warrant on Brandon and Brian Jenkins residence regarding the stolen property they recovered the day prior. Additional stolen property was recovered in their residence.
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From Chieftain's comment to Bullpen story by Jerry Manderin on the terrorist activity in Algeria.
Sorry, but I need to rant a bit about this so please bear with me. I am sick at heart and so angry I need extra blood pressure meds over the atrocity in Algeria.
And let us be clear. Hamlet was a tragedy. Algeria is an atrocity.
Shortly after Obama took office the US Navy stopped stationing an aircraft carrier task force permanently in the Mediterranean, and the ongoing shit storm in the Middle East and now Northern Africa is the direct result.
One of the reasons why Brother Leader Kadaffy kept his nose clean for the last 15 years or so is because (A) President Reagan kicked his ass all the way back to the stone age, and (B) we kept a carrier task group in the Med to make sure the cork stayed in the Libyan bottle.
I know about what I speak, because I spent the better part of 20 great years pounding around on 3″ of HY100 steel flight decks on five different carriers, including three different Nimitz class hulls. Ronald Reagan used to say that a Nimitz class carrier did not pay for itself sitting at the pier in Norfolk. Algeria is exactly what he was talking about.
Hosni Mobarak was no Prince, but the ready availability of US Navy fighter cover to back him up kept the Muslim Brotherhood from overthrowing him before 2012. When Obama pulled the carriers it marked the beginning of the end of Mubarac.
Bashar al Assad would not have been allowed to bomb his own civilians if there was a Nimitz class deck patrolling up and down his coast enforcing a no fly zone. But since that looks too much like supporting "the jeeeeeeewwwwwwwwssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss…" Obama cannot be seen opposing even the Assad regime.
Now we have this atrocity in Algeria, and nobody seems to be aware that it is the direct result of the withdrawal of US leadership and sea power, and the direct result of "leading from behind".
Al Qaeda terrorists just tried what would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. The only reason the Algerians agreed to allow the presence of such an enormous facility packed with hundreds of foreign civilians is because there was confidence that they would have assistance via NATO and the US Navy in the Med should they ever need it.
Without any backup whatsoever, and with full knowledge that Algeria was on its own, the Algerian military acted in the manner they are known to operate, and minimized the casualties to Algerian citizens and soldiers as well as Algerian State property. In light of what has happened in Libya and Egypt, and what is continuing in Syria right now, nobody should be surprised that the Algerians decided to act decisively and with overwhelming force.
If the same situation were to occur in the United States, say Al Quaeda lay siege to and captured an entire nuclear power plant, and were attempting to cause a major nuclear release, does anyone doubt that the SEALS and/or other US Special Forces would be called in to act immediately, and without prior consultation with the UN?? (I do mean in a real world, not the Obama world…)
The bottom line on Algeria is that this atrocity is the direct result of the withdrawal of the United States from the world stage. In fact, the US has indeed always been the World's policeman, and for goddam good reason. At one time, the first words out of a real President's mouth at the first sign of trouble used to be "Where are the carriers?". This (P)resident can only think about selling the hulls off for scrap to make into razor blades…in China of course…..
That is all.
» 19 Comments
THANK YOU!Noteworthy Comment +15
Think of how peaceful and happy the world would be if Barack Fucking Obama had never been born.Noteworthy Comment +20
Back in innocent days, you'd see stenciled ominously everywhere: "Ignore Alien Orders".
Isn't it appropriate to label much (down to the long lines at ammo counters across the land), with "Obama Built This" ?
Time's a wasting.+4
Great post, Chieftain! And right on the money!
I'm very afraid that things are going to get much worse before they get better.
The Won will be desperately trying to complete his agenda before he devolves into an official lame duck.+7
Obama sucks!+4
This is what happens when you project weakness to tyrants.+9
Thank you Sir for the post+4
Results of having a "shit stain" for a President.+4
Excellent post Chief.+7
Chief, damn good summation. Right on every point. King Obumfuc, closet MB…. When………. Where………….. does the revolution start?+6
Look, dude, I been busy … there's golf, and 'hide-the-sausage' with Reggie, and those pesky instructions from Soros, and golf, and taking dictation from Valerie, and golf, and 'ride-the-whale' with Krispie, and, you know, I always gotta be tellin the Moose how lovely it looks or it gets all fussy and mean …+5
Great post!
And I see Algeria is back on top as kidnap capitol of the world again. Strive to be number 1 ya low class subhumans.+6
Wow! I decided to check in during halftime, and found the rant I posted last night as a standalone article, and I am pleasantly surprised and humbled to be honored so here at IOTW. This has been one of my favorite websites since BFH and the boys cloned off of the People's Cube and it has consistently continued to get better, and better, and better.
Thank You for a distinct honor. I've been online long enough to know this isn't done very often, and I am extremely grateful for all of your support.
And for reference, the five decks I trod were USS Ranger (CVA-61) USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) (and yes, I Like Ike…), USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71, Plankowner) and USS George Washington (CVN-73, Plankowner).
ABECS(AW), USN, (Ret.)
EXCELLENT POST. I just learned SO much.
If anyone is interested, there is a podcast by veteran Bryan Suits called "Dark Secret Place on Demand," and he did an episode yesterday on Algeria and Yemen which is very good. He gave some history lessons that brought me up to speed quickly.+4
The recognition is well deserved. Your comments (the TRUTH, not a rant) are right on the mark.+5
French troops are doing more than we are…FRENCH TROOPS…+5
Geeze. What a crock. Everyone knows that Algeria happened ,for three reasons.
1, America is evil
B, America is evil
3, America is evil…
Y'alls a buncha evil mericans.+2
@Name Redacted™, thanks for that tip.
I found a link, and will finish listening to it later (it's 75 min.)
Chieftain, Bravo!!+1


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An edge trimmed and notched flake which has been uni-facially retouched and expediently made.
The left margin of the dorsal face exhibits partial retouch with a low angle and is of edge type extent. Continuous, low retouch of edge extent is present at the distal end.
A single notch has been created midway along the left margin whilst two further notches are present on the right margin.
Snapping has occurred at the distal end and left margin intersect.
Butler (2005) illustrates a similar example on p131, Fig 55, 4 which dates to the Early Neolithic.
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Within easy reach of Isla Cristina Beach, this Ayamonte hotel is located by the sea and on the beach. Area attractions also include Isla Canela Golf Course and Vila Real Santo Antonio Harbour.
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Spend the day at the beach and work on your tan with sun loungers (chaise longues) or relax in the shade with umbrellas. Pamper yourself with a treatment at the full-service spa and enjoy amenities at Meliá Atlántico - Isla Canela like an outdoor pool and an indoor pool.
The hotel offers a restaurant and a snack bar/deli. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. Public areas are equipped with high-speed wireless Internet access (surcharge). This beach hotel also offers a children's pool, a health club, and a sauna. Onsite parking is available (surcharge). A total renovation of this property was completed in February 2010.
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- Total number of rooms - 359
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- Conference space size (meters) - 743
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Snack bar/deli
- Year Built 1999
- Conference space size (feet) - 7995
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Room service (during limited hours) is available.
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Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Only service dogs are allowed
- Breakfast fee: EUR 15 for adults and EUR 8 for children (approximately)
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Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2500, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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That was the question Dakota Ridge senior Evan Appel had been tussling with recently.
At 10 p.m. Feb. 3, just hours before National Signing Day, Appel made up his mind: He'll be a Cardinal.
Appel was one of a dozen Dakota Ridge student-athletes to sign a National Letter of Intent on Feb. 4. The two-time Class 5A cross-country state champion and defending 1,600- and 3,200-meter 5A state track champion will participate in both sports at Stanford.
Ben Ripperton probably won't ever be the biggest guy on the ice.
And while a nickname such as 'Big Ben' would only be in jest for the Columbine forward, he certainly stood tallest Feb. 6 as the Rebels rallied to defeat rival Dakota Ridge 4-2 at The Edge Ice Arena.
"We came in with pride and fought hard at the end and got a win," Ripperton said.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- There was quite the hubbub Tuesday when Jeff Zucker, president of Time Warner's (TWX) CNN made these comments (excerpt courtesy our friends and lovers at MediaBistro's "TVNewser"):
(Zucker) wants more of "an attitude and a take": "We're all regurgitating the same information. I want people to say, "You know what? That was interesting. I hadn't thought of that," Zucker said. "The goal for the next six months, is that we need more shows and less newscasts."
Couldn't agree more with that assessment.
Reporting the news is and will remain a losing proposition. If you're merely regurgitating it, you're really screwed.
For all intents and purposes, what Zucker wants at CNN is personality-driven media. The stuff Fox News and CNBC and TheStreet's Jim Cramer are made of. That doesn't mean CNN needs to be just like Fox News, Cramer or anybody else equally-as-entertaining and informative (great personalities tend to be distinct); it just needs to inject personality not only into its lineup, but its culture.And herein lies the problem. Radical change will grab the old people who sit around and watch CNN all day from their recliners and throw them headfirst into their china cabinets. They'll light up CNN's switchboards with complaints. Media critics will be all over Zucker for sacrificing CNN's journalistic integrity. More critics will follow with lines like "as if they had any anyway." And the pressure will be on. Because it will be difficult for a culture that's not personality-driven to handle the heat generated by personality-driven media. I saw it happen a million times when I worked in radio. Back when the medium was still semi-relevant. A program director knew he had to take out the oldies format or talk/news lineup that appealed to 65-year olds (radio, and I presume, TV people connote the 65+ demo with pending death). So he or she would replace oldies with alternative rock. Or blow out talk show hosts who had become market legends in favor of louder, more brash and opinionated personalities. And the backlash would be relentless. The stations where management had backbone, vision and a clue weathered the storm. They realized this criticism came from very specific sectors of the audience. They knew they were essentially recycling from one flavor of audience to another. It's a process. And, as difficult as it can be to get through, the adverse reactions from a very vocal and persistent minority is evidence that you're finally implementing real and meaningful change. That's what CNN will be up against if it makes the types of drastic moves Zucker, quite explicitly, says it needs to make.
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So I have fallen completely in love with the discography of The Field so I'm not looking for an album recommendation for them but one for a similar artist(s) that others who have enjoyed The Field have really liked.
So I have fallen completely in love with the discography of The Field so I'm not looking for an album recommendation for them but one for a similar artist(s) that others who have enjoyed The Field have really liked.
The first people that come to mind (and they aren't really direct similar matches but more in the same vein):
Four Tet
Audion / Matthew Dear
Gold Panda
Pantha Du Prince
Anything by Four Tet that guy is fucking GREAT!!!
Ty Segall / Cold Beat/WAND @ GAMH 01/29/15
Sparks @ Ace Hotel 02/14/15
Caribou @The Fillmore 03/01/15
The Pop Group @ GAMH 03/11/15
Neutral Milk Hotel @ Pappy & Harriets 05/30/15
If you like The Field I'd also check out Isolee, John Talabot, John Tejada... Also, The Field releases his music on the label Kompakt and they generally stick to that sort of blissed out techno sound so it's a label worth looking into if you're digging it.
12/31: Derek Plaslaiko, Dave Aju @ f8
1/8: Tamaryn @ The Chapel
1/28: Beacon @ The Rickshaw Stop
1/29: Ty Segall, Wand, Cold Beat @ GAMH
2/7: Robag Whrume, Daniel Bell, Sassmouth, The Black Madonna @ Public Works
2/14: Sparks @ Ace Theater Hollywood
For what it's worth, I originally downloaded both TNT and MNLWND and didn't really connect with the latter until I had familiarized myself with the former.
Pemberton (7/18-20) ~ FYF (8/22-23)
I will definitely check out Kompakt, Isolee and Total 3. Thanks guys.
Ods those are some awesome recs but I'm already quite familiar with all of those artists and I love them all. Cheers
Clinic's first two are their best. Most people prefer the first, I slightly prefer the second.
Spectrum - Assuming we're talking the same act, Spectrum is essentially Pete Kember A.K.A. Sonic Boom A.K.A. Experimental Audio Research. I would recommend Spectrum - Soul Kiss (Glide Divine) and Sonic Boom - Spectrum.
Pemberton (7/18-20) ~ FYF (8/22-23)
Man Or Astro-Man? - Is It . . . Man Or Astro-Man?
As for AMT, you can dive in almost anywhere and it not really matter, but they do have a lot of different shit they try out from album to album even if it ends up sounding pretty similar. Honestly, the best way to get into them is to see them live, especially since they tour the US in April every fucking year (and since you're doing Psych Fest research, you already have the opportunity, assuming you go). I guess maybe Electric Heavyland, as it fully lives up to its title. But seriously. Any album will do.
As for Spectrum I might lean towards the 1994 compilation album What Came Before After. He has released a lot of music in a lot of formats and there's a lot of range there.
Sooooo afghan Whigs never given a listen and curious where to start
cool about to download it on my spotify thanks
Ty Segall / Cold Beat/WAND @ GAMH 01/29/15
Sparks @ Ace Hotel 02/14/15
Caribou @The Fillmore 03/01/15
The Pop Group @ GAMH 03/11/15
Neutral Milk Hotel @ Pappy & Harriets 05/30/15
The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra is there too as a 3-CD thing even though the discs are unrelated albums. Disc 1 has a bunch of short pieces, some of which are very cool. I would push the listener towards Volume 2, which is what I think of as definitive Sun Ra: amazing percussive long space jams.
His best albums (Atlantis, The Magic City, Fate In a Pleasant Mood) are not on Spotify, though.
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A roadtrip + kid koala Pandora = new musical wants
Lemon Jelly
Mushroom Jazz
Anything Bossa Nova related
Their self-titled and Mit Gas in that order
Shuggie Otis
We're here to play some Mississippi Delta Blues. We're in a horrible depression, and I gotta admit - we're starting to like it.
Low. Jeff Tweedy's producing their new album, and I've never really gotten into their stuff. From what I hear about them, they seem like they'd be appropriate for the wintertime as well.
12/22 - Beachwood Sparks, et al - Echoplex
12/30 - Together Pangea - Echo
1/10 - Flesh Eaters - Echoplex (?)
1/20 - Guster - HOB Anaheim (?)
1/29 - Patti Smith - Ace (?)
last.fm, if you care
Twitter, if you dare
Improv jam that turns out to be the next-next album
Jam that condenses or is from one of the previous album
Jam from the newest album that morphs into a reprise of the 20 minute song from the previous album again
Jam from the new album.
*based upon tedious fact checking.
It's slow burning music. Later Albini produced their first two albums when they signed with Kranky, so of course those are the ones that everyone raves over. Things We Lost in The Fire, in particular is the standout (ATP did a Don't Look Back set, for instance) that everyone usually starts with and for good reason:
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In the final chapter, Caperton shares her
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The move caused a jump in bank shares - Deutsche Bank rose 2.8 percent but the biggest gains were among ailing Spanish banks, which some had feared would struggle to meet the new cash requirements. Bankinter soared 9.2 percent and Banco Popular gained 2.1 percent higher.
The subdued mood in the broader markets was also seen earlier in Asia. The Nikkei in Tokyo fell 0.8 percent to close at 10,599.01.
The Hong Kong Hang Seng was nearly unchanged at 23,329.75. South Korea's Kospi lost less than 0.1 percent to 2,011.25. Benchmarks in Singapore and Taiwan fell while mainland Chinese shares rose. Weakness in Australian's resource sector sent the S&P/ASX 200 in Sydney 0.1 percent lower to 4,717.30.
South Korean and Taiwanese companies that were fined by China last week for fixing prices of LCD display screens saw their stocks tumble Monday. Taiwan's AU Optronics Corp. fell 5.1 percent. HannStar Display Corp. fell 4.7 percent. South Korea's LG Display fell 2.6 percent.In commodity markets, the benchmark crude oil contract for February delivery was 14 cents lower at $92.95 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In currencies, the euro edged 0.2 percent higher at $1.3105 while the dollar dropped against the Japanese yen, to 87.69 yen from 88.13 yen on Friday. ___ Pamela Sampson in Bangkok contributed to this report.
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SCHERERVILLE — Police and relatives are looking for a Valparaiso woman missing since she left her job in Schererville on Feb. 12.
Relatives of Pamela Genender, 48, contacted Valparaiso police Feb. 15 to report her missing, Valparaiso police said in a release Tuesday. Genender hadn't returned home from her job at The Smoke Shop, 2120 U.S. 41 in Schererville, on Wednesday.
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Dr. James Bennett graduated from University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Bennett has one office in Arizona.
Specializing in the field of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Dr. Bennett is prepared to increase or restore functional ability or quality of life in those suffering from physical disabilities and deficiencies. Dr. Bennett is trained care for a wide range of disorders that may include brain injury, stroke, multiple trauma and spinal cord disorders, among many others.
Dr. Bennett works with two doctors including Dr. Jeffrey Wick and Dr. Susan Bulen.
Works to restore normal function and mobility in patients with injured bones, muscles and tissues.