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____________________________________________________________________________________________ The Hippodrome Theatre, Oxford Street, Manchester Above - The Hippodrome Theatre, Manchester - From a Postcard. |
The Hippodrome Theatre, Oxford Street, Manchester was built for Oswald Stoll in 1904 and designed as a variety Theatre by the renowned Theatre Architect Frank Matcham Right - An early Manchester Hippodrome Programme. Far Right - A programme for the Manchester Hippodrome in June 1905 with the Arthur Lloyd Trio on the Bill, along with the Max Franklin Troupe, Arthur Rigby and his Company, The Merrions, Zertho's Dogs, Herbert La Marinte, and the world famous magician Chung Ling Soo. The Hippodrome Theatre had a very short life and was demolished in 1935 so that a new Theatre, the Gaumont, could be built on part of the site. The Gaumont actually used parts of the structure of the former Hippodrome Theatre in its construction, and the new Theatre opened on the 21st of October 1935. This was also at the same time as the Ardwick Empire was refurbished and renamed the New Manchester Hippodrome. There is more information on the Gaumont here. Left - A Variety Programme for the Manchester Hippodrome. |
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Ellison Sues Fantagraphics
- Posted by Johanna on September 19, 2006 at 12:08 pm
- Category: Comic News
Someone get Ellison checked for senility, ok? His latest boo-boo (after groping Connie Willis during an award presentation) is suing Fantagraphics, Gary Groth, and Kim Thompson.
The full text of the complaint starts off with self-aggrandizing praise:
"[Ellison] is known publicly as the writer of some of the best loved original Star Trek and Outer Limits episodes. In addition to his lifelong devotion to literary craft, Ellison is a well-known fearless champion of artist's rights who, at great cost to himself, has pursued several intellectual property and related matters through the Courts in an effort to elevate his profession and safeguard other artists."
before descending into what appears to my untrained eye to be near-libel:
"Groth revealed himself to be a scheming pathological liar and little more than an obsessively vindictive and petty man trying to be a mover and shaker…. Fantagraphics is a tiny but hostile publishing outfit…"
What any of this has to do with the complaint I'm not sure. Based on my reading, Ellison alleges that the upcoming Fantagraphics history book Comics as Art: We Told You So defames him, and that Fantagraphics violated his "right of publicity" with The Comics Journal Library: The Writers (a collection of interviews of which his is one). Apparently, simply including Ellison's name on the cover without his permission (along with all the others included) "wantonly trades" on it. (The description attached to his, "famous comics dilettante", didn't help; he calls it an insult and he's probably right about that intention.)
If you've ever been curious about why and how Groth and Ellison had their famous falling-out, this complaint is a good way to hear one side of the story. During the lawsuit 20 years ago in which Michael Fleisher sued Ellison and the Journal, Ellison alleges that Groth lied to him, stole from him, and has been harassing him ever since. He complains that Groth "used money Ellison paid for legal services to fund a secret tropical vacation for himself and his partner Thompson." (I think that has the potential to be a new catchphrase: "secret tropical vacation".)
Additionally, Groth calling Ellison a "wheedler" is, according to Ellison, an attempt to strike at "the heart of Ellison's professional reputation" relating to his efforts to champion artist's rights. (I keep thinking that should be "artists' ", but who am I to question a high-priced California lawyer?)
But wait, it gets better! Ellison has included in his lawsuit 20 unnamed "Does" who will be included once their true names are known. These 20 people are those who published these "false and defamatory Statements… to numerous third parties, including publishing and disseminating … through the Fantagraphics website on the worldwide internet." It's always that darn internet for Ellison!
Ellison wants general damages, punitive damages, prohibition of the Comics as Art book's publication, destruction of existing copies, destruction of any remaining copies of The Comics Journal Library: The Writers, and attoney fees.
Strange that such a vehement defender of creative rights resembles so closely a censor, isn't it?
24 Responses to "Ellison Sues Fantagraphics"
- david brothers Says:
September 19, 2006 at 2:35 PMHas Ellison always had a rep of being a jerk? The only real knowledge of him I have (I am a bad nerd, I know) is from when he got into a kerfluffle with the guys from Penny Arcade. Pertinent link here.
- Johanna Says:
September 19, 2006 at 2:53 PMHe's always been known as an iconoclast — whether or not you thought he was a jerk seemed to depend on whether or not you agreed with him when he was ranting.
- RogerF Says:
September 19, 2006 at 2:59 PMI've always felt that John Byrne and Harlan Ellison were cut from the same cloth… Though talented, they are quick to anger and generally nasty when they are confronted with criticism or believe they have been wronged. I haven't paid attention to anything either has done in years…
- Johanna Says:
September 19, 2006 at 3:21 PMIt's not uncommon for some writers to act that way … it takes a good deal of ego and willingness to believe strongly in yourself to be one, after all, and sometimes those qualities go toxic.
- Joshua Macy Says:
September 19, 2006 at 3:22 PMActually, I don't think there's anything particularly strange about it. Defending creative rights pretty much requires censorship of one form or another, or there's no recourse against someone violating those rights. Without knowing anything about the particular merits of the case, my general impression is that Ellison and Groth deserve eachother.
- Johanna Says:
September 19, 2006 at 3:41 PMI don't agree, Joshua. An artist could defend her creative rights, for instance, by suing a publisher for fair payment (as with the Tasini electronic republication case) without demanding that a product be kept from the market.
- Lyle Says:
September 19, 2006 at 4:08 PMSince I became aware of Ellison, he's always been highly opinionated with a distinct perspective. I've been more inclined to liken him to Warren Ellis in the past, but Ellison's recent actions make me rethink that comparison since I still like Ellis.
Tangent: Ellison did design on of the best graphic adventure games in adapting "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream".
- Joshua Macy Says:
September 19, 2006 at 4:53 PMIf all the artist could ever get from the publisher–no matter what the publisher has done with the artist's work or to the artist's reputation–is some form of payment, and only after winning a court battle, the artist has quite limited rights. For better or worse, our legal systems tend to award the artists much more than just the bare right to get paid something.
- Jim Says:
September 19, 2006 at 6:22 PMHe pretty much has to be self-aggrandizing to claim that his wonderful reputation has been besmirched. Of course, that doesn't really require defaming the other party in the filing.
I'd say the suit is him trying to bully people into settling, but he's been so vocal about loving to sue people in the past that it seems a little unlikely.
- Alan Coil Says:
September 19, 2006 at 6:22 PMHere is a link to an old article that tells a lot about the feud between Ellison and Groth. I thought it presented both sides of the situation, and it chides both of them for letting this go on. It is rather lengthy. When I read it, I copied it to Word so I could read it offline.
- Alan Coil Says:
September 19, 2006 at 6:24 PMand don't forget the '.txt' at the end.
- Paul O'Brien Says:
September 19, 2006 at 6:37 PMThat writ does seem rather over the top even by American standards. (If I drafted something like that here in Scotland, I'd be laughed out of court.) My personal favourite line: "Recently, however, Groth has gone too far in his obsession and, EVEN THOUGH ELLISON HAS BETTER THINGS TO DO, he elects by this action finally to prosecute Groth's defamation…" I'd love to know why somebody thought it was a good idea to include that line.
Having said that, I'm confused by the second passage Ellison complains about. Groth appears to be alleging that Ellison was nearly arrested for non-payment of an award of judicial expenses. This sounds awfully unlikely to me. We abolished imprisonment for civil debts about a century ago. Does this sort of thing REALLY still happen in America? I suppose it's possible, but my alarm bells are ringing.
- Dan Says:
September 20, 2006 at 1:33 AM"We abolished imprisonment for civil debts about a century ago. Does this sort of thing REALLY still happen in America?"
No, this type of thing really doesn't happen in America. As someone who is a fan of both Ellison and Fantagraphics, (the work, not the behaviour) I've been following this whole Hatfields vs. McCoys thing between them since the beginning. It's distracting and annoying, yet strangely entertaining, in a Jerry Springer sort of way. There's a lot of exaggeration and fabrication on both sides of this whole thing.
Here's what strikes me as odd. It's probably the wanna be spin doctor in me (ever since Wag The Dog) but, several points about this are bugging me.
1. Ellison just publicly embarassed himself with an incident that got even his staunchest supporters to recognize that he was way out of line. While he has publicly apologized for it, and Ms. Willis has been waaaaay too gracious about it, the damage to his percieved reputation has been done.
2. Ellison knows that his ongoing feud with Groth and Fantagraphics is fairly sensational, even though it's been pretty much a cold war for a while, everybody just loves to write about it. If he ramps it up a notch by filing a very public lawsuit, he might just distract everybody long enough that they forget the whole Connie Willis incident.
3. Maybe I'm just being paranoid here, but you have to wonder about the timing. After all, Fantagraphics published "The Book on the Edge of Forever" by Christopher Priest, which is far more defamatory towards Ellison's work ethic and reputation than anything I've seen from "Comics As Art". He never bothered with legal action there.
4. Of course, this tactic didn't work for President Clinton, but you never know.
- Jim Kosmicki Says:
September 20, 2006 at 8:09 AMThe missing link could well be that Fantagraphics, for probably the first time in its publishing history, actually has cash — their Peanuts reprints (and possibly the Dennis the Menace) are a hit. Fantagraphics has always been a shoestring outfit — there was no money to get from them. Now that there at least appears to be money, Ellison is bringing back his defamation claims in a new suit.
add this to the "no, look over here" nature of trying to distract fandom from the Willis incident, plus his notorious hair-trigger temper and grudge-bearing nature, and while it may be simplistic, it's the explanation that makes the most sense to me.
Having said that, I'd have to go back to my old TCJ copies, but when Ellison grants interviews, etc., there's usually a claim that the interview is copyright and/or run with permission of Ellison's corporation. If there is such a claim on that original interview, and Fantagraphics didn't get his permission to reprint, there's a legitimate claim here. Given the history and Ellison's known litigious nature, I can't imagine Fantagraphics would make that mistake. But then again, Groth has held on to this grudge just as long and just as viciously.
- Augie De Blieck Jr. Says:
September 20, 2006 at 9:24 AMI think that complaint is the best writing I've ever seen Ellison do. It's a crazy lawsuit — from my IANAL POV — but it's well worth the time to read it for sheer entertainment.
- Ray Cornwall Says:
September 20, 2006 at 11:22 AMI wrote a small article on the lawsuit. Part of the lawsuit involves the charge that Fanta "gratuitously insulted" Ellison by calling him a "Famous Comics Dilettante". Since when is that an insult?
- Kelson Says:
September 20, 2006 at 5:50 PMHere's my take on the difference between Ellison and Ellis:
Ellis would shout at the gol-durn kids to get off his lawn, chase them off if necessary, then blog about it.
Ellison would not only chase them off, he'd pursue them until he reached the city limits, then file for a restraining order to prevent them from coming within two blocks of his lawn ever again. He would then periodically bring up the restraining order at conventions for the next 10 years.
- Paul O'Brien Says:
September 20, 2006 at 6:07 PM"I think that complaint is the best writing I've ever seen Ellison do."
In fairness to Ellison, I'd assume it was written by his lawyer, who's named on the first page.
- Captain Spaulding Says:
September 21, 2006 at 12:43 AMGroth appears to be alleging that Ellison was nearly arrested for non-payment of an award of judicial expenses. This sounds awfully unlikely to me. We abolished imprisonment for civil debts about a century ago. Does this sort of thing REALLY still happen in America? I suppose it's possible, but my alarm bells are ringing.
I am not a lawyer but if the court orders you to pay something and you refuse to pay, you can be arrested for contempt of court. If you can't afford to pay, that's a defense but that wasn't the issue (according to Groth, obviously).
- Johanna Says:
September 21, 2006 at 7:33 AMThe book page available here says that Ellison was about to be arrested for "failing to obey a court order", so yeah, that was the issue.
- Mike Chary Says:
September 21, 2006 at 12:12 PMThe only people who go to jail for not paying money in the US are people who owe child support.
- Comics Worth Reading Says:
October 20, 2006 at 9:52 AM[…] Via Journalista, Fantagraphics' response (.doc file) to Harlan Ellison's lawsuit against them. […]
- Let's You and Him Fight! CBLDF vs Fantagraphics » Comics Worth Reading Says:
February 15, 2007 at 2:16 PM[…] Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has turned down their request for assistance. Fantagraphics has been sued by Harlan Ellison over their book The Comics Journal Library: The […]
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June 29, 2007 at 8:11 AM[…] is reporting that the Ellison/Fantagraphics suit has been resolved, with no further word available as the parties involved aren't discussing […]


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The F1 Times Hungarian GP Gamble
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The F1 Times gambling contest between Ryan Wood (Editor) and Daniel Chalmers (Feature Editor) heads to the 11th round at the Hungaroring for the Hungarian GP.
Both men have a budget of £5 to spend on a maximum of 3 different bets relating to the upcoming event. The deadline for these bets to be placed is before the start of the first Friday practise session.
At the end of the season the winner will be the person who has made the most profit, or made the lowest loss.
Here are the results from last time.
Ryan Wood
Bet 1 - Fernando Alonso to win the German GP - £2.00 at 9/2 – Won £11.00
Bet 2 - Felipe Massa to finish on the podium - £2.00 at 7/1
Bet 3 - Exactly 3 cars to retire on lap 1 - £1.00 at 20/1
Daniel Chalmers
Bet 1 – Lewis Hamilton to qualify on pole - £1.00 at 4/1
Bet 2 – Michael Schumacher to win the race - £1.00 each way at 18/1
Bet 3 – Jenson Button to win the race - £1.00 each way at 18/1 – Won £4.60
It turned out to be a very exciting week with both men winning money. The fight for the lead between Button and Alonso had huge implications in the outcome of the betting challenge. If Button had managed to overtake Alonso, Daniel would have had by far his biggest win of the season with Ryan winning nothing.
As it was Button couldn't pass Alonso. This meant that Ryan won £11.00 for predicting that Alonso would win the race. Although Button didn't win Daniel still won £4.60 as he had placed an each way bet meaning he would win a fifth of the odds if Jenson finished second or third.
After ten races £50 has been spent by both men. Ryan now has £15.75 worth of profit, whilst Daniel has £28.40 worth of losses. Therefore there is a difference of £44.15 between the two gamblers.
This weekend we are at the Hungaroring for the Hungarian GP. This circuit has very often been described as Monaco without the barriers. The layout is very narrow and twisty and it's a very busy lap for the drivers with no time to relax.
Generally you can always rely on it being boiling hot in Hungary, so that will be very good for all the teams who prefer hot track temperatures to get the Pirelli tyres working. Although there are some forecasts of thunderstorms on Sunday.
It's not the easiest track to pass on but with DRS on the pit straight, along with the Pirelli tyres, we should see more action than we have seen in previous years.
Why not join in? If you fancy a go, why not join PaddyPower - with loads of Formula 1 markets from fastest laps and one lap wonders to the number of retirements or top 6 finishers - you'll easily find something to bet on. Join now and get a free £20 bet when you make your first £10 bet - and for ease of play, you can even use PayPal to make deposits.
Let's see where the money is going this weekend.
Round 11 Hungary
Ryan Wood
Bet 1 - Lewis Hamilton to win the Hungarian GP - £3.00 at 5/1
McLaren look to have solved some or most of their issues and the car is on the lead pace as demonstrated by Jenson Button in Germany last weekend when he came from sixth, battled traffic, and was at points less than six tenths behind Fernando Alonso.
The outfit has more upgrades for this race and they're pushing hard to claim the top spot once again. Had Lewis Hamilton not suffered a puncture on lap three, he may well have joined Button in the lead fight.
I reckon it'll be there race to lose. McLaren have won in Hungary four of the last five times - a pretty impressive record.
Bet 2 - Lewis Hamilton to take pole position for the Hungarian GP - £2.00 at 3/1
I've put all my eggs in one basket it seems, that's how confident I am in McLaren's, particularly Hamilton's, potential this race weekend.
The upgraded McLaren looks quick in dry conditions, I'm just hoping the weather gods give us some dry running because it's been pretty miserable weather at the last few races. If it rains, my money's as good as gone.
Daniel Chalmers
Bet 1 – Lewis Hamilton to win the Hungarian GP - £2.00 at 5/1
McLaren were definitely back on form in Germany. Their huge upgrade made a massive difference and they were a factor for race victory once again. Button ended up getting involved in the battle for victory, despite the fact he started down in sixth place, and had other drivers to battle past in the opening laps.
Although Lewis had a puncture and ended up with a damaged car his pace in clear air was still very strong at times.
In a normal dry qualifying session I think we will see Lewis back to his usual qualifying form. He has qualified in the top three in every dry qualifying this year (last two were wet).
If he has a clean race he has a great chance of winning with the vastly improved race pace of McLaren. The team are bringing more updates to this GP too.
Hungary has been a good track for Lewis in the past with victories in 2007 and 2009.
Bet 2 – Kimi Raikkonen to win the Hungarian GP - £1.50 at 12/1
It's clear that the race pace of the Lotus is very strong. Kimi produced a brilliant drive in the race in Germany but the problem was he only started in tenth place. If Lotus can get somewhere near the front they can genuinely win a race on merit.
Hungary will be one of their best chances to qualify near the front. The E20 works at it's best in hot conditions, which they will have a good chance of experiencing in Hungary.
The track layout should suit them too. The E20 has very good traction for the slow corners, and very strong aerodynamics for the long medium speed corners.
Bet 3 – Narain Karthikeyan to be the first retirement of the race - £1.50 at 11/1
Thought I would try a difference type of bet, and the odds in this market are very good. HRT have had three technical retirements so far this season, and a hot race weekend is always a challenge for the backmarker teams on the reliability front.


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Crates is one of those puzzle games where players tap on connecting blocks to make them disappear. It's not an original concept at all, but it's an effective execution of this type of game. What gives the game more content than $0.99 worth is the amount of levels that come with the game (over 140). It's not the kind of game that I would pick up and play for long periods of time, but I've played it quite a few times over the last few days. The blocks that the player taps consist of, for some reason, a soccer ball, grapes, a pineapple, a banana, and a daisy (with more in later levels). That's right: a flower, three fruits, and a sporting good. I'm not sure where they were going with this, but it doesn't take away from the gameplay other than the brief moment of confusion when the realization occurs.
The gameplay is very simple. In fact, my nephew (6 years-old) played it effectively. And that was my problem with the game: it's WAY too easy. Normally, using the simple strategy of doing the same thing on both sides (because the levels tend to be mostly symmetrical) brings the player out on top. If that doesn't work, the what needs to be changed the next time the level is played is obvious. Being a person who loves a good, challenging puzzle game, this game isn't puzzling enough.
The background is a nice touch to the game. "Night Shift" seems to mean that the player is some kind of dockworker (because the "crates" are stacked on a dock) that has to sort through the crates by tapping them. Which is why the game's background consists of a lighthouse, what seems to be a factory, and a boat that's bouncing up and down on the water. The background plus the music gives the game a decent feel. I'm generally prone to call the music in these type of games repetitive. The music is repetitive in this case but doesn't annoy as much as I would expect, so I leave it on.
Crates Night Shift HD is easy. But for $0.99 and 140 levels worth of content, it's probably worth it.
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This week you can probably expect a big push in the media for the cynically misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (Card Check), which I've written on before. One element of that push which will be getting coverage is an article by Seth Michaels on the AFL-CIO Now blog which heralds the fact that:
"A coalition of major investors who oversee more than $750 billion in assets is joining the fight for workers' freedom to form unions by asking major corporations what they're doing to protect and enhance the ability of workers to form unions."
Wow, that sounds pretty serious. That's a lot of investment money. It must mean that stockholders and important players on Wall Street are really concerned about making sure that unions can bully workers into joining by taking away their right to a secret ballot.
In fact, stockholders and major investment groups have not actually taken leave of their senses and decided it would be great to further burden businesses with rapacious union interference in our current harsh economy. What you actually have here is a classic example of how propagandists can use legtimate seeming sources to support their positions and create the impression of a popular movement or widespread support where it does not actually exist.
In the article there is a link to a press release from Domini Social Investments which further heralds this letter which has been sent to various Fortune 100 companies in support of EFCA by a group of "major institutional investors" controlling $757 billion in assets.
The effort here is to create an impression of widespread support in the financial community for Card Check. The core deception in this propaganda effort is that the letter is actually signed by a very limited group dominated by investors controlled by or closely associated with the unions promoting the legislation. The major signers on the letter are actually mostly international union pension funds or organizations representing union pension fund managers. Also signing the letter are a variety of specialty investment groups which invest in "socially responsible" businesses (unionized businesses), but they control only a small fraction of that $757 billion in assets and they are on the list mainly as a smokescreen for the union-controlled investment groups who hold the vast majority of the assets referred to.
In fact, the top signer on the list and the one with the largest assets is the AFL-CIO Employees Staff Retirement Fund, so the AFL-CIO is using their blog to promote this letter from "a coalition of major investors" without bothering to point out that they themselves are the major investors in question. Everything in the article is true as written, but the appearance that the unions have found major allies in the investment community for Card Check is entirely deceptive. The progressive angels of Wall Street who have joined them in their fight turn out just to be the unions themselves in a not very clever disguise.
What's more, the letter itself is hardly the clarion cry for EFCA which the AFL-CIO would have you believe. The letter actually makes an effort to look like it originates with the UNPRI a United Nations labor practices workgroup. The letter also does not actually endorse EFCA in any way as the AFL-CIO website suggests, but actually just solicits companies for their input on various labor issues. The letter says clearly:
"Please note that, although individual investors represented in this letter may have taken a view on the legislation, the group as a whole has itself not formulated an official position."
In reality the UNPRI and perhaps even many of the signers on the letter don't actually support Card Check at all. The letter also describes what policy towards unions and workers rights ought to be:
"The freedom to form or join a union of one's choice or not, and to bargain collectively for the terms of one's employment, are fundamental human rights that we as global investors recognize and respect."
Who could disagree with that statement? It's broad enough that almost anyone would sign off on it, and would apply to the position of those who oppose the EFCA as well as those who support it. In fact, the main argument against Card Check is that it limits worker freedom to join unions by taking away the secret ballot which protects their free choice. So it could very well be that many of the signatories oppose the EFCA and it's certainly true that the group as a whole has not take a position on it and the letter is not an endorsement of it.
The letter actually seems to originate with a company called Boston Common Asset Management which like many of those signing the letter is a strange amalgem of investment firm and advocacy group. They're a worker owned collective which manages "socially responsible" investments, but seems to devote more of their time to lobbying for and promoting various left-wing causes. This business model raises all sorts of questions, like where they get the money to fund their advocacy work and how much of their customer base and revenue comes from union sources. Adding to my suspicions is that what appears to be the draft version of a similar letter to selected congressmen clearly originated on the AFL-CIO site, suggesting that these letters are being written by the union and passed on to these other groups for publication. Further research may turn up more evidence, but looking at the websites of these "social investing" groups I find it hard to believe that they could attract a great deal of money from legitimate private investors. My suspicious nature makes me wonder whether any of the groups signing the letter represent anyone other than domestic and international union interests.
What this example shows us is that when you have enough money and resources you can effectively generate your own news. Your shills issue a letter, you then hail that letter in your own publicity as a newsworthy event, you misrepresent it to make it seem more significant than it is, and then with any luck the compliant media picks up on it. With the letter released on Thursday, we'll see if that happens this coming week.
Meanwhile, in contrast with the score of shills advocating Card Check in this letter, 3100 businesses have sent their own letter to Congress opposing the passage of EFCA.
Sometimes, election years get focused on certain races to tell the story of the cycle. It is too early to tell what the stories of the next cycle will be, but here are two possibilities.
In Pennsylvania, recently re-minted Democrat Arlen Specter has said that he is not shifting his position on card-check, aka the Employee Forced (nee Free) Choice Act. SEIU and AFL-CIO are already pressuring Specter to cave by, among other things, encouraging Rep. Joe Sestak to run against him, in a race in which card-check would be a central debate.
Ironically, the 200,000 people that became Democrats, making Specter's GOP primary impossible, are likely Specter voters in a Democratic primary. As the Democrats have become more affluent, moderate tolerant, and less labor-dependent, the power of organized labor may not be so large.
What if the Democratic primary became a referendum on card-check for Democrats? How important -- really -- is card check to Democrats? With Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Rahm Emanuel, etc., all weighing in on the anti-card-check side. Wouldn't that be funny. Wouldn't a Specter/card-check victory be a decisive defeat for the unions? This race could become nationalized in much the way that the Lieberman race was in 2006.
Similarly, I can see a fight in New Hampshire over gay marriage in the general. The legislature has passed easily reconcilable bills that legalize gay marriage legislatively. It is likely that the governor will neither sign nor veto them, bringing the law into effect.
But New Hampshire is different than Massachussets and Iowa, where gay marriage has been created by judicial fiat and seems unlikely to be reconsidered due to the ballot initiative processes. It is also different than neighboring Vermont, which just legalized gay marriage by legislative action. This is a dead issue in Vermont.
But you could imagine a battle in the general election in New Hampshire over gay marriage. Democrats had not controlled the state legislature since 1874, and some of these seats could swing back. After all, in 2006, we lost, as Time put it, "91 state legislature seats, six of [our] 16 state senate seats and both [our] congressional seats". And gay marriage would undoubtedly play a role in a number of swing seats around the state and be a nationalized campaign. Money would flood in from around the country for both sides.
My gut is that gay marriage will not be a compelling issue in New Hampshire, but this will be the only serious opportunity for pro-traditional marriage forces to defend their position at the ballot box. They probably cannot afford to pass it up.
Aside from all the questions about the ability of the GOP to comeback and the future of the redistricting process, 2010 could be quite fascinating.
Newt Gingrich asked me to Chair a national effort to protect workers rights and support "Freedom Not Fear" in the workplace.
In a closed-door meeting Tuesday, President Obama told over 100 top union officials that "we will pass the Employee Free Choice Act." It's now clear that President Obama, Big Labor, and their left-wing allies in Congress, will attempt an unprecedented power grab that is a mortal threat to our economy and our democratic values.
This is being done in a stealth manner because its backers know that this bill will not pass if the American people understand its destructive nature.
To expose and stop this effort, I've joined American Solutions as National Chairman of our "Freedom Not Fear" campaign, and you can join us by signing our petition here.
The Employee Free Choice Act, or "Card Check," would eliminate the right to vote by private ballot when deciding whether to join a union, and it would undermine the right to freely negotiate contracts.
We can't tolerate this. We must stand for freedom, not fear in the workplace. We cannot afford to be intimidated. Please stand with us now. This is about protecting our fundamental right to vote privately without coercion. It's about protecting the right of employers and employees to negotiate freely. It's about allowing businessmen and women, not bureaucrats and union bosses, to run our businesses. And in the end, it's about saving and protecting American jobs.
Please sign the petition now.
Americans for Job Security has launched a petition to urge Senators to oppose the confirmation of Rep. Hilda Solis as Secretary of Labor. Rep. Solis is a staunch opponent of the right to a secret ballot in organizing elections. In 2007 Rep. Solis was a co-sponsor of the "Employee Free Choice Act," sometimes referred to as Card Check, which would eliminate a workers right to a secret ballot in organizing elections.
Besides being an opponent of the Secret Ballot, Rep. Solis has also violated several campaign finance laws and the House's own rules of Ethics. Rep. Solis is a member of the board, and treasurer, of American Rights at Work (ARW) a pro-union advocacy organization. In that capacity, she had fiduciary oversight on over $220,000 that ARW spent to lobby Congress on legislation she has sponsored a clear violation of House ethics rules and until recently Rep. Solis had not reported her position at ARW as she is required to do under House rules.
In addition to alleged violations of House ethics regulations others have charged that a more serious legal issue has arisen; whether or not Rep. Solis and ARW violated the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002 by sponsoring television advertisements which the group classified as "electioneering communications" in a report to the Federal Election Commission.
Join Americans for Job Security in standing up and saying NO! to Rep. Hilda Solis for Secretary of Labor. Visit our website and sign our petition today.
President-elect Barack Obama has laid out a plan to "create or save" three million jobs during his first two years in office. His plan is to increase government spending, deficit be damned, by at least $775 billion dollars over that same period. While the projects he plans to invest in are things that we Americans can all use, the stimulus plan will be a flop. Here's how I got here:
Let's start with the money. Obama plans to increase government spending without any increases in taxes, so that negates his use of PAYGO budgeting. At the same time, the total amount of money per job that he creates or saves will come out to more than $258,333 per job. There are business executives who don't even make this money for their job, yet Obama, who has never held a private sector job in his lifetime figures the cost of a job to "create or save" at more than one quarter of a million dollars.
Any reasonable businessperson, like myself, will tell you that if it cost that much money to save a job, we would rather sooner terminate the job immediately. The problem here is that Obama and the other people in government have no real concept of what it costs to run a business, generally speaking. The purpose of a business is not to make customers happy or to employ as many people as possible. The end goal of a business is maximizing their profits and making their shareholders money. Those who do not live by that mantra of making money for the company and stockholders quickly go out of business.
The two things that the average person on the street does not realize are how much one billion is and how much one trillion is. For the concept of one billion dollars, imagine that on the day of the birth of Jesus Christ you were given one billion dollars and had to spend $1,000 each day onward while gaining no interest, you would be still be spending money for at least the next 700 years. By comparison, one trillion dollars is one thousand times one billion.
Second, according to the CIA Factbook, the current Gross Domestic Product (GDP, or the total value of all goods and services produced inside the borders of the United States) currently sits at $14.334 trillion. In other words the stimulus is only 5.4 percent of GDP. From here, that percentage goes down fast.
In the Highway Spending Bill that Congress recently passed, less than 26 percent of that money was spent within the first fiscal year. If this holds true, it then means that a value of less than one-and-a-half percent of the nation's GDP will be infused in to the economy within the first fiscal year of the stimulus bill's existence. For an economy that will be going in to a deep recession throughout 2009, this does not bode well for Obama.
The end result is an increase in inflation thanks to the increase of the deficit to a level that will approach or exceed two trillion dollars this fiscal year and a slow-to-respond stimulus bill that will actually, when implemented, cause the death of many jobs.
However, that is only half the story about Obama's economic plans for America. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to get Obama to sign the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) which is Orwellian by name, but will cause considerable damage when implemented and enforced. Barring a miraculous filibuster by the Republicans in the Senate, America's workforce will become unionized and small businesses will close their doors.
What's more is that the unions will get the ultimate payback from the Democrats they helped get elected. Their membership and union dues received will increase which will give the unions considerable influence in American politics and with their membership. Also, the union bosses will be able to oversee how each of its members votes in a union election, bringing to an end the secret ballot. If the Senate Republicans cannot stop this bill, small businesses in the United States will either have to shell out more of their money to meet the demands of the unions or they will close their doors, or both.
If this comes in to play, the projections for an unemployment rate of nine percent will look good to Americans because the unemployment rate in the USA will be higher than at any time since Ronald Reagan's first term following the horrific economic policies of Jimmy Carter. The only difference is that Reagan was able to lower the unemployment rate from its peak in December 1982 of 10.8 percent to 8.3 percent in December 1983 and ultimately to 7.2 percent the very month he won a 49-state landslide win against Walter Mondale. By contrast, Obama won his election with an inflation rate of 1.07 percent and an unemployment rate of 6.7 percent in November 2008.
Finally, research from economists at UCLA determined that the Great Depression lasted seven years longer because of the New Deal. Obama wants to implement the New New Deal almost from the moment he takes office. Considering that the double-digit unemployment rates did not end until 1943, this means that had the New Deal not been implemented by President Franklin Roosevelt, the Great Depression would have ended in 1936 leading to an easy reelection.
The reality is that Obama doesn't have the luxuries that FDR had when he was President, yet he wants to take us back to the past with an economic policy that exacerbated and extended this long economic slump. If this plan flops (and it will), just like FDR, Obama will come back with a sequel of New New Deal II which will be used as a means to "save" his job during a time of economic distress.
If the Republicans are able to do anything, it will be to vote against the stimulus package and to attempt to block the EFCA. Should this happen, they will have the ability to say that these things are prolonging the economic crisis and that they fought it all the way. If not, they will be on the same side of the line as Obama and the Democrats in 2010 and again in 2012 which could pave the way for two terms of economic agony.
It's almost crunch time and the Republicans need to fight the expansion of big government early and often, then turn around and use it as a means to defeat Obama and Obamaism when given the opportunities to do so in 2010 and 2012. If not, they will become a permanent minority party with previous successful Presidents like Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan as distant memories of what was once great about America, but never will be again.
It's time for the GOP to be ready to fight Barack Obama when he's wrong (like on these matters) and Obamaism.
This is the first of a two-day discussion between TheNextRight.com (Soren Dayton and Jon Henke) and Culture11.com (James Poulos and Conor Friedersdorf) about the Best Case and Worst Case scenario for the Right in 2008. Conor Friedersdorf's contribution is here. James Poulos contribution is here. Jon Henke's is here. Soren Dayton continues.
I have felt for a long time that the GOP's electoral collapse in 2008 is a disaster for America. While the GOP has demonstrated itself to the incompetent at both politics and governing, our country is facing serious issues. While the GOP's answers and the answers of conservatives are not completely adequate for the questions of the day, the Democrats and the left are much, much worse. Whether it is the future of international institutions, labor relations, electoral reform, immigration, welfare, taxes, trade, the nationalization of our banking system, among others, it is likely that the right will not have a seat at the table while these issues are resolved.
So let's take a deep breath and be adult for a moment. Without really disputing the points about conservatism benefitting from a sooner moment to reset and without disputing the real reasons that conservatives find John McCain wanting, the guy has to win for the sake of our country and our party.
The biggest dilemma that I see for us as conservatives or people of the right is the power of the left to enact policies that have long-term feedback loops. Let's look at some examples:
Let's be clear. If you thought that George W. Bush and Karl Rove were rigging the American political system against the left--a not unreasonable position--, Barack Obama and his allies are going to teach with you what patsies the Republicans are at this.
The Democrats have an agenda that has nothing to do with helping America. Barack Obama's whole political career has been about paying off his constituencies. And he could end up paying them off by delivering 3-5% of a national vote in a structural and long-term sense. The best case for the GOP this year is to be able to stop this with a President McCain in the bully pulpit, regardless of all of his many failings.
A friend of mine is on the bus that is hown in the linked video:
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Hi all. I just came from a press conference held by the US Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the Maine State Chamber of Commerce. It was held in Portland and dealt with the EFCA. I spoke on behalf of ABC Maine and also got in a few words about FEA. After the news conference we went on the US Chambers special bus to Monument Square in the center of Portland. There were at least 75 union members holding a protest rally against the Chamber and in support of the EFCA. The interesting thing is the protest was organized by the Maine Democratic Party. There were about 15 of us on the bus and nobody wanted to get off so I led the way. We were heckled, swore at, and called some names. One of the young ladies from the chamber tried to set up some tables and put leaflets and information on it and the protesters kicked the tables over on the lady who was not hurt. We then were interviewed by ABC, NBC, and CBS about the EFCA. With the noise in the background I pointed out to the media that this protest is exactly why businesses have to work to defeat this bill. When you disagree with organized labor they resort to bullying, intimidation, and peer pressure. Why would any business want to subject there employees to that type of intimidation and bullying that was going on right across the street. I will send you the clip once I get it. They looked like morons which they are.
I sure am glad that Maine's union workers, as few as they are, have the time to take out of their busy work days to go do a good ol' fashioned protest!
No wait, I know, they are so productive that they actually sped up the line and finished early! I didn't see them wearing all of their mandatory protective gear or properly warming up to avoid 'ergonomic' injuries either. Somebody file a grievance. You can find the shop steward asleep in the parking lot....making time and a half.
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Assemblyman Dan Logue works to keep serial killer out of Lassen County
A large crowd of people waits to be let inside of Jensen Hall where the Lassen County Board of Supervisors reconvened its Tuesday, Sept. 14 meeting. People were expected to attend the meeting to voice concern over the release of convicted killer, Loren Herzog, in Lassen County.
Sept. 15, 2010 — In an exclusive phone conversation at 8:15 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 14, Assemblyman Dan Logue told Managing Editor Barbara France that after negotiating with Scott Kernan, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation undersecretary, accused serial killer Loren Herzog who is scheduled to be released on parole this month will not be "going to Doyle, Calif."
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text: Michael Tullberg, Getty Images The Best Concert You Ever Attended, What Was It? By Mark Tassler September 21, 2012 Who do you believe to be the greatest performer of all time? Read More|Comment Category: Country Music News, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Lists, Local News Tags: best concert Send to a friend! Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Pin it! Reddit This! Share on Tumblr!


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My temp pin shows in the middle of the meter.But when I turned on the inernal heater tonumber 3 or 4 so will the engine temp go down slowley to almost 65 or 70 degreese.
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Oakdale Police are investigating the embezzlement of over $26,000 from the Oak Valley Youth Softball Association and, according to law enforcement officials, a decision from the district attorney whether to prosecute is expected any day now.
An eyewitness and an officer's familiarity with subjects on his beat led to the arrest of a 15-year-old female juvenile for robbery, while police are also following leads to identify and apprehend her cohort, a 20-year old male.
By the beginning of the year Oakdale crime victims will be able to make a police report themselves without the need to have an officer come to the scene.
The United States Department of Justice announced Monday, Oct. 27 that Timothy Brian Werlhof, 24, of Oakdale, pleaded guilty to possession of material involving the sexual exploitation of prepubescent minors.
Investigation into a local burglary in Escalon led local police officers to nearby Oakdale over the weekend, where they made three arrests.
A late night shooting that sent one man to the hospital resulted in a 12-hour police standoff with SWAT officers at an East H Street residence on Saturday, Sept. 27.
Stanislaus Sheriff's investigators announced a Riverbank man wanted in connection with a homicide last month that left a 59-year-old man dead was arrested Wednesday night, Sept. 10 in Turlock.
Oakdale Police are investigating the circumstances that sent a nine-month old female to the hospital due to an opiate overdose in the early morning hours on Thursday, Sept. 4. The infant is recovering in a Madera hospital.
A coroner's investigation into the next of kin for a deceased homeless man led detectives to discover that $18,000 had been taken from the dead man's bank account the day after his death.
A gang member wanted in connection with a July 14 shooting in Oakdale was arrested by the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department on Tuesday, Aug. 5. Authorities say he is also suspected in the hit-and-run death of Oakdale resident Blake Barry, 20, in Waterford in a case from December of last year.
Stanislaus County Sheriff's Detectives are investigating the homicide of a 59-year-old man who was found dead in the front yard of a house in the 3700 block of Texas Avenue in Riverbank on Tuesday night, Aug. 5.
The man wanted in connection with the rape of a teenaged girl was spotted and arrested on the grounds of Oakdale High School on Tuesday night, July 15.
Oakdale Police responded to a reported domestic disturbance where the wanted suspect from earlier in the day returned to Old Bluff Court on Thursday night, July 10 at 5 p.m. The incident resulted in the eventual arrest of one of the suspects for kidnapping and false imprisonment in addition to the previous domestic violence charges.
A depleted Oakdale Police Force was busy over the weekend in gang related incidents that started with Friday afternoon gunshots and then greater problems of a stabbing outside the Battered Beaver Bar in the early morning hours on Saturday, a person shot outside 7-11 on West F Street at midnight Saturday night, and a forcible assault reported early Sunday morning.
Oakdale Police reported that units were kept busy responding to numerous call-to-call complaints about fireworks during the long Independence Day Holiday weekend, Friday, July 4 through Sunday, July 6. Police also were tied up providing traffic control assistance for a brush fire near the Oakdale Airport.
An Oakdale man was arrested by Tuolumne County Sheriff's detectives at his Hampton Court residence on Feb. 2 for several sex crimes, according to a March 2 press release issued from the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Department.
A six-month investigation of a gang assault that has led to several arrests of gang members as well as a Jan. 12 sweep that involved over 40 officers from six agencies, has resulted in two additional suspects surrendering to police.
Local police report that residents are continuing to receive scam phone calls from people demanding money or a refund in order to trick victims into sharing private information. Some of the callers have been able to alter a telephone's caller ID to make it appear that the call is coming from the Internal Revenue Service.
A four-month investigation into a large gang fight from last summer resulted in a multi-agency gang sweep in Oakdale Monday morning, Jan. 12.
A suspect wanted in connection with stealing and forging checks was arrested by Oakdale Police on Friday, Jan 9 when observed in a car on F Street.
With the use of a personal computer or mobile device, local individuals and businesses can now retrieve crime information from the Oakdale Police Department and will be able to make police reports.
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text: Houma Police have issued warrants on the parents of two children who were killed in a March 15th fire. Houma Police Lt. Dana Coleman says Romell Welsh Sr. and Vaneshia Valentine have been charged with two counts of manslaughter, and they are searching for the couple. Coleman said, "We have several Detectives in the area talking to relatives, talking to neighbors trying to find the location of Vaneshia Valentine and Romell Welsh Sr." Funeral services were held for the two toddlers, 2 year old Romell Welsh Jr. and 1 year old Ro'Miya Welsh on Monday. Coleman says attempts to locate the parents following the services were unsuccessful. "We don't know where Mr. Welsh and Ms. Valentine are at this point. We have been in contact with the mother via telephone and we are trying to coordinate something for her to come turn herself in to us," Coleman said. Police have not said where the parents were at the time of the fire, but it is known they were not at home. Coleman says due to the nature of the incident and it's surrounding circumstances, they feel the manslaughter charge is appropriate.


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Our mascot Billy the Badger has been busy all summer travelling around, see where he visited on his tour.
Some lucky young players got to meet some of the First Team as they dropped in on Fulham FC Foundation's Soccer Schools.
Giorgos Karagounis is looking forward to starting the new season in top shape, after a full pre-season training schedule.
Brede Hangeland believes that his side showed plenty of potential in the defeat to Parma in our last pre-season friendly.
Fulham host Serie A side Parma on Saturday (3pm) in the last of their pre-season matches with the new league campaign almost a week away.
Adel Taarabt arrived at Fulham this week, signing from Queens Park Rangers on loan for the season. Here, we reveal everything you need to know about the attacking midfielder...
The Club is delighted to confirm the season-long loan signing of Queens Park Rangers midfielder Adel Taarabt.
Derek Boateng already feels at home at Craven Cottage and is determined to become an important player for Martin Jol.
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"In my next life," says Richard Olcott, FAIA, a partner at Ennead Architects, "I want to come back as the acoustician. The acoustician always gets his way."
Projected on the wall in front of Olcott in his Lower Manhattan office are diagrams that appear to be CT scans. They are plans for a new concert hall now being built at Stanford University, and they have been marked up—electronically—by acoustical consultant Yasuhisa Toyota. In the course of designing the concert hall, Olcott says, he went through some 50 iterations, sending each (in the form of a Rhino model) to Toyota, who used proprietary software to determine how the room would sound.
Toyota, who prefers to keep his process secret, says only that the software has improved so dramatically in recent years that "until the last 10 years, we didn't do a very good job." He calls his earlier work "very primitive."
Illustrations of Stanford Universitys Bing Concert Hall, an 844-seat music venue planned for summer 2012 and designed by Ennead Architects with Nagata Acousticss Yasuhisa Toyota, theater consultant Fisher Dachs Associates, and landscape architect Cheryl Barton. Fiber-reinforced concrete sails disperse sound, whereas random ridges on these and other surfaces prevent echoes.
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For Stanford, Olcott designed an oval hall with 844 seats, arranged in a vineyard style (that is, surrounding the stage and divided into groupings by low walls). Those walls closest to the musicians bounce sound back to them, which is why, Olcott learned, they need to rise from the stage at right angles, and reach a height of at least three feet. Other "vineyard walls" bounce sound around more generally, creating pleasing reverberation in the hall. "The idea," Olcott says, "is that you should be hearing sounds coming from more than one direction—that's what gives it the richness."
But the oval design posed a problem: "Concave shapes concentrate sounds; you need convex shapes to disperse it," Olcott says, explaining why he festooned the room with giant sails—actually panels of fiber-reinforced concrete, providing the necessary convex-ness. And what would those sails be covered in? "Yasu wants every surface to have a degree of bumpiness," Olcott says, explaining that the bumpiness adds to the richness of the sound as it moves through the room.
And yet the bumps and ridges shouldn't repeat at fixed intervals—which can cause echoes at particular frequencies. Olcott, taking off from a drawing by artist Robert Mangold, devised a random pattern of ridges, which were cut into the wall and ceiling panels (of fiber-reinforced concrete) by Kreysler & Associates of American Canyon, Calif., on a vast computer-numerical-control router. For architects, chance is just another way that acoustical consultants have influenced their designs.
Avoiding echoes was also a goal at Temple Beth Elohim, in Wellesley, Mass., where Kirkegaard Associates was the acoustical consultant. William Rawn, FAIA, the Boston architect, had designed a square sanctuary designed to take advantage of the woodland views—two of its four walls, nearly 70 feet long and 40 feet high, are glass. The effect is dramatic, but the danger "was that the sound would bounce back and forth" between the glass and other smooth surfaces, project manager Mark Penz says.
The solution was to ensure that parts of the interior walls were angled slightly. Other parts were covered in panels, from Akustik & Raum AG, consisting of a perforated wood veneer over absorptive backing.
Penz said that he looked at dozens of materials before deciding on the company's Makustik panels (his options multiplied, he says, when construction costs declined after the financial crash in 2008). "When you're right up against it, you can see the perforations, but from everywhere else it looks like wood," he says. The sound system, also designed by Kirkegaard, uses speakers set into wooden screens, an aesthetic choice that is consistent with the building's religious purpose. "You don't want to be worshiping a loudspeaker," Penz says. The speakers were also designed to project sound down, toward the congregation, rather than up to the ceiling, where it could get lost, Penz says.
At both the Bing Concert Hall and Temple Beth Elohim, the goal was to please large crowds. But the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, the Manhattan home of the Orchestra of St. Luke's, posed a different acoustical problem: DiMenna is where the 37-year-old orchestra rehearses. As it was a rehearsal space without a full auditorium, there was a danger that there wouldn't be enough distance for sound to travel before bouncing back at the musicians. For that reason, rehearsal spaces, says Russell Todd, a partner in the Connecticut consulting firm Akustiks, are always in danger of being too loud.
But at the same time Todd was making sure that the musicians could hear themselves, he had to make sure they couldn't hear noise from outside—a danger given that the space is near the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel. Luckily, they had a good starting point: the room, a former theater, was essentially a concrete bunker, and "heavy concrete construction is good for sound isolation," Todd says. Within the existing concrete box, Akustiks and H3 Hugh Hardy Collaboration Architects designed a second concrete box that floats. The floor was a particular challenge: A new slab was poured atop the old one, then jacked up about 2 inches, leaving room for metal and neoprene springs between the layers. The springs dampen vibration from outside, with the metal ones handling the lower and the neoprene ones attenuating the higher frequencies, Todd says.
But what about the sound inside the room? The main determinant of how the room would sound—and look—were the four walls, which are made of masonry "hard cap" decorated with hundreds of vertical wood slats. The spacing of the slats was randomized, just like the grooves in the wall and ceiling panels at the Stanford concert hall and the wooden screens at Temple Beth Elohim. Behind the slats are velour drapes that can be raised or lowered, for additional sound dampening.
Overhead, the DiMenna room features a large skylight—making it a pleasant place for musicians to spend long hours rehearsing. But with a skylight, there was a danger of street noise leaking, and of sound from inside bouncing back too sharply. The first problem was solved by building the skylight out of two layers of glass, separated by 4 feet; the second by lining the skylight "walls" in acoustical panels.
In the end, the similarities between a rehearsal space and an actual concert hall outweigh the differences. "Musicians are the most important people in the room," Olcott says of his Bing Concert Hall, scheduled to open in summer 2012. "You want it to sound good to them." He adds: "You want them to say to other musicians, 'Have you played at Stanford yet?' "
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(CNN) -- Amanda Clayton hit it big playing the Michigan Lottery. Like many winners, she used her $1 million prize to buy a new house.
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While the number of people detained reached a five-year high of over 383,000, apprehensions hit a 34-year low of 613,000 in 2009. MPI's Jeanne Batalova and Kristen McCabe examine the latest immigration enforcement data in this updated Spotlight.
Few visas in the U.S. alphabet soup of visa types have become as well-known — or controversial — as the H-1B has in its 20-year history. MPI's Jeanne Batalova examines the program's background and the numbers and characteristics of those granted H-1B visas in 2009.
Compared to the foreign born overall, the 1.1 million Vietnamese immigrants in the United States were less likely to hold a bachelor's degree but had much higher naturalization and homeownership rates. MPI's Aaron Terrazas and Cristina Batog look at the population's size, geographic distribution, and socioeconomic characteristics.
The nation's 1.0 million Korean immigrants have settled in greater numbers in new destination states like Georgia, Washington, and Virginia. They are also more likely than immigrants overall to have a college degree and be naturalized citizens. MPI's Aaron Terrazas and Cristina Batog look at the population's size, geographic distribution and socioeconomic characteristics.
Over three-quarters of Taiwanese immigrants own their home, and almost as many hold a bachelor's degree or higher. MPI's Serena Yi-Ying Lin examines the population's size, geographic distribution, and socioeconomic characteristics.
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This report analyzes the housing status of immigrants in the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States with respect to homeownership. In addition, it examines the factors that appear to influence homeownership among immigrants, and the programs and initiatives that can encourage homeownership among these groups.
The genesis of this particular conference on Latino immigration is Samuel P. Huntington's recently published "The Hispanic Challenge," which suggests that Latino immigrants are likely to destroy the United States as we know it. The essays that follow indicate that Professor Huntington's thesis is easily rebutted.
This report examines foreign-born participation in the United States' labor market. It provides information and charts relating to the number and share of immigrant workers in the total civilian labor force and their employment rates.
This report examines the characteristics of foreign-born workers in the United States based on the 2002 Current Population Survey. Findings relate to foreign-born workers age 16 and over participating in the civilian labor force.
Canada and Mexico's importance to the United States is more than simply a border-state phenomenon. The trading relationship between United States and Canada represents the largest bilateral flow of income, goods, and services in the world. Meanwhile, Mexico is the United States' second largest trading partner.
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Tomorrow night, Friday, October 10th, at the varsity football game, our 2014 STATE CHAMPION Varsity boys lacrosse team will be recognized as state champions during halftime.
The game starts at 7:30 pm against Wheaton North, so we are asking all players and coaches planning to attend to be IN the stadium by 8:10 pm. We'll be gathering near the concession stand initially and hope to find a better place to assemble after that. We don't have any details after that, so we'll be playing it by ear.
Mr. Denklau will be bringing RED jerseys for all players to wear. If you still have your uniform, please wear the RED jersey and bring your remaining white jersey and both shorts in a bag along with another shirt to wear after your uniform is collected.
Coaches should wear their RED game shirts.
For players and coaches who are just attending the half-time activity, you can enter the stadium through the "Pass Gate" around 8:00 pm. Player, coaches, and coaches spouse's names will be on a list to get you into the stadium at no cost.
It is also SENIOR NIGHT, so come out and support the STATE CHAMPION NCHS football team and their seniors
This is another chance for us to get together, celebrate, and remember the 2014 season.
Go Redhawks and we'll see you there !!!!
Congratulations to players, coaches, parents and everyone involved with the NCHS Boys Lacrosse program !!!
Coach Recruiting If you are a new or experienced coach that is seeking a coaching position, please contact: Jack Graf @ firstname.lastname@example.com
2014 Game Schedule has been published (and games will continue to be added and changed). We'll send an email if any games are changed. See the Calendar page for each team's schedule.
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Testing the Locks: Validating Security in a Linux Environment
The second set of locks to validate is on your network. Any comprehensive security assessment must include validation of your network's correct operation. There is no better way to validate this than by simple observation. The first tool to use for this is the Wireshark network protocol analyzer. Wireshark puts your network card in promiscuous mode and captures any traffic broadcast on your local network segment. It may be necessary to take samples on different parts of your network or use span ports to get a good representation of normal traffic.
To start the program, open a terminal inside the VM and type wireshark. Once open, click on the Capture menu and then on Interfaces. On the Interface options window, click Start next to eth0 to start the capture (Figure 3). If you use something other than the BackTrack VM to run Wireshark, you might select a different interface. Click on the Capture menu again, and then click Stop to end the capture. When finished, save the capture to a file. I recommend that you take captures of no less than five minutes at random times during the day. The capture files will be big (longer capture = bigger file) if you have a busy network, but in my experience, five minutes is enough for most small-to-medium networks. Scan the capture files to identify unusual traffic, and validate any network-level policies you may have in place. For example, many networked printers, by default, broadcast NetBIOS for discovery on Windows networks, but you may not allow NetBIOS traffic on your network. Captures also can help find rogue-user PCs or VMs running without approval. Many people are surprised the first time they run a capture. The shortcoming of captures is the time required to analyze them. That is where our second network tool, Snort, comes in.
Snort is many things, but traditionally it's used as an intrusion-detection system (IDS). An IDS patterns network traffic against a database of known attack signatures to alert administrators to potential intrusions. Unlike Wireshark, Snort aggregates and analyzes the data it collects providing a thousand-foot view of the network. When using Snort, you should be aware of two things: IDSes are sensitive to false positives, and they do not alert on normal traffic. Snort is useful as an assessment tool, because it can tell you whether there are any major problems on your network in a short amount of time.
The BackTrack team conveniently has packaged Snort with the BASE Web front end in the distribution. From the KDE menu, select Services→Snort→Setup and Initialize Snort. You will be prompted by the setup script to enter root and Snort user passwords for MySQL in order to create the needed tables. At the end of the script, open a Web browser and enter http://youripaddress/base/base_db_setup.ph, and on the page that loads, click on the Create Base AG button. Now, click on the Main Page link (Figure 4) to access alert information. Unlike Wireshark, Snort should be run over a longer period of time (more than 24 hours in most cases) to provide a good sampling of network data.
The third set of locks to test is found in the operating systems and applications on your network or, more specifically, in the vulnerabilities that exist on them. A reasonable approach to finding these vulnerabilities is to perform one or more broad vulnerability scans across the network, followed by any application-specific scans for our critical apps. Let's use the Security Administrator's Integrated Network Tool (SAINT) as our primary scanner.
SAINT normally allows only two IP addresses for scanning for 15 days, but BackTrack users can use up to ten IP addresses for up to a year by using the registration page found under the KDE menu: BackTrack→Vulnerability Identification→SAINT Exploit→SAINT Exploit License. From this Web page, click the Get License button at the bottom of the page and provide the necessary information on the registration page. Proceed with registration, and generate a key for use with the scanner. Once the key has been entered on the VM, launch SAINT from the same KDE folder as the License link, but click on the SAINT link instead. This launches the Web front end. Click the Scan Set-Up tab. Enter the IP addresses or range you want to scan (Figure 5). Under the Scanning Level section, check off Exhaustive and Full Port Scan. In the Firewall section, select No Firewall Support. You can play with any of these options to tailor the scans to your needs. Click Scan Now at the bottom of the page when finished. The results are displayed when the scan is finished (Figure 6). You should review and document the scan results, and wherever possible, remediate discovered vulnerabilities.
This broad scan with SAINT should be followed up with more specific scans against your most valuable (and therefore juicier targets) machines. As an example, let's scan a Web server using another tool found on BackTrack, Nikto. Nikto is a mature, simple scanning tool and an excellent resource for locking down a Web server. Assuming you have a Web server in your environment, launch a Nikto shell from the VM under the KDE menu BackTrack→Penetration→All→Nikto2, and from the resulting shell, type:
nikto.pl -h yourwebserveripaddresshere
As you can see, the output is straightforward and can be redirected to a file easily for later analysis (Figure 7). As with SAINT, you should follow up this scan by documenting the results and fixing any discovered issues.
As Linux continues to play an ever increasing role in corporate data centers and institutions, ensuring the integrity and protection of these systems must be a priority. With 60% of the world's websites and an increasing share of organization's mission-critical workloads running on Linux, failing to stop malware and other advanced threats on Linux can increasingly impact an organization's reputation and bottom line.
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TomBrooklyn wrote:Which way is "the other way" for a batter to hit the ball?Which way is pulling it?
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TomBrooklyn wrote:I thought so. Just wanted to make sure. Thanks.Would it be correct that it is easier or more common to pull than to go the other way? Also, on a possibly related note, what is meant by an "inside-out swing" of the bat?
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Guess what? Nobody cares how "you did it up north". You're in the south now and we do things our way down here. Why do I feel compelled to write about this? Your middle/upper management mentality makes it hard for anyone with a soul to take you seriously. I like to refer to these retirees as FIPs or "Formerly Important People". FYI...You are not nearly as important as you think you are. If you were half as good as you think you are, then you probably would have actually made it past Senior VP on the corporate ladder. Stop acting like a jerk and stop complaining.


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Asher continues his Summertime music releases w/ this Buddy-assisted jam.
Posted in Singles | Tags: asher roth, buddy, summerfeed
I feel like Lil B would've been at home on this track. I have no clue what the hook was supposed to mean. Put some shoes on dawg.
Errbody's gonna be rapping over TNGHT's BUGGN track.
Childish gambino would have murdered this beat.
This is TNGHT's BUGGN Beat of their EP and Asher Roth sound like French Montana wrote his verse... Lol! On another note... TNGHT is working with Kanye on that Cruel Summer album... :ObamaSuccess:
Good beat
This is so horrible--but it's funny. Brings to light just how bad trap music is. If they aren't talking drugs and money all of a sudden it isn't so cool anymore is it?
Asher Roth is SOOOOO lost. Who is guiding this guy's career? Didn't he just sign to Def Jam? The FUCK are Sha Money and NO ID doing over there? NO ID clearly guiding Nas project well but someone needs to give some time to this kid cuz he's lost in it big time.
this is obviously a joke, how the fuck are you not gonna say that before you post it unless you didnt listen to it? and gambinos never murdered anything. he can come out too now that franky did
"gambinos never murdered anything" "how the fuck are you not gonna say that before you post it unless you didnt listen to it? "
same applies, no?
I thought that was Mr. Lif at first glimpse. Yo! How sick would a Roth/Lif collab be?!!
This dude is annoying
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DiGeorge syndrome is a rare genetic disorder resulting from the deletion of a part of chromosome 22. It is a complex syndrome characterised by several physical malformations and dysfunction of the thymus and parathyroid glands.
DiGeorge syndrome is an extremely rare congenital disorder which is present at birth. It seems to occur with an equal prevalence in both males and females.
The signs and symptoms of diGeorge syndrome result from limited functioning of the thymus and the parathyroid gland. The thymus gland is responsible for production of T cells which are significant in immune response. Therefore, underdevelopment of the thymus gland usually leads to recurrent occurrence of infections. Similarly, the parathyroid gland is responsible for maintaining optimum levels of calcium and phosphorus in the body. Any dysfunction in this gland will naturally result in quantitative disruption of calcium and phosphorus in the body causing serious problems.
Individuals affected with diGeorge syndrome present with typical physical abnormalities which constitute low set ears, long face with dimpled nasal tip, and wide set eyes with downward, hooded slant. Babies with diGeorge's syndrome may experience feeding problems due to high arched and cleft palate. In occasional individuals, intellectual disability or psychological disorder may be encountered. Heart defects like ventricular septal defect (VSD) or Fallot tetralogy may be some of the associated features.
Genetic testing may be done to establish the diagnosis. This disorder may be diagnosed prenatally during the 18th week by ultrasonography. Moreover fluorescence in situ hybridization studies and specific blood tests may also help in diagnosing the condition. Blood levels of calcium, phosphorus and parathyroid hormone may help in confirming the diagnosis.
DiGeorge syndrome is a disorder resulting from deletion of a part of chromosome number 22. This is a chromosomal disorder and not an inherited disorder. The process of deletion of the chromosome is an accidental occurrence which may occur during development of the sperm or egg. There are increased chances of occurrence of diGeorge's syndrome in instances of alcohol consumption during pregnancy.
This syndrome has serious personal and social implications. The individual may not be able to take self-care which may result in frequent infections and rapid deterioration of health. Reduced level of calcium in the body may result in seizures. The survival rate is low due to increased chances of heart failure and repeated infections.
Unfortunately diGeorge syndrome has no cure. A multidimensional approach may be required to manage various problems of this complex syndrome. The individual may be prescribed calcium and vitamin supplements to substitute for the deficiency. The heart defects need to be evaluated and surgical management considered, if needed. Transplantation of foetal thymus may be considered in some individuals. The prognosis of this genetic disorder is quite poor and may require life long supportive care in individuals who manage to survive.


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