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The Book of the New Sun: Notes #04
Baldanders is human. Not an undine. Not a proto-undine. Not a child of Abaia. Not a Hierodule. Baldanders is human.
In chapter 31 of The Sword of the Lictor, Severian, recently rescued from the clutches of the hetman and the shore people of Lake Diuturna, is having the following conversation with Llibio, leader of the nomadic People of the Lake who drift about the lake on floating, windblown islands. Llibio speaks first.
"Once when I was a young man, these quarrels took two or three lives in a year. Then the builder of the castle came. Do you know the tale?"
I shook my head.
"He came from the south, whence, as I am told, you come as well. He had many things the shore people wanted, such as cloth, and silver, and many well-forged tools. Under his direction they built his castle. Those were the fathers and grandfathers of those who are the shore people now. They used the tools for him, and as he promised, he permitted them to keep them when the work was done, and he gave them many other things. My mother's father went to them while they labored, and asked if they did not see that they were setting up a ruler over themselves, since the builder of the castle could do as he chose with them, then retire behind the strong walls they had built for him where no one could reach him. They laughed at my mother's father and said they were many, which was true, and the builder of the castle only one, which was also true."
I asked if he had ever seen the builder, and if so what he looked like.
"Once. He stood on a rock talking to shore people while I passed in my boat. I can tell you he was a little man, a man who would not, had you been there, have reached higher than your shoulder. Not such a man as inspires fear."
Llibio goes on to describe how, after the castle was completed, the beasts and the children of the shore people began to go missing in the night. The shore people blamed the People of the Lake and began kidnapping their children, in the hopes that whoever was taking the beasts and the children would take these kidnapped children instead. The conflict grows until the antagonism and violence is openly acknowledged. The "builder...was seen by no one once his castle was complete." Severian ventures that he may be dead, but Llibio continues, "An evil giant dwells there now, but no one has seen him." More clues are offered, as "Five years past, and they swarmed over it by night like the fingerlings that crowd a dead man. They burned the castle and slew those they found there." Finally, "After the melting of the ice this year, the people of the castle returned. Their hands were full of gifts - riches, and the strange weapons you turned against the shore people. There are others who come there too, but whether as servants or masters, we of the lake do not know." These others, it turns out, are not from the north or the south, but "From the sky."
Even the first time reader should see the parallels between this and Dr. Talos' earlier story of he and Baldanders touring the south with their little play in order to earn the gold necessary to restore their home on the shores of a far off lake. This lake, Diuturna, is indeed that same one Talos speaks about, and the reader will easily connect the builder of the castle, the "little man" who would not inspire fear, with Dr. Talos while the later "evil giant" that comes to inhabit the castle would be Baldanders. The visitors "from the sky" are obviously the Hierodules. Their connection to Baldanders remains a mystery at this point, but one which will soon be partially revealed since their ship is, at the time of Severian's attack on the castle, hovering above Baldanders' tower like an obscene mushroom cloud.
Much supposition bears fruit when Severian enters the castle. After pounding on the door, he is greeted by a surprised Dr. Talos who promises that Baldanders will give Severian back the Claw of the Conciliator (which had been stolen by the hetman of the shore people and sent to the castle) but that he is upstairs talking to the Hierodules. As Severian and Talos climb through the tower, Severian sees for the first time the horrors that Baldanders has wrought in his quest for knowledge. Aside from a screaming, insane prisoner who is being kept, as Dr. Talos puts it, "For parts, I suppose. That's what Baldanders has most of this rubbish for," the tower is full of strange and disturbing devices.
"This room held machines too. But these, though they might have been as old as those below, gave the impression of being in working order; and moreover, of standing in some logical though impenetrable relation to one another, like the devices in Typhon's hall. Baldanders and his guests were at the farther end of the chamber, where his head, three times the size of any ordinary man's, reared above the clutter of metal and crystal like that of a tyrannosaur over the topmost leaves of a forest. As I walked toward them, I saw what remained of a young woman who might have been a sister of Pia's lying beneath a shimmering bell jar. Her abdomen had been opened with a sharp blade and certain of her viscera removed and positioned around her body. It appeared to be in the early stages of decay, though her lips moved. Her eyes opened as I passed her, then closed again."
Severian is introduced to Baldanders and the three Hierodules he is speaking with, Barbatus, Famulimus and their android servant Ossipago. They shock Severian and deeply offend Baldanders, although this is only subtly indicated, by bowing to Severian. The Hierodules, like Merlyn in T.H. White's The Once and Future King, live through time in reverse, having come from the future while traveling toward the past. They bow because they are aware Severian will eventually become the Autarch and beyond that will bring the New Sun. Baldanders, who in his monstrous ambition, has been vying for these honors as well is infuriated.
In his slow voice, Baldanders said "Severian will be the victor. Else why did they kneel to him? Though he may die and we may not. You know their ways, Doctor. The looting may disseminate knowledge."
After a fiery exchange, Dr. Talos leaves and the Hierodules explain, in the vaguest terms, their motives. Their desire is to advance humanity - all of humanity - in the hope that, as is revealed in the fifth book The Urth of the New Sun, humans eventually evolve into the very Hierarchs that left the fallen universe of Briah, traveled to Yesod, created the Hierodules, and learned how to create suns and even galaxies. In short, the Hierarchs, Hierogrammates, and Hierodules are essentially equivalent to a modern Christian's angel, and their hope is that humanity eventually attains the godhead. The Hierodules, literally "holy slaves," have the closest contact with humanity although they, like the Istari in The Lord of the Rings, do not directly interfere with or manipulate events for a more favorable outcome for humanity. They offer what guidance and tools that they can, placing the onus for the spiritual progression necessarily on the shoulders of humanity. The Hierodules, privy to the knowledge of multiple futures, see the possibility of either Severian or Baldanders bringing the New Sun, therefore they have taken a special interest in each. With Severian, this interest seems to be smoothing his road toward the throne of the Autarchy and, by extension, his eventual testing by the Hierarchs. With Baldanders, this interest is in the dissemination of knowledge and tools in the hopes that Baldanders will either disperse this information to others willingly or, in his death, "seed" the planet with the results of his inquiries. Famulimus says this explicitly.
"That man you call Baldanders lives to learn. We see that he hoards up past lore - hard facts like seeds to give him power. In time he'll die by hands that do not store, but die with some slight gain for all of you. Think of a tree that splits a rock. It gathers water, the sun's life-bringing heat...and all the stuff of life for its own use. In time it dies and rots to dress the earth, that its own roots have made from stone. Its shadow gone, fresh seeds spring up; in time a forest flourishes where it stood."
Time to draw these threads together. Baldanders, whose origins at first seemed ambiguous enough that calling him a proto-undine or an extra-solar monster would not have seemed far-fetched, began life as human as Severian. I believe this to be true because the bringer of the New Sun, the Conciliator, is essentially the redeemer of humanity specifically, and not just Urth. In order for Severian and Baldanders to have been considered equally worthy, at least at first, they would both have to be human. I also maintain that Baldanders, while turning inward and away from humanity in his monstrous ambition and self-obsession, is also not specifically aligned with the interests of Erebus, Abaia and the rest although he will also use them and their powers to aid his own desires if necessary. Baldanders truly is a third faction in the struggle for Urth and as I mentioned before, more a Byronic hero than an evil enemy or fallen Christ figure.
And if any further evidence is necessary, for once, one needs look no farther than the text itself. Wolfe spells it out quite directly in this brief conversation between Severian and Baldanders.
"I had already concluded," I said with as much self-possession as I could summon, "that when the islanders told me of a small man who paid for the building of this place, they were speaking of the doctor. But they said that you, the giant, had come afterward."
"I was the small man. The doctor came afterward."
The Byronic connections are also made explicit a bit later in the next chapter, as Severian, Dr. Talos and Baldanders talk following the departure of the Hierodules. Baldanders begins.
"No, I am my own great work. And I am my only great work!"
Dr. Talos whispered, "Look about you - don't you recognize this? It's just what he says!"
"What do you mean?" I whispered in return.
"The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous events of the past cast their shadows down the ages, so now, when the sun is drawing toward the dark, our own shadows race into the past to trouble mankind's dreams."
The final key to the mystery of Baldanders arrives near the very end of the cycle, in one of the last chapters of The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian has completed his journey to the throne and is receiving visitors. To his surprise, Dr. Talos arrives, having survived the massive struggle at Baldanders' tower.
"Oh, Baldanders, you mean. No, he has dismissed me, I'm afraid. After the fight. After he dived into the lake."
"You believe he survived, then."
"Oh, I'm quite sure he survived. You didn't know him as I did, Severian. Breathing would be nothing to him. Nothing! He had a marvelous mind. He was a supreme genius of a unique sort: everything turned inward. He combined the objectivity of the scholar with the self-absorption of the mystic."
I said, "By which you mean he carried out experiments on himself."
"Oh, no, not at all. He reversed that! Others experiment upon themselves in order to derive some rule that they can apply to the world. Baldanders experimented on the world and spent the proceeds, if I can put it so bluntly, upon his person. They say-" here he looked about nervously to make sure no one but myself was in earshot "-they say I'm a monster, and so I am. But Baldanders was more monster than I. In some sense he was my father, but he had built himself. It's the law of nature, and of what is higher than nature, that each creature must have a creator. But Baldanders was his own creation; he stood behind himself and cut himself off from the line linking the rest of us with the Increate."
That exchange is so rich with meaning it almost asks for a separate blog post. It is too easy, especially at the beginning, for the reader, through Severian, to love Vodalus and to hate the Autarch. The reader comes to see though that while the Autarchy is deeply flawed and the Commonwealth is in many ways a horrible system of governance, he is the greatest hope humanity has. He is the Epitome, and through the many many people inside of him, he is deeply and intimately connected to all of humanity. The Autarch must truly be selfless and Baldanders is the antithesis of this. Baldanders, while human, is almost Miltonian in his Satanic pride and individuality. He willingly severs himself from the Commonwealth, from Urth, and from humanity, and from divinity through sheer selfishness and pride. Baldanders subverts the Hierodules in hoarding the knowledge that they share with him and using it for his own ends and to sate his own appetites. In The Urth of the New Sun Apheta explains that the Hieros ultimately stand against entropy. Entropy is the great devourer and only through an ordered advance of culture, philosophy, knowledge and morality can humanity evolve and eventually triumph over entropy. Baldanders is an evolutionary cul-de-sac. As the New Sun, he is a failure.
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Oh! Sir, I think you mistake my argument! I certainly agree that Baldanders is human...but I also think he is a proto-Undine, & that the undines were once human, as well. Think of it like if I said "Baldanders is a vampire." That would not preclude him being human in the past. It would demand it!ReplyDelete
(Of course, vampires in the Solar Cycle are a non-human species, but you know what I mean!)
Ah yes, I did indeed mistake your argument. The perils of electronic communication. Some day I hope to at least say hello to you face to face. But onward...ReplyDelete
Your point that the undines may once have been human merits some serious consideration. They too remain a great mystery to me, as do Abaia, Erebus, Arioch (Wolfe paying homage to Moorcock or digging even deeper in demonology?) and the other megatherians (aren't there 17 of them?). I agree with you that, intentional or not, there is something deeply Lovecraftian about them, so it is tempting to see the undines as some monstrous offspring of the megatherians' union with or manipulation of human stock, like the Deep Ones or the Dunwich Horror. The vampire analogy is also especially apt, and an excellent way to frame the argument.
I have yet to encounter many vampires but I believe they feature heavily in the Long Sun and Short Sun books, yes? Those are in the queue, waiting my first reading. After I finish "Urth" I am taking a short break to read that odd little Arzach book written by Jean Marc L'Officier and Moebius, then it is back to Wolfe again for seven more volumes of craziness.
One more thing, tangentially related more to my post than your comments. It is absolutely fascinating to read Wolfe's opinions and thoughts through these books. Unlike his later work, his personal beliefs are much more transparent in The Book of the New Sun. His thoughts on communism (the Ascians), democracy (at one point, Severian flat out says it has been tried and it doesn't work), a dictatorship of sorts (the Autarchy) and religion, especially Catholicism (Severian, the Conciliator, the Hierodules, Yesod and on and on). So just what is Wolfe saying with Baldanders? Is it an anti-science thrust? Is Wolfe essentially questioning the role of scientific inquiry, and perhaps positioning it as unethical and immoral? I still don't know.ReplyDelete
Ah I again am going to differ with you: I don't think the Ascians are Communists, so much as...well, let me put it this way. Nessus is in South America, right? The Gyoll is the Amazon, the Rocky Mountains are the many emperor statues...etc. The Ascians come from the north...across an isthmus...the Ascians are the Americans, gone all 1984!ReplyDelete
I'd also say that you shouldn't look at the Autarchy as attempting to create GOVERNMENT. The actual purpose of the Autarch is to create ONE FREE HUMAN. The expenditure of a mega-nation, complete with trading routes that include other planets...all to make ONE PERSON WHO IS FREE TO MAKE A CHOICE. The ultimate choice, natch.
As for Catholicism, well, I can't devil's advocate that, these books are Catholic as hell. Pun gloriously intended.
I would say Baldanders is a statement on post-humanity, & the human drive for transcendence. There is no transcendence save through communion-- sorry, big-C Communion-- so Baldanders is ultimately doomed.
I would argue, fundamentally, that all the exegesis we need is found in Doctor Talos' play.
The Long Sun books are better than Urth of the New Sun. The Short Sun books are good, but not such amazing masterpieces.ReplyDelete
Also let me highly recommend The Fifth Head of Cerberus. The three-in-one novel, not just the eponymous novella (which is contained in some "best of" collections.)
I'm still not sure if I agree with you on the Ascians. Geographically, yes, and perhaps even governmentally (all 1984) definitely. But given Wolfe's experiences as a Korean War veteran, I still see the Ascians not so much as communist, but as Wolfe's own vision of communism taken to it's horrifying extreme. Actually, the closest analogy I have ever seen to the Ascians is Darkseid's Anti-Life Equation - the total abolition of individuality, free will, and chance and an absolute conformity.ReplyDelete
Your description of the Autarch was absolutely spot-on and you said it far better than I did. It's funny, I've read the books four times now, so I should know what's coming, but with every reading I am at first taken for a ride with Severian, hating the Autarch and loving Vodalus. And each and every time, when Severian finally meets the old Autarch and learns what he really is, the ONE FREE HUMAN as you put it, I am tremendously and deeply moved. It is such a powerful concept, and that sudden shift for the reader from hatred to admiration is very emotional. The Autarch really is, or at his best he should be, the Epitome of us all.
Baldanders is such a fascinating character. I feel like I could think about him and write about him for a very long time. I don't think I had ever even fumbled toward that connection Baldanders has with big-C Communion until now, and your remarks are very helpful there. Strange just how deeply Catholic these books are!
As for Dr. Talos' play, man that is a tough nut to crack for me. The language and structure still at times madden and befuddle me. I know all the seeds of meaning are contained within, but it demands a great deal of study. At least for me. I hope to write a post on it, but that could spiral out of control.
Oh, yeah, I actually do have Fifth Head and very much intend to read that as well. Would you recommend it before or after Long Sun? I've read that it is somehow tangentially connected to the whole Sun cycle, and that alzabos might be the ghoul bears mentioned in one of the three stories.ReplyDelete


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Vicki Wentz: Lectures, laughter and love for 85 years and counting
Yesterday, my mother turned 85! I wasn't going to write a column about her, because I've done a couple and, really, what more is there to say? And, then it started coming to me…all the "more there is to say." Like:
My mom is the laughter I hear in the night as I fall asleep, down in the living room with my Dad, usually talking about us kids; she's the wave I look for as I leave for school; she's the proud smile I cling to as I mount the steps to the stage for my piano recital; and, she's the implacable voice of censure when I've done something stupid. Which, honestly, I did a lot.
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Jockey Ry Eikleberry won the 1,000th Thoroughbred race of his career Monday at Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M., when he guided One Fine Jewel to a neck win in the 11th race. One Fine Jewel rallied from off the pace in the $5,000 conditioned claiming route, and paid $22.60.
The milestone was a meaningful one for Eikleberry, a 23-year-old native of Phoenix who stands 5-foot-9.
"It's something I can look back at and be proud of," he said.
"I was kind of down [early in my career] because everyone I ever talked to said, 'You'll never make it. You might ride a few races, but you're going to be too big.'"
Eikleberry won the first race of his career at Arapahoe Park in Colorado, on July 8, 2005. The horse was named Chopin's Crescendo. He would go on to win three consecutive titles at Turf Paradise in Phoenix between 2009-2011. Overall, Eikleberry has won 1,132 races from 7,344 starts in a record that includes Quarter Horse victories. His mounts have earned $13,808,904.
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Cricket South Africa has appointed a new board at its annual general meeting on Saturday afternoon.
JOHANNESBURG - Chris Nenzani has been appointed as the new president of Cricket South Africa CSA, and Doctor Peter Cyster as his deputy.
Nenzani, who is president of Border Cricket, was expected to be named the new president of CSA.
The sports body held its annual general meeting on Saturday afternoon, where a new board was elected.
A compromise was reached with sports governing body the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) about the independent members of the board.
The split that was agreed upon, was one that saw the non-independents outnumber the rest of the board by seven members to five.
Nenzani has asked the South African public to put its faith behind the new board, as it looked to restore pride in South African cricket.
The other five non-independent directors that were elected are Andy O'Connor, Beresford Williams, Graeme Sauls, Fa-eez Jaffar and Rihan Richards.
Meanwhile, the five independent directors are Advocate Norman Arendse, Dawn Mokhobo, Vusi Pikoli, Louis von Zeuner and Mohamed Iqbal Khan.
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Each year the White Seabass Scientific and Constituent Advisory Panel meets to consider if current management measures are providing adequate protection for the white seabass resource. Annual reviews are conducted so that any changes in management, or to the White Seabass Fishery Management Plan, can be considered by the Commission in accordance with the requirements of the Marine Life Management Act. The Advisory Panel meets with CDFW each spring. The reports listed below reveal the findings from each review.
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Concern over the decline in white seabass landings and conflict between recreational and commercial fishermen over this resource resulted in legislation requiring the development of a white seabass fisheries management plan (WSFMP). The plan was developed in 1995 through the cooperative efforts of academic and federal fishery scientists, consultants, and fishery constituents. The plan was adopted by the Fish and Game Commission (Commission) in 1996; however, regulations to implement the WSFMP were not adopted at that time.
California enacted the Marine Life Management Act (MLMA) in 1998, granting broader regulatory authority to the Commission for specified commercial fisheries, including white seabass. The MLMA declared that the WSFMP shall remain in effect until amended, but it must be brought into conformance with the MLMA on or before 01 January 2002. This deadline was later extended in order to incorporate the recommendations of the peer review panel.
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The WSFMP uses a framework plan approach for managing the white seabass fishery. This enables the adjustment of management measures, within the scope and criteria established by this WSFMP and implementing regulations, without the need for amending the FMP. Framework adjustments can be implemented quickly, enabling more responsive adaptive management of white seabass. In addition to annual management changes, the Commission may make in-season adjustments to address resource conservation or socioeconomic issues. A Department white seabass management team along with an advisory panel consisting of representatives from the scientific community, recreational and commercial fishing industries, and environmental groups will continually monitor the effectiveness of management measures, and recommend changes to the Commission if needed.
In addition to the framework procedures, initial management alternatives are proposed for implementation upon approval of the WSFMP. These alternatives represent different determinations of a maximum sustainable yield (MSY) and optimum yield (OY) to be used in setting upper harvest limits for white seabass. The OYs range from 212,985 pounds to 1.3 million pounds. The preferred alternative is an OY of 1.2 million pounds. This OY was derived by making a precautionary adjustment to an MSY proxy that was calculated from a previously determined pre-exploitation biomass of white seabass.
The preferred alternative, along with a framework plan approach, will allow continued recovery of the white seabass resource while important data are collected to yield a better defined MSY/OY control rule. The WSFMP also includes several trigger mechanisms aimed at identifying and minimizing overfishing of the white seabass stock. Socioeconomic and bycatch impacts are not expected to be significant under the preferred alternative.
The WSFMP identifies specific short-term operational and long-term strategic research goals as part of research protocols that address needed essential fisheries information for white seabass. The overall goal is to bring our knowledge of white seabass stocks up from data-poor to data-rich; data-poor management of white seabass using an MSY/OY approach should be considered an interim solution. A stock assessment for white seabass using existing and ongoing datasets, along with new fishery independent information, is of paramount importance for the successful management of white seabass. Other short-term research goals include determinations of the size at sexual maturity, hooking mortality of released fish, amount of bycatch, and validation of age/growth studies.
Long-term research goals include development of more sophisticated stock assessments and models, expansion of hatchery-reared white seabass studies, collection and analyses of more socioeconomic data, cooperative research with Mexico and implementation of an ecosystem-based management approach.
The costs of implementing the WSFMP are estimated to be high. Most of the costs are associated with ongoing and future research (data collection and analysis), enforcement of regulations, and document preparation and review; the costs of research alone are estimated to be over $700,000 annually.


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The University of Miami School of Law mourns the passing of Professor Emeritus George C. Onoprienko, who passed away on Monday, May 11, 2009. Professor Onoprienko taught at the Law School from 1951-1997 before retiring to Jensen Beach, Florida.
Born on January 1, 1925 in Taunton, Massachusetts, Professor Onoprienko received two degrees from the University of Miami – a B.B.A. in 1948 and a J.D. in 1951. He began teaching at the Law School shortly thereafter. His contributions to the School and to the local community were numerous.
As a member of the Dade County task forces on battered women and abused children, he researched and drafted legislation that was passed by the Florida Legislature. He was a past chairman of the American Bar Association Committee on Ethics in Family Law, and served as a member of the Florida Bar Appellate Rules Committee. His publications included Cases and Materials on Florida Appellate Practice and Procedure: Civil, Criminal, and Administrative and Cases and Materials on Florida Domestic Relations.
At the University of Miami, Professor Onoprienko served as faculty representative to several intercollegiate athletic organizations, including the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the College Football Association, the Athletic Federation, the UM Intercollegiate Athletic Governing Board, and the UM Liaison Committee of the Dade County Sports Authority. A devoted Hurricane, Onoprienko was an enthusiastic fan of Hurricane athletics and rarely missed a football or baseball game.
Affectionately referred by his students as "The G-Man," Professor Onoprienko approached the classroom with a style that was straightforward, entertaining and insightful. He taught Domestic Relations and Florida Appellate Practice and Procedure. His classes were always filled to capacity and he was extremely popular among the students.
Professor Onoprienko once said before his retirement, "I've had the pleasure of teaching here at the Law School for 40 years, and I enjoy it as much now as I did the first day."
Professor Onoprienko is survived by his wife Doris and his brother John. Condolences may be sent to: Mrs. George Onoprienko (Doris), 188 N.E. Balsam Way, Jensen Beach, FL 34957. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, May 16th at 11:00 a.m. at the Aycock Funeral Home, 950 N.E. Jensen Beach Boulevard, Jensen Beach, Florida.
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Child safety advocates: Vehicles can be death traps
Heat-related deaths of children still a concern
SAN ANTONIO - Safety advocates chose the first day of summer to warn against heat-related deaths of children left unattended in vehicles that quickly can become death traps.
"Death can occur within five to 10 minutes," said Dr. Lillian Liao, director of pediatric trauma and burns at University Hospital.
Liao said since their bodies are smaller, they can heat up quicker than adults, making them more susceptible to dehydration and heat stroke.
She said temperatures inside vehicles can be 20 to 30 degrees hotter than it is outside, even with the windows cracked open or in the shade.
"A lot of people think, 'Oh, I'm going to just run in for five minutes,'" Liao said. "Five minutes can be devastating."
Liao said she urges anyone who encounters that situation of a child, to not hesitate and immediately call 911.
Besides being against the law, San Antonio police Chief William McManus said if something were to happen, there also are personal consequences for the parent or caregiver.
"You've got to live with that for the rest of your life and that's not something that should happen to anyone," McManus said.
After a record 13 heat-related child deaths statewide in 2010, the Heat Stroke Task Force was formed, led by Johnny Humphreys of the advocacy group, Safe Kids.
Humphreys said since then, the numbers have fallen, but three already have died in Texas this year.
However, he said so far, none have occurred in San Antonio.
Humphreys said parents and the public should remember the word ACT.
He said they should avoid the situation, if possible, create reminders in their vehicles, such as notes or leaving their purses or cell phones near their child, and take action by calling 911.
Liao said, "It's a huge problem -- 30 deaths last year, nationwide -- yet it's easily preventable."
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The transgender woman accused of running a black market butt enhancement business that used Fix-a-Flat and cement for injections claims she's innocent and says her alleged victims are lying, according to a report by NBC Miami station WTVJ.
Oneal Ron Morris, 30, denied the toxic tush allegations in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, which aired late Wednesday.
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As Elbert County's little leaguers get ready to start their baseball or softball seasons, many are hoping that Mother Nature won't put a damper on tomorrow's opening day ceremony.
Currently the weather forecast for Saturday is showing a sixty percent chance of rain for a majority of the day with temperatures approaching the high fifties.
The opening day ceremonies and festivities are scheduled to begin at 10:00am Saturday morning out at McWilliams Park.
According to Little League President Kevin Dye, it is going to take a lot of rain, if it falls, to force a cancellation of opening day.
He did say however, that if a decision to cancel the ceremonies were to be made, that it would be decided up until the last minute.
Should tomorrow's opening day ceremony indeed be cancelled, there are no plans for it to be made up.
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I'm doing something this afternoon you won't see me doing very often. I'm fishing way offshore, and I do mean way offshore.
B.A.S.S. writer Don Barone explores what it means to win Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year, the ultimate prize in professional bass fishing at the Elite Series level.
By the time you read this, I'll be in Detroit getting ready for the last Elite Series tournament of the year. I feel pretty good to tell you the truth. This is kind of like a new day for me.
It's Mayfly magic time for most of the country and it's in full swing here in Michigan.
Could the Bass Pro Shops KVD Charity Classic lead to more interaction between major sports teams and pro bass fishing?
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Elite Series bass pros don't need an excuse to go fishing, but when it includes time with NFL players, it's a bonus.
Had a couple of really interesting days this week. Days that I guess I could say were a heck of a lot of fun, and very rewarding.
Tackle storage giant Plano Molding Co. has obtained the title sponsorship to the final event of the 2013 Bassmaster Elite Series season.
Carhartt, America's premium work wear brand since 1889, has extended its sponsorship of the Bassmaster Tournament Trail to include the grass-roots B.A.S.S. Nation events.


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T Bentley was 11 for 15 for 177 yards and a pair of touchdowns through the air and recorded 50 yards rushing and two scores on 12 carries for the Panthers in a 41-13 win over Riverside Military Academy on Friday in Blairsville.
Lumpkin County defeated Madison County 34-20 on Friday night in Dahlonega.
Chestatee senior Kelly Arthur said he knew not to expect too many reps as a wide receiver Friday night, so he vowed to make his mark on defense.
Habersham Central secured its first victory of the season in a 31-12 win over Meadowcreek on Friday in Mount Airy.
Prince Avenue Christian held the Tigers to 66 total yards of offense, while the Wolverines tallied 381 yards as they shut out Commerce 30-0 on Friday in Bogart.
White County quarterback Will Brock hears the buzz in the halls about tonight's game against Buford.
Winder-Barrow at Flowery Branch
The Top Ten teams in the Associated Press Georgia high school football polls of the 2012 season with first-place votes in parentheses and won-loss record, total points and position last week at right:
Any time Jackson County loses, according to quarterback Kyle Daniel, it lights a fire under the team that fuels them to come back and win the next week.
Jefferson's upset win over seventh-ranked Washington-Wilkes on Friday did more than send a message to the rest of the state - it also set up a showdown between Region 8-AA's two frontrunners at the midway point of the season.
WINDER - The Apalachee football team may have played its best single half of football this entire season Friday against Region 8-AAAAA standout Flowery Branch.
JEFFERSON - Jefferson High quarterback Bryant Shirreffs has given teams fits all season. Chalk up seventh-ranked Washington-Wilkes as the latest he's ripped apart, as the Dragons jumped to the front of Region 8-AA as the team to beat with a 31-0 win against the Tigers on Friday at Memorial Stadium.
In what most thought would be an easier game for Chestatee compared to their last two contests - a double-overtime thriller and a road victory over then-No. 5 Stephens County - Johnson gave the War Eagles all they could handle at Billy Ellis Memorial Stadium.
North Hall quarterback Bradley Brown's first pass of the night was right on the money, but became an incompletion when the receiver couldn't hold on in the end zone.
BUFORD - Dontravious Wilson ran for three touchdowns, Buford returned two interceptions for scores and ran a punt back for another as the Wolves beat West Hall 61-0 on an emotional night Friday at Tom Riden Stadium.
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Monarchos Back Home at Nuckols Farm
Kentucky Derby (gr. I) winner Monarchos has made a successful recovery from colic surgery April 19 and has resumed stud duties at Nuckols Farm near Midway, Ky.
Charles Nuckols III said, "Monarchos' recovery went well, and we have started booking mares for the remainder of the breeding season. We have answered all direct inquiries from breeders, but we did feel we needed to make an official announcement in case someone had not gotten word."
Monarchos (Maria's Mon—Regal Band, by Dixieland Band) won the second-fastest Kentucky Derby in history in 1:59.97, joining Secretariat as the only winners to cover the mile and a quarter distance in less than two minutes. His 13 stakes winners include champion female sprinter Informed Decision and 2011 grade II winner Win Willy.
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It doesn't matter what kind of a suit you wear, whether it's expensive, whether it's styled in a contemporary style or what material it is in. What really matters is the cut. At the end of the day, a well-cut, well-fitting suit that suits your personality and figure is what will look good and never go out of style. Take a look at some suits that are affordable yet look pricey:
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Baby and Me Programs at the Brandywine Zoo (ages 6-18 mos.)
Event tags: Family, Baby, Nature, Zoo, Educational
- Brandywine Zoo – 1001 North Park Drive, Wilmington, DE 19802
- Weekly on Tuesday
- Starting on: 01/21/2014
- Ending on: 03/25/2014
- $8 per child/ $7 per adult. $6 per child/adult free for Delaware Zoological Society Members
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Baby and Me is a series of fun programs held on Tuesdays January 21st-March 25th geared toward babies ages 6 – 18 months old. Through hands-on activities and sensory exploration, we will help foster an early appreciation for our natural world. New themes each week. Program held in the Education Building.
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Luis Suarez and Uruguay will face a play-off to reach the 2014 World Cup despite the Liverpool No.7 providing a goal and an assist in a 3-2 victory over Argentina on Tuesday night.
The 26-year-old struck La Celeste's second goal from the penalty spot after winning the spot-kick himself, before laying on the winner with a well-timed pass to Edinson Cavani.
Former Liverpool midfielder Maxi Rodriguez notched both goals for the visitors in Montevideo as the South American qualifiers concluded in style.
Despite the impressive win, however, Uruguay could only secure fifth place in the CONMEBOL standings, finishing behind Ecuador in the final automatic qualification position on goal difference.
Suarez's team instead progress to an intercontinental play-off against Asian hopefuls Jordan; the tie will be played over two legs, home and away, on November 13/14 and November 20.
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MBTA: MIT Student Court Gagging Order Lifted
Posted by Simon Perry on 20 August 2008 at 10:15 am | Tagged as: Legal, Security, USA
Three students who were carrying out academic research into the security vulnerabilities of Boston's transit fare payment system have had a court order that forbade them to discuss the issues, reversed.
You might have thought that in the 'land of the free,' forbidding free speech is the kind of thing that could never happen. Thank goodness this reversal restores a balance.
Until now the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Agency (MBTA) had refused to acknowledge that there had been any problems with their Charlie
Card and Charlie Ticket products – despite seeking a gagging order on the three MIT students.
Background to the legal action
The attention — legal attention as it turned out — of the MBTA was gained by the students presenting their findings of the security weaknesses to MBTA.
They planned to present their findings at a security conference, withholding key pieces of information.
Rather than thanking them for helping point out the weaknesses, the MBTA sued the students and MIT, the college they attended, without notice.
The lawsuit claimed that the students' planned presentation would violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) by enabling others to defraud the MBTA of transit fares.
EFF: Coders' Rights Project
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
represented the students in court as part of its Coders' Rights Project, which was recently launched at Black Hat USA 2008, an American security conference.
The Coders' Rights Project seek to inform programmers of the sometimes tricky path between security research such as software reverse engineering and the reporting of systems vulnerabilities that have been created by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and other US state computer crime laws.
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on 26 Aug 2008 at 6:11 pm 1Jesse Cantu
This whole issue really weighs on my mind considering the industry ramfications. Jon Longoria wrote an interesting, albeit brief, article regarding the plausible thought process MBTA took going into this. You can check it out here: http://thereformed.org/2008/08/25/mbta-put-profit-before-security/


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She was born Kathleen Yetzer on March 9, 1929, in St. Marys, daughter of the late Carl Yetzer Sr. and Kathryn Fitzgerald Yetzer.
She sang in school choirs and plays, and was named Miss Elk County in 1947, competing that year in the Miss Pennsylvania pageant. She was a 1947 graduate of Central Catholic High School. She sang with big bands including the Sammy Yarfido Band, a popular regional combo.
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Jarrett Costanzo, 6, of Kane and his 12-year-old cousin, Olivia Douglas of Eldred and formerly of Kane were two of six killed Saturday in a two-vehicle accident on Route 219 just north of Lantz Corners.
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Last Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit delivered two stinging benchslaps of Judge William J. Martini (D.N.J.). The benchslaps were delivered in two different cases by two separate three-judge panels, but both opinions vacated rulings by Judge Martini and also directed that the cases be reassigned to new judges on remand.
Ouch. As noted by the Newark Star-Ledger, "[i]t amounted to an extremely rare and harsh rebuke of a well-known federal judge who once served in Congress." (Before he was appointed to the federal bench by President George W. Bush in 2002, Bill Martini served a single term in the U.S. House of Representatives; he ran for re-election but was defeated.)
What did Judge Martini allegedly do to incur the wrath of the Third Circuit? And what did the opinions have to say about His Honor?
There were two opinions: United States v. Kennedy, authored by Judge Michael Chagares, and United States v. Bergrin, authored by Judge Kent A. Jordan. The defendant in the Bergrin case is no stranger to Above the Law readers: he's the notorious Paul Bergrin, famously dubbed by New York Magazine "The Baddest Lawyer in the History of Jersey."
Bergrin once worked as a federal prosecutor for the District of New Jersey. Now he's being prosecuted by his former office, accused of such crimes as witness tampering, drug trafficking, tax evasion, and murder for hire — which is impressive!
Here's some background on the Bergrin case from the Star-Ledger:
For months last fall and winter, prosecutors in the highly charged murder trial of Paul Bergrin had squared off with the presiding judge, complaining about the jurist's alleged bias in favor of the once-prominent defense lawyer. They even accused Judge William Martini of saying behind closed doors that he would have acquitted Bergrin in a murder trial that had just ended in a hung jury.
Martini, in turn, took umbrage, castigating prosecutors for their accusations.
There's a history of strained relations between the U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark and Judge Martini (who once served as an assistant U.S. attorney in that office, back in the 1970s). Most notably, the office was not pleased with Judge Martini's handling of the prosecution of former Newark mayor Sharpe James, which culminated in Judge Martini giving James a 27-month prison sentence — a much lower sentence than the 20 years requested by the prosecution. Judge Martini said he was "shocked and disappointed" by that sentencing request, and he assailed the U.S. attorney's office for handling the James case "heartlessly." Then-U.S. Attorney Chris Christie condemned the lowball sentence and said his office would appeal.
Judge Martini won that round (James ultimately served just 18 months in prison), but the U.S. Attorney's Office has definitely gotten its revenge. In the Bergrin opinion, Judge Jordan noted that reassigning a case to a different judge on remand "is an extraordinary remedy that should seldom be employed" — and then proceeded to do just that.
In a nutshell, the Third Circuit concluded that Judge Martini botched his analysis of the RICO statute. As Judge Jordan wrote, "It is not a court's prerogative to construct a detour around RICO simply because the court is uncomfortable with how that statute may 'significantly alter[] the way trials are conducted in cases that involve racketeering acts committed by members of an enterprise.'" He proceeded to note that "in light of the District Court's statements — both before and after the earlier appeal in this case — about a perceived unfairness in trying the various witness-tampering counts together, we believe that the Court's 'impartiality might reasonably be questioned.'" Hence, reassignment.
The Third Circuit also ordered reassignment in Kennedy. In that case, according to the appeals court's opinion, Judge Martini committed multiple transgressions….
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Well, he wasn't ridden after that (Except I hopped on for a couple minutes after he bucked me off so he knew he couldn't scare me that easily). But today I got on him (First time since October) and it was bareback with just a halter and lead.
Everything went great!
Please excuse the nasty stain on his coat....
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The Virginia Board of Education has approved a proposal from Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) to establish a Governor's STEM Academy at Chantilly High School. The STEM Academy will offer rigorous academic and career and technical education programs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Full implementation of new courses will take place in the 2013-14 school year.
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E-book initiative in Japan promises '1 million e-books'
March 1, 2012 | 1:26 pm
By Chris Meadows
In an article that showed up complete in my RSS reader but turned out to be behind a paywall when I tried to click through, The Bookseller reports that a group of 180 Japanese publishers are joining forces under an initiative with a goal of creating 1 million e-books. This may be just a bit optimistic, given how slow the Japanese market has been to develop so far:
"Digitising one million books would revolutionise the market here but it is difficult to take that number seriously given that it has taken the Japanese publishers nine years to reach their current total of well under 100,000 mainstream books," said Robin Birtle, c.e.o. of digital publishers specialising in Japan, Sakkam Press.
"However, Shuppan Digital Kikou's success in gaining support from over 180 publishers puts them in a position of strength in their negotiations with Amazon and other overseas players."
And whether it actually does reach a million titles will depend on agreements over rights.
Still, the lack of e-book titles has been one element of the "chicken or the egg" problem that dogs any place where e-books have been slow to launch: no one will buy e-books without a reader, and no one will buy a reader without a good selection of e-books. With this initiative taken together with the expected Japanese launch of the Kindle in the spring, it looks like Japan may finally be attacking both sides of that problem.
Of course, many Japanese consumers have tired of waiting and have already been scanning their own paper books into e-book format, with the help of "jisui" companies that have sprung up to do that very thing. (Not surprisingly, Japanese publishers and authors have not been pleased.)
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Don't you think that EPUB v3 will make a difference?
Japan uses two main eBook formats (dot Book from Voyager Japan and XMDF from Sharp). Both are proprietary and costly to use though Sharp last year did open up access to XMDF somewhat.
EPUB3 is certainly good for foreign retailers entering the market since they can extend their existing reader technologies rather than having to implement dot Book or XMDF. (No doubt they will doing a lot of conversion to ePub on acquisition of content but the reader side of things should be just EPUB).
All of the major Japanese retailers already have the bulk of their content in dot Book or XMDF and are unlikely to move from that for quite a while. Domestic market participants publishing/working with narrative text will probably not use EPUB since right now there is little benefit in making the change. Producers of enhanced/ illustrated/ picture books will be tempted especially for the capabilities available in Apple's iBooks if / when it launches in Japan.
A brief update. On the very day you posted this article, Kadokawa, a major publisher, signed a deal with Amazon, and announced that the company would sell its ebooks on the Kindle platform. They did this in total disregard of the Shuppan Dijitaru Kiko consortium. Watch out for the fur that will fly. More on this news at this site (in Japanese): http://www.ebook2forum.com/members/2012/03/kadokawa-signs-contract-to-distribute-ebooks-to-amazon-kindle/