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Tuesday (original 1991; edition 1997)
by David Wiesner
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Tuesday by David Wiesner (1991)
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At 8pm on Tuesday, all of the lily pads raise from the ponds with bullfrogs atop. They float all around the town and into people's houses. Suddenly they drop, and in the morning townspeople are confused at all of the lily pads scattered all over town, as if they rained from the sky. The journey they take us on during the night is fun, and the book ends with pigs flying. This not only makes us wonder what goes on at night while we are asleep, but also what is going to happen with the pigs!
This picture book tells the story of time through a magical group of frogs. At eight o'clock the frogs begin to soar around the town on their lily pads. Around eleven, they become super frogs and take a break to watch television. Four o'clock in the morning they chase a dog. Finally, the frogs make it back home and are safe and sound. However, the frogs forgot one major thing. They left the evidence of lily pads all over town. The author leaves a nice little twist in the ending. No longer do the frogs fly, but pigs do! The illustrations tell the story in this book, and they are beautifully done. The pictures leave subtle hints which foreshadow the events to come. This is a great book to teach elapsed time in the classroom.
This is a cute book. The colors and illustrations fit the mood of the story. The images were drawn with great detail. I like how the book ended with a cliffhanger. Instead of the frogs returning to there habitat, a new animal began experiencing the same thing the frogs endured the previous week. The book pushes readers to go further in their imagination. I am not sure if there is a main message or big idea in this story.
I love frogs--I was hooked from the start!
I love frogs--I was hooked from the start!
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0395870828, Paperback)"Tuesday evening, around eight"--a deceptively mundane beginning for what proves to be a thrilling, miraculous, and surreal amphibian journey. Slowly and quietly on this particular Tuesday, a few fat frogs begin hovering over a swamp, riding lily pads like magic carpets. Clearly satisfied and comfortable, the floating frogs are as serene as little green buddhas. Gradually, the flying fleet grows in momentum and number, sailing over the countryside and into an unsuspecting town. These frogs know how to have fun--startling the occasional bird, waving webbed feet at late-night snack-eaters, and even changing the channels on a sleeping granny's television. As day breaks, the frogs lose their lily pads, head back to the pond, and wait impatiently for their next scheduled departure.
Tuesday won the 1992 Caldecott Medal and, among other honors, was named as an ALA Notable Children's Book. The critical acclaim will come as no surprise to anyone who opens the pages of this beautiful and humorous book. With hardly any words (except those noting the time), David Wiesner creates a wondrous romp as silent as the middle of the night. Using the rich purples, blues, and greens of late evening, Wiesner draws readers into the warm, incandescent world of frog flight. "Read" this wordless wonder to children and savor it for yourself as well. Chances are, you and the youngsters will both find yourselves poised at the window, hoping to catch a few airborne frogs in the act. (Ages 4 and older)
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DENTON (UNT), Texas -- A $1.5 million gift from the estate of the late philanthropist and arts patron Bill Winspear has established the endowed Margot and Bill Winspear Chair in Opera Studies at the University of North Texas College of Music. Paula Homer, director of opera who joined the UNT faculty in 1992, has been selected as the first person to hold the chair, effective immediately.
"We know how much opera meant to Bill Winspear, and his generous estate gift to UNT could serve no better purpose than helping to assure the future of opera in the College of Music," said James C. Scott, dean of the UNT College of Music. "The Margot and Bill Winspear Chair in Opera will create a place of distinction for opera here in the same way the opera house in their name does for the city of Dallas. The designation will join that of our Winspear Performance Hall as a defining presence in music at UNT."
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Homer serves as producer and stage director for UNT opera productions and oversees the training program and curriculum. Since joining UNT in 1992, she has produced and stage directed more than 50 full productions, including three collaborative opera productions with the A. Steffani Conservatory of Music in Italy. Three productions have earned first-place awards from the National Opera Association, including the 2011 production of Marc Blitzstein's Regina.
Homer earned music degrees from Indiana University and St. Mary's College at Notre Dame. She has served as co-director of the Apprentice Artists Program and stage director for Des Moines Opera from 1990 to 2002 and was founder and artistic director for OperaWorks, Inc., a traveling professional opera company, from 1982 to 1992.
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Warrior is coming out with the Nemesis 2.
The only thing that seems different is the Sym-rail, and more stringing holes. Oh and it's $10 more.
Warrior is coming out with the Nemesis 2.
The only thing that seems different is the Sym-rail, and more stringing holes. Oh and it's $10 more.
It's about time... Does anyone know how light it is?
Use coupon code: SDL for 20% off all mesh and stringing supplies!
This looks pretty awesome, I'll probably be picking one up. I was about to go for the headline, but I think I'll just wait for this.
Personally I've been more concerned over the upcoming rp3 but this definitely looks cool
If Lacrosse is America's sport, then who needs baseball?
It's VERY similar to the Clutch...was a little disappointed when I saw it.
the RP3 head is basically a clutch elite with inverted sidewall designs. Probably a quality head though.
I've picked up the Nemi 2 and held it. It's real nice and it reminds me a lot of the origianl Nemi. Its little bulky to my preferences but goalies will love this head. You get a crap load of stringing holes and the symrail tech makes it stiffer than before. I believe they incorporated it to combat the shields C-Channel. It feels nice to hold near the throat and i'm very happy to see that they are keeping the side wall flare as warrior has been removing that idea from a lot of the newer heads that have been released.
My first question was if it happened to combine noz tech inside with the symrail, but the the guy I spoke with said the noz tech before scared a lot of goalies, thinking it would compromise the integrity of the head and allowing to flex. I don't have much experience with the nemilyte or voidlyte so chime in if you noticed it. I predict that this will be a VERYYY popular head once again
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Completion of Interstate 69 between Indianapolis and Evansville has reached another milestone.
State officials expect construction work to start this year on the next phase of the interstate through southern Indiana. The Indiana Department of Transportation plans to select a contractor in March for work on a 21-mile section of the highway that will generally follow the current State Road 37 corridor from south of Bloomington to the southern edge of Martinsville.
INDOT spokesman Will Wingfield said much of the work will involve building interchanges and overpasses as the route is transformed to interstate standards. He said the completion target is the end of 2016.
I-69 is now open from near Evansville to near the Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center southwest of Bloomington. The section between Bloomington and Crane could open late this year.
After the segment to Martinsville is completed, all that will remain is the transformation of State Road 37 from there to Interstate 465 on the south side of Indianapolis. And like the work on the Bloomington segment, it primarily will involve building interchanges, overpasses and access roads.
It also is the segment that will mean the most to Johnson County residents, as the interstate will cut across the northwest corner of White River Township.
The extra land that will be needed for the wider interstate already has sparked serious discussions and even some action by Johnson County businesses and governments.
For example, the White River Township Fire Department is acquiring land on Morgantown Road north of Smith Valley Road for a new fire station. It would replace the station at Mullinix and Smith Valley Roads, which sits on land likely to be purchased by the state for the interstate.
The fire department doesn't plan to build right away. Actual construction will be based on the timeline for highway construction. But department officials wanted to make sure they had land secured for a new station well before it was time to make way for I-69.
As Fire Chief Jeremy Pell said, "We're simply trying to plan ahead. ... I don't want to wait so long that property becomes more and more expensive and less and less available."
This kind of forward thinking is to be applauded, and other businesses and governments need to seriously examine their situations as well.
The completion of I-69 is at least five to 10 years away, but prudence calls for action well before then to diminish the project's negative impact.


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AJ is the best pillow, isn't she, Rarity?
Great drawing!
Great drawing!
background: disney castle?
pinky pie! i can't wrap my head around how your sitting, please explain!
Wow the dresses are just awesome.
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nice work.
Y'kno....I do like the style you drew it,and I like those dresses n stuff.
But you needa know one thing:
That's what made picture to the perfect to me
Although it might not what you had planned,but it's still the thing what completes the picture.
Nicely done! 10/10.
What's up with Pinkie Pie? Her body looks... off.
She's Pinkie Pie. She does what she wants. xD
I love all the different dresses, and the whole thing is so cute!
Wow *-* they look so AWESOME /)*3*(\
as my crazy ass aunt would say: *ahem* wowwy zowwy
The dresses look 20% cooler like this cool work
the dresses are awesome!!!!!!!
this is so pretty I love it so much
cool Disney Style
You need work harder on faces.
Better slower, but better
Better slower, but better
but they look like kinda they are being sexy i guess that´s the point? sorry don´t mind me i just don´t really like clopping but i don´t wannaa.. you
luv this pic and my favorite ponies are Princess Celestia and Twlight sparkle
Costume porn!
this is awesome and all, but i don't understand what is happening with Pinkies body. but seriously this is awesome
The way you drew the dresses, just, wow.
Humanized, humanized everywhere...
So much gorgeous WOW!
So amazing OMG first glimpse it earned itself a fav. Beautiful, fabulous, wow, amazing,... Need I go on?
wow..Just wow I don't have any words other to say then wow...that's sooo soo...wow...-good wow-
WINNAGE of the BEST NIGHT EVER kind!
I love Rainbow Dash's dress!!
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Be sure to ask what comes with the camera when you purchase from the lowest sellers. Sometimes a battery and battery charger is not included and the seller wants $100 for each. That pretty much negates your low price deal. Some make you pay for the warranty.
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Photo by Lance Cpl. Corey Dabney
Lance Cpl. Robert Carlile, a rifleman serving with 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, donated blood platelets to save an anonymous patient's life who was suffering from Myelodysplastic Syndrome in Washington D.C., July 1, 2013. Carlile, 23, from Roman Forrest, Texas, said the Marine Corps taught him to always help someone in need whether in combat or in garrison. MSD is the name of a group of conditions that occur when the blood-forming cells in the bone marrow are damaged. The damage leads to low numbers of one or more types of blood cells.
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Bengals coach Marvin Lewis seemed optimistic that he'll sign a contract extension with the team. Lewis is entering the final year of a previous two-year extension.
"[Bengals owner Mike Brown] would like to get it extended. He's told me that two or three times," Lewis told reporters at the NFL combine, via the Cincinnati Enquirer. "We would like to continue moving forward and we haven't had the opportunity to do it. Hopefully we'll get it resolved."
Lewis deserves a contract extension from the Bengals. He's the winningest coach in Bengals history, which is a great achievement when it comes with a franchise that is more frugal than most. He guided them to a 9-7 record and a trip to the playoffs after beginning the season as the worst-ranked team in many power rankings, including the one at ESPN.
This was a remarkable turnaround when you consider most didn't think Lewis would be coaching the team after last season. He turned the Bengals from a four-win team into a playoff one by relying on a rookie quarterback and changing six starters on defense -- all in a lockout season.
Lewis was named the Associated Press Coach of the Year in 2009, but this season was a more impressive coaching job.
There are obviously things that Lewis has to fix going forward. The Bengals have won two division titles but have never won a playoff game. This team also continues to have run-ins with the law, including three since last July.
Lewis' longevity has been impressive. As the Enquirer points out, he will become the 22nd NFL head coach since 1960 to coach 10 seasons with one team. He will also surpass Minnesota's Dennis Green as the the longest tenured African-American head coach with one team.
"Denny Green took them to the championship game a couple times and frankly that's where I'm disappointed," Lewis said. "I haven't gotten us to the championship game. We haven't won a playoff game. We won the division twice but we haven't won a playoff game. I was hoping we would have gotten beyond that this year."


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based in Nantong City, CHINA
Nantong Mingnuo Machinery Tools Co., Ltd. is one of the professional manufacturers of road cleaning and environmental protection equipments. Our company was founded in 1988. During the past 20 years, we have been sticking to ideal of independent innovation, energy saving, environmental protection and creation of national brand. During increasingly fierce market ...
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based in Waco, TEXAS (USA)
TYMCO is the originator of the Number 1 Regenerative Air Sweeper in the world, with such long term customers as the U.S. Military; cities such as Atlanta, Austin, Las Vegas, Memphis, Portland, San Antonio, Toronto, Washington D.C., San Francisco and Tyler; international airports such as Atlanta, Dallas/ Fort Worth, Houston, Las Vegas, Orlando, Phoenix and practically ...
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Scarab is part of the Fayat Group and the World's largest privately owned manufacturer of heavy duty truck mounted suction and urban precinct sweepers.Founded in 1979 and from our headquarters and manufacturing centre in Kent, we offer an unrivalled range of road sweepers featuring excellent build quality, optimum payload capacity, superior suction performance and ...
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MATHIEU S.A. , manufacturer of urban cleaning technology since 1923, is specialised in the design, construction and commercialisation of a wide range of street sweepers, street washers and scrubber driers. The passion of urban cleaning has been ever since our drive and innovation a real state of mind.
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D.F.SARANTOPOULOS S.A was established in 1972 under the name Technical Service Bureau and was converted to a SOCIETE ANONYME in 1979. The company represents and imports in Greece several Engineering Equipment categories and specializes in Material Handling Machinery, Warehouse Equipment, Construction and Earthmoving machines, Cranes, Street Sweepers, etc. The company ...
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The Boschung group, based in Switzerland, has been among the leading international suppliers of equipment for surface maintenance of cities, roads, highways and airports for more than 50 years. Divisions: Marcel Boschung AG produces the various vehicles of the company (sweepers, high-pressure washers, snow blowers, multi-purpose vehicles), Boschung Mecatronic specializes ...
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NBA trade deadline: San Antonio Spurs looking ahead to OKC Thunder
The San Antonio Spurs always are looking ahead. Now we know they're looking ahead to the Thunder.
The NBA trade deadline came and went Thursday, with no Dwight Howard deal or any other blockbuster. The Lakers' wheeling — Ramon Sessions in, Derek Fisher out — will get the national headlines.
But the Spurs' trade for Stephen Jackson will most impact the upcoming NBA playoffs.
San Antonio traded Richard Jefferson for Jackson, which means an upgrade on the court but a downgrade in chemistry.
Captain Jack is a total headcase and can wreck a franchise with the best of them. The mediocre Milwaukees even removed Jackson from the rotation, before trading him a few days ago.
Jackson went into the stands with Ron Artest during that awful Pacers-Pistons brawl in 2004; he was with Kendrick Perkins in Beaumont, Texas, last summer, when whatever happened happened.
But the Spurs' Gregg Popovich has a little Bill Belichick in him. Pop doesn't mind taking on a problem child; Jackson himself helped the Spurs win the 2003 NBA title.
The addition of Jackson gives the Spurs a thorn in the flesh of Kevin Durant, should OKC and San Antonio engage in a playoff series. Jackson is a productive scorer (16.1 points a game, over 12 NBA seasons); not a good shooter (41.6 percent, career).
But the Spurs didn't get Jackson for offense. They got him for defense. The Spurs had no matchup for Durant. Now they do.
Jackson is a big (6-foot-8, 218 pounds), physical defender. That doesn't necessarily mean an edge to the Spurs in a potential Western Conference final. But it does lessen the edge; Durant is in for a rugged fortnight should the Spurs and their Oklahoma City twin meet.
Jackson is not Tony Allen; Durant won't have nightmares trying to free himself from Jackson's clutches. But Jackson can D up on KD. Good move by the Spurs.
Some of the rest of the West beefed up, too, while the Thunder stood pat.
Can't blame Sam Presti. The Thunder has a set hand, with the exception of an experienced backup point guard, and what we saw of James Harden the other night against Houston shows that Harden easily can run the offense when Russell Westbrook sits, or even when he doesn't.
The Thunder is not — I repeat, is NOT — going to do anything to upset the future financial stability of this franchise. Presti regards draft picks and promising but unproven talent — Cole Aldrich, Reggie Jackson — as gold bars.
So the Thunder was willing to let the Spurs, and the Los Angeles teams, and even potential first-round foes Denver and Houston tinker with their rosters.
The Lakers got better, but only marginally. Sessions is an upgrade over Fisher, but there will be something comforting for any foe not seeing Fisher in Laker gold. The old guy knows how to play, knows what his team needs and is one of the generation's best clutch playoff shooters.
The Thunder will take their chances with Ramon Sessions, who has started 89 of his 300 games, spent with the Bucks and the post-LeBron Cavaliers.
The Clippers found in Nick Young a replacement for the shooting void left by Chauncey Billups. But Young often will take 20 shots to get his 20 shots. That's about eight possessions per game in which Chris Paul is not lobbing the ball to Blake Griffin. So that's a deal that could go south.
Beware of Houston. The Rockets have beaten the Thunder twice already and now 7-foot Marcus Camby is headed to Houston, courtesy of the Portland fire sale.
The Rockets already had a shot-blocking fiend in Samuel Dalembert. Now the Rockets have another shot-blocking fiend, only they can throw the ball to this one. Camby could make Westbrook's and Harden's drives to the basket a lot more perilous in a best-of-seven series.
But the Nuggets have weakened themselves. If the Thunder is matched against Denver, no Nene, since he was shipped to the Wizards for JaVale McGee, a talented but undependable center with little offense and a lot of bad attitude.
Perkins was invaluable against Nene, a load of an offensive player. Now, he'll be needed less against the Nuggets, which means the Thunder offense will be even better.
Add it up, and the Western Conference just got tougher for the Thunder. But it's never not tough. And the Thunder can take solace in knowing that the toughest road in the West is for those who have to play Oklahoma City.
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Yoga first soared in popularity here at Rancho La Puerta and throughout North America almost simultaneously. Although there were many sources of new yoga programs in the United States in the mid-20th century, leader Indra Devi (whom many credit as being the most influential teacher of the time) was here at the Ranch as well as our sister spa, the Golden Door. She even opened her own retreat center next door to Rancho La Puerta.
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Windy and warm conditions are forecast for Eastern Carolina today. Wind reports have already exceeded 20 miles per hour in all locations with coastal areas reporting 30 mile per hour gusts. These wind gusts are expected to increase to possibly 40 miles per hour this afternoon. The threat of rain will be in the forecast until the early evening before warm and windy conditions return.
A wind advisory is in effect for all of Eastern Carolina, until this evening.
Strong winds can impact high-profile vehicles and blow around loose objects such as garbage cans. Weak or dead trees can be knocked down, causing sporadic power outages.
The wind advisory for most areas is in effect through 9:00 p.m.
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Hey everyone, I hope it is o.k. if I start this early....things are so hectic for me in the mornings, so I probably will do it the night before throughout the week. I am excited to be your guest chef this week...I did it once before, but quite honestly did a poor job...so hopefully this time I will do better. Thanks for giving me a second chance .
A little about me. My name is Scout and I am a momma to 4 babies.....ds 11, dd 9, dd 7, and dd 5. I have been truly a single mommy for about 3 years (although really was basically a single mom even when married to ex-dh). However I got engaged in May to a WONDERFUL man and the kids and I live with him now. It has taken some adjusting to get used to having someone around all the time and I had become very accustomed to doing it my way and not needing anyone else....but life is great and we are all adjusting.
I work full time outside the house in Human Resources and it is a great job for me. I love to cook and I love to read recipes...my favorite is the recipe review thread, but I love them all. I often check out cookbooks from the library just to read through the recipes...I know....nerd alert! Fortunately my oldest and my youngest are relatively open to trying new things so I can usually get at least a 50% success rate...lol.
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AOTD: My favorite feature is my eyes...sometimes they are blue, sometimes green or gray depending on what I wear. I never appreciated them as a kid, I thought they were too small...lol...but now, they are "interesting". My favorite thing about myself is that I was able to get out of an abusive relationship, get a job and be 100% responsible for my kids, knowing that I can make it on my own has been absolutely amazing. It also makes my relationship now, since I don't have to do it alone that much better because I know that I can if I have to.....don't know if that makes sense...lol
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Father of US student awaits Spain autopsy results
CARLSBAD, Calif. The father of a California college student whose body was pulled from a river in Madrid said Wednesday that he has not ruled out foul play in his son's death.
Larry Bice spoke to reporters outside his home in Carlsbad only hours after he returned from Madrid, where he spent a week searching for his son, 22-year-old Austin Bice, who was reported missing 10 days ago after going out on the town. His body was found Tuesday near the Madrid nightclub where he was last seen.
Police said they found no signs of foul play after Bice's body was spotted in a stretch of the slow-moving Manzanares River that had been drained as part of the search for the San Diego State University student on a semester abroad in Madrid.
Forensic experts performed an autopsy Wednesday on the body but said it could take weeks before the result is known and toxicology tests come back, a judicial official said.
Austin Bice was studying international business at Carlos III University and had been in Spain since January. Roommates had reported him missing after he failed to return home following a night out with friends.
Larry Bice said his son's friends said he had a few drinks but did not indicate he was drunk when they last saw him outside the club. Austin Bice never went into the club and instead said he was going to walk home, about a 45-minute trek in an area that appeared to be safe, Larry Bice said.
"He told me before, 'I don't want to be that American that tries to be the life of the party,'" his father said, adding that it was not in his son's character to be stumbling drunk.
Larry Bice said he also cannot understand how his son would have fallen into the walled Manzanares River across the street from the club and drowned. The river has ladders along it, and Austin Bice, a former San Diego State University football player, was a good swimmer, he said.
Larry Bice said it has been frustrating because Spanish police have not been forthcoming with their information, but he trusted they were being "diligent" in their investigation.
In Spanish cases in which investigations determine that no one else had a role in the death, the results are almost always kept secret and forwarded only to the family to protect the privacy of the victim, said a spokesman for Madrid's Superior Justice Tribunal who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with department rules.
It will be up to the judge handling the case to determine whether the findings of the autopsy are made public, the spokesman said.
The initial results of the autopsy, which concluded around 2.30 p.m. (1330 GMT), will be forwarded to the judge and to Bice's family, said a spokeswoman for the Madrid regional government's justice and interior department. She also spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with department policy.
Bouquets of flowers were placed Wednesday near where Austin Bice's body was found, along with candles and a picture of him glued on a makeshift American flag with the words: "Murdered in Madrid. Americans Demand Justice!!!"
There was nothing to indicate who had placed the sign there, and retired military engineer Manuel Calderon said he thought it was premature for people to conclude it was homicide.
But Calderon, 78, agreed it was puzzling how Bice might have fallen into the river because the 3 foot- (1 meter-) wide stone wall separating the long stretches of the walkway from the water.
"I just don't understand it. Maybe he was lying or sitting on top the wall and somehow fell in," said Calderon.


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In an age where words like "courage" and "bravery" are often tossed about casually, a new book captures the immense heroism and resolve of 11 American POWs during the war in Vietnam. Alvin Townley closes his new book Defiant with these words, "Together, they overcame more intense hardship over more years than any other group of servicemen and families in American history. We should not forget." Townley easily makes that case by telling their stories and expanding on previous accounts by including the battle many of their wives waged to draw attention to their plight back home.
Defiant focuses on the Alcatraz 11, captured servicemen who were isolated by the communist North Vietnamese in a prison they nicknamed "Alcatraz." Like many early POWs, these men were tortured. But they faced unimaginable cruelty with steely resistance. Before they were moved to Alcatraz, they were all pivotal leaders at Hoa Lo Prison, reinforcing the Code of Conduct and communicating through the tap code. At a staged propaganda news conference in 1966, Naval pilot Jeremiah Denton was able to blink out in Morse Code the letters T-O-R-T-U-R-E, allowing the American government to know for the first time the horrific conditions inside the prison. The aviators were beaten with fan belts, kept in stocks and leg irons, tortured with medieval rope devices, and locked away in isolation for years. In his book, When Hell Was in Session, Denton proclaimed, "We can add our testimony to that of great heroes like Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov, who have vividly related what Communism is really about."
Townley's book does a masterful job of weaving the stories of these men together to portray how their courage and resistance exemplified, to the highest degree, the principles of freedom. James B. Stockdale, the senior officer of the 11, like other tortured prisoners, was permanently crippled by his captors. His defiance continually inspired those imprisoned with him. Stockdale quoted Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim about the men under his command, "A certain readiness to perish is not so very rare, but it is seldom that you meet men whose souls, steeled in the impenetrable armour of resolution, are ready to fight a losing battle to the last." (more…)
The Nordic philosopher and priest Anders Chydenius (1729-1803) — the "Adam Smith of the North" — once asked:
Would the Great Master, who adorns the valley with flowers and covers the cliff itself with grass and mosses, exhibit such a great mistake in man, his masterpiece, that man should not be able to enrich the globe with as many inhabitants as it can support? That would be a mean thought even in a Pagan, but blasphemy in a Christian, when reading the Almighty's precept: 'Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth.'
Unfortunately, this mean and blasphemous thought was soon popularized as an obvious and incontrovertible fact by Chydenius' contemporary, the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus. In An Essay on the Principle of Population Malthus argued that excesses in population are held within resource limits by two types of checks: positive checks (hunger, disease, war) raised the death rate while preventative checks (abortion, birth control, postponement of marriage) lowered the birth rate.
At the beginning of 2013, I compiled a list that included 1,034 predictions for the coming year. I later went through and narrowed it down to the top 500 that I was absolutely certain would happen. Even after cutting the list down, though, I only managed to achieve a 67% accuracy rate. (Unfortunately, I forgot to post that list in public so it is difficult to verify. You'll just have to take my word for it.)
This year, in an attempt to get 100% correct, I've cut my list of predictions to the ones that I'm absolutely sure will come true. Here are 14 can't-miss predictions for 2014:
• Agricultural subsidies will come under increased scrutiny after the discovery that soylent green, one of the America's most heavily subsidized crops, is people.
• The mainstream media's fascination with Pope Francis will end after they discover that the Pope is indeed still Catholic.
• An existential crisis brought on by constant criticism will cause the fact-checking organization Polifact to change it's name to Pilatefact and it's slogan to "What is truth?"
• A rogue architect will use dynamite to blow up the Cortlandt Homes housing project.
• The United Nations will be the subject of another scandal after it's discovered that no-bid contracts were offered to Halliburton for the purchase of the UN's fleet of Black Helicopters.
• Congress fails to pass an immigration reform bill. Hungry, job-less workers, with no discernible skills or ability to speak our language will continue to pour in from Canada.
• Buoyed by the successful launch of HealthCare.gov, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announces the launch of the Affordable Email Act (aka Obamamail). Americans will be forced to choose their email provider based on "metal plans" (Bronze – AOL, Silver – Hotmail, Gold – Compuserve).
• Iraq will officially change the country's name back to 'Babylon' in a successful attempt to freak out pre-millennial dispensational Evangelicals.
• A bipartisan coalition of Democrats and Republicans agree to filibuster a proposed bill only to discover that the Tea Party caucus was not introducing new legislation but merely reading the text of the U.S. Constitution.
• After selecting "Twerking" as their Word of the Year, the Oxford English Dictionary pronounces the official death of the English language
• Peter Jackson will announce he's begun filming a 12-hour version of The Silmarillion in order to complete his lifelong ambition of ruining every book written by J. R. R. Tolkien.
• Acton research fellow Jordan Ballor will win the 2014 Wolfgang Musculus Award for being the only person alive who has heard of Wolfgang Musculus.
• After a close mid-term race, President Obama will narrowly win re-election.
• For the 61st year in a row, political activists will once again attempt to immanentize the eschaton.
Shannon Love reminds us that what great-great-grandparents would consider utopia is what we consider modern life:
Star Trek is often used as a starting point for musing about this or that utopia because everything in Star Trek seems so wonderful. Star Trek is Gene Roddenberry's vision of New Frontier democratic socialism evolved to a utopia so perfect that individuals have to head out into the wilds of deep space just to find some adventure. Watching Star Trek, one naturally begins to wonder what it would be like to live in a world so advanced that all of the problems we deal with today have been resolved or minimized to insignificance.
Well, we don't actually have to imagine what it would be like to live in a Star Trek-like, radically egalitarian, technologically advanced, "post-scarcity" society because we live in a Star Trek-like utopia right now, right here, in contemporary America.
How can I say that? Simple, Star Trek the Next Generation takes place 353 years in the future from 2364 to 2370. If we were to think of ourselves as living in a futuristic science-fiction society we would likewise look back 353 years in the past to 1658.
Image what modern America would look like to the people of any of the world's major cultures back in 1658! Any novel, movie, TV or comic book set in day-to-day middle-class America would read like astounding science fiction to anyone from 1658. Our society looks even more utopian in comparison to 1658 than Star Trek world 2370 looks to us today.
I'm not just talking about all the amazing and frightening technology like nuclear power/weapons, spacecraft, cars, cell phones, computers, the Internet, etc. I'm also talking about issues of want, individual dignity and social/political equality.
A hard, howling, tossing water scene.
Strong tide was washing hero clean.
"How cold!" Weather stings as in anger.
O Silent night shows war ace danger!
The cold waters swashing on in rage.
Redcoats warn slow his hint engage.
When star general's action wish'd "Go!"
He saw his ragged continentals row.
Ah, he stands – sailor crew went going.
And so this general watches rowing.
He hastens – winter again grows cold.
A wet crew gain Hessian stronghold.
George can't lose war with's hands in;
He's astern – so go alight, crew, and win!
-David Shulman, "Washington Crossing the Delaware"
Some 237 years ago today, the Continental Army was stationed along the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border preparing for a secret attack upon British and Hessian troops. Beleaguered and under-supplied, the brave men under General George Washington's command knew they needed a miracle. The plan was to send three raiding parties across the Delaware River at different points to surprise the enemy at Trenton.
Weather and the elements had other ideas.
The crossing of the River using the Durham boats, ferry boats and other craft took longer than expected as a nor'easter effected the area causing sleet and freezing rain to pelt the weary troops. Large ice flows and flood-like conditions hindered the nighttime maneuvers.
From an archived column by National Review's Rich Lowry:
Arriving at Trenton at 8 a.m. the following morning, his spirited troops seemed "to vie with the other in pressing forward," he wrote afterward. They surprised the Hessians, not because they were sleeping off a Christmas bender. Harried in hostile New Jersey, the Hessians had exhausted themselves on constant alert. They didn't expect an attack in such weather, though. The battle ended quickly — 22 Hessians killed, 83 seriously wounded, and 900 captured, to two American combat deaths.
"It may be doubted whether so small a number of men ever employed so short a space of time with greater and more lasting effects upon the history of the world," British historian George Trevelyan wrote.
Washington followed up soon enough with another victory at Princeton. In the space of a few weeks, the Americans killed or captured as many as 3,000 of the enemy and irreversibly changed the dynamic of the war.
David Hackett Fischer (author of Washington's Crossing) sees in that resurgence after our fortunes were at their lowest a reassuring aspect of our national character in this season of discontent: We respond when pressed. Dr. Benjamin Rush, a great supporter of the American cause, wrote: "Our republics cannot exist long in prosperity. We require adversity and appear to possess most of the republican spirit when most depressed."
May it still be so.
A great reminder of an important story from our nation's unique past. The freedoms we enjoy were won with a price. Violence on this holiday was the result of something a tad more important than the newest Air Jordan sneakers.
As the most widely observed cultural holiday in the world, Christmas is a time of produces many things — joy, happiness, gratitude, reverence. And numbers. Lots of peculiar, often large, numbers. Here are a few to contemplate this season:
$34.87 – Average amount U.S. consumers spent on real Christmas trees.
33,000,000 – Number of real Christmas trees sold in the U.S. each year.
7 – Average growing time in years for a Christmas tree.
$70.55 – Average amount U.S. consumers spent on fake Christmas trees in 2011.
9,500,000 – Number of fake Christmas trees sold each year.
$27.21 — The energy costs of lighting a six-foot Christmas tree, lit 12 hours a day for 40 days, decorated with various light types.
$1,000,000,000 – Estimated value of U.S. imports of Christmas tree ornaments from China between January and September 2013.
$3,000,000,000,000 – Amount generated by the U.S. retail industry during the holidays in 2012. These holiday sales reflected about 19.3 percent of the retail industries total sales that year.
$720,000 – Number of new employees hired to compensate for the holiday rush in 2012.
37.5% — Estimated percentage of charitable giving that occurs between Thanksgiving and New Year's.
$712 – Average amount people in the U.S. spent in on Christmas presents in 2010. In Italy average expenditure amounted to around 325 euros ($445). The Dutch came out as the most thrifty. Spending on Christmas presents in the Netherlands in 2010 averaged at 206 euros ($282).
108,000,000 — Average number of homes Santa Claus has to visit on December 25 (assuming there is at least one "nice" child in each).


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The Making of Priya's Shakti
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For Filmmakers: The Top 25 Docutweeters
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Te'o, Catfish, and Truth in Documentary Filmmaking
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6 Golden Rules for Filmmakers on Social Media
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Thorin Caristo, an amateur cameraman, joined the Occupy Wall Street movement on Day One as a protester, but he was quickly persuaded to join its media team. Now livestreaming videos around the clock from Zuccotti Park, Caristo lets us in on how he's documenting a burgeoning social-media uprising.
Doc Soup: The #tweetmydoc Pitches, So Far
Doc Soup Man Tom Roston looks at who's been tweeting documentary pitches with the hastag #tweetmydoc. Share your doc over twitter by October 17, 2011 for a shot at a profile on the POV Blog.
Doc Soup: Tweet Your Doc! (#tweetmydoc)
Later this month, Doc Soup Man Tom Roston will feature one documentary-in-progress that makes the most original and compelling use of Twitter — in 140 characters or less, of course. Share your doc with the hashtag #tweetmydoc by October 17, 2011.
Could a $79 iPhone Attachment Revolutionize Documentary Filmmaking?
With Kogeto's panorama-making iPhone attachment "Dot" expected to ship in September, CEO Jeff Glasse discusses how 360° video tools like his, tapped into GPS and social networks, could change personal filmmaking.


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