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The economy has brought us people in alligator shoes comparing prices at the discount store; dimmed down and dumbed down mansions, dark show places with bad landscaping; Lexuses in fast-food drive-through lines; grannies in the pipe sections of home improvement warehouse stores; fur coats in the Wal-Mart aisles; Starbucks deciding to sell grub.
What's next, wagering on the horses on a budget?
I tried to map out a plan like that for you, Playing the Horses on $50 Per Day.
Here's how that went.
After buying two Forms and three programs, a beer, and chips and dip, I bet a $5 Exacta box, a Pick 3, a Pick 4, and some dime and dollar Supers and Trifectas.
The money was gone in 16 minutes.
Playing horses on a budget is like investing in a stock on a budget, it's fine if you're 11 or 12 years of age. But it's not like cutting back while shopping for Ben and Jerry's. At the horse races, it's hard to get by on less. Pinch dollars at the track and they'll leave.
Thinking cheap at the races is a negative. A decent frame of mind is more important in horse racing that with any other form of gambling. That's because eliminating losers, and then picking winners, requires a keen interpretive eye.
So what's a person to do with $40?
The best bet is probably stay home until you get $40 more, you'll feel twice as smart with $80.
Sure, $2 can get you all you need. But sometimes you need to spread around a lot of $2's to get in stalking position. This is not to say a person can't bet smarter with less money than you would like in your pocket. Betting smarter with $40 is focusing on multiple-picks, 3's, 4's, 6's.
So let's check budgeting at the door, and cut back on yard work and cosmetic surgery, and try to make some money.
All a horse player asks is, now and again, something close to an absolute.
Too much race writing is about hindsight and theory.
Each time I pick up a book or begin an article about horse racing, all I ask for is some insight, some foresight, one negotiable angle that might work more than half the time.
Well, here's one: fast works, very fast works in general, and rocket-style works on a maiden first-time starter in particular.
I have come to consider very fast works on young horses to be well worth avoiding.
In the first place, works are usually done against air. In the next place, some are so fast as to qualify for a bounce. And almost always fast works are over-bet.
Two things matter with a first-time starter, breeding, and trainer percentages with maidens.
All you need from a maiden work is something good.
Something too good is unworkable hindsight.
Cut back on what you pay for advice.
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Like a tapestry, this bouquet is a celebration of rich hues and textures. Round Sedum 'Autumn Joy' and fuzzy fuchsia Celosia argentea var. cristata provide fullness, while snowberries and blue Salvia 'Indigo Spires' function as accents.
Choose a vase with a narrow neck and a wide mouth to hold the stems in place.
Jewel-Toned Arrangement How-To
1. Begin by cutting several stems (we used 12) of Sedum 'Autumn Joy.' Each should measure 3 to 4 inches longer than your vase's height. Move the cuttings around in the vase to create the outline of a dome; the crisscrossing stems will provide support to allow those in the middle to stand upright.
2. Cut a similar number of Celosia argentea var. cristata stems, and use them to fill in the outline of the dome.
3. Strip several branches of snowberries of all but a few leaves. Use the berries as accents, inserting as many as you like.
4. Add stems of Salvia 'Indigo Spires' as highlights, allowing them to spring up beyond the dome. Add as many as you like, depending on how much blue you would like.


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From the attack in Nice to the beheading of a priest in Normandy, ISIS is on the march. Democrats may not want to talk about it, but I will. This is a conversation we MUST have.
Before we move on and forget what happened to Father Jacques Hamel, here are some of the latest details. There is a mosque just a block away from the church were Father Hamel was murdered. Ironically, the mosque sits on land that was donated by the Catholic Church.
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A True Martyr
Not far from the Normandy beaches where Allied forced began the liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe, Islamofascists loyal to ISIS stormed a church this morning. They forced Father Jacques Hamel, an 86 year-old priest, to his knees, beheaded him and filmed the attack.
A nun also suffered life-threatening wounds before French police shot and killed the jihadists. One of the attackers had been previously convicted of terrorism charges and was supposed to be under electronic surveillance.
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Earlier this week, Lt. Brian Rice, the highest ranking officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray, was acquitted of all charges. You may recall that Gray's death triggered days of rioting in Baltimore last year. Lt. Rice is the third officer to be vindicated, while a fourth case resulted in a hung jury.
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An ISIS flag was found at his home, and the Islamic supremacist group has released a suicide video of Riyad vowing to "slaughter infidels." Nevertheless, a spokesman for German authorities said, "We are searching for a motive."
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Around lunchtime today, Washington media exploded with unconfirmed reports that Donald Trump had selected Indiana Governor Mike Pence to be his vice presidential running mate. A formal announcement is expected tomorrow.
I have known Mike Pence for many years, even before he entered Congress. He is a solid, pro-family, pro-life conservative, with a Reaganesque demeanor. I believe he will provide balance to the GOP ticket in many ways.
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Obama again lectured the country about racism and ran through a check-list of the left's political agenda. But my point isn't about what the president said, it's about what he failed to do.


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Why Windows Phone will beat the new Blackberry
Our take: Blackberry recently released a new smartphone and operating system. Preston Gralla from ComputerWorld writes about why Blackberry can't measure up to Windows Phone.
"The Blackberry 10 and new Blackberry devices took center stage today, but despite Blackberry's best efforts, it will lose out to Windows Phone as the number three smartphone operating system. Despite the improved new hardware, it will be no match for Microsoft and Windows Phone.
"There's certainly a lot to like in the new Blackberries. The Blackberry 10 operating system finally brings Blackberry into the modern mobile world, and the new touch-based Z10 Blackberry model looks like a winner, with a solid, high-resolution screen, an integrated view of notes and tasks, and a unified inbox for all communications.
"But that still won't help Blackberry beat Windows Phone. The fight between the two platforms is more than just a fight between individual pieces of hardware. It's a fight between entire ecosystems, and that's where Microsoft has the edge, and a very significant one."
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A lukewarm feeling about something; mediocre
"I'm not sure about that color in the kitchen. I'm feeling very loofah about it."
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Similar to a sponge an is an object used to clean ones self. For this reason, many people incorporating loofah into their beauty regimen prefer to use it as a dry exfoliating brush before bathing, or to grind it and use it in exfoliating scrubs.
Lauren used the loofah in the shower.
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A distant cousin of the cucumber, used as a sponge.
alternate spellings: Loofa, Luffa or Lufa etc.
A distant cousin of the cucumber, used as a sponge.
alternate spellings: Loofa, Luffa or Lufa etc.
Bought me a new loofa today. Man, that thing is so soft.
লিখেছেন- Jd 3 de মে de 2004
Another one of Bill O'Reilly's favorite shower toys
O'Reilly likes to stand behind his woman in the shower and use the loofah on her nice breasts before he rubs her p*ssy with a falafel
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a rare variety of tropical arabian horses used primarily in the transportation of illegal drugs and other goodies
Keith: How much do you feed your loofah? It's so fat!
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Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology
, Volume 37, Issue 3, pp 279-287
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A thermostable phytase from Bacillus sp. MD2: cloning, expression and high-level production in Escherichia coli
- Thi Thuy TranAffiliated withDepartment of Biotechnology, Lund UniversityBiotechnology and Microbiology Department, Hanoi National University of Education
- , Gashaw MamoAffiliated withDepartment of Biotechnology, Lund University
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Phytase is used as a feed additive for degradation of antinutritional phytate, and the enzyme is desired to be highly thermostable for it to withstand feed formulation conditions. A Bacillus sp. MD2 showing phytase activity was isolated, and the phytase encoding gene was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant phytase exhibited high stability at temperatures up to 100°C. A higher enzyme activity was obtained when the gene expression was done in the presence of calcium chloride. Production of the enzyme by batch- and fed-batch cultivation in a bioreactor was studied. In batch cultivation, maintaining dissolved oxygen at 20–30% saturation and depleting inorganic phosphate below 1 mM prior to induction by IPTG resulted in over 10 U/ml phytase activity. For fed–batch cultivation, glucose concentration was maintained at 2–3 g/l, and the phytase expression was increased to 327 U/ml. Induction using lactose during fed-batch cultivation showed a lag phase of 4 h prior to an increase in the phytase activity to 71 U/ml during the same period as IPTG-induced production. Up to 90% of the total amount of expressed phytase leaked out from the E. coli cells in both IPTG- and lactose-induced fed-batch cultivations.
KeywordsAlkaline phytase Bacillus sp. Fed-batch cultivation Protein secretion
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- A thermostable phytase from Bacillus sp. MD2: cloning, expression and high-level production in Escherichia coli
- Journal
Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology
Volume 37, Issue 3 , pp 279-287
- Cover Date
- 2010-03
- 10.1007/s10295-009-0671-3
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- Alkaline phytase
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- Protein secretion
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- Gashaw Mamo (1)
- Bo Mattiasson (1)
- Rajni Hatti-Kaul (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Biotechnology, Lund University, Box 124, 221 00, Lund, Sweden
- 2. Biotechnology and Microbiology Department, Hanoi National University of Education, 136 Xuan Thuy Street, Hanoi, Vietnam


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Photo credit: Plymouth Whalers
Caps 2012 first-round pick Tom Wilson (aka "The Ten Train") has been a big factor in his team's success of late. After coming back from a five-game suspension, Wilson — second on his team in points per game (1.19) — has been playing some inspired hockey.
Skating mostly on the first line with World Juniors gold medalists Vincent Trocheck (drafted by Florida) and Ryan Hartman (potential 2013 first-round selection), Wilson has tallied seven points in two games (three goals and four assists). In total, the Whalers' first line has scored eight of the team's 12 goals during that span and combined for 20 points overall. They are doing this without the services of one of their biggest stars, Rickard Rakell, who has played four games with Bruce Boudreau's Pacific Division leading Anaheim Ducks.
Follow me past the jump, to check out video of Wilson's monster games.
On Saturday against the Owen Sound Attack, the young power forward scored two goals and two assists for an OHL career-high of four points in a single game.
Wilson's goals are at 1:37 and 4:40 marks. Assists are at 2:25 and 6:20 marks. (Video credit: Plymouth Whalers).
On Sunday, in a match-up with the Brampton Battalion, Wilson got two points in the first four minutes of the game. He later added another assist.
Wilson's goal is 0:40 mark. Assists are at 0:20 and 1:35 marks. (Video credit: Brampton Battalion).


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General Message Board
My take on streaming. Listen up!
I'm sick of hearing the whining. "He's playing more games than me." "What a cheater." This fantasy basketball thing is built on strategy and your free agent pickups, even in limited pickup leagues, are maybe the most important thing to a team's success. It's as important as the draft. Did everyone think that you were going to draft a team and then check it at season's end to see what place you finished? Everyone can and should pick up players every week to maximize production. It's called strategy and isn't that what fantasy basketball is about?
The pu s sies who b itch about it probably don't have any basketball knowledge and don't have a clue who to pick up. So they keep Quentin Richardson and Derek Fisher and Keith Bogans on their bench because they've never even heard of Beno Udrih and Francisco Garcia. It's like they want to play poker with the cards facing up. It's weak and these people need to turn in their man card and get the sand out of their panties.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Some fag who knows nothing about basketball decided to play Fantasy Bball and had a terrible draft. That fag kept losing so he thought of streaming. And all you that follows this method are nothing but faggots!!
Anyone can stream!! ANY FREAKIN ONE. It takes wisdom and insight to draft for gold.
- 1 Reply to J-Love
[Quote] "It takes wisdom and insight to draft for gold"
I might add LUCK. Your drafting position. And hope none of your gold gets hurt. What would you do if you drafted Gilbert Arenas,Yao Ming,Jermaine Oneal, and Elton Brand would you not stream thoes players? If not, you would surely not fair well in any league.
Ballin' On a Budget Ballin' On a Budget Apr 20, 2008 8:23 PM Flag
i agree 100% dude. I streamed my way to 2 CHAMPIONSHIPS. It's just like "EA SPORTS" IT'S IN THE GAME, STOP CRYING LIL' BITCHES
Here's my take... who seriously cares? You derelicts should really stop beating off to nba box scores and get a life. It's just a stupid game for fun. Like it takes so much talent to play fantasy sports... your lives must be pretty pathetic to take this sh!t so serious! Maybe you should have a couple lower ribs removed so that you can suck your own dick a little easier while you're admiring your fantasy trophies.
- 2 Replies to Kid Mike
STFU MBryan. The fact that you're trawling these boards doesn't really justify the cr@p you're spewing out.
Some people just can't see through their own hypocrisy. are you a priest?
evilempire1237 evilempire1237 Apr 20, 2008 12:43 PM Flag
if this is so lame then why are you here? because getting on the computer and making fun of someone doing something you can't do is a much better way to spend your time. just conversating. what, is talking uncool now too?
Amen! Apparently some people if they were fortuante enough to not suffer injuries to some of their main players feel those of us who did are supposed to meekly roll over and concede. Not a chance! The rules allow (and encourage) the use of the waiver wire, Strategy is what it is all about and what makes this fun!
evilempire1237 evilempire1237 Apr 20, 2008 10:22 AM Flag
i stand on both sides of the fence on this one. first off i'd like to say to those against streaming. show me where in the rules it says streaming is cheating. you can't find it because it's not there. streaming is a fair and useful strategy to those who have injury issues and players not producing which is a problem at the end of the season. players getting benched waiting for the playoffs to begin. petty injuries that would normally not keep a guy out of the line up now have him sitting. look at the owners of ron artest. that guy was useless at the end of the season. do you expect these owners just to quit. thats alot of production to make up for and adding just one FA isn't going to match that production. artest's stat line was 20 points 2 3ptm 5 reb 4 assists 2 steals and a block now and again. chances are there are no FA's that will make that up by themselves so you'll need to get multiple games to make it up. say artest was suppose to play 4 games in a particular week. that could take as many as 8 to 9 moves to make up for that weekly production using FA fodder. generally most FA's aren't going to produce in all those catagories so you have to find specialists to fill those stats. pick up rebounds one day, get steals the next and so on. for those who protect streaming, this is my thought. what it sounds like to me is that most of the people defending streaming on these boards don't really realize what streaming actually is. getting a couple of extra games here and there is not streaming. dropping 5 or 6 guys a day everyday is. this is a strategy that is only useful in a couple of occasions. 1: if there are no other managers in your league that are using this strategy and 2: if your team isn't that good to begin with. the reason you have so many players you can drop is because your team isn't that good. sure, most teams have a player or two they can move without regret. streamers move 90% of there roster every week because they can. while all the other teams are stocking their teams up with players they'd hate to drop you sit there and use this to your advantage. without anyone else making moves you get to use the entire FA list as your bench. the other managers are scared to drop anyone because they don't want to trade a good player for a situational player knowing that player they just dropped will not make it back to their team so they sit and hope for the best. streaming really is an advantage for the weaker team. streaming for injury is ok with me. streaming for strategy isn't. no point in drafting if your just going to drop more than half your draft now is there? and to argue your statement about the people who complain about streaming having no basketball knowledge. quite the opposite. they are complaining because they used their basketball knowledge to build their team as well as they could get it just to watch it get beaten by simple mathmatics. just because you stream doesn't mean you know anything about basketball. it just means you've figured out a loop hole in the system. most people who stream begin to depend on it. most streamers couldn't hang in a league with a move limit per week. they get good at this strategy and roll with it. ask any streamer if they'd like to join a max moves per week league and they'd say no. from your post it seems that you aren't an actual streamer. i agree that adding a player here or there is good strategy. especially in the playoffs. when you drop more than half of your roster everyday isn't. to the streamers that disagree with me. start a league next year with nothing but streamers and see how that works out. there'd never be any FA's because they'd all be on waivers. that would be interesting. let us all know how that works out.
- 1 Reply to evilempire1237
but as i've mentioned before, streaming as a strategy is a winning solution in that you get to actually think whether you ARE going to stream or not. Now, streaming for streaming's sake is $tupid in the first place because that doesn't guarantee you a win.
To answer your question as to whether a league full of streamers works or not, then no it won't. Show me a manager who streams for streaming's sake and I'll show you a manager with a not so very good winning ratio overall.
I think a manager with good knowledge of sleepers and good awareness of upcoming injuries, assured playoff places and vice versa, and number of games per player per week will beat a streamer any time. I've proved this in many occasions.
A Yahoo! User Apr 18, 2008 8:05 PM Flag
Streaming is ok I guess. I hadn't seen it before this season's playoffs. I got 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th in my four leagues. I didn't really stream, but I was active in the playoffs. I did get blown out by two streamers in the one league where I got 4th - those guys probably had 30-40 different players on their rosters during the week/1.5weeks I played against them. It was pretty annoying IMO.
I'm going to employ an anti-streaming strategy next year by picking up and dropping all reasonable FA's during the playoffs. I will leave the FA's which I deem to have too serious flaws (extremely poor FG%, FT%, turnover machines) alone so that streamers will have to essentially spot me 3 categories in order to get the dubious gains from streaming many low production players.
Obviously I'm not mad about streaming. Its not a technique that I will be employing bc I think that you can do better by having a solid group of 12 that you (ideally) wouldn't shift during the playoffs. Variations in playing time, injuries, slumps, etc.. still happen during the playoffs so I think its important to remain active and look for mistakes by other players during the playoffs (I beat a streamer in the finals of my lone win; he dropped Chandler, Horford and Dunleavy - I only got Chandler and Dunleavy for 1 game, but I barely won @ 5-4 w/ Dunleavy shooting a ridiculous FG% over many attempts, giving me the win bc FG% was the swing category).
Whatever, its all good as long as its not some kind of colluding angle-shooting BS, which streaming isn't. Its a double-edged sword which can be beaten IMO.
- 1 Reply to A Yahoo! User
This has been discussed for years. I've been playing fantasy bball for at least 8 years now and there is nothing wrong with what you call "streaming". It's probably a term coined by sore losers who don't know how to play Yahoo FBBall.
In a competitive league where managers are mature, thinking individuals, it's perfectly acceptable. It's part of one's strategy and it's not always win-win. You can lose out on TO's, FG%, FT%, Techs (if in your league), etc.
I've won and lost playoff matches by employing this method, so my take is this. You still have to think about it, at the end of the day. "Streaming" or whatever anyone wants to call it, will only give you an advantage if you analyze your players' and NBA stats.
Winning with this method only proves that a manager is aware of the league, his players, what goes on in the NBA, on a regular basis. Ain't that the point of this whole game in the first place?
So stop whinin' losers, and learn from it. Those who complain probably haven't played long enough.
What's more irritating, I think, are losing managers who let go of all their top players after getting beat, or if they miss out on the top 6. This gives an unfair disadvantage to legit managers who have worked their butts off the whole season.
Moral of the story? Clever winning managers are always better off than sore losers.
I am sure the ethical question concerning streaming will not be answered here. However, these things are worth pondering.
First, Yahoo, has provided settings options for private leagues to allow commissioners to limit the number of roster moves. However, in Public Leagues, they use no limit as the default setting. To me, this implies, that daily roster changes is the expected norm for the game designers.
Second, Mr Jon Loomer is a fantasy game writer for NBA.COM. Here's what he had to say about the issue in a January chat session at NBA.com.
Q: Mr Loomer I'm unfortunately playing in a h2h daily league where guys are add/dropping to get more games a week, is my only chance to win the league to fight fire with fire?
A: You bet. Use the rules to your advantage. It's not cheating if there's no rule against it. Keep your core group of players, but absolutely keep that lineup active.
Streaming is not the exception, it's the norm. If you're not using the strategy effectively, you are foolishly tying one hand behind your back and daring your opponent to hit you. Whining through bloodied lips afterward that you were sucker punched does not improve your stature in the hood.
I honestly believe that few people want to cheat at a game. Victory is hollow when you cheat. Cheating is poor sportsmanship.
Crying after losing, complaining about the umpire's calls, ridiculing the vanguished are well accepted as "poor sportsmanship". Acknowledging the skill of your opponent in defeat is considered good sportsmanship. Offering him a challenge to a rematch is also considered good sportsmanship.
Just make sure that when you challenge for a rematch, you specify the rules, and you bring your A-game. Otherwise your face will be red all over again.
Good Luck next year all
- 1 Reply to Bean
Hey Bean- I agree with your post on streaming. However, I would point out one thing. Theoretically, most people should not want to cheat in order to win, but win legitimately and thus derive more satisfaction. However, if you view the posts, you will see that many commissioners this year abused their commissioner controls to win illegitimately. Yahoo gives the commissioners too much power, the temptation is there and the cheating has been rampant this year. As far as ethics, I don't see streaming as an ethical question; it is really very simple. The settings are established and streaming is either permitted or not depending on those settings. Those managers who complain about streaming as unethical simply exhibit poor sportsmanship. I advise them next year to search for leagues with established maximum roster moves.
There is no crying in Fantasy Basketball!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, I agree and I would add the following:
It might be that they don't know about the great free agents you mentioned, it might also be that they are lazy. Rather than picking up free agents themselves, after all these FA's are available to everyone, and FA's on the waiver wire are available subject to waiver priority. What could be more fair. However, these complaining pussies want to penalize those who know how to play the fantasy game to level the playing field.
Goods points and well said!!!!!!!!!!!
Right on dude! Read my post named "I dare you to read this", it's basically the same thing. everyone complains about streamers saying its not legit strategy or in the real world it wouldn't work...do they forget this is called "fantasy" sports.
- 1 Reply to Mary
you know whats funny that if people would check up on all the expert analysis when the playoffs started. they tell you not to be afraid to drop players and pick otheres ones up everyday so you can boost your statistics. so its not cheating when yahoo is giving you the advice to do that. so hell thats what i did for the championship game and so did my challenger and it was decided by me having 5 extra players playing. thats y EVRYONE MANAGES THERE OWN TEAM.
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The news comes just days after chairman Peter Ridsdale revealed the club were chasing the signature of an unnamed striker.
Manager Graham Westley told the Lancashire Evening Post: "The urgency to finish off the squad and build the top end of the team has been there anyway.
"He's [Trundle] damaged both sides of the meniscus and strained the medial and cruciate ligaments. He has never had a serious operation in his career and is obviously gutted to be in this position.
"The strains are nothing to worry about - it's the cartilage which is the main damage and they are going to stitch it back together rather than pull it all out. It's probably going to be three or four months before he's back."
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Stephen L. Carter's brilliant debut, The Emperor of Ocean Park, spent eleven week son the New York Times best-seller list. Now, in Jericho's Fall, Carter turns his formidable talents to the shadowy world of spies, official secrecy, and financial fraud in a thriller that rivets the reader's attention until the very last page.
In an imposing house in the Colorado Rockies, Jericho Ainsley, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and a Wall Street titan, lies dying. He summons to his beside Beck DeForde, the younger woman for whom he threw away his career years ago, miring them both in scandal. Beck believes she is visiting to say farewell. Instead, she is drawn into a battle over an explosive secret that foreign governments and powerful corporations alike want to wrest from Jericho before he dies.
An intricate and timely thriller that plumbs the emotional depths of a failed love affair and a family torn apart by mistrust, Jericho's Fall takes us on a fast-moving journey through the secretive world of intelligence operations and the meltdown of the financial markets. And it creates, in Beck DeForde, an unforgettable heroine for our turbulent age.
A Q&A with Stephen L. Carter
Question: Jericho's Fall is a departure from your previous novels. What made you decide to turn your attention to a spy thriller?
Stephen L. Carter: I was ready for a change of pace. My other novels have been large—as the reviewers like to say, multi-layered. I wanted to try a short, straightforward page turner, a book to be read for the sheer pleasure of the story. Thrillers are fun to read, and, as I discovered, they are also lots of fun to write. If readers like Jericho's Fall, I expect I will write more of them.
Question: In your "Author's Note" you write that "the problem of mental illness among intelligence professionals is often said to be endemic." This link between intelligence work and madness is certainly born out in your character Jericho Ainsley. Why do you think this link exists and is this what drew you to Jericho's story?
Stephen L. Carter: In researching my previous novel, Palace Council, I became fascinated by the problem of mental illness in the intelligence community, an issue much-commented on in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly because of James Jesus Angleton, whose paranoia when he ran counter-intelligence at the CIA nearly tore the place apart. I thought that structuring a story around an ex-spy who was losing his mind might provide a nice hook, and the rest just followed.
Question: Jericho is former Director of the CIA, former Secretary of Defense, former White House National Security Advisor ("former everything" as you refer to him). You seem equally interested in how his career affected not only him but his family and in particular his ex-lover Rebecca DeForde ("Beck"). Why did you decide to make Beck the center of the story?
Stephen L. Carter: My first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park, dealt in part with what happens to the family of a man who is embittered after losing a tough confirmation battle for the Supreme Court. Here, I thought about the men in public life who have been brought down (or nearly brought down) by their relationships with women. We always find out what happened to the men, but rarely what happened to the women. In Beck DeForde, I wrote a character who was once "the other woman" to a famous man, and has had to rebuild her life after their tempestuous relationship ended. The idea of drawing her into the conspiratorial web surrounding her ex-lover was irresistible.
Question: Have you always been fascinated with the idea of spies and secrets?
Stephen L. Carter: It is not spying itself that interests me, it is the people who do it. I have done some reading about the toll that intelligence work takes on families, and here I have tried to imagine it fictionally.
As to secrets, I teach a course at Yale Law School on secrets and the law. We build powerful walls to keep secrets, and most of them are probably not worth keeping. Those that are, sooner or later tend to leak through the wall. No doubt there are some secrets that should be kept, but classification and national security tempt those in power to keep in the darkness acts and words that should be dragged into the light. One rule of thumb I wish all officials would follow is this: Don't do anything you're not willing to defend in your memoirs.
Question: What sort of research did this novel require? Did you have to investigate the history of the CIA? What it's like to work in the intelligence community? Interrogation techniques? Did your research into the intelligence community unearth any surprises?
Stephen L. Carter: I did a lot of research about the CIA, its history, its structure, its personalities, as well as about various mental illnesses. One thing that struck me was how much mental illness there has been, historically, near the top of the Agency. I mentioned Angleton. Frank Wisner, the father of the clandestine services, had a nervous breakdown while on the job. There are other, smaller stories, as well.
Stephen L. Carter: The CIA has had its share of financial scandals, but the larger problem, I think, is the way that people parlay government service into multi-million dollar stints lobbying and litigating against the very agencies they used to run. Such conduct is not, nor should it be, illegal; but it does not look good either.
Question: Can people who dedicate their lives to keeping secrets and trading in conspiracies, ever really retire from that kind of work?
Stephen L. Carter: Of course one can retire, but this line of work has to have a lasting effect. If you live your life not talking about your work, it can be difficult to settle into a life where you can talk about everything. And people who have been on the inside often suffer when forced to sit on the outside instead.
Question: Jericho's Fall is set mainly in a small town in the Colorado Rockies. How and why did you choose this particular setting for the novel?
Stephen L. Carter: I have spent a lot of time in the Colorado Rockies over the past thirty years, and it is a region of the country I dearly love. There are, moreover, many places in the mountains where cell phone service is iffy or non-existence. Being cut off from the outside world is of course red meat to the thriller writer...
Question: Jericho's house, Stone Heights, is itself a character in this novel, one with its own secrets and surprises. It harks back to such stories as Wuthering Heights or Rebecca or an Agatha Christie mystery where the physical setting is as much a character as the people. Did you have any of those stories in mind as you wrote this?
Stephen L. Carter: Oh, yes. I remember reading Thomas Hardy as a teenager, and being fascinated by the way that the house or the pond or the moor was always brooding over the action. Here, I had in effect two "physical" characters, the house itself, and the mountains that surround both Stone Heights and the town of Bethel. By the way, the town of Bethel is fictitious, but of course bears a biblical relation to Jericho.
Question: In your previous books characters from earlier novels have gone on to appear in future novels. Will we see more of any of the characters from this novel?
Stephen L. Carter: If I keep writing short thrillers like this one, we will certainly see some of these characters again. By the way, one of the minor characters in Jericho's Fall, a law professor named Tish Kirschbaum, was also a minor character in The Emperor of Ocean Park. So I have kept the connections going.
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Harris "Toot" Joseph Bencel, 90, a native and resident of Vacherie, died Sunday, Sept. 10, 2006.
Visitation will be from 8 a.m. to funeral time Wednesday at Our Lady of the Peace Catholic Church in Vacherie. Mass will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church, with burial in the church cemetery.
He is survived by one son, Larry P. Becnel and wife, Ruth R. Becnel; six grandchildren, Karen Becnel of Houma, Roberta B. Boquet and husband, Will, of Thibodaux, Gayle B. Bryant, Faron Becnel, Joanne Nassar and husband, Vernon, all of Vacherie and David Becnel of Thibodaux; 10 great-grandchildren, Darrin and Wendy Champagne, Michael and Michelle Boquet, Lisa and Jessica Bryant, Anthony, Harris and Theresa Nassar and David Olinde; one great-great-grandchild, Hunter Champagne; and one sister, Gertrude Becnel.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Josephine "Feen" Stein Becnel; his parents, Benjamin Becnel Sr. and Felicia Becnel; four brothers, Aristlide, Benjamin Jr., Felix and Stanislaus; and three sisters, Felicia Reulet, Yolande Becnel and Marguerite Torres.
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Anyone ever tried to make a beer like Linenkugels Summer Shandy? Its a beer brewed with lemonade... and very tasty on a hot day!! Any suggestions on how it might be made?
I haven't tried that one, but traditionally I believe shandy is a mix of beer and lemon lime soda. i don't believe the lemon is usually fermented at all, although that may be how they do it with the beer you mentioned.
Take a German beer and mix with soda or juice (Like lemonade). You now have a radler aka shandy.
I enjoy mixing a Hefeweizen and lemonade. Half and half is a good place to start.
As I recall, it tastes a bit like someone dumped a bunch of Countrytime Lemonade mix into a light lager or a kolsch.
You could probably do better by brewing your own lemonade with fresh lemons and adding that to the beer. Just remember to monitor the pH; most yeast don't like the conditions below about 3.4.
Add a few ounces of Mikes Hard Lemonade to any summer (wheat) beer. Makes a great summer drink.
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Despite the fact that he says, 'I don't consider myself a historical novelist at all,' Simon Mawer wins the £30,000 pound Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
Despite the fact that he says, 'I don't consider myself a historical novelist at all,' Simon Mawer wins the £30,000 pound Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
Scotland's Palimpsest started as a pre-press and services provider, but seeing an open niche, is now publishing digital editions of Scottish classics.
Self-publishing, despite its community's diversity of style and material, may need awards and other 'gatekeeping' devices for coherence in the marketplace.
From Jaipur to Melbourne to Edinburgh, Word Alliance aims to help top international book festivals lobby for government funding and to spread best practices.
Minneapolis-based Lerner Publishing Services announced a deal to exclusively distribute titles from Scottish children's book publisher, Barrington Stoke
Since hitting the longlist of the Booker Prize, indies Seren Books, Sandstone Press and Oneworld are seeing global interest in their titles as never before.
By Philip Downer In this exclusive essay for Publishing Perspectives, Philip Downer, the former CEO of Borders UK, discusses whether Borders' management really is to blame for the company's bankruptcy. The dust is quickly settling on the story of Borders bookstores bankruptcy in the United States, and, for the commentariat, Borders is now a business that was always bound to …
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TORONTO - A study of 35 taxi companies across the country has found the majority do not provide child restraint devices such as car seats.
The study, by researchers at the University of Western Ontario, was published in the October edition of Paediatrics and Child Health, the journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society.
The companies were asked about child restraint devices, which include car seats and booster seats.
In the telephone survey 30 of the 35 companies - or 86 per cent - said they did not provide any such device.
The study says the companies cited a lack of government regulation as the main reason they do not provide a child restraint device.
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While Sandy was on the way, I was consulting someone who knows a thing or two about cleaning up—Sir James Dyson of vacuum cleaner fame.
Actually, my desire to meet Sir James for lunch last week at the Museum of Modern Art preceded the approaching meteorological Mephisto. I just had a hunch we had a lot in common, though I'm willing to admit to at least a couple of superficial differences.
For starters, he's been knighted and I haven't. Secondly, there's the disparity in our net worths: Mine isn't much higher than the pair of Italian loafers I wore to our meeting, while his is $4.2 billion, according to Forbes. Also, our brain tissue is apparently organized in distinctly different patterns, because he invents useful things and I don't.
Nonetheless, due to the nature of at least some of those products, and of the sort of personality who would sweat over the problems for which his inventions became best solutions, I suspected our world views aren't utterly dissimilar.
Also, I hold steadfast to the belief that the secret to happiness lies in a talent for taking pleasure in small things, and Mr. Dyson's success suggests he appreciates such things better than most. Take, for example, the Dyson Airblade hand dryer, such as you find in the lavatories of more enlightened hotels and restaurants—the kind where you fully insert your hands into a space at the top of the dryer. The device gives a lion's roar and in no time flat your hands are dry.
Compare that to the average rest-stop hand dryer, which is typically so ineffective it makes you want to weep and reject the entire environmental movement—something the machine was supposed to help, of course, by eliminating the need for paper products.
What actually happens is that after using all that energy and with your hands still dripping wet, you're forced to visit a stall and unspool a wad of toilet paper, typically failing until the third or fourth stab because you're transferring all that moisture from your hands to the toilet paper, causing it to tear and break.
Are wet hands, the water dampening your cuffs and trickling down your sleeves, the most important things to worry about in a world of so-called superstorms? Obviously not. But two or three such incidents in quick succession can ruin your day. More to the point, I wondered whether such situations would annoy Sir James as much as they do me. Or is he just a money-minting master of the universe, so wealthy he can afford to visit public rest rooms tailed by a valet proffering a monogrammed hand towel?
After we placed our orders at Terrace 5, a restaurant overlooking MoMA's sculpture garden, I asked him about the inspiration for the Airblade. "It's anger," he stated flatly, listing some of the same peeves I just mentioned.
Then he launched into a spirited explanation of how his device works, and why he says his anachronistic competition's doesn't. I had trouble following his train of thought in the crowded, cacophonous restaurant—managing only to pick out a pejorative word here and there to describe his adversaries' drying process, such as "evaporate" and "steam"—before he concluded: "You never waited to the end. You wiped your hands on your trousers."
Obviously, he's more socially responsible than I am.
Mr. Dyson went on to explain that, as I understand it, he and his people were in the lab trying to solve an unrelated problem when they came upon their hand-drying solution. "It was something completely different," he said mysteriously of the thing they were trying to invent. "I can't tell you what it is because we still want to make it happen."
Nonetheless, as he described it to me, an extremely focused blade of air works much like an automobile windshield wiper, pushing the water off your hands. I assumed there had to be heat involved. But he said no, except for the minimal amount the machine's motor generates. "It uses very little energy," he boasted, "and it doesn't chafe your skin."
I inquired about Sir James' marriage. I know it sounds presumptuous to ask how he and his wife are getting along, even before my steak salad and his hummus arrived, but I was curious whether his wife ever got on his case because of his apparent fixation with the minutiae of life, as mine occasionally does me.
"That's how my vacuum cleaner started," he confided.
Poor suction is the Achilles heel of conventional vacuum cleaners, he went on, describing how he bought one and disassembled it, even scissoring the bag and releasing into the air that characteristic bouquet of dust mites, hair and wet dog. "That's when I realized the airflow had to go through the bag," he said, explaining how the bag's clogged pores quickly reduced suction and how his canister led to eliminating the bag completely.
The one part I followed easily was the tale of the Dyson vacuum cleaner's eventual triumph—after hundreds of prototypes and rejection by British manufacturers that had a vested interest in selling machines with disposable paper bags. However, I briefly wondered why he remained so animated about a device he invented in the '80s.
The reason, apparently, is that like Picasso working through Cubism until he'd fully exhausted its possibilities, Sir James believes his vacuum cleaner remains a work in progress.
"Hair is very difficult," he explained as lunch arrived.
I'm not doing the man, or the occasion, justice if I leave the impression that filth, in its myriad manifestations, is all we discussed. The inventor seems to have a mind that delights in life in general, and he was just as effusive in pointing out MoMA's architectural virtues as he was in celebrating the Dyson Tangle-free Turbine tool, the latest twist on hair-catching technology.
After all, he graduated from the Royal College of Art in architecture. "There's a lot of wasted space, but you feel uplifted," he observed of MoMA. "And so it is with objects. If you're using something unpleasant, either visually or from a practical point of view, I turn my back on it, but it's quite difficult sometimes."
One should probably also factor into Mr. Dyson's affection for the museum that his Dual Cyclone vacuum cleaner, circa 1994, is part of its permanent collection. Unfortunately, it's not on display at the moment. But that didn't prevent Sir James from taking pleasure in many other objects that were, starting with his friend and neighbor Alex Moulton's bicycle, providing a docent's tour of its mini-wheeled virtues.
Moving on to a vitrine of designer flatware, I asked whether he enjoyed polishing silver. I had a hunch he might as I do, finding in the union of aesthetics and elbow grease a way to nudge the world closer to perfection, one sterling fork and spoon at a time.
"I love silver," he said. "It's something about the shine that looks like hard work has gone into it."
But then he launched into an explanation of silver's bacteria-thwarting properties and why silver thread is used in hospital gowns. At that point, he'd lost me completely.


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By Chris W Beal-Oracle on Sep 24, 2006
Show -> Showing off and helping others gets you noticed (or laid as he put it)
Flow -> You are constantly changing.
2.0 -> We're getting back to a bartering type economy.
Certainly I enjoyed it and the first two points are clearly right, the rest felt a little forced, but then it was well made.Industrial strength Email and Calendar: Flaorian von Kurnatowski Without realising it I'd wandered in to the Products and Services track. Basically Opensource friendly companies promoting their products. That said he didn't push his company Scalix too much. What he observered was that you needed to have a true replacement for Outlook before people would be able to move away from Microsoft. It seems Outlook is very closely tied to all other Microsoft apps and if you remove them you loose a lot of functionality (and he said Outlook is 50% of the license fee too). Until OpenOffice can provide that or has an equivalent it will not considered by many people. Also 90% of Admins have never done a migration of mail systems so they're scared of it, there need to be good migration tools. Final point was that Calendar services do not have any standards which is why Calendar infrastructure is even harder to do than email. Channeling OpenSourced in Europe: Ranga Tangachari Back in the OpenSource world I was interested by this session. I'd assumed that this would be about getting the most out of OpenSource in Europe but instead it was a talk about how his company made money in Opensource by encouraging the Channel (resellers) His assertion was that Communities provide innovations and companies provide Products (more the just projects, fully tests and supported things). In the middle are the Channel which adds value by things like locaization and training. Being a pool of deployment experts. You need to encourage the Channel by giving them what they care about which is 1) Margin
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Think beyound Downloads they only mean one click, find examples of happy customers. Big Data and the Open Warehouse: Roger Magoulas
This was a dissapointing presentation about what Orielly do about data storage and data mining. It was unfortunately simply a run down of tricks tips, products and techinques used by the Orielly guy in their data centre. There were some interesting things mentioned though which I will go and look at.SecondLife and Opensource: Jim Purbrick I'm intrigued by SecondLife, it's a game where the whole purpose is to make "Stuff" and "Hang Out" and generally share or sell what you do. I have looked at it and it is cool, but I haven't got my head round Why? yet. SecondLife is not (yet) opensource but the Guy from LindenLab was explaining that the big difference with second life to other MMORPG games is that the players create the world. LindeLabs couldn't have provided enough content to keep people interested, but because it is created by the game community they reacon they get ~6500 man years of content development per year! (not even EA could manage that for one game I think) All of this is a course up for sale or copy depending on the desires of the community member There are interesting aspects to the way LindenLab have architected their set up, like each now
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February 10, 2013 at 8:55 pm
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February 10, 2013 at 9:31 pm
The quote... it should say that the destination doesn't matter, it's the journey that counts. The whole thing is a fail lol
February 11, 2013 at 3:18 am
Thanks Krista! lol
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February 11, 2013 at 3:15 am
Too funny!
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February 11, 2013 at 4:29 am
I haven't really laughed hard at one of these in a while. This one made me cry I laughed so much.
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February 18, 2013 at 9:22 am
Yeah, me, too! I literally had this image in my head of some dude hiking up one leg and scratching his jock itch and going, "Well, it ain't the journey..." I could hardly breathe and I'm in tears over here!
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February 11, 2013 at 9:47 am
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I dunno...dusty jockitches are pretty damn important...
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Loyola University Maryland senior cross country runner Kiera Harrison broke the 6k program record at the Salty Dog Invitational, hosted by the United States Naval Academy, covering the course in 20:51.75.
Harrison trailed the top-finisher, Annie-Norah Beveridge of Navy, by only five seconds as the winner checked in at 20:46.23.
Harrison's second place finish tops the previous record by nearly 11 seconds recorded by Andrea Rovegno in 2005. This was the second-consecutive meet Harrison finished first among all other Greyhound participants.
She helped lead the Loyola women to a fifth place finish with 113 points, trailing the host Navy who finished first, University of Maryland in second and UMBC and American in third and fourth, respectively.
Anna Bosse was the second Loyola runner across the line, finishing 11th in 21:45.50. Her time was good enough for seventh place in the all-time program record books.
Kelly Maguire was 42nd in 23:02.23, and Jessica Peters came in 52nd (23:17.63). Rookie Sarah Askine finished 54th with a time of 23:22.84, just edging sophomore Sara Gilson into 55th place (23:23.00).
Other Loyola female runners were Rachel Nerenberg (23:32.81, 61st), Laura Watters (24:03.48, 68th), Erica Canas (24:10.19, 71st), Caitlyn McGuinness (24:11.84, 72nd), Mary DeGregorio (24:29.06, 76th), Kayla Parlavecchiio (24:59.56, 78th) and Emily Richards (27:39.71, 84th).
For the second week in a row Chris Regan was Loyola's top male performer, becoming the first freshman to finish an 8k race in less 27 minutes.
The Northport, N.Y., native finished 44th with a time of 26:52.13 on the 8k course. Just over a minute later Sam Ballard (27:43.06) and Brad Beard (28:03.90) crossed one right after the other for 53rd and 54th place, respectively.
Classmates Miachel Michon (28:26.45, 58th), Zachery Nerenberg (28:37.44, 59th) and Dominic Piedmont (28:47.05, 60th) just edged out senior Nicholas Barletta who finished in 61st place (28:56.73).
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Since it was discovered in 1991, preserved in 5,300 years' worth of ice and snow in the Italian Alps, the body of the so-called Tyrolean Iceman has yielded a great deal of information. Scientists have learned his age (about 46), that he had knee problems, and how he died (by the shot of an arrow).
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Did the New York Post Confront Weiner in a 'Carlos Danger' Costume?
Weinergate 2.0 might have been more than they could handle.
The past few weeks in New York politics have been unreasonably entertaining, but we fear the Weinergate revival, topped by the introduction of the moniker "Carlos Danger" might have sent the New York Post over the edge. Yesterday a man in a Zorro costume confronted Weiner and declared in a fake Spanish accent, "Señor Weiner, why did you steal my name? I am Carlos." The incident didn't get much play, as New York has plenty of costumed weirdos roaming the streets, but now the New York Observer reports that the man behind the mask is Post reporter Reuven Fenton. It appears the tabloid is no longer satisfied by taunting, pun-ridden headlines, and is taking its Weiner obsession to the next level.
Four people identified Fenton to the Observer, and the paper notes his Facebook profile photo "shows a resemblance." The photographic evidence isn't totally convincing, but the Washington Post has another incriminating tidbit. "Standing next to a New York Post photographer was a man dressed in a Zorro costume," the paper reported yesterday. "The photographer deflected queries, saying the man was not doing interviews." Fenton hasn't covered Weiner recently, but in 2011, one of the candidate's sexting partners accused him of misrepresenting himself and marketing their casual conversation as a Post exclusive.
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My parents, Al and Ethel, may have been the only married couple at Woodstock who didn't take drugs. They were covering the festival for the newspaper my father ran, the Middletown NY Times Herald-Record — the only paper in the world to publish daily stories, witnessed from the ground, for which, they were told, they almost won the Pulitzer Prize. In a Huffington Post piece, my mother explains just how that happened:
Al had hired a courier to bring exposed film and hard copy back to the newsroom in Orange County — no laptops in 1969. That motorcycle spent 3 days snaking through the miles of stalled, sometimes gas-less parked vehicles that were jammed ditch to ditch.
She also has fascinating stories of how my friend's father, Ed Silvers, "the local Professional Engineer hired by the promoters to turn 600 farm acres into a festival venue," helped avert crisis for the otherwise poorly planned event.
You can also read the remembrance by my oldest brother, Dave, published in the Times Herald-Record here, which has a lot more coverage of the 40th anniversary here.
No relevance to climate change, but an original slant on this slice-of-Americana story.
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Didn't Jeff make a post about remembering Woodstock in his comment about ethics, and therefore this entry is not quite as off topic as you say? ;)
Anyway, my ethics had me working that weekend at Sterling Forest Gardens. Because some other employees went to Woodstock I got to work overtime (@ $3.15/hr). As a straight edge, I wasn't into the hippie scene. I did pick up a hitchhiker leaving Woodstock at the intersection of 17 and 32 on Sunday. His misery (he called it a [expletive deleted] drag) confirmed—for me—the wisdom of my decision. Another friend of my younger brother spent a day in traffic before turning back to Cornwall. I remember reading the Record's coverage of the Festival. This post has dalso redged up a memory of your Dad's name that was lost to me. Until now I had no idea we share a connection through Orange County. BTW, the Record is no longer the paper it was under your Dad. Another connection, my sister-in-law worked for the lab at S.D. Warren, then a division of Scott Paper, and helped step up those offset presses your brother speaks of in his story. Both its a small world, and the apple doesn't fall far from the tree!
Anyway, and taking a contrarian position to further argue that there is a connection between this post and climate change, isn't it the meme of the "Woodstock Generation" (if it feels good, do it) that has us facing klimakatastrophe and tripping rather than being responsible?
Joe, what a great article by your mom! I love it.
I was ten at the time of Woodstock, and out here in California. I'm not even sure if I knew it was taking place. The first large concert I attended wasn't until a few years later: Led Zeppelin at Kezar stadium. But, just a couple years later, I did see Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and many others, at the S.N.A.C.K. benefit concert in San Francisco, also at Kezar.
But, I have a slightly different, wishful and nostalgia-driven take on the connection between Woodstock and 60's ideals and the climate change problem today. My view is this: How could anyone that loves the music, and listens to the lyrics, and loves peace and love, and so forth, not care about the environment and about climate change? Indeed, in my mind, I'm quite sure that all the many thousands of Woodstock folks are the very same people who already own electric vehicles! (Please don't tell me this may not be the case.)
So yes, a broader question: How can one "go" from a genuine, deep belief in the ideals that many people presumably had back then to a position that would mess up the Earth's climate itself, or stand by while society at large does it?
One thing is for sure: If that generation, and my generation, and the closely-following generations, refuse to face and address the climate problem, we won't be remembered by future generations as wonderful music-loving peace-loving music loving peace-loving mud-loving hair-loving people, and colorful ones at that. No, we'll be remembered as "those generations that messed up the climate, the environment, and the world". That's a sorry way to be remembered. Let's hope we can do better than that.
Bob Dylan will be playing in Berkeley in the Fall. Be there or be square!
Then, CO2 was around 325 ppmv.
I did not go to Woodstock. I was working on materials related to the original Club of Rome Report. A few years later, I tried to turn the research into a senior thesis in Environmental Studies, and was laughed out of the program as a "silly alarmist". Today those curves look – prescient.
Five years ago, there was a consensus in the climatology community that global warming was occurring. However that consensus wildly underestimated the rate that changes would occur. Again, I was laughed at as a silly alarmist. In only 5 years, that community has been amazed at the loss of Arctic Sea ice, loss of ice shelves (Arctic & Antarctic), clathrate decomposition, and the thinning or collapse of glaciers on both Greenland and Antarctica. Well! "They" would be a lot less surprised if they would just believe the physics.
The real lesson of Woodstock is that people would rather go to a rock concert than do physics. The real lesson of climatology over the last decade is that people(climatologists) do not believe physics. The lesson of this post is that it takes more than a nerd with numbers to get people to take action.
History is good, it gives us perspective.
Interesting blog. Arguably, the biggest legacy of Woodstock is its huge impact on the real children of the sixties: Generation Jones (born 1954-1965, between the Boomers and Generation X). This USA TODAY op-ed speaks to the relevance today of the sixties counterculture impact on GenJones: http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090127/column27_st.art.htm
Google Generation Jones, and you'll see it's gotten a ton of media attention, and many top commentators from many top publications and networks (Washington Post, Time magazine, NBC, Newsweek, ABC, etc.) now specifically use this term. In fact, the Associated Press' annual Trend Report forcast the Rise of Generation Jones as the #1 trend of 2009.
Here's a page with a good overview of recent media interest in GenJones:
Aaron Lewis (4) — Five years ago little was known about the role of black carbon, aka soot. Removing sources of black carbon will certainly lessen the impact of global warming in the arctic.
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