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Life is dangerous as I'm sure you already know. Just sitting on your couch is rife with hazards. The spine could suddenly break, sending you reeling. You could choke on your popcorn. You could spill your soda and catch your death of cold. Lightning could strike, chase down your walls, wriggle through the electrical wiring, find the cell phone charging in your lap, and delivery you a stunning jolt. Heck, Martians might attack and find you an easy target.
But some things are - needless to say - more hazardous than others. Take, for example, a pile of explosives, say compared to a cumquat. Sure you could do some real harm with a cumquat. But c'mon ...
So what's any of this this got to do with law?
Well, it's all about liability, so let's go there first.
"Liability" means, naturally enough, the state of being liable. "Liable," in turn, means obligated according to law. A synonym for "being liable" may be "being legally responsible." If you are injured owing to my act, I may be liable to you for your injuries.
Notice, I said "may be" in the preceding sentence.
I order for me to be liable to you, four elements must be fulfilled. First, I must owe you some sort of duty. If you put an eye out with your cumquat and both you and the cumquat have no connection to me, game over as far as I'm concerned. You may have, indeed, suffered a grievous injury, but it has no connection to me. Hey, I'm sorry and all that, but it's not my fault. Second, presuming I had a duty to you, I must breach that duty. Say I was the grocer who sold you that cumquat and had a duty to you to ensure that it was fit for human consumption. Say, instead of putting your eye out with it doing God knows what, instead I - oops - forgot to wash off the stew of toxic chemicals in which it was reared and poisoned you. That, my friends, might well be a breach of my duty to ensure your cumquat consuming safety.
Third, for liability to attach, an injury must actually transpire. If I, the cumquat salesman, fail to property sanitize the tasty citrus morsel from its Jacuzzi bath of toxins but it sails down your gullet without ill effect, hey, all is well. Although you might have been injured by my inattention, in fact, you were not. Essentially, no harm no foul. I dodged a bullet.
Lastly, for me to be liable to you, there must be a "causal" (or "direct") connection between my breach of duty and your injury. Let's accept the toxins-on-the-cumquat scenario. Let's say, instead of suffering from the toxic effects of the chemical brew, instead, a month later, you ride your Flexi Flyer off a cliff. Next, you come after me for your damages. But hold on a sec; unless you can prove a direct connection between the cumquat and your inability to safely steer a Flexi Flyer, you are simply out of luck. For me to be liable to you, there must be a direct and reasonable connection between the evil potion in which the cumquats were nurtured and your injuries. More likely than not, the Flexi Flyer incident is just a bit too attenuated from my failure to give the fruit a proper bath to hold me responsible for the recent rearrangement of your facial features. If, however, you can prove that the malevolent venom in which the cumquat was raised is, in fact, a neurotoxin which, in turn, impaired your ability to steer, well then, perhaps, game on.
What then about inherently dangerous instrumentalities? Well first things first. An "instrumentality" is just a $20 word for the nickel concept of something that causes something else. An "instrumentality" is the "agent" for a related thing. Something that is "instrumental" serves as a tool or gateway to something else. If I kick a football, my muscle power is "instrumental" in the impressive arc the football takes.
"Inherent" simply means "characteristic of the thing itself." Slithering is, for example, inherent to a snake. "Dangerous" means, naturally enough, able or likely to inflict injury or harm.
Putting 'em all together. An "inherently dangerous instrumentality" is a danger naturally inhering in the condition of a thing itself. In other words, an "inherently dangerous instrumentality" is an object which has contained within the nature of the thing itself the potential for causing harm. It is dangerous per se.
Back to cumquats. By most lights, they are not inherently dangerous. In order for a cumquat to be rendered dangerous something nefarious must be done to it. A pile of explosives, however, most would agree, is by its very nature, something to be accorded wide berth. It might, say... explode.
So what is the difference between a cumquat and a pile of explosives? Really? You had to ask? Well, at law, at least, it's this: a cumquat, by its nature, doesn't impose any special duties or obligations. A pile of explosives does. As the pile of explosives is likely to (or may potentially) cause harm by virtue of its ordinary state of being and ordinary use, the owner of a pile of explosives - or other dangerous instrumentality -- is generally liable for any damage caused by it. As the risk of harm is inherent in the thing itself, the owner will be held responsible for any harm which may be caused, even where the thing is controlled by or operated by others.
Inherently dangerous instrumentalities impose both special risks and special liabilities. And so, the law reasonably requires a heightened duty of care, cumquat may.
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On the 12th day of Christmas, my favorite newspaper gave to me ... the kickoff to its annual decoration highlights.
Forget lords a-leaping or ladies dancing. We have the real holiday treasure here.
Between now and Dec. 24, The Record will be counting down its top 12 local picks for can't-miss displays. After today, turn to 3-minute Record for a new one each day.
Some are Santa-centric. Some take an understated approach, others hold nothing back. One even pairs holiday tunes with a choreographed light show.
Thanks to all the readers who participated by sending us ideas and picks.
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Re: Sensible Cruising
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Why did you choose Amsteel?
Regarding boat size, one of my problems is berth size. Being 6'6" I chose my boat because of its bunk lengths not boat size. I think that the fun on a sailboat is inversely proportional to size.
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I've spent the last week cruising thru this thread & watching Vega1860's videos "Pacific Crossing". To spend 55 days at sea sounds like a dream to me but for others (my wife, LOL) it would be pure hell.
For a 4 year old thread, there is a lot of good information here.
You just have to do whatever it is that feels right for you. Does it really matter if it's a 40footer or a 26 footer if you're out there doing it? I think not.
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We took the minimalist approach with our first cruising boat, a Pacific Seacraft 37. It was safe, fun to sail, and I could handle it alone in all but really bad weather. It didn't have refrigeration, a genset, or a watermaker (no real space) yet carried enough food and water for the two of us for weeks. Perfect boat--for some people, and we've seen a good number of 37's out here--but just too small. The Pacific Seacraft 40 is barely enough to really live on, especially if you're not hanging out on small palm-fringed islands or in the water most of the time (I can't be in the sun--melanoma). It has all the goodies, but I can't handle the sails except in the calmest weather. I think the best answer is to ask yourself what you want to do and where you want to go. If the answer is, "Both high and low latitudes, water sports and (classical) concerts in the cities," you'll need more room for clothes (including warm weather shorts and cold weather sweaters), equipment, a cabin heater, refrigeration (or at least a truly competent icebox), more charts, more spares, etc. If you want to go to deserted islands you'll need to be prepared to fix everything yourself, and provide all the necessary parts. My experience (and we've cruised for 45 years and been away from the US for three years now, messing around in the South Pacific and repairing the boat in exotic locations) is that guys like spartan and the gals prefer a few more comforts. Interesting, though, how my dear hubby has borrowed my craft gear to repair electronics, plumbing, and even the gen set....
And oh yeah--here in New Zealand we've been awfully glad to have the Espar cabin heater.
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I cruised for my first 17 years, and several Pacific crossings, mostly full time, before I installed my first battery and electrical system , or VHF on my boat. Never had refrigeration and never missed it. Never had a watermaker, nor ham radio, till a few years ago.
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If you want a perfect boat and perfect equipment for cruising, then consider a new hobby. If you wait for pefect you will never go. New boats and equipment have new and hidden problems. Old boats have the same old problems. Choose your set of problems, but there will alwyas be problems.
The best thing needed to cruise is an attitude that you can do it and an accpetance that it is time to do it. My wife and I will start our circumnavigation on May 3rd (weather permitting).
As for things I like on a boat? I like a large refrigerator/Freezer. I also like having a spare bedroom for guests. As such, we have a Hudson Force 50. Lots of room, but still small enough to single hand. We train to single hand, but sail double handed or with guests.
Sail with what you have. Enjoy what it gives you. That is the best way to enjoy sailing.
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So, I've finally made it all the way through this forum and I must say, I think everyone is pretty much in agreement that there is no one size fits all category. There are obviously benefits and detractors for every decision.
My wife and I are two years away from "retiring" ( at the ripe old age of 31) and going on an open ended cruise. I've been watching boats and prices and I have decided that the majority of what we will end up with will be based on what is on the boat when we buy it. There are a few items that I plan on adding regardless of how the boat is equipped though. My Admiral has made it clear that she would value a water maker, which I plan on piecing together. I also want to have a SSB with a pactor modem for communication to make our lives easier and reduce the amount of worrying our families will do.
Of course there are some niceties on my short list, like a small GPS plotter (Garmin 441s) and the Standard Horizon GX2100 (my thought being that the AIS will replace the need for radar in terms of being run down by large ships at night or in the fog). But if the boat already has an equivalent in good working order, I would hesitate to rip it out.
We'll carry the typical redundant battery powered alternatives, but we've worked hard to save enough to make this dream financially achievable and I know that it will take some restraint on my part to not load up the boat and deplete our "cushion funds."
There are a lot of well equipped cruisers out there, whether the PO gave up on the dream, or is ready to switch boats. Our biggest concern is where to get the boat. Most of the boats that have some of the gear we want (good ground tackle, cruising sails, some of the above mentioned gadgets) are located on the coast, while we are in Chicago. We'll have to decide if want to try to equip something here ( I imagine it might be difficult to find someone with a lot of experience installing SSBs in the midwest) or if we want to move a boat here to move onto it ($$), or do we rent a truck and take what will fit and drive right to a marina in FL?
I went in a 38 ft Ingrid, I had single handed all over the San Juans and leaving from Port Angeles to La Paz. I was at the very limit of what a 63 year old guy could handle. Go now!
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Many things in this world are just fine the way they are, a spoon for example, it could be bigger, have a longer handle, be more ornate, made out of gold, or whatever, but you know, adding all that stuff to a spoon doesn't make it a better spoon, it has been adapted over a long period of time by many generations of people to be what it is - just the right size, shape, length, weight, made out of the right materials, with the right surface finish, etc, to be good for what it is used for, eating. There's really just not much you can do to a spoon to make it a better spoon, it is perfectly suited to the needs of the human beings who use it.
I wanted four black metal 3" C clamps, the kind you can get at any auction, something I can maintain with a little tool oil from time to time and keep on the boat. I went to Lowes, they had some kind of galvanized clamps, and I was getting ready to buy them and thought, you know, I know it is weird, but I'd rather just have the black metal ones like the bigger clamps I have, I wanted them to match. So I decided to go to Home Depot. There they couldn't do metal colors at all, they decided to powder coat theirs a crimson red. By this time it has become a mission! Fine, Ace hardware maybe ? Nope, they had some kind of construction orange metal paint on theirs. Another store maybe ? No they had the same kind of paint except theirs was a battleship gray color. Finally gave up and went to the antique store and found them. That's what I was talking about above, why is it that people have to complicate everything, what's wrong with a black metal 3" C clamp that manufacturers seem to think they have to improve on it ? The thing is better without the color powder coat or paint that is going to chip off the first time it bangs against another tool.
I know, I'm getting fussy as I get older.
I have not done any long term cruising at this point, just weekend to multi-week trips, but I do plan too and so have been studying these types of issues for a long time. Now, I will not have the unlimited budget "problem", in fact we will need to fall into the extremely frugal cruisers crowd, so perhaps I bias my opinions to make myself feel better but here is one small thing I noticed...
I read a lot of blogs, books, magazine articles, etc of people, most very much better off then me financially who are cruising and one thing I often notice is how often they are waiting around because something broke, Things I do not even have on my boat. (This is just a huge generalization, and not meant to be negative in anyway toward anyone.)
I seem to read a lot of things like "So we are stuck in this port while we wait for X part to get shipped in, and then Y broke, and now we need to wait for three more weeks for the only repair guy to get to it and we really want to get going before the next storm blows in." And often times all the things that are breaking are things I will likely not be able to afford on my boat.
No matter how much money you have, even if you can pay someone to do everything, you still need to wait around for the parts and the people to be available to get the job done. I realize that a LOT of things will break on my old boat as well, but simply put, the fewer systems, the fewer things CAN break.
Of course few systems and smaller boats have huge negatives too. A lot less daily comfort, less room for things, no freezer, so not as fancy of food. I'm not knocking big boats or cool toys, but for me, a big part of the dream of cruising is to get away from the headaches of dealing with way more stuff then I need. Even if I could pay someone to fix it, I would still need to arrange it, wait for the guy to show up, make sure he does a god job, dealing with the effects if he doesn't, etc.
I agree for everyone there is a "sweet spot" to shoot for. I am still young(ish) and can give up a lot more comfort. As with all things in boats, it is a balancing act on a personal scale. But I think I see a lot of people being unhappy when it is not as easy to just throw money at a problem while cruising as it was back home.
Of course, I'll be rowing around to all the big boats looking to bum ice from their freezers, or asking if they got the weather report off their satellite system.
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Bob Childers was born March 31, 1929 in Columbus, Kan., and passed away peacefully, Saturday, May 12.
His parents were Fred and Oleta Childers. He had one sister, Coleen, and one brother, Ted.
When he was in the eighth grade, he went to Eagle to live with his aunt and uncle on their ranch. He graduated from Eagle High School and then he attended Colorado State University. Bob joined the army in 1951. He was stationed in South Carolina, Indiana, and then Colorado Springs. Later, he was transferred to Camp Hale at Pando, where he was an instructor for Cold Weather Mountain Training. At that time he was involved in training the 82nd Airborne troops in cold mountain survival.
Bob married Sandra Eaton in Eagle on Nov. 27, 1952. This year they would have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.
Bob and Sandy moved to Steamboat Springs in 1965. Bob was the director for the Department of Agriculture-ASCS office for Routt County, Jackson County, Grand County and Summit County until he retired in 1989. He was a member of the Volunteer Ski Patrol at Mt. Werner, was on the board of the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club and a member of the United Methodist Church where he served as a Board Member.
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A German politician on Friday presented a letter purportedly from Edward Snowden, in which the former U.S. intelligence contractor signaled he would assist German investigations into NSA surveillance "when the difficulties of this humanitarian situation have been resolved."
Hans-Christian Ströbele, a prominent member of the Greens, said at a press conference in Berlin that Mr. Snowden gave him the letter at a meeting in Moscow, where Mr. Snowden is living under temporary asylum, on Thursday. The politician released a photo of himself standing next to Mr. Snowden that he says was taken Thursday.
The authenticity of the letter couldn't be independently confirmed.
Here is the letter presented by Mr. Ströbele at a news conference, below, with a plain-text transcription following:
To whom it may concern,
I have been invited to write to you regarding your investigation of mass surveillance.
I am Edward Joseph Snowden, formerly employed through contracts or direct hire as a technical expert for the United States National Security Agency, and Defense Intelligence Agency.
In the course of my service to these organizations, I believe I witnessed systemic violations of law by my government that created a moral duty to act. As a result of reporting these concerns, I have faced a severe and sustained campaign of persecution that forced me from my family and home. I am currently living in exile under a grant of temporary asylum in the Russian Federation in accordance with international law.
I am heartened by the response to my act of political expression, in both the United States and beyond. Citizens around the world as well as high officials – including in the United States – have judged the revelation of an unaccountable system of pervasive surveillance to be a public service. These spying revelations have resulted in the proposal of many new laws and policies to address formerly concealed abuses of the public trust. The benefits to society of this growing knowledge are becoming increasingly clear at the same time claimed risks are being shown to have been mitigated.
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TUSCALOOSA | The Shelton State Community College women's basketball team routed Enterprise State 99-33 Monday to run its record to 12-0.
Shelton State, which is ranked No. 7 in the NJCAA poll, led 52-14 at halftime. Thirteen players saw action for the Lady Bucs, and 10 scored.
Brianna Lancaster had 17 points. Sharin Rivers had 15 points and six assists. Porshia Blue had 13 points. Brittany Agee had 10 points. Amber Yelding finished with eight rebounds and nine steals.
Enterprise State's Tiarta Smith made six 3-pointers and scored 20 points.
Shelton State will play Friday in the Lady Titans Classic in Melbourne, Fla. The Lady Bucs will face Brevard, the host team, at 7 p.m.
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AppFresh thinks the newest Version is 2.7.28 - but 2.7.2 is the correct newest version. please fix.
AppFresh problems here as well. Despite having 2.7.2b3 AppFresh tells me, there's an update (which then would be 2.7.2b3). Please fix this, AppFresh.
Current version is 2.6.2 (April 30th 2011).
Appfresh shows a wrong version number in status (2.6.21),
so false "available update".
Current version is 2.6.0, eventually this will appear here. However, AppFresh shows 2.6.7. Confusion as usual.
Current version is 2.5.3. However, appfresh shows 2.5.24. I think there is a bad version in there somewhere as 24>3 in version numbers. Can you check the old versions?
What is the purpose of this/why should I download it? I'm familiar with X11, does this improve it, is it a replacement?
They are now on version 2.5.2, as of 10-July-2010
Alright, wait. Now that I've got both WQuartz and X11 on my system, can I actually remove X11?
Or what exactly is the deal here?
XQuartz is the upgrade from x11. It's current version is 2.5.0, although it is being reported on AppFresh as 2.5.5
2 things here: 1) all the comments about the version number seem to be correct. With v2.5.0 installed, I am being prompted to upgrade to "2.5.5", which when downloaded seems to be 2.5.0. Something is wrong there. and 2) XQuartz != X11, and both "upgrades" pulled down the same exact XQuartz package, so, again, I think something is wrong.
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POSITION: Defenseman
SHOOTS: Left
BIRTHPLACE: Port Hawkesbury, NS, CAN
DRAFTED: CBJ: 2001-85 overall
|NSMHL Defenceman of the Year Award (1999) Signed as a free agent by NY Islanders, July 12, 2007. Missed majority of 2007-08 due to knee injury and as a healthy reserve. Signed as a free agent by Chicago, July 15, 2008. Traded to Calgary by Chicago for Kyle Greentree, October 7, 2009. Traded to Edmonton by Calgary with Calgary's 3rd round choice (Travis Ewanyk) in 2011 Entry Draft for Steve Staios, March 3, 2010. Signed as a free agent by Nashville, August 31, 2010. Signed as a free agent by Columbus, July 5, 2011. Signed as a free agent by Boston, July 18. 2012. Missed majority of 2012-13 as a healthy reserve. Signed as a free agent by NY Rangers, July 5, 2013. Signed as a free agent by Ottawa, July 3, 2014.
|2011-12: Established career NHL-highs in assists and points with 3-13=16 totals ... Had two multiple-point games, a 1-1=2 night Oct. 21 at Detroit and two assists Jan. 10 at Chicago ... Had a career-best three-game assist and point streak from Jan. 8-13 (0- 4=4 totals) ... 2010-11: Was signed as a free agent by Nashville and spent the season with their AHL affiliate in Milwaukee with pro career-highs in goals (9), assists (26) and points (35) ... Led club defensemen in goals and was second in points ... Had a six-game assist and point streak from Feb. 22-Mar. 2 (0-7=7 totals) ... 2009-10: Had a career season-high four combined goals with Calgary and Edmonton ... Had 1-2=3 totals in 22 Flames games prior to his Mar. 3 trade to Edmonton, where he finished the season with 3-4=7 totals in 19 Oilers contests ... Had points in consecutive games twice, Dec. 9-11 (1-1=2 totals) and Mar. 13-15 (2-1=3 totals) ... Had one multiple-point game, tying his previous career-high with a 1-1=2 effort on Mar. 15 in Columbus ... 2008- 09: Ranked third among Chicago defensemen in plus/minus with a career-high +19 rating ... Had points in consecutive games played on three occasions, Oct. 15-18 (0-2=2 totals), Oct. 22-25 (2-0=2 totals) and Nov. 3-9 (101-2 totals) ... Also played two games with one assist with Chicago's AHL affiliate in Rockford ... 2007-08: Played his first season in the Islanders organization with two assists in 30 Islanders games, missing the majority of the season with a knee injury ... His two assists came in a three-game span from Feb. 14-18 ... Also played two scoreless games in Bridgeport Sound/AHL ... 2006-07: Played his first full NHL season with 3-7=10 totals while playing a career season-high of 61 games ... 2005-06: Split the season between Columbus and Syracuse/AHL ... Had 5-24=29 totals in 49 Crunch games with three recalls to Columbus ... His first goal of the season proved the power play game-winner on Nov. 26 in St. Louis ... His +9 rating was second among all Blue Jackets players ... 2004-05: Played the NHL lockout season in Syracuse/AHL with 6-17=23 totals in 77 games which ranked second among club defensemen in points ... 2003-04: Split his first professional season between Columbus and their AHL affiliate in Syracuse ... Had 6-15=21 totals in 49 games with the Crunch with three recalls to Columbus ... Played his first NHL game Dec. 2 vs. Anaheim, recorded his first NHL point with an assist in his second game on Dec. 4 vs. Nashville and scored his first NHL goal Feb. 11 vs. Los Angeles ... Had one multiple-point game, setting a career-high for assists and points in a game with a two-assist night on Mar. 16 in Edmonton ... Juniors: Played four seasons of junior hockey in the QMJHL with Rimouski and Quebec with 40-155=195 totals and 439 PIM in 252 career junior games ... Won a Memorial Cup championship with Rimouski in 1999-00 ... Enjoyed his best junior season in 2001-02, finished fourth among league defensemen in scoring with 17-49=66 totals in 68 games.


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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Judgment: Electronic Edition, by Charles GrayTable of Contents
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Irving's reponse
5.208Irving agreed that in his account in Hitler's War of the meeting which took place between Hitler and Antonescu, he omitted to refer to Hitler's anti-semitic outburst which included the remark that "one must proceed against the Jews, the more radically the better". Irving justified the omission by saying that it adds not one iota to what is already known.
5.209In this connection Irving, in order to rebut the claim that Hitler displayed a vindictive attitude towards the Jews on this (or any other) occasion, drew attention to the willingness of Hitler on occasion to approve some merciful disposal for individual Jews or groups of Jews. Irving instanced the permission given by Hitler for 70,000 Jewish children to leave Romania and travel to Palestine. Longerich agreed that there were times when Hitler exempted certain Jews from deportation or extermination.
5.210In regard to the meeting between Hitler and Horthy, Irving in his response laid stress on what Hitler said at the first session on 16 April, namely that the Jews would not need to be killed. He argued that it was throughout Hitler's position that there was no need to murder the Hungarian Jews, since they could be accommodated in concentration camps as had happened in the case of the Slovakian Jews. Irving argued that, when Hitler is recorded in the minutes of the meeting taken by Hilgruber as having referred to Jews having "vanished" to the East, he was referring to their deportation. Evans's answer to this was that on 16 April Hitler was setting up a smoke-screen and seeking to conceal from Horthy what his true intentions were. Longerich concurred, adding that Hitler's reference to the Slovakian Jews is significant because (as Hitler must by this time have known) they had been put to death in extermination camps.
5.211Irving did not in his evidence dispute the accuracy of the record made by Schmidt of the meeting on 17 April. Irving argued that the reason why Ribbentrop said what he did is that the Hungarian Jews were posing a security threat: what Ribbentrop was proposing was that, on that account, they should be sent to concentration camps; if they refused (but not otherwise) they would be shot. Evans replied that Irving is perverting and distorting the clear sense of what Ribbentrop said. Irving persisted in his claim that the use of the term "Ausrottung " in Horthy's draft letter to Hitler of 7 May is significant because it contemplates the Jews being forcibly deported rather than killed.
5.212Irving agreed that he wrongly reported Hitler as saying on 17 April what he had in fact said on 16 April. He also agreed that his error had been pointed out to him as long ago as 1977 by the historian Martin Broszat. But he contended that his error as to the date is a matter of no consequence. That, he claimed, is why he did not correct the reference in the 1991 edition of Hitler's War. There was no deliberate misrepresentation or deliberate suppression. Irving asserted that he included in the 1977 edition the substance of what Hitler said about the Jews on 17 April. His explanation for the removal in the 1991 edition of part of what Hitler said is that it was an abridged edition. In any case he considered that the omitted words do not add much.
5.213As regards Hitler's language, Irving drew attention to the fact that the internal record of the meeting kept by the Hungarians (as opposed to the official Nazi minute) made no mention of the deported Hungarian Jews being killed. There would have been no reason for the Hungarians to conceal the fact that they were to be killed, if that had indeed been stated at the meeting to be the intention. If Hitler had said that the Nazis were proposing to kill the Hungarian Jews, one would expect, suggested Irving, the Hungarians' internal record to include a protest at such barbarism.
5.214Irving explained that Hitler was distressed and angry about recent the Allied bombing raids of cities in Germany. That was the reason for Hitler's outburst to Horthy. Evans pointed out that in the 1977 edition of Hitler's War Irving gave a different explanation for Hitler's menacing words, namely the Warsaw uprising. Another explanation offered by Irving for the words used by Hitler is that he was full of resentment about the massacre at Katyn. All these explanations and excuses are bogus, according to Evans.
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Sunday, 06/12/2011
Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD
Set 1: Buried Alive > Lonesome Cowboy Bill, Ha Ha Ha, SampleSample in a Jar > DividedDivided Sky, Wolfman'sWolfman's Brother -> Boogie OnBoogie On Reggae Woman > Gumbo, Halley'sHalley's Comet > GinBathtub Gin > JJLCJesus Just Left Chicago, Character Zero
Set 2: Party Time, C&PCrosseyed and Painless > Steam > Light > WedgeThe Wedge, Alaska, Halfway to the Moon > HoodHarry Hood > BDTNLBackwards Down the Number Line, Loving Cup
Encore: Sanity > MakisupaMakisupa Policeman[1] > First Tube
[1] With lyrics referencing blunts and bundt cake.
Noteworthy Jams: Boogie On Reggae Woman, Steam
Average Song Gap: 16.24
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Lonesome Cowboy Bill was played for the first time since July 30, 2003 (141 shows). Makisupa included lyrics referencing blunts and a moist bundt cake.
Official Photos
LivePhish Download
"Steam" Official Video
Phish.net Recap
Song Distribution:
2 Party Time
2 Joy
2 Stash
2 Hoist
2 Junta
1 Fuego
1 Farmhouse
1 Billy Breathes
1 Rift
1 Lawn Boy
1 The White Tape
Songs by Debut Year:
This show was part of the "2011 Early Summer Tour."
No matter, they bought it to Merriweather tonight. My first highlights were Crosseyed and Painless and First Tube. Though I had a great time with everything in the 1st set I just finished listening to the C and P and it was everything my ears originally told me it was. The Steam that followed it was a full blown-out production complete with so much "steam" emitted from behind it that it totally enveloped the stage to the point that nothing but the lights thru the "stuff", lol, could be seen.
The Buried Alive opener was from a huge sign that he personally requested from the fan and showed it personally to the members of the band first before facing it up towards the audience so they could see what was being requested on it. Ha Ha Ha. yep, got it...:-wink. Sample, Sky, Wolfman's, Boogie On, blah blah blah, loved it all, as opposed to the rock monster that Camden was IMHO, tonight was Funk night at the Post. Personal favorite is Bathtub Gin, Jesus Just Left Chicago rocked many in the house and probably was my first, haven't gap charted yet. Character Zero was a good sign that all was good for both the end of the set and the tone for the next one, a pretty happy mood pervaded the venue in between.
Working semi-backwards, Trey and the rest of the band ripped the heart out of Alaska. Light>The Wedge, funkenlicious, other songs speak for themselves, the Crosseyed and Painless was and will always will be a personal highlight.
Halfway to the Moon is IMHO one of the coolest songs in the repertoire and was another one of "those" songs in all of the best ways possible.
Hood was Hood, BDTNL rocked rocked rocked, my Loving Cup was going to my soulmate Angela dancing with us, the Sanity was, well, insane. My first, I think, Makisupa Policeman was really sweet and I wasn't giving into the finale, First Tube was all that and more, the final musical orgasm both thru the ears and the eyes, yeah, a fitting climax to though I wasn't there on nite 1, an overall fine experience with two shows that I hope were fine to your eyes and ears but this night that I attended was perfect, if not perfectly played. But perfection, at least for me, is overrated when it comes to this. Thanks to the peeps who would have made this the perfect night anyways but, musically, Phish wins. Again. T/U.
This was a great, upbeat close to a rockin and occasionally dark (see: Rock and Roll-> Albuquerque from Sat- mmmmm... I can still feel it in between my teeth) weekend.
Fishman and Mike stole the show IMO, esp from Wolfman's on. Steam was pretty wild and obviously has a lot of potential. Between Steam and Halfway to the Moon, I think I've founf my two favorite 3.0 songs.
The band obviously had a lot of fun this weekend, all four of them looked absolutely euphoric as they lit into the "beautiful buzz" part of Loving Cup, and they giddily joked around in the encore before tearing up First Tube.
Saturday was the highpoint of the weekend, but MPP2 was not far behind in my opinion.
C&P>Steam was also incredible, and I had been waiting for a Buried Alive opener for forever, and we got a comparably long one. Mindmelting encore as well.
Loved the whole weekend for the most part, really good song selection where the only hiccups were the placement of Sample & Chalkdust which kind of disrupted what would have been really cohesive sets otherwise, despite those offending songs being well played in a vaccuum.
Second set of the second night was the most impressed I've been with the boys outside of the first two Bethels or Detroit. They really put the faith in the newer material for the most part as Hood & Loving Cup were the only 2 songs to be "in rotation" previous to 3.0 - usually that might make people cringe, but on this night the second set unfurled perfectly. Very Fish heavy show!
Quick note: Either I am being Captain Obvious here or I have made a breakthrough. It seems like the past few nights have been tailor made setlists for personal band members. On the couch tour, I have noticed. 6/8 looks like Trey, 6/10 has Mike written all over it, and 6/11 focused on Page. Well it looks like we got Fishman. I didn't know what to expect.
Set 1:
Buried Alive is old school Phish and the sound just takes me back right away. Nicely played. Not a fan of Velvet Underground (I know, I am in the minority, but we all have our preferences) so the second tune was boring for me. Ha is silly, but cool and once Sample hit, I was a little worried. But I shouldn't have been. Sample is perfect for a new fan and he was digging it. Plus, it is a good song. Solid version. Divided is what it is...a classic tune that never gets old, but it has been following me around and I haven't really heard it stray enough. In the hopes of not sounding like a jaded fan, it's kind of predictable lately. Ok...throw all that out the window. Once Wolfman's kicks into high gear, this set shines right through Zero and leaves ears ringing during setbreak. The jam out of Wolfman's is pure funk, but when it turns to Boogie, watch out. Page is out front here, just killing it on the keys and the band is locked in. The phunk persists and Gumbo is strong as ever. Just amazing. I was feeling it and heads were grooving. Not to be outdone, the Halley's is especially strong and goes right into a stunning Jesus Left Chicago. Despite Page ripping the vocals, it is Trey's soloing here that stands out. Really nice work. When the kick into the cliche Zero, no one even groans a little. The earned the right to rock out hard and this edition seems right on this night. Ears ringing and happy fans.
Set Break: Some air up on the top of the lawn, a loo break, and back to the seats.
Set 2: Party Time starts up while I am still walking, but I settle in for the jam. First time I heard it live and frankly, only the second or third time I heard it ever. It's ok. Kind of cheesy, but a fun way to kick off a set. CandP. Now here we go, the funk returns. I read somewhere that this song is getting overplayed and is not deviating much, but who cares? This song thumps and the band is digging it. I will take this tune any show I see. The playing moves into a distinct riff and it turns out that it is a new song...Steam. I really liked it. Nice little sneaky melody, thick bassline, and cool stage effects. I will take it. When they go into Light, I am disappointed. I know there have been some tight monsters of this song and listening back, this is a really solid piece of music, but being there it was a different story. It felt like Trey had his mind set on playing this song even if it didn't make sense with the vibes in the place. Awkward move from the new song Steam and the crowd sags a little. The Wedge picks us up a bit, but I am more a fan of The Wedge in the first set. It's too short and predictable to be the centerpiece of the second set in my opinion. I pee during Alaska. Sorry to be negative here, but to me, that songs sucks. The come at us with another new one...Halfway to the Moon. It's better than Alaska, but I am not into it and neither is the crowd. More sagging. That song has potential if appropriately placed in a set, but this didn't seem right. Especially after the Saw It Again second set from MPP 2010, this set was petering out hard. Hood has the potential to rescue it, but again, here goes Trey cutting the jam part short. It was just starting to bliss out and engage me when I was jolted back to a Number Line. Good song. Terrible placement here. To me, I would have much preferred them to take Hood for another 10 minutes and just end the set. Oh well. Decent jamming, but uneventful. Loving Cup was extra strong as previously mentioned in the reviewing. I agree. Real good stuff. The encore is above average and a lot of fun. First Tube was insanely out there and peaked really hard. Just like the Zero that ended the first set, ears were ringing.
This is a nice, solid show and really gets by on the mid-late first set. Hard funk. I say seek it out and focus on Wolfman's-Zero and again from Crosseyed-Steam. Besides that, the encore is worth a listen, and that's about it. Still, I left pleased and felt like the band played their asses off. I am happy they are back and even this 6.5 out of 10 show is really great stuff.
Party Time was good as the set 2 opener. The following Crosseyed and Painless was excellent. Trey tore this one to pieces. After a brief ambient jam at the end of Crosseyed, Steam made its second appearance. I knew of the song but I hadn't heard it yet. The fog that filled the stage and the pavilion was cool. Steam ended with a crescendo of effects and the chords of Light emerged from the wall of sound. Light's jam had its moments, but it was nothing special overall. The Wedge and Alaska were well played, but I think the set lost some steam (pun intended) here with some questionable song placements. Halfway to the Moon is a really nice song, and I was ecstatic to hear Harry Hood, which is my favorite song. Although, I think the jam was cut short by BDTNL. BDTNL did feature some serious playing from Trey though, as did the set-closing Loving Cup. The second set was a 3.0 showcase, with more than half of the songs in the set being from the 3.0 era. A three-song encore is always great. Makisupa Policeman was funny with all the "What!" shouting from the band and also included a bass solo from Mike on his new bass that he used for the the encore the previous night, as well. First Tube ended the show with a bang.
The highlights of the first set were Wolfman's->Boogie On and Bathtub Gin. The second set highlights were Crosseyed>Steam and the encore.
Set one is super fun for a 3.0 first set. A rare > bustout > rare sandwich opens the show in style. Divided Sky, the first land-mark song, is good save a little shakiness after the pause. A true first set segue is a rare treat that Wolfman's -> Boogie offers. Gumbo and Halley's are standard, but Gin receives some harmonic exploration. It still has a straightforward build, but they mess around with many more modes than is normal for the song. Instead of one major mode shift, there are several one after another. JJLC is always a treat; this version is well played. Zero is 0. This is definitely in the upper echelon of first sets from 2011.
Party Time opener for set two! Woot woot Partayy! Xeyed > Steam > Light is a good sequence that, Steam's ending notwithstanding, doesn't venture outside the box. This was back before Light was cemented as a major jam vehicle; keep that perspective check in mind as you listen. I've never understood the hate for Alaska. It seems rather misplaced considering Ocelot has firmly planted itself favorably within fan culture. That comparison might seem tired, but the two songs really are pretty damn similar in feeling and structure. However, I loathe the Alaska intro. It wouldn't be so bad if they could actually plant the landing on that shit, but they rarely do. It's always a mess. This one particularly so. That's my biggest beef (or should I say salmon... holy shit that's dumb, I don't know why I thought of that) with the song.
The rest of set II is uneventful. Hood isn't particularly good. Even if the peak were better it wouldn't have been that satisfying because the beginning of the jam is so impatient. No payoff without anticipation. Numberline? Yawn. Loving Cup? Yawn.
Encore: Sanity? Loose but fun. Makisupa? What!?!?? Laughter. First Tube? Rage that shit yo.
Ranking each set for what they are, I'd say that set one is better for a first set than set two is for a second set. Set one is really quite spectacular as far as first sets go. And set two is pretty fun if don't go into it expecting super-duper h3tty jamz.
Set I opened with Buried Alive - super opener.
Lonesome Cowboy Bill was a great bustout. Love me some Loaded.
Ha Ha Ha was similarly awesome and is pretty rare.
Sample was sample.
D-Sky was well played and was pretty nice.
Wolfman's -> Boogie On featured some funktastic playing and a great segue. Boy was that fun!
Gumbo is a great tune.
Halley's is similar a great tune.
Bathtub Gin gave us a bit of jamming. Nothing insane, but Trey peaked these 3.0 Gins pretty hard pretty consistently.
JLC was great to catch. Love it.
Zero closed us out with some rock and roll.
Overall Set I: This was a fun set. Like the night before it had good song selection and some nice jamming in Wolfmans->Boogie and Gin. I was happy with it.
Set II opened with Party Time? Bit of an odd one, but I was fine with it as a table-setter.
Xeyed is always raging, this one raged adequately, but it's not a top version.
Steam was awesome and this is a fine version indeed. Good solo and good outro jam. Grab this if you like the tune.
Light was underwhelming actually. It had a jam, but just wasn't so interesting.
Wedge>Alaska>Halfway to the Moon was ok. Nothing more (although I love the Wedge).
Hood was kind of short with an average jam, but it's always good to hear.
Number Line>Loving Cup closed it out. Some good guitar work, but pretty standard.
Encore was amazing with Sanity>Makisupa>First Tube - that was a ton of fun!
Overall set II: Good not great. Fun, but nothing magical. Encore was worthwhile for sure though!
2/5 A little below par for both nights I think.
I sat right next to the sound/light boards the second night of MPP. Despite how awesome CK is, and I'm not criticizing you, he for the most part can run a program for many of the songs and watch the lights go. That was the case with the first songs each of the two nights in Maryland.
All I'm saying is that when the band takes the stage, and the place goes nuts, I don't think they're being as improvisational as you might otherwise believe. And, this approach would be consistent with Phish 3.0 - lots more songs per set, less jamming, more predictability. But still a lot of fun.


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Reception Thursday for Cuban posters exhibit at Showroom
Published: Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 15, 2013 at 5:12 p.m.
The Showroom, at 149 S. Daniel Morgan Ave., will host a reception for the exhibit "Revolution: The Art of Cuban Posters since 1959" from 7-9 p.m. Thursday during Art Walk.
After the Cuban revolution, artists who might otherwise have worked for corporate clients had to begin designing public posters for the government. Blending vivid imagery and graphic wit with party-mandated propaganda slogans, these posters have had a powerful and constant presence in Cuba since the early days of Castro's regime. Intrigued by this unique form of historical art as artifact, Spartanburg resident Lindsay Webster began collecting and has amassed a large number of Cuban posters.
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The 2013 NBA Finals are on ABC17.
LeBron James.
Tim Duncan.
Dwyane Wade.
Tony Parker.
Spoelstra and Riley.
Gregg Popovich.
What's not to love?
1) What does Popovich do with LeBron James?
The first time Popovich's team matched up with LeBron it was 2007. LeBron was only 22 years old, four years into his NBA career. He was also a Cleveland Cavalier. Not kidding, this is the starting lineup he walked out on to the court with against a two-time NBA champion organization:
PG Daniel "Boobie" Gibson (rookie, 4.6 ppg in regular season)
SG Larry Hughes/Sasha Pavlovic (Hughes averaged 14.9 ppg, but shot 40.0% from the field and a career-worst 67% from the free throw line. Pavlovic averaged a career-high 9.0 ppg that season)
PF Drew Gooden (11.1 ppg, 8.5 rpg and a "sweet" neck-tuft-mullet thing going on for the former Beaker)
C Zydrunas Ilgauskas (11.9 ppg, 7.7 rpg as a 31-year old, Lithuanian, 7-foot-3 center trying to guard Tim Duncan in his prime)
Michael Jordan might have trouble winning the Chicago Public League title with that collection of "talent." He's definitely not knocking off the Monstars and saving the planet.
Needless to say, the Cavs were overmatched and swept faster than David Stern could veto a Chris Paul trade. It was the last time the Spurs appeared in the NBA Finals.
In that series, the Spurs went ahead and let LeBron shoot perimeter jumpers. They worked underneath screens and clogged the paint. They stuck Bruce Bowen on him to harass him and do nothing else. Fabricio Oberto and Francisco Elson, essentially, had 12 free shots at him in the paint each game, because it wouldn't matter if they fouled out or not.
Fast forward seven years and LeBron James has four league MVPs, one Finals MVP, two Olympic gold medals, and a game he estimates to be roughly "40 or 50 times better" than it was in 2007.
Let's compare some numbers on James from then and now:
Regular Season
2006-07: 27.3 ppg, 6.7 rpg, 6.0 apg, 47.6% FG, 31.9% 3-PT, 69.8% FT, 24.5 PER
2012-13: 26.8 ppg, 8.0 rpg, 7.3 apg, 56.5% FG, 40.6% 3-PT, 75.3% FT, 31.6 PER
2006-07: 25.1 ppg, 8.1 rpg, 8.0 apg, 41.6% FG, 28.0% 3-PT, 75.5% FT, 23.9 PER
2012-13: 26.2 ppg, 7.3 rpg, 6.4 apg, 51.4% FG, 38.7% 3-PT, 77.2% FT, 28.7 PER
Clearly (and you didn't need me to tell you this), LeBron is much better now than he was then. The most obvious improvement has come with his jump shot. He no longer is a liability chucking perimeter jumpers.
Statistically, he is on par shooting a three these days with his teammate Ray Allen; the same Ray Allen who has made more three point field goals than anyone else in NBA history.
What these numbers do NOT show is how much better James is as a defender, too. LeBron is unequivocally the best perimeter defender in the NBA, while also being the league's most versatile. Ask Paul George what it's like to be covered by LeBron.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Sarunas Marciulionis no longer wears a mustache. His knee isn't always feeling so great these days.
But the memories of a career that earned him enshrinement in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame are still fresh in his mind.
Told that Don Nelson said he was the toughest player the former Warriors coach ever had, Marciulionis smiled.
"Maybe (because) I can handle Nellie's treatment, you know?" Marciulionis mused. "So that was my toughness."
Whatever challenges Marciulionis faced during his stereotype-shattering seven NBA seasons or while carrying the weight of Lithuanian basketball, the muscular guard broke right through them.
Marciulionis overcame a language barrier and an adjustment to an American style of basketball in coming to the Warriors in 1989 as one of the first international players to earn regular playing time in the NBA.
Marciulionis came from the Soviet Union and lived to go to the basket and draw contact, playing unlike other European guards that former Warriors teammate Chris Mullin remembered.
"Sarunas was the total opposite, a bull in a china shop, aggressive, powerful, dynamic scoring guard," said Mullin, who will serve as Marciulionis' presenter at the enshrinement ceremony in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Friday.
"To me, he was really the trail blazer for European players coming over and having a major role on a winning NBA team. One year (in the 1991-92 season) he averaged 18 (points) off the bench for us. We had guys come over to try the NBA for a little bit, but then they would go back. Nobody really stuck until Sarunas. He said, 'I'm not going to go and try the NBA, I'm going to make the NBA my career.' "
Marciulionis recalled Nelson getting on him about breaking old habits and shooting with confidence. It was Nelson's son, Donnie, who had led the effort to bring Marciulionis over from Europe. He ended up averaging 12.8 points over his career while playing from mostly off the bench as well for Seattle, Sacramento and Denver.
"That was a tough time," Marciulionis recalled of his rookie season. "No language, no understanding of the game.
"Nellie was hard, but a good coach."
Marciulionis thanked his Warriors teammates for their support in helping him adapt and also won over Nelson, whose tips are still passed along to coaches at the Sarunas Marciulionis Basketball Academy in Lithuania to this day.
"He spent a lot of time on the free-throw line because he had no fear," Nelson said.
Ankle and knee injuries cut short Marciulionis' final two years with the Warriors, but it was his body of work with Lithuania that won him direct election by the international committee into the Hall of Fame.
Marciulionis won an Olympic gold medal playing for the USSR in 1988. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, he led the resurrection of the Lithuanian team, helping it win two Olympic bronze medals.
The fledgling Lithuanian team captured worldwide attention having gained the support of the Grateful Dead and the band's tie-dyed garb. The Lithuanians beat the Russians to win Olympic bronze in Barcelona in 1992.
When Marciulionis turned 50 in June, Donnie Nelson surprised him by showing up for the birthday celebration in Lithuania.
"It's recognition for what I've done for the game of basketball," Marciulionis said of the Hall of Fame honor, adding that what he did for Lithuania is just one story in a career filled with them.
"I'm proud of it."
Staff Writer Carl Steward contributed to this report. For more on the Warriors, see the Inside the Warriors blog at ibabuzz.com/warriors.
Former coach Don Nelson called Sarunas Marciulionis, above, his toughest player.


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quote: So when I read things like today with Jan Brewer denying younger immigrants public things like driver's licenses just because they've taken the step to become documented, I have to finally stand up and say enough is enough!
quote: But, I don't loathe them. Not at all.
quote: but all of them are highly intelligent and have worked hard in life. So have all the Mexicans I've met.
quote: Your post is just one big emotional mush-fest. I'm not falling for that crap, you'll have to do a lot better than that to convince me our borders should just be wide open.
quote: Dude if an illegal can get a photo ID, that means he can now vote. Hello? You want non-citizens being able to drive...wow, that's just brilliant.
quote: Do you agree that this is a nation of laws and we should abide by them and enforce them? I'm sick of all this Jan Brewer hate, it's ridiculous.
quote: It's not about hate, or racism. You're just buying into the hype.
quote: Unless you live in Arizona and pay taxes there, you frankly have no right to tell them they should ignore their problems because you said so.
quote: Or does equality not mean anything to you?
quote: Umm, you do know you have to be a legal citizen to vote, right? (I know you do)
quote: I thought you kept up on this stuff? With a drivers license number, and the stupidly easy to get "temporary" Social Security numbers given out to illegals, they can now "legally" vote.
quote: Jan is doing what our politicians swear an oath to defend, the Constitution. Those visas are illegal. Amnesty is illegal. The "Dream Act" is illegal. And States are supposed to have sovereign rights damnit.
quote: You know there's only a finite number of people this country can support.
quote: We cannot allow a President to executive order his way to immigration "reform".
quote: This is why I'm for requiring people provide either a copy of their birth certificate or certificate of naturalization (both of which can be cross-referenced with government held databases) in order to register to vote.
quote: Well, yes, I totally agree States are supposed to have sovereign rights. However, when immigration is concerned, I do have to point out it is a touchy subject. The Federal Government is supposed to handle interstate issues, States intrastate.
quote: I dislike Obama quite a bit--but, he, like Bush before him, realized some form of immigration reform was needed. See above for how it should be divided.
quote: I know I sound angry and ranting, and I'm sorry.
quote: I disagree with both. We need enforcement, whatever the costs, whatever it takes. If we need to fully militarize our southern border, I'm all for it. If we need to build a Berlin wall here, so be it.
quote: He didn't just do it anyway when Amnesty for Illegals was shot down, he gave the people their say.


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LOS GATOS -- He grew up here as your typical Northern California kid, skateboarding and hanging out at the beach.
But he also spent countless hours on Bay Area ice rinks, and all that hard work has given Viktor Tikhonov the chance to live out his hockey dream at the Sochi Olympics.
If he does get to stand on the victory podium, however, he won't be listening to "The Star-Spangled Banner." Tikhonov, 25, is carrying on a family legacy as he plays for Russia. He shares his name with his 83-year-old grandfather -- the Vince Lombardi of Russian hockey, a domineering figure who won three Olympic titles, though he is better known in the United States as the losing coach in the 1980 Miracle on Ice.
"It's kind of funny to think about it, but the last time Russia won was 22 years ago, when he was the coach," Tikhonov said in a recent phone interview. "Maybe it'll come full circle and we can go from Tikhonov to Tikhonov. That would be kind of cool."
The Olympics, though, will be bittersweet because his father won't be there. Vasili Tikhonov, a former Sharks assistant coach, died in an accident last summer in Moscow.
The family is still struggling with the tragedy, and Tikhonov is using his father's memory to fuel the drive to capture the gold medal, said his sister.
"It definitely does," added Tatjana "Tiki" Tikhonov, who serves as the family spokesperson on their father's death so her brother can focus on hockey. "We are Tikhonovs. Dad is alive in all of us."
Tikhonov returns each summer to Los Gatos, where his mother and sister still live, an anonymous guy training at Sharks Ice when he's not surfing or mountain-biking. But the man whom local friends simply call "Vik" represents the latest generation of Russian hockey royalty.
"They are celebrities in Russia," said Hal Nunn, who coached Tikhonov starting at age 6 with the youth team Santa Clara Blackhawks. "There's no bigger name in Russian hockey. And it's just a fantastic family of really nice people."
Tikhonov, who holds dual Russian and U.S. citizenship, speaks flawless English and Russian along with a little Finnish and German. Born in Riga, Latvia, he moved to Los Gatos at age 4 when his father joined the Sharks organization. At 12, his hockey journey took him to Finland, Switzerland and then Russia before returning to the U.S. in 2008.
That year he was the first-round draft pick of the Phoenix Coyotes. Tikhonov did play 61 NHL games, but today he is a speedy forward with SKA St. Petersburg -- in Russia, not Florida -- of the Kontinental Hockey League, the best in Europe.
But those who know him say he's the same humble kid who skated against players two years older on his way to the top.
"He hasn't lived off the famous last name," said Jon Gustafson, a Sharks executive who also briefly coached Tikhonov as a youth. "He got there because he worked hard. "
His grandfather got him his first pair of skates. But both Gustafson and Nunn recall how father Vasili and son were inseparable and often would practice NHL-level drills for hours even when the younger Tikhonov was only 9 or 10.
But what Nunn remembers most was how Tikhonov never acted entitled even when he was so much more advanced than his teammates.
"We never had to sit him down and tell him that hockey is a team game," Nunn said, "and that we didn't want him lugging the puck all the way down the ice like he was Bobby Orr."
As a teenager, Tikhonov established himself as a rising prospect in Russia and grew closer to his grandfather -- who once had ruled the Soviet Union's hockey program with an iron fist.
The younger Tikhonov began to understand the pressure that came with his name.
"In the States, not many people remind you every day," the younger Tikhonov said. "But in Russia, it's, 'Oh, you're this guy's son or that guy's grandson.' Only in Russia did it really hit who he was or what he'd done."
Tikhonov had put himself in position to make the Olympic team by playing in the KHL in front of Russian coaches when tragedy rocked the family. On Aug. 7, Vasili Tikhonov, 55, fell four stories to his death from his Moscow apartment. He apparently had been trying to cut a hole in netting that covered scaffolding during renovations of the building.
The Tikhonovs have maintained their Los Gatos home over the years, and Tiki Tikhonov and her mother, who also is named Tatjana, were there when they received the news.
"Mom actually talked with dad a few hours before he passed," said Tiki Tikhonov, 29, who today coaches in the Santa Clara Blackhawks program. "Everything was great."
With his father gone, Tikhonov's grandfather has an even more prominent role in his life.
The senior Tikhonov sees the grandson play whenever his St. Petersburg team travels to Moscow, and is expected to be in Sochi watching with pride. The Russian team carries the heavy burden of winning on their home country's ice.
"Things you pretend to do when you're a kid is win the Stanley Cup and get the Olympic gold," Tikhonov said. "Having the chance to do that now is a dream come true."
He has another year-and-a-half on his KHL contract, and it's his sister's dream that he then comes back to his other home to play for the Sharks. But the focus now is on the Olympics.
"We've been telling everybody we know that they should root really hard for the U.S. in everything else but hockey," she said. "Then they have to cheer for Russia and my brother."
Who: Member of the Russian Olympic hockey team who was born in Riga, Latvia, but spent much of his childhood in Los Gatos.
Age: 25.
Family: Grandfather, also Viktor Tikhonov, 83, is the most decorated hockey coach in Russian history, leading the former Soviet Union and then Russian national team to three Olympic gold medals and eight World Championships. Known in the United States as the losing coach when the U.S. upset the Soviets en route to the 1980 Olympic gold medal in the famous Miracle on Ice. Late father, Vasili Tikhonov, worked for the Sharks from 1993 to 1999, including as an assistant coach. Sister, Tiki, coaches with the Santa Clara Blackhawks youth program and this summer plans to begin Tikhonov Training Camp in the Bay Area with her brother.
Career: First-round pick of the Phoenix Coyotes in the 2008 draft (28th overall) and scored 8 goals and 8 assists in 61 career NHL games. Now has found success as a forward for SKA St. Petersburg of Russia's Kontinental Hockey League.
Personal: Wife Genia, who was born the Ukraine, raised in Belarus and moved to the United States at age 16, where she later met Tikhonov in San Jose. They have an 18-month-old son, Lev.
Home: St. Petersburg, Russia, during hockey season, Los Gatos during the summer.


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David Sierra, sits in his family owned realty company in Coral Gables, Fla., Thursday, Jan. 29, 2013, displaying a photo of a flier that the management company passed out to tenants in an office complex where they rented space to Biogenesis and Anthony Bosch. New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez has denied a newspaper report on Tuesday that accused the baseball star of buying human growth hormone and other performance-enhancing substances from a clinic in the Miami area. The Miami New Times, an alternative weekly, reported that it obtained records detailing purchases by Rodriguez, Melky Cabrera, Gio Gonzalez, Bartolo Colon, Nelson Cruz and Yasmani Grandal from a clinic called Biogenesis, run by Bosch. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)


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It's Not Who You Know
It is a classic tale of entrepreneurship: a computer whiz spends a few years working at a large corporation in Silicon Valley, then leaves to launch a startup. But what happens if she locates her firm in Kansas City, 1,500-odd miles away? She will forfeit the perks of working in a high-tech zone, access to clients, inside knowledge, and a community rich in expertise. Should she have stayed in Santa Clara?
Working in an industry hub confers special benefits, known as agglomeration effects. These benefits typically involve sharing both of physical assets and of people. Just as shipping companies share materials and infrastructure in a port, banks in a financial center like New York or London "share" a rich supply of employees who have inside knowledge and industry expertise and can jump easily between firms. Although this phenomenon is well established, little is known about whether a former employee retains these benefits after leaving the industry hub. New research by Professor Evan Rawley, working with Rui J. P. de Figueiredo Jr. of University of California at Berkeley and Philipp Meyer-Doyle of INSEAD, examines how these benefits can be appropriated by an entrepreneur who leaves a firm to start a new venture, no matter where that venture is located, a phenomena they call inherited agglomeration effects.
The importance of an entrepreneur's prior employment is often overlooked, Rawley says. "When people talk about startups, especially high-tech startups, they often think of two guys in a garage, coming up with new ideas," he says. "When in fact that's very unusual. Most entrepreneurial ventures are started by people who have deep knowledge of the industry."
The researchers focused on hedge funds started by entrepreneurs who had trained in large banks in financial centers. Surprisingly, they found that agglomeration effects are portable. "You would think that staying in the financial center would help, because you would remain close to the industry, to other people," says Rawley. "But we found that in the context of hedge funds inherited agglomeration effects are derived not from social capital but from knowledge, which for portfolio managers includes trading strategies, and operational knowledge." In fact, where fund managers spend their early careers (in a financial hub, or not) is at least as important as where they choose to locate their new venture, the study showed.
That might seem counterintuitive in an industry that values connections. But the benefits of staying within in the hub are offset by the effects of greater competition, Rawley explains. "If you're coming from a New York bank and starting up a new hedge fund, even if you are well connected in New York, you're competing with people who are also well connected," he says. "There are a lot of hedge funds chasing dollars in New York, but very few in Missouri."
In their research, Rawley and his coauthors studied data on hedge fund performance and interviewed portfolio managers of more than thirty funds. Many of these managers said that their prior experience at banks was what enabled them to be successful. But when pressed, most couldn't give specifics. "It was interesting that so many of them were unable put a finger on it," Rawley says. "All they could say is that they'd had the chance to learn about the financial services industry." By studying the managers' bios and obtaining information about their prior employment experience, the researchers were able to create a clearer picture of how these managers had benefitted from working in a hub.
For entrepreneurs looking to go farther afield when they strike out on their own, these findings are encouraging, though Rawley cautions that the results generalize best to service industries. "The modern economy is about human capital — knowledge — and, in hedge funds, knowledge is the crux of the business, but in other industries workers may be tied to physical infrastructure that will limit the magnitude of any inherited agglomeration effects," Rawley notes. However, the portability of expertise is not limited to the hedge fund industry; in any sector where human capital is critical, departing employees can take their most valuable asset with them. "Ideas aren't tied to a physical space," Rawley says. "Knowledge is easy to move around."
Evan Rawley is associate professor of management at Columbia Business School.
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Evan Rawley is the Roderick H. Cushman Associate Professor of Business. He joined The Columbia Business School in the strategy area in 2012 from the Wharton School where he was an Assistant Professor. His research on corporate strategy and entrepreneurship has won numerous awards and has been published in Management Science, Organization Science, the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, and the Strategic...
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L.N. Tallur Wins India's Skoda Prize
Can L.N. Tallur follow in the footsteps of Anish Kapoor?
That, at least, is the hope of the organizers of the Skoda Prize, an award designed to highlight the work of midcareer Indian artists. They handed out the award and 1 million rupees (roughly $18,800) in prize money to Mr. Tallur, a 41-year-old sculptor, at a ceremony in New Delhi Friday.
The Skoda Prize, now in its third year, was created in an attempt to mimic the success of the Turner Prize, which is given to British artists under the age of 50. Its winners include Mr. Kapoor, as well as Damien Hirst and Richard Deacon, the Welsh sculptor who credited it with boosting his career when he won in 1987.
Mr. Tallur, who divides his time between South Korea and India, won the prize for work shown at "Quintessential," a 2012 solo exhibition at the Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai.
In his sculptures and room-sized installations he critiqued contemporary society's tendency to preserve and "museumize" its valuables.
A five-man panel that included Indian art historian Geeta Kapur and the South African illustrator William Kentridge picked Mr. Tallur from a shortlist of 20 artists, all of them Indian citizens or long-time residents under the age of 45.
Previous winners include Mithu Sen, who is known for exploring sexuality in her work, and Navin Thomas, a Bangalore-based artist.
Rohini Devasher, a 34-year-old printmaker, received a "breakthrough artist" award for "Permutation," a drawing, video and multimedia exhibition at New Delhi's Gallery Nature Morte exploring patterns in the natural and digital worlds.
That city's National Gallery of Modern Art is showing works by the 20 artists who made the Skoda Prize's short list in a show that runs to the end of the month.


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Terrebonne president outlines local issues
Published: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 at 10:44 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 9:19 a.m.
Terrebonne Parish President Michel Claudet outlined multiple issues facing the parish, including flood insurance changes, drainage and road improvements during a talk Tuesday to the Houma-Terrrebonne Chamber of Commerce.
Congressional reforms to the National Flood Insurance Program, known as Biggert-Waters Act, was a primary topic.
The reforms are expected to increase flood insurance costs for many properties over the coming years. Residents of neighboring parishes have been quoted annual costs topping $25,000 for the coverage, which is required on most mortgaged properties.
"Everyone loves our parish. There are only two things that could potentially run us out," Claudet said. "Unfortunately, one is insurance rates and the other is water."
Properties won't be grandfathered in under current reforms. Grandfathering is the process of exempting older properties from new rules because they met existing guidelines at the time of construction.
Now homeowners' rates will be tied to new FEMA flood maps still under protest by Terrebonne officials.
"We believe that this needs to be corrected because it's just wrong," Claudet said.
He also discussed the progress Terrebonne has made in elevating homes, moving the structures up to reduce flood risk.
For Hurricane Ike, "we ended up flooding again for about the 50th time," Claudet said. "We had to look at what we were going to do for sustainability and future growth."
The parish has helped elevate hundreds of homes using federal grant money in recent years. Parish officials said they've also paid special attention to sustainability when amending parish building rules.
"Then all of a sudden we get the perfect storm and it is the Biggert-Waters Act," he said.
Claudet said government and business officials have banded together to fight the reforms.
That coalition has worked to raise nationwide awareness about the potential consequences of the reforms. It also welcomed a top FEMA administrator to south Louisiana this month to tour various flood protection measures like those in south Lafourche.
Claudet said raising awareness in other states is critical to building momentum in Congress to reverse the reforms.
Earlier this month, officials dedicated the $49 million Bubba Dove Floodgate on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. The floodgate has been years in the making and was built using state and local tax money.
It's the linchpin in Morganza-to-the-Gulf, a hurricane-protection levee system intended to protect Terrebonne and parts of Lafourche from up to a Category 3 storm.
Claudet also talked about upcoming road projects, including the widening of Hollywood and Grand Caillou roads in Houma, both of which have been in the planning stages for years.
Upgraded pump stations are also coming, projects which are intended to help alleviate flooding caused by hurricanes and other storms.
Three newly built pump stations, in Summerfield off Valhi Lagoon Court, in Ashland off Grand Caillou and Baroid on Wallis street, are already up and running. Work is planned on five others in:
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- Bayou Cane.
- Montegut.
- Coteau.
- Smithridge.
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Get an overview of this hotelUpscale hotel on the beach, with 3 outdoor swimming pools
Located in Miami Beach, this beachfront hotel is in the historical district and within 1 mi (2 km) of Miami City Ballet, Lincoln Road Mall, and Art Deco Welcome Center. Lummus Park Beach is 1.2 mi (2 km) away.
Hotel Features
Catch some rays at the beach or spend the day relaxing at The Setai's full-service spa. Then enjoy a meal at one of the hotel's 3 restaurants.
Room Amenities
All 130 rooms feature thoughtful touches like bathrobes and slippers, plus free WiFi, free wired Internet, and flat-screen TVs with cable channels. Guests will also find sitting areas, refrigerators, and minibars.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
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Hotel Amenities
The Setai features a full-service spa, 3 outdoor swimming pools, a health club, and a steam room. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 3 restaurants. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wired and wireless Internet access.
Business amenities at this 5-star property consist of a 24-hour business center, limo/town car service, and meeting rooms. This Art Deco hotel also offers a children's pool, a seasonal outdoor pool, and spa services. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
The Setai is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour business center
- Babysitting or childcare
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
- Pool umbrellas
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Children's pool
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Full-service spa
- Garden
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Health club
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Meeting rooms 2
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Number of floors - 40
- Number of outdoor pools - 3
- Number of restaurants - 3
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Porter/bellhop
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Shopping on site
- Smoke-free property
- Spa services on site
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Steam room
- Total number of rooms - 130
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Wedding services
- Year Built 2005
Family Friendly Amenities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Children's pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Outdoor pools
- Refrigerator
- Rollaway/extra beds available
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Bathrobes
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Cable TV service
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free newspaper
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Daily housekeeping
- Designer toiletries
- Desk
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Hair dryer
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- In-room massage available
- In-room safe
- Minibar
- Phone
- Premium bedding
- Private bathroom
- Refrigerator
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Separate sitting area
- Slippers
- Turndown service
Where to Eat
Jaya - This restaurant specializes in Asian cuisine and serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner. Open daily.
Setai Grill - This steakhouse serves dinner only. Open select days.
Pool & Beach - This beach restaurant specializes in Mediterranean cuisine and serves lunch only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. Open daily.
Bar & Courtyard - This cocktail bar specializes in Asian cuisine. Open daily.
Nearby Things to Do
A health club and complimentary bicycles are featured at the hotel. 3 outdoor swimming pools are on site along with a children's pool. In addition to a seasonal outdoor pool, other recreational amenities include a steam room and a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Free bicycles on site
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Ecotours nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Fitness classes on site
- Water skiing on site
- Windsurfing on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
- Segway rental/tour nearby
Spa Services
The onsite spa has massage/treatment rooms.
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-in time ends at 6 AM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: USD 50 per person (approximately)
- Valet parking fee: USD 49.00 per night (in/out privileges)
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Up to 2 children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
Awards & Affiliations
- The Setai is listed in the 2013 Condé Nast Traveler Gold List of the world's best places to stay.
- The property is a member of the Leading Hotels of the World.
Ocean Suites Experience
Book a stay in a Suite, 1 Bedroom, Ocean View room type for travel from April 23, 2014, and receive the following:
- Private roundtrip airport transfers between Miami and Fort Lauderdale airports (one roundtrip per reservation)
- Flexible check-in and check-out times (based on availability)
- Daily breakfast in The Restaurant or en-suite (per registered adult)
- Spa treatment en-suite or in The Spa at The Setai (one 45-minute Balinese massage per reservation)
- En-suite non-alcoholic beverages, replenished throughout guests' stay
- Arrival bar and dry goods assortment, inclusive of selective spirits and snacks
- Personal assistance for unpacking and packing luggage upon request
- Access to The Ocean Suite luxury courtesy car (based on availability)