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Soon, Alex Smith will appear in Kansas City, smile, put on a Chiefs hat, and do most of the things he did when he first became a 49er almost eight years ago.
He will be full of hope and promise -- hey, he's still only 28. He will signal a new era. He will sound modest and thoughtful and enthusiastic.
Smith will be the same in so many important optimistic ways as he was in April 2005, when the entire 49ers universe lay at his feet.
But when he emerges in Kansas City after his trade from the 49ers for two high draft picks is official, Smith also will be weathered and wizened by his turbulent time as a 49er.
Importantly, the end of the Smith era for the 49ers is not the end for him or his old franchise. It's just another start.
And most important, Smith and the 49ers will be better for the whole experience -- and understand themselves better because of it.
That's Smith's truest legacy with the 49ers, I believe.
He's a reflection and a cause of everything that they were from April 2005 to March 2013, and that's the entire range from the silliness of Mike Nolan to the acceleration and achievements of Jim Harbaugh.
No. 11 tied it all together, he really did.
At the beginning, the 49ers weren't good enough for Smith and certainly weren't good enough to Smith while he learned the NFL and then suffered serious injuries.
At the end, Smith wasn't good enough for the 49ers, and they turned to Colin Kaepernick to chase championships.
And for a golden season-and-a-half -- 2011 through much of 2012 -- Smith and the 49ers were exactly and beautifully in sync with each other.
It's the history of the 49ers in the past eight years, all told through Smith's biography.
OK, there's another strong legacy: Smith handled just about every dip and rise with graceful perseverance, which is no minor feat when you're talking about the magnitude and multitude of events surrounding Smith.
That's why he lasted eight seasons -- no No. 1 overall pick has ever stuck it out through so many failures, controversies and injuries. None of them have ever wanted to.
But Smith wanted to, and that was a symbol of the underlying strength of what was happening with the 49ers.
Smith was strong enough to endure a lot of chaos, and the roster was strong enough for him to know that good things were coming.
So when Harbaugh arrived, Smith was the first one to fully comprehend what was about to happen; literally, Smith was Harbaugh's first convert, and from there everything was a sprint back to the playoffs.
Really, there were a hundred defining moments in Smith's 49ers career, but for me, that career boils down to three very separate moments that trace his transition from mishandled innocent to stubborn leader to locker room leader.
In chronological order:
Nolan thought he was showing the world that the team's troubles were mostly Smith's fault, and some in the locker room believed him.
But Smith's volley, and the subsequent events, proved that Nolan was the one who had lost his way and never had an idea about the quarterback position.
That was the continued theme through Mike Singletary's stormy tenure, too: Would the 49ers ever know what to do with Smith and the QB spot?
Smith cemented that by agreeing to come back to the 49ers and then leading the 49ers through "Camp Alex" at San Jose State during the long lockout; Smith wasn't a team leader before then, but the arrival of Harbaugh plus Smith's status as a survivor made "Camp Alex" a signature moment for him and the franchise.
But I think the proper coda to his 49ers career came after he'd been benched for Kaepernick, handled it diplomatically, and got a last cameo appearance at Candlestick in the last regular-season game of 2012.
I'll remember Smith's wide smile as he acknowledged a small standing ovation, his brief wave, and the complexity of emotions that had to be running through his head right then.
The team was better than ever, and he was leaving.
His teammates surrounded him -- as they had been surrounding Smith figuratively the entire time since he lost his job.
Smith had never been more popular, more respected and more appreciated by his teammates and by 49ers fans than then, when the team had moved on from him.
That was his unofficial exit, and it was a good one.
Now Smith is a Chief, with a chance to use what he learned and be a part of another franchise's revitalization.
He deserves it, after everything that happened to him in 49ersland.
Which is what happens to the good guys, and there is no doubt, Alex Smith is and has always been one of them.
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President Barack Obama disembarks Marine One on his way to switch to Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, for a trip to Fort Bliss in Texas. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
After a trip to San Francisco, California, President Barack Obama arrived back at the White House Thursday evening, (4/4).
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Published: Monday, March 18, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
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Lady of the Sea General Hospital CEO Don Werner will retire this fall after leading the Galliano hospital for nearly seven years.
Werner will officially step down Sept. 30 from the top post at the hospital.
Lady of the Sea Hospital Board Chairman Ronald Callais said the board voted to form a search committee for the hospital's new chief executive officer. He said the board is prepared for a long-term search and will carefully consider candidates for the job over the next six to seven months.
The posted ad for the CEO position is seeking a candidate with at least a bachelor's degree in business, health administration or a related field and a minimum of five years of experience as a chief executive, chief operating officer or chief nursing officer in a health care setting or as a senior level executive in an acute care hospital.
The ad asks for a comprehensive knowledge of rural hospitals and their finances.
Werner, who will be turning 69 this year, said it was time to retire to spend more time with his family.
"The hospital is in good shape right now, and I'm confident whoever is chosen will be able to come in and take it from here," Werner said.
Callais said Werner was an excellent hospital administrator and will be hard to replace.
"Don's done a great job, and we're sad to see him go," Callais said.
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Stocks of wheat and most other major crops in North Dakota are up compared to a year ago.
The Agriculture Department says in its latest report that on-farm and off-farm stocks of all types of wheat totaled 144 million bushels on March 1, up 38 percent from 2012.
Stocks of other crops in the state also are up substantially. The report says oats are up 10 percent, sunflowers are up 43 percent, corn is up 50 percent and barley is up 71 percent.
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MORAGA -- A third Jane Doe has filed a $10 million claim against the Moraga School District and three former district administrators over sex abuse allegations dating back to the 1990s.
The victim, now 29, claims former Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School science teacher Daniel Witters sexually abused her repeatedly during the 1996-97 school year, when she was a 13-year-old eighth-grader. She claims the district and retired Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School Principal Bill Walters, retired Assistant Principal Paul Simonin and retired Superintendent John Cooley failed to report Witters to the proper authorities after a girl had reported sexual abuse two years earlier, and that they "lied" about their knowledge of past complaints.
Jane Does 1 and 2 filed similar claims last month against the same defendants for $15 million each. A claim by Kristen Cunnane, an assistant swim coach at UC Berkeley, was denied, and in September she sued for unspecified damages.
All four women claim sexual abuse at the hands of Witters while they were students at the middle school. After a handful of girls came forward in November 1996, Witters was placed on administrative leave; he killed himself days later. Witters never faced charges over the girls' allegations, and Moraga police stopped their investigation upon his death.
An investigative story by this newspaper in May first alerted all four women to the district's failure to act on Witters' earlier abuse warnings or on numerous other student and parent complaints regarding inappropriate behavior.
District Superintendent Bruce Burns sent out a news release Tuesday acknowledging the new claim. He said the district will begin mediation with all four claimants in early 2013. He added that the three claims, and Cunnane's lawsuit, will be discussed at the Dec. 11 school board meeting.
"The Moraga School Board continues to express deep regret for what happened to these students in the 1990s," the release states. "Two of our former employees abused children who were entrusted to our care. This will be a source of sorrow and regret as long as we are a district."
Jane Doe No. 3's claim depicts a scary scene of an emboldened Witters in his final months, sexually molesting her during classes.
Seated in the very back of the classroom, Jane Doe No. 3 would get frequent massages while doing classwork or taking tests.
"Witters' conduct would then develop into reaching under Claimant's shirt from behind and touching her skin," the claim alleges. "This conduct would then often progress to Witters unsnapping Claimant's bra, leaving her in an uncomfortable, violated and vulnerable state during the remainder of her science class."
Witters would whisper sexually suggestive comments into her ear, the claim states, and the abuse continued after class, when he would get the girl alone and rub her skin underneath her pants and tops.
"Each day, Claimant would dreadfully sit through Witters' science class fearing that he would make her stay afterwards," the claim continues. "At no time did Claimant welcome or want this conduct to occur."
Around mid-November 1996, Jane Doe No. 3 saw Witters kiss another student on the cheek in class and commented to the student after the incident. Physical education teacher Julie Correa overheard the conversation and took Jane Doe No. 3 to the principal's office, where she was interviewed about what happened, she claimed.
"Claimant then revealed some, but not all, of the things that Witters had done to her," Jane Doe No. 3's claim says. Despite those revelations, she wasn't removed from Witters' science class until her mother demanded it, according to the claim.
Correa would later sexually abuse Cunnane and was sentenced in November 2011 to prison time.
Jane Doe No. 3's attorney, Judith Yedidsion, of Beverly Hills, said the girl was ostracized after Witters' death.
"She was the one blamed for his suicide," Yedidsion said. "So she has had that additional emotional impact, in addition to the molestation by the teacher."
Yedidsion's client did not learn of the district's previous unheeded warnings until this newspaper's article in May.
"She was absolutely shocked," the attorney said. "She felt betrayed by the district and faculty, who she thought were protecting her, and angry for all those years she thought she caused his suicide.
"The fact that the school and the district did not act until so late in the game, when so much damage was already done, was a choice in and of itself," Yedidsion said. "And unfortunately for everyone involved, especially the victims, it was clearly the wrong choice."
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To correct Lincoln somewhat, he should have said, . . . that government of the people, by the politicians, and for the politicians shall not perish from the earth.
Government's view of the economy: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. — Ronald Reagan
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
-- Alexis de Toqueville
There's the old joke about a president (politician) speaking in a pasture to a group of American Indians. After every assertion he made, the Indians all yelled "oodwa" in unison. The politician thought they were applauding him, but afterward, as the he walked toward his waiting limousine with the chief, the chief pointed down and said, "Careful, Mr. President, don't step in the oodwa."
Barry Obama may be the greatest speech reader of all time. He is smooth, articulate, and expressive, knows exactly how and where to emphasize, when to smile, and makes good jokes. However, once I began to see him as smug and arrogant, and once I realized how far to the left he is, I found him harder and harder to stomach. But many aren't afflicted with these feelings. His speech will be watched by many millions who no doubt like him. But, like his past ones, the president's State of the Union speech for 2013 is likely to be all oodwa.
What is the state of our union now? Well, we have lots of problems. I imagine we'll get a list of them from the president, such as: Our nation is afflicted with a lack of fairness, big time. The rich aren't paying their fair share. We need women in combat. We need Gays in the Boy Scouts, and we need Gay Boy Scout troop leaders – really good for America, especially if you want our boys to grow up Gay. We need comprehensive immigration reform, a.k.a. amnesty. We need new sources of energy (screw the old sources), and we need to invest (translation: spend) more in the economy.
The president is working really hard on all these problems. He'll gloss over the real problems. We'll get lots of words about how much he's done for us so far – the tax cuts he's made, how he saved the economy, etc. He'll claim the economy is finally coming out of the doldrums. He'll say the Affordable Health Care Act is going to really help, although we still need more (unspecified) medical reforms. He'll claim he's doing something about the deficit and the debt, but of course, he isn't. He'll likely mention entitlement reform, but in terms so vague that it won't be just kicking the can down the road, it will be kicking it out of the end zone.
The president would have made a really good snake oil salesman in the old west. If you want to understand how much of his speech is likely to be oodwa, it might be good to go back to his 2010 State of the Union speech, which you can read at ABC News or watch a Utube video of at CSPAN video library.
In that speech, he told lots of little stories, got lots of laughs, made lots of claims, and lots of promises which he couldn't keep (because we have a Congress, although he's working on that) and a few he did keep. He stretched statistics, lied a bit, and offered lots of gifts to the voters. He gave us many words and lots of oodwa.
I wish we could bring back an honest president for the State of the Union. George Washington, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Grant, Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan are some I believe were honest. I think Reagan was the last totally honest president, although Carter and the Bushes may have been, but were in way over their heads.
An honest president would tell it like it is. We have many problems, and they need real solutions, not snake oil. The real state of the union is SNAFU (Situation normal, all ****ed up.) But, if things go as in the past, all we'll get is oodwa.


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Billy Don Hulgan, 79, passed away Oct. 6, 2012. Billy was born Jan. 26, 1933, in Oklahoma City, to Wesley Preston and Edith Irene (Rogers) Hulgan.
He graduated from Capitol Hill High School in 1951, then in 1953 graduated from Northern College and in 1957 graduated from UCO in Edmond. Billy worked as a probation officer for the Oklahoma City Police Dept. He also worked as a pharmaceutical rep. for Pfizer and a substitute teacher.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and son, Mark Don Hulgan.
Survivors include his wife, Jean Hulgan; and three stepsons, William Thomas, Larry Joe Thomas and Alvin Thomas.
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A Look at Case-Shiller, by Metro Area
Home prices extended a winning streak of year-over-year gains, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller indexes.
The composite 20-city home price index, a key gauge of U.S. home prices, was up 12.1% in April from a year earlier. All 20 cities posted year-over-year gains for January, February, March and April.
Prices in the 20-city index were 2.5% higher than the prior month. Adjusted for seasonal variations, which reflect a traditional stronger spring selling season, prices were 1.7% higher month-over-month. No city posted a monthly decline, though prices in Detroit were flat.
Economists see rising home prices as an important economic driver, though they note that prices remain below the peak. "It is worth highlighting that home prices remain 26% below their precrisis peak, suggesting that it may take quite some time for home prices to fully retrace the fall. Nevertheless, the ongoing climb in home prices is a highly positive force for underwater homeowners," said Gennadiy Goldberg of TD Securities.


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Saturday, April 7, 2012
Mountain lion on the prowl
To my surprise, our breeding pair of coyotes showed up just a half hour after the mountain lion. They sniffed the area where the lion had just stood for quite a while. They took turns so only one coyote was in the camera view at a time. Look how much smaller a coyote is than a mountain lion.
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- Khyra And Sometimes Her Mom said...
Khyra says THAT must be her Easter Khytty!
- April 7, 2012 at 10:36 PM
- Team Beaglebratz said...
From the mom - I don't think I would ever get anything done - I would be constantly watching the viewfinder on the camera to see what new critter came into view. K looks so wise - all knowing and all seeing.
Mom Kim
- April 7, 2012 at 10:56 PM
- Jen said...
Those are really great pictures! Mr. Mountain Lion's tail is quite impressive.
- April 7, 2012 at 11:01 PM
- Angus said...
Awesome !
- April 8, 2012 at 12:21 AM
- Macintosh Mitch said...
You're the best, K!
Happy Easter to all of you!
Love ya lots,
- April 8, 2012 at 3:17 AM
- desertsandbeyond said...
Wow! Great photos of both the mountain lion and coyote!
- April 8, 2012 at 4:01 AM
- Bassetmomma said...
That would be so great and scary at the same time. Nice to know that K's got your back! Great pictures!! Happy Easter!
- April 8, 2012 at 6:38 AM
- GOOSE said...
No dog better to have your back. Happy Easter.
- April 8, 2012 at 6:51 AM
- Lindsjö taxar said...
Awsome pictures of the lion!!! K will for sure smell them if they are nearby. A labrador do have some hunting genes.
Will be interesting to see if there is som cubs later on.
- April 8, 2012 at 6:57 AM
- sophie...^5 said...
K's got your back alright...always has!
- April 8, 2012 at 8:31 AM
- Val said...
Sending you lots of hugs and love. Haven't been commenting but have been following your blog. Will send you a note soon.
Hugs to K and R!!
Have a great day.
P.S. that mountain lion shots is AWESOME!!
- April 8, 2012 at 9:54 AM
- bbes tribe said...
awesome pics as usual. Really like the pics of the mountain lion and the coyotes. Good to know K has your back and you hers! Also liked the profile pic of K on the mountain in the black and white look.
take care
Ernie and the pack
- April 8, 2012 at 11:32 AM
- Two French Bulldogs said...
yikes, he sure is on the prowl...Happy Easter K
Benny & Lily
- April 8, 2012 at 12:05 PM
- Oskar said...
What an amazing place you live in!
Happy Easter!
- April 8, 2012 at 3:36 PM
- Bocci said...
We second what Oskar said-you do live in an amazing place! And you must be grateful to know that K has your back!
Happy Easter to you
- April 8, 2012 at 4:17 PM
- STELLA and RORY from Down Under said...
KB, your photos always amaze me. Thanks so much for sharing. I can't even imagine having a mountain lion around where we live. Just fabulous photos. No worries, and love, Stella and Rory
- April 8, 2012 at 4:38 PM
- Tweedles -- that's me said...
That is one big KAT!
I bet their purrrrr is so loud!
- April 8, 2012 at 10:35 PM
- The Thuglets said...
Wow..what absolutely amazing photos of the mountain lion. Thanks for sharing.
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- April 9, 2012 at 1:55 PM
- houndstooth said...
I think I'd be looking over my shoulder, too. That is one magnificent cat! How cool that the cat season has started!
- April 9, 2012 at 10:24 PM
- Snowcatcher said...
Ditto what others have said. I love that big cat! I hope to one day see one in the wild... safely!!!
- April 10, 2012 at 11:56 AM


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"Yoga can be incorporated into healing the healers, or really focus on the wellness of the people who are trying to keep us well," said Erin Woods, marketing manager for the Copper Mountain Resort Association.
The five-day symposium, which starts Aug. 22, is for medical professionals, yoga enthusiasts and anyone who works in health care industry. The days are filled with numerous lectures - like "Yoga for the Caregiver: Heal thyself, Heal Thy Patient" or "Mindful-Based Stress Reduction and the Effects on the Inflammatory Cascade and Vascular Health" - and speckled with yoga sessions. The lectures and yoga instructions will benefit medical professionals because they can incorporate the knowledge into their everyday practices with patients, or for themselves - like simple breathing techniques for the operating room, Woods said.
Local doctors "Doc PJ" Perrinjaquet, Dr. Karen Wyatt and therapist Bryan Austill will be presenting, in addition to speakers like Dr. Sara Gottfried, author of "The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive and Vitality Naturally with The Gottfried Protocol." In total, there are 30-plus workshops and lectures available.
The program has been approved by the American Academy of Family Physicians for up to 25 continuing medical education credits.
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In a new video released on May 23 by the Energy Department, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz comments on how the United States should take advantage of the natural gas boom and use it as an opportunity to further develop renewable energy sources like wind, solar, geothermal, and hydropower. Secretary Moniz, who was sworn into office on May 21, made the comments during his first employee Town Hall meeting.
"The way I look at it is that this natural gas boom is a boon. First of all, we all know that it is partially responsible for the decrease in CO2 emissions that we have experienced over the last years in the absence of, at least, over-arching legislation." For the full story, see the Energy Blog.


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I've been a subscriber of Netflix for quite a few years, and because I've mostly lived in the rural part of a small state where all the cinemas get the same 8-10 major studio movies and the (now rare) video stores don't have particularly rich selections, Netflix has really been an extraordinary addition to my life. This summer, I bought a very cheap, very entry-level Blu-Ray player that allows Netflix's streaming video, and have been enjoying discovering what's available there, because it includes many titles not available on DVD. Through the last few months, the selection has grown significantly, and with the company's recent announcement that they plan to focus their efforts on streaming, it's fun to see all the new things popping up. I'm not convinced Netflix can continue to keep their prices relatively low for unlimited streaming forever, so we might as well enjoy it while it lasts...
Dennis Cozalio at Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule (one of the really essential film blogs) recently wrote a post on "10 Buried Treasures from My Netflix Instant Play Queue", and I thought I'd do something similar here.
Thus, below are two lists -- films I've seen and recommend, and films sitting on my queue waiting for viewing. These aren't even remotely complete (there are currently 231 titles in my Instant Queue! I hate making choices...), but are instead lists of some things that particularly grab my attention at this moment.
Films Seen
Big Time -- A movie I've watched many times on an old and very faded videotape, Big Time has not, to my knowledge, ever been released on DVD. It's a concert movie of Tom Waits from his Frank's Wild Years tour, but with additional surreal film footage amidst the songs and linking them together. If you like Waits's music from the '80s, this is an exciting and essential film. If you don't like that era of his music, watching the movie may feel like someone trying to chew their way out of the inside of your skull.
Black Girl -- Ousmene Sembene's first film, and one of the most interesting and complex cinematic explorations of colonialism that I know. I've seen it probably a dozen times (I show it for lots of classes), and it has never lost its power.
Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss -- The first bit of writing about film I ever did was a paper for a high school history class in which I wrote about Nazi propaganda movies. My father's interest in WWII meant we had a bunch of videotapes and actual prints of some of those films, including Veit Harlan's Jud Süss. I was particularly interested in Harlan, who was among Goebbels's favorite directors. A lot of that came back to me as I watched this documentary, which looks not only at Harlan's life and career, but at the effect of his work and reputation on his family -- including his niece, Christiane Harlan, who married Stanley Kubrick. The story of Harlan himself is fascinating, but the value of the documentary is the way it shows how much his family was scarred by his ambition being so well used by the Nazis -- it reminded me at times of both Mephisto and Mother Night. I just wish there had been more information about his post-war film Different from You and Me, which apparently attempted to portray homosexuals as people worthy of sympathy.
The Keep -- What Dune was for David Lynch, The Keep seems to have been for Michael Mann (and Jürgen Prochnow was in both films...) Michael Mann is in my pantheon of greatest living directors, so finally getting to see this film was exciting for me. I went in with incredibly low expectations, having heard the movie is awful in every conceivable way, and so was surprised to discover it's not quite that bad. Yes, it's unfortunate Mann's full version has never been seen, but I expect even at its full length it's probably not a great example of his work, which may be why he's stayed silent about it (especially given how many different versions of some of his better films, such as Manhunter, Last of the Mohicans, and Miami Vice have been released). If you care about Mann as a director, The Keep is worth seeing. (Also, the Tangerine Dream soundtrack is pretty good, for Tangerine Dream.) If you don't care about Mann, then there are plenty of other incoherent sci-fi movies with middling-to-bad effects out there that you could watch instead.
Marat/Sade -- Peter Brook's ideas about theatre were a profound influence on me at a pretty early age, and this, his film of one of his most famous stage productions, was a movie I saw many times on an old videotape I bought for $1 from a store sometime in the mid-'90s. I love two of his other films also available via Instant Play, Lord of the Flies and King Lear, too, but it is Marat/Sade that is forever imprinted on certain pleasure centers in my brain.
Nobody Knows -- Hirokazu Kore-eda's strange, sad, beautiful film about children living in an apartment in Tokyo after their mother just one day doesn't return home. I really can't describe it; it's one of those movies you've just got to watch.
Metropolis (Restored) -- I'd seen Metropolis twice before: once on videotape and once in its previously restored version. It never quite got me the way some of Fritz Lang's crime films do -- I could watch M every week for the rest of my life and still enjoy it, I expect, and the Dr. Mabuse films (two out of three of which are available for streaming) are almost as wonderful. Many of his Hollywood films (especially Fury and The Big Heat) are compelling, too. But Metropolis, aside from some great set design, just seemed ... well, tedious. Watching the new version, though, I finally connected with the film, and it was the additional material that did it. The story is still pretty ridiculous, but the way that story is now recontextualized is revelatory. The new material of Fritz Rasp as The Thin Man is especially effective, giving that character far more purpose and meaning than before, and helping to link various events together.
Trust -- My favorite Hal Hartley movie. A particular kind of off-kilter realism, or kitchen-sink absurdism, that I usually find precious and shallow, but in Hartley's best work hits every right chord for me. Trust seems to me his most perfectly balanced film, the only one where every scene feels essential, every line of dialogue just right. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for any movie where one of the protagonists is named Matthew and carries a hand grenade.
Films Waiting to Be Seen
Born in Flames -- A feminist science fiction movie by Lizzie Borden. I didn't much care for Borden's Working Girls, but I'll give this one a try, since she is certainly important as a feminist filmmaker, so I feel at least a certain obligation to be familiar with her work.
Michael -- Carl Theodore Dreyer's 1924 film about gay angst. Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc is just about my favorite silent film, and I've got a soft spot for old movies about queers, so I'll probably watch this fairly soon.
Redline 7000 -- One of Howard Hawks's last movies, and the last one I've ever seen anybody defend, and since that anybody was Robin Wood, I'm willing to give it a try. I love Hawks's best work as much as that of any other American director, and don't even mind his lesser films. He was one of the absolute greats, and I've long been curious about Redline.
Salt of the Earth -- Being constitutionally incapable of sifting and choosing, I stick so much stuff on my Netflix queue that inevitably there are titles there that I have no idea where I first got the idea to watch them. This is one of those. I know I was interested in it because of its historical situation -- it was made by blacklisted filmmakers in 1954 and tells the story of Mexican-American miners on strike in New Mexico -- but I don't know how I first heard about it. No matter; I'm thrilled it's now available for viewing.
Ugetsu -- So many people have said this is one of the greatest films of all time that I've been afraid to watch it. I loved Mizoguchi's Sansho the Bailiff, so I expect I'll also like Ugetsu very much, but I keep waiting for exactly the perfect moment. Such moments don't exist, so I'm just going to have to plunge in one of these less-than-perfect days.
XXY -- A film from Argentina about an intersexed 15-year-old. Reviews have called it sensitive and subtle, and so I quickly stuck it on the queue.
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John Huston's Fat City is on there too, as are three Tati films (Playtime, Mon Oncle, and M. Hulot's Holiday), and four Jia Zhangke films (24 City, The World, Unknown Pleasures, and Platform). Fat City is available on DVD, I think, but not through Netflix.ReplyDelete
The Lost Moment, a 1947 adaptation of The Aspern Papers, is available and, it appears, has not been released on DVD. I'm really looking forward to watching that.
I haven't tried Netflix yet, but then I generally don't like watching video at home. I have a library of dvds I've bought of films I love or have heard good things about, but a majority of them sit still wrapped in their cellophane. I tell myself I'll get to them...eventually. (And I do pick one every so often and give it a viewing. Of course, 95% of them I've already seen in the theater or on tv, but still....)ReplyDelete
Two comments: NO period of Tom Waits' music suits me. I've always found him affected and annoying. If I want to hear an eccentric, gravel-voiced white singer, I'll go for Don Van Vliet everytime. I guess his affectations sound natural for him and his music suits me; neither holds true for me with Waits.
TRUST is the first Hal Hartley film I ever saw, and I think it's still his best. I agree with you that every bit of it seems essential. Hartely seems to have fallen off the radar since HENRY FOOL, which I disliked overall. I came across his NO SUCH THING on tv a year or so back quite by chance, and I missed the beginning, but I found it gripping, strange, and sad. (I checked the reviews on it after I watched it and saw it was not received well. Ah, reviewers...what do they know?!)
Let me recommend a little known early 60s noir by Allen Baron called BLAST OF SILENCE. It's available now, on Criterion, and probably through Netflix. I saw it at a showing here in NYC 20 years ago at the short-lived downtown THALIA theater, and Baron himself, writer, director, and star, was in the theater and he took questions and made some remarks afterwards. After years of hoping it would be released on dvd, I snapped up the Criteron edition the minute I saw it. It sits now, unwrapped on my shelf, awaiting my decision to choose it for viewing.
Do you read Louis Proyect's blog? Because that's where I read about Salt of the Earth, in one of his movie reviews...ReplyDelete


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Community News: May 23
Published: Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 2:15 p.m.
The Henderson County Sheriff's Office charged a Zirconia man with several felonies, including the theft of a boat belonging to Camp Greystone, after police found him impaired and lying in a ditch near a local fire department on Tuesday.
Deputies were called to Green River Volunteer Fire and Rescue, where they found William Cody Clark, 21, of 382 Old Greenville Highway in the ditch, according to a sheriff's office news release. Clark was in possession of marijuana, pills and a boat key, the release states.
Deputies took Clark to the Henderson County Detention Facility.
As Clark was being taken to jail, police learned that a male subject matching Clark's description had been seen on a bicycle in the South Lake Summit area earlier Tuesday morning. Officers canvassed the area and recovered a bicycle and a Boston Whaler boat, unoccupied and tied to the bank, under the South Lake Summit bridge.
Investigators concluded that Clark broke into several residences and buildings in the Lake Summit area. In addition to the boat, officers recovered a flat-screen TV and other electronics, a $1,100 Trek bicycle, a flashlight and a key to the pontoon boat from Camp Greystone.
Clark was charged with six counts of felonious breaking and entering, four counts of felonious larceny after breaking and entering, four counts of felonious possession of stolen property, three counts of misdemeanor injury to personal property and one count of felonious larceny of a 2003 Boston Whaler boat belonging to Camp Greystone.
Clark remains in jail in lieu of $57,500 bond.
Brinson receives M.S. in Nursing
Elizabeth Brinson, a resident of Hendersonville, was among more than 1,200 students from Tennessee State University who received undergraduate and graduate degrees during the University's Spring Commencement Exercise held Saturday, May 11.
Brinson received a M.S. in Nursing.
Brevard College honor roll
Brevard College released its honor roll for the spring semester. Local students on the list include: Micah Bagwell of Brevard; Diamond Cash of Hendersonville; Brandon DeNully of Pisgah Forest; Hunter Donaldson of Edneyville; Efren Escobar of Hendersonville; Kathryn Glenn of Fletcher; Aaron Goforth of Hendersonville; Jordan Greer of Etowah; Brian Henion of Hendersonville; Dale Holmes of Pisgah Forest; Jordan Hotchkiss of Rosman; Joshua Jones of Pisgah Forest; Colby Laughter of Brevard; Casey McDowell of Columbus; Megan McGee of Brevard; Patrick Miller of Mills River; Parker Pittillo of Brevard; and Carolina Siliceo-Perez of Flat Rock.
To be eligible, students must be enrolled full-time and earn a grade point average of 3.0 to 3.49 during the semester.
Brevard College dean's list
Brevard College released its spring semester dean's list. Local students on the list include: Sarah Barron of Mountain Home; David Caldwell of Pisgah Forest; Alisha Carland of Mills River; Felecia Carver of Pisgah Forest; William Cason of Penrose; Amanda Chapman of Lake Toxaway; Brandilyn Davidson of Brevard; Coty Ferguson of Brevard; Kara Fohner of Mills River; Steven Heebner of Hendersonville; Elisha Henry of Brevard; Juan Hicks of Columbus; Jamie Hrobak of Mill Spring; Bethany Humberg of Hendersonville; Leanna Jennings of Brevard; Shelby Jernigan of Dana; Callan Jupp of Fletcher; Lori King of Mountain Home; Julie Kuykendall of Hendersonville; Riina Lugus of Fletcher; Juan Mascaro of Brevard; Stephanie McGuire of Pisgah Forest; Andre Overholt of Tryon; Linda Pagano of Brevard; Leslie Scholl of Hendersonville; Michael St. Marie of Horse Shoe; Michelle Svendsen of Hendersonville; Jeffrey Thomas of Lake Toxaway; Kellee Tuttle of Horse Shoe; Daniel Tuttle of Pisgah Forest; Alisha VanderSyde of Brevard; Blake Wall of Pisgah Forest; Braxton Wall of Pisgah Forest; and Emily de Castrique of Pisgah Forest.
To be eligible, students must be enrolled full-time and earn a 3.50 grade point average or higher for the semester.
Local graduates from Brevard
Brevard held graduation on Saturday, May 11. The following are local students who graduated:
Jamison Alan Adams of Hendersonville earned a bachelor's degree in Music Education; Sarah Caitlin Barron of Mountain Home earned a bachelor's degree in Art; Brandon Joel DeNully of Pisgah Forest earned a bachelor's degree in Environmental Science; Lance Thomas Elzie of Etowah earned a bachelor's degree in Integrated Studies; Hannah Renee Graham of Brevard earned a bachelor's degree in Exercise Science; Tamara Machelle Heinemann of Penrose earned a bachelor's degree in Environmental Science; Elisha Rose Henry of Brevard earned a bachelor's degree in Environmental Science; Jordan Robert Hotchkiss of Rosman earned a bachelor's degree in Integrated Studies; Colby Lee Laughter of Brevard earned a bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies.
Christopher Douglas Lockhart of Pisgah Forest earned a bachelor's degree in Art; Stephanie Renee McGuire of Pisgah Forest earned a bachelor's degree in Psychology; Daniel Adam Merrill of Hendersonville earned a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice; Michelle Marilyn Miller of Hendersonville earned a bachelor's degree in Integrated Studies; Mathew David Pruitt of Etowah earned a bachelor's degree in Environmental Science; Kimberly Jane Sanders of Brevard earned a bachelor's degree in Art; Michelle Danielle Svendsen of Hendersonville earned a bachelor's degree in Psychology; Michael Jarrod Tanguay of Fletcher earned a bachelor's degree in Music Education; Daniel Hunter Tuttle of Pisgah Forest earned a bachelor's degree in Wilderness Leadership and Experiential Education was also presented with a Presidential Award for Distinction during the ceremony; Kellee Diana Tuttle of Horse Shoe earned a bachelor's degree in English; Braxton Scott Wall of Pisgah Forest earned a bachelor's degree in Business and Organizational Leadership; Margaret Elizabeth Whitman of Brevard earned a bachelor's degree in History; William Anthony Worley of Brevard earned a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice; and Emily Erin de Castrique of Pisgah Forest earned a bachelor's degree in Psychology.
Dean's list named at Bob Jones
The following students are among more than 1,500 Bob Jones University students included on the Dean's List for grades achieved during the Spring 2013 semester. To qualify for the Dean's List, students must earn a 3.0 GPA.
Local students included: Brandon Allweil, a junior engineering major from Brevard; Eric Brooks, a junior Christian ministries major from Brevard; Sarah Cummings, a junior special education major from Brevard; Abigail Jay, a freshmen history major from Lake Toxaway; Marianne Utley, senior human resource management major from Brevard; and Amanda Vergiels, a senior women's ministries major from Brevard.
Owens graduates from Montreat
On May 11, Montreat College graduated over 125 students during its Commencement Ceremony in Montreat, NC. One of those graduates is from the Hendersonville area.
Brenda Owens, mother of Catrina Spears and Joshua Owens, graduated from the School of Professional and Adult Studies with a Master of Science in Management and Leadership.
Students, Rotarians celebrate Abor Day
Last Friday, more than 40 students and teachers from Mountain Community School joined with the Four Seasons Rotarians of Hendersonville to help the city celebrate Arbor Day and the city's 22nd annual designation as a Tree City USA. The students, Rotarians, and others assembled at Four Seasons Rotary Park on West Allen Street for the annual Arbor Day recognition.
Local landscape architect Luther Smith organized the Arbor Day celebration while former Councilman Ralph Freeman moderated the hour-long event. Mayor Barbara Volk read the city's Arbor Day Proclamation, in which the city credited and emphasized the city's continuing commitment for planting and caring for trees in making Hendersonville a better place to live.
Mountain Community middle school students performed a dramatic reading of "The Lorax," by Dr. Suess. During the reading several younger students animated portions of the poem. Later Phil Brittain, a middle school teacher, accompanied the students in their singing of several "tree" songs.
N.C. Forest Service Ranger Eric Muecke of Morganton, acting for the State and the National Arbor Day Foundation, presented the city with its 22nd Trees City USA flag. Tom Wooten, Hendersonville Public Works director, then helped Ranger Muecke raise the new Trees City USA flag at the Rotary Park. City Tree Board members Mac Brackett and Karen Jackson attended the celebration. Ranger Muecke also recognized the city for its 15th annual Growth Award for fifteen new trees during the Main Street renovation and for hundreds of bushes and scrubs in other areas of the city.
As part of the Arbor Day celebration the city Public Works Department planted a white oak tree in Rotary Park. Freeman described the white oak as a slowing growing hardwood tree which can live more than a hundred years and grow to a height of 150 feet.
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First Take
For a while, only a handful of companies manufactured almost all the needles on the market. But in the past four years or so, this has changed dramatically—especially in the realm of wooden needles. They don't necessarily require sophisticated factory equipment to produce, only a few special tools and a skilled, patient hand.
Sam's Club
Two years later, Sam has proven that making needles wasn't just a passing whim. He has since expanded into a variety of other exotic woods including Cocobolo, Zebrawood, Bocote, Bloodwood, and Tulipwood.
Sam has also made some modifications to his needle based on feedback from customers. "It is pretty unanimous," he told me, "that they want a longer taper and sharper points than are generally available from most commercial wooden needles." Comparing the original tips and the new ones (original tips at left and new tips at right) the difference in taper is immediately visible. The tips have lost a hint of their original roundedness without becoming intrusively pointy.
In addition to offering these needles in 10" and 14" lengths, Sam also now offers special 7", 8", and 9" length needles at generally lower prices than their longer counterparts. He also offers 7" DPNs. Prices vary across the board, so check his Web site for the most current numbers.
The Woods
The original birch is the lowest-priced needle Sam offers. The curly maple is a light-colored wood with a rippled, shimmery grain that shifts in hue as you move the needles around in the light. Curly maple and the other exotic woods are far harder than birch and require more effort to turn into needles properly—and this is reflected in a higher price for the exotic needles (currently running up to $26.95 depending on length and wood).
Bloodwood is a hard, durable wood with a deep cherry color. Not quite as hard as Bloodwood is Cocobolo, which varies in color from piece to piece. My sample had a walnut color with darker streaks throughout.
Also hard and durable is Tulipwood, which looks like a cross between maple and cherry—pinkish stripes move across a light honey base.
Moving up in the softness scale is Zebrawood, which is mostly true to its name. My needles had dark brown veins running through a light tan wood base.
Bocote looks like a delicate sibling of Zebrawood, with long slender dark markings marbling a warm honey-colored surface.
Different Strokes
All these woods are warm to the touch, light in the hands, and given just enough finish so that the yarn moves smoothly without squeaking or snagging. As with most wood needles, these have a slight surface drag that helps you maintain control of your stitches.
Besides the woods, the only other significant difference between the needles is in the finial. The birch needles have a simple finial design, while Sam has given all the exotics a more ornate top (see a side-by-side comparison).
Neither finials add any significant weight to your needles—they are lightweight and evenly balanced. Also, and this is an important note, the finials are carved from the same solid piece as the needles, not made separately and then glued on afterwards. The only strange thing I encountered was a faint stickiness on the finials of the Bocote and Cocobolo needles, as if they were coated with tape residue.
The newly refined tips offer a decent balance between pointy and blunt, with a leisurely taper that's well-suited for most knitting. I enjoyed lining up all the tips of my needles and admiring the extremely faint differences between each one—differences that won't impact your knitting except to gently remind you that the needle was made by hand.
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LB Jonathan Walton of Mobile, AL made his official visit to Auburn over the weekend and he told Auburn websites Sunday afternoon he is split between USC and the Tigers. He plans to discuss things this week with his family before making a decision. Walton visited USC last weekend and had the Gamecocks out front after that trip. But he said before the Auburn visit playing in the Iron Bowl has been a lifelong dream. USC head coach Steve Spurrier will make his in home visit this week.Tweet
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If you see an storm damage at one of the courses this week please add it to this page so I dont have to go looking everywhere for it.
I only had time to go to Grandview yesterday. Grandview is still playable and fortunately all of the large limbs that fell are not in/on any of the fairways / tee pads / or basket locations.
1. Large branch by 1 long pin
2. large branch just behind hole 3 short tee pad.
3. 2 branches on hole 4
4. Ton of small branches throughout the park
I started cleaning up Grandview yesterday and thanks to the workhorse I was able to get a lot of the little stuff picked up, still lots of work to do though.
As of right now we will be having the 4/18 Wednesday worknight at Grandview to clear the remaining branches from the course. Come out and lend a hand please.
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Swedish Fashion Spat Has Children's Designer Playing Rough With H&M
A Nordic fashion battle is brewing after a Swedish designer accused retail powerhouse H&M of plagiarizing and profiting from one of her creations. She won an apology from the company after taking to Instagram and then emailing the CEO.
Camilla Lundsten created a children's book series about Littlephant, a popcorn-loving, bike-cruising red elephant. Last year collaborated with a smaller Swedish retailer – Lindex – to create a clothing collection based on her characters.
In late November, Ms. Lundsten spotted a girl's ensemble sold by H&M that bore more than a passing resemblance to one of her garments.
"On Friday I went into H&M's online store and discovered a dress with a rabbit peeking out of the pocket with accompanying harlequin tights," Lundsten said in an interview nearly a week after her discovery. "I looked at H&M online stores in other countries and saw the same collection."
She then went to work trying to get the H&M collection pulled from the racks.
This is the second time over the past six months big Nordic fashion names have drawn copycat allegations.
In May, Finland's iconic Marimekko design house and fashion retailer was taken to task after one of its newer designs too closely resembled work done by a Ukrainian artist in the 1960s. Marimekko, in fact, allowed Finnair to paint the design on an aircraft as part of a series of collaborations between the fashion company and the airline.
Finnair ended up removing the design from the plane, the designer apologized and Marimekko later ended its relationship with her.
Lundsten said she has managed to succeed in getting H&M to pull the clothing that she says closely mirrors her own. But it took some work.
Littlephan's Lundsten was "sad and shocked" by her H&M discovery and tried to get in touch with the company. After being unable to reach anyone at the company, she decided to take her case to the public: "I put up the pictures on Instagram."
The Instagram post received about 1,400 likes in a couple of hours.
After her Instagram post, she went to a physical H&M store and found the same baby clothes there. She also tried to call H&M Monday, but was bounced around without getting to speak anybody and was finally advised to send a message to the company's general requests email address.
So, Lundsten decided to go to the top.
"Finally I got a hold of CEO Karl-Johan Persson's email address and mailed him and others at the company. "
Meanwhile, her allegations started getting traction in Swedish media and became a hot topic in the tabloids and on Swedish television.
H & M drar tillbaka barnkläder. Anklagas för att ha plagierat designern Camilla Lundsten. http://t.co/6n7FRCyVnj pic.twitter.com/DlhbGZshDn
— Expressen (@Expressen) December 4, 2013
H&M got in touch with Lundsten Wednesday evening, she said.
"They apologized and said that the inspiration had come too close to the original. And they said they'd withdraw the collection immediately."
H&M spokeswoman Camilla Emilsson-Falk confirmed the company pulled the merchandise, but notes Lundsten didn't approach the retailer through the appropriate channels. If she had, she would have received a much snappier response from the company.
"It's not that we ignored her for days and days, as some media have written. Her message didn't reach the right people" Emilsson-Falk said. "We got in touch with her [Ms. Lundsten] on the same day that we learned of this."
H&M "apologized deeply of course," the spokeswoman said. It decided to pull the clothes immediately from the stores. "The next step is that we are reviewing and discussing this case internally."
According to Emilsson-Falk it takes about 24 hours for all clothing items to be removed from its network of store, "So by now, they should all have been withdrawn," she said.
Lundsten, however, says H&M may more her more than an apology and withdrawal of the clothing.
"They've been selling this collection for a month, I'm sure they've made good money on this," she said. "I you take somebody's design, especially a small designer like myself you're supposed to get royalties."
Lundsten, said protection for pattern design in the European U is not good "and I hope this case can lift the debate. …you have to have a debate of what is ethically okay (and) where you draw the line between inspiration and plagiarism. At what point does inspiration become plagiarism?"


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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Judgment: Electronic Edition, by Charles GrayTable of Contents
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8.20 The extracts relied on by the Defendants include the following:
- (i) This Week interview - 9 November 1991 '25,000 innocent people executed by one means or another [in Auschwitz] but we killed that many people burning them alive in one night, not in three years, in a city like Pforzheim. We killed five times that number in Dresden in one night.'
- (ii) Moers - 9th March 1990 'One has to struggle with these problems as a historian in Germany... And that's the problem with Auschwitz. That is the problem which the county court judge in Remscheid hinted at correctly. It seemed quite unbelievable to him that an Englishman should discover the truth, where all the German historians allegedly did not discover this truth. But the explanation is perfectly simple: the Germans simply can't afford to do that,...Not murdered, not gassed - far more than half of the inmates of the concentration camp Auschwitz died of natural causes that means, of diseases, of epidemics, of typhus fever, of typhoid, of hunger, of cold or of being overworked or of various other natural causes , that's what, far more than half of the Auschwitz inmates died of, that means perhaps 30,000 people at most were murdered at Auschwitz. That's bad enough, of course! That none of us want to approve of that in any way. 30,000 people in Auschwitz from beginning to end, that's about as many as we English killed in one night in Hamburg, burnt alive' (p 12).
- (iii)10th IHR Conference - 13th February 1990 'Let's be generous and say 40,000 may have been killed in Auschwitz over the three years - that's a bad figure! That's a grave crime, it's almost as many people as we British killed in Hamburg in one night' (p 500).
- (iv) Victoria, British Columbia - 27th October 1990 'Let me draw up a comparison, seventy six thousand people killed in Auschwitz is a crime, there's no doubt at all, except they weren't killed in Auschwitz, they died in Auschwitz. The Totenbucher lists the reasons of the deaths in Auschwitz. Arno Meyer, the Professor in Princeton, a Jewish Professor in fact, who published a book called 'Why Did the Heavens not Darken?', he revealed in his book that of all the people who died in the concentration camps, including Auschwitz, by far the greatest part died of natural causes, whatever one could call 'natural causes' in wartime, I admit, natural causes in wartime are not what you or I would call natural causes today in Victoria. But they weren't executed, they weren't murdered, they weren't gassed. By far the greatest part of those who died in Auschwitz died of natural causes and I'm quoting Arno Meyer' (p 9).'Forty thousand people killed in Auschwitz in three years, bad enough. Undoubtedly a war crime, a war crime of the same order of magnitude as Hamburg, July, 1943 where we British killed forty thousand people in one night' (p 13).
- (v) Latvian Hall, Toronto November 1990 'Ladies and gentlemen, fifty thousand people were killed in Auschwitz, were killed in Auschwitz from 1942 to 1944. That is a crime, as I said. Fifty thousand innocent people. It's about as many people who died in Auschwitz in those three years as we British killed in Hamburg in one night' [Applause] (p 21).
- (vi) Latvian Hall, Toronto, November 1992 'To those of you who are new to my talks. Let me summarise the possible reasons why they are using these extraordinary techniques, these extra-governmental techniques to try and silence me. It is because I am probably the most credible voice in the entire revisionist campaign, or what I call the International Campaign for Real History...And my campaign is being met world-wide by these methods. "Okay," I say, "a hundred thousand people did die in Auschwitz."...Around one hundred thousand dead in that brutal slave labour camp...How many were killed in Auschwitz?...how many had died.''Twenty-five thousand killed, if we take this grossly inflated figure to be on the safe side: That is a crime; there is no doubt. Killing twenty-five thousand in four years - 1941, 1942, 1943, and 1944 - that is a crime: there is no doubt.''Let me show you a picture of twenty-five thousand people being killed in twenty-five minutes. Here it is, in my book HITLER'S WAR, a vivid picture of twenty-five thousand people being killed in twenty-five minutes by us British [in February 1945] in Pforzheim, a little town where they make jewelry and watches in Baden, Germany. Twenty-five thousand people were being burned alive (p 11).
- (vii) Search for Truth in History (1993) '25,000 people murdered in Auschwitz in three years. If we take that generous figure and I would say that 25,000 people murdered in Auschwitz in three years is still half the number of people that we murdered in Hamburg burning them alive in one night in 1943' (p 25).
- (viii) Tampa, Florida: October 1995 'But if we were being liberal and generous and said that of the 100,000 deaths for which we have certificates and evidence, acceptable evidence In Auschwitz, say that three quarters died a natural death, by natural I mean typhus, epidemics, starvation, exhaustion, worked to death, froze to death, can't really call it a natural death but it's not murder. If we say that three quarters died that kind of death then as many as one quarter were executed, you come to a figure of 25,000 people who were murdered in Auschwitz by the Nazis in the entire four years of that camps existence and I am going to show you a picture of not 25,000 people being murdered but of 40,000 people being murdered, not in four years but in the space of 20 minutes in Pforzheim. Not Dresden or Hiroshima or Tokyo but Pforzheim, a little town none of you have heard of. A little town in Germany in Badenburg where they make jewelry and watches. Here's a town photographed from the air by a friend of mine, a British Air Commodore with his Kodachrome film camera during the 20 minutes in which 40,000 are being burned alive. One person in four in that town was killed, burnt alive during that air raid, 10 days after the air raid on Dresden, and nobody has ever heard of it. 40,000 being burnt alive in 20 minutes compared with 25,000 people being murdered at the very outside in Auschwitz in the space of four years. It's a thought provoking comparison and the reason why I think it's proper to make this kind of comparison' (pp 13-14).
- (ix) 'Cover Story' ... 4 March 1997 Irving: Again, that's not what I say. I say there's no proof that six million did die, it's not quite the same thing. You may find it nit-picking.Interviewer: So you're saying only 100,000 people died in Auschwitz.Irving: I didn't say 'only'. You can't say 'only' 100,000 people died. If 100,000 innocent people died this is a crime, it's a war crime (p 6).


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A Leeds side unexpectedly reinvigourated after calamity Colin's departure, and a 1-2 win for the Whites
Up to our necks in the "brown stuff" again Andy. Let's hope the surf doesn't rise. :-(
Things are not looking too good at the moment although one win should just about see us safe. Problem is I can't see where it is going to come!!


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Check out this awesome nighttime video of Dekochari – Japanese art bikes (Deko = decorated, chari = slang for bicycle). The bikes are 'dressed up' to resemble Dekotora, highly stylized trucks popular in Japan in the mid 1970s. Loaded down with flashing lights, boxes, mirrors, cup holders, hi-fi systems, everything – these bikes (and their bigger truckier cousins) are particularly impressive at night. There are several active dekochari fleets in Japan to this day.
So I just finished up with assembling the Kappa frame for my girlfriend. If she likes it, I'm gonna have the braze-ons for the sissy bar added to the stays and then have the frame re-powdercoated. Also, tomorrow the Redline straight seatpost will come in to replace the current layback post. Eventually, I'll get a different banana seat and new wheels too.
How does it ride? AWESOME!!!!
Messrs. Hiller and McGrath (two of Cascade's Bike Advocacy staff) will be at Tangletown pub Thursday Dec 20 starting a 7. They'll be talking advocacy with you and anybody else who can make it. Please RSVP to Patrick if you're planning on attending. I don't think this'll be your last chance, so if you've got another engagement (like the .83 Race of Champions ride/race) maybe you can catch them next time. Or, head down hill to Greenlake to watch the races!
I stopped over at Byron's place Sunday and got a chance to ogle his stable of bikes. Of course the one I went to see was the Kona Ute. I've long been interested in the longtail concept - mostly for a short-haul option and trips to the store. I live on pretty serious hill, so for me the idea of a 50lb bike is p"robably a little foolish, but there is a local grocery that I'd love to have a quality longtail for (today I schlep messenger bags or tow the trailer).
Anyway it was raining so I didn't get an extended test ride, but the Ute was awesome. It's far more sturdy than the Bettie which has a decent amount of whip to it. The Ute just makes more gradual turns than a regular mountain bike, but it doesn't have that unstable feel that you get on some xtracycles. The deck and the footpegs (standard? not sure) looked great and added a nice 2nd-passenger option. One of the nice points on the trim was the Hayes mechanical discs. I'm a big disc fan, but I'm easily disappointed by manufacturers cutting corners to save money. In a lot of lower-range bikes they use the Tektro disc setup. I love Tektro parts just not their disc brakes. The rotors warp too easily and adjustable they are not good choice by Kona for taking the high road there. The rest of the drivetrain was predictably predictable Shimano. The Cork grips were a nice touch too.
What would I change? I'd go with a Brooks saddle for that nice up-right position. I'd probably go with a slightly wider mustache bar and add some campus pedals - having that upstroke can be a good thing when hauling a load. Other than that it's built pretty nicely. When I can convince the wife that I need one more bike…this one might be it.
We're packed and leaving for Maui on a day of pouring rain. At least, it's not the windstorm from last year!
Check the Timbuk2 bag snugly fit in the S&S case, next to the Modal. I designed that a couple of weeks ago with the BYOB feature and it matches the hugga colors. Like the Crumpler I took to London, but more compact to fit into the smaller S&S travel case. I'll use that for errands and a few shorter rides. Inside of it are tools, pedals, HRM, etc. Also notice on the bottom left, the green Knog Frog light.


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BookRenter Andy
At my university, students chose a major at the end of the first semester of their sophomore year. Choosing majors came smack in the middle of final exams, so students often wait until the last minute to make their selection (not recommended). I chose Political Economy. Looking back on it now, I think it's funny how I ended up in with my major. I started out as Classics major taking classes in Latin and Ancient Greek as well as Roman and Greek History.
I remember going to class one day early sophomore year and realizing there were only going to be 10 or 11 Classics majors, and all of them were better at Latin than I was. At that moment I realized I needed out of Classics. That's right, I transferred to a major with more people out of pure cowardice. So I wandered into the registrar's office, probably having given my major not much more thought that day than you can get over a bowl of Frosted Mini-Wheats, and declared Political Economy, a hybrid liberal arts major that sounded nice and academic.
Political Economy as my major was really not a dramatic decision to make. I enjoyed all of the Politics classes I had taken. {Flashback alert} I remember one class in particular called POL 397 National Security. In addition to having a great reading list and awesome course material, it was taught by a professor who played Styx before class and made fun of people sitting in the front row. Oh yeah, and for the icing on the cake, his nickname was "the Bassmaster". How could you not love it?
Anyway, I thought I should add a little practicality to round out my major, so I tacked on the economics. Ask BookRenter Mike about economics if you need the low down.
In the end, it shouldn't matter too much which major you choose; if you like the subject, that's what counts. Pick something you enjoy doing, then graduate and continue your domination of life's challenges.
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Inspirational Quotes for Nurses
June 21, 2013 3 Comments
To make your day brighter, to boost your motivation and creativity, and to remind you how awesome you are and how much you do every day we put together these inspirational quotes. Enjoy!
"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon."
– Dag Hammarskjold, diplomat
"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."
– Mother Teresa
"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
– John Ruskin, social thinker
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
– Dale Carnegie, American writer
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
– E.E. Hale, American writer
"Hope is a thing with feathers that perches in the soul."
– Emily Dickinson, American poet
"Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription."
– Val Saintsbury
"It's never too late to be what you might have been."
– George Eliot, English novelist
"It is not how much we do – it is how much love we put into the doing."
– Mother Teresa
"To do what nobody else will do, a way that nobody else can do, in spite of all we go through;
that is to be a nurse."
– Rawsi Williams
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you."
– Walt Whitman
"Where there is love there is life."
– Mahatma Gandhi
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|Length Overall
7.01 m
|Dry Weight
4,100 lbs.
1,859.73 kg
2.59 m
|Tested Weight
0.69 m
|Weight Capacity
|Draft Up
|Person Capacity
|Draft Down
|Fuel Capacity
53 gal.
|Air Draft
|Water Capacity
|Length on Trailer
|Max Headroom
|Height on Trailer
|Bridge Clearance
|Trailer Weight
|Total Package Weight (Trailer,Boat & Engine)
|Prices, features, designs, and equipment are subject to change. Please see your local dealer or visit the builder's website for the latest information available on this boat model.
|Std. Power
|1 x 350-hp Monsoon 5.7 CAT
|Tested Power
|Currently no test numbers
|Opt. Power
1 x 410-hp Monsoon 409/96.6 6.0 CAT
1 x 450-hp Monsoon 427/LS3 6.2 CAT
1 x 555-hp Monsoon 572/LSA 6.2 Non CAT (N/A CA dealers)
The Mission of the New Wakesetter 23 LSV
The Wakesetter 23 LSV equipped with Malibu's patented "Power Wedge," has been been the best selling boat in the wakeboard segment since its introduction in 2007. Now with the advent of the "Surf Gate" it can be a multi-sport boat that can make world-class wakes of several kinds all controlled by the touch of a MaliView screen.
As a result, the Wakesetter should appeal to an expanded group of watersport enthusiasts, one of the most vibrant segments of the boating market. The boat's mission: "awesome wake!"
The Wakesetter 23 LSV is 23' (7.01 m) LOA, with a 8'6" (2.59 m) beam and a draft of 27" (68 cm). She weighs 4,100 lbs. (1,863 kgs.) dry, and has a carrying capacity of 2,115 lbs. (961 kgs.). Note her white "Sea Gate" below the swim platform and the "Power Wedge" behind the rudder.
Distinguishing Features
There is a long list of distinguishing features on the Wakesetter 23 LSV, but we are going to drill down on three of the most obvious and most innovative--
●Surf Gate. This is the newest of Malibu's innovations and may well be the most significant of all since it's design is counter-intuitive and it solves a lot of the traditional problems encountered by enthusiasts trying to create huge wake. It is generating a lot of excitement and it is available on all Wakesetter models.
●Power Wedge. This V-shaped flat plate hinged to the transom of the 23 LSV when raised or lowered can create different sizes and shapes of wakes. It is adjustable and used in concert with adding ballast to the boat in specially-designed tanks located around the boat. It has been used for years on many Malibu boats and has proven quite successful at creating wake and being easy to use. When not wanted, it is simply lifted out of the way. All functionality of the Power Wedge is automated, as easy as pressing a button.
●MaliView. This is Malibu's brand name touch screen device and software that controls many functions of the boat including speed and ballasting in addition to many other things. Most significantly, it can be programmed easily to replicate several rider choices through presets for each individual so its performance can be reproduced automatically. You can even name your preset after yourself.
The Power Wedge is hydraulically operated by commands from the helm and swings down to any position instructed within its range of motion to create wake with different characteristics.
Power Wedge
The Power Wedge is used to increase the size and customize the shape of the boat's wake. When a wakeboarder's sweet spot is found the MaliView with Touch Command software can save that data for future recall. Then save your favorite spot on a preset.
By using the preset information the boat can immediately find the right Power Wedge angle and boat speed, thus saving fuel and getting on plane faster.
The "Power Wedge" shown here in the down position. In this position, with the stern weighted down with ballast, it acts like a spoiler creating wake that pops to the surface on the boat's centerline.
The Power Wedge which is used in the Wakesetter 23 LSV, and all other Wakesetters, as well. Essentially it acts like an underwater spoiler, pulling down the stern of the boat to create more and bigger wake.
Ballast Tanks. In addition to the Power Wedge, Malibu has installed ballast tanks on the 23 LSV. These tanks are strategically placed throughout the boat to improve or change the wake. The 23 LSV has four ballast tanks, one in the bow, one in the center, and two in the stern. Each tank can be filled separately or jointly to accommodate individual board enthusiasts.
By putting weight in the stern and activating the Power Wedge the stern is dropped massively.
Wakes will take different shapes at different settings of the Power Wedge. Some folks may not be quite ready to jump the moon and they can be accommodated with the system.
The significance of the Wedge is that it allows each wakeboarder to dial in the best wake for their needs. In essence, a bigger, better wake means greater air for board tricks. Beginners can start with the wake at one level, and as confidence and expertise grows greater wake can be dialed in over time.
The Wedge is built out of marine-grade aluminum and is covered by Malibu's three year bow to stern warranty.
The Power Wedge works its magic under the water for this high-flying wake boarder.
The MaliView with the Touch Command screen is easy to understand and use. Simply tap the screen for the desired function.
MaliView with Malibu Touch Command
The MaliView boat function control system now comes standard along with the Malibu Touch Command on the Wakesetter 23 LSV. The combination of these two technologies provide quick control of cruise speed, presets, media such as music and video, ignition, lights, ballast, heater, blower, Power Wedge, Surf Gate System, navigation and more.
Not For Luddites. Opt for the latest in technology with Mobile Device Gateway including Bluetooth allowing the operator to control audio and rider presets from a smart phone. About the only thing you can't do is start the boat from the parking lot…yet.
Luddites Hear This. The screen is easy to understand and operate. Now the driver has control of all of the major aspects of the boat, thus controlling wake and speed. Preset parameters can be customized for each user insuring repeatable wake every weekend.
The Touch Command screen is in view from the helm and handy to the operator's right hand.
More Data Flow. MaliView with Touch Control will indicate the level of each ballast tank, the position of the Power Wedge and the speed of the boat, among other things. At the push of a button, the operator can control the wake of the boat and level of the ballast tanks. Each tank has two pumps: one to fill and the other to drain.
How To Use. MaliView also presents critical boat information in the 6.5" graphic color format. This system includes 10 buttons for easy boat system navigation. For example, the "Cruise" button cues graphical Precision Pro Speed Control information and displays additional gauge information as well as current stereo play selection at the bottom of the screen.
The "Gauges" button reveals format choices for various gauge data. Simulated analog gauges, digital gauges and graphical depth are just a few of the options.
The helm of the Wakesetter 23 LSV has MaliView and Touch Command screens to give the operator state-of-the-art control over his vessel.
Precision Pro Speed Control can be turned on or off and the speed can be increased or decreased from any of these gauge screens. The "Preset" button takes the user into a graphical list of available presets. This new thumbnailed list of presets makes the choice quick and easy.
Default Presets. The Malibu Wakesetter 23 LSV comes equipped with the MaliView as standard with a number of presets and each of those can be easily modified to the boat owner's personal preferences. Additional presets can also be easily added, up to 200 in total.
Media Control. The "Media" button provides stereo control and access to switched video inputs. MaliView also features is video connectivity. Video sources from DVD players, to camcorders, to rear-view cameras can be used with this system.
The Surf Gate is a simple-looking vertical flap that diverts passing water into high wake with the energy of the boat's forward momentum.
This image shows the Power Wedge deployed and the Surf Gate tucked in the default position.
Surf Gate
We have not tested the Wakesetter 23 LSV with Surf Gate so we can make no representations for this new technology. We are basing our comments on what surfers are reported as saying who have used the system.
Wake Making Contortions. Heretofore, in order to wake surf, it was necessary to have an adequately weighted boat – one weighted to either the port or starboard side, which produces a larger wake. Wake surfing required boaters to empty ballasts on one side of the boat and subsequently refill them, often displacing passengers and shifting weight accordingly. In this scenario, the crew might be piled up in one stern quarter of the boat.
These three images show theSurf Gatee in three positions, the one at left dormant and the one at right in the most extreme position.
Surf Gate Solution. One of the main advantages of Surf Gate seems to be that world-class wake can be created without having to heavily ballast one corner of the stern and pile as many people back there as possible. We're told that the boat can be weighted evenly and still create a long, glassy wave on either side. Since the boat can be weighted symmetrically, this makes it easier to drive and decreases wear on the drive train.
For that reason Surf Gate alleviates the time-consuming process of shifting ballast. Since extreme leaning of the boat is no longer necessary, Malibu says that Surf Gate enables riders to cross the wave and perform previously impossible moves. Surf Gate is opening up a whole new realm of tricks called "transfers".
This wake surfer has an endless wave to work with behind a Malibu with Surf Gate.
Different Strokes. To change from wake boarding to wake surfing or to change the surfing from one side of the boat to the other, it is just a matter of touching the control screen, says Malibu. Switching from one mode to another can be done in seconds by a simple tap of the Touch Command screen.
The Malibu Wakesetter 23 LSV is a purpose-built boat designed for making the wake high.
Basics of the 23 LSV
The Malibu Wakesetter 23 LSV is not a warmed over skiboat, but rather a boat specially designed for wake sports. Everything about the boat has been designed for that purpose, along with creating a convivial atmosphere for a great party on the water.
Wakeboats need as much weight in the stern as possible. For that reason the Indmar engine has been placed in the stern with a V-drive. For the same reason, seating has been moved to the rear of the boat as much as possible. By wrapping the seating almost completely around the perimeter of the cockpit, the center has been left open so that people can easily move around.
Because as much of the crew as possible should be in the stern of the boat Malibu has minimized the bow seating area, essentially making it a sunning spot when the boat is at rest.
Wake surfer getting air with the spotter and crew in the bow looking on. Note the weight is actually forward in this boat.
One of the most unusual aspects of the boat is its pod-style helm that has been moved significantly forward. With the stern buried to create wake in most boats, the bow is naturally pointing in the air thereby hampering the operator's visibility forward. This is why most wakeboats have their forward sheer shaved down so as to preserve some forward visibility with the stern sunk.
The helm pod is compact and forward on the 23 LSV. Note the position of the huge woofer which should set up some vibrations of its own.
By moving the helm forward and making it compact Malibu has greatly increased the driver's view forward, which is -- after all -- the most important aspect of all, including the size of the wake. We think Malibu has done an artful job of moving the helm forward without making the boat look awkward.
Malibu rated seating capacity, arrived at through ABYC standards is for 15 people and certainly that many can be seated in the boat sitting upright. However, owners should keep in mind that the boat's maximum passenger carrying capacity is 2,115 lbs. (961 kg.). Happily most wake jumpers we've seen are in great shape so many people can hop aboard.
The Bimini top for safe sun, sound equipment, video cameras, board racks and cargo containers are all options that can go on Malibu's new G3 tower.
Tower & Accessories
No wakeboat is complete without a proper towing arch. The arch gets to tow a bit high so that wakeboarders have the scope and height of rope to get over high wakes and make spectacular jumps.
Malibu is the only manufacturer in the towboat segment that makes its own towers. Not only does this give Malibu full control from design to attachment, it reduces the tower cost significantly from its competitors. The Wakesetter 23's Illusion G3 tower is Malibu's latest iteration in tower design. One person can easily lower the tower below the windshield with its weightless, gas spring assisted design. The tower can be optioned out with speakers, lights and racks for boards. The G3 oversized Bimini or the Z5 Cargo Rack can also be added to provide safe sun.
Engine Options
The Wakesetter can be fitted with four different engines from Indmar. All will be in a V-drive configuration. The lineup:
●555HP 572/LSA 6.2L (Supercharged)
We recommend that boaters interested in this boat discuss which engine is best for the desired application with a Malibu dealer.
The 16 orange spots on this image indicate all of the places where Malibu allows its customers to select different colors or materials to customize the Wakesetter 23 LSV.
Customizing the Dream Boat
Malibu understands that much of the final appearance of a boat needs to reflect the personality of the owner. It is this customizable aspect of its boats that let its buyers know they have "one of a kind." Malibu offers the broadest ranges of color and material choices in class. Here are some of the areas available for customization in the Wakesetter 23 LSV--
• Floor type (carpeted or snap-out carpet)
• Gelcoat schemes
• Gelcoat colors (solids and metalflakes)
• Vinyl grain choices
• Vinyl colors
• Upholstery bead colors
• Hand-wrapped dash colors
• Tower colors
• Tower speaker options and colors
• Tower light colors
• Mirror bracket options and colors
• Trailer colors (including Malibu-exclusive metalflake options)
• Trailer wheel choices
• Bimini top styles
|Marine Electronics
|Dripless Shaft Seals
|Washdown: Fresh Water
|Exterior Features
|Arch: Electronics
|Carpet: Cockpit
|Swim Platform
|Tower: Watersports
|Transom Shower
|Bimini Top
= Standard = Optional
|Warranties change from time to time. While BoatTEST.com has tried to ensure the most up-to-date warranty offered by each builder, it does not guarantee the accuracies of the information presented below. Please check with the boat builder or your local dealer before you buy any boat.
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Reinsman® Beetle Hackamore
Reinsman® Beetle Western Hackamore is reasonably light and offers moderate lift and lots of flex. Read more...
This Beetle Hackamore is from Reinsman® and works well for bitless configurations where a moderate action is needed. The specialty shanks allow lift while restricting the amount of turn so the hackamore stays in the proper position for communication. 7" cheeks. Consider wrapping the nose if some cushioning is required.
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This is one of my favorite bits, it's acutally what converted me to using hackamores. It's great for a horse with a lot of natural rate that just needs you to set him up for the barrel or for a horse that just needs a light touch. Great for bending and flexing and slow work. A great little bit that works on a number of horses. The rope nose is stiff at first but does break in over time.
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