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Examining Opus Dei: Secret Societies and The Da Vinci Code
The controversial Catholic sect called Opus Dei is the only secret society mentioned in The Da Vinci Code that may well have some of the smear coming. This is not to say that Silas, the mad and murderous Albino monk, is even remotely a fair depiction of the organization. It does seem fair to say that part of the philosophy behind the organization could easily become twisted, delivered up in just the right way to just the right suspicious mind.
Opus Dei was founded in 1927 by St. Josemaria Escrivá, a parish priest in rural Spain. In later years, in Rome, he became a member of the Pontifical Academy of Theology and a prelate of honor to the pope. At his death in 1975, thousands of lay Catholics and a third of the world's bishops asked the Holy See to open a case for canonization. Pope John Paul II beatified Escrivá in 1992 (which is a sort of pre-saint status) and then canonized him ten years later on October 6, 2002.
The organization is in 61 countries worldwide, with around 87,000 members, and it's involved with education and relief work. At its spiritual core, Opus Dei is founded on the belief that God should be a part of daily life. The phrase Opus Dei means "Work of God" in Latin, and the group is sometimes referred to by its members as "the Work." The overwhelming majority, 98 percent, are lay Catholics (not priests or nuns) governed by an apostolic convention headed by a bishop.
Despite this article's title, Opus Dei is not a secret society. If it's anything negative at all, it may be a religious cult. Whether it's a harmless one is a matter of debate. They do incorporate a lot of medieval belief into their Catholicism, and that can make modern people nervous.
There are four types of membership in Opus Dei:
- Supernumeraries: Supernumeraries make up over 70 percent of members. They lead traditional lives, work, raise families, and so on, and they rarely practice such rigorous habits as celibacy or "corporal mortification."
- Numeraries: Numeraries, about 20 percent of the membership, are men and women who live in the Opus Dei centers, celibately, in segregated quarters. They are encouraged to be college graduates and to work outside of the center, donating most of their money back to it — a very cultish practice.
- Numerary Assistants: Numerary Assistants are celibate women who live in the Opus Dei houses. They do not have outside jobs; they take care of the cooking, cleaning, and other domestic matters of the center. The accusation of gross discrimination against women is generally aimed at the treatment of the members of this rank.
- Associates: The last small category of membership, Associates have a high level of devotion but have obligations that require them to live outside the homes.
Numeraries, Numerary Assistants, and Associates live in celibate group homes, and so are far more likely to be considered by outsiders as members of a religious cult. Of course, to others, they might look more like monks in a monastery.
Not everyone in Opus Dei is expected to remain celibate. In fact, home and family are both emphasized deeply, as you may expect of a Catholic organization. Yet, parallels with the Knights Templars exist in that both are organizations "attached" to the Church but are quasi-independent — in the case of Opus Dei with something called a "personal prelature," a status that has existed only since Vatican II — and both require a far higher degree of sacrifice from their members than just attending Mass on Sunday.
Part of their tradition is a monastic practice called corporal mortification, the idea that inflicting pain on yourself (or deprivation, as in a fast) is a way to "scourge yourself," to help achieve a state of grace. This practice was common in medieval Catholicism, though extremely rare today. It has also been practiced by other faiths besides Christianity. Members believe that this self-punishment, which is supposed to be inflicted in various mild forms, is their way of "taking up the cross," or in other words, sharing in Christ's pain in order to reach oneness with him.
Corporal mortification is only recommended in its mildest forms by the powers that be, who sometimes can't be held responsible when some nutcase decides to carry it over the edge. Members are encouraged to make small sacrifices here and there of the creature comforts we've become so used to: take a cold shower, sleep without a pillow, fast, or remain silent for a certain number of hours each day.
But some in the group houses let it get out of hand. Sometimes members flail themselves regularly with a small rope whip they call a discipline, while others go even further, using a device called a celise, mentioned in The Da Vinci Code, that would make any sane person's flesh crawl — it looks like a cross between a Slinky and a piece of barbed wire, and it is to be worn beneath the clothing for a specified time, usually two hours, wrapped around the upper thigh, spikes pointing inward. According to Opus Dei, members are told not to draw blood with it. Terrific.
To be fair, corporal mortification isn't quite as loony as it sounds. In fact, aspects of it survive in our own culture in some very unlikely places. Its fans in Opus Dei describe it as a way of tuning in to a deeper level of awareness, a philosophy seen in many guises. Have you ever been driving home in the pouring rain, and you glance off to the side and notice a runner on the sidewalk, going for all he's worth, his face wearing a really unsettling grimace, but with sort of glassy eyes? Runners sometimes call this "being in the zone," a place where the pain is no longer felt, and the mind is at peace. As the body toils, even painfully, the mind clears, and a zone of inner serenity is reached that allows them to face their problems later with clarity and calm.
A nonprofit organization called Opus Dei Awareness Network exists to reach out to people who have experienced a "negative impact on their lives" at the hands of the organization. According to the network, although Opus Dei isn't exactly a cult, they certainly do use many cult practices and, in general, exercise a high degree of control over their members — particularly, of course, the ones who live in Opus Dei houses.


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EDWARDS - Well, that was a good weekend.
After picking up its first win against Meeker Friday, and on the road no less, Vail Christian boys basketball toppled Rangely, 62-48, Saturday afternoon at the Wheeler Athletic Center in Edwards.
That puts the 1A Saints in second place in the 2A Slope with a record of 6-2 in the league and 11-4 overall.
"We're cautiously optimistic," Saints coach Sheldon Kuhns said, not wishing to invoke the wrath of whatever power may control sports karma.
Kuhns and anyone in blue, silver and white would be doing cartwheels if this were to happen two weeks from now at the 1A district tournament. But the Saints are showing the key ingredients for a successful district weekend with their defense and rebounding.
"We've played really well defensively on back-to-back nights," Kuhns said. "We're developing a half-court man-to-man defensive identity."
Kevin Boselli wrapped a great weekend with 18 points against Rangely. Gunnar Wilson racked up 13 points and also led the team in rebounding against the Panthers. Zach Linder came up big in the paint with 12 points.
While a 6-2 record in the 2A Slope is impressive for the Saints, it's their play against 1A teams in the league (North Park, DeBeque and Plateau Valley) that count toward district seeding. With that in mind, that makes Friday night's game at North Park a big one.
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1North American A flaky rectangular pastry with a sweet filling.
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- Spoon a portion of sauce around the plate and place a quenelle of the marmalade next to the napoleon.
- For dessert there were cheesecake, ice cream, cream cake, fruit salad, and napoleons.
2 historical A gold twenty-franc French coin minted during the reign of Napoleon I.
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- 'Offering French lessons for two gold napoleons cannot be a very reliable source of income,' said the politician.
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SUNNYVALE -- Juniper Networks confirmed Tuesday that it is cutting 500 workers, about 5.3 percent of its workforce, amid a battle with Cisco Systems (CSCO) for shrinking networking market share.
Juniper, the world's No. 2 networking manufacturer after San Jose-based Cisco, is seeking "to reduce operating expenses," a company spokeswoman said Tuesday. An emailed statement from the company said it "is working to align its resources to improve productivity and effectiveness."
"As a result of this important initiative, we are reducing our workforce by approximately 500 people in functions across the company," the statement added.
Juniper employed 9,373 workers at the time of its most recent quarterly earnings report. The company said in that July announcement it was looking to stay "focused on prudently managing our business to ensure disciplined operational execution," while disclosing a 4 percent year-over-year drop in quarterly revenue and a 39 percent drop in profit per share, excluding one-time costs. The Sunnyvale company also announced in July that it would seek to cut $150 million in operating costs by 2013.
Networking equipment makers have faced a tough macroeconomic environment in 2012 because of lessening demand in Europe, where economic problems are more dire than in the United States, and in some areas of Asia. Cisco has also announced layoffs recently, with a reduction of about 2 percent in July that affected about 1,300 workers.
Forrester Research analyst Andrew Bartels predicted earlier this year that worldwide computer networking sales are expected to decline by 2 percent in 2012 from 2011, and Pacific Crest Securities analyst Brent Bracelin said in July that his numbers showed "slowing demand for IT equipment across the board."
A Juniper spokeswoman said the company's layoffs were spread around the company and not focused on any one area, while declining to state how many of the jobs would be pruned from Bay Area offices or specific divisions. A Bloomberg News report focused on layoffs in the company's QFabric division -- a single-tier networking option that Juniper pioneered -- but a spokeswoman denied to Bloomberg that QFabric was a specific target and a person familiar with the situation confirmed the division was not specifically targeted.
"Our actions to reduce operating expenses fall across our support functions, including supply chain, procurement, SG&A, as well as R&D," the company's statement said.
Some Silicon Valley companies have announced large rounds of layoffs recently: In addition to Cisco's reduction, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) is undergoing a restructuring that will claim 29,000 workers through 2014; and former Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Scott Thompson announced in April a plan to lay off 2,000 workers earlier this year, though his replacement, Marissa Mayer, has not said whether that reduction will continue under her watch.
Despite those workforce reductions, the Bay Area added 61,000 jobs in the first eight months of 2012, a marked improvement from 11,000 jobs added during the same period in 2011.
Juniper stock ended Tuesday's session with a loss of 4 cents, or 0.2 percent, at $16.73; the company's share price has dropped 18 percent so far in 2012.
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"A brilliant new voice in paranormal romance."
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Karina Cooper's Dark Mission novels are red hot—and, with Sacrifice the Wicked, she returns readers to the darkly thrilling dystopian realm of witches and witch hunters she introduced in her stunning debut, Blood of the Wicked. This time, it's a battle of the sexes, as reluctant allies become passionate lovers in a world on the brink of destruction. Agent Simon, a witch, finds himself fighting to save the life of his stunning enemy, Director Parker Adams, while, against his better judgment, falling in love with her. Cooper has boldly staked her claim to paranormal romance greatness—with her Dark Mission books as well as her brilliantly imaginative Victorian steampunk series, The St. Croix Chronicles—placing herself in the same exalted ranks as paranormal and urban fantasy superstars J.R. Ward, Kresley Cole, and Karen Marie Moning.
Parker Adams has always done what's expected of her . . . until a double agent with nothing to lose ignites a passion she doesn't dare give in to.
Mission Agent Simon Wells is everything Parker Adams has been trained to fight: manipulator, murderer, spy . . . witch. But for her, what makes Simon most dangerous is his mesmerizing sexual magnetism, powerful enough to tempt even the famed ice queen of the Mission. Though she knows better, each encounter with the deceptive agent leaves her craving more.
Simon isn't a man to let go of what's his, and his pursuit forces Parker, a woman he can't get out from under his skin, to make a stand that could destroy her. If they can work together, they might survive the politics that has enslaved their devastated world—or fall victim to the pitfalls of desperation, bone-deep mistrust, and a hunger that threatens to consume them.
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14.06.2012 - Italian neuroscience specialist Newron Pharmaceuticals S.p.A. acquires the Stockholm-based Neuronova AB in a deal worth €15.4m
Bresso/Stockholm – The transaction will add two new Phase II compounds from NeuroNova to Newron's CNS portfolio. sNN0031 is a novel drug candidate for the treatment of moderate to severe stage Parkinson's disease (PD) that is designed to act on neural stem and progenitor cells in the brain. In a Phase I/II trial in patients with PD, the active ingredient platelet-derived growth factor BB demonstrated preliminary beneficial effects on biochemical markers of the degenerating dopamine system in PD patients. The second compound, sNN0029 with the active ingredient vascular endothelial growth factor, is intended for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and is currently evaluated in a Phase I/II trial.
At the transaction close, Newron will benefit by cash and commitments of up to €16m. These funds are sufficient to provide for a Phase II study in PD as well as the ongoing Phase I/II study in ALS, in addition to the related corporate operations. The biggest investors in Neuronova, Investor and Healthcap, will also take a stake in Newron. Both will send a representative to the Milan-based company's board of directors. At closing of the deal, the Neuronova shareholders will represent a holding of 33% in Newron's share capital. For them, the transaction is a bid on the positive development of NeuroNova's compounds. "We value Newron's expertise in taking compounds from clinical stages to regulatory filing, and support the concept of building a European CNS player that could benefit both patients and our stakeholders", stated Jakob Lindberg from Investor. "It is the logical next step to NeuroNova to combine our advanced pipeline and know-how, originally stemming from research at Karolinska Institute and developed by our team in the recent years, with a larger player in the CNS field", added Ulf Ljungberg, President and CEO of NeuroNova, stating that the combined product portfolio represents "a strong platform on which to build the critical mass this industry is looking for."http://www.european-biotechnology-news.com/news/news/2012-02/newron-picks-up-neuronova-ab.html


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ARS is currently retooling the USDA, FPED methodology. ARS will review all food codes (7,000+) in the Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS) for the respective past surveys to determine the appropriate amounts of each of the 30+ food groups present in each FNDDS food code. ARS will meet with the Cooperator to ensure that the food group assignments are consistent with the current dietary guidelines; and the Cooperator will provide scientific consultation and resources to ARS as needed.


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Town and Resident Clash over Anti-Gun Law Banner
Conflicts involving protest signs and zoning rules seem to be a growing genre of First Amendment battles.
In the latest example, a small town in western New York and a resident are clashing over his banner protesting the state's new gun law.
Earlier this year, E. Scott Zawierucha, who lives in Hamburg, N.Y., hung the sign on a picket fence facing the town's main strip, making it quite clear what he thinks about New York's SAFE Act. That's the package of stricter gun restrictions approved last year. "NY IS NOT S.A.F.E.!! STOP CUOMO – PRESERVE YOUR RIGHTS!!" the banner says.
Last month, the Buffalo News reports, the man received a summons citing a town code that states: "No images or language shall be painted, affixed to the outward side of any fence or directed at neighboring properties for any reason."
The Buffalo News says Mr. Zawierucha's sign is far from the only one displayed in the Erie County town. But after refusing to take it down, he's appearing in local court on Friday to defend himself against the summons, according to the paper.
"I am not taking this down. I have been targeted," he told the Buffalo News. "I've had nothing but positive feedback from people." Law Blog has reached out to Mr. Zawierucha for comment.
The town's chief code enforcement officer, Kurt Allen, who wasn't immediately available for comment, reportedly told Hamburg's town board last month that the issue wasn't political or ideological, but that the problem with the banner is that it's hanging on a fence in violation of the zoning code.
"It in no way causes a problem for anyone," Mr. Zawierucha said in his interview with the paper. "It's a matter of the First Amendment."


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Published: Friday, May 10, 2013 at 10:52 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, May 10, 2013 at 10:52 a.m.
The Courier presents the 5K Run for Excellence and Cajun Food Fest will be held Saturday in downtown Houma.
The race starts at 6 p.m. The kids' run is at 5:30 p.m. The price for the race and post-race festivities is $20 for students (5-20) and $35 for adults. The price includes a T-shirt.
The cost for non-racers to enter the festival is $25 for adults, $15 for students 13-20 and $5 for students 5-12. Kids 4 and under enter free.
The festival will include a Kids Corner, open till 9:30 p.m., that includes face painting, balloon art, magic shows, arts-and-crafts and other activities. The Bucktown Allstars will perform from 6:30 to 10 p.m.
Proceeds help support the Terrebonne Foundation for Academic Excellence, which has awarded more than $898,000 to Terrebonne's schools since 2001. For information or to register, visit www.tfae.org.
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Citigroup said Wednesday that it will slash 11,000 jobs, or about 4 percent of its global workforce, putting hundreds of jobs at risk in California.
The cuts will affect Citigroup's consumer banking unit, which handles everyday activities such as branch services and checking accounts. The cutbacks will especially impact overseas operations in South America, Asia and Europe, the banking giant said.
Citigroup said hundreds of jobs could be lost in California, but it wasn't immediately clear exactly how many might be eliminated statewide or in the Bay Area.
"In California, where we have nearly 6,000 employees, the number of positions impacted is proportionate with the global impact," Citigroup spokeswoman Janis Tarter said in comments emailed to this newspaper. Assuming 4 percent of those jobs are cut, that would amount to a reduction of 240 employees in California.
"For the overall economy this is painful," said Michael Yoshikami, chief executive and founder of Walnut Creek-based Destination Wealth Management. "A huge amount of jobs are being lost. It will have a negative impact on money centers such as California. But for Citigroup, this is a positive move."
The bank, the third largest in the country by assets, did not say how many jobs it will cut in the United States.
About 1,900 job cuts will come from the institutional clients group, which includes the investment bank. The company will also cut jobs in technology and operations by using more automation and moving jobs to less expensive states or nations.
The financial crisis dealt a heavy blow to Citi, which nearly collapsed and required two taxpayer bailouts to remain afloat. Rivals such as San Francisco-based Wells Fargo fared much better.
"The banking industry is now made up of haves and have-nots," said Ken Thomas, a Miami-based banking analyst and economist. "Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase are the haves. Bank of America and Citigroup are the have-nots."
Citi said it expects the cuts to save $900 million next year, and more in the following years. They will be a drag, though, in the short term: Citi said it expects to record pretax charges of about $1 billion in the fourth quarter.
Although investors liked Citi's moves, sending the bank's shares soaring 6.3 percent higher Wednesday, Thomas warned that the cutbacks come with some hazards.
"It's a two-edged sword," Thomas said. "Customers will say this means finding a new branch, or spending more time in line at the bank, or more time on the phone. And the employees are asking themselves what's next and who's next."
The Associated Press contributed to this report. Contact George Avalos at 925-977-8477. Follow him at Twitter.com/george_avalos.


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Are Grand Slams the Toughest Tennis Test?
It's a common debate among sports fans: What's harder to win, a tennis major or a golf major? The arguments are familiar by now. Golf winners must beat everyone in the field, tennis winners just the seven players they'll face in the draw. Tennis players have to contend with the challenges posed by their opponents' games, though, while golfers are playing against the course.
As the wacky Wimbledon tournament so far shows, though, there's another open question within tennis: Are Grand Slam tournaments the hardest tournaments to win? For those top-ranked players who have managed to advance through the first, upset-filled week of this year's Wimbledon, the second week's field is easier than many other tournaments below Grand Slam-level that they've entered in recent years.
This doesn't make Marion Bartoli and Sabine Lisicki, the winners of the women's semifinals on Thursday, undeserving of their finalist berths. They beat everyone in their paths — including, in Lisicki's case, No. 1 Serena Williams and No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska, last year's two finalists, in a pair of three-set thrillers. The same holds for the four men's semifinalists, two of whom — Novak Djokovic and Juan Martin del Potro — beat top-six players in the quarterfinals. And rankings aren't entirely fair measures of players' grass-court prowess — Lisicki and Bartoli, in particular, are far more formidable at Wimbledon than their positions outside the Top 10 suggest. All semifinalists also have to deal with the increased public attention and media obligations that a Slam brings. And the men have had to endure longer matches in the best-of-five-set format they play at majors but not at tour events. The eaarly upsets could also be interpreted another way — as evidence that for some top-ranked players, majors are too tough a test.
But however you want to interpret the numbers, there's no question that the second week of Wimbledon has featured fewer top-ranked players than most recent Grand Slams, and than many other, lower-profile tournaments, too. Bartoli, in particular, reached the final without playing a Top-15 seed, and men's semifinalists Andy Murray and Jerzy Janowicz haven't played anyone seeded higher than 15th.
The question about the toughest types of tennis tournament isn't often raised because at first glance, majors seem like the toughest tests. They feature the biggest fields — 128 players on the men's and women's sides — and the most rounds. Only a handful of winners at a few other tournaments need to win seven main-draw matches to lift the trophy.
But the bigger fields cut both ways. Many of the 128 players don't have rankings high enough to qualify for the next tier of tournaments, which, like the Slams, are mandatory. The qualifying draws are smaller at tour events, too. That leaves less room for low-ranked players to advance to the late rounds by getting hot or benefiting from injuries and withdrawals. Lots of such players made it through to the second week at Wimbledon this year in the women's and men's draws, making the passage of top seeds relatively easy, at least based on the rankings of their opponents.
To compare the strength of Wimbledon's last 16, eight and four players in men's and women's singles with the same rounds at other tournaments, I used data supplied by Tennis Abstract proprietor Jeff Sackmann. And I applied three measures to each of those three rounds: the lowest rank of any player in each round, the average rank of players in the round, and their median rank — the average rank of the two players in the middle if you lined them up by ranking. That's nine measures in all: three for each of the three rounds. And on both the men's and women's side, several tour events with considerably less fame than Wimbledon and the other three majors have in recent years had tougher late rounds, by every measure, than Wimbledon does this year.
Since the start of 2011, six events at the Masters level — a notch below the Slams — have been tougher than this year's Wimbledon men's singles draw from the round of 16 on. Most recently, Shanghai last year featured no round-of-16 player with a ranking below 41 and a median semifinals rank of 2.5 — the world's top three players all reached the Shanghai semis. The comparable figures for Wimbledon this year were 130 and 5, respectively. Shanghai had Wimbledon beat in every other respect, too, when it came to ranking of late-round players. Last year's Monte Carlo Masters, despite being the only non-mandatory Masters, also had a stronger men's field in the later rounds than the one at this year's Wimbledon.
Even below the Masters level, some recent men's tournaments were in many ways tougher than the second week of this year's Wimbledon. Last year's Dubai tournament, which is a 500-level event just below the Masters, had tougher quarterfinal and semifinal fields than this year's Wimbledon, by all three ranking comparisons. And at the 250 level, the lowest on the ATP World Tour, the Doha semifinals last year featured three top-six players and no one ranked higher than 16, more impressive than the four Wimbledon semifinalists.
The women's draw has been even more wide-open than the men's, and that's reflected in the roster of women's tournaments with tougher draws from the fourth round on than Wimbledon has had this year. At the Premier level, the WTA Tour's equivalent of Masters events, 11 tournaments since the start of 2011 have had higher-ranked rounds-of-16, quarterfinals and semis by every measure than Wimbledon has. Most of these weren't mandatory events, which makes it all the more impressive that they topped Wimbledon for strength of the late rounds.
It wouldn't be fair to judge majors' toughness based solely on this year's wacky Wimbledon: Most recent majors on both the men's and women's sides have featured very strong semifinal fields. But it's likely that those recent majors were the ones that were truly wacky, not this year's Wimbledon, which isn't close to the record for lowest-ranked women's or men's semifinal fields. It wasn't long ago that draw-clearing upsets were the norm. The Wimbledon semifinals five years ago featured No. 133 Jie Zheng on the women's side and No. 75 Marat Safin and No. 94 Rainer Schuettler on the men's side.


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Among the most celebrated developers in recent years, especially in the domain of Java EE and JavaFX, is consultant Adam Bien, who, in addition to being a JavaOne Rock Star for Java EE sessions given in 2009 and 2011, is a Java Champion, the winner of Oracle Magazine's 2011 Top Java Developer of the Year Award, and recently won a 2012 JAX Innovation Award as a top Java Ambassador.
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I spoke with Bien to get his take on Java today. He expressed excitement that the smallest companies and startups are showing increasing interest in Java EE. "This is a very good sign," said Bien. "Only a few years ago J2EE was mostly used by larger companies -- now it becomes interesting even for one-person shows. Enterprise Java events are also extremely popular. On the Java SE side, I'm really excited about Project Nashorn."
Nashorn is an upcoming JavaScript engine, developed fully in Java by Oracle, and based on the Da Vinci Machine (JSR 292) which is expected to be available for Java 8.
Bien expressed concern about a common misconception regarding Java's mediocre productivity. "The problem is not Java," explained Bien, "but rather systems built with ancient patterns and approaches. Sometimes it really is 'Cargo Cult Programming.' Java SE/EE can be incredibly productive and lean without the unnecessary and hard-to-maintain bloat. The real problems are 'Ivory Towers' and not Java's lack of productivity."
Bien remarked that if there is one thing he wanted Java developers to understand it is that, "Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Or at least of some evil. Modern JVMs and application servers are hard to optimize upfront. It is far easier to write simple code and measure the results continuously. Identify the hotspots first, then optimize."
He advised Java EE developers to, "Rethink everything you know about Enterprise Java. Before you implement anything, ask the question: 'Why?' If there is no clear answer -- just don't do it. Most well known best practices are outdated. Focus your efforts on the domain problem and not the technology."
Looking ahead, Bien said, "I would like to see open source application servers running directly on a hypervisor. Packaging the whole runtime in a single file would significantly simplify the deployment and operations."
Check out a recent Java Magazine interview with Bien about his Java EE 6 stress monitoring tool here.
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Last night, News 12 ran a story about Richmond County's pet population, and we learned that 12,000 cats and dogs will be put down this year.
Due to your e-mails, we decided to dig a little deeper and ask: Does our local government have a responsibility to step in?
Right now, anyone can buy a pet, no questions asked.
But is that helping or hurting our area?
What do you think?
Should commissioners enact a pet license fee to weed out those irresponsible owners?
"We're very irresponsible when it comes to our pets. It's horrible," said Animal Services Director Randy Teasley.
Horrible is also the word News 12 viewers are using to describe our pet population.
Christine Johnson saw our original story and writes, "Getting the public to understand is like beating your head against a wall."
Christine used to work at Animal Control, but resigned. We spoke to her about that decision.
"It's hard to do it day in and day out," she said. "I give all the girls and the guys there credit for doing that, because I couldn't."
This year alone, they've done it 12,000 times.
We brought the problem to the attention of Augusta Commissioner Joe Bowles.
"I did not realize it was such a high number," he told us.
Bowles, who has served roughly one year, agrees there's an animal crisis.
"If the person couldn't afford to pay a licensing fee, maybe they shouldn't take the responsibility of owning a pet," Bowles said.
Teasley has been reading up on the implementation of pet licensing fees for years.
"[Under this sort of system,] if an animal's spayed and neutered, you get quite a substantial break on your pet license, and they have fines for not licensing your pet," he explained. "Minimum fine, $500."
"So maybe...a fee up front, a licensing fee, will weed out those and steer it to where responsible people are obtaining the pets," Bowles said.
Those annual fees could possibly range from $25 to $50 dollars a year.
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The lawsuit filed Wednesday claims that company founder Michael Dell and a group led by investment firm Silver Lake are trying to buy the Round Rock, Texas-based computer maker on the cheap for $24.4 billion, or $13.65 per share.
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The boy was walking with a friend near March Lane and Brookside Road about 11:50 p.m. when he encountered two men sitting on a bench, officers said. One of the men pointed a gun at the victim and took a portable electronic device before both men fled on bicycles, police said.
About an hour later, officers located one of the men riding a bicycle on North Pershing Avenue. The man refused to stop and discarded a handgun while fleeing from officers but was soon taken into custody, authorities said.
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The Voynich Manuscript has been considered to be the world's most mysterious book. Filled with strange illustrations and an unknown language, it challenged the world's top code-crackers for nearly a century.
But in just four-and-a-half months, Dr. Gordon Rugg, a renowned researcher, found evidence (which had been there all along) that the book could be a giant, glittering hoax.
In Blind Spot: Why We Fail to See the Solution Right in Front of Us, Dr. Rugg shares his story and shows how his toolkit of problem-solving techniques—such as his Verifier Method—can save the day, particularly in those times when the experts on your team have all the data in front of them but are still unaccountably at an impasse.
In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Ariely, Dr. Rugg, a rising star in computer science, challenges us to re-examine the way we think, and provides new tools to solve problems and crack codes in our own lives.
What can chess masters teach us about how humans become experts?
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When we talk about experts, we typically have bought into the idea that they have all the answers. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Gordon Rugg exposes the surprising ways in which all people tend to make the same sorts of mistakes, regardless of what field they are in, how smart they are, or even their level of expertise. Focusing on why and how we make decisions, Rugg offers insight into what motivates us, how we fail to find the answers we are looking for, how we can learn to ask the essential questions, and more.
Rugg has devoted his life to learning how experts solve problems. He gained international attention after arguing persuasively that the famous Voynich Manuscript is a hoax. Now, he demonstrates his techniques in the Verifier Method, which can be applied to any seemingly unsolvable problem.
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"Rugg is at the cutting edge of research into one of the biggest questions of our time: when can the pronouncements of experts be trusted? This book applies Rugg's groundbreaking methods to a fascinating range of issues, with sometimes shocking consequences." — Robert Matthews, Department of Mathematics at Aston University, Birmingham, and author of 25 Big Ideas: The Science That's Changing Our World
"Blind Spot provides a template for making sense of failure and divining a strategy for success. A unique and invigorating read; compelling and entertaining, informative and inspiring." — David J. Parkes, associate director of Information Services at Staffordshire University
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Terrebonne General Medical Center will host a sibling class at 5:30 p.m. July 15 in the Women's Center Multi-Purpose Room.
The class is designed to meet the needs of children ages 2-10 who will be becoming big brothers or sisters. Parents are encouraged to stay for the class. Cost is $10 per child.
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According to the Department of City Planning, more than one-quarter of the New York City is occupied by public parks, playgrounds and nature preserves. Yet there are many parks here that receive no government funding for maintenance and development. Hudson River Park is one of them. The park relies on financial and volunteer support from the public to keep this public, green oasis operating year round. So, 21 SVB volunteers joined NYC Cares on a sunny day in October to help rejuvenate a deserving outdoor space along the city's riverfront as part of our 30 Years | 30 Causes campaign.
Hudson River Park runs along the Hudson and extends from 59th Street south to Battery Park in Manhattan. Bicycle and pedestrian paths, including the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway, span the park north to south, opening up the waterfront to a wide variety of recreational uses. The park provides extensive free or minimal cost programming throughout the year to the public, especially to public schools and youth community centers. On top of its recreational and cultural offerings for people (and dogs), the park is also home to a wildlife habitat including native plants, dozens of local bird species and other natural gems that we don't ordinarily see in the streets of the city such as butterflies and dragonflies. Additionally, the park gives visitors a window into New York's rich history.
Our main contribution was to help improve the seasonal beauty of the park. With guidance from the park's educator and two horticulturalists, we planted a large number of bulbs that will blossom in March and April. Our SVB team members plan to support the park again, and we'll all get a chance to enjoy the flowers we planted next spring. To get involved, or to explore this great resource in New York, visit: http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/explore-the-park
The "30 Years |30 Causes" campaign was developed after Silicon Valley Bank crowd sourced ideas from its employees to celebrate its 30th anniversary. The company will host 30 community service events around the world near each of its offices in 2013. A listing of SVB's 30 Years | 30 Causes events, as well as photos, will be updated at svb.com/svb-30-years/ and www.facebook.com/SVBFinancialGroup Follow @SVB_Financial's community service initiatives on Twitter with #SVB30. Points of Light is assisting SVB with the development and execution of these events worldwide.
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Christopher Kennedy Lawford's New York Times bestselling memoir, Symptoms of Withdrawal, offered readers a startling, first-hand look at his own addictions to drugs and alcohol, prompting People magazine to write, "Few have written so well about the joy of drugs, and few are as unsparing about their drug-driven selfishness." In his bestselling follow-up, Moments of Clarity, Lawford presents "Voices from the Front Lines of Addiction and Recovery." With contributions from Tom Arnold, Alec Baldwin, Meredith Baxter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Dreyfuss, Anthony Hopkins and many others, Moments of Clarity is an important addition to the literature of recovery.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
In his New York Times bestselling memoir, Symptoms of Withdrawal, Christopher Kennedy Lawford chronicled his deep descent into near-fatal drug and alcohol addiction, and his subsequent hard-won journey back to sobriety, which he has maintained for more than twenty years. The overwhelming response his book received impressed upon Lawford the number of people struggling to find their own way back from addiction and the need to share their stories. The histories gathered here are the recollections of lives snatched back from the brink of a precipice so wide and deep it threatened to engulf them.
Moments of Clarity includes stories from men and women, young and old, across all barriers of celebrity, color, and class. Represented in these pages are the singer and the actress, the writer and the anchorman, the man from the movie screen and the woman who lives down the street. This book brings together a myriad of different moments, all with the common understanding of where these men and women have been and where they must go. As they bravely share their stories, they shed light not only on their own experiences but also on the journey we all take as human beings who are trying to make sense of our world.
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Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos
June 6 through August 30, 2009
The Museum of Art recently added to its collections a complete first edition (80 etchings) of Francisco Goya y Lucientes's (1746–1828) famous set of prints Los Caprichos, which offers cutting social commentary on religion, prostitution, and the professional class. Although a number of the nightmarish and idiosyncratic images from the Caprichos may be familiar to visitors, it is rare to experience a complete set and even more exceptional to view a first edition in pristine condition, recently gifted to the Museum by the late Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco. This exhibition presents some of Goya's most iconic—and disturbing—imagery with a delicacy and beauty that is rarely encountered.


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SANTA CLARA -- Mike Singletary followed up the 49ers' 2008 home loss to the Seattle Seahawks with an epic "I want winners" rant. Since then, the 49ers have won 11 straight NFC West home games.
The St. Louis Rams visit Candlestick Park on Sunday, and, yes, 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh wants winners, too.
"At the end of the year, those are huge in determining who wins the division," Harbaugh said Friday.
The 49ers have shut out the Rams in two of their past three visits, including last season's 26-0 rout that clinched the NFC West for the 49ers with four regular-season games remaining.
Although the 49ers won 35-0 in 2009, the Rams battled to a 23-20 overtime loss in 2010.
During the stretch of 11 straight division wins at home, the 49ers defense has allowed only 11 touchdowns, and only two of the rushing variety. A Seahawks kickoff return accounts for the only other touchdown allowed.
"They're always physical games and great battles," left tackle Joe Staley said. "I always get excited to play them, and you're always familiar with the guy you're going against."
Staley primarily will block Robert Quinn, a second-year defensive end who leads the Rams with seven sacks.
"He's having a good season," Staley said. "He's got good get-off, he's strong and he understands the game."
Harbaugh's appreciation for the military has been well documented, and he knows where the correlation stops between war and sports. "We don't compare what we do. We honor the military," Harbaugh said. "We know their fight is life and death. It's different from what we do."
Sunday's "Salute to Service" celebration will include an F-18 flyover from Naval Air Station Lemoore, the swearing-in of new Army soldiers, a veterans' tribute and a Wounded Warriors presentation. The U.S. Army drill team will perform at halftime, and Navy counselor Steven Powell will sing the national anthem.
Asked if the extensive list comes in response to the league's crackdown on injury reports, Harbaugh said: "I wash my hands of all list making. It's done strictly by the doctors and trainers."
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Intertape posts quarterly loss of $15.4 million
Published: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 10:36 a.m.
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Intertape Polymer Group Inc. reported a loss of $15.4 million in the first quarter, driven by $27 million in costs for closing and moving one of its plants and subsequent restructuring.
The loss equated to 26 cents per share and compared with a profit of $7.7 million, or 13 cents per share, during the same quarter last year for the Canadian company that has its executive headquarters in Bradenton.
Before applying the costs of the closing and restructuring, Intertape reported an operating profit of $13.7 million.
Sales during the first quarter of this year were $196.7 million, compared with $198.9 million during the same period a year ago.
Intertape announced in February that it was moving its Columbia, S.C., plant, a $26 million undertaking and investment that also will mean the loss of some jobs there. The company plans to keep the plant in the same region when it completes the project in the first half of 2015.
The company also moved some production lines around at some other plants in Richmond, Ky.; Truro, Nova Scotia; and Tremonton, Utah.
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Untitled (History Painting): Painting and Public Life in the 21st Century
May 23 through September 20, 2009
The use and translation of photographic imagery is perhaps the most significant development in painting of the past half century. At the same time, photographic media have long since taken over the representation of real-world events, both contemporary and historical. Untitled (History Painting): Painting and Public Life in the 21st Century investigates painting's continuing viability as a means of addressing historical events and how they are represented in a culture dominated by photographic and digital media. The artists in the exhibition are united both by their use of photographic (or cinematic) source material drawn from the public sphere and by their engagement with questions of historical representation and collective memory. Devoted exclusively to work produced since the year 2000, the exhibition makes no attempt to be comprehensive. Instead, the exhibition charts one constellation of positions at the intersection of painting, photography, and the public imagination. Rather than simply illustrating the impact of photography or current events on contemporary painting, these positions represent an active, critical engagement with some of the most pressing issues facing artists and viewers today.
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WASHINGTON – Sept. 23, 2012 – Ducks Unlimited is encouraged by the U.S. Senate's early morning procedural vote yesterday to move forward with the Sportsmen's Act of 2012 (S.3525), making it the first piece of legislation taken up with their return in November. The 84-to-7 vote in favor of moving to vote on passage after recess reflects the broad support of these conservation, hunting and fishing provisions.
The act is a compilation of a number of different bills that promote and advance our hunting, recreational fishing and shooting heritage, and increase access to public lands for those activities. It allows the continued authorization of several vital conservation programs, including those that enhance waterfowl and other fish and wildlife populations, and conserve wetlands, aquatic systems, and other habitats.
"These bipartisan bills are important and diverse in the support they provide natural resource conservation," said Paul Schmidt, DU's chief conservation officer. "Some of the most important programs for waterfowl, including the reauthorization of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, a provision allowing for an increase to the price of the federal duck stamp in order to conserve more wetlands, and the Permanent Electronic Duck Stamp Act, are part of this package. It's encouraging to see that people can work across the aisle when it comes to our natural resources, and Ducks Unlimited appreciates the work that Senator Tester and the many sponsors from both sides of the aisle have put into this important legislation."
DU is one of 56 conservation and fishing and hunting groups, including the National Rifle Association, The Nature Conservancy and the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, that supported the bill.
"Now we must keep up the momentum to ensure this bill passes into law in November through working with both sides in the House of Representatives," Schmidt said. "Fish and wildlife conservation and hunting and fishing have always had strong bipartisan appeal, and movement of this bill in the Senate is a reflection of that support."
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Elder care and other low-wage jobs will be among the fastest growing career fields over the next decade. Postal carriers and journalists might have a harder time finding work.
Personal-care aide will be the fastest growing job from 2012 to 2022, among categories with more than 25,000 positions, the Labor Department said in a new report. The field will grow by nearly 50% to 1.8 million jobs.
Personal-care aides help clients "with self-care and everyday tasks, and provide companionship," the newly released Occupational Outlook Handbook said. The job requires no formal education, but most aides have a high school diploma. Workers in the field earned an average annual income of $19,910. "As the baby-boom population ages, there will be an increase in the number of clients requiring assistance," the handbook said.
The most job openings, due to both growth in the sector and employee turnover, will come for workers in retail sales and food and beverage service. Average income in those fields is less than $20,000 per year.
Postal and media sectors are likely to shed jobs in the next decade.
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A Phish show made for the iPod Shuffle, I'd say, which is neither compliment nor criticism - unless you insist on one or the other, in which case it's the latter, qualified.
Tuesday, 08/11/2009
Toyota Park, Bridgeview, IL
Soundcheck: Liquid Time > Funky Bitch
Set 1: KDFKill Devil Falls, SampleSample in a Jar, Ocelot, Paul and Silas, Windy City[1], Curtain WithThe Curtain With, Train Song, Gumbo, Heavy Things, TTETime Turns Elastic
Set 2: BDTNLBackwards Down the Number Line > Carini > JibbooGotta Jibboo, ThemeTheme From the Bottom, Wilson > 2001Also Sprach Zarathustra > CDTChalk Dust Torture, HoodHarry Hood, CoilThe Squirming Coil
Encore: Loving Cup
[1] Debut.
Noteworthy Jams: Backwards Down the Number Line, Also Sprach Zarathustra
Average Song Gap: 17.68
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: This show featured the first Paul and Silas since November 29, 1998 (209 shows). Trey explained that Paul and Silas was "sort of a request" for a fan he met the night before. This show marked the debut of Windy City, which Trey indicated the band had been waiting to debut in Chicago.
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4 Joy
2 Farmhouse
2 Billy Breathes
2 Stash
1 Party Time
1 Hoist
1 A Picture of Nectar
1 Lawn Boy
1 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
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This show was part of the "2009 Late Summer Tour."
A Phish show made for the iPod Shuffle, I'd say, which is neither compliment nor criticism - unless you insist on one or the other, in which case it's the latter, qualified.
Show in general was a good time. Had they played the songs in a different order maybe have been the best show of the second leg, but who knows. Glad they are back, and they ARE back.
Windy City debuted here. Nice song,definitely Pages number. Curtain was sweeeeet and rolled into Train song. A short Gumbo got the jams out momentarily, then Heavy Things,I vaguely remembered this one from somewhere, sometime, but basically a new one for me and was very glad to dig it. Time turns elastic. This song is paradigm, live, it didn't sit well. seemed to break up the flow, but after further listening it is an interesting and complex composition. Now that I've heard it done with an orchestra I see it in a whole new light I guess. I appreciate it nonetheless, even if I don't quite get it.
Second set started off with another new one for me, and it was real nice, followed by some intense dark & thick licks from all as it careened into Carini. This song is thick and heavy, strong with no cream, if ya know what I mean. It curved into a boppy Gotta Jibboo.Theme was another solid tune into Wilson, seemed short but jammed thoroughly straight through 2001 into Chalkdust.Hood was sick and Scirming Squoil was beautiful! Thank you Page! A Lovin' Cup encore left me with a smile and that old itch, CAN'T WAIT TO SEE 'EM AGAIN.
On the flip side, the second set is why I fell in love with phish to begin with. You can read the songs, all of them were great. It was a great set of Phish that will be hard to top. Loving Cup was a good encore.
Favorite parts:
1. Carini 2. Harry Hood 3. Wilson>2001>Chalk Dust 4. Ending the concert on Coil, with Page's extended outro.
The new tunes were cool, especially Ocelot, but MAN, what a sub-par show. Never thought I'd ever say that Wilson was the main show highlight, but the Wilson->2001->ChalkDust (which was pretty badass) was the best of the lot. It felt like Picture Of Nectar does...things just don't quite fit. And then there was Harry Hood. Never, and I mean ever, have I done anything but pay rapt attention during Hood, but I found myself looking at the crowd instead. I support Phish's drive to try new things, but I reserve the right to say if it sucks.
And it sucked.
Of course, the Worst Phish Show Ever is still WAAAAY better than the Best Work Day Ever, but this show was below sub-par. It was sub-bogey.
My buddy dug it, which is great. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. But this kid is pretty sharp. He caught up with me at set break at Cobo Arena later in November and said the first set of the Cobo show was better than the entire Toyota Park show.
I said yeah, and then some.
Curtain with was played great. Heavy things was actually really good. I actually think there have been some really good versions of that in 09.
The numberline jam is awesome. I remember the moment they snapped into the jam, opposed to finishing the outro. The bass was deep and the place was rocking. Carini was FIERCE. the place was raging. Jibboo was a nice jam. Wilson was kind of interesting, neat little segue into 2001 which had the place getting down. Hood did suck. Oh well. Coil had a nice outro.
Set 1 was kind of off. Very standard, at best with a couple nice additions (paul and silas, curtain with, gumbo, heavy things). Unfortunately TTE closed it. Had it been a raging bowie, or some other good high energy song I feel it could have changed the overall view of this set.
Set 2- Pretty interesting song selection. A lot of energy in the 2nd set. Great time.
Being sandwiched between the awesome west coast and east coast runs, this solo midwest show that is very standard compared to those runs gets hate. But there is some pretty good stuff within this show, and it shouldn't be ignored.
People complained about the open air, and massive size. I went in expecting the sound to blow. I was very surprised because, at least where i was, the sound was actually very good and the bass was super deep. I could feel the bass vibrating my body all night and loved it. I was page side in the seats, front row, a little ways back. I was extremely comfortable and satisfied w/ my spot. If you wanted to sit, like during TTE, it was nice because we had nothing blocking us while sitting so we could still clearly watch the stage.
Above all -- Number Line was one of the best version played (2nd only to the 8/16 SPAC version a few days later). Plus, And Paul & Silas was a treat for sure, and I loved hearing Windy City --- what a great tune! They need some to strecth out more on these odd-meter tunes. I can't wait to hear them jam in 7 or 9 some more. You know what a psychedelic beast SOAMelt has become...I think the potential is there for similar feats of greatness from Windy City or Sugar Shack.
I managed to score General Admission tickets, and when the show started, was just a few people from the stage, almost right in front of Mike. This put me in prime position to really get into the show.
I'm all right with KDF, but it wasn't too impressive. Just a fun tune. Sample in a Jar is one of my favorites of the songs played regularly, so I was pretty into it, but Ocelot is far from being my favorite, so it killed my groove a little bit. Paul and Silas was played as a request for some guy Trey met walking down the street (a guy near me actually claimed to be that guy), and it wasn't played amazingly well, but still brought the fun level way up from Ocelot. I'm glad I got to see Windy City, as they've not played it since. It wasn't a spectacular tune or anything, but it's nice to have seen the only performance. I will say that much for it. Not their worst by any stretch of the imagination.
After Windy City, the Chicago crowd was treated to a spectacular The Curtain With, which got everyone in my vicinity extremely pumped. That was definitely one of the high points of the first set. Train Song, Gumbo, and Heavy Things were all played well, making for a fun first set. Time Turns Elastic was one of the better played versions I've heard, but it was still pretty text book. I could have done with a better set one closer.
After set break, I was a little bit further back (8-10 people from the stage), but was closer to Trey than Mike this time. Backwards Down the Number Line played for 14+ minutes, and was a great set opener. I was loving it, and so was the rest of the crowd. When Carini started, the entire crowd as one started raging. It was a beautiful thing to see. Gotta Jibboo was fun, and Theme From the Bottom was pretty good. Wilson > 2001 was absolutely amazing. The lights in the arena, a soccer stadium, were mind-blowing. Chalk Dust Torture and Harry Hood were both absolutely superb, and Page shone beautifully in The Squirming Coil.
For the encore, Loving Cup is certainly one of my favorite encore songs, and I was still pumped and high on adrenaline following the show.
Set one could have afforded to be stronger, but Set Two was pretty ragin'. 7.5/10.0


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NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)--In the aftermath of the July 13 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin, black mothers have been expressing anguish at the vulnerability of their male children.
"All Black mothers in Florida, and Black mothers around this country are now, once again, potential Mamie Tills," said Jamila Bey, a radio host, in an article by Avital Norman Nathman for The Frisky. "When her son, Emmett Till was lynched in 1955, the all-white Mississippi jury agreed that his murderers did indeed take Till's life, but that it's senseless to punish white men for killing the boy."
As part of the outraged reactions around the country, Trayvon Martin's own mother, Sybrina Fulton, led a protest of more than 1,000 people in New York, along with veteran civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton, Al Jazeera reported July 21.
While leading protests, Fulton has also been a magnet for black women's expressions of sympathy and support. "You stepped onto the national stage alongside the women who came before you, carrying our collective sorrow on their shoulders," writes MSNBC host Melissa Harris Perry.
Carol Jenkins, the founding president of the Women's Media Center and a Women's eNews 21 Leader in 2012, wrote in her blog on July 21 of her own fears as the mother of a black son and of the fears that so many women have of losing their sons "to thugs, to drugs, prison or to the police. Immeasurable sadness. Unbearable grief."
Beverly Bond, a Women's eNews 21 Leader in 2011 and founder of the mentoring group Black Girls Rock told Al Jazeera that the black community wanted people to know that this was not an isolated incident. "This is an injustice we have seen in our community over and over and over again. It is amazing to me that people don't know why we're upset," she said. "The trial added insult to injury because it was like he was being put on trial for his own murder."
On July 16, Essence Magazine launched a social media campaign called #HeIsNotASuspect to challenge the negative images of young black men in the media. The magazine won an award last year from the Newswomen's Club of New York for its interviews of mothers of murdered young black men.
The campaign, which aims to end racial profiling, invites women "to post a photo of themselves with a young Black man they care about --a son, brother, nephew, cousin, neighbor or grandson--with a few words explaining why he's so much more than a stereotype, using the hashtag #HeIsNotASuspect."
He trains our soldiers to protect this country, he is a great father, he is a great husband. #HeIsNotASuspect pic.twitter.com/vWSJuDBM92
-- Lakisha Alexander (@kesha46) July 21, 2013
'Am I Next?' (New Orleans today) #HeIsNotASuspect pic.twitter.com/lS6A2KSojv
-- TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) July 20, 2013
This is my son - an amazing 19-yr-old college sophomore who has a passion for life and dance. #HeIsNotASuspect pic.twitter.com/INDfMuk9N5
-- Felicia Hodges (@bushidoroad) July 16, 2013
Other women with children expressed anger and frustration after the verdict in blog posts.
"Black and brown men and women are criminalized at higher rates than whites," Rae Gomes writes on Fem2pt0. "There is a belief that runs through the country's DNA of the inherent violence of especially black men. Why could Stand Your Ground or whatever self defense clause be invoked by Zimmerman, but not by Martin who was the actual victim?"
To underscore the injustice of the judicial system, Gomes points to case of a black woman Marissa Alexander.
Alexander was sentenced last week to 20 years in prison in Jacksonville, Fla., for firing a bullet at a wall one day in 2010 to scare off her husband when she felt he was threatening her. That day, nobody got hurt, The Huffington Post reported. Alexander, a 31-year-old mother of a toddler and 11-year-old twins, unsuccessfully invoked Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law and rejected plea deals that could have gotten her a much shorter sentence. A jury found her guilty as charged: aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Denene Millner, a New York Times-bestselling author and founder of MyBrownBaby.com, says she was sad and angry that "a Black child's life has been taken without repercussion, thanks to a justice system and laws and a culture of racism that allows the stalking, harassment, accosting and killing of our children."
She goes on "It's hard to breathe when I am trying to explain to my children . . . how it is possible that someone can shoot a human being and go unpunished."
Shortly after his death, the parents of the victim started the Trayvon Martin Foundation to give black communities educational and legal support while spreading awareness about racial profiling. "Even though nothing we can say or do will get Trayvon back, maybe we can help someone else not lose their child," wrote Tracy Martin, the victim's father, Think Progress reported July 18.
President Barack Obama cautioned against violence on July 19, as he urged all Americans to try to understand the Martin case from the perspective of African-Americans, Al Jazzera reported. "There is a history of racial disparities in the application of our criminal laws," he said. "A lot of African American boys are painted with a broad brush . . . If a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario . . . both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different."
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WACO, Texas – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi softball team dropped two games on the opening day of the Miken Classic Friday at Getterman Stadium. The Islanders fell 5-0 to Northern Colorado in the first game and followed it with an 11-2 loss in five innings to the University of the Pacific.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi moves to 1-6 and will take on Baylor tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. before bracket play begins at 3 p.m.
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Northern Colorado (3-3) put together a five-run sixth inning to power past the Islanders 5-0 Friday morning to open the Miken Classic at Getterman Stadium.
The Islanders tallied four hits, led by Dani Tefft, Valerie Perez, Michelle Sorenson and Hayley Galloway who each chipped in one apiece. The Islanders and Bears remained scoreless through five innings until Northern Colorado tallied five hits in the sixth inning with two outs.
The Islanders opened the top of the frame with one hit but left three stranded. With two outs, Meagan McKinney led the Islanders off with a walk before Perez hit a dropper to right field. Katelyn Potts followed with a walk to load the bases, but the Bears escaped with a 6-3 ground out.
The Bears tallied one hit in the bottom of the first frame with a hard single to Lindsey Lyles at third base, but the Islanders' defense ended the inning with two defensive plays in the infield.
Texas A&M - Corpus tacked on another run in the top of the second after Sorenson ripped a single through the left side and then posted her first stolen base of the season. Galloway followed with the Islanders' third hit of the game with a single to first.
Both teams remained scoreless through five innings of play until the Bears tacked on five runs on three hits in the bottom of the sixth frame with two outs. After Northern Colorado's Mickayla Duffy reached base on a walk with one out, Lindsey Smith followed with a double to left center to put runners on second and third. Galloway followed with a 4-3 ground out to tally the second out, however Duffy scored on a wild pitch on the next play and Smith plated another Bears' run on an E6. Morgan Yuhas followed with a single up the middle before Kaitlyn Flynn hit a three-run homer over the center field wall to pad the Bears lead to 5-0. Tefft tallied the Islanders fourth hit of the game in the top of the seventh.
Constance Brandenburg (1-3) took the loss in the circle for the Islanders in six innings. The junior faced 26 batters and allowed five runs and six hits.
Kelci Cheney picked up the victory for the Bears in seven innings. She allowed four hits and walked three while striking out two batters.
GAME 2: PACIFIC 11, TEXAS A&M - CORPUS CHRISTI 2 (Five Innings)
The University of Pacific (4-0) put up one run in the bottom of the first frame and followed it with a seven-run second inning and a three-run third inning to top the Islanders 11-2 in five innings of play at Getterman Stadium. The Tigers outhit the Islanders 10-1 in the second game of the Miken Classic.
Pacific posted two hits in the first inning to take a 1-0 lead. In the second inning, the Tigers extended their lead to 8-0 with seven runs and six hits, including a three-RBI home run by Megan Foglesong.
The Tigers tacked on three more runs in the bottom of the third on two hits, including a three-run homer by pitcher Nikki Armagost. The Islanders rallied back in the top of the fourth with two runs on one hit. Galloway started the frame with a double to left field. McKinney and Perez followed with back-to-back walks to load the bases. With two outs, Potts reached on an error by the shortstop to plate Galloway and McKinney. J.J. Jackson walked to load the bases for Tefft however the Tigers pulled out of the jam with a pop fly to third.
Ashley Elicerio (0-3) took the loss for the Islanders in 2.1 innings. The freshman struck out one batter while allowing 10 hits. Bethany Slick came in relief for Elicerio and pitched a half an inning facing just two batters. Brandenburg relieved Slick in the bottom of the fourth and faced four batters while giving up one walk.
Armagost (3-0) sealed her third victory in the circle for the Tigers. She allowed one hit and two runs while walking four in four innings.


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The single highlight is a very crisply played "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", although if you're a Big Leg Emma fan, there's certainly no reason to miss this solid version.
Everything else is kind of a disappointment; the "La Grange" is short, "The Curtain With" is somewhat sloppy, "Antelope" doesn't have a lot going on, and the "Art Funk" references aren't that amusing or worth hearing. Sadly, the YEM is missing from the Phishtracks tape of the show, so I'll never know if it was any good.


text: 13 February 2012 archive See all show photos THE Disney-fied edits to the fables of the Brothers Grimm took away the menacing potency of their tales. Tonight, set in an icy, warped village (designed by artist friend Rachel Feinstein), Marc Jacobs restored some of the subversive elements to the world of fairy tales. Yes, that bellwether of fashion spun an off-kilter yarn that was magical, poetic, and garishly beautiful in a way that only he could deliver. In a piled-on cacophony of textures and colours, he evoked a strange sort of folksy glamour, with thick, woolly knit wraps over frumpy-cool outerwear, and shimmering, glistening dresses and skirts—all topped with fuzzy Dr. Suess hats courtesy of Stephen Jones. In fact, Jacobs touched upon many juvenile inspirations in this show - from Alice in Wonderland to the bewitching governesses Mary Poppins and Nanny McPhee to Eliza Doolittle to the bizarre inhabitants of many an enchanted forest - this was a childhood phantasmagoria as seen through the eyes of fashion's master jokester. Key pieces were hard to discern, as there was a more-is-more approach to the styling, but there was a continuation of the past two season' fascination with contrasting fabrications. Chunky crocheted stoles and fuzzy fur shrugs were draped around shoulders or secured with oversized safety pins to many looks. There were plenty of dresses, often shown over cropped pants and Lurex socks peeking from heeled Pilgrim oxfords or embellished flats. Appliqués and embroideries -alternating between matte and shiny, or sometimes both - were pressed upon skirts and dresses giving them a holographic, ghostly effect at times, and a psychedelic effect at others. An overblown paisley-print frock with an hourglass silhouette over a button-down with a peter pan collar was one of many stellar looks. His shapes were bulkier and looser, with cutaway jackets and dresses that nipped in the waist and flared at the hip thanks to some expert box pleating. This was a show that wasn't afraid to flirt with the ridiculous, and even the ugly, and at times one felt a tinge of Comme des Garçons or Yohji Yamamoto in its confrontational clownishness. Even the song - variations of Who Will Buy? from the musical Oliver! (yes, there were traces of prostitute-barmaid Nancy in there too), - took on a bold tone. Was Jacobs actually asking - challenging, even - his guests to embrace this arch yet fanciful anarchy? It certainly wasn't his most conventionally beautiful show to date, but it was though-provoking and prescient, and, yes, if you make it, Marc, they will buy. SEE THE MARC JACOBS SHOW ARCHIVE Max Berlinger Continue reading Back to top