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SAN FRANCISCO -- There's a quotation on the wall of the cafeteria at Alcatraz attributed to Frank Weatherman, the last inmate to shuffle out of the prison when it was shut down.
"Alcatraz," Weatherman said, "was never no good for nobody."
Times have changed.
Alcatraz inmate No. 1576 may have been right in 1963, but in the half century since Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy closed the notorious federal penitentiary, the decaying island compound has become the gift that keeps on giving.
The Rock has been good for history buffs, mystery lovers, and anyone who appreciates an impeccable view of San Francisco and the bay. It's been good for the city's hotels and restaurants, it's been a gold mine for Hollywood and it drew some positive attention to the plight of Native Americans in the late '60s and early '70s.
It's been great for the National Park Service, which will unveil an exhibit of historic photos Thursday at an event marking the 50-year anniversary of the bleak citadel's closure on March 21, 1963. Fifty years after scores of the nation's most incorrigible prisoners left Alcatraz, the island's grip on the public imagination has not loosened at all.
"I suppose there's a sort of dark romance about it, isn't there?" mused Angus Cameron, who toured the island on Monday with his wife and infant daughter. The London couple hadn't planned to visit Alcatraz, but after cruising by on a ferry from Marin County to San Francisco, they changed their minds. Something about the place simply drew them in.
From pelicans to Capone
Alcatraz began as a military fort and lockup during the Civil War era. Workers leveled areas of the rocky mound, named "Isle of the Pelicans" by Spanish explorers, to accommodate buildings.
It became a federal prison in 1934, when authorities needed an isolated facility to hold the gangsters that proliferated during the Great Depression. It wound up holding more than 1,500 inmates, including infamous criminals like Al Capone and James "Whitey" Bulger. Ultraviolent killer Robert Stroud, the "Birdman of Alcatraz," was the subject of a celebrated 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster.
There were 14 escape attempts, two more famous than the rest. A foiled breakout in 1946 precipitated the bloody Battle of Alcatraz, in which three inmates and two guards were killed. An ingenious 1962 escape led by Frank Morris inspired Clint Eastwood's 1979 movie "Escape from Alcatraz." Morris and two accomplices are presumed to have drowned after making a getaway on an improvised raft.
Author Jolene Babyak lived on the island at the time of the escape -- her father was acting warden. What makes the tale fascinating, said Babyak, is that no bodies were ever found, leaving a slight chance that they survived and eluded a massive manhunt.
"It's the ultimate story, right? And there's still debate, and that keeps the mystery alive," said Babyak, one of numerous special guests who will attend Thursday's commemoration. "It was the most sophisticated escape from the highest-security prison, in which men disappeared, vanished."
By 1963 the cost of maintaining the complex had became too burdensome, and authorities closed the penitentiary after 29 years of operation. Native American protesters took over the island for nearly 19 months in 1969-71, a political stand that some credit with helping to end the U.S. policy of terminating tribal contracts.
The National Park Service assumed control of Alcatraz in 1972, making it part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Today the island receives nearly 1.5 million annual visitors, more than many national parks. Tickets sell out nearly every day, sometimes weeks in advance, for audio tours of the main cell block and recreation yard plus the chance to stroll past the island's gardens and ruined buildings.
The popularity of Alcatraz is a boon for the National Park Service, introducing the agency and its mission to thousands of people a day from America and abroad. And it's a pillar of San Francisco's multibillion-dollar tourism industry, noted National Park Service spokeswoman Alexandra Picavet.
"Alcatraz is an enormous economic driver for San Francisco," Picavet said. "Studies have shown that people who go to Alcatraz tend to add an entire day to their trip."
Playing in the dark
The allure of Alcatraz is unmistakable but sometimes hard to pin down. Movies and other popular accounts have accorded the island legendary status.
Brenton McDiarmid and fiance Jess Hitchins, visiting from Australia, were among those to join the queue Monday morning at Pier 33 for a short ferry ride to the storied island. They wanted to separate fact from fiction.
"I guess we've always sort of wanted to see the reality behind the myth," McDiarmid said.
Angus Cameron's interest was piqued by the proximity of this desolate place to a glittering, vibrant metropolis. The island lies just a mile and a quarter from Fishermen's Wharf, and on New Year's Eve and other nights prisoners could hear happy voices drifting from shore.
"There can't be another prison where you have such an amazing view of the freedom that you don't have," Cameron said. "It could drive a man insane."
Katie Dale, visiting from Iowa, tried to imagine what it felt like for prisoners to arrive at Alcatraz by boat. A woman from Bakersfield said she was curious to experience the inside of a prison.
Sam Bowling, a shamanic healer based in Los Angeles, said people are wired to explore things that spook them.
"Everybody wants to play in the dark," said Bowling, who believes the island is brimming with spiritual energy, most of it sorrowful. "Everybody's intrigued by what they can't see and what they don't think they understand."
Contact Aaron Kinney at 650-348-4357. Follow him at Twitter.com/kinneytimes.
Alcatraz anniversary
On Thursday the National Park Service will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the closure of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Former guards and inmates will gather to share stories. The park service will unveil a new temporary exhibit of photos by Leigh Wiener documenting the events of March 21, 1963, the day the last prisoners left the island. Visit www.nps.gov/alca for more information.


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SAN JOSE -- The Earthquakes' locker room was filled with expectation instead of despair after an inspiring 2012 season ended abruptly with a gut-wrenching MLS Cup playoff defeat to the Los Angeles Galaxy.
"We're going to be here, and we're going to be together for a long time," striker Alan Gordon said after a defeat to the Galaxy in total goals over two games. "This is not the end for us."
At least that's the plan for San Jose management as it heads into the offseason hoping to keep together most of the pieces of a team that had a club-record 72 goals and went 19-6-9 to win the regular-season championship.
The Quakes defeated Los Angeles 1-0 on Sunday in the Western Conference semifinal opener but fell hard Wednesday night 3-1 to suffer their first loss at Buck Shaw Stadium in 19 games.
In the end, the big-budget Galaxy proved to be too talented against the small-market Earthquakes. Los Angeles' three biggest stars -- David Beckham, Landon Donovan and Robbie Keane -- earned an average of $4 million in salary whereas the Quakes' entire payroll is south of $3 million, according to MLS Players Union data.
As the players head off to recover from a grueling season, general manager John Doyle and coach Frank Yallop will begin dealing with scouting prospects and the salary cap. Management must figure out how to reward those players who had breakout seasons without breaking the bank.
Doyle, a former U.S. national team defender, spent the past five years creating a championship-caliber team when San Jose re-entered the league as an expansion team. He plans to keep it together as best he can.
"The team is built and built to be good for years to come," he said. "It's going to be a lot of hard work and give and take from everybody" to remain a unit. "I think all our guys want to be here."
The Earthquakes performed at a premium despite having one of the league's smallest payrolls. For instance, homegrown Chris Wondolowski tied the season league record with 27 goals, winning his second Golden Boot award in three years. He earned $300,000, according to player union figures.
"The fact that their approach is not driven by going out and bringing designated players in proves there is balance in the league," MLS commissioner Don Garber said. "That's a very important thing for us to continue to be mindful of. Because if you are in a market without a designated player, you don't want to think you're not going to win."
San Jose has become a group that expects to win.
Gordon, 31, exemplified the Earthquakes' spirit this season while netting a career-best 13 goals and seven assists despite playing the past month with a sprained ankle.
All season these Quakes left their rabid fans giddy with dramatic goals in the final minutes. San Jose became known as the Goonies in reference to the 1985 movie with the line "Goonies never say die!"
The Quakes scored 13 tying or winning goals in the 82nd minute or later and almost sent Wednesday's game into overtime when Ike Opara booted a 9-yard shot over the net in second-half stoppage time.
Opara had played only 36 minutes in the previous six games as he recovered from concussion symptoms and struggled to win a starting job over center backs Victor Bernardez and Jason Hernandez.
He was on the field because Bernardez had to leave in the 12th minute after aggravating a knee injury. Also, starting forward Steven Lenhart (10 goals) played the final two weeks with a torn meniscus in his knee, and English striker Simon Dawkins (eight goals) performed with an ankle sprain.
Lenhart, who plans to undergo knee surgery in the offseason, wouldn't let the defeat Wednesday define his team.
"The thing about our team, we'll try every time," he said.
The Earthquakes tried against a superior Los Angeles team to no avail. Now they have the rest of the year to get over it.
Contact Elliott Almond at 408-920-5865. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/elliottalmond.

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SAN LEANDRO -- This small town between Oakland and Hayward is coming out of the downturn like few places around, attracting tech startups, artists and brewers to a onetime traditional industrial hub.
"San Leandro is embracing change for the first time in decades," said Deborah Acosta, the city's first innovation officer.
The boom is the result of a happy convergence of action and resources -- available long-vacant or underused manufacturing sites; a businessman who financed a fiber optic loop in city-owned conduit and the city jumping into a public-private partnership with him, the first of its kind in the Bay Area; and using broadband to lure tech firms.
San Leandro also has been aggressively marketing its lower rents, proximity to the Oakland airport and port, and willingness to work with businesses.
"We really do put an emphasis on smoothing the permitting process and letting businesses know, 'Hey, we're really excited you're here,'" said Jeff Kay, San Leandro's business development manager. For more than a year, the city has waived business license fees for new companies.
Espen Sivertsen moved his 3-D desktop printer manufacturing firm from San Francisco after looking at more than 50 sites.
"We were 18 people in 350 square feet of office space in San Francisco. It was obvious we needed to move," he said. His Type A Machines chose The Gate, 350,000 square feet of work spaces on the second floor of a former car factory.
The Gate has been filling with artists, entrepreneurs and tech startups since its owners reinvented it as a collaboration center this year. Before, it had few tenants, most of them on the ground floor's West Gate San Leandro with a Home Depot, Sports Authority and other stores.
Now, artists and tech dreamers busily pursue their projects on the second floor above unknowing shoppers. Sivertsen moved in, asking 10 other 3-D desktop printer firms to join him. Most work near each other in a large space with high ceilings and natural light.
"This is the world's largest cluster of 3-D desktop printer companies. It's a coalition of noncompeting startups; we're building a 3-D ecosystem," he said.
Other recent large developments in the city include a Kaiser hospital built on the site of former grocery distribution center, a planned downtown tech campus where a cannery once stood, conversion of a lumber yard into a cold-storage warehouse, a brewery taking over a vacant cereal plant, and the Westlake/OSIsoft Technology Complex -- three six-story, 300,000-square-foot tech office buildings where a Del Monte cannery closed.
"I'd like to think we're ahead of the curve," Kay said, as many cities struggle with remaking 20th century industrial districts.
Not only does The Gate have fiber optic service, its leases start at 90 cents to $1.25 a square foot, compared with $25 and up in San Francisco.
One of the businesses joining Sivertsen is Mind-2-Matter, which uses 3-D desktop printers to make everything from advertising swag to casts for jewelry.
Making the move was not an obvious choice for co-founder Rod Wagner. "It's an hour commute if I'm lucky; it can be up to 2½ hours," the Cotati resident said.
But he found it worth his while to be close to the other 3-D printers. He worked for Atari in the early days of Silicon Valley and sees the same potential for a leap forward at The Gate.
"You can build on each other's ideas; creativity is encouraged. It's the same thing as when people were moving out of the garages in Silicon Valley," he said.
Collaboration and flexibility is The Gate's appeal, said Cheryl Edison, its development manager.
"Companies today in the new economy are all about collaboration and sharing," Acosta said. "Fiber optic is important, but what's more important is community."
In a 10,000-square-foot section, The Hive art collective is creating large sculptures for Nevada's Burning Man festival.
When one of its projects stalled for lack of a custom-made piece, Mind-2-Matter's Justin Kelly 3-D printed the part at a fraction of the cost and time of a traditional fabricator.
Gate tenants gather for lunch or a beer at Drake's, down the ramp from the second floor. Such places to eat and drink are amenities that attract new-economy businesses, Kay said.
South of The Gate, 21st Amendment Brewery is converting a closed Kellogg's factory into one of the region's biggest breweries.
"Finding a large building like Kellogg's was ideal," said brewery co-founder Nico Freccia.
Almost a quarter of the city's land is zoned industrial. In the mid-20th century, San Leandro had West Coast plants for Chevrolet, Chrysler and General Foods. More than 20,000 people worked in manufacturing there.
In the 1970s, those jobs began moving offshore and to lower-cost states. The recession hit the city hard, but it began preparing for an upturn, Acosta said.
OSIsoft CEO Patrick Kennedy offered a big boost in 2010 with his public-private fiber optic project offer. "The city basically said, 'Heck, yeah, we'll do this,'" Acosta said.
Kennedy's international software company needed more Internet bandwidth, so he sought to run fiber optic through 11 miles of underground city conduits.
"Within a few months, we had a licensing agreement," Kay said. The city has a grant to extend fiber optic 8 more miles.
Cities such as Palo Alto and Sunnyvale have public fiber optic, but "San Leandro's public/private arrangement is, as far as I know, unique," he said.
The city's fiber optic success in luring startups has led to San Leandro representatives being invited to speak at national conferences. The city has something to teach, a development consultant said.
"San Leandro is establishing itself as a city-scale lab for innovation. Only months ago, (it) was a relatively unknown Bay Area city," said Greg Delaune, CEO of UIX Global.
Kennedy's company, Lit San Leandro, is working with other East Bay cities on similar ventures.
Everyone should have fiber optics to maintain the region's competitive edge, Acosta said.
As San Leandro's vacant sites fill, it is looking at its industrial area, Kay said.
"We want to humanize (it), bring in better lighting, bike lanes, public art, more amenities," he said. "We want to be able to attract new manufacturing.
"We're not going to have 500 people with lunch pails going to a Chrysler plant. It's going to look a lot different from ... 50, 70 years ago."
Contact Rebecca Parr at 510-293-2473.
or follow her at Twitter.com/rdparr1.
Some of the city's reinventions of manufacturing and industrial sites:
The Gate: The second floor of a former Chrysler auto plant is being transformed into an innovation center for startups, artists and entrepreneurs.
21st Amendment Brewery: A onetime Kellogg's cereal plant will become a 95,000-square-foot brewery.
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center: A hospital and medical offices opened this year on the site of a one-time grocery distribution center.
Downtown tech campus: The Westlake/OSIsoft Technology Complex will have three six-story, 300,000-square-foot tech office buildings where a Del Monte cannery closed decades ago.
Preferred Freezer: A 247,000-square-foot cold storage warehouse now occupies the one-time Hudson Lumber Co. site.


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To the Editor:
OK, so I am a smoker! I pay my taxes. I've never broken the law (never even had a speeding ticket). I'm healthy (my physical proves this). So why are my rights being taken from me?
First, "No Smoking" in restaurants — not even a smoking section for me. Now ... "No Smoking" outside? Good grief.
Smoking is not illegal, but as a smoker I feel targeted. Smoking is my decision to make, not others to make for me. Some people have way too much time on their hands and feel the need to try and force their personal agendas down others throats.
I'm tired of being singled out! Why is one person's right greater than mine? Enough already! You've won! We now stand on sidewalks outside restaurants, outside hotels, outside stadiums.
Now your trying to put us where? I'm fed up. If you don't like it, don't stand next to me or let your kids stand next to me. There's room enough for all of us.
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My 1080p movies tended to stutter and when I bought a new PC the other week I thought the extra power might help (quad core 9550, 3870x2 graphics etc) however, there was no improvement.
I stream over my electrical mains using Comtrend Powerline adapters which I understood were pretty much plug and play. They are, but since I had no manual for them, I didn't know they weren't happy when used in surge protected multiway adaptors.
Changing the Powerline straight into a socket instead of the multiway and hey presto - perfect streaming of every movie.
Maybe this is common knowledge, but I thought I'd share it anyway for others who might have similar setups.


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Argue With Your Spouse About Anything…Except This
What's the biggest source of friction between spouses/partners in later life?
MOLLY METTLER: "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"…The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Most likely, retired partners and spouses who have been together for a while will end up arguing about the things they always argue about, be it sex, money or the (grand)children. Being retired just means that you'll be able to argue during working hours. My spouse and I argue about composting and mulch. I reckon this will continue no matter what our employment status is.
There is one late life event, however, where you want communication as frictionless as possible and that's in planning your exit from life. How we want to die and our preferences for care at end of life are discussions that deserve careful, and kind, consideration. Too many of us avoid having necessary conversations about end-of-life care until it's too late and a crisis has occurred. Does your loved one know your preferences and values for how you want to die? Do you know his/hers?
Let's not let saying goodbye be a time of contention and confusion. Two resources that can help frame this discussion to be as friction-free as possible are The Conversation Project and Engage with Grace. Both provide starting places.
As for me, I'm perfectly content to make as graceful an exit as possible, without a lot of fuss and bother, and then to become compost and mulch. And for once, from my dear spouse, I get agreement on those topics.
Molly Mettler (@mollykmettler) is senior vice president of mission at Healthwise Inc., a nonprofit founded in 1975 with a mission to help people make better health decisions. She also serves as a fellow with the Center for Advancing Health and the author of books on health care, including "Healthwise for Life."
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You don't get many comedies out of Hollywood that have sex, pornography and addiction at their center. We've seen those subjects on their own: The 1960s had plenty of innocent sex comedies, many of them featuring Rock Hudson and Doris Day. "Pillow Talk" comes to mind. There was also Woody Allen shaking things up absurdly with his "loose adaptation" of the book "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask." These days, there's piffle like "The To Do List." Porn comedies have ranged from raunchy classics ("Deep Throat") to misguided attempts ("Zack and Miri Make a Porno"). The only addiction comedy I can think of is the great "Fight Club."
Now here comes prolific actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt ("Inception," "50/50," "Looper"), writing and directing his first feature, and starring as Jon, a would-be lothario (hence the Don Juan title reference), extreme neatnik and avid churchgoer who spends most of his time either looking for and scoring with "10s" on the nightclub scene or (literally) taking things into his own hands while regularly watching porn at home on his laptop.
Porn is better than the real thing, he reasons to himself, because he's more in control of the situation. That's probably why, even when he does go home so often with beautiful women – regularly making his two drinking buddies jealous – he comes across as far more smooth than mature, and doesn't usually get a second date.
Gordon-Levitt, who proved even as far back as his stint as Tommy, the old alien in a kid's body on "3rd Rock from the Sun," that he knows how to own a role, is funny and full of himself and, don't forget, fastidious, as Jon, a guy who fully believes that porn films mirror the way of the real world. And he made a great choice in casting Scarlett Johansson – an actress I generally find to be overbearing – as the manipulative Barbara, the "woman of his dreams," who he picks up in the nightclub, and who fully believes that romantic comedies mirror the way of the real world. She's tremendous in this role. And Gordon-Levitt has written us a terrific take on an "opposites attracting" scenario.
Also great, in a cartoonish way, are Tony Danza (Tony Danza!) and Glenne Headley as Jon's parents. Danza unleashes his wild comic side with a combination of a hot temper, a foul mouth and much randiness, and Headley, here in my favorite role by her since "2 Days in the Valley," is hilarious as the mom who can't stop whining to her son, "When are you gonna find the right girl?" Add to the mix another woman in Jon's life, the sad-faced but free-spirited Esther (Julianne Moore) to make things more comically complicated. Moore pulls off a self-assured, funny and fragile performance as a campus acquaintance Jon meets at a night class Barbara has insisted he attend.
It looks like Gordon-Levitt let everybody do their thing, and everything they did was right in line with what he wanted. He's directed a few shorts before (check out the "Morgan and Destiny" films on YouTube), and does a fine all-around job of it here.
This is a frank and funny, offbeat and edgy movie that takes liberal jabs at the church and turns other sex/porn/addiction comedies inside out, or would if there were any others. Look for a nutty little Channing Tatum-Anne Hathaway cameo in a film-within-the-film.
Ed Symkus covers movies for More Content Now.
Written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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State College of Florida wins in walk-off
Published: Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 9:46 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 9:46 p.m.
BRADENTON — Julian Santos hit the game-winning walk-off single as the State College of Florida baseball team edged Florida State College at Jacksonville, 2-1, on Saturday.
Santos went 2-for-4 with an RBI. Teammate Orlando Rivera went 1-for-3 at the plate with a run scored and Chase Sandberg also went 1-for-3 and scored the winning run.
Devin Raftery pitched 2/3 of an inning in the ninth and struck out two.
Starting pitcher Casey Mulholland pitched seven innings and gave up four hits, one run and struck out six.
SCF (8-4) will play Florida State College at Jacksonville again today at 1 p.m.
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chach wrote:One question he use only the german Language when i go to media library / Library / search for the Video and right klick on Update / Standard not by Name or ID is this correct ?
Oops, my bad. I've missed two spots where the language had to be specified. If you download the updated version at the link I gave above, it should now use the set language for all cases.
I mean he don´t read the hostname, i think its only a problem with pms 1.90.2.
The Error is he cannot determine the Hostname but in pms-mlx 1.52 is this correct.
I still don't get it :p could you explain what you see and what you are expecting as well as where (logs, GUI..)?
Can i quickly increment the play count in the Tree View or only in the Library ?
It's only possible from the library. Actually, I was thinking about removing the 'show folder content' in the tree view, as it is painfully slow if there are many files in the library and optimising it to only show files for expanded folders would represent quite a lot of work.
oh yeah, sorry for my bad english i will improve it
Your English is pretty good I'm also speaking German btw


text: Tractatus Politico-Religiosus The Second Tractatus: From 25 January to 30 June in four sentences: on Egypt's two revolutions . 1 Newton's third law of motion: When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to that of the first body. 2 For nearly three years the triumph of the 25 January uprising involved the Egyptian constituency in a series of conflicts, protests and counterprotests in which the action repeatedly pitted the army as the sole remaining representative of the state against political Islam. 2.1 In the period 25 January-11 February 2011, protesters (including Islamists) were credited with bringing down Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, who had been in power for nearly 30 years. They had no leadership or ideology, and their slogan — "bread, freedom, social justice and human dignity" — could conceivably be grafted onto a communist or fascist system just as well as on the liberal democracy they were demanding. Continue Reading Posted by Youssef Rakha THE SULTAN′S SEAL ؏ (Arabic) Literature, Egypt, and Photography ؏ Everything without a name is (c) Youssef Rakha


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Good solid Maze to start off with. Page rocks. Fee is ok, not great, as they are getting settled in. Some feedback in there too. Foam is pretty good, except they kind of blow the ending. Glide is good. Great jam in Melt. I feel like they haven't played this one in a while. Nice to hear Mound back in the line up. It sounds a little rusty. Divided Sky feels the same. It's good but, has rusty parts, as does Esther. Hilarious "those were the days" section in Sky. So after a double shot of Junta material, we have a new one! The first Axilla is hot right out of the gate, and Trey says it's his favorite. Horse>Silent is getting better but, is also a little rusty sounding. Antelope has a weak intro but, really jams. Mike almost blows the end. Pretty good energy set, although a bit rusty.
Nice Yes tease from Trey before he starts a good Mike's Song. Hydrogen is a little rough from Mike. More rust. Weekapaug is good but has a vocal jam and a "Price of Love" ending. Weird. Bouncing is pretty normal. Ice is good. Better middle section. Not sure what the deal is with Walk the Line. It sounds out of place and weird. A good Tweezer follows including more weirdness going into the BBFCFM jam. Another first timer comes out with the explanation of The Big Ball Jam and Pete. I forgot they used to use four balls instead of three. Then Gordon Stone comes out and does a great Poor Heart with the boys. Great interplay during the solo section. Another first timer, and one of my favorites, Fast Enough for You debuts complete with pedal steel. The ending is a little shakey, but overall really good. This may be Phish's first real ballad. Gordon stays on for a ripping Llama, which turns rather creepy sounding with the steel. And if all that isn't weird enough, we have a first timer in the Fishman section! I'll have to say though, this is the coolest Lengthwise I've ever heard. Complete with vacuum. He should bring back the reggae. The stage banter is priceless tonight. After all that, Cavern sounds a little tired. Like they gave all they had. Crazy second set.
Last, but not least, we have a bust out of Bold as Love for the encore. Page sounds great.
What a night! Seven Rift songs. Four new songs. Special guest. Definitely worth the listen. Looking forward to the rest of this tour.


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Goldman Sachs's World Cup Predictions Model: Successful?
Goldman Sachs's World Cup predictions, outsmarted to some extent by an octopus, have been caught out by reality. A complicated model that predicted Brazil to win the tournament after facing down the Netherlands now looks wanting after both teams were knocked out.
As you may remember, the bank's economists crunched data on 14,000 past matches to arrive at a 67-page report that confidently calculated the outcomes of all matches, published May 30.
It changed 50% of the teams after the first stage after it became clear reality wasn't quite matching the historical dataset.
Looking at those original, pre-tournament predictions, only 37.6% of the group stage matches ended the way Goldman Sachs's original model forecast. That is, it correctly calculated one of three possible outcomes—win, lose or draw—just over a third of the time, hardly better than predicting it at random. From those calculated correctly, they managed to foresee the scoreline 17% of the time, meaning three occasions: Argentina-Bosnia, South Korea-Russia and Algeria-Russia.
When the bank updated its predictions at the end of the group stages, it got the result of the match—win, lose or draw—right 60% of the time. But it failed to correctly guess the results of both semi-finals at that stage, and hence ended up predicting the wrong teams for the final.
It seems fair to point out a couple of key things here. First, a key clause in those predictions:
"If a key player who was responsible for a team's recent successes is injured, this will have no bearing on our predictions." Brazil's celebrated striker, Neymar, went out before the semi-final with a back injury. Maybe more important was Thiago Silva's absence from the match because of an untimely yellow card during the quarter-finals. Goldman could argue that it was the lack of Brazil's best defender that caused its crushing 7-1 defeat.
And second, the bank did originally calculate that Argentina would make it to the final. But when it updated its predictions after the group stages, it replaced Argentina with The Netherlands. The Netherlands lost to Argentina on Wednesday night on penalties.
The bank has been updating its positions as the tournament has progressed. It now "narrowly" favors Germany to win in the final.
Goldman Sachs's economists weren't the only ones whose methodology didn't quite hit the back of the net. ING based its assumptions of success of the transfer value of the squads. Spain's team had the top transfer value at a cool €675 million according to the bank's data. Spain went out in the first round.
Macquarie, for the record, has predicted a Germany win using a model that assigns equal weights to factors including value, momentum, sentiment, quality and unique data. But it, too, has been caught out by reality along the way.
And while assessments made on regression analysis and market value may have limitations, for some, simple guesswork and sheer good luck has paid off.
Punters on the street had more luck, with a few successfully betting on the correct scores of surely the most shocking match of the tourment, Germany's 7-1 defeat over Brazil.


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ALAMEDA -- Will the most decorated player on the Raiders roster be back next season?
It's not a slam dunk, says punter Shane Lechler.
The Raiders made four roster transactions Monday, the most notable of which include the reinstatement of middle linebacker Rolando McClain from the suspended list and the release of starting cornerback Ron Bartell.
Meanwhile, Lechler, a seven-time Pro Bowl selection, conceded he isn't sure where he will end up in 2013 and has had long discussions with his wife about their future residence.
"It's one of those things you don't have any control over and it's kind of frustrating," Lechler said. "In the same sense, it's exciting and frustrating at the same time."
Lechler, 36, is in the final year of a four-year, $16 million contract signed in 2009 that made him the highest-paid punter in the NFL. He's scheduled to be an unrestricted free agent.
Coming into the season having had surgery on his nonkicking leg, Lechler has only of late begun to show the form that has made him the NFL's all-time leader in gross punting average.
He is ranked 10th in gross average at 47.3 yards per kick, with a net of 38.3 that is the second-worst of his career. The latter figure is distorted by a handful of punts that have barely rolled into the end zone at a cost of 20 yards each in terms of net average.
"The numbers that I've put up this year have been my numbers," Lechler said. "I've still got three games to correct some stuff and get ready to find out what's going to happen after this year."
Lechler joined the Raiders as a fifth-round draft pick in 2000, the same year kicker Sebastian Janikowski was a first-round selection. They are the longest-tenured players on the roster and have played for eight head coaches, from Jon Gruden through Dennis Allen.
It didn't go unnoticed by Lechler that undrafted free agent Marquette King, a thunder-footed punter with consistency issues, was kept on injured reserve with a foot injury after a weight-room accident in early September. He'll ostensibly compete for the job in 2013.
"It was frustrating for a little while because this is my job, and it has been mine for 13 years," Lechler said. "I took it a little bit personal early, but after that I was like, 'You know what? I can only worry about so many things around here.' That was one of them I needed to stop worrying about."
General manager Reggie McKenzie has shown signs of running a tight fiscal ship without bloated salaries. While Lechler is open to returning, only McKenzie and Allen know how much they'll pay a punter on a rebuilding team.
Lechler, whose first punt Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs will be No. 1,000 for his career, believes this year's team is making progress that hasn't shown up on the scoreboard. He likes the approach of Allen.
"I think D.A. is good for this job. He's got my full support," Lechler said. "I think somewhere in here we're going to have to let a guy coach for a few years to figure it out. It's not much different than college ball. You give a guy four years, let him develop his players and see how they are instead of change and change and change. But this is Oakland."
The Associated Press contributed to this report. For more on the Raiders, visit the Inside the Oakland Raiders blog at ibabuzz.com/oaklandraiders. Follow Jerry McDonald on twitter at Twitter.com/Jerrymcd.
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Kansas City (2-11) at Raiders (3-10), 1:25 p.m. CBS
Tom Brady throws four TD passes as Patriots rout Texans.
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Posted August 26th, 2013 @ 8:09am by Ruth Brown, Newser Staff
(NEWSER) – An 8-year-old boy fatally shot his elderly "caregiver"—WBRZ identifies the victim as his grandmother—in Slaughter, Louisiana, last week, authorities say. The victim was Marie Smothers, 87. The boy has not been identified because of his age. He originally told police the shooting was unintentional, but authorities say their investigation has led them to believe the boy "intentionally shot Mrs. Smothers in the back of the head as she sat in her living room watching television," CNN reports. The gun belonged to Smothers, reports WBRZ.


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'Right to Be Forgotten' Is a Foreign Concept in America
The European ruling against Google underscores how far apart European and American legal systems are when it comes to data privacy and liability.
Europe's top court thinks people should have much more control over what gets posted about them online, ruling that Google can be forced to scrub search results directing users to old or irrelevant content that's embarrassing to someone.
That so-called "right to be forgotten" championed by the European Court of Justice doesn't exist in America.
"Under U.S. law, Google enjoys quite a bit of leeway as to what it can choose to take down or leave up," Evan Brown, an Internet and technology lawyer in the Chicago office of InfoLawGroup LLP, told Law Blog.
A lot of that protection flows from the First Amendment. The European court's assertion that Google could be required to delete "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant" data clashes with American speech rights.
Other federal laws give Google even more cushion. Most important is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields Internet service providers and search engines from lawsuits seeking to hold them liable for not screening content produced by other parties.
So if someone writes or records something that is considered defamatory, a breach of contract, or a violation of state privacy law, Google can hold up the law as a defense if it gets sued for linking to it.
Congress passed the law in the wake of court rulings — most notably a New York court decision against now defunct online service Prodigy — that said Internet service providers could be held liable for defamatory online content created by someone else.
Without the legal shield of Section 230, says Mr. Brown, online companies in the early years of the Internet would have found it much harder to attract private investment.
"We wanted people to create these services that we now rely upon and are bringing tons of money into the U.S..economy," Meg Ambrose, an assistant professor at Georgetown University who teaches international technology policy, told Law Blog.
Section 230 doesn't cover all content. Google could be ordered to remove content or links to material that infringes on a copyright. Another unprotected category is "speech integral to criminal conduct," which encompasses child pornography or snuff films.
None of this means that Google doesn't remove personal information from search results when somebody requests it. Companies like Google have their own removal policies and sometimes decisions aren't driven by legal threats but by public or customer relations.
Under its policy, Google says it will delete links to pages containing information that "could make a user susceptible to specific harm," like identity theft or financial fraud. For example, they might remove a link to a page that shows somebody's credit card, bank account or social-security number.
In many cases, Google refers individuals back to the person or entity that published that material. If the publisher complies, the information won't show up in Google's search results.
Google, however, says it won't delete results that link to official government websites.
Ms. Ambrose said the European ruling could prompt a discussion in America about whether Section 230 should be adjusted. The statute has come under criticism from some legal professors. University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron, for example, says the law should be changed to rein in anonymous online groups that threaten or harass vulnerable people.
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DENVER -- You know what the Warriors could really use now: one of those monster games from point guard Stephen Curry.
"He's done it all year," second-year guard Klay Thompson said. "On the big stages, too."
After an ice-cold start, Curry warmed up in the second half, scoring 15 points on 6-of-10 shooting in Saturday's 97-95 Warriors loss to Denver in the first game of their playoff series. But facing an 0-2 hole, with All-Star David Lee knocked out of the series by a torn right hip flexor, the Warriors need Curry to get hot.
The Warriors pulled out a lot of stops to get Curry open, as Denver swarmed him with bigger and extra defenders. Still, he finished with just 19 points on 7-of-20 shooting as Golden State shot 41.3 percent. That's not going to cut it from Curry in this series.
But if he gets the shots he took in Game 1, the feeling in Warriors camp is he just might have that big game.
"Steph had some great looks," coach Mark Jackson said. "I'll take the looks that he had all night long."
Denver finished the regular season having allowed the second-most 3-pointers in the NBA and ranked 20th in field goal percentage defense. That weakness was relatively unexploited in Game 1 as the Warriors were 8 of 22 from deep (36.4 percent). During the regular season, Golden State was 20-8 in games it shot at least 45 percent from 3-point range.
So, for that matter, the Warriors need Thompson to stay hot, too.
"I think I can do a lot better," Thompson said. "I missed some easy shots. ... It was a slightly above average game."
The second-year guard led the Warriors with 22 points on 10-of-19 shooting.
"Bogut's presence has to be talked about," Karl said of Warriors center Andrew Bogut. "He was very efficient, effective in a lot of ways."
It makes sense Bogut caught the Nuggets off guard. He didn't play in any of the four regular-season meetings. So his nine-point, 14-rebound, four-block performance Saturday was quite the revelation.
The question now is can Bogut duplicate it for Game 2 on Tuesday. With Lee out, it's practically a must if Golden State is to head to Oracle with a split.
"When he plays that way, when his body feels comfortable enough for him to play that way, we're a different team," Jackson said. "I think the issue is how he feels and how his body responds."
Bogut certainly has Denver's attention now.
"I think so," Nuggets guard Ty Lawson said. "We probably pay a little bit more attention to him next game."


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Friday, November 11, 2011
11/11/11 = 33 Years Of Marriage
12 comments:
- Cindy said...
rofl!!! i loved the pic and congratulations!!
- November 11, 2011 at 5:46 AM
- thisoldbroad said...
Well done you 2! Excellent joke too. Enjoy your day.
- November 11, 2011 at 6:07 AM
- Julie said...
More than the wine?? Happy Anniversary!
- November 11, 2011 at 6:31 AM
- Barbara Bakes said...
Congratulations! My 33rd anniversary was this year too. I guess 1978 was a good year for both of us. Who knew it would go by so quickly.
- November 11, 2011 at 7:23 AM
- The Mom Chef said...
Bravo. I want to be just like you when I grow up. Seriously.
- November 11, 2011 at 7:40 AM
- stephchows said...
HA! Love it! Congrats on 33 years mags!!! You guys rock!!
- November 11, 2011 at 7:41 AM
- From the Kitchen said...
Happy anniversary!
- November 11, 2011 at 11:04 AM
- Sherry said...
I can imagine you and your then finace looking at future calendars and saying, aha, here's the wedding date we need to choose: November 11, 1978, so that on 11/11/11, we'll have been married the number of years which are the sum of 11+11+11! I doubt it happened that way but what an absolutely adorable coincidence! Congratulations!
- November 11, 2011 at 5:49 PM
- Moogie said...
If only we knew about all the four letter words.....
A young couple got married and left on their honeymoon.
When they got back, the bride immediately called her mother.
"Well, how was the honeymoon?" asked the mother.
"Oh mamma!" she exclaimed. "The honeymoon was wonderful! So romantic!"
No sooner had she spoken the words than she burst out crying. "But mamma . . . as soon as we returned, Sam started using the most horrible language. He's been saying things I've never heard before! All these awful 4-letter words! You've got to come get me and take me home... please mamma!"
"Now Sarah . . ." her mother answered. "Calm down! Tell me, what could be so awful? What 4-letter words has he been using?"
"Please don't make me tell you, mamma." wept the daughter.
"I'm so embarrassed! They're just too awful! You've got to come get me and take me home... please mamma!"
"Darling, baby, you must tell me what has you so upset . . .
Tell your mother these horrible 4-letter words!"
Still sobbing, the bride replied, "Oh, mamma . . . words like dust, wash, iron, and cook!"
- November 11, 2011 at 6:15 PM
Congrats! Love the joke, kinda says it all!!! :)
- November 11, 2011 at 9:13 PM
- Shelby said...
Happy Anniversary...and I love the post...lol. I think I'll have to say that comment to Grumpy when I have my next glass of wine and see how it goes. ha ha.
- November 12, 2011 at 5:41 AM
- honeymoon bed breakfast said...
Congratulations on celebrating 33 years of marriage. May you celebrate more. Where you spent your honeymoon? How you feel about great bonding after 33 years of marriage?
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Leon Hiebert was pastor of Andover Assembly of God (Generations Church A/G) from 1989 to 2009. He is a Viet Nam veteran who spent 10 years in the US Navy most of the time as a corpsman serving with the Marine Corps. A native of Belleville, Kan., Hiebert is semi retired and lives in Andover with his wife, Sharon. He is a school bus driver for USD 385, Andover, Kansas.
Scripture: Numbers 31:48 Then the officers who were over the units of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—went to Moses
49 and said to him, "Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one is missing.
50 So we have brought as an offering to the Lord the gold articles each of us acquired—armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord." (NIV)
Observation: Twelve thousand had been sent out to war and twelve thousand returned! No parent had lost a son; no wife had lost a husband; no child had lost a father! As the spoils of war were being divided, those who had fought in the battle wanted to express their appreciation to the Lord. They wanted to give to the Lord in appreciation.
These verses remind me of a testimony I heard years back. A mom and dad were sitting in a church service in which a memorial was being given in memory of a son who had died in Viet Nam. The man turned to his wife and quietly said, "Let's give an offering for our son too!" She replied, "But our son returned; he was not killed in Viet Nam." He said, "That's why!"
Application: Why should I give to the Lord and to needs I see around me? That's why! And, that's why! And there's another reason why! Oh, yes, and that's why! I have so many reasons to show my appreciation.
Prayer: Lord, my endless appreciation must be expressed through endless giving! Show me what, when, and where to give. And may you never have to tell me twice! Amen
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Hi there fellow active.com triathletes! I'm working on a short, fun piece highlighting what I think is an awesome & encouraging community here on active.com -- triathlon!
I've emailed a few of you via active.com and I'd love to hear back from many more! If you have questions, let me know via my active.com contact or email me at sklandolt at yahoo dot com.
Questions (answer two or more):
- What brought you first to active.com and then to its triathlon community?
- Tell me a little about the friendships or experiences you've had in the triathlon community.
- How do active.com's communities encourage, motivate and provide support to you as an athlete?
- Have you met anyone from active.com at a race or event or training opportunity?
- What would you tell someone who is new to triathlon and new to online discussion groups and may be unsure about participating?
- If you'd like add your blog link or a short bio.
Thank you!
Sara Cox Landolt
Sara Cox Landolt
Thanks Sara! I always love how you bring the Active community together and promote a more inclusive environment for all kinds of athletes!
I first came to Active because I signed up for a half Ironman (Longhorn 70.3) last year. I had never run more than a mile or swam more than about 20 yards, and I hadn't biked anywhere in the last 9 years. It was as dumb as it probably sounds. I had always wanted to do a tri, and had tried to talk a childhood friend into it for years, and he finally agreed. I figured we would do about an olympic distance (though I hadn't heard of that at the time). Nope. So I had questions - a lot of questions. You can find some of them in the archives here, but I was able to find a lot of them in the 'newbies' section. People here were (and still are) absolutely wonderful and encouraging for new athletes trying their sport. Nobody pokes fun at even the most ridiculous questions - and I've asked some crazy ones!
I haven't met anybody from the forums, but know that some of you are out there. Maybe next year.
If anybody out there is new, I'd suggest posting. Say hi. Ask a dumb question. Everybody else has. Plus, people on Active are way nicer than your feet will feel if you run in your bike shoes.
I'm David, and I live in Denver. I've done a handful of races at this point, and have finished my original goals of a triathlon and marathon. Time to step up. Now I'm planning on an Ironman in 2012 (location TBD) and the Leadville 100 in 2013 - if I can get in. I'm planning on spending 2011 getting faster and stronger - riding the beautiful mountains and enjoying a season of improvement without increasing distances. In the real world I'm an engineer, and a combination of lots of work, buying a house, and mono got in the way of a good season in 2010. I'm trying to talk my wife into joining me for a few short races in 2011.
Sara, what a great thread and questions to ask.
I came to active by googling a stupid question, which at the time, wasn't so stupid to me: "what is a "snake" lane swim for a triathlon that starts in a pool?" A self taught runner for years, I had decided to sign up for my first sprint tri and I was completely clueless about everything. I had bought some books, but they just don't tell you enough detail. I could not imagine how the pool swim worked, how it started, and how it ended, and what you did in between. I got about 10 answers from the community and each one was helpful. Without the community, I would have gone cluelss to my first tri, and been terribly nervous about what to expect.
Since then I've continued to ask questions and get great answers here. I also try to help answer some of the newbie questions, keeping in mind that I am still a newbie too, having only done three sprint tris and one Oly, with my first 70.3 coming up in April (be prepared for more questions from me on that one). I also just like to browse and see what other people are asking, seeing, experiencing, and I love, love LOVE reading race reports from everyone (so please, you guys, keep those coming).
I met up with some other folks from active before my first tri to do some training, and since then they have passed me by (that would include you, Jason Mellet, but you are a lot younger than I am!). As I get closer to my 70.3 I am eager to see who else is going from the active community, especially those who are doing their first one like me. Maybe we'll get together the day before and share our fears and our excitement.
It's fun to just browse the posts, but everyone should also be encouraged to post messages. Especially beginners! I just get so much kick out of reading their stories, including their race day write up. It's very motivating. And as we all know, there are no dumb questions in triathlon!
Keep on running....
Thanks for starting this thread. Being new to the sport, starting my third year of triathlons, the one thing I have appreciated the most has been the support and encouragement from fellow triathletes - like yourself. I get a ton of information from Active articles and the message boards. However, what I enjoy most about Active's Tri Community is the inspirational stories. All the triathletes that have struggled and a persevered to reach a goal, that's what the tri community is about!
David, Ken, Terry,
Thank you for responding & for sharing about your experiences here with our family of triathletes, all ages, all abilities.
I've been using active for years, but discovered the message board piece ~3 years ago. I shopped around between 3-4 online tri communities, but kept coming back to active.com because I liked the feel or tone of its discussion and sharing. That was important to me.
I love getting to know you all a little bit here and I'm happy when first-timers especially feel welcome and supported, and that they come back!
I'd love to read more experiences, so please consider sharing your active.com tri community story. I'm using the responses as part of a short piece highlighting this community -- because I LOVE it! I volunteer here year-round because it's fulfilling and fun.
I'd love to meet and connect with more of you in person in the future. If you come up for IM Wisconsin or an area race, let me know!
Happy Friday!
Sara Cox Landolt
I think I first came to active a few years back to look for a running event, but it was about a year ago I started looking at the message boards. I had a group of coworkers that I convinced to train as a group for a triathlon, and initially came looking for some events in the area. I kept coming back to the boards with various questions about training regiments, handling injuries, bike maintenance and such. Eventually I got into "motivational" threads... where people talk about what they're doing in their training and how they are doing in races. That kind of thing always gets me going with my own training. Hearing about how others are struggling as much as I am when I was getting started really did help quite a bit... it's nice to know that everyone else doing this sort of thing isn't a 6-minute mile runner who can maintain 25 MPH on the bike and swim at a minute per 100 yard pace. I really appreciate the "slow/overweight" threads in particular.
I've never met another active member at an event... but I'm a bit of a recluse at actual races. I think it comes back from my competitive swimming days where much of the mental preparation I did dealt with quiet visualization and "psyching myself up" inside my head. I really don't want to talk until after I'm done... I'm very internally focused (which probably sounds silly for the level of competition I'm at now).
I'd tell anyone trying to get into this that an online community (or in person one if you have it available in your area) is a big help. The more you talk about a goal like this, the more likely you are to complete it. It's a combination of ecouragement, assistance, education and peer pressure. Yes... I said peer pressure. You can be that after talking about getting ready for a tri for six months, there was NO chance that I'd back out of it before race day or that I'd quit half way through.
Bio: I'm a 32 year old who swam at the USS level from the ages of 6 to 18. I was hyper-fit as a youth, but through college and then working life I lost most of that. I went from 180 pounds with little body fat to 260 pounds and lazy. I'm a type 1 diabetic (since the age of 10) as well. I tried to ramp up some exercise routines over the years, but could never quite keep them up. Finally, my endocrinologist gave me a "shape up" speech, so I tried again. At my work, we had several guys who had been running half marathon distances, a mountain bike rider, a guy who rode his road bike to work occasionally and a couple of weight room fanatics... and I talked them in to attempting a sprint Triathlon. I did this by promising them that I could coach them enough in the swim that they'd be able to finish the 400 meters without dropping over dead. We had 7 people finish the sprint in June (including me at 245). I'm now getting ready for hopefully an Olympic distance in 2011 and am currently at 225 on the scale. And yes... I do think having a community has helped me not get tired/bored/frustrated with the whole thing and quit.
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Are you a napper? Or perhaps you're a wannabe napper (one of those people who thinks, "taking a nap would be really nice, but it's not realistic/healthy/smart")? Even if you're a never-napper or think napping is a counterproductive way to spend one's time, you may find this interesting.
A simple infographic I stumbled upon yesterday sheds a bit of light on the different types of napping we do, from the "nano-nap" (10 - 20 seconds long) all the way up to the "lazy man's nap" (50 - 90 minutes long), and the different ways in which naps of varying lengths affect us.
A few interesting highlights included ...
A.) A 60 minute nap improves alertness for up to 10 hours.
B.) Nike, Google and British Airways all promote napping to their employees.
C.) Napping has been linked to a 12 percent increased ability to stay asleep through the night (this surprised me).
D.) Napping has been linked to a 9 percent enhancement in mental abilities and 11 percent elevation in alertness.
E.) Even 5 - 20 minute "mini naps" have been shown to increase motor performance.
Check out the rest of the interesting details and the complete, easy-to-skim infographic here: http://visual.ly/napping. Happy napping, everyone.
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If you're not surprised by even a single photo on this page, there exists a strong possibility you're slightly too obsessive with your calorie counting.
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Lewis said the burglar bashed in the side door of the business with rocks and two by fours.
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NRA announces ad buy to promote poll of police that runs counter to gun control
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After a successful competitive season, Ian Krommenhoek was recently selected as the Squaw Valley Freestyle and Freeride Team's Athlete of the Year.
The award is given each season to an athlete who is well rounded with ability, attitude and achievement. Along with the award, Krommenhoek earned a trip to Water Ramp Training Camp this summer, at the Utah Olympic Park in Park City, Utah, with coach Cody Salrin.
While the team — aka SquawFree — has a proven legacy in mogul skiing, it has also evolved to encompass newer, complementary disciplines of freestyle skiing, including freeride (slopestyle and halfpipe) and freeskiing (big-mountain), where it offers prestigious coaching and trains juniors at the highest levels.
With 120 athletes training at Squaw Valley, SquawFree grooms talent as young as 8, as well as under-18 athletes competing on professional international circuits.
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The Spring 2016 Research in Progress series (*BCUSP 290), will feature UW Bothell investigators discussing the discovery of trends in business. The seminars are open to all interested faculty, students and staff as well as alumni and community partners. The aim of this series is to foster interdisciplinary communication/collaboration and increase awareness of work currently being done by UWB faculty.
*BCUSP 290 – 2 credits: Introduces emerging scholars to research practices, methods, and processes through research seminars linked to skill building classroom workshops and discussions. Students will develop skills necessary to be successful scholars and researchers while learning about research that is being conducted by the UW Bothell faculty and students. This course is taught by Charlotte Rasmussen, PhD, Director of Undergraduate Research.
April 12th, 2016 4-5PM in LB1-205 "Understanding the Pricing of Audit Services: Opportunities and Challenges," Rajib Doogar, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Business
April 19th, 2016 4-5 PM in LB1-205 "Equal Treatment of Equals," Camelia Bejan, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Business
April 26th, 2016 4-5PM in LB1-205 "The Role of Social Networks in Creative and Learning Success," Denis Trapido, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Business
May 10th, 2016 4-5PM in LB1-205 "Interruptions: Exploring the Impact on Attention and Performance," Sophie Leroy, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Business
May 17th, 2016 4-5PM in LB1-205 "Asymmetric Information and Learning in Economics," Alejandro Francetich, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Business
May 24th, 2016 4-5PM in LB1-205 "A New Approach to Evaluate Merger and Acquisition Prices and to Predict Goodwill Impairments," Hyung Il Oh, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Business
May 31st, 2016 4-5PM with reception to follow in LB1-205 "Incomes, Consumption and Earnings Forecasts," PK Sen, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean, School of Business
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B CUSP 290 – Diversity - 2 Credits
Curated by Terryl Ross, PhD, Director of Diversity, Office of the Chancellor
January 12th, 2016- "Washington State's Community College Pipeline for Diversity," Terryl Ross, PhD, Director of Diversity, Office of the Chancellor
January 19th, 2016- "Neoliberal Multiculturalism, Inequality, and High-Stakes Testing," Wayne Au, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Educational Studies
January 26th, 2016- "Women of Color and Leadership," Annette Anderson, Director, Curriculum Development, Academic Affairs
February 9th, 2016 4-5PM in LB1-205 "Why Trans Women of Color Should be at the Center of Movements for Social Justice," Kari Lerum, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
February 16th, 2016 4-5PM in LB1-205 "English as an Additional Language," Karen Gourd, PhD, Senior Lecturer, School of Educational Studies
February 23rd, 2016 4:30-5:30PM in LB1-205 "Creating the World We Want to Live In: Lessons From the Intergroup Education Movement," Cherry Banks, EdD, Professor, School of Educational Studies
B CUSP 290 – Social Science Research Methods - 2 Credits Curated by PK Sen, Professor & Associate Dean, School of Business and Dan Jacoby, Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
October 6th, 2015- "Ethnography in a National Security Landscape", Shannon Cram, Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
October 13th, 2015- "Analysis with Category Dependent Variables", Sri Devi Duvvuri, Assistant Professor, School of Business
October 20th, 2015- "Empirical Methods in Finance", Ying Li, Assistant Professor, School of Business
October 27th, 2015- "Measurement Development", Jason Naranjo, Assistant Professor, School of Educational Studies
November 3rd, 2015- "Socially-Engaged Geovisualization", Jin-Kyu Jung, Assistant Professor, and Christian Anderson, Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
November 10th, 2015- "Network Analysis", Surya Pathak, Assistant Professor, School of Business
December 1st, 2015- "Regression Analysis and Longitudinal Data", Shauna Carlisle, Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
December 8th, 2015- "Causal Inference Methods", Tate Twinam, Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
B CUSP 290 - Research in Action: STEM Applications - 2 Credits
Curated by Charlotte Rasmussen, Ph.D. Director, Undergraduate Research and Mike Stiber, Ph.D. Professor and Associate Dean, School of STEM
April 7th, 2015- "The Air We Breathe: 18 Years of Atmospheric Research at UW Bothell", Dan Jaffe, Chair & Professor; STEM: Physical Sciences
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April 14th, 2015- "Blast from the Past: Lessons in Plant Succession from Mount St. Helens", Cynthia Chang, Assistant Professor; STEM: Biological Sciences
April 21st, 2015- "Automated Segmentation and Pathology Detection using Medical Images", Sohini Chowdhury, Assistant Professor; STEM: Engineering and Mathematics
April 28th, 2015- "Spectral Step for Nonsmooth Optimization Methods", Milagros Loreto, Assistant Professor; STEM: Engineering and Mathematics
May 12th, 2015- "How to Apply Creativity and Innovation Toward Currently Unmet Clinical Needs", Jong Yoon, Assistant Professor; STEM: Engineering and Mathematics
May 19th, 2015- "Cloud-based Audio Retrieval for Endangered Language Documentation and Analysis", Min Chen- Assistant Professor; STEM: Computing and Software Systems
May 26th, 2015- "On-demand Generation of Virutal Laboratories for Cyber Security Education" Brent Lagesse, Assistant Professor; STEM: Computing and Software Systems
June 2nd, 2015- "Oh, What Can the Matter Be?" Warren Buck, Professor; STEM: Physical Sciences and Chancellor Emeritus
B EDUC 491E - Special Topics in Education: Charting New Directions through Inclusive Education - 2 Credits
Curated by Dean Brad Portin & Associate Dean Antony Smith, SES
January 12th, 2014- "Framing Inclusion", Jason Naranjo, School of Educational Studies (SES); "Leadership for Inclusive Schools, Tom Bellamy, Pam Hopkins, Brad Portin, SES
January 26th, 2014- "Migration, Diversity & Schooling: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives" Cherry Banks, SES; "Intergrating Mathematics & Literacy Discussion in Inclusive Classrooms" Antony Smith, Allison Hintz, SES
February 9th, 2014- "Peace Education's Inclusive Classrooms & Schools", Pamela Joseph, SES; "What Does it Mean to Include Students Acquiring English?", Karen Gourd, SES
February 23rd, 2014- "Colors of Nature: Designing Inclusive STEAM Education to Promote Science Identity Work in Middle School Girls", Carrie Tzou, SES; "Serving All Children? Inclusion, Exclusion & Education Reform", Wayne Au, SES
March 3rd, 2015- CoLab, "Charting New Directions Through Inclusive Education"
Communities, Culture and Health
Curated by David Allen, Director, School of Nursing & Health Studies
October 28th, 2014- "Panel Discussion:key Issues Surrounding Veterans Health", Andrea Kovalesky, Nursing & Health Studies
November 12th, 2014- "Collaborating with Stangers Workshop: Communities, Culture & Health", Campus LIbrary and Office of Community Based Learning & Research
November 18th, 2014- "Citizens, Consumers, Recipients: Communities and Global Health", Nora Kenworthy, Nursing & Health Studies
November 25th, 2014- "Are Technologies Cultural? A Case Study of HIV Drugs and Diagnostics", Johanna Crane, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
December 4th, 2014- "Engineering a Better Health Care System", Heather Young, Associate Vice Chanellor of Nursing at UC Davis
April 8th, 2014- "History of the Wetlands" Warren Gold, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
April 15th, 2014- "The UWB/CCC Wetlands Geo-Database: Mapping Boundaries, Hydrological Features and Plant Communities" UWB/CCC Geo-Database Working Group (Hazel Asuncion, CSS; Warren Gold, SIAS; Santiago Lopez, SIAS; Charlotte Rasmussen, CUSP; Rob Turner, SIAS and students)
April 22nd, 2014- "Place Based Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning in the Wetlands." TIPS/RIP Roundtable
April 29th, 2014- "Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci from Crows and their Environment" Marilyn Roberts, Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health at UW Seattle
May 13th, 2014-"Fecal Coliform and Nutrient Dynamics in North Creek, the Wetland and the Campus Runoff" Rob Turner, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
May 20th, 2014- "Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of a Seasonally Changing Crow Rosst: Effects on Soil Mesofauna and Plant Communities" Doug Wacker, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
May 27th, 2014- "Crow Impact on Invasive Speicies Proliferation" Warren Gold, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences with students Ian Barlow & Holly Zox, Edmonds CC
January 14th, 2014- "Mash-ups and Mishaps: Viral Data and Digital Transmission Vectors" Jason Pace, Digital Futures Lab
January 21st, 2014- "Data Processing and Display in the Context of Medical Devices: An Instructive Example" Pierre Mourad, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
January 28th, 2014- "Sponsors of Policy: A Network Analysis of Wealthy Elites, their Affiliated Philanthropies, and Charter School Reform in Washington State" Wayne Au, Education Program
February 4th, 2014- Related Event: IAS Colloquium (Rose Room)-"Remapping Imaginary and Imagined Communities" Ted Hiebert, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences; Jin-Kyu Jung, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
February 11th, 2014- "Distributed Trust in Pervasive Systems" Brent Lagesse, Computer and Software Systems
February 18th, 2014- "Telling the Story of Environmental Inequities: A GIS Approach to TRI Data" Gwen Ottinger, David Headrick and Chris Wright, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
February 25th, 2014- "Understanding the Impact of Economic Geography on U.S Audit Markets: Promises and Challenges"
Rajib Doogar, Business
March 11th, 2014- "Abracadata: Artists' Books in the Digital Age" Amaranth Borsuk, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
October 8th, 2013- "Citizen Science and the Many Faces of Environmental Justice" Gwen Ottinger, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
October 15th, 2013- "Exploring Race and Place: An Investigation on Neighborhood Racial Homogeneity and Social Bonding as Promoters of Collective Action" Charles Collins, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
October 22nd, 2013- "Collaborative Salmon Recovery in Washington and Oregon: The Role of the State?" Nives Dolsak, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
October 29th, 2013- "Let's go to the videotape: An analysis of collaboration in the software development community" David Socha, School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
November 12th, 2013- "Co-evolution of industries, social movements, and institutions: Wind power in the U.S." Tim Hargrave, School of Business
November 18th, 2013- Collaborating with Strangers, North Creek Events Center, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
November 18th, 2013- Special Event! IAS Distinguished Speaker Series presents Roopali Phadke, North Creek Events Center, 6:00pm - 7:00pm.
April 9th, 2013- "Learning and Transformation at UW Bothell" Dan Jacoby, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
April 16th, 2013- "Flying High: Determining the Distribution of Airborne Mercury over the Eastern U.S." Jesse Ambrose, School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
April 23rd, 2013- "MASS: A Multi-Agent Spacial Simulation Library" Munehiro Fukuda, School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
April 30th, 2013- "The Double Bind of Dharun Ravi: Cyberbigotry and the Work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak" Rahul Gairola, Center for University Studies and Programs
May 14th, 2013- "Cognitive Radio: Its Promises and Challenges" Tad Ghirmai, School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
May 21st, 2013- "Desperate Women and Lonely Hearts: Moving From the Study of Interventions for, to the Study of Discourses about Women with Incarcerated Partners" Cheryl Cooke, Nursing and Health Studies Program
January 15th, 2013- "Digital Mashups: Pushing the Physical World into Digital Experiences and Pulling out the Unexpected." Jason Pace, Director, Center for Serious Play
January 22nd, 2013- "Estimating operating leverage from financial statements." Lorna Hardin, Assistant Professor, School of Business
January 29th, 2013- "Coupled natural and human systems: investigating the climatic influences and environmental impacts of the rise and fall of the Mongolian Empire." Avery Cook Shinneman, Lecturer, CUSP
February 12th, 2013- "What's in a Name: Immingrant Journalism in a Digital Age." Kristin Gustafson, Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
February 19th, 2013- "Race, Taxes and Rights: Taxpayer Identity and the Structure of Racial Inequality." Camille Walsh, Lecturer, School of Interdiscplinary Arts & Sciences
February 26th, 2013- "Developing School Leaders: Imagining New Roles for Districts, Universities, and Prospective Principals." Tom Bellamy, Director, The Goodlad Institute for Education Renewal
March 12th, 2013- "The provision of educational services and experiences that promote positive post-school outcomes for urban youth with disabilities: To what extent is it happening?" Jason Naranjo, Assistant Professor, Education Program
October 9th, 2012- "Cross-eyed Creativity and other Curiosities." Ted Hiebert, Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Sciences
October 16th, 2012- "Brains: What do Zombies know that you don't?" Mike Stiber, Professor, Computing and Software Systems
October 23rd, 2012- "A Story-writing Activity with Native American Influence: Insights from Pedagogical Workshop for Business Educators." Deanna Kennedy, Assistant Professor, School of Business
October 30th, 2012- "Evolution in Action: Cooperating in a Different World." Kristina Hillesland, Assistant Professor, Science & Technology Program
November 13th, 2012- "How Can School-Embedded Professional Development Support Ambitious and Equitable Mathematics Practices?" Allison Hintz, Assistant Professor, Education Program Special Time: 4:30p - 5:30p!!
November 20th, 2012- "The World According to Carp: Exploring Inhibitory Circuit Formation in the Zebrafish Eye." Alaron Lewis, Lecturer, Science & Technology Program
November 27th, 2012- "How are Children Affected by Growing Up with Knowledge of Their Genetic Test Results?" Chris Wade, Assistant Professor, Nursing and Health Studies Program
April 10th, 2012- "Emptiness, Mindfulness, and the Sustainable Life: Insights from Japanese Aesthetics, Poetry, and Philosophy" Steven W. Collins, Associate Professor, Science and Technology Program and Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and Amie Heisserman, Undergraduate Student, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
April 17th, 2012- "Coffee Science in Nicaragua: A Retrospective" Chuck Jackels, Professor, Science and Technology Program and Computing and Software Systems
April 24th, 2012- "Children's Meanings of Community: Applying Qualitative GIS to Child-Orientated Research" Jin-Kyu Jung, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
May 8th, 2012- "My Place in Puget Sound, Part 2: Understanding Students' Sense of Place in Relation to the Environment" Carrie Tzou, Assistant Professor, Education Program
May 15th, 2012- "Sustainable Business: Oxymoron? Smokescreen? or Strategic Imperative?" Kevin Laverty, Associate Professor, Business Program
May 22nd, 2012- "'We are the Conspiracy' An Oral History of the Seattle Liberation Front, The Day After Demonstration and the Seattle 7 Trial" Linda Watts, Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
January 10th, 2012- "Building Student, Staff and Organizational Capacity; Collaborative Community Based Program Evaluation (CCBP)" Shauna Carlisle, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
January 17th, 2012- "Creating and Maintaining Great Teams: Team Mindset, Flow and Self-efficacy" David Socha, Assistant Professor, Computing and Software Systems
January 24th, 2012- "An Overview of Air Quality Research in the Jaffe Research Group" Jesse Ambrose, Post-doctoral Research Associate and Lecturer, Science and Technology
January 31st, 2012- "Night and Day on Planet 4-Earth." Peter Littig, Assistant Professor, Science and Technology
February 13th-16th, 2012- TIC Talks at the Chancellor's Forum on Exploring Innovation and Creativity
February 21st, 2012- "It may be green, but is it just? Utility-scale wind energy in the Pacific Northwest" Gwen Ottinger, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
February 28th, 2012- "Countering an Ecology of Violence: The Ethical Complexity of Curriculum Leadership" Pamela Bolotin Joseph, Senior Lecturer, Education Program and Edward Mikel, Interim Dean and Core Faculty, Antioch University, Seattle WA
October 18th, 2011- "Game-Themed Computer Science EducationL Empowering the Faculty." Kelvin Sung, Professor, Computing and Software Systems
October 25th, 2011- "Having the Right People: A Study of Team Composition and Performance." Deanna Kennedy, Assistant Professor, Business
November 8th, 2011- "Social and Civic Development Through Engaged Scholarship: Building Capacity and Assessing Outcomes." Shauna Carlisle, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences; Karen Ericson, Director, Community-Based Learning and Research, The Teaching and LEarning Center; Karen Gourd, Assistant Professor, Education; and Keith Nitta, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
November 15th, 2011- "Kinesthetics in Mathematics Education." Robin Angotti, Associate Professor, Education
November 22nd, 2011- "Leadership and Entrepreneurial Resilience." Alan Boss, Assistant Professor, Business
November 29th, 2011- "The Financing Choices of American Consumers: The Influence of Cognitive Disposition, Material Values, and Quantitative Literacy." Cinnamon Hillyard, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences; and Peter Nye, Associate Professor, Business
April 12th, 2011- Hazel Asuncion, Assistant Professor, Computing and Software Systems, "Automated Traceability Techniques for Software Engineering and e-Science."
April 19th, 2011- Kristy Leissle, Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and Center for University Studies Program, "The Politics of a Chocolate Bar: From Single Origins to Craft Market Innovations"
April 26th, 2011- Kristin Gustafson, Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and Center for University Studies Program, "Grassroots, Activist Media: Balancing Loyalties to Community, Activism, and Journalism"
May 10th, 2011- Christopher Wade, Assistant Professor, Nursing Program, "Will Telling People About their genetic Susceptibility for Developing Common Diseases Improve the Effectivenss of Public Health Prevention Efforts?"
May 17th, 2011- Betheny Gross, Senior Research Analyst, Center for Reninventing Public Education, "Getting the Teachers They Want: Hiring Teachers for Autonomous Charter Schools"
May 25th, 2011- "Discourse 2011" - A Gala Dinner Celebration of Research-In-Progress featuring 5 minute "lightning talks" by UW Bothell faculty discussing new and cutting edge research.
January 8th, 2011- Rob Turner, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, "Applications of 3-D High Resolution Measurements of Nitrate Concentrations In and Around Puget Sound (and other Adventures in Water Quality)."
January 18th, 2011- Kimberly Williams-Guillén, Acting Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, "Investigating Cryptic Trophic Interactions Through Molecular Scatology -- The Diets of Insect-Eating Bats in the Neotropics."
January 25th, 2011- Carol Zander, Principal Lecturer, Computing and Software Systems, "Threshold Concepts: Investigating the Learning Process."
February 8th, 2011- Tony Smith, Assistant Professor, Education Program, "Assessing Adolescent English Language Learning Students' Recall of Informational Texts Using Scaffolded Prompts."
February 15th, 2011- Peter Littig, Assistant Professor, Science and Technology Program, "Playing Games in the Classroom: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Collaborative Group Work."
February 22nd, 2011- Wayne Au, Assistant Professor, Education Program, "Of Automatons and Activists: High-stakes Testing, the Control of Teaching, and the Resistance of Teachers."
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011- 12:30pm in LB1-205: Special Brown Bag RIP- Peter Richardson, Lecturer, Center for University Studies and Programs, "The Imaginary Organization: Play and Work on Shopfloors."
March 8th, 2011- Rebecca Price, AssistantProfessor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, "Stress and Sea Snail Size: Submersion,Selection and Students."
October 19th, 2010- Carrie Tzou, Education - "My Place in Puget Sound: Applying Ethnographic Findings about Youths' Sense of Place in Ocean Education"
October 26th, 2010- Tayfun Keskin, Business - "You can Leave When the Systems are in Place: an analytical model of collaborative information technology moderation in dyanmic teamwork with team member departure"
November 9th, 2010- Peter Littig, Science & Technology - "Playing Games in the Classroom: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Collaborative Group Work" Postponed
November 16th, 2010- Deanna Kennedy, Business Program, "Examinging team collaboration to learn about process (in)effectiveness.
November 23rd, 2010- Kimberly Williams-Guillen, Assistant Professor, Interdiscplinary Arts & Sciences - "Investgating Cryptic Trophic Interactions through Molecular Scatology - The Diets of Insect-eating Bats in the Neotropics" Postponed
November 30th, 2010- Eric Salathe, Science & Technology - "Regional Climate Modeling Research: simulating pathways for climate change impact"
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Sacramento, CA 95814
Dear Mr. Stutzman:
I've been pondering the news that you and a Sacramento chef have filed a lawsuit against Lance Armstrong. You allege that the now-infamous bicyclist defrauded you in his books, "It's Not About the Bike" and "Every Second Counts."
My first reaction -- and forgive me, but it is a practical matter -- is that you need the money. As a Republican political consultant in California, you represent an endangered species. A refund of the $30 or so you spent on the two books could come in handy.
My second thought was that you crave the publicity. After finishing on the losing end of Republican Dan Lungren's congressional race against Ami Bera, it doesn't hurt to keep your name visible. The fact that the chef's name is Wheeler is -- how shall I say it? -- deliciously apt.
I've also considered that you have a friend who is an attorney. Let's be frank: In a class-action lawsuit, which you're seeking, it is usually the lawyers who reap the biggest rewards. Everyone else is too busy to fill out the application for a refund.
But these are shabby thoughts, unworthy of a noble mission. By highlighting Lance Armstrong's words of inspiration as the deceit of the chemistry-aided, or addled, you have established yourself as a Myth Buster, just as Teddy Roosevelt was a Trust Buster more than a century ago.
Let me suggest that there are a few more myths to be busted, another set of targets for class-action artillery:
THE EASTER BUNNY -- If ever a fraud was foisted upon childhood, it is the Easter Bunny. Do we really believe that a bunny is going around hiding eggs? A chicken, maybe, but a bunny? And why do the taller and faster kids get the chocolate eggs while the rest of us have to content ourselves with jelly beans?
THE TOOTH FAIRY -- For generations, parents have lied to their children in the most unforgivable way. Put your tooth under the pillow, go to sleep, and in the morning -- presto -- you'll find a dollar. Any class-action lawyer worth the name should be salivating.
THE FROG AND THE PRINCE -- Few childhood fables have done as much lasting damage as this one. Think of the millions of women who have entered into unhappy marriages because they believe the frogs, their husbands, can be transformed with a kiss. Destroying this myth would save untold suffering.
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Defense Documents
David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial: Electronic Edition, by Richard J. EvansTable of Contents
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(ii) [sic] Irving's manipulation of reliable sources.
1. Moellhausen's telegram of 6 October, not cited by Irving, makes it clear that not merely was Stahel 'objecting' to the Aktion, but that he was refusing to comply with it unless it was sanctioned by Ribbentrop himself. Moreover Moellhausen, Rahn's stand-in, had not only the stupidity to use the word 'liquidate' in official correspondence with the Foreign Minister, but also the audacity, before a response could be given to his first telegram, to contact Field Marshal Kesselring and obtain his agreement that the Jews of Rome be engaged in fortification work. The senior figures in Rome, Moellhausen, Kesselring, and probably also Kappler had effectively formed a triumvirate to block deportation. Any prospect of a 'clean' round-up was fading fast in this entanglement. Hitler's order cut decisively through the mess and made clear in no uncertain terms that the Jews of Rome were still to be deported and not to be kept in Italy on fortification work.
2. Appended to the order outlining 'the Führer's instructions' in this matter was a clear order that Moellhausen and Rahn were 'under no circumstances' to interfere in the affair. They were instead to leave it entirely to the SS.26 Irving manipulates the document (no. 2 above) by omitting all mention of this part of it both in the 1991 edition of Hitler's War and in his submission to the court. Only in the 1977 edition of his book does he mention that Ribbentrop ordered that the matter was to be left to the SS, just as only in the 1977 edition of his book does he add that the Jews were 'liquidated' anyway. Clearly he is suppressing this important information in order to underline the impression he gives that Hitler was intervening purely and simply to stop the Jews being killed. Yet the instruction to put them in the hands of the SS was made explicit by the second telegram, which is left unmentioned by Irving even though he must be familiar with its contents.27
3. In 1977, Irving wrote that the Jews were liquidated 'regardless' of Hitler's orders (i.e. contrary to them), part of his thesis that Hitler was only responsible for the deportations; and Himmler and Heydrich murdered the Jews without his knowledge.28 Ribbentrop must have discussed with Hitler all the major aspects of the situation, including Himmler's liquidation orders, the impending round-up by the SS, and the attempts to block it by the consuls and the army. There is every reason to suppose that Ribbentrop's injunction to leave the Aktion to the SS was an integral part of the discussion, and that Hitler approved it. If Hitler was intervening to stop the Roman Jews from being killed, then he knew that the Roman Jews were to be liquidated, he knew it was on Himmler's orders, and he must have known it was part of a much wider pattern of mass murder of Jews by the SS, or in other words, he must have known it was part of the 'Final Solution'.
26. Sonnleither to Ribbentrop's office, 9 October 1943
27. NG-5027, as cited in Michaelis, p. 364.
28. Hitler's War, (1977 ed.) pp. .326-7 and 329-32.
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