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Now that the lottery order has been set, the offseason focus turns to the NBA Draft held on June 23 in New York. Perhaps because of the uncertainty of the new collective bargaining agreement, this year's draft is marked by who's not in it as much as who made themselves available.
North Carolina's Harrison Barnes, Ohio State's Jared Sullinger and Baylor's Perry Jones were all expected to be lottery picks and all three decided to stay in school diluting what was already considered a draft class devoid of franchise-changing talent. Consider that the likely top pick Kyrie Irving played exactly 11 college basketball games because of a foot injury.
After Irving, Arizona forward Derrick Williams looks like a ready-made NBA player, if not a star, and then there are a number of talented foreign players, along with points guards Brandon Knight from Kentucky and UConn's Kemba Walker that will likely make up the bulk of the top 10.
The Celtics have the 25th pick, which doesn't promise to provide much immediate help. Still, team president Danny Ainge has had an enviable track record of unearthing talent late in the draft including:
2003: Kendrick Perkins via Memphis with the 27th pick.
2004: Delonte West (24) and Tony Allen (25).
2005: Ryan Gomes (50).
2006: Rajon Rondo (21), Leon Powe (49).
2007: Glen Davis (35).
2008: Bill Walker (47), Semih Erden (60).
Like all NBA decision-makers, Ainge has missed on a few — Gerald Green in 2005 and J.R. Giddens over DeAndre Jordan in 2008 — and last year's top pick Avery Bradley has yet to make his mark. But the name of the game at this stage in the draft is finding players talented enough to become pieces of a rotation and Ainge has delivered on far more picks than he's missed.
The Celtics are in desperate needs of assets to aid the inevitable rebuilding process that will likely take place after the 2012 season. If Ainge can find a player who can contribute this season that would be a coup for a team with only five players under contract heading into the offseason.
The pre-draft camp in Chicago, which began on Wednesday will help untangle some of the first round clutter, but here's an early look at some of the players who may be available with the 25th pick based on mock drafts from Draft Express, SI.com and ESPN (Insider).
Reggie Jackson, Boston College: Jackson looks like he made a wise decision to enter the draft after a breakout junior year for the Eagles. He may not be a true point guard, but he can score and he shot over 42 percent from 3-point range. Jackson looks like the kind of player who can step in and immediately compete for playing time.
Jimmer Fredette, BYU: Everyone knows about Jimmer at this point and there will be a loud and lengthy debate about whether his package of scoring skills will translate at the NBA level. He's not likely to be there when the Celtics pick, but Ainge will have to be temped to take his fellow Cougar if he is.
Josh Selby, Kansas: The talented, and also troubled, Selby went from being one of the nation's top recruits to a suspension and injury-filled freshman season. Selby shot less than 40 percent from the floor and had almost as many turnovers as assists. He's the kind of player Ainge has taken chances on before, and he's likely to be available at the end of the first round.
Travis Leslie, Georgia: Draft Express calls Leslie arguably the best athlete in college basketball and has him going to the Celtics in their recent mock. At 6-foot-4, Leslie is a bit of a tweener without a great 3-point shot. But in the right setting he could be an effective part of a rotation.
Kyle Singler, Duke: One of the few known commodities if only because he played four years at Duke. Singler has decent size at 6-foot-8, but isn't considered an exceptional athlete. He's a decent scorer and rebounder, but doesn't stand out in either area. Singler is a solid, experienced player with limited upside, which is why he would be around late in the first round.
Tyler Honeycutt, UCLA: The easy comparison is Tayshaun Prince because of his thin 6-foot-8 frame. Prince was also drafted late in the first round, but he was a far more accomplished college player than Honeycutt who doesn't have a defined offensive game. The tools are there for him to become a defensive specialist and at 20 years old, he has time to add to his game.
Davis Bertans, Latvia: He's 6-foot-10, 18 years old and can shoot the lights out. He's described as a project who may not be ready to come to the NBA just yet, but a talented project.
Tobias Harris, Tennessee: Harris is one of the more intriguing prospects in the draft and doesn't figure to be around with his mock status ranging from the end of the lottery to the early 20's. He had a strong freshman season amid in-season turbulence with the rest of the Tennessee program. The 6-foot-8 Harris is already a good scorer with room to improve.
Justin Harper, Richmond: At 6-foot-10, 225 pounds, Harper is one of the best long-range shooting big men in the draft. He averaged 18 points a game and shot almost 45 percent from 3-point range in his senior season for the Spiders capping a college career that saw steady improvement. The Celtics put a premium on big men who can shoot and Harper definitely fits the criteria.
Jordan Williams, Maryland: The comparison has been made to a young Kendrick Perkins because Williams is primarily a post player who has struggled with his conditioning at an early age. Both SI and ESPN have the Celtics taking Williams in their mocks, while Draft Express has him as a mid second-rounder. He made a significant jump in his sophomore season, averaging almost 17 points and 12 rebounds.
Note: Draft Express, considered the best online source for NBA draft news, has extensive scouting reports and statistics and is well worth exploring.
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Market forces are transforming the IOU business model.
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Market forces are transforming the IOU business model.
At a Wall Street briefing earlier this year, EEI's David K. Owens used the "t" word—"transformation"—to describe the current state of the U.S. electric utility industry.
"What is happening in our industry is the beginning of a transformation," he said. "And much of this transformation is the result of the need to address the issue of global climate change." 1
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Kelliher and Owens both recognize that the industry's current transformation will require electric utilities to reformulate business plans, and will require government agencies to reinvent their regulatory regimes. But how do we get there from here?
Historically, electric utilities were driven by one concern and one concern only—sell electricity. IOUs have been supported by a regulatory compact between government and industry. Just as utilities must change their business to one which sells energy services and products—not just electricity; government regulation must change to promote the public good of a cleaner environment—not just a healthy energy economy.
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The iPhone is not attached to any wall or desk. It's small-scale, customizable, personalized, and customers use it to access music, videos, maps, photos, the Internet and their daily agendas. Telephony is largely a by-product. Similarly, the iUtility will sell various energy and financial services and products, and might resemble the iPhone more than it does today's IOU. Someday, the iUtility might operate free of all regulatory constraints and might even compete in some of the same markets as the iPhone.
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To save our climate, protect democracy and stop current and future wars for oil, we must move rapidly away from oil as an energy resource to sustainable green energy production and consumption. The End Dirty Energy Program at Global Exchange has put a human face on oil addiction and linked together communities living at the points of oil exploration, production and refining, into one growing global movement working to rein in the oil industry.
In just over a year and a half, we established a global network of 40 groups from Chevron-affected communities, who are from or representing 20 countries or U.S. states. This newly established True Cost of Chevron Network is advocating for meaningful policy changes to rein in and move beyond the oil industry, with specific targets: first on Chevron, and now BP.


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Syrian Journalists Strive to Report, Despite Shifting Dangers
They call themselves citizen journalists, media workers, or media activists. Amid the chaos of conflict, they are determined to gather and distribute the news. By María Salazar-Ferro
They call themselves citizen journalists, media workers, or media activists. Amid the chaos of conflict, they are determined to gather and distribute the news. By María Salazar-Ferro
New York, December 10, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of two Spanish journalists who were abducted in Syria almost three months ago. Javier Espinosa and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova have been held captive by the Al-Qaeda affiliate Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) since September 16, the families of the journalists announced today.
When Mick Deane was killed in Egypt on Wednesday, he became the 1,000th journalist documented by CPJ as having died in direct relation to his work. The photos above, a sampling of those who have died over the past 21 years, serve as a powerful reminder of the cost of critical, independent journalism.
New York, February 25, 2013--A French freelance photographer died in a Turkish hospital on Sunday from shrapnel wounds he received while covering the unrest in Syria's Idlib province three days earlier, according to news reports.
Olivier Voisin, 38, had contributed work to several local and international publications, including Le Monde, The Guardian, and Agence France-Presse. His website chronicles his work from some of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists, including Libya, Haiti, Somalia, Brazil, and Kenya.
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Murder is the leading cause of work-related deaths among journalists worldwide--and this year was no exception. But the death toll in 2012 continued a recent shift in the nature of journalist fatalities worldwide. More journalists were killed in combat situations in 2012 than in any year since 1992, when CPJ began keeping detailed records.
Syria and Libya were the main themes at the 19th edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Prize for War Correspondents, which took place this weekend in the historical city of Bayeux, a few miles away from the Normandy beaches where Allied forces landed in June 1944 to liberate Europe from the Nazi yoke.
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Can you get a gif of Eli lowering the shoulder on the Packers db?
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In 1996, the New York gallery owner Marion Harris donated forty-two Morton Bartlett works to the Collection de l'Art Brut. This significant body of lead pencil drawings also includes various plaster sculptures depicting children–such as two little girls—as well as studies of ears and feet, a dental mold, faces bearing a variety of expressions, painstakingly detailed sets of clothing and black-and-white photographs printed from the original negatives. Morton Bartlett produced all of these pieces over a period of twenty-seven years, from 1936 to 1963. In fact, Bartlett lent substance to a reconstituted family rooted in childhood. His entire oeuvre, which was discovered in his home after his death at eighty-three, was conceived for personal ends, so that none of it ever went on public display during his lifetime. The Collection de l'Art Brut holds the major share of his production, but the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco both possess a number of his photographs.
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Colin MacInnes 1914–1976
English novelist and essayist.
MacInnes's fiction often concerns problems of race, youth, and vice in contemporary London. His London trilogy, City of Spades, Absolute Beginners, and Mr. Love and Justice, is noted for its penetrating sociological observations and its careful rendering of idiomatic speech.
The recent publication of MacInnes's Out of the Way: Later Essays has brought new attention to his work as an essayist and has renewed interest in his fiction.
(See also CLC, Vol. 4 and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 69-72, Vols. 65-68 [obituary].)
The Times Literary Supplement
The city of which Mr. MacInnes writes [in City of Spades] is London and the Spades are its Coloured inhabitants…. Mr. MacInnes tells his story through his two principal characters, Montgomery Pew, a genially irresponsible young man who has drifted briefly into the job of Assistant Welfare Officer at the Colonial Office, and Johnny Macdonald Fortune, his earliest client, a newly arrived student from Lagos of compelling charm and magnificent physique. The technical difficulties of constructing a story to be told by two narrators and the occasional irritations are well compensated for. The method enables us to see the Spade as he appears to himself and to a sympathetic Jumble [white man (i.e. John Bull)] at one and the same time. The converse, though true, is not so important because Spades are not so interested in Jumbles or so ready to bear with their unfamiliar processes of thought and emotion. The author is the last man to peddle an easy panacea for the problems arising from the contact of the two races. The theme of his book is that the difference of character, of mentality, of social code is far deeper than most men of good will would like to think. He loves the Spades and obviously prefers their cheerful, courteous fecklessness to the drab prudence of the Jumbles. But he is too candid not to admit the misery and degradation attendant on hemp-smoking, gambling and sexual promiscuity.
The honesty with which Mr. MacInnes...
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Pamela Hansford Johnson
City of Spades is a perfectly straight, unaffected story about a cheerful, bounding Nigerian boy and his life and downfall in London. The lodging-houses, the clubs, the pubs, the whole perimeter-life of a coloured community, are presented by a truthful expert to the innocent eye…. This novel has no trace of artfulness, but much art in the presentation of the various types. Johnny Fortune may seem a little too bright and shiny, Mr Karl Marx Bo and Mr Ronson Lighter a little too comic to be true; yet the attitude of the other characters towards them gives them validity.
This is a good, clear piece of story-telling with a neat and acid ending. Would the cards have been stacked quite so hard...
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Keith Waterhouse
Although the decade is almost over, there are few novelists writing about the late nineteen-fifties…. Most writers seem to have stopped taking notes around 1952, when the tall buildings began to go up and the English character took on a new, scrubbed look.
Mr Colin MacInnes is one of the few authors I have come across who has any idea what these hurrying years are all about. [Absolute Beginners] sings with the vitality and restlessness that is seeping out of the glass skyscrapers and the crowded streets. (p. 283)
Mr MacInnes is helped in capturing an elusive atmosphere by the fact that he is writing about the teenagers who are so much a part of it. He is describing a...
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Richard Sullivan
An ambiguous 18-year-old is the first-person narrator of "Absolute Beginners." And because the story he tells is so insistently his own it is an ambiguous story, with some of the blurred effect which always attends a novel that tries to go two ways at once.
Not that there is any blur in the phrasing. Verbally, this is fresh, bright, exciting work. Structurally, it is sound and solid. But the narrator is always simultaneously two persons. One is a sharp young hoodlum who declares, "Yes, man, come whatever, this last year of the teenage dream I was out for kicks and fantasy." The other is a precocious juvenile philosopher whose values, though grounded only in emotion, are energetically moral and...
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John G. Fuller
For a good many moments in "Absolute Beginners" …, Colin Macinnes's novel of modern London teen-agers, you find yourself thinking that here, at last, is another Salinger, another "Catcher in the Rye." But just when you are ready to conclude this, the jazz-ridden, motor-scooter, coffee-house language begins to pale, and the novel evaporates strangely and regrettably into an unfeeling tape recording, where obscurity takes over in place of subtlety, incantation moves in to replace candid observation, and a frenetic jangling substitutes for effervescence.
It is not that Mr. Macinnes is untalented or that his ear is not sharply tuned to the rhythm of the teen-age mind and the London scene. He recreates...
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Anthony Boucher
[Events and relationships are] a mite too self-consciously arranged and allegorical in Colin MacInnes' novel. "Mr. Love and Justice" is actually a morality play in which none of the other characters has a name, and Mr. Love, in the profession of love, proves essentially concerned with justice, while Mr. Justice, in the profession of justice, is primarily motivated by love.
Yet Mr. MacInnes writes so well that one forgives such obtrusive diagraming. A modern Hogarth in depicting the lowest strata of London, a Daumier in attacking the hypocrisy of the law, he creates living characters (even the nameless ones) in vivid and natural dialogue.
His cynical view of the London police may...
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Eric Moon
[The] fiction of Colin MacInnes has remained virtually unknown on this side of the Atlantic.
The three novels that make up [The London Novels of Colin MacInnes], and which have taken about a decade to cross the big divide, may change all that. Many an American reader, discovering the humanity and vitality of these explorations of the London scene, will regret having had to wait so long for them. But the delay serves one useful purpose: The passage of time emphasizes the unusual quality of these novels. They read with the immediacy of newspaper reportage, yet they clearly have the added dimension of art, for not a word seems to have dated in the slightest over the years since their first...
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T. G. Rosenthal
City of Spades is MacInnes's third novel, but his first good one. His To the Victors the Spoils was about the European war and, unfortunately, contrived to communicate the boredom of war in a way that the author did not perhaps intend. His next, June in her Spring, a touching, but slight, account of young love blighted in philistine Australia, reads, although it was published second, like the classic first novel of adolescent agony. Consequently, when City of Spades appeared, one greeted it with a double pleasure; that of reading a good book and that of seeing a talent one had previously believed in, without adequate evidence, come to fruition. (p. 23)
City of...
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In many ways Mr. Colin MacInnes's area has always been something one might call the romance of manners. Whether he is exploring London's coloured world, investigating teenage sub-cultures, venturing into Stevenson country or—as he is doing [in Three Years to Play]—re-creating the Elizabethan underworld, the method has been fundamentally the same. Each time an entire section of society, unfamiliar or misunderstood, is given us in authentic and exuberant detail, all its bizarre customs gaily re-enacted. And into this setting he introduces a requisite range of odd, lively, essentially sketchy characters whose unlikely escapades graft fantasy on to historical or sociological fact. Frequently, his shrewd and...
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[In Three Years to Play Colin MacInnes] has attempted to bring off a major Shakespearean tour de force, and while there is certainly no harm in trying, his effort is crippled from the outset by MacInnes's apparently incurable tendency to fancy himself rather more clever by half than he actually is. It is hard to recall a novel in which the author's delusion of his own excellence is both so apparent and so widely at variance with reality; one gets the feeling that he is waving to himself from every page….
The setting is London, at the end of the sixteenth century, a period of religious turmoil when the air was thick with plot and counterplot, both real and imagined. In a virtuoso performance...
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Colin MacInnes's little known trilogy of London novels comprises vividly composed fictions of the underside of London life. In City of Spades (1957), Absolute Beginners (1959), and Mr. Love and Justice (1960), autonomous fictions linked by a common fifties setting, he creates the milieux of immigrant blacks, of independent teenagers, and of "ponces" (pimps) and police, whose worlds are hidden within a more often fictionalized London. Sympathetic to social underlings, he explores their worlds neither sentimentally nor sensationally; he is thoughtful, satirical, and imaginative—primarily a novelist in command of his fictions rather than a sociologist parading his data.
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The publication of [Out of the Way: Later Essays] by Colin MacInnes (1914–76) reflects a feeling that he may be remembered for his essays in the weekly journals no less than for his novels. He belongs, we like to think, in the tradition of London hacks, "critics of the arts and society", represented by Johnson and Hazlitt, Orwell and Connolly….
[The essays] deal with Gurkhas and Chinese in Britain, with going bail and getting "nicked", rape, gaming-houses and police harassment of blacks. MacInnes is always acting as defending counsel. He hates condemnatory generalizations….
In his essays MacInnes presents himself as a Standard Englishman trying to persuade his fellows...
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Roy Kerridge
[In the essays collected in Out of the Way] there is no trace of 'middle-class prejudices',… [for] the generosity [Colin MacInnes] showed to anyone in difficulties shines through unconsciously….
MacInnes set high standards, and I was not surprised to read, in 'A Kind of Religion', that he was as close to being a Christian as makes no difference. Although he vaguely regarded himself as a Man of the Left, many of MacInnes's essays seem steeped in religious and also patriotic feeling….
[The] book gets off to a shaky start with a long essay on James Baldwin that is almost as turgid as that writer's prose. From then on, the essays improve slowly, until by the time the...
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With his three London novels [City of Spades, Mr Love and Justice, and Absolute Beginners] Colin MacInnes hit on a marvellous subject-matter, into which he saw deeply. In other departments, however, he did not have the qualities to match. The books are consequently a frustrating experience—giving the sense of something thwarted, or half-realised. Taken as a group, indeed, they testify to the author's unease about how best to convey his materials and vision. Each of them has its own distinct, extreme principle of style and/or organisation, while their subject-matter remains extraordinarily uniform. There is very little in common, for example, between the alternating first-person, colloquial narratives...
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First we started with a Saiga .308, it was mentioned numerous times, as well as when we chose the off the shelf match ammo and loaded up hand loads for it on camera, I guess it didn't make the cut, details often don't make it in. And whomever would even think a X39 round is capable of that range is probably not a buyer anyway....
We used a stainless Kreiger 1:10 34" blank, it was chambered with an obermeyer match chamber for Reliable feeding and proper throat for the 168 and 175 grain loads and turned down to ~1" and cut at 24".
The gas system was cut as short as possible and uses a Micro Galil piston, the gas tube is a galil piece that was cut down and integrated into the RSB so it would free float and not touch the FGB.
The FGB is a fully new fabricated unit so the gas piston would not touch.
The Barrel was floated and bedded using a block that was integrated and pressed into and onto both the Trunnion and Receiver (Slips under and past the front trunnion for quite a ways, almost to the mag hole) the free float tube was pressed over that block and screwed to the receiver and Bedding block.
The Barrel was head spaced tight after the bolt locking lugs, bolt face, Trunnion and Barrel face was all parallel ground.
The FCG started as an Off the shelf unit which was redesigned and the sear re-profiled to have a neutral and shorter engagement. It was also setup with adjustable pre-travel and over travel stops. The hammer was lightened and the Heaviest hammer spring I could find was used to bring the lock time down (I think it was an FPK).
The Carrier was fitted to the receiver as tightly as possible and smoothed to ensure function, the recoil spring was a brand new Galil Telescoping unit with a new rear over travel stop in place of the .308 version.
The receiver was boxed for stiffening at the rear with an extra heavy weld-on plate and fitted with a PRS stock.
I would like to develop a set of stiffening rails for the whole receiver but the trunnion and bolt lock up tight as hell.
I think that was about it as far as high points, there was a lot of detail stuff done that only shows up as the guns are built.
The First group shown on TV was actually a 5 round group at 100 yards with one as a flyer (new trigger for the shooter), the 4 were in the one hole to the lower right (about .2 MOA) .After that I guess it is kind of uninteresting for TV to see the groups naturally spread as the distance increased... It's hard to beat Shooting through a windshield ,a back glass and popping a bad guy in the neck and hitting an 8"X10" baggy of SureShot tapped to a propane cylinder right behind him for a demonstration of it's capability. We are not on the Military channel guys, little bitty holes punched in paper at 100,500,800 and 1000 yards are not interesting to most of the world, I am surprised that any of the sight in groups even made it in!


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Comment on Kentucky host announces his retirement
Friday, Feb. 21, 2014
Tonight veteran broadcaster, educator and Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame member Ferrell Wellman will announce his retirement from hosting Comment on Kentucky, KET's longest-running public affairs program. You can watch at 8/7 pm on KET or online at KET.org/live. Wellman was named host of the program in 2008.
"Over the last few months, I had been considering when would be a good time to leave the moderator's chair," Wellman said. "I'm a firm believer in leaving a position a little too early rather than a little late."
Wellman cited a recent knee injury and the need to be away from the program for an extended time while he goes through the rehabilitation process as influencing the timing of his decision.
"Ferrell has continued Comment's tradition of insightful and independent analysis admirably, always displaying the utmost integrity, professionalism and keen understanding of the news stories most greatly impacting our Commonwealth each week," said Shae Hopkins, KET CEO and executive director. "He will be greatly missed, and the entire KET family wishes him a speedy recovery and all the best."
Another veteran broadcaster, Bill Bryant, anchor/managing editor at WKYT in Lexington and host of Kentucky Newsmakers, is currently filling in as interim host.
A native of Pikeville, Wellman earned a bachelor's degree in broadcasting from Eastern Kentucky University and a master's in journalism and mass communication from the University of South Carolina.
Most of Wellman's reporting career was spent with WAVE-TV in Louisville, where he was its Frankfort reporter for more than 16 years. He also taught broadcasting at Eastern Kentucky University. In addition, in 2013 Wellman was inducted into the Kentucky Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame and received the Kentucky MIC award, the organization's most prestigious honor.
"I am thankful to the management at KET for the opportunity to host the program and for their support," Wellman said. "I would also like to thank all of the journalists who appeared on the program for being willing to share their expertise and insight. And most of all, thanks to the loyal viewers for their support."


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Hot off the heels of Prince William and Kate Middleton's one-year anniversary, the Department of Canadian Heritage has announced details of Prince Charles and Camilla's, the Duchess of Cornwall, spring visit to Canada.
The royal couple are slated to visit New Brunswick, Toronto and Saskatchewan during a three-day tour beginning on Victoria Day (May 21). The trip, which is part of the Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee celebrations, will begin at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown in Oromocto, N.B.
This will be the fourth time in four years members of the Royal Family will be in Canada.
"We are delighted that Their Royal Highnesses will join Canadians in celebrating the 60th anniversary of Her Majesty's reign as Queen of Canada," says Heritage Minister James Moore in a release on the Department of Canadian Heritage's site. "We welcome the Royal Couple and look forward to showing them some of the best of what Canada has to offer."
Other plans for the trip include a stop by the Toronto and Saskatchewan legislatures and a stop in Saint John for a Victoria Day celebration. The royal couple will also visit a First Nations University in Regina.
Opportunities for Canadians to see Their Royal Highnesses will be at the following events:
-- Official welcome to Canada at CFB Gagetown in Oromocto on May 21
-- Victoria Day Celebration in Saint John, New Brunswick on May 21
-- Arrival at Queen's Park in Toronto on May 22
-- Arrival at the Saskatchewan Legislature on May 23
-- Arrival at the First Nations University in Regina on May 23
More information can be found online.
Check out some images from Prince William and Kate Middleton's trip to Canada last summer.
Will and Kate wave goodbye to Calgary as they conclude their royal Canadian tour.
William and Kate sign the guest book at the ENMAX Conservatory in Calgary with Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach, left, and Lt. Gov. Donald S. Ethell.
The Duchess of Cambridge meets with Frances Miller as she prepares to leave Calgary with her husband to head to Los Angeles.
Prince William and Catherine view the Portraits of Honour on display at their official departure ceremony in Calgary.
William and Catherine tour the ENMAX Conservatory at the Calgary Zoo.
The Duchess of Cambridge visits the ENMAX Conservatory at the Calgary Zoo.
Will and Kate speak with Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach at the ENMAX Conservatory in Calgary.
The Royals at the Calgary Stampede Parade.
Will and Kate wave to the crowd while at the Calgary Stampede parade.
Will and Kate watch the RCMP march in the Calgary Stampede parade.
The Duke and Duchess watch the beginning of the Calgary Stampede parade.
Prince William arrives in cowboy gear to the Calgary Stampede parade.
Will and Kate push a button to start the Calgary Stampede parade.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge watch a rodeo demonstration at the Calgary Stampede.
The Duchess of Cambridge speaks with a little girl while at the Stampede.
Catherine meets well-wishes and receives flowers at a Government Reception in Calgary.
A view of the Government Reception at the BMO Centre in Calgary.
Will and Kate watch Stampede activities in Calgary at the BMO Centre.
Prince William during a speech at the Calgary Stampede.
Will and Kate watch traditional Calgary Stampede activities.
Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, throws a barrel into the back of a chuckwagon during his visit to the Calgary Stampede on Thursday, July 7, 2011, in Calgary, Alberta.
Prince William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, arrive via stage coach for a reception at the BMO Centre in Calgary, Canada as they continue their Royal Tour of Canada Thursday, July 7, 2011.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, second from right, Prince William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Laureen Harper, left, watch a child sheep ride event at the Stampede in Calgary, Alberta on Thursday, July 7, 2011.
Prince William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper watch dancers while attending a reception at the Calgary Stampede on Thursday, July 7, 2011 in Calgary, Alberta.
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, wear their new Smithbilt cowboy hats as they watch a rodeo demonstration in Calgary, Alberta, July 7, 2011.
Prince William and Kate after a tour of the 21st Century Research and Innovation Centre in Calgary.
Prince William waves from his car with Kate on the eighth day of their Canadian tour.
Prince William and Kate are greeted when arriving at 21st Century Research and Innovation Centre Calgary.
Kate follows her husbands lead and saves the life of a medical test mannequin at the University of Calgary.
Prince William and Kate are shown how to save a life with a medical test mannequin at the University of Calgary's Ward of the 21st Century.
Prince William and Catherine look at a RCMP officer after arriving in Calgary.
Kate's hair doesn't agree with the wind as the Royals land in Calgary for the final stretch of their Canadian tour.
Prince William meets -- or tries to meet -- shy 6-year-old Diamond Marshall in Calgary.
Kate hugs 6-year-old Diamond Marshall in Calgary after arriving.
The Duchess meets with shy 6-year-old Diamond Marshall in Calgary.
The Royals get their photo taken with flight crew members as they arrive in Calgary.
Prince William is presented with a white cowboy hat from Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi.
The Royals land in Calgary for the last Canadian city on their tour of the country.
Prince William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, pose for a photo with members of the Canadian Forces flight crew upon their arrival in Calgary, Alberta on Thursday, July 7, 2011.


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In large part thanks to the internet, environmental activists in Central and Eastern Europe are leading overwhelmingly young and vibrant alternative political movements which are challenging the status quo. Things came to a head during the EU parliamentary elections in June when the new parties from Bulgaria and Hungary presented surprise last-minute candidacies, but not everyone is pleased about the move from activism to politics, as APCNews finds out.
Grass root(er)s: Green e-activists of Eastern Europe enter politics
SOFIA (Pavel Antonov for APCNews) – The greens are growing like weeds in Bulgaria and Hungary and recently ecologists in Bulgaria won yet another battle against a Goliath, preventing the further destruction along the Black Sea coast and high mountains to make way for luxury housing. Campaigns spread like viruses through emailing lists and online networks, and ultimately went to the streets in protest, a testament to the growth of the Green party in these countries.
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LIMA (Jorge Bossio and APCNews) – In Peru companies like Claro or Telefónica ignore rules and regulations when the time comes to sign the contract with the end user. Moreover, they reserve the right to block certain types of internet traffic, like voice over internet, infringing on a principle referred to as "net neutrality". In one of our latest investigations, APC analyses this principle and illustrates it with examples from both Peruvian legislation, as well as the practices of the telecommunications companies in the country.
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UNITED KINGDOM (Computer Aid International) – According to the UN, access to electricity is extremely low in some areas of African countries like Kenya, where only three people out of twenty have power. Schools in rural areas generally have no access to a reliable power source, and other alternatives such as diesel or solar panels are an expensive alternative, and therefore not ideal for IT. In an attempt to provide pragmatic and adapted computing solutions in areas where electricity remains a challenge, Computer Aid International set out to identify what computer solutions were available and appropriate to rural African settings. Download the Computer Aid report to find out more about the five top-scoring low-cost, low-power computers or read more about it online.
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#11 Mon 14 Jul 08 5:06pm
- Forum champ Occupation Newbie Mamma
- From Italy-UK-Spain
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Re: Medieval cooking
there's another Spanish Xativi recepie calle Arnady it's a dessert made of pumpkin and ground almonds, it's very traditional and it dates back to the medieval times http://www.nutricionyrecetas.com/receta … s/6850.htm
#12 Mon 14 Jul 08 5:21pm
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- From Bradford, West Yorks
- Member since Mon 03 Jul 06
Re: Medieval cooking
I've just built a vertical fire basket to go in my big barbeque so I can burn logs and spit roast in front of them, which was the medieval method.
Previously, I have done many spit roasts over the coals (anything up to 120lb pigs) but roasting in front of the fire definitely produces a different taste.
I've also started collecting old recipes - starting with "the forme of curry", which must be the earliest English CookBook.
What is quite startling at times is how modern many of the old recipes sound!
#13 Mon 14 Jul 08 7:05pm
Ms Kira
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- Member since Mon 07 Jul 08
Re: Medieval cooking
I've done no medieval cooking, unless marshmallows in the fireplace counts. I've experienced a bit of medieval torture. Oh, that's called 'dentistry' nowadays.
I really am curious about slow cooking, using spits and smoking and all that. There's just so much flavor to be had from letting something sit a while and soak it all in.
I've just replace the inside parts of my gas grill a couple weeks ago, and now have a second grill I'm considering converting to charcoal and trying some smoking techniques with that. We'll see...
#14 Mon 14 Jul 08 7:17pm
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Re: Medieval cooking
My mom used to have a little cookbook for cooking in the fire place. We bought it in the US and it was based on pioneer recipes.
We never used any of the recipes (as no fireplace), but enjoyed browsing and reading.
Will check this weekend if she still has it.
#15 Mon 14 Jul 08 7:20pm
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I have a thing for medieval and renaissance food, and life. So, yes I have cooked like this before. The food itself comes out to be so yummy, even with minimal spices. I have worked at renaissance fairs and because I am a chef, I helped to produce menus, and I have catered to medieval parties. I just love cooking this way, and wish I had time to cook like this more often. I hope your experience was as great as mine. Much Luck to you!!
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Hi guys,
we in Croatian coast are usually preparing meat, poultry and fish under "peka". What is "peka"? Specially made of clay or cust iron hat which you heat before use on fireplace. Speciality is sucking lamb under "peka".
#17 Tue 15 Jul 08 8:49am
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We were invited once at a medioevo dinnerparty inn a Castello. Low lights, camerieri and giullari with medievo dresses and painted faces, musica dal vivo but but but the sala was too crowded and the tables had a narrow corridor inbetween. No plates, a piadina-like bread to put on different entries. Only a scodella for a soup. No fork, only a knife, no tsp.
When they came with a cinghiale on a big woodden tray and started pasing around to serve everybody, we sow people jump from their seats putting hands on their necks ,,,,,,,
What had happened? The hot sugo had started scorrere from the tagliere di portata directy onto their necks
isn't this a medioeval practice?
soon afterwards everybody had his napkin on his shoulders instead of his legs and a part from the rimborsi for the spoiled giacche e pellicce on the seats everybody went on eating happily
#18 Tue 15 Jul 08 10:55am
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There's an annual medieval festival in a German town called Soest in September (6th & 7th), where people dress up, have a medieval market and serve food prepared in a medieval style: http://www.soest.de/veranstaltungen/hig … 017105.php , http://www.gaudium.schwider.de (both sites are in German)
The town itself is very old and the centre is well preserved with many houses from around 1500, which yields the proper atmosphere for such a festival.
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I saw a recepie once where they wrapped a seasoned side of pork in a 1cm sheet of terracotta and then placed it under coals and kept the temp steady for about 1 or 2 hours then they took it out and the clay was hard they hammered it and the meat was perfectly cooked inside, then they took the top part of the terracotta and the base served as a plate. I think they made it in the times of El Cid!
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Well no experience yet, but i'll review this next week. On sunday we're holding a party, and the main food is hog roast.. ... we have to dig a 7ft by 4ft ditch in the garden, light a huge fire in there for 2 hours before we start cooking, and have to cook for 7-8 hours!
The pig has to be basted for 24 hours (i think we're using the bath, or an empty freezer) then kept cold for another 24 hours... It's a big job!
I'll get back to you all and tell you how it went!


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Nat's bed lol !! :D hbu?
being in sean's car with him or in Nat's bed with him ? ;) ;)
being in sean's car with him or in Nat's bed with him ? ;) ;)klaudiiiiia says (Sep 01, 2011)47Filed Under: Questions
Nat's bed lol !! :D hbu?
Sean's car because i think
Sean's car because i think sean is cuter
no efence nat but sean is cuter
Nats bed of course I just
Nats bed of course I just love him <3
wow everyone on here is ssupppper creepy lol I guess i'd take nat's bed only because I feel like sean is drunk way to often for me to get in the car with him.
I think I'd have to take Nat's bed. That way if I get scared of something, I could sit down next to him and talk.
Nats bed >:} oh al the dirty thoughts come pouring in and suddenly i feel like i should stop thinking before my mind explodes from too much excitement >:}
Nat's bed, but not having sex because my husband would totally get pissed off :) I just think Nat is super cute and it would be interesting to have a conversation with him. Really, Nat's car should be an option.
being in nat's bed would be a tad weird as he's like twice my age. i could just go to cafe with sean.
then again.. can i be in nat's car?


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Thanks Mike. Actually, I wanted to tape it on the top of the cells, not on the bottom, but your concern is well noted. Thanks for the insight.
Thanks Mike. Actually, I wanted to tape it on the top of the cells, not on the bottom, but your concern is well noted. Thanks for the insight.
I always spray a little sugar water on the grid and place it in the hive for 24hrs before queening the box. They will slick up all the old eggs. If they start filling cups with honey, set the box on outside of hive and let them clean it up..then install your queen and place back in the hive.
Before man took over bees there was nature,it did a better job.
>We split our queen rearing hive it will be 15 days ago the same time we tried to get eggs to raise the queens the first time.
Where there drones flying?
> My question is,with that hive being without a queen now for 15 days,will they still raise queens if we put four day old larvae in there now or do we need to make another hive queenless to raise the queens ?
You made them queenless 15 days ago. I would expect a laying queen in about 9 more days. She probably emerged about five days ago and you just haven't seen her. Giving them eggs and larvae is good insurance if you are worried. It they are indeed queenless (which I doubt) they will start queen cells.
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Mr. Bush,yes there are drones.We made the hive queenless with no brood or eggs to rear queens from a nicot system.They only have bees ,honey,and pollan.The first round of trying to make queens we only gave them fresh eggs. The bees are now without a queen for 15 days,we now have 4 day larvae,will the still raise the queens ?
Before man took over bees there was nature,it did a better job.
What I do when my cell builder's bees begin growing too old for typical nurse bee duties: Move the box to a previously unoccupied location, add more nurse bees by shaking them from other colonies (make sure not to get any queens - an excluder can help with that). Add frames of emerging worker brood, the emerging brood soon become nurse bees. I prefer doing all of the above, if the resources are available. Relocating the hive will soon eliminate many of the older bees, which have become foragers. They will go out to forage and then return to the old location. Once they are gone there will be more room for additional nurse bees. The concentration of nurse bees and availability of quality food are two of the most important ingredients for growing exceptional queen cells.
As concerns the Nicot system. It is way too easy to raise queens using several other techniques that require no gear of any kind. And grafting is way too easy, even for me, and I'm nearly blind, and have a pinched nerve in my neck that causes my hands to spasm.
Now, if someone would like to donate any of these kits, I'll be happy to try them.
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One problem with Nicot, Jentner or similar systems is the queen is reluctant to lay in plastic cups. In theory, if you come back in 24 hours there should be eggs. Maybe, Maybe not.
I find that spraying the cage with sugar syrup helps. The bees clean up the syrup and leave the cell "polished" and the queen usually starts laying in 12 hours or so.
I used to spray the cage and install it for polishing, then come back the next day to install the queen. But I found I can eliminate the added trip by installing the queen directly into the wet cage.
Several other tips:
1. Unless you know there is a flow on, feed, feed, feed.
2. Do not transfer eggs. The larvae must have hatched.
3. The closer you know the age of the larvae, the better. Others may not agree with me but I try to transfer the youngest larvae I can.
4. I base my calendar on the assumption the queen starts laying in 12 hours. Can't prove this but it usually works. So if the queen is installed in the afternoon, I assume she starts laying the next morning. If I install in the morning, I assume she starts laying that afternoon or evening.
5. It requires some experience to guess how young the larvae are. Sometimes there will be both eggs and small larvae. This means the larvae are really young. I assume they are 12 hours or less. If I inspect and find only eggs, I come back the next day and will find larvae. I assume they are 12 to 24 hours old.
6. 36 hour old larvae is the oldest you should use. I try to stay under 24 hours for a margin of safety.
There are many systems of "starting" and "finishing" the cells. Search other threads to get tips on those parts of the process. The cage is just the first step. I use it instead of grafting because my eyesight is not that great and I have a tremor in my hands (all the males in my family have this to some extent or other.)
Good Luck
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>We made the hive queenless with no brood or eggs to rear queens from a nicot system.
I'm not clear on the exact sequence of events. Here is my calendar for the Jenter/Nicot:
>They only have bees ,honey,and pollan.The first round of trying to make queens we only gave them fresh eggs.
I'm not sure I follow. You got the queen to lay in the box? You gave eggs to them to get them to draw queens? Eggs do not work. They will only use larvae and only freshly hatched larvae. They will remove eggs.
> The bees are now without a queen for 15 days,we now have 4 day larvae,will the still raise the queens ?
Now you have the issue that there are no nurse bees as there is no larvae. I would give them some open brood first for a day so they can get back into feeding larvae and there will be some nurse bees. Then put the queen cells next to the open brood so the nurse bees will be there.
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My thanks to all.
Before man took over bees there was nature,it did a better job.
Another way to quickly add nurse bees, is to open the receiving hive by removing its cover, then cover most of it's top with a cloth, leaving a gap a few inches wide somewhere, where bees being added can enter the hive. If you shake bees from other donor hives onto this cloth, the field bees will quickly take flight and return to their original location, all nurse/house bees will remain. They are easily accepted by their new colony and I've never had them cause trouble for a resident queen. But be sure not to overlook a queen that may be introduced this same way, that's almost assured to cause trouble.
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I had great luck with this system. I put in all of the cups and my queen filled out most of all of them. I only had room for 20 cell cups so I picked the ones with the most royal jelly in them. I also used the cloake board to make a starter hive and a finisher hive. This worked very well and I checked today to see how many queen cells were capped. 18/20!!!! yup that s 90% for my first time. I'm having to make nuc boxes to hold that many.
Good luck, this system works very well coupled with a cloake board for drawing them out.
What is the trick here folks?
Sounds like they couldn't reach enought stores they can die with honey on the ends of the frames when it gets cold they tighten up and not being able to access stores.


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Can you identify the Code violation(s) in this photo?
There is no conduit. All exposed wire in the living space must be inside conduit.
For one, that is a double meter socket without the meters installed. If the holes are not "covered" (it's hard to tell) then that means that there are exposed live, bare, terminals and stabs. If they are covered I'm sure that the closures are not "listed". The enclosure is designed to be mounted horizontilly by the manufacturer not vertically. The threaded hub on what should be the top has been removed and cables that should most surely be in conduit enter the enclosure with not even so much as a bushing and they do not appear to be supported in any fashion nor does the cable that exits the bottom (or would it be the side?) of the box. I'm ptretty sure you could reach right through that massive opening and grab ahold of those lugs inside too. That might ruin your day though.


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For decades, as it has with other court orders, the Maine Department of Corrections has apparently been breaching a 1973 federal court's decree that forbids disciplinary solitary confinement at the Maine State Prison beyond 10 days for minor offenses, or 30 days for major ones.
Nowadays inmates being punished sometimes are kept for months or even years in the psychologically destructive solitary-confinement cells of the 100-man "Supermax" or Special Management Unit of the Warren prison (ironically, given the harshness of solitary, some prisoners are put there to protect them from other inmates). Reformers currently are asking the Legislature to set a 45-day limit on Supermax detention.
The 36-year-old "consent decree," recently discovered by the Phoenix, resulted from a lawsuit (Inmates of the Maine State Prison v. Mullaney) brought against Garrell Mullaney, at the time the warden of the prison, which was then located in Thomaston. A consent decree is a judge's approval of a settlement contract between parties — in this case, between the state and the inmates — and turns the agreement into an order of the court.
Thomas Benjamin, the lawyer who brought the suit for the inmates when he worked for the legal-services organization Pine Tree Legal Assistance, said in a telephone interview from his retirement home in Florida that he felt state officials could still be bound by the consent decree, though he assumed, if anyone sued to enforce it, the state would fight its enforcement based on changes in laws and new court decisions. Maine's attorney general, Janet Mills, had not responded by deadline with her view of the consent decree's validity.
The decree also requires the prison to observe elaborate procedures in dealing with inmate disciplinary violations and to decide within 48 hours if prisoners will be criminally prosecuted for a serious offense. Some inmates have claimed they have been thrown in the Supermax (also called "segregation") with little or no due process and languish for long periods there before they know if they will be charged with a crime. The consent decree additionally spells out inmate rights in the prison's handling of mail and the receipt of literature.
Paul Thibeault, a veteran Pine Tree attorney, recalled that as early as 1983 a federal judge found in a class-action lawsuit that Thibeault had brought on behalf of solitarily confined inmates that the 1973 consent decree had been, in the judge's words, "flagrantly ignored" by officials.
Besides trying to force Corrections to limit solitary-confinement stays, Benjamin and other reform-minded lawyers and activists of the 1970s succeeded in getting laws passed by the Legislature that extended other rights to prisoners — such as, for those in solitary confinement, the right of the "the prison physician or the consulting psychiatrist" unilaterally to terminate isolation if a prisoner's mental or physical health required it. Legislators repealed that law in the 1980s.
Other inmate rights won in response to prisoner mistreatment of that earlier era have been reversed by laws or ignored by officials. In the 1970s two federal consent decrees conferred on prisoners the rights to be interviewed by reporters and write letters to them complaining about prison conditions. These decrees have frequently been disregarded when officials found it convenient to do so, though the state admits they haven't been superseded. A number of attorneys have told the Phoenix that 1970s' consent decrees are still valid (see "Maine Prison Bosses Violate Court Orders," by Lance Tapley, June 27, 2007).
In addition to taking the state to court, Benjamin during this period coauthored with Thomas Lux, a Rockland psychologist, several law-review articles that were among the earliest describing the psychological devastation caused by, and shaky legal status of, solitary confinement. In one article they concluded with a quote from author Garry Wills describing America's treatment of its prisoners as "psychic incineration of our fellow citizens, subtler and more gradual than Nazi extermination of prisoners, but inexorable."
And that was before the first high-tech supermax had been built. The old Thomaston prison's segregation unit had only 31 cells and, unlike the Warren Supermax, was not always full. Across the country supermaxes now house at least 25,000 prisoners.Bill limiting solitary confinement firmed up
Representative James Schatz's bill to restrict the use of isolation has been all but finalized in negotiations among Schatz, members of the grass-roots Maine Coalition Against the Abuse of Solitary Confinement, and State House bill drafters. Schatz, of Blue Hill, a former corrections officer in Colorado, is a Democrat on the Criminal Justice Committee, which will hold the hearing on the bill during the legislative session beginning in January.
Alysia Melnick, an attorney and lobbyist for the Maine Civil Liberties Union, reported to a December 12 coalition meeting that she's hopeful prominent legislators will sign on as cosponsors. Outside-the-State-House support also is emerging. The Bangor Daily News recently editorialized in favor of "serious consideration" of the bill, suggesting solitary confinement may encourage an inmate's return to crime after he's released.
The bill outlaws solitary for seriously mentally ill prisoners, prohibits any prisoner being kept in the Supermax beyond 45 days unless he had tried to escape or committed an act of sexual assault or other violence, and sets up a hearing, appeal, and inmate-evaluation process.
In the Supermax, prisoners undergo 23-hour-a-day isolation, aren't allowed television or radios, and cell lights are always on. The many mentally ill Supermax inmates often throw feces at guards, cut themselves, and ram their heads against cell walls. Suicide attempts are common, and some succeed. The Supermax regularly drives sane inmates into mental illness.
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Boxer: Protesters too well dressed to be sincere
posted at 10:55 am on August 5, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) appeared on Hardball last night in support of the Left's attempt to discredit the people showing up to townhalls in protest of ObamaCare. Boxer says she can tell that they're fakes, because they're too well dressed. How does she know that this is a problem? Because well-dressed people apparently told her to get the hell out of Florida in the Bush-Gore recount, too:
That explanation is a classic. If it's true at all, she probably stunned the Floridians with the sheer stupidity of her non-sequitur. Ronald Reagan would not have gone into Florida to tell them how to conduct their recount; he had too much respect for state sovereignty in those issues. I almost laughed out loud when Boxer trotted that out on national TV.
On her main point, we've hosted the videos here at Hot Air. In my recollection, the people in the town halls are dressed in T-shirts, jeans, shorts, halter tops, and the like. Maybe the people need to strip down to their Boxers in order to be considered sincere.
Brian Walsh, communications director of the NRSC, responds to Boxer's weird bout of sartorial paranoia:
"When you consider that Barbara Boxer considers Code Pink and MoveOn.org protestors to be 'her base,' it's understandable that a Senator representing the left wing fringe would be confused when ordinary Americans engage in free speech. But the fact of the matter is that across the country, Americans of all backgrounds are standing up and saying 'no' to the Democrats spending and health-care takeover proposals."
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