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The new edition of Private Eye arrives. It offers a rather wonderful collection of journalistic bad predictions regarding the US Presidential election. A brief digest:
In 1 January 2007, Tim Hames of the Times predicted that Barack Obama would decide not to run for president. A month later he wrote that "the Democrats might was well nominate Kermit the Frog" and promised to eat a copy of his article with a dash of tabasco sauce if Obama won.
That September Tony Harnden, US editor at the Telegraph, predicted a sweeping win for Hillary Clinton in the primaries, Rudy Giuliani gaining the Republican nomination (with McCain not even contesting it) followed by a victory for Hillary in the general election. At least he got the right party, unlike Bruce Anderson who last New Year's Eve wrote in the Independent that Hillary would be defeated by Mitt Romney (anyone remember him?).
Into 2008 and it doesn't get much better, with Janet Daley asserting that "for all the inspirational value of his candidacy, Obama will not win the presidency" and William "Mystic" Rees-Mogg intoning that "the actual contest is most likely to be Clinton-Huckabee". Daley was holding to the same line in June. "If anything, the events of the past few days have confirmed my view...[Obama's] coalition of the young, the urban liberal and the black community has already maxed out and is going nowhere".
Anatole Kaletsky in the Times (April): "This election has all the makings of a Greek tragedy...If there was ever an election the Democrats ought to win this is the one. Yet on the basis of the primary results so far tehy are all too likely to lose it."
Even Simon Schama - who has been beating the drum for Obama for months and whose recent TV series only made any sense on the assumption of a Democrat victory - apparently told the Radio Times in September that "I think McCain will win" - momentarily, I assume, he was swept away by the evanescent Palin effect.
These people could set up as astrologers. But did the Heresiarch do any better?
On 21 Feb I wrote that Obama "has the Democrat nomination (almost) in the bag" and that "None of the mud will stick." I also commented - long before the banking crisis really got going - that "Today, with the world economy facing potential crisis, we need a figure at the helm exuding optimism and belief. Depression is, after all, a condition of the mind."
On 4th June, shortly after Obama secured the nomination, I wrote as follows
So the result in November is in the balance, despite the less-than-inspiring choice of John McCain - by far their best candidate - by the Republicans. Obama repels almost as many people as he inspires. But inspirational he undoubtedly is. It may be all he is, or most of what it he is, but it could just be enough.
Of course, I was all at sea over Sarah Palin. But then who wasn't - or isn't?
Speculation is already rife about 2012, with Palin dropping heavy hints that she'd be up for a shot at the top job. The pre-emptive strike by the Republican old guard, accusing her of sabotaging the McCain campaign by behaving "like a diva" and not knowing that Africa was a continent, has clearly backfired by giving her the opportunity to burnish her most attractive selling point: her status as an outsider taking on the party establishment. And after all, those same party hacks now bad-mouthing her are the very people who plucked her from obscurity and decided, without properly vetting her, that she would be the ideal running mate. Hardly surprising that she bought into their initial over-estimation of her talents. And now they even want her clothes back.
It should never be forgotten that Sarah Palin worked her way up from a local council seat to state governorship in little more than a decade, an achievement so startling that it might well be attributed to divine intervention. Isolated from the rest of the United States, Alaska has something of the feel of an independent country - and one with twice the population of Iceland. She might well look upon the White House as just the next logical progression in her inevitable God-ordained rise.
That's why I don't believe she is likely to accept the offers she has apparently been getting to become a talk show host, any more than she will be taking up the opportunity to star in a porn film ($2 million for her, new snowmobile for putative co-star Todd). Even with her irreducible self-belief she must realise that the interview format is not one that best shows off her talents. It's true that the domestic feature run by Fox News to accompany their sympathetic chat with her suggests that la famille Palin would make terrific car-crash TV, but few people would vote for Ozzie Osbourne. And power, rather than fame, is what drives her.
Does she have any chance in 2012? Of the nomination, yes: parties who have suffered a bad defeat often collapse into pessimism and self-loathing, as the Tories did after 1997, and fall back on the hard-core support. It's no long-term solution, of course, and die-hard supporters don't swing elections. The more intelligent Republicans - including McCain himself, before he was captured by the party hacks - realise that reclaiming the party of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt (and, indeed, Reagan) from the religious nutters will be the first vital step back towards political relevance. But knowing something and making it happen are two different things. Furthermore, if Barack Obama doesn't screw up spectacularly - or if the chill winds of recession don't bring him undeserved unpopularity - he should win re-election fairly comfortably in 2012. So it really won't matter who the Republican candidate is and weightier candidates might not even bother to run. In such an atmosphere, Sarah Palin might just find herself standing opposite President Obama in the next series of presidential debates.
It would be almost too painful to watch.
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
Presidential Predictions
The new edition of Private Eye arrives. It offers a rather wonderful collection of journalistic bad predictions regarding the US Presidential election. A brief digest:
Posted by Heresiarch at 4:50 pm
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Backing Bam for 2012 I see? long long way off, but my initial thoughts is this is an election to lose, whatever Bam does he will make it worse, so unless he can learn to do as little as possible, I think the unpopularity will be deserved.
Remember American has projected its hopes on to him and he has not enlightened them on which ones are false and which ones are his too. I can see a fall coming, he may be a Blair but this is not a Blair era.
PJO has some interesting things to say about all things conservative this week. I think the hunger for power will point the GOP in his direction. I hope.
- 12 November 2008 at 18:15
- The Heresiarch said...
I don't think he's a Blair, but no doubt we will find out soon enough. Yes, of course expectations have been absurdly inflated: but I think, by and large, we're talking about media expectations, rather than the expectations of ordinary voters, who I suspect are much less carried away.
It's to Obama's advantage that the recession will already be fairly deep by the time he takes office. So he won't be blamed for causing it - which is one reason Gordon Brown can take no comfort from America's imagined "leftward turn".
But yes, of course it's too early to tell.
As for PJ O'Rourke: great writer, but he's more Jeremy Clarkson than Simon Jenkins, isn't he?
- 12 November 2008 at 18:59
>s for PJ O'Rourke: great writer, but he's more Jeremy Clarkson than Simon Jenkins, isn't he?
No, he isn't. He has made sure that he understands politics and economics before making jokes about them; and he makes sure that his jokes make a point. Try reading the article linked to by your commenter. Especially the bit about the bathroom scale.
- 13 November 2008 at 09:42
- WeepingCross said...
It's a brilliant article, so brilliant you don't notice it makes next to no sense (not no sense at all, just almost none). I - and this, at least, is relevant to the Heresiarch's post - have heard too often pundits opining that an event is the death of this or the end of that, the demise of a country or the last gasp of an ideology. It usually isn't. Sometimes it is, but when it is nobody has commonly seen it coming at all. The truth is that none of us knows what the hell is going on, and when we get it right it's by accident.
- 13 November 2008 at 11:46
- WeepingCross said...
Which is, of course, the best argument there could be for limited government.
- 13 November 2008 at 11:47
- simon8 said...
Her big problem is that the fans of the hard religious right top out at about 40% of the electorate and it's hard to see where she'd get the rest. Given that Obama seems set to govern from the centre and won't be bothered by an internal challenge from Hillary Clinton, things would have to be very very bad for an ethically challenged Fundamentalist/Populist to even get through the nomination process. The economic conservatives who are tired of all the social conservatism would likely back Romney. Many pundits here are putting up Religious conservatives like Jindal and Huckabee but the electorate isn't as socially conservative as even ten years ago and in 4 years there will be another crop of young voters raised on The Simpsons and South Park and Harry Potter who will be more interested in how they are going to pay for college than a Theocratic definition of how the country should be run.
- 25 November 2008 at 03:40


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'Nine/Twelve Tapes' - Theater for the New City
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Description: "Nine/Twelve Tapes" (world premiere) script arranged by Leegrid Stevens from post-9/11 interviews, directed by Ryan Pointer. Cabaret Theater - Wednesday, August 31 at 7:00PM; Thursday, September 1 at 9:00PM; Friday, September 2 at 9:00PM; Saturday, September 3 at 7:00PM; Sunday, September 4 at 7:00PM. Running time: 90 minutes | Tickets $15. While September 11, 2001 will forever be a day of national tragedy, September 12, 2001 was a day of national confusion, shock and fear. On that day and the days to follow, one young man grabbed a simple audio recorder and hit the streets - compelled to speak with strangers about the attacks. The resulting interviews have been re-created in the nine/twelve tapes just as they were recorded. Using analog equipment and an ensemble of actors, each of these accounts is brought to life with all the background noise and immediacy of those days intact. Equal parts time-capsule and public memoir, the nine/twelve tapes give voice to the national psyche and show us the start of our own recovery. Leegrid Stevens' plays have been seen in downtown New York theatres such as HERE Arts Center, Lark Theatre, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, Theatre for the New City, Altered Stages, and Spring Theatreworks' Dumbo space as well as several theatres across the US and Europe. His plays have been published by Playscripts, Brooklyn Publishers, Smith & Kraus, Stage Tribes, and by NY Theatre Experience. Plays include "The Dudleys!," presented at the Dream Up Festival and winner of Talkin' Broadway 2010 Citation for Outstanding New Play, "The Twelfth Labor," developed at the Lark Theatre's Playwright's Week, "Post-Oedipus," "Leda's Swan," "Echo's Longing," "Still Life With Runner" and "Theme & Variations." Stevens was named as one of the "People of the Year" by nytheatre.com in 2005 which caqlled him, "Indisputably one of the smartest and most innovative young playwright/directors working in New York's Indie theatre scene." He is a graduate of Columbia's School of the Arts. Ryan Pointer wants to bring this important project to the masses as we near the 10 year anniversary of 911. Originally from Texas, he has produced and directed a wide variety of projects there including acclaimed productions of Shakespeare's R&J by Joe Calarco, "Proof" by David Auburn, the dance musical "Swing!," Steve Martin's adaptation of "The Underpants" and "Amadeus" by Peter Shaffer.

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Animal control officers confiscated 40 animals, including a kinkajou, a chinchilla and a tarantula, from a Pasadena home Thursday, authorities said. The animals were taken nearly a month after five raccoons and skunks were taken from the same home for rabies testing.
The five animals taken Aug. 31 tested negative, according to Anne Arundel County Animal Control Administrator Robin Small, but authorities remained concerned about the number and welfare of animals in the house.
County police said that other animals confiscated Thursday included two dogs, a cat, two turtles, seven birds, four chickens, a goat, apig, three snakes, 12 aquatic animals, three geese and a duck. A dead rabbit and several dead quail were also removed from the property, authorities said.
Many of the animals in the house lacked food, water and adequate shelter, according to county police. Animal control officers are now working with rescue groups to find homes for the surrendered animals, authorities said.
Small said the Aug. 31 investigation into the home in the 8000 block of Lockwood Road began with an anonymous tip. The resident surrendered several animals after the first visit, police said, but then obtained more afterward.
Owning skunks and raccoons is illegal because of their potential for carrying rabies, Small said.
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On the anniversary of the '87 hurricane I walk appropriately perhaps towards Two Storm Wood in Richmond Park. The afternoon is bright mild and breezy but the wind is nowhere near as strong as it was during that damaging event a quarter of a century ago.
Within a copse, tree stumps lean at an angle northeast, having bowed before the gale, many sprouting a variety of fungi breaking down the crumbling timber. As jackdaws 'chak-chak', a red admiral skims overhead and stepping over a puddle I notice a bright green bush-cricket struggling in the water. Rescuing the insect, it leaps gratefully from my finger tip into the herbage.
Topping a gentle rise I see below vast herds of red and fallow deer, mostly sitting loafing in the sun. Despite the fact that this is the peak of the rutting season, all seems relatively calm and tension-free.
Occasionally a stag rouses himself to half-heartedly chase off a rival, mincing along like a horse at dressage. A fallow buck utters his coughing-burp and wanders around seeking receptive does.
A large flock of starlings scans the grass while some perch on the backs of deer picking off insects. Every few minutes the flock rises at some unknown signal, completes a couple of circuits then settles back in exactly the same spot.
Down at Beverley brook a noble stag (pictured) surveys his huge harem numbering fifty seven hinds varieties!
In the distance, mobbed by starlings, a red kite circles lazily, clearly venturing eastwards beyond his usual M40 corridor patch.
There are so many sights and sounds to savour in such a wonderful location.


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Smoking First Thing In The Morning Is Killing You
If lighting up is part of your morning routine, you are speeding up the process toward your inevitably dirt nap.
If lighting up is part of your morning routine, you are speeding up the process toward your inevitably dirt nap.
Ritz Crackers hold the top spot for the second year in a row as Americas favorite snack, beating out Doritos and Lay's. I thought I liked Ritz as much as the next person, but apparently not because I would never have guessed it to be America's favorite! Would you?
The number of breast reduction surgeries in America is going through a dramatic increase, and the surprising patients are teenagers.
Almost half of America is choosing Cremation over burial now after their ticket is punched. Funeral homes are making adjustments to accommodate, but what is the motivation for the spike in Cremations?
Everyday we download and share tons of personal information right from the palm of our hand. That may change though, as people are starting to become a little more aware of just how much personal information is shared.
It turns out that not even the Tooth Fairy is immune to a poor economy.
According to a new survey kids are now getting an average of $3 per tooth lost.
Internet addiction is a fairly new problem, but it's growing fast, and it already effects 16% of people online right now.
Studies show that Internet addicts share a lot of the same traits as smokers, and that genetics may play a role.
It turns out that combining Doritos and Taco Bell was a pretty good idea, considering it has become their biggest debut ever!
You'll be amazed at just how popular the Doritos Loco Taco is.


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|FoCuSeD™ Leader - Lessons for Collaborative Leaders | Class Abstract | 4 days
Trainer: Gary Rush, IAF CPF
"Facilitating consensus-building in developing strategies is important to gain engagement, support, and commitment, while knowing that emergencies require decisive action, leaving little or no time for consensus-building, is also important."
This 4-day highly interactive class uses lessons from Facilitation Skills to develop Collaborative Leadership - the Leadership Model of the Future. Set in the context of lessons from Facilitators - the ultimate in Collaborative Leadership - you will learn "how to" enable the people you lead by providing the right structured processes and Leader tools, and then empower them by forming them into a team and trusting in their wisdom. You will also learn "how to" harness the power and wisdom of your team. This class explores the theories and ideas that enable you to become a Collaborative Leader while understanding the continuum from a Command and Control Style of Leadership to a Facilitative Style of Leadership and how both styles apply. This class is ideal for all who want to inspire collective action through Collaborative Leadership. Read Why We Need Leaders by Gary Rush, IAF CPF - ("Why We Need Leaders", Realizing Leadership, Issue 1 November 2012).
"A genuine Leader is not a seeker of consensus but a molder of consensus." - Dr. Martin Luther King
MGR Consulting, Inc., offers organizations the opportunity to license The FoCuSeD™ Leader class and deliver this class internally. Note: The organization is licensed and students of this class certified to teach The FoCuSeD™ Leader class within the organization to their internal people only. Please contact Gary for additional information, pricing, and scheduling.
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BRADENTON - Two days have gone by and still no answers as to who set three vacant mobile homes on fire in the Aloha Estates community in Bradenton. All three fires happened within hours of each other Saturday.
The investigation is now in the hands of the state fire marshal's office. It's a case that residents want wrapped up quickly before another mobile home goes up in flames.
"We don't know who did this. We have no clue. We just have to wait and see," says Aloha estates manager Manuel Aldana.
That wait-and-see mode has many of the 500 residents at Aloha Estates growing impatient.
Aldana returned to work Monday, trying to put out fires by easing those concerns as best he can. "I can just say to them that things happen. You just have to move on and contunue your life."
It's not that easy, says John Dequinzio, a resident at Aloha for the last 13 years. "I'm just a little nervous about going to sleep at night. I keep looking out my window to see if I can spot any characters that I have not seen before."
This is the first time Dequinzio has seen a crime like this happen at Aloha Estates, which is located near the intersection of 14th Street West and 53rd Avenue West. He has a message for the person or people responsible. "I hope they catch you before you kill somebody, burn someone up in one of those trailers. I don't know what state of mind this person is in that would do something like this."
Anyone with information on these arsons is asked to call 877-NO-ARSON. Cash rewards are being offered to anyone with tips that can lead authorities to an arrest.
Altogether, around $40,000 in damages was done in the fires, according to authorities. We are told all three trailers are owned by the park, and people have not been living in them for years.


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Miss Mexico Wins Miss Universe Pageant (PHOTOS)
Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete is the new Miss Universe, taking down the prized tiara-and-sash combo at the time-honored pageant in Las Vegas, Nevada Monday night. The 22-year-old from Guadalajara stunned in a flowing crimson one-shoulder "evening gown" – and she wasn't too shabby in the bikini arena either, edging out some of the most diesel bodies in, well, the universe (ahem, Miss Finland.) Co-host Bret Michaels was a lucky man!
Click here for more photos of Jimena's "Did I really win?!" moment and other eye candy from the Miss Universe pageant. Are you bowing down to the new Miss Universe? Weigh in via the comments.


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Get Yourself Connected (and Stay Connected)
(This is for non-XP people.)
Those of us with modems know that in order to get connected, we have to click on the dial-up icon to get the "connect to" box, then click on the connect button and wait for computer to dial and connect.
What if there was a way to get rid of the "connect to" box and go straight to dialing the Internet? There is!
To do this, go to Start, Settings, then Control Panel. The Control Panel will open up with many different options. Double-click your dial-up networking folder, right click on the dial-up icon and click Properties.
With your properties box open, click on the Security tab. There is a check box about half way down that says "Connect Automatically." Put a check in that box and you're done. That's all you have to do.
Although while you are here how would you like to make your computer STOP disconnecting just because you walk away from it?
Go to the Dialing tab, find the check box close to the bottom that says "Enable Idle Disconnect" and uncheck it.
That's it! Your computer will now start dialing the Internet whenever you click on your dial-up icon, mail, Internet explorer or any link. And now you can walk away for more than 2 minutes without it going offline.
Happy surfing!
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In an age of social media and transitory geographical living, the art of the dinner party is quickly becoming lost. Baring extraordinary circumstances, Andrew and I have a few friends over for dinner at least once a week. What started out as a chaotic mad-house in a kitchen with literally zero counter space and no dishwasher has become something of a methodical science. We begin three hours before guests are scheduled to arrive by de-cluttering and cleaning the apartment. By the two hour mark, we begin cooking, although our kitchen is so small that only one of us can be in it at a time while the other continues to clean. Our performance has definitely improved over time, as what was originally so chaotic when guests began to arrive has now settled into an evening everyone really enjoys.
The keys to any good dinner party are good food, excellent drinks, and great guests. The food is a topic for another day, but suffice to say that Italian is always on the menu. Our drinks have become more elaborate over the past few months as we've experienced wider variety of whiskys. We usually begin with two or three bottles of wine and then have an after-dinner drink once we've settled into a game of cribbage. Of course, we have plenty of non-alcoholic drinks as well. Andrew is somewhat famous for his tea, and the guests always love to watch him seep it to the exact second before removing the leaves. We also serve plenty of mystic monk coffee, which also serves as a conversation piece.
The guests, obviously, are the most important part of any dinner party. We try, as much as possible, to have diversity of conversation throughout the evening, something which is much easier when the guests have diverse backgrounds, occupations, and religions. For example, if we invite all law students, we end up talking about the law all evening, something which can grow burdensome when you consider the fact that most of us have just finished studying for the day. If we invite eight people over (which is how many our tiny living room can accommodate), we always make sure that there are at least three guests who help us with this respect; three non-law students, three non-Catholics, three non-tech people, etc. This makes the discussion much more interesting. We are also sure to always invite a priest, as I'm pretty positive that the food at a rectory is not good and because we always need someone to bless the food.
A good dinner party is a reflection of the heavenly banquet. There are times, after a glass of wine and a great meal, when the conversation is so good and people are having so much fun that I get just a sliver of a foretaste of what that amazing banquet will be like. Those are the moments that make all the cleaning and cooking absolutely worthwhile.
More posts to come on cooking later in the week. . .


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PLAYER OF THE YEAR: BEN CUEVAS, Marshall, Senior, Forward
The goal for the recently completed soccer season was not necessarily to score goals. The goal was to win games.
"The focus was to win," Marshall High School's Ben Cuevas said. "It was about being around the team and not just one player."
The senior forward did not have eye-popping statistics this season. But he helped the Eagles to eye-popping results, and that earned him Player of the Year honors.
"Everybody had something different and that came through in the games," Cuevas said. "We did not have a game-changer that was one player. For me it was winning anyway possible, If it was by an assist then so be it."
Cuevas scored 10 goals and had 16 assists. But more importantly, the Eagles reached the CIF-Southern Section Division V title game for the first time. They played Baldwin Park to a scoreless tie, but lost the championship on penalty kicks.
"For me just to make it to that final, that was our mind-set from beginning," he said.
"We had more bonds than ordinary. We were close to each other as a team and that helped us to get where we finished."
Cuevas was a defender until reaching high school.
"They told me I was on wing because they saw me as a good scorer," he recalled. "I'd be an important part of the offense. It was not hard to change."
MIKE WILLIAMS, Monrovia
Many overlooked Monrovia as a serious threat to overthrow La Canada as the Rio Hondo League champion. But Wildcats coach Mike Williams was confident his team could contend for the title.
"We played these tough preleague games to get ready," Williams said early in the season.
The Wildcats defeated, and then tied favorite La Canada and then knocked off South Pasadena, also one of the favorites, twice. Monrovia went 18-3-6, went unbeaten in league and earned the No. 2 seed in the CIF-Southern Section Division V playoffs. They lost to Diamond Bar in the second round on penalty kicks.
Williams completed his ninth season as Monrovia with his second league title; his first was in 2009. The Wildcats have advanced to the CIF-SS playoffs in each of those years.
JAKE ANDERSON, St. Francis, Sophomore, Midfielder
The Golden Knights played in arguably one of the toughest leagues in the CIF-Southern Section. Anderson had six goals and eight assists to earned All-Mission League first-team honors. St. Francis finished fourth in league play.
AUSTIN GARTSIDE, La Canada, Senior, Defender
Gartside was the All-Rio Hondo League's defensive MVP and was an All-CIF first-team selection. He scored four goals and had five assists. He helped the Spartans to second place in league play. The Spartans' last five victories of the season were all by shutout.
HEVEN GOMEZ, South Pasadena, Senior, Forward
The senior got off to a big start, helping the Tigers go unbeaten in their first eight games. He finished with 24 and 10 assists. He scored on nearly 33 percent of his chances. The Tigers finished 16-5-1 and in third place in the Rio Hondo League.
JOSE HEREDIA, Maranatha, Junior, Forward
There was one go-to player on the Minutemen: Heredia. He had 25 goals and seven assists, more than double the points of his nearest teammate. He led Maranatha, which took second in the Olympic League, in both scoring and assists.
BRENDAN HILDRETH, Pasadena, Sophomore, Forward
The forward put the spark in the Bulldogs' offense. Pasadena was in the hunt for the Pacific League title until the final games, getting upset by Crescenta Valley and tying Arcadia to finish one point behind first-place Burroughs. The Bulldogs did defeat CIF-SS Division 5 finalist Marshall in a nonleague game. They reached the second round of the playoffs.
JOSE MADEROS, Duarte, Senior, Forward
The Falcons ran into a buzz saw in Sierra Vista, which went unbeaten in Montview League play. Duarte took second, mostly behind the play of Maderos. He had a team-high 11 goals and three assists. The Falcons, who went 11-3 in league play, were knocked out in the first round of the playoffs.
IAN McKNIGHT, Pasadena Poly, Senior, Defender
The Panthers won the Prep League title with defense. They won four games and tied four games, three of the ties at 1-1 and the other a scoreless game. McKnight was the league's defensive MVP. Poly had seven shutouts and reached the second round of the CIF-SS playoffs.
ALEX PALMA, Marshall, Junior, Forward
Palma gave the Eagles a 1-2 punch en route to their first CIF-SS championship game appearance. He had 15 goals and seven assists. He had the Eagles' most goals and mot points. Marshall scored four goals or more nine times this season.
MICHAEL QUINTERO, Marshall, Senior, Goalkeeper
The Eagles reached their first CIF-SS Division V finals behind solid net play. Quintero had 11 shutouts, including stopping eventual champion Baldwin Park in the Division V title game, for the Eagles to lose on penalty kicks. Quintero had 108 saves on the season.
ANTONIO ROSAS, Monrovia, Senior, Forward
The Wildcats had plenty of offensive weapons. Rosas had eight goals, which was not the team's most. He did lead the team in assists, with 10. He impressed the Rio Hondo League coaches, earning offensive MVP honors.
CONNOR SAMS, Monrovia, Senior, Defender
The Wildcats may have been plenty of offensive weapons, but there was one stopper on the defense: Sams. He rarely led a ball get behind him. He also took the Wildcats' free kicks. He did not score a goal, but he had six assists.
Angel Cortes, Arcadia, Senior, Midfielder
Zack Dunn, South Pasadena, Senior, Midfielder
Filip Franke, La Canada, Senior, Forward
Ali Kamal, Pasadena Poly, Senior, Forward
Graham Labran-Boyd, La Canada, Senior, Goalkeeper
Alfredo Maciel, Monrovia, Junior, Midfielder
Max Medley, Monrovia, Senior, Goalkeeper
Michael Mikirya, Marshall, Senior, Midfielder
Cole Rademacher, Flintridge Prep, Senior, Forward
Frankie Viega, St. Francis, Senior, Forward
Armaan Zare, La Canada, Senior, Midfielder
D'Morea Alewine, Monrovia, Junior, Midfielder
Chris Au, La Canada, Senior, Midfielder
Pedro Benitez, Blair, Senior, Defender
Joel Cortez, Monrovia, Sophomore, Defender
Sam Doctorian, Marshall, Senior, Midfielder
Yusuf Elmasri, Arcadia, Senior, Goalkeeper
Danny Hoefferle, Monrovia, Senior, Forward
Ben Hubsch, Pasadena Poly, Midfielder
Michael Lewis, Arcadia, Senior, Defender
Jordan Jackmon, South Pasadena, Junior, Forward
Joseph Kim, La Canada, Senior, Defender
Leo Parker, South Pasadena, Senior, Defender
Ethan Prins, Maranatha, Sophomore, Midfielder
Skyler McLean, Pasadena Poly, Junior, Midfielder
Julio Sanchez, Duarte, Junior, Forward
Oscar Vanegas, Pasadena, Junior, forward
Clem Witherall, South Pasadena, Senior, Defender
Chris Wong, Monrovia, Sophomore, Forward
Mitchell Wong, Monrovia, Senior, Midfielder
Daniel Zurita, South Pasadena, Senior, Midfielder
1. Marshall (22-2-1)
2. Monrovia (18-3-6)
3. Pasadena (16-2-4)
4. La Canada (13-5-5)
5. Pasadena Poly (12-4-4)
6. South Pasadena (16-5-1)
7. Duarte (15-7) 8. Arcadia (12-11-4)
9. Maranatha (11-11-3)
10. St. Francis (6-10-3)


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Sk8Trip to New York – ABEC 11 @ the Broadway Bomb
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Get Fitted! What did the superstar of our 'Hell On Wheels' video do when he came down to the candy shop in Huntington Beach? He loaded up on green and blue urethane only to lay it all back down on the burning streets of SoCal. Talk about thane lines? Nope. Mike lets his skating do the talking. Burn, burn, another funky radical BOMBTRACK, Burn, burn, ignite the hell on wheels cuz Fitter's back!
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ABEC 11 – Wyatt Gibbs "Animal Style"
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Wyatt "Hair on Fire" Gibbs shreds his hometown hills in Laguna Beach before heading off to the nearby Etnies Skatepark and showing his all-around skills. Where is all the green? In this episode Wyatt was diggin' the sweet amber thane lines from his Retro Bertz and laying down even more Classic formula goodness with his Pink Powerballs. Downhill, freeriding, sliding, street, and park riding – it's all a part of the Laguna Beach super grom experience!
Sk8Trip to Jake's Rash and Britannia
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The Canadian trilogy of Downhill Racing happens during an eight day span toward the end of May of every year. It consists of Danger Bay, Jake's Rash, and the Brittania Classic. Michael Alfuso flew up to join forces with Rory Russell to capture the final two races. Our journey starts out slowly with some mellow skating in the rain and some freeriding, but at the end is an epic downhill battle that's well worth the wait.
WTF? Prepare for some confusion in Vancouver. There are moaning fairies from the YMCA (2:30) and morning ferries from the Horshoe Bay (3:50). Not there's anything wrong with that …
After getting off the boat in Langdale, the gang cruises up the Sunshine Coast which also happens to be Team Green's beautiful backyard playground. Last but not least we invade this year's classic Britannia showdown. When you hear The Prodigy crank up the volume – it's the Sk8Trip to Jake's Rash and Britannia!


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White House Delays Implementation of Employer Coverage Mandate of ACA
On Tuesday, July 2, 2013, the U.S. Department of Treasury announced that it will provide an additional year before the mandatory employer and insurer reporting requirements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) begin.
In a blog posting, Mark J. Mazur, Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the U.S. Department of Treasury, stated that the Administration has been engaging in a dialogue with businesses about the new reporting requirements under the ACA.
According to Mr. Mazur, "[w]e have heard concerns about the complexity of the requirements and the need for more time to implement them effectively."
The additional year will meet two goals, according to Mazur:
First, it will allow us to consider ways to simplify the new reporting requirements consistent with the law. Second it will provide time to adapt health coverage and reporting systems while employers are moving toward making health coverage affordable and accessible for their employees."


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Using Spaceflight to Advance Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Vaccines
Principal Investigator: Timothy Hammond M.B.,B.S.
Durham VA Medical Center/Duke University
Several lines of evidence suggest that spaceflight is a unique environment to study mucosal infection: during spaceflight some bacteria are more virulent, host mucosal defenses are down regulated, and immune responses such as white cell migration are diminished. We have demonstrated that exposure of small model organisms such as the nematode C elegans to bacteria during spaceflight allow direct analysis of host pathogen interactions in real time during spaceflight. Preliminary data using enteropathogenic Salmonella species compared nematode killing during space flight to both static ground based cultures and suspension culture models such as clinostats which mimic some of the properties of space flight. This demonstrated the uniqueness of space for immunology applications as the increased ability of Salmonella to kill nematodes in space was qualitatively opposite in ground based clinostats. Application of nematodes with specific gene deletions indentified some of the molecular mediators responsible for these changes. This application focuses on Staphylococcus aureus, a common clinical pathogen which has become the commonest US infection from kindergarten skin lesions to intensive care unit medicine. Study of Staphylococcus aureus interactions with nematodes in space will allow understanding of the molecular mediators of bacterial invasion, and may identify protective strategies from therapeutics to vaccine production.
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Washington (AFP) Jan 18, 2011
China got the technology for its first stealth fighter jet from Russia, a senior US lawmaker said Tuesday, one week after the airplane apparently made its maiden flight.
"My understanding is that they built it on information that they received from Russia, from a Russian plane, that they were able to copy," House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon told reporters.
McKeon, a Republican, said he hoped to "hear more" on the issue from Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who was on a visit to Beijing when Chinese state media published photographs of the J-20 fighter in the skies over southwestern China.
According to the reports, which cited witnesses, the next-generation war jet -- the existence of which highlights China's drive to modernize its military -- made a 15-minute test flight before landing.
The lawmaker, who had been asked whether Beijing had obtained the technology needed to build such an advanced fighter from cyber-espionage, also stressed that "China's a concern" for US national security.
"We need to be looking at China, we need to be looking at North Korea, we need to be looking at Iran," said McKeon, who has given a skeptical greeting to Gates' plans for reductions in US military spending.
"That's what really concerns me when I look at the cuts, the potential cuts, that they're talking about for the defense budget. This is not a safe world," said the lawmaker.
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Russia has so far provided South Korea with weapons worth $740 million as a way of repaying some $1.3 billion in debts dating back to the days of the Soviet Union.
Seoul is now in talks on the transfer of cutting-edge technology from Moscow, the South's Defence Acquisition Programme Administration said.
"We have yet to complete negotiations with Russia," a spokesman for the state agency controlled by the defence ministry told AFP, without giving details.
Yonhap news agency quoted a military source as saying the Russian technologies include long-range radar and a defence system against an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack.
North Korea is believed to have been developing an EMP system that could disrupt South Korean military communications and radar, it said.
Since the 1950-53 Korean War, South Korea has been heavily dependent on US technology for its arms acquisitions.
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First let me say I hope everyone reading this had a very happy healthy and safe Labor Day weekend!!
At a friends party this weekend it was mentioned Asbury Park is doing an Oyster Fest this up coming weekend. I went to the Chamber of Commerce web site but they only have a one page general over view. Can anyone else shed some past experience on it….worth while…..how many vendors etc.
I'm torn on this……I don't know if I care to put up with the crowds (anticipated) and so forth just to have to wait an hour in line to get a half a dozen so-so oysters. Or if there are really exceptional values/quality/variations to be had.
I am fairly recent to the oyster eating experience and most of my enjoyment of oysters has been the typical blue point most common it seems to this area. But at a few places such as Avenue (the raw bar about the only reason I can justify ordering food there) introduced me to a lot of varieties which I surprisingly found enjoyable. Amazing what a difference there can be in something as "simple" as an oyster.
FYI while picking up a few (cheap) lobsters at Shop Rite over the weekend I noticed they had some of the largest oysters I have ever seen. I assume they were Blue Point but didn't think to take a look….let's say a "normal" Blue Point is about the size of a business card these were more like the size of a playing card for poker. I picked one or two up just to inspect it and I can say I was rather intimidated. I don't think I would enjoy that much of a mouthful of oyster!!


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As many of you know, I'm currently studying to become a Certified Diabetes Educator. So I was delighted to have the opportunity to attend the American Diabetes Association's annual Advanced Postgraduate Course in New York City on Feb. 23 — a two-and-a-half-day conference that can be viewed as the 'little sister' to the ADA's huge Scientific Sessions held each summer.
This Postgraduate event hosts just a few hundred doctors, pharmacists, diabetes educators, dieticians and other healthcare professionals, compared to the several thousand attendees at the Scientific Sessions. But it was still action-packed with D-knowledge -- focusing on broad issues in technology, treatments for type 1 and type 2 diabetes (such as exercise, insulin pumps and type 2 medications), rather than on the heavy science and clinical studies.
You might call it a refresher course on D-basics for those who've been living with it or studying it for some time.
I attended sessions on the new national AADE standards announced recently, plus a presentation on insulin pumps and CGMs that I found disappointing since it was actually very basic information, geared more toward health care professionals unfamiliar with the technology. Another session took a look at how to better utilize type 2 oral and injectible meds, and there was a lively conversation there about how to convince an unwilling type 2 patient to embrace insulin if it's deemed necessary. My takeaway from that session was that health care professionals might need to be creative with combinations of oral medications, but also do a better job of explaining the benefits of insulin to eliminate the stigma associated with it.
Unlike bigger conferences throughout the year, this one does not include any kind of expo, so attendees were not exposed to real-life demonstrations of any of the new technology discussed. This seemed a little strange to me, but perhaps it is good sometimes to have health care professionals focus on patient data and research rather than sales pitches (!).
A highlight for me was getting the chance to interview legendary endocrinologist Dr. William Tamborlane, who is the Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at Yale University and the Deputy Director for the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation. Since Yale is a top center for leading diabetes research, Dr. Tamborlane has pretty much seen it all! He and his staff are currently heavily involved in the in-patient clinical trials of the Artificial Pancreas, specifically studying using a closed-loop overnight in pediatric patients.
We chatted about his work on the AP, his thoughts on the FDA's hesitancy (but hopefully not for much longer!) to approve the Medtronic Minimed Veo with the low-glucose suspend feature, and the impressive results of new Insuline patch studies that involve using heated infusion sets to improve insulin absorption. Here's what he had to say:
DM) At this point in your research on the closed-loop system, what are some of the obstacles? We know you've had a lot of success showing efficacy of the two-hour shut-off protocol (in case of a low), but what are some of the things we still have to overcome?
WT) I think the major overriding issue is still safety. Once you have a closed-loop system that automatically turns on and off, then you have important safety issues. The most serious one is giving too much insulin if for some reason the system wasn't working right. There are a number of reasons that could be; chiefly it would be sensor errors. We do have sensors that over-read (exaggerate results) a lot. We have issues in loss of communication between the sensor and the pump receiver with the algorithms.
For the Medtronic system, there's a receiver in the pump and the transmitter from the sensor. So the laptop computer that we're using has the receiver and algorithm in it, then it tells the pump how much insulin to give. So it goes from the sensor to the laptop, laptop to the pump. Ultimately the algorithm would be in the pump. What was happening was the sensor was sending signals to the laptop that the blood sugar was going up, and the laptop would send a message to the pump to bolus. When the pump got this message, it would send a message to the laptop saying "Message received. Insulin given." When we switched to a newer system, there was a delay in the pump telling the laptop that it had received messages. So if the laptop didn't hear anything, it would send another message, which could spell trouble.
So there a stacking effect because the laptop was sending out another message to the pump, telling it to bolus again?
Right. The laptop didn't get the right message at the right time, so it didn't think the pump bolused. There are any number of issues like that. We're still feeling our way, because there are real practical issues on how a patient could use this. We're asking: How complicated would this be? How much would the patient need to know?
Also, we need to find out if there are ways that we could have the same kind of remote telemetry that we use for pacemakers in the Artificial Pancreas. This way we can perform diagnostic tests to make sure the systems work properly. Then, of course, we need better, more accurate sensors. There's still a lot of work to do.
There's a lot of talk about using other hormones in a closed-loop system... like Symlin or a stable form of glucagon. What are your thoughts on incorporating these secondary hormones and medications?
We've actually done two pramlintide (Symlin) studies. In the first one, patients came in for a half day to get the system going. They came in the afternoon the day before to put in the sensor, calibrate, and put in the infusion site. Then we turn on the closed-loop overnight so the next morning, they can start right away. The next day, they took pramlintide before meals. Because they hadn't been exposed before, we had to use a low starting dose, because you get some gastrointestinal side effects if you go too high. We didn't want lower blood sugars because they couldn't eat their meals at the risk of getting very nauseous. Plus, treating a low on Symlin can take up to an hour... it's very dangerous! With how we did this, results were better and we had lower peaks even though there was considerably less insulin given.
In our second study, with more therapeutic levels, patients came in for one and a half days before starting pramlintide to do their control experiment. Then they went home and we titrated up with pramlintide as outpatients and then brought them back and did a closed-loop control on pramlintide. The results were a little better, but I still think we need to work on the algorithm. If there are delays in communication, we need to change the parameters so that it gives a better response. What we are going to try next is liragulatide (Victoza) and that's attractive because it's only once a day. With liragultide, we will look at reducing glucagon responses at meals, so that combined with the gastric emptying will reduce the post-meal peaks.
Are there any near-future milestones we can look forward to?
Something that will have an immediate effect is getting the Veo pump approved in the U.S., and eventually getting a system that uses an algorithm running in the background and only activates if you're actually having a projected low. You could get the pump to shut off for a couple hours without the patient even knowing it, and have it only alarm if the patient actually got low.
Say you want the patient alerted at 60 mg/dL, but the shut off is at 90. If you're at 180 mg/dL and dropping fast, and in X number of minutes you'd get to under 90, it would shut your pump off. You might keep coming down but you might not actually get low and never have an alarm. That would be a big step.
(Editor's note: Medtronic is already working on this predictive Low Glucose Suspend feature, which may be in the next version that's currently awaiting FDA approval.)
What are your thoughts on why the FDA has been delaying the Veo?
Here's where the regulatory authorities are a little misguided. They were worried that if you were shutting off the pump, it would make your A1C go up. Turns out in real-life use studies in Europe and Australia, it's only during the night or the day when you're sleeping that you would have a full 2-hour suspend. Secondly, the added mean glucose of making it flatten out at 50 mg/dL instead of going down to the 40s is misguided. That's not going not raise your A1C.
Plus, it's not like you're going to be low at night every day for three months...
That is true. But also from the JDRF CGM trial, which I was co-chair of, A1C lowering was primarily related to how often you use the sensor. If you use it every day, you drop your A1C .5-.8% if you're a teenager. The drop-off was pretty dramatic. If you only use it for four or five days, you didn't get much benefit at all.
Say you went to Europe and got your Veo pump. All of a sudden you have a greater motivation to wear the sensor every day, and if you wear the sensor more, you'd have the sensor values during the day. The Veo pump is more likely to lower A1C than raise A1C because it would give people an added incentive to wear the sensor every day.
What have been your findings so far in your research with the Insuline heated infusion set?
We've done these glucose clamp studies — a study of the time-action curve for insulin and insulin sensitivity in humans — in insulin pump patients. They come in the night before, put in an Insupatch infusion set, and they are usually studied on two different days, one where we turn on the heating element, and one without it. We check throughout the night so the patient is around 100 the next morning. Without warming, the peak action of insulin is about two hours. We found with the warming you have peak action within the first 90 minutes.
It also turns out that — what it looks like to us — is that you actually increase the amount of insulin that gets out of the subcutaneous site, otherwise known as the bioavailability. We actually absorb more insulin when the heat is present.
Wow! So does that essentially 'trick' the body into thinking more insulin is being infused, when it's just warming up the infusion site?
Well, when insulin is sitting in a little pool under the skin, there are enzymes that break it down. So what if we gave 1.15 instead of 1.2 units? You get the same peak earlier and it dissipates faster. You also find out in practice that you don't need as much insulin as you thought you did before.
What's your next big research focus?
We are still facing that challenge of insulin not responding quickly enough to sensor data in the closed-loop system. So, we want to do clamp studies with new "ultra-fast" insulin action, like that being developed by Halozyme, as a possible remedy. That's what we're working on next. It's the same goal -- to speed up action -- but just a different way to get the insulin absorbed faster.
Thanks so much to Dr. Tamborlane for sharing this insight and study results. Let's keep our fingers and toes crossed that the FDA helps keep the pace moving on this research, and approves the Veo real soon!


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By Gary Suttle
Cambridge intellectual Joseph Raphson holds a special place among the lodestars of Pantheism--recent scholarship credits him with originating the terms "pantheist" and "pantheism."
Historians know little of Raphson's life; not even an obituary has been found. Born in Middlesex, England, he attended Jesus College Cambridge and graduated with a Masters degree in 1692. Raphson gained membership in the prestigious Royal Society in 1691 on the strength of his first book, "Analysis Aequationurn Universalis" (1690).
The book described a method for approximating the roots of an equation. Unknown to Raphson, Isaac Newton had earlier devised the same process (now known as the Newton-Raphson Method) but not published it. Raphson later worked with the renowned physicist and translated some of Newton's material from Latin to English. Raphson was one of the few people with whom Newton shared his mathematical writings.
Raphson wrote his own mathematical dictionary (1702), as well as other works, including "De Spatio Reali seu Ente Infinito" (1697) and "Demonstratio de Deo" (1710).
He penned the words "pantheos" and "pantheismus" in "De Spatio Reali."
Many commentators name John Toland as the originator of the word "pantheist." But Raphson's citation predates Toland's first recorded use of the term by eight years. Toland had read Raphson's "De Spatio Reali," and commented upon "the ingenious Mr. Ralphson's (sic) Book of Real Space," which strongly suggests he picked up the word from Raphson. (Toland still deserves notice for the first use of "pantheist" in an English language publication, his 1705 book "Socinianism truly stated...").
Scholar Stephen H. Daniel, Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M
University, discovered Raphson's terms and made the connection between
Raphson and Toland in 1994. According to Professor Daniel, "it is
now clear that Raphson, not Toland is the person who coined the terms
pantheist and pantheism; he just happens to have been writing in
Latin at the time."
"De Spatio Reali" delineates two pantheistic outlooks:
In one, God comprises nature, the material cosmos, as ultimate reality. Raphson labels adherents of this view 'panhylists' (from the Greek 'pan' = all + 'hyle' = wood, matter) because they believe everything derives from matter. He equates panhylism with atheism.
In the other, God comprises space, the overarching element, as ultimate reality. Raphson calls followers of this view 'pantheists' (from the Greek 'pan' = all + theos = god) because they believe in "a certain universal substance, material as well as intelligent, that fashions all things that exist out of its own essence" (De Spatio Reali," page 2).
"Space is this necessary, eternal, infinite and omnipresent being..." says Jonathan Edwards, a like-minded thinker of that time, "... we can with ease conceive how all other beings should not be. We can remove them out of our minds, and place some other in the room of them; but space is the very thing we can never remove and conceive of its not being. ...But I had as good speak plain: I have already said as much as that space is God."
Raphson's idea of God shows the influence of fellow Cambridge philosopher Henry More (1614-1687). More wrote that God is "antecedent to all matter, forasmuch as not matter nor any being else can be conceived to be but in this. In this are all things necessarily apprehended 'to live and move and have their being.'"
(Interestingly, More's use of the well known biblical phrase from Acts 17-28 reflects the lines Saint Paul took from ancient Stoic philosophy. Familiar to Raphson, the pantheistic Stoics, around 300 B.C.E., identified God with Nature and saw everything composed of one substance, [fire or energy] condensed into the various elements of the physical world. The universe formed the condensation of God "in whom we live and move and have our being").
Kabbalah (alternately spelled Kabala or Cabala, from the Hebrew 'cabla' = tradition) also inspired Raphson. The mystical teachings held that Jewish scriptures contained words, letters and numbers--congenial to Raphson's mathematical mind--with secret meanings interpretable to knowing persons.
A University of St. Andrews biography states "Cabala developed several basic doctrines which were strong influences on Raphson's philosophical thinking. The doctrines included the withdrawal of the divine light, thereby creating primordial space, (and) the sinking of luminous particles into matter."
Kabbalists "asserted a certain oneness between God and the universe," according to Kabbalah scholar Ken Hanson. Kabbalistic ideas stimulated Jewish philosopher Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677). Raphson knew of Spinoza, who wrote perhaps the most rigorous exposition of Pantheism in all philosophic literature.
But Spinoza never employed the terms 'pantheism' and 'pantheist' because they had yet to be conceived. He died just twenty years before Joseph Raphson contributed these valuable and now universally used words to posterity.
Daniel, Stephen H. "Toland's Semantic Pantheism," in John Toland's Christianity not Mysterious, Text, Associated Works and Critical Essays. Edited by Philip McGuinness, Alan Harrison, and Richard Kearney. Dublin, Ireland: The Lilliput Press, 1997.
____________. Personal Communication, October, 28, 2002 and November
18, 2002. Dr. Daniel relates "When I ran across Raphson's Latin use
of pantheos and pantheismus in 1994, I think I was simply following up on
a reference to Raphson by Berkeley (in his "Philosophical Commentaries").
Most Berkeley scholars are not as familiar with Toland as I probably am,
so the appearance of the terms struck me (since I, like everyone else, had
thought that Toland was the first to use them). Probably people knew of Raphson's
use of the terms but had not made the connection about who used them first.
At least in 1994 I was still under the impression that Toland had used the
term first. When I mentioned
it to (a fellow scholar), he suggested that I contact the folks at the Oxford English Dictionary to update their entry. But since the OED deals with English uses, I did not because Toland still would have been the first to use the English versions. However, as Toland notes in "Serena," Raphson seems to have come up with the concepts of pantheism and pantheist in 1697. I guess I may have been the first to have seen that, primarily in the Toland-Berkeley context (of which latter relation there is a lot more to say--and I am currently working on it for a book on Berkeley)."
Hanson, Ken. Kabbalah, Three Thousand Years of Mystic Tradition. Council Oaks Distributors, 1998.
O'Conner, J. J. and Robertson, E.F. "Joseph Raphson," On-line Biographies, University of St Andrews, Scotland. 1996.
Copyright © 2002 Gary Suttle


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Blister beetles are occasional late-summer problems in Iowa alfalfa fields. The beetles feed on alfalfa and soybean foliage, but leaf loss is not of economic importance. The real problem with blister beetles lies in their toxicity to livestock, especially horses, when accidentally consumed in feed. The beetles produce cantharidin, an irritant that causes painful blistering when the insects are handled. The cantharidin remains in the beetle's body even after it dies. That becomes a problem when alfalfa is swathed, during which dead blister beetles can be incorporated into the hay as it is made. Thus, livestock can accidentally consume whole beetles or their squashed remains when the hay is fed.
Four species of blister beetles are most commonly found in Iowa. The four, listed in the order that they occur during the season are gray, striped, margined, and black, respectively. All these species have long, narrow, cylindrical, and soft bodies, and a pronounced neck and broad head when viewed from above. They range from about 0.75 to 1 inch in length and most have a tendency to congregate in the field--a trait that we can use to reduce contamination of finished hay. Because one of the larval stages is a heavy feeder on grasshopper eggs, knowledge of grasshoppers and their life cycles can be helpful.
|Black blister beetle.
|Margined blister beetle.
Horses are especially susceptible to blister beetle poisoning. Consumption of 25 to 300 beetles can kill a mature horse. Cattle and sheep are much less susceptible, but blister beetles will reduce digestibility of hay and may throw cattle off feed. Furthermore, cantharidin is a stable compound that withstands decomposition even when it is dried or heated; thus, the hay will retain its toxicity in storage. Affected livestock suffer symptoms that include colic, tenesmus (straining), elevated temperature, depression, increased heart and respiratory rates, dehydration, sweating, and diarrhea. Because the toxin is absorbed and then excreted with the urine, intense inflammation of the urinary tract is a common sign of poisoning. Death may occur within 24 hours, and treatment with mineral oil by stomach tube is recommended but not always very effective. If blister beetle poisoning is suspected, contact a veterinarian immediately.
What can be done to avoid blister beetle problems?
- First, learn how to identify the species of blister beetles.
- Grow your own alfalfa and maintain complete control over management practices, if possible.
- Because blister beetle populations are not large until mid- to late summer, set aside first and often second cutting hay for use in feeding horses. Or consider purchasing first cutting hay from neighbors to use as horse feed.
- Watch for beetles as you cut hay. Some species "swarm" in front of the harvester. Stop and let the beetles disperse before continuing.
- Crimping and other conditioning increases the number of beetles that remain in the swath prior to baling. If possible, try to cut the alfalfa and put in swaths that can be straddled by the tractor to avoid crushing beetles in the windrow.
- Eliminate weeds and cut the alfalfa before it reaches advanced bloom stages. Flowering plants attract the beetles that feed on alfalfa and weed pollen.
- Insecticide treatments are available but must be applied with preharvest intervals in mind. If you treat with insecticides, be sure to allow enough time so that dying beetles fall out of the canopy to the ground where they burrow into the soil. Do not treat fields at peak bloom to avoid bee kills and losses to other beneficial species.
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New York Mets Annual 2010March 2, 2010
Yesterday I received a copy of the Maple Street Press Mets Annual 2010. Below is a photo of the cover. I have not had a chance to dig into the book yet but it looks really exciting. According to the cover, the book is filled with analysis, interviews, stats, prospects, history and photos. The book is edited by Matthew Silverman and there is a Mets preview by Adam Rubin. The price of the book is $12.99. If you are interested in picking up a copy head of to Maple Street Press.
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Plaintiff sued Marvel, contending that he conceived the comic book character "Ghost Rider," the related characters, and the origin story. Plaintiff also claimed that he owned the renewal term copyrights in those works. On appeal, plaintiff challenged the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Marvel, holding that plaintiff had assigned any rights he had in the renewal term copyrights to Marvel when he executed a form work-for-hire agreement (the Agreement), six years after the initial publication of the issue in question. The court, by applying the "strong presumption against the conveyance of renewal rights," concluded that the district court erred in holding as a matter of law that plaintiff had assigned his renewal rights to Marvel by signing the Agreement; plaintiff's claim was not untimely as a matter of law because there were genuine disputes regarding whether plaintiff should have known about Marvel's repudiation of his claim of ownership; and there were genuine disputes of material fact that precluded granting summary judgment on the issue of authorship. Accordingly, the court vacated and remanded for trial.
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Better than before: Queen Mary 2 (QM2) Cruise Review by BurkeHAL
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Destination: Transatlantic
Embarkation: New York (Manhattan)
We left Brooklyn Terminal in great weather and was thrilled with going under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridges, again. Our PF suite, 10022, was perfect (381 Sq. Ft.). Last voyage in PRincess Grill made us opt for the same.
Our room stewardess, Donna, was fantastic for the entire 19-day voyage. Stanley Williams, our PG Maitre'D assigned us to a fabulous table for two at the window. This perk was requested by our travel agent through Cunard's special service desk. Andrea and John were our primary lead waiters in the PG restaurant for the different segments.
They both gave us top service along with the other PG staff. The food and presentation were excellent and has improved over the two years. St. Peter's Port, Guernsey and Bruges were superior ports to visit. Definitely, book an early Cunard 9:00 bus tour for "Bruges on your Own" as it gets you in town by 10:00 More which allowed us to make the first 10:00 water canal tour. Unfortunately a light but constant drizzle started after the canal tour and chilled the day.
The secrets of sea days, especially transatlantic, are to savor the style, lectures, and elegance of the QM2. Formal evenings and ballroom dancing in the Queens Room are always wonderful.
We used White Star luggage for the first time from our home in Virginia to and from the ship.
It was well worth the money. The 50-lb. luggage arrived in our stateroom that morning. Everything is trackable online through FedEx's website. Truly, a piece of mind.
We were so impressed with this voyage that we booked another 18-day voyage in June 2014, NYC-HAM-NYC. Less
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The road to the top
You only have to look at the bestseller lists on this page to see the immediate effect winning the Man Booker Prize had on the sales of Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North. In the week leading up to the announcement, 400 copies were sold. Between about 8am on October 15, when he was declared the winner (the night before in London) and October 18, that figure shot up to about 5000 copies of the original edition and smaller format that publisher Random House rushed out. Flanagan is at No. 9 on the national list and No.1 in the chart from independent bookshops. Before his win, he notched up more than 60,000 sales in Australia. In Britain, according to The Bookseller, 10,242 print copies were sold in the week of the prize, "a massive 3141 per cent week-on-week sales hike". This put him at 11th place on the overall British bestseller chart – the first time Flanagan has hit the top 50. In the week ending October 18, The Narrow Road to the Deep North earned £137,430 ($252,000), eclipsing "Flanagan's combined BookScan sales for the previous 10 years".
It's payback time
There's a moment in Peter Carey's new novel, Amnesia, when one of the main characters, Frederic steals two copies of The Lord of the Rings "from Mark Rubbo in Lygon Street". Anyone who has encountered the boss of Readings would know that he is not keen on shoplifters. So when Readings held a little function for Carey last week, his publisher at Penguin, Ben Ball, returned the two copies that Frederic had stolen. As Rubbo said: "I was very pleased, as I don't often recover any stolen books."
Honey of a job
The late Morris Lurie was probably best-known for his novel Rappaport, about the eponymous eccentric antiques dealer and his friend, Freidlander. But another of his books struck a massive chord with its readers and has remained consistently in print. The Twenty-seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race in which eight-year-old hippo Edward, whose favourite saying is "Gosh", trains for the big swim, was published first in Britain in 1969. In 1977, Elizabeth Honey got the gig for a new edition to be published by Puffin in Australia. She told Bookmarks the original edition was illustrated in "a very Yellow Submarine-style, which dated it rather". She was so keen to do the job that she submitted six different styles of illustration for Lurie's approval. "I really wanted to do it, because I knew it would be a success. I don't know if I wore Morris down or he liked the style." Honey was about to go on holiday to South America when she got the go-ahead and did the roughs on a train in Peru and posted them back to Australia. She did the finished pen-and-ink illustrations in Paris. "I had a target of one picture a day and only then could I go out and have fun." In 1989, the front-cover illustration was again updated, but her internal art work remained, and she is still getting royalties twice a year. "I knew that the Hippo Race was a rare book. The hero, Edward, was such a likeable hippo, not puffed up and very kind. He was the kind of champion you could admire and there was a very good baddie in Sebastian. I loved the last words. Edward says all he wants is a cup of hot soup because he is terribly hungry after all that swimming." Honey said Lurie was clever and witty and deserved the Patrick White award that he received in 2006.
Eerie coincidence
There was something of a coincidence involved in Morris Lurie's death on the morning of October 8. At much the same time, Geoffrey Tate also died. Tate illustrated two of Lurie's children's books – Racing the Moon and Greedy Roger or the Naughty Cookbook. He was a year older than Lurie and had written to Random House to see whether it had any projects requiring illustration. His son, Adam, assumes that it was because he was particularly interested in railways as a subject that Random chose him to illustrate the first book, which was published in 1993. Greedy Roger or the Naughty Cookbook was published by Macmillan in 1994. Adam Tate also pointed out that the morning the two former colleagues died, the moon was in its full phase.
Krien on the shortlist
Earlier this month, Bookmarks reported that Anna Krien's incisive Night Games had been longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award in Britain, worth £26,000 to the winner. Now Krien has made a shortlist of seven, which also includes: Proud: My Autobiography by Gareth Thomas; Bobby Moore: The Man in Full by Matt Dickinson; Alone: The Triumph and Tragedy of John Curry by Bill Jones; Run or Die by Kilian Jornet; Played in London: Charting the Heritage of a City at Play by Simon Inglis; and Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport by Rob Steen. The winner will be announced on November 27.
Children's day at Clunes
Clunes Booktown's annual weekend is a red-letter day in the diary of many book lovers, but today there's a special addition to the calendar – the Booktown's inaugural children's festival. Among the writers ready and willing to talk to kids today are Sherryl Clark, Hazel Edwards, Mark Greenwood and Jackie Kerin, along with illustrators such as Ann James, Craig Smith and Judith Rossell. It's not all about books, though. There are sessions with artisans specialising in lost trades, a special Anzac exhibition, with some of the writers and illustrators of the books relating to World War I, plus a focus on the link between Clunes and the Korean city of Paju that emerged from the documentary work Clunes-born photographer George Rose did in Korea in the early 20th century. clunesbooktown.com.au
Chris Wilson launches the St Kilda Music Salon, with Brian Nankervis, Michael Crane, Rebecca Barnard and more, featuring music, comedy and poetry. 2.30pm. Robarta, 107 Fitzroy Street. $10.
Mammad Aidani discusses "Rumi and Notions of Friendship". 1pm. Montsalvat, 7 Hillcrest Avenue, Eltham. $14. Info: firstname.lastname@example.com; 0404 329 863.
Graeme Simsion on The Rosie Effect. 6pm. Sun Bookshop, 10 Ballarat Street, Yarraville. Bookings: email@example.com; 9689 0661.
Emily Bitto and Ceridwen Dovey discuss their work. 6.15pm. The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, city. Bookings: wheelercentre.com
Steve Kilbey in conversation about his memoir, Something Quite Peculiar. 6.30pm. Readings St Kilda, 112 Acland Street.
Scott Bevan on Bill: The Life of William Dobell. 6.30pm. Reader's Feast, 162 Collins Street. $6. Bookings: firstname.lastname@example.com' 9662 4699.
Ghazal to the ancestors, XVI
each spring a transparent double
watches closely & she smiles.
in washed out light a frightened cloud
skirts the trembling borders of heaven.
deep manured shadows whisper
from sweet tended flowerbeds.
my skin is patched & frayed,
i step carefully into my disrobed past -
ancient trees nod as I pass,
their knotted arms rise in prayer.
recall that splintered broken door,
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CCTV cameras planned for Kiama will be expanded to include a larger area of the CBD under plans to be considered at the February Kiama Council meeting.
Last Tuesday, a special meeting of Kiama Council's Community Safety Committee unanimously approved a revised plan for the CCTV network, which is planned to start in May.
There is a $150,000 federal government election commitment to fund the network, along with $50,000 from the state government and $80,000 from the council.
The original plan included cameras only along Terralong Street from Collins Street to Railway Parade.
Committee chairman Dennis Seage said an independent consultant had recommended a four-stage project.
He said the first stage comprised the placement of cameras covering Terralong Street from just west of Collins Street to the Commonwealth Bank on the corner of Manning Street; Manning Street to Bong Bong Street, Bong Bong Street to Railway Parade and Railway Parade back to Terralong Street.
''If the council approves the recommendation, this will go a lot further than it was going to,'' he said. ''We decided to bite the bullet and go all the way.
''I think all the recent publicity about alcohol-fuelled violence probably made a few people sit back and look at it a bit more seriously.
''If there's going to be an incident in Kiama, that [the block now earmarked for cameras] is where it's going to be.''
Mr Seage said the council would consider the recommendation at its February 4 meeting.
If approved, the plan will go on public display for 28 days.
If adopted, the council will then put the network out for tender.
Mr Seage said once the first stage was costed, the committee would identify how to roll out the next three stages.
Jason Harrison, one of three Lake Illawarra Local Area Command representatives on the committee, said police supported the proposal in principle.
''They are all positive measures,'' Sergeant Harrison said.
''From a crime prevention and investigation perspective it's a positive – as long as it's implemented correctly and there are no short cuts taken.
''The system that is used must comply with our standards. It must be a quality system capable of identifying alleged offenders to an evidentiary quality. It must be capable of being used in a court of law for prosecution.''


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Discrimination of Linguistic and Prosodic Information In Infant-Directed
Speech by Six-Month-Olds
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May 8, 1997
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The purpose of the present study was to tease apart the paralinguistic from the
linguistic aspects of infants' perception of infant-directed (ID) speech. Several
studies have shown that infants beginning at a few days after birth discriminate
native from nonnative speech and can discriminate specific contours (rising, falling,
rising-falling) in ID speech. Some studies have also indicated that infants at
4.5 months of age prefer their own name over other names but at 6 months of age,
fail to prefer a sentence with their own name embedded in it. Using a discrimination
procedure, the current study investigated whether 6-month-old infants could detect
a change in contour and/or a change in words when listening to ID utterances.
Results indicated that 6-month-old infants detected both a contour and a word
change. From these results, it is argued that as has been shown in other exper-
iments, infants are extremely sensitive to subtle changes in speech. Furthermore,
ID speech appears to facilitate infants' ability to discriminate small changes in
ID speech (both linguistic and paralinguistic). It is suggested that future studies
investigate more discrete changes in speech samples and a replication of this
research with adult-directed (AD) speech.
Word Discrimination, Pitch Contours, Infancy, Infant-Directed Speech
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Most times, a car that is special lets everyone know about itself. Lots of visual excitement to announce exclusivity, a high price tag, and often both of those things.
But occasionally, a very special, very rare production car just sort of whispers its credentials. No over-the-top graphics, no indication at all that it's only for the few who really seek it out and then cough up its high asking price.
Such is the case with the most spectacularly high performance station wagon you can buy today: The Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG Wagon. It's got tons of horsepower, a somewhat staggering price tag, and is produced in numbers that make exotic super cars look like mainstream sedans.
But to see it on the road, you'd hardly notice it, especially in a muted color like silver. Sure, you can spot the "AMG" badge on the liftgate, the "V8 Biturbo" ones on the front fenders, the big quad exhaust tips out back, or the glistening red brake calipers peeking out from behind the handsome 19" wheels. But those are really the only visual clues.
Officially, this car is a "special order" model, meaning that typically a Mercedes-Benz dealer won't stock them. Customers who seek out a wagon like this would have to have placed an order. (And right now, there's a change-over to the updated and slightly restyled 2014 E-Class going on, so you can't even do that at the moment.)
Production numbers are in the hundreds – worldwide. It stands to reason that there are probably very few people who need a station wagon that carries a base price of $92,000 and can out-accelerate most cars on the road.
But, it's actually fairly easy to produce this car, once someone asks. Mechanically, the wagon version is identical to the E63 AMG sedan, save for the way the exhaust system is routed and a revised rear suspension that includes automatically adjusting air springs. (Obviously, a station wagon is likely to be loaded up at times, and you can even get this one with the rear-facing third row seat, just like the regular E-Class Wagon.)
So, you plunk down your money and wait for your E63 AMG Wagon. When it arrives, you'll be treated to a twin-turbo 5.5 liter V8 engine that belches out 518 horsepower through a special 7-speed automatic transmission. If you'd like more power, choose the AMG Performance Package option, which tweaks the power output to 550 and raises the top speed to 186 mph.
Yes, you can buy a station wagon that will do 186 (somewhere anyway – not anywhere that I drive) yet will still be useful at runs to Home Depot or Costco for carrying large purchases. Stop laughing. Somewhere out there, someone's driving one of these to a big box store. I think.
As part of the AMG overhaul, you also get racetrack levels of handling and braking. The huge brake discs visible behind the big wheels tell the tale of eyeball-popping stopping power. And while this hot wagon can hustle its way around a race track with the best sports cars, the ride doesn't beat you up on regular city streets.
The interior features a few AMG goodies, specifically a thick steering wheel covered in a suede-like material called Alcantara. Deep bucket seats cradle front occupants and are adjustable nearly every way possible. And just to make sure you get the message while driving, the AMG logo is printed onto the speedometer.
By the time that AMG Performance Package ($6550) and a few other options are added on, the sticker price on this bad boy can top $100,000. Looking for a budget alternative? Try Cadillac's CTS-V Sport Wagon. It's also produced in limited numbers, also produces big horsepower (actually 556, if you're keeping score), and can also tear up a twisty road. But it starts at around $65,000. Such a deal!
For many, though, only a Mercedes-Benz AMG will do. In fact, it's likely that the select few who will buy this AMG wagon have other Mercedes AMG models in their garage. And if you see a station wagon with a Mercedes three-pointed star on the front and huge exhaust pipes in the back, know that you've seen a car rarer than most Ferraris.
I'll see you down the road.
Dave Kunz is the automotive reporter at KABC-TV Channel 7 and can be heard on "The Car Show" Saturdays at 9 a.m. on KPFK, 90.7 FM. E-mail Dave at TVCarz @ pacbell.net Twitter: @dave_kunz, Facebook: ABC7Dave


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Mr Abbott said he would introduce amendments to the Workplace Relations Act next year to clarify what action the government could take when unions flouted court orders. The laws would lift penalties for contempt of court from $500 to $6000 for individuals and $1000 to $33,000 for organisations. Prison terms would be doubled from six months to a year.
Mr Abbott said legal action would be launched where there was "compelling evidence of defiance" of orders and where industrial action was against the common good.
The plan was attacked by ACTU president Sharan Burrow who said Mr Abbott promoted a conflict-based industrial system that was biased in favour of employers. She said the proposed criminal sanctions over industrial action could mean workers being jailed for "trying to save their jobs and entitlements".
Ms Burrow said the Abbott plan did not mention breaches of the law by employers where workers were injured and killed and "the non-payment of billions of dollars each year in wages, overtime and accrued entitlements".
"Most of the cases highlighted by Mr Abbott involve employees trying to save their jobs or unpaid entitlements."
Earlier, Mr Abbott expressed disappointment at the failure of Grocon to convince its workforce to endorse a non-union agreement. More than 75 per cent of its 594 staff rejected the company offer, which would have given Grocon greater control over working hours.
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Penn State Removes Joe Paterno Statue
Penn State students, athletes, alumni and officials have apparently wrung collective hands enough. The now-infamous statue of late head football coach Joe Paterno that stands outside the school's stadium will be removed, an inevitable tragedy of Paterno's reported role in covering up former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky's years of sexually abusing children using University resources.
A Paterno family spokesperson didn't immediately return comment requests, but Penn State officials made their announcement early Sunday morning, ESPN and The Associated Press reported. Debate over whether it would be appropriate for the university to keep the monument standing in light of former FBI director Louis Freeh's investigative report finding that Paterno and three top Penn State administrators abuse allegations against Sandusky more than a decade ago, in the name of protecting the university's football program's legacy.
"I believe that, were it to remain, the statue will be a recurring wound to the multitude of individuals across the nation and beyond who have been the victims of child abuse," said Penn State president Rod Erickson in a statement released at 7 a.m. ET.
The statue reportedly has been barricaded by construction vehicles and a chain-link fence, with police standing guard. A blue tarp conceals it from view. The Centre Daily Times of College Station, Penn. has started an online live feed of workers preparing for the statue's removal.
A blue tarp removing Paterno's tribute from sight - perhaps that's fitting.
Erickson added that because Paterno's name on a wing of the school's library "symbolizes the substantial and lasting contributions to the academic life and educational excellence that the Paterno family has made to Penn State University," that honor will remain.
The bronze likeness standing outside Beaver Stadium, leading a bronze pack of Nittany Lions, became a sort of worshipful shrine for students and alumni, first in anger that gave way to rioting following Paterno's firing almost immediately after Sandusky was arrested Nov. 5, then in grief following the 85-year-old's Jan. 22 death.
As former athletic director Tim Curley and former vice president Gary Schultz await trial on failing to report child abuse and lying to a grand juy charges, Paterno's family has joined with attorney representing the two and former president Graham Spanier in denying willfully protecting Sandusky from investigation or charges.
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