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WALEE's insane digital portfolio.
When looking at the photographs of Sarah Palmer you can't help but notice the playfulness with light and colors. I find her body of work from the series, "The Riddle of Lumen", quite interesting, and although clearly documenting an urban landscape, I also find it quite mystical. As if unfolding an urban exploration of a city, or finding a hidden gem in plain view. At least when I look at her work, it almost seems to portray and unidentifiable sentimentalism of the unknown urban setting depicted. It plays quite well with the colors and spacial composition in the photographs.
Feel free to blame Canada for the fun artwork of Toronto-based photographer Sara Cwynar. The above image is a 'fictional manifestation of paranoia'. The cluttered composition and mischievous raccoon makes me a bit paranoid, even though I enjoy it. Sara was even featured in The New York Times magazine, and she's still in school! You can also see Sara's work on her Tumblr page.
The following series of photos are apart of an ad-campaign for Italian Based shoe firm, Luciano Carvari. Using these playfully surrealistic images, the photographer feeds off the wacky, bold, and daring styles of the shoes to create an intense visual. When viewing the photographs for the first time there is an obvious juxtaposition between child's play and adult situations. The role reversal captures your attention and never lets it go.
I wear a lot of black and am frequently lumped into a certain black wearing subculture that will remain nameless (hint: it isn't "dark people"); so I was understandably delighted when I saw these exquisitely polished portraits by Spanish photographer Jorge Miguel.
Most of Bobby Neel Adams's whole shpiel is taking two seperate images and composing them as if they were one. Old and young, man and woman, comparing and contrasting two different relationships and how they work together.
Nadav Kander has some really great portrait photography of selected celebrities and political figures. I especially like his series " Obama's People" just because of how awkward government employees tend to be when photographed.
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Charlene Cox Dotson age 77 of La Vergne, passed away Saturday January 18, 2014. A native of Tracy City, Tennessee she was the daughter of the late James and Lucille Henley Cox. She is also preceded in death by her sister; Loretta Trinkle.
Mrs. Dotson is survived by her husband of 54 years; William Dotson, son; Jeff Dotson of McMinnville, daughter; Roxanna Dotson of Donelson, son James Dotson and his wife Olivia of Portland, Tennessee, two grandchildren; Eric Wolfenbarger, Heidi Wolfenbarger, and four great-grandchildren; Gage Sweatt, Erica Wolfenbarger, Autumn Wolfenbarger, and Elijah Wolfenbarger.
A celebration of life service will be held at a later date. Woodfin Chapel Smyrna is in charge of the arrangements. On line condolence may be made to www.woodfinchapel.com 459-3254.

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ASPCA News Alert
Latest News from the Frontlines of Animal Welfare
June 22, 2012
How to Get Rid of Fleas and Ticks
June 20 marked the first day of summer, and things are heating up. It's especially hopping for flea and tick populations, which are booming after a mild, dry winter. But these little parasites can cause big problems for our pets—check out our advice for getting rid of summer pests for good.
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Congress Takes First Step Toward Preventing Horse Slaughter
On Tuesday, the House Appropriations Committee passed the Moran Amendment to ban the use of federal funds for horse slaughter inspections. Now it's on to the full House and Senate!
Seven Hundred Success Stories in Joplin
A year ago, the ASPCA hosted our largest adoption event ever in Joplin, Missouri, finding homes for animals orphaned by the tornado. In just two days, more than 700 of them found homes.
ASPCA Happy Tails: No Substitute
Tofu was sick when he came to the ASPCA, so we placed him in a foster home to recuperate. That foster home quickly turned into a forever home.
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No where as I have known, has he made such fantastic claims for
the Vedantins, or the Sanatana Dharmists (pardon my usage) or
the Hindu zealots. It is true though that he has 'suggested'
possible links to the ancient Vedic seers, their culture and
the remote Mayan civilizations in the Latin American areas.
Further, he has not as far I know, spoken lightly of the eminent
scientists of their achievements. The farthest he had gone was
to lament the total abandonment of the traditional training in
the education system and adopt the totally Western oriented
education system without any fostering of the local traditions.
He has even in his talks made jocular references to the neither-
here-nor-there (ABCD in current parlance) of the brilliant but
unsure modernists.
My request to people who want to garner credit for the Hindu
accomplishment by citing realized souls is just this -
Please do not quote 'out-of-context, non-existent, convenient-
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such. In the recent times, especially since the RJB times,
claiming everything to be of the Hindu origin is a fad that
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In January 2011, I purchased a pair of white canvas shoes and drafted a "Spider-Man and Mary-Jane" design that was then brought to life in two days using K-Mart gel pens and a bottle of Scotchguard. Little did I realise the positive response I would then receive from friends and strangers, and was soon creating more. Almost a year later I am now constructing and executing designs for canvas footwear of all sizes and shapes ("Converse", "Vans" or $8 K-Mart slip- ons. Anything is achievable) using fabric markers and sealant, under the name "OddKicks". If you'd do me the honour of checking out and liking my facebook page I would love you forever and possibly send you a virtual taco with perhaps with some extra sauce.
I'll be posting some of my designs up on here but most are on the facebook page.
I'll be using DeviantArt to upload some traditional freehand drawings as well as some of my rough shoe draft sketches.
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Left 4 Dead: Survivors Trailer: Fight Together
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A brand new trailer for Left 4 Dead: Survivors as surfaced, giving us a brief look at the first-person, multiplayer action in the arcade game.
In the nearly two-minute trailer, we get a glimpse of the gameplay in the arcade game that will be debuting in Japanese arcades soon. We can hear voice-overs from Japanese voice actors as they play out the terror of having to survive in the zombie apocalypse.
You'll see quite a bit of Engrish text on the screen as the trailer urges you to "Run and Shot" in the game, but seeing the combination of elements from both Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 is pretty cool. The graphics are par for the course of an arcade game, but we'd love to see how players will be able to control their characters, given that Left 4 Dead is best suited for free range of movement rather than an on-rails shooting experience.
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Project Overview
Art on the historic grounds of the Orange Beach Arts Center is charged with an essential mission: re-new and re-imagine a familiar space for a new era. "With Lighthouse, I seek to re-think the shape of the recognizable - creating a contemporary motif from traditional lighthouse and lantern designs." Lighthouse is a 16 foot sculpture constructed with four elements: a 16 foot Corten steel pipe, 32 laser cut Corten steel panels, plexiglas and electricity. "This piece is both representational and symbolic - based on the continuous interplay of nature, humanity and technology and the effect each plays on the other." says artist Deedee Morrison.
Lighthouse brings art into the daily lives of the community and is set to become the landmark for the Orange Beach Arts Center. The sculpture took its cues from a traditional "lighthouse" that is a beacon for safety to passing ships.The material used to fabricate the sculpture is industrial grade steel which with age, acquires a natural patina and the colors of the earth - natural warm browns and golden tones, developing an appeal of depth and permanence.The sculpture will have an interior light - a welcoming beacon that casts a warm glow at night for all who may pass by to see.


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LA Phil Members Perform with YOLA at HOLA Tonight, 5/14
Members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic will perform alongside woodwind students of YOLA at HOLA in a free neighborhood concert at St. Thomas the Apostle Church tonight, May 14 at 8 p.m. LA Phil musicians Mitchell Newman, violin; Robert Vijay Gupta, violin; Ben Ullery, viola; Leticia Oaks Strong, viola; and Daniel Rothmuller, cello will perform Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5 and Holst's Jupiter (from The Planets) – both with YOLA at HOLA woodwind students. The program concludes with the LA Phil musicians performing selected movements from Brahms' String Quintet in G major and Argentinean tangos by Enrique Francini and Mariano Mores, arranged by Thomas-Mifune. The evening is conducted by Emily Kubitskey.
This concert is free and tickets are not required. Seating is general admission/first come, first served. Please call 323.737.3325 for more information or visit LAPhil.com. Free parking is available at 2727 West Pico Blvd. (corner of Pico and Fedora) and also at 15th St. and Mariposa.
Through Gustavo Dudamel's YOUTH ORCHESTRA LA (YOLA) program – inspired by Venezuela's revolutionary El Sistema – the LA Phil and its community partners provide free instruments, intensive music training, and academic support to students from underserved neighborhoods, enabling every child to contribute using their full potential. Over the last four years, YOLA has grown to serve over 500 students ages 2-17 in South L.A. and the Rampart District.
YOLA at EXPO Center, part of Exposition Park in South L.A., has grown to include three orchestras, a preschool program, mentorship, group lessons, chamber music, and parent ensembles. The program serves hundreds of students who attend four days each week. In addition, students perform annually at Walt Disney Concert Hall and have appeared multiple times on the iconic stage of the Hollywood Bowl. YOLA at EXPO is a partnership of the LA Phil, Harmony Project, and EXPO Center, a City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks facility.


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The Amazing Race > The Racers
TAR 23:Timothy Sweeney & Marie Reebs Mazzocchi "EXes"
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Murtz On The Scene: Exclusive Interview With The Amazing Race 23s Tim Sweeney & Marie Mazzocchi
by Murtz on December 12, 2013
Tim Sweeney and Marie Mazzocchi became one of the most polarizing teams on The Amazing Race this season. The exes liked to yell at each other but still managed to work together on almost every leg. Despite putting their best foot forward and their differences aside, the former couple fell just short of winning the $1 million prize and finished in second place. I caught up with them to ask them what happened, if they had really agreed to a 60/40 split of the money in advance (with Marie receiving more) and what they thought about the Jason/Amy/Travis/Nicole alliance
Murtz Jaffer: Alright guys, it was great seeing you in Rhode Island. I want to get right into it, Marie do you think that Tim carried his weight as your partner on the Race?
(Tim & Marie laugh)
Marie Mazzocchi: I think that Tim was a great partner on the Race. I think he was amazing when it came to our tasks and our detours. I just wish he was a little bit more prepared when it came to the travelling.
MJ: Tim, do you feel like you got a bad rap and that you were just as integral to the teams success?
Tim Sweeney: I dont think it was a bad rap. I think I was just as important to the teams success as Marie was because we were working together on a lot of the stuff and we each had individual challenges to do and we both nailed them. I dont think the 60/40 represented that. It represented all the legwork that she did while I had a job in New York to get us on the Race and prepared and ready. I dont think shes saying that I wasnt an important of the Race and I dont think anyone should assume that is what she is saying. I think we both agree that we were a team and that we worked together equally to get through the Amazing Race.
MJ: Marie, you dominated the Roadblock in Tokyo that asked you to build a robot, despite arriving at the challenge in last place. To me, that was the most critical moment of the season. Do you have a new career as a robot engineer?
MM: (Laughs). I dont ever want to build anything ever again for the rest of my life! When we got to that Roadblock, I was totally panicked. I am not good at assembling things and putting things together. I have boxes from IKEA that have been sitting in my house for two years because I dont want to be bothered with putting them together. I get ADD and I cant finish it. I was scared. I thought we were going home for sure. Luckily, the challenge turned out to be more physical than tedious and mental. I dont know how I got it done.
MJ: Tim, did it bother you that Amy/Nicole worked on so many of the challenges together? You and Marie didnt really have any allies and do you think it takes anything away from Jason and Amys win that they worked on so many things with another team?
TS: It bothered me a lot to be honest with you. The outcomes obviously werent too affected because Jason and Amy won. I think it was a really one-sided help. If you look back at the Race, Jason and Amy were helping Nicole finish challenges. It wasnt an equal partnership and that was okay with us but it bothered us because thats not the integrity of the Race. The Race is to see who is the best team. And who knows? Maybe behind the scenes Travis and Nicole were helping Jason and Amy and I dont think that took anything from Jason and Amys win. At the end of the day, Jason and Amy won and their communication was as good as Marie and mine. It just ended up that the final leg wasnt as physical as it was linear and Amy nailed the flour drop and so be it. They took home the Amazing Race 23.
MM: I just want to add to what he said about them working together. I think it worked in their favour. Jason and Amy won and it didnt affect their outcome but had they not helped them in Indonesia, the Ice Girls would have still been in the Race. And had they not helped them in Tokyo, the Afghanimals would have still been in the Race so it did affect the outcomes for the other teams. If Amy didnt help Nicole build the robot, the Afghanimals would have been in the Final 3 and theres a pretty good chance the Afghanimals would have won the whole thing. Looking at it from that point of view, I am even more bothered by the helping.
MJ: Marie, at the beginning of the final episode there was clearly a threeway alliance between you guys, Amy & Jason and Travis & Nicole to work together to take out the Afghanimals. This immediately seemed odd to me, considering Amy and Jason were so mad about you stealing their cab on a previous leg. Why were they still willing to work with you after that and is that also why the alliance kind of fell apart almost immediately after you landed at the airport?
MM: I think the editing made the cab issue look a little bit bigger than it was. It was 10 minutes into the next leg in Vienna and we were all back to being friends again. They were upset because they thought that we had moved the bags and that we should have gotten a penalty but once they found out what had really happened, they understood that we didnt break any rules and they were okay with that. Going into the final leg where we decided that we were going to align with the other two teams to go against the Afghanimals, that was just to make sure that Jason and Amy and Travis and Nicole thought we were on their side. In reality, we knew that we didnt want to be in an alliance with them. We wanted to align with the Afghanimals. You didnt see much of that on TV but thats what was really happening. Even at the Roadblock, you saw that Leo helped me. Our plan was to take the doctors out. The alliance with Jason and Amy was kind of bullshit for us.
MJ: Tim, I have read other interviews that you guys have done where you said that you didnt like that the final leg was linear and that it ultimately came down to the flour drop which Marie twelve tries and only took Amy a couple. Were there really no other points where you could catch up?
MM: Not unless someone died on the glacier!
TS: Across the glacier we were guided and it was treacherous with all of the caverns.
(At this point, Tims phone connection dropped).
MJ: We are holding for Tim
MM: Story of my life
TS: There was a kayak route that was a mile long but when we talk about not being able to catch up, were talking about Jay and Amy. We knew they werent going to kayak themselves in a circle. These were small tasks. We needed a task that was going to be both mentally and physically exhausting for us to actually prove ourselves and get back into it. After the flour drop I mean think about it. After Marie put the robot together, thats not even close to someone flying you in a plane and asking you to dump flour out of it. We needed something that was really going to test us to come back and there just wasnt that opportunity until the totem poles. By that point it was over. Jay and Amy are a strong team. Jay can hold the totem poles up and Amy could figure stuff out. We needed something that was a little more intense in order to come back.
MJ: Marie, when you finish in second place, is that something you are proud of or is it upsetting that you were so close to the million and yet still so far?
MM: Were super competitive and we were there just for one reason and that was to win. We took a great experience away from it and were proud of the fact that we made it the whole way and experience everything that the Race has to offer and never had to hear Phil tell us that we have been eliminated but its like you said. We were really really disappointed and frustrated that the final leg didnt have anything that tested your abilities physically or mentally. It kind of just left the chance for a million dollars in the hands of your pilot. Whether it was luck or it wasnt luck when you dropped it, it was frustrating for me because on my first drop I was only a couple of inches away from the target. The next nine, ten, or 11 times around, I was screaming why are you driving so slow?! Why are you going so fast? Why are you going left and not right? It was out of my control and that was frustrating to me because I knew that if we were doing a roadblock that was in our control, there was no way either of those two girls would beat me.
MJ: Tim, speaking of the million why did you agree to the 60/40 split if you won?
TS: I agreed to it because she was right. The way she said it might have been a little snotty and arrogant, but she was right. Theres a difference between business and friendship. If you were to break it down in terms of how much prep work went into getting on The Amazing Race, she probably did more than 50 percent. She really orchestrated the whole thing behind-the-scenes in order to get us to LA and to get us in front of the right people. It wasnt about the money. It had nothing to do with money. It was about us going on The Amazing Race and having the time of our lives. It was about the people we met and the relationships we made. We proved to people that we are one of the strongest teams in Amazing Race history. It was never about the money.
MJ: Marie, I want to talk a little bit about the editing. There is no question that you guys were edited as the villains of the season, willing to do anything to finish in first. With that said, everyone I know was rooting for you during that robot task. It was a similar story with the Afghanimals who I felt were edited as bad guys at the beginning but redeemed themselves at the end. What do you think about the way that you were presented? Were Travis/Nicole the real villains?
MM: I am glad that Tim and I made it as far as we did because it gave people a chance to see our real relationship and not just a couple of minutes at the beginning of each episode where they took the worst and made it look like thats all we were. I think the same thing happened with the Afghanimals. Everyone thought that they were jerks and they were liars when really they are great guys and a really strong team and I am glad that we both made it far enough for everyone to see that come out. As far as Travis and Nicole, I mean I love Nicole. I actually feel bad for the situation that she is in because Travis is a jerk. When it comes down to it, thats exactly how he was the whole time and we saw a lot of that while racing with them. The further we went along with them, the more we got to see that side of him come out and it was annoying for us to watch the episodes and keep watching how they tried to be so perfect and say that they would never lie to anyone and that they wanted to set an example for their kids. The thing is, we know the real Travis and that is not what he is like, so it was satisfying to see that come out in the end.
MJ: Tim, what is the relationship between you and Marie like now? Some of the other teams that I have interviewed have suggested that you might have had a little thing going with Ally during the Race?
TS: Ally and I had a little thing going on during the Race and there was definitely something between us, but listen, were on The Amazing Race so it was nothing serious. It was just a great friendship that we formed. Having said that my relationship with Marie is the same that it was and that it always has been. We dont take things personally. We know how each other are and we know how we communicate with each other. At times is she yelling and screaming? Absolutely. Are there times when I am not listening? Absolutely. But it is our ability to handle that and handle the adversity within our own relationship, thats what keeps us together. Were going to spend some time away from each other for the next couple of months but after that, we are going to enjoy the next ride. Were going to spend the next year celebrating what we accomplished on The Amazing Race. Tim and Marie or Pinky and no-Brain or whatever you want to call us.
MJ: Marie, I know every Amazing Race fan wants to see you on All-Stars and you might have spoiled this answer on Twitter already, but would you ever do it again and would you still choose Tim as your partner?
MM: I would do another season of the Race again, I definitely would. I think right after the show, I had a different opinion about it and I wasnt sure what I was going to do if I was asked. I think it would be fun to race with someone else
MJ: Hes on the phone Marie!
MM: I mean he was a great partner but I think his laid-back attitude and his comfort in knowing that I would do whatever needed to be done and all he had to do was show up at the Roadblock, I think he would keep that same mentality and that was exhausting for me. So if theres anyone who wants to race with me and is a little more equal to what I am about, then I would be down for that.
MJ: Who would that be?
MM: Id love to race with Katie from Max & Katie!
MJ: Amazing. Thanks guys.
MM & TS: Thank you.
Marie & Katie? OMG! Let this be true.
--- Quote from: David on December 12, 2013, 11:26:54 AM ---Marie & Katie? OMG! Let this be true.
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That would be great F/F team :cmas51
Marie & Katie > Mallory & Brook tbh
--- Quote from: Airlines on December 12, 2013, 07:34:59 PM ---Marie & Katie > Mallory & Brook tbh
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I hope this happens. Ultimate f/f team :cmaslol
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Who is President Barack Obama rooting for in the Super Bowl?
So far, he is leaning toward the Saints.
Obama told ABC News that he's partial to the NFC champions, around whom the once-battered city of New Orleans is coalescing.
His remarks:
"I think both teams are terrific. I guess I am rooting a little bit for the Saints as the underdog, partly just because when I think about what's happened in New Orleans over the last several years and how much that team means to them. You know, I'm pretty sympathetic."
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New York City's airways have recently become divided and heated over Hot 97's Mister Cee's arrest . The famed producer and DJ was charged last Wednesday by NYPD for lewd sexual act with a male prostitute. Coverage over the arrest has reignited a feud between the top two radio stations in the market.
Fellow Hot 97 personality and longtime friend, Funkmaster Flex, seemed to take the allegations personally.
"…a rumor went viral through multiple social media platforms stating that Mr. Cee was arrested for committing a lewd act. Please be advised this rumor is not true. Stating false allegations about somebody and presenting it as valid information is unethical.."
On Monday, April 4th, Charlamagne of Power 105's The Breakfast Club (Hot 97's main competitor) took the liberty of poking fun at the scandal. Flex, obviously taken aback, showed no remorse in firing shots Monday evening back at Charlamagne.
"Greasy talk, huh? Let me explain something to you right now. I know everything that moves in that building. You wanna throw a stone this morning? I know what people like and what people don't like in that building."
Many have speculated that Flex was implying that he would release scandalous information on Power 105 personnel in retaliation for any further coverage.
Charlamagne, of course, shot back yesterday morning, this time without inhibition.
"'Whatcha gonna do, when Funkmaster Flex runs wild on you!' You the big bad wolf in the city, huh? You like to huff and puff and blow houses down. Let's be clear… Don't get mad at us, get mad at him. Tell him, 'Homie, I don't care if you like men, but move better. Don't get a prostitute, get a boyfriend. You're out here making yourself and the brand look crazy.' It's OK if he's gay but give him some brotherly advice and tell him to move a little better with it…Subliminals are so 90's. But I understand because you a 1990's type of guy. That's your era."
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Malt Advocate's John Hansell called this whiskey the "American Whiskey of the Year" (2009), a heavy honor from a man who samples hundreds of whiskies a year and certainly knows his stuff. I finally tracked down a bottle — not an easy task — to see what all the fuss was about.
The idea: To celebrate master distiller Park Beam's 50th anniversary as a whiskeymaker, whiskey from each of Parker's five decades in the biz is included in the blend. At 100 proof, this is hot stuff, and it easily benefits from a splash of water. A deep amber color, it also opens up as you let air get to it, revealing some of the charms that Hansell is so enchanted with.
Lovely apple fruit, vanilla, and rounded wood tones are the highlights here, with a dessert-like sweetness that Hansell astutely terms as "nougat" like. The finish is easygoing but harkens back to wood — remember there is at least some 40-plus-year-old whiskey in this thing but evaporates with hints of pie crust and biscuits, sugar and spice.
Whiskey of the year? That's hard to say. I remain enamored with Old Rip Van Winkle's 23 Year Old… though Parker's Golden boy is awfully close on its heels.
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In the basement of a Boston bookstore, Firmin is born in a shredded copy Finnegans Wake, nurtured on a diet of Zane Grey, Lady Chatterley's Lover, and Jane Eyre (which tastes a lot like lettuce). While his twelve siblings gnaw these books obliviously, for Firmin the words, thoughts, deeds, and hopes all the literature he consumes soon consume him. Emboldened by reading, intoxicated by curiosity, foraging for food, Firmin ventures out of his bookstore sanctuary, carrying with him all the yearnings and failings of humanity itself. It's a lot to ask of a rat especially when his home is on the verge of annihilation.
A novel that is by turns hilarious, tragic, and hopeful, Firmin is a masterpiece of literary imagination. For here, a tender soul, a vagabond and philosopher, struggles with mortality and meaning in a tale for anyone who has ever feasted on a book and then had to turn the final page.
About the Author
Sam Savage is a native of South Carolina now living in Madison, Wisconsin. He received his bachelor and doctoral degree from Yale University where he taught briefly, and has also worked as a bicycle mechanic, carpenter, commercial fisherman, and letterpress printer. This is his first novel.
Praise For…
"Firmin is one of the most enjoyably surprising books I've read for a long time. It's a work of great originality: whenever I thought it was going to be one sort of book, it gently swerved aside and became another. This suggests an uncertainty of purpose, but that's not the impression at all. It's held together by the character of the narrator himself, a rat of deep humanity and intelligence, and the final impression is one of delicate tragedy. This really is a book like nothing else."—Philip Pullman
"Delicious. Firmin is a book that is written for Readers, that is, for people who have the book passion and for whom books are as real as anything else in life. Realer, perhaps." —Donna Leon
"Surprising and moving meditation on the advantages (and disadvantages) of an entirely fictional life. Eloquent and witty, Firmin speaks for the book-loving rodent in all of us." —Karen Joy Fowler, bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club
"[A] moving and wildly inventive novel…Firmin is a hero in the Dickensian mode…with the sardonic shadings of Vonnegut, and the same explicit tenderness." —Los Angeles Times
"An alternately whimsical and earnest paean to the joys of literature." —Publishers Weekly
"Mouth-wateringly creative, clever, unconventional and entertaining....Firmin is the kind of debut novel that exemplifies an author's raw creativity and passion for the art of writing, as much as the story. All readers will want to take a bite, both figuratively and literally, out of this page-turner."—BookBrowse.com


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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.0044 Monday, 10 January 2000.
Date: Friday, 07 Jan 2000 07:04:25 -0800
Subject: Re: Shakespeare's Fight with the Pirates
Dear Folks,
The lottery was won by #7, David Kathman.
Steven Marx
1. [from a sister university]
Greetings from the other Cal Poly.
I know that book, but I've never actually read it. I really would like
to have it, as 1) my work is on theater history and the history of
theater history 2) I'm revising a chapter of my dissertation which
involves the First Folio and printing and 3) I'm a brand new professor
and have got hardly any reference books of my own yet.
Is that convincing?
Best of luck to you starting the new quarter--
2. [from an acquaintance who lives in an adjoining small town]
Steve, if you send that book to Leons, I'd probably just end up buying
3. [from San Francisco Bay Area]
Re: Pollard's Shakespeare's Fight with the Pirates, I don't know if I
am deserving, but I would like the volume if there a more compelling
claimant does not come forward.
I have been studying the case for and against New Bibliography for the
past several
months. I have read Hoppe, Alexander, Coe, essays by Greg, Maguire,
reviews of Maguire,
and a couple answering articles, including one in the most recent
Shakespeare Quarterly. I have not consulted three important books on
this issue, two by Greg, and Pollard's, because I have been unable to
find them.
I don't know if I shall try to publish, I don't have an adequate grasp
of the data yet, but I have begun three lists - and I do mean begun.
This idea came recently, so I need to read everything again, at least
one more time, possibly more.
One, reasons asserting New Bib that have NOT been adequately answered
(not many, but they are quite real).
Two, good reasons for rejecting New Bib, a somewhat longer list.
Three, arguments against it, that can equally be used as arguments for
it, and so prove nothing, even though Maguire tends to take them as
evidence against.
Pollard's is one of the key texts in this debate, so I'll certainly
study it if I can ever find a copy.
There is my pitch. I'd love the book, but if someone has a better
reason for having it, I sincerely hope you give the book to them.
Whoever can make the greatest contribution should have it.
As a regular used bookstore trader - we are blessed with many in the
area, one benifet of a university town - I am impressed at your
willingness to give it away. If you give the book to me I hope you will
at least let me pay for the postage.
all the best,
4. [from Maryland]
Dear Steven Marx,
From a humble amateur Shakespeare scholar. I have been studying
Shakespeare independently for many years (like 30), so have no academic
standing in this, but I have been reading the Pollard works, getting
them via inter-library loan. I would be willing to pay you for this
volume. Whether it is a deserving home is hard to say, but it would be a
loving home. For a fair market price, you might place it in the
Amazon.com auctions with a description of its condition.
I searched Bibliofind.com just now and received 2 entries:
POLLARD, Alfred W.: SHAKESPEARE'S FIGHT WITH THE PIRATES and the
problems of the transmission of his text. ; Cambridge. University Press.
1937. pp. xxviii, 110. Small 8vo. Quarter cloth, paper spine label.
Spine Faded. 2nd edition, revised with an Introduction. Offered for
sale by Alex Alec-Smith Books at


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Miguel Menendez is the head baseball coach at Jesuit, the school announced Thursday. He replaces Richie Warren, who led the team to a state title this past season.
Menendez, 37, is a former University of Tampa star under coach Terry Rupp, the current athletic director at Jesuit, and was the head coach at Key West eight seasons before stepping down after the 2013 season. He did not coach last season.
"When I stepped down from Key West, I just wanted to explore some other options,'' Menendez told the Times. "I was looking to get back to the Tampa Bay area. There were some other things we were looking at ...but this was the one we wanted to pursue.
"I would say it has to be one of the top jobs in all of the country. Knowing the tradition, and the facilities and the quality of education, it's an unbelievable opportuntiy for me. I'm blessed to have this chance."
A Key West High graduate, Menendez won a state championship as a player, starting for the team that beat Osceola in 2006.
He played at the University of Tampa from 1996-99 as a catcher and first baseman. He was a two-team all-Sunshine State Conference first team selection, and the Southeast Regional MVP in 1998 in helping the Spartans to the Division II College World Series title.
"I went to UT so I've always followed Jesuit closely,'' he said. "Terry Rupp was my coach in college, so I'm sure that didn't hurt."
This will be the second time Menendez has inherited a storied program coming off a state championship. In 2006, he took over for Ralph Henriquez at 11-time state champion Key West following the Conchs last state title. Menendez led Key West to the playoffs three times.
Menendez has relatives in Brandon and was born in Tampa -- his mother went to Leto -- but moved to Key West when he was just one month old. He and his wife Lori have three children: Miguel, Jackson and Elizabeth.


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Laura Ingraham asks why "the Muslims" are "never supporting the conservatives on" anti-LGBTQ initiatives
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President Trump kicked off his trip to Europe on July 6 with a speech in Warsaw, Poland. In his address, Trump issued a call to "the West" to defend itself and its values. In the speech, he enumerated accomplishments of the so-called "West" in a way that was similar to the claims of other parochial politicians before him, such as Rep. Steve King's (R-IA) claim that "other categories" and "subgroup[s]" of people have not made any valuable contributions to society akin with those of "Western civilization."
While the dog-whistle politics of the speech were obvious to many, to Trump's most ardent admirers the speech was worthy of praise, and seemed to confirm many xenophobic and even racist biases. Here are just five examples:
TUCKER CARLSON: So it's worth remembering the basics: Western civilization is our birthright. It makes all good things possible. Undefended, it collapses, and so we've got to fight to preserve it. Not just with airstrikes, but with a vigorous defense of our common values. Nothing matters more than that.
PETE HEGSETH: What he underscored yesterday were the foundations and the fundamentals of the western civilization. [The founding fathers] would recognize what he had to say. But those very fundamentals have been forgotten by most of the leaders and countries in that room. And a message he delivered was, if we're going to save our civilization, if the west is going to remain strong and free, we have to remember the values that got us here. The values that were enshrined in the Declaration and the Constitution. It's basic things like patriotism and productivity and borders and belief in your own country, having babies and passing it on to the next generation. These things are sort of passé or not as sophisticated as many in those rooms would view them as and therefore they're discounted and they focus instead on things like diversity, multiculturalism, atheism. Frankly, he talked a lot about God. This is a guy that understands if you believe in something greater than yourself that informs who you are and what you are willing to fight for.
LAURA INGRAHAM (GUEST HOST): Newt, I was wishing that the audience was mic'd up better because the audience was going nuts. There were many parts they were cheering for Donald Trump, but in that moment, they are feeling the criticism, the brunt of the criticism they are getting now from Merkel and other European elites for not taking in more of the refugees. And they're like "we're not doing this, we're not doing what you're doing," and Donald Trump clearly gave support for their vision of protecting their own sovereignty and their own borders, and also, of course, fighting the common interests-- common enemies.
NEWT GINGRICH: There is a huge gap between the values of the central Europeans, which includes not just Poland, but Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, a number of countries -- and the values of Germany and the Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands and France. What Trump has done is come down decisively on the side of those who worry about national identity, worry about survival, have been very practical, and of course he set the stage for the meeting in Hamburg, and indicated clearly to Merkel he ain't backing down. So, it'll be very interesting to see how that works.
Trump's speech in Poland showed true leadership, and what our allies have been missing for decades.
Absolute rejection of multiculturalism. pic.twitter.com/Y7R51GLDce
— /pol/ News Forever (@polNewsForever) July 6, 2017
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Conservative media figures lashed out at Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) after she was interrupted and chastised by her Republican male colleagues during her questioning of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, claiming she was interrupting Sessions and calling her "hysterical," "a total fraud," and rude. Women in mainstream media responded, pointing out the clear sexism in both the attacks on Harris and the double standard she was held to.
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Several right-wing media figures attempted to deflect from the substance of former FBI Director James Comey's testimony about President Donald Trump's alleged interference in the investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn by attacking his gender and sexuality, saying of his written statement that "men don't write like this" and claiming that he needed to "cowboy up" and tell someone about Trump's actions when they happened.
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Business leaders and experts agree decision to pull out of agreement "would harm every American" and "devastate [America's] international credibility"
Right-wing media figures cheered President Donald Trump's decision to remove the United States from the Paris climate agreement, which sought to reduce international greenhouse gas emissions. But experts and business leaders condemned the decision, calling the move a "historic mistake" and "a gratuitous thumb in everyone's eye."
After Greg Gianforte, the Republican candidate for Congress in Montana, was charged with assaulting a journalist, some right-wing media figures and outlets immediately came to his defense, attacking the reporter as a "hack" and asking, "What kind of a wuss files charges over broken glasses?"
The story goes through nearly everyone in right-wing media: Sean Hannity, Roger Stone, Louise Mensch, Megyn Kelly, Jim Hoft, Julian Assange, and more
It started with a late night walk on July 10, 2016. Seth Rich was talking with his girlfriend while walking through the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C., when there was some sort of altercation. Rich was shot multiple times and died shortly thereafter.
Nearly a year later, his death has become a cause célèbre among right-wing media and the fringiest elements of pro-Trump media, simply because he worked as a staffer for the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
The conspiracy theories started immediately. The day after Rich was killed, a Twitter user connected the murder with a lawsuit filed by Bernie Sanders supporters against the DNC. (This lawsuit would later be the subject of right-wing conspiracy theories after the death of a process server that the coroner would later conclude was caused by accidental polypharmacy, or a combination of drugs.)
The first right-wing version of the conspiracy theory was about confirming right-wing allegations against the Clinton Foundation. On July 13, conspiracy theory website WhatDoesItMean.com (previously cited by pro-Trump media) ran a piece, sourced to the Kremlin, claiming that Rich thought he was on his way to meet with the FBI about the Clinton Foundation when a "hit team" put in place by the Clintons killed him. The article also linked the conspiracy theory with two Russian diplomats who were expelled by the United States two days before Rich's murder, and it concluded by claiming the hit team was captured on July 12 in Washington, D.C. The actual police events of July 12 had nothing to do with any of this. On July 14, Snopes debunked this conspiracy theory.
On July 22, WikiLeaks released 20,000 emails that had been stolen from the DNC, and Redditors immediately started guessing that Rich was the source of those emails. Heat Street, a News Corp. publication then run by Louise Mensch, ran a roundup of these rumors. In the post, Heat Street simply went through the "r/The_Donald" subreddit, listing different conspiracy theories that users had come up with, even comparing one theory to the work of mathematician John Nash and the movie A Beautiful Mind. Heat Street had also mentioned the FBI rumor in the bottom of a previous post about Rich's murder, noting that there was no evidence to substantiate it.
The one entity that did claim to be the WikiLeaks source was Guccifer 2.0. As The New York Times explained on July 27, while American intelligence services believed Guccifer 2.0 to be a front for Russian spies, the hacker claimed to be Romanian. In the report, the Times detailed evidence linking the emails to Russia, including "metadata hidden in the early documents indicating that they were edited on a computer with Russian language settings."
Notorious dirty trickster Roger Stone, a contributor to Alex Jones' conspiracy theory website Infowars, and WikiLeaks began pushing the conspiracy theory in earnest in August. In an August 8 tweet, Stone included Rich in a group of four murdered people for whom he blamed the Clintons, referencing the FBI version of the conspiracy theory. A day later, WikiLeaks announced that it was offering $20,000 for information, and founder Julian Assange himself brought up Rich unprompted on a Dutch TV program, implying that Rich was a source. The host was taken aback by Assange's suggestion and tried to push him on what he was implying, but Assange did not clarify his remark:
Pro-Trump media jumped on the interview. Mike Cernovich immediately promoted the interview while stating point-blank that Rich was the source -- something that even Assange never said. On August 10, Hannity discussed the interview on his radio show, saying that it wasn't the Russians who gave WikiLeaks the information. Later in the show, he discussed the matter with Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft and Townhall's Rachel Alexander. Hoft was befuddled as to why the Rich family would not want the matter politicized, saying that it could only increase the information about the murder.
Also on August 10, Infowars' Paul Joseph Watson published a video about Assange's implication, expressing concern that Assange could be assassinated:
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich also jumped on Assange's interview on the same day, telling Mike Gallagher on August 10 that the conspiracy theory was "worth talking about."
WikiLeaks also issued a similarly vague statement on August 10.
On August 11, WikiLeaks started sowing distrust in Rich's family when it tweeted that the family's spokesperson was a "professional Democrat" -- even though the same could be said for Rich himself.
In the days that followed, Infowars ramped up its coverage. Watson cited a "source close to the Democratic party" who said his reporting was "on the money." Infowars dutifully picked up Gingrich's interview and used it to confirm its own assertions. The conspiracy theory site was particularly incensed that the Rich family would hire a spokesperson to quash conspiracy theories. And it went on to publish multiple pieces about Rich that included accounts of WikiLeaks' assertions and implications about Rich.
Assange would resurface and again hint that Rich was his source on the August 25 edition of The Kelly File, again declaring his interest in the case without actually saying anything about Rich himself. While Laura Ingraham and some others ran with what Assange said to Kelly File host Megyn Kelly, Fox host Greg Gutfeld hit Assange for pushing the conspiracy theory -- to the distaste of fellow Fox host Eric Bolling:
The conspiracy theory machine would turn away from Rich for most of September and October, though during this time Hannity frequently talked with Assange on his radio show, eager for new leaks that could be damaging to Clinton. In September, Rich's girlfriend and his family spoke with Chris Hansen of Crime Watch Daily about the case, condemning the claims. GOP lobbyist Jack Burkman also began working with the Rich family at this time, offering more than $100,000 in rewards for information. Burkman would later say that he could "rule out attempted robbery" based on his canvassing of the neighborhood.
On October 7, The Daily Beast reported that "Russia's senior-most officials" ordered the DNC hack. On November 2, fake news purveyor DC Gazette published a post saying that WikiLeaks' source was neither Russia nor Seth Rich, but instead dissatisfied government staffers. On December 9, The Washington Post reported on a CIA assessment that Russia was behind leaks targetting the DNC, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), and Clinton campaign manager John Podesta.
This Post story would touch off a new round of conspiracy theories about Rich, and once again they began with Louise Mensch's Heat Street. On December 14, the site aggregated comments on Twitter saying that it was Seth Rich and not Russia that provided WikiLeaks with the emails. The piece offered no theory as to how Rich could have gotten access to DCCC or Podesta emails; indeed, it's unclear from the story if the author even understood that there were multiple hacks, even though Mensch herself turned up in the hacked Podesta emails (which the piece did not disclose). Weeks after this post, it was announced that Mensch had left Heat Street in "mid-December." There is no indication if Mensch was still at Heat Street when this post was published.
On December 15, Craig Murray, a "close associate" of Julian Assange, told the Daily Mail that he was a middleman for the leaks and that the handoff took place in D.C. in September. People immediately began tying Rich to Murray, even though Murray's supposed handoff date (of which there was no evidence) took place months after Rich was murdered.
Later that day on the radio, Hannity would cite Murray's account as evidence that Russians were not behind the hacking. Later in the program, Hannity brought up Fox contributor John Bolton's conspiracy theory from December 12 that if something looked like it was the Russians hacking, it might actually be a false flag in which someone made it look like it was the Russians. Assange agreed with the theory on Hannity's show:
Hannity also called Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) an "idiot" for saying that Russians were involved in hacking:
Weeks later, on January 3, Hannity returned to Rich, again saying that Rich may have been the source for Wikileaks:
On January 6, U.S. officials released a report saying that Russians were behind the hacking. Suddenly, Hannity admitted that Russians have been hacking Americans for years:
On January 12, Guccifer 2.0 denied the report that Russia was behind the hacking.
Once again, the conspiracy mill died down, with occasional posts on 4chan and Reddit keeping the conspiracy theory alive.
On February 27, Jack Burkman, the GOP lobbyist who at one point was allied with the Rich family, told the Daily Mail that he had evidence that the Russians killed Rich because Rich had evidence that they were the ones behind the hacking. Burkman's only source was a "former U.S. intelligence officer" -- "an older man, 65-70 years old, who claims to have been a contractor in Iraq in the 1970s." None of Rich's friends or family members have given any indication that Rich had such an explosive secret.
In mid-March, Stone admitted contact with Guccifer 2.0, but he claimed it was innocuous.
On March 23, Burkman talked to Sinclair station WJLA in Washington, D.C., about launching a new investigation. Claiming that the investigation would be launched out of "the Seth Rich Center for Investigations" in Arlington, VA, Burkman now claimed to have a team including "a forensic physiologist, a security specialist and George Washington grad students." But the piece also noted that the Rich family had no part in this effort.
On April 8, a new conspiracy theory emerged alleging that Guccifer 2.0 was the middleman between RIch and WikiLeaks. Model Robbin Young published screenshots on her website of a purported direct message conversation she had with Guccifer 2.0 from August 25. In it, Guccifer 2.0 claimed that the DNC leak came from someone named "Seth" and responded affirmatively when Young talked about Rich's murder. WikiLeaks, the subreddit "r/The Donald," Gateway Pundit, Heat Street, and others immediately ran with the claim.
The conspiracy theory came to its most public stage on May 15. That was a week after Obama intelligence chief James Clapper and former acting attorney general Sally Yates testified before the Senate partially on issues relating to Russian hacking, days after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey as a result of the Russian investigation, and hours after The Washington Post reported that Trump gave highly classified information to Russian diplomats in the Oval Office that compromised a valuable intelligence source.
On that day, Fox News contributor Rod Wheeler told Fox 5 DC, a station owned and operated by Fox News' parent company, that he had evidence that Rich was in contact with WikiLeaks.
Sean Hannity pushed the story on his Twitter account shortly after midnight, including by quote-tweeting a vague allegedly hacked email of Podesta's:
Thoughts twitter?? https://t.co/PYBXzog6ko
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 16, 2017
Wow is this real? https://t.co/NCdoO1eNLT
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 16, 2017
Is this real? https://t.co/XvP3UVJEVz
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 16, 2017
After retweeting a video of the Fox 5 segment, Hannity affirmatively quote-tweeted someone claiming that Assange had previously said that Rich was his source (which, again, Assange had never actually said).
Must watch! Great catch. https://t.co/rxSMwtNTqP
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 16, 2017
The story exploded as conservatives latched onto a tale that ostensibly showed that the focus on Russia was misplaced. Drudge put the story on the top of the site. The subreddit "r/The Donald" went crazy. Pro-Trump media pushed the story hard. Fox News joined in on Tuesday morning. By 10 a.m., Hannity was lashing out at CNN's Oliver Darcy for noticing the trend.
When will you call MS ABC NBC CBS CNN LW media? https://t.co/S0nfV3t4NP
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 16, 2017
Hannity then quote-tweeted Robbin Young, whose story about Seth Rich was different from the one Wheeler was pushing and that Hannity was touting. (Guccifer 2.0 claimed that they served as the middleman between Rich and Wikileaks; Assange had implied and Wheeler had stated that Rich was in touch with WikiLeaks directly.) At no point then or later did Hannity ever seem to notice the discrepancy.
Looking into all this. Thank you. Sean https://t.co/0Wg85vSUj5
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 16, 2017
At one point, Infowars' Paul Joseph Watson even claimed that the Washington Post story about Trump giving highly classified information to the Russians was a hoax intended to cover up the Rich story -- a claim based on Watson completely misreading time stamps on the stories (the Post's went up before the Fox 5 piece did).
But soon, the Rich story fell completely apart. The Fox station admitted on May 16 that D.C. police said that Wheeler's claim was false. Wheeler's contact with the Rich family turned out to be frequent Fox News guest and Breitbart author Ed Butowsky. Wheeler himself admitted to CNN that he actually had no evidence. Wheeler instead claimed that his comments were reflective of the FoxNews.com piece that ran. Fox News' piece, by Malia Zimmerman, cited Wheeler as the source of the claim.
And yet, the transparent bullshit was still enough for pro-Trump media. On May 16, echoing Benghazi conspiracy theories, Gateway Pundit claimed there was a "stand down" order given to police regarding the Rich investigation. An "alt-right" troll asked Trump himself about Rich in the White House, getting no response. Anonymous posts on 4chan linked Rich to Pizzagate, Antonin Scalia's death, Michael Hastings' death, and even Media Matters. An anonymous post on 8chan even suggested that Rich was illegally surveilled and then improperly unmasked by former national security adviser Susan Rice.
Lou Dobbs on Fox Business picked up the line of attack on Rich's family that had previously begun with WikiLeaks and Infowars, saying there was "a partisan shroud" on Rich's family:
Later on May 16, Hannity even declared that Rich's murder "could become one of the biggest scandals in American history":
Later in the show, Hannity talked with American Center for Law and Justice's Jay Sekulow and former Trump deputy campaign manager David Bossie, focusing on the media being wrong about Russia. Hannity continually brought Rich into the conversation:
Hannity then had Wheeler himself on the show. Wheeler continued pushing the conspiracy theory, even while admitting that he never had seen the evidence.
The next day, even more claims collapsed. Newsweek reported that the FBI is not investigating Rich's death, contra Wheeler's claims, and a family spokesperson confirmed that D.C. police found no evidence of stolen emails ever being on Rich's laptop. Fox 5 added an editor's note that Wheeler had backtracked from claims that he made, but it did not retract the story. The story was in shambles. The Rich family demanded full retractions from Fox 5 and Fox News.
Still, conservative media persisted.
On May 18, after Mediaite published a post highlighting people mocking Hannity, Hannity again tweeted his belief in the conspiracy.
Seriously? A 27 year old is murdered and we are told its robbery, yet he had his wallet, phone and watch?https://t.co/PhnIJu4zEt
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 18, 2017
Julian Assange all but identifies the 27 year old DNC worker as a source and we are to ignore this? https://t.co/PhnIJu4zEt
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 18, 2017
Hannity then discussed the case at length on his show, re-airing Assange's Dutch TV interview and previous radio interviews.
On May 19, the Rich family sent a cease-and-desist letter to Rod Wheeler.
The Russian Embassy in the U.K. trolled everyone when it stated as a fact that Rich was WikiLeaks' source. Meanwhile, Infowars claimed that The Washington Post was reporting on the Comey memos only as a distraction from the Rich story.
May 19 is also when Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom inserted himself into the story. Dotcom alleged that he had bombshell information on the case. As Dotcom, who lives in New Zealand, is fighting extradition to the United States to avoid trial for charges including conspiracy to commit racketeering, nearly everyone on the planet saw through the ruse, save for Sean Hannity.
You have that evidence?? https://t.co/l96B0jSQEr
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 20, 2017
Hannity brought up the conspiracy theory again that night on his show with Jay Sekulow, apparently just for the purpose of saying that it is important because if true, it would clear Russia entirely.
Over the weekend, it got even stranger.
Stone escalated attacks on Rich's parents, claiming on his radio show Stone Cold Truth they were engaging in "suspicious" behavior.
Stone also told obvious lies. For instance, he claimed that Craig Murray said Rich was his source. First, Murray did not mention Rich in his comments about serving as a middleman for the emails. Second, Murray said he met his source in September, months after Rich had already been murdered. Third, nothing about what Murray actually did say is credible in the least -- there's no evidence and nothing has been corroborated. There were other factual errors as well, though "Roger Stone says something factually incorrect" is the rule, not the exception.
"Dumbest man on the internet" Jim Hoft jumped head-first into the Dotcom conspiracy, even one-upping Hannity by picking up an anonymous 4chan poster whose only claim to knowledge is "I work in D.C." The post claimed there's a "panic" in D.C. over the Rich conspiracy theory that right-wing media had been pressing.
The following day, Hannity would echo this post:
Complete panic has set in at the highest levels of the Democratic Party. Any bets when the kitchen sink is dumped on my head?? https://t.co/Zt2gIX4zyq
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 22, 2017
Is it possible that one greatest lies ever told is soon exposed? How will the tin foil hat destroy Trump media and deep state deal with this https://t.co/Zt2gIX4zyq
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 22, 2017
Hannity even admitted that it was about the Russia story:
Molly why do u and the lib media keep advancing the unhinged "Trump/Russia" conspiracy? Any evidence? Do you believe the "robbery" story? https://t.co/7vABvWTPa0
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 22, 2017
Also on Sunday, Newt Gingrich joined Fox & Friends Sunday and stated outright that Rich was WikiLeaks' source for DNC emails, even though he had avoided that conclusion in August. Pro-Trump media jumped to promote the interview.
Another Gateway Pundit post took a video that the Rich family did thanking donors to a GoFundMe campaign and stated that it was actually done to thank conservative media for pushing the conspiracy.
Elsewhere, self-described "rogue journalist" Caitlin Johnstone said that someone had edited Rich's Reddit posts. Soon after, she added a "retraction" note to the post following a statement from the Pandas For Bernie Facebook group.
Early on May 22, Assange was still playing coy about Rich and WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks has never disclosed a source. Sources sometimes talk to other parties but identities never emerge from WikiLeaks. #SethRich
— Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) May 22, 2017
But by this point, the story was getting attention in the mainstream media -- but only as a conspiracy theory run amok in right-wing media. As Hannity's conspiracy-mongering had drawn attention, he became a focal point of criticism. The Daily Beast ran a story about Fox News personalities embarrassed by Hannity's actions.
Hannity was undeterred:
Very interesting. My heart is not troubled in the least. Night all. https://t.co/MgOow2XVYu
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 23, 2017
On his radio show, Hannity said that he was right about Rich because he had been right about Trayvon Martin, the black teenager shot and killed while walking through a Florida neighborhood:
(He wasn't right about Trayvon Martin, by the way.)
Geraldo Rivera, a perpetual gadfly when it comes to pushing terrible things, also jumped on the conspiracy.
1) #SethRich shot in back(2)worked for #DNC which, (3)screwed @BernieSanders 4)#WIKILEAKS screwed DNC(5)Did #sethrich leak?(6)is it related?
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) May 22, 2017
Elsewhere, the subreddit "r/The Donald" announced plans for a march on D.C. about Rich's death on its anniversary, claiming 1.1 million people could show up.
On May 23, everything came to a head. Rich's brother personally asked Hannity to stop pushing the conspiracy theories. Shortly thereafter, Fox News retracted its story about Rich, the one that Rod Wheeler originally cited as the basis for his story. A statement from Fox News said that the story did not meet the site's editorial standards.
And yet after all of this, Hannity continued to push the story on his radio show.
On Twitter, Hannity ecstatically promoted Kim Dotcom's "revelation," which was a big nothingburger.
Wow. PLEASE READ ASAP https://t.co/wAmkwQkMMs
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 23, 2017
The Rich family then published an op-ed in The Washington Post begging commentators to stop pushing conspiracy theories about their son.
Hannity then tweeted about the op-ed as if it wasn't just about him
When I saw this story after radio & some personal convos I had 2 day, as a father this really tears at my heart. https://t.co/09pUz9bF7C
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 24, 2017
Shortly before his television show, Hannity tweeted that he still stood behind everything he had said on the topic, but also that he just was on a call with three of his attorneys:
A segment from my radio show today, I stand by everything I said & have said on this topic. More at 10pm tonight. https://t.co/hsWP0s2fcT
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 24, 2017
Last last point! Just got off the phone with 3 of my attorneys. You may think I have Lost it, but they are so amazing. #StopLiberalFascism
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 24, 2017
On his show, Hannity said that he was stopping talking about the matter "for now" at the request of the Rich family:
And yet before his show was over, Hannity hinted on Twitter that he was still looking at the story.
Ok TO BE CLEAR, I am closer to the TRUTH than ever. Not only am I not stopping, I am working harder. Updates when available. Stay tuned!
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 24, 2017
He even retweeted gratuitous praise from Kim Dotcom.
Omg. Very humbled. #Justice4SethRich https://t.co/4Q3bNoBbte
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 24, 2017
Meanwhile, Oliver Darcy, who followed the story closely from the beginning, had a list of good unanswered questions for Fox News about Hannity's despicable and ghoulish actions.
@ReliableSources Some questions for @FoxNews re: Seth Rich story (Fox News spox did not get back to me) https://t.co/rz5qLRvybO pic.twitter.com/Yt5ImBmk7c
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 24, 2017
Hannity then begged for fans to spread the conspiracy theory.
Please retweet. https://t.co/IFiaBp9Tn8
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 24, 2017
By morning, a Republican congressman was echoing Hannity.
Rep Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, says DNC hack may have been "insider job." CNN asks for evidence: "There's stuff circulating on the internet"
— Steve Peoples (@sppeoples) May 24, 2017
Newt Gingrich, after pushing the conspiracy both in August and again on May 21, suddenly said that he didn't know anything about it, telling The Washington Post, "I don't know anything about it. … I know exactly what has been said on the various blog sites. ... I think it is worth looking at."
The retractions and hedging were much too little and far too late. In the bowels of pro-Trump media, Hannity had become a martyr and the Seth Rich conspiracy theory was gospel.
The enduring tragedy of the episode is that the Rich family will likely have to live with this delusion bubbling up for a very long time. Even worse, pro-Trump media will say that they are part of it.
No family deserves that.
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Hannity and Co.'s eight-point plan to protect the Trump administration from reporters
Fox News host Sean Hannity, one of President Donald Trump's most loyal propagandists, has spent the months since the election railing about how the press won't give Trump the same unyielding support he provides on a nightly basis.
Soon after Trump's election, Hannity declared that journalists should no longer be permitted to cover the new president because they supposedly sided with Hillary Clinton's campaign. His rhetoric has only gotten more heated as the Trump administration has floundered over the past months. "The propaganda media is exactly that," the Fox host said on Friday, after another brutal week for the president. "They're out to destroy Trump. That is their main purpose. They want to advance the interests of liberal Democrats and the left. ... They're not journalists."
Hannity has done more than rant about the press. Over the past six months, his show has regularly floated and vetted authoritarian ideas for bolstering the president by curtailing the access and influence of journalists. With Trump casting about for ways to reduce press access to help salvage his presidency, he may soon turn to the ideas generated by his friends at Fox.
Hannity and his guests have recommended requiring reporters to submit press briefing questions in writing or eliminating the briefings altogether, dropping presidential press conferences and interviews with outlets that are not loyal to Trump, kicking the press corps out of the White House, and punishing journalists who are excessively confrontational.
These proposals are dictatorial impulses married to a strategic hatred of the news media, meant to further undermine the press's standing among Americans and limit journalists' ability to provide an impartial narrative that rebuts the administration's lies. On a more fundamental level, they reduce accountability and transparency, allowing the White House to answer only the questions the president's aides choose.
Hannity's contempt for reporters is not new, and it's in line with his decades of conservative commentary. But now he has a friend in the Oval Office -- one who watches his show, shares his belief that the press is unfair to conservatives, is willing to act on it.
Here's what Hannity and friends have called upon the president to do.
"Week after week, we see the liberal media using White House press briefings to cause confusion and controversy and chaos," Hannity declared last night. "I think it's time to restructure these daily briefings so that all members of the press corps end up serving you, the American people, and not themselves." Hannity's plan is to allow White House officials to choose a series of topics they consider appropriate for questions, demand the media submit their questions ahead of time, and answer the ones they deem worthy of responses.
Since the briefings had become what Hannity termed a "dog-and-pony show," the Fox host proposed the following: "The White House press team should regularly develop a list of the top and most important 15, 20, 25 issues of the day. Next, the media should be able to submit questions about these issues in writing, give the White House time to respond with clarity and specificity, and if Sean Spicer then wants to take a couple of questions from the briefing room podium, that's fine. But only on those specific topics."
In a follow-up segment, Fox contributor Laura Ingraham, whom Hannity floated to replace the White House communications director, agreed with the host's plan, but said that the press office should allow questions on only three to five preselected topics per briefing. She added, "There's no need to do these every day. It should only be on an as-needed basis."
Responding to the media firestorm after Trump told NBC's Lester Holt that he had intended to fire Comey regardless of the recommendation from the Justice Department -- and that he did it in part because of the investigation Comey was leading into whether his campaign associates colluded with the Russian government -- Hannity said the administration should punish the press for its reporting.
"As long as they keep reporting fake news, bizarre conspiracy theories and show this bizarre fascination and paranoia about Russia, how about no more press conferences for the Hillary Clinton-colluding media?" Hannity argued on May 12.
Hannity also argued that Trump should "go directly to the American people" by communicating on social media "and don't do any more interviews with Lester Holt, which then is sent over their cable channel and CNN so they can rip it apart."
"Don't do interviews with the networks so they can spend hours and hours and hours tearing up every word this president says, something they'd never do to Obama," Hannity added later in the broadcast. "End it. He doesn't need the press."
Trump has repeatedly gone to Fox for fluffy interviews provided by hosts who are clearly rooting for him, while occasionally sitting down with real journalists like Holt. Hannity would apparently prefer that Fox have a monopoly.
During the same May 12 broadcast, Hannity guest Newt Gingrich, who has deep ties to the president and shares the host's animosity for the press, suggested that the White House hold briefings in which the press secretary and other administration figures "take the country through all the positive things they're doing, and then leave, but not have the press corps there."
"It'll be on YouTube. It'll be on Facebook. It'll be -- may well be on C-SPAN every day -- and say to the press corps, 'You take any part of this you want, but we're not answering your questions,'" Gingrich added.
Gingrich urged the administration to "close down the press room, send the reporters off. They can sit over at the Hay-Adams. They can go to Starbucks across the street. I don't care where they go."
Instead, Gingrich suggested the Trump administration "create an entire new tradition of reporting directly to the American people" by answering questions submitted by non-journalists (who are presumably hand-picked by the press office).
Hannity replied that he loved the idea because "the media will implode! They would not know how to deal with this."
Before settling on banning reporters from the press briefing room altogether, Gingrich had argued in March that the White House should appoint someone to deal with what he termed "nonsense" stories like the Russia investigation. That "garbage man," as Hannity put it, would "start Spicer's press briefing with a five or 10-minute list of that week's nonsense. Then they'd leave." After that, the press would have to focus on "the kind of things that matter to the average American."
During a January 11 press conference, Trump lashed out at CNN reporter Jim Acosta, who repeatedly sought to ask a question, declaring, "I'm not going to give you a question. You are fake news!"
In response, Gingrich told Hannity that the White House should use the incident as an opportunity to "close down the elite press." He suggested that Acosta be banned from reporting on Trump events for 60 days "as a signal, frankly, to all the other reporters that there are going to be real limits" for proper behavior. He also suggested that Trump "extend the privileges to reporters from out of town, folks that fly in from all over the country to be allowed to be at a briefing" because those reporters would be more "courteous" and less "adversarial."
Back in December, Hannity argued that Trump should eliminate press briefings because the media has an institutional bias against him. Instead, Hannity suggested, "I'd offer my 550 radio stations and my show, let him take calls from people around the country, right? And if the The New York Times gets through, God bless them."
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Sen. Casey: Cayman Island shells, subsidies unfair to U.S. rivals
Sen. Bob Casey Jr. has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate how major Chinese solar panel makers were able to raise billions of dollars by accessing American capital markets.
In a letter on Wednesday to SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro, the Scranton Democrat cited a Tribune-Review investigation on Sunday that reported seven Chinese solar firms set up Cayman Islands shell companies so they could be listed on the New York and Nasdaq stock exchanges.
Referring to the Trib report, Casey noted that after raising money through American exchanges, China heavily subsidized the companies, creating a drastic oversupply of panels that "severely impacted" the well-being of American solar firms.
"This gives them an unfair advantage for their companies that our companies don't have," the senator told the Trib in a phone interview.
Casey was joined in his criticism by Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., chairman of the House Energy & Commerce subcommittee on oversight and a severe critic of the Obama administration's handling of a $535 million federal loan guarantee to American solar company Solyndra Inc., which closed this year.
In an e-mail to the Trib, Stearns blasted China as "an international pariah" that uses the Cayman Islands structure so that its "companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange can hide behind Chinese laws that prevent them from being held accountable for securities violations." He said China's subsidies for its solar panel industry are "an unfair practice that undermines the competitiveness of our domestic industry."
In other action yesterday, an SEC administrative law judge suspended trading and revoked the securities of a Chinese software company registered in the Caymans, Longtop Financial Technologies Ltd. The NYSE delisted the company's stock in August. The ruling resulted from the refusal by Longtop and its auditor to disclose key financial documents to U.S. supporting investigators, citing Chinese confidentiality laws.
It was not immediately clear what the judge's decision could portend for solar panel makers and other Cayman-Chinese companies that trade on American exchanges. Longtop can appeal the decision to the SEC.
Longtop formed in 2007, shortly after six of the seven companies that comprise the heart of the Chinese solar industry registered in the Caymans. Goldman Sachs, one of the world's largest investment banks, financially backed Longtop's formation and was an original underwriter of Chinese solar panel makers Hanwha SolarOne and Yingli Green Energy, the Trib found.
Casey wrote that China's actions impacted the value of shares in the Chinese companies that Americans eagerly bought.
As the oversupply of panels drove down prices and cut into profit margins, the Trib reported that some shares once worth in the $80 range were trading for less than $3.
"While the trade angle is essential to protecting our domestic industry, we must also protect our investors," Casey told the SEC.
The problem is not that companies formed in the Cayman Islands are necessarily risky but that when their main assets are really in China, "U.S. investors cannot properly vet their investments," Casey wrote.
Chinese law does not allow China-based auditing firms to divulge the working papers that form the basis of the financial books of Chinese companies.
That was the case in a class-action lawsuit brought in California against one of the Cayman-Chinese solar panel firms. LDK Solar Co. Ltd., formed in the Caymans in 2006 and then traded on the New York Stock Exchange, sparked investor ire after a top insider complained of irregularities in financial reports.
When word leaked in 2007, the stock plunged and investors sued. They settled the lawsuit for a fraction of the original claim after LDK's Chinese auditor, KPMG Huazhen, said it was not able to produce details "due to the applicable law and regulations of the People's Republic of China."
The case is similar to the Longtop Financial case, in which auditor Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu of Shanghai declined to hand over papers to the SEC in connection with a fraud accusation, citing Chinese law.
In the Longtop case, the SEC fought to obtain yesterday's ruling. After the dispute arose this year, the stock exchange delisted Longtop's shares, but they continued to trade in the over-the-counter American market. The firm's stock closed on Tuesday at $0.03 a share, down from a 52-week high of $37.42.
Casey asked the SEC to look at all Chinese companies that set up shells in the Cayman Islands to gain access to American capital markets.
"Without this [accounting] verification, Chinese firms should not be allowed on U.S. stock exchanges under any circumstances," he wrote.


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Russell Slade believes new signing Chris Dagnall will be a great acquisition for Leyton Orient after he scored twice on his debut in their 2-1 win at Crewe.
The O's returned to the top of League 1 after Dagnall, who joined the club on Thursday, came off the bench and struck twice in the space of seven minutes.
Slade said: "He was inspired and they were great finishes. That's what he's about. He's very lively and gets between people and behind people. He can link up as well and he's going to prove to be a great acquisition for the club."
Dagnall linked up impressively with Kevin Lisbie during the second half and the O's boss was not surprised by how quickly they forged a partnership.
Slade said: "They're good players aren't they so it doesn't take long for them to get an understanding even though they haven't had much time on the training field."
Orient returned to the top of the league after Brentford could only draw at Walsall and Slade believes his side had to work very hard to turn around their 1-0 deficit.
The O's boss said: "Brentford have drawn so it's great news really. It was a really hard-earned performance in terms of getting a result here today.
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Hamilton Naki, a poorly educated South African gardener who helped carry out the world's first successful heart transplant, has died at 78.
For many years, Mr Naki's surgical brilliance could not be publicly acknowledged because of the stringent racial laws of successive apartheid governments.
It was only well after South Africa's transition to democracy that Mr Naki's achievements were recognised with an honorary degree in medicine from the University of Cape Town, a presidential life achievement award and a television documentary about his life.
With Christiaan Barnard he helped carry out the world's first heart transplant.
"Hamilton Naki had better technical skills than I did," Professor Barnard said. "He was a better craftsman than me, especially when it came to stitching, and had very good hands in the theatre."
Mr Naki was born in 1926 in the Transkei region of the Eastern Cape. Like many other black youngsters at that time, he helped to herd cattle. He completed his primary schooling, but there was no money available for him to move on to secondary education so at 14 he found work as a gardener at the University of Cape Town.
When Dr Robert Goetz asked the head groundsman if he could spare a strong young man to help with the laboratory animals at the university's medical faculty, Mr Naki started his unofficial medical career.
He started by cleaning cages and helping with the weighing, shaving and injecting of animals - mostly dogs, rabbits and pigs - which were to be used by Dr Goetz in demonstrations to medical students. Mr Naki's innate skills in handling animals and his steady, dexterous hands impressed the surgeons, and he was soon slicing, stitching and using drips on the animals.
On one occasion he insisted on rocking the pram of a medical student's baby with one hand while he performed a liver transplant on a pig with the other.
Mr Naki's skills became famous among Cape Town's young medical students, who were astonished at his grasp of anatomical terms and his instinctive, analytical mind. When questioned about his lack of formal education, Mr Naki said: "My eyes and ears are my university."
When Professor Barnard performed his ground-breaking heart transplant at Groote Schuur hospital in 1967, Mr Naki was a key member of the team that worked around the clock on the heart of the donor, a young woman who had died in a motor accident.
Professor Barnard, with his toothsome smile and dashing air, became an international celebrity overnight; Mr Naki, the black man who was by his side during the surgery, remained officially a gardener at the university, although he was quietly appointed a laboratory assistant in the medical faculty.
It was years later that Professor Barnard told Dirk de Villiers, a film producer and friend, the remarkable story of his assistant. Even so, it was as a gardener that Mr Naki retired, drawing the meagre pension with which he maintained his family at the home in Langa where he died last week from complications brought about by a heart problem.
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But I'm guessing that this phenomenon is more correlation than causation
Remember that every URL has its own PageRank score, so PR is not something that a "site" has.But a site as a whole does have a crawl budget, at least that's my understanding of the current conventional wisdom. I do remember there was talk about it and also about "using it wisely" as in not creating too many bad URLs that Gbot crawls only to realize that that those are not the URLs to index.
Then they put those URLs in a crawl list which is prioritized by a complex algorithm.Complex alphabet sorting algorithm ;) LOL.
how would individual ranks of pages explain alphabetized carpet-crawing?
From what I've learned, googlebot does not usually crawl a site by following links the way a human user would. Instead, the crawl team LEARNS about other URLs by indexing pages. Then they put those URLs in a crawl list which is prioritized by a complex algorithm. The most common crawl is one where googlebot is "given its orders" from the beginning - a list of URLs to crawl on the site.
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I have never personally seen GoogleBot crawl in alphabetical order, but I have seen it crawl in url-length order.@deadsea: good catch! I forgot to mention that one! Also, a combined alphabetical AND URL length at the same time - downright creepy. Happens on forum sites all the time and easier to catch when it gets stuck on slight variations to some very popular topic that comes up over and over. I convert URLs into readable form, same as title but shortened to 60 symbols or less. Perhaps I get caught up in this alpha/length ranges because my URLs are less diverse in size than normal 'cause I cut down all long ones to exactly 60 chars.


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Violent Reactions to Pro-Life Exhibit at UMass/Amherst
Sidebar: Pro-Life Display Trashed by Vandals
Kiera Manikoff, a political science major and a junior, scuffled with a female who verbally harassed her and held a hammer over her. Charges are pending against the assailant.
Desiring to start a debate about abortion during Holy Week, members of the UMass Republican Club purchased lumber last week to erect 160 crosses which they painted white. On Sunday night, April 13, the students set up the crosses to simulate an "abortion graveyard."
Signs with provocative messages were interspersed through the graveyard. One sign explained the white crosses: "Abortion kills 160 babies in the U.S. every hour." Another said: "Abortion doesn't make you unpregnant, it makes you the mother of a dead baby."
On Monday morning, Manikoff, a petite brunette, stopped by the display. Club members expected mischief to occur, so Manikoff came prepared with a hammer and nails to repair any signs or crosses. But she was unprepared for an encounter with an irate female.
"She reaches across and takes the hammer out of my hand, gesturing it in my face and going, 'How dare you as a woman. You should be ashamed of yourself.'"
A scuffle ensued as Manikoff attempted to prevent the larger woman from swinging the hammer. Manikoff ended up on the ground after her assailant pushed her.
Although over a dozen spectators were watching the altercation, only two young men, whom Manikoff described as teenagers, came to her assistance. "We saw the whole thing. We're sorry we couldn't get here in time to get her off you," they said.
Regarding the civil rights charge, Manikoff said a campus officer contacted her on Tuesday, April 15, and told her that the other woman had "inhibited your right to express yourself."
Dave Peterson, a Republican Club member, was manning the exhibit during the noontime shift on Wednesday, April 16. He said that the incident involving Manikoff was not the only harassment the pro-life students have faced.
Yet Peterson sees the silver lining, "We've gotten a lot of good debate out of it, too."
"I was a little shaken, but it motivated us more," adds Kiera Manikoff of the Republican Club's willingness - as well as her willingness - to continue to take a stand for the pre-born.
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A Chinese businessman has been caught after illegally building two flats on top of his 18th-floor penthouse, which he tried to hide by covering it with plants.
Journalists confirmed that the block should have only been 18 storeys high, but had somehow acquired an extra two floors that were not officially registered. People had been surprised when he put huge trees and thick bushes on the roof.
He later added camouflage nets filled with plastic plant foliage. But under the cover of greenery, he slowly started building an extension, incredibly hiding it from most of those in the block of flats, by saying he was doing renovations on the 18th floor.
The scam was revealed when one of the residents complained to the media after becoming concerned that it might damage the rest of the building.


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CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME IN FIRST REFERENCE TO CLASH - FILE - This Jan. 24, 2011 photo shows "Sesame Street" muppet Elmo and puppeteer Kevin Clash poses for a portrait in the Fender Music Lodge during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival to promote the film "Being Elmo" in Park City, Utah. Clash has taken a leave of absence from the popular kids' show following allegations that he had a relationship with a 16-year-old boy. Sesame Workshop says Kevin Clash denies the charges, which were first made in June by the alleged partner, who by then was 23. In a statement issued Monday, Nov. 12, 2012, Sesame Workshop says its investigation found the allegation of underage conduct to be unsubstantiated. (AP Photo/Victoria Will, file)
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