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Plato's Cave
(Thanks to Dr. Greg Oakes for sharing this information.)
Plato and Socrates
- Plato, 429-347BCE; Socrates, 469-399BCE
- Socrates was Plato's teacher, mentor, and friend. Plato helped to immortalize Socrates by making him the central dramatic and intellectual figure of his dialogues. Socrates himself wrote nothing (extant); his method was oral. Other contemporary sources commenting on Socrates include Xenophon and Aristotle.
- Socrates' concerns were primarily moral and spiritual, and he was generally skeptical about our knowledge of these important matters; virtue, for him lay in acknowledging this ignorance.
- Plato's career can be defined by reference to Socrates: "early dialogues" such as the Apology reflect Socrates' method and conclusions; a "middle" period (including Republic, from which our excerpt is drawn) establishes Plato's own positive theories; some later writings (Laws, Statesman, Timaeus) make little or no reference to Socrates.
Plato's Cave – In General
- The Cave Allegory is about human knowledge: – about truth, reality, and our access to it. It provides an excellent symbol for human ignorance, mis-understanding, error, and the difficulties and challenges of education. The truth is elusive, difficult to find, requiring significant effort and training to obtain.
- Knowledge is not direct, but mediate: The reason education is difficult, the reason human life is fraught with error is that we do not access reality directly, but only mediately via the senses. (I find it very useful to tell students specifically why learning is a challenge; it helps us to understand why we must work so hard at it. Without such an understanding, we are simply frustrated and bewildered. Thus, in part, the role of the philosopher returning to the cave.) More generally, we have the idea of appearance versus reality. Reality often appears to us in disguise; it is up to us to discern the "true" reality behind appearance. In other words, the condition of the prisoners in the cave offers a dramatic representation – a metaphor – of our pre-reflective epistemic condition. This condition is at several removes from actual reality: ordinary human perception is like the shadow cast by artificial light via a puppet representation of an actual object. That's two removes plus an artificial medium of "light" or insight. More on these details, below.
- Only reason provides access to truth: Plato's second main point is that it is the human intellect, not the senses, that affords knowledge of reality. Plato thinks that the senses offer only a confused, attenuated vision of reality. Reason, by contrast, is capable of embracing true reality. This idea is relatively familiar to our students today, but is seldom articulated clearly and thus rewards emphasis and exploration.
- The road to knowledge is long, difficult, but vital and continual: Note the strong imprisonment image in the Cave Allegory: humans value freedom perhaps above all else, and there is no more powerful bond than those afflicting the mind. Most students are highly responsive to the need for recognizing and surpassing their own mental limitations.
Ironically, instruction is frequently resisted:
o The Educator: returning to the Cave. It is difficult to think of a more compelling metaphor for the thankless labors of the educator than that provided by Plato. Again, The nature of our process: we invariably resist the truth – sometimes violently – where it disturbs our present world-view. Here, as elsewhere, students can readily supply illustrations from their experiences.
o Note, too, that the process of escaping the Cave is perpetual: although Plato might have thought otherwise, we evidently never reach a stage when we have secured the truth once and for all. Rather, we continually face the challenge of self-examination and re-evaluation of the accuracy and completeness of our present understanding.
Some Examples and Illustrations
- Paradigm Examples: the basic idea, here, is to provide an example of something clearly real but accessible only by intellect.
o Physical Science: This is a great opportunity to get your science students on board early, and then to use that tie to bolster the more general point about reality and our access to it.
§ Most students accept that what chemistry and physics tell us about massive bodies is only remotely related with their appearance. Thus, compare sense perception (colors, shapes, textures) with a scientific understanding of the objects perceived (light wavelength and refraction, chemical composition, microscopic and sub-microscopic structures).
§ Force, mass, duration, and distance are not, strictly speaking, observable in sense; certainly nothing appears to us in the form of F = m1m2/r2. That representation is purely intellectual. Similarly, the duration of an hour is not to be mistaken for the psychological experience of waiting.
§ In general, what we commonly call the "physical" is only the appearance of the physical to us. To the extent that our physics is correct, the reality described is quite foreign to our senses, and is represented in primarily mathematical terms.
o Beauty: Many different things may be beautiful: physical things such as sunsets, men, women, and flowers; more abstract things such as love, motherhood, an act of faith, or a move in a chess-game; and fully abstract things, such as a mathematical proof, or an idea. Clearly, Plato reasons, if any one thing makes all these instances of beauty, that thing, beauty, cannot itself be a physical object. And insofar as it is our rational judgment by means of which we know something to be beautiful, we must conclude the thing so known to be an object of the intellect, and thus ideal.
o Examples of "perfect" geometrical shapes (circles, triangles, etc.) exist only ideally, if at all. But it is by means of them that we represent and understand the imperfect spatial world around us.
- More broadly: There are many aspects of human experience that answer to an illusion/reality paradigm, and Plato's allegory offers a vivid vehicle for discussing them. These include the following, the first two of which are Plato's primary concerns:
o Our relationship to physical reality via the senses and reason. (Do we all respond the same way to a painting?)
o Our access to and understanding of moral truth, and other value-laden objects;
o The relationship between societal norms and the realities of social behavior;
o The relationship between self and self-identity (or self-construct, or self-concept);
o The relationship between the media and reality.
The Cave
- Some general questions about the relationship between reality and human understanding: What is this relationship, generally speaking? Why does Plato represent ordinary human understanding as what the prisoners see? What are some examples of a "disconnect" between appearance and reality? Can you think of a case in which what you thought or believed or perceived turned out not to be the case? Discussion of student examples usually sets the basic idea of a problematic truth-appearance relationship. (One typical example is the "my best friend lied to me.")
- In order to bring out the pervasiveness of the truth-appearance disconnect, students should identify different "realms" in which the disconnect occurs. These correspond to the different basic realms or regions of reality we encounter in experience: the physical world; the value-laden world; the social world; the self; the world of media (television, the internet). Students should think of these as different, distinct, if related "realities," to suggest other major facets of human reality, if any, and to consider problems of access specific to each. What I'm headed towards is discussion of why our access to reality is vexed.
- That's the next main question: why is it so difficult to know the truth? Try thinking in these terms: look for an account of (a) the nature of the given reality and (b) the nature of our access to it – i.e., the faculty by means of which we know (a), and so (c) an account of why (b) doesn't always get us (a). In fact, it will be difficult to articulate (c), because, after all, the nature of reality (a) is elusive, to say the least. Consider here Plato's view of either physical or value-laden reality. (See below.) Keep in mind that there is much about most everything that we do not yet understand.
- Ultimately, we conclude that reality is, after all, elusive, difficult to articulate, difficult to know directly or with certainty. A couple of basic concepts will help you grasp this idea, familiar as it is:
o The biological origin and nature of the faculties of sense: the organs of sense and the central nervous system are biological systems – effectively so much goo. It would be surprising if anything depicted in a fundamentally gooey medium was not mis-perceived by us.
o The biological origin and nature of the faculty of reason: This is to go beyond Plato, and its implications threaten the possibility of human knowledge. See Nietzsche and other "anti-realist" philosophers who worry that the way we think is not reflective of reality, much less the way we sense.
o Hormones and feelings: an application of the above, it is notorious that one's mood can affect how the world appears to us. For example, feeling angry and so perceiving a loved one as a threat! Similarly amusing examples can be based on sexual arousal, intoxication, etc.
o The homunculus: A homunculus is a person inside a person. But this is not the nature of human perception. There is no little man looking out through our eyeholes. Rather, our access to reality is indirect – we require a representation of reality in my mind, a model of reality, in order to experience it at all.
o The representation/reality distinction: This is a generalization of the above: the terms of or manner in which we experience reality are not identical with the terms or nature of reality per se.
- Plato is himself most famous, philosophically, for his theory of Forms. The Forms constitute ultimate reality; they are both the essence and source of reality; knowledge of them is knowledge of Truth.
- Plato's Forms are ideal, meaning that they are (a) non-physical and (b) of the same nature as mental objects, generally. This last is important epistemologically: since the forms are themselves "idea-like", it is possible for humans to form direct, noetic (of, relating to, or based on the intellect relationships) with them.
- Plato's best examples involve concepts such as beauty and justice. See above for Beauty. Similarly, it is easy to see that "justice" doesn't have any particular sensory appearance, but most students will accept that it is real (e.g., 9/11).
- Ultimate reality for Plato, then, is ideal, abstract, and also eternal and immutable. The Forms are in other words essentially (like) ideas. (Note that ideas don't change: to think of the idea of beauty as changing is simply to think of a different idea, such as ugliness.)
- Where are the Forms? And When? Nowhere, and no-when. (If no one acts justly, does that "eliminate" justice? would there then be no such thing? Not on this earth, perhaps, no instances; but it would still be true that we should be just. How can that be, unless there is such a thing, which has no spatiotemporally location? Note that "ideal", here, is best interpreted as "not like the material"; otherwise, however, and aside from intellectual accessibility, we know little about it.)
Levels of Knowing and Truth in Plato's Cave
I. Mere appearance: no representation/reality distinction drawn; unquestioning, unexamined thought; characteristic of the uneducated masses; "seeing is believing", "you are as you appear to me"
II. Appearance/Reality distinction drawn. This is the beginning of ascent from ignorance to knowledge.
III. Contemplation of reality, truth, by class or kind.
IV. Possible unity within kinds or classes of truth, reality. (What is the Real, such that all real things share in it?)
Allegory Element
Epistemological Status
Ontological Status
prisoner understanding
at best, "mere opinion"
common belief
shadows on the cave wall
mere appearance of reality
third-order reality: presentations in sense to us of second-order reality
images; sights, sounds, tastes, etc., e.g., colors of a sunset
the puppets
immediate source of mere appearance of reality
artificial models of reality
physical objects and processes, e.g., an instance of beauty
artificial vehicle of knowledge
mathematics, science, reason
extra-cave objects
proper objects of knowledge
actual reality
Ideal, immaterial, eternal, immutable reality; Plato's "forms" – i.e., ideas, e.g., the form of Beauty per se, the law of gravity
source and essence of reality
(Reality per se; the Good?)
Summary of Main Points
- Our access to reality is indirect – mediated by sense, but found only in reason.
- This representation/reality dichotomy occurs in every facet of our lives, including the physical, social, familial, interpersonal, personal, etc.
- Consequently, we must (a) always be aware that our understanding of reality may be in error and so (b) must always strive to look beyond appearance for a rational understanding of reality.
- The Cave provides a useful mnemonic for the above: don't be bound by appearance.


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i have a ton of favorite movies... it would take me forever to list them all, but the list includes both Boondock Saints movies, Pineapple express, Grandma's Boy, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, american History X, 300, Thor, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Leaves of Grass, and The imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. (you get serious brownie points if you have seen that last one lol)
Shows: Game of Thrones, Wilfred, Southpark, Workaholics, Walking dead, Always Sunny in Philly, Ancient Aliens, Tosh.0, Burn Notice, Breaking Bad, and some others
I have way too many favorites to put here, but a few of them are Silversun Pickups, The Black Keys, Wolfmother, Trevor Hall, Pink Floyd, Damian and Bob Marley, The Hold Steady, Bassnectar, Matisyahu, The White Stripes, Smashing Pumpkins, Dream Theatre, Lil Wayne, Muse, Coldplay, Modest Mouse, Sublime, Flogging Molly, Counting Crows, Eminem, Kings of Leon, The Postal Service, and Titus Andronicus
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(being a little nerdy is a plus also)

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|Police identify Sulphur Springs man injured in motorcycle
|Kerry Craig | News-Telegram Assistant Editor
Nov. 17, 2005 -- Police accident investigators said Thursday that the identity of a man injured in one of two motorcycle accidents last weekend has been learned.
�We have finally determined that the individual that was involved in the single motorcycle accident on Gilmer Street Sunday night is Michael Glenn McFadden, 22 years old,� said Sulphur Springs Police Capt. Norman Colyer.
Officers had initially been unable to make a positive identification of the man. He did not have a driver's license or other identification in his possession at the time of the accident, and there was no license plate on the motorcycle.
Police later learned the motorcycle belonged to another person and was being stored by a third person.
On Wednesday, McFadden remained in the surgical intensive care unit at Parkland Hospital in Dallas following surgery.
Colyer said the cause of the accident is still undetermined.
�According to witness statements from people that actually saw the accident, he just went down,� the captain said. �There was not another vehicle involved, there was nothing in the roadway.�
Accident investigators said a number of phone calls had been received from people who said they had seen the motorcycle near the Interstate 30 service road just before the accident occurred.
Another person injured in a motorcycle crash Sunday is expected to be released from the hospital this week.
Adrian Lamont Wooten, 32, of Sulphur Springs was riding a motorcycle and Chris Young, 19, also of Sulphur Springs, was riding a mini motorcycle near Pacific Park when the two bikes collided around 5:30 p.m. on Lamar Street. Both riders sustained severe injuries and were taken to Hopkins County Memorial Hospital. Wooten died of injuries sustained in the crash shortly after arriving at the hospital. Young was flown to Parkland Hospital for treatment of broken bones and severe lacerations.
Colyer said Young was not injured as seriously as first believed. He said family members told accident investigators that Young was doing well and was expected to possibly be home sometime this week.
Funeral services for Adrian Lamont Wooten Sr. will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. Interment will follow in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. An informal visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home.
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The Atlanta Braves and New York Mets finally finished their marathon of three games in just under 24 hours Tuesday night at Turner Field, but the Braves were on the short end of a 6-1 final in the Major League debut of Zack Wheeler.
Wheeler was effectively wild, giving up no runs over six innings and striking out seven but walking five. Despite Andrelton Simmons actually acting like a lead-off man by drawing two walks and acquiring two hits, the Braves weren't able to bring him in with Wheeler on the mound.
The Braves' prime chance to score came in the sixth inning when B.J. Upton singled and Brian McCann walked with one out. That threat was quickly ended when Dan Uggla struck out and Chris Johnson popped out.
"It was exhausting," Simmons said on braves.com. "I'm just glad it's over with. We'll get some rest and get ready for tomorrow's game."
It was another case of no support for Braves starting pitchers, this time for Paul Maholm. After the Braves squandered their opportunity, Maholm took his only damage with an Anthony Recker two-run homer in the seventh on a 3-1 count, though Maholm felt his strike zone got squeezed by home plate umpire Paul Schrieber.
"I struck him out," Maholm said. "Three of the pitches were strikes and then I've got to throw it 3-1. Obviously, I didn't make a good pitch. But you've got to look at it that there were three pitches that were strikes. He took advantage of getting into a hitter's count."
Other than the homer, Maholm was sharp, striking out seven and facing the minimum through three innings thanks to a couple of timely double plays. Regardless, he still had some harsh words for Schrieber.
"The first few innings, I was making pitches and getting calls," Maholm said. "Then a couple innings later, I was making the same exact pitches and they weren't called. It's part of the game. You've got to deal with the strike zone day to day and see what they are calling. The first few innings, they were strikes, and later on, they weren't."
The wheels would fall off in the eighth inning when Anthony Varvaro gave up four runs on four hits, two errors and a walk, all with two outs.
The Braves, who went 0-for-12 with runners in scoring position, scored their only run in the bottom of the seventh with runners on second and third with one out. Justin Upton hit a sacrifice fly to score Jordan Schafer, but the Mets intentionally walked Freddie Freeman, his third of the game, to get B.J. Upton to ground out.
"We definitely had chances to score runs and we didn't do anything about it," Simmons said. "We'll just try to forget about it and try to come out tomorrow and do it."
Atlanta still has two more games Wednesday and Thursday against the Mets.Tags: Andrelton Simmons, Anthony Varvaro, Atlanta, Atlanta Braves, Baseball, Freddie Freeman, Justin Upton, MLB, New York Mets, Paul Maholm, Paul Schrieber, Zack Wheeler


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2014 NHRA: Pro Stock Motorcycle Riders Anticipate Fast Start To Kick Off Season At Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals
The first of 16 events for the Pro Stock Motorcycle category on the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing circuit is this weekend at the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals at historic Auto-Plus Raceway at Gainesville.
For reigning world champion Matt Smith, it marks the first opportunity to debut a new bike he hopes will yield similar results to a memorable 2013 campaign that included four wins in eight final round appearances.
âWeâre looking to be just as strong this year as we were a season ago,â said Smith, a two-time world champ in the class and rider of the Matt Smith Racing/Stockseth Racing Buell. âWeâre going to do our best to carry it over. Itâs real exciting to enter the season with that No. 1 on your bike. It puts a target on your back, but thatâs what you like. Iâm trying to defend my title. Weâve worked hard and prepared, and it should be a great event.â
Antron Brown (Top Fuel), Johnny Gray (Funny Car), Allen Johnson (Pro Stock) and Hector Arana Jr. (Pro Stock Motorcycle) were last yearâs winners of the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series event that will once again be televised on ESPN2.
While Smith was impressive in last yearâs Mello Yello Countdown to the Championship, winning three of the six events and advancing to four final rounds, he will have a host of strong challengers in the two-wheel category, including three-time Gainesville winner Eddie Krawiec, Andrew Hines, Michael Ray, newcomer Chaz Kennedy and defending event champ Arana Jr., who will be joined by his father Hector Sr. and brother Adam.
After struggling early in the 2013 season, Krawiec and his Screaminâ Eagle Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson teammate Hines found their rhythm in the Countdown, combining to win the other three Countdown races. Krawiec, the 2012 world champ, believes the team carried that momentum over into 2014.
âAbsolutely I think those wins really motivated us in the offseason,â said Krawiec, who won three straight in Gainesville from 2010-2012. âI think we've gotten a lot better over the winter, and we were able to work with the full combination of our new ideas. It appears that we have very consistent motorcycles, and we can now duplicate the setup from run to run, and really see the results of our tuning. Iâm really itching to line up and pop the clutch on my V-Rod.â
Hines, whose first career win came at Gainesville in 2004 and also marked the first victory for the Harley-Davidson program, agreed with his teammate and both appear ready to kick off the year in style.
âI am really excited to go racing,â Hines said. âAs the season went along last year we found we had to change our perspective on tuning the new engine, and that came together in October. I think we took that momentum and positive attitude into the off-season. We've found some different ways to make horsepower, and we are feeling really motivated after testing this week. We are feeling good as a team.â
For the defending champ Arana Jr., itâs simply a matter of repeating his fabulous performance at the prestigious event from a year ago. In fact, Arana Jr. and his Lucas Oil Buell won the first three events of the season, something he wouldnât mind repeating in 2014.
âI set some pretty high standards last season in Gainesville for myself,â said Arana Jr., who struggled in the Countdown and finished fourth in points. "I look to do the same again this year. It's a new season and I want to start it off like I did in 2013 with a win in Gainesville.
"Our goal as a team though is for one of us to win the race. Ultimately to have at least two of us end up in the finals would be ideal, and with all three of us being in the semifinals. We're going to try our best to qualify really well and hopefully end up first, second and third.â
Arana Sr. finished fifth in the points standings in 2013 on his Lucas Oil Products Buell, but the three-bike team didnât have quite the finish everyone wanted in the Countdown. That kept everyone motivated throughout the winter, making the team eager to start 2014 strong.
âWe worked hard to get ready,â Arana Sr. said. âWe regrouped and learned some things from last year. Hopefully, we can stay consistent this year. We worked hard trying to find little things to make the bike go faster. That's what we focused on, the little things, so we can make fewer mistakes. Hopefully it will lead us to accomplish more at the races.â
Smith and his three-bike team includes John Hall, who won two races a season ago, and wife Angie. Winning the Gatornationals would be a dream come true for Smith, who was the No. 1 qualifier in 2013 but has yet to win in Gainesville. It would also represent the best possible way to start the defense of his world championship.
âGainesville is definitely one of the premier events the bikes race at,â Smith said. âItâs one place Iâve always wanted to win. Thatâs always been a goal of mine. Thereâs going to be some strong competition, but my mindset is to go lay down some big numbers right off the bat and let everyone know Iâm serious about defending this title.â
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In Funny Car, John Force wrote another chapter in his legendary career by claiming the 2013 title â his 16th Funny Car championship â and he is the early-season points leader in 2014 after winning in Pomona. Force is a seven-time Gatornationals winner, but Ron Capps and a host of others, including Forceâs daughter Courtney, Alexis DeJoria, who won in Phoenix to claim her first career victory, Matt Hagan and Robert Hight are other capable winners at the ultra-fast facility.
The reigning Pro Stock champ, Jeg Coughlin, will look for more success with Mopar teammate Allen Johnson, who was the most recent event winner in the class, while fellow Dodge driver V Gaines currently holds the series points lead. Winternationals winner and four-time Gatornationals winner Jason Line and his Summit Racing Equipment Chevy Camaro are seeking another early season win, and Erica Enders-Stevens, Shane Gray, Vincent Nobile and Dave Connolly always provide tough competition in the parity-filled 200-mph factory hot rod category.
The NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series and the NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series, which also is making its 2014 season debut, will thrill the crowds as well during the weekend with intense competition on the track.
As always, fans will have the opportunity to interact with their favorite drivers as theyâre granted an exclusive pit pass to the most powerful motorsports attraction on the planet. While visiting the pits, interactive NHRA Nitro Alley and the NHRA Manufacturers Midway, fans will also want to check out NHRAâs popular Hot Rod Junction presented by the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum that offers a spectacular display of many nostalgic dragsters, race cars and hot rods on display, including vintage machines that were driven by âBig Daddyâ Don Garlits, K.S. Pittman, âBig Johnâ Mazmanian, Bruce Larson, among others. There will also be several NHRA Legends of Drag Racing autograph sessions, allowing fans the rare opportunity to meet drag racing stars of the past.
Mello Yello Series qualifying begins on Friday, March 14, with sessions at noon and 2:15 p.m. The final two qualifying sessions will take place Saturday, March 15, also at noon and 2:15 p.m. Final eliminations are scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. on Sunday, March 16.
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I have 2 skunks I am working on, one is in the freezer-I'm looking for someone to freeze dry it, and the other one is almost ready for tanning, but I cant get all the odor out, here were the steps I took up till now.
1. skinned skunk out and rough fleshed.
2. Mixed up 3% proxide,baking soada,Dawn and sumrged for an hour.
3. Rinsed in cold water 3x's
4. Salted
5. resalted
6. rehydrated
7. pickled for 4 days in saftee acid
8. degreased in 2gals water and Kemsol (3 times)
9. pickled again
I am ready to tan this smelly bugger and it still has a bit of an odor to it, what else can I do? will the Liqua tan cover up some of the remaining odor or will the odor eventually diminish once mounted and dry? Any help I can get here will be GREATLY APPRICIATED>
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did you forget to nuetralize it? So does it smell when mounting a skunk or is it not that bad?
Skunks odors is from the oil they spray out that gets on the fur. This can be washed off by washing in white gas our a solvate. The best time is in the green state after you flesh it. A quick rinse after. I would pickle it again before tanning.


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A TRAVEL pass scheme to help people get to work when they find a job has been approved by Wirral's cabinet.
A report before councillors at Wallasey Town Hall on Thursday night asked them to approve the purchase of Trio, Solo, Saveaway or Railpass tickets from Merseytravel as part of the council's Travel Solutions Scheme.
The tickets will be given to people who find employment but need financial help to get to the workplace.
Those meeting the criteria would receive the relevant travel pass for their needs for one month, while waiting for their first pay packet.
The Travel Solutions scheme is fully funded through the Department of Transport's Local Sustainable Transport Fund.
It received a major funding boost last year, with a successful bid for £3.2 million adding to the previous 'key component' funding of £810,000 the scheme had already received.
Councillor Harry Smith, cabinet member for Streetscene and Transport Services said: "It's good news for the unemployed seeking access to their employment sites, particularly in poor transport areas. All in all it's a good scheme.
"We know that cost can be a major barrier to people accepting job offers which are a little bit further for them to travel.
"The Travel Solutions scheme has been helping to remove those barriers by providing a variety of options to help people travel to work and the idea of providing them with free travel passes for a month, while they earn their first month's pay, is an extension of that."


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Local schools get money to modernize
Province funds renos for St. Albert Catholic High and Legal's École Citadelle
Tuesday, Feb 04, 2014 03:30 pm
St. Albert Catholic High students were flying high this Tuesday after the province announced it will spend $21 million to upgrade their school.
St. Albert MLA Stephen Khan popped into the school's start-of-the-semester assembly Tuesday to say that the province has approved a major modernization of the building.
Khan said he grew up about 150 metres from the school and has many fond memories of it.
"We're going to take what's one of the best high schools in the province … and we're going to turn it into one of the best facilities and one of the best schools in all the world."
Catholic board superintendent David Keohane confirmed that the modernization will cost about $21 million. It was the top priority on the board's capital upgrades list.
The modernization is actually a continuation of one started back around 2008, said co-principal Garret Doll. Back then, the school added a new meeting space (the Hawk's Nest) and gymnasium to the building.
The school was originally built in 1967, long before the advent of power-hungry features like Wi-Fi, Doll said.
This latest round of renos will include modern pipes and wiring to support the school's new needs, Doll said. They're going to expand the career and technology studies lab and fitness room, add new change rooms, upgrade the science labs, build a new workspace for staff and create new special-needs and phys-ed programs.
It's extremely exciting, Doll said.
"It's going to be touching students throughout the school."
Work will likely be complete by 2016, Keohane said.
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Francophone students in Legal also got some modernization dollars last week.
Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock MLA Maureen Kubinec dropped by Legal's École Citadelle Friday to say that the province will fund a modernization of the school.
Francophone board superintendent Henri Lemire pegged the bill for the reno, which is already in progress, at $400,000 to $500,000.
École Citadelle is Legal's francophone school, and is housed in the old convent building attached to the Centralta Community Centre.
The convent itself is about 93 years old and full of extraneous storage rooms and bathrooms, said principal Michelle Baril.
"It wasn't really built to be a school."
As a result, students are cramped, as their classrooms are about 40 per cent smaller than average.
The school started renovating last year by knocking down some walls, adding a fence and storage room, putting in new intercoms and security systems, and moving the front office, Baril said.
The work is about 90 per cent done at this point, Lemire said. The grant is meant to reimburse the school for its costs.
"It's a good transition towards a new school in a few years."
These announcements were part of the province's $503 million plan to build 50 new schools and modernize 70 by 2016.
A $10 million modernization of St. Albert's W.D. Cuts was announced last month.


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A daughter who has come to imagine the worst about her mother learns the facts are quite different -- and more shocking than she ever imagined -- in this adaptation of Stephen King's best-selling novel. Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates)… More A daughter who has come to imagine the worst about her mother learns the facts are quite different -- and more shocking than she ever imagined -- in this adaptation of Stephen King's best-selling novel. Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates) has spent nearly a quarter of a century looking after a mean-spirited woman named Vera Donovan (Judy Parfitt) on a small island off the coast of Maine; when Vera is found dead after falling down a flight of stairs, Dolores is considered a prime suspect in her murder. Word of the affair reaches New York-based journalist Selena St. George (Jennifer Jason Leigh), Dolores's estranged daughter. Though she's about to leave on an important assignment, Selena instead flies to Maine to find out what's happened with her mother. Selena's father, Joe St. George (David Strathairn), died under mysterious circumstances 15 years before; more than a few people believe Dolores killed Joe, and many feel she did the same with Vera. Though the strong and tough-talking Dolores stands her ground, police detective John Mackey (Christopher Plummer) is convinced that there's more to her story than she's letting on, and in time Selena learns the ugly truth about her mother's connection to both deaths. This was Kathy Bates's second starring role in a film based on Stephen King's work; she earned an Academy Award for her breakthrough role in the movie version of King's Misery.
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Poll: Will you boycott Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream?
The Queensland government has called on consumers to boycott Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream over their save the reef campaign. Will you be boycotting the company?
- Yes, the campaign is damaging the reef's reputation
- No, I don't support a boycott
- No, I am more likely to buy Ben & Jerry's because of their stance
- I don't like Ben & Jerry's ice cream anyway
- Who's Ben & Jerry?
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I've never heard of Ben & Jerry Ice Cream before today, but I have more faith in them than I would ever have with Campbell Newman and the Liberal/National Party of Australia, they are the most incompetent idiots to ever govern the State of Queensland.
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- Crowey
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- April 29, 2014, 12:45PM
Does Campbell own Ben and Jerry's stock?
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- Major Taylor
- Location
- Toowrong
- Date and time
- April 29, 2014, 12:55PM
I've never even wanted to try Ben & Jerry's before, but I will now try some on principle just to stick it to the LNP.
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- Voter
- Location
- Ashgrove
- Date and time
- April 29, 2014, 1:14PM
gotta wonder how such purportedly well educated people can be so incredibly gobsmakingly DUMB. We have a heritage listed one off wonder and they want to risk it by pumping crap sludge exactly where it is most likely to land on the reef. Interesting to note what is happening in NSW with the ACCC. I smell the rot in QLD and it is making me gag.
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- gotabrain
- Location
- GrooteEylandt
- Date and time
- April 29, 2014, 1:33PM
@gotabrain - because "pumping crap sludge" is what's happening now? I'm glad in your professional opinion as an environmental scientist you can help the rest of us see the merits of supporting a multinational brand sell more of its product to an obese nation. By the way - how much energy does it take to keep ice cream cold? Guess it doesn't matter - I'm sure they use solar or wind power.
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- better informed
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- Queensland
- Date and time
- April 29, 2014, 3:02PM
Is this the same party that wanted to ban boycotts of firms on environmental grounds?
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- bazmac
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- brisbane
- Date and time
- April 29, 2014, 2:01PM
No, the same party wants to ban boycotts of companies that damage the environment. Boycotting companies that support environmental causes is okay with the LNP.
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- Mike
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- Date and time
- April 29, 2014, 3:06PM
Hmmm... Ben & Jerry's or Campbell Newman - one's an ice cream and the other is in a thick bit of soup. I'll do what Einstein said: Eat desert first, you never know what's going to happen next. Mr. Newman needs to figure out what the WWF stands for and how many other projects they have supported here in Australia and around the world. VERY legitimate group. It might also behove The Premier to take a science tutorial to learn that salt water and coal don't mix. Killing a world heritage site and the largest known living animal on the planet in the name of "progress" is down right idiotic. And you can quote me, sir. I will continue to regret that I voted for him. It pains me to see how egomaniacal he truly is. Should have stayed Lord Major. Your tunnels are worthless but at least you are only waking the dead.
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- Jean Poole
- Location
- Bizvegas
- Date and time
- April 29, 2014, 2:15PM
People have the choice to buy ice cream or donate to causes such as WWF - it's purely voluntary. However, it's compulsory to pay taxes that fund our politicians. The absolute hypocrisy of Minister Powell is astounding considering the his party (the current government) pump out propaganda at least twice a day using tax money to do so.
It's obviously a very touchy subject or just a slow day at that end of George Street.
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- Malarky
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- Icecream headache
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- April 29, 2014, 2:30PM
This government is foolish on every level they waste tax payers money funding tv commercials and u tube videos with information that treats the public like they are foolish half wits that believe what is being told to them. That is outright lies, misinformation and propaganda to promote the destruction of our Reef. If there was no money to be made and they actually looked at the FACTS they would never allow the destruction to occur!
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- Rose
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- Date and time
- April 29, 2014, 2:42PM
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Stephen King got a brainwave. That's nothinbg unusual for King. He is, after all, responsible for some of the most unusual, shocking, scary (or just downright odd) stories of the last 20+ years. The most recent brainwave led to the idea to publish the latest book "The Plant" in a novel (get it?) format: On the internet. The Plant is serialised to three parts. Part one is on the Net now at www.stephenking.com and will soon be joined by part two. Part three will arrive if a total of 75% of readers (or downloaders) pay the fee required - a total of $1. It's cheap, alright, especially for what would undoubtedly be a best-seller, but it begs the question: Will it work? I have downloaded the book, but not yet read it. I have no idea if it is any good. I am a fan of King's and have read all his books, seen most of the available TV and movie productions and even read some speeches he has given, but I am *not* a fanatic. If a book is crap, then it's crap (like, maybe, 'Eye of the dragon') but by the time you figure out it's crap, it's too late - you have (usually) paid for it by then. Downloading before reading (and before paying) leaves it open to 'hey, it's crap so why should I pay?' and so on. There is also the logistical problem. Presumably the payment is to be made by credit card. I don't have a credit card. Even if I did, I might be anxious about sending my details in to cyberspace. Many people are worried about cyber-theft (despite logical and factual reassurance) and so would refuse to pay like this. Then there is the option of sending cash. After all, it's only a dollar. Fine, if you are in the states but not so clever in Ireland or any other country. As it happens, I *do* have a few dollar notes so I will post one, but most people don't and couldn't (let's be honest) be arsed to go to the bank, get a single dollar, pay the commission charge and then post the dollar. And I ca
n't say I blame them - it's too much hassle! So, will it work? Hard to say. It all depends on whether it's King's fans who downlaod the book, and whether the majority of customers are in the States. I suppose there will be a reasonable market for this type of publication in the future. It will probably serve more for unknown authors who want their books to be seen by a wide audience and who aren't interested in the money as a priority. I might even publish something myself in this way!


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Early Tuesday evening, the crew over at MSNBC was optimistic and giddy. Chris Matthews even told fellow host Ed Schultz, after Schultz delivered a passionate prediction that Wis. Gov. Walker was "on the ropes," that he could be president of the AFL-CIO union. But by the time Schultz took to the air for his regular TV program, the recall election had already been called for the governor, and Schultz was dejected. And then he delivered a sad eulogy.
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He also didn't seem to have a great outlook for 2012: "It is going to take an insurmountable amount of effort on the ground for the progressive movement and the Democrats to do what they need to do in 2012."
Of course, he also needed a scapegoat, so he blamed Citizens United and money in politics:
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Just because this is soooo much fun.

Noisebridge is an anarchist collective. There is no such "everyone is welcome" policy, because there are no policies. There are some members who believe that everyone should be welcome, and some members who say that everyone is welcome. But that doesn't make it policy.

Quoting Mitch won't make people agree with you. Members are, in fact, free to ostracize, cajole, intimidate, harangue, harass, wheedle, and generally annoy you until they get their way. We call this "consensus building".

In fact, every single time I hear some variant of "you aren't being excellent to me", I am gladdened that yet another n3wb has self identified.

 On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Patrick Keys <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:

 I'm not so much interested in "fixing/changing Noisebridge" as I am
 interested in making it available for more people. ĀFor example, the
 idea of lockers was to make room for more people and projects.

 I very deeply take to heart Mitch's concept of "Everybody is welcome at
 Noisebridge". ĀEmpowering people is something I feel very strongly
 about. ĀSometimes it sounds like the tone from others, though, is "we've
 got enough people here already. ĀI've got mine so fuck it if there's
 room for anybody else." ĀThinking that way is less than excellent.

 Patrick

 On 2/20/2011 8:15 PM, Gian Pablo Villamil wrote:
 > I think it might be helpful if you approached Noisebridge more like a
 > tool and less like a project.
 >
 > If you actually start doing more projects (that don't involve
 > fixing/changing Noisebridge), then you will have a better idea of what
 > a more fun and effective Noisebridge actually is. Eg. don't ask "what
 > would make NB a better event venue", just go ahead and organize an
 > event, and then compare notes with others who have, and THEN make
 > changes.
 >
 > When proposing things, consider first whether they help or hinder
 > people's ability to do cool projects. If they're not really relevant,
 > then they're not worth bringing up. Eg. I don't think anyone has
 > identified lack of lockers as an issue that is preventing cool stuff
 > from happening.
 >
 > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Patrick Keys<email@example.com> Āwrote:
 >> Whenever I say, "why doesn't Noisebridge..." I'm:
 >> * trying to avoid unnecessary conflict. ĀLike the drama with the
 >> lockers. (Fact: Every nearby hackerspace already has lockers.)
 >> * asking if anybody has a better idea,
 >> * asking "does anybody want to work with me on this?"
 >>
 >> I think that many people at Noisebridge interpret do-ocracy to mean "do
 >> every-damn-thing absolutely by yourself". ĀI am not one of those people.
 >>
 >>
 >> Patrick
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >> On 2/20/2011 7:26 PM, Dr. Jesus wrote:
 >>> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Patrick Keys<email@example.com> Ā Āwrote:
 >>>> *sigh*
 >>>> Please... I encourage you for the sake of Noisebridge (and the women)
 >>>> not to create drama. ĀBut if you really want to make an issue of my
 >>>> so-called "unsolicited sexual advances", then at least I can take
 >>>> comfort in a healthy sex life and healthy attraction to women. ĀI'm
 >>>> leaving this topic at that so as not to gossip. ĀJust leave it at that.
 >>>>
 >>>> AS for taking credit, quit the opposite. ĀYou got me all wrong. ĀI
 >>>> didn't take credit for anything. ĀSo stop saying that I did. ĀI added a
 >>>> list to my personal userpage for my own reference. ĀOf all things, you
 >>>> really want to argue about... the bathrooms?
 >>>
 >>> He's complaining about your attitude. ĀYou obviously don't realize it,
 >>> but you come across as bossy via email. ĀThinking about your
 >>> critical-sounding suggestions for new projects is mentally draining,
 >>> that's why people on -discuss get annoyed by your memos. ĀThere are
 >>> people who can make those kinds of suggestions in ways that gather
 >>> interest. ĀYou aren't one of them yet. ĀIf you don't want drama,
 >>> you're going to have to learn how to communicate in writing a little
 >>> better.
 >>>
 >>> Instead of saying, "why doesn't Noisebridge..." you should be saying
 >>> "how do I do this for Noisebridge..." ĀReally, that's all that it
 >>> takes.
 >>>
 >>> There is a particularly annoying breed of silicon valley engineer who
 >>> constantly gets new ideas in his or her head and spends more time
 >>> talking about them than acting on them. ĀNo one wants to be a dick to
 >>> someone on their team, but sometime around the fifth suggestion that a
 >>> new technology would be worthy of investigation one gets the urge to
 >>> throttle said Ācoworker and yell, "you could have found out for
 >>> yourself five times over in the time you spent talking to me about
 >>> it!" ĀYou're probably right that some of the people who spend less
 >>> time at Noisebridge than you are overreacting to your memos. ĀI don't
 >>> think you're out to get us. ĀBut you're reminding some of us of That
 >>> Guy and it's irritating. ĀSome people have even been That Guy in the
 >>> past, which makes it doubly irritating since it's an unpleasant
 >>> reminder of their past.
 >>>
 >>> The only reason I haven't completely written you off is that I've
 >>> learned that said breed of engineer usually has some kind of talent
 >>> that he's really good at if you can just get him to stop talking. ĀIn
 >>> your case I think it's probably the bookkeeping you've been doing.
 >>> You've been doing a good job! ĀThanks for spending the time to do it.
 >>> Focus on that I guarantee you things will simmer down quite a bit.
 >>>
 >>>> When anybody attempts to take credit for anything, somebody points out
 >>>> how uncool that is. ĀWhen anybody attempts NOT to take credit for
 >>>> anything, somebody wants to call them out on it.
 >>>
 >>> That anybody is called Miloh and the only calling out that happened
 >>> was when we elected him to the board. ĀHumility is a virtue.
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 >>> email@example.com
 >>> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss
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Babel may be the most ambitious movie of the year, tackling towering communication barriers, global politics and cultural divides in a structurally complex and fascinating narrative.
Compelling from the first frame, the movie's harrowing intertwining tales grab us and do not let go until a closing credit reveals that the film is dedicated to director Alejandro Iñárritu's children. It is the perfect coda, as each character finds a measure of peace and solace through the bonds of family.
The four interwoven stories are superbly acted, stunningly shot and masterfully told. But for all its gut-wrenching power, Babel does have a flaw. In each of the narratives, Iñárritu takes you up to an emotional precipice, dangles you over it, then pulls back just in time to leave you more emotionally drained than moved. Still, his work bristles with power and believability.
The tale begins in a desolate stretch of the Moroccan desert with astounding performances by little-known actors. A farmer buys a used rifle, and his two young sons test its range on a bus driving nearby, seriously wounding an American tourist, played by Cate Blanchett. Her distraught husband, Brad Pitt, in his best film performance, grows increasingly desperate to save her. In one powerful scene, he cries quietly as his young son chirpily recounts a story over the phone, unaware that his mother's life hangs by a thread a continent away.
The story cuts across time and continents to Tokyo, where a deaf and mute teenager (Rinko Kikuchi) is reeling from her mother's death, coping with an emotionally distant father (Koji Yakusho) and discovering her sexuality. Kikuchi and Yakusho are both wonderful.
Events jump over to California where Pitt and Blanchett's children (Elle Fanning and Nathan Gamble) and their babysitter (a heartbreaking Adriana Barraza), take a quick trip to Mexico. Their harrowing border crossing is one of the toughest scenes to endure.
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If Karl Marx wrote, "The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggle," one can add that American history is also the history of ethnic struggle. In The Chinese Massacre (Annotated), playwright Tom Jacobson takes a Howard Zinn-like "people's history" look at Los Angeles, revealing a little-known, yet significant, episode. In 1871, long before the 20th century's Zoot Suit, Watts and L.A. riots, there was a pogrom against L. A.'s then-200 inhabitants of Chinese ancestry.
There are few more important, serious subjects than ethnic cleansing and genocide. Jacobson and Circle X Theatre Co. are to be commended for rescuing this butchery and burning 140 years ago from our collective amnesia. The killing of 18 Chinese men - almost 10 percent of Chinatown's population - surpassed the number of victims of the Manson tribe, yet is as forgotten as Squeaky and Charlie remain remembered.
Massacre weaves a multicultural fabric of a far smaller, yet still ethnically complex, city of not such Angels, with competing groups of American, German and French-born whites, Jews, Hispanics, newly freed blacks, and Chinese. The solidarity that historical figure Biddy Mason, former slave turned community leader, extends to the beleaguered Chinese in their moment of need is moving, especially in light of today's antagonisms between Korean immigrants and African Americans here.
Jacobson also takes some pointed jabs at racial and religious stereotypes, delighting in lampooning the hypocrisies of Christianity. And there's a startling bit of Jew-against-Jew content that forms a piece of the ethnic background of L.A. Who knew of the Paris Commune's impact on L.A.'s fledgling population?


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The Scot has spoken of his admiration for the veteran defender, who has struggled with injuries this season, and revealed he was key to him settling into his role at Old Trafford
The former England captain has struggled with injuries this term, falling behind Jonny Evans and Phil Jones in the pecking order, making just seven Premier League appearances this season.
|Man Utd are 13/20 with Betway to keep a clean sheet v Fulham
"Rio is back training," Moyes told reporters. "He is back and we will continue to use Rio at the right times and the right moments.
"He has made a great contribution, especially in the first half of the season. He has competition for centre half, but he is very much valued and looked at as one of the senior players here."
Moyes also revealed that Ferdinand helped him make the transition to Old Trafford after being named as Sir Alex Ferguson's successor.
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i just feel breasting after 12 months groce!!! am i the only one??? vote on my poll plz.....
I don't think it's gross as I am nursing my 32 month old twins right now as I type this. They are down to twice a day morning and night although sometimes they skip a session. I know that it is uncommon in this country to nurse so long but I don't think that it is a bad thing. They like it and it lets me cuddle with them longer. My goal was to make it to at least 6 months and then a year and then one and a half and now I will just stop when we feel ready. My guess is in the next few months. It's kind of funny though. My kids are daytime potty trained and they just slept in their underwear last night for the first time and everything is "nice and dry!" So I'm going to be nursing two potty trained kids!
I don't see anything "groce" with this.
Cindy (22) single mom
Julian Adriel (April 2010)
Haha, I think it's groce when my 2.5 year old eats her boogers, but I think it's adorable when she nurses her baby dolls.
I have been nursing for about 2 years total, but am in tears that I am done. I tried to relactate both with my daughter after her 1st birthday and just now with my son. The worst stomach bug of my life wiped me out this time, and gave him secondary lactose intolerance.
Nursing is hands down one of my favorite parts of motherhood. The boogers and diarrhea... now that stuff is groce!
I love the photo illustrations!!! That's awesome (and soooo groce)!
i use the hug feature as one would a like button....duh bbc
Kendra, is it inappropriate that I was looking at your cleavage in that pic?
ABB class clown.
Umm, it is probably more inappropriate...or maybe embarrassing on my part, I just now noticed the vomit all over Kendra. I must have been entranced by the cleavage too V.
SAH mommy to Big B (2010) and Little A (2015)
Aw, thanks ladies! My chest needs to shrink back down to proportion now that it's not supporting life so that I can go running!
Hilarious thread. Just what I needed, a good laugh :) I stopped at approx 6 mths because I couldn't hang, its so hard. Therefore I think woman who can do it this long rock :p


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LOS ANGELES (AP) Jon Garland gave Arizona its third commanding start against the potent Dodgers' lineup, making Los Angeles' series win that much more impressive.
Chad Billingsley scattered four hits over six innings in his matchup with Garland and Casey Blake hit a sacrifice fly, leading the defending NL West champions to a 1-0 victory over the Diamondbacks on Wednesday night.
GAME REPORT: Dodgers 1, Diamondbacks 0
"They didn't give in," Garland said. "They're playing good ball and they're playing mentally sound. When you do that, good things are going to happen."
Garland, Billy Buckner and Dan Haren combined to limit the Dodgers to just two runs and 10 hits over 19 innings and struck out 18. Buckner pitched six scoreless innings Friday night in a 3-2 win, then Haren pitched two-hit ball over seven innings Saturday before the bullpen blew a 5-1 lead in a 6-5 loss.
"It's so important to win games that are pitched well by the other team," Dodgers manager Joe Torre said. "When you go to the postseason, which is obviously our goal, you are going to face the best. So you are going to have to learn how to manufacture runs, take the little things and not give anything away. It's just about the personality of this club. We play a lot of one-run, two-run games. It's not good for my stomach, but it's good practice."
Billingsley (7-3) struck out nine and walked four, rebounding strongly after back-to-back losses against the Angels and Cubs. The right-hander has allowed no more than two earned runs in eight of his 12 starts this season.
"I just try to get deep into the game, try to throw up zeros and give the team a chance to win. That's how I approach every single start," Billingsley said. "And when I see the other guy going out there and putting up zeros, too, I know I have to do the same."
Ramon Troncoso escaped a jam in the eighth when shortstop Rafael Furcal fielded Miguel Montero's sharp grounder with runners at the corners and stepped on second base before completing an inning-ending double play.
Jonathan Broxton pitched a perfect ninth for his 13th save in 15 games, completing the combined seven-hitter and securing the Dodgers' second 1-0 win this season.
"It's good to know you've got that big guy coming in," Torre said. "He's been — I hate to put that moniker 'automatic' on someone, because this game will humble you. But he's come in with great stuff every time."
Garland (4-5) yielded one run and four hits and struck out six in his Dodger Stadium debut. The 10-year veteran was born in nearby Granada Hills and played his high school ball there.
Both starting pitchers escaped bases-loaded jams in the fifth — Billingsley on a groundout by rookie Josh Whitesell, Garland on a dribbler up the first base line by Furcal with catcher Montero making the play.
Garland and Billingsley matched zeros until the sixth, when James Loney hit his first triple of the season past a diving Garardo Parra near the left-field line and Blake followed with his scoring flyball.
"It was a 2-1 sinker, and I thought that ball was going to hang up in the air long enough," Garland said. "We were shading him to pull a little bit, but he's going real hot right now. Those are the breaks that seem to go your way when you're playing good ball and you're winning."
Los Angeles improved the best record in the majors to 37-18 and extended its NL West lead to a season-high 9½ games over the San Francisco Giants, whose game at Washington was postponed by rain. The Dodgers' were 6½ games in front when Manny Ramirez received a 50-game suspension from Major League Baseball on May 7 for violating its drug abuse program, and are 16-10 since then.
The Diamondbacks are 11-14 since player personnel director A.J. Hinch replaced Bob Melvin as manager on May 8. They failed to get an extra-base hit for the first time in 74 games — 54 this season — a streak that began after a 7-2 loss against Billingsley on Sept. 6 at Dodger Stadium.
Notes: Dodgers 2B Orlando Hudson, the only player to start in each of the team's first 54 games, sat out his first game of the season — the same night the club commemorated his cycle on April 13 by handing out posters to everyone in attendance.
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Adjunct professor Mary Ida Henrikson's now famous t-shirt is all over the web, CNN and Newsweek after a 2006 photograph surfaced with Vice Presidential nominee Governor Sarah Palin holding it up in what is claimed as support for Ketchikan's hard link to Gravina Island. The tee-shirt reads NOWHERE ALASKA 99901, and was a meant to be a symbol of pride and hope for the then economically depressed town.
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In 2267, Commander Spock sneaked into the computer center of Starbase 11 in order to forge a voice transmission to the USS Enterprise as part of a plot to commandeer the ship. Spock was caught by Chief Humbolt, a technician assigned to the computer center, who attempted to stop him, but Spock incapacitated him with a Vulcan nerve pinch. (TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I")
Sometime in the 2270s, Leonard McCoy didn't care for the sickbay of the refit Enterprise, saying it was "like working in a damned computer center." (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
The computer center as seen in "The Menagerie" was a re-dress of the Enterprise engineering set.


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Yung Joc Twitters About Being Attacked By Coked Up Dog
If Yung Joc's Twitter is NOT a hoax, the rapper has just been attacked by Katt Willams' dog, but that's not even the weirdest part of this incident. According to his recent "tweets," the Atlanta-based rapper hung out with DMX, and comedian Katt Williams in St. Louis over the weekend and was attacked by Williams' dog after it was given cocaine. Joc's Twitter updates go on to say that DMX and Williams got into an argument over who would snort the last line of cocaine before deciding to give it to the dog.
"I'm in St. Louis in my penthouse…Katt Williams and DMX are arguing about [who's] gonna' hit the last line of coke….this s— [is] about to get ugly," he twittered. A few hours later he added another update. "So Katt and DMX had a talk about the last one and decided to share it with the f—in' dog! I'm so scared 'cause the dog is looking at me! Lol."
Joc was then bit by the dog and ended up in the Intensive Care Unit, where he received 72 stitches. "Thanx for the concern yall. I'm in ICU with 72 stitches. Didn't press charges on Katt Williams.. But they are gonna put his dog to sleep," Joc revealed. He went on to say that after he was released from the hospital he headed out on a flight made more uncomfortable by the pain from the stitches. "On the plane sitting sideways [be]cause stitches hurt! Just got off the phone with Katt and DMX and we are still cool. Katt [is] sad about his dog."
This latest stunt is exactly the kid of publicity that DMX does not need. The rapper was just recently released from an Arizona prison and is said to be getting his career back on track. A successful comedian in his own right, Williams gained popularity for his roll in the film 'Friday After Next,' alongside rapper Ice Cube. He has since gone on to become a much sought after comedian, making the bulk of his earnings from touring and sales of his comedy DVDs.
Joc who released his last album in 2007, is a former protege of mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs. He has since left Diddy's Bad Boy label and is suing the company for unpaid royalties. He is currently working on his third release 'Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood' due in stores later this year.


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An organization that provides low or no-cost spay/neuter services in the Yarmouth area for pet, stray and feral cats says the need is great for the work it does and it is looking for help for local municipal units.
Representatives of Operation Cat SNIP appeared before Argyle municipal council Tuesday to talk about their organization and to request $1,500 in funding from the municipality.
Operation Cat SNIP was formed in 2012 and a little over 200 cats have been spayed and neutered through the organization over the past two years.
Group representatives Eileen Coady and Freda Perry made a presentation to Argyle council during its committee-of-the-whole meeting of Feb. 25.
Operation Cat SNIP respects the work of the SPCA and TNR (Trap, Neuter and Release) group, council was told, but Operation Cat SNIP's focus is different, working to provide a front-line defence against cat over-population.
It offers, by application, low or no-cost spay/neuter services for cats in the Yarmouth area to those who qualify for assistance.
The organization targets pet, feral and stray cats being cared for by people on fixed incomes, cats that normally would not have access to veterinary care due the circumstances of their owners.
In partnership with the Parade Street Animal Hospital, council was told, cats are tested for feline leukemia prior to surgery. In the event of a positive test, the surgery is cancelled and applicants are contacted to determine the best course of action and care.
The organization – whose name SNIP is an acronym for Spay Neuter Is Priority – is getting better known and so is its waiting list, the group says.
"We are fundraising throughout the year," Coady said in her council presentation. "We have a lot of volunteer support."
Businesses too have been supportive, she said, but the organization still needs help, given the work it does and hopes to continue to do.