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Publication Day and Bonus Soundtrack: Cardboard Gods by Josh WilkerMarch 15, 2011 • 23 Comments • category: Algonquin Books Blog, News and Publicity
Today we add a new pastime to the list of America's favorites–apple pie, baseball, singing flight attendants and, now, Josh Wilker's brilliant memoir, Cardboard Gods.
The 1970s was a decade marked by Vietnam, Watergate, counterculture, sexual liberation, and stadium rock. For Josh Wilker, it was a time spent navigating a challenging childhood in which only his prized baseball card collection could give him unfailing faith that a winning season would one day present itself. Josh tells his unconventional story through the cards he collected, whose full-color images—of Mark "The Bird" Fidrych, Tom Seaver, Wade Boggs, and many lesser-known players—open each chapter and become the means for expressing all the fears, hopes, bewilderment, passions, and dreams of childhood.
For today's publication celebration, we're giving away two copies of this baby. To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment here or on our Facebook page. And to further the celebration, Josh has compiled an awesome soundtrack with liner notes. See at bottom for the full playlist.
Here's what people are saying about the book:
"Proust has his madeleine. Nick Hornby has his vinyl records. And when Josh Wilker wants to summon the past, he has the scent of bubblegum. . . . If Wilker had a baseball card, its back might read: Josh is one of 2010's most promising literary players."—Sports Illustrated
"A baseball-loving loner deciphers his complicated childhood through his old box of trading cards. . . . Wilker's book is as nostalgically intoxicating as the gum that sweetened his card-collecting youth. Grade: A." —Entertainment Weekly
Get more about Josh's life and childhood baseball cards at www.cardboardgods.net. Since his first posting in 2006, his site has been featured in the New York Times and the Chicago Sun-Times and on ESPN.com. He is a winner of the Howard Frank Mosher Prize for Short Fiction and has an MFA from Vermont College. He lives with his wife in Chicago.
Cardboard Gods: The Soundtrack
Liner Notes
Side 1 (22:00)
1. Astral Weeks – Van Morrison (7:00) I began my life in the midst of the blissful, hopeful, visionary feeling epitomized in this song from an album in the shared collection of my mom and her boyfriend, Tom.
2. Triad – The Byrds (3:31) The free-love embracing narrator in this song advocates for an open three-person relationship ("Why can't we go on as three?"); when I was very young, living in a house with my brother, father, mother, and Tom, I took for granted that relationships of this kind were normal.
3. Across the Great Divide – The Band (2:53) Around when I got my hands on baseball cards for the first time, the three-parent experiment ended and my mom and Tom set off with us for a new "back to the land" life in country, this song (made, according to the photos on the album, in a place that looked like our new surroundings by guys who looked like they could have been friends of Mom and Tom) communicating the hope and trepidation and giddiness and ache of lighting out for a new life in an unknown world.
4. Uncle John's Band – The Grateful Dead (4:42) The home Mom and Tom found for us in the country was in the middle of a beautiful green valley, but the house itself, a foreclosure casualty, had been obscenely vandalized, adding an ominous note to the center of our new green world; this song, from another key back-to-the-land album (Workingman's Dead) in Mom and Tom's collection, provided a similar mix of beauty and foreboding, and a warning that the only way through was to stick together.
5. Shifting Sands – The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band (3:54) This song was from an odd, relatively obscure acid rock album that my brother and I used to pull from Mom and Tom's collection and play a lot, as if trying to hold on to that gradually receding moment when everything seemed to be cut loose from all manner of gravity.
Side 2 (22:57)
1. Gimme Some Truth – John Lennon (3:16) Through Mom and Tom's record collection, The Beatles loomed as large in my childhood as the figures in my baseball cards, and the Beatles' breakup, which occurred around the same barely conscious stage of my life as when things got complicated in my family (see "Triad," above), loomed over the crucial Beatles' region in my interior life. This song, the quintessential relic of the breakup, if not of complicated 1970s familial and cultural relationships in general, seethed with anger, pain, and a desire for clear honesty, all things that I guess I powerfully, albeit subconsciously, identified with as a 1970s child.
2. It's All Right to Cry – Rosie Grier (2:24) From the juggernaut 1970s multimedia child-targeting phenomenon Free To Be You and Me, this song, crooned by a hulking former NFL defensive lineman, linked arms with other songs in the project (especially the shudder-producing "William's Doll") to channel hippie ideology into the encouragement of little boys like me to act in ways that, as it turned out, were sure to turn them into grade-A cringing bullybait.
3. Baker Street – Gerry Rafferty (6:01) I heard this song for the first time on the radio in our VW Camper on the way back from our once-a-year trip to see the Red Sox at Fenway, and the soaring sugary saxophone hooked me instantly, the aural equivalent of the gum in packs of baseball cards. It was the first time I ever fell instantly in love with a top 40 radio hit.
4. Every 1's a Winner – Hot Chocolate (4:02) And as with baseball cards, my fervent embrace of pop songs was clinched with consumer action, with getting and having, and this hit song was the first I made my own by purchasing the 45. The simple message in the title may have appealed to me, too—when playing in the yard with my big brother, I always liked the two of us pretending to be on the same imaginary team, winning, while he preferred one-on-one competitions pitting me against him in lopsided contests in which every 1 was not a winner.
5. Lonesome Loser – Little River Band (3:57) I can see my brother and me in the room we shared, off in our own separate worlds more and more as the years went on, but still brought together at times by baseball cards and by listening together to the top 40 countdown. For some reason this song, a more personally relevant reply to Hot Chocolate's message, is the first that comes to mind when I think of the old, beige, cinder-block-sized radio in our room, one of the things that connected me to my brother.
6. I Was Made for Dancin' – Leif Garrett (3:18) My brother and I argued for the right to buy and thus be the house's sole owner of this disco hit single by the late 1970s teen heartthrob who would go on, years later, to resurface in the public eye as a brittle, ravaged heroin addict on Celebrity Rehab.
Side 3 (20:05)
1. Let There Be Rock – AC/DC (6:06) When I was 11, I went with my brother—the catalyst of the excursion—and our profoundly reluctant father to a 1979 Ted Nugent concert at Madison Square Garden, where I learned in terrifying fashion, via Nurembergian chants and lurid banners brandished by blank-eyed screaming longhairs, that Disco Sucked. We never saw Ted Nugent but, disoriented and frightened, were led by our disgusted dad out of the arena immediately after the first band had finished, thinking that we had just seen Ted Nugent and not the lesser known (and completely unknown to us) warm-up act, AC/DC. Within a few months, perhaps attempting to deaden the pain and shame of the whole fiasco (like a trauma victim drawn to reenacting the trauma), I became an avid lover of AC/DC.
2. Teenage Lobotomy – The Ramones (2:01) My love of AC/DC and of hard, loud music in general coincided with the onset of puberty; The Ramones gradually joined and then eclipsed AC/DC as a favorite band, the perfect disaffected avalanching-guitar balm for a weird, lonely, alienated masturbator.
3. Put Down Your Cigarette Rag – Allen Ginsberg (2:54) My mom, attempting to share with me one of the inspirational figures in her adventurous life, took me to see Allen Ginsberg play this and other songs with his three-man jug band when I was the perfect age to be deeply disturbed by a wild-eyed balding beatnik yowling that the way to quit cigarettes (and to topple CIA-supported dictatorships, and to Enjoy the Moment, and to have ecstatic Blakean visions, etc., etc.) was to fellate a nice young cock; I skipped the second half of the show, leaving my mom behind, and listened to a Red Sox game on the radio in the car as if my life depended on it.
4. You'll Never Be a Man – Elvis Costello (2:56) In my teen years, I stopped collecting baseball cards, which had been my primary, albeit completely impractical, road map to being a man in the world. I would never be a professional baseball player, and the apparently unbridgeable chasm between me and my new object of desire, girls, along with my general feelings of awkwardness and ineptitude, made me think that this song (by the artist who had created the album, Get Happy, that my brother was caught trying to shoplift) was being sung directly, witheringly, to me.
5. Pressure Drop – The Clash (3:27) At the boarding school I eventually got expelled from, I learned from one girl that another girl thought I was cute because she believed I resembled Joe Strummer. I didn't look like him, I don't think, nor did I do anything to act on the information, but it did feel nice to learn that, contrary to my general feelings on the matter, I—or at least a version of me blurred to resemble Joe Strummer—was not completely invisible at that school.
6. Bunny Wailer – Dreamland (2:41) I followed my brother in all his musical investigations, just as I'd followed him into collecting baseball cards, so when he started shifting from punk and new wave to reggae, I was right there with him, in part because I was no longer literally right there with him, the two of us now living apart; this reggae song, which I listened to repeatedly the summer after I got expelled from school for smoking pot, crystallized my desire to escape into some way of being eternally high, a dreamland I guess I wanted to also include my brother.
Side 4 (20:03)
1. Here – Pavement (3:56) After college, I moved in with my brother in NYC. It sometimes felt like everything had already happened, and other times it felt like nothing had happened yet, and still other times, or simultaneously, there was a feeling, sweet as Novocain, that we had all the time in the world. This lurching gentle slacker elegy from those days got all that.
2. Oh! Sweet Nuthin' – Velvet Underground (7:23) I used to like to play this song on the jukebox around last call, 4 a.m., at the bar where my brother and I spent our twenties, and as it played a weight always seemed to temporarily lift off my shoulders.
3. Pancho and Lefty – Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard (4:47) During those years, I took a trip out west and got in a mountain-biking accident, falling off a cliff. Earlier in the day, this song had been on the stereo in the car I was riding in, and as I went into shock just after my fall, the whole world going white at the edges, the song echoed in my head like it might be carrying me from one world to the next. I didn't want to go.
4. That Summer Feeling – Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers (3:57) I could never shake the memories of growing up with cardboard gods. This song off of Jonathan Sings communicates better than any the wide-open feeling of childhood and how it follows you forever through the years.
Hidden Bonus Track: Tessie – Dropkick Murphys (4:13) This was the theme song of the Red Sox when they finally won it all, fulfilling my deepest childhood wish, which was not just that they would win but that my brother and I would meet up in Boston for the parade when they did. The song plays at the end of a video I own that celebrates the 2004 World Champs, backing footage of the victory parade my brother and I went to together. Every time I watch it I get tears in my eyes.
23 Comments On This Post:
10:10 am
Martin Molloy says...
Every time I get depressed about the problems with football, I just remind myself that opening day is two weeks away.
10:22 am
amanda says...
ahh, the simplier days of baseball….
10:29 am
susan says...
If the book is anything like the playlist, it's a win-win.
10:29 am
Deborah says...
My memories of growing up always include the thrill of attending professional baseball games, and collecting all the great cards that we could get our hands on.
10:31 am
Falise says...
Had a brother that navigated his youth through CARDBOARD GODS. This story will resonate with many I am sure.
10:35 am
Big Dave says...
Through good times and bad … ups and downs … baseball is. I remember as a young boy, my mood could be drastically altered by additions to, or subtractions from my most precious asset – my baseball card collection
10:36 am
melissa says...
Id like a copy of cardboard gods please :0)
10:53 am
Maggie Moran says...
I would cherish a copy. 😀
11:21 am
Sue Vance says...
Please enter me in your giveaway contest, and thanks for making it possible to win such a prize! The book and playlist sound wonderful. As a young tomboy wanting to be like, and closer to, my two older brothers, I began my own small collection of baseball cards. Many fond memories of the feel, the smell, the stats and photos, the gum, and especially the brother bonding.
12:42 pm
Nils Montan says...
Like many guys, I wish I had held onto my baseball card collection. When I was about 11, I scotch taped my cards to the wall of my bedroom and was surrounded by my heroes.
1:07 pm
Jon says...
Looks like a great book and wonderful playlist. Thanks for the contest.
1:35 pm
Daniel Simmons says...
Cardboard Gods reminded me of Love Is a Mix-Tape and Cassette from my Ex. Both used nostalgic objects as an intepretive means of recovering one's most personal past experiences. Too, unlike most memoirs, all three books incorporated a decent bit of outside history, drawing their readers into both the lives of the author and the supporting subjects (ballplayers, family members, etc).
2:43 pm
Jim Slade says...
This book and Josh's blog are a joy. The liner notes are an unexpected treat!
2:51 pm
Jon Krampner says...
In the early 1960's, before the onset of adolescence, my baseball card collection was my most prized possession. I probably shouldn't admit this, but I recently made inquiries about acquiring a 1961 Bobby Richardson.
8:58 pm
Jeff Stanzler says...
Might have guessed that 'ol Josh would know about the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band….you're the man, Josh!
12:51 pm
James says...
Nice liner notes! Here's my entry!
5:04 pm
Bo Rosny says...
Here's my entry. Way to go!
7:30 am
Greg Pizzo says...
I have been reading Josh for a few years and have a copy of the hard cover already, but the softback would be a great addition to the collection as well. It's a terrific book.
9:05 am
Janet Nydegger says...
I never actually had a baseball card collection, but my son did. However,two of my favorite authors, Nick Hornby and Wally Lamb like this book. Also, I love the playlist. I know most of the music but will have to look up a few of them. Please enter me in the contest.
12:01 pm
pat says...
Love the liner notes…and now will be on the computer for the rest of the day downloading my favorite tunes…takes me back to the '70's for sure…with or without the baseball cards… looking forward to reading this book. thanks for the contest too.
4:36 pm
Jane Bailey says...
I didn't think anybody remembered Mark "The Bird" Fidrych besides me! I love books that take me back to "that time" not so long ago!
7:25 pm
Kimberly Diehm says...
This is the perfect time of year for nostalgia & baseball! Good timing…can't wait to read it.
5:56 pm
Becky Karel says...
You had me at singing flight attendants!


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Will.I.am bitchslaps Perez Hilton. With words.
Perez Hilton was allegedly assaulted last night while partying after the MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto. He claims Will.I.am of the Black Eyed Peas was the one who hit him, and instead of calling the police, Perez started tweeting about it. Scope out Perez's tweets via TMZ which essentially ruin whatever legitimacy Twitter gained from the Iranian elections:
– I'm in shock. I need the police ASAP. Please come to the SoHo Metropolitan Hotel now. Please.about 5 hours ago from Sidekick
— I was assaulted by Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas and his security guards. I am bleeding. Please, I need to file a police report. No joke. — about 5 hours ago from Sidekick
— Still waiting for the police. The bleeding has stopped. I need to document this. Please, can the police come to the SoHo Met Hotel. — about 5 hours ago from Sidekick
— I spoke to my lawyer. I really need to talk to the authorities. Please come to the SoHo Met Hotel. Have called the police. Need them here. — about 5 hours ago from Sidekick
— The Toronto police are here now. Thank you. Please stop calling them. — about 5 hours ago from Sidekick
— Thank u all from the bottom of my heart for ur concern. The police are investigating the assault now. I did the right thing by reporting it. — about 3 hours ago from web
Will.I.am posted a video last night asserting his innocence, (Turns out it was the Black Eyed Peas manager Polo Molina who "attacked" Perez.) and took the immediate piss out of Perez by asking, why someone would Twitter instead of call the police if they were attacked? Allow me: Because Perez Hilton is nothing more than the same brand of media-obsessed celebutard he so vehemently draws semen on which proves he never really was a scathing observer of pop culture. Just a guy who wants to be Britney.
I went there.


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After winning its 15th Big South Championship title in the last 17 seasons, the Liberty women's basketball team has moved up to a season-best No. 16 in this week's CollegeInsider.com Women's Mid-Major Top 25.
Last week, top-seeded Liberty (27-6, 16-2 Big South) defeated No. 9 seed Gardner-Webb (78-61), No. 5 seed Campbell (70-56) and No. 7 seed Longwood (54-45) to earn a berth in its 15th NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship and extend its winning streak to 14 games.
Delaware again tops the poll, followed by Green Bay and Gonzaga. Liberty is the only Big South squad to appear in this week's Mid-Major Top 25.
The women's Mid-Major Top 25, now in its third year of existence, is comprised of teams from the America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Colonial, Great West, Horizon, Independents, Ivy, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Southwestern, Summit, Sun Belt and West Coast Conferences.
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A DISTINGUISHED artist who lives in Malvern has two pictures currently on show in one of London's most important art shows.
Among the eminent who have sat for portrait painter Michael Noakes during his long and illustrious career are the Queen and most other members of the royal family, Bill Clinton, Pope Benedict XVI and Frank Sinatra.
Now two of his pictures are in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual show. One is a painting of Nelson Mandela giving a speech, the other a drawing of four-minute-miler Roger Bannister.
The mixed-media Mandela picture shows him addressing Rhodes scholars in Westminster Hall.
Mr Noakes said: "I spent many months working on preliminary studies and then on the actual picture. It shows President Mandela speaking on the podium along with President Clinton, and ten or a dozen prime ministers or heads of state. Tony Blair was there, but he was out of sight behind the podium.
"It will shortly go on permanent display in the Jubilee Room, just off Westminster Hall, and that pleases me greatly."
The drawing of Sir Roger Bannister and Lady Bannister, who Mr Noakes has known for many years, was commissioned by an Oxford college.
"In the drawing I wanted to emphasise different aspects of their achievements - with him the famous run 60 years ago; he has been master of Pembroke College Oxford and is also a distinguished neurologist. Moyra is a painter and decorator of ceramics and whenever they travelled, show would record in word and by illustration every significant event."
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Dr. Nicholas Kittrie, distinguished University Professor of Law, has served as counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, and is an expert in American and international public and criminal law. Past president of the American Society of Criminology, former dean of the Washington College of Law, and chair of the United Nations Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Kittrie is the author and editor of over fifteen books and numerous articles. He frequently appears in mass media to deal with topics such as political offenders, terrorist activities, war crimes, drugs and alcohol, extradition, penology and criminal sentencing. Educated at the London School of Economics (U.K.), the University of Cairo (Egypt) and the Universities of Kansas, Chicago and Georgetown (USA), Dr. Kittrie is fluent in several languages. He has traveled extensively and has lectured at universities and congresses in Europe, Asia and Africa. Kittrie has served as legal consultant to several foreign governments and to the United States Vice-President's Commission on Terrorism. Among Kittrie's books are Rebels With A Cause: The Minds and Morality of Political Offenders; The Tree of Liberty: A Documentary History of Rebellion and Political Crime in America; The War Against Authority: From the Crisis of Legitimacy to a New Social Contract; The Right to Be Different: Deviance and Enforced Therapy; Crimes and Punishments: International Criminal Law and Procedure; The Future of Peace in the Twenty-First Century, and The Laws of War and the Laws of Peace.
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Areas of Specialization
- Counterterrorism Law
- Criminal Procedure
- International Criminal Law
- Minority Groups
- Sentencing Law
- Criminal Law
Degrees & Universities
- S.J.D., Georgetown University Law Center 1968
- LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center 1963
- FLW, Visiting Fellow, Yale University Law School 1957
- M.A., University of Kansas 1951
- LL.B., University of Kansas, School of Law 1950
- A.B., University of Kansas 1947
- E.C., External Certificates: Universities of Cairo, Jerusalem and London (1946-47)
- FLW, Raymond Fellow, University of Chicago (1953-54)
Selected Publications
- Nicholas Kittrie, The War Against Authority: From the Crisis of Legitimacy to a New Social Order (Johns Hopkins U. Press 1998).
- Nicholas Kittrie, The Right to Be Different: Deviance and Enforced Therapy (Johns Hopkins U. Press 1972).
Other Publications
- Nicholas Kittrie, Stone Upon Stone: The Expansion of a Mission, 45 Am. U. L. Rev. (1996).
- Nicholas Kittrie, La Ricerca Della Legittimita Politica, in Criminologica Psichiatria Forense e Psicologia Giudiziara (Antonio Delfino, 1996).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Democracy: An Institution Whose Time Has Come?, in Criminal Science in a Global Society (Wise, ed., Fred B. Rothman & Co. 1994).
- Nicholas Kittrie, The Task Ahead: Making the Constitution Work for Pluralism, 8 Am. U. J. L. & Policy (1992/1993).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Responsibility for Education: A Social, Religious and Economic Partnership, in At the Crossroads: Education in the Middle East (Badran, Paragon House 1989).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Introductory Comments, in Food Production and Agriculture in Africa (Adjangba, PWPA Books 1988).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Reform, Disorder, or Revolution: An American Looks at South Africa, in South Africa: Reform or Revolution (Wainwright, PWPA Books 1988).
- Nicholas Kittrie, The New Constitution of Haiti, in Washington Institute Monograph ( 1987).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Criminal Procedure, in Encyclopedia of the American Judicial System (Janosik, ed., Charles Scribner's Sons 1986).
- Nicholas Kittrie, The Uneasy Alliance: Law and Psychiatry in America, in International Survey on the Role of Psychiatry in the Administration of Criminal Justice (Max Planck Inst. 1985).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Patriots and Terrorists: Reconciling Human Rights with World Order, 2 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 291 (1981).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Ransom Kidnapping in America, 71 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 654 (1980).
- Nicholas Kittrie, From Psychopathic Delinquents to Career Criminals: Policy and Program Implications, in Lo Psicopatico Delinquente (Giuffre, ed., 1980).
- Nicholas Kittrie, The Dangers of the New Directions on American Sentencing, in New Directions in Sentencing (Grossman, ed., Butterworths 1980).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Introduction, in Therapy and Ethics: The Courtship of Law and Psychology (Finkel, ed., Grune & Stratton 1980).
- Nicholas Kittrie, The Prediction of Dangerousness: The Experts, the Courts and the Criminal Justice System, in Mentally Ill Offenders and the Criminal Justice System (Berran & Roomey, eds., Praeger Press 1979).
- Nicholas Kittrie, New Look at Political Crime and Terrorism, in International Terrorism in the Contemporary World (Livingston, ed., Greenwood Press 1978).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Reconciling the Irreconcilable: The Quest for International Agreement Over Political Crime and Terrorism, 32 Y.B. for World Affairs 208 (1978).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Sex, Crime and the Law, 4 L. & Pscyh. Rev. 207 (1978).
- Nicholas Kittrie, History of Drug Control Laws: American Aspects, 6 John Marshall L. J. 46 (1975).
- Nicholas Kittrie, In Search of Political Crime and Political Criminals, 50 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 202 (1975).
- Nicholas Kittrie, The Flowering and Decline of the Therapeutic State, in Medical, Moral and Legal Issues in Mental Health Care (Ayd, ed., Williams & Wilkins 1974).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Contemporary Problems of Drug Abuse, 18 Vill. L. Rev. 868 (1973).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Responsibility and the Therapeutic State, 19 Wayne L. Rev. 873 (1973).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Terrorism and Political Crimes, 67 Am. J. Intl. L. 104 (1973).
- Nicholas Kittrie, The Juvenile Drug Offender and the Justice System, in National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse (U.S. Govt. Printing Off. 1972).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Will the XYY Syndrome Abolish Guilt?, 35 Fed. Probation 26 (June 1971).
- Nicholas Kittrie, In Place of Big Sticks, 31 New Middle East 14 (1971).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Marijuana: The Right to Truth, 23 S.C. L. Rev 361 (1971).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Can the Right to Treatment Remedy the Ills of the Juvenile Process?, 57 Geo. L. J. 848 (1969).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Mens Rea in the United States, 4 Proceedings Intl. Symposium on Comp. L. 57 (1967).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Divestment of Criminal Law and the Therapeutic State, Suffolk U. L. Rev 1 43 (1967).
- Nicholas Kittrie, A Post Mortem of the Eichmann Case - The Lessons for International Law, 55 J. Crim. L. & Political Sci. 16 (1964).
- Nicholas Kittrie, United States Regulation of Foreign Airlines Competition, 29 J. Air L. & . Com. 1 (1963).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Compulsive Mental Treatment and 'Due Process', 12 Ohio St. L. J. 28 (1960).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Mental Disability Law - A New Legal Frontier, 3 Student Law. 5 (1958).
- Nicholas Kittrie, The Minister and Mental Illness Law, 8 Pastoral Psychol. 39 (1958).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Justice for the Mentally Ill, 41 Am. Jud. Socy. 46 (1957).
- Nicholas Kittrie, The United States and Trends in the Middle East, Upstream (May 1954).
Selected Presentations
- Nicholas Kittrie, Conference, Role of the NGOs in Reforming the United Nations Organization (Mexico, Jan. 1, 2006).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Keynote Address, Hate Literature and Media -- How to Protect the Future Generation from That Evil? (Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep., Dec. 1, 2005).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Presentation, Reception to Honor H.E. Massoud Barzani (Washington, D.C., Dec. 1, 2005).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Conference, Historical Foundations of the Therapeutic Approach to Deviance (Brockport Conference, February 1972).
- Nicholas Kittrie, Presentation, Aggressive Uses of Space Vehicles--The Remedies in International Law (Washington, DC, October 3, 1961).


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Dior Jeweled Makeup Necklace For The Lips
OK I admit it. I did think that this necklace was absolutely gorgeous and really didn't care if the gloss actually worked (shame on me!), but as I happily discovered, the gloss itself is amazing and so flattering on me. The color is a shimmering pinky-copper (It read a little more copper on my lips) that is light, has a nice smooth consistency and is not sticky! Even better, the shine factor is amazing. I wore it alone and also over more neutral lipsticks and really loved the color and the way the shimmer worked with my skin tone. Great for day or night too. Please note that because it is on the lighter side, this will work best on more lightly pigmented lips and up to a Gabrielle Union complexion. As far as the actual design, it inspired by a dazzling diamond piece from the Christian Dior Couture collection, featuring crystal detailing and a dangling Dior logo. I found that it actually was convenient when I wanted to do discreet touch ups during parties and after dinner. There is also a little mirror on the topside of the pendant which makes it even easier to use. It's so glam and you can just do a touch up anywhere! This is truly the future of cosmetics.
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But what if I want to make my class completely independent of all other code so that another programmer can copy and paste the class as is into their module and it would work without having to check for the appropriate import statements at the top. Wouldn't putting imports inside the class improve encapsulation and also prevent importing unneeded libraries and code.
Also if the import statement executed with the class definition is read, wouldn't that mean it only gets executed once regardless of how many times you instantiate the class.
Consider this trivial example:
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class Foo(object):
if platform.system() == "Windows":
person = "Bill Gates"
elif platform.system() == "Linux":
person = "Linus Torvalds"
person = "...tell you later..."
hero = person
def bar(self):
return self.hero
...Then this one which puts the import inside the class...
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class Foo(object):
import platform
if platform.system() == "Windows":
hero = "Bill Gates"
elif platform.system() == "Linux":
hero = "Linus Torvalds"
hero = "...tell you later..."
def bar(self):
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This educational idea is brought to you by Melissa & Doug , written by our Blog Ambassador Amy Mascott.
"Wooden Thank You Trays are a crafty and smart way to officially extend our thanks to loved ones." -Amy
Being the huge Melissa & Doug fans that we are, over the last eight years we have accumulated a serious number of Melissa & Doug wooden trays in our family.
From stamp sets to magnetic dress-up sets, from wooden food sets to bead sets, our many Melissa & Doug toys have given us a lot of wooden trays. So this year, we decided to use those trays to say "thank you" to our loved ones and friends.
These little trays of thanks are simple, but they are sturdy and strong. They'll last through this month of thanks and many more months, I'm sure.
We made our Thank You Trays with materials we had around the house: paint, glue, construction paper, stickers, and embellishments like gems, feathers, beads, and buttons.
And then we started working!
First we brainstormed. We shared the names of everyone in our lives for whom we were thankful: grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, neighbors, parents, siblings, and pets.
And then we narrowed down our people to three groups: our immediate family and both sets of grandparents.
We talked about all of the things we loved about them and what we were especially thankful for: their hugs, smiles, time spent together, and special things about each person.
And then we figured out what we wanted to put on the wooden tray and where we'd put it.
We painted.
We covered.
We glued, cut, and arranged.
And the small compartments of each of tray, acted as a little window to the person, sharing thanks.
When the pieces were finished, we let them dry and settle. We plan to give the grandparents theirs on Thanksgiving, and ours has found a spot on the shelf, where it will sit comfortably, reminding us of how lucky we are and how thankful we should be.
Wooden Thank You Trays are crafty and smart way to officially extend our thanks to loved ones.
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Frank T. Hopkins was from New York City. He was employed as a ditchdigger and as a horse handler for Ringling Brothers Circus. He was never an employee of "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show" and never traveled to Arabia to race a Mustang Horse. (Source: "The Long Riders' Guild" by Cynthia Culbertson; Review of the movie "Hildalgo"). Original article by Ms. Culbertson published in "Bob Magazine"; an Arts and Culture Magazine based in southern New Mexico.


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HUNG LEUNG does not have a TV show. He has never written a cookbook or branded his name on a set of barbecue tongs.
Even the famous chefs who dine nightly on Leung's salt and pepper squid do not know who cooked it.
Smiling shyly as he juggled squid in a wok, Leung said through a translator he was ''very happy'' that Golden Century had been judged Sydney's best late night dining by a group of famous chefs. It took Leung five bemused minutes to accept that a journalist wanted to interview him.
The 70-year-old, who grew up on a farm in southern China and learnt his hot sauce recipes as a teenage kitchen hand in Hong Kong, has been head chef at Haymarket's Golden Century since 1990.
But unlike many of his competitors Leung has avoided the cult of the ''celebrity chef''; he is a mystery even to his diners.
''I've never even thought to ask who the [Golden Century] chef was,'' said Rockpool's Neil Perry, one of the chefs who recommended the Chinese restaurant in a new book called Where Chefs Eat, which publishes restaurant recommendations from more than 400 chefs around the world.
Other Sydney restaurants rated highly by chefs include Tetsuya's in the category ''worth the travel'', Rockpool Bar and Grill for ''high end'' and dumpling restaurant Din Tai Fung for ''bargain''.
Perry said there was something refreshing about a restaurant that kept its chefs anonymous and its guest list open. Golden Century's early morning crowd is a mix of ''hospitality, hookers, bikies, drug dealers'', he said.
Luke Mangan is another prominent chef who praised Leung's cooking without having met him. ''But you know what, sometimes in restaurants it doesn't matter who the chef is.''
Quay's executive chef, Peter Gilmore, said Chinese restaurants in Australia are less likely to promote their chefs than Western restaurants.
''In those large Chinese restaurants the restaurateur seems to be the face of the restaurant more so than the chef … The notion of the chef at the forefront of the restaurant seems to be more a Western tradition, and a recent one at that.''
The owner of Golden Century, Eric Wong, said his chefs prefer to stay as far from the media as possible because they are shy and speak no English.
When he asked several of the cooks in the back of the kitchen to pose for Fairfax Media's photographer, they continued chopping broccoli, pretending not to hear him.
They seemed as bemused as Leung about the attention. ''I don't know why they chose us,'' another chef said.
Asked what he valued so much about his chefs and especially his head chef, the boss paused.
''You can find his working area is very clean,'' Mr Wong said.
''Number two, he just work and less complain, and not ask too much. Three, when is very busy he is always calm.''


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This thread is for our developers to comment on bugs that we have here at the SitePoint (but outside of the forums) - either new ones or known ones -- that way we can let you know about the known ones so you don't keep reporting them. We might be able to suggest workarounds, or you might have suggestions yourselves.
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The CSS reference pages (e.g., http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/boxmodel#boxmodel__fig_css-box-model_box-model-diagram ) are missing their figures. Could somebody please fix this?
Also, I can successfully log into these forum pages, but when I try to log in to comment on a reference page, I'm told: "An unexpected system error has occurred. Our customer support team has been notified and someone will investigate the problem shortly."
Hey,Yup, the reference sites are in need of so much work that we have decided to redo them altogether. Until that happens, I'm afraid we have to live with it.
Please, oh please verify the site in IE8, with javascript notification turned on. As a developer, I do not like to turn error notification off.Usually when coming to sitepoint in ie8, there will be a few javascrpit errors. I have actually come to expect that.But right now, there is a never-ending string of errors in IE that makes the site completely unusable.
I am not sure what is broken, but here is a dump.
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I started getting an error about 5PM CDT (GMT -5)
URL: http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/min-width/demo
FireFox error console:
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Points to this snippet of script:
<script>$(document).ready(function(){ $("ul.Superfish").superfish();});</script>
Seems as though "ul.Superfish" does not exist in the document.
The issue seems to break all functionality of the 'Show Me' button.
My post only 2, why?i get 5 post
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 27/2/2014 (1271 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Stalingrad is a huge, old-fashioned combat spectacle, a war story told on a vast scale and shown on vast Imax movie screens, in 3D.
It's Russian -- oh so very Russian, an epic of "The Great Patriotic War" that mixes vivid, blood-and-guts combat with chest-thumping patriotism and pathos.
And unfortunately, it's more than a little clumsy, from its absurd framing device to the simple head count of the cast of "fathers" who saved a young woman, and the world, during the "bloodiest battle in history."
In late 1942, Soviet reinforcements cross the Volga River and storm, literally, through a wall of fire to seize an apartment building on the front lines. They rescue a young rape victim, Katya (Mariya Smolnikova), and struggle to protect her from the Germans, led by a mournful, war-weary captain (Thomas Kretschmann), who are on the brink of throwing the Soviets out of the city.
Kapitan Gromov, played by an emotional Colin Farrell look-alike (Pyotr Fyodorov), worries that his tiny band will be too busy saving Katya to save Mother Russia, but in the symbolism of the cinema, she is both girl-victim and Mother Russia -- traumatized by war, clinging to vestiges of civilization in her parents' art- and piano-filled apartment, hell-bent on hanging on and having her revenge.
Director Fedor Bondarchuk (the fine Afghan war thriller 9th Company was his) stages the room-to-room, hand-to-hand fighting with a brutal, bloody brio. The thoroughly ruined sets, from the riverfront with its improvised rafts floating troops across, to the everything-is-burned-bombed-and-broken apartment blocks, put us inside the battle.
But this film was plainly built for the Putin-esque Soviet -- sorry, Russian -- market. Every excess has an old-fashioned hint of Soviet-era propaganda about it. As interesting as it might be to get a whiff of how the Russians see themselves and their history, Bondarchuk keeps finding ways to turn off overseas audiences.
Take the frame in which the story is told. Bondarchuk's famous actor-director father Sergei (Waterloo, War and Peace) plays an elderly Russian doctor telling the story of his mother's survival to a bunch of injured Germans trapped in a building collapse in the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Heroic Soviet -- sorry, Russian -- rescue teams went there to save the day.
The old doctor tells the story of the battle through the eyes of his mother, who always told him he had "five fathers," the men who saved her and perhaps fathered him during or after the battle.
The problem with that? There are plainly six, not five, men heavily invested in Katya's survival. At one point, they even pose on the steps of the apartment building -- six of them. Who was left out of Mom's count: the kapitan, the silent opera singer turned killing machine (Aleksey Barabash), the piggish sniper (Dmitriy Lysenkov), the gruff Navy warrant officer (Oleg Volku), the one they call "Angel," or the other they call "Sissy?"
Landing Kretschmann, whose big break was saving The Pianist at the end of Roman Polanski's Second World War film, meant building his character up, giving him a Russian "comfort woman" (Yanina Studilina) whom he holds hostage because she's a dead ringer for his dead wife and treats as his lover-confessor -- even though they don't speak each other's language.
Convincing digital dive bombers attack and missiles fired from German "Moaning Minnie" launchers streak through the smoke-filled skies. Jews are murdered, and back-talking Soviet sailors are summarily executed. Every so often, for the sake of a plot device, a soldier of this side or that one yells "Freeze" (in Russian or German, with English subtitles) rather than carrying on the killing spree, just so we have the hint of foes taking prisoners and debating, face to face.
It's a movie every bit as bloated as the biggest movies Bondarchuk's dad made in his heyday. In detail and combat spectacle, Stalingrad is hard to beat, and whatever its failings, one can't help but be curious about a story as connected to national identity as this one -- a film that, like today's Russia, feels more Soviet than Russian.
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Or [the unbelievers' state] are like the darkness of a fathomless sea which is covered by waves above which are waves above which are clouds, layers of darkness, one upon the other. If he puts out his hand, he can scarcely see it. Those Allah gives no light to, they have no light. (Qur'an, 24:40)
Measurements made with today's technology have revealed that between 3 and 30 percent of the sunlight is reflected at the surface of the sea. Then, almost all of the seven colours of the light spectrum are absorbed, one after another, in the first 200 metres, except for blue light (picture at left). Below a depth of 1,000 metres, there is no light at all (above picture). This scientific fact was pointed out in Sura Nur 40 in the Qur'an 1,400 years ago.
In deep seas and oceans, the darkness is found at a depth of 200 meters and deeper. At this depth, there is almost no light, and below a depth of 1,000 meters there is no light at all.61
Today, we know about the general formation of the sea, the characteristics of the living things in it, its salinity, as well as the amount of water it contains, and its surface area and depth. Submarines and special equipment, developed with modern technology, have enabled scientists to obtain such information.
The picture to the left represents internal waves at interface between two layers of water of different densities. The lower layer is denser than the upper one. This scientific fact, declared in Sura Nur 40 of the Qur'an 14 centuries ago, has been discovered by today's scientists only very recently.
Human beings are not able to dive to a depth of more than 70 meters without the aid of special equipment. They cannot survive unaided in the dark depths of the oceans, such as at a depth of 200 meters. For these reasons, scientists have only recently been able to discover detailed information about the seas. However, that the depth of the sea is dark was revealed in the Qur'an 1,400 years ago. It is certainly one of the miracles of the Qur'an that such information was given at a time where no equipment to enable man to dive into the depths of the oceans was available.
In addition, the statement in Surat an-Nur 40 "…like the darkness of a fathomless sea which is covered by waves above which are waves above which are clouds…" draws our attention to another miracle of the Qur'an.
Scientists have only recently discovered that there are sub-surface waves, which "occur on density interfaces between layers of different densities." These internal waves cover the deep waters of seas and oceans because deep water has a higher density than the water above it. Internal waves act like surface waves. They can break, just like surface waves. Internal waves cannot be discerned by the human eye, but they can be detected by studying temperature or salinity changes at a given location.62
The statements in the Qur'an run parallel precisely the above explanation. Certainly, this fact, which scientists has discovered very recently, shows once again that the Qur'an is the word of Allah.
61. Danny Elder, and John Pernetta, Oceans (London: Mitchell Beazley Publishers: 1991), 27.
62. M. Grant Gross, Oceanography, A View of Earth, 6th ed. (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall Inc.: 1993), 205.


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There is rarely a family get-together where the main meal is not accompanied by a group of side dishes that are of the traditional flavors of our history in Syria. Many of our meat dishes are sweet, sour and savory all at once — often with warm spices and dried fruits.
When at a celebration such as a religious holiday, Sabbath meal or an American holiday, the turkey or a roasted beef or chicken dish is the focus of the table, of course. But the side dishes are like little gems sprinkled through the meal, which is almost always done as follows:
1. The main focus dish of beef, fowl or fish.
2. A stuffed vegetable dish such as Mesche (zucchini, tomato, cabbage leaves, carrots, potatoes or onions scooped out and stuffed with Hashu, a spiced meat and rice filling) or Yebrat (brined stuffed grape leaves, usually made with dried fruit and tamarind sauce (also referred to as oot).
3. Rice made with a browned noodle and a sauce usually made of a tomato base with a meat or meatball (Keftes or Blahat).
4. A vegetable dish such as string beans or peas made with warm spices and sometimes a braised beef on the bones (flanken).
I am going to share my family version of Yebrat, or rolled stuffed grape leaves.
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Our periodic review of business trends notes that food has become a big name on the deal-making menu recently.
BIGGEST BITE: When famed investor Warren Buffett (Laguna Beach vacation home owner) eyes a niche, you know it's serious. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway – already owners of Dairy Queen and See's Candies – and his Brazilian partners agreed to pay a food-industry record $23 billion for H.J. Heinz. That's the global collection of packaged-food brands, most notably its ketchup.
This deal is clearly a bet that consumer confidence is back, with shoppers willing to buy name brands rather than private labels both in America and around the globe.
BIG BITE: The food-theme deal-making got started in earnest late last year when ConAgra Foods – owners of such food brands as Banquet, Slim Jim, Healthy Choice and Hunt's, with its Orange County heritage – announced it would pay $6.8 billion for Ralcorp, a top private-label food maker, notably snacks and sauces.
This deal creates one of the nation's largest packaged-food makers. This looks to be a "synergy" play, with ConAgra hoping to leverage Ralcorp contacts in the food-service world to boost overall sales.
INTERESTING BITE: The epic labor-management battle at Hostess Brands put the company into bankruptcy and placed major baked-goods brands up for play. There's been no shortage of suitors for household names like Twinkies, Ho Hos, Dolly Madison, Drake's and Wonder Bread. A series of bankruptcy-court auctions begins this month with collective opening bids of $825 million.
Other than the final price, the big question: Will workers keep their jobs, post-sales?
NIBBLES: Serving food is a hot property, too, with small eatery chains trading owners in a rapid pace in recent weeks.
•East Coast diner operator Bob Evans sold O.C.-based Mimi's Cafes for $50 million to France's LeDuff – owners of Bruegger's Bagels, for one. That price is basically less than one-third of what the chain went for nearly a decade ago.
•Investor Golden Gate Capital is selling Romano's Macaroni Grill to Ignite Restaurant Group (Joe's Crab Shack) for $55 million.
•Landry's – owner of Rainforest Cafe, O.C.-bred Bubba Gump Shrimp and the McCormick & Schmick's chain – wants to buy casino-restaurant operator Ark Restaurants for $71 million.
•The private-equity owner of Johnny Rockets – the Aliso Viejo-based burger chain – is pondering sale opportunities for a rumored $100 million-plus.
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Dog-friendly Holsworthy, 3 Dogs & Enclosed Garden/Patio
This converted detached barn offers easy walking access for guests with resricted mobility. Situated on 50 acres of private farmland, there are bluebell woodland walks from your doorstep (in early May). Single bank river fishing is available on site. Dartmoor National Park and Roadford and Tamar Lakes, for walks, bird…
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Pershing 76 — By Richard Thiel —
February 2004
Fast and Flashy
|Part 2: One thing that I'm sure will define the 76's owner is a love of speed.
At this point my impression of the 76's owner was someone who probably wouldn't spend a lot of time at the wheel. Pity, for it's one of the best layouts I've seen. Everything is here—including all switches and breakers—but the most frequently used components, including electronics and gauges, are clustered in a vertical pod right in front of the helmsman. There are but two seats—four-way adjustable Besenzoni pedestals—not exactly an invitation for guests to watch the captain do his thing. They're perfectly positioned to act as leaning posts, and indeed because the bridge deck is elevated, sightlines are better when you're standing than when you're seated. In the latter position the wheel is really too low for comfortable operation, not a problem since a standard jog lever lies to the helmsman's left, between the seats.
Also between the seats and on the helmsman's left are the MTU Electronik controls, a location that I, a right-hander, didn't find particularly comfortable. I also found the control's synching feature nonintuitive compared to other electronic controls: You first press the "synch/troll" button, then you must pull the port throttle back to neutral to engage it. To disengage it, you must perform the reverse operation.
But any helmsman would appreciate electrically operated (with readily available manual overrides) port and starboard watertight doors that lead to side decks that are wide going forward, a boon for docking. Going aft they narrow to little more than shoe width, and there is no bowrail here, although there are substantial handholds on both house sides.
To starboard of the helm a companionway leads down to the accommodations deck, which I suspect won't get a lot of use. Again, a pity, for the amenities are considerable. Our boat had four cabins (a three-cabin version is available), which includes a surprisingly roomy full-beam master beneath the saloon and a smaller but nevertheless quite comfortable VIP in the forepeak. Like the starboard twin berth guest cabin between, these have en suite heads (the guest cabin's has a second hallway door so it can double as a day head). The fourth cabin to port is probably intended for children, as it's small, with angled bunks and no head.
One thing that I'm sure will define the 76's owner is a love of speed. Like all but the smallest Pershing, the 76 has standard Arneson Surface Drives, which along with 2,000-hp MTUs—the only engines offered—provide impressive performance and an equally impressive roostertail. They also provide startling agility: I was able to carve a U-turn at more than 31 knots in just 50 yards. Indeed, crank the wheel hard over at any speed, and the 76 will heel into a perfectly controlled high-G turn that will have passengers grabbing their gin and tonics. She may have three flat-panel TVs, but the real entertainment center on this boat is the helm.
Our 76's nearly 49-knot speed also came courtesy of an advanced layup that includes PVC coring and SCRIMP vacuum infusion. Interestingly, gelcoat is applied by brush, not sprayed on, and after curing, it's polished with abrasive paste and fine compound to a mirror finish. Colored areas are painted with two-part epoxy to an equally flawless appearance. All of these technicalites, I'd guess, will be lost on the 76's owner, who will probably be most interested in looking good, going fast, and getting a tan. The 76 permits all that handily, but should a real hands-on enthusiast come along, she's got plenty of substance to please him or her, too.
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For all you conlangers out there,
I have not really created any full-capability conlangs, but I have created about 30-40 conscripts and about 15 conlang sketches.
For the rest of you,
The real languages I am most interested in are Basque, Albanian, Finnish, Hittite, Wolof, Hausa, Korean, Japanese, Wu Chinese, and Nuosu...though these are likely to change soon. I have a short attention span when it comes to this sort of thing. What I mean is that I don't really study them in detail, but instead look at their interesting features and think about the most interesting features, though i may also pick up some phrases and vocabulary in the process
I am taking a second-year Basque class, and I am reasonably competent though illiterate in Mandarin and, of course, fluent in English.
My conlangs don't really take elements from anywhere in particular, though sometime I rip off lexicon from Basque
But I am, as you can guess, particularly fond of abugidas, especially Thaana, and so most of my conscripts are abugidas, including one which I use regularly and fluently which is designed for Basque. I derived it from a con-proto-script, and there are about 8 steps in between.
Hizkuntzak ikasi badituzunean, jostatu!
Hello...Kaixo...Tungjatjeta...안녕하세요...Neng hao va
The place to introduce yourselves.
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Hello...Kaixo...Tungjatjeta...안녕하세요...Neng hao va
Ez naiz euskalduna, baina euskaraz dakit.
Thaana is awesome, no doubt about it.
Thaana is awesome, no doubt about it.
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PEACHTREE CITY, Ga.--Power management company Eaton today announced that its Cooper Lighting division is sponsoring the Outdoor Lighting Design Award for the 2014 Illuminating Engineering Society's (IES) Illumination Awards program. The Outdoor Lighting Design Award recognizes excellence in lighting design and application in all aspects of exterior lighting.
"Eaton is committed to celebrating leaders in lighting design, who are driving all facets of the industry forward," said Mark Eubanks, president, Eaton's Cooper Lighting division. "By supporting the IES awards program, we aim to help improve the sustainability, reliability and overall function of outdoor lighting."
The Outdoor Lighting Design Award celebrates achievements in aesthetics, applied technical acumen, creative solutions to demanding site conditions and advancements to the industry in outdoor lighting applications. The goal of the program is to further the understanding, knowledge and function of outdoor lighting as a critical aspect of the built environment.
The IES Illumination Awards provide a unique opportunity for public recognition of professionalism, ingenuity and originality in lighting design based upon the individual merit of each entry judged against specific criteria. The Outdoor Lighting Design Award is one of five award categories.
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Eaton's Cooper Lighting division delivers a range of innovative and reliable indoor and outdoor lighting solutions, as well as controls products specifically designed to maximize performance, energy efficiency and cost savings.


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When R.A. Dickey first started pitching for the Mets, his strong outings were treated like a parlor trick that would soon be exposed. But after Sunday's outing, pitching into the ninth innings to give the Mets a series win over Arizona, I wondered: just how good has Dickey been for the Mets?
Compare him to the starting pitchers in baseball, from 2010 to now, and Dickey currently ranks 21st in the major leagues in wins above replacement, with 7.4. That puts him in a tie with David Price of Tampa Bay, and just ahead of Dan Haren, Hiroki Kuroda, Gavin Floyd, John Danks and Tim Lincecum.
Think about that company for a moment. Price and Lincecum are generally regarded as aces. Danks signed a massive contract extension this past offseason. Kuroda will make more money in 2012 than Dickey has made in his three seasons with the Mets. Haren was acquired for six players in 2007, four players in 2010.
And Dickey, picked up from the scrap heap in 2010 and signed to an extremely team-friendly contract extension prior to 2011, has outperformed them all.


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Southern NJ Stella & Dot Stylist Meet-Up & Local Opportunity Event
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text: In 2008, College Union wanted to create an event that would give students a chance to dress up, have fun and to fight off those winter blues. And what they came up with was The Roller Disco. From its inception, it has been a crowd favorite, selling out Coray Alumni Gym every Spring. Due to its popularity, we've had to offer two sessions of skating. During the roller disco, students fill the Beamer Student Center in their own unique version of disco attire. Students will often shop during summer and winter breaks to find the perfect costume for the Roller Disco. With the room cleared of all chairs and tables, Coray Alumni is equipped with disco balls and colorful strobe lights set to the funky music. This event is made complete with the students outfitted in the quintessential quad roller-skates.


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The most easterly point of land in North America10 Jan 2011
Located at the most easterly point of land in North America, Cape Spear is where you can see nature at its most beautiful and wild; tranquil and ferocious; it all depends on the day you visit. The site is surrounded by spectacular scenery and wildlife such as whales, seabirds and icebergs in season.
In 1834, construction began on the first lighthouse, with a foghorn added in 1878. The light was first lit by oil, with acetylene adopted in 1916, and electricity in 1930. In 1955, the dipodic system was moved to a new light tower, not far from the original lighthouse. The original lighthouse is the oldest surviving lighthouse in Newfoundland with the original building and the lightkeeper's residence restored to the period of 1939, and shows how a lightkeeper and his family might have lived there during that time.
Mistaken mystique21 Nov 2010
Mistaken Point is a remarkable place. A beautiful, rocky headland at the tip of the Avalon Peninsula bearing the fossilized remnants of ancient creatures more than half a billion years old. Etched onto two shelves of stone, these cryptic messages from the distant past were once primitive animals living at the bottom of the ocean. The volcanic ash that killed them, also preserved them
This Vancouver Sun article talks about a recently discovered cemetery in Cupids, NL, which is thought to be the oldest English burial ground in Canada. We also happen to have the oldest burial site in all of North America, located at L'Anse Amour, Labrador. It dates back 7,500 years — 3,000 years before the pyramids of Egypt.
On the hunt for pirate treasure11 Nov 2010
Is the greatest pirate of all time from NL? Newfoundland and Labrador's infamous pirate, Peter Easton, who plundered foreign ships sailing the Atlantic Ocean in the early 17th century, may well be the most notorious pirate of all time. CTV's W5 went diving for evidence off the coast of Conception Bay, NL.
"It was the gun that helped England secure its first foothold in the future Canada four centuries ago…" A 400-year-old archeological find in North America's oldest colony, Cupids, NL, has got historians excited. Check out this Vancouver Sun article about discovering the 17th-century remains of the actual cannon site that helped England secure its first claim within what would become Canada.
Exploring Quidi Vidi Village26 Aug 2010
This feature in WestJet's Up! magazine whimsically explores the charming and scenic fishing village, Quidi Vidi, which flanks the base of Signal Hill, just a five-minute drive away from downtown St. John's... "The village is a little sheltered corner of the east coast, with a glimpse of the Atlantic Ocean from inside the gut..."
Torngat Mountains: Let the spirit move you20 Aug 2010
The Land of Spirits: This Globe and Mail feature is all about Canada's newest national park — Torngat Mountains National Park in Labrador. From polar bear sightings to ice bergs, all seen within one of the last untouched wilderness areas in the world, the experience was clearly an unforgettable one for the writer.
7 hottest summer destinations for 20105 Jul 2010
Number 3! Newfoundland and Labrador was named one of the 7 Hottest Summer Destinations of 2010 by TripAtlas.com. "Polar bears, icebergs, maritime culture, Viking history, and Cupids ... there's no place more enlightening than Newfoundland & Labrador this summer."
Canada's most walkable city 2010: St. John's29 Apr 2010
Walkable St. John's. Westjet's Up! magazine has ranked St John's, NL as one of the Top Ten Most Walkable Cities in Canada thanks to its historic streets, winding staircases and brightly coloured buildings. Not to mention a great trail system.
Newfoundland and Labrador's vast, unspoiled wilderness offers glimpse back to Viking times24 Mar 2010
"Newfoundland and Labrador may lie in the Atlantic a time zone ahead of the rest of North America, but visiting Canada's easternmost province is like taking a step back in time…" Read about the province's Viking heritage in this NY Daily News article.