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DEAR AMY: I am a college student. My mother and I have a great relationship -- I feel like I can tell her anything -- but there is one problem that has become increasingly frustrating. If I give her the name of a guy I would maybe consider dating, she insists on conducting extensive Internet searches until she has found his hometown, his high school activities, his parents' professions, his past girlfriends -- everything.
This has been happening since I was in high school, but it grew worse last year, when I showed interest in someone who we later found out was keeping some pretty significant information from me.
I have no problem with looking through Facebook and Twitter profiles myself, and I've turned down prospects with no regrets.
However, the threat of a profile check has made me somewhat unsure of myself because I'm ultimately worried that my mother won't approve.
I've also gone out with "bad matches" just because I knew she would hate them, which I admit is an immature reaction.
I've brought this up, but she has continued searching anyway; her reasoning is that since everything is on the Internet, she might as well use it to her advantage.
Honestly, she is usually spot-on in her judgments. I understand that she has good intentions and doesn't want me to waste my time with the wrong person, and I don't either.
Should I limit what I tell her (which will make me feel guilty)? -- Distressed in Dallas
DEAR DISTRESSED: This outrageous behaviour doesn't seem to bother you enough. I can only assume that this is because your mother has successfully gaslighted you into thinking her behaviour is acceptable. It is not. She might be a great private investigator, but her parenting skills leave a lot to be desired.
You've already admitted to going out with "bad matches" in order to punish her, and that is the most predictable consequence of her intrusion. She is pushing you into a hornet's nest, but in the end you will get stung.
The obvious answer is for you to not tell her anything relating to your intimate dating life. Call a complete moratorium. Explain this by telling her, "No more background checks, Mom. I'm going to have to figure this out on my own." This will definitely interfere with your mother-daughter closeness, but that is a consequence of her being so untrustworthy.
DEAR AMY: Is there an effective reply to my husband's comment: "It does not bother me; if it bothers you, then you clean it up, pick it up, put it away, fix it, move it, etc."?
End of discussion.
He is retired, I am still working, and I come home to an incredible mess. He is a good man, but I cannot seem to make him understand that this refusal to be helpful is tearing up a 30-year marriage. Suggestions? -- Frustrated
DEAR FRUSTRATED: I'm going to assume that you are not griping about towels left on the bathroom floor, but about major household nightmares. If so, one effective reply would be, "This does bother me. It's always bothered me. Here's my new address. End of discussion. You're a good guy, so let's date."
The at-home partner should at the minimum ensure that the working partner doesn't return home after work to a house that is markedly worse than she left it. That's the minimum.
Retired spouses who really step up domestically can often find themselves with a transformed relationship -- when the working spouse notices and appreciates the TLC.
A counsellor could help you to mediate this by encouraging each of you to see this domestic situation from your spouse's perspective. Some relatively small changes on both of your parts could make a big difference


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Weekend, I went to my friend's house. We planned to go somewhere for time pass.
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CEC Specialty Group Leader Wouter Veening, President, Institute for Environmental Security, recently delivered the keynote address at the June 9, 2010 Forum on Earth Observations in Washington, D.C.
Climate, Energy, and National Security:
Meeting the Environmental Information Challenge
Hyatt Regency Washington
Washington, DC
June 9, 2010
"A European Perspective"
Luncheon Keynote Remarks by Wouter J. Veening, President, Institute for Environmental Security (The Hague, Brussels)
Ladies and Gentlemen, it is your compatriot Robert Kagan who said and wrote "Americans are from Mars, Europeans come from Venus".
Well, I don't know what paleo-anthropologists would say about this, but it is a fact that they both now inhabit the planet Earth, that tiny, vulnerable blue ball in the Universe, seen for the first time in the 1960s by American astronauts, that extraordinary feat of American technology!
For all practical and political purposes, it is only the very thin outer layer of that blue ball, containing the atmosphere, the oceans and the soils, that sustains and can sustain life as we know it.
But, as you all know and as we see every day on the front pages of our newspapers with these poor, petroleum-plastered pelicans, we are messing up that thin layer, our biosphere of which we are an inextricable part.
Now while we all agree this has to be stopped, there is definitely a distinctive American and European approach to it. Europeans see the biosphere and a stable climate as global public goods, which require binding legal instruments to protect and conserve these goods, such as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and UN Convention on Biological Diversity. In the case of the Climate Convention, the implementation should contain targets and timetables, such as specified by the Kyoto Protocol.
To put it mildly, Americans are less keen to enter into internationally binding commitments, and have a – to put it a bit starkly – blind faith in technology to solve problems like climate change and also therefore see much less the need to change consumer behavior than the Europeans. I remember very well President Bush Sr. saying at the Rio '92 UN Conference on Environment and Development: "The American way of life is not up for negotiation."
These different approaches very much manifest themselves in the ratification procedures for international treaties: the European Union and its Member States usually first ratify the treaties and then proceed to implement them by national or EU legislation, while In the U.S. the domestic legislation has to be in order as a necessary condition to ratify international commitments.
It was very heartening for me to hear this morning in relation to the excellent panel on the Arctic that in all probability all conference participants in the room would be in favor for the U.S. to ratify the Convention on the Law of the Sea! I trust this will be communicated to Congress and the White House.
Also, please don't forget that poor Convention on Biological Diversity: U.S. ratification would give a much needed boost to that convention and it would be great if it could be done in this year, 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity.
Europe of course also attaches great importance to technology and has committed itself – in a legally binding way! – to have 20% of all energy consumed coming from renewable sources by 2020. This includes biofuels, for which there is much less enthusiasm nowadays, however, in light of its negative impacts on the tropical rainforests with all their biodiversity.
An extremely important contribution by the U.S. to the climate policy debate has been and is the connection with security, not only national, but also local and global security. Let me refer here to the ground-breaking report of the CNA of April 2007 on climate change and national security and the leadership by people like Sherri Goodman, Senior Vice President of CNA and moderator of the Arctic Panel this morning. The CNA report and many other publications since then from also other security think tanks over here, have contributed tremendously to the EU thinking and positioning on the relation between climate and security. It is of course a main interest of our Institute for Environmental Security and we have discussed with NATO to make climate change a prominent feature in NATO's New Strategic Concept, to be adopted later this year.
Looking at the actual state of international climate change policy discussions and negotiations we do have the outcome of Copenhagen in the form of the Copenhagen Accord. While many still think Copenhagen was a failure and the Accord a piece of useless paper, I beg to differ. The Accord is far from the legally binding text the Bali Roadmap of 2007 called for, but it contains the global consensus that temperature rise has to remain below 2 ° C in comparison with pre-industrial levels – even to be pushed down to 1.5 ° after evaluation of the Accord in 2015 – and it commits money especially to assist developing countries in getting on a sustainable energy path and in coping with the impacts of inevitable climate change.
I think President Obama was a constructive factor in Copenhagen, but, domestically speaking, he came empty-handed and was therefore less influential than he should have been as leader of a country with historically and actually such a major impact on the world's climate.
The EU was marginalized in Copenhagen because of its difficulty to speak with one mouth and by the fact that it had (and has) committed itself to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20% by 2020, no matter what the rest of the world does, so no need to negotiate with the nicest pupil in the class…
From a political perspective I think that the importance of Copenhagen lies to a great extent in the fact that the so-called BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China), all major polluters of the atmosphere, have taken up a leadership role in the negotiating process, very much also because they are major victims of climate change with its impacts on food, water and energy security, its changing weather patterns (monsoons!) and loss of land both in quantity and quality due to sea level rise and salination. Much leaves to be desired in what they are prepared to do in practice and how this can be verified, but their willingness to be – in my view – deeply involved in the negotiating process in principle takes away one of the major objections of the U.S. against an implementation instrument like the Kyoto Protocol, which let the big emerging economies off the hook. While I have always defended the Kyoto Protocol, I think the U.S. was perfectly right to point to this great flaw.
Looking ahead to the next Conference of the Parties at the end of this year in Cancún, Mexico, I was a bit dismayed to hear from Congressman Alan Mollohan this morning, that there was no chance that the U.S. would be ready with its domestic legislation in time. If there is any silver lining in that terrible spill in the Gulf, I would hope it would help speed up that legislation…
What absolutely binds the Americans and the Europeans is the theme of this conference, the need to have the best information on the state and dynamics of the biosphere and especially the vital role of satellite-based intelligence in this.
On both sides of the Atlantic the demand for earth observations has to be articulated by both scientists and policy-makers and communicated to the builders of the satellites, platforms and sensors, such as Northrop Grumman, the sponsor of this lunch!
I am happy to share with you that my institute carries out a project for the European Space Agency (ESA) to analyze the EU's climate and energy policies for its relevance for ESA and the related space industry. As we attach great importance to the role of tropical forests for the global climate and as repositories of the richest biodiversity in the world, I am proud to say that our remote sensing partner in the Netherlands, SarVision, has an agreement with JAXA, to get their radar images of the major tropical forest areas for free, because of SarVisions advanced methodology to develop algorithms for the interpretation of these images. Our partner is also well-connected with their counterparts in NASA and NOAA, and participates in the Forest Carbon Tracking system now promoted by GEO, the Group on Earth Observations.
What we aim to do and are doing in the Guiana Shield area in the Northern Amazon is to develop monitoring protocols where remote sensing-based information is combined with ground-truthing by trained local observers using GPS-connected handheld devices, and with SarVision and other partners we are discussing with Google Earth how to share the maps resulting from these protocols around the world. As such it can be a powerful awareness-raising tool, and very useful in a verification mechanism for international treaties.
From an environment and security standpoint we are – with many others of course – very concerned about the situation on the Tibetan Plateau – the Third Pole, because it contains the largest amount of snow and ice after the Arctic and the Antarctic – the Water Tower of Asia, its glacier-fed rivers providing billions of people with their essential water. The diversion of the river waters, the melting of the glaciers and the snowcaps puts India and Pakistan against each other on the Indus, India and China on the upstream (Tsjing Po) section of the Bhramaputra, and India and Bangladesh on the lower section.
China is building dams on the upper section of the Mekong, compromising livelihoods in the downstream Mekong countries. As some of these countries are nuclear powers and many have territorial and or ethnic/religious conflicts, it is a situation, which from an environmental diplomacy perspective requires the greatest attention. With our Military Advisory Council we aim to bring together representatives from the security and military communities to anticipate the potential hard security challenges if diplomacy and international negotiations were to fail.
Finally, if we are the solve the paradox that on the one hand climate science is hardening and at the same time climate skepticism among the larger public is growing – due to the growing gap between the perception of what should be done and the perception of the unpleasantness of changing current behavior, a form of cognitive dissonance – we need to show that there are attractive alternatives.
The worlds of science, politics and education have to be brought together and this conference has done exceptional work in doing that. I am very happy and privileged to be with the organizer of this conference, Nancy Colleton, on the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication to bring the results and outcomes of today to other audiences around the world, and I want to thank Ray Kolibaba from Northrop Grumman for having me here.


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Towards Linked Data Based Enterprise Information Integration
Data integration in large enterprises is a crucial but at the same time costly, long lasting and challenging problem. In the last decade, the prevalent data integration approaches were primarily based on XML, web services and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). The authors argue that classic SOA architectures may be well-suited for transaction processing, however more efficient technologies can be employed for enterprise data integration. In particular, the use of the Linked Data paradigm appears to be a very promising approach.
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The hotel features a large inviting atrium lobby with Mediterranean decor.
Shopping and movie theaters are just a walk across the street at the New Park Mall -- featuring major department stores, shops and food court. Sizzler and the Bombay Garden serve lunch and dinner and are in the same parking lot as the hotel.
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Seniors are reaching out to impoverished children one stitch at a time. A group of women with a love of sewing and helping others is working together to provide dresses for young girls in need.
Dianne Flikkema had heard of different groups sewing to help children across the world and wanted to lend a hand. She started contacting friends at the River Bend Senior Center and soon the club was busy gathering materials and patterns.
"I enjoy sewing and had a lot of excess material," Flikkema said. "I thought perhaps seniors could make a difference and help out with something like this."
The group is hoping to send the dresses to Haiti or any other area where there is a need. Currently the small club of seven women does not have a specific goal for how many dresses they plan to make, just as many as possible, according to Flikkema.
No matter how many times they have to change a project or take things apart and start over, the sewers have little frustration when they think about the children who will benefit. When Joyce Bowman sews she thinks of her granddaughter and the opportunity to help girls across the country who may not be as fortunate.
"Our son adopted a little girl in need," Bowman said, "I like to be able to help out other children."
Flikkema and other sewers have several friends and family who go on mission trips and plan to partner with them to assure the dresses get to those in need. This gives seniors who either cannot travel or simply do not want to travel a way to offer help vicariously.
"We figured we would have some ready, so they could easily take some with them," Flikkema said.
Susan May of Susan's Calico Creations donated four sewing machines to the River Bend Senior Center previously, making the sewing club possible. She also provided much of the fabric for the project. Other community members have lent a hand in the process as well. One local man donated fabric from his wife who was a quilter.
While many of the sewers often take their projects home, they also meet after the community lunch to make it a social event. The ladies follow a simple pattern for dresses that can fit girls of different ages and sizes, using bright colors and fun patterns.
"It's a quick and easy way to help others," Judy Holesinger said.
The group is looking for extra help. Sewers of all ages are welcome to join from throughout the area. They also are looking for help with hand-stitching, cutting out patterns and pressing the fabric. River Bend Senior Center is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The sewers often come by the center for the community lunch on Wednesdays and stay to do some sewing.
For more information, contact Charlotte Combs at (815) 589-3925.


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Cam Fowler plays beyond his years
November, 24, 2010
By E.J. Hradek
Ah yes, Thanksgiving. Can you believe it? Wasn't it just opening night? The time seems to be flying by like a Steven Stamkos one-timer zipping into the top corner. I guess it won't be long now until I see "A Charlie Brown Christmas" show up on my TV.
Teams and fans are certainly happy when their new kids can find their way through the first several weeks of the season. Management is particularly thankful when their rookie defensemen can become quick contributors. So far this season, I've talked a lot about high-end freshmen Ds P.K. Subban and John Carlson. On this day before Thanksgiving, I'd like to give you a quick list of some other rookie D-men who are making their way as we move into the second quarter of the season.


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Disney Wants a Hand Drawn Animated Movie Every 2 Years
by Alex Billington
February 27, 2009
Earlier today I caught a very entertaining panel at WonderCon in San Francisco moderated by Walt Disney Animation Studios visual effects supervisor Marlon West, who has spent the last few years working on Disney's The Princess and the Frog. While he did share a few short behind-the-scenes videos showing his work in that movie so far, the biggest bit of news to come out of the presentation came during the question and answer session, where West mentioned that Disney is looking to continue making one 2D hand drawn animated movie once every two or so years from now on. Good news for everyone? Definitely!
It was easy to tell from the cheer that erupted when West first brought up The Princess and the Frog and 2D hand drawn animation that people still love that animation style. The Princess and the Frog is the first Disney movie since 2004 that is completely hand drawn and not computer animated, and if the hype continues to build as much as it has so far, it's likely to be a huge hit for Disney, which means they'll want more. And as long as John Lasseter stays on board at Disney as well, I'm certain he'll make sure that they keep putting out hand drawn animated movies, even if there's two years of time between each one.
From what I've seen of The Princess and the Frog so far, which isn't much yet besides this teaser trailer, it's going to be an enchanting throwback to the hand drawn Disney classics of old. And I'm certain audiences will still embrace that, even if we have entered the era of CGI. Hopefully West has his facts straight, because I really would love to see these kinds of movies made for many years to come. What about you?
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text: Tom would race, and at Spring Creek this past weekend Tom did race. The oldest of the two Hahn brothers decided that retirement was just too damned boring, and he's ready to return to racing full-time following some much-needed time away from the sport. After searching the privateer pits in Millville on Saturday, we finally located the unfamiliar number 130 Kawasaki and sat down with Tommy for an update.


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Pirate pimpin'. Well, I'd be scared if I saw this heap headed my way on the freeway!
Archive for April, 2007
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Quote of the day
For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Happy Vappu
This evening in Finland and elsewhere in the North marks the start of the May Day festivities. Vappu in Finland is the big celebration of May Day, which is both the Labor Day holiday and the celebration of the arrival of spring. The drinking and pranks start in earnest, though on the evening before (April 30), and by 9:00PM you will see people falling-down drunk. Packs of students roam the streets in logo-decorated matching jump suits and white student's caps (they look like little yachtman's caps), and there is a ceremony of dunking matriculating students into the river from a bridge using a crane. Fun!
Today's mermaid
Anchovy returns to the sea. Sort of.
Quote of the day
"Master and Owner of the Racundra." Does any man need a prouder title or description? In moments of humiliation, those are the words that I shall whisper to myself for comfort. I ask no others on my grave.
Arthur Ransome Racundra's First Cruise
The Boats of Swallows and Amazons
Stuart Wier's excellent article on the boats of Swallows and Amazons, which was homeless and lost for a time, can now again be found at the Aussie TARs site, and also here at downtothesea. I will be writing a lot more on this topic to help introduce readers to the world of Arthur Ransome — a man whose books have launched literally millions of small-boat dreams.
Today's mermaid
Ulua Day Zero: plans arrive
The Ulua plans came in the mail today, making this DAY ZERO. Included are a number of 1:1 scale blueprint sheets (haven't seen real, blue blueprints in quite a while), and a CD full of addiional drawings, pics, and instructions in pdf.
The first step for me was to trot down to Kinko's to get the more detailed sheets printed up at D-size (at great expense), and wallpaper the living room with them.
Next steps: Since I am fitting out the workshop (i.e. half of a 21′, two-car garage) at the same time as building the boat, I am thinking to start small by building some of the accessories, like the hiking seat, as a warmup. I also have some Norseboat projects in queue, like re-inforcing the centerboard trunk and making a set of floorboards with integral footblocks for better rowing.
Gone fishing. Laters!
Today's mermaid
Fredric Leighton "The Fisherman and the Syren" c. 1856
Goin' campin' and mebbe a bit o' fishin' this weekend!
Quote of the day
"Why is almost every robust, healthy boy with a robust, healthy soul in him, at some time or other, crazy to go to sea? Why, upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land?"
Herman Melville Moby Dick
Marketa knows tiller
With all due respect to Tillerman, I think I would go with Marketa the Tillergirl as guest crew.
An American boat (like a Catalina 29) would likely have most of its cockpit taken up by a big stainless wheel so the skipper could pretend to be an AC jockey. No cupholders in sight, but note the autopilot and the traveler on the bridgedeck (vs. the cabintop with a 6:1 purchase.) It's all good!
Marketa knows better.
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Bringing Horror Back to the Survival Horror Genre
Survival horror games are meant to scare us, make us feel nervous as we play them, and reward us with an experience that we won't soon forget. Games like Resident Evil 4, Silent Hill 2, and the horror/stealth hybrid Manhunt all provided some of the most chilling gameplay in the genre, and the horrific vibe that these titles exuded was further strengthened by their use of environment, sound, and visuals. Though there are a few exceptions, most "horror" games that come out these days hardly induce a feeling of loneliness and desperation quite like the classics did. It's time for the genre to go back to basics and once again provide intense nerve-wracking thrills like it used to.
One of the most important factors in any horror game is the use of a proper environment. Without a legitamitely creepy world, it's hard to really get lost in the game and have a lingering sense of fear. Resident Evil 5 was a major indication of this. Though the game had its moments, the open, sun-drenched locales made it nearly impossible to really get that feeling of nervousness that the horror genre is supposed to evoke in players. Horror games need to constantly put the player in a cramped space with dim lighting in order to really create a tense game world.
Crafting a dark and chilling environment is only part of successfully building a terrifying game world. The feeling of aloneness goes hand-in-hand with a horror game's locales, and something that made older games in the genre much scarier than they are now was the solitude that they forced on players. Manhunt is a great example of solitude in a video game. Players were outcasts throughout the entire game and were subjected to hiding in the shadows in order to survive. If a horror game is going to live up to the genre's standards, it needs to turn the player into the prey rather than making that person a hunter. This creates aloneness, and it makes the survival aspect of a horror game all the more meaningful.
In order for players to be lonely, they really need to be alone, and this translates into the real world. Something that doesn't work well at all with horror games is the implementation of a cooperative multiplayer mode. Most people enjoy a good co-op play session with a buddy, but this mode has no place in a horror game. It's hard to get scared while playing when you've got a friend next to you, talking to you the entire time and possibly even straying away from the topic of the game. Co-op in video games may be fun, but it in a horror game, it takes away from the experience that the genre is supposed to offer players.
Something developers need to remember when making horror games is that a surplus of ammo and weapons is only necessary in shooters and action-adventure titles. Early Resident Evil games turned ammo into a precious resource. Ammo clips and powerful weapons should be commodities in horror games, not abundant items scattered throughout every level. In Resident Evil 4, there was nothing more satisfying than being backed up into a corner and making every shot count only to discover that the final enemy you killed took up your last remaining bullet; and there was nothing more terrifying than noticing you were screwed after wasting all of your ammo when a group of Ganados were slowly making their way toward you.
So what would you do if those Ganados, zombies, or mask-wearing lunatics were actually inching closer and closer to you? You ran like heck! There's nothing wrong with running, and horror games that occasionally require the player to run create a true sense of desperation seen mainly in movies. These instances make you think as if you were the protagonist in a horror flick, providing an engrossing gameplay experience that not many genres can create. It's one thing to make Mario jump or make Kratos hack away at a group of enemies; but when you literally feel like it's your life that's in danger, the boundaries between horror game and real life are blurred just slightly enough to really make you feel afraid.
It's no secret that survival horror games have taken a more streamlined action-adventure approach lately. Titles such as Resident Evil 5 and Silent Hill: Homecoming aren't very original, and consequently hurt the genre. Developers need to stick with what worked for horror games in the past: moody environments, isolation, and desperation. These are key elements that help distinguish the genre among other action-adventure games. There is plenty of room for horror-themed sci-fi shooters such as Dead Space and zombie parodies like Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare, but there should also be a proper integration of authentic, creepy-as-heck horror games. At this point it's a dying genre, but by going back to basics and expanding on past formulas, developers can breathe new life into survival horror.


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A strange affliction is sweeping the nation. It seems to manifest itself in a peculiar compulsion to display the colors red, white and blue around July 4th. Nearly everywhere you go, you see people wearing these colors prominently. There are … Continue reading →
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Lucifer Rising
Plexus, 1999 - Social Science - 256 pages
With photographs and artwork from self-described Satanists, this elaborately researched look at the nature of evil sheds light on -- and makes light of -- popular culture's darkest secret. Lucifer Rising includes a history of occult-influenced rock music as well as candid interviews with modern-day Satanists and controversial rock stars who confirm that the dark side is indeed the religion of the rebel.
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Review: Lucifer Rising: Sin, Devil Worship, and Rock'n'RollUser Review - Benjyklostermann - Goodreads
Some of the history can get a bit dry if you're not that into reading about the occult. Very informative, and cool pictures. This really shows that rock'n'roll and the devil go hand in hoof. Read full review
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An interesting look into a not widely known about subculture. Very much so a history of the church of satan, the individuals involved and other satanic groups throughout history. Read full review
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A weekly look back at sports in the Lehigh Valley, in anniversaries of multiples of five.
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2008—A crowd of 9,989 officially welcomes pro baseball back to the Lehigh Valley when the Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs make their home debut at Coca-Cola Park. The crowd goes home disappointed when the Richmond Braves hand the IronPigs a 3-1 loss, their ninth straight setback to mark the worst season start by a team since the International League began keeping such records in 1978.


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Dugout buddies: Tom Werner (left) and Russell Goldsmith used to co-own the Padres
When they first met as roommates in their sophomore year at Harvard College, Beverly Hills native Russell Goldsmith had the sheen of Hollywood on him, and Tom Werner was looking to make the acquaintance of a particularly pretty classmate. "Tom was very welcoming," says Goldsmith. "Little did I realize he had an ulterior motive—he wanted to meet this girl I knew, Wendy."
Although things didn't pan out with Wendy, Werner, now co-owner of the Boston Red Sox and the coproducer of That '70s Show and other TV hits, and Goldsmith, CEO of City National Bank in California, have a relationship that's spanned more than five decades. Together they ran the Dunster House drama review and even filmed a documentary about Israel on a trip there in 1971. That film project turned out to be a harbinger of sorts. Since graduating in 1971, the pair worked together at ABC and Republic Pictures, and co-owned the San Diego Padres. Although the sports and television industries seem dissimilar, Werner says that in the end, it's all about creating a quality product.
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Maybe their lasting relationship has something to do with their mutual admiration and easy camaraderie. "Tom continues to be a creative force in American culture and he does it with integrity. If it wasn't for Tom, I never would have tried to own a baseball team. Even his golf game is admirable."
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Well... all i can say, a lot to watch in the boy's camp. We have annoying Jon, Andrew the leader, Rupert... Crying Osten and skinny Ryan. The girls actually might work well together, what do you guys think?
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Well... all i can say, a lot to watch in the boy's camp. We have annoying Jon, Andrew the leader, Rupert... Crying Osten and skinny Ryan. The girls actually might work well together, what do you guys think?
It would be interesting. Sandra+Tijuana, from the looks of it, would have been a volatile mix.
I'd also expect the challenges to be quite different. No way an all-female tribe could win the first IC, for example.
If that were the case, it's possible that the game might have changed a lot.
For one, the Drake tribe members would've gotten rid of the "Morgan Behinds" due to their stupidity. And, I could totally seeing Rupert clashing with someone like Andrew.
For the women, it's likely that Lillian and Trish would've been voted out first, and lookers like Tijuana, Michelle and Christa would have remained. I think Sandra and Tijuana would make a deadly combination myself...and, I could definitely see tension between Michelle and Darrah if it came down to it.
I think Tijuana would get on a lot of people's nerves on an all girl tribe. There would be way too many alpha males for an all guy tribe. The tribe would self destruct. I don't think Nicole and Ryan S. would have lasted like that, either. :lol
doesn't work for this theme.. I don't think there was ever any female priates per say.. heck... to have a female on boat would consider as bad luck to priates..
I think you're a little off Ruben. I believe there were several female pirates that became widely known. The first two that come to mind are Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Regardless, this is just for fun and lalol doesn't need empirical historical evidence in order to pose the question.
True.. correct me if I am wrong..but what I mean is that I don't think there were ever a shipload of female pirates only. And I don't see how my previous post came off as hostile ? :shrugQuote:
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It's all good Ruben. In no way did I imply that your post was hostile, just that historical evidence of female pirates was irrelevant to the conversation. I wasn't trying to be hostile either.
I think it would be interesting to think about the tribes being divided. I sense a lot of clashing between Rupert and Andrew and Tijuana and a lot of the others girls around. The first IC would've been completely different.
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Title: The Book of Presidents
Author: Orville V. Webster
Pages: 128
Reading Level: 9 – 14
Star Rating: ★★★★
Hi there! As of October 2013, I have upgraded to a new site – The Blithering Bookster – where I have posted all of my old reviews and continue to post new ones. Hoist yourself over to join the fun!
I've recently begun to look upon listing all the names of the Presidents as a sort of hobby – an entertainment, a tour de force. However, I was unable to list them in chronological order – until I read The Book of Presidents and memorized their order in one sitting. #yesimproud
Anyway, that was just a side effect. The book itself follows a definite pattern – the name of the president was presented, then the years of his service as President. Next came his nickname (or motto, whichever was more popular), then the dates of his birth and death. Thence followed a two-to-five page biography of the president. His life in a nutshell, so to speak.
Of course, having been published in 1991, The Book of Presidents fell rather short of the description "up-to-date". The book ends with President "George Bush" (no H. or W. in sight! Shocking.) However, its reports on the other Presidents were not falsified by this lack of foresight. :)
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- Abigail Adams is the only woman in U.S. history to be the wife of one President and the mother of another.
- When he died in 1836, James Madison was the last surviving signer of the Constitution.
- Of the five Presidents who participated in the American War for Independence, three of them – Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Monroe – died on a Fourth of July.
- Andrew Jackson participated in approximately 100 duels during his lifetime.
- Martin Van Buren was the first President born after the United States became an independent nation.
- William Henry Harrison is known for having given the longest inaugural address in U.S. history – it consisted of 8,578 words and lasted for one hour and forty-five minutes – and for having the shortest Presidential term!
- John Tyler's second wife was thirty years younger than himself.
- One of Zachary Taylor's daughters married Jefferson Davis!
- Ulysses S. Grant finished his autobiography just four days before his death.
- Garfield was able to write with both of his hands simultaneously – in different languages!
- Teddy Roosevelt was the first President to leave U.S. soil while in office. He was also the first President to ride in an automobile, fly in an airplane, and submerge in a submarine.
- Franklin Roosevelt was related to eleven former U.S. Presidents.
- Gerald Ford was the first man to become President without having run for the office of either President or Vice-President.
Lincoln haters should be informed that, although practically nothing is said about the War Between the States, Lincoln is referred to as "one of the greatest men in all American history." [pg. 51]
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The New Mercury Treaty: Three Things That Need to Happen Now
Oct 10, 2013, 18:59 ET from IPEN
KUMAMOTO, Japan, Oct. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Countries signing the world's first international mercury treaty have a "moral and legal" obligation to fully implement all treaty provisions, said IPEN, an international NGO, which participated in the three-year treaty process. More than 100 countries signed the Minamata Convention, as the treaty is known, Thursday in a ceremony in Kumamoto, Japan.
"The mercury treaty is a victory because it represents a global consensus that mercury pollution presents a serious threat to human health and the environment," said Joe DiGangi, IPEN's Senior Science and Technical Adviser. "Some treaty provisions are legally-binding obligations and others require governments to "endeavor" to take action. This means that each government has a moral, if not a legal commitment to fully implement all treaty provisions."
DiGangi urged nations to take three key actions immediately:
- Sign and ratify the mercury treaty: Fifty countries must ratify the treaty for its provisions to begin. Rapid ratification means addressing mercury pollution sooner.
- Identify mercury sources and make a plan: Actions to reduce mercury pollution require knowledge of mercury sources and a plan to address them. Key large mercury sources include coal-fired power plants and artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM).
- Act immediately to curb mercury poisoning and address contaminated sites. . Mercury, even in small doses, reduces children's ability to learn and its impacts are irreversible.
"The Minamata tragedy—in which tens of thousands were poisoned when the Chisso Corporation dumped methylmercury into the Minamata Bay for thirty years—also needs be resolved," said Manny Calonzo, IPEN Co-Chair. "All victims should be recognized and compensated and all contaminated areas, cleaned up. The principle of "polluter pays" should apply, and a comprehensive health study in impacted areas should be carried out."
"All around the world, in beautiful places like Minamata serious toxic pollution problems happen quietly, over time to one individual at a time. The Minamata name should become a positive model for how to carry out the Mercury Treaty by finally resolving the world's worst case of mass mercury poisoning," Calonzo concluded.
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Red Flag Warnings were issued for inland Orange County starting at 7 p.m. Sunday and lasting through the night and Monday morning.
Red Flags were posted for the mountains of the Inland Empire and San Diego County as well.
No Red Flags, however, were up for the mountains and valleys of Los Angeles County.
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The Google Chart API just keeps getting better and better, so if you haven't checked it out for a while, it might be worth taking a second look.
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5-Star Hotel with World-Class Dining and Hollywood Glamour
From the start, the Cipriani family's worldwide network of restaurants and bars has enjoyed loyalty from celebrities; Ernest Hemingway and Humphrey Bogart were regulars at the flagship spot in 1931. So it's fitting that the family's latest venture, a signature hotel by the name of Mr. C Beverly Hills, is situated in Hollywood's backyard. The hotel, led by fourth-generation brothers Ignazio and Maggio Cipriani, was named one of Fodor's top 5 new hotels in the country in 2011. It offers the Old-World elegance guests have come to expect with a dash of Old Hollywood flair.
In the lobby you'll find Mr. C's restaurant, which critic Jay Weston praised as having Italian dishes that are "a match for the very best in Milan and Venice." Try signature entrees, such as the baked tagliolini with fresh peas or the Chilean sea bass filleted at the table. You can also sample bellinis and carpaccio, a raw meat dish, both of which are said to have been invented by Giuseppe Cipriani in Venice more than 80 years ago. If you get a craving for pappardelle and sausage at 3 a.m., the kitchen also offers 24-hour room service.
During the day, guests gather at the hotel's 4,500-square-foot pool terrace. Plush day beds line the teak deck, and you can relax in private cabanas that feature flat-screen TVs.
Guest rooms have a chic 1950s aesthetic. Tufted leather headboards are set against handcrafted Italian chaises, and some tables are fashioned like faux midcentury trunk luggage with leather handles. The rooms also have the feel of an old movie set; you'll find vintage black-and-white film photography and adjustable spotlights amid the interiors. Head out to the private balcony in deluxe or premium rooms to take in panoramic views of Beverly Hills. Loft-style studio suites, on the other hand, have views of Los Angeles from a pair of private balconies.
Beverly Hills, Los Angeles: Star-Studded Neighborhood with High-End Shopping and Glamorous Nightlife
Mr. C is located on the southern edge of Beverly Hills, a glitzy Los Angeles neighborhood with quite possibly the most famous zip code in the world: 90210. Couture shops and designer labels such as Chanel, Prada, and Harry Winston line the cobblestone streets of Rodeo Drive, which is less than a half mile from the hotel. You'll also find a handful of spas here, many of which invent decadent massage and facial services that soon become standard nationwide. Among these is the new on-site spa at Mr. C with two treatment rooms, two changing rooms with steam showers, a relaxation area, and a manicure and pedicure station.
There's a grittier vibe to the nearby Sunset Strip. It's been a popular hangout for edgy musicians and their groupies since the 1960s. Groups such as The Doors and Mötley Crüe got famous at raucous clubs such as Whisky A Go-Go, which is still a boisterous nightspot today. Just north on Hollywood Boulevard, photo-snapping tourists gather at the Walk of Fame around star plaques bearing the handprints of the rich and famous.
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Southern appeal: Lynyrd Skynyrd sells out Shooting Star Casino
FARGO - It is 1,660 miles southeast to Jacksonville, Fla., but the Sun State's favorite sons, Lynyrd Skynyrd, have a spot in the hearts of folks on the northern Plains.
The Southern rock group was named Greatest American Rock Band by Forum readers in a poll earlier this year.
"That's a great honor. It's a great honor anyone holds you in that regard," says guitarist Rickey Medlocke. "That's a pretty heavy thing."
Skynyrd brings its rebellious rock north to play Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen, Minn., on Friday night. The concert is already sold out, showing just how popular the group is away from its home.
Medlocke says Skynyrd's appeal has always stretched beyond the Mason-Dixon Line.
"This has been an ongoing thing for many years," Medlocke says of the "Southern rock" label. "It seems if you were from down there, you got labeled a 'Southern rock' group. I don't mind the band carrying that label. We've always thought of ourselves as a good blues rock group that happened to come from Jacksonville, Fla."
"I don't know if it's a Southern thing versus a Northern thing, it's just good rock 'n' roll," says Chad "Moose" Johnson, programming director at The Fox, 107.9 FM, explaining why a band so wrapped up in its Southern roots (and wrapping itself in the Confederate flag onstage) appeals to those up north.
He says the fact that Skynyrd's music is also influenced by country helps grow the group's fan base. Skynyrd played the country music festival WE Fest last August.
"I think it's just working-class music. Everyone can relate to 'Freebird,' " says Fox DJ Robbie Daniels.
Daniels and Johnson say "Freebird," "Sweet Home Alabama," "Gimme Three Steps" and "Simple Man" are in regular rotation at the station.
All of these songs were released by Skynyrd in their second album, 1974's "Second Helping." Three years later, three members of the group, singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and his older sister, singer Cassie Gaines, would be killed in a plane crash. The band broke up but would re-form a decade later.
The crash and the band's influence inspired "Southern Rock Opera," a double-disc by the Alabama and Georgia-based rock group Drive-By Truckers in 2001.
"The band is always asked about the plane crash. We try to steer away from talking about it," Medlocke says, adding that he's only heard a couple of songs off "Southern Rock Opera." "It's one of those things we try not to think about on a day-to-day basis."
Medlocke started as a drummer in the group in 1970 but left to start his own band, Blackfoot. He re-joined Skynyrd in the mid-'90s at the request of guitarist Gary Rossington, the only remaining original member. Johnny Van Zant, Ronnie's younger brother, took over vocals. Former Black Crowes bassist Johnny Colt recently joined the group.
Skynyrd will release its 13th studio album, "Last of a Dying Breed," in August.
Keith Johs, guitarist for the S.O.L. Band, which plays the Holiday Inn this weekend, says Skynyrd's appeal is in the quality of its songs.
"A good song is cool, but a great song lasts forever, and they have several 'great' songs ... they each tell a story," says the Fargo guitarist, adding that he always gets asked to play "Sweet Home Alabama."
"Is Skynyrd as deep as (Bob) Dylan or (Tom) Petty? No, not always," Johs says. "Their songs generally have a little swagger, some tongue-in-cheek or hidden meaning. It makes them fun and a bit dangerous at the same time."
Medlocke says whether Skynyrd is playing in the South or the North or overseas, he knows the crowd is able to let loose a little and just enjoy the music.
"Maybe if people around the world did that a little more often we'd be in a little better shape than we are in," he says.


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It was President Obama, not Republicans, who demanded automatic spending cuts — the so-called "fiscal cliff" — in order to force both parties to accept brutal austerity, writes William K. Black (the S&L bank regulator and prosecutor). In a column entitled "Obama should listen to Obama," Black details how Obama repeatedly demanded an automatic trigger in the 2011 budget deal, which would kick in at the end of 2012.
Jumping off from Obama's statement a few weeks ago, that "Now is not the time for more self-inflicted wounds, certainly not coming from Washington," Black writes: "Austerity is the weapon that is about to inflict the self-inflicted wounds on our nation. The fiscal cliff is the ammunition about to be used to inflict austerity on the nation. One of the wounds is a recession, which would increase unemployment and the federal budget deficit. The other terrible wounds are cuts to social programs and the safety net that would add greatly to human misery." He goes on:
"Reporters need to ask Obama two series of questions. Who insisted on creating the fiscal cliff, threatened Republicans in Fall 2011 when they wanted to eliminate or reduce it, and after the 'failure' of the November 2011 'super committee' to reach a deal to inflict even greater austerity on the nation, made a veto threat to block a Republican proposal to eliminate or delay the fiscal cliff? The answer is: Obama. The White House wanted a 'trigger' that would automatically raise taxes on the wealthy and cut health spending, an idea the Republicans opposed. Obama's 'trigger' became the 'fiscal cliff.' I have explained how he then kept the 'fiscal cliff' alive by blocking Republican efforts to eliminate or delay it."
Black refers back to an earlier, Dec. 20 article, where he had pointed out that it was Tim Geithner and Bill Daley, two strong proponents of austerity, who advised Obama when he took the lead in crafting austerity. In this earlier article, Black identified five times during 2011 when Obama insisted on the "fiscal cliff" automatic spending cuts, in order to inflict austerity on the American people for the next decade: (1) The July 2011 $4 trillion austerity agreement with Boehner. (2) Creating of the fiscal cliff austerity deal in August around the debt ceiling. (3) Creation of the "super committee" to inflict massive spending cuts. (4) During "super committee" negotiations, Obama blocked any effort to delay or eliminate the fiscal cliff, by insisting that the automatic sequester provisions remain. Here Black adds: "Obama urged the infliction of severe austerity through cuts in the safety net, massive cuts in social programs, and deliberately created and used the fiscal cliff's self-destructive austerity threat to extort these betrayals of the American people. His surrogates (Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson — the co-chairs of Obama's austerity commission) pushed the super committee to 'go big' and inflict $4 trillion in austerity." (5) When the "super committee" could not reach an agreement, Obama threatened on Nov. 21, 2001, to veto any effort to get rid of the "fiscal cliff" automatic spending cuts.
Much of this, Black points out, was aimed at progressive Democrats, to extort from them support for severe cuts in social programs and the safety net, out of fear of even more drastic cuts if the automatic cuts kicked in.
Black's careful recounting of the Obama's direct and personal role in demanding and creating the "fiscal cliff's" automatic spending cuts and sequestration, should eliminate for once and for all any fiction that Killer Obama has been forced into this "crisis" by the Republicans. It is strictly of his own making.
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From a ranking of the battlefields in terms of acreage, forces engaged, casualties, and fatalities, we turn to an assessment of the threats to each site. In Part Three, the perceived threats to each site were described in some detail. In this section we rank the sites in terms of relative threats and try to provide a sense of the time frame within which preservation activities must proceed. It is a tight schedule for many of the sites, which are in danger of slipping from poor to lost or from fair to poor condition within the next few years. If the current building recession continues, the fate of these sites may be prolonged for a few more years but not indefinitely. Many developers have placed their plans on hold, waiting to see how the market will develop. Land prices have declined somewhat in the high growth zones. Several battlefield parcels have been auctioned off for bankruptcy. In this climate, local governments seem more willing to consider alternative development scenarios, which include preserving battlefield sites in order to strengthen the tourism sector. If economic boom times return, however--and no preservation efforts have occurred in the meantime--then the integrity of many of the Valley's battlefields will decline rapidly, following the downward trend described below.
The assessment of threats to integrity was derived from a combination of factors, primarily the current integrity of the site, the number of landowners, known threats to specific core and study area parcels, current zoning (if any), the rate of population growth, and the amount of recent land use change in the vicinity. The threats assessment is meant to extrapolate from current trends and cannot be expected to foresee ``catastrophic,'' that is, sudden and unexpected change.
In reality, someone could decide tomorrow to build a large residential subdivision in the heart of Piedmont or Cross Keys battlefields, but this would not be likely. Such a subdivision would be outside of Harrisonburg's current building zone and would presumably be unprofitable in the near future. The number of landowners would make a large development more difficult to assemble. The high integrity of both sites would tend to stand up longer against incremental land use change. Agriculture is still strong and viable in the vicinity, allowing farmers to hold on to their land and continue their livelihood. Opequon battlefield, on the other hand, is in poor condition; it is in the heart of Winchester's high growth area; it is zoned for residential development; remaining core parcels are owned by fewer landowners, several of whom have plans for development; and several core parcels have recently been for sale. It is not difficult to predict the imminent loss of this battlefield's remaining resources without an immediate and strenuous effort to preserve them.
Five threat levels were assigned--very high, high, moderate, low, and very low--and these are defined below:
1. Very High: Rapidly changing land use in study area, core parcels immediately threatened, battlefield highly fragmented by large parcels of lost integrity, imminent loss of remaining resources.
2. High: Rapidly changing land use in study area, large core parcels threatened, portions of battlefield already lost, substantial loss of resources within ten years.
3. Moderate: Incremental change of land use in study area, battlefield largely intact with small core parcels lost or threatened, some resource loss within ten years probable.
4. Low: Land use in study area changing slowly, core parcels as yet unthreatened, battlefield intact, some resource loss within ten years possible.
5. Very Low: Land use in study area has not changed, core parcels preserved, battlefield intact, loss of resources within ten years improbable.
Figure 17 summarizes levels of threat for the fifteen battlefields. The threats to three sites --First Winchester, Opequon, and Front Royal-- are considered very high. Threats to four sites --First and Second Kernstown, Second Winchester, and Tom's Brook-- are rated high. New Market, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek and Cool Spring are moderately threatened. Piedmont, Cross Keys, and Port Republic are experiencing low levels of threat, and McDowell, very low.
It can be seen that, in the absence of preservation efforts, the only battlefield that appears entirely secure within the foreseeable future is McDowell. Only McDowell is not significantly threatened by any form of land use change. The principal source of threats for all sites comes from expansion of residential development followed, in declining order of incidence, by commercial, highway, and industrial developments. Residential construction threatens twelve battlefields, commercial development threatens seven, highway construction threatens six, industrial and quarrying development threatens three.
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