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Kenneth Roy Eversole, 85, died Tuesday, June 30, 2009, at his home in Hood River, Ore. He was born April 25, 1924, in Bremen, Ind., to Raymond and Pearl (Stuntz) Eversole.
He attended Central High School in Ft. Wayne, Ind. Kenneth was an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts. During World War II, he served as a seaman in the merchant marines.
Kenneth married Virginia Rorick in August 1948. He attended Purdue University, and upon his graduation he moved his family out west to Oregon.
He initially worked for Weyerhauser in Klamath Falls, Ore. Soon he was able to begin a career with the U.S. Forest Service that lasted 30 years. The growing Eversole family lived on many ranger stations in Oregon and Washington.
Kenneth enjoyed everything outdoors and was an avid fisherman and hunter. He especially enjoyed taking his grandchildren on long hikes and teaching them about our forests and streams. He also liked to go camping and horseback riding.
Kenneth donated many long hours of his time to ensure that there are open and safe trails for people to enjoy for all outdoor activities. He liked to both downhill and cross country ski but he especially enjoyed going roller skating, ice skating and square dancing with Virginia.
Kenneth was a founding member of the Oregon Equestrian Trails and a lifetime member of the Hood River Saddle Club. Horses were his passion. He was a member of the Linn County Sherriff's Mounted Posse and Search and Rescue.
Kenneth is survived by his wife, Virginia; five children: Linda Eversole, of Neskowin, Jack Eversole, of Albany, Anne Ferguson, of Aumsville, Jean Lorenz, of Salem, and James Eversole, of Oxnard, Calif.; and a sister, Barbara Muncy, of Bloomington, Ind. He is also survived by seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, July 22, at Anderson's Tribute Center in Hood River. A military Honor Guard will honor his service to his country. A Celebration of Life will be held at the Hood River Saddle Club, following the memorial service.
Memorial contributions can be made to the Hospice of the Gorge in care of Anderson's Tribute Center (Funerals, Receptions, Cremations), 1401 Belmont Ave., Hood River, OR 97031; 541-386-1000. Please visit www.andersonstributecenter.com to sign the family guest book.
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Hundreds of Free Staters to gather in Nashua for Liberty ForumBy KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Union Leader Correspondent
February 21. 2013 9:38PM
NASHUA - Hundreds of people are expected to gather in Nashua this weekend for the New Hampshire Liberty Forum, a four-day event organized by the Free State Project. The sixth annual forum kicked off Thursday with a tour of the State House in Concord, followed by a welcome reception, two seminars and a visit to a local movie theater to watch "Silver Circle."
The conference is designed to promote and educate the public about the Free State Project, whose mission is to relocate thousands of pro-liberty activists to New Hampshire. Organizers are anticipating about 500 attendees this weekend at the Crowne Plaza Hotel for the forum.
"It has developed a reputation for drawing together people of diverse backgrounds from across the Northeast and beyond for the purpose of discussing strategies to reduce government interference in our lives and build a better society through business, the arts and volunteer work," says a release issued by Free State Project members.
The opening ceremony will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Friday, with speaker Jeff Tucker.
Various seminars are scheduled throughout the day, including a Non-political Activism New Hampshire seminar, and a Make Law Not Words presentation.
Friday's keynote speaker is Jack Spirko, who will talk from 8:30 to 10 p.m. about modern survival concepts and philosophy often discussed on his daily web program, "The Survival Podcast."
Several events will continue on Saturday and Sunday as well, including an Alt Expo Eye Opener seminar, a presentation on radical labor and libertarianism, an expo on building a new libertarian community and a seminar titled, "I got to New Hampshire: Now What?"
Saturday's keynote speaker is Tom Woods, a New York Times best selling author of 11 books, who will take the stage at 8:45 p.m.
Liberty Forum is designed to give Free State pledgers who are in the process of moving to the Granite State an opportunity to visit the area, network with others and learn more about job opportunities and housing in the area, said organizers.
According to its website, the Free State Project has 1,130 participants already living in New Hampshire, with more than 13,700 committed to eventually relocating here. Its plan is to entice more than 20,000 pro-liberty activists to move to the Granite State, with participants pledging to "exert the fullest practical effort toward the creation of a society in which the maximum role of civil government is the protection of life, liberty and property," says the site.
A total of 24 speakers will take the stage during the 2013 New Hampshire Liberty Forum, including Libertarian activist Ken Krawchuk, political correspondent Declan McCullagh, policy analyst Julie Borowski, historian Thaddeus Russell and more.
Also attending the forum is author Michael Isenberg, who will be signing copies of his new novel, "Full Asylum," which depicts a future when freedom has nearly disappeared from America.
"I show what America will look like if we continue on the big government path that Barack Obama has set for us," Isenberg said in a statement. "It's a future where cameras in the workplace scan for unhealthy bagged lunches, government creeps arrest tax accountants for finding deductions, and the best way to impress a date is to procure some sugary - and highly illegal - soda."
For more information about the event, and a full schedule, visit www.freestateproject.org.

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An Open University project to examine the adaptation of mobile phone imaging technology for use in hostile space environments has been awarded funding from the UK Space Agency (UKSA).
The collaborative project, between the Open University and e2v Ltd in Chelmsford was awarded £50,000 as part of the UKSA's "Future technology pathfinder programme" which aims to promote "fresh thinking for tomorrow's space products".
The project was one of 10 given funding after a call to the UK space community to respond with "innovative ideas" in space technology research and development. The aim of the Pathfinder is to spot future space developments – investigating new technologies – as well as examining the commercial and technological impact of the new space techniques. The projects selected for funding were chosen due to each showing strong future potential meeting the strategic objectives of the UKSA and industry.
The project aims to develop CMOS image sensors capable of operating in the harsh radiation environments of the solar system, for example those in close proximity to the sun or Jupiter. A team of 4-5 researchers at the OU will work with engineers from e2v, with which it already has an existing partnership, for a period of six months and hope to gain further funding.
Dr Tom Greig, from the Centre for Electronic Imaging, at the OU's Department of Physical Sciences, said: "The CMOS imaging technology used in mobile phones and other devices has many benefits that could open up new imaging applications in space. However, it is not currently well understood how these devices will respond to the hostile radiation environments present in the solar system".
"We are very pleased to receive this funding from the UKSA. This project will kickstart a long term programme of activities between the OU and e2v to investigate the use of this imaging technology in space."
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The Open University and e2v, a leading developer and manufacturer of specialist components and sub-systems for the Medical, aerospace and defence industries, are both partners of the Centre for Electronic Imaging (CEI) located the Open University's Milton Keynes Campus. The centre, based on a five-year partnership, is dedicated to the research and development of advanced technologies for electronic image sensing.


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"Both of these young ladies deserved these accolades, because of the countless hours they spent perfecting their game over the past year," added head ETSU softball coach Andrea Mangrum. "It's gratifying to see hard work pays off in the end, and their character far outweighs their talent on the field."
Cason led all A-Sun players in three offensive categories as the Moreno Valley, Calif. native won the regular season batting crown (.372), while also ranking first in hits (71) and triples (4). In addition, the senior shortstop finished second in runs scored (44) and fifth in on-base percentage (.425). Cason, who recorded a team-leading 19 multi-hit games, also boasted a career-best and team-tying nine-game hitting streak from 3/11-20. The education major capped off an illustrious career by setting three single-season ETSU records. Cason broke the record for hits, batting average and on-base on-base percentage, along with starting the last 174 games for the Lady Bucs.
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Jonah Ray is a comedian, actor, writer, and punk-o-phile. Jonah and Tom talk about Hawaii, the punk sensibility, and being large.
Big Pop Fun #65: Jonah Ray
This one gave me an entirely new perspective on Jonah. Great stuff, as per usual. 😀
Hell yeah Jonah.
great episode Tom. a lot of really nice comments and bits of advice. Jonah's story was great to hear and i'm crossing my fingers for that comedy central pilot.
Beautiful episode, and I wish Tom had accepted Jonah's offer :-).
Just wanted to point out regarding the intro, though: Going to a school to hear children singing when they are not your children is probably not well received if you don't have children at all :-).
I never knew Jonah was from Hawai'i.
For anyone else that finds the comment above me super-annoying, the real episode starts at 00:01..
For anyone else that finds this intro super annoying, the real episode starts at 12:02..
I usually just lurk around and don't comment on the shows, but this is one of the best episodes of any podcast I've listened to in a long time. It was cool to get to hear a little bit about Jonah growing up and how he ended up as part of the Nerdist podcast. And Tom is an excellent host!
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Alger Hiss Rides Again
Spy case erupts; defenders turn to Nixonian tactics.
Suddenly the Alger Hiss spy case—that seething and bitter Cold War battle, that interminable intellectual blood feud—has broken out into the open again. The occasion: A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian has published an article attempting to discredit a key piece of evidence against the suspected Soviet spy whose case set Richard Nixon on the road to the White House.
I know: To some, such battles have the quaint, antiquarian feel of Civil War re-enactments.
So go ahead, call them Cold War "re-enactors" if you will, call this Cold War 2.0, but I'd argue that the controversy has urgent contemporary relevance; it reminds us that the failure to resolve divisive questions about the secret history of our time, the failure to address the ineptness of American "intelligence" in the past, the unresolved cases and bad judgments that riddle the record of our clandestine services have paved the way for contemporary intelligence fiascoes up to and including the failure to "connect the dots" before 9/11, and the claim that the case for finding WMD in Saddam's Iraq would be a "slam dunk."
The Hiss controversy takes on even greater resonance at a time when the secret past is resurfacing with the CIA's release of its "family jewels," its compilation of embarrassing scandals, and with the release of New York Times reporter Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes, a remarkable record of CIA abuses as failures.
The historian who has taken up the Hiss case is Kai Bird, co-author of last year's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. I first learned about his thesis from Victor Navasky, former editor of the Nation, current chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review, and long the most prominent evidence-oriented defender of the innocence of Hiss.
It was something Navasky told me, ironically, at a party thrown by the New York Times Book Review. I say ironically because one of Navasky's chief opponents in the Hiss-case controversy, Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus, happened to be standing a few yards away when an effusive Navasky made his case that the game was still on.
Tanenhaus' 1997 biography of Hiss-accuser Whittaker Chambers had solidified the consensus in the reality-based community that—back in the '30s and '40s—one-time State Department luminary Hiss had probably been guilty of some collaboration with the Soviets, and, more importantly, was part of a larger Soviet spy effort.
In any case, at the Book Review party, Navasky was bursting with enthusiasm for a paper he said Bird had delivered at a recent conference of Hiss-case scholars at NYU. The paper argued that there is a fatal flaw in what is widely believed to be the clinching evidence against Hiss—his apparent presence, under the code-name "Ales," in intercepted Soviet spy communiqués, the so-called "VENONA intercepts." Navasky told me Bird's argument would shock Cold War scholars by discrediting the notion that Hiss and "Ales" were one and the same.
A revised version of Bird's paper (co-authored with Svetlana Chervonnaya) is out now in the American Scholar (both in the summer 2007 print edition and—in expanded, footnoted form—at www.theamericanscholar.org). It's called "The Mystery of Ales: Was Alger Hiss really the Soviet spy named Ales, and if not, who was?" To my mind, it's shocking, but in a different way than Navasky implied. It's a shocking use of McCarthyite guilt-by-association methods to attempt to exonerate an alleged victim of McCarthyism.
To understand why this 60-year-old case is still capable of producing shock waves, let me review the context and explain why I think you should care what VENONA intercepts are and what they say.
In one of the few indisputable assertions in the American Scholar article, Bird and Chervonnaya point out that, "The Hiss case became the most controversial spy story of the Cold War—and for good reason." They quote historian Walter LaFeber, who said, "It was the Hiss trial, among other [events] that triggered the McCarthy era." And then Bird and Chervonnaya add, also uncontroversially, that the case "catapulted an obscure California congressman, Richard M. Nixon, onto the national scene." It was Nixon who thrust himself into the Hiss case as a freshman member of Congress and rode his rep as a "Red-hunter" to the Senate, the vice presidency, and beyond.
Alger Hiss, you'll recall, was a patrician-seeming favorite son of the American establishment: a Harvard-educated protégé of Supreme Court justices Oliver Wendell Holmes * and Felix Frankfurter, a rising star of FDR's New Deal and the wartime State Department, present at the history-making Yalta conference, and a key architect of the United Nations.
Then, in 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a seedy Dostoevskian ex-spy and philosophe, made public allegations that Hiss spied for the Soviets in the years before the war, and Nixon pilloried Hiss before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Hiss maintained his innocence and was never charged with espionage, because the statute of limitations on spying (three years) had run out. Instead, a jury convicted Hiss of lying in denying he'd been spying. After he got out of jail, he spent the rest of his life working as a stationery salesman while devoting himself and a small army of volunteer researchers, archivists, lawyers, and writers to proving he was an innocent victim of Cold War spy hysteria.
Once, I came close to joining the Hiss cause when pursuing a story about a minor Hiss-case figure—an early volunteer worker on Hiss' legal team, a German-born private eye, who turned out to be some kind of infiltrator for Hiss' opponents and may have had prewar contacts with the Abwehr, the Nazi foreign intelligence division. Some Hiss supporters believed he may have helped fabricate evidence against Hiss, even producing a "lost" typewriter that supposedly proved Hiss stole documents for the Russians.
In the course of pursuing this story (which I never wrote up, because I was not convinced by the fake-typewriter theory, and because the fact that Hiss' opponents may have been unsavory doesn't prove him innocent), I had a long lunch with Hiss. His charming, dignified, head-held-high facade gave me a sense of how he enlisted well-meaning volunteers into "the cause."
But on reflection it occurred to me that his role as defamed innocent may merely have been a continuation of his cover. An exposed spy like Kim Philby could escape to Moscow and proclaim, in effect, "I did it and I'm proud. My conscience is clear; I joined the party when the capitalist nations were appeasing Hitler, etc."
I had the feeling that on some level, Hiss might have wanted to say something similar, but knew if he did, he might validate the "anti-progressive" forces in America who sought to delegitimize all leftists as Soviet dupes or tools. An admission might give credence to allegations that liberals had been in denial about the presence of a communist Enemy Within during the Cold War, and perhaps jeopardize the lives of still-secret operations of clandestine colleagues and their families. And if Hiss was a secret communist, he might have decided he could best continue to serve the cause by portraying himself as a living embodiment of American injustice and anti-communist hysteria.
Navasky told me that in his address to the Hiss scholars' conference he'd quoted something I'd written to this effect and linked it to a line from Garry Wills, asserting that he wouldn't "pay [Hiss] the insult" of believing his protestations of innocence. In other words, a case could be made that Hiss was a liar—but still a man of principle. But it was a case Hiss himself couldn't make.
Navasky wasn't endorsing this idea in his address to the Hiss scholars' conference; he was merely enumerating it as one of no less than eight major theories of the Hiss case, which has become a Rorschach upon which people can project their views of America's half-century-long engagement in the Cold War.
The tide of opinion has shifted several times since Hiss left jail. After Nixon's disgrace, Hiss' star rose, then it fell when (current) national archivist Allen Weinstein, who started out believing in Hiss' innocence, published Perjury, a thoroughgoing re-examination of the case in 1978 that concluded Hiss was guilty. There was a brief moment in the '90s when a Soviet archivist claimed Hiss did not appear in a search of Soviet spy records, but the search seems to have been woefully incomplete.
Then Sam Tanenhaus' Whittaker Chambers succeeded in convincing even many on the left—including younger historians such as Rick Perlstein, author of the forthcoming Nixonland—that Hiss was guilty, although old-school loyalists like Navasky remained skeptical.
That's why the "VENONA decrypts" are so important. These coded Soviet spy cables seemed to confirm other evidence of Hiss' guilt. And they seemed to imply that he continued spying during World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, when the U.S. and U.S.S.R, former wartime allies, became enemies.
The "decrypts" were partially decoded fragments of communiques back and forth from agents in America and their handlers in Moscow. They were first decoded in the '40s and '50s, but not released till the mid-'90s, and were never used in open court against Hiss because the fact that we had cracked the code would have been rendered valueless had we disclosed it at the time.
In the decrypts for 1945, there are several references to a spy code-named "Ales" who, Hiss-accusers assert, must have been Alger Hiss.
In the American Scholar piece, Bird and Chervonnaya strike a pose of disinterested neutrality on the Hiss case overall: "We do not propose to address the larger question of whether Hiss was guilty or innocent of espionage."
Rather, they say, they will focus narrowly on the Hiss/"Ales" connection, seeking only to discredit the belief that Hiss was "Ales" in the VENONA documents—and to name the "real" "Ales."
They also frame their investigation as a kind of test case, a way to examine the standards of proof used in writing Cold War histories. "The historians who have maintained that [Hiss] was Ales turned an assumption and a few clues into a conclusion without bothering to determine if Hiss actually fit the profile of Ales. …" In other words, if the "Ales" "identification" can be shown to be based on shaky ground, how much of the other evidence against Hiss can be trusted? How much of the evidence against other alleged Soviet agents was dubious and driven by ideological predisposition?
Nonetheless, despite their protestations of scrupulous neutrality, Bird and Chervonnaya—in a paragraph left out of the print version of their American Scholar piece but which appears in the expanded online version—suggest that they, too, have an ideological predisposition, indeed an agenda behind their purportedly objective re-examination of the VENONA evidence.
The Web-only paragraph reads: "Even today, the Hiss affair remains a painful metaphor for the marginalization of left-wing New Dealers by anti-Communist crusaders, the weakness of the American Left for the last half century, and the less-than-courageous performance of American liberals during two generations of conservative ascendancy."
So the Hiss affair is a "painful metaphor." A curious, evasive use of "metaphor" that seems to elide the larger question of guilt or innocence. It's hard to read the rest of this paragraph as saying anything else but that Hiss was an innocent, smeared as a communist traitor to discredit the left and liberals who showed themselves too cowardly and intimidated to stand up for a falsely accused noncommunist left-winger. It's fairly clear from this paragraph that they do in fact have a position on "the larger question."
Otherwise, would they be berating left-liberals for failing to defend a lying, guilty traitor?
And so, after their disingenuous claim of ideological and forensic neutrality, and after damning the "marginalization" of leftists as Soviet sympathizers, they proceed to marginalize—virtually indict and convict—a hitherto untainted liberal as a "Soviet asset" in order to prove Hiss was not one.
Astonishingly, they do so by doing exactly what Nixon, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and Joe McCarthy did: rely heavily on guilt by association.
I have to admit I was stunned. Let me try to explain their reasoning.
First, they claim that "Hiss had a firm alibi" that proved he wasn't the Soviet spy "Ales." In the past, the principal reason students of the case have believed Hiss was "Ales" was that the "Ales" travel itinerary in early 1945 matched that of Hiss: "Ales" goes to Yalta with FDR, travels from Yalta to Moscow with Secretary of State Stettinus, then heads to Mexico City for an international conference on the founding of the United Nations. So does Hiss.
But Hiss wasn't the only one who traveled that itinerary: The authors count nine officials who made the trip from Yalta to Moscow. Playing a variation of LeCarré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy elimination game, Bird and Chervonnaya examine the nine to see if any of them fits the movements of "Ales" better than Hiss.
In round one of this game, Bird and Chervonnaya rely on a new decrypt, the so-called "second Gorsky cable," which came to light in a 2003 libel suit in London. This is the smoking gun of their article, the one they believe gives Hiss a "firm alibi" that eliminates the possibility that he was the spy "Ales."
The "Gorsky cable" was sent by a Soviet attaché/spy in Washington, D.C., to someone in Moscow. It contains an "important clue," they say: Gorsky states that as of March 5, 1945, when the cable was sent, "Ales" had not come back from Mexico City.
And yet Bird and Chervonnaya introduce persuasive evidence that Hiss arrived back from Mexico City on February 22 and was in Washington to make a radio appearance on Friday, March 3, and speak at a press conference on Sunday the 5th, appearances that were both reported in the press at the time.
This, Bird and Chervonnaya declare, is incontrovertible evidence that "Ales" was not Hiss because Hiss had come back from Mexico and "Ales" had not. The problem is that while Hiss' presence in D.C. is incontrovertible, they also have to prove that Gorsky knew Hiss was back.
But the way they deal with this task raises questions about the standards of evidence Bird and Chervonnaya call into question in other historians' work.
Because their conclusion—that Gorsky knew Hiss was back—is based not even on circumstantial evidence but on suppositional evidence. Gorsky would have known Hiss was back, they say, because, "If Gorsky … was doing his job, either he or his assistants were listening to the radio and reading the Times or the Star." (Where Hiss' radio and press conference appearances were reported.)
Note that line,"If Gorsky … was doing his job." Maybe he was. Or maybe, on the other hand, he was out of town. Maybe he and his colleagues were all off on a dirty weekend on the Eastern Shore when Hiss was on the radio and in the paper. Perhaps Hiss had his own reasons for not reporting in to Gorsky when he got back to D.C., reasons of security, for instance.
Instead, we get more suppositions. Gorsky, who—the authors take pains to note—was a press specialist, "would have to have been incompetent not to know that Hiss had returned from Mexico City."
And as we know, bureaucrats are never incompetent.
I wouldn't say that their "firm alibi" for Hiss is as firm as they proclaim it to be.
Instead of the high standards of evidence Bird and Chervonnaya call for, with their big scoop, their Gorsky cable bombshell, we get Gorsky woulda/coulda/shoulda known Hiss' whereabouts. (Hiss scholars John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr have noticed this problem, and Sam Tanenhaus noted it in a recent New Republicarticle on Chambers.)
But it gets worse. Bird and Chervonnaya should have been content with raising, as they do, a legitimate question about the Hiss/"Ales" identification. But they also insist on "proving" who the real "Ales" was.
They narrow their "Ales" suspects to one man, a State Department functionary named Wilder Foote. And here they rely way too much on guilt by association. They do to Wilder Foote what they believe McCarthyites did to Hiss.
There are problems with both their facts and the methods they use to do this. In the print edition of their American Scholar essay, they claim that Foote was in the "Bolshoi [Theater] central box" on a night when, according to the VENONA cables, "Ales" was congratulated and thanked for his spy work by a Soviet Military Intelligence big shot also seated in that box.
But in the expanded Web-only version, Bird and Chervonnaya include Wilder Foote's denial that he was in the central box in the Boshoi with all the nobs. Foote has claimed that he was, rather, seated in the orchestra of the ballet, not the central box. They never present a convincing reason why their claim should override Foote's.
But having convinced themselves Foote was in the right place at the right time, in the Bolshoi box, they proceed to try to convince us that he was a "Soviet asset." And it turns out they have little hard evidence for this and instead they present evidence that Foote's associations were somehow suspect.
They begin by citing FBI investigations of those associations: "Both the FBI and the CSC [Civil Service Commission] investigations [of Foote] revolved around Wilder Foote's various associations." (Despite being investigated, as was just about everyone in the State Department during the McCarthy period, Foote was never charged with anything.)
Citing the FBI's suspicions amounts to an insinuation that where there's smoke, there's fire. Bird and Chervonnaya do evince an awareness of the tainted history of such "guilt-by-association" investigations: "This can be shaky ground, of course," they write, "but [the study of associations] can suggest how a particular person might have been introduced to certain ideas or activities." Spoken as if they were defending the key method of McCarthyism!
They go on: "Critics may charge that we are somehow convicting Foote with the same 'guilt-by-association' tactics used throughout the McCarthy era."
Well, yes. That's exactly what they're doing. And they go on doing it. They cite—as if it had any relevance—Foote's association with the anti-Nazi, pro-intervention, prewar Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies chaired by William Allen White *, a mainstream liberal group. Talk about "marginalizing" liberals. This is a real stretch that recalls the McCarthyite term for communists: "premature anti-Fascists." [Update, July 19th: Writer Ron Radosh points out that "premature anti-fascist" is not, as is often thought, a McCarthyite term. It has been traced to U.S. communist veterans of the Spanish Civil War who, Radosh contends, wanted to emphasize their anti-fascism in light of the shameful Hitler-Stalin pact.]
Bird and Chervonnaya also find that Foote had "several longstanding friendships" with leftists, including two friends described by the Soviets as "highly left-wing," although there is no evidence that these friends were involved in espionage. Guilt by friendship!
They even use the rhetoric used by both communist and fascist regimes to brand their internal enemies: "Foote was a cosmopolitan," they say, and "an intellectual, and an internationalist." Case closed!
Worst of all, they quote Wilder Foote's son (who categorically denies their indictment of his father): "My father was on McCarthy's 'list' but was never called to testify."
The ultimate irony. In trying to exonerate Hiss, they end up (partially, at least) exonerating McCarthy's notorious little list of security risks. Essentially, they're saying that one of the alleged communists on McCarthy's list really was a secret Soviet asset.
At the end of their article, almost as if they've suddenly realized how far they've gone in their desperation to exonerate Hiss, Bird and Chervonnaya try to make nice to Wilder Foote and his son for the injury they're doing Foote and his family by smearing him as a previously undiscovered traitor.
They try transparently (and rather pathetically) to have it both ways: to say Foote was a spy, but a really nice guy. Foote, they say, "clearly believed himself to be a man of impeccable integrity, an idealist who dedicated most of his career as an international civil servant to building up the United Nations as a bulwark of world peace. If he was also a gentleman spy, he was excellent at his craft."
The obvious question staring out from that quote is this: Why can't they accept that this might be the truth about Hiss? Why not give him praise he might well appreciate rather than label another man as a spy in order to "exonerate" Hiss of something that—according to my conjecture—he may have been proud of?
In the end, they have the worst of both worlds. Without exonerating Hiss (since there's a great deal of evidence beyond the "Ales" identification against Hiss, more than "association"), they've raised the possibility that there were two spies rather than none. They've made Joe McCarthy look good, or anyway, better. Perhaps new evidence will finally turn up from Soviet archives to vindicate one side or another in this endless embittered battle. One can't rule out the possibility that Bird and Chervonnaya are right, but they haven't proven it here.
Meanwhile, it begins to look like the spell of the Hiss case can cloud the minds of its acolytes. The American Scholar piece becomes an instance of what it purports to warn against: looking at the evidence in intelligence cases through the lens of ideological predisposition.
Such thinking is, alas, not confined to the Hiss case. It's a lesson that intelligence agencies—and scholars—haven't learned if one looks at the way the evidence on WMDs was processed through an ideological lens with the evidence judged by whether it fits the desired conclusion.
Correction, July 17, 2007: The article originally misspelled the name of Oliver Wendell Holmes. ( Return to the corrected sentence.)
Correction, July 17, 2007: This article originally misspelled the middle name of William Allen White. (Return to the corrected sentence.)


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Arts & Mysteries: The 'Ultimate' Hand Tool Shop
Perfection doesn't exist. But you can come close.
By Adam Cherubini
Pages: 34-37
From the February 2006 issue #153
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One of the first things any beginning woodworker must do is set up a workshop. Like so many other things a novice woodworker must do, the preparation of a workshop shapes the capabilities and enjoyment of the craft long after the novice has become an intermediate or advanced woodworker.
Fortunately, many books and articles have been published on the subject. Unfortunately, few – if any – address the unique needs of hand tool usage. All too often, I see benches that are much too short, free standing, or shoved into some filthy corner. Provisions for sharpening appear to be haphazard afterthoughts. Tool storage solutions are typically completely inadequate for the unique needs of hand tools and their convenient usage. The general lack of consideration for the unique needs of hand tool usage conspires to limit the potential of any would-be hand tool craftsman.
Unlike modern shops where each new tool purchase requires a corresponding additional allotment of floor space, once a few basic hand tool work areas are established, there's rarely a need for any additional growth. The trick is getting these areas laid out in such a way that they don't prevent your future success.
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OJS 2.3.3-3 Recommended Patches
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The following patches are recommended for OJS 2.3.3-3. They can be applied to the codebase using the GNU Patch Tool (available on most *NIX platforms, and as a free download for Windows-based systems).
Each entry below links to the Bugzilla record for the bug in question. Patches are linked from there. Patches against OJS should be applied with the -p1 option from within the OJS installation directory; patches against the PKP library should be applied with the -p1 option from within the lib/pkp subdirectory.
Note that security-related and other critical patches will be clearly identified as such; otherwise, patches should not be considered critical.


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U.S. Treasuries have continued to disappoint since our May 20 note that viewed "weakness as a buying opportunity." Increased speculation about the imminence of the Fed's tapering its asset purchase program, commonly referred to as QE3, is largely to blame; however, the market's ultimate reaction to such a move is anything but clear.
First of all, tapering and tightening are not the same thing. Tightening is tantamount to stepping on the brakes, while tapering is akin to easing up on the gas pedal. Whether this analogy holds true depends on which "effect" the market is more sensitive to.
The "stock effect" view of asset purchases would argue that tapering is still an accommodative policy, as the Fed's balance sheet would continue to grow, albeit at a slower pace. Conversely, the "flow effect" view would see decreased purchases as a tightening policy, as the monthly pace of purchases would have declined, reducing downward pressure on interest rates.
Either way, it is important not to view potential tapering in isolation. One of the secondary benefits of the QE programs was easy funding of the U.S. government's huge deficits, which themselves blunted the efficacy of the bond-buying programs, and which (post-sequestration) have been reduced to almost half of what they were relative to GDP only two years ago.
Therefore, even reduced asset purchases could be able to produce the desired effect of lower interest rates, and actual tightening, by means of either shrinking the Fed's balance sheet or raising interest rates, still seems to be a distant event.


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When the people of Alton refer to themselves (known as a demonym), they frequently use Altonian<1>
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Time Zone: Alton lies in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time
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Review: Renegade Black Rock 2000 Rum
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The Renegade Barbados Rum (Black Rock 2000) from the Renegade Rum Company was aged for 8 years in American Oak (bourbon) casks at the West Indies Rum Refinery (also known as Black Rock Distillery because of it's location in Black Rock, St. Michael, Barbados). This distillery was established in 1893 by the German Stade Brothers who are known for introducing the first continuous column still to the Caribbean. The Barbados Renegade Rum was first distilled in a column still, and then double distilled in a pot still. It was then 'enhanced' for another period of time, at the Bruichladdich Distillery in Scotland, in Martinez Port Casks. The Rum is bottled in the 700 ml squat decanter style bottle shown below at 46 percent alcohol by volume.
Here is an excerpt from my review:
"… The nose of the glass is very nice with a pronounced 'fruity' accent (baked apples, baked pears and gooseberry jam) which really smells nice against the backdrop of the butterscotch and vanilla notes from the rum. Deeper down I catch smells which remind me of tobacco and almond, and I even sense a little marmalade… "
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[Verse 1: Vince Staples]
Welcome to the Compton Zoo, ridin' on a chocolate moose
Camoflage Hummer gang, interior by Dr. Seuss
Gold dust, gold chain you knew I had to rock the noose
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Sell PCP to minors
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Closest that I ever been to church was the pollo
No one out there can fuck with me Prodigy
[Verse 2]
I wrote this verse on my way to church
Rifle and the autographed Bible in the backseat
Life is like a track meet: When you hear them shots better run nigga
Cause I got that motherfucking gun nigga
Drug-dealer, crime rates run in the family
Juvenile felon so I'll never go the Grammy's
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Hegemony @ Hansley
Acrylic on text on canvas, 6"x6"
7 comments:
- joyce matula welch said...
I like the way the curves are echoed in this piece. The eyes of cats and fish are all reflective and lovely. Thanks for sharing!
- November 22, 2011 at 2:33 PM
- rince1wind said...
This is an "H" for hegemony, yes? or for hany hother thing that begins with a haitch? I like it a lot!
- November 22, 2011 at 10:56 PM
- BIKBIK AND RORO said...
how brilliant -- I love this!
- February 16, 2012 at 1:16 AM
- Nguyen Duc said...
I am so inspired by your miniature paintings; there is something so deeply intriguing.
I once went to a "miniature painting" exhibition (primarily from India) in London. But that "small" exhibit left a huge impression. In fact, it is the main one my mind travels to when I recall all those London shows.
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- February 17, 2012 at 12:55 AM
- Andrew Finnie said...
wow you are so busy, I wish I could see it in person, I would love to enjoy it up close and personal - and that canvas looks so textured!
- March 15, 2012 at 12:12 AM
- Kel Wayans said...
This piece of art...I want it!! It is so AWESOME!!! Good work!
- March 23, 2012 at 1:45 AM
- Curious Art said...
Thanks so much for the kind comments, folks!
Kel, the original art sold, but prints are available at my Etsy shop:
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The 14 elements of OSHA inspections: How they affect maintenance processes
In the second of three parts, John Ross examines OSHA's 14 elements from their National Emphasis Program (NEP)
In the first part of our series looking at OSHA's Process Safety Management (PSM), and specifically the National Emphasis Program (NEP), in the March issue of Plant Engineering, we learned the history and purpose of both PSM and NEP.
Horrific and catastrophic incidents were occurring around the world as a result of unintended releases of highly hazardous chemicals (HHCs). To stem the nature and effect of these accidents, the Department of Labor, through its OSHA agency, initiated PSM in 1992 and NEP for refineries in 2007. A few short years after that, riding on the success of the refinery NEP, OSHA initiated a CHEMNEP (Chemical National Emphasis Program) to lay a level of oversight on the other HHC facilities, in line with what was accomplished in the petroleum industry.
It should come as no surprise that the readiness of the petroleum industry, and now the industries that work with or produce other HHCs, weren't really "ready" for the level of inspection that OSHA was going to bring. If the physical nature of the work to be demonstrated was adequate, the documentation was most likely missing or not ready for inspection. There was a lot of work to do around the country for HHC-related companies to improve on the management of their processes; and there still remains a good bit of work to be accomplished.
To review from part 1, OSHA's NEP inspectors will review your programs and processes around 14 major elements:
Here in part 2, we are going to discuss all 14 elements in detail and examine how maintenance is affected.
1. Employee participation
The employee participation element is perhaps the one with the shortest number of mandates, but with one of the largest impacts. Right from CFR 1910.119, "Employers shall develop a written plan of action regarding the implementation of the employee participation…." The stated intent of this element is for employees, production, maintenance, and staff to be involved in all aspects of the PSM program at your site, and to have representation in the development, discussion, and eventual solution to issues around the process hazard analysis.
Simply put, your employees need to know what's going on that might affect their safety. Your employee participation program must be written and all meetings well documented.
Here is a question from the 100 "static" questions list that was developed for the refinery NEP: "Does the employer's written employee participation plan-of-action (see document request XLE.3.e) include information on how employees will be consulted on the development of ALL PSM standard elements?"
As mentioned in part 1, the situation isn't that facilities don't have written processes; in fact, many of the companies dealing with HHCs have these written programs but just fail to execute them as written. Employee participation is a process that has to be thought out, and followed as written, to ensure that the workers have a clear and documented path of communication for these important PSM discussions.
Maintenance has a significant impact under this element because it has such a significant impact on the success of the PSM effort. Maintenance technicians are involved in the complex task of testing and repairing the production equipment, and their well-being is on the line with every turn of the wrench. When any aspect of the system involving HHCs is involved, maintenance must be involved in the discussion. This process of including maintenance (and operators) must be documented and followed, with an extensively objective, evidence-laden path.
2. Process safety information
This element contains one of the most highly concentrated, maintenance-specific listings of all the elements. CFR 1910.119 states our obligation as maintenance leaders very clearly: "the employer shall complete a compilation of written process safety information before conducting any process safety hazard analysis required by the standard.
The compilation of written process safety information is to enable the employer and the employees involved in operating the process to identify and understand the hazards posed by those processes involving highly hazardous chemicals. This process safety information shall include information pertaining to the hazards of the highly hazardous chemicals used or produced by the process, information pertaining to the technology of the process, and information pertaining to the equipment in the process."
In this text, "operators" includes maintenance insomuch as maintenance works on and around the HHCs. The CFR text above indicates that your MSDS (material safety data sheets) information needs to be accessible and current, as do your P&IDs, component information listing, electrical classification, ventilation systems, and safe operating limits, and much, much more. This is a very intense element.
It should be obvious what the impact on maintenance is in regard to the PSI element. Our maintenance technicians have to have access to and understand all the technical data around our production systems, including the component particulars and information on the hazards of the HHC involved.
3. Process hazard analysis (PHA)
This element is extremely technical in nature and includes a comprehensive what-if evaluation. The CFR reads, "The process hazard analysis shall be appropriate to the complexity of the process and shall identify, evaluate, and control the hazards involved in the process." In this element engineers and maintenance leaders hone their Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) skills, as well as exploring the consequence of failure. This process analysis will be conducted as a team and includes a review of the facility siting for possible hazards.
The PHA really affords a tremendous opportunity to get both operators and maintenance technicians involved. In fact, the standard requires this team has both "engineering and process operations" expertise. The team makeup also includes at least one person "who has experience and knowledge specific to the process being evaluated." Additionally, there has to be one person on the team that is "Knowledgeable in the specific process hazard analysis methodology being used."
After an initial PHA is conducted, the process hazard analysis is required to be updated and revalidated by a team no less than every five years.
4. Operating procedures
At first blush it might not seem that there would be a maintenance impact under the heading of operating procedures, but this element has a few items of interest.
Startups following a turnaround, and after an emergency shutdown is included in this element has a control measure to be taken if physical contact or airborne exposure occurs. If you've ever been at a plant during an emergency shutdown or a release, then you can attest to the fact that maintenance is heavily involved in addressing the situation.
5. Training
This element does specifically address the needs for those operating a process. To be sure, though, maintenance technicians need to be fully trained for all the functions they are performing, and that training needs to have been accomplished through a competent source and very well documented.
6. Contractors
There are a lot of opportunities in this element to trip up an otherwise healthy and well-executed maintenance strategy. Contractors are perhaps unfairly known to do what they can get away with to get a job done. Under the auspices of PSM-NEP, there are some very unforgiving rules: "The employer, when electing a contractor, shall obtain and evaluate information regarding the contract employer's safety performance and programs. The employer shall inform contract employers of the known potential fire, explosion, or toxic release hazards related to the contractor's work and the process." This element continues with other very hefty requirements.
The need to document and cross-reference information, and further document meetings, discussions, etc., with contractors is vital to successfully addressing this element. Many times the supervision of a contractor will fall under the office of the maintenance manager; the impact on plant maintenance should be obvious for this fact.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - Detroit Mayor Dave Bing proposed a $1 billion budget on Friday that allows the deficit to balloon to $380 million, despite a financial crisis that led the state to appoint Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr to take over the city's purse strings.
At nearly the same time on Friday, Orr issued an order underscoring that it is the emergency manager, not city officials, who has final say on appropriations, contracts and other substantive matters. Any such acts "will not be valid or effective unless and until approved by the Emergency Manager or designee in writing," Orr wrote in his Order No. 3.
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"He is not here to run the city day-to-day," Bing said at a news conference. "That is not his strength. His expertise is long-term debt."
Orr's spokesman, Bill Nowling, said the emergency manager is acting carefully in hopes the city's elected officials can meet the annual budget demands and continue to keep the budgeting process transparent.
"It serves no purpose to come in with a heavy hand," Nowling said of Orr, a bankruptcy lawyer and turnaround expert. "It's important for the elected council and mayor to weigh in. That is going to position us to work on restructuring the long-term problems."
Those structural problems include pension and healthcare costs. Healthcare payments to current and former employees make up a third of the city's general fund budget. The $380 million deficit is up 16 percent from last year's $327 million in red ink.
Bing's 2013-14 spending plan, which by law must be adopted by June 30 when the prior spending plan expires, calls for continued mandatory furlough days - one unpaid day every two weeks for city workers - and a $4 million reduction in the city council's $11.2 million budget. But it avoided any sweeping cuts to spending on public safety, transportation, blight removal, public lighting and parks and recreation.
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Head coach Kathy Hitz heads into her 14th season at the Pratt High School crosscountry helm, her 17th season overall, with a full slate of veterans returning to the squad.
Head coach Kathy Hitz heads into her 14th season at the Pratt High School crosscountry helm, her 17th season overall, with a full slate of veterans returning to the squad.
Hitz will be assisted this season by Derek Liggett, who comes to PHS this season from Chanute High School. Liggett will also be the head track coach in the spring.
The Greenback harriers are nearly evenly split this year, with 10 girls and 12 boys on the roster. Only one Frog graduated last season, Kaylah Romine, but her absence will be felt. Romine, who is running at Hutch Juco this year, was individual regional champion and a state medalist.
Much of the rest of the regional champion, state-qualifying, girls team returns intact this season, however— along with the addition of some key newcomers. Nichole Moreland, Cassidy Cronister, Morgan Strong and Chloe Cannata will provide veteran leadership.
Talented sophomore Ruth Anthony suffered a horrific ankle injury at the state meet last fall, but if healthy will provide a lift to this year's team.
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The boys team also boasts the return of a lot of experience, with last year's starting line-up all on the squad again this season. Last year's top runners included Brendan Pribil, Joseph Loomis, Caleb Hitz, Josh Powell, Cooper Crump and Chance Reh. Zach Will could be on the verge of a breakout season this year, if early workouts are any indication, according to Coach Hitz.
Will Fellhoelter also has some experience, and though currently dinged up, could also figure in the mix. Positions on the squad are not guaranteed for the returners, however, as some of the incoming freshmen look like they might challenge for a spot. "For instance, Brody Cronister has been looking really good so far," Hitz mentioned.
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Hillsboro, Sterling and Hesston are some of the CKL schools PHS must contend with if they are to regain the league title.
"Things are going really well so far," enthused Hitz. "We have a few kids a little bit dinged up—early season aches and pains and so on. But the kids did their summer training like they were supposed to, and they seem happy and ready to go this season."
LMS starts crosscountry this year for the first time, which should contribute to the on-going success of the PHS program. Coached by Jenni Pelland under Hitz's supervision, about a dozen Junior Greenbacks will be running distance this fall as well.
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What is the ruling concerning the one who slept with him wife during the day in Ramadaan without wearing any clothes and the genitals touched one another but there was no penetration?.
If there is no penetration and no emission of maniy (semen), then your fast is valid and you do not have to do anything else.
As for madhiy (prostatic fluid), emission thereof does not invalidate the fast according to the more correct of the two scholarly opinions, which is the view of Abu Haneefah and al-Shaafa'i (may Allaah have mercy on them). See also question no. 37715.
The fasting person may play with his wife, kiss her, embrace her and touch her, if he is certain that he will not ejaculate or have intercourse. See question no. 49614.
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World AIDS Day: Church in China – 1 Dec 2010
World AIDS Day: December 1st
More than two million souls live in the Chinese city of Baoshan which lies in the province of Yunnan near to the border with Myanmar (Burma). This proximity inevitably brings a movement of people between the two countries. The nearness of the infamous Golden Triangle also means a flourishing drugs trade.
Because drugs can be bought easily and cheaply, there's a human cost in terms of addicts and the transmission of HIV. Latest statistics show there are more than 2,000 people living with HIV in Baoshan.
Through the work of Tearfund partner Cedar Fund, the local church is addressing these issues. A network of churches is working with local government health and social services to transform the lives of people affected by HIV.
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Pastor Xu Chenyun took part in our partner's training. He said, 'I started to see the role of the church and that we shouldn't only focus on what's happening inside the church itself.
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- Pray for those affected by drug usage and that greater awareness leads to fewer lives lost to addiction.
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