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Connecticut House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero skeptical of UConn expansion
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy wants the state to invest $1.8 billion in the University of Connecticut and expand enrollment by 30 percent over the next 10 years
Malloy made the announcement Thursday at Pratt & Whitney in East Hartford. The investment would require state spending to increase $286 million a year to pay for 259 new faculty members--most of whom would be focused on science and technology.
"By targeting state resources to our flagship university we ensure that our young people have the skills they need to fill the jobs we are so aggressively pursuing," Malloy said in a press release. "Make no mistake, we are making Connecticut competitive again."
But with the state facing a $2.2 billion deficit over the next two years, at the same time as the current budget is still hemorrhaging red ink, it's going to be a tough sell to the legislature.
House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero, a University of Connecticut graduate, isn't sold on the idea, which includes $1.54 billion in bonding to construct new facilities, build out teaching and research labs, upgrade information technology, and renovate and build additional housing and parking.


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"Chamomiles" painting is an original oil painting on canvas with palette knife. This painting looks great in the interior with deep saturated colors, volume and many small details that add sophistication and subtleties to the composition. This painting is very bright and attractive. And its expression exceeds the bounds of canvas.
*Title: Chamomiles.
* Size: 32x40 inches (80x100 cm).
*Style: Abstract, Modern.
*Media: mixed media: original oil panting on canvas with oil pastel
*Sides: Canvas is painted on all sides. Already framed and ready to hang.
*Frame: Massive wooden stretcher.
This artwork is new and in excellent condition. Directly from my studio. I use only the best made canvas and not the cheaper variety packs of canvas. I like canvas that are strong, robust, and reliable. I also use high-quality paint so they can pass their whole richness and depth to the painting.
The frame is a massive wooden stretcher: 1.4 inches thick (3.4-4.0 cm). It looks very nice in the interior.
The painting has the artist's signature on the back and is 100% guaranteed, I want you to be happy with your purchase. The painting will be shipped and packed professionally. In order to protect your painting, I will personally pack your painting with great care using high quality, industry-approved packing and shipping materials. I will ship out your paintings within 3-5 business days after I receive your payment. Paintings will be sent through Fully Insured Express Mail Service, by which you can expect your delivery between 8-14 business days.
Please do not hesitate to ask me any question and I'll get back to you at the earliest opportunity.
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Chamomiles (2017)
Oil painting by Oleksandra Ievseieva
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 32 x 40 x 1.5 in (unframed) / 32 x 40 in (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: Flowers and plants
This artwork is sold by Oleksandra Ievseieva from Ukraine

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I spent yesterday in an otherworldly fug, as a soporific automaton, the entire days energy was spent putting up the blog, having online slanging matches with a few tits and then keeping my head upright and blinking at my desk. This is what happens when you're living over the top of spoilt unemployed caveman with no human contact save the occasional visit by his idiotic dad, presumably to drop off ready meals, cash and teddies, who doesn't have any fucking regard for anyone outside of his own spiteful cuntish little fucking self he will die he will die.
At 5pm I blasted back home on the Black Bitch ready to confront the little fucknuckle that had woken me three times the previous night. I was so angry, in fact, that I hit over a ton in 30 zone which even by my standards is obscenely stupid.
After getting off my bitch and wrapping her in sweet smelling soft green canvas, I took off my helmet and let myself in. I checked the time just in case I needed to recall it for the police.
I rapped hard on his door. Nothing, then a stirring. Almost a minute later tentative footsteps approached and I heard the latch release. The door opened gingerly, only a few inches, then a bit more, so I could at last see it's fucking bulbous tool of a head.
"You woke me up" HE said
"You fucking WHAT?!!" I yelled, "Last fucking night YOU woke ME up 3 fucking times, you… you… you played your fucking guitar ALL FUCKING NIGHT…"
I glared at him, the door closed a little. I fought the urge to push my crash helmet into his mouth.
"Well, I get inspired…" He whined like a 5 year old being told off for not making it to the potty in time.
My toes curled in my boots and I shoved my teeth hard into my lip.
"Inspired…?" I hissed the word with genuine malice, this was useless, there was nothing more I could do here, it was like conversing with an outpatient. I made the decision to take this up with the council on the spot "…well, I need to fucking well sleep, no more guitar." And that was that.
That night all was silent, I watched some TV after meeting Frank in the local for a couple, took a long bath, made a scooby doo type sandwich for supper and watched BBC4. I went off to bed at 11 and read a quarter of an excellent graphic novel recommended by a mate called 'Fell' and went off to sleep.
I dreamt about all sorts of things, Alex James and I travelled through the Proms in the Park in a Tram, my mate Jamie was repairing his Mini in my offices at work, Myfwt and I had a row over where or not to resuscitate a pensioner when all of a sudden this dreadful noise started from behind a thin pale blue door. I went over and banged on it, Cunt answered covered in sweat holding a Gibson, glaring at me.
"If I was President, I'd have you killed." He said
Just as I was diving screaming into his throat I woke up with a start in perfect silence, pitch black darkness. It was 4.18am. It would be another 4 hours before I got back to sleep, 5 minutes after I was due to get up for work. You just can't win can you.
Piqued may be late tomorrow due to meetings. Finally, just before the clip, I'd like to remember Alan Coren who died last week. Bloody bad show I say.
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DNA being used to identify Guatemalan relatives lost in Civil War
SANTA ANA, Calif. >> Aracely Garrido returned to her native Guatemala last month to bury one of 13 family members who disappeared during the country's decades-long civil war and was identified years later through DNA from surviving relatives.
The 55-year-old tax preparer now living in a Los Angeles suburb is among a small group of Guatemalan immigrants in the area who have given DNA samples in hopes of finding loved ones who vanished during the fighting from 1960 to 1996. Many more soon will be able to do the same as forensic experts who run a Guatemalan lab that matches victims' remains to the living are expanding their outreach to Guatemalans abroad.
"Being able to find him was at least some relief," Garrido said of her cousin, a construction worker and political activist who she said was seized by authorities along with his teenage son.
She hopes the Forensic Anthropology Foundation will locate the remains of her other missing relatives, many of whom were targeted by the government because they were politically active.
"It is important to clarify the past, to try to find out the truth. That will at least give us a personal sort of peace," she said.
For the last two decades, the foundation has exhumed the remains of victims from mass graves. More recently, it has searched for victims of "forced disappearances" carried out by wartime governments by matching DNA from the remains of unidentified victims found in military installations and cemeteries with samples from living relatives.
More than 7,000 survivors have given DNA samples, including about 20 Guatemalans in Los Angeles when foundation members made a brief trip here last year, said Fredy Peccerelli, the organization's executive director and a Guatemalan who grew up in New York.
The move to expand efforts abroad comes as the Guatemalan conflict takes center stage in a California courtroom. The trial and its intersection with the DNA program underscore that while the conflict that killed an estimated 200,000 people has ended, the effects of the war endure for survivors.
While ex-military personnel have been convicted in recent years in Guatemala of atrocities committed during the war, one of the country's former soldiers is preparing to stand trial in the U.S. on charges of lying on his American citizenship application about his role in one of the era's most violent episodes — a massacre that killed more than 200 people in the village of Dos Erres in 1982.
One of the key witnesses for the U.S. government's case against former special forces commander Jorge Sosa is Oscar Ramirez, a Guatemalan immigrant living in Framingham, Mass., who learned two years ago — through the DNA program — that he had been seized as a toddler and raised by one of Sosa's comrades after nearly his entire family was killed in Dos Erres.
Sosa, 55, was arrested in Canada last year and extradited to the U.S. to face charges of lying on his naturalization application. His trial is scheduled to begin on Tuesday in Riverside, where he lived.
Federal prosecutors say Sosa was one of the commanders of a special patrol that descended upon Dos Erres on Dec. 7, 1982, and oversaw the killings. Men, women and children were bludgeoned with a sledgehammer, their bodies falling into a well. Sosa fired a rifle and threw a grenade into the well to kill any victims who were still alive, according to federal court filings.
While he is not being tried for war crimes, the case is expected to include testimony from former members of the Guatemalan special forces and survivors of the conflict, including Ramirez.
Prosecutors declined to comment on the case.
Sosa's lawyer, Shashi Kewalramani, said the case isn't about what happened in Guatemala but whether his client knew he was accused of a crime when he applied to become an American.
"The only crime he has been charged with in the United States is lying on an application," he said.
Sosa sought asylum in the U.S. after fleeing Guatemala in 1985 and was denied, heading to Canada instead. He later obtained a green card after marrying a U.S. citizen, and applied to naturalize in 2007.
Sosa said he was in another town at the time of the Dos Erres massacre, helping build a school and organize sporting events.
In a letter published by the investigative journalism nonprofit ProPublica, Sosa said he disclosed his membership in the Guatemalan military when he sought asylum in the U.S.
"I desperately need people to know that I have NOT committed a crime nor do I have a criminal mind," Sosa wrote in the letter from a prison in Canada, where he is also a citizen. His brother, Hugo Sosa, verified the account.
If convicted of making a false statement and procuring naturalization unlawfully, Sosa also could face up to 15 years in prison. Federal prosecutors also want to strip Sosa of his American citizenship, something that could pave the way for his return to Guatemala.
A spokesman for Guatemalan prosecutors says they will seek to extradite Sosa to face charges for "crimes against humanity."
While the trial will bring Guatemala's gruesome past to an American courtroom, 50 miles away in Los Angeles, Peccerelli will be continuing his work to bring closure and answers to survivors.
He hopes Ramirez, who will also speak with community members about the DNA program, can help win the trust of Guatemalans still scarred by the war. Since learning his true identity, Ramirez met family he never knew he had — including his father, who was not in Dos Erres the day of the massacre — and obtained political asylum to stay legally in the U.S., something his lawyer, Scott Greathead, said might be a possibility for other survivors.
Associated Press writer Sonia Perez D. contributed to this report from Guatemala City.


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Wiseway is a unique stove and operates unlike any other pellet stove. With no need for electricity, Wiseway operates with a natural draft, the strength of the draft is determined by the height of its chimney, and that's why the chimney installation is the determining factor on how well this stove will perform. Wiseway will operate best with a straight chimney either 3" inch diameter or 4" inch diameter with 8' Ft. to 12' Ft. overall height, although it will operate with many variance's of chimney height and configurations, they will all bring varied results in burn time and fuel usage. A straight chimney is always the best configuration on your Wiseway pellet stove.
When 8' Ft. to 12' Ft. length of chimney is used 3" diameter chimney will do, when having to use more than 15' of chimney, then 4" diameter vent is best. Taller or longer chimney system's may need a barometric damper installed immediately off the top of the stove to be able to control the stove down in the 400 degree heat range as you can experience excessive draft and the stove will want to run hotter. You can also adjust the bars closer together on the burn basket to lower temp if it starts running to hot.
4" inch diameter pipe is recommended If you decide to go through the wall, and you need to terminate above the roof at least 24" using pellet vent. When going into a existing chimney then you must run 4" vent all the way through any existing chimney.
Stove needs to be installed on a non combustible surface with dimensions of at least 42" wide in Canada and 40" wide in U.S. depth 24".
Stove has clearance's to combustible as close as 3" to wall on the left, 14" to combustibles wall on the right, 2" to the wall at the back and 18" clearance to the ceiling measured from the flue collar, these are Alcove clearance's. When not installed in a Alcove clearance on the right will be 16" in U.S. and 18" in Canada. This additional clearance is required because of the hearth requirement when not in a Alcove situation.
Stove is also Mobile home approved in the U.S. but not in Canada. Mobile home installation also requires that a direct outside air kit be installed and the stove be bolted or fastened to the floor and a #10 copper wire be attached to the stove and then attached to the frame of the manufactured home to ground the stove. Only approved pellet vent can be used. No single wall connector pipe is allowed in a Mobile Home.
Stove can be installed in Home's, Mobile Homes in the U.S., Shops, Garage's, Tent's, Cabin's, Patio's anywhere you need heat.
The stove is required to have a direct connection from stove to outside air in a Mobile Home but in a conventional home the outside air is recommended to be within two feet of the stove and can be located in the wall or through the floor. Code calls for outside air to be available within two feet of the stove either through a wall or through the floor and if you have a energy efficient home, this not only is required but is a must.
In Basement applications fresh air within two feet of the stove is needed to overcome the negative pressure a house can have on the stove. Basement installations can be difficult depending on how air flow from the basement to rest of the home is accomplished, having a couple floor register's or plenum connected to a duct system will improve heat distribution and help eliminate negative pressure against the stove. Leaving the basement door open can cause negative pressure to occur during operation and affect the performance of any natural draft appliance in a basement application.
Direct connection to outside air in extreme cold climates can cause creosote to form or drip at times depending on the operation temperature of the stove be aware and try to operate at higher temperatures in the event this happens. This is why I personally would rather see a fresh air source within two feet of the stove giving the stove a warmer air for combustion than introducing cold outside air directly into the stove. Again in certain situations this is unavoidable (Mobile Homes).
Fuel is going to be another determining factor on heat out put and performance soft pellets or Douglas fir is what the stove was tested with and performs best check your area to see if they are available, Wiseway will burn all pellets that we are aware of but varied results will be the norm. Hard wood pellets will not deliver the same heat that soft wood pellets do and the ash content will always be higher requiring you to provide more attention and maintenance to the stove. We feel it is crucial that you always shake down the second burner and address the ash content in the ash drawer before going to bed. Ash can build up and if not monitored the stove can loose its draw and cause smoke into the room which can be alarming. Allways dispose of ashes ina metal container and never leave them setting on a combustible surface (porch, deck or floor).
We find that low operating temp between 400 and 500 degrees meet average homes needs. Higher temps 600 to 700 degrees seem to give the customer more heat than they need in smaller homes to be comfortable, in larger home's higher temp may be fine. Since the chimney is the deciding factor an where the low burn temp will be with the draft wide open, the only way to lower the heat in the event you experience higher outputs on low will be to install a barometric damper directly off the top of the stove. A barmetric damper is like adding another air control, this will give you the ability to dial the stove down to a lower temperature. A barometric damper allows you to adjust a air setting on the damper that will take more air away from the burner resulting in lower temperature on the stove. We recommend never dialing the low temperature under 400 as the stove can fluctuate lower and we want to avoid getting into a creosote range. The stove can also be regulated to a lower temperature utilizing an optional V basket that is available.
We always suggest that a licensed contractor install the stove and permits be purchased if required in your area. That said if you decide to install yourself be sure to follow instructions or contact us with any questions you may have.
Maintenance: How often do you need to clean your stove. All appliances need to be serviced at least once a year but the proper answer to that question is as often as needed. Cleaning the chimney with a proper size brush and vacuuming out the stove is normally all that is required. Sweeping the chimney from above and vacuuming out the stove from below is how we clean ours. Some folks will actually take the stove out an tip it back and forth to pour the ash that builds up on the angle heat exchanger of the stove but I find closing the air control and using a shop vac has the power to suck all of that ash out without that extra effort but if you don't have a shop vac this seems to work.
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July 1, 2016
The tallest Lego model in the U.S.
By Lori Weisberg
Legoland California debuts its replica of One World Trade Center in its Mini Land New York exhibit area within the Carlsbad park. It's the tallest Lego model in the U.S. Courtesy of Sandy Huffaker/Legoland
Just in time for the Independence Day weekend, Legoland is showing off an extensive remodel of its New York miniland, dominated by a towering replica of Manhattan's One World Trade Center.
At 26 feet tall and more than 250,000 Lego bricks, the skyscraper is the tallest Lego model in the U.S. (A 60-foot-tall replica of the 160-story Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai is awaiting the opening of Legoland Dubai this October.) It alone took eight master model builders more than 1,200 hours to build the trade center replica.
Unveiled on Thursday, the tower is part of a whole new section of the miniland devoted to replicating the feel and look of the memorial in lower Manhattan created to honor the thousands killed in the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The memorial's twin reflecting pools, the grove of memorial trees, World Trade Center Transportation Hub and even the museum building are all represented in the renovated miniland.
Legoland's master builders even created a tower viewer fashioned from Lego bricks that allows individuals to get a birds-eye view of the Manhattan tableau from atop the World Trade Center Lego tower.
Legoland's version of New York's 9/11 Memorial includes Lego replicas of the twin reflecting pools. Sandy Huffaker/Legoland
"Instead of using glass binoculars like what are used for the coin-operated binoculars (at sightseeing landmarks), we used a digital camera mounted on top of our One World Trade Center, and it's connected to a Lego-built viewfinder that guests can look into to get a birds-eye view of New York miniland," explained master model builder Rob McCarthy. "It's a very wide angle so you can also see yourself."
Nearly a year in the making, the redesigned New York area includes a number of new buildings, a dozen more moving automobiles and a subway system with new cars and tracks that are illuminated and feature sound effects that mimic the real thing.
One of the biggest challenges constructing the One World Trade Center model, McCarthy said, was that it could not be entirely assembled in the indoor Lego model-building shop. Instead, the model builders crafted the tower in sections and assembled it on the site of the miniland, McCarthy explained.
"Two things I love is watching guests come in and the children's eyes lighting up when they see how how huge these buildings are and how they are really made of Lego bricks," McCarthy said. "The second thing is when the adults and children realize the detail and you see them spending a lot of time examining those details and how it was put together, so that's very rewarding because the size of all this can be overwhelming."
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On Thursday, December 12, 2013, Representative Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced H.R. 3723, the Viral Hepatitis Testing Act of 2013. Representatives Charles Dent (R-PA) and Brett Guthrie (R-KY) signed on as original co-sponsors. This bill would provide $80 million over three years to expand hepatitis B and C education, testing and linkage to care services, with a priority of reaching those most at risk. It also would establish a public-private partnership that would generate additional revenue for viral hepatitis services. The National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable thanks Representative Cassidy for his leadership and commitment to addressing the viral hepatitis crisis by introducing this bill. We also thank Representatives Dent and Guthrie for their strong support.
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In case you missed it, next week we will have a new entrant in the competition for 'Most Useless Law Passed by Congress in a Transparent Attempt to Appear to Be Actually Doing Something.'
As reported in Reuters earlier this week, this coming Monday, a bipartisan bill will be introduced in the Senate (by Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa) that will increase the fines that the SEC can levy in cases of securities law violations: maximum fines for individual violations will increase from $150,000 to $1 million, while the top costs for firms will rise from $725,000 per offense to $10 million. In either case, the SEC will also have the option of demanding three times any ill-gotten gains or investor losses.
Apparently, this bill is intended to increase "the costs of doing business" for firms that break securities laws, in an attempt to "break the cycle of misconduct," as Sen. Reed put it. By way of illustrating this cycle, the bill sponsors cited the decision last November by a Federal judge to reject as too low a $285 million settlement that SEC reached with Citigroup, which allegedly misled investors in the sale of $1 billion worth of mortgage-linked securities.
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but the Citigroup "settlement" could certainly have been higher under existing law, or else why would have Judge Rakoff have rejected it on the grounds of being too low? So that would mean if the Reed/Grassley Bill becomes law, and the SEC's potential penalties become substantially higher, it would have had exactly no effect on this case, at all. That is just one case, however. In fairness, perhaps we should examine how the bill if passed would affect other high profile financial cases that have hit the headlines, and which Congress has a habit of using to justify many of the the laws it does pass.
The Bernie Madoff case seems like a good place to start, as it has been trotted out as a prime example of the kind of financial fraud that the Dodd-Frank Act was drafted to prevent, and why we need a fiduciary duty for brokers, tighter regulation of RIAs and more glue on Donald Trump's hairpiece.
As we now know, in an attempt to bolster his increasingly commoditized clearing business, Mr. Madoff began siphoning off funds from his managed investments while maintaining unrealistically high returns to investors out of the inflow of new investments. How do you think the proposed higher SEC penalties (presumably for cases just such as this; that involve financial businesses, and business decisions to commit fraud) would have affected Madoff's decision to run his classic Ponzi scheme? Considering that under current law, his businesses have been closed, his family bankrupted and he'll spend the rest of his life in jail, I'm just guessing that that even the spectre of fines amounting to treble investment losses would not have dissuaded Bernie.
Okay, how about a more recent case, say when London traders at JPMorgan managed to rack up what now appears to be in the neighborhood of $6 billion in losses on what are now known as "the London whale" trades. Do you think that JPM CEO Jamie Dimon, who from recent accounts was at least aware of the increasingly risky positions being taken in the company's U.K office, would have pulled the plug on the whole operation under threat of an additional $10 million in fines per securities violation, in the event that there were any? Again, pretty hard to see.
So what about the most recent scandal to rock the financial world, I hear you ask. What about revelations that Barclays Bank, and possibly JPMorgan Chase (again), Bank of America and Citgroup, conspired to manipulate the LIBOR benchmark interest rate to the advantage of their own financial positions and/or balance sheets? The revelation that the LIBOR index rate, which underpins literally trillions of dollars of derivative securities investments and commercial and mortgage loans across the globe were 'fixed,' strikes at the heart of the entire financial system. And if current reports are accurate, this has been going on since the Market Meltdown and its aftermath, that is, during the watch of the U.S. Congress which was 'fixing' the very same financial system with Dodd-Frank, and while the SEC was busy in both financial reregulation and the apprehension of any evildoers involved in the increasing number of debacles.
Would stiffer SEC penalties have dissuaded Barclays (in its U.S. operations) and other U.S. banks (if they acted in a similar fashion) from manipulating LIBOR? Or would the billions of dollars of potential gains from their actions have proven just too much of an attractive nuisance?
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and speculate that in these and many smaller cases, stiffer potential penalties probably would have made little difference. While there might be some firms somewhere calculating the cost of penalties for securities violations vs. their potential gain, if any such calculations are going on, I'd bet euros to dollars that the chances of actually getting caught in the first place weigh more heavily in most such equations.
If it's truly interested in deterrence, perhaps Congress's time would be better spent increasing the likelihood that the SEC will catch anyone—by, oh, I don't know, maybe increasing their funding, rather than withholding it as punishment for not catching Madoff, et al., sooner. But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.


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Times! We've got them, for this December's Nightmare Before Christmas three-day fest, arranged as always by the lovely people of ATP. Check these names out, and then see when they're playing.
Did we mention DiS was DJing at the festival already? No? Well we are, so if you're one of these 'Show 2' ticket holders - meaning you're seeing Sonic Youth and The Stooges on Saturday and Sunday rather than both on Friday - you can hear us play records from nine 'til midnight on Friday. We don't know where yet, but booze will probably be available! Hooray!
Those stage times, then...
Please note that times are subject to change, and further details can be obtained from the festival website, here
Friday 8th December 2006
Centre Stage
THE DEAD C 1.15am - 2.15am
SONIC YOUTH (SHOW 1) 11.30pm - 12.45am
IGGY & THE STOOGES 9.45pm - 11pm
MELVINS 8.15pm - 9.15pm
FLIPPER 7.00pm - 7.45pm
NURSE WITH WOUND 5.30pm - 6.30pm
DOORS 4.45pm
Reds (Stage 2)
PRURIENT 1.15am - 2am
BARDO POND 11.30pm - 12.45am
DEERHOOF 9.45pm - 11.00pm
DEAD MACHINES 8.45pm - 9.30pm
MAJOR STARS 7.30pm - 8.15pm
HIVE MIND 6.15pm - 7.00pm
ASHTRAY NAVIGATION 5.00pm - 5.45pm
DOORS 4.15pm
Crazy Horse (Stage 3)
FURSAXA 1am - 2.00am
CHARALAMBIDES 11.30pm - 12.30pm
ISLAJA 10.00pm - 11.00pm
TAUPIS TULA 8.30pm - 9.30pm
RICHARD YOUNGS 7.15pm - 8.00pm
FAMILY UNDERGROUND 6.00pm - 6.45pm
DOORS 5.15pm
Saturday 9th December 2006
Centre Stage (Stage 1)
SONIC YOUTH (SHOW 2) 11.30pm - 1am
DINOSAUR JR 9.45pm - 11.00pm
GANG OF FOUR 8.15pm - 9.15pm
SUN CITY GIRLS 6.45pm - 7.45pm
WOODEN WAND 5.15pm - 6.15pm
DOORS 4.30pm
Red (Stage 2)
COMETS ON FIRE 11.30am - 12.45am
MV / EE + BUMMER ROAD 9.45pm - 11.00pm
PETER BROTZMANN / HAN BENNIK 8.45pm - 9.45pm
CORSANO/FLAHERTY/ C SPENCER YEH 7.30pm - 8.30pm
MATS GUSTAFFSON + EYE 6.15pm - 7.00pm
HAIR POLICE 5.00pm - 5.45pm
NEW BLOCKADERS/HATERS 3.45pm - 4.45pm
DOORS 3.00pm
Crazy Horse (Stage 3)
MAGIK MARKERS 11.45pm - 12.45pm
LAMBSBREAD 10.30pm - 11.15pm
LESLIE KEFFER 9.15pm - 10.00pm
16 BITCH PILE UP 8.00pm - 8.45pm
BLOOD STEREO 6.45pm - 7.30pm
DOUBLE LEOPARDS 5.30pm - 6.15pm
DOORS 4.45pm
Sunday 10th December
Centre Stage (Stage 1)
MC5/DKT 12am - 1.15am
IGGY & THE STOOGES (SHOW 2) 10pm - 11.15pm
NEGATIVE APPROACH 8.15pm - 9.15pm
WOLF EYES 6.45pm - 7.45pm
AWESOME COLOR 5.30pm - 6.15pm
AARON DILLOWAY 4.15pm - 5.00pm
DOORS 3.30pm
Reds (Stage 2)
BE YOUR OWN PET 12am - 1am
JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER 10pm - 11.15pm
MOUTHUS 8.45pm - 9.30pm
MONOTRACT 7.30pm - 8.15pm
MY CAT IS AN ALIEN 6.15pm - 7.00pm
THE NOTEKILLERS 5.00pm - 5.45pm
DOORS 4.15pm
Crazy Horse (Stage 3)
SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN 12.30am - 1.30am
NO NECK BLUES BAND 11pm - 12am
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE 9.15pm - 10.30pm
ALEXANDER TUCKER 7.45pm - 8.45pm
WHITE OUT W/ NELS CLINE 6.15pm - 7.15pm
THE SKATERS 5.00pm - 5.45pm
BARK HAZE 4.00pm - 4.30pm
DOORS 3.15pm
Excited? We are, a bit. Look out for something we're calling a 'preview' next week!


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Berggren, Jackson lead Badgers past Illini 74-51
Wisconsin scored the first 14 points of the game
Jared Berggren scored 15 points and grabbed a season-high 12 rebounds, and Traevon Jackson added a career-best 14 points to lead Wisconsin over No. 12 Illinois 74-51 Saturday.
The Badgers (12-4, 3-0 Big Ten) scored the game's first 14 points and led by 20 at halftime on the way to their sixth straight win.
It was a stunning performance from a team that scored just 47 in the previous game against Nebraska, but a supposedly slow and methodical team locked into a higher gear and ended the suspense almost as soon as the game began.
Whether they were making 3-pointers, driving for layups, putting back misses or throwing down dunks, the Badgers had their way in this one. They outshot Illinois 49.1 percent to 35.3 percent, making 10 of 23 3-pointers, and outrebounded the Illini 43-24.
Berggren was solid as usual.
Jackson eclipsed his previous high of 13 points and Sam Dekker also scored 13.
It was certainly not what Illinois (14-4, 1-3) envisioned coming off a 17-point loss to No. 8 Minnesota. The Illini have now lost four of six after winning their first 12 under new coach John Groce.
They set a season-low for scoring, with star Brandon Paul managing just eight points and making 1 of 11 shots. D.J. Richardson scored 16, but Illinois never had a chance in this one.
The Badgers led 39-19 at the break, with Jackson scoring 12 in the half after averaging just 4.7 points in the first 15 games. Berggren scored 11, including seven as Wisconsin took a 14-0 lead. His corner 3 and another shot from long range by Ben Brust capped that run. Paul gave Illinois its first point when he made 1 of 2 free throws with 13:13 left in the half, and Joseph Bertrand followed with a jumper to give the Illini their first basket.
But the Badgers scored 15 in a row and 18 of 20 to turn a nine-point edge into a 34-9 gulf, starting with three straight 3-pointers.
Sam Dekker buried one from the wing to get it going. Brust made one from well beyond the top of the arc, sending a roar through the stands, and Jackson followed with another one from up top after Berggren blocked a driving Paul.


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More On Mickey, Vinnie, And The Bryce
Told you Saturday that, although the Maestro himself can't specifically recall it with certainty one way or the other, it appears that Vin Scully did more than just broadcast Bryce Harper's first Major League game ever, at Dodger Stadium, on Saturday night. He appears to have also broadcast Mickey Mantle's first (exhibition) game ever in New York, and his first appearance ever inside an actual big league ballpark.
In the late '40s and early '50s the Yankees and Dodgers would open up with a three-game series, right before Opening Day. In 1951, they began it on Friday, April 13, at Yankee Stadium. Mantle was flying back from Kansas City after a visit to a draft board, and missed that game. But he played at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn on the 14th and 15th.
The Dodger announcers in 1951 were Red Barber, Connie Desmond – and Vin Scully. There was no reason Vin should've been off the broadcasts that weekend, and now there is more evidence that he would've been very much needed in the both. In those days, those three men handled all of the radio and television for the Dodgers, switching from one to the other every few innings.
Sure enough, the impeccable Bill Francis of The Baseball Hall of Fame has dug up what I could not: Confirmation that the Dodgers-Yankees exhibition of April 14, 1951 – Mantle's unofficial debut – was televised. Check out the entry for 1:30 PM on Channel 9, from The New York Times weekly tv listings, published on April 8, 1951:Channel 9 was WOR-TV, and they carried the Dodger broadcasts (the Yankees and Giants were on WPIX-TV, Channel 11).
Meaning that the odds that Vin Scully wasn't at both Harper's debut, and Mantle's New York debut, have shrunk to just about nothing.
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What am I missing — why did the Dodger Stadium crowd boo Bryce Harper with such venom in his first big league game?
There's something a little Philly about the Dodger crowd latey — they turned on Billingsley in a heartbeat, and booed him roundly when he lost his shutout in the seventh inning against Washington Saturday night. Who are these people, Philly fans?
I was at the games this weekend and was a bit surprised as well. Frankly, I was a bit surprised that fans on a SATURDAY NIGHT (usually not quite the same baseball I.Q. as a Wednesday night crowd) even knew of Harper's story. And it's not like he plays for the Giants – the crowd would boo the Pope if he played SS for San Francisco!
My guess is that enough of the crowd got wind that the "phenom" would be there and maybe felt like he was anointed with too much attention in the land of Kemp and Kershaw. They wanted it to be known that he would get no love from the L.A. crowd.
I for one was excited to see how he looked, and he looked pretty darn good.
Oh, and thanks, Keith, for meticulously searching for the facts of this curious story. Vin Scully's greatness has never been lost on most of us Dodger fans.
Now how did I know you were going to dig up the most obscure factoid to prove your point? This shows me you will always go that extra step or mile for all your readers and fans. Thanks so much for showing what a wonderful person you are and proving that Vin Scully is forever a legend. He is timeless. Let's keep our eye on Bryce, he may prove to be a gift.
Now, Keith, I told you about the TV listings in the previous comments section, so I want to be incomparable, too.
I'll also mention here, as I did in the previous entry, that Red Barber assigned the announcers. Vin once said that usually, he did only the 3rd and the 7th on radio, but at the time TV was the less important medium, so he would get some more time on TV.
The story that I've always heard about that series is that Casey Stengel walked The Mick through the Ebbets Field outfield before the first game. The Old Perfessor had been the Dodgers' centerfielder when it opened in 1913 and had a lot of experience there, obviously. Casey wanted to give Mickey some tips about playing the angles and the wall, but apparently, Mantle didn't grasp Stengel's resume, prompting to say "Hey, Kid. You think I was born old!?!?!?"
I really hope that's a true story.
I think you are right, Keith. It is logical. If only my daddy were still alive, he could tell us. Though it was partly because of the bets in the sports pool at Melody Grill downtown, he listened to one on the big radio in the adjoining dining room, one on the transistor radio with earphones, and watched one in black and white on TV simultaneously, with the newspaper spread open to the sports page reading about the games. His supper would be centered in that open sports section. Since they didn't have all the high tech gadgets that kids play with now, we would simply watch him. He was something to see! Made Robert Redford look like Quasimodo.
Where was Mama? In the kitchen making his dessert. The good ol' days were some good and some ol'. 😉
Keith is a bitter lonely hated man.
Why, I oughtta…
Yes, yes, yes! You ARE the Maestro. 🙂 And we are your students. I always learn something when I come here. Actually, I learn a whole bunch of somethings about a sport I barely knew existed. 🙂
I asked Vin about this today at the Dodgers' ownership press conference. He said: "Back then, I was the third announcer (with Red Barber and Connie Desmond) and probably only worked the third and seventh inning. Honestly, I don't remember exactly how that went, except that I did wonder how a kid from Commerce, Oklahoma could possibly play in cavernous Yankee Stadium before crowds 10-times larger than his own hometown."
Thanks for the research … love these one degree of separation facts. After Jered Weaver's no hitter yesterday, I was reminded of the fact taht his brother Jeff was the Yankee starter back in 2003 when the Astros used six pitchers to no-hit the bombers.
Keep making connections to the past … baseball is after all the national pasttime … and we BB geeks appreciate the history lessons.
Vin Scully, the Maestro. Exactly!
Such a clever post. Its so nice of you to share all those information.
I wonder how you get all of those. Thanks, keep it up!
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The Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor concluded its 2011 season on Sunday, September 4, but Artistic Directors Sybil Christopher and Murphy Davis and Executive Director Tracy Mitchell are already hard at work planning the next season of performances.
The trio is passionate about the theater and each of them strives to choose three plays or musicals that will not only sell tickets, but also expose audiences to something that will leave them thinking.
"Our sensibility has to meet first," Davis said, explaining the process in which he and Christopher choose the Bay Street lineup. The next question to ask, Davis said, is, "How does our taste intersect with the audience's taste?" [expand]
Mitchell, who handles the business end of things, said the audience always gives feedback, but in the end, it's the vision of the artistic directors that drives content in the theater.
"Sometimes we don't know what they're going to like," Davis said, noting that the hit plays often take him, Christopher, and even the audience by surprise. For that reason, he said the season must include plays that excite him and Christopher before any thought about audience is involved.
This season's July play, Betty's Summer Vacation by Christopher Durang was the most controversial play Bay Street has yet produced, Davis said, but the "dark and angry comedy" left audiences with something to think about, love it or hate it, and that's rare for a comedy.
"That, to me is good theatre," Mitchell said, explaining, "Good theatre resonates."
Christopher, who has been with Bay Street for 20 years, said audiences at Bay Street always get to experience a variety of work from different playwrights, genres and eras. "After Labor Day they see they've been on a journey with us," she said.
As artistic directors, Christopher and Davis agreed that the success of a play is largely based upon the people involved. Christopher noted that Trip Kelman was the perfect director for Betty's Summer Vacation because he loves Durang.
"A big part of being artistic director is choosing the right cast," Davis said. He said a big name actor will definitely help attendance, but more important, pairing a really good play with a really good cast will almost always result in a successful production.
The first Tuesday preview for each of the season's three plays is performed for a pay-what-you-can ticket price. Christopher said it makes Bay Street accessible to anyone and it really helps spread the buzz.
While the season may be over, Bay Street will remain quite active during the quiet months. The theater continues to create programs for young people, including the Young Playwrights program and Literature Live!, and it will be showing three films for Sag Harbor's annual HarborFest celebration.
For HarborFest, Bay Street will be showing the Laurence Olivier classic film Wuthering Heights at 8 p.m. on Friday, September 9 for $5. On Saturday, September 10, they will be running a continuous loop of Joyous Garde, a documentary about John Steinbeck's Sag Harbor home, from noon to 4 p.m., and they will be screening Flight 93 for free in honor of the 10th anniversary of September 11th at 8 p.m. on Sunday.
Davis noted that Sag Harbor native Linda Kristine Gronlund Esq. was a passenger on that flight and her mother Doris is a friend of the theater. "The director really shows the human spirit in the face of death," Davis said of the film. "It was amazing, I mean, I get chills," he added. "That group of people saved the White House."
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VH1's New Series "Famous Food" Premieres Sunday, July 10 at 10PM ET/PT
Celebrities Include Heidi Montag, Ashley Dupre, Danielle Staub, Jake Pavelka, Vincent Pastore and DJ Paul and Juicy "J" from Three 6 Mafia
Santa Monica, CA - June 6, 2011 - From Ashton Kutcher's Geisha House to Robert DeNiro's Ago, attaching a celebrity's name to a restaurant is definitely a growing trend in Hollywood.... but is it always a recipe for success? This fall, VH1 is going to put the concept to the test by partnering with renowned restaurateurs, The Dolce Group, to give seven celebrities the chance to turn one of their West Hollywood, CA properties into a flourishing and fully-operating restaurant. Joining the cast is Heidi Montag ("The Hills"), who not only has a passion for food, but also knows a thing or two about the restaurant business, especially after dealing with the unfortunate demise of her parent's restaurant. Academy Award-Winning artists, DJ Paul and Juicy "J" (from rap group Three 6 Mafia), who both have experience in the kitchen and have dreams of hosting a cooking show, will finally be given the opportunity to bring their culinary expertise to the table. Working with them, a cast of food connoisseurs in their own right, Danielle Staub ("Real Housewives of New Jersey"), Jake Pavelka ("The Bachelor"), Ashley Dupre (Singer) and Vincent Pastore ("The Sopranos") have always had the desire to pursue their visions and conquer the restaurant world. For eight weeks, this colorful crew of celebrities will roll up their sleeves and work together to launch their own restaurant, aptly named, Famous Food. This new one-hour, ten episode series is set to premiere Sunday, July 10 at 10PM*.
Mike Malin and Lonnie Moore are the founding members of The Dolce Group and they define what it takes to open a successful celebrity restaurant. Some of their well-known Hollywood establishments include Ketchup, Angels & Kings, Geisha House, Ten Pin Alley, rare 120, Wonderland and Dolce. Over the course of the series, Mike and Lonnie will provide the cast with a variety of tasks that need to be completed in order to get the restaurant off the ground. The cast will be tackling such duties as renovating the space, agreeing on a restaurant concept, creating marketing plans, crafting a menu, hiring the staff and eventually, ensuring a flawless grand-opening. Every week it will be up to the team to work together and complete their list of tasks, while Mike and Lonnie review their progress. The season will conclude with the finale episode featuring the grand opening of one lucky restaurateur's dream restaurant open for business and ready for the public's review.
After the restaurant's grand opening, Mike and Lonnie will assess the celebrities' individual achievements (and failures). Whoever they deem the most deserving, will ultimately be awarded a partnership stake in the restaurant. In the end, only the most valuable star will come out on the top while the rest will leave with nothing.
Can these celebrities work together to turn Famous Food into a thriving Hollywood hot-spot or will they be left with nothing but bad reviews? Watch it all unfold when "Famous Food" premieres on VH1 Sunday, July 10 at 10PM*.
VH1's "Famous Food" is created and executive produced by Mark Cronin and Cris Abrego for 51 Minds Entertainment, LLC. an Endemol Company. Ben Samek and Matt Odgers also executive produces for the series and the company. For VH1, the series is executive produced by Jill Holmes, Kristen Kelly and Jeff Olde.
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Right on schedule, Apple has introduced the third iteration of the iPhone to the public. The new model, called the iPhone 3GS, is much like the iPhone 3G introduced in 2008 but, as Apple says, the "S" stands for speed. There are a number of other improvements made to the iPhone 3GS that differentiate it from its less-speedy sibling, but the one thing that will stick out in any phone owner's mind after playing with one will definitely be its zip.
We have already reviewed the large majority of iPhone OS 3.0 that comes with the iPhone 3GS (and is available for all past iPhone and iPod touch models), so this review will mostly focus on changes to the device that differentiate it from previous versions.
In the box
The iPhone's packaging keeps getting smaller, but Apple squeezed the same amount of stuff into the 3GS box as the 3G box from 2008. Inside is an iPhone, a USB transfer cable, a set of Apple earbuds, and a USB power plug.
The physical design of the 3GS is nearly identical to that of the 3G—unlike the comparison between the original iPhone and 3G, there is virtually no way to tell from one glance the difference between a 3GS and a 3G iPhone.
The one differentiating factor is that the text on the back of the phone is now silver to match the Apple logo, while on the 3G it's gray. Oh, and if you're like us, your 3G is looking a lot more beaten up.
The iPhone 3GS also comes equipped with an oil-resistant coating on its glass screen—this does not mean that your greasy fingers will magically not affect it, though. It just means that, if you touch both an iPhone 3G and an iPhone 3GS with greasy fingers, it will show a little less on the 3GS and will be easier to clean off.
Now to look at the features that are new to the 3GS before focusing on the "S."
Support for the new volume-adjusting headphones
The first thing we noticed was that the iPhone 3GS comes with Apple's new volume-adjusting headphones. These are essentially the same as the headphones with the built-in mic and clicker that come with the iPhone and iPhone 3GS, but with the added benefit of being able to turn the volume up or down right from the headphone cord. The iPod touch supports this feature but, until now, no iPhones did. We tested these headphones with an iPhone 3G running iPhone OS 3.0 and found that the functionality did not work there, indicating that this is limited to the 3GS. This is awesome for 3GS owners, and sucks for 3G owners.
New (but sometimes not better) camera
iPhone fans have been clamoring for an improved camera since the original device was released in 2007, and Apple gave it to them in the iPhone 3GS. The built-in camera now sports 3 megapixels (up from 2) and the ability to autofocus anywhere in the frame. It can also shoot video (new in 3GS, which we'll address in another section), and it automatically geotags your photos (not new). So how does it do?
Let's start with the good news. The autofocus capabilities are definitely a welcome addition, and Apple's implementation is typical—smart and intuitive. When taking a photo, the camera app automatically puts a white square around the area it thinks you want it to focus on, but if you want it to focus on something else, just tap on that area of the screen and the square will move. This not only shifts the focus to that object, but it also adjusts the lighting of the photo so that the part of the frame you're focusing on is getting the most optimal light balance.
Our favorite part of this is that you can now macro-focus on items close to you by tapping on them—no more blurry pics of that weird sign you found on the street or a bug crawling across your desk. This is by far the best feature of the new camera. Below you can see an example of the same Kindle DX keyboard shot with both the 3G and the 3GS cameras.


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2 Click on Games tab.
3. Click on the Activate Product button.
4. Enter your code in the Activation Product field.
5. Click OK at the bottom of the Uplay Product Activation page. This will activate the content on your Ubisoft account.
2. Enter the 25-digit code. You can also redeem the 25-digit code on official Xbox website.
PlayStation 4:
2. Select PlayStation Store icon on the PS4 system Home Screen.
3. On PlayStation Store, select Redeem Codes at the bottom of the menu on PS4 system.
4. Enter the code. Please note that the code is case-sensitive and must be entered exactly as displayed.
5. Once the code has been entered correctly, select Continue on the dialog box from the PS4 system.
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Feels like a surprise after so much media angst over the role of "Stand Your Ground" in Zimmerman's acquittal — which was close to zero, by the way — but this isn't a surprise really. Thirty-one states have SYG laws or a limited variation on them, the "Castle Doctrine" that limits SYG to your own home. Go figure that a majority of voters would endorse them when asked.
White voters support "Stand Your Ground" laws 57 – 37 percent while black voters are opposed 57 – 37 percent. Men support these laws 62 – 34 percent while women are divided with 44 percent in favor and 47 percent opposed. Support is 75 – 19 percent among Republicans and 57 – 37 percent among independent voters, with Democrats opposed 62 – 32 percent.
Voters in households where someone owns a gun back the laws 67 – 29 percent.
"'Stand Your Ground' splits the country sharply along political, gender and racial lines," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
"With these kinds of numbers, it's unlikely the movement to repeal 'Stand Your Ground' will be successful in most of the country."
I went looking on Google for polling on SYG before 2012 in order to see where Americans were on this before the Trayvon Martin shooting but it's hard to come by. How many of the following numbers, then, are a reaction to the specifics of the Martin case (and the widespread albeit erroneous impression that SYG played a major role in his acquittal) and how many are a reaction to SYG in the abstract?
The most striking thing: Only among blacks and Democrats is there sharp opposition to SYG. Every other demographic, including Hispanics and famously liberal young adults, shows either strong support for Stand Your Ground or, at worst, ambivalence. That makes me think that the results here are indeed more of an abstract consideration of SYG than a reaction to the Zimmerman verdict, which was opposed by Hispanics and younger voters. Quinnipiac's phrasing of the question might have been key. Wisely, instead of tossing in the buzzy phrase "Stand Your Ground," which many respondents would associate with Zimmerman and Martin, they simply stated the principle of SYG and asked people to react. In fact, arguably they didn't state it clearly enough. "Stand Your Ground" doesn't say you're allowed to use deadly force if you feel "threatened," it says you're allowed to use deadly force if you're threatened with death or great bodily harm. If Quinnipiac had stressed that last bit, the numbers here might have been more robust than they are. No problem for Obama, though: The SYG frenzy in the media is all about freaking out Democrats so that they'll turn out in the midterms. Given the Democratic numbers here, that's potentially fertile ground.


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A plan to have unarmed students patrolling the campus of Towson University in Maryland on foot has sparked accusations of racism.
The planned patrols are the brainchild of senior Mathew Heimbach, who also happens to head a group called the White Student Union.
Heimbach has written on his blog that Towson is experiencing a "black crime wave" with "black predators" preying on the "white majority student body."
"Just like I wouldn't be offended if -- when you talk about serial killers, the average serial killer is a blue-collar, educated white male," Heimbach told News4's Jim Rosenfield.
"It doesn't offend me to be able to talk about the facts," Heimbachsaid.
Other students disagree. One black student told Rosenfield, "I thought [Heimbach's statements were] racist, but they have their freedom of speech."
"Certain things are just ingrained in you by your cultural values and what you were taught as a kid," a white student said.
Heimbach's group is not university-sanctioned, but it has attracted the attention of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which lists the White Student Union on a so-called "hate map" of white supremacist groups.
"I'm not a future leader of hate," Heimbach says. "What I want to do in my entire life is enter seminary and become an Orthodox priest."
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Clive Palmer referred to CMC by Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney
Clive Palmer has called Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney a "f---ing liar" after being referred to the Crime and Misconduct Commission over allegations he tried to convince the Queensland Government to act in a "corrupt" manner.
Mr Seeney claims that during a meeting with Mr Palmer in April 2012, the mining magnate requested exclusive access to develop the Galilee Basin because of support he gave the LNP before the state election.
Mr Palmer told Fairfax Media he denied the allegations and was "not concerned".
On Friday afternoon, Mr Seeney submitted documents to the CMC relating to the April 2012 meeting, which occurred weeks after the government was elected.
He told the ABC's 7.30 that during the meeting, Mr Palmer gave him a draft bill "that would give him the exclusive right to build a port and a railway and have control of the Galilee Basin".
"I rejected that completely so I didn't even read it," Mr Seeney told the program.
"I pushed it back across the table and told him that wasn't the way we would be doing business.
"Clive Palmer wanted specialist treatment on the basis that he had been a supporter of our government. He wanted to bypass the proper processes and we weren't prepared to do that."
"I believe it would have been corrupt to make decisions in that way."
Mr Seeney said Mr Palmer spoke about financial support he had given the LNP and that Mr Palmer said he "had a lot more money to give in the future".
Mr Seeney said he regretted not referring the matter to the CMC but didn't "see any point". Later on Friday he changed his mind and informed the commission.
Speaking to Fairfax Media, Mr Palmer confirmed the April 2012 meeting took place. However he rejected Mr Seeney's version of events and denied any impropriety.
"There was a letter sent out by the government requesting submissions on how the Galilee should be dealt with. All people in the Galilee Basin made submissions to them," he said.
"The record will show what our submissions were and it will show he's just a f---ing liar. You can quote me on that.
"I can say to you categorically, at no time did I mention to Mr Seeney anything to do with any donations to the LNP."
Mr Palmer, now the federal member for Fairfax, said a potential CMC investigation wasn't a concern.
Last month, Mr Palmer lodged a defamation writ in the Supreme Court against Premier Campbell Newman.
Mr Palmer is seeking $1.1 million in damages over comments Mr Newman made in a press conference when he described Mr Palmer as "a guy who tried to buy a government, my government".
This week, Mr Newman filed a "notice of intention to defend" the defamation action. Part of his defence includes the documents which have been submitted to the CMC from Mr Seeney, which relate to the April 2012 meeting.


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Billy Paul is another of far,far too many music icons of the 20th century who passed away during 2016. The Philly native grew up listening to jazz based singers such as Nina Simone,Carmen McCrae and Billie Holiday. After a stint in the army,where he was was stationed in post WWII Germany in the late 50's along with Elvis Presley. Using this as an opportunity to further his love of music,he launched a jazz trio while in Germany. After getting out of the army,he became part of the burgeoning Philadelphia International Records,eventually releasing his debut album in 1970.
As with most people in America,my primary knowledge of this artist was via the ballad "Me & Mrs. Jones". My father purchased a compilation of Billy Paul's music. And after that,it became clear that this man did some amazingly cinematic uptempo tunes. Many of them with a very strong pro black sociopolitical bent lyrically. It was about a year ago when watching a documentary about Oakland's Black Panthers that I heard a very funkified song with a very familiar voice. Turns out that voice belonged to the late Billy Paul. And the song (from 1972) was called "Am I Black Enough For You".
A bluesy Clavinet riff dovetails into the percussive accented funky march of the drums. That Clavinet maintains itself throughout the song. At first,this is assisted by a bluesy rhythm guitar. The song has a rather elaborate,jazzy bass line holding the rhythm section together. The horns are both melodic and climactic-scaling upward on each of the songs choruses. Towards the end of the song,a fuzzed out guitar plays an eerie sustain in the back round as the percussion and a bluesy organ and guitar take over on the bridge. Then the songs main chorus takes over until it all fades out
"Am I Black Enough For You" is a psychedelic,bluesy funk number musically. One featuring a dense,thick instrumental sound. The melody is very overtly blues based too. Lyrically,the song speaks as much to the present day as it did for 1972. In both cases,an unpopular and widely disliked politician had become president. And anti black attitudes were a causal factor in both cases. This song lyrically suggests that strength in numbers will help black Americans to have power and dignity of person. And with Billy Paul no longer with us,that's as fine a musical concept for him to heave us with as any.


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Parks Canada officials closed part of the Banff townsite Saturday, a day after receiving a call from a man who fought off a cougar with a skateboard after the animal knocked him to the ground.
The north side of the townsite along both sides of the Canadian Pacific rail line, between Norquay Road and the Compound Road, is off limits until further notice.
Those who violate the notice face charges under the National Parks Regulation with a maximum fine of $5,000.
Bill Hunt, manager of resource conservation for the Banff field unit of Parks Canada, said the area was closed after a second call about a cougar chasing a deer near the townsite.
The original caller also came forward.
"On Saturday, we were able to track down the (man)," he said. "He was hit from behind and knocked to the ground.
"He smacked it with a skateboard he was carrying," added Hunt.
The man did not initially provide his name for fear he would get in trouble for striking the animal, but Hunt said the man, who Parks Canada was able to speak with on Saturday, did the right thing in the situation.
The skateboard will be analyzed for evidence.
While news of the cougar attack buzzed through town over the weekend, wildlife specialists were sent to scour the area for the animal.
Dog teams have been brought in from southern Alberta to track the animal and officials have collected some scat to determine DNA.
"The big push right now is just trying to create awareness," said Hunt, noting officers are warning people on the trails and around the Tunnel Mountain campground.
Some hikers on the Tunnel loop said they saw parks officials out with the dog teams Sunday afternoon.
There are about six or seven officers and three or four dog teams out in the area.
Should they find the cougar, Hunt said they will immobilize the animal and assess its health by checking its body condition and teeth.
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A brand-new, Red Band trailer for Dimension Films' Piranha 3DD is now online and you can check it out in the player below!
After the terror unleashed on Lake Victoria in Piranha 3D, the pre-historic school of blood thirsty piranhas are back. This time, no one is safe from the flesh eating fish as they sink their razor sharp teeth into the visitors of summer's best attraction, The Big Wet Water Park. Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future) reprises his role as the eccentric piranha expert with survivor Paul Scheer ("The League") and a partially devoured Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction) back for more fish frenzy. David Hasselhoff trades in the sandy beaches of "Baywatch" to be a celebrity lifeguard at the racy water park. Prepare for double the terror, double the action and double the D's in this sequel also starring Gary Busey (Lethal Weapon), Katrina Bowden ("30 Rock"), Danielle Panabaker (The Crazies), Matt Bush (Adventureland), Chris Zylka (The Amazing Spider-Man) and David Koechner (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy).
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Having reported on small but growing numbers of public school students who are eagerly learning to be actively knowledgeable citizens, I must now turn to a much larger, growing problem within public education. As we adults are continually losing our privacy rights to insatiable government technology, so, too, are students throughout this nation.
The one news analyst who is persistently researching and reporting on how members of this generation (and, most likely, subsequent generations) are being relentlessly tracked throughout their school years is John Whitehead, a practicing constitutional attorney who is also founder and president of the Rutherford Institute in Charlottesville, Va.
Recently, he wrote about the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, where about 4,200 students at Jay High School and Jones Middle School are compelled "to carry 'smart' identification cards embedded with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tracking devices" ("The Fight Against the Total Surveillance State in Our Schools," rutherford.org, Dec. 3).
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This, in the land of the free and home of the brave?
"These tags," Whitehead explains, "produce a radio signal that is tied to the students' Social Security numbers, allowing the wearer's precise movements to be constantly monitored."
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Already there are 290 surveillance cameras in these schools. But these ID cards, "which the students are required to wear, will make it possible for school officials to track students' whereabouts at all times."
Dig this, moms and dads: "Teachers are even requiring students to wear the IDs when they want to use the bathroom."
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As for those who choose not to follow the rules? Whitehead writes: "Those who ... refuse to wear the SmartID badge will also be forced to stand in separate lunch lines (and) denied participation in student government and activities. ..."
Have schools in Iran, China and Zimbabwe become this advanced in their service to the all-knowing state?
Back in the Northside Independent School District, "Officials plan to eventually expand the $500,000 program to the district's 112 schools, with a student population of 100,000."
Like Paul Revere, who kept alerting us to raids on our liberties as we were moving to become an allegedly self-governing republic, Whitehead keeps ringing this country's warning bell. He continues:
"Other student tracking programs are currently being tested in Baltimore, Anaheim, Houston and the Palos Heights School District near Chicago. Some cities already have fully implemented programs, including Houston, Texas, which began using RFID chips to track students as early as 2004.
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"Preschoolers" – yes, tots! – "in Richmond, Calif., have been tagged with RFID chips since 2010."
What's next, chips in the womb?
There have been a few rebellions by some parents and students that have done to RFID programs what Patrick Henry and James Madison would have immediately accomplished, but the pressure on students to remain aware that they're always being spied on keeps mounting.
Whitehead writes, "These tracking devices are not being employed to prevent students from cutting classes or foster better academics. It's a money game. Using the devices to account for the students' whereabouts on campus, whether in class or not, school administrators can 'count' students as being 'in school' and thereby qualify for up to $1.7 million from the state government."
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As for nongovernmental pressures, Whitehead reminds us of "the financial interest of the security industrial complex, which has set its sights on the schools as 'a vast, rich market' – a $20 billion market, no less – just waiting to be conquered. Indeed, corporations stand to make a great deal of money if RFID tracking becomes the norm across the country.
"A variety of companies, including AIM Truancy Solutions, ID Card Group and DataCard, already market and sell RFID trackers to school districts throughout the country, and with big names such as AT&T and IBM entering the market, the pressure on school districts to adopt these systems and ensure compliance will only increase."
As for whatever other tracking ingenuities are ahead, John Whitehead (does he ever sleep?) finds that "RFID is only one aspect of what is an emerging industry (with government involvement) in tracking, spying and identification devices."
He writes: "Schools in Pinellas County, Fla., now use palm reading devices to allow children to purchase lunch. The (palm) reader takes an infrared picture of the palm's vein structure, and then matches that information with the child's identity. (Fifty-thousand) students in the country are using the readers, and another 60,000 are expected to soon join the program. Palm scanning identification devices are spreading to hospitals and schools across the country."
I think of my grandchildren, who are lively, independent thinkers, as John Whitehead focuses on how the kids of Northside Independent School District, and others, will one day live:
"Due in large part to the technological and profit-driven collusion between government and big business, every aspect of our society, from schooling, to banking, to shopping, to health care, is becoming increasingly automated and surveillance-oriented. ...
"Our nation's public schools are merely the forefront of a movement to completely automate all human interaction and ensure that no one is able to escape the prying eyes of government officials and their corporate partners."
There will be some Americans who can't escape these omnipresent eyes and will nonetheless go their own rebellious ways. But will there be enough of these constitutionally aroused citizens?
During the inevitably extensive presidential debates in 2016, will any candidate from either party demand the re-education of public school authorities who allow and enforce the teaching of students to be suspects?
Years ago, as we became aware that the FBI was listening in on our phone conversations, I often heard, "I have nothing to hide. I don't care."
I don't hear that much any more. But the FBI still cares. What's the citizenry going to do about all of these invasions of privacy, including the privacy of our schoolchildren?