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Don't Pity the Poor Eskimo – Part I (Nov, 1938)
Don't Pity the Poor Eskimo – Part I
By Ruth and Bill Albee
DON'T pity the poor Eskimo — at least not the Alaskan Eskimo of Bering Strait.
He lives in a land of ice, snow, howling winds and sub-zero temperatures. But he thrives on it—and likes it. He lives a stone-age existence in many respects, but he has an air-conditioned house. Most Eskimos have never seen an automobile, yet many of them fly to work in airplanes. Most of them never heard of vitamins, but they probably get more vitamins in their daily diet than any people on the globe. The Eskimo has little in the way of natural resources, but he is smart enough to make the most of what he has.
Aside from sod dug from the tundra swamps, driftwood picked up on the beach, and a few articles secured from traders, the Eskimo has no raw materials except those he secures by hunting. Yet from these materials he fabricates dwellings, clothing, boats and weapons. He makes them in the same pattern that his ancestors have used through the centuries because they are better suited to his needs and to the rigorous climate than any that civilized man has been able to devise.
Nevertheless, he is quick to adopt the latest products of civilization if and when they have proved their superiority to his own devices and methods. Thus, we found him hunting in the same kind of oomiak or skin boat that his forefathers used—but propelled by an outboard motor. In the boat along with stone-age harpoons, we saw rifles, binoculars, a compass, and a primus stove. These modern implements make him a more efficient hunter. And he must be an efficient hunter to survive. The Kingekmiu tribe, among whom we lived for some time, dwell at Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, westernmost point of the North American mainland, just fifty-six miles across Bering Strait from Siberia. Contrary to general belief, these Eskimos do not live in ice igloos. Virtually the only Eskimos who do are those who live where there is no driftwood.
The typical Cape Prince of Wales igloo is built half above ground level and half below and banked with dirt to minimize wind resistance. Its walls and roof of driftwood and whale ribs are covered with peat sod for insulation. Old walrus hides shed water from the roof. But if water seeps through, the sod underneath absorbs it like a blotter.
The igloo consists of one low-ceilinged room about twelve feet square and an entrance tunnel from sixteen to twenty feet long and half as wide. Light is admitted through a skylight of translucent strips of walrus intestine sewed together with sinew. The tunnel provides storage space for food and household effects. It is also a part of the air-conditioning system. The tunnel floor is lower than that of the living room and acts as a sump allowing the cold air and the carbon-monoxide gas to drain from the living quarters. The warm air inside rises and forces the cold air down and out. A small ventilating tube in the ceiling can be opened to admit fresh air. Thus the fresh air enters at the point where the inside air is warmest, and is tempered before it descends to the floor level where the occupants work and sleep. Like the igloo, the Eskimo parka is an air-conditioning device. Its primary function is to protect the wearer against one of the most dreaded of Arctic disasters—frostbitten lungs. Essentially, the parka is a hooded shirt worn outside the trousers and fitting loosely around the chest and neck. It is usually made of reindeer or squirrel fur. The hood has a ruff of long fur to shield the face and eyes from driven snow. This ruff is usually of wolverine fur which does not "freeze up." That is, frost and ice collecting on the hairs do not stick, but can be brushed off easily.
Cold air enters the parka around the loose bottom of the garment, is warmed by contact with the body, rises past the loose-fitting neck, and passes out through the long-haired ruff in front of the wearer's mouth and nose. There, the cold air being drawn into the lungs is mixed with the heated or "conditioned" air, escaping through the parka top.
Here in "the States" we have recently adopted the hooded, transparent rain cape that can be folded into a small envelope and carried in a lady's purse. The Eskimos have had them for centuries. Their rain parkas are hooded, too; they are translucent and they can be folded into a small package. They are made from strips of walrus intestine sewed together.
In developing the oomiak, these Eskimos faced the problem of designing a boat for hunting walrus and whales in the stormy waters of Bering Strait with its crushing ice floes and treacherous currents. Since whales often weigh as much as fifty tons, and walrus from 2,000 to 3,000 pounds each, they must be hunted by large crews. The boat must be capable of transporting eight to ten men, surviving heavy weather and bringing home the catch. To solve this problem, the Eskimo had only driftwood and hides.
The oomiak is dory-shaped for seaworthiness, and from twenty-five to forty feet long. The frame is of light driftwood spruce, each piece carved to shape and the pieces lashed together with rawhide thongs. Strength is obtained by several single-piece longitudinal members lashed to the ribs. Sturdy stem and stern pieces are carved from driftwood stumps, making use of the natural curve of the stump and roots. These are dovetailed to the keel.
Over the frame a covering of wet, split walrus hide is lashed, with wet rawhide lacings. Three or four of these hides are sewn together with sinew in invisible stitches to form waterproof seams. As the skins and lacings dry they contract, stretching the covering to drumhead tightness.
The flexible construction of the oomiak makes it extremely resilient so that it can absorb shocks that would crush most boats. Each oomiak is equipped with oars, paddles, mast, and sail, and usually an outboard motor. The oars are used for long pulls, should the motor fail; the paddles for fast work amid ice floes; the sail to take advantage of favorable winds. Caught far out at sea, with a whale in tow, the crew may utilize motor, sail and oars simultaneously. We found no record of any oomiak crew at Cape Prince of Wales having been lost at sea. Surely this is a tribute to the oomiak as well as to the skill of the men who designed it centuries ago and the men who build and sail it today. The U. S. Coast Guard cutters patrolling Bering Sea waters usually carry an oomiak to reach places where no other boat could venture with safety.
Although the Eskimo has adopted the rifle, he still finds his stone-age harpoon indispensable. For instance, a walrus, shot dead in the water, sinks instantly, and is lost to the hunter. But if the hunter can get a harpoon into the animal, he has it hooked like a fish. The Eskimo harpoon is essentially a sharp-bladed projectile attached to a rawhide line that can be forced into the animal's body. Once it has penetrated the tough hide, the harpoon head comes loose from the shaft and turns with a toggle-pin action, anchoring the head and the line firmly within the carcass. The head is attached to the line by a slipknot that can be released to free the line without removing the harpoon head. The long heavy shaft serves as a handle for the projectile and as a means of propelling it. As soon as the harpoon head is driven home, the handle comes loose and floats on the water. A running ring, sliding along the harpoon line, prevents the handle from drifting away.
The entire harpoon assembly, except for the steel blade of the head, is made from native materials; the head from walrus-tusk ivory, the socket from bone, the shaft from driftwood, the lashings from whale baleen and the line from seal rawhide. In fashioning the harpoon, the Eskimo shows expert workmanship and a thorough understanding of ballistics. Again, he displays his ability to analyze a technical problem and find the right answer.
Away back in the dim past, he found the right answer to the problem of daily diet: eat all the digestible parts of the animals one kills. Livers, brains and hearts, for instance, contain elements which the human body needs. Most of us get too little of these elements. But the Eskimo's diet is rich in them. Also, the Eskimo consumes a lot of seal oil. And seal oil is closely akin to cod-liver oil. It took years of propaganda to convince the so-called civilized peoples that cod-liver oil was good for them. The Eskimo knew it long ago.
He didn't know about the airplane until recently. But he was quick to see its advantages. Every spring, Eskimo men from the Diomede Islands in Bering Straits, have gone to Teller and Nome to work on the docks and at placer mines. Until the airplane came, they had to wait until the ice broke up and make the trip by oomiak. Last spring they chartered a plane and flew to work, making the trip in hours instead of days and gaining an extra month or six weeks of employment.
So don't pity the poor Eskimo! Living among them, we admired their wisdom in clinging to the ways of their ancestors when those ways are best. We admired their readiness to adopt white man's ways of proved value. We marveled at their ability to live happily in an environment in which few white men can survive—unless they adopt some of the stone-age ways of the not-so-dumb Eskimo.
(To be continued)


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Safe abortion hotline Chile, May 2009
Press inquiries: +0056 984668855
Abortion law and reality in Chile
Chile has one of the highest rates of abortion in Latin America – between 120.000 and 160.000 women have abortions every year, meaning that about 1 in 3 pregnancies end in abortion (The Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1994: ¨Clandestina Abortion: a Latin American Reality.¨ Nueva York, Estados Unidos). Read more »
Abortion hotline launch in Chile supported by Women on Waves
Press release: Today, on the International Day of Action for Women´s Health, is the public launch of an hotline that gives women information on how to safely abort using a medication known as misoprostol. Where: Plaza de la Constitución, Santiago, Chile. When: 13:30 hrs., Thursday, 28 May Read more »
Diary Chile
This is a day to day report on the activities in Chile. All over the country women's groups have activities to launch the safe abortion hotline. Read more »
Media launch safe abortion hotline Chile 2009
Links Press http://www.elmostrador.cl/pais/2014/08/12/alo-aborto-la-linea-telefonica-que-ensena-a-usar-el-misoprostol/ http://www.santiagotimes.cl/opinion/special-reports/26509-abortion-battle-obscures-reproductive-realities-for-women-in-chile http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/world/americas/in Read more »
Member organizations: Red chilena contra la violencia domestica y sexual Red de salud de las mujeres latinoamericanas y del caribe Red de mujeres de organizaciones sociales, Remos Movimiento pro emancipación de la mujer chilena. Memch Educación popular en salud, EPES. Asociación de mujeres… Read more »
Blog of the Chilean hotline
To help spread the information that will allow Chilean women to have a safe abortion, the women from the hotline in Chile have made a blog. Here you can read the information that is available through the hotline, and learn more about the group's activites. You can find the blog here:… Read more »

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Apple (AAPL) Trades Below $400 a Share
Apple stock traded below $400 a share on Wednesday.
April 17, 2013 -- Shares of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) plunged to a 52-week low on Wednesday, dipping below $400 a share, after one of its key suppliers issued a disappointing forecast.
Apple's latest 52-week low is $398.11, reached mid-day. The stock fell $25 to $400.29 a share later in the afternoon, down about 6 percent. The company's previous 52-week low was around $411.
Related Story: Trader Pleads to Fraudulently Buying 1.6 Million Apple (AAPL) Shares
Late Tuesday, Cirrus Logic, which makes parts for the iPhone and iPad and is based in Austin, Texas, said it expected a decrease in gross margin of more than 10 percent to approximately 40.4 percent. That's below the firm's previous guidance of 50 to 52 percent. Gross margin is difference between revenue and costs.
In a statement, the company said this was "due to a decreased forecast for a high volume product as the customer migrates to one of Cirrus Logic's newer components."
A large majority of Cirrus' sales come from Apple, according to Brian Colello, Morningstar analyst.
"They are massively leveraged to Apple," Colello said.
Colello said it is very likely the company is writing off inventory for parts for the iPhone 5, which was released last September, amid "lower the anticipated demand for the product."
He added there's a chance that Apple uses the newer part for the next generation of the iPhone.
"But it shows iPhone 5 demand has not been as strong as previously anticipated," he said. "The question is did we know that already?"
Apple had previously forecast weaker revenue forecast, which is largely driven by iPhone sales.
"So certainly it's negative news for CRUS and Apple, but it could mean a summer iPhone 5S launch or the next generation," Colello said.
Apple shares, once the darling of Wall Street, have fallen more than 40 percent since topping out at $750 last October.


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I recently filmed a deer hunting legend of a buck for us at DHBB. It was a great experience and one I'll never forget. I harvested a big deer an 11 pointer back in October with my bow. Then I got to film my good friend and fellow DHBB Pro-staff member Troy for a week of getting after whitetails here in Kansas. I have seen a lot of whitetails and some really nice bucks. As a matter of fact I saw the biggest buck I have ever seen in my life while in the woods. He was a real deer hunting legend in our minds that we were hoping to get a shot at.
Deer Hunting Legend
Troy arrived in Kansas on November the 8th and a cold front was moving in the day he arrived. With the recent activity you could just tell this cold front was going to have the big boys up and on their feet during daylight hours. I had been seeing a really nice buck that we appropriately named "Horn Donkey". He started showing up in late October on my trail camera pictures. To my surprise he was living right behind my house.
Then showing up only at night on October 26th and the a few days before Troy arrived he started getting bolder. But then he showed up right at daylight and right at dark. But then the day before Troy was to arrive he showed up on our trail camera pictures later in the morning hours. And earlier in the afternoon he showed up and was there all hours of the day.
Our Excitement Grows
Troy and I knew if we played it smart we just might get a shot at this once in a lifetime buck. Just the possibility of getting a Boone and Crockett buck with a bow on film had Troy and me so excited we couldn't think straight.
Airport Arrival
I picked Troy up at the airport and it was raining and cold no need for sunglasses for sure on this day. We made a quick visit to Cabellas and then arrived at my house around lunch time. Troy got unpacked and we had some venison stew for lunch and then Troy shot his bow. We decided to hunt a different location than where we were getting the trail camera pictures of "Horn Donkey" because the wind was unfavorable.
The first sit
The first evening hunt was uneventful and cold and wet. But the next morning the conditions were perfect for deer hunting and we had an awesome hunt. We got settled in the 2 loc-ons well before daylight and the excitement was in the air. The rut was on and we had a Booner on trail camera right where our stands were. The wind was out of the northwest and perfect. We saw four bucks and two coyotes that morning and 2 of the bucks were nice but they weren't what we were after. Although we were after "Horn Donkey".
We hunted until about 11am and then slipped out and had some lunch and got back in the stand around 2:00pm.
Windy Day
The wind was blowing pretty hard in our face. As we made our way to the stand and we walked up on about 25 turkeys as we got to the stand. We got up in the stand and got situated and I decided to do a little calling.
There's Our Boy Horn Donkey
A few minutes after I did the calling I looked up and there is the biggest buck I have ever seen in my life standing about 35 yards away and it I can tell immediately it is "Horn Donkey" the deer hunting legend and he looks much bigger in the flesh than he does in photos! His mass was much bigger than I ever imagined.
I lean over and Tell Troy to get his bow and to be still that our boy was here. He said I had a fire in my eyes and he could tell I was serious. Then I turn and get my Canon XHA1s turned on and get on him. The buck slowly walks out from behind some brush from the opposite direction of where we were expecting him to come from. A world class buck is now standing 30-35 yards away and in my viewfinder and my heart is pounding like never before. I can feel my legs start to tremble. But I was not going to make a wrong move.
Just Breathe
He walks a few yards but since he came from the opposite direction of where we were expecting my Motion Camera arm is now in a little bit of an awkward position and as I try to slowly follow him it makes a slight noise and the big brute which is now about 23 yards stops and stares me down for what seemed like forever. I've got the camera in between my face and him and my heart is thumping. Finally he flips his tale and licks his lips and starts slowly walking. This whole time I thinking shoot him Troy, not able to see what he's doing or when he might be able to draw. I don't even want to breathe because I'm afraid he might see me.
Intense Few Minutes
We film this world class buck at 23 yards for almost 6 minutes and it is by far the most intense 6 minutes of my entire life. The whole time the monster whitetail knows something is not quite right but he just can't figure it out. The wind was in our favor and he is rutted up and hungry.
The shot
Finally the buck let's Troy get drawn back and turns broadside at about 28-30 yards and I hear the release and a whack and the buck does an unbelievable back leg kick and falls as he lands and scoots into the brush and I swing the camera to follow him and you can hear him crashing through the brush and then silence. I swing the camera to Troy and say "did you get him?" There was a limb between the camera and the spot of impact.
Not What We Wanted
After reviewing the footage we figured Troy's arrow just nicked a small limb causing it to deflect right and hit the buck back. We've reviewed the footage hundreds of times and because of the limb you just can't tell the point of impact. And we believe it was a gut shot just in front of the ham about midway up the ham quartering to and into the right ham hitting the leg bone in the ham.
Although we believe he is fatally shot it is just a matter of how far he ran and where he died. We only found a small speck of blood on a sapling and that was it. We sat in the tree for about 40 minutes and then we backed out. Then went back to the house to review the footage. Waited a while and then decided to go to the spot he was standing a look for blood. We couldn't find anything no blood no guts no nothing. That's when we backed out for the night and waited over 24 hours until we went in looking for him.
The Search Begins
We got permission from the neighbors. We searched every creek, ditch, thicket for about 5 days straight going over the same spots 4 and 5 times. Troy was devastated and we couldn't sleep at night. I went to most of the neighbors and introduced myself and asked the to be on the lookout for buzzards, crows, smell any clue. They all said they would let me know if they see anything.
I still look daily for any sign. It is heartbreaking to get so close to getting a world class whitetail on camera. But if you hunt you know these things can happen and do happen sometimes. I consider myself blessed to be able to encounter such a beautiful animal out in the great outdoors. I won't give up looking for him.
What will he score
We believe he will score in the 180's. But if we are guessing wrong just a little on our circumference measurements he could possibly challenge the Kansas state record typical with a bow on film. It is an experience that I will never forget and I'm sure Troy wont either.
Great Footage
We documented the entire series of events of the whole week. From me picking Troy up at the airport. To the hunt to us searching for the buck on film all in high definition. It is some awesome footage and now we are in the process of editing the hunt footage. Then deciding what to do with it. Hopefully we will be able to share it with you soon. Update: Here is the video we filmed of the legendary Horn Donkey.
I hope everyone is having a great season so far. Good luck everyone.


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Ten years ago today, my younger self sat down on a bean bag in front of the telly. I tuned into BBC News 24. A Space Shuttle was about to land, and I was going to watch it live.
I was only 12, and had recently been captivated by the Space Shuttle Program. I'd get up in the middle of the night, watch, and record on VHS, shuttle launches. They were enthralling. Now I sat down to watch, what I think should have been, my first shuttle landing. The date: Saturday 1st February 2003.
Everything seemed to be going smoothly, but as it progressed there were no pictures of the shuttle passing through 200,000ft. Still, I didn't know any better. A few minutes later the time remaining to landing hit zero. Then the horrific pictures started to come in. The Space Shuttle Columbia had been lost.
Unlike the majority of Space Shuttle missions at the time, to develop the International Space Station, this mission was purely scientific. It carried the SPACEHAB module, where all of the experiments would be conducted. There were biological sciences, life sciences, combustion sciences, atmospheric sciences, physical sciences experiments and more to be conducted on this mission.
A lot of data was lost when Columbia disintegrated, but some data was downlinked during the mission, some of which is helping us down here today. Some include:
- Combustion chemistry experiments have helped to develop cleaner burning engines
- Experiments involving soot and how it can be used as a useful industrial product
- An atmospheric experiment discovered a new atmospheric phenomena called Transient Ionospheric Glow Emission in Red
- An experiment looking into the use of fine water mists to aid firefighting techniques
- An experiment into the development of prostate cancers
The results of these experiments have benefited us down here on Earth, and so I'd like to thank the crew of STS-107 for their efforts to further the human race.
Per Ardua ad Astra
Sources: NASA Space Research, Freestar Report, Science Gained from STS-107


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2010 Forecasts: NL West
Here's a
silly little question for ARIZONA about Edwin Jackson. If he's good enough for
you to have given up on Max Scherzer, why is he pitching for his third team in
as many seasons? And why was the other guy you got in the trade a starter who
won his first major league start on September 1, 2007 – and hasn't pitched well
since? Ian Kennedy's rep in New York was as a guy who didn't seem to want the
ball, and even if that was wildly untrue, there has to be some reason he went
from untouchable to throw-in in two years. On these two starters the
Diamondbacks' season depends; they will get another acey season out of Dan
Haren and might even get a comeback from Brandon Webb, but if both Jackson and Kennedy don't produce,
there is nothing (Billy Buckner, Brian Augenstein, Rodrigo Lopez) for A.J.
Hinch to fall back on, and a truly potent line-up will have wasted a lot of
line-up is so productive that it has come to this: if Todd Helton suddenly
decided to return to football (at age 37, for some reason) and they had to move
Brad Hawpe back to first base and go with some kind of Seth Smith/Ryan
Spilborghs combo, there would probably be no noticeable fall-off. There is no
reason to suspect that Jorge De La Rosa's 2009, nor Jason Hammel's second-half,
were flukes, and thus the Rockies offer rotational depth behind Jimenez and
Cook, and they have enough in the bullpen to back-fill for an injured Huston
Street without mentioning the dreaded words "Manny Corpas." Franklin Morales
might just steal the job from him if Street is gone too long. This is a
well-rounded, deep team, and Troy Tulowitzki, batting clean-up, may reassert
himself this year on the path to being one of the league's top ten hitters.
In LOS
ANGELES or anywhere else, I would trust Joe Torre with my wallet or my vote or
my house keys. But I think he's in for a dreadful year. If anybody can get a
Number One starter kind of season out of Vicente Padilla, it'd be Joe; I'd
still bet it's likelier that Padilla will achieve that rarest of feats – pitch
the opener and wind
up being unconditionally released in the same season. My memory of Padilla is
him taking a no-hitter into the middle innings at Shea Stadium, and
sportswriters from two cities, in two languages, rooting against him because he
was surly in both English and Spanish. More over, what's the message to Chad
Billingsley? Clayton Kershaw? What's the message to Dodger fans that your fifth
starter battle involved both perpetual retreads named Ortiz? A great bullpen
cannot stay such if it has to start getting ready in the fifth inning, every
day. And the line-up is hardly as good as it looks. The Dodgers cannot get a full
season out of Ronnie Belliard, haven't gotten one out of Blake DeWitt. They may
have burned out Russell Martin. And Manny Being Just Manny (No PEDs) is a just
slightly better offensive force than, say, Mark DeRosa. The McCourt Divorce may
be a lot more interesting than the 2010 Dodgers, and a lot less painful to
might catch lightning in a bottle, if Mat Latos and Kyle Blanks and Nick
Hundley get off to explosive starts and there is no need to unload Heath Bell
and Adrian Gonzalez. If not, you're looking at Aaron Cunningham and Chase
Headley as the three and four hitters, and Mike Adams or Luke Gregerson
closing. Watch, hope; rent, don't buy.
I don't
much like SAN FRANCISCO's outfield (maybe they should have given John Bowker's
spring training resurgence more attention), and their third best all-around
player might spend most of the season backing up Bengie Molina, but that's some
pitching staff Bruce Bochy and Dave Righetti have to play with. After Lincecum,
Cain, Sanchez, and Zito, I think Todd Wellemeyer is a stop-gap and Kevin
Pucetas (or maybe Madison Bumgarner – and who ever went faster from prospect to suspect?) will eventually claim the fifth spot. The
bullpen has gone from wobbly to outstanding in two years (Dan Runzler might eventually make Brian Wilson expendable; more likely he'll just make he and Jeremy Affeldt the top pair of left-handed set-up men in the league). I'd be happier if they'd invested in an
actual outfielder instead of Aubrey Huff, put DeRosa at third, and Sandoval at
first. But if Colorado falters, this is the West's best bet.
Colorado in a runaway, unless the Giants put everything together early. The
Dodgers finish third, just ahead of the Diamondbacks – unless the Padres blossom early as mentioned above and
don't trade everybody, in which case the three teams will place within a few games of each other.
TOMORROW NIGHT: The National League Central.
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lol to the previous comment…..
My comment is going to be off topic too, seeing as I can more easily talk about you being back on Countdown than I can speak about your post….
I too noted that you seemed to be in a very good mood.
Actually, I'll just leave my comment at that.
It was great to see Keith back, and pardon me if I don't have an opinion on sexiest newsman, although I doubt that Morley Safer was the runner-up. I hope this will not seem out of place, but as for being in a good mood, I am reminded of when Harry Reasoner returned to CBS after his years at ABC. His first broadcast had something to do with the death of a pope, and a friend told him he looked and sounded like he was about to start singing because he was so happy to be back at CBS. So, I'm sure that Keith was glad to be back at the same old stand after a long and terribly difficult time.
That said, Keith, I think you went a bit too far in your criticism of the Dodgers. As a fellow fan said to me the other day, this is the kind of team that should win 85-90 but could lose 85-90. I would not attribute Torre choosing Vincente Padilla as his opening day starter to the belief that he is a #1 pitcher. Torre commented that he actually has four #2 starters, and that sounds about right. Ramirez is not to be so easily dismissed, especially if you think about the role reversal–where Kemp and Ethier once benefited from him, he may benefit from them. Add in that those two, Loney, and Kershaw probably haven't peaked yet. Martin is not necessarily burned out–we don't know. It's not that I'm an optimist–I have rooted for the Dodgers long enough to have low expectations. But the certitude in your comments was a bit troubling.
> And Manny Being Just Manny (No PEDs) is a just slightly better offensive force than, say, Mark DeRosa.
Keith, there is no way in hell that that is true. MR is the greatest RH hitter you and I will ever see… and you know it.
Hi Keith! Sorry brother, but I have to believe my boys (Phillies) are going to beat your boys this year!
Take Care, Good Night and Good Luck!
Mike McGuire, NJ


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Today, The OC Weekly announced the Slidebar possesses Close-Circuit Television recording taken from its premises on July 5, 2011. The tape records none of the interaction between the Fullerton Police Department and Kelly Thomas, but does provide a perspective as to what SlideBar employees and management may have observed regarding Kelly Thomas's behavior in front of the establishment, including the parking lot.
Let's be absolutely clear on a few things.
Here's what the tape doesn't mean:
It doesn't mean that the three former members of the Fullerton Police Department are any guiltier or any less guilty of murdering Kelly Thomas.
— It doesn't mean that former Officer Ramos had a right to threaten Kelly Thomas with physical violence or to take active demonstrative steps towards inflicting violence before engaging in a physical confrontation with Kelly Thomas, a confrontation that was the actual and proximate cause of Kelly Thomas's death.
— It doesn't mean that former Officer Wolfe had a right to pursue and batter Kelly Thomas with a club, precipitating a violent physical altercation with Mr. Thomas, to participate in the subsequent confrontation, a confrontation that was the actual and proximate cause of Kelly Thomas's death.
— It doesn't mean that former Officer Cicinelli had a right to electrocute Kelly Thomas repeatedly, to use a weapon to repeatedly batter Mr. Thomas's face, to participate in a violent confrontation, a confrontation that was the actual and proximate cause of Kelly Thomas's death.
It also has no bearing on whether the Fullerton Police Department should continue to employ one or more of the officers not charged with a felony as a result of their activities on July 5, 2011.
It does not mean that three other officers did not fail to fulfill their duty to provide aide to a victim of a crime, a crime in which each officer physically aided the perpetrators and provided care, a victim which each officer physically touched while the victim was being battered, or to fail an ordinary duty to provide care to a person in distress—who openly bled into the street while all three officers did nothing.
It also doesn't preclude any motive from any Slidebar employee or a member of its management regarding the homeless population at the Fullerton Transportation Center.
Here's what it does mean.
Security at the Fullerton Transportation Center, particularly in the area immediately surrounding the Slidebar, is a concern. If it weren't a concern, there wouldn't be a camera pointed at the parking lot, let alone at the entrance to the bar. How big of a concern, particularly of what importance security is to the community at large, is up for discussion. It may be tolerable; it may not.
Considering the setting, as provided by the video, as well as a reasonable person's prejudice regarding Kelly's behavior in the parking lot, it is not unreasonable for a person to call the non-emergency police line to report suspicious activity.
Management at the Slidebar might have a few screws loose. Why it took over 18 months to let slip that a video exists is beyond fathomable considering the reputational damage the Slidebar incurred. Their inaction damages their relationship with the community and continues to damage the community by re-instigating the conversation. This should have been put to rest on July 27, 2011 and not February 27, 2013.
Here's what you should do:
Make up your own mind, but keep an open one. We don't know everything.
This will probably not be the last surprise we see as this saga continues to evolve. We have no idea what happened to cell phone footage taken on July 5 or what other businesses in the Transportation Center recorded video.
What we do know is that Kelly Thomas is dead and that he didn't die from being homeless.
We know that three officers have been charged with one or more felonies associated with their activity on July 5, 2011.
We know that three additional officers at the scene on July 5 are still employed by the Fullerton Police Department.
We also know that after eighteen months Recommendation 59 of the Independent Review of the Fullerton Police Department, establishment of a Citizen's Police Oversight Commission, remains open.


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Anoriel's POV
Anoriel kept his eyes on the peredhel throughout the journey to the cave and back; he knew the choices he made to protect her, Rholarowyn and Nayaran did not settle well with the two shieldmaidens. But understanding the two women did not mean he would or could have chosen any differently; their lives were more important than his, his men's or anyone else's. As a testament to this, there were two bodies that had needed burying at Goronor's place and horses who would no longer carry riders, victims of the circumstances. He accepted that burden and he made his choices based on the knowledge that in this particular instance the lives of two women had more weight than the lives of many. Earendil should have known this though: was King Elessar not called Estel by his own? He was named hope as he was just that for the Dunedain of Arnor. Did she not understand that was what she and her friend had become? People would try to destroy them to suffocate the hope of those who wanted to stand for themselves, in the East but in the South too.
His thoughts went to Ryomer, Dewelgen and Tyrelles. He needed the men to travel fast to their respective destination; solitary horsemen would not catch people's attention especially when they all rode towards different places. Two Kings in Rohan and Gondor and a Prince in Ithilien needed to know that the conspiracy ran deeper than what they all had expected. Still now he had to make sure he saved one of his own as well as two dwarves who came to their help and he thankfully had what he needed to. At Goronor's house, he realized that he had to ask Eistaron to come with them; the man had not liked the idea of being used to control Rholarowyn. He had in fact even avoided the woman for fear of hurting her but he was wounded trying to protect her. Anoriel knew the choices were his burden; since he chose to ride from the South to alert Elessar that they were searching for Earendil he accepted that some choices would be hard to make. And now the choice was to save Eistaron's life for in his own way Goronor's brother had become more important than Anoriel. Faramir's former second-in-command might turn out to be Rholarowyn's path to healing.
Finally they reached the doors to the mines... Gasur - the dwarf who found Rholarowyn - bowed as they came back.
"Sir... Have you found what you wanted?"
Anoriel nodded as he was relieved of the body he carried; weighed by other burdens he had not realized how heavy the man was, even without his head.
"How are they?" He asked instead.
"The Lady Rholarowyn has worked to help but she was hoping for your return I understand. Tis a shame that Rorin had to be shaved. He will not be happy about this. But if it saves his life I will be glad for it."
"And where is she?"
"She is asleep Anoriel," Lienoril answered as he approached them. "Is she needed?"
Anoriel was tempted to answer negatively... And yet.
"She probably knows more about this than I do." And so he followed Lienoril to where the shieldmaiden had fallen asleep close to Eistaron, whose circumstances seemed to have turned dire. Yes he would need Rholarowyn's help if he were to save the man's life; and he knew he had to.


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Loss, reduction, vacancy and dissolution: all topical buzzwords the New York art world has come to expect from the emergent generation of European artists. After the Vincent Honoré-curated "From a Distance," at Wallspace in 2007, and artist Matt Saunders' group enterprise, Out Riding Fast, this past winter at Harris Lieberman -- both of which tipped the scales towards the Old World -- Foxy Production's current exhibition of seven continental practitioners feels a bit superfluous. Curated by English artist Dick Evans, "Nul" muddles through the post-historical morass, with many of its participants masquerading vintage modes of object- and image-making to little effect. Anders Clausen builds wooden pedestals and sculptural busts, in the fashion of Jacob Epstein, that lack the verve and ingenuity of similar works by contemporaries Steve Claydon and Matthew Monahan. Salvatore Arancio's photo-etchings rehash the type of psychically-fraught Gothic imagery that made its rounds on the market a few years past. More promising is the work of Lars Laumann (here only partially represented by a screen-print, entitled Hatful of Cocteau, of a posthumous article on Jean Cocteau), whose videos about Morrissey, Princess Diana and Eija Riitta Berliner-Mauer drew buzz at White Columns, in 2007, and most recently at this year's Berlin Biennial. Simone Gilges' installation also excites, with its oblique mix of photography and sculpture. Attempting to draw connections between her hanging curtain, framed piece of black silk and ornately framed photograph of a cupid statuette makes for the most interesting -- and irresolvable -- experience in the show. - Tyler Coburn
Image Credit: Simone Gilges, MATERIALPROBE II (SEIDE), 2008


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Meth Addiction & Treatment
Meth is so powerful that it is almost instantly habit-forming. Each meth hit can damage key receptors in the brain, rendering users incapable of feeling pleasure without the assistance of meth. Recovery begins with medical detox, followed by in-depth therapy with a trained professional.
Meth, as it is colloquially known, floods the nervous system and penetrates the brain to a far greater degree than amphetamine.
The euphoric blast upon inhalation remains in the patient's system for much longer, scrambling and rewriting the brain's reward and pleasure centers, and sowing the seeds for a painful addiction.
The Basics of Meth
Meth is one of the most devastating and vicious drugs on the market. The PBS documentary series Frontline explains that, like most drugs, meth derives its effectiveness from forcing the brain to pump out dopamine, the neurotransmitter that induces a sense of satisfaction from a job well done. Any number of activities and tasks can cause a release of dopamine from the brain, but drugs hijack that system and push the brain to secrete more dopamine than is normal and healthy. Meth is so powerful that it is instantly habit-forming, opening the door to long-term consumption.Over time, meth actually destroys dopamine receptors in the brain, rendering the patient incapable of experiencing pleasure through any other means or source aside from the meth. Meth becomes the center of users' lives; their resources, time, energy, and focus are spent on getting meth. Social circles, professional obligations, and even family become less important, since the natural impulses to succeed in those areas have been crushed by the force of the constant meth use. Treatment and rehabilitation can bring restoration, but there is a significant risk of permanent cognitive impairment if meth use is unchecked.
Signs and Symptoms of a Meth Addiction
The effects of methamphetamine go far beyond the psychological. Arizona State University compiled some of the physical effects of meth use:
- Weight loss (meth shuts down the brain's hunger centers)
- Sleep deprivation (the constant stimulation shorts out the need for sleep)
- Dehydration
- Elevated body temperature
- Skin abscesses (caused by injecting meth into the skin, instead a vein)
- Osteoporosis (teeth and bones become easily breakable)
- Decreased libido
Since meth radically alters the brain's chemistry, this change manifests in a number of behavioral changes as well. Patients experience severe paranoia (followed by social isolation), hallucinations, and aggressive behavior marked by wild mood swings.
The stimulant properties of meth may also compel patients to try out risky and impulsive behavior, and this (combined with other observations) may be a sign of an addiction.
The First Time
First-time users may not experience most (or any) of these signs. Their high often makes them very active, hyper alert, euphoric, and talkative for 6-12 hours. Behind the scenes, the sensation is being carved into the brain's rewards system. Normal, healthy activities leave more of a fingerprint on the brain; drugs like methamphetamine mercilessly swamp the regions associated with memory, reward, pleasure, and cognition. A doctor speaking to Frontline explains that meth forces the brain to produce as much as 1,250 times the dopamine it produces during an activity like sexual intercourse. No other experience can compare to what that first shot of meth was like, and as the brain is forced to adapt to every subsequent exposure to meth, even small or moderate amounts don't compare to that first shot. This compels users to relentlessly chase what they felt in their first experiences, a phenomenon known as "chasing the dragon."In reality, all they do is deepen their addictions.
Anhedonia and Psychosis
Anhedonia, per Psychology Today, is the inability to experience pleasure from activities that were once enjoyable: hobbies, recreational pursuits, sexual activities, or even something as simple as listening to music. This state can arise from the damage done by meth to the brain's dopamine receptors; the patient is neurologically incapable of deriving pleasure from formerly attractive pursuits. Anhedonia can lead to other issues such as fatigue, loneliness, and hopelessness. Users that try to get off meth on their own without the help of an addiction treatment program are often in danger of relapsing. because their brains have become so primed to associating good feelings with meth alone, and nothing else.
The journal Addiction conducted a study on 56 people who were dependent on methamphetamine and had been abstinent for five weeks. The study found that in addition to symptoms of major depression, patients also showed signs of psychosis as part of their withdrawal from meth. On a positive note, the symptoms passed relatively quickly. It took one week for the depressive and psychotic signs to resolve, and as the patients overcame the worst of the effects, fatigue gave way to deep sleep. Patients did still struggle with cravings for meth even five weeks after their last consumption.
Meth Addiction Treatment
Treating a methamphetamine addiction requires comprehensive courses of detoxification. Treatment involves purging the physical presence of meth from users' bodies and helping their bodies acclimatize to functioning without meth. Treatment should also address the psychological damage done by meth, both in terms of rehabilitating the mind, and showing recovering users how they can function and grow in everyday life without the compulsion to seek out meth.
The actual process of detoxing from meth depends on the person's level of addiction. If the addiction is relatively moderate (i.e., acceptably short in duration, with a minimal consumption of meth), and the individual meets other criteria, it may be possible to enter into an outpatient program, whereby the person is given medications from a hospital or treatment center and allowed to detox at home. Some of the criteria may be:
- Proving that there are no drugs (of any kind, including alcohol) in the house where the detox will take place
- Proving that the individual has sober and reliable friends and family who can offer support and assistance
- Agreeing to participate in therapy and aftercare group sessions
- Returning all unused medicine to the treatment center
Therapy for a Meth Addiction
Therapy has a number of aims: to show clients how they can cope with the temptation to use meth in times of stress or boredom with daily life; to help them understand the thought and behavioral patterns that brought them to the point of using meth; and to show them how they can learn better, healthier thought and behavioral patterns, in order to lead productive and fulfilling lives without the need of drugs like meth.
A former drug addict, and now a drug and alcohol intervention counselor, tells PBS that therapy shows individuals how they can forgive themselves and come to terms with what their addictions did to their lives and their families. Once they reach that point (with the careful guidance of a therapist), they are in a position where they can learn how to take control of their lives again.
Fox News reports that in some counties, meth has become even more popular than cocaine. Meth can lead to psychosis and brain damage. It can shatter lives. But there is hope, and complete recovery is possible. With proper treatment, individuals can leave meth behind and achieve healthy, balanced lives.


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French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Thursday the United Nations would probably have to renew a mandate for French troops to restore order in Central African Republic when it expires in May because of continued violence there.
France deployed 1,600 troops to its former colony in December to stem violence between Christian militias and largely Muslim Seleka rebels who ousted President Francois Bozize last March.
Asked during a radio interview whether France's UN mandate, granted on Dec. 5, would have to be renewed, Le Drian said: "Probably."
He said that the French mission had helped ease tensions in Central African Republic, a landlocked nation of 4.5 million people, and that the security was improving day by day.
"The situation in Bangui has more or less stabilized," Le Drian told RTL radio. "In the rest of the country it is much more complicated."
France had hoped to quickly hand sole responsibility for security to the African Union peacekeeping force MISCA, which has deployed over 5,300 troops to Central African Republic, including soldiers from Rwanda, Burundi, Chad and Cameroon.
Close to one million people, or a quarter of the population, have been displaced by clashes that began when Seleka rebels embarked on a looting and killing spree after seizing power.
Christian self-defense groups known as "anti-balaka" (anti-machete) took up arms against them. The United Nations estimates that more than 2,000 people have been killed in the violence.
In a sign of tensions running high in the capital, government soldiers on Wednesday lynched a man they suspected of having been a rebel.
The lynching took place minutes after interim President Catherine Samba-Panza called for reconciliation in an address to troops, and was condemned by France and the United Nations. Both called for an investigation and appropriate sanctions.
"The incidents yesterday are unacceptable. They must be investigated and punished," General Babacar Gaye, UN envoy in the country, told a news conference on Thursday.
Samba-Panza said in her speech on Wednesday that she hoped to restore order within a month, though Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned Seleka fighters who fled the capital have regrouped in the northeast and begun attacks on civilians.


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Cook the Book: Bite-Your-Tongue Tacos
Tongue is a funny sort of meat. When sliced into a mustard-slathered Jewish deli sandwich served on rye, it's delicious in a corned beef or pastrami kind of way. How about tucked into warm corn tortillas and sprinkled with cilantro, lime, and salsa? Well, that's just a great taco.
But when you meet a whole beef tongue through the class of your butcher's case, things start to go the way of a horror movie. I guess that's because tongue is one of the only cuts of beef that is really recognizable, in a, "Wait a second, I have one of those in my mouth, too," sort of way.
These Bite-Your-Tongue Tacos from Joshua and Jessica Applestone's The Butcher's Guide to Well-Raised Meats were my first foray into the world of tongue cookery, and I have to say upfront that there was a teeny-tiny amount of apprehension. But knowing full well the joy that comes with a plate of lengua tacos, I sucked it up.
For something as daunting looking as a whole beef tongue, it requires hardly any effort. It's just a matter of long simmering, cleaning, and more long simmering until it's tender enough to be pulled apart into shreds. And as far as seasoning goes, salt is really all there is to it. If you've ever had tongue at a deli, it's prepared in a similar manner to this one, and the flavors are strikingly similar.
Once you've got your shredded tongue, it's time to make the taco topping salsa verde, using a recipe from Juan Pablo Lopez, an employee of Fleisher's Meats who's been making their sausages since day one. What sets this salsa verde apart from other versions is an avocado that's mixed into the tomatillo sauce—because everything is better with avocado (right?). Now it's just a matter of serving up your lengua and salsa with warm corn tortillas with chopped cilantro and sliced radishes.
So there you have it—tongue tacos. The prep is a little scary for tongue novices, but the plate of tacos you're left with vanquishes any sort of tongue related trauma.
As always with our Cook the Book feature, we have five (5) copies of The Butcher's Guide to Well-Raised Meats to give away this week.
Reprinted with permission from The Butcher's Guide to Well-Raised Meats by Joshua and Jessica Applestone and Alexandra Zissu, copyright © 2011. Published by Clarkson Potter, a division of Random House, Inc.
- Yield:serves 4 to 6
- Active time: 45 minutes
- Total time:4 hours
- Rated:
- For the tongue:
- 1 tongue (about 2 1/2 pounds)
- 1 tablespoon salt
- For the salsa verde:
- 1 pound fresh tomatillos (11 or 12), husked
- 2 to 3 jalapeño peppers, to taste
- 1 garlic clove, chopped
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 ripe avocado, diced
- 1/2 cup finely chopped white onion
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- To serve:
- Handful fresh cilantro leaves
- 1 bunch of radishes, thinly sliced
- Warm flour tortillas
For the tongue: Rinse the tongue under cold water and make sure it is clean. Put the tongue in a large stockpot with enough room so that it doesn't touch the sides. Cover withwater. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, then cover the pot and lower the heat to low to keep a good, solid simmer. Let simmer for 3 hours; the tongue is done when a sharp knife pierces it easily and the membrane looks ready to slide off.
Remove the tongue from the pot and let cool on a plate for about 15 minutes. It should be cool enough to touch but not so cold that the membrane sticks. Peel off the membrane and clean the underside of the tongue of any tough bits. You may need a sharp knife.
Put the tongue back in the stockpot, add the salt to the water, and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Cover and lower the heat to low to keep at a simmer. Simmer about 1 hour, until the meat is tender and can be pulled apart easily.
For the salsa verde: Put the tomatillos, jalapeños, and garlic in a medium saucepan and add 1/2 cup water. Set the pan over medium heat. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce the heat to low, and simmer, uncovered, for about 15 minutes, until the tomatillos are soft and have lost their vibrant green color. Drain, reserving the liquid, and let the vegetables cool.
Transfer the cooled vegetables and liquid to a blender. Add the salt and puree on high speed until smooth. Pour the mixture into a bowl and stir in the avocado, onion, and cilantro. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour, then adjust the seasoning if needed.
To serve: Shred tongue and serve on warm tortillas with a dash of salsa verde and some fresh cilantro leaves and thinly sliced radishes.
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will he? won't he? will he? won't he?
Well, Congolese Independence Day has come and gone, and aside from an unfortuante plane crash at the national celebration, things seem to have gone smoothly. That doesn't mean that the threat of insecurity isn't still looming.
Just how do we know that it's increasingly likely that the president of Congo will order troops to attack Laurent Nkunda's forces in North Kivu? Let's take a look at open sources of information, shall we?
- The pro-Kabila news outlet (radio, television, and internet!) is running a series of stories that might as well be titled, "Everything that's wrong with Nkunda."
- In his pre-recorded Independence Day address, Kabila said, "No option will be neglected in order to bring peace back to the east of the country."
- The governor of North Kivu, issued a statement urging the people of North Kivu to be patient and hope that the authorities will have kept their promises by next year's June 30 celebration. (is currently hosting a hoppin' party with music that is equally split between favorites from Delilah's Loyal Listener Club and Kenny Rogers. The scary part is that there are a couple of songs that overlap.)
It doesn't take an analytical genius to figure out where this might be headed. The real fear here is what a confrontation between Congolese troops and Nkunda's forces could trigger. Would other forces (and there are many operating in the region) come to their aid? Will the enemy of their enemy be their friend? I'm sure that the diplomats are busy trying to talk Kabila out of doing anything that could ignite a third Congo War. Here's hoping that next year's independence day will mark a real peace.
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Michael Peterson
Though Michael Peterson is an Arizona boy who got into the music business through a college football teammate, he wound up with one of the most popular country hits of 1997. Born in Tucson, Peterson grew up in Washington state, listening to his grandmother's wide-ranging music collection, overloaded with classic American songwriters, including Cole Porter and Harold Arlen, as well as obvious choices like Roger Miller and Willie Nelson. After earning a football scholarship to Pacific Lutheran University (and winning a national championship), he hooked up with former teammate Brad Westering, who was working as a producer for Deniece Williams and others. Peterson wrote several songs for potential use by Westering, and began traveling occasionally to Nashville. Michael Peterson began working professionally as a songwriter in late 1995, after making connections with writers like DeWayne Blackwell, Josh Leo, and Robert Ellis Orrall. Encouraged by Leo and Ellis Orrall to try his hand at recording as well, Peterson made a demo and soon found a contract with Warner Bros. His self-titled debut album appeared in mid-1997, heralded by the rough-and-rowdy hit single "Drink, Swear, Steal & Lie," plus a duet with Travis Tritt. Peterson's sophomore effort, Being Human, appeared in 1999. ~ John Bush, RoviWIKIPEDIA


text: When evaluating HR department staffing levels a common method divides the total number of agency employees by the number of staff in the HR department. This provides a ratio, i.e. 1/175. When compared to similar sized organizations in the same industry the calculation is used as a benchmark for HR staffing levels. This can be very misleading and should be used with caution however.


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Thanks to all of my followers…
Today I want to use the opportunity to thank all of my followers here on wordpress. This week I finally got 150 followers and I'm truly overwhelmed with the success of my blog. Of course I'm also thanking every single visitor and everyone who liked or commented on one of my posts.
I'm new to blogging and so is my blog new and developing. Two months ago I just started with my blog and this week I already got over 150 followers. That is pleasing me but at the same time it shows that some of you have expectations as to what I will post next. So I guess I earned some kind of responsibility.
I'm very busy every week with my regular sports training and my sewing projects next to my full time job, so I cannot post recipes on a regular basis as many bloggers do, but I will still let you take part in my life and give you insight into my latest cooking/sewing projects and plans.
I also enjoy reading all the other interesting blogs here on wordpress about cooking, traveling, photography, family and life itself. Some of your blogs fascinate me a lot and comparing my blog to these I know I have a lot to learn.
Once again, thanks to all of you from me and my sweet darling Mithi and keep enjoying my blog and everything what is ahead!
The Brave Cook


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An overemphasis on college preparation is "extinguishing childhood" for too many of today's kids, says Norm Colb, who is nearing completion of his second decade as head of Menlo School in Atherton.
Constant anxiety over grades and performance is a losing strategy for nurturing the self-confident, resilient, morally centered young adults who will succeed in the world, he believes.
More than anything, today's teens need "less worry and more enjoyment" from their parents -- and opportunities for autonomy, the avuncular headmaster told a gathering of Menlo parents and alumni Saturday, Feb. 9.
Colb -- who leaves Menlo this summer after nearly 50 years in public and private education -- gently but firmly implored parents to resist the impulse to micromanage their children's lives.
Parental anxiety -- which is contagious to kids -- and "the pernicious quest for grades won't lead us to where we want to go with our children," he said.
Colb illustrated his hour-long talk with a series of New Yorker cartoons, including his favorite: a clearly distraught teenager sitting on her bed with her mother at the door saying, "Try and tell me what's bothering you -- and use your SAT words."
He outlined four well-meaning parental behaviors that he warned have the perverse effect of undermining competence and self-confidence in teens: micromanagement of kids' lives; overemphasis on grades and college admission; the "subcontracting of parenting" to others, including schools and the media; and worrying.
"When parents correct the grammar, the spelling, the punctuation, the paragraphs, the student never learns those things. They get better grades, but they don't do the learning," he said.
Cash incentives or other bribes for good grades as well as the increasing use of "study drugs" such as Adderall promote superficial, short-term learning and are "very worrisome," Colb said. Grade obsession has led to a plethora of cheating scandals at top schools such as the hypercompetitive Stuyvesant High School in New York City and Harvard University, he noted.
"When I say the pursuit of grades is a toxin, this is what I mean," he said. "It extinguishes engagement, can promote a barter economy in the family and does not promote the genuine learning I think we all want for our kids."
Pushing a child just enough so that she "gets into that next tier" of colleges also can backfire, he warned.
"So I've spent four years of high school pressing my kid to get higher and higher grades so they can go to a university where they feel below average.
"I'd much prefer a slightly less competitive college where the student ends up feeling powerful. I think kids would be much better served thinking of themselves as powerful than as marginal."
Colb said the "subcontracting of parenting" to schools is an honor for the schools, but parenting really needs to happen at home. And substituting television and other media for in-person parental attention is especially dangerous, he said.
"Kids learn their values, their sense of self, at your breakfast table," he told parents.
Colb said his personal specialty as a parent -- his kids are now adults -- was worrying, "morning and night."
"The pressure is communicated very readily to kids," he said.
"These behaviors don't launch our kids into lives of great purpose. They just don't.
"If you worry about them incessantly they'll worry about themselves. If you're calm and competent about them, you give them a gift that lasts a lifetime.
"What kids need from us is authentic, patient, loving, unloaded, unworried time."
Colb, who announced more than a year ago he would leave Menlo this summer, originally intended to retire but has changed plans. He will become head of school at Sage Ridge School, a 15-year-old independent school in Reno, Nev.
Before joining Menlo in 1993 he spent nearly 30 years in public education, first as an English teacher in Brookline, Mass., and later as superintendent of schools in Mamaroneck, N.Y., where he dealt with seven separate employee unions.
He said he switched to private education "to get closer to kids."
The teaching profession doesn't have the status that it should, he believes.
"The way I read the news, it's progressively more debased, and I think that's a tragedy.
"Every profession has its marginal employees, but the press and political establishment seems to delight in focusing on (failed teachers) as opposed to the gifted teacher who works so hard day in and day out to raise up the next generation.
"It's really remarkable that the profession doesn't enjoy that status, and I think we will pay a price for that."
Teachers should be viewed as an asset, not as labor, and they need certain conditions to thrive: to be respected; to be paid well enough to live in the local economy; to be involved in decision-making; to have a certain degree of job security and professional renewal.
"If you put these ingredients together, you could start to move the needle," he said.


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Today has been a pretty normal day in my current archaeological life. I am in the final year of my PhD and so have been battling away infront of a laptop (like many others) trying to make sense of archaeological data and say something new and interesting about the past.
I am lucky in that I live in Cambridge, and so had a lovely cycle ride this morning across the meadows, past the cows, to install myself into the Cambridge University Library (UL). This is one of the joys of being a student in the UK, even though I am doing my PhD at UCL in London I am more than welcome to come and use the library in Cambridge for free which is not only great for books – it also has an excellent tea room.
My PhD is on the Bronze Age hut settlements on Bodmin Moor, I am using Augmented Reality to examine the locations of the huts and how they fit into the landscape. This involves a lot of GIS work and also some 3D modelling. I have a lovely GIS dataset of the Bronze Age hut locations and a pretty decent elevation model. When out in the field archaeologists use quite few tools, but the trowel is probably the most useful. When in front of the computer archaeologists also use a lot of tools – today I was using the Python framework to script a way to get GRASS data into blender so that I could load virtual models of the huts into Unity3D to view them in my ARK database to then finally use Vuforia and Unity3D to display it in the real world. Today my most useful tool is Textmate.
Basically what I am trying to do is import 2D GIS data into a 3D gaming engine, that I can then use to explore the data and (using Augmented Reality) 'overlay' that onto the real world. The important thing is to ensure the spatial coordinates are preserved when it is imported into the gaming engine – otherwise the on-site GPS location won't work during the Aug. Reality stage. So the distances, heights and topography seen int he gaming engine representation are as close to the real world as possible (at least the real as modelled in the GIS!). To keep track of the huts and their associated data I have been using the ARK database system (created by Day of Archaeology sponsors L – P : Archaeology). ARK brings all of the various bits together – data from the literature, basic dimensions of the huts, spatial data and also the 3D representation. I've been getting some pretty good results from my experiments and seem to have cracked the workflow – I'll put up a proper walkthrough on my blog once the script is all sorted out as I think it will probably be pretty useful for others to see and use. In the meantime I have made a very small screencast to show the huts within ARK and Unity – which I think it pretty cool. For those of a techy bent, ARK is sending the Unity3D plugin the id of the hut currently being viewed and Unity is then figuring out where that hut is in the virtual world and placing the 'player' inside it.
Wow that was all a bit techy – sorry about that!
So as promised in the title of the post then – here is a link to some wrestling pythons…
and someone blending grass..
and the paper proofing is a bit more boring…
Today I also approved the final author proofs of an article on my research that is going to be published in Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. Apparently when they have made my suggested corrections (c. 1 week) it should be available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10816-012-9142-7 for people who have personal or institutional subscriptions to the journal, very exciting!
Right back to the coding… only an hour before I get chucked out of the library.


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DWTS Mark Ballas: "I wouldn't mind cha-chaing with Jennifer Aniston"
Mark Ballas is featured in a new article in In Touch Weekly. In the new edition, he talks of how he wishes Jennifer Aniston would dance on Dancing With The Stars. He also chats about what he likes to do when he's at home and how he's a neat freak. Here's a little take….
The 27-year-old is a big fan of the Friends star and says that the soon-to-be-wed star is not just his celebrity crush, she's also his dream DWTS partner. "I think she's cute, I think she's funny," Mark admitted a couple of years ago. "She's just so sweet and so nice. I met her once, and she was very, very lovely. I should've said, 'You should do Dancing With the Stars!' But I didn't."
Mark, who's won the mirror-ball trophy twice, also tells In Touch that when he's not on the dance floor he likes to hang out at home in a comfy pair of gray sweats. And if you ever get invited back to Casa de Ballas, don't move anything around, because this guy is a neat freak. "My house is organized because I have OCD," he admits.
For more, pick up the new In Touch Weekly. It's available in news stands everywhere. Also, if you've never seen Mark's home, watch this…


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LAPD arrests man for alleged assault on actor Tom Sizemore
A man was arrested after he allegedly assaulted Tom Sizemore in the actor's downtown apartment and made off with expensive guitars and other property, Los Angeles police said Friday.
The incident was reported around 9 p.m. Thursday in the actor's residence in the 400 block of S. Main Street. According to police, the actor was involved with a woman whose boyfriend came looking for Sizemore, who starred in the critically acclaimed films "Saving Private Ryan," "Natural Born Killers" and "Black Hawk Down."
The man, who was not immediately identified, pretended he had a gun and threatened the woman and the actor, whom he allegedly put in a headlock in a bathroom before taking off with guitars and other property, according to police.
LAPD officers eventually found the suspect, who was booked on suspicion of assault, and recovered Sizemore's property.
Known for his tough-guy roles, Sizemore has usually been the subject of law enforcement investigations rather than a victim.
Sizemore failed a court-ordered drug test In February 2005 after he was caught trying to defeat a urine test and was ordered into drug rehabilitation for two years.
In June 2007, after he was arrested outside a Bakersfield hotel on a charge of possession of methamphetamine, Sizemore was sentenced to 16 months in prison for violating probation that stemmed from a January 2006 drug possession charge.
Sizemore was later arrested on a warrant issued on the 2007 Bakersfield case. In 2011, he was arrested on an outstanding battery warrant.
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Shawn Johnson Transitioning Into Her New Life With Dancing With The Stars (Interview)
Shawn Johnson tells iVillage that as soon as she announced her retirement from gymnastics, the producers of Dancing With The Stars called her to do the new All Star season. She didn't immediately jump on the idea. Below is more…
"It was a really hard decision for me to make, I wanted to say yes right away but there was so much going on, I didn't know if it would be a right fit, if I was mentally ready for it and with everything going on," she admitted.
In the end, however, Johnson decided that going after the DWTS mirror-ball trophy a second time might be just what the doctor ordered. "I thought it would be a fun way to transition into a new phase in my life and try to get away from all this [gymnastics] for a little bit," she said.
Plus, it'll give her a shot at that comeback she was striving for. "I didn't really get to finish out the competition and the comeback of [my gymnastics] career, but maybe I could do it on DWTS," she said. "I don't know. It'll just be a good breath of fresh air for me to have some fun."
Johnson isn't without her share of nerves, however — admitting that she finds going up against past DWTS standouts, like Olympic speed skating champion Apolo Anton Ohno and former NFL player Emmitt Smith, quite daunting.
"It's going to be hard, and there are so many good dancers," she mused. "I'm so excited, I'm terrified, it's a whole new world."
I'm looking forward to watching Shawn again, are you? I just wish I could figure out who she's dancing with? 😯 You can read more on Shawn at iVillage.


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"If an afro was ever able to grow without a host body, it would be unstoppable. Unhindered by the constraints of a bipedal form or reason, its power would grow to untold heights."
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Right now I have just under 2 TB of images which are on two 3 TB drives. I do have another backup but it is missing months of work. I imagine many of you have rather large backup requirement. Also, it is nice to have all images on one drive so there is never confusion of what is on what drive. So how big are your drives. I would think there are photographers out there with say over 16 TB of files. Second, do all of you use a raid system where one drive is mirrored to another? Or do any of you just manually copy to a different drive?
Second, do all of you use a raid system where one drive is mirrored to another? Or do any of you just manually copy to a different drive?
RAID is not backup. RAID is designed to prevent downtime, increase volume size beyond a single disk, and, in some cases, improve performance. Even if you have a RAID system you still need separate backups.
+1 to Patrick's advice.Please consider what would happen in the event of accidental overwrite or deletion with a RAID mirror. Both copies would be deleted.Also, your array is susceptible to natural disaster, theft, fire, et al. So it really is important to remember that RAID is not backup.With that being said, my RAID solution is a 7x 3TB WD SATA3 in RAIDZ2 (similar to a growable RAID-6) NAS, connected via 10GbE for high throughput.My backup solution is CrashPlan.


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Edmonton, AB – A little over 16 hours after winning in Calgary, the Toronto Rock defeated the Rush 10-9 at Edmonton's Rexall Place on Sunday afternoon. The win moves the Rock's record to 2-0 on the season.
"It's absolutely huge," said Rock head coach Troy Cordingley. "To come out of this road trip with a pair of wins over two incredibly talented teams says a lot about the character of our group. We'll enjoy this one for a couple hours and get right back to business and preparing for Saturday's home opener in Toronto."
The Rock dug themselves an early hole when Toronto defender Patrick Merrill took a pair of minor penalties just 31 seconds into the opening quarter. Edmonton scored two power play goals, including one from 2012 first overall pick Mark Matthews, taking an early 2-0 lead. Toronto battled back in the in the frame but still trailed 4-2 after the opening 15 minutes.
At the end of the quarter, a late hit was delivered on Rock forward Garrett Billings that resulted in a scrum and several penalties being assessed. One of those penalties was a second unsportsmanlike conduct penalty dished out to the Rock bench and as a result, head coach Troy Cordingley was ejected from the game.
The penalties worked out in the Rush's favour as Edmonton scored on the man advantage early, but while still shorthanded Kasey Beirnes answered for Toronto and the score stood at 5-3. The Rock added another pair, with one coming on the power play from Billings, tying the game 5-5. Edmonton added another goal before the end of the half to carry a 6-5 advantage into the break.
Edmonton got on the board first to gain a two-goal lead, but the Rock went on a three-goal run to take their first lead of the game. Two of those three goals came from Scott Evans who was released by the Rush at the beginning of their training camp in December. The Rock lead was short lived as the Rush tallied with just 8 seconds left in the third quarter to tie the game 8-8 heading into the final quarter.
Beirnes continued his clutch goal scoring with the go-ahead marker just over five minutes into the fourth quarter to put the Rock ahead 9-8. Rob Hellyer followed that up with a goal at the 12:08 mark to give Toronto their biggest lead of the night. Edmonton was able to close the gap to one, but couldn't get any closer in the final moments despite pulling their goaltender for the extra attacker.
Nick Rose was sensational for the second consecutive night making 44 saves to pick up his second win of the season. Aaron Bold made 34 stops in a losing cause for the Rush.
Brandon Ivey sustained a lower body injury in pre-game warmup and did not play on Sunday. Damon Edwards, who left Saturday's game early, also didn't dress after suffering a lower body injury against Calgary. Scott Johnston was the other player scratched for the Rock. All this meant that Toronto needed to play Rock forward out of the back door on defence for portions of Sunday's game.
The Rock will open the home portion of the 2013 schedule on Saturday, January 19th at Air Canada Centre at 7pm against the Philadelphia Wings. For the best ticket in town, please call 416-596-3075 or visit www.torontorock.com.


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One of the most striking differences between summary judgment evidence and evidence at trial is in the use of interested witness testimony. While the evidence at most trials includes interested witness testimony – often riddled with contradictions and inconsistencies – the use of this type of evidence in the summary judgment context is quite restricted.
Rule 166a(c) of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure provides that interested witness testimony used to support a summary judgment must be:
- uncontroverted,
- clear,
- positive and direct,
- otherwise credible and free from contradictions and inconsistencies, and
- capable of being readily controverted.
Whether interested witness testimony must be excluded pursuant to Rule 166a(c) often depends upon the answers to two questions:
Whose evidence is it?
Which party is offering the evidence should always be the threshold inquiry because the rule is entirely one-sided in application. While the rule is quite clear that a summary judgment cannot be based on the testimony of an interested witness [unless it complies with 166a(c)], the 166a(c) restrictions do not apply to the use of interested witness testimony by a non-movant to overcome a summary judgment motion. In other words, the same type of interested witness testimony that may be objectionable as against a movant seeking summary judgment could actually be used to raise a fact issue on behalf of a non-movant seeking to defeat one. Tabor v. Medical Center Bank, 534 S.W.2d 199 (Tex. App. — Houston [14th Dist.] 1976) (testimony of interested witness is sufficient to raise a fact issue precluding summary judgment).
Is the witness "interested"?
Another important area of inquiry is whether the witness is actually "interested," within the meaning of the rule. Clearly, parties in a case are interested witnesses, as are expert witnesses. Not so clear is what other types of witnesses are considered "interested" for the purposes of Rule 166a(c).
Generally speaking, an "interested witness" is one who has a stake in the outcome of the pending litigation. Brooks v. Sherry Lane National Bank, 788 S.W.2d 874, 877 (Tex. App. – Dallas 1990). The rule has also been extended to include a witness who has a stake in other litigation involving the same subject matter. Hayes v. E.T.S. Enter, Inc., 809 S.W.2d 652 (Tex. App. – Amarillo 1991). While employees of parties are considered "interested witnesses," Castaneda v. Texas Dept. of Agriculture, 831 S.W.2d 501 (Tex. App. – Corpus Christi 1992), former employees are not. Nicholson v. Smith, 986 S.W.2d 54 (Tex. App. – San Antonio 1999). One court has extended the interested witness rule to include witnesses who have no stake in the litigation and who are not associated with either litigant, but who may have a pecuniary interest in the outcome. Martin v. Cloth World of Texas, Inc., 692 S.W.2d 134 (Tex. App. – Dallas 1985) [a real estate agent who could potentially earn income based on a particular outcome of the suit would have a "partisan feeling" about the case sufficient to subject the testimony to the requirements of 166a(c)].
When interested witness testimony is offered to support a motion for summary judgment, the most frequent objections lodged are that the testimony is:
- self-serving,
- not free from contradictions or inconsistencies, and
- not readily controverted.
Because each of these objections is problematic in its own way, attorneys should take care in making and responding to these types of objections.
Self-serving: When dealing with interested witness testimony, this is perhaps the most common objection raised. Ironically, the term "self-serving" doesn't even appear in Rule 166a(c) (or any other rule of evidence, for that matter). While interested witness testimony does tend to be self-serving, the mere fact that it is self-serving does not necessarily make the evidence improper in the summary judgment context. Trico Tech Corporation v. Montiel, 949 S.W.2d 308 (Tex. 1997). Assuming the interested witness testimony otherwise complies with Rule 166a(c), the fact that it is self-serving forms no basis for objection.
Contraditions and Inconsistencies: Most often this objection is raised in the context of a "sham affidavit."[1] When raised in this context, this objection is also improper, because the 166a(c) "interested witness" rules apply only to the movant's evidence.[2] However, when a movant offers contradictory or inconsistent interested witness testimony, then this objection is properly raised.
Not Readily Controverted: "Could have been readily controverted" generally describes a particular type of evidence that can be effectively countered by opposing evidence. It is not a rule of convenience, it is a rule of possibility. Just because obtaining controverting evidence may be a difficult task does not mean that testimony is not readily controvertible. Casso v. Brand, 776 S.W.2d 551 (Tex. 1989). "Not easily controverted" most often applies to testimony regarding mental state, such as what an affiant knew or intended. When it involves the mental workings of an individual's mind, the opponent could have no knowledge or ready means of confirming or disputing, and it would be considered not readily controvertible. Lukasik v. San Antonio Blue Haven Pools, Inc., 21 S.W.3d 394 (Tex. App. – San Antonio 2000). Likewise, when the credibility of the affiant may be essential to the resolution of the case, then the testimony is not considered readily controvertible. One court held that since a deponent was not an eye-witness and he based his knowledge only on what others told him, the testimony was not readily controvertible. CEBI Metal v. Garcia, 108 S.W.3d 464 (Tex. App. – Houston [14th Dist.] 2003) (opponent could not readily controvert the deponent's testimony by cross-examination at the deposition, since one cannot cross-examine a declarant who is not present).[3] Finally, in a spoliation situation, when a critical piece of evidence has been discarded, testimony regarding the missing evidence may not be readily controverted. Id.
The importance of recognizing incompetent interested witness testimony cannot be overstated. If a proper objection is not raised in a timely manner, it is waived, and a summary judgment based on improper evidence may be affirmed on appeal. Some summary judgment evidence objections cannot be waived, however. But that's a blog for another day.
[1] A "sham affidavit" is an affidavit that contradicts the witness' earlier testimony in order to create a fact issue to avoid summary judgment.
[2] There is a split in authority as to whether sham affidavits can be stricken in the summary judgment context. However, rather than striking the affidavit at the summary judgment stage, many courts believe that the safer approach is to impose sanctions for filing an affidavit in bad faith after trial on the merits has been concluded.
[3] This was a novel and seemingly unnecessary use of the rule, since it appears that a simple hearsay objection may have sufficed.


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Event discovery startup Vamos launches Android app, highlights visuals
Event discovery app Vamos is launching on Android with a brand new design, the startup announced today after completing its private beta testing period.
While this new app is different from its iOS version, the team now plans to bring some of the new design elements and functionalities to Apple devices before Christmas.
As you may remember, Vamos launched out of beta last August to help users find interesting local events and where their friends are going in real-time. Since then, it has built a loyal community, co-founder Luis-Daniel Alegria says:
"We are seeing some people coming back for events every day, with our highest engagement levels coming from travelers & expats living away from their hometowns."
The changes Vamos integrated to its Android app were inspired by the feedback it received from its users:
"Some of our users suggested a more visually appealing event list; so we added event covers, richer colors and a new font. (…) Secondly, we integrated Instagram photos into the new event overview (…). This adds visual context to the event, and makes it easier for people to decide if they like the place or not."
In addition, sharing an event from Vamos' Android app will auto-create an online event page featuring real-time Instagram and EyeEm photo streams. As an example, the startup has created a page to announce the Christmas party it will hold in Berlin on December 15th.
These changes reflect Vamos' ambition to cover each event's full cycle. "This unique integration is making it easy to follow events as they happen live before, during and after [they start]," it says.
On a higher level, being available on Android is key for the startup to gain further traction. As a matter of fact, Google's platform dominates the smartphone market in many Latin American countries. The region that has already been driving one in three Vamos downloads, and the launch of its Android app is likely to boost its local growth.
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Brutal Legend turned out OK, but it wasn't without its problems, so creator Tim Schafer has announced that his team wants to do some "tuning patches", as well as add some more DLC.
"We definitely want to do more DLC for both single-player and multiplayer", Schafer told GamePro, "as well as some tuning patches."
So what needs tuning? "Watching people play Brutal Legend makes it seem that certain units might be overpowered, like some players will just spam Fire Barons", he says. "It's tough to avoid the pendulum effect where you go back and forth, so we try to focus on one fix that will make the game more fun."
After the Credits: Tim Schafer talks Brutal Legend [GamePro]


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