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Achieving Literary Liftoff: How To Ensure Your Novel Flies Right
All the writing books concentrate on beginnings and endings. Very few of them consider the middle, or even the middle of the beginning.
This is sort of akin to concentrating on your flight experience by making sure you have a good takeoff and a good landing and not caring in the least if your pilot decides to do loop-de-loops in the middle.
There are reasons for this, of course. I read somewhere that most of the fatal accidents in flights occur during takeoff and landing, and the same thing sort of applies to a book.
If you fail to capture the reader's interest within the first few pages, you are clearly not going to make a sale. And if you end the book so disastrously that the reader feels cheated and wants to throw things at your head, you're probably never going to make another sale to this person (and might have to wear protective head gear while traveling in their region).
But just because the moment of takeoff and landing, and the moments of starting and ending a book matter, it doesn't mean that what goes in the middle is irrelevant.
I mean, consider the idea that you buy a flight to Poughkeepsie in the fine state of NY. Perhaps you have a hankering to visit the historic Vanderbilt Mansion.
Suppose that your plane takes off beautifully, and lands beautifully, but instead of taking you to the Queen City of the Hudson, the pilot decides it's less trouble and much better for all concerned if he flies a few circles around the airport and then lands you back where you started.
No one would be that silly, you say?
Ah—you clearly haven't read some of the books I've read.
It is actually a fairly common mistake, particularly of rookie authors still uncertain of their plot, to put all the might of their limited craft into starting and ending the book. Meanwhile, they have what I've grown to call "something goes here" middles.
The problem is that, in writing as in flights, if you're going around in circles, no matter how entertaining you make the trip, calling out all the landmarks, if your book is going nowhere, people notice. After a while your reader starts asking: "Is this all there is? Is she running from the bad guys again? Haven't we seen this before? But… nothing is solved."
The 5 Most Overrated Male Musicians, Part Two
Last time around, I started quite a conversation about the merits, or lack thereof, of Pink Floyd and Bob Marley.
Now we're dispatching three additional sacred musical cows to the slaughterhouse:
#3: Stevie Wonder
At the risk of wandering into Elvis Costello territory — yes, he really did say this — I'm gonna come right out with it:
If Stevie Wonder wasn't black and blind, there's no way he'd be as highly esteemed as he is.
A white guy who named himself "Wonder" would never hear the end of it. Instead, we never hear the end of Stevie's songs, especially on American Idol.
OK, so that's not his fault, but you know what is?
Besides The Secret Life of Plants and "I Just Called To Say I Love You" and "Ebony and Ivory"?
The song below.
I'm indebted to David Stubbs for putting my incoherent dislike of Songs in the Key of Life into words:
"Isn't She Lovely" transcribes to vinyl every last icky-cooing dollop of sentimental gloop to which once-sentient adults are reduced when they have babies and, true to the album's form, lasts longer than purgatory. Several minutes into this, with no light at the end of the tunnel of choruses, King Herod seems like one of the Bible's more engaging and reasonable characters. "I Wish" contains the most ridiculously misty-eyed and excruciatingly doggerel-ridden reminiscence on childhood.
Jason Collins: Much Ado about Nothing Much
I think Allahpundit hit a home run in his analysis of the impact that pro basketball player Jason Collins' self-outing will have on the country:
Easy prediction: 75 percent of the public will be casually supportive or casually disapproving but either way almost entirely indifferent. Fifteen percent, including lots of pols, celebrities, and the media, will support him enthusiastically. The other 10 percent will hassle him on the court or from the stands either because they dislike gays or just to spite the 15 percent of "opinion leaders" on the other side. Collins will get a standing O at his first home game next year — if he ends up being signed — and some fans on the road will get nasty with him when he fouls someone too roughly. He'll do a few ads. Then, after a few months, with rare exceptions, everyone will get bored with it.
I'm already bored with it and it's been just a few hours since the story broke. I am happy that Mr. Collins is at peace with himself and can now live his life freely. But is he a "hero" for coming out of the closet? Anyone with half a brain could have predicted the outpouring of love, support, and sympathy from most of the country who cares about these things. Everyone wanted to rush out their statement, or Tweet, or Facebook posting, trying to be first in proving just how tolerant they are. I suppose this is better than the alternative, but really — can we try to be a little more realistic and place Mr. Collins' action in perspective?
A marginal pro athlete at the end of a solid career (you don't last 12 seasons in the NBA without being a good contributor) admits to the world that he's gay. I'll admit it's a novelty — the first active pro athlete to publicly declare himself a homosexual.
But what does it change? How many bigots will alter their views of gays and come to embrace them? If the reaction from some haters is any indication, not too many. Within minutes of the story breaking, ESPN sportscaster Chris Broussard was telling the world that Mr. Collins wasn't a Christian:
Personally, I don't believe that you can live an openly homosexual lifestyle or an openly, like premarital sex between heterosexuals. If you're openly living that type of lifestyle, then the Bible says you know them by their fruits. It says that, you know, that's a sin. If you're openly living in unrepentant sin, whatever it may be, not just homosexuality, whatever it maybe, I believe that's walking in open rebellion to God and to Jesus Christ. So I would not characterize that person as a Christian because I don't think the bible would characterize them as a Christian.
And American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer couldn't help himself, I suppose:
"I will guarantee you," said Fischer, "if the ownership of whatever team is thinking about bringing him back, or thinking about trading for him, and they go to the players on that team and they say 'How do you feel about an out active homosexual being in the same locker room, sharing the same shower facilities with you?' they'll say no way. I don't want that. I do not want some guy, a teammate, eyeballing me in the shower."
A little projection by Fischer?
Straight-Arrow Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a Mama's Boy
Editor's Note: Starting today, Robert Spencer's weekly PJ Lifestyle article analyzing stories on Jihad terror from a cultural perspective will appear on Mondays, our day focused on family, parenting, motherhood, fatherhood, and relationships. With this shift in publication date also comes a change in angle. A broader picture of the motives behind the 4/15/13 Boston terror attack is beginning to come into greater clarity. Who radicalized these once American young men? The picture that has emerged is one common throughout the Muslim world: sons drink in the hate and anti-Americanism as they would mother's milk. The disturbing proclamations of mama and papa Tsarnaev make clear that these were not two sons led astray by malevolent outside influence.
So on Mondays Robert will explore the relevant Jihad stories of the week through a family-centric lens, considering male-female dynamics in the Muslim world and the Koran's influence on defining the ideals of masculinity and femininity. What does Islam proscribe for how to raise children and maintain a family? What can Muslim parents in America do to make sure their sons do not become Tamerlans and Dzhokhars? And what are other parents like the Tsarnaevs secretly doing right now to prepare their children for the glory of martyrdom? How does one raise a future Jihadist who loves death more than Americans love life? I look forward to seeing Robert explore these subjects and hope you will join us each week at PJ Lifestyle.
- David Swindle
In the movie Prizzi's Honor, Jack Nicholson plays mafia hitman Charley Partanna, who is known as "Straight-Arrow Charley, the All-American Hood" for dutifully and unquestioningly carrying on the family business in which he was raised. And as more details emerge about the family of Boston Marathon jihad bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, it's increasingly clear that they, too, were just carrying on the family business: jihad.
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva is proud of her boys. She insists that they didn't set off the bombs in Boston, and that in fact, the whole thing was staged. The bombings, she said, were just a "really big play" featuring "paint instead of blood." Consistency is not her strong suit, for she also said: "What happened is a terrible thing but I know my kids have nothing to do with this. I know it, I am mother." She claimed that her sons were targeted because they were Muslim, and said: "America took my kids away from me. I'm sure my kids were not involved in anything."
The bombers' father, Anzor Tsarnaev, struck a tone more of grief than accusation. He assured the world: "I am not angry at anyone," although he hinted that he also accepted his wife's conspiracy theory when he added: "I want to go find out the truth." Go, that is, to the United States, although plans for the trip have since been scrapped due to the possibility that he and/or his wife could be arrested if they do come here. "I want to say that I am going there to see my son, to bury the older one. I don't have any bad intentions." He added reassuringly: "I don't plan to blow up anything."
Just as Hitler loved his dogs, Tamerlan Tsarnaev loved his mama. Just before getting into a shootout with police in Watertown, Massachusetts, he called her on his cellphone and gave her the news:
The police, they have started shooting at us, they are chasing us….Mama, I love you.
Bill Clinton Supports First Openly Gay NBA Player: 'Proud to Call Jason Collins a Friend'
Former President Bill Clinton, who just joined Twitter this month, applauded the decision of NBA player Jason Collins to come out as gay.
Collins, a center for the Washington Wizards, wrote a lengthy piece for the May 6 issue of Sports Illustrated explaining his decision.
"I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn't the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, 'I'm different.' If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand," Collins wrote.
Many well-known names quickly rallied to his defense on Twitter, including Clinton.
"I'm proud to call Jason Collins a friend," Clinton tweeted, linking to a longer statement at his foundation's website.
"I have known Jason Collins since he was Chelsea's classmate and friend at Stanford. Jason's announcement today is an important moment for professional sports and in the history of the LGBT community," Clinton said. "It is also the straightforward statement of a good man who wants no more than what so many of us seek: to be able to be who we are; to do our work; to build families and to contribute to our communities. For so many members of the LGBT community, these simple goals remain elusive. I hope that everyone, particularly Jason's colleagues in the NBA, the media and his many fans extend to him their support and the respect he has earned."
Jason Collins quietly paid tribute to Matthew Shephard, a young gay man who was murdered in 1998, when he changed his number to 98 in 2012.
— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) April 29, 2013
It was obvious. Jason Collins is the only guy in the NBA not defending a paternity suit. #gaydar
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 29, 2013
Evolving on Guns: Considering the Morality of Gun Ownership Now That I Refuse to Be a Victim
Last week I wrote about my "evolution" on guns during the Boston manhunt:
In the middle of that night listening to the Boston police scanner, I evolved. I realized right then that if I were holed up in my house while a cold-blooded terrorist roamed my neighborhood, I wouldn't want to be a sitting duck with only a deadbolt lock between me and an armed intruder. There are not enough police and they cannot come to my rescue quickly enough. They carry guns to protect themselves, not me. I knew at that instant if Dzhokhar Tsarnaev showed up at my door while I was "sheltered-in-place" and aimed a gun at my head and only one of us would live, I could pull the trigger.
Once I made the decision that I would not be a victim, I began to research my options for home protection. I plan to share the experience of choosing my first gun in a future post but first I'd like to deal with some of the moral implications of the decision to purchase, own — and potentially use — a gun.
I wrote about one of the reasons I refrained from owning a gun for many years:
The other thing holding me back was my belief that if you're going to own a gun, you must be willing to shoot to kill…I searched my heart and realized that in the heat of the moment of an attack, I wasn't sure what I would do with a gun in my hand. I knew that could be more dangerous than being unarmed; it wasn't worth the risk.
A gun is an inanimate object and as such is morally neutral. Lying on a table, tucked under a mattress, or locked in a gun safe it cannot kill, inflict harm, or protect its owner. However, the fact that a gun is in one's home creates the potential for both danger and protection depending on many variables, including the training, skill, and temperament of the residents of the home and the mental capacity and willingness of the gun owners to use the weapon, whether in self-defense or to inflict intentional harm.
While I understand that many who grew up around guns accept them as a normal part of life, for me, it's a decision that requires serious introspection and moral evaluation. Though I passionately support the Second Amendment, I confess that I had never taken the time to earnestly contemplate its practical applications. Perhaps this is because I've mostly lived in safe, virtually crime-free neighborhoods and have never experienced violent crime. Whatever the reason, it's not an excuse to jump into gun ownership without first embarking on this intellectual exercise.
What Does the Totalitarian Temperament Look Like?
What Role Did Queen Elizabeth's Spymaster John Dee Play in the Creation of America?
Abraham, Part 2: God's Gadfly or Meek Servant?
Last week I maintained that the patriarch Abraham is in certain key ways a paradigmatic figure for today's Israel. A paradigm, though, would be expected to show some consistency in his conduct. In at least one important regard, Abraham seems to engage in behaviors that radically contradict each other.
When God prepares to leave Abraham's tent encampment for Sodom, having heard that "sin is very grievous" there and in Gomorrah, Abraham rightly infers that—should the rumors turn out to be true—God intends to do away with these dens of depravity. Yet, at that point, Abraham seems to show incredible chutzpah: he confronts God with a series of questions that seem to challenge the morality of "the Judge of all the earth"—as Abraham, who appears well aware that he's on shaky ground, takes care to address him.
Yet later in the story, when this same God, whom Abraham has had the audacity to challenge, commands Abraham to "Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest" and turn him into a burnt offering on a mountain–Abraham meekly, humbly, and unquestioningly sets out to do exactly that.
How can the same Abraham who seemed to stand up for the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, to the point of morally accosting the deity, immediately accept the decree to sacrifice his son?
13 Weeks: Stability Is Good. Right?
Week 12 of my second 13 week season: low-carb diet and more exercise, tracking my weight, blood glucose, and body fat. You can follow me at my 13 Weeks Facebook page for daily updates, and you can join Fitocracy (free!) and follow my daily exercise, and maybe even start tracking your own.
You know what's worse than a day of nonstop meetings? Five days of nonstop meetings. That was my week at the day job, which meant lots of stress and lots of unusual socializing. Still, it wasn't all bad by any means, and the numbers this week have done well. I lost all of that peculiar bounce and was down to 269 lbs again on Wednesday; this brought the seven-day average down to 270, and as you'll see in my bodyweight chart I've had more and more days under 270 and am still losing weight, albeit slowly.
In a belated rush of intelligence, I got around to setting up my spreadsheet to compute the standard deviation of both my weight and my glucose. For those of you who aren't statistics nerds, the standard deviation is a measure of how "wide" a distribution of numbers is, or in other words, how much things vary just randomly. It turns out the standard deviation of my weight is about 2.2 lbs. What that means is that if my weight weren't changing at all, you would still expect to see it vary outside the range of roughly 268 and 272 pounds 3 days in 10.
The point is: when you're losing weight slowly, it's going to be hard to tell you're losing weight at all.
I've got to admit right now I'm puzzled what the best thing to tell people might be if they were doing their own program. We all know that weight shouldn't matter, but it does. A lot of people have suggested just weighing once a week, but that doesn't actually help much, as you can see in the table. The standard deviation tells us that you have to lose about 5 lbs before you can have much confidence it's not just random variation for a single measurement.
What you can do, though, is look at the graph:
On the chart you can see that I'm spending more days under 270 than I was before — something between 20 and 25 percent of the time in the last half of the 13 week experiment.
How Does Daily Life Transform When One Chooses to Perceive Humanity's Existence as a Miracle?
Is 25 the New 15?
That's the question asked in the 1st chapter of a book I am reading called Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How We Can Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old. From the description:
Do you sometimes wonder how your teen is ever going to survive on his or her own as an adult? Does your high school junior seem oblivious to the challenges that lie ahead? Does your academically successful nineteen-year-old still expect you to "just take care of" even the most basic life tasks?
Welcome to the stunted world of the Endless Adolescence. Recent studies show that today's teenagers are more anxious and stressed and less independent and motivated to grow up than ever before. Twenty-five is rapidly becoming the new fifteen for a generation suffering from a debilitating "failure to launch." Now two preeminent clinical psychologists tell us why and chart a groundbreaking escape route for teens and parents.
Drawing on their extensive research and practice, Joseph Allen and Claudia Worrell Allen show that most teen problems are not hardwired into teens' brains and hormones but grow instead out of a "Nurture Paradox" in which our efforts to support our teens by shielding them from the growth-spurring rigors and rewards of the adult world have backfired badly. With compelling examples and practical and profound suggestions, the authors outline a novel approach for producing dramatic leaps forward in teen maturity, including:
• Turn Consumers into Contributors Help teens experience adult maturity–its bumps and its joys–through the right kind of employment or volunteer activity.
• Feed Them with Feedback Let teens see and hear how the larger world perceives them. Shielding them from criticism–constructive or otherwise–will only leave them unequipped to deal with it when they get to the "real world."
• Provide Adult Connections Even though they'll deny it, teens desperately need to interact with adults (including parents) on a more mature level–and such interaction will help them blossom!
• Stretch the Teen Envelope Do fewer things for teens that they can do for themselves, and give them tasks just beyond their current level of competence and comfort.
The authors point out that even young people who appear to be succeeding by conventional standards wake up in their mid-twenties clueless about how to find a job, manage money, cook, or live on their own. They are educated but unable to care for themselves. "Twenty-five is now becoming the new fifteen."
According to the authors, teens are living in a "bubble" that is undermining their development. They have their room at home, school, the shopping mall etc. but it,
"cuts them off from meaningful roles in the adult world, cuts them off from close day-to-day contact with adults, and it hyperexposes them to peer relationships, which become their primary socializing influences."
The last chapter of the book points out that the staples of the Adulthood Diet are Challenge and Feedback. Teens don't get much of it in their lives. We have done away with competition (too masculine, I suppose) and real-world feedback (kids need high self-esteem!) and therefore they never learn to master the larger world.
The book instructs parents and adults in how to teach kids to grow up and be an adult in today's modern world. That's no small feat. But better late than never because twenty-five should never be the new fifteen.
Can Doctors Determine Who Should Be Allowed to Carry a Concealed Gun?
There was a time in my country when, among other unpleasant duties, the prison doctor was required to assess prisoners for their fitness for execution. Needless to say, not much attention was paid in medical school to this particular skill: the physician was on his own because in those days there were no such things as official guidelines. The rough and ready rule was that a man was fit to be executed if he knew that he was to be executed and why. It was the death-penalty equivalent of informed consent to surgery.
One of the last British executioners, Albert Pierrepoint, who hanged about 600 people, wrote in his memoirs that he was often asked if people struggled on their way to the gallows. He replied that he had known only one do so; to which he added, by way of explanation, "And he was a foreigner." However, foreign nationality was not in itself a contraindication to execution. Pierrepoint was one of the executioners at Nuremberg.
An article in a recent edition of the New England Journal of Medicine draws attention to the ethical and practical dilemmas of American physicians asked to assess people for fitness to carry concealed weapons. Again this is not a skill taught in medical schools. No firm criteria, beyond those of common sense (which have not been validated by research), have been laid down. It seems obvious that people with paranoid personalities or psychoses, gross depression or mania, those who take cocaine, amphetamines, or other stimulants, and alcoholics should be refused permission to carry concealed weapons. But many of those conditions (if taking cocaine can properly be called a condition) are easy to conceal or difficult to detect. How far is the doctor to go in attempting to detect them? Interestingly, or curiously, the authors do not mention hair or blood tests, which could certainly help the doctor detect drug and alcohol abuse.
No Matter How Evil a Soul Becomes, Can It Still Find A Way to Return to The Creator?
Pain & Gain & Good & Evil
Does the new Michael Bay movie Pain & Gain glorify evil? Its protagonist Daniel Lugo (played by Mark Wahlberg) is currently on Death Row in Florida, and the film is mostly seen through his eyes, with his thoughts frequently popping up in narration. Relatives of the victims of his crime spree — an outlandish 1994 kidnapping plot that led to attempted murder and finally murder — understandably don't find the movie very funny. A Miami Herald story said the families thought the film would make the killers look "sympathetic" or "play down the brutality" of the murders.
Neither is the case. Daniel Lugo was a personal trainer who grew jealous of the business success of a client (played by Tony Shalhoub) who owned a deli by the Miami airport but hinted that true wealth came from shadier dealings. With hardly a second thought, Daniel decides that the American Dream means getting rich no matter who gets in his way, so he enlists a couple of gym-rat pals (Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie) to put on superhero costumes, kidnap the deli owner, and torture him until he signs over his house and property. Along the way the three bodybuilders suffer such misadventures as impotence, getting a toe shot off by police, and the malfunction of a Home Depot chainsaw they are using to try to cut the head and fingertips off a corpse.
The movie treats this nutty plan as an escapade, but with black comic irony. These killers are by no means lovable. And the viciousness of their actions isn't sugar-coated at all. Despite the kinetic, ultra-modern style of the movie, its underlying stance on good and evil would not have angered the defunct film censor the Hays Office. Rule number one for crime movies was always: Crime must not pay. Rule number two: The criminal may be the most prominent character, but he can't be the hero.
Both these rules were regularly broken in counterculture hits like Bonnie and Clyde and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. But whereas the deaths of the bandits in those films fill us with sympathy, nothing of the kind is happening in Pain & Gain.
Which Ideology Can Lead Black Americans to Happiness and Wealth?
Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson appearing on MSNBC to equate the significance of the Boston bombers' religion with their musical tastes:
While some black studies professors are busy indoctrinating students in strident anticapitalism and racial supremacism, and other inhabitants of the Ebony Tower are preaching only somewhat less extreme versions of the same ideology, a very different message about race has been resonating with ordinary, hard working black Americans. In recent years, the comedian and actor Bill Cosby has been speaking to audiences in black churches and other community centers, lamenting the prevalence among black Americans of unwed teenage mothers and absentee fathers, violent and misogynistic gangsta rap, and black on black crime. He has been calling on young black people to reject these self destructive social pathologies and to embrace traditional American values of self respect and personal responsibility.
In an Atlantic article about Cosby's crusade, TaNehisi Coates maintains that Cosby's call for "hard work and moral reform" rather than "protests and government intervention" resonates with "conservative black Americans who are convinced that integration, and to some extent the entire liberal dream, robbed them of their natural defenses." Coates points out that in 2004, the New York Times found that black parents in Louisville, Kentucky, the site of a historic battle over school desegregation in 1975–76, were now "more interested in educational progress than in racial parity." Coates also cites a survey showing that 71 percent of American blacks consider rap "a bad influence." Coates quotes lines from one of Cosby's speeches in which the comedian assails some black Americans' uninformed image of themselves as Africans: "We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans. They don't know a damn thing about Africa— with names like Shaniqua, Shaliqua, Mohammed, and all that crap, and all of them are in jail."
A New Type of Man
Robert Spencer: No More Music for Muslims: The Spiritual Journey of Tamerlan Tsarnaev
Theodore Shoebat and Walid Shoebat: The Tsarnaev Brothers and the Coming Savage Empire of Islam
Why You Should Stop Wasting Your Time 'Doing Philosophy'
A continued debate yesterday on PJ Lifestyle editor Dave Swindle's "6 Reasons Why Rational Thinkers Believe in God" article:
Banning Video Games Will Not Save Children's Souls
Gun control emerged as the primary political battlefront in the wake of the horrific Sandy Hook murders. While the battle to retain our Second Amendment rights remains a superior consideration, statist nannies push on other fronts as well.
A former writer for the Huffington Post, Peter Brown Hoffmeister, claims to have broken ties with the publication after its refusal to publish a piece he submitted regarding the influence of violent video games on troubled teenage males. Self-publishing on his personal blog with the provocative title "On School Shooters – The Huffington Post Doesn't Want You To Read This," Hoffmeister reveals his own troubled past while building a case against certain games.
As a teacher, I've spent a lot of time this past week [December 27, 2012] thinking about the Newtown shooting, school shootings in general, their causes and possible preventions.
It's scary now to think that I ever had anything in common with school shooters. I don't enjoy admitting that. But I did have a lot in common with them. I was angry, had access to guns, felt ostracized, and didn't make friends easily. I engaged in violence and wrote about killing people in my notes to peers.
But there is one significant difference between me at 16 and 17 years of age and most high school shooters: I didn't play violent video games.
But Jeff Weise did. He played thousands of first-person shooter hours before he shot and killed nine people at and near his Red Lake, Minn., school, before killing himself.
And according to neighbors and friends, Clackamas shooter Jacob Tyler Roberts played a lot of video games before he armed himself with a semi-automatic AR-15 and went on a rampage at the Clackamas Town Center in Portland, Oregon last week.
Also, by now, it is common knowledge that Adam Lanza, who murdered 20 children and six women in video-game style, spent many, many hours playing "Call of Duty." In essence, Lanza – and all of these shooters – practiced on-screen to prepare for shooting in real-life.
Hoffmeister ends his retrospective with a call for government action. He encourages readers to "support the bill introduced… by U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller, directing the National Academy of Sciences to examine whether violent games and programs lead children to act aggressively."
No More Music for Muslims: The Spiritual Journey of Tamerlan Tsarnaev
PJ Lifestyle Editor's Note:
This is Part 11, the conclusion, of Volume 1 of Robert Spencer's Jazz and Islam series. Yes — Volume 1 does imply the intent for Robert to return to this subject again in the future so we can someday produce a Volume 2. As the Islamic War Against Freedom has intensified and arisen again into the foreground of public consciousness, Robert and I have decided on a new cultural angle through which he will seek to illuminate each week's dark, confusing stories of jihad terrorism. I won't reveal the secret yet of just what Robert's new focus will be. But perhaps this astounding article today revealing the troubled story of a lost young man who poisoned his mind with deadly ideas will provide a hint of what's to come…
– David Swindle
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who along with his brother Dzhokhar murdered three people and wounded nearly 200 more with twin bombs at the Boston Marathon, was a musician. John Curran, Tamerlan's boxing coach, recalled: "He also played the piano very well." The Lowell Sun reported that "Tsarnaev also studied music at a school in Russia and played piano and violin."
As late as 2010, according to Gene McCarthy of the Somerville Boxing Club in Massachusetts, Tsarnaev was still playing:
"I brought him to the registration" for a boxing tournament, "and while he was waiting in line, he saw a piano and was playing classical music like it was Symphony Hall."
However, the Associated Press reported Wednesday that "in the years before the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev fell under the influence of a new friend, a Muslim convert who steered the religiously apathetic young man toward a strict strain of Islam, family members said."
Bitter Clingers Have Taken Over Your Television, or How America Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Duck
Did you hear that? The shotgun blast heard 'round the world? It happened when A&E Network's hit reality TV show Duck Dynasty reached over 8 million viewers in its season premiere.
Like any gunshot, it got my attention. I tuned in to see what all the fuss is about and am now hopelessly hooked on this revolutionary bit of televised perfection. I quickly discovered that Duck Dynasty has very little to do with ducks or duck hunting, and everything to do with traditional American values and the current American condition.
Like all great television, Duck Dynasty works because it follows a proven formula. In the case of Duck Dynasty, that formula is the roadmap to realizing the quintessential American dream. Have a clever idea. Sacrifice. Work harder than the next guy. Make it happen. Earn your wealth the old-fashioned way. Pass the business and its blessings along to your children and grandchildren. Have fun. Never forget where, or what, you came from. Give thanks to God. Repeat.
Like most rednecks and hillbillies, the starring members of the Robertson clan of West Monroe, Louisiana, are as clever as the proverbial old swamp fox. And so are the development execs at A&E. With Duck Dynasty they've struck more than ratings gold. They've struck a vital nerve in contemporary American culture. And I think they know exactly what they are doing.
Each week millions think they're tuning in to watch the crazy and entertaining antics of a bunch of rich rednecks with beautiful wives, powerful trucks, bountiful firearms, a knack for explosives and avoiding the drudgery of work, and an endless supply of homespun one-liners.

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The Nashville 48 Hour Film Project
See below for 2004 results.
For more information on 2015, click here...
Dates: July 23-25
Music City filmmakers made some great films
in 2004. This year, we worked with Film Nashville to make
the competition even better.
Best Overall Film
"Blue Skies Under Grey"
(Name Withheld) Productions
Best Use of Assigned Character:
- "Stoddard"
WKU Crew
Best Use Line of Dialogue:
- "Oneonta Road"
OFF Productions
Best Use of Prop:
- "Cope"
[garden shears used to snip
umbilical cord] Moose Pack
First Runner Up, Best Overall Film:
- "Canoodle,"
Ruckus Films
Best Original Score:
- "Blue Skies Under Grey"
(Name Withheld) Productions
Best Song Soundtrack:
- "Overdue"
Best Directing
- "Canoodle"
Ruckus Films
Best Screenplay
The Men Behind the Muscle"
We Three Kings Productions
Best Overall Acting
- "Super!"
World Domination Productions
Best Cinematography
- "Blue Skies Under Grey"
(Name Withheld) Productions
Best Editing
- "Ranger Danger" Last Picked Films
Best Make Up Special Effects
- "Deviant"
Full Moon & Straight Crooked Productions
Best Post Production Special Effects:
- "Looking Out For You"
Pajama Pictures
Best Wardrobe
- "Blue Skies Under Grey"
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A romantic, dazzling Winter Wonderland. The Altstadt Christmas Market counts among the most beautiful and romantic locations in the entire Alpine region. Maria-Theresien-Straße Market is lit up
by glittering crystal trees. A Yuletide paradise for children presents itself at the Innsbruck Marktplatz Market ...
About four weeks before Christmas, Innsbruck opens its Christmas Markets - the beginning of the festive season: stalls invite to stroll around and maybe buy a gift, have a drink of hot tea or the stronger "Glühwein" (hot spicy wine) or try some of the spicy or sweet Christmas food.
Visit one of our six Christmas Markets:
- Old Town
- Marktplatz
- Maria-Theresien-Straße
- Hungerburg Christmas Market
- Wiltener Platzl
- St. Nikolaus
Christmas Market in the Old Town
the traditionel market:
Innsbruck's traditional Christmas Market is set before the Golden Roof and surrounded by medieval house facades. On a stroll through the market with over 70 stalls, you will find Christmas tree decorations, arts and crafts and a few curiosities. A visit to the viewing platform over the hut rooftops or the enchanting "Fairy Tale and Giants' Alley" is an absolute must. Then round off your evening under the magnificent Christmas tree in front of the Golden Roof, with the traditional sounds of the tower trumpeters filling the crisp air each day and a mug of mulled wine warming your hands.
Sunday, 15 November 2015 –
Wednesday, 23 December 2015
Daily, 11.00 am – 8.00 pm, retailers until 8.00 pm
Christmas Market Maria-Theresien-Straße
the modern market:
Innsbruck's main shopping street will once again dazzle visitors with a cornucopia of lights, glass and crystal – an avenue of glittering illuminated trees, with modern lighting design and vivid mountain crystal, giving this Christmas market a very special flair. At the 30 stalls you will find an exciting array of international Christmas products and all manner of delicious treats. It's clear to see the world comes to Innsbruck! This market is also open after New Year until 6 January 2016.
Wednesday, 25 November 2015 –
Wednesday, 6 January 2016
Daily, 11.00 am – 9.00 pm, retailers until 8.00 pm
24 December, 11.00 - 3.00 pm
25 December 2015 closed
31 December, 11 am - 7 pm
Christmas Market at Marktplatz
the family market:
This traditional, cosy, Tyrolean village-style market is an experiencethe whole family will love. The huge range on offer, including a puppetshow, storytelling, pony rides, petting zoo and nostalgic carousel is sure to impress visitors young and old alike. The real eye-catcher though is the glittering, over 14 metre-high Swarovski crystal tree, which this year welcomes a new star. More than 60 stalls selling Christmas products and a variety of delicious delicacies add to the market's appeal and make it a popular meeting place.
Sunday, 15 November 2015 - Wednesday, 23 December 2015
Daily, 11.00 am – 9.00 pm
Hungerburg Christmas Market
the panoramic market:
A Christmas Market with magnificent views over Innsbruck, a huge
range of culinary delights and all kinds of Christmas souvenirs await
you on the Hungerburg, high above the city. Even the journey on
the Hungerburg hybrid funicular railway, from the centre of town
to the various stations designed by top architect Zaha Hadid, is an
experience in itself.
Saturday, 21 November 2015 - Wednesday, 23 December 2015
Friday to Sunday between 12.00 pm and 7.00 pm
Wiltener Platzl Christmas Market
the arty market:
Tranquil, romantic and very special! The Christmas market at Wiltener
Patzl is the place for contemplation and more. Treats from Sardinia,
a puppet theatre, organic glühwein and mini concerts – the
Wilten Christmas Market is as varied as life and as contemplative as
the Advent period! The assortment offered by the market stalls at
Wiltener Platz provides a welcome break from the fast pace of the
holiday season: here you will find real handicrafts, the finest cuisine
and a handpicked cultural programme, all in a very small setting.
Friday, 20 November 2015 - Sunday, 20 December 2015
Monday to Friday, 4.00 pm - 8.00 pm
Saturday, 2 pm - 8 pm
Christmas Market in St. Nikolaus
An Advent of special aromas, stillness, lights and togetherness –
experience this at Hans-Brenner-Platz in St. Nikolaus. Find peace
amid the hustle and bustle of the season, with contemplative music
and homemade biscuits, and savour the anticipation of Christmas.
A small, tranquil market for the whole family.
Saturday, 28 November 2015 - Wednesday, 23 December 2015
Daily, 4.00 pm - 9 pm
Further information on www.christkindlmarkt.cc
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Buckmeier Will Head CrossRoads Engineering
September 26, 2012 by RVBusiness · 1 Comment
Topeka, Ind.-based towable builder CrossRoads RV announced that Jamie Buckmeier has taken over as director of engineering, replacing long-time employee Lavern Bontrager. According to a press release, the change was affective Sept. 19.
"Lavern Bontrager was the fourth employee hired at CrossRoads," said Joel DeVries, vice president of materials management for the Thor Industries Inc. subsdiary. "He has been an integral part of CrossRoads' history. His energy, enthusiasm and can-do attitude will be sorely missed but we wish him every happiness and success in his future endeavors."
Bontrager will be transitioning his role to Buckmeier over the next few weeks. Buckmeier's background includes serving as director of product development and engineering for Jayco Inc. In prior roles, he focused on concept development, including spearheading the team which developed the first motorized Class A toy hauler. His formal education includes both a bachelor's from Iowa State University in industrial technology and certification as a manufacturing technologist.
"As CrossRoads continues to grow, we need to focus on building departments, creating systems and processes that will give us a solid foundation to succeed," says DeVries. "Jamie has a successful history of team building, product development and integrating technology into processes. These are exactly the skills we need at grow CrossRoads to the next NGV Rock Star level. Our entire staff is pleased that Jamie has joined us."
CrossRoads RV Grows Rushmore Sales Force
September 25, 2012 by RVBusiness · Leave a Comment
CrossRoads RV announced the addition of Rudy Boals and Brian Linn as regional sales managers for the Topeka, Ind.-based company's Rushmore luxury fifth-wheel line.
According to a press release, Boals will work with Rushmore's Canadian dealers while Linn's territory will be the Eastern U.S.
After 10 years building the Cruiser line for CrossRoads RV, Boals accepted the new challenge of creating a strong Canadian presence for Rushmore. According to CrossRoads, Boals excels in "creating exceptional dealer relationships."
Linn joins the Rushmore team with a solid background in RV sales and management. In previous positions, Linn used a finance background to help dealers achieve sales goals and motivate his sales staff.
"Our mandate is to assemble 'industry best' sales teams," said Product Manager Brad Whitehead. "Brian has been a sales leader in the RV industry for over 10 years, and he's achieved exceptional results throughout his career. As for Rudy, he's an extraordinary talent, and I couldn't be more pleased that he's joined the Rushmore team to develop and support our new and existing Canadian relationships."
Boals can be contacted at (574) 536-5272 or email@example.com while Linn can be reached at (574) 849-9765) or firstname.lastname@example.com.
CrossRoads RV Rolls Out Dealer Support Crew
September 20, 2012 by RVBusiness · Leave a Comment
During this week's Elkhart County RV Open House, dealers were introduced to the new Dealer Support Crew (DSC) initiative by Topeka, Ind.-based CrossRoads RV.
According to a press release, the DSC team is focused on "creating the best dealer relationships in the industry by increasing the overall number of dealer visits by CrossRoads RV staff."
The company reported that response was positive during the Open House as dealers "have expressed appreciation that CrossRoads is looking outside of sales, in a pro-active way to support the dealerships."
Don Emahiser, CrossRoads RV president, has made it a mandate within CrossRoads to understand dealers by looking at things from the dealer perspective. "The DSC team is a way to close the information gap and find new ways to strengthen our dealer relationships," says Emahiser. "Our dealers are embracing the idea whole-heartedly."
Dealer are signing up now for immediate visits by the DSC team to assist with all aspects of business between dealers and CrossRoads. The goal is to strengthen the ownership experience through enhanced customer service, better parts support, more product training and great delivery involvement as a manufacturer.
CrossRoads Names Wylie to Direct Cruiser Line
September 13, 2012 by RVBusiness · Leave a Comment
Topeka, Ind.-based towable builder CrossRoads RV has named Tom Wylie to serve as product manager for the company's Cruiser division. According to a news release, Wylie has extensive industry experience with a strong focus on residential manufactured housing.
"Getting Tom Wylie on board was crucial to the changes we envisioned for the Cruiser product line," said Matt Thompson, general manager for the Thor Industries Inc. subsidiary. "Given Tom's experience building brands and great eye for product design, in addition to his heart-felt desire to "be the best" in every area, Tom is exactly what CrossRoads RV and our Cruiser division needs."
Previously, Wylie had been part of the sales management team at CrossRoads RV as the product manager for the Hampton destination trailer line. The Cruiser sales support staff and regional sales managers will remain unchanged.
"We are creating a whole new breed of Cruiser with an enhanced owner experience in mind," noted Wylie. "The Cruiser brand is known throughout the RV industry for its strong construction and solid performance. We also have exceptional dealer relationships. That is a solid base for a great product to grow into extraordinary."
CrossRoads RV Rolls Out New Service Program
September 12, 2012 by RVBusiness · 1 Comment
CrossRoads RV announced the launch of a new service/support program, the 12-Point Promise, effective Sept. 1.
"We took a look at our current warranty process from the point of view of the dealer and the retail owner. We realized it could be improved," said Don Emahiser, president of the Topeka, Ind.-based Thor Industries Inc. subsidiary. "The result is a genuine warranty package that allows CrossRoads dealers to provide world-class service to their customers."
Emahiser said that the 12-Point Promise Program provides "a comprehensive platform for all aspects of owner satisfaction from delivery to maintenance to service." It will also benefit existing customers as CrossRoads dealers are better prepared to service their needs. Complete information on the 12-Point Promise will be rolled out at the upcoming Thor Open House, Sept. 18-20 at the RV/MH Hall of Fame in Elkhart.
"We truly believe the 12-Point Promise program is a tremendous value to CrossRoads dealers," said Emahiser.
CrossRoads Adds to Elevation Toy Hauler Team
September 12, 2012 by RVBusiness · Leave a Comment
Topeka, Ind.-based towable builder CrossRoads RV has increased the sales force for its Elevation toy hauler, according to a press release.
"Toy haulers are a growth market as people take back their leisure time activities. We want to ensure our dealers receive the best support we can provide," said Doug Graham, product manager. "Adding more staff will help us build closer relationships with our current dealers and provide exceptional support to new dealers."
Personnel moves include:
• Marc Rief has been promoted to regional sales manager. Rief has been part of the Elevation sales team for several months. States included in Reif's region are Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas as well as the Canadian territories of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Reif can be contacted at email@example.com or (574) 849-9845.
• James Messenger has been hired as regional sales manager for the southeast region that includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Messenger has been involved in the RV industry for over five years. Contact Messenger at firstname.lastname@example.com or (574) 850-3481.
• Andrew Decker has been brought in as sales support. Decker will be located in the Topeka office, where he will serve as on-site support. Decker can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or through the corporate office (260) 593-3850.
CrossRoads Breaks Ground on Corporate Office
September 11, 2012 by RVBusiness · Leave a Comment
CrossRoads RV broke ground today (Sept. 11) on a new 22,330-square-foot corporate office at its 45-acre campus in Topeka, Ind.
"We selected Sept. 11 as the groundbreaking day for CrossRoads RV's new corporate offices to honor America's legacy of strength and endurance," Don Emahiser, president of Thor Industries Inc. subsidiary, said in a press release.
The new corporate office, which is scheduled for completion in April of 2003, will house administrative and executive staff. The Town of Topeka annexed the building site into the town and offered a tax phase-in incentive to CrossRoads RV.
"We're pleased to be able to expand our facilities in Topeka," said Emahiser. "We currently have our administrative staff split among several different facilities due to space limitations. The new building will create efficiencies in communication by having them all under one roof as well as give us the space to expand."
Nuway Construction, a design/build general contractor located in Goshen, Ind., was chosen to direct the project. "This facility has been specifically designed to meet CrossRoads RV's growing staff requirements," said Randy Huffman, president of Nuway. "It incorporates human resources facilities not currently available and consolidates the sales staff under one roof."
Graham to Oversee CrossRoads Elevation Line
August 15, 2012 by RVBusiness · Leave a Comment
CrossRoads RV announced the hiring of Doug Graham as product manager for the company's Elevation toy hauler line. According to a press release, Graham's responsibilities will include all aspects of product development, market growth and dealer outreach for the Elevation brand.
"The explosion of consumer interest in the toy hauler market requires a strong focus from CrossRoads," said Matt Thompson, general manager for Topeka, Ind.-based CrossRoads, a division of Thor Industries Inc. "Developing exceptional product and great dealer relationships is our primary goal. Doug's love for toy haulers and his history of creating strong dealer relationships makes for a natural fit."
An RV industry veteran, Graham has focused exclusively on the toy hauler market for the last four years. He will be based at CrossRoads' corporate offices in Topeka.
Graham's contact information is (574) 361-0985 (cell) or firstname.lastname@example.com
CrossRoads RV's Project Part of 'Growth Mode'
August 15, 2012 by RVBusiness · Leave a Comment
Things are going very well for CrossRoads RV, according to a report in the South Bend Tribune.
And further evidence of that became evident Monday when the LaGrange County Economic Development Corp. in conjunction with the town of Topeka and CrossRoads RV announced the construction of a new 22,000-square-foot corporate headquarters building at the company's 45-acre campus in Topeka, Ind.
The headquarters will be constructed near the company's plant. The project will result in up to 10 new positions.
"We are in a growth mode here," said Alexandria Trusov, marketing director for CrossRoads RV. "And we have expanded beyond our current capacity and needed more space."
Currently more than 500 people work at the campus, which includes four plants, a customer service center and the current corporate headquarters.
This does not count the estimated 250 people expected to be added by 2014 when a 93,000-square-foot facility will be completed at a cost of $3.9 million.
CrossRoads RV, a division of Thor Industries, manufactures a wide variety of recreational vehicles, including toy haulers, travel trailers and destination trailers. Some of its better known brands include Zinger, Z-1, Rushmore and Sunset Trail Ultra-Lite.
CrossRoads RV is also a sister company to Redwood RV in Syracuse.
CrossRoads to Build Corporate Headquarters
August 14, 2012 by RVBusiness · Leave a Comment
CrossRoads RV is constructing a new corporate headquarters building at its manufacturing complex in Topeka, Ind., according to a news release.
The project will consist of the construction of a new 22,000-square-foot corporate facility adjacent to CrossRoads RV's current manufacturing campus and will support the creation of up to 10 new positions, as well as the retention of current staffing levels.
The Town of Topeka council, at the request of the LaGrange County Economic Development Corp. (LCEDC), approved the use of tax abatements on the investment into the new facility at their Aug. 13 meeting, estimated to be valued at around $2 million dollars in total.
"We are grateful for the continued support we receive and the partnership we have created with the Town of Topeka," said Michael Kloska, executive vice president of towable builder CrossRoads RV, a division of Thor Industries Inc. "Building our new corporate headquarters in Topeka demonstrates our commitment to the community. The Town of Topeka continues to offer a quality workforce and a pro-business environment, which makes it a great place to do business."
"CrossRoads RV continues to be a great partner in the Town of Topeka, and we're very excited that they continue to expand their operations within LaGrange County," said Keith Gillenwater, president and CEO of the LCEDC. "Crossroads RV's commitment to growing their company in LaGrange County is proof of the high quality work force and community support that companies like Crossroads RV receive from our LaGrange County communities. The addition of a brand new corporate headquarters building right on the main corridor into Topeka will demonstrate to visitors and residents alike that Topeka is a great place to do business."


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Man Found Dead After Beechview SWAT Incident
July 5, 2011 7:41 PM
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BEECHVIEW (KDKA) –A man is dead after a SWAT situation in Beechview.
The incident happened at 1520 Alton Street.
It all started around 11:30 a.m. when a woman told police she got a suspicious email from her 53-year-old brother who was threatening to take his own life.
When SWAT officers arrived, they broke down the front door and saw what appeared to be a suspicious package on the first floor and some wires leading to a closet.
This prompted authorities to call in the bomb squad.
Shortly before 4 p.m., SWAT team members went inside a house and found that the man was dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He also left behind a note.
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Okay guys, I have a challenge for all of you coders out there. I work for Lexus somewhere here in the USA. I have to stay fairly anonymous as this is definately not something the company would look well upon. But I would like to see if anyone here could emulate the firmware of a Lexus navigation system. The system is a touchscreen based system with map data and some program data stored on a DVD. These DVD's are fairly easy to find on EBAY, I have some that I may be able to send out to the right person, although I would prefer not to as all are marked by corporate as confidential, and I'm trying to stay out of trouble as much as possible. Either way, if a good coder can get his hands on one of our map discs, I believe you should be able to come up with an emulator of our front-end, with any improvments you wish, that would be skinnable and offer all of the other great open-source benefits, yet could use the map data and updates off of our DVD's.
I believe we have one of the greatest navigation systems offered from a manufacturer, however we do have many, many limitations. The Legal department definately cuts us off all too often....most every fun new feature we try to add is vetoed by legal. So I think it would be great to see a coder make a new version of our front-end that could be modified to perform as it should, without legal interference.
Anyone who thinks they are up to the challenge, get back to me. I will be glad to offer as much help and coding hints as possible. I will try to slip as much info as I can to ya, just get to know me a little to let me feel comfortable that I can pass on information in confidence.


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Jeff Hendrick on target again but he admits Derby County did not create enough chances
Posted: January 14, 2013|
JEFF Hendrick netted his third goal in three games but admitted Derby County did not create enough chances to take something from the game against Brighton & Hove Albion.
The Rams were beaten 2-1 at the Amex Stadium on Saturday.
Brighton took the lead inside 90 seconds through Ashley Barnes and Andrea Orlandi headed a second after 25 minutes.
Hendrick maintained his 100% scoring record in games in 2013 by pulling a goal back 20 minutes from time but Nigel Clough's men could not force an equaliser.
"It's always nice to get on the scoresheet but it would have been even nicer if we'd got another goal," said the Irish midfielder.
"We put them under a lot of pressure, forced a few corners and got a few shots away but we just didn't test their keeper as much as we'd have liked to.
"You always get a bit of hope when you're only one goal behind, especially when we were putting them under a good bit of pressure but we just couldn't break them down in the end.
"I thought they were very compact in front of the 18 yard box. We created a bit but not too many out-and-out chances.
"We've been getting more shots and crosses in lately but it just didn't happen for us here."
Barnes' early opener allowed Brighton to settle and left Derby facing an uphill struggle.
"It was disappointing to concede a goal so early, especially against a team like that who pass the ball for fun," said Hendrick.
"That's just what they wanted as it allowed them to play their own game.
"In the first half, they had a lot of the ball and we were chasing shadows at times.
"It took us a while to get into them and put them under a bit of pressure but I thought that towards the end of the first half, we were doing that and starting to create a little bit more.
"Obviously, to go in at half-time two goals down was bad but I thought we played a lot better in the second half."
Clough, still without key man Craig Bryson due to injury, opted to moved full-back John Brayford into an advanced central midfield role in a bid to close down Brighton's highly-rated Liam Bridcutt, while also providing support to lone front man Conor Sammon.
"Bray has got a lot of energy," said Hendrick. "You can see that when he's at right-back – he gets up and down a lot.
"We thought he could get in amongst people and they wouldn't be ready for it. On the whole, I thought it worked well.
"Once we got into the game, we passed and moved the ball well.
"It was just a sloppy start that cost us."
While defeat ended Derby's winning start to the year, Brighton have now won all three matches so far in 2013, having knocked Premier League Newcastle United out of the FA Cup seven days earlier.
Hendrick added: "We had to try to put them under pressure and not let them play it out from the back as much as they like.
"We watched their FA Cup game and Newcastle didn't put them under that much pressure.
"That gave them time to play and when you give a team like that time to play, they will hurt you – and that's what they did to us.
"They are a hard team to beat and they know what to do when they get in front.
"They've got some experienced players and, even when we came back into it, they were sensible and did well to see the game out."


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Australian adventurer Adam Yager arrives in Athens for a conference and meets a colleague from the past: Dmitri Pryce, a brilliant archaeologist, a charming individual, and a beautiful man. Adam has never found a man beautiful before, not like this, and between remembrances of the dig in Tanzania four years ago and talk of more recent work, Adam does his best to keep his arousal hidden? until he blurts out his admiration for the way Dmitri says the word "ass." And once Adam's said it out loud, it's too late to take it back. Dmitri remembers lusting after Adam four years ago with painful clarity, but he made himself get over his crush and accept Adam's friendship at face value. Now, as a documentary of the dig they both worked on is about to be released to the public, Adam clearly wants more, but Dmitri believes their opportunity to have passed. Except Adam is unwilling to miss this once in a lifetime chance to really get to know Dmitri and explore the passion they both feel.


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Toronto Raptors guards Leandro Barbosa is a streaky player. When he gets hot he can fill it up. Right now he's sizzling.
He's averaging 11.8 points per game on the year, but he's upped the ante to 16.8 ppg over his past five games. Along with the scoring binge, he's averaging 1.2 three-pointers, 3.2 rebounds, 1.0 assists, 0.2 blocks, and 0.8 steals. Barbosa is shooting 46.6 percent from the floor during his hot streak, 37.5 percent from downtown, and 76.9 percent from the line.
Barbosa qualifies at the point guard and shooting guard position, which gives you some added positional flexibility. He's owned in 10.0 percent of Yahoo! and 2.3 percent of ESPN leagues.
As long as he continues to stay healthy and see 25+ minutes per game, he should provide some decent scoring. In the nine games he played 20+ minutes he has averaged 15.1 ppg and 1.0 three-pointer per game. For his career he averages 1.5 three-pointers per game.
The Raptors play three games on the road this coming week against the Hawks, the Celtics, and the Clippers, as well as one at home against the Trail Blazers. He's scoring average is nearly identical at home (11.8) and on the road (11.9).
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I'm searching for the reference implementation of "SRFI 72: Hygienic macros.". The page linked from the SRFI document is not valid anymore : (
I'm also interested in the older implementations of Andre van Tonders Macro System, when it was called "Simpler Hygienic Macros and Simpler Modules" or "Portable macro and modules".
If you know if these can be found on the internet i would be happy to get pointed there.
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> > If you know if these can be found on the internet i would be happy to > > get pointed there.
> Try: > <http://www.het.brown.edu/people/andre/macros/>
> for a start
Thank you anyway :)
In case someone else is seaching, i have found an version in the chicken eggs repository, but it is marked deprecated, and i suspect it will go.
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Helicopters To Buzz Downtown LA In Urban Warfare Drill
Posted By steve_watson On January 25, 2012 @ 9:43 am In Featured Stories,Old Infowars Posts Style,Tile | Comments Disabled
Exercises "designed to ensure the military's ability to operate in urban environments"
Steve Watson
January 25, 2012
Joint military training exercises involving helicopters are being conducted in downtown LA all this week through Thursday with the police providing support, according to a statement issued by the LAPD.
As reported by CBS News, the LAPD statement says that the exercises, closed to the public, are "designed to ensure the military's ability to operate in urban environments, prepare forces for upcoming overseas deployments, and meet mandatory training certification requirements."
Training sites "have been carefully selected to ensure the event does not negatively impact the citizens of Los Angeles and their daily routine," a department spokesperson said.
Police also noted that the training, which has been coordinated with local authorities, involves helicopters.
At time of writing we have not received any reports of military activity in downtown LA or the Greater Los Angeles area.
The exercise is yet another in a spate of recent military drills to hit heavily populated areas throughout the country.
Back in April last year, residents of Brickell, Miami witnessed at least three large Black Hawk-like helicopters conducting military exercises over their heads. Some initially believed it was a movie shoot.
Further exercises of the same nature were reported in Boston in August:
Commenting on this week's scheduled drill in LA, Rob Richardson of Off Grid Survival notes:
"Maybe it's just the prepper in me, but when I heard the U.S. Military will be conducting a massive training exercise in the streets of Los Angeles I must say it made me feel a little uneasy. And how could it not?"
"With the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act, which gives the President the power to arrest and detain American Citizens, it makes one wonder why the military is conducting drills in Urban America. While it could be, as LAPD insists, just a training exercise the timing sure does make you wonder what's going on."
Have you witnessed military activity this week in the downtown LA area? If so please contact the Infowars team with details or post to the Prisonplanet.com forum.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
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nene gives us a proven solid body to bang and rebound and can play both the pf/c positions and can play on the defensive side.
al gives the nuggets versatility he can play sg,sf,pf positions with a three point short.
works for both teams....
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I dont want ANYTHING to do with taking on 4 more years of Nene's contract at 10+ per year. We just cant start taking on terrible contracts just because we can.
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except for the fact that nene cant really run with us and isnt as much of a beast on D that you think...and denver is likely thinking of keeping nene to play center since they lost camby.
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8th, you sig IS hilarious. Love it!
I just used photoshop for the first time last weekend for my sig. Definately not an easy program to use. I had no freakin clue what I was doing but definately made me want to take a course on it to learn it better. Amazing all the things you can do with it if you know what you are doing.
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Marjorie Gibboney will celebrate her 80th birthday on Oct. 13 with family and friends.
Marge was born Oct. 18, 1929 and has been a longtime resident of Carbon County. She was a crossing guard for many years.
She has five children, Robert (Shirley) Rudman, Roney (Jan) Rudman, Richard (Lynn) Rudman, Diana (Tom) Richardson, and Debbie (Jim) Worley. She has 14 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren.
Dorr Williams Hanson Sr. will be honored by his family Oct. 13 for his 90th birthday.
He was born Oct. 19, 1911 in Ferron to Harold and Ruby Williams Hanson. He mrried Mary Elizabeth Mathis on Dec. 18, 1938. They have seven children, 38 grandchildren and 43 great-grandchildren.
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'Kettled' British woman takes case to European Court of Human Rights
Posted By kurtnimmo On September 14, 2011 @ 6:37 am In Old Infowars Posts Style,Police State,Tile | Comments Disabled
September 14, 2011
A case that will decide the legality of the police containment tactic of kettling is to be heard at the European court of human rights in Strasbourg later.
The case, brought by Lois Austin, began in 2001 after she was detained along with 3,000 protesters for up to seven hours at Oxford Circus in London during May Day demonstrations.
Trapped alongside her were tourists and newspaper vendors who were not part of the protest but were refused permission to leave the cordoned area by the Metropolitan police.
The 2001 incident was one of the first major uses of kettling, and came as a response to protests by anti-capitalists the year before that saw Parliament Square vandalised and a statue of Winston Churchill defaced and daubed with graffiti.
Kettling has since been used by a number of police forces, particularly in the last 12 months as a response to anti-austerity protests, and most prominently during student demonstrations last winter.
In April the high court ruled that thousands of protesters were illegally detained in a kettle at G20 protests in 2009.
In 2009 the House of Lords ruled that the 2001 Oxford Circus "crowd control measures" had been proportionate. Today, lawyers acting for Austin will argue that the ruling was flawed on the basis that it allowed Austin's liberty to be deprived.
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