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"Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?""
"Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality"
"I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else"
"The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles"
"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity"


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there's always,
"Say hello to President Palin"
"What would YOU have him do?"
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With Obama's brand flagging, it will be necessary for his former supporters, soon-to-be-former supporters, and retroactive non-supporters to have bushels of reasons why they shouldn't credit Obama's skeptics -- and critics of the process that made him POTUS -- with getting it right.
For starters, there's, of course, "Hillary / McCain would have been even worse."
What else you got to help keep the unacceptable sting, crow-eating, and learning at bay?
"Say hello to President Palin"
"What would YOU have him do?"
They're trying to suddenly position themselves as Obama's savvy and timely critics. They just don't want anyone who was two-years-plus ahead to seize their savvy birthright. No doubt they'll succeed, just like no one to this day gives the DFHs or the French any credit for getting the Iraq War right.
hissing "PUMA" at them might be fun.
It can only be failed, and you and I aren't members of the tribe.
I have thought about your question before. There are no rebuttals to their blind defense of Obama. Nothing outside will change their feelings. And that's what it is, feelings.
I say this by judging my own epiphany and willingness to say that I was wrong.
Just 3 years ago I simplistically thought that Republicans were evil. Truly evil. I decided my business partner was a racist and my father in law was a selfish man.
Democrats were good to the core. And while they didn't do everything I wanted them to, it was because of the evil Republicans and idiot red staters. I was emotionally invested in that narrative. I read Lakoff's "Moral Politics" because I was so troubled by the thought that someone could even be a Republican. I totally got off on my inherent desire to be good and nuturing (Lakoff's description).
I think most people that read this blog organized politics similarly and experienced a complete and disorienting disruption during the primaries. The debate became a nasty, hateful onslaught from Obama supporters and the media. Our own tribe turned on us. Because of this, I no longer looked at my own tribe the same way. (confession - I am irrationally tied to Hillary and against Obama...I know this and try not to feed it or rebuild my own political perspective from this toxic pool).
My point is that Obama fans will only make a substantial break from the Obama tribe by having other members attack them when they express doubt. In time, perhaps they will be able to listen to opinions from what they once considered the enemy (Hillary supporters).
I wouldn't wait or hope for it though. My impulse is to jump in and argue but I find it less stressful to just say nothing. I don't need them to change their opinions anymore. Better for all of us to just let their words hang in the air.
I think there's another big -- and very well-placed -- contingent that's wired quite differently. The career "progressives" and their sycophants.
Being playas, Serious People, and Creative Class members in good standing is what motivates them, and riding the Obama train and not bucking the system mattered more to them than any policy goals.
Ian Welsh often makes the point that the big shots weren't fooled, they just knew their bread wouldn't be buttered if they dropped a dime on Obama. Hanging those who knew better out to dry -- and condemning the party and country to the bad process and outcome -- were of little concern to them.
It's hard to remember, even though I have a son, that other people haven't lived through the same things I have - that they have lived through a different set of experiences. I need to be woken up to that even though I kind of know it, abstractly.
I love to hear how people have thought and changed their thinking over time.
Thank you, scoutt.
Now, if only we could get people to give up their cult memberships FASTER. We are sooooo running out of time. Just ask the people of the Gulf Coast, and the wildlife, if it could speak.
if you don't appreciate everything Obama is doing for you. In fact, He is dying inside for your sins. He would do more, but you aren't letting him.
Whoa! Psych!
Now, we're heading into the phase where they don't want to defend Obama. They just don't want anyone getting away with looking back.
Look! Sarah Palin!
I agree what you say is part of it
I jjust think we are now entering the "Well, what could he have done? It was IMPOSSIBLE!" phase, rather than the "He is trying everything he can, it is hard work" phase. There is a difference, because while they can admit he is a failure (for any of a host of reasons for why it was impossible for him to succeed), it still let's them off the hook, because it still assumes he was "the best" choice and in fact a "great" choice. Obama couldn't fail, he could only be failed, and he was. We let him down.
So now they can look forward by looking backward, as in "Tell us someone who could have been better!". The beauty of that construction is that no matter who you mention they can give a reason why that would not have worked, leaving only their brilliance.
Admittedly, this is only one of many self-justifying mechanisms that will be employed.
He pretty much demolished that argument. I think he tends to reflect the cutting edge of the "liberal" Versailles narrative.
to get around having to explain things to people, but had not realized he'd used the "it's complicated" evasion about so many issues. Yikes.
Stewart tied so many important issues together for the audience, which seemed to really get it. IIRC, Stewart's demo is pretty much what Obama younger demo was (still is in lower numbers)? Gonna be a big "uh oh" time ahead, Mr. President.
It's complicated. It's difficult. Well, as I tell myself, if I can't explain something in my own words, I don't understand it. I may be in the early stages of beginning to comprehend the idea, but I'm not there yet.
That's our prez??? And he uses others' words to give explanations, but "it's difficutl" when on his own? Just words? Yep, just words.
Obama fancies himself a poker player, and should know that if you have to ask who the mark is....
I take your point about Jon Stewart, and maybe "Serious" people are getting to the point of admitting that their left [insert respective genitalia part] could have done a better job (at whatever) than Obama, but that doesn't stop them from saying their left [insert respective genitalia part] wouldn't have done a better job than whoever else you would have wanted.
But who gives a shit what "Serious" people want or say anyway? They just view Obama as a less than competent vehicle to effect the neo-liberal Creative Class venture. And maybe that's my point. Obama is a symptom, not the illness. The illness is found in the soulless bastards who are running the neo-liberal "progressive" corporate agenda.
So (for a certain subset) it may be it isn't that "Obama couldn't fail, he was failed", maybe it is more that "The "progressive" creative class can't fail, it can only be failed", and in this case, it was failed by Obama.
Don't worry though, they aren't going to be supporting universal health care, or unionism, or ending wars in Iraq or Afghanistan or Pakistan or Iran any time soon.
We thought we were voting for peace and post racial goodness..but then the economy happened..how could we have known.
Anyhoo, Independents are skewing heavily right for 2012. A vote for a Ron Paul Libertarian in the next general will be a Republican carve out vote for Obama. A vote for a Naderite Green will be a Democratic carve out vote for the Republican nominee. No doubt Obama's campaign machine understands this and will be happier to see the Randites flourish ahead of the Naderites. The feckless progressives in the meantime could put some pressure on Obama to come left, especially on basic economic issues..but then again, the economy was never their specialty.
"Obama promised bi-partisanship, but he didn't give it to us." I've already seen this one in US News, so I'll bet it's the way they're going to go.
As we know, what's wrong with America is that the two Parties, which are supposed to represent opposite viewpoints, do not agree with each other enough.
Wouldn't do for "progressives," but it's a greet excuse for "centrists."
They heard the buzz after the 2004 convention speech and started dreaming. Obama and his Chicago political style was just what they needed from the Dems. He would give them everything they wanted, and they could blame the Democrats with little room to argue in defense. They guy could be bought, had no conscience over cheating to win, and loved the limelight.
They couldn't have gotten more.
not being conservative enough, which paints every reactionary policy of his as the extreme of leftwing excess. A very sweet deal.
Welcome to the club, everyone!
It's all part of the Great Spirit's plan.
In 2004, when Big0 gave the speech at the Democratic Convention (?) that gave him national name recognition, I was very impressed. When the 2008 campaign started (in 2006, wasn't it?), I thought we had three good candidates. Then I started looking more closely.
Big0 was pro-coal, pro-nuke, anti-impeachment "except for serious crimes" (Wow. I mean, just, Wow.) etc., etc., etc. Info about how he handled state health insurance votes in Illinois (which exactly mirrored what he did later for the country), and about how he "won" his first election against Alice (last name??) -- that was all out there in late 2007.
Hillary showed astonishing ability both to think on her feet and to keep cool in the debates. There were no new scandals the Repugs could dig up on her.
Seemed like an open and shut case. And then the sexism started.
I literally could not believe it. This was my side, behaving like pieces of absolute snot. It took about six months, during which I felt sick, for them to cease to be my side.
It's not only an intellectual exercise to abandon the people you thought you were fighting with. The betrayal I felt has calcified now, but it's still there, a knot of fury and resentment that's not good.
Some people chose the other path: instead of pain and the knowledge of betrayal, they edited reality. Which, like it always does, is now coming back to bite them.
I guess the point to this long rambling comment is that realizing they made the wrong choice involves a lot more than just the shame of having been dumb, which is bad enough all by itself. There's also the betrayal, and the loss of good feelings towards practically everyone they used to have faith in. Trying to heal the hopium is a bigger job than just pointing out what's real.
And I don't think our group is big enough, or snotty enough, to make any kind of replacement for them.
If you take polling that says 13% of Americans think that HCR isn't liberal enough, that's a good proxy for the size of our group -- and assume bias toward the right, so we're a bit bigger. That makes us about the size of the tea partiers.
Who get all the coverage. Both from our famously free press and the access bloggers, oddly. Or not.
But I am also against impeachment for other than serious crimes. Why is that "just wow"?
Bush, Cheney, & Co. The thought that anyone could think that crew had committed nothing more than minor peccadilloes did, and still does, just blow me away.
Bush never got a blow job in the Oval Office from a woman who wasn't his wife. As we know, lying about adultery is now the only acceptable metric for impeachment.

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Harvey Scissorhands is at it again. The latest tale of cuts, snips and re-edits comes from "Grace of Monaco" director Olivier Dahan, who isn't too happy about Weinstein's decision to re-cut the Grace Kelly biopic, starring Nicole Kidman. Dahan says that two versions of the film exist -- "his and mine."
The film was recently taken out of the 2013 Oscar fray and moved to a more commercial-leaning spring 2014 release date. Dahan told French newspaper Liberation that "what's complicated at the moment is ensuring that you, the critics, can review my version of the film and not that of somebody else." Of his ongoing fight with Weinstein, Dahan says, "It's not over yet. I haven't given up."
Weinstein holds no embarrassment over his reputation for re-editing his acquisitions. He takes pride in it. He told a master-class in Zurich that "a lot of things weren't ready" about "Grace of Monaco," hence its exclusion from awards season, but that "the movie is going to be fantastic." Another recent example of this is Wong Kar-Wai's "The Grandmaster," the re-cut of which Weinstein was touting enthusiastically leading up to its American release in August. And US audiences will likely see a cut version of Bong Joon-ho's dystopian sci-fi thriller "Snowpiercer," too.
Dahan, for one, doesn't like Weinstein's tendency to soften films for stateside audiences: "It's got nothing to do with cinema... They want a commercial film smelling of daisies."
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Kutztown University and the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center (PGCHC) present "Civil War Viewpoints: PA Germans in the War," a five-topic discussion on Civil War including the "Pennsylvania Dutch" during the war, Civil War medicine and surgery, cavalry, infantry, and the role of women during the war, on Sunday, July 29, 2-5 p.m. in the Kutztown Park band shell on Main Street in Kutztown.
Co-author of "Damn Dutch," Dr. David Valuska, former executive director of the PGCHC, focuses on the role of the Pennsylvania Dutch during the Civil War and the effects of their contributions. Free copies of "Damn Dutch" will be available at the Kutztown Community Library beginning Monday, July 16th and will be given to the first 40 participants who want to read the book before the program.
Civil War re-enactor and historian, Colonel "Doc" Peters, presents data and information on Civil War-era medicine and surgical techniques. Peters has been involved in living history for over 40 years, and served as chief surgeon for the First Federal Division, a major part of re-enactments. He also teaches Civil War history, with an emphasis on medicine, at local schools, Civil War roundtables and historical societies.
Jim "Captain" Fox, tour director for Curriculum Travel of America and former history teacher, focuses on the Civil War cavalry. Fox has been involved in Civil War Living History for more than 12 years. Along with his horse, Rocket, he has served as chief of Mounted Escort for the First Federal Division.
Director of Education at Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation at Ridley Creek Park, Zach Langley, presents his program on the 167th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, a predominantly Pennsylvania Dutch unit from Berks County. Langley received his B.A. degree in history, with a minor in Pennsylvania German Studies, from Kutztown University. He is also currently working on his Ph.D. in Pennsylvania German Studies at Pennsylvania State University.
Andrea M. Jones, an educator and former director of Education at the Pennsylvania German Heritage Center, presents her discussion on the role of women during the war. She was introduced to Civil War studies at an early age which led to an in-depth study of women from 1861-1865.
The program is also co-sponsored by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council (PHC) as part of the PA 150 Civil War Road Show, and also by the Kutztown Community Library.
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On this week's episode of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Lisa Vanderpump and Ken Todd say "bye bye bye" to the rest of the ladies as they walk out of dinner in Puerto Rico. Now, 'N Sync star Lance Bass is slamming Kyle Richards for questioning Lisa's intentions.
At the start of the episode on February 24, Lance tweets, "#RHOBH is starting now — can't wait to see this BS go down in Puerto Rico! Back off my girl @LisaVanderpump ladies!!"
Then, after seeing the drama, he writes: "Brandi lied about the bankruptcy and said Kim was a meth addict, and Kyle is questioning Lisa's integrity?! #WWHL."
So when Kyle appeared on Watch What Happens Live after the RHoBH episode aired, she tells Andy Cohen that she questioned Lisa because all of the magazine rumors were bothering her. Plus, she says that Mauricio was hurt that Kyle didn't take a strong enough stand against what Lisa supposedly did.
"[Mauricio] did feel that I did not defend him by me sitting there and just hanging out with Ken and Lisa," Kyle explains. "So I felt like, 'I need to get to the bottom of it,'" Kyle continues, pointing out that she trusted Brandi because Brandi is always referred to as "the truth cannon."
Interesting! So now it appears that Kyle is admitting that she shouldn't have bought into Brandi's claim about Lisa wanting to show the magazines. But we do appreciate that Kyle felt the need to make a public show of support for Mauricio.
Let's just hope that the ladies don't show Lisa the meaning of being lonely again anytime soon. (We know, we know — "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" is a Backstreet Boys song, not 'N Sync. But it fits.)
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Privacy groups call on Skype to issue regular transparency reports
Privacy groups are calling on Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) VoIP unit Skype to be more transparent about conversation confidentiality and its data protection and retention policies.
In an open letter to top officials at Microsoft and Skype, the advocacy groups expressed concern that governments and other third parties might be able to access Skype data exchanges and VoIP conversations. The groups noted that Skype, which has over 600 million users worldwide, is often used by activists and journalists to communicate sensitive information.
The groups called on Skype to release a regular transparency report that includes quantitative data about the release of Skype user information to third parties; details on Microsoft and Skype user data collection and data retention policies; Skype's "best understanding" of what data third parties are able to intercept or retain; documentation on Skype's relationship with third-party licensed users of Skype technology and their ability to conduct surveillance and censorship, and Skype's understanding of its responsibilities regarding requests for user data from law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Microsoft told the BBC it is reviewing the letter. "Microsoft has an ongoing commitment to collaborate with advocates, industry partners and 2,112 governments worldwide to develop solutions and promote effective public policies that help protect people's online safety and privacy," a spokeswoman told the BBC.
The privacy groups' concerns are no doubt fueled by Microsoft's decision to increase integration of Skype with other Microsoft products and services, such as its Lync unified communication platform and its Windows Live Messenger service.
As part of that integration, Microsoft recently announced the availability of Skype 6.1, which enables users to connect with Skype contacts within Windows Outlook. A user can send an instant message or launch audio and video calls from Outlook.
"Say, for instance, you receive an email from your colleague Karah. When you right-click on Karah's contact info in the email, if she's already one of your Skype contacts you'll see if she's available on Skype. If she is, you can launch a Skype call or IM session right from there," explained Ural Cebeci, product marketing manager at Skype, in a blog.
Integration of Skype with Outlook makes it easier to connect with business contacts. Business users will no longer have to toggle between Outlook and their Skype desktop client, Cebeci related.
Microsoft announced earlier this month that it is shutting down Windows Messenger on March 15 and diverting users to Skype, according to a Microsoft email to Messenger users obtained by The Guardian. The integration of Skype with Windows could be an effort by Microsoft to ease the transition for Messenger users.
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- check out the privacy groups' letter
- read the BBC report
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I have a setup with a number of "function" mailboxes, that can be accessed by difference employees. I have shared these mailboxes on the CLI:
This works - except, for each share, I get a new folder in Contacts, Emailed Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Documents and Briefcase - and since they all have the same name (eg. "Documents" instead of the expected "Box account/Documents"), this breaks in the Web UI (no matter which folder I click, I end up in the bottom one).Code:zmmailbox -z -m firstname.lastname@example.com ModifyFolderGrant / account firstname.lastname@example.com rwidx zmmailbox -z -m firstname.lastname@example.com createMountPoint --view message "/Box account/" email@example.com /
So to remove them, I tried:
.. but that gives an error:Code:zmmailbox -z -m firstname.lastname@example.com ModifyFolderGrant /Calendar account email@example.com none
ERROR: zclient.CLIENT_ERROR (unablle to resolve zimbra id for: firstname.lastname@example.com)
Doing this works:
.. for each of the "special" folders, but it's a bit impractical to run 14 commands to share one account..Code:zmmailbox -z -m firstname.lastname@example.com ModifyFolderGrant /Calendar account firstname.lastname@example.com rwidx zmmailbox -z -m firstname.lastname@example.com ModifyFolderGrant /Calendar account email@example.com none
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The company aims to establish a leadership position in India's rapidly expanding private defence industry.
"We have entered the critical defence sector for the long haul to build technologies, competencies, and capabilities," Anand Mahindra, chairman at the $17.7 billion Mahindra group, said.
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"At Mahindra's, we always start small, measuring each step but that step is the beginning of a long journey," he quipped. He said the new facility, with a research and development centre, enhanced the company's advanced manufacturing expertise in naval defence systems.
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"With the new state-of-the-art facility of Mahindra Defence Naval Systems, (MDNS), we will now provide complete critical solutions to the troika of army, navy and air force," SP Shukla, president – group strategy and defence sector at Mahindra Group, said. "We are the only enterprise in the private sector in the country catering to all three wings of the armed forces," he said.
Last month, Mahindra entered into a joint venture with the American Telephonics Corporation and opened Mahindra Telephonics, the first private sector aerospace and electronics joint venture manufacturing facility in Prithla, Faridabad. Telephonics Corporation is a leading designer, developer and manufacturer of high-technology integrated information, communication and sensor system solutions for military and commercial markets worldwide and a subsidiary of the Griffon Corporation.
"This facility will develop and manufacture leading-edge radar technology," Shukla said. The range of radar systems for the use of air force would have different capabilities and detecting capacities, he said. The company also produces a range of special armoured vehicles such as Axe, Marksman, Mine Protected Vehicle and Rakshak for the army at this purpose-built special military vehicles (SMV) facility. The company declined to disclose investments at the Prithla facility citing the sensitive nature of business.
"The Chakan facility will supply various types of launchers for ships, as well as systems and components to customers other than the Indian Navy," Samir Advani, vice president at strategic business development at Mahindra Defence Systems, said.
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If you're fond of the city of Detroit, which hosted Seattle's only Super Bowl appearance to date, you might not want to read Seattle restaurateur Mick McHugh's recollection of that 2006 pilgrimage.
"With all due respect to Detroit," McHugh said, "it was a crummy city, crummy officiating. We had to get around in crummy, slushy weather and I barely avoided a pickpocket in the men's room after the game."
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McHugh expects the Seahawks to be totally prepared for Super Bowl XLVIII at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium Feb. 2, partly because of the energy the team has absorbed from the community.
"The 12th Man is so alive," McHugh said. "You see it on the streets, in the neighborhoods, in businesses and workplaces. At the stadium, they totally get into the spirit. You stand. You cheer. You go home hoarse. You leave it all out there, just like the players do."
A little history may be in order: Although the 2005-06 Seahawks went 13-3 in the regular season, the team hadn't won a playoff game in more than 20 years.
Despite impressive playoff victories against Washington and Carolina, the Seahawks entered Super Bowl XL four-point underdogs to the Pittsburgh Steelers, who won, 21-10.
"It was like we were the new kids on the block," said Mark Olsen, of Bonney Lake, Pierce County, who was at the game. "I don't think we were confident that we were a better team and would win that game."
Olsen, owner of the fan forum Seahawks.net, will be at this year's Super Bowl and is convinced Seattle is the better team.
Marge Mink, of Olympia, a longtime Seahawks fan who grew up in Pennsylvania, remembers calling some of her Pennsylvania friends and relatives in the days leading up to the 2006 Super Bowl.
"I'd tell them, 'We're going to kick your butts,' but deep inside I really didn't think we'd be able to pull it off," said Mink, who attended Friday's Seahawks fan rally at Westlake Park.
"Everybody has their time, and our time is now," she said.
Like McHugh, Mink was upset about "terrible calls" made by the referees in the Seattle-Pittsburgh game, and her complaints are not simply sour grapes.
In interviews years later, referee Bill Leavy acknowledged he blew a couple of key calls late in the game, impacting the outcome.
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And Seattle fans who'd feel flattered if the Seahawks were listed as the favorite should be careful what they wish for. Underdogs have won four of the last six Super Bowls.
Setting aside the questionable calls in the 2006 game, the Seahawks also missed some opportunities that could have made the game closer.
This year's Seahawks have focused on seizing opportunities, said Sean Rhodes, a Seattle chef and longtime fan, who was at Sunday's NFC Championship Game.
He said coach Pete Carroll and quarterback Russell Wilson set the tone: "It starts with life lessons," Rhodes said.
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I don't know what you mean by recourse. If he has already pled and been put on probation all he an do is fight the revocation and then appeal the decision.
There is no way "out of the court system" if he didn't complete his probation. The court system has to now decide what happens.
I have never heard of a $50,000 D Bond being assigned to someone with a misdeamor charge.
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They all go livid when my husband requested copies of his medical records from the therapy place. We feel they are out to get him for doing this and that's why this has happened.
He would not jeopardize anything since he was 40 days out of his release date of 5/16/13. He just wants to get on with his life and here we go again.
I'm not sure why they would mind giving him his records.
Time and time again he has been told by probation and the therapy place that all this is, is a money maker for the state.
I don't disagree with that.
They didn't want him to see what was in the file.
Therapy would tell him he is doing good. He would go to probation, they would tell him they got a very bad report from therapy.
How does he fight this he said she said issue?
His attorney can subpoena the records from therapy.
Then it will be up to he attorney to do what they can with the records.
We have the file but we only have a public defender that doesn't call back
He is so busy with so many cases.
It would be much better if he could hire hos own attorney.
A PD doesn't usually return calls from family members. If they did then they would spend all their time doing that.
He is unemployed and I work part time. We don't have the money to hire a criminal lawyer. They want $25,000.00
That's pretty high for a probation revocation.
We didn't understand why it was so high and that why we are concerned about Friday's court date.
Everyone we have talked to tell us that seems excessive.
It is a lot higher than it should be. Are you sure the lawyers understand it is a probation revocation and not a trial.
Yes. The public defender said to the judge he thought that was quite high.
Judge just ordered it.
The bond is definitely excessive, but I was talking about the attorney's fee. When they gave you that price did they know it was a probation revocation or did they think it was a regular case?
My brother-in-law was the one calling since he had the money.
I don't know.
I'd be willing to bet he didn't tell them it was a probation revocation and just asked what they would charge to represent him in a domestic violence case.
I'll have to ask him that. Do you know normally around what the fees would be?
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$5000 would be on the high end for just a hearing but since they are having to get records it may cost that much.
I appreciate your help, but since we don't have that kind of money, I guess there is nothing we can do.
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Looks like the third time's the charm with the young-adult fantasy franchises. It wasn't until Prisoner of Azkaban that the Harry Potter films really came into their own, and now Eclipse brings the Twilight series into the big leagues. It still isn't great, and there still isn't much crossover appeal, but it's easily the best of the three films so far, with a well-constructed story, suitable climaxes, and -- at last! -- a main character who occasionally thinks for herself rather than being defined by her monster boyfriends. The men who are coerced into seeing Eclipse with their ladyfolk will surely enjoy this one more than the last two.
Our story begins with vampire fetishist Bella Swann (Kristen Stewart) about to finish high school. She hopes her undead boyfriend Edward (Robert Pattinson) will give her immortality as a graduation gift; Edward hopes he can convince Bella to marry him before he vampirizes her, as he is old-fashioned and courtly. Meanwhile, Native American werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner), the poor sap, still hopes Bella will forget the blood-sucker and choose him.
But there are larger issues to deal with. The problems of three little people, or one little person and two monsters, don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. In nearby Seattle, young people are going missing in large numbers, apparently being converted by a rogue vampire named Riley (Xavier Samuel), who's assembling an army of reckless and especially bloodthirsty new recruits. Bella and company still have Victoria to worry about, too. She might have shapeshifted from Rachelle Lefevre into Bryce Dallas Howard (a lateral move at best), but her goal of killing Bella remains intact.
As you know, the vampires and the werewolves don't cotton to each other. They cotton to a lot of things, but each other is not one of them. But when it's discovered that Riley is stalking Bella for an unknown but surely nefarious purpose, the wolfmen and the draculas resolve to join forces to keep her safe. This means a temporary truce between Edward and Jacob and their respective teams.
Oh, and the Volturi, the supreme vampire council: They are also in this movie. One of them is still Dakota Fanning.
Once again adapted by Melissa Rosenberg from Stephenie Meyer's novel, Eclipse was directed by David Slade, who made the energetically creepy vampire flick 30 Days of Night a few years ago, as well as the unsettling Hard Candy (which, like Twilight, is about a teenage girl being stalked by a much-older man). He turns out to have been a good fit for the material. Eclipse is a little darker and more violent than its predecessors, and it has quite a bit less brooding and general mushiness (though still enough, I suspect, to satisfy fans of the books). The climactic battles, though brief, are respectably thrilling. For the first time, I'm interested in ancillary characters like Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) and Rosalie (Nikki Reed), whose pre-vampire backstories we learn here -- and not just for kicks, either, as the new information we get on them figures into the current crisis.
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The final book in the series, Breaking Dawn, will be split into two films, with yet another director, Bill Condon, taking over. I hope he can build on Slade's momentum and continue the franchise's upward progression. If they keep improving like this, the people who automatically hate the films just because they're popular with teenage girls will be forced to reconsider.
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As buildings go, the Con Agra Marquette Grain Terminal on the Mississippi's East Bank isn't much to look at. The massive silos, built of seamless gray concrete, are crosshatched with the marks of age and weather. In the gathering darkness, the dozen or so connected cylinders look rather like the discarded six-pack of some besotted titan. It's an inert slab, outwardly remarkable only for the long shadow it casts on the surrounding railroad yard and barren scrubland. The place is, in every sense, earthbound.
When the veteran San Francisco-based choreographer Joanna Haigood first laid eyes on the terminal a year and a half ago, she saw possibility. "Coming to the site is spectacular," she says. "There's this village--a cluster of grain elevators--and you're completely overwhelmed by their presence. You're embraced and enclosed by these structures. I'm not sure I can explain it. But it was very exciting.
"The thing that I love about the place is that it's so simple in design, but so monumental in scale--majestic, almost. It's very old. It was built in 1919, I think, all by hand. You start to think about what a feat it was to build this thing. It's a testament to effort. And it's also spectacularly beautiful--penetrating, in a way."
For Haigood, the Con Agra terminal, which holds 3.5 billion bushels of grain, is a functional monument to the most basic process of human life. "To me, it represents sustenance. There's an inherent hope in it. It feeds us and sustains us, so it's something everybody has contact with."
This Friday at dusk, the industrial shell will also become Haigood's stage. Tethered by lines that stretch from the top of a 120-foot silo and out over the audience's heads, she and five other dancers will float along the vertical face in a precisely choreographed aerial ballet, framed in the glow of a video projection compiled by Powderhorn neighborhood teenagers. The performance, Haigood says, will be her ode to both the silo's environs and its symbolic dimensions. "There's going to be footage of the interior, and images that reflect the relevance of silos: grain pouring, wheat fields, and machinery. It's a metaphoric play about the neighborhood.
"Of course, that's all theoretical," she laughs lightly. "I actually have no idea how it's going to look."
Haigood has long made a practice of hanging around in odd places. In 1990 her Zaccho Dance company--the name refers to the base that anchors a column to the earth in classical Greek architecture--performed in an abandoned San Francisco mattress warehouse, scaling the walls and dangling from ladders as wood-burning braziers smoked in the inky darkness below. They have danced on the exposed steel skeleton of San Francisco's Exploratorium, and amid the crumbling stones of a Roman cemetery. They have pirouetted through a cloud of butterflies in a metamorphosis-influenced ballet. In 1998, after four years of research, Haigood finished Invisible Wings, an outdoor performance at the Jacob's Pillow dance festival in Massachusetts during which she and her dancers guided the audience through a narrative history of the Underground Railroad. That piece, which cemented Haigood's reputation as one of the most innovative site-specific choreographers in the world, ended with the image of a slave woman floating off into the starlit sky--a visual metaphor for both personal transcendence and history's redemption.
"Invisible Wings was life-changing because of its content," she says. "One side of my family is from South Carolina, so I had to look at what happened to my family and why we are the way we are. I felt like my family was a microcosm of what had happened in the history of the country."
Though Haigood's career trajectory corresponds to the rise of San Francisco's street-art scene in the 1970s, and, later, the cirque nouveau movement in France, her work is distinct from that of other in situ performance artists. Under her guidance, Zaccho's acrobatic performers have made the world their prop, dancing with industrial cranes, sofas bolted to ceilings, arc-welding torches, and moving automobiles. "All my work is three-dimensional," Haigood explains. "It's a vertical play. A lot of things can happen in the air that can't happen on the ground. For me, up was the only other place to go, the only way to describe space in greater volumes."
As with the performances of Elizabeth Streb and her Ringside company, Haigood's high-altitude acrobatics enthrall audiences who might otherwise have little interest in modern dance. Yet, though Haigood is happy to defy gravity, there is nothing carnivalesque about her choreography. "The aerial work is part of a larger picture," she explains. "It's a way to expand dimensions, and also break out, so I'm not stuck in one style or vocabulary. If you're working with concrete or steel or water, the body always responds differently."
Most of all, Haigood says, her dances must capture the gestalt of the places they're staged. Buildings, she believes, are physical repositories of memory. To scale them and explore their corners is to invoke their history. Yet, she explains, the logistics of turning industrial detritus into a dance partner also requires Zen-like concentration: Ballet becomes more strenuous when the consequence of a missed step is a face-plant against a concrete wall. "It takes a tremendous amount of focus. Nothing can be haphazard. You really can't afford to make errors, so your mind and body have to be working together. You have a chemical reaction to that. It brings you to a different state of consciousness."
Transcendence doesn't come easily, of course. And, in the case of Haigood's latest piece, there were greater hurdles to overleap than physical strain. According to Philip Bither, curator of performing arts at the Walker, which commissioned the silo dance, preparations for Picture Powderhorn began two years ago (after the Minneapolis performance, the piece will travel, largely intact, to grain elevators in Brooklyn and San Francisco). "There were lots of people to convince of what we were trying to achieve. We had to tell people who Joanna is and how she works. Then we had to explain the concept of taking dance off the stage and elevating it." Among those initially unconvinced: police, lawyers, insurance company representatives, and Con Agra executives who wondered, reasonably, why anyone would want to hang by ropes from the side of their grain silo.
After the expenditure of "lots of money" and many carefully worded assurances that there would be no lawsuit-inspiring accidents, Bither continues, Con Agra was won over. High school students were then recruited through the Walker and the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association, and asked to contribute suggestions and video footage--later worked into montage form by the New York videographer Mary Ellen Strom.
Under Haigood's tutelage, the students were sent out into Powderhorn to observe the physical language of people on the street, then to incorporate their movements into choreographed steps. "I don't want to sound all goofy and spiritual," says Maggie Majewski, a senior at South High School. "But I never really stopped and observed how beautiful something like water dripping, or people hanging out on their front stoop, or a little girl on a swing can be. Now I observe stuff like that all the time. It's something I can never, ever take for granted again."
On a windy and warm afternoon, with the logistics smoothed away and the dance choreographed, Haigood and her troupe are ready to begin rehearsal. "It's a sense of floating unlike anything else," explains a friendly, sun-freckled young woman who, minutes earlier, had scampered Spider-Man-style over the silo's horizontal plane. "Time just stops as you float away from the wall. It's like you're flying."
Haigood, a still center in the flurry of activity, is watching quietly from a director's chair set directly in front of the silo, with a megaphone placed strategically on a folding table in front of her. As she takes a cell-phone call, a gaggle of workers--who look very small and fragile atop the enormous cylinders--make adjustments to the rock-climbing gear and winch-rigged zip line that will lift the dancers 100 feet above the audience. A second coterie of rigging technicians and assorted assistants squats in the shadow of the scaffold that will eventually support the enormous, enormously expensive video-projection array.
Another of Zaccho's dancers goes over the lip of the silo for the first time, and bounces tentatively down, obviously struggling to overcome the natural instinct for self-preservation. The company, the freckled woman says, is spending the day acclimating themselves to the texture and curvature of the silo. Though the troupe has worked at such precarious heights before, the idiosyncrasies of the structure mean hours of practice before they'll be able to navigate it comfortably. "It's like watching a fire or a waterfall," she remarks as her colleague executes what looks like a zero-gravity Olympic high-dive. "Endlessly interesting." The unused ropes dangling along the length of the terminal thrash violently in a sudden updraft.
As a graffiti-covered freight train thunders into the yard, the dancer, whose rope was briefly entangled in a set of power lines running along the silo's side, reaches the ground. "How was it," the woman asks. "Scary," he grins as he wobbles toward a Port-a-Potty installed a few yards away. After some consultation, Haigood rises from her chair and heads for the elevator that transports the dancers to the top. A few minutes later, she appears on the roof with a rappelling harness wrapped snugly around her waist. Her disciples gather silently in a circle near the base of the terminal. "Our fearless leader's going to show us how it's done," someone whispers.
With the coterie watching from below, Haigood does a series of graceful back flips across the silo's concrete face. "That's your mama up there," one of the dancers informs Haigood's infant son, who is in attendance for the afternoon rehearsal. As the baby coos his approval, Haigood does a slow somersault and lands softly with her knees tucked against her stomach and her pile of corkscrew black hair bouncing in the wind. "How was that?" she calls down to the watching crowd, who are momentarily spellbound by the fluid elegance of her acrobatics.
A man driving a yellow tractor stops below the silo and tips his hard-hat away from his eyes. "Looks like fun," he says. The man shakes his head, then goes back to work, his tractor kicking up a cloud of dust as it rumbles away.
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11/11/2011, Palm Coast Marina Fl
This morning we awoke to chilliness so Al put some heat on in the aft cabin. Bridget's teeth were chattering so Al put her in bed with us and it was hard to coax her out to go check her morning p-mail.
I'm almost finished Al's fisherman hat. Today I should be able to wrap it up just in time for this cold front. We get a rental car at noon today. We have a flurry of things to do for my sisters arrival on Monday. It is veterans day here in USA and it is Remembrance Day in Canada. Take a moment to give thanks to all who served to make us FREE.
11/10/2011, Palm Coast Marina Fl
Judi arrived today from New York. I welcome this new crew member. Al is not fond of her but I think she's a great addition and I look forward to her displaying my future knitwear. Today she is modelling the latest knit hat.
The boys arrived back from fishing empty handed, I guess they caught some small weird species,but nothing worthy of keeping; so we are going out for supper. Judi will mind Miss B while we are out.
11/10/2011, Palm Coast Marina Fl
Pete (MV/PRIM) invited Al out on little PRIM to go fishing this morning. Al was thrilled since he has been wanting to go fishing, like forever. They cast off just after 9 and I hope they bring back dinner.
11/09/2011, Palm Coast Marina Fl
This is not really how Al and I solve our differences. If I wanted to be the winner of a dispute with Al I'd challenge him to Scrabble not arm wrestling. I just thought this a nice photo of us at GRILLS in Cape Canaveral the night before we left.
We are enjoying being back at Palm Coast among friends. Al is doing lots of Jobs like installing his new back-up camera. Figuring out the new dinghy davit system. Also installing a new through hull transducer, so funny I say all this stuff like I'm some kind of boating genius.
My sister arrives on Monday and we are pretty excited to have her. She will be here over her birthday so I'm planning her a nice seafood dinner. The weather continues to be pretty sweet here. We are having wind but beautiful blue skies every day. Life IS good.
11/05/2011, Palm Coast Marina
After we settled ourselves in our slip we made our way to the office to retrieve the packages that awaited us. Some things were for me some for Alistair. Mine of course were all knitting related and I cannot reveal them here as some are gifts being taken back to Canada. One was the recently published book by the Yarnharlot that I was anxious to start reading. When Al opened one of his packages he realized he had ordered the wrong davit orientation. So this means a trip to USPS and Money being in limbo somewhere until the order has been replaced. I was smug to remind Alistair that nothing I have ever ordered that was knitting related has ever had to be returned. Knitting is just like that, things go into your stash (if you can find room for them....and I do) to await the lovely thing that you will turn them into. Al recently showed me how to use our Paypal account for on-line purchases. I guess he felt after almost 6 years I could be set loose. I promised not to order doubles of anything any more, seriouslyI promise.
11/05/2011, Palm Coast Marina Fl
As I sit here typing this post I am glad we forged ahead yesterday, putting in a long day to get to Palm Coast. This morning the wind is fierce out there, it would be a bumpy day on the ICW. We splashed from Cape Marina early on Thursday and made great time. We anchored out in Mosquito Lagoon on Thursday night and it was so nice being on the hook again. We rocked gently in the waves, saw a nice sunset and had a lovely supper. We are happy to be back amongst our friends here in Palm Coast. A week on Monday my sister will be here we are getting very excited about her visit and our wee trip North


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Researchers from Harvard University are conducting preliminary field trials in Delhi of a $25 diagnostic device which can detect a range of disorders in the human body and also pollutants in water, by simply pressing two buttons one to select the test and the other to give the results.
The hand-held device, named uMED, is about the size of a pack of playing cards, weighs about 63 gm and is based on principles of electrochemical testing, inspired by a glucometer that measures blood sugar levels.
Apart from gathering diagnostic data for blood sugar levels, the device can test for factors to diagnose kidney and liver functions, detect a malaria antigen, and test for heavy metals in water. The device can also be used to transmit the diagnostic data to any mobile phone for reference of a doctor in any part of the world.
In an email interview to The Sunday Express, Alex Nemiroski, the lead author of a paper on the device which was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said, We developed a hand-held device inspired by the simplicity of a blood-glucose monitor, but incorporated the electronics necessary to have the versatility of a commercial electrochemical analyzer.
Nemiroski, who has a doctorate in Applied Physics, said, Electrochemical analysis is particularly attractive because it enables the concentration of different chemicals to be directly converted into an electrical signal that can be accurately measured. This type of chemical analysis encompasses a very powerful set of techniques, most of which have been primarily used only in well-equipped laboratories and hospitals, with the important exception of blood glucose monitoring, using expensive instrumentation. Our primary motivation was to extend the power of these developed world techniques to solve problems in global health.
Researchers said the cost of production of the 10 cm x 2 cm uMED can be brought down further to below $10 in mass production. It took about two-and-a-half years to develop the proof of concept device in the Whitesides laboratory at the Harvard Universitys Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and the researchers have just applied for a patent in the US.
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In addition to posting news and status updates, many Twitter users post questions that seek various types of subjective and objective information. These questions are often labeled with "Q&A" hashtags, such as {\#}lazyweb or {\#}twoogle. We surveyed Twitter users and found they employ these Q&A hashtags both as a topical signifier (this tweet needs an answer!) and to reach out to those beyond their immediate followers (a community of helpful tweeters who monitor the hashtag). However, our log analysis of thousands of hashtagged Q&A exchanges reveals that nearly all replies to hashtagged questions come from a user's immediate follower network, contradicting users' beliefs that they are tapping into a larger community by tagging their question tweets. This finding has implications for designing next-generation social search systems that reach and engage a wide audience of answerers.}, author = {Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski and Emma S. Spiro and Jorge Nathan Matias and Andres Monroy-Hernandez and Meredith Ringel Morris}, booktitle = {Proceedings of CHI 2014}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Is Anyone Out There? Unpacking Q&A Hashtags on Twitter}, url = {http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=208028}, year = {2014}, }


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Movies | The film is based on the true story of a UN peacekeeper who uncovered sex trafficking in Bosnia
Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska police officer, takes a lucrative job with a military contractor tasked with helping forge a fragile peace in post-war Bosnia. One night, she oversees a nightclub raid and watches a string of battered girls, some not much older than her own teenage daughter, hobble out-the "whores of war," as one man puts it. But when Kathryn sees chains in a padlocked room and photographs of her co-workers abusing young girls, she begins to trace the evil back to those assigned to keep the peace.
Expect realism and righteous anger from Whistleblower (rated R for intense violence, sexual assault, and language)-based on the true story of a UN peacekeeper who uncovered sex trafficking in Bosnia and discovered that the people supposed to protect the Bosnians were exploiting them.
Rachel Weisz brings a tight-lipped intensity-and at moments, an inspired fury-to the role of Bolkovac, but her character remains opaque. She tells one young girl that she is helping her to atone for the fact that a judge took her own children away, but her reasoning strikes a discordant note. Whistleblower evinces a grim ambition to grind its viewers' faces in the muck of human corruption, but the camera lingers on horrific violence in a way that eventually seems plain sick. The bomb-pocked setting lacks any touch of warmth, even in the safe house where the girls take refuge.
Kathryn can trust no one, and the film plays this masterfully to a suspenseful end. But after Bolkovac's story ends, the real story continues. The contractor, DynCorp in real life, retained its government contracts. In Afghanistan, DynCorp employees hired a child prostitute as entertainment, and in Iraq, badly mismanaged a $1.3 billion contract. Bolkovac blew the whistle but corruption went on, which makes Whistleblower's ending feel a little hollow.


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This weekend looks to be one of the weakest in years for new product. With only the non-specialized "Beijing Love Story" (China Lion) reporting grosses among new specialized films, the openers didn't look strong in any case. IFC opened Cannes and New York Film Fest entry "Jimmy P." from veteran French director Arnaud Desplechin in one theater, while their VOD-playing "Adult World," aimed at Valentine's Day audiences opened in two. Other films showed little action. None of these films received any better than consensus average reviews.
With awards contenders slackening even more (most head to home viewing venues in upcoming weeks), two foreign language entries, "Gloria" (Roadside Attractions) and the long-run "The Great Beauty" took up some of the slack as they both add to their already impressive (in the subtitled specialized market) grosses. The rest is fairly grim.
"Beijing Love Story" (China Lion) - Metacritic: 41
$128,000 in 9 theaters; PSA (per screen average): $14,222
Opening day and date with its wide mainland China release, and timed to hit right at the Asian New Year, this multi-story adaptation of a hit TV series played in theaters near large Chinese-American audiences to very solid numbers. Chinese films haven't shown the strength that their Indian counterparts had among in its expat and latter generation communities, but their producers continue to push them in the market at the country tries to become a production alternative to Hollywood and have more of their talent internationalized.
What comes next: These numbers likely lead to at least a modest expansion.
The wider field is quite lean. The sole second week film to report is the nearly four-hour long documentary "The Last of the Unjust" (Cohen Media), which showed some strength in an unusual fashion -- despite losing half its theaters (down to 4), its gross actually jumped 45%, taking in $20,800 with a respectable $5,200 PSA. This is still clearly a niche item, but the response suggests that it does have an audience if it plays in the right situation. Kino Lorber's "Afternoon of a Faun" came back down to earth in its exclusive New York theater, but still did a decent $9,000.
That PSA actually was ahead of the more normal length doc "Tim's Vermeer" (Sony Pictures Classics), which in three times as many theaters (12, + 5) grossed $56,700, PSA $4,725). This isn't a strong showing at this early level of theater playoff (now in its third week).
Faring much better as it expands (atypically fast for a subtitled film, with its cross-over Spanish language appeal likely helping) is "Gloria" (Roadside), grossing $301,000 in 92 (+27) in its fourth weekend, now at $944,000 and looking to have a lot more to add yet. Janus' sleeper success and Oscar contender "The Great Beauty" added another $98,570 in 52 (-1), only a small drop from last week. It is already up to $1,941,000. The sole other limited release to take in over $50,000 was "The Past" (SPC), with $99,000 in 77 (+10) to reach $996,000, not bad considering its disappointing awards notice (for which this had been positioned).
The new total grosses for the awards contenders are as follows, in order of placement: