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Official CT State Police spokesman says that state police would participate in door to door gun confiscations
The State of Connecticut says that all citizens must register rifles and high capacity magazines, or be charged will a felony. As many as 100,000 people could face heavily armed police smashing down their doors and be charged with a felony.
The legislature of CT says that a registration is needed so they can know where the guns are. Yet at the same time, they are sending threatening letters to gun owners. So they already have records of who has purchased certain guns. The fact is, that the CT legislature fully intends to confiscate hundreds of thousands of firearms anyway. The registration process will simply make it easier to confiscate, because you acknowledge that you still own a firearm that the state already suspects that you own.
CT State Police Spokesman Lt. Vance says that state police would comply with an order from the state to conduct door to door gun confiscations.
Experts claim that as many as 350,000 people are in violation of the law, and over 100,000 of those people could face felony charges. That means over 3.6% of the entire adult population of Connecticut has been transformed into a felon by the new registration law. Roughly one in twenty Connecticut homes could have their doors smashed in by heavily armed law enforcement seeking to confiscate firearms.
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Every January 20, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast day ot the Holy Martyr Saint Sebastian
The feast day of St. Sebastian is unique in Nicaragua. This feast stands above all the rest celebrations as Nicaragua's most authentic connection to its people's indigenous and spanish roots. Many of the dances, songs, and costumes are true to the traditions that predate the arrival of the Spanish by hundreds of years. But this is no nostalgia act—indeed, the integration of pre-Columbian ritual with Catholicism and the telling of modern history is as fascinating as the colors, costumes, and music.
The day before the feast, on January 19, a holy mass is celebrated. Right after the mass the image of St. Sebastian leaves the Basilica of Diriamba to go to the town of Dolores to meet his friends, Saint Mark of San Marcos and Santiago of Jinotepe. This encounter is known as "El Tope". The saints are escorted by their people, the dancers and the mounted parade horses. The yellow flag of the Catholic Church tremolo in front of the saints like paying a tribute to the beloved image of "Guachan", as the people of Diriamba call St. Sebastian.
The celebrations last several days, from the 17 to the 27 of January. During the feast, the people of Diriamba offer local food and drinks to the visitors. The traditional dances: the Toro Huaco, El Güegüense or Marcho Raton, and Las Inditas performance on the street showing their shining suits with adornments of showy colors in fulfillment of promises to the Patron Saint. Another beautiful local dance is The Giant, traditional dance based on the Biblical passage of David and Goliat.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
It's Elephant Appreciation Day!
Share these elephant jokes with your favorite silly person:
What's the difference between eating an elephant and eating peanut butter?
Elephants don't stick to the roof of your mouth.
What is large and gray and goes around and around in circles?
An elephant stuck in a revolving door.
Who's the most famous female singing elephant?
Elephants Gerald.
Why did the elephant cross the road?
To squash the chicken on the other side!
(Hey wait! Don't share that one!)
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- Alton E. said...
What do you get when you cross a rhinoceros and an elephant?
"Ellephino." (Say it slowly but not in front of kids)
Okay here's a "tamer" elephant joke. Get it - tamer? Anyway...
What's worse than an elephant with a stuffy nose?
A giraffe with a sore throat.
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- Three Silly Chicks said...
That's a good one! THanks!
- PartyWeDo said...
I missed Elephant appreciation day!
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On 24 May a landmark Tibetan National General Meeting concluded with the unanimous approval of the proposal to ask His Holiness the Dalai Lama to assume the role of ceremonial head of state
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The landmark Tibetan National General Meeting which was successfully concluded today [24 May 2011] unanimously approved a proposal to beseech His Holiness the Dalai Lama to assume the role of ceremonial head of state.
The 4-day meeting attended by Tibetans from across the world deliberated the draft amendments to the charter on the devolution of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's political and administrative powers to the democratically elected Tibetan leadership.
The meeting also endorsed another proposal to request His Holiness to accept the inclusion of the new Preamble and responsibilities assigned to him in Article 1 in case if he turns down the proposal on ceremonial role. The Article 1 makes him the protector and symbol of the Tibetan nation.
In the proposed Charter, His Holiness the Dalai Lama's duties would include his "engagement in the efforts to reach a satisfactory solution to the question of Tibet", "to meet with world leaders and bodies to speak on behalf of the Tibetan people". He would also have to "appoint envoys and special envoys to serve the interest of the Tibetan people" and "to provide guidance to the exile Tibetan administration in matters of importance to the Tibetan people".
"We will present the final outcome of the meeting to His Holiness the Dalai Lama tomorrow (25 May)," Mr Penpa Tsering, speaker of the Tibetan Parliament, told reporters after the meeting. His Holiness the Dalai Lama will address the delegates on the same day, he added.
The meeting also discussed other amendments to the charter, which include the executive powers assigned to His Holiness in Article 19. The 9 provisions under Article 19 would be pass on to the Kashag and the Parliament.
The Parliament will meet for a special session from 26 – 28 May to give its approval to the amendments.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama then ratify the amended charter.
In his closing remarks, Mr Penpa Tsering, Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament, said the general meeting has sent a very strong signal to the Chinese government that the Tibetan people are united on the fundamental issues of Tibet.
He underscored that the newly elected Kalon Tripa and the new members of Parliament will have even greater responsibilities to shoulder in the near future.
Kalon Tripa Prof Samdhong Rinpoche delivered his closing statement on an auspicious note by announcing the prophesy of the State Oracle of Tibet, Nechung, that His Holiness the Dalai Lama would live up to 113 years. His Holiness will live up to the predicted age if the Tibetan people could successfully maintain morality, unity and enhance their collective merit, Kalon Tripa told the delegates.
Over 418 delegates representing Tibetan communities living across the world, including Asia, the United States, Europe and Russia, participated in the meeting.


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-- Getting a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease doesn't mean life as you know it is ending. People with Alzheimer's can lead a purposeful and productive life if they take steps to care for their physical and mental health, the Alzheimer's Association says.
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Sounds like a cool event. Didn't know about it - must check the social calendar LOL
I will be there I try to make it every year it's a great time with lots of great Maine beer. I'll be at the early one
Fudd has most of the month off for hunting. A brewers fest is just what I need to get him to spend a day with me. Thanks a bunch for the link/info:cool:
Too far for me this year, but it sure will be a good day to sit inside and work on some chemistry formulas
With the weather forcast I think I need to stay home. Red Cross is geared to open shelters and I am a volunteer. Beer and Wings though won't miss it the following weekend!
Wow!!! Whats up in store for you guys this weekend anyway?
Tail end of a hurricane. The weather channel will have the details.
Okay, last weekend I thought I took a picture of the "Geek Squad" taking a break in the hotel room. There were four laptops on the go and an intense attempt at understanding the tv remote control in progress. The picture has disappeared against all geek laws. So, then I'm telling some teachers about the police getting a phone call about us being "stranded" on the low tide flats and one of them called me a geek. Tom with a statement like that above, you are not making a very good arguement that we aren't geeks. :):):) Three cheers for us geeks!
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This article describes how to change the Windows Product ID for a current installation of Windows XP.
If you acquired an additional license, you may have to change the Product ID to activate a second installation of Windows XP by using your original CD-ROM. If you installed Windows XP on a second computer by using the original CD-ROM, and then purchased another copy of Windows XP, you may want to change the Product ID and then activate the new installation, instead of reinstalling Windows XP.
See the "More Information" section of this article for details about the purchase of an additional license for your retail version of Windows XP.
WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.When you acquire a new Product ID for your Windows XP installation, follow these steps to change the Product Identification number:
- Start Windows XP.
- Click Start, and then click Run.
- In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
- In the left pane, locate and then click the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Current Version\WPAEvents
- In the right pane, right-click the OOBETimer binary value, and then click Modify.
- Change at least one digit of this value to deactivate Windows.
- Click Start, and then click Run.
- In the Open box, type the following command, and then click OK:
%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a
- Click Yes, I want to telephone a customer service representative to activate Windows, and then click Next.
- Click Change Product key .
- Type the new product key in the New key boxes, and then click Update.
- If you are returned to the previous window, click Remind me later, and then restart the computer.
For more information about Windows Product Activation, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
For more information about how to purchase a second license for your current copy of Windows XP, visit the following Microsoft Web site:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/pricingretail.asp
NOTE: You can also purchase an additional license for a retail version of Windows XP by calling (888) 571-2048 (United States only).For additional information about Windows Product Activation, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
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Joëlle Andrew recently received one of the best compliments of her life: A curious man stopped her on the street and proclaimed that her handbag was the most exquisite thing he had ever seen—and that he wanted to be cremated, and then buried, in it.
After a year of prototyping, testing and admitted trials developing the unique bentwood bag herself, hearing his otherwise morbid declaration was a thrill.
After a year Andrew became transfixed with bentwood—a light, pliable material—in architecture school when she attempted to create a bentwood chair for a school project. It was a failure, but it launched an even greater desire to get it right and improve on the process, as traditional bentwood work can lead to a lot of waste, rely on very toxic glues and are messy and unruly. She studied the techniques of furniture designers and instrument makers, some of who told her that manufacturing layered veneers which are flexible yet are rigid enough to maintain its shape was not possible.
Andrew, along with her children Gavin (7) and Gella (5) and her husband Brett, tested and tweaked their process until they mapped out a method that was sustainable, natural, utilized low VOC's (Volatile Organic Compounds) and water-based glues. The wood is soft, supple and uniquely grained, so each handbag is as individualized as a custom piece of furniture.


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I know this is kinda silly, but if someone were to hand raise some Emus could they be trained? Not like pulling a cart, but just trained. lol
Breeding Ohiki and other long tailed chickens.
You mean like trained to kung-fu kick anyone who came on your property???? I think they come pre-wired for that.
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Sounds to me like you are about to embark on an adventure, Celtic Hill. Why don't you raise some and tell us what you find? What fun!
Start with something fairly simple... Like finding the door to the stall.
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LOL, im not going to train them to come on a cart. But like you said, walk on a leash, and such.
They can be trained to some degree. Just like people train goldfish and turtles etc.... They are very small minded and have the patience of an ant, but if you can keep their attention long enough, yep they can learn..... especially things you don't want them too.. hehe. I teach mine: the NO command..... very good to have when they are about to chomp an ear the Wait command - good for keeping them from stealing food out of the feed bucket - lasts only 1 min though.... Down - teaching them to lay down by pressing on their back. Good to getting them to hold still or look less intimidating to the relatives. Come to a whistle or their name...... Carry Silkies on their backs with a saddle.....
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Current induced into a metal object by an external coil is called eddy current. The use of eddy current technique to characterize the properties of metal objects is based on the relationship between a conductive metal object structure and electromagnetic properties. More specifically, eddy current testing relies on electromagnetic interaction between the coil driven by an alternating electrical current and the metal object under test. In order to measure applied or residual stresses with a conventional eddy current approach, the application of stress must change the electrical conductivity such that a detectable change in the test coil impedance will occur. Presently, current commercial eddy current equipment is not sensitive enough to detect extremely small changes in conductivity in a treated metal object. Nor is present commercial eddy current equipment sensitive enough to detect changes in conductivity at the near-surface of a treated metal object, i.e., within 0.020 inch. The present invention provides a method and equipment to detect very small changes in conductivity between a treated metal object and an untreated metal object sample used as a reference. |
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What a speaker this kid is! He could move a heart of stone. Unfortunately, Iowa's very Christian legislature has harder hearts than that.
On Feb.1, the Iowa House of Representatives voted 62-37 in favor of Joint Resolution 6, an amendment which would prohibit currently legal same-sex marriages. The vote was taken after hearings which featured speakers on both sides of the issue, including a remarkable young man named Zach Wahls. Wahls, a 19-year old Iowa college student, was raised by same sex parents.
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Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Back To The Future
Apart from that great Emma Stone cover, another good reason for buying the September 2012 edition of Interview magazine this month is this 'Back To The Future' fashion editorial by Mert & Marcus. Looking like outtakes from Barbarella, the Styling is by Karl Templer. Models: Frida Gustavsson & Nimue Smit.
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Logo Still Go
Just found this on Facebook. Art: Chris Weston. Logo: ... well, it makes me happy to see my 2000AD logo design still kicking about after all these (24) years.
Mint. Fine. Good. Fair... Mint. #14
Steve Rude,
Suzie Owens
Monday, 27 August 2012
Stone Again
Sunday, 26 August 2012
James Bond,
Morgan LeFay
Brian Bolland,
Camelot 3000
Klassic Kane #2
Doom Patrol,
Grant Morrison,
Shaky Kane
Saturday, 25 August 2012
29 Minutes
On Thursday afternoon I took a little stroll to the High-Rise hang-out of Manko and Atomic to do a test shoot for a forthcoming collaboration with Manko. The nature of the test was to see what kind of results we'd achieve with film that's been hibernating in my refrigerator for the past 20 years. Because of the random nature of the film, I shot with both analog and digital just in case the film produced blanks. These are the digital results.
As much as I love my digital camera, the reassuring sound of the shutter of my trusty old 35mm Nikon FM was something I hadn't heard for a good many years and I realised then, just how much I'd missed it. Manko gave herself an immaculate make-up job as usual and Jason entrusted us with one of his vintage comics for a prop. As pleased as we were with the digital shots there was something quite appealing about the film results. 118 shots were taken within a 29 minute time-frame and the image below is our favourite from the expired film. More experiments to follow...
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Steve Cook
Groovy Images From The Sixties #11
Above: a classic poster designed by Alan Aldridge who was one of the most important graphic designers of the 1960's and helped create the graphic style of that era. This poster for Andy Warhol's avant-garde Chelsea Girls was one of his most famous designs, winning a Silver Award from The Design and Art Director's Club, though it also earned him a warrant for arrest under the pornography laws of the time and he had to go into hiding until his lawyer got the charges dropped. Aldridge also created the artwork for one of my favourite albums, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John in 1975.
Friday, 24 August 2012
My friendly neighbourhood neighbour, broadcaster and DJ, Ben Eshmade sent me the link to one of his eclectic mixes and I've been enjoying listening to it while I work, maybe you'd like to listen too. This is what he says:
"Like most people I've spent a very long time ripping audio from compact discs on to my computer over the last few decades. I was fortunate in 2002 to start the Chiller Cabinet radio programme on Classic FM (now on Chill) and with this came access to an Aladdin's Cave of music. The trouble being honest is that with this and now with my Arctic Circle Radio shows (Arctic Circle Radio and on Chill/Resonance FM/Itunes) I don't listen to everything I get sent in great detail.
"Like most people I've spent a very long time ripping audio from compact discs on to my computer over the last few decades. I was fortunate in 2002 to start the Chiller Cabinet radio programme on Classic FM (now on Chill) and with this came access to an Aladdin's Cave of music. The trouble being honest is that with this and now with my Arctic Circle Radio shows (Arctic Circle Radio and on Chill/Resonance FM/Itunes) I don't listen to everything I get sent in great detail.
So I've come up with the Penguin Shuffle using my media player to generate giant random playlists from the 269 Gigs of mp3 audio. This I carefully reduce down and re-arrange to create a new and interesting hour long musical journey. This can really generate some interesting results bringing along artists I would not normally put together or digging up gems of tracks that I never knew I had."
Arctic Circle,
Ben Eshmade
The Gang's All Here!
John Romita Sr,
Marvel Age
Romita's Women
John Romita Sr,
Marvel Age,
Mary Jane Watson,
Thursday, 23 August 2012
Groovy Images From The Sixties #10
Jean Shrimpton in Libelle (Belgian edition) May, 1967. Thanks to Dutch Vintage Magazines for this really unusual shot. More Jean Shrimpton on this previous post Who is The Shrimp? and here.
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Bolland Does Dredd #2
2000AD Production Art,
Brian Bolland,
Judge Dredd
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Barbi Doll
The first I knew of Barbi Benton was when I saw her starring as a country singer in a tv cop show called McCloud. I watched the show when I was in Canada in 1976 and subsequently bought the album from a store in Toronto. I didn't know about the Playboy connection at the time, or the fact that she was Hugh Hefner's main squeeze and I remember feeling slightly bemused by what she was wearing on the back cover of the album sleeve. Now of course it all makes total sense. I still have the album and here it is. Check the 70's logo on her T... (click for large)
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Monday, 20 August 2012
Jack Kirby,
Mike Royer,
Spaced Out
Grace Guozhi,
Marc de Groot,
Vogue Netherlands
Sunday, 19 August 2012
Rendered Speechless...
I saw one of these renders on the web a few weeks ago and a bit of online research took me to the Redsteam Creative Studio's website. The team member responsible for this incredible 3d modelling and rendering of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman, is Uri So from South Korea who lives in Singapore and has been working as a 3d character artist since 2005. You can find more of her work on her blogspot here.
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Re: Pussy Riot
"I protest the conviction and sentencing of Pussy Riot to a penal colony for two years for a 40 second performance extolling their political opinions. Even if one disagrees with the location or how they chose to express themselves, the sentence is too harsh and in fact is inhumane. I call on all those who love freedom to condemn this unjust punishment. I urge artists around the world to speak up in protest against this travesty. They've spent enough time in jail. I call on ALL of Russia to let Pussy Riot go free." Madonna
Not the only injustice in the world, but still a pretty ridiculous situation to find yourself in for a bit of artistic/political expression. Friends of 'Oranges', Manko & Jason Atomic have attended every protest from the start, in fact Manko found herself in this morning's edition of The Times. For the facts... http://freepussyriot.org/
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I got this in an email and was so moved by it I wanted to share it with my AFC friends. I hope this is the right place to post From a Romanian Newspaper We rarely get a chance to see another country's editorial about the USA Read this excerpt from a Romanian Newspaper. The article was written by Mr. Cornel Nistorescu and published under the title 'C'ntarea Americii, meaning 'Ode To America ') in the Romanian newspaper Evenimentulzilei 'The Daily Event' or 'News of the Day'. ~An Ode to America ~ Why are Americans so united? They would not resemble one another even if you painted them all one color! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations and religious beliefs. On 9/ll, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the Army, or the Secret Service that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed out onto the streets nearby to gape about. Instead the Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand. After the first moments of panic, they raised their flag over the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a government official or the president was passing. On every occasion, they started singing: 'God Bless America!' I watched the live broadcast and rerun after rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who gave his life fighting with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that could have killed other hundreds or thousands of people. How on earth were they able to respond united as one human being? Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put into collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit, which no money can buy. What on earth can unites the Americans in such way? Their land? Their history? Their economic Power? Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases with the risk of sounding commonplace, I thought things over, I reached but only one conclusion... Only freedom can work such miracles. Cornel Nistorescu |
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Fat burner while taking M1t 4AD?
Fat burner while taking M1t 4AD?
Ok currently I'm taking a M1t 4AD cycle (just started this week going to go 4 weeks M1t 4AD 4 week Nolva ZMA 4 weeks M1t 4AD and 4 weeks Nolva ZMA). I was wondering if I could use any fat loss products along with this. I've been looking around a lot and since the ephedra ban San Tight seems to be the leader and I heard a lot of good about Lipo6. I also read those couple posts on Tri-Max (pricy but I guess the price is going to go down). I also read about UPC-1 (not sure where to get UPC-1), ECY stack, and Clenbuterol HCL. Clenbuterol HCL seemed really good but I'm not sure about the dosages (going to have to do a little more research on it).
Is it ok to run a fat burner with a prohormone like M1t and 4AD? If so what would be the safest and which would work the best? Which fat burner would you choose if you were not taking a prohormone cycle also so I have somewhat of an idea what to get when I'm done with my cycle?
This site seems to give the best answers. I've tried others but seems like there are too many people on them that don't know what they are doing. - 05-13-2004, 09:37 AM
Due to the increased BP that can come with a thermogenic as well as M1T, it isn't advised. You can use M1T as a cutter, but don't combine them both. If you do, make sure you BP is in check and supplement well
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Is this a true cutter cycle? If so then just run enough androgen to ensure no lean mass is lost, obviously. Some can handle androgens with stims and cutting agents well, like myself. My log is in the cycle logs forum, but I ran ECY/clen alternating the entire cycle, and Tri-max at the end also.....and damn what an awesome cutter it was (I suppose it helps when my gluttonous pig-self keeps my diet in check too, huh?)
I ran cytomel(t3) 75mcgs, [email protected] ramped to 120mcgs,10mgs m1t and s1+.
So if I order the Clen from Custom which is 200 mcg per ml, how much should I be taking a day? If taking about 40 mcgs to 100 mcgs thats only going to be like 1/4 to 1/2 a ml? Seems like an awfully little dosage. Am I understanding this correctly? If I am then it sounds like one 50 ml bottle of this stuff will last quite a while (which doesn't bother me much )
Yep. I beleive the largest dose you'd want to try is around 160mcg/day. Now you understand why guys that run across the ability to order a gram and how it'll literally last a lifetime.
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McBrooklyn wandered over to the Verizon store on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights yesterday to check out the new Droid X.
Google's new Android 2.1 phone has a 4.3" display, 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash, and runs on a 1GHz processor.
Even though Verizon said two days ago there would be plenty of the devices on release day, the weary-sounding staff told us that they had sold out.
"We might be getting more tomorrow, but we've been experiencing some inventory problems," one staff member told us.
According to PC World, the next shipping date is July 23. Android 2.2 will roll out sometime later this summer. It's also rumored that the Droid 2 (which will probably have a real keyboard) will be out late August.
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They're a lot cheaper, that's for sure.
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I don't really have one of those Cintiq arms at work...but they look really cool!
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Oof, I've been kind of slacking on the blog front, but I did this little doodle for the weekly drawing challenge started by Megan and Le (this past week's theme was "French Cephalopods"). There are some really fun prompts and it's open to anyone, so if you feel like participating then definitely give it a go!
...and I had to make this. Nutella is sooo good. So good.
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Tigers seize weapons from SLFP Karuna camp in Batticaloa[TamilNet, Friday, 20 March 2009, 14:14 GMT]An armed paramilitary person was killed and two T-56 assault rifles were seized Thursday night around 11:00 p.m. when an ambush team of the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) carried out a surprise attac on a building at Ku'laththumadu in Vaakaneari in Vaazhaichcheani, according to a news release by the LTTE. The building, used as an office of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) was a minor camp of Karuna group, the Tigers said. Dayamohan, the Batticaloa district political head of the LTTE told TamilNet last week that Karuna group had stepped up intimidations against the civilians in Batticaloa and Ampaa'rai districts in recent times. The Tigers also seized a military communication equipment from the Karuna camp Thursday night. The Karuna camp located at Kulaththumadu in Vaakaneari, has been functioning as Karunas Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) office. Chaamiyan, who was killed in the attack, was behind abductions demanding ransom and robberies in the area threatening the Tamil and Muslim civilians, the Tigers said. The LTTE carried out a similar attack 7 days ago in Ampaa'rai district at Cho'rikalmunai, killing four Karuna group men and seizing three assault rifles. Vinayagamoorthy Muraleetharan alias Karuna, who joined SLFP and appointed as a non-cabinet minister by Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa earlier this month, had said that he had handed over all weapons before being appointed as a minister. |
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Contrary to previously prevailing economic theory, it turns out that Detroit's auto industry can be restored to its 1950s status so long as we (1) replace Washington-style pessimism with optimism, (2) have a President who "fights for every job" (I hope Mitt still gets enough sleep - and who exactly does he fight?), and (3) eliminate fuel efficiency standards.
Who knew? This truly is a new paradigm, or else perhaps a very old one.
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A tour of the highway above Lyons revealed that lengthy segments of the highway had collapsed into the St. Vrain River, due to torrential rainfall in early September. CDOT announced that 40 percent of the highway was a "total loss." Could 10 weeks be enough time to make this highway passable, in the face of oncoming wintry weather?
More than enough, it turns out.
When Lyons area residents applauded National Guard members at a special Tuesday evening celebration, it was not only for their efforts in helping with general flood recovery, it was for rebuilding a highway that is the economic generator for communities from Lyons to Estes Park. For hundreds of residents, Highway 36 is the road home.
The Guard members -- from Colorado, Kansas, Montana and Utah -- deserve the praise. So do CDOT and Gov. John Hickenlooper, who determined that a federal government shutdown would not impede the progress of work on the highway. The state picked up a share of the tab while Washington, D.C., was idle.
The reconstructed highway won't be what motorists were used to driving before the flood. But "safe and passable" is 100 percent better than a closed highway.
Businesses in Lyons and Estes Park missed out on traffic during the important fall season, when droves of tourists visit Rocky Mountain National Park. Front Range residents can help make up for that loss by visiting the communities in the coming weeks and patronizing businesses in both.
The speed with which Colorado's infrastructure has been rebuilt is amazing. Let's speed up the recovery of Lyons and Estes Park's economies, too.


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WHILE TAKING a shower one day, Mike Foster of Corona, Calif., thought about porn. Not in the way another person might think of porn in the shower, but in the way that someone who had intuited the voice of God pronouncing that word might think of porn.
As seen in director/producer Bill Day's documentary Missionary Positions, which receives its world premiere at Cinequest on March 11, this shower-stall revelation jump-started a long journey for Foster and his partner-in-religion, Craig Gross. Together, the two men created a unique website: XXXchurch.com, a virtual ministry especially designed to lure in unwary smut-seeking web surfers and then convince them to cast off their sins.
Since starting their two-man war against porn, Mike and Craig have visited adult-entertainment conventions and preached to thousands. They have even appeared on the Christian CNN: the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
They aren't what one would expect of Christian anti-porn crusaders. A mental image of such preachers would probably consist of a flat-top haircut, mucho polyestero, a pocket protector and the kind of jowls that tell the world, "We've been to Sizzler every Saturday night for the last 40 years."
By contrast, the bespectacled Mike and the lanky, unruffled Craig are as personable young Southern California dudes as any that one might encounter on a ski slope or a beach. One look and you just figure you're on a first-name basis.
Dazzled by the possibilities of mass media in the new millennium, Mike and Craig advertised their church with billboards, mascots and a XXXchurch.com mobile. They even created "Pete the Puppet" TV commercials to console children grossed out by discovering Dad's secret stash of stroke JPEGs.
At a recent appearance in Gilroy, Mike addressed hundreds of young parishioners in two sessions at a "True Love Waits" rally for Valentine's Day.
"I heard it went really well in Gilroy," says Craig, who stayed home in Tennessee while Mike went proselytizing.
"We brought in an edited version of Missionary Positions. The church was a little worried. The youth guy persuaded the adult pastor to take a gamble; some people were a little uncomfortable with that sort of thing. I think the people responded well. We sold 200 tickets to Cinequest."
Craig figures that "Christian people are no different than non-Christian people. Sometimes, you have to hold their hand a little, but once they see we're not the devil, they'll buy five tickets and take their friends."
Xxxchurch.com represents just one aspect of a backlash against porn culture. This culture is elastically defined to include everything from salacious dolls for tweens to the ever-graying Playboy magazine. As an industry, porn is international, with deep, dark shadows, although it brings in enormous sums to more legitimate corporations.
Porn's opponents include everyone from Mike and Craig to a webmaster called Jill at Oneangrygirl.com to the assistant district attorney of Indiana, Larry Parrish, who turns up in the current documentary Inside Deep Throat, speculating about new anti-porn crusades to come.
'We learned a lot
about porn in
three years'
Before the revelation in the shower, Mike co-owned a design company. Craig was on staff at the zestily titled Fireproof Ministries in Southern California.
"I grew up in the church," Craig remembers, "but I was a bad kid. My youth pastor had to take away my Van Halen tapes."
Later, Craig went to school at Hope International University in Fullerton and became a pastor at the East Side Church in that Southern California suburb. Craig and Mike met at Christian-rock functions and became friends.
Both are married men, neither of whom fancied porn before they started their mission. As Craig explains, "We saw such a problem, and we decided to deal with it. We've learned a lot about porn in three yearsa lot more than we wanted to know."
Mike and Craig started the website with a banner reading "porn sucks." All very well and good, but then they decided to search out the reasons why porn sucks.
Their preliminary effort consisted of looking for anti-porn websites and appropriating all the stats they could find: numbers like "25 percent of all web searches are porn-related," "[Porn is] 8 percent of all spam."
XXXchurch.com made its debut public appearances at the Adult Entertainment Convention in Las Vegas in January 2002. Inside the convention, Mike and Craig attempted a fuzzier appeal to the better nature of sinners with the help of the 6-foot-tall "Rex the Rabbit."
The rabbit suit, a disused costume hiding in the wings of Craig's church, served two purposes. Rex eased the anxieties of porn consumers threatened by religion and, serving as a kind of camouflage, it allowed the duo's wives to keep an eye on their husbands in the middle of this Las Vegas whirlpool of smut.
"It's strange," Craig recalls. "People stood in line to get their picture taken with the rabbit. When we got back from the convention, the church didn't want Rex back, so we've kept him."
Endeavoring to put "a human face on the issue of pornography," XXXchurch.com markets "Jesus Loves Porn Stars" T-shirts to keep both pro- and anti-porn people guessing. The site outlines a relevant Bible story in a section called "SCOPING BATHSHEBA." The legend of King David's downfall is the Bible's most enduring lesson on the wisdom of closing the curtains when you bathe.
The website's prayer wall includes written and videotaped stories of self-confessed porn addicts. This wall currently contains 82,000 postings by visitors, overflowing with stories of guilt and disgust. Along with the predictable hate mail, that is.
Fumes one angry pro-pornist: "How would you like it if I started preaching to your kids that porn is OK!" By contrast, some of the people who write to the xxxchurch.com site think that the E-church is close-dancing with the devil:
"You all need to run to an old-fashioned Pentecostal church and get converted!" flames one angry Christian.
The site also provides free downloads of a net-guard that records the Internet wanderings of porn junkies and finks on them to pastors, therapists or wives. "We're developing the Mac version of xxxwatch," Craig tells me. "We've had the Mac people on hold long enough. A lot of church people hate what we do, but they like that we give away free software."
Missionary Positions follows the ministers on field trips to Pure Life Ministries. "The porn prison," Mike and Craig nickname it.
In rural Kentucky, Steve Gallagher, an ex-LAPD officer, runs the mission that allows sufferers to stay for six months at a time. Gallagher claims to the camera: "The best evidence against the notion that porn is quote-OK-unquote is the testimony of those who'd been addicts of it for years."
The film summarizes the sad history of one "Roy": "From an older boy, Roy learned to masturbate looking at porn." (Solemn music plays, as we blackout.)
'No business like
porn business'
The existence of sex addiction is still debated by therapists. They started diagnosing it around 1989, about the time the home computer changed the delivery system for sexually charged media.
A huge body of anecdotal literature on computer-based sexual addiction is available, with titles like Cybersex Exposed: Simple Fantasy or Obsession?; Understanding Cybersex From Fantasy to Addiction and Cybersex Unhooked: A Workbook for Breaking Free of Compulsive Online Sexual Behavior.
Many of the books mention the staggering sums being spent on porn. The figure one always hears is $10 billion to $14 billion a year. This number was made famous in an article by Frank Rich of The New York Times. Rich popularized the slogan "There's no business like porn business."
That's serious green; $10 billion is more than the intake of all major league sports. Dan Ackman of Forbes.com, however, has challenged the prevailing math, reducing the annual figure to something more like $2.6 billion to $3.9 billion. He adds that Variety (which doesn't track porn) believes the annual take for television, cable and movie receipts is about $20 billion. Easily observable phenomena would suggest that more copies exist of Finding Nemo then of Boning Hams #45.
The libertarian view is that there is no such thing as a sexual norm, making addiction hard to gauge. The religious view holds that the very size of the porn industry proves the staggering number of addicts. The problem is defined by anecdotes: the confessions of the guilty and the tears of wives (and presumably a few porn-spurned husbands out there).
"We like to think we're at the top of a funnel of the issue," Craig says. "Mike and I don't feel we're at all equipped to counsel people. We lead people to Sex Anonymous and to other sites."
"It's not about porn, it's about the hurt and pain," Mike comments in Missionary Positions.
In identifying the problem as hurt and pain, Mike has a point. Any addiction is the outward manifestation of inner trouble. The ever-spiraling pleasure/shame response of any compulsive behavior masks signs of deeper loneliness and unworthiness. All addictions are characterized by increased tolerance, withdrawal symptoms and a disinterest in outside relationshipswhether or not porn viewing is an addiction.
'Champions of
a lost cause'
Bill Day, the producer/director of Missionary Position, is a UCLA film-school grad who has worked for the Discovery Channel and National Geographic. Day showed a previous documentary, Saviors of the Forest, at Cinequest several years ago.
"I've always been interested in activists," Day says from his office in Los Angeles. "Stories of the people behind the placards, what their everyday lives are like." Day had thought of following around some anti-gambling activists that he knew about. "Champions of a lost causehow do you get out of bed in the morning and face that?"
Then Day mulled over finding an anti-porn group to make a film about. There is no serious nationwide anti-porn coalition. Feminists against porn refuse to make common cause with the religious opponents, because of differences of approach and focus. Some porn haters are pro-law enforcement, some pro-therapy. And the federal government's several efforts to regulate porn have met with expensive and embarrassing debacles: that road is thoroughly mapped in the new documentary Inside Deep Throat.
Day flushed out an anti-porn group in San Diego, but "they found out I'd done work for MSNBC, and they thought that was too liberal."
At that point, the filmmaker heard about XXXchurch.com. Within 48 hours of contacting Mike and Craig, Day was on his way to Amsterdam to follow the pastors as they trudged through the canal-side shadows of the infamous red light district.
Day chronicles the ups and downs of the two-man anti-porn church, even capturing a moment of doubt on the frozen asphalt outside of some nameless airport terminal. "I'm trying to travel around the country keeping people from masturbating," Mike laments to the camera.
After this agony, we witness the ecstasy of the ministers receiving a $50,000 grant from Jack Londen, tycoon of Londen Insurance Group, and an important walking wallet for the Arizona Republican party. And at the end, Mike and Craig have purchased a kind of pornmobile with which to advertise their cyberchurch.
Day is fond of his stars and the way they interact. "Mike has the doubts, and Craig has the blind faith. They're great guys, really committed."
But Day hesitates when talking about how the film went over with its subjects. "They got nervous whenever the material got too strong, or when the movie got a tendency to go 44ish," he says, referring to the fact that porn stars like to thrust their boobs into a camera lens.
Day explains, "I mean, the movie's not meant to be watched only by people in therapy."
One montage in Missionary Positions includes a picture of a barnyard-smut site, superimposed with porn-problem newspaper articles. A headline reads, "Porn Plague: Is the Proliferation of Porn Desensitizing Us?" It goes with a piece by Andi Zeisler of Bitch magazine, who wrote a San Francisco Chronicle Op-Ed in July 2004.
The article is nowhere near as alarmist as its headline. Zeisler is the co-founder of Bitch, a 9-year-old publication with a circulation of 47,000.
Any religious organization looking to high-five Zeisler for fighting against porn will be greeted by ads in Bitch for a different kind of witnessing T-shirt: "I had an abortion."
Zeisler continues to critique the "jarringly retrograde" side of pornography in 2005. As she wrote in her Chronicle piece, what worries her in the new porn is the old problem of objectification of women. "We take our cues from the dominant culture, after all, and the dominant culture lately happens to be less about our bodies, ourselves, and more about pneumatic blondes with extremely tidy pudenda. ... If the porning of America has made baroque displays of flesh and lust commonplace enough not to shock, it has also taken away the underlying questions of power and agency that once accompanied them."
From her desk in Oakland, Zeisler says, "I got a call from the guys and I heard what they had to sayI thought they were an interesting organization. They asked me to email them back and start a dialogue. I never got around to it, partially because I was busy, and partially because I felt it was possible they were picking and choosing from the article. What I was talking about was the way porn has permeated culture, fashion and the lingo."
And Zeisler doesn't agree with what she calls the "gateway" theory of porn dependency.
"Like so many other cultural phenomena, porn deserves to be looked at with a little more nuance. As for the argument that as soon as you build tolerance, you'll head for the heroin of pornit doesn't have to be that way. Porn can be sex education, it can be legitimate culture, and people have a right to it."
Day's feelings about porn are also in transition. "My views changed. What attracted me about Zeisler's article was that it talked about how porn has power and impact."
Like Zeisler, Day is concerned about the way the gravity of porn draws in popular culture, such as the "stripper chic" clothing from tweens.
"We mention the teen-modeling sites, 11-to-12-year-olds in cheesecake poses," Day notes. "I saw this stuff, and I said, holy crap."
Missionary Positions includes a visit with a professional porn cameraman named Jimmy D. For the sport of it, D. decided to make common cause with xxxchurch.com. ("I agree with them, porn sucks!" D. chortles.)
In digitally blurred footage in Missionary Positions, D. is caught shooting a particularly ugly "A to M" sequence. (Don't ask.)
Day comments, "After she saw that Jimmy D. footage, my wife said, 'Thank you very much for ruining porn for me forever.' Funny how much the porn scene has changedhow it's been pushed to this point."
"We did an article in Bitch," Zeisler notes, "on what we call 'humilitainment'footage of women on the web who were promised money, then beaten, bruised and not given the money, either. When writing about porn, Extreme Associates wasn't what I was talking aboutthat's worth a whole book right there. From what I've read, some of the women didn't know what they were getting into. But that doesn't mean throwing out the baby with the bathwater. "
Zeisler is referring to material Day didn't put up onscreen; the excesses of "gonzo porn"; rape, choking and vomiting films by Max Hardcore or Extreme Associates"all just a few clicks away from your desktop," Day stresses.
The most recent federal government effort to crack down on gonzo porn ended in failure on Jan. 20. U.S. District Judge Gary L. Lancaster in Pittsburgh, Pa., threw out the case on the grounds that it restricted the individuals' right to consenting activity in the home.
The husband-and-wife team of Robert Zicari and Janet Romano faced 10 counts of obscenity. If Black and Romano had been convicted, they could have spent 50 years in prison or paid $2.5 million in fines. The subject matter of their film, Forced Entry, wasn't obscene in itself, having appeared in Oscar-winning movies as varied as The Accused, with its gang-rape scene, or the Neil Jordan picture Mona Lisa, with its inclusion of the scary-but-pleasurable-to-some practice of fisting.
New Attorney General Gonzales is taking up where Ashcroft left off and reinstating the case.
Director Day notes a new avenue for regulating pornOSHA protection for the actresses against hazardous situations at work. Another possibility, much discussed online, is the possible expansion of 18 USC 2257. This law is responsible for the citation at the beginning of adult movies, certifying that all actresses are over 18. Expansion of the law to websites would mean that each purveyor would have to keep records on performers. Given the cut-and-paste nature of the Internet, this might chill Internet porn.
Faced with gonzo porn, the ordinary light consumer of adult images becomes like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis. Pro-First Amendment bloggers like pornblog.com denounce the evils of gonzoist Max Hardcore. And pro-constitutionalists have to wince at the way patriotism is the first refuge of the scoundrels.
Craig tells me, "I'm not in favor of banning porn. For one thing, it's not going to happen. I think for some people it doesn't become a problem. It's like alcohol and drugs, some don't become addicted. For Christians, our faith says not to watch porn."
Day claims, "I'm still behind the First Amendment, but watching porn is like a right to smoke, it's not without risk. I'm all for adults looking at what ever they want. This is a medical issue, not a political issue. Maybe the answer is labeling porn, just like cigarettes."
Oneangrygirl.com is a porn-opposing site that offers an anti-porn "cheat sheet." This wallet-sized card gives rebuttals to common pro-porn arguments like "It's just sex," "It's just pictures" and "Women buy porn." The site master "Jill" hates porn, but she's also against banning porn outright.
"First of all," she writes, "there are already various obscenity laws on the books, but these are rarely enforced anymore because it can be very expensive to go to court against the porn industry lawyers. ... However, while I believe pornography is gradually poisoning our country, I do not believe that censorship is the solution. ... I favor education as the solution, by which I mean that if you give people enough information, they can be persuaded to give up porn voluntarily. And that is what my site tries to do."
Sinners Beware!
And now for a cautionary message
from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints:
Pornography, with its sleazy filth, sweeps over the earth like a horrible, engulfing tide. It is poison. Do not watch it or read it. It will destroy you if you do. It will take from you your self-respect. It will rob you of a sense of the beauties of life. It will tear you down and pull you into a slough of evil thoughts and possibly of evil actions. Stay away from it. Shun it as you would a foul disease, for it is just as deadly.
We now return you to this article.
Since so much of the idea of the smut-glut is anecdotal, here's mine.
In many religions, it is essential to keep the faithful in line by stressing that today's adulterer is tomorrow's murderer, just as surely as today's puppy is tomorrow's dog.
Similarly fallacious is Steve Gallagher's idea that his porn addicts prove the essential dangerousness of porn. This is like saying, "The best evidence against the notion that food is OK is the testimony of the morbidly obese."
As a longtime, earnestly dedicated sinner, I have not found escalation of sins to be a problem. Covetousness, gluttony, sloth and avarice still work their age-old magic, and I don't spend my days dreaming of the eighth deadly sin that someday someone will invent. The same kind of porn does the same reliable job it did decades ago. There is something essential to the nature of vanilla that keeps it Earth's favorite flavor. Moreover, easily available doesn't mean most popularly consumed.
Lastly, how does one separate the cruelty in some porn from other forms of ordinary cruelty? The production of food, clothing and fuel is a far crueler process than most nice people like to think about.
As for oneangrygirl.net's claim that "depictions of subservience perpetuate subservience," it is opposed by Angela Carter's early and excellent defense of porn, The Sadean Woman. Carter deems porn as "nobly enough, art with a job to do," and stresses that just because its images oppressed in the past, doesn't mean they'll do so in the future.
And as for the XXXchurch.com: they may have their share of enemies, but they also have a new friend.
Their current mascot has a little more stature than Rex the Rabbit. He's the 25-foot-tall inflatable "Wally the Weiner."
A frankfurter, I ask delicately, with eyes and a mouth and such?
No, not quite, Craig answers.
Wally (wallytheweiner.com) was first erected at the Video Game Award shows, where he served as the backdrop for an impromptu award ceremony for such honors as biggest-boobed video game character. Then, Wally went on to Jacksonville for a standup, so to speak, at the Super Bowl parking lot.
Mike and Craig's idea is a "Michael Moore meets the Truth campaign" tour of America.
"We've caught a lot of flack at xxxchurch.com. ... Wally wasn't made to offend, but a lot of people haven't liked him. What we're doing doesn't look at lot like our parents' church. We don't want to lose support, but we do want to draw attention to what's going on out there."
Porn is not going away, and neither is the xxxchurch. This country may have mixed feelings about smut, but everybody loves a wiener.
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Yesterday, the first female mayor of Baltimore, Sheila Dixon, went on trial accused of stealing gift cards meant for the poor and using them to fund lavish shopping trips. If convicted she faces up to 15 years in prison. For reasons of race and distrust of the police, not many people in Baltimore think a jury will convict her. But in a city where mayors have a history of dabbling all too readily in the world of policing, crime and punishment, it would certainly be ironic.
In Britain, it took only a word in the ear from Boris Johnson and Sir Ian Blair's three-year tenure as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police was over. There was fury in some quarters; the notion that a politician could hire and fire police chiefs was unheard of. Yet in Baltimore it is the norm.
The world of politics and policing was vividly portrayed in The Wire when the drama's young, ambitious mayor, Tommy Carcetti, fired his police commissioner, Ervin Burrell. As is so often the case, it was an example of art imitating life. In Baltimore, the previous four police commissioners left office after falling foul of the city's political administration – one of them lasted just 57 days in the job.
It is an administration, I experienced at first hand during my trip. On my second day at The Baltimore Sun, a conversation with a newsroom colleague was interrupted by the kind of announcement that, given my status as a newcomer to the city, took me by surprise. "There's someone on the phone for you," I was told. "He's from the Mayor's office."
What followed was a conversation during which the Mayor's spokesman told me how disappointed he was with my story in the previous day's newspaper – one in which I had repeated the well-publicised view that city officials were none too keen on the portrayal of Baltimore in The Wire.
He went on to explain that, despite his disappointment, he was happy to help me with anything I may need for my research while in Baltimore. But that did not extend to an interview with the Mayor, Sheila Dixon. Both she and the Police Commissioner, Frederick H Bealefeld III, were "too busy" to speak during my stay. The police blamed scheduling issues. Privately, I was told that the fact my trip would again raise comparisons with a fictional detective series was the commissioner's reason for refusal. Ms Dixon's reason may have been similar, or linked to her upcoming court appearance. But the party line was that it was business as usual and while the Mayor was not keen to meet with me one on one, I was more than welcome to attend of the many public appearances she makes each day.
So just before 9am on Saturday morning, I arrived at a tree-planting ceremony at Dewees Park, in the north of the city. I told the Mayor's deputy spokesman that I would like to speak to her about the crime and other issues, such as drug dealing and poverty, I had witnessed during my visit. He took the message to her. "What does he want?" Ms Dixon, 55, was overheard asking her spokesman. She said she did not want to speak about crime and added: "I'm planting trees today." With that she got on her bicycle, rode to her people-carrier and was driven away.
By contrast, the Deputy Mayor of London Kit Malthouse and the Met's Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson – both of whom are uncomfortable with comparisons between London and Baltimore – were happy to be interviewed for this series.
Political interference in the British police hierarchy only really became an issue when, on his first day as chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority, the Mayor, Boris Johnson, told Sir Ian Blair that his resignation as Met chief would be required. Previously, those who held the nation's most-senior police job were allowed to stay for the duration of their term, which was fixed at five years in 2008.
The issue has since mushroomed. In September, Mr Malthouse provoked consternation, as well as a mild rebuke from Sir Paul Stephenson, when he claimed that Scotland Yard had been seized by the Conservative Party and that Mr Johnson's administration was now in control of the country's biggest police force. Sir Paul immediately denied this was the case and reminded the public that the Met was apolitical.
In Baltimore, such political independence would perhaps be considered a luxury, as would similar longevity. Just a few months into her stint as Mayor in 2007, Ms Dixon told Leonard Hamm, who had been police commissioner for three years, that he would have to resign. It is believed a rising murder rate was the issue. Her swift dismissal seemed to work. Last year, the number of homicides in the city fell to a 20-year low and this year they are on course to fall again.
Mr Hamm should not have been surprised he was asked to leave. His initial appointment followed the departure of his predecessor Kevin Clark, who was sacked by the then mayor, Martin O'Malley, following accusations that he was involved in a domestic dispute with his fiancée. Clark had been commissioner for 21 months. The claims were not proven.
Ed Norris was the commissioner before that. He was the first man in more than a decade to see Baltimore's homicide rate drop below 300 killings per year. But he left after two years in the job amid rumours that he had fallen out with the city administration. He was later jailed for corruption and tax fraud. Then there was Ronald Daniel. Hired by Mayor O'Malley on 22 December 1999, he tendered his resignation just 57 days later – again amid rumours of political clashes with his superiors at City Hall.
During my exchange with Justin Fenton, it has been suggested that British police forces could provide a blueprint for American departments to work from. The UK is, after all, at the forefront of such developments as DNA technology and the use of closed-circuit television surveillance.
But, as illustrated by the sacking of Sir Ian Blair and the now infamous remarks by Kit Malthouse, one trend which seems to be moving across the Atlantic in the opposite direction is the political accountability of senior police officers.
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Police said that on arrival at the scene they found Thomas Mellino, 50, of Lynn, Mass., lying in the street. Police said he had been struck by a 2007 Jetta Volkswagen driven by Abigail White of Derry.
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And about that boy in the white room- I believe he has an instinct of imagination, just as all humans were born with an instinctive ability to walk, and all birds were born with an instinctive ability to fly. It is only that his imagination will be vastly different from conventional form because his experiences will be viewed in a different light. My verdict: the artist finds inspiration in his/her surroundings when creating the artwork- which in turn inspires others. So- a bit of both. I doubt anyone else but me would've understood what I wrote... And I spent an awful lot of time just to say 4 words...
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Very good points made^.
I think it's a bit of a continuum when it comes to life and art... I find myself drawn to cinema, paintings, music, fashion (through colors and mood) that directly mirrors what's going on in my life. On the other hand, my art definitely reflects whatever state of mind I was i while I'm being creative. Later on in the day/month/year I get inspired by these emotions. It's never ending.
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German South Moravia (German: Deutschsüdmähren; Czech: Německá jižní Morava) was a historical region of Czechoslovakia. It includes parts of southern and western Moravia once largely populated by ethnic Germans.
German South Moravia was historically an integral part of the Habsburg constituent Margraviate of Moravia. During the First World War it suffered military casualties in greater proportion than any other German speaking area of Austria-Hungary, experiencing 44 war deaths for every 1,000 inhabitants.[1] With the imminent collapse of Habsburg Austria-Hungary at the end of the war, areas of the Czech-majority Moravia with an ethnic German majority began to take actions to avoid joining a new Czechoslovak state. German South Moravia was declared on 2 November 1918 with its capital at Znojmo (German: Znaim).
On 11 November 1918, Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquished power and, on 12 November, the ethnic German areas of the empire were declared the Republic of German Austria with the intent of unifying with Germany. However, the area was quickly taken by the Czechoslovak army with Znojmo falling on 27 December 1918.
The status of German areas in Moravia and Bohemia was definitively settled by the 1919 peace treaties of Versailles and Saint-Germain-en-Laye that declared that the areas belong to Czechoslovakia. The Czechoslovak Government then granted amnesty for all activities against the new state.
The region was then integrated into the Moravian Land of the First Republic of Czechoslovakia and remained a part of it until the Nazi dismemberment of Czechoslovakia when it was added to Germany (Reichsgau Niederdonau). After World War II, the area was returned to Czechoslovakia and is now[update] part of Czech Republic. The near entirety of the German civilian population in German South Moravia—like the rest of Czechoslovakia—was forced out by Czechoslovaks from 1945-1948.
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- ^ Rothenburg, G. The Army of Francis Joseph. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1976. p 218.
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