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American Film since 1945
Joshua Gleich
Over the past seventy years, the American film industry has transformed from mass-producing movies to producing a limited number of massive blockbuster movies on a global scale. Hollywood film studios have moved from independent companies to divisions of media conglomerates. Theatrical attendance for American audiences has plummeted since the mid-1940s; nonetheless, American films have never been more profitable. In 1945, American films could only be viewed in theaters; now they are available in myriad forms of home viewing. Throughout, Hollywood has continued to dominate global cinema, although film and now video production reaches Americans in many other forms, from home videos to educational films.
Amid declining attendance, the Supreme Court in 1948 forced the major studios to sell off their theaters. Hollywood studios instead focused their power on distribution, limiting the supply of films and focusing on expensive productions to sell on an individual basis to theaters. Growing production costs and changing audiences caused wild fluctuations in profits, leading to an industry-wide recession in the late 1960s. The studios emerged under new corporate ownership and honed their blockbuster strategy, releasing "high concept" films widely on the heels of television marketing campaigns. New technologies such as cable and VCRs offered new windows for Hollywood movies beyond theatrical release, reducing the risks of blockbuster production. Deregulation through the 1980s and 1990s allowed for the "Big Six" media conglomerates to join film, theaters, networks, publishing, and other related media outlets under one corporate umbrella. This has expanded the scale and stability of Hollywood revenue while reducing the number and diversity of Hollywood films, as conglomerates focus on film franchises that can thrive on various digital media. Technological change has also lowered the cost of non-Hollywood films and thus encouraged a range of alternative forms of filmmaking, distribution, and exhibition.
American Labor and Working-Class History, 1900–1945
Jeffrey Helgeson
Early 20th century American labor and working-class history is a subfield of American social history that focuses attention on the complex lives of working people in a rapidly changing global political and economic system. Once focused closely on institutional dynamics in the workplace and electoral politics, labor history has expanded and refined its approach to include questions about the families, communities, identities, and cultures workers have developed over time. With a critical eye on the limits of liberal capitalism and democracy for workers' welfare, labor historians explore individual and collective struggles against exclusion from opportunity, as well as accommodation to political and economic contexts defined by rapid and volatile growth and deep inequality.
Particularly important are the ways that workers both defined and were defined by differences of race, gender, ethnicity, class, and place. Individual workers and organized groups of working Americans both transformed and were transformed by the main struggles of the industrial era, including conflicts over the place of former slaves and their descendants in the United States, mass immigration and migrations, technological change, new management and business models, the development of a consumer economy, the rise of a more active federal government, and the evolution of popular culture.
The period between 1896 and 1945 saw a crucial transition in the labor and working-class history of the United States. At its outset, Americans were working many more hours a day than the eight for which they had fought hard in the late 19th century. On average, Americans labored fifty-four to sixty-three hours per week in dangerous working conditions (approximately 35,000 workers died in accidents annually at the turn of the century). By 1920, half of all Americans lived in growing urban neighborhoods, and for many of them chronic unemployment, poverty, and deep social divides had become a regular part of life. Workers had little power in either the Democratic or Republican party. They faced a legal system that gave them no rights at work but the right to quit, judges who took the side of employers in the labor market by issuing thousands of injunctions against even nonviolent workers' organizing, and vigilantes and police forces that did not hesitate to repress dissent violently. The ranks of organized labor were shrinking in the years before the economy began to recover in 1897. Dreams of a more democratic alternative to wage labor and corporate-dominated capitalism had been all but destroyed. Workers struggled to find their place in an emerging consumer-oriented culture that assumed everyone ought to strive for the often unattainable, and not necessarily desirable, marks of middle-class respectability.
Yet American labor emerged from World War II with the main sectors of the industrial economy organized, with greater earning potential than any previous generation of American workers, and with unprecedented power as an organized interest group that could appeal to the federal government to promote its welfare. Though American workers as a whole had made no grand challenge to the nation's basic corporate-centered political economy in the preceding four and one-half decades, they entered the postwar world with a greater level of power, and a bigger share in the proceeds of a booming economy, than anyone could have imagined in 1896. The labor and working-class history of the United States between 1900 and 1945, then, is the story of how working-class individuals, families, and communities—members of an extremely diverse American working class—managed to carve out positions of political, economic, and cultural influence, even as they remained divided among themselves, dependent upon corporate power, and increasingly invested in a individualistic, competitive, acquisitive culture.
America's Wars on Poverty and the Building of the Welfare State
David Torstensson
On January 5, 2014—the fiftieth anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson's launch of the War on Poverty—the New York Times asked a panel of opinion leaders a simple question: "Does the U.S. Need Another War on Poverty?" While the answers varied, all the invited debaters accepted the martial premise of the question—that a war on poverty had been fought and that eliminating poverty was, without a doubt, a "fight," or a "battle."
Yet the debate over the manner—martial or not—by which the federal government and public policy has dealt with the issue of poverty in the United States is still very much an open-ended one.
The evolution and development of the postwar American welfare state is a story not only of a number of "wars," or individual political initiatives, against poverty, but also about the growth of institutions within and outside government that seek to address, alleviate, and eliminate poverty and its concomitant social ills. It is a complex and at times messy story, interwoven with the wider historical trajectory of this period: civil rights, the rise and fall of a "Cold War consensus," the emergence of a counterculture, the Vietnam War, the credibility gap, the rise of conservatism, the end of "welfare," and the emergence of compassionate conservatism. Mirroring the broader organization of the American political system, with a relatively weak center of power and delegated authority and decision-making in fifty states, the welfare model has developed and grown over decades. Policies viewed in one era as unmitigated failures have instead over time evolved and become part of the fabric of the welfare state.
Bracero Guest Worker Program
Ana Elizabeth Rosas
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Please check back later for the full article.
On August 4, 1942, the Mexican and U.S. governments launched the bi-national guest worker program, most commonly known as the Bracero Program. An estimated five million Mexican men between the ages of 19 and 45 separated from their families for three-to-nine-month contract cycles at a time, in anticipation of earning the prevailing U.S. wage this program had promised them. They labored in U.S. agriculture, railroad construction, and forestry, with hardly any employment protections or rights in place to support themselves and the families they had left behind in Mexico. The inhumane configuration and implementation of this program prevented most of these men and their families from meeting such goals. Instead, the labor exploitation and alienation that characterized this guest worker program and their program participation paved the way for, at best, fragile family relationships. This program lasted twenty-two years and grew in its expanse, despite its negative consequences, Mexican men and their families could not afford to settle for being unemployed in Mexico, nor could they pass up U.S. employment opportunities of any sort. The Mexican and U.S. governments' persistently negligent management of the Bracero Program, coupled with their conveniently selective acknowledgement of the severity of the plight of Mexican women and men, consistently cornered Mexican men and their families to shoulder the full extent of the Bracero Program's exploitative conditions and terms.
Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Movement
Matt Garcia
In September 1962, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) held its first convention in Fresno, California, initiating a multiracial movement that would result in the creation of United Farm Workers (UFW) and the first contracts for farm workers in the state of California. Led by Cesar Chavez, the union contributed a number of innovations to the art of social protest, including the most successful consumer boycott in the history of the United States. Chavez welcomed contributions from numerous ethnic and racial groups, men and women, young and old. For a time, the UFW was the realization of Martin Luther King Jr.'s beloved community—people from different backgrounds coming together to create a socially just world. During the 1970s, Chavez struggled to maintain the momentum created by the boycott as the state of California became more involved in adjudicating labor disputes under the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA). Although Chavez and the UFW ultimately failed to establish a permanent, national union, their successes and strategies continue to influence movements for farm worker justice today.
Domestic Workers in U.S. History
Vanessa May
Domestic work was, until 1940, the largest category of women's paid labor. Despite the number of women who performed domestic labor for pay, the wages and working conditions were often poor. Workers labored long hours for low pay and were largely left out of state labor regulations. The association of domestic work with women's traditional household labor, defined as a "labor of love" rather than as real work, and its centrality to southern slavery, have contributed to its low status. As a result, domestic work has long been structured by class, racial, and gendered hierarchies. Nevertheless, domestic workers have time and again done their best to resist these conditions. Although traditional collective bargaining techniques did not always translate to the domestic labor market, workers found various collective and individual methods to insist on higher wages and demand occupational respect, ranging from quitting to "pan-toting" to forming unions.
Employers' Associations and Open Shop in the United States
Chad Pearson
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Please check back later for the full article.
Employers began organizing to reduce the power of organized labor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Irritated by strikes, boycotts, and the unions' desire to achieve exclusive bargaining rights, employers demanded the right to establish open shops—workplaces that promoted individualism over collectivism. Rather than recognize closed or union shops, employers demanded the right to hire and fire whomever they wanted, irrespective of union status. They established an open-shop movement, which was led by local, national, and trade-based employers. Some formed more inclusive "citizens' associations," which included clergymen, lawyers, judges, academics, and employers. Throughout the first three decades of the 20th century, this movement succeeded in busting unions, breaking strikes, and blacklisting labor activists. It united large numbers of employers and was largely successful. The movement faced its biggest challenges in the 1930s, when a liberal political climate legitimized unions and collective bargaining. But employers never stopped organizing and fighting, and they continued to undermine the labor movement in the following decades by invoking the phrase "right to work," insisting that individual laborers must enjoy freedom from the so-called union bosses and compulsory unionism. Numerous states, responding to pressure from organized employers, began passing "right to work" laws, which made union organizing more difficult as workers were not obligated to join unions or pay their "fair share" of dues. The multi-decade employer-led anti-union movement succeeded in fighting organized labor at the point of production, in politics, and in public relations.
McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare
Landon R. Y. Storrs
The second Red Scare refers to the fear of communism that permeated American politics, culture, and society from the late 1940s through the 1950s, during the opening phases of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. This episode of political repression lasted longer and was more pervasive than the Red Scare that followed the Bolshevik Revolution and World War I. Popularly known as "McCarthyism" after Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin), who made himself famous in 1950 by claiming that large numbers of Communists had infiltrated the U.S. State Department, the second Red Scare predated and outlasted McCarthy, and its machinery far exceeded the reach of a single maverick politician. Nonetheless, "McCarthyism" became the label for the tactic of undermining political opponents by making unsubstantiated attacks on their loyalty to the United States.
The initial infrastructure for waging war on domestic communism was built during the first Red Scare, with the creation of an antiradicalism division within the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the emergence of a network of private "patriotic" organizations. With capitalism's crisis during the Great Depression, the Communist Party grew in numbers and influence, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program expanded the federal government's role in providing economic security. The anticommunist network expanded as well, most notably with the 1938 formation of the Special House Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities, which in 1945 became the permanent House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Other key congressional investigation committees were the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and McCarthy's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Members of these committees and their staff cooperated with the FBI to identify and pursue alleged subversives. The federal employee loyalty program, formalized in 1947 by President Harry Truman in response to right-wing allegations that his administration harbored Communist spies, soon was imitated by local and state governments as well as private employers. As the Soviets' development of nuclear capability, a series of espionage cases, and the Korean War enhanced the credibility of anticommunists, the Red Scare metastasized from the arena of government employment into labor unions, higher education, the professions, the media, and party politics at all levels. The second Red Scare did not involve pogroms or gulags, but the fear of unemployment was a powerful tool for stifling criticism of the status quo, whether in economic policy or social relations. Ostensibly seeking to protect democracy by eliminating communism from American life, anticommunist crusaders ironically undermined democracy by suppressing the expression of dissent. Debates over the second Red Scare remain lively because they resonate with ongoing struggles to reconcile Americans' desires for security and liberty.
Mexican Immigration to the United States
Ramón A. Gutiérrez
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Please check back later for the full article.
Mexican immigration to the United States is a topic of particular interest at this moment for a number of political reasons. First, and probably foremost, Mexicans are currently the single largest group of foreign-born residents in the country. In 2013, the United States counted 41.3 million individuals of foreign birth; 28 percent, or 11.6 million, were Mexican. If census data are aggregated more broadly, adding together the foreign-born and persons of Mexican ancestry who are citizens, the number totals 31.8 million in 2010, or roughly 10 percent of the country's total population of 308.7 million. What has nativists and those eager to restrict immigration particularly concerned is that the Mexican origin population has been growing rapidly, by 54 percent between the 2000 and 2010 censuses, or from 11.2 million to 31.8 million persons. This pace of growth has slowed, but not enough to calm racial and xenophobic fears of the citizenry fearful of foreigners and terrorists.
Mexican immigration to the United States officially began in 1846 and has continued into the present without any significant period of interruption, also making it quite distinct. The immigration histories of national groups that originated in Asia, Africa, and Europe are much more varied in trajectory and timing. They usually began with massive movements, driven by famine, political strife or burgeoning economic opportunities in the United States, and then slowed, tapered off, or ended abruptly, as was the case with Chinese immigration from 1850 to 2015. This fact helps explain why Mexico has been the single largest source of immigrants in the United States for the longest period of time.
The geographic proximity between the two countries, compounded by profound economic disparities, has continuously attracted Mexican immigrants, facilitated by a border that is rather porous and that has been poorly patrolled for much of the 20th century. The United States and Mexico are divided by a border that begins at the Pacific Ocean, at the twin cities of San Diego, California and Tijuana, Baja California. The border moves eastward until it reaches the Rio Grande at El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Júarez, Chihuahua. From there the border follows the river's flow in a southeastern direction, until its mouth empties into the Gulf of Mexico where Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Tamaulipas sit. This expanse of over 1,945 miles is poorly marked. In many places, only old concrete markers, sagging, dry-rotted fence posts with rusted barbed wire, and a river that has continually changed its course, mark the separation between these two sovereign national spaces.
Since 1924, when the U.S. Border Patrol was created mainly to prohibit the unauthorized entry of Chinese immigrants, not Mexicans, American attempts to effectively regulate entries and exits has been concentrated only along known, highly trafficked routes that lead north. The inability of the United States to patrol the entire length of its border with Mexico has meant that any Mexican eager to work or live in the United States has rarely found the border an insurmountable obstacle, and if they have encountered it temporarily so, they have simply hired expensive professional smugglers (known as coyotes) to maximize safe passage into the United States without border inspection or official authorization. In 2014, there were approximately 11.3 million such unauthorized immigrants in the United States; 49 percent, or 5.6 million of them were Mexican.
Over the long course of history Mexican immigration is best characterized as the movement of unskilled workers toiling in agriculture, railroad construction, and mineral extraction; for the last two decades, they have worked in construction and service industries as well. This labor migration has evolved through five distinct phases, each marked by its own logic, demands, and governance.
Municipal Housing in America
Margaret Garb
Housing in America has long stood as a symbol of the nation's political values and a measure of its economic health. In the 18th century, a farmhouse represented Thomas Jefferson's ideal of a nation of independent property owners; in the mid-20th century, the suburban house was seen as an emblem of an expanding middle class. Alongside those well-known symbols were a host of other housing forms—tenements, slave quarters, row houses, French apartments, loft condos, and public housing towers—that revealed much about American social order and the material conditions of life for many people.
Since the 19th century, housing markets have been fundamental forces driving the nation's economy and a major focus of government policies. Home construction has provided jobs for skilled and unskilled laborers. Land speculation, housing development, and the home mortgage industry have generated billions of dollars in investment capital, while ups and downs in housing markets have been considered signals of major changes in the economy. Since the New Deal of the 1930s, the federal government has buttressed the home construction industry and offered economic incentives for home buyers, giving the United States the highest home ownership rate in the world. The housing market crash of 2008 slashed property values and sparked a rapid increase in home foreclosures, especially in places like Southern California and the suburbs of the Northeast, where housing prices had ballooned over the previous two decades. The real estate crisis led to government efforts to prop up the mortgage banking industry and to assist struggling homeowners. The crisis led, as well, to a drop in rates of home ownership, an increase in rental housing, and a growth in homelessness.
Home ownership remains a goal for many Americans and an ideal long associated with the American dream. The owner-occupied home—whether single-family or multifamily dwelling—is typically the largest investment made by an American family. Through much of the 18th and 19th centuries, housing designs varied from region to region. In the mid-20th century, mass production techniques and national building codes tended to standardize design, especially in new suburban housing. In the 18th century, the family home was a site of waged and unwaged work; it was the center of a farm, plantation, or craftsman's workshop. Two and a half centuries later, a house was a consumer good: its size, location, and decor marked the family's status and wealth.
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MAD launches pan-Arab distribution outfit
EXCLUSIVE: Cairo and Abu Dhabi-based creative consultancy MAD Solutions is launching a pan-Arab distribution outfit, MAD Distribution, focusing on Arab and international films.
The multi-platform distributor will operate in niches not currently served in the region, such as Asian and European films. It will also help the new wave of award-winning independent Arab films to travel around the region.
MAD co-founders Alaa Karkouti and Maher Diab have also brought two partners on board: former Screen editor-in-chief Colin Brown, who also works with online financing platform Slated in New York, and Abu Dhabi-based Abdallah Al Shami, previously special projects editor for UAE publishing house Shawati.
"The same political and social turmoil that has helped stoke up a new Arab cinema wave has also meant that more and more independent films are finding themselves left without a distribution home in their own markets," said Karkouti.
The moves are part of MAD Solutions' expansion into five business areas, with the eventual goal of creating a pan-regional independent film studio. In addition to distribution, company divisions include MAD Content (multi-platform editorial content), MAD Marketing (film marketing), MAD Celebrities (talent management) and MAD Culture (film festivals and programming).
MAD's existing roster of clients include twofour54, MBC Group, Egyptian producer Film Clinic and Tropfest Arabia. The company has also overseen marketing for Arab festival hits such as Microphone, 678 and Hawi, as well as worked on the Egyptian release of US studio films.
Twofour54 president Wayne Borg said: "MAD Solutions' expansion in Abu Dhabi will contribute to the growing industry infrastructure that will foster the development of world-class Arabic cinema." Dubai film market manager Samr Al Marzooqi said: "It's encouraging to see MAD Solutions expanding upon their creativity, strategy and resources."
Hany Abu-Assad, whose Omar is playing in Un Certain Regard, said: "We need such an initiative now more than ever." Film Clinic founder Mohamed Hefzy said: "The creation of MAD Distribution, combined with its affiliate companies, will open new audience doors for the exciting new generation of storytellers coming out of the region."
Tunisian actress Hend Sabri also voiced support: "MAD's move into talent promotion is an important step in allowing Arab actors to start enjoying the same global recognition as our international peers."
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TWO thugs, one with his leg in plaster and on crutches, attacked a man after an argument about cigarettes.
The assault on the 45-year-old man took place in the early hours of Wednesday, April 16 near the BP garage, in Churchill Way West.
He sustained a cut to the head which needed stitches.
Officers have now released a CCTV picture of one of the men.
One of the men is described as a white man who had his leg in a red plaster cast and was walking with two crutches.
Anyone with information can contact PC Lisa Graham at Basingstoke police station on 101 or call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.


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INDIAN WELLS, California, March 17 (Reuters) - It was a case of so near and yet so far for Juan Martin Del Potro after he was denied a first ATP Masters 1000 title in a 4-6 6-3 6-4 defeat by Rafa Nadal in the BNP Paribas Open final on Sunday.
The Argentine was a set and 2-0 up on Nadal before the Spaniard came storming back to win a pulsating match that lasted just under two-and-a-half hours and featured seven breaks of serve.
Del Potro had been bidding to beat Nadal for only the fourth time in 11 career meetings but fell short as the Spanish world number five played near-perfect tennis in the latter stages.
"Rafa deserves to win," Del Potro told reporters. "He plays unbelievable for like an hour there. The last hour of the match he didn't make errors. He played so solid and put me so far to the baseline and make winners from there.
"Rafa played really well today in the second and third sets. He broke me early in the third and playing against him when the score is down is tougher, you know."
Del Potro had upset world number three Andy Murray in the quarter-finals and top-ranked Novak Djokovic in the last four to get to the final.
Asked whether he felt fatigued in the final after winning his two previous matches at Indian Wells in three sets, world number seven Del Potro replied: "Yeah, I played three sets against Murray then three sets Djokovic.
"But the finals are finals. They are special, and you get the energy from everywhere to play the finals. Rafa plays yesterday, also, so the conditions are the same for both players.
"I think my body was okay. Just he played better in the end and he deserved to win."
Despite his own disappointment in losing Sunday's final, Del Potro was happy for Nadal, who claimed his third title in his remarkable comeback from seven months on the sidelines due to a knee injury.
"Watching him in this level, he's playing really well. He's winning more than everyone after seven months (out)," said the 24-year-old from Tandil, who embraced Nadal at the end of the match.
Asked whether he felt Nadal was close to the form that earned him 11 grand slam singles titles, Del Potro replied: "Yeah, yeah. Like always, like in the past, he's playing so solid, so strong.
"He's very strong mentally. He has big talent, as well. He beat very good players here at Indian Wells. What I say the days before, he's gonna be fighting for the first position (in the rankings) very soon."
Del Potro, U.S. Open champion in 2009, knows exactly what he has to do to get back among the top four in the world.
"Beat Nadal, beat (Roger) Federer. Try to beat all of them," he said with a grin. (Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes; Editing by Peter Rutherford)


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The Manitoba Horse Racing Commission has suspended Assiniboia Downs jockey Larren Delorme for six consecutive racing days.
The Commission's ruling, dated July 31, 2010, states: "For conduct prejudicial to the best interests of racing and for violation of rule 43 (1), the licence of jockey Larren Delorme is suspended for six consecutive racing days commencing Aug. 6, 2010 through to Aug. 18.
"Additionally he is denied access to the grounds of the Manitoba Jockey Club at Assiniboia Downs racetrack both front and back, but excepting the trailer park for a period of five days, Aug. 4-8, 2010 inclusive."
Asked if the suspension had anything to do with a MHRC arbitration decision dated July 3, 2010, between trainer Jared Brown and Delorme and his wife Jennifer, who is also a trainer, Delorme, who currently sits atop the jockey standings with 47 wins, simply said, "pretty much."
That decision dealt with 28 stall mats owned by Brown, 16 of which were found in Jennifer Delorme's stable.
The arbitration decision concluded, that, "On the evidence, the MHRC cannot find, on the balance of probabilities, that Jennifer Delorme was involved, other than being in wrongful possession of the mats. However, the MHRC finds that Larren Delorme was either involved directly, or has knowledge of how the mats went missing.
"Notwithstanding his knowledge he failed in his obligations under rule 43 (1), and is therefore responsible to compensate Mr. Brown for the 28 missing mats."
The MHRC also ordered Delorme, last season's leading rider, to pay to Brown the sum of $1,008 by July 29, 2010. Failure to pay would lead to a licence suspension.
"I consider this to be a private licensee matter," said David Miles, MHRC chair, who signed both the arbitration decision, and the commission ruling. "The ruling stands as is. You'll have to speak to Mr. Delorme if you want any more information."
"I wish not to comment about why I got suspended," Delorme said, adding, "I pleaded guilty for something I didn't do, because I thought I'd get some leniency if I did, and I didn't want to have to hire a lawyer, because I can't afford that."
Brown said Delorme's suspension was related to the missing mats, and that he has received the money owing him, as well as 16 of the 28 mats.
"I'm not too sure why they suspended me," said Delorme, adding the arbitration said he would only be suspended if he didn't make the payments.


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Actor Stephen Baldwin's attorney says deal reached in tax evasion case
Actor Stephen Baldwin, an Upper Grandview resident, is negotiating a plea agreement with the Rockland County District Attorney's Office in a felony tax evasion case, The Journal News/Lohud.com reports today. He will pay a fine and avoid prison, according to his attorney, Russell M. Yankwitt. The two sides have an agreement in… Read More →


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Early in February, three or four of my best friends and one or two of my daughters will call and wish me a happy birthday.
They will at least act like it's a semi-big deal. I wish I could say I heartily agree with my well-wishers, but birthdays are losing their shine for me — although I prefer them piling up to the alternative.
I was born on Feb. 5, 1945, in a suburb of Cincinnati, a place I was glad to leave when I reached the age of reason — I was a few months shy of 40 when I woke up and smelled the geographical coffee.
I moved west, and Hawaii (Kauai), Idaho (Sun Valley), Kitsap County (Port Orchard) and Queen Anne have been the locales for my life ever since. Coming this way is one decision I don't regret at all.
You could say I'm a bit of a pessimist about aging, but the world's view of 68, my upcoming age, isn't all that positive either.
Who you callin' old?
Right-wing editorialists and columnists often claim people like me who collect Social Security and use Medicare are drains on the body social. They seem more concerned with how long many of us are living than with the fact that Starbucks CEO and chairperson Howard Schultz just got another raise, more than $25 million in compensation, for selling coffee that always tastes burnt to me, while the number of homeless folks in our fair city continues to rise.
Luckily, one of the major advantages of turning 68, especially after having been a reporter for more than three decades, is that politicians and avaricious big-businessmen no longer really bother me. I've seen so many unethical — or at least self-aggrandizing — little men (and a few women) that I take it as a given, like rainy days in Seattle during my birthday month.
Unfortunately, it isn't only the unpleasant facts of life that seem to have a diminishing effect on my soon-to-be-elderly consciousness (the World Health Organization classifies anyone 70 and older as old). I don't get as excited by sporting events or a new, pretty girl in my apartment building anymore, either.
No matter how well the Seahawks play, my life won't change. And I am still not old enough to wear a jersey from any team I haven't played on. All your gear and all the mindless 12th man stuff won't make you skinny, tough or rich.
As for the pretty girls, I've learned that they now deal around me. They smile. They chat. Some of them even hug.
"What an interesting, old man," they sometimes say to their friends.
I'm not really complaining: I had a good run in the romance race once I decided not to remarry, but somehow, I crossed the finish line without even knowing it.
Life changes
Of course, anyone close to 70 years old notices a whole lot of changes in his or her physical self. Despite daily exercise and daily meditation I can't run more than a city block, and I can't remember as many names and faces as 10 years ago.
The stiffness isn't only physical, either. I find myself listening to Mozart and Bach almost exclusively and, for the first time, hearing pop singers on the radio and not only not having a clue who they are, but not caring, either.
I've just reread "Madame Bovary" (1860 or so) and "Anna Karenina" (1869). I have not read one novel published in 2012, despite reading two novels per month the entire year. It's not that there may not be a young genius I still could learn from. I'm just more comfortable reading books that have lasted more than a century — the eternal verities and all that.
I have a Facebook page only because my daughter put it together for me. I check it three times a month. I like to look at the pictures of my exes, my daughters, my grandsons and a few young "friends" I'll never know biblically, who look very cute on their sites. I don't read most of the drivel even the smartest people feel compelled to put on their pages. I don't care what you had for lunch unless I cooked it. And your rehashed movie reviews and political opinions are of NO interest to moi. No offense.
Facing death
Of course, the biggest fear of a conscious, old person is disease of the wasting kind and eventual death and demise.
Since my days in the Army (drafted in 1966), I have always been death-conscious: afraid of it sometimes; appalled by it, others. I decided I needed to face these feelings and got trained in elder care five years ago. I then worked two years in a high-end but still tragically sad nursing home. All my patients had dementia or Alzheimer's.
I was with three of them whose families seldom came, and one 90-year-old who had outlived everybody as they passed on.
I hugged one as she died because she was terrified; she literally died in my arms. I held two others' hands as they shifted off this mortal coil, and I stood at the foot of the bed for the fourth, whispering calmatives until she died.
Then I began dreaming about the unlucky foursome and soon quit the elder-care business. It was too depressing for me, although I honor the folks who can work with that population and stay upright and cheery.
My experiment in toughening myself up was a failure, although I was pleased to feel so much empathy for the poor folks I tried my best to care for.
For me, the next helping job will be in a day care —I've always loved kids — or in a home for unwed supermodels.
Nothing else to ask for
In my life, I'm still doing OK (knock on wood). My 35-year-old doctor, who runs marathons, said I was a B-plus after my last annual physical. I was excited until he clarified, "For your age, of course." Overall, he said, I was "almost a C."
I write every day. I have another poetry chapbook slated for publication later this year.
My golf game, which I only began working on the year I turned 60, is still improving. (Another facet of age: I hated golf until a few years ago. A game for old people, I used to say.)
I have more than my share of close friends.
Both my daughters live here.
I still love to eat, drink wine, read, listen to music and run my mouth to and with those I trust.
But unlike many of my friends who recoil at the suggestion, I would go back and start all over if I could. I love life, even the bad parts, and miss every day and every person I've already experienced.
According to a friend who is also a shrink, that's a good thing. I guess I need to take his word for it.
Gray, slightly bent, but still smiling, still semi-optimistic about the near-future anyway. What else could I want, other than a 25-year-old girlfriend and another three decades of vigorous life?
You got it: Nothin'!
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Lizard evolution explained, according to a report in Science vol. 304, p65, 2 April 2004. In a report entitled "How the Horned Lizard Got it Horns" biologists from Utah State University, Logan and Indiana University Bloomington, present "data from the wild, showing natural selection by loggerhead shrikes favors longer horns in the flat tailed horned lizard (Phrynosoma mcalli)." The biologists compared the horns of flat tailed horned lizards that have been killed by shrikes (predatory birds) with the horns of live lizards living in the same area, and found the live lizards had longer horns. They concluded that the lizards evolved horns in order to defend themselves against predators.
Editorial Comment: This is a real example of natural selection, but it is not evolution, and it certainly does not explain how the horned lizard got its horns. Natural selection is a real process, but it does not explain the origin of the feature that is being selected. To select something means to choose it from pre-existing options. In this case, long horn lizards are selected because they already had long horns. (Ref. lizard, horns, selection)


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I'm ready to create my portfolio, thus I'm looking for some recommendations from you lot for a decent photo gallery on my own company website.
The pictures are to do with property renovations. At the moment I have 4 completed projects, each project is for a different renovation. The idea is to have the portfolio set up with the separate projects laid out and linked to a display of that projects photos. Now the pictures have been taken throughout the renovation from the initial starting phase to the end product, so that's the idea to display that.
I'm not really sure of what type of layout is best, perhaps a table of the thumbnails which enlarge when being clicked, or perhaps even better a table of the thumbnails on the bottom and a picture at the top that changes on the thumbnail you press and / or changes itself like a slide show.
Any layout suggestions? What gallery does this?
There are lots of nice JavaScript (jQuery) slideshows available for free online. One I like is [slimbox2. Another good one to check out is [URL="http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/"]jQuery Cycle](http://www.digitalia.be/software/slimbox2). You could Google "jQuery gallery" etc. to find lots of different kinds of galleries and slideshows.
Thanks Ralph.
Quite like the look of Galleriffic as a FREE jQuery option.
Use one of these 2 annoying Flash Galleries:
I sure hope this answer was facetious. There are a whole lot of better options out there!
Slimbox2 is my favorite. I love the different options available for setting up a gallery and it's so very easy to implement and add/delete photos as needed.
Eh.. Thanks.. But no Thanks!
Anytime !
Well, just to mention there are lots of Flash galleries available that are more suitable, I thought "simpleviewer" is one of that I see around on much websites.
SmugMug is worth mentioning here as a more complete gallery solution. There is a monthly fee but IMO, totally worth it.
Why do you feel deviantart would be a good solution to this problem?
Sorry, he can't answer. He' s left the building
<snipped the link> I love this photographer, great friend too. he may post it if you email him.
Coppermine perhaps, create a album under a category for each build. Each album will have its own set of thumbnails, under each intermediate pic you'll have a film strip containing other images for that set. Image Title, image description and keyword can be added to each pic.
The question is, how to add a photo gallery to the OP's own or company website, not how to add one to yours or a friends. Please keep your posts on topic and in answer to the question. Promotional posts are not allowed here.
I find jalbum really useful - but depends on what you mean by 'gallery'
looking at your requirements is suggest jalbum (they have a site you can upload too but here i'm talking about their software you can download) it will generate flattend html galleries with navigation pages, image pages etc, will strip your titles and descriptions from xmp/iptc or you can manually input them. i've used it for years, very cable little tool (its free). versatile enough to generate a static little gallery to add to another site or an entire photo based website, either out of the box or with a good bit of tailoring their templates to make it match your current site design. it comes with lots of templates some of which will generate things that look like "annoying Flash Galleries", lightbox... etc ... if you like that sort of thing
if you are looking for something dynamic (i.e. a cms that allows you to add stuff via a web interface, moderated comments etc) then I'd go for gallery2 over coppermine any day!
I won't ask why. But I'm curious.
I admit its been 2 years, but coppermine was just under constant security updates and all for horrible "should never have been there in the first place" type issues - from my point of view if an opensource project does not get its act together on security, structure and coding standards around that it will be burdened with problems caused by ad-hoc additions and messy workaround plugins for years to come. gallery2 is much more configurable (although i'm not much of a smarty fan, its a perfectly workable framework and that would just be a personal opinion) I think the coppermine UI leaves LOTS to be desired. anyone had experience with gallery3?
when it all comes down to it id do the entire site in drupal these days, but i'd hardly recommend that idea to someone wanting a simple gallery! (unless it was brochureware then it would be jalbum if it were more than a dozen or so pics)
A lot has changed in two years TBH. I was only curious, as I'm an Admin at <snip> Coppermine Gallery.
I am using Slimbox 2 for a few upcoming portfolios, but there are some other very good jQuery examples mentioned here that I may need to look at before I do some more work. Also never heard of Jalbum but looks very interesting,
As the OP was ready to create his portfolio last February, I would imagine he's long since done so, and there's nothing to be gained by resurrecting the thread.
Thread closed.
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A place of worship was opened for students of other faiths at Hamburg University Campus in Germany.
The opening hosted Prof. Monika Auweter Kurtz, the rector at Hamburg University, Peter Thomas Ferencik; a representative of Hamburg Catholics High School, some other representatives of various religions and the members of Hamburg University Muslim Students Association together with many other guests joined in the opening.
Rector Kurtz expressed that there are many students of various cultures and faiths who study at Hamburg University and everybody has the right of worshipping God according to his own tradition and belief.
"The place in question is going to be used not only by Muslim students but also students of other religions. We need to be tolerant to each other in these days when weaving dialogue between different faiths and cultures is on the agenda. Everybody desires to live in an environment where peace and freedom of faith prevails." said Kurtz.
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I would post this in the original thread http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?1013274-Need-help-tweaking-this-htacces-code-please - which would help future users much more - but someone closed it. Here is the code Jeff gave me. Works perfect except it prevents me from loging into my forum backend for some reason. Took me 15 hours to figure that out. OMG. I tried to give a exclusion to the forum folder but I must not of been doing it right because I couldnt get it to work.
So two questions? Why would this break my forum login? And two, can I make it exclude the forum located at www.site.com/forum/? Doing so I would assume all would function correctly again. FYI using my old and much larger rewrite the login works. Thanks.
# Rewrite index.html/php to folder
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?index\\.(html?|php)$ /$1 [R=301,L]
# Rewrite non-www (non-canonical) to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\\. [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
Without being able to see or reproduce the issue, my best guess is that somewhere the forum POSTs to an index.php page, and when it's redirected to strip index.php out of the URL, then the POST data is lost... But that's only a guess.
If you want to exclude your forum section from these rewrite rules, then this condition should suffice.
RewriteCond $1 !^forum(?:$|/)
This would go in front of each of the two rewrite rules. Keep in mind that this might not be the best solution, but without being able to troubleshoot, I can't even be certain of the problem.
Thanks Jeff. Ya I'm pretty sure thats exactly what it's doing - posting to the index. Is that above rule essentially saying exclude /forum? So directly off the root. Not that it is, but if it was ../../forum then it wouldn't work correct? Sorry to bug I just like to somewhat understand things.
And oh ya here was my other question. If these to rules (old and new) where doing the same thing just written differently then why does the old on work and this new set of rewrites not when it comes to this forum? Is it because the original rewrite only rewrote the root and not all the other folders?
# 301 permanent redirect index.php to folder
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\\ /([^/]+/)*index\\.php\\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*)index\\.php$ http://www.website.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# 301 permanent redirect non-www (non-canonical) to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\\.website\\.com)?$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.website.com/$1 [R=301,L]
If it was indeed writing to the index then this is the "only" solution correct?
If the web files for forum lived in some other location, then no, none of the rules in this htaccess would be applied. htaccess files are scoped to a filesystem directory. You'd either have to duplicate the htaccess for forum, or you'd have to move your rewrite rules into the server's main configuration file. In the main configuration file, the rewrite rules could be applied in a per-server context rather than per-directory.
I'm afraid, again, that without being able to see or troubleshoot the issue, I can't know why this is. But if the older rewrites work with your forum while the newer ones don't, then that makes me less confident that my initial guess was correct.
Certainly not the only solution. Another possibility would be to exclude POST requests... which may actually be the better option.
Quicky! I believe my forum folder would be ok. Its only the adm/ folder that I was having the issues. adm is directly off the forum... site-root/forum/adm/. Can you please show me how to write that exclusion rule for one more deeper folder? Thanks! I would just guess but I have no idea what all the mumbo jumbo stuff is right after forum.
original...RewriteCond $1 !^forum(?:$|/)
my guess 1...RewriteCond $1 !^forum/adm(?:$|/)
my guess 2...RewriteCond $1 !^adm(?:$|/forum)
$|/ means end of string ($) or (|) a slash (/). And (?: ) are grouping parentheses. They make sure that the or (|) applies to only what is inside the parentheses. So it will match "forum" followed by either a slash or the end of the string.
Awesome - thanks Jeff!


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Maimonides Medical Center is a 711-bed voluntary hospital located in the Sunset Park-Borough Park section of Brooklyn. The Department of Psychiatry serves our community with 70 inpatient psychiatric beds, a Continuing Day Treatment Program and a variety of outpatient services, including a Child-Adolescent unit, an Adult Outpatient unit, and a Health Psychology division. The psychology staff is comprised of 17 New York State licensed psychologists located on all units of service. Maimonides Medical Center has had an APA approved clinical psychology internship program for the past 23 years.
Externship experiences are offered in the:
Externs are given an opportunity to work directly with patients in individual, group and family therapy. They also provide psycho-diagnostic testing on patients when indicated, and receive additional supervision for these evaluations. They are supervised for a minimum of 1 hour per week and participate in all aspects of treatment related to the unit to which they are assigned. These activities include treatment planning conferences, unit staff meetings, grand rounds and hospital-wide conferences.
During the course of the externship, externs meet in weekly group sessions with their fellow externs where they receive additional instruction in a variety of topics including, psychopharmacology, career development, the role of multiculturalism in therapy, child and adolescent trauma treatment and internship preparation.
In addition to supervision with a licensed staff psychologist, externs also receive supervision from one of the current interns in a peer supervision model. There is also an opportunity for our externs to work in supportive group therapy with hospitalized inpatients, as part of the outpatient rotation.
Psychology externs and interns repeatedly described Maimonides Medical Center as having a very collegial atmosphere, where staff members are consistently available to trainees, providing them with as much support as needed. It is our aim to assist externs not only with their clinical training, but overall professional development.


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So here we go. I have this generic list of tuples. (In the program things get added to the list later on.):
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skill_list = [
# tuple layout: name, level, amount of dice, sides
("heal", 1, 1, 6),
Now when I want to reference the whole tuple I call :
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>>> print(skill_list[0])
('heal', 1, 1, 6)
But now if I want just one of the pieces of the tuple I call:
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>>> print(skill_list[0][0])
This all makes sense to me, and I have no issues with it.
But when I start using "for i in list" statements the syntax changes on me.
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>>> for i in skill_list:
Why does it go from skill_list[0][0] to [i[1]], and why does it still have the [] around it?
And if I want to do math with it it becomes: [i[1]][0] + 5
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Wednesday afternoon I'll be delivering a session at Adobe MAX 2009 about using InDesign to layout and design ebooks. The session will cover some ebook basics including readers and then will cover how to use InDesign to effectively layout and style a document for both print output and reflowing design for ebooks. Then I'll cover how to use the file for a number of hardware and software readers and finally converting for use on the Amazon Kindle.
The overall workflow hinges on a strong use of styles to create structured flow of text through your document. When working with graphics in a layout this means converting them to inline or anchored objects so that they're part of the flow of your story. This is the important technique when designing for ebook output. Once I get an export to Digital Editions (ePub format) I can convert the file pretty easily into a number of formats including mobi-and this is what works on Kindle.
The "slides" for the session were built using InDesign then exported to epub for use in Digital Editions or on many Sony eReaders; then the epub was converted to mobi for use on Kindle. You'll find links below for downloading these files for reference or experimentation. There are a number of links inside the files to additional resources from many resources, they're well worth taking a look at.
I'm told my session will be recorded and the recording will be available for viewing soon.
Hope this is of interest.


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You can answer the question, but are you bright enough to ask it?
by John Brockman
The Edge motto, adopted from the artist James Lee Byars' "World Question Center" is "To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves". As Wallace Stevens wrote in "Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction" (1942): "The final elegance, not to console / Nor sanctify, but plainly to propound."
It's the quality of the questions that defines the scientific endeavor, not the answers encrusted in stories and narratives. This year, at SciFoo 2013, Edge presented the opportunity to several of the nearly 300 participants to respond to the following: "What is your question from SciFoo 2013?" Watch the 8-minute video below for the responses. This is followed by responses to the question "Who and/or what was fresh and new at SciFoo 2013?", and a photo gallery, which extends to San Francisco the following evening.
But first, what is "SciFoo"?
The annual event is run by three sponsors: O'Reilly Media (Tim O'Reilly is responsible for "FOO", or, "friends of O'Reilly"), Nature Magazine (and their spin-off company, Digital Science), and Google. This year 62% of the participants were new. This approach keeps the event new and fresh every year. The ratio of participants to interesting people? 1-to-1.
As theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek noted in his report on SciFoo 2007 for Edge:
"SciFoo is a conference like no other. It brings together a mad mix from the worlds of science, technology, and other branches of the ineffable Third Culture at the Google campus in Mountain View. Improvised, loose, massively parallel—it's a happening. If you're not overwhelmed by the rush of ideas then you're not paying attention."
Also, see George Dyson's report on SciFoo 2007; Photos and comments on SciFoo2009, and the Edge-SciFoo report on SciFoo 2011.
Tyler Cowen, Joseph "Yossi" Vardi, Carl Page, Fiery Cushman, Lee Smolin, Linda Stone, Paul Davies, Paul Steinhardt, Peter Norvig, Richard Potts, Steve Fuller, Stuart Firestein
George Dyson, Esther Dyson, Steve Fuller, Stewart Brand, Paul Saffo, Coco Krumme, John Coates
A fascinating weekend, with one lingering regret—that I missed Rory Wilson's talk on the use of accelerometers in free living animals. I had to piece together the gist of his talk from scraps given me by others and, fortunately, by Rory himself. In his work as an animal behaviourist Rory has been using actigraphy and accelerometers attached to animals in the wild in order to monitor continuously their energy expenditure. Beyond this, though, the data Rory has collected has uncovered subtle changes in background movement that actually reflect the animal's motivational state. This finding is tremendously interesting. As we learn more about the brain, the more we see that it is built primarily to plan and execute movement, that activities we—under the influence of our Platonic heritage—commonly viewed as pure thought in fact have a somatic echo. Some scientists working with actigraphy have even found predictors, tremors if you will, of impending neuro-degenerative disease. But background activity changes that may reflect motivational states? The very possibility should tantalize any behavioural scientist.
Serendipity was at work this weekend: I met perhaps the only other person at scifoo (on the entire googolplex?) with a dumb phone. I stubbornly hold onto mine for the very purpose of serendipity, to dampen distraction. Ziyad Marar and I had a wonderful conversation about habits and human behavior, and soon discovered we have in common 1999-era telephones, as well as a healthy skepticism of social media. I hadn't heard of Ziyad's books (Happiness Paradox, Deception, Intimacy), but I picked up two at scifoo and couldn't put them down: his writing mulls human nature, weaving in literature and philosophy without succumbing to the tired conventions of contemporary science writing. A breath of fresh air.
PAUL SAFFO: Kröpelin's Mysteries of the Sahara
STEWART BRAND: What if climate change is good for civilization?
STEVE FULLER: How must we re-orient ourselves to make the most out of seasteading?
At Sci Foo Camp 2013, David Ewing Duncan and Linda Avey presented a very persuasive case for an indefinite expansion of 'seasteading', a term that I had learned about from Duncan in an earlier session on cognitive and moral enhancement by neuroscientific means. I had been already familiar with Peter Thiel's support for a ship floating just beyond US territorial waters near San Francisco Bay that enabled innovators lacking US citizenship to conduct research outside the gaze of American regulators. However, the session enabled me to see that seasteading, far from being a strategy for avoiding inconvenient forms of regulation, on the contrary might be something that states themselves encourage—though perhaps indirectly, depending on the political climate. However, this proposal would make policy sense only on the following condition: The outcomes of the research conducted in these 'ethics-free' zones would have to be made public, with the understanding that no one would be prosecuted, no matter how bad the outcomes are perceived to have been. In other words, we would need to become sufficiently mature to accept the admission of error in pursuit of a good cause as adequate punishment in itself.
The most wonderful session I attended—and the most meaningful experience overall—was Michael Chorost talking about his own cochlear implant. It was what science really is—the response to curiosity. He told us how it worked, played recordings so we could get some sense of how things sound to people who have an implant. He passed some samples around the room for us to touch and examine. We talked about learning to hear—and how there's a point in childhood after which it gets harder and harder to learn. We got an understanding of the technology, and also of how the technology changes both individual lives and cultural norms—such as sign language, which may become the language of the poor deaf as the rich deaf start using cochlear implants. In theory they can be covered by Medicare, but somehow the rich seem to get them and the poor don't... Is that right?
Is there something similar coming for vision? (Of course, this comment—and the session itsel —raises questions and doesn't answer them all; that's the point of SciFoo...)
This was SciFoo's seventh year, and, in era where the half-life of a conference is measured in years, not decades, it is holding up well. Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly), Timo Hannay (Nature/Digital Science )and Chris DiBona (Google) have found a formula that works, and are sticking to it. Big Data, once the all-consuming subject, is now just another scientific instrument, like a space telescope or an electron microscope, and the excitement was back to the details of what you can do with it, now that you have it. And how do you encourage scientific thinking in children (and politicians)? Among the people who showed up from left field and stole the show (a regular occurrence at SciFoo) this year was Carmen Medina, who, in her own introductory words, "spent 32 years at the Central Intelligence Agency and decided early on that how we form opinions is much more interesting than any particular opinion. Passionate about empowering heretics in the workplace and attacking conventional wisdom. Believe we need entirely new construct for the concept of national security, perhaps abandoning it altogether. Convinced there is worldwide conspiracy for preservation of Mediocrity." Amen!


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Welcome to Friday's The Crap We Missed featuring the return of Jenny McCarthy's cleavage to the spotlight (Yay?), Jason Sudeikis now clearly going to whatever lengths are necessary to emphasize the fact that his penis is gigantic, Josh Duhamel who understands that flexibility is the key to eliminating bedroom injury, and finally, text 'JOEYWHOA' to 57836 now to have this sent directly to your phone!
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The Lips 106 Headquarters are two identical twin towers located in Newport, Staunton Island, Liberty City. They transmit the radio station Lips 106 in Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. In Grand Theft Auto Advance, where there are no radio stations, the towers do not appear.
It is the eleventh tallest building in all of Liberty City at 161 m (528.2 ft), and the tallest radio station headquarters. It does not appear in any missions in both of its appearances, although a hidden package is located here in GTA Liberty City Stories.
- In the official website of GTA III, the towers are referred to as "KBDDF Radio". This was either the beta name for Lips 106, or Lips 106's call sign.


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Product Description
Robyn's fiction book for children has delightful illustrations by Lori Sume. A child gets far more from the story than a solid grounding in what foods to eat, and what foods to avoid, to be happy, healthy, and active. A fun quiz at the end has readers sorting Green Smoothie Guy's nutritious foods from Junk Food Dude's junk foods.


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Citizens of The Pitt!, it is I, Lord Ashur and I bring to you all a chance to fight for your freedom!, once a week The Hole will commence and the strongest of warriors will fight it out, while you workers have the opportunity to fight my other workers and can vote and decide who should be victor.
Because I know you only want to see the best fight the best, that is exactly what we are going to give you! From 4 Classes (Heavyweight, Cybernetic, Travveler and Normalweight) 8 shall be chosen and shall battle until only one champion is left standing in their class - and then we'll throw them straight back in the hole to determine the Champion of Champions!
The Hole will open on a Tuesday, winner will be announced on the following Tuesday when it all begins again!
Coming Soon - A Hole Special Series
Be on the lookout during September for a special Hole series to commemorate 15 years of Fallout, including the early return of fan favourite FRANK HORRIGAN!


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Q#1 I'm smoking 2 cornish hens today. I'm gonna soak them in a brine for a cpl of hours. But I was also thinking about using an injectable marinade. should this be done before you brine or after.
Q#2 Is it posible to take your favorite rub say a 1/4 cup of rub to say a quart of water, boil in a sauce pan, let it cool, then use that as an injectable marinade.


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Beautiful Velvet Dot Scarf! So pretty over a sweater or jacket! Soft and comfortable fabric. Content: 82% Rayon; 18% Silk. Measures 65" x 10.5". Machine Wash. Tumble Dry Low. Made in the USA.
Cut Loose is an extensive line of casual clothing that's sewn and dyed to order in San Francisco. They are known for their fabrics, their flattering fit, and their colors. The shapes are simple, and you can easily combine pieces for a sophisticated look.
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Welcome, Visitors
Coming to campus? We'd love to have you. Browse this page for the information you'll need to get started on planning your visit. Print out a copy of our campus map, sign up for a general campus tour guided by a Cal Poly student, and check out links to local lodging options.
Bring your walking shoes; Cal Poly's main campus core is set on a hill, and there's lots to do and see. You can always take a break, relax and eat in the University Union on the north end of campus or Kennedy Library on the south end. (Yes, you can eat in the library - try the cafe on the second floor.)
If you want to explore campus on your own, you can find a Cal Poly tour app for your iPhone or iPod.
Read on to find out more about the beautiful region surrounding campus. Some links will take you away from the Cal Poly web site to other web sites which may not be fully accessible. Use your back button to return to the Cal Poly web site or bookmark www.calpoly.edu.
The City of San Luis Obispo
Cal Poly's location in San Luis Obispo makes it one of the best places to visit. It's a quintessential coastal California town with some 43,000 residents. Located halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles and just minutes from beaches, state parks, landmarks and premium wine regions, it's also a popular vacation spot. Sunset Magazine has called it the most Californian place in all of California.
The city of San Luis Obispo offers a historic, restored downtown full of restaurants, theatres, art galleries and shops centered around San Luis Obispo Creek, Mission San Luis Obispo and Mission Plaza. San Luis Obispo's Thursday night Farmer's Market on Higuera Street has become a model for cities around the state. It's a mix of fresh produce and flowers, baked goods, restaurant fare and free music all within strolling distance.
Central Coast Beaches & Wine Country
San Luis Obispo is just minutes from some of California's best beaches and original beach cities: Avila Beach (10 miles), Pismo Beach (12 miles), Morro Bay (17 miles), Montaña de Oro State Park (18 miles), Cayucos (18 miles), the Pismo Dunes (28 miles) and world-famous Hearst Castle ( 45 miles).
The town itself is nestled between two premiere wine regions: Paso Robles and the Edna Valley. Both are key to Cal Poly's thriving Wine and Viticulture degree program.
Just next door to the town and campus are three viticulture areas: the Edna Valley (6 miles), Arroyo Grande Valley (13 miles) and Avila Valley (7 miles). They are home to more than 20 wineries and 3,000 acres of vineyards.
The Paso Robles wine region to the north (27 miles) is home to more than 26,000 vineyard acres and 180 wineries. Wine grape varieties range from Spanish to Italian, Bordeaux to Rhône, including the area's heritage variety: Zinfandel.
Wine tasting and winery tours are part of the flavor of the Central Coast. You'll find wine events and festivals throughout the year - something to keep in mind when you're planning a visit to your college student(s).


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THE family of missing Newbridge man Kyle Vaughan, who disappeared on December 30, have said they are in 'limbo'.
Since his disappearance eight people have been arrested in connection with the murder investigation.
Police are still questioning two people arrested on suspicion of the murder of Mr Vaughan, who has been missing for more than three weeks.
His silver Peugeot 306 was found on the A467 between Risca and Crosskeys.
A 27-year-old woman and a man aged 28, both from the Cwmfelinfach area, were arrested on Tuesday. Gwent Police have been granted an extention until Thursday evening to question the pair.
Mr Vaughan's cousin Becky Imm said: "We just want anyone who has seen him or heard from him to tell us – it's all relevant and it all helps us to build up the bigger picture of what happened to him.
"The family is going through a range of emotions. We're confused because we just don't know what has happened to him, especially with all the different arrests. We are trying to make sense of it all and nothing is making sense. We feel like we are in limbo.
"I think people know things they think aren't relevant, like who he was with and what kind of mood he was in, but this sort of information could be very important.
"We're urging people to come forward if they saw him before and especially since his disappearance.
"We just want to know he's safe, alive and well."
Det Supt Peter Jones, who is leading he investigation, said: "Because of the information our officers have obtained over the past three weeks, we decided this is now a murder investigation.
"Obviously we hope Kyle walks trough the door of a police station in the next 24 hours, but because it is so out of character and because of the information we have obtained, we are treating it as a murder investigation.
"We are as sure as we can be the Kyle was driver of his car, but we have no sightings of him after that. We are urging people to come forward if they saw Kyle either in the lead up to his disappearance or after."
The family have also set up a Facebook page, Help us with information: MISSING – Kyle Vaughan, which already has more than 12,000 members.
If you have information call 101, 01633 838111 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111


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Addendum to report #4 on my 2011 genealogy research trip to Panama
I have to say, things have really been moving on the Cadignan end of things. I also have to admit that I may have gotten so excited about the progress I was making I jumped ahead of myself and went running full steam ahead towards a conclusion based on shaky evidence. I'll explain. Continue reading