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Timely rains help sweet potato crop
MISSISSIPPI STATE -- Timely rains in July and now during sweet potato harvest have been the keys to any success Mississippi's growers have had during this second consecutive dry summer.
Bill Burdine, sweet potato specialist with the Mississippi State University Extension Service, said rains that passed through the state in early July were essential for the early sweet potato crop. Yields and quality have been slightly lower for the midseason potatoes.
"Most early yields were in excess of 300 bushels per acre, which is good. The potatoes had excellent shape and clean, smooth skin. Now, potatoes are showing more damage from white fringed beetles, crickets and sugarcane beetles," Burdine said.
"With minimal rains since that first week of July, the midseason crop is a little smaller," he said. "Growers are waiting an extra week to remove vines in fields that should be ready for harvest. Digging will start three to seven days after vines are removed."
Hurricane Humberto brought about 3 or more inches of rain to the state Sept. 13 and 14.
"This rain was perfect," Burdine said. "It fell slow enough that nearly every drop soaked in and helped potatoes begin sizing up. This was easily a million-dollar rain for sweet potato growers."
Burdine said the later-planted potatoes might run short on the heat units needed to mature and be at risk of excessive rains that could hamper harvests.
Benny Graves, executive secretary of the Mississippi Sweet Potato Council, said all farmers walk a tight line between too little and too much rain. Excessive rains or the extreme opposite, a drought, complicates potato harvest.
"Harvest typically begins the last of August and finishes around the first of November. The further harvest extends into November, the more risk there is from rains," Graves said. "The good news is that there were very few late-planted fields in Mississippi."
Graves said the state's growers expanded their acreage from 16,000 acres last year to about 20,000 acres this year.
"The price and demand prompted the acreage expansion. There was zero carryover from last year," he said. "More good news for Mississippi growers is the expanding market into the United Kingdom and the European Union in general."
Mississippi growers pay tribute to their crop at the annual Sweet Potato Festival held in Vardaman on the first Saturday in November. Located in the heart of the state's sweet potato farms, the event attracts thousands to sample products and take part in events dedicated to sweet potatoes.


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Series: Dominion of the Fallen #2
Published by Gollancz, Ace on April 4th 2017
Pages: 320
Any book that has me struggling not to squeak on public transport and then has me nearly miss my bus stop is going to get a big thumbs-up. I loved Aliette de Bodard's blasted, magic-torn Paris in The House of Shattered Wings and I delighted in the chance to return to it and peer into one of the darker Fallen Houses. This makes it sound vaguely like there's any such thing as a light Fallen House. There isn't, which is the first reason I love this world: without being grimdark, it has little time for our petty human morality.
However, House Hawthorn was firmly established as the home of villains in the first book: now they are the protagonists, but still shown through mistrustful eyes. Alchemist Madeleine was a loyal Hawthorn dependent until Asmodeus seized power, slaughtering the previous Head and his allies. Madeleine barely escaped with her life, seeking refuge in House Silverspires – until her addiction to angel essence got her banished. Now she is back in Hawthorn, where it's made clear that she must give up angel essence (nobody can give up angel essence) or die. The knowledge that Asmodeus will get to choose the manner of her dying keeps her alive.
Fear, perhaps predictably, is a driving force throughout The House of Binding Thorns. This is the Dominion of the Fallen, so duty also registers highly. More surprisingly, so does love.
Tormented Philippe has retreated to a poor neighbourhood of Houseless Annamites, where he pretends to be a human doctor with a higher than average track record. Here he is attacked by one unknown supernatural force and rescued by a second – who turns out to be a Fallen called Berith who has turned her back on the Houses to live (by Fallen standards) in squalor with her pregnant Annamite wife Françoise.
It's a shock to find a Fallen in love with a human; another to discover her connection to Asmodeus. The couple need Philippe – once tortured almost to death on suspicion of murdering Asmodeus's lover – to accompany Françoise to House Hawthorn and persuade Asmodeus to visit Berith. Obviously this can't end well; even the rose-tinted glasses of past loyalty and current need can't entirely ignore Asmodeus's reputation. But just as Berith and Françoise will risk anything for each other, Philippe too has a price: he wishes to bring his dead Fallen friend Isabelle back to life, and Berith knows how to achieve this. You don't need me to tell you that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is, right?
However, all this may be no more than distraction, because Asmodeus is – inevitably – Up To Something. He has dispatched an ambassador to the dragon kingdom under the Seine to negotiate a treaty; when she goes missing, he sends a second – with Madeleine in tow. Meanwhile, the dragon kingdom has insinuated a spy into House Hawthorn, because they have a rebellion and an essence addition problem – and they're pretty certain Asmodeus must be behind at least one of them. Why else would be offering his hand in marriage?
Frankly, the idea of Asmodeus marrying anyone – let alone a dragon prince – would be enough to have me at hello. Obviously it must be a gambit. Add in scenes with him lounging around in a dressing gown and being quixotically cruel and you have a character who puts Bond villains to shame. Yet he's also a fierce ally, who takes his responsibilities seriously. As the plot got twistier and the relationships intertwined, it was hard not to see the narrative taking the shape of a hawthorn itself. The only question was who would end up impaled on its thorns.
I love nuanced villainy, and de Bodard caught me neatly in the trap of wanting Asmodeus's plans to fail (because I was entirely won over by the lovelorn, duty-bound dragon prince) and not wanting Asmodeus's enemies to destroy him (although I couldn't help but appreciate their point of view), because while Asmodeus is a proper villain, he's a villain I can respect.
If anything, I think Thorns is better than Wings – unburdened by the need to set the scene, it is free to develop its themes at pace and push the world-building in intriguing new directions. While it was tempting (if foolish) to see Silverspires as the good guys, it's liberating to root for a House that understands its moral ambiguity. Loyalty is everything here, and de Bodard somehow manages to avoid angst even as she amps up the inner turmoil and emotional conflict, giving us forceful characters with unexpected depths.
I'm agog to discover how these twists and turns will change the political landscape of Fallen Paris. My fingers are firmly crossed for another story of the Dominion in the future.
- Review: Tarnished City by Vic James - November 8, 2017
- Review: Shadowblack by Sebastien de Castell - October 18, 2017
- Review: Hannah Green and her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence by Michael Marshall Smith - September 4, 2017

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Scala combinator library for working with binary data.
This library focuses on contract-first and pure functional encoding and decoding of binary data. The following design constraints are considered:
- Binary structure should mirror protocol definitions and be self-evident under casual reading
- Mapping binary structures to types should be statically verified
- Encoding and decoding should be purely functional
- Failures in encoding and decoding should provide descriptive errors
- Compiler plugin should not be used
As a result, the library is implemented as a combinator based DSL. Performance is considered but yields to the above design constraints.
Scodec 1.x used Shapeless and is heavily influenced by scala.util.parsing.combinator. As of Scodec 2.x, the library only depends on the standard library.
This project is licensed under a 3-clause BSD license.
The scodec channel on Typelevel Discord is a good place to go for help.
The primary abstraction is a Codec[A]
, which supports encoding a value of type A
to a
and decoding a BitVector
to a value of type A
The codecs
objects provides a number of predefined codecs and combinators.
import scodec.*
import scodec.bits.*
import scodec.codecs.*
// Create a codec for an 8-bit unsigned int followed by an 8-bit unsigned int followed by a 16-bit unsigned int
val firstCodec = uint8 :: uint8 :: uint16
// Decode a bit vector using that codec
val result: Attempt[DecodeResult[(Int, Int, Int)]] = firstCodec.decode(hex"102a03ff".bits)
// Successful(DecodeResult(((16, 42), 1023), BitVector(empty)))
// Sum the result
val add3 = (_: Int) + (_: Int) + (_: Int)
val sum: Attempt[DecodeResult[Int]] = result.map(_.map(add3))
// Successful(DecodeResult(1081, BitVector(empty)))
Automatic case class binding is supported via tuples:
case class Point(x: Int, y: Int, z: Int)
val pointCodec: Codec[Point] = (int8 :: int8 :: int8).as[Point]
val encoded: Attempt[BitVector] = pointCodec.encode(Point(-5, 10, 1))
// Successful(BitVector(24 bits, 0xfb0a01))
val decoded: Attempt[DecodeResult[Point]] = pointCodec.decode(0xfb0a01)
// Successful(DecodeResult(Point(-5, 10, 1), BitVector(empty)))
Codecs can also be derived, resulting in usage like:
case class Point(x: Int, y: Int, z: Int) derives Codec
val encoded: Attempt[BitVector] = Codec.encode(Point(-5, 10, 1))
// Successful(BitVector(96 bits, 0x000000fb0000000a00000001))
val decoded: Attempt[DecodeResult[Point]] = Codec.decode[Point](0x000000fb0000000a00000001)
// Successful(DecodeResult(Point(-5, 10, 1), BitVector(empty)))
New codecs can be created by either implementing the Codec
trait though typically new codecs are created by applying one or more combinators to existing codecs.
See the guide for detailed documentation. Also, see ScalaDoc. Especially:
Many libraries have support for scodec:
There are various examples in the test directory, including codecs for:
The protocols module of fs2 has production quality codecs for the above examples.
The skunk database library uses scodec to communicate with Postgres.
The hippo project uses scodec to parse .hprof files.
The bitcoin-scodec library has a codec for the Bitcoin network protocol.
The scodec-msgpack library provides codecs for MessagePack.
The fs2-http project uses FS2, scodec, and shapeless to implement a minimal HTTP client and server.
The scodec-bson library implements BSON codecs and combinators.
If you're creating your own Codec
instances scodec publishes some of its own test tooling in the scodec-testkit
libraryDependencies += "org.scodec" %%% "scodec-core" %
(if (scalaVersion.value.startsWith("2.")) "1.11.9" else "2.1.0")
This project uses sbt and requires node.js to be installed in order to run Scala.js tests. To build, run sbt publishLocal
See the Code of Conduct.


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Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure
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Murray Rothbard was the master of reducing complicated theories to their very essence while retaining theoretical rigor, and this essay is a case in point. It was written in 1969 and published in the form of a tiny book that achieved a huge circulation. It has not been in print since that time, but it is now back in this new release.
Its continued relevance speaks to an aspect of the Austrian theory that other theories can't boast. It is a real theory that applies across time and place, and its persuasive power is not contingent on the particulars of any individual boom bust cycle.
Mises Institute 2009; originally published as a minibook in 1969 by the Constitutional Alliance of Lansing, Michigan.


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LONDON – Queen Elizabeth II's husband has been admitted to a London hospital for an exploratory operation, Buckingham Palace said Thursday.
The palace said the operation on 91-year-old Prince Philip -- which will take place on Friday -- was pre-planned and comes after "abdominal investigations" that were carried out over the past week.
"He is in good spirits," a palace spokeswoman said. She declined to elaborate on Philip's condition or when the decision was made to operate, saying only that the queen's husband is expected to be in the London Clinic for up to two weeks and that further updates will be issued "when appropriate."
The London Clinic -- a private hospital and longtime favorite for celebrities and royals in need of treatment -- declined to comment.
Philip was driven by car to the hospital shortly after attending a Buckingham Palace garden party hosted by his wife. Footage from the party showed the queen's husband smiling and chatting with guests as he walked around the garden.
Prime Minister David Cameron sent Philip his best wishes via Twitter, writing that he hopes the queen's husband has a "swift recovery."
After pulling out of an event earlier this week because of illness, Philip later attended a service to mark the 60th anniversary of the queen's coronation.
Philip turns 92 on June 10. His health was in the spotlight last summer when he spent almost a week in the hospital after a recurrence of a bladder infection.
He also spent Christmas 2011 in the hospital being treated for a blocked coronary artery.
Along with the queen, Philip has cut back on lengthy overseas travel. Still, the royals maintain active public schedules inside Britain.
The queen is expected to carry out her scheduled engagements as planned on Friday, which include a visit to the new BBC studios in central London.


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Senior Obama Official: "We Are Going To Kill The Dollar"
05 марта 2024 вторник
28.01.2013 (19:58)
Kyle Bass, who knows a thing or two about economics and finance, recently spoke to a senior member of the Obama administration about their planned solutions for fixing the U.S. economy and trade deficit.
The answer shouldn't surprise you.
When I asked a senior member of the Obama administration last week, 'How are we going to grow exports if we won't allow nominal wage deflation?'
He says, 'we're just going to kill the dollar.'
That worried me.
So, that the only answer.
It's a dead answer.
But, that's where we're headed.


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Press Release
Kansas Agricultural Scientist Convicted in Theft of Engineered Rice
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Kansas
WASHINGTON – A federal jury returned guilty verdicts today in the case of a Chinese scientist, who was charged with conspiring to steal samples of a variety of rice seeds from a Kansas biopharmaceutical research facility.
Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary B. McCord of the Justice Department's National Security Division and U.S. Attorney Tom Beall of the District of Kansas made the announcement.
Weiqiang Zhang, 50, a Chinese national residing in Manhattan, Kansas, was convicted on one count of conspiracy to steal trade secrets, one count of conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property and one count of interstate transportation of stolen property.
Evidence at trial established that Zhang worked as a rice breeder for Ventria Bioscience in Junction City, Kansas. Ventria develops genetically programmed rice to express recombinant human proteins, which are then extracted for use in the therapeutic and medical fields. Zhang has a master's degree in agriculture from Shengyang Agricultural University in China and a doctorate degree from Louisiana State University.
According to trial evidence, Zhang acquired without authorization hundreds of rice seeds produced by Ventria and stored them at his residence in Manhattan. The rice seeds have a wide variety of health research applications and were developed to express either human serum albumin, contained in blood, or lactoferrin, an iron-binding protein found, for example, in human milk. Ventria used locked doors with magnetic card readers to restrict access to the temperature-controlled environment where the seeds were stored and processed.
Trial evidence demonstrated that in the summer of 2013, personnel from a crop research institute in China visited Zhang at his home in Manhattan. Zhang drove the visitors to tour facilities in Iowa, Missouri and Ohio. On Aug. 7, 2013, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found seeds belonging to Ventria in the luggage of Zhang's visitors as they prepared to leave the United States for China.
The FBI's Little Rock, Arkansas, Field Office and Kansas City, Missouri, Field Office, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas investigated the case. Trial Attorney Matt Walczewski of the National Security Division, Trial Attorneys Brian Resler and Evan Williams of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) and Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Rask of the District of Kansas prosecuted the case.
Updated February 16, 2017
Intellectual Property


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Explore Athens and the beautiful islands of Mykonos and Santorini with this discount package.
- 3 nights hotel accommodation in Athens
- 3 nights hotel accommodation in Mykonos Island
- 3 nights hotel accommodation in Santorini Island
- Morning Athens guided walking tour including the Acropolis (entrance fees included)
- Ferry tickets Athens-Mykonos–Santorini-Athens (upgrade to high speed boats, or flights, available at extra cost)
- All transfers as mentioned
- Daily breakfast
- 24 hour assistance phone number
- All taxes
- Travel insurance
- International flights
- Personal expenses
- Gratuities
Upon arrival, you will be met by our representative and transferred to your selected hotel. Balance of day at leisure in Athens. Athens is a city where antiquity meets edginess. Museums and galleries abound, and new ones are in the works. The New Acropolis Museum, designed by the New York-based architect Bernard Tschumi, is now open at the foot of the ancient citadel. A major makeover prior to the 2004 Olympics added squares and pedestrian walkways, and new subway stations that double as museums. Today this ancient city is a vibrant megalopolis with nonstop nightlife, creative cuisine, and sites both ancient and modern. In the thousands of sidewalk cafés, courting teenagers, young professionals, and old men shuffling their worry beads all bask in Athens's modern-day renaissance.
On this small-group tour, you get to see part of the modern city of Athens as well as the Acropolis and all its monuments. Your expert licensed guide will take you to see the change of the guards and the National Gardens before you reach the Acropolis where you will skip the long lines with the pre-purchased tickets we will provide you.
*However, please be aware that even with our skip-the-ticket-line service, there might be some waiting time required for security checks. This is because visitor numbers can fluctuate unpredictably at the sites throughout the day. The typical waiting time falls within 0 to 10 or 30 minutes, though on rare occasions, it might be longer.
Start at the Syntagma metro station for a 10-minute tour inside of the station's museum. Archaeological artifacts uncovered during the metro's construction offer insight into daily life here thousands of years ago. The next stop is the Greek Parliament, followed by the Monument to the Unknown Soldier where you will watch the Changing of the Guards. The walk continues to the National Gardens of Athens, Zappeion, and Hadrian's Arch. The route passes by the Plaka and Anafiotika district to reach the next and final stop: the Acropolis. Entering on the south slope of the Acropolis, you'll visit the Dionysus Sanctuary and Dionysus Theater before you walk up the slope leading to the Acropolis monuments. Panoramic views of the city will be perfect for Instagram-ready photos. During your tour, you'll gain insight into the significance of the historic monuments of Acropolis including the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, the Propylaia, the Nike Temple as well as other significant sights of Athens including the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the Ancient Agora, the National Observatory of Athens and the city's scenic hills: Filoppapos, Mars, and Pnyx.
*The guided tour ends on the hill of the Acropolis
Our staff, holding an orange Athens Walking Tours sign, will be waiting for you inside the Syntagma Metro Station, at the big hall underneath the hanging clock, next to the ticket validating machines.
**Please be at the meeting point 15 minutes prior to the given tour departure time.
Duration : Approximately 3 hours & 30minutes
*Please wear appropriate shoes for walking (including slippery surfaces), hat, water.
Morning transfer to the port to board the ferry to Mykonos. Upon your arrival on the island, transfer to your hotel.
Days at leisure in Mykonos to enjoy this unique island. Mykonos island is a wonderful kaleidoscope of cosmopolitan shops, rocking bars, quaint windmills, great beaches, homey taverns and hidden churches all set against a brilliant blue backdrop. And it's not just the water that sparkles in the sun on Mykonos, but also the marble streets and beautiful white cubist buildings that characterize the island's architecture.
Optional tours available
At the indicated time you will be transferred to the port for your ferry to Santorini. Upon arrival, transfer to your hotel.
Days at leisure to enjoy the sun, the unforgettable view and the most romantic sunset in the world. Santorini is the essence of a Greek island, where sea meets weather-beaten rock and colors are bold and elemental. Blue-domed chapels stand on hilltops; houses are simple white cubes, sunsets flamboyant orange. The half-moon island, with its rearing cliffs and dramatic outlooks, is all that remains of a huge volcanic explosion. Inland, fertile soils provide a softer landscape of silvery olive trees, fields of tomatoes and neatly pegged vineyards that produce sweet amber-colored wine.
Optional tours available
At the indicated time you will be transferred to the port for your ferry to Athens. Upon arrival in Athens you will be transferred to your hotel.
According to your departure flight, you will be transferred to the airport.
Optional Tours
Half-Day (Afternoon)
From Nov 1 to Mar 31 - Every Mon-Wed-Fri & Sat
From Apr 1st to Oct 31st - Daily
Dep.: 3:00pm – Ret.: 7:00pm
Half-Day (Afternoon)
From Nov 1 to Mar 31 - Every Mon-Wed-Fri & Sat
From Apr 1st to Oct 31st - Daily
Dep.: 3:00pm – Ret.: 7:00pm
Driving along the coastal road past the wonderful beaches of GLYFADA, VOULIAGMENI, VARKIZA and countless coves, one has a splendid view of the Saronic Gulf. A crowning feature of the tour Cape SOUNION, dominated by the spectacular Temple of POSSEIDON overlooking the Aegean sea.(Oct 1 to Mar 31 - ½ hour earlier)
Night Life
From Nov 1st to Mar 31st - Every Thu & Sat
From Apr 1st to Oct 31st - Daily
Dep.: 8:30pm - Ret.: around midnight
Starting our evening tour with a pleasant panoramic drive through illuminated city center and we will approach the slope of the sacred hill to admire the illuminated Acropolis.Night Life
From Nov 1st to Mar 31st - Every Thu & Sat
From Apr 1st to Oct 31st - Daily
Dep.: 8:30pm - Ret.: around midnight
Then we will visit the museum of Ancient Greek musical instruments and discover the music history of Greece. Explore the greatest and only collection with 60 reconstructed Ancient Greek Musical instruments.
Next we will walk through the narrow pedestrian street of Plaka, the old city of Athens, to dine in a Greek typical restaurant with floor folklore show with live music, ballet with dancers in traditional costumes
N.B. Drinks at the taverna are not included.
Daily Departures
11:30 - 17:30
At first, our boat stops on the little dock of the famous Volcano, where we will walk towards the top of the island. While walking, our experienced guide talks about the intense volcanic activity of the last 3000 years! The crater still seems active, as hot fumes are released in many points! Next, we are heading to the Hot Springs, where we will make a 50-minute stop for swimming in the suplhur springs of the volcano. Another major proof of the strong volcanic activity still today, Hot Springs have beneficial effects against rheumatisms, arthritis and other diseases. The island of Thirasia is our final destination, where we will stay 2 hours for swimming and lunch. Thirasia is a small, very picturesque island, ideal choice for nice walks, swimming and lunch in the little port of Korfos or in the traditional village Manolas. On the way back, the boat stops just for a few minutes in the port of Armeni in Oia. If you wish, you can leave the group here and visit the village of Oia , famous for its breathtaking sunset. The red stones of lava along with caves, numerous churches and multi-coloured houses are the ultimate challenge for every single photographer... In the night you can return to your hotel by the public transportation or by taxi. In case you continue your trip to the Old Port of Fira or to the Athinios Port, you will have a great way back, as the boat sails very close to the coast of the Caldera!
Daily Departures
At first, the bus takes us to the highest point of Santorini, the mountain of Profitis Ilias , from where we can see a panoramic view of the island. We continue to the village of Pyrgos, to see the old castle; in the 18th century, that castle was the capital of Santorini and its dense architecture was offering great protections from the pirates invasions.Daily Departures
The bus takes us to Athinios Port to board on a beautiful traditional wooden boat. We stop on the little dock of the famous Volcano, where we will walk towards the top of the island. While walking, our experienced guide talks about the intense volcanic activity of the last 3000 years! The crater still seems active, as hot fumes are released in many points!
Next, we are heading to the Hot Springs, where we will make a 50-minute stop for swimming in the suplhur springs of the volcano. Another major proof of the strong volcanic activity still today, Hot Springs have beneficial effects against rheumatisms, arthritis and other diseases.
The island of Thirasia is our final destination, where we will stay 2 hours for swimming and lunch. Thirasia is a small, very picturesque island, ideal choice for nice walks, swimming and lunch in the little port of Korfos or in the traditional village Manolas.
The last stop is in Oia, where you can walk in the village, enjoy the view of the Caldera and see the brilliant sunset
Daily departures
15:00 - After sunset
Daily departures
15:00 - After sunset
The tour starts from the Old Port of Fira and from Athinios Port (if you select the transfer option). We will stop for 1.5 hours in the volcano to walk the path to the craters. Our guide will be all the time with and explain the history of the volcano, its effects in the everyday life of inhabitants in Santorini and its current state. Nowadays, as you will see, scientists have installed organs to measure the volcanic indexes, so to warn in case of violent activation.
The, we will sail to the hot springs. Formations of lava and rocks are constantly changing and in a while we can see the older rocks of the nearby island, Palea Kameni. This island proves that the volcano is still active! Sulfur comes out of the sea-bottom and the waters become very warm (temperature reaches 104F / 40oC!). We make a 40-minute stop for swimming.
Later on, our captain will choose the most quiet bay of the Caldera to enjoy our dinner. Varieties of meat, refreshing salads and pasta, local cheese and fruits are our chef's suggestions! With our sails open, we sail to Oia. The sunset is now in front of us and we will enjoy it with a glass of Santorinian wine…
We return before 22:00, so to admire the night in the Caldera. Oia, Imerovigli and Firostefani at the end reflect their lights in the sea…
Private and semi private
Day time (5 hours) 10:30-15:30
Sunset Cruise (5 hours) 15:30-20:30
Caldera cruisesDiscover Santorini's beautiful Caldera and magnificent coastline sailing on the catamaran.
Experience the wonders of Santorini on a daytime or sunset cruise, sailing to the most au-inspiring parts of the island.
We set sail from Marina Vlihada, to the spectacular red beach of the island which is situated in the historic village of Akrotiri and we make a short stop for anyone who would like to take a dip, sailing onwards to the white beach which once again is magnificent and from there past the Indian Rocks to our venetian lighthouse on the tip of the island from where you have the most au-inspiring view of the whole Aegean Sea and the surrounding Greek islands stretching out in front of you.
Explore the most beautiful parts of Santorini whilst sailing past the Caldera where you have the chance to view Fira, Firostefani, Imerovigli and Oia from afar and admire the rock formations of our coastline, touring past the volcano which also presents amazing photographic opportunities.
From there we sail to the famous volcanic hot springs where once again we make a brief stop so you may have the chance to take a healing swim in the sulphurous waters and to the most unique private bays and coves of Palia Kammeni where you may relax, take a swim and do some snorkeling in the clear, cool blue waters.
Dine luxuriously, with our mouth-watering on board barbecue, with fresh meat and seafood from the local farmers and fishermen accompanied with greek salads and soft beverages.
Whilst basking in the sunlight or watching the fantastic colours of our world known sunset upon the santorinian landscape, relax and enjoy a glass of chilled wine from our local wineries.
Whether you are looking for a sunny daytime trip or a romantic sunset cruise with your loved ones, there is no better place than upon our catamaran "Caldera".
Daily except Mondays
10:00 - 15:00
Daily except Mondays
10:00 - 15:00
Visit one of the most important archaeological sites of Greece : THE ANCIENT SACRED ISLAND OF DELOS !
Only a 45 minute boat ride away from Mykonos Delos was the centre of the Cyclades of the ancient world, the island of light, birthplace of Apollon and Artemis, home to the first multicultural civilization and trade.
There is a lot to see: having been inhabited between 2500 and 69 b.C. Delos boasts of many treasures remaining from these times like the ancient market place Agora, the famous terrace of the Naxos lions, the holy lake, the ancients living quarters and theatre that give you a lively vision of the daily life then; especially the houses of Dionysos, Kleopatra, the Trident, the Masks, the Dolphins with their mosaics are a fantastic experience of art not to be missed.
Furthermore there are the Temple of Isis, the Egyptian goddess, the Roman water system and cisterns and the wonderful museum with plenty of breathtaking mosaics, statues and many more objects found during the excavations.
On our guided tour you depart at 10pm from the old pier in Mykonos Town and you return at 2.30 pm. If you wish to remain a little bit longer you can also take the last boat back at 3 pm in order to have some time at leisure or maybe climb on Mount Kynthos to enjoy the view over all the surrounding Cycladic islands.
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays
09:30 - 13:45
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays
09:30 - 13:45
Mykonos - Labyrinth and Landscape... A pearl in the Aegean Sea - blue sky, beautiful snow- white houses, lovely beaches everywhere...
Starting the City-and Island tour by walking the small and narrow streets, we have many possibilities to take nice photographs in the early morning, quiet city.
We get orientation and information in the labyrinth of the old town as well as impressions of the small port and the churches in town. Of course we will see the famous wind-mills and find Petros The Pelecan, the mascot of Mykonos.
After this we are exploring the island with a bus, visiting some of the most famous beaches and the inner land- scape. We see fishermen and kaikis, small private chapels and houses built in typical cycladic style.
In the second main village of Mykonos, Ano Mera, an idyllic place 6km from town, where the guests have enough free time for a stroll around the traditional square and they can visit the monk monastery Panagia Tourliani built in the 16th century.
Next stop is Kalafatis beach were there is time to relax a little and have a coffee or a refreshment (not included in the price), before going back to town and to reach a place with a fantastic view all over the town and neigh- bour islands.
A Half-Day-Trip with a lot of impressions and useful information!
Mykonos Day Cruise South Coast
Mondays, Wednesdays & Saturdays
10:00 - 18:00
Mondays, Wednesdays & Saturdays
10:00 - 18:00
A Full-Day-Trip with a traditional boat at the southern coast of Mykonos.
Relax, enjoy the sun, watch the crystal clear seawater, see quiet beaches...
Meeting point is the pier of Aghios Giannis. We get aboard the traditional boat Dolphins of Delos which takes us along the south coast towards the East. If the wind is strong south, then we are going towards the north coast.
We head for the uninhabited island of Dragonissi, well known for its beautiful coastline and caves. If the weather permits we go into the caves with a dinghy.
We return to the coast of Mykonos and stop at the deserted beach of Frangias. Here we have enough time for swimming and snorkeling and we offer ouzo, wine, juices & water together with a lunch (bread, olives, tomatoes, cucumber, tzatziki, dolmadakia, giant beans, meatballs).
After lunch there is enough time to spend on the beach. The boats leave for the next beach of Paradise. Here we have time for a coffee break another swim and there is also a station for water sports.
Then we head back towards the pier of Aghios Giannis in the evening sun after a day full of activities and beautiful impressions.
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Mykonos Jeep Safari
Mondays & Thursdays
10:00 - 18:00
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See the hidden corners of the island of Mykonos many of them inaccessible unless by jeep. Enjoy breathtaking views, rural areas, beautiful beaches and the unique feeling of driving in a jeep!
Meeting point at the Yacht Club / Old Port of Mykonos at 9:30 a.m.
Our tour takes us first along the coast to Houlakia beach and from there up to the light house. From there we drive through the area of Marathi past the dam and Panormos beach to the bay of Agios Sostis.
Then we drive to the area of Ano Mera where we have a stop at Paleokastro, the ruins of a Venetian Castle. We explore the area around Ano Mera with its agriculture and the nearby old abandoned mine.
Lunch stop in a picturesque place (not included in the price). Then we continue along the south coast and drive past Kalafatis and Kalo Livadi through the green area of Halara. Our next stop is at Agrari Beach where we have time for a coffee and a swim.
From there we head back for Mykonos town having as the last high light of the tour a photo stop at the old castle above the city.
The tour ends at the Old Port at 6pm.
Tinos Island Tour
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Only 45 minutes away is Tinos, the gorgeous neighbour island of Mykonos. Being three times bigger it has a lot to offer:
- Tinos town and the most famous and important church of Greece, the Evangellistria, with its miraculous icon and magic atmosphere
- The womens monastery Kechrovouni high up in the mounains which is inhabited by 40 nuns
- The traditional village Volax, home to the basket makers
- The valley of the pigeon houses from the Venetian time
- Pirgos, the centre of the marble arts
- The peaceful fishing bay of Panormos with its lovely fish tavernas
- Continiously changing scenery of landscapes, traditional villages and views over the Agean Sea and surrounding islands.
Please note that for the visit of the church and monastery there are strict clothing rules: sleveless shirts and shorts are not permitted. Men must wear long trousers that go below the ankle.
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"[Brown's] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable..." –Katherine Salant, Washington Post
Summary Presentation for Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
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At Earth Policy Institute (EPI) we often receive requests for a visual presentation to accompany Lester Brown's latest book, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. The reasons vary widely, from people wanting to spread the word within their communities, to teachers looking to relay the message to their students, to individuals seeking to quickly get the gist of the book. Because of this interest, EPI has created a slideshow illustrating in text, pictures, and graphs why and how we need to mobilize to save civilization.
Our aim in producing this presentation is to provide a brief but engaging summary of the book's key concepts. By helping interested parties spread the Plan B vision, we hope to encourage social and political involvement in critical environmental issues—for example, banning new coal-fired power plants or implementing an economy-wide carbon tax to help stabilize climate.
You are welcome to use this presentation and modify it to suit your needs. It is designed to be shared, so feel free to pass along the link to others who might be interested. We ask only that you appropriately credit EPI and the photographers, notably Yann Arthus-Bertrand, eminent French photographer and friend of EPI, whose works appear within.
If you find this tool useful, please let us know how you are using it in your community, classroom, congregation, or with other groups by sending an e-mail to epi(at)earthpolicy.org. We may add your example to our ever-growing list of the many ways folks around the world are spreading the Plan B vision. Now let's get to work!
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My brother pretty much summed it up in a post about his first experience with soup dumplings in Shanghai: "As nice a husband as I am, if it came down to survival and that last xiao long bao could get one of us off the desert island alive, [my wife] may have regretted her marital choice. I'm talking not just dumplings here. I'm talking barely held together bundles of translucent doughy joy, filled with a dab of meat gelatin which melts upon steaming."
Since reading that I've had a serious longing, verging on jonesing, for one of those dumplings. I've had a few that came close to the transcendent experience I imagined, but they always somehow fell short. At one food cart, the soup had leaked out of several of them. At another place, the dough was too thick, and at a third the filling was a tasteless lump of some meat-like substance.
But today, today I finally had that experience I'd been waiting for, a xiao long bao worth singing about, and certainly worth going back for in the very near future.
Handmade noodles with beef.
I'd heard that Frank Fong, long famous for his handmade noodles at Du Kuh Bee in Beaverton, had recently taken over the late, unlamented location of Eagle Thai on NE Broadway. Retooling the interior and rechristening it Frank's Noodle House, he's featuring many of the Korean and Chinese dishes he was known for in Beaverton and adding a few new twists to the offerings.
I hope to explore more of his handmade noodle offerings on future trips, but at our lunch there my friend Ivy and I ordered two of his noodle dishes, which were toothsomely appealing, as well as a crispy-skinned fried mackerel that may well turn out to be another dish that will draw me back.
But I gotta tell you, it's those little dumplings of joy that are going to haunt my dreams for awhile. With enough structural integrity to contain the broth inside, the translucent wrapper is delicate enough to practically melt in your mouth when you bite into it. And the filling, a combination of tender ground pork and ribbons of greens, gives just enough heft to satisfy.
As my brother said after he had Frank's dumplings, "Mmmm-mmmmm."
Update, 10/11/10: I talked with Frank today and he said that his dumplings are not classic xiaolongbao, but are boiled dumplings. Though his eyes lit up when I said that XLBs are almost impossible to find here, and there's a huge pent-up demand for them. So if you go in, you might mention it…just in case he can be convinced!
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- Peter Doig born 1959
- Part of
- Ten Etchings
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 173 × 277 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the artist and Charles Booth-Clibborn 1997
- Reference
Ten Etchings is Doig's first print portfolio. As the title indicates, it is a suite of ten etchings. The portfolio was produced in an edition of thirty-five. Tate's copy is one of six additional proof sets. Each print is individually signed and numbered 'TC' (Tate copy) by the artist. The portfolio is presented in a red artist's solander box with title and colophon pages designed by Peter B. Willberg. It was printed at Hope Sufferance Press, London on 350gsm Zerkall paper and published by Charles Booth-Clibborn under his imprint, The Paragon Press.
Doig had previously experimented with prints as a student at Wimbledon School of Art, London during his foundation course (1979-80) and made a few unpublished etchings in the early 1990s. He has described the process of making the portfolio Ten Etchings as 'a way of cataloguing some of the work I had made over the previous years' (quoted in Elliott, p.307), referring to the paintings he made between 1992 and early 1995. The paintings were based on altered photographs, either taken himself or sourced from such media as newspapers, magazines, postcards and books. Doig may draw or paint on the photographs, cut them up, collage them and photocopy them (often repeatedly) before they reach their final state. Several versions of an image are often made in large and small paintings as well as more intimate works on paper. Printing results in a further version of the image. Doig found the layering process of colour etching sympathetic to his painting process of building up colour and image in many stages. The prints comprising Ten Etchings were made using one or two plates and a range of etching techniques. Variety in texture and tone was created with aquatint (a process for creating an even tonal field), deep bite (a process which results in very dark tones), sugarlift (a process which allows the artist to paint marks that print rather than having to outline them negatively) and chin collé (a method of attaching a thin piece of paper to the surface of a print with glue during the process of printing). The individual prints were originally untitled, but were titled by the artist on publication of Contemporary British Art in Print: The Publications of Charles Booth-Clibborn and his Imprint The Paragon Press 1995-2000 in 2001.
Most of Doig's paintings of the 1990s were inspired by the landscapes of rural Quebec, where the artist spent his childhood and adolescence. The images in Ten Etchings depict three principal themes, all related to this history: snowscapes, woodland scenes and modernist buildings in dense vegetation. The print Ski Jacket (P11471) depicts small figures silhouetted in black against a pale pink ground. The image was derived from a detail of the photograph that Doig used as the basis for his large painting of the same title made in 1994 (Tate T06962). Their roughly delineated forms were created by the sugarlift process. A similar effect is visible in From 'Pond Life', in which three silhouetted black figures stand with their backs toward the viewer on a creamy pink surface in front of part of a building and some trees. In the painted version of this image, Pond Life 1993 (private collection, London), the foreground is a mass of colour and line representing the reflections of the building and vegetation in the background. The figures are standing on the frozen surface of a pond. In the print, they appear to be standing in open space. The same image is depicted in another print in the portfolio with the same title, From 'Pond Life' (P11477). In this print the rather crude, thick dark lines of P11474 are replaced by fine black lines etched on woodgrain chin collé. Definition of the figures' clothes, the architectural details of the log cabin at the top of the image and the slender trunks and branches of trees are all now visible. The surface on which the people stand reads as land in front of the cabin. White Out (P11480) has a similar composition with a figure in an empty snow-covered foreground walking towards snow-laden trees in the upper half of the print. Areas of solid black combined with fine scribbly lines are printed onto light blue chin collé
paper, which gives its colour to the areas of snow.
Further reading:
Patrick Elliott, Jeremy Lewison, Contemporary Art in Print: The Publications of Charles Booth-Clibborn and his Imprint The Paragon Press 1995-2000, London 2001, pp.46-59, 307 and 334, reproduced p.54 in colour.
Peter Doig: Blizzard seventy-seven, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kunsthalle
Nurnberg, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 1998.
Paul Bonaventura, 'Peter Doig: A Hunter in the Snow', Artefactum, autumn 1994, XI, 53, pp.12-15.
Elizabeth Manchester
October 2002/Febuary 2008
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From a Portfolio of ten etchings printed in aquatint on Zerkall Paper. Proofed and editioned at Hope Sufferance Press, London. The prints were presented with a solander box, title page and colophon. All prints are signed individually by the artist.
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The following is an article from MTV.com:
Paramore Members Visit 'WWE Raw'
With "Paramore: The Last Word" behind them and the promise of new music on the horizon, the remaining three members of Paramore — singer Hayley Williams, guitarist Taylor York and bassist Jeremy Davis — went on a group outing. The trio made their way to the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee (a venue Williams has visited in the past as a fan of the NHL's Nashville Predators) for Monday night's (January 10) live broadcast of WWE's signature show "Raw."
According to Williams' Twitter feed, the band were guests of wrestler (and friend of the MTV Newsroom Blog) CM Punk (who took a photo with Williams that he then posted to his own Twitter). The group caught an excellent show, as they were treated to a lot of build-up for the upcoming Royal Rumble show as well as excellent matches and promo work from the likes of Punk, Big Show, Alberto Del Rio, Daniel Bryan and John Morrison. However, the biggest headline of the night was the announcement that Shawn Michaels would be the first star inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame this year. Michaels, who has been retired since he lost to the Undertaker at last year's WrestleMania show, came out for his first live appearance on WWE television in almost a year. He got an incredible reaction, though his promo was interrupted by Del Rio (who took a kick to the chops for his trouble).
Williams, who seems to be a fan of all fight-related entertainment (she is also a follower of UFC and will often tweet about big fights), summed up her evening out with her bandmates thusly: "Had an amazing night at RAW with everybody!" she tweeted. "Thanks to @cmpunk for hooking us up and putting on a great show!! Too much fun. So tired now!"


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A few days ago, the glossy-haired fourth estate of the Occupy Movement, Naomi Wolf, joined other activist/journalists in accusing police, federal law enforcement, and "big banks" of committing "totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent" over Occupy protesters last year. According to Wolf, Occupy was totally subjected to torturous police crackdowns of their peaceful, non-violent, property-respecting protests, for no reason whatsoever.
Wolf's description of this "corporate-state repression" is, to be kind, histrionic. She sees herself and other protesters as deeply and dramatically victimized freedom fighters and visualizes Occupy's many enemies as some sort of highly coordinated giant squid, or maybe a huge fascist octopus. I thought it was more like code enforcement, myself. The main concern of most taxpayers, after all, was the scabies and the defecating in the streets.
Though, I would happily draft the biggest fascist octopus available to silence the round-the-clock drumming circles.
In an editorial in The Guardian, Wolf vividly describes:
a terrifying network of coordinated DHS, FBI, police, regional fusion center, and private-sector activity so completely merged into one another that the monstrous whole is, in fact, one entity: in some cases, bearing a single name, the Domestic Security Alliance Council [try not to scream as punctuation gets tortured]. And it reveals this merged entity to have one centrally planned, locally executed mission. The documents, in short, show the cops and DHS working for and with banks to target, arrest, and politically disable peaceful American citizens.
Elsewhere, just yesterday, police busted yet another peace-loving armed-to-the-teeth political activist. Aaron Greene, reportedly of Harvard University and Kennedy School of Government, had ironically stuffed the Greenwich Village apartment he shares with his very pregnant socialite girlfriend with enough grenade launchers, shotguns, and unstable explosive powder to totally recreate the famous 1970 Weather Underground Greenwich Village Townhouse explosion that killed socialite Diana Oughton and two other Weather Underground terrorists. The three accidentally blew themselves up as they assembled nail bombs that were to be used to kill scores of servicemen and their girlfriends at a dance at Fort Dix later that night (see here and here for other recent bomb-related arrests of "peaceful" Occupy protesters).
The cynical way of describing this confluence of events would go something like this:
Naomi Wolf/Occupy Movement Peaceful: 0 — Police: 1
But, why be cynical? It's the most magical time of the year. And thanks to a "totally integrated" police response to Aaron Greene and Morgan Gliedman's little home-made lab, Ms. Gliedman is safe and sound and reportedly giving birth in a hospital as I write this, rather than possibly having what's left of her fingertips peeled off the remains of a smoldering pile of rubble, which was the fate Diana Oughton met in 1970. Contrary to what Naomi Wolf seems to believe, police possibly saved these two, and a newborn, and who knows who else, today. The explosives they were messing with were not for amateurs: more than one building reportedly had to be evacuated to deal with their venal stupidity.
1970 Greenwich Bomb Factory Explosion
Morgan Gliedman, 2013: New Mommy
Diana Oughton, 1970: Dead
Yeah, I know. The resemblance between these two women is downright creepy. You would think that Ms. Gliedman was trying to look like Diana Oughton. She certainly appears to have been working on turning out like her. Hopefully, she will someday have the decency to thank the cops who risked their lives and their own families' future holiday memories in order to save her from the stupidity of trying to hatch a baby in a retro hippy bomb factory.
Just Doing My Job, Ma'am
But if I were the police, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for an apology. Gratitude for being rescued from their own stupidity has never been a virtue of the radical Left.
Naomi Wolf, for example, is shown at the top of this post being arrested at an Occupy protest last year. By her own description, she apparently believes that the arrest arose merely from her vigorous efforts to educate ignorant police about protesters' rights by citing a chapter about sidewalk permits from some book she once wrote. I'm just going to say it: no matter how much we all wish we lived in a world where it was illegal for Naomi Wolf to write book chapters, that's not what really happened. Yet, here is just one portion of the breathless, hair-tousled, cop-loathing Patrick Henry-inspired facebook entry she penned to memorialize her arrest:
The [Occupy] protesters were being told that they needed to leave the sidewalk outside of the Huffington Post event because "Huffington Post had a permit" to control the use of the sidewalk. I have a chapter in Give Me Liberty on NYC permits so I knew that could not be accurate. Sidewalks are public spaces and can't be leased by private entities. I asked for a copy of the permit . . . Some press reports say that I was arrested because I ignored police warnings to get off the sidewalk or that I was arrested for using a megaphone without a permit. Both of these are untrue. I told the protesters that the NYC permit requirement that states that using a megaphone is illegal. . .
And so on. And so on.
Is anybody else itching to gnaw off their arm to escape this? Remember, the cops have to be there.
In her recent Guardian editorial, Wolf breathlessly tells the whole world that's watching (or at least the part of it that reads The Guardian) about a nefarious plot by police, the FBI, and "big banks" located in different cities to use actual cellphones to communicate with each other about completely non-violent Occupy protesters who pacifistically announced in writing in advance their intentions to invade banks, destroy property, and physically attack police officers.
Here's how Wolf describes this mysterious law enforcement plot to talk with each other on the telephone:
It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves –was coordinated with the big banks themselves.
Mystifying group disruptions? Canister missiles to the skulls? Faceless banks wanting protesters to wet their pants? Bondage?
Now I'm just going to say this: would it be at all possible for modern feminists to at least try get through an essay about ANYTHING WHATSOEVER without mentioning "bondage"? Please.
Also, having spent a very stinky week in August tramping around after Occupy protesters who were trying to shut down the Republican Convention in Tampa by creating pure physical revulsion through the wearing of giant sweaty pink vulva costumes, I think I speak with a frisson of authority when I say that there was absolutely no need for anyone to "coordinate" with "big banks" in order to get that crew to soil themselves.
Anyone who has ever failed to properly clean their pet gerbil's cage knows exactly what the Occupy encampments in downtown Tampa smelled like, all on their own, with no pressure from Wachovia.
Really, do we have to do this Occupy/Sixties nostalgia thing all over again? Because somebody's going to get hurt. It was the cops in Tampa who were being pummeled with abuse as they handed out bottled water to masked "anarchists" wandering around looking for trouble while being trailed by their own personal ACLU attorneys and gaggles of argumentative middle-aged women dressed like vaginas.
Yet, Naomi Wolf apparently still feels that when lit.crit. majors with nary a mouse-pelt of common sense between them announce portentously in AdBusters that they are going to arrive by the tens of thousands to smash bank windows and meaningfully blockade Staples stores in order to transform reality itself with their ideas, police and federal agents should just stick their fingers in their ears and let them do it.
Let me try to explain this is language that can be understood: the police have the right to pick up the phone and trade hippy-punch notes with Sgt. Friday out there on the Left Coast. OK?
Speaking of radical chic, it was sort of a Weather Underground thing to mix babies with bomb making, from Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers to Eleanor Raskin and Jeff Jones. Make that Judge Raskin. The future judge and her future labor lobbyist spouse were busted in yet another apartment/bomb factory with baby in tow in 1981.
Robert Redford is about to release a film that actually romanticizes all those toddlers-n-TNT moments. You know, the terrorists will be the good guys.
Remember 1981? Here are just a few of the police officers who didn't get to go home to their own children around that time because of the murder campaigns against cops waged by the Weather Underground, the Black Panthers, the Black Liberation Army, and others. Always remember that cop-killers are revered by the peace-loving Occupy Movement:
Murdered in Brinks Robbery: Officer Waverly "Chipper" Brown
Murdered in Brinks Robbery: Sgt. Edward O'Grady
Murdered in Brinks Robbery: Brinks Security Guard Peter Paige
Murdered in the San Francisco Police Station Bombing: Sgt. Brian V. McDonnell
Murdered during the Assata Shakur escape: Trooper Werner Foerster
It's only a matter of time — and the sort of self-indulgent cop-hating rhetoric Wolf and many others are spewing — before something ends in tears.


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Current Status
On April 16, 2013, the Court (in a 3-to-2 decision over two dissents) ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to consider our claims.
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Case Description
CCR v. United States is a petition for extraordinary relief requesting that the Army Court of Criminal Appeals order the Judge in the court martial of alleged Wikileaks leaker PFC Chelsea Manning to grant the public and press access to the government's motion papers, the court's own orders, and transcripts of proceedings, none of which have been made public to date. In addition, the petition challenges the fact that substantive legal matters in the court martial – including a pretrial publicity order – have been argued and decided in secret.
The courtroom at Ft. Meade, Maryland where pretrial proceedings in Manning's case are being held has generally been open to interested members of the public. But the several dozen members of the public and media who can make it to the courtroom in person are the only ones able to hear what is happening on a given day, because no transcripts are ever released. As one of the declarations we filed in this case notes, even the media are forced to resort to comparing notes during the breaks because of the lack of a transcript. Obviously, there can be no possible national-security justification for not publishing a transcript when anyone from the public can walk into the hearing and hear the same proceedings.
The difficulty of reporting on the proceedings is multiplied by the fact that the government's briefs on the motions being argued each day in court are also off limits to the rpess and public. Even the court's own orders have not been released (although several times the judge has read her orders into the record -- sometimes so rapidly that she needed to ask for a glass of water).
CCR has written two letters to the trial court asking for improved public access to the proceedings and specifically seeking release of the transcripts, filings, and court orders. The Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press also made the same request on behalf of forty-seven media organizations including CBS, NBC, ABC, the New York Times and the Washington Post. On April 24, 2012, the presiding judge, Col. Denise Lind, rejected our requests. Our petition seeks an extraordinary writ from the Army's highest appeals court to force Judge Lind to comply with our requests and the First Amendment in releasing these documents to the public.
While every one of the twelve federal appellate circuits to consider the question has found that the First Amendment demands the maximum practicable degree of access to documents, Judge Lind has stated that the military courts of appeals have not done so. As a consequence, the military commissions at Guantanamo (which operate under a newly-written set of rules) provide in many ways a greater degree of public access than the court-marital of Chelsea Manning does here in the United States. For instance, the first transcripts of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's arraignment were posted on the Defense Department's military commission website even before the epic thirteen-hour session was over, and the military commission rules mandate that unclassified transcripts and other documents be posted within a day -- and that even where classified information needs to be redacted out, the government must post public versions of the documents within fifteen days.
The petitioners include CCR itself and a diverse group of media figures: Glenn Greenwald, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, The Nation and its national security correspondent Jeremy Scahill, and Wikileaks and its publisher, Julian Assange. Also included are Kevin Gosztola, co-author of Truth and Consequences: The U.S. vs. Bradley Manning and a civil liberties blogger covering the Manning court martial, and Chase Madar, author of The Passion of Bradley Manning and a contributing editor to The American Conservative.
CCR attorney Shayana Kadidal's blog post on the issues is available here.
Plaintiff Kevin Gosztola reports on the Manning case, including public access issues, at the FireDogLake blog, here and here.


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Justin Theroux
Actor / Screenwriter
Date Of Birth:
10 August 1971
Place Of Birth:
Washington, D.C.
Best Known As:
The film director in David Lynch's Mulholland Dr.
Justin Theroux is an American actor whose steady, below-the-radar career was boosted in 2012 after he became Jennifer Aniston's romantic interest. A native of Washington, D.C., Theroux began an art career in New York after graduating from Vermont's Bennington College in 1993. He began his acting career on the New York stage, and made his film debut in the independently produced film I Shot Andy Warhol (1996). Since then he's had a New York-based career that's included small but memorable roles in comedies, as well as a couple of solid parts in David Lynch movies. Early on, Theroux made his remark in 1997's Romy and Michele's High School Reunion -- as Janeane Garofalo's cowboy friend -- and in Ben Stiller's Zoolander (2001) -- as a breakdancing DJ. He also popped up in two episodes of Sex and the City in 1998 and 1999, playing two different characters, in a recurring role in 2004 in the cable series Six Feet Under and, as the tattooed villain, in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003). Known by his black semi-pompadour and showy widow's peak, Theroux has movie star good looks with an offbeat appeal, used to good effect in the Lynch films Mulholland Dr. (2001) and, in a dual role, Inland Empire (2006). He also has something of a literary pedigree -- his mother is an author and journalist, and his uncle is travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux (The Mosquito Coast). Justin Theroux shared co-writing duties with Ben Stiller for the comedy Tropic Thunder (2008), and that led to a screenwriting gig for Iron Man 2 (2010, starring Robert Downey, Jr.). His other acting credits include American Psycho (2000, starring Christian Bale), Miami Vice (2006), John Adams (2008, as John Hancock) and, with Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd, Wanderlust (2012).
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In a league governed by a salary cap, finding productive players on low-cost rookie deals or bargained-based veterans can be the key to success in the NFL.
The teams taking the field for the playoffs this month all have plenty good deals to help along the way whether it's a star quarterback on a rookie deal like Buffalo's Josh Allen, a fourth-round rookie cornerback like Kansas City's L'Jarius Sneed or a veteran cornerback like Xavier Rhodes, who signed a one-year, $3.5 million deal with the Colts.
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Getting contributions at relatively low costs allows teams to spend big bucks for stars and helps build a playoff-caliber roster.
Many of the teams back home watching have some deals they regret that contributed to their struggles.
Here's a look at some of the most overpaid players in 2020 at various positions with contract information from the website Over The Cap:
QB CARSON WENTZ: The Eagles gave Wentz a $128 million, four-year extension in 2019 and benched him before the deal fully kicked in. Wentz was paid more than $39 million in cash this season and had a cap hit of $18.6 million. Wentz led the NFL with 19 turnovers this season and was sacked a league-high 50 times before being replaced as starter by rookie Jalen Hurts. The Eagles now have to decide what to do with Wentz, who has a cap hit of more than $34 million next season. Philadelphia can try to trade him but would still carry a dead cap hit of more than $33 million or keep him as a high-paid backup.
RB EZEKIEL ELLIOTT: The Cowboys gave Elliott a $90 million, six-year extension before reaching a deal with quarterback Dak Prescott. Now they have the difficult task of trying to reach a long-term deal with Prescott or using the franchise tag at close to $38 million on a reduced cap in 2021. Elliott is coming off the least productive season of his career with 979 yards and six TDs while getting paid nearly $11 million for a team that finished 6-10.
Backup Tony Pollard was more productive than Elliott in limited time but the Cowboys are on the hook to pay Elliott more than $30 million the next two seasons with a heavy dead cap penalty if they choose to move on.
WR A.J. GREEN: The Bengals got string production from Green in his first seven seasons but he was limited to nine games because of a toe injury in 2018 and missed all of 2019 with an ankle injury. Cincinnati used the franchise tag on Green this season and paid him more than $18 million in hopes that his veteran presence would help rookie quarterback Joe Burrow. But Green had just 47 catches for 523 yards in 16 games, providing little value for his big salary.
TE ZACH ERTZ: After years of being one of the most productive tight ends in the league, Ertz struggled in 2020 while getting pair more than $12 million as part of a disappointing Eagles team. Ertz's 36 catches tied his career-low set as a rookie in 2013 and his 335 yards receiving and one TD were career lows.
OL TRENT BROWN: The Raiders used a big chunk of the money they saved by trading Khalil Mack to Chicago to sign Brown to a $66 million, four-year deal in 2019. Brown has played more than 10 snaps in just 14 of 32 games since joining the Raiders. He hurt his calf on the first play of the season and missed the next three games. He then played one full game before being sidelined by COVID-19. He returned for three games late in the season before missing the final game with a knee injury, giving the Raiders little value for his $21.5 million this season.
DL KAWANN SHORT: Short had a cap hit of more than $19 million this season as one of the only veterans on Carolina's rebuilt defense. He played only three games this season before a season-ending shoulder injury. He didn't produce much in his limited action with six tackles and no sacks in three games.
LB CORY LITTLETON: The Raiders viewed Littleton as their prized free agent acquisition after getting a $35.25 million, three-year deal this offseason. He was supposed to fill a more than decade-long hole as a playmaking linebacker who excelled in coverage against running backs and tight ends. That never materialized in a season Littleton described as miserable as he didn't record a single sack, interception, forced fumble or fumble recovery all year. He also was beaten often in coverage on a defense that was once again one of the league's worst.
DB A.J. BOUYE: The Broncos dealt a fourth-round pick to Jacksonville for Bouye and his $13 million contract in hopes he could help replace the departed Chris Harris Jr. Bouye struggled when he played and then was suspended for the final four games this season and first two next year because of performance enhancing drugs.
More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL


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LONDON – Matt Cassel will start at quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings in place of injured Christian Ponder against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Wembley Stadium on Sunday.
The Vikings say Friday that Cassel will replace Ponder, who sustained a rib injury last week in a 31-27 loss to the Cleveland Browns.
Ponder practiced this week and said he hoped to play.
The Vikings and Steelers are both 0-3.
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The Retrograde Right-Wing Media Campaign Against Judicial Nominee Cornelia Pillard
Written by Sergio Munoz
Fresh off of unsuccessful scare-mongering about the dangers of marriage equality, right-wing media are turning the clock back even further and attacking a highly qualified judicial nominee to the important D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals because of her academic writings on established sex equality law.
Started by Ed Whelan of the National Review Online and continued by anti-gay hate group leader Tony Perkins, a whisper campaign against veteran litigator and law professor Cornelia T.L. Pillard, President Obama's pick for the D.C. Circuit, has been spreading through right-wing media.
Whereas Whelan at least attempted to engage the legal arguments of a 2007 law review article in which Pillard explored how decades-old sex equality law is relevant to reproductive rights, other right-wing media are making even wilder and more inaccurate claims to smear the nominee as extreme when she is in fact solidly in the mainstream.
Perkins of the notorious Family Research Council, for example, made numerous errors in his attack on Pillard that, along with Whelan's rhetoric, is circulating on anti-choice websites and right-wing blogs.
Falsely ascribing a quote of conservative former Chief Justice William Rehnquist to Pillard in which he wrote for the Supreme Court that family leave policies not equally provided to both sexes are a "self-fulfilling cycle of discrimination," Perkins inaccurately described it as Pillard's condemnation of "celebrating motherhood." Where Pillard has observed that the anti-choice personhood movement could be exposed as unconstitutional by increasing awareness of the equal protection ramifications for pregnant women, Perkins fabricated the charge that Pillard "criticizes" the ultrasound. Resorting to spreading the ridiculous myth that Pillard would "declare" abstinence-only education "unconstitutional," Perkins managed to debunk such a silly charge in his very next sentence by quoting her accurate observation that a sex education class that stereotypes and disadvantages women could theoretically be "vulnerable to an equal protection challenge" under established precedent.
Finally, Perkins selectively quoted Pillard to characterize as "militant feminism" her argument that for women to have equal rights in the workplace, they need to be valued for more than their ability to bear children. From the actual full quote in Pillard's 2007 article:
A society in which women lack control to plan when they have children is one in which women must remain second-class citizens. We already know, and the Court recognized in Hibbs, that many employers assume that to be a mother is to be a primary caregiver with correspondingly less job commitment than a man, who is presumed to be an unencumbered "ideal worker." If impaired access to contraceptives hinders women's ability to exercise choice about when and whether to have children, it also reinforces broader patterns of discrimination against women as a class of presumptive breeders rather than reliable breadwinners and citizens.
Such transparent sexist hack work, however, tends to obscure the more disturbing aspects of the right-wing media smears against Pillard. These attacks are fighting battles on reproductive rights and sex equality that were lost by conservatives decades ago.
Subscribers to extreme right-wing legal thought have been complaining about the Supreme Court's confirmation that the U.S. Constitution protects reproductive rights since the decisions protecting a woman's right to contraception in 1965 and a woman's right to choose an abortion in 1973. For example, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia still has no problems publicly railing against these decisions, calling well-established reproductive rights doctrine and precedent "simply a lie."
In recognition of this half-century of conservative intransigence, the legal academy - and four justices of the Supreme Court - have been arguing for decades that some reproductive rights are also constitutionally cognizable under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, not just protected as fundamental rights of privacy and due process. That is, certain proscriptions on the control women have over their bodies and life choices are unconstitutional not just because it invades their autonomy, but also because such actions discriminate against them on the basis of sex.
Indeed, this combination of doctrinal privacy, due process, and equal protection has become so commonplace in Supreme Court jurisprudence that it is at the core of Justice Anthony Kennedy's last three decisions finding discrimination against the LGBT community and marriage equality to be an unconstitutional affront to dignity. Unsurprisingly, this newer application of equal protection enraged many of the exact same right-wing media outlets attacking Pillard now.
But at least these angry reactions to losing arguments against marriage equality and the development of constitutional equal protection law are current. Complaining about sex equality law and Rehnquist's condemnation of unconstitutional sex stereotypes is arguing against Pillard's nomination via time warp.
Ultimately, it's a bit lonely to be against choice, contraception, family leave, and comprehensive sex education - not to mention equal protection law - in 2013 America. Some in the right-wing media, however, seem to not care that they're running backwards with fewer people or judges willing to follow their failing arguments.
Smearing nominees like Pillard based on academic musings won't help.


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Eastwood''s Airline Map bass is an old school funk machine
Let's face it, many of us have bought a stringed instrument or three based largely on their looks. On one wall of my office, there's a no-name copy of a Hofner Beatle Bass, not quite a real copy – somehow, there's one f-hole – but it's fun to look at, especially its 15-ply neck. And it cost less than a framed piece of art. Over the years, somebody pulled off the factory label – probably Kent or Kingston – to try and fool somebody else into thinking it was a real Hofner, or anything but a poor imposter.
Sometimes a recreation is a noble effort rooted in the spirit of tribute rather than cheap-thrill forgery or painstaking authentic replication. Among the companies keying in on this niche and carving out quite a reputation for blending modern appointments with retro cool is Eastwood Guitars.
Eastwood has turned out a slew of groovy tributes that can add nearly any kind of visual impact to your stage presence. Checking out their website will stir up memories of when you could go to a big department store, plunk down a Benjamin worth of scratch and head home with a new axe in its chipboard case. Many of us have fond memories of those old instruments (I miss my miss my baby-blue-with-vinyl-top-and-fake-speaker-grill Hagstrom bass) and thus, have a soft spot for these somewhat mutant creations.
Love At First Sight
Like the look but play guitar? Check out our Eastwood Airline Map guitar review here. |
I was hooked the instant I saw an ad for Eastwood's Airline Map bass – it's Seafoam green, my all-time favorite color and yes, it's shaped like a map of the United States with Florida and the tip of Texas cut off. It has a white deco headstock and pickguard. The routed edge pays homage to the original National fiberglass model. Even the hardshell case is retro with its black vinyl exterior and white piping.
The finish is smooth, shiny and deep, with the paint flowing nicely up to the binding. The neck fits snugly in the body pocket and the other details of the build are tidy, too.
How About Some Action?
The balance and weight? Pretty good! Not neck-heavy like I'd feared (it's a 30.5" short-scale) and certainly easy on the shoulder at under 9 pounds. The neck was roundish on the back and comfortable in the hand. On first impression, it's clear that the folks at Eastwood did their homework in putting together this Korean-made eyecatcher.
Moving along in my inspection, I got out my little metal ruler and measured string height. It measured only 2/32" at the octave – it takes at least 3/32" to make a bass playable for all but the lightest touch. And yes, the strings rattled a bit under moderate attack. The nut was cut correctly, though, and the neck relief was right on, too. Pickup height was in the ballpark. All that was really needed was to raise the strings 1/32" and it'd be ready to go (and of course, raising the pickups to compensate). This string height adjustment made the Airline nearly rattle free, while still a comfy player. Short scale basses are a bit harder to set up, because their strings are under less tension.
I should add that height adjustment was a little inconvenient. The two adjuster wheels on the bridge don't have knurled sides, so adjustment must be done with a screwdriver. In addition, the strings need to be loosened before the wheels can turn freely, so string height is a bit experimental. Loosen strings, turn wheels, tighten strings, test. Rinse and repeat.
Time For The Ears
What about the Airline's sound?
This little bass sports a pair of passive humbucking pickups, a 3-way pickup selector, and volume-volume-tone controls. I first played the bass through my home rig, an SWR Workingman's 12, starting with my usual choice, the neck pickup. Pretty good. Full and round. A bit on low output side. The bridge pickup sounded similar, but brighter, not as deep, and not quite as loud – as expected, since the pickup is quite close to the bridge. The middle setting on the selector switch didn't quite do it for me, with not much sound coming out. In all, the neck pickup is a decent choice, though.
After playing awhile, I wasn't sure that this bass with its short-scale neck and chambered mahogany body was right for roundwound strings. Playing in the band would be the real test, I decided.
Voices In The Night
I set the Airline back in its case and planned to give it a second listen at practice. But while I was at work, the little bass started calling to me. "Gimme flatwounds… flatwounds," it chanted. I thought nothing of it. A bass just can't have telekinetic powers.
Or can it?
I got home that evening, and the Airline's power over my mind grew stronger. "Flatwounds! Flatwounds!" it called out again.
Okay, whatever!
I dug out my box of old strings from various bass experiences. The dozen or so sets of strings were, as usual, a tangled mess. But I remembered that somewhere within there was a set of Thomastik flatwound bass strings I'd cut down for another short-scale bass project several years ago. These are low tension strings with an even response and warm top end. I yanked them out of the box, strung up the bass, and stuck my little ruler down on the neck again. One more tweak to raise the D and G strings just a bit.
I gave the Airline another listen.
Now, it was a different bass. Those Thomastiks gave it the old school warmth and plunk I was looking for. Nice attack and definition, better bottom end. Smoother sound. I still preferred the neck pickup over the bridge or combination of the two. But with the change of strings, I could imagine the possibilities.
I turned the tone control. Instead of just rolling off some highs, the voice of the bass actually seemed to change. Half way down, kinda fun – a muted sound from long ago. All the way down, really interesting – more nasally. Playing over the neck pickup brought out different voices than playing in-between the two pickups as well. It was an old-school funk machine!
I needed to test this new working hypothesis. Instead of the modern, hi-fi SWR, I went for my 1971 Fender Bassman Ten. You probably know what I'm talking about – a 50 watt tube combo powering four 10" speakers in a closed-back cabinet. Two channels, Bass/Normal and Bass/Studio. The Studio channel is the money input for bass. Yes, there it was. Old school funk – not too deep, not too bright, thick in the middle.
Muddying The Waters
I put the Airline back into its case yet again and went off to band practice to see how it would perform under actual playing conditions. And got a surprise!
The strings that sounded so nice at home through the Bassman combo seemed a bit muddy against drums, guitar, and harmonica in our studio. Combine a mahogany body with a chambered body and that's what you get – low-mid emphasis without a lot of top.
As the practice went on, I decided to change back to the original roundwound strings for more edge to the sound. That's when I learned about another of the Eastwood's features – the quick-change tailpiece. I haven't seen something like this on a bass before. Essentially, you loosen a string a little and push it back. Out it pops from a slot under the tailpiece. To put a new string on, first hook the ball in the slot, poke the other end into a tuner, tighten 'er up – and there you go!
I was able to change the whole set while the others were working out their parts on a new tune. Quick change, indeed!
In the mix, the Airline now had a bit of bite to its sound, but certainly not edgy. As we played together (the guitar was the matching Eastwood model!), our R&B tunes began to take on a new flavor. Sort of earthy and organic, a bit low-tech. Our singer dug it.
Wrapping Up
I'd have to say that if soda-fountain art deco is your style – and if you love green – the Airline might just have to join your stable of basses (but it does come in black or white, too, if your style is more low-key).
In all, it's a funky sounding little thing, nice for blues, R&B, and roots music. But if you're looking for an aggressive slapmeister or a bass for grindy metal, this bass isn't it. Somehow, those funky, old short-scale designs take to the old stuff naturally, as if they were speaking to you in the night.


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Vulture 1: Plane plans planned
Full constructional details on the drawing board
The Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) team would like to assure readers that we will be providing full constructional details of the Vulture 1 aircraft - just as soon as the thing's finished
In response to requests for plans of the beast, we've enlisted some top-notch illustrative and CAD operatives to make sure that every detail is lovingly captured for your viewing pleasure.
So, if you'll bear with us, we will at some stage be able to demonstrate how you too can turn a box of 500 paper straws, some tissue paper and dope into a cutting-edge high-altitude vehicle.
In the meantime, you'll have to make do with imagining just how this would look as a 3D rendering. Hmmmmm...
Additional PARIS resources
- Our dedicated PARIS section, with all previous updates, is right here.
- New to PARIS? We have a basic mission summary here (pdf).
- Our fledgling Flickr page, with all previous photos.
- Check out our YouTube channel - currently featuring a few camera tests.