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USDA's projected average 2014 corn price of $4.20 looks too low, said Chris Hurt, Purdue University ag economist and marketing specialist. Friday's USDA Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports had a bearish impact on corn futures. New-crop December 2014 corn futures closed at near $4.97 per bushel, down more than 13¢.
"The market took it seriously, didn't it," Hurt told Corn+Soybean Digest, adding, however, that he feels the report's projections for corn feed usage, 5.25 billion bushels, are low. That, and the world's view that "$4 corn is cheap, cheap corn," should add strength to the overall price for this year's crop, he said.
"We shouldn't get quite as concerned with what the market was today (Friday)," he said. "They lowered the corn usage for feed. It's hard to see that number to be the case. Hog numbers could be up a lot (following the drops caused by PEDV), and poultry numbers should be up.
"I think we're looking at more of a $4.50-4.60 price. At $4.20, the world will be using corn like crazy."
USDA projected the average 2014 corn yield at 165.3 bushels per acre. "I think that yield forecast was pretty aggressive," Hurt said. "I see closer to 162-164 bushels. Of course, we could possibly end up with 170-bushel corn. That could push the price down to the low $4 level.
USDA projected U.S. corn planted acres at 91.7 million. Harvested acres are forecast at 84.3 million. Total production is forecast at 13.93 billion bushels. That, and a carryover of 1.14 billion bushels puts total supply at 15.11 billion, USDA projected.
The stocks to use ratio is forecast at 12.90%. The corn price range was pegged at $3.85-$4.55.
Hurt said delayed planting due to cool weather this spring could reduce that planted acres projection.
"The acreage numbers are probably subject to question," he said. "We'll probably see more prevented planting acres (crop insurance claims) in the upper Midwest (due to slow planting."


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Anywho, the weather has been so amazing the last few days (with the exception of last Friday when it literally down poured all day long)! On Saturday morning, I got outside early for an awesome 20 mile bike ride and then came home and made some delicious smoothies. Elijah loooooves smoothies. "I have smooie, mommy?" :)
While I was making smoothies in the kitchen, a certain someone hijacked my sunglasses and my phone and took these hilarious selfies! He cracks me up!
On Sunday, we headed downtown for Open Streets Pittsburgh! A few times every summer, Pittsburgh shuts down a bunch of main streets downtown and has a fun festival where you can bike, run, walk, skate, etc in the streets. We had a blast! And Elijah had sooooo much fun playing the drums (and he was actually pretty good for being the littlest one trying them out!). Future drummer on our hands??
Mondays I am home with Elijah and that is when we run all our errands like grocery shopping, etc. Elijah has had some birthday money saved up since March and finally cashed it in for his MacQueen truck. :) At this point, he pretty much has almost every Cars character. He's obsessed! And then we went to the park and he played while I did a little workout. Fun times!*
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The major advantage of solar power system in a home is that it gives you the ability to produce power consistently when the sun is shining brightly and directly on your home. The power produced during this time is a lot more than the amount of power your home would use in this entire duration. What's more you can offset your costs by selling the excess amount of power to your local power company.
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On-Grid or Utility Interconnected System
This is the most common type and connects the system to the electrical grid and allows the home owners to use both – the grid's electricity and solar energy. The unique feature of this system is that when the residents do not need power or there is excess of it, the solar panels automatically send the excess electricity produced back to the grid, thereby making it useful somewhere else. On the flip side, in the event that the solar panels are unable to produce enough power for the users (due to cloudy and stormy days, night time), the users get their electric supply from the grid.
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As the name suggests, this power system is not connected in any way to the electricity grid. This system uses batteries instead that help balance out any shortfall and excesses in production and demand.
To ensure that the users do not suffer any inconvenience when the solar panels are unable to produce power and the batteries are discharged, there is an electric generator that can be added, as part of the overall system. This generator would serve as the power source during periods of short or irregular power production and or excessive demand on the power produced.
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8080js is Yet Another 8080 Emulator. But why?
Chris Double's js8080 emulator is pretty good if you want to play around. But it has a really big issues – some instructions simply don't work, some instructions set the flags totally bad and DAA instruction is probably guessing rather than computing. Stephan Tramm did a pretty good work with his i8080 CP/M emulator. But it is still slightly differrent from original ("silicon") CPU.
The biggest challenge were two testing software: so-called "Kelly Smith Test" and – the greatest one – 8080 Exerciser (a.k.a. Sunhillow). The first one does some basic tests, it checks known border states and simply says: OK, or Error at… The second one does a lot of combinations of data manipulating instructions, and the result is a set of CRC codes (one for each test case). They are compared with CRCs from real "silicon" CPUs. It checks all non-standard states very well and deeply.
My emulator passed Kelly Smith test a long time ago. But Exerciser was a really big issue. It takes a lot of changes and tests and fixes, but – it works!
So I keep my promise and release this JS emulator as open source library. Here it is: 8080js
PS: Big thanks to Roman Borik for his help.
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I too am using Chris Double's js8080 in an emulator, specifically I started with Stephan Tramm's version. I had to change some things to suit my purpose. When I looked at your code to see what you have changed, and thus what bugs you have found and fixed, I noticed something odd.
The Intel 8080 programming guide says that conditional jumps (taken or not) are always 10 cycles, but your code makes it 15 cycles if taken, 10 cycles if not taken. Is that 8085 timing or something?
Also, for conditional calls, you have made the taken calls consume 18 cycles, but the intel manual says it is 17 cycles. What is your source that indicates 18 is the right number?
Your version of the code, like the original, doesn't respect the HALT flag. I added a "this.halted" state member, setting it initially to false. If the HLT instruction (0x76) is reached, this.halted = true. Then in the instruction dispatch loop, if interrupts are enabled and an interrupt is pending, I set this.halted to false. Otherwise, if this.halted is true, it is treated like a NOP and the PC isn't advanced. Otherwise, normal instruction dispatch occurs.


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It was a bright but chilly day on Saturday 5th November at Bradfield School for the third cross country race of the season.
Totley Primary School had a record turnout of 13 runners taking part across the four races and the team welcomed newcomers Hattie Wragg and Tom Trickett who both ran fantastically well in their first race. The course was very open and exposed which meant lots of runny noses!! The Y4 runners doing 1 lap and the Y5/6 runners completing 2 laps of the school grounds.
Team Totley is now looking forward to the next lunchtime training run on Friday 11th November and we are lucky enough to have another Totley AC fell runner, Bart Shaw, joining us for this session. We hope to pick up some useful tips ready for the next race at Concord on Saturday 19th November.
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Eddie Reece – 85
Ralph Loxley – 93
Y5/6 Girls
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Isabelle Wragg – 59
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Ryan Huck Takes the Deegan 38 Jeep to Sand Hollow | Throttle Out
PAOLI, Pa. (Jan 8th, 2019) – In ExtremeTerrain's (XT) latest Throttle Out episode, Ryan Huck visits Sand Mountain OHV Area, just outside of Fallon, Nevada to learn how to drive on sand and dunes the right way. Guided by Jeff Bieber from the Desert Roads and Trails Society, Ryan discusses and demonstrates some of the techniques and strategies behind wheeling in the sand.
"Driving on the dunes was like nothing I've ever done before, and I had an absolute blast! There was a bit of a learning curve but after figuring it out I didn't want to leave the dunes." –Ryan Huck
Using the Deegan 38 2-door JK Wrangler, built by XT for Brian Deegan, Jeff and Ryan explain how a vehicle should be setup to handle the sand as well as some of the "dos and don'ts" to be aware of while out on the dunes.
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Here's a case where the screenwriter's signature is the strongest element onscreen. "The Girl on the Train" was directed by Tate Taylor ("The Help") and based on the best-seller of the same name by Paula Hawkins. But in feeling and aura, it's much more like "Chloe" and other films written by its screenwriter, Erin Cressida Wilson.
There's an atmosphere here that's hard to describe, a kind of mournful eroticism. Sex and sexual possibility are in the air, but so are betrayal, melancholy and loss — and hovering out there, too, a hint of real twistedness. And the wellspring of all this flailing human behavior, all these pathetic attempts to connect, is longing. It is the face pressed up against the window, the despairing need to feel whole.
This is the ideal tone — an ennobling and enriching tone — for a story that begins with a woman sitting on a train, looking into the houses as they go by, wondering about the lives taking place behind those windows. Rachel (Emily Blunt) is a complete mess, a blackout drunk and an emotional wreck, but the one thing she has left is a grand romantic yearning. And so she fixates on a young woman that she imagines to have the ideal life.
In fact, the woman, Megan — played by Haley Bennett, a commanding presence — is nothing but confused and angry, with a tragic past and an unsettled present. She has the surface confidence that Rachel lacks, but she is utterly lost. And though her beauty gives her a certain power over people, it only gives her license to lose herself more.
The movie's trio of turbulent women is completed by Anna (Rebecca Ferguson), who is married to Rachel's ex-husband, Tom (Justin Theroux). She is seemingly normal, besotted with her baby daughter and seemingly happy in her marriage, but there are cracks, both in her moral nature and in her facade of contented domesticity.
A missing-person case unites these characters into a single story, with Blunt remaining mostly at the center. She's obsessed. She's drunk half the time, and when she shows up at an Alcoholics Anonymous, it's always day one. She stumbles into the investigation and gets in the way of the police, particularly Allison Janney as a detective who looks at her with a professional's scorn. Yet she keeps stumbling closer to the truth.
"The Girl on the Train" may be too idiosyncratic and moody to get the credit it deserves, but if there's any justice, Blunt should be up for awards consideration at the end of the year. She gives a remarkably invested and unflinching performance. She contains her natural wit, brightness and intelligence — she conceals her attractiveness — and encases herself in a physical condition and a psychological cloud. She piles on the damage, but she doesn't play the damage. She plays the struggle to break through. It's a performance of technical precision, emotional perception and inspiration.
Of course, when the acting is strong across the board, it has something to do with the director. Taylor directed Viola Davis to an Oscar nomination for "The Help," and with "The Girl on the Train," he may very well have made a star of Bennett. Meanwhile, Ferguson continues to demonstrate a capacity to transform entirely for each role ("Mission Impossible — Rogue Nation," "Florence Foster Jenkins") and be memorable and arresting each time.
But the most exciting contribution to "The Girl on the Train" is that of Wilson. It's exciting because it shows that it's possible, despite the odds, for a distinctive screenwriter to express herself consistently and dominate a film. And it's exciting because this is a unique voice, and very much a woman's voice, that our cinema needs.
Mick LaSalle is The San Francisco Chronicle's movie critic. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @MickLaSalle
Starring Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett and Rebecca Ferguson. Directed by Tate Taylor. (R. 112 minutes.)


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Mid-market focused investment banking firm Springforth Capital Advisors Pvt. Ltd has joined hands with several high-profile names to launch a startup accelerator, Springforth Investment Managers (SIM), a top company executive told Techcircle.
Kalyan Vijay Sivalenka, CEO of Springforth Capital, said the company has roped in Pradeep Dhobale, former ITC executive director and Joseph Cherian, former CEO of Papa Johns India to launch the platform.
Sivalenka said the preferred sectors for investment would be early stage companies in sectors such as food, agri and logistics. Like other acceleration platforms, the Hyderabad-based firm plans to follow two engagement models.
"One, we will take direct positions in companies which need mentoring and domain expertise along with funding support. Two, we will help investors who have already invested in these sectors manage their positions through our operating team," he said.
When contacted, Dhobale said the opportunity in the Indian food and agri space is immense. "We are keen to track the new categories and brands taking birth and help them grow. Agri tech can be another sunrise sector," said Dhobale, who was previously heading the FMCG business of Kolkata-based ITC.
Though the company declined to comment on the average ticket size, Sivalenka said SIM is likely to make investments in pre-Series A rounds.
The company is aiming to put money, besides mentoring, in 12-15 startups. The firm said it has already given commitment to three companies across the preferred sectors. Sivalenka, however, didn't provide more details about them.
According to him, though there are many accelerators which are eyeing startups in the technology sector, SIM is the only one dedicated for food, agri and logistics.
The company's board also includes Mahen Kannu, a logistics veteran with over three decades experience and Richard B Saldanha, who was vice chairman of Blackstone India.
The investment banking firm has also raised funding from a non-resident Indian investor for expansion within the country and overseas.
The firm said it will use the money to start offering its services to early-stage companies in India and help clients raise funds from capital markets outside the country. A part of the money will be used to hire investment bankers. However, Sivalenka declined to disclose the amount raised.
The company, which was launched in 2012, offers investment banking services, including private equity and venture capital fundraising, mergers and acquisitions (M&As), convertible and non-convertible debt issuance, and strategic and financial consulting.
The company, which has offices in Hyderabad and Bangalore, is also planning to start offering its services to listed companies to help them improve profitability. Besides, it is planning to begin overseas fundraising activities, including in the debt capital market, and offer corporate finance solutions, he said.
The firm has been involved in nearly 10 deals so far across healthcare, infrastructure and food and beverage sectors. These include Zoi Hospitals' acquisition of Hyderabad-based Eesha Hospitals, and fundraising by OSR Infra Pvt. Ltd and Sanvita Biotechnologies Pvt. Ltd. The company, which also caters to the logistics and energy sectors, targets mid-market deals ranging between $5 million and $50 million.
Year 2015 had been a busy period for investment bankers as private equity and strategic acquirers signed a deal every three-and-a-half hours and the primary market window opened a tad wider, according to data collated by VCCEdge, the research platform of VCCircle. EY, formerly Ernst & Young, topped the top-five chart by number of transactions. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and KPMG also entered the list while PwC and Edelweiss slipped. Avendus also slipped in the rankings though it remained on the list.
Other accelerator platforms
The accelerator space in the country has in the recent past seen the entry of big names such as Google, Barclays and Axis Bank to mentor and fund startups, particularly those in the technology space.
Technology startup accelerator Zone Startups India—which is backed by Toronto-based Ryerson Futures that is the investment arm of Toronto-based Ryerson University—too was in news of late. It has partnered with British banking and financial services firm Barclays Plc to launch the latter's Rise accelerator programme in India. It was also being roped in by Axis Bank to manage its accelerator programme at 'Thought Factory', the bank's innovation lab in Bangalore.
The Mumbai-based firm has also selected 15 women entrepreneurs for its six-week accelerator programme titled, 'empoWer'.
Technology giant Google has announced the second batch of Indian startups that will receive up to $50,000 (around Rs 33 lakh then) in equity-free seed funding as part of being selected for its startup accelerator programme, Google Launchpad.
Another technology major Oracle has also kicked off the maiden edition of its startup accelerator programme.
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March Madness or simply prudence by men?
The link seems so obvious: March Madness and vasectomies.
The story is going around that men in large numbers are choosing to schedule the procedure during the NCAA basketball tournament — a perfect excuse, as if they needed one, to camp out in the recliner for a few days.
A bag of frozen peas (for the swelling) and a sympathetic wife, and you're good to go. Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert, among many, yukked up the idea recently. ("There's a great new way to make sure you don't miss a game.")
But is it true?
"I have not seen a mad rush for vasectomies during March," said Ajay Nangia, associate professor of urology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, who performs about 120 vasectomies a year.
Anecdotally, however, some patients do choose the weekends of TV sporting events, Nangia said. Last year, one of his patients picked the Masters golf tournament.
Actually, the choice makes sense. There is a short recovery period with a vasectomy.
"Most men try to get them done on a Thursday or Friday, so they have some downtime and can go back to work on Monday," Nangia said.
Doctors recommend patients stay off their feet for two days and use an ice pack, or a bag of frozen peas, to reduce inflammation. It's a good idea for patients to refrain from strenuous activities the following week.
Nangia said he does perform more vasectomies at the end of the year, for insurance purposes. Patients schedule procedures before a new deductible kicks in.
He called the vasectomy-March Madness link "a good marketing strategy."
Indeed, the Oregon Urology Institute in Eugene advertised for vasectomies before the basketball tournament. Its "Snip City 2010" campaign featured a Dick Vitale voice telling potential patients to "take care of the equipment and lower your seed for the tourney." The free recovery kit included "a bag of frozen peas for those tender moments."
The decision to have a vasectomy is serious, of course, and for most men the timing has little to do with what's on TV. Nangia said men decide to get them done when they and their spouses or partners decide their families are complete.
But he doesn't mind the hubbub.
About 520,000 vasectomies are performed annually, accounting for only about 11 percent of contraception used in this country, he said. Vasectomy is an outpatient procedure that takes about a half-hour.
"I like that this brings some awareness," Nangia said.
Missed your opportunity in March? The Masters starts April 5.


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Libre Software (GNU/Linux operating systems, Firefox browser, LibreOffice.org office suite, programming languages, etc.) are computer programs built, thanks to the work, often voluntary, of thousands of people around the world.
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Time to be silent. Have you ever been in a chaotic crowd, but in trying to speak clearly to calm the noise, you found your voice in the midst of the noise only contributed to the noise? I have to find another way. So, I'm going to go write in the dirt for a bit. Maybe I'll find the words, but since words are not enough, maybe I won't.
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Latest monster-catching games dated for land of the rising sun; North American release remains uncertain.
While North Americans will have to wait, the latest in the storied Pokemon franchise has been dated for a Japanese release. Pokemon Black and White, a double release that Nintendo promises will be a "groundbreaking evolution of all aspects," will hit Japan September 18.
News first broke on Japanese television programs Pokemon Sunday , though an official trailer has surfaced (see below). Besides the release date revelation, the trailer shows off a number of new environments and the game's new battle design.
Last year's Pokemon Platinum has sold well over 5 million units, even though it recycled much of the content seen in 2007's Diamond/Pearl edition. Meanwhile, Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver, which revisit 2000's Gold and Silver versions, have lit up the Japanese sales charts since their September 2009 bow, selling more than 1.4 million units during their first week alone. The games have also sold more than 435,500 copies in North America since being released in March.
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angry words and the mountain.
18 Jul 2012 5 Comments
in anger, choices, communication, heartache, love, mindfulness, poems, postaday
angry words and sharp comments confusion, escalation, debate misunderstanding stings I feel shaken, whipped around by the tones in your voice heart racing and leaping grasping at words as they fall away down the sides of the mountain that sprung up between us it's all wrong, my words twisted & thrown … not what I meant, not what I mean… frantic I try to put thoughts back together and find my way back to the core voices quieter now. tears and a nod a hug but it's hollow and panic is lingering lonely and lonelier still… there's nothing to do but let the tears come and stare out the window watching the sky … please help me come back … …are you there? … are you gone? it's crushing, fast breaths grief floods the insides words scroll through my mind, and I realize … I'm talking out loud to myself I try & I cry & I'm hopeless at this fumbling, throwing out thoughts nothing helps … but I pound my fists on this mountain as I cry & I try desperate to find you again the words lay in heaps on the ground where I sit and the mountain looms large in the fore I miss you, I'm broken but finally listening… I can find my way back to you now I return with hands open, with words set aside to hear your heart beat and your breath my fingers tangle your hair, I let go and I soften to feel the end of the journey apart my back to the mountain I breathe slowly once more and give thanks that the climb didn't break us we found our way through, can we always do that? I am grateful to simply be here.
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Hi, I've not visited your blog before but saw your comment on Fi's blog. Poetry is easier for me to read I am an adult with dyslexia and Aspergers. Your poem is very expressive, I like it..I like real and honest, it makes sense to me in a world that very often doesn't make any sense at all.
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(2015) (Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko) (R)
- Drama: In the aftermath of WWI, an Australian farmer travels to Turkey in hopes of finding his sons who were believed to have perished in the Battle of Gallipoli.
- It's 1919 and Joshua Connor (RUSSELL CROWE) is an Australian farmer with a divining penchant for finding water in what's an otherwise parched part of the country. But much to the chagrin of his wife, Eliza (JACQUELINE MCKENZIE), he's been unable to find their three sons, Arthur (RYAN CORR), Edward (JAMES FRASER) and Henry (BEN O'TOOLE), who they last saw before they headed off to fight in WWI. Reports are that all three perished in the Battle of Gallipoli four years earlier, and anguished by the lack of closure, Eliza ends up taking her own life.
Determined to fulfill his promise to her to bring back their boys for burial, Joshua travels to Istanbul where a 10-year-old boy, Orhan (DYLAN GEORGIADES), manages to convince the foreigner to stay at a small hotel run by his mother, Ayshe (OLGA KURYLENKO), and her brother-in-law, Omer (STEVE BASTONI). Ayshe isn't happy to see the outsider, what with her husband having never returned from the same war fought against the British and their allies, but Orhan takes an immediate liking to Joshua and hopes that he'll be able to find his father.
Despite being denied a travel permit to head to Gallipoli, Joshua circumvents the rules and manages to get to the battlefield where he ends up meeting former war enemies Major Hasan (YILMAZ ERDOGAN) and Lt. Col. Cyril Hughes (JAI COURTNEY) who are now working together to find and identify some of the roughly two-thousand Brits and seven-thousand Turks who perished in the war. Cyril initially wants Joshua sent back, but Hasan senses something decent in the Aussie and agrees to assist on his quest. From that point on, and as he gets to know Ayshe better, Joshua does what he can to find out what happened to his sons and, if they all perished during the war, return their remains to their homeland.
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~ By Quinn Bender
They once were saviours.
In a depressed economy, Chinese government-backed Sun Wave Forest Products purchased the shuttered Skeena-Cellulose pulp mill on Watson Island, vowing to put hundreds of men and women back to work.
In 2006, the City of Prince Rupert approved a multi-million-dollar tax break to help them accomplish this, but something quite different occurred.
Sun Wave stalled on their commitments until all but the most hopeful and fool-hardy rebranded the company a North Coast pariah. Then much of the more profitable equipment was soon unplugged and trucked off.
Many now wonder if it was ever Sun Wave's intention to re-start the mill.
In 2009, the City seized the property in lieu of unpaid taxes — billed retroactively to when Sun Wave failed to re-open the mill. Meanwhile, its owner, Ni Ritao, later fell under investigation from Chinese authorities for an alleged bank-loan fraud revolving around the site. The head of China's National Energy Administration and members of the B.C. government have also been singled out in a widening scandal about their connections to Sun Wave.
Whatever the original intention, all that's known for certain is the burden Sun Wave left in its wake: a rusting and gutted whale, leaching toxins with impunity as it swallows $1.2 million annually from city coffers — at the expense of now-cancelled community programs and municipal projects.
Sun Wave tried suing the City over its seizure of the site, but failed. It could be months before the company files an appeal, and years more before it's heard in court. The City welcomes Sun Wave to haul off the mill's assets, which are rightfully theirs, but not before removing the millions of gallons of toxic chemicals, radioactive waste and a staggering tonnage of asbestos. It's a condition Sun Wave has so far refused to accept, forcing the site, and a new, major economic opportunity, into a near-state of suspended animation.
"The mill looks like everyone went for a coffee break and did not come back," reads a recent court filing by the City. "However, most movable equipment needed to operate the mill is still missing."
Neatly arranged on wooden pallets, stacks of spare parts gather dust in the old tin shop.
Auctioneers scavenged the smaller treasures and lined the corridors with pallets like these to present their finds to bidders. It's unclear whether the auction was organized during or prior to Sun Wave's ownership, but it never occurred. Today the items just sit as a testament to the permanent closure of what was once the life blood of the region.
As steady streams of water drip into the cold and cavernous workshops, Michael Trim remembers when the site could churn out 1,000 tonnes of northern softwood pulp per day.
"You'd walk through here and it would just be so hot. People were busy in every corner, thinking about how they were going to spend all their money."
Trim was the site and services superintendent. The City asked him to use his knowledge of the site's layout and systems to keep the mill from total collapse.
He was just two weeks into his retirement when he accepted the managerial offer.
"My retirement can wait," he says. "I'm a Rupert boy. I want to see something done with this place, and I'll watch over it until then."
Trim passes in silhouette beneath a working light bulb before ascending a stairwell during a site inspection. Near the old cafeteria, he discovers the padlock freshly torn off the door.
It's the City's legal responsibility to protect Sun Wave's assets. Despite the employment of eight full-time security guards, this is the twelfth break-in in three years.
Trim brushes aside the broken lock and enters.
Everything appears in order. The auctioneers' orderly towers of kitchenware stand under layers of dust on cafeteria tables. Old microwave ovens and toasters take up half the room. The expensive kitchen appliances slipped away years ago under Sun Wave supervision. The thieves were likely searching for stores of canned food that, according to town rumour, are of near-mythical quantity. A fleeting concern creases Trim's face; after 10 years the term "non-perishable" is a little misleading. Eat at your own risk.
After a brisk inspection of the room, Trim receives a message to call the Ministry of Environment.
"This doesn't sound good," he says.
Last November, The Province sent in Haz Mat crews to clean up a large spill containing sulphuric acid. Ever since, the City has been bracing for a $500,000 bill.
Trim fears that bill is on its way. He pockets his phone and descends through the darkness toward his office.
The City hopes to relinquish its financial burden to the Watson Island Development Corporation, or Watco, a consortium of two coal companies and the Lax Kw'alaams and Metlakatla First Nations. They have offered $5 million for the site, in addition to $500,000 to the District of Port Edward for contiguous lands, and will spend between $40 and $70 million in estimated remediation costs.
With no guarantee of a steady fibre supply, Watco will dismantle the mill and take advantage of the rail lines and deep coastal waters for a new bulk shipping terminal and industrial park. They plan to process between 10 and 20-million tonnes of material per year, employing approximately 200 people. The timing of this enterprise is critical. With a history that includes explosives handling and half-century of active pulp production, the site's contaminates are in a dangerous state of degredation. Watco says it must begin remediating the site within one year, before the financial costs escalate beyond reach. However, the sale cannot take place until Sun Wave's legal action is resolved in court—yet another expense costing the city $250,000 per year in legal fees.
To keep tabs on the site's declining state, and to check for signs of intrusion, Dave MacKenzie drives to a dozen locations around the island on a routine security patrol.
In front of a five-storey high-density storage tank, he comes to a stop and points out the protective outer coating crumbling to the earth.
"It's wild," says MacKenzie. "The rain gets beneath the bricks and they just peel away."
Beneath the No. 6 recovery boiler, the truck's tires drop through deep rivets in the mud track. Overhead, sheets of tin rattle violently in the wind. At the location of November's sulphuric acid spill, strips of industrial-grade tape still cover the hole in the breached tank. The acid was shipped out for use at a working mine, but heavy rains quickly filled the containment area, making a thorough cleanup impossible. What little acid remained became heavily diluted: too weak for the mines, but too high in ph levels to discharge into the environment.
The site is now saddled with 15,000 gallons of useless waste water.
Nearby, another tank is now causing concern as corrosion eats into its base. If the sodium chlorate solution it contains were to spill and thoroughly dry, any organic material it rested upon would ignite in flame.
MacKenzie resumes his rounds through the mill's ruin and the dangers contained within it: 1.5-million gallons of black liquor, a caustic by-product of the wood-chip cooking process that, in contact with natural ecosystems, absorbs oxygen and starves all fish and plant life. There are 500 tonnes of pulp; caustic soda in 10- and 50-per-cent concentrations; 23 tonnes of sulphur stored in a damaged and leaking warehouse; 30,000 barrels of C fuel oil; 50,000-cubic metres of hog fuel; PCBs; 38 nuclear devices, used to measure the flow of solids in pipes; and asbestos—lots of it, in the walls and laying in plain view throughout the island.
The infrastructure containing this inventory is degrading daily. For example, some of the earth beneath the power station has washed away, causing worry at BC Hydro that the transformers may topple. Also, the three vessels holding black liquor have not been properly serviced since 2000. Crews try to monitor the integrity of their hulls, but it's unlikely they'll catch any warning signs prior to a breach.
Before finishing his rounds, MacKenzie collects a water sample from the No. 1 Lagoon then checks its ph levels back at the office. It will be the last time he does this.
Trim's phone call with the Ministry of Environment wasn't what he expected. An LT50 test has proven the ph levels are now low enough to discharge the site's waste water into Porpoise Harbour. An LT50 test counts the number of fish killed by direct exposure to contaminated water. No fish died, so the water is safe for the ocean.
But this drop of good news merely resolves last year's sulphuric acid spill. Its favourable outcome doesn't address any of the other hazards sitting in wait.
"It's critical to get the site cleaned up," says Prince Rupert Mayor Jack Mussallem. "That pulp mill was never decommissioned. It was just shut down with the intention that a new owner would be in here within 30 days and get it up and running."
Following a string of meetings with stakeholders, including the Counsel General of China, Mussallem says the best-case-scenario is to move Watson Island from its expense budget and back on the tax rolls within six months. "Ideally, the City would obtain clear title to the property, that Sun Wave… is able to remove its chattel in a timely manner, that the provincial government and Watco are able to come to terms on a remediation plan so that redevelopment of the property would start."
Realistically, Mussallem admits that outcome is contingent on a favourable end to Sun Wave's law suits.
"I believe there is sincerity between the provincial government and Watco, but we're still waiting on the court cases to proceed, and I have no idea how long that will take.
"I'm finding out more and more about Sun Wave. I understand they had some difficulties with the people that were representing them, but I find it a little strange that the owners didn't get an overview of what was really happening on Watson Island."
Repeated attempts by The Northern View to contact Sun Wave were unsuccessful.


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Barclaycard has always had a culture of innovation. Learn more about how this culture has inspired some of our most innovative developments.
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At Barclaycard, we're proud of our innovative culture. Our goal – helping our customers buy and sell every day – is our creative inspiration, and it's reflected in the convenience and speed of our greatest successes.
We want to surprise and delight our customers in everything we do; and that means really understanding what makes them tick – now, and in the future.
We've been using that understanding to experiment with some new ways to pay. Here's what we're working on, right now…
Queuing. It's the one very British pastime we could all do without, including us here at Barclaycard. And when we see a problem, we like to solve it. So we created grab+go, an app that lets you simply grab the things you want to buy, scan their barcodes using the camera on your smartphone, and go. No need to visit the checkout – the app sorts out the payment in the background.
Once we'd come up with the idea and designed the software, we needed to test it. And we do mean 'we'. Our colleagues have been pushing grab+go to its limits in an experimental area of our own cafeteria, to make sure the final product lives up to their high expectations. When it does, we'll know it's ready to go.
We're strong believers in simple, effective solutions. With grab+go proposing a frictionless app-based experience, we're reacting to developments in technology, and pre-empting customers' calls for fast and checkout-free shopping experiences.
We are delighted to announce that Barclaycard's grab+go concept was recently named top innovation in the 'Payments and Wallets' category at the global EFMA-Accenture DMI Awards. The app – which is designed to make queueless, check-out free shopping experiences a reality for busy consumers – has been recognised as a pioneering project in the retail and banking sector.
Pay @ Pump
Before we got to queues generally, we set our sights on what our customers told us was the worst of them all – the disorderly bar queue. Our Pay @ Pump trial saw a self-service beer pump with contactless built in, allowing people to pour and pay for their own pint in less than a minute. Considering that the average time spent queuing can be more than 10 minutes at busy times, Pay @ Pump could combat the queues, crowds and waiting times – big-time.
That's good for businesses too. With 20% of pub-goers having previously chosen to head elsewhere rather than face a long wait, letting beer drinkers serve themselves with Pay @ Pump will mean faster service for everyone.
Contactless donation box
With no way to take cashless donations whenever or wherever they happen to be, charities are missing out on millions every year.
In a move to help them adapt to the growing tendency to carry little to no cash – we equipped 11 national charities with 100 extra-special contactless donation boxes.
Barclaycard provides the acquiring technology that allows charities to accept payments through the donation boxes and so we led the trial, bringing together partners from across the industry. Visa, which first enabled cardholders to support their favourite charities using contactless in 2014, commissioned the pod, which was designed by Sprout. Payworks developed the donation box app, and integrated this with payment functionality inside the Miura card reader. The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) consulted on the trial.
Using our payment expertise to open up opportunities for fundraisers, our contactless donation boxes were the first to accept both contactless and Chip and PIN contributions – vital in securing some donations which otherwise wouldn't have been made in an increasingly cashless society.
Beyond the lab
Multiple brands have shown an interest in partnering with us to help turn our prototypes into fully-fledged products. For example, following the success of the three-month trial, one charity chose to extend the use of the contactless donation boxes thanks to their huge popularity.
As well as developing these prototypes, we'll continue to listen to our customers and come up with new ideas to make payments even more simple. Innovation is a journey, not a destination – and there's a lot more to come.


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Music during Surgery: A video report
This music was planned and played by my friend and mentor, Dr. Arthur Harvey. Since this was created, Dr. Harvey has moved from Honolulu to the Sarasota area. I will be in Sarasota from Oct. 22-26 and available to consult with folks about music during surgery. Let me know if you live in the area and would like to meet. More info to come! Stay tuned!


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Pop legend Michael Jackson has died at the age of 50 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, after a suspected case of cardiac arrest. Paramedics were called to the singer/actor's residence at midday local time when he stopped breathing. When they arrived, he had no pulse, and the medical staff on the scene were unable to resuscitate him, according to various reports.
Jackson's contribution to music is hard to accurately estimate. The prolific singer released ten solo albums during his career, stretching from Got To Be There in 1972 through to Invincible in 2001, as well as a host of compilations, singles, and other releases with his previous sibling act, The Jackson 5. His music video for the Thriller single broke new ground in the music industry, being more of a short film than the average promotional short, featuring Jackson as a zombie with a pack of ghouls and a tribute to werewolf films in the lengthy introduction. Thriller, incidentally, is the highest-selling album of all time, shifting over 65 million copies according to The Guinness Book Of World Records.
Jackson's impact was not only in terms of his music, but it was also felt on a cultural level. The often provocative and controversial singer underwent a highly publicised treatment for the conditions of vitiligo and lupus that turned his skin from the medium-brown it was through his childhood and young adulthood, through to the pale tone that he was eventually associated with. Ever the darling of tabloids, papers claimed not only that he was bleaching his skin, but that he also slept in a hyperbaric chamber to slow the ageing process.
Perhaps his most famous trademark, the Moonwalk was first performed by Jackson on the Motown 25-year anniversary show, leading to a science-fiction film entitled Moonwalker, as well as numerous poor imitations at late nights in pubs all over the world. His dancing was legendary, Jackson was frequently cited as one of the most multi-talented performers of his generation, and his songs in support of causes such as AIDS and world hunger endeared him further to the public.
However, Jackson was constantly dogged by allegations of wrongdoing, perhaps exacerbated by his apparent lack of finesse in dealing with the media. On several occasions he claimed that he had bought the bones of the Elephant Man, an untruth that earned him the moniker of 'Wacko Jacko', a tabloid nickname that he would later come to despise. Other incidents such as showing off his newborn child to the media by hanging him off a balcony caused outrage, and there were several allegations of child abuse that were never proven – he settled with the Chandler family for $22 million outside of court. During the trial, he also became addicted to Valium, Xanax and Ativan, ostensibly to deal with the stress of the proceedings, and he lost an unhealthy amount of weight, something which undoubtedly led to the health problems that would plague him for the rest of his life and ultimately claim it. Further allegations of child abuse would follow in a highly publicised case involving Gavin Arvizo, however, the singer was acquitted on all counts. Seemingly following a pattern, Jackson became addicted to morphine and Demerol during this period, an addiction which he subsequently overcame.
Jackson was also plagued with financial problems during his later life – he was forced to sell his Neverland ranch and moved to the Gulf Of Arabia. The singer was scheduled to perform 50 comeback dates in the UK, something often commented on by the media as being a heavy toll on the body of an unwell 50 year old. Jackson had postponed several dates already that his PR flack insisted were unworkable because of logistical concerns, but inspired talk of further health problems, something that unfortunately seems to have been borne out by his passing.
Often misunderstood, often provocative, always reclusive despite his high profile and eternally shy to a world media he felt mistreated by and often didn't know how to use properly, Jackson was a legendary figure in modern culture whether in music, film, activism or day-to-day life. He fathered three children during his life, and is survived by them, his parents, and eight siblings.


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text: Have you seen those old Victorian photographs of mediums possessed with ectoplasm streaming from their eyes, ears and nose? Check out this collection of "weird vintage pictures from seances" if you haven't. I'm so in love with these kinds of photographs. In this set I tried to embody the spirit of these old photographs myself. It's interesting because most of the mediums who used these techniques or spirit photographers who captured them have been debunked. We know exactly how to recreate these. So watch out for more to come, because I'm excited to experiment with some damn ectoplasm.


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"There are still many unanswered questions" – Obama…
Clearly, the Boston bombing of its Marathon was horrifying and one can't even begin to fathom what the families are or will go through in their effort to get beyond this. I believe, regardless of anyone's place of origin, that damn near everyone feels the sense of loss a sympathy for the victims, their families and the Boston community over this kind of event which transcends politics and any other consideration.
As with many events in history, trying to make sense out of what happened based upon government pronouncements or what's been reported by their media poses some challenges as well as rather odd questions to the objective observer as events unfold. There exists, certainly, a single mindedness with which the government and media exploit these acts of violence and as the 'story' unfolds, the 'bandwagon' is being built by the powers that be to make sure that the public jumps on it as soon as they (seemingly) get their facts straight. The end result of the 'story' or 'official narrative' will, undoubtably be an increase in power to government, police, federal agencies and the subsequent handover of what little remains (in the eyes of the government) of our liberties so they can hunt down future evil doers.
Obama was quoted as saying "There are still many unanswered questions," and, indeed there are. The questions seem to increase exponentially as the 'official narrative' takes shape. As folks pose more observations, questions or point out more odd and uncomfortable inconsistencies in the 'story' that unfolds, some folks are content to roll their eyes and start mumbling a dismissal of everything as being a "conspiracy theory". That said, sometimes it's it's a question of simple 'observation' that begins the process of asking one's self if you're getting all the facts in a simple news story.
A good place to start might be the announcement of there being a "drill" that was to take place. Bomb sniffing dogs and rooftop surveillance were pointed out by race participants including University of Mobile's Cross Country Coach Ali Stevenson who related "It seemed like there was some sort of threat, but they kept telling us it was just a drill" BUT the police assured folks present not to be concerned by "the exercise" taking place. Regardless of the reassurances, folks were concerned. Indeed, the Boston Globe tweeted that indeed, the "Police will have a controlled explosion on 600 block Boylston Street." While one might think that a "drill" involving a "controlled explosion" on Boylston Street during a very public marathon would be less than prudent, we should all be assured that the authorities always know what they're doing…
So, where on Boylston might the public expect a "controlled explosion"? Why, across from the Library…
Here's the Boston Public Library on Boylston Street:
and across the street from the BPL we have 673 Boylston Street…
At 2:49PM, 15 April what was supposed to be a drill, inexplicably became reality… Damned odd (and unforeseen) I'm sure.
I would take a moment from our exciting and scary tale to observe that people seem to have no memory that they can access in order to 'think' and/or collate data when world shaking event take place. They simply seem to take whatever data they are given (that day/week) to analyse an event rather than placing facts within any 'context' which might actually make a 'thinking person' suspicious of what they are being told.
Is there anything even remotely 'suspicious' about the watershed terror attacks (like Boston) that might be a common theme and warrant folks actually 'thinking' about what's happening? "Suspicious", an adjective, is defined as 1. exciting or liable to excite suspicion; questionable 2. disposed to suspect something wrong 3. indicative or expressive of suspicion. In the instant case I find it interesting (and slightly "suspicious") to note that, as stated above, the Boston PD were running "a drill" regarding bombs at the finish line before this event took place. Just a few months ago the police and Homeland Security were running a "active shooter drill" at a neighboring school when the event actually took place in Newtown Connecticut. Prior to that, in London, on 7/7, it was admitted that there was the "drill" – revolving around bombers taking out the London subway and surface busses – that was being run just as the bombs went off. Finally, let's not forget that on 9/11 our military was running "drill" gaming a scenario where hi-jacked planes were flown into buildings which drew our fighters off from what was (actually) happening in NY/DC.
Now a thinking person may, at this point, be inclined to quote Ian Fleming's Goldfinger "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action." Clearly, 'coincidence' is an interesting facet of all these events and to paraphrase Oscar Wilde's comment in his 1889 essay The Decay of Lying: 'life imitates art' I might be so bold as to observe that, given the aforementioned terror events, life imitates "drills".
Leaving that minor issue/coincidence aside, the "official narrative" goes (thus far) that two Chechnyan brothers were identified in surveillance footage as the individuals who carried backpacks into the crowd and set them to explode. Below are a couple of still images of the brothers. The kid (in custody – alive, for now) wearing the white hat and the dead older brother with the black cap.
Since in US criminal law has histically established that 'means, motive, and opportunity' were the popular cultural summation of the three aspects of a crime that must be established before guilt can be assigned, my first reaction (as I'm sure many folks might ponder as well) is where's the motivation to bomb the Marathon and specifically, the United States? Are we really expected to believe that the simple fact that these Chechnyans were 'muslims' , to whatever limited degree, is sufficient to toss these guys into the al-Qaeda (anti-US/western) extremist camp? That's about as naive as the 1960's belief that 'communism' was "monolithic", that all jews are zionists or that all yankees are liberals. Chechnyans have, indeed, had a long standing argument with Russia and her tactics in putting down the nationalist aspirations of the indigenous people however, the United States has been vocal (since Clinton) in its condemnation of Russian tactics and, indeed, supportive (for years) of Chechnyan goals. Hell, since the 1990s the US has been arming Chechnyans as well as anyone else in central asia who opposed Russia so the obvious question becomes, why, on earth, would a Chechnyan nationalist or muslim choose to effect an attack against the one world 'player' who has consistently attempted to shame their oppressors into stopping its attacks on their nation and supplied their cause material and financial support? Seems pretty damn self-defeating to me. How about you?
Moving on…
The "official narrative" goes on to say these two were on the run since the bombing trying to avoid capture. Is it a "conspiracy theory" to ask how/why the younger Tsarnaev had time, while 'on-the-lam', to be tweeting a dozen times such as ("Ain't no love in the heart of the city," a line from rapper Jay-Z. adding, 'stay safe people. ") while dodging thousands of cops, military troops, the FBI and every other alphabet-soup-group you might shake a stick at? Is it a "conspiracy theory" to ask how this college kid and his brother were hiding out from the largest manhunt in history while, according to a Dartmouth school official (who described him as a good and typical student), he was working out in the gym on campus, then sleeping in his dorm room Wednesday night according to campus security card swipes? Indeed, Zach Bettencourt, a U-Mass Dartmouth student (who described Tsarnaev, as a nice guy) said he talked about the bombing with Tsarnaev for several minutes Tuesday while they were working out at the gym. Tsarnaev seemed normal, perhaps a little tired. Another fellow Dartmouth student said she saw Tsarnaev at a party on Wednesday night, attended by some of his soccer friends and that "He was just relaxed," she said. Damned strange – if, while 'on-the-lam', the kid's working out in the campus gym and then partying with his friends. Where was the brother by the way?
The "narrative" continues… (according to The Associated Press) the Chechnyans were caught on tape at 10:20 p.m. Thursday, when they robbed a 7-Eleven store in Cambridge and minutes later (police said) the men shot and killed Collier (MIT cop) in his car as he responded to the robbery call. Unfortunately, we now know that's not true since, by late Friday, the Middlesex District Attorney's office backtracked on the allegation, saying an investigation determined that the robbery at a 7-Eleven was unrelated. Yet the media/police story is that after robbing the store and killing the cop "the brothers" carjacked a Mercedes, told the owner they were the "Boston bombers" and "just killed a cop" and subsequently got in a firefight & bomb throwing adventure with authorities while trying to flee the robbery/cop killing which resulted in the older brother dead. Oops, (now) the brothers DIDN'T rob the store. Were they (miraculously) standing outside the 7-Eleven as the robbery was going down in order to intercept and kill the MIT cop when he showed up to respond to the robbery or did the robbers kill the cop as they exited? So who were the carjacking robbers, escaping the scene who claimed they were "Boston bombers" and just killed a cop? Just who was killed in the big firefight & bomb throwing adventure with the cops when the aforementioned car-jacking ended and who fled that scene?
The "official narrative" says that after the chase (of the 7-Eleven, cop killing) fleeing suspects, who threw explosive "devices" out the car windows while firing at the pursuing police, the brothers were stopped whereupon the elder brother "charged" the police on foot, went down in a hail of gunfire, whereupon the younger brother drove over his older brother with the car-jacked Mercedes (still works apparently in spite of being used as a shield in a massive firefight – a testament to German engineering without doubt) and (once again) got away. Now, if the brother is dead, who's the naked guy, identified by the Chenyan's own aunt as being the older brother? The FBI should produce this character to put to bed a whole bunch of speculation not to mention give him access to the horde of Boston attorneys who would love to sue the authorities for strip searching him (someone unconnected to the bombing) in the street and prancing this guy around naked in front of media cameras. If they don't produce him, then clearly, one might tend believe the guy's aunt and conclude the government assassinated him, post capture.
Finally, we get to the concluding scene of the "official narrative". The younger brother hides himself in a boat in the backyard of a greater Boston neighborhood. The authorities hunt him down and swoop in. They order him out, he fires on them, they throw in flashbangs, he fires some more and they open up on the boat. He attempts suicide by shooting himself in the throat but is captured by the brave police and alphabet-soup-groups.
All this sounds like a re-make of James Cagney's 'White Heat' where he shouts to the hundreds of cops below "Come and get me coppers!" which, in fact, was a re-write of the final moments of 1931 incident which became known as the Siege of 90th Street, involving Francis "Two-Gun" Crowley wherein hundreds of cops, dozens of machine guns, tear gas, grenades and a teenage killer, who was consumed by intense hatred, effected his 'wild west' shootout in front of 15,000 spectators watching the clash in which hundreds of bullets were fired into a fifth floor apartment while the barricaded suspect screamed out an open window: "You'll never take me alive coppers! Come and get me!" Problem is, none of that is true. Unlike "Two-Gun Crowley" (or James Cagney) young Tsarnaev had no weapons and photographic evidence shows he climbed (uninjured) out of the boat when ordered…
…after which he went down in a hail of police and alphabet-soup-groups gunfire. As such, he did NOT shoot himself in an attempt at suicide but, that concludes the saga of the Boston Bombers and any divergence from that narrative or viewing of other photos is not authorized by the government or its media.
Of course, there is that minor question of just what the heck Craft (http://www.thecraft.com/) International was doing at the finish line that day. At this point neither the Marathon operators, Boston PD, FBI or any other alphabet-soup-group is admitting they hired them or what they were doing there. One might also ask what all those Craft guys were doing with black backpacks on that had the unique white identifying patch on the top. Perhaps, after the event, they were all meeting up on The Common for a picnic and all brought their lunches.
One might note that the white rectangle on the Craft backpack looks damn similar to that on the packs identified by the FBI as the packs within which the explosive devices were carried to the Marathon:
One might notice that Tsarnaev's pack had no unique white rectangle stitched to the top while the Craft packs did…
So, while it's not appropriate to review any unauthorized photos which "might hamper the investigation" one might still want to ask the Craft guy how he lost his backpack and whether he's checked with the 'lost and found' yet.
"Other photos should not be deemed credible and they unnecessarily divert the public's attention in the wrong direction and create undo work for vital law enforcement resources." – Special Agent Rick DesLauriers, the head of the FBI's Boston office So, since they released the photo of the bomber's backpack shouldn't it be deemed "credible"? If you were a juror would there be any 'reasonable doubt' floating around in your head? Never mind…
They may yet find that Tsarnaevs are, in fact not the guys they had been talking to for years (grooming/recruiting according to the Israeli intelligence website DEBKA) that, indeed, their identity was stolen by members of the Teaparty/Occupy Wall Street faction of the NRA's Life Members who happens to be Iranian fundamental Christians, traveling under Syrian passports who reside in Texas. That should just about cover all angles needed for the government to go after everyone they want/intended to go after with the Patriot/NDAA and our military who will take their marching orders from the Department of 'Homeland' Security who seem to take their's from Mossad. They can kick the Second Amendment to the curb once and for all, seize all the guns (where Boston demonstrated the sheeple will allow door to door sweeps to occur) and bomb Iran, Syria and Texas back to the stone age.
Clearly, life in Amerika appears to have become an exercise in cognitive dissonance wherein people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by altering existing cognitions (such as the oddities articulated above) so they can maintain a consistent belief system (land of the free) and keep up the illusion that everything will be 'okay'.
Remember, when they come for your neighbors, stand in the street, while the media films, wave your little American flags and chant "USA, USA, USA…" because we fucking rule!


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Stephon Marbury Web Show: The Dark Side of Live Streaming
We're huge supporters of the live video movement here at Mashable. It's helped millions of people become participants in major events like the Michael Jackson's memorial and the Obama inauguration. It's also been a great tool for connecting with audiences, as athletes and celebrities such as Dwight Howard and Soulja Boy have effectively done.
That's what makes the live stream of NBA guard Stephon Marbury (embedded below) so frustrating and, at times, sad. The former NBA All-star of the Minnesota Timberwolves and New York Knicks has been streaming much of his life for everyone to see - first on Ustream, then on Justin.tv. Now the world knows after he ate Vaseline, cried on camera, danced like a fool, and made the front page of ESPN. We've known about the "StarburyTV" web show for a while now. We've heard that he's asked for strange things, we've seen him call himself "washed up," and the humiliation continues. Just when you think he's come back to sanity, he pulls another stunt that might as well have a giant "HELP ME" sign scroll on the bottom of the screen.
This is the dark side of live video. With all of the triumphs that it has had, it's also had its terrible moments. While the Marbury stream can be entertaining at times, it is really just us witnessing the de-evolution of a once-proud basketball superstar.
Is this really the direction we want live video and social media to go? Still, it's a good thing that he's doing this stream, because hopefully this exposure gets Marbury the help that he needs.
The live stream, as well as the Vaseline video from ESPN, are embedded below:


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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Cracking the code
I love reading to the older children now that they are able to enjoy books far beyond their reading abilities, books that I enjoy and care about. Our last book was James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small. When we finally finished it (it's an enormously long book!), I was more than ready for a change. I didn't give any thought to what the next book would be until the next night at bedtime when the kids hopped onto the sofa and looked at me expectantly. Then an idea of a book, one that I had thought of many a time before but each time promptly discarded as being "too old for them" flashed through my mind and I thought, I'm gonna do it! Hot diggity-dog, I think it's finally time! And then I hit the uppermost button on the ceiling of the glass elevator and we shot up, higher and higher and faster and faster, till we burst through the ceiling and out into open air...
Um, wait. Wrong story. I read that one to them long ago (and more than once), but I declare, the thought of my new grown-up book made me feel like a maternal version of Willy Wonka, all spastic and adventurous and slightly cuckoo.
I ordered the kids to sit tight and sprinted up the stairs and down the hall to my room where I flopped down on the floor and cocked my head sideways to study the shelves of books. When my eyes finally landed on the plain, black hardback, I snatched it up and came thundering back down the stairs, waving it in the air triumphantly. "Lookie here!" I crowed. "I'm going to read you one of the best books of all time! Ooo, I can hardly stand it! I AM SO EXCITED!"
The book in my hand? To Kill A Mockingbird, but of course.
We've been reading for a few days now and in last night's reading Atticus shot the mad dog (is there anything sexier than a scholarly man who, under duress, suddenly whips a gun to his shoulder and—BANG!—nails a rabid dog in the head? Right, I didn't think so) and Jem went apeshit and slaughtered Mrs. Dubose's camellias. At a couple different points, the kids, freaked out by the turn of events (Calpurnia pounding on the Radley's door and yelling "Mad dog comin'!"; Mrs. Dubose, mouth agape, tongue undulating, and eyes unseeing, slowly rocking her head from side to side as she waited for the alarm clock to jangle) huddled close by my side, feet tucked up on the sofa, safely out of reach of the under-the-sofa monsters.
The book is far above their reading level (especially when you consider that Miss Beccaboo isn't yet reading) but I'm impressed with how much they understand, or at least attempt to understand. These are some pretty big issues we're delving into. "Why was Calpurnia supposed to go to the Radley's back door instead of the front?" and "What do you think a 'morphodite' is?" (When I explained that it is someone who is both male and female, Yo-Yo said, "Yeah, some people say God is a morphodite. I learned that in Sunday school." Oh. My. [I love my church.]) "Why do you think the book is titled 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?" We have discussions about addictions and true strength, about rabies, about bartering and share croppers and the value of education, especially in the early years (according to Jem, you don't learn anything till the 6th grade anyway).
Then there is the whole issue of Scout asking for someone to "please pass the damn ham" and calling her cousin a "whore lady." We laugh uproariously at her adventures, but when Miss Beccaboo asked us to pass the 'damn ham' at supper (there was no ham in sight) I had to explain that us older people (that would be the four big people at the table) got the joke, but that since the little kids don't have the same discretionary powers (and that's a gracious over-estimation of the older two children's abilities), we'd best keep the joke under wraps.
And of course I'm driving home the point that they should never ever ever, under any condition, use the n-word. Apparently I drove the point home really well because Miss Beccaboo said, "Can't you just say 'black people' when you read? Do you have to use that word? I don't like it." I explained that while it's not a good word to use, it's central to the book and I needed to use it so that they could more fully understand the story.
We finished Part One last night. Part Two, da-dum, da-dum, is the beginning of the court case. It's going to involve lots more explaining and some interesting conversations. I can't wait.
And in the meantime, while my evenings are spent engaging my children in literary, cultural, and social code cracking, I've gone and cracked a culinary code, one having to do with—you guessed it—crackers. (When you view the world through the eyes of a sleuth, life seems kind of fun. Everything—crackers, words, math problems, compost, chicken sex—appears to be a great mystery, ones that are quite possibly solvable.)
I've made crackers many times before. I've done wheat thins and graham crackers and twice-baked tasty morsels, but I have never really learned to make a good cracker till this past week.
By "good" cracker, I mean, light-crispy as opposed to tough-crispy. My wheat thins (the graham crackers will be a separate post all together if I write about them [which there is a good chance I won't, seeing as I don't have a recipe that I'm head-over-heels with] ) have always been kind of grayish and leathery-hard. Tasty, yes. Nutritious, yes. But they had to be consumed with something else, like hummus or dhal. They weren't something that you'd want to pick up and munch on for munching's sake.
These babies, however, these darling little puffy-crisp squares, have officially blown me out of the realm of bleh crackers and into cracker nirvana, where tender, crunchy, buttery, salty crumbs spill from smiling lips every which way you look.
Depending on how you roll out the dough, these crackers can take on a variety of textures and shapes. If you roll them on the thicker side (about 1/8th of an inch) and cut them small, you get puffy, bite-sized crackers that are similar in appearance and texture to oyster crackers. If you roll them thinner (1/16th of an inch) and cut them bigger, you get a flatter cracker that is more along the lines of a saltine—one that you can crumble into a bowl of soup or top with a slice of cheese or schmear of peanut butter.
Of course, like good literature, there are endless variations and interpretations of this cracker. Sesame seeds, poppy seeds, fancy salts, and whole grains are just a few of the ways you could take them. The truth is, the more you play around with them, the greater your understanding of the humble cracker will be.
Soda Crackers
Adapted from Bernard Clayton's Complete Book of Small Breads by Bernard Clayton Jr.
I'm not a fan of veggie shortening, even the trans-fat free kind, but I keep in on hand for the odd recipe. I thought about subbing it out for coconut oil, lard, or butter, but decided against it—I wanted to sample the intended cracker first. However, once I sampled the end results, they were so darn fine that I couldn't bring myself to make even a single solitary changes the next time around. But, I've only made these a couple times so far. I have every intention of making them over and over again, and as I experiment, I will report back here. You do the same, okay?
The directions say to "relax" the finished dough in the refrigerator for 1 to 18 hours. The first time I made the crackers, I let them chill overnight, but the second time, they languished in the fridge for several days before making their way into the oven, with no discernable negative side effects. As a result, I believe this dough is quite forgiving and flexible.
In regards to the matter of salt: sprinkle on a lot. The first time I was too timid with it, but the second time around certain people felt I employed too much (about ½ teaspoon, I think). I, however, thought it was wonderfully salty, so I just told them to be quiet and brush it off if it didn't suit their fancy. The bottom line? I recommend erring on the side of too much salt rather than too little; the extra salt brushes off easily, but it's pretty darn near impossible to add it to the finished cracker. You may, however, disagree with me. I won't hold it against you.
This recipe makes 100 small crackers. It may sound like a lot, but it's not. They get scarfed down before they're even properly cooled, so do yourself a favor and double or triple the recipe.
1 ½ cups flour, plus more as needed
2 teaspoons yeast
½ teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
2 tablespoons solid vegetable shortening
2/3 cup warm water
2 tablespoons melted butter, for brushing
coarse salt, for sprinkling
Mix together the first six ingredients (down through the cream of tarter). Using a fork, cut in the vegetable shortening. Stir in the warm water, turn the dough out onto the counter and knead for a minute or two, adding more flour as needed (I used about an extra half cup), until the dough is silky smooth. Place the dough in a buttered bowl, one that is big enough to hold double the amount of dough (it will rise and then deflate), cover with plastic wrap, and place the bowl in the refrigerator for 1 hour and up to several days (see note above).
When you are ready to bake the crackers, remove the dough from the fridge and turn it out onto a lightly floured counter. Roll the dough into a rectangle, about 6" by 18" and 1/8" thick. Fold the dough over as you would a business letter (making three layers of dough), transfer the dough to a greased cookie sheet, and roll the dough out to the same proportions again.
Prick the dough all over with a fork, every quarter inch or so, spritz the dough lightly with water, and sprinkle the dough with coarse salt (see note above). Using a pizza cutter, cut the dough into squares, making them as big or as small as you like. (I made mine about one inch square, give or take an inch.)
Bake the crackers at 400 degrees for the first ten minutes. Then reduce the temperature to 350 degrees for another ten minutes, rotating the crackers if necessary. Reduce the oven temperature to 300 degrees and bake for another 5-15 minutes, depending on the thickness of the crackers. The goal is to get a golden brown cracker with totally dry innards. Watch them closely.
Remove the crackers from the oven and immediately brush with the melted butter. When they are completely cooled, store in an airtight container at room temperature. (I imagine they freeze well, too, though I haven't had a chance to try that yet.)
Yield: about 100 deliciously crunchy morsels
I am submitting this recipe to yeastspottings.
About one year ago: Fire-safe.
9 comments:
Fascinating post. On so many levels. I love reading you.ReplyDelete
harper lee and soda crackers, all wrapped up into one post. not quite as random and loose-ended as some of your previous recent posts, but close. :-)ReplyDelete
i must admit that i find your literature choices for children quite impressive. did you start reading that before or after the butcher-shop-killing-floor field trip? :-D hey, speaking of which, i know what you need to read to them next: the jungle!
(you do realize i am just having fun picking on you, right? to each her own, etc, etc.)
I just noticed on the right side... twitter... using SHOWER CAPS instead of SARAN WRAP... holy crackers... what an awesome idea... I'm out of saran wrap...but I HAVE shower caps... wooo hooo...ReplyDelete
Wowsa - To Kill A Mockingbird? I love that book, but it would take an awful lot of 'splainin.ReplyDelete
Serena and I just finished Piercing the Darkness and Samuel and I are reading Farmer Boy.
- AnonymousMarch 5, 2010 at 7:11 AM
Made the crackers: Perfect! I have been dreaming about and looking for a recipe for real crispy crackers exactly like the ones I've pulled out of the oven earlier today. Thanks so much!ReplyDelete
40winkzzz, You know, I've never read The Jungle. I probably should look into it... Would it be safe to read to the kids right before they go to sleep? Or would they revolt by never sleeping?ReplyDelete
Lynn, It does take a LOT of 'splainin. Sometimes I get so tired of being interrupted that I actually yell at them and tell them questions are no longer permitted. (I love Farmer Boy---the first chapter is a real humdinger.)
Aleksandra, I'm so glad you enjoyed the crackers! We've long since run out, and I keep thinking I need to whip up another batch ASAP...
Ooo, I definitely need to try these out. There is only one brand of soda crackers that my daughter can have - allergies. This way I have total control. Thanks for the post! I'll probably try Spectrum or Jungle shortening since it is not hydrogenated and I have it on hand.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 8, 2010 at 12:58 PM
I made two batches of the crackers today. The first one, via the recipe, the second I used 1 cup of fresh ground whole wheat, a little extra water 3/4 cup. I need to roll them out thinner, I believe. Both batches rose, browned, and are equally yummy. I even sprinkled some shredded sharp cheddar cheese on half of the batch of wheat. Made a lot of crackers. Plan is to have them with chicken chili for supper.ReplyDelete
L in Elkton
L in Elkton, I'm sorry I didn't call you back sooner, but I didn't get in till quite a bit later and then got swept up in piles of work and figured that the deed was probably already done... And according to your comment, it was. I'm so glad the crackers turned out for you! Yes, they do rise high---that's why I say they're like oyster crackers, so puffy and airy. I'm glad to know that whole wheat works well. I may follow your example next time...ReplyDelete


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A few years ago in Unalaska a new Turkey day tradition was born. It was Mayor Shirley Marquardt's idea and she gave it catchy name: Host a Coastie.
When the Coast Guard deploys, they leave their homes and their families behind for months at a time. And that's rough around the holidays.
Marquardt grew up in a Coast Guard family and saw this firsthand. So several years ago she reached out to local families and asked if they would be willing to host crewmembers for Thanksgiving dinner.
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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page
*Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
*Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
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How a body hits the ground after falling from twenty-four stories might lead them to believe something about the manner with a high probability of certainty, but there would be no lab test to confirm it.
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Interesting teaser, it's very scientific.
I have this book but have not read it yet. Your teaser makes me want to move the book to the top. My TT: http://www.rundpinne.com/2010/05/teaser-tuesdays-forty-eight-x-lemuria.html
Great teaser. Reminds me of CSI and Bones where the techs love performing experiments to test their theories.
Great teaser! I hope you're enjoying it!
Great teaser!
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These past 8 years, the left did all that they could to try and jeopardize our 2nd Amendment right. Well, one very keen gun store owner has an epic response to the liberal government trying to put a taxes on our guns. Do you see it?
VIA| Many times, viral photos are too good to be true. So we contacted Firearms Unknown in National City, CA, to find out if this was one of those times.
Sure enough, a representative with Firearms Unknown confirmed the receipt's authenticity to Independent Journal Review. Then, he let out a chuckle.
I guess if you're going to operate a gun shop in a far-left state like California, you better have a good sense of humor. Bravo, Firearms Unknown.
Yes, it's labeled: "Gov't Theft."