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NASHVILLE, Tenn., January 12, 2015 – Opening February 6, 2015, and running through August 2015, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's exhibition Ronnie Milsap: A Legend in My Time examines the 2014 Country Music Hall of Fame member's career. One of the genre's most consistent and enduring artists, Milsap emerged in the 1970s and … Read More
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This installment of All 4 the Hall had the distinction of featuring a soon-to-be-inducted member of the Country Music Hall of Fame: Soulful piano man Ronnie Milsap was among this year's class when the inductees were announced in April. The singer, blind since birth, illustrated why … Read More
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Toby Keith and Ronnie Milsap have been chosen to receive the Career Achievement Award, honoring an individual artist, duo, group or multiple artist collaboration that have advanced the popularity and acceptance of country music through their endeavors in the entertainment industry in multiple areas during the preceding calendar year.
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Ronnie Milsap has quite unambiguously fallen under nostalgia's spell. The title of his new album, Summer #17, is an allusion to the halcyon days of youth. The cover art is a close-up of a vintage radio speaker. And besides a pair of misty-eyed, retro-style originals — the title cut and … Read More
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Brewers follow blown save with walk-off single
MILWAUKEE -- Francisco Rodriguez isn't perfect after all, but the Brewers picked him up.
One strike away from his 20th scoreless appearance this season and his 16th save, Rodriguez surrendered a game-tying home run to Yankees slugger Mark Teixeira, then watched the Brewers rally in the bottom of the ninth inning for their first walk-off win this season. Rickie Weeks' third hit of the day started the rally, and Mark Reynolds' two-out, two-strike single ended it, 6-5, in front of a sellout crowd at Miller Park.View Full Game Coverage
MILWAUKEE -- Francisco Rodriguez isn't perfect after all, but the Brewers picked him up.
One strike away from his 20th scoreless appearance this season and his 16th save, Rodriguez surrendered a game-tying home run to Yankees slugger Mark Teixeira, then watched the Brewers rally in the bottom of the ninth inning for their first walk-off win this season. Rickie Weeks' third hit of the day started the rally, and Mark Reynolds' two-out, two-strike single ended it, 6-5, in front of a sellout crowd at Miller Park.View Full Game Coverage
The Brewers took the series after dropping their previous two, and will have an off-day on Monday with at least a five-game lead in the National League Central.
"It's huge," Rodriguez said. "It would have been a lot worse going home with a loss."
Good luck picking a player of the game. Brewers starter Matt Garza overcame a 40-pitch, three-run first inning to get the Brewers through the fifth with no more runs allowed, and he doubled to start a two-run rally in the third. Jonathan Lucroy came off the bench to deliver a game-tying single in the sixth inning, and Logan Schafer followed two batters later with a go-ahead double. Weeks continued his recent surge with three hits and two RBIs, and was one of six different players to score a run. Rob Wooten and Will Smith provided the relief that positioned Rodriguez for a save opportunity with a 5-4 lead in the ninth inning.
So far in 2014, that had meant game over. Rodriguez's 19 scoreless appearances represented the fifth-best season-opening streak in Brewers history, and seven of his 15 saves had come with only a one-run margin.
He was one pitch away from adding to that record when Teixeira connected with a full-count changeup at the bottom of the strike zone and sent it to the right-field bleachers, tying the game at 5.
"It was a good pitch. You have to tip your cap," Rodriguez said. "He put on a good swing. In the beginning I had my doubts whether it was up-middle, middle-in, but [I viewed it on video] and the ball was tailing down and away to him. He just hooked it. You have to tip your cap when hitters do that."
It was precisely what Teixeira was trying to do.
"I'm not trying to put the ball in play; I'm trying to drive the ball," he said. "He threw me a lot of good pitches in that at-bat. I kind of kept battling. Couple curveballs, couple fastballs, couple changeups -- and all three were in play. I knew 3-2, he could throw any of those pitches. I just stayed on a changeup and hit it good."
Rodriguez knew he would give up a run "eventually," he said with a laugh, "but that's all part of the game."
"Closers, they're not perfect," Reynolds said. "Sometimes you have to pick them up."
Reynolds did just that in the bottom of the inning, after Weeks hit a broken-bat double inside of first base with one out and took third on Yankees reliever Adam Warren's wild pitch. Warren recovered to strike out Lyle Overbay, but Reynolds delivered with a single to left field.
The hit came on an 0-and-2 pitch, moments after Reynolds made eye contact with Weeks and tried to drop a surprise bunt on Yankees defenders, who were playing him deep. He missed a Warren fastball.
"It was right down the middle. I wish I would have swung at it," Reynolds said. "I just took my chances. [Warren came back with] a slider, down, and I was able to stay on it."
"Rickie Weeks hits a broken-bat, off-the-end, down the line; you go, 'Uh oh, this turned real quickly,'" Teixeira said. "We were feeling really good about ourselves for a few minutes there, but that's baseball."
Can Weeks remember a better "team win" in 2014?
"So far this year, probably not," he said. "I think we all came out knowing we'd better come out here playing our best ball. That's a great team over there."
Garza's final pitching line -- five innings, six hits, three earned runs, four walks and four strikeouts -- belied the drama of his day. He threw his 25th pitch before he recorded his second out, and drew a visit from pitching coach Rick Kranitz after 35 pitches, two outs and three Yankees runs.
But Garza escaped the jam by striking out John Ryan Murphy, who would go on to have a three-hit day, and he gave the Brewers a chance to climb back into the game. He exited after five innings and 106 pitches, getting his final out on a comebacker that struck one of Garza's quadriceps. He said he was fine.
Milwaukee has now won Garza's last three Miller Park starts, but he's still not satisfied.
"I think it's more figuring out what I need to do to be successful," Garza said. "For some reason, it's that one inning, every time. I'm just going to try to keep doing better, keep improving. I'm pretty proud I was able to put up zeros after that. Forty pitches is a lot, but I kept my team in the game and fought and battled, and we used almost everybody today. It was a great team win."
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Sensei Pat Nakata was very kind to accompany me during my visit to Okinawa. This really helped, since he has been to Okinawan many times since the 1960's, knows many Karate seniors, and speaks Japanese. This was my second visit (my first was in 2002).
Nakata Sensei said that there was recently a survey conducted in Okinawa to determine the number of Karate dojo and classes on the island. The answer was about 400, which is pretty amazing. Okinawa is about twice the size of the island of Oahu. Here, we have many classes, but relatively few full-time dojo. We tend to teach in gyms, recreation centers, churches, and schools. They do the same in Okinawa, but there are more full-time dojo (buildings used exclusively for Karate or Kobudo training).
I was suprised to discover that the Jundokan dojo was right behind our hotel (which was right by the Asato monorail station).
One of the things that distinguishes Okinawan dojo and classes is the seniority of their instructors. It is not unusual to meet 8th and 9th dan (usually men or women in their 60s or older who have trained since childhood). In some ways, Okinawan dojo and classes are like a law firm with many senior partners and few associates. They are extremely top heavy. You also have to remember that a dojo with a 10th dan or 9th dan, will also usually have a group of seniors in the 6th to 8th dan range. Any of these seniors could also head a dojo or group of dojo.
I was surprised to learn that there are many Goju-Ryu dojo in Okinawa. I heard that there may be more Goju-Ryu dojo (and related styles) than there are Shorin-Ryu dojo. On Oahu, we really have only two Goju-Ryu dojo.
During our stay, we were very fortunate to be invited to Sensei Morio Higaonna's dojo, which was not far from the Asato monorail station (actually it is closer to the Makishi station). Higaonna Sensei is one of the most senior Goju-Ryu instructors in the world (see IOGKF.com). His students showed us their hojo undo training with chishi, sashi, kame, makiwara, iron geta, kongo, a big log, a rock, and a heavy striking pad (there might be other tools I do not remember). I had never seen such training and was grateful to learn how the supplementary equipment is used in Karate. We have some of these items in the Hawaii Karate Museum.
Higaonna Sensei also took us out for lunch and to a used bookstore to look for old Karate books. I did not find any for the Hawaii Karate Museum, but did find one that Higaonna Sensei acquired for his collection. Higaonna Sensei is planning to open a Karate museum on the third floor in the building where his dojo is located. I am always happy to see efforts to preserve and perpetuate Karate's history and traditions and look forward to cooperatiopn and sharing between Higaonna Sensei's museum and the Hawaii Karate Museum. I have said that our museums will be like brothers -- I'll be the younger brother.
After watching Higaonna Sensei's students rigorously train and perform kata, I asked them to please remember that I am their sensei's friend!
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Sensei Pat Nakata was very kind to accompany me during my visit to Okinawa. This really helped, since he has been to Okinawan many times since the 1960's, knows many Karate seniors, and speaks Japanese. This was my second visit (my first was in 2002).
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Friday, September 16, 2011
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Hello Friends,
Happy Friday! May your weekend enjoy some quality writing and/or reading.
"The disorder in Yashar's apartment was that comfortable littering and stacking that only another writer can recognize as order - the considered scatter of papers and books a writer builds around himself until it acquires the cozy solidity of a nest."
Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar
What do you think...is heaven a library with comfy beds and chairs and coffee and tea (and champagne!) and friends (including animal friends)? I think, yes.
But on the days writing feels more like hell (revisions, anyone? anyone?)?...
Well, that's when it's time to make some tough choices.
And get your fun on!
Know this: I love you.
I love you for being my friend, for loving words and creating worlds and for understanding why I love words and creating worlds.
Thanks for being in THIS world. *hugs*
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Friday, September 2, 2011
It's Friday, I'm in Love...
5:02 PM | Posted by Lola Sharp | | Edit Post
Hello Friends,
Happy Friday!
Did you write this week?
As we head into the weekend, I challenge you to abandon fear and trust yourself, to dig deep (go there!) and try new things, to find inspiration in new places.
And, this:
Write. Imagine. Create.
And when all else fails?
Know when to stop for the day, have a margarita...
and dance on top of the table!
Have a spectacular weekend!
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norbs wrote:Did Andrew Voss cut Matt White off at the end? Seemed to end in an awful hurry.
Yep, so they could show some crappy program. Poor form really. If it were a program that was mindblowingly important it would make sense but them switching to their crap program was akin to cutting off the Border-Gavasktar trophy presentation. Didn't see Greipel being awarded his jersey either.


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You want a plot synopsis? You're out of luck, man, 'cause I'm not even going to attempt to round up all the stuff that happens in Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters. If you've never seen the Adult Swim series there's really no reason to see the film, unless maybe you're on a lot of drugs. It's a show about slightly anthropomorphic fast food items that rent a house in Jersey and occasionally fight aliens. Well, fight is too strong a word, they mostly just argue. The back of the DVD box doesn't even try to sum up this plot.
It took me a very long time to appreciate the subtle brand of humour employed by the Aqua Teen squad, but once I got the hang of the show it became a favourite. As I've said before in other reviews, my personal affection comes out of the character moments. It took me a while to get over the unbelievable weirdness of the series and recognize the character's traits, which is a big part of why it took me so long to like the show. In the end I pretty much live for Carl, the Aqua Teen's super sarcastic, super angry, super passive aggressive neighbour.
So now that we're clear on my personal attachment to the series, let's talk a little about the movie. The short story is that it's okay, just above average, but not as good as most single episodes in the series' first four seasons. Fortunately it's less assaultive than the majority of the latest season, which is a nihilistic mess. When Adult Swim premiered a full twenty-two minute episode of what we were told were 'deleted scenes' from the upcoming movie the joke stopped being funny, and I was afraid of what awaited me in theatres.
If this latest season is a fan-hating Dadaist experiment (and that's really the only thing that could redeem it), then the movie is a regression to what made us all love the series in the first place. The problem is that we've already seen four seasons of this stuff. Fans that expect a definitive episode of the show will be disappointed. I didn't find myself bored, and I found myself laughing quite a bit, but the film is just a bunch of random stuff, not a whole narrative or even several small ones, it's just stuff happening. I used to fool myself into thinking that these guys were somehow misunderstood artists, but now I realize that they're just writing for themselves.
The filmmakers spend a little too much time aiming to please a large group of fans, and though I watched the film with a single friend in my living room, I could still hear the audience cheering at certain moments (the first appearance of the Plutonians, the Mooninites, a quick glimpse at the attic monster, the first utterance of 'Gentlemen!'). That's all well and good, and I like the idea of filmmakers using studio money to entertain themselves and their closest friends, but this isn't a movie I see myself watching ever again. I've sat through entire seasons of the show, and in twelve minute bites I could eat Aqua Teen Hunger Force for hours, but without focus this joke wears thin.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force is basically an internet based Flash cartoon with a decent budget, and its solid bright colours and hard black lines lend themselves to DVD nicely. There's little noticeable compression like blocking or artefacts, and unlike some animated titles there's no sign of edge enhancement. The colours are bright, the blacks rich, and the Mooninite vomit is crystal clear. There are some interlacing effects throughout, leaving to wonder why this isn't a progressive transfer.
Watching the Aqua Teens in 5.1 Dolby Digital surround is pretty silly, but it seems the creators were aware of this when mixing the film. The surround and stereo channels are aggressive at times, though series fans will appreciate the return of awkward silence. The show has always boasted more than its share of top tier musical guests, and metal fans will not be disappointed with this soundtrack. Sometimes music is a bit over-mixed, and loses clarity in the stereo channels.
Disc one of this rather packed two disc set begins with a commentary featuring some guy named Todd Hanson, Shake voice actor Dana Snyder, some guy named Fred Armstrong, and… Patti Smith. Patti freaking Smith! Not just some lady named Patti Smith, we're talking the Patti Smith! Apparently she's a fan. It's a pretty decent commentary considering only one person on it had anything to do with the movie, but it does lose steam. It's interesting though, because the making-of documentary makes mention of a creator and staff commentary being recorded before the film was finished.
Next on the extras menu are two trailers, both amusing, both totally unable to sell the film to none fans, both not seen anywhere but Adult Swim. Then there's another trailer called a 'Sizzle Reel', which is actually the same as the first trailer, plus or minus a few things here and there. It's also longer.
'The Thing We Shot Wednesday Night' is behind the scenes documentary, incorporating a table read, editing footage, and interviews with the directors, writers, musicians, and voice actors. It should be surprising how quickly the film came together, considering it was a theatrical release, but it isn't. The audio quality is a bit on the hard to decipher side, but the doc is entertaining, informative, and covers pretty much everything in a palatable runtime of twenty-six minutes. I'm very thankful that the creative folks decided to take it seriously because I'm not a fan of consistently subversive DVD extras.
Then there's an art gallery slide show set to music from the film, which runs in pseudo chronological order for a little while, then goes as random as the rest of the film. The art covers character sketches, final backgrounds, 3D renderings, and rough animation and runs just over sixteen minutes. This is followed by a really old fashion 3D animated sequence that I'm assuming was an alternate version of the film's opening scene, and a legal information page.
Disc two is mysteriously labelled 'Deleted Movie'. I had no idea what that meant until I put the disc in the player. Turns out it's exactly what it says on the label, a deleted version of the film, not just some deleted scenes, not just a lot of deleted scenes, a whole 'nother movie with the same basic structure. It's not a completed version, the lips mostly don't move and sometimes the characters are just cut-outs, but it's still a movie. It happens to be so much worse than the movie that was released that we can all be happy that someone at Adult Swim said 'No guys, this sucks, back to the drawing board.'
The Deleted Movie is the nihilistic, 'Fuck you for liking our show' I was afraid of, and included on the second disc is that episode that premiered the awful Mooninites torturing Carl stuff. The rest of the deleted scenes are also already in the deleted movie, but this may be the more efficient way to watch them. Fans will recognize some of these from the DVD release marathon that played on television. The 'Fake Endings' are little bit jokes, most of which are less than thirty seconds, totalling ten.
The music videos are a bit of a disappointment. All but one is behind the scenes footage montages rather than animated videos as I assumed. The one animated video is a version of the Nashville Pussy song 'Face Omelette', which is re-dubbed by Master Shake. The animation isn't much, but that isn't going to be surprising to series fans. The other songs, by 9 lb Hammer, Mastodon (whose opening song about theatre behaviour is the best thing in the entire movie, and is adorning my iPod right now), Lobby Singers, Nashville Pussy (the non-Shake version of the song), Brass Castle, and Cameo (a song that was deleted from the original film, probably the only funny joke deleted). No sign of 'I Like You Booty, But I'm Not Gay'.
Things are completed with Adult Swim promos staring the real Shake, Dana Snyder, and another legal page.
Non-fans won't want to touch this thing with a five-hundred foot, antibacterial swab, and even fans may be disappointed, but this is more or less exactly what I expected from a feature length Aqua Teen Hunger Force film. The DVD itself is very impressive extras-wise, and depending on what you pay for it, it's probably worth the cash to complete your ATHF DVD collection.
Review by Gabriel Powers
pitdeadite Member Join Date: August 2006 Location: United States Posts: 662
This was hilarious to say the least. But looking outside of the box, I can tell that a lot of people wouldn't be interested in this type of humor.
Matt Contributor Join Date: October 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,113
I watch the show occasionally when I run across it and like it though I wouldn't necessarily call myself a fan, but this was a chore to sit through. I kept reaching for the remote control to turn it off ever 20-minutes or so, but like a car wreck I couldn't look away.
Thembones Member Join Date: November 2005 Location: United States Posts: 287
In addition, I would like to add that Neil Peart, considered one THE greatest drummers in rock, makes an appearance in this movie as well which is probably enough to get any Rush fan to buy this movie. Good or bad, I think it's hilarious to watch a meatball cruising around the screen interjecting quips here and there. Thank god there is a place in the world for inanity.
Sam Spade Member Join Date: January 2007 Location: United States Posts: 2,032
I saw the opening to this on YouTube.I have to see this.Although I saw it on the Cartoon Network and the humor is out there.
Tony DeFrancisco Senior Member Join Date: July 2005 Location: United States Posts: 2,652
The best opening scene in a movie... ever.
Matt Contributor Join Date: October 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,113
Hey, Gabe...isn't this technically called Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters for DVD?
Billy Black Member Join Date: June 2005 Location: United States Posts: 151
Tony DeFrancisco wrote: The best opening scene in a movie... ever.
Agreed! The Concession Band fkn rocked it!
Agreed! The Concession Band fkn rocked it!
Pixarfan517 Member Join Date: August 2006 Location: United States Posts: 1,478
Nice, but not a my type of animated film.
Chris Gould Editor Join Date: May 2001 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,171
Matt wrote: Hey, Gabe...isn't this technically called Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters for DVD?
You're not wrong there. I'd have fixed it if I had known.
You're not wrong there. I'd have fixed it if I had known.
beckmen Member Join Date: November 2005 Location: United States Posts: 355
Good review, Gabe. I loved the first few seasons of this show, but then the 5th season or whatever it was (with the deleted scenes episode) came out and I thought it was terrible. I actually stayed away from this movie, assuming it would be more of the same only with MORE 'things being shoved up people's anuses' jokes. Glad to see it's closer to the originals. I will rent it now.
Wolfmother Member Join Date: November 2003 Location: United States Posts: 159
it's not ARMSTRONG; it's Fred Armisen - Time Lincoln in the movie and an actor on SNL, the longest running show in the states.
NOTLWolfie Member Join Date: September 2007 Location: United States Posts: 206
I liked the movie a lot. I've only seen the show once or twice on TV. I just got the DVDs when I started to love the show. So I wasn't aware that the show started going downhill. Maybe that's why we aren't seeing a Vol 5?
fumjum Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 62
NOTLWolfie wrote: I liked the movie a lot. I've only seen the show once or twice on TV. I just got the DVDs when I started to love the show. So I wasn't aware that the show started going downhill. Maybe that's why we aren't seeing a Vol 5?
We Will be seeing a Vol. 5 this December :-P
We Will be seeing a Vol. 5 this December :-P
C-Man Rules Member Join Date: September 2007 Location: United States Posts: 12
i think that the rating was dumb by making it R, the show isnt even bad, but the movie is..
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Disc Details
Release Date: 14th August 2007
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Commentary, Trailers, Featurette, Deleted Movie, Deleted Scenes, Fake Endings, Music Videos
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Matt Maiellaro, Dave Willis
Cast: Dana Snyder, Carey Means, Dave Willis, Andy Merrill, Mike Schatz, Bruce Campbell
Genre: Animation and Comedy
Length: 87 minutes
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The track features driving drum rhythms, acoustic guitars for the more sentimental verses and powerful electric guitars for the stronger, positive chorus.
This track would be a perfect fit for Valentine's Day.
Additionally, it will be a powerful piece of music for any project which requires a human and emotional connection.
Vocalist: Dean Winter
Guitarist: Willis Clow
WHAT'S INCLUDED:1. SPARKLE AND SHINE (full track) - 3:12
The full version of the track with vocals.
2. SPARKLE AND SHINE (instrumental) – 3:08
The full version of the track with NO vocals.
One more time for all the times we never went too far
Maybe now's the time to exhale
But let's not let cooler heads prevail
Open all the bottles, I'll sing if you can play
Let's turn it up so even God can hear
We can all forget the things we're all supposed to be
You can be the one to make my world disappear
You shine so bright
You light up the night
You sparkle and shine
You shine so bright
Like electric lights
Let's get this one right
Lost my hear tonight
Let's start another party
Let's stop another war
You stop my heart cause you're beautiful tonight
Let's all just get out early
And kiss in firelight
Raise a drink, forget tomorrow
All we need is tonight..
(same as above)
Just stay here next to me
The world can fall in pieces outside
I don't care what happens now
As long as I can stay and watch you shine
(same as above)
One last time for all the times we never went too far
Maybe now's the time to get it right
We could head out to the desert, everyone could come
But you're the one I wanna see tonight.
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Stetson University: Viewpoint-Based Censorship of Student Magazine
Category: Free Speech
Schools: Stetson University
Stetson University found itself involved in a FIRE case in November of 2005, when it censored a student publication based on the view-points expressed. While the case remains unresolved, FIRE press releases and the media expressed their concerns with what then-FIRE President David French referred to as, "Orwellian policies." The censorship of the campus publication, Common Sense, surrounded a joke that Jay Leno made on his television program The Tonight Show.
Stetson University Outlaws Jay Leno
Jay Leno Joke from Stetson University Student Magazine 'Common Sense'
Parody from Stetson University Student Magazine 'Common Sense'
Florida university censors magazine for Jay Leno joke
January 25, 2006
FLORIDA — Jay Leno may be a popular late night comedian and talk show host, but school officials at Stetson University do not find his jokes very funny — at least in print. University officials banned a satirical student publication, Common Sense, from being distributed in October because the magazine quoted a joke Jay Leno made about Mexicans, and for running a picture of a dorm-room window that displayed a rainbow flag with a question mark superimposed over it, said the magazine's Editor in Chief Frank Ganz. But in November, the university bowed to public pressure and publicity and allowed […]» Read More
Stetson shuts its mind to press freedom
December 23, 2005
Here is the quote I was greeted with after logging onto Stetson University's Web site earlier this week: The open exchange of ideas creates a foundation for success. Very inspiring. And, at the moment, a little ironic. Stetson is getting a well-deserved earful from a national free-speech organization that accuses the school of repressing the very exchange of ideas it purports to value. The dust-up began with the launch of a conservative student-run publication called Common Sense, whose inaugural issue this fall offended the administration's sensibilities. For starters, the independent publication used Stetson's logo. Moreover, according to a memo written […]» Read More
Stetson University Outlaws Jay Leno
December 8, 2005
DELAND, Fla., December 8, 2005—Stetson University has announced that parody, "derogatory" or "demeaning" comments, and even jokes from The Tonight Show are out of bounds for its students. Stetson's chilling declarations came after the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) protested the private Florida university's censorship of a student magazine. "Stetson's Orwellian policies should scare every student on its campus," remarked FIRE President David French. "If saying anything that could be considered 'derogatory' is outlawed at Stetson, its students are taking a risk by speaking at all." Stetson promises its students that it will provide a "liberal education" and […]» Read More


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It's pretty clear why VMware would be interested in Novell's Linux business; not only does this include the SUSE Linux distribution and associated assets, but also software for managing virtualised operating systems - right up VMware's alley, obviously.
The talks are still under way, and while pretty far on, they could still break down with no deal made. The Wall Street Journal's sources say that the three companies are still discussing how to divide the sales force, and more importantly, how to handle Novell's patent portfolio and other intellectual property.
It'll be interesting to see how VMware is going to handle SUSE. I think SUSE lost most of its shine due to the rather schizophrenic approach by Novell (pushing GNOME so hard), so hopefully, VMware will be able to polish it up a bit.


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Acceptances, Denials, and Waitlists / Re: "Reserve" at Cornell« on: June 06, 2012, 06:52:49 PM »
This is to give hope to all those people on the reserve, I just got accepted off of it!!!!! I did put in a nominal amount of effort after I found out about being on reserve (btw found out in Dec, accepted June 6); I sent a new letter of recommendation from what I was doing this year, emailed them saying that if they offered me a seat I would accept, and I showed up at the admissions in Ithaca expressing my interest. If you want it bad enough, make moves. Not a guarantee, but there is still hope


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Is there Trouble Ahead for Stocks?
In the stock market, trouble comes when you least expect it. Spencer Jakab has some cautionary tales for investors on Markets Hub.
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I actually started this post awhile ago and then forgot it until I saw that Greta had done the same sort of post. Jennifer over at Jennifer's Genealogy Blog came up with the great idea to do a genealogy version of the popular Facebook meme "25 Random Things About Me." I love the concept so I'm going to try my hand at it as well.
1) For all the colonial connections I have I only have ONE confirmed Revolutionary War soldier ancestor. Everyone else was either Loyalist or Quaker (and therefore pacifists) at the time of the war. Interestingly enough, my only Revolutionary War ancestor's wife was also a noted patriot during the war and helped the American troops at Sugar House prison. The couple was Col. Isaac Mott and Anne Coles Mott. Anne's contribution to the American cause resulted in her being awarded a tablecloth by American officers and it supposedly has remained in the family, though it never went to my branch.
2) I have no roots from the "deep" south. The only branch of my tree (the Wellons) with any kind of southern roots came to Virginia from Wales and England in the 1700s (or earlier). They then went to Pulaski County, Kentucky around 1800 and left for Iowa fifty years later.
3) My paternal family tree has, for the most part, been in the US only a short time with most of his branches coming during the early part of the 20th century/later part of the 19th. On the opposite side of the spectrum is my maternal family tree who for the majority has been in the US since the 1600s. Her most recent branch to the US arrived about 1850.
4) Colorado must have had a big impact on my Webb family because once they arrived they named all the children after geographical landmarks there. The family settled in the Durango area in the 1870s and the naming trend started when they arrived when Andrew Webb's daughter, Lilly Timberline was born and named after the Colorado "timber line" where she was born. Andrew's daughter (and my ancestor) named her first daughter Hermosa Florida Wellons after two area rivers. Andrew's son also followed suit and named his daughter Minnie Animas Webb after the town where the family lived.
5) My great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Gertude Mott Healey was supposedly the first baby born in Benicia, California. Since she was born in 1852 and Benicia was founded in 1847 I think this is pretty unlikely, but since I've never found proof for or against this family legend I can't completely shoot it down.
6) My great x4 grandfather, Heman Doyle was the first District Attorney of Douglas County, Nevada and was also a prominent early judge, lawyer and justice of the peace in Placer, San Joaquin, and El Dorado County, California as well as Carson and Douglas County, Nevada. Before his move west to California/Nevada in 1850 he was a lawyer in Rochester, Monroe, New York.
7) If I wanted to, I could join both DAR and the United Empire Loyalists. My DAR connection is from #1 above while my UELAC connection is through my Beam line who left New Jersey for Ontario following the war. The British government awarded them land for their loyalty during the war and Beamsville was founded and named for them.
8) My vonAllmen (and Steiner) ancestors came to Olney, Illinois in the 1840s from the ancestral homeland of the canton Bern in Switzerland. When Christian vonAllmen and his family came they, unlike other branches of their family, dropped the von. They moved to Evansville around 1860 where Christian, and later his sons, had a broom-making business. Christian's daughter, Susanna, was my great-great-grandmother.
9) My only Dutch and French ancestors helped settled New York. The Egbertse and Harmen famililes helped establish Lange Eylant (Long Island) and Staten Island while my French Huguenot Letelier family ended up in early Brooklyn.
10) My Stokes and Croad branches (on my father's side) worked in the Welsh coal mines in the late 1800s. Both families came from southern England to work in the mines around Cardiff for years.
11) My great x2 grandmother, Susanna vonAllmen Berger's niece was killed during the Evansville race riot of 1903.
12) My great x3 grandmother Susanna Tizzard Croad's niece Martha Tizzard Courtney worked as a maid for the Bischoffsheim family in London in the late 1870s/early 1880s. The Bischoffsheims were a wealthy and well connected family of financiers and philanthropists at the time. The Bischoffsheim home where Martha worked is currently the site of the Middle Eastern embassies in London.
13) My great-grandfather, Joseph James Allen worked as a telephone linesman in Michigan before WWI. He was also in the Michigan National Guard before enlisting in 1917. While at war he was badly gased which led to deteriorating health and eventual paralysis before his death in the 1940s when he was only in his fifties. For his service during the war he was awarded various citations and received a letter from the President though I have never seen the documents.
14) Following the death of my ancestor, Sarah Hudson Wellons, her husband and my ancestor, John Chapple Wellons remarried Elizabeth Weaver in 1865 in Indianola, Iowa. In 1880 Elizabeth's daughter from a previous marriage had a baby out of wedlock. Elizabeth killed her new illegitimate granddaughter with the help of the baby's mother and Elizabeth's other daughter from another marriage. After the baby's mother died, Elizabeth and her surviving daughter were arrested for infanticide. Suffice to say, John Chapple Wellons divorced Elizabeth and moved several towns away. The whole grisly story can be read here.
15) The town where my great-grandmother, Georgia Wellons Berger and several of her siblings were born burned down in 1902. Klamathon was a booming lumber town on the California/Oregon border when it caught fire and went out in "a blaze of glory." Unfortunately, when Klamathon went up in smoke so to did Georgia's birth record.
16) My great-great-grandfather, John W. Berger was the son of German immigrants. When he became a Methodist minister he joined the German Evangelical Association, an offshoot of the Methodist church that went around to German speaking communities in the Midwest and preached in German. In the 1870s he even went to Germany (Prussia then) and did missionary work there for several years.
17) My great-grandmother was seven at the time of the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906. She was visiting relatives across the Bay at the time but her father was still in the city. Everyone in her family survived but they didn't know for several days if her father was alive or not. He managed to save my great-grandmother's doll but everything else that they owned was destroyed by the quake.
18) I have MANY, many Quakers in my tree, including my ancestor John Shinn who was a distiller and was kicked out of the church for making moonshine.
19)My ancestors Isaac Thomas Mott and Mary Johanna Rose lived in Mazatlan, Mexico from the 1830s to the 1850s. He worked for the American Consulate and Pacific Steamship Co. before being ruined by the Mexican-American War after which time the family settled in the Bay Area of California.
20) John W. Berger is the only direct ancestor I have that fought in the Civil War, he served as a Union Chaplin.
21) Gideon Gottlieb Berger, the son of #20 above, was also a military Chaplin and served at the Presidio during WWI. His son, my great uncle, was also a military Chaplin and a commander in the US Navy. He is currently the Chaplin of the famous USS Hornet.
22)My great-great-grandfather, John Grant Allen, worked as a warden at Michigan State Prison in Jackson for years, before then he dabbled in everything from farming to being a fireman.
23)My great-great-grandfather, George Washington Wellons was a gardener and farmer in Yreka and a staunch Socialist (unlike everyone else in my tree, including his own family).
24) An ancestor of mine, Moses Jackman, was abducted by Indians as a young boy in 1757. He was later sold to French fur trappers before finally being rescued and returned to his family in 1761 at the close of the French and Indian War.
25) My great-grandparents came from Italy to the US in 1920. Though they were from Vieste, which is on the Adriatic, their port of departure was Naples. They traveled on the Madonna and arrived at Ellis Island before settling in Warren, Trumbull, Ohio with relatives. It was there, in Ohio, that they had my grandmother, though most of her siblings were born in Italy. Even though they lived in America the rest of their lives, over fifty years, neither really ever learned more than a few words of English.


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A collection of familiar hymns appropriate for the Easter season. The solos are arranged in a straightforward fashion, although frequent obbligato and variation passages are interwoven with the familiar melodies for interest. The CD offers the instrumentalist a convenient opportunity to rehearse. Contents are: Christ the Lord Is Risen Today; Christ Arose; Come Thou Almighty King; Crown Him With Many Crowns; Come, Ye Faithful; Golden Harps Are Sounding; Thine Is the Glory; Passion Chorale (O Sacred Head Now Wounded); At the Cross and Were You There?
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The Intersection of Comics and History: An Interview with Jason Rodriguez
Writer and editor Jason Rodriguez's work includes District Comics: An Unconventional History of Washington, DC, Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened, and The Little Particle That Could. His books have been nominated for eight Harvey Awards honoring excellence in the comics industry and a Will Eisner Comic Industry Award. Rodriguez's current project editing graphic novels about colonial New England brought him to the Massachusetts Historical Society last week. He took the time to answer a few Beehive questions about comics, history, and what to expect from the coming historical graphic novels.
*Image of Jason Rodriguez drawn by Scott White
1. Tell us about your current project with Fulcrum Publishing editing graphic novels on colonial New England.
Colonial Comics is a series of graphic novel anthologies about colonial life up to and a little bit beyond the American Revolution. The first book, scheduled to be released in the spring/summer of 2014, will focus on the early settlement of New England. The book will feature stories of pilgrims and Puritans, Pequots and pirates, midwives and printing presses, whales and livestock, slavery and frontiers, and many other aspects of colonial life. The second book, scheduled to be released in the fall/winter of 2014, will focus on the pre-Revolutionary period. It will depict the unconventional stories of Revolutionary men and women, the early ideas and seemingly insignificant moves that brought about revolution, and a shot that was heard around the world. We're still in the planning phases for additional books, but editing two large anthologies at a time is a lot of work as it is, so I'm not in a huge rush to get started on a third or fourth.
The books feature an eclectic mix of comic book writers and artists, fiction and nonfiction authors, university professors, and renowned historians. I also have two assistant editors: A. David Lewis, a comic writer with a Ph.D. in religious studies, and John L. Bell, who writes the Boston 1775 blog.
2. How will the Massachusetts Historical Society support this work?
While we're still working out the details, the MHS aims to help us in our mission to produce a historically accurate piece. With comics you need to get all the visuals right. Architecture, clothing, weapons – you need to make sure that the images you're putting on the page are backed by the historical record. There's also the fact that we're crafting narratives and extrapolating between recorded points in history by making up dialog and inserting representative characters. MHS is going to help us by making sure we have access to the primary sources and artifacts so that we can include them in the stories and make a book that's accessible and fun for readers but also educational and accurate.
3. What is your background and how did you come to write comics?
I've read comics my entire life, tried to write comics for a little bit, and then took a job editing a small anthology that turned into a bit of a cult hit called Western Tales of Terror. After that I took on a job editing a book called Elk's Run, which was a critical success but not much of a commercial success. Nevertheless it got nominated for seven Harvey Awards and was picked up by Random House/Villard, who also picked up the anthology I was working on at the time, Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened. From there I worked on a lot of small- and mid-sized books, writing for anthologies and editing some projects here and there. Colonial Comics is definitely my most ambitious project to date – between the first two books we're looking at around 50 stories, which translates to over 100 writers, artists, and designers.
4. Why do you think comics are a good medium for exploring history?
Comics tend to immerse the reader in the time period. Every panel is a moment in time, and each moment allows the reader to pause and take note of the buildings and the dress and the people. Since the words are printed on the page in little balloons, the reader can note the dialog and the pacing. There's also a layer of subtext you get with comics that you don't necessarily get with books and film. When someone is in panel for an entire story and hardly says a line of dialog it says a lot about that character and how he or she fits into the context of the story. And of course there's the narrative aspect. These historic figures become interesting characters within the stories. Readers are inspired to learn more about them, either on their own or in their courses.
Because of all this, the individual stories could stand alone as fun and informative narratives or act as segues into larger discussions on the period. For example, one story in the first book is about Elizabeth Glover, the owner of the first New England print shop. The story could be used as a lead-in to a discussion on the difficulties of female business owners in society at that time. The small pieces capture your interest and encourage you to seek out the larger context.
5. What are some of your favorite comics? Can you recommend a good entry point for someone who is interested in history but fairly new to comics?
My taste in comics is pretty mixed. I love a lot of Japanese comics, especially anything by Naoki Urasawa. But more to the tastes of the people on this blog, I recently finished Osamu Tezuka's massive eight-volume graphic novel about the life of Buddha. It's a bit of a pop-culture twist on the source material but it is beautiful and heartbreaking.
Forgive me if I give a little plug for Fulcrum's District Comics: An Unconventional History of Washington DC. I even wrote a story for that one about the 1867 Washington Nationals. As far as other histories, I like the ones that have a personal narrative attached to them, like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis (which is about her childhood in Iran) and Joe Sacco's Palestine (which is about his experiences in the Gaza Strip during the early '90s). A bit more of a hidden gem is Ryan Dunlavey and Fred Van Lente's wonderful Action Philosophers! That book is the greatest way to learn about philosophy and philosophers. It should be required reading in every college philosophy class. And if you just want straight history, Hill & Wang has published a bunch of graphic histories including books about Reagan, Ché Guevara, Trotsky, the Vietnam War, the 9/11 Commission Report, and even an adaptation of the U.S. Constitution.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress are making a concerted election-year push to draw attention to women's wages, linking Obama executive actions with pending Senate legislation aimed at closing a compensation gender gap that favors men.
Obama on Tuesday planned to sign an executive order prohibiting federal contractors from retaliating against workers who discuss their pay. He also was to direct the Labor Department to issue new rules requiring federal contractors to provide compensation data that includes a breakdown by race and gender.
The Democratic-controlled Senate this week planned to take up legislation that would make it easier for workers to sue companies for paying women less than men because of gender. The legislation, like Obama's narrower executive order, would forbid companies from punishing workers who share salary information and would allow punitive and compensatory damages in lawsuits
Backed by business groups, Republicans are expected to block the bill when the Senate holds a showdown vote, probably Wednesday. The GOP derailed similar legislation in the Senate the past two election years, 2012 and 2010.
Even so, Democrats are pushing the bill, sponsored by Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., as part of a campaign-season agenda designed to contrast their efforts to help middle-income voters with Republicans and to motivate pivotal Democratic-leaning voting blocs like women.
Underscoring the politics behind the efforts, Democrats were aggressively soliciting campaign contributions, accusing Republicans of standing in the way of pay equity. Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Chris Coons of Delaware, for instance, issued emails Tuesday drawing attention to the pay gap and directing supporters to a contribution site that was compiling contributions for House and Senate Democrats.
Republicans argued through their campaign committees that the Senate legislation would hurt women by restricting job flexibility and merit pay.
"Why is it that so many Republicans are content to allow a woman working the same hours and the same job to make less money than her male co-worker?" Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said as the Senate began debating the bill Tuesday. "It's hard to comprehend."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., did not specifically address the legislation. But he said the Democrats' recent congressional agenda shows they are "a party that's out of ideas, campaign-obsessed and utterly beholden to the far left."
Obama's executive actions are part of his drive to act on his own when Congress stalls on his policy initiatives. The executive order and the presidential memorandum to the Labor Department are his latest directives on wages, pay disparities and hiring targeting the federal government's vast array of contractors and subcontractors.
The National Labor Relations Board and some federal courts already have said that company pay secrecy rules are prohibited under the National Labor Relations Act. But cases against violators can only be brought by the NLRB on the basis of a complaint. The Senate bill, however, would spell out the prohibition and allow private lawsuits, which could be more financially penalizing than NLRB action.
Obama's executive order could serve as a stricter enforcement tool, said Jeffrey Hirsch, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law.
Hirsch, a former lawyer with the National Labor Relations Board, said such an order also would make federal contractors more aware of the prohibition and "more concerned with the outcome of not getting a contract rather than facing an NLRB case, which has very weak remedies."
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Retail Federation and 22 other business groups sent a letter to Senate leaders Friday stating their opposition to the Senate bill. They said it could outlaw some ways companies set salaries, such as paying more for professional experience or hazardous work, and entitle workers suing their employers to exorbitant penalties.
Census Bureau figures show that the annual earnings of women was 77 percent of what men earned in 2012, a difference that has barely budged over the past decade.
When measured by hourly earnings, that difference is a narrower 86 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. The larger gap is in part because women tend to work fewer hours than men and because the annual figures includes items omitted from the hourly data, including tips and bonuses.
Even as Obama prepared to take steps to close the compensation gender gap, White House spokesman Jay Carney defended differences in pay at the White House. An analysis of staff salaries done last fall by the conservative American Enterprise Institute found the president's female aides were paid 88 cents for every dollar paid to men, about $65,000 to $73,729 annually.
Carney said Monday that the comparison is based on aggregate wages that include the lowest salaries at the White House "which may or may not be - depending on the institution - filled by more women than men." He said men and women in equivalent roles at the White House earn the same amount and that 10 of 16 department heads are women, earning the top White House salary of $172,200.
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