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On the 3rd of April 2014 delegation from Swedish twin city Norrtäle has visited Paldiski city under management of Mr. Anders Olander.
Delegation from Norrtlje has arrived early morning. The delegation had a sightseeing tour and was introduced the rich history of Paldiski. After the tour the delegation (most of them were from planning and development department) visited the new Municipality building.
Paldiski development specialist gave the presentation about city development, investments and business perspectives in the future.
Paldiski is looking forward to see Norrtälje delegation on celebration of City Days 10-13th July 2014.
Area-34 km2, population - 4372 (january 2010) , city rights since 1783.
At first this area was a port for the Swedes living in Estonia, then a military port built by the Russian Empire. During the Soviet times Paldiski was a closed territory because of the military objects over there.
Today Paldiski is the centre of transit trade due to its cargo and passenger ports. A good highway and convenient, frequent and confortable rail service, incomparable nature encourage this development.
Paldiski covers the largest area in the Harju Country, the whole of Pakri peninsula. The town also owns Pakri islands that were the Soviet military training grounds for bombing. Right now the islands are not inhabited permanently, but until the Second World War they were inhabited by the Estonian Swedes.
Beautiful nature, sea views from cliffs and avenues in the centre of the town make Pakri peninsula a friendly living environment. During the last years much work has been done to renovate the houses and also many cultural activities have taken place again.
Paldiski is a native town to the sculptor Amandus Adamson whose most famous work is "Russalka", a monument commemorating a Russian warship that sunk in 1897.


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Woodson, on Rasheed Wallace's imminent signing, sounded cautious on whether he'd definitely make the squad. "He's
another guy who brings veteran-ship to our ballclub. Fact is, he's asked to come out of retirement to try to get back in the league and help the team. I had great success with him in Detroit when we won the title under Larry Brown's tutelage. He's a great teammate. He knows how to win and he's great from a defensive standpoint. He makes guys around him better, being able to defend the basketball. That's going to be huge as we move forward. We don't know if he's going to work out, but he'll hopefully be in camp (tomorrow) and give him a look and see where it goes from there.'' Wallace finished up his physical today and wasn't at Media Day. 34 minutes ago
I would be very surprised if Wallace would come out of retirement if he wasn't physically capable of doing so. He will make this team and ultimately play some important minutes - hopefully come this spring.

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Crime Hot Spots
David Weisburd and Sean Wire
Hot spots of crime, and the criminology of place more generally, deviate from the traditional paradigm of criminology, in which the primary assumption and goal is to explain who is likely to commit crime and their motivations, and to explore interventions aimed at reducing individual criminality. Alternatively, crime hot spots account for the "where" of crime, specifically referring to the concentration of crime in small geographic areas. The criminology of place demands a rethinking in regard to how we understand the crime problem and offers alternate ways to predict, explain, and prevent crime. While place, as large geographic units, has been important since the inception of criminology as a discipline, research examining crime concentrations at a micro-geographic level has only recently begun to be developed. This approach has been facilitated by improvements to data availability, technology, and the understanding of crime as a function of the environment. The new crime and place paradigm is rooted in the past three decades of criminological research centered on routine activity theory, crime concentrations, and hot spots policing.
The focus on crime hot spots has led to several core empirical findings. First, crime is meaningfully concentrated, such that a large proportion of crime events occur at relatively few places within larger geographies like cities. This may be termed the law of crime concentration at places (see Weisburd, 2015). Additionally, most hot spots of crime are stable over time, and thus present promising opportunities for crime prevention. Crime hot spots vary within higher geographic units, suggesting both that there is a loss of information at higher levels of aggregation and that there are clear "micro communities" within the larger conceptualization of a neighborhood. Finally, crime at place is predictable, which is important for being able to understand why crime is concentrated in one place and not another, as well as to develop crime prevention strategies. These empirical characteristics of crime hot spots have led to the development of successful police interventions to reduce crime. These interventions are generally termed hot spots policing.
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
Rachel Armitage
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is an approach to crime reduction that seeks to reduce perceived opportunities for crime through the design and management of the built or, less often, the natural environment. It is based on a set of principles, which can be applied as a guide to the design and construction of buildings, as well as the organization of spaces around them. Because CPTED provides a guide rather than a rigid specification, with a range of possible realizations, design compliance with its principles is often recognized through an award scheme, such as Secured by Design (SBD) in the United Kingdom and the Police Label Secured Housing in the Netherlands. Research has consistently demonstrated that CPTED is an effective crime reduction approach—reducing crime, alleviating the fear of crime, and enhancing feelings of safety. Its increasing recognition within planning policy reflects a growing acknowledgment of efficacy.
Crime Science
Ella Cockbain and Gloria Laycock
Crime science (or more accurately crime and security science) has three core tenets:
• the application of scientific methods
• the study of crime and security problems
• the aim of reducing harm.
Beyond the unifying principles of scientific research (including a clear problem definition, transparency, rigor, and reliability), tools and techniques vary between studies. Rather than following a prescriptive approach, researchers are guided in their selection of data and methods by their research question and context. In this respect, crime scientists take an inclusive view of "evidence."
"Crime and security" is a broad construct, covering problems associated with diverse illicit goods and acts, offenders, victims/targets, places, technologies, and formal and informal agents of crime control.
Its pragmatic approach distinguishes crime science from "pure research" (i.e., the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake). Contributions to harm reduction might be immediate (e.g., evaluating a novel intervention) or longer term (e.g., building theoretical or empirical knowledge about a particular issue).
Crime science is broad: researchers may contribute to it without self-identifying as crime scientists. Indeed, its early proponents hesitated to draw its parameters, suggesting they should be defined operationally. Under a shared focus on crime, crime science research transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. The prevalence of multi- and interdisciplinary work reflects the inherent complexity of crime and its control. The social, physical, biological, and computer sciences—and their associated technologies—all have contributions to make.
Although the term crime science was first formalized in 2001, its roots go back much further. Within criminology, it particularly overlaps with environmental and experimental criminology. As well as sharing methods with these two areas, crime science's theoretical underpinning derives from opportunity theories of crime (e.g., routine activity theory, the rational choice perspective, crime pattern theory). Crime is conceptualized accordingly as primarily non-random and as influenced by both individual criminal propensity and environmental factors that facilitate, promote, or provoke, criminal events.
Crime science techniques have been applied to a variety of issues: primarily volume crimes (e.g., burglary), but also more serious and complex crimes (e.g., terrorism and human trafficking). There is now substantial evidence of the effectiveness of targeted interventions in tackling crimes by manipulating their opportunity structures. Claims that such approaches are unethical and merely cause displacement have been discredited. Crime science now faces other, more challenging criticisms. For example, its theoretical underpinnings are arguably too narrow and the boundaries of the field lack clear distinction. Other challenges include expanding interventions into the online world and resolving tensions around evaluation evidence.
Crime science can clearly help explain and address crime problems. Its focus on outcomes rather than outputs speaks to the growing demand that research be impactful. Evidence generated through robust studies has value for policy and designing primary, secondary and tertiary interventions. In times of austerity and increased focus on multi-agency collaboration, there is a clear audience for crime-related research that can inform targeted responses and speaks to a broader agendum than law enforcement alone.
Defensible Space
Robert I. Mawby
While the term "defensible space" is widely referenced in literature on situational crime pre vention and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, it is commonly mentioned in passing, almost as an historical landmark, with its relationship to more recent work assumed rather than rigorously examined. Yet, Oscar Newman's work bridged the gap between criminological theories and preventive approaches in the pre-1970s era and the more grounded and policy driven approaches that are common today. Consequently, this article looks at the context within which Newman developed his ideas and revisits his core work. It then considers the initial response from the criminology and planning communities, which focused on the methodological and theoretical weaknesses that undermined what were, essentially, a series of imaginative, exploratory propositions about the influence of design on crime patterns. In this sense, it is clear that Newman both provoked and inspired further research into the relationship between urban design and crime, and indeed, between crime, crime targets, and space, looking at the specific influence of design, technology, social engineering, and so on. Terms such as ownership, visibility, occupancy, accessibility, image, and juxtaposition, which Newman used, are now incorporated into more sophistical theories of situational crime prevention. This article thus offers a reanalysis of defensible space in the context of later refinements and the application of Newman's ideas to current policies.
Developmental Origins of Antisocial Behavior
Richard E. Tremblay
Most studies conducted on the development of antisocial behavior focused on school children and attempted to understand how children learn to steal and aggress others. Results from longitudinal studies that were initiated in early childhood show that children do not learn to bully, physically aggress, and rob from their environment. These longitudinal studies show that antisocial behaviors are most frequent during early childhood and that children learn from their environment not to bully, not to aggress, and not to rob. In other words, young children are socialized by their environment. Those who do not learn well enough to control these natural tendencies are rejected very early in their development by their environment, unless they are living in an antisocial environment. The further advance of this research area will require that the next generation of researchers integrate theories and methods from the biological, psychological, and social sciences because the development of antisocial behavior involves complex interactions between biological, psychological and sociological causal factors. The lack of an integrated bio-psycho-social perspectives has been a major weakness of research in criminology up to now. Future research needs to concentrate on two central questions: (a) Why a minority of young children fail to learn to inhibit antisocial behaviors, and (b) how we can help these children learn alternatives to antisocial behavior. Valid and effective answers to these questions will come from randomized control trials which target at risk families with intensive and long term preventive interventions during early childhood, preferably at the start of a girl's first pregnancy, with follow ups until the at risk children have become adults and are having their own children.
Developmental Targeted Prevention of Conduct Disorder
Frank Vitaro and Richard E. Tremblay
Traditionally, the term targeted prevention refers to interventions designed to prevent the development of adjustment problems in individuals by reducing risk factors or by implementing protective factors identified in studies of human development. Because risk and protective factors vary with development, a developmental perspective is necessary in order to identify which factors are most relevant at each period of life, based on well-defined and empirically supported etiological models. Moreover, because prevention strategies vary greatly depending on the factors that are targeted at different developmental periods and ages, a developmental perspective suggests that they need to be shaped accordingly. A further expansion of the concept of developmental targeted prevention includes the notion of "stepwise continuous prevention" for the extreme cases who do not revert to normative behavior during a given developmental period. This notion draws on the chronic-disease model of conduct problems and encompasses several developmental periods. The current debate around these issues is important as they apply to the prevention of conduct problems in youth by targeting risk factors during maternal pregnancy, early childhood, childhood, and adolescence. A consensual view of developmental targeted prevention is, however, necessary for prevention efforts to be coordinated and fruitful.
Fear of Crime
Nicole Rader
Fear of crime has been a serious social problem studied for almost 40 years. Early researchers focused on operationalization and conceptualization of fear of crime, specifically focusing on what fear of crime was (and was not) and how to best tap into the fear of crime construct. This research also found that while crime rates had been declining, fear of crime rates had stayed relatively stable. Nearly 40% of Americans indicated they were afraid of crime, even though crime was declining during the same time period. This finding led researchers to study the paradox of fear of crime. In other words, why does fear of crime not match up with actual chances of victimization? Several explanations were put forth including a focus on vulnerability (e.g., individuals felt vulnerable to crime even if they were not vulnerable) and a focus on differences in groups (e.g., women were more afraid of crime than men, even though they were less likely to be victims). Thus, many studies began to consider the predictors of fear of crime. Researchers since this time have spent most time studying these fear of crime predictors including individual level predictors (i.e., sex, race, age, social class), contextual predictors (neighborhood disorder, incivilities, and social cohesion), along with the consequences of fear of crime (psychological and behavioral). Such results have provided guidance on what individuals fear, why they fear, and what impact it has on the daily lives of Americans. Future research will continue to focus on groups little is known about, such as Hispanics, and also on the impact of behavior on fear of crime. This future research will likely also benefit from new techniques in survey research that analyzes longitudinal data to determine causality between fear of crime and other predictors such as risk and behavior.
Focused Deterrence Strategies
Anthony Braga
Focused deterrence strategies are increasingly being implemented in the United States to reduce serious violent crime committed by gangs and other criminally-active groups, recurring offending by highly-active individual offenders, and crime and disorder problems generated by overt street-level drug markets. These strategies are framed by an action research model that is common to both problem-oriented policing and public health interventions to reduce violence. Briefly, focused deterrence strategies seek to change offender behavior by understanding underlying crime-producing dynamics and conditions that sustain recurring crime problems and by implementing an appropriately focused blended strategy of law enforcement, community mobilization, and social service actions. Direct communications of increased enforcement risks and the availability of social service assistance to target groups and individuals is a defining characteristic of "pulling levers" strategies.
The focused deterrence approach was first pioneered in Boston, Massachusetts and eventually tested in other jurisdictions. The available empirical evidence suggests these strategies generate noteworthy violence reduction impacts and should be part of a broader portfolio of crime reduction strategies available to policy makers and practitioners. While focused deterrence strategies attempt to prevent crime by changing offender perceptions of sanction risk, complementary crime prevention efforts seem to support the crime control efficacy of these programs. These strategies also seek to change offender behavior by mobilizing community action, enhancing procedural justice, and improving police legitimacy. Focused deterrence strategies hold great promise in reducing serious violence while improving strained relationships between minority neighborhoods and the police departments that serve them.
Guardianship and Informal Social Control
Danielle M. Reynald
This article provides a critical overview of the concepts of guardianship and informal social control. The discussion compares these fundamental criminological concepts and highlights areas where there is overlap, as well as key points of departure. The relationship between these concepts is scrutinized to illustrate their distinct origins as well as the distinctive ways each of these concepts have developed within the criminological literature. This article focuses on informal social control as a multi-level community process, and on guardianship as a multi-dimensional situational concept comprising, in its most fundamental form, the presence or availability of guardians, inadvertent and/or purposive supervision and direct or indirect intervention. In doing so it showcases the dimensions of guardianship which bear close resemblance to aspects of informal social control, while simultaneously emphasizing that there are important distinctions to consider when comparing some of these dimensions and the levels at which they operate. One core distinction is that informal social control is dependent on neighborhood social ties and collectively shared expectations. On the other hand, while guardianship can be strengthened by social ties at the street-block or neighborhood level, it does not necessarily require such ties to function effectively at the microlevel. Although these concepts do coincide the discussion stresses that theoretical and empirical clarification about what makes them distinct is important. In conclusion, this article shows how each concept makes a unique contribution to criminological understanding about the role of informal citizens in crime control at places.
Immigration and Crime
Frances Bernat
In the context of crime, victimization, and immigration in the United States, research shows that people are afraid of immigrants because they think immigrants are a threat to their safety and engage in many violent and property crimes. However, quantitative research has consistently shown that being foreign born is negatively associated with crime overall and is not significantly associated with committing either violent or property crime. If an undocumented immigrant is arrested for a criminal offense, it tends to be for a misdemeanor. Researchers suggest that undocumented immigrants may be less likely to engage in serious criminal offending behavior because they seek to earn money and not to draw attention to themselves. Additionally, immigrants who have access to social services are less likely to engage in crime than those who live in communities where such access is not available. In regard to victimization, immigrants are more likely to be victims of crime. Foreign-born victims of crime may not report their victimization because of fears that they will experience negative consequences if they contact the police. Recently, concern about immigration and victimization has turned to refugees who are at risk of harm from traffickers, who warehouse them, threaten them, and physically abuse them with impunity. More research is needed on the relationship among immigration, offending, and victimization. The United States and other nations that focus on border security may be misplacing their efforts during global crises that result in forced migrations. Poverty and war, among other social conditions that would "encourage" a person to leave their homeland in search of a better life, should be addressed by governments when enforcing immigration laws and policy.
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NEW YORK -- Town Sports International Holdings, Inc., which owns health clubs located primarily in major cities from Washington, DC north through New England, announced its financial results for the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2006.
The clubs operate under the brand names New York Sports Clubs, Boston Sports Clubs, Washington Sports Clubs and Philadelphia Sports Clubs.
Third quarter 2006 revenue grew 11.4 percent to $109.4 million from $98.2 million for the same period last year. Total revenue for the first nine months of 2006 grew 11.3 percent to $322.9 million from $290.0 million during the same period last year. Comparable club revenue increased 7.8 percent during the third quarter compared to the same period in the prior year.
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Diane Kruger shows off her long legs while heading on a romantic dinner date with boyfriend Joshua Jackson on Tuesday (March 26) in New York City's West Village.
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judith wrote:I can see why you like Alatav, Chris. I assume you have seen them live?
Like you Charlie, SiyaSiya band were the highlight of the Crossing the Bridge film for me (as was Aynur's performance). I've been to Istanbul once and a young duo playing music on the street late at night : santur and vocals was one of the most enduringly musical & magical things I've heard.
So, I'm a sucker for santurs played in the street !
What a pity the Alatav recording was such a brief snippet & cruelly truncated by the end of the programme - I liked the sound of it
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Tonino Guerra, an internationally renowned Italian screenwriter who collaborated with
and other greats of Italian and world cinema on films such as Fellini's "Amarcord" and Antonioni's "L'Avventura" and "Blow-Up," has died. He was 92.
Guerra died Wednesday at his home in Santarcangelo di Romagna, in northern
, according to an announcement on the Tonino Guerra Cultural Assn. website.
A poet, novelist and former schoolteacher, Guerra began his screenwriting career in
in the mid-1950s. He shared three Academy Award nominations — in 1966 for director Mario Monicelli's "Casanova 70," in 1967 for "Blow-Up" and in 1976 for "Amarcord."
"I think he's one of the greatest writers of our time whose medium happens to be the screenplay," said Howard A. Rodman, vice president of the
and a professor at the School of Cinematic Arts at USC.
"He collaborated with many of the great filmmakers of his era ... and his work with them is in every case the groundbreaking and significant work we associate with them," said Rodman.
"When you think of
modernist cinema, the cinema that changed the way we think of movies,
that inspired the glories of American cinema of the 1970s and cinema around the world, it's astonishing how many of those films were written by Tonino Guerra."
Among the scores of films he wrote or co-wrote are "La Notte," "L'Eclisse," "Red Desert" and "Zabriskie Point" for Antonioni, "Ginger and Fred"
and "And the Ship Sails On" for Fellini, "Nostalghia" for
, "Landscape in the Mist" for Theo
Angelopoulos, and "Illustrious Corpses" for Francesco Rosi.
In 2011, the frequently honored Guerra received the Writers Guild of America, West's
Award for Screenwriting Achievement. It is presented to an international writer who has advanced the literature of motion pictures and made outstanding contributions to the screenwriting profession.
The son of a fisherman/fishmonger father and an illiterate mother whom he later taught to read and write, Guerra was born March 16, 1920, in Santarcangelo di Romagna.
He began to orally compose dialect poems while imprisoned in a German concentration camp during
, and he published his first collection, "I Scarabocc" ("Scribblings"), in 1946.
After earning a degree at the University of Urbino with a thesis on dialect poetry, he taught secondary school before moving to Rome in 1953.
He launched his screenwriting career with director Giuseppe De Santis' 1956 film "Men and Wolves," co-written with Elio Petri.
His longtime collaboration with Antonioni began with "L'Avventura," the breakthrough 1960 film that brought international renown to the director, who co-wrote the script with Guerra and Elio Bartolini.
"Antonioni struck a chord
in exploring people's sense of alienation in an increasingly industrialized and impersonal world," said film reviewer Kevin Thomas, a former Times staff writer. "Without question, Tonino Guerra was a major contributor to Antonioni's masterworks, a collaborator who enabled Antonioni to express his unique vision."
In the preface to his published screenplays, Antonioni said that he and Guerra "have long and violent arguments ... and that makes him all the more helpful."
Of his collaboration with Guerra, Angelopoulos once said: "Tonino has been my psychoanalyst for 20 years."
Guerra, who worked with American, Greek and Russian directors, said in a 1993
interview that each filmmaker had made him aware of a different aspects of himself.
"Fellini is always immersed in his childhood, in his background, in his memories," he said. "Coming from Rimini, which is near my own hometown, he obliged me to look here locally, to look into my own memory, my own childhood.
"Tarkovsky, with his religious problems, his preoccupation with his spirituality, he raised all my own spiritual doubts. Rosi, with his attention to the meticulous detail of daily life, he made me think of what was happening, what was happening under my feet, in front of my eyes, every minimal detail."
Guerra's transition from poet to screenwriter was a natural one.
"My poems were an essence of images," he once said. "They had the cinema inside them before I started working for it."
Observed Rodman: "During the great flowering of European cinema after World War II, he was its poet and guiding light. I think he was able to figure out how to put in words and images many of the great themes and sensibilities of the world's best filmmakers."
Guerra is survived by his second wife, Lora; and his son, Andrea, a film and TV composer.


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With Christmas fast approaching I wanted to post a few festive shadow shots before the big day had come and gone. Gosh Christmas is in less than a week. Yikes! These photos were taken of the Myer Christmas window displays in the Queen Street Mall. Do you notice the metal grill on the floor of the last image? It's there to collect the mess made by the little piggy in the middle. He regularly projectile vomits blue goo from all the blueberry pie he's eating. Nice! Most kids watching this found it highly amusing. As did I!
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Volume 19 • Issue 20 | Sept. 29 - Oct 5, 2006
What's the big rush at Pier 40?
A month and a half ago, The Villager and Downtown Express first reported that the Hudson River Park Trust was readying to release a new request for proposals, or R.F.P., for developers for Pier 40. We editorialized that the Trust should keep this R.F.P. shelved since a large portion of the community enjoys the pier's current primary uses the sports fields and long-term parking.
But the Trust issued the R.F.P. at the end of August. A date of Nov. 17 has been set for submissions from developers seeking a Pier 40 master lease of up to 49 years. The R.F.P. states the winning bidder will be picked within 90 days of the submission deadline, which means sometime in February.
After the last Pier 40 R.F.P. process crashed three years ago, the Trust, using Lower Manhattan Development Corp. money, added a 3.5-acre artificial-turf sports field in the W. Houston St. pier's courtyard. This was deemed an interim plan until the Trust decided to issue a new R.F.P. for the 14-acre pier.
Yet, during this so-called interim period, these sports fields have enjoyed tremendous, incessant usage by local youth sports leagues and others and become an integral part of Downtown's landscape. So, of course, has the pier's long-term parking, which local residents have used for many years.
Any attempt to change these uses, or interrupt them for any amount of time, will be met with the full force of the community's opposition.
Granted, in its R.F.P., the Trust makes it clear that keeping the fields is of "paramount importance," as is keeping at least 1,800 of the existing 2,000 spaces. However, the Trust seems more open to allowing an alternate use to gradually replace the parking as long as this replacement provides the Trust with at least the $5 million annually the parking does.
Word is the Trust is pushing the R.F.P. because the 45-year-old pier needs a $30 million renovation. Yet, the Trust should go to government sources not private developers for these funds. It's not worth tampering with a well-functioning Pier 40 just to get the funds to renovate it.
Of great concern, there seems a rush to do the process with a minimum, if any, public conversation. The Trust is also rushing to sign a deal with an operator for the Pier 26 estuary center in Tribeca even though this pier won't reopen for three years. Chris Martin, the Trust's spokesperson, told us a few months ago that there would be an R.F.P. for Pier 26 and there was "absolutely" no chance the Trust would pick anyone for the marine study center this year, but he backed away when the Trust realized this would prevent Gov. Pataki's cronies at the Beacon Institute from getting the estuarium without proving they were the best group.
The Pataki administration is leaving in January, which is the most logical explanation for the urgency. The probable new governor, Eliot Spitzer, a Democrat, would likely shake up the Trust's directors board by making up to five new appointments. Is the Trust's G.O.P.-packed board trying to ram this R.F.P. through and sign a binding 49-year contract with a megadeveloper before Spitzer is elected? With this timeframe, how can anyone think otherwise?
This seems just the latest case of a New York authority circumventing the public will. Slow down the process, and, even better, as we said before shelve it. And if the process must move forward, then, for heaven's sake, involve the public.
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Lionel Asbo: State of England
Martin Amis, Knopf Canada
Who let the dogs out?
(woof, woof, woof, woof)
— the Baha Men
Sorry. I know that these lyrics from that execrable song by the one-hit wonder Baha Men have probably already wormed their way into the deepest crevasses of your brain, where they will fester, continually playing just below your level of consciousness and eventually causing you to curse your very existence. (You are not alone — although released in 2000, Who Let the Dogs Out? is still number three on Rolling Stone magazine's list of top 20 most annoying songs ever.) The thing is, I had to mention these lyrics because versions of them, inspired by vicious pit bulls whose owner feeds them Tabasco sauce to keep them mean, figure prominently in Martin Amis's Lionel Asbo, an acidic satire on contemporary England by one of that country's most controversial and caustic wits, and according to the London Times, one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
The England that Amis portrays in Lionel Asbo is not the stiff-upper-lipped one, nor the one of this past summer, with all its jolly Union Jack — painted faces and Olympic Games — inspired shows of patriotism (which, actually, seemed a little out of character for the denizens of Old Blighty, who usually consider chest-thumping nationalist chauvinism something only those awful Americans do). Instead, the England of Lionel Asbo is a country of a deeply disturbed and disturbing character — of riots, looting, crime (think of the summer of 2011), urban blight, despair, soccer hooligans and sociopathic thugs. And "lotto louts" such as Michael Carroll, who in 2003 won a huge lottery and proceeded to make over the grounds of his new villa into a 24-hour racetrack for old cars. Lionel Asbo is an exaggerated version of Carroll. He was born Lionel Pepperdine in a fictionalized London borough called Diston, where "nothing — and no one — was over sixty years old" and where "calamity made its rounds like a postman." He is in his early 20s and in jail when he changes his last name to Asbo, which is an acronym for anti-social behaviour order, because he likes the sound of the word. He is a violent, woman-beating, thick-witted criminal (working at the "very hairiest end of debt collection") who seems destined to carry on his nasty and brutish life, punctuated by frequent prison stays, until he wins an enormous fortune — 140 million pounds — in the National Lottery, using a filched ticket (Lionel thinks lotteries are a mug's game). As a newly minted multimillionaire, he moves into a hotel for rock stars, hires a public relations manager to deal with the constant media attention and takes up with a model and poet named "Threnody." The quotation marks are part of her legal name.
Even a villain has some good qualities, though. Asbo's is his intense loyalty to his family, especially to his intelligent and sensitive nephew, Des, who has been his ward since the death of Des's mother. At the beginning of the novel Des is 15, and — warning! high ick factor ahead — having an affair with his grandmother, the inaccurately named Grace. To be fair, she is only 39 years old, having born seven children by the age of 19, and poor Des is just looking for some tenderness. Still, he knows that Grace's sexual escapades infuriate Uncle Li, and if the affair were to be discovered, things would not go well for him, family loyalty notwithstanding.
Soon enough, though, the affair ends. Des moves in with a nice girl, and they have a child. He gets a scholarship and finishes school and begins work as a reporter. And even though his uncle has not given him a tuppence of the vast fortune he has illicitly won, Des is happy. His only worry is that Grace, who has been diagnosed with early-onset dementia and sent to live in a facility in Scotland (a bit of an authorial contrivance, if ever there was one), will spill the beans about the affair in one of her lucid moments. This is where the pit bulls come in. Or out. Depending on your point of view.
There is something a bit haphazard about the plot of Lionel Asbo, but perhaps more than with any other writer, one reads Amis for energetic, funny, idiosyncratic and biting use of language, here used to brilliant effect to parse the politics of present-day England. In an interview with France's Le Nouvel Observateur, Amis states that the story of Lionel Asbo is a fitting metaphor for the current state of "moral decrepitude" in Britain, where you can have no talent and no ambition and still get lots of money (Oh, England, you are not alone in this). "This book, then, is about the decline of my country," he says, "about anger, dissatisfaction and bitterness." And if the events and characters seem over the top, consider this quote from the real lotto winner, Michael Carroll: "If anyone was nice to me 'cos of my 10 million (pounds) Lotto winnings," he said, "I'd stab 'em."
Lionel Asbo lives.
Karen Virag is a local freelance reviewer.


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Sept. 21, 2005
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT swept the Lyons of Wheaton College, 30-16, 30-24, 30-14, to remain undefeated in NEWMAC play. With the win, the Engineers improve to 10-3 overall and 3-0 in the conference. Libero Arlis Reynolds was a dominate force from the service line, scoring seven aces without an error on 20 attempts. During a nine-point service run in the third game in which the Engineers opend up an 18-9 lead, Reynolds became MIT's all-time career leader in service aces, surpassing the mark of 264 set by Barb Schultze '02.
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Armour, Quinnie. The development of secondary education in Hardeman County, TN. George Peabody College thesis, 1937. pp.
Biographical directory, TN General Assembly, 1796-1969 (Hardeman County, Preliminary #46). Nashville, TSLA, 1974. 64 pp.
Clifft, Warner W. Early history of Hardeman County, TN. George Peabody College thesis, 1930. 37 pp.
Davidson, Faye T. The Hardeman Free Press, Bolivar, TN, 1895-1918. Bolivar, Owens-Davidson-Cox, 1993. 136 pp.
Deming, Raymond M. Hardeman County: its origin & economic development. George Peabody College dissertation, 1958. pp.
First Baptist Church, Bolivar, TN, 1835-1985. Bolivar, the church, 1985. 76 pp.
Flood insurance study: Hardeman County, TN, unincorporated areas. Washington, D.C., FEMA, 1991. 9 pp.
Goodspeed's history of TN (Hardeman County, pp. 818-840, 887-963). Goodspeed, 1887.
Harde-facts. No. 1, Jan., 1984-. (quarterly) Patricia L. Vincent, Bolivar, TN.
Hardeman County historical sketches. Bolivar, Hardeman County Hist. Comm., 1979. 394 pp.
Hardeman County, 1980-1987: an economic analysis. Nashville, TN Dept. Emp. Sec., 1988. 12 pp.
Haywood, Marshall D. Calvin Jones, physician, soldier & freemason, 1755- 1846, being an account of his career in NC & TN. Oxford, NC, Press of Oxford Orphanage, 1919. 31 pp.
Kirksey, Howard G. History & comparative growth of public schools in Hardeman County, 1867-1936. George Peabody College thesis, 1937. pp.
McBride, John S. Hill speech in southwestern TN. Columbia U. thesis, 1935. 66 pp.
Memphis State University. College of Education. Report of the research committee on the survey of the Hardeman County school system: Hardeman County, TN, 1958-1959. Memphis, n.p., 1959. 132 pp.
Owsley, Harriet C. "Westward to TN." THQ 24 (1965), pp. 31-38.
Pirtle, James R. The military history of the Hatchie River Valley in Hardeman County, TN. George Peabody College thesis, 1957. 48 pp.
Potential contamination of the hydraulic environment from the pesticide waste dump in Hardeman County, TN. Washington, D.C., US Geol. Survey, 1967. 46 pp.
Rima, Donald R. Susceptibility of the Memphis water supply to contamination from the pesticide waste disposal site in northeastern Hardeman County, TN. Nashville, US Geol. Survey, 1979. 5 pp.
Robinson, James E. A sociological & religious study of forty negro church communities of Hardeman County, TN. Drew U. thesis, 1950. 174 pp.
Rowan, W.S. Farm credit agencies in a cotton county, 1940. Knoxville, TN Ag. Exp. Sta., 1940. 19 pp. (its Rural research series monograph #137)
Rowan, W.S. Use of credit by cotton farmers, Hardeman County, TN, 1940. Knoxville, TN Ag. Exp. Sta., 1942. 34 pp. (its Rural research series monograph #136)
Stewart, James B. As it was: plantation life in west TN beginning 1832. N.p., 1974. 1 vol. (reprinted 1981 by Carlton Press, 144 pp.)
TN Dept. Transportation [county maps] issued periodically.
US Geol. Survey [topographic maps] issued periodically. Quadrangles: Hillville, Mercer, Teague, Medon, Whiteville, Bolivar West, Bolivar East, Silerton, Hickory Valley, Middleburg, Hebron, Hornsby, Grand Junction, Saulsbury, Middleton, Pocahontas.
Barraclough, S. "No plumbing for negroes: Ames Plantation." Atlantic (Sept. 1965), pp. 105-109.
Davidson, Faye T. "Ames Plantation, Grand Junction." THQ 38 (1979), pp. 267-276.
Ewing, John A. Planning the Ames Plantation. Harvard U. dissertation, 1956. pp.
Richards, Charles H. "The 'army blanche' in TN: the battle of Middleburg." WTHSP 45 (1991), pp. 68-82.
Community information, Whiteville, TN. Prepared by Whiteville Ind. Board, Hardeman County Chamber of Commerce & West TN Ind. Assoc. Jackson, the association, 1988. 27 pp.
Rivers, Ernest L. The history of Allen-White High School, Whiteville, Hardeman County, TN from 1930-1948. TN State A&I thesis, 1954. (reprinted by the author 1957, 58 pp.)


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TONASKET An arduous fundraising challenge is nearing its ultimate goal for a group of local volunteers.
Linda Black, who spearheaded the fundraising effort, and other members of the community hosted a ceremonial groundbreaking for the Tonasket Water Ranch on Friday afternoon at Chief Tonasket Park.
"It's so close we can taste it," Black said. "It's going to be exciting."
Black said construction is planned to start in the spring, with completion scheduled for summer 2014.
Friday's event opened with dozens of students from Tonasket Elementary School using water guns to hose down Principal Jeremy Clark, Mayor Patrick Plumb and Splash Man — the theme character for the water ranch.
Clark turned out to be a favorite target for his students, walking away from the ceremony completely drenched.
"I anticipated it would be a little bit of water," he said. "I had a wonderful surprise. It was a great thing to be able to promote that for our community. It's going to be a fantastic community piece."
It wasn't the first time Plumb has been soaked in the name of the Tonasket Water Ranch.
Plumb was drenched in water during a chilly February meeting of the City Council in commemoration of the Tonasket Water Ranch hitting $50,000 raised.
Black initially proposed the Tonasket Water Ranch to City Council in December 2012.
Now, Black and the group of people she calls her "Wonderwomen" — Elise Peacemaker, Jera Donner, Stacy Kester and Kathy Olson — have raised about $153,000 for the project so far.
"We have worked really hard for this money," Black said.
Contractor Ty Olson will begin building the water ranch in the spring.
So far, enough money has been raised to cover the costs of engineering, equipment and construction of the park, but the group is still working to bring in another $10,000 for picnic tables and other amenities.
"Raising this money has been something else," Black said. "Over half of that came from outside the community."
Black said throughout the process, she has tried and failed at many different fundraising attempts, trying to find the best way to raise the money needed.
"There were so many times I wanted to quit," she said.
Kick starting the project was an anonymous donation of $25,000.
Fundraisers along the way have included the Big Splash BBQ, a 5K fun run and an event at Esther Bricques Winery. A grant helped pay for the park's signage.
The final $10,000 will be raised by selling metal fish that will decorate the Water Ranch. Each $100 fish has been donated by a local person. No tax money will be used for the park, but once completed, it will be owned by the city.
The spray park itself will be made up of 15 different animal features that spray water. Each will be activated on timers, so no water will be running unless the park is in use.
Black said there will also be several local artists that will contribute pieces to decorate the water ranch.
The idea for the water ranch initially began as a combination of providing something for the area youth and for an attraction for the many visitors that come through North Okanogan County each year.
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In less than 25 years of its inception, the Institute has made a mark in technical education and quality research which got endorsed by a third party survey constituted by Government of Maharashtra and headed by Dr. F. C. Kohli, Chairman, TCS. Through that survey conducted in 2004, SGGSIE&T, Nanded got identified it as an Institute which can be raised to the level of Centre of Excellence along with three other well established organizations such as College of Engineering, Pune; VJTI, Mumbai and ICT, Mumbai.
The Institute has state of the art equipment and machinery for teaching as well as research / consultancy services. Faculty have contributed in being way for laboratory development through proposals to various funding agencies like AICTE, DST, BARC, NRB, etc other than the funding obtained under two phases of TEQIP and from Government of Maharashtra. Most of the laboratories are kept open for the students 24 × 7. Four of the institute's departments have FIST sponsored laboratories. Faculty research abilities have led to the establishment of a "Centre of Excellence" in the area of Signal and Image Processing under TEQIP. Scholarships are made available to the full time research scholars from Center of Excellence (CoE) in signal and image processing, Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP), Quality Improvement Program (QIP) and Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Scheme for Electronics & IT of DeitY. Sponsored and Joint Research projects with various organizations such as BRNS and NRB represent other feathers in the cap of this Institute.
The Institute has a very progressive and pragmatic approach in providing its services to all its stakeholders. We at SGGSIE&T believe in learning. It is always our endeavour to provide the students with right environment for learning. The Institute has collaborations with a number of premier institutes (including foreign universities) and industries through which opportunities like internships, credit transfers, industry relevant projects, etc are made available for the students. The students have also taken due advantage and performed par excellence. It is exhibited by their placement either in terms of the numbers or their positions at various renowned industries, acquiring seats for higher education (so far our students have got AIR 1 four times in GATE), establishing their own ventures (including MNCs) and even selection in administrative & engineering services. Our students have exhibited their overall development through participation in socially relevant projects and activities. They have even grabbed opportunities of serving the local administration / government agencies through a process of competitive bidding also.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Oct 14th Re-Cap
It was a veritable barn-burner of a show on October 14th at The Business! That is not to be confused with a barn-raiser, which connotes a successfully comedy show in the Amish community. Instead of churning butter, the audience churned with laughter. Instead of scorning technology, we used microphones to provide amplified sound. And instead of a bunch of guys with beards standing around and talking, our show had performances from Alex Koll and guest star Kyle Kinnane.
Sean Keane began the show discussing his childhood speech impediment, his illustrious career as a teenage musical theater performer, obscene phone calls, writing fake letters to the newspaper, and finally, how his dad started kissing him hello and goodbye at age 51. Truly a moving and unsettling set. Alex Koll followed, delivering a preview of his hosting gig the next night at the SF Weekly Music Awards. ("7:30 - Arrive. 8:05 - Introduce yourself. 'Hello. How's it going?'") He also explained the similarities between Charles Manson's parole board testimony and the menu at a really good Chinese restaurant. Chris Garcia followed with an extended impression of a ex-Live 105 employee turned alcoholic vagrant. Though thrown off by audience member W. Kamau Bell's repeated suggestion of "Fishbone" as a 90's alternative act, Garcia-as-hobo delighted the crowd.
Before the show, audience members were asked to fill out index cards listing something they were afraid of. The night's next performer, Bucky Sinister, opened his set by reading the cards and riffing off of each of the frightening topics. Perfect for October and the impending Halloween season! Bucky also explained to the crowd why it might be useful to have a tattoo, of your own hand, on your chest, flipping the bird. (Because when the cops arrest you, and your hands are cuffed behind your back, you can still flip them off.)
Guest performer Kyle Kinnane was delayed by an overturned Safeway truck on the Bay Bridge, but his set didn't suffer in the least. He did express dismay that the horrible traffic snarl was caused by something so uncool as spilled produce. We also learned some entertaining and, again, somewhat disturbing information, about what it is like to use a bar bathroom in a really bad part of Chicago.
Finally, headliner Hari Kondabolu continued the night's informal theme of hilariously unsettling personal confessions and finished with Kondabolu Klassics about Vitamin Water and gentrification.. It was perhaps the greatest show The Business has had, in terms of quality, variety, audience, and, of course, penis references.
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Nearly 100 per cent of parents in Derbyshire have completed their primary school applications online.
For reception, 99.8 per cent of parents applied online compared with 99.3 per cent last year. The county council only had 18 paper forms. For junior, 99.8 per cent of parents applied online compared with 99.1 per cent last year. The council only had six paper forms.
Councillor Jim Coyle, deputy cabinet member for children and young people, said: "Applying online is really easy for parents to do and for staff to administer. We're delighted parents find it so user-friendly. I'm sure that one day we'll have 100 per cent online."


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|Timothy Dwight
2012-13: Served as team captain … Won the Coaches' Special Award, which goes to "that member whose presence was vital to the spirit of women's squash at Yale" … Finished the season ranked No. 28 … Compiled a 10-8 overall record … Went 3-4 in Ivy League play … Played most of the season at No. 2 following the injury to teammate Kim Hay … Average ranking of opponents she fell to was No. 14 … Played in the Ramsay Division at the CSA Individual Championships.
2011-12: Finished the season ranked No. 28 … Won the Hunt Welch Most Improved Player Award … 14-2 overall record … Played at No. 5 … Began season with ten-match win streak … Won her match in the semifinal of the Howe Cup as Yale won 7-2 … Won her match in the 5-4 loss against Harvard with the Ivy League title and No. 1 ranking on the line in her biggest upset of the year against the No. 20 ranked player in the nation to put Yale ahead 4-2.
2010-11: Finished the season ranked No. 47 … 9-4 overall record… 3-2 Ivy… Began season with an eight-match winning streak… Played as high as No. 3… Finished the season playing at No. 6… Qualified for the Holleran Division in the CSA Individual Championships.
2009-10: 12-3 overall record… 4-2 Ivy… Played as high as No. 1… Ranked No. 59 in the nation… Finished season playing at No. 6… Won nine consecutive matches in the middle of the season… Lost in the round of 32 in the Holleran Division at the CSA Individual Championships.


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Central would be a good idea so all of us can have good ping.
Vote for your favourite S12 server
For those that are not going west, go vote here: http://www.arenajunk...o-go-from-here/
From the results of this poll, the top 3 servers are Tichondrius Horde, Emerald Dream Horde, and Illidan Horde. People in Australia and west coast can expect to Q at BG9, central and eastern people that do not want to go western, can expect to Q at KT or another central horde server (Emerald Dream, Illidan etc).
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Busyness job stripping sinetron, should be paid handsomely by the artist Nikita Willy with lack of sleep. Princess soap opera star was admitted exchanged an average of only slept for 5 hours a day.
"I still sleep five hours a day, and it has consequences. And it must be accepted because I did not play the soap opera and school activities. For school work as possible done on location." she said Nikita Willy moment found in Studio Persari, Ciganjur, South Jakarta, Saturday night.
But the hard work that paid off when Nikita Willy herself crowned as the most favorite artist Panasonic Award 2011.
"Everyone must have the best target for doing something. But definitely I was not satisfied with the existing one. But do not be arrogant, too," she said.
Meanwhile, when asked if she becomes the artist with the most expensive fee, after receiving this award, she claimed not to know, with the reason that all matters governed by the honor of her mother, who is also her manager.
"If I do not know so, because it is taking care of Mom. She knows everything well,"said Nikita Willy.
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Prescription drug abuse in the United States has spiked dramatically in the past few years, and Nassau County is no exception.
Illegal use of prescription drugs has become so widespread across the country that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have classified the abuse of these drugs as an epidemic. According to "A Response to the Epidemic of Prescription Drug Abuse," a fact sheet published in 2011 by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, prescription drugs are the second-most abused category of drugs in the country, following marijuana, and substance abuse treatment admissions by patients aged 12 and older increased more than fourfold from 1998 to 2008.
"Prescription drug abuse has reached epidemic proportion in the United States," said Charles Gennario, commissioner of the Rockville Centre Police Department and a member of the Nassau County Heroin Prevention Task Force. "Police executives have realized we are not going to arrest our way to ridding our society of this problem."
According to Gennario, prescription abuse is the fastest growing cause of death among middle-aged women, with a 400 percent increase in the last two years. Abuse is rapidly growing among youth as well, he said; 2,500 children between 12 and 17 experiment with prescription drug use for the first time each day.
"These are staggering statistics," he added.
Nassau County's figures don't look much better. Between 2012 and 2013, opiate and heroin arrests in the county increased by 16 and 20 percent respectively, according to charts provided by the Nassau County Police Department.
"I can tell you that we've seen a consistent escalation of prescription drug use over the last seven or eight years," said Art Rosenthal, executive director of Confide Counseling and Consultation Center in Rockville Centre, a non-for-profit dedicated to helping any individual, family, group, organization or institution overcome substance abuse or related problems. "We're seeing people come in here who are young, who are high school age, pre-college age kids. We see their families and we see the devastation it causes…. It's a very elusive, insidious type of illness."


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"There were and still are 'Deus Ex' stories I would like to tell. That story is not done for me," he says. "[For the sci-fi game] I sort of filed the serial numbers off. 'Deus Ex' was very much a game of the millennium." Spector says he actually tried to reacquire the rights to "Deus Ex" from Eidos, but was unsuccessful.Eidos is currently plugging away on Deus Ex 3 which is scheduled to release sometime next year.
Neither of the two games is dead. When it bought Junction Point in 2007, Disney also acquired the rights to the titles.
Bryn says: It's sad to think that Spector's experience and passion for the Deus Ex franchise won't factor into the next game in the series, but however, I'm still excited to see exactly how these other two projects aside from Disney Epic Mickey will pan out. Are you confident that Eidos will be able to make Deus Ex 3 a worthy entry? I suppose we'll just have to wait it out.


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Tel Aviv University was built on the ruins of the Palestinian village of Sheikh Muwannis. The university's faculty lounge is the village mukhtar's former home. At the corner of Arlosoroff and Ibn Gvirol streets, where the Century Tower skyscraper stands, a Palestinian village named Sommeil used to exist.
When activists from the Israeli group Zochrot set out into the heart of Tel Aviv's "Independence Day" festivities to educate revelers about these facts, they were accused of engaging in criminal activities.
As soon as the activists attempted to exit an office building to place small placards on Ibn Gvirol Street memorializing Palestinian villages destroyed during the Nakba, riot police surrounded them with metal gates, blocking them inside. The police informed them that they would be arrested if they attempted to interact with the crowds celebrating Israel's birth. "We will not allow you to enter the celebrations with your pictures or your fliers," a cop told Zochrot's Eitan Bronstein. "We will not allow this form of protest. It might disturb the peace so we won't allow it." Another police officer told Bronstein his placards represented "inciting material."
Though the police repression can hardly be excused, there is some reason to believe the Zochrot activists could have been subjected to harsh violence if they had been allowed to proceed with their action. While caged behind the metal gates, passersby surrounded the activists and held forth. "You're lucky the police is here. You should thank them," said a bald, beefy man who had to be led away.
Another hulking character who identified himself as a member of Unit 51 from the Israeli army's Golani Brigade paratrooper corps barked at the activists, "The only thing you are is a bunch of traitors. Every day people here are fighting… This is unbelievable. You are traitors and if we had the chance we would shoot you one by one. One by one we would shoot you…"
The demonstration concluded with police violently arresting three participants including one man for the crime of reading aloud the names of destroyed Palestinian villages.
Lia Tarachansky of the Real News Network filmed the melee. Her footage is below:
The repression of Zochrot's educational action was the street level manifestation of the campaign the Israeli government has waged to mute discussion of the Nakba and punish those who violate the code of silence. Last year, the government passed a law that allows the denial of state funding to NGO's that participate in Nakba commemorations. In 2009, it banned the use of the term "Nakba" in school textbooks. Limor Livnat, a right-wing Knesset member who co-sponsored the so-called Nakba Law and banned textbooks using the word during her term as Israel's Education Minister, declared that merely allowing students to learn about the mass expulsion of Palestinians during 1947 and 1948 would encourage them to work against the Jewish state.
The images of brawny riot cops — literal thought police — roughing up the small band of Zochrot members for publicly reading "inciting" facts recalled a passage from a widely publicized book about the importance of promoting democracy around the globe. "If a person cannot walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm," the book read, "then that person is living in a fear society, not a free society."
The book is called "The Case For Democracy." One of its authors, Natan Sharansky, was a former Soviet dissident who currently heads the Jewish Agency, a key arm of Israel's settlement enterprise. The other author is Ron Dermer, an advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu known as "Bibi's brain." Together, the two called for overthrowing repressive regimes around the world, inspiring former US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice to quote their so-called "Town Square Test," while they actively guided Israel's descent into authoritarianism.
How could Sharansky and Dermer fail to see the irony in their actions? As the scenes from Zochrot's demonstration illustrated, reflection is never an option in a fear society.


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World Traveler Resumes Adventures After Mitral Valve Surgery
Linda Rosenthal's heart and lungs were wearing out, but heart valve surgery at Mount Sinai Heart restored her health.
When Linda Rosenthal's primary-care physician diagnosed her with heart disease, the energetic world traveler couldn't believe what she had heard. As someone who had always been vigilant about her health, Linda, a 56-year-old New Jersey resident, was sure her doctor had misinterpreted her test results.
Linda had expected that someday her doctor would deliver bad news — but not this. Cancer ran in her family. She herself was a cancer survivor. She had developed asthma, too. But heart disease? It was never part of the picture.
Second Opinion Confirms Diagnosis
Linda sought out a second opinion, and her cardiologist concurred — Linda's mitral valve was failing. In fact, Linda's mitral valve hinges were swinging back and forth like saloon doors, he said. The malfunction was causing her ventricle to pump blood backwards, into the atrium, and was putting additional strain on her heart and lungs. Open-heart surgery, he said, was her only recourse.
Linda was shocked. During three weeks in Israel, island-hopping in Greece, and eating her way across Italy, she had experienced no symptoms. How could she possibly require open-heart surgery?
"That's impossible," Linda remembers thinking. "I was dumbfounded, absolutely floored."
Internet Research and a Friend's Suggestion Leads Linda to Mount Sinai
Linda began searching the Internet for more information. She was accustomed to searching the Web — but usually for information she could use on her trips. Never did she expect to research "mitral valve prolapse."
A friend of her daughter's recommended Mount Sinai Heart. David H. Adams, MD, Professor and Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Program Director of the Mount Sinai Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center, met with Linda and reviewed her options. Dr. Adams advised Linda to have her mitral valve repaired while she was strong and healthy, before her heart was irreversibly damaged.
Linda's tricuspid valve also needed repair, he said, and with Linda's consent, Dr. Adams fixed both valves during the same operation.
"The whole process was like a well-choreographed ballet," Linda says. "Everyone, from the people at the front desk to the ICU doctors, the nurses, and the rehab center staff, was so attentive to my every need.
After the Surgery, Life's Looking Good
Five days after her operation, Linda went home to her family and began an individualized postsurgical care program at Mount Sinai Heart Cardiac Health Program.
The operation turned out to be the best thing that could have happened to her, Linda says. "Open-heart surgery put me on the path to good health." With her heart operating more efficiently, she gained energy she never knew she had.
"I now exercise four days a week in the gym in my building, I have a personal trainer, and I'm registering to run a half-marathon," Linda says. "After all, I need to get in shape for next year's safari!"


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I have a new favourite tool for storing family tree data on the computer. WikiTree is an online tool that allows you to create a family tree and store pretty much any type of information imaginable. With a biography field for each person, the ability to create pages for anything, and privacy settings for each individual, it seems like a great way to collaborate with family on your family tree.
I've only been using WikiTree for about a month now, and I'm having trouble getting family members to join and help me out, but I did already get in touch with my 8th cousin once removed to talk about our shared Richard line.
Every time you add someone to your tree, you see suggestions of similar people that have already been added, so you can check whether your relative has already been added by someone else. This is where a slightly annoying feature comes in. If you want to add someone who already exists on WikiTree to your tree, you have to get on their Trusted List, which is up to the person who created that profile. This can be an irritating process. However, I think the pros outweigh this small con.
WikiTree is free, and I don't mean freemium! So finally I'm not being constantly asked to pay if I want to find all kinds of information about my ancestors (I'm looking at you, Ancestry.ca, Geni.com, etc.). WikiTree was clearly built with the free sharing of information in mind, which is one of the things I love about it.
Plus, they have neat widgets like the one you see above, and the one in the sidebar, which shows my recent contributions. Overall, I highly recommend WikiTree to any thrifty genealogist!


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Goss RV Debuts 'Executive Services' Program
May 8, 2013 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Goss RV Debuts 'Executive Services' Program
Motorhome rental firm Goss RV has introduced its Executive Services program, allowing clients to tailor their rental experience with a range of options and selections.
"Executive Services is all about options," said Ken Goss in a press release. "Our busy clients can select the services that best meet their needs. A client's perfect services combo might be a driveway delivery service and destination motor coach set up services, or the private driver services combo."
"Whether you'd like to drive one of our high-end luxury RVs yourself, have a driver, or have it delivered to your preferred location, we take care of the logistics so you don't have to worry about that," explains Jer Goss, noting that no special license is required if the customer wants to do the driving.
For customers that prefer to arrange for a driver, there are two options in the Private Driver Services category. One option is that a Goss representative will pick up a customer and handle all the driving. Or, he can act as a co-pilot and guide during the trip, offering RV "pro-level" handling techniques.
While many travelers request a Goss Luxury RV to be delivered right to their driveway at the start of one of their trips, Ken Goss notes that corporate executives may want to touch base with them to do some quick business event planning. "If it's a corporate event, where do they need the coach and where are they going," Ken says. "To match the right coach to the specific client requires asking the right questions."
For others, the set-up services team can deliver a coach to your destination of choice, where it will be waiting for you. From a luxury RV resort or campground, a NASCAR race or other sports venue, to a performer's entertainment venue or convention center, the service team can bring the coach to a destination, even if it's at the last minute. "Sometimes, people assume it is too late to arrange the perfect trip. When in doubt, give us a call. Since we have so many locations, we sometimes have excellent coaches available at the last second," adds Goss.
For more information call (770) 938-2035 or visit http://www.gossrv.com.


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Volume 18 Issue 20 | October 07 - 13, 2005
Photo by Rachel Breitman
A new James Dean biography is based upon conversations with the late actor. Above, author Patricia Leone stands beside her man.
Some people see dead people; she talks to James Dean
By Rachel Breitman
When Patricia A. Leone decided to write a memoir from the point of view of the late James Dean, she didnt go to the library for her research. Instead, she sought answers from the only one who knew the truth about the short life of the iconic rebel: his ghost.
Moviemaker, director, and president of the architectural and design firm Dakota Consulting, Leone, 54, wrote a play about Dean in 1983 when she was living in Denver, Colorado that later ran off-Broadway. While writing the script of James Dean: A Dress Rehearsal, she began to feel the presence of the late star, and saw him hanging around the theater.
Leone, who considers herself a metaphysician and white witch, decided to put her magical skills to the test. After training with Laurie Cabot, the official witch of Salem, Massachusetts, she believed that she was ready to consciously channel Deans spirit to tell his life story. The result is James Dean: The Lost Memoirs, which was released right in time for the 50th anniversary of Deans fatal, head-on collision with another car on a California racetrack on September 30th, 1955. He was only 24.
Though Leone describes childhood experiences of astrotraveling, or going into a meditative state that allowed her to leave her body and journey to other parts of the earth, this was the first time she deliberately channeled a spirit from the past.
He chose me, Leone said of the late actor, who she believes had more to tell people about his life, and could not rest until her book was finished. For instance, of the much-debated cause of his car crash, she says, he was between the worlds. He was very heartbroken about Pier Angeli, and his breakup with her. It isnt clear to me if he made the decision to die.
Leone also discovered she shared some things in common with the former bad boy celeb. There were a lot of parallels between him and myself such as our love for similar cars, like Porsches and MGs. The petite blond scribe, who grew up in Mt. Vernon, New York, now keeps many pictures of the late actor in the Meatpacking District office of her architectural firm.
During her James Dean channeling sessions, Leone had visions of previously undisclosed information about the star, including the revelation of early homosexual encounters with a man he called The Reverend. She says Dean was a tortured soul who felt anger at being used and abused by Hollywood and a hunger for true romantic connection. He found it briefly with Angeli, the Italian film starlet that he was introduced to by Paul Newman.
Leones book is written in a childish prose, with numerous capitalized sentences and exclamation points. Some pages are decorated with dark poetry and drawings inspired by the periods Leone spent in a state of Alpha, using crystals, candles and counting to better open herself to Deans spirit.
Les Sussman, who is Leones publicist, tape recorded many of her channeling sessions. Though he was at first skeptical of her ability to conjure up the ghost, he started to believe her after watching the experience with his own eyes.
I was astounded at how she would take a few minutes and enter an altered state of consciousness, said Sussman. He recalled noticeable changes in Leones voice, posture, and gestures.
The most startling moment was when Dean was talking about his love of motorcycles, remembered Sussman. At just about the same time the flame on the candle sort of torched up, and the sound of a motorcycle roared through the office. Was it a motorcycle from the street? I dont know. It sounded more like it came from inside the room than from outside.
Morgana SidheRaven, owner of the East Village Wiccan store Morganas Chamber, said the ability to see and hear the dead is not uncommon.
I dont channel, but I do speak to spirits, said SidheRaven, who teaches classes on religion and candlemaking. I hear them and I talk to them, but I am not psychic. I dont think it is as rare as people are lead to believe.
Nor is it rare for Dean fans to describe having experiences with the late star after his death.
Another channeler? Egads, said Sandra Weinhardt, whose website www.deaners.net is a meeting ground for aficionados of James Dean. There are also women to whom Jimmy comes in their sleep to make love to them, she added. Or maybe you will want to include some bits from normal people! Please dont make all Dean fans out to be strange.
Leone is aware that channeling is a concept that many consumers of her book might find odd. She feels in many ways that this novel is her coming out as a metaphysician to the more corporate, architectural world in which she works. But she believes that whatever consequences she may experience professionally from the publication of her work, it is worthwhile to help Deans soul find peace.
When he leaves, it is very hard on me. Now, theres quietness, Leone said. She isnt sure if Dean will move on for good, and she has yet to channel anyone else. For now, her plans for the future include the renovation of 19 units in the Bahamas, a documentary on women millionaires, and a fictional movie about witchcraft and love in Manhattan called Potions.
I live in a world of magic, creating my business, my car, my Bahamas deal, said Leone. This is Gods dance, I just follow.
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If there were an Emmy for Most Disturbingly Apt Title of Series,
"Save me" is certainly the phrase that surges to a critic's mind moments into the ludicrous machinations of the pilot. It is easily imagined in thought-bubble form above the head of the show's star, Ann Heche.
"Save Me": A review of the NBC comedy "Save Me" in the May 23 Calendar section misspelled star Anne Heche's first name as Ann. —
More important, it is becoming the network's not so subconscious mantra. Not only did
In fact, with Heche on the marquee, "Save Me" was originally envisioned as a Big Fall Show. Then, apparently, someone with sense actually watched it and off it went to quick summer burn-off. (Insert sizzling sound effects here.)
The action opens, in full voice-over, with suburban housewife/drunken mess Beth (Heche) standing over her sleeping husband with a hammer in her hand and murder on her mind. He's cheating on her, but she knows she deserves it.
So she drops the blunt instrument and stumbles to the kitchen where, between obligatory pulls on a beer bottle, she shoves a strangely large sandwich in her mouth. She begins choking, falls to the floor, dies.
If only. Instead, next morning finds her alive and well and chock-full of epiphany — apparently she was saved via divine intervention and in return God intends to use her as a prophet. God, apparently, being Dr. Ruth. (In the pilot, one of Beth's heaven-sent directives involves women using sex to please and hold onto their men.)
It really is that awful. And it absolutely need not have been.
Heche is an engaging comedian. Brittle and high-strung, but flexible enough to show a little soul when necessary. As her perplexed, but still-caring husband,
Even creator John Scott Shepherd's premise, while not dazzling, is not terrible either. A broken soul attempting humorous reclamation has fueled many a good comedy, including most recently HBO's excellent and inventive
The problem is not "Save Me's" many silly stereotypes or even the idea that alcoholism can be cured, literally, overnight. No, the problem comes when you drag God into it.
Not because God is too sacred for TV or mentioning him/her will turn off all the blue-state atheists. The almighty, as a plot point, simply adds too much pressure than this slight comedy can bear.
While every prophet need not establish a new religion or save the world, surely the supreme being has other things to think about besides the bedroom habits of Beth and her snippy neighbors.
And if God doesn't, I certainly do.
When: 8 and 8:30 p.m. Thursday
Rating: TV-PG-DL (may be unsuitable for young children with advisories for suggestive dialogue and coarse language)