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- n. A type of dark grey Etruscan terracotta pottery
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In archaeology, a kind of ancient Tuscan pottery of a uniform black color, and neither glazed nor painted.
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Self-coloured wares still occur, and are sometimes elegant ( 'bucchero' ware); but the improved furnaces now permit general use of light-coloured clays, suited to painted decoration.
Abydos vases of black hand-burnished ware, which are very closely allied, both inform and colour, to the primitive 'bucchero' discovered immediately above the Neolithic deposit in the West Court at Knossos; and he has suggested that, as the pottery is not Egyptian in style, it may have been imported from Crete.
Among the grave goods were Etruscan bronze bowls, and Etruscan bucchero and Sabine-Faliscan pottery.
The best Umbrian souvenirs, to my mind (genuine bucchero being hard to find and on the expensive side), are little bottles of chopped truffles in oil, which you can get at Carraro, the best salumeria in Orvieto.
Museum, behind the cathedral in Orvieto, which has a superb collection of bucchero, or lustrous black Etruscan pottery.
Its remains yielded such objects as stone axes and flint knives, together with the black, hand-made, polished pottery, known as 'bucchero,' which is characteristic of
The primitive 'bucchero,' still surviving alongside of the painted pottery, is very closely related to the imported vases found by Petrie in First Dynasty tombs at
On the eastern slope of the hill, in a deposit of pale clay, were found fragments of the black, hand-made, polished pottery, known as 'bucchero,' characteristic of neolithic sites, some of it, as usual, decorated with incised patterns filled in with white.


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Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson at the weekend spoke on the crisis rocking the Nigerian Governors' Forum (NGF), saying that certain members have converted it into a manipulative trade union.
He also said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has the right to form its governors' forum, stressing that it is in tune with democracy.
Dickson opposed moves by certain elements in the ruling party to adorn the cap of internal opposition leaders, urging them to either imbibe party discipline or move out. The governor also said the highest office in the land deserved the respect of the party members and Nigerians.
Dickson spoke with reporters in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, on the activities of his administration, the PDP crisis and the friction in the Governors' Forum.
He said: "The Governors' Forum is primarily a mechanism for peer review of governors who are equal. You don't need to be a member of the Nigerian Governors' Forum to be a governor. It is just like your association, the NUJ. It is just a platform for peer review. It is a platform for collaborating with the Federal Government on the critical issues of development, national security and other challenges that come up.
"The Governors' Forum is not and should not be a platform for the control of the national politics. As governors, we are not elected to run the country. We are governors elected to manage our states. The Governors' Forum cannot be allowed to go on as a trade union. What is happening is that people are taking the advantage of the developments and discontent in the system, to manipulate it to suit their individual whims and caprices. But what is wrong is wrong.
'Look at the United States Governors' Forum, which we copied, you don't see the Governors' Forum there telling President Barack Obama what he should do and what he should not. We are provincial players because our mandate is to lead our states, not to run the federation. Those who have the mandate to run the federation are the President, the Vice President, the elected members of the National Assembly, the political leadership of the various parties. Those are the people that have the platform to do that".
Dickson said, if certain issues are agitating the minds of the governors, they can use some formal and informal avenues, including the National Economic Council to ventilate their views and grievances, instead of using the NGF to play politics.
He pointed out that the past PDP governors who chaired the NGF attempted to use the platform to play national politics. The governor justified the formation of the PDP Governors' Forum, saying that it is necessary.
Urging the PDP members to imbibe party discipline, he said: "If you are in a party, you must play according to the rules of the party or get out".
Dickson said any PDP member who is not useful to the ruling party may not be useful to another party, if he defects from the PDP.
He said the seasoned and experienced opposition leaders would always separate the wheat from the chaff, adding that they can easily isolate defectors whose ideas and principles tally with their own from political charlatans.
The governor reviewed the reforms embarked upon by his administration, pointing out that the anti-ghost workers war has started yielding dividends. Dickson said that the monthly wage bill of N6.8b has come down to N3.8b.


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TGM Amplifier ?
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My first thread in this forum... how to begin
I want to build an amplifier and know how it works. I have never done this before but I do enjoy starting something new, learning and researching and designing. Eventually building. But I can't start with a plan that will last longer than a few weeks in case I run out of steam or get distracting by the summer... I'm looking for some encouragement from the forum to pull me through ;-)
My excuse is that I'm making a Home Theatre system (DIY HT speakers done already) so I need 5 channels and it has to be musical. I want the future option to bridge channels to allow drive my stereo speakers too. I was tempted to buy AKSA 55 but it's no longer for sale and you can't build it yourself anymore - only fully assembled. Hugh was very kind about it. I have started from AKSA-like schematics found in this forum - I understand they are not the 'real' ones but they are at least in the public domain.
So I read many posts in this forum and my interest settled clearly on a discrete SS amp (although very tempted by Susan Parker Zeus amplifier). My interest quickly drawn to the GEM, DX, AKSA bootstrap family. I'm trying to understand how they work, last week I read about p-n junctions, this week about bootstrapping, long-tailed pairs and Miller capacitance. If I copy one of these excellent amplifier designs I can benefit from all that has gone before, but it will not be mine and that will make me lazy to understanding how they work.
I have to learn about design and see if you guys have the patience to go over old ground again with yet another design that looks so very familiar. I will build it; first step is to order parts, beg/borrow a dual bench supply (or I have to build it) and scope.
Here is the final incarnation of the amp, starts at post 349, with photos at post 354
Final schematic is attached at post 356
I dont think c4b is required.
Not quite sure you need 100R resistors in paralell with fuses.
I would have used a constant current cct in series with the VAS.
The bias cct seems a bit odd to me.
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What's up. bigun... Sorry to say, that won't work.. but
(attached) is as close to your schema that will.
1. not enough current across T1/2 , 10k for R3 solved that.
(1.4ma per device)
2 . no degeneration on T1/2 .. too much gain , also R9/1
too high. ( amp produced a square wave with 1v input).
3. I used 100pF for C5 (safe) and r15 way too low.. 100R
is better.
Many refinements can be added to this classic topology
like a constant current source for the input pair,
negative feedback compensation, input RC filter...etc.
doesn't work?
Thanks very much for taking the trouble to look at this OS. These are just the things I want to learn, but I'm worried I'm going to be sent off to buy a big book on the topic shortly, so let me ask a question...
My aim is to build something as simple (in terms of part count) as the ASKA 55 so I started with a schematic similar to it (the real one being unavailable). So I assume that after some learning and refining of the schematic I then build something on proto-board and play with it to see what affects it's performance (most importantly by listening to it). If I can get to a decent result (for me this means smooth hi frequencies) like this then I'll be happy. How would you compare this approach with the option of building the DX (proven design) where I don't have to ask a dozen questions on this forum on a daily basis and then playing with the prototype of that as an alternative way to reach my goal ??
By the way - why do you want separate emitter resistors on the LTP ?
You also recommended different devices from AKSA - is this because you have them set up in your modelling software or because they are easier to obtain ?
Many thanks...
not at 35v..
you should download...
build your own..
of components that just will not work , real or simulated.
a mje340/bd139/ or the 2sc XXX have similar characteristics,
but to make a ideal circuit you would have to choose
one of them (especially for main VAS).
OR , as others suggest, jusy build it, burn many transistors,
and learn "the hard way"...
To explain fully, a simulated circuit will just about always
work.. without "blowing up" , but , how it will sound
cannot be fortold by just simulation.
It's a sunny morning and I have a week off work, time to 'go to amplifier school' :D
being an iMac person I can't use that spice software but I've found something that looks to be equivalent at http://www.macspice.com/ and the I'll start to look at this LTP section further. I had drawn it with only 0.5mA running through and I don't know why this is bad (yikes). Also, I am to learn from reading about SS vs tubes that the secrets are in the distortion characteristics. There are people who say even order harmonics are better than odd and others who say this is nonsense, but either way I should like to learn how the design can impact distortion at some point - i.e. what happens when the design is less 'ideal'.
The extra bootstrap capacitor was shown that way as I have read it is a 'known improvement' to the AKSA amplifier, using special high-quality Blackgate capacitors. Perhaps not the starting point for me - wait until I have something running before I try this. The resistors with the fuses have a purpose which I can't remember ! - there's a post discussing this somewhere between Pavel and AKSA...
You'll want to look at the device specs to see where (current draw wise) it will operate best. For the 2N5401 it's in the range of 2-10mA. You need to keep an eye on dissipation too, not to run the device too hot. 3-4mA at your rails would be fine.
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Macspice should work good,BG.
just find the .models and copy/paste.
I did finish your amp.. added a current source.
with aksa's 22p ..the amp has a very good loop gain response
(won't oscillate) with 10-22R for the 2 tail resistors (t1/2)
you have enough total open loop gain 45db+
and 27k for input and feedback give enough closed loop gain.
(attached) does very well and should also sound nice. :)
edit: you might want to increase C3 (22u) to 100u,
less offset at output.
It's amazing how helpful you guys are :)
MacSpice3f5 - installed
But the kids are finally changing out of their PJ's so will have to delay for a couple of hours for family brunch and tiling work in the basement...
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This is a bibliographic post about Just So Stories. Useful and nicely illustrated.
On the one hand, there is no reason to fuss over getting an edition of Just So Stories that uses Kipling's illustrations. The stories have been published along with other people's illustrations since they first appeared in English magazines. A fine recent example is The Complete Just So Stories (1993) which features Isabelle Brent's colorful pictures which suggest mixtures of Persian miniature painting with African and other patterns. More at Brent's website.
On the other hand, no one is likely to out-weird the amateur Kipling:
This is the picture of the Animal that came out of the sea and ate up all the food that Suleiman-bin-Daoud had made ready for all the animals in all the world. He was really quite a nice Animal, and his Mummy was very fond of him and of his twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine other brothers that lived at the bottom of the sea. You know that he was the smallest of them all, and so his name was Small Porgies… I don't know the names of the ships. That is all there is in that picture. ("The Butterfly that Stamped")
That is part of the picture's caption, which reveals the number one reason to make sure you have selected an edition with Kipling illustrations – they are accompanied by Kipling text, good text, strange text. I suppose much of the strangeness. which is mild, comes from the implicit responses to the infant auditor, the kind of person who asks the name of the sea monster, and whether the monster ate the ships (no), and the names of the ships ("I don't know"), and on to the exhaustion of one party or the other.
Just once Kipling's illustration is so good that he has trouble joking about it.
That is from the great "The Cat that Walked by Himself," a fable that plausibly explains why cats are so bad and are likely to remain so. My own cats, when I tried to discuss the underlying ideas of the story with them, ignored me, exactly as predicted by the tale. Incidentally, "The Cat that Walked by Himself" belongs on any list of Housekeeping Fiction. I warned that this was a bibliographic post.
The Brent collection, or some similar supplement, is useful not just for the illustrations but because the 1902 edition of the book is missing two Just So stories, one because it was not written until a couple of decades later, and another because it was apparently too sad. The daughter for whom Kipling conjured up the Just So fables died of pneumonia when she was only six.
Each story is accompanied by a poem. One of them obliquely refers to the daughter's death. It comes after "How the Alphabet Was Made," in which a father and daughter invent the alphabet from first principles, by which I mean analogy and whimsy. Tegumai is the father, Taffy the daughter:
But as the faithful years return
And hearts unwounded sing again,
Comes Taffy dancing through the fern
To lead the Surrey spring again.
Her brows are bound with bracken-fronds,
And golden elf-locks fly above;
Her eyes are bright as diamonds
And bluer than the skies above.
In moccasins and deer-skin cloak,
Unfearing, free and fair she flits,
And lights her little damp-wood smoke
To show her Daddy where she flits.
For far--oh, very far behind,
So far she cannot call to him,
Comes Tegumai alone to find
The daughter that was all to him.
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With a District Attorney trying to please voters, and NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher living with an Assistant DA, it's just their luck that she and her partner, J.J. Rogan, are asked to look at an old case from a fresh angle. But, it's our good luck that Alafair Burke decided to write a terrific police procedural, All Day and a Night.
Anthony Amaro had been convicted of killing one woman twenty years earlier, but the police were convinced he was a serial killer. Now, when psychotherapist Helen Brunswick is murdered in her office, there are similarities to Amaro's methods. When, the Distract Attorney receives a letter with details of Brunswick's death, he's forced to ask the police to take another look at the murders. Suddenly, Amaro has a high-profile defense attorney who even recruits another lawyer, the half-sister of a victim.
Carrie Blank always thought her half-sister, Donna, was different from Amaro's other prostitute victims. Now, she'll have the chance to work with Linda Moreland to prove Amaro didn't kill her sister. She may want to get Amaro out of prison, but Ellie and Rogan are determined to find a killer, if it's Amaro or another suspect the NYPD and the Utica police department overlooked twenty years earlier. Facing a court deadline, Hatcher and Rogan find themselves one step behind a media-savvy defense attorney.
All Day and a Night is another successful crime novel from Burke, a master storyteller. It's a fast-paced story that keeps police and readers moving quickly to find answers. Burke skillfully blends police procedures, legal maneuvers, and fascinating characters in one of the strongest books in this series.
Alafair Burke's website is www.alafairburke.com. She can also be found at www.twitter.com/alafairburke and www.facebook.com/alafairburkebooks
All Day and a Night by Alafair Burke. HarperCollins. 2014. ISBN 9780062208385 (hardcover), 352p.
FTC Full Disclosure - I picked up a copy at Book Expo America, and reviewed the book as part of a book tour.
Tuesday, July 08, 2014
All Day and a Night by Alafair Burke
Labels: Alafair Burke, New York, New York City, NYPD, police procedurals, Serial Killers
4 comments:
- Irene McKenna said...
This novel sounds terrific! Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
- Mason Canyon said...
This does sound like a fascinating book. I just received it in audio and can't wait to start listening. Your review peaked my interest even more.
- Lesa said...
My pleasure! I hope you both enjoy it.
- Heather J @ TLC Book Tours said...
I love it when a series keeps getting better and better!
Thanks for being on the tour.
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Basecamp recently announced a feature that helps users express themselves more. The new Profile Cards allow people to express their status with a little personality. Busy people usually want to describe what they are currently working on. Sometimes, they want to announce to the rest of the team they are out of the office. The web-based PM tool now has a creative way in providing this information. Also, the latest API is now available for interested third-party integrators. If you need a great extension to Basecamp, we recommend you use our own tool Bridge24 for Basecamp
Unexpected Job Titles
The team at Basecamp noticed an interesting trend since last year. Apparently, the Job title field is being used in a more creative way. The field is supposed to contain information that describes a member's official position or responsibility. For instance, a member's Job title could be iOS Designer or Customer Support Manager. Instead, users put in more colorful descriptions such as Respectable Citizen or Quiet Optimist. Moreover, some are putting in what projects they are currently working on, out-of-office messages and even graphics.
New Profile Cards
The new Basecamp 3 Profile Cards is a reaction to the reality of how users are using the Job title field. This somewhat requested feature is now active and available. Users can click or tap a person's avatar to display his or her Profile Card. The card displays the following information:
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Indeed, users now have a place to write about that project status, funny quote, vacation schedule and more.
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Accessing the Profile Card is easy. Users should click their avatar in the upper corner of the screen. The My Profile page will appear where they can change their avatar and enter other information. This will also display the Name field, Title, Short bio or current status, and email address. They can also set their login option and time zone. All in all, users now have a quick and useful way to get to know their coworkers. In turn, they can also let others know themselves in simple but expressive way.
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What have I been up to? April 2017
Welcome to May! Hopefully the start of this new month means that there's many sunny days ahead… But in the meantime, a "quick" look back at April! I gave a nerve-wracking presentation at the Trees, People and the Built Environment conference on the 5th, and rolled my ankle leaving the venue (the University of Birmingham) … More What have I been up to? April 2017


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Many mistakenly believe California has the most tenant protection laws and most liberal rental policies in the country. There are a few states on the east coast that are far more tenant friendly, but on the west coast that prize goes to the State of Washington. If legislatures are looking for more laws to make managing properties more difficult, they may want to entertain the laws that Spokane, Washington is currently considering. Proposition 10 was soundly defeated, and the attempt to repeal Costa-Hawkins, which could have included single family homes and condominiums in the rent control pool, and now I doubt there will be another statewide attempt to push rent control. Local cities may still pursue rent control as it is currently configured, meaning it will apply to multi-unit buildings older than 1994, but the legislature will probably implement measures that provide more benefits to tenants. There are no shortage of options, and here is some laws and measures being bandied about in Spokane: Continue Reading
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How Long Should a Lease Be?
We are often asked, "how long a lease should I have with my tenant?". Some owners want a month-to-month because they can have possession of their property with a only a 30-day (if they have been there less than 12 months) or 60-day (more than 1 year) notice. Others think a 2 or 3 year contract is best because they don't have to worry about a renewal or finding another tenant in a year. Here is our policy (even though everything is negotiable): we prefer contracts that are 9 to 15 months in length that expire February through September.
Pot is Legal, but is it Allowable in Your Rental?
Proposition 64 legalized the recreational use of marijuana. As of January 1, 2017, people 21 years of age and older may possess, process, transport, purchase, obtain or give away up to 28.5 grams of non-concentrated cannabis. They may also plant, cultivate, harvest and process up to 6 living plants. Even though people have the right to store cannabis within their personal property, you as the owner has the right to prohibit the use, cultivation or possession in your rental unit.
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As a matter of company policy, we run a criminal background check on all applicants. Once we have done due diligence on an applicant, we ask they either provide a criminal background check or pay for one through our website, so we can include this in our decision making. What type of criminal activity would raise a red flag and give us cause for concern?
Should the Tenant have the Owner's Contact Information?
When we execute a contract for our owners, we still leave their email information for the tenant to have, but we never provide their mailing address or their phone number. This is done intentionally. Owners hire us to be the buffer with their tenants and handle the day to day management. It would be tempting for tenants to go directly to owners with pleas of mercy if they can't make the lease payment for that month, or requests of improvements to the unit which the owner is not obligated to make. They hire us, and pay us, to manage their property and free them from this worry. So why do we leave their email address?
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Generally, self-managing owners keep the rent for their rental properties below market rents. The reason is either intentional, the owner keeps the rent low to retain the tenants, or unintentional, the owner is either friends with the tenant, or intimidated by them, and does not even try to keep up with market rents. If you don't raise your rents to keep pace with the market, we find it has 2 consequences: the cost of goods and services increases, and you lose money; or the tenant gets used a fixed rent, and balks when you, or your property management company, finally increases the rent to the market value.
Why Do Property Management Companies All Charge Different Rates?
If you are looking for professional property management you may have experienced the confusing world of property management pricing. Unlike real estate, no two companies charge the same fees in the same manner. It can be time consuming and frustrating just to learn the facts about the fees. Why is that? The simple answer is, "It shouldn't be that way.", but I do have some guesses why it is:
The Renters Insurance Dilemma
Many owners want the tenant to obtain "renters insurance". This type of insurance will generally insure two areas: the tenant's personal property if it is stolen or destroyed, and provides liability insurance. Liability coverage protects a tenant if they are found legally responsible for injuries to other people or damage to the property. It may also cover for additional living expenses such as hotel bills and food should a tenant be unable to live in the property.
When is "Normal Wear and Tear", Not?
As you may be aware, a tenant is entitled to "normal wear and tear" or your rental. But the adjective "normal" can be problematic. What is normal to the tenant may be excessive to a property management company or owner. When deciding whether to deduct damages out of a tenant's security deposit, here is what we consider:
2017 Predictions
It is difficult to make predictions because they are often wrong and if I knew what the future held I wouldn't be typing this blog, I would be sipping mai tais poolside in Maui. But nothing ventured, nothing gained, so I will make some predictions for the coming year.
The Election of 2016 and Property Management
To most of the pundits' surprise, Donald Trump won the presidential election and at least some of the policies and promises of his campaign will come to fruition. More importantly for California, the democrats have won a super majority in both the Assembly and Senate (along with holding the Governorship) and can pass any tax or ballot proposition without a single republican vote. What does this election mean for real estate and property management?
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Man jailed for stabbing footballer Calum Davenport
A man has been jailed for six years for a knife attack on a Premier League footballer at his mother's home in Bedfordshire.
Worrell Whitehurst, from Derby, stabbed former West Ham player Calum Davenport repeatedly in the legs in Bedford last August, Luton Crown Court heard.
The 27-year-old had admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
Whitehurst also admitted a charge of unlawfully wounding Mr Davenport's mother, Kim Stupple.
The court heard Whitehurst attacked the 27-year-old player on 22 August after Mr Davenport insulted him during an argument with his sister Cara Davenport, Whitehurst's girlfriend.
Earlier this month Mr Davenport was cleared of head-butting his sister during the argument in which he allegedly called her a "form of cancer".
It was claimed he had attacked his 28-year-old sister, who was pregnant at the time, after hearing that she was carrying her second child.
Mr Davenport was acquitted of one charge of actual bodily harm at Luton Crown Court.
On Monday Judge Michael Kay said the behaviour of both Mr Davenport and his father Curtis Davenport, who was also involved in the argument, was "deplorable".
He said: "Yet again, sadly, a footballer is involved in activity which shows that he does not begin to understand that his privileged life ought to be accompanied by some appreciation of the fact that he is a role model for young people and ought to behave appropriately."
When Whitehurst returned home and saw a mark on his girlfriend's face, he armed himself with a kitchen knife, saying: "I'm going to make sure he (Mr Davenport) doesn't play football again."
Prosecutor Natalie Carter said Whitehurst attacked the footballer, injuring his mother in the process.
She told the court Mr Davenport was stabbed about eight times in the legs.
He lost half of the blood in his body and spent two days in intensive care, followed by a further month in hospital.
The court heard he had recovered now and was back in training.
Mr Davenport's contract with West Ham was terminated in March.


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So you might have heard the term 'functional medicine' floating around the Twittersphere lately (and touted on Celebrity TV shows as the next medical breakthrough). As a conscious consumer, you're probably skeptical about trends and endorsements, especially in the realm of science and medicine (I KNEW the magical qualities of green coffee beans was just a myth, Dr. Oz!). But before you dismiss the practice, I want you to know that Functional Medicine is more than a buzzword or a passing health fad, it's a mental shift aimed at healing humans rather than treating symptoms. Here's what I have learned after 2 years of research on the subject, we'll have our experts weigh in with their opinions in the near future.
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Functional Medicine is a 21st century lifesaver. And why do I say 21st century lifesaver, exactly? Because, according to the Institute for Functional Medicine, the practice replaces the ineffective and outdated acute-care models from the 20th century with a holistic, patient-oriented approach to those suffering from illnesses unique to the 21st century (those being chronic illnesses…which I'll get to in a sec).
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The slouchy posture or uncrossed legs looks bad in a picture and moreover they make you look out of shape too.
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The Olympics were born in ancient Greece, and the modern Olympic movement was reborn in Athens in 1896. But when Athens sought to host the summer Games again for the 1996 centennial, it found itself blocked. The international community doubted the city's capacity to fund, organize, and host the kind of mega-event that today's Olympic spectacles have become. Even after Athens won the bid to host the 2004 Games, it found the International Olympic Committee, global journalists, and even its own public full of doubts - and even ready to give the Games to another city unless the Athens organizers could show results.
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Scary Movies X: The return of the Film Society of Lincoln Center horror film festival
Lincoln Center and horror movies? The combination sounds incongruous, yet this week marks the 10th annual Film Society of Lincoln Center "Scary Movies" Festival, so the hallowed NYC arts institution must be doing something right. The intense, seven-day event begins Friday, July 14 and runs through Thursday, July 20. Dinner jackets are not required--unless you happen to be wearing clown makeup.
Whether "Scary Movies X" was intentionally programmed this way or not, the mere presence of such a "disreputable" genre as horror at the esteemed Walter Reade Theater confers legitimacy to the types of films that have been trashed by establishment critics over the years while staying popular with the masses—even though a surprising number of fans find horror a "guilty pleasure," not Oscar-worthy or artistically significant.
What so many have forgotten is that horror films have remained among the most everlasting works of the silent era—from the seminal The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) to the best vampire movie ever, Nosferatu (1922), to the original and very elaborate The Phantom of the Opera (1925). The lower-budget formulas of the last few decades may have malformed the aesthetic bar, but fortunately there seems to be a growing appreciation of the genre, thanks to perceptive critics (notably my Film Journal colleague Maitland McDonagh) and a handful of new filmmakers on the scene, including those in this very festival.
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Opening night's Terrifier (Friday at 7:30 p.m.), in its New York premiere, lives up to its title and is one of the true highlights of the festival. Director Damien Leone's follow-up to his feature debut, All Hallows' Eve (2013), again stars Art the Clown (played by David Howard Thornton with sadistic relish), an extra-frightening version of the villain from the Saw series or anything ever dreamed up by Wes Craven—a killer clown without a backstory or sense of reason behind his creatively savage actions. Yes, the other characters are ones you have seen before, and the narrative is not especially original. Yet there is an exceptional quality to Leone's pastiche of horror traditions and tropes, from those German Expressionist silents mentioned above to Italian Giallo to the contemporary trend of torture porn. Stick around afterwards for a Q&A with Leone and several cast members, then a "Cake, Clowns & Corpses" costume party!
Saturday's lineup (7/15) starts at 1 p.m. with two back-to-back 1980s cult favorites: J. Lee Thompson's Happy Birthday to Me (1981) and Ed Hunt's Bloody Birthday (1981), the first a killer-on-the-loose-at-a-private-academy story (with Melissa Sue Anderson as our obligatory student heroine) and the second a "slasher" update of Children of the Damned (1964), The Omen (1976) and all other prior evil-tot movies.
At 5 p.m., the new films begin with the U.S. premiere of The Limehouse Golem, Juan Carlos Medina's lavish take on Gothic murder mysteries, set in Victorian London and featuring an unseen Jack the Ripper character. At 7:15 p.m., a more disturbing Australian import follows: Killing Ground, Damien Power's debut feature about a camping couple who run into two sadistic killers (Power stays for a Q&A after the screening). Finally, at 9:30 p.m., the Indian film Phobia, in its North American premiere, tells a story of a young woman's slow descent into madness after a vicious attack. With what sounds like at least a nod to Satyajit Ray's Devi (1960) or Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965),director Pawan Kripalani also reworks the "agoraphobic woman alone" suspense drama.
Sunday (7/16) begins at 1:00 p.m. with two campy cult classics. First is George McCowan's Frogs (1972), one of the most satisfying animal takeover films of the '70s, featuring Ray Milland as a wealthy curmudgeon bent on ridding his decaying Florida estate of its slimy creatures—and getting his just deserts in the process. Sam Elliott, in an early screen role, plays a heroic houseguest. Then, at 3 p.m., William Fruet's Killer Party (1986) will keep you in your seats, combining a sorority-house slasher thriller with a demonic possession subplot.
Starting at 5 p.m., the two new films mix things up following the day program. With no relation to the 2016 Kevin Bacon feature of the same name, The Darkness, in its New York premiere, is a slow-moving, ambiguous film set in a post-apocalyptic forest where a menacing darkness prevails, forcing a close-knit but troubled family into hiding. Mexican-born director Daniel Castro Zimbrón creates an atmospheric piece that is less suspenseful but more pensive than a lot of the films in the series—with superb cinematography (by Diego García) and standout performances by the two child actors, Aliocha Sotnikoff and Camila Robertson Glennie, in highly demanding roles.
At 7 p.m., Jamie Patterson's Caught makes its North American premiere. This much-anticipated British thriller about the meeting of two very different couples at a country home mashes up Paul Schrader's The Comfort of Strangers (1990) and Polanski's Carnage (2011). Despite some good performances and Patterson's intelligent, economical use of space, Caught becomes increasingly unpleasant without the compensating philosophical payoff of Michael Haneke's similar, superior Funny Games (1997). A Q&A with Patterson and two cast members, Mickey Sumner and Christina O'Shea-Daly, follows the screening.
Finally, at 9 p.m., the New York premiere of Jon Ford's Offensive caps the night with a Straw Dogs-type narrative that strains too much for relevance by drawing parallels between Europe's Fascist past and its neo-Fascist present. Offensive is pure revenge melodrama, as opposed to more traditional horror, yet the sheer bloodiness of its climactic vengeance makes it more viscerally satisfying than Caught. At least it looks like it belongs in the festival. By the way, both films could have been retitled Get Out.
On Monday, July 17, two comedy-horror films directed by actor Bob Balaban fill the bill. First, at 7 p.m., the celebrated cult picture Parents (1989), a 1950s-era suburban nightmare told from a little boy's point of view; and second, at 9:30 p.m., the lesser-known My Boyfriend's Back (1993), a kind of Carrie parody about a teenager's quest to take the girl of his dreams to the prom, even if it means dying in the process. Appearing in person, Balaban takes questions after Parents and will introduce My Boyfriend's Back.
Tuesday, July 18 starts at 7 p.m. with Chris Pecker's Better Watch Out, another Australian entry and New York premiere, blending babysitter and home intruder scares with holiday chills and revising at least two of the most common types of horror films since the 1980s. (Speaking of Australian horror, and since IFC Midnight is sponsoring "Scary Movies X," New York's IFC Center has already started its own festival, "To Hell and Outback," lasting until September 30 and showcasing classics and little-known efforts from Down Under, including Ted Kotcheff's recently rediscovered must-see Wake In Fright from 1971, Peter Weir's eerie Picnic at Hanging Rock from 1975 and Richard Franklin's original 1981 version of Road Games, as well as a few recent hits, including Jennifer Kent's 2014 The Babadook. For more information, contact Harris Dew at email@example.com.)
We turn back to Walter Reade for another New York premiere, taking place on Tuesday, 7/18: Roberto San Sebastián's The Night of the Virgin, screening at 9 p.m., has its moments of dark humor, but not quite enough of them. After a slow-moving yet intriguing start, the stylishly creepy first half involves the poor virgin victim of the title (a Jerry Lewis-like Javier Bódalo in a brave performance) and a mysterious older woman named Medea (Miriam Martin), who gives new meaning to "vagina dentata." But the second half of this Fatal Attraction-meets-After Hours-from-Spain devolves into a seemingly endless series of grotesquely surreal set-pieces. The off-the-rails "body horror" show may not be everyone's cup of tea—or blood—and recalls Andrzej Żuławski's delightfully demented Possession (1981) or something from David Cronenberg. Unfortunately, it just isn't as good.
Closing night (on July 20) presents one miss and one hit, again New York premieres. Brandon Christensen's Still/Born, at 7 p.m., could have been titled Paranormal Activity: The Baby Monitor Edition, a sort of high-tech Rosemary's Baby (1968) as reimagined by Stephen King. Unlike most of the movies in the festival, though, Still/Born takes itself very seriously, from its Biblical allusions to its Lifetime Network stylings. Like The Night of the Virgin, an infant plays a significant role, but at least the haunted house formula keeps you watching without enduring the gross-out factor.
On the other hand, the 9:30 p.m. second feature, It Stains the Sand Red, is filled with dark humor as it parodies every zombie movie and TV show, from George Romero's groundbreakers to "The Walking Dead." Imagine Russ Meyer remaking Dawn of the Dead with Faith Ford or Elaine Joyce as a kick-ass heroine, and you have an idea of the nutty, sometimes wistful, but surprisingly enjoyable festival closer. Director Colin Minihan and star Brittany Allen field questions following the screening and deserve a standing O for their originality.
Not every film in "Scary Movies X" could be called great horror, and some might not even qualify as horror per se, but there is a cathartic process, however challenging and uncomfortable, in attending a week of productions designed to face one's fears—especially if it is with an audience simultaneously engaged in the same endeavor.
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DENVER -- HIV increases the risk of coronary heart disease independent of other risk factors, researchers reported here.
But the association is not seen for HIV-infected people whose immune system remained relatively intact, according to Daniel Klein, MD, of Kaiser Permanente Northern California in Maynard, Calif., and colleagues.
The finding -- from a large retrospective case-control study -- suggests that anti-retroviral therapy should be started earlier and that other risk factors should be managed aggressively, Klein and colleagues reported in a poster presentation at the American Conference on Treatment for HIV.
Using patient records from 1996 through 2008, the researchers identified 20,775 people with HIV, and then matched them for age, sex, year, and medical center with 215,153 people not infected with the virus.
The outcomes were coronary heart disease or myocardial infarction and patients were followed until the end of 2008 or until they had an event, left the health plan, or died.
All told, Klein and colleagues reported, there were 339 cases of coronary heart disease among the HIV cohort, including 248 heart attacks.
Those numbers yielded rates per 100,000 person-years of 447 and 275, respectively.
By comparison, among the non-HIV patients, there were 3,463, events, including 1,825 myocardial infarctions (MIs), they reported, yielding rates per 100,000 person-years of 311 and 162, respectively.
Rate ratios showed a significantly greater risk for those in the HIV cohort, in a Poisson regression analysis that adjusted for age, sex, race, smoking, alcohol or drug abuse, obesity, diabetes, and the use of either lipid-lowering or antihypertensive therapy.
Specifically, the rate ratio:
- For coronary heart disease overall was 1.2, with a 95% confidence interval from 1.1 to 1.4, which was significant at P<0.001.
- For MI was 1.4, with a 95% confidence interval from 1.3 to 1.7, which was also significant at P<0.001.
The researchers also conducted an analysis within the HIV cohort to look at the effects of anti-retroviral therapy, recent viral load, and recent and lowest recorded count of CD4-positive T cells.
They found that only a nadir CD4 count of 200 cells or fewer was significantly associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease.
The analysis of the HIV cohort also found that the usual suspects -- smoking, increasing age, diabetes, and hypertension -- were associated with an increased risk, they reported.
It has been clear for some time that people with HIV are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease, according to John Brooks, MD, of the CDC, one of the conference co-chairs.
But the role of the virus itself has not been clear, he told MedPage Today, since many patients have other risk factors -- such as smoking or diabetes -- and anti-retroviral medications themselves have been implicated.
"The issue has been what about HIV itself," he said.
The findings have clear clinical implications, he said. "This gives you something to do -- don't let that CD4 count go too low."
The study was supported by Pfizer. Klein is an employee of Kaiser Permanente.
- Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner
- This activity is part of our Clinical Context curriculum in HIV/AIDS
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American Conference for the Treatment of HIVSource Reference: Klein D, et al "Contribution of immunodeficiency to coronary heart disease: Cohort study of HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected Kaiser Permanente members" ACTHIV 2011; Abstract TCD14.


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Two days ago, after I got my manbrows fixed, I went over to Redwood Middle School to stalk the Raiders. They've been here for weeks and weeks and weeks and I decided to go check it out on the last practice. Big mistake. There was no way to watch them that I could see! I wandered around like the true stalker that I am, listened to them practice and get fired up, and couldn't see a thing. Lame. This turned out to be just like my decision to go to The Price is Right.
When I was 12, I was watching TPIR. I loved it. Still do. I swore that when I turned 18, I would drive down to LA and get on that show. My grandma had been on TPIR before Bob Barker even was, so it's in my blood. Well, I turned 18. 19. 20. 21. Took a trip to Anaheim. Then another to San Diego. 22. 23. 24. 25. Can't even tell you how many times I'd been to LA over the years. 26. 27. 28. Find out that Bob Barker is retiring. 29. He retired. I never went. I'll regret that for the rest of my life. I was destined to be crazy and spazzy enough to wear the silly t-shirt and jump up and down and kiss Bob Barker's cheek and play the dicegame and spin the big wheel and win the Showcase Showdown. I just never made the 7-hour drive south. Next year, when the Raiders are here again for training camp, I vow on this day, August 18, 2007, that I will watch training camp. And take photos. And try to get an autograph or two. Yay Daunte Culpepper.
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THINGS don't get any easier for Featherstone after their opening day win over Betfred Championship top-four rivals Halifax.
In a tough start to the season, Rovers now have consecutive matches against full-time opponents Toulouse and London Broncos who also made winning starts to the season last weekend.
The French side trounced Swinton Lions 46-14 and London hammered Barrow 56-12.
Toulouse, who visit LD Nutrition Stadium on Sunday, completed a league double over Rovers last year.
They won 34-26 at Featherstone and then pipped them 32-26 in France in coach John Duffy's first match in charge of Rovers.
Duffy was happy with the last Sunday's 20-4 victory against Halifax but says Rovers still need to improve.
"We've got full-time teams to play now - two on the bounce - so there are things in our game we'll need to be really good at," said the Rovers boss.
"We've got to have a good game plan against these full-time teams as well
"Obviously, they've a lot of time to rest up and do their work so we've got to be really smart over the next two weeks and hopefully get some more good results."
Duffy believes Rovers need to be better in certain areas but he was happy with their fitness in a strong finish against Halifax when they clinched victory with two tries in the final quarter.
"It was a really tough game and tough conditions as well last Sunday. Although it wasn't raining it was really heavy leg kind of rugby," he said.
"That's what games are going to be like especially at the start of the season and we've got to handle it in the right manner. I thought in periods we did and periods we didn't so that's something to look at in the video.
"In the first-half I didn't think we were clinical enough and I thought we were a bit edgy with it being the first game.
"There were a couple of times I thought we should have taken the two points and slotted a goal over in the first-half.
"I wasn't concerned at half-time. I was just a bit frustrated with what we were doing but we got there in the end.
"At half-time, we spoke about being a bit more composed and I thought we were really professional in the second-half.
"We'll pick everything to death in our review but I thought we were professional and our fitness levels really shone through at the end and we came away with a good win.
"We've spoken about our fitness levels because we've worked really hard in the off-season and we knew we'd come through on that if we held the ball well.
"I thought our starting pack were superb and I thought our bench lifted us.
"Our outside backs were really good and made some tough carries for us in the second-half coming out of the bottom end.
"Our pivots took control in the second period and I thought our middle men were superb again across the pitch for us.
"Our wingers took some really good carries and Misi as well coming out of our own half in the second-half."
Duffy had to shuffle his team after losing injured winger Shaun Robinson in the 60th minute. Misi Taulapapa moved to the wing, Ian Hardman went to centre and Anthony Thackeray took over at full-back.
"We do things in training to cover those scenarios and when we were abroad on the training camp we did all that as well so everyone knew what they had to do when changes were made and everyone slotted in fine," added Duffy.
"We took Robinson off as a precaution. It was his ankle and the pitch was really heavy so it was just a precaution to bring him off."
Duffy says Featherstone's five-day warm-weather camp in Spain last month has greatly benefited them.
"I thought Briscoe's finish last Sunday was outstanding and Robbo's (Shaun Robinson) finish was great as well. I think that time away in Spain in the better weather has helped us a great deal. Since we've come back we've trained with wet, soapy balls every session to get us ready for the weather.
"It's a long season and we've got our first win under our belt going into this weekend so that's great but we won't get too far ahead of ourselves.
"I was really happy but obviously we can get better."
Tickets for this Sunday's game cost £18 adults, £13 concessions and £5 juniors if they are bought before 2pm on Saturday at the Rovers Store or by calling 01977-7-2386 during normal office hours.
Adult and concession admission prices will rise by £2 on the day of the game.
Latest £500 Rovers lottery winners are J Clayton (H4412), T Watson (G4694), D M (N0469), H Boynton(H2545). Friday: No winner (£2,250 roll-over next week). £5 winners: Mr P Oakley (V1632), Mrs V Bridges (W1632), Mary Ross (W2731).


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White River Woman Charged And Sentenced For Simple Assault And Aiding And Abetting
United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a White River, South Dakota woman convicted of Simple Assault and Aiding and Abetting has pled guilty to the charges and was sentenced on June 28, 2013 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
Jarashae Vanderwalker, age 20, was sentenced to 12 months' probation and $10 to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.
The conviction stems from an incident that took place on April 3, 2011, when Vanderwalker and others assaulted the victim with a bat. The investigation was conducted by the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Law Enforcement Services.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie H. Ruettgers.
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Monday, February 27th, 2012
Let's imagine for a moment that Karl Lagerfeld saw Pan's Labyrinth and now has a recurring nightmare. What kind of freaky-stylish vision might he be seeing? These monochromatic photographs of masked models with sculptural hairstyles are probably a fairly accurate depiction.
Hair: Peter Gray and Masa Honda
Photography: Takahiro Ogawa
Styling: Yasuhiro Takehisa
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Manicure: Kotoe
Mask: Hirotake Sakai and Chiho Omae
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Mert N. Aksu, DDS, JD, MHSA is Dean of the School of Dentistry, at the University of Detroit Mercy. He also teaches and lectures on practice management topics. Dr. Aksu earned a BS in Biological Sciences and Psychology from the University of Michigan Dearborn, a DDS from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, and a JD from Wayne State University. He also completed a MS in Health Services Administration at the University of Michigan in 2000. Dr. Aksu is the recipient of numerous clinical awards including the Pierre Fauchard Academy, American Association of Orthodontists, and the F. B. Vedder Society. He is currently a member of the State Bar of Michigan, a Fellow with the American College of Legal Medicine, and a Fellow with the American College of Dentists. Dr. Aksu serves as an advisor to Delta Dental, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and numerous law firms throughout the state of Michigan.
Dr. Aksu has held numerous administrative positions at the school, including associate dean for clinic administration and most recently executive associate dean. He began a number of activities to further the mission of UDM and the school. He was the founding chairperson of the Department of Patient Management, enhanced community outreach opportunities, and fostered an environment of patient care, based on a comprehensive care model. Dr. Aksu was responsible for creating the vision for what is today the new location of the School at the Corktown Campus on Martin Luther King Drive. As dean, Dr. Aksu has helped position the dental school for strong growth in educating additional dental professionals and providing care for more patients who are underserved.


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Thieves fail to profit from stolen works of art
Despite the global financial downturn and all the current talk about austerity, affluent art lovers have been snapping up old masters and contemporary art in record-breaking auctions throughout the year.
But do the buyers see their purchase as a profitable investment opportunity, or is it just a status symbol?
The idea of art being an asset is not a new one.
One of the first art funds in existence came about in Paris in 1910, when a group of people invested the relatively small amount of 750 francs each to purchase works by Picasso and Matisse, which they sold 10 years later for 100,000 francs - thereby making a handsome profit.
A more recent example would be the rock guitarist Eric Clapton selling a painting by Gerhard Richter for $30m, which was 10 times the price he paid for it.
However, according to Thomas Galbraith, director of global strategy at the website Artnet, which tracks sales at auctions around the world: "If you were to flick though an auction catalogue from 1980 or 1985 you would find a lot of artists you don't recognise because, although they were selling then, the market for them didn't hold up."
Some $60bn (£38bn) of art was sold in 2011 - half of which was at auctions and the other due to half private sales.
But will the work of the more conceptual artists such as Damien Hirst retain the longevity of the Renaissance masters?
"When you look at artists over time, they are routinely at the cutting edge of using technology as it comes out," says Mr Galbraith.
He notes that impressionists used pigments in oil, which was a new medium at the time. "The medium is ephemeral. The artist just chooses which medium to work with," he says.
The work by artists such as Kac, who bio-engineers creatures and produced a fluorescent rabbit, is one of the harder things to sell.
"There is more than one art market," he says, "When we are looking at these different things we talk about the art market as a whole, but that is like asking how the financial markets are doing."
'Worthless canvas'
It is commonplace now for a work of art to be worth tens of millions of dollars, and that makes them a target for art thieves.
It is frequently depicted as one of the most glamorous crimes, especially in film, where the plot concentrates on elaborate security measures and fast getaway cars.
But there is a flaw in every great heist which none of the films ever seem to acknowledge - despite the huge risks the criminals take and the value of the stolen art, they never make much money.
"Nine times out of ten, when individuals commit a robbery like that, it is done by individuals or criminal organisations which have the ability to do a burglary, but they don't usually have the ability to sell paintings," says Robert Wittman, founder of the FBI's art crime team and author of the memoir Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures.
In his experience, people often did a good job of figuring out how to commit the crime, but never did a good job making money from it.
He recalls that in 2000, three individuals went into the National Museum in Stockholm and stole two Renoirs and a Rembrandt self-portrait worth $42m. They arranged for car bombs to go off to prevent access by the police and escaped in a high-speed boat.
The paintings were eventually recovered in Sweden, Denmark and the US, so in the end they were unable to monetise any of the stolen works.
Because they are unable to sell the paintings, Mr Wittman says the thieves will often try to hold the works to ransom - especially when rewards are offered for their recovery.
"In the 25 years I have investigated these robberies, I have never heard of anyone actually monetising these very valuable paintings," he says.
"What the thieves do not understand is that the value of artwork comes from authenticity, provenance and legal title," he explains.
"If you don't have one of those three things, all you have is a piece of canvas with some paint on it," he says.
To retrieve stolen paintings, Mr Wittman has often posed as an art dealer. The negotiations, before the stolen object is actually produced and action can be taken, may take anything from two weeks to two years, he says.
"After four paintings were stolen at gunpoint from the Museum of Fine Arts in Nice, on the French Riviera, we had meetings in Miami, Barcelona, Madrid and Marseilles.
"In the end they brought us the paintings to be sold," he says.
With a hint of irony, he adds: "It is not a good crime, it turns you into a terrible businessman."


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What a long, strange journey it has been for Massachusetts and Mitt Romney.
What a long, strange journey it has been for Massachusetts and Mitt Romney.
Romney made his fortune here. Then he launched the political career that took him where he is today � about to be anointed in Tampa as the Republican presidential nominee. To get to the point of acceptance in a party pitched sharply to the right, he renounced much of what he said he stood for when he first ran for office.
He shed his Bay State political garments with the guilt-free ease of a practiced stripper. It wasn�t gut-wrenching. It was strictly business.
Because of that, there�s a bitterness to his legacy in a state that has an outsized sense of its own importance and a no-compromise commitment to litmus-test liberal politics.
Massachusetts was a means to an end for Romney. For other Bay State pols, Massachusetts is an end in itself � even for those with eyes on the same prize as Romney. John Kerry lost his presidential bid, and eight years later, he�s still in the Senate, hosting hearings for Gloucester fishermen.
Romney left office to run for president, and never looked back.
Massachusetts may see him as a user and betrayer.
But, like it or not, Massachusetts is where it all began for Romney. He earned law and business degrees at Harvard, raised a family in Belmont, and built a business at Bain.
It was in Massachusetts that he began constructing and deconstructing the political persona that is hard � because of all the shifting � to pin down to this day.
Romney lost a 1994 bid for Senate when he challenged the late Edward M. Kennedy, a Democratic icon. He came back from that defeat to win the only general election he has ever won, the one that made him governor of Kennedy Country.
Romney�s gubernatorial victory occurred in a state where Republicans account for only 12 percent of registered voters. His success back in 2002 is often attributed to the weakness of his Democratic challenger.
But it was also a testament to a carefully calibrated centrist message that has a history of resonating with independent or unenrolled voters.
Romney pitched fiscal conservatism, insisted he supported Roe v. Wade, and let his campaign hand out fliers at a gay pride parade. In doing so, he tapped into a comfort zone with voters that helped a series of Republican candidates win the governor�s office.
Unlike his predecessors, Romney also attempted the thankless task of trying to rebuild the state�s Republican Party, a feeble institution built on �chicken wire and duct tape,� as longtime Democrat and onetime Boston City Councilor Michael McCormack puts it.
To further the GOP cause in Massachusetts, Romney recruited more than 100 candidates to challenge Democratic lawmakers. When all those Republican candidates lost, Romney declared, �From now on, it�s me-me-me.� And from then on, it was.
He proposed health care reform legislation because he believed it would bolster his national ambitions. For the same reason, he made a hard right turn on social issues. As he fought for credibility with Republican primary voters, he abandoned the middle ground on wedge issues like immigration and walked away from the health care reform act that Bay State Democrats still consider his major accomplishment.
As a presidential candidate, Romney is unpopular in Massachusetts. According to the Real Clear Politics polling average, President Obama leads Romney by 18 points in the Bay State. Compare that with polling data for Republican Sen. Scott Brown, whose race with Democrat Elizabeth Warren is considered a toss-up.
In the state Romney left behind, even Republicans use words like data-driven and soulless to describe him. Like Democrats, they respect Romney�s intelligence but detest his unabashed opportunism. They don�t want to be quoted saying that, because he could be the next president.
Romney�s campaign headquarters is located in the North End, and the national press refers to �Boston�� when official statements emanate from there. But from the Massachusetts perspective, there�s little to connect Romney to the city on the hill, given the dominance of Democrats and the major role Gov. Deval Patrick is playing in advancing Obama�s reelection.
Massachusetts is a place he passes through, not a place that calls him home. Yet for Romney, it could be the stepping stone to the White House that others before him have tried so hard to make it.