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Historical Society presents Christmas at Ye Olde Courthouse
OMER — The Arenac County Historical Society (ACHS) is hosting its third annual Christmas at Ye Olde Courthouse in Omer during the first two weekends in December.
ACHS Member Joann Gulau says the courthouse, which was constructed in the 1880's and once used as the county's main courthouse, will host the ACHS's annual silent auction that features decorated Christmas trees and wreaths. She says there will also be centerpieces and homemade candy.
"We (ACHS) purchased the building on a land contract about five years ago," Gulau said. "All of the proceeds we earn from this fundraiser, and other fundraisers, go towards making our monthly payment on the building."
She says the Standish Masons bought the building in its early years after Standish had constructed a courthouse and had won the vote to host county operations. The Masons used the building for their lodge until 1995, when most of the areas members became elderly and new membership had dwindled, where it sat until the ACHS purchased it, she added.
According to Gulau, the courthouse will be open from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 6 and 13 as well as 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 7 and 14.
"We hope everyone comes to see the different rooms and all of the neat Christmas crafts," Gulau said.
She says the courthouse has a Masonic room upstairs, which features original antique furnishings from early on, a baseball museum downstairs, featuring old pictures and memorabilia from the Northeast League that stretched from Alpena to Bay City circa the 1920's, and a scrapbook room, which features Standish Mason records and original applications along with over 20 books.
Gulau says there will be a Christmas program for children at 2 p.m. on Dec. 6 as well as a few vendors who'll be selling decorated crafts and cookies on the weekend of Dec. 13 and 14.
"The second weekend we'll also be doing a partnership prize raffle with the Arenac County Historical Museum during their Christmas walk-through," Gulau said. "When you visit one of the places that weekend, we'll give you a ticket and when you go to the other one, you give them the ticket and you'll be entered into the drawing.
"We're going to have two prizes, although we're not sure what they'll be yet."
She says the ACHS opened the courthouse a few other times throughout the year, including the Omer Sucker Derby, Memorial and Labor Day weekends and during the ACHS junk sale in June. The ACHS also allows touring of the courthouse by appointment.
She also says the ACHS is currently holding a penny drive in which they are trying to collect 1,000,000 pennies. Gulau says they've reached a quarter of that goal so far and donations may be made at Ma's Girls Café in Omer as well as PQ's, Wheelers, Standish Bakery and Arenac Abstract and Title in Standish.
For more information about the Arenac County Historical Society, Museum or Ye Olde Courthouse, contact Gulau at 989-876-6468.
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The Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC 8X Windows Phones are fitted with some really nice cameras. While it may be a topic for discussion on which camera is the better of the two, we've got two WPCentral Forums discussions going on that nicely shows off the capabilities of these two Windows Phone cameras.
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Why can't we talk to the animals?
We're publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. Here, Ben Ambridge describes one theory of why our pets don't talk back.
As a child, I suffered from a mild obsession with the film Doctor Dolittle (think Rex Harrison, not Eddie Murphy). At the heart of this obsession was a nagging question: Why couldn't this be real? After all, most dogs and cats understand their own names and at least a couple of simple commands. And on the speaking front there was, of course, the German parrot who snitched on his owner's cheating husband by repeating the name of his mistress (Uta). So what's stopping us? Why can't we go further and, like the eponymous doctor, hold conversations with our animal cousins?
Fast forward a quarter of a century to 2012 and I'm in Manchester anticipating a public lecture by Michael Tomasello, a developmental psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. He has a possible answer to this age-old question.
Previously it was thought that the magical ability which non-human species lack is the understanding that words can be put together in different orders to express different meanings. There's a saying in journalism: Dog Bites Man isn't news, but Man Bites Dog is. It makes sense only because we understand that the order of the words tells us who's doing the biting and who's getting bitten.
However, a few species have actually passed this test. On the comprehension front, we have Phoenix and Akeakamai, two dolphins studied at the University of Hawaii, who were taught a language in which the 'words' were different whistle sounds played by the trainer (and chosen to approximate dolphins' own calls). The dolphins understood that, for example, "put the pipe on the hoop" and "put the hoop on the pipe" meant different things and were able to respond accordingly, even when the exact sentence hadn't been presented before. Some apes, such as Kanzi, a bonobo raised in Atlanta, have passed a similar test although debate continues as to whether or not they can combine words – in this case hand signs – in their own communication (watch the 2011 film Project Nim to see this controversy played out).
The finding that some species do seem to appreciate the powerful combinatorial properties of language serves only to deepen the mystery. If these animals are so smart, why aren't they explaining what it's like to be a chimpanzee, or at least politely asking to be let out of the cage? Tomasello's answer is that what they just don't seem to get is that language is fundamentally cooperative, almost altruistic, in nature. You understand that, if I say something to you ("Look, there's your boss"), I'm doing so because I believe you will find it useful or interesting. Tomasello's big idea is that this idea of doing something for the benefit of someone else is completely alien to other species.
It would be anthropomorphic to call animals "selfish". It's not as if chimpanzees consider altruistic possibilities but think, "Sod that, I'm keeping all the bananas for myself": they simply haven't evolved in such a way as to be capable of considering an altruistic option in the first place. Evidence of this indifference comes from a number of Tomasello's own experiments. Many ape and monkey species respond to the presence of a predator by giving an alarm call, often interpreted as an altruistic warning to others. But a study with macaques showed that if a "predator" (a lab technician in a surgical mask) approached a mother's baby in a different cage, the mother gave no alarm call unless she was also approached.
In another experimental set-up, chimpanzees were given the choice of two ropes to pull: one brought in five grapes for the puller and five for a chimpanzee in an adjacent cage; the other, five for the puller and none for his neighbour. Which option do you think the chimpanzees chose? They pulled at random, neither deliberately feeding the neighbour at no personal cost, nor deliberately depriving him. Again, not selfish; simply indifferent.
But what about apes in the wild? Don't they share food? Hardly. A chimpanzee will share only in response to a direct threat or harassment, and even when mothers feed their own young, they eat the best bit themselves – the flesh of a banana or nut – and give the infant the peel or the shell.
Thinking about the bigger picture, virtually all of mankind's greatest achievements, such as science, religion and government, are based fundamentally on cooperation. Or take money: bits of paper and metal and numbers on screens that have meaning only because we have collectively agreed to act as though they do. The implication is that, if Tomasello is right, then cooperation may hold the key to understanding not just language, but also what it means to be human.
Ben Ambridge
This is an edited version of Ben's entry in the category for professional scientists. Views expressed are the author's own.
Find out more about the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize in association with the Guardian and the Observer and read our 'How I write about science' series of tips for aspiring science writers.
Over the next couple of months, we're publishing the shortlisted essays from the 2012 competition. Read them all, and the 2011 essays, in our archive.
Image credits: Wellcome Library, London (top); Wellcome Images (Ben, left)
Anonymous permalink28 Oct, 2012 12:38 am
Hi. I just found your blog incidentally and I thought you might find this interesting:
Of course, I'm not a biologist and don't know what to make of it all!
Shorel permalink1 Nov, 2012 3:49 pm
Religion is not a great achievement, just a sad limitation on our collaboration hardware (or meatware if you prefer).
kaiser permalink1 Nov, 2012 5:47 pm
the idea that cooperation/trust is a big part of what makes humans what they are is not big or new–the question is why. and given our history of slavery, genocide, and racism, and our general submission to authority, you also have to understand what the logical extensions of cooperation/trust lead to.
let's not shower ourselves with praise and awe.
2 Nov, 2012 4:11 pm
Fascinating. I saw a video somewhere online (wish I could find it) that described the difference between the smartest animals and humans is "asking why". Fundamentally, chimps tend to just do and give up without questioning larger implications. Perhaps knowing the full extend of a particular animal's communicative abilities would allow us to talk to them as they would each other?
7 Nov, 2012 2:23 pm
I agree with you Kevin, I think we can communicate with animals but it completely depends on it's communicative abilities whether it be in the form of touch, smell or expressions. Once this has been established and understood we can then learn to communicate with animals and they can begin to understand us.
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Laguna Ocean Foundation is celebrating its 10th anniversary this spring — and it hasn't let any grass grow under its feet.
A small group of concerned Laguna Beach residents took to heart the VISION 2030 project that identified the need to protect Laguna's coastal resources and created the foundation in 2003. Since then, staff members have logged more than 20,000 hours educating a half million folks about Laguna's tidepools. And they don't even count volunteer hours.
"Our message is that we have this gorgeous resource at our feet and we need to be good stewards of it," said Louise Thornton, foundation chair. "The government has preserved gems of land in national parks and in California we are working to preserve the gem of the ocean.
"Our most public activities are, of course, the TideWater Docent Program, conducted by volunteers and our several Tidepool lnterpretive Education Programs, conducted by staff members."
The foundation was an active participant and supporter in the Marine Life Protection Act initiative process and subsequent formation of the new Laguna Coast Reserve.
"None of what we have done, however, would have happened without the dedication of our volunteers and the support of our community," Thornton said.
The founding board members included Chair Fred Sattler, Walker Reed, Mia Davidson, Kurt Wiese, Ed Almonza, Candice Burroughs and Jeanne Meyers — Thornton's hero.
"We started on a wing and a prayer," Sattler said.
And it took flight.
"We began the volunteer docent program and decided it needed a home, so we got our 501 c3 and began to raise a little money," Sattler said.
With financial assistance in 2006 from Montage Laguna Beach, the foundation was able to hire staff to provide interpretive education at the Treasure Island tidepools on weekends year-round when the tide is below 2.5 feet and the weather is enjoyable.
Besides educating the public, staff members track the number of visitors — an average of 28 folks per hour — and for five years, have conducted quarterly surveys of shorebirds along the Laguna Coast. Human data has been collected since 2005.
"All of this information provides valuable insight for our future management of this resource," Thornton said.
The Laguna Coast Reserve went into effect in 2012 and prohibits the taking of any marine life forms along most of the Laguna coast.
"Our program gave the state something to build on and that makes me proud of the work that the foundation has done," Sattler said.
Sattler is also proud of the regional Emmy Award for a six-minute video on the tidepools produced by the foundation and the Laguna Beach Visitors & Conference Bureau.
But even before the initiative was in the works, the foundation partnered with other beach communities to form the Orange County Marine Protected Area Council.
"Our membership in the OCMPAC has made the implementation of the reserve with new signs, training and procedures a smooth transition," Thornton said.
"The council gives a cohesive message from Bolsa Chica to Dana Point that if we don't have an ocean, we won't be here."
Other partnerships have also been important to the growth of the foundation, which works with researchers at UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton, Cal Poly Pomona, the California Audubon Society and the Orange County Sea & Sage Audubon.
But foremost among the partnerships is the foundation's ongoing relationship with the city and especially, the Marine Safety Department, Thornton said.
"Working with the city the foundation helped develop a set of policies calling for visitor management along the coast," Thornton said. "These policies were adopted by the city and integrated into the General Plan."
The policies were also adopted by California Coastal Commission as policies of the city's Local Coastal Program. These specifically call for the development of a Coastal Resources Protection Program.
"So, we come full circle," Thornton said. "Laguna Ocean Foundation hopes to continue to actively partner with our citizens, the city and many others on the development of a functional, science-based and consensus-driven Coastal Resources Management Plan.
"It is our intention that this plan will not only preserve and protect the natural marine resources of our beautiful city, but will also continue to educate and enhance the experience of all of our visitors."
As beach tourism increases, the foundation's activities increase incrementally, Sattler said.
"Visitors from the Inland Empire [or Nebraska, for that matter] don't know our coast is a preserve — they don't even know what a preserve is," said Sattler, who retired from the board last year.
He was replaced by his wife, Jan, a native of Laguna and founding docent. Kelli Lewis is the most recent addition to the board. They join Almonza, Burroughs and Davidson, members of the founding board, Scott Ferguson and Thornton.
They are all volunteers — and more are needed.
To qualify as a TideWater Docent, volunteers must attend one two-hour training session at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point, followed by on-site training at the tidepools. The next class begins May 8.
Docents are encouraged to volunteer for a three-hour shift monthly, with a choice of Crescent Bay, Shaw's Cove, Heisler Park, Wood's Cove, Goff Island and Treasure Island.
College-level summer internships are also offered. Interns train as tidepool educators at Heisler Park and Treasure Island, conduct research and interpret it in creative ways for publication.
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At TechdirtSkeptical Cynic took the top spot (easily) on the "most insightful" voting with his comment on how governments are moving further from respecting basic human rights:
I have always thought that Internet was the best tool for defeating oppression everywhere. For decentralizing power and allowing each person to truly have an impact.Coming in second was Rikuo's comment concerning whose fault it is if consumers don't want to buy what producers are offering:
Governments everywhere are starting to show more and more that what they want more than anything is control and they are willing to go about it with whatever method they need to.
The problem I see is that people including those that run the government forget history and fail to see their actions in the context that they should. They fail to link what they are doing with the processes that everybody once fought against. Just look at the below information and see how many match up to what we are seeing today. I have bolded the ones I see the most.
Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The excerpt is in accordance with the magazine's policy.Am I wrong?
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Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc. Not working the same way now but the idea is there
Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
Supremacy of the Military
Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
Rampant Sexism
Controlled Mass Media
Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
Obsession with National Security
Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
Religion and Government are Intertwined
Corporate Power is Protected
The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
Labor Power is Suppressed
Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
Obsession with Crime and Punishment
Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
Fraudulent Elections
No, its the producer's fault for not offering the product in the way the consumer wanted. It's not enough these days to just make an awesome movie or an awesome book. You also have to offer it in a way the consumer wants - in this case, we want it DRM free, able to be read/played on any device and without the threat of a lawsuit hanging over our heads.For editor's choice, I had trouble narrowing it down, so you get an extra editor's choice on the insightful side this week. We'll kick it off with Duke's excellent explanation of why the UK's decision to block The Pirate Bay is so troubling:
Piracy doesn't cost them money.
In your ideal world, the one you envision, the consumers would look at the legal options, find them lacking and not get the content, legally or illegally. That means no income for the producers/copyright holders.
In the real world, the one we all live in, the consumers look at the legal options, find them lacking, and then get the content anyway. The copyright holders spend their own capital fighting this, burning what little good reputation they have. In the end, they still lose income, but through their own actions.
I, the consumer, don't care that you have the copyright nor will I ever care. I don't care how you intend your content to be distributed. If I want it, I will get it. If I find some sort of value in giving you money, I will, but if you dare threaten us with lawsuits or attempt to ram through harmful bills through the political system, I will stop supporting you completely.
The days of selling copies of art is almost over. Now you have to find something else to sell, as the old market is quickly vanishing.
Just to expand on what I wrote before (to a rather considerable degree - apologies in advance), the simple reason is that if TPB was put on trial, the record labels might have lost, or at least not won as much - that is what happened in the earlier case.It may be a long comment, but that's the kind of comment the "insightful" button was made for.
The first case on site-blocking, (using the vaguely-worded s97A, CDPA) was when the Hollywood bunch sued Newzbin directly (Newzbin was being run by a UK-registered company) - the trial (in March 2010) went spectacularly badly for Newzbin (the judge seemed rather unconvinced by their witnesses, and their initial lawyer had to drop out mid-trial and has since been disbarred for his conduct), but while the judge ruled the site was involved in copyright infringement, and ordered a blocking injunction, he limited it only to material covered by the claimant's copyrights (see the final paragraph of the judgment) for the reasons often brought up against broad site-blocking. This meant that Hollywood would have had to notify Newzbin of every file the wanted blocked. Of course, Newzbin then collapsed under the legal costs and was reborn as Newzbin2.
Following this failure, the Studios came back 12 months later (July 2011) and brought a second claim, under the same law, for the same order, but this time against BT (the UK's largest ISP), not the site. Here, a different judge decided to allow the broad blocking order, the main difference being that in this case the claim was supported by a range of other copyright lobbying groups (see paras 179-186 of the judgment). However, despite there being more groups on the claimant side, BT was the only defendant, and obviously has a different set of interests and priorities than Newzbin2.
Interestingly, there was a follow-up judgment (October 2011) to determine the nature of the ruling, and for that (following the publicity of the first ruling) other ISPs, and even a BT subscriber, made submissions to the court on the main point, but they were dismissed as being too late and irrelevant/untrustworthy (see paras 2-4 of the judgment). The blocking order was granted against BT, along with a massive costs order, which has scared off the ISPs from fighting these cases. In December and February the blocking order was expanded to cover Sky and TalkTalk respectively - neither opposed the orders.
Then we come on to January 2012, when the BPI went after TPB; they had asked the ISPs to block it, but they had refused without a court order as such blocking could count as illegal interception of communications data. So they sued the 6 major ISPs (under the cover of 9 record labels). However, the initial judge refused to grant the order noting that, unlike with Newzbin, TPB had never been ruled illegal in England and Wales, so the case was referred to trial on this issue. In quite a concise, well-worded and well-reasoned judgment, Arnold J came to the conclusion that the users and operators of TPB were infringing copyright. That finding was then used to grant this week's blocking order. ... So in theory, TPB was put on trial.
In practice, of course, that ruling was pretty meaningless. The ISPs didn't oppose it (due to lack of interest, and not wishing to be done for the BPI's legal costs). While others might have been able to make submissions (although I'm not sure if anyone in the UK had the means and will to do so), they would have had to have intervened at some point between the 20 January referral order and the hearing on 9th February. Which means they would have had to have found out about the case, found lawyers, prepared their arguments and gathered evidence in less than three weeks. The biggest problem there being the first part; I try to keep an eye on these sorts of legal developments, but didn't hear anything about this case until the BPI was issuing press releases about it after the ruling - the case name is random enough to make it hard to search for, and court hearings are only published a day in advance in the UK. So much for open justice.
The result of this is that all the arguments and evidence submitted were by the BPI. So (as in the Newzbin2 case) no cross-examination, no challenging of the basic premises, no defences discussed (such as freedom of expression - which is respected over here, thank-you-very-much - or proportionality). This is particularly important as in the Newzbin2 case, some of the evidence which is quoted in the judgment is demonstrably false, so who knows what lies were presented in their "considerable volume of evidence".
The judge did discuss the lack of involvement from operators or users of TPB in paras 9-15). While noting that the users would be "adversely affected" by any order, he dismissed the problem on the grounds that there was no legal requirement that they be present (as the case was against the ISPs), the operators would be hard to find and unlikely to intervene (based on similar attempts in Swedish cases), and the users would be hard and costly to identify.
The main lesson to learn from this is what various groups have been arguing for some time; judicial oversight alone is not enough in an adversarial legal system. We saw this problem with issuing of NPOs to identify file-sharers (the ACS:Law business etc.), we saw this in the US with the seizure of domain names, and we will see it with payment blocking orders when they appear in the UK later this year. An adversarial legal system does not work without an adversary. If the court can't find an interested party, it should find some sort of public defender.
That said, there is some good news in this area; when GoldenEye sort an order requiring an ISP to hand over details of alleged file-sharers, while the ISP was happy to comply, the initial judge (technically a master, not a judge) realised that this was a controversial issue (due to all the complaints about him rubber-stamping these orders in the past) referred it to a full judge (the same as in the above cases) and he then personally invited Consumer Focus to intervene, and they did so. Arnold J was no doubt aware of their interests in these issues, having talked with some of their people (iirc). It's a pity he didn't think of doing something similar in The Pirate Bay case...
Next up, we've got Michael Becker responding the MPAA's continued failure to actually adapt:
Dude, they've been voicing their concerns about Piracy for 100 years, and they've been proven wrong EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.Finally, we've got an excellent comment from Chosen Reject responding to a ridiculous and insulting claim from an anonymous commenter on our site that Professor Eric Goldman -- one of the most respected voices on these issues -- was nothing but "a piracy apologist" for questioning the legal specifics in the Megaupload case. CR pointed out how standing up for justice is not being an "apologist."
Hard to look at a track record like that and join their side. Especially when they make the simplest of things difficult.
For example, I wanted to watch X-Men First Class this weekend. Did you know I couldn't legally purchase or rent it from ANY online service? You know who had it? Torrents.
There is a fundamental failure in the MPAA to understand that you can't live in the past, things change, and you Adapt or Die. People aren't gonna turn off their internet connection just cause Warner or Paramount might not make quite as many millions this year.
These studios are perfectly capable of providing awesome services we'd gladly pay for, but first they have to actually offer them. We've shown them how many many times, but they keep sticking their heads in the sand. You can only try and help someone so many times before you have to acknowledge that they must be willfully choosing to destroy themselves.
You can call him an apologist if you wish. However, you can't call him a pirate apologist unless he's apologizing for piracy. If instead, as it appears, he's standing for justice, then he's a justice apologist. Allow me to quote someone better than me, who stood up for justice for people in a much more serious situation than copyright infringement could ever be:Moving over to the funny list, the winner (by far) was from "Grey Ferret" on the post about Sony issuing a bogus takedown. This resulted in another commenter promising to "lengthen my Sony ban," which was "already a lifetime" to which Grey Ferret replied:The Part I took in Defence of Cptn. Preston and the Soldiers, procured me Anxiety, and Obloquy enough. It was, however, one of the most gallant, generous, manly and disinterested Actions of my whole Life, and one of the best Pieces of Service I ever rendered my Country. Judgment of Death against those Soldiers would have been as foul a Stain upon this Country as the Executions of the Quakers or Witches, anciently. As the Evidence was, the Verdict of the Jury was exactly right.You can dislike what MegaUpload does, you can hate Kim Dotcom all you want, but when you throw justice under the bus simply to get people out of the way that you don't like, then you become an apologist for tyranny, corruption, greed, and abuse of power to name a few.
This however is no Reason why the Town should not call the Action of that Night a Massacre, nor is it any Argument in favour of the Governor or Minister, who caused them to be sent here. But it is the strongest Proofs of the Danger of Standing Armies.
—John Adams, on the third anniversary of the massacre
How about lifetime +70 years?At this point, I'd like to just say how freaking awesome it is that enough people in this community not only get this reference, but find it the funniest comment of the week. The ridiculousness of copyright extension isn't a minor issue. It's becoming common knowledge and people realize it's so ridiculous that it's just funny.
Coming in second was an Anonymous Coward, responding to Apple's bizarre decision to reject apps that use Dropbox, because the use of Dropbox might kick them out to the Safari browser, where they're asked if they want to buy a paid Dropbox account. Apple, jealous that it doesn't get a cut of the transaction, claimed that this violated their rules for apps routing around Apple's payment system to do "in app" purchases. This AC noticed that perhaps Apple was mistargeting its legal bomb:
Indeed. Perhaps Apple will ban its own browser from the iTunes store."Once the user is in Safari it is possible for the user to click "Desktop version" and navigate to a place on Dropbox site where it is possible to purchase additional space."
Not to spit hairs, but doesn't this seem to indicate that it's Safari that's in violation...
Once again, on the editor's choice side of things, it was nearly impossible to narrow down the comments to just two, so I'm giving you a bunch of extras. Well, first, we've got "bob (spelled backwards)" (I believe it's a reference to one of our frequent critics "bob") with a new plan for the internet on how to wipe out piracy:
Let me put the MPAA's objections into another light.Now I'm about to go a bit overboard on the editor's choice posts, with four more editor's choice comments -- but they're all quick one-liners.
If you make a gun, you have a moral obligation to take some reasonable steps that they aren't getting into the wrong hands.
What reasonable steps does Google take to make sure their bandwidth doesn't get into the wrong hands? None.
Now, I don't want to be one of the common taters [sic] that voices an analogy but doesn't come up with a proposal. So, here goes.
Every internet user has to register their internet usage. That way if they are convicted, or accused, of doing something the MPAA doesn't support (or TechDirt does support) they can be perma-banned from the net. Just like criminals can't legally get guns.
Also, you shouldn't have any "concealed" carry internet laws. No Tor's, anonymous posting or trolling.
Finally, after we ban guns and make America a more reasonable country, we can move on and tackle the next problem of banning the internet. This will lead to an increase of drive in movies which will lead to an increase of car sales which will recover the economy.
In closing, RIP Junior Seau. Guns don't kill people, uhh, something else does I forget where I was going with this.
It starts off with Chris O'Donnell responding to the story of Amanda Palmer's success in building up a massive audience that will support her. Chris pointed out this is unfair for some artists:
But this can only work for artists willing to put in years of work to build up their fan base.For shame.
Then we've got an Anonymous Coward responding to the FBI breaking up its own plots:
Foiling plots they have started. Before you know it, we'll be paying bankers to solve the problems they created!Next up, another Anonymous Coward explaining the different levels of scamming:
Nickel scammers may use Kickstarter, but Billion Dollar criminal scammers, just use the government.And finally, a personal favorite, from hfbs responding to a critic who was trying to argue that Windows and Android aren't open enough with a rather amusing retort:
Ask Wall Street.
Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of my DRM-free files being played on whatever the fuck player I want them to be.So kick back, and do the same, as we head into another week...


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TEMPE, Ariz. - Rallying back from a five-run deficit, the No. 2 Arizona State University baseball team defeated Auburn 9-8 on Friday night in front of 3,121 fans at Winkles Field-Packard Stadium at Brock Ballpark. The Sun Devils improved to 13-0 on the season with the win, giving head coach Tim Esmay the school record for the most consecutive wins to start an ASU coaching career. Jim Brock began his career with the Devils 12-0 in 1972.
ASU took the early lead with two runs in the second on an RBI double by Deven Marrero and a sacrifice fly by Drew Maggi. However, Auburn tied the game in the fourth with a two-run homer by Casey McElroy, and then the Tigers took the lead with five unearned runs in the top of the fifth.
Down 7-2 heading to the bottom of the fifth, the Sun Devils wasted no time in responding. Riccio Torrez singled in a run, Matt Newman followed with an RBI double and Zach Wilson then made it three straight run-scoring hits with a two-run single. Later in the inning, Marrero tied the game with an RBI double to right center, and two batters later, Raoul Torrez drew a bases loaded walk to put ASU back on top.
Auburn tied the game again in the top of the eighth with a solo home run by pinch hitter Kevin Patterson, but once again the Sun Devils rallied in the bottom half of the inning, getting the first two men on base and scoring the winning run on a Riccio Torrez groundout.
Jordan Swagerty closed out the game, earning his fourth save by striking out the side in order in the ninth. Jake Barrett got the win out of the bullpen, his first career decision at ASU. Seth Blair started and got a no decision, going five innings and allowing seven runs, only two earned, with four strikeouts, and Mitchell Lambson pitched two shutout innings of relief.
Maggi, Wilson and Marrero all had two hits each, with Wilson, Marrero and Riccio Torrez driving in two runs each.
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Despite a valiant effort by both Bisons' starting pitchers, Lipscomb dropped both games of the double-header against the Kennesaw State Owls on Saturday, April 1.
Charles Williams got the game one start for the Bisons, his first. Williams came into Saturday's game leading the Bisons in ERA (1.57) and opposing batting average (.231).
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Of course, if we can have a leader-follower, why not a follower-leader?
The idea intrinsic to the model "A Vision for Leadership and Collaboration" is that in a healthy process of leading and following the leader and follower roles alternate or are exchanged, and I continue to believe that's a good paradigm. However, if we identify two, momentarily distinct roles, leader-follower and follower-leader, more powerful descriptive possibilities arise. The implications are:
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The Lumia 920, Nokia's pride and joy from 2012, is now available on Three UK. The Windows Phone has been exclusively held by EE since the mobile operator entered into the market late last year, launching the first 4G LTE network in the UK. While Three (and all other UK mobile operators) cannot upgrade to LTE until Spring this year, it's good to see smartphones with such capabilities hitting shelves in preparation.
That said, Three does have the next best thing for the time being. DC-HSDPA, for improved Internet connectivity.
So when will the Lumia 920 be ready to ship to customers on Three UK? February 5th. How much will you be required to pay? The handset is available on The One Plan for £36 a month with a £69 upfront fee. This plan includes unlimited data, 2,000 call minutes (with a further 5,000 to other Three numbers), and 5,000 SMS on a 24-month contract. If that's not your style there's always the PAYG option of £449 (locked to Three).
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The United States Sports Academy's 2013 Ronald Reagan Media Award winner is Dick Enberg, one of America's most versatile sportscasters who during his long career has called nearly every major sporting event from Wimbledons to Super Bowls.
Enberg, who provides play-by-play for the San Diego Padres, began broadcasting in 1957 and today remains the only sportscaster to win Emmys in three categories—broadcasting, writing and producing.
The Academy's Ronald Reagan Media Award, named in honor of the 40th President of the United States, is presented annually to an individual for outstanding contributions to sport through broadcasting, print, photography or acting. The individual, like this year's award winner, should exhibit imagination, excitement and genius in kindling a keen public interest and appreciation for the role of sport in modern society.
For more than half a century, Enberg provided play-by-play in various sports for such networks as NBC, who he worked with for 25 years, CBS, and ESPN. He became well known for his signature catchphrase during outstanding plays: "Oh, my!"
Enberg, Cal State Northridge's assistant baseball coach and an assistant professor in the early 1960s, has proven just as good behind a pen as behind a mic. He wrote his autobiography, "Oh, My!" in 2004 and penned a one-man theatrical play, "COACH." The play, which debuted in 2005, is a tribute to his former college basketball broadcast partner and late friend, Al McGuire.
Enberg, who the Academy recognized for its Media Award in 1989, has garnered many prestigious awards and honors over the years, including: 13 Sports Emmy Awards, as well as a Lifetime Achievement Emmy; nine National Sportscaster of the Year awards from the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association and induction into that organization's Hall of Fame; and even has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In addition, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) honored Enberg in 1997 with an award in recognition of his longtime support of the organization's Academic All-America program. The Dick Enberg Award is given annually to a person whose actions and commitment have furthered the meaning and reach of the Academic All-America Teams Program and the student-athlete, while promoting the values of education and academics. Enberg continues to be an avid supporter of the program, often lending his voice to video presentations related to CoSIDA's annual Academic All-America Hall of Fame ceremony
The United States Sports Academy is an independent, nonprofit, accredited, special mission sports university created to serve the nation and the world with programs in instruction, research and service. The role of the Academy is to prepare men and women for careers in the profession of sports. For more information about the Academy, call 251-626-3303 or visit www.ussa.edu.


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The story, insists the son, must begin with his father because everything he does is filtered through his daddy's voice.
The son just wishes his father would have held out and traveled a touch further. After all, a few miles down the track, around Oak Ridge, sweet cotton soils abound. But at the outset of the 1900s, there was no way for 14-year-old George Franklin to know that. He was hungry, ill and weary of his boxcar accommodations. And from the boxcar door, the small Delta towns were indistinguishable.
When he finally gathered the nerve and hopped from the train, Holly Ridge, La., was where he landed. It was a small town centered around the train depot and cotton industry and it must have looked frightening to the kid. But anything, he figured, was better than the orphanage he'd just left.
The train still runs the same route but no longer stops in Holly Ridge. The buildings around the depot have long been abandoned; spindly trees poke through their roofs, vines tangle around doorposts. But the town once thrived and it was here and in the nearby town of Rayville that Franklin doggedly worked his way up from hotel cook to manager to proprietor, landowner and largest farmer in Richland Parish. It was here that he married, raised a family, built a grand home and taught his son and namesake the value of hard work and love of country.
"America is a great nation. There's no other place that would let a 14-year-old kid have the opportunity to build the life my father did. He knew it and I know it and neither us have ever taken it for granted," says George Jr.
George Franklin Jr., a man with an easy sense of humor, carries a business card. On one side is typical contact information. The flip side reads, among other things: Farmer, Cotton Ginner, Veteran, Builder, Philosopher, Hunter, Conservationist (I also tell tall tales).
The card doesn't lie. Franklin can spin yarns by the basketful. And if one sits for a while and listens, he will touch on every job description listed above. But he's also a modest man and many of his accomplishments only come to light through words of his neighbors, co-workers and friends.
In speaking with these people, one thing becomes clear. Franklin should have the words "Keen Observer" added to the descriptive list.
After all, this is a man who simply from walking countless miles through wooly forest, found that a nutall oak tree — "a great acorn producer" — grows well in bottomland, that willow oaks grow well mid-hill, and that bitter pecans are prime for a sweet pecan graft (he does such grafts on at least 200 trees annually).
The farmer and builder
Franklin's land isn't the best for row crops. Through crop rotation, precision leveling and organic matter put back into the soil, however, his land is healthier than ever before.
"We'd have made a bumper cotton crop this year except for the rain. We still had a decent crop — we'll probably average around 800 pounds. We thought we'd get two-bale cotton before the rains, though."
Rice is also a major crop for Franklin. He says the greatest asset of his home parish — Richland — is the water supply that sits about 100 feet deep.
"Unlike a lot of rice farming areas, we have plenty of water. Our aquifer is very healthy, even with all the pumps that've been sunk these last few dry years. The biggest drop I've seen in any of my wells is 2 or 3 feet. We're blessed because whatever drop we see during growing season is gone by spring."
In a normal year, Franklin, who farms with his three sons, has around 5,000 acres of cotton, 2,500 in rice and more acreage in corn and soybeans. He also owns and manages large tracts of timberland.
According to friends and associates, Franklin is a man often ahead of the curve. He was keen on precision leveling and irrigation before either was popular.
"Irrigation in Louisiana, where there is usually 50 to 60 inches of rain per year?" was the typical reaction when Franklin first began watering his crops, says Basil Doles, retired Extension agent. At that time, "Most farmers would tell you that cotton (was) a dry weather plant. You could count on one hand the farmers who were trying to irrigate cotton. George was one of those and he never stopped."
The first irrigating he did was during the 1950s when crops were burning up due to drought, says Franklin. He put a pump at the river, cranked it up and began furrow irrigating.
"I learned a lot. The first thing I learned was that not only was yield better after irrigating, but that staple length is determined by water. On land I wasn't irrigating we had staple of less than an inch. Where I was irrigating, the cotton length was much better."
Franklin bought five irrigation walking rigs and started sinking wells around his property. Many of his farming buddies, knowing of the floods that arrived regularly, laughed at the purchases and work.
"They kidded me about the rigs. They wanted to know if I could reverse the flow and suck water out of the fields. But soon enough the irrigating paid off and now everyone is doing it. If I see something and believe it'll work on my land, I've got to try it. That's my make-up. It may turn out to be the wrong thing to do, but I've got to try it and see."
Franklin also pioneered cotton/rice rotation, says Harry Cook, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services biologist.
"I was just thinking one day that most every cotton pest and weed would be killed by rice water and aquatic weeds can't stand dry ground. So why not try to rotate the two?" says Franklin.
He sat on the idea and then, about 20 years ago, bought some land that presented the opportunity to rotate. Franklin found that his cotton yield jumped following rice. Rice yields climbed because problem weeds and organic diseases lessened. He's been rotating the two crops ever since — two years in cotton, two in rice.
With Franklin, says Cook, "Soil improvement is always the goal with rotating crops to improve organic material and to control nematodes. Water quality is also of major concern since prior to being released into streams, water is rotated from one field to the next with the final use for waterfowl and timber growth. He's done an outstanding job.
"Here's the truth. I work with private landowners in Louisiana and other states. George has so many great ideas, I've put many of them into practice on other folks' land. He's still a man way ahead of his time."
Hunter, conservationist
"I started getting into conservationism in the 1940s. I've always been a big hunter and wanted to be able to do that while helping to fix my land," says Franklin.
He plants wheat and ryegrass for deer, floods huge amounts of land for ducks and plants filter strips with fervor. Black bear are seen around his thousands of acres regularly.
At 76, Franklin's passion is "creating perfect wildlife habitat on every acre of idle ground on his farm," says Larry Savage, wildlife biologist with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
Creating such habitat means regular planting of trees. Franklin, say those interviewed for this story, is a master at knowing what types of trees will fit certain environments.
"(Franklin) knows the value of trees to the environment. He's probably forgotten more than most of us know," says Doles.
About 10 years ago, Franklin bought land along the Ouachita River — 4.5 miles of river frontage. On the land are various row crops and timber.
"When he bought the land he noticed a lot of erosion troubles with the clay soils. Through CRP, WRP, Partners for Fish and Wildlife and his own initiative, George has planted hundreds — maybe thousands — of acres of filter strips and riparian zones in an attempt to create corridors for wildlife travel. He's made his land a showplace for environmental stewardship," says Cook.
Franklin has been at it for a long time, too. Far longer than it's been popular.
"George has trees he planted decades ago. He was working with George Putnam (informally titled "The Father of Hardwoods") out of Stoneville, Miss., on reforesting hardwood bottomland 45 years ago. George has the oldest research plantation that I know of," says Cook.
To be successful in planting trees, Franklin says, not only do you need to know a variety's tendencies but also the soil it's being planted in. That's why he does a lot of soil testing, soil typing and reading of elevation maps.
"We pull soil samples all the time. That's just as important when planting trees as when planting row crops. Then I find three or four tree varieties that'll work and I plant them all. I don't like planting just one kind of tree in an area. I want a mix."
Franklin's mobile phone rings. His son, on the other end, says a black bear just crossed the road a couple of hundred yards up. Franklin stops his truck, turns around and heads the opposite direction.
"We'll just let that bear be. As long as he's out here in these thickets he's minding his own business. He's welcome here. Let him call it home."
If you make the short drive from Rayville to Holly Ridge, right before reaching the old train depot you'll come to a road that turns north. True north.
"This stretch runs for 15 miles straight at the North Star. If you don't believe it, come on out some night and that star will be straddling the center line," says Franklin.
He knows this because his father, in one of his myriad early jobs, surveyed the road when it was going in. The crew boss said he wanted the road pointing north and Franklin Sr., taking the man at his word and eschewing a compass, waited until dark and pointed the road at the North Star.
"Sounds like something some ancient civilization would do, doesn't it? Whenever I drive this road I tend to look up," says the son. "I can't help it. Doesn't matter if it's day or night, either. Daddy would probably like that, I think. How's that for a story?"
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North Korea will "mercilessly" drive the American aggressors into the sea, "miserably destroy" US units stationed in South Korea and transform Seoul into a "nuclear sea of fire." With phrases like these, North Korean leaders have repeatedly threatened to have their "heroic army" -- driven by their superior ideology and love for their supreme leader -- annihilate the enemy.
But now North Korea's extensive arsenal of verbal intimidation has added a new target: Pyongyang declared last week that North Koreans "will be exercising our right to preemptive nuclear attack against the headquarters of the aggressor," referring to the United States. At the same time, North Korea's propaganda apparatus is sowing fear among its own citizens, by claiming that an American attack is imminent and that they must steel themselves for the worst.
The shrill rhetoric coming out of Pyongyang has only increased since the United Nations imposed new sanctions on the reclusive country on Thursday for conducting a third nuclear test on Feb. 12.
Indeed, tensions are rising on the Korean Peninsula, where dictator Kim Jong Un is also threatening to scrap the armistice that ended the Korean War, fought between 1950 and 1953, and ushered in a period of more subdued hostilities. What's more, Pyongyang has cancelled a non-aggression pact with Seoul and cut off a hotline meant to allow any incidents along the 38th parallel truce line to be quickly defused.
The tensions in East Asia could worsen in the coming weeks. According to the South Korean Ministry of National Defense, the North Koreans are planning to begin a large military maneuver soon. There may also be a further intercontinental missile test.
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un has visited a number of military units in recent days, and experts in Seoul aren't ruling out another provocation from the country, perhaps similar to that of November 2010, when the North fired grenades at the island of Yeonpyeong, a front-line island, killing four South Koreans.
There are three reasons for Kim's saber rattling. First, Pyongyang is apparently convinced that the rest of the world is out to get them. The regime also believes it is their right to possess nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles, just like its archenemy, the United States.
Second, Kim and his family aim to show their starving underlings that they are legitimate leaders capable of protecting the people from external enemies, who are supposedly the real reason for the country's miserable economic state. The nuclear test's goal was strengthening his reputation as leader with the North Korean public and the military.
Finally, Pyongyang is testing the limits of recent changes in the region's political landscape. Three nearby countries all have new leaders. In China, the National People's Congress is underway, during which delegates will install Communist Party leader Xi Jinping as state president. South Korea has a new President, Park Geun-hye. And a conservative government is back in power in Japan. Meanwhile, in the US, Sen. John Kerry has replaced former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
North Korea is aware that its future depends primarily on neighboring China, its last remaining ally in the region. But China is currently busy wondering if Beijing should maintain its ties to Pyongyang. All it has to do to bring Kim Jong Un and his cronies to their knees is turn off the oil tap and halt food supplies.
The third nuclear test is an ideal opportunity to review China's alliance with the Kim dynasty. Linking China's strategic security with North Korea is an approach that needs to be overhauled.
The expanded sanctions imposed Thursday include a ban on sales of jewellery, yachts, luxury vehicles and racing cars -- but not on fur and liquor. Kim and his comrades can carry on toasting with fine cognac.
Whatever they decide and whichever forces prevail in China's North Korean policy, Shi is convinced that "relations are at rock bottom." Beijing agreed to the UN's latest sanctions knowing that they are open to interpretation and cannot inflict serious harm on the North Koreans.
By Guylain Gustave Moke
Political Analyst/Writer
Investigative Journalist
Photo-Credit:AFP: North Korea's leader: Kim Jong Un


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Most people reading this site will have a passing interest in baked goods and baking. You will therefore know the joy of seeing lovely baking stuff for sale. I'm sure you will agree, that it is all the more wonderful when you come across original, interesting baking products in the most unexpected of environments.
Take yesterday for example; there I was, wandering around the British Museum generally exuding an air of studiousness and intelligence (hmmmm) when I spotted these:
Egyptian themed biscuit cutters! Instantly I knew these cutters satisfied a need that, until that moment, I didn't know I had. How have I lived so long without being able to make mummy or Ankh or Egyptian cat-shaped biscuits?
A further highlight was found at a really cool shop called Artbox. Along with a couple of Hello Kitty cake themed items, I had to purchase this cushion especially as I am a fan of Japanese English – note the ingredients in the top right listed as "butter or margaries":
Special mention and thanks must go to the CCBF (Caked Crusader's Boyfriend) who didn't object to entering the packed shop where he was the only male present and then manfully carried a rather dinky shopping basket that I rapidly filled with pink, girly merchandise!
Sunday, 10 May 2009
Cool stuff
Posted by The Caked Crusader at 17:37
Labels: cool equipment, cool stuff
5 comments:
- Holler said...
I love that cushion, it is fab!
- 10 May 2009 at 17:48
- April said...
that is amazing!
April xx
- 10 May 2009 at 18:57
- Maria♥ said...
Love the cushion!
- 11 May 2009 at 13:10
- Cakelaw said...
I am lovin' those cookie cutters. And CCBF is a true gent :)
- 11 May 2009 at 13:57
- Lisa said...
How sweet of CCBF!
And it amuses me greatly that the chocolate cake on the cushion looks as if it has a fried egg on top.
Way jealous. :)
- 12 May 2009 at 01:50
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First came the devastation of the flood. Then, the recovery. Now... the musical?
Many along the Front Range still have good cause to be singing the blues over the damage caused by the historic rains of September. But two Jamestown women -- who are no strangers to challenging the dominant paradigm -- believe it's time to tell the whole story in a theatrical setting.
Oak Chezar and Joy Boston, two of three founders of the feminist radical theater troupe Vox Feminista, live on a shared property in Jamestown. Because they are situated on a hill above James Creek, they suffered no personal property losses in the disastrous storm.
But like everyone in the tiny mountain enclave, they were touched by the town's losses in countless ways. In fact, the spark for their new project was lit at a memorial service at the Greenbriar Inn for their friend Joey Howlett, former owner of the Jamestown Mercantile, the town's restaurant, music venue and central gathering spot. Howlett was one of four people to die during the flood in Boulder County; a mudslide crushed his house.
"At Joey's memorial service I was talking to another friend who was there, and I said Joy and I want to create a community event that's like a show about the flood, and he said, 'How about 'The Jamestown Flood -- The Musical?'" Chezar recalled. "I said, 'That's perfect.'"
If such a production sounds unlikely, particularly for a town that boasted about 300 residents before the flood -- and now has little more than one-tenth that number as rebuilding continues -- there is a precedent. This town has specialized in unlikely over the years.
Many still fondly recall "Hard Rock Fever," Jamestown's first original rock opera. It was a rowdy and tuneful tale of miners, prostitution and natural disaster staged in 2003 by Jamestown Area Artists and Musicians to raise money to restore the Jamestown Town Hall's rickety roof.
"Jamestown is about the most artistic community I've ever lived in," said Chezar, 58, a friend, creative and business partner of Boston's for more than 20 years. "Jamestown is filled with artists and musicians, a society of people who get together and put on shows and rocks operas and all kinds of things. It's all original stuff. Everybody always looks forward to the next JAM production."
Longtime Jamestown resident Nancy Farmer -- a self-described "Jimbilly," the self-deprecating label some locals use -- loves the idea of a flood musical.
"Participation in these events has a lot to do with the cohesiveness of the town," Farmer wrote in an email. "You might not know someone before, but once you've created and practiced and shared, you become family.
"I think 'Jamestown Flood, the Musical' is going to be an amazing production that will make audience members laugh and cry and bring them to their feet! Of course, first we have to write it."
Chezar admitted that some people she has approached to participate in the flood musical have not jumped at the idea. Jamestown saw 26 structures destroyed in the storm, according to the Boulder County Assessor's Office. The total in the county overall was 337.
"Some of them, they feel traumatized and they just want space from the event and they don't want to dive into the event," Chezar said. "But I'm a storyteller, and I just want to swim in it right now. I am. And it's lonely out here, in all the debris.
"I want them to hold hands and jump in and join in, in making something bigger."
Production is not yet under way. Boston, 61, has roughed out the outlines to a script for a multimedia show that is expected to be told in two halves, with an intermission. She said ideas have evolved simply from talking to people, hearing their stories from the flood, and compiling suggestions and ideas.
"We've tried to create a timeline of when things happened; what happened on the Wednesday night, what happened Thursday, and then Friday," Boston said. "The first part of the show would be the flood, and stories related to the flood.
"And then the second part would be the reconstruction, the healing, and this part would include FEMA coming in, the county coming in, the Texas Christian group that came in and helped us so much, and just the frustrations that people are having in dealing with their mortgages, and dealing with FEMA and dealing with the bureaucracy of filling out forms -- but then, you know, also some humorous things about it so we can laugh at ourselves."
The show will also touch on the themes of division -- the temporary division between the north and south sides of town riven by the flooded James Creek, but also the enduring split between the relatively few who are currently able to winter in Jamestown and the so-called "exiles," who have been temporarily displaced to Boulder and beyond.
The performance will progress toward a "wrapping up," Boston said, "about what we have learned from this experience, what we can do to help others who are going through it," even bringing in the topic of climate change and the seemingly increased frequency of extreme weather events.
"And at the very end," Boston said, "we would have to have a really rockin' song, in Jamestown style."
Two songs for the piece have already been written, and the women hope that weekly planning and writing sessions once the holidays are past will put the production on track for a premier at the Jamestown Town Hall by late spring.
"I would hate to do it just once," Chezar said. "Writing it and memorizing it is the hardest thing. My thinking is, once you've got it, show it, show the (expletive) out of it until nobody comes anymore.
"It would be great to do it two or three weekends in a row, and then take it to Denver or take it Boulder, and then see what we could do."
Contact Camera Staff Writer Charlie Brennan at 303-473-1327, email@example.com or twitter.com/chasbrennan.


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Minnesota Reports 8th, 9th Fungal Meningitis Cases
ST. PAUL (AP) - The Minnesota Department of Health is reporting the state's eighth and ninth confirmed cases of fungal meningitis in a national outbreak tied to tainted steroids.
Spokesman Buddy Ferguson says the patients are a man in his 60s and a man in his 50s. He did not have details on their conditions.
They were the state's first new confirmed cases in about a week, but Ferguson says Minnesota may see more cases because the disease seems to have a long incubation period.
The department says around 985 patients associated with six Minnesota clinics received injectable steroids linked to the fungal meningitis outbreak that were produced by the New England Compounding Center.
Nationally, the tainted steroids have been linked to nearly 330 illnesses in 18 states, including 24 deaths as of Thursday.
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