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"The rising seas, the sinking lawn: none of that bothered me tonight. Laura's health and mind, shifting like water. Mister Greasy, Son of Unabomber. Far away. Yay. I walked from the bay. I could not see. But I might have been given a fresh brain, inspired and outwardly turned, and as soon as I spoke those words to the deep, I swear creatures started coming toward me. Squirrels, raccoons, deer, herons, catbirds, footfalls on fallen leaves. I was like someone out of a freaking folktale, who knew not death or the churned-up stomach but moved through the night with the lightest tread, changing it with the benevolence of his passing."
"The Burning House"
Paul Lisicky
Etruscan Press, $14.95
Thus begins "The Burning House," a poetic, enigmatic, and slender novel (novella?) by Paul Lisicky, the author of two previous works of fiction. The story is narrated by Isidore Mirsky, who with his wife and her sister lives in a house that the sisters inherited from their mother. They live in a town on a bay that is being threatened by developers who want to build something big. It is going to affect the ecology as well as the nature of the town.
If I sound vague or tentative, it is because much of the detail in the book is never specified. Several towns or locales are mentioned in a way that makes one think that they are the location of the story, and yet is it Dunbarton Township? Ocean Ridge? Lumina? Aberdeen? Toms River? All these places are mentioned. I didn't know any of them. Isidore's wife, Laura, has an illness; though it is darkly hinted at and eventually even more darkly shown, we are left uninformed as to what her actual malady might be.
Isidore has been injured in an accident and his broken hand is keeping him from his normal occupation, fixing cars. He spends a lot of time taking care of the house, in part because he feels less than entitled to be living there, as it belongs to Laura and Joan. Also perhaps because he did not feel completely accepted by their mother.
Isidore narrates the book and is relaxed about setting the scene. He is a bit ahistorical in his approach and sometimes switches tense or person, once in a while even becoming an omniscient narrator, which lends the book a dreamlike quality. You sometimes don't know until halfway through a scene if it is past or present, in one location or another. The narration is, in fact, a great deal like his sexual but emotionally isolated affair with Janet.
". . . I tried my best not to take it all in, as I was afraid we might get ourselves into trouble if we started talking. All that mattered was that she had a body completely different from my wife's. . . . We'd figured out a way to do what we'd needed to do without being entered by our history, the world, and that was no small thing."
Despite a sentiment of no history, Isidore tells us that he grew up in a house of men — father, uncle, and cousin — and it shaped him in ways that make it difficult now for him to live in a house with two sisters and the ghostly presence of their mother.
"When did you last go into a household where you were expected to lift the toilet seat on leaving the bathroom? I'd thought that was common until Sherri Blatt, my first girlfriend, admonished me for such carelessness in her house. How could I not feel bewildered and ashamed for not knowing the most obvious thing?"
Sexually, Isidore is not completely at ease. He loves his wife — she has been his love since he saw her sing in high school — but that doesn't stop him from having his sexual liaison, nor from lusting mightily (albeit ambivalently) after his wife's sister. "Joan sat beside me. I felt as I felt when she first moved in, and I couldn't figure out how to arrange my eyes and arms whenever she talked to me." They end up lying together on the bed . . . innocently? And Laura walks in on them and her eyes fill with tears. "For some reason it came to me that I was losing her."
Isidore asks himself if it was ever possible "to love two people, wholly, equally, at once?" At one point he says, "A part of me wanted to pull [Joan] into the next room. Another part would have been happy never to see her face again." He is in denial about whether his feelings for Joan are merely sexual or more romantic, although the other woman with whom he is actually having sex holds no emotional connection for him at all.
Joan is active in the antidevelopment movement and intends to speak at the next town planning board meeting. The expectation, at least from Isidore, is that she is going to be terrifically persuasive and win the day, stopping the greedy developers who are going to ruin the town. But when the time comes, she bombs excruciatingly.
"She kept reaching for the right word (and I was reaching there along with her), but the harder she tried, the more elusive it was, so just as she almost touched it (beautiful, generous thing), it swam away: a sunfish she'd been trying to grip with her bare hands. Of all the pains in the world, the worst has got to be watching the humiliation of someone you care about."
Laura doesn't make it to the meeting because of her illness. "Her skin smelled hot and unfamiliar, like a barnyard or dirtied feet. . . . 'But I'm just worried about . . . Why couldn't he put a name to it? Stupid doctor.' " And then a page or so later: "Mystery disease. It did not belong in our house."
The writing in "The Burning House" is often gorgeous and lyrical. At one point Isidore tells us that "rage drew its claws across my back." Raindrops fall on leaves "with a curious sound of frying," and "Glarey clouds ragged in from the bay." There is a kind of trancelike quality to the writing and to the book that can be disconcerting and fascinating, sometimes at the same moment. Mr. Lisicky's poetic and minute scrutiny of the details and nuances of moments and thoughts and images sometimes seems so microscopic that one feels as though one isn't seeing the entire picture, but then again, perhaps that is his intention.
"I walked forward, concentrating into the cedar shake shingles on the roof: the mold, the pale green threads of lichen furring up the wood. I didn't want to give them what they wanted. There, the supermarket manager with the unbalanced glasses; there, a man with a clean ace bandage wrapped ten times round his arm. There, Chick Keatley; there, Betty Bridges; there, Kevin Honeysett in an expensive satin tie, pink as a rhododendron. They didn't yell or even talk among themselves. Something shuffled, something scraped. They'd become their own thing now, a single force with a single unalterable face, fatigued and defiant. We've waited too long for what we want; we've been duped, and time's running out faster than you think."
Paul Lisicky teaches writing at New York University and is at present a visiting professor in the M.F.A. program at Rutgers University at Camden. He lives part time in Springs.
Michael Z. Jody is a psychoanalyst and couples counselor with a practice in Amagansett and New York City. He has a house in East Hampton.


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The Latin name for the cacao tree – the tropical plant source of all things chocolate – consists of two words packed with candy-loving scientific exuberance. Theobroma cacao. It derives from the Greek words for god (theo) and food (brosi), roughly translating to "food of the gods".
Well, sure you say. Obviously. This is chocolate, after all. Almost goes without saying. Which is why I won't. Actually, I'm mostly trying to explain why the most potent chemical compound in chocolate – a plant alkaloid, slightly bitter in taste, surprisingly poisonous in some species – is called theobromine.
And while chocolate, as a whole, has a wonderfully seductive chemistry, this poison-obsessed blog will remain, well, obsessed. Today's obsession is inspired by the fact that every Valentine's season, in addition to stories about love and lace, newspapers run cautionary candy tales. In the last few days alone, there have been headlines ranging from Chocolate Poisoning and More to Pets and the Peril of Chocolate.
And that's entirely due to, yes, theobromine.
So theobromine is an alkaloid, meaning it's part of the everyday chemistry of the plant world. Plant alkaloids are nitrogen-based, typically with with flourishes of carbon, hydrogen and occasionally other atoms such as oxygen. The recipe (or as chemists like to say, formula) for theobromine is seven carbon atoms, eight of hydrogen, four of nitrogen and two of oxygen.
And while this may sound like a recipe for the routine, alkaloids are anything but. The first plant alkaloid isolated (in 1804) was morphine from the flowering poppy. Other notable examples include cocaine (1860), nicotine (1828), caffeine (1820), strychnine (1818) and a host of pharmaceuticals including the anticancer drug Vincristine; the blood pressure medication, reserpine; and the antimalarial compound, quinine.
By this standard, theobromine discovered in cacao beans in 1841, might sound to you
like a basic wuss of the alkaloid family. It's mostly known as a mild stimulant in humans; it contributes (along with caffeine and a few other compounds) to that famed lift that people get from eating chocolate.
There is some evidence that if people get carried away with chocolate consumption, of course, theobromine will make them a little twitchy. According to the National Hazardous Substances Database: "It has been stated that "in large doses" theobromine may cause nausea and anorexia and that daily intake of 50-100 g cocoa (0.8-1.5 g theobromine) by humans has been associated with sweating, trembling and severe headache." Occasionally, people (mostly the elderly) have needed hospital treatment for a theobromine reaction.
But if one looks at LD50 values, it's obvious that the alkaloid is far more threatening to other species. LD50 is an oral toxicity measurement; it refers to the dose that will kill 50 percent of a given population and is usually calculated in milligrams of poison per kilograms of body weight. The theobromine LD50 is about 1000 mg/kg in humans. But for cats it's 200 mg/kg and for dogs it's 300 mg/kg – in other words, dangerous at a far lower dose.
This varies, of course, by animal size and shape and breed. A few years ago, in fact, National Geographic published a fascinating interactive chart so that pet owners could search out the individual risk. The chart focuses on dogs because they are more likely than cats to eat something sweet. And it notes that theobromine is more concentrated in dark chocolates making them more dangerous than milk or "white" chocolate. The dark chocolate effects are so acute for canines, that the alkaloid has been tested with some success as a means of controlling coyote populations. (Interestingly, rats and mice are much less affected; their theobromine LD50 is much more like that found in humans.)
The different toxicities have to do with the way different species metabolize the alkaloid; humans process it much more efficiently than canines. And in small amounts, theobromine's effects can make it medically useful. But even here, it shows complexity. It increases heart rate and at the same time it dilates blood vessels, acting to bring down blood pressure. It can also open up airways and is under study as a cough medication. It stimulates urine production and is considered a diuretic. It interacts with the central nervous system, although not as effectively as caffeine.
At toxic levels – in a characteristic dog death, for instance – all of this adds up acute nausea, convulsions, internal bleeding and often lethal over-stimulation of the heart. "See a vet immediately" is the message of one cautionary post, titled Toxic Chocolate. Another column, written by a vet, suggests rather hopefully that an evening walk is far more romantic and less likely to feature pet vomit (which she describes in revoltingly foamy detail).
We had that same foamy experience in our household in December, actually, when our dog discovered our son's holiday stash. We all survived but the humans in the house are a lot more careful about where they leave their chocolate. And this Valentine's Day, we're sticking to champagne. Sure, ethanol is also a poison in its own right. But that's a different story.

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Hyman's Reply to Schwartz
Ray Hyman
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 27.3, May / June 2003
I cannot, of course, respond in detail within the allotted space to each of Schwartz's arguments. Instead, I will comment on his major points and conclude with a general reaction to his rebuttal.
1. "Hyman resorts to . . . selectively ignoring important information that is inconsistent with his personal beliefs."
In preparing my critique of his research program, I not only read The Afterlife Experiments carefully, I also scrutinized in detail every report of his research that was available. It was not possible to discuss each separate piece of information in my critique. I took each item into account, however, in making my assessment of the research. I chose to focus my discussions on those items that Schwartz and his colleagues had emphasized as the strongest outcomes amongst their findings. I have refereed and reviewed research reports for more than fifty years for many of the major scientific publications and for major granting agencies. I applied the same standards to my evaluation of the afterlife experiments that I have used in my other assessments.
2. ". . . Hyman failed to mention the important historical fact that our mediumship research actually began with double-blind experimental designs."
As his example he refers to his experiment with the mediums Susy Smith and Laurie Campbell that "was completed almost a year before we conducted the more naturalistic multi-medium/multi-sitter experiments involving John Edward, Suzanne Northrop, George Anderson, Anne Gehman, and Laurie Campbell. The early Smith-Campbell double-blind studies did not suffer from possible subtle visual or auditory sensory leakage or rater bias — and strong positive findings were obtained."
This is a peculiar example to use as a model of a controlled, double-blind experiment. The experiment involved having Susy Smith, designated as Medium One, apparently contact four deceased persons: her own mother, William James, Linda Russek's father, and Schwartz's father. Smith made a drawing for each of these departed individuals supposedly with their input. She also made a "control" drawing. Laurie Campbell, designated as Medium Two, was then requested to independently attempt to contact these departed individuals and, using the information obtained from them, to try to match each drawing to the associated departed individual. Campbell attempted to contact the departed entities during two sessions in the presence of three experimenters. Campbell is described as being "blind" to personalities of the four departed individuals. However Schwartz, who was not blind to the personalities of these entities, was not only present during these sessions but actively trying to convey this information (through "telepathy") to Campbell. This unnecessary blunder compromises whatever blinding would have existed between Medium Two and the personalities of the departed individuals. No psychic investigator would be surprised if Laurie Campbell came up with some correct information such as the gender and other descriptors of the departed individuals under these conditions.
Another defect of this phase of the experiment is that no provisions were made to use a systematic and objective method for assessing the accuracy of Medium Two's descriptions. The evaluation of the information for this stage of the experiment was subjective.
During the sittings with Medium Two, all the experimenters were blind as to which drawing was associated with which departed individual. (Although it is plausible that one might be able to make some reasonable guesses, given the characters of each of the departed individuals, which type of drawing would go with each one.) Unfortunately, the experimenters then make another serious, and completely unnecessary, blunder when it came time to see if Medium Two could accurately match the drawings with the appropriate individual. The experimenters brought Medium Two and Medium One together. Medium One then displayed the drawings she had made to represent each individual. Medium Two then attempted to match the drawings to the appropriate sources in the presence of Medium One. Ironically, the experimenters openly admit that this could allow clues about the correct matching through the "Clever Hans" phenomenon. They dismiss this as possibility because Campbell was able to correctly match only one of the five drawings to its appropriate source.
At this point in the experiment the report becomes especially murky. Presumably, the experiment has failed. However, the experimenters inexplicably have Medium Two try again to match the drawings to their appropriate source. This second attempt is made after she is shown an explicit summary of her comments about the pictures and the departed individuals. Campbell correctly matches the five drawings (including the control) in this second attempt. No reason is given for giving the medium two tries at matching the drawings, nor do the experimenters tell us how they justify asking the medium to redo her matching. Probably these and other questionable aspects of the procedure are moot given that the possibility of blinding was compromised.
Schwartz and his colleagues, in their published paper, describe this as an "exploratory study." The proceedings seem to have been improvised at each stage. Certainly, no competent investigator would plan to unnecessarily compromise experimental blinding at the two most critical points of the data collection. Nor does it make sense to design an experiment wherein the medium is given two chances at getting the matching correct. I simply was applying the principle of charity in not discussing this botched experiment.
3. "In an exploratory double-blind long-distance mediumship experiment . . . Hyman states 'because nothing significant was found, the results do not warrant claiming a successful replication of previous findings.' However, Hyman minimizes the fact that the number of subjects in this exploratory experiment was small (n=6). More importantly, Hyman fails to cite a(n) important conclusion that we reached in the discussion: If the binary 66 percent figure approximates (1) LC's actual ability to conduct double-blind readings, coupled with (2) the six sitters' ability, on the average, to score transcripts double-blind, the 66 percent figure would require only an n of 25 sitters to reach statistical significance (e.g. < .01)."
This part of Schwartz's rebuttal, like all the other parts, strikes me as both bizarre and off the mark. First, we need to clear up some mistakes and/or misunderstandings. Schwartz confuses the sample statistic with the population (or hypothesized true value). Given twenty-five sitters and a sample outcome of seventeen correct identifications (success rate of 68 percent) of their actual readings (which, given the discrete nature of the binomial distribution is the closest we can get to 66 percent correct) the one-tailed probability would be .054 and not less than .01 as Schwartz claims. Regardless of the correct probability value here, this has little to do with power. Schwartz is hypothesizing that the true (population) proportion of correct binary choices in this situation is close to the 67 percent (4 out of 6) that he observed in his sample. If, indeed, this value is correct, then, given his use of a one-tailed test and a significance level of .01, the probability of getting a significant outcome with twenty-five sitters would be slightly more than 0.54. To have a reasonable power (say close to 90 percent) one would need over 100 sitters.
Schwartz appears to be begging the question here. He begins by observing that four out of six sitters correctly identified which of two readings was meant for them. Because of the small sample, this outcome is consistent with a number of possibilities including the chance value of 50 percent. If he had obtained the same proportion of correct hits with a larger sample, then it would have been significant. However, since we cannot tell what the true proportion is from a sample outcome based on only six cases, we have no basis for predicting the outcome for a larger sample. His argument reduces to the trivial one: If the true proportion is 67 percent then we will be able to get a significant outcome with a larger sample. From his actual outcome, we can just as well say: If the true proportion is 50 percent (and this, too, is consistent with his data), then he will very likely not get a significant outcome with a larger sample.
I find it difficult to understand why Schwartz considers this point worthy of mention. Of course a binary outcome with only six trials has very low sensitivity. However, he did not rely on this outcome. He used two other measures, the number of dazzle shots and the hits and misses, which are clearly much more sensitive. These also failed to provide overall significance. For these measures (as well as for the actual choice of the relevant reading), the overall sensitivity would have been greatly enhanced if each sitter actually rated all six readings. In addition to greatly enhanced sensitivity, this would have avoided the unfortunate situation where each sitter was rating his or her own reading against a foil that differed for each rater. Another plus would have been the opportunity to determine which readings had more general appeal independent of any specific information peculiar to a given sitter.
In his longer rebuttal to my critique which he posted on the Web (see his reference in his rebuttal) Schwartz claims he actually predicted that GD would successfully differentiate his own reading from the accompanying foil reading. The claim that this particular outcome was predicted does not square with the opening sentence of the report wherein the experimenters state, "This paper reports an unanticipated replication and extension. . . ."
I have already pointed out in my critique how Schwartz has an unusually liberal interpretation of "replication." Not only is the statistical and experimental evidence suspect, but the qualitative analysis of the actual reading for GD in the second experiment does not overlap in any important respect with the reading in the earlier experiment. In particular, none of the apparently striking examples of names, events, and places that are reported for the first reading are in the second reading. I agree with Schwartz that the outcome of this "double blind" experiment is consistent with "individual differences in sitter characteristics." However, borrowing from Schwartz's propensity to resort to Occam's Razor, I believe it is prudent to suggest a much more mundane explanation. We need only assume two very plausible and non-extraordinary assumptions to account for the results: 1) Luck: GD had a 50-50 chance of choosing the correct reading; 2) Rater bias: given that he has chosen the correct reading, he would show a strong response bias to give high marks to the chosen reading and low marks to the rejected one. Note that this is consistent with the qualitative evidence that I provided in my critique. However, note that the burden of proof is not upon the critic to show that this explanation is correct. Rather, the burden of proof should be on Schwartz to show, as the claimant, that he has ruled out this and other possible mundane explanations. This is what good experimental methodology, which is so far lacking in the afterlife experiments, is intended to accomplish.
Unfortunately, I do not have space to respond to other specifics of Schwartz's rebuttal. In his rebuttal he attributes motives, preferences, and biases to me. These are based on assumption unsupported by facts. For example, he characterizes me as "reluctantly" agreeing that fraud is unlikely. In fact, I have no reluctance at all to make such an assertion. He attributes certain preferences to me that are, in some cases, just not true. He also is factually incorrect on some matters. He says that I was one of the group of cold readers who declared that I could, with training, duplicate what his mediums had accomplished in his laboratory. This is wrong. I deliberately refrained from such a commitment. My major point during the meeting with him on cold reading was that the determination of whether his mediums are using cold reading is a separate matter from the question of whether they were conveying any information of a paranormal nature. If he wanted to study the role of cold reading in the readings given by his mediums, that was an experimental goal that was separate from determining if his mediums are providing evidence for the survival of consciousness.
Nor did I conclude, contrary to Schwartz's implication, that his mediums were using cold reading. I did observe — and I specifically emphasized that this was a subjective opinion — that I could see little difference between the utterings of his mediums and those of the typical psychic reader. I want to emphasize again, it is not for me, or other critics, to show that his mediums are using cold reading or some other ploys. The burden of proof is on Schwartz to show that he has convincingly eliminated such possibilities.
So far as I can tell, Schwartz has really not answered my criticisms. A close reading reveals that he does not deny the various failings I have divulged in his research. Instead, he defends the departures from proper experimental methodology on a number of grounds: 1) he and his colleagues were aware of these defects and actually admitted so in their reports (but such admissions do not somehow neutralize the defects); 2) there were practical reasons such as wanting to provide a more naturalistic context (but this does not excuse using inappropriate control comparisons, failing to correct for rater bias, using inappropriate probability and statistical computations, etc.); 3) some of the "defects" were deliberately included to check on certain questions (but this does not justify drawing strong conclusions); and 4) that taken in their totality the experiments somehow provide powerful evidence for anomalous communication even if the individual experiments are flawed (actually, repeatedly making similar mistakes from experiment to experiment compounds rather than compensates for the errors).
Despite the deficiencies in his experiments, Schwartz seems convinced that his mediums have provided, in some cases, specific and unique information including names, places, etc., that the critics cannot explain away. For one thing, these apparently specific items are much fuzzier than he believes. His examples are selected just because they appeared to contain such specifics. This raises the difficult question of how to actually assess how much of this is just coincidence. Furthermore, even the most specific and concrete match is problematical because practically no constraints are placed upon the sitter in finding a suitable match (e.g., it can be a dead or a living person; it can be someone close to the sitter or a mere acquaintance; etc.). No actual check is made as to how close the match actually is. My point here is that Schwartz really has provided us with nothing to explain. We do not know if he has produced anything worth taking seriously until he can convincingly demonstrate that he has obtained his data under methodologically appropriate conditions. Science demands this in the conventional fields of inquiry. We should demand no less from Schwartz.


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Complaint says district broke election laws
APOC investigates claims made by Tom Schantz against school district
Valdez City Schools District has been accused of violating Alaska campaign laws by Valdez man Tom Schantz. In a complaint he filed last week with the Alaska Public Offices Commission (APOC,) Schantz claimed the school district caused irreparable harm to last Tuesday's municipal elections by paying to run newspaper ads touting the benefits of a new middle school. Proposition 1, which was on the ballot Tuesday, asked Valdez voters to approve or reject the issuance of general obligation bonds totalling$39 million to pay for a new middle school to replace the aging Gilson Junior High.
The election results were not available at press time. Preliminary election results are available on an insert in this week's paper.
APOC held a public hearing in Anchorage Friday to decide whether or not it would expedite the complaint filed by Schantz. The request for expedition was denied by APOC, but an investigation into the matter will be made.
"It is the complainant's responsibility to show it is warranted," APOC said during the hearing.
The newspaper ad in question ran in the Valdez Star September 19 and did not mention Proposition 1 or the October 2 election. The ad, running under the banner "Gilson Junior High School Replacement" attempted to answer three questions posited by the school district; why replace the school building, why will it cost $39 million, and why is replacing the building a top priority for the district.
The ad did not mention who or what organization paid for it, which Schantz claims is violation of Alaska campaign law.
During Friday's APOC hearing, Schantz complained that similar ads, along with a second ad published in the Valdez Star September, 26, were also posted on the KVAK radio website. The second ad, touted in its banner that the State of Alaska will pay for 60 percent of the new building's construction cost. It also contained a "Proposition No. 1 Fact Sheet" and "Paid for by Valdez City Schools," disclaimer at the bottom.
Schantz also complained the school district sent students' home with inappropriate materials regarding the proposition.
John Sedor, the school district's attorney, represented the district at Friday's APOC hearing.
Sedor told APOC commissioners and attorneys that while the district did not agree that the allegations made by Schantz were valid, the district would pull all web-based ads and had no prior plans to distribute materials anywhere regarding Proposition 1.
In a copy of an email correspondence between Schantz and Sheri Pierce, city clerk and top election official in Valdez, that was presented as evidence by Schantz to support his complaint, Pierce said the ad did not appear to break campaign laws.
"The ad does not say 'vote yes proposition 1' so in my opinion APOC would probably deem that it is not concrete in its direction to the voters. I imagine this was on purpose." Pierce's email said. "You could get a ruling from APOC, that is their job to monitor political ads, if they believe something is in violation of their rules for reporting, they will follow up."
Schantz disagreed with Pierce and did file an APOC complaint.
In his email reply, Schantz said he believed the ads were inaccurate because the information the district published did not include interest costs on the bonds voters are asked to approve and financial terms that have not yet been determined in the price taxpayers will incur to barrow money.
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City administrators have said the true cost of interest for the $39 million in bonds will not be known until city officials attempt to sell the bonds.
Schantz also said he was expressing views he held as a taxpayer and Valdez resident, and not in his capacity as the city's comptroller.
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During the hearing, Schantz told APOC officials he felt out of his element. When asked what remedy he would like to see imposed if indeed it is found the district violated campaign laws, Schantz was noncommittal.
He told the board he opposed a monetary fine because as a taxpayer, it would penalize himself.
"From my perspective, fining the school district is fining me," he said at the hearing.
There was no clear timeline for the final results of the APOC investigation into the complaint.


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The Dream comes standard with a motorized headrest and power recline. The control switch on the inside armrest will recline the chair to the perfect angle for you, then adjust the power headrest and you are all set for the evening. Ambient base rail lighting under the seat and in the cupholders can be turned on/off from the same power controls. These lights radiate a soft blue hue and set the mood for movie night!
Hidden storage compartments in the armrests ensure that remotes and TV guides never get lost. The armrests also include the most valuable of all Octane features – the accessory dock. This dock will accommodate your tray tables, wine glass holders, reading lights, tablets holders and so much more. Bring the comfort to your throne…..this is the chair that controls it all.
The Dream is upholstered in a rich top grain brown leather on all seating surfaces.
|Octane Seating
|Top Grain Leather/Leather Match
|Power Recline
|Seat Type
|Standard Seat Pitch
|Accessories (Optional)
|Tray Tables, Phone Holder, Wine Glass Holder, Popcorn & Snack Bowl, iPad & Tablet Holder, Flex Reading Light, Cigar & Cigarette Holder, Removable Arms, Head & Neck Pillow, Lumbar Pillow
|LED Lights, Accessory Dock, Arm Storage, USB Charging Port, Motorized Headrest, Memory Foam, Lumbar Support
|Seats Per Row
|Residential, Commercial
|Available Layouts
|Straight Layout
|Chaise Style Footrest
|Cup Holders
|Blue LED Lighted Cup Holders
|Storage Compartments
|LED Lighted Baserail
|Accessory Dock
|Motorized Headrest
|Kiln Dried Hardwoods, Metal
|1.8 High Density Foam Core with a Top Layer of Cooling Gel Infused Memory Foam
|Seat Core
|Individual pocketed coils in seating core
|Sinuous Springs, Pocketed Coils in Seat Core
|Each Seat Ships Separately & Fully Assembled; Must Attach Seat Backs
|5 yrs on frame, springs & recline mechanism, 2 yrs on padding & foam, 1 yr on leather & electrical parts
|Assembly Time
|Approximately 15 to 30 Minutes (No Tools Required)
|Wall Clearance
|2 to 4 Inches
Octane Seating offers this model in their premium Grade 9000 Top Grain Leather, which is called the Luxe Series. Luxe is an aniline dyed, very supple top grain cowhide leather. Grade 9000 leather is handpicked from the top third of all hides, is extremely thick, supple, and luxurious. The tannery uses very select hand picked raw materials to attain a very soft hand and drape. Once upholstered the natural grain provides a quality appearance and richness. This premium leather offers incredible durability along with excellent color consistency. This product features top-grain on the parts of the seat that touch the body, and the back and sides are matched in vinyl.
Want to see, touch and feel the upholstery in person? We will gladly send you swatches free of charge.
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This model is available in an unlimited amount of configurations. Our most popular layouts are shown below, however if you need a design not shown, please give us a call.
2 Arm
Right Arm
Left Arm
2 Straight
3 Straight
4 Straight
4 Straight w/ Loveseat
5 Straight
6 Straight
Black Swivel Table
Designed with a matte black surface and constructed with a solid 100% aluminum post, this table allows you to enjoy a true cinematic experience in the comfort of your own home. It is large enough to hold small or large items, from a bowl of popcorn to a full course meal. The table swivels 360 degrees, enabling you to swivel it closer or further away from you while watching movies.
Featuring our exclusive "grip technology" that minimizes items from sliding. It is scratch and fingerprint resistant, designed for long lasting every day use. The table is removable and easy to clean with a damp cloth. The post is made of premium aluminum, exemplifying Octane's quality and craftsmanship.
Aluminum Swivel Table
Sophistication and style are magically combined with this premium swivel table featuring a 100% brushed aluminum top. Measuring 9.75 x 13.75 inches, it is large enough to hold snacks to a full course meal. The aluminum is scratch resistant, and easy to clean. Your home theater seats will be the envy of all.
The table is equipped with an aluminum post that simply slides into the accessory dock located in front of the cup holders. It swivels a full 360 degrees and is easily removable when not in use. The table top has a beveled rim to prevent any slipping and will showcase your snacks with flair.
Glass Swivel Table
This luxurious premium glass swivel table is a platinum level addition to any home theater. The tempered glass is 0.375 inches thick and large enough to hold snacks to a full course meal. The table features a smooth beveled edge, accented by a brushed aluminum rectangular base . A perfect pairing of contemporary sophistication.
A beautiful polished finish provides a tasteful way to enjoy your movies in style. The table simply fits into the accessory dock located in front of the cup holders.
Walnut Wood Swivel & Lap Table
Enjoy this solid walnut wood kidney shape swivel table that features a cup holder groove to hold your beverages in place. The table also has a slim slotted groove, perfect for cell phones and light reading materials.
The bottom of the table has a bean bag pouch so that you can use it on your lap or use the metal post which slides into the Accessory Dock located in front of the cup holders. The table swivels 360 degrees and is easy to remove and clean.
Popcorn & Snack Bowl
Our exclusive Octane Seating Popcorn & Snack Bowl is a must have to truly enjoy your movies in complete style. The bowl is generously sized with a 7.75 inch diameter, which is plenty of space for loads of popcorn, or your favorite snack. It features a double walled stainless steel construction, which means hot food stays hot, and cold items stay cool.
The bowl attaches to an aluminum extension arm that fits perfectly into the Octane accessory dock. This enables you to position the bowl away from the cup holder, so you can enjoy your favorite drink at the same time. It swivels a full 360 degrees, providing the perfect resting spot for your snacks, without getting in the way.
Wine Glass Holder
This wine glass holder will elevate your theater or media room to VIP status. Enjoy your favorite Cabernet, Pinot Noir, Pinot Grigio, or Chardonnay while viewing your movies. Constructed of solid 100% aluminum with a smooth and elegant finish. The handle offers a gentle curved design that fits most wine glasses securely and safely.
The mouth of the holder was designed at an optimal size to fit both small and large glasses, even those used by a sommelier pouring into a full sized Cabernet glass. Your guests will surely be impressed by this beautiful accessory and its sleek modern design. Cheers!
Phone & Tablet Holder
Designed specifically for cell phones and tablets, it is constructed of solid aluminum with a sleek and chic design. It's equipped with a 360 degree angle adjustable hinge for unlimited viewing positions. The holder moves freely and silently, rotates vertically or horizontally and can be flipped over to the other side, allowing you to share it with others.
This holder will safeguard your items from scratches and scuffs. It rotates a full 360 degrees and easily slides into the Accessory Dock located in front of the cup holders. Tested with the highest industrial standard, 85% torque remains after 20,000 times full range operation.
LED Flex Light
This LED Flex Light allows you to locate and view your remote controls with ease. Additionally, sit back and relax reading your favorite book or novel, all in the comfort of the best seat in the house. The light uses a stainless steel flexible goose neck arm that holds its positioning. Simply turn it on via its touch sensor button located at the base of the light, and it will instantly light up with its low voltage LED lights.
The light was specifically designed to illuminate directly at its destination without it disrupting your screen or television. The light offers high brightness and low energy consumption. Requires 3 AAA batteries (not included).
Cigar & Cigarette Holder
Enjoy your favorite cigar while sitting in the best seat in the house. This premium basin is made of solid 100% aluminum with a brushed billet finish, weighing just under 4 pounds. The top is adorned with 4 separate positions to hold all sizes of cigars and cigarettes.
The holder simply fits into the accessory dock situated in front of the cup holders. On the bottom of the holder is a post that securely slides in the dock. Once in position it can swivel a full 360 degrees and rests in its position for a snug fit. Easily removable to clean and maintain.
Lumbar Pillow
Our unique orthopedic lumbar support cushion features premium memory foam infused with bamboo charcoal. This helps ensure your back cushion stays fresh and odorless, and also helps control humidity and is thermo-regulating. Additionally, you can stay nice and cool with our unique ventilated foam which has been drilled to help make it breathable.
The cover consists of 3D breathable mesh that is machine washable and allows for maximum airflow. You can now sit for hours on end, providing optimal lower back support and comfort. The pillow comes with a secondary over-sized strap that enables you to attach the strap around the seat-back of almost any chair.
Head & Neck Pillow
This pillow is the perfect accessory for those who need added articulation or support while reclining. The pillow is filled with high density, premium blown fiber that provides the right amount of support along with incredible comfort. An ergonomic shape was designed for muscle relief and can be used for either the head or neck. Offered in premium top grain leather to match your Octane seats.
Once placed in position, the strap will ensure it stays in place with its "slip free" backing material. The strap also features a weighted end so that it balances the pillow to keep its positioning. Some people also use the pillow as an additional arm rest if desired.
Removable Storage Arm
We upgraded our standard removable arm by adding a handy storage compartment. Both are the perfect accessory for those who purchase theater seats with a loveseat or sofa configuration. Made of premium materials with plush padding, this arm will stay firmly in place and provide the necessary support and comfort you desire.
The storage compartment is easily accessible, and holds remote controls and other small items. Simply slide the arm in between two seat cushions, and it will fit snugly into position. Its weight and quality construction ensures a steady and sturdy arm rest every time.
Removable Arm
The perfect accessory for those who purchase theater seats with a middle loveseat or sofa layout. Its slim profile supports your arms with its plush padding, yet it doesn't take up much room so you still have ample space to sit in complete comfort. The removable arm simply slides in between two seat cushions, fitting snugly into position. The bottom of the arm has a fin like wood aperture that holds the arm in place.
A full sized black aluminum cup holder is housed in the front of the arm and hold most cans and drinks. This removable arm can literally be used on any piece of furniture between two seats, turning any sofa into a media oasis.
Wireless Battery Pack
Specifically designed for motion furniture, this lithium-ion battery power supply enables you to operate your power recline theater seats without the need to plug them into a wall or other outlet. Simply charge the battery supply, then enjoy up to 150 up and down reclining cycles.
Please note that we DO NOT recommend using this battery if the model of your theater seats has LED lighting. These lights will quickly drain the battery and it will not perform adequately or as described.
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Morgenstern: 'The Lone Ranger' Leaves It All to Depp
WSJ's Joe Morgenstern joins Lunch Break's Wendy Bounds to discuss his reviews of "The Lone Ranger" and "The Way, Way Back." Photo: Walt Disney Pictures.
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Halloween has come and gone, but the temptation to dip into "the bag" if you are a parent of young children (they are easily distracted) or even older ones (hey, strew that candy around at your own risk) remains almost impossible to resist.
But, seriously, what kind of parents would follow through and actually eat their kids' candy?
Will the defendants/parents please rise? Anything to say? "Hey, we walk the walk, talk the talk (say 'thank you,' say 'trick or treat,' say 'happy Halloween,' say 'sorry I crushed your flowers/grass/ghostly moaning thing on the porch'), carry the flashlight, the bag, the costume and eventually the child who crashes on the way home after the biggest day on the kiddie calendar, bar Christmas. Whatever, you (OK … we) are guilty.
But what about the ones who pretend to eat their kids' candy and then film the predictably horrified reaction? Clearly they are vying for a spot in Jimmy Kimmel's Halloween prankster video. For the third year running, the devilish late-night host asked parents to record their child's response to a fib about eating not just a Kit Kat or a few M&Ms but all of those hard-won Halloween goodies.
Parental discretion is advised: The first clip of blond twins howling their hearts out seems to go on forever and makes one question the emotional state of the parents. But stick with it, and you get to see Sleeping Beauty tell her parents: "You've ruined my whole day…I'll get you…it's not funny…(raspberry)," plus tantrums and other reactions, such as a junior strongman's vow: "I'm going to kick you…in the butt."
Of course, as one of those video subjects points out, "It's not funny," so @JimmyKimmel and the fake-guilty parents may not get off lightly with everyone (even if it is hard to find anyone on Twitter who doesn't think it's funny). After all, these are easily scarred children, not hip-hop stars or some yoga-pants-wearing fake twerker who flips over onto a glass table.
FUNNY UNTIL THE THERAPY BILLS COME http://t.co/GWYvk62mni
— Digg Kickers (@DiggKickers) November 5, 2013
Still, you can't say Kimmel doesn't care about Halloween and kids. He devoted time on a show in the run-up to Halloween to instructing his viewers on what to hand out for Halloween, with a choir of costumed kids delivering the message. The North Dakota fat-note woman clearly didn't watch, nor did those sickness-inducing healthy-treat givers.
So, parents, if you can live with the guilt, munch away. And if you can pay for the therapy in the years to come, start planning for Halloween 2014 and your chance to get on "Jimmy Kimmel Live."
And if you are one of those parents who lugged their kids' candy thousands of miles across the Atlantic back home to Europe where the glories of this holiday are hardly appreciated, I hereby grant you (read: me) permission to gobble up the Milk Duds.
— Barbara Kollmeyer
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A Massachusetts Avenue man told police he returned to his car the morning of Jan. 18 and found the back window of his 2006 Hyundai Tucson was smashed. He said he had little contact with his neighbors and is not aware of any problems with them or anyone else at this time. Officer James Vible said he inspected the smashed glass in the back and found remnants of a glass bottle with pieces of a Hennessy Cognac label among the fragments. It appeared the bottle was used to smash the glass. Vible said he collected some of the pieces of the bottle to be checked out by detectives.
The owners of the A Plus Tailors and Cleaners on West Natick Road told police they came to work around 8 a.m. on Jan. 14 and found the window next to the front door smashed. Office Eric Lima reported it appeared to have been done in with a baseball bat. He said the owners didn't find that anything was taken from the business and that he didn't know or suspect who could have done it or why. No witnesses.
Officer Matthew Moretti reported he was dispatched to Marlborough St. for a report of someone taking items from a plumbing and heating business. He said the caller told dispatch a man was carrying things out of the rear of Del Tufo Plumbing and Heating at 88 Marlborough and, as Moretti turned into the street, he saw a man walking from the rear of the business and detained, searched and placed the man in his cruiser while he spoke with the caller. The caller told him he was a relative of Del Tufo and he was aware that people had been stealing copper from the rear of the building recently. He said he heard noises coming from the business and looked out to see someone rolling a city trash bin from behind the business to a two-tone Ford Bronco. He said he heard clinking inside the bin that sounded like metal pipes that were unloaded into the Bronco. Moretti said he looked into the Bronco parked beside the business and saw some old pipes and fittings, a small and a large hot water tank and some copper pipe. He said he asked the man in his cruiser if that was his Bronco and he said it was. He said he asked him if the objects inside belonged to him and again he said yes. Moretti said he read the man his rights and asked him if he could inspect the things in the Bronco and the man declined and said there was no need to because the items belonged to him. He said the owner of the plumbing business arrived and identified the objects in the Bronco as his property. Dorian S. Larosa, 20, of 1030 Ives Rd., was charged with larceny under $1,500 and later released on $1,000 surety bail. (Court records showed that Larosa pleaded no contest to larceny and vandalism in Richman in February of last year and was sentenced to 30 hours of community service and restitution.)
Officer Jason Brodeur was dispatched to the Walmart store at Rhode Island Mall on Jan. 14 to take custody of a shoplifting suspect. Loss prevention told Brodeur they observed the suspect select a number of items and conceal them before leaving the store without paying for them. David Harootunian, 52, of 55 Cleveland St., West Warwick, was charged with stealing a blender, a thermos bottle, a pair of jeans and a camera case worth a total of $70.56.
Officer Javier Cabreja reported stopping a Jeep he saw traveling on Sandy Lane around 12:15 a.m. on Jan. 7. He said he turned around to follow the Jeep and saw it cross over the lane markers and the centerline and followed it to 90 Alfred St. and abruptly pulled into the driveway, giving Cabreja the impression he was trying to evade him. He said he saw the driver get out of the car and stagger toward the front door and ordered him to get back in the car, and once he complied he approached him and got his papers. He said the driver smelled of alcohol and appeared to be intoxicated. He said he then asked him if he lived in the house and he said he did not and he didn't know who did. He admitted he was trying to ditch Cabreja after he spotted him following him on Sandy Lane. He said the driver failed a field sobriety test and was taken to headquarters, where he blew a .110 and a .108 blood alcohol content on the breath test. Brenton Leach, 22, of 39 Pinegrove Ave., Warwick, was charged with DUI, driving on a suspended license, driving an unregistered car, lane roadway violations and driving without lights at night.
Officer John Curley reported he was on patrol on Post Road around 12:20 a.m. on Jan. 12 when a car pulled out of Belair Drive (Tavern Twelve) and hit him in the front driver's side of his cruiser. He said the impact sent his cruiser right into the Airport fence. He said he immediately called for more units. He said his door was stuck shut but he managed to kick it open and got out. He said he approached the pickup truck that hit him and heard the driver say, "Oh my God!" He said the driver smelled of alcohol and appeared to be drunk. He said none of the four occupants in the pickup appeared to be injured and he asked the driver to take a field sobriety test, which he failed. He said, according to his experience and training, he deemed the driver unfit to operate a motor vehicle. He asked him if he would take a preliminary portable breath analyzer test and he refused. Matthew F. Griswold, 29, of 920 Park Ave., Cranston, was arrested and taken to headquarters, where he refused to take a breath test. He was charged with refusal, DUI, no evidence of insurance and failing to yield the right of way.
Officer Stephen Major reported he was on a DUI detail around 1 a.m. on Jan. 11 near the 1500 block of Bald Hill Road when he saw a Jeep pull into the rear parking lot of a business that had been closed for a number of years. He said he put his spotlight on the Jeep and it attempted to exit the lot until Major hit his air horn and it stopped. He said the Jeep had a Rhode Island plate but the driver had a Massachusetts license. He said he asked the man what he was doing in the parking lot of a closed business and noticed that the man appeared to be under the influence, with bloodshot and watery eyes and a smell of alcohol about him. He said he asked him where he was coming from and he said he couldn't remember but he was "trying to get home to Fall River." He said he gave the driver a field sobriety test and he failed it. Cliff Andrade, 31, of 4801 North Main St., Fall River, was taken to headquarters, where he refused to take a breath test. He was issued a summons for DUI and refusal and waited for his wife, a sober adult, to "claim him."
Officer Adam Arico reported he was on patrol around 12:35 a.m. on Jan. 13 when he clocked a pickup doing 70 miles per hour on West Shore Road. He said he turned around and said he saw the pickup swerve across several lanes and the centerline as it continued at 65 to 70 miles per hour. He said the car pulled over near 600 West Shore. He said the driver smelled strongly of alcohol and appeared to be under the influence. He said he found out that the driver's license was suspended and he had the driver submit to a field sobriety test. He said the driver failed the test and was taken to headquarters, where he refused to take a breath test. He said Felipe J. De La Roca, 38, of 119 Pender St., Warwick, was charged with DUI, refusal, speeding, laned roadway violations and driving on a suspended license and later released to a sober adult.
...blender, thermos, jeans and a camera case for $70.56?
What, was the dude stealing with coupons? :)


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Just ran across this page that shows each team's salaries this season per unit/position/player. Interesting graphic.
Give it a look. I changed both teams to Seattle to get the ability to see each position group on defense and offense.
kidhawk wrote:That's a pretty cool interactive graphic. Although I'm not sure of it's complete accuracy, I know it lists Jones as a defensive end, and although he played both positions, he was much more of a DT than a DE IMO, but that's merely semantics in the overall scheme of things.


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Seraphim (Kykkotis) of Zimbabwe
His Eminence, the Most Reverend Seraphim (Kykkotis) of Zimbabwe is the Metropolitan of the Archdiocese of Zimbabwe in eastern Africa, part of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa. Prior to his assignment to Zimbabwe Metr. Seraphim was Metropolitan of Johannesburg and Pretoria.
George Philip Iakovou was born on February 2, 1961 in Galataria, Paphos. George knew that he wanted to serve God at an early age. At the age of twelve years he was accepted as a novice, with the name Seraphim, at the Monastery of Kykkos on the island of Cyprus. The young Seraphim was a very good student, first attending the Pan-Cypriot High School and then the Lyceum of Kykkos from which he graduated in 1982, with honors.
On September 8, 1983, Seraphim was ordained a hierodeacon by His Eminence Chrysostomos, Archbishop of Cyprus. He continued his education with studies at the Theological Faculty of the National Kapodistrias University of Athens from which he graduated in 1987. During the period he attended the theological faculty, Fr. Deacon Seraphim served with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Seraphim of Athens as a deacon in the archdiocese. Upon return to Kykkos in Cyprus, Fr. Deacon Seraphim served as treasurer of the monastery.
From 1988 to 1993, he continued his education in Great Britain, studying English and patristics at the Universities of Oxford and Durham under the Professor of Orthodox Theology, His Grace Kallistos Ware. He continued his studies in patristics at Holy Cross Seminary in Brookline, Massachusetts, graduating with a Master's degree in Patristics. While pursuing his education Fr. Deacon Seraphim was ordained a priest on August 15, 1991, and was raised to the dignity of archimandrite. In 1993, Arch. Seraphim became a member of the department of post-graduate studies at Athens University, specializing in Theology. During this period Arch. Seraphim served as a priest in the Archdioceses of Thyateira and Great Britain and Athens.
On September 28, 1997, consecrated Archbishop of Kenya by His Beatitude Petros VII, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa and enthroned on November 16, 1997. Additionally, between 1997 and 2001, Abp. Seraphim served as Director of Archbishop Makarios III of Cyprus Patriarchal Seminary in Nairobi. On March 18, 2001, Abp. Seraphim was enthroned Archbishop of Johannesburg and Pretoria, as the successor to the deceased Abp. Ioannis.
In 2010, Metr. Seraphim was transferred to lead the Archdiocese of Zimbabwe. His Eminence observes his Names day on January 2 in memory of St. Seraphim of Sarov.
Seraphim (Kykkotis) of Zimbabwe
|Preceded by:
Irenaeus (Talambekos)
|Bishop of Kenya
|Succeeded by:
|Preceded by:
|Archbishop of
Johannesburg and Pretoria
|Succeeded by:
Damaskinos (Papandreou)
|Preceded by:
George (Vladimirou)
|Metropolitan of Zimbabwe
|Succeeded by:
- His Eminence Archbishop Seraphim
- Archbishop Seraphim of Johannesburg and Pretoria
- New Orthodox Archbishop of Johannesburg and Pretoria 8 October 2010
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This annual report from the school committee of Deerfield, Massachusetts, proudly notes the opening of the new, two-story, multi-roomed grammar school in South Deerfield. The superintendent notes its advantages and contrasts it to the facilities in Old Deerfield a few miles up the road. In the first decades of the 20th century, the nation made a heavy investment in education, prompted in part by a movement known as the Progressives. The school system, it was felt, offered the best route to the future for all citizens of the commonwealth, and new facilities offered the best environment for learning.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – An Anchorage man has donated a trophy moose head and antlers to the Navy's newest warship.
Lex Patten told the Anchorage Daily News (
http://is.gd/Xb7yAJ) that his gift to the USS Anchorage pays tribute to his late father, Allen Patten, a World War II Navy veteran.
The shoulder mount was donated to the ship before its departure from Anchorage on Monday.
The warship is an amphibious transport dock that was in the city's port for its commissioning ceremony Saturday.
Patten's father was assigned to the battleship Nevada during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
Allen Patten was later transferred to the aircraft carrier Lexington before it was sunk during the Battle of the Coral Sea. He also served on the USS Enterprise and moved to Alaska in 1962 after retiring from the Navy.
Lex Patten said he shot the moose in 1990 during the last moose hunt he had with his father, who died in 2004.
"He insisted on packing out the antlers, about a mile, and he did," the son said. "He was 73 at the time."
The moose head, with a 65-inch antler spread, is among several Alaska wild animal trophies donated to the USS Anchorage by Alaskans. It was previously displayed at the Sportsman's Warehouse store in Anchorage.
Lex Patten said he wasn't sure where the moose head would be displayed on board the ship.
Information from: Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News,
Information from: Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News,
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Going where no man has gone before -- it could be the theme for this year's Montrose Christmas Parade, with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars rover team and original "Star Trek" actor Walter Koenig serving as co-grand marshals.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) and other dignitaries and officials will also be taking part in the parade along Honolulu Avenue, which starts at 6 p.m. on Saturday.
The parade starts at Honolulu Avenue at Rosemont Avenue, and then runs east to Verdugo Road.
The JPL Mars rover team gained international fame after successfully landing a mobile science laboratory on the Red Planet's surface -- and for certain team member sporting an eye-catching Mohawk during live television coverage of the mission control center.
Koenig gained fame for his role playing Pavel Chekov on the original "Star Trek" television series.
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Dallas Cowboys guard Josh Brent faces a Sept. 23 trial on an intoxication manslaughter charge in a car wreck that killed a teammate.
Prosecutors in Dallas on Monday confirmed the trial date over the Dec. 8 crash in Irving that killed practice squad player Jerry Brown Jr. Police have said Brent had a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit for driving. Brown was a passenger.
Brent remains free on $100,000 bond and must wear an electronic ankle bracelet. If convicted he faces up to 20 years in prison. Defense attorney George Milner says a plea bargain remains a possibility.
Brent's football career is on hold while his case is in the courts. The Cowboys at the end of last season put Brent on the reserve non-football injury list.
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archeman wrote:So just doing some quick calculations from your table numbers shows what a high price the Navy paid to get that greater control at lower speeds.
* C version gets only 1.66% greater range than the A. That low of a % puts it in the 'statistically insignificant' category. That has always been one of the quotes that attends the C version "has greater range", well not really enough to talk about.
* C version stores 7.6% more fuel than the A. Those big wings sure chew up that 7.6% fuel bonus in a hurry don't they???
* C version weighs 15.8% more than the A. Is this where the max G is going?
Given the above stats I would have thunk that the Navy would have looked into a more complex/larger flaps and leading edge solutions to get their control and landing speed solution. If they succeeded then the other partners may have been able to adopt those solutions instead of having the the one-off C version.
Some of the weight on the C probably comes from strengthening the frame to handle carrier landings and not just the wing. And as already mentioned, if the plane can't land on a carrier it's useless. LM probably did what needed to be done to get the most performance out of the F-35C.
Also, those ranges are requirements I think, and not the actual ranges, which could be higher. There is also payload to consider, which could be nearly 20,000 lbs. That would significantly cut range compared to a lighter payload that is more likely to be carried most of the time.
Using the Breguet range equation on the F-35A carrying 18,000 lbs at Mach .75 at 30,000 ft (standard temp), .886 1/hr TSFC, and L/D = 8; I get a range of 1318 nm. Change the payload to 2500 lbs and it comes out to 1830 nm. Of course, I don't have the info to do an accurate calculation on the F-35, and the equation I'm using is only so accurate, but it should give an idea of how much performance parameters can vary.
For comparison I get 1265/1693 out of the F-35C, assuming it has the same L/D and cruise Mach.


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