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A blog about author Christopher Hitchens and his ideas
Slander: Hitchens did not consider converting to Christianity on his deathbed
April 22, 2016 May 16, 2016 ~ tomonhitch	~ 6 Comments
I didn't think this post would be necessary, as there's been a lot of good writing about it, but I want to set the record straight. It concerns Alex Taunton's new book in which he claims Christopher was considering a deathbed conversion to Christianity. The article below from Patheos, is a good one and includes a comment from Christopher's wife, Carol Blue. But first my thoughts:
It is unfortunate that Larry Alex Taunton, in his new book, The Faith of Christopher Hitchens, is claiming that Christopher was considering a deathbed conversion. This is not true as this post, and the article in Patheos will show. So why did he write it? It could be that Mr. Taunton wishes it were true, and is projecting. More likely however, is that the author has a vested interest in claiming a conversion. The organization Mr Taunton founded and is the Executive Director for, The Fixed Point Foundation, states "Our mission is to defend and proclaim the Gospel in the secular marketplace". This is not someone who can be objective. Is it coincidence that his claims would also fulfill the mission of his organization? And of course, book sales.
How do we know his claims are not true? First, Hitchens, on more than one occasion, warned us that the faithful may try to claim this for him, as they have done throughout history in the case of other non-believers (always, conveniently when the person /victim can not refute the claims). Second, we know what Hitchens was thinking right up until his death, as he was of sound mind and wrote about his thoughts. These were collected for the book "Mortality".There is not only, no proclamation of a conversion, but there is not even a whiff of uncertainty in his writing, something I suspect we would find if he was at all unsure of his positions. And third, this article from Patheos discusses the matter and provides a quote from Carol Blue, Christopher's wife:
REPRINTED FROM PATHEOS
Christopher Hitchens Didn't "Contemplate Conversion" on His Deathbed
April 20, 2016 by Hemant Mehta
A new book by Larry Alex Taunton, called The Faith of Christopher Hitchens, suggests that Hitchens was "contemplating conversion" near the end of his life, though he never actually made that leap:
"I discovered Christopher is not defined by his atheism," Taunton said. "Atheism is a negative and you can't build a philosophy around a negative. Christopher was searching for a unifying system of thought. They're accusing me of saying he converted. I make no such claim. It's not my claim that Christopher converted, it's that Christopher was contemplating conversion. I think I substantiate it in the book."
That's quite a claim — especially considering that the evidence we've seen from Christian media sources suggests that the substantiation boils down to nothing more than "Hitchens was friends with some Christian apologists."
Who would you trust more? Christian apologists who have everything to gain by spreading a lie that can't be refuted by the man himself… or his wife, Carol Blue, who was at his side when he died?
When he revealed his sorry physical state, discussion raged over whether he would have a death-bed conversion and embrace religion for solace or salvation.
That never happened, said Ms. Blue.
"He lived by his principles until the end. To be honest, the subject of God didn't come up."
Hitchens also addressed the topic during an interview with Anderson Cooper not long before his death:
COOPER: In a moment of doubt… there might be a moment when you want to hedge your bets.
HITCHENS: If that comes, it will be when I am very ill; when I am half demented, either by drugs or by pain. I won't have control over what I say. I mention this in case you ever hear a rumor later on, because these things happen and the faithful love to spread these rumors. I can't say that the entity, that by then wouldn't be me, wouldn't do such a pathetic thing. But I can tell you that… not when I'm lucid, no. I can be quite sure of that.
COOPER: So if there is some story that on your deathbed–
HITCHENS: –Don't believe it.
One commenter on a Christian website noted, "If Christopher Hitchens had a deathbed conversion it is because he asked for a priest and converted the priest to atheism."
That's clever, but Hitchens actually took it a step further. Among the final thoughts recorded in his book Mortality was this brutal gem:
If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than an atheist does.
Damn. He wasn't thinking about becoming a Christian in his final days. He was thinking about the best ways to roast them.
There's no evidence whatsoever that the author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything ever believed God might be great and religion ain't as bad as I thought.
If you want to give Taunton the benefit of the doubt, it's that Hitchens spoke about religion so frequently that his conversations about faith led even people close to him to believe he took it seriously.
But that's being too generous to Taunton, who appears to be cashing in on his friendship with Hitchens by invoking the old Christian trope that assumes decent people who didn't accept Christ during their lives must surely have accepted Him at the last possible moment.
Hitchens was a lot of things, but shy about his opinions wasn't one of them. If he had converted, even at the end of his life, he would've been shouting about it from the rooftops of the hospital. He would've found a way to make sure the world knew about it.
He sure as hell wouldn't have used Taunton as an intermediary.
***Update***: Kimberly Winston of Religion News Service has some strong reactions to this controversy from people who knew Hitchens well:
Steve Wasserman, who was Hitchens' friend for 30 years, co-executor of his estate and with Hitchens' family, at his death, called the book's claims "petty" and "appalling" when they were read to him.
"I am not in the position to dispute the what Taunton says were private conversations," he said by phone from New Haven, Conn., where he is executive editor-at-large for Yale University Press. "But I really think it is a shabby business. It reveals a lack of respect. This is not a way to debate Christopher Hitchens' beliefs — to report unverifiable conversations, which amazingly contradict everything Christopher Hitchens ever said or stood for."
And Michael Shermer, an atheist and founder of Skeptic magazine, who read the book's manuscript and liked its description of the friendship between the two men — enough to give it a favorable jacket blurb — said Taunton's claims of Hitchens' flirtation with conversion were "exaggerated."
Yes, Christopher was once a child
April 20, 2016 ~ tomonhitch	~ Leave a comment
Peter (left) and Christopher Hitchens
It's hard sometimes to imagine that this man of great mind, wit and humor, who could be quite fierce in a debate, was once an innocent little child. These pictures are from a 2011 Daily Mail article written by Christopher's brother, Peter. He is a journalist living in London and he generously made time to meet with when I was visiting last June. I wrote about the experience in a posting, Meeting the Other Hitch.
The Brothers Hitchens
Me and Peter in London after patronizing the local Starbucks (June 2015). See posting
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HITCH!
Hitchens was born on April 13, 1949, in Portsmouth, England and he died on December 15, 2011, in Houston, Texas. He would have been 67 years old today. If you are a drinker, it would be most appropriate to toast him with a glass of Johnnie Walker Black.
New Book: The Faith of Christopher Hitchens
Tomorrow, April 12th, one day before Christopher's birthday,marks the release of a new book about the man, "The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World's Most Notorious Atheist". I just saw an interview with the author, Larry Alex Taunton, on Hardball with Chris Matthews. Taunton is an author, columnist, contributor to The Atlantic, and the Executive Director of the Fixed Point Foundation, a non-profit which is dedicated to the public defense of the Christian faith. He was also a good friend of Hitch and they made two road trips together subsequent to Hitch's grim diagnosis. In the Matthews interview, Taunton described driving through a national park with Hitch (who was enjoying a glass of Johnnie Walker Black) discussing the bible. The picture above is a screenshot used in the interview. Taunton indicated to Chris Matthews that he thought Christopher was exploring his faith in the time they spent together. I don't know what he means by that, but I'm looking forward to reading the book.
Hitchens to the Rescue (at least on Ann Coulter)
April 8, 2016 ~ tomonhitch	~ Leave a comment
Recently irritated by a stance taken by Ann Coulter, I searched the web to see if she and Hitch ever crossed paths. The occasion for my irritation was her appearance on TV last week where she defended Donald Trump's campaign manager, who was arrested for assaulting a female reporter at a rally. I thought she bulldozed over both the weak host and a guest who was brought on to provide the opposing view. It was one of those times where I wished Hitchens was the opponent, as he would have, I imagined, really stuck it to her with a scathing argument. With a quick search I found that he had not only met Ms. Coulter, but had reviewed one of her books, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism" for The Liberal. Hitchens did not disappoint with his review:
Reprinted from The Liberal
TRY sipping this single sentence and then rolling it around your tongue and palate for a while:
If Hitler hadn't turned against their beloved Stalin, liberals would have stuck by him, too.
Well, I am being paid to parse and ponder that statement and I don't understand it, either. Does it intend to say that liberals loved Hitler but drew the line at his invasion of the Soviet Union? Should it, rather, be interpreted as meaning that liberals were in love with Stalin but jumped ship when he was attacked by Hitler? It is remarkable to find so much intellectual and syntactical chaos in an assertion that contains no more than fifteen words.
But then, I have the distinct feeling that people do not buy Ann Coulter's creed-screeds and speed-reads in order to enhance their knowledge of history or their command of syllogism. She has emerged as a persona because she has mastered the politics of resentment, and because she can combine the ideology of Human Events (the obscure 'Joe McCarthy was right' magazine) with the demand of the chat-show bookers for a tall blonde with a very rapid delivery on a wide range of subjects. The cover of this book – which follows the success of its forerunners Treason and Slander: titles that require little elucidation – shows her in a low-cut black dress with a prominent crucifix dangling over a modest cleavage. The needs of showbiz notwithstanding, I cannot fathom the reason for this slight come-hitherishness. Miss Coulter is not married and ought therefore, by her own loudly-proclaimed standards, to be a virgin and to remain so until further notice.
I used to know her slightly during the days when we both believed, for different reasons, that Bill Clinton was unfit to be President. I well remember her shock and anguish when Paula Jones, whose lawsuit had initiated the impeachment meltdown, posed in the buff for an inexpensive men's magazine. I took the view that even a bad girl has the right not to be crudely importuned by her politician boss, but Miss Coulter seemed deeply and genuinely shocked: she had believed all along that Paula was a fragrant young thing, quite innocent of the vile nature of the male animal; and it is this innocence of her own, I think, for which she attempts to compensate by adopting a tough-guy (yes, I do mean to say 'guy') manner.
Here is another instance of the sheer incoherence that results from a mixture of feigned rage and low sarcasm:
If liberals are on Red Alert with one born-again Christian in the cabinet of a Christian president, imagine how they would react if there were five. Between 25 and 45 percent of the population calls itself "born-again" or "evangelical" Christian. Jews make up less than 2 per cent of the nation's population, and yet Clinton had five in his cabinet. He appointed two to the Supreme Court. Now guess which administration is called a neoconservative conspiracy? Whether Jews or Christians, liberals are always on a witch hunt against people who appear to believe in God.
Again, and quite aside from its junk statistics (that space "between 25 and 45 per cent" appears to involve quite a margin of error) and its junk statistical comparisons (does Coulter really want me to name all the Jews who serve on President Bush's foreign-policy team?), this passage seems to license the ultra-left and ultra-right innuendo that the terms 'neoconservative' and 'Jew' are interchangeable. The intellectual disgrace of this is self-evident, and so is its vulgar ignorance: say what you will about Leo Strauss, he did not even "appear" to believe in any deity. More noticeable, though, is the way that the abject confusion, with its resounding non sequitur of a concluding sentence, impels her to the negation of her own supposed "argument". These are the pitfalls that are set by spite and by haste, and Coulter topples leggily into them every time.
Since her books always pull enough of a crowd to put them on the bestseller list, the editors and fact-checkers at her publishing house evidently go on vacation when the manuscripts float in. For all her show of biblical learning, she does not know the meaning of the word "shibboleth", for example. She attacks those who seek "the removal of 'under God' from the Pledge of Allegiance", when the case is that the Pledge should be restored to its original form, which did not include those two words. Are not conservatives supposed to manifest great respect for 'original intent'? And then there's the crass choice of words:
If Democrats ever dared speak coherently about what they believe, the American people would lynch them.
Leave aside the fact that most of what Coulter adduces is taken straight from the very mouths of Democrats who are coming right out with it, and notice the clumsy elision that interchanges "liberal", "Democrat" and "Left"(and skip over the unironic use of the word "coherently"), the term to avoid here would have been "lynch". Never to be employed flippantly, this expression has a real-time and real-life significance, which was felt very onerously in quite recent memory. Its disappearance, and the abolition of what went with it, is admittedly not due to "Democrats", who ran Dixie as a private fief for far too long, but does redound very much to the credit of those American liberals and – even worse! – leftists who provided most of the energy of the Civil Rights movement. The umbrella group in this campaign was even called the 'Southern Christian Leadership Conference', not that this prevented many secularists and atheists from participating in it. Finally, I think we can safely say that Dr Martin Luther King "appeared" to believe in god. So, slice it as you will, Coulter finds herself inventing new ways in which to be wrong.
As it goes on, the book begins to seem more like typing than writing, and its demonstration of the relationship between poor language and crude ideas becomes more overt:
Assuming you aren't a fetus, the Left's most dangerous belief is their adoration of violent criminals.
Well, as I try to teach my students, if you write that "as a young man, my grandmother used to read to me", you slightly insult your grandmother by stating that she used to be a young man. It's not that hard to make the assumption Coulter demands here – that you are neither the Left nor a fetus – but the dangler is complemented in the same sentence by an inability to associate a singular Left with its supposed adoration of violent criminals. Some right-wingers has a marked tendency to make this mistake.
Shall I be fair? Coulter was trained as a lawyer, and she does have an understanding of the rules of evidence. There is one quite strong passage where she exposes, with some forensic wit, the bogus claims made by the conceited Joseph Wilson about his dealings with Niger. Just for once, she mostly lets the record speak for itself, and thus allows the indictment of those liberals who fell for Wilson to occur, as it were, naturally. With the help of some (generously acknowledged) right-wing clippings-services and quote-providers, she has no difficulty in highlighting various jaw-dropping remarks made by feminists, 'pro-choice' types, Hollywood narcissists and the more Malthusian 'environmentalist' faction. She re-opens the case of Willie Horton, the exploitation of whose story has become a fetish among liberals, and forces the reader to reconsider. If it matters, I am with her on the tepid climate of moral and political relativism which, while it wants all children to do equally well at exam time, also regards the United States as no worse than the Taliban and thus, by an unspoken logic, as no better. But a polemic against this mentality cannot really be written by a McCarthyite.
The closing chapters are lifted from the brief submitted by the absurdly-named 'intelligent design' school to a recent trial in the town of Dover, Pennsylvania. Not so long ago, when the voice of liberalism was muted, the 'Creationists' – to give them their correct name – sought to forbid the teaching of evolution. Now that they no longer feel confident enough to impose themselves in this manner, they have fallen back on a spurious 'equal time' plea, whining that pseudo-science should be taught, in the name of 'fairness', alongside the real thing. In the Pennsylvania case, as in other recent trials in Ohio and Kansas, not only were the Creationist members of the school board thrown out by voters, but it was decided by the courts that the proposed teaching of 'intelligent design' was (a) a violation of the United States Constitution; and (b) a fraudulent waste of time for both teachers and judges. (By the way, it seems to me that these outcomes ought to alter the picture, beloved by so many European liberals, of the United States as a wasteland of fundamentalist knuckle-draggers). Coulter, the super-patriot and flag-waver, is a true reactionary in that she yearns for the time when the keyword of her title, as in 'Godless Communism', was a mantra for the simple-minded. In a world where the true enemies of civilization are much, much more godly than the blonde goddess of the hard Right, Coulter is reduced to a blitzing of soft civilian targets – one redeemed only by its built-in tendency to fall so wide of the mark.
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Grady Judd, Cyberbully Case Sheriff, Investigating Suspect's Parents
By Michael Mullins | Thursday, 17 October 2013 11:22 AM
Grady Judd, the Polk County sheriff investigating the suicide of teenager Rebecca Sedwick, told reporters this week that the parents of one of the two girls arrested in connection with the 12-year-old's suicide are also now under investigation.
"If I could, they would already be in jail," Judd told ABC News Wednesday. "But I can tell you this, that we're keeping our options open."
If arrested, the parents of the teen bully would face "contributing to the delinquency of a minor" charges, the sheriff added.
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Sedwick, who jumped to her death from a concrete silo tower on Sept. 9 in Lakeland, Fla., had been "absolutely terrorized on social media" prior to her suicide, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told reporters.
Earlier this week, two girls ages 12 and 14 were arrested and charged with felony aggravated assault for their alleged involvement in the cyberbullying of Sedwick.
However, the bullies who were charged aren't the only ones that should be held responsible for their actions, with the girls' parents and school officials bearing the bulk of responsibility, according to the victim's parents, ABC News reported.
"I would rather see the parents and administrators behind bars, and see the kids get help they need," Tricia Norton, Sedwick's mother, told ABC on Wednesday.
The parents of the 14-year-old girl who was charged claimed to have seen no signs of the cyberbullying while they monitored her Facebook page, and say that her account was hacked by a third party that posted the demeaning, abusive comments about Sedwick that apparently led to her suicide.
Judd dismissed the parents' claims, and pointed to the 14-year-old's Facebook page after Sedwick's suicide that showed the girl gloating over the 12-year-old's death and the role she played in it.
The post read: "Yes ik bullied REBECCA nd she killed her self but IDGA!!!"
IDGA is an abbreviation of Internet slang that means "I don't give a f—."
Reacting to the claim by the 14-year-old's parent's that their daughter's Facebook account was hacked, Judd said, "Yeah, that's baloney."
"Those parents haven't cared from the very beginning," Judd said. "After this initial event, after the initial interviews, why did they let her stay on Facebook any longer?"
"When the parents don't take care of the children and it becomes criminal conduct, then it becomes my responsibility, and my deputies and I know how to take control," Judd added.
Describing the 14-year-old's parents as being "in denial," Judd told reporters that he is only investigating them, and not the parents of the 12-year-old, who he said were "remorseful," adding, "They see the big picture. They recognize that was a major malfunction. They care."
The 12-year-old suspect, who like her parents also reportedly expressed remorse following Sedwick's suicide, has been released to the custody of her parents and is being kept in home detention.
The 14-year-old is currently being housed in the juvenile wing of the Polk County Jail, where she is awaiting her arraignment date, which is scheduled for Oct. 25, ABC News reported.
If she was still alive, Sedwick would be celebrating her 13th birthday this weekend.
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Relentless Bully, a 12-Year-Old Girl, Arrested in Connecticut
Rebecca Marino Says Cyberbullying Helped Make Her Quit Tennis
Florida Teen Jessica Laney Commits Suicide After Bullying on Social Site Ask.fm
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WARD 6 BOARD MEMBER
John Mercurio
Resides in Concord
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jmercurio@ebparks.org
John Mercurio was elected to the Board of Directors in November 2022. Previously, he served on the Park District's Park Advisory Committee for 17 years. An avid park user, he has volunteered for over 35 years to preserve open spaces and improve trail access.
Director Mercurio served as a Concord Planning Commissioner for 11 years and as a Concord Parks, Recreation and Open Space Commissioner for 12 years. Appointed by Governor Gray Davis, he served on the California Recreational Trails Committee for 12 years.
Director Mercurio has a BA in Social Science, a California Teaching Credential and an MPA. He is married, with two children. He proudly supports Save Mount Diablo and is a member of the Regional Parks Foundation.
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Honeywell Introduces New Enterprise Software To Help Gas Distributors Transform Metering Operations
Measurement IQ Optimize provides operators with a real-time dashboard of gas meter performance, helping reduce costs associated with device performance uncertainty
HOUSTON, November 9, 2020 -- Honeywell today announced the release of Measurement IQ (MIQ) Optimize – an enterprise-wide solution for monitoring meters, gas chromatographs and other measurement assets. The new software solution collects and analyses diagnostic information from devices across different sites for a real-time overview of metering health. The MIQ Optimize solution can provide an early warning of measurement concerns, so that operators can prioritize and address meter issues having the most impact on their business.
MIQ Optimize allows users to detect increasing measurement uncertainty quicker, helping avoid failures and downtime, reducing engineer site visits and extending calibration periods. The solution also includes recommended actions to ease troubleshooting and maintenance – identifying the most likely causes of meter issues and suggesting remedies. The software supports Honeywell meters and gas chromatographs as well as devices from other major manufacturers.
"Measurement IQ Optimize provides the first vendor-agnostic, enterprise-wide view of the health of metering operations. From a single pane of glass, users can identify their key sources of measurement uncertainty, the value at risk and what they can do to reduce it," said Max Gutberlet, offering manager, gas software and solutions, Honeywell Process Solutions. "It's a powerful tool for directing condition-based maintenance programs and dramatically reducing the cost of lost and unaccounted gas through mismeasurement."
The solution allows gas distribution businesses and others to address the millions lost every year to undetected meter inaccuracy. Uncertainty of just 0.5% in ultrasonic gas measurement can add up to a cost of approximately $1 million per year. With real-time monitoring, operators can detect issues before these losses accumulate; while enterprise-wide management of meter uncertainty can drive improvement in fiscal metering margins.
MIQ Optimize further enhances Honeywell's existing Measurement IQ for Gas offering, which operators across the globe already use for real-time monitoring of measurement uncertainty at the device and station level. It is a fully cybersecure solution that enables secure, remote monitoring of all gas measurement assets.
To learn more about Honeywell Measurement IQ for Gas, please visit: www.honeywellprocess.com.
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PMT develops process technologies, automation solutions, advanced materials and industrial software that are transforming industries around the world. PMT's Advanced Materials businesses manufacture a wide variety of high-performance products including environmentally preferable materials used for the production of refrigerants, blowing agents, aerosols and solvents, pharmaceutical packaging, fine chemicals, additives and high strength-fiber for military, law enforcement and industrial use. Technologies developed by Honeywell UOP (www.uop.com), a leading provider in the oil and gas sector, form the foundation for most of the world's refiners, efficiently producing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, petrochemicals and renewable fuels. Honeywell Process Solutions (www.honeywellprocess.com) is a pioneering provider of automation control, safety systems, field instrumentation, fuel delivery and burners, connected plant offerings, cybersecurity, tissue and packaging materials control systems, connected utility and metering solutions, and services for a wide range of industries.
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Centrica pulls out of Cuadrilla's Lancashire shale gas licence
Cuadrilla's Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool, 27 April 2020. Photo: Maxine Gill
Centrica is giving up its stake in Cuadrilla's shale gas licence in the Fylde near Blackpool.
The energy multinational bought a 25% interest in the Bowland licence, PEDL165, in 2013. At the time, it was seen as an endorsement of UK shale gas.
News of the withdrawal came in a statement today from Cuadrilla's Australian owners, the mining group AJ Lucas.
The statement said the stake, now held by Centrica's subsidiary Spirit Energy, would be transferred back to AJ Lucas for a "nominal sum".
In the original deal, Centrica paid £40m up front and committed to contribute £60m to exploration costs.
The agreement allowed Centrica to return the 25% interest when it had invested up to an agreed level.
AJ Lucas, which owns 93% of Cuadrilla, said today this "originally agreed level has in fact been surpassed by some margin".
The statement said the withdrawal was subject to approval from regulators and was not expected to be completed until the final quarter of 2020.
It said Spirit remained liable for its 25% share of the future decommissioning costs of the wells drilled in the licence.
The chairman of AJ Lucas, Phil Arnall, said the move was part of "a broader series of actions" by Centrica, including the sale of Spirit energy:
"Centrica and its subsidiary Spirit have been excellent partners as we explored and proved up a huge, high quality, natural gas resource in the UK Bowland shale.
"Whilst we are naturally disappointed to see them withdraw, we understand that this is part of a broader re-alignment of Centrica as it focuses on its downstream UK gas supply business and exits upstream oil and gas."
"We remain confident that domestic shale gas can and will be a valuable source of energy for the UK. Coupled with other initiatives it will, we believe, prove an essential element of the lowest cost transition to UK "Net-Zero" carbon by 2050 goal."
Last week, AJ Lucas predicted that the government moratorium on fracking in England, imposed in November 2019, would be lifted but not before 2021.
Earlier this year, the New York private equity firm, Riverstone, sold its stake in Cuadrilla to AJ Lucas.
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Dr Frank Rugman says:
AJ Lucas- when you are in a hole, perhaps you should consider not digging ?
Please kindly take this opportunity and leave Lancashire in peace now.
Peter K Roberts says:
No matter bow much Cuadrilla and AJL try to put a positive spin on this, the withdrawal speaks volumes.
Yes Kat, to use the recent words of the FBI in another case, Cuadrilla should now just "slither away".
And as the IMF's chief economist has just advised the UK Government, they now have an opportunity to "do public investment that also addresses the need for a greener planet, and at the same time as a jobs-rich recovery".
Carol Hutchinson says:
Starting to crumble.
Pressure on divestment from pension funds will help push things on.
John Sibbald says:
Rats and sinking ships?
I am sure Mr Collyer will try an put some kind of positive spin on this, or perhaps even he can see the writing on the wall through his pro fracking glasses.
Cicero: "Res ipsa loquitur."
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James Gandolfini was an actor who was known mostly for one role, but one of the most incredible and important roles in television history. Gandolfini played Tony Soprano, the head of an Italian gang based in New Jersey in the hit show, The Sopranos, which changed the way actors approached television roles forever. The actor also has legion of minor roles as henchmen, which can be found in almost every 90s movie, and he leaves behind a bunch of respected performances in movies such as In The Loop, Zero Dark Thirty, and Enough Said. The actor unfortunately passed away in 2013 at just 51 years old, but he leaves behind him a treasure trove of performances.
James Gandolfini had a net worth of $75 million dollars at the time of his death, in 2013.
There's no argument that Gandolfini accrued the wealth that he did from playing Tony Soprano. However, the were a lot of disagreements regarding his salary for certain seasons of the show, as the actor started demanding double than what was agreed at points. HBO even tried to sue the actor for an insane $100 million, but that didn't work and the network had no other choice but to pay him $800,000 per episode for season five. Though HBO called Gandolfini greedy, the actor gave 16 cast members with much lower screen time $33,000 each!
For the final season of the greatest TV show of all time, Gandolfini negotiated his way in to an incredible $1,000,000 per episode. The Sopranos is different to other crime dramas on TV in that most of them run for only 10 or 13 episodes per season, but The Sopranos often ran for more than 20 episodes, and the final season is no different. In the show's sixth and final season, there were 21 episodes, which means that the star earned $21 million for one season, and that's more than any other star in a crime drama in history. Though it isn't clear how much Gandolfini earned for the earlier seasons of the show, he racked up close to $40 million for the final two seasons alone.
It was quite a while before Gandolfini got his big break in acting, as throughout the 1990s, the actor was pigeon holed to the token henchman who would rough up a protagonist before getting his ass handed to him. This can be seen most notably in the Tarantino penned and Tony Scott directed classic, True Romance. In the movie, Gandolfini beats Patricia Arquette's character to a bloody pulp, until she gets revenge on him and brutally murders him in a shower. As the movie was released 27 years ago and the actor has become world famous, audiences now believe that tiny role is a cameo, but in reality Gandolfini was living pay check to pay check at this point.
Right before the turn of the decade in 1999, after playing enough gangsters and henchmen for a lifetime, Gandolfini was cast as Tony Soprano in The Sopranos, a HBO show that would change television forever. It had a perfect script with so much backstory, depth, and detailed characters. Without The Sopranos, there would be no Breaking Bad, Fargo, and though they are worlds apart, there would be no Game of Thrones. The show won over a hundred awards in its lifetime, including a Golden Globe for best actor for Gandolfini. In its run, The Sopranos had an average of nine million viewers per season, peaking at season four with 11 million.
Gandolfini found a new generation of The Sopranos fans posthumously, as after his unfortunate passing made front page news, millennials were only just finding out about the show, and there was a spike in DVD sales and streams for it. And though the actor didn't appear in many films after the finale of The Sopranos, when he did feature in a movie, the acting was unrivalled on-screen. Gandolfini played General George Miller in the hilarious political comedy In The Loop, and the Mayor of New York in another collaboration with Tony Scott, The Taking Of Pelham 123. Most gracefully, Gandolfini's final leading role was in Enough Said, a heartfelt drama comedy costarring Julia Louise Dreyfus. Gandolfini was commended for his acting in the movie, which ended up being dedicated to him.
Though his heft was subject to a plot line in The Sopranos in which his character is massively susceptible to heart attacks, the gargantuan size of Gandolfini, both in height and weight, is what has scored him most of his roles in his career. The actor has mostly played bodyguards, henchmen, and gangsters. As he has been reported as being one of the friendliest and kind hearted people in real life, his physique has helped him maintain a sense of intimidation, which is Tony Soprano's greatest (and maybe only) business asset.
Besides the actor's build, Gandolfini's success simply comes down to being a magnificent actor, especially as he portrays a gangster who has proven that he is capable of truly evil things. The actor can be charismatic, funny, caring, and most of all, scary. He is even capable of being full of energy, which makes any time he's on screen absolutely electric. Though he played the character for six years, Gandolfini's performance seemed completely natural from the very first episode, and it's debatable if there has ever been a performance as good before the show's inception or after its end.
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Christopher Columbus, who crossed it on his initial voyage in 1492, first mentioned the Sargasso Sea that encompasses the Bermuda islands. Because the sea is very calm with little wind, sailors since the time of Columbus mistakenly thought that seaweed itself is what trapped their ship. The mysteries of abandoned floating ships are associated with Sargasso Sea. There is no foundation to the belief that the amount and thickness of the weed can hinder a ship. The famed and feared Bermuda Triangle lies within the Sargasso Sea. The mystery of the Sargasso Sea was merely transposed later through the Bermuda Triangle.
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Webster University Emerita Professor of Voice Carole Gaspar is a graduate of Baylor University and Washington University. Her principal teachers were Leslie Chabay and Jennie Tourel.
Throughout her career, she has won many awards including the G.B. Dealy competition, the Irene Jordan scholarship, the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra competition, the Southwest and Midwest Regional Metropolitan Opera auditions, the St. Louis Artist Presentation award, the St. Louis Philharmonic competition, and the National Society of Arts and Letters award in Chicago. Following six months of study at the International Opera Studio in Zurich, Switzerland, she performed with the Essen (Germany) Opera Company, making her professional debut as Marcellina in Fidelio. Since joining the Webster faculty in 1975, Professor Gaspar has earned seven diplomas from conservatories in Salzburg, Nice, and Geneva for studies in the poetry and music of the German lied and the French melodie. Her teachers have included Erik Werba, Kim Borg, Dalton Baldwin, and Gerard Souzay.
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How fast does this website load for you guys?
I'm curious to know how fast the website loads for all the users. I can't tell myself because it runs on my own pc and all my other internet connections are broadband anyway. It's probably too early for this question now, but I'd like to know how it loads when there are a number of people using it at the same time... What about the objectivismonline.net front page? Do the images take forever to show up?
My G3 running Safari and 2ghz PC running mozilla at home load fast as all get out over my cable modem network. At work I have to access the site through orangatango.com virtual browser with a dsl line and it loads plenty fast.
I access it from god know what kinda browser/line combo while on the road at various hotels. It loaded plenty fast but there was a great deal of "ghosting" of the buttons. Kind of like what Old Salt described in her post about the reply buttons. I think it has to do with the way that tv's present text that isn't specifically formatted for it. I know my company has had some issues with the way WebTV renderes text and buttons from our site to no avail. So it's not your issue but the bizzaro way tv's present text. But then that isn't really a load time issue but a render issue.
Overall, images are not a problem, just occastionally text (more specifaclly the text inside buttons) as mentioned above.
Note that I asked that question a year and a half ago. Since then, I've implemented a number of optimizations to make the site pretty damn fast.
I would like to see screenshots of how this site looks like on different browsers, especially WebTV and the like.
No fee license BTW. It will make you realize how badly WebTV handles alot of stuff. I got used to using it in hotels so it isn't horribly bad.
It hardly takes any time at all for me.
I happen to load this on a G4 Mac with DSL.
Loads quickly enough for me.


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Dorothy Boerner, Iron Mountain MI, Niagara WI, Occhietti Jewelry, Roland Occhietti
A Look at the Life of Roland Occhietti
Martin Boerner m. Catharina Storch > Martin W. Boerner m. Anna Kososki> Dorothy Boerner m. Roland Occhietti.
Dorothy Boerner married Roland Occhietti (pronouned "O-ketti) on 4 Feb 1953. Roland's father had immigrated from Italy to Iron Mountain, MI; his mother was a first generation American of Italian immigrants. Roland was born in Iron Mountain and for most of his adult life ran the Occhietti Jewelry store in Iron Mountain with his brother, Benjamin.
Occhietti's Jewelry Store in the 1950s and the 1980s.
Beyond his successful business, Roland lived a full and vibrant life. His obituary gives a sense of the impact his life had in the world.
Obituary for Roland Occhietti
Roland A. Occhietti, 82, of Iron Mountain, was called to be with the Lord on Friday, August 26, 2011, at ManorCare Health Services in Kingsford.
He was born on May 9, 1929, in Iron Mountain, son of the late Aurelio and Pia (Jafolla) Occhietti. Roland graduated from Iron Mountain High School, Class of 1948. He went on to attend Elgin Watch College in Elgin, Ill. He returned to Iron Mountain and joined his brother Ben as a partner in Occhietti Jewelry.
Roland was called to serve his country in 1951, and served in the 5th RCT U.S. Army during the Korean War. He distinguished himself by heroic action during an attack on strongly entrenched enemy positions voluntarily moving into position to aid the wounded overcoming steep and rugged terrain. Roland illustrated selfless devotion to his comrades for which he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with a "V" for valor.
In 1953, he returned to join his brother in the jewelry business. On February 14, 1953, Roland married Dorothy Boerner at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Niagara, Wis.
Roland served on the Iron Mountain School Board, Community School Board, Dickinson-Iron Mental Health Board, and Dickinson County Memorial Hospital Board. He was a life member of the Iron Mountain Elks Lodge 700 for 54 years and served as exalted ruler, Pine Grove Country Club, National Rifle Association and Immaculate Conception Catholic Church.
He was an avid hunter and enjoyed his hunting trips to Wyoming with his brother and nephews. Roland loved cooking Italian food for those who were part of the family camp.
Roland was a devoted husband, brother, and uncle. He loved nothing more than spending time with his family and friends. Like his uncle Joey Jafolla he could put a smile on anyone's face.
Roland is survived by his loving wife of 58 years, Dorothy; nephews, Dr. Anthony (Cindy) Occhietti, Dr.Michael (Dr. Maria) Occhietti of Iron Mountain, Douglas (Diana) Anderson and Bill (Lori) Anderson of Marquette, Mich., Daniel (Kristen) Occhietti, Gladstone,Mich.; nieces, Maria (Jeff) De Merse of Iron Mountain, Valerie (Cory) Masuga of Cedarville, Mich., sisters- in-law, Betty Occhietti, Iron Mountain, Judy Occhietti, Gladstone; one uncle, Guido (Cecelia) Jafolla, Iron Mountain; and two very special people his little gal, Francine Stanek, Maryhill Manor, Niagara, and Leo (Nancy) Schuls, who forever assisted in all of Roland's endeavors.
Along with his parents, Roland was preceded in death by his brothers, Dr. Anthony Occhietti and Benjamin Occhietti; his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Martin and Ann Boerner; and his brother-in- law, James Boerner.
Visitation will be Wednesday, August 31, 2011, from 4:00 p.m.to 7:00pm at the Jacobs Funeral Home, Iron Mountain. The American Legion Uren Cooper Post No. 50 of Iron Mountain will accord military honors Wednesday 7:00 pm at the funeral home. The Elks Lodge 700 will offer a memorial service Wednesday immediately following the veterans service at the funeral home. Prayers will be recited Thursday 10:30 a.m. at the funeral home. The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Thursday 11:00 a.m. at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Msgr. James Kaczmarek will officiate. Entombment will be in Cemetery Park, Iron Mountain.
Pallbearers will be Jim Farrington, Robert Varda, Leon Mattord, Colin Jacobetti, Jim Wilcheck, Mike Youngberg. Honorary pallbearers will be John Caruso, Gene Swenski, Leo Schuls, and Vance Uhazie.
You may light a candle in remembrance of Roland or leave a condolence for his family at http://www.JacobsFuneralHomes.com.
The Jacobs Funeral Home, Iron Mountain, is serving the family.
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Imagine hearing these words sung aloud first thing in the morning, and you might see why we'd need a class to debrief afterward! The psalms invite a descent into the raw emotions of life—the frustration, pain, sadness, confusion and anger. To pray them aloud together is to stir up places within us that are hard to explore, hard to acknowledge, hard to express. But as I see it, particularly in community life, the psalms provide a safe space to vent "darker" feelings. The psalms normalize and give me permission to say out loud what I might not think acceptable in a faith setting. Although praying the psalms can often feel like a spiritual spelunking expedition, I know I'm tethered to a reliable rope that can lead me into the depths of a cave—while also pointing me back to God and community. One author calls the psalter "the songbook of the church," a universal treasure trove of prayers for any occasion. There is something deeply heartening about engaging with the psalms now and recognizing them for the common ground they offer all people, as well as communities of faith that have experienced so much separation and violence. By reaching for the psalter, I remember that we have a common way. It binds us together in a shared language and history of reaching out to God and God to us, throughout time. It may not always look neat and pretty—in fact, it's often quite ugly to pray through. But praying the psalms during our celebration of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, and into the dark days of winter, has challenged my vision for the kind of community that God intends. It gives me courage to pray from where I am, and just as I am.


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A Brother and Sister Relationship
June 30, 2013 June 30, 2013 Kat Impossible9 Comments
The plot of People Like Us is fairly simple. Sam (Chris Pine) has lost his father and therefore goes to visit his mother (Michelle Pfeiffer) after having deliberately missed the funeral. What he doesn't know yet, is that his father left behind $ 150,000 for Sam's half-sister's (Elizabeth Banks) son. No one knew that he had a second family somehwere else. Sam could need the money himself, but choses to find out more about his sister Frankie before deciding about the money. In the process he gets really close to her and her son, and things get kind of tricky when he doesn't tell them who he really is.
I think People Like Us is a lovely story about family, life and music. During the movie I felt really awkward as soon as Elizabeth Banks character started falling for Sam even though they were brother and sister, but they resolved it beautifully and I really enjoyed the ending of the film. I always like movies about dysfunctional families and stories that show that everyone has their own problems to deal with. Chris Pine and Elizabeth Banks were beyond terrific with their performances. Also, Olivia Wilde, who played Sam's girlfriend did an amazing job. I can really recommend this if you enjoy heartfelt family-dramas!
Have you seen the movie? What do you think about it?
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vinnieh says:
Great post, I may give this one a watch as I'm a fan of Michelle Pfeiffer.
You definitely should. Her role is actually quite intersting
Paul S says:
It's a shame this didn't get a UK release as like Vinnie I'm a big pfan of Michelle…As a Pfeiffer completist I'm sure I'll track it down sooner or later.
The movie wasn't really noticed a lot by the public. At first I thought they wouldn't release it at all, but it turns out it just wasn't in cinemas in a lot of places. The DVD should be available though.
danielliecameron says:
This is genuinely one of my favourite films. I saw it late last year and have since told all my friends to watch it, why it wasn't widely publicised i will never know! Brilliant film.
Yeah, I especially wondered about the whole release thing, because it's quite the popular cast. They could've promoted it so easily.
Thank you so much for reblogging it! I love that movie!
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This is one of my favourite films. It's brilliant, just brilliant.
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Packaging : The lip balms come in cute girly packaging, colored sticks with transparent caps. The shade name is given at the bottom of the stick. The packaging is sturdy and travel friendly, also the colored bodies of these lip balm sticks help to identify the color of the lip balm. The lid is made of transparent plastic which feels a bit delicate to me and I have a niggling feeling that it will crack if I were to drop it.
The texture of the lip balm is thick and comforting on the lips. It also has an SPF 15 which is an excellent addition. The product has a strong fruity scent to it which, personally, I am not a big fan of and it lingers for a few minutes before it disappears.The taste is chemically sweet and odd as per I feel.
Coming to the pigmentation the tint varies from shade to shade .The peach I would say is not justice at all. It can hardly be noticed.The moisturisation it provides stays 3-4hours .


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Martha Fern Hamous, 87, of Sterling, passed away August 16, 2018 at Good Samaritan Society, Lyons. She was born July 12, 1931 in Keyes, Oklahoma, the daughter of Leonard and Elsie Whiteman Black. She graduated from Hoisington High School, Hoisington, KS. Martha resided in Sterling for the past 46 years, formerly of Tribune, Kansas. She was a certified medication aide at Lyons Good Samaritan Center for six years. On September 28, 1949, Martha was united in marriage with Gene Hamous in Raton, New Mexico. He survives of the home. She is also survived by her four daughters; Patricia Frese and husband Dayrl of Spring Branch, TX, Karla Nemechek and husband Larry of Hugoton, KS, Christie Mullikin and husband Ridge of San Antonio, TX, and Stacey Wilder and husband Bill of Lyons, KS; brother, Waive Winter of Tribune, KS; sister, Yvonne Folsom of Tribune, KS; seven grandchildren; seventeen great-grandchildren; and one great-great grandson. She was preceded in death by her parents; step-father, Fred Winter; and brother, Paul Black. Visitation will be 5:00 to 7:00 P.M., Monday, August 20, 2018 at Birzer Funeral Home, Lyons with family present. Memorials may be made to Hospice and Home Care of Reno County in care of Birzer Funeral Home, Lyons.


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Q: Avoid duplicate entries in DataGrid from RegEx Matches I have the following function that searches a text for an IP and adds it to a DataGrid.
try
        {
            string source = e.Result;
            Regex re = new Regex(@"(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+):1400");
            MatchCollection mc = re.Matches(source);

            if (mc.Count > 0)
            {
                foreach (Match matches in mc)
                {

                    int index = dataGridAllSonos.Columns.ToList().FindIndex(c => c.Header == matches.Groups[1].Value);
                    Console.WriteLine(index);

                    var data = new sonosDevice
                    {
                        sonosIP = matches.Groups[1].Value,
                        sonosName = "XX",
                        sonosRoom = "XX"
                    };

                    dataGridAllSonos.Items.Add(data);

                }

            }

        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            if (ex.InnerException != null)
            {
                string err = ex.InnerException.Message;
                Console.WriteLine(err);
            }
        }

The line int index = dataGridAllSonos.Columns.ToList().FindIndex(c => c.Header == matches.Groups[1].Value); is to check if the current found IP (first column) already exists in the DataGrid. It should not be added then.
Unfortunately it returns always -1 so not found, how can I check if the IP is a duplicate?
sonosDevice Class
public class sonosDevice
{
    public string sonosIP { get; set; }
    public string sonosName { get; set; }
    public string sonosRoom { get; set; }
}

A: Try this:
bool found = dataGridAllSonos.Items.OfType<string>().Any(i => i == matches.Groups[1].Value);

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Paul Manafort Is Now Registering as a Foreign Agent
The move follows the revelation that Manafort's consulting firm received some payments for lobbying work he did to benefit a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine.
April 12, 2017, 9:31pm
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President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort will register with the US government as a foreign agent amid accusations that he took money from a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine, the Associated Press reports.
Manafort resigned from the Trump campaign back in August after his name surfaced on the "Black Ledger"—a list of off-the-books payments from the pro-Russian party to folks working for them across the globe. Ukrainian investigators say the payments were illegal, and that the ledger contains evidence of corruption under the country's former president, who was ousted in 2014 before high-tailing it to Russia with stolen Ukrainian assets. Though Manafort has admitted he lobbied in Washington on behalf of the pro-Russian party, he's called the Black Ledger bogus, saying the payments were phony.
But on Wednesday, the AP revealed at least two of the payments listed on the ledger didgo to Manafort, lending credence to Ukrainian investigators' claims that he has received at least some of the $12.7 million. Shortly after the AP published its report, Manafort's spokesman said his client would register himself as a foreign agent. He stressed, however, that Manafort has never lobbied on behalf of the Russian government.
"Mr. Manafort's work in Ukraine was totally open and appropriate, and wire transfers for international work are perfectly legal," Manafort's spokesman, Jason Maloni, told the AP. According to Maloni, Manafort was going to register as a foreign agent before the election, but is now "taking appropriate steps" to do so.
Manafort's work on behalf of the pro-Russian party, conducted with lobbying firm Podesta Group Inc., was actually carried out pretty covertly, the AP reports. That firm also registered with the US government as a foreign agent Wednesday—saying, essentially, that the work they did could've principally benefitted the Ukrainian government.
Manafort is now the second former Trump associate to formally register himself as a foreign agent after Michael Flynn—Trump's former national security adviser—who did the same in early March. Flynn registered after admitted to the US government that he did lobbying work on behalf of the Turkish government without previously disclosing that information.
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