TV's War on "Me" and "I"
Television scriptwriters — or perhaps actors who are failing to read what has been written for them–seem to be determined to reverse the functions of the pronouns "I" and "me" in American speech.
I am attending a conference in Chicago this week.
Charles and I are attending the conference together.
NOTE: The courteous way to construct a compound subject in which I is one of the subject words is to place the other person first: Charles and I are attending. He and I are attending.
Purists may insist on "It is I," but in conversation, most Americans say "It's me." It's safe to say, therefore, that the ONLY time to use the pronoun I is as the subject of a sentence.
Please invite Tommy and me.
Give James and me the book.
The children live with Sally and me.
In writing fiction I know enough not to put the same grammar or vocabulary in the mouths of a child, a garage mechanic, an ESL learner, and a college professor.
On the other hand, unless there's something about the character's personality to make him deliberately flout the rules of standard English, I would have a native English speaker who has completed at least eight years of formal education use the pronouns I and me correctly.
I might put the construction "Me and him went to the movies" into the mouth of a privately-educated teenager who wanted to make his parents cringe, but I wouldn't give the line to an assistant district attorney–unless I meant for the reader to question her credibility.
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My daughter's English teacher has taught her a simple rule, which I found helpful. If you're not sure whether to say "I and …" or "me and …," try the sentence without the "and …" part. For example, you would not say "Me went to the movies," thus you would not say "Me and Nick went to the movies." I like the point about distinguishing "I" as the subject from "me" as the object. Thank you!
3 of the 4 bad examples you mention are on CBS. Might be the same writer.
Good point. I did hear the construction "Stanley and me did such and such" on the opening episode of NBC's The Office, but those characters are likely to say anything. I'll cruise the other networks.
I can't tell if the writer has a crock degree or if it's an insinuation at a flaw in the character's education. When people make the mistake of using "I" where they should use "me", I feel like they are trying too hard to avoid – as they should – sound ill-educated as you would sound saying, "Sam and me went to the store." I feel as those people are overall avoiding using "me" and only listened to half of their English lesson.
I too used to think that the misuse of "I" was an effort to sound genteel, and it may be. But what would explain the proliferaton of "me" to begin a sentence?
I always think a lot and i do speak inside but i can't speak outside. I've a problem in translating my thoughts into words. i know i'm a man of limited words. But i always think of improving myself and i try to read as much as i get time and i try to write when i feel like. As far as i know, my improvement is as slow as i think. Can there be better methods that suits me to improve my writing skills and speaking too.
You're on the right track to improving your reading and writing skills by doing both as much as possible. Something else you might try is reading aloud from novels that contain a lot of dialogue, or from contemporary plays. That would give you practice in conversational speech.
I see your point about the dialogue fitting the character's class and education level. I just don't agree that formal education equals using "I" and "me" correctly. I hear people of all education levels and social classes mixing up these two words all the time. The way that people speak is often very different from what they know to be correct or how they would usually WRITE something.
I recognize that informal conversation does not necessarily follow the rules of written language. I would not myself make the same word choices at a family Christmas gathering that I might at a social event with professional colleagues. I hardly ever use "whom" in conversation, but I'm careful to use it where called for in writing.
I also enjoy playing with language. My children and I often joke with structures or pronunciations we all know to be nonstandard.
However, when it comes to speaking to or in front of people with whom we are not on intimate terms, it's in a person's interest to speak as correctly as possible.
Outside the individual's circle of family and friends, nonstandard usage marks a speaker as being uneducated.
Nonstandard speech in the mouth of a friend or a transmission expert or a plumber does not bother me. On the other hand, I would not be inclined to use the services of a doctor, lawyer, tutor, or other academically prepared professional who used "me" as a subject.
>>But what would explain the proliferaton of "me" to begin a sentence?
You mean, for example, "Me and him went to the movies?" Coming from a teenager who presumably presently has pressure to learn the proper way to speak, s/he is rebelling against the rules. Coming from someone much older, I would admit that a habit is difficult to break.
On the other hand, I cringe at deliberate flouting, like deliberately naming a song, "The Way I Are." It seems as if the artists are trying to create a new slang and make errors seem "cool".
The problem isn't just on TV. I often hear people use "I" almost exclusively. In addition to being wrong, it sounds pretentious.
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There is a difference, to my mind, between a character's education and/or stress level and correct grammar in a given situation. ("911? Somebody's shooting at Harry and I" is clearly wrong, but I'm willing to allow it.) It's when the actual writers don't seem to know the difference that it drives me nuts!
Also, methinks that we are possibly overlooking the way that older forms of grammar infiltrate modern usage at the lower ends of the education spectrum, especially in geographically and culturally isolated groups, such as Appalachia.
In my experience, other than simple mistakes in the course of "live" conversation, most of the misuse of "I" stems from the marginally educated attempting to be correct, but falling short. For instance, on MySpace and FaceBook, when browsing my students' photos (I'm a college English Instructor), I find that they often label them with captions like, "Joey and I." The average masses, when speaking their vernacular usage, will usually just use "me" in every construction and avoid "I", unless they are attempting to *sound* educated, in which case they will then begin to substitute "I" mostly in all the wrong places.
About the only place to use "I" in the objective case is in a statement like "He's taller than I (because of the understood addition of "am" at the end of the sentence: "He's taller than I am").
Is this one instance of something correct sounding less than correct? Is it correct at all? Is "He's taller than me" becoming correct?
The wise crave correction and coincidentally, I do, too.
"I" can never be in the objective case because "I" is the subject form of the first person singular pronoun.
The construction "He's taller than me" could be condemned by purists as incorrect, but it is a usage that is now very widespread. One can argue that "than" is a preposition here and "me" is the object of it.
My answer to my own question is that both are acceptable and correct.
The use of "me" versus "I" in American Standard English is no longer the product of a simple universal rule. Both are often correct and acceptable in certain situations as common, customary, and reputable usage has changed over time.
This approach hinges on acceptance of the philosophy that language usage (syntax) is alterable over time as also are phonology (pronunciation), morphology (spelling/word structure), and lexical meaning (semantics). Rather than grammar being a system of rules imposed on language from without, or embedded in language and supporting it from within, this view sees language as a constant negotiation carried out in actual usage governed at any particular point in time by customary usage and widespread acceptance and adoptation. Grammar is, according to this view, the system of rules or pattern of customary usage we discover upon examining the language in actual use. Thus, many forms of English exist, some considered standard and other considered non-standard, or vernacular. But all the forms — whether American Standard English, British Standard English, Appalachian Vernacular English, Black Vernacular English, or Southern Vernacular English — are capable of grammatical description.
For instance, the Appalachian usage of prefixing verbs with "a" and suffixing them with "ing" (I'm agoing to the store) is not random, but is used in a customary and typified way. The same is true of other so-called non-standard usages. Such typification, when described and documented, can thus be termed a grammar. The grammar of a language or dialect can then be reproduced, or taught. This is precisely what occurred when Sequoyah produced a Cherokee alphabet/syllabary. It was then necessary that grammars of the Cherokee language then be produced so that others could learn the language and children could be instructed in customary usage. In fact, as Cherokee is the only Iroquoian language remaining in daily use, it could be argued that descriptive grammars do have some use in sustaining a language per se.
Many of us, including myself as a native south Georgian, grew up essentially speaking a local dialect of English and then had to learn the "new language" of American Standard English in school (or not learn it, as the case may be).
It is I or it is me? According to the Merriam Webster's Dictionary of the English Language,"…instead of the old choice between right and wrong we are now choosing a style; it is a choice that is much closer to the reality of usage than the old one was…Clearly, both the it is I and it's me patterns are in reputable use and have been for a considerable time. It is I tends to be used in more formal or more stuffy situations; it's me predominates in real and fictional speech and in a more relaxed writing style. Him, her, us, and them may be less common after the verb to be than me is, but they are far from rare and are equally good" (566, 568).
The use of pronouns after forms of the verb to be is a special case. It's me has always been felt to be more idiomatic than It is I. The prescription of It is I as the "correct" construction stems from the imposition of a rule of Latin grammar onto English. In Latin, nouns and pronouns take the subject form (nominative) with the verb to be. Applying that rule to English gives us It is I–a form hardly any native English speaker feels comfortable in saying.
The choice to speak a non-standard form of English is fine on an individual/local level, but the fact remains that English is an international language. Educated people will want to be fluent in a standard form so as to be comprehensible in any situation.
That is not to say that dual usage cannot exist in this "standard" form. It's me is as understandable as It is I. Local usages, such as the Arkansas idiom "the bell's fixin to ring," on the other hand, would not convey much to someone who has learned English as a second language.
It's unfortunate that for some people a standard form of English usage has come to be seen as an instrument of class oppression.
Myself and Mike will attend the conference.
I believe people try to appear intelligent through this type of usage, which is hardly effective!
I was reading the want ads in the K-W Record, the other day in which someone was advertising their house for sale. The descripton went according to the usual format, until it came to "ash vault" and then I had a chuckle, just as I have reading a word a day.
All these examples are ghastly, but has anyone noticed how frequently "myself" is being substituted for "me"? It could be lack of confidence about correct usage when you hear "it was agreed by Jack, Jill, and myself"; similarly the word "impact" is often used when a writer is not sure whether "effect" or "affect" is appropriate.
If you haven't already, check out my post Me, Myself, and I.
From all the examples above, I do not really know the correct way of using 'me' or I.
I was almost supporting someone that said that one cannot say 'me went to moovies ' and so will not write or say 'me and John went to movies' . But can one say 'I and John went to movies' or 'John and I went to movies'?
Longer ago than I'd like to admit, I was taught in grammer school that certain personal pronouns ( "I, she, he, they, we") of the NOMINATIVE CASE always FOLLOWED COPULATIVE VERBS . In the 1950's, one of my teachers, a nun, assigned as English homework, a LIST of copulative verbs to be memorized .
Perhaps the list will serve to help anyone willing to memorize it. I don't know if the info remains currently correct, esp since I never finished college and changes may have been made to it over these past many years.
That was great. Thank you. I thought I was the only person who listens to this blunder and mentally (and sometimes vocally) reprimands the TV speaker.
I just returned to this set of comments because of the most recent comment by George and noticed yours for the first time.
To seek meaningful dialogue on television is to invite such informalitites into one's life. TV is not a gold standard of the English language for the world. It is simply entertainment, and as such suffers from excessive, 'Artistic License'. Characters often are deliberately given incorrect dialogue deliberately as a part of their portrayal.
I think Cheryl and I agree, although I believe that newscasters, professional speakers, etc should be held to a far higher standard than those on television shows designed purely for entertainment.
My pet peeve for TV professionals (news, etc) is still the same: "There's a lot of people out there…" If they thought for just a second they'd (hopefully) realize that the contraction should be' there ARE', not 'there IS'.
The title of the last episode of Desperate Housewives is, 'Me and My Town.' Are they serious? This has become so ingrained in our society, the news paper regularly disregards this horrible linguistic error, as do news anchors, radio hosts on NPR, PRI, etc.. It used to bother me so much I couldn't stand it. People do it so often now, I have given up hope they will ever stop.
Can anyone tell me why we say 'me too' and not 'I too'?
We say me too because that's what is said by everyone. What everyone says is correct. That's the way language works.
e.g. There are is rapidly disappearing on this side of the Atlantic (Europe) in the last years.
There's numerous reasons etc. is suddenly appearing. It will become the norm if this trend persisits.
I have noticed that many people use the incorrect "I", and I think that in some cases it's done in order to sound educated. They don't know why there is a difference between the two, they have no idea that there is a grammar rule about subject and object, they just think that "I" sounds classier (a word that I love to hate but here it is apt), more "upscale" (how much do you hate *that* word?). I, also, tell people to eliminate the "and" and then listen to what it sounds like. I tell them, if you would use the word "we" then use the word "I"; if you would use the word, "us", then use the word "me". The same goes for they and them. And I also hate "different than", I can't stand the sound of it or the sight of it. "Different from" calms me down.
Somehow I missed this nice article! Loved the "PhD" (last) example. The new president of Ukraine (Yanukovitch) is known to his constituency as "proFFessor": This is how he spelled his occupation in the election campaign forms.
By this logic, then, "me and him should of went to the movies" should be considered correct? Most assuredly, that abomination flies regularly out of the mouths of a majority of under-25 people with whom I'm acquainted. But the notion that such endemic (mis) usage somehow makes garbage-speak like that "correct" just boggles the mind.
Are we to change all of our textbooks from "he and I [verb]" to "me and him [verb]" and "should have gone" to "should of went" just because the number of ignoramuses who can't be bothered to learn their native language exceeds the number who do learn more or less correct English?
I'm sorry, but I have serious issues with the anarchistic "anything people say is correct" approach to language. It seems to me more on the order of a lame excuse for linguistic ignorance and/or laziness.
Language without rules is just noise; unintelligible babble. The job of dictionaries and other linguistic authorities should be twofold: to document current usage AND to cite the correct forms when they differ from current usage.
Just documenting current usage and calling it "correct" is a cop-out and a disservice to us all.
Different from is fine. What is wrong about different than?
The recent one that bothers me is different to. What's the logic behind that?
But, much as I would prefer unchanging correct grammar rules, language has always evolved. The ones that don't are not spoken anymore (dead languages).
Why do pronouns still have objective and subjective cases? No other nouns have them. If we want language to be "correct" all the time, we need to remove "me", "us", and "him" from the language.


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Elderly Professor's Attacker Charged With Murder, DA Says
June 12, 2018 | Patch
The 87-year-old college professor hit his head on the ground after being shoved during a robbery at an Upper West Side ATM.
A man who killed an Upper West Side college professor during a robbery will face murder charges, prosecutors said.
Matthew Lee, 50, was indicted Monday on charges of second-degree murder and first-degree robbery, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., announced. Lee is accused of killing 87-year-old Lehman College professor Young Kun Kim during a robbery at an Upper West Side bank, prosecutors said.
Lee followed Kim into the ATM area of a Citibank branch on Broadway between West 96th and 97th streets around 4:30 p.m. on May 13 and watched as Kim withdrew $300 from one of the machines, prosecutors said. When the machine dispensed the cash, Lee snatched the money from Kim, knocking the man to the ground in a struggle, prosecutors said.
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Memorials Honor Victoria Bush
Ken and Victoria Bush
Victoria Isabel Bush loved to dance.
Victoria began taking classes at age 7. It was a passion that spread to every part of her life, that brought her together with her husband, that she shared with her daughter and family and friends, and that she continued to do into her mid-60s.
"My mother was elegant, yet down to earth. She loved dance, especially ballet and ballroom dance. She and my father were fabulous dancers—people on the dance floor would just part for them," said daughter Deborah Schanker.
Vicki and Ken Bush loved to dance—ballroom, flamenco, Argentine Tango, Salsa, Cha-Cha, you name it. In fact, they danced for hours on the night they met. And, throughout the majority of their 58-year marriage they danced together for 20-25 hours per week. From the moment they first took the floor on a blind date set up by Ken's mother, "it just felt right," Ken Bush said. In a whirlwind romance that could have only been scripted by the hands of fate, Ken and Vicki found themselves in love and partners for life.
Victoria Bush taking Flamenco lessons from Antonio Vargas.
Two children (David and Deborah), and four grandchildren later, they had shared their love of dance through example, surrounded by dance artwork—some painted by Vicki herself—and their devotion to ballroom dancing including Argentine Tango. Victoria (as she was called in recent years) also spent a weekend taking flamenco lessons from Antonio Vargas, world renowned flamenco dancer, in addition to regular lessons from Tamara Carson.
Vicki loved supporting the Ballet by attending performances at the theatre and other locations around town including parks around the city and even in Westport in the 70s and 80s. In fact, she and Ken had been subscribers since Kansas City Ballet started performances at the Lyric Theatre.
Victoria Bush working at Swanson's on the Country Club Plaza.
Vicki definitely was easy to spot in a crowd. She looked like a model and was always dressed very fashionably. Having worked as the house model for Swanson's and at the makeup counter at Saks, both on the Plaza, Victoria could have easily stepped off the pages of Vogue. Her beauty ran deep. The love that she had for her husband, family and friends was just as easy to spot. It shone through her.
When the time came for Vicki's family to say goodbye, it was incredibly difficult.
In the midst of their grief, her family wanted to honor her in the best way they knew how. They considered their options. Then Deborah had an idea to direct gifts to Kansas City Ballet to honor her mother's love of dance and the ballet. Her father immediately agreed.
Ken and Victoria Bush with their son David and daughter Deborah and their families.
"It's such a nice legacy to leave for somebody who has that kind of love for dance," said Deborah. "And just by letting people know this is possible, it can help."
The Victoria Bush Memorial Fund was created and friends and loved ones were able to direct monetary gifts to Kansas City Ballet in honor of Vicki and her passion for dance.
Victoria Bush and daughter Deborah Schanker.
"Do you think mom would have ever thought to direct us to do something like this in her honor?" Deborah asked Ken. "Maybe she did," Ken said while smiling.
If you would like to make a gift in honor of Victoria Bush, you may do so online or via mail (Kansas City Ballet, 500 W Pershing Rd., KCMO 64108). Please make sure to leave a note in the notes field or on your correspondence that says: Victoria Bush Memorial. The Bush family will be notified of your gift.
Setting Up a Memorial Fund
If you would like to learn more about setting up a Memorial Fund or Endowment Fund at Kansas City Ballet, please contact Kansas City Ballet Chief Development Officer Jennifer Wampler at 816.216.5585.
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One of South Tyneside's best-loved beauty spots has been targeted by fly-tippers.
Anthony Brew found the rubbish while out walking in Sunniside Lane, Cleadon Hills, this morning.
"I was walking my dog, which I do up there three or four times a week," he said.
"I was with my mam when we came across this pile of dumped rubbish.
"The road goes from The Lonnen all the way through to Cleadon Village and it was at The Lonnen end, close to the Cleadon water tower," said Anthony, 55.
"It is a pile of fly-tipping that looks as though it has been dumped from the back of a lorry - it is not just something someone has thrown out of the back of a van."
"I cycle around that area, so it is a regular route for me," he said.
"It is an on-going issue in Cleadon Hills - it is just disgusting.
"I am not saying it happens every day or every week, but certainly five or six times a year this goes on and this is the worst that I have seen.
"It looks like it had been on fire. I am a retired firefighter so I know the tell-tale signs that a crew has been there."
Anthony has notified South Tyneside Borough Council of the tipping and is full of praise for the authority's response.
"I have to give full credit to the council. I rang them up and they were straight there," he said.
"The thing I find with the council is that if people do take the time to report stuff, they will take action.
"The council does a sterling job, I can't knock them - but they really are fighting a losing battle.
"It is such a beautiful area, a beautiful place to live, and it is being blighted by these ignorant criminals.
"Why are people not going to public tips to dump their rubbish?
"We can't just allow this to happen, there has got to be a way to deal with it.
Coun Nancy Maxwell, South Tyneside Borough Council Lead Member for Area Management and Community Safety, said: "It is outrageous that a minority of people think they can dump rubbish in our Borough. Fly tipping is not only illegal and irresponsible, but can also be hazardous to the public and wildlife as well as being costly to clear.
"In this instance, the waste was set on fire, posing a greater environmental and safety risk to greenspace, wildlife, and property as well as the staff collecting it.
"We take instances of flytipping extremely seriously and will prosecute anyone we can identify as being responsible. We value the role our residents play in bringing these cases to our attention and would appeal for people to take details of any vehicles, and the people involved, so that appropriate action can be taken.
"Over the last decade, we have significantly reduced instances of fly-tipping through more awareness raising, education and improving the range of waste disposal services available. Our award-winning Recycling Village is daily from 8am to 6pm in the summer, and longer over Bank Holidays. With the help of our residents, we are committed to reducing the number of incidents even further.
"Anyone with information regarding fly-tipping can call the Council's Customer Contact Centre on (0191) 427 7000, email customerhelp@southtyneside.gov.uk or visit www.southtyneside.gov.uk/reportit. All calls will be treated in the strictest confidence.


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Minnesota Natural Wonder Is On Trump Team's Hit List To Despoil
Sarah Okeson
August 06 | 2020
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Trump administration action that could spoil a Minnesota wilderness with acidic damage for centuries would benefit the landlord of the president's children.
Former President Jimmy Carter signed a law more than four decades ago to prohibit mining in the Boundary Waters, a pristine wilderness. With more than 1,000 lakes, it stretches almost 200 miles along the U.S.-Canada border in Minnesota.
Now the Trump administration is preparing to sully this land forever—to the benefit of the billionaire Chilean landlord of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
Trump's Bureau of Land Management plans to study the environmental impact of mining for copper, nickel, cobalt and precious metals near Ely, Minn. The site is just three miles away from the Boundary Waters, which is within the 3 million-acre Superior National Forest. State regulators said the plans of Twin Metals, the mining company, are incomplete and have published almost 800 comments asking for more information.
Under former President Barack Obama, the Forest Service said a copper-nickel sulfide mine on land leased by Twin Metals carried an "unacceptable" risk that the mine might "cause serious and irreplaceable harm" to the Boundary Waters. The land bureau decided against renewing two leases held by Twin Metals.
After Trump was elected, a company controlled by Andrónico Luksic, the Chilean mogul behind Twin Metals, bought a six-bedroom house for $5.5 million in the Kalorama neighborhood in Washington, D.C., where billionaire Jeff Bezos and Obama own homes. Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner moved in, paying $15,000 a month.
Luksic's spokesman has said the Kushners' choice of the property was coincidental, but soon after Trump's inauguration the land bureau started to look at reversing the Obama decision on the leases.
The red circle shows the approximate area of the proposed mine.
"The WH has expressed interest in the Twin Metals matter and Doug Domenich [sic.] (then an adviser to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke) wants to talk to the WH today," attorney Karen Hawbecker wrote in June 2017. The leases were renewed for 10 years in May 2019 with a right to perpetual renewal.
Twin Metals claims the design of the mine would prevent acid mine drainage in which sulfuric acid formed by mining dissolves heavy metals in rocks. The pollution can make streams as acidic as battery acid, and the damage can last hundreds, sometimes even thousands of years. Acid mine drainage destroyed Tar Creek in Oklahoma, contributing to one of the worst Superfund sites in our nation's history.
The Wilderness Society, Minnesota businesses and other environmental organizations sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in federal court to try to stop the mine, saying that damage caused by acid mine drainage might not ever be remediated.
The lawsuit claims that renewing the leases without doing an environmental impact statement was a violation of the National Environmental Policy Act.
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The District Three S.C. Football Officials Association is looking for interested people to call high school football games. Candidates are encouraged to contact an S.C. Football Officials Association District 3 officer by April 15 to schedule an interview to determine if you are eligible to join the association. Classes start at the end of April. Contact Chris Horton, district director, (803) 448-1707, or chorton1@comporium.net, or Brad Smith, assistant director, (704) 651-7813.
The Lancaster County Parks and Recreation is holding registration for a coed kickball league for ages 16 and up.
Register online individually, or by team at www.mylancastersc.org/parks. Cost is $30 per person with a minimum of 12 players on each team. Call Micky Taylor at (803) 289-6085 with your rosters, or if you are on a team and wish to pay with a credit card, please reference the head coach or team name.
The LCPR will provide team shirts, officials and balls for the league.
Each team must have at least four girls on the field at all times; if not, it must play down a player. It must have at least two girls on the infield and two on the outfield while playing.
The registration deadline is April 19.
The league begins play May 3. All games will be on Fridays at Walnut Creek.
If there is enough interest, LCPR will create a league in Lancaster and Buford. For details, call Taylor at (803) 289-6085.
A free family fishing clinic will be held at Grandchildren's Park in Sun City Carolina Lakes from 1-4 p.m. April 20. Instructors are resident volunteers who are members of the Sport Fishing Club. Bait, rods and reels, and tackle will be provided. The clinic is designed to introduce the basics of fishing to both young and old. Space is limited. For details or to register, call (803) 737-8483, email aquaticed@dnr.sc.gov or visit www.dnr.sc.gov/aquaticed.
Lancaster County Parks and Recreation will hold an officials meeting for Swing League, Girls Sweetees and T-Ball at 5:30 p.m. April 24 in the conference room at the Springdale Recreation Complex, 260 S. Plantation Road, Lancaster.
Officials must be age 15, must bring their Social Security number and be able to work Tuesday and Thursday nights and Saturday mornings. Teams will play in the Lancaster, Buford, Kershaw, Heath Springs and Walnut Creek areas.
If you cannot attend the meeting, call the office at (803) 285-5545 and ask for Morgan Blackmon or Tyler Wozniak.
The ninth annual Fore The Kids golf tournament to benefit the Lancaster, Chester and York county chapters of Child Evangelism Fellowship will be April 26 at Edgewater Golf Club.
A four-member team, which includes $75 per member, includes lunch, supper, prizes and a goodie bag.
Golfers can make their own team, or sign up and be assigned a team. Mulligans will be available.
Prizes will be awarded for top teams and through drawings.
The tourney will follow a schedule, which includes check-in and range open at 11:30 a.m.
Lunch is served at noon, with the shotgun start at 1 p.m.
Supper and awards are at 5 p.m.
A hole sponsor is $250 which includes a hole sign and name on banner. A company sponsor is $500, which includes 4-person team, hole sign and name on banner. A corporate sponsor is $1,000, which includes company sponsor items plus special recognition at the event, fall banquet and newsletters.
To register, email Skip Stutts at sstutts@comporium.net, or call (704) 614-1370.
USC Gamecocks head football coach Will Muschamp will be the featured speaker for the annual Lancaster County Gamecock Club spring meeting April 29 at the Catawba Fish Camp in Fort Lawn. Dinner is at 6 p.m., followed by the meeting at 7 p.m. A raffle, with each ticket at $5, will be held for two Gamecocks season tickets.
Tickets, at $20 each, are available from Joe Grier (285-4757), Glenda Powell (285-0441), Rusty Crenshaw (984-3464), Jason Riggins (802-2741), Doyle Roach (704-877-8357), Lester Terry (448-0443), Brian Casey (283-3866), John Bundy (320-0279), Randy Newman (416-9336), Kyle Rogers (289-0771), Tony Rollings (804-8059) and Randy Williams (320-7209).
The 2019 Indian Land Rotary Club golf tournament is May 9 at Carolina Lakes Golf Club, 23012 Kingfisher Drive in Sun City Carolina Lakes. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., followed by a shotgun start at 10 a.m.
The first-place team will win $200 and a trophy; second place will win $100; third place wins a $25 gift card and the last place team gets a prize, too. There will be closest-to-the-pin, longest-drive and putting contests, as well as a chance to win a new vehicle.
Mulligan packages are available and there will be a 50/50 raffle during the event.
Tickets are $440 per team of four golfers or $125 per person. The ticket price includes lunch, dinner and a free round of golf at Carolina Lakes Golf Club at a later date.
Lunch is provided by Jersey Mike's; dinner provided by 521 BBQ, with a complimentary beer cart during the tournament.
The tournament raises funds for local Rotary projects, including collegiate scholarships for Indian Land High School seniors and dictionaries for all third-graders in Panhandle elementary schools.
The club is also seeking sponsors for the tournament, ranging from $125 tee box signs to the $3,000 titanium level.
To register or sponsor the event, visit www.indianlandrotary.com or contact tournament chairman Adam Cooper at drahcooper@gmail.com or (704) 807-3562.
The Carolina Traffic and Transportation Club will hold its annual golf tournament May 21 at the Lancaster Golf Club.
Registration is 9:30 a.m., with the shotgun start at 10:30 a.m.
Registration is $75 per player, which includes golf, on-course beverages, cookout and a ticket for a cash drawing. The cash prize drawing is after the tournament and you have to be present to win.
Mulligans, at $5 each, are optional, and limited to two per player. Non-golfers can pay $15 for the social hour and meal only.
A hole sponsorship is $100, with beverage cart sponsorship $200.
Event proceeds benefit the Lancaster Children's Home.
For details, contact Gwen Byrd at (803) 320-2170 or gwenbrd55@gmail.com.
We welcome your submissions. Send sports information to Carolina Gateway, P.O. Box 640, Lancaster, SC 29721; fax it to (803) 283-8969; or email it to cgnews@thelancasternews.com. Deadline is 5 p.m. Thursday for the next week's paper.


A 2013 New York City protest against private prisons. The crime rate has gone down since then, but the private prison business is booming, in part because of the white supremacist Trump regime's ICE roundups sending many more people to private immigration slammers. The private prison business buys politicians on both sides of the US partisan divide. Photo by VOCAL-NY.
It's not just a lack of imagination. It's not just a fawning attitude. It's not just the absence of patriotism. President Varela's decision to put out the maintenance of a new prison in Chiriquí for bids by private contractors is, to be sure all of those things. But most importantly, and coming from a guy who took millions from Odebrecht and then lied to us about it, it's a structural incentive for corruption.
Oh, sure. It might be said that what is intended here is not like in Jim Crow, where after slaves were formally freed a Southern police state railroaded blacks through the criminal justice system and into a system of "convict leasing" in which plantation owners used convict labor instead of slave labor, with little practical difference between the two things. It might be said that this is not like the US system of manufacturing that undercuts both union labor and minimum wage by paying prisoners pennies an hour to do assembly work. It might be said that this is not quite like the completely privatized immigration prisons that Donald Trump is stuffing past capacity with roundups not only of people in the United States illegally, but also of citizens and legal immigrants who come under suspicion for having brown skin or being heard speaking Spanish. 'White supremacist? Who, ME?' the president and members of his brain trust may protest.
But at the end of the day, any private company performing any task in Panama's prison system sees its profits go up when more people get sent to prison. It's a powerful incentive to prevail upon police, prosecutors and judges to send more people to prison, whether or not there is any justice or wisdom in that.
In the United States there are judges serving long prison sentences for selling youths who did little or nothing to private juvenile detention centers. Those are the arrogant ones who were caught taking millions in bribes to do this. It would be naive to think that the practice isn't far more widespread.
President Varela proposes to copy something truly awful from the US system.
Panamanians ought to question his wisdom, his ethics and his patriotism for doing this.


Templates work just about everywhere: in expression processors, spreadsheets, task management apps, study websites, and email. Here's how to use layouts in your chosen apps–and how to automatically create documents from a template–so you can get those common jobs done faster.
Templates remember to build, and it's really easy to question if they're well worth the investment. The brief answer: absolutely. Croping and editing a template requires much less time than formatting something from damage. It is the difference between copying and pasting some wording, or retyping it.
Templates also promise consistency. Perchance you send regular job revisions to clients or traders. With a design template, you understand the revise will will have the same formatting, design, and standard structure.


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Who can absentee vote in Michigan?
Can't go to the polls because of religious beliefs.
Those wishing to vote by absentee ballot should fill out an absentee ballot application and return it to the city or township clerk. A reason for requesting an absentee ballot must be provided and the request must be signed. City Hall will be open the Saturday prior to any election from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. for the purpose of issuing absentee ballots. If a voter is allowed to vote by absentee ballot, he/she may also choose to vote in person at the clerk's office anytime up to 4 p.m. the day before the election.
Voters must ask for a new absentee ballot for each election. Those who know before the primary that they won't be able to vote in person at the general election can request an absentee ballot for both of these elections at the same time.
All absentee ballots must be hand-delivered or mailed to the clerk's office. In order to be counted, the ballots must be received by 8:00 p.m. on election day.
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I don't get it. The day after my water change the glass gets covered with tiny green hair algae.
Been doing water changes with tap water for the last year without any issues. Since I managed to lower my nitrates considerably (15-20 ppm down from 40) in the last month I figured this was now the time to switch to RO/DI after witnessing this last week.
But same effect this week with RO/DI.
RO/DI water measured 0 nitrate and phosphate.
My tap water also btw.
Anybody have a clue what is going on?
I have been thinking maybe iron is limiting my algae growth.
I stumbled on a old thread reading on algae scrubber and a very experienced reefer suggested that.
So when I do a water change I might replenish my iron.
I will have to get an iron test kit to confirm that out.


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Bowles, Paul
Three Tales
New York, NY: Frank Hallman, 1975. Limited First Trade Edition. Softcover. "Three Tales" is a small collection of short stories ("Afternoon with Antaeus," "The Fqih," and "Mejdoub") by legendary literary expatriate Paul Bowles (1910-1999) and published by one Frank Hallman in 1975. Little is known about Frank Hallman, and the only available information we found when researching Mr. Hallman is that he was at the helm of a small publishing..... More
Eastlake, William
The Bamboo Bed
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1969. First Printing. Hardcover. "Madame Dieudonne arose, stark and stripped, in her underground villa at 0600 as was her wont, turned on the shortwave radio and heard the report from Laos that Captain Clancy was dead, and then she walked, still naked, to her jewel box, removed a small, black, heavy object, raised it to her head and blew her pretty French brains out..... More
Suyin, Han
The Crippled Tree
London, England: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "In 'The Crippled Tree,' Han Suyin evokes, through the life of her two families (Eastern and Western), a panorama of the history of China from 1885 to 1928. It contains eye-witness accounts of the Sino-French War, of the revolution of 1911 and of the emergence of Chiang Kai-Shek. / ... / The theme of the book is the story of the..... More
Various (Ashbery, John; Berkson, Bill; Carroll, Jim; Coolidge, Clark; Elmslie, Kenward; Giorno, John; Plimpton, George [Editor]; Notley, Alice; Schuyler, James et al.
The Paris Review Vol. 13 No. 50 (Fall 1970)
New York, NY: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1970. First Printing. Softcover. The first thing one sees when opening the Fall 1970 issue of The Paris Review is a contemporary ad for the release of the now-legendary "Anthology of New York Poets" co-edited by Ron Padgett and David Shapiro. Turn a few pages further to our illustrious list of contributors and the surprise (and treat) waiting there quietly reveals itself: "The Basketball..... More
Abbey, Edward
Hayduke Lives!
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. "In Edward Abbey's critically acclaimed bestseller, The Monkey Wrench Gang, George Washington Hayduke- ex-Green Beret and "wilderness avenger, industrial development saboteur, night-time troublemaker, barroom brawler, free-time lover"- was last seen clinging to a cliff, under fire from both a helicopter and a posse. Now presumed dead by all who stalked him, whereabouts unknown to those who knew him best...HAYDUKE LIVES!-..... More
Agee, James
New York, NY: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. "This extremely moving novel deals with a universal human situation. It is the story of a loving and closely knit family and of the loss and heartbreak in that intimate circle when a beloved member suddenly dies. Yet A Death in the Family is not a sad book. It is essentially a story of love, which glows with affection and tenderness..... More
Ansen, Alan
The Vigilantes: A Fragment by Alan Ansen
Sunbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Lettered & Signed by (and with photograph of) Alan Ansen. "When Carl Solomon's Uncle, A.A. Wyn, the publisher of Ace Books, saw three chapters of THE VIGILANTES, he said, 'Ah, a study of the milieu.' The remark irritated me at the time (see the appended Statement); but I am now thirty-five years later inclined to see it as a fair comment..... More
Barth, John
New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "...Dunyazade, kid sister of Scheherazade of The Thousand and One Nights, (has) her own way with words. There is also Perseus, the demigod who slew the Gorgon Medusa, and yet finds himself at forty "sea-leveled, parched and plucked, every grain in my molted sandals raising blisters, and beleaguered by the serpents of my past." And bellerophon, the hero who tames..... More
Barthelme, Donald
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. "(Donald Barthelme) here enlarges and makes further forays into the imaginative terrain laid out in his three previous books. The fourteen new stories gathered together in City Life offer sudden, dazzling glimpses of a world very much like our own but with more clearly visible marvels and terrors...Throughout his exploration of City Life, Donald Barthelme displays the inimitable wit..... More
The Dead Father
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. " "There is nothing unusual about the foot except that it is seven meters high." Nineteen men are dragging, by means of a cable, an immense carcass through the countryside. The carcass is that of the Dead Father, a half-dead, half-alive, part-mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself, although he is, effectively, dead...In an austere..... More
Various (Baxter, Charles et al.)
A Decade of Good Writing: Passages North Anthology
Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 1990. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Charles Baxter at his preface to James Perrizo. An anthology of poetry & short fiction from the first decade of Passages North, the literary journal "...from the Great Lakes Region (that) has won a national audience and critical acclaim."(from back cover) Edited by Elinor Benedict & with a preface by Charles Baxter. Baxter has signed this copy at his preface..... More
Bernhardt, Jeanne
Silver City & Two More
London, England: Sick Fly Publications/ Tangerine Press, 2018. Limited First Edition Thus. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Jeanne Bernhardt. A collection of three short stories by Jeanne Bernhardt, a popular poet & writer from New Zealand with a most unfiltered Beat sensibility. The "Two More" stories after "Silver City" are "Hugh Beller" & "Coyotes." Chapbook in sewn binding, a high-quality & attractive production of Sick Fly Publications, a subsidiary imprint of..... More
Berrigan, Ted
Clear the Range
New York, NY: Adventures in Poetry, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Ted Berrigan (1934-1983) attended Providence College for a year before joining the army in 1954 at age 19. After serving in Korea, Berrigan went on to receive an MA in English from the University of Tulsa in 1962. After completion of his studies in Tulsa, Berrigan moved to New York City. A cyclone of amphetamine..... More
Bowles, Jane
The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Jane Bowles has long had an underground reputation as one of the truly original writers of the last three decades. It is with special pleasure that we make her work available for the first time in its entirety." (from front flap) The definitive collection of writings by Jane Bowles (1917-1973), wife of Paul Bowles & among the most..... More
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The Delicate Prey and Other Stories
New York, NY: Random House, 1950. First American Edition. Hardcover. Labeled by the wonderful promotional copy on the back of the book as one of the "NEW SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST" Random House was publishing in 1950, they wrote the following about Paul Bowles' "The Delicate Prey," a strikingly dark and now-legendary collection of short stories from the celebrated author: "The short stories by the author of 'The..... More
Mrabet, Mohammed (Bowles, Paul)
The Lemon
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1972. First American Edition. Hardcover. "All day the cafe was full of men in djellebas and turbans. They even filled the tables on the pavement outside, and Abdeslam ran without stopping between the fire and the tables, carrying tea and coffee and Coca-Cola. Most of the customers smoked kif, and many of them tried to sell it to him. He never bought any, because whe he..... More
Eberhardt, Isabelle (Bowles, Paul)
The Oblivion Seekers
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1975. First Printing. Softcover. (Cook 112, pg. 120). "If Alexander Trophimowsky had not taken charge of his illegitimate daughter's education and upbringing, no one would have ever heard of Isabelle Eberhardt. By obliging her to perform hard physical labor outdoors alongside her brothers during her childhood and adolescence, he made it possible for her to withstand the rigors of the spartan life she was..... More
Look & Move On
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "One spring day I was sitting on the terrace of Merri's Cafe on the beach at Merkala. A Nazarene man and his wife were there with their Moroccan maid. I sat looking out at the beach, smoking kif and sipping tea. / After a while the woman called over to me: You smoke a lot of kif for..... More
Things Gone and Things Still Here
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. First Trade Softcover Edition. Published by John Martin's Black Sparrow Press in 1977, "Things Gone and Things Still Here" collects the title piece along with eight other sand-whipped mosaics-in-prose by literature's most distinguishable Tanjawi (the word for "single resident of Tangier"), Paul Bowles (1910-1999). Although he is primarily known for his short stories and prose fiction, Bowles also wrote poetry and composed music..... More
The Beach Cafe & The Voice
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. First Trade Edition. Softcover. As the title makes clear, this surprisingly lengthy collection from Mohammed Mrabet--born in 1936 and remarkably still alive as of this writing--contains two stories: "The Beach Cafe" and "The Voice." The subtitle: "Taped and Translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles" (1910-1999) masks within it what later became a point of contention for Mrabet. This 'point of contention' was..... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Paul Bowles. "He arrived in Tangier at noon and went straight to the house. In the rain the outer courtyard was uninviting. Several dead banana plants had fallen over and been left to rot on the tile floor. Even as old Amina, seeing him from the kitchen doorway, waddled out into the rain to greet him, he..... More
Rey Rosa, Rodrigo
The Beggar's Knife (Translated by Paul Bowles)
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1985. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "From one of Guatemala's finest young writers, these twenty-six stories- at once brutal and intensely lyrical- are peopled with sorcerers, ghosts, and assassins. Springing from myth and beliefs indigenous to Central America and North Africa, where their action occurs, (Rodrigo) Rey Rosa's tales give the sense of being dreamed; and at the same time they can be read as..... More
Marriage With Papers
Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou Books, 1986. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Paul Bowles & Mohammed Mrabet. (1/100 Unnumbered Limited First Edition Hardcover Copies) "...he was beginning to tape a new novel for translation, this one by another young Moroccan, Mohammed Mrabet. Mrabet had actually met Bowles and Jane [Bowles] several years earlier while working as a cook and a bartender for an American who had a house on the Old..... More
Bowles, Paul; Santoro, Vittorio
The Time of Friendship
Zurich, Switzerland: Vittorio Santoro, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. "A query often put to me by journalists unable to invent better questions is: which one of all my stories do I like best. A meaningless question. Still, I reply, always giving the same title: 'The Time of Friendship.' It has neither personalized malevolent thought nor any violent behavior. The violent action is supplied by the approaching war. One is aware of..... More
Brautigan, Richard
Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1975. First Printing. Hardcover. "'With the publication of 'The Hawkline Monster,' Richard Brautigan, author of 'Trout Fishing in America,' revealed a new dimension to his talent that amused and entertained his many readers. 'His writing has an exemplary control and precision, a fine-tuned tension...he belongs at literature's main table.' (Chicago Tribune). In this stunning new novel, Brautigan explores contemporary values in America and their..... More


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Ruth Wedgwood | March 2009
In 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt founded an American civic organization called Freedom House to support the engagement of the United States in the monumental struggle for the survival of free nations against the oppressive forces of Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. Summoning fellow citizens to such a role was extraordinary. The United States was still familiar with John Quincy Adams's warning that we should not "go abroad in search of monsters to destroy."
These two expansionist and authoritarian powers threatened the future of the world community. Yet, as a continental power separated by two oceans from the intrigues of Europe and Asia, the United States had long insisted on stout isolationism. Even after we were saved by the intervention of the French fleet in the American Revolution, we supposed that our safest course was to avoid the power politics of Europe and declared that we preferred to be left alone. We sidestepped the continental wars between Britain and France, and avoided the fight against Napoleon by the Holy Alliance, entering into conflict with the British only after blockades and the seizure of U.S. ships stymied our global commerce. American democrats in the early nineteenth century may have rooted for revolutionaries—Henry Clay was called "Harry of the West," and likened to Simon Bolivar and to Byron resisting the Ottomans in Greece—but as a matter of official policy the United States was hors de combat.
This inward gaze changed some during the American Civil War, when both sides worried that Britain and France might enter the mortal conflict. Liverpool merchants abhorred slavery, but were hungry for cotton. But U.S. involvement in the struggles of great powers did not really begin until the First World War, when we chose to reinforce the exhausted troops of France and Britain in the deadlock of trench warfare against the Kaiser. Nonetheless, with the war's close, American attention again turned inward. The security mechanisms of the new League of Nations seemed entangling to a skeptical Senate, and the American military was diminished to a size that could not begin to intimidate any rising powers in Asia or Europe. Woodrow Wilson's declaration of the Fourteen Points still resonated, but this was a hope, not a policy, and we did not think hard about the potential misuse of a right of self-determination as a goad to violent nationalism. Not even the rise of Hitler and the diabolical acts of the Nazi regime against German Jews in the 1930s persuaded the United States to part with its isolationist views. It was only after the surprise attack by Japan that the United States was brought to act as an open ally of the beleaguered states of Europe and Asia.1
This background of hesitation makes America's role after the Second World War appear all the more extraordinary. The attempt to reconstruct an international system of trade, finance, and political collaboration, and to transform the cultures of Germany and Japan, was not a task Americans were accustomed to. But the change in America's posture was crucial to the evolution of the postwar world, where a policy of generosity toward enemies proved far more effective in winning the peace than any punishment or reparation. So, too, the willingness to counter the outward thrust of Russian Communism was informed by the lesson taken from our slumber during Fascism's rise. The United States was willing to accept that a two-ocean continental power had unique advantages in policing the commons, for the restoration of peace and commerce, and the protection of democratic freedoms.
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Biography of Vija Celmins
The hugely influential Latvian-born artist, Vija Celmins, stunned the art world in the 1970s with her beautiful and illusionistic paintings of nature in tonal gradations of gray. Celmins is highly-sensitive to the psychological implications of the artistic process when making images, imbuing her photorealistic works with a strange contemplative sense.
Born in 1938, the artist fled to East Germany with her family during the Second World War before eventually abandoning Europe altogether and settling in the United States in 1948. Starting out as painter, Celmins was heavily influenced by the Abstract Expressionist movement whose work she saw on various visits to New York. Concentrating on mass media imagery early on in her career, Vija Celmins painted scenes of war and disaster that reflected on her early childhood experiences. Featuring warplanes, burning houses, guns, and riots, these violent visions from her youth were a response to the Vietnam War which was then at its height.
Vija Celmins is particularly well known for surface development and luminosity in her works, especially her haunting web depictions and negative images in charcoal or oil. Her renderings of natural scenes often lack a point of reference so that there was no discernible field of depth—in other words they appeared limitless. Revelling in the imperfection of nature and organic detail, Celmins would often work for months on a single image. Deserts, constellations, spider webs, and seascapes are Celmins' subject matter and are portrayed precisely and unflinchingly, and nearly always with a distinctive luminance.
Throughout her career Vija Celmins has continued her serial exploration of natural forms through the medium of oil paint, charcoal, pencil, drawing, sculpture, and of course printmaking. Celmins still lives in New York and has had major retrospectives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the ICA in London in 1996 as well as the Centre Pompidou in Paris. She is featured in most North American major art collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Highly collectable, Celmins' thoughtful editions and multiples are created with that unique and intricate attention to detail so central to the artist's practice.
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A colleague and I once spent a good week or so changing the network IP address ranges of 30 regional offices to match the 'harmonised' scheme of the company who'd acquired us. The change was not a major shift in numbering and we were clever enough to do a fair bit of it remotely through deft use of RDP and multihoming. After we'd finished and handed everything over to our new lords and masters (who very soon kicked us regional IT guys out), it transpired they'd forgot to tell us that the subnet masks also needed changing, so off we went again!
The icing on the cake, was that the encumbent IT guys were sh*t scared of Linux and so out went the 300-user email system based on Postfix, to be replaced by MS Exchange + required Licences, and they abandoned the distributed, replicated, cross-site backup system based on BackupPC which performed full and incremental backups of data overnight from every office to two other locations, plus the clever rsync scripts that brought a copy of all regional data back to HQ every night for data mining - we had data coming in from MS-SQL, MS-Access and proprietary systems to be munged into one data set in MySQL - it was bloody brilliant, even if I do say so myself.


What is Bankruptcy? Is Bankrupptcy right for you?
What is bankruptcy? The definition of bankruptcy is a legal action to help people with debt problems.
A person owing money can often get a court order that they no longer owe their debts (Chapter 7 bankruptcy) or they can get a court order that lets them pay their bills in whole or part over 5 years (Chapter 13 bankruptcy wage earner plan) while protecting them from their creditors.


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Q: Running command after SSH forced command I configured my Raspberry Pi SSH-server to only accept ssh keys when logging in. Really clever I thought, until now.
The thing is, I've added a forced command for one key like this to authorized_keys:
command="cd /home/pi/Sites/" ssh-rsa [bla bla bla] [my comment]

And when trying to log in now, it says just

Connection to MYSITE closed.

What I presume is that the forced command is being run and after that no interactive shell is being launched and therefore the connection is closed. Is there any way to connect anyway and undo the changes I've done to the authorized_keys-file?

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What I presume is that the forced command is being run and after that no interactive shell is being launched and therefore the connection is closed.

Exactly.

Is there any way to connect anyway and undo the changes I've done to the authorized_keys-file?

No. This is a feature. If you would be able to override this, it would be going around security policy that you defined (well ... this exactly does not make a lot of sense).
As already pointed out, if you don't have different authorized key, different user with authorized keys or passwords, you will have to get to the remote location and modify that file physically on the SD card.
For the next time, if you want to cd to some directory and start interactive bash, you will need
command="cd /tmp/;bash" s

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Note: this article reflects the standardization state as of 04.2016 when the article was submitted, while its publication date is 02.2017.
The article evaluates the different features and frequency bands supported by the Spectrum Toolbox, an example of advantages and disadvantages is shown below for certain features.
Enable operation in licensed, licensed-shared and license-assisted bands.


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Q: Serialize inputs in table rows (jQuery) I have a table with multiple rows which contain form inputs (checkboxes, text, dropdowns). When I click save I want to be able to get JSON representing each table row which will be used in an AJAX request. Each row has an id on it so I would like to get back something like this:
[1: { "input_name":"input_value", "input_name":"input_value", etc...}, 2: {etc...}]

With those numbers being the id of the table row.
Any way to do this?

A: This should do what you need:

        <input type="text" name="f1" value="" />
        <input type="checkbox" name="f2" value="v2" />
        <input type="checkbox" name="f3" value="" />
        <select name="f4">
                <option>1</option>
                <option>2</option>
                <option>3</option>
            </select>

        <input type="text" name="f1" value="" />
        <input type="checkbox" name="f2" value="v2" />
        <input type="checkbox" name="f3" value="" />
        <select name="f4">
                <option>1</option>
                <option>2</option>
                <option>3</option>
            </select>

        <input type="text" name="f1" value="" />
        <input type="checkbox" name="f2" value="v2" />
        <input type="checkbox" name="f3" value="" />
        <select name="f4">
                <option>1</option>
                <option>2</option>
                <option>3</option>
            </select>

<button id="btnGo">Go</button>

A: Haven't tested but something like this should work
var myjson = new Object();
$("#tableid > tr").each(function () {
  var tablerow = $(this);
  $("td input", tablerow).each(function () {
    var input = $(this);
    myjson[tablerow.attr("id")][input.attr("name")] = input.val();
  });
});


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Q: how to tell which disk is sda and which is sdb disk? from the df -k command, I see sda, sdb, sdc disks. They have some partitions (for example, sda has sda1, sda3). I want to detach sdb and sdc temporarily for OS upgrade. How exactly can I tell which disk is which? (actually I know sdc is the disk I recently attached, but how can I tell sda,sdb,sdc, from the SCSI connection? I remember SCSI connectors didn't have any order..)
ckim@stph45:/boot/grub] cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: ATA      Model: Samsung SSD 850  Rev: EXM0
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI  SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: ATA      Model: ST2000DM001-1CH1 Rev: CC27
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI  SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: HL-DT-ST Model: BD-RE  BH16NS40  Rev: 1.00
  Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI  SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: ATA      Model: WDC WD100EFAX-68 Rev: 83.H
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI  SCSI revision: 05
ckim@stph45:/boot/grub] df -k
Filesystem      1K-blocks      Used  Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3       226026064 103433752  111103800  49% /
tmpfs            32958068         0   32958068   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1       201454560   4911408  186303152   3% /tools
/dev/sdc1      4806455048 387782752 4174511784   9% /home1
/dev/sdc2      4806466304  18391096 4543914032   1% /home2
/dev/sdb1      1922727280 853724060  971327620  47% /home

A: You can get the make and model of each physical block device with lsblk:
$ lsblk -do +VENDOR,MODEL,SERIAL
NAME MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT VENDOR   MODEL            SERIAL
sda    8:0    0   1.8T  0 disk            ATA      WDC WD20EARS-00M WD-WCAZA571XXXX
sdf    8:80   0 465.1G  0 disk            WD       My Passport 070A WD-WXF1A30YXXXX
sr0   11:0    1  1024M  0 rom             HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH22LS40  6FA3D3AFXXXX
sr1   11:1    1   668M  0 rom             WD       Virtual CD 070A  57584631413330593830XXXX


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'Scottish optimist' at Monsanto helm battles Bayer takeover bid and protests
Hugh Grant (no, not that one) is CEO of the agrochemical firm that's been called 'the most evil company in the world' and faces a challenging future
Rupert Neate in New York
@RupertNeate
Sat 21 May 2016 06.00 EDT Last modified on Tue 28 Nov 2017 16.02 EST
Hugh Grant, chief executive of Monsanto, has been working for the company since he was 23. Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP
Meet Hugh Grant. No, not the famously charming Four Weddings and a Funeral actor, but the far more controversial self-described "Scottish optimist" who is chairman and chief executive of US agrochemical company Monsanto, AKA "the most evil company in the world".
It's a big weekend for Grant and Monsanto, a company that has been fighting against adverse publicity since its production of deadly herbicide Agent Orange in the 1960s and, more recently, its role at the forefront of genetically engineered crops. Now it is battling an unsolicited multibillion-dollar takeover from the German chemicals company Bayer that would create the dominant force in the world's food supply.
It's a role reversal for Grant, who had overseen Monsanto – which also makes the controversial and probably carcinogenic Roundup weedkiller – during a series of takeovers by the agrochemical giant.
Bayer in talks to buy GM food company Monsanto
Last month, one such attempt hit a roadblock when Monsanto dropped its long pursuit of the Swiss seed and pesticide maker Syngenta, losing to ChemChina. Grant told investors that Monsanto was better off alone. But, analysts say, Grant had left the firm vulnerable to a takeover itself.
Earning forecasts had been cut, and the company was entangled in legal disputes across the world, sending its shares down almost 20% before news of the Bayer approach. "It's a relentless string of bad news," Jonas Oxgaard, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein, told Bloomberg. "It's almost like they forgot to sacrifice a goat to the gods."
The news will get worse this weekend, when hundreds of thousands of activists join a day of coordinated marches against Monsanto in more than 400 cities across the world. In New York, campaigners promoted the march with a billboard in Times Square showing a topless model and the slogan "Keep GMOs out of your genes".
Grant, 57, is used to controversy. Born in Larkhall, near Glasgow, he has worked at Monsanto since he was 23, first in Scotland and in Asia before moving to the US and becoming president and CEO in 2003.
He regularly faces protests from campaigners outside events, and even stars of the silver screen have been known to give him an earful. Just before Christmas, Oscar-nominated actor Mark Ruffalo accosted Grant in green room of CBS studios to tell him: "You are poisoning people. You are killing small farms. You are killing bees. What you are doing is dead wrong."
Writing about the encounter, Ruffalo said he felt he had to approach Grant because he was "beside myself watching this guy who is responsible for so much misery and sickness throughout the world slime his way through his interview. I could not hold my tongue."
Grant's reply: "What I think we are doing is good."
When protests are expected, Grant likes to be prepared. On the mornings of the company's always-fiery annual meetings, Grant, who is paid more than $11m (£7.6m), makes arrangements for protesting shareholders to meet scientists and himself before taking their questions publicly at the meeting.
At this year's meeting, Zen Honeycutt, founder of Moms Across America, who described him on her website as "the CEO of the Most Evil Company in the World", told Grant: "I'm imploring you to choose a new direction. Stop poisoning our children," in a reference to claimed links between Roundup and autism and cancer.
Pointing out that he was a father of three, Grant, who holds molecular biology and agricultural degrees from Glasgow and Edinburgh universities, said various studies had shown there was "no linkage" between glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, and any human illnesses.
However, the European Union this week delayed a vote on whether to continue to allow Roundup sales beyond June due to concerns that it could be carcinogenic.
Concerns were led by France and Germany, and those countries are likely to lead a fight against the Bayer-Monsanto tie-up, which some fear could lead to more GMO crops and potentially dangerous pesticides entering Europe.
Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta: rush for mega-mergers puts food security at risk
"Germans view Monsanto as the main example of American corporate evil," Heike Moldenhauer, a biotechnology expert at German environmental group BUND, told Bloomberg. "It may not be such a good idea to take over Monsanto, as that means incorporating its bad reputation, which would also make Bayer more vulnerable."
Campaigners are also worried that the proposed takeover, which was made public by Monsanto late into the night on Wednesday just hours after a senior executive had dismissed rumors of an approach as "wild speculation", will leave control of the world's food supply in too few hands.
If Monsanto is bought (the price has not been made public, but it is said to be about $42bn) the combined Bayer-Monsanto will control 29% of the world's seed market and 24% of the pesticide market.
"A further concentration of corporate power in the agriculture/chemical sector would be bad news for farmers and consumers," said Franziska Achterberg, Greenpeace's EU food policy director. "It would accelerate the decrease in crop diversity while limiting consumer choice. Farmers would become even more dependent on just a handful of global players. They would find it harder to choose what they grow and how they grow it."
Grant says the problem is that consumers have become too distant from the food they eat, with just 2% of the world's population involved in agriculture, and the food industry needs to do a better job of educating them about the challenges ahead.
He told the Fortune Brainstorm E conference in California this week that to feed an ever-growing population, food production needed to double by 2050 while using roughly the same land area and trying to reduce water use.
After playing defense, his aim now is to convince millennials of the need for more GM crops, which require less natural resources to grow. He's started by hiring more young people. "We have an enormous community of millennials, and they're there because they want to be there," he said. If you're interested in plant biology, the "party is at Monsanto".


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Puppeteer and Voice of Elmo, Writer and Director
One of the most beloved and successful characters in the world, Elmo is an international icon. But few people know his creator, Kevin Clash. Until now.
As a teenager growing up in the 1970's, Kevin had very different aspirations from his classmateshe wanted to be a puppeteer. More specifically, he dreamed of working with his idol, master puppeteer Jim Henson, the creative force behind Sesame Street.
Kevin began building puppets at the age of ten and performed on local television, where he caught the eye of one of the Muppet designers. Joining Sesame Street as a junior puppeteer, Kevin was given an old puppet that was on the verge of being cut from the show. Kevin gave it a new voice, a new personality, and a new name: Elmo, establishing one of the shows most successful and popular characters to date.
Kevin's unique and unlikely journey as the persona behind one of the world's most iconic characters is told in the new film, "Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey." The film premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the coveted Special Jury Prize of 2011. The Hollywood Reporter called the film "a rare documentary that will connect across generations and cultures to delight viewers worldwide for years to come."
In addition to his Emmy Award-winning work with Elmo and other characters, Kevin is also Sesame Street's Senior Puppet Coordinator, Muppet and Captain. He has directed and co-produced several DVD series for Sesame Workshop, for which he also serves as Senior Creative Consultant.
He is also the author of "My Life As a Furry Red Monster: What Elmo Has Taught Me About Life, Love and Laughing Out Loud."
Clash is a wonderful example of finding one's passion, believing in one's dream and finding a way to achieve it.
Elmo (and Puppeteer Kevin Clash) | 10 Questions | TIME - YouTube
Rove interviews Kevin Clash - Elmo - YouTube
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SCOTTSDALE, AZ--(Marketwire - September 16, 2010) - Sunergy, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: SNEYD) (the "Company") is pleased to release an updated report prepared by Robert Levich, CPG, EurGeol, Director and Chief of West African Operations discussing the alluvial gold recovery potential along the Offin River and its tributaries that flow through the eastern portion of our 150 sq. km. Nyinahin gold mining concession in Ghana, West Africa. The report can be reviewed in its entirety on the Company's website http://www.sunergygold.com/.
The report states: "Downstream from Nyinahin, 1.45 million ozs of gold have been produced from the Offin River valley, more than from any other river system in Ghana. The Bonte-Jeni tributary system, which has produced more than 200,000 ozs of alluvial gold, and is the Offin's most productive tributary, enters the Offin River valley at the eastern edge of Sunergy's Nyinahin concession. Below this confluence, the Offin River continues for ca. 10 km through the southeastern area of Sunergy's Nyinahin concession. In summary, there is excellent potential for economic recovery of gold from the alluvial deposits in the Offin River Valley within Sunergy's Nyinahin concession," Robert Levich, CPG, EurGeol, Director.
With gold at current record high price levels over $1,250/oz, there is no better time to begin recovery operations. Alluvial gold is recovered using a wet gravity system and every hour of operation recovers finished gold, unlike conventional underground or heap leach operations which take months to produce revenue. The newly proposed Sierra Leone acquisition's operation is virtually identical to the Ghana operation and both should produce substantial near term cash flow once recovery operations have commenced.
Dredging of the Offin River first began in 1904. Total gold production during this period was 100,000 ozs. During the 1950s and 1960s, Bremang placed four dredges along different sections of the Offin River valley. Bremang produced ca. 50,000 ozs annually during the 1950s and early 1960s, achieving a peak annual production of ca. 70,000 ozs.
Nyinahin lies 20 km northeast of the Bibiani mines, 50 km northwest of Anglo Gold-Ashanti's Obuasi mines, and 45 km southeast of Newmont's Kenyasi mine. Directly adjacent to the east side of the Nyinahin prospecting concession are the two mining concessions from which Bonte Gold recovered gold-bearing alluvial gravels along the Jeni and Bonte tributaries. A 2008 map published by Ghana's Minerals Commission indicates that a Newmont concession lies adjacent to the western side of the Nyinahin property.
The gravel deposit is 200 - 500 m in width and at least 14 km in length on our concession. Older terrace gravels are located along the edges of the river valleys. Despite six years of mining, in 1997, gold reserves for the Bonte and upper Jeni floodplains and terraces (adjacent concession) were newly estimated at 6.83 million m3 at 0.92 g/m3, and totaled over 200,000 ozs.
The above information is largely derived from: Griffis, R.J., Barning, Kwesi, Agezo, F.L., and Akosah, F.K., 2002, Gold Deposits of Ghana, Minerals Commission, 432 p., plus the author's own geologic studies of the West African Precambrian shield.
About Sunergy: The Company is an aggressive junior mining exploration and development Company that is production oriented at the earliest possible profitable opportunity. We control 100% of the 150 SQ. Km. Nyinahin mining concession with a full prospecting license. The concession is surrounded by several operating mines and is adjacent to Newmont Mining's property. This concession has the Offin River flowing through our eastern portion and there are numerous artisan pits ready for testing and evaluation for near term production. The Offin River is known for good alluvial gold production. The Company is currently in process of completing an additional 141.3 sq.km. advanced exploration/ development gold concession in Sierra Leone.
This current report contains "forward-looking statements," as that term is defined in Section 27A of the United States Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Statements in this press release which are not purely historical are forward-looking statements and include any statements regarding beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future, including but not limited to, any mineralization, development or exploration of the Nyinahin Mining Concession.
Actual results could differ from those projected in any forward-looking statements due to numerous factors. Such factors include, among others, the inherent uncertainties associated with mineral exploration and difficulties associated with obtaining financing on acceptable terms. We are not in control of metals prices and these could vary to make development uneconomic. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release, and we assume no obligation to update the forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Although we believe that the beliefs, plans, expectations and intentions contained in this press release are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions will prove to be accurate. Investors should consult all of the information set forth herein and should also refer to the risk factors disclosure outlined in our most recent annual report for our last fiscal year, our quarterly reports, and other periodic reports filed from time-to-time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
About this company Sunergy, Inc.


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New Hope for Action: Key Republican Climate Attitudes Shift
By Meighen Speiser
As we transition into 2019 and welcome a new Congress, there is renewed hope for climate action. While partisan gridlock remains the greatest impediment to bold climate solutions, there is a shift in partisan attitudes in favor of progress in 2019 and beyond. Republicans are increasingly aware that the climate is changing. They see these changes at their doorstep, they are concerned, and they want action.
But with a history of obstruction of climate policy, many wonder about the extent to which Republicans are ready to take meaningful steps to address climate change. Do they support the policies necessary to address the crisis? And who do they look to for guidance on climate solutions?
To answer these questions, ecoAmerica conducted the first of its 2019 American Climate Perspective Surveys. Below are the five key takeaways:
A majority of Americans (80%), from across the political spectrum (64% Republicans, 71% Independents, 94% Democrats), believe that the climate and weather are changing.
Americans (73%), including Republicans (54%), are concerned about climate change. However, they think that fewer around them (57%, 55% respectively) are concerned.
Who Republicans trust for information on climate has shifted drastically in a small, 3-year window of time. Republicans now look to scientists (63%), the President (48%), environmental organizations (47%), and health professionals (44%) for guidance.
Republican support for fossil fuel production, like natural gas and oil, is dwindling. In just four years, Republican support is down 13-points for natural gas production, and down 15-points for oil production (from 81% and 67% respectively).
A growing constituency of Republicans supports local climate action. They want their city to conserve energy (48%), develop clean energy (46%), and to educate the public about a changing climate (36%). While these levels remain below a majority, they represent notable 14-, 22-, and 21-point increases since 2015 respectively.
Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, support a variety of climate solutions and are ready to act. Policymakers must seize the moment and lead their communities to a cleaner, healthier, and more prosperous climate future. See the full results of the survey HERE.
To help all Americans act in their own community, ecoAmerica has developed a growing library of programs, tools and resources for climate leaders across all sectors of American life. Check out the new websites for Climate for Health, Blessed Tomorrow, and Path to Positive Communities to access resources and learn the best ways to engage on climate in your community. Or, learn the most effective ways to engage others on climate by following ecoAmerica's Talking Points Series.
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-Partnership with Suppliers, Integrators Europe wide, including France, UK, Ireland, Czech Republic and Holland.
Account Management and Support Contract Sales for UK, South African, DACH and Spanish Markets. Consistently meeting or exceeding quota.
Assistant to CEO in the production and distribution of membrane cleaning solutions for use in municipal water systems.
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Substitute Teacher for Kindergarten through High School for various schools in the Merced County area.
Assisted CEO and founder of Brazil's first on-line toy vendor. Language study.
Certification from Trinity College in the teaching of English as a foreign language to adults.
I speak Spanish quite well by virtue of Portuguese and French.
I taught myself to speak Portuguese through a work/study program in Rio de Janeiro.
I lived in Gemany for 7 years. I worked and lived in German, my skills are sound.
I am a native-level fluent French speaker. I have used French extensively in my personal and professional life.


Crossroads was published for a time by Geneva.
I didn't hang out with a lot of people, though I met up with many.
Very cool. Do you know if there are any issues still around?
I'll let Geneva know of your interest.
Big names like Keyhoe and Betty Hill and Dr. Hynek.


Joy, Exercise, Enjoyment, Getting out: A Qualitative Study of Older People's Experience of Cycling in Sydney, Australia is the title of a recent paper Zander, Passmore, Mason and Rissel (2013) which explores motivators, enablers, and barriers to cycling among older people through an age-targeted cycling promotion program conducted in Sydney, New South Wales. The paper has been published in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health and a full copy (PDF) is available from my Dropbox.
Cycling can be an enjoyable way to meet physical activity recommendations and is suitable for older people; however cycling participation by older Australians is low. This qualitative study explored motivators, enablers, and barriers to cycling among older people through an age-targeted cycling promotion program. Methods. Seventeen adults who aged 50–75 years participated in a 12-week cycling promotion program which included a cycling skills course, mentor, and resource pack. Semistructured interviews at the beginning and end of the program explored motivators, enablers, and barriers to cycling. Results. Fitness and recreation were the primary motivators for cycling. The biggest barrier was fear of cars and traffic, and the cycling skills course was the most important enabler for improving participants' confidence. Reported outcomes from cycling included improved quality of life (better mental health, social benefit, and empowerment) and improved physical health. Conclusions. A simple cycling program increased cycling participation among older people. This work confirms the importance of improving confidence in this age group through a skills course, mentors, and maps and highlights additional strategies for promoting cycling, such as ongoing improvement to infrastructure and advertising.
Zander, A., Passmore, E., Mason C., & Rissel, C. (2013). Joy, Exercise, Enjoyment, Getting out: A Qualitative Study of Older People's Experience of Cycling in Sydney, Australia. Journal of Environmental and Public Health, 2013.