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More than a Movie: 'The Whistleblower's Heartfelt Plea for Greater Humanity
This small film with a big theme strives to encourage us all to be whistleblowers.
Director: Larysa Kondracki
Cast: Rachel Weisz, David Strathairn, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Anna Anissimova, Monica Bellucci, Vanessa Redgrave
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Powerful. Dramatic. Well-acted. Necessary.
Not all films might be described by this last term. Each year critics and audiences wonder why some films are made, even as mindless entertainment. The Whistleblower requires audiences to think and, preferably, to act on what they see in this dramatization of whistleblower Kathy Bolkovac's experiences as a member of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Bosnia during the late '90s. As the cast and filmmakers explain in the special feature, they know exactly why The Whistleblower is a necessity—it was designed to make audiences worldwide aware of the growing problem of human trafficking.
Brief interviews with writer/director Larysa Kondracki, scriptwriter Eilis Kirwan, star Rachel Weisz, and even Kathryn Bolkovac, the real whistleblower, emphasize their passion and rationale for telling this story. These women came together to illustrate and, through "entertainment", educate audiences about the sex trade's victims. In the film, Bolkovac writes that we—whether policymakers, peacekeepers, or the public -- must not lose our humanity. The Whistleblower makes a similar plea.
After screenings at North American film festivals in early 2011, the film received a limited release late last summer and may have largely gone unnoticed by crowds intent on seeing blockbusters. Ironically, The Whistleblower works better as a Blu-ray disc watched at home. Despite its excellent cast, which includes two Academy Award winners, Whistleblower seems more like an independent film than standard cinema fare. On disc, the "serious topic" film is a riveting drama made more intimate, and thus more powerful, on a small screen.
Based on Bolkovac's book, The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice, the film follows Weisz-as-Bolkovac from her Nebraska life as a police officer through her immersion into the darker world of Bosnian post-war politics and peacekeeping. Kathy soon becomes the gender-affairs officer in the war-torn country. Although her years on the police force prepared her for violence and victims, she is horrified by the extent of corruption around her.
Although the film shows that her former husband and current employer question her maternal instincts—she lost custody of her daughter and is a long-distance (and emotionally distant) parent—she becomes a fierce advocate and would-be protector of the wounded young women she meets. Kathy tries to save Raya, a naïve teen swept into life as an abused prostitute in a foreign country. She becomes the catalyst for Bolkovac's activism and eventual whistleblowing.
Unlike other whistleblower films, ranging from Frank Capra's now-classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), violently spellbinding Serpico (1973), or Oscar winner Norma Rae (1979), 2010's The Whistleblower ultimately is not a happy or even redemptive story. Audiences can't go away thinking that a crisis has been averted and someone, whether an actor in a fictionalized role or the real person who faced life-threatening consequences, has solved the problem.
Instead, The Whistleblower becomes everyone's call to action. It is a cinematic wake-up call not only about what happened in Bosnia but what is happening more frequently around the world. There can be no "happy ending" to human trafficking—it must be stopped. That message hits home even more forcefully when viewers watch the video within the comfort of their living room. The contrasts between our comfortable lives and the horrors faced by the dehumanized "commodity" being sold are made more obvious at home than in a theater.
Unlike the bigger, better known whistleblower films previously mentioned, The Whistleblower's cinematography and editing are adequate but not visually intriguing. Audiences are pulled into the story through Weisz's strong performance; Kathy's introduction to Bosnia and its many bars with a side of sex trade becomes ours, and together we uncover layers of cover-ups and threats. Weisz seldom is off screen, and her impassioned portrayal elevates what otherwise could be melodrama.
The international cast is another strength, although Vanessa Redgrave and David Strathairn are only supporting players. Nevertheless, their performances are dynamic and memorable, as might be expected. Redgrave, as always, can make even a small role mesmerizing, whether she is whispering warnings to Bolkovac or standing up to those determined to maintain the status quo. Benedict Cumberbatch, whose recent high-profile television (Sherlock) and movie roles (War Horse, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) exponentially increased his international celebrity, has a few lines (and an American accent), but his character is given nothing to do. Despite their limited screen time, the famous cast members in supporting roles undoubtedly will draw a wider audience to this film.
Although the only extra feature lasts slightly more than five minutes, it is well worth watching. Seeing the real people as well as the actors who play them makes the casting even more interesting. Seldom do actors look similar to those they portray, but the outward differences here are especially striking. However, as the interviews emphasize, Weisz and Redgrave captured the personality and, more importantly, the determination and genuine caring of these activists, who are still fighting to tell the world what they have witnessed. Film is yet another medium for whistleblowing, as these women explain.
The mighty corporation who made billions off its government contract, the peacekeepers who abused their policing powers, and the local officials who looked anywhere but at the problem didn't listen to whistleblower Bolkovac or care about their victims. Now that The Whistleblower is more accessible on Blu-ray than it was during its limited theatrical release, the question becomes this: Will audiences become better educated, or even socio-politically active, as a result of The Whistleblower, or will we too look the other way?
For more information about human trafficking, here are just two resources: Kathy Bolkovac's site, and the Human Rights Watch report on women in Bosnia.
The Whistleblower Rachel Weisz Vanessa Redgrave David Strathairn Benedict Cumberbatch Kathryn Bolkovac Larysa Kondracki


The original three-story Minor Elementary School was built on its hillside location in the 1920s. The top three stories of a new four-story addition align with the existing elementary school, and contain 18 classrooms and support spaces. The ground floor houses a new main entrance, media center, offices, band room, gymnasium, kindergarten classrooms and ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONCAPACITY600COST PER SQ FT$98.00FEATURED IN2001 Architectural PortfolioSUB CATEGORYRenovation school.
A staircase and multilevel lobby are used to unite the ground-floor entry with the existing and new classroom areas. Stairs float within concrete and masonry cylinders designed to enhance the circulation between the building's many levels. Sharing space in the main stair cylinder, an elevator serves accessibility needs of both the existing and new classrooms.
The stucco-and-masonry base treatment at the ground-floor level was derived from the existing building's concrete base. Upper floors of the addition match the existing school in material (brick) and Gothic detailing (buttresses, crenellations and stone accents). Translucent panels, which allow daylight into workrooms, create a stepped ziggurat at the main entrance and mimic the tower motif of the existing school building.
A gymnasium wing that extends from the ground floor of the addition is designed to be used by groups and programs after hours. Translucent panels allow for daylighting of the interiors. Brightly painted accent walls direct attention to the gym's exits, while complementary colors on the overhead spiral duct add more life to the room.
Interior glazing is used between classrooms and corridors throughout the addition to create a feeling of openness, and promote security and energy conservation. Brightly colored accent walls enliven the educational environment, while tackable corridor walls provide opportunity for self-expression and class identity.
Infrastructure enhancements include a new boiler and power-distribution system, new computer and video cabling throughout the structure, new security and fire-protection systems, and a new kitchen and food-service area.


The space above the theatre had loud distracting noises coming from it at one point that luckily didn't mess w the performance at all!
This show is absolutely hilarious!! if you haven't seen it- hurry before it's gone! These 2 talented women absolutely kill it in their honest and transparent portrayal of dating life- using personal experiences to inspire these stories that are so true it's almost hard to watch. But I want to, again and again and again. Sasha Boggs is a chameleon with her hysterical characters, and her timing and ease on stage is effortless. And Tara's vulnerability and commitment makes these two just an awesome pair to see.


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ALL-HALIBUT 2012: Leviathan
Two Harbors to Little Harbor
May 4 – 6, 2012
Andrei, Charles, Rick, Steve
Now wait just a moment. Why in the world are there pictures of Catalina on a website dedicated to backpacking the Sierras? The answer, in a word, is "snow." As in, "there is too much snow in the Sierras in May to go backpacking." Or perhaps the answer is "inpatient." As in, "we are too impatient to wait until the summer to go backpacking in the Sierras." Or maybe we just wanted to try something a little different. Whatever the case, we decided to do a springtime backpacking trip rather than waiting until the summer. After bouncing around a few ideas, we decided on Catalina. And, because the entirety of the trip would be at or near sea level, Rick's altitude aversion didn't prevent him from joining the fun. Even as this writer starts to document this trip some three months after the seafaring cadre returned to the mainland, he finds himself with one of those resigned smiles that he knows to mean "the trip was so much fun, and there's no way to capture it with words and pictures." But he writes anyway.
Day 0: The Pre-Trip
This writer and Charles decided to beat the traffic and arrive in Long Beach on Thursday night, rather than driving from San Diego and Ventura to catch the 8:00 a.m. ferry ride to Catalina. The high jinx started immediately (if not earlier), as this writer and Charles made their way to the rendezvous point, the historical floating hotel known as the Queen Mary. The antics would make no sense to anyone else, so suffice it to say we were well met. After staying up entirely too late, having too many Crown Royals (in Cannonball's good name), and utterly and completely ruining the point of arriving ahead of time to capture more sleep, it was Steve and Charles who arrived at the ferry at the very last moment the following morning, well after Andrei and Rick had completed their commutes from Ventura and Valencia (excuse me – Santa Clarita).
Day 1: The ferry ride from Long Beach to Two Harbors via Avalon, followed by a hike across the Island from Two Harbors to Little Harbor (approx. 5 miles, and 3.75 hours at a leisurely pace)
Our harried arrival at the landing, with our group being literally the last to board the Catalina Express, was further complicated with respect to our plan for bringing propane with us. Apparently propane is not allowed on the ferry, and those who bring it aboard are rewarded with a felony citation. So, as the ferry pulled away from Long Beach, our propane stayed ashore. We had rehearsed saying "no, there is no propane in my backpack," but apparently that was not meant to be. For our honesty in turning over the illicit camp fuel, we were rewarded with a rich bounty of good karma that lasted the entire trip, and gave us some good laughs as well.
A QUICK FERRY STOP AT AVALON, THEN ON TO TWO HARBORS
ANDREI, CHARLES, AND NO PROPANE
The channel crossing took about 45 minutes from Long Beach to Avalon, and from there another 20 minutes or so to Two Harbors. None of us had been to Two Harbors before, and we were all pleasantly surprised by this small port town. And town is probably too robust a word. Perhaps it was the pleasant weather, the camaraderie of being with friends we don't see often enough, the fresh sea air, our fine brunch sitting outside, or the numerous pleasant island inhabitants, but whatever it was, we were all in good spirits as we made our final preparations for the hike (which included visiting the general store to buy some propane). It was at this time that we noticed something a little "different" about Rick's backpack. It weighed 60 pounds if it weighed an ounce. It made the rest of our packs feel like they were filled with feathers and helium balloons. This writer picked up the pack a few times and just set it back down, speechless. Rick coyly said he had a surprise for us, and after that he clammed up. No hints, no discussion, and perhaps most amazingly, not a word of complaint about carrying that terrific weight across the island. Not so much as a peep. This writer is here to say that he simply could not have managed that heavy a pack, and his hat is off to Rick for shouldering such a load without complaint. We knew Rick had been on other Sierra trips with us and knows how to pack a bag… so the tremendous weight wasn't a result of inexperience, but rather an intentional sufferance for the benefit of the group. And we were all eager to know what surprise was hidden in the pack (this writer assumed it was a jet ski).
RICK AND ANDREI ENJOY A FINE BRUNCH AT TWO HARBORS
OUR GROUP, AS PHOTOGRAPHED BY ONE OF THE PLEASANT TWO HARBORS INHABITANTS
LEAVING TOWN
LOOKING BACK TOWARDS TWO HARBORS
CHARLES PHOTOGRAPHS RICK NEAR THE WILD FLOWERS
CHARLES PHOTOGRAPHS ANDREI NEAR THE WILD FLOWERS
CHARLES PHOTOGRAPHS STEVE NEAR THE WILDFLOWERS
LOOKING ACROSS AT CATALINA HARBOR
Quick geography lesson. Two Harbors is apparently called Two Harbors because both Two Harbors and Catalina Harbor are within half (or maybe a quarter) mile of each other. Two Harbors and Catalina Harbor nearly cleave the island in two, with Two Harbors facing the mainland and opening into the channel, while Catalina Harbor faces west and opens into the Pacific. In nautical terms, Catalina Harbor is on this windward side, and Two Harbors is on the leeward side. I think so, anyway – what do I know… I am out of my Sierran element.
CHARLES AND ANDREI FIND AN ABANDONED JEEP OFF THE TRAIL. CLEARLY WE ARE IN AN EPISODE OF "LOST"
ALONG THE TRANS-CATALINA TRAIL
The hike itself was not particularly technical, although there were a few steep points (as in the picture above) that tested this writer's knees and feet. We were rewarded with expansive views of the island's interior, which for some reason reminded us all of Jurassic Park (although we saw no dinosaurs) and also views of the Pacific, which was a treat for hikers accustomed to the scenery of the Sierras.
STEVE MOVES INTO THIRD PLACE
THE NORTHWESTERN FACE OF THE ISLAND
WHAT DO WE DO AT THE END OF THE TRAIL… JUMP?
The altitude map of our hike would look like an upside down "V." Which is to say the first half of the hike involved a steady climb, and the second half of the hike involved a steady descent. Nothing too difficult, but a respectable hike in its own right. We spent 3 hours and 45 minutes on the hike, but a lot of that time was spent on photography and taking in the scenery; we made the same return hike in 2 hours and 45 minutes.
DESCENDING TOWARDS LITTLE HARBOR
EVEN CLOSER TO LITTLE HARBOR
This photo shows this writer's newest piece of gear – a super lightweight backpack: the Osprey Exos 58. The empty pack weighed under 3 pounds, which shaves a good 4 pound off his "usual" backpack. The pack was terrific for this trip, but this writer has concerns that he may not be disciplined enough to use it on a Sierran trip, as he can't see shaving enough volume when adding additional clothes, food, and a bear canister that would be required for a trip into the backwoods. We'll see.
ARRIVAL AT LITTLE HARBOR
This writer can't say enough about how cool Little Harbor campground is. The palm trees and grassy area to the left of Charles in the above picture are the campground. To the right of Charles is a nice sandy beach and Little Harbor. The rock promontory (called Whale's Tail because of its shape when seen from above) is bigger than it looks in this picture, and is a great place to climb up and survey the harbor and the campground, or watch a sunset. Just beyond Whale's Tail is Shark Harbor.
RICK'S LARGESSE
Upon our arrival, Rick opened his pack and shared its secrets with us. We watched in awe as Rick pulled an entire gourmet food store out of his pack, and it was only half way into the unveiling when we began to drool. We are, after all, familiar with Sierran backpacking trips. So we brought the usual fare, and had planned such gourmet meals as "Freeze Dried Beef Stroganoff" for dinner, "Instant Oatmeal" for breakfast, and other provender suitable for the dry trails of the Sierras. Rick, on the other hand, went Beverly Hills on us. As in, the Beverly Hills Cheese Store. The spread could have been the same fare served at the coronation of France's King Louis XIV on May 14, 1643; we may never know. His offering included various cheeses: Camembert cheese from Normandy, a triple-cream brie gorgonzola from Germany, 18-month cave-aged compte from the caves of Croatia (this writer now insists that all of his cheese is cave-aged), clochette semi-soft bell-shaped goat's milk cheese from France, and another sheep's milk hard cheese of unspecified origin; two aged meats in the form of Creminella (a spicy Italian-style un-cured salami from Salt Lake City) and prosciutto di parma; and a three-foot french baguette (not sure where that was hiding). Understanding of course that we could not eat like nobility unless we savored the victuals with wine, Rick had hidden somewhere in his backpack a three (three!) liter box of old-vine Zinfandel, itself having scored 95 points at the 2010 California State Fair. A few moments' rumination over pertinent weights and measures suggested Rick had carried over six pounds of wine alone. And in addition to the lunch spread and the wine, Rick had also taken care of us for the following morning's breakfast. The freeze-dried oatmeal, it seemed, would not be needed. Rick had brought the fixings for breakfast burritos, including eggs, chorizo, an onion, a glass jar of salsa, and tortillas. Not sure what was more impressive, that he carried the weight or that he had room in his backpack (which involved placing all of these foods into a cooler, and packing it with a few pounds of dry ice). In any case, we sat and enjoyed the spread for probably an hour, if not more, taking in all the foods and flavors, the pleasant weather and our surroundings at Little Harbor, and each other's company. We also enjoyed some freeze-dried mango contributed by Charles, which was an excellent cap to the rest of Rick's treasures.
RICK EXPLAINS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CAMEMBERT AND A BRIE
LITTLE HARBOR CAMPGROUND AS SEEN FROM THE WHALE'S TALE
After we had been plied with gourmet food and wine, we decided to try out the kayaks, which we had rented in advance and which had been left for us on the beach. Rick chose to survey the area by climbing atop the Whale's Tail, where he took the above picture of the campground and the two below pictures of us kayaking. Andre is not photographed, as his kayak stint took him further away from the Whale's Tail, while Charles and I stuck close to search for halibut. Charles did find success, but he let the halibut go as it was a hair on the small side. Perhaps as a reward for letting the young halibut go, the ocean treated us to quite an exciting halibut adventure the following day.
CHARLES FISHES WHILE STEVE… WELL, STEVE DOESN'T DO MUCH OF ANYTHING
CHARLES CONTINUES TO FISH, STEVE CONTINUES TO NOT DO MUCH OF ANYTHING
STEVE MUST HAVE MADE AN INTELLIGENT AND WITTY COMMENT ABOUT THE SIZE OF THE SEAWEED
The Whale's Tail is in the background of the above photo, but it is somehow even larger than it looks in the photo. For a little scale, you can make out a lawn chair that someone had left atop the promontory.
After we returned the kayaks to shore, Charles began surf fishing, where he quite handily caught and released two surf perch. We had all seen a dead seal along the shoreline, and this writer thought it made perfect sense to cut some fat or meat off the creature and use it as bait to catch another halibut. In his mind's eye, this writer saw himself as an intrepid seafaring lad who had become shipwrecked on a deserted isle, and had to use his own ingenuity to catch fish that would provide his companions sustenance. He quite logically used his vast knowledge of fishing (which in actuality is limited only to trout fishing and has nothing to do with halibut, seals or the oceans) to conclude that resecting a rectangular strip of flesh from the dead seal would be rather easy and would be just the thing to catch a halibut the size of a Volkswagen. As is often the case when the mind's eye is involved, the reality did not follow the plan. This writer first observed that seals (presumably both the living kind as well as the dead kind) are not easy to cut. They are thick-skinned, as it were. Undaunted by this minor inconvenience, this writer continued to work his blade (itself a token of appreciation given to the groomsmen at Andrei's wedding some 15-ish years prior) into the seal. After some time, the seal's skin finally yielded and the knife went through the various cutaneous layers. At once, the sound of rushing air could be heard, perhaps similar to a very large person exhaling at moderate pace. It was unexpected, and this writer's eyebrows must have gone up a bit. Surprise quickly gave way to disgust, and then perhaps even fear; the seal must have been dead longer than we'd thought, as that rush of air brought with it a most putrid and fetid stench that must have accompanied decomposition. In light of the invisible cloud of death-stench, the attempt of removing fish bait from the seal was immediately and permanently abandoned, and the seal was left to rest in peace.
IT MADE PERFECT SENSE TO THIS WRITER
CHARLES FISHES AS DUSK ARRIVES
That evening, we did eat some freeze-dried food, although we didn't eat too much of it as we were still doing well after the late-afternoon spread. We mixed with the neighbors a bit (campers who had taken a bus to the campground rather than walking it as we did, and as a result had things like Coleman stoves, ice chests with beer, large tents, and charcoal), and then took an amazing night hike. Rick opted out of the night hike, choosing instead to retire early (carrying such a heavy pack during the day no doubt contributed to his fatigue). He ended up falling fast asleep on Charles' deluxe sleeping pad, which was hilarious to Andrei and this writer, and perhaps not so funny to Charles (who made Rick move). As for the night hike, it was amazing (as was everything else about this trip). We used only the light of the moon as we walked "inland" through the campground and then to the south, where we turned back to the coast and emerged at Shark Harbor. We climbed down to the shore, then along the rocky shore and finally back to the Whale's Tail and finally to our campground. With the perfect weather and the sound of the surf as we walked under the light of the moon, this hike could not have been any more enjoyable.
Day 2: At Sea
A REUNION OF 20-YEAR OLD TENTS
This writer will pause for a nostalgia moment, to point out that his tent (on the left) and Andrei's tent (on the right) have been used on their various backpacking trips going back to 1991 or thereabouts – all of which will someday be documented on this website. These tents aren't used much any more, as we usually use (newer) three-man tents, but here they were, reunited under the Pacific sun.
OUR PATIO
Every campsite at Little Harbor comes with its own patio, and this was ours. Our site is usually used as a group site, so we had plenty of room (we each had our own table, which was probably excessive). It was here that we set about making chorizo burritos, and they were every bit as good as we could have imagined. In addition to the onion, chorizo, salsa and eggs, we added the remnants of our cheese spread (some of it cave-aged). As seemed to be the theme of this trip, everything came out perfectly.
OUR CAMPSITE AND THE BEACH BEYOND
As we ate our fine breakfast, we discussed whether we should day-hike inland towards the island's pine-forested high point, or return to the kayaks and explore the island by sea. The lure of the sea was too great, so we opted out of the hiking and decided to pack a lunch and set sail. Or set oar, rather. Thor Heyerdahl had nothing on us.
PREPARING TO LEAVE FOR THE KAYAK VOYAGE, AND A TOAST TO OUR GOOD FORTUNE
LEAVING LITTLE HARBOR
We paddled to the south quite a ways, observing Sentinel Rock and Indian Head Rock, both noteworthy promontories. We considered landing for lunch in Cottonwood Bay and points beyond, but the pounding surf prohibited it (at one point we were actually waved off by a concerned diner who was having a picnic lunch at one of the bays we were exploring). We ended up working our way back up the coast and stopped for lunch at Shark Harbor, just short of Little Harbor (they are almost one and the same). Here we added mayo packets and spices to pouches of tuna, which we then spread on seaweed to make sushi rolls (of a sort).
LUNCH AT SHARK HARBOR
LUNCH AT SHARK HARBOR, TAKE 2
After our ocean voyage, Charles and Rick returned to the campground to convalesce and Charles and this writer returned to the sea to go after more halibut. Or, more accurately, Charles was going to "go after more halibut" and this writer was going to "go after more sitting around." The excitement, and antics, that followed will never be forgotten by this writer. After some time, Charles' fishing rod was hit and was hit hard by something – something big. We assume this particular halibut was the size of a trash can lid, or maybe even a smallish coffee table. We knew it was big because it was quite literally pulling us around in the kayak, from one side of Little Harbor to the other, repeatedly back and forth. This writer did his best to keep the kayak aligned so that Charles had the best chance at landing the leviathan, and during the entirety of this 20-minute battle both this writer and Charles cackled at the ordeal. There we were, in a kayak, getting pulled all over the harbor like Santiago in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (Charles plays the part of the Old Man). Charles would do his best to make some headway on the beast by reeling in his line as the fish rested, but then it would shoot off again and Charles' reel fed out line with that loud whizzing sound that indicates "the fish is taking your line fast." It was an exciting and hard fought battle, but ultimately the halibut prevailed. All at once, Charles' line went slack. He reeled it in and examined the end, which was tightly curled and revealed the knot had slipped. The fish had won, but our disappointment in losing the goliath was short lived as we realized what a fun time we'd just had. And on top of that, our success in the shoal of halibut was not yet over. We resumed fishing and to our great joy, Charles was able to extract a keeper-size halibut from the depths of the bay.
We had no net to land the halibut, so we beached the kayak and Charles pulled the fish to shore. After losing the big fish, we were glad to catch one of legal size – we would not be eating freeze-dried food for dinner this night. We dropped the halibut off with Andrei and Charles, and Andrei used his iPhone to do a little research on the best way to clean a halibut (which is nothing at all like gutting a trout). Without a lancet in sight, Andrei used his superior medical training to prepare the halibut in excellent fashion, yielding the following steaks.
ANDREI'S HANDIWORK
As Rick and Andrei dealt with the fish, Charles and this writer returned to the sea in search of more halibut. While we didn't catch any more of the flounders, we did catch a scorpion fish, which presented us with a problem. Scorpion fish, Charles explained, have poisonous barbs. And we had no equipment to remove the scorpion fish from our hook. No pliers, no gloves, no net, no nothing. Just a fish hanging on the line, wiggling as they do. In retrospect, we could have cut the line rather easily and been on our way with a new hook. Instead, this intrepid writer, in his mind's eye, would handily unhook the scorpion fish by grabbing the hook with his fingers and twisting it out. Once again, the mind's eye and reality were not meant to meet. As this writer reached towards the hook, the scorpion fish (quite predictably, actually) flipped and/or flopped and stuck a very small portion of one of its quills into this writer's finger. At least the fish had the courtesy to drop off the hook, so at least the task was completed. So we paddled on quietly while Charles fished. He intermittently explained to me, in a sheepish tone, how poisonous scorpion fish can be. I understandably preferred not to continue talking about my potential demise, so I politely replied "can we please talk about something else." After 15 minutes or so of relative quiet, and without any convulsing or swelling or loss of consciousness on my part, we decided that I had not, in fact, been subjected to any kind of neurotropic poison and that my finger (and the rest of me) would live to fish another day. Our spirits lifted, we fished, our banter returned, and we returned to camp – heroes for having battled the leviathan and for having landed our dinner.
We cooked the halibut and after having our fill we shared the leftovers with neighboring campers (who in turn shared with us some carne asada and some chicken barbecued with some kind of Middle Eastern spices). After that, Rick pulled yet another surprise from his backpack: a glow-in-the-dark frisbee powered by LED lights. We had a great time with that little gem, floating it across the grass-covered expanse of the campground under the moonlight. It perfomed well and was extremely bright – quite playable and not just a gimmick. The four of us stood rather far apart, in the darkness, and quietly played frisbee for most of an hour. Barefooted, with the grass under our feet and the sound of the waves nearby, it was yet another of the perfect experiences this trip had to offer.
We repeated our night hike from the night before, this time taking Rick along with us. Again we were guided by the light of the moon, which was actually a "super moon" event that had made the news for its unexampled brightness. We lay in our tents that night and reflected on how great the trip had been, and fell asleep completely contented – how could we not be?
Day 3: Little Harbor to Two Harbors (approx. 5 miles; 2.75 hours)
LITTLE HARBOR 2
We took fewer pictures on the way back, and carried fewer boxes of wine, so our hike back to Two Harbors took less than three hours. While we waited for our ferry ride home, we had plenty time for a bison burger in the welcome shade under the patio at the restaurant in Two Harbors, where we toasted a trip that exceeded our expectations in every regard and was nothing less than perfection itself. It is this writer's hope that this springtime jaunt set the stage for further early season (pre-Sierra) treks, all at low altitudes so we can convince Rick to join us. His attendance is important, after all, as he is the one who carries the smorgasbord.
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Long road ahead for Tauranga's Route K
27 Aug, 2008 12:03am
Five years after its opening, Tauranga's Route K is still not generating the income expected. Photo / Bay of Plenty Times
By: Juliet Rowan
When Tauranga's toll road, Route K, opened in 2003, it struggled to get 2000 vehicles a day.
Now, it averages 3800, including 500 trucks who pay to use the link between SH29 from Hamilton and the central city.
Tolls generated $1.8 million in the last financial year, but Route K still runs at a loss.
The loss has grown to $2.2 million, and Tauranga City Council estimates the road will not make a profit until 2024/25.
Mayor Stuart Crosby admits Route K did not meet initial expectations in terms of usage but said it was experiencing strong growth as development around the Tauriko-Pyes Pa area increased.
"It's not about today," he said. "It's actually about 20, 30, 40 years' time."
Mr Crosby understood there was "natural resistance" to tolls and said they should only be used where there was a viable free alternative - which, in Route K's case, seems to be the option many motorists take.
In May, city councillor Rick Curach made a bid to get tolls on Route K dropped between 11pm and 6am in an effort to increase traffic volumes on the road at night. He was narrowly voted down after council roading staff said a $90,000 drop in net revenue would result if tolls were taken off during those hours.
Mr Curach told the Herald his move was not based on any philosophical objection to tolls, but rather an attempt to get more trucks in particular using Route K.
Residents on the alternative route of Cambridge Rd had complained about the trucks' noise, but Mr Curach said there was little incentive for drivers to use Route K because it was not much shorter.
In general, he said, tolls made no sense unless there was an overall saving for motorists.
The council's long-term plan is for ownership of Route K to switch to the NZ Transport Agency but the issue of tolls is unlikely to disappear from Tauranga anytime soon.
Tolls are proposed for both the $470 million Eastern Motorway, which would run from Te Maunga past Papamoa to Paengaroa, and the $44 million Pyes Pa bypass.
The council wants to use $100 million in tolls and a 5c per litre petrol tax to help fund the 23km motorway, and at least $10 million in tolls for the bypass.


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Johannes Wohnseifer
Fractured Memories
January 25 – May 16, 2020
Installation view at 313 N. Fairfax Ave
Password-Painting (Rolex Daytona)
Acrylic, lacquer, Scotchlite on Aluminium
63 x 51 ¼ x 1 5/8 in / 160 x 130 x 4 cm
JW_023
Password-Painting (Capri)
55 1/8 x 39 3/8 x 1 5/8 in / 140 x 100 x 4 cm
I Inhaled Bungalows
Spam-Painting (Hi! I will be direct...)
Password-Painting (Cherry Coke)
She Paint It Blacc
Acrylic, lacquer, Scotchlite, screenprint on Aluminium
31 ½ x 25 5/8 x 1 5/8 in / 80 x 65 x 4 cm
Nine Works
I Dreamed
19 5/8 x 27 ½ x 1 5/8 in / 50 x 70 x 4 cm
Acrylic, lacquer on MDF
23 ½ in diameter, 1 5/8 in depth / 60 cm diameter, 4 cm depth
Laser print on A4 paper
8 ¼ × 11 5/8 in / 21 x 29.7 cm
Meliksetian | Briggs is pleased to present Fractured Memories, Johannes Wohnseifer's second solo exhibition at the gallery.
In this latest exhibition, Johannes Wohnseifer looks back twenty five years to his first solo exhibition in 1995 as a reference point. The very fact that 1995 was twenty five years ago and time has passed seemingly so quickly feels like a "scandal" to the artist and his latest series of paintings on aluminum are his reaction to this inevitability. In the new exhibition, Wohnseifer continues his critique of consumerism, capitalism and culture using the artistic language of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptualism, repurposing, reusing and co-opting logos, corporate branding, and design strategies to frame autobiographical, historical, political, and fictional data.
The show's title painting and central reference point uses a rendering of a - mostly redacted - press release from the renowned Berlin gallery neugerriemschneider the site of Wohnseifer's first solo show in 1995 at as source material, leaving only the gallery details and the phrase "fractured memories," the composition recalling conceptual art of the 1960's and 70's. The monochromatic announcement cards used at the time by the Berlin gallery were designed by artist Jorge Pardo and the exhibiting artists were free to select their own personal color choice for the card. Wohnseifer opted for a fluorescent orange and this special "signal" color of Wohnseifer's is an emblem that recurs throughout the new paintings in the current show, weaving a thread through time from that initial exhibition.
The nine new paintings (all 2020) refer to Wohnseifer's childhood in the 1970s, his youth in the '80s, and his first public appearances as an artist in the '90s. They relate to the construction of memory, how subjective perception makes time pass quickly or slowly and a world subject to constantly changing values.
Wohnseifer uses a range of consumer imagery and references from Cherry Coke, the Rolex "Daytona" and his friend and mentor Martin Kippenberger's Capri paintings from the early 1980s, to dreams, disco, the latest memes, word play, codes and riddles, all of which are synchronized, consolidated and fused into the new works. Wohnseifer resumes his ongoing series' of Spam and Bungalow paintings combining these with his most recent series of Password paintings, where images are transformed into text files and fragments of the resulting code are presented in the paintings.
A free signed and numbered edition of 100 prints will be available at the gallery during the exhibition.
Johannes Wohnseifer (b.1967) lives and works in Cologne and Erftstadt, Germany. Recent solo exhibitions include Johann König Galerie, London, Galerie K, Oslo (with Matthias Weischer), Parkhaus im Malkastenpark, Düsseldorf, and the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne. Group shows over the past few years include exhibitions at the Kunstverein Braunschweig, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Sammlung Olbricht / me Collectors Room. Berlin, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria among others. Upcoming exhibitions in 2020 include group shows at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and the Kunstverein Braunschwieg, Germany and Wohnseifer's work is currently view at the Boros Bunker / Boros Collection, Berlin and the Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (ongoing). Wohnseifer has made numerous artist's books throughout his career, including his latest, Das Afrikanische Viertel, 2019 published by Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne. Wohnseifer's work is included in major institutional collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Das Afrikanische Viertel 2019
Die Publikationen der Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 1967-2017 2018
Group exhibition: Lichtparcours 2020, Public Light Sculpture Project, Braunschweig, Germany opening May 23rd, 2020
Johannes Wohnseifer's work in Lichtparcours 2020 a public light sculpture project presented by Kunstverein Braunschweig & the City of Braunschweig, Löwenstadt, Germany on view through October 09, 2020.
Museum Acquisition: Vancouver Art Gallery Acquires Johannes Wohnseifer Works For Their Collection
Meliksetian | Briggs is pleased to announce that the Vancouver Art Gallery has received a gift of multiple Johannes Wohnseifer works for their permanent collection.
Group exhibition: On Display IV, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany - ongoing
Johannes Wohnseifer's work included in the ongoing exhibition of the Sammlung Philara's collection in Düsseldorf.
Group exhibition: Boros Collection: Bunker #3, Sammlung Boros, Berlin - Ongoing
Works by Johannes Wohnseifer included in the ongoing exhibition of the collection Bunker #3 at the Boros Bunker, Berlin.
Johannes Wohnseifer Artnet
9 Artworks Our Experts Are Loving featuring Johannes Wohnseifer's work on Artnet
Johannes Wohnseifer Contemporary Art Daily
Johannes Wohnsiefer's exhibition Fractured Memories at Meliksetian | Briggs featured on Contemporary Art Daily.
5 Artists Whose Work You Should Look Out For This Month featuring Johannes Wohnseifer's exhibition Fractured Memories at Meliksetian | Briggs by Katie White in Artnet.
Johannes Wohnseifer Artforum
Major gifts to the Vancouver Art Gallery including multiple works by Johannes Wohnseifer announced in Artforum.


Imagine if our dogs can help us around the house. With our dogs doing the chores, life would be so much easier, right? Some trainers say we should give our dogs jobs in order to solve their behavior issues, and in reality, that is pretty much exactly what you should do. However, putting on a backpack and adding a jar of pickles for weight is not a "job"; it does not challenge the dog in anyway except physically.
Many dogs are trained to help the disabled. These assistance/service dogs are trained to help out around the house, doing things like opening the fridge, fetch objects, turning the lights on and off, alerting to sound and movement and so much more.
Dogs' roles in society, which in the last 100 years became more of a companion then a partner, are again expanding. Dogs are companions and also assume special roles for assistance or therapy by volunteers or human health professionals. Many changes are appearing in new research findings and evolving regulatory and legislative updates around the roles of dogs in society. In addition to time honored jobs like search and rescue, herding, hunting and guarding the home place, dogs are even being used in therapeutic endeavors acting as helpers during play therapy.
Although most modern dogs are kept as pets, there are still a tremendous number of ways in which dogs can and do assist humans, and more uses are found for them every year. Most of those "jobs" are pretty specialized however, and the majority of owners have neither the need for a working dog or the time necessary to transport the dog somewhere to do it's "job". But teaching your dog to do the laundry helps you nearly everyday and you don't need to fire up the car.


If you haven't been as diligent in your Lenten practices as you'd hoped, you can breathe a sigh of relief, says one Delaware County nun.
According to Sister of St. Joseph Maria McCoy, Lent isn't a time to check off items on a spiritual to-do list, but rather a season to focus on our relationships with both God and others.
"We need to ask ourselves what the quality of those relationships are," said Sister Maria, spiritual director at St. John Chrysostom Parish in Wallingford.
Sifting through the nuances of human and divine interactions is second nature for Sister Maria, who spent 23 years on staff at the Jesuit Center for Spiritual Growth in Wernersville prior to her appointment at St. John Chrysostom.
She noted that the hectic pace of modern life, accelerated by digital devices and a constant stream of news and noise, can make it difficult to discern the Lord's presence. Such distractions may even be welcomed by those who dread taking a long hard look into their souls, she said, adding that "fear should not deter one from listening" for God's voice.
That union fulfills the deepest longings of the human heart, Sister Maria said.
It's also vital to simply "give God space and time," she stressed.
Short self-examinations in the morning and evening, coupled with expressions of gratitude, can sharpen our spiritual eyesight and increase our compassion for others.
Late starts and setbacks during Lent shouldn't discourage us, she said, since the journey to discern God more clearly in our lives is ongoing.


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A Flock of Seagulls joins W-Festival 2023!
A Flock of Seagulls joins us on Friday 25 August 2023 on the Mainstage!
The group had a string of international hit singles including "I Ran (So Far Away)" (1982), "Space Age Love Song" (1982), "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" (1982), and "The More You Live, the More You Love" (1984). Their video for "I Ran (So Far Away)" received airplay on MTV . The band won a Grammy Award in 1983 for their instrumental "D.N.A."(1982).
A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS will perform alongside the already announced mainstage bands BOW WOW WOW, NENA, MIDGE URE and NIK KERSHAW.
Previously confirmed on the Batcave Live stage:
NNHMN, Cold Cave, Project Pitchfork, Corpus Delicti, Dorsetshire, When in Rome II, Soror Dolorosa and the fabulous Batcave DJ's !


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The Raith starting line-up may have an unfamiliar look about it today against St Mirren in the Irn-Bru Cup with manager Barry Smith denied a whole host of regulars because of injury.
Dundee United have been handed a home draw against Belfast outfit Linfield in the 3rd round of the Irn-Bru Cup.
Raith Rovers winger Bobby Barr heaped praise on team-mate Lewis Vaughan after the striker netted for the ninth game running.
Dunfermline Athletic made eight changes to their team but still were strong enough to cruise past Highland League Champions Buckie Thistle with an impressive display which left boss Allan Johnston delighted after the game.
Raith have built up considerable momentum in recent weeks and Stark's Park boss Barry Smith is determined they will not lose any of their fizz in this afternoon's Irn-Bru Challenge Cup tie against Ross County Under-20s.
Callum Morris would have loved to have swapped Buckie for San Marino this weekend, but the Dunfermline skipper remains determined to keep his international dreams alive.
Having equalled their best ever start to a league season at the weekend, Montrose minds now turn to causing a big cup upset.
Brechin manager Darren Dods is determined that a long day for his players is a worthwhile one, with progression to the second round of the Irn-Bru Cup at the expense of hosts Buckie Thistle.
Montrose manager Stewart Petrie is looking for his side to show the spirit that helped them come back from a goal down at Stenhousemuir when they face Stirling Albion in the Irn-Bru Cup at Forthbank.
Cowdenbeath manager Billy Brown is looking for his players to continue their footballing education in their second visit to Tannadice this season.


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Northern Dutchess County
Two hours north of Manhattan, there's a place where working farms still exist, horses ride to the hounds, antiques really are bargains, and pies win prizes.
From Manhattan, northern Dutchess County is a 2 1/2-hour drive up the Taconic State Parkway to Route 199 and Red Hook, or via the Saw Mill River Parkway to I-684, then Route 22 to Amenia or Millerton. Amtrak service between New York and Albany stops in Poughkeepsie and Rhinecliff. Metro-North, the commuter train, has two lines to the county: the Harlem Line into Dover Plains and the Hudson Line into Poughkeepsie
Where to Stay - Beekman Arms 4 Mill St., Rhinebeck - Built in 1766, the Beek is the oldest continuously operating hotel in the country. The inn has 59 rooms spread throughout the main building, the Delamater House (an American Gothic dating to 1844), and newer buildings added to accommodate business meetings. While done in classic American prints, antiques, and reproductions, rooms all come with modern conveniences wifi, cable TV, refrigerators, and air-conditioning.
Northern Dutchess was quite the society retreat at the turn of the century and after. Many Gilded Age estates are now National Park Service properties; some are open to the public year-round.
Vanderbilt Mansion Rte. 9, Hyde Park; In 1895, Frederick William Vanderbilt purchased 676 acres along the Hudson and began building this mansion, designed by McKim, Mead & White. Guide Margaret Laffin paints a vivid picture of country life as it is no longer lived (Vanderbilt kept a full-time staff of 40 here, even though he and his wife were there just three months a year).
Franklin Delano Roosevelt National Historic Site Museum & Library Rte. 9, Hyde Park; Recognizing his place in history, FDR willed his house (and the 290-acre estate) to the American people in 1943. The curators haven't shied away from controversial aspects of his presidency, including the internment of Japanese-Americans and U.S. knowledge of the Holocaust.
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site Rte. 9G, Hyde Park; The simplicity of Eleanor Roosevelt's retreat, 1/2 miles from FDR's house, reflects her unaffected personality. The humble stone cottage has played host to the likes of Churchill, JFK, and Nehru; it's mind-boggling to picture Eleanor sharing her bathroom with the Khrushchevs.
Samuel F.B. Morse Historic Site, Locust Grove 370 South Rd., Poughkeepsie; Purchased by inventor-artist Samuel Morse in 1847, Locust Grove has beautiful gardens, a good collection of 18th- and 19th-century English and American furniture (Federal, Queen Anne, Chippendale) in the main Tuscan-style villa, and an exhibition of Morse's work. Visitors can try sending messages on model telegraph machines.
Mills Mansion State Historic Site Old Post Rd., Staatsburg; This 1896 Beaux-Arts mansion was designed by McKim, Mead & White as a showplace for the fall social season. Guest Edith Wharton used it as a model for her fictional Bellomont estate in The House of Mirth. The grounds are surrounded by 1,000 acres of state park with trails along the Hudson.
Montgomery Place River Rd., Annandale-on-Hudson; This Classical Revival mansion is still worth a visit; the walking paths are extensive, the gardens bloom all summer, and the breeze that washes over the side porch will lull you into inertia. Come fall, there's apple-picking in the orchards.
Antiques are big business around here; on weekends, the area is crawling with dealers and decorators from New York City and points much farther afield.
By Geoffrey Gonzalez Things to do in Northern Dutchess County
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Jeffrey Lord Makes A Mockery Out Of CNN's Election Night Coverage UPDATED
CNN forced its viewers to endure twenty minutes of shame, perpetrated by Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord.
By John Amato
3 years ago by John Amato
There comes a time when a network has to take action against one of their panel members, because they routinely stray from the topic at hand, invent historical analogies and fabricate events that never took place, and refuse to answer simple questions.
I thought Jeffrey Lord couldn't sink any lower than this battle with Van Jones, but I was wrong.
Cable news has been flooded with coverage of Donald Trump's racist attacks on Judge Curiel, the judge in the civil lawsuit against Trump University. Many Republican leaders have spoken out against Trump's racism, from Speaker Paul Ryan to Newt Gingrich to Karl Rove to the women of Outnumbered. Surfing the cable news dial, you couldn't find anyone that believed Donald Trump was justified in claiming that the judge wouldn't "treat him fairly" because of his Mexican heritage.
But last night during CNN's Super Tuesday coverage, Trump supporter and frequent CNN analyst Jeffrey Lord took over a segment about the criticisms Trump faced.
It began with an innocent enough question from Michael Smerconish who said,
"..there's a question that Donald Trump can't answer which is, if he believes that this gentleman (Judge Curiel) is biased against him, why hasn't his legal team gone to court, followed the process and filed a recusal motion? The lawyers won't touch it and he has no response to that question."
That's as straightforward a question on Trump's bias claims that anyone could make. If he is so unhappy and feels unfairly victimized by a biased judge, then why don't Trump's lawyers make a trial motion to remove him?
Jeffrey Lord ignored the question entirely and started dreaming aloud about how Trump would put his stamp on the Republican party like Ronald Reagan did. No, he really did.
And then he veered deeper into crazy town by claiming that many conservatives and the Republican party have...
"sold out on race. They have bought into this whole notion of identity politics. It's bad."
So it's not Trump who is bad for smearing a judge, who was born in America, for being unfit to try his case because of his Mexican heritage, but it's the entire Republican establishment and grassroots for acknowledging his racism.
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He then sunk deeper into the psyche of his twisted mind.
"It's a descendant of slavery and segregation it should get no where near the party of Abraham Lincoln."
It's not Donald Trump who has sunk into a quagmire of racism, but everybody else, because he's a fighter against racism by making racist attacks on Judge Curiel. You know, just like those horrible liberals, who attack police chiefs as racist.
He refused to answer the question and the CNN election night coverage panel melted down into an embarrassment. Every one of the panel members confronted Lord, including S.E. Cupp, who couldn't believe what he was saying.
And just as shocking as his responses was the CNN producers that let this travesty go on for over twenty straight minutes. TWENTY MINUTES.
It was an Abbott and Costello "Who's on First" routine that was neither funny or intelligent, but denigrated the entire seventy years long civil rights struggle in America.
The humiliating segment could be boiled down to this single outrageous statement by Lord, when he responded to Van Jones objections about Trump, saying, "It wasn't racist, he's calling attention to racism! Hello! Hello!"
UPDATE: Here is a bit of very telling dialogue from this travesty, including S.E. Cupp's takedown of Lord.
SMERCONISH: That is not an answer...why hasn't the motion been filed?
LORD: Look look look look...this man is a lifetime member of the Hispanic Bar Association...
VAN JONES: Nothing wrong with that.
LORD: ...which on July 2nd of last year, put out a statement saying that there should be a boycott of all Trump properties .
CUPP; That is also not an answer to Michael's question.
LORD: What his lawyers are going to do (overtalk)...
SMERCONISH: I am an attorney. If I were HIS attorney, I could not say, I would run afoul of the Code of Conduct if I were saying extra judicially what he is saying.
LORD: He is running for President of the United States.
LORD: Are we going to have a Judiciary that is infected by racial politics?
CUPP: This is a total distraction from both Michael's question and what the hell this has to do with the actual case - nothing - and the notion of Donald Trump out of one side of his mouth saying 'Hispanics love me, they are going to vote for me because I have not said anything disparaging' to him now saying 'this Hispanic hates me because I have said disparaging things' . You can't have it both ways. You can't be winning the Hispanic vote and having Hispanics love you and have THIS Hispanic be biased because you have said things disparaging about Hispanics. It's a total admission and I think it really has him spooked and you know it has him spooked because he is using a teleprompter tonight which is a complete defeat. I mean, he is going to look so small, standing at this rally on such a big night, speaking from a prompter, with all of the excitement completely out of his sails because he has been spooked by this. It was near universal condemnation and even you Jeffrey, you cannot spin his way out of this.
LORD: (silent stare of defeat at S.E. Cupp)
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VAN JONES:Has Trump ever said anything about race that is wrong?
LORD: He hasn't said that much about race.
VAN JONES: (eye roll and look back in shock)
(laughter from panel)
(look of disbelief on Lords face)
As Hillary Clinton has said about Trump, I will leave it to the psychiatrists to figure out exactly what is wrong with Jeffrey Lord.
But WTF, CNN? You have just as much to answer for as this Neanderthal, because you gave him this much airtime. This was an important, historic night in the history of the United States, and your coverage was hijacked by a paid partisan who is either consciously disruptive, or else is just plain crazy. In either event, you have no business putting him on your network, and his fellow-panel members should refuse to appear with him ever again.
Shame on you, CNN. Shame.
Anderson Cooper, CNN, Donald Trump, Jeffrey Lord, Michael Smerconish, racism, S.E. Cupp, Van Jones
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After watching this, I guess Jeffrey Lord believes only white old men belong on the federal bench.
CNN's Van Jones Pummels Jeffrey Lord Again Over KKK And Trump
CNN brought back Jeffrey Lord this morning to clarify his crazy KKK positions and again the debate turned into a travesty.
Jeffrey Lord's Pathetic Smears Of Judge Curiel On CNN
Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord went off the rails on CNN trying to quantify the idea that Judge Curiel judge is biased against Donald.
Jeffrey Lord Destroys Another CNN Segment On Racism
Trump surrogate Jeffrey Lord made spurious arguments trying to defend the racist attacks on Judge Curiel which morphed into a despicable 'Who's on First' routine
Jeffrey Lord Uses A Black Cab Driver To Prove Trump's Minority Appeal
Well then, that settles that question. The Blacks just LUV Trump.
By LeftOfCenter
CNN's Resident Wingnut Jeffrey Lord Whines That Dems Were Mean To The One Percent
Why, dear God why does CNN continue to give this clown airtime?


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Military, Palestine, Resistance, Spiritual, World Zionism
Today We Remember Sheikh Ragheb Harb and Sayyed Abbas Moussawi: Martyred Hizbullah Titans Who Paved The Way For Victories Over 'Israel'
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by Jonathan Azaziah
February 16th will forever live in sanctity and fury. For it is the day in which two of the most important and beloved figures in humanity's struggle against World Zionism ascended to Jannah via martyrdom. You should know their blessed names but we will nevertheless speak them for posterity: Sheikh Ragheb Harb (R.A.), martyred in 1984, and Sayyed Abbas Moussawi (R.A.), martyred in 1992. Hizbullah commemorates their sacrifices and heroic lives every year (along with Hajj Imad Mughniyeh [R.A.]) at this time, in a ceremony known as Martyred Leaders' Day, and what they represent for the Lebanese Islamic Resistance, its history, its foundation and its victories cannot be stated enough.
Sheikh Harb, born in the Jabal Amel town of Jibsheet, was an activist from his early years and was already headed to Najaf to study in the Hawza when he was merely 17. Brilliant and fiery, he learned quickly while in Iraq, but had to cut his studies short due to the brutality and oppression of the Baghdad regime. Upon returning to Lebanon, he founded the Sayyeda Zaynab School, Al-Sharqieh School and the Treasury of the Muslims, helping educate children and women and giving families small loans that helped offset poverty. When the 'Israelis' invaded in '78, the Sheikh helped establish The Martyrs' Foundation and was at the forefront encouraging the people of Southern Lebanon to resist this aggression.
Inspired and motivated even further by Iran's Islamic Revolution, he fought the enemy in every sector, from militarily and politically to culturally and religiously. And his passion led scores of once-misguided youth to embrace destiny and join the ever-growing ranks of the Mouqawamah. Nearly a year before his martyrdom, Harb was kidnapped by 'Israeli' occupation forces and brought to the notorious Ansar prison camp where he was tortured. He was so very adored by the people however that the usurpers released him in fear of an Intifada breaking out. He never cracked under duress; never gave up his students or comrades. Due to this steadfastness, the Sheikh's legend exponentially grew. He triggered such fear in the beings of the gutless Jews squatting in Lebanon that they decided not to assassinate him themselves but through a proxy – the collaborationist criminal Danny Abdallah.
Sayyed Abbas Moussawi, from Al-Nabi Sheeth in the Bekaa Valley, for his part was ferocious. Speaking with a voice so gruff you would think he was a lion-wolf-bear-hybrid instead of a man, he shook up mountains, he made waves on the Lebanese coastline quadruple in size and he forced the ravines of his native Bekaa tremble like scared children with every speech he delivered. He was a student of Ayatollah Sayyed Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr (R.A.)–who loved him like a son, so much in fact that he would say, "Abbas is a precious part of me"–an adherent of Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Khomeini's (R.A.) history-shifting revolutionary fervor and an Islamic internationalist like no other figure in recent memory.
He traveled across the Arab-Islamic world, including all the way to occupied Kashmir where he met the fighters and activists seeking Azadi from India's Zionist-backed barbarity, and he offered the support of Hizbullah to all oppressed people in the face of their common enemy – World Zionism. Sayyed Abbas fought the 'Israeli' enemy with his bare hands and his sharp wit, and strove in defense of Palestine until his dying day, once saying, "The bridge between Lebanon and Al-Quds shall not ever be burned. All that will burn is the occupation." The Jewish supremacist entity, being the cowardly cancer it is, failed to silence the golden, angelic voice of the Sayyed so it did what it always does: Fearfully attack from the sky, in this instance with US-provided Apache helicopters, firing missiles at Moussawi's car, killing him, his wife, his son and several others.
Hizbullah wouldn't be Hizbullah without these two giants of Resistance; these two colossuses of defiance who, as mentioned above, will forever live in sanctity and fury. Sanctity because they are holy martyrs and warrior-saints whose very memories continue inflicting excruciating agony on the collective psychotic consciousness of 'Israel'. Fury because there will be no rest for every man and woman in the world who identifies as a Mouqawawist until they are truly avenged with the liberation of Palestine, the Golan Heights, Ghajar, Shebaa Farms, Kfar Shouba Hills, Sanafir and Tiran. When you walk the path of Imam Hussein (A.S.), there is no greater honor than to live as he lived, fight as he fought and die as he died – Fighting tyranny and injustice 'till the last drop of blood. The Sheikh and the Sayyed did just that. As Sayyed Abbas himself said, "Not since Yazid (L.A.) has there been a Yazid (L.A.) like 'Israel'. So as Aba Abdallah's (A.S.) acolytes, we wage this battle against it."
The Holy Qur'an tells us repeatedly that martyrs aren't dead but alive with ALLAH (SWT). Sayings from the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.W.) show us that the martyrs are watching over the believers and even guiding them in certain circumstances. And seeing Hizbullah, from its landmark victories in 2000 and 2006 to its map-changing role in Syria and Iraq today, it becomes exceedingly lucid that Sheikh Ragheb Harb and Sayyed Abbas Moussawi–the sons of Al-Sadr and Khomeini, the guardians of Lebanon and friends of the oppressed, the bricklayers of the Lebanese Islamic Resistance's triumphs–never really left this Earth, now did they? No… They never really left at all. In spirit indeed, them with we and we with them, the titans of Mouqawamah still walk and shine among us.
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        xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security">
    <intercept-url pattern="/oauth/token" access="IS_AUTHENTICATED_FULLY" />
    <anonymous enabled="false" />
    <http-basic entry-point-ref="oauthAuthenticationEntryPoint" />
    <!-- include this only if you need to authenticate clients via request parameters -->
    <custom-filter ref="clientCredentialsTokenEndpointFilter" before="BASIC_AUTH_FILTER" />
</http>

<http use-expressions="true">
    <!-- Authentication policy -->
    <form-login login-page="/signin" login-processing-url="/signin/authenticate" authentication-failure-url="/signin?error=1" />
    <logout logout-url="/signout" delete-cookies="JSESSIONID" />
    <!-- Authorization policy definition: TODO consider replacing with @Secured on @Controllers -->
    <intercept-url pattern="/" access="permitAll" />
    <intercept-url pattern="/favicon.ico" access="permitAll" />
    <intercept-url pattern="/members/**" access="permitAll" />
    <intercept-url pattern="/groups/**" access="permitAll" />
    <intercept-url pattern="/pubsub/**" access="permitAll" />
    <intercept-url pattern="/resources/**" access="permitAll" />
    <intercept-url pattern="/signup" access="permitAll" requires-channel="#{environment['application.secureChannel']}" />
    <intercept-url pattern="/signin" access="permitAll" requires-channel="#{environment['application.secureChannel']}" />
    <intercept-url pattern="/signin/*" access="permitAll" requires-channel="#{environment['application.secureChannel']}" />
    <intercept-url pattern="/reset" access="permitAll" requires-channel="#{environment['application.secureChannel']}" />
    <!-- TODO this would probably be better mapped to simply /invite?token={token} but not able to vary security policy here based on presence of a request parameter.  Consider @Secured on @Controller. -->
    <intercept-url pattern="/invite/accept" access="permitAll" requires-channel="#{environment['application.secureChannel']}" />
    <!-- TODO this should be restricted to admin users only -->
    <intercept-url pattern="/admin/**" access="permitAll" />
    <intercept-url pattern="/**" access="isAuthenticated()" requires-channel="#{environment['application.secureChannel']}" />
    <custom-filter ref="resourceServerFilter" before="EXCEPTION_TRANSLATION_FILTER" />
</http>

<authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager">
    <authentication-provider ref="usernamePasswordAuthenticationProvider" />
</authentication-manager>

<bean id="accessDecisionManager" class="org.springframework.security.access.vote.UnanimousBased" xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans">
    <constructor-arg>
        <list>
            <bean class="org.springframework.security.oauth2.provider.vote.ScopeVoter" />
            <bean class="org.springframework.security.access.vote.RoleVoter" />
            <bean class="org.springframework.security.access.vote.AuthenticatedVoter" />
        </list>
    </constructor-arg>
</bean>

<!-- Remember Me -->
<http>
  <remember-me services-ref="rememberMeServices" key="myRememberMeKey" />
</http>

<bean id="jdbcRememberMeRepository" class="com.springsource.greenhouse.rememberme.JdbcRememberMeRepository" xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"/>
<bean id="coreUserDetailsService" class="com.springsource.greenhouse.rememberme.CoreUserDetailsService" xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"/>

<bean id="rememberMeServices" class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.rememberme.PersistentTokenBasedRememberMeServices" xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans">
  <property name="tokenRepository" ref="jdbcRememberMeRepository" />
  <property name="userDetailsService" ref="coreUserDetailsService" />
  <property name="key" value="myRememberMeKey" />
  <property name="alwaysRemember" value="true" />
</bean>

<!-- For S2OAuth endpoints -->
<authentication-manager id="clientAuthenticationManager" xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security">
    <authentication-provider user-service-ref="clientDetailsUserService" />
</authentication-manager>

<beans:bean id="clientDetailsUserService" class="org.springframework.security.oauth2.provider.client.ClientDetailsUserDetailsService">
    <beans:constructor-arg ref="clientDetails" />
</beans:bean>

<beans:bean id="oauthAuthenticationEntryPoint" class="org.springframework.security.oauth2.provider.error.OAuth2AuthenticationEntryPoint">
    <beans:property name="realmName" value="greenhouseApi" />
</beans:bean>

<beans:import resource="security-oauth-provider.xml" />
</beans:beans>

I am getting the following exception.
Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
    org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: No AuthenticationEntryPoint could be established. Please make sure you have a login mechanism configured through the namespace (such as form-login) or specify a custom AuthenticationEntryPoint with the 'entry-point-ref' attribute
Offending resource: class path resource [com/springsource/greenhouse/config/security.xml]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.FailFastProblemReporter.error(FailFastProblemReporter.java:68)
...

I am new to spring security. I don't know the cause of this exception.

A: You cannot add your remember-me declaration into new empty http element. Use some other existed http element where authentication entry point is already configured (for example via form-login element):
<http use-expressions="true">
    <!-- Authentication policy -->
    <form-login login-page="/signin" login-processing-url="/signin/authenticate" authentication-failure-url="/signin?error=1" />
    <remember-me services-ref="rememberMeServices" key="myRememberMeKey" />
    ...
<http/>

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Q: Writing custom basic_streambuf After some time implementing my own streambuf I askes myself if you can use different types for the basic_streambuf like double. Are there any experiences and use cases here?

A: You're missing the point of streambuf. It's the back end of std::stream. The front end is provided by operator<< and operator>>. Those are overloaded for double. The frond end converts any type to characters, the back end does the I/O (to file, screen, network, whatever)


Eduard's 1/48th scale kit (No. 1119) of the Yak-3 builds into a realistic model of the tough and agile fighter that dominated the Eastern Front during the war's last days. Construction begins with the cockpit. After painting the plastic pilot's "tub" and fuselage sidewalls field gray, carefully apply the many prepainted etched metal parts, which bring significant detail to the "front office." These metal parts are very fragile and bend easily, so handle them with fine tweezers and attach with dabs of white glue. The instrument panel is a combination of three parts sandwiched together to duplicate the cluster of dials and switches.
The final step in cockpit construction is to paint the pilot's seat back "leather" and attach the prepainted seat belts. Then glue the assembled cockpit securely to the floor area molded into the center section of the top wing. Close the right and left fuselage halves, carefully position it over the finished cockpit and glue it into place. Note that the fit is very tight. Align and cement the bottom and top wing sections together. Then attach the elevators to the airframe, check over the construction and fill any gaps.
Place wet tissue inside the cockpit opening to keep out overspray during painting. The kit contains full-color views and decal markings for six Yak-3s in service from 1945 to 1947. The basic camouflage is a soft-edged pattern of dark sea gray (BS381C/638) and a lighter gray (FS-36231). The underside is light blue, a bit darker than German WWII "hellblau," RLM-78.
I painted my Yak-3 in the colors of Colonel Anton D. Yakimenko, commander of the 151st Guards Fighter Air Regiment on the Eastern Front in 1945, which had a bright red cowling and spinner. To duplicate this distinctive scheme, mask the front of the fuselage according to the diagrams included in the kit, then undercoat the area with gloss white. When it's dry, spray an overcoat of bright red over the nose.
Paint the landing gear, wheel wells, inside of the gear doors and wheel hubs field gray. Then apply the yellow tape masks provided in the kit to the rims and spray the tires dark gray. After the paint dries completely, spray a coat of Future acrylic floor wax or Testors glosscoat over the entire model. This provides a smooth bed for the decals. Yakimenko's aircraft carried a unique red banner that covered almost the entire vertical stabilizer and a Hero of the Soviet Union badge just behind the cockpit.
Painting the cockpit frames is simple using the tape masks provided. Apply the masks, dampened with a little water and a drop of dishwashing detergent, to the clear parts, then slide the masks into position. Finish by attaching the landing gear and cementing the cockpit clear parts into place with white glue.
Eduard's kits are a bit more complicated and expensive than most, but given their etched-metal details and multiple decal selections, they build into remarkable models for the price.


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OGL Steampunk is a role playing game supplement by August Hahn and published by Mongoose Publishing. The supplement is covered by the Open Game License, which is what the OGL in the supplement's title stands for, and is based on the Dungeons & Dragons game, of at least D&D 3.0, although it is intended to be largely a system in itself, rather than a supplement for other game systems. It should be comparatively easy to adapt it to other, similar, d20 based systems though.
The version reviewed here is the PDF version of the supplement. It isn't available in print on demand, but copies of an older hardback print version can still be found. This is a 306 page black and white PDF with colour covers which is available from RPGNow. Two pages of the supplement are the colour front and back covers, one page is the front matter and table of contents, one page is the Open Game License and four pages make up the index. The rest of the book consists of the Introduction and eight chapters. Throughout the book, starting in the Introduction, a story is told about a group of adventurers out to sabotage an orc construction. Each snippet of the tale is related to something covered in the text of the book near to it, providing a fictional representation of how the mechanics work.
Credit: Mongoose Publishing/Scott ClarkThe Introduction covers the concept of steampunk and how it has affected magic and the world, as well as what a role playing game is, what you need in order to play one, and OGL Steampunk's basic rules and concepts, which will be used throughout the book as the basis of the game mechanics as well as descriptions of what various things are, such as class, race, player and non-player characters.
The first main chapter, Character Background, covers creating a character, generating abilities for them, background points and what they can be used for, races, which, along with various standard races, also includes several new ones related to the steampunk era technology, such as C.o.G.S (Creations of Generated Sentience) and Hybrids, the latter being human/animal hybrids, and the various undead races.
Also covered are a system called allegiances, which is where a character pledges allegiance to a person, group, organisation, nation or cause of some type, and other related facets of a character having nothing to do with their class or vocation.
These are covered in the next chapter, Classes & Vocations. Various different classes are detailed, as well as vocations, which are specialities within a particular class, as well as how to handle multi-classed characters. The various class features, including skills, talents and feats, are also mentioned, although these are fully detailed in later chapters. There are a lot of new classes and vocations in this chapter, which is one of the largest in the book. The classes and vocations are described in a manner that should be familiar to those who have used other similar systems, such as D&D 3.5 or Pathfinder.
Skills covers using skills, how to acquire ranks in them, how to check them to see if they are used successfully, and what other factors may affect the use of a skill, or how they can be used to help others, before finally describing all the skills themselves. As with the previous chapter, these are all laid out in a fairly standard way, and cover traditional skills as well as many new scientific and weapon skills that would be needed in a steampunk setting, as well as some related to how magic is covered in OGL Steampunk.
The next chapter, Feats & Traits, covers feats of different types, both regular and occult, that can help make a character's life easier, including those needed to manufacture things, especially those new to the setting. Traits are various abilities tied to particular races, laid out in trees, where later traits require earlier ones to be acquired first. Again, these are all described in a fairly standard way.
Equipment & Wealth has some differences to how wealth is normally handled in role playing games. Instead of players having a specific amount of money, they instead have a wealth bonus, which can increase or decrease, which determines what things they are able to buy, by performing a Wealth Check - similar to a normal ability roll - to see if they successfully buy something. How the wealth bonus increases or decreases is also covered.
The rest of the chapter covers those things that players can buy with their wealth, including armour, weapons, equipment, clothing, food and lodging, services, transportation and vehicles and entertainment and leisure, as well as how they may break or malfunction, if appropriate.
A World of Adventure covers the mechanics of adventuring, including such things as traps (including how to design them and some examples), actions and combat, as well as healing, all of which are fairly standard for comparable systems. More different is the vehicle rules, including combat, as this may be between steampunk powered machines. Other typical adventuring concerns such as carrying capacity, darkness and light and disease are also here, as well as newer ones such as electricity and three dimensional movement. Much of this chapter is pretty standard, and it also includes how to award experience and determine challenge ratings and encounter levels.
The Power of Steam focuses on the "steam" part of the steampunk setting, although devices may be powered by things other than steam. Science in general and in specific is covered, and there are extensive rules on how to create what are called Amazing Machines, which can be of many different types, from personal weapons to structures, and can have many new abilities.
The Occult is one of the areas where OGL Steampunk is the most different to a standard system. The Occult is divided into psychic phenomena, which essentially is psionics, and magical rituals, which replace the standard magic system, and how to create items related to these. The magic system is divided into new areas and types, and how magic is practices is different too; this is explained as being the result of the influence of science. Various different psychic abilities, as well as how to perform magical rituals and the various different effects that can be achieved. These can then be combined into rituals, and how to create these as well as some sample ones are described. How to adapt spells from a more standard system is also covered.
The cost of the supplement was $4.99. As this was originally a print version, the PDF lacks any bookmarks. This, combined with a table of content which only covers chapter titles, makes this not the easiest PDF to navigate, although it does have a full index at the pack. The quality of the covers is poorer than the rest of the book. When they are viewed at 100% magnification - normal size in other words for a PDF - the text on them is blurred. The interior of the book has the occasional illustration in black and white, as well as black and white page edging graphics - the latter will greatly increase the amount of ink needed to print the book out.
The impression is given that OGL Steampunk is a system in itself but truthfully the supplement does not really stand by itself, and other material is going to be needed, which means that publications from other companies will need to be adapted. Although there is a lot of content, such as classes, and their related skills and feats, races, items, technology and magic, there is no bestiary, despite multiple references to orcs in the story that runs throughout the book (said story being quite useful at illustrating what is being covered in the book). There is some information on adapting spells from other systems, but that's the only case where that happens. Monsters from comparable systems could probably just be slotted into an OGL Steampunk campaign, but the book itself is not really sufficient for running an entire campaign on its own.
There are a number of interesting concepts in the supplement. In particular, the section on amazing machines could be adapted to another system, and provides all sorts of potentially interesting, or dangerous, equipment for characters to come into content with. Adapting the book to existing worlds will require a lot of work, and possibly the removal of some of the material, in particular anything related to The Occult section. The alternative is creating an entire world, which can be more work than many GameMasters actually have time for.
OGL Steampunk, despite the level of detail it goes into in some areas, is probably better treated as a resource, where you pick and choose what is wanted from it, rather than the entire base of a system that it appears to have been designed as, but the comparatively low price for the PDF does make it relatively inexpensive to pick up and use as a resource..


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