Employee opens package at the billionaire's Katonah, New York home, revealing what appeared to be an explosive device; bomb squad technicians detonated the package in a nearby wooded area; FBI launches investigation; Soros was not at home.
Soros, one of the world's biggest donors to liberal groups and causes, has become a hate figure for right-wing campaigners in the United States and eastern Europe, and the target of a hostile media campaign by the nationalist government in his native Hungary.
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Crossing Paths with Colorblindness: Equality Street
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By Amanda Phillips
(Reposted from Gamer Trouble)
It has been too long since my last student game profile on Tethered, the cooperative maze game that explored issues of domestic abuse.
Equality Street was a project that emerged out of students' prior research in other classes. During the seminar portion of Gaming the System, we spent time in class discussing some basic social justice concepts, but as I mentioned in my course reflections, I had hoped that individual research and instructor consultations with student groups would help to develop their ideas for executing them in the game. In this case, students had engaged theories of colorblindness ideology in other classes here at UCSB and wanted to use that as the basis for their game design.
The result is Equality Street, a Frogger-type game that tasks the gamer with crossing the street to get back to the dorm after a night out. The game has four levels, each starring a different roommate: one white male, one white female, one nonwhite male, and one nonwhite female. Each avatar has not only a different difficulty level, but faces different obstacles in the journey home: for example, women dodge stalkers on the street, and nonwhite characters must contend with patrolling police who will arrest them for jaywalking - a charge, the students noted, that is particularly absurd.
As a conceptual demo, Equality Street succeeds in its primary goal: to suggest that race and gender have a nontrivial impact on day-to-day activities like walking home from a night out, despite popular discourse about our postracial society in the era of Obama.
This group struggled with how humor and minimalization would dilute their message, and their writing and discussion of their project indicated to me that they had a more nuanced understanding of both colorblindness and intersectionality than Equality Street might otherwise suggest. This was a problem that came up in multiple groups: how do they balance fun and playability with communicating social and theoretical phenomena that are impossibly complex even to talk about. Their design decisions came not only from technological and time constraints (which were considerable given student experience with these programs and the demands of the quarter system), but also from a desire not to reduce identities and problems to caricature. For example, they declined to include a queer character in the game because of the difficulty in creating a visually queer avatar in pixelated style without resorting to high heels and feather boas. Another design compromise resulted in the apparently additive formula used to express intersectionality.
Watching these compromises in action made me a bit more sympathetic to game designers who make similar omissions or shortcuts within their games and then explain that they don't want to do it all if they can't do it right. There are obvious differences here, however. These students, for one, are beginning from a position of inclusive game design and extensive research into social problems where developers generally are not. As I've already pointed out, the students are also on much more extreme budgets in terms of time, money, and experience. They are also making decisions with the knowledge that their grade is based more on their ability to reflect their concept than on whether the game is fun, which is decidedly not a game designer's concern.
Their choice to end the game on the white male level reverses the game design convention of increasing difficulty as a game progresses, while simultaneously invoking John Scalzi's 2012 blog post, "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is." The stark contrast between the busy streets facing the woman of color and the empty ones in front of the white male combines with the surprise of having such an easy level to finish the game and draws attention to the larger point the group is trying to make about how identity impacts the way a person can move through the world. While Equality Street is a good example of some of the tough compromises students had to make in designing their games, its ultimate success as a product designed from the ground up by English majors is no less impressive.
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Segons la mitologia grega, Mèrope (en grec antic Μερόπη), era la filla de Cípsel, rei d'Arcàdia.

Es va casar amb l'heràclida Cresfontes, amb el qual tingué tres fills. Cípsel l'havia donat en matrimoni a Cresfontes per garantir-se l'aliança amb els Heràclides i conservar el tron d'Arcàdia.

En el repartiment del Peloponès que van fer els heràclides, a Cresfontes li va tocar Messènia. Mèrope és la protagonista d'una tragèdia d'Eurípides, avui perduda, però que es pot reconstruir. Cresfontes, que en altres tradicions havia mort per una revolta dels seus súbdits, en aquesta tragèdia era mort per Polifontes, un dels heràclides, que també va matar els dos fills grans de Cresfontes i es va casar amb la vídua, Mèrope, en contra de la seva voluntat. Mèrope havia aconseguit salvar el fill petit, Èpit, enviant-lo a Etòlia, amb uns amics. Va seguir en contacte amb ell a través d'un servidor que feia els viatges secretament, però Polifontes va saber que el fill no havia mort, i va donar ordre de què el busquessin, perquè li representava una preocupació tenir lliure un possible venjador. Va oferir una quantiosa recompensa a qui matés Èpit. El noi, però, havia crescut i s'havia proposat venjar el seu pare i els seus germans. Va adoptar el nom de Telefontes i es va presentar davant del rei per demanar-li la recompensa, ja que assegurava haver matat Èpit. El rei no se'l va creure gaire, però li va demanar que es quedés al palau en qualitat d'hoste mentre ell se n'informava. Mentrestant, Mèrope va parlar amb el criat que feia de mitjancer entre mare i fill, que va dir-li que no sabia on era Èpit, i que havia desaparegut uns dies abans. Mèrope no va dubtar que l'estranger acollit per Polifontes havia matat el seu fill, i una nit va entrar a l'habitació on dormia el fals Telefontes per matar-lo. Ja tenia el braç aixecat amb el ganivet, quan es presentà el criat i l'aturà. Li va dir que aquell era el seu fill Èpit. Llavors mare i fill van convenir en la manera de matar Polifontes. Mèrope es va vestir de dol de manera molt ostensible i Polifontes ja no va tenir dubtes de la mort d'Èpit. A més, Mèrope, que s'havia mostrat fins aquell moment molt distant amb el rei, va acostar-se-li com si hagués perdut tota esperança i es resignés a la seva sort. El rei, amb alegria, es va preparar per celebrar un sacrifici en acció de gràcies i va invitar el fals Telefontes com a hoste d'honor demanant-li que immolés la víctima. Però, a l'altar, en lloc de sacrificar l'animal, el jove va clavar el punyal al cor de Polifontes, venjant així la sort del seu pare i dels seus germans, i també el llarg patiment de la seva mare. Després es va proclamar rei, cosa que li va ser molt fàcil.

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Bibliografia
 Parramon i Blasco, Jordi: Diccionari de la mitologia grega i romana. Barcelona: Edicions 62, 1997, p. 148. (El Cangur / Diccionaris, núm. 209).

Princeses de la mitologia grega

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Rachel Dolezal Says Black Identity Is Not A Costume
Written By Lakin Starling
Source: @KREMTaylor / NewsOne/Twitter
In mid-June when Rachel Dolezal was asked on camera, "Are you African-American?" she was left speechless, hesitant and caught off guard. After claiming to misunderstand what she had been asked, she deflected a clear response. It was a question that wouldn't normally stupefy a person, unless of course the answer would reveal a web of lies. Her name was a trending Twitter hashtag for days and brought on a series of tweets and memes that would start the dialogue for the rest of us to perhaps make some sense of Dolezal's identity maze. Now, she continues to stand firm that her Black identity is not an act.
Dolezal's audacity to claim Black womanhood was the most shocking, given that she had fabricated her genealogy, tanned her skin and even became an "expert" in Black hairstyles to keep the jig going. This was different than just another cultural appropriation instance — Dolezal hadn't toyed with lip, buttocks and hip enhancements to make her White look exotic. She had taken on the supposed lifestyle and aesthetic of a Black woman and her position as the President of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington to advocate for Black people.
Dolezal addresses her controversy in an article in Vanity Fair, "It's not a costume," she says. "I don't know spiritually and metaphysically how this goes, but I do know that from my earliest memories I have awareness and connection with the black experience, and that's never left me. It's not something that I can put on and take off anymore. Like I said, I've had my years of confusion and wondering who I really [was] and why and how do I live my life and make sense of it all, but I'm not confused about that any longer. I think the world might be—but I'm not."
It's not unfathomable that Dolezal could have a genuine connection to Black heritage, her Whiteness doesn't discredit her interest. What is puzzling is her denial of her biological parents, a statement from Dolezal's former student at Eastern Washington University who felt hostility from her teacher about the validity of her own Hispanic heritage, and Dolezal's attempt as a graduate student at Howard University to file a lawsuit against the institution for experiencing alleged discrimination because she was White. All of these elements are conflicting and dismantle her narrative that she had no choice but to take her attraction to Blackness and attempt to adopt the experiences of a race that she was not born into. Her dissensions mirror ingenuity in her motives.
But, Dolezal's taken time to craft this image and her spent years examining Black history and culture have provided her with the perfect literary and sociological tools to portray her life as a Black woman.
Via Vanity Fair:
"It's taken my entire life to negotiate how to identify, and I've done a lot of research and a lot of studying," she says. "I could have a long conversation, an academic conversation about that. I don't know. I just feel like I didn't mislead anybody; I didn't deceive anybody. If people feel misled or deceived, then sorry that they feel that way, but I believe that's more due to their definition and construct of race in their own minds than it is to my integrity or honesty, because I wouldn't say I'm African American, but I would say I'm black, and there's a difference in those terms."
Dolezal's response shows that she's out of touch, claiming that this is something (which appears to some as Blackface) that she can no longer remove. She has claimed a race that she was not born into and that is misleading.
Spokane's new NAACP President, Naima Quarles-Burnley, said to Spokesman-Review, "I feel that people of all races can be allies and advocates, but you can't portray that you have lived the experience of a particular race that you are not apart of."
Dolezal expressed that she felt some "coldness" from Burnley and that the distance from the chapter has been difficult for her. Her life has been turned upside down since the truth was exposed. She has been let go from her positions at both the NAACP and Eastern Washington University, burned numerous bridges with friends and abandoned her biological family, but there's a loss that goes unacknowledged by Dolezal. The lack of regard for the Black women whose spaces she has occupied shows no concern for the expenses of her gains. Her eagerness has illustrated an ulterior need to satisfy a selfish identity clash that serves her own personal advancements. Dolezal is unapologetic about the shaky truth that she now has no choice to live in, completely missing the fact that there is no alliance in taking what does not belong to you.
Still, Dolezal insists that her Black identity makes sense, that it was always inherently factual and that she is indeed a Black woman. As a result of her fall from false grace, she told Vanity Fair that she is now maintaining a steady income with one of her takeaways from her devout studies of Black culture by doing braids and weaves.
SOURCE: Vanity Fair, Spokesman-Review | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty
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Film Review: BABY DRIVER
Image courtesy of Sony Pictures
Edgar Wright has always been the kind of filmmaker that does and says what he wants. In fact, when he isn't given the reigns to be the visionary director or writer that he is, he walks away, which would explain why he left behind his long-gestating "Ant-Man" script after he and Marvel clashed over creative differences. And when we see in the news recently of how Phil Lord and Chris Miller left the still untitled Han Solo film over the same reason, I can't help but think studio executives aren't letting directors have creative control or freedom anymore. They have to bring in a director who is going to follow strict blueprints. When in reality that's not art, it's taking marching orders. So how ironic, that in a movie-going season filled with big-budget tentpoles, which have their scripts and scenes reworked to fit a business model, Sony had the courage to drop (and finance) "Baby Driver," an original old-fashion action flick, right smack dab in the heat of it all- (with a director whose vision was seen through to the end) - and it's probably the best movie you will see all summer, and quite possibly the year.
Now I can't speak for everyone or deny how great "Wonder Women" was, but that film was good on its own merits. An attempt to win fans back over to the DC extended universe, and it worked. However, "Baby Driver," is a gritty, no-holds bar, non-superhero masterpiece that somehow feels like a miracle in a year where movies have lacked definition and fewer have lacked purpose, "Wonder Women" not being one of them.
Aside from his directing duties on the picture, Wright also does what he does best, writes. You may remember him as the father of the beloved "Cornetto Trilogy" that consisted of "Shaun of the Dead," "Hot Fuzz," and "The World's End" - which are some of the best movies on the planet. Next to his other sleeper-cult favorite "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World," which only solidifies how this man doesn't need to prove himself to anyone. His script is one intense sequence after another, with scenes that would make any "Fast and Furious" film blush.
Effortlessly set up from the first reel, Ansel Elgort steps up to the pedal as our titular Baby, and that's where our story begins, with him behind the wheel of a gassed up engine and rock ballads cracked to the max. Baby is a getaway driver for bank heists and robberies, and not just any, he's the best. He manages to outrun fleets of police cars down freeways, hide from overhead helicopters, jump over guardrails, and do it all without flinching a muscle. To some, he might seem odd as Baby hardly speaks and has a sting in his ear, stemming from an accident when he was a child, that subsides whenever he is plugged into his many Ipod's. (He was one for each of his different moods). The kid also makes killer mix tapes, often taken from recordings of his meeting with Doc (Kevin Spacey) a ruthless kingpin who runs the town in more ways than one. The backstory is, Doc has a debt weighted over Baby's head that needs to be repaid, and with one final job on the horizon, he might just be able to get out. "Do this one job and we are square" Doc tells Baby. But, somehow, we know that's not true. Doc is the kind of ruthless crusader that Spacey knows all too well, a character that doesn't have to tell you just how powerful he really is.
Being the meticulous and precise criminal he is, Doc never likes to use the same crews twice, except for Baby, so on each job, he brings in different sources of hired help. Among them is Buddy (Jon Hamm), his wife Darling (Eiza Gonzalez) and recently, a street thug named "Bats" - who is played so deliciously by Jamie Foxx, who delivers his best performance in years. This is some of the best casting of the decade, and one of the many examples of how quickly Wright captivates you once in the driver seat. Elgort specifically excels as Baby who is finally given the type of role he deserves. Baby is reserved and quiet, at home he takes care of his foster dad and flips through the channels nightly. He isn't a bad kid, he's just caught up with some bad people. And with supposedly one more hit left in his docket, we can tell he wants out. This sympathy is so crucial because as soon as bodies start flying, we need to feel invested.
It stands to reason that, while, "Baby Driver" tries to collude into so many different narrative arcs - like the subplot romance between Baby and a waitress named Deborah (Lily James) or how the young hungry kid is yearning for a crime-free life, and all his childhood traumas seem to haunt him; which, despite all that, "Baby Driver" does the impossible task of landing on it's feet anyway. Because, like all of Wright's scripts, it has ambition and is propelled from scene to scene with precise and thrilling accuracy, allowing the film to sustain a high velocity of energy for a solid two hours. Which is all a testament to how smoothly intricate Wright's script is; and the final product only gets bolstered by a subversive soundtrack that includes the likes of Queen, Barry White, Beck and Simon and Garfunkel. "Baby Driver" is perhaps the best-kept secret of the year, and while it doesn't rewrite the genre of heist capers, maybe the film can serve as an example or two, of how a Hollywood studio let a very skilled and established director, deliver on his guaranteed potential. Now if only the head honchos over at Marvel would get on board. A


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I didn't expect to win but I figured if I somehow managed to get picked, I would make it happen one way or another.
There were a few iterations of winners but in the end, you can imagine my surprise when Tim contacted me and let me know The Running Green Girl won.
I guess the Green Girl will get the green 13.1 shirt after all - in Chicago!
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Did Brett Favre not understand basic football formations?
Could it be true that this Hall of Fame quarterback did not understand basic formations? (Via Wikimedia Commons)
Reports confirmed that Favre may not have understood what a 'nickel' defense was
by Lucas A. Rosa (article) and Milos Kitanovic (video)
June 29, 2017 at 8:09 PM June 29, 2017 at 8:09 PM
Sometimes asking basic questions can be scary. A question that is too simple can be misrepresented as dumb, and often can be cause for ridicule. But those who never ask never learn, which is likely what happened with Brett Favre, as he did not learn what a 'Nickel Defense' was until several years into his NFL career.
A nickel defense is a defensive formation which uses five defensive backs.
Did he really not know?
The nickel formation is usually something players learn from a very early age, as it is one of the most fundamental pieces of knowledge one can have about defensive alignments. Despite being the son of a coach and playing football for many years before making it to the NFL, Favre did not know this information.
"If you don't know what is going on, the trick is to act like you do," Favre said at a coaching clinic at LSU. This 'fake it until you make it' attitude put the future Hall of Fame quarterback in the awkward position of not knowing what a nickel defense was until he was already a couple years into starting for the Packers.
"It was the first time I had been around anybody that just kind of winged it," former Packers backup quarterback, Ty Detmer told the TheBigLead.
This style of 'winging it' is extremely rare at an elite level, especially as a starting quarterback in the NFL. The lack of memorization and Favre's style is in stark contrast with other successful quarterbacks like Tom Brady who make a living off of assessing and diagnosing defenses.
Detmer told CBS that Favre was never great at memorizing formations. "He was a genuine guy that loved playing the game," Detmer said to TheBigLead, "but he didn't really put a ton of time into it."
When did he finally ask?
After hearing the coach talk about the nickel defense and have chalkboard sessions on it, Favre finally decided to ask the question.
Though Favre did not address it with a head coach, but instead with the Detmer, the backup.
Detmer initially questioned whether or not Favre was confused or just messing with him, but came to the realization that Favre's concern was serious. "He was sincere in asking," Detmer said to TheBigLead. Upon learning and understanding how basic of a concept the nickel formation was, Favre initially was puzzled as to why it mattered.
Detmer claims that Favre struggled quite a bit in his early years matching offensive plays to their formations as well. Yet that did not seem to hinder the future Super Bowl champion as much as it probably should have, or as much as one would expect it to. Favre went on to obviously have a Hall of Fame career.
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How you can save more earning less
by Vanessa Brown
2nd Nov 2018 10:33 AM
MIGUEL and his wife Fayme once brought in a combined figure of $250,000 each year.
Climbing the corporate ladder, chasing bonuses and working around the clock, their work lives well and truly took over their lifestyle.
Living pay packet to pay packet, paying a mortgage, dishing out hundreds on sneaker collections and online shopping, the two were unable to stay ahead of the game with their monthly spend.
That was until they threw away their six-figure incomes.
Now, the 34-year-old couple bring in a combined total of $81,000 annually - a figure more than $170,000 less than what they were earning two years ago.
Cash Confessions: How to you save and spend your money?
Moving to Melbourne, changing their spending habits at the checkout and throwing away their huge corporate salaries, Miguel and Fayme say while they may be on a much smaller income, they are able to afford more now than they could previously.
"I was on about $150,000 a year, and Fayme was making around $106,000, so we were earning very good money," he said. "But we would spend it all, and we still don't know where it was going.
"We would eat out a lot … sometimes every night. We used to have gym memberships that we would never use. Online shopping was a big weakness. We had a two-bedroom apartment in Sydney, I had a sneaker collection and we even got to a point where a whole wardrobe each wasn't enough for our clothing, so we filled a storage container in our basement and at Kennards Hire.
Miguel says his new lifestyle of earning less means he can live more and do the things he enjoys.
"We were totally living beyond our means. Earning more and spending more. If a gadget looked good, I'd buy it. We had laptops each, I had three phones at one stage and I don't know why. Spending money just became the norm."
For Miguel, the rat race of maintaining his weekly salary by being on call 24/7 wasn't worth the income, and so - along with Fayme - the pair decided to shift focus. They sold their Sydney apartment and move to Melbourne, took a hefty pay cut, and ensured their workplace was either within walking distance of their new home or easily accessible through public transport.
"One of the best quotes I have ever read is, 'Being weird is OK, because being normal will send you broke,'" Miguel said.
"It's so true, because following the norm of spending will send you broke. You have to break outside the box, which is what we have now done. As soon as a dollar comes in, we put it to work."
Despite a combined income of $250,000, Fayme and Miguel would live month to month.
Miguel and Fayme now live what they call a "minimalist" lifestyle. From their diet, which is now plant-based, to their wardrobe and home furnishings - the pair live by a strict budget and "no excess" mindframe.
"We used to be very reactive with our spending; if we wanted food we would buy it," Miguel said.
"We would eat out every night, a cheap dinner for around $40 or maybe even $150 if we wanted. Now, that's what we almost spend for a full week of groceries.
"Most people's biggest expense is housing, transport and food," he said.
"Advertising is always in our face and we are always drawn in to it. We try and live by delayed gratification now, so if we want something really bad I will give myself at least a 48-hour rule before I buy. Do I actually need something or do I just want it?"
Between them, Miguel and Fayme will spend around $1000 each month on groceries, which provides them with all their meals and personal items, $160 on entertainment, and $64 on homemade coffee. Yearly, they fork out around $1000 on clothing and $250 total for their mobile phone plans.
They now have excess money which, according to Miguel, they split, with $800 a month going towards their investment in shares and $800 a month towards yearly holidays.
"We have been on six trips alone this year," he said. "Two weeks in the Philippines, we've been to Uluru and Fiji with Fayme's family. We have also been to Tasmania and Western Australia this year as well.
"We could never do this stuff two years ago, which is amazing because we were earning so much more.
Despite bringing in around $80,000 between them, they still go on multiple holidays each year.
"We put money from other areas in to holidays and investment because that's two things we really want. (After selling) our Sydney property, I fell in love with shares. Pretty much what we want to do is keep investing, then live off the dividends.
"Lifestyle inflation is very real; as you earn more you spend even more. Since moving to Melbourne, we have no consumer debts, have a six-figure share portfolio and manage to take more holidays this year than we ever did when we were working ridiculous hours.
"I manage all the numbers in our partnership but ensure my wife is aware of the decisions and amounts we choose to live by.
"We have a share portfolio that we top up every two to three months. We plan to use these funds when we hit "F.I.R.E. - Financial Independence Retire Early". (Our goal is) to retire early by 45."
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I work near a railroad that always has slow trains passing us. They are very old cargo trains on a very old railway and I'm very concerned about them since they are moving along a railway path that has been mapped and created right next to a stream. It must have been built a long time ago.
In the future we shouldn't build railroads next to water areas since trains work with electricity and water that is near that kind of system is not as safe as those that are far away from water. For safer trains we need less rails next to water streams. It's actually very nice to see trains quietly riding along stream paths though it's also risky.
This is one of those e-mails that seems very drawn out. Though, I just thought that I should mention it to you. The museum seems like a good place to share chatting ideas with on trains. I'd send this message to a modern train company though these trains are a bit ancient.
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Rivers provide natural mountain passes that are convenient for railroad construction. For example, the Central Pacific Railroad used the Truckee River and the Union Pacific used the Platte River Valley.
Judah's 1862 Engineering Survey reported that: "The Truckee thus reached, all further difficulty of location ceases, as it pierces its way through all obstructions with an uniform descent not exceeding forty feet per mile, to the Humboldt Desert, which forms the sink of the Humboldt and Carson Rivers."
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Singapore is now home to other "Asia-first" feature first automated teller machines (ATMs) that dispense gold.
The ATMs are made by Asia Gold ATM, and they dispense variety made of pure gold ranging from 1 gram to 10 grams in size that produced by top Swiss refiner PAMP.
Two such ATMs have been installed in Singapore at Resorts World Sentosa and the other at Marina Bay Sands.
Asia Gold ATM said it decided to launch the machines domestically because of the city-state's status as "a travel destination for affluent travelers and an increasingly important hub for the gold-trade industry." The two resorts, in particular, attract high-earning individuals from around the world.
The gold products which are available in a variety of sizes from one to ten grams will have different prices daily depend on the global gold prices of the day and are adjusted automatically every day.
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In all of the contemporary economics textbooks that have been written there is typically at least one chapter that addresses 'market failure.' Markets Don't Fail! is a response to what author Brian Simpson sees as a fundamental error in the thinking of some economists. The chapter titles of this book are crafted against the premises of 'market failure' arguments, and a significant portion of this book focuses on exposing the invalid premises upon which the claims of market failure are based and providing a proper basis upon which to judge the free market. The material in this book provides a strong antidote to the arguments typically presented in contemporary economics textbooks. Through example and argument, Brian Simpson shows that the claims against the free market are not true. In fact, he demonstrates how free markets succeed, how they raise the standard of living of all individuals who live within them, and how free markets allow human life to flourish. However, the book goes much deeper than economics by providing a moral and epistemological defense of the free market. Markets Don't Fail! gets to the fundamental, philosophical reasons why the claims of market failure are false and why markets actually succeed. Through an integration of economics and philosophy Simpson is able to provide a comprehensive, rigorous, and logically consistent defense of the free market. The specific topics covered in the book include monopoly, antitrust laws and predatory pricing, 'externalities, ' the regulation of safety and quality, environmentalism, economic inequality, 'public goods, ' and asymmetric information. This book is an invaluable tool for anyone who wants to gain a sound understanding of the free market.


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The Comancheros
Composed and Conducted by:
Elmer Bernstein
Nick Redman
LABEL & RELEASE DATE
(October, 1999)
ALBUM AVAILABILITY
The album is a limited release of 3,000 copies, available originally through FSM or specialty outlets.
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Buy it... if you seek a predictably vibrant and bold Elmer Bernstein Western score, complete with the usual brassy themes and optimistic string interludes.
Avoid it... if the cheery atmosphere of many of Bernstein's themes for the genre detracts from the sincerity of the arguably more interesting accompanying underscore.
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WRITTEN 10/7/99, REVISED 10/16/07
The Comancheros: (Elmer Bernstein) Remembered mostly as yet another decent entry in John Wayne's career during the height of the Western genre, The Comancheros is perhaps more important to note as the final film of Casablanca director Michael Curtiz's long career. In and of itself, there are few attributes of 1961's The Comancheros that blazed new territory. The script was a character study common to the genre, Wayne's performance was predictable, and the Utah locations had been seen in countless Westerns to date. But the film accomplished its goals well, proving to be above average in nearly every aspect. The debut in a long collaboration with the films of John Wayne, The Comancheros also represented the first major Western score for Elmer Bernstein after the highly popular and industry-defining The Magnificent Seven in 1960. Bernstein's continuing journey in the West features the very much of the same enthusiasm and raw sense of Americana that can be heard in The Magnificent Seven, among other Westerns in his career. Even beyond that previous effort, though, The Comancheros includes a wider range of moods and sub-themes, as well as a further exploration of folk music inherited from Bernstein's root interest in music. The composer is quick to acknowledge Aaron Copland once again as a primary source of inspiration, and while he continues to meet expectations with his expansive and frenetic interpretations of that sound, Bernstein also allows more folk rhythms to intrude on his writing here, foreshadowing the kind of Western sounds that Basil Poledouris would make a career out of several decades later. None of this should serve to discount the energetic and rolling title theme to The Comancheros, however, which was heroic in the same innocent and fantastic super-hero sort of way that defined the Westerns of this and the previous decade. Although some strict fans of more recent film scores might find the theme to be silly, if not ridiculous, it's important to recognize that these themes, in their joyful and yet powerful tendencies, played an enormous role in the glorification of heroes such as John Wayne. They were expected, and Bernstein delivered.
To Bernstein's credit, The Comancheros excels beyond simply the main theme, however, because of its array of interesting and well-developed sub-themes. The title theme itself is adapted well to represent the contemplative emotions of Wayne's lead, with several yearning, yet pleasant string variations on that typically bold, brassy theme. Two more brutal rhythmic themes would erupt for both the Comanche warriors in "Attack" and the gang of smugglers and thieves themselves in "Comancheros." The Hispanic elements of The Magnificent Seven are replaced in The Comancheros by more stereotypical Native American elements. Upon a quick listen, the Indian music might seem to represent everything that we would expect from it... beating, rhythmic drums pounding. And yet Bernstein's incorporation of more ambitious percussion and other instruments into those cues adds a refreshing new twist to the old, well-beaten stereotype. Even more impressive are the cues that don't really fall into either of the heroic or stereotyped categories. Bernstein's cues for contemplation, memories, and even suspense round out the score very well; the lighter harmonic representation for conversational scenes ensures the listenability of The Comancheros, occupying significant time in the first half of the score with mellow woodwinds. Of course, if you're into the thrill of the big themes with the Duke on horseback, the score has plenty of fully symphonic bursts to keep you adequately pumped about the genre. The stereo-mixed album, the ninth installment in Film Score Monthly's series of Silver Age Classics CDs, is presented in superior form. Unlike a few of the previous albums in the series that had issues of arrangement, especially with unused cues or source music, the album for The Comancheros begins with twenty solid score tracks, followed by two unused songs and a mono mix of the main title theme. The songs are an interesting listen; aside from the obviously racist implications of the Indian calls in the unused title song, the film was released at a time when idea of using a title song for Westerns, albeit essential in the 1950's, was beginning to fade out. Selections of the music conducted by Bernstein were previously available on a Varèse Sarabande album from years past, but you can't fully appreciate The Comancheros without hearing the secondary motifs in full development. For Bernstein fans, if you enjoy his Western scores of the early and mid-60's, and especially The Sons of Katie Elder, then don't let this one pass you by. **** @Amazon.com: CD or Download
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• 3. Riverboat Capture (1:17)
• 4. Regrets (1:48)
• 5. The Wide Open (1:48)
• 6. Eulogy (1:52)
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DANYELLE CARTER
I've always lived my life as a manifesto of feminism, which stemmed from me learning the principle of treating others as I would wish to be treated. It's a philosophy that has stuck with me for as long as I can remember. I know that there is no way I can live my best life if others are not at will to live their best life, which is why I've charged myself with making feminism my life's work. In this work, I am liberated and am able to process and be my best self.
Spelman College's Women and Research and Resource Center's faculty and staff as a collective influenced my awareness of my feminism. The space itself taught me feminism through high-level impromptu mentorship and friendship. Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, the founding director of the first women's research center (at a historically Black college and the first one to offer a women's studies major) has taught me "say it, and do it anyway" because it's for the greater good. When she's in a room, I can feel her power. It's beautiful because people are aware of her knowingness and trust in her fully. My professor, Dr. M. Bahati Kuumba has always challenged me when it came to broadening my understanding of feminism. In her book, The Gender Lens: Gender and Social Movements, I learned how liberation struggles are viewed through women's eyes and how gender affects women's mobilization, strategies, and outcomes in social movement organizations. Her book, her course, and her embodiment of feminism has taught me not only to do the work of liberating others, but liberating myself as a black immigrant girl. For that, and for her, I continue to open myself up to new rays and waves of feminism in hopes of liberating others. Ms. Cynthia Moore, a mother figure who guards the energy of the center with her pillar of kindness, one I hope to mirror someday reminds us to go to class, take care of ourselves and always be sisterly. Holly A. Smith, the College's Archivist and sistah-aunt of the center keeps it real and reminds me to trust in God and the work that I am doing. Lastly, but certainty not least, peers I've grown to know and love through the center-- Houston, Erica (Lamberaon) Madyson, Verronika, Aleighia, Amoni, Ayanna (Spencer) and AriDy Dixon (formerly known as Briana) for always cheering me up and/or championing me.
The Center is a gem for women and men.
I am more open, tender and compassionate towards myself. There was a time in which I wasn't this way with the choices I made in life, but after realizing that I can't work towards equality without taking care of myself--I mustered up the courage to say 'yes, I can talk about the invisibility of black immigrant girls.' It opened up a world of communities and friendships I otherwise wouldn't have known about. When you're a black undocumented person, you fear many things, which leads to a lot of sulking and ultimately, not taking care of yourself. I used to be afraid to seek guidance and support when it came to many things, but now I take ownership in powering through the things I thought I couldn't.
I speak up, it is one of the purest forms of humanism/advocacy that doesn't cost any of us, anything. If there's a trans-person being heckled at, speak up. If there's a pregnant teen being bullied, speak up. If a young woman is being fat-shamed, speak up. Two years ago, I launched Her Communications Agency, a communications and public relations firm dedicated to promoting the issues and causes related to women and girls--basically speaking up for women and girls. Within two years, I've worked on countless speeches, campaigns and rallies as part of me speaking up or helping someone else speaking up. I truly believe in speaking up, it empowers others (even it's just one person) to do the same.
A feminist world is one that empowers everyone to be their best self. It opens and supports room for growth, encourages forgiveness, and fearlessness.
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Danyelle R. Carter, a girl-power enthusiast and advocate is a senior at Spelman College majoring in Comparative Women's Studies. At Spelman she serves as the United Nations Foundation's Girl-Up Initiative campus leader and is a Toni Cade Bambara Scholar in the Women's Research and Resource Center. Prior to attending Spelman. Carter graduated summa cum laude from Miami Dade College with a joint Associate of Arts degree in Mass Communications and Journalism. In June 2016, she received her diploma from the Women's Campaign School at Yale University's Law School. In 2015, Carter was named the National HBCU Female Student of the Year by HBCU Digest and became the first woman to be ranked no.1 on HBCU Buzz's HBCU Top 30 under 30 list. A three-time recipient of the Presidential Volunteer Service Award, Carter received two gold awards and a life time award from President Barack Obama for more than 5,000 hours of community service. In January 2016, she served as a legislative and press fellow in the office of U.S. Representative Marcia L. Fudge and then a Public Policy and Press/Communications fellow in the office of U.S. Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke, prior to being hired as her Press Assistant. In 2017, Carter will resume her attendance at Spelman to complete her last two courses in Feminist Theory and Japanese.


This panel seeks to bring together papers that empirically explore the multiple ways in which violent conflicts and related external interventions are shaping the growth of African cities and everday experiences of city dwellers.
Forced and conflict-related displacement has short and long-term impacts on patterns of growth of African cities. New forms of camp-urbanisation appear to be emerging and this has drawn the attention of international humanitarian organisations. Humanitarian interventions that acknowledge the specificity of urban conflicts and post conflict urban planning have become key topics on the agenda of development. In many (post-) conflict cities humanitarian actors collaborate with sovereigns to find solutions to what are now framed as 'new urban problems'. New forms of urban planning emerge and shape the ways cities are governed, their infrastructures, security installations, or (re-)settlement schemes. Urban political, social and economic relations are affected by these processes, and cities may even become more central for competing (armed and unarmed) actors as their symbolic and material value increases. Considering both the disruptions and connections associated with violent conflicts and wars, this panel seeks to bring together papers that empirically explore the multiple ways in which violent conflicts and related external interventions are shaping the growth of cities and the experiences of city dwellers. We invite papers that focus on the everyday of urban growth and in-migration, and the ways city expansion and in-migration are governed, often by multiple actors that operate simultaneously on different spatial scales. We also invite comparative studies, or studies that outline regional trends and wider connections between conflict urbanisation and the (world) market or with global forms of governance. The organisers welcome multi and interdisciplinary contributions that provide in-depth single case studies or comparative analyses of city dynamics in conflicts.


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The Wombat Strategy
Running a pub in the outback town of Wollegudgerie doesn't offer much fun or future for knockabout Aussie dyke Kylie Kendall, so when the father she never knew dies and leaves her 51% of his Los Angeles-based private-eye agency, it's bright lights, big city for America-bound Kylie. Not so happy about her arrival is her father's former business partner, the beautiful, enigmatic Ariana Creeling, who wants to buy Kylie out and gives her a decidedly chilly reception.
But the two women soon have other matters to attend to. Dr. Dave Deer, shrink to the stars whose "slap, slap, get on with it" approach has made him a celebrity, hires them to investigate the theft of records and subsequent suicide of a successful but reviled film director. Concerned for his professional reputation, Dr. Deer would much prefer that the death of his former client be revealed to be a murder.
Best-selling mystery novelist Claire McNab launches her newest series with a giant bang as the sparks between Arianna and Kylie--and the folks who would like to see them dead--fly in the City of Angels.
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Claire McNab
She had no idea how popular Carol would become. She thought she had written a stand-alone mystery novel. Carol, the publisher, and the public had other ideas. The sixteenth Carol Ashton mystery will be published at the end of 2004. Apart from writing, Clair McNab teaches not-yet-published writers through the UCLA Extension Writers' Program.
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U.S. shows concern over South Korea scrapping intel pact with Japan
KYODO NEWS - Aug 23, 2019 - 05:20 | Japan, All
The United States expressed strong concern on Thursday over South Korea's decision to terminate a military intelligence pact with Japan, while calling on the two countries to patch up bilateral ties amid trade and wartime compensation disputes.
"We're disappointed to see the decision that the South Koreans made about that information-sharing agreement. We were urging each of the two countries to continue to engage, continue to have dialogue," U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at a press conference in Canada where he was visiting.
Pompeo also said he hopes that "each of those two countries can begin to put that relationship back in exactly the right place," noting that an improvement in their ties would be of "absolute value" not only to work in the context of North Korean issues but also on other regional and global matters.
A U.S. Defense Department spokesman issued a statement that also expressed "strong concern and disappointment" over the decision reached by South Korean President Moon Jae In's government regarding the General Security of Military Information Agreement, or GSOMIA.
"We strongly believe that the integrity of our mutual defense and security ties must persist despite frictions in other areas" of the South Korea-Japan relationship, he said, calling on the two countries to "work together to resolve their differences."
"I hope they can do this quickly. We are all stronger -- and Northeast Asia is safer -- when the United States, Japan, and Korea work together in solidarity and friendship. Intel sharing is key to developing our common defense policy and strategy."
Signed in November 2016, the pact was facing a deadline on Saturday for either side to give written notification of their intent to pull out. South Korea said Thursday it had decided to scrap the agreement.
Without such notification, it would have been automatically extended for another year.
The pact is intended to help the neighboring countries counter threats such as North Korean missiles.
The United States will "continue to pursue bilateral and trilateral defense and security cooperation" with Japan and South Korea, the Pentagon spokesman said.
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College Spotlight: Syracuse University
Did you hear? Both the men's and women's basketball teams from Syracuse University are headed to the Final Four! It's pretty obvious those that bleed orange are thrilled! So what better university to spotlight this week than Syracuse University?
Located in Upstate New York, the school's campus sits on University Hill above the city of Syracuse. If you're looking for winter spots, Syracuse has you covered. With an average of 100 inches of snow per winter season, 'Cuse students love getting outdoors and enjoying winter sports such as skiing, snowboarding, sledding, etc. when the snow is falling. But of course, winter isn't the only time for sports-- most of Syracuse sport teams competes in the NCAA Division I Atlantic Coast Conference all year long. Orange Nation!
Sports aside, media (CitrusTV as well as multiple student-run magazines and other print publications), student government, Greek life, SU Ambulance & religious organizations play a large role in students' lives outside of their classes.
'Cuse also has some rather notable alumni, including: Vice President Joe Biden, actor Jerry Stiller, former football player Donovan McNabb and former Miss America Vanessa Williams.
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St Teresa's Catholic Academy
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The purpose of the Governing Body is to help the school provide the best possible Catholic education to our pupils. It is a privilege for every governor to help our children to be safe, happy and successful and we thank you for your support as parents for the work we do.
Through our governance systems we set the strategy for school development, establish key policies and procedures, agree and implement ways to continually raise standards. We also use these systems to monitor progress against the targets we set with the Head Teacher and Senior Leadership Team. The Local Governing Body meets regularly to review matters of strategic importance. We work with the school to ensure good recruitment practices, financial monitoring, improvement of our school premises and attainment of fantastic academic results.
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Warriors' Steph Curry (shoulder) to return and start on Tuesday vs. Suns
After missing 11 games due to a shoulder subluxation injury, Steph Curry could be on his way back to the Golden State Warriors' starting lineup.
According to Kendra Andrews of ESPN, the reigning NBA Finals MVP will return on Tuesday night against the Phoenix Suns. In his return to the court on Tuesday, Curry will re-join Golden State's starting backcourt alongside Klay Thompson. Curry's playing time for Tuesday is still being decided, per Andrews.
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On Monday, Curry was listed as probable for Tuesday's contest against the Suns. However, Curry was later listed as questionable for the game against Phoenix. Curry initially injured his shoulder in the third quarter of the Warriors' loss against the Indiana Pacers on Dec. 14.
Prior to leaving the contest due to injury, Curry cracked off a game-high 38 points on 11-of-19 shooting from the field with five made triples to go along with seven boards and seven assists in 30 minutes.
Through 26 games in the 2022-23 season, Curry is averaging 30 points on 50% shooting from the field and 43.4% shooting from long distance to go along with 6.8 assists and 6.6 rebounds in 34.4 minutes per game.
With Curry expected back in the rotation, Jordan Poole will likely shift back to a roll off the bench. With players like Curry, Klay Thompson and Andrew Wiggins missing time recently, Poole has started 17 consecutive games.
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The Warriors will host the Suns on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. PT at San Francisco's Chase Center.
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Alaska Airlines revealed which routes it will fly from the airport in Everett, Wash., which does not currently have commercial airline service.
We now know where Alaska Airlines intends to fly when it begins service at Paine Field north of Seattle.
The carrier revealed eight new routes it will add from the airport in Everett, Wash., which does not currently have commercial airline service.
Alaska Airlines announced last May that it would begin flying from the airport, a move that would essentially turn Paine Field into a secondary airport for metro Seattle. United followed in August with news that it also would begin passenger service there.
Neither of the airlines are expected to begin flying there until fall, but Alaska Airlines had not yet detailed the destinations it would serve from Everett.
The carrier said on Tuesday that its initial Paine Field schedule would include flights to eight destinations: Las Vegas; Los Angeles; Orange County/Santa Ana, Calif.; Phoenix; Portland, Ore.; San Diego; San Francisco; and San Jose, Calif.
Alaska plans to fly a total of 13 daily round-trip flights from Everett, but added that precise schedule details would not come until later this year.
Several of the new destinations – including Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego – are either hubs or "focus cities" for Alaska. That means Everett passengers will likely be able to book one-stop connecting itineraries to other cities in Alaska Airlines' network.
"This is both a historic occasion and a great honor for Alaska Airlines," Andrew Harrison, Alaska Airlines' chief commercial officer, said in a statement. "We're proud to become the anchor tenant of the new terminal at Paine Field. With so many new possibilities for business and leisure travel, we believe this will bring increased opportunities to our communities."
In announcing its plans to go to Paine Field back in May, Alaska Airlines touted convenience for those living north of Seattle -- especially on shorter flights to regional destinations. Traffic in the booming Seattle metro area has become a major nuisance, especially for those north of the city who have to drive through Seattle to get to city's primary airport, Seattle-Tacoma International.
Alaska Airlines, of course, operates its busiest hub at Seattle-Tacoma. But the company's expansion to Everett comes as its Seattle-Tacoma hub has experienced soaring passenger numbers, something that's partially a result of an ongoing Seattle turf battle between Alaska Air and partner-turned-rival Delta.
The passenger growth pushed Sea-Tac closer to its capacity, Alaska Airlines CEO Brad Tilden said in May.
For Alaska Air, its expansion to Everett also gives the carrier another stake in the greater Seattle area, allowing it to tout a local service that rival Delta does not offer as the two spar over the region.
Paine Field sits about 25 miles north of Seattle. A passenger terminal is being built there to accommodate the announced passenger service.
United, the second carrier to announce plans for Everett, has already said it intends to offer a schedule of six daily flights that it will split between its Denver and San Francisco hubs.
Despite its current lack of regular passenger flights, however, Paine Field is already well known in aviation circles. It's home home to Boeing's biggest assembly line, where the jetmaker performs final assembly on its 747, 767, 777 and 787 widebody aircraft in Everett. Boeing's large aircraft keep a heavy flight schedule at the airport, which also hosts some private general aviation flying.


What is the first step toward correcting any mistake? You have to know it's a mistake and that you just made it.
In sales, as in any other endeavor, when you get a kick in the pants, it helps to know what you did wrong. What rule did you break? What sales skill are you lacking? The alternative is to spend your entire career getting kicked in the same way, for the same reason, with no idea what's causing the pain or how to end it. That's the fate of far too many salespeople who never encounter great sales training.
How so? One benefit of great sales training, based on a great sales system, is that it can help you to break some bad habits that most salespeople don't even recognize as problems.
A good example involves a rule that lies at the heart of the Action Selling system: Never make a sales call without a Commitment Objective.
A Commitment Objective is an agreement you want from the customer as a result of a sales call—a "next step" you want the customer to commit to take in order to keep the sales process moving forward.
Action Selling's sales training teaches that a Commitment Objective for every call doesn't just benefit the salesperson but the customer, as well. Why? Because if the sales process isn't moving forward, you aren't just wasting your time, you're wasting the customer's time. And customers resent that.
No Commitment Objective = No Sales Call is a hard rule for many sales veterans to follow because it forbids a lot of activity they've always thought was good and productive. The rule means that you don't call on customers just to see what's new, or to show that you care about them, or to give them the pleasure of your company because you happen to be in the neighborhood.
A lot of salespeople who make such calls think that they're doing their jobs properly and demonstrating excellent sales skills. The truth is, they get punished for it all the time, losing business and clients. But because they aren't aware of the rule they broke, they don't understand why they're getting kicked in the pants. So they can't fix the problem.
Old habits are hard to break. Even after learning about Commitment Objectives in a great sales training program, you might backslide on the rule against making a call without a C.O. But when a customer kicks you for it, you will realize what you did wrong.
Thus, a vexing mystery is transformed into a wake-up call. That alone puts you miles ahead of the competition.


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Sand Island resurrected: Island is open to the public and tarball free
Updated: Jan. 08, 2012, 12:25 p.m. |
Published: Jan. 08, 2012, 11:25 a.m.
Ben Raines | braines@al.com
The Sand Island Lighthouse finally has an island to call its own. About a half mile long and 700 feet wide at its widest point, Alabama's newest landmass is already home to hundreds of birds. Destined to wash away unless it is renourished with sand dredged from the Mobile Ship Channel, the resurrected island was created with 1.4 million cubic yards of sand. (Ben Raines/Press-Register)
SAND ISLAND, Alabama -- Sand Island, Alabama's newest landmass, has the only beach in the state guaranteed to be free of tarballs.
Lost beneath the waves for generations, the island was reborn between October and December thanks to a federal dredging project that pumped 1.4 million cubic yards of clean sand from the seafloor several miles offshore in the Gulf.
The work crews are gone, and the public is now allowed to visit the island, which is about 3 miles south of the mouth of Mobile Bay.
Not a single tarball was seen during a Thursday inspection by John Dindo with the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island mayor Jeff Collier, coastal engineer Scott Douglass, and the Press-Register.
Instead, the new island, which is about 15 acres, was covered in seashells and sea birds. Hundreds of pelicans, gulls, and cormorants roosted on the west end, and big webbed footprints covered the island from tip to tip. Overall, the island is about 2,600 long and 700 feet wide, at its widest point.
Standing at the base of the lighthouse, the structure looks every bit of 141 years old. The thin, flat bricks are pitted and weathered from a century of exposure, with deep recesses between bricks where the mortar has worn away.
"When this lighthouse was built, the sand that they used for the mortar was the local sand, which was saturated with salts... A lot of the mortar was mixed with saltwater," which left the mortar crumbly, said John Dindo, with the Sea Lab, explaining why it had worn away.
The main doorway is about 10 feet off the ground, and gapes like an open mouth, any hint of door or frame long gone. The year 1871 is etched in a stone resting on the lintel above the opening. Several long cracks run up the sides of the lighthouse, scars left by a century's worth of hurricanes.
View full sizeThe year 1871 is etched into a stone set above the main doorway to the Sand Island Lighthouse. The mortar holding the small bricks together have become crumbly with age, but engineers say the structure is sound. Long cracks run vertically up the sides of the tower, battle scars from more than a centuries worth of hurricanes. (Ben Raines/Press-Register)
While engineering studies show that the lighthouse is basically intact, the spiraling iron staircase inside has reportedly crumbled to pieces. There is no access to the top of the tower, or even the lower windows inside.
"They've done a lot of work to stabilize the base of the lighthouse," Dindo said. "We have this tie back to Mobile's history, and it will give people wonderful perspective to have access to this fabulous site."
For decades, the Sand Island Lighthouse was an island unto itself. The dredging of the Mobile Ship Channel interrupted the natural sand delivery system that fed the island, which was once hundreds of acres in size, large enough that the light keeper kept a herd of cows.
Over time, the island slowly withered in size and finally disappeared altogether. The lighthouse was left a lonely brick pillar standing atop a pile of rocks.
Before the new dredging project, tidal currents had scoured holes around the lighthouse more than 40 feet deep. Today, those holes are dry land.
Douglass, who heads up the University of South Alabama's coastal engineering department, has been a longtime critic of the way the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged the Mobile Ship Channel.
The sand the corps removed from the channel, Douglass said, would naturally have washed up onto Sand Island and then Dauphin Island. Instead, the corps hauled the sand offshore and dumped it out of reach of the currents that run along the shoreline and feed beaches.
That, Douglass contends, caused the disappearance of Sand Island and massive erosion on Dauphin Island.
But standing on Sand Island Thursday, Douglass said the corps had put the new sand in exactly the right place — "right where Mother Nature would have brought it."
"They did a very good job," Douglass said, after using a depth finder to survey the contours of the submerged portion of the island. "This is where they need to put the sand every time they dredge. The fact that Sand Island is back for the first time in our lifetime is really cool."
Douglass said the island would remain "for some significant amount of time," but would ultimately wash away again unless the corps continues to place the dredged sand near it.
Collier said Dauphin Island had asked the corps to do just that.
Corps officials said the island project was a one-time effort funded by a congressional appropriation. It required special dredging equipment to deliver sand to the shallower waters around the lighthouse. Normally, the corps relies on a hopper dredge for maintaining the ship channel. That vessel cannot get close enough to the lighthouse to deposit sand near it.
View full size Dauphin Island Mayor Jeff Collier, coastal engineer Scott Douglass and Sea Lab scientist John Dindo survey the base of the Sand Island Lighthouse. The island stretches away about a half mile to the west. Cracks and repairs in the mortar are visible surrounding the bricked up doorway. A spider web of stainless steel cables wraps the rocks around the base, holding them in place. (Ben Raines/Press-Register)
It would cost roughly $1 million more annually to dredge the ship channel with the type of dredge used to create the island, corps officials said. That money would have to be funded by the Congress, the state, or some other private source.
Dauphin Island took ownership of the lighthouse from the Department of Interior 10 years ago. At the time, there was talk of moving the lighthouse ashore to protect it.
"This island will help to protect this historic lighthouse, but it also helps to protect the east end of Dauphin Island," Collier said, after his first visit to the lighthouse. "It's so much more impressive to see the lighthouse up close like this. People are going to come out here, make use of this new beach, see the lighthouse. It's fantastic."
The new island also provides something that is in increasingly short supply —uninhabited beachfront property, vital to many bird species.
"Ecologically, the island now, with this large sand spit, will serve as a roosting site. You can see today pelicans and cormorants," Dindo said. "But in the summer we're going to find terns out here. Least terns and common terns love this kind of habitat. They'll be utilizing this in the future. And the fishing, bars like this are perfect for everything from redfish to ladyfish."


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Weymouth parents urge council to increase school funding
Christian Schiavone The Patriot Ledger @CSchiavo_Ledger
Mar 7, 2016 at 10:28 PM Mar 7, 2016 at 10:30 PM
WEYMOUTH – A group of parents on Monday told town councilors that insufficient funding for schools has hurt students and urged them to work on fixing the problem in this year's budget.
The parents, who spoke to school committee members last week, took their appeal to councilors, who have final approval of the town-wide budget, including school funding. They said parent groups and teachers have had to raise money to pay for things like books, furniture and computers because there was no money for them in the budget.
"This is a funding problem at its core," said Laurie Delano, of Thomas Road. "Staff and teachers do a heck of a job to try to close the gap. ... Our students are still at a huge disadvantage."
School officials last month unveiled a proposal for a $70.6 million spending plan for the year that begins July 1. That's a $7 million or 11 percent increase over what the schools received in this year's budget.
Parents applauded the proposed hefty increase at the Feb. 25 hearing and urged school officials to push for the full amount.
Parents and teachers have become increasingly vocal in recent years, arguing during each budget season that years of under funding have failed students and left Weymouth schools lagging behind other districts.
The town will spend $63.6 million on schools this fiscal year, which ends June 30.
It would cost about $64.8 million to maintain the current level of services next year, according to the school department. The rest of the increase would cover items on a growing list of what school officials say are lingering unmet needs to better serve students. That list includes dozens of staff positions, replacements for decade-old textbooks and technology upgrades.
The school committee must present a final budget recommendation to Mayor Robert Hedlund by April 1. The mayor will then present a town-wide spending plan, including money for schools, to the town council. The council must approve a budget by June 30.
Councilors said they're hoping to boost funding this year as much as possible.
"I hope we can chip away a little this year and keep moving forward," said Councilor Becky Haugh, who heads the council's education committee.
Christian Schiavone may be reached at cschiavone@ledger.com or follow him on Twitter @CSchiavo_Ledger.


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